PRC as a amplifier in GPS question.

[Swanny]

Robert Baer wrote:

David L. Jones wrote:
Zazzle have just pulled all my Flux Capacitor blog mechandise from
sale due to Copyright infringement!
This is a T-Shirt I completely hand drew myself!

Here is my artwork:
http://www.eevblog.com/images/DaveFluxCapacitor.jpg

Here is the traditional image everyone rips off from a bit of promo
merch from the movie:
http://www.zazzle.com/flux_capacitor_tshirt-235779835903386546
There are still two differnt sellers on Zazzle with these type shirts.

So if I've got this straight, my original sylised and modified hand
drawing of a hand drawing from a scrap of paper from a scene in a
movie is somehow classed as infringing on someones copyright?

What's the world coming too?

Dave.

Have you never heard of the Golden Rule??
"He who has the gold, RULES".

or "He Who Has the Gold, Makes the Rules".

 

[Swanny]

Robert Baer wrote:

David L. Jones wrote:
Zazzle have just pulled all my Flux Capacitor blog mechandise from
sale due to Copyright infringement!
This is a T-Shirt I completely hand drew myself!

Here is my artwork:
http://www.eevblog.com/images/DaveFluxCapacitor.jpg

Here is the traditional image everyone rips off from a bit of promo
merch from the movie:
http://www.zazzle.com/flux_capacitor_tshirt-235779835903386546
There are still two differnt sellers on Zazzle with these type shirts.

So if I've got this straight, my original sylised and modified hand
drawing of a hand drawing from a scrap of paper from a scene in a
movie is somehow classed as infringing on someones copyright?

What's the world coming too?

Dave.

Have you never heard of the Golden Rule??
"He who has the gold, RULES".

or "He Who Has the Gold, Makes the Rules".

 

[Swanny]

David L. Jones wrote:

Zazzle have just pulled all my Flux Capacitor blog mechandise from sale due
to Copyright infringement!
This is a T-Shirt I completely hand drew myself!

Here is my artwork:
http://www.eevblog.com/images/DaveFluxCapacitor.jpg

Here is the traditional image everyone rips off from a bit of promo merch
from the movie:
http://www.zazzle.com/flux_capacitor_tshirt-235779835903386546
There are still two differnt sellers on Zazzle with these type shirts.

So if I've got this straight, my original sylised and modified hand drawing
of a hand drawing from a scrap of paper from a scene in a movie is somehow
classed as infringing on someones copyright?

What's the world coming too?

Dave.

Perhaps NBN considers the term "Flux Capacitor" as their intellectual
property.

 

[Ross Herbert]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:06:39 +1100, "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

:Just watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
:Looks like they had a Sydney 2000 moment with a malfunction of the torch,
:they just couldn't get the 4th pole working.
:I wonder what went wrong?, I guess we'll find out in due course...
:
ave.


It seems that Australia had a part to play in that glitch since David Atkins was
the ceremony director...
http://www.naikmichel.com/lounge/2010/02/amazing-vancouver-2010-olympics-opening-closing-ceremonies-david-atkins-enterprises-video/

 

[fritz]

"Ross Herbert" <rherber1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:jo8hn5djvud4sn1bmf5d49v2q0gd029mhj@4ax.com...

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:06:39 +1100, "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com
wrote:

:Just watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
:Looks like they had a Sydney 2000 moment with a malfunction of the torch,
:they just couldn't get the 4th pole working.
:I wonder what went wrong?, I guess we'll find out in due course...
:
ave.


It seems that Australia had a part to play in that glitch since David
Atkins was
the ceremony director...

The Aussie can't be blamed for a bunch of Canucks that he was forced to use.

 

[Ross Herbert]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:43:14 +0100, "fritz" <yaputya@microsoft.com> wrote:

:
:"Ross Herbert" <rherber1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
:news:jo8hn5djvud4sn1bmf5d49v2q0gd029mhj@4ax.com...
:> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:06:39 +1100, "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com>
:> wrote:
:>
:> :Just watched the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
:> :Looks like they had a Sydney 2000 moment with a malfunction of the torch,
:> :they just couldn't get the 4th pole working.
:> :I wonder what went wrong?, I guess we'll find out in due course...
:> :
:> ave.
:>
:>
:> It seems that Australia had a part to play in that glitch since David
:> Atkins was
:> the ceremony director...
:
:The Aussie can't be blamed for a bunch of Canucks that he was forced to use.
:
:
:

You are correct Fritz - I was just putting it out there to see the response.
Just in case that when it was discovered David Atkins was the ceremony director,
Australia would get the blame for the stuff-up. His past record is exemplary and
he must have to rely upon many hundreds of underlings to do their bit correctly
- and that isn't possible to guarantee.

