Lifting BuyMusic's "restriction" requires deleting several lines of browser detection code.
According to a previous post, that isn't the case:
...your music files are wrapped in SDMI
encryption, which is unencrypted by the license that you download when
you download the music file.
The license download requires an Active-X
control, which is only compatible with Internet Explorer. Without it you
cannot download your license and your music stays encrypted and
unusable.
I saw one of these at Circuit City - Wow! I just checked - the 43" version is on sale for $3,325, and the 50" one is $3,800. What blows me away (other than the picture) is that the 43" model is under 16" deep, and weighs less than 68 lbs!
Hence the difference between a 'geosynchronous' orbit and a 'geostationary' orbit.
Geosynchronous orbits have periods that exactly match one day. (Their orbital angular velocity matches that of the earth). Their inclination relative to the equator can be anything from 0 to just under +-90 degrees. (plus or minus 90 degree orbits are usually called polar, although you could have a polar, geosynchronous orbit.)
Geostationary orbits are a subset of Geosynchronous orbits that have their inclination very close to or exactly equal to 0 degrees. These are the ones that appear to hover over a particular spot on the equator, plus or minus the little figure-8 dance they do.
Exactly correct. At 42142.62 km from the earth's center, 750 km separation equates to only 1.02 degrees of angular separation. This is not nearly enough - currently 2-3 degrees is used, and that requires polarization flipping to make it feasible.
2 degree separation means approx 1472 km separation, meaning there are at most 180 orbital slots for a particular frequency band.
Note that there can be (and are) satellites at the same longitude using C band and Ku band simultaneously.
Ah yes, Bill Nye. Anyone else remember Suzanne Mikawa from that show? Of all the presenters, she had the most acting ability. I believe she is/was at Stanford. I wonder if she plans on an acting career?
It depends on the production volume and whether or not your product must be easily field-upgradable. An ASIC is not amenable to field upgrades; the config memory for an FPGA can be flashed in the field by <gasp>the user!</gasp>
FPGA's can be exceedingly slow if not applied properly. For a particular pat pending project I'm working on, there isn't a standard CPU or DSP engine available in the free world that's fast enough to do what an admittedly rather large FPGA can do easily. (Lots of parallel RF DSP stuff). There is a lot to be said for choosing the right tool for the job.
Amen to that, brother! As a part 47 user of 902-928 MHz, I have to deal with part 15 users noise. My local power company, Dominion Resources (aka VA Power) just installed some Schlumberger C1SR meters in my area. They're the kind that transmit usage data on 910-920 MHz as a part 15C device. As far as I can tell, they broadcast their info every min or 5 min instead of being polled - aargh! My whole neighborhood now has lots of meters blasting away for 99 44/100% of the month when there's no meter reader truck around to hear them. I could be a nasty boy and demand their removal if they interfere with my part 47 use - we'll see how bad it really is after I get a chance to quantify the interference.
Of course, searching for manufacturer code F9C, product ID C1R-1 on the FCC Product ID Search page returns little useful info regarding the exact freqs and modulation techniques in use. They asked for and received confidential status on the most interesting bits. Ugh.
PS - The FCC product ID search page can return all sorts of useful info on any product with an FCC ID. For instance, the info on the electronic key for my car returns schematics, data format info, etc. Sweet!
I haven't used one of those since my days at Concurrent Computer (circa 1987). Their ALU board (17"x17") was a whole mess of 74181's (not S, not LS - full power!). It could do 32x32 bit ops (+-*/) pretty quickly. Oh, the memories...
How do you envision the world changing if energy costs became a trivial part of economic equations?"
Very, very, hot! Seriously, a fair bit of that 'free' energy is going to end up as heat - it's a matter of efficiency. Energy that doesn't go toward doing the intended work ends up as heat. If energy is used within the troposphere, the resultatnt heat must either be dissipated to space radiatively, or it'll just heat the earth or atmosphere. Not good.
Caption from one of the CNN photos: The remains continue to be bantered by the tide in the Chilean coast, a week after being discovered.
