There has never really been ANY law against owning or building ANY radio receiver that could pick up ANY part of the spectrum. Scanners have been sold that blocked out Cell phone frequencies, but people have hacked these to re-enable the reception. Today, the point is moot as Cellphones have gone digital and the scanners were all analog receivers. It was ALWAYS illegal to make public any conversations you heard on ANY "public service" radio band, this includes CB, mobile phone, cell phone, etc. (The amateur radio bands are an exception to this). Transmitters, OTHO ARE regulated by the FCC as to what can be sold. Hams may build their own equipment, and they don't really have to meet any FCC regulations (however the quality of the signals, power levels, bandwidth, etc MUST meet regulations). Commerical amateur radio equipment IS subject to some minimal regulation (such as the imfamous 10 meter restriction to prevent their use on 27mhz CB). The power output levels of a basic SWDR transceiver are about as low as a typical rf signal generator. So yes, these devices WILL be regulated as if they were just lab equipment. It's not until you connect them to an antenna that they actually become a transmitter (and you could hook up a typical tv/radio repair shop type rf signal generator to an antenna an go on the air. I know of some bootleg broadcasters that HAVE done this with a QRP station). If you connect such a rig to a suitable rf linear power amplifier you could have a nice ham rig capable of any mode on any band. It would be futile to regulate SDR equipment, since they are only one means of getting an illegal station on the air. Want to build a bootleg transmitter? Just look for ANY copy of the ARRL radio amateur's handbook for ALL the data you'd need. It's really not rocket science and the cat's been out of the bag almost a century!
Actually elements up to iron can be made in a star. Elements heavier than iron can only be created in a supernova. This is because a star can fuse lighter elements into heavier ones, up to iron. Iron cannot be fused into heavier elements without energy, lighter elements when fused release energy, and so keep the star going. But once the star has started to make iron, it starts to loose energy while gaining mass. Eventually the energy output cannot keep up with the force of gravity from the increasing mass in the star's core and then the star 'implodes'. This is one form of a supernova.
If you don't like it then hand back ALL of your radio frequency allocations that the FCC has authorized you to make use of for your RF networks. Since you are using a limited public resource that belongs to EVERYONE you either play nice, or go home.
There STILL might be a way. Most ARM cpu's support a JTAG debugger and the motherboard might even have the required connector (or connector footprint) on it. You could then still be able to flash the bios using the hardware debugger (JTAG). ARM tools to support jtag are open source and there are many suitable JTAG devices available at reasonable cost. OK not a very non-geek frendly way, but it IS possible.
Also the "mushroom planet" books ("The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet", "Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet", "Mr. Bass's Planetoid") by Eleanor Cameron. Add "The Fabulous Flying Bicycle" by Glen Dines and "The Phantom tollbooth", by Norton Juster.
"My name is Nobody" was one of my favorite westerns. I also liked "Duck you sucker" (which was renamed "a fist full of dynamite"), and "the good, the bad, and the ugly".
While it may be expensive, maybe you can find a few old unbuilt Heathkits on ebay.
One of these days I'd like to build a tube amp and compare the sound with the gainclone I'm now using. Power triodes are expensive, but that's what I'd like to try. Maybe I can find some surplus 812's cheap.
I'm sure the damn thing is going to use a protected bios so it can't be 'jail broken' to install other OS's. Which would be a shame because it's a nice looking design that would probably work very well with Ubuntu on it.
Lenovo - I had the 'poison bios' issue with mine affecting a HD swap. There IS a work around, pressing the blue 'thinkvantage' button as soon as the splash screen shows up will bypass the bios self tests and allow booting from a generic HD in 15 seconds. Press the esc key to bypass the 15 sec wait. Lenovo/IBM HD's have a shock detect in their firmware that the bios expects to be there on self test. I havn't tried upgrading memory or optical disks, I don't think there would be an issue there. The bios DOES interact with the wifi hw, but other than boot over wifi this probably won't be an issue as Linux doesn't give a rat's ass about the bios.
On some (I suspect many) Lenovo/Thinkpad laptops have diagnostics in their bios that expect the hard disk to have firmware which supports the diagnostics. At least that was the case with my R(T?)60 laptop. I upgraded it to a 250gb from the 60gb it came with (and installed Linux Mint on the new drive). The original drive was an IBM/Lenovo branded drive with firmware that contained a shock detect feature included in the bios diagnostics. The generic Seagate drive I replaced it with did not. I was able to install Linux, but on the next powerup it would not boot because the bios took the drive off line when it 'failed' the diagnostic. After some head scratching I found a work-around. I press the blue 'thinkvantage' button on the keyboard as soon as the bios splash screen shows up. This bypasses the bios self tests and will boot the hard disk in 15 seconds. If I press the 'ESC' key right after the splash screen fades out (after pressing the blue key) it will boot at once. Other than this minor annoyance this Thinkpad is totally supported by the latest Linux Mint. (Wifi works great, I haven't tried the builtin bluetooth).
