So for the 99% of the population that isn't an arrogant "professional/serious amateur photographer", it's a great printer!
Arrogance has nothing to do with it. I like the fact that I can Photoshop an image and whip it out of an affordable high quality color printer, but the fact of the matter is that the results just can't stand up to a craftsman who plies his trade in a "wet darkroom"....not yet.
Im not saying Digital isn't here to stay, images from a Nikon or Cannon digicam printed with a digital photoprinter like a LightJet or Fuji Frontier machine can be amazing, but your Epson isn't up to the task. Even if the prints were identical, you'd be quite perturbed with the injet print after it's been hanging on the wall receiving sunlight for a couple years.
If you were to have your kid's picture taken at a Sears portrait studio and and a more traditional independant studio, you'd be able to easilly spot the differences between the resulting prints. It's just that most people will opt for the cheaper Sears portrait as good enough and then lament how photos of themselves and their parents somehow look better because they did it better in the "good ol' days". I think Bugs would say, "What a maroon"!
If desiring quality is arrogant, count me in baby! You can continue to schlep down that Whopper while you watch "Freddie Got Fingered".
I can print a 13"x19" color photo taken from my Canon G2 digital camera with such high quality that you cannot tell it from a professional film print...
No offense intended (and this is stretching the "on topic" criteria), but your comment beautifully illustrates how people's expectations have fallen over the years.
I and most professional/serious amateur photographers can spot an inkjet print like bird turds on a black Pontiac. At that size, a print from a good good 35mm negative has better tonality than the inkjet image and a professional print (not a WalMart mini-lab) from a Medium Format or larger negative will produce a print that simply crushes the best Digicam-Inkjet/Dye Sublimation print.
Inkjet printers have come a long way and can produce startling results, but even the best image from a consumer color printer is still a far cry from a well printed professional photograph.
The marketeers are so good at their jobs that the average public has been duped into paying more for less quality. Take photography industry, the food industry the music industry and the entertainment industry for example: APS, McDonald's, The Backstreet Boys and Armageddon......
Once upon a time, aircraft flying under IFR conditions (overland) navigated mainly using VORs and ILS for final approach guidance. While they use VOR much less than days gone by, ILS is still in heavy use.
The funny thing is that VORs and ILS systems operate at a frequency just barely above the FM broadcast band. It was discoved that the IF frequency of a cheap FM radio tuned to the upper end of the broadcast band was strong enough to disturb the ILS receiver onboard the craft and put it off course at a very critical time; namely landing, when 50 ft. of error can be fatal.
Nowadays, the ILS/VOR recievers are better as are the average FM radio. Private pilots flying planes sporting radio equipment much crappier than your average 737 has commonly fly with portable GPS recievers and operating laptop computers with no problem.
So yes, with the exception of devices capable of high powered transmit (old cell phones, CBs, Ham and aircraft band trancievers), the ban on electronic devices during takeoff and landing is still enforced to get the passengers to pay attention to the flight attendent. The FAA just won't admit that.
"Too many sysadmins think that the computer systems drive the company, when the computers are really nothing more than tools to support the company objectives. If more sysadmins knew ANYTHING about business, they might be less arrogant and better at their jobs."
I would counter that if more arrogant primadonna types would take the time to actually learn how to use the tools given them, more sysadmins wouldn't be so damn uptight.
I would wager that for every SysAdmin type that is clueless about business, there's an MBA/manager type that's equally lost. You know, the ones who think it's smart to cut training to make the books look better?
"They also need to understand that the above means you actually have to do things off-hours because nobody gives a shit why you have the reboot the servers in the middle of the day (because of a patch that you're too lazy to handle after everyone leaves or...gasp.... early in the morning). "
This is a gross stereotype and the exact reason many admin's feel a little abused. You have no idea how often the admin works wierd hours because you only see him and bitch when there's a problem. There were many times I stayed late, came in at 3 a.m., or in the case of a catastrophic failure, worked 24 hrs. straight, only to get bitched at by the resident primadonna when I asked to go home and, *surprise*, SLEEP!
The vast majority of the time, when there was a failure or down time during business hours, it was because someone else screwed something up. I took great pride in making the systems I was responsible for hum flawlessly; it's a bitter pill to swollow when a developer kills a machine you had up to a 2 year uptime and you get chewed out while said dev. snuck out for the weekend. Why be bitter over that?
"And, my god....being disturbrd at your desk during lunch! No employee except for a sysadmin has EVER had to deal with anything like that before. "
It happens, sure. But how 'bout EVERY FRIIGIN' DAY? Or being told that you can't go out for lunch (ever) because "we need you to stay here"? Lunch time is for (get this) eating lunch. Why is it so difficult for managers to understand that Computer Admin types have the same basic requirements for food and sleep that everyone else has? It's the assholes who refer to the SysAdmins and "Monkeys" who make the job so damn stressful.
