No way to prevent the plebes from accessing those nasty sun rays, so they can't make money for doing nothing.
Can we now do a Trump and proclaim them Persona Not Grata? If you buy/sell their oil you can't trade with us. At least until they join the 20th century. I'll settle for that, give them a while to join the 21st century.
From 80 to 85-86 I was doing 8086 assembly full time before we moved to C. Reading those source files, especially dealing with segment registers, brings back lots of (painful) memories.
I think my favorite chip to write assembly for was the 68360. A 68000 with 4 serial controllers, or you could gang 2 of them together to make an ethernet controller. Nice, simple ISA, the controllers were easy to work with, it was nice to code for.
Is it that hard to see where they were flying to, or for how long they overstayed? I can see some young couple from the EU saying "I know we're supposed to be gone friday, but what say we risk it all and spend another weekend here?", only to have facial recognition keep them off their flight Monday morning.
Must be when they did the IPO. It was what, 92-93 when Alta Vista, then the search king, decided to take money to push your company to the top of the results. That ended up with nearly everyone, myself included, scrambling for a new search engine. Google won out, as history shows.
I don't know why. But it is pretty pointless to go to bed at 23:00 and can not sleep till 2:00 or 3:00... why can I not do something that I enjoy during that time, and you simply leave me alone with your "wisdom"?
I am leaving you alone. I'm just saying, if you need to be somewhere at 8 AM you really need to learn to plan ahead. Otherwise show up bleary eyed and useless to both of us.
That said, when I was in charge of calling meetings I declared that 10-3 were the golden hours. You can show up at noon for all I care, and I'll work with you. But if I need to call a 10 AM meeting I expect you to be there.
> You need to be at school at 8? That means you get up at 7
One hour from bed to classroom? That would be quite an impressive trick even for a college student who lives on campus, let alone a kid in elementary/middle/high school whose travel includes vehicular travel of any kind.
I got up at 5:45, was on the road by 6, and at work by 6:30. Did that for 30+ years, with the wake up/road time getting dialed back as traffic got worse.
I used to get to work at 6:30 AM to miss traffic. Most people showed up 8-9, management started scheduling meetings at 9 (and yeah, I was management for a while). I got more done before 9 than I did the rest of the day. And that's including 20 minutes making coffee, starting the computer, and perusing a few web sites before I was ready to actually work.
I don't get the push to start school later. There are 2 ends to sleep, they're accommodating the tail end. I'm not gonna argue you need 8-9 hours of sleep a night, I'm arguing you don't need to be up past midnight watching TV (my era) or updating facebook (modern era). You need to be at school at 8? That means you get up at 7. For 8 hours that means you're in bed at 11 PM. You don't want to be in bed at 11? Guess what, wait until you get to the real world.
I have 2 gmail accounts, one 20 years old I use for junk (supermarket gives me 10% off for an email? This is what you get), another 10 year old I use. I get 20-30 msgs a day in the first, 2-3/week on the latter.
If Google is letting everyone with $$$$ access to my email account I'm tempted to switch to Protonmail. Problem is, Protonmail is a bit of a PITA compared to gmail, but if Alphabet is selling everything to whomever then fuck them, I can spend the extra couple minutes a day. Been using duckduckgo for a search engine for a couple years now with no complaints.
They put ads in the channel menu. You could remove those channels (it was a royal pain in the ass), but they'd pop up again after a few days.
Hey U-Verse, if you can't make money charging me $140/month for lowest tier cable, then fuck you. I don't want to see your fucking ads when I channel surf.
tldr; Last May I canned U-verse, went from $140+/month to Cox cable basic internet for $15, and I'm not missing a thing. Then again, I spent about $300 one time charge for hardware (cable modem, pi 3B+, router) and am pretty good with bit-torrent. I figure 4-5 years before "pirating" stuff gets hard to do, but by then I plan to have 10-15 years of stuff on my NAS to watch. I'm old, if I'm not dead in 15 years I'll come up with a plan B.
