I'm sure you're right. But I'm also sure there's no government oversight agency dedicated to ensuring that products labelled as "ultrasonic" really do generate sounds between 38KHz and 44KHz (or whatever the range is for true ultrasonic frequencies). The companies that produce these things use the term for marketing. I'm sure you'd find some company out there that would be willing to sell foghorns described as "ultrasonic".
I always forget that there are two levels to the Huntington station. I never use the upper one -- it's the lower one I'm referring to. And now that I think about it I can't remember if both sides of the station have fare card machines or not. It's the right-hand side turnstyles as you go in where the sound seems to be the most intense, although it's barely any better on the left-hand side.
I wish I knew someone who could corroborate what I hear in that entrance. Unfortunately I don't have any friends who use the yellow line. Even if I did, I doubt any of the people I know these days are sufficiently geeky to be interested in it anyway. An ultrasonic device sure would make sense though, given how many birds and squirrels wander around that station entrance.
I'd say it's a bit higher in frequency than that high-pitched, sizzling whine that most people with decent hearing can hear when a CRT-based television is turned on in a quiet room. It's high enough that with my mediocre hearing it almost comes across as a pressure more than a sound. But as soon as I start focusing in on the sound, it gets really unpleasant. And I'm not kidding about the nausea. If anyone reading happens to use that metro station, sometime at an off-peak period (don't get yourself trampled during rush hour), try waiting near those turnstyles at the lower level for 30 seconds or so and just pay attention to how your head feels, along with anything you can hear. It would help convince me that I'm not just imagining it if I could spot a device somewhere up on one of the walls, but honestly I don't hang around in there any longer than I have to. I figure loud sounds at the border of my hearing might be a bit like UV light -- you might not be able to sense much of it, but stick around long enough and you're causing damage anyway.
This just looks like an ultrasonic animal repeller to me. Here's an easy Google Search that shows how common they are. The thing is, anyone with decent hearing will hear these ultrasonic devices too -- and yes, they are extremeley irritating, to the point of being painful. My parents live way out in the country and use one to keep deer away from their garden, and another one to keep their neighbor's cats away from their parked cars. Having to suffer around 2 of those things any time I visit my folks, I can easily recognize the high-pitched agony-inducing devices now.
And as a result, I suspect there is a powerful one in use at the Huntington metro station. It's cranked way up, frankly to the point that I worry about hearing damage when I walk through the protected area. I can hear the sound just inside the entrance, aimed right at the turnstyles (slightly stronger at the side near the fare card machines). In this case, I imagine they're using it to keep birds and squirrels out of the station. The station itself is in a surprisingly wooded area, nestled into the side of a small hill. I'm sure they found an ultrasonic animal repeller was the only thing that worked at keeping critters out of the station. It nearly keeps me out too... it actually makes me feel slightly nauseous if I hang around in that entrance area too long.
At least I think I have. It sure would explain a lot.
I've had an EEG done twice as part of a test for suspected epilepsy. During an EEG, you have a whole bunch of small electrodes glued to your head at very specific points. And then you have someone monitor the activity those electrodes pick up via a computer (or sometimes just dumped to a printer). The output makes it look very much like you're taking a lie detector test (or something seismological).
Anyway, during the last part of each test, while lying there I suddenly felt as if my head were being pulled down and rotated to one side, for 2, maybe 3, seconds. And then a moment later, I'd be struck with the same feeling only towards the other side. It was very trippy -- almost like someone was reaching inside and pulling my soul one way or the other, and my body was being dragged along with it.
I'd always suspected that during this part of the test they were actually applying a voltage to some of the electrodes, instead of just recording voltages. If I'm right, and you're wondering what this feels like, here's the best description I can offer:
You know how when you're holding two magnets near one another (or one magnet and a piece of steel), just at the boundary of when an interaction can be felt? Your fingers feel a very smooth, but very strong pulling sensation. It was just like that -- like a good portion of your head and upper body is being pulled to one side, very smoothly, and very firmly. It's not uncomfortable at all, but if you're doing anything other than quietly lying down, I'm sure it could easily be very disorienting.
If I'm right, then this a method apparently used to prompt epileptic activity in people prone to such things. What kind of disclaimers are going to be included with a product like this? And, more importantly, if someone doesn't realize the potential effect and that they are prone to it, are they going to be able to include some kind of cut-off if the wearer suddenly experiences an epileptic episode?
