Land speed record cars are interesting, if you're into that sort of thing. If not, then I'd suspect it's boring, overrated, and a waste of money.
However, at one time, 75 mph was a land speed record. Now, it's considered the residential speed limit by some people (sarcasm intended, but not totally off base):)
People in the UK either don't read the contracts they sign, don't question things they don't understand (the fine print), and just sign, so they can get on the internet.
Same thing as the mortgage scandal on this side of the pond.
I'm not into government intervention.... I'm into an educated populace. If people actually READ what the FUCK they are signing, people wouldn't be signing these contracts. If enough people don't sign on to the crap, the companies go out of business.
Other companies will step up, if it shows enough profit to be made, to allow people to actually use their pipes. Yes, you might have to spend a bit more, but in the long run, more people are happy, and companies like the ones mentioned in the article would be, losing.... Business, customers, etc.
Simple, people, quit being sheeple and letting companies push you around by YOUR BEING IGNORANT.
I read my contracts before I sign them. I'd be a fucking idiot not to. If I don't agree with something, I scratch it out, and submit it. If it comes back changed again, I have to agree to it. If the company doesn't send anything back changed, my contract stands. Doesn't mean I'll win in a court of law everytime, but it does mean I've actually STUCK TO MY GUNS and actually decided to THINK for myself.
Seriously, READ THE FUCKING PAPERS YOUR SIGNING. Simple, to the point, and won't happen, since that would require people to be literate:(
Like most dragsters, it only has to be able to drive off the course. Most top fuel dragsters only turn SLIGHTLY, so they can exit the 1/8th or 1/4 mile strip.
I wonder how fast this thing will be in the quarter mile? Seriously, it will hit top speed after what, 40 or so seconds it said...
Would be interesting to see if a regular internal combustion engine would be more efficient in getting to the 200 to 300 mph barrier faster.
Although, I'm sure, it could be made to beat an IC engine, if top speed wasn't the primary concern. I'd LOVE to see Big Daddy Garlitz or Cha Cha come back and race this thing in a quarter mile, vs. the rocket car.
Having suffered a shredded tire in a race car (I used to race Mustangs, late model Fox bodied cars, culminating in a 460 powered fuel / nitrous injected big block), I'd LOVE to know the tire technology.
Shoot, getting tires to stay together at 175 MPH is no small feat. 1000MPH even for a mile or three, would be a SERIOUS beating on them.
Anyone know who / what type of tires they are using?
I would think the distance, white balance, color balance, etc. would all make a difference in the hashes generated. I mean, a difference of zoom levels on the two cameras, you taking a picture of "jane" from 4 inches away farther (or a quarter inch, depending on the resolution of the camera) could cause a completely different hash to be created (I would hope).
There is enough difference in each CCD or other type of camera to cause confusion in that...
Maybe not enough confusion to where another program couldn't figure out most of what was being hashed, but still..... It wouldn't be as simple, since I'm sure pixel placement would play a bit in the making of the hash.
In my humble opinion (and those of a Mil-Spec standards lab, whom is the people that influenced my purchases):
Tektronix for scopes. Fluke for any metering HP for frequency counters.
Anything less, is, well.... Less.
Yes, you pay for them, but..
And the other brands you mentioned, probably just as good. I'd say, go to Fry's (they actually have some setup, here in SoCal) or your local electronics shop, and find the scope that has the interface you like. Bring a small sig generator to be able to play with the devices (a simple two or three function audio gen will work fine, you just want to see which one has the "better" interface for you).
Hope that helps.... It's what I use.
--Toll_Free, the electronics geek trucking company owner that hits walls on a motorcycle:)~
"Part of the reason for slow interest may also be that T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network won't be up and running in many cities until the end of the year."
Yeah, I believe that... I'm at AT&T customer, and they STILL don't have 3G everywhere.
The only reason 3G would be a barrier is, because, the people buying the G1 is people who care (techies).
Google launched a cool product, but alas, it's going to be something that is trendy, to the tech-geeks. It won't steal Apple's clientele away for a multitude of reasons, notwithstanding the first one that about punches you in the face? There is no reason to "upgrade". It doesn't go any faster, it doesn't do much the Apple phone doesn't, and so on and so forth.
Why drop 300+ on an IPhone, and 3 months later, drop another few hundred on the G1? And change carriers.
Google was late to the party, and all the good lookin chicks are taken (customers). The only ones left are the guys here, bitching about this and that (which includes me) in dealing with the IPhone.
Besides, I like my HTC Wizard too much to
a. drop my contract with AT&T b. Figure out a way to move all my data over c. figure out a way, if it exists, to move all my "notes" and other MS Windows Mobile proprietary stuff d. Enter into ANOTHER contract with a carrier I dunno if they work where I live (I live in the sticks) e. I don't "have" to have linux on everything I own. If MS WinMobile works for me (and it does), then why spend hundreds more to be "open source"... I thought one of the main reasons for open source was to keep costs down, as well. Having to purchase hardware so I can be open source, well, doesn't really bode well with me.
Anywho, heres to hoping Android can be ported to some existing smartphone handsets. I'd LOVE to try it, but can't justify spending hundreds of dollars, just to try it.
No, I completely understand why it doesn't work, your condescending shithead attitude notwithstanding.
My point still remains, and is still valid. Until it "just works", it will be a PITA.
