for 300$ US i can get an Icom PCR-1000. it does 60Hz-1295Mhz (stupid cell blocked, bah!),
According to the Icom specs, the lower frequency is 100 khz. And in a couple of minutes I was able to find instructions for unblocking it (even the ones with serial #s above 4000).
I went into the profession when we still used slide rules, soldering irons, and graph paper. I'll take the way we do things today. It's just as satisfying to me to prototype a circuit via a simulator, plot a graph using a computer, and calculate via a... well, calculator. I remember punching those damned Hollerith cards to input one stinking line of code and submitting the job to the acolyte that tended the computer, then coming back a couple of hours later to get my compiler errors. Rinse, repeat ad nauseum. The joys of engineering are the satisfaction sussing an elegant solution to a problem and having it work. Thank God modern tools have made that so much less tedious.
Nice in theory, but if a librarian is confronted by an agent who threatens to arrest him/her on the spot for obstruction if the records aren't forthcoming, I'm betting that there's a good chance that s/he'll buckle. I'm generally in favor of the Bush administration, but a lot of what's being done in the name of fighting terror (like people disappearing into the system and not being heard from again, or being picked up as 'material witnesses' to unspecified crimes) is concerning me. In such a climate, it might be more pressure than an ordinary human can be expected to stand up to.
Open source would probably be better served if some thought was given to naming the products. Ogg Vorbis doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And whoever thought to name the DivX format after the failed format of the exact same name ought to be shot. And then healed and shot again.
There's one little diamond there in a residential area that's almost certainly my WAP. I think I may have even noticed the plane go by, as we don't get that many low-flying civil aircraft in this area due to its proximity to the military and commercial air traffic. How interesting. 'Scuze me while I go pull the power cord out of the Linksys.
I have a hard time imagining a market for a video phone for anyone other than relatives who want to see each other when talking, and even that would have to compete with the combination of computers, email, and digital imaging devices that are becoming increasingly prevalent. I certainly don't need to look at anyone else while we talk, nor do I want them looking at me. I think a videophone as a specialized device is an idea whose time not only hasn't come, it never will.
Since the piece is talking about the author's experience on the Donohue show, the headline attributing the same tactics to other shows "assumes facts not in evidence," as a lawyer would say.
I think that, to a large extent, Hollywood will see some of this occur. Simple economics will see to that: when you can produce something for much less cost and much less risk (no temperamental stars ODing or stomping off the set, no climate problems to deal with, etc.), and absolute creative control, the business will gravitate toward that. No doubt some purists will continue to use the old ways, but they'll be under increasing pressure to justify the additional costs.
For an example, look at photography. By and large, professionals no longer manipulate images using darkroom techniques, they use Photoshop. Some fine photographers no doubt still use traditional methods on occasion, but the meat-and-potatoes work that is the mainstay of photographer's income is all done using Photoshop these days. Hollywood will end up beng no different.
As for lack of live celebrities, maybe that'll be a factor, but it hasn't seemed to hurt The Simpsons, or South Park. I think people would adapt.
One phenomenon I expect to see is, as the technology gets cheaper and better, very small groups of people will be able to produce Hollywood-quality entertainment for very low cost, and distribute it via the internet. If it's good enough, it might further cut into the real Hollywood's revenue, and be yet another source of pressure for the entertainment industry to use these techniques itself.
As for Ghost, why would I want to Ghost a linux partition?
I have no idea. I was describing what I do. For me, a direct image is easier than reinstalling things, or possibly forgetting something crucial when I'm deciding what to back up.
This was just a suggestion for something to use while the DVD standards shake out. Sorry to have bothered you.
I do backups with a couple of extra hard drives. Bought a docking bay for them so that I can pull them out and put them safely away when not in use. I use Ghost to image the entire drive one in a while, just to capture all the installed apps, and Second Copy to make daily backup copies of user files.
