That radio is also one of the may that won't let you read the current title/artist, it will only display the name of the station, allow you to select stations by the type of program or automatically switch to another station if there's traffic info or news on that station. Some stations do abuse the station name/callsign display to scroll through various texts, maybe including the currently playing title, but that's just an abuse of the RDS spec.
Some devices for home use do allow you to display every type of data sent by the station (mine can even overlay that on the video output), but not car head units.
If I'm not mistaken, car radios are not allowed to display this info as it is deemed distracting - at least I don't know of any car headunits that do, although basic RDS data is displayed on every unit since about a decade.
Cheaper alternatives: Look up the plalist on the radio station's website or just call the station, and they'll tell you.
When the audio is blanked, your caller would suddenly find themselves listening to "dead air", and this may cause them to think the call has dropped
it should not go silent, it should fill in "apporpirate" noise, something that matches the level of background nose that's been there while you're talking. At least, the codec GSM uses by default is supposed to do this. So if the phone goes silent, it's either broken or the reception is really bad.
it's even in the post, so please try to at least read that - no turning red immediately, it's yellow inbetween.
If you think that people who speed coming to a stop are a danger, then you have probably been speeding as well, while tailgating no less. And "without warnning", where did you get that? Not only will the traffic light turn yellow, have you ever heard of breaking lights?
Care to elucidate on where you're hearing the rest?
In the record store. Some open the CD for you and stuff it in a CD player for you to listen to it, others have Headphones hanging all over the place, connected to a barcode scanner and most probably a mp3 server. In both cases you can listen to all songs, so there's no excuse for buying a CD with 11 crappy songs and just one you like.
I'd suspect that some sort of access credentials will be printed on the tickets, so you may have to go dumpster diving instead - or just ask someone who's not going to use it anyway.
Groups.Google.com existed before google - under the name "DejaNews", until google bought them. The advanced search form still bears a lot of similarity to the original dejanews form, so this is nothing to thank google for. And, if you haven't noticed, almost all search results for things you can buy are filled to the brim with useless spam (at least here at google.de, which I cannot evade unless I abuse some open proxies). Google has started to suck badly, but I still consider it the best search engine for most things.
well, the duty may be less, but you will have to pay VAT in addition to it.
Try fining the TARIC code for notebooks here: http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/ dds/cgi -bin/tarlist?Lang=EN&DesLang=EN&SimDate=20040322&O ffset=1&Goods=digital&Day=22&Month=03&Year=200 4
I think it should be 847130, Portable digital automatic data-processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display, which carries a duty of 0%. Some other tariffs are at or around 14%. But, as has been said above, you would have to pay VAT anyway, and at around 17% in the UK, this eats pretty much of the savings.
Remember that you can get next day on-site repair support from DELL, which is something I wouldn't want to miss with the filmsy DELL notebooks (they gave up repairing my first one about two years ago and gave me a new one for free), and I doubt that this is transferable to anouther country. Somebody please check this.
If you only get 10 MegaBytes per second out of your 100MBps network card, buy a new one and upgrade your switch. You can get 12.something MB/s out of good nics since ages. And if that's not enough, just buy one of the cheap GigaBit ethernet switches and nics that have cropped up in recent years (note that you may have to overclock your 32bit 33MHz PCI bus to push those things to their limit, since 1Gb full duplex is just too much).
The days of ST506 controllers have been just 10 years ago, and already nobody remembers what they were?
MFM and RLL are just methods of encoding analog signals to digital data (and vice versa), and RLL just is much more efficient. MFM needs more flux changes per bit, and thus with the ST-506 interfaced harddiskd was able to only put 17 sectors on each track of the harddisk, while RLL could cram 26 in the same space. Note that the number of tracks could not be changed since the positioning of the heads was controlled by the drives themselves, while the encoding of the digital data to flux changes is done on the controller (usually that would have been an ISA card, anyone remember those? damn, reading slashdot makes me feel old).
This depends a lot on where you live. In sunny parts of california, outside the smog of LA, on may be luchy and reach break-even in 10 years, in Canada or Norway, it will probably never happen.
I'm from Europe, Germany to be specific. Funny that you should mention New Year's Eve, because that's when the one best example of Short-Message-Lag I've ever encountered happened: On 2001-12-31 at around 22:30 I have received a short message whishing me a merry christmas. At first I thought that was a joke, as the sender would probably do such things, but this particular message was actually sent on 2001-12-24 (evident from the "sent" date of the message itsself). And please don't tell me that things have improved since then, as I still see lags of multiple hours within the network of one provider, and up to multiple days between providers. I'm not saying that such delays are normal, they aren't uncommon. I receive status/error messages as short messages from the bb4 system at work, and they all come with a timestamp when they have sent, so I really know what I'm talking about.
And please don't get me started on the braindead 160-character limit, which results in a larger overhead than useful data.
