GSM phone almost everywhere in the world with an extremely good chance of good coverage, that is, as long as you are not in the USA.
Strange, I live in the US, and I have had a GSM only cell phone for 5 years now. I've never had a problem getting a signal, Except in the middle of nowhere North Dakota. (places where even Analog cell phones get spotty coverage) Even Iowa has good GSM coverage.
Actually GSM coverage in IA is pretty good. Not most of the state, but all the major roads. Trust me, there is no reason to leave a major road when you are going through IA.
Try calling nextel while you are at it. They can't fix the problem if they don't know about it. Even if they do know about it, they will fix problems people care about before problems that nobody seems to mind.
It requires gathering evidence, but once you prove they are Spam friendly, you sue them for a refund. By hosting Spam they are not providing you with the ability to send email to anyone subscribing to MAPS. Therefore they are not fullfilling the implied parts of the contract and you deserve a refund.
I should mention that most layer-2 switches to not have the spanning tree stuff that bridges have, so they are not the same thing. A switch is a smart hub, in that it doesn't send traffic to everyone, but it isn't smart enough to find loops in the network and deal with them. Now that networks run only routeable IP this isn't a big deal. Back when the transition from bridges to switches was made, was the tail end of the time when your network was likely to run some protocol that wasn't router friendly, so you had to find some layer 2 redundancy, while with routable protocols you put your redundancy on layer 3. (layer 3 does a much better job of using redundancy)
You were taught wrong. A bridge is a device that routes on layer 2.
A switch is a device that does the operations in hardware as opposed to software. Generally a switch will run on layer 2 because it is much easier to put the layer 2 protocols in hardware, but sometimes they will work in layer 3. (actually most layer 3 switches are a combonation, doing the common tasks in hardware, but things less common in slower software)
Unless specified otherwise, most switches today operate on layer 2, so nobody uses the term bridge to refer to a switch on layer 2. Historically nobody ever used the term layer 2 switch, but sometimes layer 3 switches were refereed to without using the term bridge.
Not in this situation where Europe has started it by declaring US copyrights null and void.
Now in the case where MS complains about having to document their protocols under an Open Source compatible license, the US would respond like this. However the giving situation is one where Europe has already started a trade war, and the US has no alternative but to fight it.
Of course all this is moot, Europe is not stupid enough to start such a trade war.
Also, to say the WIPO "is not the law" is misleading. Lose a case against them and you will lose your domain name.
The WIPO is not a legal court of law. They can take away your domain name, but appeal in a court of law, and win, and the WIPO's decision is moot. A real court can put anyone who disagrees with them in jail, or impose fines. If the court says the domain is yours, any registrar who honers the WIPO transfer from you can find themselves shut down.
MS: Go ahead, we will see what the WTO has to say about that. Not to mention how the US will feel about various copyright treaties that are the only reason copyrights in the in other countries hold any value in the US. By pulling out of those treaties, the US in turn also pulls out (I have not read the treaties so I'm not sure exactly what should happen). Books like Harry Potter suddenly are public domain in the US. (This is questionable, is the UK part of the EU for purposes of this discussion or not? I can't figure out their status. Even if not, there are plenty of European copyrights that would be obsolete in the US)
The whole set a cookie thing is silly. Why do I need to login to your site? For slashdot it makes sense because I have a nick people see. When I'm sending in an online order I don't want to keep track of another password. I just want to give you my address and credit card number. (In fact I just abandoned a online order because they wouldn't process it until I logged on).
Most sites do not need cookies. So why do they set them? It waste my bandwidth (not too big a deal with broadband, but still a limited resource), and my disk space. (I am often filling up my disks, so this is a big deal)
Send me a cookie when I log in, and I'll accept it. Send me a cookie just because you can (which is what most web sites do) and I'll refuse it. Try to force me to login without giving me a benefit and I will refuse. Maybe I'm paranoid, but what if they really are out to get me, it costs me nothing to reject cookies, and it might help.
No, it is the right wing that has mastered the AM dial. The republicans are a different group, and while mostly members of one are members of the other, there are differences. The right wing does disagree with the republicans on some issues (though not often, they are after all mostly the same group).
The GPL is not evil, it is just something else to watch for. However if you are careful you can manage the GPL just fine. Just make sure you can send out the source code when someone asks. (Which doesn't happen often, most customers won't care) Then make sure that you keep GPL stuff separate from your stuff. We ship a GPL pdf2txt program where I work, not a problem, we just call it as an external program and read the result.
