Its pretty easy to go over the maximum power output, which I believe is two watts. Assuming certain combinations of high-gain antennae and an amplifiers, there is no helping blowing past the FCC regs.
To find out if you are over, you need to calculate to total db of gain you have, and convert that to watts.
Being 16, a Linux user for [almost] 3 years, (and someone who earns $20/hr setting up Linux servers for local businesses), and having attended a computer camp, I can whole heartedly recommend that your students individually install Linux on a computer.
It can be tough, though, as some will bring computers that they can't touch. When I went to computer camp, there were a bunch of rental machines. Had they decided to teach us to install Linux (They didnt, I was the only Linux user... It was extrememly amusing to watch the VB trojans created by our loving counselers fail completely on my box, however... ), I think it would have been smart to image a rental box, store the image someplace, and let the campers go hog wild installing *ix.
You can study, and you can watch someone do it on thier screen, but its nothing like doing it yourself.
When I first started with Linux, I had by cobbled together box that I built for $40, which included 3 hard drives and an S3 Vision864 graphics card. Because I had a free CD of Turbolinux that I got when installing a router at my church, I installed Turbolinux 6.0. XFree86 3.3.6, kernel 2.2.14, all kinds of fun stuff. I tried to *resize* my Windows partition, which produced negative consequences for about 30 mp3s, otherwise failing to have any effect. And that graphics card. If you though S3 cards were bad in windows, you should try to get one working in XFree3.3.6. It took me hours of xf86config tweaking before I had two readable resolutions: 640x480 and 1024x768. Didn't touch XF86Config ever again.
All of that to say, it was a major pain in the butt. No kudzu holding my hand, I had to learn everything from scratch. It was a big deal, but now I configure XFree86 with ease, and can partition a harddrive with the best of them (well, for what its worth. It's not really all that hard:P).
With Linux, its a learn by doing proposition. I urge you to offer your students this opportunity.
-geogeek
~Geogeek now runs an Athlon 1.4GHz box with a nice, big, 80GB hard drive, and a Radeon 8500. Funded in part by Linux skills~
That was an excellent book- read on the suggestion of my third grade teacher. I still think about it all these years later. Just goes to show you what a teacher who knows her students can do for them:).
No, but I noticed how MacOSX has nothing to do with this article.
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Fine with me if he wants to complain, Google still remains my number one search engine, due to its highly relavent results.
You can whine all you want, but that doesn't change reality.
~geogeek
The assesment was pretty accurate: Hundreds of WAPs, cool stats. Also, confusing it with the Austrailians didn't mean it was a copy cat of the Austrailians.
As ever, read the story. The blurb is so you know what you are clicking on.
~geogeek
No, they merely have to research the same benchmarks that we slashdotter's know about, or even ask their local computer geek. People ask me often about this very subject, I tell them to buy an Athlon. Maybe you don't realize this, since generally people just want an answer, not an insult....
All Intel really needs for such vauge language as "superior processor to Intel's own Pentium III and AMD's Athlon" is the tinyest feature or benchmark to indicate such. For example, Intel could argue that because the P4 throttles when it gets too hot, as opposed to the P3 (which ceases to work until a reboot) or the Athlon (which burns up), it is superior. Not that they would, except from a legal standpoint. For a more realistic argument, the fastest P4s have been beating Athlon's on most tests, simply because the Athlon's have a disadvantage of hundreds of MHz. You referenced one such test yourself. As such, Intel could claim without any twisting of the truth, and even maintaining the vein of thinking we expect, (that is, that the processor really does do calculations faster) and be correct in saying that their processor is faster, or more "superior". While the customer is getting ripped off, Intel's claims are no longer off base. It may be pathetic, but it still remains the consumer's responsiblity for not getting himself ripped off. Just like anything else, all it takes is a little research and quereying of those who know the truth. When people ask me, I suggest an Athlon. I'm sure you do the same. People don't have to be experts, they just have to make smart decisions about where they spend their money.
The plaintiffs do not appear to be accusing Intel of lying about the P4's clock speed, says Rob Enderle, a research fellow with Giga Information Group. They're complaining about the P4's performance, and that's a crucial element to the case's viability, he says. "As long as the market is going after megahertz, and Intel is reporting the correct megahertz, then I do not think this is actionable," he says. "Megahertz is misleading, but that has to do with the fact that the industry doesn't use benchmarks."
While not directly accusing Intel of lying as to clockspeeds, the group is accusing Intel of having a processor that is too slow for what clockspeed it operates at. While this may be true, that doesn't mean that Intel saying "This processor is 2.53GHz" and "Its really fast" is illegal. If the consumer is too stupid to realize that 2.53GHz != Necessarily faster than an Athlon, the consumer will pay for their stupidity and Intel will profit. A clever ploy by Intel, but nothing illegal about it. State lotteries prey on people's stupidity in a much more ethically objectionable fashion...
