At least with GAIM, new tabs are opened in the same window as existing tabs.
That means that all my IMs go to the virtual desktop that my main AIM window is on, as opposed to interrupting me when I'm typing an email by popping up a new window and grabbing focus.
While the modulation for DVB-S is standardized, the encryption setups for DVB-S are not quite so standard. There ARE standard interfaces between most DVB-S receivers and encryption devices, but the encryption scheme used by Echostar (Dish) is not implemented in any of the dongles supported by PCI DVB-S tuners such as those made by Hauppauge for the European market.
DVB-C and DVB-T (Cable and Terrestrial DVB, they do use different modulation schemes, etc.) are not used in the U.S. at all.
OTA Broadcast streams use ATSC, which does have decent hardware support (including *linux-only* tuner boards), but cable streams use a proprietary transmission format that uses QAM modulation and is almost always encrypted, even for "local" channels that are available unencrypted in the same area if you've got an antenna. Very few PCI tuners support QAM modulation schemes, and NONE will decrypt encrypted cable streams.
The One for All 8810w is one of the most versatile universal remotes out there due to the fact that it is JP1 programmable. It also happens to be one of the cheapest JP1-programmable remotes out there. ($18-20).
It's an excellent remote for an excellent price.
Usually when I'm shopping for "basic" stuff, Wally World is the second place I stop. (Target being the first simply due to physical location - I pass by Target on the way to Wally World.) My local Wally World is a pretty decent store. (After all, it was only built 3-4 years ago.) Far better than the run-down K-Marts we have around here, which are total pits.
Conventional arms can't easily hit a target a few thousand feet above you, let alone SEVENTY thousand feet.
Even fighter jets have trouble exceeding 50-60 thousand feet IIRC. Only specialized aircraft (Scaled's White Knight is one such example) can reach these altitudes.
RoadMap doesn't do routing, due to lack of info on one-way streets in the TIGER dataset.
And I used it not too long ago, it was extremely unreliable and difficult to set up. 90% of the time, it would say, "no map for area found" even though I'd RTFMed and loaded all maps and index files for the state I was in and all surrounding states.
NMEA 0183 is a standard that nearly every GPS unit conforms to as far as communications with other devices.
Interfacing GPS devices to Linux boxes has never, EVER been a problem. It's almost impossible to find a GPS receiver that doesn't speak NMEA 0183, Rockwell binary (Documented), or Garmin binary (ALSO documented, has been fully supported by gpsd under Linux for YEARS.)
Now DOING something with that info from the GPS is a different story... There is almost no decent mapping/navigation software for Linux. About the only semi-decent software is Roadmap, which uses the TIGER/Line dataset in the US. GpsDrive is pretty well polished, but not much more than a toy thanks to lack of vector map support.:( GRASS is very powerful, but not suitable for your typical "I want to get from point A to point B" navigation.
I agree. OFDM isn't some sort of holy grail. It doesn't do anything that somehow invalidate's Shannon's Law for channel capacity, and it is quite possible to come within 0.5 dB of Shannon capacity with other modulation schemes. It's nothing special, just another method for modulation that happens to have certain benefits in some situations. (Examples include higher multipath immunity.) The European DVB-T (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast) standard uses OFDM and it's been around for a while (at least five years I think.) As the parent said, 802.11a and g use OFDM also.
OFDM is not a magic bullet. It's also not new.
Yes, Siemens' 360 Mbps number is impressive, but to achieve that performance, they either used some very interesting tricks (OFDM not being the key here, possibly a MIMO multiple-antenna system, a technology that is still under heavy research.), or made tradeoffs (high bandwidth or high SNR requirements) that will make the system useless for real-world deployment.
Europe has an existing digital TV standard (DVB) and has had it for quite some time, which I BELIEVE (but can't be positive) supports 480p. 480p is by no means HD, but a digital 480p signal is far, far better than even a good analog 480i signal.
In the US, ATSC IS the digital TV standard for OTA broadcast, it just happens that here, HD support was included in that standard.
Before you get bored with EVE's utter lack of content.
I got myself a battleship, then promptly got bored completely, despite being in a relatively large corp that did lots of PvP (Xanadu). I just never liked EVE's PvP... Hours of boredom camping gates/jumping around for 10 seconds of excitement.
I returned to DAoC this summer, after having experienced another game, I can appreciate DAoC's endgame much more, partly because they overhauled their RvR (DAoC's equivalent of PvP) system completely with their New Frontiers expansion and it's a lot more fun than Emain Gate Pong used to be. (Note that NF is one of Mythic's free expansions, so any DAoC player can enjoy it without spending any extra money.)
EVE had a LOT of potential, and still does. It just has no content and no endgame.:(
Yeah... The need to sit for extended periods of time indicates you have a problem and need more fiber. Constipation (even mild constipation) can have some rather unpleasant side effects. The act of sitting on the toilet alone isn't too healthy either, it happens to be a sitting position that puts strain on many of your blood vessels.