"Big headed sysadmins need to go get their heads screwed back on and they might just earn their way into an engineering or management position some day. Sysadmin is NOT a career destination....sorry to have to inform you all of that"
Many of us have no desire to be management. A great many are INTPs or ENTPs (go read up on Jungian Psych) and really aren't motivated to manage people. We derive satisfaction in a job well done (pride) and are inspired by the theoretical, not the size of our cars.
The line between Engineering and "SysAdmin" work is so blurry that only the clueless, self important jackholes can't see it. When Engineering and I.T. work together, the whole company is more productive. Be thankful there are people who actually enjoy tweaking the systems you rely on to DO YOUR JOB.
I bet if you show them a bit of kindness and respect, you'll find they're O.K. folks. Treat them like crap and you deserve whatever they dish out to you.
SysAdmin's aren't born being Nick Burns, they're slowly transformed.
Usually they start out being the plucky, helpful guy who works his ass off to solve your problems. Slowly, the years of fixing the same problems for the same users takes it's toll. The plucky fellow tried his damnedest to teach the Luser how to use their computer more efficiently, but they just don't want to learn. "I'll just keep doing it the way I've always done it and bitch when things (predictably) fuck up", says the Luser.
You see, it *is* the Admin's job to fix computers, but babysitting arses who don't give a rat's ass about their job or anyone else's, isn't.
The SysAdmin may be the mechanic of the 21st century, but just like his "olden days" counterpart, he's stuck trying to make the shoddy technology those "I have a four year degree, I don't need to debug, I'm invincable" pricks have unleashed upon us.
For every A+ toting, MCSE waving wannabe, there's an army of competent individuals working in the background to keep those NT boxes, Unix machines, Netware servers, bizarre networks, crappy windows workstations full of dancing baby screen savers, phone systems and hoards of damned legacy software you were too cheap to upgrade working as YOU SPECIFIED so you can bitch when the *SHITTY CODE* you inserted into the production server without permission kills the database for a day.
That's why Admins guard root like it's the Arch of the Covenant; if they don't, some consultant twit or cocky developer will invariably fuck something up 4 o'clock on a Friday evening and leave without telling anyone.
It's one thing to do one's job, but an entirely different ball of wax to constantly clean up everyone else's messes and get no credit for it.
How about next time you infect your PC by installing some retarded waving flag applet, your admin just says, "I told you so" and instructs you to fuck off when you call him over and over again?
Ok, why not use the same technology in (Texas Instrument based) DLP projector chips? Spin the disk at a slow speed and scan it with multiple split beams directed with a simplified DLP chip? Or scan a stationary disk using a higher density of (split) beams manipulated with a full fledged, higher density DLP chip, redirected to a specialized CCD of sorts. The end effect would be a drive with, say, 60,000 pseudo-read heads (use a 300x200 DLP and CCD...60,000 beams in theory).
This is more difficult to do with existing technology because why?
Being that I live in WOXYs broadcast area, I just wanted to chime in and tell you I *THANK GOD* they exist.
The radio market here in Cincinnati has never been very diverse (good midwestern values and all), but since deregulation, it's become a wasteland.
Our classic rock station that used to take requests and had a "no repeats in 24 hrs. or we pay you 92 bucks" policy is now 92.5 "The Fox" where somehow Steve Winwood is now considered "Classic Rock" and Jimi Hendrix gets almost no airplay. Plus they're now "Bob and Tom" whores.
Our Top 40 station that never was that good is so schitzophrenic in it's format changes that it's been the "New Q102" for the last decade or so. Then we have 107.1 "Kiss FM" (see a pattern her?) that's nothing more than TRL radio. It used to be an "alternative" type station and was right behind WOXY as one of my favorites but is now N'Sync followed by JayZ followed my N'Sync radio.
Then there's WEBN which has been fighting the good fight against corperate control and continues to be one of the best ROCK stations in the country. Sadly, they're slipping away too. (Trivia, the announcer you hear on the Criag Kilborn Show used to do 'EBNs voice overs)
Besides the two major Public Broadcast stations here that are classical-NPR, we do have a few low power stations that breath some life into the airwaves.
I've noticed among my friends, a major backlash against corperate radio and the music industry in general. They're sick of the same bland crap being played coast to coast (How many of you have a FOX, KISS FM, WARM, "Z" or "Q" station in your market?).
We've started to listen to a tiny public country station that's perpetually on the brink of destruction because you can hear great bluegrass, surf instrumental, polka, wierd indian chant, big band and others depending on the time of day.
