The USRP is sold as test equipment [...] If you choose to use your USRP and daughterboards to transmit using an antenna, it is your responsibility to make sure that you are in compliance with all laws
Reminds me of a story I heard: during prohibition, you could buy a health drink that was basically grape juice concentrate. The instructions said something like "Do *not* dilute and certainly don't add yeast. If accidental yeast contamination occurs, don't even think about leaving it in a warmish place for roughly two weeks".
Lucky for us, language is defined by majority usage, and you're vastly outnumbered
Lucky for Columbus that geography isn't, or he'd have fallen off the edge.
Argument from popularity is a fallacy, by the way. For example, plenty of people think an apostrophe is some kind of warning of an imminent "s", but that doesn't make it so.
Sorry, nothing short of a 25lb sledge will destroy the data on a HDD platter.
I can tell you've never met our end users. There's a trick in getting them to destroy data though: you just have to tell them to try their hardest to keep it.
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I know of several Highlevel-to-Lowlevel language translators (e.g. Java-toC [arizona.edu], Oberon-to-C [uni-kl.de], you name it) that have been around for decades.
But this is totally new and different. They translated a high level language to a low level one using a computer.
Putting a re-design to a vote of Slashdot readers would be the ultimate example of design-by-committee, and would therefore result in the ultimate in useless, unreadable, un-navigable websites.
No it wouldn't.
Putting each individual feature of possible designs to an individual vote might.
vending machines that have numeric identifiers for the items inside - the item you want is number "77", but you end up getting item "45" because you were still subconsciously thinking about the $.45 you just put in to buy the item and punched the buttons before you were aware of what you were doing. Simply using an alphanumeric identifier fixes that for no extra cost.
An alphanumeric pad could well cost more, since you'd presumably need all the numbers plus a few of the letters. Plus they maybe don't make them in such quantities.
But I get where you're coming from, I used to work in a place where the machine had numeric codes and a particularly sensitive autorepeat. Products with a code that was a multiple of 11 weren't necessarily more popular, but they were by far the best sellers.
They're called "self-winding watches", and they've been around for decades
Those use movement to provide power. I have one, but being mechanical and cheap it keeps lousy time. It looks cute though - you can see all the works.
Other guy was talking about using movement to sense when it needs to power up & update the display. Though if you have the former, the latter (and its pointless static display) become somewhat redundant.
You can be sure that there's a sweet spot in the sensitivity where driving or cycling will be enough to turn it permanently on & drain the battery, but when you're sitting at your desk you have to shake your arm like a spaz to make it wake up.
Uh, with ANY watch the displays what the time "used to be as opposed to what it actually is
Do you really need a watch that displays the time down to the nanosecond? I didn't think so.
Don't recall saying that I did. You (and all the other geniuses who are pointing out that it's about power saving) are missing one thing - the energy needed for switching/sensing/reactivation. When you know what this is, come and lecture us about it. Be sure to factor in the environmental, energetic & financial costs of these new displays when making your cost-benefit analysis.
BTW why the hell am I responding to a troll?
Well we agree on one thing - I was just asking myself the same thing.
A normal watch needs to keep its screen powered on all the time.
A watch with a memory screen only needs to power it up once a second.
If updating the screen takes 10 milliseconds, thats a 100 fold power saving.
Mathematically, you might be right.
Unfortunately, this is the domain of the engineer/physicist and neither measures energy (or power) in milliseconds.
screen... that retains the image even when turned off
According to TFA, practical applications might include watches. I'm not a horologist, nor do I play one on TV, but to me a watch that tells me what time it used to be is right up there with chocolate teapots & concrete parachutes in the practicality stakes.
Do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for a book that teaches beginning concepts, as you say?
Code Complete, by Mike McConnell is pretty good, and it's not aimed at any particular language. I suggest you find it on Amazon (etc) and look around the lists that it proposes, the suggestions etc.
Most christians do not deny that evolution happens at all, simply that it is the origin of all life on the planet.
Most scientists don't think evolution is the origin of life either. Evolution is what happens to life (or what life does) once the boot sequence is over.
Actually, I was trying to solve their IT problems. Usually it took several iterations before they'd tell you half the information you actually needed to get the job done.
So, Mr AC, it seems your telepathic powers totally fail it. And yet you're still considerably better at mindreading than you are at humour.
Can't the actual human employees at the head of the line make this determination and alert whomever has the authority to open another lane?
That would involve the activity known as "talking to somebody". You clearly don't have much experience dealing with Finns if you think that's going to happen.
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Having a degree means you're not an idiot? Thank you very much!
Argument from popularity is a fallacy, by the way. For example, plenty of people think an apostrophe is some kind of warning of an imminent "s", but that doesn't make it so.
Yeah, it's not like he's committed a serious offence like saying that a police horse was gay or anything.
Putting each individual feature of possible designs to an individual vote might.
I hope the room's carpeted. That way there's something in it that's got laid.
But I get where you're coming from, I used to work in a place where the machine had numeric codes and a particularly sensitive autorepeat. Products with a code that was a multiple of 11 weren't necessarily more popular, but they were by far the best sellers.
Other guy was talking about using movement to sense when it needs to power up & update the display. Though if you have the former, the latter (and its pointless static display) become somewhat redundant.
You can be sure that there's a sweet spot in the sensitivity where driving or cycling will be enough to turn it permanently on & drain the battery, but when you're sitting at your desk you have to shake your arm like a spaz to make it wake up.
Unfortunately, this is the domain of the engineer/physicist and neither measures energy (or power) in milliseconds.
Plus it seems a bit wasteful having to use physical CDs as an intermediate step.
But even if he spoke English, you bloomin colonials don't, strike a light, it's a luvverlee olliday wiv Maree...
So, Mr AC, it seems your telepathic powers totally fail it. And yet you're still considerably better at mindreading than you are at humour.