That stopped the junk fax problem which some here may be old enough to recall.
It did? I commonly get 3-4 pieces of fax spam a week, despite all my phone numbers being on the federal "do not call" list. And the station numbers always lead to disconnected lines.
That would seem to me to be the #1 cause of political spam being filtered. #2 would be the outlandish use of HTML when a text message would do just as well. If they stopped just those two behaviors, most of the spam filters would let the messages through just fine.
To run 2 milliamp LEDs? For 16 hours? We're only talking 32 milliamp hours per LED - your average AAA battery is in the 900 mah range- and with 12 Volt power at a couple of amps I can charge my AAA NIMHs in about 15 minutes. LOW power light source coupled with reasonable battery and a 15 sq cm solar panel could easily give you several hours of light for only a couple hours of charging.
Not at all. We have some *very* low power light sources now, and the charging panel is much larger than the light source to begin with. From what I've seen of solar chargers, I'd say about 2 hours of charging would yeild about 16 hours of light- no breaking of the laws of physics neccessary, it's just that your light is MUCH less bright than the sun.
Specifically, it sounds slow. Bluetooth maxes out at... what, 721 Kbps? That's a good bit less than your average DSL modem, like half, isn't it? And can bluetooth even get that high or is that a theoretical maximum?
Actually, it's only 7kbps less than my DSL modem...and most sites don't even come close to reaching that speed anyway. I've only seen my connection saturated a few times- and mainly because I'm running servers.
It also sounds expensive. Right now I pay by the minute for my cell plan. Will 3G internet make me do that? Ouch, I'm back in 1993 with the AOL hourly plan again.
Nope- T-Mobile already charges a flat rate for Internet access, and I'd expect Verizon has followed suit.
It also sounds inconvenient. I don't want my home internet to stop working if I leave the house, or walk more than 20 feet away from the computer with the phone in my pocket, or if I accidentally leave my phone in the car. Does the phone really have to be in bluetooth range to do the 3G internet thing?
Well there is that- but from both providers you can also get 3G PCMCIA cards and USB dongles.
At the moment I'm dubious to say the least. Is this reasonable? It just seems like we can do much better than this.
Hopefully, if you're lucky, from Verizon or T-Mobile. All you need is a bluetooth phone and a USB bluetooth module- and once 3G networks roll into your neighborhood cell towers, you can unplug completely.
On an old Windows box, I have BeyondTV and a TV Tuner card, but you could do this just as easily with MythTV or just about anything else given the right codecs. Copy the files to a flash card for use in my PDA- and I've got TV on the bus, usually shows that I can't stay awake for due to my work hours.
Finally, the attempts to "settle" Israelis inside the occupied territories are just ludicrous. Imagine the reaction if the US had built heavily armed concrete fortresses for Americans to live in permanently in Japan, Germany, or Iraq.
They weren't concrete- but this is basically what happened in Cascadia to the Kwakiutal nation. Some of us still consider the lands from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Divide, from the California border to Alaska, to be occupied territory from foreign invaders.
It's a correct claim- and it has lessons for us today. The REASON Imperial Rome used it's armed forces to put an end to it was Jewish Zionist Terrorism. The only answer was to kill 50 Jews for every Centurion killed, destroy Jerusalem itself, and sow the land with salt so that it would be over a thousand years before the land would produce food again.
Today, we face a group of Semite terrorists- and that answer is one possible solution still today.
I was talking about the "hint of jealousy"- in that yes, at times in the past 5 years as a professional software engineer, I've been jealous of the guys in jail....they're leading a better life than I am.
Beyond that, yes, I agree- piracy is at times the best advertising a company with software sales can hope for. Besides- last I looked Microsoft was making a 95% profit on Windows *after* R&D and the minimal packaging costs, so cracking down on home users is rather idiotic.
Microsoft's new license verification *scheme* isn't a security risk and if anything they are going to *welcome* these reports so that they can quickly close open holes that may allow "malicious" folks out there to continue to receive software updates.
I consider *anything* identifying me or where I bought something to a major corporation to be a security risk. Corporations cannot be trusted to act benignly towards consumers; the profit motive is against it.
Exactly right- in more technical terms, IM is synchronous where E-mail is Asynchronous. Teens have the time to be synchronous with their friends- older people don't.
