For line-of-site, beamed, i.e. direct communications in particular. Anyone
who has done 2m Transmitter hunts can tell you it's real.
For that matter, try doing 2m side-band and you'll find that
the average user is horizontally polarized compared to the
FM croud which use vertical. Again, an easily observed
difference. You put up two antennas and flip a
switch, you'll see a difference in signal level.
Now - a few of things about doing this in the US.
The first issue is content rules. No bad words, etc
over the ham frequencies. So that let's you off going to
that favorite porn site of yours. You can forget a
usenet feed. Hams are actually limited as to what
the what they can say over the radio, same is going
to be true of digital communications.
Another is no encryption. No need to worry about whether
you need 40 bit or 128. Can use either in the ham
bands.
What about monitoring what comes through your
digital repeater station. You DO know you're responsible
for it don't you?
It's an interesting experiment idea, and I can think
of some neat OTHER applications beyond the internet. Hams
are into talking. Maybe this is a relatively cheap
Digitial repeater system and you move Voice data over
it in a wide area network using dishes?
There IS a system outside the military. It was Richochet! Their radio-network was self-organizing!
Metricom's ORIGINAL product plan called for building a system of radios that could be hooked up to Utility meters to get rid of meter readers. They needed the network to be self organizing so that the radios could be deployed randomly. It worked.
Go to www.sycard.com for such stuff. This company specializes in PCMCIA test hardware (amongst other stuff). The company also publishes the PCMCIA handbook so they have ALOT of experience with it.
First off - Satellite transmissions are orchestrated on a an international basis. You don't put one up without co-ordinating where it's going to go.
Sirius is a licensed service. 802.11 isn't. The general rule is that unlicensed services have to shut down if the licensed service is troubled.
At the same time - I've got to think that Sirius should have seen this coming BIG TIME and don't think they have a snow-ball's chance to get 802.11 shutdown. The FCC is nothing if not a bit practical about such things. How would you enforce shutting down every device already shipped???? If Sirius didn't do an adequate engineering job to create their service - tough titties.
There is another basic little hole in this scheme (that may have worked 10 years ago.) Anymore, the IRS considers you an employee if you work more than something like 50% time at a given employer (why I stopped being an independent contractor by the way.) The only way around this that I'm aware of is to become a corporation. So you are talking about EACH employee becoming their own corporation.
Lots of trouble just because you don't use something that is already free! Why not Perl/TK or something equivalent if you have to do gui work? Then as others have mentioned, there is cygwin. There are LOTS of options here from the opensource community. Lay-off the bad advice for how the company should re-form itself (the IRS is wise to this, and will still hold the company liable for lack of paying withholding, etc!)
If it's so unusable, how come I'm getting by with it on a day-to-day basis just fine? I just use the binaries that I get from them. No problems - but then I'm not using Debian either;-)
This set me to wondering - and I'm not trying to lite off a BSD vs Linux debate with this, but another thread entirely. Of unices & unix like systems... Linux is probably the most wide spread at this point in time...(maybe it's solaris, but I'm betting that the total number of installs of linux is greater than solaris now...) So let's assume that assumption is correct. When does Linux become the standard as oppossed to Posix? As a practical matter it might be argued that Linux has already achieved that status when you consider that both BSD and Solaris have Linux compatibility libraries!
Now it has been A LONG time since i could have answered this authoritively - BUT - I'm pretty sure that the hypercube being mentioned in the article is a mathematical construct so your definition of Hypernet may not be real appropriate. A hypercube is a 4 dimensional construct if I remember.
There were supercomputers built by Intel in the early 90's that used hypercube connectivity schemes to minimize connection times for data as I recall. This has been done before.
Children should rebuild their kernels - it could be dangerous.
Your so right about the MS update features. Everytime
I've seen it update- something stops working, or gets less secure.
They REALLY know what they're doing up there in Redmond!
Hmm - and you're using menuconfig instead of xconfig??
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"When did we become such elitists?"
Uhm - the guy who is doing this is a member of the Free software camp, i.e. an RMS follower. I don't remember if RMS believes in "forcing the issue" but I have to agree that it is detrimental to ALL computer users, let alone to users of proprietary software.
Well - it probably isn't fiction - but it's also a 2 year old story!
Things are probably VERY different now-adays because temps are especially having problems finding jobs now! We have a 6.1 percent un-employment level here in the valley right now. That was down at something like 2 percent during 1999. Times have REALLY changed.
