Okay, so it's impressive that Hill transmitted in Morse code and Gibson had to transscribe it on the other side
There have been morse code senders/readers since the big 80's. The VIC20 was a common PC for doing this, although with all the QRM from the beast, I wonder how well the receiver worked. I think the speed increase comes from not having to seperate the message construction from sending. He was sending his message as he entered it into the system. She had to compose the message first, then send it through the system.
a Pocket PC window with scroll bars on the left side, so that we don't cover up the screen by tapping on the scrollbar. It is very annoying and there doesn't seem to be a fix for it. At least with a mouse I can put it on the other side of my keyboard and deal.
I thought you were talking about the idea of setting managed goals for today's vision of tomorrow's killer app. Here you were upset that they used PDF, like everyone else doing something "big" is doing these days...
Actually, I think the article is a joke. It seems a little slanted, but I'm sure the reporter doesn't have any hiden agenda. I'm not one to defend phone companies, but where's the rest of the comments? I really don't think the CEO of a major telecom would come off that bad, unless the interview was held in a bar with strippers pouring free drinks!
I especially think you are right about the Cylon civil war idea. Don't know how, and certainly don't know exactly why, but it's bound to be very interesting.
It is so that Baltar can assume his rightful place at the throne of the Cylon empire, by bringing order to the force or some such nonsense.
Does anybody know for sure if it's really a Digital TV receiver? A hang on a UHF antenna and turn it on type digital TV? If so, I may have found one.
I doubt it. They point out that it has component inputs. So what? Most TVs sold today have component inputs now (it is an easy thing to add, since it is just an NTSC signal without as much processing). It might handle multisync (capable of 1080i/720p signals, therefore qualifying as a digital TV). But Since they say component inputs but no mention of a digital tuner (and no FCC mandate until 2007), My guess would be that it does not).
And, yes, the 97% of households mentioned have the DTV/HD signal going through the air. Most homes don't have the ability to watch it. I'd really be interested in knowing the number of the general population who have really seen an HD/DTV signal off the air, not a demo at Best Buy. And, of course, their opinions of the signal.
IBM had the same model, for the most part. Big business used many different mainframe manufacturers -Data General (OK, more of a mini builder), DEC, Burrowes, Singer (formerly CCC), Honeywell, HP, etc because they were writing custom applications and could be choosey (and, yes, IBM was in there too). But mid-sized companies usually couldn't afford to have custom apps, so IBM was happy to provide off the shelf solutions that could easily be customized. The real small players, colleges and automatated control folks were running DECs and other such stuff, with free software they could hack together easily because the systems were so open (I used to own a PDP-8e, and it had all the mechanical drawings and parts lists -imagine getting all that for today's machines).
I'm sure there were people who believed that mid sized companies were wasting money buying big blue, but the combination of FUD^H^H^Hsalesmanship from the friendly IBM rep, total lack of understanding of computers, and the one-stop budget line (a big deal to accounting) makes it worth the other hassles. As much as we like to think that computers are more accessable, there are still a large number of people who don't understand 'em, don't like 'em and don't want to know about 'em. We call those people managers!
I wasn't aware they had any expertise, at least in the cell phone division. Their 2-way radios are about the most indestructable you can get (but Icom and Kenwood still have more features). Their chips are still great for many applications. The cable division, well, they bought that, but their modems are better than most. But the Cell division? Nothing but crap. I have a junk Mot phone for work, a Nok phone for personal use. I carry both around with me all day, mostly because the Mot phone won't work in many areas the Nokia phone will. The charger is this tiny little 3 contact connector that needs to be scraped off every few weeks with a sharp knife and rubbing alcohol (an eraser is much too big to reach them), and I have a very tough time hearing the speaker.
But, I do like the idea of an I-pod phone. Imagine putting numbers on the jog dial so you can actually dial a phone number again!
But I do play with home networks. Shortly after I set up my access point (with 128bit encryption) I found someone gained access. How? By looking at the darn DHCP client table. I saw a MAC I didn't recognize, and blocked it out. No problem. It would have been just as easy to only allow known MAC addresses, but the cute chick downstairs needed to get online and I didn't know her MAC. I guess I could reconfigure, but why bother? I haven't had any other attachements since then.
Now, I realize that I'm the exception, but how hard can it be to type 192.168.1.1 in a web browser? Of course, people should check the air pressure in their tires once a week, and clean the air filter on the furnace once in a while...
Yep. And it works just great! Except that packets are repeated over and over again, reducing the total bandwidth dramatically. Read more about it here.
