The greatest limitation on today's CVTs is the lack of sufficiently strong materials for the belts. While research and development has already yielded marketable CVTs, they are limited to being paired with relatively low displacement, low horsepower, low torque engines for durability purposes. Your father's Oldsmobile's honkin' huge Rocket V-8 or your cousin Bubba's new pickup truck's V-10 would likely tear any of those CVT belts to shreds. Supposing that this new design is strong enough, those engine pairing limitations could be done away with once and for all.
1. Just because a gaming phone seems like a good idea doesn't mean people will buy it or support it. 2. Just because the mobile phone industry's heaviest-hitters make the hardware doesn't mean that it will be a success. 3. Just because game industry heavy-hitters make the software doesn't mean that it will be a success. 4. There is no item number four. 5. Any company putting out a gamer mobile phone will almost certainly face a barrage of patent and related lawsuits from Nokia and others in today's hostile environment. 6. Mobile phone carriers do not want their customers spending time doing things on the device that does not use their services, so expect server-side game lockin to rack up the minutes.
With Google Translate we can see that the MLO site is reporting that Mandriva, the French/Brazilian Linux distribution publisher, soon may not be able to meet payroll. Two potential buyers (LightApp from the UK, Linagora from France) have apparently stepped forward to look at buying the entire company or parts of it.
To me it would be a pity if Mandriva ceased to exist as we know it. The distribution is one of the best out there for polish and attention to detail, and would be a good corporate buy based on that alone. I've always felt that it would be a great "house" Linux version for a big player like Dell, HP, etc. but clearly there are factors stopping such computer companies or other Linux distributors from buying it.
Oh well, if they cannot make it then that's the way it goes...
Your comments are completely untrue. Canada has plenty of its own OTA HDTV programming available in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, and Vancouver, with U.S. stations beaming in quite strongly in most of those same cities as well as Windsor/Sarnia and Sault Ste Marie. You probably aren't in one of those areas. Canada's digital OTA cutover is in August of 2011.
Don't bother with any other DIY antenna than the Gray-Hoverman, which is mentioned in several of the replies to this Slashdot story. The Gray-Hoverman is simply the best of the breed, and it is released under the GPLv3!
What you said is already mentioned in the original article with a link - its referred to by the Mozilla folks as the "workaround" and there is even a map.
Many events during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will be held in Whistler.
Now we are seeing why people are very nervous about the idea that the one and only direct connecting highway connecting Vancouver and Whistler does not have acceptable uptime, security, or redundancy. The Pemberton-Lilloet-Hope-Vancouver workaround is hopelessly time consuming.
There is a train route between Whistler and Vancouver but it is also vulnerable for most of the same reasons.
The government sold the IOC on the Vancouver-Whistler idea by promising to throw millions of dollars of upgrading at that highway, and after a few years of work already underway we get this giant dump file.
No, it is nothing like a DB4. It is superior to 4-Bay Bowtie Reflector Antennas as you can see by the comparisions with the Channel Master 4221, which is considered the cream of that crop. Go ahead and build which ever antenna you like, but the Gray-Hoverman is more powerful so why waste your time on other designs?
Once the Slashdot Effect has died down you should read the thread containing all the R&D discussion. The tips in there are invaluable, and all your questions above will be answered. If not, join in on the thread with your questions.
The issue is that there is a serious credibility gap in web analytics used by advertisers. That's a good issue for Slashdotters to be made aware of. It was better to bring attention to an unjust web site rating system that threatens the viability of a valuable consumer web site (as illustrated by the Bell Canada issue) than to sit idly by and watch it tank. This problematic issue affects the web at large, and knowledge of it is an important tool towards hopefully correcting it.
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The greatest limitation on today's CVTs is the lack of sufficiently strong materials for the belts. While research and development has already yielded marketable CVTs, they are limited to being paired with relatively low displacement, low horsepower, low torque engines for durability purposes. Your father's Oldsmobile's honkin' huge Rocket V-8 or your cousin Bubba's new pickup truck's V-10 would likely tear any of those CVT belts to shreds. Supposing that this new design is strong enough, those engine pairing limitations could be done away with once and for all.
