The big guys also have a huge amount of momentum and can take 3-5 years to adopt a new technology.
I've dealt with them... there is little or no appetite for innovation because every time something new comes up it's a threat to the job of someone in middle management - so it's killed.
In the US I believe the output is measured by the effective output of the antenna (essentially transmitter power + gain AFAIK). This allows you to build directional antennas that can go some distance (you're also allowed a whole 1W signal which is quite a lot).
OTOH in Europe we measure EIRP, which is total power in any direction - so directional transmitters are illegal (we also only get 100mw to play with). This is why things like the WRT54G are so useful - you can have a really powerful receiver (not limited) and a still use the legal transmitter in the other aerial.
Two contries next to each other. One is daily slaughtering innocent civilians but the US refuses to do anything about it - it just gives them money instead.
The other one was telling the truth - there *were* no WMD therefore Saddam had *already* complied with resolution 1441. We blew the entire country to bits.
Oh and lets not forget Afganistan - the forgotten war which was bombed to crap by the US and is now in a state of anarchy.
Can't you *understand* why the US is so hated??? Are you really that blind???
Without exception those that have managed to negotiate a release have been held to be innocent by a court of law (they also told of routine torture, which nobody believed until recently).
If you know of a way to get free local calls in canada (I'm guessing that that's not the norm) then you just have to setup FWD gateways in the various local areas. AFAIK that's how FWD manages to cover the US so well. Of course how long it'll last before the phone companies catch on is debatable.
TBH I'm surprised slashdot is so late with this...
VOIP rocks. I haven't even got my FXO yet (shipping from the US takes time) and I've already got my PBX configured with cheesy 'on hold' music so I can annoy everyone:)
From work I have X-Lite plugged into my server at home, so if I'm needed it's a free call. I've also got local dialup numbers the US, Germany, etc... real fun.
For now it's totally unreglated and largely free (if you don't count $16 for the FXO, and $50 for the phone).. I doubt it'll last, but let's use it while it's there:)
The FX100 module is a rebadged Intel Winmodem worth about $9.99. They're taking the p*ss wanting $100 for it.
Even the 'cheap' ones are expensive when you realize what they actually are... Altruism only gets you so far. If they wanted $30 I'd buy from them, but $100? No way.
Just checked on my website logs for May (so it's not entirely a complete month, but it's 1.4 million hits) - http://www.cvsnt.org/webalizer/usage_200405.html IE6 58.95% Mozilla 12.34% IE5 4.14% IE5.5 2% IE3.01 0.91% (!!!!) Opera 1.43%
Plus various web strippers (eg. WebCopier @ 4.23%). Note the effect of windows update - IE5 and IE5.5 disappearing fast (I expect it to be gone within 6 months at the current rate).
Total IE: 66% Total NN4: 0%
I think it's safe to assume NN4 isn't significant any more...:)
Of course that's just one site, but it's mostly Windows users (albeit technically minded ones).
IE has recently taken a nosedive. I run a site which is a homepage for a windows app (2 million hits a month). IE was at ~90% last year. Recently it's dropped to ~55% and its decline is accelerating. Mozilla is soaking up a lot of that, with things like opera pegging at around 1-2%.
A thrill off 'sexually explicit' email? Boy you must have a sheltered life.... You get worse pictures in the daily newspapers these days (ok maybe not in the US where the sight of a breast caused the entire country to have heart failure, but m the rest of the world it's no big deal).
Dragging the drive to the trashcan implies throwing it away. To a new user scared of losing their files it's an insane way to tell them to eject a disk.
Did you know that the steam engine, the invention that basically sparked the industrial revolution, was patented? It's true. James Watt improved on existing designs to create the first modern reciprocating steam engine in 1763, and was granted a patent for it. That patent didn't expire until 1800, by which time Watt and his business partner, Michael Boulton, had manufactured some 500 engines.
Actually that's only half the truth.
Watts' patents held back the development of the steam engine by many years. Richard Trevithick had designed a vast improvement on the watt engines by using high pressure steam. The patents were so worded that he was unable to begin development until the patents expired in 1800 - some 20 years after he thought of the improvement. Without high pressure steam engines we would never have had the steam train.
Just because people aren't trying to figure out quantum physics doesn't mean they arent' scientists.
It's a legitimate question - human population throughout its history has had many religions. They don't go away (Stalin tried to remove religion from russia for example but failed completely). There's something fundamental to humanity that wants/needs religion.
Some of it I guess it tribal (I'm a foo, you're a bar, therefore you're different from me) but that doesn't wholly explain it.
So the question becomes would an alien society develop the same patterns? And if they did, would 'conversion' happen in one or both directions?
Speculation perhaps but no more than the possibility that the aliens exist in the first place...
Who's to say that the aliens that get here aren't just as whacko?