Bantered? The remains and the tide exchanged mildly teasing remarks? The tide spoke to the remains in a playful or teasing way? They engaged in Good-humored, playful conversation?
I bought some alleged 'sausages' from my local (Richmond, Va area) Ukrop's supermarket. The ingredients started off with "Pork Snouts, pork spleens,..." They were the strangest things I've ever grilled. They seemed to completely resist the firey-hot flames of the grill until suddenly they all split open at once. Nothing dripped out of them - no grease, no nothing. They began to show signs of browning, so I removed them. Their inner consistency was best described as a 'homogenous guts-colored pink foam'. They tasted ok, though. 8-)
I've been secretly working on a genetically-altered animal that has both chicken and pork. I call it a "Chog". Imagine pork chops, ribs, bacon, ham, chicken nuggets, eggs, fried chicken, etc all coming from the same animal! I guess we'll have to rename some of them: fried chog, chog nuggets, chog chops, cham, chog breast, chog salad,...
A proposed audio workaround for the blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing the letters.
The audio doesn't have to be garbled at all. Use the audio of a simple math problem, and a computer will have a hard time dealing with it.
What number between 65 and 67 reads the same forward and backward?
What is the P-R-O-D-U-C-T [spelled out] of 3 and 12?
How many tones do you hear [before|after] the horn sound? beep beep HONK beep beep beep
Sing the problem - the changes in pitch/cadence will foil any computer ear.
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dectector? Look at the image on the first linked page.
It wasn't until switching to using the term "Walkie-Talkie" that they found it clicked immediately what the service was. Everyone knows what a walkie-talkie is.
That's right, everyone knows what a walkie-talkie is. Your marketing drones didn't have to spend a penny to get that concept into the minds of your potential customers. That's because the term has been is continuous general use since dirt. Now you're trying to limit others from using a common term? That would be like trying to (Trade|Sales)Mark the word 'phone'. Sheesh!
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How about a Commodore 16? Relatively rare, compared to the C-64.
Lifting BuyMusic's "restriction" requires deleting several lines of browser detection code.
According to a previous post, that isn't the case:
Emphasis mine.I saw one of these at Circuit City - Wow! I just checked - the 43" version is on sale for $3,325, and the 50" one is $3,800. What blows me away (other than the picture) is that the 43" model is under 16" deep, and weighs less than 68 lbs!
Hence the difference between a 'geosynchronous' orbit and a 'geostationary' orbit.
Geosynchronous orbits have periods that exactly match one day. (Their orbital angular velocity matches that of the earth). Their inclination relative to the equator can be anything from 0 to just under +-90 degrees. (plus or minus 90 degree orbits are usually called polar, although you could have a polar, geosynchronous orbit.)
Geostationary orbits are a subset of Geosynchronous orbits that have their inclination very close to or exactly equal to 0 degrees. These are the ones that appear to hover over a particular spot on the equator, plus or minus the little figure-8 dance they do.
Exactly correct. At 42142.62 km from the earth's center, 750 km separation equates to only 1.02 degrees of angular separation. This is not nearly enough - currently 2-3 degrees is used, and that requires polarization flipping to make it feasible. 2 degree separation means approx 1472 km separation, meaning there are at most 180 orbital slots for a particular frequency band.
Note that there can be (and are) satellites at the same longitude using C band and Ku band simultaneously.
Ah yes, Bill Nye. Anyone else remember Suzanne Mikawa from that show? Of all the presenters, she had the most acting ability. I believe she is/was at Stanford. I wonder if she plans on an acting career?
It depends on the production volume and whether or not your product must be easily field-upgradable. An ASIC is not amenable to field upgrades; the config memory for an FPGA can be flashed in the field by <gasp>the user!</gasp>
...Sony have officially licensed XDR DRAM...
Huh? Have licensed?
Grrrr...
FPGA's are exceedingly slow.
