If you want to see houses that fly up in a very short time, yet are built damn sturdy, check the Ft Myers/Cape Coral area of Florida. The house I lived in there took 3 months to build, but survived the 130+ MPH winds of Hurricane Charley and didn't even lose a single roof tile.
Check for "Concrete, Brick, Stucco" constructions.
There's a good reason for manned exploration: people -- otherwise known as 'taxpayers' -- don't care about and aren't inspired by robotic exploration. When the Mars Rover does something, it's lucky to get a 5 second mention on CNN. Putting a robot on another planet isn't nearly as tangible an accomplishment as putting a person somewhere.
They're barely inspired by putting a person somewhere. Sure, the first few Apollo missions captivated the world (NYC reported not a single crime occurred during the Apollo 11 landing). But after that, people didn't pay much attention to it. Apollo 13 got almost zero news coverage until the onboard explosion. The first flights of the shuttle were the same way, and then interested waned out until *BOOM* went Challenger.
I have a key that fits the cabinet locks on several brands of older Motorola radios (It's labelled 2135 for those interested). It also happens to fit the "Firefighter Switch" on 80% of the elevator systems in the US.
Now if I get impatient waiting on an elevator to pick me up from the lobby, I can insert my key, turn it to "Recall" and every elevator in the system will come to the lobby.
Yeah, its free...and you get what you pay for. The Motorola 6412 DVR BLOWS GOAT. The user interface is atrocious (I have to dredge through a non-filterable guide that shows everything, including channels I don't subscribe to), the responsiveness sucks (it'll sometimes queue up remote control keypresses and then execute them all at once), and the channel guide information is pathetic at best (damn thing filled itself up recording a marathon of SG-1 even though I have the series recording set for 'First Run Only').
I may have to suck a lot of dick and turn some nasty tricks to afford the $800, but I'm going to get one.
Uranium is primarily an alpha emitter. Alpha particles can be stopped by a layer of clothing. Sure, its radioactive, but it won't turn you into the Toxic Avenger unless you consume it and it can directly irradiate your innards from the inside.
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can abort for any reason up to 31 seconds before main ignition.
The folks in the firing room can abort up to 31 seconds before T-0, but the onboard computers can abort anytime before the SRBs light. Once those puppies light, you're going whether you like it or not.
The service was based on leasing transponders ( around 8mb/s per transponder )
8mb/s on a 36Mhz transponder? Nope. You can run a full-duplex T3 (45Mbps) on a 36Mhz transponder using 16QAM modulation. It beats the hell out of the transponder, but it can be done.
Tie the AP into an one of the new 450Kb/s BGAN units from Inmarsat. There's full coverage over Europe and Asia with CONUS coming on line in a month or two and the device is no bigger than a laptop.
You have to draw a distinction between "voip" and "voip over the Internet". VOIP over the internet will almost never reach full toll quality all the time, simply due to the dynamic nature of the public internet (variable delay, packet loss, jitter, all that happy horsestuff).
I run an Asterisk-based switch for all the company PBX traffic as well as a separate one for our VSAT satellite customers. We have full control over all aspects of the network and we have our own PSTN termination circuits, so there has never been an issue with quality.
One of the ways I've heard the voice synth explained is that it was pretty likely that both Matthew Broderick's character and the government bought the voice synth equipment from the same place.
Most of the voice synth hardware in the 80s used the same voice synth chip, the venerable SPO256-AL2 from General Instruments...so yes, everything is going to sound similar, if not the same.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
And then there was that whole thing of dial/answer/hangup/dial again using an acoustic coupled modem.
Power the unit off with the front panel button. Press the menu button. You'll get a menu that allows you set the primary output to 480[i|p], 720p, or 1080i.
Yup. Been through three boxes already. Of course, one just mysteriously "stopped working" when my wife got pissed at it and beat up upon it. All three have been the same and Comcast just keeps say "That shouldn't happen. Maybe you have a defective unit."
And every time the techs come out to replace the box, I have to reconfigure it cause the retards have no idea how to set the output to 1080i rather than 480p.
You're telling me. I have HD+DVR service from comcast and the Motorola 6412 DVR/Dual tuner box SUCKS ASS. It routinely wanders off requiring a reboot (which flushes all program guide information and it takes 3-4 days to get it all back). It also pulls this crap where it decides to ignore commands from the remote for a while and then execute them all at once, especially while fast-forwarding or rewinding through a show.