As I read the piece, this guy has a problem with an internet that can't be 'tailored' (i.e. censored) to a given nation's tastes. Quite frankly, that's an internet that I don't want to see. And I don't think we will see it. There'd have to be some sort of interface between the various 'national' nets, and those interfaces would constitute chokepoints that would allow all sorts of mischief. Any attempt at doing what he wants would be doomed to failure.
Oh, and nice editing job. Maybe he should worry less about the internet and more about proofreading his own work.
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Love their attitude: "What sucks." "How we fixed it." "Why we're swell." "Asses saved."
It's only required if you want to get the deduction for your kids on your tax return. Think about it: there are hundreds of thousands of illegal alien children in the U.S. They don't have SS#s and still manage to function here.
As I interpret the question, seminal works on technical topics of all sorts qualify. In that spirit, I most highly recommend "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus Thompson. Originally written in 1910 (I think. It's recently been republished), this is the book that finally enlightened me. After 3 years of advanced mathematics and an engineering degree, everything I knew about calculus was rote: I could come up with the answers, but not because I understood the underlying principles or basis, but because I could memorize procedures. After I got this book and read it, I finally understood what the hell it was all about. I don't know whether I was just a bad student before, had bad teachers, or simply was presented the material in a way that was incompatible with the way I learn. In any case, this book did it for me, and perhaps it will do the same for others.
One caveat: I read the original, not the current version, which Amazon says "In this major revision of the classic math text, Martin Gardner has rendered calculus comprehensible to readers of all levels." I'm loathe to recommend a book that I considered perfect in its earlier incarnation and that someone has 'revised,' so perhaps you'll want to search for the original.
George Gilder has been talking about this for years. He gets your attention by making statements like, "available bandwidth is infinite." His basic point is that if the whole spectrum was available and if communicating entities continually adjusted their power levels and frequency to just what's necessary to communicate, the reuse of the spectrum could make it seem nearly infinite. I think he's probably right; I've seen some special radios designed on this principle, and their ability to communicate great distances with teensy power levels was nothing short of phenomenal.
I was amused by the Johnny Mnemonic movie, in which Keanu Reeve's head would explode if he didn't get the 320GB of data out of it (Johhy's capacity was only 160GB, or 'leakage' would occur). Given how far into the future it was supposed to take place, that amount seemed pretty small. Johnny's 'futuristic' capacity looks ever more ludicrous with each new jump in real-world capacity.
You must not access this site if you are resident in any of the following countries:
France and the French overseas territories and departments/ France et Départments ou Territoires d'outre mer français (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte, St Pierre and Miquelon, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Southern and Antarctic Territories, Wallis and Futuna Islands) Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Krygystan, Kuwait, Libya, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
The Middle Eastern countries I can understand, but France? Denmark? Sweden? What's the problem there? And does anyone seriously think that residents of those countries are going to heed some stupid "thou shalt not" like this? Do authorities in European nations actually attempt to enforce whatever laws are making this notice necessary?
The lastest issue of Maximum PC has an extensive review of this card, going into great depth on how it works and what the improved functions get you. If you want to know the nitty gritty details of this card, get that issue. The card they tested was a beta, so they warn not to rely on their benchmarks, but they said that Matrox had to pry it from their fingers, particularly after they tried out its triple-screen views for gaming.
A large group of FCC agents decended on the town of Cupertino, Ca. today to investigate reports that no cordless phone will work within a 20 mile radius of the town.
The last time I reported intense interference on the AM radio band in a particular location to the FCC, I got a lackadaisical phone call from some dweeb promising to check into it. She made a phone call to the power company to go check their lines. Called a little later to ask if it was still there. "Yes." No further action. Moral: don't count on the FCC to get out of its office chairs to track down your interference problems.
Keep in mind that just because an 'agreement' contains something doesn't make it enforceable. They could put "hack your Replay and you must give us your first-born" in there and no court is going to make you live up to it. If they actually do wipe out some Replays under this agreement, courts are going to be the ultimate authority on whether they can get away with it (assuming, of course, that the users file lawsuits).
