It's amazing to me how much "WiFi" stuff resembles ancient and modern DX Rituals in the Ham community.
Good job guys. THat's a heck of an antenna, but it's not that old of a design. I know a ham who uses a similar design on 10GhZ and 5 watts or so.
I'm working on an article for Ars Technica that details just how to do that. There's some great shortwave/ham software named MixW that allows you to decode weatherfax, SSTV, Hellschreiber etc...
So what?
It's new to a lot of people. And the fact that you can do it with your PC makes it relevant to Slashdot.
Besides, the fact that we can get weather satellite pictures off the net doesn't make this hobby irrelevant. We can make voice calls over standard analog telephone lines, yet people still use IM and such.
Props to the guy for the cool project.
You're absolutely right, but to this day, I haven't found an OS that was as fun as BeOS. It just had a certain quality about it made it really fun to use.
You're completely wrong about the satellites.
XM has two satellites in GeoSync orbit 23,000 miles above the surface of the earth. These birds rotate with the earth and are in fixed, constant positions.
Sirius has 3 birds in a race-track figure 8 pattern that goes as high as northern canada and swoops down through the central USA all the way to Central America. Sirius' satellites are in much lower orbit.
I think, though, that IBM will get moving on this problem around the
year 1995, if only so that the society on which they depend for profits
will continue to exist.
Interesting how things change. THey had no clue there would be another dozen movers and shakers in the industry by 1995, and Mircosoft was hardly a blip on the radar. IBM was the 800lb guerilla.
where will we be in 2017? I wonder if IBM looked as invincible to those guys in '85 as MS does to us in '02.
Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985. Here it is below:
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
Re: Censorhip, no. There are parental control options available, but everything else is allowed, on some stations at least. The Rhyme XL plays classic 80s and early 90s rap, full on gangster music with bitches and ho's and everything.
There are three comedy channels, one for families with people like Bill Cosby, an 'adult' one with all sorts of uncensored stand-up bits, and an on-air prank channel or something to that effect.
Actually, XM and Sirius have an MOU on the books that basically promises to make the technologies compatible in the future so that a consumer can buy one unit and use either service.
and I haven't bought a new CD or touched MP3s in three months.
It's that good. Where to start....
1. Content: Excellent. The 6 or 7 rock channels are superb and all are commercial free. I start my day out with Fred, Channel 44, and listen to a little alternative music. Move over to Unsigned, channel 51 and listen to the new bands that are up and coming. Some really good stuff there. Decide I want to make the commute a little better, so I flip over to CHannel 160, Comedy XL and enjoy some of the stand up bits they play constantly from people like Margaret Cho, Chris Rock, Denis Leary, and a whole bunch of other talented, dirty comedians. Next switch is to BBC World Service, then onto Discovery Radio News where I listen to a bit about the Endeavour Mission to the Space shuttle.
Memorial Day Weekend: XM Special channel 30 plays surf music all weekend long to kick off the start of the summer. Excellent!
I can literally listen to more music than I could possibly have in my car in the form of $15 CDs with 12 songs on them. Bluegrass, country, the best of the 70s, Classic rock,Opera, Broadway shows, they even had a John Williams special on the Show-Tunes channel and I was driving down the road listening to the Vader Theme from Star Wars. They also had Blues Traveller perform live, interviewed Mic Jagger once, and many others.
Talk- Great selection. Phil Hendrie, the funniest man in radio is on in the afternoon on 166, The Buzz.
2. Audio Quality and clarity- Excellent for the most part. I'd say the sound quality is just below that of a CD, but I have the Sony plug and play unit that interfaces into my cassette player in my car. I didn't want to get a new head unit. It sounds excellent at home plugged into my receiver. The sony unit also has a USB connection on the back for future connectivity with a PC, I assume.
I live in Los Angeles, and in some parts of the City, the signal will go uninterrupted even under bridges. I was under the impression they didn't have the audio repeaters up yet (due to fights with the Cell phone companies and the NAB), but in some areas of LA you can be in a deep dark tunnel and still hear your radio. In the suburbs, however, a bridge will temporarily knock out your reception.
Sirius isn't even nation-wide yet. They don't anticipate a full launch until August. As far as Clear Channel investing in XM, it's not a worry. XM is selling a service. XM is the new HBO of Radio and they are not going to screw it up. It's their business model to say they are different from FM, Clear Channel is just providing content, especially the talk shows. And BTW, Sirius is also being invested in by Infinity/CBS, another major radio player.
