You are confusing two different RF devices here. Radar used for speed detection uses a microwave emission of known frequency and looks for the reflection. Now depending on the band (K, Ka, X, S, etc...), the reflected signal will have a higher frequency per mph of the reflecting target. As an example (numbers won't be accurate), Ku has an increase of around 16KHz per mph. It is fairly easy to subtract the original frq and deduce the speed. The constant is different for each band, but the concept is the same. A shift in the carrier frq is not the same as radio with a modulated intelligence.
Now even with a simple crystal controlled radio it must detect a frq range to demodulate the intelligence (signal). Commercial FM radio is about 100KHz wide, certainly not a single frq. Even narrow FM 2m ham voice is allocated 10Khz. The only thing that is a single constant frq is the carrier, the modulated portion is by definition not constant.
Simple superhetrodyne description. Radio is fairly simple stuff at the basic non-computer controlled level. When you move into the GHz range that satellite based services use, the radio transmitter/receiver circuitry is much more complex and construction methods are critical. The radar detector that was interfering with satellite communications must have been quite cheap, poorly shielded and emitting a nice range of powerful harmonics. It probably also did very poorly as a radar detector.
Now it's my understanding that pdf is a shortened form of the word pedofile. Is this incorrect? It always worried me when I was younger that corporations would only give me product information in pdf format...
Younger!?! Please don't tell us that you are old and still this stupid.
It never occured to me to associate pdf files with Michael Jackson.
Some of Edward's first senate campaign ads were bragging about his being voted one of the six best lawyers in the nation. Those stopped after a few runs and they started pushing his 'humble small town roots' angle.
He set the record for jury awards in NC and then beat his own record at least twice more. Then NC and several other states passed laws to set maximum awards for personal injury lawsuits. One of the first things he did after winning his senate race was to introduce legislation to allow personal injury lawsuits to be tried in Federal court, thus bypassing the 30 or so states that had placed award caps by then. His legislation didn't pass, but it would have been about like a national holiday for the lawyers if it had.
I know that many politicians in both parties have questionable honesty, but this guy seems to have a deep love for his profession and most of the cliches that go along with lawyers.
How can they include things like the correct errno.h for Linux into their closed source binaries without being in copyright violation? Remember that several of the Linux i386 values aren't POSIX compliant so SCO can't say they used the standards.
Others have suggested this driver, and it does now work on my system ( 2.6.0 kernel, NF7-S, GeforceFX 5900NU). It does not work on my system as a module, only when compiled into the kernel. Hopefully this will save someone the few hours I burned finding this out.
Great job on reverse engineering the nvidia binary ethernet driver though. It isn't as fast as the nvidia driver, but is getting better.
Why not just get a hard-disk-based MP3 player in the trunk instead? I have one and like it a lot.
I have nothing against a HD based player, in fact, it would be better in several ways. Cost is one factor since I've already spent $700 on radio equipment in the last two months ( new ham license). If the player doesn't work in the car, it will still be useable as a DVD player, so no real gamble.
My main goal is to have a player I don't have to change while driving. Tray loading will make no difference, I plan to install it in the rear hatch area. Thus the attraction of the remote control.
Walmart has Apex units for $43US and Sam's club had Daewoo players for $39.95US. I'll probably get the Daewoo because it is much smaller than the average player I've seen and should be easier to fit in my car.
It dosen't take my system but about 5 minutes to rip and encode a full cd now, well worth the time to get higher bitrates. Burning the dvd only takes about 8 minutes at 8x. Instant was probably the wrong description though, an evening to convert the dvd player and an hour or two to copy mp3 files back to HD before burning.
My cd based mp3 player works fairly well but it would be nice to have a much larger selection because changing discs in it while driving isn't as easy as with my pioneer headunit. If someone made a portable player like my Rio that could read DVD media then I would be happy enough to use it instead.
I think something was missing but it has nothing to do with the CGI. I have NOT read the book and I do not plan to.
The books are better than the movies, Tolkien was a master at weaving intricate story lines. Some of those translated to the screen and others were left out in the intrest of keeping the audiences interest. As an example, it may have taken an additional hour for the first movie to include the whole Tom Bombadil section.
I think that Jackson, et al have done a great job of condensing the story enough to make the three segmented movie. The books are highly recommended.
I just bought a dvd burner and plan to pick up a ~$40 dvd player that plays mp3s. Most of the ones I've seen have a seperate power supply and I'll build a small power converter so it will be happy with the 12v in my car and then hook up to the aux-in on my pioneer.
Instant 4.7gigs of audio files and a remote control to boot. Even with my wide range of tastes ( some say bizarre) I'll only need a few discs worth to take my entire collection. Simple matter to re-rip all the Beatles albums at higher bitrates too since I'm not trying to cram stuff onto CD-Rs.
