I doubt they would reprint for an error like that. I've seen spelling errors in major daily newspapers and major newsmagazines. Copyediting seems to be rapidly becoming a lost art.
Well I just read your bio. I guess that makes you a spy for Al-Quida.
The point here isn't that joshki is anything other than an upstanding patriot and citizen. The point is it is easy to say those accused of whatever the crime de-jour is deserve what they get until it is your ass on the line.
And why exactly can we not deal with Mr. Al-Muhajir the others in or against the United States the same way we dealt with Mr.McVeigh? If these people are such scum then there should be no problem obtaining a conviction in a fair and public trial.
Think of it as the triumph of the rule of law against the lawless.
If we can give McVeigh a fair trial and access to due process then I don't see why we can't offer the same protection to those currently being accused of involvement in terrorism.
What if we found that by increased security since 9/11 they prevented just *one* death per year. Just one. Is your convienence worth that measly one death? Would you be willing to be that one person? How about your mother? Have a wife? Kids? Well, I do, and I'm here to say that the minor inconvienence we're talking here is NOT worth human lives.
By that same twist of logic we should engage in house-to-house searches, national IDs, government collections of personal infromation, being subject to search or survellence any time a government official thinks we are guilty of doing something "suspicious".
Look at how well all of the sorts of nonsense in vouge since 9/11/2001 in the name of "fighting terrorism" has worked in the "war on drugs". Drugs are easier to get than ever and are smuggled into this country in wholesale quantities (by the shipping container and semi-truck load).
Feh! I don't believe we want to win the "war on terror" any more than we want to win the "war on corprate crime" or the "war on drugs".
I think this is mostly due to the cheap imitation molex connectors that come with most power supplies. I've not had near the problem working on higher end equipment where the extra pennies are spent for decent power connectors.
Arrgh!, teach me to get this data off some random web site.
According to the connector catalog I just looked at: RJ10: 4 pins, commonly found in handsets RJ11: 4 of 6 pins, common phone jack RJ12: 6 pins, used for 3 line analog and some PBX systems RJ45: 8 pins, 10/100/1000BT, PBX, ISDN, etc RJ48: 10 pins
Oh... and one more think I can't understand about UK power. They let you guys have a whole bunch of houses on a single transformer. ACH! Dangerous to your and/or your equipment depending on how stupid your neighbours are...
I like having my own personal transformer. And I like being able to turn my bathroom lights on/off _inside_ the bathroom.:-)
Huh? Most places I've been in the US and Canada have several (5-10) houses served by the same transformer, I've never heard of 1 transformer per house except in sparsly populated areas.
I've seen houses in the US with the bathroom light switch outside the bathroom, in one case it was at the other end of the hall.
There are other RJ-series connectors other than RJ-11/12 and RJ-45.
RJ (Modular Connector Jacks (female), Plugs (male)) types:..RJ11: Normal (1 pair) home phone jack, having 2, 4 to 6 pins RJ12: Has 3 pairs of pins: An RJ-11 using 3 pairs of wires RJ14: Has 2 pairs of pins: An RJ-11 using 2 pairs of wires RJ22: Normal (1 pair) hanset jack, having 2 to 4 pins RJ25: Has 3 pairs of pins. RJ45: Has 4 pairs of pins. Used with RS232, 10BaseT, EIA568. RJ48: Has 4 pairs of pins. Four voice circuits, used with T1/E1/ISDN.
These are known as 13W3 connectors, Sun, SGI, IBM, NeXT and some others used to use them on workstations. Some older DEC equipment used a variant called 3W3. One problem with these is nobody had the same standards for the control pins. If I recall correctly the SUN and SGI equipment would interoperate but not the NeXT and IBM.
Both Sun and IBM were making 13W3 equipment until a couple of years ago. Sun didn't switch their video standard to VGA until the Ultra 5/10 came out. Some of IBM's monitors had 13W3 connectors on the back up until a couple of years ago, they came with VGA to 13W3 cables as all of IBM's computers had VGA out.