And even some decent - albeit basic - analyis. Here's a Real Media link. If you prefer a different format other than Real, you'll have to find it yourself. Right now, the video segments are available at the main CBS News website, via the link titled, "NASA Celebrates and Studies." Apparently there were two "events" NASA is looking at. One is a piece of tile that apparently came off the shuttle, and the other is a piece of mystery debris that came off the main fuel tank or a solid fuel booster.
I've been waiting for *years* for a cell phone manufacturer to do the OBVIOUS and add a remote control function to a cell phone. Surely this happened 5 years ago, and I've just been missing them ever since, right? The keypad is aleady there! How much can an IR LED add to the cost of the cellphone?
I've always got my cellphone with me, but I'm always trying to figure out where I left the remote. Plus, I'd never need to buy obscure AAA batteries for the darn remote again, 'cause the cell phone's battery is rechargeable!
Interesting. Never heard about that origin before. Way back in 1958, too.
The first time I noticed it start to turn up was when Speed hit the theaters (circa 1994). But either way, I can't say I've ever heard signs that it's become a commonplace term.
I used to think that, in order to fully understand the universe - all it contains and all that governs it - you would need something smarter than what the universe is capable of producing. In other words, you would need something that has stepped outside the box. (I never associated that thought with god or religion of any type.) It's just always seemed to me that, in order to understand anything really well, you need to be detached from it. Somehow that seems related to the problem you've outlined: how do you predict what kind of changes something will undergo when that something is also what's attempting to do the predicting?
Or perhaps I've had too much to drink for a Sunday evening.
This is why Amtrak's "Auto Train" could be such a success. It solves the problem you point out, and it's more likely to gain support amongst the car-centric members of the public. I think a high-speed rail system that offered this service would have an excellent chance at success.
At my first job about 10 years ago, I wound up helping out at the IT department of a cellular phone company (no, a real cell phone manufacturer, not a service provider). One of the first tasks I had was to replace the CPU cooling fans on a few Sun desktop workstations. At the time, these Sun systems were incredibly expensive - about $40K each if I remember correctly. That, coupled with the fact that this was my first job, made me really nervous. I'd had a little experience with computer cooling fans before, but more with just general electronics. So when I pulled the case off the first system and removed the old, dead CPU cooling fan, I focused 100% on making sure that I matched the polarity of the wires on new cooler with what the old cooler had been using.
And in being so nervous, and so focused on the polarity, I completely missed the obvious question: does the CPU cooling fan pull air upward, or does it blow air downwards? I just stood there next to the system, yelling at myself in my mind for having failed to take notice of the airflow direction.
Now today of course, I've had more experience than I could possibly want with cooling fans. But remember, back then in the early 1990's, A) I was young, and B) CPU cooling fans weren't so common.
Anyway, I immediately realized my problem. But not wanting to let on to the guy who worked in that cube that I wasn't sure how to reinstall the CPU cooling fan inside his $40K system, I thought about it and decided that it would be most efficient if the CPU cooler wasn't fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise. And given that the cooler included a channeled heat-sink, it seemed reasonable that a fan extracting air upwards would work best oriented that way. And hey, power supply fans exhaust heated air from the supply, not force air it into the supply, right? So I installed the fan facing upwards, put the cover back on the system, and moved on.
Imagine my surprise (and fear) when I arrived at the next system with a dead fan, and I realized that the fan was facing downwards. I was now sweating, as I was worried that the CPU in the first system was at risk of frying. That concern was further heightened as all the subsequent CPU cooling fans were also mounted pointing down. Needless to say, except for that first system, I mounted all the other CPU fans facing downwards.
But this still perplexed me. Why would the cooling fan be blowing downwards, fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise? (These were desktop systems -- the CPU wasn't going to wind up sideways or upside-down -- so the potential for changes in orientation didn't occur to me.) At that inexperienced age, and back then when CPU cooling fans were so rare that I'd had no experience with them before, this really baffled me. So much so that, later in the day when I was trying to resolve a computer problem for someone in the RF department, I actually spontaneously launched into the story about what had happened earlier in the day, and asked the guy working in the cube if he, as an EE, could shed any light on the situation. He laughed at the story. As did the guy from a neighboring cube who'd stopped by to chat. But the magic thing was, he actually had an answer.
Not only that, it was a really good answer.
I'm paraphrasing, but here's what he said, roughly:
"Well, you're right. If you mount the fan blowing upwards, you're not fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise, and given the channeling effect of the heat-sink, the fan is going to have a cooling effect."
