Unless you found a EM senstive nut case. Then the price just doubled. Actually except for the lack of cell service "a pico cell maybe" it sounds useful. You use external sources for video and radio and you will be just fine.
You not helping. Really now is the time to drop all politics. Ignore the the idiots. Do what is right. And give thanks and praise to all that that are doing what is right. I already gave with my tax dollars. Great I will give even more. Tax money to save lives in a disaster? Great! I can skip going to see a movie this week and give another twenty. I really wanted to see that movie but not as much as I want to see fewer deaths in Haiti. I left out the USAF. They had a SOP ATC team on the ground the next day. As CNN said they walked off the plane with radios on their backs and started talking planes down. There are lots of idiots to trash but that will help nobody.
Actually you didn't read my entire post. "Clear roads, power to hospitals, and communications for relief workers will be needed ASAP." So yes I agree with you but want to make it clear we are not talking about building interstates and iphones here. The airport is important but frankly the port might end up being even more important. One ship can carry a lot more than many aircraft.
I can honestly say that the people from Haiti I have meet have all been wonderful people. I am sure that just like every group of people their are the good, the bad, and the terrible. I don't think one can say that Haitians hate or love any group. They are people. Right now all I can say is that they need our help and we need to help. Simple as that and I suggest that we stop damning any nation that is helping. Heck Cuba is giving the US overflight rights for relief flights. Iceland is helping out. I have the greatest respect for every group that is helping out. At this point historical grudges are useless. All that matters is the future and helping. So yes Doctors without Boarder you are great. The Red Cross. You are great. American Airline "they flew in 50,000 lbs of supplies yesterday" you are great. The USCG you are great, The USN you are great. Catholic Relief services you are great. The kid that is going to give his or her allowance is great. GET OVER IT the arguing and give a few dollars. As Clinton said, "right now we need a whole lot of people to each give even just a little". http://bit.ly/4vM63t is a list of some of the best charities to donate to.
And to the scammers out there taking money that should be going to help. I want you found, skinned alive, rolled in rock salt, and dunked in vinegar!
And you credit card companies. If you don't want to be damned for all time wave all credit card fees for donations to reputable charities retroactively.
I would agree about but the infrastructure they need most is medical right now. Things like better roads, cell service, and power can take a back seat until people with broken limbs are off the street and getting medical care. Clear roads, power to hospitals, and communications for relief workers will be needed ASAP. From what I have seen one of the biggest needs will first be meet by the USN when the big ships with helicopters and hospitals get on station.
Right now food, medical care, and water are needed today. So I would throw in, The Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services, AmeriCares, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Boarders. Here is a list of the most highly rated charities http://www.charitywatch.org/hottopics/Haiti.html I doubt that you can do wrong with any of them. Oh and hats of the ARRL. A friend of mine is a HAM radio operator that works with the State of Florida Emergency management services. He was joking that he was offered an "all expenses paid two week vacation in Haiti" yesterday. He can not go because his wife is in a wheelchair and he is her care giver but other members of his group are heading off to provide radio communications for Haiti. Last I heard the phone cable to Haiti was cut by the quake. Until that is repaired they will have to depend on satellite and radio to contact the outside world.
The next gen of SD cards will now support terrabytes of data. 16Gb cards right now are affordable. If they scale at Moore's law that means in less than 3 years you will see 64Gb cards being affordable. Where I feel Microsoft is being DUMB is by not allowing the 360 to use an HD on a Windows Home Server.
I wouldn't dismiss this patent so fast. It could be the option to show you the picture and then give the option to keep it or delete it. I don't know how old this patent is but again we are talking about Kodak and the fact that many companies have already paid up. What I am seeing is the usual response from slashdot to every patent that it is obvious. While some patents are granted for things that are not just obvious but have been in use for years not every patent granted is bad. And what we think is obvious may just be because it is currently in use or a case of a brilliant idea "that is so simple why didn't I think of that".
I can see a major difference between this a few finder. This will show a digital copy of the image in includes all the digital processing and sensor data. A viewfinder even in an SLR only shows what strikes the film. The chemistry of the film and how it is processed will have a huge effect on the actual picture. Yes I know that you do a lot of post processing with digital images but the original data is still delivered vs what happens with Film. Add in all the big companies that are paying fees for this and I would bet this is probably a valid patent. And let's be honest Kodak isn't an IP shill company. They make a lot of stuff and do a lot of research.
Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, and Catholic Charities are all good choices. They are in country and all have a good rep for getting help to the people that need it.
I don't give a rats ass about politics. And now is not the time to say this party is better than that. They all suck! So shut up and give some money to the Red Cross or the charity of your choice.
Maybe so but one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson_(CVN-70) can make 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has a hospital, and a bunch of helicopters. It can also provide communications and ATC services. Of course this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Comfort_(T-AH-20)#2010_Haitian_Earthquake will also be a big help as will. Actually what they need is money. If everybody in the US just gave $5 it would be a huge amount of money. Just be sure you give to a real charity. The SCUM of the earth are already setting up fake donation websites. If in doubt the Red Cross, Doctors without Boarders, and Catholic Charities all have a good track record and I believe are all already "in country".
"This kind of projection of US power does worlds of good for our public image around the world. Haiti is right in our back yard. Let's show the world what the US can do when disaster strikes." As a US citizen I dare the rest of the world to try and make us look bad. Let's you put in more help than the US and do it faster!
Honestly I don't care what the rest of the world thinks of the US. I just want as much help there as fast as it can get there so try and show us up.
My big complaint is that it lacks Sebring. It would be nice if had PBI raceway but there is no big races held there. Of course Tourist Trophy lacks Daytona but that is another issue.
Yes I do agree that they should say that they pick and choose what to return that is a given. However you are right that you can demand a service but that doesn't mean that they must provide said service. I should be free to offer whatever service I see fit "within reason". I will add "within reason" to contain things that are clearly illegal.
You have the right to demand what every you want but people also have the right to ignore your demand. I don't believe that Search is as limited of a space as you imagine. If for some reason Google decided to only offer "clean" search I am sure that Bing, Ask, or some start up would offer unlimited search. There is too much money to leave it on the table. As long as you and I have access to a number of search engines it is simply a marketing choice. It is no different than if Google decided search was dead and was only going to offer Gmail, Docs, and Android. They have the right to shutdown search all together if they want. Yes it is the capitalist answer but is it also the freedom answer. They are free to do what they think is best. I wouldn't worry. There is too much money in Porn for Google to turn off porn searches. Same for wacked out sites of all kinds. Google does offer a clean search and it is pretty good. I just wish I could find a not stupid option. When searching for info on the help that the USN is sending to Haiti I got a wacko site claiming that the Navy caused the earthquake with a missile test!
Of course that let's me go on my offtopic rant. WHY ISN"T THERE ANY NEWS ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI ON SLASHDOT. Up too 100,000 dead is news that matters or should even to us Nerds. Oh and thanks to Google I did find out that the nuclear aircraft carrier will get to Haiti tomorrow morning which should be a big help. The USS Batton is on it's way but is three days out and the USNS Comfort is still working up to leave port. They are recalling the crew and loading supplies. Oh and yes I will post this spam but it is good spam. Doctors Without Boarders seems to be a good way to get aid to Haiti. If everybody just gave a few dollars in the US it would be a big pile of money and a big pile of help.
"Why can't they just send a psk-31 HF radiogram? or the even more fault tolerant HF packet radio?" The Ionosphere maybe. It will tend to block HF and one of the reasons HF is so good for long range on earth is that it can bounch and skip off the Ionosphere. At best you would still just get line of site and the antenna would have to be very large. You would be better off using VHF,UHF, or even Microwave since you could get more bandwidth.
I believe they use Kermit for the transfer so LOS isn't that big of an issue since Kermit can restart. Yes this is a terrible kluge but. 1. It works. 2. They probably already use outlook in Nasa so no need to change anything. 3. This was probably a hack they came up with a long time ago and is now procedure.
Yes they could make their own mailserver and have Outlook use imap but that would mean putting a server on the Shuttle. So the simple answer is "It isn't broke so don't fix it" The shuttle is going to retire soon so the effort to make this any better is a waste.
Why is it a problem if the company makes that choice for you? You just use a different search engine. A company not offering a service you want isn't by it's nature evil. Imagine a search engine that was so good it could filter out every link park site and every dumb conspiracy site. Would you think that was a bad thing? I do not think that a company that one it's own offered a "clean" search is in any way evil. You may not choose to use them because you don't trust that their filters are smart enough to not block say a breast cancer site but that doesn't make them evil. No more evil than if you owned a store and the Klan wanted you to carry KKK T-Shirts and you said no.
