All this "unlicensed transmitter" stuff which says basically if the thing doesn't work it's not the manufacturer's fault and it's not the FCC's fault, is nonsense.
Yep, its not going to cost anything to allocate a few Khz in the UHF band for low power remote controls. As far as I know that is how it works here in.au
The USA had this kind of thing (lots of cars, garages, urban sprawl, etc) a couple of decades before the rest of the world and it occures to me that exceptions may have been made early on for transmitters which couldn't be easily built to use a tight spectrum, and that you are paying for that execption now.
I think they got distracted by Janet Jackson's nipple
Unless these ATMs hand out 10 bucks (or equivalent) per press the user will still have to understand what they are reading on the screen. I accept that many Indians may not be able to write a letter but surely memorising a four digit PIN is not so hard?
Firefox has been blocking popups from slash for me lately. Not often, but enough to piss me off. I assume that the site owner has a contract which limits the type of advertising which can be pushed on the user, but that this would require the site operator to keep an eye on things.
When I was young I was an avid reader of Electronics Australia magazine. One month their parent company put a tobacco advertisment on the back page. This spot was normally occupied by stereo gear, etc. The community reacted strongly but the owners probably never got it. Other magazine buyers had no problem with that, so what is wrong with these engineers?
I am sick to death of this idea that the rest of us have absolutely no clue and we need some enlightened saviour (read: cult leader) to lead us out of utter darkness.
Most of the people in the world don't have the freedoms which you and I take for granted. Information technology is the ideal instrument of totalitarianism because of the way you can lock it away from prying eyes. RMS can see that we are so dependant on the internals of VLSI chips made by a few huge companies. Users don't have control over that and its a battle to keep open interfaces at the software level.
Last I heard the XBOX 360 was selling pretty well.
Ramps built into buildings for wheelchairs make it easier to get heavy gear in and out. Braile on ATM keyboards and lift buttons make it easier to distinguish between keys. Audio-tactile devices on pedestrian crossings provide a better UI for people regardless of whether they can see or not.
Trust me. US currency will be better for everybody if it accomodates blind people.
The US doesnt get war weary quickly, if it thinks the war is just
I will go out on a limb here and suggest that if the US does get involved in another world war then the war will last about five years and will end when the US makes a major breakthrough in science or engineering and turns it into a weapon.
Half the countries in the world can't fight a war without being attacked from within by their own minority groups. Most of the others (eg, the UK) are too small by todays standards to be able to safely invest in R&D while in conflict.
The result of WW2 was fixed when Hitler kicked out all those jewish physicists who then went to work on nuclear weapons. The ethnic diversity and political stability of the US meant that they would win in the end.
Although I've never used it I would have to say this site was the real Plays for Sure of the music world. It's a shame the record companies did not embrace this model as a lot of people would be willing to pay iTunes prices for DRM-free audio in a choice of formats.
I just bought three tracks with my last 48 cents of balance. For the $10 I put in I got a lot of music and I would start buying at a higher price iff I can get it in high bit rate ogg. I have e-books in PDF as well and I don't walk around the office offering copies of the stuff I have bought to other people. Quite frankly I can't be stuffed. They can get it themselves.
I am sure that something else will pop up. Wait and see.
I've had a Hyundai ImageQuest L70A monitor personally that had a burnt in Start menu that would never go away
That is strange. My experience is with large barco and NTT monitors intended for ATC applications. I haven't previously heard of monitors permanently burning in.
It's to be expected, durning the holidays people have more time on their hands
I wouldn't be surprised if its a bit flatter here in.au because once you get Christmas out of the way you just want to go to the beach for a week or five. Only in the northern hemisphere will you want to huddle inside with your new Wii, or whatever.
just about the saddest goddamned thing I've ever read on slashdot. The thought of becoming an arthritis-ridden man who can't play video games is just... shocking. *sigh* I am so jumping into an active volcano when I start to get frail...
I'm 41 and I know that if I agree that 44 is old then I will be paying for it in three years time. The fact is that this has little to do with age. I am in better shape than I was when I was 20 and I plan to be in better condition by 60.
The poster may have an overuse injury or an illness which could strike at literally any age. In my case I worked around my hand problems by changing to a left handed mouse when I was ~30. It did wonders for me. I have met people who use age as an excuse not to engineer around their problems, because then you can't do anything about it.
I want to be shot dead at the age of 100 by a jealous husband - Robert Anson Heinlein
the US will still be relying on Russian technology when it comes to space.
Only because it is cheap and convenient to do so. There is nothing supplied by the Russians which the US could not develop if the need was there. And they would do a better job to, at 10 times the price.
And according to this article, my brain picks up data as it goes thru my thin skull... So here's the question: Will Ubuntu run on my brain?
There was this thing in Wired about people inserting magnets under the skin of a finger to make them sensitive to magnetic fields. I suppose you could do the same with any part of the body which is especially sensitive to pressure but the bandwidth wouldn't be anything to write home about.
How about magnetite embeded in the inner ear? You could probably work out when the big transfers were happening.
In a purely technical point of view, what's the difference between being allowed to break the lock on your cell phone to enjoy its use to the fullest extent, and say, breaking the lock on your music to use it to its fullest extent? After all, you still paid for both.
I might buy a phone for $1 and pay it off over 24 months. If I break the lock I am not paying for the phone. If I buy a CD of music the supplier doesn't lose anything if I shift it to a different format.
But the Faget Shuttle would have to do some kind of Alley Oop maneuver at subsonic speed to transition from a full stall pancake attitude to proper flight on those straight wings, and there was some concern about doing that stall recovery safely.
