Uh, perhaps spam is decreasing because people who receive spam are getting a clue that they tend to lose money and get screwed when they reply to the spam? Always a possibility. All the people cannot be stupid all the time, can they?
There is a study that in WW2, the Japanese were handicapped by their language in giving commands during battle so their plans basically kept going without timely changes in tactics. Imagine not being able to control your troops properly during the heat of combat, a recipe for disaster.
Geez folks, Google is your friend. Check out "Digital Preservation, Planets" to find out that all the major libraries ARE digitizing everything they possibly can. They are also qualifying and choosing digital formats that CAN stand the test of time. If the formats change, the Planets committees will adapt and redo the work. This is not just "they should" but "they are."
There is nothing special about paper, it's just was was available at the time. Digital is the next logical progressive step in passing knowledge, reporting the news and reading entertainment. The only thing it has against it right now is that it really only about 20 year old technology. Give it another 100 years, and digital storage will be just as accepted as paper ever was. Paper's time has come and gone. "it's the message, not the media, that is important".
Remember the movies "Forbidden Planet" with the ID trying to kill everyone? Then remember the movie "Dr. Strangelove" where Peter Sellers arm starts choking himself? Well...
It's like China and Google. Governments can impose whatever draconian measures they want but can they enforce them? Its a global economy after all. How will they stop XBox live or Steam downloads? Toothless tigers.
Or Colorado? Or any other place where the roads are winding and have blind intersections? There I need all the information I can get. And if you are tooling down a highway, who looks at the map?
Heh, not so fast! Have you TRIED to BUY an ATI Radeon 5870 card since AMD/ATI "announced" it? Everyone is still showing zero stock (Amazon, Newegg, etc). Low yields on the GPU chip. If this goes on long enough, NVidia has a chance to catch up. Why in the world did ATI even bother to introduce the card if they cannot deliver? I smell desperation.
Agree. Look at Google's bare bones servers without even a UPS needed. Got to be a hell of a lot cheaper than this monstrosity. And of course this dual liquid piping will NEVER need maintenance or foul up or have a pump break, right? And there are no places for hard drives. 5 layers of boards and covers, two complete liquid cooling loops, single pump for a row of servers, what could possibly go wrong?
Agreed. This is the best response I have seen. Try to take the "I know best" out of the equation. Getting hot and bothered by something that I thought was of great importance but management did not almost got me fired more than once. The one time that I could not in all justice keep my mouth shut, my boss was fired and I was "laid off" a few weeks later.
By keeping your cool and treating this as you would any other IT job, you get a fair chance of fixing it without anyone getting upset. Remember, you are supposed to be an ASSET to the company, not a pain in the ass. I once heard why a manager let a talented employee go. The manager said "the guy was great in doing the job but was it just too much trouble for me to manage him".
Once more, with feeling "Communicate, communicate, communicate."
Great post. Says what I wanted to say. I used a lot of the IEC sets in test and measurement racks with HP over the years. Never saw an arcing problem, never got a shock, and never saw a bent connector. Those are damn good connectors!
At HP, I would repair the equipment folks would be writing to the firmware and software to gambling machines in Rhode Island. This was in a corporate park far away from any casinos. They wore the usual work office apparel and unless I looked at the equipment of asked them what they were doing, I would NEVER be able to tell that they were working on slots. Small teams, good camaraderie, good working environment, and no impossible deadlines.
Hell, just tell the next recruiter that you were working on random number generators!
LOL. REAL MONEY is a piece of paper or a diamond! Books are permanent and last for ages!
Hate to break it to you bro, but both are false. Paper money is only as good as the FAITH people put into it. Diamonds are only worth money as they have had the LONGEST ad campaign out of pretty much any product. The Library of Alexandria (the largest ancient library) was burned to the ground wiping out generations of unique and one of books. The Library of Congress books could all conceivably be copied onto a few hard drives. What preserves knowledge is REDUNDANCY not just preservation.
Agree with this reply completely. Books will go digital sooner rather than later. Paper books have an LONG history but it is just a way to get the printed word to a reader.
The only thing holding e books back is large format books/magazines with color photos or figures. Once there is a non LCD reader for this, the age of "books" will be numbered.
I use the SONY e-reader for most fiction books these days and much prefer them to actual books. I can change the font size for instance so a "paperback" is now a "book". Total in the past 2 years or so, must be over 200 books read on the e-reader. They are all stored on a SDMC card 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch in size. I have not bought a fiction paper book in over a year and a half.
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Oops, this article was written way back in 1977 and yet I still remember it.
