Any you can type in perfect english (or whatever language you use..) no need to use "1337"
Helps improove spelling too - as you go "damn" if you spell something wrong.
I rarely send text's though, get about 5 a day though, and I can only think of one message in 3 years where someone has asked me if I received a message that I didnt get.
Americas - 4W effective power (out of the antenna). You can stick a 13.5dB antenna on a full power 100mW access point, no problem Europe - 0.1W effective power. You can stick a 0dB antenna on a 100mW access point, or 2.2dB on a 50mW AP. China - 0.01W effective power. You can stick a 0dB antenna on a 5mW access point. Anything more powerful you cant.
I geuss that rules out legal long range (or even short-range) hops in the UK. Anyone got any more information?
CPC sell a 22dB antenna with a high-power 2.4GHz video sender too. very naughty.
When looking at using 2.4GHz to beam a video signal from one side of campus to another, we did mention a bonus would be extra food for starving students as the birds would fall out of the sky ready cooked.
and thats fine. I hope to be one too in a few years after I graduate.
I currently download episodes of certain series because they are online 6 months before they are broadcast (UK). It takes forever to download. I've got a cable modem, with 512k downstream, and use edonkey. I rarely get above 40-50k a second, and with downloads constantly stopping etc. I find it takes forever. I'd easilly drop 50 cents, or even upto a dollar, for each of 3 or 4 shows each week. Even my time is worth money, and searching through edonkey, leaving my computer on 24/7, etc. takes my personal time.
If they gave me what I want, they'll get more money, and I'll have more time, and get more enjoyment. Everyone wins. Broadcast TV will still exist (I hope - thats what I'm gonna be doing next year) for those times when you are knackered and just want to flick through hundereds of adverts for something thats not cringe-worthy.
Damn right, this is slashdot. If you arent against MS, you're with them, and that means you're Bill's nancy boy! I direct your attention to The Posting effectivly on Slashdot FAQ. Come back after you read the gospel of St Linus
The sum area of UK, ES, PT, FR, DE, BE, NE, IT, IE, CH, AT, DK, NO, SE, and FI
For reference, the EU now is UK IE PT ES FR DE BE NE LUX IT AT DK SE FI GR. Not CH, NO
Total area: about 2,800,000km ^2 New members next year will be (assuming they all vote yes in their own elections
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovinia, Malta, Cyprus (propper cyprus, not the turkish occupiers of the north)
Total area: 735,000km^2
Total area of new EU: 3,500,000 km^2
In addition, Bulgaria and Romania are likely to join in 2007. Turkey want to be, but EU doesnt like it, partly because of their land border with Iraq.
Also most non-EU countries part of Europe are covered by the same phone system (as is most of the world), but can be listed here
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegvina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Channel Islands, Turkish occupied area of Cyprus, Iceland, Isle of Man, Litchenstein, Monaco, Norway, Romania, San Marino, Switzerland, European part of Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City, Yugoslavia
Total area: 1,900,000km^2
Total land size of europe (bordered by mid-atlantic ridge, Mederterranian sea, Russia, Black Sea and sea of MaMara): 5,400,000 km^2 Total area U.S.A: 9,600,000km^2 (9,000,000 without Alaska) Total area Russia: 17,000,000km^2 (larger then Europe and U.S.A combined!)
I pay $35 (after all taxes and fees) for 300 anytime minutes from anywhere on Sprint's network to any US phone number, and I have unlimited nights and weekends (9 pm to 7 am). Free phone, 1 year contract. For ~$90/mo I could have gotten two phones, two phone numbers, unlimited free minutes to any other Sprint PCS customer, and 2000 minutes shared between the two phones. So yeah, it still sucks here if you're a VERY low usage customer - I think you can't get a plan at all under about $10/mo - but all companies are required to carry 911 (emergency) calls, so you can just get someone's old phone and use it to call in case police/ambulance are needed.
Dont you have pay as you go (pre paid) plans?
Oh, and a question I've always wanted to ask a GSM fan: isn't the price so hellish when traveling abroad with your phone
It's not great - about 5 times land line call charges IIRC.
that you're probably better off just getting a prepaid for $50 or so?
Potentially, but only if you phone the country you are in a LOT while you are there. e.g. I go to greece, with a UK phone, I pay Greece - UK charges, plus UK - Greece charges if I phone someone in greece while I'm over there.
(Or can you just get a prepaid SIM and drop it in your phone? That would be pretty cool.)
Yes you can. in the UK they are about £5 - as least last time I saw them. In fact, my parents came over to the UK at the start of december, with their Greek mobile. I gave them an old sim card of mine that I had converted to pay as you go at the end of my contract (planned on selling the phone, but then I lost the charger). It had £5 credit on it, and they dropped it into their phone no problem (until the battery ran out 8 days later - they didnt bring their charger as they didnt think they'd need it)
Unfortunatly some phones are "locked" to a particular network (to stop selling subsidised phones to China et. al.). You can get them unlocked for about £20 though.
