I've been seeing the same thing, but I am curious about their method for determining what apparel I might want to buy.
I get:
"People who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear at Amazon's Target Store
Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom's Store
Pet Socks from Amazon's Urban Outfitters Store
Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns at Amazon's Old Navy Store"
While I do have an interest in clean underwear, the rest don't really seem appropriate for a mid-20's single guy who's into Science Fiction books.
I think I should point out here that the Constitution doesn't give us any rights, it simply spells out some of the inherent rights we possess as human beings -- free speech being one of these.
I disagree with this. It spells out some of the rights US Citizens possess as US Citizens. Human beings have *NO* rights because there is NO AUTHORITY to give and/or protect any rights.
This is where the US Constitution GIVES us rights; by being the 'Supreme Law of the Land', the US Constitution has the authority to tell us what rights we have AND to authorize protection of those rights.
Why, as you say, do human beings have an inherent right to free speech? On what authority is that right given and on what authority will it be protected, if not some form of government? If a government protects a right, it is giving that right to those it has authority over. If a government does not protect a right, then how can it exist 'inherently' as a property of human-being-ness?
Without some authority to give and protect rights, no rights truly exist.
NOTE: That's my opinion, of course. I don't study political science, nor am I any sort of legal expert. Any terms I use should not be taken pedantically, as the legal field has a tendency to create strange definitions of terms.
Why do so many people in America think that the RIGHT to FREE SPEECH is or infers a RIGHT to BE HEARD?
I think that many US Citizens would be shocked to find out that the actual number of 'RIGHTS' explicitly spelled out for them is far fewer than what they imagine.
People don't have a RIGHT to clean air, for example. Sure it's nice for someone who doesn't like cigarette smoke to go to a restaurant and not get cigarette smoke in your face. Sure it's nice to try to sleep in a college apartment complex on Friday night at 10PM without a bunch of noise, but the US Constitution doesn't give us those rights.
Some cities give us these 'rights', but I think they'd be better called 'privileges' or something.
Why would it be a useful research lab? It's made of rock and dust. We brought some back. What else is there?
A lab of any sort seems to infer the presence of equipment. Equipment like what might be used on a Moon lab probably wouldn't be very lightweight. The Lunar Excursion Module was pretty much only capable of getting 2 guys to the surface and back again with 200-300 pounds of rocks.
It cost billions of dollars back then. Imagine how much it would cost now. Who pays for it? Back then, there was a large number of folks in favor of 'beating the Russians to the moon'. The majority of US citizens were willing to pay for it. How many are now? And how much are they willing to pay?
I don't think there's anywhere near the same number of people that would support (financially) such an endeavor.
Once we beat the Russians to the moon, public support waned.
Sure, "censorship" involves 'anything that restricted the truth from the masses'.
But Freedom of the Press isn't about censorship by any entity, but censorship by the government, since they are the ones that explicitly give us (in the U.S.A.) our "Freedoms".
Have you ever driven a big truck? You don't have to push many people out of your way, they just move away 'automatically'. Probably because they think they are going to get run over.
In a way, it conditions the 'big truck driver' to almost expect people to get out of the way. It's subconscious; you don't even notice that it's just clear to change lanes, pass, etc. most of the time.
Of course the other end of the stick is that those who move out of the way tag the truck driver as a jerk who thinks he/she owns the road.
That's not to say that there aren't bad drivers who drive big trucks, there certainly are.
Yes, Apple has a basic API, but that has nothing to do with the architecture. It has to do with system calls. A program isn't just a bunch of system calls, otherwise every application would just be different ways of putting together the operating system calls.
The actual machine code is compiled for a specific processor. You can't run machine code for one processor on a different one directly. There's more to applications that system calls.
The way that programs like WINE and CygWin work *is* by providing the foreign APIs on a system, but you still can't run code compiled for PPC Linux on an Intel machine with CygWin.
Sure, many applications could be recompiled, but not all will. Some applications have specific optimizations in architecture-specific assembly, to take advantage of some special feature of that architecture or processer, like AltiVec.
Now, bear in mind that OS X has a few different bindings to it's APIs. Cocoa is one that I believe binds with Java. Now *that* has a good chance of being easily portable, perhaps without a "recompile" since the p-code is platform independent.
*IF* (big IF) the rumor were true that Apple is planning on releasing OS X on the Intel architecture, it seems likely, given Apple's background in writing architecure emulators (virtual machine), they may have a trick PPC emulator up their sleeve.
