The Nyquist rate (and Shannon's theorem even further) severely bounds digital communications bandwidth in the little bit of usable bandwidth that lies below 100 MHz. The long distance and irregularity of the propagation puts additional bounds on the number of simultaneous transmitters. So there are good reasons other than just censorship and rent-seeking to desire the short-ranges available in the shorter bands, such as the increase in simultaneous talkers (if you don't propagate as far, someone closer by can share the frequency), and the additional bandwidth available.
That said, the 20 m band is plenty fun, even if every idiot in the world can't use it.
When you have all of the schematics it isn't too difficult to support the hardware yourself, assuming you're running one of the older TTL CPUs. That, and/or a huge storeroom of spares, and you're set.
The point of that sentence is that it is obviously counterfactual, yet E-Rater gave him a top score for the insightful essay in which it was contained.
The general process that includes lost-wax casting is called investment casting, and while it can be done with ABS, it requires the mold to be baked off in a kiln capable of much higher temperatures than with wax. Burning ABS at home probably isn't a good idea either. I'm not sure about how other materials would work.
The MAI court held that 17 USC 117(a) wasn't applicable because the end-users were licensees--regardless of Peak's actions as a repair technician. Also see Vernor v. Autodesk for more on the difference between owner and licensee rights.
IANAL, but I think the AGPL is pretty solid. The Ninth Circuit held in MAI v. Peak that copying software into RAM for execution is indeed copying, and the provisions of 17 USC 117(a) don't apply to mere licensees (as opposed to copyright owners). Being that the AGPL license, which allows you to use, copy, and modify the software, only remains valid if you continue to comply with its terms, you are infringing copyright by continuing to copy the software into RAM for purposes of executing it if you're not abiding by the license. You have no right to copy the software otherwise.
I can second that. I've got a 1012B and I couldn't be happier. It's got hard buttons and knobs for the important stuff, and the menus are easy to use. Plus it's portable if I need to use it in the field (rare).
Given Palm's patent portfolio, this outcome was probably one of the better ones. I can only imagine the stupid patent lawsuits from Apple with the extra ammunition.
The difference could be between the in-camera noise reduction algorithms, which is still a valid and useful comparison, or because the testing is almost certainly subjective here, normal variation. I'd contact them about it; they've been receptive to my comments in the past.
The IBM PC was more powerful than other systems at the time, and the 8088 was probably the highest performance/$ processor available, and had a better ISA than the 6800 series CPUs, IMNSHO. IBM didn't force anyone to buy PCs; they caught on because they were more powerful and reasonably priced. The 68000 was far too expensive at the time, and the inexpensive systems using it, the Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST, didn't arrive for another 4 years. By this time, the compelling reason to buy a PC or clone was for the huge software library.
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That's what we've been asking SCO for the past 7 years.
As a whole bunch of posts above you confirm, Cisco definitely uses QNX in their largest routers. They also use FPGAs in switches and routers, in addition to ASICs I'm sure. High-end FPGAs certainly are convenient for what Cisco wants to do, especially with the ability to reconfigure them on the fly into an arbitrary special-purpose packet filtering/routing engine.
Yeah, Palm just has to make the Pre look like an iPod to iTunes. Eventually Apple may run out of things to use to differentiate the Pre from a "real" iPod without breaking real iPods.
Have you ever considered it possible that much of the harm that came to that neighborhood was from the very illegality of the drugs and the black market that prohibition enables rather than from anything inherent in the drugs themselves? Drug addition certainly has a devastating effect on its own, but I argue that prohibition has made the effects worse rather than effectively stopping the trafficking, sale, and consumption of the drugs it seeks to eliminate.
I'd have to say in recruiting software engineers I have much more of a problem with theory-light code monkeys than I do with non-coders that are well-versed in CS theory. With the former you wind up with people who can't leave whatever language they're most familiar with and don't really understand why what they're doing works (cargo cult programming). It's easier to teach good coding practices in the field than it is CS theory.
My technical interviews aren't full of riddles or obscure CS theory questions, but I ask a series of pointed questions to see if the candidate has a good familiarity with the various language families (not just particular languages), common data structures (they should at least have encountered them, even if they need to look them up to implement them), and can talk in terms of pseudocode and algorithms instead of just library functions and language idiom. Language experience is a plus, but definitely not required.
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This is probably doing the opposite of what you're thinking--letting older software run on newer CPUs.
That -is- a low id number...
The Nyquist rate (and Shannon's theorem even further) severely bounds digital communications bandwidth in the little bit of usable bandwidth that lies below 100 MHz. The long distance and irregularity of the propagation puts additional bounds on the number of simultaneous transmitters. So there are good reasons other than just censorship and rent-seeking to desire the short-ranges available in the shorter bands, such as the increase in simultaneous talkers (if you don't propagate as far, someone closer by can share the frequency), and the additional bandwidth available.
