The requirement for 50/50 representation on the bids is the problem. The contract bid should be and even mix of the market. The current bid process gives a few companies all the entries while excluding the majority of potential clients.
This is NOT free enterprise where the best offering gets the job. What happened to hire the best? Lost to PC.
Maybe not. This may be nothing more than an advancement of an Apprenticeship. This is how I learned commercial refrigeration. When I worked in a classified space, we rarely shut down to allow outside trades in, so much of the HVAC was done in house. As such I learned much of the trade including hard silver soldering, hydraulic unloaders, adjustment and proper use of thermostatic expansion valves, etc as OJT with the textbook Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning which is pretty much the bible on the subject. http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Refrigeration-Conditioning-Andrew-Althouse/dp/1590702808
It took me the longest to grasp the theory of how continious cycle absorption cycle worked, but I finally understood it too.
With my training, I am now trained to charge, maintain, service, and repair systems for chilled water up to 500 Ton.
This copyright violation of posted photos is much more prevelant than copying movies and songs.. Sorry **AA. Even large sites are guilty of this. I posted some photos of a redneck project on a hobby site and found the page and my Youtube vidoe of the item was posted on Make!. Where does fair use end reporting this and where does commercial copyright violations begin?
It would have been neat to have received a request to use the material. The free publicity was great. My Youtube views spiked. The photos, the video, and much of the text copied from the site was my creation.
I did not make any issue of the violation. I would have granted permission if they asked and was honored that my work was worthy of inclusion in their site. It was annoying that they didn't even try to contact me first.
If you don't answer the IM, it remains in your inbox just like an email. If you are unavaliable to take the call, IM, or Email while driving, let it go to voicemail, inbox, etc. I'll still be there when you have time to deal with it.
In many places distracted driving due to phone use is illegal. My contacts know I don't take calls while driving, but I am aware I have a message, either voicemail or text.
The illegal act or dangerous act was the driver's responsibility. I'm not sure if texting while driving is lillegal where he was, but it is still dangerous, which was demonstrated by the driver.
Wow, they are still at this. I did get to mess with one and tied him up for about 20 minutes. I had my netbook running Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I played along to see how long it would take for them to figure out I wasn't running windows. They didn't start trying to get me to look for Windows error messages. They started by trying to get me to go to a site for Remote Desktop Management so they could see my PC. I played along and got to the download. They wanted me to open it since I said I could not run it. I opened it with archive manager and told them of the other Exe in the exe archive. They wanted me to run that too. Again, I could not run it. Then they tried to get me to check for Windows error messages. Along this path they finally asked what version of Windows I was running. After I told them, they made a quick appology (surpried me) and they hung up. The caller ID was faked.
I was more thinking on the lines of the conspiracy theriosts that would say this was to prevent proving the landing was a hoax.
A nearby landing and photos of the site should be OK though. Walking through existing rover tracks and footprints should remain undisturbed but photographed from a safe distance.
And Netflix. Sorry, sources of ad free program are already out there. This was why I bailed on cable TV years ago. They charge me, and then still cram it full of ads. Internet sites full of time wasting ads simply get bypassed for sites with content. Pay TV has been on a decline ever since.
GM tried to follow the eyeballs from TV to online social media. If the ads don't block content, they are ignored. If the ads do block content, the pages are mostly ignored. Take a clue from Yahoo and Google. The viewers leave, followed by the advertisers. Want to kill your site, load it with ads. This is why I expect Facebook to follow Yahoo, Geocities, Myspace, etc, unless they highly restrict advertising damage to the site.
The biggest mistake is to try to increase revenue by selling more ads at the expence of the users. Lose the users, you lost.
Intensity is limited by distance. The power falls off as a square of the distance. EMP mat take out downtown but leave most of the suburbs mostly untouched. Most cars still have most electrical contained inside the metal body providing high attenuation. The computers on many are already hardened against high RF fields so ham radio, CB radio, Radio and TV broadcast. etc won't cause failure. The days of police cars that shut down when the trucker keyed up to warn others is over.
