Welcome to our planet! You will be put in with the FTL group until we can determine that your kind are safe to let out in our environment. If you had a passport, things would progress much faster. Maybe in 20-30 years,....., meanwhile...
You sort of jumped the gun. I was referring to upgrading Windows components just because MS thinks the world should jump when they bring out a new version. I still need Windows at work.
I have Mozilla and Linux at home. OO and Star5 along with most other things were free. I did have a need purchase Spinrite, but I recovered everything from a disk crash.
Why make such a fuss about the DVD companies forcing an upgrade? We have been letting MS force upgrades for years and still keep paying more for less!
I'll bet you are using windows XP and office 2003!
As for me, I'll continue with WIN2000 and Office 97 as long as they work. Security?; Mozilla and a good virus program with daily updates. If your word document does not format properly on older versions, who do you think is the problem?
Seriously, the DRM problem, real or perceived, has to be addresses and solved. No one likes forced upgrades and less for more, but until the non-media folks address and provide a solution that is acceptable to the media companies, we will continue with less for more and those inevitable lawsuits to kids and old ladies without computers.
No, they're all there! You just have to be about 6 inches in front of the speaker. Bose uses a long throw cone to get better bass notes to the air, but a 2 inch cone can only do so much. On the other hand, they do sound fair enough for the average user to think they are getting full fidelity. Also, since most of the time the music is on, the listener is not paying much attention anyway, it does not matter how good the highs and lows are. Has anyone seen any comparison of Bose and larger cone speakers - measured at some 8-10 feet from the speakers?
Get over it! You have no intent of photographing them. You still think you can catch birds by throwing salt on their tails!(Momma told me that when I was 4. Nearest I ever came was when I nearly hit one with the salt shaker.)
When I was about age 14 I was reading everything I could find about electronics, and hung out at the local radio/TV repair shop when I could. They let me "play", but I really learned nothing there. I went to college at Auburn to learn electronics. Along the way I learned a lot of math and physics that have helped me in nearly everything else I have done. I took the last vacuum tube lab and the first transistor lab. After graduation, I worked with the major electronics companies in all fields of electronics, and continued to read, read, read. For about 10 years I read every application note I could get my hands on and learned the characteristics of most of the IC's and capacitors. I have had a good career so far, and enjoy every day at work and my computer hobbies at home.
I suggest you purchase the ARRL's Radio Amateur's Handbook to go along with your interest in electronics, but read those magazines when you can, especially the application notes. Maybe you can find EDN, Electronic's Design and maybe other technical publications. Get a catalog from MP Jones, and have fun!
Well, there is one very good use for it. Meat products could carry dates, storage temperatures, even possible salmonella content etc. Things that could keep us from getting sick.
Well, a couple of feet might be nice. Small passive (no battery) RFID devices need to be close to an antenna to provide reliable information.
Consider that you could put your groceries in bags as you shop. Then, when you get to the checkout, the cart would be pushed through a reader and automatically record the total of the items you have, give a printout of the items, the date they were manufactured, the expiration date, and other information. This information could even be added to an RFID card you carry in your wallet, so that at home you could record it onto your computer to keep a record of purchases. You scan your RFID credit card and you're out of there. The store would hope that the reader did not miss any items of the hundred or so in your cart. You would hope that the information matched the advertised price. However, if you could have a list of the items you put in your cart and displayed on your cart's reader as you shop, you could compare that against the final checkout and verify that the charge was correct.
Now, if your computer hard drive dies like mine did last week, all that information becomes useless anyway.
This seems to be exactly the same thing I have been watching every July 4th for over ten years. So far as I can tell, his wing may be a little narrower, front to back, but each year I watch the group from the local club glide in on a controlled wing to try and hit a small target. What makes this new one such a big deal?
If you could just hear the Chinese Students here at the university trying to speak english, you would know that speech recognition will never get you any intelligence. Talk about a speech recongition system nightmare!!
The taste of the coffee is of course much dependent on smell, but the various types of coffee are very different and have very distinctive odors and tastes. It is also easy to tell if the coffee was ground and left in air for over a month, (don't ask which month:) ), if the coffee has been kept hot! for over an hour after brewing, and whether the coffee is a rich roast of just plain Columbian cheap coffee. Taste is also dependent on which cup you taste first. For most people, the second cup (of a different flavor) will taste worse than the first even if both are good. (Try doing the Coca-Cola and Pepsi test after having neither for 3 days before. The first one tested will probably taste best.)
In short, it does not matter where you drink coffee. It is not the coffee shop smell that you get but the smell from your own cup of coffee.
You might want to refer to the coffee tasting tests done by "Consumer Reports" testing agency some few years back.
This problem will continue, and we do not want to have any P2P curtailed because large companies and organizations have political clout. I do not think it will ever be stopped by lawsuits, and even though the MPAA and others may be over-reacting, there is still a perception that digital media sharing circumvents the legal selling of products. Is there a way to slow or stop the sharing of music and video that would appease the those companies and yet not bring down the P2P system?
