Motorola never claimed to be running a full featured Ubuntu or other Gnu/Linux desktop, but the functionality to do so *was* built into the phone. All of the stuff you need to install packages is there.. You just have to be willing to root the phone so you can break out of the jail.
Other than being a more recent version of the Ubuntu apps, this is no different than a non-locked down version of the 'Webtop' functionallity that comes stock with the Motorola Atrix and kin. In fact I'd would not be surprised to find bits of Motorola's open sourced webtop code in the Ubuntu for Android distribution.
In my opinion, the word "particularly" distinguishes the emergency purposes as being more important than all of the others, otherwise they would not have put it in there.
I would agree whole heartedly with that. I do a *lot* of backcountry hiking, and even though I have an Extra class license, I have never taken even so much as an HT with me. I do take a cell phone and check in with my wife when I have signal, updating her on my current position and my planned route. That way, If I don't check in she can contact the authorities with my last known position and where I would likely have gone.
The only problem with that is the possibility of FCC fines (generally running US $10,000 a pop) for modifying the equipment if caught or captured. YMMV.
Yeah.... That's why I'm still using an HF tranciever with vacuum tube finals and pre-amp, and a tube based linear amplifier.... Because I Don't know how to use anything but an icebox radio. Yes, my license is current, and has been maintened current for the past 24 years.
By the way, a pretty obvious roll attempt. You need to work harder.
I don't think any amateur radio op has misrepresented that the *only* purpose of the service is for emergency communications.
The fact is, the legislative history shows that the government interest in Amateur Radio is for emergency communications. The promotion of the radio arts, the maintaining of a pool of people trained in those arts and the experimentation in those arts are all intended to provide people and technologies that can be used in an emergency.
Actually, per the FCC regulations, the primary purpose of HAM radio *is* as a replacement for all other radio communications in an emergency. The "hobby" and "promotion of the radio arts" parts are secondary.
It's 1969. I am 7. It is summer in Alaska. Jack, my friend, and I are building a robot. Constructed of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil, it's brain is my older brothers Kraco Reel to Reel portable tape recorder. Jack and I are already avid scifi readers, so we know enough about robots to record Asimov's three laws on a tape.
Fast forward to age 12.
My father's workplace, the US Army's Atmospherics Sciences Lab at White Sands Missile Range, is a small space stuffed with all kinds of cool gizmos. In the corner is a Data General Nova hooked to an old paper-tape equiped teletype. My dad puts the thin strip of paper, punched with lots of holes, on the reader and hits the run switch. With a flurry of kachunks the tape is read in and my hand prints out noisily on the teletype. K CLUBS 10 HEARTS 10 DIAMONDS 8 SPADES 2 CLUBS
1976 - the US Bicentennial Year. Tall ships in the harbor, a restored Statue of Liberty, Jimmy Carter. I discover the computing center at the local University. They do not seem to mind a 14 year old sitting down at one of the terminals, opening a book called "APL Plus" by AJ Rose, and starting in on the excercises.
I am hooked. Addicted. A lost Soul. A thread has developed that will knit the phases of my life, no matter which direction they take. Submariner, Instructor, Security Guard, Shipyard Worker, Designer of Manufacturing Machines - no matter what my *job* is, my vocation is computing.
The Present. Job and Vocation have meshed. Now a system administrator at a University, I finally get paid to do what I love.
Sorry bud. The Demos get just as many campaign donations from big business as the republicans and libertarians and anyone else. Checkout who has donated to Fritz Hollings, the Senator from Disney, who is a Democrat. Yup - the RIAA and other big businesses. All political parties are corrupt and blaming just one or two of them for the ills of this country is just plain wrong.
Lets see - QST (From the Amateur Radio Relay League), Appalachian Trailway News (From the Appalachian Trail Conference), Equus, Horse & Rider. Hmmm, no computer mags on the list - anywhere.
I have a 5 year old who is diagnosed as an Asperger's individual. You are correct in saying that medications do not really help. The best thing to use is occupational therapy. The Asperger's individual has no inate concept of appropriate social behavior, and must be taught what to do in various situations. There are occupational therapists who specialize in this. More info at The Online Asperger Information and Support page.
Just yesterday I booted GEOS off of original floppies on the Commodore SX64 that sits here in my cube. It booted just fine, despite being loaded from floppies that are nearing 20 years old.
GEOS was a great system in it's day, and probably would be still around if not for the raping of Commodore by corporate raiders.
Darl has already stated that SCO believes there are unstated "problems" with the USL/BSD settlement. If SCO succeeds in their jihad against Linux, I would not be surprised to see them turn their guns on BSD.