In the two way communication model described, the traffic light system could read whether the approaching car was braking and slowing down or pressing the accelerator. Then the other approaching traffic could be warned about the danger.
It makes me wonder what other kind of problems will come of 20 cars crossing through green lights suddenly hitting the brakes because of warnings. The intended range of the communication is limited on purpose, things would get interesting when the traffic line suddenly stops and you were out of range or had an older car without the warning system.
An old friend was once a manager at a Pizza Hut. At that time, PH also had a salad bar. It was sold as an all-you-can-eat salad bar. His regional manager was riding his ass about controling the salad bar costs. My friend said, "It is an all you can eat deal, how can I control what people eat?" He was told to keep track of how much had been consumed each day and stop restocking the salad bar when their cost limit was reached.
Guess what happened next... Salad bar sales dropped by about 2/3rds and then he got his ass chewed about the drop in sales. The main thing companies seem to want is for people to pay for 'unlimited' services/food/etc... and then not use them. Unlimited makes for good marketing strategy because the marketers don't have to deal with the realities of a greedy consumer.
I ran into this with my first ISP in 1995. Each account had a shell account and ftp space with that shell account. I would download large files from non-resumable ftp servers *cough*microsoft*cough* of the day into the ftp space and then download them locally. One day I found the file I had transferring was no longer in my ftp space and an email about my 'suspicious' activity. I called and finally got hold of the person that sent the email, their security/compliance officer.
I'm stunned by this and he starts grilling me about what I was downloading that was 50megs. I inform him that it was the linux trial version of Wordperfect and could he please restore the file so downloading could resume. He declines and says that I'm using too much space. I asked just how much space is allowed. I was told that they had no set limit, but that I was using too much. The closest thing he would give to an answer was that the number would float according to overall usage. When he still refused to give any number, I asked why they even had the ftp space and he said it was one of the services they provided.
Their policy was that I could use ftp space, but not too much or too often, with no amount or time given. I asked him how much sense that made to him and he wouldn't answer except to say that was their policy.
I was so pissed that the next week I signed up for AOL just to dump the bastards.
When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
These seem to me to be normal and direct enough answers. But read further:
This seems normal to you? Are we to believe that he hasn't wee'd during the eight months since he fled? Yup, that is a simple and direct answer alright. If I were wanting to send a signal to someone, his method would be useful. Bring up a subject that wasn't mentioned and do it in a manner that will likely be spread by the media.
I am also glad he cleared up the whole kicking out the U.N. Weapon Inspector thing. He had no problem with them inspecting old weapon facilities, but any presidential areas with known bunkers underneath were out of question. Yeah, better to get yourself removed from power than let international inspectors do a simple search for weapons you previously claimed to have ( and used on your own people), but can't provide proof of destroying.
If you know the origin of the Zealots, then your comment isn't quite as dumb. The Zealots ( led by Barabbas) were fighting Roman tyranny, and Israel is currently fighting the Microsoft monopoly.
I didn't disagree with everything Clinton did and don't agree with everything that Bush does, plenty of us around. I live in the southeast, but know people all around the US and most of them have similar views.
I grew up in a college/tourist town and think that the majority of the college students have vague understandings of what the real world is like. That applies to both the liberals and conservatives.
Starting out after school to earn a living and making your own way changes your perspectives. Add in changes for marriage and having children and you won't recognize yourself in a few years. I'm not suggesting that you will develope a taste for bullshit, just that things you perceive as BS now will look different when you see them through more mature eyes.
If this sounds like BS now, then try to think back to this comment in ten years and weigh its value then.
Sorry if I gave the impression that I thought that MS couldn't include *BSD code, I know that they can.
My question in longer form is asking if MS may have uncovered source in their codebase that is not under the BSD license and not covered under their Xenix code. If they have discovered (L)GPL'd code, then they might just act about like they have so far with SCO as their ally. They have licensed UNIX IP from SCO and if SCO becomes owner of Linux because it is declared a derivative of UNIX, then both SCO and MS win big. On many levels.
MS has admitted that they used BSD code in windows. Since the BSD derived tree is immune to the SCO lawsuit since the AT&T/BSD ruling in the early 1980s, what more could MS have to hide? They still retain rights to use the Xenix codebase. It seems to me that most new Unix type development that MS could have appropriated that would get them in hot water is Linux code.
You don't suppose that their security sweep in February may have turned up stolen code and they are now trying to wrangle their way out of a huge, embarrasing and expensive mess do you.
