Make it capable of space flight as well and we will finally have caught up with Gerry Anderson's vision of a Super-Car ("It travels on land or under the sea... It's the marvel of the age")
In my experience whenever any organization declares that it has "no plans" to do something then that something will surely happen.
Ths justification usualy goes something like "Of course we examined that alternative but no firm plans existed at that time".
XII. It's not under the control of mega corporations/riaa/government agencies.
E.g the government in china can easilly stop people accessing parts of the the internet they don't like but they can't stop people tuning into the BBC world service or VOA.
VHF and UHF are ok for local comunications but HF radio gives you access to anyone in the world with a transmitter capable of reaching you. Why would you wan't to sacrifice this in exchange for a short term technological quick fix for broadband access.
The internet has fantastic potential but ultimately it is in the control of commercial and government agencies. With HF radio there is no dependency on a middle man.
Power Line Broadband is being pushed deliberately as part of a plan to prevent access to any information that the government/disney/aol/microsoft/riaa/mpaa/etc does not condone
"Yo" is a perfectly respectable word derived from the Gaelic "oi" (which is pronounced "Yo"). It is a spoken exclamation. The written symbol for exclamation (!) is actually derived from the "i" and the "o" in the word "oi".
In the EU we arn't allowed to call a hamburger a hamburger because it does not contain ham. Stupid people might get confused! Instead we have to call it a beef-burger. This leads on to such linguistic travesties as chicken-burger and fish-burger and lamb-burger.
By the same logic a frankfurter should be called a pork-furter because it does not contain the remains of someone called Frank.
I've done something similar by setting up a web site on my PC (I used tomcat and jsp but it could just as easily be php or whatever you prefer). This lets me navigate through my mp3 collection and trigger individual tracks or entire folders to play via the internet. The tracks don;t play on the client but on the server which is connected to my hi fi by long cables.
By accessing this using the wap browser on my mobile phone I can browse and control my entire music collection from the comfort of the sofa.
I ended up using RealPlayer for the playback side of things because it is has a nice simple API which is quite well documented.
Non techi friends reactions range from total amazement to "why?".
You need to make the pages as small as possible though because GPRS costs money (0.23p per Kb on my current tarrif)
I think one of the basic problems is the perception of time
I've been thinking that maybe time does not existat all. That it's just an illusion caused by our memories of the past and our predictions about the future. All we really have access to is our mental state at a given instant.
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Like a java program that generates javascript code for a web page; that can get really confusing.
Here's a link" for other sad old geeks like me.
Make it capable of space flight as well and we will finally have caught up with Gerry Anderson's vision of a Super-Car ("It travels on land or under the sea ... It's the marvel of the age")
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WTF does that have to do with anything on Slashdot?
After a year spent in artificial intelligence you are probably just getting to the testing phase of the project. Time to find a new job!
In my experience whenever any organization declares that it has "no plans" to do something then that something will surely happen. Ths justification usualy goes something like "Of course we examined that alternative but no firm plans existed at that time".
Actually the DMCA grants a compulsory license to broadcast. The issue is over how much it should cost.
Score -1 Unfunny I could accept - but troll? That hurts!
Microsoft anounce the "Closed Graphical Networking Utopia" or Closed GNU.
and minus another point for being such a pedantic arse
Beowolf imagines clusters of you!
It's just a pitty that he can't seem to recognise his own total lack of talent!
And you nicked my sig
woops, the last paragraph should have been contained in mock html tags
XII. It's not under the control of mega corporations/riaa/government agencies.
E.g the government in china can easilly stop people accessing parts of the the internet they don't like but they can't stop people tuning into the BBC world service or VOA.
VHF and UHF are ok for local comunications but HF radio gives you access to anyone in the world with a transmitter capable of reaching you. Why would you wan't to sacrifice this in exchange for a short term technological quick fix for broadband access.
The internet has fantastic potential but ultimately it is in the control of commercial and government agencies. With HF radio there is no dependency on a middle man.
Power Line Broadband is being pushed deliberately as part of a plan to prevent access to any information that the government/disney/aol/microsoft/riaa/mpaa/etc does not condone
I can't use BabelFish (or anything like it) at work because people have used it to look at porno web sites by translating them from English to English
Maybe when the network gets overloaded it might be a good idea to disconnect some of that load instead of disconnecting the generators.
Yeah, why?
"Yo" is a perfectly respectable word derived from the Gaelic "oi" (which is pronounced "Yo"). It is a spoken exclamation. The written symbol for exclamation (!) is actually derived from the "i" and the "o" in the word "oi".
Or so I was told.
In the EU we arn't allowed to call a hamburger a hamburger because it does not contain ham. Stupid people might get confused! Instead we have to call it a beef-burger. This leads on to such linguistic travesties as chicken-burger and fish-burger and lamb-burger.
By the same logic a frankfurter should be called a pork-furter because it does not contain the remains of someone called Frank.
According to Tom Sharp the correct term is Person Of Restricted Growth or PORG
I've done something similar by setting up a web site on my PC (I used tomcat and jsp but it could just as easily be php or whatever you prefer). This lets me navigate through my mp3 collection and trigger individual tracks or entire folders to play via the internet. The tracks don;t play on the client but on the server which is connected to my hi fi by long cables.
By accessing this using the wap browser on my mobile phone I can browse and control my entire music collection from the comfort of the sofa.
I ended up using RealPlayer for the playback side of things because it is has a nice simple API which is quite well documented.
Non techi friends reactions range from total amazement to "why?".
You need to make the pages as small as possible though because GPRS costs money (0.23p per Kb on my current tarrif)
I've been thinking that maybe time does not existat all. That it's just an illusion caused by our memories of the past and our predictions about the future. All we really have access to is our mental state at a given instant.