Won't matter one bit. Israelis and Americans are far too expensive to staff these plants with- Intel supports IITians in their rush to bring Hinduism to America and Israel.
Amazing, I'm still able to reply. It just occured to me that you mentioned not being in a position at the moment to do any funding of projects. My original complaint was of the big, profitable boys such as Intel and Microsoft that have been complaining about the shortage of people. These companies ARE very much in a position to fund projects, scholarships, and the like- if they want to. But of course they won't, because they're addicted to their 95% profit margin and refuse to actually pay for what they use in terms of human capital.
There is little or no difference between American multi-national corporations and the old Soviet Government. Both are large, monolithic, legal entities created for the purpose of taking money from one group of people and delivering it to another.
Thus, your statement only proves my point- that the problem is with large fake people who have power over real people, not the actual techonology itself.
Not on Linksys- I'm looking to use CanTennas out in the country where they are unlikely to interfere with neighbor's setups (heck, the neighbors in question are mainly Mennonite and don't believe in such new fangled wireless gadgets) for my parents and brother to network the two ends of the farm together (over about 1/4th mile). But I can't find that damned connector anywhere. I'll probably have to end up taking one of the two antennas and hack it up.
Correct- sufficent for creating user documents should be RUNNING THE CODE. There is NO guarantee that the specs or the comments will match what the actual code does- and thanks to you, I now see why most user manuals are so incredibly bad.
What makes you think that the specs or the human-written, non-machine-tested comments will look ANYTHING like the user interface after 12 rounds of user testing? In my experience, specs and comments are just the starting place- by the time a project is shippable, it bears NO resemblance whatsoever to the original spec.
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That stopped the junk fax problem which some here may be old enough to recall.
It did? I commonly get 3-4 pieces of fax spam a week, despite all my phone numbers being on the federal "do not call" list. And the station numbers always lead to disconnected lines.
I smell opportunity. A killer piece of OSS code in fact. Time to branch "The Virtual Union" off of Slashcode. Or at the very least PHPBB....
That would seem to me to be the #1 cause of political spam being filtered. #2 would be the outlandish use of HTML when a text message would do just as well. If they stopped just those two behaviors, most of the spam filters would let the messages through just fine.
To run 2 milliamp LEDs? For 16 hours? We're only talking 32 milliamp hours per LED - your average AAA battery is in the 900 mah range- and with 12 Volt power at a couple of amps I can charge my AAA NIMHs in about 15 minutes. LOW power light source coupled with reasonable battery and a 15 sq cm solar panel could easily give you several hours of light for only a couple hours of charging.
Not at all. We have some *very* low power light sources now, and the charging panel is much larger than the light source to begin with. From what I've seen of solar chargers, I'd say about 2 hours of charging would yeild about 16 hours of light- no breaking of the laws of physics neccessary, it's just that your light is MUCH less bright than the sun.
Specifically, it sounds slow. Bluetooth maxes out at... what, 721 Kbps? That's a good bit less than your average DSL modem, like half, isn't it? And can bluetooth even get that high or is that a theoretical maximum?
Actually, it's only 7kbps less than my DSL modem...and most sites don't even come close to reaching that speed anyway. I've only seen my connection saturated a few times- and mainly because I'm running servers.
It also sounds expensive. Right now I pay by the minute for my cell plan. Will 3G internet make me do that? Ouch, I'm back in 1993 with the AOL hourly plan again.
Nope- T-Mobile already charges a flat rate for Internet access, and I'd expect Verizon has followed suit.
It also sounds inconvenient. I don't want my home internet to stop working if I leave the house, or walk more than 20 feet away from the computer with the phone in my pocket, or if I accidentally leave my phone in the car. Does the phone really have to be in bluetooth range to do the 3G internet thing?
Well there is that- but from both providers you can also get 3G PCMCIA cards and USB dongles.
At the moment I'm dubious to say the least. Is this reasonable? It just seems like we can do much better than this.
What do you want, egg in your beer?
Free Wifi, with paid computer rentals, is advertising for a restaurant or hotel or other business. It should be looked upon as such.
Hopefully, if you're lucky, from Verizon or T-Mobile. All you need is a bluetooth phone and a USB bluetooth module- and once 3G networks roll into your neighborhood cell towers, you can unplug completely.
