You must mean computers that don't boot because the people who configured them couldn't bother themselves to read the f@cking manual and follow instructions.
What a pity that Comcast's enforced monopoly results in usage of their network. Boo-fucking-hoo for them.
If they operated their retail network like real carriers do on a wholesale level by setting a 90th percentile rate based on actual usage, charge for THAT and make reasonable allowances for overages that would be closer to fair. As it is now, it's a shell game since their metering favors the house and not you, the customer.
I'd prefer HONEST metering, but Comcast aint interested in that.
Good thing I don't have a WiFi chip implanted into my skull. And I'm not glued to my goddamned phone, so MIT will need to step up its game if it wants to track ME.
This happens in private industry, too, in fact the railroad industry. Canadian Pacific big wig Hunter Harrison improves the balance sheet of CP by deferring maintenance and selling off rail lines, but once the pain hits in the future he will likely have already cashed out and dumped the problem onto his successor.
He has a history of this behavior which is why Norfolk Southern rebuffed his few merger attempts in recent months. NS knows how to run a railroad and those in the know are quite certain that Harrison would decimate the NS system the same way he has CP if he gains control of NS.
So there are 2 object lessons in how to run a railroad: the good way and the bad way. the funding sources of BART and Metro can take their pick on which way to go.
Not any more. Dulles is watching airlines move to favor lil ol DCA as cramped as it is; DCA is converting the offices that occupy that northern hangar into more gates to accommodate. Like so much infrastructure and urban planning it is too little, too late for Dulles.
They built the highways and transportation systems to handle trends that have shifted in the decades it took to build them.
Metrorail in D.C. had that very thing. A horrible "headlight meet" on the Red Line a few years back, plus the nightmare of the fire in the tunnel last year. If anybody at BART with a few functioning brain cells needs justification they could use D.C.'s experience from afar and look like a hero by "saving lives" instead of waiting for the worst to happen in S.F.
Your heart is in the right place, but my experience with those $10-20 dongles is that they are good for strong signal reception, such as my local public safety trunked system, but they just can't cut it in the real world as an all-around receiver. Software can only do so much with crap hardware.
I tried to set up one on a linux laptop that I was running at my parent's house to receive the local baseball games broadcast on an FM station about 15 miles away. It wasn't happening. Not sensitive enough and getting overload from the many other FM transmitters nearby. No big deal, but if I were serious about that project I would have to upgrade the SDR hardware to something over $100 to do something useful and at that point I might as well scrounge up an old AM/FM radio pulled from a car like a broadcast engineer I know did.
I'd love to find or build a small but powerful SDR to perfect a modern scanner. Uniden locks you into their design choices. SDR# is still a bit too geeky for general use. If it had a good UI with user selectable operating parameters instead of being stuck with a limiting set that would be a win. Usability is key to general acceptance. That's what this DMR portable offers I suspect.
Heh. Like common criminals would a) Have the awareness to buy/steal a scanner 2) program it correctly c) use it correctly d) Listen to it often enough to decode the jargon
Even if in the unlikely event all the above conditions are met, what EXACTLY would a criminal do with what he heard? Most businesses and many homes have security cameras, alarm systems, barking dogs, etc. Cops are mostly documenters. They spent most of their time writing reports or testifying on the content of those reports in court. People who think they are out Keeping America Safe have been watching too much prime time.
This argument is often trotted out by police departments, but frankly we sometimes have as much to fear from those in authority as we do from common criminals. If the cops have nothing to hide, then what are they hiding? Usually it's their own ineptitude, more than anything, that they don't want us to hear.
I consider my time more valuable than the RAM for which I have already paid (RAM is a sunk cost at that point).
I would much rather have Bloat-O-Shop take 20 seconds and whatever resources it needs to apply a filter to a huge image than wait 20 MINUTES for Gimp to do the same task in a tiny amount of RAM, assuming I have configured Gimp to use RAM sparingly. I can turn around and send out that image 19 minutes, 40 seconds sooner than the guy (a girl would not be so foolish) using an identical installation of Gimp, so whom do you think gets more work in the future?
[x] I do not expect these arguments to be persuasive to those who spend days/weeks/months slaving over a hot terminal session cranking out software, only to give it away for free.
I frequently drive U.S. highways instead of Interstates because there are almost nobody on the U.S. routes and I find the driving MUCH more enjoyable and interesting. If I want to get food or gas I just pull into the parking lot instead of getting mixed up in interchange madness.
Google Maps shows various labels depending on magnification level, so your mileage might vary. They are a hell of a lot better than DeLorme's labels which are either wrong or counter-intuitive.
I will happily add my "me too" post in this thread.
Unlike certain other Star Trek actors, I have never heard a bad word about Mr. Doohan. Although I never met him, he seemed to be a truly affable gentleman worthy of all the praise heaped on him, both on and off the screen.
