Since NYT (I think) requires a registration cookie that I set up sometime in the past, here is the most important paragraph from the article.
When asked if ABC would ever consider voice-mail broadcasting again, Mr. Cohen said: "It's something we're putting aside. Our comfort level was just not there, and I don't think that'll change."
So howls of outrage by potential customers do affect some marketers
How do you turn off caller id suppression (turn on caller id) when you're calling from a cel phone. If I were calling your line, how do I tell my provider (Telus would probably use similar process to other providers) that I want my call to be identifiable?
Remember that eastern Europe often swaps the V and W from what we use. (Vienna = wiener).
thus the "samowar" is a teapot.
If you google search on the teapot spelling of the name, you find a SAM jammer from Norway. The Norwegian ANTI-MISSILE unit stands for SAM Obstruction in Velocity, Angle and Range.
I remember a "LIFE" program that claimed to use the Amiga's video processor for the donkeywork.
A friend of mine - a professor of mathematics - went looking for the source code after I mentioned it to him at a high school reunion. I don't know if he ever found the source for it, or whether he was able to use it for general purpose array processing.
No more than it should about IBM that supplies hard drives into most of their machines
Does IBM buy hard drives on the open market for their current machines? They are getting a lot of the press for their recent designs in the high-end drive manufacture.
Presumably IBM cares when a product designer decides to use a non-IBM drive in his latest design.
Radeon is a product in development. Nobody knows whether or not it will really work when we get there. Then we need to get ATI to write drivers for the thing... If you are designing a strategic product, one of only 5 or 6 model lines your company makes, you design fallback positions. If I were designing a computer around a yet-unreleased video chip, I would design a fallback plan. The moment an engineer came in and said "By the time we're selling these things, ATI will have this great new video chip", the manager's first reaction would be "Great. Get some engineering samples and make our system run on them. But design a version around the Rage, too. Just in case ATI flubs". Always have a fallback plan.
I was recently shopping for a minivan. The wife wanted a particular Mazda model. The official line from the dealer was "Ask Mazda Canada". The official line from Mazda Canada was "That would void your warranty. We cannot recommend any alternate fuels other than a methanol blend up to (I forget whether 5 or 10%)." Methane takes a large fairly heavy tank. Many parkades refuse to allow entry to methane (collects invisibly among ceiling beams) or propane (collects invisibly downwards).Hydrogen may never solve the tanking issues. People will buy what's widely available. In my jurisdiction, both methane and propane are adequately available at gas stations. But the cars aren't ready for it yet.
I don't think that this action is aimed at his ISP. I think it more likely that this action would add teeth to their "get lost".
If you ignore eBay's "get lost", there are no penalties. If you ignore a federal judge's "keep away" command, you can face some pretty serious contempt of court penalties.
Lotsa dots means never having to say "anti-aliased text". I used to use a 3 pixel wide font on my C64 because I was dialling into systems expecting more resolution.I modemmed for years using a CGA display. (My employer had leased lines to the big city, but only one modem).
I first looked at anto-aliased text on an ATI card my boss was using in 1992. I hated it. When my eye couldn't reliably pick up the edges of the characters, I tired of reading in a few minutes. Meanwhile, back at my own desk, I can read for hours. I was in my bosses office because he wanted my opinion on whether his monitor needed to be serviced. We turned off the ATI feature and kept the monitor.
I feel the same about the demo of Gibson's anti-aliasong product at www.grc.com. The after image is soft and fuzzy and halfway unreadable.
My eye will learn to ignore aliasing in a font within a few hours. I never learn to see edges of characters that have been deliberately hidden, and without edges, the font becomes unreadable
you're shooting terrorist, people who resigned from societies protection when they picked up guns and started shooting innocents
The game is not BANNED in BC, just restricted to adults. Deciding when it is permissible to apply violence to stop greater violence is a decision for adults to make.
The same jurisdiction that restricted minors' access to a game had an attempted murder of a doctor the same day, because of specific operations that he does. Someone made a conclusion that someone had resigned from societies protection that I disagree with. These are adult questions.
I am in a minority here, but I support applying movie-style rating to games employing first-person realistic violence.
