I remember my first server system. I was suppose to be the expert (checkle). it was a gateway 233 (super fast for it's time) I had to install an HP suresture, writable CD, and SCSi hardrive. My first problem was what the hell was i thinking customizing a gateway. I had to cut a notch out of the board to ge the tape to fit. the board didn't recognise the SCSI kudoes to adaptec who not only helped me get it working but also gave me a few extra tips. Then I had to set up pllindrome which was backup software it required IPX what teh heck was IPX, needless to say after one sleepless weekend I got it working. My latest server is a Dell 2500 with a custom linux install.
you can pay a anual fee for access to teh site that has interview concert tickets, unreleased music. If this concept was implimented like BonJovi has I think it woudl work. The serial number gives you an exclusive access to the site ( it would finally justify the cost of CD's) then fans could get access to exclusive offerengs thus bring the artists and fan closer. Almost makes me wish I thought of it.
I would be worried about Verizon resell DSL to providers such as Earthlink and provide it customer direct. I have also heard from a Verizon employee that in the near future they plan to offer DSL for $30 i'm not sure if thats an introductury rate or permanent.
2 years ago it costs approx.$1500 to set up an ISDN line in a clients office. thats 128k both directions.
today I just set up another client with two officed about 50 miles from each other with a T1 in both offices plus 6 voice lines each. one T1 is 256 the other 512. plus 16 IP's e-mail and such. If I were to call the local phone company and request this service I would be paying upwards of $1500 however with another company using the same exact lines as teh local company they can do it for $600 a month. why ? simple price fixing companies will always stretch technology as long as people are willing to pay. So even if all this wonderful fiber is available commercially I doubt companies will be willing to provide it to homes. keep in mind this involves trenching all over again. A more realistic option will be wireless with fiber running to each transmition point.
You will always have skeptics, just liek you will always have people who believe in UFO's. I've seen articles about how the mission was a hoax and they are quite convincing. If your going to teb moon bring a drilling rig, set up some experiments. Mount a teliscope, a big reflector dish anything. but dont go just to find some stupid golf balls.
Public sector people may disagree, but I believe if you desire to work in a truly competitive market, where you earn yoru pay, and if you wish to work with the most motivated and motivating (good and bad) people you need to work in the private sector. However if your looking for security then the public sector is best. I have a friend who is a sys admin for a gov facility and his job is so easy, no stress, they are all unionized. And there is never ending breuracracy. If you wish to make any sort of change it has to be approved by ten different commitiees. ten commitees who know nothing about the technology. Where in private sector is driven by demand and performance.
What happened to all that crap about hand eye coordination, and tomorrows kids will have such reflexes due to the constant training on flight sims and driving games. No really i'm not trying to be funny. I know many games that improve your prblem solving and managment (decision ) making skills.
while a freshman in college my roomate purchased the legend of xanth the game. We both then proceeded to skip every class we had until we figured out the game. The books lend themselves very well to RPG games which are very entertaining. Dont know if you all remember the hanging participle. My question is will you be invovled in any projects in the futer with regards to video games. I keep thinking of warcraft but only with Xanth charactors. It would be so much more entertaining. I know this is a little segway from the main topic, but lets get real star office supports all word formats, including formating. The only drawbacks I would see is in the desktop publishing dept. The lack of a Pagemaker or Quark type app.
I remember talking about this in grade school all this dick tracy stuff. I touted it as being impractical and expensive, which it was but in retrospect were these guys ahead of there time or what. Well there is an museum peice for you. Put it right along side the star treck communicators.
