You're really gonna hate this but on a side note did you know that in the first gulf war much of the radio com was done with tube type gear? It was all kwm-2a collins transceivers pulled out of mothball storage from the 60s because the wind static killed the transistorized receivers in the modern sythesized commercial SGC transceivers they were using! Funny stuff.
And furthermore the code keeps the cb crowd from coming in. They've already made the tests so frikking easy it's ridiculous,, why not just eliminate the tests all together? Actually some do.. and I guarantee you the bands would go in the shit hole if they did. There are already some guys on 40 meters that sound like they got their license in a cracker jack box.
Morse code IS radio my friend. When all else 'Dot Dash' gets through as my grandfather used tos ay about the scrambled com lines at normandy.
If you don't have the will to learn something like the code then you obviously are too lazy to 'advance the art',, which in itself is a silly thing because no one hardly 'advance the art anymore' then or now, most of us are just 'appliance operators'
The quote "The Commission said it believes dropping Element 1--the 5 WPM Morse examination--would "encourage individuals who are interested in communications technology, or who are able to contribute to the advancement of the radio art, to become amateur radio operators.""
If someone doesn't even have the drive to learn the measly 5wpm required do you really think they are going to 'advance the radio art!??" God the fcc is lame.
I have not seen an lcd screen yet I liked.
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I've tried to really love em but I just can't They make me feel ill when I looked at them too long or they are so sharp they make my eyes hurt. There is something soft about a crt,, assuming your refresh rate is set high enough.. why on earth is 60hz or so the default on so many systems! God that's total vomit inducing misery.
I don't run Linux, I don't like it.
I don't run anti virus software either and generally recommend against it. This is assuming the user has some common sense. Most anti virus software leads to endless headaches with system configuration problems popping up and resource issues. Norton and mcafee are the absolute worst thing you can do to a computer. I'm not alone in this view, check the reviews for these products on Amazon and you'll see similiar opinions. Every system that I have fixed for someone has always had at least one issue(usually low system resources) attributed to anti virus software.
Don't open executable email attachments such as exe com bat vbs scr and pif. The latest trick is to pad the filename attachment filenames with a bunch of spaces so it looks like a jpg in the attachment info menu but it's actually:
Dogs.jpg___________.pif
So in light of that yes I would recommend some people run anti virus software to catch silly little tricks like that. I've never had a virus on a pc system. The other way people will receive viruses or exploits is downloading misc crap they shouldnt be 'weather desktop/bonzi buddy/p2p programs etc' where most of the trojans/spyware comes from... but primarily because they have deselected the option titled 'always ask before performing this action' in Internet Explorer. Many people are receiving so called 'just visit the website' viruses because they have everything set to auto-open. EVERY virus and every exploit depends on user interaction at some level or lack thereof. If you open all email attachments and have ie set to open all file download links automatically then it's your own fault.
The majority of things that winupdate may fix would be entirely negated if people would just follow common sense in the first place. I guess the real problem is that most people just don't have any to start with.
PS. I recently tried out VCom's Fix It utilities 5.0 with antivirus and it's the best I've found. It's non invasive, it's easy to turn off the parts that you don't want and it frankly just behaves itself. So far, I highly recommend it for prevention of email viruses(which are by and large where 99% of them come from). I evaluated it for someone else, otherwise I would not have used it as generally I never run av software.
I have tried using windows update on several machines over the years ever since it came out. All I ever receive in return are page script errors, stalled connections and general frustration of all kinds. I especially hate waiting for it to do something after god knows how long only to have it error out and start all over again. I gave up on windows update long ago which is fine because I generally follow and advise others to follow hte rule of 'if it ain't broke then don't fix it'.
If the phones came with a mechanically functional code key(read light touch) and the phones automatically decode morse then I could see millions of kiddiez learning morse to tap out messages to one another. It would be MUCH faster and they wouldn't have to do the hard part which is decoding and writing the morse down since the phone would do that for them. Learning the alphabet and sending is the easy part. I suspect at first some of their sending will be shitty but they'll get better.
I can get a picture on my analog tv using my directional outside antenna that's as good as what I get on directtv, ie crystal clear. This is a completely uneeded technology. I believe it is akin to the folks who shower tivo with praises as though it's a miracle machine, they apparently never encountered a VCR in their life.
We're going to look back and saw, how could we not have known? It will be just like tobacco all over again. I've been trying to explain the cell phone issue to people for years. Any good electrical engineer should also be able to explain it to you if he's honest.
Look at it this way. The microwave oven in your house operates at 900mhz or 1.2ghz or 2.4 ghz, guess where your cell phone operates? 900 on analog, 1.2 on digital and now even 2.4 and above.
The 900mhz phones cook your brain because your brain is physically RF resonant at those frequencies freq/462 = inches.
At ghz freqs the phones start cooking parts of your inner ear. Other studies have shown the growth of benign tumors in the ears of people who have been using them actively for 10 years.
