You can't buy advertising like this. (you have
to get it the old fashioned way...you EARN it).
Let's hope the faster/better/cheaper downsizing
craze doesn't hit the guy who runs the TAC
organization. Or, better yet, let's hope it does;
my company would love to have him do his thing
for them!
The hell "it isn't about the money". Add another
risk to using a debit card to rent a car! If
he had used a credit card, he could dispute the
charge. Since he used a debit card, the rental
agency was able to take the $450 without giving
the renter a chance to dispute the charge.
Sounds a bit like a scam to me. I'd want details - like a complete log of my speed and location
during the period the car was in my posession.
If they couldn't produce that, I doubt my credit
card company would argue with my dispute.
Oh, and about the "transmission to satellites" thing? GPS doesn't but the tracking device they use may very well uplink location information to
a satellite. That's how they find those stolen trucks so fast.
I attended a couple of these contests, early in
their history. They are well worth the trip,
especially if you have kids who are (or may
become) technically inclined.
It's interesting to watch which strategies succeed
and which fail, and to try to figure out why they
fail. One strategy that did NOT work, was to
compute everything to the "nth degree". The
robot ends up being WAY too slow.
There are always a couple of innovative approaches
each year. Some even win the contest for the competitor.
I already responded to EFF with this. The data
is public domain (paid for by your taxes). People
usually have Digital Raster Graphic maps for their
area but not others. Sharing would be a good way
to make all the US available. There is a naming
convention, and a standard file format (GeoTIFF).
Reference to "US Govt document", please?
FCC location requirement is for mobile phone handsets for E911 only. It does not mandate GPS, and as a matter of fact, GPS is NOT the preferred technology (multi cell time difference of arrival is).
Location reporting is NOT required in all wireless devices, that's a quote from a lawyer who appears to be "stirring the pot".
The FCCs ACTUAL requirements are here and differ substantially from what you
have written.
In summary, location information is ONLY required on 911 calls, so you could disable it at other times.
Someday someone will do an analysis of what
the spammers are saying. And they'll find that
*no legitimate offers* are ever made in these messages.
I have yet to receive a spam message that I'd even
consider "legitimate".
Seems like our lawmakers have "overlooked" this
small detail. None of these people stand a prayer
of selling the worthless crap they're pushing in
these spam messages. Spam is the only way they
stand a prayer of selling even a small amount of
their junk. I'm really curious about the
statistics of spam. How many emails, how many
bounces, how many sales per message sent?
In my school, CS was one dept, and CE was taught out of the EE dept. It was basically an EE course, without Laplace and DiffEq courses, and logic courses, instead.
If you like software, that's good, because there are going to be many more software jobs than hardware development jobs (IMHO). Features nowadays are enabled by the hardware but created in software. And we hire three to five software developers for every hardware developer where I work (networking hardware company).
If you like hardware, be prepared to like it on the atomic scale, because you can't make any money building discrete systems. Integration is the key, and design is more and more like software engineering with Verilog and VHDL. But don't forget about those pesky real world issues, like heat and noise:-)
1. It's not worthless, it's a perfectly good, free, multi-mode, bar code scanner.
2. Given away by a company started by a guy whose only apparent other claim to fame is "triple edge wiper blades". [Is J. Jovan Philyaw his REAL name, or is that just his stage name?]
The problem is not with the device, but with the company and its delusional business plan.
that if the ARTISTS had any say in this, they'd
vote overwhelmingly to have the profits from
downloaded music go directly to them. Hey,
maybe they could even burn their own CDs, have
the liner notes printed and sell their work online, without any help from the labels.
Wouldn't it be great if the end result of all
this was that the record industry died and the
artists distributed their own work over the internet!:-)
We have remote administration at my company, via
Norton's Zen. The IT people can remotely install
and upgrade the workstation software, which sounds
like a pretty good idea, until the process screws
up. The PCs here are not all configured the same
way, because they were bought at different times,
came from companies we acquired, or whatever.
This can cause troubles when assumptions are made
by IT about the software state of the machines
being remotely "upgraded".
