As a kid on the farm, I erected long wire antennas to listen to AM radio and shortwave from around the world. Once, to increase my "hearing" distance, I built a very long wire antenna of about 100 yards, more or less. Turned out that it had become directional, meaning that signals from one direction were very good, and those from the side were very poor. I could only receive the local station until it went off the air early in the evening.
Now consider a portion of the BPL power line. If it is long enough between certain poles in your neighborhood, and there is a ham radio or other source near the BPL frequency,the power line will receive signals from the ham radio transmitter or local source and add them on top of your BPL signal. This could (and will) block the BPL signal and you will get garbage or very slow internet for a time.
Don't expect the proposed high speed to be available everywhere. Think of it as being like the inkjet printers that advertise "4x6 pictures as fast as 25 seconds" when the actual speed of a photo-quality print is nearly 2 minutes.
On the other hand, having BPL available might add competition tothe cable so that internet and cable-TV will become lower cost. I only expect the cost to be the same or increase, but I can hope.
Finally, when I worked for a cable company a few years ago, I heard that the power companies were already running fiber on the longer transmission spans along with the high voltage. Perhaps some transmissions will be non-interfering if they can be run on existing fiber.
In Columbia SC a few years ago, I allowed the power company to put a device on my water heater to turn it off during the peak power usage hours. There was never a shortage of hot water and I did receive a monthly discount.
My water meter already has a device to transmit readings to the truck is it travels the street.
I think both the power company and the public could benefit greatly by having power monitors at all houses,and if the some appliances like water heaters can be controlled to avoid overloads in local areas. There is always the possibility that abuse or inconvenience could happen, but loss of power due to overload is also inconvenient. (No, I don't work for the power co.)
When you are in bright sunlight, the iris hole becomes very small and a floater may block a significant part of the light coming through. Using sunglasses or going to a place that is dimly lighted causes the iris ot open larger and the majority of the light path is not blocked by the floater.
Hope that makes sense.
The liquid in your eye is very much like a jelly. The non-uniformity appears as floaters and generally they look like tiny blood vessels or segments of them. They move around as you suddenly shift your eyes side to side or up/down, but always return to the same place after a while. I believe they are more prominent as you get older, and they may be more likely in near-sighted people. I have had some to suddenly appear over the years, but no major changes at any one time. A doctor told me they could be removed, but it would require deflating your eyeball and you could lose vision. I also have noticed that by wearing sunglasses, your iris hole will enlarge and the larger hole size makes the floater not as noticeable. After a few months, I don't notice them anymore except when I am using a microscope or binoculars. I don't notice them when using a 10X camera SLR.
These words all have meaning, and one does not necessarily mean you agree with or disagree with the other, and for sure does not relate to your opinions of capital punishment, or and justice for crimes.
These "opinions" where some respondents claim that "most" people who think one way also think another way are nothing more than a desire to stereotype people without knowing any facts.
An unwed mother I know believes strongly in Pro-choice, meaning she believes a woman has the right to choose whether or not she will have an abortion. She is not pro-abortion nor anti-abortion, but she made that for herself instead of having it mandated by someone else or the government. She decided to have the child, but that does not make her pro or anti anything.
If you search this article for specifics you will not find them. Where does he get his 1yr and 5yr operating costs? (Who ever heard of the "free" proverb?)
SCO has a superior kernal? How was that determined?
"Innovative"?Back in the late '80s, NCR had UNIX systems that ran multiple processors - I don't remember if it was as many as 32, but they even had systems with up to 5 hot pluggable power supplies. AT&T bought NCR before SCO obtained any UNIX. Until the early '90's SCO only had the Santa Cruz Operation version of UNIX. I am not sure that SCO has done any innovation with the package they got from AT&T after that. Maybe they can claim that at least they have not forked it. (Pronounce "forked" any way you like!)
Security Threat? SCO was the first to respond?
That means about as much as a slashdot first post. Was the response in the form of a fix or a request for further information? Double talk is too easy when you are writing an article to bash a competitor.
