Or maybe create something new. That is, new genre or a new story, sorry don't ask me as I have no imagination. But there are brilliant people out there, just need to reimburse them for their efforts. Instead of usual budgeting $5000 for writers and $5000000000000 for special effects.
It has been used and abused so much, it's become meaningless kind of like the sign on front gate of that horrible place, "work sets you free." (yeah, godwins law here. didn't RTFA).
There was an article with photo showing a huge and horrible looking mass of lines and cables strung around utility poles in some town in China or India. Mayor got totally pissed at so many poles of all these ugly cables he ordered city crews to tear them all down to beautify the city streets. Result was town was delivered to the Sixth century.
Attending a recent presentation on "Risk and Impact of a Communications Outage" speaker mentioned there is more and more construction crews accidentally cutting cables. Also with fiber able to carry more bandwidth than copper, less fiber cables can be laid. Unlike in the old days of slow baud rates many more copper lines had to be laid. There were also microwave links. So back then if someone cuts a cable, the impacted area is smaller than it is now. With a single fiber carrying much more, cutting that one fiber will result in many more than cutting a single copper line back in the days (though less lines means less chance getting cut by a backhoe?). I remember the days, "Dial Before You Dig."
on the other hand cars can be useful for stealing gold, not cash, by using three souped up Mini-Coopers. Hold the authorities at bay by screwing up traffic signals with a computer virus written by a nerdy computer person.
speaking of retro, back in 1970s listening to Santa Cruz police on a Bearcat III scanner (uses crystals) about robbers fled in a car with no plates but were easily found shortly after as police spot a car with no plates (I think they were pulled over before the 211 call went out). Couple hours later on I drove into Santa Cruz, police with the suspect vehicle was still there. Driving by I noticed one of the officers lifting a violin case out of the trunk (did they hide their gun in the case?)
Not sure how this fits in, on another thread about guns someone said "you all need to stop using the word 'gun' and be more specific like rifle, shotgun, pistol, etc." It's a gun as "officer! he pulled out a 155mm howitzer and said 'gimme all your money!'"
Talking with someone back then who said when he checks in baggage, he wants to carry on his pistol as valuable possession not to get lost in baggage. This was before 9-11 and I don't think they objected. I may have not remembered some details, I think airline would at least request it be placed with pilot.
Also before 9-11 another who loves to cook and he always brings his knives as carry on as these are expensive and doesn't want to get lost in baggage. Those were the days!
Google and Facebook make almost all of their money from advertising/consumer tracking related activities.
It seems Google has almost absolute control of information on the internet. Regarding cfalcon's remarks about advertisement, I'm getting pissed of whenever I search for specific information i.e. automotive OBD-II databus (alrighty folks, your car analogy), Google typically returns websites of places that sell OBD-II readers geared to the consumers (lowcost for displaying car speed, etc on a phone). There are some techie sites but almost are aggregates from a handful of websites (that is, not much difference from one and another).
There is the wall gardened FB, yes I registered though I didn't give them my real birthdate and address. There are many businesses that do all their stuff on FB, and yes I have to dig through a lot of posts from stay-at-home moms.
Amazon is probably fine for a long time.
it's been said these guys have driven many smaller businesses out of the market, like Uber they get many employees to bring more value of skill and desire to please than they are getting back in pay and benefits. One thing certain Amazon provides a mechanism to purchase items that can be purchased directly from original companies but the latter has a crappy order/purchase webpage.
Apple can crash by ignoring user's needs.
I read 2/3 of Apple business is outside the US, all their stuff is made outside the US. They are building the big campus (a flying saucer shaped building bigger than The Pentagon) but they probably can depart this country altogether.
Besides Godwin's Law, let's not forget the Canadians when Avro cancelled the Arrow and Avrocar programs that resulted in many Canuck engineers migrating south to the US that gave NASA a huge pool of talent for the space program.
I was thinking there was a time before leaf blowers. Yes, rakes are labor intensive but yet I see all these people with leaf blowers which seems to simply move the leaves from one place to another (i.e. move the problem to someone else's spot). Then the next smuck has to deal with them. Well, that's my perception as I never deal with leaves so it is all mysterious for me. I guess if leaves were to say where they are then these nice lawns will get pretty ugly. Obviously leaf buildup along roads will cause drainage clogs resulting in floods of water on roadways. Maybe result of all this is landscaping choices that are high maintenance, that is originator of tree selection for planting around buildings and roads is not the one that has to deal with shredded leaves?
Both California and Texas have nation-sized economies and would become the centers of new governments, established by the people that live there (or more likely their current state governments will now have added responsibilities).
