[blank]sucks.com websites have been losing pretty steadily lately. One of the best ones is where Full Sail Real World Education took out a WIPO case against www.fullsailsucks.com.
This is from an old one...circa late 80's but it basically admitted that the Russians were whooping us when it came to space. At the time the statistics were like 5 times the successful launches that we had, and over 7 times the man hours in space, there space station had been up for over twice as long as skylab had....it was just mind boggling. They also mentioned that they had 3 major spaceports in russia, each of them many times the size or kennedy, and edwards combined.
-mikey p
How long am I gonna have to wait to buy my copy of "The Matrix" on Beta?
-Mikey P
Independence Day anyone??
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That scene towards the end of the movie wasn't unrealistic at all. Think about it some time...amateurs maintain a world network, pretty much primitive, and low tech, yet powerful enough to not worry any government, yet be able to communicate how they want when they want, without government interference (Licensing of course...).
My personal ham site where I have a few pictures of the first and second field day I participated in. The first one, I was 17, organized the whole event in about 3 days. The second one was planned over about a month, and included more of my peers, and one mentor. Whole setup ran off of a generator, and was pretty much 100% self sufficient.
Although I don't have a link or reference to the article (other than I believe I read it in Reader's Digest), there have been several cases of individuals struck by lightning indoors. One instance that stands out in my mind, was a story of a woman, in a basement who was struck by lightning while washing clothes, and reaching towards a glass block window, where her detergent was sitting.
The shocking thing was, in the interview, the founder/inventor(not)/designer/coder whatever he was, claimed that large large portions of mail actually gets lost on the internet.
A gentleman called in from a design engineering firm who emails large documents to other members of the firm and other associates around the country. The "expert" insisted that the didtheyreadit.com was the perfect service for them to assure that their emails made it there and were in fact read.
My question was this, how does email between two people who regularly email each other, and are probably expecting it, "get lost"? This was a major point that the guy was making, which seemed to me like he was spreading classic FUD.
Lets make sure that our friends aren't using this product for those reasons! Assure them that undeliverable mail will be properly reported back to them always, and show them how to set their mail clients to always accept mail from those in their address books!
Yes, however when we examine media of a man being killed, say as an action movie, it is simulated and acted out. Child porn, which I am not familiar with, would seem to imply that the "crime" is not simulated, but in fact actually commited and recorded.
While in english comp 120 as a freshman, my professor one day showed us all the features of Word that are usuaully unused. Statistics such as the sentences per paragraph, words per sentence, and characters per word, gave you a basic idea what was happening, but to really understand what a computer thinks of your writing you have to look at the readability statistics: Percentage of passive sentences, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
Using statistics, in conjunction with setting the grammar to it's strictest setting, and style as technical, helped me write one of the best marked research papers I've ever written.
This was my technique:
Use the strictest grammar settings available
Check the spelling, and thus the readability statistics after typing each sentence. This enabled me to understand better, how to write in order to manipulate those statistics, and thus hopefully arrive at a more scientific sounding result
The best part about it all, was that it was easy to do, and it worked! In all honesty though, I discussed the technique I used at length in my portfolio for the course, which featured that paper.
The practice of using the bandwidth of non-present broadcast TV stations is almost the rule in professional audio equipment, such as used at concerts, clubs and even tv stations gathering news.
It is a somewhat questionable practice, but due to the low power of the transmitters it rarely causes interference. The exceptions to this are, for example the theatre districts in major cities, such as New York, where dozens of establishments attempt to operate large numbers (40+) of wireless microphones each, in close proximity, in an enviroment which already has little unused bandwidth in the broadcast TV allocation.
Interestingly, broadcasters can actually file an FCC form to semi "license" their wireless microphones on these frequencies, since they are in the broadcast TV business anyway.
To me, that is who should really have the say about whether or not such a system could be implemented.
You don't want the search and rescue folks to know that someone is walking through the woods? Fine, if you are hurt and end up missing in a couple of days, don't expect the search and rescue folks.
It's somewhat of a having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too issue.
No offense, but you may not be in the right business or circles to hear about it. Every trade magazine for the audio industry and some article featuring PJ's setup.
When I purchased my first calc, 82's were standard, and I opted for an 85...read the manual, learned how to do everything on it, loved it. Two years later, teacher refused to let me use it for Alg II..she made me buy the 83 for it's matrix capabilities (limited compared to the 85).
I still hate the 83, unfortunately my 85 was damaged in a mod experiment.
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I especially like the one they dropped in a farmers field but they couldn't dig it up so they bought the field.
Also kinda scary that Rocky Flats which has had it's share of disasters is pretty much in my backyard.
-Mikey P
High Tech Heretic Also by stoll, specifically about computers in education.
The Flickering Mind same stuff by Todd Oppenheimer, reviewed here.
-Mikey P
[blank]sucks.com websites have been losing pretty steadily lately. One of the best ones is where Full Sail Real World Education took out a WIPO case against www.fullsailsucks.com.
Read about the case here...
-Mikey P
This is from an old one...circa late 80's but it basically admitted that the Russians were whooping us when it came to space. At the time the statistics were like 5 times the successful launches that we had, and over 7 times the man hours in space, there space station had been up for over twice as long as skylab had....it was just mind boggling. They also mentioned that they had 3 major spaceports in russia, each of them many times the size or kennedy, and edwards combined. -mikey p
....of System Administrator Appreciation Day cards.