I work for a consulting company which puts teams of engineers on projects. Not that different from a temp agency, just a different area of operation. The big diffeence here is that it's plain to our employees that they are OUR employees. Just as in this report our managers handle people issues not the company we contract too. I think we do a better job of things like pay checks and such but I saw alot of parallels in that story. Since we are deploying engineers, the pay checks are larger (yeah - around that 75K figure..)
The working conditions are usually better too, but that is mostly because it's an engineering position.
There is a reason that it looks "obtuse" to you. The language is built to describe parallel things, i.e. stuff occuring at the same time, and at a VERY low level. As others have mentioned, it's built for EE work not CS work.
If you want something that is more C like, then look at verilog. I picked up verilog in 4 days and was producing useful hardware descriptions. I maybe have one advantage over you though. I'd been using pal programming languages like ABEL for 10 years before I ever saw Verilog. You might say my head was already in the right space.
If you want a free verilog compiler that covers 95% of the languages capability check out www.icarus.com
No - that wasn't a troll (that was ME) - because the way the guy talks about it - 220V will make everything run cooler - HUH? The only part affected is the power supply which is NOT where all the heat comes from in PC's. The rest of the PC runs on DC voltages created by the supply and they won't change.
Further - the way the guy wrote it - it literally looks like "use 220" D'oh!
So you want me to put 220V into my 1.8V processor. Uhhuh...good idea.
SHEESH!
As for form factors - Apple is getting away with it primarily because they have more readily accepted the USB as the upgrade path, where as the PC world is still keeping the entire legacy around AND adding USB.
The problem with this is that you wind up with all those messy cables again as soon as you add the peripherals back into the mix when they're connected with USB! Not to mention where do you put them all on your desk?
Well gee- my company had an accross the board 15%
cut recently - something about trying to stay afloat in
a rotten market. That follows a freeze left over
from last year, so that is two years without a raise, and
this year the showed me how much they love me by taking
15% back (canceling out the raise from 2 years ago.
As for Dr. Cosby - he holds and EARNED Phd in
children's education.
Welcome to the REAL world. Most companies can't afford
to give you 50% raises every year. 15% is a GREAT
raise! Look at other fields like teaching where they
go 6 years before they see a 6% raise!
The only nominal way you will see beyond a "percentage"
raise is by jumping ship. If you like your job and
like the people you work with -- think about that prospect long
and hard right now. Jobs are NOT secure right now ANYWHERE in
the technical trades - so if you feel secure, that in itself
has some value right now.
I had a love for the subject and had invested my
own time through pursuit of a hobby related to
electronics. This drove me into Electronic engineering.
I've been there for over 20 years now, and I can
safely say I learned my profession in the university.
I've met several "natural" engineers in my time, one
of which is still one of my closest friends (met him
in college don't ya know..)
I'm considered good at what I do, and I learned it
in university. So go throw the BS some place
else!
This guy happens to be working for a consulting
company (as do I) and I can assure you that these
companies send resumes of their staff to potential
clients. At some point this will REALLY become
an issue if the gentleman plans to stay in the
consulting field.
Further, a college education is more than just the
technical classes that you take. Even at
polytechnic universities like the on I attended there
are breadth requirements for a reason (even though
I hated them at the time).
All that being said - another (tougher) suggestion
is to try getting the degree part time. Giving up
the big pay check can be tough - this the one
solution I know about that doesn't require it. You
do give up a social life (another thing you would
have if you were just a student...)
A Megabyte === 2^20 or approximately 1 millon bytes, etc. That is the industry standard definition of the term. Even though they are borrowed from SI doesn't mean they need to follow SI. This is a 30 year old term at this point and NIST should have better things to do!
I've got agree here. Why are they trying to change something that has come into being within the industry and has an already established understanding?
Hmm - sounds just like double-speak from 1984;-) which were already WELL past;-)
We'll adopt these here in the US just like we've adopted the metric system.
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Now how the HECK would you be able to hold down all those keys to do anything with either a Palm keyboard or handwriting mode??
At least with VI you could actually think about it.
You wouldn't want to do it - but you could consider it.
.
It's not a myth!
For line-of-site, beamed, i.e. direct communications in particular. Anyone who has done 2m Transmitter hunts can tell you it's real. For that matter, try doing 2m side-band and you'll find that the average user is horizontally polarized compared to the FM croud which use vertical. Again, an easily observed difference. You put up two antennas and flip a switch, you'll see a difference in signal level.
