Yep. You got a 5.25" 360K floppy and punched an extra notch in the disk cover so you could flip it over and use the other side. 360 +360 = 720.
I remember calling them "flippies". Apparently both sides of the disk were coated with media. Even had a tool I had made that was like a hole punch but the punch was square and it had a frame to automatically position it correctly on the disk. I wonder where that is now?
"We're forging new ground with this project, where a positive outcome is not commercialization, but instead a clear set of instructions that can be addressed to the general public. It's a completely new way of thinking about battery research, and it could bypass the barriers holding back innovation in grid scale energy storage," Pint said.
So far, batteries have remained outside of this culture, but I believe we will see the day when residents will disconnect from the grid and produce their own batteries. That's the scale where battery technology began, and I think we will return there," Pint said.
I think Pint is a bit self deluded if he thinks the university isn't going to patent the hell out of any possible development from this and wring every copper they can in licensing fees. In addition, I really can't see most people building their own batteries of sufficient storage capacity to power a home during peak usage time. Maybe an "Almost Ready to Charge(ARC)" kit that you would just have to add electrolyte to before using.
Yes I have. It is 100% secure. I have audited the code. So how do you know Lastpass is secure? I await your response.
Did you build the version that you are using from the source that you audited, or are you trusting that what you installed has anything to do with the source that you saw?
Uber and Lyft emphasized that they do not tolerate discrimination and their belief that ride-sharing apps make transportation more equitable and available than taxis.
That was borne out when researchers had students hail cabs in downtown Seattle. The first available taxi stopped 60% of the time for a white student but less than 20% of the time for black students. The white students never had more than four taxis pass them before one stopped. African-American students saw six or seven cabs pass them in 20% of cases.
The violation of any provisions of this section is a Class 6 felony.
They even made it a felony!
There are many bitcoin atms that accept bitcoin and spit out cash. https://coinatmradar.com/ 827 of them so far.
That is not true. There are 827 ATMs listed on the site, but many of them only sell bitcoins. Far fewer of them will buy bitcoins and give you cash. The reason is that when the ATM owner buys coins from you he assumes the risk that the transaction will not be confirmed and he will be out the money. When the ATM owner takes your money and gives you bitcoins you are the only one taking a risk. I glanced at their list of ATMs near me and looks like 1 in 4 or less will buy your bitcoins.
The other thing about selling your coins at an "ATM" is that it isn't going to be a 1 minute process. When you sell coins, the ATM owner is assuming some risk that you will not double spend them and/or that they are legitimately yours. This means that you will have to wait for confirmation of the transfer. The confirmation of the transfer is the inclusion of your transaction in a confirmed block on the blockchain. Blocks are confirmed at approximately 10 minute intervals, so you are likely to have to wait at least 10 minutes and that is only for a single confirmation block. For any significant amounts of money, the recommended length of confirmed blocks for a transaction is 6. This means that it may take up to an hour before you actually get the cash! Don't plan on doing this on the way to the airport.
On, and all your police would be be effectively disarmed too. Unless of course you think police (who commit more crimes off-duty than conceal carriers) are more responsible than "civilians".
You know that LEO will get themselves exempt from having to use these weapons, right? Which is funny really because if you want to convince me that the technology is effective, require LEOs to use it and keep using it for 10 years or so. Go ahead, I'll be waiting.
Why did I never hear of it before seeing this story? Have I been living under a rock? Did I miss something important?
Ellen Pao is involved, so almost certainly not.
I usually hunt down the latest map packs ISO each year and any firmware updates and load them in.
This is the part that is probably illegal in many countries. It is an option but it's pretty easy for a dealership to check and automatically flag if you bring your car in for service.
Before I started navigating on the phone, my nav interface was my wife screaming at me.
I believe they are referred to as the nagigator. If it'll make you feel more comfortable I can put you in touch with a company that will record your wife's voice so that all of your audio cues will be in your wife's voice.
This. The built-in navigation on many cars locks the whole dang thing into read-only mode whenever the car is moving. My phone doesn't have this nonsense limitation. Yet another reason I will never by a built-in navigation system ever again. (That $300 map update thing is another.)
Interestingly Waze does detect that you are in motion and will lock you out of some things, but at least there's an override to indicate that you are a passenger. Your car knows whether there is a passenger or not from sensors in the seat and could easily offer the option if a passenger was detected. I have not seen one that does this.
These days, there are so many amazing online resources, it is rare that I would get use from a printed book. I am a little sad and nostalgic, but I honestly don't see their business model lasting all that much longer. Even if all of their books were readily and cheaply available online, I probably still wouldn't read them. It's simply the wrong way to present the type of information that I need.
The issue I have with printed media, especially tech related, is that by the time it hits the street it's already outdated or deprecated.
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
