Yeah, for long distance 802.11 is going to be the way to go, although I am going to experiment with methods of getting more range out of it. If you only have a short distance, like to go a couple of streets away, this may be cheaper.
Dunno about you, but I've asked some pretty dumb questions in IRC and newsgroups, and never got told to RTFM. But have you ever thought of reading the manuals, then you can tell people you've read them, and you can ask more intelligent questions, and get more specific help.
What needs to be formed is an alliance of amateur space enthusiast's who will petition to be "given" NASA/JPL's abandoned probes, and will then control them and analyse data. It would be great for school students, they could get the chance to operate a real live space probe, or work on live data. They would need to build a small tracking network, but there are a large number of big amateur radio dishes around the world anyway, so just extend what's already being done. Sure you won't be able to listen to and control something as far out Voyager but for nearby stuff it would work.
I'd use GNOME if it didn't look so bad. It looks like rubbish, although at least it isn't as bad as Windows XP. I personally think KDE is a much better environment.
If every house had solar panels on it's roof, they would be self sufficient in power. Then you would only need some wind plants and solar plants to feed power to buildings that don't have enough roof space to produce all their power.
Some perl people like to try and fit as much functionality into a minimal number of lines. That is where the confusion comes in, but you don't need to go that far.
I'm the CEO of a small programming house, and I'm currently spending loads of time working on a commercial product. I also spend almost as much time on free software. Programmers need to eat - unless the government will pay hackers to hack code, I'm going to have to release my product closed source for pay. It would be disappointing to see people pirating my software. Especially if they were charging for it.
However I'm not going to be a Bill Gates type, I'll be using a "nice" license, and the API's will be as open as I can make them. I hope that's enough to console the rest of the/.'ers, but I'm sorry I need to eat and live.:-)
If you can apt-get it, what's the damn package name? I've tried apt-get install vp3, but there's no package called that.
Re:Faster than light communication
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If you change an entangled photon in any way, the other one instantly changes the same way. That's what confused Einstien. Quantum nonlocality, you change one half of the pair here, and instantly the other half changes the same. That's what entanglement and teleportation is all about, IIRC, but IANAP.
David
P.S. Of course, I could be wrong. Any quantum physicist out there wish to confirm this. I'm sure this is what they did in the Bell experiment.
If think you have this wrong. If I have an entangled photon emitter located precisely half way between my two stations. It emits beams of entangled photons towards each of my stations, Alice and Bob.
Alice changes the polarisation at that end to 90 degrees. Simultaniously the other photon of the pair at the other end changes to 90 degree polarization. In this way communication can be acheived.
You just set up on the reciever end a lens that only accepts light with 0 degree polarization. Thus when the other ends sets the polarization on the photon pairs to 90, your end blocks light, and you've now got a 0. If the other end has set the polarization of the pairs to 0, light will pass through your lens, and you will have a 1. This allows you to transmit binary instantaneously, but requires the entangled photon emitter to be exactly half way between the two stations. If it was say 2% out of position, over a distance of 1 light year, your signal at the reciever end would arrive 0.02 years late.
I am not a physicist, but this is what I understand based on my reading of various works on quantum entanglement and teleportation.
I wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee, I'd prefer to pay something reasonable per track. I'd also like to be able to fill out a webform and have it encode the song in the format of my choice at the bitrate of my choice. That way if I want 192kb/sec Ogg Vorbis I can have it.
Re:Emission free engine?
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That's not quite as bad as you think. In a coal
fueled power station, the coal is burned at a very high temperature. This makes it burn cleaner. Generating electricity at power stations, then using electricity is much better for the environment than it is to use small ICE(internal combustion engine)s in cars and stuff.
I'd recommend a high resolution bright OLED display. Preferably with 300 DPI or more. This would be very easy to read, very easy on your eyes, and viewable in direct sunlight.
This will be a bit like freenet, but without the anonymity stuff, it will be much more reliable and faster. I think it will be quite a good system for the average people on dialup. As long as the AUP's don't kill it.
Firstly, the part that runs the supernodes isn't finished yet. Secondly it is as portable as any other GNU application. Runs on Linux, Windows, *nix. And you don't need a web server, that's only for the CGI interface. There are other interfaces for windows and linux available, including one for KDE.
A second massive black hole has been found in the slashdot.org headquaters, that is sucking in all records of previously posted articles. It was found after several duplicate articles had been posted to the front page of slashdot.org.
The key reason why virii won't spread fast on Linux/*nix is the variety. Not everyone runs the same distro, not everyone uses the same mail program, not everyone uses the same versions of the same programs. This, along with Unix's other security features make virii harder to spread.
The only type of virus that would spread on Unix would be a file virus, but because most people build from sources, or download from reputable sites, this won't happen easily.
