It's very hard to stem the tide of the flow. MS is the only one in a postion to change the tide of the flow to pay to listen. The current flow is MP3 which is unrestricted. It will be a very hard sell to get people to toss the RIO and in dash MP3 player to switch to a closed format. Watch out for the Windows Media Format. With a player on every Windows machine, it may create a big enough opening for a new tide of music for sale to flood the market. Real audio and Liquid Audio have tried it but couldn't become big enough to be the defacto standard. Too much stuff was pay and couldn't compete in the face of free. They didn't provice enough hasle free, legal, free, content to become an established standard. This could make an end run past MP3. RIAA would love MP3's have the same fate as the 8 track tape.
RIAA doesn't want you to see the pig in the poke. They want you to buy it as is by the pound. Whats worse is you can take the choice piglet without paying while leaving the sow.
A lot of assumptions are being made here. Assume I don't care about music in any form. I wouldn't be on napster or buy CD's. Assume I love all the music I can get and try. I would buy CD's and log in to Napster. Does that prove I buy more CD's because I log in to Napster? RIAA can't prove either way Napster causes more or less CD's to be sold. They do however assume a song downloaded is a song not bought but taken anyway. This distinctive lack of a KerChing is upsetting them.
Too bad they can't cram these in the little buildings that has the electronics for the cell phone towers. The cell towers are located to provide even coverage. The fiber may already come to the buildings for future expansion. This would greatly expand the coverage area of DSL.
Geothermal is used where it's plentiful and cheap to acquire and not protected as in a national park. Most of the town of Klamath Falls Oregon is Geothermally heated. The temprature is too low for power generation but is sure cuts the winter heating bills.
Um unless I'm mistaken, It's hard to make carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide when burning hydrogen in the engine. You won't get these products until you start burning something else for fuel. I don't expect these gasses even in an internal combustion engine unless it starts burning oil.
Ask for the company policy on company uniforms and what the clothing maitnance alowance is. Many states require this provision for upkeep of required uniforms and dress codes. The company may scrap it if the policy will cost them. My company for example buys me ergonomic shoes and perscription safety glasses as they are required.
Most of the 27 MHZ frequencies are the same as RC toy cars and boats. Don't use your computer in the same apartment that has kids. You may crash his toy monster truck. Really, many RC toys use transmitters from 100mW to 750mW I think the cordless stuff are on the low end of the power range to save batteries because they are rarely used beyond 100 feet, but the controller for that RC 4 wheeler may jam your keyboard.
It does, however when one is idle and not transmitting, another one can send the signal. It's just like 1 TV and 2 remotes. They both work but not at the same time.
People wonder why people don't shop online in larger numbers. DUH! Online shopping is still getting a rap for being unsafe. Actions like this aren't helping. I still phone order stuff and don't give an e-mail. To spam my PO box is going to cost them postage. My anti-sucker shopping mode still applies. If You call, email, or mail me, regardless of the sweetness of the deal, it's no deal. This simple rule has saved me lots of grief. If I call you, have your order pad handy. It keeps the spam down. My e-mail is not associated with any online purchase. The downside is all I get in spam is the sleaseball stuff with forged headers from massively sold make money fast operators and nothing from any reputable company.
I wonder if one of the custom case jobs could be modified just for this. Instead of fancy Neon in the case, put in a germicidal short wave UV lamp. Don't forget to add the charcoal filter over the power supply fan for the ozone.
It's about as heavy as my car. I presume under heavy load it would come to a halt about as fast as my car coasting uphill.
In reality, when I was in the military (DEC PDP11/35 era/pre IBM PC) we ran off a rotary no break. It had a motor, generator, big electric clutch, and diesel engine. It was the least reliable UPS we had. The problem was related to the big fan load on the system. When the flywheel was used to start the generator after an outage of 5-6 AC cycles, the speed became low quickly causing the inertia of the fan load to reverse current the system while starting the engine. After the engine started, the current by the slowed fans combined with the voltage sag (frequency about 50-55 HZ) from the slow generator tended to drop things offline as overcurrent protection operated, which then spiked the system. Most 60 HZ motors tend to draw lots more current at 50 HZ. To make matters worse, sometimes the engine didn't start right away.
