"VGA is the only common connection supported by the projectors in most OUT OF DATE conference rooms."
Fixed that for you.
If your conference room does not have HDMI, then it needs to be updated. if you bought a conference room upgrade in the past 2 years and it only has VGA, it was installed by or designed by a moron.
You know you can spend $300.00 and build a real satellite right now, in fact it will be far better than these circuitboards that will barely work. It will just sit on your desk until you pay to get it launched.
In fact for $600.00 I can build one that could act as a ham radio digital communication relay and have enough solar panels on it to make sure it has plenty of power, all from parts at home depot and a tig welder from harbor freight.
The hard part is getting the thing up in the sky high enough that it stays there.
the TSA has not stopped ANY terrorists. They have been 100% ineffective and are 100% useless.
Yes nobody points this out, but the love to point at a business failure, which is a very common thing when the economy is imploding. Solyndra was competing with China solar panels that are selling Retail for 1/2 the price of their raw materials. It's the CEO's fault for trying to start a business in a field that is racing for the lowest price.
Solyndra was doomed the day the CEO opened the doors.
"By and large, the 'public' doesn't have access to police communications;"
Really, so Radio Shack is a place that sells thief tools? They sell scanners that in most towns let you listen to police communications. Some cities have switched to digital, but most still have analog unencrypted clear voice communications and the list of the frequencies is readily available everywhere.
I love how the iPad haters sound just like the Republicans. Make up things to reinforce their point of view.
The ipad does not have a very small viewing angle, get over that blatent lie. yes it's a shiny surface, so is most laptops and other color e-readers. where it has a REAL failure is you can not read on one in direct sunlight. this is because of a poor choice of LCD. A trans reflective LCD solves this. MY Fujitsu tablet has one and the screen is better outside (and still shiny) Blocky low res?? have you ever touched an ipad?
the ipad is a AWESOME device or textbooks, reading about dinosaurs and having animations or being able to have interactive parts is incredibly cool. Every classroom I see them using the ipad the kids are enthralled and are learning at a far faster rate. Yes there are schools with them in the classrooms now, My company installed 2900 of them to a regular old school district last year. The teacher can broadcast to the proejctor or 55" lcd in the room via a apple TV and airplay so the kids can all see what she is doing or talking about. They are wonderful devices for this.
Finally test taking ON the ipad rocks. and they are durable as hell in the right case. I watched a 6 year old ADHD brat throw one to the ground and jump up and down on it. On the SCREEN, not the back. no damage in that special case they bought for the kids ipads to go into.
The problem is people are making up reasons to NOT use them simply because they are incapable of reasoning why they do work. It's the grumpy old man syndrome and you have it pretty bad.
The kindle is a failure at text books for 2 reasons. 1 - too damn small. Sorry but only the Kindle DX is big enough for textbooks, and those are as much as an ipad. 2 - no software for education, no interactive books, no way to show it's screen on a larger screen for sharing. Kindle = fail in K-12.
The autohelm navigation GPS in my boat is 12+ years old and works fine. IT actually steers the boat to keep it on course. Unless the morons at that company want to buy me a complete new Autohelm system to solve the issue.
I am sure that the FCC will let them go if they state that they will buy everyone on the planet brand new top of the line GPS receivers to get around this issue.
I'll support them as long as they replace my 4 GPS's with $1500.00 each units. Heck I'll be generous and let them cheap out with Garmin Zumo 665's Those are only $780 each.
Honestly, the U of M did this. they threw away all the crap street and building exterior lighting and replaced them with fixtures that do not waste light by spraying it upwards and sideways. All light is controlled.
IT made a huge difference to the light pollution around their observatory on campus.
"The Soviet Union was a federation of many different states, many of which had past histories as independent countries"
Yeah that's nothing like the united States of America.
Texas threatens to leave the union almost monthly. California was ran as itos own country for a very long time. Etc.. Do you know nothing about american history? Almost every state initially was technically it's own country until it joined the union.
