Anybody do installs without a network connected? I wouldn't install any MS OS with a broadband connection live. Is the program silent then? Does it complain that it can't find your connection? MS assumes everyone is online.
Back when Optical Mice first hit the scene, I picked up a MS optical mouse for a machine I was building on my coffee table. I loaded the driver and the install stalled and nagged me because it could not find my network connection. Please configure up your networking or start your dialer...without a mouse driver installed! I wonder to this day if the software would have informed me that it was attempting to phone home if it did find a connection. That mouse got put back in the package and passed along to some other sucker. I would rather throw the brand new mouse away than permit that driver on my system. The lack of a configured network connection is probably the only way I would have discovered that the mouse driver phones home. I've stuck with Logitech mice since then for that very reason.
With several Linux distro's being easy to install and use, when WGA came out, I stopped MS upgrades and started moving to Linux. Love my Ubuntu box.
Anybody tried a WGA refusal with the network disconnected? Does it nag for a connection?
Wow, A good non-Clear Chanel station. I looked up the profile. It is a good read. I hope more stations like this make it on the air. Too bad one of their stations is not near me.
Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to get airtime for a local band? There are limited licenses given in a local radio market. The problem is there is no alternative except talk radio. To afford a station, you need listerership. To get listnership, you need popular music. Without listenership, you don't get advertising dollars. There are no stations that play local bands in any major market. Talk radio won't play it, the Clear Chanel stations won't play it, and the Church sponsored Christian station won't play it. Voting by spinning the dial doesn'g get you to any canidates not on the ballot.
Hell, CDs are still essentially price fixed, and how long has that been going on?
The FCC has jurisdiction over broadcasters. Unfortunately they are not in any way connected to enforcement of retail CD prices. Sorry, you will need someone else to tackle that issue, manybe some Fedral Trade Comission perhaps.
Personaly I vote against the high prices with my dollars. The industry has started to notice, but blame the lacks of votes for high priced CD's on other things becides high prices. They claim CD sales are down and blame iTunes instead of high prices.
What! Are you crazy? Have music on from indi artists when the clubs let out on a Saturday night? What are you thinking? How about after Sunday night when everyone has to recover from the party for the Monday morning job. Try Monday and Tuesday Mornnings around 2am-ish instead. Late Friday and Saturday nights are not the time.
Microsoft, he said, asks the copyrights owner for permission first...
On a more serious note, I thing Microsoft is upset because Google got all that content making it useless to Microsoft who wants to buy exclusive distribution right to it. How can you sell a monopoly product when the competition gives it away for free?
The article implies there is a bunch of new data.. The fact is much of the data is simply format shifted into the new medium. Examples of this are;
1 Photography 2 Letters and corrospondance 3 Fileing and records 4 Music 5 Telephone calls & faxes 6 Newspapers and magazines 7 Novels and books 8 Board games and puzzles 9 Movies 10 Radio and TV broadcasts 11 ??
All these form of data existed before. None of them was digital before. The numbers represent a format shift, not new content. Not many people archived every newspaper, phongraph record, photo, magazine, telephone call, TV show, etc. Even in the 1950's there was not enough space to archive all the data.
Sure there will be some savings incurred without having to produce the reels but it's the licensing cost that's causing the high price.
You are dead on. I worked in a theatre for a while as a projectionest duing the economic downturn in the 1980's. To get one of the current releases, theatres bid on them. The submitted bid includes things liKe a percentage of ticket sales and number of seats in the auditorium and a factor from past performance and location in relation to other theatres.
This combo keeps new releases out of small theatres and theatres with poor performance. This is the big divide between new release theatres and second run theatres. It is common for a new release to get bid up to over 100% of ticket sales. Many theatres simply have no revenue except concessions sales due to the cost of the feature. They bid on the movies to fill the seats and get consessions sales. That is why it's over $10 for a bucket of popcorn and a couple drinks.
This is effecient for the distributor as they easly maximize profit and often take 100% of the ticket revenue for the limited number of reels, but it is devastiating for a smaller theatre. This is why many of them have moved to indi films or porn. They are stuck with small audiances due to the older flims and can't win any bids for new films. They fold or go to alternatives. I know. Been there done that.
