It's interesting to note the real reasons behind Clinton's decision to eliminate
SA.
There are two main reasons. The first is that he eliminated SA just before an ITU meeting at which there was an intention to give out to the US Government for using radio bandwidth for such a service and not providing the full benefit of the service for the citizens of Earth. There was the potential that the ITU was going to re-allocate the frequencies that GPS uses if the US government did not open up the service. And the second is that the E.U. is planning and will (eventually) launch it's own GPS system which will be compatible with the U.S. version and which will have no degradation of service whatsoever.
The bottom line is that Joe Public can expect continual improvement in the satellite positioning services until some sort of theoretical limit is reached
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One could look at the voting poll and conclude
that 24% of/. readership is non-American. Then,
one could look at the 4th of July poll and wonder if
the percentage of non-Americans is decreasing
With articles like this one, it would not be
at all surprising to learn that/. is now
news for American nerds...
They could achieve the same by just refusing, and retain the moral high ground too. Selling to another reseller would probably violate their dealership agreements with Motorola.
If someone sells me a Motorola product, there
is nothing that can possibly prevent me from
selling it on to someone else - even for a
profit!
Granted, the resellers could refuse. But if
they could use re-resellers, they could stay
in business without compromising their
customers. The problem with refusal is that
much, if not most, of the business of these
resellers is Motorola products.
Would it be possible for the reseller to
send in a report to Motorola saying that
the reseller themselves are the customer.
("Last month, you sold x units to me,
and my contact details are...").
Or, could the reseller set up a re-reseller
that they sell to, and then the re-reseller
(which, no doubt, would share the same premises
and much of the same staff etc) would then
sell to the customer.
Motorola, of course, would not like such
a tactic, but what could they legally do about
it? They could forbid selling to the
re-resellers, but if enough of the resellers
go with such a tactic, Motorola would end up
putting themselves out of the retail business.
each picture would have to be viewed and described by someone knowledgable, and then the tags would have to be added.
So, what's the problem? Finding someone
knowledgable???:)
It takes, say, 20 seconds to right-click an
image in your favorite editor and give it a
description. A single person can deal with
over 1,000 images in a working day at that rate.
The reason why.gov and.mil refer to the US Government and Military is because the original designers of the DNS made it so.
The question, I think, has to be asked - why? Did they not believe in international computer communications? Or was it just some form of U.S. cultural arrogance?
Anyone know the answer to this? Are there any of the people who made that decision around that we could ask?
[...] where online music has been more widely adopted than in the general public [...] data shows that record sales have actually dropped 4 percent in the past two years. In stores near the 67 colleges that have banned Napster, citing an overload on their internal networks, sales have dropped 7 percent in two years.
So, to have a smaller decrease of sales of CD's near universities, you should ALLOW ACCESS TO NAPSTER!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, technically, the most viable solution that would pretty much guarantee that no-one in France would get access to this material would be for Yahoo! to maintain a list of IP addresses allocated to France and block based on that IP list
That would still not stop someone in France using a non-French proxy server to gain access. Which means that the only viable solution to absolutely guarantee that no-one in France gains access to this material would be to isolate France from the rest of the Internet. Frankly, I think the Yahoo! lawyers should point this out to the Judge and tell him that they are in contact with the international telcos to try to make it happen.
After reading this article, I raced home to get my GPS receiver, and I'm just after testing it out in the car park.
Using the position averaging feature of my receiver for a short (10-20 sec) period of time, I got a "Figure of merit" of 6 metres. I'm not too sure what, exactly, the Figure Of Merit means, but my guess is that I should not trust the GPS to give my instantaneous position to better than 10 metres or so.
But it's a lot better than it used to be - averaging over 2-3 hours used to give me a figure of merit of 10-12 metres if I was lucky
Auroras are normally limited to the most extreme northerly latitudes. To have one visible in Washington DC is very unusual. To have one visible in Tuscon would be extreme.
It is feared the thieves may try to sell the machine on the internet.
Say what? Surely the thieves selling the box on the net would be a Good Thing (tm) as it would make it easier for Law Enforcement to track them down.
I can hear the person who came up with that theory now - "Oh, a Bad Thing has happened, and it involves electronic equipment, therefore the Evil Internet must be involved somehow".
WN: One of the views of these declining numbers could be that girls and women are just not interested in math and the sciences. How do you respond to that?
Borg: I think that's a fairly spurious argument because the whole question of why we are not interested in [math and the sciences] is a really significant one. We're clearly doing something wrong.
