I bet it is.. I've worked with enough consumer grade equipment to know that most of it tends to be tested at only moderate levels so when you throw a larger amount of traffic onto it then a lot of it will just overheat and lock up.
Switches, DSL modems, cable modems.. all cheap crap.
As far as I can tell OP's point was that you can learn from TV. Not good.
Some of the lawyers I know have told me that some of the things they pull on Law and Order would either be disallowed or be grounds for appeal. Following advice you learn on TV is generally a bad idea.
I'm going to state again that I don't mind fiction taking shortcuts. CSI, NCIS and Numb3rs are my favourite shows on TV I enjoy watching them and being entertained.. you just won't see me attempting to treat any of them like an instruction manual.
You can't be serious.. CSI once had someone "enhance" a low resolution CCTV feed zoomed in far enough to see a barcode. How do you extrapolate data that isn't there?
Numb3rs is the worst of them.. equations are only as good as the data that can be fed to them yet somehow they manage to figure out pretty much anything by throwing a bunch of numbers up on the board.
Now I'm not saying they aren't good shows I enjoy both CSI and Numb3rs and I'm not saying there isn't some good science in both but a lot of the science is implausible and the average joe on the street won't notice the difference they just like being entertained and made to feel smart at the same time.
They are wrong about half the time they talk about something I actually know about so I would generally assume the same goes for things I'm not familiar with.
If said "bearded geek hippie" infringed copyright to push his business I would hope most slashdotters would applaud his being thrown to the wolves.. I certainly would.
I think I'd be as unlikely to trust Law and Order on legal matters as I would be to trust CSI and Numb3rs for science lessons. Shows produced by Hollywood need to make money even if it's at the expense of factual correctness.
It's important to note that, if it weren't for the embargo to blame all of Cuba's economic troubles on, Fidel Castro likely wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as he did.
The political lobbying by the Cubans in Florida had the exact opposite affect from the one the wanted.
Actually.. technically he was never proven to have lied. He just had the judge define sex as "the penis goes into the vagina" and then said he didn't do that.
The fact that they never asked him if he got a blowjob is the prosecutor's own incompetence. Asking to define "sex" should have been a dead giveaway that something near sex but not quite sex actually happened.
Kenneth Starr got outsmarted by Bill Clinton. End of story.
And one thing I did find useful, generating a high-pitched noise above human hearing (I've got a delta-1010lt connected to a PA system, it's oscillator is 50Khz) was to get my neighbors dog's to STFU. I certainly wasn't keen on disturbing the rest of my neighbors by yelling at the dogs at 1,2,3,5,6,7am. Worked a treat - even for the dogs in the next street along - and no-one was the wiser - thus avoiding unnecessary confrontation. It's amazing what can be done with a few heavy duty tweeters, an amp, and a distorting high-frequency signal source (ardour and ladspa in this case).
Please don't do that.. Radio Shack used to sell an "ultrasonic" anti dog device and believe me I can hear those (or at least I could 10 years ago).. I can't be the only one. Those things HURT and I can't be the only person who can hear them.
Earplugs are designed for normal frequencies and do a poor job if blocking high sounds.
I just hope these things aren't as loud as the "ultrasonic" anti dog device that radio shack used to sell. I can hear them and that very painful noise get blocked by nothing.
Except that kids aren't the only one who can hear those things. I'm 30 and I can still hear outside the "adult range". You had better believe I will be avoiding spending my income at any store that annoys me.
On a more amusing note here in Montreal they use classical music for the same purpose. Stores that don't want kids around will play it outside their shops. Pissed me off the first time heard something good and went inside to get a better listen only to discover that inside they were playing some crap radio station.
I wonder if they used the logic that 10% of hospital visits = 10% of the healthcare industry, because wouldn't that be neglecting the nature of the visits? I would assume that the 10% of hospital visits resulting from forgetting to take pills would have a greater chance of being taken care of fairly easily... Like, "ok here are your meds and a cup of water". Sure, some problems will be more serious, but still.
You can't be serious. many medications have dire consequences if missed.
Forgot your heart meds? Heart attack. If that doesn't kill you they will spend inordinate amounts of time treating the problem and it's permanent affects on your body
Daily Asthma meds require a certain amount to be in the bloodstream to work so if you forget them you end up with an attack that just doesn't go away no matter how much ventolin you take
Insulin prevents long term damage to the body that an abnormal blood sugar level causes
I can go on but I think I've made my point. Many problems are much less life threatening (and cheaper to deal with) if properly medicated.
Indeed.. I'm as absent minded as they come especially if I'm thinking through a solution for a client or an interesting programing puzzle. My problem is that I just can't remember if I've taken my meds or not. I usually figure it out eventually when I start having trouble breathing but that's not an optimal method of discovery.
I would buy one of these devices in an instant if it handled inhaled meds.
