Since this is the sort of thing one isn't likely to think about often, and digital archives tend to deteriorate or become obsolete, paper is a good bet, but make it acid free bond, and store it in acid free covers. There should be a second, similar, copy far enough away that a single event is not likely to take out both. This should be good for well over a lifetime.
Ibiblio also hosts the streaming audio for a number of NC public and student radio stations. It is a great service, and if bittorrent can reduce a bit of its server load so it can do even more, great!
Ibiblio is the former sunsite, and has been a major contributor to the Internet for years.
You might want to try plugging your TV into the cable connection for your Internet access. I did that and found out I also have "basic" cable, just the locals plus some community channels and CSPAN, but it is clearer than my off-air reception.
Basic cable isn't advertised anywhere I know of, but it is usually dirt cheap and may be some sort of standard franchise requirement or something. I guess it wasn't worth my cable company's bother to disable it with Internet only service.
I think the point is that you are cascading lossy compression systems. Each step throws out part of the information, until you end up with a kind of "homeopathic soup".
Some combinations of chained codecs are better than others, but they all cause degradation.
The Postal Service claims one day service in state for letters in NC, but my postman told me that the DVD envelopes, while they are sent first class, don't count. Not all first class is first class, apparently. They take two to three days to reach me also, although I am not convinced they are always shipped when the web site claims they are.
I believe the claim that they invented it before Cocks, et al. is largely unsubstantiated. Wikipedia has a summary and some references for the disputed claims. It is quite possible they did, but it is also quite possible they found the claim that they did useful.
Let me start by saying I am an amateur radio operator, and have been since the early 60s.
That said, the objections to BPL would carry more weight if they weren't traceable to amateur radio sources. I have seen next to nothing objecting to it on the basis of interference from other sources.
Last I knew, and I am a few years out of date, there was only one calling number field in a PRI, and it was populated with CLID, if available, with only a fallback to ANI. This could be tested by making an anonymous call and seeing if the privacy bit is set.
Since they do use 800 numbers for money transfers I suspect either the author of the article or the person he was talking to was running the two together.
I think what they were doing was fairly standard accelerated aging tests. These have been correlated with actual aging with lots of other material and devices. Of course, there may be something odd about CDs that makes them an exception, but not terribly likely.
The article said they were sending pulses of radio waves, not particles, unless you want to count photons as particles. This is not blasting holes through the ozone layer. Actually, since ozone is ionized oxygen, it might be slightly enhancing it, but not enough to be of any likely value.
Becoming a manager just makes you able to handle larger projects than you could do with just two hands. The first engineer anyone remembers is Imhotep, who built the first pyramid. I doubt he worked alone.
Unless there has been a change since I had a minor involvement with it, European and international patent law requires that a patent be at least applied for before an invention is put into commercial service. Apparently putting an unpatented invention into commercial service is roughly the equivalent of publishing it. I believe this is different from US patent law.
Break into one government computer, go to jail. Break into tens of thousands of personal computers,....
I'm not sure this is what they are up to
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Currently I believe VOIP provides interconnect with the landline telephone network by means of CLECs, at least where they can. Presumably the CLECs charge them less than the BOCs. SBC may be introducing a tariff to compete with the CLECs for the VOIPs interconnect business.
There is some thought that floodlights or "security lights" are counterproductive. Thieves have to see also, and having to use flashlights makes them more obvious.
Since larger people have more surface area at about the same temperature as others, just use infrared to detect the fatties. Of course, you will likely miss short fat ones, and pick out some small skinny ones, but it should be good enough. (Might be used to catch smokers as well.)
I used to take copyright law at least halfway seriously; I have published a minor piece or two myself. Copyright law was always intended to foster creation of new works by offering a monopoly on their duplication for a few years. It seems to have worked well enough, but where is the justification for extending the period of expiring copyrights? For that matter, has there been a shortage of new material requiring new incentives? It all strikes me as stealing from the common wealth.
In the late 80s they had at least one cell site that could be dispatched on, I think, a C130. This was in the days when FEMA was considered one of the worst managed agencies in the government.
Weren't there also portable cell sites set up by Illinois Bell when they let the Hinsdale office near Chicago burn down? (I say let because they had no extinguishing equipment, and the alarm was ignored by the remote monitoring center.)
I did read it, although quickly. From what I have read elsewhere, the consensus is that an espresso machine is significantly less efficient at extracting the caffeine from a given amount of coffee than is a filter or press arrangement. They don't push steam through the coffee. The proper temperature is about 194F at a pressure of 15 bar. Also, the whole shot is pulled in under 30 seconds. This is supposed to extract more of the essential oils, which it seems to do from the froth (crema) produced, without cooking out some of the more bitter elements. Unfortunately, caffeine seems to fall somewhere in the middle.
