You and me both. You'd think that somebody would maintain a list of known Chinese netblocks and make it easy, instead of trying to dig them out one/24 at a time.
Does this explain the dozens of crusty old coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers? I've always wondered how some people could survive into their 70s on a diet of black coffee and Pall Malls.
It depends on what you mean by "substantive": the most commons side effects are headache, nervousness, and anxiety. A less common side effect is insomnia (often due to combination with alcohol).
I haven't seen a comprehensive data sheet on it, what percentage of people report those symptoms? They could fit pretty much any drug with the slightest chance of an increase in blood pressure.
Compared to something like Xanax, it is new, and the idea of using it on non-narcoleptic people for the purpose of increased wakefulness is pretty new, or at least that's the impression I got.
I think my doctor was trying to treat the symptoms of anxiety, which he thought would improve sleeping, without coherently recognizing that while anxiety contributed to lack of sleep, the baby being awake and needing care @ 2 AM contributed to it more.
I personally think that 2-3 months of Modafinil would have been more beneficial.
...from what I've read, it's supposed to be only used for people suffering from narcolepsy.
The story I read (about 3 years ago, in the New Yorker) mentioned that in experiments with it, normal people were able to stay awake for *days* on end (I think the longest was a week) without any of the symptoms typically associated with sleep deprivation -- fatigue, loss of mental abilities, and with enough deprivation, psychotic behavior.
And as you said, they only needed a normal night of sleep to be back to square one -- no 36 hour marathons of sedative-laced sleep or days of recovery to feel normal. (*I* need 2-3 days of consecutive quality sleep to recover from even one all-nighter, and that's without using any stimulants).
IIRC they really hadn't identified any substantive problems with it in terms of side effects, although I think it's probably new and there's always the chance of long-term brain rot. The article did say that while the drug was only approved for narcolepsy, it's apparently prescribed at a level beyond what's considered statistically appropriate given the known narcoleptic population. Apparently some people have figured out it's value.
I asked my doctor if we could have a prescription after our son was born. I was mostly joking, but kind of serious. The sleep deprivation with a new child is pretty punishing, and being able to "take over" for 24 hours while the other slept would have been a huge benefit. Oddly the doctor didn't give me modafinil, but did give me Xanax.
I generally think that the spandex-clad THX1138/Logan's Run future ain't all that far fetched. Whether it will look like the curvy 1960s modern architecture is up for debate, but it's hard not to see a micromanaged human future dependant on synthetic food and mind control drugs.
Hosted Exchange suffers from the problem of attachments. One of their few virtues is that attachments are sent non-interactively; you don't waste time downloading them.
If your Exchange setup is hosted, you end up having to pull everything from the WAN, which is tedious for larger attachments unless you have 3Mbit or larger pipe and your hosting provider is topologically close to your ISP.
If you never use them, it's probably a pretty good deal and a lot less headache than in-house Exchange.
Re-imaging a small business client's PC is a major hassle.
For one, there isn't an image of their machine. If you're super lucky they have the system reinstall disk that came with it, and CDs for all the apps they had installed. Typically they're missing half of them and won't pay for new ones and may not even have the OS install disk.
Then there's the time involved in trying to find and backup all their documents, which invariably means that the clown you're working for has saved everything with a.MINE extension in C:\windows\system32\temp\spool\
Even when you do it and it works out, they blanch at the bill.
Sure I explain that IE is the source of much of their problems, but so was the fact that they're browsing with IE on Win 2K SP1 or XP w/o any service packs.
I have to be halfway honest when they ask me if IE is better on Win XP SP2 + hotfixes than it was on their old computer. It is, and I don't think that's debatable (yes, it is far from perfect but better than XP plain or 2k SP1).
I could add Firefox to the machines, but a lot of customers get pissed if they think you're "padding" by adding stuff they don't want, and I'm also working against totally lowball bids my boss has put together. I'm gonna run the job 10% over the bid no matter what just cutting corners getting the work done. I'd rather deal with the overage problem for must-have work rather than give them ammunition to short us for "padding."
We don't screwdriver our machines, they're drop ships from Dell. We just boot, update and personalize them. See the thing above about lowball bids.
