I believe that Sprint's (and other manufacturers') new third-generation phones come out soon - many of them are bundled with GPS capability.
It's touted as a convenience (calling assistance and saying "find me an ATM") and/or safety feature (Calling Cell 911 with "I've just been probed by aliens and have no idea where I am, come save me!"), but I wonder how soon marketing people (and Big Brother) will get a hold of the info... "Hm, this person spends 10 hours a week at supermarket A, let's SMS-page him with sale announcements for our client, supermarket B!"
if you know anything about Surelyann, you'd know that her connection to MIT was one that she's very proud of, but one which was rife with discrimination and hard feelings.
How dare these women of color achieve advanced degrees in physics! (sarcasm)
They said the same thing about R. Byron Pipes, the last "shit-stirrer" at RPI. At RPI, the Roland Schmidt era led to complacency and stagnation within the faculty, a decrease in incoming research monies (at one point RPI had the highest-funded Chemistry research program of any U.S. university), and the town-gown relations went into the crapper.
Yes, change hurts whether it's at RPI or somewhere else, but when it's change for the better, get over yourself and work with the program. (I have to admit that trying to get rid of the acronyms (JEC, CII, VCC, DCC, C+CC, VIC, AS&RC, etc.) was a pretty dumb idea, and it was unnecessary to rename "old school 14" as "Academy Hall";) )
Surelyann, RPI's current president, has been very supportive and pivotal in trying to secure "high-tech" employers and industry to come to the Troy/Albany area (yes, I left out Schenectady on purpose - not because GE doesn't bring good things to life, but because they're not really as attached to the initiative as the pols in Albany.)
As part of this initiative, locals have come up with the moniker of Tech Valley to describe the upper Hudson region. The area does have a lot to offer, housing is cheap, sprawl is relatively low (stay away from Colonie, though) and as RPI used to describe in their admissions info, "It's not in the middle of nowhere, it's in the middle of somewhere!" (2.5 hours to NYC, 2 hours to Syracuse, 3 hours to Boston, 3 hours to Lake Placid, etc.)
As someone who grew up, went to high school,and lived in Troy, escaped to NYC, and then transferred back to (and graduated from) RPI, I can say that Troy (and the surrounding area) definitely has a lot to offer (it's been described as other alumni friends of mine not from Troy as a great place to raise a family) - so there is good reason for tech jobs to move there.
The biggest problem thus far, however, has been local opposition and people afraid of expansion. About 2 or 3 years ago, the Rensselaer Technology Park tried to bring lots of jobs to the area and spark the Tech Valley thing, but locals in the Town of North Greenbush, where the tech park is located, killed the plan. The proposed chip fab plant was to be a boon to the area, but local squabbling (always a problem in parochial Albany and Rensselaer Counties) got to it before it could take root. Unless there have been significant changes in very recent history, my guess is that the local hometown opposition ("we don't need no stinkin' chip fab plant!") will continue to be vocal.
...someone got a bunch of people together in midtown manhattan who had cordless phones and said, "Hey - I have this great idea, why don't we all share our phone lines with each other? It'll be great, and bring wireless phone service to underserved areas." While I think the practicality of this is a bit daunting, just bear with me for the purpose of the analogy.
I admit that I don't know a whole lot about NYC Wireless, but if I'm getting the gist of things from their page, they essentially want to have everyone possible share their 802.11b bandwidth so the internet can be free and wireless for all. As altruistic as this sounds, I have to agree with the ISPs that this presents all sorts of problems as far as network security and is perfectly within their rights to limit.
Read your service agreement with AT&T Broadband, or Road Runner, or Time Warner, or whoever you go through - chances are there's some clause in your contract that tells you not to subcontract the service out to others. If you want to run your own ISP, or offer wireless broadband to all, that's for you to decide - but they're perfectly within their rights to tell you to go scratch and get your own T1 from another provider.
(I should add that I'm a law student, so my fate is sealed as far as the lawyer jokes go.)
If people are using different "bands" of electromagnetic radiation to communicate and/or conduct interstate commerce, does that then bring such communication within the purview of the US Government's regulatory ability?
I don't know (and don't have time to look it up right now) if the FCC's regulation applies to "radio transmissions" or "electromagnetic transmissions" and if it does, does one need a license to use this "new" medium?
What about NOAA? If people are hitting clouds, should the National Weather Service get involved?
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The only things hams ever changed in my chunk of america was an annoying tower that some local boob _claims_ he has the federally-protected right (under FCC PRB-1) to supersede local zoning laws and erect. It's widely known that the guy's a pretentious jerk who just wants to chat with his other fire-police (a strange aberration of volunteer seen only in NYS) buddies.
People like this give ham radio operators a bad name.
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I believe that Sprint's (and other manufacturers') new third-generation phones come out soon - many of them are bundled with GPS capability.
It's touted as a convenience (calling assistance and saying "find me an ATM") and/or safety feature (Calling Cell 911 with "I've just been probed by aliens and have no idea where I am, come save me!"), but I wonder how soon marketing people (and Big Brother) will get a hold of the info... "Hm, this person spends 10 hours a week at supermarket A, let's SMS-page him with sale announcements for our client, supermarket B!"