1. Just because a gaming phone seems like a good idea doesn't mean people will buy it or support it.
2. Just because the mobile phone industry's heaviest-hitters make the hardware doesn't mean that it will be a success.
3. Just because game industry heavy-hitters make the software doesn't mean that it will be a success.
4. There is no item number four.
5. Any company putting out a gamer mobile phone will almost certainly face a barrage of patent and related lawsuits from Nokia and others in today's hostile environment.
6. Mobile phone carriers do not want their customers spending time doing things on the device that does not use their services, so expect server-side game lockin to rack up the minutes.
With Google Translate we can see that the MLO site is reporting that Mandriva,
the French/Brazilian Linux distribution publisher, soon may not be able to meet payroll. Two potential buyers (LightApp from the UK, Linagora from France) have apparently stepped forward to look at buying the entire company or parts of it.
To me it would be a pity if Mandriva ceased to exist as we know it. The distribution is one of the best out there for polish and
attention to detail, and would be a good corporate buy based on that alone. I've always felt that it would be a great "house"
Linux version for a big player like Dell, HP, etc. but clearly there are factors stopping such computer companies or other Linux
distributors from buying it.
Oh well, if they cannot make it then that's the way it goes...
Perfect new technology for judging wet tee shirt contests...
Next they'll try to "extend" and "extinguish".
Which bands does it receive? Is it a superheterodyne tuna?
Feh, Roger Waters sorted this all out for us years ago... Pigs, Dogs, Sheep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(album)
Why would you recommend that over the Gray Hoverman, which is open sourced and vastly superior? Beats me.
Your comments are completely untrue. Canada has plenty of its own OTA HDTV programming available in Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, and Vancouver, with U.S. stations beaming in quite strongly in most of those same cities as well as Windsor/Sarnia and Sault Ste Marie. You probably aren't in one of those areas. Canada's digital OTA cutover is in August of 2011.
Don't bother with any other DIY antenna than the Gray-Hoverman, which is mentioned in several of the replies to this Slashdot story. The Gray-Hoverman is simply the best of the breed, and it is released under the GPLv3!
if you are in Canada go to www.digitalhome.ca/forums to the OTA Forum Knowledge Base & FAQ to get started:
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=41102
Imagine the Wii hardware addons that might come out of this:
Wii Truncheon
Wii Dagger
Wii Battle Axe
Wii Whoopass Stick
What you said is already mentioned in the original article with a link - its referred to by the Mozilla folks as the "workaround" and there is even a map.
As I mentioned, it is hopelessly time consuming.
Many events during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will be held in Whistler.
Now we are seeing why people are very nervous about the idea that the one and only direct connecting highway connecting Vancouver and Whistler does not have acceptable uptime, security, or redundancy. The Pemberton-Lilloet-Hope-Vancouver workaround is hopelessly time consuming.
There is a train route between Whistler and Vancouver but it is also vulnerable for most of the same reasons.
The government sold the IOC on the Vancouver-Whistler idea by promising to throw millions of dollars of upgrading at that highway, and after a few years of work already underway we get this giant dump file.
Are we being set up for a snowcrash?
How can I get Microsoft to give me cash back to not say bad things about them in online forums?
It is the year 2008 and where are the Smellovisions? I was promised Smellovision! I don't see any Smellovisions! Why why why?!
No, it is nothing like a DB4. It is superior to 4-Bay Bowtie Reflector Antennas as you can see by the comparisions with the Channel Master 4221, which is considered the cream of that crop. Go ahead and build which ever antenna you like, but the Gray-Hoverman is more powerful so why waste your time on other designs?
Once the Slashdot Effect has died down you should read the thread containing all the R&D discussion. The tips in there are invaluable, and all your questions above will be answered. If not, join in on the thread with your questions.
http://www.networkmirror.com/C3MlvQvZX12kVGAy/www.digitalhome.ca/ota/superantenna/index.htm
The lumenlab antenna forum is unrelated, but they do offer DIY plans for other types (4-bay bowtie reflectors).
Modeling the conventional 4-bay bowtie reflector didn't yield the kind of huge jump in performance that the Hoverman did.
That's what is on the new antenna's web site, but thanks for clarifying it further.
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The issue is that there is a serious credibility gap in web analytics used by advertisers. That's a good issue for Slashdotters to be made aware of. It was better to bring attention to an unjust web site rating system that threatens the viability of a valuable consumer web site (as illustrated by the Bell Canada issue) than to sit idly by and watch it tank. This problematic issue affects the web at large, and knowledge of it is an important tool towards hopefully correcting it.