I don't know the name of the project, but someone is actually developing an open-source firmware package for the TI-89/92/V200 series to get around certain coding limitations in the standard OS. TICalc.org should have info, and I believe it was on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
Basically, Boston Irish politicians with more greed than good sense, James Kelly (sometime City Council president) being the most egregious. They have much in common with the yahoos who put up a racist display in a Southie bar a few years ago.
Not that I mean to tar all Southie residents with the same brush. But their elected representatives tend to be another story.
Don't forget kickbacks to the urban rednecks who run South Boston...
Romney seems to me to be a man with some integrity, though he does use typical GOP attack politics. I don't think he's a politician though. He's making a lot of enemies the way he's running the state, and I think he will wind up being the death of the Massachusetts Republican Party. It's not like there's a place for hard-right politics in New England anyway -- Bill Weld could attest to that. He was a moderate-right Republican (the kind the extremists dismiss as a RINO). Romney is a traditional conservative, and a poor fit for the state.
Not to defend Weld... he proved himself a dilettante and a social climber by moving to New York after leaving office. But he did a better job than Mitt's doing.
Well... not strictly true. The Third Harbor Tunnel project was a vestige of the Master Highway Plan of 1948, and would eventually have carried I-95 through Logan Airport property along a slightly different route than the Ted Williams and MA-1A take now. It was a completely different issue from depressing the Central Artery, and they were only combined under Mike Dukakis' second term.
Renovating the Artery probably wouldn't have been an option anyway -- it wouldn't have solved any traffic problems, and in any case, though what's left of the Artery is said to be structurally sound, the bridge that carried traffic over the Charles River isn't. It's a decrepit piece of garbage with visible cracks in the pilings and ad hoc repairs all over the place. I'm almost surprised it stayed standing until the new tunnel opened.
In any case, the only other reasonable option would be to build the Inner Belt, which was a political disaster in the 60s and 70s and wouldn't be taken seriously today.
I believe Interstate funds were used for about half of I-95 (Attleboro-Canton and Peabody-Amesbury), as well as I-84 (the Highway With A Variable Number), I-91, part of I-495, and I-195. They also would have paid for I-95 through Boston (only parts that were finished were the Central Artery and route 1, both built before the Interstate program) and the I-695 Inner Belt, which would have gutted Cambridge and Roxbury to provide the carrying capacity that the Central Artery never had; the feds would also have picked up the tab for the Western Expressway, which was a northerly plan for I-90 that would have crossed the Charles River a couple of times instead of going under the Prudential building as the Pike does. The money that was supposed to pay for the Inner Belt was cashed in to make improvements on the MBTA, mostly on the Red Line in Cambridge and Braintree.
The Southeast Expressway (I-93 south of Boston), I-290 and I-190 were, IIRC, built as state roads originally, and picked up their Interstate designation later, as did I-95 between Canton and Peabody (also the legendary Route 128).
The EIS was a bit of a shaky one anyway -- Fred Salvucci had been pushing an utterly unworkable crossing design called Scheme Z, so it basically had to be reopened in order to keep Cambridge and Charlestown from shutting the project down.
You realize not everything is based on conflicts of interest, right? There are legitimate technical reasons for opposing BPL. Making emergency communications satellite dependent is not a good idea./KB1KKC
Indeed -- it's called QRP operation, and it happens as well to be really one of the last areas in amateur radio where building your own is practical. You can do some pretty amazing things operating a simple Pixie2 radio -- for starters, a working ham rig for $10 (add your own crystal and antenna) and low-power contacts all over the world.
Also at issue -- shortwave listening, which is still a good way to get news from around the world. Not everyone can afford a net connection fast enough to stream BBC World Service.
BPL is a train wreck waiting to happen -- for it to be practical we'd need to completely redesign the power grid to use shielded delivery cable. And it's failed pretty much anywhere it's been tested.
The 83 is just about perfect for a high schooler -- the price is just about right, and it's the standard (Mead even makes a Five Star-series calculator case for them). That said, I could see HP shooting a little lower to get that market, though only if they offer some level of compatibility with the TI-83.
If you notice, the 83 is so popular that TI doesn't quite support the 86 anymore -- the current USB Graphlink cable only supports the 86 on a Mac.
Pity about that. My PC is an HP Vectra -- nonstandard mobo design, but once I swapped out the Aztech sound card for a SoundBlaster 16 (probably a step down mind you) I haven't had any complaints.
Of course, the power companies are trying to get Part 15 changed...