I think new PCs is a major reason. There are a lot of people (in fact a client I just worked at) who had Mozilla/Firefox on their old PCs but when they got new ones wanted to use IE.
They switched to Moz/FF because their old PCs were encrusted with spyware and IE became unusable. The "fix" for this problem by many is to buy a new PC (can't argue if consultant-paid OS install plus apps equals the cost of a new box).
The new PC has IE, IE works because there's no spyware, voila, FF "loses" marketshare.
Supposedly, the power comes from the people. It's not that the state would take it's power away, rather, it would be that the people have not yet conceeded that authority to it in the first place (by voting for, or electing people who vote for laws granting the state that power).
This is part of the principles surrounding why we fought the British in the first place.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, [...]
Nobles aren't "more equal" and the government does not derive its authority from the king, whose authority is claimed to be a divine right.
Astute observers will note that the British never quite fixed this problem with a proper constitution -- notice Blair's recent rather single-handed crackdown on clerics -- what would be a constitutionally protected right in the U.S..
I can't say I blame his impulses, but as a libertarian I have problems with it. I don't know what the tax exempt status of religious institutions is in the UK, but it strikes me that a better tool would be to retroactively strip tax exempt status from any religious group advocating political goals, seize their assets on tax grounds and deport their leadership for tax evasion. Same end result, but this way you can still say whatever you want provided you're not relying on the government to pay for it through tax exemption.
There has to be a huge market for something you could put in a location that would effectively nix any rogue WAPs that people installed, either through RF interference (FCC nono?) or by simply drowning the WAPs bandwidth by auto-attaching and spamming the AP to render it non-functional.
Awful security design and someone tell me how United can justify 4 CS reps for THE ENTIRE FUCKING TERMINAL?!?!?
$25 million worth of unused self-check terminals, but no way to check bags or change flights on them. 4 people doing it for ALL COACH FLIGHTS out of O'Hare on 7/21/05. Of course 1st Class had no queue and 5 employees with the fingers in the butts.
And the airlines wonder why people want to lynch them and they're losing money.
...are 20 year olds who count computers and networking as their prime hobby.
Some of us are 40, with kids, houses, and other interests that make some server in a hard-to-get location with hard-to-get downtime less than appealing to patch. And then there's management's attitude towards it -- you patch, after hours, and you don't get paid. OK...
I can remember when patching all night was kind of fun. Now I call sleeping kind of fun. I get paid to do my job, but not to bust my hump doing it.
Whether it's hostile indigenous personnel, weird diseases, dangerous travel methods, or even lunatic fellow crew members, going to far away new places has always been dangerous. And there have always been explorers willing to risk life & limb (and someone else's money) to do it.
What's with the penchant for making it safe and sanitary? Those should be long-term engineering goals, not short term requirements for pursuing exploration. If it always had to be safe and comfortable, Lewis & Clark would have waited for the invention of the motorhome.
(The irony being, that, IIRC the only crew member to perish on L&C's trip died of appendicitis, a then-incurable ailment.)
You shouldn't have linked to the archive, somebody might know WTF you were talking about.
These days (and I don't really care, either) it seems like Lynn and his collection of co-investors were brilliant compared to the used car salesmen and other tinpot business "moguls" running the show.
Even assuming 1 bit per Hz of spectrum (eg, 7Gbits), that's still only 700kbps for 10k people, and 10k people is a cushy number relative to very high density locations like Manhattan.
Of course this doesn't take into account oversubscription, but it also doesn't take into account signalling overhead nor loss of bandwidth due to interference (which would likely be huge if it was a consumer technology).
Given the density of most cities, it seems like decent (eg, > 256k) speed long-haul wireless, especially ad-hoc unlicensed, would be less meaningful than high-speed 'standard distance' wireless.
I just don't see a scheme where 10k people in 5 mi^2 can all have 1Mbps wireless without using way more spectrum than will ever be allocated to unlicensed consumer products.
I agree that a decent speed implementation of a wide area wireless would be nice, but it's a carrier tech, not a consumer one.
If it was $8k total, it'd be the most repeated story ever.
