Perhaps, they are relying on this clause in the regs: "In addition, under some circumstances, the availability of a central or common antenna can be used by a community association or landlord to restrict the installation of individual antennas" My guess would be that resnet wifi is available, students want private access because it is less restrictive (blocked ports, etc). Could be a very interesting battle if someone will dissent. Personally speaking, I think university totally overstate their powers anyway.
Perhaps someone else with more industry knowledge can confirm or deny the reasons for this, but below is my personal experience.
Among other hobbies, I am a HAM operator and a skydiver. The two hobbies have fused at various points and experiments. On several occasions, I have perform high altitude openings and taken along HAM or cell phone equipment. I then played with the equipment at intervals from around 10K feet down to about 3K, at which point I put it away and concentrated on landing. In short, the HAM coverage was pretty dang good, and cell coverage sucked! On the ground in this area I would have full signal, at altitude I literally could not find one. So, the only two explanations I thought of were: 1. the propogation pattern of cell towers is more or less straight out, which would make sense really. 2. the cell phone I was using could not isolate a signal because multitudes were available. This seems a bit less likely since cell phones are designed to shift from tower to tower.
Anyway, based on my experience, reception at altitude would be totally useless anyway.
With all due respect, go screw yourself. Where do you think graduate students and scientists come from? I don't always agree with the education system either, but it has been three whole days since we played with play doh in my CS classes. We really can read, add, and even, sometimes (when high) code. Get a grip.
Undergrads make things happen. Undergrads work for companies that let them have more "fiddle" time with equipment than professionals. Why? Because people with ideas like yours, think it "Oh, yeah let them look at that, keep 'em out of our hair" Of course I am probably wrong, that is why all the hot startups have 55 year old CEOs, right?
Undergrads are simply more willing to ignore the system and go with their ethical values. But if you doubt that, read up on the geek ethos somewhere.
I am going back to my play doh
Interested in this topic? Read Future Shock by Alvin Toffler . It deals with changes to society due to rapid industrialization and more recently technological innovation.
I think there is a lack of logical algorithimic problem solving logic these days. Damn, I hate it. Let's think about this for a minute. 1. Napster, scour agent, etc. are basically search engines. They can be used for other file types then MP3. When did a search client become illegal? Well at my stinking school they are.
2. There are plenty of LEGAL MP3s out there. A lot of them are online distros for little known bands and djs.
3. Does anyone outside the IT industry remember shareware/trial version? Most self respecting geeks try the program, and if they like it they respect the author and send him the license fee. I am not going to buy a CD for $16 bucks when I might not even like 10 of the songs. And if I do it will be a good one, like Tom Petty or GNR, where I know I will like every song, not some flash-in-the-pan band that has one really good song wrapped in 9 bad ones and hyped by a huge PR machine.
4. Natural Selection. Why carry 50 CDs when I could carry 5 MP3-CDs with 115 songs on each? Soon we will be able to play them in your car, on your hip, and on your desktop. That is why I love the computer industry, we live (mostly) by natural selection. If you can do it faster, better, and more efficiently, you will survive. It doesn't matter how old you are, what color you are, what sex you are, OR what company you work for. We are the Equalizers! RIAA, You can work against natural selection, but you probably wont win.
Those are my thoughts. I say HACK LIFE! I want the smartest, best way to do everything! I wont buy another CD if I can help it. Nobody uses tapes anymore. Eventually CDs will go too. We will chose MP3, DVD-Audio or something else. This whole mess will not really delay it much in the end. Think about it, with storage going the way it is, you could almost just collect.cda files. The RIAA and MPAA does not seem to understand that this generation has access to more information than any before. And we are beginning to use it. They will never stop the new formats and utilities, because it is us who writes the code! However, imagine what they would have done, if the RIAA had invented MP3. They would have "protected the artist" and it would be deCSS all over agian. Where is the logic?