Whenever TiVo decides to release their cable compatible HD set, I'm taking this 6412 and inserting it into a Comcast Employee's ass.
The thought of hover cars scares the hell out of me. Your average Joe Sixpack has trouble controlling his vehicle in 2-dimensions. Adding a 3rd would just screw him allllll up.
Except these days, you'll get sacked for fucking it up no matter what the "Solution". A pink slip from fucking up a Microsoft installation doesn't get you any more benefits than one from a *nix solution.
So now we'll see Unreal skins with "BUDWEISER" and "MARLBORO" all over them.
And just think of the TV commercials. "Red Bull, the official drink of the 2006 Counterstrike World Championship". Or "KY Brand Lubricant - The official masturbatory lubricant of the 2006 Counterstrike World Championship".
The best you could possibly get, unless you plugged directly into the radar site is every 6 minutes. The radar sites only transmit new product images every 6 minutes when they're in rain mode, and only every 10 minutes when they're in clear-sky mode.
If you want as-up-to-date as possible, you need to get the NOAAPORT feed directly from satellite. If you've got access to an old 10-12 foot TVRO satellite dish, you can get either a DVB data receiver or a DVB card and the appropriate software from noaaport.net.
2) Power limit on an omnidirectional link is +36dBm. Thats 300mw out of the card, plus about 10dB of gain at the antenna. These folks were running probably in the neighborhood of 55-60dBm.
3) Symmetrical links. You can't run one end of the link on a Big Freakin Dish and the other end on a smaller dish without drastic output power differences.
4) Since it would be free? Uh. How? Someone's gotta pay for the bandwidth it connects to.
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Guess what? They both bounced.
If you want to see houses that fly up in a very short time, yet are built damn sturdy, check the Ft Myers/Cape Coral area of Florida. The house I lived in there took 3 months to build, but survived the 130+ MPH winds of Hurricane Charley and didn't even lose a single roof tile.
Check for "Concrete, Brick, Stucco" constructions.
Well, if you install a Microsoft product, you're pretty much guaranteed to get fucked one way or the other.
There's a good reason for manned exploration: people -- otherwise known as 'taxpayers' -- don't care about and aren't inspired by robotic exploration. When the Mars Rover does something, it's lucky to get a 5 second mention on CNN. Putting a robot on another planet isn't nearly as tangible an accomplishment as putting a person somewhere.
They're barely inspired by putting a person somewhere. Sure, the first few Apollo missions captivated the world (NYC reported not a single crime occurred during the Apollo 11 landing). But after that, people didn't pay much attention to it. Apollo 13 got almost zero news coverage until the onboard explosion. The first flights of the shuttle were the same way, and then interested waned out until *BOOM* went Challenger.
I have a key that fits the cabinet locks on several brands of older Motorola radios (It's labelled 2135 for those interested). It also happens to fit the "Firefighter Switch" on 80% of the elevator systems in the US. Now if I get impatient waiting on an elevator to pick me up from the lobby, I can insert my key, turn it to "Recall" and every elevator in the system will come to the lobby.
Yeah, its free...and you get what you pay for. The Motorola 6412 DVR BLOWS GOAT. The user interface is atrocious (I have to dredge through a non-filterable guide that shows everything, including channels I don't subscribe to), the responsiveness sucks (it'll sometimes queue up remote control keypresses and then execute them all at once), and the channel guide information is pathetic at best (damn thing filled itself up recording a marathon of SG-1 even though I have the series recording set for 'First Run Only').
I may have to suck a lot of dick and turn some nasty tricks to afford the $800, but I'm going to get one.
Uranium is primarily an alpha emitter. Alpha particles can be stopped by a layer of clothing. Sure, its radioactive, but it won't turn you into the Toxic Avenger unless you consume it and it can directly irradiate your innards from the inside.
can abort for any reason up to 31 seconds before main ignition.
The folks in the firing room can abort up to 31 seconds before T-0, but the onboard computers can abort anytime before the SRBs light. Once those puppies light, you're going whether you like it or not.
The service was based on leasing transponders ( around 8mb/s per transponder )
8mb/s on a 36Mhz transponder? Nope. You can run a full-duplex T3 (45Mbps) on a 36Mhz transponder using 16QAM modulation. It beats the hell out of the transponder, but it can be done.
