The modulating part (oscillator) is a VCO or Voltage Controlled Oscillator. It probably uses the TX data line to change the audio frequency directly.
The RS-232 standard specifies +12V and -12V signal levels. Most modern RS-232 ports and especially the USB-powered adapters can only generate +5V, hence the VCO would generate the wrong audio frequency
Unfortunately, producing the massive amounts of white paint needed to paint all these surfaces and maintain them produces about as much CO2 as was saved by starting this excellent project.
The title of the game has escaped me, but I used to load a "USA vs. USSR" game from audio cassette on my TRS-80 Model-1 back in 1984 or so. The game allowed you to switch back and forth between the USA and the USSR map, which essentially gives you two independent work area's.
As remote as it may be from today's systems, I think this would be prior art.
HAM radio amateurs including students have been in contact with ISS many times over, using voice and digital connections (Packet Radio)
Many of the astronauts on board are HAM radio operators and make frequent contact with schools, institutions and individual amateurs. On the ground, many of these individual amateurs have designed built their own rig.
If Microsoft skips a decent beta then either they don't put much value on beta testing anymore, or they are so eager to leave the Vista debacle behind that they are willing to put a RTM (Release To Manufacturing) sticker on beta-quality code.
This will make all Microsoft users beta testers, and Win7 SP1 will be the real release version
But he did not use the word "Banana". According to some recent newspaper articles, bookmakers had a 1:1000 pay-out on bets that his speech would include the word Banana...
Darn, lost again.
Most people in Europe are horrified by yet another intrusion into their privacy. This agreement is made by a group of people who do NOT speak for the majority of the population.
And all this for the sake of the untangeable "war on terrorism". What a sick display of arrogance.
Keep a very detailed diary of everything you work on. Names, dates, places, everything. Then if you are really paranoid, place the diary in an escrow service.
If at any point someone claims to have invented something and you know it's yours, you have everything there to prove it.
In theory, patents are not so bad. They are a good way to encourage companies to invest time and money in research that costs a lot of money.
Farmaceuticals is a good example. In that field it takes more than a 'moment of briliance' to come up with a new drug. It takes years of hard work, lots of resources and tests and therefor a large investment to come up with a great new drug. Being able to patent such work will allow the company to reap the benefits of their labor, share the outcome with the world and move on into the next R&D project.
Things are different in the software world. I can think of a new algorithm tonight, without any effort or any risk of failure. So can you. If it's new and revolutionary, then great!
But why should the rest of the world be prevented from using 'your' idea, just because you thought of it first? I can think of it next without even knowing you exist. Why should I be prevented from using my own brain? That's what is wrong with software patents, the fact that thoughts and ideas are being claimed when everyone has a brain designed to produced them. There is no benefit to society. That's why software patents are bad.
But again, patents per se are not a bad thing, as long as they are applied to a field where it takes a real effort to invent something.
NSA: We are going to send more troops and guns! Terrorist: Sure, bring 'em on... We'll be waiting and we'll fight to the death
NSA: No wait... We will PATENT things! Then we will send LAWYERS to you and get your for INFRINGEMENT! Terrorist: Oh nooo! Not the LAWYERS! Have mercy, please! We surrender...
This is the main reason not to turn to Software as a Service. Sure, it's nice to just rent some functionality, but you are not in control of your own destiny. What if Google decides that GMail no longer fits their business model? Poof...
If someone doesn't know what 'DJNZ' means in an assembly language project, he should not be allowed to work on that project. DJNZ is a Z-80 CPU instruction and stands for "Decrement, Jump if Not Zero", and is a great way to set up a loop in Z-80 assembly language.
You need to add "Resource Constraints" to the DELAY condition. Which makes it a bit harder to predict. If you occupy two, or even four gates to deal with the 'delay' issue, you cause an avalanche through the schedule. And that avalanche gets added to the other avalanches out there, making a big nasty mess out of the schedule.
The issue could be made less complex if airports and operators would allow for spare resources to deal with these issues. Unfortunately, people today expect to fly from one end of the country to the other for 50 bucks and the operators are still expected to make a bit of profit. That does not allow for luxuries like a spare gate or spare plane to sit around just in case. The system has been maxed out, and it shows.
