Australia hasn't caught on to energey effecent houses. Double glazed windows are installed for noise, not keeping the heat in. Most houses (every one more than 10 yrs old I've been in) have large vents that were required when heating was done with wood buring fires. Now they just let the heat out in the winter and heat in durring the summer. In the US you can find R30 insulation because its required by law for new homes. In Australia you would be hard pressed to find anything better than R5. If the goverment had any clue about how to help provide incentive, many of these wasteful houses could be fixed but the tax advanatges are only for people buying brand new houses or home owners that want to buy properly. There is nothing like the home loan deduction like in the US and propery values in Melbourne and Sydney aren't that bad compared to London or Palo Alto even though the average wage is about 1/4 of those places. At least you can still buy dorm sized places in the city for just about US$150k. I wonder if they will have energy saving windows...
The waste problem is 100% the result of old reactor designs and idiots at greenpeace and the like. If anyone could leagly seperate it (which you can't do thanks to the greenies) you get two parts, one is fuel you dump back into the reactor and the other is less radioactive than bannanas.
Besides Oz has some of the most radioactive soil in the world and some of its been that way for a very, very long time.
I've got three of these. They are rack mount to help keep thing neat but you could put them anywhere including on sliding rails. They have everything put the power out the front. The company also loans equipment to the local Linux Users Group.
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It also makes it easier to install the insulation
Another thing to do before they slap up the dry wall is consider how much quieter the house will be with insulation in all the walls. It will also help if you want to put sound in each room since you will get odd phase things going on tring to run stero in some rooms and 5.1 in one and dfferent volume levels in different rooms.
2x was so it could skip and fast forward. The early devices did this by speeding up the cd and playing whatever got buffered. Some devices would even do 6x but they had no conrol over which sectors they played.
Who cares if the army uses dangerous lasers, since
the local police use them on the highways.
Most of the speed detection lasers use mirror tricks to get around the class 1 vs class 3 requirements. Class 3 can cause blidness and IR lasers are the worst since your eyes natrual protection wont kick in. Since 21 cfr 1040 says you have to detect at the souce of the laser, all you have to do is make the source window larger than the test sensor but still have the beam converge elsewhere and be dangerous.
But the cops still point IR lasers at drivers on high speed roads in the name of safety.
"The Goverment" isn't using this.... its the people like the USDA to protect records of projections of cow life spans and pay roll records. Its not to be used for military communication or calassified stuff. So the three letter spooks from "The Goverment" are using something else.
It is off the case in crypto that if you double the size of your processors work size, you get better than double the speed because you can reduce the total about of work. You can also do thing such as doing more work in parallel in such a way that you don't have to do as much. In the past few years, decrypto hardware can be made so that things like DES are loosing about a bit every six months not every 18 months.
So they need to strip the 1st three and last 3 lines of a message if its over 15 lines long and then do the hash. There are lots of good spam filters from usenet that have already figured most of this out.
GSM is a technical solution to the problem of how do you keep the service inside your countries borders. This politial requirement makes for a very bad choice in places where you need huge coverage and have no problem of cross border calls. GSM is also only cost effective if you have a high density of people. The small cell sizes of GSM make it impossable to cover large rural areas effectively.
They guy who started Nextel bought out allmost all the two-way radio phone licenses in the US. After cellular took off most of the old mobile phone operators where hurting for business and where happy to sell out. Someone at Motorola figured out what was going on and they started buying up licenses too. The result was that Nextel/Motorola ended up with more than 90% of the US coverage and then they got the FCC to change the rules for that band so they could put cell phones on it.
The cellular frequency lotterys where also a joke. For example the one that Ms Clinton bought for $1000 because she won the lottery. She had about a 1/10 chance of winning because the rules were stacked aginst most people but it was common at the time to sell out to a major carrier at 100x or more than the license cost.
Its not just the US that has stupid rules about spectrum use. In Melbourne Australia, there is a big hill that has line of sight coverage to about 2 million people. None of the compaines that bought the 2.4ghz licenses intend to offer real internet service and most of the licnese are still not in use and I don't think most of them will ever be paid for considering the finicial state of most of the winners.
Several people have explained why the route tables are so big but they could be reduced if groups like APNIC started allocating shared space. They also allocate IP addresses for Australia and here we only have a few big ISPs. So the next time telstra wants more address space, APNIC should allocate them a block that is allocated to both them and another ISP such as Optus or Connect. This would keep the routing tables smaler and allow large ISP's to provide dual homeing to their customers but its not in their best ineterest to do so and its not going to happen unless the APNIC forces them to.
no problem. I bet that in a few hours, some guy in Tiawan will be working on fixing the price point issue and may have their stuff in volume to frys before 3com does.
Galileo is attempt to get around the "what if" questions however if the US shuts down the public GPS system, its also going to take out Glonass and any other location system.
When GPS was designed, they added a fudge factor in that would only allow civil recivers to get get a short term fix of about 100m but the military recivers should have been able to get under 10m but because of R&D money on the civil side, the non-military recivers would give much better results than the over priced military ones. With good differental systems you can now get sub meter precision and the fudge factor is pointless and has been turned off. It was the fudge factor that started the Galileo project in the first place.
