Nah, now it's those damned "free" magazine subscriptions...
My wife signed up for one of the 6-month trials for a magazine at the checkout stand several years ago. We never renewed, never paid any subscription fee and she still receives it. It had to be over 4 years ago. When she has moved, she change the address for her other magazine subscriptions, but not for this particular "trial" subscription. Since the parent publishers were the same, they automatically changed the address on the trial magazine.
Must be a glitch in their system. We still get it and haven't paid anything for it.
At my office we got an HP CLJ 5500, which is normal color laser. Except the 4 toner carts are "in-line" and the paper makes only one pass through the system. It gets 24ppm in both color and black-only modes.
Unfortunately, HP discontinued it quite quickly and the machine does have a couple of quirks. But in general it has been a great printer.
It is. Unfortunately, I foresee that if police start enforcing this existing "law" -- whether through arrests, tickets, or warnings -- there will be an enormous backlash.
Think of all the people you know or drive near who believe that if they aren't in an accident, they cannot be driving carelessly. Because clearly if you're not causing physical damage, you must be driving okay!
I once worked with a fellow who said he drove under the assumption that "basically, no one wants to get in a wreck," so he would cut people off all the time and perform other unsavory maneuvers. He has a point: people really do want to avoid accidents while driving. I wished him good luck on the chance he comes across someone with the same outlook on driving he has and never rode with him again.
Getting fired from the Federal Government is generally tough-especially if you are prior military.
To be sure, she isn't "prior military". She is a current Navy officer formerly on assignment to NASA. As far as paperwork goes, she is just reassigned out of NASA, since the Navy is still her administrator and she hasn't been discharged (yet).
I don't know the answer to your question exactly, but I could make some educated guesses.
If the foam was on the inside, you could have problem with the fuel (O2, H2) breaking down the foam and "gumming up the works". You could have problems with chunks of foam falling off into the fuel.
A solution to that would be to put a liner over the foam, but that adds weight.
The current setup could be thought of as a liner on the inside, foam on the outside and any outer fairing removed for weight saving.
They have to decode HD, because what if a particular channel is only broadcast in HD?
Should have been more clear: Will not output in HD. I am guessing that the cheap tuners would employ a cheap chip that downconverts to the lower resolution of NTSC. Less connectors on the back means less cost.
The FCC requirement for transmission and TV sales is for DIGITAL TV, which is not necessarily HD, though it can be.
DTV is not required to be HD.
Chances are your local broadcast stations will only be transmitting in HD those prime-time and sports programming. Expect regular morning and afternoon programming to be standard definition with alternate-language or alternate image in the sub-channels (a single DTV "channel" can have 4 SD sub-programs or 1 HD program stream). Some stations are using one sub-channel to show real-time weather RADAR, others do Spanish programming or children's programming.
I would guess that the predicted-cheap-and-ubiquitous set-top-boxes will not support HD since the goal is to get older TVs to still watch this new digital stuff. (Clearly you will not be able to get a higher definition picture on your old tube!)
What about Nextel's push to talk features? I was under the impression that was a direct handset to handset signal.
Nextel's PTT feature is most definitely NOT direct handset to handset. It may not join the POTS network, but 800 MHz iDEN signal is not going to let me beep my dad on the other side of the country.
Having said that, *some* Nextel handsets have what the radiocomm industry calls "talk-around". *IF* the destination handset is within direct range and also has this feature, then the two will communicate directly. The benefit is that if you and your buddy are in the same area and that area does not have Nextel coverage, you can still PTT. But Nextel's PTT is not inherently direct.
You know something, I don't feel that one should have to be skeptical. I believe that a company in business should behave ethically. I am not naive . . . I know unscrupulous behavior happens all of the time. However, this person has every right to blame the company for being unethical, if not outrightly dishonest.
I've noticed that persons with the title "recruiter" tend to stretch the truth more than most. Just an observation.
They don't "need" it, but I think a huge number of employers perform a background screening on applicants.
My suspicion is that the asking for such data is just a result of the screening company saying "we need these data" and the braindead HR department doing it because of policy: "Get a background screening on all applicants."
Regarding paper sizes: I don't know about the area (others have posted on that), but the ratio of the l:w dimensions is 1:sqrt(2). So A1 is an A0 cut in half. A2 is an A1 cut in half and so on. But for all A0, A1, etc., the l:w ratio is still 1:sqrt(2).
On a related note: Does anyone know of any off-the-shelf router/NAT device that supports OpenVPN tunnels?
