4. You don't need cable to watch TV, there's these things called rabbit ears that have worked for years.
Not where I live. Olympic Mountains to the West and the Cascades to the East. Even with a moderately priced directional rooftop antenna multipath is too much of a problem here. Any OTA broadcasts are simply unviewable. I'm sure this isn't the only area with multipath problems.
ID cards are available for people who do not drive. In the past they were primarily used for things like writing checks, but today they are used to prove your identity when you get a job.
So if I haven't stolen anything, have refuse to be detained, and am physically restrained as a result and fear significant bodily harm, can I use deadly force (a pistol) to defend myself? Not that I would, but it brings up an interesting question for individuals who carry.
As an amateur radio operator (HF through microwave) I feel symptoms of "anxiety, nausea and tiredness" when I'm *not* near a keyed down transmitter. In particular, the tiredness tends to go away during contest weekends when I receive most of my exposure. For some reason, more transmitters, more power, bigger towers and antennas make me feel much *better*!
Exactly how far will ethernet efficiently scale? As I understand it there were problems with 1Gbp/s as first planned leading to jumbo frames, and ethernet isn't (wasn't) that efficient a protocol.
Are there any other serious contenders which could/should be examined as a replacement for ethernet?
Perhaps we should look toward a high speed LocalTalk or PhoneNet implementation?
Fines are so stupid in a world where Halliburton can give you a $250k bonus a few years from now at the behest of one of it's officers.
Jail time is so stupid for non-violent offenders in a world where we have to spend something like $40k per year to keep someone behind bars. If we handed out community service sentences like we hand out prison time for non-violent offenders we'd have a shortage of charitable organizations to handle all the "volunteers" instead of a shortage of prison beds.
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kind of chip you got in there? A dorito?
The C-64 was indeed a very nice machine. It was over 20 years ago that I replaced the keyboard. I think my parents still have it in their attic somewhere.
Why is anyone even remotely familiar with Apple surprised by this? I remember the dreaded vendor lock-in when I had to put a new power supply into an aging Mac Performa 575 many moons ago. I swore back then that I would never buy a Mac again because of their obnoxious business model that requires you to get expensive service and parts from Apple.
I had the same issue with my Commodore 64. The keyboard needed to be replaced and the only place I could get a new one was...... Commodore.
In actuality I ended up putting our VIC-20 keyboard into the C-64. The buttons were in different places but all worked well.
I have two Kinesis keyboards that I absolutely love. I think they ran about $200 - $300 each 6 years ago. These aren't disposable but I would still have concerns about putting them in the dishwasher. Not sure why. I can't think of any logical reason why they would be destroyed but it just seems so wrong. I did spill orange juice into one once. To get the OJ out I disassembled they keyboard, ran the keypad through running water and let it dry outside for a few hours. Still...
Anybody put their Kinesis in the dishwasher?
A Morse-operator's style was referred to as his "fist".
A Morse Code operator's style *is* referred to his or her "fist". Morse Code is still used, mostly by amateur radio operators. Save a number of digital modes such as PSK31, there is no match to carrier wave modulated Morse Code to cut through noise and periods of poor radio wave propagation.
As an aside, the FCC recently dropped the Morse Code testing requirements from all classes of US amateur radio licenses. Many other countries have done the same as well.
In particular, when working from a crawl space, interior framed walls have a natural conduit -- in between the studs. New construction is going to have horizontal fire stops but they are a minor issue and only a concern when dropping in from above. When it comes time to replace old wiring with the newest latest and greatest, use the old wiring as a pull string. Vinyl tape makes replacing tapes simple.
Conduit is too restrictive. If conduit were available in my house, I would only use it when it was convenient anyway. With CAT5, coax for the cable modem, and RG8, RG8x, LMR400, Belden 9913, and one short run of 3/4" copper grounding braid (for amateur radio) running through the house, a spade bit and a DeWalt drill are much handier. Everything can be run exactly where it needs to be run and not just where conduit happened to be installed years ago.
The interesting question is what taxing authority has jurisdiction over those Hong Kong sellers who sell items to US buyers?
In most cases there are at least two taxing authorities when you make an international order. First of all, the seller likely pays some form of income tax in their home country. Second, the buyer may be liable for paying duty (tax paid for importing certain items) through customs in the buyers home country. If you notice the customs form on most items purchased through eBay from Hong Kong, most sellers note the shipped item is a "gift". In these cases the sellers are helping buyers illegally avoid paying duty on the imported goods.
I agree. Prisons is an option that needs to be reserved for criminals who are a significant threat to society. I'm sick of seeing our hard earned tax money going to incarcerate non-violent offenders. Here in the US, in particular, we have gone absolutely overboard using prisons to deal with issues such as illicit drug use. There are other forms of punishment (community service, fines, restitution) and rehabilitation (counseling, education, medical treatment) that cost less, result in a productive punishment/rehabilitation, and can actually move to improve an individual's ability to function in society.