No.. NetFlix uses a password. You could give that to everybody and there dog and they could use NetFlix on their PC. The Wii has limited space for applications it could be that the streaming is too big to store on the Wii. The real reason I think is that Microsoft got an "exclusive" on putting Netflix "on" a game console.
The censorship of neo nazi search I feel is an understandable cultural issue for Germany. It might even be a choice that Google made without government involvement. The fact that you can get around it so simply makes me think it is more of a statment of intent than evil censorship. Just for arguments sake would it be evil for a search engine to self censor? Just why would it be wrong for a search engine to decide to offer a "clean" search product that didn't have porn, neo nazi, and klan sites? Wouldn't it just be offering a service you could use or not use? To me I don't see an issue with it.
Well yes and no. Let's say this guy has Hay fever. Would it be right to say that I shouldn't be allowed to plant flowers in my yard? Or that the town shouldn't plant flowers? And that is a real aliment and not a completely made up one. I agree that trying to hurt somebody is wrong but using a legal device in your own home in a legal way should offer you protection from Stupid law suits.
GPS is the US DOD network the other networks are owned by other nations and while they are GPS like they have different names. Second satellites are not very vulnerable. Only a small hand full of nations can attack them and it any of them did things would be very very bad... Satellites are expensive but that costs is fixed you can not save any money on maintenance by keeping Loran working. So Loran being cheaper to keep in service isn't an issue. Loran recivers are much more expensive. Yes I actually know a lot about both systems. I can not help it if you confused GLONASS and Galileo with GPS. Galileo isn't in service yet. You also have COMPASS from China but that is also not in service yet. The other systems are not global but regional systems.
BTW the correct generic term is GNSS or Global Navigation Satellite System. GPS is the US DOD funded system... Oh and as for me no know anything about the systems... Not one of my statements where in factual error while in this post several of yours are.
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Unless you found a EM senstive nut case. Then the price just doubled.
Actually except for the lack of cell service "a pico cell maybe" it sounds useful. You use external sources for video and radio and you will be just fine.
You not helping.
Really now is the time to drop all politics.
Ignore the the idiots.
Do what is right.
And give thanks and praise to all that that are doing what is right.
I already gave with my tax dollars. Great I will give even more. Tax money to save lives in a disaster? Great!
I can skip going to see a movie this week and give another twenty. I really wanted to see that movie but not as much as I want to see fewer deaths in Haiti.
I left out the USAF. They had a SOP ATC team on the ground the next day. As CNN said they walked off the plane with radios on their backs and started talking planes down.
There are lots of idiots to trash but that will help nobody.
Actually you didn't read my entire post.
"Clear roads, power to hospitals, and communications for relief workers will be needed ASAP."
So yes I agree with you but want to make it clear we are not talking about building interstates and iphones here.
The airport is important but frankly the port might end up being even more important.
One ship can carry a lot more than many aircraft.
I can honestly say that the people from Haiti I have meet have all been wonderful people. I am sure that just like every group of people their are the good, the bad, and the terrible. I don't think one can say that Haitians hate or love any group. They are people. Right now all I can say is that they need our help and we need to help.
Simple as that and I suggest that we stop damning any nation that is helping. Heck Cuba is giving the US overflight rights for relief flights. Iceland is helping out. I have the greatest respect for every group that is helping out. At this point historical grudges are useless. All that matters is the future and helping. So yes Doctors without Boarder you are great. The Red Cross. You are great. American Airline "they flew in 50,000 lbs of supplies yesterday" you are great. The USCG you are great, The USN you are great. Catholic Relief services you are great. The kid that is going to give his or her allowance is great.
GET OVER IT the arguing and give a few dollars. As Clinton said, "right now we need a whole lot of people to each give even just a little". http://bit.ly/4vM63t is a list of some of the best charities to donate to.
And to the scammers out there taking money that should be going to help. I want you found, skinned alive, rolled in rock salt, and dunked in vinegar!
And you credit card companies. If you don't want to be damned for all time wave all credit card fees for donations to reputable charities retroactively.
I would agree about but the infrastructure they need most is medical right now. Things like better roads, cell service, and power can take a back seat until people with broken limbs are off the street and getting medical care. Clear roads, power to hospitals, and communications for relief workers will be needed ASAP.
