The VX4400 doesn't have a GPS receiver built in. Here's a post that provides more info (or you can try downloading this pdf).:
Full GPS receivers in each phone are very expensive, require lots
of power and only work with a good view of the sky. 50 m accuracy
requires at least 3 good SVs in view. While many customers would
really like this feature, I do not know of any phones in which it
has been implemented.
AGPS uses a reference GPS receiver in each tower that sends SV
data to the mobile handset. The handset does not have a full GPS
installed; instead it uses the SV data to receive the time pulses from
a single SV and sends the time delta to the tower. The tower is
then able to compute the position of the phone via a differential
calculation and log it for E991 compliance. It is typically accurate
to 100 m indoors and 15 m outdoors.
Most new phones that are E911 capable or offer "Location Based Services"
are built with AGPS. So they don't have a real GPS receiver that you
could use, but the network can determine your position. It is a shame
that this data is not made available to the phone or the end user --
I would love to be able to write applications for my Treo that know
where it is without having to add a clusmy external GPS.
At least the schools are good in Leander (or at least used to be, I moved away from there in '96). I take it that the huge construction project they did with 183 didn't help much?
The thing to keep in mind is that fusion can't chain-react under its own power in a fusion reactor (unlike fission reactors). Fission reactors require control rods to control the nuclear reaction rate. Get clumsy, you'll get a Chernobyl. However, fusion only occures under extreme pressure and once confinement is loss, there is nothing to keep the reaction going, so it loses pressure and heat (and kills the reaction) nearly instantly. The only reason the sun can keep a fusion reaction going for so long is because of its immense mass (ie, gravity).
Actually, Amtrak gets top priority on the rails. After Amtrak, other passenger trains get priority, with freight getting lowest priority. However, since the great majority of train traffic in the US is freight, you still have to wait on them at times.
Larger jets will always be more efficient (per passenger mile) than smaller ones, assuming full capacity. This would probably be a tough sell for commercial airliners.
Budget airlines like South West have shown that it is certainly more economical to not use a hub-and-spoke network. Unfortunately, most airlines with hubs employ strong labor unions who would block any move to remove the hubs, although mergers tend to remove some hubs.
I've heard that one reason why freight traffic is more common in the US than elsewhere is because the tracks are wider (wide enough to put standard shipping containers on). Another reason is that there is much lower demand for the rails (nearly zero passenger traffic), keeping costs down for freight shippers.
Unfortunately, if it's the typical woman carrying a concealed gun, then they probably will make off with the gun since it's in the purse they snatched.
A similar thing happened to my grandmother a while back. She had always manually prepared her taxes, but one year decided to try having an accountant prepare her taxes for her. As it turns out, he made a mistake too which caused her to be audited and ultimately pay more to the government (plus penalty fees). Out of all the years that she's filed taxes, this was the only one where she was ever audited.
No kidding. Remember when there used to be cool shows on the Discovery channel, like Beyond 2000? Those were the days. Now it's just another animal planet.
It seems that the only good stuff on TV anymore is on Commedy Central, HBO and PBS. It isn't worth $50 per month for two additional channels and HBO releases virtually all of its shows on DVD which I can get through Netflix.
This is one of the reasons our founding fathers intended to limit the power of the fed, a lesson that not even the current Republican party seems to have taken to heart.
Not meaning to be trollish (and OT), but the Federal government's power has grown significantly since they took control of the legislature and executive branch. There's a lot of truth when people figure it doesn't matter who they vote for, the government is going to grow anyways. At least the Democrats are honest about it (and under Clinton, numerous agencies even shrunk a bit).
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The experiment planned by NASA still won't be beyond the terrestirial magnetopause. The ISS is still safely within this area.
You're correct. It needs to loose about 62% of its angular momentum, which is a pretty significant amount of energy. This is in addition to the amount of energy needed to reach earth's escape velocity in the first place and to insert into an orbit around Mercury.
Well, at least there's the Library of Congress, who's whole point is to archive all books published in the US to keep for all time. Hopefully it won't meet the same fate as the Library of Alexanderia. So long as the library isn't destroyed, there's really no way that all of those millions of books could possibly be replaced with revized editions or mysteriously dissapear.
Maybe since Sony is making this, they'll have a system similar to their MiniDisc format where you can either have the song (book) on your device or on your computer, but not both at the same time (if it's copyrighted).
Very, very good point! I disagreee, though. This device will be useful too, just not to the point of replacing all dead-tree books.
Of course, you're a bit optimistic in the first place that people will actually read the non-fiction books in the first place. Who cares if they revize a book that no-one reads?
Well, colleges don't gain much from their networks being used by P2P users sharing copyrighted music either. Colleges aren't in the business of selling broadband, they're in the business of providing educations and doing research.
Maybe there's a silver lining with all of these RIAA lawsuits. Now students will spend less time downloading music and doing what they're supposed to be doing at college--party^H^H^H^H^Hstudying!
And this was inside a computer case lying on its side with the side panel removed so the top was open.
Isn't it better to leave the case closed, with good intake fans on the front and exhaust on the back? Forced-air convection through a case is better than open convection I believe.
