Nah. In the worst case that the HID emulation does not require pairing, fixing the issue is easy enough. Turn the feature off. There are a few ways to do this if the bios lacks the option.
Didn't Google Chrome 2.0.176.0 get a 100/100[...]?
Not on my machine. It shows 100/100, but the animation is not smooth, and the red words "LINKTEST FAILED" appear on my machine. Both of which mean Chrome does NOT pass Acid 3.
What you are experiencing is a feature of some bluetooth chips (notably those manufactured by CSR, which includes Dell's chips) which is designed to support using a bluetooth keyboard in a bios. Bluetooth keyboards and mice use the Bluetooth HID profile, which is the USB HID protocol wrapped in a thin bluetooth layer. These chips support an HID proxy mode, where the chip identifies as a USB HID device, and then simply removes the wrapping from incoming HID commands and dumps them on the USB Bus (yuck, PIN Number syndrome, but the redundancy was necessary for clear expression here:( ), and does the reverse too, which is a bit trickier.
The net result is that usb keyboards and mice probably automagically work with your computer. I've no real understanding of how this interacts with bluetooth device pairing, as I've never gotten this to work for me, but hopefully it requires you to first pair the keyboard or mouse in question with the bluetooth chip while running an OS with bluetooth enabled.
Terminal velocity applies when starting from zero velocity. You are correct that the vertical velocity should never exceed terminal velocity since that is initially zero, but the horizontal velocity begins at a rate that greatly exceeds terminal velocity. (Even that is slightly inaccurate thanks to Earth being a damned rotating reference frame.) Thus the speed of the craft will exceed terminal velocity until nearly the very end. That is the whole concept of aerobraking. Once you are in the atmosphere, the atmosphere will tend to slow you down to terminal velocity. However, not only would terminal velocity for the craft still be fatal, but it is very unlikely the craft would even slow down to it before impact if not for parachutes (these greatly reduce terminal velocity) or retrorockets (these don't change the terminal velocity, but do change the actual velocity).
working Intellisense should not cause any slowdown, because it should be running only in the background, using idle cycles. When it works well, it lets you avoid having to stop to check the manual or header file to determine the correct order of the the parameters to a function, since the prototype would appear as a tooltip when you typed the open paren. Or when you remember that a class has a member function that does what y6ou want, but it had an odd name, which you know you would recognize if you saw. Just type the '.' and press the command completion key (or chord) and skim the list.
If you are actually getting text that you did not type being added to the document, and it is not because you explicitly pushed a command completion key (or chord) then something is wrong.
The biggest issue here is that the settlement is basically a deal between Google and damn-near everybody. The settlement feels too much like a contract between two entities, one of which is Google, and the other of which is "basically everybody except those listed here (i.e. those that opt-out)".
Normally, contracts don't work like that. They normally have the name of each party listed on them. There are some exceptions, such as contracts of adhesion, but even those require some explicit action on the part of the unnamed party in order to apply.
Since the only way to get something that is similar to a contract with everybody is as part of a class action settlement, this creates a bit of an inequality.
The real problem is that the class action system is not well designed. The only well designed system is an opt-in system, where the settlement is basically an open offer on the table for any member of the class to accept if he/she so desires.
True, but consider that one can have a 1:1 scale model of a rocket. In that case the difference between it being a rocket vs a model is usually that the model is not functional.
Would you call a functional 1:1.1111 (9:10) scale Saturn V a rocket or a model? I'd call it a rocket, myself.
A "Free Market" can't possibly ever exist in reality. Approaching that theoretical ideal is the best we will ever be able to do in that arena. A completely unregulated market will always be far away from a free market.
Agreed, but not for the reason you think. Regulation is needed. But government regulation is not necessarily needed.
Want to win in a market without being the best? Murder your competition. What's that, you'll go to prison? Wow, market regulation, It's everywhere and it is an essential requirement of a functioning market.
I'm not a real fan of viewing the basic criminal laws as government regulation of markets, but I will admit that it does function to help regulate some markets. However, the government regulation here is not essential. The key is that there must be something to prevent you from murdering your competition. There can be alternatives to the law there. Consider organized crime. The criminal law is largely irrelevant in the avoiding of murder there. What prevents it is generally the protection of the crime lords from each other, such that they really couldn't murder each other.
