I'm confused on why Facebook is using Skype when they have their own: https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/ Seems kind of crappy for a company to use a "competing" product instead of their own isn't it? That's like you going to a Ford dealership to look for a car, a saleman spends some time with you going over why this one model of Ford is the best car yada yada yada, and later you see him leaving in a Honda...
You are a bit confused. You're mixing up the Skype call and the Phone call into one weird mess.
Pretty much the Skype connection sucked too bad, so they instead switched to a regular phone call:
"We had to resort to phone conversation, which had to be interrupted when I needed both hands to type my code -- meaning I could get no feedback, whatsoever, from the interviewer during the code exercise, nor could I explain my code as I typed it. "
As the quote you replied to, "And what phone were you using that didn't have speaker phone capabilities? Nearly all land line phones do that, as well as all mobile phones.", was merely stating that nearly all land line phones (most being cordless anymore) and mobile phones have speaker phones options (which is completely true.. if you have a cordless phone take a look and you'll most likely find the speaker phone option).
No where in there is any need for Skype from a mobile phone.
I don't understand how that could get so confusing for someone... ?
I agree, as I couldn't Pittsburgh working out well without the mass transit it has now (especially since even with the mass transit traffic is a horrible nightmare at times). I can just imagine how it would be without the buses, trains, etc running and all that.
I just found it odd that the study linked said basically it wouldn't help
That's funny because the article you linked to states the opposite:
" The data also suggests that a new lane kilometer of roadway diverts little trafc from other roads. Interestingly, the study also found no evidence that public transit affects the number of kilometres travelled by vehicles. These ndings suggest that both road capacity expansions and extensions to public transit are not appropriate policies with which to combat trafc congestion and suggest congestion pricing as the main candidate tool to curb trafc congestion."
On my phone here, and when I click the link the dark whatever domain appears briefly and tennis appears their page refreshes with this (screwed up) "url" location:/133696/show/3fd8d00f6b22f3da5506ef43feaf8168/?
We know what MB and Mb are. The issue is they don't clearly state in the article (and typing MBPS in all caps like that doesn't help at all either), and if you didn't know the listed speeds were indicative of MBps and not Mbps, you can clearly see why someone would be confused.
Right from the FAA (and seeing how this "drone" is setup, I'd have to guess it would fall under the Helicopter section)
This is the FAR If you're interested, shown below is Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 91.119 of the General Operating and Flight Rules which specifically prohibits low-flying aircraft. 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes; general Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes; (a) Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface. (b) Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2.000 feet of the aircraft. (c) Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In that case, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure. (d) Helicopters. Helicopters may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed In paragraph (b) or (c) of this section if the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface. In addition, each person operating a helicopter shall comply with routes or altitudes specifically prescribed for helicopters by the Administrator. Helicopter operations may be conducted below the minimum altitudes set for fixed-wing aircraft. The reason? The helicopter's unique operating characteristics, the most important of which is its ability to execute pinpoint emergency landings during power failure. Further, the helicopter's increased use by law enforcement and emergency medical service agencies requires added flexibility in the application of many FAA provisions.
Okay, so skip WiMAX and use what instead for the wireless link from your tower to reach the 50 people?
Being rural, the houses can tend to be spread fairly far apart. Sure it may be line of site, but it may not be (or be partially blocked). Using 802.11 may not work (also considering any interference there may be near by or within the houses)...
Ubiquity and use "off band" (non-2.4 or 5.4GHz) equipment? That may work to solve the interference issue, but unless it's another open spectrum space and within the power limits of that space, you'll need to get a FCC permit...
And no, I'm not being a smart ass, I'm honestly curious about what you'd recommend since you say no to WiMAX but don't mention any replacement.
This was exactly my thought. If you had a glider sized craft, and mounted a *small* electric motor/prop, and covered all available surface area with highly efficient solar panels/cells, then you may have enough power to move the craft forward *while airborne*. The setup wouldn't be enough to get it to take off, and will still require a gas powered plane to get the solar glider airborne.
Now you've seen the trust of the jet engines pushing people and things out of their way I'm sure (such as the MythBusters episode about the taxi behind the jet engine). They require a lot of thrust to get moving down the runway at a speed that allows them to lift off and climb. I don't think you're getting that from solar power
Hate to tell you but you're wrong there. Plus, with the tiles in Windows 8 it would be even easier as the kids have visual clues.