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You can go out and do things as long as those things don't happen to be on a link that happens to have a smaller packet size than yours. Blocking all ICMP is a common firewall mistake.
I maintain networks for several customers for all the "wireless is cheaper to deploy" crap I keep hearing I've discovered that the pain and cost of putting in cat5e/cat6 can pay for itself within the first two years just counting the service cost of me having to constantly come in and debug why xx machine can't connect or why everything is dog slow.
Meanwhile I'm happy with my cat6 install in my apartment. I have every machine in the house wired except the bathroom and it works flawlessly.
The only speed issue I have is the fact that XBMC would have been much happier if the Xbox had come with a gigabit network interface rather than 100mbps.
The downside to this is that.com needs to be international and some countries have pretty strange looking addresses. I had a customer have his domain disabled every year when someone would look at the address (roughly translated as three houses over from the post office) and disable the domain for having a fake address even though the customer was getting mail at that address.
Not always. There was a company I worked for that could very well have been sued for some unauthorized mods they made to people's computers when browsing their site. Should they have ever been sued the discovery would show up several emails from me telling them how stupid an idea that was.
Otherwise I could imagine it would be natural to blame the sysadmin for something like that instead of two programmers in another office.
Actually the quote from Ecclesiastes is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." The missing word is quite significant. For some reason it's one of the most often misquoted scriptures.
More networks on XMPP makes having your own server much more useful since you can talk to the other networks. I have messaging.mynet and you have messaging.yournet and we can both talk to Google users and AIM users to the whole exercise is not a waste of time.
My jabber server was pretty much dead except for some danish isp tech (NGDC) until google moved over. Now I can actually use it to talk to real people. I'm thinking this move will encourage more people to have their own servers.
Personally.. when I want to watch a movie I want to sit and watch. I dont' give a flying crap about internet connectivity and I want to watch and listen to the MOVIE not the director blathering on about something about this scene or that one.
I haven't even gotten around to actually using any of the extended DVD features let alone whatever crap they will put into HD DVD or Blu Ray.
I'll take the new formats simply for their better picture quality. Screw the rest of it.
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The "college graduates" part..
I can turn that on it's head too.. I've known some brilliant comp sci grads but a lot of them were average at best and near useless at worst.
I disagree. Some of the best programmers I've ever met never had official training in a computer field.
I bet it is.. I've worked with enough consumer grade equipment to know that most of it tends to be tested at only moderate levels so when you throw a larger amount of traffic onto it then a lot of it will just overheat and lock up.
Switches, DSL modems, cable modems.. all cheap crap.
Any time a combined bittorrent upload of mine exceeds 30 KBPS, my modem mysteriously jams up.
Check your airflow.. it's probably overheating. Try putting an external fan blowing into the air vents and see if it stops doing that.
As far as I can tell OP's point was that you can learn from TV. Not good.
Some of the lawyers I know have told me that some of the things they pull on Law and Order would either be disallowed or be grounds for appeal. Following advice you learn on TV is generally a bad idea.
I'm going to state again that I don't mind fiction taking shortcuts. CSI, NCIS and Numb3rs are my favourite shows on TV I enjoy watching them and being entertained.. you just won't see me attempting to treat any of them like an instruction manual.
You can't be serious.. CSI once had someone "enhance" a low resolution CCTV feed zoomed in far enough to see a barcode. How do you extrapolate data that isn't there?
Numb3rs is the worst of them.. equations are only as good as the data that can be fed to them yet somehow they manage to figure out pretty much anything by throwing a bunch of numbers up on the board.
Now I'm not saying they aren't good shows I enjoy both CSI and Numb3rs and I'm not saying there isn't some good science in both but a lot of the science is implausible and the average joe on the street won't notice the difference they just like being entertained and made to feel smart at the same time.
They are wrong about half the time they talk about something I actually know about so I would generally assume the same goes for things I'm not familiar with.
If said "bearded geek hippie" infringed copyright to push his business I would hope most slashdotters would applaud his being thrown to the wolves.. I certainly would.
I think I'd be as unlikely to trust Law and Order on legal matters as I would be to trust CSI and Numb3rs for science lessons. Shows produced by Hollywood need to make money even if it's at the expense of factual correctness.
The US government has now tested it's anti satellite missiles without looking like complete hypocrites for criticizing China for the exact same thing.
It's important to note that, if it weren't for the embargo to blame all of Cuba's economic troubles on, Fidel Castro likely wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as he did.
The political lobbying by the Cubans in Florida had the exact opposite affect from the one the wanted.
Actually.. technically he was never proven to have lied. He just had the judge define sex as "the penis goes into the vagina" and then said he didn't do that.
The fact that they never asked him if he got a blowjob is the prosecutor's own incompetence. Asking to define "sex" should have been a dead giveaway that something near sex but not quite sex actually happened.
