This has been a news story for about two weeks. What was two weeks ago? Christmas. What did geeky kids get for Christmas? Green lasers. What do geeky kids do with thier new powerful lasers? Try to put a green dot on something really far away. What far away objects are easy to find? Aircraft.
This is such a bullshit non-story. The fact that the new federal TSA screeners recieved the identical bad scores as the old private screeners on random bomb and gun tests, yet cost a lot more, worries me more.
You, like many people confuse the terms "wireless" with "mobile". Both terms make you think of a laptop, tablet, or car computer. Wireless means just that, no wires. Even if it sits still, it's wireless.
The new version of the bar golf video game Golden Tee is sponsored by Sprint and uses thier data network to transmit game info. The previous version dialed in with a phone line and the bar operators didn't like messing with it.
Wireless cards for desktop computers are great. I have two desktops in my house and one cable modem. A few years ago I would have had to run wires through my entire house. Now I buy some relatively inexpensive cards, pop them in the computers, and get 54 Mbps networking.
Running large numbers of wires in a corporate environment is very time consuming and costly. Depending on what you need, going wireless in an all desktop environment could save a ton of money.
Just like IPv5, a lot of proposed standards get shelved for all kinds of reasons. Even though 802.11h never made it to production, the proposal still exists somewhere and naming something else 802.11h would be very confusing to the people involved. Usually we have catchy marketing terms insulating consumers from the technical versioning, but not in this case.
After 802.11z comes 802.11aa. Other parts of the 802 standard go into the double letters.
If you're going to plot against your employer, go to Chuck-E-Cheese for lunch. It's empty on a weekday afternoon and you won't be seen by anyone unexpected. Also, you can play some skee-ball while you're plotting.
Episode 2 is worth renting to see Yoda get busy with a lightsaber.
Is anyone else really disturbed by the fact that there is nobody to root for in the prequel films? The "good guys" like Yoda and Obi Wan are fighting along side stormtrooper 1.0s for the people who will later become the Empire . The whole idea of prequels is just stupid because we know exactly what the situation is going to be at the end. The minute I saw Samuel Jackson on screen I knew that he was going to get waxed sooner or later.
George Lucas has one chance to turn the ship around. He can turn over all writing and directing duties to other people and let them run with Episodes 7-9.
I read an article about how Zipcar was expanding into college towns. It mentioned that there are a large number of rentals on weekdays between midnight and 4AM and theorized that the cars are being used as roommate-free love shacks. Fast food wrappers would be the least of my worries.
Cocaine and all of its stimulant cousins don't make you smarter, but they focus all of your attention on one thing. Your nervous system gets turned up a notch and you're ready to get stuff done. I know of people smoking meth and cleaning their apartment for 14 hours.
South Park does a great parody about ADD. The test to see if the 8 year old kids have ADD is the doctor reading all of Moby Dick. If the kids don't pay attention to all of it, they have ADD and need Ritalin.
In magazine ads for drugs, drug companies are required to print a massive ammount of text, sometimes a whole page, listing side effects and potential problems. With TV ads, sometimes they do mention a couple side effects, usually dry mouth, but at the bottom of the screen they show the text "see our ad in whatever magazine" where they have that full page of text. I've noticed the magazine "Cooking Light" a few times, presumably becaue the full page ad is dirt cheap. Unless you happen to have a copy of this month's Cooking Light in your house, you have no idea what the full list of side effects and complications are.
If I was in charge, I would get rid of TV perscription drug commercials tomorrow. If you have a real medical problem, go see a trained doctor. If that doctor thinks you need medication, he'll write you a perscription. That's how it worked until just a few years ago. Chris Rock does a brilliant bit about drug ads. He talks about the ads just naming symptoms until they hit on something that rings a bell with you. "Do you get sleepy at night? Do you wake up in the morning? I got that. I'm sick!"
He bricks one question after getting 2,700 right and he's throwing games?
His Fed-Ex answer certainly had a logic to it. The person that got that one right and won said that she only knew it because one of her good friends works for HR Block.
What I really wanted to see was for Jeopardy to call up all the old 5 day winners and make Ken play against two of them at a time. Have they ever brought back 5 day winners to play each other? That would be a kick ass tournament.
SciFi set in the future is a different situation. In a world with the technology to create replicants, why can't they have really high resolution cameras.
