I read somewhere (lost the link) that on some surveys more young people believe that aliens exist than that they will get anything from the social security system.
Should there be a new addition to Godwin's law? Maybe the person who brings up terrorism in relation to something seemingly unrelated automatically destroys all credibility in the thread/conversation/hearing. This seems similar to someone (I forget who) in the EU saying that not voting in the EU constitution would bring back Nazi-like groups and a new Holocaust.
Bluetooth isn't really a WLAN technology, it was meant for wireless personal area networks, like using wireless headsets with phones and wireless keyboards with computers. Its transcievers are much rather inexpensive and it is short range & low power. It is a much more general idea than, for example, WIFI, which was specifically for LAN applications.
Ultrawideband (UWB) refers to the pulses used to transmit the data. They are extremely short pulses (duration on the order of picoseconds) which means that they have an incredibly wide bandwidth (from 100'2 of megahertz to a few gigahertz). They transmit these pulses at defined intervals (usually nano to microsecond spacing). In UWB systems bandwidth and data rate are not as closely linked as in traditional communications (higher data rates = wider bandwidth). The bandwidth is influenced more by regulations, environment, and application.
I'll be as sad as anybody, if not moreso, to see this be the end of Nintendo. MS is beating them to the release, and Sony might - will there be a big enough audience for the Nintendo when it comes out? I would definitely like to see the new Zelda & Metroid incarnations for the new one, though.
You can add the following text to create an exception when distributing the font:
"As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version."
This is and addition to the GPL, and is also an "experimental" addition.
I've been waiting for someone to bring this up. I went to a webpage the other day that wouldn't let me view anything on their site becuase it could tell that I was blocking the ads in Firefox. It sent me to a generic page form the site saying that showing me ads is how they get money and I was hurting their business. I'm not sure how looking at their ads helps their business since I rarely to never click on an ad on a webpage.
Now just wait for the lawsuits saying the people who created Adblock are prohibiting web commerce or something like that.
One hint - even though it creates huge blank spots in web pages, setting Adblock to hide the ads instead of removing them circumvented that certain website's checker.
I is definitely an old dataset - at least the part that I looked at is. What is now called the Edward Jones Dome (where the St. Louis Rams play) has the TWA logo on the top - that was removed a long time ago!
I'm not sure the part about Helmholtz being first was useful. To quote the article, "Helmholtz was concerned solely with the scientific analysis of sound and had no interest in direct musical applications." Pythagoras had a great deal to say about the mathematical underpinings of music. Why isn't he the first by centuries? You also have to think about the impact of people's inventions. Mention the word MOOG to any musician and they will instantly know what is meant by that. Same with MIDI. I don't know anything about Fairlight, but that's probably not unreasonable as well.
How is writing a theme song on par with creating the MOOG or MIDI?
To quote Jules Winfield from Pulp Fiction, writing an electronica theme song and creating the synthesizer that the composer uses "ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport".
I'm not saying the Dr. Who theme song didn't have an influence, but....I think I've expressed myself properly in the last paragraph.
I think the PSP is very cool, but damn is it expensive! Think about it: $250 for the thing, $50 for a game. That's how much a PS2 costs! I can't see paying prices on par consoles even if it is the greatest handheld gaming platform ever.
maybe they're disconcerted by some clients' apparent lack of a business model. some business people probably don't understand creating something without charging for it. it doesn't seem with the focus on patents nowadays that some would support creating technology that helps people and doesn't make you rich at the same time.
I don't know much (actually, next to nothing) about this case, but shouldn't there be some sort of time limit on lawsuits such as this? Sony has been making the controllers for years and this is just happening now? If this is a valid claim it should have been resolved when the first controllers came out...which was 7 years ago.
Of course, this could have been going on since 1998 without me knowing. But waiting for so long to bring a patent infringement lawsuit (especially after years of huge profits) should count against the patent holder. That's the way trademarks work, right?
With any wireless system the spectrum is divided in a similar way. For example, in cellular phone systems there are chunks of bandwidth set aside for control channels, the base station to mobile link, and the mobile to base station link. Often times these chunks are all fairly close to each other (within the same general band).
separating the frequency range for different applications is not necessarily a good idea - having the devices intelligently use the spectrum they see is a key issue. Also, the modulation scheme used for the data determines the bandwidth and can be changed to most efficiently ustilize the spectrum (different data rates for different links, e.g. assymetric DSL) and the channel conditions.
