Afaict the time when landing gear tends to fail is deployment. when the plane is on the ground the gear is already deployed and holding the weight of the plane.
yes they require you to hold it but at least the ones I have used light up when you press the power button and don't go dark until you have held it long enough to really turn them off. If the iphone goes dark on a quick press of the power button and I hadn't read the manual I would probablly assume it was off.
most that i've seen just turn off the backlight. On modern phones with color screens it is much harder to see the display in this state but if you give it more than a glancing look it's pretty obvious that something is being displayed even though I can't see exactly what.
The analogy is completely wrong. If you wanted to hear a whisper from the person next to you at a rock concert you certainly could do so if you were both in a sound-proof box. Just as if instruments and a patient were both in a shielded room the instruments would be able to detect smaller signals without the interference of surrounding (background) noise. right, the problem is that putting each patient in a seperately shielded room just so you can have them hooked up to some monitoring gear would put the costs of running hospitals through the roof and still wouldn't protect against people who were visiting that patient.
You really don't want to put each patient in a shielding box as doing so would interfere with treating them.
The problem is not that electronic circuits need shielding. The problem is sensors, to use an analogy putting on earmuffs will not allow you to hear a whisper in a rock concert.
Hey, you're right! I was late for a job interview because I set windows to use time.windows.com, which is the default in the windows date/time properties applet. I can't say i've ever managed to get a response from that server and the other alternative in the default list blocks queries from windows nowdays.
$100 is about £50, I'm sure i've seen new sim free phones that low in the uk. You won't get anything very fancy at that price but you will get a functional sim free phone. Getting a phone posted accross the pond can't be that expensive.
that's basically what pool.ntp.org is, lots and lots of machines acting as stratum 3 or 4 ntp servers to suck up the load from those who need reasonablly but not super accurate time and don't have the computer experiance to find decent local servers and use them in a way thier operators find acceptable.
maplin suck nowadays. Thier prices are high and thier range has got shittier and shittier over the years. They still have a few kits from velleman but the huge range of maplin own brand kits is long gone:(.
For buying electronic components in the UK rapid ( http://www.rapidonline.com/ ) farnell ( http://uk.farnell.com/ ) and cpc ( http://cpc.farnell.com/ ) are your best bets. Rapid also have some kits availible mainly from velleman. (OT: they are also a good place to buy lego mindstorms stuff).
If you are going to order a lot of stuff and are prepared to wait digi-key are also a good bet. They are in the USA but provided your order is over a certain size (i think it's about £100) delivery and associated charges are included, thier prices are good and so is thier range.
Personally I think both first to invent and first to file are crap. If something is indpendently invented within such a short window that the difference between first to invent and first to file matters then IMO it doesn't deserve a patent.
Removing IE from Windows means, removing internet access needed to download Firefox. ftp ftp.mozilla.org anonymous anonymous cd pub cd mozilla.org cd firefox cd releases cd latest cd win32 cd en-GB type binary get "Firefox Setup 2.0.0.6.exe"
Yeah memory that needs power to keep it's contents is known of as a ram. Much faster than flash and basically no limit on write frequenc but the boards to make it act like a disk are expensive and you have to make damn sure it keeps power if you have anything important stored there.
the one that thought ruling on wether a tomato was a fruit or a vegetable was an appropriate thing for them to arbitrate out of interest which way did they rule?
Thats the whole point of OOXML, it pretends to be a standard but afaict it is full of holes where it doesn't actually tell you how to do it just that you need to behave like some legacy product.
If a product is unsafe, don't buy it. True capitalism works because of competition. If you don't like one company's product because of either price or quality, buy someone else's. No one has a product that meets your needs? Start your own company to fill that niche. Generally you can't easilly test stuff yourself (much testing is destructive, requires special equipment or both) and testing products after they are on the open market would mean a delay between the dangerous product being on the market and people being warned it is dangerous. Even assuming the warnings were published immediately most people would not have the time to check a database of product warnings every time they went shopping. There is also the issue of products that are a danger to people other than thier owner (cars are a good example, if your car loses control you aren't the only one who can end up hurt or injured).
because if they had tried to submit the word binary format they would have had an even harder time getting through the standards bodies.
What MS wants is a "standard" that noone else can actually implement properly so that they can claim to provide standards compliant soloutions while maintaining lockin.
One problem with software based emulators is they typically have to cheat to get speed. They tend to run the emulated processor in bursts allowing other tasks to be performed by the host OS in between in order to get an acceptable average speed. The trouble with this is that it doesn't work if the machine has external interfaces that need to be very low latency due to thier design (the gameboy link port is an example of such an interface)
If you want to keep legal server is way more expensive than pro! IMO you would be pretty stupid to buy server unless you actually needed some of the extra features it offers.
well I use it on my main laptop and I can't recall ever having seen it crash. Your right it is a bit of a hack but there are many hacks in a typical OS;).
It really depends what you mean by from the command line. The scripting systems including the command shell, pipes and so on have to be functional to start almost anything on a linux box but there is no reason they have to be connected to anything a human can see or interact with.
1: network effects, afiact once you move beyond the most basic account level it costs to move money in and out of paypal and even if it doesn't cost money it does cost time (banking systems are slow) so if you get payed using paypal you will want to pay others using paypal. 2: EBAY, the worlds largest online auction site and they strongly encourage use of paypal 3: international transactions, for small transactions paypals fees are way lower than my banks fees for using my card with an american merchant and thier fees are charged to the seller.