I use them weekly to keep my grocery list. If I had a job I'd send them money but, well, I'm broke. I've got other lists I update once in a while (books I want to buy, video games I want to buy), but my weekly shopping list is my killer app.
I've got 3-4 apps I use all the time on my phone, if Evernote goes away it will really hurt. The rest? Who cares.
I've been on/. for 15-20 years years now and I still don't understand how moderation works, nor how to moderate. That said, I would mod parent "computer can access it then it is "on the network"," way up.
I have a small home network, main items being my WD NAS (which I now learn is insecure due to stupidity), my Plex box that plays media off that WD NAS, a printer, and, surprise! My laptop, which is where I control everything from.
As time marches on I am less and less inclined to manually format my posts via point left br point right. It's fucking stupid.
pi 3B+ is what, 3 years old? I'm learning what my Plex can and can't play, if I had 2x the CPU I could play everything without "the server hasn't the oomph to transcode this video" errors.
it's just that this seems to be a golden age of TV. ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox are cranking out some damned good shows at the moment. But HBO/Netflix/et all are making even better shows. "but but titties! and 7 words we can't say on TV!". Um, no. GoT isn't consistently winning because of a few pairs of nice hooters. It's winning because it fucking rocks. It takes chances, and they pay off.
Let's be honest, Martin has lost control of his child. HBO owns that fucker. Do you think pudgie georgie is going to take time off his "let's worship this guy" tours to actually finish the next book? I don't. He's gonna croak with a french fry in his throat, HBO will hire ghost writers to turn the scripts into books.
where "your" "hacker" reconfigured the video cameras. I remember one, Deux Ex something something. I spent hours being stealthy. Then hit my first boss, who was flat out combat. I did not have any combat skillz, I did not have combat weapons. Gave it maybe an hour over 3-4 days, never got close to defeating that boss.
they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.
(someone else)
The closer the devices are to the tower, the less power the tower uses, too.
This post only applies to CDMA, I have no experience with TDM or GSM systems.
Handsets use minimum power not to save the battery, but to avoid drowning out other nearby handsets. Think of a party. If you and your friends are talking you can hear each other over the background noise. Soon as some bozo in the room starts yelling nobody can hear anything but the bozo.
All packets from the base station to the handset have a power control bit. If the bit is set the handset will up the transmit power, otherwise the handset uses less power to transmit. There is no mechanism to keep the transmit power the same. The base station tries to keep all incoming packets at the same power level, no matter how near nor far away they may be.
The tower is talking to several devices on the same frequencies at the same time. It always sends at it's maximum (well, whatever some tech set the transmit power to). With CDMA there is literally no way to send x watts to me and y to you (assuming x != y). Physically impossible.
But won't the tower be "louder" than other, nearby towers? Who cares? The phone gets signals from all nearby towers, when one is "louder" than the one it's using a handoff (e.g. switching towers) is initiated.
I can talk to my 2 neighbors, and maybe the person across the table, but after that I flat out can't make out what the 6th person is saying. If the other 5 would STFU I could hear, but they won't. There is also the problem of 2-3 threads going on at once, and I can only focus on 1 at a time.
Put the onus on the phone companies. They're the only ones that can detect, and block these. Let me charge my carrier $10 for every fake phone call I get, and I promise within a month the problem will go away.
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These things are being tested in a city 300 miles away from me, and that I don't plan to visit in the near future.
No way to prevent the plebes from accessing those nasty sun rays, so they can't make money for doing nothing.
Can we now do a Trump and proclaim them Persona Not Grata? If you buy/sell their oil you can't trade with us. At least until they join the 20th century. I'll settle for that, give them a while to join the 21st century.
Farking barbarians, got lucky with the oil.
I made the switch several years ago and haven't looked back. Maybe once a month I'll try google, half the time the results aren't any better.