As far as distance goes, the general idea is that lower frequencies propagate farther (AM radio has a longer range than FM partly because of the frequencies involved). The signal strength that you see as you move away from a transmitter does not drop linearly though (proportional to 1/d^2 for free space) which means that you lose a lot of power quite quickly. Of course sending out more power will let you go a little farther, but it also helps things like bluetooth since they can be low power devices (always a good idea) and won't interfere with things fairly close to them.
Depending on the job you want, EE or CpE is probably a good way to go. Even if you're going to be just a programmer for hte rest of your life, the math skills will come in handy and the digital design courses will help you understand a lot about how computers actually work. I was a t.a. for a digital design class for two years and could pick out the CS kids from the EEs right away. They could both program the FPGAs but only the EEs understood what they were doing. Practical knowledge will make you more attractive than just theory.
Also, a master's degree never hurts - a friend and I both interviewed at the same company last month (he's finishing his BS and I'm finishing my MS) and my offer for (approximately) the same job was $18k more than his. 2 years more = PROFIT!
Is it really possible for the "new system" to unite the dictionary to cover all languages. This would seem to ignore the different peculiarities (for lack of a better term) of any specific language. While a spanish word may easily be equated to a french word or an italian word (because they are all closely related and are romance languages) it may not be as easy to equate a spanish word to a chinese word. or even an english word (remember that contrary to some people's belief english is not a romance language, it is germanic although it has absorbed words from romance languages).
I don't know where I'm going with this....but where are the credentials for the people involved with this project? I think the concerns some people have raised about the Wikipedia are way more valid here.
Go to grad school. Then the only people who will care about your undergrad school is the admissions people - and all they care about is your GPA and abilities.
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I read somewhere (lost the link) that on some surveys more young people believe that aliens exist than that they will get anything from the social security system.
Should there be a new addition to Godwin's law? Maybe the person who brings up terrorism in relation to something seemingly unrelated automatically destroys all credibility in the thread/conversation/hearing. This seems similar to someone (I forget who) in the EU saying that not voting in the EU constitution would bring back Nazi-like groups and a new Holocaust.
Bluetooth isn't really a WLAN technology, it was meant for wireless personal area networks, like using wireless headsets with phones and wireless keyboards with computers. Its transcievers are much rather inexpensive and it is short range & low power. It is a much more general idea than, for example, WIFI, which was specifically for LAN applications.
Ultrawideband (UWB) refers to the pulses used to transmit the data. They are extremely short pulses (duration on the order of picoseconds) which means that they have an incredibly wide bandwidth (from 100'2 of megahertz to a few gigahertz). They transmit these pulses at defined intervals (usually nano to microsecond spacing). In UWB systems bandwidth and data rate are not as closely linked as in traditional communications (higher data rates = wider bandwidth). The bandwidth is influenced more by regulations, environment, and application.
I'll be as sad as anybody, if not moreso, to see this be the end of Nintendo. MS is beating them to the release, and Sony might - will there be a big enough audience for the Nintendo when it comes out? I would definitely like to see the new Zelda & Metroid incarnations for the new one, though.
You can add the following text to create an exception when distributing the font:
l #FontException
"As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version."
This is and addition to the GPL, and is also an "experimental" addition.
I found it here: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.htm
I've been waiting for someone to bring this up. I went to a webpage the other day that wouldn't let me view anything on their site becuase it could tell that I was blocking the ads in Firefox. It sent me to a generic page form the site saying that showing me ads is how they get money and I was hurting their business. I'm not sure how looking at their ads helps their business since I rarely to never click on an ad on a webpage.
Now just wait for the lawsuits saying the people who created Adblock are prohibiting web commerce or something like that.
One hint - even though it creates huge blank spots in web pages, setting Adblock to hide the ads instead of removing them circumvented that certain website's checker.
I is definitely an old dataset - at least the part that I looked at is. What is now called the Edward Jones Dome (where the St. Louis Rams play) has the TWA logo on the top - that was removed a long time ago!