Oh come on, RCA isn't so bad, they work fairly well and are reasonably sturdy. When good quality connectors and cable are used they work as well as any alternative connector would. I just wish consumer audio would switch to using a balanced line-level standard.
From my understanding this has little to do with the component cost of internal vs. external power supplies and more to do with the cost of having your device certified in every country you wish to sell it in. Typically external power supplies are already certified by the vendor so you just pick the voltage and current you need.
Of course with things like mobile phones, handhelds, laptops, etc the reason for using an external supply is for weight/size considerations.
I wish vendors would use the "lump" style (transformer in middle of cord) supplies rather than the "wart" style (transformer is part of plug) supplies.
ObRandomOnTopic: My company sent us all an email earlier this week saying the upcoming long weekend was to be treated as a "normal weekend," i.e. you are expected to be at work. Feh.
I'm sorry but I'd tell them I'm not coming in and they'd better not dock my pay. I expect to have at least New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas off. If an employer needs me to work any of those days they can jolly well give me an extra paid vacation day to compensate.
Check your employee handbook and any paperwork you signed when you were hired, they may be violating the terms of your employment contract.
Speaking of vacations I love the scam of never approving vaction requests coupled with not allowing you to carry over any unused time.
Steve has left Microsoft and started his own company Construx Software. There are some good Software Engineering references and links on their web site.
The problem is if the technical staff gives in on this at all senior management and marketing begin to expect miracles and insane hours rather than fixing the problems that lead to impossible schedules.
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I believe these are PSAs by the ACLU. If you look around the web I think these are available as Quicktime files.
I doubt they would reprint for an error like that. I've seen spelling errors in major daily newspapers and major newsmagazines. Copyediting seems to be rapidly becoming a lost art.
Well I just read your bio. I guess that makes you a spy for Al-Quida.
The point here isn't that joshki is anything other than an upstanding patriot and citizen. The point is it is easy to say those accused of whatever the crime de-jour is deserve what they get until it is your ass on the line.
The republic is dead, long live the Emperor!
And why exactly can we not deal with Mr. Al-Muhajir the others in or against the United States the same way we dealt with Mr.McVeigh? If these people are such scum then there should be no problem obtaining a conviction in a fair and public trial.
Think of it as the triumph of the rule of law against the lawless.
If we can give McVeigh a fair trial and access to due process then I don't see why we can't offer the same protection to those currently being accused of involvement in terrorism.
Damn, I even had mod points today, unfortunately I posted in this topic before I saw the above post.
I hate it when people do this but "mod parent up"
Ironicly Switzerland wasn't even a UN member until today.
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What if we found that by increased security since 9/11 they prevented just *one* death per year. Just one. Is your convienence worth that measly one death? Would you be willing to be that one person? How about your mother? Have a wife? Kids? Well, I do, and I'm here to say that the minor inconvienence we're talking here is NOT worth human lives.
By that same twist of logic we should engage in house-to-house searches, national IDs, government collections of personal infromation, being subject to search or survellence any time a government official thinks we are guilty of doing something "suspicious".
Look at how well all of the sorts of nonsense in vouge since 9/11/2001 in the name of "fighting terrorism" has worked in the "war on drugs". Drugs are easier to get than ever and are smuggled into this country in wholesale quantities (by the shipping container and semi-truck load).
Feh! I don't believe we want to win the "war on terror" any more than we want to win the "war on corprate crime" or the "war on drugs".
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
I think this is mostly due to the cheap imitation molex connectors that come with most power supplies. I've not had near the problem working on higher end equipment where the extra pennies are spent for decent power connectors.
No, the problem is over the years there have been a number of standards for external SCSI connectors. So far 3 have stuck:
50 pin Amphenol (aka centronics)
50 pin Micro sub-D
68 pin Micro sub-D
Oh come on at least they didn't use M/34 connectors (as seen on V.35 cables) for PC serial. Now those suckers are big and chunky.
Arrgh!, teach me to get this data off some random web site.
