Why not just do "every other day" delivery for residential service? It seems like it would make for a much bigger savings with a similar impact to the recipient. How many residential delivery points needs to get mail every single day? And if people want their mail every day, charge a hefty fee.
Now do the same analysis on copyright and the public domain. Trillions dollars of our public wealth has been sequestered by the corporate oligarchy. And they paid fractional cents on the dollar in "campaign donations". I'm fine with it if we tax the hell out of anything that doesn't go into the public domain after 17 years. You want to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain? Sure, just pay $1,000,000 the first year, doubled every year after that, and adjust the starting and ongoing amounts for inflation. At least we, the people, get something in return.
We've got car-sized rovers on Mars roaming around, taking pictures, drilling in rocks, relaying data back through a satellite in orbit around another planet and nothing new was invented to accomplish that?
Who said it needs to be safe? Orbital bombardment. Ransom, etc. Then, all of a sudden, the world needs to get access to cheap materials in space for defense. Space economy established.
Looks like they are adding more channels in the 5cm ham band. Good for getting access to cheap equipment that can be modded for amateur radio use. Bad because of the added interference.
Amateur experimentation isn't limited to modulation experimentation. Usage experimentation is actually more common -combining different types of equipment, techniques, uses, etc.
No, but that sort of experimentation is open to many more amateurs when using open, non-proprietary technologies.
If the D-star repeater is on an amateur band, it is part of the problem. There's no experimentation with D-star. There's just paying for a hunk of proprietary equipment. But, hey, we need yet another repeater on 2m and 70cm. The ones already there are just so overloaded with traffic!
No, what we need is more free space on these bands for experimentation with digital and analog modes, including some wide-band modes. But for that you need to get rid of some of the bandwidth dedicated to unused repeaters.
Anyone that provides the hardware and software from which you access the web can do this. My work does it. Your local library can do it. The internet access kiosks can do it. Any device manufacturer can do it. Those cheap Android computers-on-a-stick can do it. Your TV can do it.
It's a real problem because people trust the devices they use. If you cannot trust the device, you are royally screwed.
I think the world would be a better place if [Apple] were forced to be slightly more open.
The question is "who is going to force them?" In this case (browser choice on smartphones), I think that market forces can do that just fine. There are enough choices available right now. That said, I can certainly see where Apple could be considered guilty of tying in this case since an argument could be made that the browser is a distinct program and that this is harming competition and innovation.
The screen resolution (1366x768) is ridiculously bad on these things. I have that on my 2 year old tablet. I don't consider it a useable resolution. Give me the same dot pitch as my phone.
Seriously --it is *always* an option. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't thinking. Look -- failure is always an option. Trust me -- failure is something that will get an executive's attention faster than anything. Failure is such an option that quitting your position -- or sticking around just to witness the beautiful consequences -- are sometime exquisitely worth the price. I would pay money to work anywhere that still depends on Unixware just to watch that fail unfold.
c.f. Lehmann Bros, AIG, Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual,... the list goes on. You can still have fraud (or incompetence as in AIG), just not at such a massive scale.
Unions, while fine in principle, will soon become a bureaucratic organization whose only goal is to screw the administration (country, company, whatever) over, not look after workers.
A neutral party should look after everyone's best interests. Goverments could take on that role, but tight and inflexible controls or excessive interference in what should be strictly business are the sad reality.
Unions and representative governments reflect the character and will of their constituents.
WAIT WAIT WAIT. You're telling me that a company with no oversight in a country known for corruption, with NO motive but profit CAN'T be trusted? WAHT???
I thought we were talking about China here. Let's leave Wall Street out of this, OK?
Thanks for the tip. I was unaware of Straight Talk. Straight Talk is the only one of the lot that is GSM / SIM-based. The others are CDMA and non-SIM based. They all require that you buy one of their phones because CDMA phones are not really network portable. They are also mostly useless for non-US residents or us world travellers.
That said, I am now seriously thinking about ditching my T-Mobile contract for Straight Talk. Worst cast is I go back to T-Mobile monthly.
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Why not just do "every other day" delivery for residential service? It seems like it would make for a much bigger savings with a similar impact to the recipient. How many residential delivery points needs to get mail every single day? And if people want their mail every day, charge a hefty fee.
Software? PCB designs? Documentation? Photographs? Technical articles? Done. Now what, smart-ass?
Now do the same analysis on copyright and the public domain. Trillions dollars of our public wealth has been sequestered by the corporate oligarchy. And they paid fractional cents on the dollar in "campaign donations". I'm fine with it if we tax the hell out of anything that doesn't go into the public domain after 17 years. You want to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain? Sure, just pay $1,000,000 the first year, doubled every year after that, and adjust the starting and ongoing amounts for inflation. At least we, the people, get something in return.
