The questions is *when* did the US gov't acquire this frequency? If it was well after these things were sold, what on earth were they thinking, and if it was before, who let garage door manufacturers keep making these things?
The DOD has had these frequencies for far longer than the garage door manufactureres have been in business. The devices are specifically allowed under an FCC exemption that allows low power RF devices to operate so long as (1) they are below a certain power output (typically 10w max) and (2) that they do not interfere with whoever actually has the frequency allocated to them.
This is, among other things, how those home TV broadcast devices are allowed (the ones that let you broadcast over a TV frequencey to your TV), the FM transmitters you can buy for you MP3 player, and numerous other RF devices on the market today.
Given what I know of the history of RF allocation, most likely the only people who had that frequency before the DoD was the Ham Radios and that was only up until 1960 at the latest. Prior to sometime before WWII, the Hams had all frequencies above 1500Mhz as it was believed to be useless for anything.
All that aside, USAF should either stop using the frequency or offer to refund a retrofit of existing doors--whichever is cheaper.
Umm... Why? Garage Door companies have been using military frequencies for years? They've just been usuing it at such a low power that they get an exemption. By requirement for that exemption, and even in the regulation you reference, they must not interefere with whoever has official licensing on the band. So, why should the Air Force have to change or pay?
Last place I worked, All the PCs had at least 512MB, and those were 4 years old. That vast majority had 1GB and the ones that just came in this year had 2GB. 4 year replacement cycle and every PC in that building should be capable of running Vista.
Nah. In Enders Game, there were actually people piloting the ships. Ender just didn't realize it. This is more similar to the Mobile Doll system in Gundam Wing combined with the Psycommu System from the AC Universe.
This may actually get me interested in MMOs. I can get slightly addicted to things, which is why I have been trying to avoid them ever since I first tried some out.
19.4Mbps (MegaBits) max. ~8.25GB/hour including any commercials. Then again, that is using MPEG2 with the ATSC (Broadcast DTV standard). Microsoft could be compressing the movies with WMV9 or h264 or one of the other compression standards and achieve a better compression ratio for the same quality. Theoretically, h264 and WMV9 could achieve a full hour in 4GB with the same quality, it would require a lot of adjustment, but given the amount of computing power MS has, they could do it.
Then, in that case, I'd also point out that the language of the tribe has been around long enough such that any and all copyrights on the language would have expired by now. As opposed to C# which is under 5 years old.
Here's the basic idea. By making the software available in so many languages, they widen their user base. At some point, it becomes suicide for someone not to support a large enough user base. By keeping their user base as large as possible, they ensure that people will always be supporting windows and hence ensuring that people are buying windows.
Basically, sell to A, sell to B at a slight loss, ensure that A continues to buy.
I'm a firm believer in free speech, regardless of what the creators of a language say. Seems to me like the worst thing they could do to Microsoft is a regional boycott, and I don't see that hurting them.
Yeeeah. One think on the creators of the language. I'm pretty sure they are all long dead at this point.
Presume, for a moment, that KWh/person is proportional to CO2/person. KWh/person probably understates CO2 emission for the USA, and overstates it for China.
Given that the a larger percentage of power generated in China is from Coal, how do you figure?
First, not all areas elect judges. I'm in Virginia, we don't. I'm not sure about Florida.
Second, You've still got the problem of the Judicial Department completely bypassing the Legislative department of a government entirely and changing the law. Whether or not the defendant in this case deserves to be punished or not is irrelevant. The judge is effectively changing the law by changing the definition of the word "E-Mail" to include "Instant Messaging".
I think a judgment like that should be made on condition. The condition being the legislature sees an immediate problem with the wording of the law and fixes it. You get a free pass on spirit the first time. If the law isn't clarified, you don't.
This would be unconstitutional as it would be charging someone with a crime that was not illegal at the time of the incident.
Section 9:
Clause 3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
I agree that Slippery Slopes are dangerous, but I just don't see this as really being one. Does adding IM to the law fundamentally change it? In other words, IM and e-mail are essentially the same thing, are they not? (Maybe they're not, if not correct me) Since the whole point of the law was to make it illegal to use the Internet to direct messages to known-minors, then Judicially including IM'ing doesn't strike me as part of a slippery slope.
Think about it this way. Should the Judicial department be able to modify laws already on the books? I do not mean a constitutionality yes or no, I mean actually being able to modify and change them.
This guy, who is not elected, just bypassed the entire process of bill creation, the elected representatives and the governor, to change the law to how he felt it could be. That is the dangerous slope here. If the judge is able to do it with this law, why not any other law?
