Oh my god!!!! Junior saw a tit, he is sure to grow up being a serial killer/rapist/laywer/president (ordered in the amount of tit observed) There are far worse things then porn out there... They will see it anyway and you better be there to explain it to them and prepare them for the real world which happens to be a bitch.
I hate spam as much as anybody else I really don't like the 'think of the children' approach taken here. Why is it so bad for children to see porn accidently? Aren't the parents keeping near when junior is surfing the web and starts crying because he sees something upsetting? Don't his parents tell them that there are bad things out there and prepare him for it? Holding somebody else responsible for your kids mis-education is just a sign of a bad parent.
Its called mushroom policy: Keep them in the dark, feed them shit and chop their heads of when they look up.
They are probably not using differential gps as the base stations calculating the difference are on the very landmass they are measuring the movement off.... They probably use a scheme similar to dgps: They don't have to know their exact location, they have to know their exact location in respect to the other measurement points around the country. Which is relativly easy to do.
No, unless the fat guy is running really slow and you have a strange kind of earthquakes in your part of the world.... They are measuring slow changes, not quick seismic vibrations.
Suppose you have a bunch of satelites transmitting time and their location. When you receive that you know were that satelite was at that moment.
Suppose you have also have a good clock, and you receive one satelite. In that case you can calculate the distance between you and the satelite (time difference between the two clocks multiplied by the speed of the radio signal, ignoring atmospheric influences for simplicity). No you know that your position is somewhere on a sphere around this satelite.
When you receive two satelites you get two intersecting spheres. Two intersection spheres gives a circle of common points. So now you know that your position is somewhere on this circle.
With a third satelite you get a two (unless you are in space exactly in between three satelites) intersect point. So now you now your exact position since one can easily be ruled out. (Unless you ARE in space ofcourse)
But this only works if you have an accurate (as in atomic clock accurate) clock. If your clock is a litle bit behind the calculated distance between you and ALL three satelites becomes larger and you have no way of knowing it did. (Your still get one singular intercept point).
If you have three satelites and a questionable clock all you know is that you are on a line intersecting the two points I mentioned earlier.
With four satelites you can make several groups of three satelites (three groups to be exact) resulting in three of such lines. Were these three lines intersect is the point you are. (This method also rules out you accidently thinking you are in space btw) With this point you can adjust your own clock...
As said before you need more then three satelites for continuous coverage...
However you need more then three satelites for a gps like system anyway... Unless you are going to equip every receiver with its own cesium clock you need to receive atleast four satelites at the same time.
I'm only 30, heavy smoker but I think with stem cell research I can always get a new pair of lungs long enough to see the day I can fly me to the moon.
With an attitude like this you can better hope for stem cell research to come up with an artificial brain....
Part of what you are describing is called virtual circuit switching in which a 'circuit' is established over a packet switched network. In real circuit switching there is a dedicated electrical circuit between the two endpoints, which indeed can be both digital and analogue. TDM is sort of a strange thing in that there is no real electrical circuit but you do get a dedicated time slot on the line. ATM definitly is packet switched. Guaranteeing bandwith (QoS) is not hard at all, the routers simply need a table of active circuits. Only packets for those circuits and in only a certain amount get through.
You can compress voice down below 20kbits and get a quality comparable with analogue phone lines. I believe GSM uses 13kbits (or in that neighbourhood) and I have used the speex codec in 8kbits mode recently and it give good enough quality to make conversations. If you use uncompressed audio you need about 32kbits.
They will probably be switching to an isdn network over glassfiber as backbone. Most of the world did this years ago. (You will have a hard time to find an circuit switching telephone network in the Netherlands, although most actual connections are still analogue it gets digitized the moment you reach the central)
You can have QoS on a packet switched network to... (Being able to dynamicly allocate bandwidth to users can be really handy compared to the fixed switched networks.) And you can even have a private network.... making it just as secure as a switched network (even more secure as you can add encryption to prevent clandestine wire taps). Add to this that a traditional switched network gets really noise after a few switches and digital networks will be able bounce your signal around the world without adding additional loss....
Voltage different? All of europe uses the same (230V used to be 220V)... Unless you buy braindead american equipment there is no problem in plugging it in... Television also works well here... we don't use that junk called NTSC:)
And a few years later (around 2040 when the rest of the world long forgot this whole thingy) an American company will start the PR machine for something called SUPER-DUPER-CDMA-MADE-IN-USA which will give comparable results (slightly better than a defacto standard from years ago), is incompatible with anything ever made..... Then ten years after that George Bush the third will invade some third world countries because they still don't use SUPER-DUPER-CDMA-MADE-IN-USA... eh... no,no make that making weapons of mass destruction and being a saveheaven for some 12-year old cyber-TERORIST who defaced the whitehouse website.
In the netherlands we have a hybrid solution: A caller calling a dutch mobile from within the netherlands pays allways the same price.. If the mobile is outside the country the owner pays the extra costs.
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Jeroen
Oh my god!!!! Junior saw a tit, he is sure to grow up being a serial killer/rapist/laywer/president (ordered in the amount of tit observed)
There are far worse things then porn out there... They will see it anyway and you better be there to explain it to them and prepare them for the real world which happens to be a bitch.
Jeroen
Why is it so bad for children to see porn accidently? Aren't the parents keeping near when junior is surfing the web and starts crying because he sees something upsetting? Don't his parents tell them that there are bad things out there and prepare him for it? Holding somebody else responsible for your kids mis-education is just a sign of a bad parent.
Its called mushroom policy: Keep them in the dark, feed them shit and chop their heads of when they look up.
