"If this is an industrial application, you really don't want to homebrew it....if the information is valuable enough to record, its worth the money up front"
HAHAHAHA! Oh, if you only knew how most factories operate. I work with several leading edge semiconductor fabs and you'd be amazed at the amount of homebrew/seat-of-the-pants solutions abound.
I am currently working on a system to track production on about $300 MILLION dollars worth of equipment. My equipment budget? I was lucky to get $30,000 and most of that was for data storage hardware.
Face it, the suits don't think that factories make data. They think factories make widgets.
My thoughts exactly. Animated cursors are for secretaries and housewives. And those people will always fill their computer so full of spyware anyway, so no single exploit will matter.
I agree - keep a broad base. Nothing is more valuable than someone who can consider all the ramifications and needs of their projects. A polyglot can see solutions that others cannot.
Though I know Jim Backus died 'way back in the 80's. I remember because I was in Vegas at the time, so I got my picture in front of the million dollars at the old Vegas World in his honor.
Most companies don't block web mail for virus reason, they block it because they cannot control or record the information going out of their corporation.
This is a serious issue since the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley. Companies HAVE to have a record of the information their employees are sending out.
You'd be surprised at how little technology is used in MOST industries.
A few years ago I contracted at a semiconductor manufacturing firm that kept equipment maintenance records ON PAPER, and later transferred them to Excel. I quickly remedied that situation.
Last month I visited a bank that had to have all cash transactions written into a ledger.
The work is out there, kids, you just have to find it.
I was hit with a frivolous lawsuit by an insurance company once. I pretty much copied everything they sent me, changed the wording a bit, and sent it back. (Essentially, I let them be my lawyer.)
They quickly dropped the case "with prejudice", which means the issue they tried to sue me for (and that I countersued for) can never see the light of day in court ever again.
RFID readers can usually read several chips at once. I have a cheap reader that can read as many as you can place in range of the reader at once. But the range is usually pretty small.
And as others have said, you still need an antenna on EACH chip.
So YOU'RE the old woman at the cashier pulling pennies out of her change purse!
I see your grandson managed to get you on the Internet. Here's a tip: You aren't really the 1,000,000th visitor to that web site and you didn't win a free ipod.
Slashdot Mirror
Now every time I open a document I will get 15 second pause then a screen asking me to upgrade to the latest version!
How about a bunch of smaller craft, each landing on its own?
Send a bunch of supply craft and break the human landings up into one or two people at a time in smaller capsules.
As long as everything lands in the same area, (supplies first, humans last) then you just need to gather it together for your mars base.
Probably cheaper to launch several smaller craft anyway, and you could have plenty of supply redundancy.
If someone says "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide"...
Ask them for all the passwords on all their accounts (including bank cards)
Hey, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear...
The Joker is working for DARPA now?
I can't believe an AC is the only one to mention the Horta!
All the Trek geeks must be arguing over the poll question.
And I hereby officially threaten their deities with bodily harm.
Can I be arrested now?
Sell it all, buy cheap land in the backcountry, build a small cabin and live the wild life.
Trust me, you won't be bored.
"If this is an industrial application, you really don't want to homebrew it....if the information is valuable enough to record, its worth the money up front"
HAHAHAHA! Oh, if you only knew how most factories operate. I work with several leading edge semiconductor fabs and you'd be amazed at the amount of homebrew/seat-of-the-pants solutions abound.
I am currently working on a system to track production on about $300 MILLION dollars worth of equipment. My equipment budget? I was lucky to get $30,000 and most of that was for data storage hardware.
Face it, the suits don't think that factories make data. They think factories make widgets.
Mirror your servers, not just your data.
One crashes, you reassign an IP and everything cruises along as before.
I've had to do this TWICE in the past year. It's a real timesaver.
My thoughts exactly. Animated cursors are for secretaries and housewives. And those people will always fill their computer so full of spyware anyway, so no single exploit will matter.
Or maybe Silicon Taiga?
Either way, they need a catchy name for the press.
I agree - keep a broad base. Nothing is more valuable than someone who can consider all the ramifications and needs of their projects. A polyglot can see solutions that others cannot.
I came here to make the same stupid comment.
Though I know Jim Backus died 'way back in the 80's. I remember because I was in Vegas at the time, so I got my picture in front of the million dollars at the old Vegas World in his honor.
Most companies don't block web mail for virus reason, they block it because they cannot control or record the information going out of their corporation.
This is a serious issue since the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley. Companies HAVE to have a record of the information their employees are sending out.
You'd be surprised at how little technology is used in MOST industries.
A few years ago I contracted at a semiconductor manufacturing firm that kept equipment maintenance records ON PAPER, and later transferred them to Excel. I quickly remedied that situation.
Last month I visited a bank that had to have all cash transactions written into a ledger.
The work is out there, kids, you just have to find it.
Yes. ALWAYS countersue from the get-go.
I was hit with a frivolous lawsuit by an insurance company once. I pretty much copied everything they sent me, changed the wording a bit, and sent it back. (Essentially, I let them be my lawyer.)
They quickly dropped the case "with prejudice", which means the issue they tried to sue me for (and that I countersued for) can never see the light of day in court ever again.
ALWAYS countersue. Always.
RFID readers can usually read several chips at once. I have a cheap reader that can read as many as you can place in range of the reader at once. But the range is usually pretty small.
And as others have said, you still need an antenna on EACH chip.
There WILL be an unlimited supply...
(goodbye A and M)
Don't judge people by the music they listen to,
Judge them by whether or not they try to force YOU to listen to it.
I likes me some quiet time.
I've got about 5 lbs of them sitting right here. They're yours.
You can either come and get them, or send me a durable box, plus postage and gas money to get to the PO and they're yours!
Sure. You pay postage.
Cash is good when you don't want your purchases traced by "the man"!
So YOU'RE the old woman at the cashier pulling pennies out of her change purse!
I see your grandson managed to get you on the Internet. Here's a tip: You aren't really the 1,000,000th visitor to that web site and you didn't win a free ipod.
No one uses pennies. I've got a huge jar of them. Ever since the "Leave a penny, take a penny" concept took off, pennies have been effectively junk.
Round up any calculations that end in 3,4,8 or 9 to the next nickel, round down all calculations that end in 1,2,6 or 7. Easy.
the microrobot might deliver a payload of expandable glue to the site of a damaged cranial artery
I have an AVM in my hypothalamus, so I may have to have this done in the next few years. I hope they get this thing perfected soon!