I couldn't agree more. When you are vomiting, runing a high fever, and dizzy, you should not be sitting for 2.75 hours in a doctor's office. This is percisely what happened over Christmas with my girlfriend...she was feeling very bad, and we had to wait: 2.75 hours!!!!!!! We saw the doctor for 5-8 min at most.
Run the office like a real business. If I had clients schedule a meeting at my office and they had to wait for 2.5 hours, I would have lost the sale at around 25-40 min...it would have gone somewhere else in a hurry!
Doctors: PLEASE have your office staff just schedule things ON TIME!
I have called, emailed, and used their "web-interface" to attempt to have Egghead remove my credit card information 4 times over the past 6 months. I was told that there was no way to remove that information and that their servers were secure.
If I do have any unauthorized charges to my credit card, I will NEVER do business with them again, and I will not do business in the future with ANY company that chooses to cache my credit card info.
Ok...well maybe in California it is illegal, but here in Chatttnooga TN, where we have TVA, you can sell electricity _back_ to the power board. If you have a small hydro plant (or any other method to produce electricity), and you are not using it, the powerboard/TVA will pay you what you would pay to buy it. They actually encourage this!! The University I attend (www.southern.edu) has considered supplementing its usage by installing natural gas generators. During the night/other off-peak hours, TVA will purchase the power that is produced!!!!
Another thought; the FCC provides the citizen's of the USA use of low power transmitters without license. What is the internet equiv? You can only stream 20 connections? 5 connections? This is simply preposterous. As it is now, the FCC doesn't even have the staffing to go after pirate stations on HAM radio bands. They have assigned the Ham radio sector to police itself (which can be a real pain too...there are a lot of ham radio tattletale type people that want to get someone else in trouble so that get attention.)
I am straying...back to my point...who will enforce these laws? The RIAA? Streaming movies: MPAA? If so, help us all.
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Isn't the tax for on air for FCC freq assignment?
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My understanding is that the taxes for on-air broadcasts is to fund the FCC so that transmitters stay on the frequencies they are supposed to, stay within assigned bandwidth, and make sure they don't run too much power, causing their signal to bleed into other bands, etc.
I am glad that the FCC does this! Wouldn't it really stink if you are flying from Chicago to Atlanta, and some hick country music station decides to squeeze out a few more watts from their transmitter causing their signal to bleed into the Air-traffic controller's freq. or worse yet, to skew an ILS approach? That is what the FCC is for.
However, can I conclude that the same will hold true for the internet equiv? Is the FCC going to ensure that a radio station's packets do not perform a DOS on some remote network?
Another question: Isn't the internet in the USA primarily funded in the private sector? Is the government putting any substantial amount of money into the citizen's internet service?
2D games like Sentinel Worlds and SubSpace will live forever. They are not that flashy, but there is a genius behind each of them that isn't always seen in today's games. ---
My uncle works for GoodYear in their internal systems design department. I am told that the machines that they stick out on the assembly line must be super reliable. (ie, they can't afford to close down an entire section of the plant so that a human can enter the highly toxic/hot enviro. to fix a broken box.)
So, during the testing phase, I am told that they litterly seal up the box (they run i486 cpu's w/their own motherboards), hook up the sealed mux cable, start the canned software, and then toss (no joke) the system into a tank of fluid kept at approx. 180-208 Deg F. (if my memory serves me correctly) for 2 weeks.
I have no idea how the cooling works. I just know for a fact that it is done. Apparently there are a LOT of trade secrets in this stuff.
....RadioShack) then it seems reasonable that Digital Convergence will loose a MUCH higher percentage of the customer base than will the companies related to the IOpener or DVD cases would.
Have you ever worked in an area that had flourescent fixtures with electronic ballasts? The electronic ballasts boosts the "refresh" of the flourescent fixtures to about 17000 Hz. When you couple this with 5000Kelvin bulbs, the effect is that of a skylight. It is clean, refreshing light. There isn't ANY "flicker". Period.
I prefer indirect halogen lighting reflecting from the white drop ceiling when I can get it. The key for me is to have a lot of light when needed (ie: trying to read a manual or find something) but keep it much darker as the norm.
I also enjoy an environment where when I have to think really hard about something, my co-workers will turn off the music. I don't mind music when I am just coding. However, when I am trying to debug or plan, I must have quiet.
I wonder if something like this could be mounted near a terminal and if the oder/whatever is unique enough per individual to allow authentication. I know my dog can determine exactly who I am by a few sniffs of my shoes and pants.
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Right on man!
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I couldn't agree more. When you are vomiting, runing a high fever, and dizzy, you should not be sitting for 2.75 hours in a doctor's office. This is percisely what happened over Christmas with my girlfriend...she was feeling very bad, and we had to wait: 2.75 hours!!!!!!! We saw the doctor for 5-8 min at most.
Run the office like a real business. If I had clients schedule a meeting at my office and they had to wait for 2.5 hours, I would have lost the sale at around 25-40 min...it would have gone somewhere else in a hurry!
Doctors: PLEASE have your office staff just schedule things ON TIME!
-JL
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Would the be a valid method to store quantium bits where a surface could store a 0 and a 1 at the same time dependant upon the angle viewed?
