If you're only "reasonably certain" of something, you might want to Google a bit. According to the ARRL, the reasonable accommodation rule applies to ham antennas too.
Actually, FCC rules trump housing covenants. I used to work for a homeowners management company, and sat through more discussions of antenna rules than I like to think about. I don't know the current rules for amateur antennas, but I do know the FCC won't let local entities ban commercial (usually satellite dish) antennas when there isn't an alternative (such as cable) for receiving the same broadcast. In turn, the owner of the antenna has to work with the local entity to minimize the eyesore factor.
What's really been bad for ham radio is the growth of new technologies. Radio used to be the main outlet for people with fiddle with tech. But back in the 80s, when computers became a consumer item, they attracted a lot of people who might have become hams, or were already hams, and had become bored with it.
FWIW, the "ham" in ham radio radio is not an abbreviation. It's just ham.
FWIW, "ham" has been slang for "amateur" for a few centuries, though nowadays it usually refers to an inept actor.
"Amateur" originally meant somebody who does something because they love doing it; nowadays the word suggests more enthusiasm than skill, which hardly applies to radio amateurs. Hence the popularity of the slang term.
It's interesting that hams continue to play a key role in disaster response even as communication technology gets more and more sophisticated and cheap, to the point where most people carry around wireless communications devices of some sort. I guess there will always be a need for somebody who can improvise a replacement for a crashed communication network.
Remember back in the '90s when sites would say 'Optimized for Netscape Navigator?' Users switch browsers when the sites they like have more features in one specific browser.
No they don't. Maybe they did back in the 90s, when the web was still new to most people, Microsoft was lagging way behind in Internet technology, and there were a slew of competing web browsers.
Also, those "Optimized for NN" blurbs were motivated by that fact that NN has a whole lot of non-standard features, just like IE does now. Netscape had a better excuse than Microsoft (W3C was taking its sweet time getting specifications out the door, and Netscape had revenue opportunities that couldn't wait) but they still took a lot of flack for it.
If you think that users will go to the trouble of installing a new browser just because they see an "optimized for" blurb, you are totally out of touch with the ordinary user experience. Non-techies don't like to experiment. Not only do they avoid installing new software, they avoid unnecessary fiddling with the software they do have. They live in constant fear of "breaking something". Slashdotters and other techies seem totally incapable of grasping this simple fact. Or if they do, they sweep it under their mental rug with "most people are stupid" or other bigotry.
If anything the pressure works the other way: people are afraid to switch away from IE because so many sites don't work well — or at all — in other browsers. I myself have a "view in IE" button on my Firefox toolbar, and I use it a lot. Netflix instant viewing still only works on IE. And every once in a while I find a multimedia site that doesn't work the way its supposed to in Firefox. Maybe I need to tweak the appropriate plugins, but I can't be bothered.
Argue all you want about causes and effects. The objective fact is that alternative browsers still have maybe 10% of the market. Yes, that's growing, but unless it starts growing a lot faster, IE will still be the dominant browser for both our lifetimes. And as long as that's the case, web developers have to support IE.
You're kind of offtopic. Yeah, IE CSS sucks. But Microsoft's poor support for standards has never prevented their products from being adopted. The developers just grit their teeth and use the non-standard Microsoft equivalent. They have to, because Microsoft technology dominates so many markets. In particular, IE7 still has almost 90% of the browser user base. You can't write a web app and ignore 90% of your potential users!
But in TFA we're talking about lousy Microsoft support for Microsoft technology. It's one thing to tell a developer "my way or the highway;" it's quite another to tell them "sorry, you can't do that with our technology, period." That reminds developers that MS is in the nasty habit of leaving developers high and dry when they lose interest in a technology. That makes it very hard to convince Flash developers that they should switch to Silverlight.
Unfortunately, this disenchantment does not translate to abandonment of IE. The choice of which browser to use is up to the individual user. Who's typically a non-techie who doesn't know or care about standards compliance and such.
By selling technology based on these open-source products. OpenSolaris is particularly important in this respect, because Sun is still primarily a hardware vendor, and the more features Solaris has, the more sellable are Solaris-based systems. Also, like all high-end hardware vendors, Sun is becoming more and more a service provider and system integrator. The better the software is, the easier it is to sell these services. The fact that anybody can use the software without paying for it is actually a plus, because it makes the software a de facto standard.
Believe it or not, the entire Open Source industry is based on this logic. Companies spend big bucks creating or extending OS software. Usually they just hire programmers to do it, but offering prizes to eager volunteers is better publicity, and much cheaper.
The article wanders off into human-interest territory
"Wanders?" The human interest part is most of the article! Not everybody thinks that a new spam filter is more interesting than a person's struggle to survive.