Manual hacker attacks? What is a "manual hacker attack? 65.64%? How many attacks were reported and from what systems in order to publish a two decimal place percentage? Except for a few Linux buffs who would like to cripple SCO, who even bothers to attack SCO systems? Even Linux had few attacks until it received widespread attention.
Although this letter sounds convincing on the surface, I find that it has a lot of interesting statements, but offers no facts. For a company that has been under as much scrutiny as SCO has been for the past 2-3 years, one would think that they would not publish any information that could be disputed. For me, it is about as convincing as those letters I get now and then that bash a politician from the other party. They attribute "stupid" statements to the opponent even if the statement was made by someone from their own party. (Yep, I check them.)
So far, I have read all the comments and it seems that no one has read the article. All it has is basic information and defines terms such as pictbridge. The article really is useless for purchasing a printer. It has no information about the "false" claims by printer manufacturers, or other technical information that one would need in purchasing a printer. For instance, what is the "real" difference in the inks used for various printers? What does water resistant really mean? Which printers use inks that "actually" have long life when exposed to light? And there are many other questions that could be of interest in buying a printer. Most of the respondants to this article (so far) have made claims about color laser, and price of prints per page, price of ink, etc., but seem to have very little knowledge of what is really good or bad about printers, just the same as the article.
I just bought a photoprinter from HP that claims to print 4x6 prints at a rate "as fast as" about 20 pages per minute. However, a photo (4x6 inches) will print at a rate of one print in about 1 to 3 minutes, based on whether I choose Best or maximum DPI for printing. (How can maximum DPI be better than best?) Even after research, I had to buy based on brand name and advertised specifications, because it is difficult to find evaluations of printers on the internet that actually give useful comparisons.
Before buying the printer I decided against Epson based on the fact that if the printer is not used for a few days (maybe a week or two) the print head can dry and cause extensive cleaning before it works properly.
Also, Epson cartridges have a microchip that may cause the printer to stop operation when it decides the cartridge is empty, even if it is not. (A completely stopped up print head does not allow ink to flow, even during a cleaning cycle.) Printers with the print head attached to the cartridge should be more expensive, but are only slightly so, so even if you should damage the head, they are replaced.
Some companies sell Epson cartridge chip "reset" devices. I have not tried one yet.
If your Epson printer will not clean, you have to discard it or have it repaired at a price that probably is at least half the cost of a new printer. I have found that by filling an old cartridge with water, using a hypodermic syringe (break off the sharp point first) and then running a few cleaning cycles over the period of a few days, the printer can be recovered. Takes time, but seems to always work.
Windows did not originate at Microsoft. They did not originate the windows concept, and they did not do a very good job of making it better (in my opinion). The concept was well underway at Apple and Microsoft used and changed it to work on the X86 computers which had an open architecture.
I give Microsoft credit for some of their marketing efforts even though they went too far and used underhanded tactics to become a monolopy. (If you can require the computer manufacturer to install the latest version, you can convince the consumer that they are using old, inferior products and to buy newer.)
I firmly believe that if Microsoft had not managed to force other companies out of the market with their tactics, that the windows concept and variety of useful products, including security, would have happened many years earlier.
Microsoft products are useful, but I would never say I love Microsoft because they have done so many good things for us.
Before Microsoft started their window program, there were already programs that had started to allow their spread sheets, word processors and data bases to use each other's data. A used a program called SMART that was based on the BASIC language. Quarterdeck started their windows system about the same time as Microsoft, but I believe both followed from the work that APPLE had already started. Without quarterdeck's memory manager, QEMM, windows would have had more problems. Even Radio Shack's Color Computer had third part software that allowed common data for spread sheets and word processors.
The Window's concept was inevitable. The only credit I give to Microsoft is for recognizing the importance of shared data and capitalizing on it.