Just as many newvou riche old farts will marry a young dumb blonde bombshell to look successfull to the world, many companies will display their products with a gaggle (harem?) of good looking women for the same reason. At least if the product is one that will be marketed to men, or if men are the ones making the buying decsisions to purchase the product. I wonder what happens when the shoe is on the other foot? How about a trade show for products intended for sale to women? Will there then be plenty of dumb barely dressed "beefcake" men displaying the product to the women?
Ray Bradberry wanted the title of this work to be the temperature that book paper catches fire. He searchd through the public libraries research section but couldn't find the answer to that question. He tried contacting several paper companies but they didn't have the answer. He finally called the local fire department and asked them what temperature paper catches fire at.... THEY KNEW!
If you buy a CD you must pay for each time you play it in certain commerical settings. If you own a radio station you must pay a fee each time you play that CD on the air. If you are a DJ you have to pay a fee each time you play the CD at a gig. The key here is that you are making money by playing that CD. OTOH if I throw a party it's a not for profit setting (unless the purpose of the party is to promote a product or service) so there shouldn't be the need to pay. Playing background music in a restaurant also requires paying for the use of the music as it is in a for profit setting. All CD's are covered by ASCAP or BMI provisions on this.
I've always thought that the best form of gun control was to require all gun owners to take marksmanship training so they wouldn't miss what they aim at. Also training on proper care of guns (cleaning, repair, and general safety issues). Gun owners should be licensed just as automobile owners are, and for similar reasons.
Really? Have you EVER built a new computer WITHOUT going into the bios settings to tweak something? At the very least you will have to set the time and date! I usually also have to change the boot device order so I can boot off the CD/DVD, most times the bios is shipped to ONLY boot off the first floppy (well not anymore....) and then the first HD and nothing else! (Even if the CD/DVD is second on the this it WON'T be called unless the HD is missing or defective. If the HD is present but has no boot on it the bios often just errors out and quits without going on to the next boot device so you HAVE to set the CD/DVD as boot device #1). Also many power freaks will also change the over-clocking settings. So there is one more thing to change, BFD.
Sit on it and rotate! Eat shit and die Larry Ellison! Sanity as rules at the end of the day. Thank god the judge had the wisdom of Solomon in this matter.
Like it or not, the internet is an American invention that we have shared with the world. We have managed it according to our views of freedom and (regrettably) corporate greed. I cannot see our government and cooporations allowing control of the internet to pass on to governments that would not manage it according to our needs, or try to strong arm tribute from us to line their pockets for the "purpose" of running it. It would literally be viewed here as an act of war and we would have to take appropriate action. I am not trying to be a pig headed yankee here, I'm just pointing out the reality on how it will be seen by our government and cooporations. A UN take over of the internet will NOT be allowed to happen, the US will NOT stand for it. The rest of the world might well have to pull the plug and leave to create their own network, but the part WE are connected to will remain "the wild wild west". Reactionaries in the GOP and TEA parties wouldn't have it any other way (I'm a Democrate BTW).
Actually (if you read the article) M$ does not get any of that $99. The fee goes to Verisoft. Microsoft is acting as the gatekeeper for the signup process.
Now I will be VERY pissed if I buy a new motherboard to build my own computer and it won't boot Linux unless I have to buy a key for $99. In such a case I would return the MB as being defective. I hope Asus and other MB makers will give me a choice of bios options when I buy a new MB.
Over 100 years ago during the last pair of Venus transists the 'march king' was so excited by the rare astronomical event that he wrote both a novel and a march titled 'Transist of Venus'. This Sousa march is rarely played today (I found one performance of it on Youtube by an obscure High School band) and you can download and read the novel which is in the public domain.