The indy stations are the only ones left where you can hear a song you hate (possibly the wrong genre for your taste) but be reasonably assured that if you wait, the next song or two might be to your liking. Plus, they are the only ones that really talk about local events and topics. Most corperate stations suck across the board.
Have you ever tried to call the request line at Clear Channel type station? Good luck getting someone to even answer, let along hearing your song before you die of old age.
Since most radio stations are playing music for the widest demagraphic (or should I have said lowest common denominator?) it makes me wonder if people are listening because the pablum is the only thing presented them or if it's spewed out across the airwaves because that's what they desire?
The net effect of this is my friends and I are learning to play our own instruments. It's vastly more satisfying to grind out a poorly played tune with friends than it is to hear one on the radio.
"Next we have the woman jogging in the park who is suddenly being chased by a man. She reaches for her cell phone to dial 911, but no signal. Why? HER government, the one that is supposed to be protecting her, has decided to jam the signal. She then has no way to call for help, and if no one hears here cries for help, she might be raped and/or killed by her attacker"
This passage highlights a fundumental problem with society; IT IS NOT THE GOVERMENT'S JOB TO PROTECT YOU! There have been supreme court decisions that say the police are not required to PROTECT ANYONE.
This is the argument the gun control nuts use and it drives me crazy. They say you're supposed to let the Police/Gov't protect you and that there's no reason to own a gun, yet the police have no obligation to protect you! They're there to solve crimes after the fact, as in AFTER YOU'RE DEAD.
If it weren't for the gun controllers and their ilk, the said above mentioned woman would be able to take her safety into her own hands by carrying a gun she spent the time receiving training to wield properly.
So yes it's annoying that cell frequencies will be jammed, but the responsibility to protect a person lies solely on themselves. That there are others to do it (family, friends, good Samaritans or the police) is pure gravy. It's isn't the job of the goverment to protect you and shield you from all harm! That whole mentality is why our society is going to hell. It isn't the government's job to do anything but to provide basic public services (that are supposed to be decided upon by the people) and to protect it's borders. Great social ideas like "it takes a village to raise a child" (bullshit, it takes loving parents) are the product of our increasingly socialist society.
Noone teaches the virtue of personal responibility anymore. Why should I bother taking an interest in anyone or anything if no part of life is my responsibility?
"FCC Part 15 rules are a function of power density (microvolts/meter) NOT distance"
Thanks for proving my point so clearly!
Part 15 is not the only set of rules that governs the operation of above mentioned equipment. 18 comes to mind.... Hmm, ya think there might be others as well? You'd do well to search for all relevent regulations for Spread Spectrum devices operating in the ISM band.
Perhaps you should search a bit deeper, since there ARE regulatory differences between point to point, point to multipoint (sector) and point to multipoint (omni) systems. If they're not mentioned in 15 (duh), maybe they're enumerated elswere? Ya think?
Toot, toot! That's the sound of the clue train leaving you behind.
I omitted the important fact that the 5 mile radius is for point to multipoint only. Find one manufacturer that states a radius greater than 5 miles for their P to MP systems. Who said Part 15 is the only part of the CFR that has bearing on this type of operation?
Wrong! This is a myth. We're not talking about DirectTV here. 2.4 Ghz links are reasonably robust as far as weather is concerned. Contrary to popular mythology, 2.4 Ghz is not the resonant frequency of water; go crack open a physics book.
I've seen 15 mile links barely show a change in latency during extremly heavy storms. The real problem is having cheap antennas take on water; they quit working until they dry out.
Too bad FCC rules state 2.4 GHz SS equipment is limited to a maximum range of 5 miles, 1 watt power output and 36 dBm (4 watts ) effective radiated power. Or that in practice, the ERP requred to get said 20 miles is above FCC rules as well.
How do I know? I worked for a wireless ISP that did this 2 years ago. Old news.
Too bad that these for profit networks must accept all interference with no legal recourse or rememdy since they operate under Part 15 guidlines. Or that I could fire up an amatuer radio transmitter in that band (with much higher power output levels), put the smack down on their throughput and I would have priority; the company would have to take it where the sun don't shine.
The exact scenerio happened where I worked and the clueless Prez of engineering told the amateur to buzz off. Then said amateur brought the FCC and ARRL down on his has with much speed and voracity.
Read the fine print of the FCC code. The info's buried in there.
It's not the plaster itself that's causing the problem. Most older houses have a metal mesh nailed onto the lathing strips (the plaster grips this better than lathing strips only). Plus it doesn't help that most 802.11b devices seem to have an ever decreasing nominal power output. 50mw is the max now, but when I started out, I used 500mw APs.
