If something goes wrong, then there will be an accent. Such is the nature of any endeavor. Yet I'd be willing to bet a passenger in a self-driven car with no user interaction will be far safer then a car with total human control.
If you are looking at a physical product I find it's MUCH easier to gauge both the product and the company by seeing the object, even if just a prototype, in person. Can it still be junk or vaporware if they have a booth and demo? Of course, even from major companies sometimes. But it's still vastly more information talking to a person, getting a card, and looking at the physical item then some random spec-sheet from a company you've never heard of.
Also sometimes searching through a stack of papers for that random product you remember glancing at 3 years ago rather then trying to search through browser bookmarks works a lot better, for me at least.
What i don't need though is a huge stack of paper spec sheets for every single product and iteration, that I can get online, thank you.
If you post about it, there will be a record of how we will find you. What you have to do is not tell anyone how you are looking, then not tell anyone when you -do- find them. That way, they will never find out in the future how they were fond in the past and try to avoid it when they travel back in time.
Logically, since nobody has ever posted proof of time travelers, that means they must have found some.
People die every day because another driver is going unsafe speeds on the road, but despite what all those deaths add up to it's only in the most extreme cases of reckless driving is anything more then a ticket given.
I agree with the sentiment that this is a behavior is one that should be curbed for countless good reasons. This though is clearly a case where an arrest is completely inappropriate. A citation would likely have stopped the offender with a net gain for law enforcement rather then the cost of an arrest and the fighting and bad publicity that this is going to lead to.
Stopping the unwanted activity at a net gain to the tax payer seems like a much better deal to me.
Keep the tray as small and unobtrusive as possible, you actually want to see as much of the cable as possible. Don't try to hide the but find a professional installer that will make the cables neat, tidy as possible. Belden and cables and others have a wide range of colors that you could offer and you could probably find a nice bold one to go with what the designer might like. It could actually be something of a feature if this is a design/tech kind of company.
It wasn't just that private people became interested after investment in the infrastructure. Government institutions like many public universities had a major part in making use of that infrastructure in a way that was interesting to private people.
Big companies aren't much interested in risky bets when they have a stable business, and little generally companies don't have the resources unless they have some other source of money. Big bets need to be made sometimes for big success, but the flip side is also sometimes they don't pay off. Losing bets once in a while isn't a failure, it's just the cost of progress.
Why? The universe doesn't need us, and won't miss us when we're gone. Whether we're on one planet, or a million, nothing lasts forever.
Frankly deferring massive amounts of resources to putting some people in cans on a frozen rock will probably worsen our chances for progress and survival. If we are concerned about our fate and want humankind to do something interesting with our future we should be putting our money in research and pure sciences. I think some sort of manned spaceflight program is probably an important part of those sciences, but massive engineering projects as a monument to our narcissism just seems like a waste of our resources.
At the time it was normal not to save TV shows. There was no home video market then, and for a long time not even really 'reruns'.
I'd bet that if you had some sort of time traveling box and went back to talk to people paying their TV tax then, they'd complain that the BBC would be wasting their money on all the storage of a TV show for no reason. Then you would have to fight some sort of robot men. At least I'm pretty sure how that would go.
Getting rid of other sorts of outputs such as analog, DVI or HD-SDI (which already had audio with video) certainly is all about DRM. We are forced to use HDMI, even where it is not the appropriate transport. It's a big, expensive problem for commercial and even some residential installations that now have to deal with short signal ranges and the extra points of failure that go with the two-way authentication protocols.
HDMI is being pushed, forced, in these areas that have nothing to do with having audio and video on the same cable for no other reason then DRM.
The reboot is indeed more accessible, but only by making it yet another summer action movie. I'm not really sure what it contributes to the plethora of other summer action movies other then some familiar characters and some references and homages thrown in. Frankly, in fact, I think the last movie went beyond homage or reboot well into rip-off Territory.
I don't find anything bad about movies and other forms of entertainment that are made to have wide appeal. I enjoy a great many of them, but the change in direction of ST is only a gain for ticket sales, not for what made it a unique work. At the end of the day of course, studios are there to make money, so I don't begrudge them exactly, or think they are going to change on my smaller opinion, but I do think a loss more then a gain by other metrics.
I think it's fair to point out here that the EFF are lawyers too.
If you are accused of committing a crime you didn't commit, but nobody believes you. I can't really imagine how grateful I would be for someone who's job it is to help me, whether he believes me or not.
Certainly I have no respect for a lawyer who uses lies and manipulation, and maybe there is something fundamentally broken in our justice system, but I think that the profession of a lawyer is at it's heart still an important one and a key to a just system.
