One would think that he would have learned about anonymity by now - that maybe it ISN'T such a good idea to plaster your name all over the place when you start breaking laws (yes, this is technically against the law, at least in the US, at least right now)...
I'm not sure I'd want Apple coming after me when I break their latest big hit...
The tech sector is dead. Pursuing a technical career anywhere other than in India and China is nothing short of professional suicide. I tell as many students as I can to run far, wide, and fast away from technical "careers." In 15 years, hardware and software design will likely pay less than flipping burgers at McDonalds...
This is why things are getting so cheap. If you open up an AMW DVD player and a Toshiba DVD player, you'll find them nearly identical. There will be 3 or 4 ICs instead of the dozens from just a couple of years ago. There will be a Processor/Codec, some RAM, and a D/A convertor (and even that may be integrated with the Processor)... Hell, there may only be ONE IC, but I haven't cracked mine open to look..
As the level of integration increases, there is lower cost involved: less design time, easier to manufacture, lower failure rates, simpler designs. It all adds up. Sure, cheap labor makes a difference, too, but that extra $50 you'll pay for a Toshiba mostly goes to pad the bottom line..
Yes, it does "die off"... the energy itself doesn't die off, but the flux density of the outward propagating energy falls off as one over the square of the distance from source. So, it gets pretty damn dim to the casual Romulan observer...
What you're talking is called Very Large Scale Interferometry, and has been done for decades... What do you think the OGR project is for? Optimal Golomb Rulers are used to most efficiently space multiple telecopes in an array for best resolution. Look at the VLA in New Mexico. It has the resolution of a single telescope 22 MILES across, and is as sensitive as a 130-meter dish.
Not because I think some kid might take the game too seriously, but that the kids that go around killing people are the ones that have Barney and Teletubbies shoved down their throat...
People need a creative and harmless outlet for their anger and frustrations. This idiotic notion that we can just swallow our anger and ignore it is ludicrous. When we get mad, we punch a pillow, go outside and yell, or rehearse in private what we _really_ want to say to someone, and then we DON'T hit that person, and DON'T yell mean and hurtful remarks at them because we got it out of our system in private.
I would much rather have my kids playing GTA and venting their pent up rage than taking a Desert Eagle to school and mowing down a dozen people because all they can see at home are Barney and the fucking Teletubbies...
It clearly states that the law does not apply to "Vehicle Information Displays," "Global Positioning Display," "Mapping Displays," and what amounts to heads-up displays....
I do disagree that a laptop in use by the front passenger would trigger the law... the passenger can be reading a newspaper and it could be just as distracting as a laptop. Why aren't books and newspapers included in the law?
Once again, the government is on a power grab with these overly broad laws...
I am not a lawyer, but in my not-so-humble opinion, three letter acronyms and other Miscellaneous Internet Abbreviations should not be banned. After I read the fscking article, I was rolling on the floor laughing my arse off at the proposition that these quips have no place in the lexicon. Your mileage may vary, of course, and of course You Are Entitled To Your Own Opinion...
IANAL, but IMNSHO, TLAs and other MIAs should not be banned. After I RTFA, I was ROFLMAO at the proposition that these quips have no place in the lexicon... YMMV, of course, and of course YAETYOO...
Step 1: Lift cover of scanner and insert document face down with the letterhead toward the hinge of the cover
Step 2: Import the document into $MS_PRODUCT
Step 3: Select File -> Print
Step 4: Select the "Fax" Printer
Step 5: Press Print, enter Fax Number when Prompted, then click OK
Troubleshooting: If document fails to scan, follow the "Scanner Troubleshooting" section of your 2000 page user manual. If document fails to fax, follow the "Microsoft Printer Subsystem" troubleshooting section of your 2000 page user manual. If neither works, contact a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer at a cost of $100/hr.
Using a Fax machine:
Step 1: Insert Document Face Down Step 2: Dial Number Step 3: Hit "Send"
Yes it can be done, as long as you don't live in the northeast where unions and developers control everything... I can't even change a lightswitch legally without hiring a contractor and making his car payment for him...
Yep, that's right.. a little black and gray keyboard, separate b&w monitor, cassette tape for storage, 4K of ram (I think).. I have many fond memories of playing games on that little machine. I wish I could remember the names, though..
You can read about the XM Codecs Here: http://www.xmradio.com/newsroom/screen/pr_2002_04_ 18.html
You probably live in a market where there is a radio station on or near the frequency of your modulator. I agree, however, that FM modulation more or less sucks, but the tape adapters aren't any better. Aiwa used to make radios that had line inputs, but then they went the the ghetto look and I haven't considered them since.
I'm quite frankly very surprised that all radios don't have line inputs.. I wish they did...
