The problem is this article took more than 30 seconds to read. Typical Slashdot viewers have the attention span of a house fly, and this article requires alot of reading to fully grasp it. Sure, there's alot of obvious stuff that anyone reading trade rags will know, but this is one of the best written pieces I've ever seen on the state of the industry as a whole that connects together several concepts together, and really maps out Microsoft's strategy. If this was your typically "Microsoft sucks" article that you could quickly skim and be a first post, it would have gotten more positive comments. I guess we'll have to wait when this article is duplicately posted in three months....
This sounds like an urban legend or someone pulling your leg. This would have reeked havoc with all the transformers in the system and they are designed for 60 Hz and 50 Hz would present altered impendances everywhere.
In a former life we tested 50 Hz equipment we built with gasoline generators tweaked for a 50 Hz output, which is easy to do.
They're probably not doing the credit check to see what your credit is like, they want to find out if you're going to be a pain in the ass and a whiner. In any case, it looks like you've made a bad employment choice. I hope you didn't burn any bridges at your last job.:-)
How do I do brain surgery ? Should I induce vomiting ? What plate voltage should I use on this vacuum tube ? Should I put salt in my eyes ? Why did they change the flavor of Coke ? Is OJ a murderer ? How do I put my name on an engraver ? Home abortion kits ?
WTF ? Are the editors that self-absorbed that they think Slashdot is a massive think-tank with all the answers ?
Cell companies built like mad during the 90s. It wasn't about profits or revenue, it was all about capital expenditures and building out infrastructure (sound familiar ?). Now that it's time to pay investors back, cell companies are having to layoff engineering personnel left and right and have had to stop building capacity sites. It's not about quality and performance engineering anymore, it's about quantity.
It also doesn't help that most cell companies have reached customer saturation in every market. Every last business person, drug dealer, soccer mom, and teenager has a phone. There's no more revenue out there in new sales, it's all goofy new services like being able to download pictures on your phone and other technocrap that no one really needs. And with the cutthroat pricing and marketing tactics going on it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
First, Amature radio bands should be nationaly standardized, trying to talk to a pearson listioning on a frequancy they can't trans on that you can and the other way around is very tiring.
There's complex reasons for this. The world is divided into three ITU regions each with varying allocations, but the majority of them match up quite well. Even so, when have you had a problem with this, other than perhaps on 40 meters ? (And I believe your license class is Tech, so you don't have voice privleges on 40m) Even then, it's not a big problem. Most foreigners will do split contacts in the band so you can operate voice in your band, and they operate voice in their band.
Second, geographical regions with tought terain should be forced to use hf frequancies, 49.999 mhz and below because of it's propagation properties. And local governments should have a say in there frequancy usage, but there must be internatioanl templates for diffrent bands and usage.
This is total nonsense. There are international "templates" and every country uses HF frequencies for Amateur, government, and private allocations.
there should be an international radio regulation panel
There is - it's called the ITU.
How did this get modded to a four ? I'd mod it down, but I was a victim of the moderation blacklisting scam.
What's worse ? Asking simplistic troll questions that the general open source Linux hacker/. population has experience with and can answer somewhat intelligently, or posting articles about nuclear physics and world starvation and watching the clueless masses try to post something halfway intelligent ?
Hey it's 4:00, isn't it time for another article on Mozilla 1.0.0.001.1, Community Wireless Networks, or the music/movie pirating corporate enemy of the week ?
How About a Movie Called "Revolution Website"
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Revolution OS
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· Score: 4, Funny
Two geeks create a community-based discussion website that turns into a militant geek site monster that goes out of control. The geeks try to take back control with underhanded moderation and editorial tactics. The movie ends with the site being drowned out with advertisements and the geeks fired from their own company.
This is typical of Slashdot. The editors don't have a clue about wireless, except that it's kewl and articles about it will get page hits for the new uber banners. To hell with research, journalism, or even proper spelling, we need page hits. Everyone thought this site was a pioneering journalistic community effort, but it was really someone's attempt to learn Perl and be r00t on a server.
Getting back on topic so I don't get karma raped, hams have been experimenting for years with low power operation, which is called QRP. It's amazing what low power can do. There's hams that have communicated thousands of miles with just millwatts of power.
It's not actually paranoia, the satellite radio folks are trying to keep part 15 devices from interfering with their equipment. Right now they can shut down a part 15 (i.e. ISM / 802.11) system even if it is complying with out of band emmissions specifications. By tightening the out-of-band specifications, they put the responsiblity on the equipment manufacturer and not the end user.