My house is hell because it
A) Has metal backed plaster walls B) Aluminum siding
Try to get an outdoor signal from an internal AP in this situation!
"Uh, I`m not talking about random spam, because I never get that kind"
So you only get spam you ask for? What's your complaint then?
"I`m talking about spam from people trying to sell me things, and then giving me their email address to contact them. "
With the exception of stupid chain letters, all spam is from people trying to sell you things. I've collected a few of the more obnoxious spams I've received over the years (to hunt down the source and report them) and I've never seen one with a legitimate return address in either the header or body; to do so would be sheer suicide on the senders part. What I usually find is a message full of annoying html tags and a link to an equally obnoxious web page. Even here, it's unlikely I'll find a real e-mail address (save the one from the site admin, who generally isn't connected to the spamming and doesn't deserve an inbox of irate messages).
"Its really simple if you use your brain, try to follow along"
Ok, I'll sure try!
"JoeSchmoe emails me and tries to get me to buy his audio cassette tapes that teach me the meaning of life, I have to email him and ask em for it so its not considered spam anymore, because I`m asking to be contacted back"
Do you know what the definition of spam is? It's *unsolicited*, mass distributed email. By this definition, the message Joe Schmoe sent you is spam. How is weather you replied to Joe's message or not relevent? It must be over my head.
The way I see things, if you have indeed received spam that contains the legitimate return address of the sender, then by their sheer stupidity, do in a sense deserve what they receive. However, how do your knee-jerk actions help anyone? You've done nothing to help curb the enless flow of garbage that lands in the peoples' inbox and have in fact, made it worse. Wouldn't it be more productive to hunt down the origin of the spam and be sure it gets added to a black hole list? Is your bandwidth wasting tactic of sending junk and signing up to lists the offender in any way negating the bandwidth loss caused by their actions? I just cooked this up with my lil' ol' brain, so maybe you could enlighten me (and the rest of the Slashdot readers) what you're taking about, since it's not making a bit of sense .
"See where I`m goin with this, or is it over your head?"
Could you help me, please? I honestly don't see the point of your message other than you like to be obnoxious or don't want to take the time and/or don't know how to read a header and determine the origin of an email (faked or not).
Perhaps next time you could refrain from making specious assumptions and could limit your use of personal attacks; they make you appear infantile.
"Go to some place like contest junction and flood the return email addresses back."
I hope you realize that most spammers fake the return address and aren't inundating some poor unwitting victim's mail box with crap. If my email addr. wound up in the reply field of a spammer's message and you did this to me, I'd make it a point to report YOU!
AKIRA
C 1989 Akira Committee
Running time approximately 124 min.
(Blah...Blah...Blah)
Distributed throughout North America on video cassette by Streamline pictures
What do I have here? This is the only version of Akira I've ever seen; are there any scenes cut from this?
My company regularly employes 5.x, UNI-II, 100MB links all thime time; how is this new? Any schmuck can buy the whole kit from Tessco. Now if this "new technology" is far cheaper, then hurrah! Otherwise, I've got a story about a new coherent light source called a "LASER"....
"The light that shines brightest probably isn't you"
Not all Anime is the greatest example of animation, but for the most part, what makes it so popular is the PLOT.
How many American cartoons have plot? How many actually show important "cast" members dying (unlike the Star Trek red shirts)? At least most anime doesn't suffer from what I call the "G.I. Joe Syndrom" where noone ever dies or is hurt; they just jump out of danger at the last possible second.
Although it's old and the animation isn't spectacular by today's standards, I think Starblazers/Space Cruiser Yamato is one of the finest examples of Anime to ever grace our Yankee boob tubes. The sub was excellently done and there was a real plot. Imagine that; a plot! A plot in *ANY* U.S. TV show is as rare as 5 legged albino dog.
Name one American cartoon that portrays the pain and concequences of violence like Starblazers did and I'll send you a free computer (a broken Sinclair).
Slashdot Mirror
So for the 99% of the population that isn't an arrogant "professional/serious amateur photographer", it's a great printer!
Arrogance has nothing to do with it. I like the fact that I can Photoshop an image and whip it out of an affordable high quality color printer, but the fact of the matter is that the results just can't stand up to a craftsman who plies his trade in a "wet darkroom"....not yet.
Im not saying Digital isn't here to stay, images from a Nikon or Cannon digicam printed with a digital photoprinter like a LightJet or Fuji Frontier machine can be amazing, but your Epson isn't up to the task. Even if the prints were identical, you'd be quite perturbed with the injet print after it's been hanging on the wall receiving sunlight for a couple years.