Some people tear stuff down. Some people create new stuff. It is always harder to build than to destroy. I know that Americans worship terrorists that broke into (ships? Warehouses?) and dumped valuable goods (tea) into Boston Harbour. Trashing stuff you don't like is part of the USA mythology. Excuse us if we don't share your value system.
A long time ago, a revolution was fought with bullets and billy-clubs against people fighting for fair work rules.
One of the results of that was a 44 hour work week, that rapidly became 40 hours blue-collar or 37.5 hours white-collar.
If you want the money, sure. Work the clock around and fry your brain in the effort. But don't make sweatshops the "standard" work week.
With twelve years of corporate IT experience, I get less than Cdn $50K. But I work 37.5 hours. Anything over 7.5 hours in a day is overtime. Anything over 11 is double. Anything on the SECOND weekend day is double. A call-in counts as 3 hours. A phone consultation that doesn't need a trip in counts as at least one hour. Coffee and bottled water is free. There's a fairly nice fitness room that I should use more often.
I feel that my employer respects me, despite the low salary. And I think that these conditions should be considered an obtainable goal for other people who would prefer that their employer respect them.
At the 5 IT environments I've worked at over the years, I've never worked free overtime. (well, except for the volunteer job...) I'm not sure I would.
I made the choice to drop consulting in order to get the work rules of a company that treats me fairly.
(Ho God! After my right-wing youth I've become a union organizer????)
Salon had an interesting piece by a successful artist about who is being ripped off by Napster and where artists rights are really being extinguished. (minor warning - as a rocker, she's not particularly restrained in her language.)
On second thought, even the mod 1 had 64 column screen. I'm fairly sure that NONE of the Radio Shack computers ever had a 40 column screen. 64, 32, 80. Never 40.
Are you SURE about that model number? The model II had a 64 column screen and floppy disk drive out fo the box. Never used cassettes.
You're thinking of the model I level 2 machine. The "level 2" meant that it included Microsoft Basic instead of Radio Shack's.
The 8-bit MODEL II computer was able to outrun IBM's (claimed-16-bit) PC for VisiCalc or other first-generation software (until Lotus started writing directly for the 8088).
eBay is fraudulently changing statements left by real people. Anyone who had their negative rating changed to neutral, or their neutral rating changed to positive should talk to a lawyer to see if eBay is liable for fraudulently misrepresenting user comments. I've been on eBay for almost four years. One of the comments about me was rerated to neutral when the vendor either turned evil or was hacked. But if eBay EVER changed what I had said about someone, I would be talking to the New York Times and a good lawyer. Those comments were NOT neutral. Whatever bribes or threats are being offered to eBay are not worth the hit eBay's reputation could take from this. You *MUST* trust your auctioneer if you don't know the vendor. When I buy something, I count on the vendor ratings. Now that I know eBay will fraudulently rearrange the ratings, then I can no longer trust anything I see there. Perhaps any other vendor can buy a better rating.
Ratings must not be "bumped" just to please a customer. A ratings scheme that can be bought is worthless.
Sagan was pretty confident about the copper master LP in a metal sleeve that was sent with Voyager. Of course, if you leave it in oxygen there are probably better materials than copper.
Well, officially.nu is a semiautonomous island off the coast of New Zealand with (IIRC) about a hundred residents. They've sold off most of their address space to URL retailers.
You've been watching Mission to Mars too much. You don't need to apply thrust the entire way
Huh? Where did I say that you need to apply thrust the whole way? I described Apollo/Gemini as thrusters that COULD get to the moon. Neither of them were continuous-boost! But Saturn boosters are not ICBM's and the Gemini-to-the-moon proposals required orbital-assembly.
My main comment was that a quarter of a million miles straignt up requires a lot of energy. You need enough energy to lift your payload to that height against a gravity field that diminishes rather slowly. An impact (as opposed to a landing) may not need to add the additional energy to match the sideways velocity, but if the closing velocity is too large, it becomes difficult to time the nuclear trigger. Even if we neglect the horizontal vector, the vertical displacement involves a huge amount of energy. That energy comes from fuel and oxidizer in a giant booster. A booster designed to lift that same payload into a non-orbit (Ballistic) ain't gonna cut it on the moon shot.