The truth: The sub-audible tone is continuous during your transmission. It is not a short burst.
There exists some other methods that use digital codes to do the same thing, but FRS uses plain-old analog sub-audible tones superimposed on your other audio.
Solar radiation has a lesser chance of affecting this satellite's innards. The PCSat has no CPU. It's just (basically) two TNCs (radio modems) each with two ports (1200 bps and 9600 bps) that can configure themselves to re-route their incoming data to a different port. The TNCs are off-the-shelf Kantronics KPC9612.
If the radio signal strength remained the same, but was spread over a larger spectrum, then the *interference* would definitely be less because most receivers are tuned for a small bandwith section of the radio spectrum.
You could also say that since the receiver could be placed closer to the electronic bits then the wires would be shorter and would act less like antennas, making the total radiated energy less than in "traditional" pagers.
The power source is a bunch of batteries, plut solar panels to recharge them. Simple solution that's been used for decades.
AMSAT will be the responsible party, but I doubt it will do such a thing. Just because it's a satellite carrying "amateur" radio, doesn't mean that a bunch of hicks got out in the backyard and set off a rocket. This project has been going on for 10 years now. To put a satellite up requires a lot of time and effort. This satellite isn't some un-claimed space junk flying around, it will be tracked just like all the other satellites.
If you are talking about America=USA, then you are wrong.
There are 3 classes of licenses in the US, Technician, General, and Amateur Extra. Technician is the only class that does not require you to pass a morse code test, but if you do take the morse code portion of the exam, you get privileges to transmit on a few more frequency bands.
To get the other classes of license, you must pass a 5 word per minute code test. 5 wpm is pretty slow and not too hard to learn. It just takes a bit of practice.
This is much better (IMHO) than before they restructured the licensing last April. Before then, to get the Amateur Extra class, you had to pass a 13 wpm morse code test. (Or maybe 20 wpm, I can't remember.)
I believe that Laser did not reverse-engineer Apple II's. They just took the ROMs out of trashed/old Apple II's and put them in their own system, which had a very similar architecture to Apple II's.
They didn't copy Apple's ROM, nor did they come up with their own, they just used Apple's in a non-apple machine.
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Not only is it the default, but it's hardwired in ROM. Therefore, if you find a female who has changed the setting, rest assured that she is either (1) a technologically able person to hack the device or (2) a person with the funds available to hire the services of such a person.
Anyone remember that story that slashdot linked to many months ago about the companies that sell names to fledgling startups? The story mentioned the company Agilent.
They did! And it was settled out of court. The recording company got an undisclosed amount of cash (a very large amount) and Apple's word that they wouldn't get into the recording industry.
The story goes that when Apple Computer started including a microphone with their computers (in the early 90's, with System 7.) This could be construed as "getting into the recording industry" and so Apple Computer made a beep sound and called it "sosumi".
I read in my campus newspaper (The Batallion @ Texas A&M) a quote from the people in charge of parking. They were discussing the building of another parking lot for students. They said something to the effect of "This will add 1500 parking spaces, since each parking space will be occupied by 3 cars during the course of a day."
They build 500 parking spots and call it 1500!
The university also has a few parking garages which have reserved spaces for students who chose to buy a reserved space. The parking guys noticed that, on average, the garage was at something like 92% capacity, so they proposed triple-booking the spaces and getting rid of the reserved space and moved to just a regular parking lot style (first come, first served) so that the garage could be at 100% capacity all the time!
I disagree. I don't think a browser should ship with a JVM. Rather, the JVM should be supplied by the OS (either built-in or as some sort of installed package). Java is not only for websites... There are whole Java Applications and non-Internet related Java-based tools.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most OS's come with a JVM already (MacOS - MRJ, Win9X - MS JVM, Linux - Java SDK, etc). Java should be an Operating System service and the Browser should call upon that service to perform Java code.
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I've been seeing the same thing, but I am curious about their method for determining what apparel I might want to buy.
I get:
"People who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear at Amazon's Target Store
Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom's Store
Pet Socks from Amazon's Urban Outfitters Store
Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns at Amazon's Old Navy Store"
While I do have an interest in clean underwear, the rest don't really seem appropriate for a mid-20's single guy who's into Science Fiction books.
