That's a recipe for disaster. One of the easiest attacks is to try character substitutions on password dictionaries (which are largely made up of pop culture phrases). The placement of special characters is hard to remember, yet shockingly predictable.
You were probably buying the wrong ones. I notice this easily too, but I haven't seen a new consumer-grade CFL have this problem in years. I haven't really had much experience with LEDs, but one example I did come across had a flicker in the kHz range, at least that's what the detector told me.
Wrong, there is no inherent Bernoulli effect to overcome. If you change your angle of attack you're changing the flow around the wing, which can reverses the Bernoulli effect. The error lies in implying that the dynamic flow around the airfoil is because of it's shape. Rather, they should make it clearer that the flow depends on the angle of attack. Even a knife edge can act as an airfoil, it just wouldn't be good at making a laminar flow.
It might not be unavoidable but why should anyone care? Maybe the screen's bigger or the processor faster maybe they don't have a laptop of their own or just don't want to deal with the stupid inconvenience of having two laptops on the ready. Whatever the reason, if there's no harm done then what's the problem?
If you want to be picky it's technically impossible to brick almost any kind of modern hardware, it just depends on what length you're willing to go to to unbrick your device, whether someone's already done the hard work and documented it. You might say there are multiple levels of "brickness"
Honestly though, it's you who doesn't know what you're doing. If I had done what you suggested, I would have ended up with a brick, as in "an unusable device with no clear way of restoring functionality and a negligable chance any of the hacker groups will dedicate their time to fixing". This is because the iOS4 firmware contains specific firmware for the radio processor, which hasn't been hacked yet. In order to safely update my device I needed to generate a iOS4 update firmware with code from the old firmware for the radio.
Here's one of the tutorials I found, but I had to check with numerous different ones and search for solutions to error messages that kept popping up.
Before I done all this I had to back up all my apps. I underestimated the importance of this last time I updated as numerous apps were no longer available for the slightly dated firmware version I was able to get running, so I ended up losing half my apps. This took a while too.
All in all it was a good afternoon's work, which I had been putting off for almost a year, but finally had to give in when I couldn't find any apps that worked with iOS3 any more.
0) Check to see if Jailbreak will brick your phone 0.1) Double check 0.3) Triple check 0.4) Find a detailed guide on which firmware version you can use with your specific model of phone.
Then, the procedure can be anything from downloading the program and executing it, to creating a modified firmware file from Apple's old firmware archives and using weird button combinations to get the device to launch in recovery mode.
I recently spent hours trying to update my 3g to iOS4. Not so much because I wanted the feature updates, but because you can't download the majority of Apps for iOS3 any more and they don't have old versions on offer. Since then the phone's also been running like shit. Closing an app and initiating a call can take anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute.
Quite a lot of people are working part time, if the economic incentive to go to full time (or just more hours) was higher, some of them would probably do so.
Part-time employees as well as their employers are usually more interested in the flexibility such contracts provide. The idea that part-time jobs could, or even should be upgraded to full-time positions is misguided. With empty contract books such a policy would just be a huge waste of productivity.
Besides, if the tax was lowered, the unions might agree to a longer work-week (or not press as hard for a shorter work-week), as their members would get more of the extra money.
Possibly, but that doesn't mean it will lead to higher growth or productivity. The working hours of unionized workers is an issue when there's a shortage of workers that's putting a cap on growth. Currently quite the opposite is the case in many parts of the world. A higher workload for some would lead to lay-offs for other workers, who will then be unable to buy consumer products, leading to less contracts for their previous employers.
How do they have the same incentive to work if their effective hourly wage goes down?
Because it's terribly flawed to model incentive to work by the fraction of income that's taxed. The amount that is kept still scales linearly with production. It's more of a psychological effect if anything. In reality most self-employed people are borderline workaholics, and certainly not likely to be holding the economy back.
Most people in modern economies are on salaries with fixed hours and thus have little incentive to work more anyway. Productivity is more strongly influenced by surrounding factors in the work environment. In fact, shorter working hours often means a higher productivity for the hours in which work is done. The minority of people who do have flexible incomes - contractors and the self-employed - have just as much incentive to work as they did before.