At least he can't be blamed for that leaking ice resurfacing machine at the
speed skating rink. I'm sure if that was in Australia somebody would have used
inherent bushman's ingenuity and replaced the broken bit in 30 minutes.

 

[Swanny]

David L. Jones wrote:

The title says it all really.
See what happens when I try to destroy Fluke's new 28-II Multimeter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlA7-fh5nDQ

Dave.

Is Dave about to be recruited to Fluke's "Dark Side" (ie marketing)?

 

[Royston Vasey]

"Swanny" <swanny@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:g6Cln.12145$pv.7480@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

David L. Jones wrote:
The title says it all really.
See what happens when I try to destroy Fluke's new 28-II Multimeter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlA7-fh5nDQ

Dave.

Is Dave about to be recruited to Fluke's "Dark Side" (ie marketing)?

Is it me or is there a bit of the croc hunter in Dave?

 

[Swanny]

Rigol did the engineering and selected a business model, and you chose
to break it based on some moral judgement of your own. They will have
to react somehow, which will cost them money one way or another.

Why did you do this? Did you feel that Rigol was cheating the public
and deserved to be exposed and, additionally, deprived of revenue?

John

If I choose to improve something by modifying it after purchasing it
then I will do so. This could be anything from changing caps in a PSU to
replacing op amps in an audio circuit or overclocking a CPU.
If the modification is simply a configuration change in software then
that makes it easier.

 

[Phil Allison]

"John Larkin = Criminal LIAR "


** This is all you need to know about the vile scumbag.

Larkin has often bragged how there is no need to be truthful on usenet.

Course, the fact is he is not truthful anywhere.

Cos he is a psychopath.




..... Phil

 

[Dr. Sir John Howard, AC,]

Phil Allison wrote:

"Slimy Fuckwit"

** See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAL#Lockheed_Electra_L-188_crash

Lucky almost nobody saw it happen.

Poor Kiwis.....

Pretty ho hum really Phil ... hardly worth a mention when you consider the
scale of the many other silly and unsafe acts performed by those who
should know better.


** Fuckwits like " Sly " are congenitally incapable of even faintly
comprehending the magnitude of the recklessness here demonstrated by the
entire flight training staff at TEAL - now called Air New Zealand.

Yeah, rope burns are really reckless, toaster boi.

Plus their appalling school boy style attempt to cover up their crime and so
protect the guilty.

One of your relatives, eh?

Not that many years later, the same gang of criminal assholes contrived to
cause a perfectly airworthy DC10 to fly straight into Mt Erebus - killing
257 people.

Too bad you weren't on it, toaster boi.

A notorious " orchestrated litany of lies " was produced to cover that
criminal act - cos no hole big enough existed in Antarctica to hide what
happened that day.

If only the hole in your head was available.

--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
- KRudd at his finest.

"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.

"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.

"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.

"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.

"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.

"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMB CUNT!"
- FlangesBum on learning the truth about Labour's economic capabilities.

"I don't care what you fuckers think!"
- KRudd the KRude Rat at his finest again.

"We'll just change it all when we get in."
- Garrett the carrott

 

[nospamplease]

On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:53:17 -0700 (PDT), "Australia Mining Pioneer &
Founder of the True Geology" <jpturcaud@neuf.fr> wrote:

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[Inspector Blake aka Blake]

This falls into the 'The I don't give a fuck catergory'

 

[Greatest Mining Pioneer o]

On May 4, 7:00 pm, nospample...@mo.com (nospamplease) wrote:,
*>
*> Not sure of you realize this but you are posting the same post over
*> and over again and in news groups nothing to do with politics.

This post has nothing to do with politics, it has to do with
awareness.
Do you want to remain unaware or be informed ?
I am sure of that answer indeed.

With best regards

jpturcaud

 

[Nobody]

On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:53:17 -0700 (PDT), "Australia Mining Pioneer &
Founder of the True Geology" <jpturcaud@neuf.fr> wrote:

JOIN THE BRITISH RESISTANCE

General Election 2010
British National Party

Dear Fellow Patriot,

With only two days to go until the General and Local elections, it is
time we reflected on the terrible future that awaits our country, our
children and grand-children.

If the politicians and the media have their way, our country will be
totally overrun by the masses of the Third-World, we will be ruled
from Brussels, we will be a despised, second-class minority in our own
homeland.

Is that the future you want for your children? Will you regret it when
it is too late and you wished you would have joined the British
Resistance when you had the chance?

The British National Party is Britain's fastest growing political
party, with over 100 councillors, a seat on the Greater London
Assembly and two seats in the European Parliament. On Thursday we
could win control of our first council and could win seats at
Westminster.

