I worked for an architects firm that had the task of designing a listenign room for this guys stereo, he quoted teh price as over 100,000. I saw this here are teh specs.
Two Bass speakers, consiting of 8 - 10" woofers at $300 a peice. they were made into a sculpted speaker box that looked like teh washington monument.
Two midrange boxs that were actually well they looked sort of like a potatoe chip, cept only curved in one dimension. the tweaters were ribbon tweeters with one long one going down the middle.
the speakers were connected with licquid nitrogen wires idea being super cooled equal little resistance and noise. ohh yea the wires were silver and shielded.
the amplifier was a tube amplifier custom built in russia. delivering only about 200W per channel at 5 channels.
he had what looked like a rack of preamps, about 4 feet tall. and last of all was his custom made CD player which was made from granite in the shape of a greek cross. you played teh cd by placing on top of the cross and putting a weight on it.
there was only a single chair in the room which could not be moved.
and all I will say is this it sounded like it was a 100,K stereo, I was completely blown away.
suffice it to say my fisher second hand stereo and teh jenson speakers I bought on sale was significanlty cheaper.
I've been researching the same topic for teh last year. I have an undergrad degree in architectural engineering. but after school I worked in a tech job for two years, writing technical docs, doing customer support. now I work in architecture. everyone I've talked to insists that given my field expereince, and a non business background an MBA would be ideal. I have also had ppl say just stick with yoru guns and work hard enough. but the reality of the situation is there is a ceiling in every career, and most of the ppl that have been my superior have been MBA's I think it is understood that technical, hands on ppl are not good managers, they are good programmers or engineers but that does not necessarily mean that they have managment skills. having an MBA proves this and pretty much catapults anyone to a managerial level.
ok so basically you use these repeaters and ER collectors and search for a moving disturbance. problem is are they going to install antennas all over the pacific, the steps of russia, and accross the midwest and two miles up. Have you driven through Utah lately, the only means of communication through half that state is smoke snigals. and if I am not mistaken many new planes dont reflect any ER it absorbs it.
The Talcot mountain Observitory in CT is built on top of a missle silo. what always gets me is seeing the location of these things. I am surprised that you could purchase them because most that I have known of are filled in and capped with concrete.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by the end user. There is a BUTTON ON THE TOOLBAR to do this. <<<<
the average user doesn't know how to, or is deathly afraid of configuring anythign on there computer. reality, ppl will leave it there (if it aint broke dont fix it) and ms will benifit. if i'm not mistaken this is the same reason they are in an anti trust suite. packaging technology together.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by a page author. There is a META tag that does this.
<<<
see above
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links<<<
cool they draw the person to the link, which will lead them to a ms sponsered site.
how does MS select there content anyways. is it goign to be encarta, or birtanica, is it too much to ask to have the user select his own content provider.
The default smart tags look for any reference to any company in MoneyCentral, and a few US universities. You click on them, and you get info. <<<<
suppose I want to link to daytec online, or yahoo, or well see above.
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links. <<< we addressed this before, they are nice cool looking clicky thinkgs that direct you to ms selected sites. I believe it's called packaging one technology with another.
IMO, they are a pain, but easily disabled. <<<
see below. all MS testers think they are god chosen
Note: I'm an IE6 tester, so I believe I'm reasonably qualified to comment without fear of spreading FUD.
I'm jamaican and I coudl probable site a dozen simular infringments on my "culture" many of them defermations if you ask me. I forget the name but a certain Steven Segal movie that represented jamaicans as gang related drug dealers who smoked weed and were all rastafarians. to be honest I dont know that one can sue someone over defermation, misrepresentation, or un sanctioned use of ones culture but expecially with the way hollywood chooses to represent many cultures I think this is very fear. the only draw back is where would we get all the lawers for these suits, and who would collect.
I'm sorry I've heard abotu this and heard ppl trying to market teh idea, but if parents arent' even watchign their kids at home, why woudl they watch them at school. my sister, my mom, my gf mom, well there are many teachers inmy family and the biggest complaints are parents who are non existent when it comes to monitoring their childs behavior. be on purpose or not, if there isn't time to do this and spend time with kids whats th epoint now all you will have is kids that are carefully watched by some online snoopy parent but rarely gets the physical interaction they need. and I'm not even going to talk about the perverts who will tap into this to watch kids.
a large vacume pump with large surface area plungers. I wouldnt' call it profound. my only problem is what happens when you half way up and you snag a line. thats like being 500 feet down and blowing a hose. and whats the practical use. window washing, utility work. how does it out way a ladder or a scafolding. and how high can you climb before yoru too tired. also what range of motion does it allow to do work. or is it strong enough to allow you to bring up equipment ??
