In any case, if you supply a closed source license, you're going to need to take out professional indemnity insurance for a very large amount
I don't see why that should be the case. Look at any Microsoft product - it explicitly says in the licence that there is no warranty and no guarantee of fitness for purpose. There's nothing to stop any closed-source licence saying "You cannot have the source code. You have no guarantee that this will work. If it breaks, you own both pieces."
It really comes down to how inept the school officials have shown themselves to be.
Exactly. If your child goes to that school, demand the immediate firing of the vice-principal. I'm damn sure I wouldn't want in incompetent clown like that anywhere *near* my children.
At the end of the second transmission, you can hear the echo of the last couple of seconds of own signal reflected back from the moon. There's a delay of about 2.7 seconds for a radio wave, travelling at the speed of light, to get from the Earth to the Moon and back. The reason the "direct" signal sounds high-pitched and squeaky and the echo sounds deep and boomy is because the movement of the Moon relative to the ground station on Earth gives about a 300Hz Doppler shift.
ethernet cable these days is NOT equal length wires! yet i2s for spdif break-out NEEDS each wire exactly the same length (timing matters, again)
But the different twist rate of the pairs in Plain Ordinary CAT5 don't make any difference. You're talking about a difference of a few millimetres over a whole 305m roll of CAT5 - in a sane length of patch cable that would make a difference in the order of a few femtoseconds.
I've had the same mobile number for well over a decade. If you knew my phone number in 1999, it hasn't changed. I've lived in a wide range of different places since then, though.
With all that fancy visual stuff going on, it could be easy for the technician to overlook a pushed pin or a pinch in the cable which could be causing a problem.
Exactly. Even with perfectly ordinary cars it's a problem, because the "mechanics" (they're barely fitters, never mind mechanics) at main dealers plug the diagnostics kit in, it tells them something like "COOLANT TEMP SENSOR OPEN" so they change the sensor, and the fault is still there. Then they're stuffed, because they don't know what to do next. "The Computer" said the sensor was faulty, they changed it, and it didn't fix it. That's when it all gets expensive.
They will lose only if Chinese Firewall starts blocking them
I don't think the Chinese Firewall blocks *anything*. My mail server is constantly getting spammed shitless by servers apparently in China - at least, whois reports them as being in China and within netblocks that are supposedly behind the Great Firewall - so I put some "known filter trigger" keywords in the exim banner message. Didn't make a bit of difference. Either they aren't filtering at all, or they're not filtering traffic on port 25.
Got one. They're not accepted. I *could* get a credit card, but they cost money to use. Why pay for a service I basically already have for free? I don't want the credit facilities, so I don't see why I should pay for them.
Why risk using a debit card online? You know they are not insured?
Neither are credit cards. Well, *technically* they are but the card issuer will wriggle out of any request if you get ripped off.
I tried it with a 500mW power source on 460MHz using a pair of resonant quarter-wave aerials. At about one metre separation, it was receiving around -6dBm, or about 250uW. So that's ten times the power, ten times closer, on a lower frequency with better propagation. Ten metres away and 50mW would give -26dBm which my meter won't measure, but is one hundredth the power - 2.5uW. Good luck charging a battery with that.
if really wanted the pay service, I'd definitely drop the cash for it
I'd *love* to drop the cash for DynDNS's paid service, but I can't because - like many USian companies - they insist on taking only credit cards. Outside the US, *everyone* has a debit card so comparatively few people bother with credit cards. If you want to do business outside the US, not taking debit cards is economic suicide.
Even mplayer/mencoder, the best of the bunch imho, has many, many options that won't work together, and can produce output that itself cannot read. How the developers even manage to keep that massive jumble of libraries from bursting into flames I can't imagine.
Just because you *can* do something, it doesn't mean you *should*. Mencoder won't complain (much) if you give it mutually-incompatible options but it might produce something weird and unusable. Equally, it might produce something weird and awesome.
