The first result is the one for the YAHOO MAPS service, which wasn't even part of the options the poster asked about. In addition, Yahoo is notorious for setting up temporary alliances for using other vendors services, such as yahoo used to use google for it's searches. Reference this link for more details. http://www.news.com/2100-1024_3-5160710.html
Then, not only was google not the second result on the list, you had to scroll down to find theirs, and MSN's link is even lower.
So apparently, according to the pagerank algorithm, more people tend to not think so highly of msn or google maps.
which begs the question, didn't they merely copyright an inevitable evolution of processing systems?
I have always been led to believe that if there is a natural outgrowth based on logical trends, that you couldn't patent the idea? Like patenting the premise for a machine that can process 4 trillion floating point operations per second.
wouldn't it then be beneficial to rename this new method to aday or adate? also, you now have to construct huge lists of references in ram, that cannot be cached or you somewhat defeat the purpose, that are only to process the files for the past 24 hours at the most, and what about a server that does some sort of obscene logging system, so that it creates new logs or updates logs by the thousand per hour? maybe some sort of mass cvs compiler system or something? I think you get the idea.
While it would work for a few systems to speed things up, think of all the files that get "written to" when you browse the web using a "standard" system (ie, no adblockplus or similar). The pointer list has the potential to grow quite large, not to mention that that's one more thing that the kernel has to keep track of, or at least the i/o subsys.
And you have to maintain it per mount, so what if you mounted a cdrw or iso vs a cd or cdr (ignoring here completely the redundancy of questioning about dvd families or floppies or whatever)? Technically those are rewritable systems with atime capable tracking, so do you do adate on those as well? what about when the system craters, now all of your security tracking is lost.
I guess my point is that it's sort of an all or nothing thing here, although this is my take.
So we have 7 million years to figure out space flight and/or a way to record the sum of our knowledge for future intelligences.
The answer: OOXML Obviously you don't know that the answer is actually 42
Although I can see from your UID that you must be newer here
No really, I thought we only needed to send a few wikia HD-DVD's up into space every few years and spread around our knowledge. I mean really, if a few aliens can't imagine that we would send data out in ISO-9660 then what good is alien intelligence anyways?
Since mods can't recognize a couple of jokes, here goes: Of course his joke was funny 42 is not an obscure reference on/. Who uses ISO-9660 anymore anyways? I mean really, FAT12 is so the better option. It's not like that UDF2 will be around much longer
I get that you encrypt against gmails server using their public key; so, what happens, you send an encrypted "public" code to gmail's server so that it can encrypt against for you to decrypt after you encrypted your "public" code in the server's public code?
It just seems like the authentication setup could open you up to be vulnerable to your keys being sniffed at the outset.
And for those who come along later and read this, yah, I get that you can't decrypt based off of three transactions in the middle of the string, my thing is, if you get every packet of the string, can't you reconstruct the encrypted data?
But I thought that if you were to capture the entire keys exchange between two parties, that you could reconstruct the encrypted string. It'd be like having both of the keys to a PGP message. How does having all of the communique not allow you to reconstruct the en/de-cryption key?
Okay, yeah I get that the server in the middle would need to be hideously fast to not only capture the packets on the stream, but also to reconstruct all of the happenings and log them all out at one time in "english"** but I'm sure with enough hardware it could be done.
**my language agnostic term implying a human readable form in the log. How the log of one particular communication thread is seperated from all others is beyond the scope of my term
I think I should hope to be about that for this year, after my deducs, however I just started this position, so I'm trying to gauge myself against others who do about the same thing. I tend to undervalue myself, and have to break the habit.
Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately for myself I live in the Houston metro area, so yeah, cost-of-living is sufficiently higher than it was where I lived previously, but only by about ten percent.
I don't know which part of basic high school history class most of the other American citizenry slept through, but wouldn't it be nice if more people understood that in this country?
It's going to take a revolution of this country to reorganize it to be the way that it took the last revolution to get it setup that way. Doesn't it suck that http://www.johntitor.com/ is not a true tale? Wouldn't it be scarier if it was?
UNLESS, easy readability, in which case I don't know what to tell you, probably a basic flip (I've seen larger text there).
