And how much did "your enterprise" pay them to maintain their "methods and products" ?
Those of you who donate regularly to FSF, please raise your hand. The others? If you are concerned about this, start donating some $$$ to FSF so that they can hire more people.
the antenna was designed the night before the contest, its component parts were purchased for $98 at Home Depot, and the next day it was built completely from scratch in the desert, on the side of the mountain, in the rain...
You forgot to add "...while walking uphill, in a blinding snowstorm..." followed by the obligatory "... and we liked it!".
If he was a proficent enough computer user to be able to run Linux, he should just as easily been able to buy a white box system or built his own from scratch.
Read the article: he bought a LAPTOP. It is awfully hard to buy an x86 laptop without a Microsoft OS on it.
Maybe someone at the Pentagon is trying to learn from this? Remember, greed makes people do stupid things. If some low-level operative knew of an impending attack, s/he might be tempted to make a quick buck on this "futures market".
Theoretically, it seems like an interesting idea (aside from the various moral/political aspects).
The question is: why the Pentagon? Couldn't they have just used a shell company to do this, and accessed the realtime data?
Is it my imagination, or is every technology with potential for abuse being labelled "Peer-to-Peer" these days? The label makes no sense for this technology.
I don't remember ever receiving an e-mail that actually had any content requiring it to be HTML.
Until recently, I thought so too, till I ordered a laptop from HP. Their ordering system sends all the notices (order being processed, shipped, etc. etc.) in only HTML.
One would think that a company like HP with its resources would know better, but... <sigh>
"I can do it better" ?
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I have been considering doing one too. But I can't seem to find a decent capture card for Linux that will do realtime MPEG2 (or even MPEG1) compression in hardware, so that you can pause live TV, record one show while watching another, etc.
What I don't understand is how this happens when it seems clear to me that people have learned to compete with Microsoft, arguably the most anti-competitive entity in the business, so why is it that they cannot compete with Apple, a company with significantly fewer software titles
Maybe because Micro$oft does not put out a competing version of a video editing tool (like Premier), or a high-end image manipulation tool (like Photoshop)?
It looks like Adobe realised that the market wasn't big enough for 2 players. So why waste resources? If the numbers aren't enough to justify staying in the game, might as well pull out.
If the spectrum used by 802.11b gets flooded by ISPs, cell phone companies, and other commercial users, it will become useless for its primary purpose: networking and communications within an organization or home.
Geez. Its already too crowded: thats why the FCC doesn't regulate it. It isn't called "ISM" for nothing. Lots of things give off radiation in this range (including your microwave), so they decided to open it up.
IIRC, Canadians aren't allowed to watch DTH (direct to home) TV. If the satellite companies are beaming DTH programming to Canadian homes, and Canadians aren't given the option of buying the programming, what are their options?
Note: I'm not taking any sides here, just bringing up a fact.
Don't count Chipzilla to just roll over and play dead. They have already warned MoBo manufacturers not to turn the i865 into the i875. I wonder how many will heed the warning? Its not as if there are major alternatives out there (note, I said "major").
This looks very promising (except, maybe, to the people manning this machine: they'll probably get sick of watching fat people "naked" for hours at a time).
How difficult would it be to make a portable version of this? Imagine, if you will, a portable version that could be discreetly carried around (maybe even in a van or something). I bet suicide bombings would soon become a thing of the past.
IANARS, but just look at the problem: to keep a solar-powered airplane flying for 4 days. Given this, I can see why the engineers would have tried to pare this thing down to the bone. Each extra gram (or ounce, pick your units) matters. You are at the absolute edge of the performance figures for each of the components. The slightest flaw can break things (as it obviously did).
However much I might hate lawyers (and IANAL, obviously), I think, sadly, things like this can only be fixed by lawsuits filed by the affected students. This is just too stupid on the school's part.
This takes the cake:
"I don't see this as such a huge news story," Superintendent Mary Frances Callan said...
No, because they likely could get better performance on the PPC with a different compiler, too. Think on.
Then why doesn't Apple submit those results to SPEC?
Honestly speaking: if Apple (or any other vendor in this situation, for that matter) could get higher benchmark numbers through any legitimate means possible, they would ! If by switching to a different compiler they'd get higher benchmark results, they would have done it in an instant.
These newer builds don't support XFT out of the box. Of course, I could rebuild it from source (an endeavor akin to watching grass grow), but is there any place I could download the latest (gasp!) RPM with full XFT support? Now that I have seen the anti-aliased and smoothed fonts in all their glory, going back to the old font rendering is about as painful as sticking a fork in my eye.
The author is taking a broader view (a "humanist" view, if you will) of the current state of affairs. To quote him,
This all sounds great fun, but only in a society where all our basic needs are met could we be so pleasurably diverted by gadgets. It's not only fun to be excited by the latest gadget, it gives us the feeling too that we're part of the forward flow of life. It also gives us something easy to talk about: we make connections with people by discussing what our gadgets can do, even by laughing at our own silliness.
He has a point. Look back at the inventors of the really useful devices (like the steam engine, the airplane, electricity, lightbulb, etc.), and see how many of these were invented in the "won't it be cool to do this!" spirit, and how many were in the "if I invent this, it will change the future!" spirit.
