Morocco, especially the north, isn't exactly the ends of the earth. Sure, futhur south you've got problems, but morocco is a pretty 1st world country, relativly.
a phoen sucks as a PDA. Aside from the tiny screen, there is no decent way of inputting anything. Compare to a PDA with a built in keyoard (quite small admitably) and handwriting recognition that fits in your shirt pocket.
One battery is great, but I'd rather know my phone will last 3 days then have a PDA-cum-phone-cum-mp3 player that lasts 12 hours.
I typically carry 3 gadgets with me at any one time, phone (with built in camera, calander etc, none of which I use - I used the camera 4 times when I first got it but its a waste of time), mp3 player/flash stick (I lose it in my pocket its so small), and PDA in my jacket or shirt pocket (depending what I'm wearing).
I dont know anyone (geek or non-geek) that uses their phone for anything more then phone calls and SMS (or PDA - GPRS connection). Actually, thats not entirely true, I use mine as an alarm clock sometimes too.
How important is functionality on your arm to the general public? Note, on your arm it becomes useable with only one hand.
What functionality do you need in a phone. I rarely use my actual phone, my bluetooth earpiece has one button that answers when it rings, hangs up when I'm talking, or activates voice dial when I'm not talking. Say the name of someone and the call connects. One finger to initiate the call, one finger to end the call, just as much privacy as a normal cell phone.
A phone built into a watch would simply replace the current time with the calling name. Bluetooth means you can program it from your PDA or laptop, or some credit-card-sized keypad you can keep in your wallet.
Really, what does a phone do? The only major function I use aside from phone calls is SMS, which I'd rather do through my PDA anyway (full keyboard for starters)
Of course they were invented before the average American even considered terrorism (Pilot was 2 weeks after 9/11). At that stage the average american still gave money to the IRA, still bought too much oil for their 7mpg gas guzzlers, which funded massive human rights violations, still didn't know where the middle east was.
Tha Suliban and their Kabul were launched on the american public as a freaky co-incidence.
[quote]Well that and interesting characters, decent writing, and fewer solutions that involve reversing the polarity of something and shooting it out the deflector. But I digress.[/quote]
1) Laser safety. We had a canobeam for the '01 UK election, had to check its fitting every day for H&S reasons. 2) Weather - Optical light doesn't work well in fog 3) Polution - I've heard of FSO setups not making it across the road because of the exhaust of a Bus.
Of course if you're caping DVB, make sure you can receive DVB. A lot of areas in the UK dont get a decent DVB-T signal, and you cant use DVB-S or -C (sky wont sell CAM's - which is illegal, NTL/Telewest are just stupid).
An Analog-MPEG2 capture card with external tuner would be better.
Crimping cat 5 is an important skill. I suck at them (we had to make up about 100 cables for the European Election coverage last week, By the time I did about 5, one of my colleuges had done about 20). Cat 5 is 'orrble too, compared with coax. When I look at all the cables going into the back of a 128*128 matrix, all the right length, just perfect and beautiful, it makes we weep with joy that I dont have to do that!
But when the only time you'll use that skill is a few cables in your own home, it's not worth the investment IMHO.
Save $$$ and make your own patch cables: get a spool or Cat5e and a crimping tool -- I happen to like Greenlee, but that's just from personal experience and satisfaction. The crimping tool goes for around US$60 and comes in a kit with a bunch of 8P8C and 6P6C plugs.
Lets be realistic. It take time (and wrongly crimped ends) to crimp patch cables. Assuming you dont alread have one, spend $50 on some very short molded patch cables instead. Or borrow a crimper from your local computer shop.
Or you could pake one cat 5 cable that connects the a pair together, plug it in sequentially on each socket, and make another cat 5 cable that takes those pairs and gives you two wires. Plug into a multimeter and measure resistance (you might have a beeping continuity checker in yours). Wait for the low resistance.
Total cost less then $5 including the meter.
Spending $80 on checking a few cables for home use is stupid. You'll do it once and that's it.
Not sure what to do about the RG6 cables, but I imagine you can get patch panels for them too (although too many joints may kill your signal..)
Yup, Usually you put BNC's on the end and plug them into the bottom row of a MUSA ulink bay (Dont forget the u links. The sources go into the top row (probably a UHF distributer in this case, or the outputs of a matrix). But if you're talking about the same RF signal, you'll probably be fine plugging straight into the DA, as you'll never want to re-patch (it's hardly a TV studio)
I went to a mediocre (top 20) uni in the UK, did a BSc in Computer Science, scraped a pass (no honours). Didn't hav anything shiny on the CV, no certifications or anything. Went up for a job against 1600 people, got it. Why? I had relevent experience in Student TV, had the skills to show quick logical and mathematical thinking, (not so much on the linguistical stuff), and had evidence of quick learning off my own back.
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Morocco, especially the north, isn't exactly the ends of the earth. Sure, futhur south you've got problems, but morocco is a pretty 1st world country, relativly.
Take me out, to the black, tell em I 'aint coming back
Heres to the lunar colonies and the right to read
TFT's not CRTs, unless the exployyee specifically requests it.
1.) Have sad story about good'ol Mom.
2.) Write Geekish book and get free PR on slashdot.
3.) ???
4.) Profit!!!
There's no step three though, it goes straight to profit
Normally this should be a non-issue but management likes titles that sound "official" or like they should carry some weight.
Big sticks carry some weight, and are an essential LART
They might work fast, but only because they didn't have to dig up their 5 year old PC from the back garden first?
a phoen sucks as a PDA. Aside from the tiny screen, there is no decent way of inputting anything. Compare to a PDA with a built in keyoard (quite small admitably) and handwriting recognition that fits in your shirt pocket.