Kenneth Starr got outsmarted by Bill Clinton. End of story.
And one thing I did find useful, generating a high-pitched noise above human hearing (I've got a delta-1010lt connected to a PA system, it's oscillator is 50Khz) was to get my neighbors dog's to STFU. I certainly wasn't keen on disturbing the rest of my neighbors by yelling at the dogs at 1,2,3,5,6,7am. Worked a treat - even for the dogs in the next street along - and no-one was the wiser - thus avoiding unnecessary confrontation. It's amazing what can be done with a few heavy duty tweeters, an amp, and a distorting high-frequency signal source (ardour and ladspa in this case).
Please don't do that.. Radio Shack used to sell an "ultrasonic" anti dog device and believe me I can hear those (or at least I could 10 years ago).. I can't be the only one. Those things HURT and I can't be the only person who can hear them.
Earplugs are designed for normal frequencies and do a poor job if blocking high sounds.
I just hope these things aren't as loud as the "ultrasonic" anti dog device that radio shack used to sell. I can hear them and that very painful noise get blocked by nothing.
Except that kids aren't the only one who can hear those things. I'm 30 and I can still hear outside the "adult range". You had better believe I will be avoiding spending my income at any store that annoys me.
On a more amusing note here in Montreal they use classical music for the same purpose. Stores that don't want kids around will play it outside their shops. Pissed me off the first time heard something good and went inside to get a better listen only to discover that inside they were playing some crap radio station.
I wonder if they used the logic that 10% of hospital visits = 10% of the healthcare industry, because wouldn't that be neglecting the nature of the visits? I would assume that the 10% of hospital visits resulting from forgetting to take pills would have a greater chance of being taken care of fairly easily... Like, "ok here are your meds and a cup of water". Sure, some problems will be more serious, but still.
You can't be serious. many medications have dire consequences if missed.
Forgot your heart meds? Heart attack. If that doesn't kill you they will spend inordinate amounts of time treating the problem and it's permanent affects on your body
Daily Asthma meds require a certain amount to be in the bloodstream to work so if you forget them you end up with an attack that just doesn't go away no matter how much ventolin you take
Insulin prevents long term damage to the body that an abnormal blood sugar level causes
I can go on but I think I've made my point. Many problems are much less life threatening (and cheaper to deal with) if properly medicated.
Indeed.. I'm as absent minded as they come especially if I'm thinking through a solution for a client or an interesting programing puzzle. My problem is that I just can't remember if I've taken my meds or not. I usually figure it out eventually when I start having trouble breathing but that's not an optimal method of discovery.
I would buy one of these devices in an instant if it handled inhaled meds.
You can go out and do things as long as those things don't happen to be on a link that happens to have a smaller packet size than yours. Blocking all ICMP is a common firewall mistake.
I maintain networks for several customers for all the "wireless is cheaper to deploy" crap I keep hearing I've discovered that the pain and cost of putting in cat5e/cat6 can pay for itself within the first two years just counting the service cost of me having to constantly come in and debug why xx machine can't connect or why everything is dog slow.
Meanwhile I'm happy with my cat6 install in my apartment. I have every machine in the house wired except the bathroom and it works flawlessly.
The only speed issue I have is the fact that XBMC would have been much happier if the Xbox had come with a gigabit network interface rather than 100mbps.
These all browser lock.
The downside to this is that .com needs to be international and some countries have pretty strange looking addresses. I had a customer have his domain disabled every year when someone would look at the address (roughly translated as three houses over from the post office) and disable the domain for having a fake address even though the customer was getting mail at that address.
Not always. There was a company I worked for that could very well have been sued for some unauthorized mods they made to people's computers when browsing their site. Should they have ever been sued the discovery would show up several emails from me telling them how stupid an idea that was.
Otherwise I could imagine it would be natural to blame the sysadmin for something like that instead of two programmers in another office.
Actually the quote from Ecclesiastes is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." The missing word is quite significant. For some reason it's one of the most often misquoted scriptures.
But it's really easy to gain that extra privacy.
More networks on XMPP makes having your own server much more useful since you can talk to the other networks. I have messaging.mynet and you have messaging.yournet and we can both talk to Google users and AIM users to the whole exercise is not a waste of time.
My jabber server was pretty much dead except for some danish isp tech (NGDC) until google moved over. Now I can actually use it to talk to real people. I'm thinking this move will encourage more people to have their own servers.
Personally.. when I want to watch a movie I want to sit and watch. I dont' give a flying crap about internet connectivity and I want to watch and listen to the MOVIE not the director blathering on about something about this scene or that one.
I haven't even gotten around to actually using any of the extended DVD features let alone whatever crap they will put into HD DVD or Blu Ray.
I'll take the new formats simply for their better picture quality. Screw the rest of it.