I have no personal experience with them but the new smart antennas are intended to relieve the problems with aiming the antenna and the associated reception problems with a marginal DTV signal. They are able to to be electronically steered to maximize the reception for each station. They require a tuner with a smart antenna port to handle the control signals. From the looks of them I'm guessing they are UHF only so they may not work well for those stations remaining on VHF after the switchover.
At least you're in a position to eventually get FiOS. Rocester, NY is sandwiched between FiOS serviced Buffalo and Syracuse and we will *never* get it because of our local telco.
One of the Flat-earthers interviewed , John Davis, is a computer scientist. That is quite ironic considering that the machines he makes a livelihood from exist because of the investment in lightweight microelectronics needed for the Apollo program. Mr. Davis is indicated to be a Canadian living in Tennessee. Hopefully there is some way we can get him deported before he manages to steal the limelight from Kansas with his brand of reationalized thought.
Obviously this story is complete bullshit. No matter how antiquated, there is no way the payroll system is incapable of changing the pay of salaried employees to any arbitrary value. Handling pay raises and demotions are a normal routine task for payroll operations. Arnie should march down to the IT department and demand to see them change the records for his own pay. They can't dodge and play political games when you have the man in their prescence. Once he forces them to show the proof of concept, they can be ordered to do the same for all other employees.
It sounds like the Queen is responsible for a lot of social strife in Canada. The next time she comes over somebody should do the right thing and lock her up so she can't cause any more trouble.
This case amounts to good old fashioned harrasment. Just because it was done with... OMG... A COMPUTER... doesn't mean that you need to drag out irrelevant laws that shouldn't apply in this situation.
I would guess they are doing this to better "service" handheld devices like the iPhone and upcoming Android devices that have limited dynamic range in their speakers.
What he said is that the cell phone does ramp up to dangerous levels when it has bad reception.
It is also worth pointing out that phones with stubby and integrated antennas are deoptimized for the frequencies they are transmitting on. Consequently, they have to compensate with higher power output to match a more traditional retractable antenna which is the proper length. Also, if you have a retractable antenna and don't extend it to "look cool" you are forcing the phone to transmit with higher power.
I don't think so. Touchscreens have the unfortunate characteristic of getting smudges and the resistive type tend to make the display a little fuzzy. I have a laptop with a touch screen and I seldom use it although it is nice to have at times. In a similar vein, the Powerglove for the NES was a pain to use for extended periods of time because you had to hold your arm in the air all the time. The Wiimote is only a small refinement on this in terms of the ergonomics (obviously the technical performance is much better). Nobody is going to want to have to wave their hands around to control a computer when they can flick a wrist of finger with a mouse, trackball, pointing stick, or touchpad.
The ISPs are just using the child porn angle as an excuse to get rid of supporting a service they see used by only a small fraction of their user base.
However, it is worth looking at the Usenet problem from the ISPs perspective. Unlike most internet services, Usenet is decentralized and requires mass distribution of the articles traversing the network. This represents a significant storage and bandwidth burden for the ISPs if they are to maintain a reasonable time span of articles. It also isn't entirely fair to frame this proposal as "blocking" in the same sense as the efforts to block P2P traffic and the like. Supporting Usenet incurs real costs for the ISPs and it has always been their perogative to choose what groups they want to carry on their servers. A much better solution to the storage problem is to just drop alt.binaries.* wholesale. The heyday of legitimate Usenet porn is long gone and I can't believe there is much remaining legitimate non-porn activity that hasn't moved to the web. Is anyone really going to cry over the loss of alt.binaries.pictures.pets when they can get their fix at places like kittenwar?
You have a requirement for fast booting but you just blunder ahead and elimiate DOS from the running right from the start.
DOS can make a very capable platform if you don't need the support services of a more sophisticated OS. There is no question that it can be made to boot faster than most other off the shelf OS's. You don't mention what you need to run on these machines so it is hard to tell what will be suitable for you. You can run most *NIX shell apps under a DOS environment using DJGPP and its 32-bit extender. FreeDOS has a lot of drivers to handle more modern hardware. If you need something closer to a true *NIX system that boots fast, QNX is worth considering too.
It's funny that eBay will defend the sale of bootleg products but has caved into the Scientologists on the sale of e-meters and authorized copies of church literature. Obviously the difference here is that the volume of bootleg stuff far outweighs the amount of CoS materials available for sale. The fake stuff is too much of a profit source for eBay to walk away from. The good news is that eBay obviously won't mind if you put a bootleg e-meter up for sale.