You're absolutely right. NASA would need some sort of re-birth for a mission-to-Mars project to have any hope of success within the next 2 decades. Its beaurocracy even puts the IRS to shame IMO.
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Citing anonymous sources in the British intelligence community...
Officials at the NSA could not be reached for comment.
Err, where does NSA take responsibility for this?
Full GPS receivers in each phone are very expensive, require lots of power and only work with a good view of the sky. 50 m accuracy requires at least 3 good SVs in view. While many customers would really like this feature, I do not know of any phones in which it has been implemented.
AGPS uses a reference GPS receiver in each tower that sends SV data to the mobile handset. The handset does not have a full GPS installed; instead it uses the SV data to receive the time pulses from a single SV and sends the time delta to the tower. The tower is then able to compute the position of the phone via a differential calculation and log it for E991 compliance. It is typically accurate to 100 m indoors and 15 m outdoors.
Most new phones that are E911 capable or offer "Location Based Services" are built with AGPS. So they don't have a real GPS receiver that you could use, but the network can determine your position. It is a shame that this data is not made available to the phone or the end user -- I would love to be able to write applications for my Treo that know where it is without having to add a clusmy external GPS.
Your mom?
At least the schools are good in Leander (or at least used to be, I moved away from there in '96). I take it that the huge construction project they did with 183 didn't help much?
The thing to keep in mind is that fusion can't chain-react under its own power in a fusion reactor (unlike fission reactors). Fission reactors require control rods to control the nuclear reaction rate. Get clumsy, you'll get a Chernobyl. However, fusion only occures under extreme pressure and once confinement is loss, there is nothing to keep the reaction going, so it loses pressure and heat (and kills the reaction) nearly instantly. The only reason the sun can keep a fusion reaction going for so long is because of its immense mass (ie, gravity).
Actually, Amtrak gets top priority on the rails. After Amtrak, other passenger trains get priority, with freight getting lowest priority. However, since the great majority of train traffic in the US is freight, you still have to wait on them at times.
Budget airlines like South West have shown that it is certainly more economical to not use a hub-and-spoke network. Unfortunately, most airlines with hubs employ strong labor unions who would block any move to remove the hubs, although mergers tend to remove some hubs.
I've heard that one reason why freight traffic is more common in the US than elsewhere is because the tracks are wider (wide enough to put standard shipping containers on). Another reason is that there is much lower demand for the rails (nearly zero passenger traffic), keeping costs down for freight shippers.
Unfortunately, if it's the typical woman carrying a concealed gun, then they probably will make off with the gun since it's in the purse they snatched.
A similar thing happened to my grandmother a while back. She had always manually prepared her taxes, but one year decided to try having an accountant prepare her taxes for her. As it turns out, he made a mistake too which caused her to be audited and ultimately pay more to the government (plus penalty fees). Out of all the years that she's filed taxes, this was the only one where she was ever audited.
Dude, you've got my vote! Seriously, if you could manage to get it through Congress. Where do you stand on property taxes and tarifs?
It seems that the only good stuff on TV anymore is on Commedy Central, HBO and PBS. It isn't worth $50 per month for two additional channels and HBO releases virtually all of its shows on DVD which I can get through Netflix.
Not meaning to be trollish (and OT), but the Federal government's power has grown significantly since they took control of the legislature and executive branch. There's a lot of truth when people figure it doesn't matter who they vote for, the government is going to grow anyways. At least the Democrats are honest about it (and under Clinton, numerous agencies even shrunk a bit).
The experiment planned by NASA still won't be beyond the terrestirial magnetopause. The ISS is still safely within this area.
You're correct. It needs to loose about 62% of its angular momentum, which is a pretty significant amount of energy. This is in addition to the amount of energy needed to reach earth's escape velocity in the first place and to insert into an orbit around Mercury.
I thought the "JoyDress" had a button hidden on it that, when pressed, caused the dress to break apart and fall to the ground.
You're joking, right? What about Russia, S. Korea, etc.
Well, at least there's the Library of Congress, who's whole point is to archive all books published in the US to keep for all time. Hopefully it won't meet the same fate as the Library of Alexanderia. So long as the library isn't destroyed, there's really no way that all of those millions of books could possibly be replaced with revized editions or mysteriously dissapear.
Maybe since Sony is making this, they'll have a system similar to their MiniDisc format where you can either have the song (book) on your device or on your computer, but not both at the same time (if it's copyrighted).
Of course, you're a bit optimistic in the first place that people will actually read the non-fiction books in the first place. Who cares if they revize a book that no-one reads?
Maybe there's a silver lining with all of these RIAA lawsuits. Now students will spend less time downloading music and doing what they're supposed to be doing at college--party^H^H^H^H^Hstudying!
You might not want to say that too loudly, people might get strange thoughts about you, especially with that enunciation...
That certainly could solve the problem of chain letters.
Isn't it better to leave the case closed, with good intake fans on the front and exhaust on the back? Forced-air convection through a case is better than open convection I believe.
You're absolutely right. NASA would need some sort of re-birth for a mission-to-Mars project to have any hope of success within the next 2 decades. Its beaurocracy even puts the IRS to shame IMO.