If you're using a Win 98 machine for gaming, I'd hazard a guess that the games that run on such a machine would be old enough to run sufficiently well in Wine anyway.
Many games including new ones run just fine on older versions of Windows. Older versions of Windows has a lower system demands leaving more resources for the game. I've upgraded the hardware several times. Unlike newer versions of Windows, the Windows 98 SE came with a full install CD. It's not the disk image recovery so common with Windows machines. I would be using Windows 2K for games, but it came with a recovery CD and not an install CD. It dies with the hardware upgrades. I'm not spending the asking price for a retail version of XP. (I'm not pirating it either.)
I'm a Linux noob. I have Ubuntu on a machine and have not had the time to learn Wine. I've printed the manual and installed it from the applications add/remove, but haven't gone into getting it to run any Windows programs yet. It does have a learning curve. When I get some undivided free time, I'll tackle the project and see if I can get Unreal and Half Life running. In the meantime, the Windows box plays them fine with no install learning curve needed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you could download Open Office for free shortly before MS Office 97 shipped. The project had not even started. It's predicessor StarOffice was not out yet.
The article contains the PDF of the e-mail. The e-mail discusses the pending release of Office 97 for the Mac.
OpenOffice.org is based on StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
-Crashes so much that I'm tempted at times to switch back to windows.
I've heard some people get to experiance that, but in all the time I have been running Ubuntu, I have had the oposite experiance. The wife's XP machine was the worst for a while. It's root cause was Flash 9. Backgraded to Flash 8 to fix 95% of the crashes on that machine. I've heard lots of problems with Flash 9 on Linux also. Have you installed Adobe Flash?
Even with the Flash 9 on Mozilla on XP resolved, the Ubuntu box is still the most stable box in the house. The only times I recall it going down is when we shut it off for the night.
The unstable machines are the Windows 98, Windows 2K and Windows XP machines in that order. I would not consider the Ubuntu machine unstable at all.
We've quietly replaced his copy of Windows XP with Folger's Coffee Crystals. Let's see if he notices any difference.
For me and a guest speaker, we made the switch and he didn't notice.
One of our social groups (not business) had a guest speaker. He requested we provide a computer and projection system for a PowerPoint slide show. The newest laptop I have is a Windows 2K/Ubuntu machine running Office 2K & Open Office.
He came and spoke and complained that his slide show wasn't working properly. The text boxes appeared all at once instead of Bullet line by line. In some simple troubleshooting we found the file worked properly on my wife's work machine running XP and Office 3K (not a laptop and not borrowable). Since I didn't want to spend lots of money on upgrades, I tossed the PowerPoint presentation at my Ubuntu partition. It worked perfectly.
I let the guest speaker know we fixed the problem with the presentation computer. At the next meeting, we simply ran the presentation on the Ubuntu partition using Open Office. Since we set it up for him and had it ready to go, he didn't notice the switch.
Searching later, I did find out about the free PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft.
is the the tendency to see patterns and relations when they are not there.
Nitty gritty from the video not watched... Using quantum mechanics it has been shown that before the big bang, it is entirely possible nothing existed, not even time, energy or mass. Seeing beyond the beginning of time is an excersise in futility. Most of us assume time is infinate and extend beyond the beginning of the universe and will extend forward into infinity. This may not be true.
I found the "tendency to see patterns and relations" an understatement.
I would have thought anyone looking at the universe in the past would have seen a static display and the assumption that it was always there. The idea that at one time in the past that it didn't exist was a long shot.
Now quantum mechanics is starting to show that the big bang didn't start from a super massive black hole that had all the mass of the universe. They are saying that it may have all come from nothing. That is the concept I never expected from science. That is what I found interesting. Now go watch the video. I assume you know the biblical 7 days of creation thing. I am not telling you to read a bible but update your science physics knowledge instead. It's like trying to prove something is dead wrong and being unable to. It does NOT mean that what you can not prove is true, it simply means you haven't proven it false. When what you are trying to prove wrong not only does not prove wrong but is in fact starting to show support as possibly being correct is when I took notice.
