If you're a M$ hater, just wait until "sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids" is a system requirement.
Among other nanotechnological breakthroughs, Kurzweil says it will be possible to inject robotic blood cells that will enable you to "sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for 4 hours."
OK, for now I'll settle for Fedora Core 42 and nano-robots that will let me drink as much red wine as I want without getting a headache.
That about right for an experienced non-dumbass in the inflated Seattle metro area. It's about as expensive as the SF Bay Area now. He might be padding his stats by including some benefits. And I'd guess MS has a better track record than most about paying H1Bs more or less the same as the natives.
People like to go on and on about "feh the authoritees are stoopid", like all the ass-talking over the incident in Boston last week.
But the real world doesn't work that way, unless you live in Mensa-Fascist-Fantasy-World and fantasize the state killing those that don't behave with Klingon-like rationality. Basically, you have to take the stupid, irrational people into account. (Damn Customers!)
Many public (law enforcement) agencies have a motto: "Could You Explain It On 60 Minutes?" That pretty much sums it up. For example if I hear one more rich techie blowhard bitching about how they are inconvenienced by airport security I'll scream. But they are not in charge of hiring thousands of people for the oh so wonderful jobs involved in groveling through people's luggage and car trunks. And were we to implement a putative purely rational system, what would Mr Techie say to 60 Minutes in the even that someone got through?
Pretty much all of the backlight voltage is well isolated from ground and inside the display.
I have an old Presario and it floats at about 35VAC but can't deliver any appreciable current (more than 1 or 2 ma) at that voltage. I noticed this because I had some awful ground loops when using the laptop for ham radio, connected to a radio via the sound card.
I call BS. First of all, he doesn't say what impedance he measured the "leak" at. Second, his house wiring could be defective (is his neutral grounded and binded properly?) Third, he could just be posting "Feh Dell s3cz" everywhere and talking out of his ass. A "stop talking out of your ass" notice from a lawyer is not thuggery. (TFA is slashdotted so I couldn't get the details.)
I'm still surprised more PCs don't come with 3-conductor power cords, simply because there's so much defective house wiring out there.
- it's the power required to process the packets. More or less, a GigE card should need 10X (divided by some fudge factor that probably makes the real ratio closer to 2 or 3X) the compute power of a 100Mbit card. Processing GigE at full throttle actually takes quite a bit of CPU - we don't notice it much because most GigE interfaces have a TCP Offload Engine that avoids bogging down the CPU and bus.
So your TOE could easily have a variable speed CPU that basically goes to sleep when it can negotiate the physical interface down to 10Mbit, or whatever. SOunds pretty straightforward.
Paid hundreds of dollars for an 800k drive when it came out. Still have it! Wanna buy it?
The 128 was upgraded to a 512 by hand-soldering new memory chips into the thing. Then, the 512 was upgraded to a "Mac Minus" with a set of homemade, cloned MacPlus PROMs. At some point I think the original Frankenmobo died and was discarded since IIRC there's a stock Mac Plus board in there now.
For years I had a 10MB Mac Drive that interfaced via the floppy "Integrated Woz Machine" port.
The case got sprayed with a dark grey faux-granite finish.
I still haul the thing out of the back of the closet now and then, and it works well as a nightlight/digital clock.
This is just more old media vs new media hoohah. Don't confuse peer review with public access. You've been dragged in by the spinmeisters described in the article.
I was only in the academic world for a couple of years, and helped peer review a couple papers for a professor of mine. In my smallish field (transportation operations research) there was no market for "vanity" journals like there are in some fields.
Maybe some fields are more politically charged than others, mine was certainly not one subject to popular controversy. If you want real "democracy", bear in mind that a significant percentage of the US population believes that the Earth was created 6000 years ago.
