I loaded the page halfway once, then my browser crashed.
After the restart, the page is 404ing - In fact, EVERYTHING on that site is 404ing... Is this happening for anyone else? I've never seen the/. effect cause 404s.:)
And then the developers see crappy sales of their games, get burned, and stay away from M$'s next entry in the console market.
Anyway, the losses from hacked consoles will be far greater than the amount recouped from additional developer deals, if any.
Keep in mind that developers likely won't pay attention as much to console sales, but to how well games for a given console do at this point. Initially console sales and hype were where it was at, but now that there is sales data available for games themselves...
There is ONE type of product that M$ does well, and makes an honest living with - Input devices. This is the ONLY area where I've seen them actually innovate. (Mouse wheel, first company with an all-surface optical - The grid-pad opts from Sun don't count).
As long as they stay far away from software, they're golden.
I'm not sure, but I believe there are internationally agreed-upon "rules of war" - (Makes no sense, but I believe the rules are known as the Geneva Convention?) Anyway, rules or not...
In general, I think that one of the main distinctions between terrorism and standard war is that in normal warfare, civilian casualties are considered "collateral damage" that is preferably avoided.
Making civilians your primary target is where one crosses the line into terrorism.
Disrupting communications as a prank or to make yourself heard - Activism/civil disobedience. (Pirate radio falls under this category)
Disrupting communications/infrastructure with the intent of causing mass confusion/loss of life (Jamming emergency frequencies, bombing telephone exchanges, etc etc) is terrorism.
In the above two, in one case there's replacement of information, in the other there is denial of service.
IMO, the definition of "Terrorist" is not "Using crime to make yourself heard", but "Using crime to create fear and TERROR." - A key part of the word TERRORist.
Terrorists use violence to make themselves heard, not generic crime.
Using crime to make yourself heard is either simply immature (generic vandalism), or is activism (The civil rights movement, a key part of which was civil disobedience.)
All 650s I've seen have a grey antenna housing, not black. It's a sort of "mushroom" shape - Wider at the tip than the base, with a single green status LED. Works BEAUTIFULLY with the linux-wlan package (I know it'll work with the Orinoco drivers, but gives some errors and in general makes me paranoid...)
The pictures of the 650H I've seen have a "tombstone"-like black antenna housing. (Which jives with the suspicion that they are repacked Symbol cards.)
The D-Link DWL-650 is an 802.11b 2.4 GHz card - It works wonderfully under Linux (Prism2 chipset)
The 650H (high-power 100 mW) does not work well at all - These appear to be repackaged Symbol cards - Expect frequent lockups, if it works at all. Someone was working on a driver for the Symbol Spectrum24, but work stopped.
The 650+ (Enhanced 802.11 - 22 MBps, apparently a "halfway" implementation of 802.11g) uses the TI ACX100 chipset - Also no drivers for this exist.
And for 802.11a, the DWL-A650 has no support whatsoever.
Needless to say, once you've paid the price of a retrofit, it's not much more to fix the condenser capacity issue.
Solution 1: Get a new condenser from a newer car. Best if done at the same time as the retrofit. They run $150-200.
Solution 2: The cheap one, and one I plan on implementing soon. (My A/C is borderline - It cools, but it sometimes takes a while, as opposed to my heat which comes up within a minute or two) Solution 2 is to install an auxiliary fan in front of the condenser that is hooked to the A/C clutch circuit. This will provide additional cooling capacity. Some cars need it more than others - I know of a guy with a Toyota minivan - It wouldn't cool down at all until it was moving 50+ until the owner installed a fan. My Dodge Spirit is borderline, but cools whether standing or moving - Because the main radiator fan is already set to turn on full-time whenever the A/C is turned on. (As opposed to only under certain speed/temp conditions)
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Clearly "standard components" are not needed for backwards compatibility if you do things right.
Multiple layers of ferrite will block ANYTHING... Not just gigahertz signals.
Most materials (wood, etc.) have RF blocking power that is dependent on the frequency.
Sandwiched ferrite and pure conductors, on the other hand, are a different story.
You might be able to get around the problem with a passive reradiator coupled with a low-pass filter. (Will leak certain signals very well - Something similar to the Radiax used to give cell coverage in subways.)
Or if you need to see through it, there are some forms of glass that have trace amounts of a conductive substance that will give it a mild tint to visible light but make it impassable for RF. Also fine-mesh screen works too.
I'm not sure exactly what they use in the windows, but because the company I work at makes RF power amplifiers, mainly ones for cell phone use, the building is heavily shielded to keep signals INSIDE. (Not for security, but to prevent us from interfering with nearby cellular systems, but security would be an additional benefit if we ran 802.11b) - We do make sure to use dummy loads, but even dummy loads aren't perfect. I've been working with some FM broadcast-band equipment - I'm sure it radiates somewhat, but I can walk out to my car (50 feet away from the lab), turn on my radio, and hear pure static with no sign of a carrier anywhere nearby.
This just happens to be a form of RF shielding for places where they can't afford to shield the room totally with metal/can't design such shielding in as an afterthought.