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for 300$ US i can get an Icom PCR-1000. it does 60Hz-1295Mhz (stupid cell blocked, bah!),
According to the Icom specs, the lower frequency is 100 khz. And in a couple of minutes I was able to find instructions for unblocking it (even the ones with serial #s above 4000).
I went into the profession when we still used slide rules, soldering irons, and graph paper. I'll take the way we do things today. It's just as satisfying to me to prototype a circuit via a simulator, plot a graph using a computer, and calculate via a ... well, calculator. I remember punching those damned Hollerith cards to input one stinking line of code and submitting the job to the acolyte that tended the computer, then coming back a couple of hours later to get my compiler errors. Rinse, repeat ad nauseum. The joys of engineering are the satisfaction sussing an elegant solution to a problem and having it work. Thank God modern tools have made that so much less tedious.
Funny, hell. I was hopping on one foot in my yellow suit for like an hour.
Nice in theory, but if a librarian is confronted by an agent who threatens to arrest him/her on the spot for obstruction if the records aren't forthcoming, I'm betting that there's a good chance that s/he'll buckle. I'm generally in favor of the Bush administration, but a lot of what's being done in the name of fighting terror (like people disappearing into the system and not being heard from again, or being picked up as 'material witnesses' to unspecified crimes) is concerning me. In such a climate, it might be more pressure than an ordinary human can be expected to stand up to.
Is the unit also modified with 802.11?
At some point maybe you just have to assume that Floridians are incapable of running an election.
Open source would probably be better served if some thought was given to naming the products. Ogg Vorbis doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And whoever thought to name the DivX format after the failed format of the exact same name ought to be shot. And then healed and shot again.
There's one little diamond there in a residential area that's almost certainly my WAP. I think I may have even noticed the plane go by, as we don't get that many low-flying civil aircraft in this area due to its proximity to the military and commercial air traffic. How interesting. 'Scuze me while I go pull the power cord out of the Linksys.
I have a hard time imagining a market for a video phone for anyone other than relatives who want to see each other when talking, and even that would have to compete with the combination of computers, email, and digital imaging devices that are becoming increasingly prevalent. I certainly don't need to look at anyone else while we talk, nor do I want them looking at me. I think a videophone as a specialized device is an idea whose time not only hasn't come, it never will.
Since the piece is talking about the author's experience on the Donohue show, the headline attributing the same tactics to other shows "assumes facts not in evidence," as a lawyer would say.
I think that, to a large extent, Hollywood will see some of this occur. Simple economics will see to that: when you can produce something for much less cost and much less risk (no temperamental stars ODing or stomping off the set, no climate problems to deal with, etc.), and absolute creative control, the business will gravitate toward that. No doubt some purists will continue to use the old ways, but they'll be under increasing pressure to justify the additional costs.
For an example, look at photography. By and large, professionals no longer manipulate images using darkroom techniques, they use Photoshop. Some fine photographers no doubt still use traditional methods on occasion, but the meat-and-potatoes work that is the mainstay of photographer's income is all done using Photoshop these days. Hollywood will end up beng no different.
As for lack of live celebrities, maybe that'll be a factor, but it hasn't seemed to hurt The Simpsons, or South Park. I think people would adapt.
One phenomenon I expect to see is, as the technology gets cheaper and better, very small groups of people will be able to produce Hollywood-quality entertainment for very low cost, and distribute it via the internet. If it's good enough, it might further cut into the real Hollywood's revenue, and be yet another source of pressure for the entertainment industry to use these techniques itself.
I have no idea. I was describing what I do. For me, a direct image is easier than reinstalling things, or possibly forgetting something crucial when I'm deciding what to back up.
This was just a suggestion for something to use while the DVD standards shake out. Sorry to have bothered you.