Anybody who's actually shelled out for real enterprise shiteware as opposed to something shrinkwrapped at Best Buy knows that renting and owning are essentially equivalent. We "bought" Remedy and Siebel, but still have to pay huge costs to maintain them, and in my judgment our software is LESS secure and available than if we were running all this crap as a service, because we are much less likely to keep everything patched and up to date. Mostly because IT doesn't like working every weekend from 1 AM to 8 AM Sunday mornings, and because most enterprise shiteware is so poorly documented and buggy that keeping it patched is a huge risk, almost as much as not patching it.
Another excellent example is email. For years management cried "waaah - we can't outsource email - information going outside the company, waaah!". Then they started getting 100 spams a day and spam-catching turned into a 2 FTE job in our 150-person company. Mail dies every week or two or under the load of comstant mailbombing, reconfiguration, and patching. Now management's opinion is slightly different, and they are turning an eye towrd outsourcing it to one of the many vendors that is nearly 100% effective at spam-blocking..
Someone proposed flare systems for aircraft - I think some El Al A/C already have this and it was used in the indicent a couple year ago when someone shot off an antiaircraft missile in Kenya.
The laser systems are supposedly autonomous - they are on all the time, and thus might be more effective. Flare and chaff depliyment requires some skill on the part of the pilot, along with some 3G turns, and might actually be just as difficult and expensive to automate. The expensive part is detecting and tracking the launch, not firing the laser at it.
Realtors deal with this kind of thing all the time. You know - "charming", meaning the roof sags and there are 1-inch cracks in the foundation. Better than a basement that is a "handyman's delight", i.e. "Flooded".
It's the Galaxy-class starship up on blocks in the front yard that's going to get him in trouble with the neighbors.
This was not some drunken frat boy drinking 5 gallons of water, by all accounts it was more like half a gallon. A freak accident. This is why the radio station has insurance.
I suspect the press and ambulance-chasing lawyer scumbags (both civil and DAs) are going to pile on this cluster-fuck like flies on a turd, when it turns out she was anorexic, or had some other health issues. I drink a half gallon some days after lunch myself, sitting on my ass at my desk, and a gallon or more when I'm active. When you have a colonscopy, you have to drink 1 gallon of laxative in an hour, although it's laced with electrolytes.
A friend of a friend once hacked one of those generator-powered message signs that the Highway Department leaves running, unlocked everywhere, with this message and the 800 number of the highway department:
To be a Newton, it has to be overpriced, at least twice what devices with similar capabilities cost. At first glance the iPhone meets this requirement. BUT it has an iPod inside.
The iPod, not the i-anything else, is Apple's killer app. There really is no equivalent to iPod technology. This is an iPod with a phone tacked on, and its price is not quite so silly if you consider it has the capabilities of a $200 Nano plus a $200 phone plus a big color screen. For those who must have an iPod, it's not too much of a premium, especially if it ends up getting subsidized by a carrier.
> Microsoft quashed an attempt by Dell to create a market for Linux PCs in the U.S
Disclaimer: Both my grandfathers were Freeemasons, so I'm in on the conspiracy.
I subscribe to the Dell Poweredge Linux mailing list - it a continual litany of woe from Linux newbies whining about how they can't get the latest random distro to work perfectly with the latest something-or-other. (Along with the odd message about the Broadcom ethernet and onboard RAID drivers locking up.) It's perfectly within Dell's rights to sell only preloaded systems with their qualified OSes, particularly since they have only a skeleton crew of talented people to support Linux, and their onboard RAID controllers are mostly useless unless used with drivers built with this morning's patches. And it's perfectly within our rights to buy boxes better-suited for the task, or to cough up the bucks for RHEL or Suse. There's plenty of competition here, see Penguin, et al.
In 2 dimensions, a reasonable approximation for a radar gun, or if you are driving directly toward an RF source, the ratio of the shift is 2V/c. At 100 fps, that's about 2E-7, or a couple dozen Hz at 100 Mc. This is how doppler speed guns and doppler radar work, and they can easy pick out speed variations of a few MPH. For GPS there is much less effect because the sats don't move directly toward or away from the observer, but, still, as I understand it, some GPS units can measure the phase difference (http://www.aprs.net/vm/gps_cs.htm) and account for it in the calculations.
