I thought so once, too, but the just-a-phones are out, and cheap. As it turns out, I like the cameras and multimedia, text messaging, web, and gps features.
Although.. every phone should have gps, since they've all got it built-in anyway so the carriers don't have to put any effort into triangulating.
That's for two (or more) bands on the same feedline. The problem here is that he's trying to improve reception of specific frequencies in the same band.
Be careful how you place them, though. You could easily end up with an array that cancels in the preferred direction rather than adds if you're careless.
There are commercials on almost every channel, many done by the local news stations and tons by cable and satellite companies that are educating people about the switchover...
But, IMO rather stupidly, For some reason, they mostly seem broadcast these PSAs on the digital streams, where, if you can see it, you've obviously already got the necessary equipment.
The spectrum belongs to the people and thus *all* of the money gained from any sale goes back to us.
Money is fungible. All of the money gained does come back to us: it goes into the general fund, offsetting the need for taxation to support government services. The utility of those services notwithstanding, that is the method by which you are compensated for your share of the spectrum.
Also, by coordinating the spectrum you benefit from it's uses, in much the same way a traffic light significantly improves the utility of a ten-lane intersection.
No, what you want is a well grounded antenna. You could, in a pinch, use your house's earth ground (or even the water pipes), since you won't be transmitting, but obviously the best option is drive a copper bar into the ground.
Directional antennas have their uses, but unless they're steerable (or all of the digital transmitters in your area are co-located), they're not really appropriate for channel flipping.
After. TVs improve a lot like computers do, now, and five or six months, while not an eternity, is still quite long.
But you can *always* play that game. If you want a TV now get one now (if you can afford it). OTA digital has already started broadcast in most markets, the picture is much better, you'll probably get more channels, and a few of them will be HD, even.
But.. The whole point is to test the model, and the models change, don't they? Surely we're not just simulating more "years" of climate with the current batch, but improving resolution, making fewer simplifying assumptions, and hopefully, finding ways to do the exact same operations with fewer cycles.
How can you possibly evaluate supercomputers in any other way except how many mathematical operations can be performed in some reference time? And.. some serial metric if the math is highly parallel, since just reducing the size of vectors in those cases wouldn't actually result in those flops being useful for other tasks.
It's kind of poetic, though. Palm destroyed the Newton by being just stripped down enough to actually do a few things very well. Blackberry supplanted Palm PDAs (though not without a fight. They bought Handspring to get the Treo) by stripping things off and including pager-like functionality.
But RIM's vast array of tiny keys is a really poor interface, and only really caught on because of deficiencies in palm's implementation.
So, it kind of makes sense that they in turn will be supplanted by a device with more functionality, similar size, and better interface. It's possible the people who came up with their basic concept, no longer needed by RIM, were encouraged to move on.
Which brings me to why I don't like the Instinct, or android, or any of the other iPhone "killers.." A tiny physical keyboard.. really? That seriously can't be done entirely in software by now?
To clarify: by "with auction widgets" I meant to say a variety of page templates for postings, some of which offer auction-like functionality, for items whose rarity makes valuation difficult, or sellers who like blink tags.
eBay's strength isn't it's auction functionality. That bit is just a gimmick to addict a few people.
eBay's real strength is it's categorization. Although far from perfect, it is better than any other classified ad site on the market. Probably because the other classified sites don't realize what market they're really in. They think they're in the buggy whip and wagon wheel business, So it's no surprise that the car manufacturer is eating their lunches.
But mark, the market likes to relax to the point where goods' prices are close to their marginal cost. And eBay's scheme of skimming off the top is the kind of inefficiency that can last only so long as they can keep a stranglehold on their monopoly.
The eBay killer is not another auction site. It's a classified ad site with auction widgets and a database with lots of things to filter on. One that encourages listers to properly and correctly classify their offerings, and charges based on bandwidth, CPU, and storage space, rather than final selling price.
The issue of the privacy of webmail is really quite separate from what the cracker did, except that it is an additional vector by which your "right" to privacy can be easily violated.
These services are not secure and don't offer much, if any technical privacy. You're left with legal recourse after the fact. But then, of course, it's too late, the genie's out of the bottle. Palin can't secure her old email no matter how harsh the penalty is.
My tongue-in-cheek suggestion that we might be better off if no punishment is given was to counter the phenomenon whereby once the kid is punished, people will think, "that's the end of it, now email is safe again." When all that'll really have happened is that in one high-profile case, the perpetrator will have not-quite-gotten-away-with-it.
I read though the emails... ALL OF THEM... before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor.... And pictures of her family
(emph. mine)
Now, where's your evidence that Obama doesn't use his private email to avoid FOIA scrutiny?
