Real NETBOOKS (not this thing, too big and expensive) are useful for RIAs (Rich Internet Apps) that don't need a lot of screen real estate. IF they have a lot of battery and IF they are small enough and IF they are cheap enough, you can put these netbooks into the hands of floor workers (retail, medical office) and have all of the access you need. Most WIFI phones/PDAs are too small for real floor usage.
1) That's what they want you to think. Probably <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> makes the whole <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> process more effective if they <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> sneak under your personal radar.
The article isn't terribly specific about which nitrogen compounds react to the spray, only providing a couple of examples. If I worked in my garden 5 days before a flight, am I going to get Tazed by TSA because I didn't eliminate every last speck of fertilizer from my clothes? There, fixed your question for ya. You're welcome! There, fixed your welcome for you. No, no, it was my pleasure.
Which I also just don't get. Why don't they weather stations have embedded web servers? My cable modem does. Why couldn't the weather station archive data to a memory card, like so many digital picture frames use? Why not have a cat5 connection or an optional wireless connection ( which the user could do themselves with a Apple Express plugged into the cat5 port). Everything right (from the vendor) now seems to be tied ms boxes.
They have that now, but it is pricey. Vantage's is a bit less than a grand. Wireless from the sensors to the display/monitor is pretty much available, but it IS a box on the other end near the computer and it uses either USB or RS232. I would imagine that there is software for linux and/or OS/X since it is just a serial data stream that can be retrieved from the data logger (at least in the Vantage setup, which is what I am used to).
Then how about an agreement with whomever is the property owner to put it on their property for free, in exchange for the owner having the use thereof?
I'm just missing the benefit to the government. While I know it doesn't actually work like this, imagine that I had a reason to have lots of these out in a grid and I had access to tons of land of my own and I have control over rights of way and I could work with, say, utility companies, cell companies and gas companies who have lots of stuff sticking out of the ground, even on private property, that they control and visit regularly.
Why would I want to work with you?
Why should the government buy you a station? If they are going to put up stations, they'll just put up their own wherever they want them. Why give you a grant so you can have your own weather station, unless you're some kind of weather guru, in which case you probably already bought your own.
The administration on a government grant program alone would cost more than the station, its installation and maintenance. This is a voluntary program of citizens working to help a portion of the government help other citizens. For practical access, go to Weather Underground. They both promote the NOAA program and publish the values from participating stations.
The Davis Vantage models are great and reasonably priced, compared to a year of Starbucks, say, and there are other usable less expensive types available. Ambient Weather sells stations and software. I have no financial connection with them, other than buying stuff from them. They helped a weather noob (moi) get a system that works well for me. And, yes, I participate in the uploads.
I remember seeing this at a ComDex YEARS ago. Always thought it would be pretty cool, but with a serious learning curve. And since I haven't even bothered to learn the Dvorak layout, I can see why they are no more.
I like Atlantis. It's simple, does just about everything I want, and I can turn out sound that makes it sound like a manual typewriter when I write, complete with bell ding. But that is only good because I am old enough to have used a manual typewriter.
There's a pretty good point here.
I've been asking people I meet how many of them feel "terrorized". The number is incredibly low. I'm not saying that I am looking forward to having bombers blowing themselves up in my local community, but if the point of terrorism is to inflict terror on the populace, then, here in the States with an admittedly non-statistically significant sample, they are failing miserably.
I'd like to suggest that we approach this whole problem as a "normal" police problem and treat those times when it fails as a tragedy, but not a societal upheaval.
Thousands and thousands are killed by drunk drivers every year, but they are not classified as terrorists, even though I am MUCH more likely to change my New Year's Eve activity based on the possibility of encountering a drunk driver than I am of changing ANY of my activities based on the possibility of encountering a terrorist.
I'm thinking the billions spent to combat terrorism could be much better used and I am willing to give up a little "security" for that.
Me too....
When I went to college we had teletypes. We were considered progressive because A) our student IDs were a log-in and B) BASIC was available to everyone since it was invented there.
Didn't have to use punch cards. Woohoo!
When I did a program to model a gravitational field, I had to go to the engineering building to get access to a plotter so I could see what it looked like. Just a bunch of asterisks on the teletype.
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In the U.S. we don't measure in "metric fucktons". We screw up in U.S. fucktons. Also, in Britain isn't it metric fucktonnes? Just asking.
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Real NETBOOKS (not this thing, too big and expensive) are useful for RIAs (Rich Internet Apps) that don't need a lot of screen real estate. IF they have a lot of battery and IF they are small enough and IF they are cheap enough, you can put these netbooks into the hands of floor workers (retail, medical office) and have all of the access you need. Most WIFI phones/PDAs are too small for real floor usage.
Now is when I want mod points. I laughed out loud. I did not LOL. or ROFL.
