Voice as an option on Macs must have been around longer than we think. Back in '86 when I was working at Plexicorp, a visiting professor from Edinburgh University tried to use my boss's Mac as if it had a voice interface. He ended up falling back to the keyboard. He seem very bemused to have to use such a primitive interface. The prof seemed to really know about engineering.
Of course the bandwidth filters between broadcast FM and ham are completely different (100kHz broadcast vs. 12500 Hzfor NBFM ham/public service voice).
Just looking at the president's schedule, it seems trump had 90 minutes of "executive time," just when this hit so I'' bet twitter's Nevada data center pulled down the grid due to some juvenile emotional outburst form DC. ....Or not
As others have stated, simple FM has amazing range and noise resistance due to all the redundant information. The redundancy in various DAB type signals, even with all of DAB noise correction, is minuscule compared to old FM. Denmark is a small flat county, but where I live near Seattle the mountains, hills and distance between stations often kills even simple FM. When you destroy the bandwidth like they did for digital TV and range do to a fraction of what it was with analog. - My experience anyway.
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.” Sir Arthur Eddington (The Nature of the Physical World, 1915)
Rather than state as his solution that having more and innovative options to twitter to support more view points, as Net Neutrality supports, he just said what about something unrelated. Classic way to deflect those without critical reasoning skills. Personally, I've offended by such tactics. Just be honest, that you believe consolidation of media into the hands of a very few oligarchs for their enrichment and consolidation of power is what you are proposing and be intellectually honest.
Grant Country, in central Washington, built their own damn along the Columbia River and offers the cheapest commercial power on the planet. This resulted in REC Semibuilding a polysilicon factory there. REC has a Silane Gas plant (SiH4) in Butte, MT. Real short supply chain for the Semi industry. I see additional containerized Silane tanks going down I-90 to the port of Seattle with big warning signs, "NOT FOR TRANSPORT IN EUROTUNNEL." Make me fear my commune even more.
Technology reviews need to do much more than ooh and aah over the latest shiny color on a device. They need to insist that companies provide poof that there is a fair and reasonable EOF solution rather than just pulling the plug. This is coming to bigger ticket items such as cars and houses (furnaces/AC, water heaters, ovens, etc) as they become more and more connected.
ECDOS does a lot more than just charting. They include searing, radar target plotting and collision alert/avoidance. The ECDIS should have reported have reported a imminent collision or at least a radar target tending into the planned/current path of the vessel. The ECDIS should have set the oogha horns off.
I was part of the team that shipped the first ECDIS' to the the Navy over 20 years ago. Electronic Chart Display and Information System are the marine equivalent to aircraft automated flight navigation controls. ECDIS was in response to the Valdez finding a rock and folks asking why can ships' navigation systems do that planes can do? The charts are "smart" and will not let you plan a route over too shallow of an area. I know our product was on the Enterprise and Constellation 20 years ago. Why are they not on these smaller ships? FYI, back then the navigator on these nuclear aircraft carriers (yes there was a specific officer assigned to this) also had a sextant, watch, paper charts and compass, just in case.
At Nintendo we did indeed include older hardware on our handheld platform for compatibility. The old hardware made for a great co-processor. Then there is this other way to do provide backward compatibility.
uvajed_ekil, note that zzyzx said that net property taxes for the county are fixed. As a resident of Seattle's host county, King, I can attest to that. I live in rural King county and as the Urban core's property values went way up mine remained relatively fixed despite a increase in the county tax due to new levies. My rural property valuation has just started to increase post recession so I am now seeing my bill go up. I don't know if Washington state is unique or not, but yes, property levies are indeed based on a fixed total to be collected per year divided by property assessments. If you live in a small town and your neighbor build a multi-million dollar house and their are no new levies then your tax bell should go down. This is one reason rural towns fight so hard to get anything expensive, like data centers built in their town even if it will bring few jobs.
vajed_ekil is right about other revenues as Seattle sales tax has boomed from Amazon and the tech boom. It is worth noting that Washington has a high sales tax rate to make-up for the fast that Washington has NO income tax. Because of the lack of an income tax property and sales taxes are high result in in one of the more regressive tax systems in the country. Believe it or not, even BIll Gates has been pushing for an income tax to make the tax system more fair.
Desktop OS market - on life support.
Laptop OS market - moribund at best
Server OS market - MS's one bright spot is a bubble fighting a better free alternative
Tablet OS market - does MS even have an offering?
