Since they frequently are seen to inhabit the lofty realms of thought without visible means of support, it can safely be concluded that they are weightless
No, it was all a conspiracy theory by the GWB administration.
Apparently the administration that was so incompetent that it couldn't effectively respond to a hurricane was able to pull off four hijackings and the controlled demolition of the WTC complex without anybody finding out about it. And they also tricked that Osama guy into taking responsbility for it.
The only reason why Theocracies on the middle east exist is that the USA needs them so they can pump out the resources of the country without having to care for the general population. They would not be able to do that with a democracy.
You realize the biggest theocracy (Saudi Arabia) existed long before anybody even knew there was oil there, right?
certainly some of the best and brightest can create the appearance that a controlled demolition of the World Trade Center was really the result of a terrorist attack
Did they also CGI all those photos of the airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers?
And the thousands of tons that slammed into it at high velocity had nothing to do with it?
NOVA recently did a special about this. Apparently the NIST investigation concluded that the impact of the jets stripped away a lot of the fire-proofing material that should have protected the steel.
Once the steel was exposed to all that heat it was only a matter of time before it failed. It never melted either -- it became flexible and eventually failed as a result.
If there is a serious "crisis" looming on the horizon why are they selling unlimited text packages and promoting them so heavily? I'm skeptical. They would endanger the quality of all service (presumably voice traffic has issues with congested paging channels?) just to sell a few more text plans? Why give away unlimited texting to customers on the same carrier?
I would concede that it's not "free" for the networks. Or the customer (isn't my battery being drained faster listening to all these broadcast messages?) for that matter. I just question whether it costs anything remotely close to what they sell them for. Even with plans.
In this case, the SYNC channel message tells the phone how many paging channels there are, and only has 3 bits for this information. And the sync channel message doesn't have any versioning information, so they can't add another bit without breaking all existing phones.
Why would you have to touch the existing protocol? When a phone running the new software comes onto the network it communicates back to home base this status and home base knows to route SMS via the new path instead of the old paging method. The old paging method sticks around for phones running the older software and for normal voice services.
EV-DO is great at sending large swaths of data at high rates. For short message services, it suffers the same overhead inefficiencies CDMA does.
Alright. So how about some other method? Take one of those traffic channels and dedicate it to SMS. Each phone gets a time slot to listen for incoming SMS. That wouldn't address the mobiles sending texts (how does that work exactly? Do they have to get on a traffic channel to upload one?) but it would seem to be a start. I would presume that this could be rolled out without breaking old phones -- the new ones would just communicate their capability when connecting to the network and not receive incoming SMS on the paging channel.
Point being that there has to be some way they could fix this is if it was really a serious problem for them. If it was why offer unlimited SMS plans? I don't buy it as an explanation for a $0.20 SMS fee.
The theory that I've heard that makes the most sense is that one of the key indicators in the mobile industry is ARPU (average revenue per user). If you sell your customers text plans you bring up your ARPU. By making individual messages more and more expensive they convince more people to buy text plans. Or fork over $2-$3 for a handful of Google searches or "pick up some milk" type usage. Either way they win.
will require new phones and/or software upgrades to all existing phones out there
Why not just roll it out in stages like any other protocol update? Build a specification that uses the EV-DO part of the network for SMS and have all new phones receive/send SMS that way by default.
The old system could be left in place indefinitely (AMPS was a dinosaur and still supported up until Feb 2008) and would receive less and less traffic as all those teenagers upgraded their phones. Hell, I doubt it would take that much time. The phone that Mom and Dad bought them three months ago is so YESTERDAY.
I love that they had to use Javascript on a webpage that consists of two letters;)
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Those who say the tiny lack holes would dissapear instantly, you are misinformed. They are solid mass. They can only grow, and anything that interacts with them will be sucked in
And even if he is wrong, my understanding is that particle collisions with the same energy levels happen on a routine basis as cosmic rays strike our atmosphere. That would seem to suggest that either these collisions lack the power to create black holes or Hawking's theory is correct and they evaporate pretty quickly.
Again you're just using correlation to try to state that something is fact
Don't talk about what I'm doing. Go read the IPCC report. They looked at all of those other sources that you outlined and concluded that the CO2 output from those sources was not sufficient (read: not even close) to account for the increase in atmospheric CO2 since the industrial revolution.
Just because someone doesn't buy the whole Humanity is causing Global warming idea so far, doesn't mean they are being paid by the oil companies (this just a childish jab), are a republican (why does it always have to come down to party lines, I though Democrats were big on challenging the status quo) i'm an independent btw, or are just ignorant (it can happen but it isn't necessarily the case)
And where did I say any of those things?
Change for a better environment? I am all for it but lets not do it under the guise of Global Warming. Can't we just do it?
Not without either running out of (cheaply obtainable) fossil fuels or pricing them such that the environmental impact is reflected in the price. I would like to think that we'd have enough foresight to do the latter because the former will come with all sorts of nasty consequences -- chief among them being the often overlooked fact that we still need oil for other purposes (plastics and fertilizer both come to mind) and burning the last (cheaply obtainable) reserves in our cars seems like a big waste to me.