The clock is ticking, our country is dying, and our beautiful innocent
children are depending on us to save their future. Here is the
different membership options:

METHOD #1: Join the British Resistance

The BNP is the only hope for our country, for our children and grand-
children. There are thousands of people receiving this e-bulletin that
are not members yet. Why not join the British Resistance to political
correctness, multiculturalism and the enforced colonisation of our
country. Standard membership costs only Ł30:

http://secure.bnp.org.uk/join/

METHOD #2: Become a Life Member

Life members are that small elite of British patriots that sign-up to
the Cause of British Nationalism for life, not just for one year. Life
membership comes with various other attractive benefits:

http://secure.bnp.org.uk/life/

METHOD #3: Become a Gold Member

Gold members stand out from the crowd due to the unique gold
membership badge that all Gold members wear with pride. Gold
membership costs just Ł60 and shows that little bit of extra
commitment to the Cause of British survival:

http://secure.bnp.org.uk/gold/

METHOD #4: Upgrade your membership

For the thousands of existing BNP members out there why not upgrade
your membership to Gold or even Life? Upgrading your membership shows
your commitment to our Cause and provides real and substantial
benefits to you and the Party:

http://secure.bnp.org.uk/upgrades/

METHOD #5: Join the Trafalgar Club

The Trafalgar Club is the BNP's exclusive dining and fundraising club.
Members of the TC are not Party members, so it is a perfect option for
those supporters that wish to help without actually joining the Party:

http://secure.bnp.org.uk/trafalgarclub/

Yours sincerely,

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The Poms are still whingeing...

 

[kangarooistan]

On May 5, 11:04 am, Nobody <j...@soccer.com> wrote:

British National Party 2009. PO Box 5057, Nuneaton, CV11 9FP

The Poms are still whingeing...

I smell a dollar , muslims may need to go undercover in the UK
http://camelphotos.com/GraphicsP3/camels_2.jpg

 

[the man from havana]

On May 5, 7:54 am, Greatest Mining Pioneer of Australia of all Times
<australia.mining-pion...@neuf.fr> wrote:

On May 4, 7:00 pm, nospample...@mo.com (nospamplease) wrote:,
*
*> Not sure of you realize this but you are posting the same post over
*> and over again and in news groups nothing to do with politics.

This post has nothing to do with politics, it has to do with
awareness.
Do you want to remain unaware or be informed ?
I am sure of that answer indeed.

With best regards

jpturcaud

STICK IT IN YOUR ANUS INSIPID FRAUD !

 

[Greatest Mining Pioneer o]

On May 5, 1:17 am, "Inspector Blake aka Blakey" <b...@me.com> wrote:

This falls into the 'The I don't give a fuck catergory'

Normal with Sheeple !
How is that fed & watering going with your kind ....all huddled at the
gate waiting to get some more ? Good beast !

 

[Rod Speed]

Immortalist wrote:

Tablet computers aren’t new. Windows notebook PCs with stylus-
controlled touchscreens have been around for years, but the market
remains a very small niche. The iPad, a tablet lacking many functions
of these bigger, better spec’d machines, has probably sold more units
in its first month (one million of them) than tablets have sold ever.

Yeah, its one hell of a commentary on how the market works in many ways.

Something similar but quite different happened with the iphone.

Very limited phone in many ways, the OS isnt even multitasking,
but it generated one hell of a response from those who write apps.

It does have a very decent user interface in some areas,
particularly the touch screen and a couple of very innovative
ideas like with pinching and zooming etc, but didnt even have
some very basic stuff like cut and paste for a long time.

The market didnt care and bought hordes of them anyway.

The response from computer makers has been more of the same
old junk, hoping people will buy anything they call a tablet or a slate.

Thats not surprising given that they need to make a quick response.

They won’t. The public is sick of babysitting their computers.

Yes, but that doesnt mean that they will get what they want.

Its a hell of a lot harder to do than it is to say.

They want a gadget they don’t have to think about,

Yes, but again, its a hell of a lot harder to do than it is to say,
particularly with something the user can load hordes of apps onto.

something they aren’t scared of using.

Its not scared so much as they want something effortless
to use. And there is a real sense in which the ipod UI provides
that, even tho it can be more difficult to use than it first looks,
particularly the ITunes UI on the PC to load it etc.

Doesnt matter tho, by the time they notice that,
they've bought it and wont be tossing it in the bin.

Manufacturers need to make a tablet that competes with
the iPad not just in terms of hardware, but also concept.

And it isnt that hard to improve on it too, particularly with multitasking.

Here’s how to make one.

Fraid not.

Hardware

Hardware is almost irrelevant, on the outside at least.

