Posts by clanger9 144 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2010
I think these should all work:
Manage social advertising: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?modal=nsettings-social-advertising&tab=account
Manage enhanced advertising: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?modal=nsettings-enhanced-advertising&tab=account
Data sharing with third party applications: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?modal=nsettings-data-sharing&tab=groups
Any other "hidden" settings we should know about?
I have a 500GB one in an old Macbook here. Very fast and quiet - only notable downside is that it uses a bit more power than the original 80GB job, so battery life takes a hit. Boot time on OS X Lion is a few seconds...
Seagate support is a bit haphazard, mind. When I first got the drive (with SD24 firmware), it was hopeless (never spins down, buggy sleep/resume, pauses, etc). It wasn't clear from Seagate what to do about this.
I upgraded to SD25 firmware and it's been perfect since.
I'm not sure what advantage a high-speed interface would bring.
Consumer audio is only typically 16 bit PCM at 44kHz. Even a bonkers-spec 24 bit, 96KHz stereo stream (i.e. way beyond what this little Mackie can do) is under 600kB/sec - that's well within the capability of USB 1.1...
Yes, I thought the same thing.
The IO|2 has quite useful audio quality (and the Midi interface is handy as well).
Only issue I've had is the USB interface very occasionally freaks out, which makes it a less-than-ideal choice for live effects and the like. It's fine as a recording device.
It's hard to tell from the review how this unit compares to the Alesis. Being Mackie, I guess it's pretty solid.
...and the new stuff is usually IP-enabled (see the IEC61850 communication standard).
Combine that with the lack of availability of private lines and guess what's the cheapest way to get the control traffic back to headquarters? Yup, the good ol' public internet.
Granted, there are ways to do this securely. Hint: trying to maintain an air gap isn't one of them.
Please don't assume that an "air gap" is a panacea for securing these systems.
By nature, utility infrastructure is often distributed over thousands of square km; the hardware is not all boxed up in some neat little secure control room. Plus, everything needs to talk to everything else (within reason), so maintaining effective air gaps in such a network is always going to be a challenge that borders on the impossible.
Secondly, new "smart grid"/intelligent infrastructure makes significant use of real-time external data streams - things like weather, local demand, supply availability, fuel prices, etc. You can't (efficiently) do real-time operations behind an air gap, so data connections tend to pop up all over the place.
Air gaps are a neat idea (and security in the control room is certainly important), but don't think for one second that "supergluing the USB ports and firing people for breach of policy" is going to have the slightest effect in securing the system. The real vulnerabilities lie elsewhere.
Pulled down in about an hour (at teatime, on TalkTalk, no less!). Took about 30 mins to install, back up and running like a charm.
Feels snappier, too.
Pretty impressive that the download servers can manage this with a simultaneous global release. Any idea what infrastructure they used?
I recently picked up an LG HR-600 for only £200.
It seems to do everything this one does (twin tuner Freeview HD recording, Blu-ray, 802-11n WiFi, iPlayer, Youtube, DLNA) though the hard drive is a bit on the small side (250GB).
Pretty happy with it - it isn't quite as slick as a Humax, but everything works as it's supposed to (which seems to be a rarity with these things).
I have a lot of mail in Gmail, but no interest in having a "public profile" (whatever that is).
According to Google "Google profiles must have a public name. Your full name is not being displayed on your profile page. This option is no longer supported in Google profiles."
So what happens on July 31st? Will I lose my mail?
Excellent. Nice to see the economists using hard(ish) data for once instead of just wildly speculating.
Some of the reaction above seems a bit odd. The paper isn't saying "Your politics suck, loser!", it's simply looking back at historic data to see if there's any measurable correlation between policies and economic growth.
Is this really such a bad thing?
Umm, not quite.
On a Mac, "Administrator" != root
Even as administrator, you still need to enter your password to carry out anything as root (via the sudo mechanism). Actually, I don't think there *is* a root account by default.
"Administrator" has write-access to /Applications - a bit like a power user being granted write perms on /opt/usr/bin on Unix. They can install stuff that is accessible by other users, but they still need root privileges to do anything in /usr/bin...
What seems to happen is that an installer will pop up unexpectedly while you are sufing, yes?
You would still need to click on "Continue" to proceed with the install.
Wouldn't the sudden (unexpected) appearance of a "SoopahVirusCheckerOhYes Installer" window give the game away to most users?
...and to finally answer your question, Henry Ford didn't need (or deserve) a government subsidy because the costs (buying a car) and the benefits (being able to get from A to B) apply to the same entity (the car buyer).
Basic market economics works beautifully here. There were no external costs on society to worry about, because there wasn't any pollution problem (yet) and there wasn't any congestion (yet). Cars were (and can still be) a great business proposition.
Compare that with the building of roads. The up-front costs are absolutely massive for the road builder compared with the immediate value of a decent road to to motorist. Not rational car owner would *never* pay for a decent road. Ever.
Wiser heads realised that the benefits of decent roads to society would be huge over a long period of time. So they put up funding for a decent road network (through subsidy or loan) and then recovered the money over a period of time (through tax or repayments).
Result: nobody makes a fortune from building roads. Everybody wins.
So, not all subsidies are bad. Just some of them.
"Is it economically viable, or not?"
Fair enough, but remember simply-applied economics isn't necessarily going to give the best answer, especially when the "benefits" (e.g. greater chance of breathable air / stable climate) are remote from the "costs" (i.e. the real and immediate price of the panel).