I probably should stop myself from counter-nitpicking this particular nitpick. The important fact here is that RFC920 has never been enforced and wasn't all the realistic to begin with. To argue about the precise meaning of rules that have never been enforced (Does Slashdot violate the RFC by being commercial or by being not a non-profit?) is kind of silly.
Is there a single American business guy who is fundementally against George W. Bush and successful? There are plenty. Notice all the anti-Bush politicians running for President? All the serious ones are spending huge amounts of money on their campaigns. And where do you think they get all that money? Mostly from businesspeople who hope to have their ear when they're running the country.
Don't give Soros example since it is clear that he is playing some "bad cop" game serving interests of USA and CIA with his "open society" (!) thing. Obvious to you, maybe. To me it's obvious that you can explain away any contrary evidence if you assume a big enough conspiracy. Hey, maybe the FSB is paying you to spread disinformation...
Is there a single high end business guy who will hang up the phone if president of USA calls? What would happen if he does? Jeez, I'd accept a call from GWB, if only to tell him how much he pisses me off.
As for consequences of going against GWB: yeah, our president has been known to abuse his authority. You may have noticed that this has got him into trouble. Putin seems able to get away with anything.
I am not defending Putin, I am just saying it is how the entire planet in this economic/political system works. In other words, you've given up. Forgive the rest of us for not sharing your apathy.
Alexander Mamut, one of SUP's main investors (or possibly its owner -- I've seen both descriptions in articles), apparently has some ties to Putin
Nowadays, there ane two kinds of Russian businessmen: those with ties to Putin, and those that are out of business. Basically, they're back to the state running the economy.
Even without your comments, your submission is way too long. You quoted nearly one third of the article! Next time, take the time to summarize the article in a few sentences. Not only will that make room for your opinions, it will make for a more readable submission that's more likely to he accepted.
Many news-sites are actually reporting this as a merger between Vivendi and Activision (perhaps more of a semantic distinction
That's like saying there's a "semantic" distinction between fruit and fruit trees. Vivendi owns several media and telecom businesses. (In fact, they used to be a major player in the media world, with movie studios, cable networks, and more. But that's another story.) Not only will this new company be a small part of Vivendi's operation, but Vivendi will share ownership with Activision's former stockholders.
Yeah, dinosaurs are extinct now. But they were around for millions of years before that hypothetical meteor (not an ice age) took them out. We should be so lucky. There's a huge advantage to hugeness, and both Comcast and T. Rex know how to use it.
Since when did accuracy or fact checking have anything to do with "new media"? NM is about reports that are fasts not accurate, and the "wisdom of the crowd", not expertise.
Apple has every reason not to do that, because it will mean there will be no more native versions of high-profile applications such as Photoshop.
So what? In case you hadn't noticed, Apple is a hardware vendor. They make money selling systems. If the Mac version of Photoshop disappears, but they can still run the Windows version, they haven't lost anything. And if they get access to the 90% of the market that has to he able to him Windows applications they are way ahead of the game.
...the show's title is taken from an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair?. Beside the point. How could you make a show like this and not have a "...rama" title? Otherwise, Homer Simpson might not watch it!
As you may have noticed, most moderators define "insightful" as "You are *so* right!" And hey, if they can't be bothered to read TFA (which clearly spells out the TOS issue) they're not going to read Slashdot's moderation definitions. Or if the do, they don't care (see my sig).
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If you're only "reasonably certain" of something, you might want to Google a bit. According to the ARRL, the reasonable accommodation rule applies to ham antennas too.
Because one word is more concise than four?
Actually, FCC rules trump housing covenants. I used to work for a homeowners management company, and sat through more discussions of antenna rules than I like to think about. I don't know the current rules for amateur antennas, but I do know the FCC won't let local entities ban commercial (usually satellite dish) antennas when there isn't an alternative (such as cable) for receiving the same broadcast. In turn, the owner of the antenna has to work with the local entity to minimize the eyesore factor.
What's really been bad for ham radio is the growth of new technologies. Radio used to be the main outlet for people with fiddle with tech. But back in the 80s, when computers became a consumer item, they attracted a lot of people who might have become hams, or were already hams, and had become bored with it.
"Amateur" originally meant somebody who does something because they love doing it; nowadays the word suggests more enthusiasm than skill, which hardly applies to radio amateurs. Hence the popularity of the slang term.
It's interesting that hams continue to play a key role in disaster response even as communication technology gets more and more sophisticated and cheap, to the point where most people carry around wireless communications devices of some sort. I guess there will always be a need for somebody who can improvise a replacement for a crashed communication network.
Also, those "Optimized for NN" blurbs were motivated by that fact that NN has a whole lot of non-standard features, just like IE does now. Netscape had a better excuse than Microsoft (W3C was taking its sweet time getting specifications out the door, and Netscape had revenue opportunities that couldn't wait) but they still took a lot of flack for it.