Moral of the story: Don't read/wifi/whatever in the crapper. Just remove the need by taking some daily Metamucil. And don't wait until you learn your lesson the hard way.
You just named one of the cases a 32-bit chip might make sense.
There are MANY applications for microcontrollers where there is NEVER a need to deal with more than 8 bits in a register. In those applications, a 32-bit CPU might actually be HARDER to work with than a simple 8-bit AVR.
I don't think Atmel has any intention of compatibility between the AT90 (8-bit AVR) and AT91 (32-bit ARM) lines. Both lines have existed for years, and have no compatibility. The AT91s are NOT intended to replace the AT90s, they are targeted at an entirely different market segment. (Admittedly, with the AtMEGA series AVRs, there's beginning to be quite a bit of overlap, the AtMEGAs are what Atmel is using to "replace" the lower-end AVRs with something compatible and more powerful.)
Let's not forget that the average 8-bit microcontroller has a very clean instruction set, and is typically VERY easy to develop for.
Atmel's 8-bit AVR uCs can do some VERY impressive things, and are exceptionally easy to work with.
Who cares if it can run Linux? In the target market for these devices, Linux is *massive overkill*. One of Atmel's most popular AVR microcontrollers has *no* RAM whatsoever, just a tiny bit of ROM and 32 registers.
On one of my old systems, Opera happened to be the only browser light/fast enough to run reasonably on that system.
My main dislike of it? It was unstable as hell.:( It crashed frequently, even more often than IE on my Windows boxes.
At that time, Mozilla was massively bloated. From what I've heard, and experienced, Firefox is much closer to Opera in terms of size and speed than the Mozilla of old, and it's *damn stable*.
I believe they are a MAJOR contributor to the community within the Rochester area in terms of charities and such. (The other major employer/contributor being the Wegmans supermarket chain).
Both companies are loved by the locals because of the benefit they have to the community.
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At least with GAIM, new tabs are opened in the same window as existing tabs.
That means that all my IMs go to the virtual desktop that my main AIM window is on, as opposed to interrupting me when I'm typing an email by popping up a new window and grabbing focus.
I meant I don't use the machine in question any more. I still use GAIM. :)
While I don't use it any more, I used to run GAIM on a 200 MHz Pentium-MMX, and even before that on a non-MMX 166 MHz Pentium. Ran fine.
While the modulation for DVB-S is standardized, the encryption setups for DVB-S are not quite so standard. There ARE standard interfaces between most DVB-S receivers and encryption devices, but the encryption scheme used by Echostar (Dish) is not implemented in any of the dongles supported by PCI DVB-S tuners such as those made by Hauppauge for the European market.
DVB-C and DVB-T (Cable and Terrestrial DVB, they do use different modulation schemes, etc.) are not used in the U.S. at all.
OTA Broadcast streams use ATSC, which does have decent hardware support (including *linux-only* tuner boards), but cable streams use a proprietary transmission format that uses QAM modulation and is almost always encrypted, even for "local" channels that are available unencrypted in the same area if you've got an antenna. Very few PCI tuners support QAM modulation schemes, and NONE will decrypt encrypted cable streams.
All-season tires?
:)
Except in a few very specific cases, seasonal tire changes are a thing of the past for most vehicles in the U.S.
I drive my convertible year-round. Of course I don't put the top down in the winter.
We pick it like you flick it,
We pick it like you flick it at Booger King.
(Parody of BK's slogan at the time)
Taco Bell -> Taco Hell
Pizza Hut -> Pizza Slut
The One for All 8810w is one of the most versatile universal remotes out there due to the fact that it is JP1 programmable. It also happens to be one of the cheapest JP1-programmable remotes out there. ($18-20).
It's an excellent remote for an excellent price.
Usually when I'm shopping for "basic" stuff, Wally World is the second place I stop. (Target being the first simply due to physical location - I pass by Target on the way to Wally World.) My local Wally World is a pretty decent store. (After all, it was only built 3-4 years ago.) Far better than the run-down K-Marts we have around here, which are total pits.
Conventional arms can't easily hit a target a few thousand feet above you, let alone SEVENTY thousand feet.
Even fighter jets have trouble exceeding 50-60 thousand feet IIRC. Only specialized aircraft (Scaled's White Knight is one such example) can reach these altitudes.
If one starts having problems, send up a replacement THEN bring the bad one down.
No problems that wouldn't be issues with any other technique in use (satellite, helicopter, airplane, etc.)
A little bit of reading and it was pretty easy for me to figure out what it was. So expect a maximum of less than 1000 posts.
RoadMap doesn't do routing, due to lack of info on one-way streets in the TIGER dataset.
And I used it not too long ago, it was extremely unreliable and difficult to set up. 90% of the time, it would say, "no map for area found" even though I'd RTFMed and loaded all maps and index files for the state I was in and all surrounding states.
NMEA 0183 is a standard that nearly every GPS unit conforms to as far as communications with other devices.
:( GRASS is very powerful, but not suitable for your typical "I want to get from point A to point B" navigation.