If anyone is paranoid, it's the 802.11 people. They're predicting the end of wireless ISPs and most don't have a clue what this is about.
hungdude345> What were you guys thinking when you $rtbl'ed those 400 people ? And another thi
'hungdude345' has left the chat room.
bigal30> Yea, what's up that ?
'bigal30' has left the chat room.
CmdrTaco>and furthermore, this new revolutionary pay-per-not-view scheme will increase profits 1000%. Any questions ?
Karma Points................. $5 each Remove Articles that are Unsubstantiated Rumors.... $25 Read Goatsex Troll Postings.. $1 per 10 posts Remove $rtbl Blacklist from Login...... $150 Ability to First Post........ $200 per fp
The strange dichotomy is that the more censors try to curb information, the bigger and richer "The File Room" grows
We've seen this happen at Slashdot. The more the editors try to suppress posts and information regarding the moderation scandal, the louder and more numerous opposition becomes.
If Slashdot had been open and let the system work as it supposedly should, none of this would have happened.
I don't care anymore. I was blacklisted, so I can never moderate again. I was a frequent moderater that most always used my points wisely. I considered it a privlege to be a moderator and treated it as such. I moderated up the forbiden post because it was obvious what was going on.
Slashdot rewarded me and other long-time faithful contributors to the success of this site with blacklisting. So, they can karma rape me all they want. This site has gone from a valuable news resource to a power trip site for a select few good old boys.
I get more information and enjoyment now from the Troll subculture that resides in the Score 1 and below area.
Suggestion implemented !:-) Unfortunately you can't stuff that many characters into a sig, so I've had to paraphrase it. This paraphrasing may insult the ethical editors who don't abuse their power. My apologies to these people...
Probably a power-drunk editor modded you down. The editors with unlimited mod points that beat down these discussions are the true anonymous cowards of Slashdot.
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So we can see people receiving grain rations and immunizations at the "cybercafes".
The problem is this article took more than 30 seconds to read. Typical Slashdot viewers have the attention span of a house fly, and this article requires alot of reading to fully grasp it. Sure, there's alot of obvious stuff that anyone reading trade rags will know, but this is one of the best written pieces I've ever seen on the state of the industry as a whole that connects together several concepts together, and really maps out Microsoft's strategy. If this was your typically "Microsoft sucks" article that you could quickly skim and be a first post, it would have gotten more positive comments. I guess we'll have to wait when this article is duplicately posted in three months....
This sounds like an urban legend or someone pulling your leg. This would have reeked havoc with all the transformers in the system and they are designed for 60 Hz and 50 Hz would present altered impendances everywhere.
In a former life we tested 50 Hz equipment we built with gasoline generators tweaked for a 50 Hz output, which is easy to do.
was the big stone-carved vibrator that went with it...
They're probably not doing the credit check to see what your credit is like, they want to find out if you're going to be a pain in the ass and a whiner. In any case, it looks like you've made a bad employment choice. I hope you didn't burn any bridges at your last job. :-)
Slashdot has been converting crap into articles and postings for some time now. In fact, this post is recycled crap that I've posted before.
Ah yes, I forgot about AS.
:-)
Ha. I doubt it.
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di di di dit
Please add "morse code" to the list of things that the editors don't know.
Goody
K3NG
How do I do brain surgery ?
Should I induce vomiting ?
What plate voltage should I use on this vacuum tube ?
Should I put salt in my eyes ?
Why did they change the flavor of Coke ?
Is OJ a murderer ?
How do I put my name on an engraver ?
Home abortion kits ?
WTF ? Are the editors that self-absorbed that they think Slashdot is a massive think-tank with all the answers ?
Cell companies built like mad during the 90s. It wasn't about profits or revenue, it was all about capital expenditures and building out infrastructure (sound familiar ?). Now that it's time to pay investors back, cell companies are having to layoff engineering personnel left and right and have had to stop building capacity sites. It's not about quality and performance engineering anymore, it's about quantity.
It also doesn't help that most cell companies have reached customer saturation in every market. Every last business person, drug dealer, soccer mom, and teenager has a phone. There's no more revenue out there in new sales, it's all goofy new services like being able to download pictures on your phone and other technocrap that no one really needs. And with the cutthroat pricing and marketing tactics going on it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
Amateur radio operators have been doing stuff like this for years on frequencies above and below 2 Ghz. Here's a listing of distance records .
First, Amature radio bands should be nationaly standardized, trying to talk to a pearson listioning on a frequancy they can't trans on that you can and the other way around is very tiring.