Pat robinson probably drives a mercedes or something.. could he design and build one from scratch? In any complex society there are the smart ones, the dumb ones, and the crazy loonies. What if the aliens that land on the planet are of the 3rd type?
ref. CS Lewis, who thought of that exact problem many years ago.
IIRC it goes something like this (it's a while since I've read any of his work so feel free to correct me):
1. There may be many worlds with created life 2. Each one of those worlds may not have fallen 3. For those that did (maybe all did) are there many saviours? One per planet? Or did the same story play out through the universe identically?
He also postulated the theory that our world is the only 'broken' one and even wrote a work of fiction based on the premise... quite interesting reading.
They don't need market penetration now.. the AMD64 runs 32bit stuff faster too.
Plus AMD is running away with the market here in the UK - cheap end... cheapest AMD UKP22, cheapest Intel UKP72. AMD64 UKP138. Nearest equiv. Intel (P4EE 3.2) UKP559.
Haven't seen a new intel box in a while in these parts, except for laptops (Dell insist on using P4s for some reason).
Currently I fire up the phone, select 'taxi', it gives me the number of the nearest one and optionally dials it (it knows where I am, which is how it knows where the nearest taxi/bank/pub/etc. is... heck, you can buy services that track people down via mobile phone now - parents buy it to keep track of their children).
However every taxi I've ever called wants to know my *destination* not just my current location (this is for tracking, and I believe it may also be a legal requirement). There is no way this system can handle that (unless you're proposing having a barcode for every destination in a city).
1. (old system). Read text. 2. (new system). Fish phone out of pocket. Switch it on (of not already on. Possibly pull battery out if crashed). Take photograph. Stand around scrolling through symbian menus until you find the 'decode photograph' app. Launch app. App doesn't recognise photograph. Shit. Take another photograph. Repeat.
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The big guys also have a huge amount of momentum and can take 3-5 years to adopt a new technology.
I've dealt with them... there is little or no appetite for innovation because every time something new comes up it's a threat to the job of someone in middle management - so it's killed.
Possibly not.
In the US I believe the output is measured by the effective output of the antenna (essentially transmitter power + gain AFAIK). This allows you to build directional antennas that can go some distance (you're also allowed a whole 1W signal which is quite a lot).
OTOH in Europe we measure EIRP, which is total power in any direction - so directional transmitters are illegal (we also only get 100mw to play with). This is why things like the WRT54G are so useful - you can have a really powerful receiver (not limited) and a still use the legal transmitter in the other aerial.
Isreal has *everyting* to do with iraq.
Two contries next to each other. One is daily slaughtering innocent civilians but the US refuses to do anything about it - it just gives them money instead.
The other one was telling the truth - there *were* no WMD therefore Saddam had *already* complied with resolution 1441. We blew the entire country to bits.
Oh and lets not forget Afganistan - the forgotten war which was bombed to crap by the US and is now in a state of anarchy.
Can't you *understand* why the US is so hated??? Are you really that blind???
They're people held without trial.
Without exception those that have managed to negotiate a release have been held to be innocent by a court of law (they also told of routine torture, which nobody believed until recently).
The US is probably the most hated country in the entire world right now.
Yes, I'd call that loss of respect.
The rest of the world fears you. They do not respect you.
If you know of a way to get free local calls in canada (I'm guessing that that's not the norm) then you just have to setup FWD gateways in the various local areas. AFAIK that's how FWD manages to cover the US so well. Of course how long it'll last before the phone companies catch on is debatable.
TBH I'm surprised slashdot is so late with this...
:)
:)
VOIP rocks. I haven't even got my FXO yet (shipping from the US takes time) and I've already got my PBX configured with cheesy 'on hold' music so I can annoy everyone
From work I have X-Lite plugged into my server at home, so if I'm needed it's a free call. I've also got local dialup numbers the US, Germany, etc... real fun.
For now it's totally unreglated and largely free (if you don't count $16 for the FXO, and $50 for the phone).. I doubt it'll last, but let's use it while it's there
FWD already this, for free... from here in the UK I can call many locations in the US without charge.
I also have a 'real' IP phone not an MSN clone - works when the PC is off.
The FX100 module is a rebadged Intel Winmodem worth about $9.99. They're taking the p*ss wanting $100 for it.
Even the 'cheap' ones are expensive when you realize what they actually are... Altruism only gets you so far. If they wanted $30 I'd buy from them, but $100? No way.
Just checked on my website logs for May (so it's not entirely a complete month, but it's 1.4 million hits) - http://www.cvsnt.org/webalizer/usage_200405.html
:)
IE6 58.95%
Mozilla 12.34%
IE5 4.14%
IE5.5 2%
IE3.01 0.91% (!!!!)