Just like Novell Client32. Sheesh, what a clusterfuck that was, as well.
And you're right, I dunno about heterogenous environments. My last job had AS/400s, Novell boxes, Wintel boxes and Linux. Truly, we didn't do anything to get things to interact with each other, did we? Not to mention, over 150 remote locations.
I was going to respond again, but figured, my point was made in my response to the guy above you...
And again, I'll check into that.
I can't wait for it to just "work", though. No adding anything, no having to configure anything. Just make it like installing win server (insert version here), and it will work. No installing other authentication mechanisms or anything else. Just install, configure your Lusers, and it works.
(I know, the proprietariness of SMB isn't linux's fault, it's MS's.... Not bashing linux, or trolling, as AC claimed above. If you want simplicity and workingness (that a word lol), then it should "just work"... IE, when SMB becomes as ubiquitous as USB, it will be nice:) )
Natively, without another method (kerberos), you have to use unencrypted passwords.
That was my point. If it just >>worked, it would be better.
My biggest problem with Linux is interoperability. Yes, it's there, but you ALWAYS seem to have to enable SOMETHING else.
Hopefully, with this, you just install samba, configure your users, and that's it. Nothing else has to be added, changed or anything else.
It's not like you have to set up a different authentication schema to use a MS Server share on Win2k, do you? For linux to get a stronger foothold in the enterprise (and to a limited extent, the home network), it needs to be a little easier to get it to operate with the other operating systems... (I'm NOT saying this is Linux's fault, I'm hoping that MS decides to open the protocol up a bit more on the authentication side).
If MS is truly working with Samba to get it 100 percent, what I'd REALLY like to see (and I won't believe they ARE working with SMB until then) is non-encrypted passwords.
SHARE the SMB password system, make it available, so not every friggin windows machine has to do unencrypted passwords across the network to access SAMBA shares / printers / whatever.
That's always been my BIGGEST stumbling block. Linux is touted as being so secure, but then it has to use unencrypted passwords to chat with the desktop clients for sharing.
I KNOW it's an MS problem (their authentications schemas are proprietary), but if they claim to be trying for interoperability (which, they probably are), this was / is my biggest hurdle to accepting *nix in a windows shop.
1. Thanks for the congrats. I attribute my survival to actually, at the last split second, jumping off the bike. My RT leg was caught between the bike and the construction barricade, causing me to get, literally, bent over a barrel (those orange barrels you see in construction areas). That's what caused the damage to my shoulder and hip. Otherwise, I'd be dead.
2. I grew up going to Revolucion every weekend. San Diego, born and raised. At least half my relationships have been with hispanic women, so anyone that calls me racist is full of shit themselves. Words are just that. Also, most of my friends are black or mexican (http://www.bigradios.com/tollfree Check out the shootout competition pages and see).
3. Yes, NAFTA brought trucks into our border regions. I have seen, literally, trucks from Ensanada at the Castaic Pilot Station (near Magic Mountain, a little north of the Scalehouse on I-5) that would scrape their bumpers coming in. THEY ACTUALLY HEATED THE FRONT SPRINGS OF THE FUCKING TRUCK TO LOWER IT. Yeah, it looked really cool. Wonder about the tensile rating of the friggin springs.
4. I have seen trucks with MX (mexican registered, with FMCSA) numbers as far as Oregon, right before my accident, so they are going farther and farther.... Although California is typically where they end up.
5. SUPPOSEDLY, they are brought to the same standards as "American" trucks. See #3.
6. They do have "spot inspections". All you need is a CB radio to get around these. Yes, it is illegal to attempt to circumvent any scale house or inspection, but if your illegally operating, I'm sure you will not try to circumvent getting caught. This, typically, is how it happens.
I have friends that work the Mojave scalehouse on highay 58. It's one of the busiest trucking corridors in the US. The scale is always open, unless it's for maintenance. So much, in fact, that there is SLEEPING areas for the employees, so they don't have to close the scales ever (unless for weather).
It's insane, what NAFTA did to trucking, and the transport industry as a whole. The only people still making the same amount is the railroads.
A lot of drivers also operate illegally by running the same types of trucks I have, 'hotshots'... Duallies with BIG trailers. Safe, as safe as anything else (we are weight limited, based upon a number of things, but you can only haul X amount of pounds if unloaded you weight Y amount of pounds... It is formulary). Since your in California (not sure where), next time you drive by a scale, take a look at the sign that says "NO PICKUPS ALLOWED". lol. There is the legal loophole. 33K pounds running down the road, and they don't WANT them to scale.
The guys in bigrigs just go around the scale. The scale mentioned above, you can get around fairly easily by just taking a VERY simple detour. I'm not sure why, but most of the people you see taking that detour are pulling produce, and I've not run across a SINGLE one that was on Channel 19, 17 or 15 (the local trucking channels in the So Cal area)... They are on Channel 7 or channel 5... Spanish only channels. I am fluent, and most of the talk on them is either where the best looking pussy is, or where the inspections have been spotted.
Shame, really. The west is becoming 3rd world because of a class of people (not a race, a class) that are bringing it down to the level they are used to. 15 years ago, my x pa in law would be able to claim between 10 and 30K dollars in profit, a month, from his car hauling business. 5 years post NAFTA, his business is closed. He stopped pulling funds from it the last year, and it caused him to personally go bancrupt. He figured eventually they would crack down. Now, cracking down is called racial profiling, since most of the people operating illegally are ethnic of some sort or other.
