Also, the Japanese have also invested in digital HDTV as well as analog so there will be SOME backward compatibility (in existing satellites; but that was only until they launched the newer digital satellites to replace the old ones).
Also, TDMA is used by AT&T. (GSM is a TDMA based tech). And the Japanese companies adopted CDMA and CDMA based technology (including 3G) alot faster (and in some cases before) than US companies.
Another example of the US's unwillingness to move forward rather than stay to milk it is with broadband internet. ADSL technology tops in the 40Mbps down (uplink isn't a dinky 128k btw; somewhere in the 1-8Mbps if not more) range in Japan (FTTH is at 100Mbps, synchronous).
And in the US, lobbyists (and monopolists) manipulate the technology so much that innovation really suffers. Example? Think firewire. Apple for the longest time, didn't allow the use of 1394's alternate name: firewire.
It's 'cause Japanese wireless companies tend to work together to advance forward instead of trying to promote their own standards and slowing things down.
Why do you think we have so many different cellular technologies here in the states...most of them aren't compatible with each other? We just need to standardize and streamline (especially the FCC procedures) our wireless so we can get 300Mbps.
Also, Japanese wireless companies don't try to keep old technology active to milk money off of it; instead they continously innovate and improve the technology to entice customers to upgrade and buy new technology. That's where they make their money.
A building collapsing just doesn't happen everywhere, everytime, nor just out of the blue. If it were to happen everywhere and everytime, we would all be living under rubble. Typically, buildings that are old or in poor condition (whether that is due to wear & tear, old age, or artificially done with explosives or acts of terrorism), they tend NOT to collapse everytime or everywhere.
Now go enroll in a reason and logical thinking class at your local community college so you can comprehend why it can't be everywhere, everytime.
in light of the recent collapse at the Charles de Gaulle airport in france, I'm not gonna risk my butt being the first to across it. I'll wait at least 2 years after completion (the airport collapsed less than 2 yrs after its completion).
Here. It was/.'ed back in December....where u take a regular high-megapixel camera, and a specialized tripod and take many pictures and then use software to stitch 'em together.
but in reality, radio does radiate (and TV) shitloads more than your dinky lil' "nuker in your hand" nokia. Radio and TV transmission antennas transmit somewhere in the kilowatt range (some in the 50kW range). Compare that with recent phones that don't transmit more than a watt of power (worst-case scenario of course), it's like comparing a volcano and a birthday candle.
u mean to tell me that putting dogs through mentally and physically grueling years and years of training is ethical? Or that there aren't enough seeing-eye dogs for the blind is ethical?!
Screw that...do it on a big boat in the middle of the pacific (in international waters).
don't forget about those terrorist group of seniors in florida who caused the chads issue (sarcasm).
Claiming that Linus isn't the father of Linux just because he put it together from open source projects and code that he borrowed and such is bogus. It's like saying that Henry Ford isn't the father of the automotive assembly line just because he didn't build the factory or produced the metal in which it was made himself (rather he had others do it). It's also similar to claiming that one person was responsible for the internet which isn't true. It was a result of the various inventions and advancements in telecommunications (including the invention of the fiber optic telecom cable which brought an abundance of bandwidth and with that brought new ideas on its use).
Same goes to building a house. Abe Lincoln didn't grow the trees he used to make his log cabin; he just put them together.
In fact, inventions not only include things that ppl come up with from scratch but also new ways of using existing inventions and ideas (aka the improvements and new use of things). Who knew back when phones were new that in the future ("In the Year 2000..."), we would be b*tching about politics, the world, and such over some sort of telephone-inspired telecommunication line in a world that doesn't have a real physical form?
Electrically assisted bicycles have existed in Japan for quite some time now (since the mid to late 90's).
Here's Panasonic's and one from Yamaha Motors. The reason why it's not fully EV (and hence called a hybrid) is to make it so there's no need for a license as it is still mainly human powered (motor assisted, especially when going up hills and such).
wait a sec, didn't the golden ratio have a sqrt of 2 in there some where? could it be that that influenced the original committe back in the day into deciding that all metric paper sizes will have that ratio? (I remember hearing something about the golden ratio and "aspectic beauty" in ancient times....was it Euclid?)
Maybe Homeland Security should recruit Max Payne, Duke Nukem, the guy in Doom, the CT team from Counterstrike, and maybe even Sonic the Hedgehog.
Although it may be funny in hindsight, it's scare to note that our intell is that bad. Maybe we need to stop spending money on "studies" and other bull and use them to get good reliable informants and good googlers.
I use winny to get raws faster than raw-releasing bT groups do.
And apparently, they don't seem to understand that winny itself and by itself is pretty useless. You need a list of active and good nodes to make winny actually work.
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After paying high prices for the software to begin with, we have to really work to keep it secure (as it's suppose to be advertised as).
It's too bad Microsoft doesn't pay us to do all this extra patching.
remember, "bureaucracy; if it makes sense, it ain't gonna happen." (in addition to "common sense need not apply")
if he wasn't using a hacked firmware on it, it would be vulnerable to various exploits (as just /.'ed).
One mod to that backpack might be solar panels so it can be self-sustaining.
It worked too.
that depends on you ask.
Also, the Japanese have also invested in digital HDTV as well as analog so there will be SOME backward compatibility (in existing satellites; but that was only until they launched the newer digital satellites to replace the old ones).
Also, TDMA is used by AT&T. (GSM is a TDMA based tech). And the Japanese companies adopted CDMA and CDMA based technology (including 3G) alot faster (and in some cases before) than US companies.
