Just say something like "NewEgg Rocks!" or "NewEgg got my order here the day before I placed it!". It won't even matter if you didn't mention the product.
Seriously, I've never had a problem with NewEgg. Their prices are good, and the shipping is frequently quite cheap, but I seldom pay any attention to their reviews.
Each winter, just after the Christmas holiday, the airwaves become cluttered with lids/morons who got a ham radio but don't have a license.
Where do you live? I've been a ham for about 23 years, active on HF, VHF and UHF, and I have never observed this phenomena.
However, starting each January 1st, and ending on December 31st, you can tune around the 75 meter phone band, and hear a bunch of lids/morons who got a ham radio, and shouldn't have a license! Note: all of these guys passed a code test, so don't tell me that a code requirement keeps out the riff-raff.
That seems to be the ARRL's attitude, since they just about demanded the FCC maintain the code requirement.
Actually, the ARRL submitted a proposal to the FCC that would have retained the Morse Code requirement for only the Extra class license, which was a pretty good compromise, IMO.
Thus, your assertion that the ARRL "just about demanded" they maintain the code requirement is a bit over-reaching, at least.
He said if a similar tool could be produced for newspapers, it would not be accepted by consumers.
That might be true if ads in the newspaper and those online were even remotely similar. Funny, I don't remember an ad for a dating service in the newspaper covering up a story I wanted to read until I acknowledged it. Nor have I ever finished the paper, laid it down, and then found an ad laying in my lap underneath it!
Until recently, the U.S. Postal Service would not accept a credit card with "See ID" or "Check ID" written on the back. Their policy was that there had to be an actual signature. Despite my repeated attempts to explain to them that my signature could be easily forged, but not my picture, they could only see as far as their "policy".
They have, however, recently recinded that policy. It only took a couple of years.
Actually, the day 5 forecasts have an average error of about 325 nm...much less than 800. Prior to 1998, there weren't any 5 day hurricane forecasts, so this is a dramatic improvement. NHC now does 5-day forecasts with similar accuracy to the 3-day forecasts from 10 years ago.
When a tropical system is moving very slowly, it is prone to wobble a bit, so on a time scale as short as 1 hour, there will be a considerable spread in possible movements.
The forecasts for Frances were in fact EXTREMELY accurate. You can view a loop of NHC's forecast images here. If you do you will see that Frances made landfall almost exactly where the 3-day forecast said it would.
the RIAA can still subpoena your personal info. they just are prohibited from doing so without first formally filing a lawsuit against every john/jane doe they wish to sue.
And in the process they'd be filing lawsuits against a lot of innocent people, and that'd get them in LOTS of trouble, but IANAL, so what do I know?
Where do they come up with those percentages? (i.e. 30% chance of snow).
IAAMBIDPOOTV (I am a meteorologist, but I don't play one on TV.)
In the National Weather Service, the chance of rain is actually the product of the uncertainty and the expected area coverage. Soooo...
50% uncertainty of 50% coverage ==.50 *.50 =.25 or about a 30% chance. Of course, one problem is that most forecasts do not discern between their uncertainty and expected coverage, so exactly what use is it?
Are there any websites out there that give access to the data from these street-level doppler systems?
Don't bother. There is no radar data available to civilians that has that kind of resolution. They can put all the resolution they want in the map, but that doesn't make the data be that resolution.
At a beamwidth around 1 degree, at just 25 miles from the radar, the half-power beamwidth is already >2000 feet. The beam is a mile across at a range of only about 60 miles from the radar.
Therefore, you don't have to be very far from the radar before the margin of error is much greater than a city block.
Just look at the National Weather Service radars. They are technologically far superior to any of the TV radars.
Just to expand on this, CB operates around 27 MHz, which during this period of declining sunspot activity will not provide very reliable communications. OTOH, amateur radio has spectrum allocations all over the place from 1.8 MHz and up. Amateurs can almost always find a band where they have acceptible propagation.
73, N0EYE
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...and I bet Apple knows *exactly* how many colors it displays. 2?
Since the state couldn't enforce any laws prohibiting burning the flag, they simply passed a law stating that the maxiumum penalty would be US$25 for assulting someone who was in the process of burining a flag.
That would be the maximum criminal penalty, me thinks. I doubt they were able to put the same limit on damages in a civil suit.
