Don't be sheep, people. Search for factual information and make your own decisions. If you're not getting factual information, then your government and press don't really believe in a free, participatory society. You need true facts to participate properly in your government. In other words: Be sheep but for whack-job web sites/newspapers/magazines that claim to harbor the truth, but in fact are just aping the political and social agendas of a different (but just as biased) collective ideal. Show me where it is that you get your so-called "factual" information from, and I'm sure I can cut it to ribbons with the same cynical aplomb that those organs use to "discredit" Fox News, NY Times, and others of that ilk. My diatribe will have just as little factual basis as the criticisms leveled at any other media outlet.
Facts are facts, and opinions are opinions. I find that bit media outlets are much more prone to separating the two than self-proclaimed "free media" mavens.
Someone who cares ought to come up with a method of transferring digital information to celluloid so that it can be stored with the cheaper storage costs. I'm not talking about a print, but storing binary files on film. A 70mm reel ought to hold a ton of properly formatted digital data and error correction.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I like the way that D-Star multiplexes data and voice. It'd be nice if there were an open codec that works as well as AMBE® so that we wouldn't have to license anything to use this mode. I think that would definitely spur experimentation. The claim is that there's nothing as good as AMBE® out there freely available.
Well, I started 2 years ago and am definately a new ham. There aren't any active clubs in my area, except for EmComms. I'm not ready to commit to something like that yet, so I was just looking for some advice and help on getting started, and found none. Asking questions on online forums soon turned out to be a big waste of time, as there are gangs of disgruntled flamers waiting to pounce on anyone with a question that "everyone should already know". Every single question I'd asked got turned into a "Code vs. No-Code" flame war.
I should clarify: the ONLINE ham community is less inclusive than the real world ham community. I've never heard anything but encouragement from hams face to face. No one has ever come up to me and derided my abilities because I was licensed after 1992 (when the CW requirement for Technicians was dropped). I have had jerks spout off about how bad things are getting because of new hams on the repeaters, though. It seems these cowards get more gutsy the further they are from actual human interaction.
It would be nice to have a quality ham forum that allowed users to ignore troublemaking lusers. As it is, the two big ones (eham.net and qrz.com) don't have this ability, so if you want to ask a question, you're open season for the flamers to hijack your threads.
Yeah, except that I was able to get in on the ground floor with Linux:P
Actually, I find it a lot easier to get quality help with Linux than with Radio. There is an awful lot of folklore floating around the ham community disguised as common knowledge. To suggest anything other than the rote ham canon is anathema and you'll be cast out with derision, and no one will be able to explain how you're wrong, just that you are.
Purist or Elitist? I've got a General license and I find that particularly on the internet, old hams are dickheads. They act as if we new hams are invading their private paradise, and instead of assisting and community building, they bitch and moan and howl about how ham radio is turning into CB, and how the sky is falling. Those old farts still on the air are just as crotchety as you'd expect, whining about how all the new hams are walking on their amateur band lawns.
All systems are supporting higher resolutions. 1080p isn't super awesome for a computer monitor, but it's actually a pretty damn nice step up. 1920x1080 isn't super awesome for a monitor? What are you used to? For gaming, that's way overkill, IMO. I have a 1920x1200 monitor on my laptop and hardly ever play games at higher resolution than 1280x800, because it just doesn't look that much better and I might as well spare the extra cycles.
I moved my email domain to Google Mail for Domains a few years back. I've notice a great reduction in the amount of Spam I get now, anecdotally. When I first moved my domain over there, I was averaging 900-1000 spam in the folder on a regular basis. I'm now getting roughly half that. It's amusing because now the only spam that gets through to my inbox is so convoluted that I can't tell what it is they're trying to sell.
If you're really interested in the subject matter read The Ultimate History of Video Games instead of watching this watered down pablum. Trying to watch the first episode of this series, I was bored silly.
Jenna: That's one way to become a hunted man: trust the powerful. Yeah man, Trust No One! They could give up on profits and become a tool of the man. I'm not sure companies are really in it for profits anyways. There must be a secret, sinister reason they do things. They can't be just in it for the money. And even if they were, I'm sure they'd roll right over to whatever government offered them enough money to offset the $135 Million+ they collect every month in fees from their customers. I'm sure they'd risk a mass exodus from their game because they could make a couple more bucks on the side selling information.
No, I'm not suggesting that I be allowed to oversee the feds' classification of information. I'm suggesting that the feds shouldn't be permitted to classify information in the first place. (Other than perhaps that relating directly to military maneuvers and deployments during time of declared legitimate war.) There is a good reason that no power to classify information is found in the Constitution. We all - you know, "we the people" - are supposed to oversee the actions of our government, and we can't do that when it hides its actions.
