well then - lets do the alternative - in the summer we'll pass a law to move the starting hours for all work/school forward an hour - you'll still have to change the alarm clock - but instead of the time it will be the alarm settings. The downside of course is that all offices/buildings/stores etc will have to post two sets of open hours on the door summer and winter, TV will have to have different schedules, etc etc
Personally I'd like to see permanent daylight time (or early work hours, doesn't matter)
Honestly I don't understand what you are saying - is it that DST is somehow inherently debauched? people act in not-moral ways because of it? it's not IYHO god's will?
It's simply a convention that gives most people more daylight time outside of work at some times of the day - I can't see how morality has anything to do with it
the stuff comes off the satellite already mpeg2 encoded - this seems like a waste of time.... transcoding it into something smaller might make sense.... if the CPU load didn't kill you.
No one here seems to have actually done stuff like this though and aren't talking about the real problems - for example recording and playing back real streams (with pause, rewind, skip etc) put interesting loads on disk systems - keeping up with those incoming volumes and playing back as well isn't all that practical (hint - it's the seeks that will get you, and not from what you think either)
yes - but your basic idea is correct, you could build a wifi card with separate xmt/rcv connectors, hook one up the transmitter to an FCC approved antenna and the receiver to a pringles can and you're OK. Problem is that you probably need to do the same at the other end too (assuming they both have the same power out)
ahem - "the builder is expected to employ good engineering practices to meet the specified technical standards to the greatest extent practicable" - that means you have to be an RF engineer, at least good enough to know what you're doing - and that before you make one you're supposed to calculate the gain, multiply it by the transmitter power output and make sure you don't exceed the legal power limit.
If you do the math and it plausibly comes out OK you're in the green (good luck explaining it to the red neck sheriff when he comes aknocking) - but the issue here is that people ARE building systems that break the legal limits - it's the FCC that ought to be enforcing it though, not the sheriff
The issue has to do with transmitted signal strength - which what is what is limited by the FCC. A transmitter with an omnidirectional antenna will expend it's power in all directions, a pringles can antenna takes all that power and squirts it in one direction resulting in a higher signal strength in the desired direction.... that's why it works so well.
As an extreme example you might consider 'safe' signal levels rather than regulated levels - a high power omnidirectional antenna at some level L might be safe to be around... but if all that power's concentrated by a dish in the same direction you don't want to get in the way (if you want kids for example) - that's why those satellite uplink dishes have all those warnings on them.
Receiver antennas are unregulated though - it's legal to have a stock wifi transmitting antenna... but a pringles can receiver - probably not much use unless you have a pringles receiver on both ends though
This guy is a plain bozo... or has never had little kids... the best part of trick-or-treating is the magic of wandering the neighborhood looking at all the jack-o-lanterns and other decorations - what's the point of doing it in the daylight?
We travelled the world with my (now older) kids last year.... halloween found us in India... pumpkins were in short supply... in the end we carved watermelons, they work great if you leave a little red flesh
(assuming you burn it with O2 and don't make any evil NOx byproducts)
Your problem is with H2 made from hydrocarbons - so don't use them, fill the desert with solar cells and crack water, or better yet - make electricity and ship it to the H2 filling stations and crack the water there - I kn ow it's not economical now... but hydrocabon prices are going up and solar cell prices and efficiencies are getting better all the time - one day those curves will collide and the deserts will 'bloom'
actually I very deliberately used english forms of spelling in my post as part of my point - I've lived in places that use both, none is right - eventually over time one of them will win and become the only way to spell it (BTW I suspect the s vs. z thing is also tied up with the zee vs zed difference)
I completely agree, once you realise that then if you don't like the way something is spelled you can go out and spell it a different way and hope it catches on. (The US has been doing this with it's own version of english spellings for years).
We don't have an organisation to petition in order to change the official spelling of a word - just 'common usage' - don't like a word? just go out and change it to suit and see if others agree
yeah but it's the 2nd time in 6 months (for me anyway), good thing I'm not running a business over the net (oh wait I am.... I have to quit whenever it goes out)
given past experience that would involve me spending at least 2 hours on hold, given my hourly billing rate that's a losing proposition (for me at least)
I call bullshit, I'm weeping croc tears here - it's now happened twice now in the past 6 months for me (in Dunedin), previous one was a backhoe someone put thru the fiber north of here, you may have redundancy where you live but Telecom here is always one accident away from me not being able work at any time.