Three times in the past six months, a remote
installation of software has gone wrong in my
group. There have also been about the same number of successful installs. We don't know for sure,
because this happens without our knowledge or
permission. Sometimes, the upgrade hoses the system and has to be backed out. Sometimes, it
fails to complete, leaving the system non-functional. Sometimes, the new software breaks another piece of software installed for
a particular user (like AutoCad or some other
special-use software that corporate doesn't
support...or even know about).
In a continuing effort to cut costs, we have
"outsourced" the IT support functions, which
seems to mean that the support people do their
best, but they probably haven't been here that
long, and probably won't be here long enough
to "learn the ropes".
I have recently de-installed the Novell software
on my workstation and am now supporting it myself.
At least I know what gets done to it and who to blame.
is to use a hands-free car kit with external antenna. Aside from the extra hand to use for
driving, you reduce the amount of RF inside the
car rather dramatically, since a phone inside
a car will most likely be putting out max power,
just to get the signal out of that metal box. An
antenna on the other side of the metal car roof will keep that RF away from you and give you
better connections as well!
Usually, they use yagi "beam" antennas, but there
have been articles on reusing digital satellite TV
dishes in the "ham" publications (QEX, I think).
There are several web pages on high speed packet
radio at 10 GHz as well.
One tower near me has SIX sets of cellular antennas. Most have at least four.
You can't go 50 miles without the ROAM light coming on (and the cost doubling).
AMPS, CDMA, TDMA, GSM and whatever else.
This is insane! Wouldn't it be nice if the US had
ONE, nationwide, cellular network? Flat rate no
matter where you are?
Oh well, I can dream, but the "free market" won't
get us there any time soon. What a colossal screw-up.
I'm about 90% sure that my late mother was involved with the Navy codebreakers of OP-20-G during WWII. Unfortunately, her Navy personnel records don't confirm this. Is there a NSA historian I can contact who could check the records for me? My understanding is that the Naval Security Group was taken over by NSA.
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You can't buy advertising like this. (you have to get it the old fashioned way...you EARN it). Let's hope the faster/better/cheaper downsizing craze doesn't hit the guy who runs the TAC organization. Or, better yet, let's hope it does; my company would love to have him do his thing for them!
The hell "it isn't about the money". Add another risk to using a debit card to rent a car! If he had used a credit card, he could dispute the charge. Since he used a debit card, the rental agency was able to take the $450 without giving the renter a chance to dispute the charge. Sounds a bit like a scam to me. I'd want details - like a complete log of my speed and location during the period the car was in my posession. If they couldn't produce that, I doubt my credit card company would argue with my dispute. Oh, and about the "transmission to satellites" thing? GPS doesn't but the tracking device they use may very well uplink location information to a satellite. That's how they find those stolen trucks so fast.
I attended a couple of these contests, early in
their history. They are well worth the trip,
especially if you have kids who are (or may
become) technically inclined.
It's interesting to watch which strategies succeed
and which fail, and to try to figure out why they
fail. One strategy that did NOT work, was to
compute everything to the "nth degree". The
robot ends up being WAY too slow.
There are always a couple of innovative approaches
each year. Some even win the contest for the competitor.
I already responded to EFF with this. The data is public domain (paid for by your taxes). People usually have Digital Raster Graphic maps for their area but not others. Sharing would be a good way to make all the US available. There is a naming convention, and a standard file format (GeoTIFF).
Oops...here's the URL: http://www.fcc.gov/e911/factsheet_requirements_012 001.txt
Reference to "US Govt document", please? FCC location requirement is for mobile phone handsets for E911 only. It does not mandate GPS, and as a matter of fact, GPS is NOT the preferred technology (multi cell time difference of arrival is). Location reporting is NOT required in all wireless devices, that's a quote from a lawyer who appears to be "stirring the pot". The FCCs ACTUAL requirements are here and differ substantially from what you have written. In summary, location information is ONLY required on 911 calls, so you could disable it at other times.
Someday someone will do an analysis of what
the spammers are saying. And they'll find that
*no legitimate offers* are ever made in these messages.
I have yet to receive a spam message that I'd even
consider "legitimate".
