Sure allowing the current radio, TV, and cellular companies buy up spectrum may be ok if the only users of it were for-profit companies. What about hamm radio, wi-fi, and the various other consumer wireless gadgets? The law abolishing the FCC would have to set those aside like the national parks. There would still have to be some agency to help police that otherwise, there would be people deciding to abusing it.
But face it reality. Congress has had opportunities to disband agencies that were obsolete decades ago, but haven't. Why would they do that to an agency that many perceive as necessary to keep some sort of order in the airwaves? The FCC will die when SS causes the rest of the govt to crater, not any sooner.
Based on the Reservations that I know of in SD, the casino revenue is dispersed to tribal members and each one does it differently. In the early 90s, one tribe was giving away $1000/month to every adult member and $250/month to every kid. But they had to live inside a particular county, and that upset those that were still members, but didn't live within the county. Building roads and schools was still a function of the state and Feds, respectively.
I took it to school once and my home room teacher had me program it to go across the hall and shoot the laser cannon at the old, old teacher in that room, and then retreat. Everyone had a good laugh about it, but the sad thing is if my son did that today, he'd probably get expelled or be forced to see a shrink.
Too bad some of his links in the story point to documents on his C: drive.
Troll? Don't you think it's going a little overboard to require biometrics to just listen to a damn song, especially one that will probably be forgotten in a year? The RIAA is so full of itself, it's not even funny.
If only someone made a regular sized cellphone that could synch with the PalmOS phone book.
I can beam phone book entries from my Palm to my old Nokia 3360 w/o any problem. I never looked into if it could do a real 'sync' or not, but it does what I need.
Have you read the PATRIOT Act? It's one big series of diffs or patches against the current US laws at the time. Essentially an upgrade of the laws into the "Internet Age", just like the anti-terrorism/crime bill that Clinton passed after the OKC bombing upgraded laws into the "Personal Computer Age"
Which makes me wonder: what kind of software does Congress or any other legislative body use to keep track of these changes? Could they use CVS or anything similar?
Depending on how features he wants to include, generating a 'terrain' given a DEM and a sat photo is a simple exercise with OpenGL. I did it years ago with gl as an intern. Adding the extra features to make it look 'real' is the hard part. Thanks for the terrainmap.com link. It reminded me of the work I used to do when it was fun to be a low paid Govt employee.
You mean the snazzy graphical ones that get Windows viruses and worms like everything else? No thank you. I'll take a simple text based ATM over one that may go beserk because a technician forgot to turn on his virus scanner and connected a laptop to the ATM network.
The Dept of Interior got a deal of some sort on those around '90 and they could buy them like candy. They were good, solid machines. A lot of the standard Unix programs on them were actually from the GNU project.
I rented a Prius a few weeks ago for a trip. The total mileage for the trip was a little over 1300 miles (interstate highway) and I averaged a little over 45mpg for the entire trip. This is 88% of what the EPA says that I should. It would have gotten even better mileage if I had driven 55 the entire way instead of 75 (and the stormy weather didn't help). Given the age of the EPA tests, I would guess that they use 55 or 60 for the highway speed. I didn't do much city driving, but when I did, it was on strictly battery power for a large portion of it.
Driving style has a great impact on what you actually get for mileage. Since the hybrids have a screen showing instaneous and current trip mpg, the driver is more aware of how your behavior affects it. Stomp on the throttle to get on an uphill expressway onramp, and sure, it will show that it's only doing 9mpg. The real question is: what would the driver get with a 'normal car' under the same circumstances? Unless more of them start shipping with a little computer that displays the same instaneous and current trip mpg, its difficult to determine how much better the hybrids are performing compared to regular cars.
After driving a Prius for that weekend, I just wish I had $20K to spend on one. It got 50% better mileage than my regular car, had more room, and more trunkspace.
Again, read the damn article. The initial tests were performed against Katyusha class rockets and the most recent one was made against newer faster ones. The old ones are certainly not as advanced as recent models, but they are still relatively widespread and cheap.
Also, what do you do if none of your neighbors want any remotely close to a peaceful relationship?
This is a tactical defensive weapon for use on a battlefield, not strategic defense. This is a mobile system meant to protect against small rockets like Katyusha class weapons. To understand why Israel is involved, you only have to look at the map on this page.
They would also be useful in defending targets against rocket attacks like the ones that have occurred in Iraq.
But access via a cell phone would suck if there were more than just a couple people trying to use it and the owner of the account must enjoy spending a lot of $$$ to give other people free internet.
I did read the article and what's your point? It's still bulk transfer of data and you can still do a lot with it. I would imagine that the people offering the service send all the web pages as self contained html mail and translate the urls so when someone clicks on a link, it creates the necessary email to get a new page the next time the e-mailman makes a loop through town.
But the bike still has to be in range of another hotspot with the directional antenna. Why not just set up a real stationary repeater? The Cambondian motor bike is like the proverbial station wagon full of tapes, but uses wifi to load up instead of physically swapping media.
I agree this is too much hype for a laptop with two wireless cards and a directional antenna.
Look at it the other way: if the government were to declare that new TVs would have only 240 scan lines rather than 480, would your TV experience be substantially diminshed?
He's probably actually using the extra resolution beyond 640x480 to do something useful. What's the point of broadcasting HDTV if the content is still crap?
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So they could just make a laptop-like power cable for the next gen iMac, and then use a low clock speed (1.6-1.8M) G5 w/ the heat pipe cooling?
Sure allowing the current radio, TV, and cellular companies buy up spectrum may be ok if the only users of it were for-profit companies. What about hamm radio, wi-fi, and the various other consumer wireless gadgets? The law abolishing the FCC would have to set those aside like the national parks. There would still have to be some agency to help police that otherwise, there would be people deciding to abusing it.