In general the black markets are is interesting in general, since they often approximate a free market fairly well, tending to rely on internal regulation where regulation is needed. (Of course the black markets can vary in levels of openness. Those dominated by crime lords are often closed markets, but that still compete fairly well, while others are more or less a free-for-all).
Over regulation is also bad, but the most commonly deluded types are the ones who not only believe that free markets are real, but they think unregulated markets and free markets are the same thing.
True. A market without government regulation can most certainly fail to be even remotely free, while markets with significant government regulations can approximate a free market really well in some cases. Generally I find that over-regulation in the sense of too many regulations is not the problem. The problem is generally specific regulations that have major harmful effects. In rare cases we get many regulations with small harmful effects that just add up to become significant, but generally it seems to be a small number of regulations bought and payed for by the big players in the market that are the problem.
What about the fact that the last mile is a shared pipe in cable based Inet systems. Your entire local region (neighborhood or so) has one internet connection. The maximum bandwidth is determined by the number of unused channels on the coaxial cable. Perhaps there is 1000Mbps free on the coax. That means that your entire neighborhood shares 1000Mbps. If 11 houses have 100Mbps the last mile is oversubscribed!
The head-end is certainly also oversubscribed.
Of course, oversubscription is not only normal, but essential to the operation of the Internet. The backbone networks bandwidth is certainly less than 1/1000 of the combined advertised bandwidth of all internet subscribers. It may be oversubscribed by several more orders of magnitude for all I know. (Unfortunately it is hard to judge the over subscription level so high up, since the network topology does not really resemble a tree as clearly at that level.)
The general key is that the closer you get to the last mile, the smaller the oversubscription ratio should be. An 8 to 1 oversubscription may be reasonable at the the level of a city-wide ISP. That sort of oversubscription at a last mile (neighborhood) level may be a problem.
More concerning is the fact that one can in theory sniff the traffic of their neighbors in a cable based system.
What is really sad is that they need anything more than compatibility mode. On XP, I can run most Win 16 apps just fine. I can run many Windows 95/98 apps just fine. Same with NT4 apps. Windows 2000 apps? No sweat. And that is generally without requiring manually enabling compatibility mode. That Windows 7 has such problems with XP apps that Microsoft thinks some users will want to run them in a virtual machine says a lot to me.
Really? What sort of lame DVR has a maximum 10 minute pause? Even Dishnetworks crappy offering has two hours of pause time. Sish's offering has a poor UI, small hardrive with no upgrade options, and basically in every way inferior to Tivo except that you have jump forward enabled by default (no need to use special codes to enable it, unlike the damn Tivo units).
Too true, but please also consider the house of representatives, and Senate. There, unlike with the presidency, we have enough seats that some sort of proportional representation can work. Consider if we abolish congressional districts, and instead divide the house seats of that state by proportion of the vote each party gets in that state.
Such a change would kill off gerrymandering, would allow for at least some representatives of smaller parties, should the have the support of a sufficient percentage of the voting population, and just overall be better. After all, the house representatives do not represent their district, and often don't live it in, despite the rules. Instead they are primarily representatives of their political party. Only secondarily are they representatives of the state. When do we ever see votes split down state lines? It happens, but not nearly as often as party lines.
The problem is that you cannot send the disc back insured mailed without handing the disc to a postal employee behind the counter of the local post office. I'm also not aware of any sort of pre-payed reply mail program that includes insurance, so the insurance on the return would be coming out of the customer's pocket. No chance in hell.
Why would you want a game that takes up 50 GB? Any game that approaches that level of data consumption must be seriously abusing full motion video, probably to the point of using pretty much the entire development budget on it. Either that or it is storing trillion polygon models for the specs of dust in the game, and similarly absurd texture sizes.
Yes, the fear of government and of Government regulation can be quite misplaced.
It is well known that in some markets regulation is the only thing that keeps the market even remotely resembling a free market, rather than an oligarchy.
Now regulation can have its issues too. N o doubt that some government regulation is actively harmful. Some of it is well intention regulation that goes sour, which is pretty common considering that macro-scale economics is not a science by any means. Other harmful regulation is that which is supported by the major players in the regulated industry. In general that indicates that the regulation dictates what they would be doing anyway, yet makes it more difficult for competitors to enter the market, or compete with the big players.
