I wouldn't call it bait and switch. Compuserve licensed it, and it grew to popularity there and started spilling out. Everybody knew it was licensed strictly by them, but nobody seemed to care.
Paramount periodically cracks down on people selling Star Trek stuff. That doesn't mean that it's a bait and switch... you know you are supposed to license it, but the guy selling Klingon swords gets pissed and rants about how terrible Paramount is every time they shut him down.
Unless I'm missing something major, you're not thinking this through.
This guy wants WiFi (for, say a laptop)... I pointed out that he might want it for his local network, keeping that private.
Either this device is a new AP, in which case it won't work (that's the original problem), or it isn't, in which case, your traffic is going through somebody else's LAN.
Where are you getting "private LAN with WiFi" from this device?
All of you advocating merely connecting to somebody else's network are overlooking some seriously major facets of LANs.
For instance, on my network, there are a few iTunes databases feeding to the TiVo, the TiVo has to see the music to play it, all of which has to be on the same subnet. And that's just my roommate. I use several automated ssh scripts to play time shifted radio in various rooms (office, bedroom), have a NFS server with loads of video that I'd like to keep private... or the college kids in the neighborhood will suck my bandwidth like an Earnest movie.
In short, all is well and good... if *all* you want is bandwidth to one machine and never wish to reliably connect to another machine you own... and don't care about the privacy of your network.
Especially given that the majority of airline pilots (in the US) are ex-USAF. I wouldn't be surprised if the airline pilots in other countries have similar career histories. You have to be young to fly a fighter, you log many many hours, and then you have to be old to fly a airliner, have many hours, and get paid quite a bit for relatively short bursts of work.
Quite a good deal, although the limited amount of positions available for both USAF and commercial airline pilots makes it hard to get into.
As many people have pointed out, you are referring to something that is impossible for the observer to reproduce for observers that are male or unable to orgasm.
Fine. In the long tradition of "real science", I will assign the task of providing experimental data to the nearest grad student. As soon as she gets home. Repeatedly.
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a) You assume that they haven't already given through traditional means already.
b) It is quite possible that they don't have any spare money. Some people playing UO do that as their only or almost only form of recreation. I know (or knew) people without cable or cell phones who play UO.
c) It is a fun gimmick that is raising money for a charity that can really use it. Why are you upset about it?
I never said anything was supposed to be free. I'm happy paying for it. However, if you use your device as a bluetooth modem and exceed "normal usage" (defined as a few hundred k a day), Sprint can and often will shut your service off. TMobile doesn't. That's a big difference between both of their paid "unlimited" plans.
You either need to see a therapist or really take a break from technology. You appear to be *way* too emotionally invested in this issue.
Regardless of their treatment of that particular model, they do appear to be significantly better in general than Sprint or Cingular/AT&T, which are my only other two options. My focus is getting a good phone with good coverage and unlimited bandwidth of dialup speeds or better (obviously faster is better, but dialup is sufficient for my needs).
Honestly, my town is starting to get blanketed in so many free WiFi hotspots, I'm starting to just look forward to the 650 for a Palm replacement.
This is why I am holding off getting a 650 until TMobile has them. TMobile has an excellent history in terms of supporting "real" unlimited data transfer, fully supporting the features of various phones and devices (like the Sidekick, various PCMCIA cell modems, etc).
To clarify, I mean supporting in terms of "the features work"... I have no idea what their phone techs are like.
Wiki is Hawaiian for "quick". I was talking to two people from Hawaii, and they knew it off the top of their head; it is a very common word.
Just because you think the word "sounds like a buzzword" doesn't mean it is. Sometimes it is merely a different language. Similar to the people ranting about KDE having apps named with "K instead of C", which in actual fact, many of the developers are in Germany, where the word "console" is spelled "konsole".
Beyond the fact that this is a site run by people who pick and choose what they want to show, many of the posts have had a decided technological or scientific slant (News for Nerds) including this one. These are... what kind of photos? Satellite photos. Not exactly the kinds of things that most newspapers are running above the fold.
Other stories include the mega-tsunami story, a staple story for science shows on Discovery Channel and PBS, a story about the compacting of the earth and a 3 microsecond change in the earth's rotation (pretty much News for Nerds there), and the initial story, which is certainly of interest to anybody interested in earthquakes or major disasters (another big popular soft science topic).
In the past there have been stories like "Aerial Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake". That was 'News for Nerds'. How are satellite photos of a major geological event not?