The best system we had was a fulltime UPS (not standby) with about 20 minutes of battery backed by 4 conventional standby generators. The UPS was online all the time, not a standby UPS. This provided excelent spike protection. It was handeled by the battery charger and battery bank. There was no voltage or frequency changes during an outage. It simply worked. It had two banks of batteries so the batteries could be changed without shutting down. I remember the battery room. Rows and rows of 2 volt cells in fiberglass racks connected to produce 300 volts and fused at 900 amps. To check the water, you needed to break up the groups to 25 cell blocks with switches. About once a year a bank of batteries was deep cycled to test for capacity and all terminal connections were cleaned and checked.
Another source of region 0 disks is the national parks. Their souviner DVD's are meant to be taken home. I have a wonderful one on Yellowstone National Park which is region 0. Don't look for the movie studios to release stuff that will do an end run past their distribution profit model.
Don't buy it! They assume people will buy the protected content just like they bought DVD's. I'd like to see the thing die on the vine. Stick with VHS and free tv. The content providers will soon find out what does and does not sell. Treat it just like the old floppy copy protected games and programs. I view subscription software as broken out of the box. Not all my machines are online. I do most of my critical stuff on unconnected machines. It's the best security I have for finance and personal data. Take anything back when it doesn't do what it is supposed to on your equipment. I took back a Microsoft Optical mouse because the mouse driver could not find my modem. That machine didn't have one. I bought a Dexxa optical mouse instead. I take videos back that have distorted pictures on my TV. I take CD's back that won't DL to my RIO. I don't use Liquid Audio audio format because it is incompatible with my hardware. Make copy protection expensive for the providers. It is true there is a bunch of content I don't get to see, but that is up the the content provider to exclude me. If the content is provided on a format I can use, then I may become a consumer by choice. Notice how lots of stuff is released in both VHS and DVD? The biggest thing now killing the digital TV standard is loss of free quality content. People won't upgrade for over the air because there is no reason to spend the money. Broadcasters won't want to put in the studio equpment because there isn't any receivers in the local market. I think the digital TV will not make it On the Air. I think it will be limited to subscription viewers who pay for premium content.
Is my from list. If you are not on it, it's unsolicited and never seen. My family and friends mail always gets in with no spam unless you call the tag on mail from a free Yahoo account spam.
It's funny you assumed Win 2K. It's not anywhere that new. Think original Win 95 upgrade (buggy version without IE). Office 97 works OK on it. I keep the forced upgrade MS tax to a minimum. It is to encourage the upgrade from buggy software to a more stable platform. When she wants to upgrade, I ask about the latest.VBS virus. The older version doesn't run it without IE.
I think are planning on a new chipset for the Pentium 4 to support DDR RAM. Sorry I have no refrence for this.. Only that Intel is not known for sitting still while the competion does this.. http://www.ebnews.com/story/OEG20000718S0042. I am sure they will compete with this. Too much litigation gives one a black eye.
I wish I had mod points to mod that as funny. 127.0.0.1 is even better, take a look. No streaming, just grab and go goodies. Most are not watermarked at all.
Use the webcam on your website! Nobody has any reason the check the pictures on a typical vanity webpage. Post some photos on Yahoo or other free vanity site. After you get a reply (at another public website, the picture can be updated (evidence removed). Let the reciepient know the frames at noon for the next 10 minutes needs captured! No casual visitor to the site would be any the wiser.
Wear your "Got Root?" shirt and show off your machine. Show that user A can't delete the OS and files of user B and how this is a great advantage if you have kids in the house. Stability and Security is one thing lacking in MS products. My wife needs Office so Windows has to be in a dual boot machine with password protection on the boot manager. It will be great when I can get rid of the MS partition so we don't have to shutdown to change users.
Usualy there is no attempt to save the chip being removed. To keep from lifting traces, cut all the pins at the chip. Then rumove the pins by desoldering them one at a time. Many times rework is done on a hotplate. This is so a small wattage iron with the narrow tip can raise the temprature of a pin connected to a large ground plane enough to melt the solder without being too hot for the isolated pads.
