How about promote patent inspectors based on the percentage of their patents that are not found invalid in court. Maybe even fire someone who passed a bunch of patents that got completely overturned in court.
There are some more issues with that. Currently telephone wires are run in ways that are only allowable for low voltage data lines, 48 volts may make it subject to more electrical codes (I'm no electrician, but my boss is). 48 volts is generally enough voltage to give you a good bite with wet hands, maybe even kill you under the right circumstances, 12 volts probably isn't, except under much less common circumstances (open wound contact).
Products that run from 48 volts would be more expensive to manufacture, because a lot of circuits are designed to run from 12 volts directly, and thousands of chips and other components are specced for that. So you still either have a wall wart, or an internal power supply to go from 48 to 12 in a lot of cases.
I don't want to sound too negative, I'm considering running a large 12 volt circuit around my workbench myself, I just think there are a lot of issues when you start talking about deploying that in houses on a wide scale.
If you would read the materials on the subject, they say that older glass is thinker at the bottom because older methods of producing glass did not produce uniform sheets in the first place, and they were put into the window frame with the larger side down to reduce rattling, back in 1912 when the house was built.
I don't think I can say I know any extremely intelligent people personally, at least not people I interact with on a regular basis, I do live in a smallish town in the south. Most of the smart people leave here for college and don't come back. I've met several extremely intelligent people online, some many times my own level. Of these, I'd say 95% male, at least.
To the person who asked how many intelligent people I know overall... I guess he is right, it really isn't so much a male/female thing. Of the reasonably intelligent people I work with, it's about an even split male/female, maybe one more female than male or so. By reasonably intelligent, I mean people I consider peers intellectually.
Intelligence, as I am measuring it, is the ability to come up with solutions to novel problems. This is not everyone's definition, but it is mine. It involves knowledge to some extent, but more critical thinking than knowledge.
I don't know why people get all huffy when someone suggests that women might be different from men. There are clear biological differences, adaptations for certain roles. Certain definitions of intelligence clearly favor men. Why would be be so unintelligent to let political correctness get in the way of science, observation, and logic?
"I have a friend in the US, and when I asked him yesterday about this, he was very surprised. He told me that LSD is popular in the US, and no one knew that a law was being passed to ban it. He thinks the public opposition is too high for the law to hold, and it will be eventually repealed."
In other words, a large percentage of the population using or doing something that gets banned is not a good excuse for total ignorance and apathy about what your government is doing. Whenever I tell my dad about the insane laws that get proposed, he is always like "that will never get passed, or if it does, it won't stand up in court". And he is fairly politically active even. That is never something you should fall back on and assume that public outcry will prevent the government from taking away your rights.
Yeah, and after 10 years of running, my ankles and knees seize up. 250 pounds falling one foot several thousand times is a lot of stress on your joints. Exercise is too hard on your body. I'd rather be careful with my body, and not do anything too stressful, like walking briskly, or more than necessary. If you have to walk more than 1 mile to do anything, there is probably a way to do it with the computer instead. That's what we invented them for, to save us from having to do dull physical tasks, like walking, or running.;)
{Shudder} - I'm having flashbacks to cabling offices with 10Base2, how flaky it could be, and people crawling all over looking for the cause of network degradation... Aha! It was the coil of cable over in the corner of Bob's office, acting as an antenna!
Yeah, my boss just finished a contract job moonlighting as a network tech, mysterious problems with a coax network, standard MO, coils everywhere, T connectors used as splices, total segment length 1000 feet or so. Replaced it with CAT5 and problems all went away. This company is still using 386s for their main workstations though. Medical billing company, legacy text based apps, and no need for more. I had to give my boss a pile of ISA 10Mbit TP cards out of my junk box to finish the job with.
One could do pretty well running a niche company just to support legacy systems like that. I know we have had to order twinax supplies from such companies for our S/36 (now thankfully gone), and they can charge outrageous prices because of the lack of competition. Funny thing though, when we went to sell our Twinax equipment, none of those types of companies wanted to pay us enough to make it worth shipping a pallet of boat anchors, we wound up tossing most of it out.