I rarely if ever use a cell phone, and frankly I don't see why anyone should.. so what did we do before we had them? hmmmm?
Even it's computers are too ancient. And that is why the shuttle should be abandoned. As much as I admire older technology, the shuttle is the most overengineered piece of hardware in existence.
I've tried firefox several times, it's just rather crude and doesn't work nearly as nice as the mozilla suite. I just don't see what the big fuss is about.
1. The modern world encountered an entire continent of stone age people. What do you expect.
2. Read the book The Wild Frontier by William Osborn and you'll never look at the Indian question in the same light again.
It's there in 90 days and another 90 back. The reason that they want a 3 month trip is that they realize the astronauts will probably kill each other otherwise. They have a big program about this where they built a replica of the proposed ship and are trying to figure out ways to force people to live together this long without having the first 'space murder' Discovery I think it was had a great special on the program.
I had it running on 5 servers at one time at a gov agency I worked for. Soon it got around that SETI was running on 'production' servers and I was told politely to quit running it for all of the common reasons,, misuse of public funds etc. Keep in mind the servers were only using a fraction of their capability doing what they were doing in the first place,, and what they were doing was pretty useless and just bureacratic pork programs on a small scale.
Is simply because tube audio amplifiers generate even numbered harmonics while transistors generate odd numbered harmonics and to the human ear 'even' sounds better. I verified this with a teacher of mine who's an EE and worked on all manner of 'cool stuff' for trw and lockheed.
Tubes generate even numbered harmonics which the ear finds more 'pleasant' than transistors which generate odd numbered harmonics. Ask a good electrical engineer and he'll tell you the same thing.
Well I do like the midshipman's Hope series(Nick Seafort Saga) and the Honor Harrington series. Both are quite good and are definitely my idea of what science fiction should be. Basically the 18th century royal navy in space. Hell in the Honor books they even mention looking up one of hte republic of haven's ships in 'Janes' ! I love that kind of thing,,, ie some thread of reference to the real world instead of a completely imagined fantasy.
I tried reading Ringworld once. I read the whole thing although I'm not sure how I managed it. It had to be one of the worst books I've ever read. It's like the author took a bizarre dream he had and turned it into a book. Just too completely bizarre to be of any entertainment value,, except for the kzin, he rocked. Scream and leap!
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You're really gonna hate this but on a side note did you know that in the first gulf war much of the radio com was done with tube type gear? It was all kwm-2a collins transceivers pulled out of mothball storage from the 60s because the wind static killed the transistorized receivers in the modern sythesized commercial SGC transceivers they were using! Funny stuff.
And furthermore the code keeps the cb crowd from coming in. They've already made the tests so frikking easy it's ridiculous,, why not just eliminate the tests all together? Actually some do.. and I guarantee you the bands would go in the shit hole if they did. There are already some guys on 40 meters that sound like they got their license in a cracker jack box.
Morse code IS radio my friend. When all else 'Dot Dash' gets through as my grandfather used tos ay about the scrambled com lines at normandy. If you don't have the will to learn something like the code then you obviously are too lazy to 'advance the art',, which in itself is a silly thing because no one hardly 'advance the art anymore' then or now, most of us are just 'appliance operators'
The quote "The Commission said it believes dropping Element 1--the 5 WPM Morse examination--would "encourage individuals who are interested in communications technology, or who are able to contribute to the advancement of the radio art, to become amateur radio operators."" If someone doesn't even have the drive to learn the measly 5wpm required do you really think they are going to 'advance the radio art!??" God the fcc is lame.
I've tried to really love em but I just can't They make me feel ill when I looked at them too long or they are so sharp they make my eyes hurt. There is something soft about a crt,, assuming your refresh rate is set high enough.. why on earth is 60hz or so the default on so many systems! God that's total vomit inducing misery.
I don't run Linux, I don't like it. I don't run anti virus software either and generally recommend against it. This is assuming the user has some common sense. Most anti virus software leads to endless headaches with system configuration problems popping up and resource issues. Norton and mcafee are the absolute worst thing you can do to a computer. I'm not alone in this view, check the reviews for these products on Amazon and you'll see similiar opinions. Every system that I have fixed for someone has always had at least one issue(usually low system resources) attributed to anti virus software. Don't open executable email attachments such as exe com bat vbs scr and pif. The latest trick is to pad the filename attachment filenames with a bunch of spaces so it looks like a jpg in the attachment info menu but it's actually: Dogs.jpg___________.pif So in light of that yes I would recommend some people run anti virus software to catch silly little tricks like that. I've never had a virus on a pc system. The other way people will receive viruses or exploits is downloading misc crap they shouldnt be 'weather desktop/bonzi buddy/p2p programs etc' where most of the trojans/spyware comes from... but primarily because they have deselected the option titled 'always ask before performing this action' in Internet Explorer. Many people are receiving so called 'just visit the website' viruses because they have everything set to auto-open. EVERY virus and every exploit depends on user interaction at some level or lack thereof. If you open all email attachments and have ie set to open all file download links automatically then it's your own fault. The majority of things that winupdate may fix would be entirely negated if people would just follow common sense in the first place. I guess the real problem is that most people just don't have any to start with. PS. I recently tried out VCom's Fix It utilities 5.0 with antivirus and it's the best I've found. It's non invasive, it's easy to turn off the parts that you don't want and it frankly just behaves itself. So far, I highly recommend it for prevention of email viruses(which are by and large where 99% of them come from). I evaluated it for someone else, otherwise I would not have used it as generally I never run av software.