Like you I'm doubtful any consumer RF protocol like digital TV requires this kind of accuracy.
I have heard it told that the speed of a moving car is enough to screw up US digital broadcast TV signals. And it has to be taken into account for GPS reception (well the sats move much faster than most everything on the gound canmove...)
So why would doppler not be a problem with WiFi? I'm just thinking out loud here...
Somewhere in my following threads down ratholes today I read a quote from a biology professor at Rutgers (I do not remember his name) who was hopeful that humans will always survive, that we had reduced our chances of utterly destroying ourselves to merely making 99% of us miserable.
(What was his name - I think it was off that BBC atricle about celebrity science quotes?)
To add something actually truthy to this converstion, try reading Akhil Reed Amar's "America's Constitution: A Biography". I have not read the book but I did attend a book tour presentation and it's interesting to see the parallels between our current love/hate relationship with fossil fuels and our past love/hate relationship with slavery, as facilitated by the original constitution.
Long dead protocol my ass. We had one running to support a legacy application until a few months ago, when I went through my normal legacy application decommissioning routine:
1) Ask if anyone is using app. 2) No response 3) Turn app off 4) Six months later, turn app back on because it's "mission critical".
So three months and the clock is still ticking....
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I'm inspired by Ray Kurzweil's keynote at RSA Conference 2007.. http://singularity.com/
If you're a M$ hater, just wait until "sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids" is a system requirement.
Among other nanotechnological breakthroughs, Kurzweil says it will be possible to inject robotic blood cells that will enable you to "sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for 4 hours."
OK, for now I'll settle for Fedora Core 42 and nano-robots that will let me drink as much red wine as I want without getting a headache.
So he's lying.
Or they are hiring junior people.
Or maybe they ARE hiring dumbasses.
That about right for an experienced non-dumbass in the inflated Seattle metro area. It's about as expensive as the SF Bay Area now. He might be padding his stats by including some benefits. And I'd guess MS has a better track record than most about paying H1Bs more or less the same as the natives.
People like to go on and on about "feh the authoritees are stoopid", like all the ass-talking over the incident in Boston last week.
But the real world doesn't work that way, unless you live in Mensa-Fascist-Fantasy-World and fantasize the state killing those that don't behave with Klingon-like rationality. Basically, you have to take the stupid, irrational people into account. (Damn Customers!)
Many public (law enforcement) agencies have a motto: "Could You Explain It On 60 Minutes?" That pretty much sums it up. For example if I hear one more rich techie blowhard bitching about how they are inconvenienced by airport security I'll scream. But they are not in charge of hiring thousands of people for the oh so wonderful jobs involved in groveling through people's luggage and car trunks. And were we to implement a putative purely rational system, what would Mr Techie say to 60 Minutes in the even that someone got through?
Pretty much all of the backlight voltage is well isolated from ground and inside the display.
I have an old Presario and it floats at about 35VAC but can't deliver any appreciable current (more than 1 or 2 ma) at that voltage. I noticed this because I had some awful ground loops when using the laptop for ham radio, connected to a radio via the sound card.
I call BS. First of all, he doesn't say what impedance he measured the "leak" at. Second, his house wiring could be defective (is his neutral grounded and binded properly?) Third, he could just be posting "Feh Dell s3cz" everywhere and talking out of his ass. A "stop talking out of your ass" notice from a lawyer is not thuggery. (TFA is slashdotted so I couldn't get the details.)
I'm still surprised more PCs don't come with 3-conductor power cords, simply because there's so much defective house wiring out there.
http://zillow.com/
It's teh same aerial/sat pix as Google Earth. Feh.
- the only Port in a Storm?