--Toll_Free
(also, it bears mentioning, most of the "other" guys (Pakistani, Arab, etc. (middle east, or south or central Asia) are NOT operating illegally. So, it's not a racial thing, it's a race thing. People in Mexico don't respect the law or the laws there, why should they just because they crossed that line in the sand just south of San Diego?)
According to John T.M. Lyles, an engineer who works on megawatt and bigger amps and oscillators for the federal government at an installation in New Mexico, it takes > 8 KV to emit xrays that would be measurable or damaging.
contesting.com amps reflector has a nice email exchange on it, as does the Yahoo.com ham amps reflector.
NO, not every tube will emit xrays. EMITTING xrays is what's dangerous. Just because a ceramic / metal triode / tetrode is GENERATING them, if it doesn't escape the envelope, it's not emitting them.
Kind of like your microwave. It shouldn't be emitting microwaves, but it creates them.
Hope that makes sense, or at least makes my point.
lol. Spoken like someone that came here on a boat, probably from Cuba, or somewhere else (to make a racial slur, from your moniker here).
Anywho, 10 years ago, it was a VERY profitable venture, operating a trucking company.
NAFTA broke a lot of the companies that where making a LOT of money, especially on the border states.
Most places don't CARE how the freight gets there, just as long as it DOES. Legal or not, if it arrives, who cares.
Then you have the current problem with oil prices. Diesel prices are exhorbinant, and unruly. You can't CREATE gasoline without having diesel as a byproduct. Bottom line, oil companies have figured out how much they want to make, per mile, and are charging accordingly (as has the other fuel industries. Ethanol doesn't produce as much power per liter / gallon as diesel / gasoline. AMAZINGLY, the cost difference reflects that. About 30 percent less power, takes about 20 to 30 percent more fuel to get somewhere, and it costs, MAGICALLY, about 30 percent less.
It has nothing to do with the business model. It has EVERYTHING to do with the people operating illegally. Legal companies are still making a profit, but the smaller businesses that need a larger margin are getting shoved out of that business because of the people operating like the article is describing (I've seen MC #s on trucks that don't go back to the original companies, nor even to the state the company is licensed in!!!).
People shipping 40K pounds generally don't fall into these traps, as it's pretty hard to do in interstate commerce, as most states ports of entry will flag you as you come into their state, if you don't have a license (or tag, as it's commonly called) in that state. If you only operate INTRASTATE (in your own state), then it's pretty hard to get caught.
Most of the guys I know that are getting hit really hard are "hotshot" drivers. Duallies, 1 1/2 ton, 2 ton chassis with large gooseneck style trailers. These are called "expediters", because typically, you put your load on that truck and pay a premium because it needs to be there AT THIS TIME (think of this business model as what FedEx started as.... WHICH THEY DID). They get to charge a premium, because you are doing a premium service. Half the time, your trailer isn't 100 percent full. Hence, you make all your money on that load, instead of a full trailer. Since your way under weight, nobody flags you. The illegal operators figured this out, and started hotshots like crazy.
Big Rigs will sit until they get full, and it isn't hard to do. That way, they make money, too. Big Rigs are more apt to get pulled in, scaled and inspected than a hotshot.
It's a problem (at least, here in the 11 western states) that is VERY bad. Don't believe me, or think I'm being racist, do some simple searches on some of the loadboards. Do some searches on OOIDA.org. USHIP.com, stopillegaltrucking.com or the other "load boards".. (disclaimer, lots of them won't let you into their forums without registering, but that's what google's cache is nice for:) ).
Yup, I'm racist. Against anyone operating illegally, without authority or insurance. Because if they kill my kids or me or my wife, I can't even recover the cost of the equipment, since they don't have insurance.
The biggest ones I like are the guys that try to work for me that FAX me a copy of their auto insurance, claiming it's 'JUST AS GOOD, MANG' as my commercial liability policy. UH HUH, thats why they AREN'T COMMERCIAL policies, huh?
Maybe on the East Coast it isn't Mexicans, but out here, California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon (limited, they get Canadians as well), Colorado and Washington...... They have SERIOUS problems with illegal operators, and according to the websites dedicated to trucking, it's typically people of hispanic descent.
Like it, hate it, doesn't matter. Statistics are what count.
--Toll_Free
(similiar to calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant". BULLSHIT, illegal should be called illegal. Euphamisms are for pussies.)
Where, pray tell, did you come up with the 99.99 percent number.
Because, out here, it's more like 50 percent of the local inTRAstate drivers are hispanic.
And Channel 5 news in LA (KTLA) reported that over 50 percent of the drivers stopped, hispanic, where operating illegally. (Long Beach Port Authority).
I'm not politically correct, and don't care if you want me to be. I will talk the way I feel, and if it offends you, then so be it.
You need a brokers authority to do this in the United States.
Since they didn't have the authority, and they where, in fact, scamming others by not paying them after they contracted the load, it is, in fact, a scam.
Yes, I am racist. Towards ANYONE operating illegally.
Unfortunately, it's usually either Mexicans (I'm in California, So Cal, to be closer), or Russians.
