When it comes to Amateur Radio's relationship with emergency services, I think we're our own worst enemies.
There's ALWAYS "that guy" who goes out of his way to be a pain in the arse. His car/truck/suv is usually covered in antennas, center console full of radios that have been modified to transmit out-of-band and scanners, windows covered in ARES/RACES stickers, has a vest/jacket with his call-sign on it instead of a nametag that also contains ARES/RACES patches, etc.
When other hams look at "that guy" and groan, what do we honestly expect everyone else to think?
Article is useless, since most open-source projects start as someone's hobby, and are contributed to by others coding as their hobby.
I realize that the quick-buck is all the rage these days, but the fact is that not everything is done for money. Some things are done for fun. Some are done because of a sense of duty to "give back" to society in some manner.
That works great, except for all the organizations that managed to get themselves exempted from the Do Not Call list. Political campaigns being the biggest offender. And retards from both sides are calling 1-2 times an hour from about 7-9pm almost every evening since August. Isn't living in a swing-state fun?
You're right about Tesla. Ferrari -- bought by Fiat. Lamborghini -- bought by Audi. Bugatti -- revived by VW. Tesla will either get bought, or go under. Either way, not much of a real loss.
However -- the Volt was interesting as a concept car, but I sure as hell won't be buying what it turned into for production, at the price they're now asking.
Low-mid $20s as a goal for the concept turned into mid $30s, and (my opinion) they killed the looks. Mid $30s will find you a whole host of new cars getting 35+ mpg highway, and now that small diesels are making an entrance (or re-entrance, in a few cases) in the US car market, those offerings are even more appealing than the production Volt.
I don't think the Volt will sell all that well, especially since hybrids of various forms are becoming more common, and offer more variety. Will the Volt's failure be a real blow to GM? Maybe, depending on how much they can sucker the US Taxpayers into giving them. Will it be a failure for the rest of the market? I doubt it. When pure electrics are a viable tech, the market will embrace them, but I don't think the Volt is going to open the floodgates any more than GM's last electric car did.
Especially if they're stupid enough to try to run the constituent email through the same mailserver (probably a MS Exchange box) that they use for their "business" email (ie, who's having lunch where, and which lobby is paying for it).
At this point, who cares? There's no rewind button to back us up 4 or 8 years.
Side note: Why the hell do politicians think I want to be interrupted in the middle of dinner with an automated phone call attacking their opponent? And why do they think that pissing me off with that interruption is going to help them?
Not true. The iPhone works fine without a PC (provided you do the activation in-store, of course). There might be some applications you can't download directly, but there are many you can; I'm not sure about music & video, but I just use a free app to grab stuff from a shared folder on my network, which is great for using it to transfer files.
Why do Americans buy Toyotas? In my case, it is because Europeans don't have a good small truck on the American market (or any small truck, good or bad, that I'm aware of). A station wagon is not suitable substitute all the time, and SUVs and "crossovers" are overpriced and still don't fit my needs as well as a small truck does.
The more common answer, though, is simply price. Japanese cars may be mediocre, but they're quite a bit better than GM, Ford, or Chrysler (which are often similarly priced). Your option for european cars here in the states are pretty much limited to Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Lotus, Mercedes, Porsche, Saab, Volkswagen, and Volvo. But they don't bring over their low-end models that you have in Europe, and as a result, they've created a niche market for themselves. People who don't have $40,000+ to spend on a car don't have many options from Europe, except for Volkswagen, and VW is still suffering a bit from their late-90s/early-00s spat of unreliability.
With a large number of people trying to find a way to pay for their house, and even more watching their budgets so they don't end up in financial trouble, a mediocre-but-cheaper car is going to sell a lot better than an outstanding-but-expensive car.
The problem isn't getting it to work, we've done that. It just happens really, really quickly. The part you need to work on is a collection apparatus that can survive the bang.
You assume the first test and the 2nd test are over the same material. K-12 usually is not tested that way. So they mastered 20% of the material covered for the first test, and 70% covered for the second test, but the second test may not cover any of the material that was on the first test.
