Secondly, using a limited communication system just to tell someone is ok is most likely a bad idea in the grand scheme of things. It may seem cold, but emergency situations and the communications related to life and death situations should always take precedence over "Hi mom. I'm ok."
If your ok. Then there are ok. No matter of lack of communication will change that.
You can always tell them the story when the ordeal is done. If you don't stay safe then that is the real problem.
The ARRL National Traffic System prioritizes messages between routine and emergency. We've been doing this for a while now, so a lot of those little details have been worked out. http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/31 links to the training manual for a NTS operator. Also, It might be further down in the comments, but the DoD still places value on the amateur radio network with the 9th Signal Command's MARS Program. Hams handle health and welfare traffic and phone patches for service members abroad. Yeah, your kid can tell you he's OK when he gets home from the war, but wouldn't you like to hear from him once in a while when he's there?
Lastly, on satellite coms... Bandwidth & Throughput. If either were plentiful, they wouldn't cost $3.00/min.
I used to think it would be cool to get in to the 'net and live as a construct. Then I wondered who'd be maintaining the equipment... would I be stored in some seedy offshore data haven? Would some PHB decide to save some money by cutting back on the air conditioning AND the off-site backups? Would some pimply faced ITT grad delete me to make room for his pr0n?
Considering that I can see the shuttle launch and I live in Tampa (~100 miles from KSC) and they only have 27 square miles, which if the pad were in the center would put you 5.something miles from the pad, you'll probably get a pretty good show.
I'm using a Fujitsu LT 500C and having great performance on plain ol' XP SP2. For all the cool kids running Linux out there, what do you do about pen drivers and on screen keyboards? These two are absolutely critical requirements of a tablet computer for me.
My 77 year old dad, when he gets a telemarketer, just lays the phone down and lets them talk, checking periodically to see if they're still on the line. They want to waste your time? Tit for tat. Telemarketers are WORSE than spammers IMO.
Yep! This is the about the only one I think that has any positive effect. Not only have you wasted their time, but you're helping to spare some other poor sap that would be getting the call if you hung up right away.
My other favorite is getting their 800 numbers and having my fax modem call them all night.
Ooops. Sorry... was my mistake costing you money?
Seriously, these days, the ONLY calls I pick up are from my ex wife or daughter. EVERYTHING else can go to voice mail, which Vonage is kind enough to email me to listen to at my convenience. Same thing with the cell phone.
Absolutely. I am glad i read the comments before I posted basically the same thing. They might not be able to offer the service on their free version, but work it in to the subscription price, or offer it as a $5/year add-on.
Helium is a HUGE expense when you're filling the ship from the start, but in normal operation, even the big boys only use a few bottles a week and that's from accidental valvings and impurities that leak in from the ballonets.
On Shamu, we'd shoot gas any time the purity dropped below a certain level, and when in the hanger (the big one at Weeksville, NC tha burned down a few years back), we'd hook up to a purifier truck... a huge contraption that used extremely high pressure to filter the gas.
The largest single ongoing expense for our Airship Shamu operation was personnel. A big ship needs two dozen men, ranging from pilots and mechanics to ground crew. Those need to be housed and transported for traveling operations such as most of those in the aerial advertising biz. Fuel was up there, too, but in pure gallons per hour, it's very hard to beat an airship for fuel economy.
The smaller ships of today have evolved and survived largely because they need less crew and are cheaper to operate on an ongoing basis. Not so much over the cost of helium.
Wrong. Goodyear has built it's own airship since before you were a gleam in daddy's eye. They developed their own designs in house and would have sneered at any outside tech. A quick trip to google can provide the Goodyear legacy far better than I can, if you're still interested. The ships you're talking about in Australia, at least from all photos I've seen of commercial ships there, were Airship Industries Skyship 500's and 600's.
I worked as a nightsign technician on Airship Shamu for a few years, as well as on Bud One, Gulf Oil's WDL ship, and the Met Life blimp before they made the switch to the lightships. The only serious manufacturers in the industry during the 80's were Goodyear, Aiship Industries (A British firm) and WDL, a german company that made a rugged ship that was more like a flying VW in it's simplicity. It wasn't until the 90's that the Lightships came into popularity because of their smaller size (cheaper operating costs).
Advertising has always been what paid the bills for commercial blimps, passenger service is break even at best. Smaller projects, like the 80' ship I helped build for the Florida Institute of Oceanography were always used as research platforms or surveillance, and typically could not carry passengers due to insufficient lift and FAA Experimental ratings.
Until some griefer decides to start crashing rovers at the tune of n million each.
NASA IS in the space and rocket technology business. This is 'advertising', just like any business might do. The pay off for this advertising isn't in products purchased, but in public demand for more missions.