My company does 4-5 day jobs at convention centers, etc. and we currently use IPSEC with an off-the-shelf "VPN Router" product to tunnel back to our office network for access to fileshares and database data. Often, it is difficult and/or expensive to get hotel and convention center folks to give us a public IP address and they won't do port forwarding, etc.
I would love to have a box I can set up that will make an outgoing (from the conv. center) SSL TCP connection to the office and tunnel all VPN traffic through that, but I don't (for various reasons) want to run this tunnel on "yet another PC" that we have to carry with us.
I suspect that I'll end up having to either build a mini-atx-style or other embedded-type system to do this with OpenVPN, but it would be great if there was a commercial device that did this just like the so-called "VPN Routers" out there.
Why aren't 18-20 year olds voting as a block to change the drinking laws?
Because changing drinking laws doesn't come up for a vote directly. And if no candidate has a position on it, how do you know what you're voting on?
Because we (voters) vote for persons to represent us in the Congress, what we need to do is inform our representatives of our desires. That is the way the system is supposed to work. If everyone (or near everyone) made known to their representatives in Congress what their wishes are, then maybe those reps would be better able to represent us. AND they would likely have a better idea of WHY they were voted out when they ignored their constituents.
I'm not usually the grammar nazi, but the phrase is "toe the line". Most people mistakenly write it as "tow the line", but "tote the line" is an uncommon way to screw this up. http://www.wordorigins.org/wordort.htm#toeline
These are the firms that have the most to lose if Congress begins to support net neutrality and increased competition.
Don't confuse losing money/profit with failing to gain money/profit. No person or company is entitled to any profit whatsoever. Though not necessarily legislated, net neutrality is the status quo. To legislate it would lose no one any money or profit. It would, however, eliminate one vector of increased profit for the telecom groups.
An excellent point. However, poorly designed or poorly built transmitters often have higher-than-should-be harmonic transmissions. We call them "spurious emissions" since they are unintended and do not occur on the primary/desired frequency.
A pirate station *could* transmit unintentionally on emergency or public-safety frequencies without knowing about it. This is why the FCC requires all electronic devices to be tested and cataloged by themselves (though the testing is usually done by an approved testing company and the FCC looks at the results). The FCC needs to know that a transmitter will not interfere with operations outside it's primary operating frequencies.
Of course, home-built transmitters or other electronics cannot be controlled by the FCC, but their transmissions ARE under FCC jurisdiction if emitted from the U.S.A.
Anyone participating in "civil disobedient" pirate radio should make sure that they are not causing harm to any others, otherwise their disobedience ceases to be civil.
That's why you hire an experienced radio engineer to do a study of the proposed system and the costs and construction requirements for the desired level of coverage.
One of the problems is that agencies often do not have a radio engineer on staff. Instead of finding an independent radio engineer to hire and consult, they end up taking the offer of the manufacturer to "consult" on their needs.
Unfortunately, this means that the consultant is also the salesperson. Bad idea. But it happens everywhere, all the time. Agencies are always trying to do things in the most efficient manner, and to them, this seems efficient: "They make the equipment, so they ought to know about system design."
This isn't to say that the manufacturers don't know about system design -- they do! But in the world of radio communications, there is radio theory and radio reality and the consultants and salespersons work off of radio theory. Police and fire departments work off of reality...
So are there any free to use (or even Open Source) software that does this on Windows or Linux? I would love to have some software that dumps out recognized barcodes (1-D or 2-D) from a live video source...
But really, we have government regulation to thank for our laughable phone and data networks. By trying to encourage phone companies to lay out phone wire where it would not be profitable in the 40s and 50s, we granted them monopolies, and now they've become as poorly managed as the airlines.
Interesting you mention airlines. Telecom and airlines are both industries that are either government-run or government-subsidized in the typically social-leaning European nations.
For good or bad, those are the kinds of industries where it's difficult to continue operating at a profit without some outside help (financial or regulatory). In the U.S., telecoms do have all kinds of protection through regulation, but it's silly regulation that tries to maintain that there's some kind of difference between data and voice these days.
That's still convective, not radiant. Radiant heat is essentially a specific wavelength range of electromagnetic waves (light). There is no equivalent negative-energy "ray".
You took the words right out of my mouth. This is why you have to take news stories with a grain of salt and realize that any specific details they write about may be incorrect because they didn't understand what their 2, 3, or 5 sources were telling them.
In general, they get the overal "item" of news correct, but be careful about believing specifics in news stories...
Here, it doesn't take a $5000 professional grade spectrum analyzer to determine whether your microwave oven or portable phone is interfering with your $50 AP.
