I thought that there was a one (1) watt limit to the 900 MHz band, and you would need a license for anything else. Using a yagi to transmit would place 800 mW above that limit (ERP in one direction). However, just using a yagi to receive would not. Also, I don't see how you could use an amplifier legally on 900 MHz without a license.
The FCC changes rules a lot, so I am not up on all of them. The question I have, besides the 160 KHz band (again 1 watt and not enough bandwith), part 15 devices (most require FCC type approval and FCC id numbers, and only let you have milliwatts-has that changed?),
what other band besides 1 watt 900 MHz is there for high bandwith unrestricted use???
If this feat was actually done, was there a programmer's easter egg at the end? Also, how do we 'actually' know how many boards there were, and how many points are _really_ possible?? I knew a girl who new how to do certain 'patterns' of eating the dots, and she could go on forever. She would get her fill of the game and leave it 'running' when she left. I always thought that there was only one pacman version - not any 'later' versions. Is this feat for the 'original' pacman???
These are important questions that need answering.
I suppose it's gonna be 'Darth Malda' to all us
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little nerds -er- people now. Your all big and growned up with all your millions. Its just a matter of time before you lose your taste for the 'finer things' in life like fast 'puters and stale twinkies outta a machine somewhere.
You're too much a young 'un to know a guy called Wally Amos outta So-Cal. In fact, this was before Al invented the internet. It was when Apple II was in a garage. The TRS-80 model I was really cool then too.
Wally had the most delectable creation of a cookie a human could taste. They came in a plain brown bag. He was known far and wide as 'Famous Amos'. I felt special when I ate them. They were 'my' cookie.
Well then one day some elves wearing suits came by. They lived in a hollow tree. They flashed a big wad of green in Wally's face and that was more money than he'd ever seen at once. Well, he was real tired of all the business end of it anyway. He was good to go and he shook hands with the elves in suits.
At first I didn't understand what happened. the plain brown bags were gone. I could'nt find them anywhere. Lots of time went by. I wondered what I could do. Then one day a yellow bag showed up with the name 'famos amos' on the side. I was so happy I couldn't wait to have one - wait but no - what is this??????? these aren't famous amos cookies - they were't even a good imitation. In fact, they tasted like cardboard with sugar. They were cardboard.
Why would a company market such a vastly inferior product????
The only thing I thought of is that those dammyd tree abusing greedy little elves make the cheapest piece of pastry possible so they can stash real dough away.
Ol' Wally saw what was happening and said 'I know how to do better than this'. And so he went about making cookies again.
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
So every time I see the name 'famous amos' at the super market a strange sense of sadness reminds me of what once was. I can only hope that someone who worked in Wally's kitchen reading this will send me his recipe for the chocalate chip macadamia nut cookie.
I really do hope you have your bases covered when dealing with the suits.
Speaking of lightsabers - Yard sales are popular in my area. In some camera stuff I found some vintage equipment that is a _dead ringer_ for the real light sabers. Former antique camera strobe stuff. It is _really amazing_ . I do not have the ability to post pictures or else I would. They feel _really_ good to hold too.
Not like that plastic hasbro crap. Nice aluminum. Yes, they even have cool switches on the side.
Just one step away from totally real.
Looking at the above link to the 'neon tube' lightsabers, they say that you can not use it real swordplay because it is glass.
What good is a lightsaber if you can't use it for swordplay???
I just got an email from somebody wanting to sell me space on their server and they said that they were 'spam tolerant'. What good is it if your network administrator is in on the crime??????
Niether the NY times nor the abc news site mention the morse code characters on the concrete (or is it granite?) blocks next to (near?? I guess)to the sculpture. The question is - what is their position and possible relevance to the sculpture?
said the former CIA director (according to the NY Times article). Also, he said he had "zero memory of it" So the discovery of what the last 97 letters should not be _that_ interesting to obsess about. So the allusion is to a riddle.
As there is the LSB, or linux standard base for linux compatibility, there needs to be a standard for handheld/embedded applications. Sort of a 'LInux CE' (i.g. LICE ???;-)) )
What would be really visionary is if the linux standard base team did a 'CE' standard at the same time as the general LSB.
If anybody likes this idea, email them please.....
I have been a ebay user for a couple of years now. They have been crashing so often I would swear that they were using a string of windoze 95 boxes. When they weren't crashing they were really Sslooooooooowww.
I got to be honest here. I do not understand ebay's high stock price. Shareholders must never use the site.
Maybe if they did, they would bitch slap ebay with a stock sell off. Maybe then ebay would deploy a load balancing MOSIX cluster and get some serious uptime for a change.
