Actually I have had to wipe out all the linux partitions on a system in the past to get a windows cd to actually work. (and yes, CD-ROM was set to boot first). basically after the installer scanned hardware I would get a blank screen that wouldn't change until I rebooted the system
Actually I think the best way to cover yourself legally would be to use some kind of long range acoustic device to clear everyone out of the area.... er.... nevermind
Just from first glance I think there may be some plans linked from the summary. Also (I have no association with either site and have NO idea of the reputation of either, I have just seen them referenced frequently on other sites)...
Were the amps truely switched off/unplugged or was the volume/gain control just turned down all the way? I have heard powered speakers put out noise because of RF at significant distances but never heard of tesla coils causing something along these lines (wrong frequency). Unless of course there were arcs/significant amounts of energy hitting either the speakers themselves or the wires running to them.
One major difference between operating a radio and operating a touchscreen based GPS device is you don't necessarily have to even look at the radio to change stations, etc.
It is much more difficult to operate a touchscreen without looking at it. Also, many newer cars have radio controls attached to the steering wheel so you don't even have to remove your hand from the wheel.
Is this a feature that is controlled by the speed as detected by the GPS or just what has been in cars for quite some time that is tied into the car itself (detecting what gear a car is in or using existing equipment to detect speed)
Other methods of making profit: 1. Charge reservations. Want a dedicated spot for your film crew when the floods happen next year? Pay me $x 2. Charge for advertising space. Want to advertise your construction business? Pay me $x
Unless you design it to do multiple tasks in parallel, instead of sequentially. Then it doesn't matter how many checks you add as long as adding them doesn't significantly slow down the others.
Windows alerts you about using USB 2 devices on USB 1 ports. I doubt it would be that difficult to do on any other OS. The fun one is when you supposedly have the USB 2 drivers, USB 2 ports, etc. but are still getting yelled at about reduced speeds because something is screwed up in the drivers.
And on the bit about an 'adapter'.... It is a big enough pain figuring out that you are missing a cable that you need at midnight, let alone keeping track of every single adapter you need for every device/cable/computer combination. But most retail stores sell those adapters for $10*, so it isn't like it costs that much.
*Estimate, I know dvi hdmi are $30 and usbusb cables/adapters are $20... On average a 500-1000% markup.
Remember that next time you open an attachment in Outlook, edit it, then try to work out where's it's been saved. Remember that when something you are writing in Word suddenly decides to turn into a bulleted list. Remember that when the format of the text you copy from one document is preserved in the target document and you have to do it again using "paste special." Above all, remember that these problems have been around in MS's products for over 20 years in some cases.
I have many of those issues on linux/openoffice as well. I think many things are added as a feature for beginners and just become an annoyance for experienced users. It would be nice if those applications had multiple 'profiles' to make it easy to switch on/off all the auto-whatever features depending on what you are wanting to do.
Adding to the list for openoffice especially (really fun in the past at least was finding the auto word complete option...): Searching for an option under autocomplete, autoformat, auto...., etc.
There is "shockwave flash" and just "shockwave" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave. Flash has (varying levels of) linux support. Shockwave requires installing Firefox or another browser inside of Wine, etc. and running it there.
I don't see nearly as many games anymore that require shockwave but will come across them occasionally.
And then when the users are using wine/cedega/etc. 1. The developer just sees more windows users 2. The developer figures, "oh they will just get it to work under wine"
putting a ton of documentation into the GUI side of simulation software (for example) is not going to slow down the actual simulation itself because it is likely farmed out to other systems which don't need a GUI. To speed up the GUI side have a fully functional 'training' mode which can be disabled once a user develops the needed level of competency to use the software without assistance.
The issue is when the systems designed to create redundancy actually cause the failure (a transfer switch causing a short, etc.) Also with a couple seconds of searching I was able to find one extended downtime caused by safety procedures and not lack of redundancy:
I have seen other cases where entire datacenters were shut down because some idiot hit the shutdown control (required by fire departments for safety reasons, you don't want thousands of amps flowing through a building you are spraying water into), etc.
Going from the car analogy.... When it is under warranty have the dealer (apple in this case) do the work. When the warranty is over you still want SOMEONE to be able to work on it that is not going to charge you half the price of the product just to fix something small.
The issue isn't having enough spectrum to use (10GHZ on up is relatively low use), the issue is feasibility. Extremely High Frequency (around 30-300GHZ) is already used for communications with connections above 1gbit, I just doubt the equipment is affordable.
Now if you could develop the technology where there is a 5GHZ range for consumer wireless requiring the same bandwidth out of that range then you have a massive number of channels available. I am sure this technology is mostly/entirely point to point or requiring an omni directional antenna at one end and a highly directional antenna on the other but if you are trying to get wireless to someones house the later is not an issue.
They probably also have some that were manually scanned, or there are probably cases where pages stick together and require human intervention. If the robot scans a book and then later it is discovered a page didn't get scanned they probably are going to manually scan it.
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Actually I have had to wipe out all the linux partitions on a system in the past to get a windows cd to actually work. (and yes, CD-ROM was set to boot first). basically after the installer scanned hardware I would get a blank screen that wouldn't change until I rebooted the system
Actually I think the best way to cover yourself legally would be to use some kind of long range acoustic device to clear everyone out of the area.... er.... nevermind
Just make it a detachable part of an overpowered microwave oven....