This case is almost too stupid to comment on. Its not misleading to say your processor is as fast as it is, in actual MHz. Its up to the consumer to be smart enough to realize that MHz are not the end all. Whoever is taking this to court is dumb as a rock.
~geogeek
If they won't do this, I would like to see RedHat improve their system to not gradually degrade into a pile of confused and intensely interdependent RPMs.
~geogeek
You hit on an attitude I've seen over and over-- not one that is necessarily wrong, but one that separates those who do thier job based on principles of enjoyment where others do thier job based on priniciples of economics. I love computers. I am 16. By all accounts, I should be some dork cracking away at IIS boxen in between my job at Subway and my evil evil filesharing. But I'm not. Instead, I actively seek out oppurtunities to use my skills- even for *gasp* free! And honestly, not only has some of my non-paying work been my most rewarding, but it has also lead to experience and oppurtunities to make lots of money in a short amount of time-- what many in the industry seek out, and miss, because they have the wrong approach. For example, I work for my school's computer lab during the summer. Not a whole lot of money there-- I'm not sure, cause I haven't checked the math, but I'd bet I make maybe 2 or 3 dollars and hour for my work there. I don't do it because I want to make all kinds of money-- I do it because I want the experience, and I see hacking BSD in an air conditioned lab as a much riper experience than washing dishes for the local college. Anyway, our school was approached by a company selling a management product that would allow students to track grades and assignments using a webbased interface. As such, our school's BSD server needed to be configured with MySQL and PHP. So impressed was this company with my configuration that they recruited me to setup Linux solutions for their other clients-- at a far better wage. Soon, I will be coding small stuff for them. From there, I hope to progress with the company as they grow and mature. Those who treat their IT job as an investment rather than an easy way to a good salary are the ones who will find what the other is looking for.
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Why on earth is it babbling the same nonsensical stuff over and over again? And sense when is "Lozenge" part of the linux source code?
Its pretty easy to go over the maximum power output, which I believe is two watts. Assuming certain combinations of high-gain antennae and an amplifiers, there is no helping blowing past the FCC regs.
To find out if you are over, you need to calculate to total db of gain you have, and convert that to watts.
geogeek
Ditto.
Being 16, a Linux user for [almost] 3 years, (and someone who earns $20/hr setting up Linux servers for local businesses), and having attended a computer camp, I can whole heartedly recommend that your students individually install Linux on a computer.
:P).
It can be tough, though, as some will bring computers that they can't touch. When I went to computer camp, there were a bunch of rental machines. Had they decided to teach us to install Linux (They didnt, I was the only Linux user... It was extrememly amusing to watch the VB trojans created by our loving counselers fail completely on my box, however... ), I think it would have been smart to image a rental box, store the image someplace, and let the campers go hog wild installing *ix.
You can study, and you can watch someone do it on thier screen, but its nothing like doing it yourself.
When I first started with Linux, I had by cobbled together box that I built for $40, which included 3 hard drives and an S3 Vision864 graphics card. Because I had a free CD of Turbolinux that I got when installing a router at my church, I installed Turbolinux 6.0. XFree86 3.3.6, kernel 2.2.14, all kinds of fun stuff. I tried to *resize* my Windows partition, which produced negative consequences for about 30 mp3s, otherwise failing to have any effect. And that graphics card. If you though S3 cards were bad in windows, you should try to get one working in XFree3.3.6. It took me hours of xf86config tweaking before I had two readable resolutions: 640x480 and 1024x768. Didn't touch XF86Config ever again.
All of that to say, it was a major pain in the butt. No kudzu holding my hand, I had to learn everything from scratch. It was a big deal, but now I configure XFree86 with ease, and can partition a harddrive with the best of them (well, for what its worth. It's not really all that hard
With Linux, its a learn by doing proposition. I urge you to offer your students this opportunity.
-geogeek
~Geogeek now runs an Athlon 1.4GHz box with a nice, big, 80GB hard drive, and a Radeon 8500. Funded in part by Linux skills~
Whatever happened to having "paid one's debt to society"?
Whatever happened to "your reputation precedes you"?
or "your are accountable for your actions"?
or, on a grand scale, "sinners go to hell"?
geogeek
That was an excellent book- read on the suggestion of my third grade teacher. I still think about it all these years later. Just goes to show you what a teacher who knows her students can do for them :).
~geogeek
I'm working the same issue. Can you tell me generally what you did to fix the parser errors? Thanks, geogeek
Great, now people compiling PHP are committing patches to linux.... ;)
Smallish switch: $50 1000' Cat 5: $65 Sheesh... ~geogeek
Yes, it does. Big Iron was, and contiues to be, stable and reliable.
I'd bet the artists just use whatever is best. Probably the philosophical quality of thier images is no big deal to them.
It Melts.
It does the same thing as PCAnywhere in a cost-free, cross platform manner.