Now - a few of things about doing this in the US. The first issue is content rules. No bad words, etc over the ham frequencies. So that let's you off going to that favorite porn site of yours. You can forget a usenet feed. Hams are actually limited as to what the what they can say over the radio, same is going to be true of digital communications.
Another is no encryption. No need to worry about whether you need 40 bit or 128. Can use either in the ham bands.
What about monitoring what comes through your digital repeater station. You DO know you're responsible for it don't you?
It's an interesting experiment idea, and I can think of some neat OTHER applications beyond the internet. Hams are into talking. Maybe this is a relatively cheap Digitial repeater system and you move Voice data over it in a wide area network using dishes?
There IS a system outside the military. It was
Richochet! Their radio-network was self-organizing!
Metricom's ORIGINAL product plan called for building a
system of radios that could be hooked up to Utility meters to
get rid of meter readers. They needed the network to be self
organizing so that the radios could be deployed randomly.
It worked.
Go to www.sycard.com for such stuff. This company specializes in PCMCIA test hardware (amongst other stuff). The company also publishes the PCMCIA handbook so they have ALOT of experience with it.
First off - Satellite transmissions are orchestrated on a
an international basis. You don't put one up without
co-ordinating where it's going to go.
Sirius is a licensed service. 802.11 isn't. The
general rule is that unlicensed services have to shut
down if the licensed service is troubled.
At the same time - I've got to think that Sirius should
have seen this coming BIG TIME and don't think they
have a snow-ball's chance to get 802.11 shutdown. The FCC
is nothing if not a bit practical about such things.
How would you enforce shutting down every device already
shipped???? If Sirius didn't do an adequate engineering job
to create their service - tough titties.
There is another basic little hole in this scheme (that may have worked 10 years ago.) Anymore, the IRS considers you an employee if you work more than something like 50% time at a given employer (why I stopped being an independent contractor by the way.) The only way around this that I'm aware of is to become a corporation. So you are talking about EACH employee becoming their own corporation.
Lots of trouble just because you don't use something that is already free! Why not Perl/TK or something equivalent if you have to do gui work? Then as others have mentioned, there is cygwin. There are LOTS of options here from the opensource community. Lay-off the bad advice for how the company should re-form itself (the IRS is wise to this, and will still hold the company liable for lack of paying withholding, etc!)
If it's so unusable, how come I'm getting by with it ;-)
on a day-to-day basis just fine? I just use the binaries
that I get from them. No problems - but then I'm
not using Debian either
This set me to wondering - and I'm not trying to lite off a BSD vs Linux debate with this, but another thread entirely. Of unices & unix like systems... Linux is probably the most wide spread at this point in time...(maybe it's solaris, but I'm betting that the total number of installs of linux is greater than solaris now...) So let's assume that assumption is correct. When does Linux become the standard as oppossed to Posix? As a practical matter it might be argued that Linux has already achieved that status when you consider that both BSD and Solaris have Linux compatibility libraries!
Thoughts?
Gee -Hmmm...
;-)
I know - here, there you now have a site license to run Linux on any machine you want.
That is a pretty lame reason to only install windows, especially when it simply ISN'T the right tool for the job!
Now it has been A LONG time since i could have answered this authoritively - BUT - I'm pretty sure that the hypercube being mentioned in the article is a mathematical construct so your definition of Hypernet may not be real appropriate. A hypercube is a 4 dimensional construct if I remember.
There were supercomputers built by Intel in the early 90's that used hypercube connectivity schemes to minimize connection times for data as I recall. This has been done before.
Children should rebuild their kernels - it could be dangerous.
Your so right about the MS update features. Everytime
I've seen it update- something stops working, or gets less secure.
They REALLY know what they're doing up there in Redmond!
Hmm - and you're using menuconfig instead of xconfig??
"When did we become such elitists?"
Uhm - the guy who is doing this is a member of the Free software camp, i.e. an RMS follower. I don't remember if RMS believes in "forcing the issue" but I have to agree that it is detrimental to ALL computer users, let alone to users of proprietary software.
To be honest - I think it's a childish behavior.
Think about it a second. Can you say "Slam dunk!"
MS already has a judgement against them on the basis of this case - it's almost a matter of - How much can we take ol' Billy Boy for?
I kinda like it.
How can you have retention of employees without profits (that silly thing that you need to concentrate on ??)
