This will probably be put in place with things like anti-lock breaks, or maybe some sort of automatic threshold braking system. Remember thought, this isn't just going to apply the breaks in random fashion, its going to apply the breaks when your current speed and direction would result in a collsion. Its not going to apply the breaks when you're merging unless the guy in front of you is breaking.
The same thing that happens now. If I'm driving and you're riding my a$$ and I stop suddenly, you better stop before you hit me. If not, you're at fault, you're going to pay the insurance premiums, you're going to pay the fines, etc. I can't believe you got modded insightful for this.
Too many people today drive as if they are more important than everyone else on the road. They tailgate while waiting to pass, they cut off traffic because they stayed in the left lane (North America) too long and have to cut over quick to make their exit/turn.
I've used PHP to handle a lot of things to automate things. I've written a few different backup and restore type utilities - one for a webhosting company that allowed customers to restore directories and/or files on the fly from a 5 day rotating backup. I've used it for fairly simple tasks as well, such as monitoring databases for new and/or strange entries. I'm currently using it to pull information from the gameport (well, actually a binary polls the gameport) that is hooked up to some sensors around the house. Its on its way to becoming a home security system.
PHP is not a bad scripting language, though it is mostly used for web backends. I think a lot of admins are still more comfortable using something like PERL for these kinds of tasks
Weight gain has more to do with what you eat, when you eat it, the relationship between what/when you eat and what you do or don't do physically during the day, as well as a host of other factors including stress, body chemistry, genetics, age, metabolism, medications, etc, etc.
I couldn't agree more. I recently quit smoking (day 12 without a cigarette). I've never been one to panic over minor fluctuations in my weight, but I noticed that after I quit smoking, I started putting on the pounds. The reason was simple, I was snacking more. Not because I was hungry, but it seemed like my fingers and mouth needed something to keep them busy now that I wasn't smoking. After about a week, I had added about 5 or 6 pounds. That's not a tragedy, and probably still healthier than smoking, but I didn't want the trend to continue. I stopped eating chips, candies and other things for snacks and started eating raw vegetables and fruit instead. Just as easy to grab as a bag of chips. In 4 days, I've shed those 6 pounds and am back to the weight I was when I quit smoking. I can basically eat as many carrots as I like and not worry about weight gain. Celery is another good one. From some reading I've done, one cup of carrots has around 52 calories, celery has 17. If I'm not mistaken, it actually takes more than 17 calories to chew and digest 1 cup of celery which in effect means that celery has negative calories.
Both your points are assumptions you have made. I never made the assumption that my call was only being recorded when the other end was actively talking to me. I also never made the assumption that monitoring was being done by the group I called.
Actually, I've always assumed that my call was monitored from the point where the automated system answered my call. I've frequently made suggestions to the company while on hold... especially about the phone service I'm receiving: "Please don't announce every 30s/1min/90s that my call will be answered in the order it was received. While on hold, I tend to watch TV or perform some other task that doesn't require too much attention. When I hear an interuption in the music such as a voice, I tend to stop what I'm doing and listen in case my call has been answered. This means I'm wasting more of my time AND becoming more frustrated and angry than I was when I first called in".
I have no idea if this works, but it gives me something to do when on hold.
Everyone should also realize that wherever the call terminates, those are the laws that must be followed. If you were to call me at home, I have no legal responsibility to inform you that the call may be recorded since in Canada, only one of the parties involved in the call has to be made aware that the call may be recorded.
I have actually used this to defeat a collection agency that was coming after me for some magazine subscription. They somehow thought that I had agreed to get about 3 or 4 women's magazines (I'm a guy and was a single 21 year old at the time). They wouldn't back off and I finally caught them break a paragraph in the Collection Agent's Act. When I had it recorded (they said they didn't have to provide proof of debt). When I played it back for a supervisor and threatened to play it for the local deptartment of justice, they stopped trying to collect.