But face it reality. Congress has had opportunities to disband agencies that were obsolete decades ago, but haven't. Why would they do that to an agency that many perceive as necessary to keep some sort of order in the airwaves? The FCC will die when SS causes the rest of the govt to crater, not any sooner.
Based on the Reservations that I know of in SD, the casino revenue is dispersed to tribal members and each one does it differently. In the early 90s, one tribe was giving away $1000/month to every adult member and $250/month to every kid. But they had to live inside a particular county, and that upset those that were still members, but didn't live within the county. Building roads and schools was still a function of the state and Feds, respectively.
I took it to school once and my home room teacher had me program it to go across the hall and shoot the laser cannon at the old, old teacher in that room, and then retreat. Everyone had a good laugh about it, but the sad thing is if my son did that today, he'd probably get expelled or be forced to see a shrink.
Too bad some of his links in the story point to documents on his C: drive.
Troll? Don't you think it's going a little overboard to require biometrics to just listen to a damn song, especially one that will probably be forgotten in a year? The RIAA is so full of itself, it's not even funny.
It's where Control should be!
The only real use for CapsLock outside of Cobol programming is for 'screaming' on usenet/internet message boards.
Fuck Them
If only someone made a regular sized cellphone that could synch with the PalmOS phone book.
I can beam phone book entries from my Palm to my old Nokia 3360 w/o any problem. I never looked into if it could do a real 'sync' or not, but it does what I need.
Have you read the PATRIOT Act? It's one big series of diffs or patches against the current US laws at the time. Essentially an upgrade of the laws into the "Internet Age", just like the anti-terrorism/crime bill that Clinton passed after the OKC bombing upgraded laws into the "Personal Computer Age"
Which makes me wonder: what kind of software does Congress or any other legislative body use to keep track of these changes? Could they use CVS or anything similar?
Depending on how features he wants to include, generating a 'terrain' given a DEM and a sat photo is a simple exercise with OpenGL. I did it years ago with gl as an intern. Adding the extra features to make it look 'real' is the hard part. Thanks for the terrainmap.com link. It reminded me of the work I used to do when it was fun to be a low paid Govt employee.
You mean the snazzy graphical ones that get Windows viruses and worms like everything else? No thank you. I'll take a simple text based ATM over one that may go beserk because a technician forgot to turn on his virus scanner and connected a laptop to the ATM network.
The Dept of Interior got a deal of some sort on those around '90 and they could buy them like candy. They were good, solid machines. A lot of the standard Unix programs on them were actually from the GNU project.
When was that? v0.30?
Petreley is a long time KDE fanboy. It's not surprising he gave GNOME a bad review. It would be a surprise that he DIDN'T give it a bad review.
I rented a Prius a few weeks ago for a trip. The total mileage for the trip was a little over 1300 miles (interstate highway) and I averaged a little over 45mpg for the entire trip. This is 88% of what the EPA says that I should. It would have gotten even better mileage if I had driven 55 the entire way instead of 75 (and the stormy weather didn't help). Given the age of the EPA tests, I would guess that they use 55 or 60 for the highway speed. I didn't do much city driving, but when I did, it was on strictly battery power for a large portion of it.
Driving style has a great impact on what you actually get for mileage. Since the hybrids have a screen showing instaneous and current trip mpg, the driver is more aware of how your behavior affects it. Stomp on the throttle to get on an uphill expressway onramp, and sure, it will show that it's only doing 9mpg. The real question is: what would the driver get with a 'normal car' under the same circumstances? Unless more of them start shipping with a little computer that displays the same instaneous and current trip mpg, its difficult to determine how much better the hybrids are performing compared to regular cars.
After driving a Prius for that weekend, I just wish I had $20K to spend on one. It got 50% better mileage than my regular car, had more room, and more trunkspace.
It's an ugly mess that looks like it was made by a cartoonist on acid.
I agree. I halfway expected to see Roger Rabbit or some other goofy cartoon character strolling out the door.
Maybe the architect thought MIT was a clown college.
Again, read the damn article. The initial tests were performed against Katyusha class rockets and the most recent one was made against newer faster ones. The old ones are certainly not as advanced as recent models, but they are still relatively widespread and cheap.
Also, what do you do if none of your neighbors want any remotely close to a peaceful relationship?
This is a tactical defensive weapon for use on a battlefield, not strategic defense. This is a mobile system meant to protect against small rockets like Katyusha class weapons. To understand why Israel is involved, you only have to look at the map on this page.
They would also be useful in defending targets against rocket attacks like the ones that have occurred in Iraq.But access via a cell phone would suck if there were more than just a couple people trying to use it and the owner of the account must enjoy spending a lot of $$$ to give other people free internet.
I did read the article and what's your point? It's still bulk transfer of data and you can still do a lot with it. I would imagine that the people offering the service send all the web pages as self contained html mail and translate the urls so when someone clicks on a link, it creates the necessary email to get a new page the next time the e-mailman makes a loop through town.
But the bike still has to be in range of another hotspot with the directional antenna. Why not just set up a real stationary repeater? The Cambondian motor bike is like the proverbial station wagon full of tapes, but uses wifi to load up instead of physically swapping media.
I agree this is too much hype for a laptop with two wireless cards and a directional antenna.
Look at it the other way: if the government were to declare that new TVs would have only 240 scan lines rather than 480, would your TV experience be substantially diminshed?
As far as I'm concerned, No.
He's probably actually using the extra resolution beyond 640x480 to do something useful. What's the point of broadcasting HDTV if the content is still crap?
If you want 16 bit/channel support, use CinePaint . I think this used to be referred to as Film-Gimp.