I predict lots of people will go one step further. Web submission page. No mail box, no bulk spam. If you want to write me, fill out this handy form on a website.. I'm looking to doing this soon as de-junking a POP3 account is just too much lost time. I am looking forward to dropping traditional e-mail entirely. Notice how most postings on slashdot are real comments and not a bulk dumping ground for adverts. They have something here by not taking bulk posting to this forum. Those who do FLAME, SPAM, or TROLL can't do it in bulk. It's one submission to one site, not 5 million. There are no bulk spams here that also hit 5 million other websites with one click. Soon my e-mail will be like, "Fill out the form at slashdot.org/~technician"
Pre loading a hard drive is one thing. Getting it to recognise the end users hardware is another. I expect them to get lots of It's broke when they can't connect to AOL with their winmodems, or print to their HP WinPrinters.
Read the EULA carefully. Especialy the part regarding auditing any and all computers in the building. Let your staff know the building can not support the liabiality risk of the other OS. Please do not give the BSA a free ticket in the front door.
Sell 40 GB hard drive $70-80 Include Darwin installed. $45 Include 5 hours of Consumer service for a few of the Newbies that can't make their modem, printer, scanner, USB camera, and sound card work. Ummm. Profit?? Sounds cheap to me. MS goes through dealers so they do not have to deal with customer support directly. You don't get to call MS and say, my printer doesn't work.
I remember playing the father of the Zork series of games on a PDP 11/35 which was the newer 16 bit machine. The game was called Adventure. We got the game on a 5 Meg 14 inch hard drive (RK05) and wasted a bunch of paper making moves on a keyboard/printer terminal. The scrollback feature of the hardcopy was great for finding your way out of a maze again. Adventure has since been ported to CPM and DOS. The game is still a great game and will challenge the thought process. Take a pencil and paper to keep from getting lost. There is no map. Do a google search to find this true classic game. You should be able to run it in a DOS window on Windows 95 before DOS and Windows 95 expire at the end of this year. I'm still trying to figure out who the shadowy figure is who tries to get my attention.
Advertisers take note: I never by anything offered to me by a solicitor. This includes phone, direct mail, fax, and e-mail marketing. This do not buy policy has kept me from falling for a couple scams. I found it good policy to NEVER buy from any direct advertising. When I want something, I shop for it to get the best deal, quality, warranty, shipping rate, etc. This includes research on the reputation of the seller. Push content ads almost always have a lower quality higher margin product in order to pay for the high priced ad campaign. Pushy ads always wave a red flag. Example, everyone hated the popup/under ad campaign for a wireless tv camera. A quick search located 3 other manufactures of similar products. One of them at a higher price was a much better product. If you want to sell me anything, don't direct market me. Be sure your ad properly shows up under a google search. Be sure your reputation is clean. Searches also pull up reviews listing the rip-off artists. Sites that have sponsership are OK. If I go to a skateboarding site and it is sponsored by a wheel manufacture, that is fine. I expect it. Just don't expect to close a deal for 8 wheels just because I stopped by the website. When I look for wheels, I will remember if you bombed my browser with pop-ups, or sponsored a fan site. By the way, I didn't buy the wireless camera that had the obnoxious ads.
Some radios use the low side for the local oscilator, however it is not often used as it can interfere with low band VHF TV. US TV ch 2-6 is 54-88MHZ. You don't want the FM radio putting herring bones on nearby TV's. The high side is midband cable chanels (ch 14-22 on most systems) and aircraft. You are not likely to be driving close to an airplane to interfere with it's receiver, but a home radio could mess up TV reception in the next apartment using rabbit ears on the other side of the wall. Using the high frequency for the local oscilator instead of the low side eliminates this interference. That is why most receivers use the high side. 97.1 - 10.7 = 86.4 or wavy lines to channel 6 on a nearby TV using rabbit ears.
Most of the time the local oscilator in a hetrodyne receiver (Typical AM/FM) leaks back out to the antenna. The Frequencys leaking for are 455Khz above the station for AM and 10.7 Mhz above for FM. (Example Listining to 620Khz AM. Add 455Khz. Leakage maybe detected at 1075Khz. Listening to 103.3 FM. Leakage may be detected at 114 MHZ.) A simple shielded antenna amplifier will usualy take care of the detectable leakage problem for the tin hat crowd. The radio is already encased in a metal box so the car electronics does not intefere with your listning pleasure. That shield works well both ways. The antenna amplifier passes the signal one way while preventing reverse leakage from reaching the antenna. Do a search for Superhetrodyne and Tempest for more detail on radio receiver leakage.