I do backups with a couple of extra hard drives. Bought a docking bay for them so that I can pull them out and put them safely away when not in use. I use Ghost to image the entire drive one in a while, just to capture all the installed apps, and Second Copy to make daily backup copies of user files.
The one that will win is whichever one I don't buy when I can't hold out any longer.
As I read the piece, this guy has a problem with an internet that can't be 'tailored' (i.e. censored) to a given nation's tastes. Quite frankly, that's an internet that I don't want to see. And I don't think we will see it. There'd have to be some sort of interface between the various 'national' nets, and those interfaces would constitute chokepoints that would allow all sorts of mischief. Any attempt at doing what he wants would be doomed to failure.
Oh, and nice editing job. Maybe he should worry less about the internet and more about proofreading his own work.
Love their attitude:
"What sucks." "How we fixed it." "Why we're swell." "Asses saved."
It's only required if you want to get the deduction for your kids on your tax return. Think about it: there are hundreds of thousands of illegal alien children in the U.S. They don't have SS#s and still manage to function here.
The fan and hard drive noise alone from my box is enough to drop flies at ten feet.
As I interpret the question, seminal works on technical topics of all sorts qualify. In that spirit, I most highly recommend "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus Thompson. Originally written in 1910 (I think. It's recently been republished), this is the book that finally enlightened me. After 3 years of advanced mathematics and an engineering degree, everything I knew about calculus was rote: I could come up with the answers, but not because I understood the underlying principles or basis, but because I could memorize procedures. After I got this book and read it, I finally understood what the hell it was all about. I don't know whether I was just a bad student before, had bad teachers, or simply was presented the material in a way that was incompatible with the way I learn. In any case, this book did it for me, and perhaps it will do the same for others.
One caveat: I read the original, not the current version, which Amazon says "In this major revision of the classic math text, Martin Gardner has rendered calculus comprehensible to readers of all levels." I'm loathe to recommend a book that I considered perfect in its earlier incarnation and that someone has 'revised,' so perhaps you'll want to search for the original.
George Gilder has been talking about this for years. He gets your attention by making statements like, "available bandwidth is infinite." His basic point is that if the whole spectrum was available and if communicating entities continually adjusted their power levels and frequency to just what's necessary to communicate, the reuse of the spectrum could make it seem nearly infinite. I think he's probably right; I've seen some special radios designed on this principle, and their ability to communicate great distances with teensy power levels was nothing short of phenomenal.
I was amused by the Johnny Mnemonic movie, in which Keanu Reeve's head would explode if he didn't get the 320GB of data out of it (Johhy's capacity was only 160GB, or 'leakage' would occur). Given how far into the future it was supposed to take place, that amount seemed pretty small. Johnny's 'futuristic' capacity looks ever more ludicrous with each new jump in real-world capacity.
The Middle Eastern countries I can understand, but France? Denmark? Sweden? What's the problem there? And does anyone seriously think that residents of those countries are going to heed some stupid "thou shalt not" like this? Do authorities in European nations actually attempt to enforce whatever laws are making this notice necessary?
The lastest issue of Maximum PC has an extensive review of this card, going into great depth on how it works and what the improved functions get you. If you want to know the nitty gritty details of this card, get that issue. The card they tested was a beta, so they warn not to rely on their benchmarks, but they said that Matrox had to pry it from their fingers, particularly after they tried out its triple-screen views for gaming.
The last time I reported intense interference on the AM radio band in a particular location to the FCC, I got a lackadaisical phone call from some dweeb promising to check into it. She made a phone call to the power company to go check their lines. Called a little later to ask if it was still there. "Yes." No further action. Moral: don't count on the FCC to get out of its office chairs to track down your interference problems.
Keep in mind that just because an 'agreement' contains something doesn't make it enforceable. They could put "hack your Replay and you must give us your first-born" in there and no court is going to make you live up to it. If they actually do wipe out some Replays under this agreement, courts are going to be the ultimate authority on whether they can get away with it (assuming, of course, that the users file lawsuits).