In some cases we will even release source code. pdf is not our core ability, so if we find a bug in pdf2txt we are likely to send it in so everyone can use our fix. We won't let you see the parts where we have added value, but those parts are carefully not GPL, and they are what you pay for. (Though admitidly you could do everything we do yourself given a year)
The above assumes that you are a developer trying to sell a product. In many cases you are selling your services to setup GPL software to someone else. In that case you don't care about IP and GPL because anything you write is paid for already by the customer.
If anyone is considering getting something like this, don't make the mistake of getting something with a built in motor. Get a trailer with a separate tow vehicle. I prefer 5Th wheels (they tow nice), but make your own choice.
With the built in motor you have to drive the whole house to a store, and fitting an RV into a standard parking spot is an exercise in frustration. Worse if you want to park near downtown sometime. Much easier to leave the house behind and just take the tow vehicle.
And there is the problem of what if it breaks? With the separate tow vehicle you just drop it off at the dealer and drive a loaner car. You will be hard pressed to find a town that doesn't have a dealer who can fix your truck, while someone willing to touch a RV is harder to find. Or just trade the truck in on a new one (only rich people live in an RV, it is too expensive for normal folks, so this is reasonable). Of course you could trade the RV in when it breaks, but good luck finding one you like in a random town, while truck dealers are all over.
Oh, and if you are doing this, please don't get a gas engine! Diesel is much more efficient, meaning it won't burn what gas my generation wants to live with for the rest of our life.
Not really. Oh we have been able to make long distance calls via satellite for decades. Once in a while it happens, but not often. It didn't take the phone companies long to figure out that people hate the latency (particularly when there is also and echo) and they will complain about it. So the only send voice over satellite when the under sea cables are full. Customers like TV don't care about this and are willing to buy all their satellite bandwidth anyway.
The only exceptions are those who must be mobile. Ships and airplanes may have no choice. Otherwise you can safely say that your conversations rarely use a satellite.
Its confusion. I've worked with a couple women in the computer field, and I found them on average equal to the average man in the field. I haven't done a statistical study, but I tend to believe that by any statistical measure they are equal. That is they are as likely to be better than me as any other man is, and as likely to be worse than me as any other man would be.
I've worked construction. It is a fact that the women I worked with did not have the physical strength to do the job like I could. When there was thinking involved, or only a small amount of strength was required, they did just as well as anyone. When massive strength was called for they did not have it. (think lifting a wall)
Statistically women are more likely to be found in construction - a trade where genetics works against them, than computers - a trade where they are fully equal to their peers. I cannot explain it.
No, I want (and have) my own domain so that I can connect to my computers from whereever. Sure I have a static IP, but I change ISPs from time to time, when I get a better deal. (Or I move).
I want a stable email and web address. I no longer have.umn.edu addresses, and I haven't since I graduated in 1998. The ISP I used after that doesn't provide anything other than dial-up in my area. (There are at least 3 high speed options to choose from) yahoo used to provide free email with pop access, but I'm glad I never signed up as they no longer provide it.
By running my own servers I spam filters that I can control.
I get plenty of benefit from my own domain. I don't care if you know what it is or not though. I don't have it for vanity, I have it for convenience.
Read the 9th and 10th ammendments. Just because a right is not listed doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yes motors and generators are essentially the same thing. However a generator is not a motor spinning backwards. A generator is a motor that is being spun by an external power source.
Connect a motor to a powersource and it will start to turn. Connect the output shaft to an input that is powered (a turbine for example), and the motor will try generate power. However the motor is still turning the same direction, it is just being driving faster than the electrical input would make it go, so it is putting out electric power.
I don't know about that. The car can presumably accelerate that pretty hard. 0-60 in 4 seconds isn't unheard of, not even great, though better than most cars can do.
These batteries can go from dead to 80% in a minute, and they can run for an hour on a charge (estimate only, but it seems reasonable if a little low) so they must be able to get this much current to the batteries, and sustain it for a minute, for normal charging.
The problem wasn't that it takes hours to recharge. The problem was energy density
No, it was both. People want a car that they can take on vacation, easily refueling ever once in a while. While refueling every 50 miles isn't ideal, people would live with that if it only took a minute and was cheap. You shouldn't be sitting still for longer than that anyway for health reasons. However nobody is willing to wait hours for a recharge.
The problem was energy density: the EV1 devoted ~90% of its energy to carrying its own batteries.
