You could have a look at APRS. Although many APRS projects are intended to work with Amateur Radio equipment, I think it isn't too difficult to adapt some of them to talk to your cellphone, sending and receiving GPS coordinates by SMS or email.
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I've never heard of a USB based GPS; there's no reason it couldn't be done, but there is no reason it needs to be done, at least until RS-232 goes the way of the dinosaur.
Well, there are lots of USB GPS receivers. Google is your friend.
You forget one thing: Some of us use the Net to make our living (i.e. Web design, telecommuting, programming Internet applications) and so being online becomes a necessity. And please spare me the reply that people who work online should earn more than enough to pay for it: that isn't necessarily true (and this is why we're sharing one broadband connection).
...and you tax luxuries (like, say, wi-fi networks) a little higher because the people with them have more money and can afford it.
Speak for yourself, please! My friends and I are running a small but long-haul 4 (soon to be 5) node WISP, and we're not exactly rich. Why are we doing it? To keep the cost of broadband down ofcourse! So this is not luxury but necessity, and I would find taxing this extra a crime. The access-points we use (80-90 Euros, dirt cheap according to Dutch standards) Asus WL-500g's that are very hackable (penguin inside). Remarking on a post further up: almost everything here from buying a TV to having a plumber fix your leaking faucet carries a 19% sales tax, so don't start complaining yet, there's people worse off than you...
Let's try my take at things. (It isn't wrong to bet, as long as someone doesn't bet something they can't afford to lose, their life, for example...)
Take a 'slightly modified' Achilles-Tortoise race. You are Achilles, Tortoise is the apparent event horizon. The finish is the center of the black hole. Tortoise gets a headstart from position A closer to the center (meaning you are outside of the event horizon).
You both start running. By the time you have reached position A, Tortoise will have reached position B ahead of you (the spherical representing the event-horizon will have shrunk to a smaller one containing point B), By the time you reach point B, Tortoise is already at point C even closer to the center (the event horizon will have shrunk to a spherical containing point C), and so on. You will never overtake Tortoise (i.e. cross the event horizon).
To an external observer, you will appear to slow down more and more. By the end you reach some point near the center of the black hole, to an external observer (if there are still any around) you will 'emerge' in whatever crumpled state you're in (radiation, perhaps) at that moment, from a black hole that's been busy evaporating for gazillions of eons since you started (assuming the black hole is a big one). Also, I suspect that the later you start your race, the later you will end up in the evaporation phase of the black hole (but maybe never at the very end).
Just my few Altairian dollarcents (mod me 'Insane' if you can find it in the listbox or manage to hack Slashcode to do it)
Erhm, I guess it gets even hairier than this (seen any bisons lately?)
They can use a GPLed tool to add the tags, as long as the binary is not the tool itself. (cf. compiling a GPLed app with a non-GPLed compiler).
Another possibility: they can tweak the creation dates of the files in the flash filesystem using a watermarking tool and we'd probably never know about it...
And I don't want to spend $50 a ticket to watch a team of scientists working in a stadium
I would gladly pay ten times that amount if I can be sure that by the end of the second half one of them has come up with a cure for cancer...
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I just hope that blasting pr0n radio at other star systems hasn't damaged future diplomatic relations with the ET's over there. Perhaps they will appreciate it as art or consider it as yet another example of interstellar spam.
Excuse me, but what exactly makes you believe this? The mere fact that most people here (try to) write in English doesn't imply that they all live in the USA. The slogan is 'News for nerds...', not just American nerds.
I know dozens of HIV(+) individuals. None of them I would call "struggling". They have an illness, and they treat it. They have an illness, and they treat it.
Just think about the thousands of HIV(+) people in Africa and Asia who simply cannot afford treatment, no matter how effective it could be for them.
...is not to have the money to buy them. And I don't mean spending too much money on other things, but rather not earning enough money to buy too many games in the first place. P.S. This helps for storage problems of all kinds of material things, even food (whether stored inside or outside of your body). Don't economize too much on the food, though.
