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Perhaps IT sectors are smaller in piracy laden countries is because countries with good IT sectors don't NEED piracy to pay their IT bills. By that I mean, if you can support a good IT sector, you don't need pirated software to work.
Maybe now she can do work in issues that are personally salient. Perhaps she can, once she distances herself from RIAA, become a voice for sexual minorities issues, or work in the campaign for a Democrat candidate for president, or begin work in things like Rock The Vote (which she co-founded). This will allow her to not be considered the embodiment of evil amongst younger folks and keep her from being the William Jennings "Cross of Gold" Bryan of the music industry in the history books.
The issue inherent to this really is that even if microscale modification is possible, macroscale(world-wide) weather modification is nearly impossible due to the chaotic nature of the system. I think seeding clouds and suppressing hail could be okay on small local scales, but modifying weather on a large scale could cause all sorts of horrible side effects. We also don't know the ecological impact of hail and hurricanes. It may be true that oceans need to be stirred up a certain way by hurricanes to help fishing...we just don't know yet. And I think that until we find at least some shadow of a purpose behind these phenomena, we should keep our fingers off the buttons.
Well, I too could hear the flyback transformers, and sometimes I can even hear improperly wired LEDs. But this is a hard sell to me.
It seems more to me to be the auditory equivalent of wasting of muscles due to being in a hospital bed or wheelchair; meaning that yes, compression might weaken a person's perception of quiet sounds, BUT this is more of a psychological degradation than a physical one. You can easily reclaim that hearing by both exercising it, and taking time away from the compressed audio. That's about the farthest that I'll go...and it's still a hard sell to me that it causes even that level of "damage". But, I'm just skeptical of most "warnings", simply because there's too many of them, and their who intent is just to scare people into supporting the "fear economy".
Well, I'm working on a project to teach computer programming as if it were a foreign language. It seems that grepping a computer program as one were applying a certain set of grammar rules in a written language, is in fact more efficient for those "verbally oriented". The corollary to this is that teaching computer programming as a branch of mathematics is best for the mathematically oriented.
I agree.... The fact of the matter is, at present there are fewer linux admins running around. Thus, they get paid more. Supply and demand. blah blah blah. Admins cost more, cost of running servers higher (for now). Q.E.D.
But they forgot ONE thing.... What the TCO is, depends on what you use the servers for. If they're just for accounting and inventory, you can switch to paper when the windows goes down. If it's for customer service, like web servers for banks and e-stores, it's money down the drain if the server goes down, especially around the holiday shopping season, for example.
Why not GIVE AWAY copies of the older software, and let folks support them.... XP is SUPPOSED TO BE an "Entirely new OS from the ground up"...supposedly, anyway... so they wouldn't really be giving up secrets if they gave it and maybe a little source code away.... But I know that's gonna happen when Britney Spears stars in a porno with Dom DeLuise.
They also have gee-whiz stuff going on occasionally like the Green Valley Bookfair and JMU sponsors an event called macrock which is a two-day rock festival...
Then there's lovely little joints like the Artful Dodger (neat coffee shop) and The Little Grill (mmmmmmmh yummy)....they're also within range of some great radio....WVTF in Roanoke can reach 'em, WEMC community radio(bluegrass, jazz, and good public affairs programming), and WXJM...good college radio...they're also within range of WNRN in Charlottesville.
So, even though it's a teeny-tiny little community where old order mennonites ride their buggies around...it still has some REALLY neat stuff going on...of course that's just my opinion.
It doesn't say that Fischer or his mother were spies. It says that Fischer's mother was suspected of spying, ergo Fischer must be...Q.E.D. Or so the drones that worked for the FBI thought.
Well, even moreso than that....what about "Liberal Christian" sects and their relationship to Christianity at large? Or...say pacifist sects that shun nationalism and jingoism, many of which refuse to place flags in, on, or around their places of worship. Both tend to be pariahs of the most vocal parts of Christianity. Of course, I'm an ex-evangelical.....now a devout Hicksite/Liberal Quaker. (after making stop-offs with the Mennonites, Episcopalians, and UUs(Universalist Unitarians)). I even feel some animosity from other folks in the Quaker faith. So, it's not just anti-intellectualism in some aspects of Christianity, or anti-Christianity in intellectual circles....there's also an element of disdain towards "Liberal" Chrisitanity and its theological positions.