While I do agree what they guy did should be illegal, it was not illegal with the way the law was written. Which, should just be re-written for soliciting a minor, regardless of the medium.
Hmm... Lets compare some quick notes on the renders. The ones I remember were 320x240 frames with a lot of the settings turned up to full. It was a 10 second (30fps or 15fps, can't remember) film of various shots and angles of the building. Building designed in AutoCAD, rendered in 3DStudioMax. About half the settings were set to full, and the other half were disabled.
Intel's right. On games it doesn't do any better. On video though, well, lets just say I know some architecture majors who would have loved these in their lab several years ago, when 1 frame took 10 minutes to render. And they had 300 frame videos to do.
These are already being put to use in various areas. They are high temperature super conductors, just not room temperature super conductors. (High temperature as in above 10 kelvin). Here's an article on one instance. http://www.physorg.com/news77909735.html
Because the problem of radioactive waste is still unsolved. The radioactive waste will be dangerous for literally thousands of year, we have no means to store it safely for even a fraction of that time. We actually don't even have means to convey the message that there is highly dangerous radioactive waste to people living in 2000 years.
True Radioactive Waste, the stuff that is left over after nuclear reprocessing, is about not much more radioactive than Uranium Ore. We could store it in the same mines the Uranium Ore came out of if we wanted to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor #Key_benefits
# Pyroprocessing and electrorefining are feasible with this fuel. This allows on-site reprocessing. Two forms of waste are produced, a noble metal form and a ceramic form. Both are suitable for geological disposal.
# The waste produced contains no plutonium or other actinides. The radioactivity of the waste decays to levels similar to the original ore in about 300 years.
Also, who is paying so handsomely to say that spewing CO2 into the atmosphere is going to cause global catastrophe? I know more than a few guys in the department who would like to talk to them.
Start with Green Peace. Next, move on to Al-Gore and the Seira Club.
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The questions is *when* did the US gov't acquire this frequency? If it was well after these things were sold, what on earth were they thinking, and if it was before, who let garage door manufacturers keep making these things?
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The DOD has had these frequencies for far longer than the garage door manufactureres have been in business. The devices are specifically allowed under an FCC exemption that allows low power RF devices to operate so long as (1) they are below a certain power output (typically 10w max) and (2) that they do not interfere with whoever actually has the frequency allocated to them.
This is, among other things, how those home TV broadcast devices are allowed (the ones that let you broadcast over a TV frequencey to your TV), the FM transmitters you can buy for you MP3 player, and numerous other RF devices on the market today.
Office of Spectrum Management:
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/frequency_a
That is an old copy from 1996. It shows the frequency being "Government Exclusive" for 335.4-399.9Mhz.
Given what I know of the history of RF allocation, most likely the only people who had that frequency before the DoD was the Ham Radios and that was only up until 1960 at the latest. Prior to sometime before WWII, the Hams had all frequencies above 1500Mhz as it was believed to be useless for anything.
All that aside, USAF should either stop using the frequency or offer to refund a retrofit of existing doors--whichever is cheaper.
Umm... Why? Garage Door companies have been using military frequencies for years? They've just been usuing it at such a low power that they get an exemption. By requirement for that exemption, and even in the regulation you reference, they must not interefere with whoever has official licensing on the band. So, why should the Air Force have to change or pay?
Last place I worked, All the PCs had at least 512MB, and those were 4 years old. That vast majority had 1GB and the ones that just came in this year had 2GB. 4 year replacement cycle and every PC in that building should be capable of running Vista.
I use either Sewing Scissors or a pocket knife. I think I've also sliced my fingers open on the plastic before.
Nah. In Enders Game, there were actually people piloting the ships. Ender just didn't realize it. This is more similar to the Mobile Doll system in Gundam Wing combined with the Psycommu System from the AC Universe.
And what scientific field is Al Gore in again?
That's easy. Political Science.
This may actually get me interested in MMOs. I can get slightly addicted to things, which is why I have been trying to avoid them ever since I first tried some out.
Isn't a full HD rip of a 1 hour show a few gigs?
19.4Mbps (MegaBits) max. ~8.25GB/hour including any commercials. Then again, that is using MPEG2 with the ATSC (Broadcast DTV standard). Microsoft could be compressing the movies with WMV9 or h264 or one of the other compression standards and achieve a better compression ratio for the same quality. Theoretically, h264 and WMV9 could achieve a full hour in 4GB with the same quality, it would require a lot of adjustment, but given the amount of computing power MS has, they could do it.
In that case, wouldn't only the changes be copyrightable?
Then, in that case, I'd also point out that the language of the tribe has been around long enough such that any and all copyrights on the language would have expired by now. As opposed to C# which is under 5 years old.
