My brother's girlfriend bought a 1.6 ghz eMachines for $1200 (!) last Christmas. I got my new laptop in may, and it was $200 less then that eMachines. And it works fine. I thought the idea behind an eMachine was that they were marketed to be cheaper then the others?
what about im spam how do we stop that. I fell sorry for my mom, she been getting 1 im every 5 minutes, that says "unless you subscribe to our service we will keep on im'ing you", she is so frustrated she is ready just to trash the computer, and it is a diffent name every time, so she can not block the name.
I don't have my own hosting, I just use the space verizon gives me, but I am not all that confident in the security that they provide, so I just make sure I have an up to date back of my web site, so if it is defaced I can put it back up.
You can do CW over the net. and as for it being only about CW, no ham radio is not about only CW, it is a hobby, there are many areas one can play with in ham radio, CW is only one part. many people like just phone, others will play with ATV slow scan, packet (well that seams to be hard to find these days) For some thing to be just about one thing, that one thing must take up the majority of the hobby. Last I checked CW was not that big in ham radio, I admit many love it and a few will only do CW, but it does not take up the majority of ham radio. And VHF and UHF is not like what you are trying to say it it.
First, maybe I miss read it, you probably are right.
Second I love your comparison at the end, the sad part is it is probably more heated then those.
but for me I don't care either way, I have done some HF work at the club I am a member of (club has a extra class call, and there are usually extras there) I just did not enjoy HF work. For now I think I will stay on UHF/VHF for the most part. Now just watch the HF vs. UHF/VHF fight start here.
The FCC exists because there is limited spectrum. And they must protect it for every one. How would you like it if some one near where you lived decided to flood the air waves on every band with so much noise that none of your wireless devices would be able to connect. No the FCC needs to be in place. They are not there to prevent free speech, but there to facilitate it, how would you like it if some one you really like was on TV, and some who did not like them went to the stations location and start flooding the air on the stations freq with noise, so you could not hear what the person on the air had to say.
I would avoid HF for the first few years after CW is gone. There will be many older hams that do not want to talk to people that did not have to pass a CW test. I avoid one repeater here in pittsburgh because there are people like that on it. Besides, I never really like HF much, that is why I did not go for the test. I took a CW class, I was doing well, in it, but I was not there because I wanted to be, I felt like I was being forced into the class by some of the hams, so I droped out and never took the test. I was not doing it for me, so I droped it. No reason to waist my time and the money for the test for somehting I did not want.
I am so looking forward to this years feild day, I will be going to the feild day of my old collage ham club, W3YI. we are going up to the mountins of western PA for it, that should give us some good propigation. I probably see if I can get some 2m FM contacts. I know what some of the others hams are saying 2M? well I like 2m and 70cm alot, and I feel that I can try it, there is no rules against it, I know I will not get my club many points, but we are not doing it just for the points, we are just doing it for the fun of it. I be leaving Oakland (just out side of Pittsburgh) after I get off work and head up (that will be around 8am) Well 73 to all the hams here.
The reason I am doing it with my old friends from pitt, is because last year I did it with my current club (w3wkh) and all they cared about was the contacts and points, I want to have fun, is that not part of what feild day is about, a day where we can have some fun while practising emergancy comunications.
Or he wants his investment in technology to pay off, by haveing it last more then 3 months. My cell phone is the same one I got back in 2000, and I refuese to upgreade (at lest untill sprint gets a bluetooth capable cell phone, and from what I read it will be the sony ericson T608) I will admite I upgreaded my palm pilot 3 times in the same time, but that was because I need more memeory, I am not finaly on the Tungsten T.
Depends on the provider, I could spend all day on the web on my cell phone and not raise my bill. I have sprint and have added wireless web, so I can use my minutes for wireless web minutes, and I have unlimited nights and weekends. and if I start a call before peak minutes it counts as off peak minutes. so I could stay on-line all day, in theory, to bad I don't have a better battery. but the only problem is that it is only a 14.4 modem if you do dial up instead of using the direct net connection that vision has. I use this net access all the time.
my plan is as follows
500 peak minutes
unlimited off peak
unlimited sprintpcs to sprintpcs calls (I do have many friends that have sprint too so this pays off)
and wireless web (use my minutes for web access) All of this for $50 a month, I think I have a good deal
I am not sure I like the ability to renew the copyright for a fee. Is there a number of times that they can renew it, or could a company in theory renew a copy right on into eternity? So things will never again be able to enter back into the public domain. I would like to see a copy of the proposed bill. Does any one have a link to that?
