Surely employees don't have to surf the web at work?
You're asking the wrong question.
For the last 8 years, I would not have been able to do any of the work I've been paid to do if I didn't have timely access to the web. It's to the point that I now wonder how I was able to have any work done 15-25 year ago!!! Granted, not all work **REQUIRES** it, but if you start discriminating between functions at work, you will get more disgruntling than good work done; it has come to the point that web access is nothing less than telephone access.
However, granting internet access to employees doesn't mean that the barest minimum security and/or monitoring should not be deployed. In fact, it would be quite foolish to grant unrestricted/unmonitored internet access to employees.
What is it, why can't we (I mean linux) have something that will even come close now without requiring at least 128 megs? Is it just technically impossible because of the way a unix like system is designed?
It is quite possible. 25 years ago, I was running Uniflex on a 168K bytes 6809 box with two 1.5 megs 8 inch floppies. This Unix clone could support up to 4 simultaneous users on terminals (the box had 4 serial ports). I still have the wired-wrap box in a closet somewhere.
Actually, just a few feet can cuase this, even in a place like a pool. You go from 60' to the surface, you lungs will expand to 3 times the current size if hold a full breath and no exhalation.
Where I live, we have a 50 feet pool for SCUBA diving training...
Third you dont have to be certified to use this. fourth, its failsafe in many ways that scuba is not. The number one danger in scuba is forgetting to exhale when ascending (descending is not dangerous). If you forget to exhale on ascent from 60 feet then when you get to the surface you have a few atmospheres of air in your lungs and they literally explode inside of your body. Since ther is a bubble of air around your head there is no time when you would feel like holding your breath. This machine automatically passively equalizes the air pressure for you as you ascend (your nose is also exposed too).
What scares me the most in that thing is, if the rider rides something, the jolt may eject him into the blue, and without a mask, he'll be totally disoriented and try to make it to the surface, holding his breath, of course.
With normal SCUBA, an instructor can always be near the student, but with that thing, it's easy to put oneself out of reach (and easy rescue).
Definitely something I don't see any sane insurance company eager to underwrite, if used by untrained "divers"...
Also, the depths to which the operators permit the skooters to go is never more than 30 feet, so even if an accident were to occur, the tour operator is able to dive down and rescue the rider.
Which is the greater, because the nearer you are to the surface, the greater pressure differences are, and, therefore, the greater danger of injury to the hapless inexperienced "diver" who happens to ascend holding his breath, effectively exploding his lungs...
Definitely one of the moroniest things ever to hit the dive market. Expect the thing insured into oblivion thanks to astronomic insurance rates...
This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads.
Nothing new there. Since the dark ages, Novell has been using elevator seeking to precisely achieve this.
Trouble is, it is easy to implement when you have precise control over the disk heads positionnings, which was the case with the "old" ST and ESDI interfaces, where the OS directly specified a head and track/cylinder and sector number.
But nowadays, with EDI and SCSI drives that only have absolute sector numbers and automatic bad sector remapping, it becomes harder to specify directly the precise exact mechanical movement and thus optimize it.
And there is so much optimization a drive firmware can do, because only the OS will truly know for sure what's scheduled next in terms of disk space.
For close to a century, railroads have been subject to the "hours of service law", which states that no operating employee shall be allowed to work more than consecutive 12 hours. If they don't, they can go to jail.
When this happens, trains routinely stop in the countryside and the crews wait for relief to be brought to them (often by taxi).
I lived in Singapore for 2.5 years without a car, and I can tell you I was really glad to move back to Australia where cars are cheap. Catching buses and trains might be fun for tourists, but imagine carrying 5 bags of groceries back from the market on a bus or train on a regular basis.. certainly NOT fun!
That's because you're stupid. The idea of using transit is not to REPLACE cars, but to SMARTLY make use of the ressources; like buying groceries 2-3 times a week, for example.
Cities will comeback, with a vengeance. With increasing oil prices (look, it started already!) and declining supply (google for "peak oil"), suburbs will increasingly become uneconomic, up to the point that in 20 years, not a single bank will finance a mortgage for suburban property, as the cost of supplying services to low-density areas will skyrocket.
And since cars don't belong in cities, there will be an increase in public transit use, as well as bicycling.
This will doubly benefit the people: they will be healthier thanks to the exercise, and there will be much less air pollution (that is responsible for many deaths a year).