You can get a bottle of this, put a little bit in with your tiny computer cooling system, the rest in your car's, and you'll have better cooling all around. And this stuff prevents foaming, rather than promoting it like dishwasher liquid.
Another option that could easily be found in any household would be laundry detergent. It should also lower the surface tension of the water, and laundry detergent is typically formulated to foam very little.
They're called suburbs. Cable Internet and DSL are far from penetrating into all of the suburb areas. Plus, just because a county is a "metropolitan county" doesn't mean the entire county is within the city.
Charlie seems to think that Wildblue doesn't hold much promise either, as indicated in this article. I think it's interesting to read what Charlie thinks of satellite internet in light of the way Echostar handled Starband.
Who's going to step up to the plate and deliver broadband to the masses outside the metro areas?
We can hope that like previous expensive luxuries, e.g. jet travel and ocean cruises, the wealthy will pull the prices down to a level reachable by the rest of us.
I only hope someone invents "Extra Strength Dramamine" by then!
I have launched numerous weather balloons, and I don't believe they stay aloft for 24 hours. They only take ~2-3 hours to ascend to 30-35 Km. I doubt they take 21 hours to descend...even when slowed by a parachute, which they all carry. Also, in response to the numerous posts about aircraft safety, pilots all over the world know that weather balloons are launched by weather agencies in most countries at 1100 and 2300 GMT. It's a big sky up there. The odds of an airplane hitting one of these relatively tiny objects are extremely small.
I too hold the belief that there is no man-made global warming, but scientists are anything but ignorant. They know exactly how profitable forecasting doom and gloom can be. You can get much more lucrative (sp?) speaking engagements when you're talking about the end of the world than talking about climate cycles.
Actually, global warming *is* occurring, in all liklihood. The last major climate event for the planet was an ice age, right? We are moving away from the ice age. Global average temperatures *should* be rising as we move away from an ice age!
Check out this link...they are supposed to have two-way satellite starting by the end of this year. We'll see...
http://www.gilat2home.com
It's supposed to run 400 Kbps down and 56 Kbps up.
Hughes or someone may get true 2-way broadband in the next couple years.
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The outage over the weekend was NOT caused by Galaxy 15. Galaxy 15 is expected to pass by SES-1 on December 15.
Just say something like "NewEgg Rocks!" or "NewEgg got my order here the day before I placed it!". It won't even matter if you didn't mention the product.
Seriously, I've never had a problem with NewEgg. Their prices are good, and the shipping is frequently quite cheap, but I seldom pay any attention to their reviews.
Each winter, just after the Christmas holiday, the airwaves become cluttered with lids/morons who got a ham radio but don't have a license.
Where do you live? I've been a ham for about 23 years, active on HF, VHF and UHF, and I have never observed this phenomena.
However, starting each January 1st, and ending on December 31st, you can tune around the 75 meter phone band, and hear a bunch of lids/morons who got a ham radio, and shouldn't have a license! Note: all of these guys passed a code test, so don't tell me that a code requirement keeps out the riff-raff.
73, N0EYE
That seems to be the ARRL's attitude, since they just about demanded the FCC maintain the code requirement.
Actually, the ARRL submitted a proposal to the FCC that would have retained the Morse Code requirement for only the Extra class license, which was a pretty good compromise, IMO.
Thus, your assertion that the ARRL "just about demanded" they maintain the code requirement is a bit over-reaching, at least.
73, N0EYE
From TFA...
He said if a similar tool could be produced for newspapers, it would not be accepted by consumers.
That might be true if ads in the newspaper and those online were even remotely similar. Funny, I don't remember an ad for a dating service in the newspaper covering up a story I wanted to read until I acknowledged it. Nor have I ever finished the paper, laid it down, and then found an ad laying in my lap underneath it!
Until recently, the U.S. Postal Service would not accept a credit card with "See ID" or "Check ID" written on the back. Their policy was that there had to be an actual signature. Despite my repeated attempts to explain to them that my signature could be easily forged, but not my picture, they could only see as far as their "policy".
They have, however, recently recinded that policy. It only took a couple of years.
Actually, the day 5 forecasts have an average error of about 325 nm...much less than 800. Prior to 1998, there weren't any 5 day hurricane forecasts, so this is a dramatic improvement. NHC now does 5-day forecasts with similar accuracy to the 3-day forecasts from 10 years ago.
