I want them all with no interface other than bluetooth or WiFi.
I want a seperate interface device, one display, keyboard/text entry,...
Everything connectted together via bluetooth.
I have a phone now with a grungy camera & PDA function. Most of the phone, PDA, other items I have are the keyboard & display. I'd much rather have a single very capable human interface and then a phone, PDA, other items that are very small
and can be just slipped into a pocket or backpack.
It'd be really great if they'd share a power supply too, a small battery pack or fuel cell. then there's just one cahrger (wall wart or compressed gas) to lug about. I'm now taking multiple chargers, interface cables/wireless cards with me when I go on a trip.
If I want new phone features I just buy the phone functionality, not everything else. A better camera, I get just that.
The University is running a pilot scheme which uses plagiarism detection software to analyse student work.
So it's not like they knew all along and were stinging him along. They just got smart, started using the same technology he was using to cheat, and finally caught him.
This was the English department after all. It took them awhile!
The OSI 7 layer model is a tool to facilitate teaching & to expedite communications by defining certain terms & functions.
It wasn't intended to be a design.
We laid glass fiber and provided computer-content capability so that you can do work anywhere and ship the information anywhere nearly instantaneously.
Here in the US I've got fiber to the curb yet companies that I've worked for won't let me telecommute because "it doesn't work". However these same companies are downsizing & sending work off-shore based on the logic quoted above.
So how's all this offshore telecommuting work? Not only am I not telecommuting, I reached the first step (>25,000 miles) of my airline frequent flyer program in early January.
If they had the infrastructure in place to plan & implement efficiently they'd be able to make it work. But Hell! If they had that in place they'd have been able to compete in the first place. So what we really have is poor management causing lousy productivity here, then using the consequences of mismanagement as a reason to outsource work overseas, which is doomed to even worse failure because of the incompetent managment.
All it does is let them continue with their traditional response -- blame the guys doing the work & throw more warm bodies at the project -- you can buy more warm bodies overseas, though the results are no more effective.
People talk to & give names to their animals, cars, firearms, sexual organs... everything & anything. Why would anybody expect people to not do the same with their computers?
Probably easier to build a dock, floating or fixed. A dock is something that the local officials will understand so any permits or approvals should be easy. Then attach the paddlewheels.
I used to work with Guidance & Navigation systems (late '70s, early '80s). One of the test sites was in the Pacific Islands. Most of the maps were originally made by the Japanese Military during WW2. It was fun finding some landmarks so we could get accurate data -- then use this data to extrapolate coordinates for the rest of the map. There's a lack of permanence to sand & coral, especially since it had been subjected to naval bombardment.
It really was great fun searching the islands for these sites, and I got paid for it too!
No, having incoming work queues always full IS efficiency. The examiner is always working because he always has more work waiting.
Inefficiency is having so many examiners that the incoming queue empties. That means that the guy is sitting there with nothing to do, waiting for somebody to submit a patent application.
The reviewer said all data came from the manufacturer's public information & Google. Finding it on Google doesn't validate the data.
You need to look at the site that Google sends you too, validate that it is a trustworthy site which has information that you can use.
But they do have an intrinsic advantage. They were given it because of the higher risk involved in their business. That's part of the FCC charter, to encourage new technology for the common good.
What you say is historically true, I agree. But going forward I think it's time to make these new technologies self-sufficient. Not all at once, just gradually.
RBOCs haven't gone bankrupt, They have valuable infrastructure so they get bought before they can go under.
But the traditional voice circuits are carried over copper or glass, no electromagnetic spectrum required there. Satelite & RF links are rarely used for circuit switched voice anymore, the quality of service over copper wire or glass fiber is better & the high capacity makes costs low. Does that mean my landline phone is not a communications thing? VoIP is also most certainly a commnication thing, but part of the FCC's charter is to encourage communications technology for the common good. There are financial implications, and they are intentionally "unfair". What we have now, at least in the US, is a very uneven playing field. There are different catagories of companies that provide phone service (they are vying for the same consumer dollars) but are treated differently:
The incumbent landline company is still regulated even though they no longer have the advantage of being a monopoly.
Non-incumbent landline companies are much less regulated.
Mobile providers are taxed at a lower rate and are required to supply fewer emergency services (though this is changing).
VoIP is almost completely unregulated and untaxed. Provides almost no emergency services other than passing the user to the PSTN network.
