The processors are designed to perform basic tasks, such as word processing...
That's officially the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Just a quick FYI... terraserver images are not copyright of Microsoft... the technical name for the images are "Digital Ortho Quadrangle" and their supplied by the USGS. Microsoft can claim copyright on the interface, etc., but not the images.
You can obtain more information about DOQs on the USGS web site. Start by searching google...
I can't believe the parent is a +5... perhaps the moderators just saw a long post and figured it must be worth +5, without even reading the content first.
First of all, there would be little (if any) voltage induced on the pump handle. BUT...there wouldn't be any current... voltage by itself is pretty worthless without current to make something happen. BUT... if you happened to induce a small voltage on the pump handle (1 milliwatt - I'm being generous) with your little cell phone, wheres the current going to flow? That's right, nowhere... there's no complete circuit. In fact, you're likely to get more RF energy out of your car when the engine is running than when you're on your cell phone.
"Under certain conditions of dimensions and position there are resonances at some of the cellular frequencies..."
No.
... which will magnify the actual voltage to the level where a spark will occur.
No. Resonance does not "magnify" voltage. Here's a quick definition of resonance for you... "Condition in a circuit when, for an applied alternating voltage of a given frequency, the inductive and capacitive reactances are equal."
Ok, so you might be thinking, "well, antennas resonate and that's how we receive radio waves". Well bucko, an antenna resonates because it's part of a circuit containing inductors and capictors which make it resonate at the desired frequency. The current created through the inductors still needs to be amplified many times before it's strong enough to drive a speaker! AND, even then, it's probably still not enough current to create a spark!
A gas pump handle has few qualities of inductance. Obviously, it's not going to resonate without some type of inductor... and last time I checked, there's nothing remotely close to an inductor in a gas pump handle.
Discovery channel has already done a great job of killing this myth. Fires at the pump are caused by static discharge. Period. When a driver gets out of the car, they create a shit load (pun) of static potential when their ass slides across the car seat. This is less likely to happen with old people because they almost always need to grab the car to assist their exit, thus grounding the static charge.
But, for us "young" people, it's common to get out of the car without ever grounding. Happens to me all the time... 9/10 times when I go to shut the door, I expect to get a static shock. Happens so often that I'm now very careful at the pump. Discharge on your car, before you accidentally/unknowingly discharge into the pump.
Static discharge will create an open spark!! What more do you need for ignition?? Fuel, spark, oxygen. Fire. Resonance? Sorry bucko, doesn't work.
Why does it seem like I'm the only one getting a taxidermy site when I click the link for Evergreen Aviation?
Maybe they've gone to the other end of the spectrum... an entire flock of radio controlled, stuffed birds converted to "tanker" use, able to carry 1 cup of water in a single drop.
I agree with this, and it's my opinion that 802.11a/b/g with TCP/IP or UDP is a generic enough transport that any type of data should be able to be handled effeciently... plus, just as the original poster wrote, 802.11a/b/g will "enable communication between a variety of devices, such as set-top boxes, HDTVs, tuners, and DVD players, all of which will be able to interoperate in home networks".
So, what am I missing here? How is this any better than just building 802.11a/b/g enabled devices?
Sasser, unlike a virus which travels through e-mails and attachments, spreads directly from the internet.
Are you kidding me? By this definition, Sasser *IS* a virus, unlike everything else, which are Worms.
It seems that we've been living in the land of email worms for so long that most people don't know how to deal with a real virus. Yeah, that's what they do... they spread without your help. Geez!
Ok, so A9 is supposed to be "better" than google? Well, on my first search on a9 just a moment ago, I searched on "amazon sucks" (completely irrelevant to this post)... and then pressed the "back" button on the search results page. Well, guess what?!?! A9 has a back-button-trap making the "back" button basically useless on their site.
So, they're supposed to be better than google? What about google's clean, simple, no BS web design approach? That's google's value!! Don't you get it Amazon?!?!? Well of course not! Take a direct look at Amazon.com and you'll get an idea of Amazon's design principles.