- A Breathe of Fresh Air? A Site for Sore Eyes? Breeches of Security?
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth?
- Like putting on a Ferrari?
- Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle?
- that you un-blackhole all that spam I used to get. Da' noive!
- it's the power required to process the packets. More or less, a GigE card should need 10X (divided by some fudge factor that probably makes the real ratio closer to 2 or 3X) the compute power of a 100Mbit card. Processing GigE at full throttle actually takes quite a bit of CPU - we don't notice it much because most GigE interfaces have a TCP Offload Engine that avoids bogging down the CPU and bus.
So your TOE could easily have a variable speed CPU that basically goes to sleep when it can negotiate the physical interface down to 10Mbit, or whatever. SOunds pretty straightforward.
Paid hundreds of dollars for an 800k drive when it came out. Still have it! Wanna buy it?
The 128 was upgraded to a 512 by hand-soldering new memory chips into the thing. Then, the 512 was upgraded to a "Mac Minus" with a set of homemade, cloned MacPlus PROMs. At some point I think the original Frankenmobo died and was discarded since IIRC there's a stock Mac Plus board in there now.
For years I had a 10MB Mac Drive that interfaced via the floppy "Integrated Woz Machine" port.
The case got sprayed with a dark grey faux-granite finish.
I still haul the thing out of the back of the closet now and then, and it works well as a nightlight/digital clock.
[INSERT DISK TO CONTINUE]
about
[INSERT DISK TO CONTINUE]
time.
[INSERT DISK TO CONTINUE]
Anybody
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remem
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Mac?
This is just more old media vs new media hoohah. Don't confuse peer review with public access. You've been dragged in by the spinmeisters described in the article.
I was only in the academic world for a couple of years, and helped peer review a couple papers for a professor of mine. In my smallish field (transportation operations research) there was no market for "vanity" journals like there are in some fields.
Maybe some fields are more politically charged than others, mine was certainly not one subject to popular controversy. If you want real "democracy", bear in mind that a significant percentage of the US population believes that the Earth was created 6000 years ago.
Anybody who's actually shelled out for real enterprise shiteware as opposed to something shrinkwrapped at Best Buy knows that renting and owning are essentially equivalent. We "bought" Remedy and Siebel, but still have to pay huge costs to maintain them, and in my judgment our software is LESS secure and available than if we were running all this crap as a service, because we are much less likely to keep everything patched and up to date. Mostly because IT doesn't like working every weekend from 1 AM to 8 AM Sunday mornings, and because most enterprise shiteware is so poorly documented and buggy that keeping it patched is a huge risk, almost as much as not patching it.
Another excellent example is email. For years management cried "waaah - we can't outsource email - information going outside the company, waaah!". Then they started getting 100 spams a day and spam-catching turned into a 2 FTE job in our 150-person company. Mail dies every week or two or under the load of comstant mailbombing, reconfiguration, and patching. Now management's opinion is slightly different, and they are turning an eye towrd outsourcing it to one of the many vendors that is nearly 100% effective at spam-blocking..
Someone proposed flare systems for aircraft - I think some El Al A/C already have this and it was used in the indicent a couple year ago when someone shot off an antiaircraft missile in Kenya.
The laser systems are supposedly autonomous - they are on all the time, and thus might be more effective. Flare and chaff depliyment requires some skill on the part of the pilot, along with some 3G turns, and might actually be just as difficult and expensive to automate. The expensive part is detecting and tracking the launch, not firing the laser at it.
BTW its Sen BOXER not Sen BAXTER.
Realtors deal with this kind of thing all the time. You know - "charming", meaning the roof sags and there are 1-inch cracks in the foundation. Better than a basement that is a "handyman's delight", i.e. "Flooded".
It's the Galaxy-class starship up on blocks in the front yard that's going to get him in trouble with the neighbors.
I like it that the experimenters appear to be wearing sandals while their white-hot spicy balls fizzle around on the floor. Sacrifice for Science!