Well, there already is a site which does just that. The spacing between point coordinates is currently one degree. which is still too coarse for a detailed map. Also, many points haven't been visited and documented yet. Volunteers are welcome!
10. You want to cast a blank vote. How? To cast a blank vote push the blank button to the left of the display. Next push the red voting button. You have now cast a blank vote.
Incidentally, the software that does the postprocessing of votes, part of the ISS system by Nedap, appears to run on Windows (note the error message window, only in the Dutch 'Veel gestelde vragen' section)... Argh!
... the FSF controls the name resolution system (via glibc)
A lot of free *nix-like OSses are doing name resolution quite well without glibc, thank you very much...
Actually, I'm quite certain that the glibc folks borrowed quite a few ideas from 4.3BSD or thereabouts. See also the resolv.conf man page.
How long does it take you people to get this into your heads: INTERNET != USA !
Just look how many letters these words share with 'international' - internet: 6 (in fact all letters if you double-count 'e' and 't') - usa: 1
Ok, ok, so internet means inter-network network but I guess the message is clear: we own the internet together, all of us. Yes, even the guy with the archaic 9600bps modem owns a piece of it: all of say 3 feet of telephone cable, a modem and some rusty old box, as long as that box is a functioning network node...
To say that some country owns the Internet because it has some BFG's (entry #8) is to totally ignore the time and effort that thousands of people from hundreds of countries, like scientists, Ham radio operators, BBS sysops, tech companies and whoever else, put in to make the 'net what it is today.
To summarize: $ cat parent_post | grep -e "s/Score: 1/Score: -inf: Troll/" # Note to self: Stop feeding them...
They will release it outside the US when they can iron out the copyright laws in the EU and such.
Yeah, and that will happen _Real_Soon_Now_ <grin>, i.e. the next time hell freezes over...
Which it will eventually, after the EU has squeezed us for all but the very last drop of money, to coagulate in the coffers of our corrupt broadcast-media-toting European members of parliament...
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That was my idea, you insensitive clod!
Why, a front or rear wheel fired rim-mounted shuriken blade, of course! (inconspicuously concealed in the design of the rims)
I, for one, welcome our new Autobot Overlords!
You could have a look at APRS. Although many APRS projects are intended to work with Amateur Radio equipment, I think it isn't too difficult to adapt some of them to talk to your cellphone, sending and receiving GPS coordinates by SMS or email.
You forget one thing: Some of us use the Net to make our living (i.e. Web design, telecommuting, programming Internet applications) and so being online becomes a necessity. And please spare me the reply that people who work online should earn more than enough to pay for it: that isn't necessarily true (and this is why we're sharing one broadband connection).
My friends and I are running a small but long-haul 4 (soon to be 5) node WISP, and we're not exactly rich.
Why are we doing it? To keep the cost of broadband down ofcourse! So this is not luxury but necessity, and I would find taxing this extra a crime. The access-points we use (80-90 Euros, dirt cheap according to Dutch standards) Asus WL-500g's that are very hackable (penguin inside).
Remarking on a post further up: almost everything here from buying a TV to having a plumber fix your leaking faucet carries a 19% sales tax, so don't start complaining yet, there's people worse off than you...
Let's try my take at things. (It isn't wrong to bet, as long as someone doesn't bet something they can't afford to lose, their life, for example...)
Take a 'slightly modified' Achilles-Tortoise race.
You are Achilles, Tortoise is the apparent event horizon. The finish is the center of the black hole. Tortoise gets a headstart from position A closer to the center (meaning you are outside of the event horizon).
You both start running. By the time you have reached position A, Tortoise will have reached position B ahead of you (the spherical representing the event-horizon will have shrunk to a smaller one containing point B), By the time you reach point B, Tortoise is already at point C even closer to the center (the event horizon will have shrunk to a spherical containing point C), and so on. You will never overtake Tortoise (i.e. cross the event horizon).
To an external observer, you will appear to slow down more and more. By the end you reach some point near the center of the black hole, to an external observer (if there are still any around) you will 'emerge' in whatever crumpled state you're in (radiation, perhaps) at that moment, from a black hole that's been busy evaporating for gazillions of eons since you started (assuming the black hole is a big one).