As another poster mentioned, what bothers me about that scene are the obnoxious mechanical sounds the computer makes.
Sometimes they'll zoom in like the original video has infinite resolution. More often, they'll stop on a blurry freeze frame and the geek will say "Let me clean this up". Then he uses a magic photoshop filter that infers data that obviously didn't exist in the original frame. It's a good story device because the blurry shape slowly disovles into the face of one of the suspects.
People in Indiana cracked up when that song came out. Kokomo, Indiana is this small, dirty town to the north of Indianapolis. It's the least romantic place you could sing about. IIRC, Kokomo is the town that wouldn't let Ryan White go to school because he had AIDS.
Any computers holding "secret" or "top-secret" data cannot be connected to public networks in any way, under current procedures. It's the only unhackable way to do it (without sneaking into a secure building), and they know that. They call it an "airwall".
Because of rules like this and a million others, it costs a lot of money to make anything secret. The ammount of information being classified as secret is skyrocketting.
AOL is like the Disneyland of the internet. Everything is clean and there are signs everywhere. Everything also costs more. Lots of people can't handle it in the real world, so they stay in Disneyland.
Brazil is a brilliant movie written and directed by Terry Gilliam, who wrote and did the animation for Monty Python, but is rarely seen. He lied about being an animator to get the job and that's why the animation is crude, but hilarious. Yes, Michael Palin is in Brazil, but so is Robert DeNiro, so it's not a Python movie.
Are you serious? Intel paid to use the convention of using three digit model numbers beginning in 3,5, and 7? Dumbasses. Are 4,6, and 8 less sexy numbers?
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This has been a news story for about two weeks. What was two weeks ago? Christmas. What did geeky kids get for Christmas? Green lasers. What do geeky kids do with thier new powerful lasers? Try to put a green dot on something really far away. What far away objects are easy to find? Aircraft.
This is such a bullshit non-story. The fact that the new federal TSA screeners recieved the identical bad scores as the old private screeners on random bomb and gun tests, yet cost a lot more, worries me more.
-B
You, like many people confuse the terms "wireless" with "mobile". Both terms make you think of a laptop, tablet, or car computer. Wireless means just that, no wires. Even if it sits still, it's wireless.
The new version of the bar golf video game Golden Tee is sponsored by Sprint and uses thier data network to transmit game info. The previous version dialed in with a phone line and the bar operators didn't like messing with it.
Yeah, this is my second reply. I had more to say.
Wireless cards for desktop computers are great. I have two desktops in my house and one cable modem. A few years ago I would have had to run wires through my entire house. Now I buy some relatively inexpensive cards, pop them in the computers, and get 54 Mbps networking.
Running large numbers of wires in a corporate environment is very time consuming and costly. Depending on what you need, going wireless in an all desktop environment could save a ton of money.
-B
Just like IPv5, a lot of proposed standards get shelved for all kinds of reasons. Even though 802.11h never made it to production, the proposal still exists somewhere and naming something else 802.11h would be very confusing to the people involved. Usually we have catchy marketing terms insulating consumers from the technical versioning, but not in this case.
After 802.11z comes 802.11aa. Other parts of the 802 standard go into the double letters.
-B
If you're going to plot against your employer, go to Chuck-E-Cheese for lunch. It's empty on a weekday afternoon and you won't be seen by anyone unexpected. Also, you can play some skee-ball while you're plotting.
-B
Episode 2 is worth renting to see Yoda get busy with a lightsaber.
Is anyone else really disturbed by the fact that there is nobody to root for in the prequel films? The "good guys" like Yoda and Obi Wan are fighting along side stormtrooper 1.0s for the people who will later become the Empire . The whole idea of prequels is just stupid because we know exactly what the situation is going to be at the end. The minute I saw Samuel Jackson on screen I knew that he was going to get waxed sooner or later.
George Lucas has one chance to turn the ship around. He can turn over all writing and directing duties to other people and let them run with Episodes 7-9.
Just rambling.
-B
I read an article about how Zipcar was expanding into college towns. It mentioned that there are a large number of rentals on weekdays between midnight and 4AM and theorized that the cars are being used as roommate-free love shacks. Fast food wrappers would be the least of my worries.
-B
I think watching the world go all Mad Max would be really interesting. I plan on welding spikes on a dune buggy for no reason.