Phone OS market - Yep, that went well for MS
Office Suite - on life support as on line and free alternatives eat their lunch - anybody write documents?
Outlook - Please somebody put this out of its (and my) misery
I've always found that a quick search will turn up the name of the general council (head lawyer) for the company. A letter addressed by name to them is ALWAY read. Of course most technologically ignorant corporate lawyers will assume anybody outside their company that tinkers with their stuff or gasp, someone inside the company using open source software, is a criminal and the the legal eagle will go nuclear, file a lawsuit restraining order and/or send the cops after you, but heck it will get their attention. The other place to reach out to is their PR or Corporate Social Responsibility flacks. They will not understand the tech, just explain to them that they have PR disaster the scale of bad air bags and they will at least go running to the general council.
With regard to radiation: we should probably only send women. For the Y chromosomes we should send frozen sperm in a shielded and lead lined vault to protect from mutations. This way only half the genome sent would be exposed to the high radiation levels. Alternatively, a big lead lined capsule for men and women, but to get enough shielding would be impractical.
We are going to be spending year rebuilding and improving our democracy and civil society. By analogy, no matter how much you weed, they keep coming back. So now we go back, elect civil folks and make it better.
Get mad. Don't get mad. Get motivated, be depressed. It doesn't matter. We must do the work. We just have to go out and select some sane and civil folks for office and stay involved so that things don't drift off course again. NO magic - just dedicated work. A careful dedication to have sane conversations with other people of good will even if we disagree with their political views will do more than anything else. Now is the time to look to the center and demand the best of everyone by marginalizing those divisive brutes who would destroy our democracy. Pay careful attention to those you agree with politically and if those people are acting divisive then you have a particular responsibility to call on your friends to speaking with a civil tong.
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Voice as an option on Macs must have been around longer than we think. Back in '86 when I was working at Plexicorp, a visiting professor from Edinburgh University tried to use my boss's Mac as if it had a voice interface. He ended up falling back to the keyboard. He seem very bemused to have to use such a primitive interface. The prof seemed to really know about engineering.
Go out to the boonies outside of wifi range.
Of course the bandwidth filters between broadcast FM and ham are completely different (100kHz broadcast vs. 12500 Hzfor NBFM ham/public service voice).
Just looking at the president's schedule, it seems trump had 90 minutes of "executive time," just when this hit so I'' bet twitter's Nevada data center pulled down the grid due to some juvenile emotional outburst form DC.
....Or not
I assume that kittenTube and smutTube were already taken?
As others have stated, simple FM has amazing range and noise resistance due to all the redundant information. The redundancy in various DAB type signals, even with all of DAB noise correction, is minuscule compared to old FM. Denmark is a small flat county, but where I live near Seattle the mountains, hills and distance between stations often kills even simple FM. When you destroy the bandwidth like they did for digital TV and range do to a fraction of what it was with analog. - My experience anyway.
Let me introduce you to my little friend the Shannon–Hartley theorem. This is information theory's corollary to the 2nd law of thermodynamics".
Channel capacity = bandwidth * log2 (1+S/N).
Simply put, more data means vastly reduced range. And in this house we obey the 2nd law of thermodynamics".
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
Sir Arthur Eddington (The Nature of the Physical World, 1915)
Cough-cough - revolving door - cough -cough
Rather than state as his solution that having more and innovative options to twitter to support more view points, as Net Neutrality supports, he just said what about something unrelated. Classic way to deflect those without critical reasoning skills. Personally, I've offended by such tactics. Just be honest, that you believe consolidation of media into the hands of a very few oligarchs for their enrichment and consolidation of power is what you are proposing and be intellectually honest.
Grant Country, in central Washington, built their own damn along the Columbia River and offers the cheapest commercial power on the planet. This resulted in REC Semibuilding a polysilicon factory there. REC has a Silane Gas plant (SiH4) in Butte, MT. Real short supply chain for the Semi industry. I see additional containerized Silane tanks going down I-90 to the port of Seattle with big warning signs, "NOT FOR TRANSPORT IN EUROTUNNEL." Make me fear my commune even more.
Technology reviews need to do much more than ooh and aah over the latest shiny color on a device. They need to insist that companies provide poof that there is a fair and reasonable EOF solution rather than just pulling the plug. This is coming to bigger ticket items such as cars and houses (furnaces/AC, water heaters, ovens, etc) as they become more and more connected.