I don't see Galileo going anywhere. It is a user pay system so are you going to use the euro system where you get to pay $30/yr on top of the reciver or the GPS system where its free thanks to the US tax payers? There will also be the problem that GPS recivers are commodity item and Galileo recivers won't be for at least a decade. Europe would be much better off provide a WAAS compatable sat system than doing their own GPS.
Oftel has too many jobs so its forever working agsinst internal conflict of interests. Thats thats the heart of the problem. you need different regulators regulating from different sides.
Privatisation isn't the problem, the problem is that Brish law (as well as Aussie and Kiwi law) don't allow for oversight groups like the US public utility commisssions. Oz has something called the ACCC but they only look at one small part of the problme (like the FTC in the US). Until the watchdog infastruture is in place, the sold off compaines will be a consumers worst fear.
Dude, take a look at the real history. The Nazi's didn't get in power by killing Jews, they got in power by fixing a totaly f*cked up goverment and many people supported that. It was after they were in power when some of the high command decided they could get away with treating many ethnic groups any way they liked. The Nazis did do quite a few things (they promoted engineering and science and pioneered many of the techniques we still use today) that were good for Germany and the world and this mentality of "if it involves nazi's it must be bad" is quite stupid as it hides how they got in power in the first place and the more that stays hidden, the more it is likely to repeat its self.
It never even PRETENDED to support standards, its CSS was mediocre at best, it used the tag for
DHTML, instead of the W3C specified DOM prope...
How many times must I say this.... The w3c isn't the web stanards board. What they say is completely meaningless. There never have been and never will be any standards for html.
What would make more sense is to break it up so different groupes must compete with each other so you put wince and word together and excel and nt together.
There is a large class of people who end up with aids because of the common theory that having sex with a virgin will protect you. Most people from poor areas that are HIV infected don't know it combined with the witch doctor medicine of raping small children you are getting many infected 3yr olds.
As far as cures and US funding goes, aids is still seen as gods punishment for being gay by many people in congress and until they think they are going to catch it, there won't be much more funding for it. Of course that would change real fast if a dead hiv+ arab was fished out of the Potomic river who just happend to have lots of biology books in his house.
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Australia hasn't caught on to energey effecent houses. Double glazed windows are installed for noise, not keeping the heat in. Most houses (every one more than 10 yrs old I've been in) have large vents that were required when heating was done with wood buring fires. Now they just let the heat out in the winter and heat in durring the summer. In the US you can find R30 insulation because its required by law for new homes. In Australia you would be hard pressed to find anything better than R5. If the goverment had any clue about how to help provide incentive, many of these wasteful houses could be fixed but the tax advanatges are only for people buying brand new houses or home owners that want to buy properly. There is nothing like the home loan deduction like in the US and propery values in Melbourne and Sydney aren't that bad compared to London or Palo Alto even though the average wage is about 1/4 of those places. At least you can still buy dorm sized places in the city for just about US$150k. I wonder if they will have energy saving windows...
Ocean temps tend to be about the same as air at 3000ft (aka 1km) altitude if not much cooler.
The waste problem is 100% the result of old reactor designs and idiots at greenpeace and the like. If anyone could leagly seperate it (which you can't do thanks to the greenies) you get two parts, one is fuel you dump back into the reactor and the other is less radioactive than bannanas.
Besides Oz has some of the most radioactive soil in the world and some of its been that way for a very, very long time.
I've got three of these. They are rack mount to help keep thing neat but you could put them anywhere including on sliding rails. They have everything put the power out the front. The company also loans equipment to the local Linux Users Group.
It also makes it easier to install the insulation
Another thing to do before they slap up the dry wall is consider how much quieter the house will be with insulation in all the walls. It will also help if you want to put sound in each room since you will get odd phase things going on tring to run stero in some rooms and 5.1 in one and dfferent volume levels in different rooms.
And my 266mhz box would rip and encode at about 1x but the high frequency in xmms bars never show any activity in any of thouse mp3s...
2x was so it could skip and fast forward. The early devices did this by speeding up the cd and playing whatever got buffered. Some devices would even do 6x but they had no conrol over which sectors they played.
Who cares if the army uses dangerous lasers, since
the local police use them on the highways.
Most of the speed detection lasers use mirror tricks to get around the class 1 vs class 3 requirements. Class 3 can cause blidness and IR lasers are the worst since your eyes natrual protection wont kick in. Since 21 cfr 1040 says you have to detect at the souce of the laser, all you have to do is make the source window larger than the test sensor but still have the beam converge elsewhere and be dangerous.
But the cops still point IR lasers at drivers on high speed roads in the name of safety.
"The Goverment" isn't using this.... its the people like the USDA to protect records of projections of cow life spans and pay roll records. Its not to be used for military communication or calassified stuff. So the three letter spooks from "The Goverment" are using something else.
