The other advantage is the speed at which you can charge a capacitor compared to a battery. I have a consumer cordless screwdriver with a capacitor in place of a battery. It runs for a decent time and runs down, like most such devices. Unlike a battery, it recharges to full in 90 seconds, not hours.
That's what I did with my MID tablet. I wanted a clock that could display NTP-synchronized time. I had an old MID lying around doing nothing. Rooted it. Added NTP software to run over the wifi. Setup the desktop with a big clock app and a smaller 3-day weather app. Stuck velcro to the back and hung it on my cube wall at work, just over my monitors. Just leave it plugged in all the time, as my MID also has under-1hr battery life. Works great.
Tell that to the (206), (360) and (971) area code spammers that have been hitting my cell multiple times per week.
If you'll pardon the plug: Call Control by EveryCall.us has been an excellent caller-id-blocker for my Android phone. It handles wildcard blocks, so those jerks don't get through anymore regardless of which number they've picked each time.
Your case is different from the robocall problem. The problem is not with automatic systems that targeting individual customers with customized messages. The problem is scams and businesses that call anyone and everyone with the same message. So, all robocalls are bad. Appointment reminders are not robocalls.
Meanwhile, the 29.97% interest rate that the payday loans people charge (and that only because 30% is considered usury and is illegal) is in no way wrong?
Don't forget the mystery math that lets them charge that percentage against your payment, not your principal.
$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the principal owes the obvious amount of $129.97 in payment.
$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the payment costs the more common amount of $142.80 in payment, an effective (and legal) 42.8% interest rate.
Elsevier's standing relies on providing top quality, peer-reviewed journals. They cannot keep that up if the peers will not review for them. It is the cornerstone of their business model.
How exactly does proving that standing around a bunch of X-ray equipment causes radiation exposure hurt those whose policies put those people there in the first place? No karma. Not hardly. OSHA should have been all over this from day one, to protect these employees.
I am a little disturbed they want to (appear to) do their own testing in this manner. I seriously doubt we'll see honest results out of the TSA management. Once again, OSHA needs to run this. Self-reporting will only toe the party line, that the machines are perfectly safe.
Google don't offer premium version of their services they make their money by showing ads to their free users.
This is not entirely true. My university-branded google apps account and my personal-domain-branded google apps accounts exist in addition to my free gmail accounts. They have a model for selling co-branded versions of the apps for a premium price. Admittedly this is not the lion share of their profits.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002VPE1WK/ - AmazonBasics Backpack for SLR camera is my standard airplane travel bag. Holds my D90 with two or three spare lenses, gps, backup usb harddrive, and a 10inch netbook with power cables. Still has room for travel docs and a snack.
Ditto. I bought a network media appliance that does NetFlix and plays off my NAS, with outputs for RCA-jack TVs. It happened to be a bluray player, but it has never been given a bluray disk.
"There is a finite amount of bandwidth. The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea."
Your premise isn't based on fact. The major ISP's have agreed that there is no bandwidth problem,
There is no such thing as an unlimited bandwidth router. Thus, at some level there is always a finite amount of bandwidth. What was "practically unlimited" 5 years ago is woefully limited as the media streaming gets more and more pervasive. Regardless of the true motives of AT&T the premise is still quite sound and relevant.
Perhaps if it worked with your new FinePix REAL 3D W1 Digital Camera it would be useful for sorting those photos. On the other hand, the FinePix is doing something with interlacing left and right eye views so I suspect it's using some sort of lenticular screen rather than the cross-polarized stereo that Acer is touting.
Obviously need to verify this, but we already run mod_cband with a per-IP connection limit of 5. This is in place to stop the over-zealous "download accelerators" from taking all our connections and DOS'ing us. I expect it would stop a single attacker using this attack, but we'd still be vulnerable to a concerted attack by MaxChildren/5 IPs.
"Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds." -- that's straight from the corporate memo.
I second this, except that I installed Fedora 9 on my 901 before 10 was available. It has worked well for me, as I am more comfortable with the Redhat/Fedora-style environment.
