How much, exactly, does copyright enforcement cost? It clearly has no affect what-so-ever so if the music/movie industry decides to just flush a billion dollars down the toilet on it, does that mean the ISPs have to fork over $250 million? It doesn't make a lot of sense.
You're completely misunderstanding how it works. A. The human voice produces a hell of a lot more power than a cellphone, you can disagree if you want but it's not even relevant because: B. Ambient noise. It's not just you powering the device, it's everything that makes noise around you. and then, don't forget: C. Energy over time. It's charging it all day long, even when you're not on the phone. They aren't talking about you literally powering the phone as you talk. They are talking about a device on the phone that helps recharge the battery as you talk. Just like breaks on electric cars recovering the breaking energy aren't going to power the car entirely, but they certainly will help make the battery last longer.
A simple google search shows your links are complete bullshit. I'm surprised your spent so much effort to try and complain more about a store that's never done you harm.
You're not understanding. I'm not talking about a customer going out. I don't monitor that. By "Site going down" I mean either an entire city or at least a DSA (neighborhood.) Lightening storms can cause so much trouble on a copper network that basically the entire area is out for the duration of the storm. With fiber nearly all of our sites are on a ring, and electrical storms basically have no affect on them, short of a tree falling on our equipment or arial. Or a fire starting somewhere. Power outages are also more of a problem. The backup batteries on most fiber equipment are about the same as copper but the problem is at the customers end. With copper you actually push voltage down the line, the phone company provides the power to your phone, not you. So when the powers out, your phone still works. You can't send power down fiber of course. But there are battery backups at the CSU. But they're only going to last a few hours. This all depends on the area and where the power is out. In a copper network, if your power is out, but its ok close to our remote (we place them near power substations for that very reason) you could have phone service for days while the power is out. But if its a larger outage then it'll go down just as fast as the fiber would.
Everyone jump on the walmart hating bandwagon why don't you. I have an Aunt that worked at walmart as a checker for most of her life. She was a single mom and that job bought her a house and helped her raise 5 children (father was a deadbeat) then Walmart paid, in full, the entire college tuition of her eldest daughter through a program walmart has. If you don't want to buy Chinese made crap, then don't Walmarts selling what people want to buy. This cellular plan is a fine example of exactly what they do. We all know cellular plans are ridiculously over priced... look at any other country in the world and it's obvious. Walmart comes in and not only undercuts everyone else, they undercut them to the point it makes the other carriers look like idiots. And just like every other market they enter, this doesnt just mean walmart shoppers get lower prices, it means all the other carriers will have to drop their prices as well to prevent their customers from leaving in droves.
I work for a large telco and coincidentally monitor alarms all day long. Our sites that are on copper go down constantly. Every lightening storm knocks out hundreds of customers. We always joke when a site switches to fiber that we'll not be talking to them anymore. Sometimes we call the local techs to say goodbye. Why? Because once a site switches to fiber they NEVER go down again. It's like they vanish off of our alarm maps. The simple fact of the matter is that the only situations that can drop the fiber connection would most definitely drop any copper connection in the area as well... major router going down, cable cut, etc... This redundancy crap they are talking about just shows how little they know about how it works. The REAL reason they object to this is obvious, I've seen first hand how their "alarms" work. The more sophisticated alarms actually have some 1990's era modem inside that dials into the alarm company to tell them theirs trouble. This requires a standard pots line. I've seen these lines go down for weeks before the alarm company runs a standard test and realizes it doesn't work anymore and calls us. Then I find out their customer didn't know what the line was for so they requested a disconnect 3 weeks ago. Great reliability from your security company there... Then there is the OLD SCHOOL way of doing things. The alarm company just uses our copper pair as an Open/Closed circuit. A simple smoke alarm that opens the circuit when it goes off, or, and this was my favorite, the water alarm. The cable pair would end with 2 contacts that were held apart by an aspirin. (no I'm not kidding) if there was flooring and the water got too high, the aspirin would dissolve, the contacts would touch and the circuit would complete and set off the remote alarm. Once ever 3 months they would call me to test and replace the aspirin. If everything switches to fiber, their $2 alarm systems would have to switch to something that could work on fiber that'd cost $100+. That's what they're concerned about.
anyone else not really care about Java performance? it works for me, thats all I care about. Until the other browsers have adblock and Noscript they are all dead to me.