I disagree with this. It spells out some of the rights US Citizens possess as US Citizens. Human beings have *NO* rights because there is NO AUTHORITY to give and/or protect any rights.
This is where the US Constitution GIVES us rights; by being the 'Supreme Law of the Land', the US Constitution has the authority to tell us what rights we have AND to authorize protection of those rights.
Why, as you say, do human beings have an inherent right to free speech? On what authority is that right given and on what authority will it be protected, if not some form of government? If a government protects a right, it is giving that right to those it has authority over. If a government does not protect a right, then how can it exist 'inherently' as a property of human-being-ness?
Without some authority to give and protect rights, no rights truly exist.
NOTE: That's my opinion, of course. I don't study political science, nor am I any sort of legal expert. Any terms I use should not be taken pedantically, as the legal field has a tendency to create strange definitions of terms.
exactly!
Why do so many people in America think that the RIGHT to FREE SPEECH is or infers a RIGHT to BE HEARD?
I think that many US Citizens would be shocked to find out that the actual number of 'RIGHTS' explicitly spelled out for them is far fewer than what they imagine.
People don't have a RIGHT to clean air, for example. Sure it's nice for someone who doesn't like cigarette smoke to go to a restaurant and not get cigarette smoke in your face. Sure it's nice to try to sleep in a college apartment complex on Friday night at 10PM without a bunch of noise, but the US Constitution doesn't give us those rights.
Some cities give us these 'rights', but I think they'd be better called 'privileges' or something.
Why would it be a useful research lab? It's made of rock and dust. We brought some back. What else is there?
A lab of any sort seems to infer the presence of equipment. Equipment like what might be used on a Moon lab probably wouldn't be very lightweight. The Lunar Excursion Module was pretty much only capable of getting 2 guys to the surface and back again with 200-300 pounds of rocks.
It cost billions of dollars back then. Imagine how much it would cost now. Who pays for it? Back then, there was a large number of folks in favor of 'beating the Russians to the moon'. The majority of US citizens were willing to pay for it. How many are now? And how much are they willing to pay?
I don't think there's anywhere near the same number of people that would support (financially) such an endeavor.
Once we beat the Russians to the moon, public support waned.
Sure, "censorship" involves 'anything that restricted the truth from the masses'.
But Freedom of the Press isn't about censorship by any entity, but censorship by the government, since they are the ones that explicitly give us (in the U.S.A.) our "Freedoms".
How does that involve "Freedom of the Press"? If a guy owns a newspaper, he can print whatever he wants.
Freedom of the press refers to the issue of the government not censoring anything published in any publication.
Have you ever driven a big truck? You don't have to push many people out of your way, they just move away 'automatically'. Probably because they think they are going to get run over.
In a way, it conditions the 'big truck driver' to almost expect people to get out of the way. It's subconscious; you don't even notice that it's just clear to change lanes, pass, etc. most of the time.
Of course the other end of the stick is that those who move out of the way tag the truck driver as a jerk who thinks he/she owns the road.
That's not to say that there aren't bad drivers who drive big trucks, there certainly are.
Yes, Apple has a basic API, but that has nothing to do with the architecture. It has to do with system calls. A program isn't just a bunch of system calls, otherwise every application would just be different ways of putting together the operating system calls.
The actual machine code is compiled for a specific processor. You can't run machine code for one processor on a different one directly. There's more to applications that system calls.
The way that programs like WINE and CygWin work *is* by providing the foreign APIs on a system, but you still can't run code compiled for PPC Linux on an Intel machine with CygWin.
Sure, many applications could be recompiled, but not all will. Some applications have specific optimizations in architecture-specific assembly, to take advantage of some special feature of that architecture or processer, like AltiVec.
Now, bear in mind that OS X has a few different bindings to it's APIs. Cocoa is one that I believe binds with Java. Now *that* has a good chance of being easily portable, perhaps without a "recompile" since the p-code is platform independent.
*IF* (big IF) the rumor were true that Apple is planning on releasing OS X on the Intel architecture, it seems likely, given Apple's background in writing architecure emulators (virtual machine), they may have a trick PPC emulator up their sleeve.
The truth: The sub-audible tone is continuous during your transmission. It is not a short burst.
There exists some other methods that use digital codes to do the same thing, but FRS uses plain-old analog sub-audible tones superimposed on your other audio.
-Joe
They got permission.