So, why are women not interested? You know, the more I work in this industry, the less I become interested. Anyone else find that? The hours are often long, the work is often tedious, the bosses are often exploitative idiots. The job chews up your personal life until you are often too tired to even think of going out on a Friday night for a good time. Maybe that's why women are "not interested"?
Science and especially computers feed off your brain. I've gone home some evenings feeling like my brainwaves have stopped waving. I don't think that it's entirely fair to blame the lack of women in the job on some sort of sexism - I think the job itself needs to be looked at.
Yesterday was 01/02/2000 (on this side of the Atlantic - it was 02/01/2000 on the other side - so no flames, OK?) - an odd digit "1" there. Then it was January - xx/01/2000 - another digit "1". Then it was the previous millennium - xx/xx/1xxx - another "1". Then it was the 900's - xx/xx/9xx - an odd digit "9". Then it was the 890's - xx/xx/89x - another "9". Then xx/xx/889, xx/12/888, xx/11/888, xx/10/888, xx/09/888, 3x/08/888 and 29/08/888
So, yes, 28/08/888 was the last date in which all the digits were even
One method of making light go slower is to use a window. Light travles at approx 200,000 km/s in glass, compared with almost 300,000 km/s in air.
The speed of light is not constant. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant. The speed of light in a Bose-Einstien Condensate (which is what these folks are planning to use) is far far slower than the speed of light in glass or in air or in a vacuum.
Our best chance to colonise the moon in the near future is if there is water on the moon.
It would appear that there may be water near the Lunar south pole.
So NASA has decided to crash a probe right into the middle of it to send a huge chunk of it into space!!!???
The way that the moon is supposedly being used as a dump doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that NASA wants to waste a quantity of water (a very precious resource - even more so on the moon), possibly a huge quantity of water (relatively speaking) JUST TO FIND OUT IF IT EXISTS???
Surely there are better and less wasteful ways of discovering if water exists on the moon!!!
About half way down the page of this article is the quote
''To be honest, I was just avoiding the issue because I didn't know anything about patenting, she giggles. But I do now. And I will be looking into that.''
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It's interesting to note the real reasons behind Clinton's decision to eliminate SA.
There are two main reasons. The first is that he eliminated SA just before an ITU meeting at which there was an intention to give out to the US Government for using radio bandwidth for such a service and not providing the full benefit of the service for the citizens of Earth. There was the potential that the ITU was going to re-allocate the frequencies that GPS uses if the US government did not open up the service. And the second is that the E.U. is planning and will (eventually) launch it's own GPS system which will be compatible with the U.S. version and which will have no degradation of service whatsoever.
The bottom line is that Joe Public can expect continual improvement in the satellite positioning services until some sort of theoretical limit is reached
Don't get me wrong - a "news for American nerds" site is just fine by me. Just count me out...
Can we have a new slashdot poll please?
I am from -
[]North America
[]South America
[]Asia
[]Europe
[]Africa
[]Australia
[]Antartica / other
One could look at the voting poll and conclude that 24% of /. readership is non-American. Then,
one could look at the 4th of July poll and wonder if
the percentage of non-Americans is decreasing
With articles like this one, it would not be at all surprising to learn that /. is now
news for American nerds...
They could achieve the same by just refusing, and retain the moral high ground too. Selling to another reseller would probably violate their dealership agreements with Motorola.
If someone sells me a Motorola product, there is nothing that can possibly prevent me from selling it on to someone else - even for a profit!
Granted, the resellers could refuse. But if they could use re-resellers, they could stay in business without compromising their customers. The problem with refusal is that much, if not most, of the business of these resellers is Motorola products.
Would it be possible for the reseller to send in a report to Motorola saying that the reseller themselves are the customer. ("Last month, you sold x units to me, and my contact details are ...").
Or, could the reseller set up a re-reseller that they sell to, and then the re-reseller (which, no doubt, would share the same premises and much of the same staff etc) would then sell to the customer.
Motorola, of course, would not like such a tactic, but what could they legally do about it? They could forbid selling to the re-resellers, but if enough of the resellers go with such a tactic, Motorola would end up putting themselves out of the retail business.
... and you could join in the Degree Confluence Project
Thus, the congress had to target geeky programmers -- highly paid, but no organizing skills.
IIRC, this is (at least) the second time in recent days that our lack of organisational skills has been highlighted on slashdot.
Folks, we live in an (imperfect) democracy. Stop whining and start writing to your politicians, newspapers etc etc.
