We're still using 100 year old technology to receive radio broadcasts
No We're Not! First off if we were using 100 year old technology we'd still be using gigantic coils of wires and the most rudimentary of vacuum tubes, and you would power it with wet cell batteries you'd have to mail back to have them re-charged, and everyone would be using morse code.
The first voice broadcast in the world was in 1906 and that is still not even 100 years ago, if even barely not. FM (Frequency Modulation) Was not invented until the 1940s. The Transistor was also invented in the late 1940s and more of us are using them than tubes these days.
I'm not trying to say that I love regulation, but your argument about 100 year old technology was a little off. I do believe we need some regulation, but I would love to see a whole lot less.
I've been using the term Vomitware for a while now. Not only does it make you want to vomit, but it vomits itself all over your hard drive when it installs. ---AOL is also vomitware.
Removing it is just like making sure to check and clean behind the toilet after a night of praying to the porcelain god that the parallel is just to perfect to ignore.
I use Weather Pulse and I love it. I also recommend it to everyone. I even allows you to set your desktop as the weater radar fr your area and updates it every 5 minutes. It has many other very useful features
My only complaints with Weatehr Pulse are minor. It does verify the graphics it downloads which means those of you using dial-up accellerators may not be able to make it work and... sometimes it seems it almost updates a little too often, but I won't hold that against them!
My mistake. I meant radio broadcasting is going to go wifi someday. A wireless network.
You do realize that Ham radio is not broadcasting... Or Amateur Radio is not commercial Broadcast Radio.
Broadcasting: transmissions intended for reception by the general public, either direct or relayed; A one way communication from one source to many recipients.
Transmitting: To send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey; To send (a signal), as by wire or radio.
The rules governing broadcasting by Amateur Radio Operators do vary from country to country but here in the United States with regard to Amateur Radio broadcasting the FCC's regulations are very specific as the where when and why you can broadcast.
As for Broadcasting to all go wifi one day, not going to happen... nope not if you quantify it with the word ALL. Some broadcasting will be done by wifi but not all... It is such a wonderful thing to have diversity. Just as we still have gossip, newspapers, radio, magazines and television; we will merely have yet another medium in which we communicate.
...but what if everyone that has a cell phone had a Ham radio? What would that be like in the middle of a disaster? I don't see it working out too well...
You do need to know more about Ham radio. Even if we put down license requirements for Amateur Radio, The number of avaialble bands and frequencies a Ham can use means that even in the most congested times after an emergency there is plenty of bandwidth to go around. If you add the fact that knowledge is required to be a ham and you do need a license means that Ham Radio operators know what they are supposed to do when and where in respect to sharing frequencies, band plans, priority emergency traffic and the like.
We have a few hams around here who are setting up an entire network around town using D-Link 900AP+ and just passing the network.
HSMM, or High Speed Multimedia, is the name of an ARRL sponsored technical project to introduce high speed data radio to amateur radio. ARRL HSMM Link
The license free 802.11a/b/g services operate on bands that overlap amateur frequency allocations, giving us cheap hardware that can be used under FCC part 97. Hams though can boost the power quite a bit beyond FCC part 15 regs.
don't mind my last rant... I was actually somehow mentally replying to two posts at one and got the concepts sent to the wrong threads all mixed up in my head... I was actually trying to tell you a quarter wave of wire would be better, not that 63 inches was a quarter wave..... I figured it out while I was typing the other one...
Now I have a post floating out there that makes no sense and doesn't resemble anything I thought I was thinking:(
Actually, on ham bands, you cannot legally broadcast -- unless it's an emergency. You have to actually be talking to someone.
Actually there are many times you can broadcast on the ham bands. You can re-BROADCAST NASA transmissions for one, and that is allowed. Also there are such things as Beacons... those are broadcasting too, and they are also allowed. You may also broadcast bulletins of general interest to the Amateur Radio community --- these are called QSTs and are also explicitly allowed in part 97. There are even a few other cases where broadcasting is allowed.
For others reading this post do not confuse BROAD-CASTING with TRANSMITTING. Broadcasting is essentially point-to-multipoint transmitting or blanketing an intended area with a signal so many stations may receive it. Broadcasting is also ONE-WAY transmitting or sending a signal where a response is not expected, intended or even desireable.
Transmitting is merely sending a signal regardless whom or what the inteded recipients are.
...there is NO need to transmit one's license or restrict themselves from playing music.
Actually there is one part of Part 97 that may very well apply. IF You do identify your FM part 15 station with your ham radio call letters, then you are stating you are using it as a ham station, being it is both broadcasting and transmitting in the FM broadcast band, you are Violating your ham license as a ham license does not allow you to do either. So IF you use your ham callsign outside the ham band you are in violation even if your are legal in every other aspect under part 15.
RG-6 is a grade of coaxial cable. Since I can get RG-6 from different manufactures and even generic cable, I don't think calling it a "Part Number" is correct.
The presenter was working the problem as Nextel was having trouble with customers latching onto cell towers in Michigan...from Wisconsin, across Lake Michigan, when conditions were just right. That's 80+ miles.