(Ok, good so far... but then he went on...)
"But you're forgetting the fan itself in this situation! If you mount the fan facing upwards, then it will actually be pulling the heated air through itself. The fan itself will actually heat up as a result of that, and the bearings aren't going t
I'm sure you'll be unimpressed and/or disgusted, but I've been considering trying a Swiffer sheet for my filters (just the replacement sheet, not the broom, smartass!). It'd be easy to cut out the sizes I need from the cloth. In my case I have a rigid filter holder with clips around the edges, so the fact that the Swiffer sheet is cloth-like in rigidity (i.e. not at all) wouldn't matter. You could probably hack together some kind of rigid filter holder with an old metal coat-hanger though. Classy! A perfect match for your 10 cent fan bracket!
Anyway, the reason I haven't tried yet is that A) I'm lazy and B) the sheets seem a little thick, and might not allow for much airflow. Then again, they're cheap, and they're designed to trap dust, so I might give in and try someday. I've also been considering the thin gauze sold by the roll at the local drugstore. That stuff is thin enough I'm thinking it could really work. But that would involve going outside, so it's not at the top of my to-do list right now.;)
Well, here's one way to make them. Imagine two slices of bread with peanut butter and jelly (also known as jam) in between, then using something like what's featured at that link to press and heat the outer edges of the bread slices together -- sealing the filling inside.
I'm sure there are other ways of making pocket sandwiches (including ways that don't involve buying hardware), but they can't be all that different.
After being detained and then asked for photo ID by a Secret Service agent, Woz hands over a fake ID that features himself as a "Laser Safety Officer".
Wearing an eye patch.
For the "Department of Defiance."
It's probably one of the funniest stories I've read this year. Anyway, if you've never actually seen a US $2 bill, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has front and back images of $2 bills posted on its website.
...and have your licence plate to be photographed. I believe the automatic camera system that does this as you drive up does OCR and shows them your details in the booth but I have never been able to verify that.
In some states, no license plate is required (or issued) for the front of the car. North Carolina is one such state. I don't know what those border cameras are really for (I'm presuming you're referring to the ones that your car faces before you get a green light to drive up to the customs booth) but they can't be all that useful if they're really just for checking license plates.
You are exactly right. Having a separate, hardware-based solution has several advantages over software.
1) I would expect an 80 year-old would find it much more convenient to adjust a physical device with a couple of obvious toggle switches and a big dial than to somehow cope with settings burried in a control panel somewhere.
2) John Doe can send one to his Aunt Tillie 1200 miles away and have a reasonable expectation that she will be able to install this device on her own.
3) Spyware and/or other corrupt system issues can't turn it off or make it go haywire.
I can't believe all these "this is a scam!" and "just do it in software posts!" Especially given point #2 -- I thought there were more people on Slashdot who've suffered through dealing with real-world technical support. I guess not.
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Are there any books or other reading material that I could read in order to manage a software project effectively?
Start with the Bible... specifically the Book of Revelation. Given what line of work you're entering you simply must understand the parts about the horsemen. Got it?
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is another one that will come in handy.
I'd also strongly recommend Bret Ellis' American Psycho.
Oh, and it would also be wise to at least skim through absolutely anything you can find about Adolf Hitler.
As a long-time software project manager with Microsoft, I'm offering all of this from personal experience. Hope it helps. And as you enter this exciting new management position, don't forget to have some fun once in a while!
What we need is a good upgradeable PCI standard for desktops so that people can slide their cards in without opening the case.
If they slide in easily, presumably they would be just as easily removed. That's a good idea for home users perhaps, but can you imagine all the expansion cards that would so easily disappear at businesses and schools?
Maybe something like Deep Freeze would solve your problem.
Each restart eradicates all changes and resets the computer to its original state, right down to the last byte.
There'd still be risks during a session of course. Then again, most of the truly evil stuff I see doesn't turn up until after the system has been rebooted and all the user-installed trash in registry gets launched.
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I'm sure you're right. But I'm also sure there's no government oversight agency dedicated to ensuring that products labelled as "ultrasonic" really do generate sounds between 38KHz and 44KHz (or whatever the range is for true ultrasonic frequencies). The companies that produce these things use the term for marketing. I'm sure you'd find some company out there that would be willing to sell foghorns described as "ultrasonic".