When a tropical system is moving very slowly, it is prone to wobble a bit, so on a time scale as short as 1 hour, there will be a considerable spread in possible movements.
The forecasts for Frances were in fact EXTREMELY accurate. You can view a loop of NHC's forecast images here. If you do you will see that Frances made landfall almost exactly where the 3-day forecast said it would.
the RIAA can still subpoena your personal info. they just are prohibited from doing so without first formally filing a lawsuit against every john/jane doe they wish to sue.
And in the process they'd be filing lawsuits against a lot of innocent people, and that'd get them in LOTS of trouble, but IANAL, so what do I know?
Where do they come up with those percentages? (i.e. 30% chance of snow).
.50 * .50 = .25 or about a 30% chance. Of course, one problem is that most forecasts do not discern between their uncertainty and expected coverage, so exactly what use is it?
IAAMBIDPOOTV (I am a meteorologist, but I don't play one on TV.)
In the National Weather Service, the chance of rain is actually the product of the uncertainty and the expected area coverage. Soooo...
50% uncertainty of 50% coverage ==
Are there any websites out there that give access to the data from these street-level doppler systems?
Don't bother. There is no radar data available to civilians that has that kind of resolution. They can put all the resolution they want in the map, but that doesn't make the data be that resolution.
At a beamwidth around 1 degree, at just 25 miles from the radar, the half-power beamwidth is already >2000 feet. The beam is a mile across at a range of only about 60 miles from the radar.
Therefore, you don't have to be very far from the radar before the margin of error is much greater than a city block.
Just look at the National Weather Service radars. They are technologically far superior to any of the TV radars.
Just to expand on this, CB operates around 27 MHz, which during this period of declining sunspot activity will not provide very reliable communications. OTOH, amateur radio has spectrum allocations all over the place from 1.8 MHz and up. Amateurs can almost always find a band where they have acceptible propagation.
73, N0EYE
...and I bet Apple knows *exactly* how many colors it displays. 2?
Since the state couldn't enforce any laws prohibiting burning the flag, they simply passed a law stating that the maxiumum penalty would be US$25 for assulting someone who was in the process of burining a flag.
That would be the maximum criminal penalty, me thinks. I doubt they were able to put the same limit on damages in a civil suit.
You can get a bottle of this, put a little bit in with your tiny computer cooling system, the rest in your car's, and you'll have better cooling all around. And this stuff prevents foaming, rather than promoting it like dishwasher liquid.
Another option that could easily be found in any household would be laundry detergent. It should also lower the surface tension of the water, and laundry detergent is typically formulated to foam very little.
What masses outside of metro areas?
They're called suburbs. Cable Internet and DSL are far from penetrating into all of the suburb areas. Plus, just because a county is a "metropolitan county" doesn't mean the entire county is within the city.
Charlie seems to think that Wildblue doesn't hold much promise either, as indicated in this article. I think it's interesting to read what Charlie thinks of satellite internet in light of the way Echostar handled Starband.
Who's going to step up to the plate and deliver broadband to the masses outside the metro areas?
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We can hope that like previous expensive luxuries, e.g. jet travel and ocean cruises, the wealthy will pull the prices down to a level reachable by the rest of us.
I only hope someone invents "Extra Strength Dramamine" by then!
I have launched numerous weather balloons, and I don't believe they stay aloft for 24 hours. They only take ~2-3 hours to ascend to 30-35 Km. I doubt they take 21 hours to descend...even when slowed by a parachute, which they all carry. Also, in response to the numerous posts about aircraft safety, pilots all over the world know that weather balloons are launched by weather agencies in most countries at 1100 and 2300 GMT. It's a big sky up there. The odds of an airplane hitting one of these relatively tiny objects are extremely small.
I too hold the belief that there is no man-made global warming, but scientists are anything but ignorant. They know exactly how profitable forecasting doom and gloom can be. You can get much more lucrative (sp?) speaking engagements when you're talking about the end of the world than talking about climate cycles. Actually, global warming *is* occurring, in all liklihood. The last major climate event for the planet was an ice age, right? We are moving away from the ice age. Global average temperatures *should* be rising as we move away from an ice age!
Check out this link...they are supposed to have two-way satellite starting by the end of this year. We'll see... http://www.gilat2home.com It's supposed to run 400 Kbps down and 56 Kbps up. Hughes or someone may get true 2-way broadband in the next couple years.