Electronics have now evolved through the semiconductor portion of the periodic table of the elements. The early crystal radios used element 82,lead sulfide (galena from wikipedia), then during the early 1900, the so-called foxhole radio used razor blades and pins made from element 50,tin, to make a crystal. Early transistors used element 32,germanium, and integrated circuits moved onto element 14, silicon. The nanotube technology is now moving us to the last of the series which is element 6,carbon. This progression from lead to carbon is also a progression from larger molecules to smaller molecules and fewer elecrons. It took about 50 years to get to silicon and another 50 years to get to carbon. Where will we be in another 50 years?? (Don't be funny and say dead!)
For about six days, astronomers peared through their best optical telescopes as a previously undetected object was observed beyond the planet Pluto.
During the first day or two the new planet seemed to be almost invisible dark object seemingly surrounded by some kind of fog. Then about the third day it took on the tale-tale signs of brightness caused by water reflections although it was difficult to tell exactly what was happening. There were dumfounded as the planet took on more of a greenish cast the fourth day. Spectrometry showed that the light was very similar to that from light from some kinds of plant life on earth, and have great hopes of finding some type of life forms.
At first the astronomers were not sure that the new object was a stable mass or whether it was just a mass of swirling gasses, but on the fifth and sixth days it seemed to have reached a stable brightness. They were still very puzzled by the changes that initially took place during the first four days. They had been glued to the scopes round the clock for four days as the new planet went through major changes, and welcomed the fact that things seemed to have stabilized during the fifth and sixth days. Pleased that the changes had stopped, and being extremely tired, on the seventh day they rested.
Interesting! I wonder how many of the original "Clear Channel" stations were purchased by Clear Channel Communications.
As a child in deep south rural Alabama, I could only get a few stations in the daytime, but at night I could listen to Dallas, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Grand Ole Opry, and a bunch of others. I built one of the first transistor radios in south alabama (one xstr) and listened with earphones. The long wire antenna was probably 200 feet.
For those too young to remember, "Payola" was in the news for quite a while as radio stations and the music industry were investigated for bribery in exchange for playing the latest "popular" music. (The word "payola" was also used a little later in some gangster movies when the mob talked about pay, including bribes and extortion.)
Clear Channel radio stations were sanctioned by the FCC in the early days of radio so that AM stations (which could be heard long distances at night) would not have interference from other stations. Many of these stations still exist and many, but not all, of them can be identified by having only three letters in their call sign instead of four (WSM, WLW, WLS, etc).
The present claim of many, mostly FM, stations as a Clear Channel station have nothing to do with the original concept of clear channel. They are merely owned by Clear Channel Communications.
Impeding sales???...The audio industry sold me a tape that will no longer play without squealing, or it may not play because the pressure pad has come loose. There was no limit on the time I could play the music, and although I owned the tape, I rented the music - permanently.
Should I have to pay full price to have a CD with digitized audio (with the same music)? I believe yes! (New better format than the audio.) Should I be able to trade in my old tape for a CD with the same analog music? Good question perhaps.
If I make a cassette copy of a friends music on CD, but make it from the audio output, I am not pirating music, I am making a copy of what I already paid to play. If I put this audio copy on a CD am I pirating? I don't think so, but that is my opinion.
If I make a copy through my computer in order to have a playable CD, I am not impeding sales of the new music on CD or DVD? I feel that buying a new computer is the same.
If I am satisfied with the old computer because it does what I want, I am not impeding sales. I am just keeping what I paid for until it no longer performs well for me.
I am not sure the "do not spam list" would work, but I do like the idea from technician, (previous comment):
"I liked the other aproach of repeatedly reloading the page used to buy the spammer's product. That's a way to have them melt or have the hosting company become less friendly to hosting spam product order websites."
How about more effective than DDoS! Let's all send an email to our congress representatives at 11:00 am EDT on July 20, then again each week afterwards at the same time.
Two or three times of that on a worldwide basis will get some attention I'll bet,and have more impact than a DDOS.
Engates added that his company manages 13,000 servers, roughly half of which are open source and half Microsoft. He claims to see little difference between the security on either platform.