I can see this happening later this century as these two states are becoming so opposite of one another (actually it is the politicians driving this but that's another topic). Some time ago there was an/. entry about what will it be like 100 years from now. Some of things discussed was farming in oceans and breakup of the USA. Question I have is what states will inherit nuclear weapons from the grand USA? Or something like after break up of USSR. Maybe Calif hang on to some nukes so Texas doesn't annex San Bernadino County.
FAA has jurisdiction from the ground up. There are aviation people that can answer this better with links to actual FARs. There can be controlled airspace and uncontrolled airspace but latter doesn't mean "nobody is in control." "Controlled" means under active ATC direction. Getting back to Calif making laws for drones, I say this./ entry should have been labeled "good-luck-with-that dept."
Most people except old people don't know of CB radios. You can use CB for communications without concern others monitoring your conversations since many don't know it exists (yes security through obscurity has it's issues), and there is no texting, contacts, and location info database that can be mined for later nefarious purposes. You can DF the signals but then most are clueless about RF below 800 MHz. Downside is antennas are big and clunky, gets lots of RFI, fidelity is not so great, propagation is limited.
I was referring to general IT support in a company that gets short-cut to save money and then people from outside can hack in easier because proper measures/procedures were not implemented. i.e. someone gets all the names, SSN, credit card numbers from company's files.
I think airplane pilots will be able to resort to non-GPS means of getting around. But for many drivers, they will be lost and will drive around in circles "where do I go? where do I go? where do I go?" until they run out of gas. And probably they will stall in the worst spots like middle of SF Bay Bridge (plus others in same predicament) causing massive traffic jams.
as result of car accident, industrial accident, fire, disease, crime, earthquake, meteor, and a whole number of unexpected causes which terrorism is not on that list.
Excellent observation (maybe double-meaning comment). Though trains did begin to run on time when Mussolini was in power, it was more of result train service was the worst just after WWI. As Italy rebuilt after war, the trains would then run on time regardless who was the leader of Italy.
All elected officials that were either against or skeptical were under pressure to support Iraqi invasion, and most went along with that decision. It was made in Oct 2002, one month before elections, and if you voted against the invasion you were flamed and tarnished for being a traitor. Even just ordinary people were under pressure.
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thanks! this makes much more sense, explains everything (including why I rarely go to the theatre)
Or maybe create something new. That is, new genre or a new story, sorry don't ask me as I have no imagination. But there are brilliant people out there, just need to reimburse them for their efforts. Instead of usual budgeting $5000 for writers and $5000000000000 for special effects.
It has been used and abused so much, it's become meaningless kind of like the sign on front gate of that horrible place, "work sets you free." (yeah, godwins law here. didn't RTFA).
There was an article with photo showing a huge and horrible looking mass of lines and cables strung around utility poles in some town in China or India. Mayor got totally pissed at so many poles of all these ugly cables he ordered city crews to tear them all down to beautify the city streets. Result was town was delivered to the Sixth century.
Attending a recent presentation on "Risk and Impact of a Communications Outage" speaker mentioned there is more and more construction crews accidentally cutting cables. Also with fiber able to carry more bandwidth than copper, less fiber cables can be laid. Unlike in the old days of slow baud rates many more copper lines had to be laid. There were also microwave links. So back then if someone cuts a cable, the impacted area is smaller than it is now. With a single fiber carrying much more, cutting that one fiber will result in many more than cutting a single copper line back in the days (though less lines means less chance getting cut by a backhoe?). I remember the days, "Dial Before You Dig."
on the other hand cars can be useful for stealing gold, not cash, by using three souped up Mini-Coopers. Hold the authorities at bay by screwing up traffic signals with a computer virus written by a nerdy computer person.
speaking of retro, back in 1970s listening to Santa Cruz police on a Bearcat III scanner (uses crystals) about robbers fled in a car with no plates but were easily found shortly after as police spot a car with no plates (I think they were pulled over before the 211 call went out). Couple hours later on I drove into Santa Cruz, police with the suspect vehicle was still there. Driving by I noticed one of the officers lifting a violin case out of the trunk (did they hide their gun in the case?)
Not sure how this fits in, on another thread about guns someone said "you all need to stop using the word 'gun' and be more specific like rifle, shotgun, pistol, etc." It's a gun as "officer! he pulled out a 155mm howitzer and said 'gimme all your money!'"
Talking with someone back then who said when he checks in baggage, he wants to carry on his pistol as valuable possession not to get lost in baggage. This was before 9-11 and I don't think they objected. I may have not remembered some details, I think airline would at least request it be placed with pilot.
Also before 9-11 another who loves to cook and he always brings his knives as carry on as these are expensive and doesn't want to get lost in baggage. Those were the days!
Google and Facebook make almost all of their money from advertising/consumer tracking related activities.
