Doesn't work for the automated voicemail thing the OP is talking about.
Of course, when it's a human, if there's ANY hesitation in the "may I speak with...." then I just hang up immediately. So far I haven't gotten any false positives (that I know of, and if I have, apparantly they haven't been very important ones)
btw, I thought I'd read somewhere that (in CA anyway) it was illegal to leave automated messages. I'd say I get more calls that are recorded messages than I do actual people (reaching both my voicemail and myself). Either this isn't the case, or they're getting pretty cocky.
That may be. I was a dependent (until last month when I finished college and they finally cut me off) so I never cared much about how it worked. All I know is that I lived in Santa Barbara and they refused to let me see a civilian doctor. Instead I had to drive 120 miles round-trip to go to Vandenberg AFB whenever I needed to see a doctor.
Then I got dropped a couple times because they refused to get it thru their thick beauraucratic skulls that not only had my dad (who was their billing contact) NEVER lived at one particular house down there, but that I hadn't lived there in several years either. Then they wonder why we didn't pay the bill.
Then of course we had collection agencies after us when they wouldn't pay the civilian hospital for an emergency apendectomy. And, of course, we can't forget that the glorious military doctors didn't even know my mom was having twins ULTIL THEY DID THE C SECTION AND FOUND ME IN THERE!
Ok, half of that is military healthcare, and not insurance per se. But frankly I'd prefer to keep the government as FAR removed from my health as humanly possible.
When I finally got my exit survey when they booted me, I told the colonel that I wouldn't wish his shitty service as punishement for bin Laden. Hopefully that struck a nerve over there...
Dunno, but at least it's consistant. Unlike windows where the boot time seems to double every couple months, even when you keep unused apps uninstalled, defrag and run registry cleaners and spyware detectors often and kill all unneeded services...
I'll be damned if I can figure out how to fix that without doing a monthly reinstall...
yeah, especially since even in the best of times at least 50% of the time I wasn't able to make calls with them (CONSTANT "System busy" errors). Thank God I was able to convince SBC's (Cingular wouldn't even talk to me) corporate offices to let me out of my contract...
I'm confused though - many things I buy online ALREADY add sales tax if they have a presence in CA like me. Did they not have to do this before?
Even my friend who plays middleman on ebay selling Dells and cell phones at horribly inflated prices charges sales tax and does, in fact, report it and pass it along to the state to avoid any trouble should he be audited (he owns a fair amount of business property, etc so it's a definite possiblity for him)
Hmm I think I'm going to hire a bunch of people off the street and pay them to run around the city poking people. Then nobody can do anything, because if they did, the entire poking industry would cease to exist and all those poor souls would be out of the job.
Hmm I've had a 48G and use a 48GX now (have had it for 5 or 6 years). And the OP's right. They're both slow as hell. Just TRY to use that matrix editor. Or the forms. I mean good lord. Now, if you have a GX and a memory card you can put on MetaKernel which speeds things up a lot. And you can get the 3rd party apps to replace the built-in symbolic stuff. Those make a world of difference. I really can't believe how poor the built-in apps are performance-wise.
I love my HP, but I have to say the ONLY reason I would want to change to a TI is speed. Cuz there's NO way you can say a 48G(X) is faster than a TI.
Well in a lawsuit, you're welcome to bring your own exhibits. I don't think there's a law against accessing your own data, so have the dealer or whoever access it and submit it for the court to see. I think this could actually be pretty useful for both sides. And if another post is correct and it only captures the last 5sec or so before airbag deployment, I don't think there's much room for abuse there.
As for the lawyers trying to get it tossed out...well, I guess whether that works would depend on the judge and the circumstances.
Reading a manual when you first buy something or start a project is fine. It only makes you less of a man if you start on a project and have to look at the manual halfway through. Then you're admitting defeat.
This is true. I've used an STK500/STK501 with a USB/RS232 dongle on my laptop and it worked fine. I had one built in, but I wanted to be able to program and access the debug console on my device without swapping the cable all the time.
I'm no expert on these technologies, so I may be a bit off here (I'm a firmware guy and at my company, PCI-Express is still in the realm of the hardware people. This is just what I've picked up from being around them...)
PCI-X is just an extension of existing PCI. Basically the same thing but faster and backwards compatible (I believe).