Does that entail some extra risk from "enemies" learning about us? Yes. Freedom ain't risk-free. But when we can prevent our government from doing stupid and brutal things, we're less likely to make enemies in the first place. If you're so concerned with the governments abuse of the constitution, there's nothing keeping you from entering civil service, or running for office in order to oversee the actions of the government. If you wanted to, you could take a more active role in the governing of our country. Instead, you'd have the government potentially put our lives at risk, so that you have to do nothing. We the people can oversee the actions of the government, just not by watching the news. If you aren't willing to do the job yourself, STFU.
It would be dangerous to those who wish to run roughshod over the Constitution to make their actions public, sure. Dangerous to the U.S.? No. The supposed power of the government to "classify" information, to forcibly censor discussion and debate by "we the people", is what is dangerous to democracy, dangerous to the citizens of the United States. That's quite an assumption, that things are only classified to protect the ne'er-do-wells who wish to run roughshod over the Constitution (a wholly unsubstantiated claim, I might add). How do you know that giving this knowledge to these undesirable foreign (or domestic, for that matter) elements wouldn't result in grievous injury to our country and way of life? You don't,plain and simple. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that what you believe is real. I suppose the feds should allow you and your brigade of freedom loving micro-managers to oversee all of its interactions, all of course for the cause of liberty. And who'd be watching you?
No. But that doesn't make Mac's more expensive. Actually, it does. That's pretty much the definition of "more expensive". If I can buy a computer X for $300, and I can't buy computer Y for $300, then computer Y is "more expensive".
Now if you were trying to say that Mac's weren't "too expensive", or Mac's weren't "overpriced" that would be a different, subjective argument. But to say that Mac's aren't "more expensive" flies in the face of logic and reason. Somehow, I have grown to expect this from Mac Fanboys. [Sigh]
Actually, it usually means "stuff that would be dangerous to allow some elements in the world to know." Tinfoil hat crew loves assuming that anything secret is just stuff that the government doesn't want us to know. Get off your high horse. Nobody in the government or otherwise, cares whether or not some angry student knows what this guy had to say in his testimony. Despite what you read on the conspiracy web sites, your penchant for reading subversive materials isn't really a threat to "The New World Order".
Whether or not the problem is caused by the ignorance of developers or the lack of capabilities in the system (Flash), the result is the same: Not having a cursor or being able to trigger a hover event makes Flash not as useful or enjoyable on a touchscreen device. That's how it is now. My bad for blaming Adobe if they're not cause. Try using a regular, run-of-the-mill, everybody's-got-one Flash based nesting menu system with a touchscreen device. You'll understand my pain, then.
I'll just be happy to have Flash player on the iPhone. And the means of installing & using GPS software.:-) Having used the Flash player on my Nokia N800, I can say with some degree of experience that Flash ain't all that. There are several events that are difficult or impossible to trigger with a touch screen an no cursor. It would be nice if Adobe would create a compatible touch screen event model, but I wouldn't hold my breath. For simply playing animations and whatnot, Flash is great, but for interactive programs, it's not so hot with the touching.
Both are bigger, but also far more capable and less expensive. And how much good is that extra money doing you when you're sitting on the crapper without it?
The N800 has pretty good network capability. I've not used the N770, but I'm quite happy with the performance of the N800. I can't imagine the N810 being worse than the N800.
This is pure Apple apologetics. It amazes me the lengths Apply fans will go through to avoid having to say "Steve Jobs messed up". There is no evidence that people who would have waited to buy an iPhone until an SDK came out actually went out and bought one because there was no SDK. Not only that, but this argument makes no sense from a logical standpoint or a marketing standpoint. People don't buy an item because it's less useful than it will be in the future. In fact, simply writing that out makes my head hurt.
For a device like the iPhone, Apple probably had SOME kind of SDK/third party development planned all along. But the iPhone's OS is still a wildly moving target, and it's not appropriate to have an SDK before things have calmed down with the OS APIs, frameworks, etc.
But if you want to believe that a statistically insignificant (yes, really - most people don't care, much less even know, about this) group of hobbyists and hackers have "forced" Apple to scramble to release an SDK, go right ahead. So if they were planning it all along as you assert, why did they wait for 3 months after the release to announce it? It's not like they're saying "Here's the SDK right now! Surprise! Have at it!". They announced it'll be available in 4 months. You don't make any sense. One of the biggest blemishes on the iPhone release was the lack of third party apps. Every review I've read of the device has slammed Apple for it. All that they had to say to get rid of this was to say "The SDK will be ready in February" and all of that criticism disappears. But they didn't.
