The problem with this approach is that it only works if you have already calibrated the color for your inkjet printer and the specific paper you print the target on. Even on the same printer with the same ink cartridges, the color will shift around a little bit for each paper you use. If you then use the "shifted" target to do further calibrations, you're calibrating to the wrong profile.
One of the early Amateur Radio (ham) satellites (and maybe a ton of others, for all I know) used a copper rod along the "vertical" axis (points toward center of earth) to align their sat with the earth's magnetic field, so they didn't need any active stabilization during the parts of the orbit they needed to communicate with the sat.
Terrestrial APRS uses (usually) ham radio frequencies to pass around GPS position reports along with additional data, like the identity of the sender (their Amateur Radio call sign). There are a couple of Web sites that will show you real-time maps of the current position reports. The main Web site is http://www.aprs.org.
If you're not registering your time, how in the world does the accounting department capitalize the software you develop? Or maybe that's only for software that gets sold and you're working on internal systems?
CalamityJ
Mechanization and new technology have always promised that the work day would get shorter, safer, and easier. So why are so many people working 12 hour days at multiple jobs?
I was a co-op student with IBM when the ill-starred PCjr came out. One of the great things about it was the keyboard, after they got rid of the "Chicklet"(tm) keys and put real key caps on them. The first business show I did after the PCjr was introduced, we shipped two keyboards for each PCjr on display, and a dishwasher. The booth was plumbed, and at any time, half the keyboards were connected to PCjrs on display and the other half were in the dishwasher and the dishwasher was running. Halfway through the spiel, we'd start talking about how the keyboard was water proof and "gunk" proof, disconnect the keyboard, walk (drag the prospect) over to the dishwasher, swap the keyboard with one in the dishwasher, walk (drag the prospect) back to the PCjr, hook up the keyboard, and continue the demonstration. Over four eight-hour days I must've performed two hundred "keyboard washings".
Yes, I know the difference between local and network, both from a networking point of view, and the misuse ZoneLabs makes of it.:-)
And, I have all of the "look for updates" and similar options that look like they might want to get on the wire by themselves turned off. It still tries to "phone home".
I don't know what all IE might be transferring someplace on the 'net. Something strange happened to it on my system, though. After installing ZoneAlarm (ZoneLabs) on my system, I set IE to have local access but not Internet access. Since that time, it won't load the startup page, which is on a web server on a system about ten feet away. If I switch it to have Internet access, it will load fine. Netscape works fine no matter which way I have it set.
This article from Reuters has a Sun spokesman named Marco Boerries stating that the "open source" release of StarOffice will be based on StarOffice 6.0, and will occur on October 13th.
A couple of years ago, I read a story in one of the industry trade rags that claimed Intel had built a prototype and (Pentium, I think) mother board that forsook all of the compatibility stuff that goes on a standard PC. It used USB for keyboard and mouse instead of the old, standard interconnects for example, and got rid of something like 80% of the BIOS. The chassis was a pyramid about ten inches high and twelve inches on each side of the base. The mobo was something like seven inches square.
In addition, neither the road network or MARTA (public transport) usually go where you want to go. If you want to move along a radius from city center, no problem. If you want to move along a chord around the city, you're screwed. If you live and work outside the city proper, you don't get much help from either of them. We're still using the paths made by deer several hundred (or thousand) years ago, and mass transit just overlays those same routes.
Well, having lived in Atlanta for almost 20 years, just watching the weather radar makes it pretty obvious that the city (and Lake Lanier close by to the north) is affecting the weather.
For example, when you see popcorn thunderstorms repeatedly popping up only over Lake Lanier and the heavily populated parts of the city, consistently, over nearly two decades, it doesn't exactly require Fellini to figure out that the city and the lake are having an effect. I'm not saying that's enough to figure out the details of the effect or its reasons, but it's surely enough to see the correlation.
Based on the women I've spoken with about this topic, it seems that a lot of it has to do with the time involved. Even to middle school kids, C/S careers have a mythos of requiring 80 hour weeks plus "personal time" to keep up with the technologies. Most of these women were more interested in "having a life" outside work than to put up with those sorts of loads, even if they are more of a stereotype than a reality (depending on where you work). These women also tended to be more focused on interpersonal relationship building, both in their private and public lives, and felt that with these loads they would end up with a life less satisfying than they want. Obviously, this isn't scientific, just what I've noticed over quite a few years of talking to people about stuff like this.
First off, the last think I want is a US where only the military is armed. That's an early step down the road to totalitarianism. I don't know where I read it, but it's appropriate: The day the Second Amendment is repealed is the day for which it was meant. Second, slowing or stopping US production would have a minor effect, if any at all, on availability. For one thing, there are already something like 50 million legally privately owned firearms in the US today, and heaven knows how many illegal ones. Secondly, there's an enormous amount of offshore manufacturing. China, in particular, does a booming business in everything from handguns to missiles, selling them all over the world, including a huge number of small arms in the US. Personally, I have to believe that the answer lies more in the direction of enforcing the laws we have. Swift and sure jurisprudence is a deterrent. We don't have that in the US anymore. Then, too, as someone once said (can't remember who) An armed society is a polite society. Do any of you remember the incidents a few years ago where criminals were targeting people leaving airports, especially in rental cars? Well, that piqued the interest of the various law enforcement officials (LEOs), including the FBI and DOJ, too, since some of the victims were international visitors. One part of their investigation was to go into the Florida prison system and interview some of the people convicted of those types of crimes during and before the increase in "on tourist" crimes. Apparently the LEOs hadn't thought it completely through, because they were surprised to find out that it had to do with Florida's liberalization of concealed carry permits. The convicts told them straight up that the tourists were targeted because they were now less likely to be carrying a weapon than a Florida resident.