If you were to have your kid's picture taken at a Sears portrait studio and and a more traditional independant studio, you'd be able to easilly spot the differences between the resulting prints. It's just that most people will opt for the cheaper Sears portrait as good enough and then lament how photos of themselves and their parents somehow look better because they did it better in the "good ol' days". I think Bugs would say, "What a maroon"!
If desiring quality is arrogant, count me in baby! You can continue to schlep down that Whopper while you watch "Freddie Got Fingered".
Pyramid
No offense intended (and this is stretching the "on topic" criteria), but your comment beautifully illustrates how people's expectations have fallen over the years.
I and most professional/serious amateur photographers can spot an inkjet print like bird turds on a black Pontiac. At that size, a print from a good good 35mm negative has better tonality than the inkjet image and a professional print (not a WalMart mini-lab) from a Medium Format or larger negative will produce a print that simply crushes the best Digicam-Inkjet/Dye Sublimation print.
Inkjet printers have come a long way and can produce startling results, but even the best image from a consumer color printer is still a far cry from a well printed professional photograph.
The marketeers are so good at their jobs that the average public has been duped into paying more for less quality. Take photography industry, the food industry the music industry and the entertainment industry for example: APS, McDonald's, The Backstreet Boys and Armageddon......
D.M. Elick
Once upon a time, aircraft flying under IFR conditions (overland) navigated mainly using VORs and ILS for final approach guidance. While they use VOR much less than days gone by, ILS is still in heavy use.
The funny thing is that VORs and ILS systems operate at a frequency just barely above the FM broadcast band. It was discoved that the IF frequency of a cheap FM radio tuned to the upper end of the broadcast band was strong enough to disturb the ILS receiver onboard the craft and put it off course at a very critical time; namely landing, when 50 ft. of error can be fatal.
Nowadays, the ILS/VOR recievers are better as are the average FM radio. Private pilots flying planes sporting radio equipment much crappier than your average 737 has commonly fly with portable GPS recievers and operating laptop computers with no problem.
So yes, with the exception of devices capable of high powered transmit (old cell phones, CBs, Ham and aircraft band trancievers), the ban on electronic devices during takeoff and landing is still enforced to get the passengers to pay attention to the flight attendent. The FAA just won't admit that.
You sir, reap as much respect as you sow.
After all, you're just a lousy code monkey. Care do design a city wide network?
"Too many sysadmins think that the computer systems drive the company, when the computers are really nothing more than tools to support the company objectives. If more sysadmins knew ANYTHING about business, they might be less arrogant and better at their jobs."
...gasp.... early in the morning). "
I would counter that if more arrogant primadonna types would take the time to actually learn how to use the tools given them, more sysadmins wouldn't be so damn uptight.
I would wager that for every SysAdmin type that is clueless about business, there's an MBA/manager type that's equally lost. You know, the ones who think it's smart to cut training to make the books look better?
"They also need to understand that the above means you actually have to do things off-hours because nobody gives a shit why you have the reboot the servers in the middle of the day (because of a patch that you're too lazy to handle after everyone leaves or
This is a gross stereotype and the exact reason many admin's feel a little abused. You have no idea how often the admin works wierd hours because you only see him and bitch when there's a problem. There were many times I stayed late, came in at 3 a.m., or in the case of a catastrophic failure, worked 24 hrs. straight, only to get bitched at by the resident primadonna when I asked to go home and, *surprise*, SLEEP!
The vast majority of the time, when there was a failure or down time during business hours, it was because someone else screwed something up. I took great pride in making the systems I was responsible for hum flawlessly; it's a bitter pill to swollow when a developer kills a machine you had up to a 2 year uptime and you get chewed out while said dev. snuck out for the weekend. Why be bitter over that?
"And, my god....being disturbrd at your desk during lunch! No employee except for a sysadmin has EVER had to deal with anything like that before. "
It happens, sure. But how 'bout EVERY FRIIGIN' DAY? Or being told that you can't go out for lunch (ever) because "we need you to stay here"? Lunch time is for (get this) eating lunch. Why is it so difficult for managers to understand that Computer Admin types have the same basic requirements for food and sleep that everyone else has? It's the assholes who refer to the SysAdmins and "Monkeys" who make the job so damn stressful.
"Big headed sysadmins need to go get their heads screwed back on and they might just earn their way into an engineering or management position some day. Sysadmin is NOT a career destination....sorry to have to inform you all of that"
Many of us have no desire to be management. A great many are INTPs or ENTPs (go read up on Jungian Psych) and really aren't motivated to manage people. We derive satisfaction in a job well done (pride) and are inspired by the theoretical, not the size of our cars.