-B
Cocaine and all of its stimulant cousins don't make you smarter, but they focus all of your attention on one thing. Your nervous system gets turned up a notch and you're ready to get stuff done. I know of people smoking meth and cleaning their apartment for 14 hours.
South Park does a great parody about ADD. The test to see if the 8 year old kids have ADD is the doctor reading all of Moby Dick. If the kids don't pay attention to all of it, they have ADD and need Ritalin.
-B
In magazine ads for drugs, drug companies are required to print a massive ammount of text, sometimes a whole page, listing side effects and potential problems. With TV ads, sometimes they do mention a couple side effects, usually dry mouth, but at the bottom of the screen they show the text "see our ad in whatever magazine" where they have that full page of text. I've noticed the magazine "Cooking Light" a few times, presumably becaue the full page ad is dirt cheap. Unless you happen to have a copy of this month's Cooking Light in your house, you have no idea what the full list of side effects and complications are.
If I was in charge, I would get rid of TV perscription drug commercials tomorrow. If you have a real medical problem, go see a trained doctor. If that doctor thinks you need medication, he'll write you a perscription. That's how it worked until just a few years ago. Chris Rock does a brilliant bit about drug ads. He talks about the ads just naming symptoms until they hit on something that rings a bell with you. "Do you get sleepy at night? Do you wake up in the morning? I got that. I'm sick!"
-B
He bricks one question after getting 2,700 right and he's throwing games?
His Fed-Ex answer certainly had a logic to it. The person that got that one right and won said that she only knew it because one of her good friends works for HR Block.
What I really wanted to see was for Jeopardy to call up all the old 5 day winners and make Ken play against two of them at a time. Have they ever brought back 5 day winners to play each other? That would be a kick ass tournament.
-B
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SciFi set in the future is a different situation. In a world with the technology to create replicants, why can't they have really high resolution cameras.
As another poster mentioned, what bothers me about that scene are the obnoxious mechanical sounds the computer makes.
-B
Sometimes they'll zoom in like the original video has infinite resolution. More often, they'll stop on a blurry freeze frame and the geek will say "Let me clean this up". Then he uses a magic photoshop filter that infers data that obviously didn't exist in the original frame. It's a good story device because the blurry shape slowly disovles into the face of one of the suspects.
-B
Step 2: Be Rich.
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People in Indiana cracked up when that song came out. Kokomo, Indiana is this small, dirty town to the north of Indianapolis. It's the least romantic place you could sing about. IIRC, Kokomo is the town that wouldn't let Ryan White go to school because he had AIDS.
-B
Plato goes out of his way to say that the story NOT a parable and that Atlantis really existed.
The information he's relaying is third or fourth hand and has been translated at least once (possibly multiplying all the numbers by 10).
I keep an open mind about Atlantis because Troy was ficticious right up until someone found it.
-B
Any computers holding "secret" or "top-secret" data cannot be connected to public networks in any way, under current procedures. It's the only unhackable way to do it (without sneaking into a secure building), and they know that. They call it an "airwall".
Because of rules like this and a million others, it costs a lot of money to make anything secret. The ammount of information being classified as secret is skyrocketting.
-B
Natural gas companies add a sulfur compound, mercaptan, to create the "gas" smell. I've never heard of that being a pollution problem.
Mercaptan can be detected by humans at amazingly low concentrations thanks to our evolutionary aversion to rotting things.
-B
AOL is like the Disneyland of the internet. Everything is clean and there are signs everywhere. Everything also costs more. Lots of people can't handle it in the real world, so they stay in Disneyland.
-B
Apparently the DOD has put a high priority on frightening the enemy's pets.
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Movie Geek nit pick -
Brazil is a brilliant movie written and directed by Terry Gilliam, who wrote and did the animation for Monty Python, but is rarely seen. He lied about being an animator to get the job and that's why the animation is crude, but hilarious. Yes, Michael Palin is in Brazil, but so is Robert DeNiro, so it's not a Python movie.
-B
What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?
Homeless
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Are you serious? Intel paid to use the convention of using three digit model numbers beginning in 3,5, and 7? Dumbasses. Are 4,6, and 8 less sexy numbers?
-B
From the link:
"Processor numbers will be categorized in 3-digit numerical sequences such as 7xx, 5xx, or 3xx."
I'll bet dollars to donuts that the ad guy who came up with the new naming system owns a BMW.
-B