90% that doesn't fit. At high speeds
(60mph) most of the energy is spent on wind resistance which is function of frontal area and other such variables, none of which are affected by mass.
Even if we assume 20mph where rolling resistance is the dominate factor you are making a claim that the the entire car minus batteries weighs -84lbs! (the car specs at 3086 lbs, + 200lbs driver, 90% of that is 2970, which subtracting the driver out again comes out to negative weight!)
It is important to remember when talking about the space station that science and PR are not important. Most important is keeping smart ex-soviet rocket scientists from heading to some evil country (North Korea for example) where they would develop ICBMs in exchange for food. A secondary goal is to bring home the port for the more powerful politicians.
Science is just a handy cover. Every once in a while some is done too, but it isn't the goal and should not be expected, though of course those who care will take what we can get.
One of the advantages of differing tax rates is I can use that as a basis for moving. This is one of the first arguments for libertarian's states should decide arguments.
I care about something far more than recall and precision. I care about rank. There are often 100s of pages on the topic I'm searching on. I do not have time or energy to wade through all of them. I want the first link that shows up to have all the information I need. This is more than relevance, this is ordered relevance.
Well that is the answer if you want to do your own plumbing in Minnesota and live in a "community of over 2000 people". (I looked this up a few years ago) Apparently it takes that long to figure out that unpressurized water runs downhill, hot water pipes cannot be connected to cold pipes, and other such things that really are trivial.
Mind even after all this there are still inspectors to make sure the professionals are doing a good job. In my experience with professional plumbers the inspectors are required, and the 10 years are not nearly enough. You have heard the story about the doctors who gets his plumbers bill and complains that as a doctor he couldn't charge that much, only to find the plumber was a doctor until he found plumbing paid better. Well plumbing pays better because they need more training before they can work on their own because the job is so hard. (at least that is the only explanation I can come up with)
I myself live in a country where I don't feel the need to buy a gun. And I'm very happy about it.
I don't know one person who feels a need to buy a gun for self defense. I know many people who have one for self defense anyway though. Need isn't important, sure it is 1 in a million or some such that they would be attacked, but guns are cheap enough that why not keep it with you just in case. Now these are all people who enjoy shooting targets as a hobby. (which is much safer than some of the drugs some people do)
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GSM phone almost everywhere in the world with an extremely good chance of good coverage, that is, as long as you are not in the USA.
Strange, I live in the US, and I have had a GSM only cell phone for 5 years now. I've never had a problem getting a signal, Except in the middle of nowhere North Dakota. (places where even Analog cell phones get spotty coverage) Even Iowa has good GSM coverage.
Actually GSM coverage in IA is pretty good. Not most of the state, but all the major roads. Trust me, there is no reason to leave a major road when you are going through IA.
Try calling nextel while you are at it. They can't fix the problem if they don't know about it. Even if they do know about it, they will fix problems people care about before problems that nobody seems to mind.
It requires gathering evidence, but once you prove they are Spam friendly, you sue them for a refund. By hosting Spam they are not providing you with the ability to send email to anyone subscribing to MAPS. Therefore they are not fullfilling the implied parts of the contract and you deserve a refund.
Contact a lawyer of course, but it should work.
I should mention that most layer-2 switches to not have the spanning tree stuff that bridges have, so they are not the same thing. A switch is a smart hub, in that it doesn't send traffic to everyone, but it isn't smart enough to find loops in the network and deal with them. Now that networks run only routeable IP this isn't a big deal. Back when the transition from bridges to switches was made, was the tail end of the time when your network was likely to run some protocol that wasn't router friendly, so you had to find some layer 2 redundancy, while with routable protocols you put your redundancy on layer 3. (layer 3 does a much better job of using redundancy)
You were taught wrong. A bridge is a device that routes on layer 2.
A switch is a device that does the operations in hardware as opposed to software. Generally a switch will run on layer 2 because it is much easier to put the layer 2 protocols in hardware, but sometimes they will work in layer 3. (actually most layer 3 switches are a combonation, doing the common tasks in hardware, but things less common in slower software)
Unless specified otherwise, most switches today operate on layer 2, so nobody uses the term bridge to refer to a switch on layer 2. Historically nobody ever used the term layer 2 switch, but sometimes layer 3 switches were refereed to without using the term bridge.
Not in this situation where Europe has started it by declaring US copyrights null and void.
Now in the case where MS complains about having to document their protocols under an Open Source compatible license, the US would respond like this. However the giving situation is one where Europe has already started a trade war, and the US has no alternative but to fight it.