Conductive paint (perhaps containing graphite, or maybe powdered ferrite) would work well too.
Well, for one, there is the "Cool factor" of satellite.
Secondly, HF propagation is susceptible to the whims of the Sun.
Thirdly, you can achieve higher bandwidths at satellite frequencies.
Lastly, and now that I think about, most importantly, is one of the reasons I pointed out earlier - At VHF/UHF, antennas are much smaller - You can get incredible range out of a tiny package, whereas with HF you need comparatively huge antennas.
I once read an article describing the meaning of the word "amateur" in the case of amateur radio.
In this case, it's "amateur" in the Olympic sense of the word - One who practices an art but is not paid for it. (As opposed to professional, which implies "for pay") - Think of amateur figure skating. Some of the best figure skaters in the world are considered "amateurs" simply because they do not skate for money. (As opposed to professional skaters, such as those in the Ice Capades)
As another poster pointed out, hams have full privileges over 300 GHz.
Most likely, the FCC has declared the optical region to be an unlicensed band, if not explicitly than implicitly.
Any regulations on optical transmissions fall under other laws (FAA regulations on lasers, possibly disturbing the peace if you light up your neigbor's bedroom with your comm system, etc.)
In general, use common sense and no one will care.
One of the neatest features of Predict is planettrack, which interfaces with xearth or xplanet to display satellite positions, tracks, and coverage areas on your root window.
It has a really nice socket interface with some good Perl example code, which I was hoping to use to automatically do Doppler correction for a Kenwood TS-790 (I think that was the model... Either way, it was a dual-band all-mode VHF/UHF rig W2CXM bought for satellite work - But I graduated so no more TS-790...)
It has built-in support for a few automatic antenna tracking systems, and for the rest there's the socket interface.:)
Slashdot Mirror
"Excuse any site problems while we move to a new DEDICATED server. The transition should be complete within 72 hours or less." - The PimpRig Staff
/. link, site goes down, 10 minutes later they're moving. :)
That has to be the fastest reaction to a slashdotting I've ever seen...
As to 5 buttons - When I get home (Actually, when I get my desktop back up...), I'll email you my X config.
It IS possible to get all 5 buttons to work! \o/
It requires some oddball button remapping, though.
I loaded the page halfway once, then my browser crashed.
/. effect cause 404s. :)
After the restart, the page is 404ing - In fact, EVERYTHING on that site is 404ing... Is this happening for anyone else? I've never seen the
And then the developers see crappy sales of their games, get burned, and stay away from M$'s next entry in the console market.
Anyway, the losses from hacked consoles will be far greater than the amount recouped from additional developer deals, if any.
Keep in mind that developers likely won't pay attention as much to console sales, but to how well games for a given console do at this point. Initially console sales and hype were where it was at, but now that there is sales data available for games themselves...
There is ONE type of product that M$ does well, and makes an honest living with - Input devices. This is the ONLY area where I've seen them actually innovate. (Mouse wheel, first company with an all-surface optical - The grid-pad opts from Sun don't count).
As long as they stay far away from software, they're golden.
I'm not sure, but I believe there are internationally agreed-upon "rules of war" - (Makes no sense, but I believe the rules are known as the Geneva Convention?) Anyway, rules or not...
In general, I think that one of the main distinctions between terrorism and standard war is that in normal warfare, civilian casualties are considered "collateral damage" that is preferably avoided.
Making civilians your primary target is where one crosses the line into terrorism.
Disrupting communications as a prank or to make yourself heard - Activism/civil disobedience. (Pirate radio falls under this category)
Disrupting communications/infrastructure with the intent of causing mass confusion/loss of life (Jamming emergency frequencies, bombing telephone exchanges, etc etc) is terrorism.
In the above two, in one case there's replacement of information, in the other there is denial of service.
IMO, the definition of "Terrorist" is not "Using crime to make yourself heard", but "Using crime to create fear and TERROR." - A key part of the word TERRORist.
Terrorists use violence to make themselves heard, not generic crime.
Using crime to make yourself heard is either simply immature (generic vandalism), or is activism (The civil rights movement, a key part of which was civil disobedience.)
Hmm... Interesting.
All 650s I've seen have a grey antenna housing, not black. It's a sort of "mushroom" shape - Wider at the tip than the base, with a single green status LED. Works BEAUTIFULLY with the linux-wlan package (I know it'll work with the Orinoco drivers, but gives some errors and in general makes me paranoid...)
The pictures of the 650H I've seen have a "tombstone"-like black antenna housing. (Which jives with the suspicion that they are repacked Symbol cards.)
The cost of "developing" the content is far smaller.
A lot of artists can barely get a middle-class income for their efforts - Whereas Hollywood spends millions just to produce the movie.
If CDs sold for $5 and artists got only 25% of that, they'd STILL be making far more money than they do now.
The D-Link DWL-650 is an 802.11b 2.4 GHz card - It works wonderfully under Linux (Prism2 chipset)
The 650H (high-power 100 mW) does not work well at all - These appear to be repackaged Symbol cards - Expect frequent lockups, if it works at all. Someone was working on a driver for the Symbol Spectrum24, but work stopped.