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Perhaps, they are relying on this clause in the regs: "In addition, under some circumstances, the availability of a central or common antenna can be used by a community association or landlord to restrict the installation of individual antennas"
My guess would be that resnet wifi is available, students want private access because it is less restrictive (blocked ports, etc).
Could be a very interesting battle if someone will dissent. Personally speaking, I think university totally overstate their powers anyway.
Perhaps someone else with more industry knowledge can confirm or deny the reasons for this, but below is my personal experience.
Among other hobbies, I am a HAM operator and a skydiver. The two hobbies have fused at various points and experiments. On several occasions, I have perform high altitude openings and taken along HAM or cell phone equipment. I then played with the equipment at intervals from around 10K feet down to about 3K, at which point I put it away and concentrated on landing.
In short, the HAM coverage was pretty dang good, and cell coverage sucked! On the ground in this area I would have full signal, at altitude I literally could not find one.
So, the only two explanations I thought of were:
1. the propogation pattern of cell towers is more or less straight out, which would make sense really.
2. the cell phone I was using could not isolate a signal because multitudes were available. This seems a bit less likely since cell phones are designed to shift from tower to tower.
Anyway, based on my experience, reception at altitude would be totally useless anyway.
Look up Dr. Duesberg. The AIDS epeidemic is not what you think anyway.
With all due respect, go screw yourself. Where do you think graduate students and scientists come from? I don't always agree with the education system either, but it has been three whole days since we played with play doh in my CS classes. We really can read, add, and even, sometimes (when high) code. Get a grip.
Undergrads make things happen. Undergrads work for companies that let them have more "fiddle" time with equipment than professionals. Why? Because people with ideas like yours, think it "Oh, yeah let them look at that, keep 'em out of our hair" Of course I am probably wrong, that is why all the hot startups have 55 year old CEOs, right? Undergrads are simply more willing to ignore the system and go with their ethical values. But if you doubt that, read up on the geek ethos somewhere.
I am going back to my play doh
Interested in this topic? Read Future Shock by Alvin Toffler . It deals with changes to society due to rapid industrialization and more recently technological innovation.
I think there is a lack of logical algorithimic problem solving logic these days. Damn, I hate it. Let's think about this for a minute. 1. Napster, scour agent, etc. are basically search engines. They can be used for other file types then MP3. When did a search client become illegal? Well at my stinking school they are.
.cda files. The RIAA and MPAA does not seem to understand that this generation has access to more information than any before. And we are beginning to use it. They will never stop the new formats and utilities, because it is us who writes the code! However, imagine what they would have done, if the RIAA had invented MP3. They would have "protected the artist" and it would be deCSS all over agian. Where is the logic?
2. There are plenty of LEGAL MP3s out there. A lot of them are online distros for little known bands and djs.
3. Does anyone outside the IT industry remember shareware/trial version? Most self respecting geeks try the program, and if they like it they respect the author and send him the license fee. I am not going to buy a CD for $16 bucks when I might not even like 10 of the songs. And if I do it will be a good one, like Tom Petty or GNR, where I know I will like every song, not some flash-in-the-pan band that has one really good song wrapped in 9 bad ones and hyped by a huge PR machine.
4. Natural Selection. Why carry 50 CDs when I could carry 5 MP3-CDs with 115 songs on each? Soon we will be able to play them in your car, on your hip, and on your desktop. That is why I love the computer industry, we live (mostly) by natural selection. If you can do it faster, better, and more efficiently, you will survive. It doesn't matter how old you are, what color you are, what sex you are, OR what company you work for. We are the Equalizers! RIAA, You can work against natural selection, but you probably wont win.
Those are my thoughts. I say HACK LIFE! I want the smartest, best way to do everything! I wont buy another CD if I can help it. Nobody uses tapes anymore. Eventually CDs will go too. We will chose MP3, DVD-Audio or something else. This whole mess will not really delay it much in the end. Think about it, with storage going the way it is, you could almost just collect
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