There's complex reasons for this. The world is divided into three ITU regions each with varying allocations, but the majority of them match up quite well. Even so, when have you had a problem with this, other than perhaps on 40 meters ? (And I believe your license class is Tech, so you don't have voice privleges on 40m) Even then, it's not a big problem. Most foreigners will do split contacts in the band so you can operate voice in your band, and they operate voice in their band.
Second, geographical regions with tought terain should be forced to use hf frequancies, 49.999 mhz and below because of it's propagation properties. And local governments should have a say in there frequancy usage, but there must be internatioanl templates for diffrent bands and usage.
This is total nonsense. There are international "templates" and every country uses HF frequencies for Amateur, government, and private allocations.
there should be an international radio regulation panel
There is - it's called the ITU.
How did this get modded to a four ? I'd mod it down, but I was a victim of the moderation blacklisting scam.
What's worse ? Asking simplistic troll questions that the general open source Linux hacker /. population has experience with and can answer somewhat intelligently, or posting articles about nuclear physics and world starvation and watching the clueless masses try to post something halfway intelligent ?
Hey it's 4:00, isn't it time for another article on Mozilla 1.0.0.001.1, Community Wireless Networks, or the music/movie pirating corporate enemy of the week ?
Two geeks create a community-based discussion website that turns into a militant geek site monster that goes out of control. The geeks try to take back control with underhanded moderation and editorial tactics. The movie ends with the site being drowned out with advertisements and the geeks fired from their own company.
Don't forget about THGSB !
This is typical of Slashdot. The editors don't have a clue about wireless, except that it's kewl and articles about it will get page hits for the new uber banners. To hell with research, journalism, or even proper spelling, we need page hits. Everyone thought this site was a pioneering journalistic community effort, but it was really someone's attempt to learn Perl and be r00t on a server.
Getting back on topic so I don't get karma raped, hams have been experimenting for years with low power operation, which is called QRP. It's amazing what low power can do. There's hams that have communicated thousands of miles with just millwatts of power.
It's not actually paranoia, the satellite radio folks are trying to keep part 15 devices from interfering with their equipment. Right now they can shut down a part 15 (i.e. ISM / 802.11) system even if it is complying with out of band emmissions specifications. By tightening the out-of-band specifications, they put the responsiblity on the equipment manufacturer and not the end user.
If anyone is paranoid, it's the 802.11 people. They're predicting the end of wireless ISPs and most don't have a clue what this is about.
...and OS/2 has been running in stealth mode for years on ATM machines. You see how successful OS/2 has been 'on the desktop'...
hungdude345> What were you guys thinking when you $rtbl'ed those 400 people ? And another thi
'hungdude345' has left the chat room.
bigal30> Yea, what's up that ?
'bigal30' has left the chat room.
CmdrTaco>and furthermore, this new revolutionary pay-per-not-view scheme will increase profits 1000%. Any questions ?
Karma Points................. $5 each
Remove Articles that are Unsubstantiated Rumors.... $25
Read Goatsex Troll Postings.. $1 per 10 posts
Remove $rtbl Blacklist from Login...... $150
Ability to First Post........ $200 per fp
The strange dichotomy is that the more censors try to curb information, the bigger and richer "The File Room" grows
We've seen this happen at Slashdot. The more the editors try to suppress posts and information regarding the moderation scandal, the louder and more numerous opposition becomes.
If Slashdot had been open and let the system work as it supposedly should, none of this would have happened.
I don't care anymore. I was blacklisted, so I can never moderate again. I was a frequent moderater that most always used my points wisely. I considered it a privlege to be a moderator and treated it as such. I moderated up the forbiden post because it was obvious what was going on.
Slashdot rewarded me and other long-time faithful contributors to the success of this site with blacklisting. So, they can karma rape me all they want. This site has gone from a valuable news resource to a power trip site for a select few good old boys.
I get more information and enjoyment now from the Troll subculture that resides in the Score 1 and below area.
Suggestion implemented ! :-) Unfortunately you can't stuff that many characters into a sig, so I've had to paraphrase it. This paraphrasing may insult the ethical editors who don't abuse their power. My apologies to these people...
Probably a power-drunk editor modded you down. The editors with unlimited mod points that beat down these discussions are the true anonymous cowards of Slashdot.
I think the question on everyone's mind is whether or not it covers $rtbl banning [slashdot.org] of allegedly abusive users....
It did, but his editors modded that chapter down and then quietly removed it, and afterwards stopped payment on his advance check.
My trolling paraphrase:
f1r5t 1nan3 app1e p0st !
mod parent up !!!