Take the familiar example of public transport. The more railways they build, the more I benefit as a motorist through reduced traffic congestion. But as a motorist, I don't expect (or want) to pay for rail infrastructure. That's the job of the rail passengers, or possibly "the gub'ment". Economic models struggle to deal with the sharing of costs and benefits between persons unknown.
Inevitably, the pursuit of "big society benefits" (which may make perfect economic sense at the macro level) results in a complex and perverse web of tax & subsidy at the micro level to try and make it all work.
None of this makes the economic argument wrong. Just complicated.
"Mute before boot" only works if you remember. It's useless if the thing decides to do a spontaneous reboot (and doubly annoying if it reboots during the night ; the HTC jingle is *loud*).
As for calendar/contact sync, there appear to be two options on Android: MS Exchange or Google Calendar. So if you have either of those, it works fine out of the box. If you don't, it seems you're SOL. CalDAV support would fix this, but Google aren't interested.
Maybe iPhones are even worse - I dunno, I have never owned one. All I know is that the Android "experience" isn't anywhere near as open or as flexible as I'd expected...
Let me count the ways:
- I can't upgrade the OS. HTC have lost interest in my phone and custom ROMs don't support the hardware in it.
- I have lost functionality. Once upon a time I had voice search and dialling. Now Google have "removed" this feature for older Android releases and there appears to be no way to add it back in.
- I can't customise the phone easily. Google seem to insist on me having the (useless) Google Talk, for example. I can't remove it and I can't disable it.
- I had to root the bloody thing just to get rid of the idiotic HTC boot jingle!
- No CalDAV support for enterprise calendar sharing (even in the latest Android releases). If you want calendar and contact syncing, you have to do it via Google.
- Google seem to be able to arbitrarily upgrade and install anything they like on my phone (e.g. the Market client changes without you being asked). I have no idea what else they install on or snarf from my phone. There appears to be no documentation at all on what data is transmitted to Google. My guess is "everything". :-/
Open source is all very nice and all, and I love the flexibility that comes from 3rd party apps. And (probably foolishly) I trust Google "not to be evil". But sometimes I feel like I have less control over this damn thing than an iPhone.
Really excellent point. The situation with the spent fuel store is incredibly worrying; it was not made clear at first that they had vast quantities of spent fuel lying around in the cooling ponds.
If those fires really are from spent rods then the radiation situation just went from manageable to extremely dangerous. MOX fuel just makes it worse.
This is not a matter of nuclear safety / reactor design/ core meltdown. This is a matter of incompetent management and unsafe operation.
According to a nuclear spokesperson on today's World At One, the backup diesels were designed to withstand a tsunami of 6 metres. The one on Friday was around 10 metres.
I guess that helps explain why they lost backup power so catastrophically, leading to the events we've seen over the last few days...
Still, it's relatively simple to correct this problem in future reactor designs (either through better backups, passive cooling or a combination of the two). Although I don't quite agree with Lewis's "build more reactors NOW!" stance, it seems there''s no fundamental reason why new designs of reactor couldn't be shut down safely in what are clearly very extreme circumstances.
As Lewis points out, the presence of the reactors has (so far) not really added to the dangers already faced every day by the residents of Japan.
At least TfL are publishing their data (albeit with strings attached).
Network Rail just flat out refuse.
If you're not a commercial company prepared to pay them £££, then they won't give you access to anything.
Want to find out what trains are arriving at your local station? No public APIs, nothing. Officially approved channels only!
You can get Kindle clients for Mac OS/Windows/Android/etc, so you can always access your books somehow - even if you don't have a Kindle. Agreed, it would be nice to have a choice of non-Amazon e-readers but at least the multi-platform support means I shouldn't be locked out of my content.
The Whispersync feature is actually very cool: I can read a few pages on my phone, then when I pick up my Kindle, it's moved the book on to where I left off. Very nice!
So "a reasonable understanding of the laws of physics" is a sufficient basis on which to dismiss any possibility whatsoever that there could be health effects?
Don't be so ridiculous.
On the available evidence, there is no risk whatsoever that mobile phones are harmful. That is excellent news. Are you then saying that because you can't think of a way harm could possibly occur, that there's no point in looking?
That attitude is both unscientific and wrong.
There is always the possibility of some hitherto unforseen/unpredicted mechanism. As a scientist , you should know that. That's why these studies are so important. It's to make sure there are no unknown unknowns. As Rumsfeld himself might put it...
So, if I need to buy new wireless kit NOW, what do I need to get?
Channel 69 (which is outlawed after July 2012), or Channel 38 (which doesn't become legal until January 2012)?
I was kind of hoping that any kit that I buy now would last more than a couple of years.
Can you get dual-band stuff? I'm confused.
I went through one of these millimetre wave things at Amsterdam yesterday.
Let me just say: you don't need to worry about your privacy being invaded. The resulting "scan" is clearly visible to nosey bystanders (like me) and reveals... nothing!
The so-called "scan" makes passengers look like a blurry, white plasticine Morph. With little black splodges where there's any metal. It looks absolutely nothing like the (reasonably detailed) "x-ray" images they've been showing on the news.
I can't see what the point is. Apart from being vastly slower and much more expensive, all these machines seem to do is give the inspectors a slight clue where to look for metal. Which the old detectors did perfectly well with a simple row of green & red lights.
What a COMPLETE waste of money and everybody else's time.
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