In a similar way, having the government perform some function may be very helpful, or may be quite harmful.
Look at the United States Postal Service. People complain about them, but they function pretty well all things considered. The pricing on first class mail is definitely very competitive despite the complete lack of competitors. If the market were opened do you really think UPS, FedEx, or DHL could offer first class mail services at a significantly lower price? Probably not. Perhaps a few cents lower, but not much. The USPS does tend to be slightly more expensive than the alternatives when shipping packages, but that does not really matter, because they have competition there.
Overall the USPS works well. Why does it work well? Perhaps the most important thing to notice is that it is well insulated from the elected politicians. They can't continually mess with it, making changes all the time. It is not profit driven. The apparent goal is to net exactly zero profit, with income covering all the expenses, and employee salaries, upkeep etc, thus requiring no treasury funding. It does reasonably well at that, although they almost never actually reach that goal.
That goes to show that a government institution can work effectively. One that owns last mile infrastructure could also work well, if set up well, such that the politicians have little influence over it, it is set up such that it must price fairly (be this some sort of per endpoint, or bandwidth based pricing scheme, the important thing is that Ma Bell gets no better deal than Joe's DSL Shack), and be set up so that the net profit is zero (the all income covers infrastructure, maintenance, and upgrades).
But alas, the average American is to scared of the government to allow such a thing, and don't see the absurd television, phone, and internet pricing as a real issue.
The only reason I can think of that this is being called a model rocket, is that it is using engines of the same basic design as modern model rockets. If this was being launched by more traditional rocket fuels then due it the size and weight it would surely be a full fledged rocket.
My understanding is that under US law, anything intended by the signer as a signature legally qualifies as a signature. That includes, but is not limited to standard signatures, electronic signatures, press seals, wax seals, visible fingerprints, etc. Now, this leaves open the question of weather a given mark is intended as a signature, and if so, what the signature is intended to mean. The signature may mean that I have seen and agreed to the contents, that I have seen the contents, that I am the author of the contents, or quite a few other things.
Now, the law will in some cases require specific types of signatures for some things, such as a true written signature, but not always.
For example for online trademark filing at the USPTO, the signature is any textual entry of the submitter's choice, as long as it begins and ends with the forward slash character. The USPTO considers that just as binding as a "normal" signature on a paper form.
In the same way, a PGP signature on a textual contract could be considered valid, subject to validity of the signature itself according to the OpenPGP standard.
I don't intentionally vary my signatures, but they definately do vary. Unfortunately for me, they can very so much that the traditional check of "Are they very similar?" would be worthless. If you try to match two of my signatures, you there might be a 1/4 chance that they match as closely as signatures traditionally "should". Sigh.
Perhaps. My guess is they have logic like the following:
If you use Firefox, you probably already have heard about Chrome, and have decided not to switch. If you use IE, you probably have no idea that other browsers even exist, but you may know and like Google, so would be willing to give this Chrome thing a try.
WTF? I've written JavaScript before, but bever used jQuery. What the hell is that code doing? Clicking on all the ".cat"s using an empty function? Huh?
No seriously, why would a method named "click" take an argument? Any why would a valid value for that argument be an empty unnamed function?
Why do diamonds have value? Why does gold have value? Why does a special type of cloth with certain patterns of ink on it (The US dollar) have value? Why do humans have value?
Every single one of those questions has exactly the same answer. They have value because people say they do.
Sure you can. You just have it phone home once an hour on the hour, with its current location, and add a sign to the car that says so. Then have the systems check each hour for a secure indicator on a website you own. If the system finds the indicator it turns on continuous tracking, but also turns on a warning light that indicates to any potential test-driver that a test drive would not be anonymous.
People can test drive anonymously, but cannot steal the car, since once stolen you can activate the tracking, and find them.
Add in a system where tampering with the security system causes the car to explode, and add the words "Security system's anti-tamper defenses are lethal", And you are good to go.
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Nah. In the worst case that the HID emulation does not require pairing, fixing the issue is easy enough. Turn the feature off. There are a few ways to do this if the bios lacks the option.
