you have no idea how much or what kind of RF energy your Walkman is putting out.
WTF is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) good for then, I wonder? Searching....
The SAR [specific absorption rate] is a value that corresponds to the relative amount of RF energy absorbed in the head of a user of a wireless handset. The FCC limit for public exposure from cellular telephones is an SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg). Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for Wireless Phones and Devices Available at FCC Web Site. [Link:
here]
The FCC is in the process of providing consumers with information on human exposure to radiofrequency (RF) emissions from wireless phones and other devices through our Web Site in a "user-friendly" way. At the present time, this information can be obtained if you have the FCC ID number of the phone or device and if it was produced and marketed within the last 1-2 years
The FCC ID number is usually shown somewhere on the case of the phone or device. In many cases, you will have to remove the battery pack to find the number. Once you have the number proceed as follows. Go to the following Web address: www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid.
protein's built from unusual amino acids will escape many cellular mechanisms for degrading or cutting up proteins. Medicines built out of these proteins will thus be able to last longer in the host (human or bacteria or...) and thus can be given in lower doses and less frequently.
This doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in being able to fight bio-weapons. Maybe this GM stuff is best kept in the lab, where scientists can study evolutionary theory and pathways.
the TV networks confirmed what they had feared for months: They couldn't derive any meaningful exit-polling data from a system they had just spent between $10 million and $15 million to overhaul.
Projecting winners and losers in various races would take several hours longer than in the past.
(sarcasm)
Y'know, it is truly a sad day when you can no longer count on the media to tell you what might happen and instead have to settle for what did.
(/sarcasm)
Wow. IMO, that article deserves to be published in EVERY newspaper across the US.
The internet IMHO is really one of the greatest wonders of mankind, but after skimming that, plus reading the preceeding Matt Groening interview, and the recent Lexmark toner cartridge post, I finally am persuaded that "the industry" at large plays a huge role in stifling the exchange of information and ideas. The 'net allows anyone with access to it to be like a "vendor" to the world, yet I think we have yet to see the net's full potential -- but that potential won't be realized with companies that are operating under their old business models.
As open software has shown, The People are capable innovators. Now I think there are at least two roadblocks. The first one is the ISPs (potentially) because they could in principle be mandated to regulate user content. But then users would find another, perhaps slower, way to get in touch (like networking home satellite dishes). The second is the lack of open hardware (example: last updated 2000). Of course, government and industry *could* help enable options, but they always want something in return.
So I will make my contribution of EFF soon, just not directly by credit card for fear of being tracked by the government.
Dear Moderators: I know this post has some generalizations because it's about my being persuaded, so please, I would rather you ignore my post than mod it down.
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Yup, dat. But allow me to present a link to Queen Amidalas (at the bottom).
Usually such a CPU upgrade product has been relegated to / endeavoured by third parties. Sonnet Tech comes to mind.
However if Apple is striving to make more low-end model, then I think it arguable they really cannot do this through their own CPU upgrades. Apple isn't exactly known for fabbing processors on its own. (Plus, I thought there was now some bad blood between IBM, Apple, and Motorola viz. PowerPC vs. the Power4 chip, but I have to go dig for more info.) By contrast, AMD have complete control of design and fabbing. Although the speed differentials between their XP processors isn't mind-blowing, they have put a bit of effort into fine-tuning the core (e.g., Palomino vs. Thoroughbred A vs. Thoroughbred B).
Another way would be to have to pay an annual "use fee" every year with your license plate renewal. You would report your odometer reading on an annual basis, much like what the electric and gas companies do (bi)monthly. This could work as long as it wasn't the State's intention to implement a surveillance system.
Moreover, it would become a state-run program, which requires money to instigate and maintain, giving the State another "reason" to funnel money to the program and/or raise taxes.
With this method, everyone doesn't get totally (just partly) screwed over.
Sheesh, mebbey I should get into politics professionally.
The infrastructure for DSL isn't negligible either.
I was able to jump on a one year 768/128 DSL plan provided by the phone comapny. Fact is, they capped me at 384 down because they wanted to "provide stable service" due to existing "old, noise prone wiring" on my end. But for 60 bucks or so, I could pay to have someone come out to take a look at it and determine where the "problem" is. And that wouldn't even include the actual materials and labor for a possible upgrade!
Truth be told, the wiring is likely rather old -- it's something I never would have thought of checking before signing up. But seeing as how 384 suits my needs, I don't see the reason to provide an upgrade for the next customer and have the phone company stand to charge more for the improved service. Old apartments suck.
But my main point is that it is going to be much more cost effective for the ISP if they have the customer pay for some of the cost of upgrading.
AMD have been saying - and demonstrating - for years that clock speed isn't the whole story.
It was just a few weeks ago that AMD essentially announced their pulling out of the speed game. Just a couple of references:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/11/ 19/rtr799607.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/20021120_0202 01.html
To me, it seems this Intel person is only validating what AMD and Ruiz have implied already, just beating them to the punch. Intel have let AMD take the fall -- perhaps.