Bad News For TV in Developing Countries
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This is an example of Sony thinking in terms of America, Europe, and Industrialized Asia.... The Developing countries are going to be stuck with analog technology for YEARS to come...... In developing countries, radio stations still have reel-to-reel and Carts (little 8-track-lookin' dealies), As for TV stations, there's probably a few left with old-timey 2-inch reel-to-reel tape. Yes, digital will replace Beta in the TV world (and it mostly has, including a format called "Digital Beta"), but STILL, the world's gonna need analog formats for years to come, if we want the third world to have a decent level of communications.
Mandrake needs to make the 64-bit version a more server-friendly design....and make it less desktop-ish....for now....
I mean, Mandrake's great in that I can get any member of my family to install linux or config their system or whatever with it, but it needs to "cut the fat" that comes with it being an all-inclusive desktop OS.....of course that's just my opinion...I could be wrong...
Well.... I disagree with that statement that chances for significant gains would diminish if folks don't follow the "Gentleman's Agreement" of the bandplan for 440 or any other band. It just doesn't make sense.
What will be at issue at WRC 2003 will be stuff like dropping CW for HF, the 75 meter band, allocating ham microwave bands to commercial use, allocation of the soon to be replaced VHF TV band.
Re:Radio Interference anyone?
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Very true..... Also with FM the carrier will step all over AM and SSB stuff. Of course, with enough power, you could stomp out the FM carrier with an over-boosted AM signal.
BTW, folks, if you wanna get rid of interference: 1. use cat 5 for telephone, stereo speakers, etc.....it keeps the RF OUT! 2. use double-shielded coax for video 3. put ferrites around EVERYTHING!
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Well, It doesn't have to do with ham equipment inasmuch as it has to do with CB. Equating the two is a MAJOR fallacy. A lotta folks with CBs will modify them to drive an extra watt or two out of them, and will make the things splatter RF all over the place, throwing interference at just about anything electronic. And "SSB/CW" goes all the way from the HF band into the Microwave band.
SSB means single side band, which is a form of modulation. CW means Morse Code, which is, well, the code. Both get lots of distance, but CW mainly because of the quality of the information. To understand a CW message, all you need is to discern timing of two pulses of different length intervals. To understand voice (AKA Phone) or packet, there's more "information" being shoved into the bandwidth, thereby making it harder to understand as the quality of the signal decreases.
So, blaming it on SSB/CW even is a fallacy, because people can, with poorly designed equipment cause problems in FM-modulated signals.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Some stuff I wish I'd've brought when I was in college before I got kicked out for grades (long story), other stuff, I think'd be good gifts: Condoms(useful for obvious reasons, but also for an activity called tailpipe condomming, place condom on tailpipe of vehicle, and hide in bushes while waiting for victim to start car) Vibrator (well, a guy can ALSO use it with his gf, for example) Fake ID Kama Sutra Lubricant(useful for a panoply of reasons, including pranks) Duct Tape (handy for last-minute repairs) a bottle or two of vino for dates, and a sampler pack of various brews rolling papers guitar or some other musical intrument earplugs (hell, you get surrounded by idiots who play their stereos all night, and the religious nutjob below you gets all upset at YOU because he knows you're the insomniac and is too scared to go into the "sin pen" of the party animals) UV lamp, handy for checking the pen marks and for checking for any strange stains Small portable radio, great for listening to the college radio station, or to late night talk like Art Bell for those All-Nighters. Any book by Terrence McKenna A CD-ROM with the contents from Erowid.org or Lycaeum.org
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Perhaps IT sectors are smaller in piracy laden countries is because countries with good IT sectors don't NEED piracy to pay their IT bills. By that I mean, if you can support a good IT sector, you don't need pirated software to work.