Most half-decent routers and firewalls keep rudimentary port statistics. According to my router I'm using about 30GB per month on my ADSL2+ line, and my family does little or no movie/music downloads. But I do run remote desktop sessions and remote backup (rsync) on the link and I get ISO's occasionally.
You are more than welcome in any of these countries, but if a secondary goal is to learn a second language then you might be better off in Germany, France or Spain. Either of these have good tech industries, but the local polulation does not speak English as well as they do in the countries you mention. As a result you are forced to pick up the local language.
I'm Dutch myself and I've worked for several US companies who have subsidiaries in The Netherlands. One of the major complaints from US collegues was that they didn't get a chance to practice Dutch. As soon as they opened their mouth the Dutch switched to English, regardless if it was at work with other tech workers or in a local grocery shop.
To make a long story short, select a country where English isn't the second language. It will be a challenge, but you'll learn a second language real fast.
If you had an IT Union looking out for your career then you'd be making $25.000 max, and you'd have to go through huge discussions to get a pay raise next year. And if you happen to be better than the next guy then, well, tough sh*t, as he will be making exactly as much as you do.
It all depends on your requirements. If you have a need for massive amounts of random access I/O then SSD may be cheaper than harddisks already. If you don't need huge capacities but 10.000 I/O's per second then you'll need 60 or so enterprise-class 15krpm disks. That's a lot more expensive then a single SSD (or two if you want to put them in RAID-1).. And that is without counting power- and cooling requirements.
Nope, not enough power to do loopings, but a barrel roll has been demonstrated. Rumor is that it's actually been demonstrated on serial number 2, the first demo 747 that wasn't a static mock-up.
For these requirements it is easier to team up with a buddy and use rsync to copy files back and forth through a VPN tunnel. Off-site, no handling, nothing to forget, fully automated.
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Nasty..
We should definitely show them that we are rational, well behaved lifeforms, with broad interests and predictable interaction
For starters we can offer them a free subscription and RSS feed to /.
Oh wait...
The modulating part (oscillator) is a VCO or Voltage Controlled Oscillator. It probably uses the TX data line to change the audio frequency directly.
The RS-232 standard specifies +12V and -12V signal levels. Most modern RS-232 ports and especially the USB-powered adapters can only generate +5V, hence the VCO would generate the wrong audio frequency
Unfortunately, producing the massive amounts of white paint needed to paint all these surfaces and maintain them produces about as much CO2 as was saved by starting this excellent project.
But only when you pass Somalia..
The title of the game has escaped me, but I used to load a "USA vs. USSR" game from audio cassette on my
TRS-80 Model-1 back in 1984 or so. The game allowed you to switch back and forth between the USA and the
USSR map, which essentially gives you two independent work area's.
As remote as it may be from today's systems, I think this would be prior art.
HAM radio amateurs including students have been in contact with ISS many times over, using voice and digital connections (Packet Radio)
Many of the astronauts on board are HAM radio operators and make frequent contact with schools, institutions and individual amateurs. On the ground, many of these individual amateurs have designed built their own rig.
If Microsoft skips a decent beta then either they don't put much value on beta testing anymore, or they are so eager to leave the Vista debacle behind that they are willing to put a RTM (Release To Manufacturing) sticker on beta-quality code.
This will make all Microsoft users beta testers, and Win7 SP1 will be the real release version
But he did not use the word "Banana". According to some recent newspaper articles, bookmakers had a 1:1000 pay-out on bets that his speech would include the word Banana... Darn, lost again.
Most people in Europe are horrified by yet another intrusion into their privacy. This agreement is made by a group of people who do NOT speak for the majority of the population.
And all this for the sake of the untangeable "war on terrorism". What a sick display of arrogance.
Keep a very detailed diary of everything you work on. Names, dates, places, everything. Then if you are really paranoid, place the diary in an escrow service.
If at any point someone claims to have invented something and you know it's yours, you have everything there to prove it.
In theory, patents are not so bad. They are a good way to encourage companies to invest time and money in research that costs a lot of money.
Farmaceuticals is a good example. In that field it takes more than a 'moment of briliance' to come up with a new drug. It takes years of hard work, lots of resources and tests and therefor a large investment to come up with a great new drug. Being able to patent such work will allow the company to reap the benefits of their labor, share the outcome with the world and move on into the next R&D project.