Few espresso shops will pull a single shot, which is supposed to be equivalent to a "cup" of coffee. The latter is about 5 or 6 ounces in the terminology used. For an espresso, it would be an ounce or less. There seems to be little market for that in NA, even for truckstop coffee.
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Since this is the sort of thing one isn't likely to think about often, and digital archives tend to deteriorate or become obsolete, paper is a good bet, but make it acid free bond, and store it in acid free covers. There should be a second, similar, copy far enough away that a single event is not likely to take out both. This should be good for well over a lifetime.
Ibiblio also hosts the streaming audio for a number of NC public and student radio stations. It is a great service, and if bittorrent can reduce a bit of its server load so it can do even more, great!
Ibiblio is the former sunsite, and has been a major contributor to the Internet for years.
You might want to try plugging your TV into the cable connection for your Internet access. I did that and found out I also have "basic" cable, just the locals plus some community channels and CSPAN, but it is clearer than my off-air reception.
Basic cable isn't advertised anywhere I know of, but it is usually dirt cheap and may be some sort of standard franchise requirement or something. I guess it wasn't worth my cable company's bother to disable it with Internet only service.
I think the point is that you are cascading lossy compression systems. Each step throws out part of the information, until you end up with a kind of "homeopathic soup".
Some combinations of chained codecs are better than others, but they all cause degradation.
The Postal Service claims one day service in state for letters in NC, but my postman told me that the DVD envelopes, while they are sent first class, don't count. Not all first class is first class, apparently. They take two to three days to reach me also, although I am not convinced they are always shipped when the web site claims they are.
I believe the claim that they invented it before Cocks, et al. is largely unsubstantiated. Wikipedia has a summary and some references for the disputed claims. It is quite possible they did, but it is also quite possible they found the claim that they did useful.
Let me start by saying I am an amateur radio operator, and have been since the early 60s.
That said, the objections to BPL would carry more weight if they weren't traceable to amateur radio sources. I have seen next to nothing objecting to it on the basis of interference from other sources.
Last I knew, and I am a few years out of date, there was only one calling number field in a PRI, and it was populated with CLID, if available, with only a fallback to ANI. This could be tested by making an anonymous call and seeing if the privacy bit is set.
Since they do use 800 numbers for money transfers I suspect either the author of the article or the person he was talking to was running the two together.
I think what they were doing was fairly standard accelerated aging tests. These have been correlated with actual aging with lots of other material and devices. Of course, there may be something odd about CDs that makes them an exception, but not terribly likely.
The article said they were sending pulses of radio waves, not particles, unless you want to count photons as particles. This is not blasting holes through the ozone layer. Actually, since ozone is ionized oxygen, it might be slightly enhancing it, but not enough to be of any likely value.
Becoming a manager just makes you able to handle larger projects than you could do with just two hands. The first engineer anyone remembers is Imhotep, who built the first pyramid. I doubt he worked alone.
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Unless there has been a change since I had a minor involvement with it, European and international patent law requires that a patent be at least applied for before an invention is put into commercial service. Apparently putting an unpatented invention into commercial service is roughly the equivalent of publishing it. I believe this is different from US patent law.
Break into one government computer, go to jail. Break into tens of thousands of personal computers, ....
Currently I believe VOIP provides interconnect with the landline telephone network by means of CLECs, at least where they can. Presumably the CLECs charge them less than the BOCs. SBC may be introducing a tariff to compete with the CLECs for the VOIPs interconnect business.
44kg is still quite heavy. I guess that will be one of the tradeoffs.
"50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong." Of course, there are a few more these days.
There is some thought that floodlights or "security lights" are counterproductive. Thieves have to see also, and having to use flashlights makes them more obvious.
Since larger people have more surface area at about the same temperature as others, just use infrared to detect the fatties. Of course, you will likely miss short fat ones, and pick out some small skinny ones, but it should be good enough. (Might be used to catch smokers as well.)
Almost certainly a left-over from code testing? It could be, but it seems at least equally likely that it was put there or left there for a reason.
I used to take copyright law at least halfway seriously; I have published a minor piece or two myself. Copyright law was always intended to foster creation of new works by offering a monopoly on their duplication for a few years. It seems to have worked well enough, but where is the justification for extending the period of expiring copyrights? For that matter, has there been a shortage of new material requiring new incentives? It all strikes me as stealing from the common wealth.
Weren't there also portable cell sites set up by Illinois Bell when they let the Hinsdale office near Chicago burn down? (I say let because they had no extinguishing equipment, and the alarm was ignored by the remote monitoring center.)
A lot of ISP user agreements prohibit the provision of service to third parties. This violates that restriction, and doesn't attempt to cover it up.
Few espresso shops will pull a single shot, which is supposed to be equivalent to a "cup" of coffee. The latter is about 5 or 6 ounces in the terminology used. For an espresso, it would be an ounce or less. There seems to be little market for that in NA, even for truckstop coffee.