This backpedaling is because the FCC doesn't have any authority over how a cable company manages its network. There are no requirements whatsoever for any ISP or backbone provider to provide neutrality or to faithfully implement internet standards. What we have today is just a continuation of the laissez faire approach that worked for the early internet.
It is unreasonable to block the entirety of the alt.* hierarchy. You can accomplish your goals by pushing for a block on alt.binaries.* and alt.sex.*. While I know that there are some meritorious and perfectly legal groups within these two subsets of alt.* this is a reasonable target. It balances the need to satisfy the prudes without having to finely specify what you want ISPs to block and it avoids harming one of the more vigorous parts of Usenet.
The average pervert doesn't know how to start a new group in the alt hierarchy. Granted, all it takes is one motivated person to figure it out. There is still a natural barrier to proliferation of alternate group names since it isn't easy to do through any common GUI app, it takes time for a new group to propagate through the servers, and then people have to find the new group and begin using it.
Yesh. You totally don't want to be the one preaching scientific objectivity at a Greenpeace rally where everyone is chanthing the mantra that the world is going to end tomorrow if we don't return to a subsistence culture.
It would be nice if some of the more innocent victims of the RIAA assaults slapped them back with barratry lawsuits. The RIAA lawyers have already established a pattern of abuse with their shotgunning approach that shows that they are not acting in good faith.
The 928/497 set is one of the highest regarded sets of its era. It was fun to play with and you got a lot of pieces to make other things with. If you have the original box, instructions, and a full set of parts you can fetch a pretty penny on eBay.
This is typical pointless artistic masturbation. This artiste is pulling a silly stunt to try to make a name for himeslf and wow the clueless intelligencia of the art world. These pictures are less impressive than Iridium flares which are themselves pretty ho hum on the scale of celesial wonder. It would be much more spectacular if he had more detailed pictures taken with a telescope. Granted, these pictures aren't bad if you ignore the topic of prying into the super secret realm of the spooks.
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IOW. Learn how to be a con artist using this fictional philosophy as a framework.
This is just a preemptive strike to establish dupes in the weeks to come.
I have no personal experience with them but the new smart antennas are intended to relieve the problems with aiming the antenna and the associated reception problems with a marginal DTV signal. They are able to to be electronically steered to maximize the reception for each station. They require a tuner with a smart antenna port to handle the control signals. From the looks of them I'm guessing they are UHF only so they may not work well for those stations remaining on VHF after the switchover.
If you RTFA you'll see that they are reporting MEDIAN bitrates. The people on the extremes have less influence over this number than the MEAN bitrate.
At least you're in a position to eventually get FiOS. Rocester, NY is sandwiched between FiOS serviced Buffalo and Syracuse and we will *never* get it because of our local telco.
One of the Flat-earthers interviewed , John Davis, is a computer scientist. That is quite ironic considering that the machines he makes a livelihood from exist because of the investment in lightweight microelectronics needed for the Apollo program. Mr. Davis is indicated to be a Canadian living in Tennessee. Hopefully there is some way we can get him deported before he manages to steal the limelight from Kansas with his brand of reationalized thought.
There's no way to militarize the technology. These engines are too impractical for spur of the moment near earth operations.
Obviously this story is complete bullshit. No matter how antiquated, there is no way the payroll system is incapable of changing the pay of salaried employees to any arbitrary value. Handling pay raises and demotions are a normal routine task for payroll operations. Arnie should march down to the IT department and demand to see them change the records for his own pay. They can't dodge and play political games when you have the man in their prescence. Once he forces them to show the proof of concept, they can be ordered to do the same for all other employees.
It sounds like the Queen is responsible for a lot of social strife in Canada. The next time she comes over somebody should do the right thing and lock her up so she can't cause any more trouble.
This case amounts to good old fashioned harrasment. Just because it was done with ... OMG ... A COMPUTER ... doesn't mean that you need to drag out irrelevant laws that shouldn't apply in this situation.
I would guess they are doing this to better "service" handheld devices like the iPhone and upcoming Android devices that have limited dynamic range in their speakers.
What he said is that the cell phone does ramp up to dangerous levels when it has bad reception.
It is also worth pointing out that phones with stubby and integrated antennas are deoptimized for the frequencies they are transmitting on. Consequently, they have to compensate with higher power output to match a more traditional retractable antenna which is the proper length. Also, if you have a retractable antenna and don't extend it to "look cool" you are forcing the phone to transmit with higher power.
