These brilliant people that drive around with loud speakers stuck out there windows so every one in a nine mile radius is required to here there crappy music have already solved this problem
If the equipment is remote and not easily accessible you had better have good CLI skills. If your system looses data connectivity and you have to dial in through Iridium or a dial up modem a GUI is of no use. GUIs dont work very well at 19200 baud.
I have tested one of these things out. If you go out of coverage area pretty regularly but only need your phone in an extreme emergency this phone might be useful as a replacement for an iridium.
The problem is you have to use a hands free headset to make the satellite service work. You also have to peak in the phone to get a good link to the satellite then maintain the pointing of the phone throughout the conversation else you drop the call. This is actually pretty difficult to do. The delay on the phone is also about 1 second witch makes conversations very difficult.
This is really non news. It happens, not all the time, but it does happen. If the Deepwater Horizon hadn't exploded 5 months ago most of you probably never would have heard anything about it.
including the f*ck tards. I freaked out when they made it ok to teach bible as a history elective here in Louisiana, but it was an elective. Although there are only two reasons 95% of the kids would take that class: 1. There parents make them 2. there is a member of the opposite sex they want to have intercourse with is signing up to that class.
This is WAAAAY worse. It is not an elective. Our children our being forced to learn skewed history in order to serve some ass clowns agenda.
All I can say is parents teach your children to "Think for yourself and question authority(Timothy Leary)" If you have never read the poem look it up and read it.
I thought we got away from this whole turbo thing long long ago with computers. I dont understand, does the turbo run on exhausted gases from the chip? Do these processors have combustion chambers that will benefit from said turbo?
Also, I recall a conversation about touch interfaces where/.ers were saying it was a useless fad because the keyboard and mouse were the height of usability. Teach cursive, give kids touch enabled computers, and the physical keyboard will fade into oblivion.
Are you suggesting handwriting recognition? As soon as I see anything that can read my handwriting consistently I will give this a slight chance at replacing the keyboard in some situations, but I cant even read my handwriting consistently. I haven't written written anything but my name in cursive since the 6th grade because it was absolutely eligible. There are some of us out here that are not capable of writing legibly.
Using computers more would have made my primary school career much much simpler, and they made me do more on computers than anybody else in the mid 80's.
Actualy you can get the latency on satellite down low enough to make very good voice calls, but you have to spend the money on it. On a daily basis I deal with satellite remotes that have latencies less than 500 ms and phone calls are very clear. A provider with a iDirect system implemented with voice as high priority will see these low latencies.
Almost all of the big oil companies have no Internet connection to mission critical parts of the rig. They have there own rack of equipment at the earth station with a dedicated line back to there offices. This rack of equipment is isolated from all equipment in a locked cabinet. If they want Internet on the oil platform it requires a completely different modem but that is a luxury item on these platforms. I see every day just how strict these companies are on security. Unless you have a key to get into the equipment room and then a key to git into there own locked rack or are at there offices with there massive amounts of security you cant even ping a modem that runs this mission critical data.
Even if this is found legal and they try to use it the parents are going to raise hell. In the school system my mother works in they tried to ban the kids from being able to bring cell phones into the school and the parents wouldn't let that fly. Parents see it as a long leash they can put on their children. Some of these parents are so paranoid that even the idea of not being able to call there children directly frightens them.
Some of us don't need battery life over half an hour. We use laptops at work for portability. The only time I use the battery on mine is to reprogram a piece of equipment that is on the work bench.
Because he is a friend and he sees him pissing his opportunity away over a stupid game. Go ahead and flame me for calling a game stupid, but compared to what he is missing out on it is stupid.
Is he failing? if so talk to his professors, tell them your concern. They can give you some advice that may just kick his ass into gear. If he has to make good grades on the rest of his exams to pass let him know.
If he is a freshman and is not on a scholarship and who ever is funding his schooling isnt going to cut him off if he fails you may have to let him fail to get the picture. Thats what happened to me. If he is on a scholarship, will lose it if he fails and has no other way of paying for school explain to him that if he fails he will have no more university.
Do not drag yourself down trying to help him. If he is not taking this help there is probably nothing you can do. I am guessing he is a freshman, Some of us have to get kicked out of school before we realize just how bad we are screwing up.
Really, 2.0, I would have thought that cities had been through way more major revisions than that. probably be more in the ballpark calling it city 3589654782.0
We heated the tech shop where I work all winter with our server rack. Of course I do live in south Louisiana where you can count the below freezing days on your fingers but the shop is also pretty large. We finally got our blower to vent the hot air outside installed last week so now the server closet does not stay at a constant 90F now.
I work in a shop cleaning repairing and checking out communications systems for oil rigs and boats. Some of the crap that comes back is ridiculous. Thick layers of crude oil and deisel, the rotten smell of crew boats and the occasional dead rodent make the day go by. But hey, I get to play with robots to so it makes it all good.
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These brilliant people that drive around with loud speakers stuck out there windows so every one in a nine mile radius is required to here there crappy music have already solved this problem
I wonder if Robonaught2 is Design 2
If the equipment is remote and not easily accessible you had better have good CLI skills. If your system looses data connectivity and you have to dial in through Iridium or a dial up modem a GUI is of no use. GUIs dont work very well at 19200 baud.