I'd like to see more high speed trains in the US. It's a lot more economical than air travel, can be just as fast (with aiport wait times and all), and is just as if not safer than flying.
That idea won't fly high, if only for the security issues: eventually Oussama definitely will run one into a pair of buildings.
Some 30 years ago, I spent the summer on a farm. Trying to get the best of the city boy, the redneck told me to have a grab at the electric fence. I walked to the fence, and made it look I had a really good grip on the wire by wrapping my hand around it, but not touching the wire itself.
I stood there, taking my best innocent air, and staring at him like saying "now what"???
He was puzzled, got off the tractor, and walked straight to the fence which he touched pretty intently.
At that very moment, the relay decided to send a good charge which sent the redneck something like 3 feet up in the air, landing on his ass in the freshly ploughed field.
He said nothing at all, and never played smartass again with me...
I know that fusion is really hard problem. But it seems to me that if takes 10 years to just build an experiment, that should indicate that this probably isn't the way to build a practical reactor. It just screams "waste of money" to me.
It'a pity that the world is more and more ran by accounting types such as "reality master 101".
Sure, having Columbus sail westward was a waste of money, just like Colonel Drake digging an oil-well in Titusville or Richard Trevithick building the first steam locomotive 200 years ago.
It's a good thing that, sometimes, accountant's lack of imagination can be overridden by visionary people, otherwise we'd still be on the prowl for mammoths...
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For the last 8 years, I would not have been able to do any of the work I've been paid to do if I didn't have timely access to the web. It's to the point that I now wonder how I was able to have any work done 15-25 year ago!!! Granted, not all work **REQUIRES** it, but if you start discriminating between functions at work, you will get more disgruntling than good work done; it has come to the point that web access is nothing less than telephone access.
However, granting internet access to employees doesn't mean that the barest minimum security and/or monitoring should not be deployed. In fact, it would be quite foolish to grant unrestricted/unmonitored internet access to employees.
Suckers. Big-time suckers.
They only deserve to lose their money.
Old hat. VIA Rail Canada has been offering wireless for almost a year...
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... a second remake of "Thunderball" with those in the underwater battle...
With normal SCUBA, an instructor can always be near the student, but with that thing, it's easy to put oneself out of reach (and easy rescue).
Definitely something I don't see any sane insurance company eager to underwrite, if used by untrained "divers"...
Definitely one of the moroniest things ever to hit the dive market. Expect the thing insured into oblivion thanks to astronomic insurance rates...
And paper shredders...
Trouble is, it is easy to implement when you have precise control over the disk heads positionnings, which was the case with the "old" ST and ESDI interfaces, where the OS directly specified a head and track/cylinder and sector number.
But nowadays, with EDI and SCSI drives that only have absolute sector numbers and automatic bad sector remapping, it becomes harder to specify directly the precise exact mechanical movement and thus optimize it.
And there is so much optimization a drive firmware can do, because only the OS will truly know for sure what's scheduled next in terms of disk space.
Not really. The "previous stop" is often where they started from...
When this happens, trains routinely stop in the countryside and the crews wait for relief to be brought to them (often by taxi).
It's a surprise when you expect that the fence is not working...
(Actually, "pig hogger" is a railroad reference. Has nothing to do with pigs per se).
And since cars don't belong in cities, there will be an increase in public transit use, as well as bicycling.
This will doubly benefit the people: they will be healthier thanks to the exercise, and there will be much less air pollution (that is responsible for many deaths a year).
Won't be much more than by pedaling around, riding tramways or going in trains pulled by good-ole steam engines...
I stood there, taking my best innocent air, and staring at him like saying "now what"???
He was puzzled, got off the tractor, and walked straight to the fence which he touched pretty intently.
At that very moment, the relay decided to send a good charge which sent the redneck something like 3 feet up in the air, landing on his ass in the freshly ploughed field.
He said nothing at all, and never played smartass again with me...
Whenever he is bored, I send him a link to a slashdot US-patent story.
Let's say he's not bored for long...
Sure, having Columbus sail westward was a waste of money, just like Colonel Drake digging an oil-well in Titusville or Richard Trevithick building the first steam locomotive 200 years ago.
It's a good thing that, sometimes, accountant's lack of imagination can be overridden by visionary people, otherwise we'd still be on the prowl for mammoths...
And this is a dupe from 4 years ago.
Earth's Second Moon 2nd Moon Orbiting Earth Discovered