You are correct, those AirFones do you a terrestrial network. And your calls are transmitted in the clear (AM I think) for anyone to hear. But it's already been announced the AirFone is shutting down.
You bring up an interesting point. Someone could have a headset and use something like Vonage SoftPhone to make phone calls to the ground for the same flat fee they're paying for the wifi. It's even more interesting now considering that Airfone is going away.
I'm far from a physicist or a mechanical engineer, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that electricity usage does not tax jet engines. It was my understanding that the engine uses all of its fuel to keep the jet in the air, and gobs and gobs of electricity are pretty much a side benefit of having mechanical parts already moving, so you just slap on some magnets or something and drain off the power. That's why many of the large emergency generators you see in disaster situations are little more than jet engines strapped to flat-bed trailers.
The thing that the military adds to R&D that academia lacks is urgency. The military responds to a threat, or a perceived threat. Academia can spend generations arguing the same theories to death.
If this was Digg, I'd mark this "old news." We've had this at Jewel stores in the Chicago area for almost a year. Haven't tried it myself, though. I use Peapod.
Sounds like the same thing the tinfoil hat crowd said about the Japanese in the 80's. You must be too young to realize that you have nothing new to say.
Since the 22nd Amendment took effect in 1951, there have only been four: Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, and the younger Bush. I don't know where you went to school, but around here four out of 11 does not equal 99%. You must be very young and not have much knowledge of history.
Drones would be 24/7 surveilance... They don't keep chopper up for more than an hour or so.
That's Philly. In other cities, helicopters do stay in the air 24 hours a day. When I lived in Houston, that was the policy from either the city police or the Harris County Sheriff's Department. I forget which. Always at least one; two is preferred.
Rather than one cop walking down a block, say, you'd have several thousand video cameras pointed at everyone's windows and doors, monitored by software.
Welcome to Chicago, Illinois. Currently 3,000+ remote police cameras deployed, monitored by a combination of live operators and software. Some equipped with microphones that can pick up "suspicious" sounds (like gunshots) and swing the camera toward the source. The future it here.
You and my wife have something in common -- a pattern of police harassment. One of the side benefits of leaving Houston was that she suddenly stopped being pulled over for being a pretty blonde in a convertible. Used to happen a couple of times a week in the nice weather. And the less responsive she was to their advances, the more threatening they got.
Probably. They're probably just standard microwave transmissions like TV stations use all the time. The trick is to be located between the transmitter and the receiver in order to see them.
Man, I really regret not buying that scanner I saw in Japan that did just that, but was small enough to clip to your belt.
This is already done in many cities with helicopters. Why is having a drone in the air any different?
When I lived in Houston, it was the policy of the police to have at least one helicopter in the air 24 hours a day -- sometimes two. I recall a news article from when they scaled it back to cut costs. I would assume that using drones would allow them to return to two aircraft in the air -- just like they used to have in 1999.
I totally agree with you. It's a nuisance. Give it to me, or don't give it to me.
One company (that I can't remember) came up with a great compromise. It's a rally racing game for the PSP. If you have all day to spend doing nothing but driving around to unlock the codes, that's fine. If you're a busy person with a full life, you can buy the unlock codes online for something like three dollars. A great compromise. Kids without cash to waste but with tons of time on their hands can mash buttons all day, and those of us with more money than time can also unlock the cars. Win-win.
(And getting the codes from a web site isn't an option because they're uniquely generated and tied to your PSP serial number.)
I like CrackApple. (Crackberry + Apple. I don't think marketing will go for it, though.)
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Imagine a freeway, where every ten minutes, you go through a toll booth, where they stop you, tell you you smell bad or have ring-around-the-collar, and ask: "would you like to buy some deodorant? Soap? Your teeth are yellow too. We have whiteners."
We already have this. They're called billboards.
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In the freedom-filled United States, if I purchase and legal DVD of The Incredibles at HMV and rip it to my iPod video, I have committed a crime.
In Communist China, if I purchase a legal VCD of The Incredibles at HMV and rip it to my iPod video, I have not committed a crime.
Guess which country got my money when I wanted The Incredibles on video.
Thanks. I have most of the buildings you mention already. Unfortunately, I also have a backlog of about 6,000 photos from 20 cities. They'll all end up there... eventually.
Holy pop-ups, Batman! The article link spawns THREE full-screen pops that even Firefox couldn't stop.
Back on topic: There was an article in Crain's Chicago Business a couple of weeks ago saying it's hard times for the Indian outsourcing industry because wages in India are on the rise.
they're swaying sheeple who don't do their homework before choosing a VOIP service
I did my homework and still went with Vonage. At the time they were the only VOIP service providing London and Paris phone numbers for $5/month. I still don't know of another company that does, though I'll gladly sign up with one that gives me a Hong Kong number.
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You are correct, those AirFones do you a terrestrial network. And your calls are transmitted in the clear (AM I think) for anyone to hear. But it's already been announced the AirFone is shutting down.
You bring up an interesting point. Someone could have a headset and use something like Vonage SoftPhone to make phone calls to the ground for the same flat fee they're paying for the wifi. It's even more interesting now considering that Airfone is going away.
I'm far from a physicist or a mechanical engineer, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that electricity usage does not tax jet engines. It was my understanding that the engine uses all of its fuel to keep the jet in the air, and gobs and gobs of electricity are pretty much a side benefit of having mechanical parts already moving, so you just slap on some magnets or something and drain off the power. That's why many of the large emergency generators you see in disaster situations are little more than jet engines strapped to flat-bed trailers.
