Yes, you can buy a better camera, phone and a bagpack for them to carry them around.
I'm no fan of cameraphones as the quality of the pictures will always suck I still feel it's unfair to compare them to a camera and phone.
It's like comparing a Bahco wrench to a socket set. You can buy a decent socket set for a price of one Bahco, and it will be better in use. it's the size that matters. You can't carry a socket set in your pocket as well as wrench. It's the same with cameraphones to camera and phone.
I have a Nokia 2110 (circa 1996) in my junk box that would still work if phone company still had 5 volt cards. Actually have 3 of those, alltogether had 4, one died when left outside in rain for 3 days. One survivad dropping of the moving car roof (about 80kmh). Father still uses 6250 which is literally build like a tank, too bad its production is discontined.
Either way, he should not be in the same class as the others.
With that logic the class would be empty, including the teacher. When I was in school there were people that were good in math and science, and then there were people that were good in languages. I fall in the first category. There were a rare exception of this rule, both in good and bad, but very rare indeed.
You can't teach everybody everything, but why even try. In real life and jobs there's room for people that are good in one thing and bad in another. People rarely choose a career path in area that they are bad. Let the students grades show if there are areas where he doesn't shine but don't hold him back or grind him down with impossible tasks. Let him shine where he's good at.
That doesn't mean if he's bad at math he should be exempt from it. Some of it he'll get and some of it he won't. Try to get him educated in the important parts. There's a time limit to what can be thought. His career path will lead to the areas that he is good at so let him use his time to be the best on those subjects.
The only way that I know of near permanent data storage is the Rosetta Disk http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/disk. It uses Norsam Technologies http://www.norsam.com/rosetta.htm micro-etch technology. Unfortunately there is no automated reader, but rest assured the data that is stored is safe from effects of time, radiation or water.
If you are going to compromise for something cheaper and simpler I suggest rebackuping everything every 2-5 years and not destroying the old media and checking the condition of the older storage medias. This way if the new storage media is unreliable, there is high likelyhood that the older ones still work.
Before I start, I'm from Finland as you can see from my nick, but have nothing to do with Nokia now or ever.
The statement is some ado about something.
First, it makes clear the Nokias position about Linux, not like SCO who first distributes it and then sues everybody. GPL has a part conserning patents, but this statement makes sure that even if GPL isn't enforceable, there won't be any lawsuits.
Second, it makes clear to other parties that lawsuits against Linux might have repercussions.
If Nokia really had wanted to keep its patents out of Linux it could have done so. The device is pretty useless whitout internet connection. It would have been quite easy to do a device that didnt have Linux or any GPLed code on it but run Linux. Simply do a miniOS that does a Gentoo like install when customer turns the machine on first time. This could have been done on the store counter. Store just gives a free WiFi connection to customers and five minutes later theres a Linux in the machine. Neither store nor Nokia are distributing Linux so no GPL conserns.
So why the limitation to kernel? If it wasn't any patented feature in the kernel could have been copied from the kernel to any product making the patent in effect void.
Cable isn't the biggest problem for the detection bubble of earth. Radio broadcasts will continue to be used in communications and there will be earth based transmissions for a long time. The biggest problem is modulation.
The easiest artificial signal to differentiate from natural noise are signals with frequency spikes. FM and AM radio have good frequency spikes. VSB modulation which is used in television broadcasts has a decent spike. These are pretty easy to detect as manmade.
These days the trend of RF technology is moving from spiked spectrum to spread spectrum modulations that looks more and more like noise.
For example lets take TV from an alien perspective. There is a move from VSB picture and FM voice to spread spectrum transmissions. With FM and VSB the cells on same frequency must be pretty far away from each other not to interfere with each other. And to get a good picture the transmision must be high over the noise floor. The alien observer would see some strong spikes on his spectrum analyser moving along the frequency as earth turns (dobbler). Now with spread spectrum the signal is spread evenly over the spectrum so no spikes. And because spread spectrum signals don't interfere with each other so easily the cells on same frequency will be closer together. So the alien observer would see more transmitters sending evenly spread transmission over another and another and another,each with a slight changing frequency shift to each other because of dobbler. Impossible to differentiate from noise.