Tie the AP into an one of the new 450Kb/s BGAN units from Inmarsat. There's full coverage over Europe and Asia with CONUS coming on line in a month or two and the device is no bigger than a laptop.
You have to draw a distinction between "voip" and "voip over the Internet". VOIP over the internet will almost never reach full toll quality all the time, simply due to the dynamic nature of the public internet (variable delay, packet loss, jitter, all that happy horsestuff).
I run an Asterisk-based switch for all the company PBX traffic as well as a separate one for our VSAT satellite customers. We have full control over all aspects of the network and we have our own PSTN termination circuits, so there has never been an issue with quality.
One of the ways I've heard the voice synth explained is that it was pretty likely that both Matthew Broderick's character and the government bought the voice synth equipment from the same place.
Most of the voice synth hardware in the 80s used the same voice synth chip, the venerable SPO256-AL2 from General Instruments...so yes, everything is going to sound similar, if not the same.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
And then there was that whole thing of dial/answer/hangup/dial again using an acoustic coupled modem.
CB's are low power transmitters
Someone explain that to the masses of truckers and pirates out there who buy a 2KW 10-meter ham amp and modify it for CB.
Power the unit off with the front panel button. Press the menu button. You'll get a menu that allows you set the primary output to 480[i|p], 720p, or 1080i.
Yup. Been through three boxes already. Of course, one just mysteriously "stopped working" when my wife got pissed at it and beat up upon it. All three have been the same and Comcast just keeps say "That shouldn't happen. Maybe you have a defective unit."
And every time the techs come out to replace the box, I have to reconfigure it cause the retards have no idea how to set the output to 1080i rather than 480p.
You're telling me. I have HD+DVR service from comcast and the Motorola 6412 DVR/Dual tuner box SUCKS ASS. It routinely wanders off requiring a reboot (which flushes all program guide information and it takes 3-4 days to get it all back). It also pulls this crap where it decides to ignore commands from the remote for a while and then execute them all at once, especially while fast-forwarding or rewinding through a show.
Whenever TiVo decides to release their cable compatible HD set, I'm taking this 6412 and inserting it into a Comcast Employee's ass.
The thought of hover cars scares the hell out of me. Your average Joe Sixpack has trouble controlling his vehicle in 2-dimensions. Adding a 3rd would just screw him allllll up.
Shakey-cam...ugh. I got motion sick on the mini-series and couldn't go back.
Except these days, you'll get sacked for fucking it up no matter what the "Solution". A pink slip from fucking up a Microsoft installation doesn't get you any more benefits than one from a *nix solution.
ordering a server that didn't come with a CD drive, DVD drive or video card? Puhhleeeze.
Video card? Buh. Serial consoles. Dragging a keyboard, monitor, and mouse around the datacenter sucks.
Except there are countless brain-dead people out there who are paying $40 a month for broadband + $10 a month for "AOL Broadband" on top of that.
So now we'll see Unreal skins with "BUDWEISER" and "MARLBORO" all over them.
And just think of the TV commercials. "Red Bull, the official drink of the 2006 Counterstrike World Championship". Or "KY Brand Lubricant - The official masturbatory lubricant of the 2006 Counterstrike World Championship".
The best you could possibly get, unless you plugged directly into the radar site is every 6 minutes. The radar sites only transmit new product images every 6 minutes when they're in rain mode, and only every 10 minutes when they're in clear-sky mode.
If you want as-up-to-date as possible, you need to get the NOAAPORT feed directly from satellite. If you've got access to an old 10-12 foot TVRO satellite dish, you can get either a DVB data receiver or a DVB card and the appropriate software from noaaport.net.
Not gonna happen....
1) 10,000 people on a single access point? Ugh.
2) Power limit on an omnidirectional link is +36dBm. Thats 300mw out of the card, plus about 10dB of gain at the antenna. These folks were running probably in the neighborhood of 55-60dBm.
3) Symmetrical links. You can't run one end of the link on a Big Freakin Dish and the other end on a smaller dish without drastic output power differences.
4) Since it would be free? Uh. How? Someone's gotta pay for the bandwidth it connects to.
Guardian 90.
If they're gonna make Linux run on the Non-Stop architecture, I'm gonna kick myself for getting rid of the CLX/800 I had.