Be careful passing judgement. The size of the infraction is not mentioned. This could be any infraction. That alone would nail pretty much 100% of anyone that ever browsed the web. Many images are copyrighted (including banner ads) and may contain trademarked images and logo's. Your browser may save images, html, and sound files to a local cache. Simply having a MIDI file that was a background music loop for a webpage or the MSN logo in your cache is enough to be an infraction. Do you have the copyright owners permission for that photo or MIDI file? How about some real facts about the infraction. Going 25.5 MPH in a 25 zone is an infraction also. In most places you don't expect to get busted for it. I would seriously reconsider joining the service if the infractions were small (a couple MP3's for your jukebox software from your own CD's) and the enforcement was draconian. I don't need it. However if they were running open FTP sites with XP Pro and 10 Gig of MP3's, and the latest Harry Potter movie, I could see where this may be considered a blatent violation.
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of CD's sold, but very few buyers bothered to download the KEY. Do you have to give any personal information to get the key? This might be the next marketing spyware consumer demographics thing to upset the privacy advocates. As mentioned earlier, there is another way to rip these so they can be played with your favorite MP3 player and MP3 Jukebox software *cough*Winamp*cough*
At least the article mentions the new CD will not contain the Compact Disk logo. I'm glad they have taken that step. Be sure to find the Compact Disk logo on any Compact Disk you buy. Accept no substitutes
The description says it all. How much would you pay for the hardware. Think the Circuit City Divix, the Data Play CD, Sony MD, DAT, and other high priced limited function devices. General purpose devices like CDR took the market and left the other devices to the mercy of the free marketplace economics.
you're not very aware of the artist at all. This is true. Rap is not my taste in music. My kids were asking for the music. In spite of being a geek, I do interface some with the kids and do care what they listen to. They did not get the album and know why.
? In the weeks before Eminem's latest album The Eminem Show was released. I previewed the lyrics and decided it was too explicit. That is one I am not going to buy. Thanks for the preview.
This could be a bad thing. If all the people in the suburbs drop their ISP's and leach on the fewer open ports they can now reach, the owners may clamp down on free access to get their bandwidth back. When it was short range, there were more points as more people would pay for bandwidth and would share with the few that could reach them. Now many users will consider dropping paid access and leaching the open ports. This may kill them just as it killed free dial-up ISP's. Sharing works only if enough users provide bandwidth to the system to prevent overloading access points. It does not work if most users drop their current ISP to leech off the generous few. The generous few will be hit with excess bandwidth demands and will have to re-think their generosity. Most ISP's already prohibit sharing the bandwidth. High usage may entice cable companies and DSL providers to start wardriving and shutting of offenders sharing bandwidth via wireless.
I lived in the Cayman Islands for 3 years and had to get used to the meter is running feeling on the phone. The Cayman Islands brags about being advanced and has the highest Fax machines per capita of any nation. It's the sad reality that voice mail hell and getting on hold is just a waste of money, so they just fax everything instead. The other thing not mentioned is 800 service is blocked also. A free call has a terrible long distance fee tacked on for the caller. Anything I bought with free phone support, wasn't. Unfortunately I lived there when Windows 95 came out. I got a copy in Miami (legal) and installed it on my machine. At the install, it couldn't find the CD drive or sound card after the first reboot. The 800 number was just too expensive at about 1.50 US per minute. I went back to Win 3.1 for the duration of my stay and installed 95 2 years later when I moved back and got real support. It would have been much more than the price of the software to spend a couple hours on a free 800 number on hold for tech support.
Actualy this can be a good thing. Sell the company minus the software. Install Linux instead. No MS software transfer, no problem. Just remember to export all documents to an open format first. (added bennifit may be not selling consumer info to a third party;-) Then the buyer can then decide if they want to take the time to change OS'es to a high priced alternative with no resale value.