-Mikey P
How long am I gonna have to wait to buy my copy of "The Matrix" on Beta?
-Mikey P
That scene towards the end of the movie wasn't unrealistic at all. Think about it some time...amateurs maintain a world network, pretty much primitive, and low tech, yet powerful enough to not worry any government, yet be able to communicate how they want when they want, without government interference (Licensing of course...).
My personal ham site where I have a few pictures of the first and second field day I participated in. The first one, I was 17, organized the whole event in about 3 days. The second one was planned over about a month, and included more of my peers, and one mentor. Whole setup ran off of a generator, and was pretty much 100% self sufficient.
-Mikey P
let's be honest, this guy kinda knew what he was doing
my ideal office (kinda)
-Mikey P
I'm not surprised that this is the type of thing he would be known for. This, or starting a website for people to complain about that school.
/. post this afternoon, he was unaware of it at the time.
P.S. I told him about this
-Mikey P
Although I don't have a link or reference to the article (other than I believe I read it in Reader's Digest), there have been several cases of individuals struck by lightning indoors. One instance that stands out in my mind, was a story of a woman, in a basement who was struck by lightning while washing clothes, and reaching towards a glass block window, where her detergent was sitting.
"Can I get struck by lightning when I'm indoors?"
NWS Lightning Safety: Indoors
-Mikey P
How many of the messages were FP comments on /.?
-Mikey P
Lets just hope it's better than airport security.
-Mikey P
The shocking thing was, in the interview, the founder/inventor(not)/designer/coder whatever he was, claimed that large large portions of mail actually gets lost on the internet.
A gentleman called in from a design engineering firm who emails large documents to other members of the firm and other associates around the country. The "expert" insisted that the didtheyreadit.com was the perfect service for them to assure that their emails made it there and were in fact read.
My question was this, how does email between two people who regularly email each other, and are probably expecting it, "get lost"? This was a major point that the guy was making, which seemed to me like he was spreading classic FUD.
Lets make sure that our friends aren't using this product for those reasons! Assure them that undeliverable mail will be properly reported back to them always, and show them how to set their mail clients to always accept mail from those in their address books!
-Mikey P
Yes, however when we examine media of a man being killed, say as an action movie, it is simulated and acted out. Child porn, which I am not familiar with, would seem to imply that the "crime" is not simulated, but in fact actually commited and recorded.
A small difference, and not true in all cases...
-Mikey P
Using statistics, in conjunction with setting the grammar to it's strictest setting, and style as technical, helped me write one of the best marked research papers I've ever written.
This was my technique:
Use the strictest grammar settings available
Check the spelling, and thus the readability statistics after typing each sentence. This enabled me to understand better, how to write in order to manipulate those statistics, and thus hopefully arrive at a more scientific sounding result
The best part about it all, was that it was easy to do, and it worked! In all honesty though, I discussed the technique I used at length in my portfolio for the course, which featured that paper.
-Mikey P
Requirements For Using Wireless Systems On TV Channels
Taking The Stealth Approach
The Bottom Line: Legal Use of Wireless Microphones
The Future of Wireless Part 1: The Challenges Ahead
The Future of Wireless Part 2: Meeting the Challenges
Enjoy
-Mikey P
Yes, there have been many plans for datacasting through broadcast TV, both SD and HD.
For a thorough read on the subject of datacasting in almost any medium, check out The Race for Bandwidth by the late Cary Lu.
-Mikey P
The practice of using the bandwidth of non-present broadcast TV stations is almost the rule in professional audio equipment, such as used at concerts, clubs and even tv stations gathering news.
It is a somewhat questionable practice, but due to the low power of the transmitters it rarely causes interference. The exceptions to this are, for example the theatre districts in major cities, such as New York, where dozens of establishments attempt to operate large numbers (40+) of wireless microphones each, in close proximity, in an enviroment which already has little unused bandwidth in the broadcast TV allocation.
Interestingly, broadcasters can actually file an FCC form to semi "license" their wireless microphones on these frequencies, since they are in the broadcast TV business anyway.
-Mikey P
It's hard to say how different it is from the US. Do the Canadians have a word for greed too?
To me, that is who should really have the say about whether or not such a system could be implemented.
You don't want the search and rescue folks to know that someone is walking through the woods? Fine, if you are hurt and end up missing in a couple of days, don't expect the search and rescue folks.
It's somewhat of a having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too issue.
-Mikey P
That was fun while it lasted.
-Mikey P
Didn't we learn anything from Wallace and Grommit in The Wrong Trousers,?
-Mikey P
No, that would be petabit meters per second. One would assume that a petabit-meter is a measure of petabits versus meters..doesn't make sense to me.
Check out The Race for Bandwidth by the late Cary Lu.
-Mikey P
No offense, but you may not be in the right business or circles to hear about it. Every trade magazine for the audio industry and some article featuring PJ's setup.
for example Mix magazine
Search for anything related to Pro Audio with Project Charlotte (Where I found the above link)
When I purchased my first calc, 82's were standard, and I opted for an 85...read the manual, learned how to do everything on it, loved it. Two years later, teacher refused to let me use it for Alg II..she made me buy the 83 for it's matrix capabilities (limited compared to the 85).
I still hate the 83, unfortunately my 85 was damaged in a mod experiment.