Many theories in the past have been easly proven false such as the earth being the center of the universe, it is flat, and such. Finding the universe may have come from nothing is the point I was making. This point does not prove the biblical creation is fact. On the flip side, it does not disprove it as many have expected who search the origin of the universe.
Which brings us back to the main discussion. Human brain wired... by evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident or by a creator. Don't rule out creator simply because it sounds silly. Follow the facts.
I'll just wear a thick wooley jumpey when I go outside.:)
They don't call it a gas giant for nothing. The surface is less dense than water. You might be suprised by the distance you would sink into the surface.
Saturn's interior composition is primarily that of simple molecules such as hydrogen and helium, which are liquids under the high pressure environments found in the interiors of the outer planets, and not solids.
The video is not about what the bible says. I didn't say read the bible. I said watch the science lecture. Now finish the homework assignment and get back to me after the part about what existed before the big bang and what the physics model (not religen) says.
...same as when they killed CB radio. My response then is the same now - 300 watts of cold steel Palomar SSB amplifier.
The cell companies didn't kill CB radio. Tons of 300 watt and greater amplifiers and popularity caused a growth explosion which made background noise of 5-9 on the S meter most of the time. It got to the point that you couldn't talk to anyone more than a mile down the road anymore. A classic example of the Tragity of the Commons. They could shout, but could not hear the legal operators which they denied use of the band.
I know because I started in the 1970's and finaly gave up due to very poor S/N ratio. It is hard to copy an S4 signal in an S7 noise environment. CB was on it's way out before cell phones became affordable. For many FRS has replaced the CB. Unlicensed use of the GMRS band is replacing the Linear amplifier as a way of shouting. Good thing few GMRS radios are easly modified to run high power on FRS only frequencies. FRS is not prone to "Skip" bringing in 1,000's of distant stations as high background noise.
FRS license does not permit attaching an external antenna so it is not easy to attach a 300 watt amplifier and beam antenna in place of the rubber duck built-in antenna. The connector is absent.
In physics there's measurement called "skin depth" which is the distance a wave travels before it's power level drops by 1/e or about 1/3. IIRC from my old physics 110A-B at Berkeley,
If you are talking about attenuation over distance, you are using the wrong formula. Have you checked the wavelength of sunlight? Have you checked the distance? Regardless of wavelength, the proper formula to use is not attenuation but power over area. Doubling the distance from the source (assume point source) decreases the power to 1/4 simply because it now covers 4X the area. Shortwave light and long wave radio waves both follow this spreading and reduction in strength. A satelite link to the earth has the same attenuation due to distance at the 12-18 GHz Ku band as it does on the 3.7 to 4.2 Ghz C band. (excluding attenuating factors such as rain fade)
You are correct in the other part of the statement. Gatting high bandwidth on a low frequency carrier is not easy. High bandwidth does require high frequencies.
Even if you don't believe in it, it is still part of your cultural influence. I suggest you read the F-ing article, it's quite an interesting read.
An article is fine, but what has the scientific community found based on evidence? Please view the mentioned Universe lecture, then you will see where my comment originates.
My first thought was 'Ah, Creationist! Burn him!' and then I choked that down and thought, 'Actually, that's a good point.'
Thanks. A good scientest will look at all the facts. Religeion seldom returns the favor. It was hard to write the post and not have it look like a creationist post but a proper "is this a possibility and is their any hard evidence to support it? I was just shocked at the Physics for Future Presidents series from Berkley when I hit the Universe lessons. I thought it was worth mentioning.
The science community should not limit the posibilities. Anything is possible until it can be eliminated. How about the possibility of created that way? There is lots of evidence of an order to the universe. Many believe there is a creator who put the order in place for things to grow and adapt. Science may try to explain many things not understood and look for answers. Science seldom includes and unseen creator.
If you have time, do a google search for a video series called "Physics for Future Presidents" It's from Berkley Universe of Southern California. In the series, look at the Universe lessons. This is not a chruch but a scientific look at the origin of the universe. Even science calls the origin of the universe the creation. Follow the lesson, then look at the biblical description of the origion of the universe. It's so close to the same to bring into question "Was this created?" Who Wrote the first book in the Bible and how did he know how the universe started when nobody else had a clue.
Leaving creation out of consideration does upset the church leadership and should upset the scientific community who are finding a strong corrolation between the two accounts.
