I was so glad to throw away my turntable. It was a high-end model, with a highly-rated cartridge/stylus. Even so, and even after I used the recommended dust remover on every disk several times, I had annoying clicks and hiss within a week after a new album purchase. Good riddance.
Do police officers' radios work on ham radio frequencies, or could thousands of ham radios actually be distributed to them in short order?
No to both. They'd both be illegal. What happens is that some ham operators work at the dispatch center, while others ride in patrol cars. It worked this way very effectively when L.A.'s Valley area transmitters all went down a few decades ago. A similar arrangement occurs when a major hospital's internal telephone system crashes, which happens every so often. Ham radio support groups are equipped and drilled for these and other comm emergencies.
What a great opportunity for the NSA to gain green cred by running its data center on renewable energy, as Apple is doing for at least one of its data centers.
"Eventually" is a long time (approx 120 years at today's timescale expansion rates) and you can bet that by then the whole problem of adding energy to devices that need it will have been overcome by new developments.
Sympathies for a nasty condition. But may I suggest that your experience to date with fluorescent lights might be due to flicker. New Compact Fluorescents run at a much much higher frequency, virtually no flicker. May help, hope so.
I bought a cheap computer with WinXP but didn't feel like shelling out $hundreds for MS Office. So I happily installed OO and used it successfully for months.
But then I found that in one of my not-very-complex spreadsheets one cell just did not get updated (worked fine in Excel). This is in a tax reporting format that must work correctly! And it was only a lucky break that I noticed it at all. To me this is a killer (and not in a good way) -- features are pointless if the answers aren't right.
I pored over it for days, trying to figure out what I had done wrong. Then I found that this is a known bug in their bugtracker database. I submitted my spreadsheet as a repeatable example (they didn't have one before). But so far no bug fix.
I'm hoping that it got fixed in 2.0 (but it's still in the bugtracker).
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I was so glad to throw away my turntable. It was a high-end model, with a highly-rated cartridge/stylus. Even so, and even after I used the recommended dust remover on every disk several times, I had annoying clicks and hiss within a week after a new album purchase. Good riddance.
Do police officers' radios work on ham radio frequencies, or could thousands of ham radios actually be distributed to them in short order?
No to both. They'd both be illegal. What happens is that some ham operators work at the dispatch center, while others ride in patrol cars. It worked this way very effectively when L.A.'s Valley area transmitters all went down a few decades ago. A similar arrangement occurs when a major hospital's internal telephone system crashes, which happens every so often. Ham radio support groups are equipped and drilled for these and other comm emergencies.
What a great opportunity for the NSA to gain green cred by running its data center on renewable energy, as Apple is doing for at least one of its data centers.
"Eventually" is a long time (approx 120 years at today's timescale expansion rates) and you can bet that by then the whole problem of adding energy to devices that need it will have been overcome by new developments.
Sympathies for a nasty condition. But may I suggest that your experience to date with fluorescent lights might be due to flicker. New Compact Fluorescents run at a much much higher frequency, virtually no flicker. May help, hope so.
You're asking the wrong question. The issue is: can fingerprints be misread (false positives or false negatives) by trained, qualified experts.
The answer is yes.
But then I found that in one of my not-very-complex spreadsheets one cell just did not get updated (worked fine in Excel). This is in a tax reporting format that must work correctly! And it was only a lucky break that I noticed it at all. To me this is a killer (and not in a good way) -- features are pointless if the answers aren't right.
I pored over it for days, trying to figure out what I had done wrong. Then I found that this is a known bug in their bugtracker database. I submitted my spreadsheet as a repeatable example (they didn't have one before). But so far no bug fix.
I'm hoping that it got fixed in 2.0 (but it's still in the bugtracker).