Also, I suspect that the later you start your race, the later you will end up in the evaporation phase of the black hole (but maybe never at the very end).
Just my few Altairian dollarcents (mod me 'Insane' if you can find it in the listbox or manage to hack Slashcode to do it)
Erhm, I guess it gets even hairier than this (seen any bisons lately?)
They can use a GPLed tool to add the tags, as long as the binary is not the tool itself. (cf. compiling a GPLed app with a non-GPLed compiler).
Another possibility: they can tweak the creation dates of the files in the flash filesystem using a watermarking tool and we'd probably never know about it...
(Sure enough all those levels of entanglement can really make your head spin)
I would gladly pay ten times that amount if I can be sure that by the end of the second half one of them has come up with a cure for cancer...
I just hope that blasting pr0n radio at other star systems hasn't damaged future diplomatic relations with the ET's over there. Perhaps they will appreciate it as art or consider it as yet another example of interstellar spam.
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... since this is a mainly US site, ...
...', not just American nerds.
Excuse me, but what exactly makes you believe this?
The mere fact that most people here (try to) write in English doesn't imply that they all live in the USA.
The slogan is 'News for nerds
I know dozens of HIV(+) individuals. None of them I would call "struggling". They have an illness, and they treat it. They have an illness, and they treat it.
Just think about the thousands of HIV(+) people in Africa and Asia who simply cannot afford treatment, no matter how effective it could be for them.
...is not to have the money to buy them. And I don't mean spending too much money on other things, but rather not earning enough money to buy too many games in the first place.
P.S. This helps for storage problems of all kinds of material things, even food (whether stored inside or outside of your body). Don't economize too much on the food, though.
Well, there already is a site which does just that. The spacing between point coordinates is currently one degree. which is still too coarse for a detailed map. Also, many points haven't been visited and documented yet. Volunteers are welcome!
But there is NEVER a reason to shut down a Windows XP computer (if you're not installing anything or changing settings).
There is ALWAYS at least one reason to shut down ANY computer: to save energy when you don't use it!
Well, congratulations! You've just used it
At 5'19'' == 6'7'' you could probably make it as a forward, height-wise.
Bzzt, wrong. (pun intended)
Translated from the voting machine user instructions by the Leiden town council:
Incidentally, the software that does the postprocessing of votes, part of the ISS system by Nedap, appears to run on Windows (note the error message window, only in the Dutch 'Veel gestelde vragen' section)... Argh!
A lot of free *nix-like OSses are doing name resolution quite well without glibc, thank you very much...
Actually, I'm quite certain that the glibc folks borrowed quite a few ideas from 4.3BSD or thereabouts. See also the resolv.conf man page.
$ cat parent_post | sed -e "s/grep/sed/"
How long does it take you people to get this into your heads: INTERNET != USA !
Just look how many letters these words share with 'international'
- internet: 6 (in fact all letters if you double-count 'e' and 't')
- usa: 1
Ok, ok, so internet means inter-network network but I guess the message is clear: we own the internet together, all of us. Yes, even the guy with the archaic 9600bps modem owns a piece of it: all of say 3 feet of telephone cable, a modem and some rusty old box, as long as that box is a functioning network node...
To say that some country owns the Internet because it has some BFG's (entry #8) is to totally ignore the time and effort that thousands of people from hundreds of countries, like scientists, Ham radio operators, BBS sysops, tech companies and whoever else, put in to make the 'net what it is today.
To summarize:
$ cat parent_post | grep -e "s/Score: 1/Score: -inf: Troll/" # Note to self: Stop feeding them...
Yeah, and that will happen _Real_Soon_Now_ <grin>, i.e. the next time hell freezes over...
Which it will eventually, after the EU has squeezed us for all but the very last drop of money, to coagulate in the coffers of our corrupt broadcast-media-toting European members of parliament...
In Soviet Russia, gigabytes store YOU!