There are a few significant differences between cat5 wire and telco wire, including:
1. cat5 is twisted (don't recall the interval), telco wire is not necessarily twisted. This makes a big difference on cross-talk.
2. telco patch boards are not engineered to prevent cross-talk across connections at the box.
There are probably other significant differences too.
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One of the arguments against GE food is that it might get out of the controlled environments we think it is contained within. For example, killer bees were introduced in South America as part of a (poorly) controlled experiment. The result is now that local varieties of honey producing bees have been overtaken by the less productive and dangerous strain all through south America and into Texas.
More recently, a GE corn only approved for animal feed was found in TacoBell tortillas.
Lets face it: If we create it, we will evenutally end up eating it or getting impacted in some other unexpected way.
Get ready to eat some of that synthetic polyester replacement corn by accident some day.
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While shared libraries are evolving, there is greater likelyhood that folks will mix versions. True for Linux, true for Windows. There is no idiot proof fix.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Posture. Yes, your mother was right. So was your teacher. Sit up straight.
I'm a programmer and was still in my 20's when serious back pain started to assault me. I'm not into any drugs and am so weird about that that I don't even like taking aspirin. Anyhow, I forced myself to stop slouching and bang! my back stopped hurting within a week.
PS -- Letting your wrists droop below the elevation of your fingertips while typing will cause carpel tunnel pain. Stop drooping and it will go away if you have not already caused permanent damage.
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Seems like this watch is "listening" for encoded sounds within regular programming. What the article does not say is how many broadcasters have signed up to carry these signals. (The signals are probably inaudible or at least too short to be noticed.)
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his client has been ripped off every bit as much as the music recording companies that are suing Napster.
"It's all the same," Veal said. "They've done the creative work, and now someone says, 'I ought to be able to take it because it's there.' "
If the government is going to fine or imprison me for not knowing a dance step, Napster would shine with a completely different light. Please no more Napster comparisons. These are entirely different domains. I am not required to know the lyrics of any song.
Law -> not equal to Music
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That the people's laws belong to the people. In other words, once text is submitted to the people, it is implicitly being offered to the people. Anything else and you end up with cr*p like this.
How are the people served by not having unlimited access to the laws by which they are judged?
An interesting side note, are copyrights being violated when legislators copy the law text to distribute within their own offices for review?
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"Bed sheets are of more substantial stuff, but Jane Dobson has only to hang them up and wash them down with a hose..."
What the h*ll are those Dobson folk from the future doing in their bedroom that they need rugedized bedsheets that can stand a "hosing down?" Wish my life was that wild.
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Who you are is, on the whole, by nature, not nurture
Uhhhh, no. The best thinking today is that some characteristics are by nature and those can in turn influence along with external environmental factors the majority or characteristics that we call personality and capability.
I've never seen a child spontaneously do calculus. Someone has to teach them.
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For Windows, VSS is definitely easy to use and works well. It does handle binary files (any format) and does do diffs.
I've used MS VSS for documents (along with software projects) off and on since about 97 and can say that it does work. The last time I helped set up management types, we were able to glue the Checkin/Checkout options right into MS Word's menu bar for them.
If you want to hook into it from a Linux machine, there may be hope if you know how to RMI to an ActiveX compatible process that executes your commands via the VSS automation interface. (VSS exposes the whole API through ActiveX automation. You can get all the technical details on the MSDN site link here.)
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If you are not using Windows as a web server OS then the choice is clear: do not use VBScript because the third party support is not worth the trouble. And VBScript is only good when you use COM.
If you are using Windows servers, then you can code with anything you want. However,
I don't know if developing with Java/Servlets is faster than Perl, but I would rather go the Java route. Really for no good reason. Just like it better.
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Everybody can buy a computer, and start producing open source software. It's cheap, simple, and anyone who can execute a task composed by various commands can program
Uhhh, excuse me. I live in the USA. Creating open source software is fast becoming an obstacle course of intellectual property rights. Want to build a shareware program today? Get a lawyer.
I wonder if 50 years from today, you'll need a lawyer to negotiate a royalty contract before your doctor can legally apply a patentend bio-engineered treatment.
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There is nothing wrong with vendors creating proprietary systems to play their content. Home video game systems are a good example. Buy a cartridge created for their hardware or don't play their game. Where some people take issue, however, is when the government gets involved in the preservation of a business model. Frankly, If I find a way to use hardware I purchased in ways the manufacturer did not intend, too bad for them. If they make a robust system and I want to give them my money, good for them.
The difference between government enforced copy protection and innovation enforced copy protection is one puts you in jail when you do obvious things with stuff you own and the other just forces the vendor to think more creatively next time.
I'm not so sure hiring lawyers to keep cash-flow positive is better for the progress of society than that good-ole model of yester-year when engineers kept that engine running.
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And why doesn't Gnome or another open source Linux desktop project steel the subscription thunder themselves? This would be a good way to bring newbies/non-techs into the Linux fold. Make it easy and they will come.