Things are different in the software world. I can think of a new algorithm tonight, without any effort or any risk of failure. So can you. If it's new and revolutionary, then great!
But why should the rest of the world be prevented from using 'your' idea, just because you thought of it first? I can think of it next without even knowing you exist. Why should I be prevented from using my own brain? That's what is wrong with software patents, the fact that thoughts and ideas are being claimed when everyone has a brain designed to produced them. There is no benefit to society. That's why software patents are bad.
But again, patents per se are not a bad thing, as long as they are applied to a field where it takes a real effort to invent something.
NSA: We are going to send more troops and guns!
Terrorist: Sure, bring 'em on... We'll be waiting and we'll fight to the death
NSA: No wait... We will PATENT things! Then we will send LAWYERS to you and get your for INFRINGEMENT!
Terrorist: Oh nooo! Not the LAWYERS! Have mercy, please! We surrender...
Sure, that will work..
Because 'advice' from MyL337Buddy will not stand up in court maybe??
This is the main reason not to turn to Software as a Service. Sure, it's nice to just rent some functionality, but you are not in control of your own destiny. What if Google decides that GMail no longer fits their business model? Poof...
If someone doesn't know what 'DJNZ' means in an assembly language project, he should not be allowed to work on that project. DJNZ is a Z-80 CPU instruction and stands for "Decrement, Jump if Not Zero", and is a great way to set up a loop in Z-80 assembly language.
You need to add "Resource Constraints" to the DELAY condition. Which makes it a bit harder to predict. If you occupy two, or even four gates to deal with the 'delay' issue, you cause an avalanche through the schedule. And that avalanche gets added to the other avalanches out there, making a big nasty mess out of the schedule.
The issue could be made less complex if airports and operators would allow for spare resources to deal with these issues. Unfortunately, people today expect to fly from one end of the country to the other for 50 bucks and the operators are still expected to make a bit of profit. That does not allow for luxuries like a spare gate or spare plane to sit around just in case. The system has been maxed out, and it shows.
Most half-decent routers and firewalls keep rudimentary port statistics. According to my router I'm using about 30GB per month on my ADSL2+ line, and my family does little or no movie/music downloads. But I do run remote desktop sessions and remote backup (rsync) on the link and I get ISO's occasionally.
You are more than welcome in any of these countries, but if a secondary goal is to learn a second language then you might be better off in Germany, France or Spain. Either of these have good tech industries, but the local polulation does not speak English as well as they do in the countries you mention. As a result you are forced to pick up the local language.
I'm Dutch myself and I've worked for several US companies who have subsidiaries in The Netherlands. One of the major complaints from US collegues was that they didn't get a chance to practice Dutch. As soon as they opened their mouth the Dutch switched to English, regardless if it was at work with other tech workers or in a local grocery shop.
To make a long story short, select a country where English isn't the second language. It will be a challenge, but you'll learn a second language real fast.
I can see my wife come home saying "Honey, the car has crashed..." And not a scratch on the paint..
All that, just to be able to do exactly what you could do with XP on a 32-bit machine with 512MB RAM three years ago?
Now that's absurd...
If you had an IT Union looking out for your career then you'd be making $25.000 max, and you'd have to go through huge discussions to get a pay raise next year. And if you happen to be better than the next guy then, well, tough sh*t, as he will be making exactly as much as you do.
It all depends on your requirements. If you have a need for massive amounts of random access I/O then SSD may be cheaper than harddisks already. If you don't need huge capacities but 10.000 I/O's per second then you'll need 60 or so enterprise-class 15krpm disks. That's a lot more expensive then a single SSD (or two if you want to put them in RAID-1).. And that is without counting power- and cooling requirements.
Nope, not enough power to do loopings, but a barrel roll has been demonstrated. Rumor is that it's actually been demonstrated on serial number 2, the first demo 747 that wasn't a static mock-up.
For these requirements it is easier to team up with a buddy and use rsync to copy files back and forth through a VPN tunnel. Off-site, no handling, nothing to forget, fully automated.
Look here for a step-by-step guide: http://www.linux.com/feature/113847