Didn't Google Chrome 2.0.176.0 get a 100/100[...]?
Not on my machine. It shows 100/100, but the animation is not smooth, and the red words "LINKTEST FAILED" appear on my machine. Both of which mean Chrome does NOT pass Acid 3.
What you are experiencing is a feature of some bluetooth chips (notably those manufactured by CSR, which includes Dell's chips) which is designed to support using a bluetooth keyboard in a bios. Bluetooth keyboards and mice use the Bluetooth HID profile, which is the USB HID protocol wrapped in a thin bluetooth layer. These chips support an HID proxy mode, where the chip identifies as a USB HID device, and then simply removes the wrapping from incoming HID commands and dumps them on the USB Bus (yuck, PIN Number syndrome, but the redundancy was necessary for clear expression here :( ), and does the reverse too, which is a bit trickier.
The net result is that usb keyboards and mice probably automagically work with your computer. I've no real understanding of how this interacts with bluetooth device pairing, as I've never gotten this to work for me, but hopefully it requires you to first pair the keyboard or mouse in question with the bluetooth chip while running an OS with bluetooth enabled.
The earth is not a multi-trillion ton rock (i.e. a multi gigaton rock) it is a multi zetaton rock (i.e. a multi yottapound rock).
Terminal velocity applies when starting from zero velocity. You are correct that the vertical velocity should never exceed terminal velocity since that is initially zero, but the horizontal velocity begins at a rate that greatly exceeds terminal velocity. (Even that is slightly inaccurate thanks to Earth being a damned rotating reference frame.) Thus the speed of the craft will exceed terminal velocity until nearly the very end. That is the whole concept of aerobraking. Once you are in the atmosphere, the atmosphere will tend to slow you down to terminal velocity. However, not only would terminal velocity for the craft still be fatal, but it is very unlikely the craft would even slow down to it before impact if not for parachutes (these greatly reduce terminal velocity) or retrorockets (these don't change the terminal velocity, but do change the actual velocity).
Oh come on. Swivel seats. Duh!
working Intellisense should not cause any slowdown, because it should be running only in the background, using idle cycles. When it works well, it lets you avoid having to stop to check the manual or header file to determine the correct order of the the parameters to a function, since the prototype would appear as a tooltip when you typed the open paren. Or when you remember that a class has a member function that does what y6ou want, but it had an odd name, which you know you would recognize if you saw. Just type the '.' and press the command completion key (or chord) and skim the list.
If you are actually getting text that you did not type being added to the document, and it is not because you explicitly pushed a command completion key (or chord) then something is wrong.
The biggest issue here is that the settlement is basically a deal between Google and damn-near everybody. The settlement feels too much like a contract between two entities, one of which is Google, and the other of which is "basically everybody except those listed here (i.e. those that opt-out)".
Normally, contracts don't work like that. They normally have the name of each party listed on them. There are some exceptions, such as contracts of adhesion, but even those require some explicit action on the part of the unnamed party in order to apply.
Since the only way to get something that is similar to a contract with everybody is as part of a class action settlement, this creates a bit of an inequality.
The real problem is that the class action system is not well designed. The only well designed system is an opt-in system, where the settlement is basically an open offer on the table for any member of the class to accept if he/she so desires.
True, but consider that one can have a 1:1 scale model of a rocket. In that case the difference between it being a rocket vs a model is usually that the model is not functional.
Would you call a functional 1:1.1111 (9:10) scale Saturn V a rocket or a model? I'd call it a rocket, myself.
A "Free Market" can't possibly ever exist in reality. Approaching that theoretical ideal is the best we will ever be able to do in that arena. A completely unregulated market will always be far away from a free market.
Agreed, but not for the reason you think. Regulation is needed. But government regulation is not necessarily needed.
Want to win in a market without being the best? Murder your competition. What's that, you'll go to prison? Wow, market regulation, It's everywhere and it is an essential requirement of a functioning market.
I'm not a real fan of viewing the basic criminal laws as government regulation of markets, but I will admit that it does function to help regulate some markets. However, the government regulation here is not essential. The key is that there must be something to prevent you from murdering your competition. There can be alternatives to the law there. Consider organized crime. The criminal law is largely irrelevant in the avoiding of murder there. What prevents it is generally the protection of the crime lords from each other, such that they really couldn't murder each other.