Anyway, this is way offtopic, thanks for the exchange.
If you are going to step it up to 48 volts, then you will still have to have a transformer near the outlet, or per room, so that defeats the purpose. Might as well leave it at 120 until you get to each room, then have a transformer for each room.
I've found that it takes some heavy tweaking to get the desired sensitivity, but I didn't notice a degradation over time, maybe that's due to the fact that the watchdog restarts all of them anyway if one crashes (one crashes about every 6 hours it seems), so I never have had time to see it develop. In all, it's good software, really neat technology, but kinda picky and unstable.
I think the issue with motion crashing may partly be due to my cabling setup. Right now I am really messing up the impedance on the line by using a standard coax T connector like one would use for 10Base2 networks, to split the signal into the computer and into a seperate video processor box. I really need to change that over to coax splitters matched at 75 ohms like one would use for a cable TV network. Right now the connections are kinda shaky. I never knew how bad most BNC connectors were until I used them for video. It's really a miracle that 10Base2 networks ever worked at all. The slightest movement sends noise down the line.
One of the advantages of this setup is being able to have real time video, the aforementioned video processor is one that does 4way video compression, or sequential scan of the cameras.
The drawbacks are obvious, it's a lot nicer to have just CAT5 running to your cameras, than to mess with Coax and a myriad of connector styles.
Neat, I have four cameras around my house on the outside that terminate (via coax) at a single point where they go into a computer system that has four BTTV cards and runs four copies of motion. Motion wasn't stable on my hardware, so I have to have a watchdog cron job that restarts them every hour to be sure they stay up, but other than that, it is a very nice security system for not much cash. Motion is very nice technology.
Those things can pull more than you probably think. A large wall wart is 1 amp at 12 volts. My small speakers have that sized suppply, for example.
I'm not saying it would be impossible to do, it just would not be particularly easy to do on a large scale. One power supply per room seems like a better idea, but that introduces more points of failure.
From snopes urban legend page linked on other comment:
Origins: For nearly a century now, baseball's annual championship, the World Series, has been an essential American ritual. The modern World Series began in 1903, when the National League's pennant-winning Pittsburgh Pirates agreed to a best-of-nine playoff series against the Boston Pilgrims, champions of the upstart American League (which had made the jump from minor league to major league just two years earlier). After a one-year interruption in 1904 (when the New York Giants refused to meet the Boston Pilgrims because -- depending upon which story you believe -- the Giants' owner refused to allow his team to compete against the "inferior" American League or the Giants' manager hated the American League's president), the series resumed as a best-of-seven affair in 1905 and has been waged every autumn since (save for 1994, when it was cancelled due to a players' strike).
Trademarks on common words like that are only in refernce to certain stylized forms, or logos. They can't extend that to any use of the trademark. While your friend probably will get more sympathy by changing the site name, and it is an effective form of protest to "comply and bitch", the accusations are without merit, and likely the lawyers would not have ever followed up on the cease and desist.
Yeah, this seems to be a love it or hate it game, no inbetween.
One thing that surprised me when I played it a couple years ago on an emulator is how short it really is. There isn't much to it once you know how to use the beans. It seemed much longer when I rented it years ago.
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How about promote patent inspectors based on the percentage of their patents that are not found invalid in court. Maybe even fire someone who passed a bunch of patents that got completely overturned in court.
There are some more issues with that. Currently telephone wires are run in ways that are only allowable for low voltage data lines, 48 volts may make it subject to more electrical codes (I'm no electrician, but my boss is). 48 volts is generally enough voltage to give you a good bite with wet hands, maybe even kill you under the right circumstances, 12 volts probably isn't, except under much less common circumstances (open wound contact).