Plus, considering his efforts in WWII makes him a lot closer to a real-life hero than any on-screen appearance.
Has anyone noted that microwave ovens operate around 2.45 GHz and some of these cpu clock speeds fall around that frequency? You're gonna end up glowing in the dark from sitting next to one of these machines for too long.
Also, the 802.11b & g wireless networking band lies between 2.412 and 2.462GHz, with channel 9 falling on 2.452GHz. So your own machine might be interfering with the wireless network that gives it access to the world.
He doesn't base his statements on facts or experience, it is simply in vogue at Slashdot to rant against Bill Gates, Microsoft, and its products at every opportunity without providing any support for the claims made.
I have heard from a good friend of mine who has a surprisingly successful one-man computer service company that Win 2003 Server is easy to set up and maintain, so much so that he configured it at a customer's site never having seen it before in his life. Couldn't be that bad and terrible and nasty, now could it? And he'll admit that he's not the brightest bulb in the box, although he is very good at thinking on his feet.
For myself, I haven't had a flawless experience with Win2K but I think it is solid enough for my needs. I have an XP system sitting right next to it and I do like the multimedia additions to XP like thumbnails of photos in Windows Explorer, but I have utilities on Win2K that help me manage that stuff just fine.
So my itty bitty enterprise is sticking with Win2K long after it "dies" at the end of the month.
I'm still wondering about this guy who said it has all these overflows that were supposedly fixed in XP. Is this innuendo or supported, demonstrable fact?
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Ahh, so YOU are the guy who keeps turning onto the railroad tracks!!
You must mean computers that don't boot because the people who configured them couldn't bother themselves to read the f@cking manual and follow instructions.
I did it and I'm no genius. You can too.
Sure, because the next guy will be squeaky clean of course.
Look, you can always tell that a politician is lying because his lips are moving. Pick this thief or the other thief, your choice.
The American consumer fell down in not demanding it be done that way.
Sorry, not all of us are rich enough to pay off every legislator down the chain to oppose Comcast's government-enforced monopoly.
What a pity that Comcast's enforced monopoly results in usage of their network. Boo-fucking-hoo for them.
If they operated their retail network like real carriers do on a wholesale level by setting a 90th percentile rate based on actual usage, charge for THAT and make reasonable allowances for overages that would be closer to fair. As it is now, it's a shell game since their metering favors the house and not you, the customer.
I'd prefer HONEST metering, but Comcast aint interested in that.
The FCC rules and regulations have long held it illegal to destroy hamateur radio equipment, so this doesn't surprise me.
But is there a real objective reason why Pastafarianism can not be considered a religion?
Yes. They have not paid enough money into gummint coffers to qualify as a protected religion.
If Giorgio Maone wrote it, then it's close to gospel. He's a Good Guy.
Knuckleheads. ARPAnet and MilNet were designed to be resilient against centralized attack and outages.
"THE INTERNET IS DOWN!! THE INTERNET IS DOWN!!"
You must mean the instructions that offer *only* an email address to be entered so that MS keeps my machine tethered? How is that a "local" account?
What if my machine has no internet connection? I can't use Windows 10 then??
Creating a new account on Windows 10 REQUIRES an e-mail address at Outlook.com
So is this part of Microsoft's devious plan to squeeze all Win10 users for $4/month?
Good thing I don't have a WiFi chip implanted into my skull. And I'm not glued to my goddamned phone, so MIT will need to step up its game if it wants to track ME.
I've never even heard of the QQ browser, but my sentiments are along the same lines as yours.
When you live in the cloud, it's easier to get rained on.
This happens in private industry, too, in fact the railroad industry. Canadian Pacific big wig Hunter Harrison improves the balance sheet of CP by deferring maintenance and selling off rail lines, but once the pain hits in the future he will likely have already cashed out and dumped the problem onto his successor.
He has a history of this behavior which is why Norfolk Southern rebuffed his few merger attempts in recent months. NS knows how to run a railroad and those in the know are quite certain that Harrison would decimate the NS system the same way he has CP if he gains control of NS.
So there are 2 object lessons in how to run a railroad: the good way and the bad way. the funding sources of BART and Metro can take their pick on which way to go.
Not any more. Dulles is watching airlines move to favor lil ol DCA as cramped as it is; DCA is converting the offices that occupy that northern hangar into more gates to accommodate. Like so much infrastructure and urban planning it is too little, too late for Dulles.
They built the highways and transportation systems to handle trends that have shifted in the decades it took to build them.
Metrorail in D.C. had that very thing. A horrible "headlight meet" on the Red Line a few years back, plus the nightmare of the fire in the tunnel last year. If anybody at BART with a few functioning brain cells needs justification they could use D.C.'s experience from afar and look like a hero by "saving lives" instead of waiting for the worst to happen in S.F.