VoIP suppliers, and to a lesser extent the non-incumbent landline providers & the mobile service providors, are riding on the coattails of the incumbent landline service providors. They get cheap facilities & services, are held to a lower requirements of service, and are taxed at a lower rate.
The incumbent is required to lease facilities to competitors at a rate based on the cost of those facilities. Then, when the incumbent needs additional facilities (because it was required to give them to its competitors) they must build new facilities at a higher cost. This puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage, eventhough there are charges applied to other providors that are funnelled to the incumbent (to offset the cost of providing service to everyone, emergency services, inexpensive/free service to schools, libraries & the poor, a higher quality of service. So there are huge financial implications and they are arificially skewed.
There is reason to favor the new technology, or at least there was. It makes it easier for new services & technologies to develop. However, in my opinion, it's time for VoIP to pay its own way. The technology is there, it has been around for quite some time now. It already makes tremendous sense in some areas e.g. a campus or company with excess data transmission capacity can make use of the spare bandwidth for voice. The hotel I'm in has integrated data & voice facilities, since many travellers to business hotels now require high speed network connections this scheme works well. It's even beginning to make sense to replace traditional switched circuit facilities -- I visit many Central Offices that belong to different telephone companies (wireline & wireless). Almost every CO I've been in recently has VoIP. They aren't tearing out their traditional switches but most have passed the trial stage and are using VoIP for growth now. Expect changes, VoIP will be expected to hold its own soon.
I've been looking for something to put my retirement saings in. The Mindstorm kits are showing their age, but I still love them & I think they'll be around for some time to come.
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Not only is this poor slob stuck up there alone, but for the next several years he playing a game of long distance dodge ball. Twice a month, a 1280 pound canister of supplies is lobbed at him.
He must either dodge the canisters of supplies that are too close, or roam the surface of the moon in search of errant canisters.
Use of VoIP doesn't necessarily mean you need to be on the net.
TelCos are replacing traditional circuit switches with soft switches and installing gateways. Soft switches switch both packet & circuit based calls. Gateways connect the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to packet based data networks (generally private networks bacause of issues with security, priority, and latency -- possibly this will change with ipv6?). So users don't necessarily need a net connection to use VoIP. You pick up a phone, make a call. If your service provider uses VoIP then so be it, if not then it is routed over the PSTN, or a combination of the two, whichever is cheapest and/or available.
Or they both came from the same 3rd source and that doesn't mean that it was illegally copied.
I've seen the same formatting glitch in multiple wordprocessors and a long-ago Dr. Dobb's review pinted out a typo in a popular textbook's source. This volume was described as the only textbook about word processing.
Compartmentalize the knowledge. The technicians know that they erased memories but they don't need to know what it was that they erased, what it was that the guy did.
Yes, there is equipment capable of performing erasure, but so what? I own a CD/DVD burner, copier, cassette recorder, cameras... does that make me guilty of copyright violation?!
I am not the sysadmin, nor would I want to be. We've been downsized to the point where our sysadmin isn't always available -- he does have a life. I have root access for emergency use, when he's not available, though in a real emergency I'd get somebody with real skills.
I prefer to not stay logged on as root.
The directory had data that was needed, and it is customary at my company to leave old home directories in place. When employees leave they are tasked with cleaning their own home directory, in this case he had over a month to purge personal files.
No, I did not browse through all of his personal files. Once I figured out what was there I did log back on as root & blocked access to the private files.
True enough, though in this case he had a month's notice. He's just a packrat. The sort of guy who brought almost 100 boxes of junk along on our last move and who kept his home directory in a similar jumble, using 10 times the space of anybody else.
Keeping unneeded personal files, electronic or hardcopy, are a chance for somebody to steal data, and it's especially risky to keep them at work.
I use tax time to review what I have saved. Anything that isn't required for my records is shredded or wiped. It can only hurt to keep it around, especially at work or other place not under my physical control.
I just had to run in to work to create a report. I needed some data in a former employee's directory, so logged on as root & changed permissions so I could read anything in his directory tree.
He had all sorts of personal data in his home direcrtory: passport & visa applications, paycheck stubs for several years, copies of expense accounts including scans of credit card statements, info about his retirement from the company we used to be a part of,...
Once I realized what it was I rm'ed it, but what would posses a supposedly rational person to not only save this data to a networked machine at work but to leave it there after leaving the company?
