Voice data speeds, a lot faster than we are sending data from mars to earth.
Do you think we have a 100megabit connection to mars? It's massively less than a 56K modem in data transfer speeds.
"The one quantity that most people overestimate is the amount of man-made and natural noise that exists at microwave communication frequencies. We use very sensitive low noise microwave receivers and large antennas here on Earth to receive the signal from Mars Pathfinder. At the 8 gigahertz radio frequency that Mars Pathfinder uses to talk back to Earth, the ratio of signal power to noise power is 6000 to 1, or about 37 decibels. This allows us to receive data from the spacecraft 190 million kilometers away at a modest data rate of 1 or 2 kilobits per second."
It has increased in speed because of tech for What we have there now but it's still not even 9600 baud.
Honestly, why not ship up seeds and have them grow some easy food crops? Plus the greenhouse will deliver free heat, something that is needed for a habitat even in the tropics of mars.
Hey I gota get more gas for my Hummer H2... I dont want to have to resort to actually putting it in drive. I prefer driving in 1st gear everywhere.... 2.5MPG YEE HA!
" it's the fact that you can't transmit data back out of the cave. "
Bet you $1000 I can. It's actually east to do.
It's not possible to communicate to a satellite in the sky with microwave signals from a cave that has no direct line of sight. but it is indeed very possible to transmit data out of a cave and back in. It is done all the time. See how they map the aquifer caves in florida. guys can walk around above ground to follow and talk to the divers underground in the cave and under water.
There are no car engines with enough displacement for a wrench to fit. Socket? yes, that can and will happen, I've seen a race car smash a head up because of a socket left in a cyl. but you did not say that, you said wrench, so it's impossible for a wrench to ruin the engine from being left in the Cylinder because you cant get one in there to begin with.
Yes it covers her but barely. If the doctor does not take tricare like most of the better ones, you are stuck with the cheapies that dont want to do crap and only spend 5 minutes with you.
My daughter was having problems with her doctors for her pregnancy claiming they cant do more than 1 ultrasound by law, she fell down and they REFUSED to do an ultrasound to make sure the placenta did not tear away.
I had her switch to my doctor who is a high cost doctor, but owns all the gear they use for Prenatal care. He took 15 minutes to check her out and give her another ultrasound to calm her fears. He also found that her iron levels were very low, something her Idiot doctor at the hospital could not be bothered to check.
She is married to an army soldier so they dont make very much, only $21.00 an hour for him. They cant afford to go to a competent doctor so instead use one of the doctors that are based in the hospital.
NOTE: my doctor is a very expensive one that has a lot of the equipment he owns and does outpatient surgury in his office, but he charged her NOTHING for a 1 hour personal visit on a weekend.
American healthcare is crap, we have a lot of crap doctors and crap hospitals with a few of the good ones that actually went into medicine to help people. Couple that with corrupt Insurance companies dictating to Doctors and Hospitals as well as stupid laws and you get crapcare that is what we enjoy here.
If you dont have a great job that has good healthcare insurance as well as a high paying job, you cant afford healthcare. With more than 50% of us making poverty level, no wonder that most of this country is fat, unhealthy, and not seeing a doctor regularly for health maintenance.
"The only problem I see, other companies made cheaper digital cameras. "
they made cheaper digitals that were a LOT better.
I owned the first Canon Digital camera model, it was 35% cheaper than the equilivant from Kodak and took 800X better photographs because it had decent glass. Kodaks' offerings were using plastic lenses with the:fuzzy: effect in every shot. Even at the low resolutions of 1.2megapixel you could see the lenses on kodak cameras were garbage.
" If you look at Fujifilm, once a major competitor to Kodak, they are also struggling under the same kinds of problems and fighting for relevancy."
not really, Fujifilm is doing fine. Their DSLR bodies are 5-10x better than any Canon or Nikon and are heralded as the best of the industry that the big pros use.
Fuji is the only company with 3D digital cameras that are built good and take fantastic photos. They are owning the 3d digital photography market and own the process for printing 3d prints that can be viewed without glasses.
They also are the king of lenses for ENG video. Fuji Lenses are the top of the line in video lenses out there.
They might not be a well known consumer brand, but they still are a top renown professional brand.
Kodak INVENTED the digital camera and was the only company selling them for the first year. It's the idiot CEO that was in place at that time that let them produce craptastic cameras instead of partnering with a camera maker.
It is their own fault. Over the history of the digital camera, the crappiest digital cameras were all kodak. WTF were they thinking? They never tried to pioneer the digital film back, that could have made them a ton of money. etc...
Kodak is dead because their leadership was stupid. They chased the maximum profits per quarter instead of chasing what would continue the company in the seachange they created themselves.
Honestly, my wife has asked that lately. a "degree" is useless as tits on a bull outside of science or education. Mostly because Business degrees are a complete joke.