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It's very hard to stem the tide of the flow. MS is the only one in a postion to change the tide of the flow to pay to listen. The current flow is MP3 which is unrestricted. It will be a very hard sell to get people to toss the RIO and in dash MP3 player to switch to a closed format. Watch out for the Windows Media Format. With a player on every Windows machine, it may create a big enough opening for a new tide of music for sale to flood the market. Real audio and Liquid Audio have tried it but couldn't become big enough to be the defacto standard. Too much stuff was pay and couldn't compete in the face of free. They didn't provice enough hasle free, legal, free, content to become an established standard. This could make an end run past MP3. RIAA would love MP3's have the same fate as the 8 track tape.
RIAA doesn't want you to see the pig in the poke. They want you to buy it as is by the pound. Whats worse is you can take the choice piglet without paying while leaving the sow.
A lot of assumptions are being made here. Assume I don't care about music in any form. I wouldn't be on napster or buy CD's. Assume I love all the music I can get and try. I would buy CD's and log in to Napster. Does that prove I buy more CD's because I log in to Napster? RIAA can't prove either way Napster causes more or less CD's to be sold. They do however assume a song downloaded is a song not bought but taken anyway. This distinctive lack of a KerChing is upsetting them.
Too bad they can't cram these in the little buildings that has the electronics for the cell phone towers. The cell towers are located to provide even coverage. The fiber may already come to the buildings for future expansion. This would greatly expand the coverage area of DSL.
Geothermal is used where it's plentiful and cheap to acquire and not protected as in a national park. Most of the town of Klamath Falls Oregon is Geothermally heated. The temprature is too low for power generation but is sure cuts the winter heating bills.
Um unless I'm mistaken, It's hard to make carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide when burning hydrogen in the engine. You won't get these products until you start burning something else for fuel. I don't expect these gasses even in an internal combustion engine unless it starts burning oil.
Ask for the company policy on company uniforms and what the clothing maitnance alowance is. Many states require this provision for upkeep of required uniforms and dress codes. The company may scrap it if the policy will cost them. My company for example buys me ergonomic shoes and perscription safety glasses as they are required.
Metal tabs over the windows takes care of that. Most computers are no longer using EPROMS they are using flash or EEPROMS
Most of the 27 MHZ frequencies are the same as RC toy cars and boats. Don't use your computer in the same apartment that has kids. You may crash his toy monster truck. Really, many RC toys use transmitters from 100mW to 750mW I think the cordless stuff are on the low end of the power range to save batteries because they are rarely used beyond 100 feet, but the controller for that RC 4 wheeler may jam your keyboard.
It does, however when one is idle and not transmitting, another one can send the signal. It's just like 1 TV and 2 remotes. They both work but not at the same time.
People wonder why people don't shop online in larger numbers. DUH! Online shopping is still getting a rap for being unsafe. Actions like this aren't helping. I still phone order stuff and don't give an e-mail. To spam my PO box is going to cost them postage. My anti-sucker shopping mode still applies. If You call, email, or mail me, regardless of the sweetness of the deal, it's no deal. This simple rule has saved me lots of grief. If I call you, have your order pad handy. It keeps the spam down. My e-mail is not associated with any online purchase. The downside is all I get in spam is the sleaseball stuff with forged headers from massively sold make money fast operators and nothing from any reputable company.
I wonder if one of the custom case jobs could be modified just for this. Instead of fancy Neon in the case, put in a germicidal short wave UV lamp. Don't forget to add the charcoal filter over the power supply fan for the ozone.
In reality, when I was in the military (DEC PDP11/35 era/pre IBM PC) we ran off a rotary no break. It had a motor, generator, big electric clutch, and diesel engine. It was the least reliable UPS we had. The problem was related to the big fan load on the system. When the flywheel was used to start the generator after an outage of 5-6 AC cycles, the speed became low quickly causing the inertia of the fan load to reverse current the system while starting the engine. After the engine started, the current by the slowed fans combined with the voltage sag (frequency about 50-55 HZ) from the slow generator tended to drop things offline as overcurrent protection operated, which then spiked the system. Most 60 HZ motors tend to draw lots more current at 50 HZ. To make matters worse, sometimes the engine didn't start right away.
