Newtons are great. They can interface with all sorts of modern devices with almost no problem. They have working 802.11b, ethernet, IrDA with ObEX, ATA storage cards, and almost any serial device. They have web browsers, E-mail clients, vCard capability and myriad other software options.
Just about the only thing that hasn't been done (and probably won't) is making the Newt a USB master. That would require tons of drivers that would take quite a long time to write.
If you want one, just go and buy one on eBay. They only cost about $100 for the latest model with tons of other cool stuff. You might also want to check out www.NewtonTalk.com.
Well, the Blackberry isn't supposed to be a phone. It's a glorified pager with an alphanumeric keyboard. Pagers were designed for non-vocal communication, so adding a keyboard, E-mail, and some other stuff makes much more sense than adding those to a phone. The Blackberry is actually much more capable and easy to use that at first it would seem.
As for "Smart Phones", you're right, if they are advertised as phones, they should be phones first and PDAs second.
I really wish that people would stop modding comments like that up. If anything, it's Offtopic. That was intended as a personal reply to its parent. The only reason I didn't use private E-mail or something is that he didn't give any contact info.
Anyway, yes, there are people like that. I know quite a few.
How about the simple idea that no one should be able to 0wn your cell phone?
I completely agree with you. Cell phones should call people. Now, some extra functions are useful on occasion, but the vast majority of them aren't. If I wanted to send my friends E-mail from a portable device, I would either get a Blackberry or I would use a cell phone and my Newton to dial into my ISP. The only reason that I would get a cell phone is to make calls.
Dress well, keep yourself well groomed in general, and don't act like an ass. Your appearance and demeanor are the first things that people will see, and even if they won't admit it, it makes a huge impression.
Go to places where there are lots of people. Be social. This has a lot to do with the first point, but it deserves its own. Simply interacting with people builds confidence (not to mention makes friends).
Actually ask people. Don't assume that she'll say no. Even if she does, that's not the end of the world. Don't be too invasive, because that's a great way to push her away. I actually know someone who dumped Bill Gates because he was too pushy.
As mentioned in previous articles, learn origami. Really, almost any sort of hobby will do as long as it isn't too technical. The more, the better. People are curious, and common hobbies are a great way to get to know someone. Be prepared to discuss said hobbies.
Don't go too far into politics, religion, or any other controversial topic unless you are both prepared to do so. You should discuss them, but if the other person doesn't agree with you, there is no point in getting into a fight over it.
I, personally, carry some origami paper and make a model called a kikuzra whenever I'm nervous. It's very calming and it's also a great icebreaker. I'm still working on writing up the instructions for it since I can't find them anywhere online.
My girlfriend and I actually met at a church get-together. Strangely enough, our families are good friends, but we had never met or even heard of each other. Of course, my extended family is well over 150 people, so I suppose that it's excusable.
"We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source."
They don't know that the files they are accuising you of pirating are the correct ones or not. They assume based on what their web crawlers and P2P searches turn up.
As for a defense, that wouldn't work. Since you were the one that first 'pirated' the music, you're the one at fault.
You make several good points. It has been entirely too long since I did anything radio related. I had forgotten that rule about the minimum power necessary, but that only really applies after contact has been made and the minimum power has been determined. A reasonable amount of power (read: much less than 1500 W) should be used in the first place.
I was never really suggesting using anything but a precision-engineered antenna. If the SWR was even slightly off with that amount of power, it would vaporize your rig in no time.
I wonder if it would be feasible for them to operate what amounts to a repeater with a frequency step of a few GHz. Take the signal in, step it up to 15 GHz or so, and transmit it across the country. On the other end, have a similar device. As long as it's at a fairly high frequency, it shouldn't interfere with much.
Of course, the best solution by far would be to have either a satellite or some sort of weather balloon. The balloon idea would make this a one-time trick, but it would work rather well. About 200 mW is all that it would really need to broadcast to be detectable and its LoS would be quite impressive.
I meant other than the max power for the license. Since my license says that I can transmit at 1500 W on almost band I please with a few exceptions, I assume that I can also do that in the microwave range. They don't expressly limit it, therefore, it is the maximum for the license.