... and bless New Hampshire too for not having sales tax or income tax.
After doing 3 years worth of work on a project under the direction of the State of Maine, a few things became very apparent to me. State governments are very inefficient -- and thus it takes more money each year to accomplish the same thing. Combine the general inefficiency with new government programs every year, and you'll quickly see that with a few exceptions, your state is likely out of control.
I happen to live in Maine at the moment, although New Hampshire is my "home land". Maine is the highest taxed state in the union. If you'd like a day long project some time, just for fun, add up all the money your government takes from you... start with the obvious stuff like taxes, and then move on to fees and tolls, etc. In maine, a little more than 50% of my income goes to government (federal and state combined).
Payroll taxes, sales tax, use tax, excise tax, room/meals tax, license fees (multiple), highway tolls, hidden taxes in communication bills, bottle deposits and so on.
But if you really think about it... the worst part is that all of these taxes -- in most cases -- are paid with money that has already been taxed once. Before you even cash your paycheck, the government has already skimmed off the top... and a good portion too! How many of you actually take a good look at your pay stubs and notice the 25%+ OF YOUR MONEY that the government simply took from you? What do you get for it? Well, you get to pay sales taxes on stuff you buy with the remaining 75%. You get to pay excise taxes on the car you drive. You get to pay taxes on the gas you put into the car -- and it's your prime pleasure to be stuck in line at the grocery store while a welfare mother pays for her food with your money. You know, she's the one with the food stamps pile, the WIC pile, and then the pile of 2 or 3 misc items that she pays for with a $100 bill.
I think I've had enough taxation. The revolutionary war was all about freedom from opressive taxes... yet we've turned into a country far more opressive than the one we fought against!
Interesting that you mention pluto's orbital plane. I was just thinking about that... I believe that pluto is probably the only "normal" planet in our solar system. IANAA, but I don't see any real reason why all the other planets must exist in the same orbital plane, but they do... likely the result of billions of years of orbits and alignment of the orbit due to preturbations such as gravity from the other planets.
So, in a couple of billion years, when pluto's orbit arrives on the same freak plane as all the other planets, would you then consider it a planet? Nobody said the planets must orbit in the same plane... they just happen to, like freaks of nature.
Anyone remember the company AllAdvantage (was that really the name?) that paid users to click on ads during the dotcom boom? I remember almost everyone was into it... people were making hundreds, even thousands of dollers per month.
Of course, none of the ad traffic was legitimate! There were tons and tons of scripts and programs that would click the ads for you... set it up to run all night, go to sleep, wake up rich in the morning. That's probably why the thing was so popular!
I remember the comany would implement anti-cheat methods every couple of weeks, even to the point of tracking mouse movements... the idea being that if the mouse wasn't moving, but clicks were coming in, then it was a cheat.
Ok, well... as always, cheaters take things to the next level. The ultimate cheat was one that surfed the web from a pre-determined list of web sites, while randomly moving the mouse cursor around the screen, and clicking every couple of seconds. Worked like a charm!
No more AllAdvantage.
Google has more sophisticated technology than AllAdvantage though... its almost impossible to cheat google. Even if this dumb-ass really did write a program to click ads on his own sites, google would catch that. There's AdSense partners getting canned every day for suspicion of cheating, when sometimes it's only as simple as an innocent erroneous click on their own ads. It happens... check the adsense forums. I doubt this guy would have been able to execute much of his plan successfully.
"Extrude-a-house"... imagine it more like this: "Shit-a-house". A big lumbering piece of equipments moves over your property and shits you a new house. Sweet.
UO-11 and Landsat-5 were launched together on a Delta rocket from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California. (info from AMSAT)
AMSAT-UK is issuing 1000 special edition QSL cards to radio amateurs world-wide that submit signal/reception reports from the satellite during the month of March. Super-special edition QSL cards are given to radio amateurs who submit signal reports on March 1 (today), the satellite's anniversay.
For the non-ham-operators among us, a QSL card (not SQL) is basically a post-card that hams send each other after making contact.