BTW, I really don't understand Microshaft's take when they can't stop that file loader called windows from crashing my box after two hours.
Love those words!! More More!!
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You could use additional words as well, such as "very good", "sublime" for good words and "Bad Joke" and "inappropriate" for bad words.
If you really wanted to enrich the slashdot experience you could have the general reader rate the moderators decision, such as "agree" or "disagree". Thus the moderators could collect their own score. Because of the large volume of readers it would tend to be accurate. This also would provide for a more involved readership.
Because they have their own score, better moderators would float to the surface. You could award the moderator with more vote points. Or maybe if moderators agree on the same rating a comment should be given or descriptive moderator words, that would give more vote weight (i.g. two moderators agree, giving a score of three. Also, If the readership vote swings alot one way or another, they could undo a moderator vote.
This product is not quite finished. They need to curve it to the shape of contact lens so I can stick it in my eye. All patent rights are pending and reserved by me, Phillip Kennedy. Please contact me for licensing. (pun coincidental).
Also, at this time I would like to announce virtual reality goggles for lab rats. This will will greatly increase the versatilty and quantity of experiments that researchers can perform on them.
It really is time that somebody classify, diagnose, and assign a name to this kind of behavior.
The Amiga is clearly the walking dead of computing platforms. Existing in the netherworld of computing somewhere between the reality of a viable business to a company being reduced to paper filled cardboard boxes in a storage unit. All the while tormenting former users with empty dreams of support and innovation.
Thus, the amiga is "Zombieware". Remember, this is where it was first defined.
Some may ask "is this not Vaporware??". No, it is not. Vaporware comes primarily from companies that actually are producing some kind of product and seem to have a viable existance. In other word, Zombieware makes Vaporware look good.
Its because a lot (I mean ALOT) of schools are running clunky old 386 machines or MACS, niether of which are been supported by mainline software companies. You can hardly blame the schools, because it seems there is never enough money to buy paper for the copy machine let alone buy a fleet of new computers and software site licences every year.
Sure for algebra, but what about diffy qs??
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I understand algebra ok, calculus enough to get the job done, but differential equations I could not fathom period. So I can imagine a calculator showing me algebra, but can it show me how to solve diffys??
Now that you mention it, why not use a palm pilot?
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I was thinking this exact same thing - why would I buy a 49g when I can get Palm pilot. Has anyone used Palm pilots for scientific/graphing and how does it compare to regular calculators (i.e. 48g)??
I didn't know you could cheat with the IR port
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The thought never occured to me. I thought that it had only a foot range (I never used mine). I guess that means that the only ones with IR ports now are the cheaters.
Is there a way that the 48G OS can be upgraded to the new 49 OS (maybe a rom replacement?).
Also, is there schematics available for the 48 series calculator?
Creating an entirely new operating system that the whole world is going to use is really not a big feat considering the crud foisted on us by those Microguys.
However, using a stupid looking penguin as a moniker for it and having everybody accept it, now that's something worthy of a phd
It will take guerilla person to person marketing to inform the consumer that these proprietary standards are an attempt to stick their hand in everyones pocket. If no one buys the technology, it could backfire with a dozens of players on the market with no one buying them. Think of all the jack they could lose while everyone is cutting their own MP3s.
Theysay it'll be great for kids-Malda will love it
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He's hyped it so much on here that he has no other choice but rave about it. Secretly though, it will not live up to his fantasy - how can it?
I wonder if those losers in line in California will be saying to themselves 'I spent a whole month just for this?????'
I really liked scooby doo alot as kid. I couldn't get enough of them on Saturday mornings. Now though if I see more than 30 seconds of it I'll wanna kick the TV in -
BTW Did you ever notice how Freddy spent alot of time alone with Daphne????
It's really annoying already. It's gonna be a long summer with all the product tie-ins everywhere. I think that somebody might be smart to release a movie against Star Wars, just as an alternative.
forget factoring - quantum cyphers is where its at
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Scientific American carried a story about a cypher using 'quantum mechanics'
Theoretically this cypher is the cypher to end all cyphers. I say 'theoretically' because that's the way it is for all codes, until perserverance and science break them.
But the quantum mechanical cypher is pretty convincing. Any one have good links?
Spine tingling - I thought of sneakers as I read
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It's neat to think that there is a psychic connection with other slashdots
To be honest, I always thought that the movie 'sneakers' would remain fiction, with any attack done the 'brute' force way, which really made these cyphers intractable.
I thought that the story was well written, and this just proves it.