Considering how in his "confession" he went in to try to find information to "ruin" her, and that he disseminated her children's private photos, phone numbers and email addresses, I hope she goes for blood...
That's... actually a pretty good point. I was only thinking of the "irresponsible, immature not-quite-adult does something that's a lot worse than he thought it would be" part.
Ok, I'm already feeling a little too liberal for today, but.. why should a high school student get sent to PMITA prison because of possession of a little controlled substance?
For adults, that have full faculties (or ought to) I can understand, and a college student is certainly old enough to be such an adult (but the way colleges are setup, unlikely to actually have started displaying the responsible behavior one would expect.
But we really ought to be careful how much "book throwing" we do to minors. Prison, in most cases, is probably not the desirable action. Transportation is.
But frankly, I think it is Palin's choice of whether or not to pursue any action, and I hope she is more magnanimous than most people would be. At least then, the Democrats won't have any way to make hay over it.
So, you're saying that, because Obama doesn't use private email for government work, you'd definitely be OK with someone "hacking" Obama's private email and posting it to the world?
If he's a student, I hope Palin opts not to press charges, or pushes for a slap-on-the-wrist. Some kind of punishment that will sting, but won't be career ending.
Regardless of the politics involved, if there's no charges then any online email service is essentially useless for private communication.
No, they are *already* useless for private communication. Email is sent in plaintext across networks, and regardless of prosecution, the attack vector used here is a pretty easy one. If your email is unencrypted, or you're using easily looked-up information as passwords or recovery questions, then it's not private. period.
It would almost be better not to prosecute at all, if it has the effect of making people aware of, and take precautions against, the complete lack of privacy already extant.
Although in this clock, there is a bank of hundreds of bright blue LEDs, all on the whole time, of which only about four have a purpose at any given time.
"Only consumes 60W." But the thing is, for the amount of actual illumination you get, that's actually disgracefully wasteful.
In fact, you can say "fire" in a crowded theater, especially if there actually is one. But even if there isn't, you can't be arrested for saying it. Although you do assume some liability for any damages that might result, which even if no one is injured will probably amount to thousands of dollars in re-issued tickets (it was a *crowded* theater, after all).
Ah yes, the ol' solar concentrator trick. Sort of like how "human bioelectricity combined with a new form of fusion" is more efficient than the human-power alone.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought so once, too, but the just-a-phones are out, and cheap. As it turns out, I like the cameras and multimedia, text messaging, web, and gps features.
Although.. every phone should have gps, since they've all got it built-in anyway so the carriers don't have to put any effort into triangulating.
Indeed. Also, who thought it was a good idea for the exit sequence to be "colon queue bang."
That's for two (or more) bands on the same feedline. The problem here is that he's trying to improve reception of specific frequencies in the same band.
Be careful how you place them, though. You could easily end up with an array that cancels in the preferred direction rather than adds if you're careless.
But, IMO rather stupidly, For some reason, they mostly seem broadcast these PSAs on the digital streams, where, if you can see it, you've obviously already got the necessary equipment.
You haven't "broken the accepted ritual." All you've done is blustered about breaking the accepted ritual. Which is something entirely different.
If you can't peacefully not watch TV on your own, then maye you shouldn't not watch TV at all.
Money is fungible. All of the money gained does come back to us: it goes into the general fund, offsetting the need for taxation to support government services. The utility of those services notwithstanding, that is the method by which you are compensated for your share of the spectrum.
Also, by coordinating the spectrum you benefit from it's uses, in much the same way a traffic light significantly improves the utility of a ten-lane intersection.
No, what you want is a well grounded antenna. You could, in a pinch, use your house's earth ground (or even the water pipes), since you won't be transmitting, but obviously the best option is drive a copper bar into the ground.
Directional antennas have their uses, but unless they're steerable (or all of the digital transmitters in your area are co-located), they're not really appropriate for channel flipping.
After. TVs improve a lot like computers do, now, and five or six months, while not an eternity, is still quite long.
But you can *always* play that game. If you want a TV now get one now (if you can afford it). OTA digital has already started broadcast in most markets, the picture is much better, you'll probably get more channels, and a few of them will be HD, even.
But.. The whole point is to test the model, and the models change, don't they? Surely we're not just simulating more "years" of climate with the current batch, but improving resolution, making fewer simplifying assumptions, and hopefully, finding ways to do the exact same operations with fewer cycles.
How can you possibly evaluate supercomputers in any other way except how many mathematical operations can be performed in some reference time? And.. some serial metric if the math is highly parallel, since just reducing the size of vectors in those cases wouldn't actually result in those flops being useful for other tasks.