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Yikes! And they claim the GPL is viral, nothing compared to their rabies though... :)
This story was posted last summer. Check the dates on the linked page...
You are confusing two different RF devices here. Radar used for speed detection uses a microwave emission of known frequency and looks for the reflection. Now depending on the band (K, Ka, X, S, etc...), the reflected signal will have a higher frequency per mph of the reflecting target. As an example (numbers won't be accurate), Ku has an increase of around 16KHz per mph. It is fairly easy to subtract the original frq and deduce the speed. The constant is different for each band, but the concept is the same. A shift in the carrier frq is not the same as radio with a modulated intelligence.
Now even with a simple crystal controlled radio it must detect a frq range to demodulate the intelligence (signal). Commercial FM radio is about 100KHz wide, certainly not a single frq. Even narrow FM 2m ham voice is allocated 10Khz. The only thing that is a single constant frq is the carrier, the modulated portion is by definition not constant.
Simple superhetrodyne description. Radio is fairly simple stuff at the basic non-computer controlled level. When you move into the GHz range that satellite based services use, the radio transmitter/receiver circuitry is much more complex and construction methods are critical. The radar detector that was interfering with satellite communications must have been quite cheap, poorly shielded and emitting a nice range of powerful harmonics. It probably also did very poorly as a radar detector.
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No, THIS IS A LOUD STATEMENT. This ends todays lesson. Tomorrow we will explore the nuances of bold text in the internet age.
Uhhhhh, guess you weren't kidding about step #3.
Younger!?! Please don't tell us that you are old and still this stupid.
It never occured to me to associate pdf files with Michael Jackson.
Some of Edward's first senate campaign ads were bragging about his being voted one of the six best lawyers in the nation. Those stopped after a few runs and they started pushing his 'humble small town roots' angle.
He set the record for jury awards in NC and then beat his own record at least twice more. Then NC and several other states passed laws to set maximum awards for personal injury lawsuits. One of the first things he did after winning his senate race was to introduce legislation to allow personal injury lawsuits to be tried in Federal court, thus bypassing the 30 or so states that had placed award caps by then. His legislation didn't pass, but it would have been about like a national holiday for the lawyers if it had.
I know that many politicians in both parties have questionable honesty, but this guy seems to have a deep love for his profession and most of the cliches that go along with lawyers.
How can they include things like the correct errno.h for Linux into their closed source binaries without being in copyright violation? Remember that several of the Linux i386 values aren't POSIX compliant so SCO can't say they used the standards.
Others have suggested this driver, and it does now work on my system ( 2.6.0 kernel, NF7-S, GeforceFX 5900NU). It does not work on my system as a module, only when compiled into the kernel. Hopefully this will save someone the few hours I burned finding this out.
Great job on reverse engineering the nvidia binary ethernet driver though. It isn't as fast as the nvidia driver, but is getting better.
I have nothing against a HD based player, in fact, it would be better in several ways. Cost is one factor since I've already spent $700 on radio equipment in the last two months ( new ham license). If the player doesn't work in the car, it will still be useable as a DVD player, so no real gamble.
Wow! I bet you hate Dr. Seuss too...
My main goal is to have a player I don't have to change while driving. Tray loading will make no difference, I plan to install it in the rear hatch area. Thus the attraction of the remote control.
Walmart has Apex units for $43US and Sam's club had Daewoo players for $39.95US. I'll probably get the Daewoo because it is much smaller than the average player I've seen and should be easier to fit in my car.
It dosen't take my system but about 5 minutes to rip and encode a full cd now, well worth the time to get higher bitrates. Burning the dvd only takes about 8 minutes at 8x. Instant was probably the wrong description though, an evening to convert the dvd player and an hour or two to copy mp3 files back to HD before burning.
My cd based mp3 player works fairly well but it would be nice to have a much larger selection because changing discs in it while driving isn't as easy as with my pioneer headunit. If someone made a portable player like my Rio that could read DVD media then I would be happy enough to use it instead.
If action puts you to sleep, then don't plan on having kids...
The books are better than the movies, Tolkien was a master at weaving intricate story lines. Some of those translated to the screen and others were left out in the intrest of keeping the audiences interest. As an example, it may have taken an additional hour for the first movie to include the whole Tom Bombadil section.
I think that Jackson, et al have done a great job of condensing the story enough to make the three segmented movie. The books are highly recommended.
I just bought a dvd burner and plan to pick up a ~$40 dvd player that plays mp3s. Most of the ones I've seen have a seperate power supply and I'll build a small power converter so it will be happy with the 12v in my car and then hook up to the aux-in on my pioneer.
