After all, Mexico lies on the same tectonic plates as the US, so therefore it MUST belong to us.
Russia's arguments are silly. The UN has said time and time again the nobody owns the Northern Arctic and the simple fact that one piece of land lies on the same plate or ridge as another doesn't make it belongs to the same government..
I have a Garmin Rino120 with a standard serial interface for exchanging data with GPS programs. Is there any S/W out there that will take this info and interface wtih GoogleMaps instead? I have internet access in my car via the bluetooth modem in my phone, so it would be really cool to be able to do this...
I suspect there is something untoward happening here. Since these are seemingly infant mortality issues, let's just assume a failure rate of 3%, which is still ridiculous by today's manufacturing standards. Even with that, the odds of getting 11 bad XBoxes in 6 months are, well, let's just say you have a much better chance of winning the powerball.
Either that, or someone in MS's warranty department knows the guy and is playing a cruel prank on him, or just recognizes his name and has it in for him, or something.
I can all but guarantee that this is not a random event. You statisticians out there probably CAN guarantee this is non-random haha.
The University may be on the hook here. If their policy REQUIRES students to be connected to their network, and being connected to their network results in the student being fraudulently charged with felony copyright infringement, then it seems to be that the university would be on the hook for at least SOMETHING.
If I were going to college somewhere, I'd simply refuse to use the university's connection at all. I'd use my own if I could..
Hah, I laugh at TFA. The last time I tried to use Vista, I had to jump through so many hoops just to launch a program that I ultimately gave up.
"You have attempted to run a program! Please scan your fingerprint to confirm" "Are you sure?" "Are you really really sure?" "Okay, request sent to MS central to allow execution. Please wait 24 hours for a response from India"
It's such a pain in the ass to get anything done in Vista it's no wonder it's perceived as "secure." Your house is secure if you completely encase it in concrete - probably more secure than a bank vault. But, what good is it if you can't USE it?
I've had comcast service for about 5 years now, and I have not had a single Internet outage. I also have not had any TV outages, except for the initial setup time when I moved to my townhouse.
When I ordered digital cable, the guy came out to drop off the box and asked if he could measure my signal level. It was just good enough (3dB of margin) so just to be safe, he replaced the cable ends on both sides of the cable from the basement to the jack in the living room, made me a new cable for the TV using their ultra-high-quality coax and ends (they do NOT skimp on cable), and a new splitter in the basement.
A while passed, and I ordered a second box with DVR capability and an HDMI output for my panel. The installer came out and dropped off the box, and when I called to activate it, it wouldn't activate. They had him back at my house within 20 minutes. He again measured the signal and discovered there wasn't enough at the new box. So, he checked the feed into the basement - still too low. He then went outside to the outdoor junction box and measured there, and it was fine. Apparently, my neighbor had some contractors doing work and they nicked the underground cable while they were installing a new sliding door.
Anyway, the technician said the underground cable was bad. I asked what my options were, and he said he could call for a digging crew to come out in 4-6 weeks. He then walked over to his truck, grabbed a shovel, and buried me a new line from the outdoor junction box and the feed into my house, and everything worked fine after that.
So, if Comcast is so universally evil, I've certainly never seen it...
I still brought my Cell Phone (w/ MP3 player built in) and digital camera with me. I'd mail SD cards home and receive blank ones and fresh batteries in the mail. So much for disconnecting and becoming one with nature. Haha.
This is an awful expense and effort when it takes all of an hour to remove, replace, spackle, and repaint a piece of drywall - that is IF you even need to. Interior walls typically are not insulated, so usually it's just a matter of fishing a cable, which takes maybe 10 minutes.
Running cables is only hard if you don't know how to do it.
He should also have to pay for his incarceration.. at $40k/yr, his fine will only keep him in jail for about 6 years before you and me have to start paying for his life of luxury in a minimum security resort, complete with Cable TV and probably Internet Access. Hell, he'll probably just continue his business from prison.
Dude, everything with an electrical current causes propagating waves. In fact, any time a charged particle moves, it causes a propagating field. These fields pass through Manitoba at some strength - it might be -200dBm, but it's still there.
So, every time your heart beats, the impulses running down your nerves are causing fields to violate their airspace, and you owe them BIG BUCKS...