According to the connector catalog I just looked at:
RJ10: 4 pins, commonly found in handsets
RJ11: 4 of 6 pins, common phone jack
RJ12: 6 pins, used for 3 line analog and some PBX systems
RJ45: 8 pins, 10/100/1000BT, PBX, ISDN, etc
RJ48: 10 pins
Oh... and one more think I can't understand about UK power. They let you guys have a whole bunch of houses on a single transformer. ACH! Dangerous to your and/or your equipment depending on how stupid your neighbours are...
:-)
I like having my own personal transformer. And I like being able to turn my bathroom lights on/off _inside_ the bathroom.
Huh? Most places I've been in the US and Canada have several (5-10) houses served by the same transformer, I've never heard of 1 transformer per house except in sparsly populated areas.
I've seen houses in the US with the bathroom light switch outside the bathroom, in one case it was at the other end of the hall.
Yea, but for a cell phone charger or a small ethernet hub, who cares?
If efficency is a concern just use a DC-DC switching supply.
PC Power & Cooling sells their power supplies with "Dell" style motherboard connectors for those who need them.
There are other RJ-series connectors other than RJ-11/12 and RJ-45.
..RJ11: Normal (1 pair) home phone jack, having 2, 4 to 6 pins
RJ (Modular Connector Jacks (female), Plugs (male)) types:
RJ12: Has 3 pairs of pins: An RJ-11 using 3 pairs of wires
RJ14: Has 2 pairs of pins: An RJ-11 using 2 pairs of wires
RJ22: Normal (1 pair) hanset jack, having 2 to 4 pins
RJ25: Has 3 pairs of pins.
RJ45: Has 4 pairs of pins. Used with RS232, 10BaseT, EIA568.
RJ48: Has 4 pairs of pins. Four voice circuits, used with T1/E1/ISDN.
These are known as 13W3 connectors, Sun, SGI, IBM, NeXT and some others used to use them on workstations. Some older DEC equipment used a variant called 3W3. One problem with these is nobody had the same standards for the control pins. If I recall correctly the SUN and SGI equipment would interoperate but not the NeXT and IBM.
Both Sun and IBM were making 13W3 equipment until a couple of years ago. Sun didn't switch their video standard to VGA until the Ultra 5/10 came out. Some of IBM's monitors had 13W3 connectors on the back up until a couple of years ago, they came with VGA to 13W3 cables as all of IBM's computers had VGA out.
Ooo, SNA over coax, fun! fun! fun!
Oh come on, RCA isn't so bad, they work fairly well and are reasonably sturdy. When good quality connectors and cable are used they work as well as any alternative connector would. I just wish consumer audio would switch to using a balanced line-level standard.
You don't use a transformer to drop from say 24V DC to 3V DC you use a voltage regulator or a DC-DC switching supply.
From my understanding this has little to do with the component cost of internal vs. external power supplies and more to do with the cost of having your device certified in every country you wish to sell it in. Typically external power supplies are already certified by the vendor so you just pick the voltage and current you need.
Of course with things like mobile phones, handhelds, laptops, etc the reason for using an external supply is for weight/size considerations.
I wish vendors would use the "lump" style (transformer in middle of cord) supplies rather than the "wart" style (transformer is part of plug) supplies.
ObRandomOnTopic: My company sent us all an email earlier this week saying the upcoming long weekend was to be treated as a "normal weekend," i.e. you are expected to be at work. Feh.
I'm sorry but I'd tell them I'm not coming in and they'd better not dock my pay. I expect to have at least New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas off. If an employer needs me to work any of those days they can jolly well give me an extra paid vacation day to compensate.
Check your employee handbook and any paperwork you signed when you were hired, they may be violating the terms of your employment contract.
Speaking of vacations I love the scam of never approving vaction requests coupled with not allowing you to carry over any unused time.
Steve has left Microsoft and started his own company Construx Software. There are some good Software Engineering references and links on their web site.
Some other good Steve McConnell books:
Software Project Survival Guide ISBN: 1-57231-621-7
After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering ISBN: 0-73560-877-6
The problem is if the technical staff gives in on this at all senior management and marketing begin to expect miracles and insane hours rather than fixing the problems that lead to impossible schedules.