The thing that the military adds to R&D that academia lacks is urgency. The military responds to a threat, or a perceived threat. Academia can spend generations arguing the same theories to death.
How many of those are functionally illiterate, though? I've heard figures as high as 30% for the States.
And I've heard figures as high as 94% from whatever country you're from.
See? Now my figures are just as accurate as yours!
Consider yourself statistically illiterate.
If this was Digg, I'd mark this "old news." We've had this at Jewel stores in the Chicago area for almost a year.
Haven't tried it myself, though. I use Peapod.
Sounds like the same thing the tinfoil hat crowd said about the Japanese in the 80's. You must be too young to realize that you have nothing new to say.
I'd wager the capacitors soldered on the motherboard of a Mac are just as easy to replace as the capacitors soldered on the motherboard of a Dell.
Since the 22nd Amendment took effect in 1951, there have only been four: Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, and the younger Bush.
I don't know where you went to school, but around here four out of 11 does not equal 99%. You must be very young and not have much knowledge of history.
Drones would be 24/7 surveilance... They don't keep chopper up for more than an hour or so.
That's Philly. In other cities, helicopters do stay in the air 24 hours a day. When I lived in Houston, that was the policy from either the city police or the Harris County Sheriff's Department. I forget which. Always at least one; two is preferred.
Rather than one cop walking down a block, say, you'd have several thousand video cameras pointed at everyone's windows and doors, monitored by software.
Welcome to Chicago, Illinois. Currently 3,000+ remote police cameras deployed, monitored by a combination of live operators and software. Some equipped with microphones that can pick up "suspicious" sounds (like gunshots) and swing the camera toward the source. The future it here.
You and my wife have something in common -- a pattern of police harassment. One of the side benefits of leaving Houston was that she suddenly stopped being pulled over for being a pretty blonde in a convertible. Used to happen a couple of times a week in the nice weather. And the less responsive she was to their advances, the more threatening they got.
Probably. They're probably just standard microwave transmissions like TV stations use all the time. The trick is to be located between the transmitter and the receiver in order to see them.
Man, I really regret not buying that scanner I saw in Japan that did just that, but was small enough to clip to your belt.
This is already done in many cities with helicopters. Why is having a drone in the air any different?
When I lived in Houston, it was the policy of the police to have at least one helicopter in the air 24 hours a day -- sometimes two. I recall a news article from when they scaled it back to cut costs. I would assume that using drones would allow them to return to two aircraft in the air -- just like they used to have in 1999.
Having never played a MMORPG, I couldn't tell you.
Unless it's not a popular game, so it's not listed.
Or unless it's a game where the unlock codes are dynamically generated based on your hardware serial number.
Or unless it's a game that you bought overseas a year before it comes out in the United States, so it's not there.
Or unless you're good at a game and you're farther along than anyone who's bothered to post codes on insert-web-site-here.
Or unless the web site posts codes for a version of the game on a console other than yours and they're not interchangable.
Or a dozen other factors that make the game codes on web sites wrong, incomplete, or unavailable.
So, no. gamefaq, ign, gamespot, and all the rest are generally useless for game codes and walkthroughs all the times I've tried them.
I totally agree with you. It's a nuisance. Give it to me, or don't give it to me.
One company (that I can't remember) came up with a great compromise. It's a rally racing game for the PSP. If you have all day to spend doing nothing but driving around to unlock the codes, that's fine. If you're a busy person with a full life, you can buy the unlock codes online for something like three dollars. A great compromise. Kids without cash to waste but with tons of time on their hands can mash buttons all day, and those of us with more money than time can also unlock the cars. Win-win.
(And getting the codes from a web site isn't an option because they're uniquely generated and tied to your PSP serial number.)
I like CrackApple. (Crackberry + Apple. I don't think marketing will go for it, though.)
Imagine a freeway, where every ten minutes, you go through a toll booth, where they stop you, tell you you smell bad or have ring-around-the-collar, and ask: "would you like to buy some deodorant? Soap? Your teeth are yellow too. We have whiteners."
We already have this. They're called billboards.
In the freedom-filled United States, if I purchase and legal DVD of The Incredibles at HMV and rip it to my iPod video, I have committed a crime.
In Communist China, if I purchase a legal VCD of The Incredibles at HMV and rip it to my iPod video, I have not committed a crime.
Guess which country got my money when I wanted The Incredibles on video.
Thanks. I have most of the buildings you mention already. Unfortunately, I also have a backlog of about 6,000 photos from 20 cities. They'll all end up there... eventually.
Holy pop-ups, Batman! The article link spawns THREE full-screen pops that even Firefox couldn't stop.
Back on topic: There was an article in Crain's Chicago Business a couple of weeks ago saying it's hard times for the Indian outsourcing industry because wages in India are on the rise.
they're swaying sheeple who don't do their homework before choosing a VOIP service
I did my homework and still went with Vonage. At the time they were the only VOIP service providing London and Paris phone numbers for $5/month. I still don't know of another company that does, though I'll gladly sign up with one that gives me a Hong Kong number.
Actually, in the city of Chicago one of the aldermen is proposing to make chipping pets mandatory.
Actually, FM wasn't open until after its inventor died.