I wonder if it's worthwhile to auto generate a hosts file that covers the larger ISPs, corporations and government agencies? Would it be useful in the event of an extended root nameserver outage? It's use would be limited I guess as I don't know of a way to include, for example, the equivalent of MX records in a hosts file. Host to host email would certainly work.
Perhaps auto generating DNS zone files for certain networks. Pop it into your local DNS server and you are up and running (with limitations of course). Perhaps extract the data in the DNS cache and create incomplete zone files. Should an extended outage occur, wouldn't it be useful to easily use certain communication services such as IRC? email?
I'm with you. I have to do self DRM. I *just* heard that Vista comes with DRM and I'm out the door to get a retail version. Finally, someone else's finger up my rectum!
Does anyone realize how stupid all this anti-Vista garbage is?
When do we start clamoring for laws against Oxygen-Hydrogen combining, or at least regulations preventing stupid people from drinking water without taking an instruction course?
You know not the dangers of which you speak! Please educate yourself! I suggest you read a bit more about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html/. You jest about a very serious issue.
You are right on. As a native Mainer I assure you that all facets of Maine politics refer to the "State of Maine". This is in contrast to Massachusetts and Virginia where "commonwealth" is used on documents from tourist literature, vehicle licensing, to bills in the legislature. Pennsylvania and (I believe) Kentucky refer to themselves as commonwealths as well. I believe Puerto Rico also refers to itself as a commonwealth.
Interoperability?!? There is a world outside of the United Sates? We have neighbors? I respect your imagination and vision, but really. If the Harper and Bush administrations can't work through the softwood lumber dispute...
A device intended for wireless networking isn't likely to be of much use in transmitting an NTSC (or PAL, etc.) video signal. There are a number of channels available for use within amateur radio for television transmission. All you need is a technician license. The exam is not difficult and the days of having to learn Morse Code (for the Technician license) are long gone. The ARRL has info on how to find a club/testing in your area.
For those unfortunate souls who would be relegated to dialup if it weren't for Comcast, I suggest that you do not rely on Comcast's email services.
Yep! It's best to treat email service and your ISP as two different entities. It makes it easy to drop your ISP if you need to. This could mean using any number of the free or inexpensive email services available or simply registering your own domain with a company like pair.com and having even more control over your email service.
This is still a non-issue. If clarification is required, the author will do so. Instead of "Plutons on a Pluton", one might write "plutonic rock of a planetary pluton". We have molecular isomers and nuclear isomers and cellular nuclei and atomic nuclei. When writing about both in the same paper it's easy to communicate to the reader which of the two is being discussed.
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Not where I live. Olympic Mountains to the West and the Cascades to the East. Even with a moderately priced directional rooftop antenna multipath is too much of a problem here. Any OTA broadcasts are simply unviewable. I'm sure this isn't the only area with multipath problems.
ID cards are available for people who do not drive. In the past they were primarily used for things like writing checks, but today they are used to prove your identity when you get a job.
Or buying alcohol.
So if I haven't stolen anything, have refuse to be detained, and am physically restrained as a result and fear significant bodily harm, can I use deadly force (a pistol) to defend myself? Not that I would, but it brings up an interesting question for individuals who carry.
Finally, somebody who understands why coins should be forged of fissile uranium!
As an amateur radio operator (HF through microwave) I feel symptoms of "anxiety, nausea and tiredness" when I'm *not* near a keyed down transmitter. In particular, the tiredness tends to go away during contest weekends when I receive most of my exposure. For some reason, more transmitters, more power, bigger towers and antennas make me feel much *better*!
Are there any other serious contenders which could/should be examined as a replacement for ethernet?
Perhaps we should look toward a high speed LocalTalk or PhoneNet implementation?
Jail time is so stupid for non-violent offenders in a world where we have to spend something like $40k per year to keep someone behind bars. If we handed out community service sentences like we hand out prison time for non-violent offenders we'd have a shortage of charitable organizations to handle all the "volunteers" instead of a shortage of prison beds.
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kind of chip you got in there? A dorito?
The C-64 was indeed a very nice machine. It was over 20 years ago that I replaced the keyboard. I think my parents still have it in their attic somewhere.
I had the same issue with my Commodore 64. The keyboard needed to be replaced and the only place I could get a new one was...... Commodore.
In actuality I ended up putting our VIC-20 keyboard into the C-64. The buttons were in different places but all worked well.
I have two Kinesis keyboards that I absolutely love. I think they ran about $200 - $300 each 6 years ago. These aren't disposable but I would still have concerns about putting them in the dishwasher. Not sure why. I can't think of any logical reason why they would be destroyed but it just seems so wrong. I did spill orange juice into one once. To get the OJ out I disassembled they keyboard, ran the keypad through running water and let it dry outside for a few hours. Still... Anybody put their Kinesis in the dishwasher?