I always forget that there are two levels to the Huntington station. I never use the upper one -- it's the lower one I'm referring to. And now that I think about it I can't remember if both sides of the station have fare card machines or not. It's the right-hand side turnstyles as you go in where the sound seems to be the most intense, although it's barely any better on the left-hand side.
I wish I knew someone who could corroborate what I hear in that entrance. Unfortunately I don't have any friends who use the yellow line. Even if I did, I doubt any of the people I know these days are sufficiently geeky to be interested in it anyway. An ultrasonic device sure would make sense though, given how many birds and squirrels wander around that station entrance.
I'd say it's a bit higher in frequency than that high-pitched, sizzling whine that most people with decent hearing can hear when a CRT-based television is turned on in a quiet room. It's high enough that with my mediocre hearing it almost comes across as a pressure more than a sound. But as soon as I start focusing in on the sound, it gets really unpleasant. And I'm not kidding about the nausea. If anyone reading happens to use that metro station, sometime at an off-peak period (don't get yourself trampled during rush hour), try waiting near those turnstyles at the lower level for 30 seconds or so and just pay attention to how your head feels, along with anything you can hear. It would help convince me that I'm not just imagining it if I could spot a device somewhere up on one of the walls, but honestly I don't hang around in there any longer than I have to. I figure loud sounds at the border of my hearing might be a bit like UV light -- you might not be able to sense much of it, but stick around long enough and you're causing damage anyway.
This just looks like an ultrasonic animal repeller to me. Here's an easy Google Search that shows how common they are. The thing is, anyone with decent hearing will hear these ultrasonic devices too -- and yes, they are extremeley irritating, to the point of being painful. My parents live way out in the country and use one to keep deer away from their garden, and another one to keep their neighbor's cats away from their parked cars. Having to suffer around 2 of those things any time I visit my folks, I can easily recognize the high-pitched agony-inducing devices now.
... it actually makes me feel slightly nauseous if I hang around in that entrance area too long.
And as a result, I suspect there is a powerful one in use at the Huntington metro station. It's cranked way up, frankly to the point that I worry about hearing damage when I walk through the protected area. I can hear the sound just inside the entrance, aimed right at the turnstyles (slightly stronger at the side near the fare card machines). In this case, I imagine they're using it to keep birds and squirrels out of the station. The station itself is in a surprisingly wooded area, nestled into the side of a small hill. I'm sure they found an ultrasonic animal repeller was the only thing that worked at keeping critters out of the station. It nearly keeps me out too
At least I think I have. It sure would explain a lot.
I've had an EEG done twice as part of a test for suspected epilepsy. During an EEG, you have a whole bunch of small electrodes glued to your head at very specific points. And then you have someone monitor the activity those electrodes pick up via a computer (or sometimes just dumped to a printer). The output makes it look very much like you're taking a lie detector test (or something seismological).
Anyway, during the last part of each test, while lying there I suddenly felt as if my head were being pulled down and rotated to one side, for 2, maybe 3, seconds. And then a moment later, I'd be struck with the same feeling only towards the other side. It was very trippy -- almost like someone was reaching inside and pulling my soul one way or the other, and my body was being dragged along with it.
I'd always suspected that during this part of the test they were actually applying a voltage to some of the electrodes, instead of just recording voltages. If I'm right, and you're wondering what this feels like, here's the best description I can offer:
You know how when you're holding two magnets near one another (or one magnet and a piece of steel), just at the boundary of when an interaction can be felt? Your fingers feel a very smooth, but very strong pulling sensation. It was just like that -- like a good portion of your head and upper body is being pulled to one side, very smoothly, and very firmly. It's not uncomfortable at all, but if you're doing anything other than quietly lying down, I'm sure it could easily be very disorienting.
If I'm right, then this a method apparently used to prompt epileptic activity in people prone to such things. What kind of disclaimers are going to be included with a product like this? And, more importantly, if someone doesn't realize the potential effect and that they are prone to it, are they going to be able to include some kind of cut-off if the wearer suddenly experiences an epileptic episode?
Sources say that Monad will be replaced with a new command line tool, called Windows "Mesticles."
And even some decent - albeit basic - analyis. Here's a Real Media link. If you prefer a different format other than Real, you'll have to find it yourself. Right now, the video segments are available at the main CBS News website, via the link titled, "NASA Celebrates and Studies." Apparently there were two "events" NASA is looking at. One is a piece of tile that apparently came off the shuttle, and the other is a piece of mystery debris that came off the main fuel tank or a solid fuel booster.