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The tank may have been manned (I stand corrected), but if memory serves, the gun was not. There was an AI component that was supposed to identify helicopters and shoot them down. The problem was that the algorithm was rather crude --- if there was a regular blocking of light at the frequency range that a helicopter blade would produce it would shoot. This is not enough on which to base a firing decision. There was an anecdote of the Sgt York prototype blowing the h*ll out of a latrine because the dim lightbulb inside was flickering.
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internet becoming the biggest free blockbuster {a popular video rental chain in the US} on the planet
What if there is nothing wrong with that? What if that is really a good thing? Of course, it would smash today's content business models.
Let's think about this... If the horse and buggy manufacturers had the governmental reach the Movie and Music conglomerates have today, we would not be allowed to drive a car because that would trash their horse and buggy business model. (A good lawyer would have patented the multi-passenger enclosed coach and attaching an engine would be a breach of license.)
Of course if Radio had realized what they could achieve by hiring lawyers instead of engineers, there would have been no television because it would have (and did) significantly reduce the importance of radio as an entertainment resource. (A good team of lawyers would have manipulated the system so that radio technology was allowed for licensed receivers -- which of course would only have delivered sound, not video.)
No one speaks for the new business models that would rise up to profit from the new content realities since they don't yet exist. And of course, the way things seem to be headed, our big brother will not let things change so we can discover what they are. (And yes, someone will always profit. The only issue is that they may not be the same ones that do today. ===> Change is bad when you are already on top.)
Bang Bang Oww (Me pounding fist on table and then rubbing it because I hit the table too hard.)
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My wife was right... I was stupid to work long hours for so many years (60-80 per week) and just pull in a regular salary. I did this because I enjoyed the work, liked the respect, sought the challenges. I did not care much about money.
I was stupid in the sense that I could have earned more money (working at burger king) if I got paid for every hour. But that only matters if the money is the main thing and you have something better to do. (I didn't have anything better to do.)
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Why should my government use my tax dollars to buy software when there are viable open-source alternatives? Seems like the Argentine government has a great policy in the making. And it will encourage technology growth in IT that is not dependent on foreign corporations. (Seems like a good plan for any non-US government for that reason alone.)
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Slashdot Mirror
There are a few significant differences between cat5 wire and telco wire, including:
1. cat5 is twisted (don't recall the interval), telco wire is not necessarily twisted. This makes a big difference on cross-talk.
2. telco patch boards are not engineered to prevent cross-talk across connections at the box.
There are probably other significant differences too.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
One of the arguments against GE food is that it might get out of the controlled environments we think it is contained within. For example, killer bees were introduced in South America as part of a (poorly) controlled experiment. The result is now that local varieties of honey producing bees have been overtaken by the less productive and dangerous strain all through south America and into Texas.
More recently, a GE corn only approved for animal feed was found in TacoBell tortillas.
Lets face it: If we create it, we will evenutally end up eating it or getting impacted in some other unexpected way.
Get ready to eat some of that synthetic polyester replacement corn by accident some day.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
While shared libraries are evolving, there is greater likelyhood that folks will mix versions. True for Linux, true for Windows. There is no idiot proof fix.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Posture. Yes, your mother was right. So was your teacher. Sit up straight.
I'm a programmer and was still in my 20's when serious back pain started to assault me. I'm not into any drugs and am so weird about that that I don't even like taking aspirin. Anyhow, I forced myself to stop slouching and bang! my back stopped hurting within a week.
PS -- Letting your wrists droop below the elevation of your fingertips while typing will cause carpel tunnel pain. Stop drooping and it will go away if you have not already caused permanent damage.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Seems like this watch is "listening" for encoded sounds within regular programming. What the article does not say is how many broadcasters have signed up to carry these signals. (The signals are probably inaudible or at least too short to be noticed.)
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Lawyers rely on LexisNexis and services like it for legal research. (http://www.lexisnexis.com/lncc/)
Is LexisNexis breaking the law?
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his client has been ripped off every bit as much as the music recording companies that are suing Napster. "It's all the same," Veal said. "They've done the creative work, and now someone says, 'I ought to be able to take it because it's there.' "
If the government is going to fine or imprison me for not knowing a dance step, Napster would shine with a completely different light. Please no more Napster comparisons. These are entirely different domains. I am not required to know the lyrics of any song.
Law -> not equal to Music
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
That the people's laws belong to the people. In other words, once text is submitted to the people, it is implicitly being offered to the people. Anything else and you end up with cr*p like this.
How are the people served by not having unlimited access to the laws by which they are judged?
An interesting side note, are copyrights being violated when legislators copy the law text to distribute within their own offices for review?
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"...rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy."
And who would let their kids eat this stuff? "Heck no Tommy, keep away from the chocolates and lemon drops!"
I better stop reading this thing.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
"Bed sheets are of more substantial stuff, but Jane Dobson has only to hang them up and wash them down with a hose..."
What the h*ll are those Dobson folk from the future doing in their bedroom that they need rugedized bedsheets that can stand a "hosing down?" Wish my life was that wild.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Who you are is, on the whole, by nature, not nurture
Uhhhh, no. The best thinking today is that some characteristics are by nature and those can in turn influence along with external environmental factors the majority or characteristics that we call personality and capability.