Please don't use my post for a flamewar. It's not the intent. Use my post for the factual information and draw your own conclusions.
I think I see a possible show stopper here.. Try this...
Exactly. They have no proof who was using the computer or even what computer it was.
Even better is if they did prove it was the computer. They would have just proven it wasn't running KaZaA. Let me explain;
1 they took an image of the hard drive 2 they did an analysis and said it is not the one they caught with media sentry 3 they have proof of the owner of the account through ISP records 4 the machine was using dial-up.
Correct me if I'm missing something. I remember in dial-up days the dialer was made to "Login" to the ISP using the subscriber information. 5 Did they check if this machine is registered to the account owner? If so, where is KaZaA?
They have all the proof the drive supplied may belong to the ISP account holder simply by the fact (yet to be proven) that it does login under the subscribers account.
I dare them to prove the supplied hard drive is not the account owners by showing it's dialer settings. I bet the RIAA is avoiding this step because they already know the answer. They did in fact get an image of the drive and are avoiding admiting errors in the investigation that will hurt all the other cases. They have to win, even if it means omission of the possible fact that the supplied drive is the defendants.
6 The only other hole in the above is if a raid reveals several machines at the home using the same dial-up account. Ssshhh. Don't pass this on to the RIAA lawyer.
6a A raid may even not turn up anything. Every once in a while a family will split the cost of an account to extended family members such as parents or siblings. Unless they can capture not only the IP address, but the dial up number used for the connection to get a tight case against a dial up subscriber.
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Anybody do installs without a network connected? I wouldn't install any MS OS with a broadband connection live. Is the program silent then? Does it complain that it can't find your connection? MS assumes everyone is online.
Back when Optical Mice first hit the scene, I picked up a MS optical mouse for a machine I was building on my coffee table. I loaded the driver and the install stalled and nagged me because it could not find my network connection. Please configure up your networking or start your dialer...without a mouse driver installed! I wonder to this day if the software would have informed me that it was attempting to phone home if it did find a connection. That mouse got put back in the package and passed along to some other sucker. I would rather throw the brand new mouse away than permit that driver on my system. The lack of a configured network connection is probably the only way I would have discovered that the mouse driver phones home. I've stuck with Logitech mice since then for that very reason.
With several Linux distro's being easy to install and use, when WGA came out, I stopped MS upgrades and started moving to Linux. Love my Ubuntu box.
Anybody tried a WGA refusal with the network disconnected? Does it nag for a connection?
Wow, A good non-Clear Chanel station. I looked up the profile. It is a good read. I hope more stations like this make it on the air. Too bad one of their stations is not near me.
http://www.emmis.com/profile/story1.aspx
Huh? Ever heard of that dial thing on your radio?
Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to get airtime for a local band? There are limited licenses given in a local radio market. The problem is there is no alternative except talk radio. To afford a station, you need listerership. To get listnership, you need popular music. Without listenership, you don't get advertising dollars. There are no stations that play local bands in any major market. Talk radio won't play it, the Clear Chanel stations won't play it, and the Church sponsored Christian station won't play it. Voting by spinning the dial doesn'g get you to any canidates not on the ballot.
Hell, CDs are still essentially price fixed, and how long has that been going on?
The FCC has jurisdiction over broadcasters. Unfortunately they are not in any way connected to enforcement of retail CD prices. Sorry, you will need someone else to tackle that issue, manybe some Fedral Trade Comission perhaps.
Personaly I vote against the high prices with my dollars. The industry has started to notice, but blame the lacks of votes for high priced CD's on other things becides high prices. They claim CD sales are down and blame iTunes instead of high prices.
Sunday morning around 2am-ish
What! Are you crazy? Have music on from indi artists when the clubs let out on a Saturday night? What are you thinking? How about after Sunday night when everyone has to recover from the party for the Monday morning job. Try Monday and Tuesday Mornnings around 2am-ish instead. Late Friday and Saturday nights are not the time.
Microsoft, he said, asks the copyrights owner for permission first...
On a more serious note, I thing Microsoft is upset because Google got all that content making it useless to Microsoft who wants to buy exclusive distribution right to it. How can you sell a monopoly product when the competition gives it away for free?