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I thought that there was a one (1) watt limit to the 900 MHz band, and you would need a license for anything else. Using a yagi to transmit would place 800 mW above that limit (ERP in one direction). However, just using a yagi to receive would not. Also, I don't see how you could use an amplifier legally on 900 MHz without a license.
The FCC changes rules a lot, so I am not up on all of them. The question I have, besides the 160 KHz band (again 1 watt and not enough bandwith), part 15 devices (most require FCC type approval and FCC id numbers, and only let you have milliwatts-has that changed?),
what other band besides 1 watt 900 MHz is there for high bandwith unrestricted use???
yeah, I know about light too. Just RF.
If this feat was actually done, was there a programmer's easter egg at the end? Also, how do we 'actually' know how many boards there were, and how many points are _really_ possible?? I knew a girl who new how to do certain 'patterns' of eating the dots, and she could go on forever. She would get her fill of the game and leave it 'running' when she left. I always thought that there was only one pacman version - not any 'later' versions. Is this feat for the 'original' pacman???
These are important questions that need answering.
little nerds -er- people now. Your all big and growned up with all your millions. Its just a matter of time before you lose your taste for the 'finer things' in life like fast 'puters and stale twinkies outta a machine somewhere.
You're too much a young 'un to know a guy called Wally Amos outta So-Cal. In fact, this was before Al invented the internet. It was when Apple II was in a garage. The TRS-80 model I was really cool then too.
Wally had the most delectable creation of a cookie a human could taste. They came in a plain brown bag. He was known far and wide as 'Famous Amos'. I felt special when I ate them. They were 'my' cookie.
Well then one day some elves wearing suits came by. They lived in a hollow tree. They flashed a big wad of green in Wally's face and that was more money than he'd ever seen at once. Well, he was real tired of all the business end of it anyway. He was good to go and he shook hands with the elves in suits.
At first I didn't understand what happened. the plain brown bags were gone. I could'nt find them anywhere. Lots of time went by. I wondered what I could do. Then one day a yellow bag showed up with the name 'famos amos' on the side. I was so happy I couldn't wait to have one - wait but no - what is this??????? these aren't famous amos cookies - they were't even a good imitation. In fact, they tasted like cardboard with sugar. They were cardboard.
Why would a company market such a vastly inferior product????
The only thing I thought of is that those dammyd tree abusing greedy little elves make the cheapest piece of pastry possible so they can stash real dough away.
Ol' Wally saw what was happening and said 'I know how to do better than this'. And so he went about making cookies again.
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
So every time I see the name 'famous amos' at the super market a strange sense of sadness reminds me of what once was. I can only hope that someone who worked in Wally's kitchen reading this will send me his recipe for the chocalate chip macadamia nut cookie.
I really do hope you have your bases covered when dealing with the suits.
Speaking of lightsabers - Yard sales are popular in my area. In some camera stuff I found some vintage equipment that is a _dead ringer_ for the real light sabers. Former antique camera strobe stuff. It is _really amazing_ . I do not have the ability to post pictures or else I would. They feel _really_ good to hold too.
Not like that plastic hasbro crap. Nice aluminum. Yes, they even have cool switches on the side.
Just one step away from totally real.
Looking at the above link to the 'neon tube' lightsabers, they say that you can not use it real swordplay because it is glass.
What good is a lightsaber if you can't use it for swordplay???
I just got an email from somebody wanting to sell me space on their server and they said that they were 'spam tolerant'. What good is it if your network administrator is in on the crime??????
Man, I'd give you a +5 for that one. For those who don't know, you should see the movie 'A Christmas Story'
Niether the NY times nor the abc news site mention the morse code characters on the concrete (or is it granite?) blocks next to (near?? I guess)to the sculpture. The question is - what is their position and possible relevance to the sculpture?
said the former CIA director (according to the NY Times article). Also, he said he had "zero memory of it" So the discovery of what the last 97 letters should not be _that_ interesting to obsess about. So the allusion is to a riddle.
probably after the aldridge ames mess - I bet that they could tell you all you want to know about what's inside that safe........
As there is the LSB, or linux standard base for linux compatibility, there needs to be a standard for handheld/embedded applications. Sort of a 'LInux CE' (i.g. LICE ??? ;-)) )
What would be really visionary is if the linux standard base team did a 'CE' standard at the same time as the general LSB.
If anybody likes this idea, email them please.....
I have been a ebay user for a couple of years now. They have been crashing so often I would swear that they were using a string of windoze 95 boxes. When they weren't crashing they were really Sslooooooooowww.