Learn to read the premise of a story, not find a fault with it.
Yeah, I'm racist. Racist against anyone else fucking me or fucking me over. Get over it. I'm not here to make friends in a thread about someone screwing me over.
Point taken, but I'm not about to change my verbage to make others happy.
Facts is facts, and the facts are (according to OOIDA.org and the FMCSA) that the mexicans running trucks here are, for the most part, illegal.
Don't believe me, check into the Long Beach Port Authority and CHP.... Hell, almost one third of the trucks checked where supposed to have 18 wheels touching the ground. Of all the people found operating illegally (using 4 tires, instead of the 8 needed on the trailer), all where "HISPANIC".
Long Beach Port Authority now inspects people, and Matson Shipping Lines actually requires a special permit to haul ANYTHING of theirs, as well as an inspection before and after you pick up a load.
I assume you were doing heavy permit hauling since the weight limit on the U.S. national highway system is 80,000 pounds.
No, I own a hotshot company. 33K pounds and less.
I was talking of someone operating illegally, as indicated on ooida.org.
And although you can go up to 80K pounds INTERSTATE, INTRASTATE commerce (within the state lines) is governed by the state DOT.
IE, you can go up 100K pounds in Oregon, and their length laws are different.
Each state has their own operating laws. California is a bunch of bitches, considering they say it's to keep the highways "nice", and the highways here SUCK, for lack of better terms.
I have, in the past, hauled heavy permits. I have friends that have hauled close to a million pounds. Takes LOTS of dollies (those things like you see the BIG cranes going down the road using)... I've seen on highway 80, over 150 tires on the road, both sides of the freeway shut down, and state trooper / highway patrol units escorting. They usually have 1 "control" truck, and many other trucks that either push or pull the load. At least 1 "spare" truck is also in the lineup so that they can keep under way if something happens.
Gotta keep them highways open. It's wierd, though, to see some HUGE tank coming at you, with a bunch of trucks pulling it, and they take every offramp they can. The freeway will be stopped RIGHT before an overpass, the truck coming at you exits, comes back on the entrance, and you get to go past them while they are exited.
Why didn't you just press the kill switch or pull in the clutch?
Kawasaki 750 turbo motorcycle. Gets moving PRETTY quick, especially when I found out the original owner had done the "race mode" modification of changing two wires on the ECU. Turns off the wastegate on the turbo, so basically, as much boost as that little hairdryer would spool, is what I was running at. From noticing the problem to the accident was all of about 2 seconds. Not a whole lot of time.
Went from 50 to 130 in about a couple carlengths.
Was trying to get the throttle unstuck, as I was on a straightaway.
Problem is / was, when I tried to "unstick" the throttle, the right grip came off, instead of "unsticking" the throttle. My right hand fell, because of the imbalance, my left hand lurched forward, and in the instant that happened, the left hand pushed the bike into a HARD rt hand turn.
I ran straight into a construction barricade, thrown > 100 yards down an embankment. Rt leg in 4 pieces, triple compound fracture (2 of the "compounds" consisted of nothing more than bone frags that shot out, one at my knee, one under my ankle), shattered rt hip and a broken rt shoulder.
The ONLY reason I'm alive is that an ambulance SAW the accident, and had lifeflight in the air before they got to me.
If anyone attending Stanford is reading this, please give Dr. Desmund my regards, or, more to the point, the entire "red" ortho team from UC Stanford. They brought me back, as well as lifeflight. I owe them my life, as well as so do my kids.
Funny thing, I don't remember as well as I used to lol.
--Toll_Free
Disclaimer: I have ridden, this year, 20 years. When California enacted the helmet law, I parked my bike. Has been non-opped for nearly 10 years now. I HATED helmets. I still think it shouldn't be mandatory, but thank you that it was, otherwise I NEVER would have had one on. Helmets can, and DO, save lives.
With the work Ive done with high power vaccum tubes (> 30 Kilowatts output), it has become standard practice for Eimac and other manufacturers to list dangers for them.
eg., the 4-1000 tetrode, with > 12 KV on the anode, will emit xrays. As will almost ANY other tetrode or triode in existance.
I'd say the person who wrote the article didn't understand that He'd need THAT much anode voltage to get the tube to emit.
That being said, I'd almost have to say that the scotch tape being used to emit the XRays would be doing so because of a HUGE electrostatic (static electricity) charge.
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Thanks for the info....
Land speed record cars are interesting, if you're into that sort of thing. If not, then I'd suspect it's boring, overrated, and a waste of money.
However, at one time, 75 mph was a land speed record. Now, it's considered the residential speed limit by some people (sarcasm intended, but not totally off base) :)
Again, thanks for the input.
--Toll_Free
Was this:
People in the UK either don't read the contracts they sign, don't question things they don't understand (the fine print), and just sign, so they can get on the internet.
Same thing as the mortgage scandal on this side of the pond.
I'm not into government intervention.... I'm into an educated populace. If people actually READ what the FUCK they are signing, people wouldn't be signing these contracts. If enough people don't sign on to the crap, the companies go out of business.
Other companies will step up, if it shows enough profit to be made, to allow people to actually use their pipes. Yes, you might have to spend a bit more, but in the long run, more people are happy, and companies like the ones mentioned in the article would be, losing.... Business, customers, etc.