I don't you you can say that authoritatively. This is what the/. chorus has been speculating, but it is equally likely that they just wanted a quick settlement from IBM for an infusion of cash, and ended up with a whole lot more than they bargained for.
SCOX Market Cap is about $20 million. That might rise to 40 million in a hostile takeover. Surely the slashdot crowd has $40 million among them to finance a buyout of SCOX. We could put and end to all of this silliness for $10 a piece. We could release every patent SCOX owns into the public domain for good.
Now, with this suggestion I know I am just cuing the "that would only let them win" chorus, but think of how much money could be put into, say, developing a linux desktop that was actually NOT maddening to use, instead of litigating this circus?
Overnerdification? I thought they taught this stuff in kindergarten these days. It's fairly simple. Any time you have parallel metal, you have a capacitor. So, a coil of wire, the coils being parallel to each other, form capacitors. As the frequency you apply to the transformer winding increases, this capacitance becomes more pronounced. The coil will actually radiate like a helical antenna when the frequency is within the band of resonance of the coil. At resonance, the impedance is purely real (i.e. resistive). Above resonance, the capacitive component of the inward-looking impedance is more pronounced than the inductance if the coil.
Transformers look like capactiors at some frequency, and like resistors at the frequency at which parasitic capacitance equals the inductance. So, transformers cover all three aspects.
Excuse me while I go try to pry out of my mouth the words that you have so rudely shoved into it. I said nothing of same-sex unions (which I oppose on moral and ethical grounds), exporting peace by weapons (but since you mention it, in order to have peace, you must first remove those who have interest only in making war), values by shallow seduction (wtf does this mean, anyway?), and so on. Don't preach to me about cynicism and then practice it against me.
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After all, Mexico lies on the same tectonic plates as the US, so therefore it MUST belong to us.
Russia's arguments are silly. The UN has said time and time again the nobody owns the Northern Arctic and the simple fact that one piece of land lies on the same plate or ridge as another doesn't make it belongs to the same government..
I have a Garmin Rino120 with a standard serial interface for exchanging data with GPS programs. Is there any S/W out there that will take this info and interface wtih GoogleMaps instead? I have internet access in my car via the bluetooth modem in my phone, so it would be really cool to be able to do this...
Kinda makes me wonder why we never thought of this before...
I suspect there is something untoward happening here. Since these are seemingly infant mortality issues, let's just assume a failure rate of 3%, which is still ridiculous by today's manufacturing standards. Even with that, the odds of getting 11 bad XBoxes in 6 months are, well, let's just say you have a much better chance of winning the powerball.
Either that, or someone in MS's warranty department knows the guy and is playing a cruel prank on him, or just recognizes his name and has it in for him, or something.
I can all but guarantee that this is not a random event. You statisticians out there probably CAN guarantee this is non-random haha.
Why should we be giving these terrorist regimes access to technology to help them kill us?
The University may be on the hook here. If their policy REQUIRES students to be connected to their network, and being connected to their network results in the student being fraudulently charged with felony copyright infringement, then it seems to be that the university would be on the hook for at least SOMETHING.
If I were going to college somewhere, I'd simply refuse to use the university's connection at all. I'd use my own if I could..
Hah, I laugh at TFA. The last time I tried to use Vista, I had to jump through so many hoops just to launch a program that I ultimately gave up.
"You have attempted to run a program! Please scan your fingerprint to confirm"
"Are you sure?"
"Are you really really sure?"
"Okay, request sent to MS central to allow execution. Please wait 24 hours for a response from India"
It's such a pain in the ass to get anything done in Vista it's no wonder it's perceived as "secure." Your house is secure if you completely encase it in concrete - probably more secure than a bank vault. But, what good is it if you can't USE it?
How is giving a talk about how to spot possible espionage in any way the same thing as "restricting university student freedom?"
Well then you're a perfect candidate!
Being confined to a tin can with 5 other people for 17 months is the most horrifying prospect I've ever dared to ponder.
Small world. I am near Philly myself. You may be IN the city, but I am thankfully not.
I live in Lansdale and the service tech they sent was from their Pottstown district.
I've had comcast service for about 5 years now, and I have not had a single Internet outage. I also have not had any TV outages, except for the initial setup time when I moved to my townhouse.