Example: US History class. First Test, Colonial America through the Revolutionary war. Second Test, Independence through the Civil War. Third Test, Reconstruction to the roaring 20s. Fourth Test, WWI through WWII. Fifth Test, Post WWII America.
Just because the kid knows modern (say, the last two tests, WWI-onward) history doesn't mean he should have passed a class that is supposed to cover much more than that.
If current solar cells only absorb a portion of the spectrum (say, just yellow & green for example) then you can easily absorb a lot more energy by absorbing other portions of the spectrum (red through violet -- again, example). Expand that even further, and you can capture more energy using IR and UV because you're capturing a larger chunk of the spectrum.
Won't help you if you're an out-of-stater in many rural areas of the country. Corrupt small-town and small-county departments are not terribly uncommon, and they see an out-of-state plate as payday. Sure, you can take time off from work, spend the money to travel back, hire an attorney, and get told by the officer's father-in-law-who-just-happens-to-be-the-county-judge that anything you say doesn't matter because the officer would never lie, and you now get to pay the fine AND court costs.
Yes, I'm bitter about that one, because I wasn't speeding. The speeding tickets I rightfully got I just paid, no big deal.
Perhaps the bit you're missing is that windows isn't quite as bad as the/. crowd likes to say it is. Especially if its an older (translation: fixed & stable) variety like win2k or even nt4.
Honda Shadow VLX (600cc cruiser style bike) gets me 55 - 60 mpg. I've seen 80mpg from it, but that was on a fairly long stretch in front of a fast moving storm, so I had a lot of help from the wind.
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When it comes to Amateur Radio's relationship with emergency services, I think we're our own worst enemies.
There's ALWAYS "that guy" who goes out of his way to be a pain in the arse. His car/truck/suv is usually covered in antennas, center console full of radios that have been modified to transmit out-of-band and scanners, windows covered in ARES/RACES stickers, has a vest/jacket with his call-sign on it instead of a nametag that also contains ARES/RACES patches, etc.
When other hams look at "that guy" and groan, what do we honestly expect everyone else to think?
Article is useless, since most open-source projects start as someone's hobby, and are contributed to by others coding as their hobby.
I realize that the quick-buck is all the rage these days, but the fact is that not everything is done for money. Some things are done for fun. Some are done because of a sense of duty to "give back" to society in some manner.
That works great, except for all the organizations that managed to get themselves exempted from the Do Not Call list. Political campaigns being the biggest offender. And retards from both sides are calling 1-2 times an hour from about 7-9pm almost every evening since August. Isn't living in a swing-state fun?
You're right about Tesla. Ferrari -- bought by Fiat. Lamborghini -- bought by Audi. Bugatti -- revived by VW. Tesla will either get bought, or go under. Either way, not much of a real loss.
However -- the Volt was interesting as a concept car, but I sure as hell won't be buying what it turned into for production, at the price they're now asking.
Low-mid $20s as a goal for the concept turned into mid $30s, and (my opinion) they killed the looks. Mid $30s will find you a whole host of new cars getting 35+ mpg highway, and now that small diesels are making an entrance (or re-entrance, in a few cases) in the US car market, those offerings are even more appealing than the production Volt.
I don't think the Volt will sell all that well, especially since hybrids of various forms are becoming more common, and offer more variety. Will the Volt's failure be a real blow to GM? Maybe, depending on how much they can sucker the US Taxpayers into giving them. Will it be a failure for the rest of the market? I doubt it. When pure electrics are a viable tech, the market will embrace them, but I don't think the Volt is going to open the floodgates any more than GM's last electric car did.
That assumes competence at some level of government. I choose not to make such assumptions, and as a result, I'm not disappointed.
Especially if they're stupid enough to try to run the constituent email through the same mailserver (probably a MS Exchange box) that they use for their "business" email (ie, who's having lunch where, and which lobby is paying for it).
Sounds like a good way to obtain more funding.
Write up another grant proposal or three, have another round of graduate students write their thesis/dissertations on the project, etc.
At this point, who cares? There's no rewind button to back us up 4 or 8 years.
Side note: Why the hell do politicians think I want to be interrupted in the middle of dinner with an automated phone call attacking their opponent? And why do they think that pissing me off with that interruption is going to help them?