Good post, I like what you had to say there. I wish they would listen to the public. Even if they open up a service where you can pay a fee per month and have unlimited download be it mp3 or another format (cross plateform, hay they can even put a self disabling code in it to stop playing after a x number of plays) and then we can the again download and explore the music, if we like it we will just go and by it, if we don't like it we are not out to much money.
But in the end this will end up being a bad pr problem for the RIAA. but this is all MHO.
who am I to tell them, I am the person, that might or might not buy there stuff. I like to know what I am buying be it try the software on someone elses computer, downloading and sampling music, or hearing it on the radio. If I like it, I buy it, if I don't I delete the music, and forget about that artist. it like a movie review, I can look at a review of a movie and decied if I want to spend my hard earned money on it, I could ask a friend, I don't want to buy a CD just because it is the newest and "hotest", I want to have some kind of info to base my spending of my money on it.
Read my second paragraph, I talk about how people can use P2P systems to explore new artists and they might go out and get the CDâ(TM)s from these people if they like them.
This would kill p2p networks; I say this because they are going after only the people that shares. But not after the people that download. Well if no one shares then there will be nothing to download.
I donâ(TM)t think that if one uses p2p networks correctly that there is a major problem. When I used napster I did download some music. After downloading some songs I would either delete them if I did not like them. Or I ended up going out and getting the CD because I like what they had to offer. Now that I do not have napster anymore, I have stopped buying CDs. RIAA you only hurt yourself by trying to kill P2P file sharing networks.
--- and for those of you who see this after the site gets/.ed here is the text to the article
The chief lobby group of the nation's major recording labels today said it is preparing hundreds of lawsuits against Internet users who illegally trade copyrighted music files. The lawsuits will target people who share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted music, but anyone who shares illegal files is at risk, RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a conference call today. The first round of lawsuits will be prepared during the next eight to 10 weeks. They will ask for injunctions and monetary damages against file swappers, Sherman said. "We have no hard and fast rules about how many files you have to be distributing" to be targeted in the RIAA sweep, he said. "Any individual computer user who continues to steal music will face the very real risk of having to face the music." There are 57 million Americans who use file-sharing services today, according to Boston-based research firm the Yankee Group. Among the most popular are Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster, which became prominent after the pioneering Napster service was shut down under a judicial order in 2001. Kazaa says that its file sharing software has been downloaded more than 200 million times. The announcement is part of an attempt to rid the Internet of illegitimate versions of copyrighted works as it tries to find a way to encourage legitimate music download services. The RIAA has said that file-sharing services exist for few other reasons. Record companies say file sharing is to blame for more than a billion dollars in lost CD sales, as well as millions in shrinking profits. The RIAA has focused most of its efforts on shutting down peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, but a federal judge in Los Angeles in April ruled that the sites have legal uses and should not be shut down. The recording industry instead is pursuing individual file traders. The ruling came a day after another federal judge ruled that the RIAA could force Verizon Communications Inc., to hand over the names of four of its high-speed Internet service customers who were illegally trading large amounts of copyrighted music on the Kazaa network. The Los Angeles decision helped pave the way for the RIAA's latest legal attack, said Sherman, who confirmed that the RIAA would use its subpoena power to obtain the names of file sharers from Internet providers. File sharing "is not anonymous. You are engaging in an activity that's every bit as public as setting up a stall at a local flea market," he said. Sherman said the RIAA is not targeting people who use P2P networks only for downloading, but he warned that the networks often contain technology that allows members to tap other users' hard drives to make copies of music files. That process can make a digital fence out of an unwitting network user, he said. He pointed people to the Musicunited.org Web site, which contains instructions for uninstalling file-sharing programs and for disabling the functions that open users' music libraries to pirates. Wayne Rosso, president of the West Indies-based Grokster file-trading service, said the RIAA's tactics are "nothing short of lunacy." "I can't wait to see what happens when a congressman or senator's child is sued," he said. "They've taken leave of their senses. They lost their [Los Angeles] lawsuit against us and they're pissed about it, so their answer is to sue their customers. "We know this piracy is wrong and can't go on, but for God's sake, they won't work with us under any circumstances," he added.
