that's typical behavior for apple -- making it expensive and inconvenient to switch. even in the 80s and '90s apple was notorious not only for that kind behavior and but also for doing what some call 'planned obscelenscence[sp]'. specifically, every year it seemed like, they redesigned their pcs with new architecutre, giving them new hardware that was imcompatible with the previous year's equipment--- maknig upgrading and modifying them imposible.
I"m not sure if my account is banned from posting in here, but I'll try. I read this when I was 12 and it was very easy to follow. The electronics section starts with the basics and builds you up to where you can build radios and other complicated things.
The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications
(2008 edition)
The 2008 ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications uniquely serves both amateur experimenters and industry practitioners, emphasizing connections between basic theory and application. The ARRL Handbook is simply the standard in applied electronics and communications. This 85th edition is both a useful introduction to radio communication and a source for answers to questions about every aspect of the state-of-the-art. Topics include Amateur Radio licensing requirements and operating activities, fundamental and advanced electronics and communications concepts, radio propagation and antenna theory, practical projects, repair techniques, references and much more. The Handbook includes descriptions for new and emerging wireless technologies involving digital signal processing (DSP) innovations, and radio applications utilizing software and the Internet. The book is filled with valuable references, practical examples and projects. The CD-ROM at the back of the book includes all of the fully searchable text and illustrations in the printed book, as well as companion software, PC board templates and other support files.
At my workplace, we're pretty much left on our own with our computers. We usually get to choose our own hardware (within a budget), software, OS, etc. For some of us, there aren't any problems, so this works great.
And if we need something, IT support is available. But for some at my workplace, this is very very bad. For example, several people here can't resist clicking on the "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED" or whatever malware teaser pops up while they surf the web or read email. So, every few months, they hopelessly infect their machines and have to call IT support. Then the IT support guy comes over and spends a week recovering their data and reinstalling everything, etc. Same thing goes when ordering hardware. The same kind of person who clicks the virus.exe popups, finds 10 super cheap brand new Dell workstations on ebay for less than $100 each. He can't resist the bargain, so he orders them and they're mostly DOA. Dell tech support won't service them, because there is something wrong with the service tags and some questions about the legal status of their ownership. Then the work IT guy gas to come over again and waste countless hours and money trying to get a couple of them working.
These are reasons I quit engineering. (I actually had an A average at one of the top schools into my 3rd year when i quit.) I think I mustg have had the same thermogoddammits book as is quoted above. And most of my other engineering texts were at least as unintelligible and poorly written. And the professors who taught those classes were just as bad. Their lectures were just as incoherent and poorly planned as the first themo book that's quoted here. Basically, the books and lectures seem like they were designed for somebody who is already an expert in the respective field and who already, of course, understands all of the most advanced concepts before they've taken the class. It's more like they think their target audience is a professional engineering journal or research paper, not undergrad students. THis is very inconsiderate on the parts of the profs and the text-book authors (other profs).
I thought this was interesting. Found it on Lessig's blog. Basically, FCC employees brown-nose prospective future employers by decreeing public policies that benefits those future employers.
The wires are sparking with news of the GAO report (pdf) that FCC insiders routinely tipped lobbyists and corporate insiders about agency agenda decisions before they were made public. This is critical, because under agency "sunshine rules," FCC members can't be lobbied for the week between the public announcement of an agenda and the meeting. Knowing what's going to be announced on the agenda in advance thus gives lobbyists and corporate insiders an opportunity to lobby before the sun[shine rules] rise. From the report:
FCC generally followed the rulemaking process in the four case studies of completed rulemakings that GAO reviewed, but several stakeholders had access to nonpublic information. Specifically, each of the four rulemakings included steps as required by law and opportunities for public participation. Within the case studies, most ex parte filings complied with FCC rules. However, in the case studies and in discussions with other stakeholders that regularly participate in FCC rulemakings, multiple stakeholders generally knew when the commission scheduled votes on proposed rules well before FCC notified the public. FCC rules prohibit disclosing this information outside of FCC. Other stakeholders said that they cannot learn when rules are scheduled for a vote until FCC releases the public meeting agenda, at which time FCC rules prohibit stakeholders from lobbying FCC. As a result, stakeholders with advance information about which rules are scheduled for a vote would know when it is most effective to lobby FCC, while stakeholders without this information would not.