But the phone that I carry is the 6030, and it does calls and that's about it. Of course, every phone has an address book, clock, and dayplanner capabilities (or I haven't seen one that doesn't that has been built in the past three years), so those are there, but I really only use mine for the alarm clock other than for making telephone calls.
I believe you are referring to the next "movement" in IT/CS/whatever-we-call-it-nowadays
This is the goal of such programs as Microsoft's Live and the ever vaporous GoogleOS. One server (okay, a cluster, that you see as a single server, such as http: / / www. google.com) storing all your data and everyone else's with all of the programs being updated in a central location and you only cache the bits of the program that you're actually running.
Ever lose a connection to GMail? Ever pay attention to your name on the quicklist on the left? Try disabling your wireless sometime to see the effect.
Yes, sure, all the big websites have this functionality for web pages, but think of Linden Labs releasing a client that could run without Windows/Linux/MacOS/Java/Whatever, natively, over some sort of "Ma Bell" 'bootp/PXE' service, on whatever platform you want.
That's the future of Microsoft Live, and that's the future of computing.
It's coming, and I can't wait to see the gloriousness that will be...
Are you hiring, or do you see yourself doing so in the near future?
Aw screw that, just tell me what part of the world your located nearest (preferably large-city-wise) and I'll see if I can't move that way and impress ya.
At least give us a chance to obtain the sort of happiness you enjoy...
So just out of curiousity, how much do you make annually? I think I slipped into this job at way too low of a figure, but my thought process is that if you are comfortable with the pay, then it's not too low
The cover grafx are different, but as far as memory serves, the game is the same. I don't have my CD wallet with me, but maybe I have it on the laptop, I'll check later.
The article poster was mentioning about "rebuilding" a house in NOLA, so I thought I might offer a couple of things.
Depending on how much gutting you intend on doing, many housebuilders have started installing waterblocks in a main access point in the house, such that you can cut off any faucet just like it was a breaker. One is Manabloc. Here's a good site for some more info. http://www.mvsupply.biz/manabloc.htm
Another thing to think about installing is an in-wall pest killer/repellant distribution system, that can be filled/primed/whatever from outside the home. Since this is where insects build their homes, this can be a great idea.
Another good idea is that anywhere you have wiring or plumbing going through walls, close the holes off so that there is not a flame path if a fire should start. Kind of goes along with the concept of Plenum.
Now, for my thoughts, not things I have seen. I say install at least three seperate sets of patch panels in the house. You want cat5e/cat6 for RJ45/RJ11 etc style wiring. You can always custom crimp cables to fit from the wall to the phone, and many '45 jacks nowadays fit '11 connectors and hold them in place for short periods of time.
The second patch panel should be a set of coaxial patches going to each room, preferably two to each room as a minimum, since DVR sat connections require two. I would recommend picking up multicolored coax connector blocks to help differentiate in-room, for instance, telling your wife/husband/technophobe to check and make sure the two blue blocks have wires connected, because how many spouses know how to read a wiring schematic correctly the first time?
The third patch panel should be for speaker wiring, provided the distances aren't going to be too great, or attempting to drive too large of a signal. I would personally hide these third panels all over the house, one in each room where you have speakers. You can make the counter or shelf connections for these patch panels hidden on the wall, and with builtins you can put them to the side instead of the rear, for instance where the TV may connect.
The only problem you get into here is the multitude of cables on the rear of a good AV setup.
Another patch panel you may want to install is if you plan on putting in many security cameras around the house, you can install the coax or rca cables ahead of time for the cabling so that you only need to hook the cameras up after the fact. For instance, run a cable to each eave corner on your house, and install cameras later at your leisure. Just think it out ahead of time where you may want to put more than one camera for this to work. Also, install horizontally mounted-door protected GFCI outoor outlets next to each coax plug.
You also want to make sure that there are seperate AC returns from each room, instead of one huge sucking hole in the middle of your house.
Don't be afraid to run network drops all over the house, network cable is relatively cheap nowadays. Use cat6 when you know you'll want to put a computer their, and cat5 everywhere else, possibly even putting singlegangs for the cabling on the other side of or the next over stud from where you install any electrical outlet.
