Comment Re:Step back a bit... (Score 2, Funny) 442
The least expensive can-opener is actually Chuck Norris's fist.
The least expensive can-opener is actually Chuck Norris's fist.
I won't be changing your mind today... But, in practice the systems do work very well. The cool thing about spread-spectrum modulation is its insane ability to track through insane external interference (that's part of my job as a test engineer, to jam radios and see how they behave). And whereas FM uses one frequency per channel, 2.4 can stuff in thousands on the same frequency and still get decent SNR on each one. Spread-spectrum is in almost every way superior to FM. So some kid turns on a 72 MHz radio with your same frequency, and your plane falls out of the sky. That has never, ever happened with a DX7 or FASST system. As for the 2.4 GHz band being polluted, luckily everything on the band is low-power and hopefully you're out in the middle of a big field.
Also, Futaba's FASST technology has been around for 15 years. Like I said, the pros have been using it long before the hobby guys got into it.
Frankly I haven't even gone to 2.4GHz. I know from having other devices on those frequencies that it's a noisy part of the spectrum. At the moment it's still quite new tech which is cool but I don't fully trust it yet for anything critical.
Get real, this is 2009. Spread-spectrum RC radios have had quite a few years to mature, not to mention that it's simply a better modulation technique than FM. Check out the Spektrum DX7 or the new Futaba stuff. I fly my helicopter setups with a DX7. There are people in my town that fly $15,000 jets them. Oh, and a lot of RC aerial photography in the movies have used the technology for at least a decade now.
Can you put that pickle analogy in the form of a car?
OSX runs great on an Atom-powered Dell Mini 9, so my guess is 'just fine.'
Try disabling Assistive Technologies and reboot. Seems to be enabled by default for some Ubuntu versions. It will defintely kill the Nautilus experience, as one guy put it.
See this page.
Stargate SG-1 was shot in Canada, you insensitive clod!
Ubuntu 8.x with Netbook Remix interface installed. The desktop interface is touchscreen friendly. Window-picker applet and Maximus do a great job of saving you screen real-estate.
Variables don't; constants aren't.