Problem is they all bask in this zero effort activism and then will ignore it when SOPA has a name change and is passed attached to the "its bad to smash puppies and kittens with a club" Act of 2012
They will simply change it's name and slide it quieter next time because the public will stop paying attention in about 5 days.
"well, there are a LOT of people who think tablets will take the place of computers, "
I certainly do, I've been a tablet user since the 90's and Tablets are the way of the future if OS makers get off their asses and actually make things work well. Apple is the FIRST to do so with their iPad.
My current favorite is my trusty Fujitsu Stylistic 5022 from 2006 It still has better specs than any of the current toy tablets from apple and the android flavors yet runs Linux (I abandoned windows as it's just too bloated and has a very poor workflow for tablet use.)
Tablets have been around for almost as long as laptops, and many of us have been using them that long.
The biggest problem is that most PC apps are STILL written by silly programmers that put the UI functionality last.
Typically written by a prima donna self puffing "professor/Doctor" and in order to fuel his ego he will BAN laptops and tablets in his lectures forcing students to buy his $350.00 book on, "Pharmacology of nano participatory physics and their accounting procedures as applied to the business world, 15th edition."
Then he will spend the entire semester lecturing about things not in the book, the book is never really used but he is a prick and will DOCK you points if you do not bring it to every lecture and have it in view.
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"VGA is the only common connection supported by the projectors in most OUT OF DATE conference rooms."
Fixed that for you.
If your conference room does not have HDMI, then it needs to be updated. if you bought a conference room upgrade in the past 2 years and it only has VGA, it was installed by or designed by a moron.
You know you can spend $300.00 and build a real satellite right now, in fact it will be far better than these circuitboards that will barely work. It will just sit on your desk until you pay to get it launched.
In fact for $600.00 I can build one that could act as a ham radio digital communication relay and have enough solar panels on it to make sure it has plenty of power, all from parts at home depot and a tig welder from harbor freight.
The hard part is getting the thing up in the sky high enough that it stays there.
the TSA has not stopped ANY terrorists. They have been 100% ineffective and are 100% useless.
Yes nobody points this out, but the love to point at a business failure, which is a very common thing when the economy is imploding. Solyndra was competing with China solar panels that are selling Retail for 1/2 the price of their raw materials. It's the CEO's fault for trying to start a business in a field that is racing for the lowest price.
Solyndra was doomed the day the CEO opened the doors.
"By and large, the 'public' doesn't have access to police communications;"
Really, so Radio Shack is a place that sells thief tools? They sell scanners that in most towns let you listen to police communications.
Some cities have switched to digital, but most still have analog unencrypted clear voice communications and the list of the frequencies is readily available everywhere.
as many of them that will use iBooks creator.
I love how the iPad haters sound just like the Republicans. Make up things to reinforce their point of view.
The ipad does not have a very small viewing angle, get over that blatent lie. yes it's a shiny surface, so is most laptops and other color e-readers. where it has a REAL failure is you can not read on one in direct sunlight. this is because of a poor choice of LCD. A trans reflective LCD solves this. MY Fujitsu tablet has one and the screen is better outside (and still shiny) Blocky low res?? have you ever touched an ipad?
the ipad is a AWESOME device or textbooks, reading about dinosaurs and having animations or being able to have interactive parts is incredibly cool. Every classroom I see them using the ipad the kids are enthralled and are learning at a far faster rate. Yes there are schools with them in the classrooms now, My company installed 2900 of them to a regular old school district last year. The teacher can broadcast to the proejctor or 55" lcd in the room via a apple TV and airplay so the kids can all see what she is doing or talking about. They are wonderful devices for this.
Finally test taking ON the ipad rocks. and they are durable as hell in the right case. I watched a 6 year old ADHD brat throw one to the ground and jump up and down on it. On the SCREEN, not the back. no damage in that special case they bought for the kids ipads to go into.
The problem is people are making up reasons to NOT use them simply because they are incapable of reasoning why they do work. It's the grumpy old man syndrome and you have it pretty bad.
The kindle is a failure at text books for 2 reasons. 1 - too damn small. Sorry but only the Kindle DX is big enough for textbooks, and those are as much as an ipad. 2 - no software for education, no interactive books, no way to show it's screen on a larger screen for sharing. Kindle = fail in K-12.
