No, it won't. But you can get X10 stuff in Europe, too, made for the 220V 50 Hz power system. From what I've heard from others, they scalp you for that stuff, as usual in Europe. I heard that modules which cost $13 or so in the US, sell in Germany for DM99, which is around $55 or thereabouts.
I believe this troll meant "wacko", but his spelling skills are in line with the rest of his personality. Give him a 1983 Camaro with a sealed tape player endlessly looping through Rush Limbaugh saying "God created white Americans to rule the world", and he'll be happy as the clam that he is.
We might feel a bit defensive about outsiders making snide comments, but we should have a healthy dose of self-criticism. Let's face it, Europe has completely missed the Internet boat. We were so extremely lethargic about the communcations revolution, and many places are still completely clueless. For crying out loud, in most European countries you can barely afford to check your email twice a day, let alone surf or--heaven forbid--download the latest Linux distribution. Till recently we didn't even have our own Pan-European backbone, with most traffic going via the USA.
We might have a lot to brag about, but regarding communications we should extract our collective thumbs both out of our mouths and asses and get to work.
I was thinking of another "poor man's" GPS a while ago: use radio station triangulation to calculate position.
You can get radio station databases from the FCC including transmitting frequency, power and location. Next, using an FM receiver chip, you create a signal strength map of the current location (find the strongest stations, their frequencies and the relative strengths). Then you do a probability analysis against the station database and try to find the most likely location that this signal strength map would occur.
It's all theory and it might work, but then again, it might not. I don't know if enough ambiguity would exist to make the approach futile (i.e. more than one place having similar enough signal maps). Besides, you need enough processing power to do these calculations, and sufficient storage capacity to hold the database. It might be cheaper (and certainly a lot more accurate) to just get a cheap GPS chipset. Those are coming on the market now, like in new cell phones.
Translation: SuSE is (because of YaST) rather more like M$ than RedHat. I don't care--I will keep using it, but without putting RedHat down. RedHat has pushed glibc and probably forced the KDE licence change.
BTW, all Germans insisting on native language, please go to Schrägstrichpunkt instead, yes?
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No, it won't. But you can get X10 stuff in Europe, too, made for the 220V 50 Hz power system. From what I've heard from others, they scalp you for that stuff, as usual in Europe. I heard that modules which cost $13 or so in the US, sell in Germany for DM99, which is around $55 or thereabouts.
I believe this troll meant "wacko", but his spelling skills are in line with the rest of his personality. Give him a 1983 Camaro with a sealed tape player endlessly looping through Rush Limbaugh saying "God created white Americans to rule the world", and he'll be happy as the clam that he is.
Could you possibly be any less coherent?
We might feel a bit defensive about outsiders making snide comments, but we should have a healthy dose of self-criticism. Let's face it, Europe has completely missed the Internet boat. We were so extremely lethargic about the communcations revolution, and many places are still completely clueless. For crying out loud, in most European countries you can barely afford to check your email twice a day, let alone surf or--heaven forbid--download the latest Linux distribution. Till recently we didn't even have our own Pan-European backbone, with most traffic going via the USA.
We might have a lot to brag about, but regarding communications we should extract our collective thumbs both out of our mouths and asses and get to work.
I was thinking of another "poor man's" GPS a while ago: use radio station triangulation to calculate position.
You can get radio station databases from the FCC including transmitting frequency, power and location. Next, using an FM receiver chip, you create a signal strength map of the current location (find the strongest stations, their frequencies and the relative strengths). Then you do a probability analysis against the station database and try to find the most likely location that this signal strength map would occur.
It's all theory and it might work, but then again, it might not. I don't know if enough ambiguity would exist to make the approach futile (i.e. more than one place having similar enough signal maps). Besides, you need enough processing power to do these calculations, and sufficient storage capacity to hold the database. It might be cheaper (and certainly a lot more accurate) to just get a cheap GPS chipset. Those are coming on the market now, like in new cell phones.
Translation: SuSE is (because of YaST) rather more like M$ than RedHat. I don't care--I will keep using it, but without putting RedHat down. RedHat has pushed glibc and probably forced the KDE licence change.
BTW, all Germans insisting on native language, please go to Schrägstrichpunkt instead, yes?