When I commented upon this to a colleague, his response was typical: "What do you expect? And anyway, so what? What's wrong with giving affected parties a bit more time to make their case?"
"What's wrong" first is that the rules say otherwise.
"What's wrong" second is that the rules are bent in a completely predictable way. Agency insiders curry favor with precisely the people they'll be getting a job with after they leave the FCC.
And "what's wrong" third is just what this indicates about the kinds of bending we might expect goes on inside the FCC. If the agency is willing to bend the rules to favor futures employers, are they willing to put the thumb on the scale in difficult contested policy determinations?
But my colleague was right about one thing: "What do [I] expect?" Here's an agency chaired by a former lobbyist. Is it likely to be scrupulous about rules meant to constrain or balance the lobbying process?
This example is just one many that is our government. (As I'm learning as I work through the extraordinary reading list compiled by my Read-Write readers at the Lessig Wiki on Corruption. But it needs to become a bigger issue for the candidates in this election. Let's hear a promise by the presidential candidates that they will only appoint FCC commissioners who promise not to work for those they have regulated for at least 5 years after their term is over. That would be real change.
The Wright Center for Innovative Science Education at Tufts University offers fellowship opportunities for teachers of elementary and high school science, workshops for teachers and free posters and curriculum materials on request by teachers. Some materials are available on-line for free download. Materials range from Space Science and Cosmic Evolution to the Physics of Music and Ben Franklin and Electrostatics. Visit http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center to learn more.
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Just go for Pop Mechanics. IMO, it has interesting articles thAT are written on the same level as today's sctAm, but it doesn't pretend to be more intellectual than it really is. It's watered down for the public.
You're reading those aritcles you cite impropperl. But I dont' care. What I want to know is what evidence you think you have to support creationism hypothesis[sic]. FYI, Creationism isn't even a hypothesis. It's a belief. For it to be a hypothesis, it has to be a scientific question that is testable.
If people can't understand basic science, how are they going to make proper decisions on issues that are of a scientific nature? Birth control? Stem cell research? NASA? Global warming? NIH funding? While these people will have advisers to help them judge the issues, ultimately, they won't judge the issue on a scientific principle and that is extremely unfair to the people who want decisions based on objectivity. It's good to see the AAAS address this under-rated issue, that of public understanding of science. This has been a worsening problem for decades. I hope they follow up and make this a priority, even if they ave to go some "touchy-feely" way (empathy) to reach people.
Thank you for pointing this out. The outcome oligarchical national election never makes any difference. As Emma Goldman observed, "if voting really mattered, they would make it illegal.
I live in Californiia and I don't carry an ID. AFIK, since i don't drive, there are very few occasions when i'm leggally requirtred to carry it.But what you say is the opposite. So, according to you, it's required to carry one? As in a police state. And if i get caught without it, say minding my own business walking down the street, i can be cuffed and deatained/arrested ? Oh yeah, what do you think of my wifi-fuzzer? I rigged it from a TV remote and some other common electronic pieces.
Is David Pogue an RIAA spokesman?
Anyway, I think the IP laws are extremely unfair for consumers. Groups like the RIAA, sony bono, Disney have been drawing up any copyright laws they want and getting congress to pass them without any democratic input for the past 100 or so years. The current laws so strongly favor big corporations and dont' consider consumer interests at all. People are beginning to wake up to this. People are getting so fed up with the unfairness of it that they completely ignore the laws.
DRM is exactly why. Here's They've teamed up with universal for a music download service and want DRM as they seek other labels to sign up with them:
(This is from zeropaid)
Nokia to Offer 1 Year of Free Music Downloads With New Phone
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"Comes With Music" deal will give customers who buy one of their new music phones 12 months worth of free music downloads.
Nokia said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Universal Music to offer free 12-month access to Universal artists' music for buyers of of it's new music phones as a way to promote cellphones as media devices and to develop new revenue for a music industry struggling with piracy.
So far it has only signed up Universal Music Group International for its new "Comes With Music" offering, but is eyeing similar deals with other labels before the offer starts in the second half of 2008.
"We are in talks with all major labels. The response from labels has been very, very positive," said Nokia spokesman Damian Stathonikos.
