While McDonalds is hardly the upstanding citizen of a corporation, "Super Size Me" was about a guy that deliberately set impossible eating rules so that he can make money from the attention. And that he did.
What does bug me is when people complain about the pricing of some of these things. TB RAIDS are not toys. Even then, I didn't think it was that expensive. "The common man" currently does not need TB storage, so therefore, economies of scale haven't taken hold yet.
If it is too expensive to properly store this stuff, then maybe you need to review your pricing to make sure you aren't currently shortchanging yourself in terms of price of services rendered and the cost to do so. Or find some more efficient way to store that data.
What power levels? High power 802.11 gets expensive, up to $150 for a 200mW AP. Of course, that's nothing compared to commercial hardware that puts out orders of magnitute more power, and the recievers are probably a lot more sensitive as well. The best for 802.11 that I've seen is -90dB sensitivity, typical is I think -80dB.
I think one advantage is rediculous mass production to drive the costs down.
I think this is a valid concern, with ramifications that people will try but likely fail to stop completely. A camera phone could be used in locker rooms and send real-time images to someone's nudie web log, all without the consent of those observed. And it looks like a phone, not a camera.
One thing that scares me is the multi-channel radios. There are effectively only three non-overlapping channels, and some APs are starting to take up two of them? I know the spectrum is unlicenced for low power, but I think that's usually just rude and mean for one person to just take two channels. Right now, I experiment with three APs being on, all three channels, but being in a rural area and having checked with all the neighbors, no one else is using the spectrum near me.
How long of a pulse was this? It can't be sustained for too long because IIRC ship generators run at around the megawatt output range. I'm guessing that the duty cycle would have been around 1:1000. I think I heard from a guy that the Ticonderoga class cruiser has 4MW power generation for the entire ship, which I guess is about medium size for the Navy's typical systems.
The keyless entry system shouldn't have been using military frequencies. As noted, it IS covered by Part 15, the part you don't want applied because it must accept harmful interference from those that are specifically allowed to use the band.
I'd say GM is at fault for building shitty electronics using frequencies that were allocated for other uses. I'm not surprised, my parents had a couple Oldmobiles and their electronics were the achilles heal of the car. Unless it was on max cool, occasionally the system would shoot heat at you, or if you want heat and it's not on max heat, it would occasionally run the A/C on you.
Apparently Microsoft campaign spending is down, and is pretty biased towards the Democrats right now, reversing a previous trend of biasing towards the Republicans.
The page is slightly out of date, inconsistently updated.
I've read from someone that the Feb 2004 CD has all updates up to Feb 2004. I suspect that a new CD will be rolled out pretty soon too. It looks like a four month schedule, so one should be rolled out this month.
You go to Adobe's site and download a fresh copy of Acrobat Reader. Actually, I keep version 5.0 around because 6.0 is noticibly slower to start up, but on the rare occasion that I find problems, a re-install of Acrobat Reader is painless and doesn't require a reboot.
Last time I did that, I charged $100 and I thought that was slim considering all the time spent updating all the software to current. On the upside, I gave him another stick of RAM, installed OpenOffice, ZoneAlarm, Spybot S&D, Grisoft AntiVirus, Firefox, and Thunderbird, and to top it off, I made a Ghost image of it all.
I tried to hide Internet Explorer and Outlook Express as much as I could such that they are inconvenient to use as well.
Obviouslys a lot of Windows using Republicans have logged onto the forum to spam because of the threat of independent throught and anti-bush material.
That's cute with the broad strokes of generalizations with loaded language. In my opinion, such a comment degrades the credibility of the rest of your post. If you want to make a sensible persuasion, labeling your opponents in such a manner defeats your efforts.
I'm not sure if web designers necessarily understand PDFs.
I think PDFs are essential for datasheets and manuals. For a datasheet which has hundreds of pages of text and images, having a reasonable expectation that it will look consistent no matter the display medium is important. HTML doesn't even seem to have a consistent page break, footnote or header mechanism for each page. Also, for fill-in forms, you get WYSIWYG text entry, which is especially nice for government forms.
Searching in a PDF is easy enough, Google does it by default. Acrobat reader's Find utility finds it reasonably quickly enough.
Which isn't to say that web sites should rely on PDFs.