It reminds me of the drinks machines we used to have at a place I used to work in - you selected a drink by typing in a number, where the bit pattern of the number enabled or disabled various things in the machine. So, black coffee no sugar might be 11, fizzy orange juice might be 22, chicken soup might be 41 and so on. So logically warm fizzy orange juice (nice) would be 23, hot orange juice (awesome) would be 21 and warm fizzy black coffee (nicer than it sounds) would be 13. Of course this means that 42 gives you fizzy chicken soup, which isn't very nice at all.
while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved
How about they improve the power supplies first? It's bad enough that there are all these cheap crappy switch-mode power supplies splattering harmonics of their switching frequency up and down the RF spectrum, but now they want to design them to radiate *more*?
what do you do if you land in Jolly Ol' England and *find* explosives
The passenger was flying to Ireland, which isn't even near England. Ireland has also - unlike the US - actually got some real problems with proper terrorism.
If he didn't want to die he was perfectly welcome to fucking STOP and put his HANDS UP like a normal person... If he'd been given the chance. The evidence is right there on the station's CCTV tapes. He *walked* onto the train, he didn't run. The men who killed him *walked* onto the train behind him, pushed him to the ground and shot him in the head. There was no warning. It was a murder.
You'd still need a matching circuit, because a half-wave end-fed aerial must be fed with a high-impedance source. The wikipedia page says that there was 120kV across the two metre high insulator at the base.
Normally if you used a quarter-wave aerial you can feed that directly at about 50 ohms, with a massive current.
if he didn't know the cli he could not have done it without help
If I didn't know the GUI I wouldn't be able to do it without help, either. Having to click through half a dozen confusingly-named menus isn't intuitive at all.
Shame I can't post and mod, otherwise that would have been another +1 Informative. Well, apart from the drivelling about "spent two hours to moan about it". I spent quite a lot of time googling, but couldn't work out what to google *for* - it's easy to guess if you've ever used Windows before. I was still reeling from the shock of not having to deal with the horror show that was Trumpet Winsock.
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... but arable farming uses an unholy amount of petrochemicals. If the entire population of the world went vegan, we'd survive for about a decade.
In any case, if you supply a closed source license, you're going to need to take out professional indemnity insurance for a very large amount
I don't see why that should be the case. Look at any Microsoft product - it explicitly says in the licence that there is no warranty and no guarantee of fitness for purpose. There's nothing to stop any closed-source licence saying "You cannot have the source code. You have no guarantee that this will work. If it breaks, you own both pieces."
It really comes down to how inept the school officials have shown themselves to be.
Exactly. If your child goes to that school, demand the immediate firing of the vice-principal. I'm damn sure I wouldn't want in incompetent clown like that anywhere *near* my children.
... also from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ssb-echo-3.ogg
At the end of the second transmission, you can hear the echo of the last couple of seconds of own signal reflected back from the moon. There's a delay of about 2.7 seconds for a radio wave, travelling at the speed of light, to get from the Earth to the Moon and back. The reason the "direct" signal sounds high-pitched and squeaky and the echo sounds deep and boomy is because the movement of the Moon relative to the ground station on Earth gives about a 300Hz Doppler shift.
ethernet cable these days is NOT equal length wires! yet i2s for spdif break-out NEEDS each wire exactly the same length (timing matters, again)
But the different twist rate of the pairs in Plain Ordinary CAT5 don't make any difference. You're talking about a difference of a few millimetres over a whole 305m roll of CAT5 - in a sane length of patch cable that would make a difference in the order of a few femtoseconds.
I've had the same mobile number for well over a decade. If you knew my phone number in 1999, it hasn't changed. I've lived in a wide range of different places since then, though.
With all that fancy visual stuff going on, it could be easy for the technician to overlook a pushed pin or a pinch in the cable which could be causing a problem.
Exactly. Even with perfectly ordinary cars it's a problem, because the "mechanics" (they're barely fitters, never mind mechanics) at main dealers plug the diagnostics kit in, it tells them something like "COOLANT TEMP SENSOR OPEN" so they change the sensor, and the fault is still there. Then they're stuffed, because they don't know what to do next. "The Computer" said the sensor was faulty, they changed it, and it didn't fix it. That's when it all gets expensive.
It seems to send some sort of start and length reference to the servers. It wouldn't be hard to keep sending them lots of randomish clicks though.
They will lose only if Chinese Firewall starts blocking them
I don't think the Chinese Firewall blocks *anything*. My mail server is constantly getting spammed shitless by servers apparently in China - at least, whois reports them as being in China and within netblocks that are supposedly behind the Great Firewall - so I put some "known filter trigger" keywords in the exim banner message. Didn't make a bit of difference. Either they aren't filtering at all, or they're not filtering traffic on port 25.
