but what I really want to see is a pocket cellphone jammer.... Not with a huge range or anything.. but something that will kock out all cellular communications within, say, 10m or so... powered by a 9v battery.
Jamming radio is cheap. IT's no surprise that gps can be overwhelmed.
Oh, and most "personal tracking devices", say that spies/feds would use, do NOT use gps at all.. they simply emit a signal, and the user finds where you are by triangulation.
Javascript and Java have *nothing* to do with each other.. nothing at all. This is like comparing Javascript to TCL. Or C.
Applets? It's about more than applets. Java applets are a niche? I use some daily in my work, and I *need* them, and it's a pain in the ass when microsoft made using java difficult. It USED to be easy.
Javascript developers? Who are you kidding? Javascript is a joke.
Don't compare them. Don't contrast them. That's like comparing Apples to Moonrocks.
Is that they had a contract with sun, which they broke, several ways. They USED to ship java, people use it, depend on it, and it's a PAIN IN THE ASS not having it included. They were under contract to keep java in windows... and they broke it.
If they had a contract with macromedia, and then broke it, they could be made to stick to it as well.
SMS is popular because a) it works EVERYWHERE, right across the continent, across basically all carriers. b) fixed per-message fee. pennies. Sounds like a lot? Compare it to calling someone to say "buy milk" or "meet you at 6" and it's a lot cheaper. Remember, in the REST of the world you often don't sign contracts, or get tons of free minutes a month.. you simply pay for the calls and data you originate. Period. You do not pay for incoming.
When I was in Ireland, I saw that SMS was *extremely* popular. People bang out messages to each other all the time. Sounds goofy to you? It's quite handy.
SMS is efficent, and doesn't demand attention for little notes.
We in North America tend to view SMS more as an alphanumeric paging thingy than a real 2 way communication device... and the reason is, it only works with some of the phones we know. In europe, if I got your cel number, I can send you a message... I don't have to wonder what carrier you are on.
Okay. I'm basically saying, there is a TON of information about this on the net, at libraries, and everywhere else. Most of what you can find in the library you can also find online. Use your own judgement as to what to believe.. if you want to think it's all a conspiracy, go right ahead.
Or you can stay in denial... but those of us who did the research KNOW that this isn't conspiracy theory... Edison was not as important as the American history books make him out to be... not by a longshot.
Can you explain what searchking was doing, and how they were linkfarming, or whatever? How were they distoring pagerank values?
My impression is that they were simply looking for sites with high pageranks, then brokering between those sites and advertisers. Then google decided to demote any sites that searchking is using.
What searchking is saying is that google is completely destroying his business by saying "You can't sell ads on sites that have a high pagerank, because any site you place an ad for one of your clients on will have it's pagerank demoted."
If that IS what's going on.. I can't help but think.. what does the fact that a site has a searchking brokered advertisement on it have to do with the quality of the site? It IS dishonest. If the site was demoted for other reasons, fine.. but blanket demotign all sites searchking uses doesn't seem right. The guy might have a point.
Welll.. 1) microsoft is being forced to HONOR A CONTRACT with Sun regarding java... and 2) Microsoft has been deemed a monopoly.. in which case the rules change. Google is not a monopoly.. it is just a popular search engine. IT does not stay popular by abusing it's monopoly power.... it stays popular by providing results.
Self-regulated industries are self-regulated because they want to avoid forced regulation. A perfect example is the diving industry. You don't need a license to go scuba diving. no law requires you to do anything. If you aren't certified by a recognized school of diving, though, most dive shops won't fill your tanks. Now, they *can* fill your tanks, they are allowed.. but they won't. Why is this good? I know people who aren't certified.. but they KNOW how to dive. They've been doing it for 20 years. Many shops will give you air if they are comfortable that you know what you are doing It's not a hard & fast rule.. but it does prevent a barrier to entry for idiots killing themselves. If they did NOT do this, people would die, and eventually laws would be passed.
Mechanics are certified because we like to feel confident when we give our expensive, important automobiles to some stranger to work on. I know non-certified poeple whom I trust and would be happy to allow to work on my car.. all the same.
If this were true, firewalls would not work with ie.. as it would send a (something) before the syn.. and most firewalls will not pass packets that are part of unopneed tcp connections.
This looks more like a misinterpretation of persistent connections.
Why? How else are you going to charge for access to your network?
Pretend you are starting from scratch, and buildingl a network. You lease/build lines from city to city, within a city, etcetera. This is all fixed cost stuff to you. Now, you only have so much bandwidth between cities... and given that you are selling internet, which is packet switched, and not full circuits.. you aren't selling dedicated city to city bandwidth to people. That's what some people call "overselling" though the term has a negative connotation when there is none; that's the whole point of packet switching. So how do you charge for use of those shared backbones that you own? Flat fee for every customer? Sure you can do that; some ISPs can and do. the cost ofen reflects this. The natural thing to do is divide it up by bandwidth. Set your pricing so that you have a good idea of how much bandwidth each customer is going to use in reality, so you can properly manage your network for all your customers. If they exceed certain limits, the pricing goes up... this is a deterrent, as well as a money maker.