I think I would prefer real books (something that I can just toss into a bag without worry if it's charged or going to get stolen), but, I'm dyslexic. Being able to change the text size so that I'm reading in small chunks makes me able to read much faster. The other benefits (saves space, able to buy a new book where ever I am) is just a bonus.
There is always going to be a need to pack as much power as possible into a workstation for CAD, 3d graphics and other specialty applications. This means a form-factor that can dissipate more heat then a tablet can.
On the flip side, on the very low end, administrators are going to want machines that are essentially tied down to the desk for places like call centers or data processing. For one the mouse/monitor/keyboard paradigm works very well here, but also workstations are much less 'personal'.
The point being, that while there be some interesting things that tablets and touch screens bring to the party that disrupt the mouse/monitor paradigm, the computer workstation and some variation on it's components will still be here for decades.
While for a small utility like this, I agree with what the parent said. It's perfectly reasonable, and easy to record.
For expensive, specialized utilities I actually prefer key-server type systems. Why? Because there are many applications that many people need, but only just once in a while. I can't tell you how many times that we have seen a application we liked, sometimes into the thousands of dollars, but more then one person needed to use it to make it worthwhile. Even though only one person at a time would be using it, we needed it on multiple computers and there was no way to afford enough copies. So instead, we just skipped it and found another way around it with our workflow on what could have been a sale.
But the service prices don't change without big additional limitations, too.
I have a Virgin Mobile account and it's OK, but they keep it locked down to a handful of older phones. No iPhone 5 still, no Galaxy S3 still and certainly no Nexus. So yeah, you can buy your phone, but you have to buy a phone that's already out of date.
If there are discount carriers or plans that are open to other phones and actually a reduced price, I would like to hear about them.
It might not be officially dead, but it may as well be. I would have paid money for it, but it's been unreliable, flaky with getting texts to other carriers, and hasn't been updated in years now. I can't even make IP voice calls from voice.google.com, I have to go to gmail.com to make a call from my Google voice number. There is no way that I would use my google voice number as my main number with it's issues, and it doesn't look like that is ever going to change now. It's a shame, it was the product for me, and I would be recommending it to all my friends and coworkers who travel internationally.
Considering these parts include fans, which cleaning are a part of regular maintenance, it's bordering on obscene that one would be expected to have to take your computer in for what would become a fairly expensive repair just to keep the machine from overheating.
Just off the top of my head: Teflon (dupont), the transistor (Bell Labs), the GUI (Xerox Parc), the blue LED (Nichia). The list goes on and on of things that have been major game changers that came from a group of smart people getting a paycheck putting their heads together or building on each other's work on something new.
That's not to say that there aren't impediments to innovation today, be it short sighted investors or patent issues, but a great deal of big innovations, if not many of the biggest in the last 100 years have come from academics on grants and guys on salaries. What seems to be special about SpaceX is that those are the guys that seem to be the focus in the company rather then much larger (less flat) companies that are mostly about managing management and pleasing investors.
IANAAEE (I am not an aeronautical EE?) but from my understanding, the FAA requires stringent testing of their equipment before it's allowed to be used below 10,000, where above, after takeoff and landing it is a bit more lax, on top of slow rule changes by the FAA such as allowing wi-fi to be used (which was likely the result of some lobbying by the industry). Most consumer electronics manufacturers don't want to bother with such testing for under 10k feet use, and even if they did airlines don't want to have to try to determine which are approved and which are not, so just have a blanket 'no electronic devices' policy. Gogo doesn't operate below 10k feet for one, but also, they do go through all that testing that allows them to operate in an aviation environment (they used to be aircell, which made inflight phones and such).
As for bandwidth, the fact of the mater is that domestic flights just are not that long (Gogo only covers domestic flights). Most people I have noticed don't feel inclined to pay $10 for a few hours of internet when they can just read a book, do a little off-line work, watch a movie, etc. That only leaves the hand full of people with an actual need, so it's just good old fashioned supply and demand. I fly between once and 4 times a month depending on work, and have only had to use it once, the speed was fine, certainly enough for the emails I need to do, but also for just browsing once I was done with work.
Security is of course as bad as any other public wi-fi (not very) so use a vpn or whatever usual security you would use.
Exactly, so it again has absolutely nothing to do with iPhone. There is no technology news here any more then it would be car industry news if it happened at a car dealership.