Of course, it isn't exactly smart since 1500 W at 2.4 GHz would most likely boil all water within quite an impressive distance in a few seconds.
Well, I could conceivably go as high as 1500 W (Amateur Extra). However, since they _don't_ want to kill everyone within 50 miles, 50-75 W with a good antenna is probably enough.
The lower channels of 802.11b fall into ham radio bands. We're allowed to go from 2.39-2.45 GHz and I can't find any power restrictions for licensed operators.
I would occasionaly use 5 batteries by sticking a paperclip into one of the slots. The one on the right of the left battery compartment powers the light IIRC. Not putting a battery in there just prevented the light from turning on.
The Game Gear used 6 AA batteries. I have one sitting right here in my room. It sure chewed through them quickly.
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if this thing ended up being a PlayStation with a screen, integrated controller, and batteries? That's sure what it sounds like to me. Plus, if they designed it so that it could play PlayStation games that have been copied onto the little disks, then they would have a HUGE library of games already written for it. They would just have to burn them to little DVDs.
Can I just say one thing? I'm standing here, staring at Bruce Dickinson! And if Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we should probably give him more cowbell!
The problem is that if you put it there, then it's reasonable to assume that you wanted it there.
The point of P2P networks is to copy files, so by putting your own files on one, you have essentially given anyone the right to copy them. I couldn't sue someone for copying my material if I intentionaly put it on P2P any more than Madonna could sue people copying that sound byte of hers.
Derivative works are another story, but copying the original is perfectly permissable until the copyright holder says ti isn't.
All of this is assuming that the copyright holder put it on P2P in the first place. Now, if a friend did it and the RIAA sent _him_ a C&D for your files and later an apology, _then_ you could get them for copying your files. Now, your friend would have to do it without your knowledge, but you could always decline to press charges on him.
Another option might be to create an FTP (or HTTP) server and wait for the RIAA spiders to crawl it. Simply disallow the RIAA bots in your robots.txt. Have the files use names of famous bands in the titles, but make them obviously not from that band. If they send you anything, then you could assume that the robot (because no human would make that dumb of a mistake) ignored robots.txt, and therefore circumvented a technological measure designed to control access to one or more copyrighted works. That particular charge would be rather funny because I'm sure that they never intended the DMCA to be useable against them.
Another plus to the above is that you can still sue them for any number of other things. Whatever you think might be applicable is probably worth a settlement of at least ten thousand dollars.
You have a really good point there. They seem to think that they are the only ones that own any copyrighted music.
Even more effective would be to make a group called one of the words from the title of one of Usher's songs and then use Usher in the song name. That would get at least two hits on their theft-o-meter unless they fix it Real Soon Now.
Of course, they don't have to download your material to see its title. That might throw a fairly large wrench into that idea. Plus, where would you put it? If it's on a P2P network, then they could argue that you intentionally made it available for download. Therefore, you would need to put it on a private FTP.
Now, a harassment suit would stick a lot better. You could argue that the RIAA is sending you baseless C&D letters and get a court to order them to pay you for any damages that you might face. It's too bad that this university doesn't understand what a threat to free speach the RIAA is.
You could even sue for mental anguish or some other outlandish thing that is impossible to disprove.
Of course, if they apologized without you giving them permission to download the file, then THAT could be construed as infringement of your copyright. They would have to listen to the file to verify that it wasn't really Usher. Either that or trust you, but we all know that the RIAA doesn't trust people.
When they said that the entire device was inside, I assumed that they meant the AP. Silly me, assuming that no sane person would put a light bulb next to sensitive electronics like that.
I was a Fort Worth resident until I moved to college. I really despise that city's mayor. They annexed the housing development that I lived in, dissolved the volunteer fire department, fired the police officers that we had, left us without a fire department or police within 30 miles of us for almost three months, raised taxes, illegalized fireworks, and did all sorts of other nasty things.
Back to the topic, I also liked that trolley system. It can't really be called a subway because the vast majority of the track was above ground. Only the last few hundred feet were through the tunnel.
From what I read, the bulb isn't in the bowl, only the access point is. It's like the bowl is a base for the light that just happens to contain an 802.11b AP.