This was not some drunken frat boy drinking 5 gallons of water, by all accounts it was more like half a gallon. A freak accident. This is why the radio station has insurance.
I suspect the press and ambulance-chasing lawyer scumbags (both civil and DAs) are going to pile on this cluster-fuck like flies on a turd, when it turns out she was anorexic, or had some other health issues. I drink a half gallon some days after lunch myself, sitting on my ass at my desk, and a gallon or more when I'm active. When you have a colonscopy, you have to drink 1 gallon of laxative in an hour, although it's laced with electrolytes.
A friend of a friend once hacked one of those generator-powered message signs that the Highway Department leaves running, unlocked everywhere, with this message and the 800 number of the highway department:
YOUR WEB SITE HERE
1 - 800 - USA - MINI
(or whetever their number is)
To be a Newton, it has to be overpriced, at least twice what devices with similar capabilities cost. At first glance the iPhone meets this requirement. BUT it has an iPod inside.
The iPod, not the i-anything else, is Apple's killer app. There really is no equivalent to iPod technology. This is an iPod with a phone tacked on, and its price is not quite so silly if you consider it has the capabilities of a $200 Nano plus a $200 phone plus a big color screen. For those who must have an iPod, it's not too much of a premium, especially if it ends up getting subsidized by a carrier.
> Microsoft quashed an attempt by Dell to create a market for Linux PCs in the U.S
Disclaimer: Both my grandfathers were Freeemasons, so I'm in on the conspiracy.
I subscribe to the Dell Poweredge Linux mailing list - it a continual litany of woe from Linux newbies whining about how they can't get the latest random distro to work perfectly with the latest something-or-other. (Along with the odd message about the Broadcom ethernet and onboard RAID drivers locking up.) It's perfectly within Dell's rights to sell only preloaded systems with their qualified OSes, particularly since they have only a skeleton crew of talented people to support Linux, and their onboard RAID controllers are mostly useless unless used with drivers built with this morning's patches. And it's perfectly within our rights to buy boxes better-suited for the task, or to cough up the bucks for RHEL or Suse. There's plenty of competition here, see Penguin, et al.
In 2 dimensions, a reasonable approximation for a radar gun, or if you are driving directly toward an RF source, the ratio of the shift is 2V/c. At 100 fps, that's about 2E-7, or a couple dozen Hz at 100 Mc. This is how doppler speed guns and doppler radar work, and they can easy pick out speed variations of a few MPH. For GPS there is much less effect because the sats don't move directly toward or away from the observer, but, still, as I understand it, some GPS units can measure the phase difference (http://www.aprs.net/vm/gps_cs.htm) and account for it in the calculations.
Like you I'm doubtful any consumer RF protocol like digital TV requires this kind of accuracy.
I have heard it told that the speed of a moving car is enough to screw up US digital broadcast TV signals. And it has to be taken into account for GPS reception (well the sats move much faster than most everything on the gound canmove...)
So why would doppler not be a problem with WiFi? I'm just thinking out loud here...
Somewhere in my following threads down ratholes today I read a quote from a biology professor at Rutgers (I do not remember his name) who was hopeful that humans will always survive, that we had reduced our chances of utterly destroying ourselves to merely making 99% of us miserable.
(What was his name - I think it was off that BBC atricle about celebrity science quotes?)
To add something actually truthy to this converstion, try reading Akhil Reed Amar's "America's Constitution: A Biography". I have not read the book but I did attend a book tour presentation and it's interesting to see the parallels between our current love/hate relationship with fossil fuels and our past love/hate relationship with slavery, as facilitated by the original constitution.
Long dead protocol my ass. We had one running to support a legacy application until a few months ago, when I went through my normal legacy application decommissioning routine:
1) Ask if anyone is using app.
2) No response
3) Turn app off
4) Six months later, turn app back on because it's "mission critical".
So three months and the clock is still ticking....