I work for an architorture firm and we have crisis weeks every week. what we train for is the annual slow friday.. only got one chance cant' mess that up
It's nice to have a large neutral windows friendly site give Samba a thumbs up. I personally think Samba ranks #2 next to Apache of application that trully make linux usable. I have installed several stand alone file servers in place of NT file servers. I am still not convinced that is as fast as NT server but saving a $400 liscencing fee it isn't bad. Not to mention the flexibility of configuration with SWAT.
I am in the process of making a custom server which manages engineering and architectural files. it works in conjuction with a web based app (perl) which manages jobs, hours worked and so forth. but using samba it goes a step further to manage shares initialize new jobs, and run back ups. this is somethign I woudl never dream of attempting on a windoes system.
I dont even need to read this after the number of freakish expereinces I have heard and experienced myself.
I have both been a customer and worked as a tech support rep. and all I have to say is calling ms tech support is expereince of futility unless your part of there developer network.
My experience calling MS.
me: Hi I'm having problems setting up a superdisk drive ( yea I had one) when I spoke to compaq they said the problem is an ms problem.
rep: hello I am nto the actual rep I am here to get yrou credit card number so you can be build like $50 an hour. you will not be billed if you can prove that there is a problem with our product ( I'm trying not to laugh as I write this) or if you made a deal with the devil.
me: err hor do I know when I get billed
rep: if we determine the problem is user error or a problem with your drive we will bill you retroactive.
me: scooby do sound huuuuhh ?
that was the end of that call. my suggestion to anyone who is a tech, get a copy of ms technet. actually worth teh cash.
as a tech support rep I cant' get into how many calls i have taken with customers saying please dont make me call MS they are evil over there just help me to fix this problem. I know it' not yrou software problem.
not to mention all the time I have spent with developers trying to find out work around to MS problems.
I've always understood that you place half yoru servers on the west coast and half on the east. should there be a net split i.e. contruction worker who didnt' call before he digged. you wont suffer he conciquecies. with all their servers in DC, how will they prepare for this
I Linux server, capable of serving both yoru windows and mac domains, it has native support for raid, complex networking, built in router capabilities, native language support. ohh yea and the money you save you can put to hardware. how much will you save ? alot. I've worked for software companies, and gotten the MS evil letter saying you are not in complience. THen had to run aroundmaking sure all unlicenced software was removed. Ohh yea, and dont forget the guy who has to have workers on his server machine because he is paying 5G's in liscence fees.
Dreamcast = Jaguar = another ill timed console.
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I think the dreamcast was a pretty good machine, however I think the timing of it's release was just bad. Idealy it should have been released to compete with the N64 and playstation however it's a generation behind. Not only that but with competitors like the playstation + the years weeks months of antisipation it was bound to fail. I like many other people chose not to buy a DreamCast but instead to save my cash for a PS2. Just like the Jaguar, an excellent machine, but given cost, and compition it fell in a bad lot. It was a good run for it's money with a few good titles, however not godo enough.
I am very surprised MS didnt' fight to have this information surpressed. What makes me curious is why they didn't publish info on all system exploits and the effects, or is it that MicroSoft SysAdmins are that notorious. Not flame bait I'm just posing a serious question.
I know what you may be thinking I'm young I dont have a family that's way off in the future and I am a career driven person. I'm 25 y/o and thus far I have worked in two career. Computers Help Desk/Graphic Design and Architecture (what I actually went to school for) Help desk was fun as I went home at 4:30 or whatever hours I chose we coudl play games while we worked and you never had to take it home... however, it was very limiting and as a general you only last two years before becoming bitter. In my current profession I am in charge of deadlines.. which is much more fun and makes me feel valuable but it also means more than a 40hr work week. This isn't fun when you have a budding family and you are determined to balance both. I think moreoften than none family wins one week work wins another week. Your happiness is very important I think and unles syou are one of those ppl who write articles on famous resorts chances are you will have to do something to invest in your self.
didn't they used to attatch these things to helicopter rotors. The Rotors were powered by a minimalist engine then as they began to turn the air forced through the system would be mixed with some fuel and come shooting out the other side. very simple design my question is it only works most efficiently at lower altitudes as opposed to space since they require O2 from the atmosphere. Not only that they require an initial velocity to get them going. I can see it now tomohawk missles being launched off the USS Nimitz with large elastic bands.
