I lived in an apt complex in Sunnyvale, CA, and had at any time about 12-18 AP's visible from my apt. I never ordered Internet, I just used theirs. I even went and connected to theirs and adjusted channels to optimize the spread of the channels and got better reception for myself and probably them. My biggest issue as I now realize is wireless phones, and they can disrupt wifi pretty bad. I got a LOT better reception though using a directional USB antennea, until the roaches climbed into it (it was warm, which they apparently like) and shorted it out.
Now, I've moved to NYC, in Harlem, and I **ONLY** get about 3-6 AP's in range, and they are typically more secure in their config then when I lived in Silicon Valley. Go figure. I also have more disruption from across the room using an AP I bought, using an ISP that I'm paying for then I did in CA. Go figure.
I've seen postings about the "i love bees", went to the website while the game was in progress, and still have absolutly no idea about what this was about? Am I the only one?
I would agree with you except for one point: They continued and progressed and made it better and reasonable. As a result, if you have to mark a point at the start of the science of flight, you have to say that was a pivotal moment, no matter if the actual flight itself wasn't exactly the best. It proved the idea, which is what the X-Prize was made to do. Now is when the fun REALLY begins.
All other factors being equal, there is more stress at the equator than at other regions due to spin. As such, for something like this to occur, it would "most likely" happen there, although I won't even guess at the odds of the theory being correct. What 5%? 1%? It's a theory.
Forget the walnut jokes, and the deathstar jokes, a real idea, to be shot down with real science (I hope):
1) Moon form as overall a solid shell, but has a core containing radioactive materials 2) Due to composition, heat builds up faster than it escapes, and builds preasure as the center expands 3) Preasure eventually causes outer solid shell to crack along the equator at the time, molten material flows out, and forms band, and solidifies, never to occur again.
That can't match what we found when we did a search for someone that was applying for a job. We didn't point it out to him for a year (we still hired him), and when we did, he promptly had Google remove it, as it had been posted under his name by an x-gf he had cheated on. I'll leave it to your imagination what it contained, but it was DAMN funny.
As a player of Eve, I have to say, yea, sorta. They apparently have some sort of interface software that behind the scenes divy's up everybody into seperate regions that have their own computing resources. The neat thing is that nobody cares, because it behaves as a single entity.
I think you may be right. The APIC_IO code in Linux I think would automatically downgrade even if selected, but in BSD it didn't. If you happen to have had a dual processor motherboard with a single processor loaded, BSD would work fine, or one with a chipset that could support SMP, but didn't have the socket for it. It's been a while since I had to mess with servers to this level, having moved on to networking.
I know on the older Linux (not sure if it applies today), if you had an SMP kernel, and moved it to a uniprocessor, you had to have an APIC compatible with the SMP configurations for it to work. I accept that I could very well be wrong (as other comments have suggested), although optimization and coding for SMP can and probably will cause performance decreases for uniprocessor machines now matter how you slice it. An algorithem that works very well in a uniprocessor or "monolithic lock" situation could turn out to be crap for an optimized SMP configuration. I'm just talking crap however, as it's been a while since I did much performance work with FreeBSD.
I would assume that FreeBSD has a "default install" as tested that supports at least 2-way SMP, given the focus that has been made in FreeBSD. This compared with NetBSD could make a huge difference, is NetBSD's default install also setup for SMP. It is a known fact that using an SMP compiled kernel on pretty much ANY OS will result in slower performance on a single processor, as the added overhead of locking data structrues will have to occur.
Oh, I agree the "concept" of power over distance as a constant is flawed. Going back to the driving, you can't assume that if you drive 100 miles and get 25 miles to the gallon, that the next 100 miles will also give you 25 miles to the gallon. Same with transmission, it depends on the background noise, etc. All it says is that you WERE able to get 25 miles to the gallon for THIS 100 miles. Nothing else. Same with this guy.
Man, that miles to the gallon is pretty bad too. I mean, if you spread out gas across an area, you would have to measure it square miles to the gallon. I think there are things like directional antennas, reflection off of the ground and atmosphere, etc, that can make it a little less simple than the inverse square law. The idea is how far can you receive a signal of a particular strength. It is a challenge, one used to test technology.
As a comment on the MIME types, a little know issue is that mime types are handled differently if the content is compressed. If you have a.csv file, and it's not compressed, it will be opened by Excel because excel is associated with the.csv extension (ignoring the mime-type). If the content is compressed, then it will honor the mime-type, even if it is text/plain (which a lot of webservers will send for.csv).
The portion of the article you quoted didn't say ANYTHING about charging. Last time I check in IRC, the stuff wasn't being charged for, nor do most peer to peer networks. These groups, I would tend to call "clubs", as people collect it, just to have it. They would never buy it if it costs money, but it's cool to "have" a copy of say, Autodesk, or 3d studio.
