Hopefully, they'll study what happened in depth (without treating the kid as a lab experiment). I'm not a bioengineer, but could you determine what caused this and make tailored immune systems for people who either never had a good one through birth defect or lost theirs to HIV/AIDS?
Since Comcast is the only broadband provider in the area, I spoke with my municipality about a municipal-owned fiber plant. They attempted to put something together in 2004, but Comcast and AT&T lobbied heavily against it. I'm working on reviving the idea, but instead of being owned by the municipality, it'll be owned by a non-profit (so it'll be the co-op model). My goal is to get the city to be an anchor tenant (police, fire, city gov.) with other entities coming on board as well (hospitals, large local businesses). I'm really looking forward to being able to offer an alternative in the area.
I have Comcast in the Chicago suburbs. I was tired of paying $55/month for digital basic cable. Got rid of the TV service, but still have cable for internet, but I get most of my content from Netflix's unlimited Watch It Now. Installing a HDHomeRun in some datacenter space I have in the next couple of weeks (which is in downtown Chicago) to let me stream digital/HD over the air signals to my home (which isn't close enough for reception). The web replacing TV indeed.
Something I would love to do with DD-WRT that I haven't played with yet is locking down the wireless so only my TiVo, laptop, etc have access to my whole house network, but anyone within range with a T-Mobile HotSpot@Home phone can use the WiFi for free calls (the phone tunnels the call using GSM-over-IP). Is this possible?
Or base it off of karma. User with high karma? No wait to post. I hate having tons of comments sitting in Firefox tabs, and going through one by one hitting submit every few minutes.
The flight control system should have notified the crew of fuel exhaustion (if that's the case). Otherwise, the fuel level sensor may have been bad, and the flight control software didn't recognize the failure condition properly.
In some ways that's even more scary, because it rules out simple explanations like fuel exhaustion. It's one thing for engines to fail, quite another for them to simply ignore control inputs.
Indeed. If I'm piloting a turbine engine aircraft, I much prefer for the engines to just fail then for them to ignore my commands. Fly-by-wire is pretty cool until the engines ignore your commands and you have no way to shut the fuel off to them.
I don't give a flying fuck how the movie is hyped. If you're that shitty of a director that you can't ply your trade without making the movie look like ass, don't ask me to pay $9 to see it. Don't worry about the cockpunch though. I'll just settle/hope for more people grabbing the flick off thepiratebay.org
Hell, you guys could make a killing making versions of the Bourne series and Cloverfield that people can actually watch (as opposed to having to turn your head every so often so motion sickness doesn't kick in).
No frightening scenes? I'm not a scary movie dude at all, and I particular did not dig the subway tunnel scenes =) Or any scene with the little monsters for that matter.
Honestly, you sort of knew it was going to end exactly the way it did when the beginning said "DoD File". Things like that never end pretty. This was reinforced when someone from the Army mentioned the "Hammerdown" protocol.
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It was worse then the Bourne movies (Ultimatum was bad, Cloverfield was just obscene). We had someone who had to step out into the lobby for a bit mid-movie it was so bad.
Next jackass director who decides not to use a steady cam (i.e Cloverfield and Bourne Ultimatium) needs to get cockpunched. People do not like to be dizzy for a 2 hour movie.
In theory if people walked into Best Buy and bought nothing but music CDs the company would hemorrhage money, but in practice of course their plan works out perfectly while the smaller music shops can't possibly compete on fair ground. (One owner of a local music shop near me routinely sends his employees to the big stores to buy stock for his shelves, because it's a better deal than he can get from his supplier. How screwed up is that?)
Not screwed up at all. That's economics. I once read an article a couple years ago (back when the price of gas started going up quickly) about two gas stations in a price war. All of a sudden, one of the stations dropped it's price below cost, and the other station couldn't compete. What did the station that couldn't go below cost? Why they pulled up a tanker to the other station and started buying their gas below cost for their own station. I believe the article stated they got to $400 of fuel before the pump was turned off.
Even so, devices like disks could theoretically store power in a battery or capacitors to satisfy their short-term spikes, but as we dont see that happening I suspect it's an actual power constraint, rather than a design mistake.
With the rate at which solid state drives are being researched and produced, I see the power draw of spinning drives as a moot point.
Couldn't you simply have control over the power? As you plug in each device, it "requests" power, and the USB controller would allow or deny the request, based on current draw. I know you say someone plugging everything in at once could break things, but if you only have two hands, you can only plug two things in at the same time (and they won't both be plugged in within milliseconds of each other, while the USB controlled would only need 50-100 milliseconds to decide if it should supply the power or not).