Even better, use WiDi with an enabled TV on the wall. A USB or WiFi webcam on a WiDi laptop can be placed in the next room out of sight. or out on a shelf out of reach. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357919,00.asp
Proper surge protection, spark gaps, low pass filters, etc provide a high degree of protection. Narrow band antennas of a grounded design such as a yagi, will recieve power within it's passband.
Unshielded electronics such as your clock radio are hard to protect. Shielded equipment with power filtering, metal cases, over voltage protection, etc are relatively safe. Your desk top computer has an antenna wire attached to the keyboard and mouse, so these are vunerable. A traditional RFI metal case tower PC with all external cables removed would make a nice spare that can be quickly deployed after an attack.
A single point ground at the utility power and telcom entry into a building provides high levels of protection against the lower frequency components of an EMP as MOV, Spark Gap, and other protection is fast enough to ground it. A noise filter for the house power will block the higher frequencies so the over voltage devices can protect the load.
This is only in places such as Finland where the DMCA is not applied. Sadly even playing without copying without a approved player such as Geexbox is considered a crime. I have not seen this enforced here so far for software players. You can't sell them legally here due to the DVD consortium, but there is little stopping free software.
It is an X10 powerline device. A light switch replacement is not rocket science or safety issue once installed.
I do not recommend using X10 in a dorm room. The standard is well known. Anyone can buy components. The power network is common to his neighbours. If I was his neighbour and thought the stereo was too loud, it would not take long to try the All Off command on all 16 House codes to turn everything off.
If you must hide your IP address, you can use one of many Skype/Sip gateways. SIP to SIP to the gateway then Skype to Skype from the gateway. Since Skype does not work well in Linus, I use SIP instead. SIP is P-P too, a SIP call will reveal my IP to a SIP caller. A Skype caller will only see the gateway.
There are several gateways. IPPI.fr is only a representative example.
You can Skype me in France anytime. I have never been to France.
I don't use this to hide my IP address. I use it with an ATA so calls ring my phone, even when I'm not online. With their speed dialer, I can make Skype calls without turning on the computer.
I can be called by Google Voice, an INUM number, SIP, Skype, or IPKall number and any will ring my SIP phone, provide voice mail, caller ID, etc.
Looking at the complexity of the universe and the DNA chains that map life and trying to find evidence that this was not random probability. Life is fragile. How has it survied this long. The sun, how was it made to not burn out in a few hundred years? Why is it stable? How long can the fire burn? Without intelligent design, science has many questions to find the answer to. It is harder to believe this thing called life started on it's own and DNA which is universal in life was not designed. Why isn't there life without DNA, but uses something else instead? Since DNA is universal, did we really decend from pond scum along with iguanas and brine shrimp?
I do agree the design permits natural selection. To say that natural selection is part of devine design is a very dangerous discovery.
On a serious note, has there been any data collected on the number of people either not flying, or avoiding flying anytime possible because of the TSA? This will need to be ballanced for fairness against all the new travelers that now think it is safe to fly now.
Follow the links for more info. Strings of Christmas lights, relays, Linux, and Windows CE for the console. Due to the noisy relays, operation was restricted to after midnight when the building was vacant.
Fortunately it can be replaced. For example, instead of buying a math textbook on economics, you can simply use Khan Academy for free instead. When momopoly printing creates a vacuum, something with disruptive propertys will move in. See the series on The Cupcake Factory for more info on this.
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Who made your CPU chip? Many fabs including ones in the US make the chips, even if it is packaged elsewhere.
The requirement for 50/50 representation on the bids is the problem. The contract bid should be and even mix of the market. The current bid process gives a few companies all the entries while excluding the majority of potential clients.
This is NOT free enterprise where the best offering gets the job. What happened to hire the best? Lost to PC.
Maybe not. This may be nothing more than an advancement of an Apprenticeship. This is how I learned commercial refrigeration. When I worked in a classified space, we rarely shut down to allow outside trades in, so much of the HVAC was done in house. As such I learned much of the trade including hard silver soldering, hydraulic unloaders, adjustment and proper use of thermostatic expansion valves, etc as OJT with the textbook Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning which is pretty much the bible on the subject. http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Refrigeration-Conditioning-Andrew-Althouse/dp/1590702808
It took me the longest to grasp the theory of how continious cycle absorption cycle worked, but I finally understood it too.