OK, I'm guessing you live in Central Florida, because I used to work with this guy. He claimed he had studied at Oxford, Yale, and several other big name schools. He also claimed he was a CNA/CNE, MSCE, and several other things. He was no older than I, but had served in Viet Nam *AND* worked for the CIA. He eventually got the axe after another co-worker and I worked through the night rewriting this consulting document he had been working on for six months. It consisted of stuff cut-and-pasted from various web pages he had found through one of the search engines. Most it was irrelevent.
That may be true, but the ACLU's statement seems to omit that fact that under US federal law, the "Militia" is defined as every able bodied male between 16 and 65.
I have a Single Sided Double Density full height 5.25 inch floppy drive installed in my PC. I use it to move files from the PC to my Kaypro II. I also have a Double Sided High Density half height drive that I use to copy files to my 20 year old PDP-11.
The 80 meg drive I'd been using as a root drive since first installing Linux (Slackware) 1.0 way back in '94 died about a month ago, so I can't count it I guess.
That takes care of the 'new' stuff. For old stuff, I've got a working PDP-8/E (30+ years old), a PDP-11/24 (25 or so years old), a PDP-11/73 (20 something), a PDP-11/83 ( 20 something), a Tandy M100, a Tandy PC-2, and a Commodore 64.
Most Hams ( myself included ) have probably already lowered their "monstrously huge" aerials and put up the 'emergency' antennae. My emergency kit consists of a handheld VHF radio, a backpack HF radio ( 20 watts, about the size 5 CD jewel cases stacked on top of each other ), a folded dipole antenna which is made of 300 ohm tv antenna cable, a 12 V gel cell, and a Solar Panel for recharging the gel cel when the sun does come out. It all fits in a small ruck sack and can be setup anywhere in minutes.
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Motorola never claimed to be running a full featured Ubuntu or other Gnu/Linux desktop, but the functionality to do so *was* built into the phone. All of the stuff you need to install packages is there.. You just have to be willing to root the phone so you can break out of the jail.
Other than being a more recent version of the Ubuntu apps, this is no different than a non-locked down version of the 'Webtop' functionallity that comes stock with the Motorola Atrix and kin. In fact I'd would not be surprised to find bits of Motorola's open sourced webtop code in the Ubuntu for Android distribution.
In my opinion, the word "particularly" distinguishes the emergency purposes as being more important than all of the others, otherwise they would not have put it in there.
I would agree whole heartedly with that. I do a *lot* of backcountry hiking, and even though I have an Extra class license, I have never taken even so much as an HT with me. I do take a cell phone and check in with my wife when I have signal, updating her on my current position and my planned route. That way, If I don't check in she can contact the authorities with my last known position and where I would likely have gone.
The only problem with that is the possibility of FCC fines (generally running US $10,000 a pop) for modifying the equipment if caught or captured. YMMV.
Yeah.... That's why I'm still using an HF tranciever with vacuum tube finals and pre-amp, and a tube based linear amplifier .... Because I Don't know how to use anything but an icebox radio. Yes, my license is current, and has been maintened current for the past 24 years.
By the way, a pretty obvious roll attempt. You need to work harder.
I don't think any amateur radio op has misrepresented that the *only* purpose of the service is for emergency communications.
The fact is, the legislative history shows that the government interest in Amateur Radio is for emergency communications. The promotion of the radio arts, the maintaining of a pool of people trained in those arts and the experimentation in those arts are all intended to provide people and technologies that can be used in an emergency.
The "comma" provides the reason for all of the other things, which is for Emergency Communications. To argue otherwise is inane.
If Emergency Communications is not the prime reason, then we *will* lose our bandwidth to entities willing to pay a lot more than we can.
Look at the very last part of paragraph A. "Particularly with respect to providing emergency communications"
Actually, per the FCC regulations, the primary purpose of HAM radio *is* as a replacement for all other radio communications in an emergency. The "hobby" and "promotion of the radio arts" parts are secondary.
To our new masters, same as the old masters
It's 1969. I am 7. It is summer in Alaska. Jack, my friend, and I are building a robot. Constructed of cardboard boxes and aluminum foil, it's brain is my older brothers Kraco Reel to Reel portable tape recorder. Jack and I are already avid scifi readers, so we know enough about robots to record Asimov's three laws on a tape.
Fast forward to age 12.
My father's workplace, the US Army's Atmospherics Sciences Lab at White Sands Missile Range, is a small space stuffed with all kinds of cool gizmos. In the corner is a Data General Nova hooked to an old paper-tape equiped teletype. My dad puts the thin strip of paper, punched with lots of holes, on the reader and hits the run switch. With a flurry of kachunks the tape is read in and my hand prints out noisily on the teletype.