It's the only way to be sure.
We've got car-sized rovers on Mars roaming around, taking pictures, drilling in rocks, relaying data back through a satellite in orbit around another planet and nothing new was invented to accomplish that?
Idiot.
It seems it's no small feat for you to understand that pun.
We should celebrate with a small fete when it comes to him.
Who said it needs to be safe? Orbital bombardment. Ransom, etc. Then, all of a sudden, the world needs to get access to cheap materials in space for defense. Space economy established.
Nobel Prize please.
Looks like they are adding more channels in the 5cm ham band. Good for getting access to cheap equipment that can be modded for amateur radio use. Bad because of the added interference.
There -- it's fixed.
Amateur experimentation isn't limited to modulation experimentation. Usage experimentation is actually more common -combining different types of equipment, techniques, uses, etc.
No, but that sort of experimentation is open to many more amateurs when using open, non-proprietary technologies.
If the D-star repeater is on an amateur band, it is part of the problem. There's no experimentation with D-star. There's just paying for a hunk of proprietary equipment. But, hey, we need yet another repeater on 2m and 70cm. The ones already there are just so overloaded with traffic!
No, what we need is more free space on these bands for experimentation with digital and analog modes, including some wide-band modes. But for that you need to get rid of some of the bandwidth dedicated to unused repeaters.
This will affect the amateur HF bands, not the agency bands.
The proposal affects all amateur bands from my reading, not just HF. I really like this proposal. Someone needs to kick the ARRL in the pants.
Anyone that provides the hardware and software from which you access the web can do this. My work does it. Your local library can do it. The internet access kiosks can do it. Any device manufacturer can do it. Those cheap Android computers-on-a-stick can do it. Your TV can do it. It's a real problem because people trust the devices they use. If you cannot trust the device, you are royally screwed.
I want to use their Python modules:
from Peer1 import ...
I think the world would be a better place if [Apple] were forced to be slightly more open.
The question is "who is going to force them?" In this case (browser choice on smartphones), I think that market forces can do that just fine. There are enough choices available right now. That said, I can certainly see where Apple could be considered guilty of tying in this case since an argument could be made that the browser is a distinct program and that this is harming competition and innovation.
Ridiculous. So she had a brand new car, and then immediately mounted stuff on the dash...automakers just don't get it.
I'm sure they hire MBAs and accountants from the best business schools to figure this stuff out.
The screen resolution (1366x768) is ridiculously bad on these things. I have that on my 2 year old tablet. I don't consider it a useable resolution. Give me the same dot pitch as my phone.
... where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
Maybe -- Intel chips too. The Intel thing was easy to explain with their staggered/overlapping development cycle.
Seriously, systems this old need to be retired.
Seriously, that isn't always an option.
Seriously --it is *always* an option. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't thinking. Look -- failure is always an option. Trust me -- failure is something that will get an executive's attention faster than anything. Failure is such an option that quitting your position -- or sticking around just to witness the beautiful consequences -- are sometime exquisitely worth the price. I would pay money to work anywhere that still depends on Unixware just to watch that fail unfold.
c.f. Lehmann Bros, AIG, Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual, ... the list goes on. You can still have fraud (or incompetence as in AIG), just not at such a massive scale.
Unions, while fine in principle, will soon become a bureaucratic organization whose only goal is to screw the administration (country, company, whatever) over, not look after workers.
A neutral party should look after everyone's best interests. Goverments could take on that role, but tight and inflexible controls or excessive interference in what should be strictly business are the sad reality.
Unions and representative governments reflect the character and will of their constituents.
It's a rather surprising one, but the one I keep going back to, and which has influenced my career quite a bit is Journey of the Software Professional: The Sociology of Software Development by Luke Hohmann.
WAIT WAIT WAIT. You're telling me that a company with no oversight in a country known for corruption, with NO motive but profit CAN'T be trusted? WAHT???
I thought we were talking about China here. Let's leave Wall Street out of this, OK?
Thanks for the tip. I was unaware of Straight Talk. Straight Talk is the only one of the lot that is GSM / SIM-based. The others are CDMA and non-SIM based. They all require that you buy one of their phones because CDMA phones are not really network portable. They are also mostly useless for non-US residents or us world travellers.
That said, I am now seriously thinking about ditching my T-Mobile contract for Straight Talk. Worst cast is I go back to T-Mobile monthly.