I was hoping someone else chimed in with Cathode. It's like getting to use my Heath-Zenith H89 without having to risk blowing it's caps when I turn it on. There's no other way to play classic adventure and text based games like MUSHes.
You can turn all the 'errors' down to where it only jitters when you switch into the active window, or just pussy out and quit using it. We didn't have that choice in 1978 and we don't want it now!
You don't need to sniff if you never plug it in or give it your wifi password to begin with. Then for good measure, don't add the MAC to your DHCP list so it never gets and IP address even if it does find it's way on to your network.
4 years in a converted bus here... amen to the savings. I think it also changes the way you look at material things when storage is at a premium. It's a lot easier to leave things on the shelf at the store simply because there was no place for them at home. Still, plenty of room for a good computer, big TV and big enough food prep area to turn out some pretty decent dinners.
Not totally true... You're not allowed to live anywhere you please in a motorhome, but you can legally live in any state if you rent a slot at an RV park and every state and most towns have one. The guy should have spent his money on a flat nosed school bus that could pass as a BlueBird motorhome with a coat of paint. They can be had for under a grand in goor running order at school district auctions, then the other 9k would put in a toilet, air conditioner, fresh and wastewater storage. I know, I did it. I spent four years legally living in my converted bus while I rebuilt my credit scores and now it's parked behind my house (also quite legal if you put it behind a fence in many towns). I'm not allowed to 'live' in it while behind the house, but it makes a hell of workshop now.
When I wasn't in an RV park ($300/mo rent) I would swap parking space at constructions sites for 'night security'. They were happy to have me on site until the places were getting occupied, then I'd either find another site or rent a 'lot' at an RV park.
One last little fact not generally known, Walmart allows overnight RV parking at all their stores. It encourages their owners to come in and buy the things they need for their trips.
Kardashian? You bought a Kardashian? Ha! You know they're outdated before they make it off the assembly line and way out of tolerance in the plumbing bits. I hope you got a good deal.
This is repeated over and over again when ham operators put up towers. The complaints start rolling in about interference with phones and tv signals long before any transmitter is ever activated. I've even got grief for small wire receive only antennas.
There are indeed satellite phones in Nepal, but they are extremely rare given the number of people that have them vs. the number that don't.
Also, if you think the cell network can get overloaded in a hurry, you should look at the bandwidth budgets for those type of satellites. In disaster areas, sat phones have the same issue of 'network unavailable' when the birds are trying to pass more calls when they have bandwidth for. All commercial systems are allotted frequencies in one particular band or another and when they're full, they're full. Amateurs have at least a dozen bands, all with different propagation profiles. Not to mention, we have our own both voice and digital satellites that are exclusively for amateur communications.
Finally, in a supplement from Inmarsat's own 2013 shareholder report... 'The capacity of our satellites is limited and our network can be subject to congestion due to concentrated usage in a specific geography. Continuing congestion could damage our reputation for service availability and harm our results of operations.'
Packet is still alive and well, but everyone I know has switched to APRS (a protocol that sits on top of AX.25). HF packet is slow, but it's there. 300 Baud doesn't pass a lot of data. I'd rather rely on packet via satellite than packet over HF. The successful HF modes (AMTOR, SITOR, etc) have forward error correction to cut down on bad data... the packet network just has to repeat everything until it's understood.
Actually, the FCC is now proposing that amateurs share those LF spectrums that BPL uses as experiments BY HAMS have determined they can co-exist just fine. In fact, Hams are getting more frequencies now than they have ever lost. http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-seeks-to-assign-entire-amateur-portion-of-160-meter-band-to-primary-status-to-amateur-radio-serv is just one of several similar articles the ARRL has reported on recently. Please don't keep up the BS argument that we're losing our bands and privileges when the opposite is true. Aside from a portion of the 220MHz band that we might actually be getting back, where else have we lost spectrum and rights? There are more licensed hams than ever now and the reduced license restrictions offer more privileges for less work.
How is this insightful? It's someone moaning about the fact that they don't like a type of article. The only insight here is StinkyPad is a whiney little bitch.
Before you can perfect editing the genome without side effects you are going to mess things up. That is the ethical dilemma that needs to be answered who do you practice on.
Certainly! But our* corporations have a pretty crappy record of balancing ethics and profits.
* Humankind's. No country or race has any claim to superior ethical behavior.
I don't think a resolution passed by an NGO or a couple of research groups are going to stop this. There's too much profit potential for successful edits. What would a parent pay to have a child that was free of a genetic defect? Blonde hair and blue eyes? Etc...
I've learned more about a topic from the comments than I ever have from TFA. Take away the current comment functionality and I'll have to start slumming at reddit.
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I was hoping someone else chimed in with Cathode. It's like getting to use my Heath-Zenith H89 without having to risk blowing it's caps when I turn it on. There's no other way to play classic adventure and text based games like MUSHes.
You can turn all the 'errors' down to where it only jitters when you switch into the active window, or just pussy out and quit using it. We didn't have that choice in 1978 and we don't want it now!
You don't need to sniff if you never plug it in or give it your wifi password to begin with. Then for good measure, don't add the MAC to your DHCP list so it never gets and IP address even if it does find it's way on to your network.