Products that run from 48 volts would be more expensive to manufacture, because a lot of circuits are designed to run from 12 volts directly, and thousands of chips and other components are specced for that. So you still either have a wall wart, or an internal power supply to go from 48 to 12 in a lot of cases.
I don't want to sound too negative, I'm considering running a large 12 volt circuit around my workbench myself, I just think there are a lot of issues when you start talking about deploying that in houses on a wide scale.
If you would read the materials on the subject, they say that older glass is thinker at the bottom because older methods of producing glass did not produce uniform sheets in the first place, and they were put into the window frame with the larger side down to reduce rattling, back in 1912 when the house was built.
Surprise! I'm basically married. Yes, she is pretty sharp too. :)
I don't think I can say I know any extremely intelligent people personally, at least not people I interact with on a regular basis, I do live in a smallish town in the south. Most of the smart people leave here for college and don't come back. I've met several extremely intelligent people online, some many times my own level. Of these, I'd say 95% male, at least.
To the person who asked how many intelligent people I know overall... I guess he is right, it really isn't so much a male/female thing. Of the reasonably intelligent people I work with, it's about an even split male/female, maybe one more female than male or so. By reasonably intelligent, I mean people I consider peers intellectually.
Intelligence, as I am measuring it, is the ability to come up with solutions to novel problems. This is not everyone's definition, but it is mine. It involves knowledge to some extent, but more critical thinking than knowledge.
I don't know why people get all huffy when someone suggests that women might be different from men. There are clear biological differences, adaptations for certain roles. Certain definitions of intelligence clearly favor men. Why would be be so unintelligent to let political correctness get in the way of science, observation, and logic?
None of these studies have produced repeatable results. None are considered credible in the scientific community, without further research.
More like, how many intelligent women do you know?
For me, it's maybe 1 out of 100, probably much less.
The date is the late 60s..
"I have a friend in the US, and when I asked him yesterday about this, he was very surprised. He told me that LSD is popular in the US, and no one knew that a law was being passed to ban it. He thinks the public opposition is too high for the law to hold, and it will be eventually repealed."
In other words, a large percentage of the population using or doing something that gets banned is not a good excuse for total ignorance and apathy about what your government is doing. Whenever I tell my dad about the insane laws that get proposed, he is always like "that will never get passed, or if it does, it won't stand up in court". And he is fairly politically active even. That is never something you should fall back on and assume that public outcry will prevent the government from taking away your rights.
Except it was the russian space agency, not NASA.
Redundancy is good. Clear written communication relies on having some redundancy so that a single typo isn't likely to result in miscommunication.
Besides, boiling the language down to some simplified form removes connotations and such, and it's very much like 1984 newspeak to do so.
Man, it's
Light a man a fire, and he will be warm for a night, Light a man afire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
This of course allows waaaay more information for me to try to keep track of - or rather the pointers.
Just make a binary search tree.
(as a side benefit, most health clubs come with very good looking members of your preferred sex in the vicinity).
Really? I've been searching for health clubs that have a large contingency of transvestite sheep, but to no avail...
Yeah, and after 10 years of running, my ankles and knees seize up. 250 pounds falling one foot several thousand times is a lot of stress on your joints. Exercise is too hard on your body. I'd rather be careful with my body, and not do anything too stressful, like walking briskly, or more than necessary. If you have to walk more than 1 mile to do anything, there is probably a way to do it with the computer instead. That's what we invented them for, to save us from having to do dull physical tasks, like walking, or running. ;)
{Shudder} - I'm having flashbacks to cabling offices with 10Base2, how flaky it could be, and people crawling all over looking for the cause of network degradation... Aha! It was the coil of cable over in the corner of Bob's office, acting as an antenna!
Yeah, my boss just finished a contract job moonlighting as a network tech, mysterious problems with a coax network, standard MO, coils everywhere, T connectors used as splices, total segment length 1000 feet or so. Replaced it with CAT5 and problems all went away. This company is still using 386s for their main workstations though. Medical billing company, legacy text based apps, and no need for more. I had to give my boss a pile of ISA 10Mbit TP cards out of my junk box to finish the job with.