Simple, people, quit being sheeple and letting companies push you around by YOUR BEING IGNORANT.
I read my contracts before I sign them. I'd be a fucking idiot not to. If I don't agree with something, I scratch it out, and submit it. If it comes back changed again, I have to agree to it. If the company doesn't send anything back changed, my contract stands. Doesn't mean I'll win in a court of law everytime, but it does mean I've actually STUCK TO MY GUNS and actually decided to THINK for myself.
Seriously, READ THE FUCKING PAPERS YOUR SIGNING. Simple, to the point, and won't happen, since that would require people to be literate :(
The general populace is stupid. New news at 11. :(
--Toll_Free
So, basically, they have taken what I said above to heart, and already "fixed" it.
Not really being into Biometrics, thanks for the input. Makes sense now, and I can see how it could work.
--Toll_Free
Like most dragsters, it only has to be able to drive off the course. Most top fuel dragsters only turn SLIGHTLY, so they can exit the 1/8th or 1/4 mile strip.
I wonder how fast this thing will be in the quarter mile? Seriously, it will hit top speed after what, 40 or so seconds it said...
Would be interesting to see if a regular internal combustion engine would be more efficient in getting to the 200 to 300 mph barrier faster.
Although, I'm sure, it could be made to beat an IC engine, if top speed wasn't the primary concern. I'd LOVE to see Big Daddy Garlitz or Cha Cha come back and race this thing in a quarter mile, vs. the rocket car.
--Toll_Free
Having suffered a shredded tire in a race car (I used to race Mustangs, late model Fox bodied cars, culminating in a 460 powered fuel / nitrous injected big block), I'd LOVE to know the tire technology.
Shoot, getting tires to stay together at 175 MPH is no small feat. 1000MPH even for a mile or three, would be a SERIOUS beating on them.
Anyone know who / what type of tires they are using?
--Toll_Free
I agree with you, but see a flaw in your logic:
I would think the distance, white balance, color balance, etc. would all make a difference in the hashes generated. I mean, a difference of zoom levels on the two cameras, you taking a picture of "jane" from 4 inches away farther (or a quarter inch, depending on the resolution of the camera) could cause a completely different hash to be created (I would hope).
There is enough difference in each CCD or other type of camera to cause confusion in that...
Maybe not enough confusion to where another program couldn't figure out most of what was being hashed, but still..... It wouldn't be as simple, since I'm sure pixel placement would play a bit in the making of the hash.
Interesting... To say the least.
--Toll_Free
In my humble opinion (and those of a Mil-Spec standards lab, whom is the people that influenced my purchases):
Tektronix for scopes.
Fluke for any metering
HP for frequency counters.
Anything less, is, well.... Less.
Yes, you pay for them, but..
And the other brands you mentioned, probably just as good. I'd say, go to Fry's (they actually have some setup, here in SoCal) or your local electronics shop, and find the scope that has the interface you like. Bring a small sig generator to be able to play with the devices (a simple two or three function audio gen will work fine, you just want to see which one has the "better" interface for you).
Hope that helps.... It's what I use.
--Toll_Free, the electronics geek trucking company owner that hits walls on a motorcycle :)~
"Part of the reason for slow interest may also be that T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network won't be up and running in many cities until the end of the year."
Yeah, I believe that... I'm at AT&T customer, and they STILL don't have 3G everywhere.
The only reason 3G would be a barrier is, because, the people buying the G1 is people who care (techies).
Google launched a cool product, but alas, it's going to be something that is trendy, to the tech-geeks. It won't steal Apple's clientele away for a multitude of reasons, notwithstanding the first one that about punches you in the face? There is no reason to "upgrade". It doesn't go any faster, it doesn't do much the Apple phone doesn't, and so on and so forth.
Why drop 300+ on an IPhone, and 3 months later, drop another few hundred on the G1? And change carriers.
Google was late to the party, and all the good lookin chicks are taken (customers). The only ones left are the guys here, bitching about this and that (which includes me) in dealing with the IPhone.
Besides, I like my HTC Wizard too much to
a. drop my contract with AT&T
b. Figure out a way to move all my data over
c. figure out a way, if it exists, to move all my "notes" and other MS Windows Mobile proprietary stuff
d. Enter into ANOTHER contract with a carrier I dunno if they work where I live (I live in the sticks)
e. I don't "have" to have linux on everything I own. If MS WinMobile works for me (and it does), then why spend hundreds more to be "open source"... I thought one of the main reasons for open source was to keep costs down, as well. Having to purchase hardware so I can be open source, well, doesn't really bode well with me.
Anywho, heres to hoping Android can be ported to some existing smartphone handsets. I'd LOVE to try it, but can't justify spending hundreds of dollars, just to try it.
--Toll_Free
No, I completely understand why it doesn't work, your condescending shithead attitude notwithstanding.
My point still remains, and is still valid. Until it "just works", it will be a PITA.
Just like Novell Client32. Sheesh, what a clusterfuck that was, as well.
And you're right, I dunno about heterogenous environments. My last job had AS/400s, Novell boxes, Wintel boxes and Linux. Truly, we didn't do anything to get things to interact with each other, did we? Not to mention, over 150 remote locations.
--Toll_Free
Thanks for the tip.
I was going to respond again, but figured, my point was made in my response to the guy above you...
And again, I'll check into that.