The other problems are most people listen to the radio while on the road for traffic info. Many good radios have ARI (automatic road information) so if the station you are listening to doesn't have the latest road information, the ARI will kick in and give it to you. I have not seen any of the SAT radio supporting this. It may have it and I haven't noticed it bacause I am not shopping for it. The feature if it has it is not mentioned in any of the advertisements for the service. I did ask a dealer if one subscription could cover a second receiver the same way cable TV works. The answer was no, but you can get this neat easly transportable (by thieves) unit to take between the house and car. No thanks. I would want the car unit firmly bolted in. No I do not want two subscriptions. If I was stuck with one subscription, I would put the reciever in the house and use it as a replacement for Napster. Then use the CD's (cutting out songs I don't like) in my in dash MP3 player with ARI. But due to the cost and the down economy, I have opted out. I can get music off a cable system without buying yet another box with a subscription.
In regards to your last line, I can shed a little light. If it was just the object and the earth, your point is valid. There is no real place to borrow a boost to escape the orbit. However we have a moon orbiting the earth. If an object in an outer orbit aproaches as the moon is oposite the earth, as the moon orbits lower (shorter day) the moon will follow the object taking some of it's energy slowing it into the earth orbit where it no longer has the energy to escape. Later the moon will lead the object and boost it enough to escape. For an over simple view not to reality but easy to visualize, imagine an object in orbit passing between the earth and moon. The sweet spot where the pull from the earth and moon are the same will be a spot where gravity no longer pulls the object in an orbit. In that space the object will travel in a straight line (no gravity pull from the earth), not in an orbit path. This can get an object boosted to a higher orbit. On the next trip around (since it's still in a lower orbit) it again catches up to the moon. As it catches up to the moon, it picks up speed raising it's orbit more while slowing it's time around the earth. As it follows the moon, it get slingshot to a higher and even slower orbit (longer day)so it never catches the moon and hitting it but is instead slung out of orbit now to orbit the sun for a few years until the timing is right for the process to be reversed and the object drop back out of the sun orbit back into the earth orbit.
I hope this deceleration into orbit and re-acceleration back out explination works for you.
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If this catches on in the USA, I could see "No radio in car" window signs also in cabs in New York City. No radio, No royalty, No problem.
I predict lots of people will go one step further. Web submission page. No mail box, no bulk spam. If you want to write me, fill out this handy form on a website.. I'm looking to doing this soon as de-junking a POP3 account is just too much lost time. I am looking forward to dropping traditional e-mail entirely.
Notice how most postings on slashdot are real comments and not a bulk dumping ground for adverts. They have something here by not taking bulk posting to this forum. Those who do FLAME, SPAM, or TROLL can't do it in bulk. It's one submission to one site, not 5 million. There are no bulk spams here that also hit 5 million other websites with one click.
Soon my e-mail will be like, "Fill out the form at slashdot.org/~technician"
5) Get WINE.
If that doesn't get you up to speed, Pull out a cork and slow down with friends.
Pre loading a hard drive is one thing. Getting it to recognise the end users hardware is another. I expect them to get lots of It's broke when they can't connect to AOL with their winmodems, or print to their HP WinPrinters.
Read the EULA carefully. Especialy the part regarding auditing any and all computers in the building. Let your staff know the building can not support the liabiality risk of the other OS.
Please do not give the BSA a free ticket in the front door.
OK try this one..
Sell 40 GB hard drive $70-80
Include Darwin installed. $45
Include 5 hours of Consumer service for a few of the Newbies that can't make their modem, printer, scanner, USB camera, and sound card work.
Ummm. Profit?? Sounds cheap to me.
MS goes through dealers so they do not have to deal with customer support directly. You don't get to call MS and say, my printer doesn't work.
I remember playing the father of the Zork series of games on a PDP 11/35 which was the newer 16 bit machine. The game was called Adventure. We got the game on a 5 Meg 14 inch hard drive (RK05) and wasted a bunch of paper making moves on a keyboard/printer terminal. The scrollback feature of the hardcopy was great for finding your way out of a maze again. Adventure has since been ported to CPM and DOS. The game is still a great game and will challenge the thought process. Take a pencil and paper to keep from getting lost. There is no map. Do a google search to find this true classic game. You should be able to run it in a DOS window on Windows 95 before DOS and Windows 95 expire at the end of this year. I'm still trying to figure out who the shadowy figure is who tries to get my attention.