One could do pretty well running a niche company just to support legacy systems like that. I know we have had to order twinax supplies from such companies for our S/36 (now thankfully gone), and they can charge outrageous prices because of the lack of competition. Funny thing though, when we went to sell our Twinax equipment, none of those types of companies wanted to pay us enough to make it worth shipping a pallet of boat anchors, we wound up tossing most of it out.
Anyway, this is way offtopic, thanks for the exchange.
If you are going to step it up to 48 volts, then you will still have to have a transformer near the outlet, or per room, so that defeats the purpose. Might as well leave it at 120 until you get to each room, then have a transformer for each room.
It is the best job I have had so far as a PC technician.
heh.
I've found that it takes some heavy tweaking to get the desired sensitivity, but I didn't notice a degradation over time, maybe that's due to the fact that the watchdog restarts all of them anyway if one crashes (one crashes about every 6 hours it seems), so I never have had time to see it develop. In all, it's good software, really neat technology, but kinda picky and unstable.
I think the issue with motion crashing may partly be due to my cabling setup. Right now I am really messing up the impedance on the line by using a standard coax T connector like one would use for 10Base2 networks, to split the signal into the computer and into a seperate video processor box. I really need to change that over to coax splitters matched at 75 ohms like one would use for a cable TV network. Right now the connections are kinda shaky. I never knew how bad most BNC connectors were until I used them for video. It's really a miracle that 10Base2 networks ever worked at all. The slightest movement sends noise down the line.
One of the advantages of this setup is being able to have real time video, the aforementioned video processor is one that does 4way video compression, or sequential scan of the cameras.
The drawbacks are obvious, it's a lot nicer to have just CAT5 running to your cameras, than to mess with Coax and a myriad of connector styles.
Neat, I have four cameras around my house on the outside that terminate (via coax) at a single point where they go into a computer system that has four BTTV cards and runs four copies of motion. Motion wasn't stable on my hardware, so I have to have a watchdog cron job that restarts them every hour to be sure they stay up, but other than that, it is a very nice security system for not much cash. Motion is very nice technology.
Everything mentioned is pretty much 20 year old technology.
I guess this is one of those stories where you are just supposed to drool and say "wow".
Those things can pull more than you probably think. A large wall wart is 1 amp at 12 volts. My small speakers have that sized suppply, for example.
I'm not saying it would be impossible to do, it just would not be particularly easy to do on a large scale. One power supply per room seems like a better idea, but that introduces more points of failure.
Wrong, apparently....
From snopes urban legend page linked on other comment:
Origins: For nearly a century now, baseball's annual championship, the World Series, has been an essential American ritual. The modern World Series began in 1903, when the National League's pennant-winning Pittsburgh Pirates agreed to a best-of-nine playoff series against the Boston Pilgrims, champions of the upstart American League (which had made the jump from minor league to major league just two years earlier). After a one-year interruption in 1904 (when the New York Giants refused to meet the Boston Pilgrims because -- depending upon which story you believe -- the Giants' owner refused to allow his team to compete against the "inferior" American League or the Giants' manager hated the American League's president), the series resumed as a best-of-seven affair in 1905 and has been waged every autumn since (save for 1994, when it was cancelled due to a players' strike).
Trademarks on common words like that are only in refernce to certain stylized forms, or logos. They can't extend that to any use of the trademark. While your friend probably will get more sympathy by changing the site name, and it is an effective form of protest to "comply and bitch", the accusations are without merit, and likely the lawyers would not have ever followed up on the cease and desist.
Yeah, this seems to be a love it or hate it game, no inbetween.
One thing that surprised me when I played it a couple years ago on an emulator is how short it really is. There isn't much to it once you know how to use the beans. It seemed much longer when I rented it years ago.
And, as an added side feature, the barcode pattern of the tatoo can assist if your child is ever lost or stolen. Hand and forehead options available!