I can't wait for it to just "work", though. No adding anything, no having to configure anything. Just make it like installing win server (insert version here), and it will work. No installing other authentication mechanisms or anything else. Just install, configure your Lusers, and it works.
(I know, the proprietariness of SMB isn't linux's fault, it's MS's.... Not bashing linux, or trolling, as AC claimed above. If you want simplicity and workingness (that a word lol), then it should "just work"... IE, when SMB becomes as ubiquitous as USB, it will be nice :) )
--Toll_Free
No, it wasn't a troll.
Natively, without another method (kerberos), you have to use unencrypted passwords.
That was my point. If it just >>worked, it would be better.
My biggest problem with Linux is interoperability. Yes, it's there, but you ALWAYS seem to have to enable SOMETHING else.
Hopefully, with this, you just install samba, configure your users, and that's it. Nothing else has to be added, changed or anything else.
It's not like you have to set up a different authentication schema to use a MS Server share on Win2k, do you? For linux to get a stronger foothold in the enterprise (and to a limited extent, the home network), it needs to be a little easier to get it to operate with the other operating systems... (I'm NOT saying this is Linux's fault, I'm hoping that MS decides to open the protocol up a bit more on the authentication side).
--Toll_Free
Due to NDA's, MS Engineers are probably not being helpful without management.
Whether or not management CONTINUES to allow them to be helpful, remains to be seen.
You DID bring up a good point, though.
--Toll_Free
If MS is truly working with Samba to get it 100 percent, what I'd REALLY like to see (and I won't believe they ARE working with SMB until then) is non-encrypted passwords.
SHARE the SMB password system, make it available, so not every friggin windows machine has to do unencrypted passwords across the network to access SAMBA shares / printers / whatever.
That's always been my BIGGEST stumbling block. Linux is touted as being so secure, but then it has to use unencrypted passwords to chat with the desktop clients for sharing.
I KNOW it's an MS problem (their authentications schemas are proprietary), but if they claim to be trying for interoperability (which, they probably are), this was / is my biggest hurdle to accepting *nix in a windows shop.
--Toll_Free
1. Thanks for the congrats. I attribute my survival to actually, at the last split second, jumping off the bike. My RT leg was caught between the bike and the construction barricade, causing me to get, literally, bent over a barrel (those orange barrels you see in construction areas). That's what caused the damage to my shoulder and hip. Otherwise, I'd be dead.
2. I grew up going to Revolucion every weekend. San Diego, born and raised. At least half my relationships have been with hispanic women, so anyone that calls me racist is full of shit themselves. Words are just that. Also, most of my friends are black or mexican (http://www.bigradios.com/tollfree Check out the shootout competition pages and see).
3. Yes, NAFTA brought trucks into our border regions. I have seen, literally, trucks from Ensanada at the Castaic Pilot Station (near Magic Mountain, a little north of the Scalehouse on I-5) that would scrape their bumpers coming in. THEY ACTUALLY HEATED THE FRONT SPRINGS OF THE FUCKING TRUCK TO LOWER IT. Yeah, it looked really cool. Wonder about the tensile rating of the friggin springs.
4. I have seen trucks with MX (mexican registered, with FMCSA) numbers as far as Oregon, right before my accident, so they are going farther and farther.... Although California is typically where they end up.
5. SUPPOSEDLY, they are brought to the same standards as "American" trucks. See #3.
6. They do have "spot inspections". All you need is a CB radio to get around these. Yes, it is illegal to attempt to circumvent any scale house or inspection, but if your illegally operating, I'm sure you will not try to circumvent getting caught. This, typically, is how it happens.
I have friends that work the Mojave scalehouse on highay 58. It's one of the busiest trucking corridors in the US. The scale is always open, unless it's for maintenance. So much, in fact, that there is SLEEPING areas for the employees, so they don't have to close the scales ever (unless for weather).
It's insane, what NAFTA did to trucking, and the transport industry as a whole. The only people still making the same amount is the railroads.
A lot of drivers also operate illegally by running the same types of trucks I have, 'hotshots'... Duallies with BIG trailers. Safe, as safe as anything else (we are weight limited, based upon a number of things, but you can only haul X amount of pounds if unloaded you weight Y amount of pounds... It is formulary). Since your in California (not sure where), next time you drive by a scale, take a look at the sign that says "NO PICKUPS ALLOWED". lol. There is the legal loophole. 33K pounds running down the road, and they don't WANT them to scale.
The guys in bigrigs just go around the scale. The scale mentioned above, you can get around fairly easily by just taking a VERY simple detour. I'm not sure why, but most of the people you see taking that detour are pulling produce, and I've not run across a SINGLE one that was on Channel 19, 17 or 15 (the local trucking channels in the So Cal area)... They are on Channel 7 or channel 5... Spanish only channels. I am fluent, and most of the talk on them is either where the best looking pussy is, or where the inspections have been spotted.
Shame, really. The west is becoming 3rd world because of a class of people (not a race, a class) that are bringing it down to the level they are used to. 15 years ago, my x pa in law would be able to claim between 10 and 30K dollars in profit, a month, from his car hauling business. 5 years post NAFTA, his business is closed. He stopped pulling funds from it the last year, and it caused him to personally go bancrupt. He figured eventually they would crack down. Now, cracking down is called racial profiling, since most of the people operating illegally are ethnic of some sort or other.
