My father used to manufacture hydrogen in a canadian weather station in coppermine. It was a machine made by pan am (yes the airline company) - and it distilled powered aluminum and water.
I remember him telling us how they did it and my mom who is a chemist at a community college cringed. Powered aluminum being the stuff solid rocket fuel is made from (and the stuff the Hindenburg (LZ-129) was doped with)
Personally, I'm against any scheme in which a citizen of a nation is charged money by the government to travel to or across particular public lands. They're public lands! Public!
In the US most all roads are subsidized by local taxes anyhow - and frankly I've seen the numbers it really isn't enough. There's an inbalance on what taxes pay for and how much the roads really cost to drive on. Sure they're public roads, but even you can't honestly say that just because they are public means they require zero upkeep - or that they can handle as much traffic as you want - or that everyone can drive to work. Most places none of that's true.
And there are people who drive into town because (and I'm quoting someone I heard on a local talk radio show) I paid for my car - it cost a lot and I like to drive it.
Nonsense. If someone steals your car, but doesn't make any money doing it (i.e. just drives it around for fun, rather than selling it to a chop shop), that's still theft. Alternatively, someone who picks the lock to your house but doesn't break anything, and then hands out copies of your house key to anyone who wants one, bears responsibility if your stuff gets stolen.
Hardly a good analogy. It'd be more like making an illegal copy of a car and driving it around - your car is intact - as far as you know you haven't been violated.
If I make a copy of a program you aren't going to miss your media is it still outright theft? Personally I'd say it depends on how much damage was done. I think there's a big difference between this guy - and a person making a zillion silver copies of Windows XP and selling it like it was the original.
Its true though - most of the warez collecting guys I've ran into in my travels spent every waking moment outside of work or whatever collecting the files. Hundreds or thousands of cd's full of software they rarely use.
Don't you get the impression that the guy is nuts? First naval battle? More like a coast guard ship floated around for a while and he fired a.22 rifle at them.
Soverenity? What I don't get is everyone else that far out got in trouble - new marine broadcasting laws shut a lot of those businesses now (not only on platforms, but on ships too). I wonder what keeps him out of the loop.
This reminds me of when I was working at a.com called rulespace - there was a construction outfit building a parking lot downstairs - one day they decided to move the big uswest/qwest plywood board from one pillar to another. Alarms never went off because they couldn't call the pagers because they had effectively disconnected all the T1's (including the 2 backups), all the dsl circuts/analogue lines and the T1 going to the telephone switch for the entire building. All the redundancy in the world wouldn't save that mess. As I recall they forked out more money for colocation space at Inflow and moved the more critical systems out there.
Is it worth it though? I mean you can get a sedan from nissan, honda, mitsubishi or toyota for cheaper. Say you really could find a Honda for 20,000 - I could find a decent sentra starting at 11,000-12000 - 8000-9000 dollar difference and you can spend the rest on gas:).
My 95 Nissan Sentra - almost 130,000 miles old still gets 35 mpg in the city and 45-50 mpg on the highway (and no I'm not kidding in the slightest)
I have a friend who's blind
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If I had to guess I'd say that he's really only used maybe less then 1% of the web. Most sites are unuseable with braile screens and voice synths. And if ever there was a case to make popup ads illegal. More often then not the browser switches to the popup ad and he gets confused where he is.
Try it sometime - sit back and take whatever OS you use right now make it blind friendly - throw out your mouse, close your eyes and use it. Personally I think we still have a long ways to go in making an OS that is userfriendly for blind people in Windows - and especially Linux.
I don't know how microwave ovens work really, but I do know something about waveguides, and how they work - and I think microwave ovens have them inside. I think microwave ovens work around the resonant frequency of water (around 2.4 ghz) - I always thought the food acted as a load to the actual antenna.
If you decreased the load and increased the vswr - by reflecting all that power back with the power levels microwave ovens run at you could be looking at something very dangerous.
why doesn't ford just set up their website so when someone types in that URL it just redirects the user to another site - maybe 2600.com? Or maybe a site explaining that 2600 is a bunch of losers and here's why.
I don't see why - after all when the satellite was sent up the freqency was probably registered with the itu and warc. I know you're supposed to notify the fcc if an amateur satellite retires, but what if it comes back?
Another thing 432.1 is a legal frequency for us hams to transmit on in the US - and its a well known fact that the so called band plan is a gentlemens agreement (in the same since lsb is used for bands below 20 meters) in other words its not a law. 432.1 is in the weak signal portion of the 70cm band - personally I've always considered some satellite work weak signal.