There are many ways to do this.. if you are just buying transit on some long distance cable, often it's a flat per-byte fee. Use as much as you want, but you pay. Some do what they call "burstable" where thyings are based on an average throughput over a month... where a certain percentage of sample periods are permitted to be over the limit. (384kbps burstable to 1.5Mbps.. your average speed has to be 384kbps max, but you are permitted up to, say, 5% of your traffic to be over 1.5Mbps). This is a convenient way for some customers to look at things.
Right. But for now, the only evidence of life we have is here on earth. Nobody is saying "There can't be other kinds of life"... but to speculate on the odds of it is meaningless as we haven't found any yet.
Probably doesn't honor robots.txt. And nothing has to. That was originally there to specify sections of a site not worth indexing (results would be meaningless).. not to prevent it altogether.
He didn't say "Communication problems". He said "The dirty bastards don't speak english natively"
Someone raised speaking Hindi will NEVER be a "native english speaker". You will always be able to tell he has a Hindi accent. THAT is what he said.
Having worked with people of all kinds of language backgrounds.. I can tell you this. It takes both sides. If you refuse to even TRY to understand people, and instead have an attitude like "Why do I have to work with this foreigner" then you won't get anywhere.
Learning to understand thick accents is an acquired skill. Sort of like understanding Brits or Aussies.
so you think that anyone who was born and raised in a language other than english should not be permitted to work in the united states? Because that's what we're talking about here. The guy didnt'say "They don't speak english well enough to communicate with me".. he said "they don't natively speak english."
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but what I really want to see is a pocket cellphone jammer....
Not with a huge range or anything.. but something that will kock out all cellular communications within, say, 10m or so... powered by a 9v battery.
Jamming radio is cheap. IT's no surprise that gps can be overwhelmed.
Oh, and most "personal tracking devices", say that spies/feds would use, do NOT use gps at all.. they simply emit a signal, and the user finds where you are by triangulation.
And the same could be said for any scripting language embedded into a browser.. that doesn't make them worth comparing.
The fact that you can make web applications with them is irrelevant...
Javascript and Java have *nothing* to do with each other.. nothing at all. This is like comparing Javascript to TCL. Or C.
Applets? It's about more than applets. Java applets are a niche? I use some daily in my work, and I *need* them, and it's a pain in the ass when microsoft made using java difficult. It USED to be easy.
Javascript developers? Who are you kidding? Javascript is a joke.
Don't compare them. Don't contrast them. That's like comparing Apples to Moonrocks.
Is that they had a contract with sun, which they broke, several ways. They USED to ship java, people use it, depend on it, and it's a PAIN IN THE ASS not having it included.
They were under contract to keep java in windows... and they broke it.
If they had a contract with macromedia, and then broke it, they could be made to stick to it as well.
Not to sound like a broken record.. but.. Europe.
SMS is popular because a) it works EVERYWHERE, right across the continent, across basically all carriers.
b) fixed per-message fee. pennies. Sounds like a lot? Compare it to calling someone to say "buy milk" or "meet you at 6" and it's a lot cheaper.
Remember, in the REST of the world you often don't sign contracts, or get tons of free minutes a month.. you simply pay for the calls and data you originate. Period. You do not pay for incoming.
When I was in Ireland, I saw that SMS was *extremely* popular. People bang out messages to each other all the time. Sounds goofy to you? It's quite handy.
SMS is efficent, and doesn't demand attention for little notes.
We in North America tend to view SMS more as an alphanumeric paging thingy than a real 2 way communication device... and the reason is, it only works with some of the phones we know.
In europe, if I got your cel number, I can send you a message... I don't have to wonder what carrier you are on.
Okay. I'm basically saying, there is a TON of information about this on the net, at libraries, and everywhere else. Most of what you can find in the library you can also find online. Use your own judgement as to what to believe.. if you want to think it's all a conspiracy, go right ahead.
Or you can stay in denial... but those of us who did the research KNOW that this isn't conspiracy theory... Edison was not as important as the American history books make him out to be... not by a longshot.
Try the internet. Google around, it's dead easy to verify this stuff.
Since when is a 1km 802.11b shot news? We've been doing that for years.
I mean, that doesn't even present any minor technical challenges.. it's EASY.
1km is NOTHING.
Okay...
Wow. IN Canada, payphones are still 25 cents... and that's Canadian cents... (35 in some places)
Oh.. and you don't like 911 fees, hunh? I guess you have a problem with 911 service? You don't like it?
Can you explain what searchking was doing, and how they were linkfarming, or whatever? How were they distoring pagerank values?
My impression is that they were simply looking for sites with high pageranks, then brokering between those sites and advertisers. Then google decided to demote any sites that searchking is using.
What searchking is saying is that google is completely destroying his business by saying "You can't sell ads on sites that have a high pagerank, because any site you place an ad for one of your clients on will have it's pagerank demoted."