The best system we had was a fulltime UPS (not standby) with about 20 minutes of battery backed by 4 conventional standby generators. The UPS was online all the time, not a standby UPS. This provided excelent spike protection. It was handeled by the battery charger and battery bank. There was no voltage or frequency changes during an outage. It simply worked. It had two banks of batteries so the batteries could be changed without shutting down. I remember the battery room. Rows and rows of 2 volt cells in fiberglass racks connected to produce 300 volts and fused at 900 amps. To check the water, you needed to break up the groups to 25 cell blocks with switches. About once a year a bank of batteries was deep cycled to test for capacity and all terminal connections were cleaned and checked.
Another source of region 0 disks is the national parks. Their souviner DVD's are meant to be taken home. I have a wonderful one on Yellowstone National Park which is region 0. Don't look for the movie studios to release stuff that will do an end run past their distribution profit model.
Microsoft is betting the farm on this one. We either kill linux on the desktop or it kills us!
Don't buy it! They assume people will buy the protected content just like they bought DVD's. I'd like to see the thing die on the vine. Stick with VHS and free tv. The content providers will soon find out what does and does not sell. Treat it just like the old floppy copy protected games and programs. I view subscription software as broken out of the box. Not all my machines are online. I do most of my critical stuff on unconnected machines. It's the best security I have for finance and personal data. Take anything back when it doesn't do what it is supposed to on your equipment. I took back a Microsoft Optical mouse because the mouse driver could not find my modem. That machine didn't have one. I bought a Dexxa optical mouse instead. I take videos back that have distorted pictures on my TV. I take CD's back that won't DL to my RIO. I don't use Liquid Audio audio format because it is incompatible with my hardware. Make copy protection expensive for the providers. It is true there is a bunch of content I don't get to see, but that is up the the content provider to exclude me. If the content is provided on a format I can use, then I may become a consumer by choice. Notice how lots of stuff is released in both VHS and DVD? The biggest thing now killing the digital TV standard is loss of free quality content. People won't upgrade for over the air because there is no reason to spend the money. Broadcasters won't want to put in the studio equpment because there isn't any receivers in the local market. I think the digital TV will not make it On the Air. I think it will be limited to subscription viewers who pay for premium content.
I'm going to have to buy a case of CDR's just to keep a copy of all my SPAM ;-). What, I can't delete it anymore?
Is my from list. If you are not on it, it's unsolicited and never seen. My family and friends mail always gets in with no spam unless you call the tag on mail from a free Yahoo account spam.
It's funny you assumed Win 2K. It's not anywhere that new. Think original Win 95 upgrade (buggy version without IE). Office 97 works OK on it. I keep the forced upgrade MS tax to a minimum. It is to encourage the upgrade from buggy software to a more stable platform. When she wants to upgrade, I ask about the latest .VBS virus. The older version doesn't run it without IE.
I think are planning on a new chipset for the Pentium 4 to support DDR RAM. Sorry I have no refrence for this.. Only that Intel is not known for sitting still while the competion does this.. http://www.ebnews.com/story/OEG20000718S0042. I am sure they will compete with this. Too much litigation gives one a black eye.
I wish I had mod points to mod that as funny. 127.0.0.1 is even better, take a look. No streaming, just grab and go goodies. Most are not watermarked at all.
Use the webcam on your website! Nobody has any reason the check the pictures on a typical vanity webpage. Post some photos on Yahoo or other free vanity site. After you get a reply (at another public website, the picture can be updated (evidence removed). Let the reciepient know the frames at noon for the next 10 minutes needs captured! No casual visitor to the site would be any the wiser.
I just had to say it. ;-) Apologies to the younger ones who haven't seen the movie.
Wear your "Got Root?" shirt and show off your machine. Show that user A can't delete the OS and files of user B and how this is a great advantage if you have kids in the house. Stability and Security is one thing lacking in MS products. My wife needs Office so Windows has to be in a dual boot machine with password protection on the boot manager. It will be great when I can get rid of the MS partition so we don't have to shutdown to change users.
Usualy there is no attempt to save the chip being removed. To keep from lifting traces, cut all the pins at the chip. Then rumove the pins by desoldering them one at a time. Many times rework is done on a hotplate. This is so a small wattage iron with the narrow tip can raise the temprature of a pin connected to a large ground plane enough to melt the solder without being too hot for the isolated pads.