I have tested one of these things out. If you go out of coverage area pretty regularly but only need your phone in an extreme emergency this phone might be useful as a replacement for an iridium. The problem is you have to use a hands free headset to make the satellite service work. You also have to peak in the phone to get a good link to the satellite then maintain the pointing of the phone throughout the conversation else you drop the call. This is actually pretty difficult to do. The delay on the phone is also about 1 second witch makes conversations very difficult.
I had a class my freshman year of college the the textbooks where $300 and that was 10 years ago.
The Saints already won the Super Bowl, now this. it must be an El Niño year in Hell
This is really non news. It happens, not all the time, but it does happen. If the Deepwater Horizon hadn't exploded 5 months ago most of you probably never would have heard anything about it.
An iridium Phone weighs about a pound and would be much more reliable, but the service would be more expensive.
'The total sample consisted of 1,000 torrent files—a random selection from the most active seeded files on the trackers they used
this being the bit I picked out. this can vary greatly tracker to tracker.
Baby, I planned a trip to France just for you. I know how much you need to just get away from everything.
A simple injection of PC-Cillin should take care of the virus.
including the f*ck tards. I freaked out when they made it ok to teach bible as a history elective here in Louisiana, but it was an elective. Although there are only two reasons 95% of the kids would take that class: 1. There parents make them 2. there is a member of the opposite sex they want to have intercourse with is signing up to that class. This is WAAAAY worse. It is not an elective. Our children our being forced to learn skewed history in order to serve some ass clowns agenda. All I can say is parents teach your children to "Think for yourself and question authority(Timothy Leary)" If you have never read the poem look it up and read it.
I thought we got away from this whole turbo thing long long ago with computers. I dont understand, does the turbo run on exhausted gases from the chip? Do these processors have combustion chambers that will benefit from said turbo?
Also, I recall a conversation about touch interfaces where /.ers were saying it was a useless fad because the keyboard and mouse were the height of usability. Teach cursive, give kids touch enabled computers, and the physical keyboard will fade into oblivion.
Are you suggesting handwriting recognition? As soon as I see anything that can read my handwriting consistently I will give this a slight chance at replacing the keyboard in some situations, but I cant even read my handwriting consistently. I haven't written written anything but my name in cursive since the 6th grade because it was absolutely eligible. There are some of us out here that are not capable of writing legibly. Using computers more would have made my primary school career much much simpler, and they made me do more on computers than anybody else in the mid 80's.
Actualy you can get the latency on satellite down low enough to make very good voice calls, but you have to spend the money on it. On a daily basis I deal with satellite remotes that have latencies less than 500 ms and phone calls are very clear. A provider with a iDirect system implemented with voice as high priority will see these low latencies.
Almost all of the big oil companies have no Internet connection to mission critical parts of the rig. They have there own rack of equipment at the earth station with a dedicated line back to there offices. This rack of equipment is isolated from all equipment in a locked cabinet. If they want Internet on the oil platform it requires a completely different modem but that is a luxury item on these platforms. I see every day just how strict these companies are on security. Unless you have a key to get into the equipment room and then a key to git into there own locked rack or are at there offices with there massive amounts of security you cant even ping a modem that runs this mission critical data.
Even if this is found legal and they try to use it the parents are going to raise hell. In the school system my mother works in they tried to ban the kids from being able to bring cell phones into the school and the parents wouldn't let that fly. Parents see it as a long leash they can put on their children. Some of these parents are so paranoid that even the idea of not being able to call there children directly frightens them.
Some of us don't need battery life over half an hour. We use laptops at work for portability. The only time I use the battery on mine is to reprogram a piece of equipment that is on the work bench.
I knew it was a scam when I asked them if they could insure my 10 yr old truck with 175k miles and a blown cylinder and they said they could...
Why do YOU feel obligated to do something here?
Because he is a friend and he sees him pissing his opportunity away over a stupid game. Go ahead and flame me for calling a game stupid, but compared to what he is missing out on it is stupid. Is he failing? if so talk to his professors, tell them your concern. They can give you some advice that may just kick his ass into gear. If he has to make good grades on the rest of his exams to pass let him know. If he is a freshman and is not on a scholarship and who ever is funding his schooling isnt going to cut him off if he fails you may have to let him fail to get the picture. Thats what happened to me. If he is on a scholarship, will lose it if he fails and has no other way of paying for school explain to him that if he fails he will have no more university. Do not drag yourself down trying to help him. If he is not taking this help there is probably nothing you can do. I am guessing he is a freshman, Some of us have to get kicked out of school before we realize just how bad we are screwing up.
Really, 2.0, I would have thought that cities had been through way more major revisions than that. probably be more in the ballpark calling it city 3589654782.0
They said microsoft would release an open source project with some value when pigs fly......Swine flu
Most of the dell latitude notebooks dont have cameras on them.
We heated the tech shop where I work all winter with our server rack. Of course I do live in south Louisiana where you can count the below freezing days on your fingers but the shop is also pretty large. We finally got our blower to vent the hot air outside installed last week so now the server closet does not stay at a constant 90F now.
I work in a shop cleaning repairing and checking out communications systems for oil rigs and boats. Some of the crap that comes back is ridiculous. Thick layers of crude oil and deisel, the rotten smell of crew boats and the occasional dead rodent make the day go by. But hey, I get to play with robots to so it makes it all good.