If that IS what's going on.. I can't help but think.. what does the fact that a site has a searchking brokered advertisement on it have to do with the quality of the site? It IS dishonest. If the site was demoted for other reasons, fine.. but blanket demotign all sites searchking uses doesn't seem right.
The guy might have a point.
Then again, I might be missing something.
If he's linkfarming, demonstrate how.
Uhh.. so? Good for them.
If they are available to you, then you have no reason to get them conveniently from searchking for $20.
Welll..
1) microsoft is being forced to HONOR A CONTRACT with Sun regarding java...
and
2) Microsoft has been deemed a monopoly.. in which case the rules change. Google is not a monopoly.. it is just a popular search engine. IT does not stay popular by abusing it's monopoly power.... it stays popular by providing results.
Self-regulated industries are self-regulated because they want to avoid forced regulation. A perfect example is the diving industry. You don't need a license to go scuba diving. no law requires you to do anything. If you aren't certified by a recognized school of diving, though, most dive shops won't fill your tanks. Now, they *can* fill your tanks, they are allowed.. but they won't. Why is this good?
I know people who aren't certified.. but they KNOW how to dive. They've been doing it for 20 years. Many shops will give you air if they are comfortable that you know what you are doing It's not a hard & fast rule.. but it does prevent a barrier to entry for idiots killing themselves.
If they did NOT do this, people would die, and eventually laws would be passed.
Mechanics are certified because we like to feel confident when we give our expensive, important automobiles to some stranger to work on. I know non-certified poeple whom I trust and would be happy to allow to work on my car.. all the same.
Mandatory regulation of PC repair? Bollocks.
"They decrease with the square of the distance, not exponentially."
Decreasing by the square of the distance IS exponential. Squaring involves an exponent.
Contrast to linear, or logarithmic.
If this were true, firewalls would not work with ie.. as it would send a (something) before the syn.. and most firewalls will not pass packets that are part of unopneed tcp connections.
This looks more like a misinterpretation of persistent connections.
Why? How else are you going to charge for access to your network?
Pretend you are starting from scratch, and buildingl a network. You lease/build lines from city to city, within a city, etcetera. This is all fixed cost stuff to you. Now, you only have so much bandwidth between cities... and given that you are selling internet, which is packet switched, and not full circuits.. you aren't selling dedicated city to city bandwidth to people. That's what some people call "overselling" though the term has a negative connotation when there is none; that's the whole point of packet switching. So how do you charge for use of those shared backbones that you own? Flat fee for every customer? Sure you can do that; some ISPs can and do. the cost ofen reflects this.
The natural thing to do is divide it up by bandwidth. Set your pricing so that you have a good idea of how much bandwidth each customer is going to use in reality, so you can properly manage your network for all your customers. If they exceed certain limits, the pricing goes up... this is a deterrent, as well as a money maker.
There are many ways to do this.. if you are just buying transit on some long distance cable, often it's a flat per-byte fee. Use as much as you want, but you pay.
Some do what they call "burstable" where thyings are based on an average throughput over a month... where a certain percentage of sample periods are permitted to be over the limit.
(384kbps burstable to 1.5Mbps.. your average speed has to be 384kbps max, but you are permitted up to, say, 5% of your traffic to be over 1.5Mbps). This is a convenient way for some customers to look at things.
Where did you hear that rubbish?
how do you figure the axis of rotation is going to suddenly shift... and how do you think the moon keeps it stable?
Right. But for now, the only evidence of life we have is here on earth.
Nobody is saying "There can't be other kinds of life"... but to speculate on the odds of it is meaningless as we haven't found any yet.
Probably doesn't honor robots.txt. And nothing has to.
That was originally there to specify sections of a site not worth indexing (results would be meaningless).. not to prevent it altogether.
Hyper sensitive bigot radar.
He didn't say "Communication problems". He said "The dirty bastards don't speak english natively"
Someone raised speaking Hindi will NEVER be a "native english speaker". You will always be able to tell he has a Hindi accent. THAT is what he said.
Having worked with people of all kinds of language backgrounds.. I can tell you this. It takes both sides. If you refuse to even TRY to understand people, and instead have an attitude like "Why do I have to work with this foreigner" then you won't get anywhere.
Learning to understand thick accents is an acquired skill.
Sort of like understanding Brits or Aussies.
Well, all other points aside...
so you think that anyone who was born and raised in a language other than english should not be permitted to work in the united states? Because that's what we're talking about here. The guy didnt'say "They don't speak english well enough to communicate with me".. he said "they don't natively speak english."
Tell that to the boardrooms full of people doing realtime, high quality video conferencing over 384kbps between Vancouver & Toronto.
I said nothing about caps. I said that saying people shouldn't be working because they don't "speak english natively" is bigorty, which it is.
So.. they all speak different languages natively.. SO WHAT? You said.. they all speak english in common. Isn't that the point?
I'm not saying it's great to have lots of foreign work.. but bringing up the fact that they don't natively speak english is kind of, well, bigotry.
So you are one of those lowest common denominator people? The internet IS changing a great many things; they just aren't ALL for people at home.
And VOIP works fine over dialup.