From what I have seen one of the biggest needs will first be meet by the USN when the big ships with helicopters and hospitals get on station.
Right now food, medical care, and water are needed today. So I would throw in, The Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services, AmeriCares, UNICEF, and Doctors Without Boarders.
Here is a list of the most highly rated charities http://www.charitywatch.org/hottopics/Haiti.html
I doubt that you can do wrong with any of them.
Oh and hats of the ARRL. A friend of mine is a HAM radio operator that works with the State of Florida Emergency management services. He was joking that he was offered an "all expenses paid two week vacation in Haiti" yesterday. He can not go because his wife is in a wheelchair and he is her care giver but other members of his group are heading off to provide radio communications for Haiti.
Last I heard the phone cable to Haiti was cut by the quake. Until that is repaired they will have to depend on satellite and radio to contact the outside world.
The next gen of SD cards will now support terrabytes of data. 16Gb cards right now are affordable. If they scale at Moore's law that means in less than 3 years you will see 64Gb cards being affordable.
Where I feel Microsoft is being DUMB is by not allowing the 360 to use an HD on a Windows Home Server.
I wouldn't dismiss this patent so fast. It could be the option to show you the picture and then give the option to keep it or delete it. I don't know how old this patent is but again we are talking about Kodak and the fact that many companies have already paid up. What I am seeing is the usual response from slashdot to every patent that it is obvious. While some patents are granted for things that are not just obvious but have been in use for years not every patent granted is bad.
And what we think is obvious may just be because it is currently in use or a case of a brilliant idea "that is so simple why didn't I think of that".
I can see a major difference between this a few finder.
This will show a digital copy of the image in includes all the digital processing and sensor data. A viewfinder even in an SLR only shows what strikes the film. The chemistry of the film and how it is processed will have a huge effect on the actual picture. Yes I know that you do a lot of post processing with digital images but the original data is still delivered vs what happens with Film.
Add in all the big companies that are paying fees for this and I would bet this is probably a valid patent. And let's be honest Kodak isn't an IP shill company. They make a lot of stuff and do a lot of research.
Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, and Catholic Charities are all good choices. They are in country and all have a good rep for getting help to the people that need it.
I don't give a rats ass about politics. And now is not the time to say this party is better than that.
They all suck!
So shut up and give some money to the Red Cross or the charity of your choice.
Maybe so but one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson_(CVN-70) can make 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has a hospital, and a bunch of helicopters. It can also provide communications and ATC services.
Of course this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Comfort_(T-AH-20)#2010_Haitian_Earthquake will also be a big help as will.
Actually what they need is money. If everybody in the US just gave $5 it would be a huge amount of money. Just be sure you give to a real charity. The SCUM of the earth are already setting up fake donation websites.
If in doubt the Red Cross, Doctors without Boarders, and Catholic Charities all have a good track record and I believe are all already "in country".
"This kind of projection of US power does worlds of good for our public image around the world. Haiti is right in our back yard. Let's show the world what the US can do when disaster strikes."
As a US citizen I dare the rest of the world to try and make us look bad. Let's you put in more help than the US and do it faster!
Honestly I don't care what the rest of the world thinks of the US. I just want as much help there as fast as it can get there so try and show us up.
My big complaint is that it lacks Sebring. It would be nice if had PBI raceway but there is no big races held there. Of course Tourist Trophy lacks Daytona but that is another issue.
But it has to be "man-rated" for space flight or at least it used to. Things may have changed but COTS and manned space-flight just didn't jive.
It still works. It is a pain but it still works.
Yes I do agree that they should say that they pick and choose what to return that is a given.
However you are right that you can demand a service but that doesn't mean that they must provide said service. I should be free to offer whatever service I see fit "within reason". I will add "within reason" to contain things that are clearly illegal.
You have the right to demand what every you want but people also have the right to ignore your demand.
I don't believe that Search is as limited of a space as you imagine. If for some reason Google decided to only offer "clean" search I am sure that Bing, Ask, or some start up would offer unlimited search. There is too much money to leave it on the table.
As long as you and I have access to a number of search engines it is simply a marketing choice. It is no different than if Google decided search was dead and was only going to offer Gmail, Docs, and Android. They have the right to shutdown search all together if they want.
Yes it is the capitalist answer but is it also the freedom answer. They are free to do what they think is best.