Not true. The iPhone works fine without a PC (provided you do the activation in-store, of course). There might be some applications you can't download directly, but there are many you can; I'm not sure about music & video, but I just use a free app to grab stuff from a shared folder on my network, which is great for using it to transfer files.
Why do Americans buy Toyotas? In my case, it is because Europeans don't have a good small truck on the American market (or any small truck, good or bad, that I'm aware of). A station wagon is not suitable substitute all the time, and SUVs and "crossovers" are overpriced and still don't fit my needs as well as a small truck does.
The more common answer, though, is simply price. Japanese cars may be mediocre, but they're quite a bit better than GM, Ford, or Chrysler (which are often similarly priced). Your option for european cars here in the states are pretty much limited to Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Lotus, Mercedes, Porsche, Saab, Volkswagen, and Volvo. But they don't bring over their low-end models that you have in Europe, and as a result, they've created a niche market for themselves. People who don't have $40,000+ to spend on a car don't have many options from Europe, except for Volkswagen, and VW is still suffering a bit from their late-90s/early-00s spat of unreliability.
With a large number of people trying to find a way to pay for their house, and even more watching their budgets so they don't end up in financial trouble, a mediocre-but-cheaper car is going to sell a lot better than an outstanding-but-expensive car.
Well, except the forums that don't allow gmail, hotmail, yahoo email, etc.
The problem isn't getting it to work, we've done that. It just happens really, really quickly. The part you need to work on is a collection apparatus that can survive the bang.
You assume the first test and the 2nd test are over the same material. K-12 usually is not tested that way. So they mastered 20% of the material covered for the first test, and 70% covered for the second test, but the second test may not cover any of the material that was on the first test.
Example: US History class. First Test, Colonial America through the Revolutionary war. Second Test, Independence through the Civil War. Third Test, Reconstruction to the roaring 20s. Fourth Test, WWI through WWII. Fifth Test, Post WWII America.
Just because the kid knows modern (say, the last two tests, WWI-onward) history doesn't mean he should have passed a class that is supposed to cover much more than that.
If current solar cells only absorb a portion of the spectrum (say, just yellow & green for example) then you can easily absorb a lot more energy by absorbing other portions of the spectrum (red through violet -- again, example). Expand that even further, and you can capture more energy using IR and UV because you're capturing a larger chunk of the spectrum.
Won't help you if you're an out-of-stater in many rural areas of the country. Corrupt small-town and small-county departments are not terribly uncommon, and they see an out-of-state plate as payday. Sure, you can take time off from work, spend the money to travel back, hire an attorney, and get told by the officer's father-in-law-who-just-happens-to-be-the-county-judge that anything you say doesn't matter because the officer would never lie, and you now get to pay the fine AND court costs.
Yes, I'm bitter about that one, because I wasn't speeding. The speeding tickets I rightfully got I just paid, no big deal.
Beware those who propose solutions to nonexistent or insignificant problems, that create more problems than it is supposed to solve.
In other words, beware of politicians.
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Seems like a separate network and portable harddrives to move the data would have been a pretty obvious thing to do.
Then again, I've worked with academic types, and not all of them are reasonable about the slightest perception of inconvenience.
"Salesman" is. Look at a used car lot. Apply the same ideas to windows pc sales.
Perhaps the bit you're missing is that windows isn't quite as bad as the /. crowd likes to say it is. Especially if its an older (translation: fixed & stable) variety like win2k or even nt4.
Honda Shadow VLX (600cc cruiser style bike) gets me 55 - 60 mpg. I've seen 80mpg from it, but that was on a fairly long stretch in front of a fast moving storm, so I had a lot of help from the wind.
Yes, I did know that. I'm referring to our system, not the UK's.
For those of us who WANT true simulations, this is a very good thing. There are few simulations out there, but a lot of games.
Now, if only they'd come out with something similar for flight sims...
Very true. I'm sure it will get even worse before it gets better.
RTFA. VOICE password. The person answering the phone for the bank needs to be able to see it to verify the caller is indeed the account holder.