Don't get me wrong but I think this is the first GNU project to die do to the current economic system we find ourselfs in. Also I don't think things would be much better in CA as he might belive, but who am I to state, I am in South Western PA. I have heard a ham friend of mine, say that he will be forced to move out of state because there is no work for computer people in Pittsburgh. ( I feel I am one the lucky ones now, I have gotten involved with a start up that looks like it will have a good future, it is already turning a profit in its first year of existance, but to be on the safe side, I am still keeping my "day" job at cmu till things start to go well for the startup) But I think that people with computer skills will find it harder to get work, what with the flood of people comming out of tech schools, and the loss of computer jobs to both the dotcom bust and outsourcing IT jobs to Asia. but only time will tell.
I donâ(TM)t think that MS will want to buy SCO that could turn into a major amount of bad PR, not to mention they could end up in court again with the government for anti-trust violations. Also I would believe some where in MS they want to see IBM win this case. Why do I say this, well in the last case MS was involved in Linux was part of their defense that they did not have a monopoly. MS needs IBM to win this one, but MS can not act to help IBM because that can again come back to haunt them. So the best course of action for MS is to stay the heck away from this, and hope that IBM wins this one.
First I think there is a law about being paid over time if you work more then so many hours, salaried or not. Second 12 hours 7 days a week what happened to religious freedom, if you don't show up on your religions weekly holy day, what are they going to do fire because of your religious believe, for Christians that would be Sunday, for Jews that would be sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, I don't know about the other religions (maybe some one could post a reply with the other days). And I do believe that it is illegal to firer someone based on their creed.
Is just not possable that alians have never come to earth, even if they exist, which I don't know one way or the other, and don't care.
I just say if they exist more power to them, if they don't oh well no big deal.
If I were to be asked if I belive that they exist I would say, it is posable given the massive size of universe, so why not? But do I think they have come to earth, I would say no, and if they did they would not come just to give some hillbillys anal probs, or draw circles in fields, or turn cows insideout. That would seem to be a waist of time and effort to come to earth for a few pranks. But who knows they might be among us, sorry I could not resist that one.
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My brother's girlfriend bought a 1.6 ghz eMachines for $1200 (!) last Christmas. I got my new laptop in may, and it was $200 less then that eMachines. And it works fine. I thought the idea behind an eMachine was that they were marketed to be cheaper then the others?
what about im spam how do we stop that. I fell sorry for my mom, she been getting 1 im every 5 minutes, that says "unless you subscribe to our service we will keep on im'ing you", she is so frustrated she is ready just to trash the computer, and it is a diffent name every time, so she can not block the name.
I don't have my own hosting, I just use the space verizon gives me, but I am not all that confident in the security that they provide, so I just make sure I have an up to date back of my web site, so if it is defaced I can put it back up.
Pictures from my day at feild day http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3sxhy/FD2003/f ield_day_2003_for_w3yi.htm
this is only the second year that we have done a field day. It was alot of fun, I wish I was still there but I had to work tonight so, I had to leave early.
I have heard of people takeing it to court and winning.
thanks for the info, but I don't us BSD. But I will have to take a look at that freq.
and these "covenants" are considered illegal by the FCC, if you own a home, you can put antennas up, or an antenna tower. check out this page from the arrl http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/anten na-restrictions.html
You can do CW over the net. and as for it being only about CW, no ham radio is not about only CW, it is a hobby, there are many areas one can play with in ham radio, CW is only one part. many people like just phone, others will play with ATV slow scan, packet (well that seams to be hard to find these days) For some thing to be just about one thing, that one thing must take up the majority of the hobby. Last I checked CW was not that big in ham radio, I admit many love it and a few will only do CW, but it does not take up the majority of ham radio. And VHF and UHF is not like what you are trying to say it it.
First, maybe I miss read it, you probably are right.
Second I love your comparison at the end, the sad part is it is probably more heated then those.
but for me I don't care either way, I have done some HF work at the club I am a member of (club has a extra class call, and there are usually extras there) I just did not enjoy HF work. For now I think I will stay on UHF/VHF for the most part. Now just watch the HF vs. UHF/VHF fight start here.
The FCC exists because there is limited spectrum. And they must protect it for every one. How would you like it if some one near where you lived decided to flood the air waves on every band with so much noise that none of your wireless devices would be able to connect. No the FCC needs to be in place. They are not there to prevent free speech, but there to facilitate it, how would you like it if some one you really like was on TV, and some who did not like them went to the stations location and start flooding the air on the stations freq with noise, so you could not hear what the person on the air had to say.
check this artical out over at qrz http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f= 3&t=38156 it looks like Britain has alread killed cw.