For example, my son is two and a half years old. Give him an iPad, iPhone, or Android device and he will be working it in no time. My wife has an older Fascinate, I had a Galaxy S gt-i9000 (which I gave to him to play games on), I now have a Galaxy S III gt-i9300, and also an iPad.
Each of them have a different way of unlocking them. The wife had set hers up with the puzzle piece so our son wouldn't mess with her phone. That took him all of about 10 seconds to figure out the first time he got his hands on it after she had set that up. The other devices he unlocks and gets on just as easy. Even if they're powered down he knows how to power them up.
Also, he's VERY good at knowing which icons are games and which are not. I'm talking scary good. He also knows when you're sitting at an option screen what the "Okay", "Next", text says even though he can't read yet, and also knows what a right arrow means vs a left arrow at those options screens.
This is stuff he's been doing since before he was 2. Heck, he was playing around in Alice 3 making things grow and shrink (that involved a little help from me but not much at all).
The funniest story I have is I left him at his grandparents (my mother-in-law's place) with the iPad. When I dropped him off I jokingly told him "you should call daddy today while he's at work". I shit you not, he fired up ooVoo and video dialed me (I'm the only contact on the iPad but still the fact he figured that all out). It confused the shit out of the mother-in-law as she was sitting near him watching TV and keeping an eye on him and the next thing you know I show up on the iPad.
Anyhow, I think you need to give kids a bit more credit. Just because they may not yet be able to do something (read) doesn't mean they can't figure out another way of accomplishing the same task (visual recognition, etc).
I know sure as hell that my son can and does.. hell he taught me something I never knew. I first played clowns on the C64 when I was around 8 or so (I don't really recall the exact age), and always followed the instructions on the screen.. Press F1 for 1 player or F3 for 2, and press F1 to start. Hell, he gets on there, flips the C64 on, presses F1 maybe ONCE as he figured out if you press the orange button on the paddle it will ALSO put it into single player, and press again to start the game. I *NEVER* knew that.
The difference is if you win in court the other party pays your fees (if you and/or your lawyer do it right since shit... The only reason you're there is because of a claim that proved to be false)
I highly doubt the ISPs are going to reimburse you the $35 if they find out you were "innocent"
That was exactly my thought. The URL shortener may be a f'up having it open like that, but the bigger f'up is the fact the site in the second link allows any address For example
Of if your area doesn't allow for studded tires, get some Blizzaks as mentioned above. They are made with a special process that introduces tiny bubbles into the outer layer of rubber, which as it wears makes a "suction cup" type area to help grip the road (so there's like millions of suction cups contacting the road).
Another note to mention, winter tires in general have softer rubber compounds, which allow them to flex more and grip better in the colder weather (also the sipping helps a lot as well). Now the rubber compounds in your longer life all-seasons and what not are a harder compound that won't function as well in the colder weather.
Same principle used when people Solo II race. The Falken Azenis tires are cheap for what they are and are a softer compound. This means a shorter life than a normal all-season, but increased grip on the track (especially for Solo II where the courses aren't large and you get 3 to 5 trips around, so the tires don't have mad warm-up periods). The downside is if it's too warm out or you run them too hard, they can become "greasy" as the rubber compound is now too warm and starts slipping again.
I haven't checked in a while, but the 10GbE equipment is pretty pricey and runs a bit hotter (the power required to transfer that rate over copper) vs a fiber setup. And in all honesty, you just need the 10GbE link for between switches, which if the network is planned out well wouldn't require that make fiber runs.
No, 10GbE between switches. From there, 1GbE between the switch and the computer.
By your logic, highways should also have a speed of 35mph like secondary roads and be a single lane each way, since there's no point in making the roads 2 lanes each way with a 65mph speed limit since your neighborhood roads are only 35mph. So what happens when 3 devices on switch A must talk to a device on switch B (say the clients to the server?)