No, I don't get free web space from my ISP, that bonus seemed to go out of fashion about 5 years ago. And while they may have customers interested in backup and security (or maybe not, after all they specialize in residential and small businesses), it doesn't mean that they are any good at it. Do you think you'll read about it in the news every time every time there's a failure or breach in security?
Which is why the KeePass file is encrypted. I would worry more about the machines you use themselves being compromised. A simple keylogger might expose all your passwords. Getting your hands on the KDB file is the easy part.
That has nothing to do with smartphones and everything to do with manners. I have a smartphone, but at least I have the decency to not respond to non-urgent messages when I'm having a conversation and will politely excuse myself if I need to do something. A dumb-phone using friend of mine on the other hand is constantly texting people at inappropriate times, like when we're walking somewhere and they're slowly staggering about trying to write 5 SMSs in a row, or we're having a conversation and you can't get a decent word out of them because they're preoccupied with tapping shit into their SMSs.
Using metropolitan public transport is infinitely easier with a GPS-enabled phone. Not only does it tell you where to go and which bus to take, but it also has live bus positions to recommend the fastest route to your destination. This feature alone probably saves me more time than any other kind of smartphone functionality.
I pay nowhere near that amount, and I doubt most customers do. The amount of time I save compared to people who have to hop around to check emails, ask for directions, go to offices to find no-ones there in the first place, miss trains and just generally have a hard time using public transport, go hunting for pens, drive to stores only to find they missed the opening hours and just generally have a harder time doing things is well worth the extra charge. Not that they get by any cheaper of course. I pay less for my data in a whole month than the price of organizing a night out via SMS.
The extortionate oligopoly in western nations is really holding back the economy with their mobile communications services. I can safely say that my smartphone is by far the biggest boost in productivity I've gained from a gadget. I'm lucky in that I got a second hand phone and spent 20GBP, about 31USD for six months of unlimited internet access. I wouldn't be able to afford it if I had to pay that amount every month.
I'm guessing this is much more legit than some other Apple patents we have discussed here. But despite understanding a thing or two about fuel cell chemistry and electronics I couldn't figure out what this patent is for just by reading the article. As you say, "putting a fuel cell in a laptop" is not patentable, but then can't they give it a better name than "Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device". You too are beating about the bush. Surely this "innovative thing to make it suitable for these very small scale applications" can be summarized in no more than a paragraph. Is there someone out there who can explain what this patent is about?
The best selling Android phones are Samsung and HTC's luxery models, the Galaxy and the Desire. The Galaxy SII has been beating the iPhone 4 in the last few months.
I don't think anybody ever expected an Android device to come along and crush the iPad. It seemed to be something uniquely marketable to Apple fans. Sure, techies knew that Android systems could potentially be more flexible and useful than an iPad, but it all depended on manufacturers willingness to make them. Considering how they basically left the iPad to have all the fun on it's own for so long and the fact that many people are still very skeptical of tablets I find it amazing that they're actually selling pretty well.
Yep, certainly do. Minority platforms attract less interest from developers. While iPhone users have proven themselves to be more monetizable than Android users, they will have to be have to be 300% as monetizable if Apple can only hang on to a quarter of the market.
Wrong. The Samsung Galaxy SII defeated the iPhone 4s in November in terms of sales. The majority of sales is concentrated of the top two models from Samsung and HTC.
Your preposition kind of excludes innovation. If competition exists, it implies you are working in an established field and market. True innovations on the other hand create new and unprecedented markets which have yet to be established.
You do realize that the paper basically confirms what I say? We cannot detect phase, which is why optical interferometry relies on overlaying the light directly. No signal, no timestamp. You have to keep your optics aligned to within micrometers.
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That's a recipe for disaster. One of the easiest attacks is to try character substitutions on password dictionaries (which are largely made up of pop culture phrases). The placement of special characters is hard to remember, yet shockingly predictable.