Of course all this is moot, Europe is not stupid enough to start such a trade war.
Also, to say the WIPO "is not the law" is misleading. Lose a case against them and you will lose your domain name.
The WIPO is not a legal court of law. They can take away your domain name, but appeal in a court of law, and win, and the WIPO's decision is moot. A real court can put anyone who disagrees with them in jail, or impose fines. If the court says the domain is yours, any registrar who honers the WIPO transfer from you can find themselves shut down.
MS: Go ahead, we will see what the WTO has to say about that. Not to mention how the US will feel about various copyright treaties that are the only reason copyrights in the in other countries hold any value in the US. By pulling out of those treaties, the US in turn also pulls out (I have not read the treaties so I'm not sure exactly what should happen). Books like Harry Potter suddenly are public domain in the US. (This is questionable, is the UK part of the EU for purposes of this discussion or not? I can't figure out their status. Even if not, there are plenty of European copyrights that would be obsolete in the US)
The whole set a cookie thing is silly. Why do I need to login to your site? For slashdot it makes sense because I have a nick people see. When I'm sending in an online order I don't want to keep track of another password. I just want to give you my address and credit card number. (In fact I just abandoned a online order because they wouldn't process it until I logged on).
Most sites do not need cookies. So why do they set them? It waste my bandwidth (not too big a deal with broadband, but still a limited resource), and my disk space. (I am often filling up my disks, so this is a big deal)
Send me a cookie when I log in, and I'll accept it. Send me a cookie just because you can (which is what most web sites do) and I'll refuse it. Try to force me to login without giving me a benefit and I will refuse. Maybe I'm paranoid, but what if they really are out to get me, it costs me nothing to reject cookies, and it might help.
No, it is the right wing that has mastered the AM dial. The republicans are a different group, and while mostly members of one are members of the other, there are differences. The right wing does disagree with the republicans on some issues (though not often, they are after all mostly the same group).
The GPL is not evil, it is just something else to watch for. However if you are careful you can manage the GPL just fine. Just make sure you can send out the source code when someone asks. (Which doesn't happen often, most customers won't care) Then make sure that you keep GPL stuff separate from your stuff. We ship a GPL pdf2txt program where I work, not a problem, we just call it as an external program and read the result.
In some cases we will even release source code. pdf is not our core ability, so if we find a bug in pdf2txt we are likely to send it in so everyone can use our fix. We won't let you see the parts where we have added value, but those parts are carefully not GPL, and they are what you pay for. (Though admitidly you could do everything we do yourself given a year)
The above assumes that you are a developer trying to sell a product. In many cases you are selling your services to setup GPL software to someone else. In that case you don't care about IP and GPL because anything you write is paid for already by the customer.
If anyone is considering getting something like this, don't make the mistake of getting something with a built in motor. Get a trailer with a separate tow vehicle. I prefer 5Th wheels (they tow nice), but make your own choice.
With the built in motor you have to drive the whole house to a store, and fitting an RV into a standard parking spot is an exercise in frustration. Worse if you want to park near downtown sometime. Much easier to leave the house behind and just take the tow vehicle.
And there is the problem of what if it breaks? With the separate tow vehicle you just drop it off at the dealer and drive a loaner car. You will be hard pressed to find a town that doesn't have a dealer who can fix your truck, while someone willing to touch a RV is harder to find. Or just trade the truck in on a new one (only rich people live in an RV, it is too expensive for normal folks, so this is reasonable). Of course you could trade the RV in when it breaks, but good luck finding one you like in a random town, while truck dealers are all over.
Oh, and if you are doing this, please don't get a gas engine! Diesel is much more efficient, meaning it won't burn what gas my generation wants to live with for the rest of our life.
Not really. Oh we have been able to make long distance calls via satellite for decades. Once in a while it happens, but not often. It didn't take the phone companies long to figure out that people hate the latency (particularly when there is also and echo) and they will complain about it. So the only send voice over satellite when the under sea cables are full. Customers like TV don't care about this and are willing to buy all their satellite bandwidth anyway.
The only exceptions are those who must be mobile. Ships and airplanes may have no choice. Otherwise you can safely say that your conversations rarely use a satellite.
And men are not expected to help with housework, shopping and child care after work? that is a very messed up household.
Its confusion. I've worked with a couple women in the computer field, and I found them on average equal to the average man in the field. I haven't done a statistical study, but I tend to believe that by any statistical measure they are equal. That is they are as likely to be better than me as any other man is, and as likely to be worse than me as any other man would be.