However even after a month and a half in europe, phoning greece on my mobile from UK, and from EU countries, the total bill came to £60 in calls (and £60 for 2 months line rental).
Law takes a lot of work (4 year degree in the UK, normal degree is 3) and late nights (80 hour weeks+ etc. You are expected to live in your office for two years) before you are trained.
Of course once you are trained you dont have to do anything:)
I've grown indifferent to the normal goatse picture. However the fourth link down almost had me throwing up - http://www.hektik.org/various/various/goatse/
Which is where device driver writers come in. EE students give them the specs (put "x" in on pin "7" and you get 2x out, put "x" in on pin 8 and "y" on pin 9 and you get "x*y" out.
Agreed. You earnt money when you worked writing software or whatever that lawyers then use. The record companies then used illegal buisness practices to, in effect, steal hard earned money from you. That hard earned money will now come back to you, however lawyers had to work to do that, and take their (no doubt generous) cut.
You earnt the money, RIAA companies stole the money, lawyers told the riaa to give it back.
In the start 1) You lose some hard earned money ($100) 2) RIAA gains hard earned money ($100)
RIAA = +$100 You = -$100 Lawyers = $0
In the end 1) You get some hard earned money back ($20) 2) RIAA loses some of the money they stole ($80) 3) Lawers take their earned money ($60)
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Seen Under Siege 2? Earthquake in mid air!
Any you can type in perfect english (or whatever language you use..) no need to use "1337"
Helps improove spelling too - as you go "damn" if you spell something wrong.
I rarely send text's though, get about 5 a day though, and I can only think of one message in 3 years where someone has asked me if I received a message that I didnt get.
Ahh, to have American FCC regulations.....
/ ps 430/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080 0e0299.html#1013548
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/wireless
Americas - 4W effective power (out of the antenna). You can stick a 13.5dB antenna on a full power 100mW access point, no problem
Europe - 0.1W effective power. You can stick a 0dB antenna on a 100mW access point, or 2.2dB on a 50mW AP.
China - 0.01W effective power. You can stick a 0dB antenna on a 5mW access point. Anything more powerful you cant.
I geuss that rules out legal long range (or even short-range) hops in the UK. Anyone got any more information?
CPC sell a 22dB antenna with a high-power 2.4GHz video sender too. very naughty.
What 1.21 giggawatts actually means.
Egypt is a soverign nation and is free to do as it wishes (withing certain international legal constraints).
And American oil mogul constraints, of course.
Whats that? Its the smell of burning karma *hehehe*
thought that Slashdot was posting headinlines in leet?
No, I just read it as if it was normal english, and that scares me.
Now if only I could do the same with a foreign language
When looking at using 2.4GHz to beam a video signal from one side of campus to another, we did mention a bonus would be extra food for starving students as the birds would fall out of the sky ready cooked.
In Communist China, jokes think of YOU!
I generally find snobby "holier than thou" geeks to be larger assholes than the everyone else.
... not make ... goatse ... reference.
Must
Too late!
TNG specifically said that the french language and country was dead -- although the presidents office was there
Welcome To The 2000's
1980 - 1989 was the eighties
1990 - 1999 was the nineties
2000 - 2009 is the naughties
and thats fine. I hope to be one too in a few years after I graduate.
I currently download episodes of certain series because they are online 6 months before they are broadcast (UK). It takes forever to download. I've got a cable modem, with 512k downstream, and use edonkey. I rarely get above 40-50k a second, and with downloads constantly stopping etc. I find it takes forever. I'd easilly drop 50 cents, or even upto a dollar, for each of 3 or 4 shows each week. Even my time is worth money, and searching through edonkey, leaving my computer on 24/7, etc. takes my personal time.
If they gave me what I want, they'll get more money, and I'll have more time, and get more enjoyment. Everyone wins. Broadcast TV will still exist (I hope - thats what I'm gonna be doing next year) for those times when you are knackered and just want to flick through hundereds of adverts for something thats not cringe-worthy.
Easy, instead of the thing moving, the rest of the universe moves!
And when we connected with a modem, we had to flip a switch on the modem with our bare hands! 300 bits per second, BOTH WAYS, by thunder!
Was that before or after you clipped it onto the phone and manually dialed the number?
But you didn't want to hear that.