That's what my college uses to get us internet access in the apartments. They have a huge tower right on top of a dual T3 connection that uses a high-bandwidth wireless link to feed all of the buildings. It really works quite well. All of the on-campus apartments have 802.11b access that we pay for with our rent.
My only beef is that their packetshaper keeps cutting me off the network. One second, I have 60% signal strength and the next, it drops to 0. It hovers at 0 just long enough to disconnect me from EVERYTHING and it does this at least 3 times every day.
Garfield was pretty cool, but nothing could beat the Ninja Turtles!
My brother used to get up that early, but now, he gets my step-dad to record the shows and he watches them at a sane time (like noon-2).
Personally, I think that the 24-hour cartoon stations have some of the worst animation that I have EVER seen. That Ed, Ed, and Eddy show looks like it was drawn by a right handed man's broken left hand. Compare that to anything on WB and the WB just blows it out of the water with regards to animation quality.
Having divorced parents really sucks. I hope that you have (had?) an easier time with it than I've had. My parents divorced when I was three and they've each been stressing me to hate the other ever since. My brother (not the one above) still has to deal with it. Fortunately for me, I've moved out, so now, I don't have to deal with the constant fighting or the unreasonable rules of my step-dad.
I would call an unenergized magnetron utterly and completely harmless. It's pretty clear from that "until you apply power" bit that that's what he meant.
The only real danger from these things is the fact that they are at the exact frequency that water turns into heat the most effectively. You can cook yourself with them, but they won't cause either cancer or sterility (directly). Now, the heat that they impart to your tissue can cause sterility, but not cancer.
That is exactly my point. Apple has outsourced all of their parts needs for years. In fact, they even get other people to manufacture their stuff now. Elitegroup is one of the largest contractors for PowerBook assembly.
Apple has becomre more of a software company with a massive R&D department that also does hardware than a hardware company.
There are also Intel chips in the Newtons. I've taken my brother's eMate apart to fix the screen cable problem and the memory chips had a big Intel logo on them.
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Well, nanotech as a whole was largely inspired by Richard Feynman. Read his lectures sometime. They're quite good.
Newtons are great. They can interface with all sorts of modern devices with almost no problem. They have working 802.11b, ethernet, IrDA with ObEX, ATA storage cards, and almost any serial device. They have web browsers, E-mail clients, vCard capability and myriad other software options.
Just about the only thing that hasn't been done (and probably won't) is making the Newt a USB master. That would require tons of drivers that would take quite a long time to write.
If you want one, just go and buy one on eBay. They only cost about $100 for the latest model with tons of other cool stuff. You might also want to check out www.NewtonTalk.com.
Well, the Blackberry isn't supposed to be a phone. It's a glorified pager with an alphanumeric keyboard. Pagers were designed for non-vocal communication, so adding a keyboard, E-mail, and some other stuff makes much more sense than adding those to a phone. The Blackberry is actually much more capable and easy to use that at first it would seem.
As for "Smart Phones", you're right, if they are advertised as phones, they should be phones first and PDAs second.
I really wish that people would stop modding comments like that up. If anything, it's Offtopic. That was intended as a personal reply to its parent. The only reason I didn't use private E-mail or something is that he didn't give any contact info.
Anyway, yes, there are people like that. I know quite a few.
How about the simple idea that no one should be able to 0wn your cell phone?
I completely agree with you. Cell phones should call people. Now, some extra functions are useful on occasion, but the vast majority of them aren't. If I wanted to send my friends E-mail from a portable device, I would either get a Blackberry or I would use a cell phone and my Newton to dial into my ISP. The only reason that I would get a cell phone is to make calls.
It's easy.
Dress well, keep yourself well groomed in general, and don't act like an ass. Your appearance and demeanor are the first things that people will see, and even if they won't admit it, it makes a huge impression.
Go to places where there are lots of people. Be social. This has a lot to do with the first point, but it deserves its own. Simply interacting with people builds confidence (not to mention makes friends).
Actually ask people. Don't assume that she'll say no. Even if she does, that's not the end of the world. Don't be too invasive, because that's a great way to push her away. I actually know someone who dumped Bill Gates because he was too pushy.