Power control is nothing new. It just has to be done intelligently.
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Hopefully, they'll study what happened in depth (without treating the kid as a lab experiment). I'm not a bioengineer, but could you determine what caused this and make tailored immune systems for people who either never had a good one through birth defect or lost theirs to HIV/AIDS?
Since Comcast is the only broadband provider in the area, I spoke with my municipality about a municipal-owned fiber plant. They attempted to put something together in 2004, but Comcast and AT&T lobbied heavily against it. I'm working on reviving the idea, but instead of being owned by the municipality, it'll be owned by a non-profit (so it'll be the co-op model). My goal is to get the city to be an anchor tenant (police, fire, city gov.) with other entities coming on board as well (hospitals, large local businesses). I'm really looking forward to being able to offer an alternative in the area.
I have Comcast in the Chicago suburbs. I was tired of paying $55/month for digital basic cable. Got rid of the TV service, but still have cable for internet, but I get most of my content from Netflix's unlimited Watch It Now. Installing a HDHomeRun in some datacenter space I have in the next couple of weeks (which is in downtown Chicago) to let me stream digital/HD over the air signals to my home (which isn't close enough for reception). The web replacing TV indeed.
You have a model or part number for the antenna? I'd be interested in picking a couple up (one for home, one for our office, etc).
Something I would love to do with DD-WRT that I haven't played with yet is locking down the wireless so only my TiVo, laptop, etc have access to my whole house network, but anyone within range with a T-Mobile HotSpot@Home phone can use the WiFi for free calls (the phone tunnels the call using GSM-over-IP). Is this possible?
Or base it off of karma. User with high karma? No wait to post. I hate having tons of comments sitting in Firefox tabs, and going through one by one hitting submit every few minutes.
As long as it's me and two chicks. If I wanted a sausage fest, I would've gone to Germany.
The flight control system should have notified the crew of fuel exhaustion (if that's the case). Otherwise, the fuel level sensor may have been bad, and the flight control software didn't recognize the failure condition properly.
Indeed. If I'm piloting a turbine engine aircraft, I much prefer for the engines to just fail then for them to ignore my commands. Fly-by-wire is pretty cool until the engines ignore your commands and you have no way to shut the fuel off to them.
Yep, Hammerdown was a nuclear strike. Earlier in the movie, someone from the military mentions that if you hear the sirens, you're in the blast zone.
I don't give a flying fuck how the movie is hyped. If you're that shitty of a director that you can't ply your trade without making the movie look like ass, don't ask me to pay $9 to see it. Don't worry about the cockpunch though. I'll just settle/hope for more people grabbing the flick off thepiratebay.org
I thought Juno was amazing. Definitely something everyone should see once.
Hell, you guys could make a killing making versions of the Bourne series and Cloverfield that people can actually watch (as opposed to having to turn your head every so often so motion sickness doesn't kick in).
No frightening scenes? I'm not a scary movie dude at all, and I particular did not dig the subway tunnel scenes =) Or any scene with the little monsters for that matter.
Honestly, you sort of knew it was going to end exactly the way it did when the beginning said "DoD File". Things like that never end pretty. This was reinforced when someone from the Army mentioned the "Hammerdown" protocol.
It was worse then the Bourne movies (Ultimatum was bad, Cloverfield was just obscene). We had someone who had to step out into the lobby for a bit mid-movie it was so bad.
Yep. And I'd like to make sure I'm never near any operation called "Hammerdown".
Adrenaline is what does that, and yes, in unlikely situations you can definitely survive because of it.
Next jackass director who decides not to use a steady cam (i.e Cloverfield and Bourne Ultimatium) needs to get cockpunched. People do not like to be dizzy for a 2 hour movie.
As a US citizen, I pine for your healthcare. Show me where I have to pay in =)
Not screwed up at all. That's economics. I once read an article a couple years ago (back when the price of gas started going up quickly) about two gas stations in a price war. All of a sudden, one of the stations dropped it's price below cost, and the other station couldn't compete. What did the station that couldn't go below cost? Why they pulled up a tanker to the other station and started buying their gas below cost for their own station. I believe the article stated they got to $400 of fuel before the pump was turned off.
Many people leave external devices plugged in. Y'know, keyboards, mice, printers, drives, etc. Pretty much covers the board.
If the spec can control power (as USB can), then I expect it to be smart enough to handle a simple bootup.
With the rate at which solid state drives are being researched and produced, I see the power draw of spinning drives as a moot point.
Power control is nothing new. It just has to be done intelligently.
The chains don't have to be physical.