When I ordered digital cable, the guy came out to drop off the box and asked if he could measure my signal level. It was just good enough (3dB of margin) so just to be safe, he replaced the cable ends on both sides of the cable from the basement to the jack in the living room, made me a new cable for the TV using their ultra-high-quality coax and ends (they do NOT skimp on cable), and a new splitter in the basement.
A while passed, and I ordered a second box with DVR capability and an HDMI output for my panel. The installer came out and dropped off the box, and when I called to activate it, it wouldn't activate. They had him back at my house within 20 minutes. He again measured the signal and discovered there wasn't enough at the new box. So, he checked the feed into the basement - still too low. He then went outside to the outdoor junction box and measured there, and it was fine. Apparently, my neighbor had some contractors doing work and they nicked the underground cable while they were installing a new sliding door.
Anyway, the technician said the underground cable was bad. I asked what my options were, and he said he could call for a digging crew to come out in 4-6 weeks. He then walked over to his truck, grabbed a shovel, and buried me a new line from the outdoor junction box and the feed into my house, and everything worked fine after that.
So, if Comcast is so universally evil, I've certainly never seen it...
I still brought my Cell Phone (w/ MP3 player built in) and digital camera with me. I'd mail SD cards home and receive blank ones and fresh batteries in the mail. So much for disconnecting and becoming one with nature. Haha.
And less than one TENTH of what we spend on needless social programs
This is an awful expense and effort when it takes all of an hour to remove, replace, spackle, and repaint a piece of drywall - that is IF you even need to. Interior walls typically are not insulated, so usually it's just a matter of fishing a cable, which takes maybe 10 minutes.
Running cables is only hard if you don't know how to do it.
He should also have to pay for his incarceration.. at $40k/yr, his fine will only keep him in jail for about 6 years before you and me have to start paying for his life of luxury in a minimum security resort, complete with Cable TV and probably Internet Access. Hell, he'll probably just continue his business from prison.
should be to build a giant faraday cage around the reservations... keeping the signals out. Heh...
Dude, everything with an electrical current causes propagating waves. In fact, any time a charged particle moves, it causes a propagating field. These fields pass through Manitoba at some strength - it might be -200dBm, but it's still there.
So, every time your heart beats, the impulses running down your nerves are causing fields to violate their airspace, and you owe them BIG BUCKS...
I don't you you can say that authoritatively. This is what the /. chorus has been speculating, but it is equally likely that they just wanted a quick settlement from IBM for an infusion of cash, and ended up with a whole lot more than they bargained for.
SCOX Market Cap is about $20 million. That might rise to 40 million in a hostile takeover. Surely the slashdot crowd has $40 million among them to finance a buyout of SCOX. We could put and end to all of this silliness for $10 a piece. We could release every patent SCOX owns into the public domain for good.
Now, with this suggestion I know I am just cuing the "that would only let them win" chorus, but think of how much money could be put into, say, developing a linux desktop that was actually NOT maddening to use, instead of litigating this circus?
Such a database would be completely unnecessary if they WEREN'T HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Fix the problem. Don't just put another incredibly expensive and ineffective band-aid(tm) on it.
Overnerdification? I thought they taught this stuff in kindergarten these days. It's fairly simple. Any time you have parallel metal, you have a capacitor. So, a coil of wire, the coils being parallel to each other, form capacitors. As the frequency you apply to the transformer winding increases, this capacitance becomes more pronounced. The coil will actually radiate like a helical antenna when the frequency is within the band of resonance of the coil. At resonance, the impedance is purely real (i.e. resistive). Above resonance, the capacitive component of the inward-looking impedance is more pronounced than the inductance if the coil.
Like I said... childsplay...
Transformers look like capactiors at some frequency, and like resistors at the frequency at which parasitic capacitance equals the inductance. So, transformers cover all three aspects.
Excuse me while I go try to pry out of my mouth the words that you have so rudely shoved into it. I said nothing of same-sex unions (which I oppose on moral and ethical grounds), exporting peace by weapons (but since you mention it, in order to have peace, you must first remove those who have interest only in making war), values by shallow seduction (wtf does this mean, anyway?), and so on. Don't preach to me about cynicism and then practice it against me.
Someone obviously does not recognize sarcasm when they see it...