Imagine if you can coat an F-16 with this stuff, and bam, you have a pretty cheap stealth fighter.
Who cares about military. I want it for my car for laser speed traps!
The article implies there is a bunch of new data.. The fact is much of the data is simply format shifted into the new medium. Examples of this are;
1 Photography
2 Letters and corrospondance
3 Fileing and records
4 Music
5 Telephone calls & faxes
6 Newspapers and magazines
7 Novels and books
8 Board games and puzzles
9 Movies
10 Radio and TV broadcasts
11 ??
All these form of data existed before. None of them was digital before. The numbers represent a format shift, not new content. Not many people archived every newspaper, phongraph record, photo, magazine, telephone call, TV show, etc. Even in the 1950's there was not enough space to archive all the data.
Sure there will be some savings incurred without having to produce the reels but it's the licensing cost that's causing the high price.
You are dead on. I worked in a theatre for a while as a projectionest duing the economic downturn in the 1980's. To get one of the current releases, theatres bid on them. The submitted bid includes things liKe a percentage of ticket sales and number of seats in the auditorium and a factor from past performance and location in relation to other theatres.
This combo keeps new releases out of small theatres and theatres with poor performance. This is the big divide between new release theatres and second run theatres. It is common for a new release to get bid up to over 100% of ticket sales. Many theatres simply have no revenue except concessions sales due to the cost of the feature. They bid on the movies to fill the seats and get consessions sales. That is why it's over $10 for a bucket of popcorn and a couple drinks.
This is effecient for the distributor as they easly maximize profit and often take 100% of the ticket revenue for the limited number of reels, but it is devastiating for a smaller theatre. This is why many of them have moved to indi films or porn. They are stuck with small audiances due to the older flims and can't win any bids for new films. They fold or go to alternatives. I know. Been there done that.
If you're using a Win 98 machine for gaming, I'd hazard a guess that the games that run on such a machine would be old enough to run sufficiently well in Wine anyway.
Many games including new ones run just fine on older versions of Windows. Older versions of Windows has a lower system demands leaving more resources for the game. I've upgraded the hardware several times. Unlike newer versions of Windows, the Windows 98 SE came with a full install CD. It's not the disk image recovery so common with Windows machines. I would be using Windows 2K for games, but it came with a recovery CD and not an install CD. It dies with the hardware upgrades. I'm not spending the asking price for a retail version of XP. (I'm not pirating it either.)
I'm a Linux noob. I have Ubuntu on a machine and have not had the time to learn Wine. I've printed the manual and installed it from the applications add/remove, but haven't gone into getting it to run any Windows programs yet. It does have a learning curve. When I get some undivided free time, I'll tackle the project and see if I can get Unreal and Half Life running. In the meantime, the Windows box plays them fine with no install learning curve needed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you could download Open Office for free shortly before MS Office 97 shipped. The project had not even started. It's predicessor StarOffice was not out yet.
The article contains the PDF of the e-mail. The e-mail discusses the pending release of Office 97 for the Mac.
OpenOffice.org is based on StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
Gaming - I am learning to live without
Why? I don't.. I have more than one PC.
For safe internet browsing, photo editing, and office applications, I use Ubuntu. For games, I use the Windows 98 machine.
-Crashes so much that I'm tempted at times to switch back to windows.
I've heard some people get to experiance that, but in all the time I have been running Ubuntu, I have had the oposite experiance. The wife's XP machine was the worst for a while. It's root cause was Flash 9. Backgraded to Flash 8 to fix 95% of the crashes on that machine. I've heard lots of problems with Flash 9 on Linux also. Have you installed Adobe Flash?
Even with the Flash 9 on Mozilla on XP resolved, the Ubuntu box is still the most stable box in the house. The only times I recall it going down is when we shut it off for the night.
The unstable machines are the Windows 98, Windows 2K and Windows XP machines in that order. I would not consider the Ubuntu machine unstable at all.
Have you tried another distro?
We've quietly replaced his copy of Windows XP with Folger's Coffee Crystals. Let's see if he notices any difference.
For me and a guest speaker, we made the switch and he didn't notice.