Read this about the Doomslayer in Wired magazine back a few years ago: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html
Uh, perhaps spam is decreasing because people who receive spam are getting a clue that they tend to lose money and get screwed when they reply to the spam? Always a possibility. All the people cannot be stupid all the time, can they?
There is a study that in WW2, the Japanese were handicapped by their language in giving commands during battle so their plans basically kept going without timely changes in tactics. Imagine not being able to control your troops properly during the heat of combat, a recipe for disaster.
Geez folks, Google is your friend. Check out "Digital Preservation, Planets" to find out that all the major libraries ARE digitizing everything they possibly can. They are also qualifying and choosing digital formats that CAN stand the test of time. If the formats change, the Planets committees will adapt and redo the work. This is not just "they should" but "they are." There is nothing special about paper, it's just was was available at the time. Digital is the next logical progressive step in passing knowledge, reporting the news and reading entertainment. The only thing it has against it right now is that it really only about 20 year old technology. Give it another 100 years, and digital storage will be just as accepted as paper ever was. Paper's time has come and gone. "it's the message, not the media, that is important".
Remember the movies "Forbidden Planet" with the ID trying to kill everyone? Then remember the movie "Dr. Strangelove" where Peter Sellers arm starts choking himself? Well...
It's like China and Google. Governments can impose whatever draconian measures they want but can they enforce them? Its a global economy after all. How will they stop XBox live or Steam downloads? Toothless tigers.
Or Colorado? Or any other place where the roads are winding and have blind intersections? There I need all the information I can get. And if you are tooling down a highway, who looks at the map?
Heh, not so fast! Have you TRIED to BUY an ATI Radeon 5870 card since AMD/ATI "announced" it? Everyone is still showing zero stock (Amazon, Newegg, etc). Low yields on the GPU chip. If this goes on long enough, NVidia has a chance to catch up. Why in the world did ATI even bother to introduce the card if they cannot deliver? I smell desperation.
Agree. Look at Google's bare bones servers without even a UPS needed. Got to be a hell of a lot cheaper than this monstrosity. And of course this dual liquid piping will NEVER need maintenance or foul up or have a pump break, right? And there are no places for hard drives. 5 layers of boards and covers, two complete liquid cooling loops, single pump for a row of servers, what could possibly go wrong?
Agreed. This is the best response I have seen. Try to take the "I know best" out of the equation. Getting hot and bothered by something that I thought was of great importance but management did not almost got me fired more than once. The one time that I could not in all justice keep my mouth shut, my boss was fired and I was "laid off" a few weeks later. By keeping your cool and treating this as you would any other IT job, you get a fair chance of fixing it without anyone getting upset. Remember, you are supposed to be an ASSET to the company, not a pain in the ass. I once heard why a manager let a talented employee go. The manager said "the guy was great in doing the job but was it just too much trouble for me to manage him". Once more, with feeling "Communicate, communicate, communicate."
Great post. Says what I wanted to say. I used a lot of the IEC sets in test and measurement racks with HP over the years. Never saw an arcing problem, never got a shock, and never saw a bent connector. Those are damn good connectors!
At HP, I would repair the equipment folks would be writing to the firmware and software to gambling machines in Rhode Island. This was in a corporate park far away from any casinos. They wore the usual work office apparel and unless I looked at the equipment of asked them what they were doing, I would NEVER be able to tell that they were working on slots. Small teams, good camaraderie, good working environment, and no impossible deadlines. Hell, just tell the next recruiter that you were working on random number generators!
LOL. REAL MONEY is a piece of paper or a diamond! Books are permanent and last for ages! Hate to break it to you bro, but both are false. Paper money is only as good as the FAITH people put into it. Diamonds are only worth money as they have had the LONGEST ad campaign out of pretty much any product. The Library of Alexandria (the largest ancient library) was burned to the ground wiping out generations of unique and one of books. The Library of Congress books could all conceivably be copied onto a few hard drives. What preserves knowledge is REDUNDANCY not just preservation.
Agree with this reply completely. Books will go digital sooner rather than later. Paper books have an LONG history but it is just a way to get the printed word to a reader. The only thing holding e books back is large format books/magazines with color photos or figures. Once there is a non LCD reader for this, the age of "books" will be numbered. I use the SONY e-reader for most fiction books these days and much prefer them to actual books. I can change the font size for instance so a "paperback" is now a "book". Total in the past 2 years or so, must be over 200 books read on the e-reader. They are all stored on a SDMC card 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch in size. I have not bought a fiction paper book in over a year and a half.