In terms of who has been around a while...I was talking to some kids about music as there are lots of covers out nowadays that are popular and a lot of kids have never heard the originals and I came up with this:
"I grew up before phones had buttons"
Try that one on!;-) I got some funny expressions. LOL, I'm cracking up again just remembering the looks on their faces.
Anyway, we should transition this thread onto 8-tracks right about now.
Most laws, in the USA anyway, come about because of someone else's failure.
Eventually, someone will be seriously hurt by data loss/theft/whatever.
Evenually, the data broker will be forced to pay with blood, money, or time in jail.
Most likely, someone with substantial assets will get bitten bad and still have what it takes to sue the broker out of business...then the legislature AKA lawyers will get involved.
He's the same one that calls in the middle of the night and says: "Oh, did I wake you? Sorry, I'll call back tomorrow." And then immediately hangs up without waiting for a response.
What an asshole! You've already interrupted my sleep, now you hang up and turn my effort in getting out of bed and answering the phone into a waste. If the message can be delayed until tomorrow, why call now!?!??!? I'll tell you this, if you are going to expect me to answer the phone, *ANYTIME*, you better have something worthwhile to say right then and there.
People like this are *EXACTLY* why call filtering, distinctive rings, etc. exist. I have a relative who, since these technologies have been implemented, has never gotten me to answer the phone when she calls. I've told her straight to her face, but she still doesn't get it. This used to be the main reason I so enjoyed email. I was able to "listen" to the message when I wanted to do so. Plus, I never had to transcript a number or address. Now, with modern filtering and voicemail features, at least I can listen to the people *I* want hear, when *I* want.
But that's how you loaded your cards. I don't know what other reference he's after.
Other than that, some of us have actually laid hands and been paid while working on binary front panels, core, paper tape, cards, disk packs, 9-track tape, 300 baud modems!
As IAAPACP(I Am A Physicist And Cell Pundit), scattering and lensing are most likely, I think.
Visible light is not the only part of the EM spectrum that can be distorted by atmospheric conditions. Think mirage. Think radar. 1.8 GHz phones are definitely in the microwave class. Lensing with different layers of air with temperature and humidity variations might be your culprit. Think mirage where you are looking at the ground and see the sky or with your situation, your cellphone is "looking" over the mountain at the sky and can see a cell tower that is just over the hill on the other side of the mountain.
Finally, and don't laugh, consider human behavior. Perhaps when the weather is nice, you stand near the window or outside where the reception is better?;-)
You forget motivation. Why would they want to dig through a mile of rock or concrete even if they could?
Assume that they have taken special notice of a random concrete feature a couple of meters across on the surface. Recall, that it is in the middle of nowhere, a desert, currently. Also recall that there are hundreds or thousands of equivalent concrete structures scattered all over the countryside. There are missile silos, bridge and building foundations, sewage tanks, etc.
Assume that for some reason they are possesed by a nearly unbearable curiosity and a tremendous urge to find out just what is under this particular chunk of concrete.
Assume that it has been thousands of years, in which case it won't matter, the stuff will be safe.
Assume for the sake of argument that it is still active *and* dangerous.
If they have the skills, and most important the disposable energy, to dig up a few hundred meters of concrete, or drill through the equivalent distance of native rock, then if they have achieved that level of a standard of living, then they will understand what a periodic table is and what radioactivity is, without the need for words.
Even after all that, many people have died along the path of discovery that has brought us where are today. One woman named Curie comes to mind. Why should we expect to utterly safeguard those on the path to discovery in the future?
Again, assuming a circa 1800s like pre-radioactivity knowledge level of technology, people will die in the mine just doing the digging. There's no need for radioactive dangers, in a 1800s era mine half a mile deep, they'll be dozens killed just doing the grunt work!
Doesn't mean that it won't ever have some value to me in the future, but for now France might just disappear and, if I'm bored at that moment, I might notice the whooshing sound of the atmosphere filling a vacuum.
Other than that, I-XX already has 'special' lanes for cars with more than one person inside, motorcycles, HOV and whatever, and they are a disastrous economic and environmental failure.