I don't see why, when you have all the speed and altitude in the world. Maybe it was a stability thing in the stalled mode. Smaller vortexes around the short-cord wings will give you more buffet and increase RCS fuel consumption.
Perhaps the only new thing under the sun for reentry (although not an orbital reentry) was the Rutans' "shuttle cock" folding tail where they reentered with a stable, high drag configuration and then straightened the tail for atmospheric flight and landing
I don't think any body has tried the plug-nozzle powered heat shield. You could take out the parachutes as well and do one thing (the engine) very well.
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Yep, its not going to cost anything to allocate a few Khz in the UHF band for low power remote controls. As far as I know that is how it works here in .au
The USA had this kind of thing (lots of cars, garages, urban sprawl, etc) a couple of decades before the rest of the world and it occures to me that exceptions may have been made early on for transmitters which couldn't be easily built to use a tight spectrum, and that you are paying for that execption now.
Who wouldn't :)
Unless these ATMs hand out 10 bucks (or equivalent) per press the user will still have to understand what they are reading on the screen. I accept that many Indians may not be able to write a letter but surely memorising a four digit PIN is not so hard?
of illiterate Indians?
The prevailing winds where I live tend to switch during the day so more often than not I get a tail wind both ways.
Firefox has been blocking popups from slash for me lately. Not often, but enough to piss me off. I assume that the site owner has a contract which limits the type of advertising which can be pushed on the user, but that this would require the site operator to keep an eye on things.
When I was young I was an avid reader of Electronics Australia magazine. One month their parent company put a tobacco advertisment on the back page. This spot was normally occupied by stereo gear, etc. The community reacted strongly but the owners probably never got it. Other magazine buyers had no problem with that, so what is wrong with these engineers?
Most of the people in the world don't have the freedoms which you and I take for granted. Information technology is the ideal instrument of totalitarianism because of the way you can lock it away from prying eyes. RMS can see that we are so dependant on the internals of VLSI chips made by a few huge companies. Users don't have control over that and its a battle to keep open interfaces at the software level.
Last I heard the XBOX 360 was selling pretty well.
Being a DEC product it probably had something like RSX inside. It will only crash if a device fails. But a good UI is way too much to expect.
LOL.
As it stands they won't be able to keep up with the crooks without some reengineering. But they are doing that, aren't they?
Ramps built into buildings for wheelchairs make it easier to get heavy gear in and out. Braile on ATM keyboards and lift buttons make it easier to distinguish between keys. Audio-tactile devices on pedestrian crossings provide a better UI for people regardless of whether they can see or not.
Trust me. US currency will be better for everybody if it accomodates blind people.
I will go out on a limb here and suggest that if the US does get involved in another world war then the war will last about five years and will end when the US makes a major breakthrough in science or engineering and turns it into a weapon.
Half the countries in the world can't fight a war without being attacked from within by their own minority groups. Most of the others (eg, the UK) are too small by todays standards to be able to safely invest in R&D while in conflict.
The result of WW2 was fixed when Hitler kicked out all those jewish physicists who then went to work on nuclear weapons. The ethnic diversity and political stability of the US meant that they would win in the end.
They must use write only memory
I just bought three tracks with my last 48 cents of balance. For the $10 I put in I got a lot of music and I would start buying at a higher price iff I can get it in high bit rate ogg. I have e-books in PDF as well and I don't walk around the office offering copies of the stuff I have bought to other people. Quite frankly I can't be stuffed. They can get it themselves.
I am sure that something else will pop up. Wait and see.
In a head to head fight that is absolutely true. USA vs The Rest Of the World would still see the US winning by a factor of 10 to one.
The problem is that the enemy knows that now, and hides behind civilians.
That is strange. My experience is with large barco and NTT monitors intended for ATC applications. I haven't previously heard of monitors permanently burning in.
A couple of days ago the targeted advert on /. was advertising slashdot.org
I wouldn't be surprised if its a bit flatter here in .au because once you get Christmas out of the way you just want to go to the beach for a week or five. Only in the northern hemisphere will you want to huddle inside with your new Wii, or whatever.
LCD monitors do get imprinted but the image is lost when power is cycled. Perhaps you should switch the monitor off when booting into ubuntu.
Better than spending a year dead for tax reasons.
I'm 41 and I know that if I agree that 44 is old then I will be paying for it in three years time. The fact is that this has little to do with age. I am in better shape than I was when I was 20 and I plan to be in better condition by 60.
The poster may have an overuse injury or an illness which could strike at literally any age. In my case I worked around my hand problems by changing to a left handed mouse when I was ~30. It did wonders for me. I have met people who use age as an excuse not to engineer around their problems, because then you can't do anything about it.
I want to be shot dead at the age of 100 by a jealous husband - Robert Anson Heinlein
Only because it is cheap and convenient to do so. There is nothing supplied by the Russians which the US could not develop if the need was there. And they would do a better job to, at 10 times the price.
There was this thing in Wired about people inserting magnets under the skin of a finger to make them sensitive to magnetic fields. I suppose you could do the same with any part of the body which is especially sensitive to pressure but the bandwidth wouldn't be anything to write home about.
How about magnetite embeded in the inner ear? You could probably work out when the big transfers were happening.
Not to mention kilowatts of infrared radiation.
More to the point, is he paranoid enough?
I might buy a phone for $1 and pay it off over 24 months. If I break the lock I am not paying for the phone. If I buy a CD of music the supplier doesn't lose anything if I shift it to a different format.
I don't see why, when you have all the speed and altitude in the world. Maybe it was a stability thing in the stalled mode. Smaller vortexes around the short-cord wings will give you more buffet and increase RCS fuel consumption.
I don't think any body has tried the plug-nozzle powered heat shield. You could take out the parachutes as well and do one thing (the engine) very well.