Maybe now she can do work in issues that are personally salient. Perhaps she can, once she distances herself from RIAA, become a voice for sexual minorities issues, or work in the campaign for a Democrat candidate for president, or begin work in things like Rock The Vote (which she co-founded). This will allow her to not be considered the embodiment of evil amongst younger folks and keep her from being the William Jennings "Cross of Gold" Bryan of the music industry in the history books.
The issue inherent to this really is that even if microscale modification is possible, macroscale(world-wide) weather modification is nearly impossible due to the chaotic nature of the system. I think seeding clouds and suppressing hail could be okay on small local scales, but modifying weather on a large scale could cause all sorts of horrible side effects. We also don't know the ecological impact of hail and hurricanes. It may be true that oceans need to be stirred up a certain way by hurricanes to help fishing...we just don't know yet. And I think that until we find at least some shadow of a purpose behind these phenomena, we should keep our fingers off the buttons.
Well, I too could hear the flyback transformers, and sometimes I can even hear improperly wired LEDs. But this is a hard sell to me. It seems more to me to be the auditory equivalent of wasting of muscles due to being in a hospital bed or wheelchair; meaning that yes, compression might weaken a person's perception of quiet sounds, BUT this is more of a psychological degradation than a physical one. You can easily reclaim that hearing by both exercising it, and taking time away from the compressed audio. That's about the farthest that I'll go...and it's still a hard sell to me that it causes even that level of "damage". But, I'm just skeptical of most "warnings", simply because there's too many of them, and their who intent is just to scare people into supporting the "fear economy".
Of course...as I always say, BSA (Business Software Alliance) thinks they're the BSA (Boy Scouts of America), and that's 100% pure BS.
Well, I'm working on a project to teach computer programming as if it were a foreign language. It seems that grepping a computer program as one were applying a certain set of grammar rules in a written language, is in fact more efficient for those "verbally oriented". The corollary to this is that teaching computer programming as a branch of mathematics is best for the mathematically oriented.
I agree....
The fact of the matter is, at present there are fewer linux admins running around. Thus, they get paid more. Supply and demand. blah blah blah. Admins cost more, cost of running servers higher (for now). Q.E.D.
But they forgot ONE thing....
What the TCO is, depends on what you use the servers for. If they're just for accounting and inventory, you can switch to paper when the windows goes down. If it's for customer service, like web servers for banks and e-stores, it's money down the drain if the server goes down, especially around the holiday shopping season, for example.
Why not GIVE AWAY copies of the older software, and let folks support them....
XP is SUPPOSED TO BE an "Entirely new OS from the ground up"...supposedly, anyway...
so they wouldn't really be giving up secrets if they gave it and maybe a little source code away....
But I know that's gonna happen when Britney Spears stars in a porno with Dom DeLuise.
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James Madison University
Eastern Mennonite University(disclosure: I'm trying to transfer into that school)
They also have gee-whiz stuff going on occasionally like the Green Valley Bookfair and JMU sponsors an event called macrock which is a two-day rock festival...
Then there's lovely little joints like the Artful Dodger (neat coffee shop) and The Little Grill (mmmmmmmh yummy)....they're also within range of some great radio....WVTF in Roanoke can reach 'em, WEMC community radio(bluegrass, jazz, and good public affairs programming), and WXJM...good college radio...they're also within range of WNRN in Charlottesville.
So, even though it's a teeny-tiny little community where old order mennonites ride their buggies around...it still has some REALLY neat stuff going on...of course that's just my opinion.
Well......
They'd also be anti-semitic...
Palestinians are SEMITES.
It doesn't say that Fischer or his mother were spies. It says that Fischer's mother was suspected of spying, ergo Fischer must be...Q.E.D. Or so the drones that worked for the FBI thought.
Well, even moreso than that....what about "Liberal Christian" sects and their relationship to Christianity at large? Or...say pacifist sects that shun nationalism and jingoism, many of which refuse to place flags in, on, or around their places of worship. Both tend to be pariahs of the most vocal parts of Christianity. Of course, I'm an ex-evangelical.....now a devout Hicksite/Liberal Quaker. (after making stop-offs with the Mennonites, Episcopalians, and UUs(Universalist Unitarians)). I even feel some animosity from other folks in the Quaker faith. So, it's not just anti-intellectualism in some aspects of Christianity, or anti-Christianity in intellectual circles....there's also an element of disdain towards "Liberal" Chrisitanity and its theological positions.