PCI-Express (which seems to be the standard most of the industry is pushing for, judging by what I was hearing on booth duty at IDF this week) is totally different. It's serial and can be thought of as being similar to ethernet. Kinda like the computer is a ethernet switch and all the devices are nodes plugged into it. It's faster and far more efficient (at least than PCI) when multiple devices are being accessed at once. The physical layer got simpler, but now there's a whole lot more complexity on the data link layer. And PCI-Express is supposed to be software compatible with PCI, so in theory, manufacturers shouldn't have to write new drivers for their fancy new PCI-Express devices. That's great news, since in these situations the software is typically more complex than the hardware.
Feel free to correct me here (I gotta learn about it sooner or later, since I'll probably be writing firmware for these things in the not-too-distant future...)
Actually yes, that's entirely possible. Funny you should mention that. The same guy just told me yesterday that his laptop (a different one, a Dell) just got stolen along with about a dozeon others in a break-in at his work. Sucks.
On the upside, it's taught him a valuable lesson about password-protecting important information and about making backups (of course there were none and as he put it, that computer knows more about him than he does...)
sometimes it ends up on there from individual users' stupidity too. A friend of mine just bought a 17" powerbook off ebay a few weeks back. I was playing with it and saw that it had this guy's quicken files dating back to like 1997. It had U of Maine school/financial aid records. It had all kinds of personal documents on there. It would be SO easy to steal this guy's identity. There were SSN, DL #, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, EVERYTHING in one convenient location.
It just boggled my mind that someone could be so stupid as to leave that kind of thing on their computer when they sold it.
I've only heard one good rationale to requiring seat belts. It's not really about the guy who's not wearing it.
But imagine you're in an accident with someone who's not wearing one and you kill him. Aside from the fact that you're now looking at manslaughter charges, you're going to feel really fucking shitty about yourself for a pretty long time, despite what you say about his personal responsibility.
I've never ridden in a car without a seatbelt (it's such a habbit I even put it on going 10 feet in a parking lot...) so I don't care if the gov't makes me. But I don't want to have to deal with the consequences that'd happen to me because someone else is being a retard who can't put on a simple seatbelt.
yeah, it boggles my mind that you're not even allowed to pump your own gas there. I seriously thought the atttendent was somehow trying to scam me into giving him a tip. No chance of that after he told me it was the law, though...
Heh I got that on my white escort for a while before I got plates put on. Everyone thought I was an unmarked cop. Especially when I went on a roadtrip out in the sticks and had a CB antenna on the back...everyone hesitated before they would pass me.
Well I get about 30-35mpg in my Escort (ugh - it doesn't even have a rear defroster!). If I was to switch to a hybrid for any reason, it wouldn't be for the gas savings - it would be because:
1) You can often get a tax credit for getting one 2) Several states (CA included) have started letting you get a little sticker for electrics/hybrids that lets you drive in the carpool lane with only one person.
I do carpool, but the person I pick up lives half-way to work from me. So it still takes up to 45 minutes to get to his place so I can pick up the carpool lane there...If I could use the carpool lane from the start my commute time would probably be a third of what it is now...
Heh, the best was when I was helping to run the web server at my high school (this happened back in 98 or so). I was logged in from home checking email or something when I got a "write" from root that said, "I think you have some security holes..." I ended up in a ytalk with him and it was some dude from kentucky who had broken his leg and had nothing better to do or something.
I honestly can't remember if we ever reported him to anyone or not, but we reinstalled right quick (I think he'd used an nfs exploit and then backdoored one of our other services, can't remember which). In any case it was obvious what had happened - the logs we so full of "help! someone's trying to hack me!" type messages that it was even funny at the time. Especially since nobody ever went to our webpage and we just used the machine as a local quake server anyway...
Damn right. I know a guy that happened to a few months back. Had to train his replacement just before he got laid off. That's bad enough, but then he was constantly being called at home by the replacement for help even after he was gone...
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Doesn't work for the automated voicemail thing the OP is talking about.
Of course, when it's a human, if there's ANY hesitation in the "may I speak with...." then I just hang up immediately. So far I haven't gotten any false positives (that I know of, and if I have, apparantly they haven't been very important ones)
btw, I thought I'd read somewhere that (in CA anyway) it was illegal to leave automated messages. I'd say I get more calls that are recorded messages than I do actual people (reaching both my voicemail and myself). Either this isn't the case, or they're getting pretty cocky.