I've never seen a child spontaneously do calculus. Someone has to teach them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
For Windows, VSS is definitely easy to use and works well. It does handle binary files (any format) and does do diffs.
I've used MS VSS for documents (along with software projects) off and on since about 97 and can say that it does work. The last time I helped set up management types, we were able to glue the Checkin/Checkout options right into MS Word's menu bar for them.
If you want to hook into it from a Linux machine, there may be hope if you know how to RMI to an ActiveX compatible process that executes your commands via the VSS automation interface. (VSS exposes the whole API through ActiveX automation. You can get all the technical details on the MSDN site link here.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
If you are not using Windows as a web server OS then the choice is clear: do not use VBScript because the third party support is not worth the trouble. And VBScript is only good when you use COM.
If you are using Windows servers, then you can code with anything you want. However,
I don't know if developing with Java/Servlets is faster than Perl, but I would rather go the Java route. Really for no good reason. Just like it better.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Everybody can buy a computer, and start producing open source software. It's cheap, simple, and anyone who can execute a task composed by various commands can program
Uhhh, excuse me. I live in the USA. Creating open source software is fast becoming an obstacle course of intellectual property rights. Want to build a shareware program today? Get a lawyer.
I wonder if 50 years from today, you'll need a lawyer to negotiate a royalty contract before your doctor can legally apply a patentend bio-engineered treatment.
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Or they are the opposite model because the state owned everything.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
There is nothing wrong with vendors creating proprietary systems to play their content. Home video game systems are a good example. Buy a cartridge created for their hardware or don't play their game. Where some people take issue, however, is when the government gets involved in the preservation of a business model. Frankly, If I find a way to use hardware I purchased in ways the manufacturer did not intend, too bad for them. If they make a robust system and I want to give them my money, good for them.
The difference between government enforced copy protection and innovation enforced copy protection is one puts you in jail when you do obvious things with stuff you own and the other just forces the vendor to think more creatively next time.
I'm not so sure hiring lawyers to keep cash-flow positive is better for the progress of society than that good-ole model of yester-year when engineers kept that engine running.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
And why doesn't Gnome or another open source Linux desktop project steel the subscription thunder themselves? This would be a good way to bring newbies/non-techs into the Linux fold. Make it easy and they will come.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Why not have a computer that constantly monitors all our vital signs?
How about a company sell these things for parents to have their kids wear? I'm a parent and I might buy one.
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The tank may have been manned (I stand corrected), but if memory serves, the gun was not. There was an AI component that was supposed to identify helicopters and shoot them down. The problem was that the algorithm was rather crude --- if there was a regular blocking of light at the frequency range that a helicopter blade would produce it would shoot. This is not enough on which to base a firing decision. There was an anecdote of the Sgt York prototype blowing the h*ll out of a latrine because the dim lightbulb inside was flickering.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
internet becoming the biggest free blockbuster {a popular video rental chain in the US} on the planet
... If the horse and buggy manufacturers had the governmental reach the Movie and Music conglomerates have today, we would not be allowed to drive a car because that would trash their horse and buggy business model. (A good lawyer would have patented the multi-passenger enclosed coach and attaching an engine would be a breach of license.)
What if there is nothing wrong with that? What if that is really a good thing? Of course, it would smash today's content business models.
Let's think about this
Of course if Radio had realized what they could achieve by hiring lawyers instead of engineers, there would have been no television because it would have (and did) significantly reduce the importance of radio as an entertainment resource. (A good team of lawyers would have manipulated the system so that radio technology was allowed for licensed receivers -- which of course would only have delivered sound, not video.)
No one speaks for the new business models that would rise up to profit from the new content realities since they don't yet exist. And of course, the way things seem to be headed, our big brother will not let things change so we can discover what they are. (And yes, someone will always profit. The only issue is that they may not be the same ones that do today. ===> Change is bad when you are already on top.)
Bang Bang Oww (Me pounding fist on table and then rubbing it because I hit the table too hard.)
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Billion dollar boondogle of the 1980's ...
Pictures of the SGT York unmanned tank at http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/8757/SGTY .html
There's a little footnote about it at this site: http://www.pogo.org/mici/f22/f22raptor.htm
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My wife was right ... I was stupid to work long hours for so many years (60-80 per week) and just pull in a regular salary. I did this because I enjoyed the work, liked the respect, sought the challenges. I did not care much about money.
I was stupid in the sense that I could have earned more money (working at burger king) if I got paid for every hour. But that only matters if the money is the main thing and you have something better to do. (I didn't have anything better to do.)
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Why should my government use my tax dollars to buy software when there are viable open-source alternatives? Seems like the Argentine government has a great policy in the making. And it will encourage technology growth in IT that is not dependent on foreign corporations. (Seems like a good plan for any non-US government for that reason alone.)
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Network Police: You realize you were downloading at 64kb/s in a 28.8 zone?
User: That's how fast everyone else downloads around here.
Network Police: And you are downloading with unlicensed software.
User: Hey, this is shareware and I am going to register it.
Network Police: Tell that to the judge.
User: Hey, I'm booted off. Damn AOL.
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Put some p*rn on that server.
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