Well - that may be what the study says, but that simply doesn't jive with Silicon Valley's experience. The valley (read US Semiconductor Industry) has never really recovered from the Dot-Bomb downturn. We lost around 200K jobs here in Silicon Valley after the downturn, and they have never really come back. What happened was Bangalore.
Just to highlight this - there was an entire division of Intel that was closed down and re-opened in India a few years ago. You could relocate to India or loose your job. Real simple choice. Speak Hindi??
First my bonafides - I'm a global warming skeptic - at least when it comes to mankind being the cause. I could accept that there is a general warming trend right now (Poles getting smaller seems to be a simple proof of the concept.)
However, proving that man is the cause is a whole different kettle of fish. Consider the following points - The Sun is the single largest contributor to the Earth's temperature, consequently variation in it's output is a first order effect. Oh -and did you know the Sun HAS changed it's output slightly in recent years?
Anyway - the fact that Exxon is spending money to get their point across is no more abnormal than UCS pointing out what Exxon is doing as part of THEIR actions to get UCS's point of view across.
The funny thing is - when you KNOW someone is trying to drop your airplanes out of the air - and this isn't being paranoid - that big hole in the ground in New York supports the claim, then taking precautions to try and identify problem passengers BEFORE the plane takes off seems only prudent doesn't it?
As for any claims by other posters about our "fascist" government. Go look up the term "fascist." We're a long distance from it - and don't forget, we were part of the solution the last time such REAL nasty people took over Europe with plans of conquering the rest of the world.
If they have a "cell phone zapper" then they are currently operating an illegal transmitting device. Thus the reason for the lawsuit.
If anyone would read the article, they would find out that the only place the company is TRYING to sell these zappers to is state and local governments NOT individuals or (GASP) theaters.
More than likely the theater is essentially a fair Faraday Shield which means a metal cage that the signal can't get through. I SERIOUSLY doubt they are operating a transmitter to kill cell phones - as bad as they (and the generic Slashdotter) may want them too.
Yep - if you perform music for a fee -then in the US you are expected to have paid for the right to perform the music to the copyright holders. There are some caveats to that from my understanding, but generally that is the standard.
Any band that performs a number written by someone else is expected to have paid a use fee to the writter.
Now the obvious difference between someone practicing and someone performing for pay is - no money involved in the first instance. So I buy a piece of sheet music - this gives me all the rights I need to practice it, readying it for a performance.
As soon as I receive renumeration - I've stepped into a different payment schedule.
I think the big difference between the example in the article and the normal world is that it would usually be a civil suit to collect the monies, not a felony!
Uhm - seems to me that YouTube has created a system that allows this to occur. So yeah - it is YouTube.
Simple facts are that there has been a whole series of conservative posters having their content removed and or being banned from YouTube. When you look at what was banned you find out that anything containing political speech from the conservative point of view is getting nailed.
So that is suppression of political speech which is supported by the reporting system in place at YouTube.
They may have re-ignited this particular video, but they've also banned MANY MANY users for political speech.
This one is REALLY obvious. Consumer reports is going to prove that these security products can't detect things they haven't seen before and the Virus detection companies don't want you to know their dirty little secret, i.e. this stuff only works after the cow is out of the barn, i.e. a virus has already been seen in the wild, measured, and characterized.
The thing is - the WAPI standard was a "secret" while the IEEE standard simply isn't. Intel and other multinationals would have to yield their intellectual property to chineese companies to support the WAPI standard. THAT is what the companies gripped about.
As for the IEEE - it ISN'T just an American body. The truth is that it has an American aspect (that is certainly large and powerful), but IEEE is an INTERNATIONAL organization. How do I know? - I was a member for 15 years. I've even been involved in IEEE standards creation slightly. This is usually done by company representatives. So if Chineese companies were to send representation to IEEE standards efforts, they would have some influence in same.
You're as likely to Siemens or Alcatel, etc involved in these bodies as you are to see Intel, etc. It is more appropriately a mechanism mostly staffed by professional engineers representing their company's interests that create IEEE standards.
Naah - that was Clinton that always worried about polls. For God Sakes - if Bush worried about polls, 29% approval would have him spinning in his office. He doesn't seem to pay much heed to the results of same.
They use RF carriers riding on the power line as a conductor. As mentioned previously though, powerlines aren't shielded at the 1-30Mhz frequency range, consequently all other users of that band space gets trounced. If you are a amateur, SWL, or maybe even a CBer, you likely won't hear anything but the BLLLLLR of BPL. It looks like a wide band transmitter in the HF spectrum.
Then guess what happens when the amateur who can transmit 1KW in the same spectrum starts using same. I imagine the bits stop moving.
Or typing in your code into the keyboard of an Ollevetti Programma 101. Then there was "Gotran" for the 1620 - or the ORIGINAL Fortran IV for the IBM 1130.
Experience with a Papertape is required also to really qualify here. We ASSUME you can program an 029! If you tell me you can't program an 029 - you don't qualify!