I would avoid HF for the first few years after CW is gone. There will be many older hams that do not want to talk to people that did not have to pass a CW test. I avoid one repeater here in pittsburgh because there are people like that on it. Besides, I never really like HF much, that is why I did not go for the test. I took a CW class, I was doing well, in it, but I was not there because I wanted to be, I felt like I was being forced into the class by some of the hams, so I droped out and never took the test. I was not doing it for me, so I droped it. No reason to waist my time and the money for the test for somehting I did not want.
Question is packet ever used much any more, I live in pittsburgh, I have done some packet work, but I never seam to get any one.
I am so looking forward to this years feild day, I will be going to the feild day of my old collage ham club, W3YI. we are going up to the mountins of western PA for it, that should give us some good propigation. I probably see if I can get some 2m FM contacts. I know what some of the others hams are saying 2M? well I like 2m and 70cm alot, and I feel that I can try it, there is no rules against it, I know I will not get my club many points, but we are not doing it just for the points, we are just doing it for the fun of it. I be leaving Oakland (just out side of Pittsburgh) after I get off work and head up (that will be around 8am) Well 73 to all the hams here.
The reason I am doing it with my old friends from pitt, is because last year I did it with my current club (w3wkh) and all they cared about was the contacts and points, I want to have fun, is that not part of what feild day is about, a day where we can have some fun while practising emergancy comunications.
Or he wants his investment in technology to pay off, by haveing it last more then 3 months. My cell phone is the same one I got back in 2000, and I refuese to upgreade (at lest untill sprint gets a bluetooth capable cell phone, and from what I read it will be the sony ericson T608) I will admite I upgreaded my palm pilot 3 times in the same time, but that was because I need more memeory, I am not finaly on the Tungsten T.
Depends on the provider, I could spend all day on the web on my cell phone and not raise my bill. I have sprint and have added wireless web, so I can use my minutes for wireless web minutes, and I have unlimited nights and weekends. and if I start a call before peak minutes it counts as off peak minutes. so I could stay on-line all day, in theory, to bad I don't have a better battery. but the only problem is that it is only a 14.4 modem if you do dial up instead of using the direct net connection that vision has. I use this net access all the time.
my plan is as follows
500 peak minutes
unlimited off peak
unlimited sprintpcs to sprintpcs calls (I do have many friends that have sprint too so this pays off)
and wireless web (use my minutes for web access)
All of this for $50 a month, I think I have a good deal
I am not sure I like the ability to renew the copyright for a fee. Is there a number of times that they can renew it, or could a company in theory renew a copy right on into eternity? So things will never again be able to enter back into the public domain. I would like to see a copy of the proposed bill. Does any one have a link to that?
Good post, I like what you had to say there. I wish they would listen to the public. Even if they open up a service where you can pay a fee per month and have unlimited download be it mp3 or another format (cross plateform, hay they can even put a self disabling code in it to stop playing after a x number of plays) and then we can the again download and explore the music, if we like it we will just go and by it, if we don't like it we are not out to much money.
But in the end this will end up being a bad pr problem for the RIAA. but this is all MHO.
who am I to tell them, I am the person, that might or might not buy there stuff. I like to know what I am buying be it try the software on someone elses computer, downloading and sampling music, or hearing it on the radio. If I like it, I buy it, if I don't I delete the music, and forget about that artist. it like a movie review, I can look at a review of a movie and decied if I want to spend my hard earned money on it, I could ask a friend, I don't want to buy a CD just because it is the newest and "hotest", I want to have some kind of info to base my spending of my money on it.
Read my second paragraph, I talk about how people can use P2P systems to explore new artists and they might go out and get the CDâ(TM)s from these people if they like them.
This would kill p2p networks; I say this because they are going after only the people that shares. But not after the people that download. Well if no one shares then there will be nothing to download.
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I donâ(TM)t think that if one uses p2p networks correctly that there is a major problem. When I used napster I did download some music. After downloading some songs I would either delete them if I did not like them. Or I ended up going out and getting the CD because I like what they had to offer. Now that I do not have napster anymore, I have stopped buying CDs. RIAA you only hurt yourself by trying to kill P2P file sharing networks.
--- and for those of you who see this after the site gets
The chief lobby group of the nation's major recording labels today said it is preparing hundreds of lawsuits against Internet users who illegally trade copyrighted music files.
The lawsuits will target people who share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted music, but anyone who shares illegal files is at risk, RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a conference call today. The first round of lawsuits will be prepared during the next eight to 10 weeks. They will ask for injunctions and monetary damages against file swappers, Sherman said.