Re:This king of thing...
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Photovoltaic panels are NOT (yet?) environmentally friendly, as their production is a very messy and energy consuming process.
Your argument about Berea owning the utilities seems flawed, unless of course they are operating their own oil wells or hydroelectric plants or whatever, in which case they could still sell the excess energy they are not wasting due to the rebuild.
I'm really wondering who had the audacity of naming Short Messages "instant messages" - there's nothing instant about them at all. They can (and really do) take up to 7 days to get delivered, even if one's phone has good reception for almost all the time.
Symmetric and Asymmetric DSL are two different technologies. The SDSL that's floating around here is incompatible with normal phone use on the same line, while ADSL is not. The modems are different, and so is most probably the equipment for the telcos.
We bought about a dozen Dell latitude notebooks about 2 months ago - and half of them were to come with freedos instead of Windows XP, and that would have been cheaper by about EUR 70 if I recall correctly.
Maybe Dell should switch away from windows on their own servers, as an average uptime of 0 is rather appalling. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?h ost=commerce.euro.dell.com
What about the old MIPS based Cobalt hardware?
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The old MIPS based qubes really should have their bios published/open sourced, since they have quite severe limitations on the size of the kernels one can load, so an open sourced bios could be abused as a second stage bootloader. Or is that already avaliable, and I've missed it?
No, since the asphalt would be expected to be about parallel to the trajectory of the cyclist, so that would be an upper bound for the speed at which the had scaps along the road. Additionally, GPSRs are notoriously bad at calculating vertical speeds, and they sample only roughly every second, so there's not much to be learned in this regard. One would need acceleration sensors to gather any meaningful data.
The transrapid people, the same who built the shanghai trains, had a working vehicle in 1971. If http://www.transrapid.de/en/information/his_txt.ht ml doesn't work for you, click on the "chronology" link.
Bzzzt! Wrong! IDE drives and MFM/RLL drives (when used with WD1003, WD1006 or compatible controllers, which everybody did) look exactly the same to the host computer. IDE is just MFM/RLL with the controller stuck under the drive and the ISA bus extended with a cable. Just check the predefined drive types in your Bios setup, that's pre-IDE non-autodetect legacy crap.
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That radio is also one of the may that won't let you read the current title/artist, it will only display the name of the station, allow you to select stations by the type of program or automatically switch to another station if there's traffic info or news on that station. Some stations do abuse the station name/callsign display to scroll through various texts, maybe including the currently playing title, but that's just an abuse of the RDS spec.
Some devices for home use do allow you to display every type of data sent by the station (mine can even overlay that on the video output), but not car head units.
If I'm not mistaken, car radios are not allowed to display this info as it is deemed distracting - at least I don't know of any car headunits that do, although basic RDS data is displayed on every unit since about a decade.
Cheaper alternatives: Look up the plalist on the radio station's website or just call the station, and they'll tell you.
When the audio is blanked, your caller would suddenly find themselves listening to "dead air", and this may cause them to think the call has dropped
it should not go silent, it should fill in "apporpirate" noise, something that matches the level of background nose that's been there while you're talking. At least, the codec GSM uses by default is supposed to do this. So if the phone goes silent, it's either broken or the reception is really bad.
immediately turns from green to yellow to red
it's even in the post, so please try to at least read that - no turning red immediately, it's yellow inbetween.
If you think that people who speed coming to a stop are a danger, then you have probably been speeding as well, while tailgating no less. And "without warnning", where did you get that? Not only will the traffic light turn yellow, have you ever heard of breaking lights?
Care to elucidate on where you're hearing the rest?
In the record store. Some open the CD for you and stuff it in a CD player for you to listen to it, others have Headphones hanging all over the place, connected to a barcode scanner and most probably a mp3 server. In both cases you can listen to all songs, so there's no excuse for buying a CD with 11 crappy songs and just one you like.
I'd suspect that some sort of access credentials will be printed on the tickets, so you may have to go dumpster diving instead - or just ask someone who's not going to use it anyway.
Groups.Google.com existed before google - under the name "DejaNews", until google bought them. The advanced search form still bears a lot of similarity to the original dejanews form, so this is nothing to thank google for. And, if you haven't noticed, almost all search results for things you can buy are filled to the brim with useless spam (at least here at google.de, which I cannot evade unless I abuse some open proxies). Google has started to suck badly, but I still consider it the best search engine for most things.
The parent post should be modded insightful, not funny - the probably best known wooden display/mirror has just 830 pixels.
well, the duty may be less, but you will have to pay VAT in addition to it.
