"People who are interested in computers" now encompasses such a wide range of activities, the club will never have a focus and will never be able to point at one thing and say "We all worked together and did that."
General "computer clubs" were appropriate when the computer was a timeshare teletype to the university computer upstate, and the only thing you could do on a computer was write code in BASIC (pretty much the situation until the Apple IIE died).
I thought "computer clubs" were in vogue until about ten or fifteen years ago. That was when computers were new and nerdy.
Now, even the jocks use computers and a lot of people have at least one. It would be like starting a toaster club, or a refrigerator club. Is there a "sports" club at your school? Or is there a track team, a tennis club, football team...you get the idea.
If you can find a theme for the club, you'll have an easier time deciding what to do. Do you build computers for poor kids? Do you write code? Do you game? Do you dress up in black suits and go door-to-door extolling the virtues of Linux?
Find a specific theme, and the rest will become clear.
...my website priority is not mission-critical (yet). So I looked for the cheapest thing I could find.
Got it from webhostingfactory. I have 1GB of space, 5GB of bandwidth per month, Perl, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP, stats, POP/IMAP/webmail. I can configure and administer up to 100 users in my webspace, give them all email accounts and web pages. I can even log in through SSH and read my email or do a quick page edit in vi.
Price? It was $19.95 per year. Was a little unstable the first month, but has been going for five months rock-steady. Isn't a colo or virtual server, but for my purposes it is perfect.
Actually, it is currently (since 1994) illegal to "produce or import for the purpose of sale, radios which are able, or can be easily modified, to pick up cellular phone communications."
In addition, Congress made act of modification illegal in 1999 (so my statement was a little inaccurate).
Note that we're talking about devices solely designed for detecting and decoding communications to an end user. The devices your company makes are actually test equipment for specialized applications.
I'm not a big fan of the "BZZT! WRONG" thing, it's a bit adolescent.
I'm also not defending such laws (if you want it private, encrypt it), but am simply stating what they currently are.
It's illegal to listen in on cell phone conversations. It's also illegal to sell or manufacture a device capable of intercepting cell phone conversations.
However it's not illegal to own or modify a device in order to receive cell bands...unless you actually use it. Makes sense doesn't it?
There are so many grey areas and conflicting legislation, it's going to be a very long time before all this is sorted out.
It is indexed, and I get about 20,000 hits a month.
And I currently have gotten one spam on my yahoo email account, which has been active for about three years. It was automatically shunted into the "Bulk Mail" folder and still sits there.
Everything else on my page gets spammed at least 20-30 per day.
Uh...this has nothing to do with a computer. This is for taking video of something small, like the ingredients list on the side of a Coke can, and projecting it on a monitor so Grandma can make it out.
To answer the question: Yes. You can find NTSC video camera modules in the electronic surplus catalogs, many of them for well under $100. Couple that with a TV screen and you're good. For book reading, build a little wood-and-metal stand, or hack a one of those swingarm lamps/magnifiers (take out the big lens, fix the camera in the center, leave the circular fluorescent light).
Only thing you need to pay attention to is the actual camera lens. Ideal distance is going to be about 1ft to infinity.
Common sense helps, but please realize that not everyone has it. Therefore, those with common sense need to make sure it is enforced on those without it.
I have a specific example. I'm currently working at a place that prints a lot of mail. Hence, thousands of tons of paper, millions of chop cuts and trim pieces running through pipes. Paper dust is EVERYWHERE, despite a massive bag house where thousands of CFM are filtered out to the high 99's.
Next to the baler, where all the trim paper goes to be disposed of, is a computer for recording waste tonnage etc.,. It is in a totally enclosed, forced-air filtered box, and the printer is in a smaller version.
That's all well and good, but after changing about three filters, accepted maintenance procedure currently consists of removing the clogged filter. Period.
Other PC's have not been treated as well. When I used to work in IT there, I opened many a computer that was half full of fluffy dust. Thankfully those were Pentium 100's, so it wasn't the hot 60's or any modern chip....
Find some way to do it, then make sure it happens.
Contains a BIG listing (updated at the end of last month) showing boards and prices when available. Also lets you know if it's a PCI board or whatever.
I really doubt you will need a million or more gates. What are you trying to do, physically model a barrel of quarters? Is your code going to be as complex as a late-model Pentium?
To start out with, a 600kgate SpartanIIE-ish chip will have lots of room and won't break the bank. A mega-gate Virtex, on the other hand, will eat into your budget requirements for the chip alone.
But check out that link and you'll probably find something.
"Intellectual" is not defined as "someone who disagrees with Republicans."
The vast majority of the population is the middle class, and any serious political effort listens to them very closely indeed.