--Toll_Free
(also, it bears mentioning, most of the "other" guys (Pakistani, Arab, etc. (middle east, or south or central Asia) are NOT operating illegally. So, it's not a racial thing, it's a race thing. People in Mexico don't respect the law or the laws there, why should they just because they crossed that line in the sand just south of San Diego?)
According to John T.M. Lyles, an engineer who works on megawatt and bigger amps and oscillators for the federal government at an installation in New Mexico, it takes > 8 KV to emit xrays that would be measurable or damaging.
contesting.com amps reflector has a nice email exchange on it, as does the Yahoo.com ham amps reflector.
NO, not every tube will emit xrays. EMITTING xrays is what's dangerous. Just because a ceramic / metal triode / tetrode is GENERATING them, if it doesn't escape the envelope, it's not emitting them.
Kind of like your microwave. It shouldn't be emitting microwaves, but it creates them.
Hope that makes sense, or at least makes my point.
--Toll_Free
lol. Spoken like someone that came here on a boat, probably from Cuba, or somewhere else (to make a racial slur, from your moniker here).
Anywho, 10 years ago, it was a VERY profitable venture, operating a trucking company.
NAFTA broke a lot of the companies that where making a LOT of money, especially on the border states.
Most places don't CARE how the freight gets there, just as long as it DOES. Legal or not, if it arrives, who cares.
Then you have the current problem with oil prices. Diesel prices are exhorbinant, and unruly. You can't CREATE gasoline without having diesel as a byproduct. Bottom line, oil companies have figured out how much they want to make, per mile, and are charging accordingly (as has the other fuel industries. Ethanol doesn't produce as much power per liter / gallon as diesel / gasoline. AMAZINGLY, the cost difference reflects that. About 30 percent less power, takes about 20 to 30 percent more fuel to get somewhere, and it costs, MAGICALLY, about 30 percent less.
It has nothing to do with the business model. It has EVERYTHING to do with the people operating illegally. Legal companies are still making a profit, but the smaller businesses that need a larger margin are getting shoved out of that business because of the people operating like the article is describing (I've seen MC #s on trucks that don't go back to the original companies, nor even to the state the company is licensed in!!!).
People shipping 40K pounds generally don't fall into these traps, as it's pretty hard to do in interstate commerce, as most states ports of entry will flag you as you come into their state, if you don't have a license (or tag, as it's commonly called) in that state. If you only operate INTRASTATE (in your own state), then it's pretty hard to get caught.
Most of the guys I know that are getting hit really hard are "hotshot" drivers. Duallies, 1 1/2 ton, 2 ton chassis with large gooseneck style trailers. These are called "expediters", because typically, you put your load on that truck and pay a premium because it needs to be there AT THIS TIME (think of this business model as what FedEx started as.... WHICH THEY DID). They get to charge a premium, because you are doing a premium service. Half the time, your trailer isn't 100 percent full. Hence, you make all your money on that load, instead of a full trailer. Since your way under weight, nobody flags you. The illegal operators figured this out, and started hotshots like crazy.
Big Rigs will sit until they get full, and it isn't hard to do. That way, they make money, too. Big Rigs are more apt to get pulled in, scaled and inspected than a hotshot.
It's a problem (at least, here in the 11 western states) that is VERY bad. Don't believe me, or think I'm being racist, do some simple searches on some of the loadboards. Do some searches on OOIDA.org. USHIP.com, stopillegaltrucking.com or the other "load boards".. (disclaimer, lots of them won't let you into their forums without registering, but that's what google's cache is nice for :) ).
Yup, I'm racist. Against anyone operating illegally, without authority or insurance. Because if they kill my kids or me or my wife, I can't even recover the cost of the equipment, since they don't have insurance.
The biggest ones I like are the guys that try to work for me that FAX me a copy of their auto insurance, claiming it's 'JUST AS GOOD, MANG' as my commercial liability policy. UH HUH, thats why they AREN'T COMMERCIAL policies, huh?
Maybe on the East Coast it isn't Mexicans, but out here, California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon (limited, they get Canadians as well), Colorado and Washington...... They have SERIOUS problems with illegal operators, and according to the websites dedicated to trucking, it's typically people of hispanic descent.
Like it, hate it, doesn't matter. Statistics are what count.
--Toll_Free
(similiar to calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant". BULLSHIT, illegal should be called illegal. Euphamisms are for pussies.)
1. A lot of trucks are moved by train now, and only locally on the roads.
2. A lot of load boards are already doing this.
--Toll_Free
OK, I'll bite into your numbers game.
Where, pray tell, did you come up with the 99.99 percent number.
Because, out here, it's more like 50 percent of the local inTRAstate drivers are hispanic.
And Channel 5 news in LA (KTLA) reported that over 50 percent of the drivers stopped, hispanic, where operating illegally. (Long Beach Port Authority).
I'm not politically correct, and don't care if you want me to be. I will talk the way I feel, and if it offends you, then so be it.
Anywho,
--Toll_Free
Reading the affidavit, they where actually recieving less for teh loads than they where promising to pay.
IE, they would agree to move a load for 3400 dollars. Then sub it to someone else for 4K dollars.
Kind of hard to make money that way, eh?
--Toll_Free
It's only legal if you have a brokers authority.