Another example of the US's unwillingness to move forward rather than stay to milk it is with broadband internet. ADSL technology tops in the 40Mbps down (uplink isn't a dinky 128k btw; somewhere in the 1-8Mbps if not more) range in Japan (FTTH is at 100Mbps, synchronous).
And in the US, lobbyists (and monopolists) manipulate the technology so much that innovation really suffers. Example? Think firewire. Apple for the longest time, didn't allow the use of 1394's alternate name: firewire.
free hardware + free software (open source, etc.)
hmmm...I think it's a bad idea...for them...and for the rest of us as well.
It's 'cause Japanese wireless companies tend to work together to advance forward instead of trying to promote their own standards and slowing things down.
Why do you think we have so many different cellular technologies here in the states...most of them aren't compatible with each other?
We just need to standardize and streamline (especially the FCC procedures) our wireless so we can get 300Mbps.
Also, Japanese wireless companies don't try to keep old technology active to milk money off of it; instead they continously innovate and improve the technology to entice customers to upgrade and buy new technology. That's where they make their money.
don't forget to give him a soap-on-a-rope with a faulty rope.
it'll be longer if there's floating point in the algorithm.
And by the time it verifies it, there will be a new number to verify.
so says an AC.
A building collapsing just doesn't happen everywhere, everytime, nor just out of the blue.
If it were to happen everywhere and everytime, we would all be living under rubble.
Typically, buildings that are old or in poor condition (whether that is due to wear & tear, old age, or artificially done with explosives or acts of terrorism), they tend NOT to collapse everytime or everywhere.
Now go enroll in a reason and logical thinking class at your local community college so you can comprehend why it can't be everywhere, everytime.
in light of the recent collapse at the Charles de Gaulle airport in france, I'm not gonna risk my butt being the first to across it. I'll wait at least 2 years after completion (the airport collapsed less than 2 yrs after its completion).
Here. /.'ed back in December....where u take a regular high-megapixel camera, and a specialized tripod and take many pictures and then use software to stitch 'em together.
It was
if u think about it, in essence, it's based on solar power.....as algae needs the sun to grow.
but hopefully, those polluting factories don't claim that they are doing good by making algae, blah blah blah.
it also "flew" ....with water as the medium instead of air...
tomato, tomayto
this isn't the first enterprise to fly. The first one was the space shuttle of the same name (named in honor of the show if I remember correctly).
it just needs weapons and then u'll need a few klingon ships to come too.
if a hacker just happened to be on your property and used a public wifi access hosted by some one else, you're liable.
Somewhat like saying if an meteor bounces off your property and ends up killing or damaging someone or thing, you're liable.
Man...the Canadian courts have gone crazier than the 9th district court in frisco. I bet that "maple" leaf isn't really a maple.
but in reality, radio does radiate (and TV) shitloads more than your dinky lil' "nuker in your hand" nokia. Radio and TV transmission antennas transmit somewhere in the kilowatt range (some in the 50kW range). Compare that with recent phones that don't transmit more than a watt of power (worst-case scenario of course), it's like comparing a volcano and a birthday candle.
that's called stenography
'twas referring to the mod who overrated my post.
u mean to tell me that putting dogs through mentally and physically grueling years and years of training is ethical? Or that there aren't enough seeing-eye dogs for the blind is ethical?!
Screw that...do it on a big boat in the middle of the pacific (in international waters).
why take the time and money to train them when and if they can be trained via genetically implanted instinct?
Better yet, why not do that with seeing-eye dogs?
don't forget about those terrorist group of seniors in florida who caused the chads issue (sarcasm).
Claiming that Linus isn't the father of Linux just because he put it together from open source projects and code that he borrowed and such is bogus. It's like saying that Henry Ford isn't the father of the automotive assembly line just because he didn't build the factory or produced the metal in which it was made himself (rather he had others do it). It's also similar to claiming that one person was responsible for the internet which isn't true. It was a result of the various inventions and advancements in telecommunications (including the invention of the fiber optic telecom cable which brought an abundance of bandwidth and with that brought new ideas on its use).
Same goes to building a house. Abe Lincoln didn't grow the trees he used to make his log cabin; he just put them together.
In fact, inventions not only include things that ppl come up with from scratch but also new ways of using existing inventions and ideas (aka the improvements and new use of things). Who knew back when phones were new that in the future ("In the Year 2000..."), we would be b*tching about politics, the world, and such over some sort of telephone-inspired telecommunication line in a world that doesn't have a real physical form?
market for it.
Electrically assisted bicycles have existed in Japan for quite some time now (since the mid to late 90's).
Here's Panasonic's and one from Yamaha Motors. The reason why it's not fully EV (and hence called a hybrid) is to make it so there's no need for a license as it is still mainly human powered (motor assisted, especially when going up hills and such).
wait a sec, didn't the golden ratio have a sqrt of 2 in there some where? could it be that that influenced the original committe back in the day into deciding that all metric paper sizes will have that ratio? (I remember hearing something about the golden ratio and "aspectic beauty" in ancient times....was it Euclid?)
"FBI in Lala Land"
Maybe Homeland Security should recruit Max Payne, Duke Nukem, the guy in Doom, the CT team from Counterstrike, and maybe even Sonic the Hedgehog.
Although it may be funny in hindsight, it's scare to note that our intell is that bad. Maybe we need to stop spending money on "studies" and other bull and use them to get good reliable informants and good googlers.
I use winny to get raws faster than raw-releasing bT groups do.
And apparently, they don't seem to understand that winny itself and by itself is pretty useless. You need a list of active and good nodes to make winny actually work.