I may just be me but there seems to be a much higher emphasis on data than in the past ( I know i'm stating the obvious) our company just went with a telecom Allegience for our phone and Data one T1 split. The cost was suprisingly cheaper than say going SBC for phone and DSL. Concidering they gave us free callign between offices. a Stable connection with 16 IP's and any DNS routing we requested. ie. we could host our own Domain. The point I am getting to when one tried doing this in the past the cost was astronomical. Companies like these Allegience are smaller but growing more aggressive, and better managed. Ofcourse the big telecomes are loosing out. It all comes down to service. Why is it when I ask verizon to drop a T1 in my office there are million different charges and an astronomical fee. Yet another company who owns there own cable can do it for half as much and give me ten times better service. no really i mean it. and I dont work for them either.
Assuming where talking about college or precalc and up. Everyone remebers the old TI-85's Visualizing is the most powerful way to learn. I jsut hope TI doesnt' loose it's foot hold. My old Palm Pilot with 2 megs will draft equations and I can usually find an app to do whatever I want. My question is when do you release MathCAD for Palm OS. no seriously.
I use alot of large format plotters. Right now regarding inkjet Encad and HP seem to be the favorites. Even bulk ink plotters like HP1050 series requires you to purchase an inktank instead of just pouring in more ink. Encad on the other hand sells jugs of milk that you can pour in on the fly even while printing.
I worked for a company making high end thermal printers and the trick to their sales were to force customers to use their inks and substrate. one by placing wierd punch patterns on the paper then patenting it. ofcourse this was played off as a superior punch pattern for accuracy. funny enough when the pattent ran out they left the patter behind. Secondly they constantly changed the firing patterns on the head of the printer so other films wouldn't work or last as long. When customers called up who used other products it was standard to blaim the non brand name film or substrate. It's no secrets companies strong arm customers into buying their peripherals and materials at a higher cost.
Is it me but ever since mp3's it's like the entire world is an expert on copyright infringment. I remember teh days on slashdot when all teh articles were about supercooling my 300a. interesting paradigm shift.
I dissagree, computer games have always been better than console games. Graphics and playability. Every major jenre out was started on computers. real time stratagy, first person shooter. rpg. Test drive on my old amstrad kicked outruns butt. What computer games lacked are 1.) good two player action. one guy joystic one keyboard. 2.) big screen. My computer is in my study, I have a 19" screen. I woudl much rather relax in my living room and play on a 32 inch screen with my friends. what i believe console companies need to not do is charge for provider service. why not just intigrate a tcp/ip protocal and let the game programer handle the rest. This way pc and console games coudl join together. and creat a much bigger user base.
Not only that but i dont know i woudl want every possible terrorists in the world reviewing airport database structure, and air controll software protocols. Somethings need to be available for classified eyes only. To be quite honest the OS spin put on this story is reminisent of some 15 yo wanna be code monkey desperate to have an educated opnion.
This would definatly fall under falls representation. Although I can't see it being wrong in the situation where The customer was a verisign customer then renewed with another company. dont phone companies do this all the time after you have switched.
If you build it they will come. When voodoo introduced 32 bit maps, then games were designed to support it. I'm sure with such a powerful card especially with regards to mapping games will jump to look more realistic which seems to be teh goal. My concern is still more price I dont feel like paying $300 and up for a card just to play video games I rather just get a PS2. I still think that computers are not suitable gaming platforms. It much more fun playin in my living room on my 40" TV with my friends than in my study on a 19" monitor.
They would be very stable on ice if they used studded tires. i am sure one could make chains removable strap on studs which could be used. then taken off when one is inside. install a set of mud gaurds and you woudl be ready to go
I dont see the segway being used much out door in a rural environment. I see it being very feasable say in a highrise building say for mail delivery. or say in a very dence urban area. It just woudlnt' make sence in a rural area to say drive to work. unless you work within a mile of home. I would see this also working well in large complex coorperation large warehouses or factories. I used to work at UPS as a child and they had bicycles that could be used to run arrands within the wharehouse. parts of which were over a half a mile long.