We spend almost as much on the NRO alone the NASA's whole budget and it only does one thing: spy satellites. NASA gets just a few billion more and does a whole range of things, rovers, space station, weather and aeronautics research, long term research in a verity of fields at what is suppose to be the vangaurd of US Science. So yes, I think there is something wrong with all this too.
National Reconnaissance Office Budget for 2010: ~$15 Billion NASA Budget for 2010: $18.7 Billion
But that's not why Sweden's being so tough on him in prison. Authorities believe he may have played a role in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish technology company with ties to the country's tax authorities.
What does it matter if there was another crime? Of course he should be tried and prosecuted if he committed a crime, but to give someone solitary confinement before he's even been charged for a non-violent crime seems completely excessive. If your justice system has people leaving it more dangerous and damaged when they came in, you are doing it wrong.
I suppose that not every country has an innocent until guilty system though, is this usual in Sweden?
It's pretty much the quality of repositories that have guided which distro I've used. As a casual user (that is, I mostly use it on secondary computers for servers or MythTV,rather then my main desktop, nor am I a developer) compiling myself and dealing with dependencies is a huge pain. So to me, the quality of a distro is how easily I can add software without breaking things or finding it broken with a distro upgrade. So far, Apt seems to be best at that, and Canonical seems to best maintain their repository.
Compelling reasons: well, for starters, that colony would be insurance against an extinction-level asteroid impact here on Earth. So there's that.
I think wanting Mars-tronauts to be "productive" and whinging about the cost and the "enormous expense of keeping them alive" somewhat disqualifies you from this conversation.
I believe that we absolutely should and must continue exploring the universe, continue with probes, satellites and occasionally maned space flight. However the idea of manifest destiny is purely ego. The universe doesn't need us. It won't miss us when we are gone whether we populated one planet or a trillion.
Our advancement and betterment is for our benefit alone. I can't really see how throwing ourselves off the planet on chemical rockets to live in tin cans leads to the betterment of anybody. It takes time, resources and energy from sciences that could have vastly greater long term benefits. Yes, it might help us get a head start on future engineering hurdles, and helps improve public interest, but frankly, the really interesting stuff is going to be happening down here on earth for a good while longer. If we bite it as a race, so what? If we don't, then we have only the benefits of our long-term investments to reap.
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If something goes wrong, then there will be an accent. Such is the nature of any endeavor. Yet I'd be willing to bet a passenger in a self-driven car with no user interaction will be far safer then a car with total human control.
If you are looking at a physical product I find it's MUCH easier to gauge both the product and the company by seeing the object, even if just a prototype, in person. Can it still be junk or vaporware if they have a booth and demo? Of course, even from major companies sometimes. But it's still vastly more information talking to a person, getting a card, and looking at the physical item then some random spec-sheet from a company you've never heard of.
Also sometimes searching through a stack of papers for that random product you remember glancing at 3 years ago rather then trying to search through browser bookmarks works a lot better, for me at least.
What i don't need though is a huge stack of paper spec sheets for every single product and iteration, that I can get online, thank you.
If you post about it, there will be a record of how we will find you. What you have to do is not tell anyone how you are looking, then not tell anyone when you -do- find them. That way, they will never find out in the future how they were fond in the past and try to avoid it when they travel back in time.
Logically, since nobody has ever posted proof of time travelers, that means they must have found some.
When someone comes up with a phosphor which can decently approximate a blackbody spectrum, let me know.
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People die every day because another driver is going unsafe speeds on the road, but despite what all those deaths add up to it's only in the most extreme cases of reckless driving is anything more then a ticket given.
I agree with the sentiment that this is a behavior is one that should be curbed for countless good reasons. This though is clearly a case where an arrest is completely inappropriate. A citation would likely have stopped the offender with a net gain for law enforcement rather then the cost of an arrest and the fighting and bad publicity that this is going to lead to.
Stopping the unwanted activity at a net gain to the tax payer seems like a much better deal to me.
Yes, this exactly.
Keep the tray as small and unobtrusive as possible, you actually want to see as much of the cable as possible. Don't try to hide the but find a professional installer that will make the cables neat, tidy as possible. Belden and cables and others have a wide range of colors that you could offer and you could probably find a nice bold one to go with what the designer might like. It could actually be something of a feature if this is a design/tech kind of company.
It wasn't just that private people became interested after investment in the infrastructure. Government institutions like many public universities had a major part in making use of that infrastructure in a way that was interesting to private people.
Big companies aren't much interested in risky bets when they have a stable business, and little generally companies don't have the resources unless they have some other source of money. Big bets need to be made sometimes for big success, but the flip side is also sometimes they don't pay off. Losing bets once in a while isn't a failure, it's just the cost of progress.