FPGA's can be exceedingly slow if not applied properly. For a particular pat pending project I'm working on, there isn't a standard CPU or DSP engine available in the free world that's fast enough to do what an admittedly rather large FPGA can do easily. (Lots of parallel RF DSP stuff). There is a lot to be said for choosing the right tool for the job.
Are these the processors they sell on late-night infomercials on ski^H^H^H Cinemax?
Amen to that, brother! As a part 47 user of 902-928 MHz, I have to deal with part 15 users noise. My local power company, Dominion Resources (aka VA Power) just installed some Schlumberger C1SR meters in my area. They're the kind that transmit usage data on 910-920 MHz as a part 15C device. As far as I can tell, they broadcast their info every min or 5 min instead of being polled - aargh! My whole neighborhood now has lots of meters blasting away for 99 44/100% of the month when there's no meter reader truck around to hear them. I could be a nasty boy and demand their removal if they interfere with my part 47 use - we'll see how bad it really is after I get a chance to quantify the interference.
Of course, searching for manufacturer code F9C, product ID C1R-1 on the FCC Product ID Search page returns little useful info regarding the exact freqs and modulation techniques in use. They asked for and received confidential status on the most interesting bits. Ugh.
PS - The FCC product ID search page can return all sorts of useful info on any product with an FCC ID. For instance, the info on the electronic key for my car returns schematics, data format info, etc. Sweet!
You're a 4-bit ALU with Shottky diodes?
I haven't used one of those since my days at Concurrent Computer (circa 1987). Their ALU board (17"x17") was a whole mess of 74181's (not S, not LS - full power!). It could do 32x32 bit ops (+-*/) pretty quickly. Oh, the memories...
How do you envision the world changing if energy costs became a trivial part of economic equations?"
Very, very, hot! Seriously, a fair bit of that 'free' energy is going to end up as heat - it's a matter of efficiency. Energy that doesn't go toward doing the intended work ends up as heat. If energy is used within the troposphere, the resultatnt heat must either be dissipated to space radiatively, or it'll just heat the earth or atmosphere. Not good.
Atlantis? What happened to Atlantis? I thought it was Challenger, then Columbia, right?
...or burns "No Kill I" into a nearby rock...
...or challenges Kirk, Spock, President Lincoln, and the Vulcan god-like dude to fight a bunch of outlaws.
Caption from one of the CNN photos: The remains continue to be bantered by the tide in the Chilean coast, a week after being discovered.
Bantered? The remains and the tide exchanged mildly teasing remarks? The tide spoke to the remains in a playful or teasing way? They engaged in Good-humored, playful conversation?
Hello, CNN - I think the word is 'battered'.
it should be duplicated on the shirt over and over...
I bought some alleged 'sausages' from my local (Richmond, Va area) Ukrop's supermarket. The ingredients started off with "Pork Snouts, pork spleens,
Two words: Head Cheese.
I've been secretly working on a genetically-altered animal that has both chicken and pork. I call it a "Chog". Imagine pork chops, ribs, bacon, ham, chicken nuggets, eggs, fried chicken, etc all coming from the same animal! I guess we'll have to rename some of them: fried chog, chog nuggets, chog chops, cham, chog breast, chog salad,
that the public will confuse the email filter SpamArrest with what your heart goes into after eating too much of their meat-like product.
OB Disclosure: I like Spam.
A proposed audio workaround for the blind still has problems since it has to be garbled to the point where most people can't understand it to prevent a computer from recognizing the letters.
The audio doesn't have to be garbled at all. Use the audio of a simple math problem, and a computer will have a hard time dealing with it.
dectector? Look at the image on the first linked page.
That's right, everyone knows what a walkie-talkie is. Your marketing drones didn't have to spend a penny to get that concept into the minds of your potential customers. That's because the term has been is continuous general use since dirt. Now you're trying to limit others from using a common term? That would be like trying to (Trade|Sales)Mark the word 'phone'. Sheesh!
According to one of your fellow countrymen, a "floater" is what Fat B@stard left in the loo... 8-)