/ dds/cgi -bin/tarlist?Lang=EN&DesLang=EN&SimDate=20040322&O ffset=1&Goods=digital&Day=22&Month=03&Year=200 4
Try fining the TARIC code for notebooks here:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs
I think it should be 847130, Portable digital automatic data-processing machines, weighing not more than 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display, which carries a duty of 0%. Some other tariffs are at or around 14%. But, as has been said above, you would have to pay VAT anyway, and at around 17% in the UK, this eats pretty much of the savings.
Remember that you can get next day on-site repair support from DELL, which is something I wouldn't want to miss with the filmsy DELL notebooks (they gave up repairing my first one about two years ago and gave me a new one for free), and I doubt that this is transferable to anouther country. Somebody please check this.
If you only get 10 MegaBytes per second out of your 100MBps network card, buy a new one and upgrade your switch. You can get 12.something MB/s out of good nics since ages. And if that's not enough, just buy one of the cheap GigaBit ethernet switches and nics that have cropped up in recent years (note that you may have to overclock your 32bit 33MHz PCI bus to push those things to their limit, since 1Gb full duplex is just too much).
The days of ST506 controllers have been just 10 years ago, and already nobody remembers what they were?
MFM and RLL are just methods of encoding analog signals to digital data (and vice versa), and RLL just is much more efficient. MFM needs more flux changes per bit, and thus with the ST-506 interfaced harddiskd was able to only put 17 sectors on each track of the harddisk, while RLL could cram 26 in the same space. Note that the number of tracks could not be changed since the positioning of the heads was controlled by the drives themselves, while the encoding of the digital data to flux changes is done on the controller (usually that would have been an ISA card, anyone remember those? damn, reading slashdot makes me feel old).
This depends a lot on where you live. In sunny parts of california, outside the smog of LA, on may be luchy and reach break-even in 10 years, in Canada or Norway, it will probably never happen.
I'm from Europe, Germany to be specific. Funny that you should mention New Year's Eve, because that's when the one best example of Short-Message-Lag I've ever encountered happened: On 2001-12-31 at around 22:30 I have received a short message whishing me a merry christmas. At first I thought that was a joke, as the sender would probably do such things, but this particular message was actually sent on 2001-12-24 (evident from the "sent" date of the message itsself). And please don't tell me that things have improved since then, as I still see lags of multiple hours within the network of one provider, and up to multiple days between providers. I'm not saying that such delays are normal, they aren't uncommon. I receive status/error messages as short messages from the bb4 system at work, and they all come with a timestamp when they have sent, so I really know what I'm talking about.
And please don't get me started on the braindead 160-character limit, which results in a larger overhead than useful data.
Photovoltaic panels are NOT (yet?) environmentally friendly, as their production is a very messy and energy consuming process.
Your argument about Berea owning the utilities seems flawed, unless of course they are operating their own oil wells or hydroelectric plants or whatever, in which case they could still sell the excess energy they are not wasting due to the rebuild.
I'm really wondering who had the audacity of naming Short Messages "instant messages" - there's nothing instant about them at all. They can (and really do) take up to 7 days to get delivered, even if one's phone has good reception for almost all the time.
Symmetric and Asymmetric DSL are two different technologies. The SDSL that's floating around here is incompatible with normal phone use on the same line, while ADSL is not. The modems are different, and so is most probably the equipment for the telcos.
xfree 3.4? now that's ancient.
We bought about a dozen Dell latitude notebooks about 2 months ago - and half of them were to come with freedos instead of Windows XP, and that would have been cheaper by about EUR 70 if I recall correctly.
h ost=commerce .euro.dell.com
Maybe Dell should switch away from windows on their own servers, as an average uptime of 0 is rather appalling.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?
The old MIPS based qubes really should have their bios published/open sourced, since they have quite severe limitations on the size of the kernels one can load, so an open sourced bios could be abused as a second stage bootloader. Or is that already avaliable, and I've missed it?
No, since the asphalt would be expected to be about parallel to the trajectory of the cyclist, so that would be an upper bound for the speed at which the had scaps along the road. Additionally, GPSRs are notoriously bad at calculating vertical speeds, and they sample only roughly every second, so there's not much to be learned in this regard. One would need acceleration sensors to gather any meaningful data.
... and Purina dog food and Pantene whatever. When will people learn?
The transrapid people, the same who built the shanghai trains, had a working vehicle in 1971. If http://www.transrapid.de/en/information/his_txt.ht ml doesn't work for you, click on the "chronology" link.
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configurable map sizes, gives WGS84 coordinates of points on map and routes internationally.
With MFM drives before IDE,
Bzzzt! Wrong! IDE drives and MFM/RLL drives (when used with WD1003, WD1006 or compatible controllers, which everybody did) look exactly the same to the host computer. IDE is just MFM/RLL with the controller stuck under the drive and the ISA bus extended with a cable. Just check the predefined drive types in your Bios setup, that's pre-IDE non-autodetect legacy crap.
Ever heard about compilers? Some say those are great to write architecture independant code....