Yeah, it feels like it was designed by one man in a month.
Ooooh, you mean the implementation? They must have a link to a guy overseeing an infinite number of monkeys in some alternate universe to get these final products.
(okay, it was going to be funnier, as it was in my head, so some of you will wonder why I didn't just close the tab, but I thought it was funny enough as is)
possibly coerce you and keep you in line and maintain their own existing power-base if they don't implement such measures.
It is an old saying, but I'm sure we've all heard it before: "When we are afraid, we will do anything to feel safer." So the Government that is afraid that it is losing it's grip will force the People to live in fear.
Sure you don't always think of the fact that you're afraid, but when's the last time you were on an open stretch of highway and just wanted to have a brief moment of the exhiliration that you see portrayed on film of speeding and pushing you car to the limit, or when have you ever wanted to climb to the top of a skyscraper just to see the view?
Granted the greater good is maintained when you don't run 120mph down the road, and surely you cannot fall to your death if you are not allowed to be in the open air at 1200ft. But when it's just you, and there is obviously no one else around, can not be anyone else around, why couldn't you go 120mph? It's your car. You fund the highway.
Now here come the nay-sayers to claim that there must be law maintained so you cannot go over the speed limit. Here come those who claim that my speeding is killing the environment. Here is my tormentor who claims that the wind must surely blow me to my death. There are those who claim that surely I will injure someone, or cause grief to come upon my family if I die.
I do not deny these facts, but I also do not deny that I am more than capable of handling my car at 120mph on a flat stretch of road, and am capable of doing slight corners at well over 90mph. Many rally-car drivers do it daily. And no, I do not own a rally-car, nor do I think I do. I am aware of reality.
I do not deny that I would not want to fall 1200ft to my death. I do not argue that indeed I am afraid of heights that tall. But I do know that the wind in my face is great, and that the view from the top of a mountain is spectacular, so why would the view of man's great accomplishment be any less spectacular? And what if I want to be on the open, upper-layers to admire the spectacular building adornments that the architects designed into the building?
But would any police officer understand your plea of unbridled passion for life if he witnessed your speeding? Would any security officer share your passion of witnessing the majestic glory of what Man can accomplish?
So until the Government can remember that we are not all bodies politic, and instead that we are people with emotions, and not just People, then, no, the Government cannot allow us to feel that we are do any sense of privacy.
We must not stand by and idly allow our freedoms to be taken from us. I can understand the need to protect the people, but as Ben Franklin so aptly stated: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I agree with the sentiment. I don't see how any self-aware man cannot agree. I am not for the disarming of the military, but I am for the reduction of Government on a Federal level. It is to the State to preserve the rights of the individuals who live within its borders. It is to the Federal Government to preserve the authority of contracts between states and to defend the common borders.
We've all had the history classes, but who amongst us still believes that the Government should be for the People, and of the People? Obviously not those who run the so-called Government, nor those who sit at the head of the Corporations which control the Government.
I have gone on long enough with this short rant, so if you wish to tear this apart, go ahead, and I'll respond in like.
I know my position and I am not afraid to defend it, nor to redefine it with new information learned. I know myself.
I am for the death penalty, but I am against death row. I am for capital punishment, but I believe that any punishment must be decided upon by a jury, and any proceedings against the accused must start
[comic-book-guy voice]okay, since you probably said it in a high pitched whiny way from your mothers basement while eating hot-pockets, i'll give it +.2 funny[/cbg voice]
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No, google maps is the first SPONSORED LINK
The first result is the one for the YAHOO MAPS service, which wasn't even part of the options the poster asked about. In addition, Yahoo is notorious for setting up temporary alliances for using other vendors services, such as yahoo used to use google for it's searches. Reference this link for more details. http://www.news.com/2100-1024_3-5160710.html
Then, not only was google not the second result on the list, you had to scroll down to find theirs, and MSN's link is even lower.
So apparently, according to the pagerank algorithm, more people tend to not think so highly of msn or google maps.
-Arthur Koestler "Only when it's a discovery."