To answer the guy's original question. Certainly an Apple II, IBM-PC Version 1 with the tape cassette, and the Altair 8080 are all good things to display. They were mainstream stuff. The TRS-80 someone mentioned would also be a definate addition to the collection.
If you can locate a SWTPC TV TTY - well - that would also be a major find.
I live in Fremont, CA where we have a brand spanking new Walmart accross the street from a Frys store. I can't imagine they can compete with a major chain store like Frys at component level sales?
I have a contrawise example from a foreign exchange student (this is WAY off topic - but a good story anyway) I'm going to see the guy in a couple days for the first time in 25 years..
Anyway - Mika lived with me when we were both 17 years old during my senior year in high school. Oh - very important to the story is that Mika is from Finland (he's met Linus but that is ANOTHER story).
So naturally Mika took an English class while attending American High School. He pretty reliably was receiving D's during this process.
My father went down to talk to the English teacher to see if he could understand why Mika was having such a horrible time in this class. The teacher commented that his work wasn't that good and didn't compare well with the other foreign exchange students the teacher had encountered. My Dad asked him where those other students were from...uhm England, Australia, and New Zealand. The teacher couldn't see the fact that those are ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES! Mika took his D's and ran with it - I'll just say that he has been quite successful in his chosen career since then and the English teacher was an idiot;-)
See - the water on this little moon is boiling away due to "Global Warming" so this is yet ANOTHER example of the failed Eco policy of this administration!
Well - you folks have just showed your complete ignorance of what is REALLY going on there. Most of the reporting is either happening by folkis who are too chicken to move outside of their hotel rooms OR in doing so, they only focus on the death toll.
Explain the letter from the mayor of an Iraqi city quoted in this link. Don't be afraid that it's on freerepublic - it won't poison you - except you might learn something.
I would second the bit about turn the computers on ONLY when you need them. Wear COATS in the house, and keep the temperature on the furnace so you don't use so much gas. Limit the time in the shower so you keep the water heating bill down.
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Well - that may be what the study says, but that simply doesn't jive with Silicon Valley's experience. The valley (read US Semiconductor Industry) has never really recovered from the Dot-Bomb downturn. We lost around 200K jobs here in Silicon Valley after the downturn, and they have never really come back. What happened was Bangalore.
Just to highlight this - there was an entire division of Intel that was closed down and re-opened in India a few years ago. You could relocate to India or loose your job. Real simple choice. Speak Hindi??
Except when they run into 18 wheelers. Dr. Bill can back up everything he claims with facts. Can you do that?
First my bonafides - I'm a global warming skeptic - at least when it comes to mankind being the cause. I could accept that there is a general warming trend right now (Poles getting smaller seems to be a simple proof of the concept.)
However, proving that man is the cause is a whole different kettle of fish. Consider the following points - The Sun is the single largest contributor to the Earth's temperature, consequently variation in it's output is a first order effect. Oh -and did you know the Sun HAS changed it's output slightly in recent years?
Anyway - the fact that Exxon is spending money to get their point across is no more abnormal than UCS pointing out what Exxon is doing as part of THEIR actions to get UCS's point of view across.
No big deal in my mind.
Now -fill up my tank!
The funny thing is - when you KNOW someone is trying to drop your airplanes out of the air - and this isn't being paranoid - that big hole in the ground in New York supports the claim, then taking precautions to try and identify problem passengers BEFORE the plane takes off seems only prudent doesn't it?
As for any claims by other posters about our "fascist" government. Go look up the term "fascist." We're a long distance from it - and don't forget, we were part of the solution the last time such REAL nasty people took over Europe with plans of conquering the rest of the world.
How soon they forget.
If they have a "cell phone zapper" then they are currently operating an illegal transmitting device. Thus the reason for the lawsuit.
If anyone would read the article, they would find out that the only place the company is TRYING to sell these zappers to is state and local governments NOT individuals or (GASP) theaters.
More than likely the theater is essentially a fair Faraday Shield which means a metal cage that the signal can't get through. I SERIOUSLY doubt they are operating a transmitter to kill cell phones - as bad as they (and the generic Slashdotter) may want them too.
Naah - the problem here is that you've had a good does of Naom Chomsky.
Yep - if you perform music for a fee -then in the US you are expected to have paid for the right to perform the music to the copyright holders. There are some caveats to that from my understanding, but generally that is the standard.
Any band that performs a number written by someone else is expected to have paid a use fee to the writter.
Now the obvious difference between someone practicing and someone performing for pay is - no money involved in the first instance. So I buy a piece of sheet music - this gives me all the rights I need to practice it, readying it for a performance.
As soon as I receive renumeration - I've stepped into a different payment schedule.
I think the big difference between the example in the article and the normal world is that it would usually be a civil suit to collect the monies, not a felony!
Some people can't take a joke! Yeah I know who really invented the Internet - DARPA!
You missed it - Gore invented SPACE now - just like he invented the internet!
Most lawyers are conservative? See ACLU for direct proof to the contrary.
