all digital voice codecs do badly in the presence of lots of noise (next to a fire engine pumping hard, in a K9 cop car with the dog excited, sirens blaring, low-air-pressure warning going off inside the resipirator
Which is weird because the horrible evil proprietary AMBE2+ codec used in DMR as used for Mototrbo (and related to the codecs used for P25, TETRA and D-Star) is extremely effective at cancelling environmental noise.
It still sounds like an angry duck in a tin shithouse, though.
Because adding encryption means an additional layer that can go wrong and thus necessitates a 2nd channel for the support people to use to try to fix the primary (encrypted) channel.
Is that why you still use unencrypted wifi? Obviously it's too complex to encrypt your wifi traffic, and it's an additional layer that can go wrong...
The best way is not to allow the emergency to happen in the first place. Every other way you might attempt to recover from a catastrophic failure in flight isn't going to work as well as just not having to deal with the problem in the first place.
He just happens to know a country with a large and reasonably cheap workforce available for such things, ruled by a government using the Orwell playbook.
Well yes, of course - once the US stopped handing vast amounts of machinery and oil to Germany, beating them was easy. Glad you guys finally decided to come on side once the difficult bit was done, though.
I guess it's a bit like the driving test - as part of that you need to demonstrate that you know how to check things like the oil and water and that you know at least theoretically how to change a wheel.
It's not that everyone is expected to go out and become a car mechanic, it's that drivers are expected to know why it's a bad idea to drive around on flat tyres with no oil in the engine.
So, a local newspaper that sources from the Daily Mail, a conspiracy site, another right-wing extremeist rag which appears to be using the same source as the Daily Mail too? I must admit I can't comment on the veracity of the jewishnewsdaily.com link.
I don't understand the "shiny happy menus". I don't use Windows, and I don't want to have to learn. I've got better things to do with my time than geek about with that stuff. I just want my music player to work without any dicking about.
And I *really* don't want to have to explain to my mother how to admin a Windows server over the phone, so she can get *her* tunes to work.
Why would a phone have CIFS though? I don't want to dick around trying to work my way through whatever weirdass Windows magic it takes to a CIFS server working just so I can share music between various things. I want to turn on my PS3, hit "Find Media Servers..." and have it magically appear. I want to do the same on my laptop, my phone and my Ubuntu TV.
Why on earth should I have to go through all this Windows admin course stuff just to play some music?
There is a serious lack of UPNP renderers on Linux. I'm kind of surprised at this, since it shouldn't be hard to do. I'll throw it on the pile with my other 327 projects.
I think you're kind of missing the point. It's up to manufacturers to pick what OS their TV runs (and yes, it feels seriously odd saying that). All digital TVs and PVRs run Linux, almost without exception - there are some weird outliers like cable boxes that run VxWorks, but they're going away.
If I can get my hands on a feature-complete environment with a pretty solid company behind it to install onto my TV, I'd be mad not to use it in favour of some half-assed homegrown thing.
Ah, a 4x4 has only got twice as much grip *if* it can get grip with all four wheels. It's also got twice as many wheels that can break traction, and once one wheel spins you're stuck.
Unless, of course, you've got proper locking diffs. SUVs tend not to have that, because they're not really designed to go off road. They also don't have the suspension compliance to make use of what little grip they have, and they often have ridiculous fat tyres on them which barely work on dry tarmac.
I'd be interested to see what you've got that can cover 260 miles in three hours and still stay on the ground;-) Consider that 25 miles of the trip are along a very narrow road (about the width of a normal motorway lane, for two-way traffic) that winds along the side of a loch with buses and trucks coming at you in the opposite direction.
I'm not admitting to having done it in just over four hours, because that would involve breaking the speed limit.
Most SUVs can't go anywhere that a normal van can't. I can get my van into - and, crucially, *out of* - a lot of spots where 4x4s just can't go because they are too heavy and don't have the grip.
When I've visited Scotland I've found the locals to drive even faster...
... and on twistier roads.
I had some friends over from the US. They took 14 hours not counting an overnight stay to make a journey I typically do in five hours. Even allowing for not knowing the roads, that's pretty damn slow. They really just had never had to deal with narrow twisty country roads before.
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all digital voice codecs do badly in the presence of lots of noise (next to a fire engine pumping hard, in a K9 cop car with the dog excited, sirens blaring, low-air-pressure warning going off inside the resipirator
Which is weird because the horrible evil proprietary AMBE2+ codec used in DMR as used for Mototrbo (and related to the codecs used for P25, TETRA and D-Star) is extremely effective at cancelling environmental noise.
It still sounds like an angry duck in a tin shithouse, though.
