There were some new radios expected sometime around now which would allow recording of individual songs. (Unlike the current player which has a 5hr storage capacity, it didn't allow for individual songs either).
I have the Sky2, with it's 30 minute buffer and like it, but the new radios are a different beast.
Just don't try using it for anything other than Voice.
It was never meant for music, etc. It was meant for voice functions only. Whatever chipset they used for the USB DAC/ADC doesn't seem to support any high frequencies without choking. But if you use it for its intended purpose it works extremely well. I own one, as does a friend of mine, and we are both very happy with ours. (And he is quite picky about sound quality). Neither of us try to put sound effects through the headphones, that what our speaker systems are for.
Since they no longer seem to be available I can only assume other people felt the way you did about them. (If the sound quality for voice communications wasn't good for you perhaps it was hit and miss).
(I like the fact its USB device I can plug into my PC, or Mac and set up as a secondary sound device for voice communications without effecting the games sound configuration.).
Thats why the parent said 2 GPS Units, one fore, one aft. the average position of each will give a good estimate of the direction a ship is facing. Moving, or not.
Actually, the quotes make him sound like a paranoid schizophrenic.
He hacked into Nasa, snooped around, found lots of nothing. Time passes, and his mind twists what he found to match his paranoid delusions.
No competent hacker would use anything like VNC, or other remote desktop software if they could get more direct access to files, etc. His description of viewing an image (4bit) and how it appeared on his screen remind me of the bullshit you see in movies. And if you can explain how a 4bit picture at a low screen resolution can be highly detailed (as implied by it's desccription) please let me know.
At the end of the day he's desperate, he wants public support. he won't get it.
As I understand it waivers are useless if it actually comes down to a lawsuit. You don't get to have a sheet of paper say your not responsible for something if you're incompetent.
As you are doing under the instruction of the company you work for, in most places, you can't be individually sued unless you are acting outside your duties. So really, the only thing that has to worry is the company. And likely they are prepared to eat the cost of a motherboard, or hd once in a while. (hopefully, not often).
A month is not a very long time for a new service to get it's act together.
If you assume they deployed the equipment and started offering services it is quite likely they are a) inundated with customers, b) brand new equipment failures, even if only 5% causing untold grief. c) limited experience trouble shooting the network since it is brand-new.
Initially when my parents signed up for Cable modem service I warned them to expect problems for the first few months. There were a few minor hiccups, but over all there were no significant problems. Had I not warned them (the service was brand new) they would have been far more concerned about the minor problems they experienced.
If you read the article the networks must be encrypted if the business stores credit card or financial information of it's customers on it's network.
I don't know about you, but I think this is a very good thing. It is quite possible that it is within the jurisdiction of the local government as the business' which are licensed by the local government must conform to local business laws.
Personally I think the FCC should consider enacting similar regulation such that if it CAN be challenged on the grounds the FCC regulates it that they give the authority for that to the local community, or fully enact it themselves.
The number of business which employ wireless networks will only go up over the next few years, and any reduction in methods of easily obtaining credit card numbers is a good thing. I don't actually think these steps are sufficient though.
What if you (or parent poster) weren't planning to travel to france, but rather the U.K. and due to circumstances beyond your control the plane landed in France (weather, bomb threat, etc). Now you get arrested and thrown in gaol.
By the way, that happens often enough for travelers not intended to stop over in the U.S. but who get directed there for other reasons.
Didn't you know, the bits are heavier so uploading takes more energy, it's easier to just upload them slower.
The only time I have a significant problem with Traffic-Shaping, and QoS services is when the same ISP who uses Traffic shaping to limit traffic advertises their Internet as 'unlimited'. There is no such thing and any ISP which uses it should be taken to task.
I am limited to the maximum bandwidth they will a lot me at any one time, and I am limited by the total data they will allow me to transfer within a given time period. The various agencies involved with regulating advertisements should have put limits on the use of the term.
Now I'll get back to using my slightly above average internet connection with limits that are high enough I've never reached them. (Although, with the number of 500+Meg demos, videos/trailers I keep downloading to my xbox360 I might just bump a limit. (When combined with everything else I do.) but even then, i doubt it.