Opera 1.43%
Plus various web strippers (eg. WebCopier @ 4.23%). Note the effect of windows update - IE5 and IE5.5 disappearing fast (I expect it to be gone within 6 months at the current rate).
Total IE: 66%
Total NN4: 0%
I think it's safe to assume NN4 isn't significant any more...
Of course that's just one site, but it's mostly Windows users (albeit technically minded ones).
That counter doesn't look representative to me...
IE has recently taken a nosedive. I run a site which is a homepage for a windows app (2 million hits a month). IE was at ~90% last year. Recently it's dropped to ~55% and its decline is accelerating. Mozilla is soaking up a lot of that, with things like opera pegging at around 1-2%.
Nah, you just wave a flashy thing near a nuclear reactor. Easy peasy.
Umm.. they is it 'useful if your DNS servers go down'.
:)
I'd stop at step 2. Steps 3,4,5 an 6 are just wasting good drinking time.
The only IP you really need of course is the one your DNS server is on - so you can bring it back up again
A thrill off 'sexually explicit' email? Boy you must have a sheltered life.... You get worse pictures in the daily newspapers these days (ok maybe not in the US where the sight of a breast caused the entire country to have heart failure, but m the rest of the world it's no big deal).
I've already got some variations..
Sexual:Explicit
Sexually-Explicit
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT:
etc.
You don't have to leave ASCII to generate a few thousand variations.
Dragging the drive to the trashcan implies throwing it away. To a new user scared of losing their files it's an insane way to tell them to eject a disk.
Did you know that the steam engine, the invention that basically sparked the industrial revolution, was patented? It's true. James Watt improved on existing designs to create the first modern reciprocating steam engine in 1763, and was granted a patent for it. That patent didn't expire until 1800, by which time Watt and his business partner, Michael Boulton, had manufactured some 500 engines.
Actually that's only half the truth.
Watts' patents held back the development of the steam engine by many years. Richard Trevithick had designed a vast improvement on the watt engines by using high pressure steam. The patents were so worded that he was unable to begin development until the patents expired in 1800 - some 20 years after he thought of the improvement. Without high pressure steam engines we would never have had the steam train.
It's science too.
Just because people aren't trying to figure out quantum physics doesn't mean they arent' scientists.
It's a legitimate question - human population throughout its history has had many religions. They don't go away (Stalin tried to remove religion from russia for example but failed completely). There's something fundamental to humanity that wants/needs religion.
Some of it I guess it tribal (I'm a foo, you're a bar, therefore you're different from me) but that doesn't wholly explain it.
So the question becomes would an alien society develop the same patterns? And if they did, would 'conversion' happen in one or both directions?
Speculation perhaps but no more than the possibility that the aliens exist in the first place...
Who's to say that the aliens that get here aren't just as whacko?
Pat robinson probably drives a mercedes or something.. could he design and build one from scratch? In any complex society there are the smart ones, the dumb ones, and the crazy loonies. What if the aliens that land on the planet are of the 3rd type?
ref. CS Lewis, who thought of that exact problem many years ago.
IIRC it goes something like this (it's a while since I've read any of his work so feel free to correct me):
1. There may be many worlds with created life
2. Each one of those worlds may not have fallen
3. For those that did (maybe all did) are there many saviours? One per planet? Or did the same story play out through the universe identically?
He also postulated the theory that our world is the only 'broken' one and even wrote a work of fiction based on the premise... quite interesting reading.
cf. handbag.com, et al. Plus the latest AOL adverts in the UK.
:)
The internet is being marketed to women almost exclusively now. Presumably because all the men already have it
f/x *chokes on beer*
Insightful?????
Funny, possibly, but insightful???
They don't need market penetration now.. the AMD64 runs 32bit stuff faster too.
Plus AMD is running away with the market here in the UK - cheap end... cheapest AMD UKP22, cheapest Intel UKP72. AMD64 UKP138. Nearest equiv. Intel (P4EE 3.2) UKP559.
Haven't seen a new intel box in a while in these parts, except for laptops (Dell insist on using P4s for some reason).
Don't see how it can be faster.
Currently I fire up the phone, select 'taxi', it gives me the number of the nearest one and optionally dials it (it knows where I am, which is how it knows where the nearest taxi/bank/pub/etc. is... heck, you can buy services that track people down via mobile phone now - parents buy it to keep track of their children).
However every taxi I've ever called wants to know my *destination* not just my current location (this is for tracking, and I believe it may also be a legal requirement). There is no way this system can handle that (unless you're proposing having a barcode for every destination in a city).
Not really, you have:
1. (old system). Read text.
2. (new system). Fish phone out of pocket. Switch it on (of not already on. Possibly pull battery out if crashed). Take photograph. Stand around scrolling through symbian menus until you find the 'decode photograph' app. Launch app. App doesn't recognise photograph. Shit. Take another photograph. Repeat.