*shrug*
I believe the above-referenced liquid N2 cooling project (and others) used 3M's Fluorinert as their coolant medium.
3M has information on it here in PDF format.
Just don't drink the stuff, sounds nasty...
if you know anything about Surelyann, you'd know that her connection to MIT was one that she's very proud of, but one which was rife with discrimination and hard feelings.
How dare these women of color achieve advanced degrees in physics! (sarcasm)
well, it doesn't help that when RPI and MIT play each other in sports, the MIT folks shout "Safety school!"
;o)
Ok, ok, it may be true... but it doesn't help!
They said the same thing about R. Byron Pipes, the last "shit-stirrer" at RPI. At RPI, the Roland Schmidt era led to complacency and stagnation within the faculty, a decrease in incoming research monies (at one point RPI had the highest-funded Chemistry research program of any U.S. university), and the town-gown relations went into the crapper.
;) )
Yes, change hurts whether it's at RPI or somewhere else, but when it's change for the better, get over yourself and work with the program. (I have to admit that trying to get rid of the acronyms (JEC, CII, VCC, DCC, C+CC, VIC, AS&RC, etc.) was a pretty dumb idea, and it was unnecessary to rename "old school 14" as "Academy Hall"
Surelyann, RPI's current president, has been very supportive and pivotal in trying to secure "high-tech" employers and industry to come to the Troy/Albany area (yes, I left out Schenectady on purpose - not because GE doesn't bring good things to life, but because they're not really as attached to the initiative as the pols in Albany.)
;)
As part of this initiative, locals have come up with the moniker of Tech Valley to describe the upper Hudson region. The area does have a lot to offer, housing is cheap, sprawl is relatively low (stay away from Colonie, though) and as RPI used to describe in their admissions info, "It's not in the middle of nowhere, it's in the middle of somewhere!" (2.5 hours to NYC, 2 hours to Syracuse, 3 hours to Boston, 3 hours to Lake Placid, etc.)
As someone who grew up, went to high school,and lived in Troy, escaped to NYC, and then transferred back to (and graduated from) RPI, I can say that Troy (and the surrounding area) definitely has a lot to offer (it's been described as other alumni friends of mine not from Troy as a great place to raise a family) - so there is good reason for tech jobs to move there.
The biggest problem thus far, however, has been local opposition and people afraid of expansion. About 2 or 3 years ago, the Rensselaer Technology Park tried to bring lots of jobs to the area and spark the Tech Valley thing, but locals in the Town of North Greenbush, where the tech park is located, killed the plan. The proposed chip fab plant was to be a boon to the area, but local squabbling (always a problem in parochial Albany and Rensselaer Counties) got to it before it could take root. Unless there have been significant changes in very recent history, my guess is that the local hometown opposition ("we don't need no stinkin' chip fab plant!") will continue to be vocal.
For what it's worth, though - President Jackson, RPI and SUNY Albany could really lead the region into great things - IF the locals allow it. Not to mention the kick-ass, two-time NCAA (1954, 1985) champion hockey team!
...someone got a bunch of people together in midtown manhattan who had cordless phones and said, "Hey - I have this great idea, why don't we all share our phone lines with each other? It'll be great, and bring wireless phone service to underserved areas." While I think the practicality of this is a bit daunting, just bear with me for the purpose of the analogy.
I admit that I don't know a whole lot about NYC Wireless, but if I'm getting the gist of things from their page, they essentially want to have everyone possible share their 802.11b bandwidth so the internet can be free and wireless for all. As altruistic as this sounds, I have to agree with the ISPs that this presents all sorts of problems as far as network security and is perfectly within their rights to limit.
Read your service agreement with AT&T Broadband, or Road Runner, or Time Warner, or whoever you go through - chances are there's some clause in your contract that tells you not to subcontract the service out to others. If you want to run your own ISP, or offer wireless broadband to all, that's for you to decide - but they're perfectly within their rights to tell you to go scratch and get your own T1 from another provider.
(I should add that I'm a law student, so my fate is sealed as far as the lawyer jokes go.)
If people are using different "bands" of electromagnetic radiation to communicate and/or conduct interstate commerce, does that then bring such communication within the purview of the US Government's regulatory ability?
I don't know (and don't have time to look it up right now) if the FCC's regulation applies to "radio transmissions" or "electromagnetic transmissions" and if it does, does one need a license to use this "new" medium?
What about NOAA? If people are hitting clouds, should the National Weather Service get involved?
*shrug* just a thought...
to see if it came back attached to a planet-sized ship like in STTMP?
The thing about sprint was an ad?
Oh dear, I've been misled.
I wonder if Elvis Presley's estate has anything to do with the wide popularity of The King's remix overseas?
Hmm, maybe it's just Disney's repopularization of his music through "Lilo and Stitch".
Either way - Disney or payola - it's downright evil...
All your music are belong to us!
have to get drunk before piloting it? *ducks*
The only things hams ever changed in my chunk of america was an annoying tower that some local boob _claims_ he has the federally-protected right (under FCC PRB-1) to supersede local zoning laws and erect. It's widely known that the guy's a pretentious jerk who just wants to chat with his other fire-police (a strange aberration of volunteer seen only in NYS) buddies. People like this give ham radio operators a bad name.
As long as we're adding other flavors, how about Fiona?