You missed the point of my snarky comment. OK, I'll explain it to you...
You see, the article is about how computer-uneducated vast numbers of IT people are. I was implying that the lack of education about computers/systems/software is why Microsoft products have dominated IT for many years, further implying that people who were better educated about computer systems/software would not have selected MS products.
Hospitals still use pagers for one simple reason. They are 1000x more reliable than a text message. Pager system coverage areas are far larger and more saturated with signals than cell systems which are full of holes in coverage. The signaling scheme used in paging systems is more reliable and the frequencies used penetrate buildings better than cell signals.
Don't worry- the problem will solve itself. Keep checking your phone/smart watch for messages while conversing with others and before long you won't have to put up with people in "your personal space" any more.
So lemme see if I get this: you want to be able to send and receive text messages while interacting with others, but you don't want them to know you're doing it so they won't think you're some sort of a-hole? And you think that the person you're interacting with won't notice you staring at your watch? And you think they won't notice that it's big, clunky, and has text displayed on it, sort like, oh, I don't know, a phone?
A Pebble smart watch user gave an example: 'People thought I was being rude and checking the time constantly when I was really monitoring incoming messages. It sent the wrong signal.'
I've got news for you. You're not sending a good signal when you check your phone for text messages during a conversation either. In either case you're indirectly but very clearly saying to the person standing in front of you that anything, including the time of day, a text message, or a facebook update is more important/interesting than what you are saying to me right now.
This topic has been beaten to death everywhere. The only place where the Republicans look innocent is Fox news. There was no agreement to be reached except that the dopes in DC should do their jobs. Finally, the children realized they were starting to look bad and did something about it.
All of these descriptive terms are intended to obfuscate to true nature of an "unplanned, unscheduled landing" on something other than an airport runway and/or on something other than the aircraft's landing gear.
There's no need to brace for a landing. Planes land thousands of times each day without anyone being told to brace first. If someone tells you to brace, you are about to crash, period. It's just common sense. The only thing that counts as a landing is setting the plane down on its fully functioning landing gear on something resembling a runway. Everything else is simply a crash.
Apply the same verbiage to an automobile and you can see how ridiculous it becomes. You don't unintentionally steer into a tree and come to an unplanned stop. You crash. Likewise with driving into a river. You don't unintentionally park your vehicle in a river. You crash.
I'm not a lawyer, just someone who occasionally rides in airplanes. When (if) I hear a pilot announce to brace for a "water landing", I know we are about to crash. If you ask 99% of people who ride in airplanes what a "water landing" is, they'll tell you it is a crash.
More importantly, I hope the people who really elect presidents and congressmen- the big corporations and wealthy private donors- learn from this and stop supporting morons.
Chill out. The R's finally realized that no amount of jerrymandering will save them from the backlash from this in the next election and they voted to fund the govt. Guess what? Obamacare is still happening...
You can be tracked with a dumb phone, too, by triangulation of your signal at multiple cell sites. It may not be quite as accurate as gps, but it's good enough for most uses.
months, and I live in the US, the world wide capitol of dumb ideas.
1) it requires everyone who orders a book to submit to gps tracking 2) it is for delivering paper books- do people still use those? 3) the inefficiency is mind-boggling. 4) it is rife with safety issues
avalanche diodes conduct bursts of current at random times. A true random number generator simply measures time between those bursts of current then scales that value to whatever numerical range you need.
You can also time the clicks produced by a geiger-mueller tube detecting beta radiation from a radioactive source, but that requires a lot more difficult-to-integrate hardware.
Even if you base the final random number on a truly random source you have to ensure that the scaling routine doesn't introduce any sort of bias into the final value. THAT is the tricky part.
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You missed the point of my snarky comment. OK, I'll explain it to you...
You see, the article is about how computer-uneducated vast numbers of IT people are. I was implying that the lack of education about computers/systems/software is why Microsoft products have dominated IT for many years, further implying that people who were better educated about computer systems/software would not have selected MS products.
There, now, isn't it funny?
" I just wish somebody could explain to me and Anand why Windows is so awful at managing idle power.'"
Because MS doesn't pay reviewers to write about the bad stuff.
"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
is the dominant player in corporate IT systems!
know what "IT" stands for?