I worked at a mid size firm when the melissa's and I love you viruses were being passed, and it was incredible how quickly it propagated and shut down the system. there were about 600 employees on that site and within a half an hour 70 percent of the pc's were hit, then mail servers were down for the rest of the day while IT went through and peice by peice removed the virus from individual mail boxes.. Yes viruses like this can be easily prevented but if they propagate faster than IT's ability to send out the word what do you do. I finally convinced IT to filter out all vbs,js scrips via e-mail. if programmers were sending code it was zipped up or sent in an non exicutable format.
I wear two hats in that i'm a CAD/Systems Manager and a Job Captain for an architectural firm. I've also done that in the past. Lately with the advent of DSL many small business can allow internet access to the employees. Funny enough this has allows much retension because other small business that dont have it can't satisfy what many employees are nto used to. Believe it or not but having your own e-mail address means alot to people. also being able to check yrou bills and bank online.
Have you tried the Mormon Bike Protection Plan, one very long chain and a big old lock. I grew up in Jamaica where they regularly did their rounds. what was funny was how paranoid they were. They would at each stop even if the were standing there chain their bikes to the the biggest heaviest thing that was cemented in the pavement
Ok I was set to buy my ps2, after all GT3, made it all worth it, now this, now I have to put aside my years savings to buy a new video card because my dual voodoo2 isn't supported by win2k and it would probable choke. ofcourse my new video card, wont work on my overclocked celron 300a. so now i need a new board cpu memory. WHY !!!! dont people realize it sucks to play on my computer in my basement i want to go upstairs on my 48" TV. but i still want my network play so i can shoot the heads off all my wayward co-workers
This is true once I took thee vivrin and 4 bottles of caffinated water to finish a project while in school persuing architecture. I started friday and worked through the entire weekend, no sleep. I handed in my project thank God it was a silent crit, went home and slept at 11am, then woke up 9:30 wednesday morning. I would never do it again, but the level of creativity I attained on that project I have never been able to reach again. I guess there is much to be said for vivrin, caffinated water, and marker fumes huh.
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I remember my first server system. I was suppose to be the expert (checkle). it was a gateway 233 (super fast for it's time) I had to install an HP suresture, writable CD, and SCSi hardrive. My first problem was what the hell was i thinking customizing a gateway. I had to cut a notch out of the board to ge the tape to fit. the board didn't recognise the SCSI kudoes to adaptec who not only helped me get it working but also gave me a few extra tips. Then I had to set up pllindrome which was backup software it required IPX what teh heck was IPX, needless to say after one sleepless weekend I got it working. My latest server is a Dell 2500 with a custom linux install.
you can pay a anual fee for access to teh site that has interview concert tickets, unreleased music. If this concept was implimented like BonJovi has I think it woudl work. The serial number gives you an exclusive access to the site ( it would finally justify the cost of CD's) then fans could get access to exclusive offerengs thus bring the artists and fan closer. Almost makes me wish I thought of it.
I would be worried about Verizon resell DSL to providers such as Earthlink and provide it customer direct. I have also heard from a Verizon employee that in the near future they plan to offer DSL for $30 i'm not sure if thats an introductury rate or permanent.
2 years ago it costs approx.$1500 to set up an ISDN line in a clients office. thats 128k both directions.
today I just set up another client with two officed about 50 miles from each other with a T1 in both offices plus 6 voice lines each. one T1 is 256 the other 512. plus 16 IP's e-mail and such. If I were to call the local phone company and request this service I would be paying upwards of $1500 however with another company using the same exact lines as teh local company they can do it for $600 a month. why ? simple price fixing companies will always stretch technology as long as people are willing to pay. So even if all this wonderful fiber is available commercially I doubt companies will be willing to provide it to homes. keep in mind this involves trenching all over again. A more realistic option will be wireless with fiber running to each transmition point.
You will always have skeptics, just liek you will always have people who believe in UFO's. I've seen articles about how the mission was a hoax and they are quite convincing. If your going to teb moon bring a drilling rig, set up some experiments. Mount a teliscope, a big reflector dish anything. but dont go just to find some stupid golf balls.