-Me
This is like patenting dropping rocks on the ground, not figuring a better design to skip rocks across the lake surface.
which begs the question, didn't they merely copyright an inevitable evolution of processing systems?
I have always been led to believe that if there is a natural outgrowth based on logical trends, that you couldn't patent the idea? Like patenting the premise for a machine that can process 4 trillion floating point operations per second.
wouldn't it then be beneficial to rename this new method to aday or adate? also, you now have to construct huge lists of references in ram, that cannot be cached or you somewhat defeat the purpose, that are only to process the files for the past 24 hours at the most, and what about a server that does some sort of obscene logging system, so that it creates new logs or updates logs by the thousand per hour? maybe some sort of mass cvs compiler system or something? I think you get the idea.
While it would work for a few systems to speed things up, think of all the files that get "written to" when you browse the web using a "standard" system (ie, no adblockplus or similar). The pointer list has the potential to grow quite large, not to mention that that's one more thing that the kernel has to keep track of, or at least the i/o subsys.
And you have to maintain it per mount, so what if you mounted a cdrw or iso vs a cd or cdr (ignoring here completely the redundancy of questioning about dvd families or floppies or whatever)? Technically those are rewritable systems with atime capable tracking, so do you do adate on those as well? what about when the system craters, now all of your security tracking is lost.
I guess my point is that it's sort of an all or nothing thing here, although this is my take.
The answer: OOXML
Obviously you don't know that the answer is actually 42
Although I can see from your UID that you must be newer here
No really, I thought we only needed to send a few wikia HD-DVD's up into space every few years and spread around our knowledge. I mean really, if a few aliens can't imagine that we would send data out in ISO-9660 then what good is alien intelligence anyways?
My word that is truly a work of art, eh? Thanks for the linky
I get that you encrypt against gmails server using their public key; so, what happens, you send an encrypted "public" code to gmail's server so that it can encrypt against for you to decrypt after you encrypted your "public" code in the server's public code?
It just seems like the authentication setup could open you up to be vulnerable to your keys being sniffed at the outset.
And for those who come along later and read this, yah, I get that you can't decrypt based off of three transactions in the middle of the string, my thing is, if you get every packet of the string, can't you reconstruct the encrypted data?
But I thought that if you were to capture the entire keys exchange between two parties, that you could reconstruct the encrypted string. It'd be like having both of the keys to a PGP message. How does having all of the communique not allow you to reconstruct the en/de-cryption key?
Okay, yeah I get that the server in the middle would need to be hideously fast to not only capture the packets on the stream, but also to reconstruct all of the happenings and log them all out at one time in "english"** but I'm sure with enough hardware it could be done.
**my language agnostic term implying a human readable form in the log. How the log of one particular communication thread is seperated from all others is beyond the scope of my term
I think I should hope to be about that for this year, after my deducs, however I just started this position, so I'm trying to gauge myself against others who do about the same thing. I tend to undervalue myself, and have to break the habit.
Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately for myself I live in the Houston metro area, so yeah, cost-of-living is sufficiently higher than it was where I lived previously, but only by about ten percent.
Again, thx
Sign me up.
I don't know which part of basic high school history class most of the other American citizenry slept through, but wouldn't it be nice if more people understood that in this country?
It's going to take a revolution of this country to reorganize it to be the way that it took the last revolution to get it setup that way. Doesn't it suck that http://www.johntitor.com/ is not a true tale? Wouldn't it be scarier if it was?
Here's to the revolution!
Such as the Nokia 6030, which is what I carry.
UNLESS, easy readability, in which case I don't know what to tell you, probably a basic flip (I've seen larger text there).
But the phone that I carry is the 6030, and it does calls and that's about it. Of course, every phone has an address book, clock, and dayplanner capabilities (or I haven't seen one that doesn't that has been built in the past three years), so those are there, but I really only use mine for the alarm clock other than for making telephone calls.
Here's a Nokia link http://www.nokiausa.com/link?cid=EDITORIAL_185113
It does work on GSM/GPRS 850/1900 MHz so that should be sufficient to get you on most major networks, no?
Best of luck!
Screw LoCs/BoEs
;)
I want to know how many rods/hogsheads
There, I said it, now how many posts does it take to correct this one
Why Google(tm), but of course.