Another service to stop using. I'd rather pay/subscribe than listen to ads (not that the same promise didn't stop ads on cable tv). Not even regular radio interrupts songs in the middle, although a lot of obnoxiously talk into the beginning or cut off the end with their chatter. And replacing Satellite Radio with an iPhone/data_contract + Pandora seemed like a decent idea a while back.
Ok, so what's stopping you? I pay $36/year for ad-free Pandora. You can too. Beats the heck out of my XM subscription in the car, which has ads on an awful lot of its channels in spite of the promises otherwise.
This trick is handy when you like the context-sensitive formatting but you are editing a file with a non-typed extension. (e.g. somefile.module for Drupal which is actually PHP code)
Embed this in your file, near the top of the document: /* vim: set filetype=php tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 : */
Obviously you can substitute any:set commands from VIM that you like, to customize the editor to the specific file.
Any SUV owners reading this? Look forward to watching the second hand sale value of your vehicle plummet even while fuel costs rise to the point where you can no longer afford to drive your (now) useless vehicle.
Don't like it? Bad luck. You can't say you weren't warned.
Sure, 2007 Toyota Rav4 here. I get 26-27 MPG on my daily commute to work, mostly city driving. I needed an SUV for towing capacity and storage space, so I found the one with the best mileage and reliability. I'm not saving another whopping 3 MPG going to a Ford Escape hybrid for $4000 more and unknown longevity.
On the other hand, I can switch to a Smart car for about $15k and double my commute mileage. I currently commute on about 260 gallons/year, so I'd save 130 gallons/year. Gas would have to go up to $11.50/gallon before that becomes cost effective over a 10 year life of a car.
Don't like it? Learn to math and quit talking out your ass.
Aluminum is far, far more prone to oxidation than crystalline carbon. That's all graphene is anyway, a 2-D crystal of carbon. Aluminum oxidizes easily at room temperature. Carbon does not. It takes a lot of thermal energy (think burning) to convince carbon to let go of itself and start grabbing oxygen instead.
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The other advantage is the speed at which you can charge a capacitor compared to a battery. I have a consumer cordless screwdriver with a capacitor in place of a battery. It runs for a decent time and runs down, like most such devices. Unlike a battery, it recharges to full in 90 seconds, not hours.
That's what I did with my MID tablet. I wanted a clock that could display NTP-synchronized time. I had an old MID lying around doing nothing. Rooted it. Added NTP software to run over the wifi. Setup the desktop with a big clock app and a smaller 3-day weather app. Stuck velcro to the back and hung it on my cube wall at work, just over my monitors. Just leave it plugged in all the time, as my MID also has under-1hr battery life. Works great.
If you'll pardon the plug: Call Control by EveryCall.us has been an excellent caller-id-blocker for my Android phone. It handles wildcard blocks, so those jerks don't get through anymore regardless of which number they've picked each time.
Your case is different from the robocall problem. The problem is not with automatic systems that targeting individual customers with customized messages. The problem is scams and businesses that call anyone and everyone with the same message. So, all robocalls are bad. Appointment reminders are not robocalls.
Meanwhile, the 29.97% interest rate that the payday loans people charge (and that only because 30% is considered usury and is illegal) is in no way wrong?
Don't forget the mystery math that lets them charge that percentage against your payment, not your principal.
$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the principal owes the obvious amount of $129.97 in payment.
$100 principal loan at 29.97% of the payment costs the more common amount of $142.80 in payment, an effective (and legal) 42.8% interest rate.
I have two tablets, and both are android. Is that one vote or two?
Elsevier's standing relies on providing top quality, peer-reviewed journals. They cannot keep that up if the peers will not review for them. It is the cornerstone of their business model.
How exactly does proving that standing around a bunch of X-ray equipment causes radiation exposure hurt those whose policies put those people there in the first place? No karma. Not hardly. OSHA should have been all over this from day one, to protect these employees.
I am a little disturbed they want to (appear to) do their own testing in this manner. I seriously doubt we'll see honest results out of the TSA management. Once again, OSHA needs to run this. Self-reporting will only toe the party line, that the machines are perfectly safe.
Google don't offer premium version of their services they make their money by showing ads to their free users.