I don't believe that the hackers were solely the cause for the SDK, but make no mistake, market pressure forced Apple to capitulate. They weren't planning this. They were blindsided with negative press and pressure from their customers and potential customers. At first they attempted to lay this at the feet of AT&T saying that AT&T was concerned with network stability, but that proved to be a big pile of BS, as evidences by AT&T's software development site assisting in software development for every phone in it's lineup except Apples.
And to say that the Apple battery replacement program wasn't directly influenced by that video... well, I see you've drank a little too much of the Steve Jobs Kool-Aid. Enjoy the dreams that he's told you will come.
Translating his article into layman's terms would be useful if his article wasn't pure crap. I have EDGE and 3G (HSDPA) phones that I use with the same account on AT&T's network. Hands down, HSDPA has lower latency. His 'Arguments' are pure crap. The battery issue is the only thing he mentions that holds any water, and it's really not that noticeable. If you charge your phone every night, does it matter if it has one bar left or two bars left?
I use a Cingular 3125(EDGE), a Samsung Sync(HSDPA), and a Samsung BlackJack(HSDPA) on AT&T's network. For about a week I had to use the 3125 as my sole internet connection. I went right out and picked up the Samsung Sync after that experience. It was like night and day. Playing WoW through the 3125 was like pulling teeth. I almost (God forbid!) stopped playing (well, at least until the end of the week). Doing the same with the Sync was a joy. So much so that I avoided installing broadband at my house until I got a roommate.
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Facts are facts, and opinions are opinions. I find that bit media outlets are much more prone to separating the two than self-proclaimed "free media" mavens.
Someone who cares ought to come up with a method of transferring digital information to celluloid so that it can be stored with the cheaper storage costs. I'm not talking about a print, but storing binary files on film. A 70mm reel ought to hold a ton of properly formatted digital data and error correction.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I like the way that D-Star multiplexes data and voice. It'd be nice if there were an open codec that works as well as AMBE® so that we wouldn't have to license anything to use this mode. I think that would definitely spur experimentation. The claim is that there's nothing as good as AMBE® out there freely available.
Well, I started 2 years ago and am definately a new ham. There aren't any active clubs in my area, except for EmComms. I'm not ready to commit to something like that yet, so I was just looking for some advice and help on getting started, and found none. Asking questions on online forums soon turned out to be a big waste of time, as there are gangs of disgruntled flamers waiting to pounce on anyone with a question that "everyone should already know". Every single question I'd asked got turned into a "Code vs. No-Code" flame war.
I should clarify: the ONLINE ham community is less inclusive than the real world ham community. I've never heard anything but encouragement from hams face to face. No one has ever come up to me and derided my abilities because I was licensed after 1992 (when the CW requirement for Technicians was dropped). I have had jerks spout off about how bad things are getting because of new hams on the repeaters, though. It seems these cowards get more gutsy the further they are from actual human interaction.
It would be nice to have a quality ham forum that allowed users to ignore troublemaking lusers. As it is, the two big ones (eham.net and qrz.com) don't have this ability, so if you want to ask a question, you're open season for the flamers to hijack your threads.
Yeah, except that I was able to get in on the ground floor with Linux :P
Actually, I find it a lot easier to get quality help with Linux than with Radio. There is an awful lot of folklore floating around the ham community disguised as common knowledge. To suggest anything other than the rote ham canon is anathema and you'll be cast out with derision, and no one will be able to explain how you're wrong, just that you are.
Purist or Elitist? I've got a General license and I find that particularly on the internet, old hams are dickheads. They act as if we new hams are invading their private paradise, and instead of assisting and community building, they bitch and moan and howl about how ham radio is turning into CB, and how the sky is falling. Those old farts still on the air are just as crotchety as you'd expect, whining about how all the new hams are walking on their amateur band lawns.
I moved my email domain to Google Mail for Domains a few years back. I've notice a great reduction in the amount of Spam I get now, anecdotally. When I first moved my domain over there, I was averaging 900-1000 spam in the folder on a regular basis. I'm now getting roughly half that. It's amusing because now the only spam that gets through to my inbox is so convoluted that I can't tell what it is they're trying to sell.
If you're really interested in the subject matter read The Ultimate History of Video Games instead of watching this watered down pablum. Trying to watch the first episode of this series, I was bored silly.
Grow up, nincompoop. BTW, quoting lame science fiction != solidly prepared argument.