As mentioned in previous articles, learn origami. Really, almost any sort of hobby will do as long as it isn't too technical. The more, the better. People are curious, and common hobbies are a great way to get to know someone. Be prepared to discuss said hobbies.
Don't go too far into politics, religion, or any other controversial topic unless you are both prepared to do so. You should discuss them, but if the other person doesn't agree with you, there is no point in getting into a fight over it.
I, personally, carry some origami paper and make a model called a kikuzra whenever I'm nervous. It's very calming and it's also a great icebreaker. I'm still working on writing up the instructions for it since I can't find them anywhere online.
My girlfriend and I actually met at a church get-together. Strangely enough, our families are good friends, but we had never met or even heard of each other. Of course, my extended family is well over 150 people, so I suppose that it's excusable.
From the letter:
"We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source."
Yes, they are claiming "code-lifting".
They don't know that the files they are accuising you of pirating are the correct ones or not. They assume based on what their web crawlers and P2P searches turn up.
As for a defense, that wouldn't work. Since you were the one that first 'pirated' the music, you're the one at fault.
You make several good points. It has been entirely too long since I did anything radio related. I had forgotten that rule about the minimum power necessary, but that only really applies after contact has been made and the minimum power has been determined. A reasonable amount of power (read: much less than 1500 W) should be used in the first place.
I was never really suggesting using anything but a precision-engineered antenna. If the SWR was even slightly off with that amount of power, it would vaporize your rig in no time.
I wonder if it would be feasible for them to operate what amounts to a repeater with a frequency step of a few GHz. Take the signal in, step it up to 15 GHz or so, and transmit it across the country. On the other end, have a similar device. As long as it's at a fairly high frequency, it shouldn't interfere with much.
Of course, the best solution by far would be to have either a satellite or some sort of weather balloon. The balloon idea would make this a one-time trick, but it would work rather well. About 200 mW is all that it would really need to broadcast to be detectable and its LoS would be quite impressive.
I meant other than the max power for the license. Since my license says that I can transmit at 1500 W on almost band I please with a few exceptions, I assume that I can also do that in the microwave range. They don't expressly limit it, therefore, it is the maximum for the license.
Of course, it isn't exactly smart since 1500 W at 2.4 GHz would most likely boil all water within quite an impressive distance in a few seconds.
Well, I could conceivably go as high as 1500 W (Amateur Extra). However, since they _don't_ want to kill everyone within 50 miles, 50-75 W with a good antenna is probably enough.
The lower channels of 802.11b fall into ham radio bands. We're allowed to go from 2.39-2.45 GHz and I can't find any power restrictions for licensed operators.
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I would occasionaly use 5 batteries by sticking a paperclip into one of the slots. The one on the right of the left battery compartment powers the light IIRC. Not putting a battery in there just prevented the light from turning on.
The Game Gear used 6 AA batteries. I have one sitting right here in my room. It sure chewed through them quickly.
Wouldn't it be kind of funny if this thing ended up being a PlayStation with a screen, integrated controller, and batteries? That's sure what it sounds like to me. Plus, if they designed it so that it could play PlayStation games that have been copied onto the little disks, then they would have a HUGE library of games already written for it. They would just have to burn them to little DVDs.
Can I just say one thing? I'm standing here, staring at Bruce Dickinson! And if Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we should probably give him more cowbell!
The problem is that if you put it there, then it's reasonable to assume that you wanted it there.
The point of P2P networks is to copy files, so by putting your own files on one, you have essentially given anyone the right to copy them. I couldn't sue someone for copying my material if I intentionaly put it on P2P any more than Madonna could sue people copying that sound byte of hers.
Derivative works are another story, but copying the original is perfectly permissable until the copyright holder says ti isn't.
All of this is assuming that the copyright holder put it on P2P in the first place. Now, if a friend did it and the RIAA sent _him_ a C&D for your files and later an apology, _then_ you could get them for copying your files. Now, your friend would have to do it without your knowledge, but you could always decline to press charges on him.
Another option might be to create an FTP (or HTTP) server and wait for the RIAA spiders to crawl it. Simply disallow the RIAA bots in your robots.txt. Have the files use names of famous bands in the titles, but make them obviously not from that band. If they send you anything, then you could assume that the robot (because no human would make that dumb of a mistake) ignored robots.txt, and therefore circumvented a technological measure designed to control access to one or more copyrighted works. That particular charge would be rather funny because I'm sure that they never intended the DMCA to be useable against them.