Public sector people may disagree, but I believe if you desire to work in a truly competitive market, where you earn yoru pay, and if you wish to work with the most motivated and motivating (good and bad) people you need to work in the private sector. However if your looking for security then the public sector is best. I have a friend who is a sys admin for a gov facility and his job is so easy, no stress, they are all unionized. And there is never ending breuracracy.
If you wish to make any sort of change it has to be approved by ten different commitiees. ten commitees who know nothing about the technology. Where in private sector is driven by demand and performance.
What happened to all that crap about hand eye coordination, and tomorrows kids will have such reflexes due to the constant training on flight sims and driving games. No really i'm not trying to be funny. I know many games that improve your prblem solving and managment (decision ) making skills.
while a freshman in college my roomate purchased the legend of xanth the game. We both then proceeded to skip every class we had until we figured out the game. The books lend themselves very well to RPG games which are very entertaining. Dont know if you all remember the hanging participle. My question is will you be invovled in any projects in the futer with regards to video games. I keep thinking of warcraft but only with Xanth charactors. It would be so much more entertaining. I know this is a little segway from the main topic, but lets get real star office supports all word formats, including formating. The only drawbacks I would see is in the desktop publishing dept. The lack of a Pagemaker or Quark type app.
I remember talking about this in grade school all this dick tracy stuff. I touted it as being impractical and expensive, which it was but in retrospect were these guys ahead of there time or what. Well there is an museum peice for you. Put it right along side the star treck communicators.
perhaps because they aahh make them. Same reason why mexico has the best mexican food, and aaah irland has the bast dark ale
I may just be me but there seems to be a much higher emphasis on data than in the past ( I know i'm stating the obvious) our company just went with a telecom Allegience for our phone and Data one T1 split. The cost was suprisingly cheaper than say going SBC for phone and DSL. Concidering they gave us free callign between offices. a Stable connection with 16 IP's and any DNS routing we requested. ie. we could host our own Domain. The point I am getting to when one tried doing this in the past the cost was astronomical. Companies like these Allegience are smaller but growing more aggressive, and better managed. Ofcourse the big telecomes are loosing out. It all comes down to service. Why is it when I ask verizon to drop a T1 in my office there are million different charges and an astronomical fee. Yet another company who owns there own cable can do it for half as much and give me ten times better service. no really i mean it. and I dont work for them either.
Assuming where talking about college or precalc and up. Everyone remebers the old TI-85's Visualizing is the most powerful way to learn. I jsut hope TI doesnt' loose it's foot hold. My old Palm Pilot with 2 megs will draft equations and I can usually find an app to do whatever I want. My question is when do you release MathCAD for Palm OS. no seriously.
I use alot of large format plotters. Right now regarding inkjet Encad and HP seem to be the favorites. Even bulk ink plotters like HP1050 series requires you to purchase an inktank instead of just pouring in more ink. Encad on the other hand sells jugs of milk that you can pour in on the fly even while printing.
I worked for a company making high end thermal printers and the trick to their sales were to force customers to use their inks and substrate. one by placing wierd punch patterns on the paper then patenting it. ofcourse this was played off as a superior punch pattern for accuracy. funny enough when the pattent ran out they left the patter behind. Secondly they constantly changed the firing patterns on the head of the printer so other films wouldn't work or last as long. When customers called up who used other products it was standard to blaim the non brand name film or substrate. It's no secrets companies strong arm customers into buying their peripherals and materials at a higher cost.
Is it me but ever since mp3's it's like the entire world is an expert on copyright infringment. I remember teh days on slashdot when all teh articles were about supercooling my 300a. interesting paradigm shift.
