Slashdot Mirror


User: Orion2

Orion2's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
13
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 13

  1. Re:Difficult to change, but not that rare. on Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport · · Score: 5, Informative

    Changes to stuff like this are introduced on a cycle once every 28 days - called an "AIRAC cycle". The AIRAC is synchronized all over the world, so all the systems, charts and the like on the ground and in aircraft can be updated accordingly. Obviously there is some lead time ahead to allow for publication, distribution and update of the information and depending systems.

    Imagine if it was only once a year - every change affecting more than one airspace user or aviation service provider in the world would have to be introduced together. This would in consequence mean that you could only open a new runway, introduce a departure procedure or many more things on that date.

    On top of this there's a notification scheme for distributing info like non-functioning equipment, temporarily closed runways (for which you don't change maps forth and back), procedures to adhere, info about an airshow and the like. This is called a NOTAM - short for NOtice To AirMen.

  2. Re:So instead of cell phone... on JetBlue to Offer WiFi · · Score: 1

    In Switzerland they differentiate: Some cars on the train have cell phone repeaters and power outlets, some have a cell phone and music listening "banning" sign. Your choice when enterning the train.
    Cheers
    Reto

  3. Re:what are those 34 items? on EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S. · · Score: 1

    If you can't provide an address in the US, because you just don't know at this moment, you're basically screwed.

    Well, if you don't know, just look up an address of a local Holiday Inn.

    My father actually once really wanted to go to the local Holiday Inn, but didn't look it up before. He ended up being sent back at customs and requeing for looking up the address.

  4. Re:its obvious on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    I happen to live in Switzerland, where about 20% of the settled population own a foreign passport (convert that number to the US!). Roughly half of the criminals convicted in crimes such as murder, rape and theft and so on, are of foreign nationality though. Almost all of them speak a differnt language then the one spoken where they commited the crime. I rather believe that not speaking the local language helps, among other things, to become isolated in your social relationships which again helps in turning into a criminal. Why did places like "Chinatown", "Little Italy" and so on form in the US? It helped the people over getting used to a new country.

  5. Re:sensorweb@home anybody? on NASA's Sensor Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt that this would make any sense, since you couldn't use it in any decent way. When you collect data, you need to make it comparable. You usually achieve this by making sure that the environmental parameters of sensors are either the same or have a known offset from each other, so that you can correct the measurements of those. Take the example of measuring temperature with a web of sensors. You wouldn't know where all the people installed theirs - over concrete ground, in the shadow, inside or outside of the house, in the woods, next to an airconditioning air outlet and so on. With other measurements it's even more complicated.

  6. Re:NEC Polymer Proton Battery on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 1

    There are also mobile phones available with this kind of battery. Ericsson has been using LiPolymer batteries since they first launched the T28s in the autumn of 1999 (at least here in Europe).

    There's one other big advantage of the LiPolymer technolgie: The batteries internally are not made up of individual cells but something more closely resembling jelly. This means you can engineer your batteries into loads of different forms and create for instance fancy looking phones :-)

  7. Distribute Bandwidth! on Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware · · Score: 1

    "The bandwidth is too expensive" is what the posting says. Now I assume that the outgoing traffic is much higher for Limewire than the incoming, since their main traffic are downloads of the client and people connecting to the router. On the other hand, there are (still?) a number of broadband providers who typically have ample of outgoing bandwidth left (I'm working for one, we have a few 100Mbps left). They are spending a lot of money on buying incoming bandwidth and would (among other things) be interested in establishing new peerings with other providers but sometimes get refused by them just because the traffic is too asymmetrical (meaning they are pulling too much).

    So you try very hard to get folks that generate a lot of outgoing traffic as your customer in order to level things a bit. That's where Limewire would come in: Why not change the location of their servers to (or add additional ones at) a broadband providers location?

    To give you an example: We did install a Quake Arena Server for two purposes: The one mentioned above and to raise customer satisfaction (Low ping round trip time to server = happy Quake gamer = happy customer).

    Just my two cents of opinion of course.

  8. Re:Why Tilt the Whole Thing? on Wind Tunnel for Birds · · Score: 1

    Think about gravity. Flying uphill means that the gravity is not pulling at a 90 angle to the winds direction. This is true for the real world as well as for flying in a wind tunnel. Since you can't change the angle of attack of gravity (or not easily), you need to turn the tunnel.

  9. Re:Configuring a Cisco router to Dos a Website... on CERT Finds Routers Increasingly Being Cracked · · Score: 1

    Hmmm - usually you can't route traffic into an interface that's not "up/up", since a route does not appear in the routing table for a "down" interface, right? And without a partner to accept the tunnel, the interface tunnel0 shouldn't come up.

    Or am I missing something?

  10. Re:Drooling. on Fiber to the Home in Japan · · Score: 1

    Fibre to your home is one thing - the equipment to handle all the traffic coming through is the other. The cheapest equipment that is able to handle singlemode fibre and the resulting traffic cost you at least 10000$!!

  11. Re:Small area on Fiber to the Home in Japan · · Score: 1

    About prices: Here in Switzerland it's actually cheaper to build in less densly populated areas. One meter of building (without fibre, patching, installations, inhouse cabling and so on) costs up to 300$ per meter in a city as compared to 20 to 50$ out in the green. And it never gets cheaper then digging in flowers! (yes, the ones my mother has in her garden). The reason is that even if you are digging through a field owned by some farmer you have to pay compensation for the loss of income he experiences. Whereas with flowers you just plant new ones...

  12. Check http://www.fiber-city.ch on Fiber to the Home in Japan · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the missing link

  13. Re:Net over Power Lines on Fiber to the Home in Japan · · Score: 1

    I dont'know about US/Canada - here in Switzerland though there's a similar project running in a mainly industrial area though. Prices are a bit higher too - starting around 200$ a month in the first year and going to 800$ from the second year on for 100Mbps. Check