It could be that today, thanks to the ubiquitous media, the "gadget" inventions are getting a lot more coverage than the "earth-shattering" inventions. In the old days, these "gadget" inventions probably never made it out of the inventor's shack.
In October 2002, a set of avionic equipment was tested under controlled conditions in a test chamber for susceptibility to cellphone interference. General aviation avionic equipment, representative of earlier analogue and digital technologies, was used. The equipment, comprising a VHF communication transceiver, a VOR/ILS navigation receiver and associated indicators, together with a gyro-stabilised remote reading compass system, was assembled to create an integrated system.
The tests covered the cellphone transmission frequencies of 412 (Tetra), 940 (GSM) and 1719MHz, including simultaneous exposure to 940 and 1719MHz. The applied interference field strengths were up to 50 volts/metre for a single frequency, and 35 volts/metre for dual frequencies.
The following anomalies were seen at interference levels above 30 volts/metre, a level that can be produced by a cellphone operating at maximum power and located 30cms from the victim equipment or its wiring harness.
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I am wondering: how realistic is a test which assumes that the phone will be 30cm from the equipment?
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Those of you who donate regularly to FSF, please raise your hand. The others? If you are concerned about this, start donating some $$$ to FSF so that they can hire more people.
You forgot to add "...while walking uphill, in a blinding snowstorm..." followed by the obligatory "... and we liked it!".
Read the article: he bought a LAPTOP. It is awfully hard to buy an x86 laptop without a Microsoft OS on it.
Maybe someone at the Pentagon is trying to learn from this? Remember, greed makes people do stupid things. If some low-level operative knew of an impending attack, s/he might be tempted to make a quick buck on this "futures market".
Theoretically, it seems like an interesting idea (aside from the various moral/political aspects).
The question is: why the Pentagon? Couldn't they have just used a shell company to do this, and accessed the realtime data?
Yes, IRTFA.
That would be interesting.
Until recently, I thought so too, till I ordered a laptop from HP. Their ordering system sends all the notices (order being processed, shipped, etc. etc.) in only HTML.
One would think that a company like HP with its resources would know better, but... <sigh>
Any ideas?
Few weeks?? In today's economy, and with the RIAA's budget, I'd put the figure at a few hours!
I wonder if there is a market out there for such 'convergence' devices?
Maybe because Micro$oft does not put out a competing version of a video editing tool (like Premier), or a high-end image manipulation tool (like Photoshop)?
It looks like Adobe realised that the market wasn't big enough for 2 players. So why waste resources? If the numbers aren't enough to justify staying in the game, might as well pull out.
Geez. Its already too crowded: thats why the FCC doesn't regulate it. It isn't called "ISM" for nothing. Lots of things give off radiation in this range (including your microwave), so they decided to open it up.
And why exactly is this ironic ?
Note: I'm not taking any sides here, just bringing up a fact.
How difficult would it be to make a portable version of this? Imagine, if you will, a portable version that could be discreetly carried around (maybe even in a van or something). I bet suicide bombings would soon become a thing of the past.
This takes the cake: "I don't see this as such a huge news story," Superintendent Mary Frances Callan said ...
'nough said.
Then why doesn't Apple submit those results to SPEC?
Honestly speaking: if Apple (or any other vendor in this situation, for that matter) could get higher benchmark numbers through any legitimate means possible, they would ! If by switching to a different compiler they'd get higher benchmark results, they would have done it in an instant.
This all sounds great fun, but only in a society where all our basic needs are met could we be so pleasurably diverted by gadgets. It's not only fun to be excited by the latest gadget, it gives us the feeling too that we're part of the forward flow of life. It also gives us something easy to talk about: we make connections with people by discussing what our gadgets can do, even by laughing at our own silliness.
He has a point. Look back at the inventors of the really useful devices (like the steam engine, the airplane, electricity, lightbulb, etc.), and see how many of these were invented in the "won't it be cool to do this!" spirit, and how many were in the "if I invent this, it will change the future!" spirit.
It could be that today, thanks to the ubiquitous media, the "gadget" inventions are getting a lot more coverage than the "earth-shattering" inventions. In the old days, these "gadget" inventions probably never made it out of the inventor's shack.
From the executive summary:
In October 2002, a set of avionic equipment was tested under controlled conditions in a test chamber for susceptibility to cellphone interference. General aviation avionic equipment, representative of earlier analogue and digital technologies, was used. The equipment, comprising a VHF communication transceiver, a VOR/ILS navigation receiver and associated indicators, together with a gyro-stabilised remote reading compass system, was assembled to create an integrated system.
The tests covered the cellphone transmission frequencies of 412 (Tetra), 940 (GSM) and 1719MHz, including simultaneous exposure to 940 and 1719MHz. The applied interference field strengths were up to 50 volts/metre for a single frequency, and 35 volts/metre for dual frequencies.
The following anomalies were seen at interference levels above 30 volts/metre, a level that can be produced by a cellphone operating at maximum power and located 30cms from the victim equipment or its wiring harness.
snip
I am wondering: how realistic is a test which assumes that the phone will be 30cm from the equipment?