That may be. I was a dependent (until last month when I finished college and they finally cut me off) so I never cared much about how it worked. All I know is that I lived in Santa Barbara and they refused to let me see a civilian doctor. Instead I had to drive 120 miles round-trip to go to Vandenberg AFB whenever I needed to see a doctor.
Then I got dropped a couple times because they refused to get it thru their thick beauraucratic skulls that not only had my dad (who was their billing contact) NEVER lived at one particular house down there, but that I hadn't lived there in several years either. Then they wonder why we didn't pay the bill.
Then of course we had collection agencies after us when they wouldn't pay the civilian hospital for an emergency apendectomy. And, of course, we can't forget that the glorious military doctors didn't even know my mom was having twins ULTIL THEY DID THE C SECTION AND FOUND ME IN THERE!
Ok, half of that is military healthcare, and not insurance per se. But frankly I'd prefer to keep the government as FAR removed from my health as humanly possible.
When I finally got my exit survey when they booted me, I told the colonel that I wouldn't wish his shitty service as punishement for bin Laden. Hopefully that struck a nerve over there...
Give me Kaiser or Blue Cross any day of the week.
Dunno, but at least it's consistant. Unlike windows where the boot time seems to double every couple months, even when you keep unused apps uninstalled, defrag and run registry cleaners and spyware detectors often and kill all unneeded services...
I'll be damned if I can figure out how to fix that without doing a monthly reinstall...
You obviously haven't tried to deal with Military + Tricare.
WORST INSURANCE EVER.
yeah, especially since even in the best of times at least 50% of the time I wasn't able to make calls with them (CONSTANT "System busy" errors). Thank God I was able to convince SBC's (Cingular wouldn't even talk to me) corporate offices to let me out of my contract...
I'm confused though - many things I buy online ALREADY add sales tax if they have a presence in CA like me. Did they not have to do this before?
Even my friend who plays middleman on ebay selling Dells and cell phones at horribly inflated prices charges sales tax and does, in fact, report it and pass it along to the state to avoid any trouble should he be audited (he owns a fair amount of business property, etc so it's a definite possiblity for him)
I saw one guy riding one at IDF last week. And while he drew quite a crowd, we all agreed that he looked utterly ridiculous on there.
Wow that's crazy. But I can only imagine what would happen if you tripped when running 25mph.
I mean people can kill themselves just slipping on a bathroom floor...
Really and truly, is the do not call list going to cost telemarketing workers their jobs?
We can only hope. God forbid we ditch the welfare state mentality and force these scumbags to become legitimate members of society.
Hmm I think I'm going to hire a bunch of people off the street and pay them to run around the city poking people. Then nobody can do anything, because if they did, the entire poking industry would cease to exist and all those poor souls would be out of the job.
I will be UNSTOPABLE!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmm the Agilent equipment I've been using lately runs HP-UX. Nothing like a nice lightweight embedded OS...
Tektronix uses 2k as well though...and I've yet to see either crash.
Hmm I've had a 48G and use a 48GX now (have had it for 5 or 6 years). And the OP's right. They're both slow as hell. Just TRY to use that matrix editor. Or the forms. I mean good lord. Now, if you have a GX and a memory card you can put on MetaKernel which speeds things up a lot. And you can get the 3rd party apps to replace the built-in symbolic stuff. Those make a world of difference. I really can't believe how poor the built-in apps are performance-wise.
I love my HP, but I have to say the ONLY reason I would want to change to a TI is speed. Cuz there's NO way you can say a 48G(X) is faster than a TI.
Well in a lawsuit, you're welcome to bring your own exhibits. I don't think there's a law against accessing your own data, so have the dealer or whoever access it and submit it for the court to see. I think this could actually be pretty useful for both sides. And if another post is correct and it only captures the last 5sec or so before airbag deployment, I don't think there's much room for abuse there.
As for the lawyers trying to get it tossed out...well, I guess whether that works would depend on the judge and the circumstances.
Reading a manual when you first buy something or start a project is fine. It only makes you less of a man if you start on a project and have to look at the manual halfway through. Then you're admitting defeat.
This is true. I've used an STK500/STK501 with a USB/RS232 dongle on my laptop and it worked fine. I had one built in, but I wanted to be able to program and access the debug console on my device without swapping the cable all the time.
People have already said this, but...
PCI-X != PCI-Express!