Damn right, this is slashdot. If you arent against MS, you're with them, and that means you're Bill's nancy boy! I direct your attention to The Posting effectivly on Slashdot FAQ. Come back after you read the gospel of St Linus
*boink
actually, mines worth less. Then a cup of tea [followed and made it worth nothing]
The sum area of UK, ES, PT, FR, DE, BE, NE, IT, IE, CH, AT, DK, NO, SE, and FI
For reference, the EU now is
UK IE PT ES FR DE BE NE LUX IT AT DK SE FI GR. Not CH, NO
Total area: about 2,800,000km ^2
New members next year will be (assuming they all vote yes in their own elections
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovinia, Malta, Cyprus (propper cyprus, not the turkish occupiers of the north)
Total area: 735,000km^2
Total area of new EU: 3,500,000 km^2
In addition, Bulgaria and Romania are likely to join in 2007. Turkey want to be, but EU doesnt like it, partly because of their land border with Iraq.
Also most non-EU countries part of Europe are covered by the same phone system (as is most of the world), but can be listed here
Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegvina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Channel Islands, Turkish occupied area of Cyprus, Iceland, Isle of Man, Litchenstein, Monaco, Norway, Romania, San Marino, Switzerland, European part of Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City, Yugoslavia
Total area: 1,900,000km^2
Total land size of europe (bordered by mid-atlantic ridge, Mederterranian sea, Russia, Black Sea and sea of MaMara): 5,400,000 km^2
Total area U.S.A: 9,600,000km^2 (9,000,000 without Alaska)
Total area Russia: 17,000,000km^2 (larger then Europe and U.S.A combined!)
I pay $35 (after all taxes and fees) for 300 anytime minutes from anywhere on Sprint's network to any US phone number, and I have unlimited nights and weekends (9 pm to 7 am). Free phone, 1 year contract. For ~$90/mo I could have gotten two phones, two phone numbers, unlimited free minutes to any other Sprint PCS customer, and 2000 minutes shared between the two phones. So yeah, it still sucks here if you're a VERY low usage customer - I think you can't get a plan at all under about $10/mo - but all companies are required to carry 911 (emergency) calls, so you can just get someone's old phone and use it to call in case police/ambulance are needed.
Dont you have pay as you go (pre paid) plans?
Oh, and a question I've always wanted to ask a GSM fan: isn't the price so hellish when traveling abroad with your phone
It's not great - about 5 times land line call charges IIRC.
that you're probably better off just getting a prepaid for $50 or so?
Potentially, but only if you phone the country you are in a LOT while you are there. e.g. I go to greece, with a UK phone, I pay Greece - UK charges, plus UK - Greece charges if I phone someone in greece while I'm over there.
(Or can you just get a prepaid SIM and drop it in your phone? That would be pretty cool.)
Yes you can. in the UK they are about £5 - as least last time I saw them. In fact, my parents came over to the UK at the start of december, with their Greek mobile. I gave them an old sim card of mine that I had converted to pay as you go at the end of my contract (planned on selling the phone, but then I lost the charger). It had £5 credit on it, and they dropped it into their phone no problem (until the battery ran out 8 days later - they didnt bring their charger as they didnt think they'd need it)
Unfortunatly some phones are "locked" to a particular network (to stop selling subsidised phones to China et. al.). You can get them unlocked for about £20 though.
However even after a month and a half in europe, phoning greece on my mobile from UK, and from EU countries, the total bill came to £60 in calls (and £60 for 2 months line rental).
Law takes a lot of work (4 year degree in the UK, normal degree is 3) and late nights (80 hour weeks+ etc. You are expected to live in your office for two years) before you are trained.
:)
Of course once you are trained you dont have to do anything
*urghh, cant believe I'm defending lawyers*
I've grown indifferent to the normal goatse picture. However the fourth link down almost had me throwing up - http://www.hektik.org/various/various/goatse/
Why do I click these links?
Well in that case, IME I'd put real and quicktime higer (but I do watch a lot of movie trailers).
Nah, you deliberatly ommitted it so you could get more karma *and* first post
:)
It's not reallly worked yet has it
Which is where device driver writers come in. EE students give them the specs (put "x" in on pin "7" and you get 2x out, put "x" in on pin 8 and "y" on pin 9 and you get "x*y" out.
Agreed. You earnt money when you worked writing software or whatever that lawyers then use. The record companies then used illegal buisness practices to, in effect, steal hard earned money from you. That hard earned money will now come back to you, however lawyers had to work to do that, and take their (no doubt generous) cut.
You earnt the money, RIAA companies stole the money, lawyers told the riaa to give it back.
In the start
1) You lose some hard earned money ($100)
2) RIAA gains hard earned money ($100)
RIAA = +$100 You = -$100 Lawyers = $0
In the end
1) You get some hard earned money back ($20)
2) RIAA loses some of the money they stole ($80)
3) Lawers take their earned money ($60)
In the end:
RIAA = +$20
You = -$80
Lawyer = +$60