I don't know about you, but there are many reasons to consider unions for techs: 1) H1B visa abuses. 2) Exporting IT and programming jobs overseas. 3) Significant layoffs across the board in silicon valley (yeah - some might think that it's deserved, but ask no for whom the bell tolls...)
I am quite concerned about being able to work as an engineer for 20 more years (I've got 11 years already). I think that the corporations will find ways to reduce our salaries. What will you do when your $100K/yr job is gone and the only things around are $30K work at Frys?
Wow. Neat piece of hardware. But why put the SID circuit on it? A SB Live has superior performance and can pretend to be a better SID than the SID ever was.
If you really need that level of hardware support, put a 6502 on the board, and run that too. Hey, why stop there - put the 64KByte of memory (use some left over 486 cache memory), and hell, put the composite output driver for those who REALLY need the whole 80's experience. Oh, and some acid washed jeans too.
Yeah, that answer was a cop-out. But first - why would you put them next to each other? If you need a wireless network, why have several, when one would do?
There are two answers - first, if you needed to have more connections. The 5.7GHz band for 802.11a has more channels, and hence can support more users simultaneously, at a higher data rate. It has more channels because more spectrum allocated to ISM (industrial, scientfic, medical) use.
Second, if you had two different networks (e.g. you and a neighbor's). And the answer is yes, they would work. However, you might see a drop in the data rate.
No - he is going after something more than. A software radio is a tremendous enhancement. Right now, if you wanted to build the best possible decoder for AM, would you use A) the traditional frequency translation to a baseband signal, or B) directly digitize the captured signal with a DSL ADC and perform DSP to extract the captured signal?
If your wireless car opens someone else's garage and they get robbed, then yes, someone is liable - the manufacturer of the garage door opener. Unless you send the correct sequence, that garage door shouldn't open.
What is your point on the wireless wheelchair? I think that interference concerns are overblown. Circuits need to be designed with care to insure that they aren't susceptible to interference, but they need to be designed that way now. You have to deal with cell-phone towers, microwave ovens, and even fluorescent lights.
Actually, you need to be aware that the unlicensed bands ARE regulated - for example, you can only use channels a certain width at max (say 1MHz), and need to use a spectrum conserving modulation, such as FHSS (frequency hopping spread spectrum). You also have maximium tranmission power requirements and so on.
Yes you could put two 802.11 nodes together - an 802.11a @ 5.7GHz and and 802.11b/g @ 2.4GHz.
As for spectrum coexisting, DSSS (discrete sequence spread spectrum) was originally developed for military usage. DSSS provides several advantages - extremely hard to detect or jam, and works very well even when other DSSS transmissions are occuring in the same region.
DSSS used to be extremely difficult to implement, but now is commonplace and cheap.
The whole reason that the radio spectrum is used is because it is an effective way to send information. Technology has provided a way to transmit significantly more information in less bandwidth, except that it is against the law...
An example would be: Suppose that the transportation industry was regulated in the same manner. In the old days, the only delivery option was horse-drawn cart. Now technology has developed trains, planes, and trucks. However, only a few routes are legally available for the trains/trucks/planes to go on - everything else is still regulated to use horse-drawn carts. Obviously, there would be significantly less deliveries across the country.
Maybe the U.S. Constitution should be changed to something like: "We, the Corporations of the United States (and other countries), in order to have a more perfect customer base, establish commerce, insure domestic profits, provide for our CEOs, promote the use of tax shelters, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Well, at least Clinton had a better grip then resident Bush...
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." --Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News, Jan. 30, 2000"
And at least Clinton didn't toss the Constitution out the window... "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..." --Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect
Don't forget that there are voltage tolerences. It is quite possible that the output voltage of you battery system will vary significantly more than you expect. It may also be much noiser than the wall warts output. Some of your equipment may be quite unhappy.
I guess the bottom line would be: -start on your cheapest equipment and slowly go over to your more high end stuff. And look out for any new/strange behavior.
Thanks for the complement... You don't know me, or what kind of creative person that I am. I won't bind myself to the official line for how to view things. The pathological extension of your arguement is that the commercials in a television process are part of the artistic vision, and you have to watch them too.
