I will admit that he article was poorly written, but it appears that the list is a set of technologies that work together for interconnected devices. Not every technology that the author listed are programming languages. X10, Insteon, Zigbee, and Z-Wave are communication protocols for interconnected devices.
Personally can't see any reason that a person might want to:
Send themselves a message if they forget to arm their security system when leaving their house
Automatically turn on the lights in their home when they arrive after dark for safety and security
Set their thermostat to more energy efficient temperatures when they leave home or comfortable ones when they arrive
Notify themselves if a window or door is open when it starts to rain
Automatically turn off the lights, TV, lock doors, and close the garage door when they leave
Turn lights and TV on and off randomly when they're not home to make the home appear occupied to potential thieves.
Turn on all lights if the smoke alarms go off at night so that the home owner can see to evacuate safely
Send a message if their kitchen sink starts to leak
Frankly I'm surprised that/. doesn't seem interested in home automation technologies.
Considering I just had 2 fraudulent purchases made online to the total of $2850 to my American Express card I welcome anything secure and not tied to my card number. Despite never losing or having my card stolen I've had to replace my card multiple times in the past few years. After a while it starts to get old.
Thanks but no. I'd rather not have my car running in the garage with the garage door closed just because I sat down in my car with my keys in my pocket to: clean the interior, retrieve the owners manual, etc
The FSU program is accredited by ABET and is the same program that on campus students take. I just completed it myself as my second degree in August. The instructors all seemed to be very responsive to student questions. Almost all courses included a graduate student who acted as a teaching assistant who could respond to student questions and provide assistance when the instructor was not available.
I can't say how it compares to other university programs. I also can't say how well it would prepare a student for a career in the field. I had been working as a software developer for 10 years when I decided to "upgrade" my minor in CS to a B.S. (Original degree was Applied Mathematics). As someone who was already familiar with most of the subject material I found it to be a fairly easy program. Other students seemed to find it more challenging.
You have to already have an Associates degree, but FSU offers an online program. It is the same program that their on campus students take and the program is accredited by ABET.
If you decide to choose it, be careful, FSU has a more stringent foreign language policy than some other universities in the state university system of Florida. All degrees require 3 semesters of a foreign language or appropriate scores on a CLEP test.
Sounds like the 3 year old in question is either a prodigy, or someone is exaggerating. Most 3 year old children don't know how to read to be able to use a computer. The child is either a prodigy who can read by the age of 3, or they are associating pictures they're used to seeing on a tablet to get to their games. They don't use a computer like an adult for all the same purposes. He or she simply wants to get to a game to play.
They could also kiss most sales they would have to the US Department of Defense goodbye. Any PC on a secured classified network would not have access to the internet to get to an app store. Software for processing classified data or software that is itself classified or is subject to export restrictions would never be allowed by the government onto an app store.
As a scuba diver I have to say, the experience is not the same. Static images don't give you enough information or the same feel as being there in person. You can't see (or experience) a cleaning station from pictures. You can't experience the sensation of floating in mid-water while watching a shark swim back and forth around a reef below you. You can't hear the sounds, feel the water.
What it does do is give people the ability to see something that they may otherwise never experience in person. Never a bad thing.
Sorry but here in Florida we sometimes have weather events that take out the power for up to a week at a time. I'd hate to be stuck with no way to purchase anything critical (medicine, food, ice) for a whole week.
The point is more to why a professional violinist usually tends towards older instruments rather than newer ones. If a violinist can find an older violin in the range between $40,000 - $100,000 range that they like, chances are they would purchase that one before they would buy a newer instrument that costs the same. Also a good number of the highly regarded luthiers have a waiting list of over a year or more for new instruments.
The fact is that most professional violinists cannot afford an instrument that costs as much as a Strad or a del Gesu. Those instruments tend to be purchased for private collections or by organizations that loan high quality instruments to promising musicians. The few violinists that do own an instrument like that are very highly paid concert soloists.