She has a Bachelors in accounting and a CPA license. does not make her get a job any easier. In fact it hinders her right now, because companies dont want to pay a realistic wage that a BS and CPA would ask for. They are more interested in paying $25,900-$33,500 to a 21 year old kid that just got their AS and will take the peanuts pay happily.
but it does not let the Corporation push off the costs of a smartphone onto the worker without compensating them for it. how are we going to afford the CEO's new diamond inlaid business cards? Actually BUY tools for the employees? are you mad?
Only companies run by idiots try and con the employees into supplying their own tools for work. If it's their tools they control what is on them not the company. If you want control, purchase and maintain ownership of all tools the employees use.
When I leave my job, my laptop goes with me, Any IT guy that tries to take it from me will get a warning and then I will defend myself. If they wanted control over what is on my laptop, they should have bought one for me instead of being cheap assholes and refusing to.
My device, My data. if you want control over it, then stop being a cheap bastard and buy me a iPhone and you pay for the data plan and cellphone service.
If you want control, you have to pay all the costs. Otherwise, stuff it in your gold plated urinal.
Then wait for them to hit ebay. You will survive havingto wat ot buy one 3 moths later.
The laptops started hitting ebay at $99.00 less than 5 months after they did the buy one get on program. A lot of people bought it and really had no clue as to what they bought, were unhappy with them, and then sold them.
I have TWO dead panasonics they look great, power boards fail and cost $600 to fix. I have 3 LG's that are abused to hell and still going strong. Also LG is one of the only makes that put a RS232 port on the back for those of us with high end AV control systems.
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Oh hell yes,
I want http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapp_Brannigan as my voice.
Or to sound like the movie phone guy all the time.
the DEC talk is easily replicated. AT&T 's voice project has a version that sounds identical to a DEC talk.
It's called, when you have a genius that wants what he wants, you give him what he wants.
You haven touched a Droid Razr.
Motorola has redeemed themselves. that phone is a freaking piece of art.
they want Android closed up.
tight as a drum, tell the dirty hippies to go home.
i really hope that google tells them to stuff it in their arse and blow.
Voice data speeds, a lot faster than we are sending data from mars to earth.
Do you think we have a 100megabit connection to mars? It's massively less than a 56K modem in data transfer speeds.
"The one quantity that most people overestimate is the amount of man-made and natural noise that exists at microwave communication frequencies. We use very sensitive low noise microwave receivers and large antennas here on Earth to receive the signal from Mars Pathfinder. At the 8 gigahertz radio frequency that Mars Pathfinder uses to talk back to Earth, the ratio of signal power to noise power is 6000 to 1, or about 37 decibels. This allows us to receive data from the spacecraft 190 million kilometers away at a modest data rate of 1 or 2 kilobits per second."
It has increased in speed because of tech for What we have there now but it's still not even 9600 baud.
An inflatable Greenhouse.
Honestly, why not ship up seeds and have them grow some easy food crops? Plus the greenhouse will deliver free heat, something that is needed for a habitat even in the tropics of mars.
Hey I gota get more gas for my Hummer H2... I dont want to have to resort to actually putting it in drive. I prefer driving in 1st gear everywhere.... 2.5MPG YEE HA!
" it's the fact that you can't transmit data back out of the cave. "
Bet you $1000 I can. It's actually east to do.
It's not possible to communicate to a satellite in the sky with microwave signals from a cave that has no direct line of sight. but it is indeed very possible to transmit data out of a cave and back in. It is done all the time. See how they map the aquifer caves in florida. guys can walk around above ground to follow and talk to the divers underground in the cave and under water.
No.
There are no car engines with enough displacement for a wrench to fit. Socket? yes, that can and will happen, I've seen a race car smash a head up because of a socket left in a cyl. but you did not say that, you said wrench, so it's impossible for a wrench to ruin the engine from being left in the Cylinder because you cant get one in there to begin with.
Assembly failure - leave a rag.
Inspection failure - did not check for rag.
Pre-flight final inspection - still did not find the rag.
Wow, complete failure all the way down the line from assembly to mating with the launch vehicle.
Yes it covers her but barely. If the doctor does not take tricare like most of the better ones, you are stuck with the cheapies that dont want to do crap and only spend 5 minutes with you.
U.S. heathcare is only good for the rich.
My daughter was having problems with her doctors for her pregnancy claiming they cant do more than 1 ultrasound by law, she fell down and they REFUSED to do an ultrasound to make sure the placenta did not tear away.
I had her switch to my doctor who is a high cost doctor, but owns all the gear they use for Prenatal care. He took 15 minutes to check her out and give her another ultrasound to calm her fears. He also found that her iron levels were very low, something her Idiot doctor at the hospital could not be bothered to check.