Hospitals still use pagers for one simple reason. They are 1000x more reliable than a text message. Pager system coverage areas are far larger and more saturated with signals than cell systems which are full of holes in coverage. The signaling scheme used in paging systems is more reliable and the frequencies used penetrate buildings better than cell signals.
Don't worry- the problem will solve itself. Keep checking your phone/smart watch for messages while conversing with others and before long you won't have to put up with people in "your personal space" any more.
So lemme see if I get this: you want to be able to send and receive text messages while interacting with others, but you don't want them to know you're doing it so they won't think you're some sort of a-hole? And you think that the person you're interacting with won't notice you staring at your watch? And you think they won't notice that it's big, clunky, and has text displayed on it, sort like, oh, I don't know, a phone?
A Pebble smart watch user gave an example: 'People thought I was being rude and checking the time constantly when I was really monitoring incoming messages. It sent the wrong signal.'
I've got news for you. You're not sending a good signal when you check your phone for text messages during a conversation either. In either case you're indirectly but very clearly saying to the person standing in front of you that anything, including the time of day, a text message, or a facebook update is more important/interesting than what you are saying to me right now.
mmmm fire up the grill!
This topic has been beaten to death everywhere. The only place where the Republicans look innocent is Fox news.
There was no agreement to be reached except that the dopes in DC should do their jobs. Finally, the children realized they were starting to look bad and did something about it.
Right! After all, we don't get anything from those leeches...
I wonder if that professor was on the admissions committee that admitted George W Bush. I wouldn't be surprised...
All of these descriptive terms are intended to obfuscate to true nature of an "unplanned, unscheduled landing" on something other than an airport runway and/or on something other than the aircraft's landing gear.
There's no need to brace for a landing. Planes land thousands of times each day without anyone being told to brace first. If someone tells you to brace, you are about to crash, period. It's just common sense. The only thing that counts as a landing is setting the plane down on its fully functioning landing gear on something resembling a runway. Everything else is simply a crash.
Apply the same verbiage to an automobile and you can see how ridiculous it becomes. You don't unintentionally steer into a tree and come to an unplanned stop. You crash. Likewise with driving into a river. You don't unintentionally park your vehicle in a river. You crash.
I'm not a lawyer, just someone who occasionally rides in airplanes. When (if) I hear a pilot announce to brace for a "water landing", I know we are about to crash. If you ask 99% of people who ride in airplanes what a "water landing" is, they'll tell you it is a crash.
You must work for an airline. Water landing? That airline speak for "crash".
I don't know what to say. Good luck!
election rolls around and vote accordingly.
More importantly, I hope the people who really elect presidents and congressmen- the big corporations and wealthy private donors- learn from this and stop supporting morons.
Banana republics don't pay their bills. Now we do.
If you're unhappy with last night's vote, I suggest you do as I do and vote against idiots in the next election.
slashdotspeak for astroturfing....
How much did those reviews cost? Who is making those reviews? I'm guessing it's people who earn their living maintaining MS systems.
Yeah, I know, "hater's gonna hate"
Chill out. The R's finally realized that no amount of jerrymandering will save them from the backlash from this in the next election and they voted to fund the govt. Guess what? Obamacare is still happening...
You can be tracked with a dumb phone, too, by triangulation of your signal at multiple cell sites. It may not be quite as accurate as gps, but it's good enough for most uses.
months, and I live in the US, the world wide capitol of dumb ideas.
1) it requires everyone who orders a book to submit to gps tracking
2) it is for delivering paper books- do people still use those?
3) the inefficiency is mind-boggling.
4) it is rife with safety issues
I could go on but you get the idea...
avalanche diodes conduct bursts of current at random times. A true random number generator simply measures time between those bursts of current then scales that value to whatever numerical range you need.
You can also time the clicks produced by a geiger-mueller tube detecting beta radiation from a radioactive source, but that requires a lot more difficult-to-integrate hardware.
Even if you base the final random number on a truly random source you have to ensure that the scaling routine doesn't introduce any sort of bias into the final value. THAT is the tricky part.
zener diodes biased into avalanche mode to generate random noise? I don't think even the NSA has figured out how to hack laws of thermodynamics.