Advertisers take note: I never by anything offered to me by a solicitor. This includes phone, direct mail, fax, and e-mail marketing. This do not buy policy has kept me from falling for a couple scams. I found it good policy to NEVER buy from any direct advertising. When I want something, I shop for it to get the best deal, quality, warranty, shipping rate, etc. This includes research on the reputation of the seller. Push content ads almost always have a lower quality higher margin product in order to pay for the high priced ad campaign. Pushy ads always wave a red flag. Example, everyone hated the popup/under ad campaign for a wireless tv camera. A quick search located 3 other manufactures of similar products. One of them at a higher price was a much better product. If you want to sell me anything, don't direct market me. Be sure your ad properly shows up under a google search. Be sure your reputation is clean. Searches also pull up reviews listing the rip-off artists. Sites that have sponsership are OK. If I go to a skateboarding site and it is sponsored by a wheel manufacture, that is fine. I expect it. Just don't expect to close a deal for 8 wheels just because I stopped by the website. When I look for wheels, I will remember if you bombed my browser with pop-ups, or sponsored a fan site. By the way, I didn't buy the wireless camera that had the obnoxious ads.
Some radios use the low side for the local oscilator, however it is not often used as it can interfere with low band VHF TV. US TV ch 2-6 is 54-88MHZ. You don't want the FM radio putting herring bones on nearby TV's. The high side is midband cable chanels (ch 14-22 on most systems) and aircraft. You are not likely to be driving close to an airplane to interfere with it's receiver, but a home radio could mess up TV reception in the next apartment using rabbit ears on the other side of the wall. Using the high frequency for the local oscilator instead of the low side eliminates this interference. That is why most receivers use the high side. 97.1 - 10.7 = 86.4 or wavy lines to channel 6 on a nearby TV using rabbit ears.
Most of the time the local oscilator in a hetrodyne receiver (Typical AM/FM) leaks back out to the antenna. The Frequencys leaking for are 455Khz above the station for AM and 10.7 Mhz above for FM. (Example Listining to 620Khz AM. Add 455Khz. Leakage maybe detected at 1075Khz. Listening to 103.3 FM. Leakage may be detected at 114 MHZ.) A simple shielded antenna amplifier will usualy take care of the detectable leakage problem for the tin hat crowd. The radio is already encased in a metal box so the car electronics does not intefere with your listning pleasure. That shield works well both ways. The antenna amplifier passes the signal one way while preventing reverse leakage from reaching the antenna.
Do a search for Superhetrodyne and Tempest for more detail on radio receiver leakage.
Be careful passing judgement. The size of the infraction is not mentioned. This could be any infraction. That alone would nail pretty much 100% of anyone that ever browsed the web. Many images are copyrighted (including banner ads) and may contain trademarked images and logo's. Your browser may save images, html, and sound files to a local cache. Simply having a MIDI file that was a background music loop for a webpage or the MSN logo in your cache is enough to be an infraction. Do you have the copyright owners permission for that photo or MIDI file? How about some real facts about the infraction. Going 25.5 MPH in a 25 zone is an infraction also. In most places you don't expect to get busted for it. I would seriously reconsider joining the service if the infractions were small (a couple MP3's for your jukebox software from your own CD's) and the enforcement was draconian. I don't need it. However if they were running open FTP sites with XP Pro and 10 Gig of MP3's, and the latest Harry Potter movie, I could see where this may be considered a blatent violation.
Q How can I get The Sims on here?
A You can't. It doesn't meet the minimum requirements printed on the box. Do you have a harder question?
I wonder what would happen if a bunch of CD's sold, but very few buyers bothered to download the KEY. Do you have to give any personal information to get the key? This might be the next marketing spyware consumer demographics thing to upset the privacy advocates.
As mentioned earlier, there is another way to rip these so they can be played with your favorite MP3 player and MP3 Jukebox software *cough*Winamp*cough*
At least the article mentions the new CD will not contain the Compact Disk logo. I'm glad they have taken that step. Be sure to find the Compact Disk logo on any Compact Disk you buy. Accept no substitutes
The description says it all. How much would you pay for the hardware. Think the Circuit City Divix, the Data Play CD, Sony MD, DAT, and other high priced limited function devices. General purpose devices like CDR took the market and left the other devices to the mercy of the free marketplace economics.
you're not very aware of the artist at all .
This is true. Rap is not my taste in music. My kids were asking for the music. In spite of being a geek, I do interface some with the kids and do care what they listen to. They did not get the album and know why.
Ummm, How do I apply for absentee ballotts of all the states I pay taxes to? Isn't taxation without representation an already declared un-good thing?
