I own a radio scanner, can I use it to scan police frequencies?
umm... Yes.
There are rules about receiving police frequencies in a car on the road (I believe it has something to do with avoiding police if they have a speed trap or of you're being chased, but I'm not sure about that.), but you can have a scanner in your home or a handheld one and it's perfectly fine.
(Obviously, everything in this post may vary with your locality.)
I'd like to see the serial port, parallel port, PS/2 mouse & keyboard port all go away.
I don't know about you, but I can't hack a piece of hardware to use USB/Firewire. But I can put together a very nice device that communicates over serial or parallel. As long as the hardware guys hack together a project on the weekend, there will always be a use for the serial port.
The concept of two heads is not new. On an old IBM System/36, the hard drive had two heads on each arm, one for the outer half of the disk, one for the inner half of the disk (they moved straight in and out radially(sp?) to simplify seeking).
3/4 million? not hardly. Don't forget, you don't have to light up all the elements, you just have to fool the human eye into thinking you've lit up all the elements. For arrays of lights, one very common wiring method is row-anode, column-cathode. The column inputs are set for that row, and the row input is strobed. Do this 46,080 times a second, and you've got your 1024x768 at 60 Hz. One conductor per row and column = 1792 conductors, not 3/4 million.
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I own a radio scanner, can I use it to scan police frequencies?
umm... Yes.
There are rules about receiving police frequencies in a car on the road (I believe it has something to do with avoiding police if they have a speed trap or of you're being chased, but I'm not sure about that.), but you can have a scanner in your home or a handheld one and it's perfectly fine.
(Obviously, everything in this post may vary with your locality.)
What next - a bill to disallow modifying your PC?
Quiet! Don't give them any ideas!
I'd like to see the serial port, parallel port, PS/2 mouse & keyboard port all go away.
I don't know about you, but I can't hack a piece of hardware to use USB/Firewire. But I can put together a very nice device that communicates over serial or parallel. As long as the hardware guys hack together a project on the weekend, there will always be a use for the serial port.
The concept of two heads is not new. On an old IBM System/36, the hard drive had two heads on each arm, one for the outer half of the disk, one for the inner half of the disk (they moved straight in and out radially(sp?) to simplify seeking).
3/4 million? not hardly. Don't forget, you don't have to light up all the elements, you just have to fool the human eye into thinking you've lit up all the elements. For arrays of lights, one very common wiring method is row-anode, column-cathode. The column inputs are set for that row, and the row input is strobed. Do this 46,080 times a second, and you've got your 1024x768 at 60 Hz. One conductor per row and column = 1792 conductors, not 3/4 million.
Yes there is... Microsoft Bob.
Don't forget, mail about your domains might not be spam... VeriSign has been buying up several Domain Registrars, so mail from them might have a valid purpose.