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Yeah, for long distance 802.11 is going to be the way to go, although I am going to experiment with methods of getting more range out of it. If you only have a short distance, like to go a couple of streets away, this may be cheaper.
Dunno about you, but I've asked some pretty dumb questions in IRC and newsgroups, and never got told to RTFM. But have you ever thought of reading the manuals, then you can tell people you've read them, and you can ask more intelligent questions, and get more specific help.
What needs to be formed is an alliance of amateur space enthusiast's who will petition to be "given" NASA/JPL's abandoned probes, and will then control them and analyse data. It would be great for school students, they could get the chance to operate a real live space probe, or work on live data. They would need to build a small tracking network, but there are a large number of big amateur radio dishes around the world anyway, so just extend what's already being done. Sure you won't be able to listen to and control something as far out Voyager but for nearby stuff it would work.
If every house had solar panels on it's roof, they would be self sufficient in power. Then you would only need some wind plants and solar plants to feed power to buildings that don't have enough roof space to produce all their power.
Some perl people like to try and fit as much functionality into a minimal number of lines. That is where the confusion comes in, but you don't need to go that far.
He was likely more interested in defeating the case against him than rushing off.
We already do. They're called anonymous cowards usually. Some Anonymous Cowards are a little smarter, but most aren't.
However I'm not going to be a Bill Gates type, I'll be using a "nice" license, and the API's will be as open as I can make them. I hope that's enough to console the rest of the /.'ers, but I'm sorry I need to eat and live. :-)
If you can apt-get it, what's the damn package name? I've tried apt-get install vp3, but there's no package called that.
David
P.S. Of course, I could be wrong. Any quantum physicist out there wish to confirm this. I'm sure this is what they did in the Bell experiment.
Alice changes the polarisation at that end to 90 degrees. Simultaniously the other photon of the pair at the other end changes to 90 degree polarization. In this way communication can be acheived.
You just set up on the reciever end a lens that only accepts light with 0 degree polarization. Thus when the other ends sets the polarization on the photon pairs to 90, your end blocks light, and you've now got a 0. If the other end has set the polarization of the pairs to 0, light will pass through your lens, and you will have a 1. This allows you to transmit binary instantaneously, but requires the entangled photon emitter to be exactly half way between the two stations. If it was say 2% out of position, over a distance of 1 light year, your signal at the reciever end would arrive 0.02 years late.
I am not a physicist, but this is what I understand based on my reading of various works on quantum entanglement and teleportation.
I wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee, I'd prefer to pay something reasonable per track. I'd also like to be able to fill out a webform and have it encode the song in the format of my choice at the bitrate of my choice. That way if I want 192kb/sec Ogg Vorbis I can have it.
That's not quite as bad as you think. In a coal
fueled power station, the coal is burned at a very high temperature. This makes it burn cleaner. Generating electricity at power stations, then using electricity is much better for the environment than it is to use small ICE(internal combustion engine)s in cars and stuff.
I'd recommend a high resolution bright OLED display. Preferably with 300 DPI or more. This would be very easy to read, very easy on your eyes, and viewable in direct sunlight.
David
This will be a bit like freenet, but without the anonymity stuff, it will be much more reliable and faster. I think it will be quite a good system for the average people on dialup. As long as the AUP's don't kill it.
Just use BIND 8. It will talk to the root servers.
Just making it a nice GUI in Sid and later wouldn't stuff it up. They can make it just as powerful, or even more powerful than the current one.
i_hate_the.museum
boring.museum
or even(shudder)
goatse.museum
ewww!!!
That's why we need IPv6 NOW!!!!! Join the crusade - Organise a one million geek march on the capitol demanding IPv6 NOW!!! :-)
Yes, but once a free, and better alternative to Gnutella exists, I would imagine most gnutella users would move across.
David
Firstly, the part that runs the supernodes isn't finished yet. Secondly it is as portable as any other GNU application. Runs on Linux, Windows, *nix. And you don't need a web server, that's only for the CGI interface. There are other interfaces for windows and linux available, including one for KDE.
David
A second massive black hole has been found in the slashdot.org headquaters, that is sucking in all records of previously posted articles. It was found after several duplicate articles had been posted to the front page of slashdot.org.
:-) BTW if you don't realise, that is a *joke*!!!
Yeah, but it's gotta be a hell of a lot better than using batteries, or petrol in an ICE engine.
David
The key reason why virii won't spread fast on Linux/*nix is the variety. Not everyone runs the same distro, not everyone uses the same mail program, not everyone uses the same versions of the same programs. This, along with Unix's other security features make virii harder to spread.
The only type of virus that would spread on Unix would be a file virus, but because most people build from sources, or download from reputable sites, this won't happen easily.
David