I think you can safely assume that when a Slashdot poster talks about a legal problem, a problem with consumer protection or issues with the health care system, they are either talking about the USA or, perhaps, North Korea.
What a pile of buzzword bingo. Looks as if he's had way too many lattes.
For his next missive, he should toss the Mac Air, switch to decaf and write the entire article in one Twit. That should keep him out of trouble for a bit.
As interfaces get more and more simplistic to suit 4 inch screens people jab at with their thumbs, losers are everybody.
There's been a constant dumbing down of computing devices for at least 20 odd years now, until they actually not general purpose computing devices any more, but mere locked down tools to spy on our every move.
The scary part is that they are still not as dumb as most users. We've a ways to go yet.
Nevertheless most Mac OS users know how to write a shell script... (except for the females, sorry, unfortunately true)
Wait. What? I use OS X all of the time, I know a number of people that are similarly afflicted. Most of them would parse out a 'shell script' as cursive writing on a bivalve. And wonder why in bog's name why you'd want to do that.
Hate to break it to you, but the folks that would want to 'walk around' with their Mac Pros would sneeze at the cost. Those are the people who are dragging around $100,000 Red / Sony / Panasonic / whatever video rigs and assorted (similarly expensive) gizmos. It might even work out better with the trash can's dimensions - easier to stick in a Pelican case. The nice thing about the cheese grater is that the case is so heavy and rugged you don't need much else in the way of protection. But they're damned heavy...
Have you ever priced out professional level Linux video editing and 3D composting software? (Not Blender, as interesting as it is). The kind that major movie production houses use? You can't because you won't find a price on any web site. You call up a sales rep and discuss your potential build. It's one of those things that if you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
Yes, that software is out there. But it is for the big boys and girls who don't give a fig about the costs of a particular workstation since their overhead is mostly professional people and professional video and audio gear whose prices often start in the five figure range. The Apple tax is just chump change.
I see kids at school who need in constant communication with their parents. I see adults at work who need in constants communication with their lovers, thier spouse their kids, and whoever else will make them feel valuable as a person.
I see this as a fairly recent sea change and I'm puzzled by it. We've had to shut down personal cell phone use on the hospital floor by nurses and CNAs because too many of them were spending literally hours talking to family. It became intrusive as they would stop what they were doing to talk to their kid - who they talked to an hour ago. And it's not just one or two people, it's a significant number of staff members.
When you ask them about it, most of them get defensive and say that they really need to keep close track of family and friends 'in case something happens'. Well, major events don't happen very often and the issues that they seem to be arguing over are at the 'who gets to take out the garbage today' level. I guess it's because you CAN keep in molecular contact with people these days. Growing up with just phones (the ones that were physically attached to wall with a wire), we would go hours, perhaps even whole days without knowing were family members and friends were.
I do think it's really an addiction - people get a neurochemical warm and fuzzy and since it's easy to obtain, do it often. Perhaps we should work on cell phones that shock people after a certain number of minutes or texts...
You don't need giant indoor dam, you just need a giant outdoor tank higher than the surrounding region. The problem is, big tanks like that are kinda expensive. Millions of dollars. Pumping it into a natural or man made lake is an option, but not one that is always available. Pumping excess water into a natural lake has environmental issues as well.
150 kHz to roughly 2 GHz does happen to encompass the ham bands. There is a small region around 1.27 MHz where the local oscillator won't lock, but that doesn't jibe with a amateur band (IIRC, too lazy to look it up).
It's not free. It's a low volume device, so it costs a bit (125 GBP). Life is hard.
You know, you could hardly pick a less controversial topic than amateur radio. If you want to get everyone all wound up about your favorite boogyman, at least start off on one of the more irritable subjects we tend to yammer on about. The level of angst here is likely to be too low to channel.
And if you don't have a receiver handy, get a Fun Cube (not to be confused with the Time Cube) and hook it up to you computer with a random wire or dipole antenna.
Na, amateur radio transmissions are some of the most boring conversations known to man (and I am a ham radio operator). No sex, drugs and rock and rock - no eavesdropping. Besides, we're mostly harmless.