I'm no expert on these technologies, so I may be a bit off here (I'm a firmware guy and at my company, PCI-Express is still in the realm of the hardware people. This is just what I've picked up from being around them...)
PCI-X is just an extension of existing PCI. Basically the same thing but faster and backwards compatible (I believe).
PCI-Express (which seems to be the standard most of the industry is pushing for, judging by what I was hearing on booth duty at IDF this week) is totally different. It's serial and can be thought of as being similar to ethernet. Kinda like the computer is a ethernet switch and all the devices are nodes plugged into it. It's faster and far more efficient (at least than PCI) when multiple devices are being accessed at once. The physical layer got simpler, but now there's a whole lot more complexity on the data link layer. And PCI-Express is supposed to be software compatible with PCI, so in theory, manufacturers shouldn't have to write new drivers for their fancy new PCI-Express devices. That's great news, since in these situations the software is typically more complex than the hardware.
Feel free to correct me here (I gotta learn about it sooner or later, since I'll probably be writing firmware for these things in the not-too-distant future...)
Actually yes, that's entirely possible. Funny you should mention that. The same guy just told me yesterday that his laptop (a different one, a Dell) just got stolen along with about a dozeon others in a break-in at his work. Sucks.
On the upside, it's taught him a valuable lesson about password-protecting important information and about making backups (of course there were none and as he put it, that computer knows more about him than he does...)
sometimes it ends up on there from individual users' stupidity too. A friend of mine just bought a 17" powerbook off ebay a few weeks back. I was playing with it and saw that it had this guy's quicken files dating back to like 1997. It had U of Maine school/financial aid records. It had all kinds of personal documents on there. It would be SO easy to steal this guy's identity. There were SSN, DL #, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, EVERYTHING in one convenient location.
It just boggled my mind that someone could be so stupid as to leave that kind of thing on their computer when they sold it.
I've only heard one good rationale to requiring seat belts. It's not really about the guy who's not wearing it.
But imagine you're in an accident with someone who's not wearing one and you kill him. Aside from the fact that you're now looking at manslaughter charges, you're going to feel really fucking shitty about yourself for a pretty long time, despite what you say about his personal responsibility.
I've never ridden in a car without a seatbelt (it's such a habbit I even put it on going 10 feet in a parking lot...) so I don't care if the gov't makes me. But I don't want to have to deal with the consequences that'd happen to me because someone else is being a retard who can't put on a simple seatbelt.
yeah, it boggles my mind that you're not even allowed to pump your own gas there. I seriously thought the atttendent was somehow trying to scam me into giving him a tip. No chance of that after he told me it was the law, though...
Heh I got that on my white escort for a while before I got plates put on. Everyone thought I was an unmarked cop. Especially when I went on a roadtrip out in the sticks and had a CB antenna on the back...everyone hesitated before they would pass me.
Yup I was talking to a pretty reputable mechanic who said you really only need it every 10k or so. And even then it's probably fine...
3k is pure BS.
Well I get about 30-35mpg in my Escort (ugh - it doesn't even have a rear defroster!). If I was to switch to a hybrid for any reason, it wouldn't be for the gas savings - it would be because:
1) You can often get a tax credit for getting one
2) Several states (CA included) have started letting you get a little sticker for electrics/hybrids that lets you drive in the carpool lane with only one person.
I do carpool, but the person I pick up lives half-way to work from me. So it still takes up to 45 minutes to get to his place so I can pick up the carpool lane there...If I could use the carpool lane from the start my commute time would probably be a third of what it is now...
Heh, the best was when I was helping to run the web server at my high school (this happened back in 98 or so). I was logged in from home checking email or something when I got a "write" from root that said, "I think you have some security holes..." I ended up in a ytalk with him and it was some dude from kentucky who had broken his leg and had nothing better to do or something.
I honestly can't remember if we ever reported him to anyone or not, but we reinstalled right quick (I think he'd used an nfs exploit and then backdoored one of our other services, can't remember which). In any case it was obvious what had happened - the logs we so full of "help! someone's trying to hack me!" type messages that it was even funny at the time. Especially since nobody ever went to our webpage and we just used the machine as a local quake server anyway...
Damn right. I know a guy that happened to a few months back. Had to train his replacement just before he got laid off. That's bad enough, but then he was constantly being called at home by the replacement for help even after he was gone...