"Do you have enough energy here" is a quick way to see if a space shot is absurd. If you have the energy, then we can worry about thrust. But I said nothing about thrust. I agree with you that M2M was pathetic. But its not relevant here.
Hanford is not in western Washington, it is in eastern Washington Of course I can SAY "I knew that -- it was a typo". (Would I believe it if someone else said so? Grin)
, the biggest radioactive event of the 20th century by a far cry was Mt. St. Helens. I don't think so. Weren't Pinatubo or other non-US explosions much larger than MSHelens? Like other Washington state products with the initials MS, the marketing outruns the reality.
I had a copy of "Nuclear War Survival Skills" purchased in the early eighties. A friend never returned it, and I didn't get around to replacing it. I expect that a web search on the title would find it still in print somewhere.
Much of the same information was embedded into Dean Ing's novella "Pulling Through", including a huge appendix aimed at helping the reader survive.
Either the reporter or Dr. Reiffel seems to have severe problems with the science involved.
. The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud The mushroom is caused by the explosion interacting with the atmosphere. If you have no atmosphere, you won't get a mushroom. I haven't done the math, but I expect you'd get a dome shape. One that would rapidly dissipate as the dust fell again.
The bomb would have been at least as large as the one used on Hiroshima and its crater may have ruined the face of the 'man in the moon'. ??? The guy is a crank. I can believe that a flash could have been made bright enought to see from earth. Perhaps even tossed dust glowing in sun that's otherwise hidden from earth. But the energy involved in making the visible craters is many orders of magnitudes different than that available in the fifties, and another couple of magnitudes beyond Hiroshima. We see mostly maria in the face. Does anyone have the megaton ratings available for any visible craters (say orientalis?).
intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile would have been capable of hitting a target on the moon with an accuracy of within two miles. Intercontinental? ICBM doesn't even go into orbit. (I think "fractional orbit bombardment system" was an earlier name). You need more energy to get into low earth orbit. And MUCH more to lift it a quarter million miles straight up. An ICBM isn't even in the same ballpark as what's needed to get a warhead to the moon. Perhaps you could get the precision once you got the warhead there, but which booster can get your warhead that far? It's a long way. Straight up. If he's talking about ICBM technology as opposed to a special design (such as orbital assembly or gemini/apollo giant boosters), then he's a crank.
Sagan knows science. If there were an available quote FROM Sagan on this, it might lend credibility. But the glaring boners in this article make me suspicious.
Dr. Reiffel is listed as a physicist with a doctorate. I have only 3rd year physics as a partial minor. But what shows in the reporting is absurd.
I'll admit that the Chernobyl accident would not have happened in a Western country, since inherently unsafe designs such as the Chernobyl reactor are simply not used for obvious reasons.
Isn't Hanford (Western Washington) essentially the same design as Chernobyl?
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When asked if ABC would ever consider voice-mail broadcasting again, Mr. Cohen said: "It's something we're putting aside. Our comfort level was just not there, and I don't think that'll change."
So howls of outrage by potential customers do affect some marketers
How do you turn off caller id suppression (turn on caller id) when you're calling from a cel phone. If I were calling your line, how do I tell my provider (Telus would probably use similar process to other providers) that I want my call to be identifiable?
thus the "samowar" is a teapot.
If you google search on the teapot spelling of the name, you find a SAM jammer from Norway. The Norwegian ANTI-MISSILE unit stands for SAM Obstruction in Velocity, Angle and Range.
A friend of mine - a professor of mathematics - went looking for the source code after I mentioned it to him at a high school reunion. I don't know if he ever found the source for it, or whether he was able to use it for general purpose array processing.
Does IBM buy hard drives on the open market for their current machines? They are getting a lot of the press for their recent designs in the high-end drive manufacture.
Presumably IBM cares when a product designer decides to use a non-IBM drive in his latest design.
Radeon is a product in development. Nobody knows whether or not it will really work when we get there. Then we need to get ATI to write drivers for the thing...