Seems like our lawmakers have "overlooked" this
small detail. None of these people stand a prayer
of selling the worthless crap they're pushing in
these spam messages. Spam is the only way they
stand a prayer of selling even a small amount of
their junk. I'm really curious about the
statistics of spam. How many emails, how many
bounces, how many sales per message sent?
In my school, CS was one dept, and CE was taught out of the EE dept. It was basically an EE course, without Laplace and DiffEq courses, and logic courses, instead. If you like software, that's good, because there are going to be many more software jobs than hardware development jobs (IMHO). Features nowadays are enabled by the hardware but created in software. And we hire three to five software developers for every hardware developer where I work (networking hardware company). If you like hardware, be prepared to like it on the atomic scale, because you can't make any money building discrete systems. Integration is the key, and design is more and more like software engineering with Verilog and VHDL. But don't forget about those pesky real world issues, like heat and noise :-)
1. It's not worthless, it's a perfectly good, free, multi-mode, bar code scanner.
2. Given away by a company started by a guy whose only apparent other claim to fame is "triple edge wiper blades". [Is J. Jovan Philyaw his REAL name, or is that just his stage name?]
The problem is not with the device, but with the company and its delusional business plan.
that if the ARTISTS had any say in this, they'd vote overwhelmingly to have the profits from downloaded music go directly to them. Hey, maybe they could even burn their own CDs, have the liner notes printed and sell their work online, without any help from the labels. Wouldn't it be great if the end result of all this was that the record industry died and the artists distributed their own work over the internet! :-)
We have remote administration at my company, via Norton's Zen. The IT people can remotely install and upgrade the workstation software, which sounds like a pretty good idea, until the process screws up. The PCs here are not all configured the same way, because they were bought at different times, came from companies we acquired, or whatever. This can cause troubles when assumptions are made by IT about the software state of the machines being remotely "upgraded". Three times in the past six months, a remote installation of software has gone wrong in my group. There have also been about the same number of successful installs. We don't know for sure, because this happens without our knowledge or permission. Sometimes, the upgrade hoses the system and has to be backed out. Sometimes, it fails to complete, leaving the system non-functional. Sometimes, the new software breaks another piece of software installed for a particular user (like AutoCad or some other special-use software that corporate doesn't support...or even know about). In a continuing effort to cut costs, we have "outsourced" the IT support functions, which seems to mean that the support people do their best, but they probably haven't been here that long, and probably won't be here long enough to "learn the ropes". I have recently de-installed the Novell software on my workstation and am now supporting it myself. At least I know what gets done to it and who to blame.
His home page. He certainly looks the part. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kent/
http://www.aiwa.co.jp/english/exhibi/new_p2000/mm- fx500.html
...they were actually selling something useful.
Has *anyone* ever seen a spam that wasn't advertising:
Gambling site
Loans/credit for losers
Accept credit cards
Sex site
Weight loss/nutrition supplement
Get anything on anyone
Spam software
Sheesh!
is to use a hands-free car kit with external antenna. Aside from the extra hand to use for driving, you reduce the amount of RF inside the car rather dramatically, since a phone inside a car will most likely be putting out max power, just to get the signal out of that metal box. An antenna on the other side of the metal car roof will keep that RF away from you and give you better connections as well!
Usually, they use yagi "beam" antennas, but there
have been articles on reusing digital satellite TV
dishes in the "ham" publications (QEX, I think).
There are several web pages on high speed packet
radio at 10 GHz as well.
One tower near me has SIX sets of cellular antennas. Most have at least four.
:-)
You can't go 50 miles without the ROAM light coming on (and the cost doubling).
AMPS, CDMA, TDMA, GSM and whatever else.
This is insane! Wouldn't it be nice if the US had
ONE, nationwide, cellular network? Flat rate no
matter where you are?
Oh well, I can dream, but the "free market" won't
get us there any time soon. What a colossal screw-up.
Ma Bell wouldn't have let this happen
I'm about 90% sure that my late mother was involved with the Navy codebreakers of OP-20-G during WWII. Unfortunately, her Navy personnel records don't confirm this. Is there a NSA historian I can contact who could check the records for me? My understanding is that the Naval Security Group was taken over by NSA.