Am I missing something? I would not attempt to dispute what he says, but what criteria does he use for that statement? Number of crashes, Technician time to re-boot/reload after an incident. Number of Viruses that get through? How many times the box is hacked?
For an article titled "Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck", I expect to see more than just "servers....no difference..."
Apparently I am not the only one that thinks security is not just the server level. Nearly all the (on topic) comments talk about win boxes that startup with admin priviledges. The real security problem seems to be at the user level, not the server level. A good admin (or group of admins for 13000 servers) can setup and take either box to maximum security. The home user, (not lazy, not ignorant as one post call them) is not an IT person. If the box comes with a setup that makes it less secure, that is probably the only thing that will ever get setup.
My opinion is that security is not just MS or LINUX. It is based on the person that installs and sets up the OS. I would bet that any good admin can set-up and make either OS very secure or very in-secure. If a secure box is delivered to the home user, it will probably remain secure. Otherwise, it will probably end up helping send SPAM.
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Now consider a portion of the BPL power line. If it is long enough between certain poles in your neighborhood, and there is a ham radio or other source near the BPL frequency,the power line will receive signals from the ham radio transmitter or local source and add them on top of your BPL signal. This could (and will) block the BPL signal and you will get garbage or very slow internet for a time.
Don't expect the proposed high speed to be available everywhere. Think of it as being like the inkjet printers that advertise "4x6 pictures as fast as 25 seconds" when the actual speed of a photo-quality print is nearly 2 minutes.
On the other hand, having BPL available might add competition tothe cable so that internet and cable-TV will become lower cost. I only expect the cost to be the same or increase, but I can hope.
Finally, when I worked for a cable company a few years ago, I heard that the power companies were already running fiber on the longer transmission spans along with the high voltage. Perhaps some transmissions will be non-interfering if they can be run on existing fiber.
My water meter already has a device to transmit readings to the truck is it travels the street.
I think both the power company and the public could benefit greatly by having power monitors at all houses,and if the some appliances like water heaters can be controlled to avoid overloads in local areas. There is always the possibility that abuse or inconvenience could happen, but loss of power due to overload is also inconvenient. (No, I don't work for the power co.)
When you are in bright sunlight, the iris hole becomes very small and a floater may block a significant part of the light coming through. Using sunglasses or going to a place that is dimly lighted causes the iris ot open larger and the majority of the light path is not blocked by the floater. Hope that makes sense.
The liquid in your eye is very much like a jelly. The non-uniformity appears as floaters and generally they look like tiny blood vessels or segments of them. They move around as you suddenly shift your eyes side to side or up/down, but always return to the same place after a while. I believe they are more prominent as you get older, and they may be more likely in near-sighted people. I have had some to suddenly appear over the years, but no major changes at any one time. A doctor told me they could be removed, but it would require deflating your eyeball and you could lose vision. I also have noticed that by wearing sunglasses, your iris hole will enlarge and the larger hole size makes the floater not as noticeable. After a few months, I don't notice them anymore except when I am using a microscope or binoculars. I don't notice them when using a 10X camera SLR.
These "opinions" where some respondents claim that "most" people who think one way also think another way are nothing more than a desire to stereotype people without knowing any facts.
An unwed mother I know believes strongly in Pro-choice, meaning she believes a woman has the right to choose whether or not she will have an abortion. She is not pro-abortion nor anti-abortion, but she made that for herself instead of having it mandated by someone else or the government. She decided to have the child, but that does not make her pro or anti anything.
SCO has a superior kernal? How was that determined?
"Innovative"?Back in the late '80s, NCR had UNIX systems that ran multiple processors - I don't remember if it was as many as 32, but they even had systems with up to 5 hot pluggable power supplies. AT&T bought NCR before SCO obtained any UNIX. Until the early '90's SCO only had the Santa Cruz Operation version of UNIX. I am not sure that SCO has done any innovation with the package they got from AT&T after that. Maybe they can claim that at least they have not forked it. (Pronounce "forked" any way you like!)