I got to be honest here. I do not understand ebay's high stock price. Shareholders must never use the site.
Maybe if they did, they would bitch slap ebay with a stock sell off. Maybe then ebay would deploy a load balancing MOSIX cluster and get some serious uptime for a change.
BTW, I really don't understand Microshaft's take when they can't stop that file loader called windows from crashing my box after two hours.
You could use additional words as well, such as "very good", "sublime" for good words and "Bad Joke" and "inappropriate" for bad words.
If you really wanted to enrich the slashdot experience you could have the general reader rate the moderators decision, such as "agree" or "disagree". Thus the moderators could collect their own score. Because of the large volume of readers it would tend to be accurate. This also would provide for a more involved readership.
Because they have their own score, better moderators would float to the surface. You could award the moderator with more vote points. Or maybe if moderators agree on the same rating a comment should be given or descriptive moderator words, that would give more vote weight (i.g. two moderators agree, giving a score of three. Also, If the readership vote swings alot one way or another, they could undo a moderator vote.
Just some ideas.
This product is not quite finished. They need to curve it to the shape of contact lens so I can stick it in my eye. All patent rights are pending and reserved by me, Phillip Kennedy. Please contact me for licensing. (pun coincidental).
Also, at this time I would like to announce virtual reality goggles for lab rats. This will will greatly increase the versatilty and quantity of experiments that researchers can perform on them.
It really is time that somebody classify, diagnose, and assign a name to this kind of behavior.
The Amiga is clearly the walking dead of computing platforms. Existing in the netherworld of computing somewhere between the reality of a viable business to a company being reduced to paper filled cardboard boxes in a storage unit. All the while tormenting former users with empty dreams of support and innovation.
Thus, the amiga is "Zombieware". Remember, this is where it was first defined.
Some may ask "is this not Vaporware??". No, it is not. Vaporware comes primarily from companies that actually are producing some kind of product and seem to have a viable existance.
In other word, Zombieware makes Vaporware look good.
Its because a lot (I mean ALOT) of schools are running clunky old 386 machines or MACS, niether of which are been supported by mainline software companies. You can hardly blame the schools, because it seems there is never enough money to buy paper for the copy machine let alone buy a fleet of new computers and software site licences every year.
I understand algebra ok, calculus enough to get the job done, but differential equations I could not fathom period. So I can imagine a calculator showing me algebra, but can it show me how to solve diffys??
I was thinking this exact same thing - why would I buy a 49g when I can get Palm pilot. Has anyone used Palm pilots for scientific/graphing and how does it compare to regular calculators (i.e. 48g)??
The thought never occured to me. I thought that it had only a foot range (I never used mine). I guess that means that the only ones with IR ports now are the cheaters.
Is there a way that the 48G OS can be upgraded to the new 49 OS (maybe a rom replacement?).
Also, is there schematics available for the 48 series calculator?
machine that it came out of. If you has a lot of spare money laying around, wouldn't you buy one??
Creating an entirely new operating system that the whole world is going to use is really not a big feat considering the crud foisted on us by those Microguys.
However, using a stupid looking penguin as a moniker for it and having everybody accept it, now that's something worthy of a phd
It will take guerilla person to person marketing to inform the consumer that these proprietary standards are an attempt to stick their hand in everyones pocket. If no one buys the technology, it could backfire with a dozens of players on the market with no one buying them. Think of all the jack they could lose while everyone is cutting their own MP3s.
He's hyped it so much on here that he has no other choice but rave about it. Secretly though, it will not live up to his fantasy - how can it?
I wonder if those losers in line in California will be saying to themselves 'I spent a whole month just for this?????'
I really liked scooby doo alot as kid. I couldn't get enough of them on Saturday mornings. Now though if I see more than 30 seconds of it I'll wanna kick the TV in -
BTW Did you ever notice how Freddy spent alot of time alone with Daphne????
http://www.cdc.net/~drjekyll/scooby/darkside/
It's really annoying already. It's gonna be a long summer with all the product tie-ins everywhere. I think that somebody might be smart to release a movie against Star Wars, just as an alternative.
Scientific American carried a story about a cypher using 'quantum mechanics'
Theoretically this cypher is the cypher to end all cyphers. I say 'theoretically' because that's the way it is for all codes, until perserverance and science break them.
But the quantum mechanical cypher is pretty convincing. Any one have good links?
It's neat to think that there is a psychic connection with other slashdots
To be honest, I always thought that the movie 'sneakers' would remain fiction, with any attack done the 'brute' force way, which really made these cyphers intractable.
I thought that the story was well written, and this just proves it.