Face it, the 'net used to be segmented and there were vast telephone nets of BBXs, ham radio operators, universities, and the like that could still carry your message around the world. Was it as efficient as the 'net today? No, and that is the reason for the 'net today. There was a demand and the suppliers sought profit and so implemented the 'net. If the demand still exists, there will be ISPs and other carriers that will provide for it even as AOL, CompuServe, Google, M$, et al cater to their own audiences.
I worked on a couple of similar projects using TI C51 and AT&T DSP32 processors. I recall that the 286 could not keep up with the data rate using the Borland C compiler. I had to delve into x86 asm to optimize some loops in order to get it to keep up. The C51 board was a telecom voice processor including PCM modems and such. The DSP32 was a multi-channel(as in T1) DTMF decoder. It ended up running at 98% utilization(50MHz) with a *lot* of hand optimized code...
As the price drops, kids will be getting their own TVs and players and disk collections. They will NOT opt for the old "No-Definition" TVs/NDTV(tm), or ND-DVD(tm) formats. Gradually, HD-DVD will replace DVD just by aging demographics.
When was the last time any kid got a VHS player for graduation? DVDs came out when, 1996? Just ten years later and look what has happened at the local Blockbuster. Once they were filled with VHS tapes and one or two racks of Betamax.
Today kids are getting "Home Theater in a Box". Next Spring, HD-HTiaB will be available and affordable for all those kids moving out of their bedrooms and into dorms or apartments. Throw in Christmas, birthdays, etc. and soon, much less than ten years, no one will be buying ND-DVD players anymore.
I used to have a Motorola ISDN "modem" that would randomly/frequently hang. The only way to unhang it was to push the reset, or... cycle the power! Neither is very easy from a remote location. So, I got a firecracker, the RF receiver, and a switch. I wrote a script that would ping my gateway on the far end of the ISDN link every minute and if the ping failed it would switch the modem off and then back on.
My only experience with X-10 stuff, and it worked like a charm.
Describe the purpose, design, and function. Include whatever clever applications of computer science principles you have used and why.
Interview some users, get their words and ideas down.
Describe current shortfalls or flaws, and where you want it to go and how you plan to get there. Close with whatever special features make it a killer-app.
Proofread.
Spellcheck.
Have a colleague who can comprehend the material proof it.
Submit everywhere *nix articles are published(I assume it is not an M$ app), including here and not just the e-zines, but also the tree-zines. You might even get paid(if a tree-zine publishes you will get paid).
We were fed up with lost productivity, the M$ only policy, and slooooow response from IT when we finally fragmented and broke away from IT after an M$ virus took down the net and several of our machines. BTW, that was a nicely executed power play by our PHB. Now there is a firewall/filter/cache between us and the rest of the company network. We(three of us whenever needed) manage our own mix of M$/Sun/Linux/and now even an Apple, boxes. We don't have to wait for IT to come and install something, or build, or buy something new. We just do it. All we pay IT for is bandwidth.
It really doesn't merit much more discussion. AOL is a company that provides services. There is nothing that says "AOL CAN ONLY MAKE MONEY BY PROVIDING SERVICES TO EMAIL 'READERS'". AOL wants to provide services to email SENDERS as well as email READERS.
If you as a READER don't appreciate the services that AOL provides, take your business elsewhere.
Nobody has noticed that the tax rate on their capital gains is 15% while the tax for someone making an equivalent income is exhorbitant.
I barely make 6 figures and I'd gladly trade that in for a $1 salary with equivalent(6 figure) growth in equity to the bank for the rest of my working life, duh!
I know of, actually witnessed, one where the chip blew off a piece of the case and continued to function. One sixth of a hex inverter was gone with that chunk of plastic, but the other five were OK. My EE coworker kept the chip and had it mounted.
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;-) I got some funny expressions. LOL, I'm cracking up again just remembering the looks on their faces.
In terms of who has been around a while...I was talking to some kids about music as there are lots of covers out nowadays that are popular and a lot of kids have never heard the originals and I came up with this:
"I grew up before phones had buttons"
Try that one on!
Anyway, we should transition this thread onto 8-tracks right about now.
Most laws, in the USA anyway, come about because of someone else's failure.
Eventually, someone will be seriously hurt by data loss/theft/whatever.
Evenually, the data broker will be forced to pay with blood, money, or time in jail.