Another plus to the above is that you can still sue them for any number of other things. Whatever you think might be applicable is probably worth a settlement of at least ten thousand dollars.
You have a really good point there. They seem to think that they are the only ones that own any copyrighted music.
Even more effective would be to make a group called one of the words from the title of one of Usher's songs and then use Usher in the song name. That would get at least two hits on their theft-o-meter unless they fix it Real Soon Now.
Of course, they don't have to download your material to see its title. That might throw a fairly large wrench into that idea. Plus, where would you put it? If it's on a P2P network, then they could argue that you intentionally made it available for download. Therefore, you would need to put it on a private FTP.
Now, a harassment suit would stick a lot better. You could argue that the RIAA is sending you baseless C&D letters and get a court to order them to pay you for any damages that you might face. It's too bad that this university doesn't understand what a threat to free speach the RIAA is.
You could even sue for mental anguish or some other outlandish thing that is impossible to disprove.
Of course, if they apologized without you giving them permission to download the file, then THAT could be construed as infringement of your copyright. They would have to listen to the file to verify that it wasn't really Usher. Either that or trust you, but we all know that the RIAA doesn't trust people.
Hmmm. I didn't see the picture at all.
When they said that the entire device was inside, I assumed that they meant the AP. Silly me, assuming that no sane person would put a light bulb next to sensitive electronics like that.
Oh, well. I was wrong.
I was a Fort Worth resident until I moved to college. I really despise that city's mayor. They annexed the housing development that I lived in, dissolved the volunteer fire department, fired the police officers that we had, left us without a fire department or police within 30 miles of us for almost three months, raised taxes, illegalized fireworks, and did all sorts of other nasty things.
Back to the topic, I also liked that trolley system. It can't really be called a subway because the vast majority of the track was above ground. Only the last few hundred feet were through the tunnel.
From what I read, the bulb isn't in the bowl, only the access point is. It's like the bowl is a base for the light that just happens to contain an 802.11b AP.
That's what my college uses to get us internet access in the apartments. They have a huge tower right on top of a dual T3 connection that uses a high-bandwidth wireless link to feed all of the buildings. It really works quite well. All of the on-campus apartments have 802.11b access that we pay for with our rent.
My only beef is that their packetshaper keeps cutting me off the network. One second, I have 60% signal strength and the next, it drops to 0. It hovers at 0 just long enough to disconnect me from EVERYTHING and it does this at least 3 times every day.
Garfield was pretty cool, but nothing could beat the Ninja Turtles!
My brother used to get up that early, but now, he gets my step-dad to record the shows and he watches them at a sane time (like noon-2).
Personally, I think that the 24-hour cartoon stations have some of the worst animation that I have EVER seen. That Ed, Ed, and Eddy show looks like it was drawn by a right handed man's broken left hand. Compare that to anything on WB and the WB just blows it out of the water with regards to animation quality.
Having divorced parents really sucks. I hope that you have (had?) an easier time with it than I've had. My parents divorced when I was three and they've each been stressing me to hate the other ever since. My brother (not the one above) still has to deal with it. Fortunately for me, I've moved out, so now, I don't have to deal with the constant fighting or the unreasonable rules of my step-dad.
I would call an unenergized magnetron utterly and completely harmless. It's pretty clear from that "until you apply power" bit that that's what he meant.
The only real danger from these things is the fact that they are at the exact frequency that water turns into heat the most effectively. You can cook yourself with them, but they won't cause either cancer or sterility (directly). Now, the heat that they impart to your tissue can cause sterility, but not cancer.
That is exactly my point. Apple has outsourced all of their parts needs for years. In fact, they even get other people to manufacture their stuff now. Elitegroup is one of the largest contractors for PowerBook assembly.
Apple has becomre more of a software company with a massive R&D department that also does hardware than a hardware company.
Ignore the monopoly behind the curtain!
There are also Intel chips in the Newtons. I've taken my brother's eMate apart to fix the screen cable problem and the memory chips had a big Intel logo on them.