The article says the device locks into the base station... Does that mean that you can only view TV when it is in the base station? When you take it out of the base station, it is a wireless Web pad without TV?
A $2000 computer with Windows costing an additional $1000? How would the software cause the cost of the hardware to rise to $2000?
Well, maybe due to the past trend of Windows bloat requiring more hardware...but that much more? If it bloats that much more, the additional bugs will make the crashes will happen even more often.
Albert Gore, Jr, certainly is being thorough. He created the Internet, taxed phone users to expand it into more schools , and now is trying to restrict what kind of data can flow through the Internet and your TV. [Except for the "created" phrasing, it's on AlGore.Com...] Oh, yeah, and he's trying to use our federal taxes to hire more teachers -- maybe more educational software was needed before the wiring parties.
"as public agencies, both NASA's would be required to disclose their research and findings, and turn
them over to the public. NASA currently has an aggressive technology transfer program."
Haven't played with one of those -- but if the floppy drive is not working, were you able to get a BIOS config screen and see if it is enabled?
Or else with the cover off plug in an ISA system I/O card with its own floppy interface and see if you can get that one to work -- of course, that probably also would require disabling internal floppy with a jumper or BIOS setting.
Hmmm... I wonder how much diskless support it has -- maybe it will respond to a non-ICA Ethernet boot server and install a remote client in RAM? Or else if its built-in software supports a serial terminal or telnet and you can download stuff to a hard drive, you could download a DOS-filesystem Linux to the hard drive.
You mentioned X10. I'll point out that the X10.COm "Free FireCracker" ($5.90 shipping) is transmit-only -- the computer can only transmit X-10 codes through the serial port. To have a computer listen to X-10 codes you need one of the other computer interfaces, one which lets the computer listen to and respond to X-10 signals.
With a computer monitoring X-10, you can have radio-linked remotes or wired X-10 switches sending codes for the computer to interpret, such as "Next CD", "Next Track", or "Say Menu".
A computer does not have to monitor if you're speaking directly to X-10 devides, such as using X-10 relays to do switching.
X10.Com also has assorted other home audio/video products, particularly wireless links (it's not clear if there is more than one "channel" nor if receivers can be tuned between "channels"). There also are some ways to send "remote control" signals around the house -- apparently the Anywhere 2000 Remote sends both IR and RF signals, but there also are IR repeater devices available for other remotes. Incidentally, if you use this
referall link you can get a coupon for a discount from most of their items.
Consider a USB sound device. You won't have the IRQ conflicts involved with multiple sound cards. You'll have to figure out how many sound interfaces you can put on a single USB bus...but many desktop USB cards give you two USB buses, which should allow coverage of quite a few rooms..
When one aircraft stops transmitting, it still will be avoiding all the other aircraft which are still transmitting. When one aircraft loses both transmit and reception, it's out of the system and back to how it is right now.
And if you're going to argue poverty of small aircraft, remember that right now most of those are invisible anyway. Those that don't have radar transponders aren't on most radar screens. They're bopping around on visual...of course, they're also down in the lower altitudes and away from the commercial aircraft.
Actually, for a system like this the FM capture effect may be useful. An FM receiver can lock onto the stronger signal, ignoring weaker ones. This is why AM is used in aircraft voice radio -- so weak signals are not hidden.
In this case, the stronger/closer signals are more important, and will reduce accidental jamming problems. The power at the antenna has to be similar, of course.
The system by itself does work best when all aircraft use the same system. It does not rule out other systems being used; an aircraft can also be monitoring existing systems or even optical monitoring.
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Make up your mind, is the team supposed to crack things open or plug them up?
Is Slashdot going to give 10 Karma points to everyone to compensate for the intrusion?
The article says the device locks into the base station... Does that mean that you can only view TV when it is in the base station? When you take it out of the base station, it is a wireless Web pad without TV?
I hope the discussion has chided them for putting text in a JPEG image. I hate it when graphic artists think they're web designers...
Maybe they include drivers to talk to a USB Ethernet device.
Well, maybe due to the past trend of Windows bloat requiring more hardware...but that much more? If it bloats that much more, the additional bugs will make the crashes will happen even more often.
I look forward to the lawsuit from book publishers and food makers whose barcode data is being taken by Cue:C.A.T.
After all, the Cue:C.A.T. is being used to build a database of data which belongs to the manufacturers of books, food, drink...
Albert Gore, Jr, certainly is being thorough. He created the Internet, taxed phone users to expand it into more schools , and now is trying to restrict what kind of data can flow through the Internet and your TV. [Except for the "created" phrasing, it's on AlGore.Com...] Oh, yeah, and he's trying to use our federal taxes to hire more teachers -- maybe more educational software was needed before the wiring parties.
Aren't you glad The Internet is in Al Gore's hands?
I reported that one months ago.
Good idea, but do you like NASA's current technology transfer program? The NASA COSMIC software distribution center has been down for two years.
Oh, how clever. They poorly blacked out the name of an author but left the name of his book.
Although I imagine "pdftotext" would also have done interesting things to the blackout...
The leader of the committee running this project is, of course, the folding chair.
Oh, that so that is why my browser is showing 26 nearly identical words...then a bunch with accent marks...
Please give an example of this phenomenon.
See "creeping featurism".
Or else with the cover off plug in an ISA system I/O card with its own floppy interface and see if you can get that one to work -- of course, that probably also would require disabling internal floppy with a jumper or BIOS setting.
Hmmm... I wonder how much diskless support it has -- maybe it will respond to a non-ICA Ethernet boot server and install a remote client in RAM? Or else if its built-in software supports a serial terminal or telnet and you can download stuff to a hard drive, you could download a DOS-filesystem Linux to the hard drive.
So plug in some USB serial interfaces. I've seen some Belkin ones on retail shelves, and I'm sure others make them.
With a computer monitoring X-10, you can have radio-linked remotes or wired X-10 switches sending codes for the computer to interpret, such as "Next CD", "Next Track", or "Say Menu".
A computer does not have to monitor if you're speaking directly to X-10 devides, such as using X-10 relays to do switching.
X10.Com also has assorted other home audio/video products, particularly wireless links (it's not clear if there is more than one "channel" nor if receivers can be tuned between "channels"). There also are some ways to send "remote control" signals around the house -- apparently the Anywhere 2000 Remote sends both IR and RF signals, but there also are IR repeater devices available for other remotes. Incidentally, if you use this referall link you can get a coupon for a discount from most of their items.
Consider a USB sound device. You won't have the IRQ conflicts involved with multiple sound cards. You'll have to figure out how many sound interfaces you can put on a single USB bus...but many desktop USB cards give you two USB buses, which should allow coverage of quite a few rooms..
You could put this Serial LCD+ in several rooms. Then you can control the computer through serial ports. Add a case, power supply, and a 4x4 keypad.
And if you're going to argue poverty of small aircraft, remember that right now most of those are invisible anyway. Those that don't have radar transponders aren't on most radar screens. They're bopping around on visual...of course, they're also down in the lower altitudes and away from the commercial aircraft.
In this case, the stronger/closer signals are more important, and will reduce accidental jamming problems. The power at the antenna has to be similar, of course.
The system by itself does work best when all aircraft use the same system. It does not rule out other systems being used; an aircraft can also be monitoring existing systems or even optical monitoring.
Um.. Raquel Welch...
The first 1x1 pixel Quicktime videos...
Look, Ma, I threw away the key!
Of course, everyone in England who has this message in their browser cache when they're searched is required to provide the decryption key.