? In the weeks before Eminem's latest album The Eminem Show was released.
I previewed the lyrics and decided it was too explicit. That is one I am not going to buy. Thanks for the preview.
The outdoor range could replace my current ISP.
This could be a bad thing. If all the people in the suburbs drop their ISP's and leach on the fewer open ports they can now reach, the owners may clamp down on free access to get their bandwidth back. When it was short range, there were more points as more people would pay for bandwidth and would share with the few that could reach them. Now many users will consider dropping paid access and leaching the open ports. This may kill them just as it killed free dial-up ISP's. Sharing works only if enough users provide bandwidth to the system to prevent overloading access points. It does not work if most users drop their current ISP to leech off the generous few. The generous few will be hit with excess bandwidth demands and will have to re-think their generosity. Most ISP's already prohibit sharing the bandwidth. High usage may entice cable companies and DSL providers to start wardriving and shutting of offenders sharing bandwidth via wireless.
I lived in the Cayman Islands for 3 years and had to get used to the meter is running feeling on the phone. The Cayman Islands brags about being advanced and has the highest Fax machines per capita of any nation. It's the sad reality that voice mail hell and getting on hold is just a waste of money, so they just fax everything instead. The other thing not mentioned is 800 service is blocked also. A free call has a terrible long distance fee tacked on for the caller. Anything I bought with free phone support, wasn't.
Unfortunately I lived there when Windows 95 came out. I got a copy in Miami (legal) and installed it on my machine. At the install, it couldn't find the CD drive or sound card after the first reboot. The 800 number was just too expensive at about 1.50 US per minute. I went back to Win 3.1 for the duration of my stay and installed 95 2 years later when I moved back and got real support. It would have been much more than the price of the software to spend a couple hours on a free 800 number on hold for tech support.
Be sure to check the expiration date on the software!
Actualy this can be a good thing. Sell the company minus the software. Install Linux instead. No MS software transfer, no problem. Just remember to export all documents to an open format first. (added bennifit may be not selling consumer info to a third party ;-)
Then the buyer can then decide if they want to take the time to change OS'es to a high priced alternative with no resale value.
Can you do recharge in and take it on the airplane for less than $200?
The other problems are most people listen to the radio while on the road for traffic info. Many good radios have ARI (automatic road information) so if the station you are listening to doesn't have the latest road information, the ARI will kick in and give it to you. I have not seen any of the SAT radio supporting this. It may have it and I haven't noticed it bacause I am not shopping for it. The feature if it has it is not mentioned in any of the advertisements for the service. I did ask a dealer if one subscription could cover a second receiver the same way cable TV works. The answer was no, but you can get this neat easly transportable (by thieves) unit to take between the house and car. No thanks. I would want the car unit firmly bolted in. No I do not want two subscriptions.
If I was stuck with one subscription, I would put the reciever in the house and use it as a replacement for Napster. Then use the CD's (cutting out songs I don't like) in my in dash MP3 player with ARI. But due to the cost and the down economy, I have opted out. I can get music off a cable system without buying yet another box with a subscription.
In regards to your last line, I can shed a little light. If it was just the object and the earth, your point is valid. There is no real place to borrow a boost to escape the orbit. However we have a moon orbiting the earth. If an object in an outer orbit aproaches as the moon is oposite the earth, as the moon orbits lower (shorter day) the moon will follow the object taking some of it's energy slowing it into the earth orbit where it no longer has the energy to escape. Later the moon will lead the object and boost it enough to escape.
For an over simple view not to reality but easy to visualize, imagine an object in orbit passing between the earth and moon. The sweet spot where the pull from the earth and moon are the same will be a spot where gravity no longer pulls the object in an orbit. In that space the object will travel in a straight line (no gravity pull from the earth), not in an orbit path. This can get an object boosted to a higher orbit.
On the next trip around (since it's still in a lower orbit) it again catches up to the moon. As it catches up to the moon, it picks up speed raising it's orbit more while slowing it's time around the earth. As it follows the moon, it get slingshot to a higher and even slower orbit (longer day)so it never catches the moon and hitting it but is instead slung out of orbit now to orbit the sun for a few years until the timing is right for the process to be reversed and the object drop back out of the sun orbit back into the earth orbit.
I hope this deceleration into orbit and re-acceleration back out explination works for you.