No, I've worked in these systems before. Your ticketing system is for alarms/troubles, or whatever. You may have hundreds or thousands come in per night. The point of the whiteboard is for things the ticketing system is bad at handling. Stuff you can ignore for the night, or SoandSo is going to test the fire alarm at 3am. It's there for the few things that are just a bit odd and everyone should know about. Emails are terrible. Remember, the email system is likely one of the things these people are monitoring. What happens to the process when the email system fails? Whiteboards never fail. Also, how many emails go out in this company? In my last job like this I was getting over 100 per day. It's pretty easy for stuff like this to get lost in that mess.
I've worked in a control room before, I can give you tips from my experience. If there will be more than 1 person there, make it possible for each person to have their own lighting levels and ventilation. Having people work long hours in an enclosed space like that, you are probably going to get a lot of employees that get migraines and back problems (its the nature of the job) so just keep that in mind. If you have all the employees sitting close together with 1 vent, 1 light switch and then one of them shows up with a Doctors note that says the lights have to be dim and the temperature bellow 60 at all times you're going to have drama. -- Giant screens with alarms displayed are stupid. They are just for show, and every manager that thinks they want to look concerned will use the screen as an excuse to stop by and bug your workers on a regular basis. "whats that flashing red one!!" "That's the fan alarm on the hed3 router, they have one on order, don't worry there's a backup fan."But couldn't it fail!" "If it does, we'll go stick a window fan in there" "But!!" "Get out please" etc... Trust me, this shit happened all the time to us and we finally took the screens down. -- If you DO have to have siren type stuff and flashing lights (like the spinny red kind and the tornado style alarms) keep in mind the room they are in and keep the volume and light levels appropriate. I was working in a facility which had an observation room that was about 10ft by 10ft, they kept the room very dark for some reason. One night I'm sitting there, it's dead silent and a sound not unlike God grinding his heal into my ear drum began while 3 police stile red spinning lights went off. The alarm went on for about 30 seconds and then god spoke "THIS IS A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BULLETIN. THERE IS A SEVERE STORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES" I damn near shit myself. -- If you want it to look cool, I recommend a negative airflow system. You get really nice clean air to help your employees to stay awake and healthy and neato vacuum gauges on the walls displaying the rooms negative pressure. Also, in the event of a gas leak, terrorist attack or nuclear holocaust, they'd live that much longer. You could also get a thumbprint lock for the door pretty cheap. They are worthless and easy to fool, but they look pretty cool. Lastly a white board I think is essential. You need a way for each shift to write things down for the next shift. "This alarm keeps going of. Jim said to call him at home when it does and he'll log in to reset it" etc... Stuff like that is essential. Make them write a date next to each message so you know when somethings old and can probably be erased.
You have to agree to use the peer to peer thing with WoW. I don't like WoW but played it for about a month, and remember specifically the P2P warning. I think it's a great idea as long as the user knows about it. The one thing none of them have come up with is to have the client CHECK THE LAN! I have a whole family that plays and it's ridiculous to have to patch the same same game on 4 different computers at once. I should be able to have 1 patch and the others transfer the same files over the lan. Instead I have to patch 1 client and then use backup software to write to the other computers.
In most countries in the world, the government is far more likely to cause harm to the public, than the public is likely to cause any harm to the government. In my opinion, the Public certainly has more pressing security concern than any government has. The fact of the matter is, anyone with even the slightest interest in keeping their conversations private will be able to do so easily no matter what their respective government is monitoring. All this really does is give those governments access to the general publics mail which will then be used to stifle dissent, not protect the public.
Clearly Al Gores hate speech has gone too far. We need these sorts of videos banned, or at least labeled. Not even the columbine kids wanted to sterilize people!
I think sony is being rather smart here. We're not far off from the point in which cellphones will provide all the gaming entertainment an adult would want. Buying another $300 gadget just to get better graphics while you're waiting in the airport doesn't make much sense. The only audience that'll be interested in portal gaming in the next 5-10 years are going to be the ones that don't have cellphones... i.e. Kids.
Glen Beck (Who I agree has gone kinda crazy over the past couple of years... he was much more subdued when he was on CNN) IS part of the mainstream. He's got one of the highest ratings on television right now. He may not be popular in the/. community but he certainly is mainstream in large parts of the country. It really is too bad though, the Tea Party movement was a good thing until establishment republicans got involved. Watch the "Bullshit" episode on taxes to see what they were like before republicans hijacked the movement.
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It would he "God damned", Capital G, two separate words and past tense. But of course, that's not really relevant to the conversation at hand is it?
How much, exactly, does copyright enforcement cost? It clearly has no affect what-so-ever so if the music/movie industry decides to just flush a billion dollars down the toilet on it, does that mean the ISPs have to fork over $250 million? It doesn't make a lot of sense.