So earlier today, remembering that I had read about the March 1st QSL cards, I pulled up my handy sat prediction software (PREDICT) along with the equally handy gsat client, updated keplerian elements, synced my pc's time so I could achieve the most accurate predictions possible.
Had a good pass of UO-11 with about 50 degrees at elevation at 3:45 this afternoon (20:45 UTC)... went out to the jeep and hooked my quad-band Yaesu VX-7R into a 5/8th wave magmount antenna (2-meter band) hoping to get the best possible reception I could with my gear. Adjusted for frequency doppler, and BAM! There it was... I had UO-11's telemetry on 145.825... got nice and loud during mid-pass... record a WAV file of the telemetry when the signal was at it's best. When the sat was exiting my half of north america, I was still faintly hearing the telemetry on 145.820, adjusted down for doppler.
So, of course, I submitted my signal report to AMSAT-UK this afternoon. They're going to verify my data, and I get a gold star when they're done. Today, I reached a new pinnacle of geekdom. Long live the hams!
You're missing the point... of course they didn't have anything to do with producing the film... but they proudly link to it as an accomplishment of their software. Try to picture Microsoft proudly touting their software being shown in a porn flick. Prob wouldn't happen... It's just an interesting point to ponder.
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They claim that the bulk of the effort in a computer repair is moving the computer and the necessary parts together.
Hey! UPS' own incompetence is finally paying off!
1. Obstruct and make shipping process as difficult as possible.
2. ????
3. Profit from Toshiba
So, let me get this straight ... your solution to avoid an afternoon of mowing the lawn is to spend several months automating your lawn mower?? Sweet.
OH... and it had one of those mHz displays on the front, and with one press of the magical turbo button, I could go from 25 to 33 flat!
Yeah, I had a CDROM and 8MB RAM in mine ;) It was a source envy.
The processors are designed to perform basic tasks, such as word processing...
That's officially the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Just a quick FYI... terraserver images are not copyright of Microsoft ... the technical name for the images are "Digital Ortho Quadrangle" and their supplied by the USGS. Microsoft can claim copyright on the interface, etc., but not the images.
You can obtain more information about DOQs on the USGS web site. Start by searching google...
These nanobatteries, to be introduced before the end of 2005, will last longer than traditional ones and will be respectful of our environment.
I miss the good old days, when you could chuck a battery into the woods and melt the skin off passing wildlife. Yeah, those were the days.
I can't believe the parent is a +5 ... perhaps the moderators just saw a long post and figured it must be worth +5, without even reading the content first.
.. .there wouldn't be any current... voltage by itself is pretty worthless without current to make something happen. BUT... if you happened to induce a small voltage on the pump handle (1 milliwatt - I'm being generous) with your little cell phone, wheres the current going to flow? That's right, nowhere ... there's no complete circuit. In fact, you're likely to get more RF energy out of your car when the engine is running than when you're on your cell phone.
... which will magnify the actual voltage to the level where a spark will occur.
... 9/10 times when I go to shut the door, I expect to get a static shock. Happens so often that I'm now very careful at the pump. Discharge on your car, before you accidentally/unknowingly discharge into the pump.
First of all, there would be little (if any) voltage induced on the pump handle. BUT
"Under certain conditions of dimensions and position there are resonances at some of the cellular frequencies..."
No.
No. Resonance does not "magnify" voltage. Here's a quick definition of resonance for you... "Condition in a circuit when, for an applied alternating voltage of a given frequency, the inductive and capacitive reactances are equal."
Ok, so you might be thinking, "well, antennas resonate and that's how we receive radio waves". Well bucko, an antenna resonates because it's part of a circuit containing inductors and capictors which make it resonate at the desired frequency. The current created through the inductors still needs to be amplified many times before it's strong enough to drive a speaker! AND, even then, it's probably still not enough current to create a spark!
A gas pump handle has few qualities of inductance. Obviously, it's not going to resonate without some type of inductor... and last time I checked, there's nothing remotely close to an inductor in a gas pump handle.