Moreover, AMD were trying to spin this as "listening to the customer", which was arguably the Right Thing(TM) but also to stir the fear in consumers who feel enslaved to Intel.
[gripe]
Huh? Year-long contracts don't provide enough revenue already?
[/gripe]
While mobile communications are a partial extension of the internet, I cannot see why advertising wouldn't eventually appear in the wireless realm.
Beat me to the punch there, kiddo. I was going to say something like the bitrate seemed a bit low.
Funny, I think the italian mouth was saying 'gelato' but I don't speak italian. Even with english as my mother tongue I couldn't figure out what the english one was mouthing.
o Must remember to download tracks only while sitting on a machine with a CD-R or CD-RW
IIRC, Window XP allows only a limited number of hardware swaps. Given that, then the user had better get a supported hardware config sooner rather than later. Hopefully these guys will be able and permitted to expand their range of support hardware and software.
they would WANT to make thier products compatable with everybody else's, but not the other way around.
I might add that this sounds a lot like the Adobe's position on Acrobat and Real's on RealPlayer: charge for the application to create content, but give out the client/reader for free (as in beer) to everyone. IOW they would release linux clients promptly instead of relying on volunteer efforts.
(I know there are astronomers who read/., so sorry in advance if I am not portraying this correctly.)
I was thinking that this same argument could be said of deep-space astronomy. So what if black holes collide in millions of years from now? yeah, it is a kinda kewl concept and should be a part of basic research to help answer questions like 'how does the universe work?' etc.
It has seemed to me that over the past 5, maybe 10 years, the publicity of astronomy has increased quite a bit, focusing on our solar system and deep space using unquestionably significantly enhanced telescopes. Is it interesting? You bet. But isn't the practicality of it questionable? In comparison, though, funding a program to send people into space is I'm guessing many times more expensive for a single government to do. And it can cause (and has caused) international political tensions too. Though I find the thought of commericialization and exploitation of space distasteful, it is probably the only way to realize efficient financing and unencumbering politics.
This is correct -- Celera used government funded results to jumpstart their reconstruction, so they do belong giving back something to the public. Had they kept everything to themselves, it would be a perfect example of what was described earlier: the public being billed twice.
I have said this before: there have long been records of the youngsters', particularly newborns', foot- and fingerprints. No shit, there was a movement to have even your elementary schoool kids as early as the 1980s in order to "protect your children" against kidnappers, molesters, etc. Now with this department the gov't would probably be able to access that at will, as well as any other database - let alone create a master database.
There will never be criminals in the US ever again. What a country!
yeah, this is really cool. Now I would like to see doctors and scientists work to reduce time to recovery from the anesthesia---that would reduce the hospital stay time even more.
Slashdot Mirror
(afterthought)
It explains (a) why nerds don't get some and (b) why nerds therefore do not reproduce (ahem) sexually.
(/afterthought)
Maybe nerds are triploid?
the TV networks confirmed what they had feared for months: They couldn't derive any meaningful exit-polling data from a system they had just spent between $10 million and $15 million to overhaul.
.
Projecting winners and losers in various races would take several hours longer than in the past.
(sarcasm)
Y'know, it is truly a sad day when you can no longer count on the media to tell you what might happen and instead have to settle for what did
(/sarcasm)
Wow. IMO, that article deserves to be published in EVERY newspaper across the US.
The internet IMHO is really one of the greatest wonders of mankind, but after skimming that, plus reading the preceeding Matt Groening interview, and the recent Lexmark toner cartridge post, I finally am persuaded that "the industry" at large plays a huge role in stifling the exchange of information and ideas. The 'net allows anyone with access to it to be like a "vendor" to the world, yet I think we have yet to see the net's full potential -- but that potential won't be realized with companies that are operating under their old business models.
As open software has shown, The People are capable innovators. Now I think there are at least two roadblocks. The first one is the ISPs (potentially) because they could in principle be mandated to regulate user content. But then users would find another, perhaps slower, way to get in touch (like networking home satellite dishes). The second is the lack of open hardware (example: last updated 2000). Of course, government and industry *could* help enable options, but they always want something in return.
So I will make my contribution of EFF soon, just not directly by credit card for fear of being tracked by the government.
Dear Moderators: I know this post has some generalizations because it's about my being persuaded, so please, I would rather you ignore my post than mod it down.
Yup, dat. But allow me to present a link to Queen Amidalas (at the bottom).
There is a Jar-Jar head (er, sort of) on this page. No instructions though.
That page just gave me an origasm!
Usually such a CPU upgrade product has been relegated to / endeavoured by third parties. Sonnet Tech comes to mind.