Interfacing GPS devices to Linux boxes has never, EVER been a problem. It's almost impossible to find a GPS receiver that doesn't speak NMEA 0183, Rockwell binary (Documented), or Garmin binary (ALSO documented, has been fully supported by gpsd under Linux for YEARS.)
Now DOING something with that info from the GPS is a different story... There is almost no decent mapping/navigation software for Linux. About the only semi-decent software is Roadmap, which uses the TIGER/Line dataset in the US. GpsDrive is pretty well polished, but not much more than a toy thanks to lack of vector map support.
That's thin... The Computer Shopper when I was a kid was probably 2 inches thick if not more.
I agree. OFDM isn't some sort of holy grail. It doesn't do anything that somehow invalidate's Shannon's Law for channel capacity, and it is quite possible to come within 0.5 dB of Shannon capacity with other modulation schemes. It's nothing special, just another method for modulation that happens to have certain benefits in some situations. (Examples include higher multipath immunity.) The European DVB-T (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast) standard uses OFDM and it's been around for a while (at least five years I think.) As the parent said, 802.11a and g use OFDM also.
OFDM is not a magic bullet. It's also not new.
Yes, Siemens' 360 Mbps number is impressive, but to achieve that performance, they either used some very interesting tricks (OFDM not being the key here, possibly a MIMO multiple-antenna system, a technology that is still under heavy research.), or made tradeoffs (high bandwidth or high SNR requirements) that will make the system useless for real-world deployment.
Europe has an existing digital TV standard (DVB) and has had it for quite some time, which I BELIEVE (but can't be positive) supports 480p. 480p is by no means HD, but a digital 480p signal is far, far better than even a good analog 480i signal.
In the US, ATSC IS the digital TV standard for OTA broadcast, it just happens that here, HD support was included in that standard.
I don't think the RT Linux patches for the 2.4 series were EVER merged.
Before you get bored with EVE's utter lack of content.
:(
I got myself a battleship, then promptly got bored completely, despite being in a relatively large corp that did lots of PvP (Xanadu). I just never liked EVE's PvP... Hours of boredom camping gates/jumping around for 10 seconds of excitement.
I returned to DAoC this summer, after having experienced another game, I can appreciate DAoC's endgame much more, partly because they overhauled their RvR (DAoC's equivalent of PvP) system completely with their New Frontiers expansion and it's a lot more fun than Emain Gate Pong used to be. (Note that NF is one of Mythic's free expansions, so any DAoC player can enjoy it without spending any extra money.)
EVE had a LOT of potential, and still does. It just has no content and no endgame.
Yeah... The need to sit for extended periods of time indicates you have a problem and need more fiber. Constipation (even mild constipation) can have some rather unpleasant side effects. The act of sitting on the toilet alone isn't too healthy either, it happens to be a sitting position that puts strain on many of your blood vessels.
Moral of the story: Don't read/wifi/whatever in the crapper. Just remove the need by taking some daily Metamucil. And don't wait until you learn your lesson the hard way.
You just named one of the cases a 32-bit chip might make sense.
There are MANY applications for microcontrollers where there is NEVER a need to deal with more than 8 bits in a register. In those applications, a 32-bit CPU might actually be HARDER to work with than a simple 8-bit AVR.
I don't think Atmel has any intention of compatibility between the AT90 (8-bit AVR) and AT91 (32-bit ARM) lines. Both lines have existed for years, and have no compatibility. The AT91s are NOT intended to replace the AT90s, they are targeted at an entirely different market segment. (Admittedly, with the AtMEGA series AVRs, there's beginning to be quite a bit of overlap, the AtMEGAs are what Atmel is using to "replace" the lower-end AVRs with something compatible and more powerful.)
The automotive industry focuses on selling smaller volumes of very expensive ($10,000+) products.
In that industry, $0.02 per unit likely won't make much of a difference at all. Even a savings of $1 per unit won't.
Now, if you're selling millions of a product for $9.99 at your local Wally World, $0.02 will make a MUCH larger difference.
Let's not forget that the average 8-bit microcontroller has a very clean instruction set, and is typically VERY easy to develop for.
Atmel's 8-bit AVR uCs can do some VERY impressive things, and are exceptionally easy to work with.
Who cares if it can run Linux? In the target market for these devices, Linux is *massive overkill*. One of Atmel's most popular AVR microcontrollers has *no* RAM whatsoever, just a tiny bit of ROM and 32 registers.
Because IE isn't standards-compliant and barfs on standards-compliant pages very often.
On one of my old systems, Opera happened to be the only browser light/fast enough to run reasonably on that system.
:( It crashed frequently, even more often than IE on my Windows boxes.
My main dislike of it? It was unstable as hell.
At that time, Mozilla was massively bloated. From what I've heard, and experienced, Firefox is much closer to Opera in terms of size and speed than the Mozilla of old, and it's *damn stable*.
I believe they are a MAJOR contributor to the community within the Rochester area in terms of charities and such. (The other major employer/contributor being the Wegmans supermarket chain).
Both companies are loved by the locals because of the benefit they have to the community.