I don't think so. Touchscreens have the unfortunate characteristic of getting smudges and the resistive type tend to make the display a little fuzzy. I have a laptop with a touch screen and I seldom use it although it is nice to have at times. In a similar vein, the Powerglove for the NES was a pain to use for extended periods of time because you had to hold your arm in the air all the time. The Wiimote is only a small refinement on this in terms of the ergonomics (obviously the technical performance is much better). Nobody is going to want to have to wave their hands around to control a computer when they can flick a wrist of finger with a mouse, trackball, pointing stick, or touchpad.
The ISPs are just using the child porn angle as an excuse to get rid of supporting a service they see used by only a small fraction of their user base.
However, it is worth looking at the Usenet problem from the ISPs perspective. Unlike most internet services, Usenet is decentralized and requires mass distribution of the articles traversing the network. This represents a significant storage and bandwidth burden for the ISPs if they are to maintain a reasonable time span of articles. It also isn't entirely fair to frame this proposal as "blocking" in the same sense as the efforts to block P2P traffic and the like. Supporting Usenet incurs real costs for the ISPs and it has always been their perogative to choose what groups they want to carry on their servers. A much better solution to the storage problem is to just drop alt.binaries.* wholesale. The heyday of legitimate Usenet porn is long gone and I can't believe there is much remaining legitimate non-porn activity that hasn't moved to the web. Is anyone really going to cry over the loss of alt.binaries.pictures.pets when they can get their fix at places like kittenwar?
You have a requirement for fast booting but you just blunder ahead and elimiate DOS from the running right from the start.
DOS can make a very capable platform if you don't need the support services of a more sophisticated OS. There is no question that it can be made to boot faster than most other off the shelf OS's. You don't mention what you need to run on these machines so it is hard to tell what will be suitable for you. You can run most *NIX shell apps under a DOS environment using DJGPP and its 32-bit extender. FreeDOS has a lot of drivers to handle more modern hardware. If you need something closer to a true *NIX system that boots fast, QNX is worth considering too.
It's funny that eBay will defend the sale of bootleg products but has caved into the Scientologists on the sale of e-meters and authorized copies of church literature. Obviously the difference here is that the volume of bootleg stuff far outweighs the amount of CoS materials available for sale. The fake stuff is too much of a profit source for eBay to walk away from. The good news is that eBay obviously won't mind if you put a bootleg e-meter up for sale.
This backpedaling is because the FCC doesn't have any authority over how a cable company manages its network. There are no requirements whatsoever for any ISP or backbone provider to provide neutrality or to faithfully implement internet standards. What we have today is just a continuation of the laissez faire approach that worked for the early internet.
It is unreasonable to block the entirety of the alt.* hierarchy. You can accomplish your goals by pushing for a block on alt.binaries.* and alt.sex.*. While I know that there are some meritorious and perfectly legal groups within these two subsets of alt.* this is a reasonable target. It balances the need to satisfy the prudes without having to finely specify what you want ISPs to block and it avoids harming one of the more vigorous parts of Usenet.
The average pervert doesn't know how to start a new group in the alt hierarchy. Granted, all it takes is one motivated person to figure it out. There is still a natural barrier to proliferation of alternate group names since it isn't easy to do through any common GUI app, it takes time for a new group to propagate through the servers, and then people have to find the new group and begin using it.
Yesh. You totally don't want to be the one preaching scientific objectivity at a Greenpeace rally where everyone is chanthing the mantra that the world is going to end tomorrow if we don't return to a subsistence culture.
It would be nice if some of the more innocent victims of the RIAA assaults slapped them back with barratry lawsuits. The RIAA lawyers have already established a pattern of abuse with their shotgunning approach that shows that they are not acting in good faith.
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The 928/497 set is one of the highest regarded sets of its era. It was fun to play with and you got a lot of pieces to make other things with. If you have the original box, instructions, and a full set of parts you can fetch a pretty penny on eBay.
This is typical pointless artistic masturbation. This artiste is pulling a silly stunt to try to make a name for himeslf and wow the clueless intelligencia of the art world. These pictures are less impressive than Iridium flares which are themselves pretty ho hum on the scale of celesial wonder. It would be much more spectacular if he had more detailed pictures taken with a telescope. Granted, these pictures aren't bad if you ignore the topic of prying into the super secret realm of the spooks.
Good. Then you'll surely be the the first in line to join the Logan's Run retirement community.