I think carrier current has some other issues as well, but I don't really know what they are as I've no interest in that. It does seem to be one legal way to run a pirate radio station, but there are simpler ways to do it -- just an off-the-shelf AM transmitter running at 100mW should be sufficient to cover a good fraction of a square mile.
It's called carrier current broadcasting. It's legal under Part 15 (the section of the FCC rules that covers things that don't need licensing), but I think there are certain issues involved.
Cell phones are a very bad idea for emergency services. Don't forget, cell phone towers need a power grid to transmit.
BPL is a mess. Most everyone who's tried it in Europe has abandoned it, and widespread implementation would wipe out the shortwave bands, the HF ham bands, and a good number of things (like, say, some military and aviation).
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The idea that it was a sales pitch is believable, though a bit of a stretch. Actually, my first impression was that he was being seriously hit on too.
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It would make a lot of sense, actually. I know most of Virgin's new Pulse line (at least the audio parts) include dual headphone jacks as standard equipment. I could easily see Apple copying that in future versions.
And Apple has done this before as well -- I think it was the original Stickies app, which was pretty much strongarmed away from Jens Alfke (best known as one of the OpenDoc crew).
Look. You'll believe what you'll believe, and I can't convince you otherwise. I could tell you to check out talkorigins.org (in fact I think I'll do just that, since they do a pretty thorough job of taking apart the theories of people like Duane Gish, Henry Morris, and the amusingly juvenile Kent Hovind.
But you won't go. If you were so inclined, you'd point me towards someplace like True Origins or some such, sites that provide information that isn't taken seriously because it doesn't come close to passing scientific muster. It would all get rather pointless rather quickly.
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I don't know the name of the project, but someone is actually developing an open-source firmware package for the TI-89/92/V200 series to get around certain coding limitations in the standard OS. TICalc.org should have info, and I believe it was on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
If I didn't know that people who believe what you believe existed, I'd swear you were a parody.
As for environmental science... there is so little solid science in ecology (on either side) that I buy into almost none of it.
Naw, colored pencils and Sharpies. And sometimes paintbrushes.
Basically, Boston Irish politicians with more greed than good sense, James Kelly (sometime City Council president) being the most egregious. They have much in common with the yahoos who put up a racist display in a Southie bar a few years ago.
Not that I mean to tar all Southie residents with the same brush. But their elected representatives tend to be another story.
Hanging over Storrow Drive from the Longfellow Bridge. For the last two years, though, it's been altered to read "Reverse the Curse".
And that curve is a nasty one... it could be straightened out, but then the Boston Pops wouldn't have anywhere to play on the Fourth of July.
We had lots of parking lots in 1980. That's not what you'd call a good sign in a city, though. Usually means no one can be bothered to build there.
Not so much parking now, but Boston's doing pretty well for itself in '03.
Don't forget kickbacks to the urban rednecks who run South Boston...
Romney seems to me to be a man with some integrity, though he does use typical GOP attack politics. I don't think he's a politician though. He's making a lot of enemies the way he's running the state, and I think he will wind up being the death of the Massachusetts Republican Party. It's not like there's a place for hard-right politics in New England anyway -- Bill Weld could attest to that. He was a moderate-right Republican (the kind the extremists dismiss as a RINO). Romney is a traditional conservative, and a poor fit for the state.
Not to defend Weld... he proved himself a dilettante and a social climber by moving to New York after leaving office. But he did a better job than Mitt's doing.
Well... not strictly true. The Third Harbor Tunnel project was a vestige of the Master Highway Plan of 1948, and would eventually have carried I-95 through Logan Airport property along a slightly different route than the Ted Williams and MA-1A take now. It was a completely different issue from depressing the Central Artery, and they were only combined under Mike Dukakis' second term.
Renovating the Artery probably wouldn't have been an option anyway -- it wouldn't have solved any traffic problems, and in any case, though what's left of the Artery is said to be structurally sound, the bridge that carried traffic over the Charles River isn't. It's a decrepit piece of garbage with visible cracks in the pilings and ad hoc repairs all over the place. I'm almost surprised it stayed standing until the new tunnel opened.
In any case, the only other reasonable option would be to build the Inner Belt, which was a political disaster in the 60s and 70s and wouldn't be taken seriously today.