I have tried using windows update on several machines over the years ever since it came out. All I ever receive in return are page script errors, stalled connections and general frustration of all kinds. I especially hate waiting for it to do something after god knows how long only to have it error out and start all over again. I gave up on windows update long ago which is fine because I generally follow and advise others to follow hte rule of 'if it ain't broke then don't fix it'.
If the phones came with a mechanically functional code key(read light touch) and the phones automatically decode morse then I could see millions of kiddiez learning morse to tap out messages to one another. It would be MUCH faster and they wouldn't have to do the hard part which is decoding and writing the morse down since the phone would do that for them. Learning the alphabet and sending is the easy part. I suspect at first some of their sending will be shitty but they'll get better.
Use the Mozilla suite. I can't for the life of me understand why they quit promoting it and went to tiredsocks.
I can get a picture on my analog tv using my directional outside antenna that's as good as what I get on directtv, ie crystal clear. This is a completely uneeded technology. I believe it is akin to the folks who shower tivo with praises as though it's a miracle machine, they apparently never encountered a VCR in their life.
We're going to look back and saw, how could we not have known? It will be just like tobacco all over again. I've been trying to explain the cell phone issue to people for years. Any good electrical engineer should also be able to explain it to you if he's honest. Look at it this way. The microwave oven in your house operates at 900mhz or 1.2ghz or 2.4 ghz, guess where your cell phone operates? 900 on analog, 1.2 on digital and now even 2.4 and above. The 900mhz phones cook your brain because your brain is physically RF resonant at those frequencies freq/462 = inches. At ghz freqs the phones start cooking parts of your inner ear. Other studies have shown the growth of benign tumors in the ears of people who have been using them actively for 10 years. I rarely if ever use a cell phone, and frankly I don't see why anyone should.. so what did we do before we had them? hmmmm?
Even it's computers are too ancient. And that is why the shuttle should be abandoned. As much as I admire older technology, the shuttle is the most overengineered piece of hardware in existence.
I've tried firefox several times, it's just rather crude and doesn't work nearly as nice as the mozilla suite. I just don't see what the big fuss is about.
1. The modern world encountered an entire continent of stone age people. What do you expect. 2. Read the book The Wild Frontier by William Osborn and you'll never look at the Indian question in the same light again.
It's there in 90 days and another 90 back. The reason that they want a 3 month trip is that they realize the astronauts will probably kill each other otherwise. They have a big program about this where they built a replica of the proposed ship and are trying to figure out ways to force people to live together this long without having the first 'space murder' Discovery I think it was had a great special on the program.
I had it running on 5 servers at one time at a gov agency I worked for. Soon it got around that SETI was running on 'production' servers and I was told politely to quit running it for all of the common reasons,, misuse of public funds etc. Keep in mind the servers were only using a fraction of their capability doing what they were doing in the first place,, and what they were doing was pretty useless and just bureacratic pork programs on a small scale.
And Jabba The Hut was a ripoff of Sumo The Fat from the Dominic Flandry series.
Is simply because tube audio amplifiers generate even numbered harmonics while transistors generate odd numbered harmonics and to the human ear 'even' sounds better. I verified this with a teacher of mine who's an EE and worked on all manner of 'cool stuff' for trw and lockheed.
Tubes generate even numbered harmonics which the ear finds more 'pleasant' than transistors which generate odd numbered harmonics. Ask a good electrical engineer and he'll tell you the same thing.
Well I do like the midshipman's Hope series(Nick Seafort Saga) and the Honor Harrington series. Both are quite good and are definitely my idea of what science fiction should be. Basically the 18th century royal navy in space. Hell in the Honor books they even mention looking up one of hte republic of haven's ships in 'Janes' ! I love that kind of thing,,, ie some thread of reference to the real world instead of a completely imagined fantasy.
I tried reading Ringworld once. I read the whole thing although I'm not sure how I managed it. It had to be one of the worst books I've ever read. It's like the author took a bizarre dream he had and turned it into a book. Just too completely bizarre to be of any entertainment value,, except for the kzin, he rocked. Scream and leap!
http://www.pdcware.com It does 95% of what most people need to do without the bullshit of access etc