If you are designing a strategic product, one of only 5 or 6 model lines your company makes, you design fallback positions.
If I were designing a computer around a yet-unreleased video chip, I would design a fallback plan.
The moment an engineer came in and said "By the time we're selling these things, ATI will have this great new video chip", the manager's first reaction would be "Great. Get some engineering samples and make our system run on them. But design a version around the Rage, too. Just in case ATI flubs". Always have a fallback plan.
I was recently shopping for a minivan. The wife wanted a particular Mazda model. The official line from the dealer was "Ask Mazda Canada". The official line from Mazda Canada was "That would void your warranty. We cannot recommend any alternate fuels other than a methanol blend up to (I forget whether 5 or 10%)."
Methane takes a large fairly heavy tank. Many parkades refuse to allow entry to methane (collects invisibly among ceiling beams) or propane (collects invisibly downwards).Hydrogen may never solve the tanking issues.
People will buy what's widely available. In my jurisdiction, both methane and propane are adequately available at gas stations. But the cars aren't ready for it yet.
If you ignore eBay's "get lost", there are no penalties. If you ignore a federal judge's "keep away" command, you can face some pretty serious contempt of court penalties.
I first looked at anto-aliased text on an ATI card my boss was using in 1992. I hated it. When my eye couldn't reliably pick up the edges of the characters, I tired of reading in a few minutes. Meanwhile, back at my own desk, I can read for hours. I was in my bosses office because he wanted my opinion on whether his monitor needed to be serviced. We turned off the ATI feature and kept the monitor.
I feel the same about the demo of Gibson's anti-aliasong product at www.grc.com. The after image is soft and fuzzy and halfway unreadable.
My eye will learn to ignore aliasing in a font within a few hours. I never learn to see edges of characters that have been deliberately hidden, and without edges, the font becomes unreadable
The game is not BANNED in BC, just restricted to adults. Deciding when it is permissible to apply violence to stop greater violence is a decision for adults to make.
The same jurisdiction that restricted minors' access to a game had an attempted murder of a doctor the same day, because of specific operations that he does. Someone made a conclusion that someone had resigned from societies protection that I disagree with. These are adult questions.
I am in a minority here, but I support applying movie-style rating to games employing first-person realistic violence.
Some people tear stuff down. Some people create new stuff. It is always harder to build than to destroy.
I know that Americans worship terrorists that broke into (ships? Warehouses?) and dumped valuable goods (tea) into Boston Harbour. Trashing stuff you don't like is part of the USA mythology.
Excuse us if we don't share your value system.
The acronym is the key.
Write "FIN" to the Microsoft.empire.
One of the results of that was a 44 hour work week, that rapidly became 40 hours blue-collar or 37.5 hours white-collar.
If you want the money, sure. Work the clock around and fry your brain in the effort. But don't make sweatshops the "standard" work week.
With twelve years of corporate IT experience, I get less than Cdn $50K. But I work 37.5 hours. Anything over 7.5 hours in a day is overtime. Anything over 11 is double. Anything on the SECOND weekend day is double. A call-in counts as 3 hours. A phone consultation that doesn't need a trip in counts as at least one hour. Coffee and bottled water is free. There's a fairly nice fitness room that I should use more often.
I feel that my employer respects me, despite the low salary. And I think that these conditions should be considered an obtainable goal for other people who would prefer that their employer respect them.
At the 5 IT environments I've worked at over the years, I've never worked free overtime. (well, except for the volunteer job...) I'm not sure I would.
I made the choice to drop consulting in order to get the work rules of a company that treats me fairly.
(Ho God! After my right-wing youth I've become a union organizer????)
Courtney Love does the math
On second thought, even the mod 1 had 64 column screen. I'm fairly sure that NONE of the Radio Shack computers ever had a 40 column screen. 64, 32, 80. Never 40.
You're thinking of the model I level 2 machine. The "level 2" meant that it included Microsoft Basic instead of Radio Shack's.
The 8-bit MODEL II computer was able to outrun IBM's (claimed-16-bit) PC for VisiCalc or other first-generation software (until Lotus started writing directly for the 8088).