Your heart is in the right place, but my experience with those $10-20 dongles is that they are good for strong signal reception, such as my local public safety trunked system, but they just can't cut it in the real world as an all-around receiver. Software can only do so much with crap hardware.
I tried to set up one on a linux laptop that I was running at my parent's house to receive the local baseball games broadcast on an FM station about 15 miles away. It wasn't happening. Not sensitive enough and getting overload from the many other FM transmitters nearby. No big deal, but if I were serious about that project I would have to upgrade the SDR hardware to something over $100 to do something useful and at that point I might as well scrounge up an old AM/FM radio pulled from a car like a broadcast engineer I know did.
I'd love to find or build a small but powerful SDR to perfect a modern scanner. Uniden locks you into their design choices. SDR# is still a bit too geeky for general use. If it had a good UI with user selectable operating parameters instead of being stuck with a limiting set that would be a win. Usability is key to general acceptance. That's what this DMR portable offers I suspect.
Heh. Like common criminals would
a) Have the awareness to buy/steal a scanner
2) program it correctly
c) use it correctly
d) Listen to it often enough to decode the jargon
Even if in the unlikely event all the above conditions are met, what EXACTLY would a criminal do with what he heard? Most businesses and many homes have security cameras, alarm systems, barking dogs, etc. Cops are mostly documenters. They spent most of their time writing reports or testifying on the content of those reports in court. People who think they are out Keeping America Safe have been watching too much prime time.
This argument is often trotted out by police departments, but frankly we sometimes have as much to fear from those in authority as we do from common criminals. If the cops have nothing to hide, then what are they hiding? Usually it's their own ineptitude, more than anything, that they don't want us to hear.
I consider my time more valuable than the RAM for which I have already paid (RAM is a sunk cost at that point).
I would much rather have Bloat-O-Shop take 20 seconds and whatever resources it needs to apply a filter to a huge image than wait 20 MINUTES for Gimp to do the same task in a tiny amount of RAM, assuming I have configured Gimp to use RAM sparingly. I can turn around and send out that image 19 minutes, 40 seconds sooner than the guy (a girl would not be so foolish) using an identical installation of Gimp, so whom do you think gets more work in the future?
[x] I do not expect these arguments to be persuasive to those who spend days/weeks/months slaving over a hot terminal session cranking out software, only to give it away for free.
You got something against U.S. highways?
I frequently drive U.S. highways instead of Interstates because there are almost nobody on the U.S. routes and I find the driving MUCH more enjoyable and interesting. If I want to get food or gas I just pull into the parking lot instead of getting mixed up in interchange madness.
Google Maps shows various labels depending on magnification level, so your mileage might vary. They are a hell of a lot better than DeLorme's labels which are either wrong or counter-intuitive.
I will happily add my "me too" post in this thread.
Unlike certain other Star Trek actors, I have never heard a bad word about Mr. Doohan. Although I never met him, he seemed to be a truly affable gentleman worthy of all the praise heaped on him, both on and off the screen.
Plus, considering his efforts in WWII makes him a lot closer to a real-life hero than any on-screen appearance.
Safe travels, old friend.
I have never considered sex to be a "problem". I hope this was just a poor translation.
Maybe the so-called leaders of mainland China aren't getting it enough so that those who do pose a threat to them.
How much do you want to bet that these restrictions won't be honored by those in power?
Frames are evil! Tabs are kewl.
So, uh, what about "open software has bugs squashed quickly because so many eyes are looking at it all the time, everywhere"?
Whose eyes? And where are they looking?
Please underclock. Please!
Has anyone noted that microwave ovens operate around 2.45 GHz and some of these cpu clock speeds fall around that frequency? You're gonna end up glowing in the dark from sitting next to one of these machines for too long.
Also, the 802.11b & g wireless networking band lies between 2.412 and 2.462GHz, with channel 9 falling on 2.452GHz. So your own machine might be interfering with the wireless network that gives it access to the world.
It's getting crowded out there.
He doesn't base his statements on facts or experience, it is simply in vogue at Slashdot to rant against Bill Gates, Microsoft, and its products at every opportunity without providing any support for the claims made.
I have heard from a good friend of mine who has a surprisingly successful one-man computer service company that Win 2003 Server is easy to set up and maintain, so much so that he configured it at a customer's site never having seen it before in his life. Couldn't be that bad and terrible and nasty, now could it? And he'll admit that he's not the brightest bulb in the box, although he is very good at thinking on his feet.
For myself, I haven't had a flawless experience with Win2K but I think it is solid enough for my needs. I have an XP system sitting right next to it and I do like the multimedia additions to XP like thumbnails of photos in Windows Explorer, but I have utilities on Win2K that help me manage that stuff just fine.
So my itty bitty enterprise is sticking with Win2K long after it "dies" at the end of the month.
I'm still wondering about this guy who said it has all these overflows that were supposedly fixed in XP. Is this innuendo or supported, demonstrable fact?