Now, Bruninga gets a little overboard at times talking about how bad the current APRS system is, but he does live in one of the high use areas. The interesting thing about his proposal outlined in the link is that he recomends setting up a high speed backbone system to relieve the stress on the current mesh network. I think it could be a very useful thing for routine traffic, but in an emergency it could be a little less effective, since the mesh network may not be able to pass traffic without the backbone links in place. He is also recomending a hard limit, enforced by the digipeaters, on how many hops are permitted by a packet. Again, while this is fine for routine traffic that is likely to hit a gateway (internet or HF) in a few hops, under less than ideal conditions it may severely limit the usefulness of the network. And remember that APRS packets can potentially travel over several miles. The few hundred feet an 802.11x signal can travel will require many, many hops and lots of aloha circles. Bring on the QRM!
Well, I decided to leave a lower manager position in an east coast college town. The town was getting too big, the job was too stressful, and the company was going through a major change that I didn't agree with. The vacation to the desert southwest 2 years ago was the clincher. I'm not a spiritual person, but I did seem to have a revelation in the desert about what direction my life should be taking. Hint - if you punch a hole in the wall of your office, it is a warning that it may be time to move on.
Anyway, in 2003 I started looking for work in an area I was interested in moving to. I think the key for me was to find a location, then look for a job. However, my job lets me work just about anywhere. I also had some thoughts about management, and what I wanted to do. Basically I knew I needed to be hourly, specifically because I didn't really care about how much money I was making, just how many hours I was working. The important thing is that I was adopting a "look before you leap" attitude about my career, something I really hadn't done before.
In March of last year I started working here, hourly, and getting used to the new enviroment. My experience as a supervisor has really made the work easy, most people are impressed with my work, and I have happy customers. I was hoping for a little more money, but only because the area I'm in has a high cost of living (ski town in the rockies). I'm not sure how long I'll stay here, but for now, I'm very confortable. YMMV.
If you do a default installation, you cannot compile a kernel. And, I've had one heck of a time getting anything other than the included applications running. I'm sure lots of that is operator error, but still, for the "easiest" Linux distro out there, it still can't quite get to Windows' installation ease.
but since most everyone's broadband, the price should be cheap now.
I just had a conversation with someone this morning about ISDN. Quest quoted him $700/month for 1B+D service. Then there was a hugh installation charge. Quest doesn't want to do ISDN, so they set the price really, really high. However, the reason he wants ISDN is because he's too far away for Cable or DSL, so there may be a penalty charge for distance.
I remember programming the Atari 400 in high school. One of the interesting features of the Atari was a "true random number" generator. It just sampled a white noise generator in the POKEY (sound) chip. Much more random than the MS basic RND function, which used a formula to make a random number.
Just the sort of thing you'd expect from a game company.
Um, no. Sat radio runs at microwave frequencies (2,332.50 through 2,345.00 MHz), from 22,300 miles away. This is a very, very weak signal that needs a lot of amplification. Add to that a QPSK(?) demodulator, decoder, etc, and you have a lot of power consumption.
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No, you're thinking of the FAA. Remember those stories in the 90's about the ATC system crashing and getting computer techs out of retirement to fix 'em (and frantic searches for tubes and old, no longer manufactured transistors)? I guess nothing has really changed. Your tax dollars at work.
well, when you have billions of dollars already in on this, of course he's going to say its what people want. Why wouldn't he?
Don't forget that the PC industry been trying to push video on PCs since at least 1992 or so, with the MPC standard, MMX extensions, VGA overlay cards, etc. I really can't figure out why everyone in tech wants to emulate the boob tube, but I've never been one to understand people.
All we ever hear about (since the 80's and cheap video production) is the power of video, but I just don't get it. I seem to retain much more of what I read, and get much more detailed information from text than I do with video.
Oh, and remember that good quality text is much cheaper to produce than good quality video. Just ask anyone who has recorded their kid's birthday.
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There have been morse code senders/readers since the big 80's. The VIC20 was a common PC for doing this, although with all the QRM from the beast, I wonder how well the receiver worked. I think the speed increase comes from not having to seperate the message construction from sending. He was sending his message as he entered it into the system. She had to compose the message first, then send it through the system.
I thought you were talking about the idea of setting managed goals for today's vision of tomorrow's killer app. Here you were upset that they used PDF, like everyone else doing something "big" is doing these days...
Actually, I think the article is a joke. It seems a little slanted, but I'm sure the reporter doesn't have any hiden agenda. I'm not one to defend phone companies, but where's the rest of the comments? I really don't think the CEO of a major telecom would come off that bad, unless the interview was held in a bar with strippers pouring free drinks!
Now you're thinking like a health care professional!
I wonder what kind of van you could trade for that?
It is so that Baltar can assume his rightful place at the throne of the Cylon empire, by bringing order to the force or some such nonsense.
Geesh. Too easy.