Security Threat? SCO was the first to respond? That means about as much as a slashdot first post. Was the response in the form of a fix or a request for further information? Double talk is too easy when you are writing an article to bash a competitor.
Manual hacker attacks? What is a "manual hacker attack? 65.64%? How many attacks were reported and from what systems in order to publish a two decimal place percentage? Except for a few Linux buffs who would like to cripple SCO, who even bothers to attack SCO systems? Even Linux had few attacks until it received widespread attention.
Although this letter sounds convincing on the surface, I find that it has a lot of interesting statements, but offers no facts. For a company that has been under as much scrutiny as SCO has been for the past 2-3 years, one would think that they would not publish any information that could be disputed. For me, it is about as convincing as those letters I get now and then that bash a politician from the other party. They attribute "stupid" statements to the opponent even if the statement was made by someone from their own party. (Yep, I check them.)
I just bought a photoprinter from HP that claims to print 4x6 prints at a rate "as fast as" about 20 pages per minute. However, a photo (4x6 inches) will print at a rate of one print in about 1 to 3 minutes, based on whether I choose Best or maximum DPI for printing. (How can maximum DPI be better than best?) Even after research, I had to buy based on brand name and advertised specifications, because it is difficult to find evaluations of printers on the internet that actually give useful comparisons.
Before buying the printer I decided against Epson based on the fact that if the printer is not used for a few days (maybe a week or two) the print head can dry and cause extensive cleaning before it works properly.
Also, Epson cartridges have a microchip that may cause the printer to stop operation when it decides the cartridge is empty, even if it is not. (A completely stopped up print head does not allow ink to flow, even during a cleaning cycle.) Printers with the print head attached to the cartridge should be more expensive, but are only slightly so, so even if you should damage the head, they are replaced.
Some companies sell Epson cartridge chip "reset" devices. I have not tried one yet.
If your Epson printer will not clean, you have to discard it or have it repaired at a price that probably is at least half the cost of a new printer. I have found that by filling an old cartridge with water, using a hypodermic syringe (break off the sharp point first) and then running a few cleaning cycles over the period of a few days, the printer can be recovered. Takes time, but seems to always work.
By sharing, I meant that data could be shared between word processor and spread sheets, etc. You are entirely right otherwise.
I give Microsoft credit for some of their marketing efforts even though they went too far and used underhanded tactics to become a monolopy. (If you can require the computer manufacturer to install the latest version, you can convince the consumer that they are using old, inferior products and to buy newer.)
I firmly believe that if Microsoft had not managed to force other companies out of the market with their tactics, that the windows concept and variety of useful products, including security, would have happened many years earlier.
Microsoft products are useful, but I would never say I love Microsoft because they have done so many good things for us.
Before Microsoft started their window program, there were already programs that had started to allow their spread sheets, word processors and data bases to use each other's data. A used a program called SMART that was based on the BASIC language. Quarterdeck started their windows system about the same time as Microsoft, but I believe both followed from the work that APPLE had already started. Without quarterdeck's memory manager, QEMM, windows would have had more problems. Even Radio Shack's Color Computer had third part software that allowed common data for spread sheets and word processors.
The Window's concept was inevitable. The only credit I give to Microsoft is for recognizing the importance of shared data and capitalizing on it.
Electronics have now evolved through the semiconductor portion of the periodic table of the elements. The early crystal radios used element 82,lead sulfide (galena from wikipedia), then during the early 1900, the so-called foxhole radio used razor blades and pins made from element 50,tin, to make a crystal. Early transistors used element 32,germanium, and integrated circuits moved onto element 14, silicon. The nanotube technology is now moving us to the last of the series which is element 6,carbon. This progression from lead to carbon is also a progression from larger molecules to smaller molecules and fewer elecrons. It took about 50 years to get to silicon and another 50 years to get to carbon. Where will we be in another 50 years?? (Don't be funny and say dead!)