I wouldn't worry. There is too much money in Porn for Google to turn off porn searches. Same for wacked out sites of all kinds.
Google does offer a clean search and it is pretty good. I just wish I could find a not stupid option. When searching for info on the help that the USN is sending to Haiti I got a wacko site claiming that the Navy caused the earthquake with a missile test!
Of course that let's me go on my offtopic rant.
WHY ISN"T THERE ANY NEWS ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI ON SLASHDOT.
Up too 100,000 dead is news that matters or should even to us Nerds.
Oh and thanks to Google I did find out that the nuclear aircraft carrier will get to Haiti tomorrow morning which should be a big help. The USS Batton is on it's way but is three days out and the USNS Comfort is still working up to leave port. They are recalling the crew and loading supplies.
Oh and yes I will post this spam but it is good spam. Doctors Without Boarders seems to be a good way to get aid to Haiti. If everybody just gave a few dollars in the US it would be a big pile of money and a big pile of help.
"Why can't they just send a psk-31 HF radiogram? or the even more fault tolerant HF packet radio?"
The Ionosphere maybe. It will tend to block HF and one of the reasons HF is so good for long range on earth is that it can bounch and skip off the Ionosphere.
At best you would still just get line of site and the antenna would have to be very large.
You would be better off using VHF,UHF, or even Microwave since you could get more bandwidth.
I believe they use Kermit for the transfer so LOS isn't that big of an issue since Kermit can restart.
Yes this is a terrible kluge but.
1. It works.
2. They probably already use outlook in Nasa so no need to change anything.
3. This was probably a hack they came up with a long time ago and is now procedure.
Yes they could make their own mailserver and have Outlook use imap but that would mean putting a server on the Shuttle.
So the simple answer is "It isn't broke so don't fix it" The shuttle is going to retire soon so the effort to make this any better is a waste.
Why is it a problem if the company makes that choice for you?
You just use a different search engine.
A company not offering a service you want isn't by it's nature evil.
Imagine a search engine that was so good it could filter out every link park site and every dumb conspiracy site. Would you think that was a bad thing?
I do not think that a company that one it's own offered a "clean" search is in any way evil.
You may not choose to use them because you don't trust that their filters are smart enough to not block say a breast cancer site but that doesn't make them evil. No more evil than if you owned a store and the Klan wanted you to carry KKK T-Shirts and you said no.
No..
NetFlix uses a password. You could give that to everybody and there dog and they could use NetFlix on their PC.
The Wii has limited space for applications it could be that the streaming is too big to store on the Wii.
The real reason I think is that Microsoft got an "exclusive" on putting Netflix "on" a game console.
The censorship of neo nazi search I feel is an understandable cultural issue for Germany. It might even be a choice that Google made without government involvement. The fact that you can get around it so simply makes me think it is more of a statment of intent than evil censorship.
Just for arguments sake would it be evil for a search engine to self censor?
Just why would it be wrong for a search engine to decide to offer a "clean" search product that didn't have porn, neo nazi, and klan sites?
Wouldn't it just be offering a service you could use or not use?
To me I don't see an issue with it.
Well yes and no.
Let's say this guy has Hay fever. Would it be right to say that I shouldn't be allowed to plant flowers in my yard?
Or that the town shouldn't plant flowers?
And that is a real aliment and not a completely made up one.
I agree that trying to hurt somebody is wrong but using a legal device in your own home in a legal way should offer you protection from Stupid law suits.
Then I bet you they don't have a Loran receiver. I suggest they spend the $300 or so dollars and pick up backup handheld GPS
GPS is the US DOD network the other networks are owned by other nations and while they are GPS like they have different names.
Second satellites are not very vulnerable. Only a small hand full of nations can attack them and it any of them did things would be very very bad...
Satellites are expensive but that costs is fixed you can not save any money on maintenance by keeping Loran working. So Loran being cheaper to keep in service isn't an issue. Loran recivers are much more expensive.
Yes I actually know a lot about both systems. I can not help it if you confused GLONASS and Galileo with GPS.
Galileo isn't in service yet.
You also have COMPASS from China but that is also not in service yet.
The other systems are not global but regional systems.
BTW the correct generic term is GNSS or Global Navigation Satellite System. GPS is the US DOD funded system... Oh and as for me no know anything about the systems... Not one of my statements where in factual error while in this post several of yours are.