K CLUBS
10 HEARTS
10 DIAMONDS
8 SPADES
2 CLUBS
1976 - the US Bicentennial Year. Tall ships in the harbor, a restored Statue of Liberty, Jimmy Carter. I discover the computing center at the local University. They do not seem to mind a 14 year old sitting down at one of the terminals, opening a book called "APL Plus" by AJ Rose, and starting in on the excercises.
I am hooked. Addicted. A lost Soul. A thread has developed that will knit the phases of my life, no matter which direction they take. Submariner, Instructor, Security Guard, Shipyard Worker, Designer of Manufacturing Machines - no matter what my *job* is, my vocation is computing.
The Present. Job and Vocation have meshed. Now a system administrator at a University, I finally get paid to do what I love.
Sorry bud. The Demos get just as many campaign donations from big business as the republicans and libertarians and anyone else. Checkout who has donated to Fritz Hollings, the Senator from Disney, who is a Democrat. Yup - the RIAA and other big businesses. All political parties are corrupt and blaming just one or two of them for the ills of this country is just plain wrong.
Lets see - QST (From the Amateur Radio Relay League), Appalachian Trailway News (From the Appalachian Trail Conference), Equus, Horse & Rider. Hmmm, no computer mags on the list - anywhere.
I have a 5 year old who is diagnosed as an Asperger's individual. You are correct in saying that medications do not really help. The best thing to use is occupational therapy. The Asperger's individual has no inate concept of appropriate social behavior, and must be taught what to do in various situations. There are occupational therapists who specialize in this. More info at The Online Asperger Information and Support page.
Just yesterday I booted GEOS off of original floppies on the Commodore SX64 that sits here in my cube. It booted just fine, despite being loaded from floppies that are nearing 20 years old.
GEOS was a great system in it's day, and probably would be still around if not for the raping of Commodore by corporate raiders.
In fact, I was using Q-link as early as '83, long before GEOS was released.
Darl has already stated that SCO believes there are unstated "problems" with the USL/BSD settlement. If SCO succeeds in their jihad against Linux, I would not be surprised to see them turn their guns on BSD.
Heh. I have an ASR-33 in the basement. Maybe I'll use it for my next Resume.
OK, I'm guessing you live in Central Florida, because I used to work with this guy. He claimed he had studied at Oxford, Yale, and several other big name schools. He also claimed he was a CNA/CNE, MSCE, and several other things. He was no older than I, but had served in Viet Nam *AND* worked for the CIA. He eventually got the axe after another co-worker and I worked through the night rewriting this consulting document he had been working on for six months. It consisted of stuff cut-and-pasted from various web pages he had found through one of the search engines. Most it was irrelevent.
That may be true, but the ACLU's statement seems to omit that fact that under US federal law, the "Militia" is defined as every able bodied male between 16 and 65.
Here is the rundown:
PDP-8/E: EduBasic 20 or straight hand-toggled machine code, depending
PDP-11/24: RT-11
PDP-11/73: RSX-11M
PDP-11/83: RSTS/E
Commodore 64: Microsoft Basic (yeah, I know...)
Tandy M100: Microsoft Basic (yeah, I know...)
Tandy PC-2: Sharp Basic
Kaypro-II: CP/M
1.5Ghz Pentium 4 AOpen AX533-TUBE: Linux 2.6test6
I have a Single Sided Double Density full height 5.25 inch floppy drive installed in my PC. I use it to move files from the PC to my Kaypro II. I also have a Double Sided High Density half height drive that I use to copy files to my 20 year old PDP-11.
The 80 meg drive I'd been using as a root drive since first installing Linux (Slackware) 1.0 way back in '94 died about a month ago, so I can't count it I guess.
That takes care of the 'new' stuff. For old stuff, I've got a working PDP-8/E (30+ years old), a PDP-11/24 (25 or so years old), a PDP-11/73 (20 something), a PDP-11/83 ( 20 something), a Tandy M100, a Tandy PC-2, and a Commodore 64.
Nope. Name's taken.
Most Hams ( myself included ) have probably already lowered their "monstrously huge" aerials and put up the 'emergency' antennae. My emergency kit consists of a handheld VHF radio, a backpack HF radio ( 20 watts, about the size 5 CD jewel cases stacked on top of each other ), a folded dipole antenna which is made of 300 ohm tv antenna cable, a 12 V gel cell, and a Solar Panel for recharging the gel cel when the sun does come out. It all fits in a small ruck sack and can be setup anywhere in minutes.