However if Apple is striving to make more low-end model, then I think it arguable they really cannot do this through their own CPU upgrades. Apple isn't exactly known for fabbing processors on its own. (Plus, I thought there was now some bad blood between IBM, Apple, and Motorola viz. PowerPC vs. the Power4 chip, but I have to go dig for more info.) By contrast, AMD have complete control of design and fabbing. Although the speed differentials between their XP processors isn't mind-blowing, they have put a bit of effort into fine-tuning the core (e.g., Palomino vs. Thoroughbred A vs. Thoroughbred B).
Another way would be to have to pay an annual "use fee" every year with your license plate renewal. You would report your odometer reading on an annual basis, much like what the electric and gas companies do (bi)monthly. This could work as long as it wasn't the State's intention to implement a surveillance system.
Moreover, it would become a state-run program, which requires money to instigate and maintain, giving the State another "reason" to funnel money to the program and/or raise taxes.
With this method, everyone doesn't get totally (just partly) screwed over.
Sheesh, mebbey I should get into politics professionally.
The infrastructure for DSL isn't negligible either.
I was able to jump on a one year 768/128 DSL plan provided by the phone comapny. Fact is, they capped me at 384 down because they wanted to "provide stable service" due to existing "old, noise prone wiring" on my end. But for 60 bucks or so, I could pay to have someone come out to take a look at it and determine where the "problem" is. And that wouldn't even include the actual materials and labor for a possible upgrade!
Truth be told, the wiring is likely rather old -- it's something I never would have thought of checking before signing up. But seeing as how 384 suits my needs, I don't see the reason to provide an upgrade for the next customer and have the phone company stand to charge more for the improved service. Old apartments suck.
But my main point is that it is going to be much more cost effective for the ISP if they have the customer pay for some of the cost of upgrading.
AMD have been saying - and demonstrating - for years that clock speed isn't the whole story.
/ 19/rtr799607.html2 01.html
It was just a few weeks ago that AMD essentially announced their pulling out of the speed game. Just a couple of references:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/11
http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/20021120_020
To me, it seems this Intel person is only validating what AMD and Ruiz have implied already, just beating them to the punch. Intel have let AMD take the fall -- perhaps.
Moreover, AMD were trying to spin this as "listening to the customer", which was arguably the Right Thing(TM) but also to stir the fear in consumers who feel enslaved to Intel.
I still like Euler's formula (not the one for polyhedra) relating e, pi, i, 0 , and 1:
e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0
[gripe] Huh? Year-long contracts don't provide enough revenue already? [/gripe]
While mobile communications are a partial extension of the internet, I cannot see why advertising wouldn't eventually appear in the wireless realm.
I'd like to see this kind of hard drive option for laptops.
Thanks for the correction (seriously). It so happens I {w|d}on't do Windows anyhow.
Beat me to the punch there, kiddo. I was going to say something like the bitrate seemed a bit low.
Funny, I think the italian mouth was saying 'gelato' but I don't speak italian. Even with english as my mother tongue I couldn't figure out what the english one was mouthing.
Oh, I now see there is also ps2pdf!
o Must remember to download tracks only while sitting on a machine with a CD-R or CD-RW
IIRC, Window XP allows only a limited number of hardware swaps. Given that, then the user had better get a supported hardware config sooner rather than later. Hopefully these guys will be able and permitted to expand their range of support hardware and software.
they would WANT to make thier products compatable with everybody else's, but not the other way around.
I might add that this sounds a lot like the Adobe's position on Acrobat and Real's on RealPlayer: charge for the application to create content, but give out the client/reader for free (as in beer) to everyone. IOW they would release linux clients promptly instead of relying on volunteer efforts.
(I know there are astronomers who read /., so sorry in advance if I am not portraying this correctly.)
I was thinking that this same argument could be said of deep-space astronomy. So what if black holes collide in millions of years from now? yeah, it is a kinda kewl concept and should be a part of basic research to help answer questions like 'how does the universe work?' etc.
It has seemed to me that over the past 5, maybe 10 years, the publicity of astronomy has increased quite a bit, focusing on our solar system and deep space using unquestionably significantly enhanced telescopes. Is it interesting? You bet. But isn't the practicality of it questionable? In comparison, though, funding a program to send people into space is I'm guessing many times more expensive for a single government to do. And it can cause (and has caused) international political tensions too. Though I find the thought of commericialization and exploitation of space distasteful, it is probably the only way to realize efficient financing and unencumbering politics.
This is correct -- Celera used government funded results to jumpstart their reconstruction, so they do belong giving back something to the public. Had they kept everything to themselves, it would be a perfect example of what was described earlier: the public being billed twice.
I have said this before: there have long been records of the youngsters', particularly newborns', foot- and fingerprints. No shit, there was a movement to have even your elementary schoool kids as early as the 1980s in order to "protect your children" against kidnappers, molesters, etc. Now with this department the gov't would probably be able to access that at will, as well as any other database - let alone create a master database.
There will never be criminals in the US ever again. What a country!
yeah, this is really cool. Now I would like to see doctors and scientists work to reduce time to recovery from the anesthesia---that would reduce the hospital stay time even more.