I really used to like this country. And I blame most of the reasons I don't on the GOP.
That's funny because a Republican would probably blame most of the reasons on the Democrats.
That's why we need to move past this partisan mentality. Do we really want to be remembered by history as fighting over abortion, guns and gay marriage while Russia went on the march and China built the economy that kicked our ass?
Under McCain and Palin they'd probably outlaw computers that don't run on fossil fuel.
Hahahaha, you owe me a monitor and a new cup of coffee for that:)
The speech is worth watching for other issues besides tech. Gives some good insight into the direction that Obama wants to take us towards in this global economy.
Of course if you are like me and live in The Empire State your vote is just padding anyway. Good to see that people are still excited though -- I lost a lot of my faith after Obama's reversal on FISA. I suppose I should suck that up and get back to work now.... the GOP convention was all the reminder I needed of why I'm a Democrat (in spite of their many flaws)
I recall a previous charismatic leader that was elected in the 1930s, that had few accomplishments other than writing a book about himself
I must have missed the part of Obama's books that blamed all of our problems on a religious/ethic minority and which talked about the plan to acquire living space in Canada. Can you point it out for me?
As the most liberal members of Congress, BO and Biden
You don't have to like Obama/Biden but could you please stop repeating this stupid Republican talking point? "Most liberal member of the Senate". Really? He's more liberal than Russ Feingold? How about the self-described socialist (Bernie Sanders)? Is he more Liberal than him?
The Democrat party has chosen the most liberal members of Congress and plan on ramming all of their bad ideas through, overriding any opposition with no regard to compromise
If you replace "Democrat" with "Republican" and "liberal" with "Conservative" that sounds an awful lot like the first six years of GWB's administration. How many of their ideas were rammed through a rubber-stamp Congress with little to no debate?
If you are looking for more information on Obama's tech policy check out the speech that he gave at Google awhile back. That was before he got assimilated by the campaign and party and actually spoke with some amount of candor......
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Since they frequently are seen to inhabit the lofty realms of thought without visible means of support, it can safely be concluded that they are weightless
Does that mean they can reach the speed of light?
No, it was all a conspiracy theory by the GWB administration.
Apparently the administration that was so incompetent that it couldn't effectively respond to a hurricane was able to pull off four hijackings and the controlled demolition of the WTC complex without anybody finding out about it. And they also tricked that Osama guy into taking responsbility for it.
Clever bastards.
but in reality their agenda is removing the rights of christians since they have no tolerance for that kind of action due to their beliefs
So by your logic I'm also "removing the rights of christians" if I choose to engage in pre-martial sex?
The only reason why Theocracies on the middle east exist is that the USA needs them so they can pump out the resources of the country without having to care for the general population. They would not be able to do that with a democracy.
You realize the biggest theocracy (Saudi Arabia) existed long before anybody even knew there was oil there, right?
certainly some of the best and brightest can create the appearance that a controlled demolition of the World Trade Center was really the result of a terrorist attack
Did they also CGI all those photos of the airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers?
And the thousands of tons that slammed into it at high velocity had nothing to do with it?
NOVA recently did a special about this. Apparently the NIST investigation concluded that the impact of the jets stripped away a lot of the fire-proofing material that should have protected the steel.
Once the steel was exposed to all that heat it was only a matter of time before it failed. It never melted either -- it became flexible and eventually failed as a result.
Go to Federal pound me in the ass prison......
Nothing gets me off quite like hanging off a telephone pole and talking on a sex line ;)
If there is a serious "crisis" looming on the horizon why are they selling unlimited text packages and promoting them so heavily? I'm skeptical. They would endanger the quality of all service (presumably voice traffic has issues with congested paging channels?) just to sell a few more text plans? Why give away unlimited texting to customers on the same carrier?
I would concede that it's not "free" for the networks. Or the customer (isn't my battery being drained faster listening to all these broadcast messages?) for that matter. I just question whether it costs anything remotely close to what they sell them for. Even with plans.
I'm not sure that water is rightly categorized as an arm
There's a lot of water in my arm....... ;)
In this case, the SYNC channel message tells the phone how many paging channels there are, and only has 3 bits for this information. And the sync channel message doesn't have any versioning information, so they can't add another bit without breaking all existing phones.
Why would you have to touch the existing protocol? When a phone running the new software comes onto the network it communicates back to home base this status and home base knows to route SMS via the new path instead of the old paging method. The old paging method sticks around for phones running the older software and for normal voice services.
EV-DO is great at sending large swaths of data at high rates. For short message services, it suffers the same overhead inefficiencies CDMA does.
Alright. So how about some other method? Take one of those traffic channels and dedicate it to SMS. Each phone gets a time slot to listen for incoming SMS. That wouldn't address the mobiles sending texts (how does that work exactly? Do they have to get on a traffic channel to upload one?) but it would seem to be a start. I would presume that this could be rolled out without breaking old phones -- the new ones would just communicate their capability when connecting to the network and not receive incoming SMS on the paging channel.