There is one key thing that people tend to forget when these kinds of test results come out. As the wood in the violin ages its sound will change. After about 300 years or so (the average age of a Strad) the sound won't change much. With a new violin (average cost for a handmade one by an expert lutier being around $20,000) you have no way of knowing how the sound will change as it ages. Sure it might sound good today, but what happens in 10 years as the wood ages? There are violins made by Stradivarius that don't sound good because the wood didn't age well, and he was known to experiment with his instrument design a bit (for example the Chanot-Chardon Stradivarius violin is guitar shaped). That same problem could happen to a modern made violin leaving the musician out the price of a small car and a nearly worthless instrument. Safer to buy an older instrument that has had time to age.
And on another note chances are if anyone buys a $100 violin they've bought a cheap poorly setup piece of junk that is almost unplayable.
I'm not sure that the new Louisiana law would hold up in a court. Last time I checked US currency states "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". The key word being "all".
Oddly enough I prefer Corelle over most ceramic dishes, lighter, thinner, take up less room in the cabinet. Granted I much prefer Bone China over anything else, but for everyday use you would have to pry the Corelle out of my cold dead hands.
Even good coders make mistakes. There can be various reasons for this, maybe someone was suffering from insomnia the night before and their mental processing is slower. Maybe they were working on a part of a project and there are integration issues in their code between a part of the project that they were not as familiar with.
Not every issue in code can be found by peer review, and not every issue in code can be found by testing. A good team has a combination of good coders, good peer reviews, and good testing. You need all of that (and more) for a good project. Good coders are not everything. Nor should they have an ego about their code. A good coder should realize that everybody makes mistakes, even themselves.
EMI and Zenph are two different animals altogether. If I remember correctly EMI creates new music in the style of a composer based on a database of the composers work. The Zenph technique currently takes existing recordings of musicians, analyzes the music, and essentially turns that into a MIDI file. Hopefully when played on an acoustic instrument that's been modified to play MIDI the result sounds as close to the original as possible.
At the moment all it can do is recreate what has already been done. As for what they intend to do in the future, that sounds more like EMI. However, I suspect they're going for something that can play existing music that sounds like it was played by that artist and not new music that sounds like it was written by that artist.
As opposed to Mozart, who not only invented Classical music, but also music itself, starting with nothing more than the occasional, disjointed, a-harmonic noises that existed in the world before him.
I'm going to have to disagree with this statement. As much as I enjoy Mozart, he, like others before him built on those that came before.
Music from the Baroque period can be quite beautiful, and much of it was written before Mozart was born. For example, The Four Seasons (1723) by Antonio Vivalidi, Water Music (1717) by George Frideric Handel, and Brandenburg Concertos (1721) by J. S. Bach. Each of these was composed before Mozart was born in 1756.
Well, I'm not an engineer so someone else may correct me on this, but I suspect that it may have to do with the incompressibility of fluids. I would think that the pressure on the outside of the hull would be transmitted to the fluid which in turn would transmit the pressure to the inner hull causing a collapse.
This would be similar to how a free diver's lungs get compressed as they dive. The pressure is transmitted through the skin, muscle, bone, hits the lungs which are mostly gas and are compressed.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice for the fish and a few extreme divers
If the Oriskany (200ft max depth) ans Spiegel Grove(134 ft max depth) are any indication then more than just extreme divers will dive this. At the bottom both of these wrecks are below the recreational dive limit of 130 ft, but the top of the Spiegel Grove sits just around 60-70ft as does the top of the Oriskany. This is well within the depth limits for recreational diving and I understand that there is quite a bit to see in these wrecks above 130ft.
I'm curious about the engineering reasons for using one really big chute instead of a cluster of smaller ones as on the Apollo command module.
I might have read this wrong, but I read it as a 3 stage system, pilot chute to pull out the drogue, drogue chute, and then a cluster of 3 main chutes.
Go to the movies. you will see plenty of full frontal nudity of women in R rated movies. You won't get a single shot of a penis until you go to X.
While I agree that there is something of a double standard here, I can think of several movies containing full frontal male nudity that were not rated X. For example "Any Given Sunday", "Life of Brian", "Schindler's List", and "The Crying Game" all contain full frontal male nudity. While it may not be common, it's not exactly unheard of.
And you can't go 20 mph straight up unless you want to get some type of DCI either.