Instant 4.7gigs of audio files and a remote control to boot. Even with my wide range of tastes ( some say bizarre) I'll only need a few discs worth to take my entire collection. Simple matter to re-rip all the Beatles albums at higher bitrates too since I'm not trying to cram stuff onto CD-Rs.
In the two way communication model described, the traffic light system could read whether the approaching car was braking and slowing down or pressing the accelerator. Then the other approaching traffic could be warned about the danger.
It makes me wonder what other kind of problems will come of 20 cars crossing through green lights suddenly hitting the brakes because of warnings. The intended range of the communication is limited on purpose, things would get interesting when the traffic line suddenly stops and you were out of range or had an older car without the warning system.
An old friend was once a manager at a Pizza Hut. At that time, PH also had a salad bar. It was sold as an all-you-can-eat salad bar. His regional manager was riding his ass about controling the salad bar costs. My friend said, "It is an all you can eat deal, how can I control what people eat?" He was told to keep track of how much had been consumed each day and stop restocking the salad bar when their cost limit was reached.
Guess what happened next... Salad bar sales dropped by about 2/3rds and then he got his ass chewed about the drop in sales. The main thing companies seem to want is for people to pay for 'unlimited' services/food/etc... and then not use them. Unlimited makes for good marketing strategy because the marketers don't have to deal with the realities of a greedy consumer.
I ran into this with my first ISP in 1995. Each account had a shell account and ftp space with that shell account. I would download large files from non-resumable ftp servers *cough*microsoft*cough* of the day into the ftp space and then download them locally. One day I found the file I had transferring was no longer in my ftp space and an email about my 'suspicious' activity. I called and finally got hold of the person that sent the email, their security/compliance officer.
I'm stunned by this and he starts grilling me about what I was downloading that was 50megs. I inform him that it was the linux trial version of Wordperfect and could he please restore the file so downloading could resume. He declines and says that I'm using too much space. I asked just how much space is allowed. I was told that they had no set limit, but that I was using too much. The closest thing he would give to an answer was that the number would float according to overall usage. When he still refused to give any number, I asked why they even had the ftp space and he said it was one of the services they provided.
Their policy was that I could use ftp space, but not too much or too often, with no amount or time given. I asked him how much sense that made to him and he wouldn't answer except to say that was their policy.
I was so pissed that the next week I signed up for AOL just to dump the bastards.
This seems normal to you? Are we to believe that he hasn't wee'd during the eight months since he fled? Yup, that is a simple and direct answer alright. If I were wanting to send a signal to someone, his method would be useful. Bring up a subject that wasn't mentioned and do it in a manner that will likely be spread by the media.
I am also glad he cleared up the whole kicking out the U.N. Weapon Inspector thing. He had no problem with them inspecting old weapon facilities, but any presidential areas with known bunkers underneath were out of question. Yeah, better to get yourself removed from power than let international inspectors do a simple search for weapons you previously claimed to have ( and used on your own people), but can't provide proof of destroying.
If you know the origin of the Zealots, then your comment isn't quite as dumb. The Zealots ( led by Barabbas) were fighting Roman tyranny, and Israel is currently fighting the Microsoft monopoly.
I didn't disagree with everything Clinton did and don't agree with everything that Bush does, plenty of us around. I live in the southeast, but know people all around the US and most of them have similar views.
I grew up in a college/tourist town and think that the majority of the college students have vague understandings of what the real world is like. That applies to both the liberals and conservatives.
Starting out after school to earn a living and making your own way changes your perspectives. Add in changes for marriage and having children and you won't recognize yourself in a few years. I'm not suggesting that you will develope a taste for bullshit, just that things you perceive as BS now will look different when you see them through more mature eyes.
If this sounds like BS now, then try to think back to this comment in ten years and weigh its value then.
Since you seem to have an inside line on this story, please enlighten us. Eagerly awaiting details.
Sorry if I gave the impression that I thought that MS couldn't include *BSD code, I know that they can.
My question in longer form is asking if MS may have uncovered source in their codebase that is not under the BSD license and not covered under their Xenix code. If they have discovered (L)GPL'd code, then they might just act about like they have so far with SCO as their ally. They have licensed UNIX IP from SCO and if SCO becomes owner of Linux because it is declared a derivative of UNIX, then both SCO and MS win big. On many levels.
MS has admitted that they used BSD code in windows. Since the BSD derived tree is immune to the SCO lawsuit since the AT&T/BSD ruling in the early 1980s, what more could MS have to hide? They still retain rights to use the Xenix codebase. It seems to me that most new Unix type development that MS could have appropriated that would get them in hot water is Linux code.
You don't suppose that their security sweep in February may have turned up stolen code and they are now trying to wrangle their way out of a huge, embarrasing and expensive mess do you.