Carriers are not for fighting a major power, they are for keeping the provinces in line.

Impossible, audio systems and flight systems never interfere with each other. Any argument the other way is just from a bunch of technophobes. --- summarized from the cell phones on air planes threads.

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Are you going to coat pedestrias, wildlife at the same time?

The other bad part with this crappy OS is losing your locense to the previous version when you do an upgrade.

Try having to run a program over Citrix on a laggy and slow connection.

I am sure if you can easily pinpoint humans through a wall with 10 cm accuracy, you will see this funded and developed by your favourite defense contractors. Sniper rifle with wallhack, anyone?

The x86 architecture, since the 8081, has double precision 64 bit floats, and a special 80 bit float--some compilers call this long double and use 128 bits to store this. How does this compare to other architectures?

Just because you've never had a problem doesn't make it non existent. No one is going to take away your new shiny monitor.

Most companies run infrastructure to failure. That means fluorescent lights with magnetic ballast that flicker at 60 Hz x 2. Previously, an old CRT with worn out phosphors running at a close frequency would have very noticeable flicker. The beat frequency (difference or lack of sync between two rapidly flickering sources) is what matters. Personally I could see some flicker with a monitor under fluorescent lights up to 70 Hz. Some coworkers always left their CRTs at 60 (where flickering was most noticeable) and we're never bothered. LCDs with CFL backlights generally don't have Mich of an issue (high frequency driver due to size).

I can see how an LED backlight with faulty circuitry could become an issue, especially if it has a flicker close to powerlines frequency. Again it would not be noticeable to everyone. That doesn't make it psychosomatic. Just means the guy who sees it has a slightly different visual cortex in hos brain from you (faster clock speed)? Stop throwing around this nonsense and accusing the OP of being allergic to WiFi too.

By the way, if you ever work in a large company or government, you often will be stuck with degrading equipment for quite some time. Especially outside of IT.... I feel sorry for the OP if this is the case as if his boss can't see it, he's stuck with it until it breaks or he quits.

Also someone mentioned LED lights on cats. Cars run off of DC, but voltage regulators and alternator can add a pulsation to any lighting.

The Airbus school of thought.

You can excees the design of the engines ib a Boeing aircraft in reverse thrust to stop it from overrruning the runway in emegency conditions. The engines will be damaged and need overhaul but you can avoid becoming a giant fireball. In an Airbus, you cannot.

"If only the crew kept their sinning hands off of the controls"

Free as in beer, or free as in gnu?

So store it on the card, and record it on the buses computer. Download the bus whenever it returns to the depot. Update the balance nightly from on a database. Flag cards that come back with a discrepancy at recharge time. If a card has a negative balance (i.e. tampered or spoofed), blacklist it. download the blacklist to the bus regularly.

Wait, I should patent that. Method and apparatus for a tamper resistant NFC fare card system.

Arguably Competition between governments is not a free market, as they collude in their own interests with some of the other members, for example OPEC, NATO, the old Warsaw pact. They also lobby and influence smaller players. This leads to what is largely an oligopoly of several large blocs and very small powerless players.

Autorun comes from Windows 95. Worth noting that cd writers were pretty cheap in 1998.

Perhaps those drinking 3 cups a day are more likely to be in jobs where they are virtually chained to a desk, so they rarely see the sun and thus less skin cancer.