It is off the case in crypto that if you double the size of your processors work size, you get better than double the speed because you can reduce the total about of work. You can also do thing such as doing more work in parallel in such a way that you don't have to do as much. In the past few years, decrypto hardware can be made so that things like DES are loosing about a bit every six months not every 18 months.
Wow C2. That standard was set by a group the threw away the orange book because it was severely lacking long before NT was even a bad dream.
So they need to strip the 1st three and last 3 lines of a message if its over 15 lines long and then do the hash. There are lots of good spam filters from usenet that have already figured most of this out.
that was kind of the idea behind divx -- not the new divx, the old one where you bought a dvd you could only play once unless you paid again.
GSM is a technical solution to the problem of how do you keep the service inside your countries borders. This politial requirement makes for a very bad choice in places where you need huge coverage and have no problem of cross border calls. GSM is also only cost effective if you have a high density of people. The small cell sizes of GSM make it impossable to cover large rural areas effectively.
They guy who started Nextel bought out allmost all the two-way radio phone licenses in the US. After cellular took off most of the old mobile phone operators where hurting for business and where happy to sell out. Someone at Motorola figured out what was going on and they started buying up licenses too. The result was that Nextel/Motorola ended up with more than 90% of the US coverage and then they got the FCC to change the rules for that band so they could put cell phones on it.
The cellular frequency lotterys where also a joke. For example the one that Ms Clinton bought for $1000 because she won the lottery. She had about a 1/10 chance of winning because the rules were stacked aginst most people but it was common at the time to sell out to a major carrier at 100x or more than the license cost.
Its not just the US that has stupid rules about spectrum use. In Melbourne Australia, there is a big hill that has line of sight coverage to about 2 million people. None of the compaines that bought the 2.4ghz licenses intend to offer real internet service and most of the licnese are still not in use and I don't think most of them will ever be paid for considering the finicial state of most of the winners.
Several people have explained why the route tables are so big but they could be reduced if groups like APNIC started allocating shared space. They also allocate IP addresses for Australia and here we only have a few big ISPs. So the next time telstra wants more address space, APNIC should allocate them a block that is allocated to both them and another ISP such as Optus or Connect. This would keep the routing tables smaler and allow large ISP's to provide dual homeing to their customers but its not in their best ineterest to do so and its not going to happen unless the APNIC forces them to.
no problem. I bet that in a few hours, some guy in Tiawan will be working on fixing the price point issue and may have their stuff in volume to frys before 3com does.
Galileo is attempt to get around the "what if" questions however if the US shuts down the public GPS system, its also going to take out Glonass and any other location system.
When GPS was designed, they added a fudge factor in that would only allow civil recivers to get get a short term fix of about 100m but the military recivers should have been able to get under 10m but because of R&D money on the civil side, the non-military recivers would give much better results than the over priced military ones. With good differental systems you can now get sub meter precision and the fudge factor is pointless and has been turned off. It was the fudge factor that started the Galileo project in the first place.
I don't see Galileo going anywhere. It is a user pay system so are you going to use the euro system where you get to pay $30/yr on top of the reciver or the GPS system where its free thanks to the US tax payers? There will also be the problem that GPS recivers are commodity item and Galileo recivers won't be for at least a decade. Europe would be much better off provide a WAAS compatable sat system than doing their own GPS.
Oftel has too many jobs so its forever working agsinst internal conflict of interests. Thats thats the heart of the problem. you need different regulators regulating from different sides.
someone used to have an email address of the form
xy@va
It was quite valid and the shortest FQ email addres I've seen.
Privatisation isn't the problem, the problem is that Brish law (as well as Aussie and Kiwi law) don't allow for oversight groups like the US public utility commisssions. Oz has something called the ACCC but they only look at one small part of the problme (like the FTC in the US). Until the watchdog infastruture is in place, the sold off compaines will be a consumers worst fear.
Dude, take a look at the real history. The Nazi's didn't get in power by killing Jews, they got in power by fixing a totaly f*cked up goverment and many people supported that. It was after they were in power when some of the high command decided they could get away with treating many ethnic groups any way they liked. The Nazis did do quite a few things (they promoted engineering and science and pioneered many of the techniques we still use today) that were good for Germany and the world and this mentality of "if it involves nazi's it must be bad" is quite stupid as it hides how they got in power in the first place and the more that stays hidden, the more it is likely to repeat its self.
It never even PRETENDED to support standards, its CSS was mediocre at best, it used the tag for
DHTML, instead of the W3C specified DOM prope...
How many times must I say this.... The w3c isn't the web stanards board. What they say is completely meaningless. There never have been and never will be any standards for html.
What would make more sense is to break it up so different groupes must compete with each other so you put wince and word together and excel and nt together.
There is a large class of people who end up with aids because of the common theory that having sex with a virgin will protect you. Most people from poor areas that are HIV infected don't know it combined with the witch doctor medicine of raping small children you are getting many infected 3yr olds.
As far as cures and US funding goes, aids is still seen as gods punishment for being gay by many people in congress and until they think they are going to catch it, there won't be much more funding for it. Of course that would change real fast if a dead hiv+ arab was fished out of the Potomic river who just happend to have lots of biology books in his house.