From my apt, every time a bus goes by, it seems that there is a new signal that I detect. So it seems that someone is already doing this. I just noticed this today when I left my wireless sniffer online, and came back to find 40 different MAC's recorded. Either this or there is something REALLY strange going on.
The other strange part is that the signal strength I'm getting off of these MAC is enormously large. I'm in the same room as my access point, and I don't get a signal anywhere near as strong from it, and the busses are down three floors and out on the street. I have to wonder if they are even following FCC regs on signal strength, or if they have been "boosted" so they can do whatever they are being used for.
While it doesn't have the best graphics in the world, I find eve (www.eve-online.com) to be a very deep, but fun game to play. I tried a few others, but I'm sticking with this one for now.
Eve, the MMORPG posted a bittorrent link when they updated their client for faster downloads. It WAS faster to download that way too, much much faster. The link is still there: http://www.eve-online.com/patches/patches.asp
I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I've NEVER had an LCD with a dead pixel, from my laptops to my standalone LCD's, they have all had good displays. I'm not sure what the overall % rate is of bad pixels for the industry, it seems the cheaper brands must have a LOT more than the IBM's and Sony's of the world.
Actually, no. She had a list of the e-mail addresses of everybody on the board of realtors mailing list, and used that. And from your example, even the first mailing would have been incorrect, if it was an ad, be it a "friend" list or not, should she have sent it?
There is a fine line between spam and unsolicited commercial e-mail. Spam won't be targeted to a particular group of people that may actually WANT to see the contents, it's just a shotgun. It won't provide contact information for the business behind it, and it won't provide a means of being removed that will actually work. An example of UCE that makes some sense is for one realtor to provide to other realtors in their region with new listing sheets, because it can help BOTH parties, even if one didn't ask for it. My mom does this (she is a realtor) and had one realtor complain about it. About a month later, that realtor lost a sale because she didn't get the later e-mails. She asked to get them from then on. This is NOT saying all companies should do this, it is a VERY specefic case where both parties can actually benefit from the information provided, but would still be considered "spam".
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I lived in an apt complex in Sunnyvale, CA, and had at any time about 12-18 AP's visible from my apt. I never ordered Internet, I just used theirs. I even went and connected to theirs and adjusted channels to optimize the spread of the channels and got better reception for myself and probably them. My biggest issue as I now realize is wireless phones, and they can disrupt wifi pretty bad. I got a LOT better reception though using a directional USB antennea, until the roaches climbed into it (it was warm, which they apparently like) and shorted it out.
Now, I've moved to NYC, in Harlem, and I **ONLY** get about 3-6 AP's in range, and they are typically more secure in their config then when I lived in Silicon Valley. Go figure. I also have more disruption from across the room using an AP I bought, using an ISP that I'm paying for then I did in CA. Go figure.
I've seen postings about the "i love bees", went to the website while the game was in progress, and still have absolutly no idea about what this was about? Am I the only one?
I would agree with you except for one point: They continued and progressed and made it better and reasonable. As a result, if you have to mark a point at the start of the science of flight, you have to say that was a pivotal moment, no matter if the actual flight itself wasn't exactly the best. It proved the idea, which is what the X-Prize was made to do. Now is when the fun REALLY begins.
All other factors being equal, there is more stress at the equator than at other regions due to spin. As such, for something like this to occur, it would "most likely" happen there, although I won't even guess at the odds of the theory being correct. What 5%? 1%? It's a theory.
Forget the walnut jokes, and the deathstar jokes, a real idea, to be shot down with real science (I hope):
1) Moon form as overall a solid shell, but has a core containing radioactive materials
2) Due to composition, heat builds up faster than it escapes, and builds preasure as the center expands
3) Preasure eventually causes outer solid shell to crack along the equator at the time, molten material flows out, and forms band, and solidifies, never to occur again.
Thoughts?
That can't match what we found when we did a search for someone that was applying for a job. We didn't point it out to him for a year (we still hired him), and when we did, he promptly had Google remove it, as it had been posted under his name by an x-gf he had cheated on. I'll leave it to your imagination what it contained, but it was DAMN funny.
As a player of Eve, I have to say, yea, sorta. They apparently have some sort of interface software that behind the scenes divy's up everybody into seperate regions that have their own computing resources. The neat thing is that nobody cares, because it behaves as a single entity.
I think you may be right. The APIC_IO code in Linux I think would automatically downgrade even if selected, but in BSD it didn't. If you happen to have had a dual processor motherboard with a single processor loaded, BSD would work fine, or one with a chipset that could support SMP, but didn't have the socket for it. It's been a while since I had to mess with servers to this level, having moved on to networking.