I'm not sure the part about Helmholtz being first was useful. To quote the article, "Helmholtz was concerned solely with the scientific analysis of sound and had no interest in direct musical applications." Pythagoras had a great deal to say about the mathematical underpinings of music. Why isn't he the first by centuries? You also have to think about the impact of people's inventions. Mention the word MOOG to any musician and they will instantly know what is meant by that. Same with MIDI. I don't know anything about Fairlight, but that's probably not unreasonable as well.
How is writing a theme song on par with creating the MOOG or MIDI?
To quote Jules Winfield from Pulp Fiction, writing an electronica theme song and creating the synthesizer that the composer uses "ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport".
I'm not saying the Dr. Who theme song didn't have an influence, but....I think I've expressed myself properly in the last paragraph.
I think the PSP is very cool, but damn is it expensive! Think about it: $250 for the thing, $50 for a game. That's how much a PS2 costs! I can't see paying prices on par consoles even if it is the greatest handheld gaming platform ever.
maybe they're disconcerted by some clients' apparent lack of a business model. some business people probably don't understand creating something without charging for it. it doesn't seem with the focus on patents nowadays that some would support creating technology that helps people and doesn't make you rich at the same time.
I don't know much (actually, next to nothing) about this case, but shouldn't there be some sort of time limit on lawsuits such as this? Sony has been making the controllers for years and this is just happening now? If this is a valid claim it should have been resolved when the first controllers came out...which was 7 years ago .
Of course, this could have been going on since 1998 without me knowing. But waiting for so long to bring a patent infringement lawsuit (especially after years of huge profits) should count against the patent holder. That's the way trademarks work, right?
I still can't understand how "We're losing money" is the same as "We're not making as much money as we think we should".
With any wireless system the spectrum is divided in a similar way. For example, in cellular phone systems there are chunks of bandwidth set aside for control channels, the base station to mobile link, and the mobile to base station link. Often times these chunks are all fairly close to each other (within the same general band).
separating the frequency range for different applications is not necessarily a good idea - having the devices intelligently use the spectrum they see is a key issue. Also, the modulation scheme used for the data determines the bandwidth and can be changed to most efficiently ustilize the spectrum (different data rates for different links, e.g. assymetric DSL) and the channel conditions.
As far as distance goes, the general idea is that lower frequencies propagate farther (AM radio has a longer range than FM partly because of the frequencies involved). The signal strength that you see as you move away from a transmitter does not drop linearly though (proportional to 1/d^2 for free space) which means that you lose a lot of power quite quickly. Of course sending out more power will let you go a little farther, but it also helps things like bluetooth since they can be low power devices (always a good idea) and won't interfere with things fairly close to them.
Depending on the job you want, EE or CpE is probably a good way to go. Even if you're going to be just a programmer for hte rest of your life, the math skills will come in handy and the digital design courses will help you understand a lot about how computers actually work. I was a t.a. for a digital design class for two years and could pick out the CS kids from the EEs right away. They could both program the FPGAs but only the EEs understood what they were doing. Practical knowledge will make you more attractive than just theory.
Also, a master's degree never hurts - a friend and I both interviewed at the same company last month (he's finishing his BS and I'm finishing my MS) and my offer for (approximately) the same job was $18k more than his. 2 years more = PROFIT!
So I could speak 2 languages if one is a language that I created? How does that work?
Slashdotting does not differentiate between open source & closed source (try to go to opensource.org now!)
maybe if your lucky Hopefully any AI will be able to differentiate between your & you're and their , they're, & there!
Can a machine spell symphony or compose correctly?
Is it really possible for the "new system" to unite the dictionary to cover all languages. This would seem to ignore the different peculiarities (for lack of a better term) of any specific language. While a spanish word may easily be equated to a french word or an italian word (because they are all closely related and are romance languages) it may not be as easy to equate a spanish word to a chinese word. or even an english word (remember that contrary to some people's belief english is not a romance language, it is germanic although it has absorbed words from romance languages). I don't know where I'm going with this....but where are the credentials for the people involved with this project? I think the concerns some people have raised about the Wikipedia are way more valid here.
Go to grad school. Then the only people who will care about your undergrad school is the admissions people - and all they care about is your GPA and abilities.