A Nor'Easter rolled over us Friday and then headed out to sea. It merged with another storm coming from the south and it/they came up to dump even more white stuff on yesterday.
First time I've ever had a storm back up to hit me a second time. Who new they even had a reverse?!
Essentially you're renting storage space at somebody else's house. With any luck, when you buy it back either it'll be cheaper or you'll get something newer & better.
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I want a seperate phone, PDA, camera, ...
I want them all with no interface other than bluetooth or WiFi.
I want a seperate interface device, one display, keyboard/text entry, ...
Everything connectted together via bluetooth.
I have a phone now with a grungy camera & PDA function. Most of the phone, PDA, other items I have are the keyboard & display. I'd much rather have a single very capable human interface and then a phone, PDA, other items that are very small and can be just slipped into a pocket or backpack.
It'd be really great if they'd share a power supply too, a small battery pack or fuel cell. then there's just one cahrger (wall wart or compressed gas) to lug about. I'm now taking multiple chargers, interface cables/wireless cards with me when I go on a trip.
If I want new phone features I just buy the phone functionality, not everything else. A better camera, I get just that.
The University is running a pilot scheme which uses plagiarism detection software to analyse student work.
So it's not like they knew all along and were stinging him along. They just got smart, started using the same technology he was using to cheat, and finally caught him.
This was the English department after all. It took them awhile!
The OSI 7 layer model is a tool to facilitate teaching & to expedite communications by defining certain terms & functions. It wasn't intended to be a design.
Here in the US I've got fiber to the curb yet companies that I've worked for won't let me telecommute because "it doesn't work". However these same companies are downsizing & sending work off-shore based on the logic quoted above.
So how's all this offshore telecommuting work? Not only am I not telecommuting, I reached the first step (>25,000 miles) of my airline frequent flyer program in early January.
If they had the infrastructure in place to plan & implement efficiently they'd be able to make it work. But Hell! If they had that in place they'd have been able to compete in the first place. So what we really have is poor management causing lousy productivity here, then using the consequences of mismanagement as a reason to outsource work overseas, which is doomed to even worse failure because of the incompetent managment.
All it does is let them continue with their traditional response -- blame the guys doing the work & throw more warm bodies at the project -- you can buy more warm bodies overseas, though the results are no more effective.
People talk to & give names to their animals, cars, firearms, sexual organs ... everything & anything. Why would anybody expect people to not do the same with their computers?
Probably easier to build a dock, floating or fixed. A dock is something that the local officials will understand so any permits or approvals should be easy. Then attach the paddlewheels.
I used to work with Guidance & Navigation systems (late '70s, early '80s). One of the test sites was in the Pacific Islands. Most of the maps were originally made by the Japanese Military during WW2. It was fun finding some landmarks so we could get accurate data -- then use this data to extrapolate coordinates for the rest of the map. There's a lack of permanence to sand & coral, especially since it had been subjected to naval bombardment.
It really was great fun searching the islands for these sites, and I got paid for it too!
You can't. Haven't been able to do that for many years.
No, having incoming work queues always full IS efficiency. The examiner is always working because he always has more work waiting.
Inefficiency is having so many examiners that the incoming queue empties. That means that the guy is sitting there with nothing to do, waiting for somebody to submit a patent application.
Isn't Pluto being called a planetoid or planetisimal now? So this newest find may planet number 9, or number 10, or maybe we won't count it at all?
The reviewer said all data came from the manufacturer's public information & Google. Finding it on Google doesn't validate the data. You need to look at the site that Google sends you too, validate that it is a trustworthy site which has information that you can use.
But they do have an intrinsic advantage. They were given it because of the higher risk involved in their business. That's part of the FCC charter, to encourage new technology for the common good.
What you say is historically true, I agree. But going forward I think it's time to make these new technologies self-sufficient. Not all at once, just gradually.
RBOCs haven't gone bankrupt, They have valuable infrastructure so they get bought before they can go under.
But the traditional voice circuits are carried over copper or glass, no electromagnetic spectrum required there. Satelite & RF links are rarely used for circuit switched voice anymore, the quality of service over copper wire or glass fiber is better & the high capacity makes costs low. Does that mean my landline phone is not a communications thing? VoIP is also most certainly a commnication thing, but part of the FCC's charter is to encourage communications technology for the common good. There are financial implications, and they are intentionally "unfair". What we have now, at least in the US, is a very uneven playing field. There are different catagories of companies that provide phone service (they are vying for the same consumer dollars) but are treated differently:
The incumbent landline company is still regulated even though they no longer have the advantage of being a monopoly.