One of our social groups (not business) had a guest speaker. He requested we provide a computer and projection system for a PowerPoint slide show. The newest laptop I have is a Windows 2K/Ubuntu machine running Office 2K & Open Office.
He came and spoke and complained that his slide show wasn't working properly. The text boxes appeared all at once instead of Bullet line by line. In some simple troubleshooting we found the file worked properly on my wife's work machine running XP and Office 3K (not a laptop and not borrowable). Since I didn't want to spend lots of money on upgrades, I tossed the PowerPoint presentation at my Ubuntu partition. It worked perfectly.
I let the guest speaker know we fixed the problem with the presentation computer. At the next meeting, we simply ran the presentation on the Ubuntu partition using Open Office. Since we set it up for him and had it ready to go, he didn't notice the switch.
Searching later, I did find out about the free PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft.
Haven't viewed the video yet I see.
... by evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident or by a creator. Don't rule out creator simply because it sounds silly. Follow the facts.
is the the tendency to see patterns and relations when they are not there.
Nitty gritty from the video not watched... Using quantum mechanics it has been shown that before the big bang, it is entirely possible nothing existed, not even time, energy or mass. Seeing beyond the beginning of time is an excersise in futility. Most of us assume time is infinate and extend beyond the beginning of the universe and will extend forward into infinity. This may not be true.
I found the "tendency to see patterns and relations" an understatement.
I would have thought anyone looking at the universe in the past would have seen a static display and the assumption that it was always there. The idea that at one time in the past that it didn't exist was a long shot.
Now quantum mechanics is starting to show that the big bang didn't start from a super massive black hole that had all the mass of the universe. They are saying that it may have all come from nothing. That is the concept I never expected from science. That is what I found interesting. Now go watch the video. I assume you know the biblical 7 days of creation thing. I am not telling you to read a bible but update your science physics knowledge instead. It's like trying to prove something is dead wrong and being unable to. It does NOT mean that what you can not prove is true, it simply means you haven't proven it false. When what you are trying to prove wrong not only does not prove wrong but is in fact starting to show support as possibly being correct is when I took notice.
Many theories in the past have been easly proven false such as the earth being the center of the universe, it is flat, and such. Finding the universe may have come from nothing is the point I was making. This point does not prove the biblical creation is fact. On the flip side, it does not disprove it as many have expected who search the origin of the universe.
Which brings us back to the main discussion. Human brain wired
Before venturing out, research the planet.
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I'll just wear a thick wooley jumpey when I go outside.
They don't call it a gas giant for nothing. The surface is less dense than water. You might be suprised by the distance you would sink into the surface.
Saturn's interior composition is primarily that of simple molecules such as hydrogen and helium, which are liquids under the high pressure environments found in the interiors of the outer planets, and not solids.
Quote blatenly stolen from;
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/pla
I don't need a video to tell me what it says
The video is not about what the bible says. I didn't say read the bible. I said watch the science lecture. Now finish the homework assignment and get back to me after the part about what existed before the big bang and what the physics model (not religen) says.
...same as when they killed CB radio. My response then is the same now - 300 watts of cold steel Palomar SSB amplifier.
The cell companies didn't kill CB radio. Tons of 300 watt and greater amplifiers and popularity caused a growth explosion which made background noise of 5-9 on the S meter most of the time. It got to the point that you couldn't talk to anyone more than a mile down the road anymore. A classic example of the Tragity of the Commons. They could shout, but could not hear the legal operators which they denied use of the band.
I know because I started in the 1970's and finaly gave up due to very poor S/N ratio. It is hard to copy an S4 signal in an S7 noise environment. CB was on it's way out before cell phones became affordable. For many FRS has replaced the CB. Unlicensed use of the GMRS band is replacing the Linear amplifier as a way of shouting. Good thing few GMRS radios are easly modified to run high power on FRS only frequencies. FRS is not prone to "Skip" bringing in 1,000's of distant stations as high background noise.
FRS license does not permit attaching an external antenna so it is not easy to attach a 300 watt amplifier and beam antenna in place of the rubber duck built-in antenna. The connector is absent.