Dream on!
Well, you seem to have "draimed" it one too many times.
*ducks*!!?...Where?...I don't see no ducks!
During the first day or two the new planet seemed to be almost invisible dark object seemingly surrounded by some kind of fog. Then about the third day it took on the tale-tale signs of brightness caused by water reflections although it was difficult to tell exactly what was happening. There were dumfounded as the planet took on more of a greenish cast the fourth day. Spectrometry showed that the light was very similar to that from light from some kinds of plant life on earth, and have great hopes of finding some type of life forms.
At first the astronomers were not sure that the new object was a stable mass or whether it was just a mass of swirling gasses, but on the fifth and sixth days it seemed to have reached a stable brightness. They were still very puzzled by the changes that initially took place during the first four days. They had been glued to the scopes round the clock for four days as the new planet went through major changes, and welcomed the fact that things seemed to have stabilized during the fifth and sixth days. Pleased that the changes had stopped, and being extremely tired, on the seventh day they rested.
Don't pay him too much mind. He used to work in the CRT industry measuring "viewable" size.
My guess is that you are hearing -3db at about 12kc.
Judge: No, hoodlum, I'm not sending you to jail. I'm sentencing you to 120 hours of video games per week.
As a child in deep south rural Alabama, I could only get a few stations in the daytime, but at night I could listen to Dallas, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Grand Ole Opry, and a bunch of others. I built one of the first transistor radios in south alabama (one xstr) and listened with earphones. The long wire antenna was probably 200 feet.
Clear Channel radio stations were sanctioned by the FCC in the early days of radio so that AM stations (which could be heard long distances at night) would not have interference from other stations. Many of these stations still exist and many, but not all, of them can be identified by having only three letters in their call sign instead of four (WSM, WLW, WLS, etc).
The present claim of many, mostly FM, stations as a Clear Channel station have nothing to do with the original concept of clear channel. They are merely owned by Clear Channel Communications.
You may not change their minds, but you will hurt their eyes!
Should I have to pay full price to have a CD with digitized audio (with the same music)? I believe yes! (New better format than the audio.) Should I be able to trade in my old tape for a CD with the same analog music? Good question perhaps.
If I make a cassette copy of a friends music on CD, but make it from the audio output, I am not pirating music, I am making a copy of what I already paid to play. If I put this audio copy on a CD am I pirating? I don't think so, but that is my opinion.
If I make a copy through my computer in order to have a playable CD, I am not impeding sales of the new music on CD or DVD? I feel that buying a new computer is the same.
If I am satisfied with the old computer because it does what I want, I am not impeding sales. I am just keeping what I paid for until it no longer performs well for me.
"I liked the other aproach of repeatedly reloading the page used to buy the spammer's product. That's a way to have them melt or have the hosting company become less friendly to hosting spam product order websites."
Two or three times of that on a worldwide basis will get some attention I'll bet,and have more impact than a DDOS.
Used together, you imply they are ignorant because they are too lazy to learn, a different meaning entirely.
statement.
Am I missing something? I would not attempt to dispute what he says, but what criteria does he use for that statement? Number of crashes, Technician time to re-boot/reload after an incident. Number of Viruses that get through? How many times the box is hacked?
For an article titled "Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck", I expect to see more than just "servers....no difference..."
Apparently I am not the only one that thinks security is not just the server level. Nearly all the (on topic) comments talk about win boxes that startup with admin priviledges. The real security problem seems to be at the user level, not the server level. A good admin (or group of admins for 13000 servers) can setup and take either box to maximum security. The home user, (not lazy, not ignorant as one post call them) is not an IT person. If the box comes with a setup that makes it less secure, that is probably the only thing that will ever get setup.
My opinion is that security is not just MS or LINUX. It is based on the person that installs and sets up the OS. I would bet that any good admin can set-up and make either OS very secure or very in-secure. If a secure box is delivered to the home user, it will probably remain secure. Otherwise, it will probably end up helping send SPAM.