If you think that users will go to the trouble of installing a new browser just because they see an "optimized for" blurb, you are totally out of touch with the ordinary user experience. Non-techies don't like to experiment. Not only do they avoid installing new software, they avoid unnecessary fiddling with the software they do have. They live in constant fear of "breaking something". Slashdotters and other techies seem totally incapable of grasping this simple fact. Or if they do, they sweep it under their mental rug with "most people are stupid" or other bigotry.
If anything the pressure works the other way: people are afraid to switch away from IE because so many sites don't work well — or at all — in other browsers. I myself have a "view in IE" button on my Firefox toolbar, and I use it a lot. Netflix instant viewing still only works on IE. And every once in a while I find a multimedia site that doesn't work the way its supposed to in Firefox. Maybe I need to tweak the appropriate plugins, but I can't be bothered.
Argue all you want about causes and effects. The objective fact is that alternative browsers still have maybe 10% of the market. Yes, that's growing, but unless it starts growing a lot faster, IE will still be the dominant browser for both our lifetimes. And as long as that's the case, web developers have to support IE.
You're kind of offtopic. Yeah, IE CSS sucks. But Microsoft's poor support for standards has never prevented their products from being adopted. The developers just grit their teeth and use the non-standard Microsoft equivalent. They have to, because Microsoft technology dominates so many markets. In particular, IE7 still has almost 90% of the browser user base. You can't write a web app and ignore 90% of your potential users!
But in TFA we're talking about lousy Microsoft support for Microsoft technology. It's one thing to tell a developer "my way or the highway;" it's quite another to tell them "sorry, you can't do that with our technology, period." That reminds developers that MS is in the nasty habit of leaving developers high and dry when they lose interest in a technology. That makes it very hard to convince Flash developers that they should switch to Silverlight.
Unfortunately, this disenchantment does not translate to abandonment of IE. The choice of which browser to use is up to the individual user. Who's typically a non-techie who doesn't know or care about standards compliance and such.
By selling technology based on these open-source products. OpenSolaris is particularly important in this respect, because Sun is still primarily a hardware vendor, and the more features Solaris has, the more sellable are Solaris-based systems. Also, like all high-end hardware vendors, Sun is becoming more and more a service provider and system integrator. The better the software is, the easier it is to sell these services. The fact that anybody can use the software without paying for it is actually a plus, because it makes the software a de facto standard.
Believe it or not, the entire Open Source industry is based on this logic. Companies spend big bucks creating or extending OS software. Usually they just hire programmers to do it, but offering prizes to eager volunteers is better publicity, and much cheaper.
Also true, but that doesn't change the fact that our anonymous poster is full of shit.
They're also now instructed to blow their noses after using pepper spray. Yes mom!
In other words, Zonk strikes again!
This is not the case. I found it online mentors great way to learn English.
Trump is a business man? I thought he was a reality show personality. You know, like Paris Hilton.
I probably should stop myself from counter-nitpicking this particular nitpick. The important fact here is that RFC920 has never been enforced and wasn't all the realistic to begin with. To argue about the precise meaning of rules that have never been enforced (Does Slashdot violate the RFC by being commercial or by being not a non-profit?) is kind of silly.
The relevant section from RFC920:
GOV = Government, any government related domains meeting the
second level requirements.
EDU = Education, any education related domains meeting the
second level requirements.
COM = Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the
second level requirements.
MIL = Military, any military related domains meeting the
second level requirements.
ORG = Organization, any other domains meeting the second
level requirements.
Now, what kind of of organization isn't governmental, educational, commercial, or military? A non-profit.
As for consequences of going against GWB: yeah, our president has been known to abuse his authority. You may have noticed that this has got him into trouble. Putin seems able to get away with anything. I am not defending Putin, I am just saying it is how the entire planet in this economic/political system works. In other words, you've given up. Forgive the rest of us for not sharing your apathy.
Even without your comments, your submission is way too long. You quoted nearly one third of the article! Next time, take the time to summarize the article in a few sentences. Not only will that make room for your opinions, it will make for a more readable submission that's more likely to he accepted.
Yeah, dinosaurs are extinct now. But they were around for millions of years before that hypothetical meteor (not an ice age) took them out. We should be so lucky. There's a huge advantage to hugeness, and both Comcast and T. Rex know how to use it.
Since when did accuracy or fact checking have anything to do with "new media"? NM is about reports that are fasts not accurate, and the "wisdom of the crowd", not expertise.
...the show's title is taken from an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair?. Beside the point. How could you make a show like this and not have a "...rama" title? Otherwise, Homer Simpson might not watch it!