Nevermind -- should have thought about it for 10 seconds before posting...

>>monotonically decreases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(chess)

Study? Did they grant super powers to a set of people and observe the results? I skimmed TFA and didn't see anything about a study. Just a bunch of reasoning about what would probably happen.

Mod parent up The summary and article were correct, but a bit confusing. 30,000 RPM was the record for spinning a crystal with light, not an overall RPM record.

What's wrong with dying? We all do it sooner or later as individuals. Why should the race last forever?

read headline as ADA for web -- immediately thought they were going to push an interpreted ADA as a Javascript replacement -- need more sleep

From the summary:

which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm's conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness

They profile is not based on analysis of actual iPad owners, just collected opinions of what people thought iPad owners were like. The opinions of 20,000 people were collected, regardless of whether that person had an iPad or not.

Disclaimer:
* I own an iPad
* would qualify as wealthy compared to 98% of the world population
* college educated
* work in financial industry (but not overly interested in business / finance)
* it hard to self-judge kindness
* but do give to charity
so the profile (despite being stupid) isn't too far off in my case

I lost 4% of my body weight in just one week, but it was just .0000000040 megatons, so not significant

>> Am I doing something wrong Maybe. For me these break when I'm too lazy to properly detangle a pile of wiring, and I resort to pulling the cable out of the pile. The connector goes through backwards and often damages the retainer. I've never had one get damaged any other way.

You are right. My objection was poorly formed. This post on the K3NG blog states it much better: http://thek3ngreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/d-star-illegal-in-us-and-now-france.html

However, patents aren't the real issue, it's the closed and proprietary nature of the vocoder. Patent it all you like, the encoding technique needs to be published in order to be in compliance with US FCC rules, a fact that escapes the FCC and ARRL.

Very yrue, I should worded my objection more clearly.
In the past I could homebrew an FM exciter and demodulator, perhaps even using the patent as my schematic. It would even be legal if I didn't sell my radio. I could even publish an article about it in QST and be in the clear.
Now, because of DMCA I can get in trouble just for building my own D-Star, and certainly for publishing my version of the codec (even for free).

That said, I don't think France dislikes D-Star for the same reason as me (and GP).

Agreed.

D-Star concept is fine, but using a patent encumbered codec definitely goes against the spirit of ham radio.

Home brew has always been one of the foundations of ham radio, and it should be possible (and legal) to homebrew a decoder for any modulation scheme (protocol) approved for ham radio use (at least in principle, even if it is difficult or rarely done in practice).

K0EET

 

I don't take the iPad in the car, and I can read the 8.5x11 printout easier than my phone. My car doesn't have wi-fi, and I prefer to leave the iPad at home anyway. A in-car navigation system ght be better, but that is beside the point.

My wife uses the iPad for her e-mail. She receives an agenda for an upcoming volunteer meeting. She prints out the agenda to take with her. Again 8.5x11 is easier to read than her phone, and the iPad stays at home (not to mention that there is no open wifi at the meeting location).

I have an iPad at home, and while I'm a developer by trade, I do not develop iPad/iPhone apps.

I have two major gripes (and they are easy to guess):

1) Flash support. This is purely a practical objection (suspending my philosophical objections). This is a neat toy for having around the house. It is the #1 way my kids browse. There are a lot of child oriented sites that need flash ( my younger kids love pbskids.org ). If apple succeeds in driving flash from the web and everybody uses html5 then I'd be fine, but this will take forever.

2) Printing. I never missed it much on my iPhone, but when you are using the iPad it is hard not to think of it as a "computer", and a computer should be able to print. There are some apps that help here, but there needs to be universal support. I'm sitting on the couch reading an e-mail. Next to me hidden under an end table is my wifi laser printer. I really would like to print an email. I'd also like to print out map/directions to take on a trip. This really needs to be on the iOS list (even if it needs a daemon / iTunes on a computer to avoid having to load printer drivers in the iPad).