Many computer professionals are conservative/Republican not because they are saying "Heil Hitler!" but because they choose to be, and realize that rapid industrial growth is the only thing keeping technology from going stagnant. They actually work and perhaps have a different perspective than the bushy-bearded idealist tenured professors in their ivory towers.
Compassion cannot be dispensed by an impersonal bureaucracy. Any attempt leads to a cycle of desperation and trapped generations of the poor.
If the cure exists, and does not currently depend on those methods to continue, then the cure itself is separate from the methods used (and perhaps could have been developed without those methods). If the cure depends on what you consider to be the life of an innocent, then whether you accept the cure or not depends on how strong your beliefs are.
Of course a PETA member would take the insulin. PETA is only a gimmick some have found to gain them a little power and recognition.
I think you'll require a little genetic modification before you realize that, in fact, I was saying that the existence of a cure should be enough reason to use it.
I do not understand people who follow that train of logic.
For example, some religions refuse blood transfusions; I have heard of cases where a child was dying but the parents were refusing a blood transfusion.
Diseases are a result of the physical laws we all live by, they are as much a part of our existence as gravity and pointy objects. We can debate whether or not God ordains diseases; but if a cure is available, who are we to say God did not ordain that?
You inadvertently discovered the reason: they are not providing the bandwidth anyway. They sell erlangs on the communication channel, not straight bandwidth.
If a whole family gets on at once, they might just consistently max out their connection. The ISP's erlang calculation is based on a one-user model...thus NATs screw up their formulas and they can no longer oversell bandwidth and maintain advertised performance.
No, they'd start to type with anything else handy. Resulting, of course, in barely understandable spam, which would be random enough to get through your spam filters.
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You make my point for me.
"People who are interested in computers" now encompasses such a wide range of activities, the club will never have a focus and will never be able to point at one thing and say "We all worked together and did that."
General "computer clubs" were appropriate when the computer was a timeshare teletype to the university computer upstate, and the only thing you could do on a computer was write code in BASIC (pretty much the situation until the Apple IIE died).
I'd say you're definitely well-toasted.
I thought "computer clubs" were in vogue until about ten or fifteen years ago. That was when computers were new and nerdy.
Now, even the jocks use computers and a lot of people have at least one. It would be like starting a toaster club, or a refrigerator club. Is there a "sports" club at your school? Or is there a track team, a tennis club, football team...you get the idea.
If you can find a theme for the club, you'll have an easier time deciding what to do. Do you build computers for poor kids? Do you write code? Do you game? Do you dress up in black suits and go door-to-door extolling the virtues of Linux?
Find a specific theme, and the rest will become clear.
...my website priority is not mission-critical (yet). So I looked for the cheapest thing I could find.
Got it from webhostingfactory. I have 1GB of space, 5GB of bandwidth per month, Perl, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP, stats, POP/IMAP/webmail. I can configure and administer up to 100 users in my webspace, give them all email accounts and web pages. I can even log in through SSH and read my email or do a quick page edit in vi.
Price? It was $19.95 per year. Was a little unstable the first month, but has been going for five months rock-steady. Isn't a colo or virtual server, but for my purposes it is perfect.
Actually, it is currently (since 1994) illegal to "produce or import for the purpose of sale, radios which are able, or can be easily modified, to pick up cellular phone communications."
In addition, Congress made act of modification illegal in 1999 (so my statement was a little inaccurate).
Note that we're talking about devices solely designed for detecting and decoding communications to an end user. The devices your company makes are actually test equipment for specialized applications.
I'm not a big fan of the "BZZT! WRONG" thing, it's a bit adolescent.
I'm also not defending such laws (if you want it private, encrypt it), but am simply stating what they currently are.
It's illegal to listen in on cell phone conversations. It's also illegal to sell or manufacture a device capable of intercepting cell phone conversations.
However it's not illegal to own or modify a device in order to receive cell bands...unless you actually use it. Makes sense doesn't it?
There are so many grey areas and conflicting legislation, it's going to be a very long time before all this is sorted out.
Marconi never knew what he was getting us into.
It is indexed, and I get about 20,000 hits a month.
And I currently have gotten one spam on my yahoo email account, which has been active for about three years. It was automatically shunted into the "Bulk Mail" folder and still sits there.
Everything else on my page gets spammed at least 20-30 per day.
Uh...this has nothing to do with a computer. This is for taking video of something small, like the ingredients list on the side of a Coke can, and projecting it on a monitor so Grandma can make it out.
To answer the question: Yes. You can find NTSC video camera modules in the electronic surplus catalogs, many of them for well under $100. Couple that with a TV screen and you're good. For book reading, build a little wood-and-metal stand, or hack a one of those swingarm lamps/magnifiers (take out the big lens, fix the camera in the center, leave the circular fluorescent light).