Nokia said consumers will be able to keep all the music they have downloaded for free during the 12 month period. Users will be able to download the songs to new Nokia phones or to their computers via mobile or fixed-line broadband connections.
Universal, meanwhile, will get a portion of revenue from sales of each of the new Nokia music phones.
The move signals a shift in Universal Music's strategy in that it will essentially offer unlimited permanent music downloads for a fixed price or fee, unlike Rhapsody and others where users essentially rent the music.
"It's one thing to have people downloading free music illegally," said Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Jupiter Research. "What is bold and strategically important about this is that they are tacitly accepting that they will never get digital youth to pay for music."
With music fans having grown so accustomed to getting content for free for so long on P2P and file-sharing networks, it may just finally be the case where music is offered at fixed rate rather than per album or song.
So far Nokia hasn't said how much the new music phones will cost, but if it means a years worth of free tunes it may just be worth the price, though a still reasonable one..
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that's typical behavior for apple -- making it expensive and inconvenient to switch. even in the 80s and '90s apple was notorious not only for that kind behavior and but also for doing what some call 'planned obscelenscence[sp]'. specifically, every year it seemed like, they redesigned their pcs with new architecutre, giving them new hardware that was imcompatible with the previous year's equipment--- maknig upgrading and modifying them imposible.
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I"m not sure if my account is banned from posting in here, but I'll try. I read this when I was 12 and it was very easy to follow. The electronics section starts with the basics and builds you up to where you can build radios and other complicated things. The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications (2008 edition) The 2008 ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications uniquely serves both amateur experimenters and industry practitioners, emphasizing connections between basic theory and application. The ARRL Handbook is simply the standard in applied electronics and communications. This 85th edition is both a useful introduction to radio communication and a source for answers to questions about every aspect of the state-of-the-art. Topics include Amateur Radio licensing requirements and operating activities, fundamental and advanced electronics and communications concepts, radio propagation and antenna theory, practical projects, repair techniques, references and much more. The Handbook includes descriptions for new and emerging wireless technologies involving digital signal processing (DSP) innovations, and radio applications utilizing software and the Internet. The book is filled with valuable references, practical examples and projects. The CD-ROM at the back of the book includes all of the fully searchable text and illustrations in the printed book, as well as companion software, PC board templates and other support files.
At my workplace, we're pretty much left on our own with our computers. We usually get to choose our own hardware (within a budget), software, OS, etc. For some of us, there aren't any problems, so this works great. And if we need something, IT support is available. But for some at my workplace, this is very very bad. For example, several people here can't resist clicking on the "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED" or whatever malware teaser pops up while they surf the web or read email. So, every few months, they hopelessly infect their machines and have to call IT support. Then the IT support guy comes over and spends a week recovering their data and reinstalling everything, etc. Same thing goes when ordering hardware. The same kind of person who clicks the virus.exe popups, finds 10 super cheap brand new Dell workstations on ebay for less than $100 each. He can't resist the bargain, so he orders them and they're mostly DOA. Dell tech support won't service them, because there is something wrong with the service tags and some questions about the legal status of their ownership. Then the work IT guy gas to come over again and waste countless hours and money trying to get a couple of them working.
These are reasons I quit engineering. (I actually had an A average at one of the top schools into my 3rd year when i quit.) I think I mustg have had the same thermogoddammits book as is quoted above. And most of my other engineering texts were at least as unintelligible and poorly written. And the professors who taught those classes were just as bad. Their lectures were just as incoherent and poorly planned as the first themo book that's quoted here. Basically, the books and lectures seem like they were designed for somebody who is already an expert in the respective field and who already, of course, understands all of the most advanced concepts before they've taken the class. It's more like they think their target audience is a professional engineering journal or research paper, not undergrad students. THis is very inconsiderate on the parts of the profs and the text-book authors (other profs).
The Wright Center for Innovative Science Education at Tufts University offers fellowship opportunities for teachers of elementary and high school science, workshops for teachers and free posters and curriculum materials on request by teachers. Some materials are available on-line for free download. Materials range from Space Science and Cosmic Evolution to the Physics of Music and Ben Franklin and Electrostatics. Visit http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center to learn more.
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"a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face."
As an intern, mechanical engineering, I have worked with the Orion space capsule design. I've got pics on my myspace site. Sorry for the shortened url.