As far as advertising, on the talk channels you may have up to 20 minutes per hour, but on XM content music channels, you won't find more than 6 minutes per hour, and there are 30 commercial free channels.
GO with XM. You will not regret it, I promise you. The variety of the content is just remarkable, you will want to drive around more or bring the unit into your house just to explore. This is the future fellas, I was skeptical at first, but now I don't want to be without it.
My company is about to go under, so I've been applying nad posting like crazy to different places.
I also have a terrible commute to my current office and wanted to find an IT position in my suburb community.
So, I thought I'd be innovative. I figured, "I can be passive and just hit F-5 all day long on Monster.com, or I can actually be a little more aggressive." My first stop was the industrial association in my hometown that represented all the businesses in the commerce park. That yielded the names of the companies, but no contact information.
Next stop was the chamber of commerce website where I was able to find the names, addresses, and contact information for about 4 dozen medium sized companies that I knew had to have computers (ie not manufacturing companies or retail places).
After getting the data, manually typing it into a database, creating a generic yet specific form letter addressed to the IT department, merging the documents, and finally printing about 35 letters and envelops, then printing 35 color resumes (I've got a bit of color in my resume to make it standout)and finally folding 70 documents three ways and licking 35 stamps, I sent them out via snail mail, $0.34 a piece.
After reading this and the previous story, I felt a little conflicted. I mean I put a good day's work into this little project and I'm still updating my list, sending out new packages and hoping for replies. None so far unfortunately.
So, if what I have done is spam, then I'm guilty as charged I suppose. But at least my form of spam takes a lot of effort, research and skills. And if only 1 out of 100 of those companies like what they see, then I've scored big time.
It comes from SpyMac.com
on
Apple PDA?
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· Score: 5, Informative
the same folks who had a mockup picture of the 'iWalk' back in October. These guys lack all credibility in my book, and were very clever back then at getting the Apple community all excited. Even Slashdot reported it in October. Check out their archives on http://www.spymac.com on and around October 23rd for the first run at this hoax.
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It's amazing to me how much "WiFi" stuff resembles ancient and modern DX Rituals in the Ham community. Good job guys. THat's a heck of an antenna, but it's not that old of a design. I know a ham who uses a similar design on 10GhZ and 5 watts or so.
I'm working on an article for Ars Technica that details just how to do that. There's some great shortwave/ham software named MixW that allows you to decode weatherfax, SSTV, Hellschreiber etc...
So what? It's new to a lot of people. And the fact that you can do it with your PC makes it relevant to Slashdot. Besides, the fact that we can get weather satellite pictures off the net doesn't make this hobby irrelevant. We can make voice calls over standard analog telephone lines, yet people still use IM and such. Props to the guy for the cool project.
You're absolutely right, but to this day, I haven't found an OS that was as fun as BeOS. It just had a certain quality about it made it really fun to use.
You're completely wrong about the satellites. XM has two satellites in GeoSync orbit 23,000 miles above the surface of the earth. These birds rotate with the earth and are in fixed, constant positions. Sirius has 3 birds in a race-track figure 8 pattern that goes as high as northern canada and swoops down through the central USA all the way to Central America. Sirius' satellites are in much lower orbit.
I think, though, that IBM will get moving on this problem around the year 1995, if only so that the society on which they depend for profits will continue to exist.
Interesting how things change. THey had no clue there would be another dozen movers and shakers in the industry by 1995, and Mircosoft was hardly a blip on the radar. IBM was the 800lb guerilla.
where will we be in 2017? I wonder if IBM looked as invincible to those guys in '85 as MS does to us in '02.
Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985. Here it is below:Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
Re: Censorhip, no. There are parental control options available, but everything else is allowed, on some stations at least. The Rhyme XL plays classic 80s and early 90s rap, full on gangster music with bitches and ho's and everything.
There are three comedy channels, one for families with people like Bill Cosby, an 'adult' one with all sorts of uncensored stand-up bits, and an on-air prank channel or something to that effect.
No censorhip my friend, pretty cool.
Actually, XM and Sirius have an MOU on the books that basically promises to make the technologies compatible in the future so that a consumer can buy one unit and use either service.
and I haven't bought a new CD or touched MP3s in three months.