I'm a mame fanatic, and for the sole reason of bringing me back to my child hood days hanging out with y friends playing donkey kong. I do the same thing now with my grown up friends at dave and busters. The traditional arcade has died, but with the new games that are coming out now i'm sorry but I just cant' afford a six car array of indy cars with one huge 8 foot screen. If you go to up to date arcades you will be blown away by how much better the game play is, plus it's also a matter of social interaction that safe and none threatening.
When in school, some 2-3 years ago there was a vast network upgrade on the residential side of campus. In order to serve the influx of students wanting to use there bandwidth but not knowing how Digital was to be employed to handle the help desk if you will. well they fell through. The school ended up rellying on a group of well organized students (myself included) to manage the help desk, info line, and network installs for the residential side of campus. we kept the profit once we agreed to provide free phone support. This actually worked out quite well and I do see this working. ofcourse I wouldnt' put the user administration in the hands of students but I do feel they can play a very strong part if allowed.
I dont see this being feesable. I have both worked for a software companies tech support and have also been onthe other end with autodesk. the basic premis is to update software takes time and money, money to train users and just transition. Where I worked prior they decided not to allow the use of previous versions at the same time. this resulted in may custumers simple returning the software waying it's not worth the time to learn it. in most cases there is one person who's job it is to learn and intigrate the software. and as a rule of thumb most smart firms stay a year behind. that way you dont get on the band wagon until all the bugs are cleared out. the problem is suppose I dont need the latest and greatest, the current version works fine. I cant' tell you how many firms I've seen running win3.1 and old software happy as ever and there really is no practical reason for them to upgrade because what they have works and does the job.
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I worked for an architects firm that had the task of designing a listenign room for this guys stereo, he quoted teh price as over 100,000. I saw this here are teh specs.
Two Bass speakers, consiting of 8 - 10" woofers at $300 a peice. they were made into a sculpted speaker box that looked like teh washington monument.
Two midrange boxs that were actually well they looked sort of like a potatoe chip, cept only curved in one dimension. the tweaters were ribbon tweeters with one long one going down the middle.
the speakers were connected with licquid nitrogen wires idea being super cooled equal little resistance and noise. ohh yea the wires were silver and shielded.
the amplifier was a tube amplifier custom built in russia. delivering only about 200W per channel at 5 channels.
he had what looked like a rack of preamps, about 4 feet tall. and last of all was his custom made CD player which was made from granite in the shape of a greek cross. you played teh cd by placing on top of the cross and putting a weight on it.
there was only a single chair in the room which could not be moved.
and all I will say is this it sounded like it was a 100,K stereo, I was completely blown away.
suffice it to say my fisher second hand stereo and teh jenson speakers I bought on sale was significanlty cheaper.
I've been researching the same topic for teh last year. I have an undergrad degree in architectural engineering. but after school I worked in a tech job for two years, writing technical docs, doing customer support. now I work in architecture. everyone I've talked to insists that given my field expereince, and a non business background an MBA would be ideal. I have also had ppl say just stick with yoru guns and work hard enough. but the reality of the situation is there is a ceiling in every career, and most of the ppl that have been my superior have been MBA's I think it is understood that technical, hands on ppl are not good managers, they are good programmers or engineers but that does not necessarily mean that they have managment skills. having an MBA proves this and pretty much catapults anyone to a managerial level.
ok so basically you use these repeaters and ER collectors and search for a moving disturbance. problem is are they going to install antennas all over the pacific, the steps of russia, and accross the midwest and two miles up. Have you driven through Utah lately, the only means of communication through half that state is smoke snigals. and if I am not mistaken many new planes dont reflect any ER it absorbs it.