No it isnt. It does need to be very readable and to have a decent
touch system that works well over time. Without that, its fucked.

The iPad is a slab of aluminum and glass with
an absolute minimum of ports and buttons.

There is a hell of a lot more to the hardware than that.

Rivals counter this by promising USB ports, SD
card slots and the like. The problem? Compatibility.

Not necessarily a problem, plenty of smart phones handle that fine.

If you include just one standard USB port, people expect it to
behave like one, and they’ll plug in printers, mice and everything else.

Have fun explaining why they dont with smart phones which have a USB port.

This requires drivers,

Not necessarily, and it isnt that hard to load those
automatically with a device that has net access anyway.

which in turn adds complexity

No it does not with a device that has net access already.

and eats into precious flash-memory space

There is no shortage of flash memory space.

(a recent Epson printer driver update for the Mac was almost 1 GB in size).

Stupid example.

The solution: Lightweight, low-powered hardware, designed not to
run a full desktop OS but instead a purpose-made, tablet-friendly OS.

Have fun explaining the latest smart phones that run Linux fine.

And plenty of GPSs etc do too.

It should be thought of as a big cellphone,

Its more of a reduced functionality PC.

designed for battery life and ease of use. It should
be designed, most importantly, around software.

All modern hardware always is.

Software

A tablet needs its own operating system.

Nope. The Ipad uses the same OS as the iphone and the ipod.

This is an opportunity for companies to throw out legacy
support for every previous iteration of their software
(we’re looking at you, Windows registry) and start over.

Thats what Apple did with the iphone. They even stupidly threw out mulitasking.

It would in fact be better to start with Linux instead with something as complex as an OS.

Start with a blank, ahem, slate and build from there. Forget
about mouse and keyboard-based metaphors and start over.

Yes. But you dont need to start with a brand new OS to do
that, most GPSs etc have gone that route with Linux instead.

Design an OS that makes it easy to do what people actually want to do with a tablet.

Makes more sense to add that functionality to Linux.

Most importantly, do not mistake this for a computer.

Mindlessly silly, thats exactly what it is, albeit a reduced functionality one.

You already sell computers.

But none with anything like that sort of user interface except with the iphone.

Let the people who say the lack of a Unix terminal is a
“deal-breaker” buy one of those, and then ignore them.

HP gets this.

We'll see...

It bought Palm because it sees the end of the PC market.

Like hell it does. It actually sees a real market in that segment.

PCs aren’t going anywhere soon,

They dont need to.

but like the laptop overtook the desktop, the
tablet will be most people’s main computing tool.

Pig arse it will, particularly for those who use the keyboard for entry much.

Building a tablet OS from scratch will take years if done properly.

Which is why it makes a hell of a lot more sense to start with Linux.

Palm’s WebOS is ready to be blown up into tablet form now,

And Linux is even better for that.

and if HP can manage the hardware side properly, it
could have a true iPad rival up and running this year.

Bet it doesnt. Just like there arent any real competitors
for the iphone yet, or even for the ipod either.

Better still, it will own the hardware and the software instead
of selling just another Windows PC, and competing only on price.

That isnt what happens when the OS is Linux.

Apps

The success of Apple’s App Store isn’t about the sheer numbers.

Correct.

Most of the apps out there are junk. The thing that
makes it work is the ease and safety of installation.

Its more complicated than that.

Mac and iPhone developer Fraser Speirs puts it like this:
“iPhone OS is the first mass-market operating system
where consumers are no longer afraid to install software
on their computers.”

Thats been true with desktops for a long time now.

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber puts it more
succinctly, saying that “the best way to think
of iPhone OS devices [is as] app consoles.”

Thats been true for decades now.

You see an app you like, you click it and you’re done. Payments
are invisible, no application will infect or damage your machine
and, if you don’t like the app, when you delete it it’s entirely gone.
The suggestions that Apple should let users install apps from
anywhere ignores this fact: The App Store is so successful because
it is closed. Don’t agree? How’s the Android Marketplace doing?

Beating Apple

Apple has invented a device that normal people will use and enjoy

Yes.

and has shown us the future of computing.

Nope. Its never done that.

But there are some obvious areas where competitors can beat it.

We'll see...

Censorship, for one. The App Store needs to be closed to work,
but rejecting applications based on their content is wrong. The
lack of clear guidelines for developers leads to more homogeneous
applications, because programmers are scared to put a lot of time into
an app that pushes the envelope if it may never make it into the store.

And remember, you don’t have to beat the iPad to win here. You just need
to make something better than a personal computer. How hard can that be?

Fucking hard, you watch.

> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/how-to-make-an-ipad-beating-tablet/