You're completely misunderstanding how it works. A. The human voice produces a hell of a lot more power than a cellphone, you can disagree if you want but it's not even relevant because: B. Ambient noise. It's not just you powering the device, it's everything that makes noise around you. and then, don't forget: C. Energy over time. It's charging it all day long, even when you're not on the phone. They aren't talking about you literally powering the phone as you talk. They are talking about a device on the phone that helps recharge the battery as you talk. Just like breaks on electric cars recovering the breaking energy aren't going to power the car entirely, but they certainly will help make the battery last longer.
A simple google search shows your links are complete bullshit. I'm surprised your spent so much effort to try and complain more about a store that's never done you harm.
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Why did we need to read any further than that?
or tie their own shoes
yea, I imagine you could put a match in there and call it a fire alarm to. lol
You're not understanding. I'm not talking about a customer going out. I don't monitor that. By "Site going down" I mean either an entire city or at least a DSA (neighborhood.) Lightening storms can cause so much trouble on a copper network that basically the entire area is out for the duration of the storm. With fiber nearly all of our sites are on a ring, and electrical storms basically have no affect on them, short of a tree falling on our equipment or arial. Or a fire starting somewhere. Power outages are also more of a problem. The backup batteries on most fiber equipment are about the same as copper but the problem is at the customers end. With copper you actually push voltage down the line, the phone company provides the power to your phone, not you. So when the powers out, your phone still works. You can't send power down fiber of course. But there are battery backups at the CSU. But they're only going to last a few hours. This all depends on the area and where the power is out. In a copper network, if your power is out, but its ok close to our remote (we place them near power substations for that very reason) you could have phone service for days while the power is out. But if its a larger outage then it'll go down just as fast as the fiber would.
Everyone jump on the walmart hating bandwagon why don't you. I have an Aunt that worked at walmart as a checker for most of her life. She was a single mom and that job bought her a house and helped her raise 5 children (father was a deadbeat) then Walmart paid, in full, the entire college tuition of her eldest daughter through a program walmart has. If you don't want to buy Chinese made crap, then don't Walmarts selling what people want to buy. This cellular plan is a fine example of exactly what they do. We all know cellular plans are ridiculously over priced... look at any other country in the world and it's obvious. Walmart comes in and not only undercuts everyone else, they undercut them to the point it makes the other carriers look like idiots. And just like every other market they enter, this doesnt just mean walmart shoppers get lower prices, it means all the other carriers will have to drop their prices as well to prevent their customers from leaving in droves.
I work for a large telco and coincidentally monitor alarms all day long. Our sites that are on copper go down constantly. Every lightening storm knocks out hundreds of customers. We always joke when a site switches to fiber that we'll not be talking to them anymore. Sometimes we call the local techs to say goodbye. Why? Because once a site switches to fiber they NEVER go down again. It's like they vanish off of our alarm maps. The simple fact of the matter is that the only situations that can drop the fiber connection would most definitely drop any copper connection in the area as well... major router going down, cable cut, etc... This redundancy crap they are talking about just shows how little they know about how it works. The REAL reason they object to this is obvious, I've seen first hand how their "alarms" work. The more sophisticated alarms actually have some 1990's era modem inside that dials into the alarm company to tell them theirs trouble. This requires a standard pots line. I've seen these lines go down for weeks before the alarm company runs a standard test and realizes it doesn't work anymore and calls us. Then I find out their customer didn't know what the line was for so they requested a disconnect 3 weeks ago. Great reliability from your security company there... Then there is the OLD SCHOOL way of doing things. The alarm company just uses our copper pair as an Open/Closed circuit. A simple smoke alarm that opens the circuit when it goes off, or, and this was my favorite, the water alarm. The cable pair would end with 2 contacts that were held apart by an aspirin. (no I'm not kidding) if there was flooring and the water got too high, the aspirin would dissolve, the contacts would touch and the circuit would complete and set off the remote alarm. Once ever 3 months they would call me to test and replace the aspirin. If everything switches to fiber, their $2 alarm systems would have to switch to something that could work on fiber that'd cost $100+. That's what they're concerned about.
You my friend, have not played a modern synth.
Agreed. Windows based phones and even PDA's have sucked for years. Why they think they have suddenly changed anything I do not know.
anyone else not really care about Java performance? it works for me, thats all I care about. Until the other browsers have adblock and Noscript they are all dead to me.
