Bellingham is considered a suburb of either Seattle or Vancouver. 90 miles is not that bad of a commute around here. This is the U.S. of A., and we drive places.
Long analog signal cables on the other hand can't run 3 feet without getting signal noise and causing ghosting and all sorts of other weird artifacts. All I can say is thank god all the analog A/V cables are a thing of the past. If I ever have to hear (OR SEE!) a 60hz hum again in my life it will be too soon.
If you're talking about unbalanced cables with RCA connectors, yeah, they are crap. But most of that 60Hz (or $local_power_frequency) is due to bad grounding. If you use balanced or differential audio lines then you don't even need or want shielding quite often. And if you do use shielding, you should only "ground" it at one end. In that case the shielding is a Faraday cage around the wire and not part of the audio signal in any way. In fact, grounding at both ends is the quickest way to introduce noise, especially in long runs where the equipment on each end may well have a significant "ground" voltage differential. The reason for the twist on twisted pair is to phase cancel out any external EMF that may get introduced to the cable.
The man trap is SOP for Switch and Data, er, Equinix data centers. Amazon security is on par with Google. Go into a data center and you'll note the Amazon cage right away... it's the one that looks like a prison camp.
I remember back in the late 90s when we had hubs, not switches, someone came up with a perl script to monitor the wire looking for.gif and.jpg files and would then tile them on a display screen with the IP of the host viewing them. The sales department at that ISP sure got in trouble that day!
I much preferred Rainbow Mars, it didn't have so many damn escarpments.
But I agree, while the Robinson trilogy was great read (escarpments aside) there was a lot of reliance on super genius to fill plot gaps. Extended age developed on Mars, not Earth? You would think them a bit busy just staying feed for that to happen. It was a good discussion of the various ways Mars could be terraformed and one of the more popular series to take an extended look at what may be required for a colonisation. It's sci-fi, and it got a lot of people dreaming, job fulfilled. Clarke didn't have all the science needed to get a bird up to geosync, but he did get the right people thinking about it.
I know that in Washington State the issue with Real ID was more of an unfunded mandate issue. Also, it doesn't really DO anything for the citizens of the state. Washington does have an EDL* for those that want it which DOES provide value as we head up to British Columbia often.
Come to think of it, Real ID would would more likely hurt the state as most of our crops are picked by "migrant" workers.
*The enhanced driver license (EDL) or enhanced ID card (EID) confirms your identity and citizenship, and is an acceptable alternative to a passport for re-entry into the U.S. at land and sea border crossings.
Tell me more about this sleeping with strangers part. Grieving just might be something I want to get in to, at least on weekends.
Black comedy aside, this reminds me of Pat Tillman's brother Richard at his funeral after Sen. John McCain said that a loving God will reunite the family in the end: "Just make no mistake, he would want me to say this, he's not with God, he's fucking dead, he's not religious, so thanks for your thoughts but he's fucking dead." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwsy8FEL0ls
American heros can be godless, not just commies.
Anyway, "Taking with it 228 souls." I thought that, according to folklore, souls were the one thing that actually escaped.
I think the issue is more that most of the nukes are off-line and a good percentage of the transmission lines and facilities are just not there any more.
Check out these before/after shots (with a nifty little slider) to really understand that a lot of towns just are not there now.
Even with the best civil defence of any nation, this is going to be a long haul for Japan.
This is also a reminder of why, at least those in the US, should take http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/"?>CERT training, or what ever your local equivalent is. Oh, and get a ham radio and a license too and train with your local EmCommies.
/. wasn't a company back then. I even hosted images.slashdot.org on an old pent 133 because Malda was starting to peg his T1. We had a whoppin' T3 with bandwidth to spare.
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Bellingham is considered a suburb of either Seattle or Vancouver. 90 miles is not that bad of a commute around here. This is the U.S. of A., and we drive places.
And UW is right down the road.
Very insightful comments. I wish I hadn't used up my daily allocation of mod points.
Exile Tim Eyman and paid signature gathering and Washington would be a better place.
But then what would talk radio in Seattle talk about?
Oh, yeah, Mayor McBike.