No, but I noticed how MacOSX has nothing to do with this article.
Fine with me if he wants to complain, Google still remains my number one search engine, due to its highly relavent results. You can whine all you want, but that doesn't change reality. ~geogeek
The assesment was pretty accurate: Hundreds of WAPs, cool stats. Also, confusing it with the Austrailians didn't mean it was a copy cat of the Austrailians. As ever, read the story. The blurb is so you know what you are clicking on. ~geogeek
Here is where I explain this, furthur down the page.
~geogeek
It would seem that you can only get Word included with the 2002 edition of Works Suite, which costs twice as much as Works.
Here are some links from newegg that seem to indicate as much:
Works, Standard
Works Suite
~geogeek
Good point. Although I do advise them of the price preformance issues neverless. And SIS makes a great chipset ;)
No, they merely have to research the same benchmarks that we slashdotter's know about, or even ask their local computer geek. People ask me often about this very subject, I tell them to buy an Athlon. Maybe you don't realize this, since generally people just want an answer, not an insult....
All Intel really needs for such vauge language as "superior processor to Intel's own Pentium III and AMD's Athlon" is the tinyest feature or benchmark to indicate such. For example, Intel could argue that because the P4 throttles when it gets too hot, as opposed to the P3 (which ceases to work until a reboot) or the Athlon (which burns up), it is superior. Not that they would, except from a legal standpoint.
For a more realistic argument, the fastest P4s have been beating Athlon's on most tests, simply because the Athlon's have a disadvantage of hundreds of MHz. You referenced one such test yourself. As such, Intel could claim without any twisting of the truth, and even maintaining the vein of thinking we expect, (that is, that the processor really does do calculations faster) and be correct in saying that their processor is faster, or more "superior". While the customer is getting ripped off, Intel's claims are no longer off base.
It may be pathetic, but it still remains the consumer's responsiblity for not getting himself ripped off. Just like anything else, all it takes is a little research and quereying of those who know the truth. When people ask me, I suggest an Athlon. I'm sure you do the same. People don't have to be experts, they just have to make smart decisions about where they spend their money.
~geogeek
The plaintiffs do not appear to be accusing Intel of lying about the P4's clock speed, says Rob Enderle, a research fellow with Giga Information Group. They're complaining about the P4's performance, and that's a crucial element to the case's viability, he says. "As long as the market is going after megahertz, and Intel is reporting the correct megahertz, then I do not think this is actionable," he says. "Megahertz is misleading, but that has to do with the fact that the industry doesn't use benchmarks."
While not directly accusing Intel of lying as to clockspeeds, the group is accusing Intel of having a processor that is too slow for what clockspeed it operates at. While this may be true, that doesn't mean that Intel saying "This processor is 2.53GHz" and "Its really fast" is illegal. If the consumer is too stupid to realize that 2.53GHz != Necessarily faster than an Athlon, the consumer will pay for their stupidity and Intel will profit. A clever ploy by Intel, but nothing illegal about it.
State lotteries prey on people's stupidity in a much more ethically objectionable fashion...
~geogeek
This case is almost too stupid to comment on. Its not misleading to say your processor is as fast as it is, in actual MHz. Its up to the consumer to be smart enough to realize that MHz are not the end all. Whoever is taking this to court is dumb as a rock. ~geogeek
If they won't do this, I would like to see RedHat improve their system to not gradually degrade into a pile of confused and intensely interdependent RPMs. ~geogeek
You hit on an attitude I've seen over and over-- not one that is necessarily wrong, but one that separates those who do thier job based on principles of enjoyment where others do thier job based on priniciples of economics.
I love computers. I am 16. By all accounts, I should be some dork cracking away at IIS boxen in between my job at Subway and my evil evil filesharing.
But I'm not.
Instead, I actively seek out oppurtunities to use my skills- even for *gasp* free! And honestly, not only has some of my non-paying work been my most rewarding, but it has also lead to experience and oppurtunities to make lots of money in a short amount of time-- what many in the industry seek out, and miss, because they have the wrong approach.
For example, I work for my school's computer lab during the summer. Not a whole lot of money there-- I'm not sure, cause I haven't checked the math, but I'd bet I make maybe 2 or 3 dollars and hour for my work there. I don't do it because I want to make all kinds of money-- I do it because I want the experience, and I see hacking BSD in an air conditioned lab as a much riper experience than washing dishes for the local college. Anyway, our school was approached by a company selling a management product that would allow students to track grades and assignments using a webbased interface. As such, our school's BSD server needed to be configured with MySQL and PHP. So impressed was this company with my configuration that they recruited me to setup Linux solutions for their other clients-- at a far better wage. Soon, I will be coding small stuff for them. From there, I hope to progress with the company as they grow and mature.
Those who treat their IT job as an investment rather than an easy way to a good salary are the ones who will find what the other is looking for.
~geogeek