But I wonder how many people will.
(Average game demos is about 300+Megs, but some are closer to double that.). Trailers depend on the resolution significantly.
I tried posting, but received a message the database was down for maintenance. fair enough, but I thought it was kind of dumb to post Ask Slashdot questions then.
As for this article.. very cool. I need it on my car. bad.
Amateurs have always positively contributes to the sciences.
If you look through history you will find that the established scientists were often preventing the release of new ideas. Whether this be from their younger colleagues or from amateurs.
That said, the amateurs likely to be able to contribute to a solution on these problems are already aware of them and Wiki isn't likely to change that significantly. Many subjects are best done with a very small group of people, not a thousand experts, never mind ten-thousand amateurs.
While I have only one X-10 device at the moment my ex-girlfriend has a number of them.
In my case the pole-lamp is in the corner of my living room and difficult to get at to turn it on or off, a remote is far easier and I had the equipment already from a previous installation. You just plug in the devices and it works. (yes there are limitations...).
My ex-girlfriend has a number of them spread around the house. 3 in the living room to control the lights; they are programmed on a set pattern but can easily be turned off on demand. My hand it was an issue as all the lights in the living room are connected to outlets and only some of them are on a switch. (And the switch is NOT in a convenient place anyway, the house was build in the 30s.).
A few lights upstairs are controlled by switches as well, but except for one it was just because. One of them is on a motion sensor and turned the light (when it is working) as you enter the bedroom. again, older house and the light switch is hooked up to a fan/lamp as such it is always on so the fan runs.
Using X-10 in an older house is easy enough, but it can have issues if significant parts of the house are on opposite sides of the circuit. It can be difficult to get some devices to trigger reliably, as well as it may need multiple receivers, but you have to be carefull or the signal they generate will interfere with each other on the powerlines.
Looking at this proposed solution, it looks quite good. The breakdown of the other protocols is realistic with cost being a significant component of the reliable alternatives. They stress the dual nature of their technology, radio and powerline a lot, but I can honestly say that only 1 or the other does NOT work well. It is common to have dead-spots where radio signals don't propagate well as well as devices that cause issues with the powerline signal. A combination of both should eliminate the common problems in all but the worst case scenario.
Sure, there is limited space available on the HD for games like this, but lets be honest, I have multiple 300+ Meg demos I've downloaded to it from Microsoft.
It wasn't a big deal and didn't take very long. (would be nice if you could download them in the background though...)
I know, I've done it myself 15 years ago. (serial communications mostly limited to PCs, I really dislike 8250's and all their variants, tons of bugs and each chip a bit different than the last.). (Debugging a communications Library I paid for wasn't my idea of fun either.).
I really wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt; but in this case I think you're right.
There is no way you should be able to solder together a micro-robot, compile the tools necessary to write code and write some actual code for it without understanding all the reasonable alternatives to using sprintf to output a few unsigned ints.
I admit, as a quick test-hack I might have compiled in sprintf just to see if the data generated might be useful. In this case it could easily be skewing his results though as the comment on his blog indicates serial communications aren't interrupt driven in which case the sprintf routine, a long with the extra bytes he is sending could be very detrimental to his results.
I am amazed at the number of programmers I run in to that don't have any understanding of the underlying system they are using. I admit most of my programming these days is quite high level; but even so a basic understanding is required in any programming curriculum I am aware of.
"serial connection can only send characters". Perhaps (A guess I admit) he means 7 bit characters. In which case sending binary data is a pain in the butt. base64 to the rescue if that's the case.
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There were some new radios expected sometime around now which would allow recording of individual songs. (Unlike the current player which has a 5hr storage capacity, it didn't allow for individual songs either).
I have the Sky2, with it's 30 minute buffer and like it, but the new radios are a different beast.
Plantronics USB/headphone combination kicks ass.
Just don't try using it for anything other than Voice.
It was never meant for music, etc. It was meant for voice functions only. Whatever chipset they used for the USB DAC/ADC doesn't seem to support any high frequencies without choking. But if you use it for its intended purpose it works extremely well. I own one, as does a friend of mine, and we are both very happy with ours. (And he is quite picky about sound quality). Neither of us try to put sound effects through the headphones, that what our speaker systems are for.