A Morse Code operator's style *is* referred to his or her "fist". Morse Code is still used, mostly by amateur radio operators. Save a number of digital modes such as PSK31, there is no match to carrier wave modulated Morse Code to cut through noise and periods of poor radio wave propagation.
As an aside, the FCC recently dropped the Morse Code testing requirements from all classes of US amateur radio licenses. Many other countries have done the same as well.
In particular, when working from a crawl space, interior framed walls have a natural conduit -- in between the studs. New construction is going to have horizontal fire stops but they are a minor issue and only a concern when dropping in from above. When it comes time to replace old wiring with the newest latest and greatest, use the old wiring as a pull string. Vinyl tape makes replacing tapes simple.
Conduit is too restrictive. If conduit were available in my house, I would only use it when it was convenient anyway. With CAT5, coax for the cable modem, and RG8, RG8x, LMR400, Belden 9913, and one short run of 3/4" copper grounding braid (for amateur radio) running through the house, a spade bit and a DeWalt drill are much handier. Everything can be run exactly where it needs to be run and not just where conduit happened to be installed years ago.
The only real conduit one needs in a house are a crawlspace and an attic.
How did Arthur Anderson screw over McCaw Cellular in the 90's? As a former AT&T Wireless employee I'm quite interested.
In most cases there are at least two taxing authorities when you make an international order. First of all, the seller likely pays some form of income tax in their home country. Second, the buyer may be liable for paying duty (tax paid for importing certain items) through customs in the buyers home country. If you notice the customs form on most items purchased through eBay from Hong Kong, most sellers note the shipped item is a "gift". In these cases the sellers are helping buyers illegally avoid paying duty on the imported goods.
I agree. Prisons is an option that needs to be reserved for criminals who are a significant threat to society. I'm sick of seeing our hard earned tax money going to incarcerate non-violent offenders. Here in the US, in particular, we have gone absolutely overboard using prisons to deal with issues such as illicit drug use. There are other forms of punishment (community service, fines, restitution) and rehabilitation (counseling, education, medical treatment) that cost less, result in a productive punishment/rehabilitation, and can actually move to improve an individual's ability to function in society.
I wonder if it's worthwhile to auto generate a hosts file that covers the larger ISPs, corporations and government agencies? Would it be useful in the event of an extended root nameserver outage? It's use would be limited I guess as I don't know of a way to include, for example, the equivalent of MX records in a hosts file. Host to host email would certainly work.
Perhaps auto generating DNS zone files for certain networks. Pop it into your local DNS server and you are up and running (with limitations of course). Perhaps extract the data in the DNS cache and create incomplete zone files. Should an extended outage occur, wouldn't it be useful to easily use certain communication services such as IRC? email?
I'm with you. I have to do self DRM. I *just* heard that Vista comes with DRM and I'm out the door to get a retail version. Finally, someone else's finger up my rectum!
I know not how to post. Nix that trailing slash: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
-Jeff
When do we start clamoring for laws against Oxygen-Hydrogen combining, or at least regulations preventing stupid people from drinking water without taking an instruction course?
You know not the dangers of which you speak! Please educate yourself! I suggest you read a bit more about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html/. You jest about a very serious issue.
-Jeff
You are right on. As a native Mainer I assure you that all facets of Maine politics refer to the "State of Maine". This is in contrast to Massachusetts and Virginia where "commonwealth" is used on documents from tourist literature, vehicle licensing, to bills in the legislature. Pennsylvania and (I believe) Kentucky refer to themselves as commonwealths as well. I believe Puerto Rico also refers to itself as a commonwealth.
-Jeff
Interoperability?!? There is a world outside of the United Sates? We have neighbors? I respect your imagination and vision, but really. If the Harper and Bush administrations can't work through the softwood lumber dispute...
-Jeff
A device intended for wireless networking isn't likely to be of much use in transmitting an NTSC (or PAL, etc.) video signal. There are a number of channels available for use within amateur radio for television transmission. All you need is a technician license. The exam is not difficult and the days of having to learn Morse Code (for the Technician license) are long gone. The ARRL has info on how to find a club/testing in your area.
-Jeff
For those unfortunate souls who would be relegated to dialup if it weren't for Comcast, I suggest that you do not rely on Comcast's email services.
Yep! It's best to treat email service and your ISP as two different entities. It makes it easy to drop your ISP if you need to. This could mean using any number of the free or inexpensive email services available or simply registering your own domain with a company like pair.com and having even more control over your email service.
This is still a non-issue. If clarification is required, the author will do so. Instead of "Plutons on a Pluton", one might write "plutonic rock of a planetary pluton". We have molecular isomers and nuclear isomers and cellular nuclei and atomic nuclei. When writing about both in the same paper it's easy to communicate to the reader which of the two is being discussed.