Anybody notice that AT&T now have to have a huge ad campaign that they didn't need before. They no longer have 100% of the market and have to spend considerable effort to hold the market share. Anything less than 100% of the software market is too little for Microsoft for the same reason. This includes OS'es, Apps, Servers, Commerce and connectivity. (WEB/Cable/DSL/Wireless/Entertainment/Comerce/Etc. ) Youbetcha Microsoft is upset! Selling to half of a competitive market is hard and they don't want to go there again. It's easier to be the de-facto standad and sell to all the market. (an more profitable)
Would you trust them on this? They have not been open in even admiting these things exist. Remember WIN 3.1 and the DR DOS error message. What API was not satisfied to pop up that little jem? Do you think they will ever release all the API's IE uses even if charged by the court to do so? I think not. They will claim IE is just part of the OS and not an aplication using API's
That sounds like when I was in the Navy. To get the advanced electronics, I had to up for 6 years instead of 4. The only problem is if the pay or kudos are way out of line, we walk as soon as the obligation is over. (The pay was not great and the choice of location, housing and kudos was very poor.) I was in the Navy only for the experiance and education. These were the two requirements real employers were looking for. That is not the case now. I am buying a home in the part of the country I call home and I don't have to worry about being moved within a couple years.
Not all companies suffer this though. Some companiew who value talent go to great lengths to keep the work force compensated and happy. The bennifits are great, but the occasional kudo pat on the back is even better. Some companies even provide free PC's and internet service to all employees, like Boeing and Intel. It's great to get stuff above the regular benefits package and go a long way to say you are important to us, what can we do to make you happy.
It should be out at the time of the rapture. I read about it's release. The book is mentioned in the Bible. It's called The Book of Life. I for one will be checking it out!
one for the family, the other for, uhh, other things...
Use a seprate box for this. Ya never know what is kept as a cookie, registry entry (WIN BOX), or registration identification.
Didn't you notice there are two kinds of blanks. A data CD and a Music CD. The music CD is for Music. If you pay for it, go for it with a clear consience. Notice the music CD blanks do cost more. Just don't use a data CD for music. That would be wrong.
Be sure to bring up lots of extra fuel. You will need some to do the mining, but more important, you will need extra to get the payload back. Most astorids happen to be on their own orbit and not simply waiting nearby. It is best to catch one while it is getting closer. It will take less fuel than trying to make a u-turn with the payload to come back. What kind of scales do you use in space to weigh your load. How do you calculate the fuel usage? How do you get back if your calculation is in error? (bring your own calculator to back up any figures NASA may give. (-: )
I think you are right about it not being open. Notice they have two doors for visitors? One is for commercial use! I smell PDF revenue stream. Give away free viewers and sell the encoders.
A few comments on static and solar cells are in order. Most solar cells can be shorted safely. If high current is a concern, most solar cells can be shaded safely (the thin lightweight gold stuff seen on the moon mission should work). To have a plasma, there has to be a low pressure gas.(outer admosphere fringe) This gas could provide either a place to loose electrons or gain electrons. An antenna like device with a static generator should be able to loose or gain as many electrons as needed to keep the ship skin nuteral.
In most locations it is illegal to autodial (unattended alarm) the police directly. They require someone else (monitior company) to filter the false alarms. They will not respond to a machine call. (except to issue ciatation for the violation of course)
What would happen if you ordered a new copy every week and chalanged the tax and let them pile up. They may look into the actual price of the software. They may try selling the extra unclaimed copies. Bring a copy of the web page or catalog you ordered them from. Hopefully you will get the same agent more than once. Be sure to let him know what you are doing. Also let the local newspaper know. When you do get them, you can be ready to sell the extras to a local retailer.
I found it interesting he didn't mention the biggest spam fighting sites on the web, Junkbusters or MAPS in his spam message. He named a couple others I never heard of.
OK, time for radio theory. True one wavelength is 4.5 meters. However the most damaging length for a wire is 1/4 wavelength. This is the length the worst standing wave can exist. Cables near 1/8th wavelength are not uncommon and can start to show wavelength related effects.
