No-one has any problem with this applying to actual American research. We just disagree on whether or not thinking up a trivial solution to a problem, or marrying two obvious technologies on some idle Tuesday afternoon counts as research.
In electrocution it's high currents [...]
Why is this piece of misinformation so pervasive?
Yes, if you want to get technical, it's the current passing through your tissue, in particular your heart, that does the damage.
But all other things being equal, current is proportional to voltage. Two systems at the same voltage but differing currents will deliver the same shock if you make contact. In fact if anything, if the system with the higher current is near capacity, it might deliver a slightly smaller shock because more of the available current will get drawn by the load.
The only problems with higher currents is the need for thicker wires, and the increased risk of thermal effects.
There seems to be some confusion here. A lot of people think the inverted image shows the TSA is showing doctored images rather than showing us what the scanners actually show. As far as I can tell, the inverted image has never been released by the TSA or the scanner companies. They were part of a hoax suggesting the scanners can see more than they were letting on.
I don't think there's any reason to think images released by the TSA aren't real scanner images.
How many guns were smuggled onto planes as part of 9/11 again? You could easily conceal a weapon in a tin that size.
His point is that a metal detector would've actually detected that tin, and allowed them to inspect the contents to see if contained something that might be used as a weapon, with much less impact on his privacy.
Thanks for the links! I was really concerned MS were going to drop the ball.
Is that 1GB video file less than 10 minutes long?
If you're really that lacking in imagination, what the hell do you need 200GB/mo for? If the most bandwidth intensive thing you do is download streaming media, and you prefer your porn^W video at 1.5Mbps, you really watch more than 8 hours of video a day?
Some transfer protocols don't support reliable streaming. Streaming just doesn't make sense for the most bandwidth intensive tasks.
A modern game typically takes me more than 2 hours to download (with my ~2km ADSL connection). That'd be ready to go in 15 minutes at 100Mbps.
A 200GB cap equates to around 600kbit/month, so what your actually getting is a 600kbit connection which is burstable to 100mbit.
Now you're getting it! The original question was: "what is the point of a speed that fast with a download cap that small?". The answer is kind of obvious, right? "[The] connection [...] is burstable to 100mbit."
Not sure of the relevance of 600kbps is though - I don't know too many people that aim to spread their quota evenly throughout the month. Most downloads are bursted.
Umm.. Because a file download 10 times faster than ADSL? I'm a pretty average user, and don't need anything close to 200GB.
But a 1GB video would download in about a minute at 100Mbps, vs about 10 minutes with ADSL. Then there's the latency of fibre vs copper (not to mention wireless).
Microsoft's C++11 support in VS2010 was pretty good at the time: lambdas, auto, new function decl syntax, and that's about it.
They've really dropped the ball in VS11 though: They've basically added strongly types enums, and that's about it.
Still no word on variadic templates, template aliases or initializer lists.
You are mistaken. Zero divided by zero is not inifinity.
Actually, there was an interesting case recently here in Australia. Some bloke had been wandering around a carpark stealing valuables and at least one car. One of the mobiles he had stolen had kiddy porn on it. He turned it over to the police. They warned him that he'd be charged with theft, but he decided it was a price he was willing to pay.
The pedo has been charged (and I assume is awaiting trial). A judge commended the thief, and gave him a relative slap on the wrist for his crimes. (Okay, so it was a month in prison, but it was a pretty impressive rap sheet).
To quote the judge, "'We don't want to discourage other like-minded people to act in the manner you have."
Patents != Trademark != Copyright
I should probably have included the obligatory link:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes
Seriously, they added "store" to a word we've been using in the industry for decades. Surely there's no merit in this...
It's probably a dvorak user. 'o' and 'e' are right next to each other on my keyboard.
Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