It may well have been $8k up front with some small percentage of first-run box office after, which might have led to the $650k total. There had to have been product and appearance money he got above and beyond the acting paycheck, so it seems unlikely that even $650k was all he ever made from Star Wars.
...you rugrats can't buy liquor, guns, gamble, rent a car or get into a titty bar.
You've got the life experience and wisdom of a child, because you are one. I know it sucks when people tell you that, but it's true, and you won't realize it's true until you're in your 30s.
Unless you're a very senior employee (making $200k+), the cost of enforcing a non-compete is just too high to make it worth most companies' while.
Think about it -- they have to figure out where you're working, which is likely not easy unless you're working within a very small or high profile discipline or have a high profile occupation.
And then they have to decide to use an attorney to sue you, which is extremely expensive, time-consuming and opens them up to a range of counter-suits which could involve a lot of record snooping and unfriendly depositions.
I'd love (loathe?) to hear stories of dark, evil corporations that spent $100k chasing a $50k employee, but I suspect they don't exist, simply because most businesses have something more important to do and the "non-compete" is just another bit of paper some attorney advised HR to collect.
I was being flippant, but what you say should be available. I'd call it a TV subscription version of iTunes, actually.
But you know the usual problems -- DRM, copyright, etc. I suppose there is the minor technical limitaion of getting everything ever shown on TV in some digital format that's easily downloadable, but it'd be just a massively parallel version of Tivo, which ought to be doable in today's world of 500GB HDDs.
What's annoying about this isn't that my 2 year old $2800 HD TV isn't compatible with high definition signalling, it's not compatible with a specific and relatively new standard oriented towards copyright control.
As long as the running battle continues on securing DRM, nothing you buy will be safe from flexible standards; each standard will go through a phase of being new, then being cracked, then being replaced with something else which renders previous versions obsolete and "non-standard".
I'm not really pissed because I'm not interested in buying into HD DVD unless it's Blu-Ray, usable on my PC, and as usable for home recording as my current Panny E80 HD recorder is.
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You and me both. You'd think that somebody would maintain a list of known Chinese netblocks and make it easy, instead of trying to dig them out one /24 at a time.
Does this explain the dozens of crusty old coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers? I've always wondered how some people could survive into their 70s on a diet of black coffee and Pall Malls.
It depends on what you mean by "substantive": the most commons side effects are headache, nervousness, and anxiety. A less common side effect is insomnia (often due to combination with alcohol).
I haven't seen a comprehensive data sheet on it, what percentage of people report those symptoms? They could fit pretty much any drug with the slightest chance of an increase in blood pressure.
Compared to something like Xanax, it is new, and the idea of using it on non-narcoleptic people for the purpose of increased wakefulness is pretty new, or at least that's the impression I got.
I think my doctor was trying to treat the symptoms of anxiety, which he thought would improve sleeping, without coherently recognizing that while anxiety contributed to lack of sleep, the baby being awake and needing care @ 2 AM contributed to it more.
I personally think that 2-3 months of Modafinil would have been more beneficial.
...from what I've read, it's supposed to be only used for people suffering from narcolepsy.
The story I read (about 3 years ago, in the New Yorker) mentioned that in experiments with it, normal people were able to stay awake for *days* on end (I think the longest was a week) without any of the symptoms typically associated with sleep deprivation -- fatigue, loss of mental abilities, and with enough deprivation, psychotic behavior.
And as you said, they only needed a normal night of sleep to be back to square one -- no 36 hour marathons of sedative-laced sleep or days of recovery to feel normal. (*I* need 2-3 days of consecutive quality sleep to recover from even one all-nighter, and that's without using any stimulants).
IIRC they really hadn't identified any substantive problems with it in terms of side effects, although I think it's probably new and there's always the chance of long-term brain rot. The article did say that while the drug was only approved for narcolepsy, it's apparently prescribed at a level beyond what's considered statistically appropriate given the known narcoleptic population. Apparently some people have figured out it's value.