If you have 1GbE adapters in the 3 devices and run Cat5e or Cat6 between the devices and switch A, then each device could do 1GbE. Now if you only run a 1GbE link between switch A and switch B, well that 1GbE link is being split 3 ways (plus any overhead), so the 1GbE link between the 3 devices and the switch become pointless. On the other hand, if you do it properly, and make a 10GbE link between switch A and switch B, you could (in theory but not in practice) have 10 devices transferring one directions at the same time and still maintain the full speed they could achieve (and on a full-duplex setup you could have about 8 or so transferring one direction and 8 or so transferring the other direction at about full speed).
Now if you have a lot of large CAD files or whatever, the speed would be welcomed. And honestly, you can pick up quality GigE equipment for a good price (10GbE switches are a bit more, but can still be found for a decent price online and are name brand)
Plus as others said, the fiber isn't prone to noise interference like Cat cable is... and it NEVER hurts to plan ahead. Heck, in my building here on campus we replaced all the patch cables that run between the patch panel and the switches with Cat 6, although none of the machines do 10GbE over copper. Also, all the runs from the wall jack to the equipment is Cat 6 which we switched as we fixed, moved, replaced, or re-imaged the equipment. Again, there's no need for a network printer to be connected from the switch to the patch panel, up to the wall jack and out to the machine.. but it's better for it to be there for when something does come along that can use it (and it's all already in place) than to have put say Cat 5e only to have to replace it a few years down the road.
has IPv6 enabled, and things are working fine there. The exception are some of the branch campuses that have older switches and such where turning on IPv6 in Windows 7 seems to really slow the whole network at these locations down.
you could use link local and site local IPv6 address to help with this.. or better yet setup your router, switch (if managed), and/or firewall to do this for you.
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Didn't the Nextel phones have a built in frs mode for when you were out of cell service range.... Pretty sure they did
But there has to be a *better* option than Skype.. say ooVoo or Google Talk or something. Skype just seems to have too many issues anymore
I'm confused on why Facebook is using Skype when they have their own:
https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/
Seems kind of crappy for a company to use a "competing" product instead of their own isn't it? That's like you going to a Ford dealership to look for a car, a saleman spends some time with you going over why this one model of Ford is the best car yada yada yada, and later you see him leaving in a Honda...
You are a bit confused. You're mixing up the Skype call and the Phone call into one weird mess.
Pretty much the Skype connection sucked too bad, so they instead switched to a regular phone call:
"We had to resort to phone conversation, which had to be interrupted when I needed both hands to type my code -- meaning I could get no feedback, whatsoever, from the interviewer during the code exercise, nor could I explain my code as I typed it. "
As the quote you replied to, "And what phone were you using that didn't have speaker phone capabilities? Nearly all land line phones do that, as well as all mobile phones.", was merely stating that nearly all land line phones (most being cordless anymore) and mobile phones have speaker phones options (which is completely true.. if you have a cordless phone take a look and you'll most likely find the speaker phone option).
No where in there is any need for Skype from a mobile phone.
I don't understand how that could get so confusing for someone... ?
I find the fact Facebook chooses either Skype or Phone as extremely funny, only because of:
https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/
I agree, as I couldn't Pittsburgh working out well without the mass transit it has now (especially since even with the mass transit traffic is a horrible nightmare at times). I can just imagine how it would be without the buses, trains, etc running and all that.
I just found it odd that the study linked said basically it wouldn't help
Funny as the link you provided states otherwise:
That's funny because the article you linked to states the opposite:
" The data also suggests that a new lane kilometer of roadway diverts little trafc from other roads. Interestingly, the study also found no evidence that public transit affects the number of kilometres travelled by vehicles. These ndings suggest that both road capacity expansions and extensions to public transit are not appropriate policies with which to combat trafc congestion and suggest congestion pricing as the main candidate tool to curb trafc congestion."
Then it became tennis by the magic of fat fingering an extra key and auto-correct!
On my phone here, and when I click the link the dark whatever domain appears briefly and tennis appears their page refreshes with this (screwed up) "url" /133696/show/3fd8d00f6b22f3da5506ef43feaf8168/?
location:
I watched it on YouTube... it was the biggest pos movie I've ever seen. Hell we made better home movies than that pos movie could ever be
We know what MB and Mb are. The issue is they don't clearly state in the article (and typing MBPS in all caps like that doesn't help at all either), and if you didn't know the listed speeds were indicative of MBps and not Mbps, you can clearly see why someone would be confused.