I doubt it. They point out that it has component inputs. So what? Most TVs sold today have component inputs now (it is an easy thing to add, since it is just an NTSC signal without as much processing). It might handle multisync (capable of 1080i/720p signals, therefore qualifying as a digital TV). But Since they say component inputs but no mention of a digital tuner (and no FCC mandate until 2007), My guess would be that it does not).
And, yes, the 97% of households mentioned have the DTV/HD signal going through the air. Most homes don't have the ability to watch it. I'd really be interested in knowing the number of the general population who have really seen an HD/DTV signal off the air, not a demo at Best Buy. And, of course, their opinions of the signal.
I'm sure there were people who believed that mid sized companies were wasting money buying big blue, but the combination of FUD^H^H^Hsalesmanship from the friendly IBM rep, total lack of understanding of computers, and the one-stop budget line (a big deal to accounting) makes it worth the other hassles. As much as we like to think that computers are more accessable, there are still a large number of people who don't understand 'em, don't like 'em and don't want to know about 'em. We call those people managers!
I wasn't aware they had any expertise, at least in the cell phone division. Their 2-way radios are about the most indestructable you can get (but Icom and Kenwood still have more features). Their chips are still great for many applications. The cable division, well, they bought that, but their modems are better than most. But the Cell division? Nothing but crap. I have a junk Mot phone for work, a Nok phone for personal use. I carry both around with me all day, mostly because the Mot phone won't work in many areas the Nokia phone will. The charger is this tiny little 3 contact connector that needs to be scraped off every few weeks with a sharp knife and rubbing alcohol (an eraser is much too big to reach them), and I have a very tough time hearing the speaker.
But, I do like the idea of an I-pod phone. Imagine putting numbers on the jog dial so you can actually dial a phone number again!
You're not fooling anyone, you know.
Now, I realize that I'm the exception, but how hard can it be to type 192.168.1.1 in a web browser? Of course, people should check the air pressure in their tires once a week, and clean the air filter on the furnace once in a while...
Now, Bruninga gets a little overboard at times talking about how bad the current APRS system is, but he does live in one of the high use areas. The interesting thing about his proposal outlined in the link is that he recomends setting up a high speed backbone system to relieve the stress on the current mesh network. I think it could be a very useful thing for routine traffic, but in an emergency it could be a little less effective, since the mesh network may not be able to pass traffic without the backbone links in place. He is also recomending a hard limit, enforced by the digipeaters, on how many hops are permitted by a packet. Again, while this is fine for routine traffic that is likely to hit a gateway (internet or HF) in a few hops, under less than ideal conditions it may severely limit the usefulness of the network. And remember that APRS packets can potentially travel over several miles. The few hundred feet an 802.11x signal can travel will require many, many hops and lots of aloha circles. Bring on the QRM!
Gee, that makes me want to get out of bed in the morning. There's lots of things that haven't been invented yet. Most of them aren't patented, either.
Anyway, in 2003 I started looking for work in an area I was interested in moving to. I think the key for me was to find a location, then look for a job. However, my job lets me work just about anywhere. I also had some thoughts about management, and what I wanted to do. Basically I knew I needed to be hourly, specifically because I didn't really care about how much money I was making, just how many hours I was working. The important thing is that I was adopting a "look before you leap" attitude about my career, something I really hadn't done before.
In March of last year I started working here, hourly, and getting used to the new enviroment. My experience as a supervisor has really made the work easy, most people are impressed with my work, and I have happy customers. I was hoping for a little more money, but only because the area I'm in has a high cost of living (ski town in the rockies). I'm not sure how long I'll stay here, but for now, I'm very confortable. YMMV.
I just had a conversation with someone this morning about ISDN. Quest quoted him $700/month for 1B+D service. Then there was a hugh installation charge. Quest doesn't want to do ISDN, so they set the price really, really high. However, the reason he wants ISDN is because he's too far away for Cable or DSL, so there may be a penalty charge for distance.
Just the sort of thing you'd expect from a game company.
And shame on the moderator who scored you as "Insightful" instead of "Funny..."
No, you're thinking of the FAA. Remember those stories in the 90's about the ATC system crashing and getting computer techs out of retirement to fix 'em (and frantic searches for tubes and old, no longer manufactured transistors)? I guess nothing has really changed. Your tax dollars at work.
Don't forget that the PC industry been trying to push video on PCs since at least 1992 or so, with the MPC standard, MMX extensions, VGA overlay cards, etc. I really can't figure out why everyone in tech wants to emulate the boob tube, but I've never been one to understand people.
All we ever hear about (since the 80's and cheap video production) is the power of video, but I just don't get it. I seem to retain much more of what I read, and get much more detailed information from text than I do with video.
Oh, and remember that good quality text is much cheaper to produce than good quality video. Just ask anyone who has recorded their kid's birthday.
Actually, it can be seen here. It was said to be his favorite automobile.