They used the number 5 because they wanted the features of 3 with the speed and ability of 2. 2+3=5. And that's where they got the number.
I still think that is lame reasoning. Why not 3.2? It's not unheard of to make a.1 release better and faster than the.0 release, so it could have been 3.1.
A Hauppague PVR-250 and 350 cost something like $150 and $250, respectively, and both have on-board MPEG and some other goodies, although I think they only record 480x480 when the standard for NTSC DVD is 720x480.
I do agree some tuners on the cheap cards are somewhat nasty, and the chip capturing that tuned signal sometimes isn't so hot either. Unless you reneed Linux support, I suggest using Philip's SAA series chips over BookTree's (now Connexant) 8x8 series. Connexant does make a better video capture chip, 238xx series, I think, which happens to be somewhat compatible with the old Bt8x8 series.
There are other countries to conduct business with. The best way to resolve the problem would be to reform the government. Yes, I understand this is extremely difficult, if not impossible. If your fellow citizens are disproportionately defrauding ecommerce businesses, then the only economic way to deal with it is not deal with citizens of such countries.
I'm sorry, it is a cold, hard reality dealt by people that fricking don't want to lose money. I feel for those people, but it's hard to justify a higher risk unless one raises prices to exports to certain countries. Otherwise the risks simply outweigh the benefits.
I'm in ecommerce myself, a very small shop, and we've had to change our policies concerning C.O.D.s and certain shipping options to California residents because there was a fraud ring there and we got hit by one.
I do know that NTFS supports "threads" or some such that there are alternate streams within a file. Alternate streams aren't called unless requested. There was a warning that a virus could hide itself within an alternate stream, such that a scanner wouldn't find it because they ignored the concept. Several years later there was an exploit made.
Streams don't look too hard to deal with, it was just an ignored feature, like Windows Scripting, no few paid attention until it was exploited with a virus.
Which is kind of unfortunate. One can subscribe to C-band satellite, there is actually a standardized scrambling system, and you can chose your suppliers. Sure, you pay more up front, but I added up the costs for all the channels I wanted, and I think it was the 20 channels I wanted for $15 a month. You can pick and chose which satellite to pull in from too since the system redirects the dish if you pick a channel that's carried by a different satellite. So you have dozens of available satellites in the visible portion of the Clarke belt with up to a couple dozen channels each.
It's too bad that C-band is heavily regulated against by housing associations and zoning boards.
I think GIMP has a pretty inefficient UI anyways. It is hard to describe, but then, I don't understand why they did it this way. One has to click and hold the right mouse button to see the editing menu and do a vertical scroll among a lot of choices. My hand / arm is a lot more efficient at horizontal pointer motion than it is with vertical, just because my wrist can swing left and right pretty quickly but move my arm to do long vertical motions, even with high mouse sensitivity.
Photoshop has neither of these handicaps.
I hadn't had any significant problems with Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice though.
Uh, from the article, it looks like the light source is a frick'n laser, and it doesn't require a frick'n shark's head.
I hate one chip DLPs. The rainbowing is ass until you get the 6x or better color wheels. The MMD chips are pretty small, but probably still too big for "pocket" projectors.
Making a raster image using lasers isn't eactly easy. In the past, it required a mirror that swivels on two axis (axes?), quickly and accurately.
I suspect there is a reason that it has taken this long. I've heard about the possibility a few years ago, but not this method.
Now the only question is whether the laser colors conform to existing video standards or if they will look a little off, because how good it will look will depend on a reasonable level of color accuracy on the primaries.
Those 'propeller-beanie techies', as you put it, are often more grounded in reality than the marketing and advertising liars that incompetent management often attempt to 'put in charge'.
Quite true, but for example, some of those techies call command line interfaces "user friendly". While I can use them, I certainly can't expect others to, it is simply unrealistic. No group is without its flaws, and unless you use very specific criteria, I can't say any group is superiour to another. Like you, I hate this class envy / class hate thing even if the classes are differing professions.
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While McDonalds is hardly the upstanding citizen of a corporation, "Super Size Me" was about a guy that deliberately set impossible eating rules so that he can make money from the attention. And that he did.
How much different is the propagation of 5 GHz RF vs. that of 2.5 GHz in air? I thought it gets blocked a lot more readily by trees and such too.