Who said I was a United States citizen? You presume, sir. I am merely pointing out that you are not comparing equivalent numbers.
The best comment in this thread was YrWrstNtmr when he said "This is not an international dick-waving contest to see who can 'contribute' the most. How about we just help them, OK?".
There is a simple difference. The United States is not a socialist country, and indeed, most of the population dislikes socialism. Thus there are large private organizations (like the American Red Cross) and both individual and corporate donations to any disaster that far exceed what the government can do.
That is the preferred way for the United States. It's different than how some other countries handle it, but the numbers, when compared on a "total assistance" basis, rather than being skewed, are certainly favorable to the United States.
Consider this - many people in the United States want *less* government support of even domestic disasters. The private sector handles such events quite capably, with both sufficient funds and resources.
It is not that "US citizens are nicer than the US government" - that distinction is not something that the United States is based on. The citizens *are* the government... our founding documents dictate that the government is "of the people, by the people and for the people". Many citizens prefer that the government take an absolute minimum in taxes and allow the individual to decide how to spend their individual income. Thus, the US government *cannot* match the EU's disaster aid - they aren't taking in the income to be able to. I would guess (and would appreciate somebody checking this) that the EU has a larger available budget to give aid with than the US federal government. The population of the US, however, has more money and gives that in aid.
Yeah no shit, because you've got 15x as many people in your country. But my country still donates twice as much per person as yours.
That is likely because your government takes your money so you don't get to decide what to do with it. The US leaves the money in the hands of the citizens... who donate more privately than your government does.
The information I've read is the exact same with the bit about the requesting of a recount (on their dime or otherwise). Can you cite (or even better, point to the state law? I searched a bit and couldn't find it when this hit earlier).
The law has already been changed here. There is only to be one recount whose standings are absolutely final. That's why the court ruled the "oops, we found more votes!" didn't count previously.
I fall on the "even if it's wrong, go by the law, send people to jail if necessary (if the vote was interfered with), and adjust the law for next time if need be". Changing the law in the middle of an election is wrong.
I submit that all free men can make their own choices. That includes working on an educational tool because you want to see it shipped, fully recognizing the possibility of failure (and indeed with trespassing charges, jail time).
He did this of his own will. If you don't understand that, you will never understand greatness; most great men and women have pushed like this in their fields of art, science, industry and technology.
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Paramount periodically cracks down on people selling Star Trek stuff. That doesn't mean that it's a bait and switch... you know you are supposed to license it, but the guy selling Klingon swords gets pissed and rants about how terrible Paramount is every time they shut him down.
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This guy wants WiFi (for, say a laptop)... I pointed out that he might want it for his local network, keeping that private.
Either this device is a new AP, in which case it won't work (that's the original problem), or it isn't, in which case, your traffic is going through somebody else's LAN.
Where are you getting "private LAN with WiFi" from this device?
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Is it? Or have you been listening to AM radio or watching late night television again? Dr Talbot? Is that you?
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For instance, on my network, there are a few iTunes databases feeding to the TiVo, the TiVo has to see the music to play it, all of which has to be on the same subnet. And that's just my roommate. I use several automated ssh scripts to play time shifted radio in various rooms (office, bedroom), have a NFS server with loads of video that I'd like to keep private... or the college kids in the neighborhood will suck my bandwidth like an Earnest movie.
In short, all is well and good... if *all* you want is bandwidth to one machine and never wish to reliably connect to another machine you own... and don't care about the privacy of your network.
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Yep, that's a bunch of a local WiFi provider's APs. There is normally a "penis" in there, too.
I have a feeling that for the really amusing ones, I should walk down towards campus and sniff the dorm and off-campus housing from UCDavis.
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Incidently, my handle predates the web and was chosen for kibo'esque reasons - I can search for it and find myself.
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The question is: Are there more photos of this out there?
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I look forward to when Geocities makes your site available again. I use sources like you for various role playing games.
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Quite a good deal, although the limited amount of positions available for both USAF and commercial airline pilots makes it hard to get into.
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Fine. In the long tradition of "real science", I will assign the task of providing experimental data to the nearest grad student. As soon as she gets home. Repeatedly.
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Evan "Although she's going for a PhD in Chemistry, I doubt she'll dislike this assignment"
a) You assume that they haven't already given through traditional means already.
b) It is quite possible that they don't have any spare money. Some people playing UO do that as their only or almost only form of recreation. I know (or knew) people without cable or cell phones who play UO.
c) It is a fun gimmick that is raising money for a charity that can really use it. Why are you upset about it?