This is not entirely true. My university-branded google apps account and my personal-domain-branded google apps accounts exist in addition to my free gmail accounts. They have a model for selling co-branded versions of the apps for a premium price. Admittedly this is not the lion share of their profits.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002VPE1WK/ - AmazonBasics Backpack for SLR camera is my standard airplane travel bag. Holds my D90 with two or three spare lenses, gps, backup usb harddrive, and a 10inch netbook with power cables. Still has room for travel docs and a snack.
Ditto. I bought a network media appliance that does NetFlix and plays off my NAS, with outputs for RCA-jack TVs. It happened to be a bluray player, but it has never been given a bluray disk.
"There is a finite amount of bandwidth. The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea."
Your premise isn't based on fact. The major ISP's have agreed that there is no bandwidth problem,
There is no such thing as an unlimited bandwidth router. Thus, at some level there is always a finite amount of bandwidth. What was "practically unlimited" 5 years ago is woefully limited as the media streaming gets more and more pervasive. Regardless of the true motives of AT&T the premise is still quite sound and relevant.
Perhaps if it worked with your new FinePix REAL 3D W1 Digital Camera it would be useful for sorting those photos. On the other hand, the FinePix is doing something with interlacing left and right eye views so I suspect it's using some sort of lenticular screen rather than the cross-polarized stereo that Acer is touting.
Around where I live, BT means Bankers Trust, and BA is bugger all.
In the states, BA (Bank of America) is pretty much "bugger all" as well.
Obviously need to verify this, but we already run mod_cband with a per-IP connection limit of 5. This is in place to stop the over-zealous "download accelerators" from taking all our connections and DOS'ing us. I expect it would stop a single attacker using this attack, but we'd still be vulnerable to a concerted attack by MaxChildren/5 IPs.
"Overage charges will be capped at $75 per month. That means that for $150 per month customers could have virtually unlimited usage at Turbo speeds." -- that's straight from the corporate memo.
I second this, except that I installed Fedora 9 on my 901 before 10 was available. It has worked well for me, as I am more comfortable with the Redhat/Fedora-style environment.
Archimedes Revenge by Paul Hoffman
http://www.amazon.com/Archimedes-Revenge-Joys-Perils-Mathematics/dp/0393327752/
A collection of short essay on various topics. I particularly enjoyed the section on game theory and how it applies to voting systems.
Obligatory XKCD link incoming in 3... 2... 1...
http://xkcd.com/327/
So's the poster's idea. We've been blacklisting connections to honeypot addresses for over 10 years. It's not exactly a new concept.
Another service to stop using. I'd rather pay/subscribe than listen to ads (not that the same promise didn't stop ads on cable tv). Not even regular radio interrupts songs in the middle, although a lot of obnoxiously talk into the beginning or cut off the end with their chatter. And replacing Satellite Radio with an iPhone/data_contract + Pandora seemed like a decent idea a while back.
Ok, so what's stopping you? I pay $36/year for ad-free Pandora. You can too. Beats the heck out of my XM subscription in the car, which has ads on an awful lot of its channels in spite of the promises otherwise.
This trick is handy when you like the context-sensitive formatting but you are editing a file with a non-typed extension. (e.g. somefile.module for Drupal which is actually PHP code)
/* vim: set filetype=php tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 : */
:set commands from VIM that you like, to customize the editor to the specific file.
Embed this in your file, near the top of the document:
Obviously you can substitute any
Because good old fashioned nepotism has worked so well for us in the past.
Sure, 2007 Toyota Rav4 here. I get 26-27 MPG on my daily commute to work, mostly city driving. I needed an SUV for towing capacity and storage space, so I found the one with the best mileage and reliability. I'm not saving another whopping 3 MPG going to a Ford Escape hybrid for $4000 more and unknown longevity.
On the other hand, I can switch to a Smart car for about $15k and double my commute mileage. I currently commute on about 260 gallons/year, so I'd save 130 gallons/year. Gas would have to go up to $11.50/gallon before that becomes cost effective over a 10 year life of a car.
Don't like it? Learn to math and quit talking out your ass.
Aluminum is far, far more prone to oxidation than crystalline carbon. That's all graphene is anyway, a 2-D crystal of carbon. Aluminum oxidizes easily at room temperature. Carbon does not. It takes a lot of thermal energy (think burning) to convince carbon to let go of itself and start grabbing oxygen instead.