I figured it was a "feature" to prevent consumers flooding the surrounding areas with high transmission power, but thinking about it now, it could also be a EU vs US legislation thing, being a Brit here. Thats a guess mind you. I generally followed the idea that adjusting transmit power meant products could be refreshed with nothing more than a new edition (same model, new firmware) on the shelves, and that adjustable power was left to people who knew what they were doing and had expensive corporate kit. Seems I may have just been unlucky with what routers I've come across, though I have handled quite a few for various reasons and not seen any adjustable ones, though my last purchase was when N was in it's early draft stages, so that's about five years ago. Either way, that one's going in the bin. Information appreciated.
Really? Is this a newer feature on household APs or just something certain brands add to their firmware? None of my netgears have ever had this, and they were the high end models at the time of purchase. Admittedly, they're all terrible and had to be rebooted more times than I wish to think about. I tend to just worry about buying yet another expensive home router for it to be as bad as the cheap models and just as restrictive in software features.
Definitely, I live in a new build student accommodation block. I can only get mobile phone signal with my phone sitting on the window sill, and it's only GSM at that. Outside I get a nice full bar 3G connection. The only way I can make phone calls is by using my Bluetooth headset, as if I pick the phone up, calls will drop shortly after. This means I must regularly keep my headset charged and can have a maximum of 4 hours talking with about an hour charge break in the middle, god forbid I forget to charge my headset and someone calls me. It can be very inconvenient.
I may to be moving into a new build elsewhere eventually but I have a feeling I'll have to purchase a transmitter power controllable WiFi access point (adverse to a standard router where the transmitter power is fixed generally) such as a Cisco commercial AP and possibly a mobile phone repeater. Hopefully that will solve both wireless issues if the building also suffers from Faraday caging. Cheap routers really struggle to penetrate this, or rather don't reflect enough times to go out of a window or through a doorway and thus drop off. Not ideal.
I wonder if the Chinese traveled back in time to tell themselves to ban talking about time travel because it was possible. Will this prevent the discovery of time travel so that they can not warn themselves? The plot thickens...
security through fifty-leven different systems & methods for each record.. kinda security through obfuscation.
my method will be different from my neighbor
Though in the terms of most consumers all that means is your key is under the mat, his is in the plant pot. I keep mine in a hornet's nest but leave the back door open incase I can't get past the hornets.
Okay I take that back as an overstatement (and then some) for the point I was attempting to make. What I wanted to say is the internet is not something we can just take away, and that the idea is that everyone should be allowed to have access to it, or rather noone should be denied access to it for any reason I can think of. I guess women covered in grease is a culture too but not in the same way information and knowledge is.
I suppose there's tangible and intangible culture and that we should look at things we can't touch and feel (though in most bars, you get kicked out for that) and it's easily forgotten that it is even culture at all. Things like restrictions, blocking and just obscurity are as intangible as the information they operate on and we as people can easily let loose the freedom we have because it's not a 'right', it's an 'allowance'.
So I take back my comment about something Not being culture (when it clearly is) and try to adjust my point accordingly.
Probably also another layer of security for companies with laptops. As long as a corporate server backup is kept of the data then having the disk dump the data is generally not a problem. Just slap in a new one and pull it down again from the server, except this has added security of only allowing the disk to work in the machine it's in. Now all you need is a small remote to destroy some critical motherboard part and you're good to go. Okay that bit is an extra...
Quick vehicles, large livable buildings and females covered in grease are not culture.
The internet itself is so twisted into culture and way of life now that it almost is a necessity. As TVs die, non voip phone calls end, newspapers become news-websites, etc etc eventually the only source of all of this will be the "internet" as a whole. Therefore making sure it's unrestricted, readily available and easily accessible should be handed now, rather than after the politicians have made a huge damn mess of it.
Be careful how you privatise your culture, it may become unaffordable eventually.
As a Brit, I find your tax system very strange. Also it seems rather complex for a country that decided Bush was a good idea (I jest). Why do things differ so much from State to State?