The line between Engineering and "SysAdmin" work is so blurry that only the clueless, self important jackholes can't see it. When Engineering and I.T. work together, the whole company is more productive. Be thankful there are people who actually enjoy tweaking the systems you rely on to DO YOUR JOB.
I bet if you show them a bit of kindness and respect, you'll find they're O.K. folks. Treat them like crap and you deserve whatever they dish out to you.
Pyramid
SysAdmin's aren't born being Nick Burns, they're slowly transformed.
Usually they start out being the plucky, helpful guy who works his ass off to solve your problems. Slowly, the years of fixing the same problems for the same users takes it's toll. The plucky fellow tried his damnedest to teach the Luser how to use their computer more efficiently, but they just don't want to learn. "I'll just keep doing it the way I've always done it and bitch when things (predictably) fuck up", says the Luser.
You see, it *is* the Admin's job to fix computers, but babysitting arses who don't give a rat's ass about their job or anyone else's, isn't.
The SysAdmin may be the mechanic of the 21st century, but just like his "olden days" counterpart, he's stuck trying to make the shoddy technology those "I have a four year degree, I don't need to debug, I'm invincable" pricks have unleashed upon us.
For every A+ toting, MCSE waving wannabe, there's an army of competent individuals working in the background to keep those NT boxes, Unix machines, Netware servers, bizarre networks, crappy windows workstations full of dancing baby screen savers, phone systems and hoards of damned legacy software you were too cheap to upgrade working as YOU SPECIFIED so you can bitch when the *SHITTY CODE* you inserted into the production server without permission kills the database for a day.
That's why Admins guard root like it's the Arch of the Covenant; if they don't, some consultant twit or cocky developer will invariably fuck something up 4 o'clock on a Friday evening and leave without telling anyone.
It's one thing to do one's job, but an entirely different ball of wax to constantly clean up everyone else's messes and get no credit for it.
How about next time you infect your PC by installing some retarded waving flag applet, your admin just says, "I told you so" and instructs you to fuck off when you call him over and over again?
Cheers
Ok, why not use the same technology in (Texas Instrument based) DLP projector chips? Spin the disk at a slow speed and scan it with multiple split beams directed with a simplified DLP chip? Or scan a stationary disk using a higher density of (split) beams manipulated with a full fledged, higher density DLP chip, redirected to a specialized CCD of sorts. The end effect would be a drive with, say, 60,000 pseudo-read heads (use a 300x200 DLP and CCD...60,000 beams in theory).
This is more difficult to do with existing technology because why?
Pyramid
Being that I live in WOXYs broadcast area, I just wanted to chime in and tell you I *THANK GOD* they exist.
The radio market here in Cincinnati has never been very diverse (good midwestern values and all), but since deregulation, it's become a wasteland.
Our classic rock station that used to take requests and had a "no repeats in 24 hrs. or we pay you 92 bucks" policy is now 92.5 "The Fox" where somehow Steve Winwood is now considered "Classic Rock" and Jimi Hendrix gets almost no airplay. Plus they're now "Bob and Tom" whores.
Our Top 40 station that never was that good is so schitzophrenic in it's format changes that it's been the "New Q102" for the last decade or so. Then we have 107.1 "Kiss FM" (see a pattern her?) that's nothing more than TRL radio. It used to be an "alternative" type station and was right behind WOXY as one of my favorites but is now N'Sync followed by JayZ followed my N'Sync radio.
Then there's WEBN which has been fighting the good fight against corperate control and continues to be one of the best ROCK stations in the country. Sadly, they're slipping away too. (Trivia, the announcer you hear on the Criag Kilborn Show used to do 'EBNs voice overs)
Besides the two major Public Broadcast stations here that are classical-NPR, we do have a few low power stations that breath some life into the airwaves.
I've noticed among my friends, a major backlash against corperate radio and the music industry in general. They're sick of the same bland crap being played coast to coast (How many of you have a FOX, KISS FM, WARM, "Z" or "Q" station in your market?).
We've started to listen to a tiny public country station that's perpetually on the brink of destruction because you can hear great bluegrass, surf instrumental, polka, wierd indian chant, big band and others depending on the time of day.
The indy stations are the only ones left where you can hear a song you hate (possibly the wrong genre for your taste) but be reasonably assured that if you wait, the next song or two might be to your liking. Plus, they are the only ones that really talk about local events and topics. Most corperate stations suck across the board.
Have you ever tried to call the request line at Clear Channel type station? Good luck getting someone to even answer, let along hearing your song before you die of old age.
Since most radio stations are playing music for the widest demagraphic (or should I have said lowest common denominator?) it makes me wonder if
people are listening because the pablum is the only thing presented them or if it's spewed out across the airwaves because that's what they desire?