I like NPR, too, but where in the country are you ever out of the coverage area of at least 5 FM NPR stations?:)
Granted, it may be a bit of a coup that Sirius landed the NFL, but in the end I think it is a mistake. They paid 300M or so for the rights (I think) and I think they may discover in short order that guys just don't want to Listen to the game, they want to see it. It will be good for those few viewers who can't find a Bar with a TV, but for the most part, I don't think people are going to consider carriage of the NFL a reason to buy Sirius...
"More is not necessarily better" "More is not necessarily better"
XM Also has a terrestrial broadcast network. XM also has geostationary satellites over the right and left coasts. The third satellite that Sirius uses is only another cost center. XM does the same thing with 2 satellites that Sirius does with three.
I'd also like to know how having studios located in one place makes sirius "better" than another service with studios located somewhere else. As you say, Sirius also "broadcasts" from NYC - and how is having the most expensive real estate in the nation good for business? XM lives in Washington DC, which is much cheaper.
From a business perspective, Sirius does not have a sustainable business model. They have no revenue stream other than consumers. For a media distribution company, this is not good. There needs to be dependable sponsorship in order to sustain a media company. Look at PBS, they're constantly begging for money and depend on government handouts to keep going. Sirius also has lousy marketing, which is why they have near-zero penetration in target markets.
Maybe starting your posts with "I work at Best Buy, therefore I know what I am talking about" isn't the best thing for you to be doing.
"why not let your programmers work from home for 50-80%"
Why should they pay you 50-80% of your current salary when they can pay some foreigner 5-10% of your current salary to do the same job?
Here's my advice (and let me first say "you asked for it"), get another career. The IT/Computer industry in this country is over. There is no longer a future in any technical career in the US - not until salary has deflated to match that of the third world...
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One would think that he would have learned about anonymity by now - that maybe it ISN'T such a good idea to plaster your name all over the place when you start breaking laws (yes, this is technically against the law, at least in the US, at least right now)...
I'm not sure I'd want Apple coming after me when I break their latest big hit...
The tech sector is dead. Pursuing a technical career anywhere other than in India and China is nothing short of professional suicide. I tell as many students as I can to run far, wide, and fast away from technical "careers." In 15 years, hardware and software design will likely pay less than flipping burgers at McDonalds...
This is why things are getting so cheap. If you open up an AMW DVD player and a Toshiba DVD player, you'll find them nearly identical. There will be 3 or 4 ICs instead of the dozens from just a couple of years ago. There will be a Processor/Codec, some RAM, and a D/A convertor (and even that may be integrated with the Processor)... Hell, there may only be ONE IC, but I haven't cracked mine open to look..
As the level of integration increases, there is lower cost involved: less design time, easier to manufacture, lower failure rates, simpler designs. It all adds up. Sure, cheap labor makes a difference, too, but that extra $50 you'll pay for a Toshiba mostly goes to pad the bottom line..
Are you nuts? 80k for a physicist? 60k for IT? You *KNOW* this is getting outsourced to India, right? Come on, what were you thinking?
Yes, it does "die off"... the energy itself doesn't die off, but the flux density of the outward propagating energy falls off as one over the square of the distance from source. So, it gets pretty damn dim to the casual Romulan observer...
What you're talking is called Very Large Scale Interferometry, and has been done for decades... What do you think the OGR project is for? Optimal Golomb Rulers are used to most efficiently space multiple telecopes in an array for best resolution. Look at the VLA in New Mexico. It has the resolution of a single telescope 22 MILES across, and is as sensitive as a 130-meter dish.
"You know we could do it remotely with rockets, etc"
:)
Yeah, just like we can send satellite landers to Mars, right?
What are we, 1 in 10 or so now?
$10e9 is TEN billion dollars...
I'll be able to see right up Martian chicks' skirts!
Not because I think some kid might take the game too seriously, but that the kids that go around killing people are the ones that have Barney and Teletubbies shoved down their throat...
People need a creative and harmless outlet for their anger and frustrations. This idiotic notion that we can just swallow our anger and ignore it is ludicrous. When we get mad, we punch a pillow, go outside and yell, or rehearse in private what we _really_ want to say to someone, and then we DON'T hit that person, and DON'T yell mean and hurtful remarks at them because we got it out of our system in private.
I would much rather have my kids playing GTA and venting their pent up rage than taking a Desert Eagle to school and mowing down a dozen people because all they can see at home are Barney and the fucking Teletubbies...
It clearly states that the law does not apply to "Vehicle Information Displays," "Global Positioning Display," "Mapping Displays," and what amounts to heads-up displays....
I do disagree that a laptop in use by the front passenger would trigger the law... the passenger can be reading a newspaper and it could be just as distracting as a laptop. Why aren't books and newspapers included in the law?
Once again, the government is on a power grab with these overly broad laws...