Why? The universe doesn't need us, and won't miss us when we're gone. Whether we're on one planet, or a million, nothing lasts forever.
Frankly deferring massive amounts of resources to putting some people in cans on a frozen rock will probably worsen our chances for progress and survival. If we are concerned about our fate and want humankind to do something interesting with our future we should be putting our money in research and pure sciences. I think some sort of manned spaceflight program is probably an important part of those sciences, but massive engineering projects as a monument to our narcissism just seems like a waste of our resources.
At the time it was normal not to save TV shows. There was no home video market then, and for a long time not even really 'reruns'.
I'd bet that if you had some sort of time traveling box and went back to talk to people paying their TV tax then, they'd complain that the BBC would be wasting their money on all the storage of a TV show for no reason. Then you would have to fight some sort of robot men. At least I'm pretty sure how that would go.
Getting rid of other sorts of outputs such as analog, DVI or HD-SDI (which already had audio with video) certainly is all about DRM. We are forced to use HDMI, even where it is not the appropriate transport. It's a big, expensive problem for commercial and even some residential installations that now have to deal with short signal ranges and the extra points of failure that go with the two-way authentication protocols.
HDMI is being pushed, forced, in these areas that have nothing to do with having audio and video on the same cable for no other reason then DRM.
The reboot is indeed more accessible, but only by making it yet another summer action movie. I'm not really sure what it contributes to the plethora of other summer action movies other then some familiar characters and some references and homages thrown in. Frankly, in fact, I think the last movie went beyond homage or reboot well into rip-off Territory.
I don't find anything bad about movies and other forms of entertainment that are made to have wide appeal. I enjoy a great many of them, but the change in direction of ST is only a gain for ticket sales, not for what made it a unique work. At the end of the day of course, studios are there to make money, so I don't begrudge them exactly, or think they are going to change on my smaller opinion, but I do think a loss more then a gain by other metrics.
I think it's fair to point out here that the EFF are lawyers too.
If you are accused of committing a crime you didn't commit, but nobody believes you. I can't really imagine how grateful I would be for someone who's job it is to help me, whether he believes me or not.
Certainly I have no respect for a lawyer who uses lies and manipulation, and maybe there is something fundamentally broken in our justice system, but I think that the profession of a lawyer is at it's heart still an important one and a key to a just system.
I think I would prefer real books (something that I can just toss into a bag without worry if it's charged or going to get stolen), but, I'm dyslexic. Being able to change the text size so that I'm reading in small chunks makes me able to read much faster. The other benefits (saves space, able to buy a new book where ever I am) is just a bonus.
There is always going to be a need to pack as much power as possible into a workstation for CAD, 3d graphics and other specialty applications. This means a form-factor that can dissipate more heat then a tablet can.
On the flip side, on the very low end, administrators are going to want machines that are essentially tied down to the desk for places like call centers or data processing. For one the mouse/monitor/keyboard paradigm works very well here, but also workstations are much less 'personal'.
The point being, that while there be some interesting things that tablets and touch screens bring to the party that disrupt the mouse/monitor paradigm, the computer workstation and some variation on it's components will still be here for decades.
I'd like to add an addendum to this.
While for a small utility like this, I agree with what the parent said. It's perfectly reasonable, and easy to record.
For expensive, specialized utilities I actually prefer key-server type systems. Why? Because there are many applications that many people need, but only just once in a while. I can't tell you how many times that we have seen a application we liked, sometimes into the thousands of dollars, but more then one person needed to use it to make it worthwhile. Even though only one person at a time would be using it, we needed it on multiple computers and there was no way to afford enough copies. So instead, we just skipped it and found another way around it with our workflow on what could have been a sale.
But the service prices don't change without big additional limitations, too.
I have a Virgin Mobile account and it's OK, but they keep it locked down to a handful of older phones. No iPhone 5 still, no Galaxy S3 still and certainly no Nexus. So yeah, you can buy your phone, but you have to buy a phone that's already out of date.
If there are discount carriers or plans that are open to other phones and actually a reduced price, I would like to hear about them.
It might not be officially dead, but it may as well be. I would have paid money for it, but it's been unreliable, flaky with getting texts to other carriers, and hasn't been updated in years now. I can't even make IP voice calls from voice.google.com, I have to go to gmail.com to make a call from my Google voice number. There is no way that I would use my google voice number as my main number with it's issues, and it doesn't look like that is ever going to change now. It's a shame, it was the product for me, and I would be recommending it to all my friends and coworkers who travel internationally.