I've worked construction. It is a fact that the women I worked with did not have the physical strength to do the job like I could. When there was thinking involved, or only a small amount of strength was required, they did just as well as anyone. When massive strength was called for they did not have it. (think lifting a wall)
Statistically women are more likely to be found in construction - a trade where genetics works against them, than computers - a trade where they are fully equal to their peers. I cannot explain it.
No, I want (and have) my own domain so that I can connect to my computers from whereever. Sure I have a static IP, but I change ISPs from time to time, when I get a better deal. (Or I move).
I want a stable email and web address. I no longer have .umn.edu addresses, and I haven't since I graduated in 1998. The ISP I used after that doesn't provide anything other than dial-up in my area. (There are at least 3 high speed options to choose from) yahoo used to provide free email with pop access, but I'm glad I never signed up as they no longer provide it.
By running my own servers I spam filters that I can control.
I get plenty of benefit from my own domain. I don't care if you know what it is or not though. I don't have it for vanity, I have it for convenience.
Read the 9th and 10th ammendments. Just because a right is not listed doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yes motors and generators are essentially the same thing. However a generator is not a motor spinning backwards. A generator is a motor that is being spun by an external power source.
Connect a motor to a powersource and it will start to turn. Connect the output shaft to an input that is powered (a turbine for example), and the motor will try generate power. However the motor is still turning the same direction, it is just being driving faster than the electrical input would make it go, so it is putting out electric power.
I don't know about that. The car can presumably accelerate that pretty hard. 0-60 in 4 seconds isn't unheard of, not even great, though better than most cars can do.
These batteries can go from dead to 80% in a minute, and they can run for an hour on a charge (estimate only, but it seems reasonable if a little low) so they must be able to get this much current to the batteries, and sustain it for a minute, for normal charging.
The problem wasn't that it takes hours to recharge. The problem was energy density
No, it was both. People want a car that they can take on vacation, easily refueling ever once in a while. While refueling every 50 miles isn't ideal, people would live with that if it only took a minute and was cheap. You shouldn't be sitting still for longer than that anyway for health reasons. However nobody is willing to wait hours for a recharge.
The problem was energy density: the EV1 devoted ~90% of its energy to carrying its own batteries.
90% that doesn't fit. At high speeds (60mph) most of the energy is spent on wind resistance which is function of frontal area and other such variables, none of which are affected by mass.
Even if we assume 20mph where rolling resistance is the dominate factor you are making a claim that the the entire car minus batteries weighs -84lbs! (the car specs at 3086 lbs, + 200lbs driver, 90% of that is 2970, which subtracting the driver out again comes out to negative weight!)
It is important to remember when talking about the space station that science and PR are not important. Most important is keeping smart ex-soviet rocket scientists from heading to some evil country (North Korea for example) where they would develop ICBMs in exchange for food. A secondary goal is to bring home the port for the more powerful politicians.
Science is just a handy cover. Every once in a while some is done too, but it isn't the goal and should not be expected, though of course those who care will take what we can get.
One of the advantages of differing tax rates is I can use that as a basis for moving. This is one of the first arguments for libertarian's states should decide arguments.
I care about something far more than recall and precision. I care about rank. There are often 100s of pages on the topic I'm searching on. I do not have time or energy to wade through all of them. I want the first link that shows up to have all the information I need. This is more than relevance, this is ordered relevance.
Well that is the answer if you want to do your own plumbing in Minnesota and live in a "community of over 2000 people". (I looked this up a few years ago) Apparently it takes that long to figure out that unpressurized water runs downhill, hot water pipes cannot be connected to cold pipes, and other such things that really are trivial.
Mind even after all this there are still inspectors to make sure the professionals are doing a good job. In my experience with professional plumbers the inspectors are required, and the 10 years are not nearly enough. You have heard the story about the doctors who gets his plumbers bill and complains that as a doctor he couldn't charge that much, only to find the plumber was a doctor until he found plumbing paid better. Well plumbing pays better because they need more training before they can work on their own because the job is so hard. (at least that is the only explanation I can come up with)
I myself live in a country where I don't feel the need to buy a gun. And I'm very happy about it.
I don't know one person who feels a need to buy a gun for self defense. I know many people who have one for self defense anyway though. Need isn't important, sure it is 1 in a million or some such that they would be attacked, but guns are cheap enough that why not keep it with you just in case. Now these are all people who enjoy shooting targets as a hobby. (which is much safer than some of the drugs some people do)