I asked my doctor if we could have a prescription after our son was born. I was mostly joking, but kind of serious. The sleep deprivation with a new child is pretty punishing, and being able to "take over" for 24 hours while the other slept would have been a huge benefit. Oddly the doctor didn't give me modafinil, but did give me Xanax.
I generally think that the spandex-clad THX1138/Logan's Run future ain't all that far fetched. Whether it will look like the curvy 1960s modern architecture is up for debate, but it's hard not to see a micromanaged human future dependant on synthetic food and mind control drugs.
Hosted Exchange suffers from the problem of attachments. One of their few virtues is that attachments are sent non-interactively; you don't waste time downloading them.
If your Exchange setup is hosted, you end up having to pull everything from the WAN, which is tedious for larger attachments unless you have 3Mbit or larger pipe and your hosting provider is topologically close to your ISP.
If you never use them, it's probably a pretty good deal and a lot less headache than in-house Exchange.
Re-imaging a small business client's PC is a major hassle.
.MINE extension in C:\windows\system32\temp\spool\
For one, there isn't an image of their machine. If you're super lucky they have the system reinstall disk that came with it, and CDs for all the apps they had installed. Typically they're missing half of them and won't pay for new ones and may not even have the OS install disk.
Then there's the time involved in trying to find and backup all their documents, which invariably means that the clown you're working for has saved everything with a
Even when you do it and it works out, they blanch at the bill.
Sure I explain that IE is the source of much of their problems, but so was the fact that they're browsing with IE on Win 2K SP1 or XP w/o any service packs.
I have to be halfway honest when they ask me if IE is better on Win XP SP2 + hotfixes than it was on their old computer. It is, and I don't think that's debatable (yes, it is far from perfect but better than XP plain or 2k SP1).
I could add Firefox to the machines, but a lot of customers get pissed if they think you're "padding" by adding stuff they don't want, and I'm also working against totally lowball bids my boss has put together. I'm gonna run the job 10% over the bid no matter what just cutting corners getting the work done. I'd rather deal with the overage problem for must-have work rather than give them ammunition to short us for "padding."
We don't screwdriver our machines, they're drop ships from Dell. We just boot, update and personalize them. See the thing above about lowball bids.
I think new PCs is a major reason. There are a lot of people (in fact a client I just worked at) who had Mozilla/Firefox on their old PCs but when they got new ones wanted to use IE.
They switched to Moz/FF because their old PCs were encrusted with spyware and IE became unusable. The "fix" for this problem by many is to buy a new PC (can't argue if consultant-paid OS install plus apps equals the cost of a new box).
The new PC has IE, IE works because there's no spyware, voila, FF "loses" marketshare.
This is part of the principles surrounding why we fought the British in the first place.
Nobles aren't "more equal" and the government does not derive its authority from the king, whose authority is claimed to be a divine right. Astute observers will note that the British never quite fixed this problem with a proper constitution -- notice Blair's recent rather single-handed crackdown on clerics -- what would be a constitutionally protected right in the U.S.. I can't say I blame his impulses, but as a libertarian I have problems with it. I don't know what the tax exempt status of religious institutions is in the UK, but it strikes me that a better tool would be to retroactively strip tax exempt status from any religious group advocating political goals, seize their assets on tax grounds and deport their leadership for tax evasion. Same end result, but this way you can still say whatever you want provided you're not relying on the government to pay for it through tax exemption.
There has to be a huge market for something you could put in a location that would effectively nix any rogue WAPs that people installed, either through RF interference (FCC nono?) or by simply drowning the WAPs bandwidth by auto-attaching and spamming the AP to render it non-functional.
Awful security design and someone tell me how United can justify 4 CS reps for THE ENTIRE FUCKING TERMINAL?!?!?
$25 million worth of unused self-check terminals, but no way to check bags or change flights on them. 4 people doing it for ALL COACH FLIGHTS out of O'Hare on 7/21/05. Of course 1st Class had no queue and 5 employees with the fingers in the butts.
And the airlines wonder why people want to lynch them and they're losing money.
...are 20 year olds who count computers and networking as their prime hobby.
Some of us are 40, with kids, houses, and other interests that make some server in a hard-to-get location with hard-to-get downtime less than appealing to patch. And then there's management's attitude towards it -- you patch, after hours, and you don't get paid. OK...