I know on the older Linux (not sure if it applies today), if you had an SMP kernel, and moved it to a uniprocessor, you had to have an APIC compatible with the SMP configurations for it to work. I accept that I could very well be wrong (as other comments have suggested), although optimization and coding for SMP can and probably will cause performance decreases for uniprocessor machines now matter how you slice it. An algorithem that works very well in a uniprocessor or "monolithic lock" situation could turn out to be crap for an optimized SMP configuration. I'm just talking crap however, as it's been a while since I did much performance work with FreeBSD.
I would assume that FreeBSD has a "default install" as tested that supports at least 2-way SMP, given the focus that has been made in FreeBSD. This compared with NetBSD could make a huge difference, is NetBSD's default install also setup for SMP. It is a known fact that using an SMP compiled kernel on pretty much ANY OS will result in slower performance on a single processor, as the added overhead of locking data structrues will have to occur.
Oh, I agree the "concept" of power over distance as a constant is flawed. Going back to the driving, you can't assume that if you drive 100 miles and get 25 miles to the gallon, that the next 100 miles will also give you 25 miles to the gallon. Same with transmission, it depends on the background noise, etc. All it says is that you WERE able to get 25 miles to the gallon for THIS 100 miles. Nothing else. Same with this guy.
Man, that miles to the gallon is pretty bad too. I mean, if you spread out gas across an area, you would have to measure it square miles to the gallon. I think there are things like directional antennas, reflection off of the ground and atmosphere, etc, that can make it a little less simple than the inverse square law. The idea is how far can you receive a signal of a particular strength. It is a challenge, one used to test technology.
As a comment on the MIME types, a little know issue is that mime types are handled differently if the content is compressed. If you have a .csv file, and it's not compressed, it will be opened by Excel because excel is associated with the .csv extension (ignoring the mime-type). If the content is compressed, then it will honor the mime-type, even if it is text/plain (which a lot of webservers will send for .csv).
The portion of the article you quoted didn't say ANYTHING about charging. Last time I check in IRC, the stuff wasn't being charged for, nor do most peer to peer networks. These groups, I would tend to call "clubs", as people collect it, just to have it. They would never buy it if it costs money, but it's cool to "have" a copy of say, Autodesk, or 3d studio.
And someone didn't follow the link. It was an industrial cutting laser, 3500 watt for over 300k. Probably not a scam.
From my apt, every time a bus goes by, it seems that there is a new signal that I detect. So it seems that someone is already doing this. I just noticed this today when I left my wireless sniffer online, and came back to find 40 different MAC's recorded. Either this or there is something REALLY strange going on.
The other strange part is that the signal strength I'm getting off of these MAC is enormously large. I'm in the same room as my access point, and I don't get a signal anywhere near as strong from it, and the busses are down three floors and out on the street. I have to wonder if they are even following FCC regs on signal strength, or if they have been "boosted" so they can do whatever they are being used for.
While it doesn't have the best graphics in the world, I find eve (www.eve-online.com) to be a very deep, but fun game to play. I tried a few others, but I'm sticking with this one for now.
Eve, the MMORPG posted a bittorrent link when they updated their client for faster downloads. It WAS faster to download that way too, much much faster. The link is still there: http://www.eve-online.com/patches/patches.asp
I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I've NEVER had an LCD with a dead pixel, from my laptops to my standalone LCD's, they have all had good displays. I'm not sure what the overall % rate is of bad pixels for the industry, it seems the cheaper brands must have a LOT more than the IBM's and Sony's of the world.
Actually, no. She had a list of the e-mail addresses of everybody on the board of realtors mailing list, and used that. And from your example, even the first mailing would have been incorrect, if it was an ad, be it a "friend" list or not, should she have sent it?
There is a fine line between spam and unsolicited commercial e-mail. Spam won't be targeted to a particular group of people that may actually WANT to see the contents, it's just a shotgun. It won't provide contact information for the business behind it, and it won't provide a means of being removed that will actually work. An example of UCE that makes some sense is for one realtor to provide to other realtors in their region with new listing sheets, because it can help BOTH parties, even if one didn't ask for it. My mom does this (she is a realtor) and had one realtor complain about it. About a month later, that realtor lost a sale because she didn't get the later e-mails. She asked to get them from then on. This is NOT saying all companies should do this, it is a VERY specefic case where both parties can actually benefit from the information provided, but would still be considered "spam".
If I had the mod points I did yeterday, you would be moderated up. LOL! The unexpected effects of technology...
Yes, but it WOULD get their interest. The levitation thing would probably be more appropriate for 12 year olds though...
magnetic nailgun using light sensors to turn on/off electromagnets (did this one as a kid, put the nail through a board)
A light sensor based levitation, again, similar idea.
The idea is to make something cool in the end without having to know a whole lot upfront.
You obviously haven't seen the DVD's I have. Some already do this at the start, and keep you from skiping past them. I've seen it on some kids disks.