Yah, I can only imagine this will be useful in some very very specific situations.
In an oil or gas flame, the heat of combustion generally ignites the incoming fuel. In a forest fire you have an *immense* amount of latent heat even if you were to completely extinguish the flames for a brief moment. Similar reason to why they keep spraying down after a house fire is technically out.
Exactly.
NASA built redundancy into everything because they didn't know better. Material science was far less developed. Computer simulations basically non-existent. They didn't design a 30% margin into parts, they guessed and fixed whatever part broken with a strong/better one and tried again. If some part was 5000% over-engineered it wouldn't break but would negatively impact the overall system complexity/weight.
I'm pretty sure NASA (and plenty of others) also said Elon/Space-X was stupid for getting into building launch vehicles too. Yet here we are with their innovation not only a success, but bringing cheaper launches than anyone else. Clearly Space-X is not to be believed.
...we can't do it, you clearly can't either.
Sorry but big government's approach to things isn't what I usually measure up against. They spent how much on the space shuttle and so it would be reusable and instead after every flight the basically take it apart and rebuild every major and most minor subsystems?
Let someone else give it a go before you just say it's impossible
Why not ask GM about 0-day vulnerabilities. How much is it going to cost them to 'patch' all the systems? (wait, is that a reverse car analogy...that works?)
As for RF FOBs
Ok, so neither is reality but it's a general idea. The steering lockout is defeated electrically in one case and mechanically in another - big deal.
Honestly a tow truck driver can have your car in ~15 seconds. See yahhhhhhh........
Erm buddy...?
Yep...and how much does it cost if you add a backup solution and off-site replication?
Another $1200 NAS
Somewhere to put it
Connectivity
Maintenance and/or monitoring
Cheaper? Probably (for now). Cheaper enough to be worth if if you value your data? Not for me.
No no no...as long as they strictly follow the "rules" they can do anything else that isn't specified without fear of recourse. There are some benefits to having a laundry list of stupid rules and regulations...you can easily play dumb about anything else.
Who says that's a valid contract? The state (i.e. gov't aid) becomes a party to the contract once that woman goes to get aid for her/their child. They weren't involved in nor agreed to it. Granted if the mother(s) had lived up to their end and actually been able to support the child then none of this would have come up.
I don't agree with the outcome though and think this should be treated exactly like adoption.
...is as a projector screen that is only reflective at one very specific wavelength. It doesn't emit any light...there are no pixels...nothing about it changes what parts light up.
It's still quite novel...i'm not sure why they couldn't be more specific (or less misleading?) in describing it.
Keep in mind it's not totally transparent - see how the table looks yellow behind it? Add red and greed and you're going to reduce the incoming light further. They said it can be tuned...so could be changed to avoid any of the peaks in LED, CFL, and daylight. Will be interesting to see where this goes...but if they start painting cars and buildings with this it's going to do odd things to the incoming light.
Check out some credit unions. I think mine required a $5 buy-in/minimum deposit or something silly like that. The only fee I've ever paid (10+ years) was for my mortgage application. The catch is they don't have 3 branches in every single town throughout the US...which doesn't matter if you're poor and don't travel or rarely need a teller (like me).
The banking industry of the 80's was a mess. The prime rate hit the highest ever of 21.5% and averaged around 15% for the decade (currently 3.25% for reference). It's no wonder they could pay a few % interest on accounts and still make plenty of money of loans without fees. Even at the lowest, the prime rate was 3x what it is today. Plus the deregulation of banking led to all kinds of nasty things. Most people forget how many banks failed in the early 80's and how many new ones popped up. The FDIC spent a ton of money (especially for the time) refunding deposits from failed banks.
Personally I'd rather a $8 fee than a 15% prime rate. Granted the poor are still taken advantage of and also wind up paying much higher interest rates...but that's a more complex socioeconomic issue. It's not just greedy banks.
A different issue though - the amount of background checking a bank does to open a simple check account. I declined and walked out a few years back when I realized what they were asking of me and asking me to sign - especially when they refused to let me have a copy of some of the paperwork I was told I had to sign.
NT 3.51 wasn't really meant to be a desktop OS. It was aligned with NT 3.51 server and skipped all bells and whistles from the desktop side. They also were competing with OS/2 Warp
NT 4 was a step forward - usable as a stable desktop with drivers to support peripherals but still aimed at administrators and developers who would eschew the bells and whistles for a more stable computer. Remember this was the time when a daily reboot was required for Win 9x
Win 2000 was the first real attempt at bringing PnP and other consumer-oriented technologies to the business OS. It had it's faults but overall definitely worked.
XP took that a step further and fully combined personal and consumer OS's.
Back in the NT and 2k days...I don't think many consumers paid retail prices for their OS. MS basically allowed piracy to get market penetration and made plenty of money from businesses and PC resellers since they had the default (essentially only) OS.
Win 8 is totally fine once you make it into Win 7 either by uninstalling 8 or installing enough add-ons to hide it.
Seriously...MS screwed up by making such a drastic change to the UI that's been around for the better part of forever. While the under-the-hood changes did add quite a bit they could have left them under the hood and left the UI mostly intact. Tweak a few things to make them easier but...why start with a clean slate and recreate everything? Some things are so buried or just missing
It's worth it for a few reasons...
- home automation has been struggling along...quirky, expensive, not quite there. Yet. Nest is one of the few that's made it without turning into x11 crap from china. People are far more likely to allow home.google.com to automate their house than xyzautomagic5567.ru
- metadata is valuable. Even if it's not perfect it's still far better than none for
- The reputation of the company and the inventiveness of the execs has value too. Who else could make a THERMOSTAT cool? Seriously.
- one more way google (and everyone else) can laugh at scada exploits
- on a larger scale contracting with power companies for things like optional temp adjustment on high demand days in return for reduced charges (i.e. raise AC by 2 degrees when it's 105 out and in return your days power costs 20% less...and the power co avoids having to buy expensive power from out of state or go to brown-out conditions)
etc. etc. etc.
There are many reasons if you take a long term view. Looking at just the thing on the wall? Well they still managed to sell an audrino and temp sensor for $250. That's worth something
Unless we can get perfect blackbody radiation in a ~25 sq inch package everything will be about sucking less.
Incandescent bulbs have their uses. They're dirt cheap. They're dirt cheap. They're 100% efficient if it's cold (wasted heat isn't wasted anymore) and negative efficient when it's hot. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Bake_Oven
CFLs annoy the crap out of me. They frequently fail FAR ahead of their 'lifetime' due to the cheap e-ballast overheating. Got forbid you install them upside down. Still, they use much less power and probably are ahead on overall cost even with the early deaths I've seen time and time again. You can pick your color to some degree but the light is typically only a few specific frequencies.
LEDs have potential but the cheap ones hurt the market for the good ones. I've tried and tossed several cheap LED bulbs...then stayed in a hotel where I wanted to steal the ones they used because they were so good. Heat is still an issue as is spectrum depending on the bulb. Oddly enough many LED bulbs function like a CFL - a phosphor is stimulated which emits the light you see. Granted it's still an LED stimulating that phosphor
I think each bulb has certain uses and the market should have the deciding vote. Stop forcing decisions down everyone's throat...if it's a better choice then a bit of education will suffice.
But there's a limit to the coddling
If you were hiring an engineer and they told you...well I can only work on projects alone, in a darkened office, with a private fridge of xyz drink, during evenings...and if there's thunder and lightning I won't be able to come to work...you'd laugh and take the next candidate.
I'm tired of hearing about kids who "can't possible do XYZ and don't deserve to fail because of it"
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