Given the way they are making money hand over fist from their monopoly you'd think they'd spend some money on infrastructure (I can call Auckland from my US Vonage account for 1/3 what it costs to use my telecom phone - the town is plastered with fliers for 1c/min calls to China, why not Auckland?)
you've been reading too much propaganda unless we're living in some strange alternate world where "the republicans absolutely reamed Kerry in the last election" and "the republicans won by the smallest margin in recent memory" somehow now mean the same thing
actually I think this is exactly the 2nd point I was trying to make - that the differences between 'NTSC' and 'PAL' (as most of us think of it) as far as pixels/screen and frame rate are more to do the underlying B/W standard they were built on
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Personally I'd like to see permanent daylight time (or early work hours, doesn't matter)
It's simply a convention that gives most people more daylight time outside of work at some times of the day - I can't see how morality has anything to do with it
No one here seems to have actually done stuff like this though and aren't talking about the real problems - for example recording and playing back real streams (with pause, rewind, skip etc) put interesting loads on disk systems - keeping up with those incoming volumes and playing back as well isn't all that practical (hint - it's the seeks that will get you, and not from what you think either)
yes - but your basic idea is correct, you could build a wifi card with separate xmt/rcv connectors, hook one up the transmitter to an FCC approved antenna and the receiver to a pringles can and you're OK. Problem is that you probably need to do the same at the other end too (assuming they both have the same power out)
If you do the math and it plausibly comes out OK you're in the green (good luck explaining it to the red neck sheriff when he comes aknocking) - but the issue here is that people ARE building systems that break the legal limits - it's the FCC that ought to be enforcing it though, not the sheriff
As an extreme example you might consider 'safe' signal levels rather than regulated levels - a high power omnidirectional antenna at some level L might be safe to be around ... but if all that power's concentrated by a dish in the same direction you don't want to get in the way (if you want kids for example) - that's why those satellite uplink dishes have all those warnings on them.
Receiver antennas are unregulated though - it's legal to have a stock wifi transmitting antenna ... but a pringles can receiver - probably not much use unless you have a pringles receiver on both ends though
I completely agree - the real headline should be something like "Microsoft Virtual Earth Horribly out of Date"
We travelled the world with my (now older) kids last year .... halloween found us in India ... pumpkins were in short supply ... in the end we carved watermelons, they work great if you leave a little red flesh
he sounds like he's well on his way to an insanity defense ....
Your problem is with H2 made from hydrocarbons - so don't use them, fill the desert with solar cells and crack water, or better yet - make electricity and ship it to the H2 filling stations and crack the water there - I kn ow it's not economical now ... but hydrocabon prices are going up and solar cell prices and efficiencies are getting better all the time - one day those curves will collide and the deserts will 'bloom'
"make your own" .... I think that's the point of the article ....
As others have mentioned what you are thinking of is Moxie - Moxi is a trademark of Digeo and is the name of a DVR
actually I very deliberately used english forms of spelling in my post as part of my point - I've lived in places that use both, none is right - eventually over time one of them will win and become the only way to spell it (BTW I suspect the s vs. z thing is also tied up with the zee vs zed difference)
I completely agree, once you realise that then if you don't like the way something is spelled you can go out and spell it a different way and hope it catches on. (The US has been doing this with it's own version of english spellings for years). We don't have an organisation to petition in order to change the official spelling of a word - just 'common usage' - don't like a word? just go out and change it to suit and see if others agree
Norway has the oil - maybe they could buy MS ....
I wonder if he's been reading a certain letter from Peru?
It's a strange set of choices, all I can guess is that there are google employees from Pukekohe, Blenheim and Devonport
hmmm - signup page only works in some browsers, italk requires me to buy a windows machine, no thanks
yeah but it's the 2nd time in 6 months (for me anyway), good thing I'm not running a business over the net (oh wait I am .... I have to quit whenever it goes out)
given past experience that would involve me spending at least 2 hours on hold, given my hourly billing rate that's a losing proposition (for me at least)
I lost a day's work, but they still charged me for my DSL even though I couldn't use it - you figure out who's being ripped off here!
I call bullshit, I'm weeping croc tears here - it's now happened twice now in the past 6 months for me (in Dunedin), previous one was a backhoe someone put thru the fiber north of here, you may have redundancy where you live but Telecom here is always one accident away from me not being able work at any time. Given the way they are making money hand over fist from their monopoly you'd think they'd spend some money on infrastructure (I can call Auckland from my US Vonage account for 1/3 what it costs to use my telecom phone - the town is plastered with fliers for 1c/min calls to China, why not Auckland?)
you've been reading too much propaganda unless we're living in some strange alternate world where "the republicans absolutely reamed Kerry in the last election" and "the republicans won by the smallest margin in recent memory" somehow now mean the same thing
actually I think this is exactly the 2nd point I was trying to make - that the differences between 'NTSC' and 'PAL' (as most of us think of it) as far as pixels/screen and frame rate are more to do the underlying B/W standard they were built on
Surely MS's corporate colors must be more like the windows logo red/yellow/blue/green?