Well - it probably isn't fiction - but it's also a 2 year old story!
Things are probably VERY different now-adays because temps are especially having problems finding jobs now! We have a 6.1 percent un-employment level here in the valley right now. That was down at something like 2 percent during 1999. Times have REALLY changed.
I work for a consulting company which puts teams of engineers on projects. Not that different from a temp agency, just a different area of operation. The big diffeence here is that it's plain to our employees that they are OUR employees. Just as in this report our managers handle people issues not the company we contract too. I think we do a better job of things like pay checks and such but I saw alot of parallels in that story. Since we are deploying engineers, the pay checks are larger (yeah - around that 75K figure..)
The working conditions are usually better too, but that is mostly because it's an engineering position.
Let's try that again.
There is a reason that it looks "obtuse" to you. The language is built to describe parallel things, i.e. stuff occuring at the same time, and at a VERY low level. As others have mentioned, it's built for EE work not CS work.
If you want something that is more C like, then look at verilog. I picked up verilog in 4 days and was producing useful hardware descriptions. I maybe have one advantage over you though. I'd been using pal programming languages like ABEL for 10 years before I ever saw Verilog. You might say my head was already in the right space.
If you want a free verilog compiler that covers 95% of the languages capability check out www.icarus.com
I'm going to take slight exception to your "first's" claim here. Star Trek, The Next Generation. They uploaded a virus to take out the Borg!
No - that wasn't a troll (that was ME) - because the way the guy talks about it - 220V will make everything run cooler - HUH? The only part affected is the power supply which is NOT where all the heat comes from in PC's. The rest of the PC runs on DC voltages created by the supply and they won't change.
Further - the way the guy wrote it - it literally looks like "use 220" D'oh!
So you want me to put 220V into my 1.8V processor. Uhhuh...good idea.
SHEESH!
As for form factors - Apple is getting away with it primarily because they have more readily accepted the USB as the upgrade path, where as the PC world is still keeping the entire legacy around AND adding USB.
The problem with this is that you wind up with all those messy cables again as soon as you add the peripherals back into the mix when they're connected with USB! Not to mention where do you put them all on your desk?
Well gee- my company had an accross the board 15%
cut recently - something about trying to stay afloat in
a rotten market. That follows a freeze left over
from last year, so that is two years without a raise, and
this year the showed me how much they love me by taking
15% back (canceling out the raise from 2 years ago.
As for Dr. Cosby - he holds and EARNED Phd in
children's education.
Welcome to the REAL world. Most companies can't afford
to give you 50% raises every year. 15% is a GREAT
raise! Look at other fields like teaching where they
go 6 years before they see a 6% raise!
The only nominal way you will see beyond a "percentage"
raise is by jumping ship. If you like your job and
like the people you work with -- think about that prospect long
and hard right now. Jobs are NOT secure right now ANYWHERE in
the technical trades - so if you feel secure, that in itself
has some value right now.
I'm going to argue with nonsense.
I had a love for the subject and had invested my
own time through pursuit of a hobby related to
electronics. This drove me into Electronic engineering.
I've been there for over 20 years now, and I can
safely say I learned my profession in the university.
I've met several "natural" engineers in my time, one
of which is still one of my closest friends (met him
in college don't ya know..)
I'm considered good at what I do, and I learned it
in university. So go throw the BS some place
else!
This guy happens to be working for a consulting
company (as do I) and I can assure you that these
companies send resumes of their staff to potential
clients. At some point this will REALLY become
an issue if the gentleman plans to stay in the
consulting field.
Further, a college education is more than just the
technical classes that you take. Even at
polytechnic universities like the on I attended there
are breadth requirements for a reason (even though
I hated them at the time).
All that being said - another (tougher) suggestion
is to try getting the degree part time. Giving up
the big pay check can be tough - this the one
solution I know about that doesn't require it. You
do give up a social life (another thing you would
have if you were just a student...)
No - the standard is useless and incorrect!
A Megabyte === 2^20 or approximately 1 millon bytes, etc. That is the industry standard definition of the term. Even though they are borrowed from SI doesn't mean they need to follow SI. This is a 30 year old term at this point and NIST should have better things to do!
I've got agree here. Why are they trying to change something that has come into being within the industry and has an already established understanding?
;-) which were already WELL past ;-)
Hmm - sounds just like double-speak from 1984
We'll adopt these here in the US just like we've adopted the metric system.