What does bug me is when people complain about the pricing of some of these things. TB RAIDS are not toys. Even then, I didn't think it was that expensive. "The common man" currently does not need TB storage, so therefore, economies of scale haven't taken hold yet.
If it is too expensive to properly store this stuff, then maybe you need to review your pricing to make sure you aren't currently shortchanging yourself in terms of price of services rendered and the cost to do so. Or find some more efficient way to store that data.
What power levels? High power 802.11 gets expensive, up to $150 for a 200mW AP. Of course, that's nothing compared to commercial hardware that puts out orders of magnitute more power, and the recievers are probably a lot more sensitive as well. The best for 802.11 that I've seen is -90dB sensitivity, typical is I think -80dB.
I think one advantage is rediculous mass production to drive the costs down.
I think this is a valid concern, with ramifications that people will try but likely fail to stop completely. A camera phone could be used in locker rooms and send real-time images to someone's nudie web log, all without the consent of those observed. And it looks like a phone, not a camera.
One thing that scares me is the multi-channel radios. There are effectively only three non-overlapping channels, and some APs are starting to take up two of them? I know the spectrum is unlicenced for low power, but I think that's usually just rude and mean for one person to just take two channels. Right now, I experiment with three APs being on, all three channels, but being in a rural area and having checked with all the neighbors, no one else is using the spectrum near me.
(peak pulse power levels around 1 GWatt!)
How long of a pulse was this? It can't be sustained for too long because IIRC ship generators run at around the megawatt output range. I'm guessing that the duty cycle would have been around 1:1000. I think I heard from a guy that the Ticonderoga class cruiser has 4MW power generation for the entire ship, which I guess is about medium size for the Navy's typical systems.
The keyless entry system shouldn't have been using military frequencies. As noted, it IS covered by Part 15, the part you don't want applied because it must accept harmful interference from those that are specifically allowed to use the band.
I'd say GM is at fault for building shitty electronics using frequencies that were allocated for other uses. I'm not surprised, my parents had a couple Oldmobiles and their electronics were the achilles heal of the car. Unless it was on max cool, occasionally the system would shoot heat at you, or if you want heat and it's not on max heat, it would occasionally run the A/C on you.
Another reader pointed out this:
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Apparently Microsoft campaign spending is down, and is pretty biased towards the Democrats right now, reversing a previous trend of biasing towards the Republicans.
The page is slightly out of date, inconsistently updated.
I've read from someone that the Feb 2004 CD has all updates up to Feb 2004. I suspect that a new CD will be rolled out pretty soon too. It looks like a four month schedule, so one should be rolled out this month.
You go to Adobe's site and download a fresh copy of Acrobat Reader. Actually, I keep version 5.0 around because 6.0 is noticibly slower to start up, but on the rare occasion that I find problems, a re-install of Acrobat Reader is painless and doesn't require a reboot.
Last time I did that, I charged $100 and I thought that was slim considering all the time spent updating all the software to current. On the upside, I gave him another stick of RAM, installed OpenOffice, ZoneAlarm, Spybot S&D, Grisoft AntiVirus, Firefox, and Thunderbird, and to top it off, I made a Ghost image of it all.
I tried to hide Internet Explorer and Outlook Express as much as I could such that they are inconvenient to use as well.
Obviouslys a lot of Windows using Republicans have logged onto the forum to spam because of the threat of independent throught and anti-bush material.
That's cute with the broad strokes of generalizations with loaded language. In my opinion, such a comment degrades the credibility of the rest of your post. If you want to make a sensible persuasion, labeling your opponents in such a manner defeats your efforts.
I'm not sure if web designers necessarily understand PDFs.
I think PDFs are essential for datasheets and manuals. For a datasheet which has hundreds of pages of text and images, having a reasonable expectation that it will look consistent no matter the display medium is important. HTML doesn't even seem to have a consistent page break, footnote or header mechanism for each page. Also, for fill-in forms, you get WYSIWYG text entry, which is especially nice for government forms.
Searching in a PDF is easy enough, Google does it by default. Acrobat reader's Find utility finds it reasonably quickly enough.
Which isn't to say that web sites should rely on PDFs.
They used the number 5 because they wanted the features of 3 with the speed and ability of 2. 2+3=5. And that's where they got the number.
.1 release better and faster than the .0 release, so it could have been 3.1.