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Last week, a friend turned on my Dell backup computer. I don't know how it happened, but both the main and backup hard drives got wiped out. I went from a truckload of data to zero in a transient second. That folks, is the equivalent of your wife and daughter cleaning up the garage while you're away.
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What causes all that magnetism? Why do two masses attract each other? Why am I smarter than I seem?
Well, maybe 5 if you count the time between transmissions. Or the time you wait before sending another CQ.
and the beat goes on.....and on...
Right!
I thought that a floating glacier makes it be an iceburg also!
Welcome to our planet! You will be put in with the FTL group until we can determine that your kind are safe to let out in our environment. If you had a passport, things would progress much faster. Maybe in 20-30 years, ....., meanwhile...
I have Mozilla and Linux at home. OO and Star5 along with most other things were free. I did have a need purchase Spinrite, but I recovered everything from a disk crash.
Actually, SHE puts it "wherever the hell" she wants it. He...well, he knows which side of the bread to put the butter on.
Just kidding!
You're in the 7-11. Best Buy is next door.
I agree with you!
That's what happens when you start "tinking".
Seriously, the DRM problem, real or perceived, has to be addresses and solved. No one likes forced upgrades and less for more, but until the non-media folks address and provide a solution that is acceptable to the media companies, we will continue with less for more and those inevitable lawsuits to kids and old ladies without computers.
No, they're all there! You just have to be about 6 inches in front of the speaker. Bose uses a long throw cone to get better bass notes to the air, but a 2 inch cone can only do so much. On the other hand, they do sound fair enough for the average user to think they are getting full fidelity. Also, since most of the time the music is on, the listener is not paying much attention anyway, it does not matter how good the highs and lows are. Has anyone seen any comparison of Bose and larger cone speakers - measured at some 8-10 feet from the speakers?
Get over it! You have no intent of photographing them. You still think you can catch birds by throwing salt on their tails!(Momma told me that when I was 4. Nearest I ever came was when I nearly hit one with the salt shaker.)
I suggest you purchase the ARRL's Radio Amateur's Handbook to go along with your interest in electronics, but read those magazines when you can, especially the application notes. Maybe you can find EDN, Electronic's Design and maybe other technical publications. Get a catalog from MP Jones, and have fun!
Well, there is one very good use for it. Meat products could carry dates, storage temperatures, even possible salmonella content etc. Things that could keep us from getting sick.
Consider that you could put your groceries in bags as you shop. Then, when you get to the checkout, the cart would be pushed through a reader and automatically record the total of the items you have, give a printout of the items, the date they were manufactured, the expiration date, and other information. This information could even be added to an RFID card you carry in your wallet, so that at home you could record it onto your computer to keep a record of purchases. You scan your RFID credit card and you're out of there. The store would hope that the reader did not miss any items of the hundred or so in your cart. You would hope that the information matched the advertised price. However, if you could have a list of the items you put in your cart and displayed on your cart's reader as you shop, you could compare that against the final checkout and verify that the charge was correct. Now, if your computer hard drive dies like mine did last week, all that information becomes useless anyway.
This seems to be exactly the same thing I have been watching every July 4th for over ten years. So far as I can tell, his wing may be a little narrower, front to back, but each year I watch the group from the local club glide in on a controlled wing to try and hit a small target. What makes this new one such a big deal?
Oh! Who Cares!!
If you could just hear the Chinese Students here at the university trying to speak english, you would know that speech recognition will never get you any intelligence. Talk about a speech recongition system nightmare!!
The taste of the coffee is of course much dependent on smell, but the various types of coffee are very different and have very distinctive odors and tastes. It is also easy to tell if the coffee was ground and left in air for over a month, (don't ask which month:) ), if the coffee has been kept hot! for over an hour after brewing, and whether the coffee is a rich roast of just plain Columbian cheap coffee. Taste is also dependent on which cup you taste first. For most people, the second cup (of a different flavor) will taste worse than the first even if both are good. (Try doing the Coca-Cola and Pepsi test after having neither for 3 days before. The first one tested will probably taste best.)
In short, it does not matter where you drink coffee. It is not the coffee shop smell that you get but the smell from your own cup of coffee.
You might want to refer to the coffee tasting tests done by "Consumer Reports" testing agency some few years back.
This problem will continue, and we do not want to have any P2P curtailed because large companies and organizations have political clout. I do not think it will ever be stopped by lawsuits, and even though the MPAA and others may be over-reacting, there is still a perception that digital media sharing circumvents the legal selling of products. Is there a way to slow or stop the sharing of music and video that would appease the those companies and yet not bring down the P2P system?
Last week, a friend turned on my Dell backup computer. I don't know how it happened, but both the main and backup hard drives got wiped out. I went from a truckload of data to zero in a transient second. That folks, is the equivalent of your wife and daughter cleaning up the garage while you're away.
You may be there already!