Discovery channel has already done a great job of killing this myth. Fires at the pump are caused by static discharge. Period. When a driver gets out of the car, they create a shit load (pun) of static potential when their ass slides across the car seat. This is less likely to happen with old people because they almost always need to grab the car to assist their exit, thus grounding the static charge.
But, for us "young" people, it's common to get out of the car without ever grounding. Happens to me all the time
Static discharge will create an open spark!! What more do you need for ignition?? Fuel, spark, oxygen. Fire. Resonance? Sorry bucko, doesn't work.
Why does it seem like I'm the only one getting a taxidermy site when I click the link for Evergreen Aviation?
... an entire flock of radio controlled, stuffed birds converted to "tanker" use, able to carry 1 cup of water in a single drop.
Maybe they've gone to the other end of the spectrum
I agree with this, and it's my opinion that 802.11a/b/g with TCP/IP or UDP is a generic enough transport that any type of data should be able to be handled effeciently ... plus, just as the original poster wrote, 802.11a/b/g will "enable communication between a variety of devices, such as set-top boxes, HDTVs, tuners, and DVD players, all of which will be able to interoperate in home networks".
So, what am I missing here? How is this any better than just building 802.11a/b/g enabled devices?
Sasser, unlike a virus which travels through e-mails and attachments, spreads directly from the internet.
Are you kidding me? By this definition, Sasser *IS* a virus, unlike everything else, which are Worms.
It seems that we've been living in the land of email worms for so long that most people don't know how to deal with a real virus. Yeah, that's what they do... they spread without your help. Geez!
Previous topic on the same subject ...
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/16/2
yay! Another protocol for AOL to adulterate.
"I'd be more worried if it recorded 24 hours and had GPS in it."
"Onstar -- Always there. Always ready."
Ok, so A9 is supposed to be "better" than google? Well, on my first search on a9 just a moment ago, I searched on "amazon sucks" (completely irrelevant to this post) ... and then pressed the "back" button on the search results page. Well, guess what?!?! A9 has a back-button-trap making the "back" button basically useless on their site.
So, they're supposed to be better than google? What about google's clean, simple, no BS web design approach? That's google's value!! Don't you get it Amazon?!?!? Well of course not! Take a direct look at Amazon.com and you'll get an idea of Amazon's design principles.
... and bless New Hampshire too for not having sales tax or income tax.
After doing 3 years worth of work on a project under the direction of the State of Maine, a few things became very apparent to me. State governments are very inefficient -- and thus it takes more money each year to accomplish the same thing. Combine the general inefficiency with new government programs every year, and you'll quickly see that with a few exceptions, your state is likely out of control.
I happen to live in Maine at the moment, although New Hampshire is my "home land". Maine is the highest taxed state in the union. If you'd like a day long project some time, just for fun, add up all the money your government takes from you... start with the obvious stuff like taxes, and then move on to fees and tolls, etc. In maine, a little more than 50% of my income goes to government (federal and state combined).
Payroll taxes, sales tax, use tax, excise tax, room/meals tax, license fees (multiple), highway tolls, hidden taxes in communication bills, bottle deposits and so on.
But if you really think about it... the worst part is that all of these taxes -- in most cases -- are paid with money that has already been taxed once. Before you even cash your paycheck, the government has already skimmed off the top... and a good portion too! How many of you actually take a good look at your pay stubs and notice the 25%+ OF YOUR MONEY that the government simply took from you? What do you get for it? Well, you get to pay sales taxes on stuff you buy with the remaining 75%. You get to pay excise taxes on the car you drive. You get to pay taxes on the gas you put into the car -- and it's your prime pleasure to be stuck in line at the grocery store while a welfare mother pays for her food with your money. You know, she's the one with the food stamps pile, the WIC pile, and then the pile of 2 or 3 misc items that she pays for with a $100 bill.
I think I've had enough taxation. The revolutionary war was all about freedom from opressive taxes... yet we've turned into a country far more opressive than the one we fought against!
Scary stuff...What's our world coming to?
What's our world coming to?