The 650+ (Enhanced 802.11 - 22 MBps, apparently a "halfway" implementation of 802.11g) uses the TI ACX100 chipset - Also no drivers for this exist.
And for 802.11a, the DWL-A650 has no support whatsoever.
More often than not, even Linus couldn't write a driver for the cards in question, as there is no programming info available.
Needless to say, once you've paid the price of a retrofit, it's not much more to fix the condenser capacity issue.
Solution 1: Get a new condenser from a newer car. Best if done at the same time as the retrofit. They run $150-200.
Solution 2: The cheap one, and one I plan on implementing soon. (My A/C is borderline - It cools, but it sometimes takes a while, as opposed to my heat which comes up within a minute or two) Solution 2 is to install an auxiliary fan in front of the condenser that is hooked to the A/C clutch circuit. This will provide additional cooling capacity. Some cars need it more than others - I know of a guy with a Toyota minivan - It wouldn't cool down at all until it was moving 50+ until the owner installed a fan. My Dodge Spirit is borderline, but cools whether standing or moving - Because the main radiator fan is already set to turn on full-time whenever the A/C is turned on. (As opposed to only under certain speed/temp conditions)
Clearly "standard components" are not needed for backwards compatibility if you do things right.
PS2 - Need I say more?
The script is giving an Internal Server Error now. :)
But it's properly listed as "Entertainment, General News" - So it's been fairly categorized.
It would suck to work at a place that actually turned on that category.
Still, a thin layer of ferrite is pretty close to being a simple sheet of metal - Even aluminum foil will kill VHF.
If you leave it against a hard surface, yes. But if it's in your pocket it can't be heard.
I sometimes have trouble hearing my cell phone RINGING in my pocket, let alone buzzing. (ofc, I can feel it.)
Multiple layers of ferrite will block ANYTHING... Not just gigahertz signals.
Most materials (wood, etc.) have RF blocking power that is dependent on the frequency.
Sandwiched ferrite and pure conductors, on the other hand, are a different story.
You might be able to get around the problem with a passive reradiator coupled with a low-pass filter. (Will leak certain signals very well - Something similar to the Radiax used to give cell coverage in subways.)
There are other ways to block signals.
:)
Metal works pretty well.
Or if you need to see through it, there are some forms of glass that have trace amounts of a conductive substance that will give it a mild tint to visible light but make it impassable for RF. Also fine-mesh screen works too.
I'm not sure exactly what they use in the windows, but because the company I work at makes RF power amplifiers, mainly ones for cell phone use, the building is heavily shielded to keep signals INSIDE. (Not for security, but to prevent us from interfering with nearby cellular systems, but security would be an additional benefit if we ran 802.11b) - We do make sure to use dummy loads, but even dummy loads aren't perfect. I've been working with some FM broadcast-band equipment - I'm sure it radiates somewhat, but I can walk out to my car (50 feet away from the lab), turn on my radio, and hear pure static with no sign of a carrier anywhere nearby.
This just happens to be a form of RF shielding for places where they can't afford to shield the room totally with metal/can't design such shielding in as an afterthought.
Conductive paint (perhaps containing graphite, or maybe powdered ferrite) would work well too.
He made it clear that it is on VIBRATE, not RING.
Therefor you don't have to listen to it and in fact CANNOT HEAR IT!
When we have Worldcom's CFO...
Think KPNQwest...
Well, for one, there is the "Cool factor" of satellite.
Secondly, HF propagation is susceptible to the whims of the Sun.
Thirdly, you can achieve higher bandwidths at satellite frequencies.
Lastly, and now that I think about, most importantly, is one of the reasons I pointed out earlier - At VHF/UHF, antennas are much smaller - You can get incredible range out of a tiny package, whereas with HF you need comparatively huge antennas.
I once read an article describing the meaning of the word "amateur" in the case of amateur radio.
In this case, it's "amateur" in the Olympic sense of the word - One who practices an art but is not paid for it. (As opposed to professional, which implies "for pay") - Think of amateur figure skating. Some of the best figure skaters in the world are considered "amateurs" simply because they do not skate for money. (As opposed to professional skaters, such as those in the Ice Capades)
As another poster pointed out, hams have full privileges over 300 GHz.
Most likely, the FCC has declared the optical region to be an unlicensed band, if not explicitly than implicitly.
Any regulations on optical transmissions fall under other laws (FAA regulations on lasers, possibly disturbing the peace if you light up your neigbor's bedroom with your comm system, etc.)
In general, use common sense and no one will care.
One of the neatest features of Predict is planettrack, which interfaces with xearth or xplanet to display satellite positions, tracks, and coverage areas on your root window.
:)
It has a really nice socket interface with some good Perl example code, which I was hoping to use to automatically do Doppler correction for a Kenwood TS-790 (I think that was the model... Either way, it was a dual-band all-mode VHF/UHF rig W2CXM bought for satellite work - But I graduated so no more TS-790...)
It has built-in support for a few automatic antenna tracking systems, and for the rest there's the socket interface.