Re:whats wrong with morse code?
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I probably should I have one of the few digital languages a person could understand:(. Oh well:).
A while back we sent up an amateur radio balloon that reported altitude, temperature - and a few other things via cw - oh yeah and its callsign.
I don't think its really a contest, while points are collected - and extra points are given for non petrol based power, cw and satellite contacts - there are no paper awards to be handed out.
You even have to buy your own t-shirt.
Field day is an important day because for one thing its a 69 year old tradition now, and it gives clubs and groups the excuse to get out, go camping, eat good food (hopefully) and practice operating on emergency power - which is really what emergency communications is all about. If you can't power your radio - you can't communicate.
Also just for your info - there are different classes of field day stations - including base stations run off of AC Main Supply - but you get a whole lot more points if your station is operated off alternative energy - like solar, wind, or hydro.
That said - hope to catch you guys on uo-14, ao-27, so-41, and maybe ISS:).
whats wrong with morse code?
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Morse code practice is useful - especially if you are planning on upgrading. Morse code is also one of the easiest modes to build a transmitter for - its so fundamentally simple.
Plus - as a geek factor - morse code is the only digital language your brain is able to process. And its neat too - because you can put morse code telemetry on something like a beacon, a baloon or a satellite and decode its various properties in your head.
Re:Improving the Girl:Guy ratio
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I've actually noticed a pretty large number of female amateur radio operators lately - its true though - most of them are probably older then your girlfriend.
On a side note - that silver phillips CDRW mp3 player I think is by far the best out of all of them. A) it can be had for under 100$, B) it actually works (unlike a lot of cd/mp3 players) and C) it lasts up to 10 hours continuously on two AA batteries. Plus it read's CDR's and CDRW's flawlessly.
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must not have worked - I can't even tell you what the game's name is without scrolling back up to the top of the window.
mpeg-4 has nothing to do with the quicktime format. In fact last time I checked Quicktime itself is proprietary.
What are you talking about? mpeg-4 has been in Windows media player for at least 3-4 years.
Its more like - ms delivered - Apple eventually follows suite.
My father used to manufacture hydrogen in a canadian weather station in coppermine. It was a machine made by pan am (yes the airline company) - and it distilled powered aluminum and water.
I remember him telling us how they did it and my mom who is a chemist at a community college cringed. Powered aluminum being the stuff solid rocket fuel is made from (and the stuff the Hindenburg (LZ-129) was doped with)
But they never had any dangerous accidents.
In the US most all roads are subsidized by local taxes anyhow - and frankly I've seen the numbers it really isn't enough. There's an inbalance on what taxes pay for and how much the roads really cost to drive on. Sure they're public roads, but even you can't honestly say that just because they are public means they require zero upkeep - or that they can handle as much traffic as you want - or that everyone can drive to work. Most places none of that's true.
And there are people who drive into town because (and I'm quoting someone I heard on a local talk radio show) I paid for my car - it cost a lot and I like to drive it.
Nonsense. If someone steals your car, but doesn't make any money doing it (i.e. just drives it around for fun, rather than selling it to a chop shop), that's still theft. Alternatively, someone who picks the lock to your house but doesn't break anything, and then hands out copies of your house key to anyone who wants one, bears responsibility if your stuff gets stolen.
Hardly a good analogy. It'd be more like making an illegal copy of a car and driving it around - your car is intact - as far as you know you haven't been violated.
If I make a copy of a program you aren't going to miss your media is it still outright theft? Personally I'd say it depends on how much damage was done. I think there's a big difference between this guy - and a person making a zillion silver copies of Windows XP and selling it like it was the original.
Its true though - most of the warez collecting guys I've ran into in my travels spent every waking moment outside of work or whatever collecting the files. Hundreds or thousands of cd's full of software they rarely use.
Don't you get the impression that the guy is nuts? First naval battle? More like a coast guard ship floated around for a while and he fired a .22 rifle at them.
Soverenity? What I don't get is everyone else that far out got in trouble - new marine broadcasting laws shut a lot of those businesses now (not only on platforms, but on ships too). I wonder what keeps him out of the loop.
This reminds me of when I was working at a .com called rulespace - there was a construction outfit building a parking lot downstairs - one day they decided to move the big uswest/qwest plywood board from one pillar to another. Alarms never went off because they couldn't call the pagers because they had effectively disconnected all the T1's (including the 2 backups), all the dsl circuts/analogue lines and the T1 going to the telephone switch for the entire building. All the redundancy in the world wouldn't save that mess. As I recall they forked out more money for colocation space at Inflow and moved the more critical systems out there.