On an old Windows box, I have BeyondTV and a TV Tuner card, but you could do this just as easily with MythTV or just about anything else given the right codecs. Copy the files to a flash card for use in my PDA- and I've got TV on the bus, usually shows that I can't stay awake for due to my work hours.
Finally, the attempts to "settle" Israelis inside the occupied territories are just ludicrous. Imagine the reaction if the US had built heavily armed concrete fortresses for Americans to live in permanently in Japan, Germany, or Iraq.
They weren't concrete- but this is basically what happened in Cascadia to the Kwakiutal nation. Some of us still consider the lands from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Divide, from the California border to Alaska, to be occupied territory from foreign invaders.
It's a correct claim- and it has lessons for us today. The REASON Imperial Rome used it's armed forces to put an end to it was Jewish Zionist Terrorism. The only answer was to kill 50 Jews for every Centurion killed, destroy Jerusalem itself, and sow the land with salt so that it would be over a thousand years before the land would produce food again.
Today, we face a group of Semite terrorists- and that answer is one possible solution still today.
The problem is that in this day and age, Zionism has also become Anti-Semitism; because the Palestinians and Arabs are racially Semites as well.
I was talking about the "hint of jealousy"- in that yes, at times in the past 5 years as a professional software engineer, I've been jealous of the guys in jail....they're leading a better life than I am.
Beyond that, yes, I agree- piracy is at times the best advertising a company with software sales can hope for. Besides- last I looked Microsoft was making a 95% profit on Windows *after* R&D and the minimal packaging costs, so cracking down on home users is rather idiotic.
If so, it's only because this economy has gotten so bad that 3 free squares and a roof looks pretty good to a lot of programmers out there these days.
Microsoft's new license verification *scheme* isn't a security risk and if anything they are going to *welcome* these reports so that they can quickly close open holes that may allow "malicious" folks out there to continue to receive software updates.
I consider *anything* identifying me or where I bought something to a major corporation to be a security risk. Corporations cannot be trusted to act benignly towards consumers; the profit motive is against it.
Exactly right- in more technical terms, IM is synchronous where E-mail is Asynchronous. Teens have the time to be synchronous with their friends- older people don't.
the planning stage was short-changed
Exactly right- the planning stage ALWAYS gets short changed it seems- and the final round of user testing shows it with fiddling little GUI changes.
Well, when your dream of a socialist paradise is realized, you can keep out all of the foreign capitalist scum that you want.
It's not the foreign capitalist scum that is doing this- it's the home grown capitalist scum that has turned traitor against us.
Won't matter one bit. Israelis and Americans are far too expensive to staff these plants with- Intel supports IITians in their rush to bring Hinduism to America and Israel.
And given Intel's recent hiring practices, Chandler, Arizona locals better get used to curry and kebabs.
Amazing, I'm still able to reply. It just occured to me that you mentioned not being in a position at the moment to do any funding of projects. My original complaint was of the big, profitable boys such as Intel and Microsoft that have been complaining about the shortage of people. These companies ARE very much in a position to fund projects, scholarships, and the like- if they want to. But of course they won't, because they're addicted to their 95% profit margin and refuse to actually pay for what they use in terms of human capital.
There is little or no difference between American multi-national corporations and the old Soviet Government. Both are large, monolithic, legal entities created for the purpose of taking money from one group of people and delivering it to another.
Thus, your statement only proves my point- that the problem is with large fake people who have power over real people, not the actual techonology itself.
Not on Linksys- I'm looking to use CanTennas out in the country where they are unlikely to interfere with neighbor's setups (heck, the neighbors in question are mainly Mennonite and don't believe in such new fangled wireless gadgets) for my parents and brother to network the two ends of the farm together (over about 1/4th mile). But I can't find that damned connector anywhere. I'll probably have to end up taking one of the two antennas and hack it up.
For local, small farm networking?
Correct- sufficent for creating user documents should be RUNNING THE CODE. There is NO guarantee that the specs or the comments will match what the actual code does- and thanks to you, I now see why most user manuals are so incredibly bad.
What makes you think that the specs or the human-written, non-machine-tested comments will look ANYTHING like the user interface after 12 rounds of user testing? In my experience, specs and comments are just the starting place- by the time a project is shippable, it bears NO resemblance whatsoever to the original spec.