Wow, kind of hard to answer your question. Yes, VoIP is around 90Kbps. Yes, a regular pots line can go up to 56K with a pots modem (dsl can go a lot faster). However, picking up the phone and dialing your friend and talking does not involve converting a digital signal into an analog signal and back again. Think of it this way, you talk to your friend over the phone the same way you talk to him in person. Your computer does not talk over the phone the same way it would talk to a computer hooked up on a network (okay, I'm really over-simplifying here). Basically, a computer only understands 1's and 0's. So, a modem takes those 1's and 0's converts them to sounds, and plays the sounds on the phone line. However, they have to be pretty exact or you can lose information. When humans talk on the phone, if there is a little glitch, our brains will fill in the missing information. On a computer, they have to retransmit the information.
I think you kind of missed what the original poster was saying. Sure you not a preppy person, you had neon spiked hair, or whatever your particular appearance choices were. However, how many people can honestly say they went to college to learn? I can't. I went to college so I would be able to get a good job. That's the "mold" he's referring to, not your appearance, speech patterns, etc. Higher education used to be for those wanting to learn or spend time doing research, not to train for careers.
That's not to say I don't want to learn. But at 17 (when I graduated from High School) the last thing I wanted to do was start into another school. I didn't have the desire to learn for the sake of learning. I wanted to have money in my pocket and hang out with friends. Now I'm 30 and am taking up a couple of new hobbies that have begun to interest me (woodwork and electronics). This is when learning (at least for me) really happens. I will probably look for community "learn to..." courses that will help, but for now I'm just trying to get a basic understanding of electronics by putting together some basic circuits. A guided education helps, but I believe learning on your own is as important as learning via instruction. Neither one is perfect on its own.
Yup, and their looking at rolling out an "almost" HD service. It won't be quite HD as the bandwidth isn't there, but from what I've heard it should be close.
Ack, forgot to mention that the really nice thing is that my cell phone provider allows free incoming text messages which can be sent via email, so remote notification is REALLY simple. The question becomes will my insurance company consider this a "monitored alarm".
I like that idea:). First I'm more interested in motion sensors or IR beams after I'm satisfied with the way the door sensors are working. A couple of other things I'd like to add are smoke detectors and water sensors (especially in the water softner which decided to overflow a few weeks ago). I'm currently using the gameport (took longer to get Linux to recgonize the gameport than it did to get the door sensor wired to the gameport). I'm currently using the analog driver which gives me only 4 buttons and up to 4 axis to play with. Depending how exact I can get with the axis, it allows for quite a few inputs, but I think eventually I'll look to going to a USB driven setup.
Sometimes its just fun, or for learning purposes. I'm currently trying to make a home security system that is run by the computer. I've wanted to learn electronics for a while so I went and spent about $15 on some basic parts (door sensor,DB15 to RJ45, wire) and have a linux box now recognizing if a door is open or closed. For some people that may not mean much, but this is the first time I've made a computer interact with the real world. I'm having a blast doing it, and I'm not spending $100s on an alarm that I don't really need, or buying off the shelf equipment that wouldn't help me learn anything.
In Regina a best buy opened about about 5 or 6 blocks for the futureshop. Not exactly sharing a parking lot, but relatively close. Of course Rona did the same thing to Home Depot.
I would say yes. Put notifications in however. Something along the lines of, "You only have one hour left. Purchase more time by...." and have scheduled periods when you'll get the notification, say at 1hr, 30mins, 15mins, 10mins, 5mins, 1min.
I'm the kind of gamer who one week will spend 10hrs playing a game and following week may not even touch it... just depends on what's going on in my life.
While WoW sounds like something I could play and enjoy, I'm not willing either to spend $20/month (or whatever the fee is). What I would suggest instead, is not a dollar/hour type fee, but instead a $ for x number of hours fee. Buy 10 hours for $7, 20 hours for $10 or similar.
Paying per hours is tedious, but paying for a number of hours would fit a lot more people. Leave a monthly unlimited rate in place. This allows every one to find a price point that fits their amount of gameplay. The hardcores can pay per month while those of us that can't dedicate that kind of time can find a pay-as-you go type model.
Most of these vulnerabilites come down to checking user input. If you are properly checking user input against a set of known good values and rejecting any input that is not a match, your chances of being vulnerable decrease dramatically.
Yes, I'm a big fan of php, but like any language out there, there are vulnerabilites. PHP had a bigger problem with register_globals being defaulted to on. Not to make light of these vulnerabilities, but if you are checking user input (assuming you're not using a downloaded package) you should be pretty safe.