Long analog signal cables on the other hand can't run 3 feet without getting signal noise and causing ghosting and all sorts of other weird artifacts. All I can say is thank god all the analog A/V cables are a thing of the past. If I ever have to hear (OR SEE!) a 60hz hum again in my life it will be too soon.
If you're talking about unbalanced cables with RCA connectors, yeah, they are crap. But most of that 60Hz (or $local_power_frequency) is due to bad grounding. If you use balanced or differential audio lines then you don't even need or want shielding quite often. And if you do use shielding, you should only "ground" it at one end. In that case the shielding is a Faraday cage around the wire and not part of the audio signal in any way. In fact, grounding at both ends is the quickest way to introduce noise, especially in long runs where the equipment on each end may well have a significant "ground" voltage differential. The reason for the twist on twisted pair is to phase cancel out any external EMF that may get introduced to the cable.
Is that a bunch of flying croc?
God must be in prison... everyone finds him there.
I wanted to add something to your rant, but I think you have it fully covered.
Don't forget this thing that he planted in the middle of Seattle.
Now if they could learn RCW 46.61.100.
The man trap is SOP for Switch and Data, er, Equinix data centers. Amazon security is on par with Google. Go into a data center and you'll note the Amazon cage right away... it's the one that looks like a prison camp.
And he therefore missed the whole joke.
I remember back in the late 90s when we had hubs, not switches, someone came up with a perl script to monitor the wire looking for .gif and .jpg files and would then tile them on a display screen with the IP of the host viewing them. The sales department at that ISP sure got in trouble that day!
I just tested this at work the past week..
And I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with your job function either.
So now I can watch porn on my Cisco router? ASCII art via the console port at 9600 baud?
I much preferred Rainbow Mars, it didn't have so many damn escarpments.
But I agree, while the Robinson trilogy was great read (escarpments aside) there was a lot of reliance on super genius to fill plot gaps. Extended age developed on Mars, not Earth? You would think them a bit busy just staying feed for that to happen. It was a good discussion of the various ways Mars could be terraformed and one of the more popular series to take an extended look at what may be required for a colonisation. It's sci-fi, and it got a lot of people dreaming, job fulfilled. Clarke didn't have all the science needed to get a bird up to geosync, but he did get the right people thinking about it.
I want my rotary phone back.
But come to think of it. TouchTone is analog while pulse dialling is digital.
ThinkGeek idea: Model 500 VoIP phones.
I had a Fiat. That's why I make French jokes.
I know that in Washington State the issue with Real ID was more of an unfunded mandate issue. Also, it doesn't really DO anything for the citizens of the state. Washington does have an EDL* for those that want it which DOES provide value as we head up to British Columbia often.
Come to think of it, Real ID would would more likely hurt the state as most of our crops are picked by "migrant" workers.
*The enhanced driver license (EDL) or enhanced ID card (EID) confirms your identity and citizenship, and is an acceptable alternative to a passport for re-entry into the U.S. at land and sea border crossings.
Tell me more about this sleeping with strangers part. Grieving just might be something I want to get in to, at least on weekends.
Black comedy aside, this reminds me of Pat Tillman's brother Richard at his funeral after Sen. John McCain said that a loving God will reunite the family in the end: "Just make no mistake, he would want me to say this, he's not with God, he's fucking dead, he's not religious, so thanks for your thoughts but he's fucking dead." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwsy8FEL0ls
American heros can be godless, not just commies.
Anyway, "Taking with it 228 souls." I thought that, according to folklore, souls were the one thing that actually escaped.
There's an App for that.
I think the issue is more that most of the nukes are off-line and a good percentage of the transmission lines and facilities are just not there any more.
Check out these before/after shots (with a nifty little slider) to really understand that a lot of towns just are not there now.
Even with the best civil defence of any nation, this is going to be a long haul for Japan.
This is also a reminder of why, at least those in the US, should take http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/"?>CERT training, or what ever your local equivalent is. Oh, and get a ham radio and a license too and train with your local EmCommies.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_46.html
.. or putting cuffs on someone that manipulated another persons body.
/. wasn't a company back then. I even hosted images.slashdot.org on an old pent 133 because Malda was starting to peg his T1. We had a whoppin' T3 with bandwidth to spare.
Now I'll need to get rid of nethead.com, nethead.org, nethead.us and nethead.org.uk.