With my training, I am now trained to charge, maintain, service, and repair systems for chilled water up to 500 Ton.
This copyright violation of posted photos is much more prevelant than copying movies and songs.. Sorry **AA. Even large sites are guilty of this. I posted some photos of a redneck project on a hobby site and found the page and my Youtube vidoe of the item was posted on Make!. Where does fair use end reporting this and where does commercial copyright violations begin?
It would have been neat to have received a request to use the material. The free publicity was great. My Youtube views spiked.
The photos, the video, and much of the text copied from the site was my creation.
I did not make any issue of the violation. I would have granted permission if they asked and was honored that my work was worthy of inclusion in their site. It was annoying that they didn't even try to contact me first.
If you don't answer the IM, it remains in your inbox just like an email. If you are unavaliable to take the call, IM, or Email while driving, let it go to voicemail, inbox, etc. I'll still be there when you have time to deal with it.
In many places distracted driving due to phone use is illegal. My contacts know I don't take calls while driving, but I am aware I have a message, either voicemail or text.
The illegal act or dangerous act was the driver's responsibility. I'm not sure if texting while driving is lillegal where he was, but it is still dangerous, which was demonstrated by the driver.
Wow, they are still at this. I did get to mess with one and tied him up for about 20 minutes. I had my netbook running Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I played along to see how long it would take for them to figure out I wasn't running windows. They didn't start trying to get me to look for Windows error messages. They started by trying to get me to go to a site for Remote Desktop Management so they could see my PC. I played along and got to the download. They wanted me to open it since I said I could not run it. I opened it with archive manager and told them of the other Exe in the exe archive. They wanted me to run that too. Again, I could not run it. Then they tried to get me to check for Windows error messages. Along this path they finally asked what version of Windows I was running. After I told them, they made a quick appology (surpried me) and they hung up. The caller ID was faked.
I was more thinking on the lines of the conspiracy theriosts that would say this was to prevent proving the landing was a hoax.
A nearby landing and photos of the site should be OK though. Walking through existing rover tracks and footprints should remain undisturbed but photographed from a safe distance.
They should have had a BSA raid to put the shoe on the other foot.
Not all of the 43%. Some of us have learned from the Ernie Ball story and moved off closed source entirely.
And Netflix. Sorry, sources of ad free program are already out there. This was why I bailed on cable TV years ago. They charge me, and then still cram it full of ads. Internet sites full of time wasting ads simply get bypassed for sites with content. Pay TV has been on a decline ever since.
GM tried to follow the eyeballs from TV to online social media. If the ads don't block content, they are ignored. If the ads do block content, the pages are mostly ignored. Take a clue from Yahoo and Google. The viewers leave, followed by the advertisers. Want to kill your site, load it with ads. This is why I expect Facebook to follow Yahoo, Geocities, Myspace, etc, unless they highly restrict advertising damage to the site.
The biggest mistake is to try to increase revenue by selling more ads at the expence of the users. Lose the users, you lost.
Intensity is limited by distance. The power falls off as a square of the distance. EMP mat take out downtown but leave most of the suburbs mostly untouched. Most cars still have most electrical contained inside the metal body providing high attenuation. The computers on many are already hardened against high RF fields so ham radio, CB radio, Radio and TV broadcast. etc won't cause failure. The days of police cars that shut down when the trucker keyed up to warn others is over.
Many cars will survive a direct or nearby lightning strike. Some will not. This is an indication of the ability to survive a local EMP event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUOdO6eEZA
Note, most nearby cars were not affected.
Even better, use WiDi with an enabled TV on the wall. A USB or WiFi webcam on a WiDi laptop can be placed in the next room out of sight. or out on a shelf out of reach.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357919,00.asp
Proper surge protection, spark gaps, low pass filters, etc provide a high degree of protection. Narrow band antennas of a grounded design such as a yagi, will recieve power within it's passband.
Unshielded electronics such as your clock radio are hard to protect. Shielded equipment with power filtering, metal cases, over voltage protection, etc are relatively safe. Your desk top computer has an antenna wire attached to the keyboard and mouse, so these are vunerable. A traditional RFI metal case tower PC with all external cables removed would make a nice spare that can be quickly deployed after an attack.