I've been on eBay for almost four years. One of the comments about me was rerated to neutral when the vendor either turned evil or was hacked. But if eBay EVER changed what I had said about someone, I would be talking to the New York Times and a good lawyer. Those comments were NOT neutral. Whatever bribes or threats are being offered to eBay are not worth the hit eBay's reputation could take from this. You *MUST* trust your auctioneer if you don't know the vendor. When I buy something, I count on the vendor ratings. Now that I know eBay will fraudulently rearrange the ratings, then I can no longer trust anything I see there. Perhaps any other vendor can buy a better rating.
Ratings must not be "bumped" just to please a customer. A ratings scheme that can be bought is worthless.
Sagan was pretty confident about the copper master LP in a metal sleeve that was sent with Voyager. Of course, if you leave it in oxygen there are probably better materials than copper.
Well, officially .nu is a semiautonomous island off the coast of New Zealand with (IIRC) about a hundred residents. They've sold off most of their address space to URL retailers.
Huh? Where did I say that you need to apply thrust the whole way? I described Apollo/Gemini as thrusters that COULD get to the moon. Neither of them were continuous-boost! But Saturn boosters are not ICBM's and the Gemini-to-the-moon proposals required orbital-assembly.
My main comment was that a quarter of a million miles straignt up requires a lot of energy. You need enough energy to lift your payload to that height against a gravity field that diminishes rather slowly. An impact (as opposed to a landing) may not need to add the additional energy to match the sideways velocity, but if the closing velocity is too large, it becomes difficult to time the nuclear trigger. Even if we neglect the horizontal vector, the vertical displacement involves a huge amount of energy. That energy comes from fuel and oxidizer in a giant booster. A booster designed to lift that same payload into a non-orbit (Ballistic) ain't gonna cut it on the moon shot.
"Do you have enough energy here" is a quick way to see if a space shot is absurd. If you have the energy, then we can worry about thrust. But I said nothing about thrust. I agree with you that M2M was pathetic. But its not relevant here.
Hanford is not in western Washington, it is in eastern Washington Of course I can SAY "I knew that -- it was a typo". (Would I believe it if someone else said so? Grin)
, the biggest radioactive event of the 20th century by a far cry was Mt. St. Helens. I don't think so. Weren't Pinatubo or other non-US explosions much larger than MSHelens? Like other Washington state products with the initials MS, the marketing outruns the reality.
Much of the same information was embedded into Dean Ing's novella "Pulling Through", including a huge appendix aimed at helping the reader survive.
. The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud The mushroom is caused by the explosion interacting with the atmosphere. If you have no atmosphere, you won't get a mushroom. I haven't done the math, but I expect you'd get a dome shape. One that would rapidly dissipate as the dust fell again.
The bomb would have been at least as large as the one used on Hiroshima and its crater may have ruined the face of the 'man in the moon'. ??? The guy is a crank. I can believe that a flash could have been made bright enought to see from earth. Perhaps even tossed dust glowing in sun that's otherwise hidden from earth. But the energy involved in making the visible craters is many orders of magnitudes different than that available in the fifties, and another couple of magnitudes beyond Hiroshima. We see mostly maria in the face. Does anyone have the megaton ratings available for any visible craters (say orientalis?).
intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile would have been capable of hitting a target on the moon with an accuracy of within two miles. Intercontinental? ICBM doesn't even go into orbit. (I think "fractional orbit bombardment system" was an earlier name). You need more energy to get into low earth orbit. And MUCH more to lift it a quarter million miles straight up. An ICBM isn't even in the same ballpark as what's needed to get a warhead to the moon. Perhaps you could get the precision once you got the warhead there, but which booster can get your warhead that far? It's a long way. Straight up. If he's talking about ICBM technology as opposed to a special design (such as orbital assembly or gemini/apollo giant boosters), then he's a crank.
Sagan knows science. If there were an available quote FROM Sagan on this, it might lend credibility. But the glaring boners in this article make me suspicious.
Dr. Reiffel is listed as a physicist with a doctorate. I have only 3rd year physics as a partial minor. But what shows in the reporting is absurd.
Isn't Hanford (Western Washington) essentially the same design as Chernobyl?