Since they no longer seem to be available I can only assume other people felt the way you did about them. (If the sound quality for voice communications wasn't good for you perhaps it was hit and miss).
(I like the fact its USB device I can plug into my PC, or Mac and set up as a secondary sound device for voice communications without effecting the games sound configuration.).
Thats why the parent said 2 GPS Units, one fore, one aft. the average position of each will give a good estimate of the direction a ship is facing. Moving, or not.
oes this mean in the next version you'll be able to rape and kill programmers?
na, there wouldn't be an unroar over that.
Actually, the quotes make him sound like a paranoid schizophrenic.
He hacked into Nasa, snooped around, found lots of nothing. Time passes, and his mind twists what he found to match his paranoid delusions.
No competent hacker would use anything like VNC, or other remote desktop software if they could get more direct access to files, etc. His description of viewing an image (4bit) and how it appeared on his screen remind me of the bullshit you see in movies. And if you can explain how a 4bit picture at a low screen resolution can be highly detailed (as implied by it's desccription) please let me know.
At the end of the day he's desperate, he wants public support. he won't get it.
it's for dealing with Protesters, since Vancouver seems to have 2 or 3 protests going on a DAY.
One thing I don't miss about living in B.C.
No, you have to exclude all foreigners.
They get to track us for 'free'. No paperwork required.
Now you've reached the point of actually needing a clue to accomplish it.
Just pay someone, you obviously don't have a clue.
IANAL
As I understand it waivers are useless if it actually comes down to a lawsuit. You don't get to have a sheet of paper say your not responsible for something if you're incompetent.
As you are doing under the instruction of the company you work for, in most places, you can't be individually sued unless you are acting outside your duties. So really, the only thing that has to worry is the company. And likely they are prepared to eat the cost of a motherboard, or hd once in a while. (hopefully, not often).
The correct way to look at it is to say that it only takes a split second of distraction to get a machine infected.
Yes, but you can let the water out at night and still have power...
Dams are really large storage cells. (Batteries)
More than a month?
A month is not a very long time for a new service to get it's act together.
If you assume they deployed the equipment and started offering services it is quite likely they are a) inundated with customers, b) brand new equipment failures, even if only 5% causing untold grief. c) limited experience trouble shooting the network since it is brand-new.
Initially when my parents signed up for Cable modem service I warned them to expect problems for the first few months. There were a few minor hiccups, but over all there were no significant problems. Had I not warned them (the service was brand new) they would have been far more concerned about the minor problems they experienced.
If you read the article the networks must be encrypted if the business stores credit card or financial information of it's customers on it's network.
I don't know about you, but I think this is a very good thing. It is quite possible that it is within the jurisdiction of the local government as the business' which are licensed by the local government must conform to local business laws.
Personally I think the FCC should consider enacting similar regulation such that if it CAN be challenged on the grounds the FCC regulates it that they give the authority for that to the local community, or fully enact it themselves.
The number of business which employ wireless networks will only go up over the next few years, and any reduction in methods of easily obtaining credit card numbers is a good thing. I don't actually think these steps are sufficient though.
Just what everyone wants, a user id with 6 digits in it.
Why?
Mine isn't much better, but at least it's under 32K.
What if you (or parent poster) weren't planning to travel to france, but rather the U.K. and due to circumstances beyond your control the plane landed in France (weather, bomb threat, etc). Now you get arrested and thrown in gaol.
By the way, that happens often enough for travelers not intended to stop over in the U.S. but who get directed there for other reasons.
Didn't you know, the bits are heavier so uploading takes more energy, it's easier to just upload them slower.
The only time I have a significant problem with Traffic-Shaping, and QoS services is when the same ISP who uses Traffic shaping to limit traffic advertises their Internet as 'unlimited'. There is no such thing and any ISP which uses it should be taken to task.
I am limited to the maximum bandwidth they will a lot me at any one time, and I am limited by the total data they will allow me to transfer within a given time period. The various agencies involved with regulating advertisements should have put limits on the use of the term.