It seems Google has almost absolute control of information on the internet. Regarding cfalcon's remarks about advertisement, I'm getting pissed of whenever I search for specific information i.e. automotive OBD-II databus (alrighty folks, your car analogy), Google typically returns websites of places that sell OBD-II readers geared to the consumers (lowcost for displaying car speed, etc on a phone). There are some techie sites but almost are aggregates from a handful of websites (that is, not much difference from one and another).
There is the wall gardened FB, yes I registered though I didn't give them my real birthdate and address. There are many businesses that do all their stuff on FB, and yes I have to dig through a lot of posts from stay-at-home moms.
Amazon is probably fine for a long time.
it's been said these guys have driven many smaller businesses out of the market, like Uber they get many employees to bring more value of skill and desire to please than they are getting back in pay and benefits. One thing certain Amazon provides a mechanism to purchase items that can be purchased directly from original companies but the latter has a crappy order/purchase webpage.
Apple can crash by ignoring user's needs.
I read 2/3 of Apple business is outside the US, all their stuff is made outside the US. They are building the big campus (a flying saucer shaped building bigger than The Pentagon) but they probably can depart this country altogether.
or make an offer they can't refuse?
Besides Godwin's Law, let's not forget the Canadians when Avro cancelled the Arrow and Avrocar programs that resulted in many Canuck engineers migrating south to the US that gave NASA a huge pool of talent for the space program.
I was thinking there was a time before leaf blowers. Yes, rakes are labor intensive but yet I see all these people with leaf blowers which seems to simply move the leaves from one place to another (i.e. move the problem to someone else's spot). Then the next smuck has to deal with them. Well, that's my perception as I never deal with leaves so it is all mysterious for me. I guess if leaves were to say where they are then these nice lawns will get pretty ugly. Obviously leaf buildup along roads will cause drainage clogs resulting in floods of water on roadways. Maybe result of all this is landscaping choices that are high maintenance, that is originator of tree selection for planting around buildings and roads is not the one that has to deal with shredded leaves?
Both California and Texas have nation-sized economies and would become the centers of new governments, established by the people that live there (or more likely their current state governments will now have added responsibilities).
I can see this happening later this century as these two states are becoming so opposite of one another (actually it is the politicians driving this but that's another topic). Some time ago there was an /. entry about what will it be like 100 years from now. Some of things discussed was farming in oceans and breakup of the USA. Question I have is what states will inherit nuclear weapons from the grand USA? Or something like after break up of USSR. Maybe Calif hang on to some nukes so Texas doesn't annex San Bernadino County.
and smog checks.
FAA has jurisdiction from the ground up. There are aviation people that can answer this better with links to actual FARs. There can be controlled airspace and uncontrolled airspace but latter doesn't mean "nobody is in control." "Controlled" means under active ATC direction. Getting back to Calif making laws for drones, I say this ./ entry should have been labeled "good-luck-with-that dept."
That won't stop them, maybe they figure since Wall St is in NYC then they trump federal laws.
Most people except old people don't know of CB radios. You can use CB for communications without concern others monitoring your conversations since many don't know it exists (yes security through obscurity has it's issues), and there is no texting, contacts, and location info database that can be mined for later nefarious purposes. You can DF the signals but then most are clueless about RF below 800 MHz. Downside is antennas are big and clunky, gets lots of RFI, fidelity is not so great, propagation is limited.
I was referring to general IT support in a company that gets short-cut to save money and then people from outside can hack in easier because proper measures/procedures were not implemented. i.e. someone gets all the names, SSN, credit card numbers from company's files.
I think airplane pilots will be able to resort to non-GPS means of getting around. But for many drivers, they will be lost and will drive around in circles "where do I go? where do I go? where do I go?" until they run out of gas. And probably they will stall in the worst spots like middle of SF Bay Bridge (plus others in same predicament) causing massive traffic jams.
as result of car accident, industrial accident, fire, disease, crime, earthquake, meteor, and a whole number of unexpected causes which terrorism is not on that list.
cmon you guys I am being factious of both RIAA and Cuba.
Excellent observation (maybe double-meaning comment). Though trains did begin to run on time when Mussolini was in power, it was more of result train service was the worst just after WWI. As Italy rebuilt after war, the trains would then run on time regardless who was the leader of Italy.
All elected officials that were either against or skeptical were under pressure to support Iraqi invasion, and most went along with that decision. It was made in Oct 2002, one month before elections, and if you voted against the invasion you were flamed and tarnished for being a traitor. Even just ordinary people were under pressure.
You know, the things that competent corporate IT usually does already.
But do they? All these hack jobs could have prevented if they didn't shortcut proper IT procedures and budget.