Space-X has a new engine in the design phase that will have 1.7 millon lbs of thrust. The Merlin-2 engine will be more powerfull than the Saturn-V's F1 engine was. The Falcon-X heavy will use 3 of these engines per core, or 1.5 times the lift of the Saturn-V. The Falcon-XX heavy would use 6 of these engines per core, for a total of 18 engines. It would have over THREE times the lift of the Saturn-V rocket! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_%28rocket_family%29#Merlin_2_and_super-heavy_lift_concepts
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There has never really been ANY law against owning or building ANY radio receiver that could pick up ANY part of the spectrum. Scanners have been sold that blocked out Cell phone frequencies, but people have hacked these to re-enable the reception. Today, the point is moot as Cellphones have gone digital and the scanners were all analog receivers. It was ALWAYS illegal to make public any conversations you heard on ANY "public service" radio band, this includes CB, mobile phone, cell phone, etc. (The amateur radio bands are an exception to this). Transmitters, OTHO ARE regulated by the FCC as to what can be sold. Hams may build their own equipment, and they don't really have to meet any FCC regulations (however the quality of the signals, power levels, bandwidth, etc MUST meet regulations). Commerical amateur radio equipment IS subject to some minimal regulation (such as the imfamous 10 meter restriction to prevent their use on 27mhz CB). The power output levels of a basic SWDR transceiver are about as low as a typical rf signal generator. So yes, these devices WILL be regulated as if they were just lab equipment. It's not until you connect them to an antenna that they actually become a transmitter (and you could hook up a typical tv/radio repair shop type rf signal generator to an antenna an go on the air. I know of some bootleg broadcasters that HAVE done this with a QRP station). If you connect such a rig to a suitable rf linear power amplifier you could have a nice ham rig capable of any mode on any band.
It would be futile to regulate SDR equipment, since they are only one means of getting an illegal station on the air. Want to build a bootleg transmitter? Just look for ANY copy of the ARRL radio amateur's handbook for ALL the data you'd need. It's really not rocket science and the cat's been out of the bag almost a century!
Actually elements up to iron can be made in a star. Elements heavier than iron can only be created in a supernova. This is because a star can fuse lighter elements into heavier ones, up to iron. Iron cannot be fused into heavier elements without energy, lighter elements when fused release energy, and so keep the star going. But once the star has started to make iron, it starts to loose energy while gaining mass. Eventually the energy output cannot keep up with the force of gravity from the increasing mass in the star's core and then the star 'implodes'. This is one form of a supernova.
If you don't like it then hand back ALL of your radio frequency allocations that the FCC has authorized you to make use of for your RF networks. Since you are using a limited public resource that belongs to EVERYONE you either play nice, or go home.
There STILL might be a way. Most ARM cpu's support a JTAG debugger and the motherboard might even have the required connector (or connector footprint) on it. You could then still be able to flash the bios using the hardware debugger (JTAG). ARM tools to support jtag are open source and there are many suitable JTAG devices available at reasonable cost. OK not a very non-geek frendly way, but it IS possible.
I hope there is a fucking Volcano on the island and it erupts.
Then I hope someone throws Larry into it.
Also the "mushroom planet" books ("The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet", "Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet", "Mr. Bass's Planetoid") by Eleanor Cameron. Add "The Fabulous Flying Bicycle" by Glen Dines and "The Phantom tollbooth", by Norton Juster.
"My name is Nobody" was one of my favorite westerns. I also liked "Duck you sucker" (which was renamed "a fist full of dynamite"), and "the good, the bad, and the ugly".
H.G. Wells.
While it may be expensive, maybe you can find a few old unbuilt Heathkits on ebay.
One of these days I'd like to build a tube amp and compare the sound with the gainclone I'm now using. Power triodes are expensive, but that's what I'd like to try. Maybe I can find some surplus 812's cheap.
That's like saying that all stupid Europeans are Polish.
I'm sure the damn thing is going to use a protected bios so it can't be 'jail broken' to install other OS's. Which would be a shame because it's a nice looking design that would probably work very well with Ubuntu on it.
More like time travel to an alternate unverserse.
Lenovo - I had the 'poison bios' issue with mine affecting a HD swap. There IS a work around, pressing the blue 'thinkvantage' button as soon as the splash screen shows up will bypass the bios self tests and allow booting from a generic HD in 15 seconds. Press the esc key to bypass the 15 sec wait. Lenovo/IBM HD's have a shock detect in their firmware that the bios expects to be there on self test. I havn't tried upgrading memory or optical disks, I don't think there would be an issue there. The bios DOES interact with the wifi hw, but other than boot over wifi this probably won't be an issue as Linux doesn't give a rat's ass about the bios.
On some (I suspect many) Lenovo/Thinkpad laptops have diagnostics in their bios that expect the hard disk to have firmware which supports the diagnostics. At least that was the case with my R(T?)60 laptop. I upgraded it to a 250gb from the 60gb it came with (and installed Linux Mint on the new drive). The original drive was an IBM/Lenovo branded drive with firmware that contained a shock detect feature included in the bios diagnostics. The generic Seagate drive I replaced it with did not. I was able to install Linux, but on the next powerup it would not boot because the bios took the drive off line when it 'failed' the diagnostic. After some head scratching I found a work-around. I press the blue 'thinkvantage' button on the keyboard as soon as the bios splash screen shows up. This bypasses the bios self tests and will boot the hard disk in 15 seconds. If I press the 'ESC' key right after the splash screen fades out (after pressing the blue key) it will boot at once.