Back to the topic. Because the bands are proscribed, ie, there are frequencies that are just CW (and phone or digital or whatever), it would seem an easy job to just record a band for a while to grab some samples. Use a software defined reciever (to allow for easy scripting), work the grey line in your area. Even if your software isn't tuned well yet, I would hazard a guess that it is smart enough to detect CW vs. radio noise. Use that to start and stop the file. You probably don't need WAV, that's sort of overkill for CW. Even cruddy ol MP3 ought to give you more than enough headroom for further processing.
Rich idiots in privileged settings, my foot. Power delivery in India is truly horrible. Yet everyone in India has florescent lamps. They prefer it because it is brighter, is a more natural light than incandescent, is cheaper in the long run and lasts longer. Seeing the prevalence of incandescents in the US was one of my WTF moments, when I first came over.
More natural light? You folks must have different phosphors or something. Your typical florescent lamp in the US makes lighter skinned persons look at ghastly green and darker skinned persons look and even more ghastly brownish - green. Perhaps one gets used to what they grew up with, but the skin color shift is one reason I don't use CFLs at all.
Right. I'm going to keep the receipts of every blasted bulb I buy. Kudos to you if you are that organized - I can barely keep tabs on the big stuff. Even if I kept the receipt the hassle factor would likely kick in and the thing would sit in a box until springtime when the haz mat pickup occurs. Then it would get tossed in that box.
Manufacturers bank on that behavior. I'll bet it works out for them rather well.
Heat pumps aren't a panacea. They break. They're hard to fix. It seems the residential class ones are often constructed poorly. Several friends have them. When they work, they're great. Except all of them have crapped out at one point or another. One non warranty repair goes a long way to offsetting any power costs.
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Struth, this is just getting more and more confusing - what the bloody hell is a church and who is this God fella you reckon you need to thank?
Crikey, Sunday's a day for sink'n tinnies at the footy.
Would you please speak English?
I think you can safely assume that when a Slashdot poster talks about a legal problem, a problem with consumer protection or issues with the health care system, they are either talking about the USA or, perhaps, North Korea.
Wow. All that to explain Twitter of all things?
What a pile of buzzword bingo. Looks as if he's had way too many lattes.
For his next missive, he should toss the Mac Air, switch to decaf and write the entire article in one Twit. That should keep him out of trouble for a bit.
As interfaces get more and more simplistic to suit 4 inch screens people jab at with their thumbs, losers are everybody.
There's been a constant dumbing down of computing devices for at least 20 odd years now, until they actually not general purpose computing devices any more, but mere locked down tools to spy on our every move.
The scary part is that they are still not as dumb as most users. We've a ways to go yet.
We're doomed.
Sure they do, they just don't sell it. They rent it.
Nevertheless most Mac OS users know how to write a shell script ... (except for the females, sorry, unfortunately true)
Wait. What? I use OS X all of the time, I know a number of people that are similarly afflicted. Most of them would parse out a 'shell script' as cursive writing on a bivalve. And wonder why in bog's name why you'd want to do that.
Hate to break it to you, but the folks that would want to 'walk around' with their Mac Pros would sneeze at the cost. Those are the people who are dragging around $100,000 Red / Sony / Panasonic / whatever video rigs and assorted (similarly expensive) gizmos. It might even work out better with the trash can's dimensions - easier to stick in a Pelican case. The nice thing about the cheese grater is that the case is so heavy and rugged you don't need much else in the way of protection. But they're damned heavy...
Have you ever priced out professional level Linux video editing and 3D composting software? (Not Blender, as interesting as it is). The kind that major movie production houses use? You can't because you won't find a price on any web site. You call up a sales rep and discuss your potential build. It's one of those things that if you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
Yes, that software is out there. But it is for the big boys and girls who don't give a fig about the costs of a particular workstation since their overhead is mostly professional people and professional video and audio gear whose prices often start in the five figure range. The Apple tax is just chump change.
You need a dog.
Why don't the geniuses at NYPD just put a pair of cops on post at the location or is that just too easy for these idiots to figure out?
Because they'd get their cell phones stolen. Jeez. Didn't you read the article you posted? It's dangerous out there.
I see kids at school who need in constant communication with their parents. I see adults at work who need in constants communication with their lovers, thier spouse their kids, and whoever else will make them feel valuable as a person.