"We have no hard and fast rules about how many files you have to be distributing" to be targeted in the RIAA sweep, he said. "Any individual computer user who continues to steal music will face the very real risk of having to face the music."
There are 57 million Americans who use file-sharing services today, according to Boston-based research firm the Yankee Group. Among the most popular are Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster, which became prominent after the pioneering Napster service was shut down under a judicial order in 2001. Kazaa says that its file sharing software has been downloaded more than 200 million times.
The announcement is part of an attempt to rid the Internet of illegitimate versions of copyrighted works as it tries to find a way to encourage legitimate music download services. The RIAA has said that file-sharing services exist for few other reasons.
Record companies say file sharing is to blame for more than a billion dollars in lost CD sales, as well as millions in shrinking profits. The RIAA has focused most of its efforts on shutting down peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, but a federal judge in Los Angeles in April ruled that the sites have legal uses and should not be shut down. The recording industry instead is pursuing individual file traders.
The ruling came a day after another federal judge ruled that the RIAA could force Verizon Communications Inc., to hand over the names of four of its high-speed Internet service customers who were illegally trading large amounts of copyrighted music on the Kazaa network.
The Los Angeles decision helped pave the way for the RIAA's latest legal attack, said Sherman, who confirmed that the RIAA would use its subpoena power to obtain the names of file sharers from Internet providers.
File sharing "is not anonymous. You are engaging in an activity that's every bit as public as setting up a stall at a local flea market," he said.
Sherman said the RIAA is not targeting people who use P2P networks only for downloading, but he warned that the networks often contain technology that allows members to tap other users' hard drives to make copies of music files. That process can make a digital fence out of an unwitting network user, he said.
He pointed people to the Musicunited.org Web site, which contains instructions for uninstalling file-sharing programs and for disabling the functions that open users' music libraries to pirates.
Wayne Rosso, president of the West Indies-based Grokster file-trading service, said the RIAA's tactics are "nothing short of lunacy."
"I can't wait to see what happens when a congressman or senator's child is sued," he said. "They've taken leave of their senses. They lost their [Los Angeles] lawsuit against us and they're pissed about it, so their answer is to sue their customers.
"We know this piracy is wrong and can't go on, but for God's sake, they won't work with us under any circumstances," he added.
Don't get me wrong but I think this is the first GNU project to die do to the current economic system we find ourselfs in. Also I don't think things would be much better in CA as he might belive, but who am I to state, I am in South Western PA. I have heard a ham friend of mine, say that he will be forced to move out of state because there is no work for computer people in Pittsburgh. ( I feel I am one the lucky ones now, I have gotten involved with a start up that looks like it will have a good future, it is already turning a profit in its first year of existance, but to be on the safe side, I am still keeping my "day" job at cmu till things start to go well for the startup) But I think that people with computer skills will find it harder to get work, what with the flood of people comming out of tech schools, and the loss of computer jobs to both the dotcom bust and outsourcing IT jobs to Asia. but only time will tell.
I donâ(TM)t think that MS will want to buy SCO that could turn into a major amount of bad PR, not to mention they could end up in court again with the government for anti-trust violations. Also I would believe some where in MS they want to see IBM win this case. Why do I say this, well in the last case MS was involved in Linux was part of their defense that they did not have a monopoly. MS needs IBM to win this one, but MS can not act to help IBM because that can again come back to haunt them. So the best course of action for MS is to stay the heck away from this, and hope that IBM wins this one.
First I think there is a law about being paid over time if you work more then so many hours, salaried or not. Second 12 hours 7 days a week what happened to religious freedom, if you don't show up on your religions weekly holy day, what are they going to do fire because of your religious believe, for Christians that would be Sunday, for Jews that would be sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, I don't know about the other religions (maybe some one could post a reply with the other days). And I do believe that it is illegal to firer someone based on their creed.
Is just not possable that alians have never come to earth, even if they exist, which I don't know one way or the other, and don't care.
I just say if they exist more power to them, if they don't oh well no big deal.
If I were to be asked if I belive that they exist I would say, it is posable given the massive size of universe, so why not? But do I think they have come to earth, I would say no, and if they did they would not come just to give some hillbillys anal probs, or draw circles in fields, or turn cows insideout. That would seem to be a waist of time and effort to come to earth for a few pranks. But who knows they might be among us, sorry I could not resist that one.