I can remember when patching all night was kind of fun. Now I call sleeping kind of fun. I get paid to do my job, but not to bust my hump doing it.
First successful appendectomy in the U.S. wasn't until 1886/7.
It wasn't until that period of time that it was generally understood what appendicitis was, thus it wasn't considered a curable ailment.
Whether it's hostile indigenous personnel, weird diseases, dangerous travel methods, or even lunatic fellow crew members, going to far away new places has always been dangerous. And there have always been explorers willing to risk life & limb (and someone else's money) to do it.
What's with the penchant for making it safe and sanitary? Those should be long-term engineering goals, not short term requirements for pursuing exploration. If it always had to be safe and comfortable, Lewis & Clark would have waited for the invention of the motorhome.
(The irony being, that, IIRC the only crew member to perish on L&C's trip died of appendicitis, a then-incurable ailment.)
You shouldn't have linked to the archive, somebody might know WTF you were talking about.
These days (and I don't really care, either) it seems like Lynn and his collection of co-investors were brilliant compared to the used car salesmen and other tinpot business "moguls" running the show.
Even assuming 1 bit per Hz of spectrum (eg, 7Gbits), that's still only 700kbps for 10k people, and 10k people is a cushy number relative to very high density locations like Manhattan.
Of course this doesn't take into account oversubscription, but it also doesn't take into account signalling overhead nor loss of bandwidth due to interference (which would likely be huge if it was a consumer technology).
Given the density of most cities, it seems like decent (eg, > 256k) speed long-haul wireless, especially ad-hoc unlicensed, would be less meaningful than high-speed 'standard distance' wireless.
I just don't see a scheme where 10k people in 5 mi^2 can all have 1Mbps wireless without using way more spectrum than will ever be allocated to unlicensed consumer products.
I agree that a decent speed implementation of a wide area wireless would be nice, but it's a carrier tech, not a consumer one.
If it was $8k total, it'd be the most repeated story ever.
It may well have been $8k up front with some small percentage of first-run box office after, which might have led to the $650k total. There had to have been product and appearance money he got above and beyond the acting paycheck, so it seems unlikely that even $650k was all he ever made from Star Wars.
...you rugrats can't buy liquor, guns, gamble, rent a car or get into a titty bar.
You've got the life experience and wisdom of a child, because you are one. I know it sucks when people tell you that, but it's true, and you won't realize it's true until you're in your 30s.
Unless you're a very senior employee (making $200k+), the cost of enforcing a non-compete is just too high to make it worth most companies' while.
Think about it -- they have to figure out where you're working, which is likely not easy unless you're working within a very small or high profile discipline or have a high profile occupation.
And then they have to decide to use an attorney to sue you, which is extremely expensive, time-consuming and opens them up to a range of counter-suits which could involve a lot of record snooping and unfriendly depositions.
I'd love (loathe?) to hear stories of dark, evil corporations that spent $100k chasing a $50k employee, but I suspect they don't exist, simply because most businesses have something more important to do and the "non-compete" is just another bit of paper some attorney advised HR to collect.
I was being flippant, but what you say should be available. I'd call it a TV subscription version of iTunes, actually.
But you know the usual problems -- DRM, copyright, etc. I suppose there is the minor technical limitaion of getting everything ever shown on TV in some digital format that's easily downloadable, but it'd be just a massively parallel version of Tivo, which ought to be doable in today's world of 500GB HDDs.
Anyone else interested in this sort of service?
I hear that P2P has gotten pretty popular, yes. Was this what you were asking?
What's annoying about this isn't that my 2 year old $2800 HD TV isn't compatible with high definition signalling, it's not compatible with a specific and relatively new standard oriented towards copyright control.
As long as the running battle continues on securing DRM, nothing you buy will be safe from flexible standards; each standard will go through a phase of being new, then being cracked, then being replaced with something else which renders previous versions obsolete and "non-standard".
I'm not really pissed because I'm not interested in buying into HD DVD unless it's Blu-Ray, usable on my PC, and as usable for home recording as my current Panny E80 HD recorder is.