Didn't they sort of try this with Windows Marketplace, and noone ever knew it existed? Alot of focus has always been on redoing the same features over and over again, instead of being sensible and maybe, yknow adding something new every so often.
I'm glad it's not just me that notices that too. I see jumpiness on quite a few films I watch but didn't quite do the whole 2+2 thing. I tended to blame quality/compression (yes itunes movies, your bitrate is terrible), though bitrate is a function of framerate right? So yeah, I'm all for higher framerates if it means I don't sit there going "grrr smoother panning please".
Maybe, there are people who have no computer, no broadband, no landline and no TV but Do have mobiles and do know how to use the internet. It's possible that this item to them can do everything and more, be it a news paper in the pocket, a way of finding jobs, student study device etc. If you take away all the things "people have" prior to smart phones, you might find smartphones can fill an everything roll on their own to people who aren't power users. You'd be surprised at the need for information and knowledge the current 20s generation has with the internet. Oh and it's also a phone. Handy.
I got trine some time after it came out and felt it was an excellent game. The puzzles were neat, the game play was smoother than most triple-A games I own and it was a damn site more fun. Also I loved the visual feel of Trine, it was pretty, whilst retaining it's own charm. I would recommend this as a reason alone to get the bundle. Also I can't wait for Trine2, I love those sorts of physics puzzle games.
Nothing wrong with a good vocational program as long as it is properly structured and teaches useful skills. You could say "and how many are hopped up degree programs". Looking back at my degree, having done education in both a vocational and a, whatever the opposite word is, standard degree format, I find I have learned considerably more through vocational methodology. My coursework marks have always been consistently better than my exam results. Shame about my English skills, but I'm an engineer not an author.
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I figured it was a "feature" to prevent consumers flooding the surrounding areas with high transmission power, but thinking about it now, it could also be a EU vs US legislation thing, being a Brit here. Thats a guess mind you. I generally followed the idea that adjusting transmit power meant products could be refreshed with nothing more than a new edition (same model, new firmware) on the shelves, and that adjustable power was left to people who knew what they were doing and had expensive corporate kit. Seems I may have just been unlucky with what routers I've come across, though I have handled quite a few for various reasons and not seen any adjustable ones, though my last purchase was when N was in it's early draft stages, so that's about five years ago. Either way, that one's going in the bin. Information appreciated.
Really? Is this a newer feature on household APs or just something certain brands add to their firmware? None of my netgears have ever had this, and they were the high end models at the time of purchase. Admittedly, they're all terrible and had to be rebooted more times than I wish to think about. I tend to just worry about buying yet another expensive home router for it to be as bad as the cheap models and just as restrictive in software features.
No, O2, England's equivalent.
Definitely, I live in a new build student accommodation block. I can only get mobile phone signal with my phone sitting on the window sill, and it's only GSM at that. Outside I get a nice full bar 3G connection. The only way I can make phone calls is by using my Bluetooth headset, as if I pick the phone up, calls will drop shortly after. This means I must regularly keep my headset charged and can have a maximum of 4 hours talking with about an hour charge break in the middle, god forbid I forget to charge my headset and someone calls me. It can be very inconvenient.
I may to be moving into a new build elsewhere eventually but I have a feeling I'll have to purchase a transmitter power controllable WiFi access point (adverse to a standard router where the transmitter power is fixed generally) such as a Cisco commercial AP and possibly a mobile phone repeater. Hopefully that will solve both wireless issues if the building also suffers from Faraday caging. Cheap routers really struggle to penetrate this, or rather don't reflect enough times to go out of a window or through a doorway and thus drop off. Not ideal.
I wonder if the Chinese traveled back in time to tell themselves to ban talking about time travel because it was possible. Will this prevent the discovery of time travel so that they can not warn themselves? The plot thickens...
security through fifty-leven different systems & methods for each record.. kinda security through obfuscation. my method will be different from my neighbor
Though in the terms of most consumers all that means is your key is under the mat, his is in the plant pot. I keep mine in a hornet's nest but leave the back door open incase I can't get past the hornets.
