You cannot protect entirely against RF interference when you have devices that rely on RF communications. You can only lower the chance/risk of something interfering by so much.
If something is outputting noise at a frequency where a system needs to receive transmissions, all you can do is hope the noise doesn't drown out the transmission and that the error correction can cope.
This extreme level of G force reminds me of something that's always messed with my head regarding acceleration.
Shouldn't Stopping be impossible?
I'll explain. Assuming you've a steady linear deceleration and it takes you 10 seconds to come to a stop. The closer you get to 10 seconds, the closer you are to zero velocity. However at some point, you have to reach 0m/s. The problem is, going from any value even something amazingly small like 1 x 10^-99999m/s to 0m/s instantly would be infinate G's. It could only be possible if you continued accelerating by an infintessimal amount past 0 or never actually stopped.
Is coming to a complete stop (or a constant, fixed velocity) actually impossible, is there some effect at low velocities I was never taught or is this a case of a fired arrow never hitting a turtle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._Lindows
It did result in failure. Microsoft settled by paying Lindows for the Lindows trademark because they were scared the judge would declare windows a descriptive name.
Language is defined by usage. Not what a person or group want it to be used as.
It's ironic that they go "you can only use this phrase as we tell you to use it". They can pretend they created the phrase and it's the only use but the use of open can be considered the same as with an open book. You open a book to have a look at the contents. You open source code to have a look at the contents.
They're talking about using a system on a chip solution that is designed to draw about 2W compared to the 20W or so the laptop usually draws. Of course it's going to last longer.
Given the Geode is x86, this could quite easily run XP and would likely achieve a similar battery life. It just wouldn't be instant on.
It's also an incredibly expensive solution that'll add weight and bulk to the laptop. If this kind of thing is important to you, get a PDA or smartphone.
Assuming they are correct and this is because of 'permafrost' melting, is 100x background that significant? The article doesn't mention figures so I had to look around.
Methane currently makes up 0.00017% of the atmosphere. That means these very localised 100x concentrations have 0.017% methane. This would mean if this concentration was worldwide, it would be approx 10x worse than the CO2 in the atmosphere. EVERYBODY PANIC.
However these are concentrations close to the surface over a very localised area. Permafrost makes up 25% of the earths surface, so that means on average this methane will now be of concentration to be 2.5x worse than the CO2. Still pretty bad.
However there are other factors, not mentioned. It's safe to assume 100x was the worst they found, not the typical (afterall makes for the best headlines), what was the average reading? How far above the surface was the reading taken? How does the concentration diffuse as you take readings higher up?
The article also neglects to mention that Methane breaks down after about 12 years (compared to 50-100 for Co2) and there's plenty of bacteria that break it down. Whilst this may cause levels to spike, once the vents in the exposed area are spent, it won't take long for levels to stabalise again.
That's actually a lot different to their standard denial.
For one thing it's carefully worded so that there won't be egg on the PR guy's face if it is announced. The biggest suspicious thing about that though, is that Nintendo's denials are almost always "Nintendo doesn't comment on rumours and speculation".
The 'larger screened' DS has been rumoured for over a year. Long rumoured Nintendo products almost always turn out to be true (look at the Ultra 64, Dolphin, Revolution, Nitro product codes for proof).
Nintendo DS sales are starting to slow (the PSP has gained popularity over it) and Nintendo always announce successors to handhelds just after they've peaked (DS was announced when the GBA was going strong). The graphics on the DS have long since peaked, developers really aren't able to squeeze any more out of the system. There's also not been any notable first party DS games for a long time.
However, 2 months notice for a new console? That's incredibly short notice. I can't see any third party games making that launch (unless of course they've an incredibly good NDA in place).
Circumstances indicate a DS2. Time frame by the paper indicated a DS redesign. I'd say it's more likely the paper got the dates wrong and there's a DS2 launching mid next year.
The GUI is one of the later things to be implemented in a windows development cycle, of course it's going to look like Vista.
That said, given that aero was one of the nicer things about Vista, I imagine they'll base the GUI on it but make it look different enough to elminite comparissons between vista.
Ideally they'll strike a balance between the prettyness of vista and the functionality and performance of XP.
There were some DRM issues with DVD players that did affect normal consumers. That 'region 0' protection that was briefly trialed was noticed by people who didn't know how to change their region code and couldn't play protected discs.
The most common one though was the PS2's green output if you used DVD playback in some AV setups. Sony now claim this wasn't DRM but just a technical issue but as they had claimed before the PS2 release they'd have some special custom DRM on the PS2's playback, I think that's a bunch of rubbish
My DVD player cost me £20 ($35-ish). It also plays xvid and has USB and SD card slots.