The net effect of this is my friends and I are learning to play our own instruments. It's vastly more satisfying to grind out a poorly played tune with friends than it is to hear one on the radio.
Pyramid
"Next we have the woman jogging in the park who is suddenly being chased by a man. She reaches for her cell phone to dial 911, but no signal. Why? HER government, the one that is supposed to be protecting her, has decided to jam the signal. She then has no way to call for help, and if no one hears here cries for help, she might be raped and/or killed by her attacker"
This passage highlights a fundumental problem with society; IT IS NOT THE GOVERMENT'S JOB TO PROTECT YOU! There have been supreme court decisions that say the police are not required to PROTECT ANYONE.
This is the argument the gun control nuts use and it drives me crazy. They say you're supposed to let the Police/Gov't protect you and that there's no reason to own a gun, yet the police have no obligation to protect you! They're there to solve crimes after the fact, as in AFTER YOU'RE DEAD.
If it weren't for the gun controllers and their ilk, the said above mentioned woman would be able to take her safety into her own hands by carrying a gun she spent the time receiving training to wield properly.
So yes it's annoying that cell frequencies will be jammed, but the responsibility to protect a person lies solely on themselves. That there are others to do it (family, friends, good Samaritans or the police) is pure gravy. It's isn't the job of the goverment to protect you and shield you from all harm! That whole mentality is why our society is going to hell. It isn't the government's job to do anything but to provide basic public services (that are supposed to be decided upon by the people) and to protect it's borders. Great social ideas like "it takes a village to raise a child" (bullshit, it takes loving parents) are the product of our increasingly socialist society.
Noone teaches the virtue of personal responibility anymore. Why should I bother taking an interest in anyone or anything if no part of life is my responsibility?
Pyramid
"FCC Part 15 rules are a function of power density (microvolts/meter) NOT distance"
Thanks for proving my point so clearly!
Part 15 is not the only set of rules that governs the operation of above mentioned equipment. 18 comes to mind.... Hmm, ya think there might be others as well? You'd do well to search for all relevent regulations for Spread Spectrum devices operating in the ISM band.
Perhaps you should search a bit deeper, since there ARE regulatory differences between point to point, point to multipoint (sector) and point to multipoint (omni) systems. If they're not mentioned in 15 (duh), maybe they're enumerated elswere? Ya think?
Toot, toot! That's the sound of the clue train leaving you behind.
Hey dink! Learn to read! My post clearly states that 2.4 GHz systems are robust during weather situations *UNLIKE* DishTV and it's ilk.
DirectTV!=2.4 GHz
I did check my facts; why don't you before you blather on like the ignorant jackhole you are?
Move to the head of the dunce line! Simple minded prat!
Cheers
I omitted the important fact that the 5 mile radius is for point to multipoint only. Find one manufacturer that states a radius greater than 5 miles for their P to MP systems. Who said Part 15 is the only part of the CFR that has bearing on this type of operation?
"snow and heavy rain = no link"
Wrong! This is a myth. We're not talking about DirectTV here. 2.4 Ghz links are reasonably robust as far as weather is concerned. Contrary to popular mythology, 2.4 Ghz is not the resonant frequency of water; go crack open a physics book.
I've seen 15 mile links barely show a change in latency during extremly heavy storms. The real problem is having cheap antennas take on water; they quit working until they dry out.
Too bad FCC rules state 2.4 GHz SS equipment is limited to a maximum range of 5 miles, 1 watt power output and 36 dBm (4 watts ) effective radiated power. Or that in practice, the ERP requred to get said 20 miles is above FCC rules as well.
How do I know? I worked for a wireless ISP that did this 2 years ago. Old news.
Too bad that these for profit networks must accept all interference with no legal recourse or rememdy since they operate under Part 15 guidlines. Or that I could fire up an amatuer radio transmitter in that band (with much higher power output levels), put the smack down on their throughput and I would have priority; the company would have to take it where the sun don't shine.
The exact scenerio happened where I worked and the clueless Prez of engineering told the amateur to buzz off. Then said amateur brought the FCC and ARRL down on his has with much speed and voracity.
Read the fine print of the FCC code. The info's buried in there.
It's not the plaster itself that's causing the problem. Most older houses have a metal mesh nailed onto the lathing strips (the plaster grips this better than lathing strips only). Plus it doesn't help that most 802.11b devices seem to have an ever decreasing nominal power output. 50mw is the max now, but when I started out, I used 500mw APs.
My house is hell because it
A) Has metal backed plaster walls
B) Aluminum siding
Try to get an outdoor signal from an internal AP in this situation!
"Uh, I`m not talking about random spam, because I never get that kind"
So you only get spam you ask for? What's your complaint then?
