Apologies for nit-picking in advance, but I've never seen any appropriate use of "should of".
And, I completely agree with you that grammar (or, even, English) is not tested for nearly as much as coding ability. After all, the company isn't selling documents to their clients!
Just last week, the cable guy came to fix my Internet, as the cable modem had stopped working. Nothing had changed in our configuration, but apparently the signal had been reduced out on the pole.
I say that because his fix was exactly what your GP post said: replace the crappy connectors with expensive ones. He explained that the one splitter he put where it enters the house was a 7/7/3.5 splitter, and he put the cable modem connection on the output with only a 3.5 dB degradation. I haven't had a problem since.
If necessary, one can put a two-way splitter where it enters the house and run a separate cable up to the cable modem. TVs don't show degradation nearly as much as cable modems do, so the extra splitter won't have any effect on one's TV viewing.
(I just now read your parent post, and it says similar things to the above, so I think that's correct and will leave them as is.)
It's not just phones; it's any distraction. Eating, putting makeup on, shaving, etc.
When I am driving and talking, I get in the slow lane and stay there, no matter how slowly the driver ahead of me goes. When the conversation is over, I get back up to speed.
Write a container for the browser. Every time Google serves up pages from a book, upload those pages to FreeNet, and also modify an index (use FreeNetdb, if there is such a thing?) containing the book name and page number(s). Once all the pages are there, it'll mark the book as complete.
Once enough people install the container and do some searches, Google will have served entire books into the public domain.
It would be difficult for them to detect, as well, since the searches wouldn't be coming from, for instance, a loop.
I just re-read "The Ringworld Engineers", and in it there's the issue where the Ringworld was created with lots of room-temperature superconductors, but then a bacteria landed which consumed superconductors, and that stopped the Ringworld from accepting power (beamed from the "shadow squares" which simulate day/night cycles).
Then it veered off course and was going to smash into its sun, and for the rest I won't ruin it for you.
What's amazing is it was written in 1980, and doesn't feel old at all.
Thanks for responding. Are you sure about what you state? Have you done (or seen) modeling studies that show that this is how the network degrades when it's user over capacity?
I'm not being sarcastic: I haven't seen these studies, so I don't know. If I was running the nodes, I'd probably put no more than 5 to 10 miles between them for similar reasons; and I'm sure there'd be some sort of cellular-type switching protocol, to keep the nodes talking to their closest access point. Also, I'd want bandwidth limits, exactly so that a single Kazaa user would not take out the network.
Why do you say "You never want to rely on wireless connections for longer than you have to"? I see us moving to wireless-only in the future. As with ParasiteNet, if we have enough links in between, we can get anywhere (albeit with latency). Perhaps the latency is why you'd want wires?
Thank you for attempting to see inside my skull. However, you failed. Hint: it's not TV. Try books like Engines of Creation, Unbounding the Future, Nano, Ringworld, and sites like slashdot.org, nanodot.org, technocrat.net,...
Mars will not exist in 50-60 years. We will take it apart. Someone else posted this more eloquently, but the gist of it is, once we have nanotech, how you gonna stop me?
Hopefully this will start taking off. At 300', you need a whole lot of them. At 30 miles, "one per city" is often good enough.
Cory Doctorow's latest novel, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" has a sub-plot about unwiring the entire town. It's not the first place I've seen such an idea, and it worked well with the story. Remember to switch all your nodes to ParasiteNet!
Similarly, if you can convince your followers that those who aren't your followers, also aren't human, then you can cause your followers to do some pretty horrific things.
Witches weren't human, they were somehow supernatural, and therefore should float when normal people should sink (the tragedy is you're dead either way--so avoid being accused!).
Scientologists believe that it is okay to steal from, lie to, and even kill non-followers. I won't link to any of it but there's evidence a quick Google search away.
Not only is apocalyptic-style religion bad, but also any religion which promotes "life after death". This then leads to thinking that killing people isn't all that bad, because if they were good they they're "in heaven" and if they were bad then they deserved to die anyway and would be "in hell" and never again seen by "the good people".
I think this could be the end times, and much evidence points to the Bush administration being directly or indirectly involved in the attacks (he kept reading the book to the 2nd-graders; and then he flew 124 Saudis out of the country--instead of questioning them!)--so I would not be surprised if he began a nuclear war before the end of his presidency.
Then again, this could just be the next challenge. I'm sure there were plenty of people who thought Hitler was the beginning of the end times, but we got by him and then we invented computers, and totally changed communication on the planet.
Since it's near impossible to shield children from all exposure from things their parents find objectionable, you could say that the lack of exposure causes harm, since without exposure there is no understanding.
Let's be done with it already, then! We're all going to live forever; so we just make children illegal and then we won't have to "think of the children!" ever again.
Somewhat OT, but check out Milk Sucks. I'm not a rabid environmentalist (this is a PETA site); however, I truly believe that milk is for babies, and not cross-species babies either.
Support or oppose the DST change for REAL reasons.
I'm of the notion that time is absolute. If we want to mandate something through the force of law, we should mandate that schools and businesses change their hours of operation.
Not play around with something that's moving at a constant speed in a single direction!!!1!
One other response said they use their cell phone to tell the time.