Silly little A/C . . . Say, you must be new here, huh?
A/C's never seem to know how to register. Here's a hint, the link to register is at the top of the page.
I believe you are referring to the next "movement" in IT/CS/whatever-we-call-it-nowadays
.com) storing all your data and everyone else's with all of the programs being updated in a central location and you only cache the bits of the program that you're actually running.
This is the goal of such programs as Microsoft's Live and the ever vaporous GoogleOS. One server (okay, a cluster, that you see as a single server, such as http: / / www. google
Ever lose a connection to GMail? Ever pay attention to your name on the quicklist on the left? Try disabling your wireless sometime to see the effect.
Yes, sure, all the big websites have this functionality for web pages, but think of Linden Labs releasing a client that could run without Windows/Linux/MacOS/Java/Whatever, natively, over some sort of "Ma Bell" 'bootp/PXE' service, on whatever platform you want.
That's the future of Microsoft Live, and that's the future of computing.
It's coming, and I can't wait to see the gloriousness that will be...
SkyNet (okay, not really, but probably)
Are you hiring, or do you see yourself doing so in the near future?
Aw screw that, just tell me what part of the world your located nearest (preferably large-city-wise) and I'll see if I can't move that way and impress ya.
At least give us a chance to obtain the sort of happiness you enjoy...
me too me too
So just out of curiousity, how much do you make annually? I think I slipped into this job at way too low of a figure, but my thought process is that if you are comfortable with the pay, then it's not too low
I'n'it great?
No really, I'll have to hook you up on an ISO or some screenshots or something, stay tuned
The cover grafx are different, but as far as memory serves, the game is the same. I don't have my CD wallet with me, but maybe I have it on the laptop, I'll check later.
At WalMart, imagine that, huh
that Oregon Trail amongst others is available at WalMart. I have a copy and would be willing to host an iso if necessary.
You know how to look me up, only don't use hotmail, use gmail
The article poster was mentioning about "rebuilding" a house in NOLA, so I thought I might offer a couple of things.
Depending on how much gutting you intend on doing, many housebuilders have started installing waterblocks in a main access point in the house, such that you can cut off any faucet just like it was a breaker. One is Manabloc. Here's a good site for some more info. http://www.mvsupply.biz/manabloc.htm
Another thing to think about installing is an in-wall pest killer/repellant distribution system, that can be filled/primed/whatever from outside the home. Since this is where insects build their homes, this can be a great idea.
Another good idea is that anywhere you have wiring or plumbing going through walls, close the holes off so that there is not a flame path if a fire should start. Kind of goes along with the concept of Plenum.
Now, for my thoughts, not things I have seen. I say install at least three seperate sets of patch panels in the house. You want cat5e/cat6 for RJ45/RJ11 etc style wiring. You can always custom crimp cables to fit from the wall to the phone, and many '45 jacks nowadays fit '11 connectors and hold them in place for short periods of time.
The second patch panel should be a set of coaxial patches going to each room, preferably two to each room as a minimum, since DVR sat connections require two. I would recommend picking up multicolored coax connector blocks to help differentiate in-room, for instance, telling your wife/husband/technophobe to check and make sure the two blue blocks have wires connected, because how many spouses know how to read a wiring schematic correctly the first time?
The third patch panel should be for speaker wiring, provided the distances aren't going to be too great, or attempting to drive too large of a signal. I would personally hide these third panels all over the house, one in each room where you have speakers. You can make the counter or shelf connections for these patch panels hidden on the wall, and with builtins you can put them to the side instead of the rear, for instance where the TV may connect.
The only problem you get into here is the multitude of cables on the rear of a good AV setup.
Another patch panel you may want to install is if you plan on putting in many security cameras around the house, you can install the coax or rca cables ahead of time for the cabling so that you only need to hook the cameras up after the fact. For instance, run a cable to each eave corner on your house, and install cameras later at your leisure. Just think it out ahead of time where you may want to put more than one camera for this to work. Also, install horizontally mounted-door protected GFCI outoor outlets next to each coax plug.