It's that good. Where to start....
1. Content: Excellent. The 6 or 7 rock channels are superb and all are commercial free. I start my day out with Fred, Channel 44, and listen to a little alternative music. Move over to Unsigned, channel 51 and listen to the new bands that are up and coming. Some really good stuff there. Decide I want to make the commute a little better, so I flip over to CHannel 160, Comedy XL and enjoy some of the stand up bits they play constantly from people like Margaret Cho, Chris Rock, Denis Leary, and a whole bunch of other talented, dirty comedians. Next switch is to BBC World Service, then onto Discovery Radio News where I listen to a bit about the Endeavour Mission to the Space shuttle.
Memorial Day Weekend: XM Special channel 30 plays surf music all weekend long to kick off the start of the summer. Excellent!
I can literally listen to more music than I could possibly have in my car in the form of $15 CDs with 12 songs on them. Bluegrass, country, the best of the 70s, Classic rock,Opera, Broadway shows, they even had a John Williams special on the Show-Tunes channel and I was driving down the road listening to the Vader Theme from Star Wars. They also had Blues Traveller perform live, interviewed Mic Jagger once, and many others.
Talk- Great selection. Phil Hendrie, the funniest man in radio is on in the afternoon on 166, The Buzz.
2. Audio Quality and clarity- Excellent for the most part. I'd say the sound quality is just below that of a CD, but I have the Sony plug and play unit that interfaces into my cassette player in my car. I didn't want to get a new head unit. It sounds excellent at home plugged into my receiver. The sony unit also has a USB connection on the back for future connectivity with a PC, I assume.
I live in Los Angeles, and in some parts of the City, the signal will go uninterrupted even under bridges. I was under the impression they didn't have the audio repeaters up yet (due to fights with the Cell phone companies and the NAB), but in some areas of LA you can be in a deep dark tunnel and still hear your radio. In the suburbs, however, a bridge will temporarily knock out your reception.
Sirius isn't even nation-wide yet. They don't anticipate a full launch until August. As far as Clear Channel investing in XM, it's not a worry. XM is selling a service. XM is the new HBO of Radio and they are not going to screw it up. It's their business model to say they are different from FM, Clear Channel is just providing content, especially the talk shows. And BTW, Sirius is also being invested in by Infinity/CBS, another major radio player.
As far as advertising, on the talk channels you may have up to 20 minutes per hour, but on XM content music channels, you won't find more than 6 minutes per hour, and there are 30 commercial free channels.
GO with XM. You will not regret it, I promise you. The variety of the content is just remarkable, you will want to drive around more or bring the unit into your house just to explore. This is the future fellas, I was skeptical at first, but now I don't want to be without it.
My company is about to go under, so I've been applying nad posting like crazy to different places.
I also have a terrible commute to my current office and wanted to find an IT position in my suburb community.
So, I thought I'd be innovative. I figured, "I can be passive and just hit F-5 all day long on Monster.com, or I can actually be a little more aggressive." My first stop was the industrial association in my hometown that represented all the businesses in the commerce park. That yielded the names of the companies, but no contact information.
Next stop was the chamber of commerce website where I was able to find the names, addresses, and contact information for about 4 dozen medium sized companies that I knew had to have computers (ie not manufacturing companies or retail places).
After getting the data, manually typing it into a database, creating a generic yet specific form letter addressed to the IT department, merging the documents, and finally printing about 35 letters and envelops, then printing 35 color resumes (I've got a bit of color in my resume to make it standout)and finally folding 70 documents three ways and licking 35 stamps, I sent them out via snail mail, $0.34 a piece.
After reading this and the previous story, I felt a little conflicted. I mean I put a good day's work into this little project and I'm still updating my list, sending out new packages and hoping for replies. None so far unfortunately.
So, if what I have done is spam, then I'm guilty as charged I suppose. But at least my form of spam takes a lot of effort, research and skills. And if only 1 out of 100 of those companies like what they see, then I've scored big time.
the same folks who had a mockup picture of the 'iWalk' back in October. These guys lack all credibility in my book, and were very clever back then at getting the Apple community all excited. Even Slashdot reported it in October. Check out their archives on http://www.spymac.com on and around October 23rd for the first run at this hoax.