Part of the "creative process" is constant reevaluation and new apporaches to familar things. So you thing Andy Warhol was an uncreative person because all he did was produce pictures of soup cans.
As for your comment #1: Where did I say anything about distirbution of that. Although, if the stupid copyright laws in this country were balanced and reasonable, I could do a Mickey Mouse gets eaten by Jaws, and sell that.
As for #2: MPAA, Director's Guild, RIAA, what is the difference? None of them are looking out for me or my interests, I am quite certain.
3) SCREW YOU, you uptight drone. If picasso wanted to sell a picture to me, it is mine. I can paint it over with smiley faces and N'Sync logos. You can't keep your artistic vision and make money in entertainment-it's known as "SELLING OUT"
Well, unless you do a shell command to create the file (e.g. touch BlAh.tXt), another user level application created that file. It would then state that you will be overwriting a file if you save LETTER.TXT into a directory with letter.txt.
That was a clear and concise evaluation. I agree completely.
If I buy ROTJ, and record it over with The Muppets Take Manhattan, I can do that. If I want to watch the Wizard of Oz while listening to Pink Floyd, I can do that
Screw the MPAA and the artistic vision.
Wow - I can't believe I actually support something that the uptight prudes in Utah want to do!
While Newton/Liebnitz is an excellent example of concurrent development, it was 350 years ago. Communication technology has been vastly improved. Why cripple legitimate technological development? There is no predicting what will be the next 'important' area.
An additional factor to consider is that delaying the development of these technologies may delay cures and counter-measures against such agents.
Another issue is when you withhold information nugget 'B', it delays development. Additional time/money/resources are wasted in other areas of legitimate research rediscovering the already known but censored information 'B'.
Your argument does not hold water. If record companies did not make a profit selling tapes, they would either raise the price of tapes or stop selling them. Duh!
If the price of the media is unimportant, why are CDs MORE expensive than tapes? FYI, tapes are significantly more expensive to make then CDs. If we are buying "content" then there should be price parity at least.
In case you don't know the answer -I will provide it for you. Simply, the record companies know the suckers will buy it from them, even though they had promised years ago that "as the price to manufactur CDs comes down, so will the price..." Of course, they got greedy, and never lowered the price.
I d/l mp3s, and if I like the music, I buy the disk from the record clubs. I can get CDs for ~$5.00. And you know what? The record clubs MAKE MONEY selling them at that price!
I don't know - every time I see a laptop that has any type of gaming performance, it's 3 steps behind the best desktop and costs a chunk more.
For $2500, I can get a Athlon 2100+ system with a G4. Where are you going to find a laptop that can match that? The 3Dmark of a G4 TI 4400 can hit 10000, the G4 440 can only hit 5000.
Laptops simply can't dissapate the heat.
Plus, for real gamers, you are stuck with the base configuration. Maybe you can add more memory, but that's it. No new MB, limited OC, and no new video card.
This is a solution for a gamer with an open budget. While it can sure play the top games of today, it will be a slug on the next generation of games.
I always notice that people who throw the fact that manufacturing the solar assemblies produces pollution neatly ignore the fact the manufacturing a coal-burning plant also produces pollution.
Of course, if they *really* wanted to, they could do forensics on the drives and reclaim the data. I bet my Amazon order for "Learn Arabic in 48hours" is probably one of the captured transactions:
Lesson 1: Translate: "The tightness of the restraints will negate the need for you to slit my throat"
I found an airline report that said there were 563million passenger loadings in 1998. So for ease of calculation, we can say around 2million passengers/day. With 99.99%, that would mean there were 200 false positives/day. Let's say there are 10000 terrorists on the list. With 200 false positives per day, you would have 73000 false positives a year. So, you will wind up with 7 false sightings for each terrorist on your list. Of course, YMV. And that is only the false positive problem.
You see, that's how Bushcroft intends to protect us. Your "freedoms" hide those terrorists. Your rights will be held in escrow, until such time that absolute saftey can be guarenteed.
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I don't know about you, but there are many reasons to consider unions for techs:
1) H1B visa abuses.
2) Exporting IT and programming jobs overseas.