A single point ground at the utility power and telcom entry into a building provides high levels of protection against the lower frequency components of an EMP as MOV, Spark Gap, and other protection is fast enough to ground it. A noise filter for the house power will block the higher frequencies so the over voltage devices can protect the load.
http://www.ese.upenn.edu/detkin/instruments/misctutorials/Ground/grd.html
Proper grounding, noise filtering, shielding, and overvoltage protection will provide a high degree of protection to EMP.
This is only in places such as Finland where the DMCA is not applied. Sadly even playing without copying without a approved player such as Geexbox is considered a crime. I have not seen this enforced here so far for software players. You can't sell them legally here due to the DVD consortium, but there is little stopping free software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Forum
They promised the content providers
Region Encoding
Copy Protection
Encryption
Forced viewing of the piracy warning
Or use a DVD player that is not blessed by the DVD consortium.
Is it so hard to make a DVD player that plays the movie when you put it in?
A No it is not hard, just not allowed.
http://www.geexbox.org/ Play your movie. The menu and extras can be viewed if desired.
I think a Homing Anti Radiation Missle (HARM) will send a message back that this is unacceptable. You turn it off or we will.
It is an X10 powerline device. A light switch replacement is not rocket science or safety issue once installed.
I do not recommend using X10 in a dorm room. The standard is well known. Anyone can buy components. The power network is common to his neighbours. If I was his neighbour and thought the stereo was too loud, it would not take long to try the All Off command on all 16 House codes to turn everything off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard)
It uses a 4 bit house code. 16 tries is a guaranteed hit with the All Off.
Personally, I would have used DMX-512a for network security in the dorm instead of powerline.
The laser is a common DJ light effect from American DJ.
AMERICAN DJ Galaxian Green & Red DMX Lazer Light Beams
If you must hide your IP address, you can use one of many Skype/Sip gateways. SIP to SIP to the gateway then Skype to Skype from the gateway. Since Skype does not work well in Linus, I use SIP instead. SIP is P-P too, a SIP call will reveal my IP to a SIP caller. A Skype caller will only see the gateway.
There are several gateways. IPPI.fr is only a representative example.
You can Skype me in France anytime. I have never been to France.
http://www.ippi.com/
I don't use this to hide my IP address. I use it with an ATA so calls ring my phone, even when I'm not online. With their speed dialer, I can make Skype calls without turning on the computer.
I can be called by Google Voice, an INUM number, SIP, Skype, or IPKall number and any will ring my SIP phone, provide voice mail, caller ID, etc.
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Linksys+PAP2T
Faith and Scientific method are exclusive. If you can prove it with scientific method, it is not faith based.
Faith is the essence of things not seen.
Why is this news?
Looking at the complexity of the universe and the DNA chains that map life and trying to find evidence that this was not random probability. Life is fragile. How has it survied this long. The sun, how was it made to not burn out in a few hundred years? Why is it stable? How long can the fire burn? Without intelligent design, science has many questions to find the answer to. It is harder to believe this thing called life started on it's own and DNA which is universal in life was not designed. Why isn't there life without DNA, but uses something else instead? Since DNA is universal, did we really decend from pond scum along with iguanas and brine shrimp?
I do agree the design permits natural selection. To say that natural selection is part of devine design is a very dangerous discovery.
On a serious note, has there been any data collected on the number of people either not flying, or avoiding flying anytime possible because of the TSA? This will need to be ballanced for fairness against all the new travelers that now think it is safe to fly now.
Follow the links for more info. Strings of Christmas lights, relays, Linux, and Windows CE for the console. Due to the noisy relays, operation was restricted to after midnight when the building was vacant.
Fortunately it can be replaced. For example, instead of buying a math textbook on economics, you can simply use Khan Academy for free instead. When momopoly printing creates a vacuum, something with disruptive propertys will move in. See the series on The Cupcake Factory for more info on this.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-economics/current-economics/v/economics-of-a-cupcake-factory
As affordable alternatives move into the market and become better, the entrenched market will feel the pain. The Pay TV market is having issues with this now as Netflix and other online streaming content is disrupting the pay tv market.
http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/more-us-are-cutting-cord-pay-tv-667429