They are probably not using differential gps as the base stations calculating the difference are on the very landmass they are measuring the movement off....
They probably use a scheme similar to dgps: They don't have to know their exact location, they have to know their exact location in respect to the other measurement points around the country. Which is relativly easy to do.
Jeroen
No, unless the fat guy is running really slow and you have a strange kind of earthquakes in your part of the world....
They are measuring slow changes, not quick seismic vibrations.
Jeroen
is there a reason for this?
:)
English is not my first language
Jeroen
Its not that hard:
Suppose you have a bunch of satelites transmitting time and their location. When you receive that you know were that satelite was at that moment.
Suppose you have also have a good clock, and you receive one satelite. In that case you can calculate the distance between you and the satelite (time difference between the two clocks multiplied by the speed of the radio signal, ignoring atmospheric influences for simplicity).
No you know that your position is somewhere on a sphere around this satelite.
When you receive two satelites you get two intersecting spheres. Two intersection spheres gives a circle of common points. So now you know that your position is somewhere on this circle.
With a third satelite you get a two (unless you are in space exactly in between three satelites) intersect point. So now you now your exact position since one can easily be ruled out. (Unless you ARE in space ofcourse)
But this only works if you have an accurate (as in atomic clock accurate) clock.
If your clock is a litle bit behind the calculated distance between you and ALL three satelites becomes larger and you have no way of knowing it did. (Your still get one singular intercept point).
If you have three satelites and a questionable clock all you know is that you are on a line intersecting the two points I mentioned earlier.
With four satelites you can make several groups of three satelites (three groups to be exact) resulting in three of such lines.
Were these three lines intersect is the point you are. (This method also rules out you accidently thinking you are in space btw)
With this point you can adjust your own clock...
Jeroen
As said before you need more then three satelites for continuous coverage...
However you need more then three satelites for a gps like system anyway...
Unless you are going to equip every receiver with its own cesium clock you need to receive atleast four satelites at the same time.
Jeroen
As long as they don't distribute the bombs there is nothing to wory about... You only have to offer the source to the people you sell bombs to...
Jeroen
Could we see this as the first real reply to the SCO case? Something like: 'Up yours SCO!' or more like: 'Lalalalalah Can't hear you!' ??
Jeroen
I'm only 30, heavy smoker but I think with stem cell research I can always get a new pair of lungs long enough to see the day I can fly me to the moon.
With an attitude like this you can better hope for stem cell research to come up with an artificial brain....
Jeroen
Me neither.... :)
Lets just say that with us checking the rest we made it possible for these lucky guys to find a real hit
Jeroen
No, more like knowing the account is named 'root' but not having the password.
Jeroen
Actually the Hindenburg disaster happened because its hull was basicly made out of explosives.
Althoug hydrogen is flamable, so our oil based fuels
Jeroen
Part of what you are describing is called virtual circuit switching in which a 'circuit' is established over a packet switched network. In real circuit switching there is a dedicated electrical circuit between the two endpoints, which indeed can be both digital and analogue.
TDM is sort of a strange thing in that there is no real electrical circuit but you do get a dedicated time slot on the line. ATM definitly is packet switched.
Guaranteeing bandwith (QoS) is not hard at all, the routers simply need a table of active circuits.
Only packets for those circuits and in only a certain amount get through.
Jeroen
You can compress voice down below 20kbits and get a quality comparable with analogue phone lines.
I believe GSM uses 13kbits (or in that neighbourhood) and I have used the speex codec in 8kbits mode recently and it give good enough quality to make conversations.
If you use uncompressed audio you need about 32kbits.
Jeroen
They will probably be switching to an isdn network over glassfiber as backbone. Most of the world did this years ago. (You will have a hard time to find an circuit switching telephone network in the Netherlands, although most actual connections are still analogue it gets digitized the moment you reach the central)
Jeroen
You can have QoS on a packet switched network to...
(Being able to dynamicly allocate bandwidth to users can be really handy compared to the fixed switched networks.)
And you can even have a private network.... making it just as secure as a switched network (even more secure as you can add encryption to prevent clandestine wire taps).
Add to this that a traditional switched network gets really noise after a few switches and digital networks will be able bounce your signal around the world without adding additional loss....
Jeroen
Voltage different? :)
All of europe uses the same (230V used to be 220V)...
Unless you buy braindead american equipment there is no problem in plugging it in...
Television also works well here... we don't use that junk called NTSC
Jeroen
And a few years later (around 2040 when the rest of the world long forgot this whole thingy) an American company will start the PR machine for something called SUPER-DUPER-CDMA-MADE-IN-USA which will give comparable results (slightly better than a defacto standard from years ago), is incompatible with anything ever made.....
Then ten years after that George Bush the third will invade some third world countries because they still don't use SUPER-DUPER-CDMA-MADE-IN-USA... eh... no,no make that making weapons of mass destruction and being a saveheaven for some 12-year old cyber-TERORIST who defaced the whitehouse website.
Jeroen
In the netherlands we have a hybrid solution:
A caller calling a dutch mobile from within the netherlands pays allways the same price..
If the mobile is outside the country the owner pays the extra costs.
Jeroen
I simply don't use windows :)
Jeroen
Until nvidia has (or gives specs for) opensource drivers its no nvidia for me....
I don't consider releasing a binary only x86 driver to be 'supporting' linux.
Jeroen
Don't know about that, but they sure as hell contain a lot of poisonstuffs...
Jeroen
It already can....You just don't see it anymore :)
You could also try throwing it very hard....
Jeroen