Now I'll get back to using my slightly above average internet connection with limits that are high enough I've never reached them. (Although, with the number of 500+Meg demos, videos/trailers I keep downloading to my xbox360 I might just bump a limit. (When combined with everything else I do.) but even then, i doubt it.
But I wonder how many people will.
(Average game demos is about 300+Megs, but some are closer to double that.). Trailers depend on the resolution significantly.
I tried posting, but received a message the database was down for maintenance. fair enough, but I thought it was kind of dumb to post Ask Slashdot questions then.
As for this article.. very cool. I need it on my car. bad.
No offense, but I've found that description true of almost everybody.
Very few people are truly wise enough to understand their own limits, and bigots even less so.
Amateurs have always positively contributes to the sciences.
If you look through history you will find that the established scientists were often preventing the release of new ideas. Whether this be from their younger colleagues or from amateurs.
That said, the amateurs likely to be able to contribute to a solution on these problems are already aware of them and Wiki isn't likely to change that significantly. Many subjects are best done with a very small group of people, not a thousand experts, never mind ten-thousand amateurs.
While I have only one X-10 device at the moment my ex-girlfriend has a number of them.
In my case the pole-lamp is in the corner of my living room and difficult to get at to turn it on or off, a remote is far easier and I had the equipment already from a previous installation. You just plug in the devices and it works. (yes there are limitations...).
My ex-girlfriend has a number of them spread around the house. 3 in the living room to control the lights; they are programmed on a set pattern but can easily be turned off on demand. My hand it was an issue as all the lights in the living room are connected to outlets and only some of them are on a switch. (And the switch is NOT in a convenient place anyway, the house was build in the 30s.).
A few lights upstairs are controlled by switches as well, but except for one it was just because. One of them is on a motion sensor and turned the light (when it is working) as you enter the bedroom. again, older house and the light switch is hooked up to a fan/lamp as such it is always on so the fan runs.
Using X-10 in an older house is easy enough, but it can have issues if significant parts of the house are on opposite sides of the circuit. It can be difficult to get some devices to trigger reliably, as well as it may need multiple receivers, but you have to be carefull or the signal they generate will interfere with each other on the powerlines.
Looking at this proposed solution, it looks quite good. The breakdown of the other protocols is realistic with cost being a significant component of the reliable alternatives. They stress the dual nature of their technology, radio and powerline a lot, but I can honestly say that only 1 or the other does NOT work well. It is common to have dead-spots where radio signals don't propagate well as well as devices that cause issues with the powerline signal. A combination of both should eliminate the common problems in all but the worst case scenario.
Size really isn't an issue anyway.
Sure, there is limited space available on the HD for games like this, but lets be honest, I have multiple 300+ Meg demos I've downloaded to it from Microsoft.
It wasn't a big deal and didn't take very long.
(would be nice if you could download them in the background though...)
I know, I've done it myself 15 years ago. (serial communications mostly limited to PCs, I really dislike 8250's and all their variants, tons of bugs and each chip a bit different than the last.). (Debugging a communications Library I paid for wasn't my idea of fun either.).
I really wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt; but in this case I think you're right.
There is no way you should be able to solder together a micro-robot, compile the tools necessary to write code and write some actual code for it without understanding all the reasonable alternatives to using sprintf to output a few unsigned ints.
I admit, as a quick test-hack I might have compiled in sprintf just to see if the data generated might be useful. In this case it could easily be skewing his results though as the comment on his blog indicates serial communications aren't interrupt driven in which case the sprintf routine, a long with the extra bytes he is sending could be very detrimental to his results.
I am amazed at the number of programmers I run in to that don't have any understanding of the underlying system they are using. I admit most of my programming these days is quite high level; but even so a basic understanding is required in any programming curriculum I am aware of.
Nothing wrong with it; but...
"serial connection can only send characters". Perhaps (A guess I admit) he means 7 bit characters. In which case sending binary data is a pain in the butt. base64 to the rescue if that's the case.
I bought a license for it recently. I used the built in iSight camera on my imac Core Duo to scan a bunch of books. It worked well, not perfect.
It's a nice, but basic program. It doen't do anything particularly special, but it does the basic well enough. And it looks neat.
Delicious won't get ported to another OS as it relies upon a lot of functionality in OS X.