Non-incumbent landline companies are much less regulated.
Mobile providers are taxed at a lower rate and are required to supply fewer emergency services (though this is changing).
VoIP is almost completely unregulated and untaxed. Provides almost no emergency services other than passing the user to the PSTN network.
VoIP suppliers, and to a lesser extent the non-incumbent landline providers & the mobile service providors, are riding on the coattails of the incumbent landline service providors. They get cheap facilities & services, are held to a lower requirements of service, and are taxed at a lower rate.
The incumbent is required to lease facilities to competitors at a rate based on the cost of those facilities. Then, when the incumbent needs additional facilities (because it was required to give them to its competitors) they must build new facilities at a higher cost. This puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage, eventhough there are charges applied to other providors that are funnelled to the incumbent (to offset the cost of providing service to everyone, emergency services, inexpensive/free service to schools, libraries & the poor, a higher quality of service. So there are huge financial implications and they are arificially skewed.
There is reason to favor the new technology, or at least there was. It makes it easier for new services & technologies to develop. However, in my opinion, it's time for VoIP to pay its own way. The technology is there, it has been around for quite some time now. It already makes tremendous sense in some areas e.g. a campus or company with excess data transmission capacity can make use of the spare bandwidth for voice. The hotel I'm in has integrated data & voice facilities, since many travellers to business hotels now require high speed network connections this scheme works well. It's even beginning to make sense to replace traditional switched circuit facilities -- I visit many Central Offices that belong to different telephone companies (wireline & wireless). Almost every CO I've been in recently has VoIP. They aren't tearing out their traditional switches but most have passed the trial stage and are using VoIP for growth now. Expect changes, VoIP will be expected to hold its own soon.
I've been looking for something to put my retirement saings in. The Mindstorm kits are showing their age, but I still love them & I think they'll be around for some time to come.
Count me out!
TelCos are replacing traditional circuit switches with soft switches and installing gateways. Soft switches switch both packet & circuit based calls. Gateways connect the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to packet based data networks (generally private networks bacause of issues with security, priority, and latency -- possibly this will change with ipv6?). So users don't necessarily need a net connection to use VoIP. You pick up a phone, make a call. If your service provider uses VoIP then so be it, if not then it is routed over the PSTN, or a combination of the two, whichever is cheapest and/or available.
I've seen the same formatting glitch in multiple wordprocessors and a long-ago Dr. Dobb's review pinted out a typo in a popular textbook's source. This volume was described as the only textbook about word processing.
Yes, there is equipment capable of performing erasure, but so what? I own a CD/DVD burner, copier, cassette recorder, cameras ... does that make me guilty of copyright violation?!
I'd love to get six jars of hotsauce! No need for the Rolaids either.
I am not the sysadmin, nor would I want to be. We've been downsized to the point where our sysadmin isn't always available -- he does have a life. I have root access for emergency use, when he's not available, though in a real emergency I'd get somebody with real skills.
I prefer to not stay logged on as root.
The directory had data that was needed, and it is customary at my company to leave old home directories in place. When employees leave they are tasked with cleaning their own home directory, in this case he had over a month to purge personal files.
No, I did not browse through all of his personal files. Once I figured out what was there I did log back on as root & blocked access to the private files.
Keeping unneeded personal files, electronic or hardcopy, are a chance for somebody to steal data, and it's especially risky to keep them at work.
I use tax time to review what I have saved. Anything that isn't required for my records is shredded or wiped. It can only hurt to keep it around, especially at work or other place not under my physical control.
He had all sorts of personal data in his home direcrtory: passport & visa applications, paycheck stubs for several years, copies of expense accounts including scans of credit card statements, info about his retirement from the company we used to be a part of, ...
Once I realized what it was I rm'ed it, but what would posses a supposedly rational person to not only save this data to a networked machine at work but to leave it there after leaving the company?
A Nor'Easter rolled over us Friday and then headed out to sea. It merged with another storm coming from the south and it/they came up to dump even more white stuff on yesterday.
First time I've ever had a storm back up to hit me a second time. Who new they even had a reverse?!
Except they give you only one DVD from the set. The one with the grungiest resolution.
Buy it when you need it.
Essentially you're renting storage space at somebody else's house. With any luck, when you buy it back either it'll be cheaper or you'll get something newer & better.