It's kind of poetic, though. Palm destroyed the Newton by being just stripped down enough to actually do a few things very well. Blackberry supplanted Palm PDAs (though not without a fight. They bought Handspring to get the Treo) by stripping things off and including pager-like functionality.
But RIM's vast array of tiny keys is a really poor interface, and only really caught on because of deficiencies in palm's implementation.
So, it kind of makes sense that they in turn will be supplanted by a device with more functionality, similar size, and better interface. It's possible the people who came up with their basic concept, no longer needed by RIM, were encouraged to move on.
Which brings me to why I don't like the Instinct, or android, or any of the other iPhone "killers.." A tiny physical keyboard.. really? That seriously can't be done entirely in software by now?
#s 1,2, and 3 as of June of this year according to http://www.top500.org/list/2008/06/100 [top500.org]
To clarify: by "with auction widgets" I meant to say a variety of page templates for postings, some of which offer auction-like functionality, for items whose rarity makes valuation difficult, or sellers who like blink tags.
eBay's strength isn't it's auction functionality. That bit is just a gimmick to addict a few people.
eBay's real strength is it's categorization. Although far from perfect, it is better than any other classified ad site on the market. Probably because the other classified sites don't realize what market they're really in. They think they're in the buggy whip and wagon wheel business, So it's no surprise that the car manufacturer is eating their lunches.
But mark, the market likes to relax to the point where goods' prices are close to their marginal cost. And eBay's scheme of skimming off the top is the kind of inefficiency that can last only so long as they can keep a stranglehold on their monopoly.
The eBay killer is not another auction site. It's a classified ad site with auction widgets and a database with lots of things to filter on. One that encourages listers to properly and correctly classify their offerings, and charges based on bandwidth, CPU, and storage space, rather than final selling price.
Err.. I meant that you should have been modded insightful. jeez, can't a guy lend support from time to time?
Why is this modded funny? What do you think inflation IS, anyway?
The issue of the privacy of webmail is really quite separate from what the cracker did, except that it is an additional vector by which your "right" to privacy can be easily violated.
These services are not secure and don't offer much, if any technical privacy. You're left with legal recourse after the fact. But then, of course, it's too late, the genie's out of the bottle. Palin can't secure her old email no matter how harsh the penalty is.
My tongue-in-cheek suggestion that we might be better off if no punishment is given was to counter the phenomenon whereby once the kid is punished, people will think, "that's the end of it, now email is safe again." When all that'll really have happened is that in one high-profile case, the perpetrator will have not-quite-gotten-away-with-it.
From the horse's mouth:
(emph. mine)
Now, where's your evidence that Obama doesn't use his private email to avoid FOIA scrutiny?
That's... actually a pretty good point. I was only thinking of the "irresponsible, immature not-quite-adult does something that's a lot worse than he thought it would be" part.
Ok, I'm already feeling a little too liberal for today, but.. why should a high school student get sent to PMITA prison because of possession of a little controlled substance?
For adults, that have full faculties (or ought to) I can understand, and a college student is certainly old enough to be such an adult (but the way colleges are setup, unlikely to actually have started displaying the responsible behavior one would expect.
But we really ought to be careful how much "book throwing" we do to minors. Prison, in most cases, is probably not the desirable action. Transportation is.
But frankly, I think it is Palin's choice of whether or not to pursue any action, and I hope she is more magnanimous than most people would be. At least then, the Democrats won't have any way to make hay over it.
So, you're saying that, because Obama doesn't use private email for government work, you'd definitely be OK with someone "hacking" Obama's private email and posting it to the world?
If he's a student, I hope Palin opts not to press charges, or pushes for a slap-on-the-wrist. Some kind of punishment that will sting, but won't be career ending.
No, they are *already* useless for private communication. Email is sent in plaintext across networks, and regardless of prosecution, the attack vector used here is a pretty easy one. If your email is unencrypted, or you're using easily looked-up information as passwords or recovery questions, then it's not private. period.
It would almost be better not to prosecute at all, if it has the effect of making people aware of, and take precautions against, the complete lack of privacy already extant.
Although in this clock, there is a bank of hundreds of bright blue LEDs, all on the whole time, of which only about four have a purpose at any given time.
"Only consumes 60W." But the thing is, for the amount of actual illumination you get, that's actually disgracefully wasteful.
In fact, you can say "fire" in a crowded theater, especially if there actually is one. But even if there isn't, you can't be arrested for saying it. Although you do assume some liability for any damages that might result, which even if no one is injured will probably amount to thousands of dollars in re-issued tickets (it was a *crowded* theater, after all).
Ah yes, the ol' solar concentrator trick. Sort of like how "human bioelectricity combined with a new form of fusion" is more efficient than the human-power alone.