I believe Interstate funds were used for about half of I-95 (Attleboro-Canton and Peabody-Amesbury), as well as I-84 (the Highway With A Variable Number), I-91, part of I-495, and I-195. They also would have paid for I-95 through Boston (only parts that were finished were the Central Artery and route 1, both built before the Interstate program) and the I-695 Inner Belt, which would have gutted Cambridge and Roxbury to provide the carrying capacity that the Central Artery never had; the feds would also have picked up the tab for the Western Expressway, which was a northerly plan for I-90 that would have crossed the Charles River a couple of times instead of going under the Prudential building as the Pike does. The money that was supposed to pay for the Inner Belt was cashed in to make improvements on the MBTA, mostly on the Red Line in Cambridge and Braintree.
The Southeast Expressway (I-93 south of Boston), I-290 and I-190 were, IIRC, built as state roads originally, and picked up their Interstate designation later, as did I-95 between Canton and Peabody (also the legendary Route 128).
The EIS was a bit of a shaky one anyway -- Fred Salvucci had been pushing an utterly unworkable crossing design called Scheme Z, so it basically had to be reopened in order to keep Cambridge and Charlestown from shutting the project down.
You realize not everything is based on conflicts of interest, right? There are legitimate technical reasons for opposing BPL. Making emergency communications satellite dependent is not a good idea. /KB1KKC
Except they actually want Part 15 changed so they don't have to do anything.
Indeed -- it's called QRP operation, and it happens as well to be really one of the last areas in amateur radio where building your own is practical. You can do some pretty amazing things operating a simple Pixie2 radio -- for starters, a working ham rig for $10 (add your own crystal and antenna) and low-power contacts all over the world.
Also at issue -- shortwave listening, which is still a good way to get news from around the world. Not everyone can afford a net connection fast enough to stream BBC World Service.
BPL is a train wreck waiting to happen -- for it to be practical we'd need to completely redesign the power grid to use shielded delivery cable. And it's failed pretty much anywhere it's been tested.
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Because it's there.
The 83 is just about perfect for a high schooler -- the price is just about right, and it's the standard (Mead even makes a Five Star-series calculator case for them). That said, I could see HP shooting a little lower to get that market, though only if they offer some level of compatibility with the TI-83.
If you notice, the 83 is so popular that TI doesn't quite support the 86 anymore -- the current USB Graphlink cable only supports the 86 on a Mac.
Pity about that. My PC is an HP Vectra -- nonstandard mobo design, but once I swapped out the Aztech sound card for a SoundBlaster 16 (probably a step down mind you) I haven't had any complaints.
Of course, the power companies are trying to get Part 15 changed...
I think carrier current has some other issues as well, but I don't really know what they are as I've no interest in that. It does seem to be one legal way to run a pirate radio station, but there are simpler ways to do it -- just an off-the-shelf AM transmitter running at 100mW should be sufficient to cover a good fraction of a square mile.
It's called carrier current broadcasting. It's legal under Part 15 (the section of the FCC rules that covers things that don't need licensing), but I think there are certain issues involved.
Cell phones are a very bad idea for emergency services. Don't forget, cell phone towers need a power grid to transmit.
BPL is a mess. Most everyone who's tried it in Europe has abandoned it, and widespread implementation would wipe out the shortwave bands, the HF ham bands, and a good number of things (like, say, some military and aviation).
The idea that it was a sales pitch is believable, though a bit of a stretch. Actually, my first impression was that he was being seriously hit on too.
It would make a lot of sense, actually. I know most of Virgin's new Pulse line (at least the audio parts) include dual headphone jacks as standard equipment. I could easily see Apple copying that in future versions.
Greedo spoke Quechua gibberish, if I remember correctly. And I think Nien Nunb's Sullustan was based on Ibo.
(I could have that second one very wrong, but I'm pretty certain it was some West African language, at any rate.)
And Apple has done this before as well -- I think it was the original Stickies app, which was pretty much strongarmed away from Jens Alfke (best known as one of the OpenDoc crew).
Look. You'll believe what you'll believe, and I can't convince you otherwise. I could tell you to check out talkorigins.org (in fact I think I'll do just that, since they do a pretty thorough job of taking apart the theories of people like Duane Gish, Henry Morris, and the amusingly juvenile Kent Hovind.
But you won't go. If you were so inclined, you'd point me towards someplace like True Origins or some such, sites that provide information that isn't taken seriously because it doesn't come close to passing scientific muster. It would all get rather pointless rather quickly.
There is evidence.
There is a mechanism. As a matter of fact, there's a number of them.
There are missing links. They just don't fit the odd shoehorn definitions that creationists insist they have to fit.
But then you could find all this out if you decalcified your brain long enough to do the research. So I don't know why I'm bothering to respond.