I see this as a fairly recent sea change and I'm puzzled by it. We've had to shut down personal cell phone use on the hospital floor by nurses and CNAs because too many of them were spending literally hours talking to family. It became intrusive as they would stop what they were doing to talk to their kid - who they talked to an hour ago. And it's not just one or two people, it's a significant number of staff members.
When you ask them about it, most of them get defensive and say that they really need to keep close track of family and friends 'in case something happens'. Well, major events don't happen very often and the issues that they seem to be arguing over are at the 'who gets to take out the garbage today' level. I guess it's because you CAN keep in molecular contact with people these days. Growing up with just phones (the ones that were physically attached to wall with a wire), we would go hours, perhaps even whole days without knowing were family members and friends were.
I do think it's really an addiction - people get a neurochemical warm and fuzzy and since it's easy to obtain, do it often. Perhaps we should work on cell phones that shock people after a certain number of minutes or texts...
Huh. I mostly do satellite stuff (when I'm active at all). Guess I'll have to try the lower bands if I want some excitement....
You don't need giant indoor dam, you just need a giant outdoor tank higher than the surrounding region. The problem is, big tanks like that are kinda expensive. Millions of dollars. Pumping it into a natural or man made lake is an option, but not one that is always available. Pumping excess water into a natural lake has environmental issues as well.
The physics is easy, the engineering isn't.
Probably the best idea yet. Your signal to noise (so to speak) is going to be much higher there than on Slashdot......
150 kHz to roughly 2 GHz does happen to encompass the ham bands. There is a small region around 1.27 MHz where the local oscillator won't lock, but that doesn't jibe with a amateur band (IIRC, too lazy to look it up).
It's not free. It's a low volume device, so it costs a bit (125 GBP). Life is hard.
And people wonder why the aliens haven't made contact.
What are you talking about? Dennis Rodman has been around for a while.
It's a funny son, laugh.
You know, you could hardly pick a less controversial topic than amateur radio. If you want to get everyone all wound up about your favorite boogyman, at least start off on one of the more irritable subjects we tend to yammer on about. The level of angst here is likely to be too low to channel.
Grrr. No editing.
And if you don't have a receiver handy, get a Fun Cube (not to be confused with the Time Cube) and hook it up to you computer with a random wire or dipole antenna.
They like collecting stuff
Na, amateur radio transmissions are some of the most boring conversations known to man (and I am a ham radio operator). No sex, drugs and rock and rock - no eavesdropping. Besides, we're mostly harmless.
Back to the topic. Because the bands are proscribed, ie, there are frequencies that are just CW (and phone or digital or whatever), it would seem an easy job to just record a band for a while to grab some samples. Use a software defined reciever (to allow for easy scripting), work the grey line in your area. Even if your software isn't tuned well yet, I would hazard a guess that it is smart enough to detect CW vs. radio noise. Use that to start and stop the file. You probably don't need WAV, that's sort of overkill for CW. Even cruddy ol MP3 ought to give you more than enough headroom for further processing.
Whatever you do, don't heat them up using a stove.
I'd suggest Caylume sticks. Pretend you're SCUBA diving.
Rich idiots in privileged settings, my foot. Power delivery in India is truly horrible. Yet everyone in India has florescent lamps. They prefer it because it is brighter, is a more natural light than incandescent, is cheaper in the long run and lasts longer. Seeing the prevalence of incandescents in the US was one of my WTF moments, when I first came over.
More natural light? You folks must have different phosphors or something. Your typical florescent lamp in the US makes lighter skinned persons look at ghastly green and darker skinned persons look and even more ghastly brownish - green. Perhaps one gets used to what they grew up with, but the skin color shift is one reason I don't use CFLs at all.
Right. I'm going to keep the receipts of every blasted bulb I buy. Kudos to you if you are that organized - I can barely keep tabs on the big stuff. Even if I kept the receipt the hassle factor would likely kick in and the thing would sit in a box until springtime when the haz mat pickup occurs. Then it would get tossed in that box.
Manufacturers bank on that behavior. I'll bet it works out for them rather well.
Heat pumps aren't a panacea. They break. They're hard to fix. It seems the residential class ones are often constructed poorly. Several friends have them. When they work, they're great. Except all of them have crapped out at one point or another. One non warranty repair goes a long way to offsetting any power costs.
As always, it's Total Cost of Ownership.