I don't know the exact wording of the law, but I doubt it. I think this would work the same way movies work (at least here in Canada). No, a 16 year old can't get into the latest R rated flick, however, if they are accompanied by a parent/guardian they can. Its the same for rentals as well.
I'll have to check, but I think the same circumstances apply to alcohol, though that is regulated provincially here. I seem to remember being told that an underage person can drink if the alcohol is supplied by a parent/guardian though it can't happen in a public establishment (bar, restaurant, etc).
No, I don't have a lot of experience with other providers, but I'll try and give you some information. One of the main reason's its tough to do 911 on VoIP is that there is a requirement (or one might be coming down, I'm not sure) that forces the 911 operators to be able to locate the physical source of the call... not easy to do when all you have is an IP.
Yes, it is expensive. Webcall wasn't launched to be a major competitor in the market. It was launched to get SaskTel IN the market. There's a lot of work being continually done on the service. There's a lot of new features/benefits in the pipe, but some internal politics have slowed the next phase of the product. The only reason I have it (in Regina) is so I can do testing on some of the things I'm working.
Yes, SaskTel has been one of the biggest pioneers and innovators, and there not quite there any more, but there are some of us who are trying:)
I would mod you up as funny/interesting if I could... what a great idea! Imagine taking your smartcard/flash/memory stick to the Post Office and getting 50 stamps with a picture of your choice... think this would be VERY popular around the holidays!
Of course, then the PO would have to pay more attention to make sure stamps weren't just stickers someone had printed off at home.
Also not covering all of Canada is: WebCall
A little more expensive than most, and very limited area for local numbers (Alberta and BC) though you can sign up from anywhere.
Disclaimer: I do work for SaskTel which owns Navigata (who provides WebCall). I've done some work on the service. One thing I like about the webcall setup is the fact that you plug a regular phone into it. Not sure how many other VoIP providers do this - I'm sure some do
If I get a phone call during normal supper time, I won't give to that charity unless it is one I REALLY care about. Especially if they are rude to me. A couple months ago I got a call from a Firefighters charity at 6:00pm, just as I was sitting down to dinner. I politely told the individual I was not interested but before I could finish, they hung up on me. They won't be seeing any of my money.
Recently the news reported that the local police were hiring a private group to collect donations door to door for their TIPS program (get cash rewards for helping to catch criminals). The company was taking 70% of what was donated, leaving a measly 30% for the actual fund. They won't be seeing my money either.
When a charity comes to the door, I'll usually ask for documentation on how much of my donation will actually go to the cause. If they can't provide, or tell me where to get it, I won't donate.
I was taught multiplication the same way you were:
127
x23
---
It wasn't until years after school that I started thinking about breaking it down into several simpler problems. As such, my ability to do multiplication in my head has increased significantly. Sometimes its hard to explain how I can do it to some people, but I've found it much more effective for myself.
Which way should be taught? In later HS and Univesity, we were often taught to break complex problems down into simpler ones (isn't that one reason why we write functions when programming). I think this applies to math as well. Its very easy to do ((137 * 2) * 10) + (137 * 3) in your head (at least for me) but 137 * 23 is a lot tougher.
As many have noted, most registrars will notify you repeatedly when a domain is about to expire. I use domainsatcost.ca and just have mine setup to auto renew on my credit card. I don't even think about my domains expiring, just notice about a $15 charge on my credit card every now and then for a domain renewal.
Can I work for you?
The thing that has frustrated me the most with managers is being given a decision without any of the logic behind it. I remember submitting proposals for things we should be doing that if they gave me a few weeks of time (and an insignificant amount of budget) I figured I could save our team serveral hours of work a week. I put in the proposal (well researched). They asked for some clarification and to add a few things. I did so. At the end they said no. I can handle a proposal being turned down, but tell me why! Giving me a better understanding of why my proposal was turned down will save me frustration and probably time the next time I do up a proposal. No matter what I did, I couldnt' get a reason for it. After that, I hardly proposed anything any more. Some ideas I just went ahead and did, others I just dropped as soon as I thought of them.
I know in the long run my productivity dropped as did my morale. Its was the major factor in me looking (and finding) a new position.
I flipped through a bit and couldn't find what criteria they used to decide which were the best books. Out of the top 10 only 2 have any customer reviews. Is this a bestseller list, or just which publisher(s) paid the most to be on it?