3) Significant layoffs across the board in silicon valley (yeah - some might think that it's deserved, but ask no for whom the bell tolls...)
I am quite concerned about being able to work as an engineer for 20 more years (I've got 11 years already). I think that the corporations will find ways to reduce our salaries. What will you do when your $100K/yr job is gone and the only things around are $30K work at Frys?
Wow. Neat piece of hardware. But why put the SID circuit on it? A SB Live has superior performance and can pretend to be a better SID than the SID ever was.
If you really need that level of hardware support, put a 6502 on the board, and run that too. Hey, why stop there - put the 64KByte of memory (use some left over 486 cache memory), and hell, put the composite output driver for those who REALLY need the whole 80's experience. Oh, and some acid washed jeans too.
Yeah, that answer was a cop-out.
But first - why would you put them next to each other? If you need a wireless network, why have several, when one would do?
There are two answers - first, if you needed to have more connections. The 5.7GHz band for 802.11a has more channels, and hence can support more users simultaneously, at a higher data rate. It has more channels because more spectrum allocated to ISM (industrial, scientfic, medical) use.
Second, if you had two different networks (e.g. you and a neighbor's). And the answer is yes, they would work. However, you might see a drop in the data rate.
No - he is going after something more than. A software radio is a tremendous enhancement. Right now, if you wanted to build the best possible decoder for AM, would you use A) the traditional frequency translation to a baseband signal, or B) directly digitize the captured signal with a DSL ADC and perform DSP to extract the captured signal?
If your wireless car opens someone else's garage and they get robbed, then yes, someone is liable - the manufacturer of the garage door opener. Unless you send the correct sequence, that garage door shouldn't open.
What is your point on the wireless wheelchair? I think that interference concerns are overblown. Circuits need to be designed with care to insure that they aren't susceptible to interference, but they need to be designed that way now. You have to deal with cell-phone towers, microwave ovens, and even fluorescent lights.
Actually, you need to be aware that the unlicensed bands ARE regulated - for example, you can only use channels a certain width at max (say 1MHz), and need to use a spectrum conserving modulation, such as FHSS (frequency hopping spread spectrum). You also have maximium tranmission power requirements and so on.
Yes you could put two 802.11 nodes together - an 802.11a @ 5.7GHz and and 802.11b/g @ 2.4GHz.
As for spectrum coexisting, DSSS (discrete sequence spread spectrum) was originally developed for military usage. DSSS provides several advantages - extremely hard to detect or jam, and works very well even when other DSSS transmissions are occuring in the same region.
DSSS used to be extremely difficult to implement, but now is commonplace and cheap.
The whole reason that the radio spectrum is used is because it is an effective way to send information. Technology has provided a way to transmit significantly more information in less bandwidth, except that it is against the law...
An example would be: Suppose that the transportation industry was regulated in the same manner. In the old days, the only delivery option was horse-drawn cart. Now technology has developed trains, planes, and trucks. However, only a few routes are legally available for the trains/trucks/planes to go on - everything else is still regulated to use horse-drawn carts. Obviously, there would be significantly less deliveries across the country.
Maybe the U.S. Constitution should be changed to something like:
"We, the Corporations of the United States (and other countries), in order to have a more perfect customer base, establish commerce, insure domestic profits, provide for our CEOs, promote the use of tax shelters, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Well, at least Clinton had a better grip then resident Bush...
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
--Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News, Jan. 30, 2000"
And at least Clinton didn't toss the Constitution out the window...
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect
Don't forget that there are voltage tolerences. It is quite possible that the output voltage of you battery system will vary significantly more than you expect. It may also be much noiser than the wall warts output. Some of your equipment may be quite unhappy.
I guess the bottom line would be:
-start on your cheapest equipment and slowly go over to your more high end stuff. And look out for any new/strange behavior.
Thanks for the complement... You don't know me, or what kind of creative person that I am. I won't bind myself to the official line for how to view things. The pathological extension of your arguement is that the commercials in a television process are part of the artistic vision, and you have to watch them too.
Part of the "creative process" is constant reevaluation and new apporaches to familar things. So you thing Andy Warhol was an uncreative person because all he did was produce pictures of soup cans.