The ECDIS should have also set-off internal bridge horns to get everyone's attention.
ECDOS does a lot more than just charting. They include searing, radar target plotting and collision alert/avoidance. The ECDIS should have reported have reported a imminent collision or at least a radar target tending into the planned/current path of the vessel. The ECDIS should have set the oogha horns off.
I was part of the team that shipped the first ECDIS' to the the Navy over 20 years ago. Electronic Chart Display and Information System are the marine equivalent to aircraft automated flight navigation controls. ECDIS was in response to the Valdez finding a rock and folks asking why can ships' navigation systems do that planes can do? The charts are "smart" and will not let you plan a route over too shallow of an area. I know our product was on the Enterprise and Constellation 20 years ago. Why are they not on these smaller ships? FYI, back then the navigator on these nuclear aircraft carriers (yes there was a specific officer assigned to this) also had a sextant, watch, paper charts and compass, just in case.
At Nintendo we did indeed include older hardware on our handheld platform for compatibility. The old hardware made for a great co-processor. Then there is this other way to do provide backward compatibility.
They took a simple idea and made it complicated.
uvajed_ekil, note that zzyzx said that net property taxes for the county are fixed. As a resident of Seattle's host county, King, I can attest to that. I live in rural King county and as the Urban core's property values went way up mine remained relatively fixed despite a increase in the county tax due to new levies. My rural property valuation has just started to increase post recession so I am now seeing my bill go up. I don't know if Washington state is unique or not, but yes, property levies are indeed based on a fixed total to be collected per year divided by property assessments. If you live in a small town and your neighbor build a multi-million dollar house and their are no new levies then your tax bell should go down. This is one reason rural towns fight so hard to get anything expensive, like data centers built in their town even if it will bring few jobs.
vajed_ekil is right about other revenues as Seattle sales tax has boomed from Amazon and the tech boom. It is worth noting that Washington has a high sales tax rate to make-up for the fast that Washington has NO income tax. Because of the lack of an income tax property and sales taxes are high result in in one of the more regressive tax systems in the country. Believe it or not, even BIll Gates has been pushing for an income tax to make the tax system more fair.
Is anyone surprised that a student tried this? Got caught? Got expelled?
True about xBox and their enterprise division is also driving a lot of profits - for now.
Desktop OS market - on life support.
Laptop OS market - moribund at best
Server OS market - MS's one bright spot is a bubble fighting a better free alternative
Tablet OS market - does MS even have an offering?
Phone OS market - Yep, that went well for MS Office Suite - on life support as on line and free alternatives eat their lunch - anybody write documents?
Outlook - Please somebody put this out of its (and my) misery
$600B?? Time to short and profit!
I've always found that a quick search will turn up the name of the general council (head lawyer) for the company. A letter addressed by name to them is ALWAY read. Of course most technologically ignorant corporate lawyers will assume anybody outside their company that tinkers with their stuff or gasp, someone inside the company using open source software, is a criminal and the the legal eagle will go nuclear, file a lawsuit restraining order and/or send the cops after you, but heck it
will get their attention. The other place to reach out to is their PR or Corporate Social Responsibility flacks. They will not understand the tech, just explain to them that they have PR disaster the scale of bad air bags and they will at least go running to the general council.
With regard to radiation: we should probably only send women. For the Y chromosomes we should send frozen sperm in a shielded and lead lined vault to protect from mutations. This way only half the genome sent would be exposed to the high radiation levels. Alternatively, a big lead lined capsule for men and women, but to get enough shielding would be impractical.
Unless you have a buggy.
Buck up dude. A little personal action goes a long way. Call your congressperson, it will make you feel better.
We are going to be spending year rebuilding and improving our democracy and civil society. By analogy, no matter how much you weed, they keep coming back. So now we go back, elect civil folks and make it better.
Get mad. Don't get mad. Get motivated, be depressed. It doesn't matter. We must do the work. We just have to go out and select some sane and civil folks for office and stay involved so that things don't drift off course again. NO magic - just dedicated work. A careful dedication to have sane conversations with other people of good will even if we disagree with their political views will do more than anything else. Now is the time to look to the center and demand the best of everyone by marginalizing those divisive brutes who would destroy our democracy. Pay careful attention to those you agree with politically and if those people are acting divisive then you have a particular responsibility to call on your friends to speaking with a civil tong.