Right from the FAA (and seeing how this "drone" is setup, I'd have to guess it would fall under the Helicopter section)
This is the FAR
If you're interested, shown below is Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 91.119 of the
General Operating and Flight Rules which specifically prohibits low-flying aircraft.
91.119 Minimum safe altitudes; general
Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the
following altitudes;
(a) Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue
hazard to persons or property on the surface.
(b) Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any
open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a
horizontal radius of 2.000 feet of the aircraft.
(c) Over other than congested areas.
An altitude of 500 feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In
that case, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or
structure.
(d) Helicopters. Helicopters may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed In paragraph
(b) or (c) of this section if the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the
surface. In addition, each person operating a helicopter shall comply with routes or altitudes
specifically prescribed for helicopters by the Administrator.
Helicopter operations may be conducted below the minimum altitudes set for fixed-wing aircraft.
The reason? The helicopter's unique operating characteristics, the most important of which is its
ability to execute pinpoint emergency landings during power failure. Further, the helicopter's
increased use by law enforcement and emergency medical service agencies requires added
flexibility in the application of many FAA provisions.
Okay, so skip WiMAX and use what instead for the wireless link from your tower to reach the 50 people?
Being rural, the houses can tend to be spread fairly far apart. Sure it may be line of site, but it may not be (or be partially blocked). Using 802.11 may not work (also considering any interference there may be near by or within the houses)...
Ubiquity and use "off band" (non-2.4 or 5.4GHz) equipment? That may work to solve the interference issue, but unless it's another open spectrum space and within the power limits of that space, you'll need to get a FCC permit...
And no, I'm not being a smart ass, I'm honestly curious about what you'd recommend since you say no to WiMAX but don't mention any replacement.
This was exactly my thought. If you had a glider sized craft, and mounted a *small* electric motor/prop, and covered all available surface area with highly efficient solar panels/cells, then you may have enough power to move the craft forward *while airborne*. The setup wouldn't be enough to get it to take off, and will still require a gas powered plane to get the solar glider airborne.
Now you've seen the trust of the jet engines pushing people and things out of their way I'm sure (such as the MythBusters episode about the taxi behind the jet engine). They require a lot of thrust to get moving down the runway at a speed that allows them to lift off and climb. I don't think you're getting that from solar power
or perhaps your card # has been out there for quite some time but the attempt to use it didn't happen until this time
Hate to tell you but you're wrong there. Plus, with the tiles in Windows 8 it would be even easier as the kids have visual clues.
For example, my son is two and a half years old. Give him an iPad, iPhone, or Android device and he will be working it in no time. My wife has an older Fascinate, I had a Galaxy S gt-i9000 (which I gave to him to play games on), I now have a Galaxy S III gt-i9300, and also an iPad.
Each of them have a different way of unlocking them. The wife had set hers up with the puzzle piece so our son wouldn't mess with her phone. That took him all of about 10 seconds to figure out the first time he got his hands on it after she had set that up. The other devices he unlocks and gets on just as easy. Even if they're powered down he knows how to power them up.
Also, he's VERY good at knowing which icons are games and which are not. I'm talking scary good. He also knows when you're sitting at an option screen what the "Okay", "Next", text says even though he can't read yet, and also knows what a right arrow means vs a left arrow at those options screens.
This is stuff he's been doing since before he was 2. Heck, he was playing around in Alice 3 making things grow and shrink (that involved a little help from me but not much at all).
The funniest story I have is I left him at his grandparents (my mother-in-law's place) with the iPad. When I dropped him off I jokingly told him "you should call daddy today while he's at work". I shit you not, he fired up ooVoo and video dialed me (I'm the only contact on the iPad but still the fact he figured that all out). It confused the shit out of the mother-in-law as she was sitting near him watching TV and keeping an eye on him and the next thing you know I show up on the iPad.
Anyhow, I think you need to give kids a bit more credit. Just because they may not yet be able to do something (read) doesn't mean they can't figure out another way of accomplishing the same task (visual recognition, etc).
I know sure as hell that my son can and does.. hell he taught me something I never knew. I first played clowns on the C64 when I was around 8 or so (I don't really recall the exact age), and always followed the instructions on the screen.. Press F1 for 1 player or F3 for 2, and press F1 to start. Hell, he gets on there, flips the C64 on, presses F1 maybe ONCE as he figured out if you press the orange button on the paddle it will ALSO put it into single player, and press again to start the game. I *NEVER* knew that.