Why not get a Visa or Mastercard debit card?
Got one. They're not accepted. I *could* get a credit card, but they cost money to use. Why pay for a service I basically already have for free? I don't want the credit facilities, so I don't see why I should pay for them.
Why risk using a debit card online? You know they are not insured?
Neither are credit cards. Well, *technically* they are but the card issuer will wriggle out of any request if you get ripped off.
I tried it with a 500mW power source on 460MHz using a pair of resonant quarter-wave aerials. At about one metre separation, it was receiving around -6dBm, or about 250uW. So that's ten times the power, ten times closer, on a lower frequency with better propagation. Ten metres away and 50mW would give -26dBm which my meter won't measure, but is one hundredth the power - 2.5uW. Good luck charging a battery with that.
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if really wanted the pay service, I'd definitely drop the cash for it
I'd *love* to drop the cash for DynDNS's paid service, but I can't because - like many USian companies - they insist on taking only credit cards. Outside the US, *everyone* has a debit card so comparatively few people bother with credit cards. If you want to do business outside the US, not taking debit cards is economic suicide.
Vegas is STARVING, akin to what Dubai just endured...
... but nothing compared to what Vegas is going to endure when no-one comes next year.
Even mplayer/mencoder, the best of the bunch imho, has many, many options that won't work together, and can produce output that itself cannot read. How the developers even manage to keep that massive jumble of libraries from bursting into flames I can't imagine.
Just because you *can* do something, it doesn't mean you *should*. Mencoder won't complain (much) if you give it mutually-incompatible options but it might produce something weird and unusable. Equally, it might produce something weird and awesome.
It reminds me of the drinks machines we used to have at a place I used to work in - you selected a drink by typing in a number, where the bit pattern of the number enabled or disabled various things in the machine. So, black coffee no sugar might be 11, fizzy orange juice might be 22, chicken soup might be 41 and so on. So logically warm fizzy orange juice (nice) would be 23, hot orange juice (awesome) would be 21 and warm fizzy black coffee (nicer than it sounds) would be 13. Of course this means that 42 gives you fizzy chicken soup, which isn't very nice at all.
while, yeah, the cheap plugpack segment is mostly switchmode now I wonder if there are places where the efficency of transformers could be improved
How about they improve the power supplies first? It's bad enough that there are all these cheap crappy switch-mode power supplies splattering harmonics of their switching frequency up and down the RF spectrum, but now they want to design them to radiate *more*?
Looks like an interesting thing - got a transcript?
what do you do if you land in Jolly Ol' England and *find* explosives
The passenger was flying to Ireland, which isn't even near England. Ireland has also - unlike the US - actually got some real problems with proper terrorism.
Ted Kennedy writes you a big cheque.
If he didn't want to die he was perfectly welcome to fucking STOP and put his HANDS UP like a normal person ... If he'd been given the chance. The evidence is right there on the station's CCTV tapes. He *walked* onto the train, he didn't run. The men who killed him *walked* onto the train behind him, pushed him to the ground and shot him in the head. There was no warning. It was a murder.
We know they had poison gas. The UK and US sold it to to them.
If we wanted real proof of whether or not the Iraqis had chemical weapons, we'd just check the invoices for 1989-1991.
I'd bet the final amps are tube-based, so the high feed impedance isn't as big a deal as if they were solid state.
They will be. Transistor PAs are mostly only used in flea-power broadcast transmitters, up to about 10-20kW.
You'd still need a matching circuit, because a half-wave end-fed aerial must be fed with a high-impedance source. The wikipedia page says that there was 120kV across the two metre high insulator at the base.
Normally if you used a quarter-wave aerial you can feed that directly at about 50 ohms, with a massive current.
I'm already using Web 2.5TDi anyway. It's a bit slower flat-out but it's a lot more economical to run and easier to work on.
if he didn't know the cli he could not have done it without help
If I didn't know the GUI I wouldn't be able to do it without help, either. Having to click through half a dozen confusingly-named menus isn't intuitive at all.
Shame I can't post and mod, otherwise that would have been another +1 Informative. Well, apart from the drivelling about "spent two hours to moan about it". I spent quite a lot of time googling, but couldn't work out what to google *for* - it's easy to guess if you've ever used Windows before. I was still reeling from the shock of not having to deal with the horror show that was Trumpet Winsock.