From 80 to 85-86 I was doing 8086 assembly full time before we moved to C. Reading those source files, especially dealing with segment registers, brings back lots of (painful) memories.
I think my favorite chip to write assembly for was the 68360. A 68000 with 4 serial controllers, or you could gang 2 of them together to make an ethernet controller. Nice, simple ISA, the controllers were easy to work with, it was nice to code for.
Is it that hard to see where they were flying to, or for how long they overstayed? I can see some young couple from the EU saying "I know we're supposed to be gone friday, but what say we risk it all and spend another weekend here?", only to have facial recognition keep them off their flight Monday morning.
Cuz there are way too many SJWs around nowdays, and the world would be better off if we could cull them somehow.
:(
/ I'm gonna pay for this
Must be when they did the IPO. It was what, 92-93 when Alta Vista, then the search king, decided to take money to push your company to the top of the results. That ended up with nearly everyone, myself included, scrambling for a new search engine. Google won out, as history shows.
I don't know why. But it is pretty pointless to go to bed at 23:00 and can not sleep till 2:00 or 3:00 ... why can I not do something that I enjoy during that time, and you simply leave me alone with your "wisdom"?
I am leaving you alone. I'm just saying, if you need to be somewhere at 8 AM you really need to learn to plan ahead. Otherwise show up bleary eyed and useless to both of us.
That said, when I was in charge of calling meetings I declared that 10-3 were the golden hours. You can show up at noon for all I care, and I'll work with you. But if I need to call a 10 AM meeting I expect you to be there.
> You need to be at school at 8? That means you get up at 7 One hour from bed to classroom? That would be quite an impressive trick even for a college student who lives on campus, let alone a kid in elementary/middle/high school whose travel includes vehicular travel of any kind.
I got up at 5:45, was on the road by 6, and at work by 6:30. Did that for 30+ years, with the wake up/road time getting dialed back as traffic got worse.
I used to get to work at 6:30 AM to miss traffic. Most people showed up 8-9, management started scheduling meetings at 9 (and yeah, I was management for a while). I got more done before 9 than I did the rest of the day. And that's including 20 minutes making coffee, starting the computer, and perusing a few web sites before I was ready to actually work.
I don't get the push to start school later. There are 2 ends to sleep, they're accommodating the tail end. I'm not gonna argue you need 8-9 hours of sleep a night, I'm arguing you don't need to be up past midnight watching TV (my era) or updating facebook (modern era). You need to be at school at 8? That means you get up at 7. For 8 hours that means you're in bed at 11 PM. You don't want to be in bed at 11? Guess what, wait until you get to the real world.
I said I was old!
I have 2 gmail accounts, one 20 years old I use for junk (supermarket gives me 10% off for an email? This is what you get), another 10 year old I use. I get 20-30 msgs a day in the first, 2-3/week on the latter.
If Google is letting everyone with $$$$ access to my email account I'm tempted to switch to Protonmail. Problem is, Protonmail is a bit of a PITA compared to gmail, but if Alphabet is selling everything to whomever then fuck them, I can spend the extra couple minutes a day. Been using duckduckgo for a search engine for a couple years now with no complaints.
They put ads in the channel menu. You could remove those channels (it was a royal pain in the ass), but they'd pop up again after a few days.
Hey U-Verse, if you can't make money charging me $140/month for lowest tier cable, then fuck you. I don't want to see your fucking ads when I channel surf.
tldr; Last May I canned U-verse, went from $140+/month to Cox cable basic internet for $15, and I'm not missing a thing. Then again, I spent about $300 one time charge for hardware (cable modem, pi 3B+, router) and am pretty good with bit-torrent. I figure 4-5 years before "pirating" stuff gets hard to do, but by then I plan to have 10-15 years of stuff on my NAS to watch. I'm old, if I'm not dead in 15 years I'll come up with a plan B.