I've been waiting for *years* for a cell phone manufacturer to do the OBVIOUS and add a remote control function to a cell phone. Surely this happened 5 years ago, and I've just been missing them ever since, right? The keypad is aleady there! How much can an IR LED add to the cost of the cellphone?
I've always got my cellphone with me, but I'm always trying to figure out where I left the remote. Plus, I'd never need to buy obscure AAA batteries for the darn remote again, 'cause the cell phone's battery is rechargeable!
So can you tell me how Debian Testing differs from Debian Unstable in terms of security updates?
Interesting. Never heard about that origin before. Way back in 1958, too.
The first time I noticed it start to turn up was when Speed hit the theaters (circa 1994). But either way, I can't say I've ever heard signs that it's become a commonplace term.
Interesting idea.
I used to think that, in order to fully understand the universe - all it contains and all that governs it - you would need something smarter than what the universe is capable of producing. In other words, you would need something that has stepped outside the box. (I never associated that thought with god or religion of any type.) It's just always seemed to me that, in order to understand anything really well, you need to be detached from it. Somehow that seems related to the problem you've outlined: how do you predict what kind of changes something will undergo when that something is also what's attempting to do the predicting?
Or perhaps I've had too much to drink for a Sunday evening.
This is why Amtrak's "Auto Train" could be such a success. It solves the problem you point out, and it's more likely to gain support amongst the car-centric members of the public. I think a high-speed rail system that offered this service would have an excellent chance at success.
The other replies to your question are good.
... but then he went on...)
But there's more to the answer than they realize.
Let me start with a story...
At my first job about 10 years ago, I wound up helping out at the IT department of a cellular phone company (no, a real cell phone manufacturer, not a service provider). One of the first tasks I had was to replace the CPU cooling fans on a few Sun desktop workstations. At the time, these Sun systems were incredibly expensive - about $40K each if I remember correctly. That, coupled with the fact that this was my first job, made me really nervous. I'd had a little experience with computer cooling fans before, but more with just general electronics. So when I pulled the case off the first system and removed the old, dead CPU cooling fan, I focused 100% on making sure that I matched the polarity of the wires on new cooler with what the old cooler had been using.
And in being so nervous, and so focused on the polarity, I completely missed the obvious question: does the CPU cooling fan pull air upward, or does it blow air downwards? I just stood there next to the system, yelling at myself in my mind for having failed to take notice of the airflow direction.
Now today of course, I've had more experience than I could possibly want with cooling fans. But remember, back then in the early 1990's, A) I was young, and B) CPU cooling fans weren't so common.
Anyway, I immediately realized my problem. But not wanting to let on to the guy who worked in that cube that I wasn't sure how to reinstall the CPU cooling fan inside his $40K system, I thought about it and decided that it would be most efficient if the CPU cooler wasn't fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise. And given that the cooler included a channeled heat-sink, it seemed reasonable that a fan extracting air upwards would work best oriented that way. And hey, power supply fans exhaust heated air from the supply, not force air it into the supply, right? So I installed the fan facing upwards, put the cover back on the system, and moved on.
Imagine my surprise (and fear) when I arrived at the next system with a dead fan, and I realized that the fan was facing downwards. I was now sweating, as I was worried that the CPU in the first system was at risk of frying. That concern was further heightened as all the subsequent CPU cooling fans were also mounted pointing down. Needless to say, except for that first system, I mounted all the other CPU fans facing downwards.
But this still perplexed me. Why would the cooling fan be blowing downwards, fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise? (These were desktop systems -- the CPU wasn't going to wind up sideways or upside-down -- so the potential for changes in orientation didn't occur to me.) At that inexperienced age, and back then when CPU cooling fans were so rare that I'd had no experience with them before, this really baffled me. So much so that, later in the day when I was trying to resolve a computer problem for someone in the RF department, I actually spontaneously launched into the story about what had happened earlier in the day, and asked the guy working in the cube if he, as an EE, could shed any light on the situation. He laughed at the story. As did the guy from a neighboring cube who'd stopped by to chat. But the magic thing was, he actually had an answer.
Not only that, it was a really good answer.
I'm paraphrasing, but here's what he said, roughly:
"Well, you're right. If you mount the fan blowing upwards, you're not fighting the natural tendency of heat to rise, and given the channeling effect of the heat-sink, the fan is going to have a cooling effect."