I still think that is lame reasoning. Why not 3.2? It's not unheard of to make a
A Hauppague PVR-250 and 350 cost something like $150 and $250, respectively, and both have on-board MPEG and some other goodies, although I think they only record 480x480 when the standard for NTSC DVD is 720x480.
I do agree some tuners on the cheap cards are somewhat nasty, and the chip capturing that tuned signal sometimes isn't so hot either. Unless you reneed Linux support, I suggest using Philip's SAA series chips over BookTree's (now Connexant) 8x8 series. Connexant does make a better video capture chip, 238xx series, I think, which happens to be somewhat compatible with the old Bt8x8 series.
For a while, I had an ATI FireGL X1 (128MB?). I didn't experience any objectionable noise from it, even for the short times I had the side panel off.
Maybe you could complain to the maker? It might be something they can exchange.
There are other countries to conduct business with. The best way to resolve the problem would be to reform the government. Yes, I understand this is extremely difficult, if not impossible. If your fellow citizens are disproportionately defrauding ecommerce businesses, then the only economic way to deal with it is not deal with citizens of such countries.
I'm sorry, it is a cold, hard reality dealt by people that fricking don't want to lose money. I feel for those people, but it's hard to justify a higher risk unless one raises prices to exports to certain countries. Otherwise the risks simply outweigh the benefits.
I'm in ecommerce myself, a very small shop, and we've had to change our policies concerning C.O.D.s and certain shipping options to California residents because there was a fraud ring there and we got hit by one.
I think that brings up a point I've heard from a former PC user is that the way to get a laptop with good UNIX hardware support is to buy a Powerbook.
BTW: there are free antivirus programs out there. Grisoft AVG is pretty decent. You are right though, I shouldn't need it. Same for spyware scanners.
Firewalls are common sense for any OS security setup though.
I do know that NTFS supports "threads" or some such that there are alternate streams within a file. Alternate streams aren't called unless requested. There was a warning that a virus could hide itself within an alternate stream, such that a scanner wouldn't find it because they ignored the concept. Several years later there was an exploit made.
Streams don't look too hard to deal with, it was just an ignored feature, like Windows Scripting, no few paid attention until it was exploited with a virus.
Which is kind of unfortunate. One can subscribe to C-band satellite, there is actually a standardized scrambling system, and you can chose your suppliers. Sure, you pay more up front, but I added up the costs for all the channels I wanted, and I think it was the 20 channels I wanted for $15 a month. You can pick and chose which satellite to pull in from too since the system redirects the dish if you pick a channel that's carried by a different satellite. So you have dozens of available satellites in the visible portion of the Clarke belt with up to a couple dozen channels each.
It's too bad that C-band is heavily regulated against by housing associations and zoning boards.
I think GIMP has a pretty inefficient UI anyways. It is hard to describe, but then, I don't understand why they did it this way. One has to click and hold the right mouse button to see the editing menu and do a vertical scroll among a lot of choices. My hand / arm is a lot more efficient at horizontal pointer motion than it is with vertical, just because my wrist can swing left and right pretty quickly but move my arm to do long vertical motions, even with high mouse sensitivity.
Photoshop has neither of these handicaps.
I hadn't had any significant problems with Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice though.
Uh, from the article, it looks like the light source is a frick'n laser, and it doesn't require a frick'n shark's head.
I hate one chip DLPs. The rainbowing is ass until you get the 6x or better color wheels. The MMD chips are pretty small, but probably still too big for "pocket" projectors.
Making a raster image using lasers isn't eactly easy. In the past, it required a mirror that swivels on two axis (axes?), quickly and accurately.
I suspect there is a reason that it has taken this long. I've heard about the possibility a few years ago, but not this method.
Now the only question is whether the laser colors conform to existing video standards or if they will look a little off, because how good it will look will depend on a reasonable level of color accuracy on the primaries.
Those 'propeller-beanie techies', as you put it, are often more grounded in reality than the marketing and advertising liars that incompetent management often attempt to 'put in charge'.
Quite true, but for example, some of those techies call command line interfaces "user friendly". While I can use them, I certainly can't expect others to, it is simply unrealistic. No group is without its flaws, and unless you use very specific criteria, I can't say any group is superiour to another. Like you, I hate this class envy / class hate thing even if the classes are differing professions.