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Just go for Pop Mechanics. IMO, it has interesting articles thAT are written on the same level as today's sctAm, but it doesn't pretend to be more intellectual than it really is. It's watered down for the public.
You're reading those aritcles you cite impropperl. But I dont' care. What I want to know is what evidence you think you have to support creationism hypothesis[sic]. FYI, Creationism isn't even a hypothesis. It's a belief. For it to be a hypothesis, it has to be a scientific question that is testable.
If people can't understand basic science, how are they going to make proper decisions on issues that are of a scientific nature? Birth control? Stem cell research? NASA? Global warming? NIH funding? While these people will have advisers to help them judge the issues, ultimately, they won't judge the issue on a scientific principle and that is extremely unfair to the people who want decisions based on objectivity.
It's good to see the AAAS address this under-rated issue, that of public understanding of science. This has been a worsening problem for decades. I hope they follow up and make this a priority, even if they ave to go some "touchy-feely" way (empathy) to reach people.
What is Gn4a?? Is Bill Gates a member? Who is the Goatse guy? Is that pic real?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Thank you for pointing this out. The outcome oligarchical national election never makes any difference. As Emma Goldman observed, "if voting really mattered, they would make it illegal.
I live in Californiia and I don't carry an ID. AFIK, since i don't drive, there are very few occasions when i'm leggally requirtred to carry it.But what you say is the opposite. So, according to you, it's required to carry one? As in a police state. And if i get caught without it, say minding my own business walking down the street, i can be cuffed and deatained/arrested ?
Oh yeah, what do you think of my wifi-fuzzer? I rigged it from a TV remote and some other common electronic pieces.
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Is David Pogue an RIAA spokesman? Anyway, I think the IP laws are extremely unfair for consumers. Groups like the RIAA, sony bono, Disney have been drawing up any copyright laws they want and getting congress to pass them without any democratic input for the past 100 or so years. The current laws so strongly favor big corporations and dont' consider consumer interests at all. People are beginning to wake up to this. People are getting so fed up with the unfairness of it that they completely ignore the laws.
WTF is this reference to "brown people"? Are you some racist faggot?
The Clinton administration was just as evil. Anybody remember the Clipper Chip?
DRM is exactly why. Here's They've teamed up with universal for a music download service and want DRM as they seek other labels to sign up with them: (This is from zeropaid) Nokia to Offer 1 Year of Free Music Downloads With New Phone posted by soulxtc in music // 4 days 8 hours 44 minutes ago
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"Comes With Music" deal will give customers who buy one of their new music phones 12 months worth of free music downloads.
Nokia said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Universal Music to offer free 12-month access to Universal artists' music for buyers of of it's new music phones as a way to promote cellphones as media devices and to develop new revenue for a music industry struggling with piracy.
So far it has only signed up Universal Music Group International for its new "Comes With Music" offering, but is eyeing similar deals with other labels before the offer starts in the second half of 2008.
"We are in talks with all major labels. The response from labels has been very, very positive," said Nokia spokesman Damian Stathonikos.
Nokia said consumers will be able to keep all the music they have downloaded for free during the 12 month period. Users will be able to download the songs to new Nokia phones or to their computers via mobile or fixed-line broadband connections.
Universal, meanwhile, will get a portion of revenue from sales of each of the new Nokia music phones.
The move signals a shift in Universal Music's strategy in that it will essentially offer unlimited permanent music downloads for a fixed price or fee, unlike Rhapsody and others where users essentially rent the music.
"It's one thing to have people downloading free music illegally," said Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Jupiter Research. "What is bold and strategically important about this is that they are tacitly accepting that they will never get digital youth to pay for music."
With music fans having grown so accustomed to getting content for free for so long on P2P and file-sharing networks, it may just finally be the case where music is offered at fixed rate rather than per album or song.
So far Nokia hasn't said how much the new music phones will cost, but if it means a years worth of free tunes it may just be worth the price, though a still reasonable one..
Is this do-able? How easy would it be for somebody to set this up who doesn't know anything about encryption
Never mind scientists, I wonder if the military has noticed?
Already been done. Check this site: http://www.teach12.com/store/courses.asp?t=&sl=&s=905&sbj=Literature%20and%20English%20Language&fMode=s I've listened to some of their recordings and they were pretty good.