Most likely, someone with substantial assets will get bitten bad and still have what it takes to sue the broker out of business...then the legislature AKA lawyers will get involved.
LOL!
Especially the last!
He's the same one that calls in the middle of the night and says: "Oh, did I wake you? Sorry, I'll call back tomorrow." And then immediately hangs up without waiting for a response.
What an asshole! You've already interrupted my sleep, now you hang up and turn my effort in getting out of bed and answering the phone into a waste. If the message can be delayed until tomorrow, why call now!?!??!? I'll tell you this, if you are going to expect me to answer the phone, *ANYTIME*, you better have something worthwhile to say right then and there.
People like this are *EXACTLY* why call filtering, distinctive rings, etc. exist. I have a relative who, since these technologies have been implemented, has never gotten me to answer the phone when she calls. I've told her straight to her face, but she still doesn't get it. This used to be the main reason I so enjoyed email. I was able to "listen" to the message when I wanted to do so. Plus, I never had to transcript a number or address. Now, with modern filtering and voicemail features, at least I can listen to the people *I* want hear, when *I* want.
And ignored them both. So there!
But that's how you loaded your cards. I don't know what other reference he's after.
Other than that, some of us have actually laid hands and been paid while working on binary front panels, core, paper tape, cards, disk packs, 9-track tape, 300 baud modems!
Nice observation.
As IAAPACP(I Am A Physicist And Cell Pundit), scattering and lensing are most likely, I think.
;-)
Visible light is not the only part of the EM spectrum that can be distorted by atmospheric conditions. Think mirage. Think radar. 1.8 GHz phones are definitely in the microwave class. Lensing with different layers of air with temperature and humidity variations might be your culprit. Think mirage where you are looking at the ground and see the sky or with your situation, your cellphone is "looking" over the mountain at the sky and can see a cell tower that is just over the hill on the other side of the mountain.
Finally, and don't laugh, consider human behavior. Perhaps when the weather is nice, you stand near the window or outside where the reception is better?
You forget motivation. Why would they want to dig through a mile of rock or concrete even if they could?
Assume that they have taken special notice of a random concrete feature a couple of meters across on the surface. Recall, that it is in the middle of nowhere, a desert, currently. Also recall that there are hundreds or thousands of equivalent concrete structures scattered all over the countryside. There are missile silos, bridge and building foundations, sewage tanks, etc.
Assume that for some reason they are possesed by a nearly unbearable curiosity and a tremendous urge to find out just what is under this particular chunk of concrete.
Assume that it has been thousands of years, in which case it won't matter, the stuff will be safe.
Assume for the sake of argument that it is still active *and* dangerous.
If they have the skills, and most important the disposable energy, to dig up a few hundred meters of concrete, or drill through the equivalent distance of native rock, then if they have achieved that level of a standard of living, then they will understand what a periodic table is and what radioactivity is, without the need for words.
Even after all that, many people have died along the path of discovery that has brought us where are today. One woman named Curie comes to mind. Why should we expect to utterly safeguard those on the path to discovery in the future?
Again, assuming a circa 1800s like pre-radioactivity knowledge level of technology, people will die in the mine just doing the digging. There's no need for radioactive dangers, in a 1800s era mine half a mile deep, they'll be dozens killed just doing the grunt work!
Wow! A multi-level contextually appropriate literary reference on /.!
I don't have any mod points today.
About the "FrenchNet".
Doesn't mean that it won't ever have some value to me in the future, but for now France might just disappear and, if I'm bored at that moment, I might notice the whooshing sound of the atmosphere filling a vacuum.
Other than that, I-XX already has 'special' lanes for cars with more than one person inside, motorcycles, HOV and whatever, and they are a disastrous economic and environmental failure.
Face it, the 'net used to be segmented and there were vast telephone nets of BBXs, ham radio operators, universities, and the like that could still carry your message around the world. Was it as efficient as the 'net today? No, and that is the reason for the 'net today. There was a demand and the suppliers sought profit and so implemented the 'net. If the demand still exists, there will be ISPs and other carriers that will provide for it even as AOL, CompuServe, Google, M$, et al cater to their own audiences.
Landfills/garbage dumps.