Point being that there has to be some way they could fix this is if it was really a serious problem for them. If it was why offer unlimited SMS plans? I don't buy it as an explanation for a $0.20 SMS fee.
The theory that I've heard that makes the most sense is that one of the key indicators in the mobile industry is ARPU (average revenue per user). If you sell your customers text plans you bring up your ARPU. By making individual messages more and more expensive they convince more people to buy text plans. Or fork over $2-$3 for a handful of Google searches or "pick up some milk" type usage. Either way they win.
will require new phones and/or software upgrades to all existing phones out there
Why not just roll it out in stages like any other protocol update? Build a specification that uses the EV-DO part of the network for SMS and have all new phones receive/send SMS that way by default.
The old system could be left in place indefinitely (AMPS was a dinosaur and still supported up until Feb 2008) and would receive less and less traffic as all those teenagers upgraded their phones. Hell, I doubt it would take that much time. The phone that Mom and Dad bought them three months ago is so YESTERDAY.
If guns kept people safer we'd be allowed to carry them on commercial flights.
I must say, I love the logic of that position! Let me try one:
If bottled water kept people safer we'd be allowed to carry it on commercial flights.
Can I help? ;)
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com
I love that they had to use Javascript on a webpage that consists of two letters ;)
Those who say the tiny lack holes would dissapear instantly, you are misinformed. They are solid mass. They can only grow, and anything that interacts with them will be sucked in
Mr. Hawking disagrees with you.
And even if he is wrong, my understanding is that particle collisions with the same energy levels happen on a routine basis as cosmic rays strike our atmosphere. That would seem to suggest that either these collisions lack the power to create black holes or Hawking's theory is correct and they evaporate pretty quickly.
It started with the scientists, so noone has noticed anything different yet.
Speak for yourself. Mr. Freeman has noticed lots of things that are different ;)
If I could only find my crowbar......
you'd think we'd be able to avoid the headline hysteria here at least.
You must be new here ;)
Again you're just using correlation to try to state that something is fact
Don't talk about what I'm doing. Go read the IPCC report. They looked at all of those other sources that you outlined and concluded that the CO2 output from those sources was not sufficient (read: not even close) to account for the increase in atmospheric CO2 since the industrial revolution.
Just because someone doesn't buy the whole Humanity is causing Global warming idea so far, doesn't mean they are being paid by the oil companies (this just a childish jab), are a republican (why does it always have to come down to party lines, I though Democrats were big on challenging the status quo) i'm an independent btw, or are just ignorant (it can happen but it isn't necessarily the case)
And where did I say any of those things?
Change for a better environment? I am all for it but lets not do it under the guise of Global Warming. Can't we just do it?
Not without either running out of (cheaply obtainable) fossil fuels or pricing them such that the environmental impact is reflected in the price. I would like to think that we'd have enough foresight to do the latter because the former will come with all sorts of nasty consequences -- chief among them being the often overlooked fact that we still need oil for other purposes (plastics and fertilizer both come to mind) and burning the last (cheaply obtainable) reserves in our cars seems like a big waste to me.
I really used to like this country. And I blame most of the reasons I don't on the GOP.
That's funny because a Republican would probably blame most of the reasons on the Democrats.
That's why we need to move past this partisan mentality. Do we really want to be remembered by history as fighting over abortion, guns and gay marriage while Russia went on the march and China built the economy that kicked our ass?
Under McCain and Palin they'd probably outlaw computers that don't run on fossil fuel.
Hahahaha, you owe me a monitor and a new cup of coffee for that :)
The speech is worth watching for other issues besides tech. Gives some good insight into the direction that Obama wants to take us towards in this global economy.
Of course if you are like me and live in The Empire State your vote is just padding anyway. Good to see that people are still excited though -- I lost a lot of my faith after Obama's reversal on FISA. I suppose I should suck that up and get back to work now.... the GOP convention was all the reminder I needed of why I'm a Democrat (in spite of their many flaws)
I recall a previous charismatic leader that was elected in the 1930s, that had few accomplishments other than writing a book about himself
I must have missed the part of Obama's books that blamed all of our problems on a religious/ethic minority and which talked about the plan to acquire living space in Canada. Can you point it out for me?
As the most liberal members of Congress, BO and Biden
You don't have to like Obama/Biden but could you please stop repeating this stupid Republican talking point? "Most liberal member of the Senate". Really? He's more liberal than Russ Feingold? How about the self-described socialist (Bernie Sanders)? Is he more Liberal than him?
The Democrat party has chosen the most liberal members of Congress and plan on ramming all of their bad ideas through, overriding any opposition with no regard to compromise
If you replace "Democrat" with "Republican" and "liberal" with "Conservative" that sounds an awful lot like the first six years of GWB's administration. How many of their ideas were rammed through a rubber-stamp Congress with little to no debate?
Yeah, something people don't realize is that most of the state is frozen for a good chunk of the year
Don't worry, we're working on that ;) One Hummer at a time......
Ray,
If you are looking for more information on Obama's tech policy check out the speech that he gave at Google awhile back. That was before he got assimilated by the campaign and party and actually spoke with some amount of candor......