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That's okay, as long as you didn't point it at a plane.
This will probably be put in place with things like anti-lock breaks, or maybe some sort of automatic threshold braking system. Remember thought, this isn't just going to apply the breaks in random fashion, its going to apply the breaks when your current speed and direction would result in a collsion. Its not going to apply the breaks when you're merging unless the guy in front of you is breaking.
The same thing that happens now. If I'm driving and you're riding my a$$ and I stop suddenly, you better stop before you hit me. If not, you're at fault, you're going to pay the insurance premiums, you're going to pay the fines, etc. I can't believe you got modded insightful for this.
Too many people today drive as if they are more important than everyone else on the road. They tailgate while waiting to pass, they cut off traffic because they stayed in the left lane (North America) too long and have to cut over quick to make their exit/turn.
I've used PHP to handle a lot of things to automate things. I've written a few different backup and restore type utilities - one for a webhosting company that allowed customers to restore directories and/or files on the fly from a 5 day rotating backup. I've used it for fairly simple tasks as well, such as monitoring databases for new and/or strange entries. I'm currently using it to pull information from the gameport (well, actually a binary polls the gameport) that is hooked up to some sensors around the house. Its on its way to becoming a home security system.
PHP is not a bad scripting language, though it is mostly used for web backends. I think a lot of admins are still more comfortable using something like PERL for these kinds of tasks
Weight gain has more to do with what you eat, when you eat it, the relationship between what/when you eat and what you do or don't do physically during the day, as well as a host of other factors including stress, body chemistry, genetics, age, metabolism, medications, etc, etc.
I couldn't agree more. I recently quit smoking (day 12 without a cigarette). I've never been one to panic over minor fluctuations in my weight, but I noticed that after I quit smoking, I started putting on the pounds. The reason was simple, I was snacking more. Not because I was hungry, but it seemed like my fingers and mouth needed something to keep them busy now that I wasn't smoking. After about a week, I had added about 5 or 6 pounds. That's not a tragedy, and probably still healthier than smoking, but I didn't want the trend to continue. I stopped eating chips, candies and other things for snacks and started eating raw vegetables and fruit instead. Just as easy to grab as a bag of chips. In 4 days, I've shed those 6 pounds and am back to the weight I was when I quit smoking. I can basically eat as many carrots as I like and not worry about weight gain. Celery is another good one. From some reading I've done, one cup of carrots has around 52 calories, celery has 17. If I'm not mistaken, it actually takes more than 17 calories to chew and digest 1 cup of celery which in effect means that celery has negative calories.
Actually, I've always assumed that my call was monitored from the point where the automated system answered my call. I've frequently made suggestions to the company while on hold... especially about the phone service I'm receiving: "Please don't announce every 30s/1min/90s that my call will be answered in the order it was received. While on hold, I tend to watch TV or perform some other task that doesn't require too much attention. When I hear an interuption in the music such as a voice, I tend to stop what I'm doing and listen in case my call has been answered. This means I'm wasting more of my time AND becoming more frustrated and angry than I was when I first called in".
I have no idea if this works, but it gives me something to do when on hold.
Everyone should also realize that wherever the call terminates, those are the laws that must be followed. If you were to call me at home, I have no legal responsibility to inform you that the call may be recorded since in Canada, only one of the parties involved in the call has to be made aware that the call may be recorded.
I have actually used this to defeat a collection agency that was coming after me for some magazine subscription. They somehow thought that I had agreed to get about 3 or 4 women's magazines (I'm a guy and was a single 21 year old at the time). They wouldn't back off and I finally caught them break a paragraph in the Collection Agent's Act. When I had it recorded (they said they didn't have to provide proof of debt). When I played it back for a supervisor and threatened to play it for the local deptartment of justice, they stopped trying to collect.
Wow, kind of hard to answer your question. Yes, VoIP is around 90Kbps. Yes, a regular pots line can go up to 56K with a pots modem (dsl can go a lot faster). However, picking up the phone and dialing your friend and talking does not involve converting a digital signal into an analog signal and back again. Think of it this way, you talk to your friend over the phone the same way you talk to him in person. Your computer does not talk over the phone the same way it would talk to a computer hooked up on a network (okay, I'm really over-simplifying here). Basically, a computer only understands 1's and 0's. So, a modem takes those 1's and 0's converts them to sounds, and plays the sounds on the phone line. However, they have to be pretty exact or you can lose information. When humans talk on the phone, if there is a little glitch, our brains will fill in the missing information. On a computer, they have to retransmit the information.