Before we had COAX, we had twin lead TV Wire. Anybody remember it? Current in one conductor induces current in the other with the oposite direction (magnetic). Away from the pair a short distance there was little power recieved or transmitted off the cable because these oposite fields cancel. This was how the TV signal got from the antenna on the roof down to the TV. It wasn't perfect or 100% sheilded. (Unshielded pair) It worked well until color tv came out and phase shifts of the color signal required better shielding of the lead in. A single wire (non twin lead) IS an antenna and transmits and receives well. They don't have the cheap technology to connect all the signal lines on the hard drive with COAX so twin lead is the next best thing, a-la ATA66. Current in the oposite direction in the ground (induced current) next to the signal wire produces an oposite magnetic field and canceles the rediated signal a short distance from the pair. This greatly reduces crosstalk in the cable. It also provides shielding (true not 100%). The radiation is low enough on unshielded twisted pair to recieve FCC aproval in the USA. This is why CAT 5 cable always uses pairs for all signals. This is why CAT 5 cable does not work if the wrong ground is used in the cable. The ground must be the one twisted with the signal wire. Try it sometime. Make up a 25 foot CAT 5 cable and mix the grounds so the ground from one pair is used in place of another. Even though the wires connect properly end to end, mixing the grounds kills the cable. Don't flame me for calling the - signal a ground. I know it's active in CAT 5 cable, but it is driven oposite the + signal so the E field also cancells out.
Now, to round a ATA66 cable, using this knowledge, simply cut the ribbon in pairs instead of each wire seprately. This will pair each signal with it's complimentry ground.
Hmm, Is your office open 24/7? Do they do backups when everyone is home on the weekends? Do they do backups at all? Our outage is Sunday mornings from midnight to 6 AM. Most dayshifters will never see it. Our old system took 1/2 hour. It was not an inconvience.
Exchange allows you to schedule resources as well, we use it here to allocate conference rooms. Too bad I don't admin the system. I didn't know Outlook was able to manage resources. It is not implimented here so my report is from the perspective of an end user haveing to put up with it. I can not invite room 523 to my meeting and instantly book it if it is free or proxy view it's schedule to see when it is free to attend the meeting.
Exchange provides 'out of office' functionality for vacation days. Great I'm out of the office, so is the rest of the department. The factory is stopped because nobody is there to cover that step... Outlook still does nothing to prevent all 4 of us from taking the week after Christmas off and stopping the entire factory.
The other software prevented this by only allowing the max number off from any department by having the requirement of taking the non person (vacation slot) with me. If they are unavaliable, I can't take the day off as vacation. That slot was first come-first served. No arguements over who was first. Maybe you should read your documentation before you make such blatantly wrong statements.As far as documentation goes, well as a worker bee, I never see it. That is not passed out.
When you really have to schmooze the folks at Redomond because you really need something...Like support for your platform/product or are begging them not to take your market.
Our company changed to Outlook. We got hit with the Love Bug Virus. We now have outages every week (scheduled lasting 6 hours) which is a pain for a 24/7 manufacturing shop.
On a related subject, we dropped Russell Calander Manager. Calander Manager imediately showed conflicts in schedules (vs waiting someone reading mail and replying) With Outlook, those checking the calander at the beginning of shift go to cancelled meetings or miss changed or recently scheduled meetings because there wasn't time to sift thru all the stuff in the inbox. With Outlook you have to open any mail that may contain a schedule event to update your calander. Same thing applies for cancelled meetings. I have found out about meetings after the fact. I have attended cancelled meetings. In Russell Calander Manager, some of the users were confrence rooms, vacations and the like. I could schedule a meeting and include the confrence room as an attendee. I could schedule Easter off and include the apropiate vacation slot as an attendee. It works first come first served. No arguements over who was first. Anyone else later would be get a conflict as the confrence room or vacation slot was unavaliable to attend. This made confrence room use a breeze. If you really needed a room, you could e-mail the person who scheduled the room to negotiate and they could re-schedule freeing up the room so it could attend your meeting. (the room auto accepted the first requester). With Outlook sometimes two groups arrive to use the same room. A person has to read all the mail for the room and reply to it later (not real time by someone not working 24/7). Therefore several people can get unconfirmed dates and times for a room. What a mess.
I noticed Pioneer is selling another blank DVD listed as for authoring. The are listed as suitable for making press masters. I think that means those pesky zero'ed bits are not zeroed! Anybody know for sure?
Most tape players are out of cal and put the tones off pitch. Check the tolorence requirements for DTMF. I am suprised anyone even tried to sell it on tape. A HI FI VCR could be used as the tape speed is locked to a crystal reference.
