I have found AIS to the be the tech I'd least like to be without in costal waters, certainly in Northern Europe. The shipping lanes are a serious headache around the English Channel and the North Sea. Being able to see (hopefully) all ships that might be of concern and being able to get their MMSI and give them a call is incredibly handy.
I suppose I'm assuming you have all the standard kit on board (VHF DSC, decent GPS / plotter, (G)EPIRB).
If you're planning round the world, you'll be wanting more interesting radio tech...
Oh, and good batteries and power management is a god send. Without it your power budgets have to have such absurd safety margins you almost always end up needing jerrycans full of diesel everywhere.
Especially for a subject like English. Over the years teachers will begin to understand how the computer makes and they'll tell their students what style will get the beast marks.
It becomes a study of the marking algorithms, not a study of English.
I suppose they could make alteratoins every year... but then it could become unfair.
They want the good parts of Democracy (freedom of speech, human rights etc) but they don't want to turn into a lawyer driven state like America. Personally Companies / Corporations should take NO part in country building, they will gear the countries laws to their advantage. Personally, I feel the UN should be in charge of the rebuilding of Iraq.
P.S. I am not a 'cheese eating surrender monkey' I was in favour of the war, I just feel that the UN has more experience in country building and they are (in theory) not bias.
They're using some strange ugly wxpython (http://www.wxpython.org/screenshots.php) widget set... why not gtk2? It looks so much better (not to mention integration with themes and gnome), it's also cross platform.
I know it's only 0.1 but the ui is very ugly, the ions and buttons need to be cleaned up and spaced out.
These UI things may sound trivial but ugly, difficult-to-use programs will not be adopted by the masses.
I do hope these things are sorted out, I'm rather disappointed.
talk to a group of people! (wow, MSN, IRC, jabber etc has been doing this for years)
Send photos to each other! (WOW!, I use a 'web site', simpler and cross platform)
Listen to group music! (This is a new, ish, feature but to be honist you could all just press play at the same time (note that you can't actually share music with this thing)).
The only 'feature' this has is a nasty MS eyecandy.
It's 'market speak'ware, it also locks people to MS I suppose, stopping the Apple Mac youth drain?
Amplifying single photons is defiantly possible, I can remember that. I think the basic idea is to get a photon to hit a charged plate (or something) which then releases a shower of electrons which can then go on to hit another plate and so on...
I think this is the basic principal but I can remember the name.
Feel free to flame if I have this horrendously wrong.
Your an AOL user, you go to a site like the BBC, it works fine, your happy. You then go to a banks site, it doesn't work, your not happy. Since you managed to get most sites working you would complain to the site, not to AOL, as it's "obviously" the site that's the problem.
NTL has been slowly taking over all the small cable companies in the UK over the last few years. It is now the largest (only in most areas) cable company (as well as being broke). That said it does not need to provide access for other ISP's, the broadband war here is between BT (british Telecom) with ADSL and NTL with Cable Modem. Prices have remained quite low (about 25 pounds a month for 1/2 MB).
In the UK, BT (british telecom) pays out to residential customers if your line is cut off for more than a week or two. I woulden't expect BT's terms and conditions to be nicer than other companies, this is quite a surprise!
This reminds me of one of the scrapheap challenge tasks, as far as I remember the winning design was to smash the sand (the mines were buried on a beach) with spining chain flails. Much more fun, and far more dangerous:)
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I have found AIS to the be the tech I'd least like to be without in costal waters, certainly in Northern Europe. The shipping lanes are a serious headache around the English Channel and the North Sea. Being able to see (hopefully) all ships that might be of concern and being able to get their MMSI and give them a call is incredibly handy.
I suppose I'm assuming you have all the standard kit on board (VHF DSC, decent GPS / plotter, (G)EPIRB).
If you're planning round the world, you'll be wanting more interesting radio tech...
Oh, and good batteries and power management is a god send. Without it your power budgets have to have such absurd safety margins you almost always end up needing jerrycans full of diesel everywhere.
Obviously, this being Slashdot, I would have to suggest something like this http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Maritime/FleetBroadband/SAILOR_250_FleetBroadband.asp
The BBC produce a nice list of all candidates by area:m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3708131.st
Especially for a subject like English. Over the years teachers will begin to understand how the computer makes and they'll tell their students what style will get the beast marks.