What kind of cheap-ass spectrum analyzer are you getting for only $5000? The good ones start at $20k.
Time Difference-Of-Arrival is what you're looking for. It's a pretty simple technique. Amateur radio operators have been building simple TDOA circuits for decades for hidden transmitter hunts (a recreational use of radio).
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My wife signed up for one of the 6-month trials for a magazine at the checkout stand several years ago. We never renewed, never paid any subscription fee and she still receives it. It had to be over 4 years ago. When she has moved, she change the address for her other magazine subscriptions, but not for this particular "trial" subscription. Since the parent publishers were the same, they automatically changed the address on the trial magazine.
Must be a glitch in their system. We still get it and haven't paid anything for it.
At my office we got an HP CLJ 5500, which is normal color laser. Except the 4 toner carts are "in-line" and the paper makes only one pass through the system. It gets 24ppm in both color and black-only modes.
Unfortunately, HP discontinued it quite quickly and the machine does have a couple of quirks. But in general it has been a great printer.
It is. Unfortunately, I foresee that if police start enforcing this existing "law" -- whether through arrests, tickets, or warnings -- there will be an enormous backlash.
Think of all the people you know or drive near who believe that if they aren't in an accident, they cannot be driving carelessly. Because clearly if you're not causing physical damage, you must be driving okay!
I once worked with a fellow who said he drove under the assumption that "basically, no one wants to get in a wreck," so he would cut people off all the time and perform other unsavory maneuvers. He has a point: people really do want to avoid accidents while driving. I wished him good luck on the chance he comes across someone with the same outlook on driving he has and never rode with him again.
To be sure, she isn't "prior military". She is a current Navy officer formerly on assignment to NASA. As far as paperwork goes, she is just reassigned out of NASA, since the Navy is still her administrator and she hasn't been discharged (yet).
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/
They had a problem with noise from the rocket engines reverberating off the platform and causing pressure variations near the nose of the shuttle.
The pad site itself is being damaged by the frequent heat-swings, causing the heat-resistant concrete to crack and come loose:
http://engineer.tamu.edu/news/story.php?p_news_id
I don't know the answer to your question exactly, but I could make some educated guesses.
If the foam was on the inside, you could have problem with the fuel (O2, H2) breaking down the foam and "gumming up the works". You could have problems with chunks of foam falling off into the fuel.
A solution to that would be to put a liner over the foam, but that adds weight.
The current setup could be thought of as a liner on the inside, foam on the outside and any outer fairing removed for weight saving.
Should have been more clear: Will not output in HD. I am guessing that the cheap tuners would employ a cheap chip that downconverts to the lower resolution of NTSC. Less connectors on the back means less cost.
The FCC requirement for transmission and TV sales is for DIGITAL TV, which is not necessarily HD, though it can be.
DTV is not required to be HD.
Chances are your local broadcast stations will only be transmitting in HD those prime-time and sports programming. Expect regular morning and afternoon programming to be standard definition with alternate-language or alternate image in the sub-channels (a single DTV "channel" can have 4 SD sub-programs or 1 HD program stream). Some stations are using one sub-channel to show real-time weather RADAR, others do Spanish programming or children's programming.
I would guess that the predicted-cheap-and-ubiquitous set-top-boxes will not support HD since the goal is to get older TVs to still watch this new digital stuff. (Clearly you will not be able to get a higher definition picture on your old tube!)
Nextel's PTT feature is most definitely NOT direct handset to handset. It may not join the POTS network, but 800 MHz iDEN signal is not going to let me beep my dad on the other side of the country.
Having said that, *some* Nextel handsets have what the radiocomm industry calls "talk-around". *IF* the destination handset is within direct range and also has this feature, then the two will communicate directly. The benefit is that if you and your buddy are in the same area and that area does not have Nextel coverage, you can still PTT. But Nextel's PTT is not inherently direct.
I've noticed that persons with the title "recruiter" tend to stretch the truth more than most. Just an observation.
They don't "need" it, but I think a huge number of employers perform a background screening on applicants.
My suspicion is that the asking for such data is just a result of the screening company saying "we need these data" and the braindead HR department doing it because of policy: "Get a background screening on all applicants."
Regarding paper sizes: I don't know about the area (others have posted on that), but the ratio of the l:w dimensions is 1:sqrt(2). So A1 is an A0 cut in half. A2 is an A1 cut in half and so on. But for all A0, A1, etc., the l:w ratio is still 1:sqrt(2).
On a related note: Does anyone know of any off-the-shelf router/NAT device that supports OpenVPN tunnels?