I think you kind of missed what the original poster was saying. Sure you not a preppy person, you had neon spiked hair, or whatever your particular appearance choices were. However, how many people can honestly say they went to college to learn? I can't. I went to college so I would be able to get a good job. That's the "mold" he's referring to, not your appearance, speech patterns, etc. Higher education used to be for those wanting to learn or spend time doing research, not to train for careers.
That's not to say I don't want to learn. But at 17 (when I graduated from High School) the last thing I wanted to do was start into another school. I didn't have the desire to learn for the sake of learning. I wanted to have money in my pocket and hang out with friends. Now I'm 30 and am taking up a couple of new hobbies that have begun to interest me (woodwork and electronics). This is when learning (at least for me) really happens. I will probably look for community "learn to ..." courses that will help, but for now I'm just trying to get a basic understanding of electronics by putting together some basic circuits. A guided education helps, but I believe learning on your own is as important as learning via instruction. Neither one is perfect on its own.
Yup, and their looking at rolling out an "almost" HD service. It won't be quite HD as the bandwidth isn't there, but from what I've heard it should be close.
Ack, forgot to mention that the really nice thing is that my cell phone provider allows free incoming text messages which can be sent via email, so remote notification is REALLY simple. The question becomes will my insurance company consider this a "monitored alarm".
I like that idea :). First I'm more interested in motion sensors or IR beams after I'm satisfied with the way the door sensors are working. A couple of other things I'd like to add are smoke detectors and water sensors (especially in the water softner which decided to overflow a few weeks ago). I'm currently using the gameport (took longer to get Linux to recgonize the gameport than it did to get the door sensor wired to the gameport). I'm currently using the analog driver which gives me only 4 buttons and up to 4 axis to play with. Depending how exact I can get with the axis, it allows for quite a few inputs, but I think eventually I'll look to going to a USB driven setup.
Sometimes its just fun, or for learning purposes. I'm currently trying to make a home security system that is run by the computer. I've wanted to learn electronics for a while so I went and spent about $15 on some basic parts (door sensor,DB15 to RJ45, wire) and have a linux box now recognizing if a door is open or closed. For some people that may not mean much, but this is the first time I've made a computer interact with the real world. I'm having a blast doing it, and I'm not spending $100s on an alarm that I don't really need, or buying off the shelf equipment that wouldn't help me learn anything.
In Regina a best buy opened about about 5 or 6 blocks for the futureshop. Not exactly sharing a parking lot, but relatively close. Of course Rona did the same thing to Home Depot.
I would say yes. Put notifications in however. Something along the lines of, "You only have one hour left. Purchase more time by...." and have scheduled periods when you'll get the notification, say at 1hr, 30mins, 15mins, 10mins, 5mins, 1min.
I'm the kind of gamer who one week will spend 10hrs playing a game and following week may not even touch it... just depends on what's going on in my life.
While WoW sounds like something I could play and enjoy, I'm not willing either to spend $20/month (or whatever the fee is). What I would suggest instead, is not a dollar/hour type fee, but instead a $ for x number of hours fee. Buy 10 hours for $7, 20 hours for $10 or similar.
Paying per hours is tedious, but paying for a number of hours would fit a lot more people. Leave a monthly unlimited rate in place. This allows every one to find a price point that fits their amount of gameplay. The hardcores can pay per month while those of us that can't dedicate that kind of time can find a pay-as-you go type model.
Most of these vulnerabilites come down to checking user input. If you are properly checking user input against a set of known good values and rejecting any input that is not a match, your chances of being vulnerable decrease dramatically.
Yes, I'm a big fan of php, but like any language out there, there are vulnerabilites. PHP had a bigger problem with register_globals being defaulted to on. Not to make light of these vulnerabilities, but if you are checking user input (assuming you're not using a downloaded package) you should be pretty safe.