You need a brokers authority to do this in the United States.
Since they didn't have the authority, and they where, in fact, scamming others by not paying them after they contracted the load, it is, in fact, a scam.
--Toll_Free
Racist or not, the fact remains.
Yes, I am racist. Towards ANYONE operating illegally.
Unfortunately, it's usually either Mexicans (I'm in California, So Cal, to be closer), or Russians.
Learn to read the premise of a story, not find a fault with it.
Yeah, I'm racist. Racist against anyone else fucking me or fucking me over. Get over it. I'm not here to make friends in a thread about someone screwing me over.
Point taken, but I'm not about to change my verbage to make others happy.
Facts is facts, and the facts are (according to OOIDA.org and the FMCSA) that the mexicans running trucks here are, for the most part, illegal.
Don't believe me, check into the Long Beach Port Authority and CHP.... Hell, almost one third of the trucks checked where supposed to have 18 wheels touching the ground. Of all the people found operating illegally (using 4 tires, instead of the 8 needed on the trailer), all where "HISPANIC".
Long Beach Port Authority now inspects people, and Matson Shipping Lines actually requires a special permit to haul ANYTHING of theirs, as well as an inspection before and after you pick up a load.
A spade is a spade, even if you call it a shovel.
--Toll_Free
I assume you were doing heavy permit hauling since the weight limit on the U.S. national highway system is 80,000 pounds.
No, I own a hotshot company. 33K pounds and less.
I was talking of someone operating illegally, as indicated on ooida.org.
And although you can go up to 80K pounds INTERSTATE, INTRASTATE commerce (within the state lines) is governed by the state DOT.
IE, you can go up 100K pounds in Oregon, and their length laws are different.
Each state has their own operating laws. California is a bunch of bitches, considering they say it's to keep the highways "nice", and the highways here SUCK, for lack of better terms.
I have, in the past, hauled heavy permits. I have friends that have hauled close to a million pounds. Takes LOTS of dollies (those things like you see the BIG cranes going down the road using)... I've seen on highway 80, over 150 tires on the road, both sides of the freeway shut down, and state trooper / highway patrol units escorting. They usually have 1 "control" truck, and many other trucks that either push or pull the load. At least 1 "spare" truck is also in the lineup so that they can keep under way if something happens.
Gotta keep them highways open. It's wierd, though, to see some HUGE tank coming at you, with a bunch of trucks pulling it, and they take every offramp they can. The freeway will be stopped RIGHT before an overpass, the truck coming at you exits, comes back on the entrance, and you get to go past them while they are exited.
--Toll_Free
Why didn't you just press the kill switch or pull in the clutch?
Kawasaki 750 turbo motorcycle. Gets moving PRETTY quick, especially when I found out the original owner had done the "race mode" modification of changing two wires on the ECU. Turns off the wastegate on the turbo, so basically, as much boost as that little hairdryer would spool, is what I was running at. From noticing the problem to the accident was all of about 2 seconds. Not a whole lot of time.
Went from 50 to 130 in about a couple carlengths.
Was trying to get the throttle unstuck, as I was on a straightaway.
Problem is / was, when I tried to "unstick" the throttle, the right grip came off, instead of "unsticking" the throttle. My right hand fell, because of the imbalance, my left hand lurched forward, and in the instant that happened, the left hand pushed the bike into a HARD rt hand turn.
I ran straight into a construction barricade, thrown > 100 yards down an embankment. Rt leg in 4 pieces, triple compound fracture (2 of the "compounds" consisted of nothing more than bone frags that shot out, one at my knee, one under my ankle), shattered rt hip and a broken rt shoulder.
The ONLY reason I'm alive is that an ambulance SAW the accident, and had lifeflight in the air before they got to me.
If anyone attending Stanford is reading this, please give Dr. Desmund my regards, or, more to the point, the entire "red" ortho team from UC Stanford. They brought me back, as well as lifeflight. I owe them my life, as well as so do my kids.
Funny thing, I don't remember as well as I used to lol.
--Toll_Free
Disclaimer: I have ridden, this year, 20 years. When California enacted the helmet law, I parked my bike. Has been non-opped for nearly 10 years now. I HATED helmets. I still think it shouldn't be mandatory, but thank you that it was, otherwise I NEVER would have had one on. Helmets can, and DO, save lives.
With the work Ive done with high power vaccum tubes (> 30 Kilowatts output), it has become standard practice for Eimac and other manufacturers to list dangers for them.
eg., the 4-1000 tetrode, with > 12 KV on the anode, will emit xrays. As will almost ANY other tetrode or triode in existance.
I'd say the person who wrote the article didn't understand that He'd need THAT much anode voltage to get the tube to emit.
That being said, I'd almost have to say that the scotch tape being used to emit the XRays would be doing so because of a HUGE electrostatic (static electricity) charge.
Most of the tubes I work with are a quarter megawatt can be seen on my old website, http://www.bigradios.com/tollfree
--Toll_Free
There is no hacking. Safersys.org is a website set up by the Federal Motorcarrier Safety Administration for the use of people to check out companies.
Easy as pie, goto safersys, look at a company snapshot, and pick one to screw.
Seems anyone able to use Google or Yahoo search engines could be called a hacker.
The premise of the story is true. The story of hacking is bullshit.
--Toll_Free