It isn't perfect. It always defaults to language 1 and no subtitles and occasionally some avis randomly stop 10 seconds in unless I re-encode them but I'm really impressed.
The FBI has the legal authority to and last time I checked, the FBI didn't post emails with baby pictures in them for the public to see.
Breaking into and email account and posting the contents for the world to see when you have no authority of any kind to do so is on a whole different level. Also, by using the FBI's actions as justification, you're endorsing the law in question.
But again, she wasn't conducting government business and the.gov account that received the email is able to be accessed through a freedom of information request. I don't see the issue.
So? Those emails are public then. Just ask for the person who received them to make them public.
From the looks of things, the content of those emails are still of a personal nature. Emailing a public figure does not constitute government business.
excuse me, but she lost her privacy rights on that account right at the moment she sent the first government related email, or replied to a government related email.
And what if she hadn't sent an email to a.gov address? Until the emails were read, there was no proof at all she was using it for government work. Heck, all signs point to these emails being of a private nature anyway. How is an email saying "don't let the insults get you down" official government business?
What you're saying would be the equilivant to the FBI raiding your house without a warrant, without reasonable suspicion, confiscating your PC, looking through all the files and private information and then granting themselves a retroactive Warrant because they found a couple of pieces of pirated software on it.
It is immoral and illegal to break into someone's email account unless you have legal authority to do so.
hacking is unlawful entry. Just because it doesn't require much skill doesn't mean it isn't hacking.
Do you have any idea of how easy it probably is to pick the lock of your front door? It can probably be done in seconds. Does that mean it isn't breaking and entering.
The Bluescreening IS the protection. Bad drivers performing bad operations can physically harm hardware. Bluescreening from illegal memory access stops some programs going haywire when their memory is overwritten and prevents remote code execution.
One example of a helpful bluescreening is if you short a USB socket. At first it'll turn off the socket for a short time if it detects a short, then if it keeps happening, windows will bluescreen. That's far preferable to a fried motherboard.
The OS should come to a halt on these things
The beta launch was handled horribly by GOA, the account activation was opened just a few hours before the servers went live and it completely collapsed. It wasn't just the numbers it seemed to be thoroughly broken. There's a reason you allow a few days before launching to let people sort out their accounts and keys.
However now that I'm in I'm enjoying it. The public quests are brilliant fun, the scenarios (think WoW BGs) are easy to get into and the classes are varied and have creative play mechanics.
remains to be seen if I'll still think it's great at level 30 when grind sets in but it's incredibly promising at this stage.
I have to say, being able to open multiple instances of internet explorer is a godsend. To me it's far more useful that Firefox's "restore last session?" option.
Having one IE window open for general browsing and one for typing long posts or other tasks which can't easily be resumed (online banking for example) is a great way to avoid frustration when one browser window crashes or eats up 100% CPU. As AJAX becomes more and more common, the advantage of multiple instances over 'restore' options will become even greater.
It's one of the biggest strengths IE has over Firefox yet it never gets mentioned.
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If something is outputting noise at a frequency where a system needs to receive transmissions, all you can do is hope the noise doesn't drown out the transmission and that the error correction can cope.
No. Most people don't report to the police when their account is hacked. It's the victims who don't care 9/10 times in these cases.
Shouldn't Stopping be impossible?
I'll explain. Assuming you've a steady linear deceleration and it takes you 10 seconds to come to a stop. The closer you get to 10 seconds, the closer you are to zero velocity. However at some point, you have to reach 0m/s. The problem is, going from any value even something amazingly small like 1 x 10^-99999m/s to 0m/s instantly would be infinate G's. It could only be possible if you continued accelerating by an infintessimal amount past 0 or never actually stopped.
Is coming to a complete stop (or a constant, fixed velocity) actually impossible, is there some effect at low velocities I was never taught or is this a case of a fired arrow never hitting a turtle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._Lindows It did result in failure. Microsoft settled by paying Lindows for the Lindows trademark because they were scared the judge would declare windows a descriptive name.
Taking someone to court over an obvious and descriptive name will result in failure.
There's nothing special about the term open source. It means that the source is available to see. Nothing else.
It's ironic that they go "you can only use this phrase as we tell you to use it". They can pretend they created the phrase and it's the only use but the use of open can be considered the same as with an open book. You open a book to have a look at the contents. You open source code to have a look at the contents.
Given the Geode is x86, this could quite easily run XP and would likely achieve a similar battery life. It just wouldn't be instant on.
It's also an incredibly expensive solution that'll add weight and bulk to the laptop. If this kind of thing is important to you, get a PDA or smartphone.
Methane currently makes up 0.00017% of the atmosphere. That means these very localised 100x concentrations have 0.017% methane. This would mean if this concentration was worldwide, it would be approx 10x worse than the CO2 in the atmosphere. EVERYBODY PANIC.