Transistors are still a big factor. To manage power consumption (heat) lower voltages have to be used. This reduces the gate signal which reduces the on current which increases the rise time. There is lots of work still being done on transistor developement. Small gates are required to keep the gate capacitance low, which reduces the channel size which limits the drive current. The small size also makes uniformity of the critical deminsions very difficult. Lower operating voltages makes gate sensitivity critical and dopeing the silicone to work with low voltages increases the leakage current. It is a big balancing act to get it to work. Pushing the limits makes the path to functionality a very narrow tightrope.
The senior project sounds interesting. It sounds similar to Intel's Strata Flash memory. The memory holds 3 charge levels per cell instead of just on/off for higher density. The cell is read by checking the e field of the stored charge. The Strata Flash memory is low power memory and is used in cell phones and such.
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Anybody notice that AT&T now have to have a huge ad campaign that they didn't need before. They no longer have 100% of the market and have to spend considerable effort to hold the market share. Anything less than 100% of the software market is too little for Microsoft for the same reason. This includes OS'es, Apps, Servers, Commerce and connectivity. (WEB/Cable/DSL/Wireless/Entertainment/Comerce/Etc. ) Youbetcha Microsoft is upset! Selling to half of a competitive market is hard and they don't want to go there again. It's easier to be the de-facto standad and sell to all the market. (an more profitable)
Would you trust them on this? They have not been open in even admiting these things exist. Remember WIN 3.1 and the DR DOS error message. What API was not satisfied to pop up that little jem? Do you think they will ever release all the API's IE uses even if charged by the court to do so? I think not. They will claim IE is just part of the OS and not an aplication using API's
Earth. My first employer did US NAVY. My current employer does. I plan on being here a while. I like it here.
Other than not having Windows on your desktop, this sounds like a BIG software firm in Redomond!
That sounds like when I was in the Navy. To get the advanced electronics, I had to up for 6 years instead of 4. The only problem is if the pay or kudos are way out of line, we walk as soon as the obligation is over. (The pay was not great and the choice of location, housing and kudos was very poor.) I was in the Navy only for the experiance and education. These were the two requirements real employers were looking for. That is not the case now. I am buying a home in the part of the country I call home and I don't have to worry about being moved within a couple years.
Not all companies suffer this though. Some companiew who value talent go to great lengths to keep the work force compensated and happy. The bennifits are great, but the occasional kudo pat on the back is even better. Some companies even provide free PC's and internet service to all employees, like Boeing and Intel. It's great to get stuff above the regular benefits package and go a long way to say you are important to us, what can we do to make you happy.
It should be out at the time of the rapture. I read about it's release. The book is mentioned in the Bible. It's called The Book of Life. I for one will be checking it out!
one for the family, the other for, uhh, other things... Use a seprate box for this. Ya never know what is kept as a cookie, registry entry (WIN BOX), or registration identification.
Didn't you notice there are two kinds of blanks. A data CD and a Music CD. The music CD is for Music. If you pay for it, go for it with a clear consience. Notice the music CD blanks do cost more. Just don't use a data CD for music. That would be wrong.
Be sure to bring up lots of extra fuel. You will need some to do the mining, but more important, you will need extra to get the payload back. Most astorids happen to be on their own orbit and not simply waiting nearby. It is best to catch one while it is getting closer. It will take less fuel than trying to make a u-turn with the payload to come back. What kind of scales do you use in space to weigh your load. How do you calculate the fuel usage? How do you get back if your calculation is in error? (bring your own calculator to back up any figures NASA may give. (-: )
I think you are right about it not being open. Notice they have two doors for visitors? One is for commercial use! I smell PDF revenue stream. Give away free viewers and sell the encoders.
A few comments on static and solar cells are in order. Most solar cells can be shorted safely. If high current is a concern, most solar cells can be shaded safely (the thin lightweight gold stuff seen on the moon mission should work). To have a plasma, there has to be a low pressure gas.(outer admosphere fringe) This gas could provide either a place to loose electrons or gain electrons. An antenna like device with a static generator should be able to loose or gain as many electrons as needed to keep the ship skin nuteral.
In most locations it is illegal to autodial (unattended alarm) the police directly. They require someone else (monitior company) to filter the false alarms. They will not respond to a machine call. (except to issue ciatation for the violation of course)
I found it interesting he didn't mention the biggest spam fighting sites on the web, Junkbusters or MAPS in his spam message. He named a couple others I never heard of.