You were probably buying the wrong ones. I notice this easily too, but I haven't seen a new consumer-grade CFL have this problem in years. I haven't really had much experience with LEDs, but one example I did come across had a flicker in the kHz range, at least that's what the detector told me.
Wrong, there is no inherent Bernoulli effect to overcome. If you change your angle of attack you're changing the flow around the wing, which can reverses the Bernoulli effect. The error lies in implying that the dynamic flow around the airfoil is because of it's shape. Rather, they should make it clearer that the flow depends on the angle of attack. Even a knife edge can act as an airfoil, it just wouldn't be good at making a laminar flow.
It might not be unavoidable but why should anyone care? Maybe the screen's bigger or the processor faster maybe they don't have a laptop of their own or just don't want to deal with the stupid inconvenience of having two laptops on the ready. Whatever the reason, if there's no harm done then what's the problem?
If you want to be picky it's technically impossible to brick almost any kind of modern hardware, it just depends on what length you're willing to go to to unbrick your device, whether someone's already done the hard work and documented it. You might say there are multiple levels of "brickness"
Honestly though, it's you who doesn't know what you're doing. If I had done what you suggested, I would have ended up with a brick, as in "an unusable device with no clear way of restoring functionality and a negligable chance any of the hacker groups will dedicate their time to fixing". This is because the iOS4 firmware contains specific firmware for the radio processor, which hasn't been hacked yet. In order to safely update my device I needed to generate a iOS4 update firmware with code from the old firmware for the radio.
Here's one of the tutorials I found, but I had to check with numerous different ones and search for solutions to error messages that kept popping up.
Before I done all this I had to back up all my apps. I underestimated the importance of this last time I updated as numerous apps were no longer available for the slightly dated firmware version I was able to get running, so I ended up losing half my apps. This took a while too.
All in all it was a good afternoon's work, which I had been putting off for almost a year, but finally had to give in when I couldn't find any apps that worked with iOS3 any more.
0) Check to see if Jailbreak will brick your phone
0.1) Double check
0.3) Triple check
0.4) Find a detailed guide on which firmware version you can use with your specific model of phone.
Then, the procedure can be anything from downloading the program and executing it, to creating a modified firmware file from Apple's old firmware archives and using weird button combinations to get the device to launch in recovery mode.
I recently spent hours trying to update my 3g to iOS4. Not so much because I wanted the feature updates, but because you can't download the majority of Apps for iOS3 any more and they don't have old versions on offer. Since then the phone's also been running like shit. Closing an app and initiating a call can take anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute.
Quite a lot of people are working part time, if the economic incentive to go to full time (or just more hours) was higher, some of them would probably do so.
Part-time employees as well as their employers are usually more interested in the flexibility such contracts provide. The idea that part-time jobs could, or even should be upgraded to full-time positions is misguided. With empty contract books such a policy would just be a huge waste of productivity.
Besides, if the tax was lowered, the unions might agree to a longer work-week (or not press as hard for a shorter work-week), as their members would get more of the extra money.
Possibly, but that doesn't mean it will lead to higher growth or productivity. The working hours of unionized workers is an issue when there's a shortage of workers that's putting a cap on growth. Currently quite the opposite is the case in many parts of the world. A higher workload for some would lead to lay-offs for other workers, who will then be unable to buy consumer products, leading to less contracts for their previous employers.
How do they have the same incentive to work if their effective hourly wage goes down?
Because it's terribly flawed to model incentive to work by the fraction of income that's taxed. The amount that is kept still scales linearly with production. It's more of a psychological effect if anything. In reality most self-employed people are borderline workaholics, and certainly not likely to be holding the economy back.
Most people in modern economies are on salaries with fixed hours and thus have little incentive to work more anyway. Productivity is more strongly influenced by surrounding factors in the work environment. In fact, shorter working hours often means a higher productivity for the hours in which work is done. The minority of people who do have flexible incomes - contractors and the self-employed - have just as much incentive to work as they did before.