In physics there's measurement called "skin depth" which is the distance a wave travels before it's power level drops by 1/e or about 1/3. IIRC from my old physics 110A-B at Berkeley,
If you are talking about attenuation over distance, you are using the wrong formula. Have you checked the wavelength of sunlight? Have you checked the distance? Regardless of wavelength, the proper formula to use is not attenuation but power over area. Doubling the distance from the source (assume point source) decreases the power to 1/4 simply because it now covers 4X the area. Shortwave light and long wave radio waves both follow this spreading and reduction in strength. A satelite link to the earth has the same attenuation due to distance at the 12-18 GHz Ku band as it does on the 3.7 to 4.2 Ghz C band. (excluding attenuating factors such as rain fade)
You are correct in the other part of the statement. Gatting high bandwidth on a low frequency carrier is not easy. High bandwidth does require high frequencies.
I'll stick here closer to the Sun. Global warming is a minor nusiance compared to the mean temprature on Saturn.
The mean temperature on Saturn (at the cloud tops) is 88 K (-185 C; -290 F).
Maybe it is warmer on the surface, but with all the clouds in the way, I don't think the view is great.
Even if you don't believe in it, it is still part of your cultural influence.
I suggest you read the F-ing article, it's quite an interesting read.
An article is fine, but what has the scientific community found based on evidence? Please view the mentioned Universe lecture, then you will see where my comment originates.
There is no correlation between the bible's description of creation
Homework time.. View the mentioned video. It is online for free and is not from the church side of the isle. After that, then make informed comments.
My first thought was 'Ah, Creationist! Burn him!' and then I choked that down and thought, 'Actually, that's a good point.'
Thanks. A good scientest will look at all the facts. Religeion seldom returns the favor. It was hard to write the post and not have it look like a creationist post but a proper "is this a possibility and is their any hard evidence to support it? I was just shocked at the Physics for Future Presidents series from Berkley when I hit the Universe lessons. I thought it was worth mentioning.
evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident?
The science community should not limit the posibilities. Anything is possible until it can be eliminated. How about the possibility of created that way? There is lots of evidence of an order to the universe. Many believe there is a creator who put the order in place for things to grow and adapt. Science may try to explain many things not understood and look for answers. Science seldom includes and unseen creator.
If you have time, do a google search for a video series called "Physics for Future Presidents" It's from Berkley Universe of Southern California. In the series, look at the Universe lessons. This is not a chruch but a scientific look at the origin of the universe. Even science calls the origin of the universe the creation. Follow the lesson, then look at the biblical description of the origion of the universe. It's so close to the same to bring into question "Was this created?" Who Wrote the first book in the Bible and how did he know how the universe started when nobody else had a clue.
Leaving creation out of consideration does upset the church leadership and should upset the scientific community who are finding a strong corrolation between the two accounts.
Please don't use my post for a flamewar. It's not the intent. Use my post for the factual information and draw your own conclusions.
I think I see a possible show stopper here.. Try this...
Exactly. They have no proof who was using the computer or even what computer it was.
Even better is if they did prove it was the computer. They would have just proven it wasn't running KaZaA. Let me explain;
1 they took an image of the hard drive
2 they did an analysis and said it is not the one they caught with media sentry
3 they have proof of the owner of the account through ISP records
4 the machine was using dial-up.
Correct me if I'm missing something. I remember in dial-up days the dialer was made to "Login" to the ISP using the subscriber information.
5 Did they check if this machine is registered to the account owner? If so, where is KaZaA?
They have all the proof the drive supplied may belong to the ISP account holder simply by the fact (yet to be proven) that it does login under the subscribers account.
I dare them to prove the supplied hard drive is not the account owners by showing it's dialer settings. I bet the RIAA is avoiding this step because they already know the answer. They did in fact get an image of the drive and are avoiding admiting errors in the investigation that will hurt all the other cases. They have to win, even if it means omission of the possible fact that the supplied drive is the defendants.
6 The only other hole in the above is if a raid reveals several machines at the home using the same dial-up account. Ssshhh. Don't pass this on to the RIAA lawyer.
6a A raid may even not turn up anything. Every once in a while a family will split the cost of an account to extended family members such as parents or siblings. Unless they can capture not only the IP address, but the dial up number used for the connection to get a tight case against a dial up subscriber.