"I`m talking about spam from people trying to sell me things, and then giving me their email address to contact them. "
With the exception of stupid chain letters, all spam is from people trying to sell you things. I've collected a few of the more obnoxious spams I've received over the years (to hunt down the source and report them) and I've never seen one with a legitimate return address in either the header or body; to do so would be sheer suicide on the senders part. What I usually find is a message full of annoying html tags and a link to an equally obnoxious web page. Even here, it's unlikely I'll find a real e-mail address (save the one from the site admin, who generally isn't connected to the spamming and doesn't deserve an inbox of irate messages).
"Its really simple if you use your brain, try to follow along"
Ok, I'll sure try!
"JoeSchmoe emails me and tries to get me to buy his audio cassette tapes that teach me the meaning of life, I have to email him and ask em for it so its not considered spam anymore, because I`m asking to be contacted back"
Do you know what the definition of spam is? It's *unsolicited*, mass distributed email. By this definition, the message Joe Schmoe sent you is spam. How is weather you replied to Joe's message or not relevent? It must be over my head.
The way I see things, if you have indeed received spam that contains the legitimate return address of the sender, then by their sheer stupidity, do in a sense deserve what they receive. However, how do your knee-jerk actions help anyone? You've done nothing to help curb the enless flow of garbage that lands in the peoples' inbox and have in fact, made it worse. Wouldn't it be more productive to hunt down the origin of the spam and be sure it gets added to a black hole list? Is your bandwidth wasting tactic of sending junk and signing up to lists the offender in any way negating the bandwidth loss caused by their actions? I just cooked this up with my lil' ol' brain, so maybe you could enlighten me (and the rest of the Slashdot readers) what you're taking about, since it's not making a bit of sense .
"See where I`m goin with this, or is it over your head?"
Could you help me, please? I honestly don't see the point of your message other than you like to be obnoxious or don't want to take the time and/or don't know how to read a header and determine the origin of an email (faked or not).
Perhaps next time you could refrain from making specious assumptions and could limit your use of personal attacks; they make you appear infantile.
----Was this over your head?
"Go to some place like contest junction and flood the return email addresses back."
I hope you realize that most spammers fake the return address and aren't inundating some poor unwitting victim's mail box with crap. If my email addr. wound up in the reply field of a spammer's message and you did this to me, I'd make it a point to report YOU!
"Some filesystems that have appeared recently are databases...It's surprising that nobody had this idea 10 years ago"
They did, it's called OS400 (for those AS/400 iron boxen)
I've an old dubbed copy of Akira that reads:
AKIRA
C 1989 Akira Committee
Running time approximately 124 min.
(Blah...Blah...Blah)
Distributed throughout North America on video cassette by Streamline pictures
What do I have here? This is the only version of Akira I've ever seen; are there any scenes cut from this?
Thanx.
That should have been 100Mb/sec....sorry
My company regularly employes 5.x, UNI-II, 100MB links all thime time; how is this new? Any schmuck can buy the whole kit from Tessco. Now if this "new technology" is far cheaper, then hurrah! Otherwise, I've got a story about a new coherent light source called a "LASER"....
"The light that shines brightest probably isn't you"
"well, can we load linux on that old pair of underwear? If we add in a pair of socks, could we make a beowulf cluster?
Okay, that should just about be enough of that. "
No, no you can't load Linux on my underwear; neither can you load it on a Z80. Enough of *that*!
Who in their right mind would pay $99 for a Z80? I bought my Timex Sinclair WITH the 16K ram module for $33!
Jeez, just because it's old, doesn't mean it's worth anything. I've got an old pair of underwear for sale; only $50! Any takers?
"That which is does. That which does can. That which can won't"
Not all Anime is the greatest example of animation, but for the most part, what makes it so popular is the PLOT.
How many American cartoons have plot? How many actually show important "cast" members dying (unlike the Star Trek red shirts)? At least most anime doesn't suffer from what I call the "G.I. Joe Syndrom" where noone ever dies or is hurt; they just jump out of danger at the last possible second.
Although it's old and the animation isn't spectacular by today's standards, I think Starblazers/Space Cruiser Yamato is one of the finest examples of Anime to ever grace our Yankee boob tubes. The sub was excellently done and there was a real plot. Imagine that; a plot! A plot in *ANY* U.S. TV show is as rare as 5 legged albino dog.
Name one American cartoon that portrays the pain and concequences of violence like Starblazers did and I'll send you a free computer (a broken Sinclair).
Don't drink and derive.
"Women ARE NOT a minority.
They represent 60% of the population."
Are you sure? Statistically, I should have at least one date a week. It must have something to do with "lies, damn lies an statistics".
God is in the details --Einstein