No, I don't get free web space from my ISP, that bonus seemed to go out of fashion about 5 years ago. And while they may have customers interested in backup and security (or maybe not, after all they specialize in residential and small businesses), it doesn't mean that they are any good at it. Do you think you'll read about it in the news every time every time there's a failure or breach in security?
Which is why the KeePass file is encrypted.
I would worry more about the machines you use themselves being compromised. A simple keylogger might expose all your passwords. Getting your hands on the KDB file is the easy part.
Which is about as useful as a post office telegram compared to a cellphone.
That has nothing to do with smartphones and everything to do with manners. I have a smartphone, but at least I have the decency to not respond to non-urgent messages when I'm having a conversation and will politely excuse myself if I need to do something. A dumb-phone using friend of mine on the other hand is constantly texting people at inappropriate times, like when we're walking somewhere and they're slowly staggering about trying to write 5 SMSs in a row, or we're having a conversation and you can't get a decent word out of them because they're preoccupied with tapping shit into their SMSs.
Using metropolitan public transport is infinitely easier with a GPS-enabled phone. Not only does it tell you where to go and which bus to take, but it also has live bus positions to recommend the fastest route to your destination. This feature alone probably saves me more time than any other kind of smartphone functionality.
Well, then that's not a dumb phone but a feature phone.
I pay nowhere near that amount, and I doubt most customers do. The amount of time I save compared to people who have to hop around to check emails, ask for directions, go to offices to find no-ones there in the first place, miss trains and just generally have a hard time using public transport, go hunting for pens, drive to stores only to find they missed the opening hours and just generally have a harder time doing things is well worth the extra charge. Not that they get by any cheaper of course. I pay less for my data in a whole month than the price of organizing a night out via SMS.
The extortionate oligopoly in western nations is really holding back the economy with their mobile communications services. I can safely say that my smartphone is by far the biggest boost in productivity I've gained from a gadget. I'm lucky in that I got a second hand phone and spent 20GBP, about 31USD for six months of unlimited internet access. I wouldn't be able to afford it if I had to pay that amount every month.
I'm guessing this is much more legit than some other Apple patents we have discussed here. But despite understanding a thing or two about fuel cell chemistry and electronics I couldn't figure out what this patent is for just by reading the article. As you say, "putting a fuel cell in a laptop" is not patentable, but then can't they give it a better name than "Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable Computing Device". You too are beating about the bush. Surely this "innovative thing to make it suitable for these very small scale applications" can be summarized in no more than a paragraph.
Is there someone out there who can explain what this patent is about?
The best selling Android phones are Samsung and HTC's luxery models, the Galaxy and the Desire. The Galaxy SII has been beating the iPhone 4 in the last few months.
I don't think anybody ever expected an Android device to come along and crush the iPad. It seemed to be something uniquely marketable to Apple fans. Sure, techies knew that Android systems could potentially be more flexible and useful than an iPad, but it all depended on manufacturers willingness to make them. Considering how they basically left the iPad to have all the fun on it's own for so long and the fact that many people are still very skeptical of tablets I find it amazing that they're actually selling pretty well.
Yep, certainly do. Minority platforms attract less interest from developers. While iPhone users have proven themselves to be more monetizable than Android users, they will have to be have to be 300% as monetizable if Apple can only hang on to a quarter of the market.
Wrong. The Samsung Galaxy SII defeated the iPhone 4s in November in terms of sales. The majority of sales is concentrated of the top two models from Samsung and HTC.
Your preposition kind of excludes innovation. If competition exists, it implies you are working in an established field and market. True innovations on the other hand create new and unprecedented markets which have yet to be established.
Here on slashdot we all understand that Chuck Norris does push the world down. It all depends on the physical reference frame.
You do realize that the paper basically confirms what I say? We cannot detect phase, which is why optical interferometry relies on overlaying the light directly. No signal, no timestamp. You have to keep your optics aligned to within micrometers.
One of the more fundamental problems is that we don't have phase-sensitive detectors for visible light.