Seriously though if it's keeping water out it either has to be pressurized (doubtful if it's using a snorkel for air) or just watertight. If it's watertight it's probably only down to a fairly shallow depth, if it gets too deep the water pressure is going to start pushing water in through the "watertight" seals. Assuming a watertight seal (and not a pressurized vehicle) and given that the pressure at 10m (33 ft) is twice the atmospheric pressure at sea level, I'd be willing to guess that the max depth isn't much more than that (if not less).
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I have the same problem. See your doctor about Welchol, it absorbs the excess bile. Difference is like night & day.
Personally can't see any reason that a person might want to:
Send themselves a message if they forget to arm their security system when leaving their house
Automatically turn on the lights in their home when they arrive after dark for safety and security
Set their thermostat to more energy efficient temperatures when they leave home or comfortable ones when they arrive
Notify themselves if a window or door is open when it starts to rain
Automatically turn off the lights, TV, lock doors, and close the garage door when they leave
Turn lights and TV on and off randomly when they're not home to make the home appear occupied to potential thieves.
Turn on all lights if the smoke alarms go off at night so that the home owner can see to evacuate safely
Send a message if their kitchen sink starts to leak
Frankly I'm surprised that /. doesn't seem interested in home automation technologies.
Considering I just had 2 fraudulent purchases made online to the total of $2850 to my American Express card I welcome anything secure and not tied to my card number. Despite never losing or having my card stolen I've had to replace my card multiple times in the past few years. After a while it starts to get old.
Or between a child and a tree, you'd hit the child?
Thanks but no. I'd rather not have my car running in the garage with the garage door closed just because I sat down in my car with my keys in my pocket to: clean the interior, retrieve the owners manual, etc
I can't say how it compares to other university programs. I also can't say how well it would prepare a student for a career in the field. I had been working as a software developer for 10 years when I decided to "upgrade" my minor in CS to a B.S. (Original degree was Applied Mathematics). As someone who was already familiar with most of the subject material I found it to be a fairly easy program. Other students seemed to find it more challenging.
FSU Computer Science
If you decide to choose it, be careful, FSU has a more stringent foreign language policy than some other universities in the state university system of Florida. All degrees require 3 semesters of a foreign language or appropriate scores on a CLEP test.
Sounds like the 3 year old in question is either a prodigy, or someone is exaggerating. Most 3 year old children don't know how to read to be able to use a computer. The child is either a prodigy who can read by the age of 3, or they are associating pictures they're used to seeing on a tablet to get to their games. They don't use a computer like an adult for all the same purposes. He or she simply wants to get to a game to play.
They could also kiss most sales they would have to the US Department of Defense goodbye. Any PC on a secured classified network would not have access to the internet to get to an app store. Software for processing classified data or software that is itself classified or is subject to export restrictions would never be allowed by the government onto an app store.
As a scuba diver I have to say, the experience is not the same. Static images don't give you enough information or the same feel as being there in person. You can't see (or experience) a cleaning station from pictures. You can't experience the sensation of floating in mid-water while watching a shark swim back and forth around a reef below you. You can't hear the sounds, feel the water.
What it does do is give people the ability to see something that they may otherwise never experience in person. Never a bad thing.
Sorry but here in Florida we sometimes have weather events that take out the power for up to a week at a time. I'd hate to be stuck with no way to purchase anything critical (medicine, food, ice) for a whole week.
Small transactions, power failures, and computer and network outages. Not every business will accept a check.
The point is more to why a professional violinist usually tends towards older instruments rather than newer ones. If a violinist can find an older violin in the range between $40,000 - $100,000 range that they like, chances are they would purchase that one before they would buy a newer instrument that costs the same. Also a good number of the highly regarded luthiers have a waiting list of over a year or more for new instruments.
The fact is that most professional violinists cannot afford an instrument that costs as much as a Strad or a del Gesu. Those instruments tend to be purchased for private collections or by organizations that loan high quality instruments to promising musicians. The few violinists that do own an instrument like that are very highly paid concert soloists.