No, I've worked in these systems before. Your ticketing system is for alarms/troubles, or whatever. You may have hundreds or thousands come in per night. The point of the whiteboard is for things the ticketing system is bad at handling. Stuff you can ignore for the night, or SoandSo is going to test the fire alarm at 3am. It's there for the few things that are just a bit odd and everyone should know about. Emails are terrible. Remember, the email system is likely one of the things these people are monitoring. What happens to the process when the email system fails? Whiteboards never fail. Also, how many emails go out in this company? In my last job like this I was getting over 100 per day. It's pretty easy for stuff like this to get lost in that mess.
I've worked in a control room before, I can give you tips from my experience. If there will be more than 1 person there, make it possible for each person to have their own lighting levels and ventilation. Having people work long hours in an enclosed space like that, you are probably going to get a lot of employees that get migraines and back problems (its the nature of the job) so just keep that in mind. If you have all the employees sitting close together with 1 vent, 1 light switch and then one of them shows up with a Doctors note that says the lights have to be dim and the temperature bellow 60 at all times you're going to have drama. -- Giant screens with alarms displayed are stupid. They are just for show, and every manager that thinks they want to look concerned will use the screen as an excuse to stop by and bug your workers on a regular basis. "whats that flashing red one!!" "That's the fan alarm on the hed3 router, they have one on order, don't worry there's a backup fan."But couldn't it fail!" "If it does, we'll go stick a window fan in there" "But!!" "Get out please" etc... Trust me, this shit happened all the time to us and we finally took the screens down. -- If you DO have to have siren type stuff and flashing lights (like the spinny red kind and the tornado style alarms) keep in mind the room they are in and keep the volume and light levels appropriate. I was working in a facility which had an observation room that was about 10ft by 10ft, they kept the room very dark for some reason. One night I'm sitting there, it's dead silent and a sound not unlike God grinding his heal into my ear drum began while 3 police stile red spinning lights went off. The alarm went on for about 30 seconds and then god spoke "THIS IS A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BULLETIN. THERE IS A SEVERE STORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES" I damn near shit myself. -- If you want it to look cool, I recommend a negative airflow system. You get really nice clean air to help your employees to stay awake and healthy and neato vacuum gauges on the walls displaying the rooms negative pressure. Also, in the event of a gas leak, terrorist attack or nuclear holocaust, they'd live that much longer. You could also get a thumbprint lock for the door pretty cheap. They are worthless and easy to fool, but they look pretty cool. Lastly a white board I think is essential. You need a way for each shift to write things down for the next shift. "This alarm keeps going of. Jim said to call him at home when it does and he'll log in to reset it" etc... Stuff like that is essential. Make them write a date next to each message so you know when somethings old and can probably be erased.
Or we could just stay out of peoples lives and let the fat people be fat in peace.
You have to agree to use the peer to peer thing with WoW. I don't like WoW but played it for about a month, and remember specifically the P2P warning. I think it's a great idea as long as the user knows about it. The one thing none of them have come up with is to have the client CHECK THE LAN! I have a whole family that plays and it's ridiculous to have to patch the same same game on 4 different computers at once. I should be able to have 1 patch and the others transfer the same files over the lan. Instead I have to patch 1 client and then use backup software to write to the other computers.
In most countries in the world, the government is far more likely to cause harm to the public, than the public is likely to cause any harm to the government. In my opinion, the Public certainly has more pressing security concern than any government has. The fact of the matter is, anyone with even the slightest interest in keeping their conversations private will be able to do so easily no matter what their respective government is monitoring. All this really does is give those governments access to the general publics mail which will then be used to stifle dissent, not protect the public.
Clearly Al Gores hate speech has gone too far. We need these sorts of videos banned, or at least labeled. Not even the columbine kids wanted to sterilize people!
No. Shock value only.
So the police with know the exactly GPS coordinates of where I get mugged? That's awesome!
NASA should be investing the majority of their efforts into a Space elevator, and eliminate the gravity well problem altogether.
I think sony is being rather smart here. We're not far off from the point in which cellphones will provide all the gaming entertainment an adult would want. Buying another $300 gadget just to get better graphics while you're waiting in the airport doesn't make much sense. The only audience that'll be interested in portal gaming in the next 5-10 years are going to be the ones that don't have cellphones... i.e. Kids.
Glen Beck (Who I agree has gone kinda crazy over the past couple of years... he was much more subdued when he was on CNN) IS part of the mainstream. He's got one of the highest ratings on television right now. He may not be popular in the /. community but he certainly is mainstream in large parts of the country. It really is too bad though, the Tea Party movement was a good thing until establishment republicans got involved. Watch the "Bullshit" episode on taxes to see what they were like before republicans hijacked the movement.
Now if they only started actually enforcing the payola laws.