Uhm - seems to me that YouTube has created a system that allows this to occur. So yeah - it is YouTube.
Simple facts are that there has been a whole series of conservative posters having their content removed and or being banned from YouTube. When you look at what was banned you find out that anything containing political speech from the conservative point of view is getting nailed.
So that is suppression of political speech which is supported by the reporting system in place at YouTube.
They may have re-ignited this particular video, but they've also banned MANY MANY users for political speech.
Uhm - Nope.
It wasn't the district court that set aside the injunction, but rather the appellate court!
"Doesn't CA have enough problems."
Well - yes thank you - we do, and I have NO idea why our idiot Attorney General has decided to do this. What a LARGE waste of my tax payer dollars.
Folks,
This one is REALLY obvious. Consumer reports is going to prove that these security products can't detect things they haven't seen before and the Virus detection companies don't want you to know their dirty little secret, i.e. this stuff only works after the cow is out of the barn, i.e. a virus has already been seen in the wild, measured, and characterized.
So curious people want to know - will the USS Enterprise run on Open Source Software?????
The thing is - the WAPI standard was a "secret" while the IEEE standard simply isn't. Intel and other multinationals would have to yield their intellectual property to chineese companies to support the WAPI standard. THAT is what the
companies gripped about.
As for the IEEE - it ISN'T just an American body. The truth is that it has an American aspect (that is certainly large and powerful), but IEEE is an INTERNATIONAL organization. How do I know? - I was a member for 15 years. I've even been involved in IEEE standards creation slightly. This is usually done by company representatives. So if Chineese companies were to send representation to IEEE standards efforts, they would have some influence in same.
You're as likely to Siemens or Alcatel, etc involved in these bodies as you are to see Intel, etc. It is more appropriately a mechanism mostly staffed by professional engineers representing their company's interests that create IEEE standards.
Naah - that was Clinton that always worried about polls. For God Sakes - if Bush worried about polls, 29% approval would have him spinning in his office. He doesn't seem to pay much heed to the results of same.
They use RF carriers riding on the power line as a conductor. As mentioned previously though, powerlines aren't shielded at the 1-30Mhz frequency range, consequently all other users of that band space gets trounced. If you are a amateur, SWL, or maybe even a CBer, you likely won't hear anything but the BLLLLLR of BPL. It looks like a wide band transmitter in the HF spectrum.
Then guess what happens when the amateur who can transmit 1KW in the same spectrum starts using same. I imagine the bits stop moving.
Yes I am ;-)
Or typing in your code into the keyboard of an Ollevetti Programma 101. Then there was "Gotran" for the 1620 - or the ORIGINAL Fortran IV for the IBM 1130.
Experience with a Papertape is required also to really qualify here. We ASSUME you can program an 029! If you tell me you can't program an 029 - you don't qualify!
To answer the guy's original question. Certainly an Apple II, IBM-PC Version 1 with the tape cassette, and the Altair 8080 are all good things to display. They were mainstream stuff. The TRS-80 someone mentioned would also be a definate addition to the collection.
If you can locate a SWTPC TV TTY - well - that would also be a major find.
I live in Fremont, CA where we have a brand spanking new Walmart accross the street from a Frys store. I can't imagine they can compete with a major chain store like Frys at component level sales?
This would be interesting.
I have a contrawise example from a foreign exchange student (this is WAY off topic - but a good story anyway) I'm going to see the guy in a couple days for the first time in 25 years..
;-)
Anyway - Mika lived with me when we were both 17 years old during my senior year in high school. Oh - very important to the story is that Mika is from Finland (he's met Linus but that is ANOTHER story).
So naturally Mika took an English class while attending American High School. He pretty reliably was receiving D's during this process.
My father went down to talk to the English teacher to see if he could understand why Mika was having such a horrible time in this class. The teacher commented that his work wasn't that good and didn't compare well with the other foreign exchange students the teacher had encountered. My Dad asked him where those other students were from...uhm England, Australia, and New Zealand. The teacher couldn't see the fact that those are ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES! Mika took his D's and ran with it - I'll just say that he has been quite successful in his chosen career since then and the English teacher was an idiot
See - the water on this little moon is boiling away due to "Global Warming" so this is yet ANOTHER example of the failed Eco policy of this administration!
Well - you folks have just showed your complete ignorance of what is REALLY going on there. Most of the reporting is either happening by folkis who are too chicken to move outside of their hotel rooms OR in doing so, they only focus on the death toll.
p osts
Explain the letter from the mayor of an Iraqi city quoted in this link. Don't be afraid that it's on freerepublic - it won't poison you - except you might learn something.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581867/
Yeah - or the schools that have been opened or the hospitals that have been rebuilt, or the places where electric power was never present before or...
I would second the bit about turn the computers on ONLY when you need them. Wear COATS in the house, and keep the temperature on the furnace so you don't use so much gas. Limit the time in the shower so you keep the water heating bill down.
All this takes cooperation and discipline!
Good luck.