There is one key thing that people tend to forget when these kinds of test results come out. As the wood in the violin ages its sound will change. After about 300 years or so (the average age of a Strad) the sound won't change much. With a new violin (average cost for a handmade one by an expert lutier being around $20,000) you have no way of knowing how the sound will change as it ages. Sure it might sound good today, but what happens in 10 years as the wood ages? There are violins made by Stradivarius that don't sound good because the wood didn't age well, and he was known to experiment with his instrument design a bit (for example the Chanot-Chardon Stradivarius violin is guitar shaped). That same problem could happen to a modern made violin leaving the musician out the price of a small car and a nearly worthless instrument. Safer to buy an older instrument that has had time to age.
And on another note chances are if anyone buys a $100 violin they've bought a cheap poorly setup piece of junk that is almost unplayable.
I'm not sure that the new Louisiana law would hold up in a court. Last time I checked US currency states "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". The key word being "all".
Oddly enough I prefer Corelle over most ceramic dishes, lighter, thinner, take up less room in the cabinet. Granted I much prefer Bone China over anything else, but for everyday use you would have to pry the Corelle out of my cold dead hands.
Even good coders make mistakes. There can be various reasons for this, maybe someone was suffering from insomnia the night before and their mental processing is slower. Maybe they were working on a part of a project and there are integration issues in their code between a part of the project that they were not as familiar with.
Not every issue in code can be found by peer review, and not every issue in code can be found by testing. A good team has a combination of good coders, good peer reviews, and good testing. You need all of that (and more) for a good project. Good coders are not everything. Nor should they have an ego about their code. A good coder should realize that everybody makes mistakes, even themselves.
Correct and the individual in question is the CEO of the company developing this camera.
EMI and Zenph are two different animals altogether. If I remember correctly EMI creates new music in the style of a composer based on a database of the composers work. The Zenph technique currently takes existing recordings of musicians, analyzes the music, and essentially turns that into a MIDI file. Hopefully when played on an acoustic instrument that's been modified to play MIDI the result sounds as close to the original as possible.
At the moment all it can do is recreate what has already been done. As for what they intend to do in the future, that sounds more like EMI. However, I suspect they're going for something that can play existing music that sounds like it was played by that artist and not new music that sounds like it was written by that artist.
As opposed to Mozart, who not only invented Classical music, but also music itself, starting with nothing more than the occasional, disjointed, a-harmonic noises that existed in the world before him.
I'm going to have to disagree with this statement. As much as I enjoy Mozart, he, like others before him built on those that came before.
Music from the Baroque period can be quite beautiful, and much of it was written before Mozart was born. For example, The Four Seasons (1723) by Antonio Vivalidi, Water Music (1717) by George Frideric Handel, and Brandenburg Concertos (1721) by J. S. Bach. Each of these was composed before Mozart was born in 1756.
This would be similar to how a free diver's lungs get compressed as they dive. The pressure is transmitted through the skin, muscle, bone, hits the lungs which are mostly gas and are compressed.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice for the fish and a few extreme divers
If the Oriskany (200ft max depth) ans Spiegel Grove(134 ft max depth) are any indication then more than just extreme divers will dive this. At the bottom both of these wrecks are below the recreational dive limit of 130 ft, but the top of the Spiegel Grove sits just around 60-70ft as does the top of the Oriskany. This is well within the depth limits for recreational diving and I understand that there is quite a bit to see in these wrecks above 130ft.
I'm curious about the engineering reasons for using one really big chute instead of a cluster of smaller ones as on the Apollo command module.
I might have read this wrong, but I read it as a 3 stage system, pilot chute to pull out the drogue, drogue chute, and then a cluster of 3 main chutes.
Go to the movies. you will see plenty of full frontal nudity of women in R rated movies. You won't get a single shot of a penis until you go to X.
While I agree that there is something of a double standard here, I can think of several movies containing full frontal male nudity that were not rated X. For example "Any Given Sunday", "Life of Brian", "Schindler's List", and "The Crying Game" all contain full frontal male nudity. While it may not be common, it's not exactly unheard of.
Seriously though if it's keeping water out it either has to be pressurized (doubtful if it's using a snorkel for air) or just watertight. If it's watertight it's probably only down to a fairly shallow depth, if it gets too deep the water pressure is going to start pushing water in through the "watertight" seals. Assuming a watertight seal (and not a pressurized vehicle) and given that the pressure at 10m (33 ft) is twice the atmospheric pressure at sea level, I'd be willing to guess that the max depth isn't much more than that (if not less).