So new technology is changing earth from spiked hedgehodge to fluffy ball, looking just like a natural noise source.
In future the detection bubble may thicken because of microwave power transmission. If there will be solarpower spacefarms, there will be new spikes with enough oomph to an alien observer.
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Yes, you can buy a better camera, phone and a bagpack for them to carry them around.
I'm no fan of cameraphones as the quality of the pictures will always suck I still feel it's unfair to compare them to a camera and phone.
It's like comparing a Bahco wrench to a socket set. You can buy a decent socket set for a price of one Bahco, and it will be better in use. it's the size that matters. You can't carry a socket set in your pocket as well as wrench. It's the same with cameraphones to camera and phone.
I have a Nokia 2110 (circa 1996) in my junk box that would still work if phone company still had 5 volt cards. Actually have 3 of those, alltogether had 4, one died when left outside in rain for 3 days. One survivad dropping of the moving car roof (about 80kmh). Father still uses 6250 which is literally build like a tank, too bad its production is discontined.
Neither is your BBQ charcoal!
With that logic the class would be empty, including the teacher. When I was in school there were people that were good in math and science, and then there were people that were good in languages. I fall in the first category. There were a rare exception of this rule, both in good and bad, but very rare indeed.
You can't teach everybody everything, but why even try. In real life and jobs there's room for people that are good in one thing and bad in another. People rarely choose a career path in area that they are bad. Let the students grades show if there are areas where he doesn't shine but don't hold him back or grind him down with impossible tasks. Let him shine where he's good at.
That doesn't mean if he's bad at math he should be exempt from it. Some of it he'll get and some of it he won't. Try to get him educated in the important parts. There's a time limit to what can be thought. His career path will lead to the areas that he is good at so let him use his time to be the best on those subjects.
If you are going to compromise for something cheaper and simpler I suggest rebackuping everything every 2-5 years and not destroying the old media and checking the condition of the older storage medias. This way if the new storage media is unreliable, there is high likelyhood that the older ones still work.
Somebody should tell him that he doesn't own the only ball of the world....
The statement is some ado about something.
First, it makes clear the Nokias position about Linux, not like SCO who first distributes it and then sues everybody. GPL has a part conserning patents, but this statement makes sure that even if GPL isn't enforceable, there won't be any lawsuits.
Second, it makes clear to other parties that lawsuits against Linux might have repercussions.
If Nokia really had wanted to keep its patents out of Linux it could have done so. The device is pretty useless whitout internet connection. It would have been quite easy to do a device that didnt have Linux or any GPLed code on it but run Linux. Simply do a miniOS that does a Gentoo like install when customer turns the machine on first time. This could have been done on the store counter. Store just gives a free WiFi connection to customers and five minutes later theres a Linux in the machine. Neither store nor Nokia are distributing Linux so no GPL conserns.
So why the limitation to kernel? If it wasn't any patented feature in the kernel could have been copied from the kernel to any product making the patent in effect void.
The easiest artificial signal to differentiate from natural noise are signals with frequency spikes. FM and AM radio have good frequency spikes. VSB modulation which is used in television broadcasts has a decent spike. These are pretty easy to detect as manmade.
These days the trend of RF technology is moving from spiked spectrum to spread spectrum modulations that looks more and more like noise.
For example lets take TV from an alien perspective. There is a move from VSB picture and FM voice to spread spectrum transmissions. With FM and VSB the cells on same frequency must be pretty far away from each other not to interfere with each other. And to get a good picture the transmision must be high over the noise floor. The alien observer would see some strong spikes on his spectrum analyser moving along the frequency as earth turns (dobbler). Now with spread spectrum the signal is spread evenly over the spectrum so no spikes. And because spread spectrum signals don't interfere with each other so easily the cells on same frequency will be closer together. So the alien observer would see more transmitters sending evenly spread transmission over another and another and another,each with a slight changing frequency shift to each other because of dobbler. Impossible to differentiate from noise.
So new technology is changing earth from spiked hedgehodge to fluffy ball, looking just like a natural noise source.
In future the detection bubble may thicken because of microwave power transmission. If there will be solarpower spacefarms, there will be new spikes with enough oomph to an alien observer.