Other than this minor annoyance this Thinkpad is totally supported by the latest Linux Mint. (Wifi works great, I haven't tried the builtin bluetooth).
Just as many newvou riche old farts will marry a young dumb blonde bombshell to look successfull to the world, many companies will display their products with a gaggle (harem?) of good looking women for the same reason. At least if the product is one that will be marketed to men, or if men are the ones making the buying decsisions to purchase the product. I wonder what happens when the shoe is on the other foot? How about a trade show for products intended for sale to women? Will there then be plenty of dumb barely dressed "beefcake" men displaying the product to the women?
Ray Bradberry wanted the title of this work to be the temperature that book paper catches fire. He searchd through the public libraries research section but couldn't find the answer to that question. He tried contacting several paper companies but they didn't have the answer. He finally called the local fire department and asked them what temperature paper catches fire at.... THEY KNEW!
If you buy a CD you must pay for each time you play it in certain commerical settings. If you own a radio station you must pay a fee each time you play that CD on the air. If you are a DJ you have to pay a fee each time you play the CD at a gig. The key here is that you are making money by playing that CD. OTOH if I throw a party it's a not for profit setting (unless the purpose of the party is to promote a product or service) so there shouldn't be the need to pay. Playing background music in a restaurant also requires paying for the use of the music as it is in a for profit setting. All CD's are covered by ASCAP or BMI provisions on this.
I've always thought that the best form of gun control was to require all gun owners to take marksmanship training so they wouldn't miss what they aim at. Also training on proper care of guns (cleaning, repair, and general safety issues). Gun owners should be licensed just as automobile owners are, and for similar reasons.
Hugo Chavez == Hitler.
Really? Have you EVER built a new computer WITHOUT going into the bios settings to tweak something? At the very least you will have to set the time and date! I usually also have to change the boot device order so I can boot off the CD/DVD, most times the bios is shipped to ONLY boot off the first floppy (well not anymore....) and then the first HD and nothing else! (Even if the CD/DVD is second on the this it WON'T be called unless the HD is missing or defective. If the HD is present but has no boot on it the bios often just errors out and quits without going on to the next boot device so you HAVE to set the CD/DVD as boot device #1). Also many power freaks will also change the over-clocking settings. So there is one more thing to change, BFD.
Sit on it and rotate! Eat shit and die Larry Ellison! Sanity as rules at the end of the day. Thank god the judge had the wisdom of Solomon in this matter.
Like it or not, the internet is an American invention that we have shared with the world. We have managed it according to our views of freedom and (regrettably) corporate greed. I cannot see our government and cooporations allowing control of the internet to pass on to governments that would not manage it according to our needs, or try to strong arm tribute from us to line their pockets for the "purpose" of running it. It would literally be viewed here as an act of war and we would have to take appropriate action. I am not trying to be a pig headed yankee here, I'm just pointing out the reality on how it will be seen by our government and cooporations. A UN take over of the internet will NOT be allowed to happen, the US will NOT stand for it. The rest of the world might well have to pull the plug and leave to create their own network, but the part WE are connected to will remain "the wild wild west". Reactionaries in the GOP and TEA parties wouldn't have it any other way (I'm a Democrate BTW).
Actually (if you read the article) M$ does not get any of that $99. The fee goes to Verisoft. Microsoft is acting as the gatekeeper for the signup process.
Now I will be VERY pissed if I buy a new motherboard to build my own computer and it won't boot Linux unless I have to buy a key for $99. In such a case I would return the MB as being defective. I hope Asus and other MB makers will give me a choice of bios options when I buy a new MB.
Over 100 years ago during the last pair of Venus transists the 'march king' was so excited by the rare astronomical event that he wrote both a novel and a march titled 'Transist of Venus'. This Sousa march is rarely played today (I found one performance of it on Youtube by an obscure High School band) and you can download and read the novel which is in the public domain.
Space-X has a new engine in the design phase that will have 1.7 millon lbs of thrust. The Merlin-2 engine will be more powerfull than the Saturn-V's F1 engine was. The Falcon-X heavy will use 3 of these engines per core, or 1.5 times the lift of the Saturn-V. The Falcon-XX heavy would use 6 of these engines per core, for a total of 18 engines. It would have over THREE times the lift of the Saturn-V rocket! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_%28rocket_family%29#Merlin_2_and_super-heavy_lift_concepts