Here's the basic idea. By making the software available in so many languages, they widen their user base. At some point, it becomes suicide for someone not to support a large enough user base. By keeping their user base as large as possible, they ensure that people will always be supporting windows and hence ensuring that people are buying windows.
Basically, sell to A, sell to B at a slight loss, ensure that A continues to buy.
I'm a firm believer in free speech, regardless of what the creators of a language say. Seems to me like the worst thing they could do to Microsoft is a regional boycott, and I don't see that hurting them.
Yeeeah. One think on the creators of the language. I'm pretty sure they are all long dead at this point.
Few are asking how the kid could get weapons and explosives.
The 'kid' was 18 and Germany has a mandatory military service of 9 months for men.
Presume, for a moment, that KWh/person is proportional to CO2/person. KWh/person probably understates CO2 emission for the USA, and overstates it for China.
Given that the a larger percentage of power generated in China is from Coal, how do you figure?
First, not all areas elect judges. I'm in Virginia, we don't. I'm not sure about Florida.
Second, You've still got the problem of the Judicial Department completely bypassing the Legislative department of a government entirely and changing the law. Whether or not the defendant in this case deserves to be punished or not is irrelevant. The judge is effectively changing the law by changing the definition of the word "E-Mail" to include "Instant Messaging".
I think a judgment like that should be made on condition. The condition being the legislature sees an immediate problem with the wording of the law and fixes it. You get a free pass on spirit the first time. If the law isn't clarified, you don't.
This would be unconstitutional as it would be charging someone with a crime that was not illegal at the time of the incident.
Section 9:
Clause 3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
I agree that Slippery Slopes are dangerous, but I just don't see this as really being one. Does adding IM to the law fundamentally change it? In other words, IM and e-mail are essentially the same thing, are they not? (Maybe they're not, if not correct me) Since the whole point of the law was to make it illegal to use the Internet to direct messages to known-minors, then Judicially including IM'ing doesn't strike me as part of a slippery slope.
Think about it this way. Should the Judicial department be able to modify laws already on the books? I do not mean a constitutionality yes or no, I mean actually being able to modify and change them.
This guy, who is not elected, just bypassed the entire process of bill creation, the elected representatives and the governor, to change the law to how he felt it could be. That is the dangerous slope here. If the judge is able to do it with this law, why not any other law?
While I do agree what they guy did should be illegal, it was not illegal with the way the law was written. Which, should just be re-written for soliciting a minor, regardless of the medium.
Hmm... Lets compare some quick notes on the renders. The ones I remember were 320x240 frames with a lot of the settings turned up to full. It was a 10 second (30fps or 15fps, can't remember) film of various shots and angles of the building. Building designed in AutoCAD, rendered in 3DStudioMax. About half the settings were set to full, and the other half were disabled.
What are you doing in your projects?
Here's one from Toms Hardware.
Intel's right. On games it doesn't do any better. On video though, well, lets just say I know some architecture majors who would have loved these in their lab several years ago, when 1 frame took 10 minutes to render. And they had 300 frame videos to do.
Thanks for the laugh.
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That has to be one of the funniest things I've ever read on
Further out, maybe superconducting cables.
These are already being put to use in various areas. They are high temperature super conductors, just not room temperature super conductors. (High temperature as in above 10 kelvin). Here's an article on one instance.
http://www.physorg.com/news77909735.html
Because the problem of radioactive waste is still unsolved. The radioactive waste will be dangerous for literally thousands of year, we have no means to store it safely for even a fraction of that time. We actually don't even have means to convey the message that there is highly dangerous radioactive waste to people living in 2000 years.
r #Key_benefits
True Radioactive Waste, the stuff that is left over after nuclear reprocessing, is about not much more radioactive than Uranium Ore. We could store it in the same mines the Uranium Ore came out of if we wanted to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reacto
# Pyroprocessing and electrorefining are feasible with this fuel. This allows on-site reprocessing. Two forms of waste are produced, a noble metal form and a ceramic form. Both are suitable for geological disposal.
# The waste produced contains no plutonium or other actinides. The radioactivity of the waste decays to levels similar to the original ore in about 300 years.
Woops, wrong one.
http://heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=13379
Also, who is paying so handsomely to say that spewing CO2 into the atmosphere is going to cause global catastrophe? I know more than a few guys in the department who would like to talk to them.
Start with Green Peace. Next, move on to Al-Gore and the Seira Club.
The US is already a Carbon Sink to begin with, including all the CO2 that the US releases.
http://www.epa.gov/sequestration/faq.html#6