Because adding encryption means an additional layer that can go wrong and thus necessitates a 2nd channel for the support people to use to try to fix the primary (encrypted) channel.
Is that why you still use unencrypted wifi? Obviously it's too complex to encrypt your wifi traffic, and it's an additional layer that can go wrong...
I'm convinced that only satellite based system makes any sense, anyway.
So you don't need any in-building coverage, then?
Why would they skip a night of travel because the street lights are turned off?
Some men are driven to drink, use drugs, post on slashdot in such situations. Others may be driven to commit homicide.
Some write Byzantine filesystems. Some do both.
Is there something wrong with you, or do you just like puff-puff-puffing away in your wheezy gutless petrol-engined vehicles?
Get a diesel.
The best way is not to allow the emergency to happen in the first place. Every other way you might attempt to recover from a catastrophic failure in flight isn't going to work as well as just not having to deal with the problem in the first place.
Why not use the volcano as a heat source for gasification and thermal depolymerisation then?
He just happens to know a country with a large and reasonably cheap workforce available for such things, ruled by a government using the Orwell playbook.
Which one, America?
Well yes, of course - once the US stopped handing vast amounts of machinery and oil to Germany, beating them was easy. Glad you guys finally decided to come on side once the difficult bit was done, though.
I guess it's a bit like the driving test - as part of that you need to demonstrate that you know how to check things like the oil and water and that you know at least theoretically how to change a wheel.
It's not that everyone is expected to go out and become a car mechanic, it's that drivers are expected to know why it's a bad idea to drive around on flat tyres with no oil in the engine.
So, a local newspaper that sources from the Daily Mail, a conspiracy site, another right-wing extremeist rag which appears to be using the same source as the Daily Mail too? I must admit I can't comment on the veracity of the jewishnewsdaily.com link.
Yeah, that's the Daily Mail though. Are there any reports from a reality-based source?
I don't understand the "shiny happy menus". I don't use Windows, and I don't want to have to learn. I've got better things to do with my time than geek about with that stuff. I just want my music player to work without any dicking about.
And I *really* don't want to have to explain to my mother how to admin a Windows server over the phone, so she can get *her* tunes to work.
Why would a phone have CIFS though? I don't want to dick around trying to work my way through whatever weirdass Windows magic it takes to a CIFS server working just so I can share music between various things. I want to turn on my PS3, hit "Find Media Servers..." and have it magically appear. I want to do the same on my laptop, my phone and my Ubuntu TV.
Why on earth should I have to go through all this Windows admin course stuff just to play some music?
There is a serious lack of UPNP renderers on Linux. I'm kind of surprised at this, since it shouldn't be hard to do. I'll throw it on the pile with my other 327 projects.
I think you're kind of missing the point. It's up to manufacturers to pick what OS their TV runs (and yes, it feels seriously odd saying that). All digital TVs and PVRs run Linux, almost without exception - there are some weird outliers like cable boxes that run VxWorks, but they're going away.
If I can get my hands on a feature-complete environment with a pretty solid company behind it to install onto my TV, I'd be mad not to use it in favour of some half-assed homegrown thing.
This could be funded from the public purse with the smash that gets lost down the back of George Osborne's sofa.
Therefore, let it pass, and then let them wonder why "Estee Lauder" no longer features prominently in Google search results.
Surely if they're being exposed to X-rays a film badge would be a better idea?
Ah, a 4x4 has only got twice as much grip *if* it can get grip with all four wheels. It's also got twice as many wheels that can break traction, and once one wheel spins you're stuck.
Unless, of course, you've got proper locking diffs. SUVs tend not to have that, because they're not really designed to go off road. They also don't have the suspension compliance to make use of what little grip they have, and they often have ridiculous fat tyres on them which barely work on dry tarmac.
I'd be interested to see what you've got that can cover 260 miles in three hours and still stay on the ground ;-) Consider that 25 miles of the trip are along a very narrow road (about the width of a normal motorway lane, for two-way traffic) that winds along the side of a loch with buses and trucks coming at you in the opposite direction.
I'm not admitting to having done it in just over four hours, because that would involve breaking the speed limit.
Most SUVs can't go anywhere that a normal van can't. I can get my van into - and, crucially, *out of* - a lot of spots where 4x4s just can't go because they are too heavy and don't have the grip.
When I've visited Scotland I've found the locals to drive even faster...
... and on twistier roads.
I had some friends over from the US. They took 14 hours not counting an overnight stay to make a journey I typically do in five hours. Even allowing for not knowing the roads, that's pretty damn slow. They really just had never had to deal with narrow twisty country roads before.