The Talcot mountain Observitory in CT is built on top of a missle silo. what always gets me is seeing the location of these things. I am surprised that you could purchase them because most that I have known of are filled in and capped with concrete.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by the end user. There is a BUTTON ON THE TOOLBAR to do this. <<<<
the average user doesn't know how to, or is deathly afraid of configuring anythign on there computer. reality, ppl will leave it there (if it aint broke dont fix it) and ms will benifit. if i'm not mistaken this is the same reason they are in an anti trust suite. packaging technology together.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by a page author. There is a META tag that does this.
<<<
see above
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links<<<
cool they draw the person to the link, which will lead them to a ms sponsered site.
how does MS select there content anyways. is it goign to be encarta, or birtanica, is it too much to ask to have the user select his own content provider.
The default smart tags look for any reference to any company in MoneyCentral, and a few US universities. You click on them, and you get info. <<<<
suppose I want to link to daytec online, or yahoo, or well see above.
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links. <<< we addressed this before, they are nice cool looking clicky thinkgs that direct you to ms selected sites. I believe it's called packaging one technology with another.
IMO, they are a pain, but easily disabled. <<<
see below. all MS testers think they are god chosen
Note: I'm an IE6 tester, so I believe I'm reasonably qualified to comment without fear of spreading FUD.
I'm jamaican and I coudl probable site a dozen simular infringments on my "culture" many of them defermations if you ask me. I forget the name but a certain Steven Segal movie that represented jamaicans as gang related drug dealers who smoked weed and were all rastafarians. to be honest I dont know that one can sue someone over defermation, misrepresentation, or un sanctioned use of ones culture but expecially with the way hollywood chooses to represent many cultures I think this is very fear. the only draw back is where would we get all the lawers for these suits, and who would collect.
I'm sorry I've heard abotu this and heard ppl trying to market teh idea, but if parents arent' even watchign their kids at home, why woudl they watch them at school. my sister, my mom, my gf mom, well there are many teachers inmy family and the biggest complaints are parents who are non existent when it comes to monitoring their childs behavior. be on purpose or not, if there isn't time to do this and spend time with kids whats th epoint now all you will have is kids that are carefully watched by some online snoopy parent but rarely gets the physical interaction they need. and I'm not even going to talk about the perverts who will tap into this to watch kids.
a large vacume pump with large surface area plungers. I wouldnt' call it profound. my only problem is what happens when you half way up and you snag a line. thats like being 500 feet down and blowing a hose. and whats the practical use. window washing, utility work. how does it out way a ladder or a scafolding. and how high can you climb before yoru too tired. also what range of motion does it allow to do work. or is it strong enough to allow you to bring up equipment ??
I work for an architorture firm and we have crisis weeks every week. what we train for is the annual slow friday
It's nice to have a large neutral windows friendly site give Samba a thumbs up. I personally think Samba ranks #2 next to Apache of application that trully make linux usable. I have installed several stand alone file servers in place of NT file servers. I am still not convinced that is as fast as NT server but saving a $400 liscencing fee it isn't bad. Not to mention the flexibility of configuration with SWAT.
I am in the process of making a custom server which manages engineering and architectural files. it works in conjuction with a web based app (perl) which manages jobs, hours worked and so forth. but using samba it goes a step further to manage shares initialize new jobs, and run back ups. this is somethign I woudl never dream of attempting on a windoes system.
I dont even need to read this after the number of freakish expereinces I have heard and experienced myself.
I have both been a customer and worked as a tech support rep. and all I have to say is calling ms tech support is expereince of futility unless your part of there developer network.
My experience calling MS.
me: Hi I'm having problems setting up a superdisk drive ( yea I had one) when I spoke to compaq they said the problem is an ms problem.
rep: hello I am nto the actual rep I am here to get yrou credit card number so you can be build like $50 an hour. you will not be billed if you can prove that there is a problem with our product ( I'm trying not to laugh as I write this) or if you made a deal with the devil.
me: err hor do I know when I get billed
rep: if we determine the problem is user error or a problem with your drive we will bill you retroactive.
me: scooby do sound huuuuhh ?
that was the end of that call. my suggestion to anyone who is a tech, get a copy of ms technet. actually worth teh cash.
as a tech support rep I cant' get into how many calls i have taken with customers saying please dont make me call MS they are evil over there just help me to fix this problem. I know it' not yrou software problem.
not to mention all the time I have spent with developers trying to find out work around to MS problems.