4 years in a converted bus here... amen to the savings. I think it also changes the way you look at material things when storage is at a premium. It's a lot easier to leave things on the shelf at the store simply because there was no place for them at home. Still, plenty of room for a good computer, big TV and big enough food prep area to turn out some pretty decent dinners.
Not totally true... You're not allowed to live anywhere you please in a motorhome, but you can legally live in any state if you rent a slot at an RV park and every state and most towns have one. The guy should have spent his money on a flat nosed school bus that could pass as a BlueBird motorhome with a coat of paint. They can be had for under a grand in goor running order at school district auctions, then the other 9k would put in a toilet, air conditioner, fresh and wastewater storage. I know, I did it. I spent four years legally living in my converted bus while I rebuilt my credit scores and now it's parked behind my house (also quite legal if you put it behind a fence in many towns). I'm not allowed to 'live' in it while behind the house, but it makes a hell of workshop now.
When I wasn't in an RV park ($300/mo rent) I would swap parking space at constructions sites for 'night security'. They were happy to have me on site until the places were getting occupied, then I'd either find another site or rent a 'lot' at an RV park.
One last little fact not generally known, Walmart allows overnight RV parking at all their stores. It encourages their owners to come in and buy the things they need for their trips.
+1, Firefly
Kardashian? You bought a Kardashian? Ha! You know they're outdated before they make it off the assembly line and way out of tolerance in the plumbing bits. I hope you got a good deal.
What of these lightly-built female researchers? Scantily clad Lara Croft types? Mmmm?
Bad QC... really?
Floppies were surpassed by other technologies in capacity and price per MB and no longer made economical sense to put them in computers.
This is repeated over and over again when ham operators put up towers. The complaints start rolling in about interference with phones and tv signals long before any transmitter is ever activated. I've even got grief for small wire receive only antennas.
Pi? Chances are it's trying to reboot every time it gets the command, but the SD card is corrupt.
Could be paid by the word...
...or something like that.
punchcards, ftw. just don't drop the stack before you get it to the feeder.
When should I tell the people that live there now when to expect you?
There are indeed satellite phones in Nepal, but they are extremely rare given the number of people that have them vs. the number that don't.
Also, if you think the cell network can get overloaded in a hurry, you should look at the bandwidth budgets for those type of satellites. In disaster areas, sat phones have the same issue of 'network unavailable' when the birds are trying to pass more calls when they have bandwidth for. All commercial systems are allotted frequencies in one particular band or another and when they're full, they're full. Amateurs have at least a dozen bands, all with different propagation profiles. Not to mention, we have our own both voice and digital satellites that are exclusively for amateur communications.
Finally, in a supplement from Inmarsat's own 2013 shareholder report... 'The capacity of our satellites is limited and our network can be subject to congestion due to concentrated usage in a specific geography. Continuing congestion could damage our reputation for service availability and harm our results of operations.'
[1] http://www.inmarsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IGL-2013-Supplemental-Disclosure-20-May-2014.pdf
http://www.qrz.com - Show up at the address listed for me... they might tell you where I've deployed to if they say anything at all.
W1BMW
Packet is still alive and well, but everyone I know has switched to APRS (a protocol that sits on top of AX.25). HF packet is slow, but it's there. 300 Baud doesn't pass a lot of data. I'd rather rely on packet via satellite than packet over HF. The successful HF modes (AMTOR, SITOR, etc) have forward error correction to cut down on bad data... the packet network just has to repeat everything until it's understood.
W1BMW
Actually, the FCC is now proposing that amateurs share those LF spectrums that BPL uses as experiments BY HAMS have determined they can co-exist just fine. In fact, Hams are getting more frequencies now than they have ever lost. http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-seeks-to-assign-entire-amateur-portion-of-160-meter-band-to-primary-status-to-amateur-radio-serv is just one of several similar articles the ARRL has reported on recently. Please don't keep up the BS argument that we're losing our bands and privileges when the opposite is true. Aside from a portion of the 220MHz band that we might actually be getting back, where else have we lost spectrum and rights? There are more licensed hams than ever now and the reduced license restrictions offer more privileges for less work.
W1BMW
How is this insightful? It's someone moaning about the fact that they don't like a type of article. The only insight here is StinkyPad is a whiney little bitch.
They're not claiming it's a new idea, they're saying that such tubes are structurally sound for the purpose.
Before you can perfect editing the genome without side effects you are going to mess things up. That is the ethical dilemma that needs to be answered who do you practice on.
Certainly! But our* corporations have a pretty crappy record of balancing ethics and profits.
* Humankind's. No country or race has any claim to superior ethical behavior.
I don't think a resolution passed by an NGO or a couple of research groups are going to stop this. There's too much profit potential for successful edits. What would a parent pay to have a child that was free of a genetic defect? Blonde hair and blue eyes? Etc...
It's a McDonald's Styrofoam cup for me, but I refill the same one for days on end.
And fuck beta
I've learned more about a topic from the comments than I ever have from TFA. Take away the current comment functionality and I'll have to start slumming at reddit.
Fuck Beta!