The reason the ISM band exists is because it is not very useful for anything. For the very same reason that my microwave oven heats up my left-over curry (because it is 'absorbed' by the water) microwave communications really dont work well around organic things.
The phenomenon is called green fade. Good luck trying to get a wavelan lan running in a jungle, the vegetation attenuates the signal badly. Or a rainstorm for that matter.
Dunno, but Lucent cards have a 'microwave oven supression' feature built in to them.
Anyone know what sort of spectrum a microwave brain toaster puts out? You would think regulations would keep it pretty narrowband for just this reason.
Heh, the popcorn thing reminds me of a darwin award contender:-)
I have both a DELL i500e notebook (1600x1200 15") and a Sony CPD-M151 TFT monitor (1024x768 15") and the colour on the sony is definately much richer. I'm no expert but I definitely think the colour quality of the sony is right up there with a CRT.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.whirlpool.net.au/
where people vent their spleen over both Telstra and Optus, the only providers of cable net access in Australia (and only to the select few at that).
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Telstra has several million enemies. Their marketing division try to spin things a bit tho' - they refer to them as customers.
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I'm pretty sure that any method of extracting energy (kinetic) from wave motion actually has the effect of slowing down the earth.
;^)
We could just throw in a few more leap seconds here and there, or after long enough we could get a 'timeslip' a la KSR's mars trilogy.
It could take a while though
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The reason the ISM band exists is because it is not very useful for anything. For the very same reason that my microwave oven heats up my left-over curry (because it is 'absorbed' by the water) microwave communications really dont work well around organic things.
The phenomenon is called green fade. Good luck trying to get a wavelan lan running in a jungle, the vegetation attenuates the signal badly. Or a rainstorm for that matter.
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mmm... sounds like Amos back from the dead.
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Now I just want to know what names they have given the chips
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Dunno, but Lucent cards have a 'microwave oven supression' feature built in to them.
:-)
Anyone know what sort of spectrum a microwave brain toaster puts out? You would think regulations would keep it pretty narrowband for just this reason.
Heh, the popcorn thing reminds me of a darwin award contender
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I have both a DELL i500e notebook (1600x1200 15") and a Sony CPD-M151 TFT monitor (1024x768 15") and the colour on the sony is definately much richer. I'm no expert but I definitely think the colour quality of the sony is right up there with a CRT.
:-)
Once you switch to TFTs you can never go back
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Sounds very much like AT&T and their policy of giving UNIX source to educational institutions on the cheap.
Chances are if kiddies go through university using unix they will prefer to use it once out in the wide wide world.
hey, don't forget channel 29.
I love my fishtank-cam and latvian dancing programs...
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FREE MARS! You can never go back. .apologies to KSR.
I was under the impression that MIPS was the original development platform for NT? I think it was ported to i386 afterwards.
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I'll never forgive MS and the Q for killing the alpha port, but it did give me a good excuse to put FreeBSD on my AlphaStation
No no, they should reverse the phase of their shields.
Has anyone taken a look at the FS in AtheOS? (featured on /. recently)
The feature list makes it sound a lot like the BFS used in BeOS which is absolutely fantastic.
And it is GPLed, for all you linux fanatics. Of course I have no idea it it could possibly be integrated into a unix...
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