She is married to an army soldier so they dont make very much, only $21.00 an hour for him. They cant afford to go to a competent doctor so instead use one of the doctors that are based in the hospital.
NOTE: my doctor is a very expensive one that has a lot of the equipment he owns and does outpatient surgury in his office, but he charged her NOTHING for a 1 hour personal visit on a weekend.
American healthcare is crap, we have a lot of crap doctors and crap hospitals with a few of the good ones that actually went into medicine to help people. Couple that with corrupt Insurance companies dictating to Doctors and Hospitals as well as stupid laws and you get crapcare that is what we enjoy here.
If you dont have a great job that has good healthcare insurance as well as a high paying job, you cant afford healthcare. With more than 50% of us making poverty level, no wonder that most of this country is fat, unhealthy, and not seeing a doctor regularly for health maintenance.
MythTV is not a MEdia center. it is a PVR. please get your story straight.
MythTV rocks at recording TV. it is utter garbage as a Media Center.
They can compete with XBMC?
Honestly, XBMC is a far better and polished setup. and it's brain dead easy to put a basic linux under it to make it a "distro"
Why is ubuntu trying to reinvent the wheel?
"The only problem I see, other companies made cheaper digital cameras. "
they made cheaper digitals that were a LOT better.
I owned the first Canon Digital camera model, it was 35% cheaper than the equilivant from Kodak and took 800X better photographs because it had decent glass. Kodaks' offerings were using plastic lenses with the :fuzzy: effect in every shot. Even at the low resolutions of 1.2megapixel you could see the lenses on kodak cameras were garbage.
Kodak lost because they offered garbage products.
" If you look at Fujifilm, once a major competitor to Kodak, they are also struggling under the same kinds of problems and fighting for relevancy."
not really, Fujifilm is doing fine. Their DSLR bodies are 5-10x better than any Canon or Nikon and are heralded as the best of the industry that the big pros use.
Fuji is the only company with 3D digital cameras that are built good and take fantastic photos. They are owning the 3d digital photography market and own the process for printing 3d prints that can be viewed without glasses.
They also are the king of lenses for ENG video. Fuji Lenses are the top of the line in video lenses out there.
They might not be a well known consumer brand, but they still are a top renown professional brand.
Kodak INVENTED the digital camera and was the only company selling them for the first year. It's the idiot CEO that was in place at that time that let them produce craptastic cameras instead of partnering with a camera maker.
It is their own fault. Over the history of the digital camera, the crappiest digital cameras were all kodak. WTF were they thinking? They never tried to pioneer the digital film back, that could have made them a ton of money. etc...
Kodak is dead because their leadership was stupid. They chased the maximum profits per quarter instead of chasing what would continue the company in the seachange they created themselves.
Honestly, my wife has asked that lately. a "degree" is useless as tits on a bull outside of science or education. Mostly because Business degrees are a complete joke.
She has a Bachelors in accounting and a CPA license. does not make her get a job any easier. In fact it hinders her right now, because companies dont want to pay a realistic wage that a BS and CPA would ask for. They are more interested in paying $25,900-$33,500 to a 21 year old kid that just got their AS and will take the peanuts pay happily.
but it does not let the Corporation push off the costs of a smartphone onto the worker without compensating them for it.
how are we going to afford the CEO's new diamond inlaid business cards? Actually BUY tools for the employees? are you mad?
Only companies run by idiots try and con the employees into supplying their own tools for work. If it's their tools they control what is on them not the company. If you want control, purchase and maintain ownership of all tools the employees use.
When I leave my job, my laptop goes with me, Any IT guy that tries to take it from me will get a warning and then I will defend myself. If they wanted control over what is on my laptop, they should have bought one for me instead of being cheap assholes and refusing to.
WATCH!!?!
Security, can you escort this watch wearing heathen from the building! We will ship you the contents of your desk after we inspect it all first.
My device, My data. if you want control over it, then stop being a cheap bastard and buy me a iPhone and you pay for the data plan and cellphone service.
If you want control, you have to pay all the costs. Otherwise, stuff it in your gold plated urinal.
Then wait for them to hit ebay. You will survive havingto wat ot buy one 3 moths later.
The laptops started hitting ebay at $99.00 less than 5 months after they did the buy one get on program. A lot of people bought it and really had no clue as to what they bought, were unhappy with them, and then sold them.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLPC-XO-1-Laptop-Computer-Runs-great-/150730806444?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item23184194ac
There's one for $75.00 I would buy one for my bug out bag if they would take AA batteries.
"And even if you didn't.. you forget your password on the road, then what? "
you suffer the consequences. You know life has those.
Have you listed to any U-2 Songs? I'd call that munitions.
I have TWO dead panasonics they look great, power boards fail and cost $600 to fix.
I have 3 LG's that are abused to hell and still going strong. Also LG is one of the only makes that put a RS232 port on the back for those of us with high end AV control systems.