I'm ready for some flames on this one, but I'm inclined to agree.
Recycling by itself is NOT the answer. It's a part of the three R's... Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... the last part. If you're going to pick one to focus on, pick Reduction... not only do you not use the resources to begin with, but you're not spending anything on the Recycling effort (which often consumes some pretty heavy resources).
The 'Reuse' just seems to me like a compromise between the two.
'It's ironic that "End Of Days" arrives in theaters the same day as the brilliantly conceived and executed "Toy Story 2," as original and technologically dazzling a film as "End of Days" is boring and ludicrous.'
I am an hourly contractor for a major pharmaceutical company and I'm simply not allowed to work overtime. If I'm 'in the zone' on a Tuesday and code for 12 hours straight, I'm expected to knock off early on Friday. By the same token, if I need to spend Monday morning at the dentist's office, I should find a way to squeeze those missed hours back in. That's not to say I don't ever take work home with me, but that's simply a matter of pride and I'm rarely that proud.
I have seen the flip side of this - as an (ugh) NT sysadmin for a 7/24 health care company in Denver, we were routinely expected to work weekends, come in at midnight, all without additional compensation. I moved.
I guess my point is, you can't say over 40 is the norm. There are as many different styles of workplaces as there are different types of workers. Who cares what's the best method of compensation? The question should be, are you satisfied with your compensation. If not, there's never been a better time to find another job.
I use the Belkin 4 port and found that the images were indeed blurry at even low resolution with the cheap video cables they sell. I swiped a few of the heavy-duty cables off a some spare monitors and used those between the PC's and the switch - all the problems went away. I can't say much bad about the switch, except for the 'mouse wheel problems' already mentioned, but the cheap cable sets Belkin sells definately suck.
I'm liking it so far. It's a pain to see very much of your city at once, but with the sound turned down, I can't think of a better way to screw off at those boring meetings.
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Secondly, using a limited communication system just to tell someone is ok is most likely a bad idea in the grand scheme of things. It may seem cold, but emergency situations and the communications related to life and death situations should always take precedence over "Hi mom. I'm ok."
If your ok. Then there are ok. No matter of lack of communication will change that.
You can always tell them the story when the ordeal is done. If you don't stay safe then that is the real problem.
The ARRL National Traffic System prioritizes messages between routine and emergency. We've been doing this for a while now, so a lot of those little details have been worked out. http://nts.ema.arrl.org/node/31 links to the training manual for a NTS operator. Also, It might be further down in the comments, but the DoD still places value on the amateur radio network with the 9th Signal Command's MARS Program. Hams handle health and welfare traffic and phone patches for service members abroad. Yeah, your kid can tell you he's OK when he gets home from the war, but wouldn't you like to hear from him once in a while when he's there?
Lastly, on satellite coms... Bandwidth & Throughput. If either were plentiful, they wouldn't cost $3.00/min.
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I used to think it would be cool to get in to the 'net and live as a construct. Then I wondered who'd be maintaining the equipment... would I be stored in some seedy offshore data haven? Would some PHB decide to save some money by cutting back on the air conditioning AND the off-site backups? Would some pimply faced ITT grad delete me to make room for his pr0n?
Considering that I can see the shuttle launch and I live in Tampa (~100 miles from KSC) and they only have 27 square miles, which if the pad were in the center would put you 5.something miles from the pad, you'll probably get a pretty good show.
Actually, as an openly gay mac user, I have to say I've gotten far more dick when I leave my computer at home.
If you think your hardware choice will get you laid, I'm guessing you don't get much from either sex.
I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants back home.
I'm using a Fujitsu LT 500C and having great performance on plain ol' XP SP2. For all the cool kids running Linux out there, what do you do about pen drivers and on screen keyboards? These two are absolutely critical requirements of a tablet computer for me.
My 77 year old dad, when he gets a telemarketer, just lays the phone down and lets them talk, checking periodically to see if they're still on the line. They want to waste your time? Tit for tat. Telemarketers are WORSE than spammers IMO.
Yep! This is the about the only one I think that has any positive effect. Not only have you wasted their time, but you're helping to spare some other poor sap that would be getting the call if you hung up right away.
My other favorite is getting their 800 numbers and having my fax modem call them all night.
Ooops. Sorry... was my mistake costing you money?
Seriously, these days, the ONLY calls I pick up are from my ex wife or daughter. EVERYTHING else can go to voice mail, which Vonage is kind enough to email me to listen to at my convenience. Same thing with the cell phone.
Absolutely. I am glad i read the comments before I posted basically the same thing. They might not be able to offer the service on their free version, but work it in to the subscription price, or offer it as a $5/year add-on.
Helium is a HUGE expense when you're filling the ship from the start, but in normal operation, even the big boys only use a few bottles a week and that's from accidental valvings and impurities that leak in from the ballonets.