I abandoned my watch years ago, and the reason was because I couldn't stand my left arm getting stuck in places my right arm wouldn't. Having to re-learn body motion really kinda sucked.
I'd pay to have a semi-transparent clock in my glasses, though.
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Remove a "t" and an "r" from your name, and you're an anagram of "nitpick".
And, I completely agree with you that grammar (or, even, English) is not tested for nearly as much as coding ability. After all, the company isn't selling documents to their clients!
The old board game, Life, had a similar typo: you were fined for "wreckless driving". I always got a laugh out of that.
I keep trying, but these damn power lines!
Talk about Darwin...
Just last week, the cable guy came to fix my Internet, as the cable modem had stopped working. Nothing had changed in our configuration, but apparently the signal had been reduced out on the pole.
I say that because his fix was exactly what your GP post said: replace the crappy connectors with expensive ones. He explained that the one splitter he put where it enters the house was a 7/7/3.5 splitter, and he put the cable modem connection on the output with only a 3.5 dB degradation. I haven't had a problem since.
If necessary, one can put a two-way splitter where it enters the house and run a separate cable up to the cable modem. TVs don't show degradation nearly as much as cable modems do, so the extra splitter won't have any effect on one's TV viewing.
(I just now read your parent post, and it says similar things to the above, so I think that's correct and will leave them as is.)
Oh, to be able to play the pinball game again...
No; and, it's obvious from the caption: she's wearing a bikini!
How is that MS' defense? Didn't they write SBS?
When I am driving and talking, I get in the slow lane and stay there, no matter how slowly the driver ahead of me goes. When the conversation is over, I get back up to speed.
I never get mod points any more (wish I knew wtf I did), so all I can do is say: MOD PARENT UP!
Write a container for the browser. Every time Google serves up pages from a book, upload those pages to FreeNet, and also modify an index (use FreeNetdb, if there is such a thing?) containing the book name and page number(s). Once all the pages are there, it'll mark the book as complete.
Once enough people install the container and do some searches, Google will have served entire books into the public domain.
It would be difficult for them to detect, as well, since the searches wouldn't be coming from, for instance, a loop.
Then it veered off course and was going to smash into its sun, and for the rest I won't ruin it for you.
What's amazing is it was written in 1980, and doesn't feel old at all.
I'm not being sarcastic: I haven't seen these studies, so I don't know. If I was running the nodes, I'd probably put no more than 5 to 10 miles between them for similar reasons; and I'm sure there'd be some sort of cellular-type switching protocol, to keep the nodes talking to their closest access point. Also, I'd want bandwidth limits, exactly so that a single Kazaa user would not take out the network.
Why do you say "You never want to rely on wireless connections for longer than you have to"? I see us moving to wireless-only in the future. As with ParasiteNet, if we have enough links in between, we can get anywhere (albeit with latency). Perhaps the latency is why you'd want wires?
Why am I responding to an AC, anyway?
Mars will not exist in 50-60 years. We will take it apart. Someone else posted this more eloquently, but the gist of it is, once we have nanotech, how you gonna stop me?
Hopefully this will start taking off. At 300', you need a whole lot of them. At 30 miles, "one per city" is often good enough.
Cory Doctorow's latest novel, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" has a sub-plot about unwiring the entire town. It's not the first place I've seen such an idea, and it worked well with the story. Remember to switch all your nodes to ParasiteNet!
Witches weren't human, they were somehow supernatural, and therefore should float when normal people should sink (the tragedy is you're dead either way--so avoid being accused!).
Scientologists believe that it is okay to steal from, lie to, and even kill non-followers. I won't link to any of it but there's evidence a quick Google search away.
Not only is apocalyptic-style religion bad, but also any religion which promotes "life after death". This then leads to thinking that killing people isn't all that bad, because if they were good they they're "in heaven" and if they were bad then they deserved to die anyway and would be "in hell" and never again seen by "the good people".
I think this could be the end times, and much evidence points to the Bush administration being directly or indirectly involved in the attacks (he kept reading the book to the 2nd-graders; and then he flew 124 Saudis out of the country--instead of questioning them!)--so I would not be surprised if he began a nuclear war before the end of his presidency.
Then again, this could just be the next challenge. I'm sure there were plenty of people who thought Hitler was the beginning of the end times, but we got by him and then we invented computers, and totally changed communication on the planet.
We can get by Bush, as well.
Let's be done with it already, then! We're all going to live forever; so we just make children illegal and then we won't have to "think of the children!" ever again.
Somewhat OT, but check out Milk Sucks. I'm not a rabid environmentalist (this is a PETA site); however, I truly believe that milk is for babies, and not cross-species babies either.
Yes: See "heat death of the universe."
Corners, reaching into a computer, not the gutter pervert. ;-)
I'm of the notion that time is absolute. If we want to mandate something through the force of law, we should mandate that schools and businesses change their hours of operation.
Not play around with something that's moving at a constant speed in a single direction!!!1!
I abandoned my watch years ago, and the reason was because I couldn't stand my left arm getting stuck in places my right arm wouldn't. Having to re-learn body motion really kinda sucked.
I'd pay to have a semi-transparent clock in my glasses, though.
Cool, thanks! For anyone else still reading this old thread, this page has the 14 movies and TV shows based on his works. Cheers!