Especially since prehistoric garbage is what seems to hold the richest finds in most archeological sites today.
Piles of highly refined "nuggets" of all kinds of metals, plastics, glass, organics...
I worked on a couple of similar projects using TI C51 and AT&T DSP32 processors. I recall that the 286 could not keep up with the data rate using the Borland C compiler. I had to delve into x86 asm to optimize some loops in order to get it to keep up. The C51 board was a telecom voice processor including PCM modems and such. The DSP32 was a multi-channel(as in T1) DTMF decoder. It ended up running at 98% utilization(50MHz) with a *lot* of hand optimized code...
Fun, bleeding edge, stuff back then.
Are *new* users.
As the price drops, kids will be getting their own TVs and players and disk collections. They will NOT opt for the old "No-Definition" TVs/NDTV(tm), or ND-DVD(tm) formats. Gradually, HD-DVD will replace DVD just by aging demographics.
When was the last time any kid got a VHS player for graduation? DVDs came out when, 1996? Just ten years later and look what has happened at the local Blockbuster. Once they were filled with VHS tapes and one or two racks of Betamax.
Today kids are getting "Home Theater in a Box". Next Spring, HD-HTiaB will be available and affordable for all those kids moving out of their bedrooms and into dorms or apartments. Throw in Christmas, birthdays, etc. and soon, much less than ten years, no one will be buying ND-DVD players anymore.
Brings back memories...
I used to have a Motorola ISDN "modem" that would randomly/frequently hang. The only way to unhang it was to push the reset, or... cycle the power! Neither is very easy from a remote location. So, I got a firecracker, the RF receiver, and a switch. I wrote a script that would ping my gateway on the far end of the ISDN link every minute and if the ping failed it would switch the modem off and then back on.
My only experience with X-10 stuff, and it worked like a charm.
And mass storage, and FM, and voice recording...
Definitely a feature packed device the size of a pack of gum.
Write an article about it.
Describe the purpose, design, and function. Include whatever clever applications of computer science principles you have used and why.
Interview some users, get their words and ideas down.
Describe current shortfalls or flaws, and where you want it to go and how you plan to get there. Close with whatever special features make it a killer-app.
Proofread.
Spellcheck.
Have a colleague who can comprehend the material proof it.
Submit everywhere *nix articles are published(I assume it is not an M$ app), including here and not just the e-zines, but also the tree-zines. You might even get paid(if a tree-zine publishes you will get paid).
Profit!
It is just that simple.
That's about how it works here.
We were fed up with lost productivity, the M$ only policy, and slooooow response from IT when we finally fragmented and broke away from IT after an M$ virus took down the net and several of our machines. BTW, that was a nicely executed power play by our PHB. Now there is a firewall/filter/cache between us and the rest of the company network. We(three of us whenever needed) manage our own mix of M$/Sun/Linux/and now even an Apple, boxes. We don't have to wait for IT to come and install something, or build, or buy something new. We just do it. All we pay IT for is bandwidth.
That's what I think; and he's too lazy to preview. He wanted the quoted text in
bold
and failed to close the tag.
Not anymore.
What you are describing is a marketdroid's wet dream: Complete, total, utterly mindless, brand identification.
It is the only reason that Sony has held on so long.
One is the one that speaks English and is the one that you describe.
The other speaks Arabic and has completely different content.
Ask the folks at the BBC-based one. They'll go to great pains to separate themselves from "the other".
and dump AOL.
It really doesn't merit much more discussion. AOL is a company that provides services. There is nothing that says "AOL CAN ONLY MAKE MONEY BY PROVIDING SERVICES TO EMAIL 'READERS'". AOL wants to provide services to email SENDERS as well as email READERS.
If you as a READER don't appreciate the services that AOL provides, take your business elsewhere.
Duh.
Nobody has noticed that the tax rate on their capital gains is 15% while the tax for someone making an equivalent income is exhorbitant.
I barely make 6 figures and I'd gladly trade that in for a $1 salary with equivalent(6 figure) growth in equity to the bank for the rest of my working life, duh!
I know of, actually witnessed, one where the chip blew off a piece of the case and continued to function. One sixth of a hex inverter was gone with that chunk of plastic, but the other five were OK. My EE coworker kept the chip and had it mounted.