I don't know the exact wording of the law, but I doubt it. I think this would work the same way movies work (at least here in Canada). No, a 16 year old can't get into the latest R rated flick, however, if they are accompanied by a parent/guardian they can. Its the same for rentals as well.
I'll have to check, but I think the same circumstances apply to alcohol, though that is regulated provincially here. I seem to remember being told that an underage person can drink if the alcohol is supplied by a parent/guardian though it can't happen in a public establishment (bar, restaurant, etc).
No, I don't have a lot of experience with other providers, but I'll try and give you some information. One of the main reason's its tough to do 911 on VoIP is that there is a requirement (or one might be coming down, I'm not sure) that forces the 911 operators to be able to locate the physical source of the call... not easy to do when all you have is an IP. :)
Yes, it is expensive. Webcall wasn't launched to be a major competitor in the market. It was launched to get SaskTel IN the market. There's a lot of work being continually done on the service. There's a lot of new features/benefits in the pipe, but some internal politics have slowed the next phase of the product. The only reason I have it (in Regina) is so I can do testing on some of the things I'm working.
Yes, SaskTel has been one of the biggest pioneers and innovators, and there not quite there any more, but there are some of us who are trying
I would mod you up as funny/interesting if I could... what a great idea! Imagine taking your smartcard/flash/memory stick to the Post Office and getting 50 stamps with a picture of your choice... think this would be VERY popular around the holidays!
Of course, then the PO would have to pay more attention to make sure stamps weren't just stickers someone had printed off at home.
WebCall
A little more expensive than most, and very limited area for local numbers (Alberta and BC) though you can sign up from anywhere.
Disclaimer: I do work for SaskTel which owns Navigata (who provides WebCall). I've done some work on the service. One thing I like about the webcall setup is the fact that you plug a regular phone into it. Not sure how many other VoIP providers do this - I'm sure some do
If I get a phone call during normal supper time, I won't give to that charity unless it is one I REALLY care about. Especially if they are rude to me. A couple months ago I got a call from a Firefighters charity at 6:00pm, just as I was sitting down to dinner. I politely told the individual I was not interested but before I could finish, they hung up on me. They won't be seeing any of my money.
Recently the news reported that the local police were hiring a private group to collect donations door to door for their TIPS program (get cash rewards for helping to catch criminals). The company was taking 70% of what was donated, leaving a measly 30% for the actual fund. They won't be seeing my money either.
When a charity comes to the door, I'll usually ask for documentation on how much of my donation will actually go to the cause. If they can't provide, or tell me where to get it, I won't donate.
I was taught multiplication the same way you were:
127
x23
---
It wasn't until years after school that I started thinking about breaking it down into several simpler problems. As such, my ability to do multiplication in my head has increased significantly. Sometimes its hard to explain how I can do it to some people, but I've found it much more effective for myself.
Which way should be taught? In later HS and Univesity, we were often taught to break complex problems down into simpler ones (isn't that one reason why we write functions when programming). I think this applies to math as well. Its very easy to do ((137 * 2) * 10) + (137 * 3) in your head (at least for me) but 137 * 23 is a lot tougher.
As many have noted, most registrars will notify you repeatedly when a domain is about to expire. I use domainsatcost.ca and just have mine setup to auto renew on my credit card. I don't even think about my domains expiring, just notice about a $15 charge on my credit card every now and then for a domain renewal.
Can I work for you?
The thing that has frustrated me the most with managers is being given a decision without any of the logic behind it. I remember submitting proposals for things we should be doing that if they gave me a few weeks of time (and an insignificant amount of budget) I figured I could save our team serveral hours of work a week. I put in the proposal (well researched). They asked for some clarification and to add a few things. I did so. At the end they said no. I can handle a proposal being turned down, but tell me why! Giving me a better understanding of why my proposal was turned down will save me frustration and probably time the next time I do up a proposal. No matter what I did, I couldnt' get a reason for it. After that, I hardly proposed anything any more. Some ideas I just went ahead and did, others I just dropped as soon as I thought of them.
I know in the long run my productivity dropped as did my morale. Its was the major factor in me looking (and finding) a new position.
I flipped through a bit and couldn't find what criteria they used to decide which were the best books. Out of the top 10 only 2 have any customer reviews. Is this a bestseller list, or just which publisher(s) paid the most to be on it?