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Afaict the time when landing gear tends to fail is deployment. when the plane is on the ground the gear is already deployed and holding the weight of the plane.
yes they require you to hold it but at least the ones I have used light up when you press the power button and don't go dark until you have held it long enough to really turn them off. If the iphone goes dark on a quick press of the power button and I hadn't read the manual I would probablly assume it was off.
most that i've seen just turn off the backlight. On modern phones with color screens it is much harder to see the display in this state but if you give it more than a glancing look it's pretty obvious that something is being displayed even though I can't see exactly what.
I would blame both the phone networks for thier exorbitant charges and apple for allowing data connections while roamed without confirmation.
or at least "don't make automatic data connections on a foriegn network", preferablly enabled by default.
The analogy is completely wrong. If you wanted to hear a whisper from the person next to you at a rock concert you certainly could do so if you were both in a sound-proof box. Just as if instruments and a patient were both in a shielded room the instruments would be able to detect smaller signals without the interference of surrounding (background) noise.
right, the problem is that putting each patient in a seperately shielded room just so you can have them hooked up to some monitoring gear would put the costs of running hospitals through the roof and still wouldn't protect against people who were visiting that patient.
You really don't want to put each patient in a shielding box as doing so would interfere with treating them.
The problem is not that electronic circuits need shielding. The problem is sensors, to use an analogy putting on earmuffs will not allow you to hear a whisper in a rock concert.
Hey, you're right! I was late for a job interview because I set windows to use time.windows.com, which is the default in the windows date/time properties applet.
I can't say i've ever managed to get a response from that server and the other alternative in the default list blocks queries from windows nowdays.
$100 is about £50, I'm sure i've seen new sim free phones that low in the uk. You won't get anything very fancy at that price but you will get a functional sim free phone. Getting a phone posted accross the pond can't be that expensive.
I don't belive it is illegal to posses such gear so giving it back is the right and proper thing to do if they can't show it was used in a crime.
that's basically what pool.ntp.org is, lots and lots of machines acting as stratum 3 or 4 ntp servers to suck up the load from those who need reasonablly but not super accurate time and don't have the computer experiance to find decent local servers and use them in a way thier operators find acceptable.
maplin suck nowadays. Thier prices are high and thier range has got shittier and shittier over the years. They still have a few kits from velleman but the huge range of maplin own brand kits is long gone :(.
For buying electronic components in the UK rapid ( http://www.rapidonline.com/ ) farnell ( http://uk.farnell.com/ ) and cpc ( http://cpc.farnell.com/ ) are your best bets. Rapid also have some kits availible mainly from velleman. (OT: they are also a good place to buy lego mindstorms stuff).
If you are going to order a lot of stuff and are prepared to wait digi-key are also a good bet. They are in the USA but provided your order is over a certain size (i think it's about £100) delivery and associated charges are included, thier prices are good and so is thier range.
Personally I think both first to invent and first to file are crap. If something is indpendently invented within such a short window that the difference between first to invent and first to file matters then IMO it doesn't deserve a patent.
Removing IE from Windows means, removing internet access needed to download Firefox.
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
anonymous
anonymous
cd pub
cd mozilla.org
cd firefox
cd releases
cd latest
cd win32
cd en-GB
type binary
get "Firefox Setup 2.0.0.6.exe"
Yeah memory that needs power to keep it's contents is known of as a ram. Much faster than flash and basically no limit on write frequenc but the boards to make it act like a disk are expensive and you have to make damn sure it keeps power if you have anything important stored there.
the one that thought ruling on wether a tomato was a fruit or a vegetable was an appropriate thing for them to arbitrate
out of interest which way did they rule?
Thats the whole point of OOXML, it pretends to be a standard but afaict it is full of holes where it doesn't actually tell you how to do it just that you need to behave like some legacy product.
If a product is unsafe, don't buy it. True capitalism works because of competition. If you don't like one company's product because of either price or quality, buy someone else's. No one has a product that meets your needs? Start your own company to fill that niche.
Generally you can't easilly test stuff yourself (much testing is destructive, requires special equipment or both) and testing products after they are on the open market would mean a delay between the dangerous product being on the market and people being warned it is dangerous. Even assuming the warnings were published immediately most people would not have the time to check a database of product warnings every time they went shopping. There is also the issue of products that are a danger to people other than thier owner (cars are a good example, if your car loses control you aren't the only one who can end up hurt or injured).
because if they had tried to submit the word binary format they would have had an even harder time getting through the standards bodies.
What MS wants is a "standard" that noone else can actually implement properly so that they can claim to provide standards compliant soloutions while maintaining lockin.
One problem with software based emulators is they typically have to cheat to get speed. They tend to run the emulated processor in bursts allowing other tasks to be performed by the host OS in between in order to get an acceptable average speed. The trouble with this is that it doesn't work if the machine has external interfaces that need to be very low latency due to thier design (the gameboy link port is an example of such an interface)
I would imagine "flexible pricing" is a eupherism for "we want to be able to charge as much as we like"
If you want to keep legal server is way more expensive than pro! IMO you would be pretty stupid to buy server unless you actually needed some of the extra features it offers.
well I use it on my main laptop and I can't recall ever having seen it crash. Your right it is a bit of a hack but there are many hacks in a typical OS ;).
It really depends what you mean by from the command line. The scripting systems including the command shell, pipes and so on have to be functional to start almost anything on a linux box but there is no reason they have to be connected to anything a human can see or interact with.
several reasons
1: network effects, afiact once you move beyond the most basic account level it costs to move money in and out of paypal and even if it doesn't cost money it does cost time (banking systems are slow) so if you get payed using paypal you will want to pay others using paypal.
2: EBAY, the worlds largest online auction site and they strongly encourage use of paypal
3: international transactions, for small transactions paypals fees are way lower than my banks fees for using my card with an american merchant and thier fees are charged to the seller.