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Regardless of their treatment of that particular model, they do appear to be significantly better in general than Sprint or Cingular/AT&T, which are my only other two options. My focus is getting a good phone with good coverage and unlimited bandwidth of dialup speeds or better (obviously faster is better, but dialup is sufficient for my needs).
Honestly, my town is starting to get blanketed in so many free WiFi hotspots, I'm starting to just look forward to the 650 for a Palm replacement.
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Evan
To clarify, I mean supporting in terms of "the features work"... I have no idea what their phone techs are like.
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Evan
Just because you think the word "sounds like a buzzword" doesn't mean it is. Sometimes it is merely a different language. Similar to the people ranting about KDE having apps named with "K instead of C", which in actual fact, many of the developers are in Germany, where the word "console" is spelled "konsole".
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Other stories include the mega-tsunami story, a staple story for science shows on Discovery Channel and PBS, a story about the compacting of the earth and a 3 microsecond change in the earth's rotation (pretty much News for Nerds there), and the initial story, which is certainly of interest to anybody interested in earthquakes or major disasters (another big popular soft science topic).
In the past there have been stories like "Aerial Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake". That was 'News for Nerds'. How are satellite photos of a major geological event not?
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Evan
The best comment in this thread was YrWrstNtmr when he said "This is not an international dick-waving contest to see who can 'contribute' the most. How about we just help them, OK?".
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That is the preferred way for the United States. It's different than how some other countries handle it, but the numbers, when compared on a "total assistance" basis, rather than being skewed, are certainly favorable to the United States.
Consider this - many people in the United States want *less* government support of even domestic disasters. The private sector handles such events quite capably, with both sufficient funds and resources.
It is not that "US citizens are nicer than the US government" - that distinction is not something that the United States is based on. The citizens *are* the government... our founding documents dictate that the government is "of the people, by the people and for the people". Many citizens prefer that the government take an absolute minimum in taxes and allow the individual to decide how to spend their individual income. Thus, the US government *cannot* match the EU's disaster aid - they aren't taking in the income to be able to. I would guess (and would appreciate somebody checking this) that the EU has a larger available budget to give aid with than the US federal government. The population of the US, however, has more money and gives that in aid.
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That is likely because your government takes your money so you don't get to decide what to do with it. The US leaves the money in the hands of the citizens... who donate more privately than your government does.
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#!/bin/bash
#
#
STATION=kfbk
PROGRAM=$( echo $STATION | tr '[[:lower:]]' '[[:upper:]]' )
[ "$2" ] && PROGRAM=$2
[ $( basename $0 ) == reckste ] && STATION=kste
LENGTH=`printf "%d" $1`
TARGETFILE="$PROGRAM - "$(date +"%m.%d.%y %a %R")".mp3"
[ $LENGTH == 0 ] && echo "Must specify a time in hours or seconds" && exit 1
[ $LENGTH -lt 10 ] && LENGTH=$(( $LENGTH * 3600 ))
printf "Recording for %d seconds ( %d:%02d )\n" $LENGTH $(( $LENGTH / 3600 )) $(( $(( $LENGTH % 3600 )) / 60 ))
cd ~evan/tmp/stream || echo "Error!"
lame -f -mm -b16 - - >"$TARGETFILE" <$STATION.pipe &
sleep 1
mplayer -quiet -cache 256 -ao pcm -aofile $STATION.pipe http://ccdig.liquidviewer.com/$STATION &
sleep $LENGTH
KPID=$(ps ax | grep mplayer | grep -v grep |grep $STATION | gawk '{ print $1 }')
kill -9 $KPID
Google has made me lazy. Maybe I should sue, a la the "McDonalds has made me fat" lawsuits. ;)
At any rate, thank you.
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BTW - thanks for the work you do on this site.
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I fall on the "even if it's wrong, go by the law, send people to jail if necessary (if the vote was interfered with), and adjust the law for next time if need be". Changing the law in the middle of an election is wrong.
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Evan
I submit that all free men can make their own choices. That includes working on an educational tool because you want to see it shipped, fully recognizing the possibility of failure (and indeed with trespassing charges, jail time).
He did this of his own will. If you don't understand that, you will never understand greatness; most great men and women have pushed like this in their fields of art, science, industry and technology.
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Evan