It becomes a study of the marking algorithms, not a study of English.
I suppose they could make alteratoins every year... but then it could become unfair.
They want the good parts of Democracy (freedom of speech, human rights etc) but they don't want to turn into a lawyer driven state like America.
Personally Companies / Corporations should take NO part in country building, they will gear the countries laws to their advantage.
Personally, I feel the UN should be in charge of the rebuilding of Iraq.
P.S. I am not a 'cheese eating surrender monkey' I was in favour of the war, I just feel that the UN has more experience in country building and they are (in theory) not bias.
Just my views...
Dear me...
That huge advert on the right hand side of games.slashdot.org is really irritating!
Any change of reducing the size, changing the position or stopping the animation?
I realise Slashdot needs to make money... but there must be better ways than this.
They're using some strange ugly wxpython (http://www.wxpython.org/screenshots.php) widget set... why not gtk2? It looks so much better (not to mention integration with themes and gnome), it's also cross platform.
I know it's only 0.1 but the ui is very ugly, the ions and buttons need to be cleaned up and spaced out.
These UI things may sound trivial but ugly, difficult-to-use programs will not be adopted by the masses.
I do hope these things are sorted out, I'm rather disappointed.
I don't know why this is modded as funny, I just gave them a ring and I'll have my dvd copy in 2 to 3 days!
Go order one for yourself! (it comes with 'the making of' as well)
This allows you to:
talk to a group of people! (wow, MSN, IRC, jabber etc has been doing this for years)
Send photos to each other! (WOW!, I use a 'web site', simpler and cross platform)
Listen to group music! (This is a new, ish, feature but to be honist you could all just press play at the same time (note that you can't actually share music with this thing)).
The only 'feature' this has is a nasty MS eyecandy.
It's 'market speak'ware, it also locks people to MS I suppose, stopping the Apple Mac youth drain?
Amplifying single photons is defiantly possible, I can remember that. I think the basic idea is to get a photon to hit a charged plate (or something) which then releases a shower of electrons which can then go on to hit another plate and so on ...
I think this is the basic principal but I can remember the name.
Feel free to flame if I have this horrendously wrong.
Another reason to dislike teoma, it runs on ASP! :)
where as dear ol' Google runs Linux.
Teoma will NEVER win.
yup, some here.
Although there has been some talk by the mplayer developers, the latest CVS can only play the audio.
Only a matter of time I assume.
Just my thought
Me and a select group of friends, obviously.
There was a system like this in the UK for a while, it was called Ionica but it was fucked my nortel. It was a short life.
NTL has been slowly taking over all the small cable companies in the UK over the last few years. It is now the largest (only in most areas) cable company (as well as being broke).
That said it does not need to provide access for other ISP's, the broadband war here is between BT (british Telecom) with ADSL and NTL with Cable Modem. Prices have remained quite low (about 25 pounds a month for 1/2 MB).
In the UK, BT (british telecom) pays out to residential customers if your line is cut off for more than a week or two. I woulden't expect BT's terms and conditions to be nicer than other companies, this is quite a surprise!
I suppose this is the same for almost all computer books, easy if you know how...
HA! well that's where your wrong!
This cheese was specially designed not to give bad breath. So there!
Yeah it's great, I was the star attraction. I had a limo and everything. I got tones (literally) of free cheese!! :)
Well i have the CCTV video, which can be downloaded from open.gov.uk along with the footage of his MI6 interigation, it's very funny :)
Ha Troll! to you too.
UNDERAGE DRINKING! Quick Quick call the police
possibly, but will there be cheese?
I like cheese
Mmm cheese, everyone likes cheese, except possibly Leo Howell (leo@marvin.dyndns.org), but he's just wierd.
:)
This reminds me of the monty python cheese shop sketch, very funny.
I think my favorite cheese is probably parmesan, so good on pasta with just olive oil and pepper. YUM
This reminds me of one of the scrapheap challenge tasks, as far as I remember the winning design was to smash the sand (the mines were buried on a beach) with spining chain flails. Much more fun, and far more dangerous :)
Well, as long as there is no nasty copy protection, humm.