As for your comment #1: Where did I say anything about distirbution of that. Although, if the stupid copyright laws in this country were balanced and reasonable, I could do a Mickey Mouse gets eaten by Jaws, and sell that.
As for #2: MPAA, Director's Guild, RIAA, what is the difference? None of them are looking out for me or my interests, I am quite certain.
3) SCREW YOU, you uptight drone. If picasso wanted to sell a picture to me, it is mine. I can paint it over with smiley faces and N'Sync logos. You can't keep your artistic vision and make money in entertainment-it's known as "SELLING OUT"
Well, unless you do a shell command to create the file (e.g. touch BlAh.tXt), another user level application created that file. It would then state that you will be overwriting a file if you save LETTER.TXT into a directory with letter.txt.
That was a clear and concise evaluation.
I agree completely.
If I buy ROTJ, and record it over with The Muppets Take Manhattan, I can do that. If I want to watch the Wizard of Oz while listening to Pink Floyd, I can do that
Screw the MPAA and the artistic vision.
Wow - I can't believe I actually support something that the uptight prudes in Utah want to do!
While Newton/Liebnitz is an excellent example of concurrent development, it was 350 years ago. Communication technology has been vastly improved. Why cripple legitimate technological development? There is no predicting what will be the next 'important' area.
An additional factor to consider is that delaying the development of these technologies may delay cures and counter-measures against such agents.
Another issue is when you withhold information nugget 'B', it delays development. Additional time/money/resources are wasted in other areas of legitimate research rediscovering the already known but censored information 'B'.
I've always called them "bigawatts".
Your argument does not hold water.
If record companies did not make a profit selling tapes, they would either raise the price of tapes or stop selling them. Duh!
If the price of the media is unimportant, why are CDs MORE expensive than tapes? FYI, tapes are significantly more expensive to make then CDs.
If we are buying "content" then there should be price parity at least.
In case you don't know the answer -I will provide it for you. Simply, the record companies know the suckers will buy it from them, even though they had promised years ago that "as the price to manufactur CDs comes down, so will the price..."
Of course, they got greedy, and never lowered the price.
I d/l mp3s, and if I like the music, I buy the disk from the record clubs. I can get CDs for ~$5.00. And you know what? The record clubs MAKE MONEY selling them at that price!
I though asml meant
Another Shitty M$ Language
Whodda known?
Forgive me for assuming that you would know that a 'G4" is an Nvidia GeForce 4 Graphics card.
I don't know - every time I see a laptop that has any type of gaming performance, it's 3 steps behind the best desktop and costs a chunk more.
For $2500, I can get a Athlon 2100+ system with a G4. Where are you going to find a laptop that can match that? The 3Dmark of a G4 TI 4400 can hit 10000, the G4 440 can only hit 5000.
Laptops simply can't dissapate the heat.
Plus, for real gamers, you are stuck with the base configuration. Maybe you can add more memory, but that's it. No new MB, limited OC, and no new video card.
This is a solution for a gamer with an open budget. While it can sure play the top games of today, it will be a slug on the next generation of games.
I always notice that people who throw the fact that manufacturing the solar assemblies produces pollution neatly ignore the fact the manufacturing a coal-burning plant also produces pollution.
I wonder just how much data they captured.
Of course, if they *really* wanted to, they could do forensics on the drives and reclaim the data. I bet my Amazon order for "Learn Arabic in 48hours" is probably one of the captured transactions:
Lesson 1:
Translate:
"The tightness of the restraints will negate the need for you to slit my throat"
Err - not quite. Even 99.99% isn't enough.
I found an airline report that said there were 563million passenger loadings in 1998. So for ease of calculation, we can say around 2million passengers/day. With 99.99%, that would mean there were 200 false positives/day. Let's say there are 10000 terrorists on the list. With 200 false positives per day, you would have 73000 false positives a year. So, you will wind up with 7 false sightings for each terrorist on your list. Of course, YMV. And that is only the false positive problem.
Not quite. The FALSE POSITIVES could indicate that a terrorist was in 20 other places for every one he really was at.
You see, that's how Bushcroft intends to protect us. Your "freedoms" hide those terrorists. Your rights will be held in escrow, until such time that absolute saftey can be guarenteed.