I've gotten that a few times when the ducting is right and the band is open and I'm near the lake I can hit cell towers in Holland, MI from Racine, WI now and then if my local cell tower is "over the hill" from me... My cellphone would reset itself to Eastern Time instead of Central Time.
Usually the no-power state for an LCD monitor is transparent. It takes more power to darken the screen.
WRONG. The backlight in an LCD monitor is always on. Trueth be told, it takes very little power to switch the little LCD pixles... extremely little, but yes it does take more power to darken the screen, but to say no power for transparent is probably only true if you are talking about the digits in your solar powered LCD calculator, not a monitor
>> A few years ago, a guy used a light bulb as an antenna and was able to work contacts on all 6 continents.
I call shenanigans.........Oh, and I'm AD5RH.
Um you can easily get a lightbulb to radiate RF, it's not like that filliment is sealed in a faraday cage... think about it, use some of that extra class training! ---a crappy antenna still radiates! You can even get some (very minor) radiation out of the best commercial dummy loads, why couldn't you get it out of a lightbulb?
I have found that a good place to view pictures, particularly for us normal people is at http://xpda.com/mars/. The guy there has put together a really nice page with Pictures from the rovers... he even used multiple images with the different spectral filters to show us color photos. -Although it may not be the perfect site for scientific research, it's realy nice for us normal people to get a feel of what it looks like on Mars, and what the rovers have been upto.
For those who are interested he also has a real nice writeup about how he makes the color pictures and what the different filters the cameras use and why.
...it is aggravating to have a single, badly-coded web page take out that browser window and everything else I was tabbing to at that moment...
This was my EXACT complaint with IE. I used to browse with IE and often would open a link in a new window. Sometimes I'd open another browser instance (actually click the icon and start browsing). If I would go to a site that crashed IE all windows from that instance (the chain of "open links in new window") would also just disappear, although any windows from a different instance would remain open. So this problem is definately not exclusive to Firefox or even tabbed browsing
Where does non-heavy hydrogen fusion get the neutrons from?
Physics at this scale is not always what it seems. For instance If you take two nuclear particles and shove them together it isn't like two trains colliding where you get a bunch of little pieces. It would be as though when two trains collided you end up with both trains a bus a cruise ship and a tricycle. Remember E=MC^2 This is where energy is converted directly into matter -- oh and matter is converted directly into energy.
It's been a while since I tried Trillian... (a long while) One reason I stoped using it is that I found it annoying to have multiple entries for persons who were on multiple networks (or multiple screen names). I didn't want to have 3 entries for the same person n order to catch them on whatever network they were on. Have they changed this yet? Can I put multiple entries under one single contact?
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No We're Not! First off if we were using 100 year old technology we'd still be using gigantic coils of wires and the most rudimentary of vacuum tubes, and you would power it with wet cell batteries you'd have to mail back to have them re-charged, and everyone would be using morse code.
The first voice broadcast in the world was in 1906 and that is still not even 100 years ago, if even barely not. FM (Frequency Modulation) Was not invented until the 1940s. The Transistor was also invented in the late 1940s and more of us are using them than tubes these days.
I'm not trying to say that I love regulation, but your argument about 100 year old technology was a little off. I do believe we need some regulation, but I would love to see a whole lot less.
I've been using the term Vomitware for a while now. Not only does it make you want to vomit, but it vomits itself all over your hard drive when it installs. ---AOL is also vomitware.
Removing it is just like making sure to check and clean behind the toilet after a night of praying to the porcelain god that the parallel is just to perfect to ignore.
I use Weather Pulse and I love it. I also recommend it to everyone. I even allows you to set your desktop as the weater radar fr your area and updates it every 5 minutes. It has many other very useful features
My only complaints with Weatehr Pulse are minor. It does verify the graphics it downloads which means those of you using dial-up accellerators may not be able to make it work and... sometimes it seems it almost updates a little too often, but I won't hold that against them!
You do realize that Ham radio is not broadcasting... Or Amateur Radio is not commercial Broadcast Radio.
The rules governing broadcasting by Amateur Radio Operators do vary from country to country but here in the United States with regard to Amateur Radio broadcasting the FCC's regulations are very specific as the where when and why you can broadcast.
As for Broadcasting to all go wifi one day, not going to happen... nope not if you quantify it with the word ALL. Some broadcasting will be done by wifi but not all... It is such a wonderful thing to have diversity. Just as we still have gossip, newspapers, radio, magazines and television; we will merely have yet another medium in which we communicate.
You do need to know more about Ham radio. Even if we put down license requirements for Amateur Radio, The number of avaialble bands and frequencies a Ham can use means that even in the most congested times after an emergency there is plenty of bandwidth to go around. If you add the fact that knowledge is required to be a ham and you do need a license means that Ham Radio operators know what they are supposed to do when and where in respect to sharing frequencies, band plans, priority emergency traffic and the like.
We have a few hams around here who are setting up an entire network around town using D-Link 900AP+ and just passing the network.
HSMM, or High Speed Multimedia, is the name of an ARRL sponsored technical project to introduce high speed data radio to amateur radio. ARRL HSMM Link
The license free 802.11a/b/g services operate on bands that overlap amateur frequency allocations, giving us cheap hardware that can be used under FCC part 97. Hams though can boost the power quite a bit beyond FCC part 15 regs.