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http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2000/10/18/1/#ga
Perhaps not the intended use, but I think this might catch on as the next-generation, technological whoopee cushion.
Coming to a Jr. High near you.
-Joe
I remember, back in the day...
When Slashdot was about equally science and Linux/computer stuff.
It's changed quite a bit, but I still enjoy reading.
--Joe
Solar radiation has a lesser chance of affecting this satellite's innards. The PCSat has no CPU. It's just (basically) two TNCs (radio modems) each with two ports (1200 bps and 9600 bps) that can configure themselves to re-route their incoming data to a different port. The TNCs are off-the-shelf Kantronics KPC9612.
The satellite project's home page:
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat.html
If the radio signal strength remained the same, but was spread over a larger spectrum, then the *interference* would definitely be less because most receivers are tuned for a small bandwith section of the radio spectrum.
You could also say that since the receiver could be placed closer to the electronic bits then the wires would be shorter and would act less like antennas, making the total radiated energy less than in "traditional" pagers.
You say that info in CD would not get zapped...
How do you propose retrieving such information?
Oops. Forgot there were actually two stories in this post...
I don't know anything about the CubeSat.
Sorry.
AMSAT will be the responsible party, but I doubt it will do such a thing. Just because it's a satellite carrying "amateur" radio, doesn't mean that a bunch of hicks got out in the backyard and set off a rocket. This project has been going on for 10 years now. To put a satellite up requires a lot of time and effort. This satellite isn't some un-claimed space junk flying around, it will be tracked just like all the other satellites.
Check out amsat.org for more info and pictures!
KD5MAH
There are 3 classes of licenses in the US, Technician, General, and Amateur Extra. Technician is the only class that does not require you to pass a morse code test, but if you do take the morse code portion of the exam, you get privileges to transmit on a few more frequency bands.
To get the other classes of license, you must pass a 5 word per minute code test. 5 wpm is pretty slow and not too hard to learn. It just takes a bit of practice.
This is much better (IMHO) than before they restructured the licensing last April. Before then, to get the Amateur Extra class, you had to pass a 13 wpm morse code test. (Or maybe 20 wpm, I can't remember.)
You can find more information at arrl.org
It's a fun hobby. Try it!
KD5MAH
I believe that Laser did not reverse-engineer Apple II's. They just took the ROMs out of trashed/old Apple II's and put them in their own system, which had a very similar architecture to Apple II's.
They didn't copy Apple's ROM, nor did they come up with their own, they just used Apple's in a non-apple machine.
Not only is it the default, but it's hardwired in ROM. Therefore, if you find a female who has changed the setting, rest assured that she is either (1) a technologically able person to hack the device or (2) a person with the funds available to hire the services of such a person.
:-D
The point is that when someone needs a name for their group or company, they call up these naming companies.
Hewlett-Packard may not have new people, but the name is new. I was just remembering the story that mentioned it.
Anyone remember that story that slashdot linked to many months ago about the companies that sell names to fledgling startups? The story mentioned the company Agilent.
What a coincidence!
They did! And it was settled out of court. The recording company got an undisclosed amount of cash (a very large amount) and Apple's word that they wouldn't get into the recording industry.
The story goes that when Apple Computer started including a microphone with their computers (in the early 90's, with System 7.) This could be construed as "getting into the recording industry" and so Apple Computer made a beep sound and called it "sosumi".
Since you mention campus parking...
I read in my campus newspaper (The Batallion @ Texas A&M) a quote from the people in charge of parking. They were discussing the building of another parking lot for students. They said something to the effect of "This will add 1500 parking spaces, since each parking space will be occupied by 3 cars during the course of a day."
They build 500 parking spots and call it 1500!
The university also has a few parking garages which have reserved spaces for students who chose to buy a reserved space. The parking guys noticed that, on average, the garage was at something like 92% capacity, so they proposed triple-booking the spaces and getting rid of the reserved space and moved to just a regular parking lot style (first come, first served) so that the garage could be at 100% capacity all the time!
I disagree. I don't think a browser should ship with a JVM. Rather, the JVM should be supplied by the OS (either built-in or as some sort of installed package). Java is not only for websites... There are whole Java Applications and non-Internet related Java-based tools.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most OS's come with a JVM already (MacOS - MRJ, Win9X - MS JVM, Linux - Java SDK, etc). Java should be an Operating System service and the Browser should call upon that service to perform Java code.