I dissagree, computer games have always been better than console games. Graphics and playability. Every major jenre out was started on computers. real time stratagy, first person shooter. rpg. Test drive on my old amstrad kicked outruns butt. What computer games lacked are 1.) good two player action. one guy joystic one keyboard. 2.) big screen. My computer is in my study, I have a 19" screen. I woudl much rather relax in my living room and play on a 32 inch screen with my friends. what i believe console companies need to not do is charge for provider service. why not just intigrate a tcp/ip protocal and let the game programer handle the rest. This way pc and console games coudl join together. and creat a much bigger user base.
Not only that but i dont know i woudl want every possible terrorists in the world reviewing airport database structure, and air controll software protocols. Somethings need to be available for classified eyes only. To be quite honest the OS spin put on this story is reminisent of some 15 yo wanna be code monkey desperate to have an educated opnion.
This would definatly fall under falls representation. Although I can't see it being wrong in the situation where The customer was a verisign customer then renewed with another company. dont phone companies do this all the time after you have switched.
If you build it they will come. When voodoo introduced 32 bit maps, then games were designed to support it. I'm sure with such a powerful card especially with regards to mapping games will jump to look more realistic which seems to be teh goal. My concern is still more price I dont feel like paying $300 and up for a card just to play video games I rather just get a PS2. I still think that computers are not suitable gaming platforms. It much more fun playin in my living room on my 40" TV with my friends than in my study on a 19" monitor.
They would be very stable on ice if they used studded tires. i am sure one could make chains removable strap on studs which could be used. then taken off when one is inside. install a set of mud gaurds and you woudl be ready to go
I dont see the segway being used much out door in a rural environment. I see it being very feasable say in a highrise building say for mail delivery. or say in a very dence urban area. It just woudlnt' make sence in a rural area to say drive to work. unless you work within a mile of home. I would see this also working well in large complex coorperation large warehouses or factories. I used to work at UPS as a child and they had bicycles that could be used to run arrands within the wharehouse. parts of which were over a half a mile long.
I worked at a mid size firm when the melissa's and I love you viruses were being passed, and it was incredible how quickly it propagated and shut down the system. there were about 600 employees on that site and within a half an hour 70 percent of the pc's were hit, then mail servers were down for the rest of the day while IT went through and peice by peice removed the virus from individual mail boxes.. Yes viruses like this can be easily prevented but if they propagate faster than IT's ability to send out the word what do you do. I finally convinced IT to filter out all vbs,js scrips via e-mail. if programmers were sending code it was zipped up or sent in an non exicutable format.
I wear two hats in that i'm a CAD/Systems Manager and a Job Captain for an architectural firm. I've also done that in the past. Lately with the advent of DSL many small business can allow internet access to the employees. Funny enough this has allows much retension because other small business that dont have it can't satisfy what many employees are nto used to. Believe it or not but having your own e-mail address means alot to people. also being able to check yrou bills and bank online.
Have you tried the Mormon Bike Protection Plan, one very long chain and a big old lock. I grew up in Jamaica where they regularly did their rounds. what was funny was how paranoid they were. They would at each stop even if the were standing there chain their bikes to the the biggest heaviest thing that was cemented in the pavement
Ok I was set to buy my ps2, after all GT3, made it all worth it, now this, now I have to put aside my years savings to buy a new video card because my dual voodoo2 isn't supported by win2k and it would probable choke. ofcourse my new video card, wont work on my overclocked celron 300a. so now i need a new board cpu memory. WHY !!!! dont people realize it sucks to play on my computer in my basement i want to go upstairs on my 48" TV. but i still want my network play so i can shoot the heads off all my wayward co-workers
This is true once I took thee vivrin and 4 bottles of caffinated water to finish a project while in school persuing architecture. I started friday and worked through the entire weekend, no sleep. I handed in my project thank God it was a silent crit, went home and slept at 11am, then woke up 9:30 wednesday morning. I would never do it again, but the level of creativity I attained on that project I have never been able to reach again. I guess there is much to be said for vivrin, caffinated water, and marker fumes huh.