Does that entail some extra risk from "enemies" learning about us? Yes. Freedom ain't risk-free. But when we can prevent our government from doing stupid and brutal things, we're less likely to make enemies in the first place. If you're so concerned with the governments abuse of the constitution, there's nothing keeping you from entering civil service, or running for office in order to oversee the actions of the government. If you wanted to, you could take a more active role in the governing of our country. Instead, you'd have the government potentially put our lives at risk, so that you have to do nothing. We the people can oversee the actions of the government, just not by watching the news. If you aren't willing to do the job yourself, STFU.
No. But that doesn't make Mac's more expensive. Actually, it does. That's pretty much the definition of "more expensive". If I can buy a computer X for $300, and I can't buy computer Y for $300, then computer Y is "more expensive".
Now if you were trying to say that Mac's weren't "too expensive", or Mac's weren't "overpriced" that would be a different, subjective argument. But to say that Mac's aren't "more expensive" flies in the face of logic and reason. Somehow, I have grown to expect this from Mac Fanboys. [Sigh]
Actually, it usually means "stuff that would be dangerous to allow some elements in the world to know." Tinfoil hat crew loves assuming that anything secret is just stuff that the government doesn't want us to know. Get off your high horse. Nobody in the government or otherwise, cares whether or not some angry student knows what this guy had to say in his testimony. Despite what you read on the conspiracy web sites, your penchant for reading subversive materials isn't really a threat to "The New World Order".
Whether or not the problem is caused by the ignorance of developers or the lack of capabilities in the system (Flash), the result is the same: Not having a cursor or being able to trigger a hover event makes Flash not as useful or enjoyable on a touchscreen device. That's how it is now. My bad for blaming Adobe if they're not cause. Try using a regular, run-of-the-mill, everybody's-got-one Flash based nesting menu system with a touchscreen device. You'll understand my pain, then.
Don't feel bad, the N800 is a fine device, and at $258 on Amazon, it's a steal!
The N800 has pretty good network capability. I've not used the N770, but I'm quite happy with the performance of the N800. I can't imagine the N810 being worse than the N800.
This is pure Apple apologetics. It amazes me the lengths Apply fans will go through to avoid having to say "Steve Jobs messed up". There is no evidence that people who would have waited to buy an iPhone until an SDK came out actually went out and bought one because there was no SDK. Not only that, but this argument makes no sense from a logical standpoint or a marketing standpoint. People don't buy an item because it's less useful than it will be in the future. In fact, simply writing that out makes my head hurt.
But if you want to believe that a statistically insignificant (yes, really - most people don't care, much less even know, about this) group of hobbyists and hackers have "forced" Apple to scramble to release an SDK, go right ahead. So if they were planning it all along as you assert, why did they wait for 3 months after the release to announce it? It's not like they're saying "Here's the SDK right now! Surprise! Have at it!". They announced it'll be available in 4 months. You don't make any sense. One of the biggest blemishes on the iPhone release was the lack of third party apps. Every review I've read of the device has slammed Apple for it. All that they had to say to get rid of this was to say "The SDK will be ready in February" and all of that criticism disappears. But they didn't.
I don't believe that the hackers were solely the cause for the SDK, but make no mistake, market pressure forced Apple to capitulate. They weren't planning this. They were blindsided with negative press and pressure from their customers and potential customers. At first they attempted to lay this at the feet of AT&T saying that AT&T was concerned with network stability, but that proved to be a big pile of BS, as evidences by AT&T's software development site assisting in software development for every phone in it's lineup except Apples.
And to say that the Apple battery replacement program wasn't directly influenced by that video... well, I see you've drank a little too much of the Steve Jobs Kool-Aid. Enjoy the dreams that he's told you will come.
Translating his article into layman's terms would be useful if his article wasn't pure crap. I have EDGE and 3G (HSDPA) phones that I use with the same account on AT&T's network. Hands down, HSDPA has lower latency. His 'Arguments' are pure crap. The battery issue is the only thing he mentions that holds any water, and it's really not that noticeable. If you charge your phone every night, does it matter if it has one bar left or two bars left?
I use a Cingular 3125(EDGE), a Samsung Sync(HSDPA), and a Samsung BlackJack(HSDPA) on AT&T's network. For about a week I had to use the 3125 as my sole internet connection. I went right out and picked up the Samsung Sync after that experience. It was like night and day. Playing WoW through the 3125 was like pulling teeth. I almost (God forbid!) stopped playing (well, at least until the end of the week). Doing the same with the Sync was a joy. So much so that I avoided installing broadband at my house until I got a roommate.