That said, the 20 m band is plenty fun, even if every idiot in the world can't use it.
When you have all of the schematics it isn't too difficult to support the hardware yourself, assuming you're running one of the older TTL CPUs. That, and/or a huge storeroom of spares, and you're set.
The point of that sentence is that it is obviously counterfactual, yet E-Rater gave him a top score for the insightful essay in which it was contained.
The general process that includes lost-wax casting is called investment casting, and while it can be done with ABS, it requires the mold to be baked off in a kiln capable of much higher temperatures than with wax. Burning ABS at home probably isn't a good idea either. I'm not sure about how other materials would work.
You can use your incinerator to run absorption cycle chillers, then. :)
...and the old saw about racing comes to mind:
How do you make a small fortune in rural broadband?
Start with a large fortune.
The MAI court held that 17 USC 117(a) wasn't applicable because the end-users were licensees--regardless of Peak's actions as a repair technician. Also see Vernor v. Autodesk for more on the difference between owner and licensee rights.
IANAL, but I think the AGPL is pretty solid. The Ninth Circuit held in MAI v. Peak that copying software into RAM for execution is indeed copying, and the provisions of 17 USC 117(a) don't apply to mere licensees (as opposed to copyright owners). Being that the AGPL license, which allows you to use, copy, and modify the software, only remains valid if you continue to comply with its terms, you are infringing copyright by continuing to copy the software into RAM for purposes of executing it if you're not abiding by the license. You have no right to copy the software otherwise.
Then again, without a girl in the picture, you don't much need birth control...
Or, even worse, the practically impossible combination of FreeBSD, IIS, Sybase and Tcl. Ouch!
I'm skeptical of low IDs--back in the day, you were distrustful of identifying yourself and all the cool people stayed anonymous.
This is the meaning of "interested party" that means that Google had a stake in the decision, not merely that it showed some desire to be considered.
I grew up with analogs and have no problem using them now. In my experience, the best part of having a digital 'scope is that it's small and light. :)
I can second that. I've got a 1012B and I couldn't be happier. It's got hard buttons and knobs for the important stuff, and the menus are easy to use. Plus it's portable if I need to use it in the field (rare).
Given Palm's patent portfolio, this outcome was probably one of the better ones. I can only imagine the stupid patent lawsuits from Apple with the extra ammunition.
The difference could be between the in-camera noise reduction algorithms, which is still a valid and useful comparison, or because the testing is almost certainly subjective here, normal variation. I'd contact them about it; they've been receptive to my comments in the past.
The IBM PC was more powerful than other systems at the time, and the 8088 was probably the highest performance/$ processor available, and had a better ISA than the 6800 series CPUs, IMNSHO. IBM didn't force anyone to buy PCs; they caught on because they were more powerful and reasonably priced. The 68000 was far too expensive at the time, and the inexpensive systems using it, the Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST, didn't arrive for another 4 years. By this time, the compelling reason to buy a PC or clone was for the huge software library.
That's what we've been asking SCO for the past 7 years.
P=I^2 R
So, for the same resistance, the heat is proportional to the square of the current.
As a whole bunch of posts above you confirm, Cisco definitely uses QNX in their largest routers. They also use FPGAs in switches and routers, in addition to ASICs I'm sure. High-end FPGAs certainly are convenient for what Cisco wants to do, especially with the ability to reconfigure them on the fly into an arbitrary special-purpose packet filtering/routing engine.
Yeah, Palm just has to make the Pre look like an iPod to iTunes. Eventually Apple may run out of things to use to differentiate the Pre from a "real" iPod without breaking real iPods.
Have you ever considered it possible that much of the harm that came to that neighborhood was from the very illegality of the drugs and the black market that prohibition enables rather than from anything inherent in the drugs themselves? Drug addition certainly has a devastating effect on its own, but I argue that prohibition has made the effects worse rather than effectively stopping the trafficking, sale, and consumption of the drugs it seeks to eliminate.
I'd have to say in recruiting software engineers I have much more of a problem with theory-light code monkeys than I do with non-coders that are well-versed in CS theory. With the former you wind up with people who can't leave whatever language they're most familiar with and don't really understand why what they're doing works (cargo cult programming). It's easier to teach good coding practices in the field than it is CS theory.
My technical interviews aren't full of riddles or obscure CS theory questions, but I ask a series of pointed questions to see if the candidate has a good familiarity with the various language families (not just particular languages), common data structures (they should at least have encountered them, even if they need to look them up to implement them), and can talk in terms of pseudocode and algorithms instead of just library functions and language idiom. Language experience is a plus, but definitely not required.