Sorry can't reply to your post for some reason. I'm not american but have multiple copies of my own country's passport. I keep one 'clean' by not using it when I visit terrorist countries - ie cuba and anywhere that…
That's a little tricky - the earth being round and all. You can't put a satelite in orbit around New York (in spite of it being the center of the universe - orbital mechanics doesn't work like that) Your only real…
Compared to the cost of installing conventional telecoms Iridium's $6Bn looked very cheap. Their big mistake was assuming that mobile phone usage would be a limited special market alongside landlines. They didn't…
The main advantage is that optical aberations increase quickly with sensor size (upto diameter^4). That's why your cell phone is able to take pictures with such a crappy lens. What Olympus did was exactly the opposite…
In the 80s when only yuppies had cell phones and coverage was limited to a few square miles of financial districts could you have predicted 100% GSM coverage in Africa?
Most countries allow you to have multiple passports - it's useful when you have lots of business trips that need visas to 3rd world countries that take 6weeks to process the visa. I work in mining and in the…
I was part of a school exchange program to Moscow for the 1980 olympics - as part of the pre-trip briefing we were told not to write anything about our visit while we were there because anything we wrote would be…
Part of this is the employers fault - they don't want CS grads they want specific start-on-monday skills. It's no more reasonable to want a CS grad that knows VB than it is to hire a Mech-Eng and expect that they know…
Sorry can't reply to your post for some reason. I'm not american but have multiple copies of my own country's passport. I keep one 'clean' by not using it when I visit terrorist countries - ie cuba and anywhere that…
That's a little tricky - the earth being round and all. You can't put a satelite in orbit around New York (in spite of it being the center of the universe - orbital mechanics doesn't work like that) Your only real…
Compared to the cost of installing conventional telecoms Iridium's $6Bn looked very cheap. Their big mistake was assuming that mobile phone usage would be a limited special market alongside landlines. They didn't…
The main advantage is that optical aberations increase quickly with sensor size (upto diameter^4). That's why your cell phone is able to take pictures with such a crappy lens. What Olympus did was exactly the opposite…
In the 80s when only yuppies had cell phones and coverage was limited to a few square miles of financial districts could you have predicted 100% GSM coverage in Africa?
Most countries allow you to have multiple passports - it's useful when you have lots of business trips that need visas to 3rd world countries that take 6weeks to process the visa. I work in mining and in the…
I was part of a school exchange program to Moscow for the 1980 olympics - as part of the pre-trip briefing we were told not to write anything about our visit while we were there because anything we wrote would be…
Part of this is the employers fault - they don't want CS grads they want specific start-on-monday skills. It's no more reasonable to want a CS grad that knows VB than it is to hire a Mech-Eng and expect that they know…