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The problem with this approach is that it only works if you have already calibrated the color for your inkjet printer and the specific paper you print the target on. Even on the same printer with the same ink cartridges, the color will shift around a little bit for each paper you use. If you then use the "shifted" target to do further calibrations, you're calibrating to the wrong profile.
One of the early Amateur Radio (ham) satellites (and maybe a ton of others, for all I know) used a copper rod along the "vertical" axis (points toward center of earth) to align their sat with the earth's magnetic field, so they didn't need any active stabilization during the parts of the orbit they needed to communicate with the sat.
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Terrestrial APRS uses (usually) ham radio frequencies to pass around GPS position reports along with additional data, like the identity of the sender (their Amateur Radio call sign). There are a couple of Web sites that will show you real-time maps of the current position reports. The main Web site is http://www.aprs.org.
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If you're not registering your time, how in the world does the accounting department capitalize the software you develop? Or maybe that's only for software that gets sold and you're working on internal systems? CalamityJ
TAXES!
I was a co-op student with IBM when the ill-starred PCjr came out. One of the great things about it was the keyboard, after they got rid of the "Chicklet"(tm) keys and put real key caps on them. The first business show I did after the PCjr was introduced, we shipped two keyboards for each PCjr on display, and a dishwasher. The booth was plumbed, and at any time, half the keyboards were connected to PCjrs on display and the other half were in the dishwasher and the dishwasher was running. Halfway through the spiel, we'd start talking about how the keyboard was water proof and "gunk" proof, disconnect the keyboard, walk (drag the prospect) over to the dishwasher, swap the keyboard with one in the dishwasher, walk (drag the prospect) back to the PCjr, hook up the keyboard, and continue the demonstration. Over four eight-hour days I must've performed two hundred "keyboard washings".
Yes, I know the difference between local and network, both from a networking point of view, and the misuse ZoneLabs makes of it. :-)
And, I have all of the "look for updates" and similar options that look like they might want to get on the wire by themselves turned off. It still tries to "phone home".
I don't know what all IE might be transferring someplace on the 'net. Something strange happened to it on my system, though. After installing ZoneAlarm (ZoneLabs) on my system, I set IE to have local access but not Internet access. Since that time, it won't load the startup page, which is on a web server on a system about ten feet away. If I switch it to have Internet access, it will load fine. Netscape works fine no matter which way I have it set.
At this rate, I'll have a Bluetooth stereo, and no cables, before BellSouth manages to get ADSL onto my CO. :-(
This article from Reuters has a Sun spokesman named Marco Boerries stating that the "open source" release of StarOffice will be based on StarOffice 6.0, and will occur on October 13th.
A couple of years ago, I read a story in one of the industry trade rags that claimed Intel had built a prototype and (Pentium, I think) mother board that forsook all of the compatibility stuff that goes on a standard PC. It used USB for keyboard and mouse instead of the old, standard interconnects for example, and got rid of something like 80% of the BIOS. The chassis was a pyramid about ten inches high and twelve inches on each side of the base. The mobo was something like seven inches square.
In addition, neither the road network or MARTA (public transport) usually go where you want to go. If you want to move along a radius from city center, no problem. If you want to move along a chord around the city, you're screwed. If you live and work outside the city proper, you don't get much help from either of them. We're still using the paths made by deer several hundred (or thousand) years ago, and mass transit just overlays those same routes.
For example, when you see popcorn thunderstorms repeatedly popping up only over Lake Lanier and the heavily populated parts of the city, consistently, over nearly two decades, it doesn't exactly require Fellini to figure out that the city and the lake are having an effect. I'm not saying that's enough to figure out the details of the effect or its reasons, but it's surely enough to see the correlation.
I guess they couldn't use a Norwegian Blue because it'd be too busy pinin' for the fjords.
Based on the women I've spoken with about this topic, it seems that a lot of it has to do with the time involved. Even to middle school kids, C/S careers have a mythos of requiring 80 hour weeks plus "personal time" to keep up with the technologies. Most of these women were more interested in "having a life" outside work than to put up with those sorts of loads, even if they are more of a stereotype than a reality (depending on where you work). These women also tended to be more focused on interpersonal relationship building, both in their private and public lives, and felt that with these loads they would end up with a life less satisfying than they want. Obviously, this isn't scientific, just what I've noticed over quite a few years of talking to people about stuff like this.
First off, the last think I want is a US where only the military is armed. That's an early step down the road to totalitarianism. I don't know where I read it, but it's appropriate: The day the Second Amendment is repealed is the day for which it was meant. Second, slowing or stopping US production would have a minor effect, if any at all, on availability. For one thing, there are already something like 50 million legally privately owned firearms in the US today, and heaven knows how many illegal ones. Secondly, there's an enormous amount of offshore manufacturing. China, in particular, does a booming business in everything from handguns to missiles, selling them all over the world, including a huge number of small arms in the US. Personally, I have to believe that the answer lies more in the direction of enforcing the laws we have. Swift and sure jurisprudence is a deterrent. We don't have that in the US anymore. Then, too, as someone once said (can't remember who) An armed society is a polite society. Do any of you remember the incidents a few years ago where criminals were targeting people leaving airports, especially in rental cars? Well, that piqued the interest of the various law enforcement officials (LEOs), including the FBI and DOJ, too, since some of the victims were international visitors. One part of their investigation was to go into the Florida prison system and interview some of the people convicted of those types of crimes during and before the increase in "on tourist" crimes. Apparently the LEOs hadn't thought it completely through, because they were surprised to find out that it had to do with Florida's liberalization of concealed carry permits. The convicts told them straight up that the tourists were targeted because they were now less likely to be carrying a weapon than a Florida resident.