Ignore this if I don't know what I am talking about. Just a brainstorm.
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...you rock!
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In SubSpace, they have the ability to display ads, but don't. I wouldn't mind if we could get less lag and spikes from the server. :)
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I have called, emailed, and used their "web-interface" to attempt to have Egghead remove my credit card information 4 times over the past 6 months. I was told that there was no way to remove that information and that their servers were secure.
If I do have any unauthorized charges to my credit card, I will NEVER do business with them again, and I will not do business in the future with ANY company that chooses to cache my credit card info.
BLARRRRRRRRR....
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I couldn't agree more with you.
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Future Magic's Sentinel Worlds I; This is the best game EA ever released.
I wonder what ever happened to Sentinel Worlds II? I heard that it had been developed, but never released.
Has anyone else ever even heard of it?
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Ok...well maybe in California it is illegal, but here in Chatttnooga TN, where we have TVA, you can sell electricity _back_ to the power board. If you have a small hydro plant (or any other method to produce electricity), and you are not using it, the powerboard/TVA will pay you what you would pay to buy it. They actually encourage this!! The University I attend (www.southern.edu) has considered supplementing its usage by installing natural gas generators. During the night/other off-peak hours, TVA will purchase the power that is produced!!!!
So there!
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Another thought; the FCC provides the citizen's of the USA use of low power transmitters without license. What is the internet equiv? You can only stream 20 connections? 5 connections? This is simply preposterous. As it is now, the FCC doesn't even have the staffing to go after pirate stations on HAM radio bands. They have assigned the Ham radio sector to police itself (which can be a real pain too...there are a lot of ham radio tattletale type people that want to get someone else in trouble so that get attention.)
I am straying...back to my point...who will enforce these laws? The RIAA? Streaming movies: MPAA? If so, help us all.
I just wish there was a good Boston tea party that I could join from time to time.
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My understanding is that the taxes for on-air broadcasts is to fund the FCC so that transmitters stay on the frequencies they are supposed to, stay within assigned bandwidth, and make sure they don't run too much power, causing their signal to bleed into other bands, etc.
I am glad that the FCC does this! Wouldn't it really stink if you are flying from Chicago to Atlanta, and some hick country music station decides to squeeze out a few more watts from their transmitter causing their signal to bleed into the Air-traffic controller's freq. or worse yet, to skew an ILS approach? That is what the FCC is for.
However, can I conclude that the same will hold true for the internet equiv? Is the FCC going to ensure that a radio station's packets do not perform a DOS on some remote network?
Another question: Isn't the internet in the USA primarily funded in the private sector? Is the government putting any substantial amount of money into the citizen's internet service?
Just my two pennies this afternoon.
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Think of all the databases in the US that would have to be updated. I wonder how big a task this would be!
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Here is Google's cache
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most cool.
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Did he say, "Put Mozilla on a leash?"
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2D games like Sentinel Worlds and SubSpace will live forever. They are not that flashy, but there is a genius behind each of them that isn't always seen in today's games.
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I Agree!! How much is Glass worth? lol.
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The reason I purchased a visor deluxe is because I wanted the great module support. However, I keep hearing "next month" or "next quarter", etc.
What does it take to get companies to produce more modules?
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Don't know, but I know they can run at 100 Deg C.
My uncle works for GoodYear in their internal systems design department. I am told that the machines that they stick out on the assembly line must be super reliable. (ie, they can't afford to close down an entire section of the plant so that a human can enter the highly toxic/hot enviro. to fix a broken box.)
So, during the testing phase, I am told that they litterly seal up the box (they run i486 cpu's w/their own motherboards), hook up the sealed mux cable, start the canned software, and then toss (no joke) the system into a tank of fluid kept at approx. 180-208 Deg F. (if my memory serves me correctly) for 2 weeks.
I have no idea how the cooling works. I just know for a fact that it is done. Apparently there are a LOT of trade secrets in this stuff.
Just FYI,
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Hmm...can we say slashdoted?
anyone got a mirror of the page yet?
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I agree! I wish /.ers would realize what it means to run a business.
oh well.
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....RadioShack) then it seems reasonable that Digital Convergence will loose a MUCH higher percentage of the customer base than will the companies related to the IOpener or DVD cases would.
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Have you ever worked in an area that had flourescent fixtures with electronic ballasts? The electronic ballasts boosts the "refresh" of the flourescent fixtures to about 17000 Hz. When you couple this with 5000Kelvin bulbs, the effect is that of a skylight. It is clean, refreshing light. There isn't ANY "flicker". Period.
I prefer indirect halogen lighting reflecting from the white drop ceiling when I can get it. The key for me is to have a lot of light when needed (ie: trying to read a manual or find something) but keep it much darker as the norm.
I also enjoy an environment where when I have to think really hard about something, my co-workers will turn off the music. I don't mind music when I am just coding. However, when I am trying to debug or plan, I must have quiet.
-John
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Until I can buy one, it is still just vaporware.
Will be nice though...
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I wonder if something like this could be mounted near a terminal and if the oder/whatever is unique enough per individual to allow authentication. I know my dog can determine exactly who I am by a few sniffs of my shoes and pants.
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