Before we had COAX, we had twin lead TV Wire. Anybody remember it? Current in one conductor induces current in the other with the oposite direction (magnetic). Away from the pair a short distance there was little power recieved or transmitted off the cable because these oposite fields cancel. This was how the TV signal got from the antenna on the roof down to the TV. It wasn't perfect or 100% sheilded. (Unshielded pair) It worked well until color tv came out and phase shifts of the color signal required better shielding of the lead in. A single wire (non twin lead) IS an antenna and transmits and receives well. They don't have the cheap technology to connect all the signal lines on the hard drive with COAX so twin lead is the next best thing, a-la ATA66. Current in the oposite direction in the ground (induced current) next to the signal wire produces an oposite magnetic field and canceles the rediated signal a short distance from the pair. This greatly reduces crosstalk in the cable. It also provides shielding (true not 100%). The radiation is low enough on unshielded twisted pair to recieve FCC aproval in the USA. This is why CAT 5 cable always uses pairs for all signals. This is why CAT 5 cable does not work if the wrong ground is used in the cable. The ground must be the one twisted with the signal wire. Try it sometime. Make up a 25 foot CAT 5 cable and mix the grounds so the ground from one pair is used in place of another. Even though the wires connect properly end to end, mixing the grounds kills the cable. Don't flame me for calling the - signal a ground. I know it's active in CAT 5 cable, but it is driven oposite the + signal so the E field also cancells out.
Now, to round a ATA66 cable, using this knowledge, simply cut the ribbon in pairs instead of each wire seprately. This will pair each signal with it's complimentry ground.
Hmm, Is your office open 24/7? Do they do backups when everyone is home on the weekends? Do they do backups at all? Our outage is Sunday mornings from midnight to 6 AM. Most dayshifters will never see it. Our old system took 1/2 hour. It was not an inconvience.
Exchange provides 'out of office' functionality for vacation days. Great I'm out of the office, so is the rest of the department. The factory is stopped because nobody is there to cover that step... Outlook still does nothing to prevent all 4 of us from taking the week after Christmas off and stopping the entire factory.
The other software prevented this by only allowing the max number off from any department by having the requirement of taking the non person (vacation slot) with me. If they are unavaliable, I can't take the day off as vacation. That slot was first come-first served. No arguements over who was first. Maybe you should read your documentation before you make such blatantly wrong statements.As far as documentation goes, well as a worker bee, I never see it. That is not passed out.
When you really have to schmooze the folks at Redomond because you really need something...Like support for your platform/product or are begging them not to take your market.
On a related subject, we dropped Russell Calander Manager. Calander Manager imediately showed conflicts in schedules (vs waiting someone reading mail and replying) With Outlook, those checking the calander at the beginning of shift go to cancelled meetings or miss changed or recently scheduled meetings because there wasn't time to sift thru all the stuff in the inbox. With Outlook you have to open any mail that may contain a schedule event to update your calander. Same thing applies for cancelled meetings. I have found out about meetings after the fact. I have attended cancelled meetings. In Russell Calander Manager, some of the users were confrence rooms, vacations and the like. I could schedule a meeting and include the confrence room as an attendee. I could schedule Easter off and include the apropiate vacation slot as an attendee. It works first come first served. No arguements over who was first. Anyone else later would be get a conflict as the confrence room or vacation slot was unavaliable to attend. This made confrence room use a breeze. If you really needed a room, you could e-mail the person who scheduled the room to negotiate and they could re-schedule freeing up the room so it could attend your meeting. (the room auto accepted the first requester). With Outlook sometimes two groups arrive to use the same room. A person has to read all the mail for the room and reply to it later (not real time by someone not working 24/7). Therefore several people can get unconfirmed dates and times for a room. What a mess.
The author. The creator. GOD!
I noticed Pioneer is selling another blank DVD listed as for authoring. The are listed as suitable for making press masters. I think that means those pesky zero'ed bits are not zeroed! Anybody know for sure?
Intel has a skiing game where you use your body in front of the camera to ski the course in the game.
Most tape players are out of cal and put the tones off pitch. Check the tolorence requirements for DTMF. I am suprised anyone even tried to sell it on tape. A HI FI VCR could be used as the tape speed is locked to a crystal reference.
The senior project sounds interesting. It sounds similar to Intel's Strata Flash memory. The memory holds 3 charge levels per cell instead of just on/off for higher density. The cell is read by checking the e field of the stored charge. The Strata Flash memory is low power memory and is used in cell phones and such.