However these are concentrations close to the surface over a very localised area. Permafrost makes up 25% of the earths surface, so that means on average this methane will now be of concentration to be 2.5x worse than the CO2. Still pretty bad.
However there are other factors, not mentioned. It's safe to assume 100x was the worst they found, not the typical (afterall makes for the best headlines), what was the average reading? How far above the surface was the reading taken? How does the concentration diffuse as you take readings higher up?
The article also neglects to mention that Methane breaks down after about 12 years (compared to 50-100 for Co2) and there's plenty of bacteria that break it down. Whilst this may cause levels to spike, once the vents in the exposed area are spent, it won't take long for levels to stabalise again.
For one thing it's carefully worded so that there won't be egg on the PR guy's face if it is announced. The biggest suspicious thing about that though, is that Nintendo's denials are almost always "Nintendo doesn't comment on rumours and speculation".
Nintendo DS sales are starting to slow (the PSP has gained popularity over it) and Nintendo always announce successors to handhelds just after they've peaked (DS was announced when the GBA was going strong). The graphics on the DS have long since peaked, developers really aren't able to squeeze any more out of the system. There's also not been any notable first party DS games for a long time.
However, 2 months notice for a new console? That's incredibly short notice. I can't see any third party games making that launch (unless of course they've an incredibly good NDA in place).
Circumstances indicate a DS2. Time frame by the paper indicated a DS redesign. I'd say it's more likely the paper got the dates wrong and there's a DS2 launching mid next year.
That said, given that aero was one of the nicer things about Vista, I imagine they'll base the GUI on it but make it look different enough to elminite comparissons between vista.
Ideally they'll strike a balance between the prettyness of vista and the functionality and performance of XP.
The most common one though was the PS2's green output if you used DVD playback in some AV setups. Sony now claim this wasn't DRM but just a technical issue but as they had claimed before the PS2 release they'd have some special custom DRM on the PS2's playback, I think that's a bunch of rubbish
It isn't perfect. It always defaults to language 1 and no subtitles and occasionally some avis randomly stop 10 seconds in unless I re-encode them but I'm really impressed.
There are very few clients that don't save outgoing mail. If outgoing mail from government officials isn't stored, that in itself is a scandal.
Breaking into and email account and posting the contents for the world to see when you have no authority of any kind to do so is on a whole different level. Also, by using the FBI's actions as justification, you're endorsing the law in question.
But again, she wasn't conducting government business and the .gov account that received the email is able to be accessed through a freedom of information request. I don't see the issue.
I don't like Palin and I think it should be ok to spy on people I don't like!
From the looks of things, the content of those emails are still of a personal nature. Emailing a public figure does not constitute government business.
excuse me, but she lost her privacy rights on that account right at the moment she sent the first government related email, or replied to a government related email.
And what if she hadn't sent an email to a .gov address? Until the emails were read, there was no proof at all she was using it for government work. Heck, all signs point to these emails being of a private nature anyway. How is an email saying "don't let the insults get you down" official government business?
What you're saying would be the equilivant to the FBI raiding your house without a warrant, without reasonable suspicion, confiscating your PC, looking through all the files and private information and then granting themselves a retroactive Warrant because they found a couple of pieces of pirated software on it.
It is immoral and illegal to break into someone's email account unless you have legal authority to do so.
Do you have any idea of how easy it probably is to pick the lock of your front door? It can probably be done in seconds. Does that mean it isn't breaking and entering.
Does it matter if she's sent emails to .gov addresses? Those will be public record anyway
One example of a helpful bluescreening is if you short a USB socket. At first it'll turn off the socket for a short time if it detects a short, then if it keeps happening, windows will bluescreen. That's far preferable to a fried motherboard. The OS should come to a halt on these things
The beta launch was handled horribly by GOA, the account activation was opened just a few hours before the servers went live and it completely collapsed. It wasn't just the numbers it seemed to be thoroughly broken. There's a reason you allow a few days before launching to let people sort out their accounts and keys.
However now that I'm in I'm enjoying it. The public quests are brilliant fun, the scenarios (think WoW BGs) are easy to get into and the classes are varied and have creative play mechanics.
remains to be seen if I'll still think it's great at level 30 when grind sets in but it's incredibly promising at this stage.
Having one IE window open for general browsing and one for typing long posts or other tasks which can't easily be resumed (online banking for example) is a great way to avoid frustration when one browser window crashes or eats up 100% CPU. As AJAX becomes more and more common, the advantage of multiple instances over 'restore' options will become even greater.
It's one of the biggest strengths IE has over Firefox yet it never gets mentioned.