This is an example of Sony thinking in terms of America, Europe, and Industrialized Asia....
The Developing countries are going to be stuck with analog technology for YEARS to come......
In developing countries, radio stations still have reel-to-reel and Carts (little 8-track-lookin' dealies), As for TV stations, there's probably a few left with old-timey 2-inch reel-to-reel tape. Yes, digital will replace Beta in the TV world (and it mostly has, including a format called "Digital Beta"), but STILL, the world's gonna need analog formats for years to come, if we want the third world to have a decent level of communications.
Now I've found the perfect language to write my next really cool art installation in!
*eyes gleam with the possibilities*
Mandrake needs to make the 64-bit version a more server-friendly design....and make it less desktop-ish....for now.... I mean, Mandrake's great in that I can get any member of my family to install linux or config their system or whatever with it, but it needs to "cut the fat" that comes with it being an all-inclusive desktop OS.....of course that's just my opinion...I could be wrong...
Well....
I disagree with that statement that chances for significant gains would diminish if folks don't follow the "Gentleman's Agreement" of the bandplan for 440 or any other band. It just doesn't make sense.
What will be at issue at WRC 2003 will be stuff like dropping CW for HF, the 75 meter band, allocating ham microwave bands to commercial use, allocation of the soon to be replaced VHF TV band.
Very true.....
Also with FM the carrier will step all over AM and SSB stuff.
Of course, with enough power, you could stomp out the FM carrier with an over-boosted AM signal.
BTW, folks, if you wanna get rid of interference:
1. use cat 5 for telephone, stereo speakers, etc.....it keeps the RF OUT!
2. use double-shielded coax for video
3. put ferrites around EVERYTHING!
Well, It doesn't have to do with ham equipment inasmuch as it has to do with CB. Equating the two is a MAJOR fallacy. A lotta folks with CBs will modify them to drive an extra watt or two out of them, and will make the things splatter RF all over the place, throwing interference at just about anything electronic. And "SSB/CW" goes all the way from the HF band into the Microwave band.
SSB means single side band, which is a form of modulation. CW means Morse Code, which is, well, the code. Both get lots of distance, but CW mainly because of the quality of the information. To understand a CW message, all you need is to discern timing of two pulses of different length intervals. To understand voice (AKA Phone) or packet, there's more "information" being shoved into the bandwidth, thereby making it harder to understand as the quality of the signal decreases.
So, blaming it on SSB/CW even is a fallacy, because people can, with poorly designed equipment cause problems in FM-modulated signals.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Well, a person CAN operate from their home station on home power, but that's a separate class from the others.
The Kid's name is Hahn! The same name as Otto Hahn, one of the forerunners of nuclear science. Here's a bio of Hahn.
Some stuff I wish I'd've brought when I was in college before I got kicked out for grades (long story), other stuff, I think'd be good gifts:
Condoms(useful for obvious reasons, but also for an activity called tailpipe condomming, place condom on tailpipe of vehicle, and hide in bushes while waiting for victim to start car)
Vibrator (well, a guy can ALSO use it with his gf, for example)
Fake ID
Kama Sutra
Lubricant(useful for a panoply of reasons, including pranks)
Duct Tape (handy for last-minute repairs)
a bottle or two of vino for dates, and a sampler pack of various brews
rolling papers
guitar or some other musical intrument
earplugs (hell, you get surrounded by idiots who play their stereos all night, and the religious nutjob below you gets all upset at YOU because he knows you're the insomniac and is too scared to go into the "sin pen" of the party animals)
UV lamp, handy for checking the pen marks and for checking for any strange stains
Small portable radio, great for listening to the college radio station, or to late night talk like Art Bell for those All-Nighters.
Any book by Terrence McKenna
A CD-ROM with the contents from Erowid.org or Lycaeum.org