It already went there in '86. Besides, it's their world, isn't it? Chernobyl is over there.
Interesting that you mention pluto's orbital plane. I was just thinking about that ... I believe that pluto is probably the only "normal" planet in our solar system. IANAA, but I don't see any real reason why all the other planets must exist in the same orbital plane, but they do... likely the result of billions of years of orbits and alignment of the orbit due to preturbations such as gravity from the other planets.
So, in a couple of billion years, when pluto's orbit arrives on the same freak plane as all the other planets, would you then consider it a planet? Nobody said the planets must orbit in the same plane... they just happen to, like freaks of nature.
Anyone remember the company AllAdvantage (was that really the name?) that paid users to click on ads during the dotcom boom? I remember almost everyone was into it ... people were making hundreds, even thousands of dollers per month.
... set it up to run all night, go to sleep, wake up rich in the morning. That's probably why the thing was so popular!
... the idea being that if the mouse wasn't moving, but clicks were coming in, then it was a cheat.
Of course, none of the ad traffic was legitimate! There were tons and tons of scripts and programs that would click the ads for you
I remember the comany would implement anti-cheat methods every couple of weeks, even to the point of tracking mouse movements
Ok, well... as always, cheaters take things to the next level. The ultimate cheat was one that surfed the web from a pre-determined list of web sites, while randomly moving the mouse cursor around the screen, and clicking every couple of seconds. Worked like a charm!
No more AllAdvantage.
Google has more sophisticated technology than AllAdvantage though... its almost impossible to cheat google. Even if this dumb-ass really did write a program to click ads on his own sites, google would catch that. There's AdSense partners getting canned every day for suspicion of cheating, when sometimes it's only as simple as an innocent erroneous click on their own ads. It happens... check the adsense forums. I doubt this guy would have been able to execute much of his plan successfully.
... all I want to know is...
What will the next pair of "super-cool" sunglasses look like, and what will the requisite rap song sound like?
"Extrude-a-house" ... imagine it more like this: "Shit-a-house". A big lumbering piece of equipments moves over your property and shits you a new house. Sweet.
UO-11 and Landsat-5 were launched together on a Delta rocket from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California. (info from AMSAT)
AMSAT-UK is issuing 1000 special edition QSL cards to radio amateurs world-wide that submit signal/reception reports from the satellite during the month of March. Super-special edition QSL cards are given to radio amateurs who submit signal reports on March 1 (today), the satellite's anniversay.
... went out to the jeep and hooked my quad-band Yaesu VX-7R into a 5/8th wave magmount antenna (2-meter band) hoping to get the best possible reception I could with my gear. Adjusted for frequency doppler, and BAM! There it was... I had UO-11's telemetry on 145.825 ... got nice and loud during mid-pass ... record a WAV file of the telemetry when the signal was at it's best. When the sat was exiting my half of north america, I was still faintly hearing the telemetry on 145.820, adjusted down for doppler.
For the non-ham-operators among us, a QSL card (not SQL) is basically a post-card that hams send each other after making contact.
So earlier today, remembering that I had read about the March 1st QSL cards, I pulled up my handy sat prediction software (PREDICT) along with the equally handy gsat client, updated keplerian elements, synced my pc's time so I could achieve the most accurate predictions possible.
Had a good pass of UO-11 with about 50 degrees at elevation at 3:45 this afternoon (20:45 UTC)
So, of course, I submitted my signal report to AMSAT-UK this afternoon. They're going to verify my data, and I get a gold star when they're done. Today, I reached a new pinnacle of geekdom. Long live the hams!
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You're missing the point... of course they didn't have anything to do with producing the film... but they proudly link to it as an accomplishment of their software. Try to picture Microsoft proudly touting their software being shown in a porn flick. Prob wouldn't happen... It's just an interesting point to ponder.
Forget about the SCO item in the 3.50 changelog... the bigger news about nmap is that it recently appeared in "HaXXXor Volume 1: No Longer Floppy".
Which, OK... is kinda weird, but how often to well respected tools link to cheasy porn sites? http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_haxxxor.html