Is it worth it though? I mean you can get a sedan from nissan, honda, mitsubishi or toyota for cheaper. Say you really could find a Honda for 20,000 - I could find a decent sentra starting at 11,000-12000 - 8000-9000 dollar difference and you can spend the rest on gas :).
My 95 Nissan Sentra - almost 130,000 miles old still gets 35 mpg in the city and 45-50 mpg on the highway (and no I'm not kidding in the slightest)
If I had to guess I'd say that he's really only used maybe less then 1% of the web. Most sites are unuseable with braile screens and voice synths. And if ever there was a case to make popup ads illegal. More often then not the browser switches to the popup ad and he gets confused where he is.
Try it sometime - sit back and take whatever OS you use right now make it blind friendly - throw out your mouse, close your eyes and use it. Personally I think we still have a long ways to go in making an OS that is userfriendly for blind people in Windows - and especially Linux.
look in the install dir /system/tours.ini
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make sure the following sections look like this,
Dependency(0)=-1
Dependency(1)=-1
Dependency(2)=-1
Dependency(3)=-1
Dependency(4)=-1
Dependency(5)=-1
Dependency(6)=-1
Dependency(7)=-1
Dependency(8)=-1
(farther down)
TourSeq(0)=0
TourSeq(1)=0
TourSeq(2)=0
TourSeq(3)=0
TourSeq(4)=0
TourSeq(5)=0
TourSeq(6)=0
TourSeq(7)=0
TourSeq(8)=0
There - now you can do all the training offline
Oops never mind - must have gone crazy and missed the one on your list.
yeah Disney's go.com
no - because thats what the waveguide is made out of - at 2400 mhz rf seems to reflect off anything metalic easily.
I don't know how microwave ovens work really, but I do know something about waveguides, and how they work - and I think microwave ovens have them inside. I think microwave ovens work around the resonant frequency of water (around 2.4 ghz) - I always thought the food acted as a load to the actual antenna.
If you decreased the load and increased the vswr - by reflecting all that power back with the power levels microwave ovens run at you could be looking at something very dangerous.
why doesn't ford just set up their website so when someone types in that URL it just redirects the user to another site - maybe 2600.com? Or maybe a site explaining that 2600 is a bunch of losers and here's why.
I don't see why - after all when the satellite was sent up the freqency was probably registered with the itu and warc. I know you're supposed to notify the fcc if an amateur satellite retires, but what if it comes back?
Another thing 432.1 is a legal frequency for us hams to transmit on in the US - and its a well known fact that the so called band plan is a gentlemens agreement (in the same since lsb is used for bands below 20 meters) in other words its not a law. 432.1 is in the weak signal portion of the 70cm band - personally I've always considered some satellite work weak signal.
I probably should I have one of the few digital languages a person could understand :(. Oh well :).
A while back we sent up an amateur radio balloon that reported altitude, temperature - and a few other things via cw - oh yeah and its callsign.
actually I read that south america, canada and mexico are going to be involved with this field day.
I don't think its really a contest, while points are collected - and extra points are given for non petrol based power, cw and satellite contacts - there are no paper awards to be handed out.
:).
You even have to buy your own t-shirt.
Field day is an important day because for one thing its a 69 year old tradition now, and it gives clubs and groups the excuse to get out, go camping, eat good food (hopefully) and practice operating on emergency power - which is really what emergency communications is all about. If you can't power your radio - you can't communicate.
Also just for your info - there are different classes of field day stations - including base stations run off of AC Main Supply - but you get a whole lot more points if your station is operated off alternative energy - like solar, wind, or hydro.
That said - hope to catch you guys on uo-14, ao-27, so-41, and maybe ISS
Morse code practice is useful - especially if you are planning on upgrading. Morse code is also one of the easiest modes to build a transmitter for - its so fundamentally simple.
Plus - as a geek factor - morse code is the only digital language your brain is able to process. And its neat too - because you can put morse code telemetry on something like a beacon, a baloon or a satellite and decode its various properties in your head.
I've actually noticed a pretty large number of female amateur radio operators lately - its true though - most of them are probably older then your girlfriend.
But aren't there craters on the moon - big ones - really big ones? They don't seem to have done anything to its orbit.
well no - and thats why I don't have one.
On a side note - that silver phillips CDRW mp3 player I think is by far the best out of all of them. A) it can be had for under 100$, B) it actually works (unlike a lot of cd/mp3 players) and C) it lasts up to 10 hours continuously on two AA batteries. Plus it read's CDR's and CDRW's flawlessly.