Libre office with the "writer2epub" extension does the exact same thing, except for loading it on the sellers website.
Now if they made it export to ANY ebook format, then I'll take more notice.
Load up the linux kernel source code. you will get the "riddled with filth" achievement.
Because of GoTo my embedded code runs 2X faster than any of the noobs here at work that have to code in all the extras to avoid using a goto.
When my chip processes incoming data 2X faster than the other guys, Mine makes it into the final product, not theirs.
Yes, there are a LOT of situations where every single byte and instruction counts.
I use GOTO all the time. In fact all low level language programmers do.
JMP is the Goto of Assembly
The autohelm navigation GPS in my boat is 12+ years old and works fine. IT actually steers the boat to keep it on course. Unless the morons at that company want to buy me a complete new Autohelm system to solve the issue.
I am sure that the FCC will let them go if they state that they will buy everyone on the planet brand new top of the line GPS receivers to get around this issue.
I'll support them as long as they replace my 4 GPS's with $1500.00 each units. Heck I'll be generous and let them cheap out with Garmin Zumo 665's Those are only $780 each.
Also when you are in that dark of skies you can see the earths ring of dust in the early morning.
They do, it's just they buy the good fixtures instead of the crap the poor people can afford that throw light all over the place.
This would be reduced significantly.
Honestly, the U of M did this. they threw away all the crap street and building exterior lighting and replaced them with fixtures that do not waste light by spraying it upwards and sideways. All light is controlled.
IT made a huge difference to the light pollution around their observatory on campus.
Google does not have bought and paid for senators.
Disney has that dishonest evil Fritz Hollings on their payroll.
Google has no change until they buy their own senator.
"The Soviet Union was a federation of many different states, many of which had past histories as independent countries"
Yeah that's nothing like the united States of America.
Texas threatens to leave the union almost monthly. California was ran as itos own country for a very long time. Etc.. Do you know nothing about american history? Almost every state initially was technically it's own country until it joined the union.
Buttloads of money donated to his campaign and the superPAC that he has working for him.
If you can get so much money you enjoy wiping your ass with $100 bills who cares if you do more damage to american than any terrorist has.
He is the best choice among all the other Republican out of touch fuck-knobs.
You know the party is screwed when Ron Paul looks like the most sane person up there.
"Get it right, it's not "a hive of crime," it's "a wretched hive of scum and villany.""
That is the most accurate description of the United states congress I have ever seen here on slashdot.
Problem is they all bask in this zero effort activism and then will ignore it when SOPA has a name change and is passed attached to the "its bad to smash puppies and kittens with a club" Act of 2012
They will simply change it's name and slide it quieter next time because the public will stop paying attention in about 5 days.
"well, there are a LOT of people who think tablets will take the place of computers, "
I certainly do, I've been a tablet user since the 90's and Tablets are the way of the future if OS makers get off their asses and actually make things work well. Apple is the FIRST to do so with their iPad.
My current favorite is my trusty Fujitsu Stylistic 5022 from 2006 It still has better specs than any of the current toy tablets from apple and the android flavors yet runs Linux (I abandoned windows as it's just too bloated and has a very poor workflow for tablet use.)
Tablets have been around for almost as long as laptops, and many of us have been using them that long.
The biggest problem is that most PC apps are STILL written by silly programmers that put the UI functionality last.
"And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen. "
I have no idea what the heck this says.
Typically written by a prima donna self puffing "professor/Doctor" and in order to fuel his ego he will BAN laptops and tablets in his lectures forcing students to buy his $350.00 book on, "Pharmacology of nano participatory physics and their accounting procedures as applied to the business world, 15th edition."
Then he will spend the entire semester lecturing about things not in the book, the book is never really used but he is a prick and will DOCK you points if you do not bring it to every lecture and have it in view.
Yes I remember my college days.
Holy crap, an arduino is 50 pounds?
last two I bought were $19.00US or about 11 pounds. You guys are getting screwed bad on arduino hardware prices.