My company does 4-5 day jobs at convention centers, etc. and we currently use IPSEC with an off-the-shelf "VPN Router" product to tunnel back to our office network for access to fileshares and database data. Often, it is difficult and/or expensive to get hotel and convention center folks to give us a public IP address and they won't do port forwarding, etc.
I would love to have a box I can set up that will make an outgoing (from the conv. center) SSL TCP connection to the office and tunnel all VPN traffic through that, but I don't (for various reasons) want to run this tunnel on "yet another PC" that we have to carry with us.
I suspect that I'll end up having to either build a mini-atx-style or other embedded-type system to do this with OpenVPN, but it would be great if there was a commercial device that did this just like the so-called "VPN Routers" out there.
Because changing drinking laws doesn't come up for a vote directly. And if no candidate has a position on it, how do you know what you're voting on?
Because we (voters) vote for persons to represent us in the Congress, what we need to do is inform our representatives of our desires. That is the way the system is supposed to work. If everyone (or near everyone) made known to their representatives in Congress what their wishes are, then maybe those reps would be better able to represent us. AND they would likely have a better idea of WHY they were voted out when they ignored their constituents.
I'm not usually the grammar nazi, but the phrase is "toe the line". Most people mistakenly write it as "tow the line", but "tote the line" is an uncommon way to screw this up.
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordort.htm#toeline
Don't confuse losing money/profit with failing to gain money/profit. No person or company is entitled to any profit whatsoever. Though not necessarily legislated, net neutrality is the status quo. To legislate it would lose no one any money or profit. It would, however, eliminate one vector of increased profit for the telecom groups.
An excellent point. However, poorly designed or poorly built transmitters often have higher-than-should-be harmonic transmissions. We call them "spurious emissions" since they are unintended and do not occur on the primary/desired frequency.
A pirate station *could* transmit unintentionally on emergency or public-safety frequencies without knowing about it. This is why the FCC requires all electronic devices to be tested and cataloged by themselves (though the testing is usually done by an approved testing company and the FCC looks at the results). The FCC needs to know that a transmitter will not interfere with operations outside it's primary operating frequencies.
Of course, home-built transmitters or other electronics cannot be controlled by the FCC, but their transmissions ARE under FCC jurisdiction if emitted from the U.S.A.
Anyone participating in "civil disobedient" pirate radio should make sure that they are not causing harm to any others, otherwise their disobedience ceases to be civil.
One of the problems is that agencies often do not have a radio engineer on staff. Instead of finding an independent radio engineer to hire and consult, they end up taking the offer of the manufacturer to "consult" on their needs.
Unfortunately, this means that the consultant is also the salesperson. Bad idea. But it happens everywhere, all the time. Agencies are always trying to do things in the most efficient manner, and to them, this seems efficient: "They make the equipment, so they ought to know about system design."
This isn't to say that the manufacturers don't know about system design -- they do! But in the world of radio communications, there is radio theory and radio reality and the consultants and salespersons work off of radio theory. Police and fire departments work off of reality...
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization .html
How is VMWare Workstation different from VMWare Server?
So are there any free to use (or even Open Source) software that does this on Windows or Linux? I would love to have some software that dumps out recognized barcodes (1-D or 2-D) from a live video source...
Interesting you mention airlines. Telecom and airlines are both industries that are either government-run or government-subsidized in the typically social-leaning European nations.
For good or bad, those are the kinds of industries where it's difficult to continue operating at a profit without some outside help (financial or regulatory). In the U.S., telecoms do have all kinds of protection through regulation, but it's silly regulation that tries to maintain that there's some kind of difference between data and voice these days.
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That's still convective, not radiant. Radiant heat is essentially a specific wavelength range of electromagnetic waves (light). There is no equivalent negative-energy "ray".
You took the words right out of my mouth. This is why you have to take news stories with a grain of salt and realize that any specific details they write about may be incorrect because they didn't understand what their 2, 3, or 5 sources were telling them.
In general, they get the overal "item" of news correct, but be careful about believing specifics in news stories...
What kind of cheap-ass spectrum analyzer are you getting for only $5000? The good ones start at $20k.
Time Difference-Of-Arrival is what you're looking for. It's a pretty simple technique. Amateur radio operators have been building simple TDOA circuits for decades for hidden transmitter hunts (a recreational use of radio).
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See: http://home.att.net/~jleggio/projects/rdf/tdoa2.h
These simple ones with only a single reciever can only tell you a direction, not triangulate a position, but with more than one...