Considering these parts include fans, which cleaning are a part of regular maintenance, it's bordering on obscene that one would be expected to have to take your computer in for what would become a fairly expensive repair just to keep the machine from overheating.
Bullshit
Just off the top of my head: Teflon (dupont), the transistor (Bell Labs), the GUI (Xerox Parc), the blue LED (Nichia). The list goes on and on of things that have been major game changers that came from a group of smart people getting a paycheck putting their heads together or building on each other's work on something new.
That's not to say that there aren't impediments to innovation today, be it short sighted investors or patent issues, but a great deal of big innovations, if not many of the biggest in the last 100 years have come from academics on grants and guys on salaries. What seems to be special about SpaceX is that those are the guys that seem to be the focus in the company rather then much larger (less flat) companies that are mostly about managing management and pleasing investors.
IANAAEE (I am not an aeronautical EE?) but from my understanding, the FAA requires stringent testing of their equipment before it's allowed to be used below 10,000, where above, after takeoff and landing it is a bit more lax, on top of slow rule changes by the FAA such as allowing wi-fi to be used (which was likely the result of some lobbying by the industry). Most consumer electronics manufacturers don't want to bother with such testing for under 10k feet use, and even if they did airlines don't want to have to try to determine which are approved and which are not, so just have a blanket 'no electronic devices' policy. Gogo doesn't operate below 10k feet for one, but also, they do go through all that testing that allows them to operate in an aviation environment (they used to be aircell, which made inflight phones and such).
As for bandwidth, the fact of the mater is that domestic flights just are not that long (Gogo only covers domestic flights). Most people I have noticed don't feel inclined to pay $10 for a few hours of internet when they can just read a book, do a little off-line work, watch a movie, etc. That only leaves the hand full of people with an actual need, so it's just good old fashioned supply and demand. I fly between once and 4 times a month depending on work, and have only had to use it once, the speed was fine, certainly enough for the emails I need to do, but also for just browsing once I was done with work.
Security is of course as bad as any other public wi-fi (not very) so use a vpn or whatever usual security you would use.
Exactly, so it again has absolutely nothing to do with iPhone. There is no technology news here any more then it would be car industry news if it happened at a car dealership.
We spend almost as much on the NRO alone the NASA's whole budget and it only does one thing: spy satellites. NASA gets just a few billion more and does a whole range of things, rovers, space station, weather and aeronautics research, long term research in a verity of fields at what is suppose to be the vangaurd of US Science. So yes, I think there is something wrong with all this too.
National Reconnaissance Office Budget for 2010: ~$15 Billion
NASA Budget for 2010: $18.7 Billion
But that's not why Sweden's being so tough on him in prison. Authorities believe he may have played a role in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish technology company with ties to the country's tax authorities.
What does it matter if there was another crime? Of course he should be tried and prosecuted if he committed a crime, but to give someone solitary confinement before he's even been charged for a non-violent crime seems completely excessive. If your justice system has people leaving it more dangerous and damaged when they came in, you are doing it wrong.
I suppose that not every country has an innocent until guilty system though, is this usual in Sweden?
It's pretty much the quality of repositories that have guided which distro I've used. As a casual user (that is, I mostly use it on secondary computers for servers or MythTV,rather then my main desktop, nor am I a developer) compiling myself and dealing with dependencies is a huge pain. So to me, the quality of a distro is how easily I can add software without breaking things or finding it broken with a distro upgrade. So far, Apt seems to be best at that, and Canonical seems to best maintain their repository.
Redhat (starting 5.2) > SuSE > Open SuSE > Debian > Ubuntu
Compelling reasons: well, for starters, that colony would be insurance against an extinction-level asteroid impact here on Earth. So there's that.
I think wanting Mars-tronauts to be "productive" and whinging about the cost and the "enormous expense of keeping them alive" somewhat disqualifies you from this conversation.
I believe that we absolutely should and must continue exploring the universe, continue with probes, satellites and occasionally maned space flight. However the idea of manifest destiny is purely ego. The universe doesn't need us. It won't miss us when we are gone whether we populated one planet or a trillion.
Our advancement and betterment is for our benefit alone. I can't really see how throwing ourselves off the planet on chemical rockets to live in tin cans leads to the betterment of anybody. It takes time, resources and energy from sciences that could have vastly greater long term benefits. Yes, it might help us get a head start on future engineering hurdles, and helps improve public interest, but frankly, the really interesting stuff is going to be happening down here on earth for a good while longer. If we bite it as a race, so what? If we don't, then we have only the benefits of our long-term investments to reap.