Quick, if we shut our eyes we can't see anything being stolen!
Okay I take that back as an overstatement (and then some) for the point I was attempting to make. What I wanted to say is the internet is not something we can just take away, and that the idea is that everyone should be allowed to have access to it, or rather noone should be denied access to it for any reason I can think of. I guess women covered in grease is a culture too but not in the same way information and knowledge is.
I suppose there's tangible and intangible culture and that we should look at things we can't touch and feel (though in most bars, you get kicked out for that) and it's easily forgotten that it is even culture at all. Things like restrictions, blocking and just obscurity are as intangible as the information they operate on and we as people can easily let loose the freedom we have because it's not a 'right', it's an 'allowance'.
So I take back my comment about something Not being culture (when it clearly is) and try to adjust my point accordingly.
Probably also another layer of security for companies with laptops. As long as a corporate server backup is kept of the data then having the disk dump the data is generally not a problem. Just slap in a new one and pull it down again from the server, except this has added security of only allowing the disk to work in the machine it's in. Now all you need is a small remote to destroy some critical motherboard part and you're good to go. Okay that bit is an extra...
Reply appreciated. Thanks.
Quick vehicles, large livable buildings and females covered in grease are not culture. The internet itself is so twisted into culture and way of life now that it almost is a necessity. As TVs die, non voip phone calls end, newspapers become news-websites, etc etc eventually the only source of all of this will be the "internet" as a whole. Therefore making sure it's unrestricted, readily available and easily accessible should be handed now, rather than after the politicians have made a huge damn mess of it. Be careful how you privatise your culture, it may become unaffordable eventually.
I agree, but I think that's an insult to monkeys.
As a Brit, I find your tax system very strange. Also it seems rather complex for a country that decided Bush was a good idea (I jest). Why do things differ so much from State to State?
Didn't they sort of try this with Windows Marketplace, and noone ever knew it existed? Alot of focus has always been on redoing the same features over and over again, instead of being sensible and maybe, yknow adding something new every so often.
I'm glad it's not just me that notices that too. I see jumpiness on quite a few films I watch but didn't quite do the whole 2+2 thing. I tended to blame quality/compression (yes itunes movies, your bitrate is terrible), though bitrate is a function of framerate right? So yeah, I'm all for higher framerates if it means I don't sit there going "grrr smoother panning please".
Maybe, there are people who have no computer, no broadband, no landline and no TV but Do have mobiles and do know how to use the internet. It's possible that this item to them can do everything and more, be it a news paper in the pocket, a way of finding jobs, student study device etc. If you take away all the things "people have" prior to smart phones, you might find smartphones can fill an everything roll on their own to people who aren't power users. You'd be surprised at the need for information and knowledge the current 20s generation has with the internet. Oh and it's also a phone. Handy.
I got trine some time after it came out and felt it was an excellent game. The puzzles were neat, the game play was smoother than most triple-A games I own and it was a damn site more fun. Also I loved the visual feel of Trine, it was pretty, whilst retaining it's own charm. I would recommend this as a reason alone to get the bundle. Also I can't wait for Trine2, I love those sorts of physics puzzle games.
Point taken on that, I understand what you're getting at now. Thanks.
Nothing wrong with a good vocational program as long as it is properly structured and teaches useful skills. You could say "and how many are hopped up degree programs". Looking back at my degree, having done education in both a vocational and a, whatever the opposite word is, standard degree format, I find I have learned considerably more through vocational methodology. My coursework marks have always been consistently better than my exam results. Shame about my English skills, but I'm an engineer not an author.
Ah! Dropped the damn thing
Where are my glasses? Oh no
Trod on it. The pain
Some proper trolling could be had with a device like that. I want one!
Chinese whispers - storage style. Impressively cunning non the less.
You're supposed to cover your eyes, and put your fingers in your ears at the same time. Why are you looking citizen? Get back to work!
That's the sort of science I like to see! -Cave Johnson.
One step further, teach "troll science".