I've always understood that you place half yoru servers on the west coast and half on the east. should there be a net split i.e. contruction worker who didnt' call before he digged. you wont suffer he conciquecies. with all their servers in DC, how will they prepare for this
I'm curious whether or not the optimizations made by google are readily available to the public. i.e GNU,
I Linux server, capable of serving both yoru windows and mac domains, it has native support for raid, complex networking, built in router capabilities, native language support. ohh yea and the money you save you can put to hardware. how much will you save ? alot. I've worked for software companies, and gotten the MS evil letter saying you are not in complience. THen had to run aroundmaking sure all unlicenced software was removed. Ohh yea, and dont forget the guy who has to have workers on his server machine because he is paying 5G's in liscence fees.
I think the dreamcast was a pretty good machine, however I think the timing of it's release was just bad. Idealy it should have been released to compete with the N64 and playstation however it's a generation behind. Not only that but with competitors like the playstation + the years weeks months of antisipation it was bound to fail. I like many other people chose not to buy a DreamCast but instead to save my cash for a PS2. Just like the Jaguar, an excellent machine, but given cost, and compition it fell in a bad lot. It was a good run for it's money with a few good titles, however not godo enough.
I am very surprised MS didnt' fight to have this information surpressed. What makes me curious is why they didn't publish info on all system exploits and the effects, or is it that MicroSoft SysAdmins are that notorious. Not flame bait I'm just posing a serious question.
well my gateway essential pc comes with a monitor, and one year of free internet, plus and MSN strong arm for teh next 4 years.
(err for you all that aint so quick that a joke there suun. get it sun) <-- thats a joke too
I know what you may be thinking I'm young I dont have a family that's way off in the future and I am a career driven person. I'm 25 y/o and thus far I have worked in two career. Computers Help Desk/Graphic Design and Architecture (what I actually went to school for) Help desk was fun as I went home at 4:30 or whatever hours I chose we coudl play games while we worked and you never had to take it home
oooo free cheers for Mr. No it All and my ass is so tight I cant' see I joke if it got up and bit me
didn't they used to attatch these things to helicopter rotors. The Rotors were powered by a minimalist engine then as they began to turn the air forced through the system would be mixed with some fuel and come shooting out the other side. very simple design my question is it only works most efficiently at lower altitudes as opposed to space since they require O2 from the atmosphere. Not only that they require an initial velocity to get them going. I can see it now tomohawk missles being launched off the USS Nimitz with large elastic bands.
yea I really like my brains in the back of my head. reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy episode " must saaaaavve braain"
This is the funniest thing i've read all week.
"welcome to the desert of the real "
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND ???
I'm a mame fanatic, and for the sole reason of bringing me back to my child hood days hanging out with y friends playing donkey kong. I do the same thing now with my grown up friends at dave and busters. The traditional arcade has died, but with the new games that are coming out now i'm sorry but I just cant' afford a six car array of indy cars with one huge 8 foot screen. If you go to up to date arcades you will be blown away by how much better the game play is, plus it's also a matter of social interaction that safe and none threatening.
When in school, some 2-3 years ago there was a vast network upgrade on the residential side of campus. In order to serve the influx of students wanting to use there bandwidth but not knowing how Digital was to be employed to handle the help desk if you will. well they fell through. The school ended up rellying on a group of well organized students (myself included) to manage the help desk, info line, and network installs for the residential side of campus. we kept the profit once we agreed to provide free phone support. This actually worked out quite well and I do see this working. ofcourse I wouldnt' put the user administration in the hands of students but I do feel they can play a very strong part if allowed.
I dont see this being feesable. I have both worked for a software companies tech support and have also been onthe other end with autodesk. the basic premis is to update software takes time and money, money to train users and just transition. Where I worked prior they decided not to allow the use of previous versions at the same time. this resulted in may custumers simple returning the software waying it's not worth the time to learn it. in most cases there is one person who's job it is to learn and intigrate the software. and as a rule of thumb most smart firms stay a year behind. that way you dont get on the band wagon until all the bugs are cleared out. the problem is suppose I dont need the latest and greatest, the current version works fine. I cant' tell you how many firms I've seen running win3.1 and old software happy as ever and there really is no practical reason for them to upgrade because what they have works and does the job.