Just from first glance I think there may be some plans linked from the summary. Also (I have no association with either site and have NO idea of the reputation of either, I have just seen them referenced frequently on other sites)...
http://powerlabs.org/ has a picture of a microwave gun on their front page
http://www.plans-kits.com/kits.html They claim to sell 25kw-200kw magnetrons as well as kits
Were the amps truely switched off/unplugged or was the volume/gain control just turned down all the way? I have heard powered speakers put out noise because of RF at significant distances but never heard of tesla coils causing something along these lines (wrong frequency). Unless of course there were arcs/significant amounts of energy hitting either the speakers themselves or the wires running to them.
One major difference between operating a radio and operating a touchscreen based GPS device is you don't necessarily have to even look at the radio to change stations, etc.
It is much more difficult to operate a touchscreen without looking at it. Also, many newer cars have radio controls attached to the steering wheel so you don't even have to remove your hand from the wheel.
Is this a feature that is controlled by the speed as detected by the GPS or just what has been in cars for quite some time that is tied into the car itself (detecting what gear a car is in or using existing equipment to detect speed)
I wouldn't mind seeing it. Just not paying the bill. Also, if it is anything like the US they just made it on a 'do not insure' list...
Other methods of making profit:
1. Charge reservations. Want a dedicated spot for your film crew when the floods happen next year? Pay me $x
2. Charge for advertising space. Want to advertise your construction business? Pay me $x
Unless you design it to do multiple tasks in parallel, instead of sequentially. Then it doesn't matter how many checks you add as long as adding them doesn't significantly slow down the others.
Also, MOST devices that require the mini/micro USB cables include them.
Windows alerts you about using USB 2 devices on USB 1 ports. I doubt it would be that difficult to do on any other OS. The fun one is when you supposedly have the USB 2 drivers, USB 2 ports, etc. but are still getting yelled at about reduced speeds because something is screwed up in the drivers.
And on the bit about an 'adapter'.... It is a big enough pain figuring out that you are missing a cable that you need at midnight, let alone keeping track of every single adapter you need for every device/cable/computer combination. But most retail stores sell those adapters for $10*, so it isn't like it costs that much.
*Estimate, I know dvi hdmi are $30 and usbusb cables/adapters are $20... On average a 500-1000% markup.
Remember that next time you open an attachment in Outlook, edit it, then try to work out where's it's been saved. Remember that when something you are writing in Word suddenly decides to turn into a bulleted list. Remember that when the format of the text you copy from one document is preserved in the target document and you have to do it again using "paste special." Above all, remember that these problems have been around in MS's products for over 20 years in some cases.
I have many of those issues on linux/openoffice as well. I think many things are added as a feature for beginners and just become an annoyance for experienced users. It would be nice if those applications had multiple 'profiles' to make it easy to switch on/off all the auto-whatever features depending on what you are wanting to do.
Adding to the list for openoffice especially (really fun in the past at least was finding the auto word complete option...): Searching for an option under autocomplete, autoformat, auto...., etc.
There is "shockwave flash" and just "shockwave" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave. Flash has (varying levels of) linux support. Shockwave requires installing Firefox or another browser inside of Wine, etc. and running it there.
I don't see nearly as many games anymore that require shockwave but will come across them occasionally.
And then when the users are using wine/cedega/etc.
1. The developer just sees more windows users
2. The developer figures, "oh they will just get it to work under wine"
putting a ton of documentation into the GUI side of simulation software (for example) is not going to slow down the actual simulation itself because it is likely farmed out to other systems which don't need a GUI. To speed up the GUI side have a fully functional 'training' mode which can be disabled once a user develops the needed level of competency to use the software without assistance.
The issue is when the systems designed to create redundancy actually cause the failure (a transfer switch causing a short, etc.) Also with a couple seconds of searching I was able to find one extended downtime caused by safety procedures and not lack of redundancy:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/01/explosion-at-the-planet-causes-major-outage/
I have seen other cases where entire datacenters were shut down because some idiot hit the shutdown control (required by fire departments for safety reasons, you don't want thousands of amps flowing through a building you are spraying water into), etc.
Going from the car analogy.... When it is under warranty have the dealer (apple in this case) do the work. When the warranty is over you still want SOMEONE to be able to work on it that is not going to charge you half the price of the product just to fix something small.
Or a much more simplified idea, use something that has been around for a long time such as usenet.
Wow.... 501250.59 increase in a matter of an hour and 16 minutes (see an above post).... You guys have really crappy inflation
The issue isn't having enough spectrum to use (10GHZ on up is relatively low use), the issue is feasibility. Extremely High Frequency (around 30-300GHZ) is already used for communications with connections above 1gbit, I just doubt the equipment is affordable.
Now if you could develop the technology where there is a 5GHZ range for consumer wireless requiring the same bandwidth out of that range then you have a massive number of channels available. I am sure this technology is mostly/entirely point to point or requiring an omni directional antenna at one end and a highly directional antenna on the other but if you are trying to get wireless to someones house the later is not an issue.
Is putting 'all of the content of this blog is my opinion even though I have seen some of it happen' against the law?
How do you know they are pretending?
Then you find the one person who thinks unplugging the power strip to plug it into another outlet will not shut off the computer
They probably also have some that were manually scanned, or there are probably cases where pages stick together and require human intervention. If the robot scans a book and then later it is discovered a page didn't get scanned they probably are going to manually scan it.