Ha
I named mine to Linkski
I helped a friend once, so I set all his stuff up the same as mine. He still can't say linksys he always calls it a linkski.
From the article:
So now the pixles are attached to the glass? WHAT?! Are the pixels little stickers or something??
I love articles written by people who have no idea what the hell they are saying.
don't mind my last rant... I was actually somehow mentally replying to two posts at one and got the concepts sent to the wrong threads all mixed up in my head... I was actually trying to tell you a quarter wave of wire would be better, not that 63 inches was a quarter wave..... I figured it out while I was typing the other one...
Now I have a post floating out there that makes no sense and doesn't resemble anything I thought I was thinking :(
That's a QUARTER wavelength antenna, not a half! 63 inches is 1.66 Meters, tuned to 90.3 MHz
Actually there are many times you can broadcast on the ham bands. You can re-BROADCAST NASA transmissions for one, and that is allowed. Also there are such things as Beacons... those are broadcasting too, and they are also allowed. You may also broadcast bulletins of general interest to the Amateur Radio community --- these are called QSTs and are also explicitly allowed in part 97. There are even a few other cases where broadcasting is allowed.
For others reading this post do not confuse BROAD-CASTING with TRANSMITTING. Broadcasting is essentially point-to-multipoint transmitting or blanketing an intended area with a signal so many stations may receive it. Broadcasting is also ONE-WAY transmitting or sending a signal where a response is not expected, intended or even desireable.
Transmitting is merely sending a signal regardless whom or what the inteded recipients are.
Actually there is one part of Part 97 that may very well apply. IF You do identify your FM part 15 station with your ham radio call letters, then you are stating you are using it as a ham station, being it is both broadcasting and transmitting in the FM broadcast band, you are Violating your ham license as a ham license does not allow you to do either. So IF you use your ham callsign outside the ham band you are in violation even if your are legal in every other aspect under part 15.
RG-6 is a grade of coaxial cable. Since I can get RG-6 from different manufactures and even generic cable, I don't think calling it a "Part Number" is correct.
I've gotten that a few times when the ducting is right and the band is open and I'm near the lake I can hit cell towers in Holland, MI from Racine, WI now and then if my local cell tower is "over the hill" from me... My cellphone would reset itself to Eastern Time instead of Central Time.
WRONG. The backlight in an LCD monitor is always on. Trueth be told, it takes very little power to switch the little LCD pixles... extremely little, but yes it does take more power to darken the screen, but to say no power for transparent is probably only true if you are talking about the digits in your solar powered LCD calculator, not a monitor
>> A few years ago, a guy used a light bulb as an antenna and was able to work contacts on all 6 continents.
I call shenanigans..... ....Oh, and I'm AD5RH.
Um you can easily get a lightbulb to radiate RF, it's not like that filliment is sealed in a faraday cage... think about it, use some of that extra class training! ---a crappy antenna still radiates! You can even get some (very minor) radiation out of the best commercial dummy loads, why couldn't you get it out of a lightbulb?
Ever try using a sat phone when you can't get a good view of the sky?
I have found that a good place to view pictures, particularly for us normal people is at http://xpda.com/mars/. The guy there has put together a really nice page with Pictures from the rovers... he even used multiple images with the different spectral filters to show us color photos. -Although it may not be the perfect site for scientific research, it's realy nice for us normal people to get a feel of what it looks like on Mars, and what the rovers have been upto.
For those who are interested he also has a real nice writeup about how he makes the color pictures and what the different filters the cameras use and why.
What makes you think the parent is old enough to have been in Junior High yet????
ok... sorry couldn't help it
Watts were Amps times Volts.... And you could have plenty of Amps at fractions of a Volt - and vice versa.
1 Amp at 30 Volts can Kill you, so can 30 Amps at 1 Volt. Watts are what count.
This was my EXACT complaint with IE. I used to browse with IE and often would open a link in a new window. Sometimes I'd open another browser instance (actually click the icon and start browsing). If I would go to a site that crashed IE all windows from that instance (the chain of "open links in new window") would also just disappear, although any windows from a different instance would remain open. So this problem is definately not exclusive to Firefox or even tabbed browsing
Physics at this scale is not always what it seems. For instance If you take two nuclear particles and shove them together it isn't like two trains colliding where you get a bunch of little pieces. It would be as though when two trains collided you end up with both trains a bus a cruise ship and a tricycle. Remember E=MC^2 This is where energy is converted directly into matter -- oh and matter is converted directly into energy.
thanx I'll look into it (been a very very long time since I looked at Gaim too)
I thought Depp looked almost as though they tried to add a little Michael Jackson to his appearance
NOT the glove wearing hip look, but the freaky guy in his 40s Jackson
It's been a while since I tried Trillian... (a long while) One reason I stoped using it is that I found it annoying to have multiple entries for persons who were on multiple networks (or multiple screen names). I didn't want to have 3 entries for the same person n order to catch them on whatever network they were on. Have they changed this yet? Can I put multiple entries under one single contact?