<quote>I like Eclipse, and can't build Flash apps using it.</quote>
Why not? Flex Builder is based on Eclipse and if you already HAVE Eclipse, you can get the plug-in version.
Fingers, man, fingers! Who needs to count to more than 10 anyway?
That's because it's crayon.
Do it as an oil, on canvas, large and splashy enough and it will be "art" and you can exchange it for all kinds of things.
Call it "The Counterfeit Series" and do all the bills.
<quote><p>As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.</p></quote>
:)</p></quote>
<p>Something tells me that perhaps he doesn't genuinely, really believe that God is his witness...
God=witness plus hell-bent merely helps determine WHO his God is.
Actually Newsome was practicing social hacking, which geek Childs, in his technical arrogance, never expected.
You forgot
Nazi...uh....Chuck Norris!
1) That's what they want you to think. Probably <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> makes the whole <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> process more effective if they <subliminal>Subliminal messages don't work</subliminal> sneak under your personal radar.
Nice callback to a previous thread!
Actually that has changed also. There were persons who weren't considered part of the people at the time of the original signing.
I used and have a copy of Windows 1. It wasn't good either.
Which I also just don't get. Why don't they weather stations have embedded web servers? My cable modem does. Why couldn't the weather station archive data to a memory card, like so many digital picture frames use? Why not have a cat5 connection or an optional wireless connection ( which the user could do themselves with a Apple Express plugged into the cat5 port). Everything right (from the vendor) now seems to be tied ms boxes.
They have that now, but it is pricey. Vantage's is a bit less than a grand.
Wireless from the sensors to the display/monitor is pretty much available, but it IS a box on the other end near the computer and it uses either USB or RS232. I would imagine that there is software for linux and/or OS/X since it is just a serial data stream that can be retrieved from the data logger (at least in the Vantage setup, which is what I am used to).
Then how about an agreement with whomever is the property owner to put it on their property for free, in exchange for the owner having the use thereof?
I'm just missing the benefit to the government. While I know it doesn't actually work like this, imagine that I had a reason to have lots of these out in a grid and I had access to tons of land of my own and I have control over rights of way and I could work with, say, utility companies, cell companies and gas companies who have lots of stuff sticking out of the ground, even on private property, that they control and visit regularly.
Why would I want to work with you?
Why should the government buy you a station? If they are going to put up stations, they'll just put up their own wherever they want them. Why give you a grant so you can have your own weather station, unless you're some kind of weather guru, in which case you probably already bought your own.
The administration on a government grant program alone would cost more than the station, its installation and maintenance. This is a voluntary program of citizens working to help a portion of the government help other citizens. For practical access, go to Weather Underground. They both promote the NOAA program and publish the values from participating stations.
The Davis Vantage models are great and reasonably priced, compared to a year of Starbucks, say, and there are other usable less expensive types available.
Ambient Weather sells stations and software. I have no financial connection with them, other than buying stuff from them. They helped a weather noob (moi) get a system that works well for me. And, yes, I participate in the uploads.
As good as anywhere. Really.
I think someone has bad insurance and can't afford their meds....or just forgot to take them.
I remember seeing this at a ComDex YEARS ago. Always thought it would be pretty cool, but with a serious learning curve. And since I haven't even bothered to learn the Dvorak layout, I can see why they are no more.
I like Atlantis. It's simple, does just about everything I want, and I can turn out sound that makes it sound like a manual typewriter when I write, complete with bell ding. But that is only good because I am old enough to have used a manual typewriter.
There's a pretty good point here.
I've been asking people I meet how many of them feel "terrorized". The number is incredibly low. I'm not saying that I am looking forward to having bombers blowing themselves up in my local community, but if the point of terrorism is to inflict terror on the populace, then, here in the States with an admittedly non-statistically significant sample, they are failing miserably.
I'd like to suggest that we approach this whole problem as a "normal" police problem and treat those times when it fails as a tragedy, but not a societal upheaval.
Thousands and thousands are killed by drunk drivers every year, but they are not classified as terrorists, even though I am MUCH more likely to change my New Year's Eve activity based on the possibility of encountering a drunk driver than I am of changing ANY of my activities based on the possibility of encountering a terrorist.
I'm thinking the billions spent to combat terrorism could be much better used and I am willing to give up a little "security" for that.
I've often considered moving to Tonga...it seems it would be easier than losing weight and I'd be considered skinny in some societies there.
That's because us fat people don't walk around. How do you think we got fat?
Me too.... When I went to college we had teletypes. We were considered progressive because A) our student IDs were a log-in and B) BASIC was available to everyone since it was invented there. Didn't have to use punch cards. Woohoo! When I did a program to model a gravitational field, I had to go to the engineering building to get access to a plotter so I could see what it looked like. Just a bunch of asterisks on the teletype.