I use them weekly to keep my grocery list. If I had a job I'd send them money but, well, I'm broke. I've got other lists I update once in a while (books I want to buy, video games I want to buy), but my weekly shopping list is my killer app.
I've got 3-4 apps I use all the time on my phone, if Evernote goes away it will really hurt. The rest? Who cares.
I've been on /. for 15-20 years years now and I still don't understand how moderation works, nor how to moderate. That said, I would mod parent "computer can access it then it is "on the network"," way up.
I have a small home network, main items being my WD NAS (which I now learn is insecure due to stupidity), my Plex box that plays media off that WD NAS, a printer, and, surprise! My laptop, which is where I control everything from.
As time marches on I am less and less inclined to manually format my posts via point left br point right. It's fucking stupid.
The venue fees, ticketshafter fees, and I don't remember what other fees, added up to more than the cost of the ticket itself.
There'$ a very good rea$on why that'$ the la$t concert I buy a ticket for.
I was not aware of that, I'd been under the impression my pi was a few years old.
Guess I need to start transcoding those videos the pi can't do.
pi 3B+ is what, 3 years old? I'm learning what my Plex can and can't play, if I had 2x the CPU I could play everything without "the server hasn't the oomph to transcode this video" errors.
it's just that this seems to be a golden age of TV. ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox are cranking out some damned good shows at the moment. But HBO/Netflix/et all are making even better shows. "but but titties! and 7 words we can't say on TV!". Um, no. GoT isn't consistently winning because of a few pairs of nice hooters. It's winning because it fucking rocks. It takes chances, and they pay off.
Let's be honest, Martin has lost control of his child. HBO owns that fucker. Do you think pudgie georgie is going to take time off his "let's worship this guy" tours to actually finish the next book? I don't. He's gonna croak with a french fry in his throat, HBO will hire ghost writers to turn the scripts into books.
where "your" "hacker" reconfigured the video cameras. I remember one, Deux Ex something something. I spent hours being stealthy. Then hit my first boss, who was flat out combat. I did not have any combat skillz, I did not have combat weapons. Gave it maybe an hour over 3-4 days, never got close to defeating that boss.
:(
I was really enjoying that game too
being over 50 and taking a job at a startup. Startup failed, suddenly I can't get an interview, let alone a job.
I even hacked 10-15 years off the top of my resume, didn't help. I'm not alone, I know a few other people in the same boat.
they dynamically use the minimum power, whether for transmitting or receiving that allows for low error communication.
(someone else)
The closer the devices are to the tower, the less power the tower uses, too.
This post only applies to CDMA, I have no experience with TDM or GSM systems.
Handsets use minimum power not to save the battery, but to avoid drowning out other nearby handsets. Think of a party. If you and your friends are talking you can hear each other over the background noise. Soon as some bozo in the room starts yelling nobody can hear anything but the bozo.
All packets from the base station to the handset have a power control bit. If the bit is set the handset will up the transmit power, otherwise the handset uses less power to transmit. There is no mechanism to keep the transmit power the same. The base station tries to keep all incoming packets at the same power level, no matter how near nor far away they may be.
The tower is talking to several devices on the same frequencies at the same time. It always sends at it's maximum (well, whatever some tech set the transmit power to). With CDMA there is literally no way to send x watts to me and y to you (assuming x != y). Physically impossible.
But won't the tower be "louder" than other, nearby towers? Who cares? The phone gets signals from all nearby towers, when one is "louder" than the one it's using a handoff (e.g. switching towers) is initiated.
I can talk to my 2 neighbors, and maybe the person across the table, but after that I flat out can't make out what the 6th person is saying. If the other 5 would STFU I could hear, but they won't. There is also the problem of 2-3 threads going on at once, and I can only focus on 1 at a time.
Put the onus on the phone companies. They're the only ones that can detect, and block these. Let me charge my carrier $10 for every fake phone call I get, and I promise within a month the problem will go away.
Don't forget DeMarco's Peopleware. 30+ years old, still relevant.