In general the black markets are is interesting in general, since they often approximate a free market fairly well, tending to rely on internal regulation where regulation is needed. (Of course the black markets can vary in levels of openness. Those dominated by crime lords are often closed markets, but that still compete fairly well, while others are more or less a free-for-all).
Over regulation is also bad, but the most commonly deluded types are the ones who not only believe that free markets are real, but they think unregulated markets and free markets are the same thing.
True. A market without government regulation can most certainly fail to be even remotely free, while markets with significant government regulations can approximate a free market really well in some cases. Generally I find that over-regulation in the sense of too many regulations is not the problem. The problem is generally specific regulations that have major harmful effects. In rare cases we get many regulations with small harmful effects that just add up to become significant, but generally it seems to be a small number of regulations bought and payed for by the big players in the market that are the problem.
What about the fact that the last mile is a shared pipe in cable based Inet systems. Your entire local region (neighborhood or so) has one internet connection. The maximum bandwidth is determined by the number of unused channels on the coaxial cable. Perhaps there is 1000Mbps free on the coax. That means that your entire neighborhood shares 1000Mbps. If 11 houses have 100Mbps the last mile is oversubscribed!
The head-end is certainly also oversubscribed.
Of course, oversubscription is not only normal, but essential to the operation of the Internet. The backbone networks bandwidth is certainly less than 1/1000 of the combined advertised bandwidth of all internet subscribers. It may be oversubscribed by several more orders of magnitude for all I know. (Unfortunately it is hard to judge the over subscription level so high up, since the network topology does not really resemble a tree as clearly at that level.)
The general key is that the closer you get to the last mile, the smaller the oversubscription ratio should be. An 8 to 1 oversubscription may be reasonable at the the level of a city-wide ISP. That sort of oversubscription at a last mile (neighborhood) level may be a problem.
More concerning is the fact that one can in theory sniff the traffic of their neighbors in a cable based system.
What is really sad is that they need anything more than compatibility mode. On XP, I can run most Win 16 apps just fine. I can run many Windows 95/98 apps just fine. Same with NT4 apps. Windows 2000 apps? No sweat. And that is generally without requiring manually enabling compatibility mode. That Windows 7 has such problems with XP apps that Microsoft thinks some users will want to run them in a virtual machine says a lot to me.
Really? What sort of lame DVR has a maximum 10 minute pause? Even Dishnetworks crappy offering has two hours of pause time. Sish's offering has a poor UI, small hardrive with no upgrade options, and basically in every way inferior to Tivo except that you have jump forward enabled by default (no need to use special codes to enable it, unlike the damn Tivo units).
The vast majority of judges in the US are lawyers (or were lawyers prior to getting the job). I'd tend to guess that is also true in Sweden.
Too true, but please also consider the house of representatives, and Senate. There, unlike with the presidency, we have enough seats that some sort of proportional representation can work. Consider if we abolish congressional districts, and instead divide the house seats of that state by proportion of the vote each party gets in that state.
Such a change would kill off gerrymandering, would allow for at least some representatives of smaller parties, should the have the support of a sufficient percentage of the voting population, and just overall be better. After all, the house representatives do not represent their district, and often don't live it in, despite the rules. Instead they are primarily representatives of their political party. Only secondarily are they representatives of the state. When do we ever see votes split down state lines? It happens, but not nearly as often as party lines.
The problem is that you cannot send the disc back insured mailed without handing the disc to a postal employee behind the counter of the local post office. I'm also not aware of any sort of pre-payed reply mail program that includes insurance, so the insurance on the return would be coming out of the customer's pocket. No chance in hell.
Why would you want a game that takes up 50 GB? Any game that approaches that level of data consumption must be seriously abusing full motion video, probably to the point of using pretty much the entire development budget on it. Either that or it is storing trillion polygon models for the specs of dust in the game, and similarly absurd texture sizes.
Yes, the fear of government and of Government regulation can be quite misplaced.
It is well known that in some markets regulation is the only thing that keeps the market even remotely resembling a free market, rather than an oligarchy.