On Shamu, we'd shoot gas any time the purity dropped below a certain level, and when in the hanger (the big one at Weeksville, NC tha burned down a few years back), we'd hook up to a purifier truck... a huge contraption that used extremely high pressure to filter the gas.
The largest single ongoing expense for our Airship Shamu operation was personnel. A big ship needs two dozen men, ranging from pilots and mechanics to ground crew. Those need to be housed and transported for traveling operations such as most of those in the aerial advertising biz. Fuel was up there, too, but in pure gallons per hour, it's very hard to beat an airship for fuel economy.
The smaller ships of today have evolved and survived largely because they need less crew and are cheaper to operate on an ongoing basis. Not so much over the cost of helium.
Wrong. Goodyear has built it's own airship since before you were a gleam in daddy's eye. They developed their own designs in house and would have sneered at any outside tech. A quick trip to google can provide the Goodyear legacy far better than I can, if you're still interested. The ships you're talking about in Australia, at least from all photos I've seen of commercial ships there, were Airship Industries Skyship 500's and 600's.
I worked as a nightsign technician on Airship Shamu for a few years, as well as on Bud One, Gulf Oil's WDL ship, and the Met Life blimp before they made the switch to the lightships. The only serious manufacturers in the industry during the 80's were Goodyear, Aiship Industries (A British firm) and WDL, a german company that made a rugged ship that was more like a flying VW in it's simplicity. It wasn't until the 90's that the Lightships came into popularity because of their smaller size (cheaper operating costs).
Advertising has always been what paid the bills for commercial blimps, passenger service is break even at best. Smaller projects, like the 80' ship I helped build for the Florida Institute of Oceanography were always used as research platforms or surveillance, and typically could not carry passengers due to insufficient lift and FAA Experimental ratings.
Pssst. Your score bites because you suck. Now you know :)
Until some griefer decides to start crashing rovers at the tune of n million each.
NASA IS in the space and rocket technology business. This is 'advertising', just like any business might do. The pay off for this advertising isn't in products purchased, but in public demand for more missions.
Yeah, but "Can you drive a 6-inch spike through a board with your penis?"
I'm ready for some flames on this one, but I'm inclined to agree.
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Recycling by itself is NOT the answer. It's a part of the three R's... Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... the last part. If you're going to pick one to focus on, pick Reduction... not only do you not use the resources to begin with, but you're not spending anything on the Recycling effort (which often consumes some pretty heavy resources).
The 'Reuse' just seems to me like a compromise between the two.
Back on topic, I'm changing my mind about cats.
Vacuum Tube Florescent Displays - still my favorite
Maybe I should've got into UI design?
I'd wait until you learn to get your point across without the profanity and form sentences that parse.
Except that the plasma now lights you up on every IR sensor pointed in your direction.
I know several millionaires. They got that way by not spending a dime more than they have to. Walmart fits nicely into their strategy.
Nabisco makes a lot of sense when you consider the company used to be the NAtional BIScuit COmpany.
'It's ironic that "End Of Days" arrives in theaters the same day as the brilliantly conceived and executed "Toy Story 2," as original and technologically dazzling a film as "End of Days" is boring and ludicrous.'
What kind of sentence is that, Jon?
Now remember I why Katz read I don't.
I am an hourly contractor for a major pharmaceutical company and I'm simply not allowed to work overtime. If I'm 'in the zone' on a Tuesday and code for 12 hours straight, I'm expected to knock off early on Friday. By the same token, if I need to spend Monday morning at the dentist's office, I should find a way to squeeze those missed hours back in. That's not to say I don't ever take work home with me, but that's simply a matter of pride and I'm rarely that proud.
I have seen the flip side of this - as an (ugh) NT sysadmin for a 7/24 health care company in Denver, we were routinely expected to work weekends, come in at midnight, all without additional compensation. I moved.
I guess my point is, you can't say over 40 is the norm. There are as many different styles of workplaces as there are different types of workers. Who cares what's the best method of compensation? The question should be, are you satisfied with your compensation. If not, there's never been a better time to find another job.
I use the Belkin 4 port and found that the images were indeed blurry at even low resolution with the cheap video cables they sell. I swiped a few of the heavy-duty cables off a some spare monitors and used those between the PC's and the switch - all the problems went away. I can't say much bad about the switch, except for the 'mouse wheel problems' already mentioned, but the cheap cable sets Belkin sells definately suck.
image the tip of your stylus as the top left of the 'box' where the zone falls
XOO
OOO
OOO
X=where your stylus is when you press,
O=where the zone falls
hope this helps.
I'm liking it so far. It's a pain to see very much of your city at once, but with the sound turned down, I can't think of a better way to screw off at those boring meetings.