You also want to make sure that there are seperate AC returns from each room, instead of one huge sucking hole in the middle of your house.
Don't be afraid to run network drops all over the house, network cable is relatively cheap nowadays. Use cat6 when you know you'll want to put a computer their, and cat5 everywhere else, possibly even putting singlegangs for the cabling on the other side of or the next over stud from where you install any electrical outlet.
Yeah, it feels like it was designed by one man in a month.
Ooooh, you mean the implementation? They must have a link to a guy overseeing an infinite number of monkeys in some alternate universe to get these final products.
(okay, it was going to be funnier, as it was in my head, so some of you will wonder why I didn't just close the tab, but I thought it was funny enough as is)
Yeah, the newer boxen do.
But why, since HPUX 11 has been so well proven and does the job as it should? Just because you want to run some custom-written POS software on there?
All the big packages (read:dbms) run on the Unices nicely.
It's the partitioning of those big systems that are nice. That's the part that makes you scratch your head if you've never been introduced to it.
possibly coerce you and keep you in line and maintain their own existing power-base if they don't implement such measures.
It is an old saying, but I'm sure we've all heard it before: "When we are afraid, we will do anything to feel safer." So the Government that is afraid that it is losing it's grip will force the People to live in fear.
Sure you don't always think of the fact that you're afraid, but when's the last time you were on an open stretch of highway and just wanted to have a brief moment of the exhiliration that you see portrayed on film of speeding and pushing you car to the limit, or when have you ever wanted to climb to the top of a skyscraper just to see the view?
Granted the greater good is maintained when you don't run 120mph down the road, and surely you cannot fall to your death if you are not allowed to be in the open air at 1200ft. But when it's just you, and there is obviously no one else around, can not be anyone else around, why couldn't you go 120mph? It's your car. You fund the highway.
Now here come the nay-sayers to claim that there must be law maintained so you cannot go over the speed limit. Here come those who claim that my speeding is killing the environment. Here is my tormentor who claims that the wind must surely blow me to my death. There are those who claim that surely I will injure someone, or cause grief to come upon my family if I die.
I do not deny these facts, but I also do not deny that I am more than capable of handling my car at 120mph on a flat stretch of road, and am capable of doing slight corners at well over 90mph. Many rally-car drivers do it daily. And no, I do not own a rally-car, nor do I think I do. I am aware of reality.
I do not deny that I would not want to fall 1200ft to my death. I do not argue that indeed I am afraid of heights that tall. But I do know that the wind in my face is great, and that the view from the top of a mountain is spectacular, so why would the view of man's great accomplishment be any less spectacular? And what if I want to be on the open, upper-layers to admire the spectacular building adornments that the architects designed into the building?
But would any police officer understand your plea of unbridled passion for life if he witnessed your speeding? Would any security officer share your passion of witnessing the majestic glory of what Man can accomplish?
So until the Government can remember that we are not all bodies politic, and instead that we are people with emotions, and not just People, then, no, the Government cannot allow us to feel that we are do any sense of privacy.
We must not stand by and idly allow our freedoms to be taken from us. I can understand the need to protect the people, but as Ben Franklin so aptly stated: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I agree with the sentiment. I don't see how any self-aware man cannot agree. I am not for the disarming of the military, but I am for the reduction of Government on a Federal level. It is to the State to preserve the rights of the individuals who live within its borders. It is to the Federal Government to preserve the authority of contracts between states and to defend the common borders.
We've all had the history classes, but who amongst us still believes that the Government should be for the People, and of the People? Obviously not those who run the so-called Government, nor those who sit at the head of the Corporations which control the Government.
I have gone on long enough with this short rant, so if you wish to tear this apart, go ahead, and I'll respond in like.
I know my position and I am not afraid to defend it, nor to redefine it with new information learned. I know myself.
I am for the death penalty, but I am against death row. I am for capital punishment, but I believe that any punishment must be decided upon by a jury, and any proceedings against the accused must start
yeah, a 5 digit id versus a mid-6s id. . . hmmm
[comic-book-guy voice]okay, since you probably said it in a high pitched whiny way from your mothers basement while eating hot-pockets, i'll give it +.2 funny[/cbg voice]