Now regulation can have its issues too. N o doubt that some government regulation is actively harmful. Some of it is well intention regulation that goes sour, which is pretty common considering that macro-scale economics is not a science by any means. Other harmful regulation is that which is supported by the major players in the regulated industry. In general that indicates that the regulation dictates what they would be doing anyway, yet makes it more difficult for competitors to enter the market, or compete with the big players.
In a similar way, having the government perform some function may be very helpful, or may be quite harmful.
Look at the United States Postal Service. People complain about them, but they function pretty well all things considered. The pricing on first class mail is definitely very competitive despite the complete lack of competitors. If the market were opened do you really think UPS, FedEx, or DHL could offer first class mail services at a significantly lower price? Probably not. Perhaps a few cents lower, but not much. The USPS does tend to be slightly more expensive than the alternatives when shipping packages, but that does not really matter, because they have competition there.
Overall the USPS works well. Why does it work well? Perhaps the most important thing to notice is that it is well insulated from the elected politicians. They can't continually mess with it, making changes all the time. It is not profit driven. The apparent goal is to net exactly zero profit, with income covering all the expenses, and employee salaries, upkeep etc, thus requiring no treasury funding. It does reasonably well at that, although they almost never actually reach that goal.
That goes to show that a government institution can work effectively. One that owns last mile infrastructure could also work well, if set up well, such that the politicians have little influence over it, it is set up such that it must price fairly (be this some sort of per endpoint, or bandwidth based pricing scheme, the important thing is that Ma Bell gets no better deal than Joe's DSL Shack), and be set up so that the net profit is zero (the all income covers infrastructure, maintenance, and upgrades).
But alas, the average American is to scared of the government to allow such a thing, and don't see the absurd television, phone, and internet pricing as a real issue.
The only reason I can think of that this is being called a model rocket, is that it is using engines of the same basic design as modern model rockets. If this was being launched by more traditional rocket fuels then due it the size and weight it would surely be a full fledged rocket.
My understanding is that under US law, anything intended by the signer as a signature legally qualifies as a signature. That includes, but is not limited to standard signatures, electronic signatures, press seals, wax seals, visible fingerprints, etc. Now, this leaves open the question of weather a given mark is intended as a signature, and if so, what the signature is intended to mean. The signature may mean that I have seen and agreed to the contents, that I have seen the contents, that I am the author of the contents, or quite a few other things.
Now, the law will in some cases require specific types of signatures for some things, such as a true written signature, but not always.
For example for online trademark filing at the USPTO, the signature is any textual entry of the submitter's choice, as long as it begins and ends with the forward slash character. The USPTO considers that just as binding as a "normal" signature on a paper form.
In the same way, a PGP signature on a textual contract could be considered valid, subject to validity of the signature itself according to the OpenPGP standard.
For the record, IANAL.
I don't intentionally vary my signatures, but they definately do vary. Unfortunately for me, they can very so much that the traditional check of "Are they very similar?" would be worthless. If you try to match two of my signatures, you there might be a 1/4 chance that they match as closely as signatures traditionally "should". Sigh.
Perhaps. My guess is they have logic like the following:
If you use Firefox, you probably already have heard about Chrome, and have decided not to switch. If you use IE, you probably have no idea that other browsers even exist, but you may know and like Google, so would be willing to give this Chrome thing a try.
WTF? I've written JavaScript before, but bever used jQuery. What the hell is that code doing? Clicking on all the ".cat"s using an empty function? Huh?
No seriously, why would a method named "click" take an argument? Any why would a valid value for that argument be an empty unnamed function?
Why do diamonds have value? Why does gold have value? Why does a special type of cloth with certain patterns of ink on it (The US dollar) have value? Why do humans have value?
Every single one of those questions has exactly the same answer. They have value because people say they do.
Sure you can. You just have it phone home once an hour on the hour, with its current location, and add a sign to the car that says so. Then have the systems check each hour for a secure indicator on a website you own. If the system finds the indicator it turns on continuous tracking, but also turns on a warning light that indicates to any potential test-driver that a test drive would not be anonymous.
People can test drive anonymously, but cannot steal the car, since once stolen you can activate the tracking, and find them.
Add in a system where tampering with the security system causes the car to explode, and add the words "Security system's anti-tamper defenses are lethal", And you are good to go.