I am not a lawyer, but in my not-so-humble opinion, three letter acronyms and other Miscellaneous Internet Abbreviations should not be banned. After I read the fscking article, I was rolling on the floor laughing my arse off at the proposition that these quips have no place in the lexicon. Your mileage may vary, of course, and of course You Are Entitled To Your Own Opinion...
IANAL, but IMNSHO, TLAs and other MIAs should not be banned. After I RTFA, I was ROFLMAO at the proposition that these quips have no place in the lexicon... YMMV, of course, and of course YAETYOO...
Using a PC to Fax:
Step 1: Lift cover of scanner and insert document face down with the letterhead toward the hinge of the cover
Step 2: Import the document into $MS_PRODUCT
Step 3: Select File -> Print
Step 4: Select the "Fax" Printer
Step 5: Press Print, enter Fax Number when Prompted, then click OK
Troubleshooting: If document fails to scan, follow the "Scanner Troubleshooting" section of your 2000 page user manual. If document fails to fax, follow the "Microsoft Printer Subsystem" troubleshooting section of your 2000 page user manual. If neither works, contact a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer at a cost of $100/hr.
Using a Fax machine:
Step 1: Insert Document Face Down
Step 2: Dial Number
Step 3: Hit "Send"
Yes it can be done, as long as you don't live in the northeast where unions and developers control everything... I can't even change a lightswitch legally without hiring a contractor and making his car payment for him...
I got "Pirates of the Caribbean" on DVD for Xmas...
It's the same thing that happens with kidnap victims... they end up on their captor's side...
Truly sad, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for the guy....
Yep, that's right.. a little black and gray keyboard, separate b&w monitor, cassette tape for storage, 4K of ram (I think).. I have many fond memories of playing games on that little machine. I wish I could remember the names, though..
It's amazing how many Satellite Communications "experts" subscribe to Slashdot.
1) Working at Best Buy does not make you an authority at judging the effectiveness of a satellite communications network
2) Because your cousin vinny has XM and you didn't like it doesn't mean Sirius is better
3) Likewise, having had XM or Sirius since "day one" doesn't mean your judgement is anything other than layperson opinion
4) There are more than just technical parameters to consider when deploying a satellite network (i.e. business factors matter)
5) Because you think you're an audiophile and encode your MP3's at 320kbps doesn't mean that XM sucks because its streams are 64kbps.
6) More is not necessarily better
Sorry to troll, but this is just ridiculous....
Imagine a beowulf cluster of XM Radios!
I listen to Playboy Radio for the articles...
You can read about the XM Codecs Here: http://www.xmradio.com/newsroom/screen/pr_2002_04_ 18.html
You probably live in a market where there is a radio station on or near the frequency of your modulator. I agree, however, that FM modulation more or less sucks, but the tape adapters aren't any better. Aiwa used to make radios that had line inputs, but then they went the the ghetto look and I haven't considered them since.
I'm quite frankly very surprised that all radios don't have line inputs.. I wish they did...
I like NPR, too, but where in the country are you ever out of the coverage area of at least 5 FM NPR stations? :)
Granted, it may be a bit of a coup that Sirius landed the NFL, but in the end I think it is a mistake. They paid 300M or so for the rights (I think) and I think they may discover in short order that guys just don't want to Listen to the game, they want to see it. It will be good for those few viewers who can't find a Bar with a TV, but for the most part, I don't think people are going to consider carriage of the NFL a reason to buy Sirius...
*beating you over the head with the foam bat*
Repeat after me:
"More is not necessarily better"
"More is not necessarily better"
XM Also has a terrestrial broadcast network. XM also has geostationary satellites over the right and left coasts. The third satellite that Sirius uses is only another cost center. XM does the same thing with 2 satellites that Sirius does with three.
I'd also like to know how having studios located in one place makes sirius "better" than another service with studios located somewhere else. As you say, Sirius also "broadcasts" from NYC - and how is having the most expensive real estate in the nation good for business? XM lives in Washington DC, which is much cheaper.
From a business perspective, Sirius does not have a sustainable business model. They have no revenue stream other than consumers. For a media distribution company, this is not good. There needs to be dependable sponsorship in order to sustain a media company. Look at PBS, they're constantly begging for money and depend on government handouts to keep going. Sirius also has lousy marketing, which is why they have near-zero penetration in target markets.
Maybe starting your posts with "I work at Best Buy, therefore I know what I am talking about" isn't the best thing for you to be doing.
"why not let your programmers work from home for 50-80%"
Why should they pay you 50-80% of your current salary when they can pay some foreigner 5-10% of your current salary to do the same job?
Here's my advice (and let me first say "you asked for it"), get another career. The IT/Computer industry in this country is over. There is no longer a future in any technical career in the US - not until salary has deflated to match that of the third world...