The difference is if you win in court the other party pays your fees (if you and/or your lawyer do it right since shit... The only reason you're there is because of a claim that proved to be false)
I highly doubt the ISPs are going to reimburse you the $35 if they find out you were "innocent"
That was exactly my thought. The URL shortener may be a f'up having it open like that, but the bigger f'up is the fact the site in the second link allows any address
For example
Http://labor.vermont.gov/LinkClick.aspx?link=http://www.slashdot.org
To me that's the bigger f'up
Of if your area doesn't allow for studded tires, get some Blizzaks as mentioned above. They are made with a special process that introduces tiny bubbles into the outer layer of rubber, which as it wears makes a "suction cup" type area to help grip the road (so there's like millions of suction cups contacting the road).
Another note to mention, winter tires in general have softer rubber compounds, which allow them to flex more and grip better in the colder weather (also the sipping helps a lot as well). Now the rubber compounds in your longer life all-seasons and what not are a harder compound that won't function as well in the colder weather.
Same principle used when people Solo II race. The Falken Azenis tires are cheap for what they are and are a softer compound. This means a shorter life than a normal all-season, but increased grip on the track (especially for Solo II where the courses aren't large and you get 3 to 5 trips around, so the tires don't have mad warm-up periods). The downside is if it's too warm out or you run them too hard, they can become "greasy" as the rubber compound is now too warm and starts slipping again.
"Additionally the best seat belt in those cases is a proper 4-point harness"
Make that read 5-point instead of 4-point and I'm on board.
But to add to your comment, if you want to solve the neck issues, I guess every car should also comes with a HANS device
I haven't checked in a while, but the 10GbE equipment is pretty pricey and runs a bit hotter (the power required to transfer that rate over copper) vs a fiber setup. And in all honesty, you just need the 10GbE link for between switches, which if the network is planned out well wouldn't require that make fiber runs.
No, 10GbE between switches. From there, 1GbE between the switch and the computer.
By your logic, highways should also have a speed of 35mph like secondary roads and be a single lane each way, since there's no point in making the roads 2 lanes each way with a 65mph speed limit since your neighborhood roads are only 35mph. So what happens when 3 devices on switch A must talk to a device on switch B (say the clients to the server?)
If you have 1GbE adapters in the 3 devices and run Cat5e or Cat6 between the devices and switch A, then each device could do 1GbE. Now if you only run a 1GbE link between switch A and switch B, well that 1GbE link is being split 3 ways (plus any overhead), so the 1GbE link between the 3 devices and the switch become pointless. On the other hand, if you do it properly, and make a 10GbE link between switch A and switch B, you could (in theory but not in practice) have 10 devices transferring one directions at the same time and still maintain the full speed they could achieve (and on a full-duplex setup you could have about 8 or so transferring one direction and 8 or so transferring the other direction at about full speed).
Now if you have a lot of large CAD files or whatever, the speed would be welcomed. And honestly, you can pick up quality GigE equipment for a good price (10GbE switches are a bit more, but can still be found for a decent price online and are name brand)
Plus as others said, the fiber isn't prone to noise interference like Cat cable is... and it NEVER hurts to plan ahead. Heck, in my building here on campus we replaced all the patch cables that run between the patch panel and the switches with Cat 6, although none of the machines do 10GbE over copper. Also, all the runs from the wall jack to the equipment is Cat 6 which we switched as we fixed, moved, replaced, or re-imaged the equipment. Again, there's no need for a network printer to be connected from the switch to the patch panel, up to the wall jack and out to the machine.. but it's better for it to be there for when something does come along that can use it (and it's all already in place) than to have put say Cat 5e only to have to replace it a few years down the road.
I happened to see 5 minutes of the show yesterday when I first sat down.. someone had TLC on it that show was on. 5 minutes was 5 minutes too many.
has IPv6 enabled, and things are working fine there. The exception are some of the branch campuses that have older switches and such where turning on IPv6 in Windows 7 seems to really slow the whole network at these locations down.
you could use link local and site local IPv6 address to help with this.. or better yet setup your router, switch (if managed), and/or firewall to do this for you.