One battery is great, but I'd rather know my phone will last 3 days then have a PDA-cum-phone-cum-mp3 player that lasts 12 hours.
I typically carry 3 gadgets with me at any one time, phone (with built in camera, calander etc, none of which I use - I used the camera 4 times when I first got it but its a waste of time), mp3 player/flash stick (I lose it in my pocket its so small), and PDA in my jacket or shirt pocket (depending what I'm wearing).
I dont know anyone (geek or non-geek) that uses their phone for anything more then phone calls and SMS (or PDA - GPRS connection). Actually, thats not entirely true, I use mine as an alarm clock sometimes too.
where is the privacy?
HELLO! I'M ON A TRAIN! I'LL BE HOME AT EIGHT!
Yeah, plenty of privacy nowadays.
How important is functionality on your arm to the general public? Note, on your arm it becomes useable with only one hand.
What functionality do you need in a phone. I rarely use my actual phone, my bluetooth earpiece has one button that answers when it rings, hangs up when I'm talking, or activates voice dial when I'm not talking. Say the name of someone and the call connects. One finger to initiate the call, one finger to end the call, just as much privacy as a normal cell phone.
A phone built into a watch would simply replace the current time with the calling name. Bluetooth means you can program it from your PDA or laptop, or some credit-card-sized keypad you can keep in your wallet.
Really, what does a phone do? The only major function I use aside from phone calls is SMS, which I'd rather do through my PDA anyway (full keyboard for starters)
My phone will be built into my socks, noone will ever steal them!
Missed the irony eh?
The idea is to slashdotit so noone will ever be a spammer again
why support the iPod -- every cent goes to the enemy! Viva la Microsoft!
Score:5, Interesting
Sorry, I must have slipped into a parrallel universe
Of course they were invented before the average American even considered terrorism (Pilot was 2 weeks after 9/11). At that stage the average american still gave money to the IRA, still bought too much oil for their 7mpg gas guzzlers, which funded massive human rights violations, still didn't know where the middle east was.
Tha Suliban and their Kabul were launched on the american public as a freaky co-incidence.
Which chick will be cast as the crewmember with large breasts? Maybe Lindsay Lohan is looking for Star Trek work.
Bah, you sheep come in at the last minute with your "OOooh, b00bies". Lindsay Lohan was hot back in the Parent Trap
[quote]Well that and interesting characters, decent writing, and fewer solutions that involve reversing the polarity of something and shooting it out the deflector. But I digress.[/quote]
We had that, it was firefly. They cancelled it.
Long live the BDM!
Those pictures are fake! There are no stars! ;)
I'd like a live webcast from a camera in the cockpit...
Use a Canobeam, problems, I would guess, include
1) Laser safety. We had a canobeam for the '01 UK election, had to check its fitting every day for H&S reasons.
2) Weather - Optical light doesn't work well in fog
3) Polution - I've heard of FSO setups not making it across the road because of the exhaust of a Bus.
Not sure how 2.4Ghz would be different.
Not for Sky Digital (DVB-S platform the the UK)
Of course if you're caping DVB, make sure you can receive DVB. A lot of areas in the UK dont get a decent DVB-T signal, and you cant use DVB-S or -C (sky wont sell CAM's - which is illegal, NTL/Telewest are just stupid).
An Analog-MPEG2 capture card with external tuner would be better.
What he meant was any fan of Trek will be an amazing actor, better even then Shatner, Nimoy, Stewart and Frakes all rolled into one.
Crimping cat 5 is an important skill. I suck at them (we had to make up about 100 cables for the European Election coverage last week, By the time I did about 5, one of my colleuges had done about 20). Cat 5 is 'orrble too, compared with coax. When I look at all the cables going into the back of a 128*128 matrix, all the right length, just perfect and beautiful, it makes we weep with joy that I dont have to do that!
But when the only time you'll use that skill is a few cables in your own home, it's not worth the investment IMHO.
Save $$$ and make your own patch cables: get a spool or Cat5e and a crimping tool -- I happen to like Greenlee, but that's just from personal experience and satisfaction. The crimping tool goes for around US$60 and comes in a kit with a bunch of 8P8C and 6P6C plugs.
Lets be realistic. It take time (and wrongly crimped ends) to crimp patch cables. Assuming you dont alread have one, spend $50 on some very short molded patch cables instead. Or borrow a crimper from your local computer shop.
Or you could pake one cat 5 cable that connects the a pair together, plug it in sequentially on each socket, and make another cat 5 cable that takes those pairs and gives you two wires. Plug into a multimeter and measure resistance (you might have a beeping continuity checker in yours). Wait for the low resistance.
Total cost less then $5 including the meter.
Spending $80 on checking a few cables for home use is stupid. You'll do it once and that's it.
Yup, Usually you put BNC's on the end and plug them into the bottom row of a MUSA ulink bay (Dont forget the u links. The sources go into the top row (probably a UHF distributer in this case, or the outputs of a matrix). But if you're talking about the same RF signal, you'll probably be fine plugging straight into the DA, as you'll never want to re-patch (it's hardly a TV studio)
I went to a mediocre (top 20) uni in the UK, did a BSc in Computer Science, scraped a pass (no honours). Didn't hav anything shiny on the CV, no certifications or anything. Went up for a job against 1600 people, got it. Why? I had relevent experience in Student TV, had the skills to show quick logical and mathematical thinking, (not so much on the linguistical stuff), and had evidence of quick learning off my own back.