(Ok, good so far
"But you're forgetting the fan itself in this situation! If you mount the fan facing upwards, then it will actually be pulling the heated air through itself. The fan itself will actually heat up as a result of that, and the bearings aren't going t
I'm sure you'll be unimpressed and/or disgusted, but I've been considering trying a Swiffer sheet for my filters (just the replacement sheet, not the broom, smartass!). It'd be easy to cut out the sizes I need from the cloth. In my case I have a rigid filter holder with clips around the edges, so the fact that the Swiffer sheet is cloth-like in rigidity (i.e. not at all) wouldn't matter. You could probably hack together some kind of rigid filter holder with an old metal coat-hanger though. Classy! A perfect match for your 10 cent fan bracket!
;)
Anyway, the reason I haven't tried yet is that A) I'm lazy and B) the sheets seem a little thick, and might not allow for much airflow. Then again, they're cheap, and they're designed to trap dust, so I might give in and try someday. I've also been considering the thin gauze sold by the roll at the local drugstore. That stuff is thin enough I'm thinking it could really work. But that would involve going outside, so it's not at the top of my to-do list right now.
Well, here's one way to make them. Imagine two slices of bread with peanut butter and jelly (also known as jam) in between, then using something like what's featured at that link to press and heat the outer edges of the bread slices together -- sealing the filling inside.
I'm sure there are other ways of making pocket sandwiches (including ways that don't involve buying hardware), but they can't be all that different.
(Now watch as someone proves me wrong.)
Steve Wozniak has his own crazy story about using $2 bills at a Las Vegas casino. True or not, it's hilarious...
After being detained and then asked for photo ID by a Secret Service agent, Woz hands over a fake ID that features himself as a "Laser Safety Officer".
Wearing an eye patch.
For the "Department of Defiance."
It's probably one of the funniest stories I've read this year. Anyway, if you've never actually seen a US $2 bill, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has front and back images of $2 bills posted on its website.
...and have your licence plate to be photographed. I believe the automatic camera system that does this as you drive up does OCR and shows them your details in the booth but I have never been able to verify that.
In some states, no license plate is required (or issued) for the front of the car. North Carolina is one such state. I don't know what those border cameras are really for (I'm presuming you're referring to the ones that your car faces before you get a green light to drive up to the customs booth) but they can't be all that useful if they're really just for checking license plates.
You are exactly right. Having a separate, hardware-based solution has several advantages over software.
1) I would expect an 80 year-old would find it much more convenient to adjust a physical device with a couple of obvious toggle switches and a big dial than to somehow cope with settings burried in a control panel somewhere.
2) John Doe can send one to his Aunt Tillie 1200 miles away and have a reasonable expectation that she will be able to install this device on her own.
3) Spyware and/or other corrupt system issues can't turn it off or make it go haywire.
I can't believe all these "this is a scam!" and "just do it in software posts!" Especially given point #2 -- I thought there were more people on Slashdot who've suffered through dealing with real-world technical support. I guess not.
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Are there any books or other reading material that I could read in order to manage a software project effectively?
... specifically the Book of Revelation. Given what line of work you're entering you simply must understand the parts about the horsemen. Got it?
Start with the Bible
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is another one that will come in handy.
I'd also strongly recommend Bret Ellis' American Psycho.
Oh, and it would also be wise to at least skim through absolutely anything you can find about Adolf Hitler.
As a long-time software project manager with Microsoft, I'm offering all of this from personal experience. Hope it helps. And as you enter this exciting new management position, don't forget to have some fun once in a while!
Believe it... *dramatic inhale* ...or not.
What we need is a good upgradeable PCI standard for desktops so that people can slide their cards in without opening the case.
If they slide in easily, presumably they would be just as easily removed. That's a good idea for home users perhaps, but can you imagine all the expansion cards that would so easily disappear at businesses and schools?
Maybe something like Deep Freeze would solve your problem.
Each restart eradicates all changes and resets the computer to its original state, right down to the last byte.
There'd still be risks during a session of course. Then again, most of the truly evil stuff I see doesn't turn up until after the system has been rebooted and all the user-installed trash in registry gets launched.
I presume you found the 1 in 45 chance at this page: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html
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I've been checking an alternate NEO site, and they're reporting a 1 in 43 chance: http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?r
I don't know which site is reporting the most recent data.
Answer: The dog is on fire.
Off-topic but, any opinion on 1-year "accelerated" nursing programs?