Only thing you need to pay attention to is the actual camera lens. Ideal distance is going to be about 1ft to infinity.
I never get spam in my Yahoo account. And that email address is plainly posted on my web page, and has been for at least seven months.
Ok, I got one spam, once.
All of my other accounts are spammed like so many red-headed stepchildren.
I always kind of thought the term was tell-tale.
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I guess once the FAA gets word of this, they'll require algae impact testing on airliner windshields
Yeah, that's a lot of really tiny, microscopic wood splinters, and some clay, and some other random chemicals....
Perhaps that's why OSHA is so interested in keeping our filter system in top working order.
Common sense helps, but please realize that not everyone has it. Therefore, those with common sense need to make sure it is enforced on those without it.
I have a specific example. I'm currently working at a place that prints a lot of mail. Hence, thousands of tons of paper, millions of chop cuts and trim pieces running through pipes. Paper dust is EVERYWHERE, despite a massive bag house where thousands of CFM are filtered out to the high 99's.
Next to the baler, where all the trim paper goes to be disposed of, is a computer for recording waste tonnage etc.,. It is in a totally enclosed, forced-air filtered box, and the printer is in a smaller version.
That's all well and good, but after changing about three filters, accepted maintenance procedure currently consists of removing the clogged filter. Period.
Other PC's have not been treated as well. When I used to work in IT there, I opened many a computer that was half full of fluffy dust. Thankfully those were Pentium 100's, so it wasn't the hot 60's or any modern chip....
Find some way to do it, then make sure it happens.
So, would you rather have the cure available for some price, or do your level best to avoid helping find a cure?
I guess with the latter, you can preserve your snobbish self-righteousness that you aren't helping a corporation who might need to offset some costs.
Just tell yourself the world will thank you later.
*tosses you a link* The FPGA-FAQ Development Boards List
Contains a BIG listing (updated at the end of last month) showing boards and prices when available. Also lets you know if it's a PCI board or whatever.
I really doubt you will need a million or more gates. What are you trying to do, physically model a barrel of quarters? Is your code going to be as complex as a late-model Pentium?
To start out with, a 600kgate SpartanIIE-ish chip will have lots of room and won't break the bank. A mega-gate Virtex, on the other hand, will eat into your budget requirements for the chip alone.
But check out that link and you'll probably find something.
That's what I'm confused about, is Phoenix really going to replace the stock Mozilla browser? I thought they branched into two different projects.
There is one major reason this will not work: power.
The IRDA port is not meant to blast IR energy across a room and bounce it off the walls. TV remotes are.
Your best bet is to build a serial port IR transmitter, such as described here.
IRDA is only meant to work over distances of a couple feet. It is too tricky to get the IRDA port to match standard IR remote frequencies anyway.
"Intellectual" is not defined as "someone who disagrees with Republicans."
The vast majority of the population is the middle class, and any serious political effort listens to them very closely indeed.
Many computer professionals are conservative/Republican not because they are saying "Heil Hitler!" but because they choose to be, and realize that rapid industrial growth is the only thing keeping technology from going stagnant. They actually work and perhaps have a different perspective than the bushy-bearded idealist tenured professors in their ivory towers.
Compassion cannot be dispensed by an impersonal bureaucracy. Any attempt leads to a cycle of desperation and trapped generations of the poor.
With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce.
The logistics behind capturing, processing, and storing that much data at video rates.
I can see two reasons not to attempt that: Busty boy accidents and odd forehead "growths".
If the cure exists, and does not currently depend on those methods to continue, then the cure itself is separate from the methods used (and perhaps could have been developed without those methods). If the cure depends on what you consider to be the life of an innocent, then whether you accept the cure or not depends on how strong your beliefs are.
Of course a PETA member would take the insulin. PETA is only a gimmick some have found to gain them a little power and recognition.
I think you'll require a little genetic modification before you realize that, in fact, I was saying that the existence of a cure should be enough reason to use it.
I do not understand people who follow that train of logic.
For example, some religions refuse blood transfusions; I have heard of cases where a child was dying but the parents were refusing a blood transfusion.
Diseases are a result of the physical laws we all live by, they are as much a part of our existence as gravity and pointy objects. We can debate whether or not God ordains diseases; but if a cure is available, who are we to say God did not ordain that?
You inadvertently discovered the reason: they are not providing the bandwidth anyway. They sell erlangs on the communication channel, not straight bandwidth.
If a whole family gets on at once, they might just consistently max out their connection. The ISP's erlang calculation is based on a one-user model...thus NATs screw up their formulas and they can no longer oversell bandwidth and maintain advertised performance.
No, they'd start to type with anything else handy. Resulting, of course, in barely understandable spam, which would be random enough to get through your spam filters.
You obviously hate spam not quite as much as the next guy.