So, what's the problem? Finding someone knowledgable??? :)
It takes, say, 20 seconds to right-click an image in your favorite editor and give it a description. A single person can deal with over 1,000 images in a working day at that rate.
... so I think all male TV presenters should be made wear kilts.
An American also invented the telephone - should everything that isn't America's version of English be banned on that medium?
The reason why .gov and .mil refer to the US Government and Military is because the original designers of the DNS made it so.
The question, I think, has to be asked - why? Did they not believe in international computer communications? Or was it just some form of U.S. cultural arrogance?
Anyone know the answer to this? Are there any of the people who made that decision around that we could ask?
So, to have a smaller decrease of sales of CD's near universities, you should ALLOW ACCESS TO NAPSTER!
Of course, technically, that will not work.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, technically, the most viable solution that would pretty much guarantee that no-one in France would get access to this material would be for Yahoo! to maintain a list of IP addresses allocated to France and block based on that IP list
That would still not stop someone in France using a non-French proxy server to gain access. Which means that the only viable solution to absolutely guarantee that no-one in France gains access to this material would be to isolate France from the rest of the Internet. Frankly, I think the Yahoo! lawyers should point this out to the Judge and tell him that they are in contact with the international telcos to try to make it happen.
After reading this article, I raced home to get my GPS receiver, and I'm just after testing it out in the car park.
Using the position averaging feature of my receiver for a short (10-20 sec) period of time, I got a "Figure of merit" of 6 metres. I'm not too sure what, exactly, the Figure Of Merit means, but my guess is that I should not trust the GPS to give my instantaneous position to better than 10 metres or so.
But it's a lot better than it used to be - averaging over 2-3 hours used to give me a figure of merit of 10-12 metres if I was lucky
Auroras are normally limited to the most extreme northerly latitudes. To have one visible in Washington DC is very unusual. To have one visible in Tuscon would be extreme.
It is feared the thieves may try to sell the machine on the internet.
Say what? Surely the thieves selling the box on the net would be a Good Thing (tm) as it would make it easier for Law Enforcement to track them down.
I can hear the person who came up with that theory now - "Oh, a Bad Thing has happened, and it involves electronic equipment, therefore the Evil Internet must be involved somehow".
So, why are women not interested? You know, the more I work in this industry, the less I become interested. Anyone else find that? The hours are often long, the work is often tedious, the bosses are often exploitative idiots. The job chews up your personal life until you are often too tired to even think of going out on a Friday night for a good time. Maybe that's why women are "not interested"?
Science and especially computers feed off your brain. I've gone home some evenings feeling like my brainwaves have stopped waving. I don't think that it's entirely fair to blame the lack of women in the job on some sort of sexism - I think the job itself needs to be looked at.
Yesterday was 01/02/2000 (on this side of the Atlantic - it was 02/01/2000 on the other side - so no flames, OK?) - an odd digit "1" there. Then it was January - xx/01/2000 - another digit "1". Then it was the previous millennium - xx/xx/1xxx - another "1". Then it was the 900's - xx/xx/9xx - an odd digit "9". Then it was the 890's - xx/xx/89x - another "9". Then xx/xx/889, xx/12/888, xx/11/888, xx/10/888, xx/09/888, 3x/08/888 and 29/08/888
So, yes, 28/08/888 was the last date in which all the digits were even
How exactly do you make light go slower?
One method of making light go slower is to use a window. Light travles at approx 200,000 km/s in glass, compared with almost 300,000 km/s in air.
The speed of light is not constant. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant. The speed of light in a Bose-Einstien Condensate (which is what these folks are planning to use) is far far slower than the speed of light in glass or in air or in a vacuum.
An almost infinite number of monkeys bagning away on a similar number of typewrites will eventually reqproduce the works of shakespeare.
An almost infinite number of monkeys banging away on a similar number of typewriters will create...
... one hell of a mess!
20 very odd people :-)
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
Our best chance to colonise the moon in the near future is if there is water on the moon.
It would appear that there may be water near the Lunar south pole.
So NASA has decided to crash a probe right into the middle of it to send a huge chunk of it into space!!!???
The way that the moon is supposedly being used as a dump doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that NASA wants to waste a quantity of water (a very precious resource - even more so on the moon), possibly a huge quantity of water (relatively speaking) JUST TO FIND OUT IF IT EXISTS???
Surely there are better and less wasteful ways of discovering if water exists on the moon!!!
About half way down the page of this article is the quote
Wooops - there is more on this story on the Irish Independent newspaper