I've been wanting to set up an experimental install with this with a friend in Mexico to check this out, though I need to see if it does conferencing yet. Pity it doesn't work under Skype, but that's Skype's implementation that's screwing that up.
My wife and I largely share your opinion re: "as long as she wants me and vice versa". She didn't want to get married as long as gay people could not marry, she didn't want privileges/benefits that other equally committed, though same sex, people could not enjoy. The main reason that we did get married was because her father was dying, and she's the youngest of her siblings. He made it through the ceremony and died eleven days later.
And we used our married status when her father passed away. She flew from El Paso to Phoenix (where I was) then subsequently to Ohio for the funeral. We bought a round-trip for me Phoenix Ohio, she went to the gate agent and explained that we were married and they adjusted seating so that we could sit together. She immediately expresed her displeasure to me that she didn't think the airline would have made the same accomodation for a gay couple.
But enough of my blathering.
And her doctorate is in astrophysics, in case anyone is interested, but I wouldn't trust her to assemble a PC! Then again, we're now Mac people -- she's a long-term user as they're very popular amongst astronomers and heavily used at her observatory, I'm a recent convert, though I'm still a SQL Server DBA for employment.
I recently got DSL through Qwest. My ISP is now officially MSN. I have a two month old MacBook. MSN software doesn't work outside of the Windows environment.
Then again, I haven't used an ISP for anything except connectivity for years. I use Yahoo and my web site for email, so the ISP is largely irrelevant to me.
Vista is not a server OS. We've got Windows 2003 Server, which is pretty good, and Windows 2008/9(?) Server in the wings. I'm sure that the server OS market isn't as much money as their desktop OS market, but it is critical because it supports their database and development tools. The combined market on the server side might be comparable to the desktop side
You'd get mod points from me for humor if they were mine to give. I still think Face/Off is a better movie, though. Slayter doesn't do it for me, but the Cage/Travolta combo was excellent!
I'm sure people at the Fed level have been reading/. for as long as it's been up. I've been on since we first got the web in the early 90's. I've only been at the state and city level, never the fed level.
As a network and database admin, I've found it to be pretty darn important. I first read about I Love You at 7am at work when it sprang, told our security admin who doesn't read/. (or at least he didn't at that time) and he went and yanked the outside connection to our firewall. It did hit us, but very lightly compared to the rest of the city and for some reason the payload did effectively no damage.
Slashdot is important, regardless of for whom you work.
I've been in gov't IT for 15 years, this should never have left the server farm. If it had to be on a portable device, it should have been a laptop and heavily encrypted, not that I can see a good reason to give anyone that info. The retirement planning people can make do with very little info.
Well, it's missing and important. Not unlike the missing hard drives at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab. It later turned out that their inventory was incorrect and the drives had been destroyed.
that 30-60% of a company CAN'T work from home. Secretaries have to have papers to push and type, tech support has to be on-site to fix computers, mechanics need tools and vehicles to work on, electronics techs need soldering irons and things to fix, managers have to attend meetings and wander around to make sure we're not playing WoW, etc. I missed one day of work a couple of weeks ago because the campus closed early on a snow day, otherwise I'm there five days a week.
A lot of the work force cannot work from home.
Though I have a fairly minimal tech support job, my preferred job is doing SQL Server administration and development. The development I could do from home; I'd have no problem doing admin part-time from home, but I'd prefer to be on-site a lot of the time.
Absolutely valid point. It will be interesting to watch the company and the patent and see who licenses the technology, assuming they get it working well. Collection cameras could be put anywhere, it certainly makes rural life more appealing as many smaller communities won't be able to afford such tech. It should be possible to track installations by watching City Council agendas and see to whom they are giving contracts.
Did you ever read Roger Zelazny's My Name Is Legion? The opening premise becomes more and more real as time passes.
This is not meant to be sarcastic, but just how are they going to get terrorist iris scans into the database?
Perhaps it is meant to be sarcastic. Let's be realistic. They had no idea who the 9/11 hijackers were before they flew the planes into the buildings, they weren't on any watch lists. So just how will they get terrorist iris scans into the DB?
For that matter, your iris is not immutable. The pattern can change over time and due to medical conditions. So let's all break into optometrist offices and steal that bottle of solution that dilates your eye before flying. Just remember to re-apply before debarking your plane at your destination.
I wouldn't call Protospiel West competition, it's a symposium for game designers to test their games and get feedback from other game designers. And this is it's first year, so it may or may not last a few years; in fact, it's only a one-day event and it was yesterday.
Strategicon was a very good convention, I attended it for a number of years when I worked for Flying Buffalo. But it's been probably 5 years since I was last there.
I do a Phoenix game con called Phoenix Con Games which is a very good local convention. There's also HexaCon, but the parent scifi corp screwed over the organizer so he founded Con Games, a much better event.
I lived in Phoenix for 43 years, finally start a game company (http://www.sparebrainsgames.com) and don't make it out to GenCon SoCal. Then I move 500 miles further east, making it a two-day drive. And now they fold it. Oh, well. I've flown to Origins before, I can fly there again.
I don't know if all of the Apollo missions carried reflectors, but I do know that three did along with two Russian robotic probes. One of the Russians doesn't work, maybe it tipped over or a strut broke and the retroreflector is pointing off in who-knows-what direction.
My wife operates the APOLLO lunar lasing system at Apache Point Observatory. The beam is fired through the telescope, so it's 3.5 meters wide exiting and heading towards the moon, apparently it's over 2km when it hits. I have no idea how big it is when it gets back to earth and is detected.
The laser has been operational and ranging for over a year, and it wasn't until earlier this year that she managed to hit all four retroreflectors in one night! She was extremely gleeful when she got home from that.
It's not quite as simple as just shining a laser up there, and that's ignoring the orbital mechanics of the earth and moon that have to be compensated for. The laser has to be pulsed so that the detector isn't blinded and can see the returning pulses. It's been several years in the making and is an incredible piece of technology. I really ought to make some good pix of the equipment and update the Wikipedia article.
There is also a Yahoo group, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardgamedesig n/, excellent resource. And there's the Protospiel conventions, upcoming is Protospiel West, http://www.protospielwest.com/, which is tomorrow. I don't recall when the original American Protospiel event is, but I'm sure you can find it. And don't forget the Chicago Toy Fair, which has lots of games.
And yes, I am a game designer and publisher. www.SpareBrainsGames.com.
my hunter just got a pattern for an armor that requires spider silk. I wonder if I could use the spider silk, and if so, how long it'll take for the synthetic stuff to make it to Warcraft?
The slide is normally held back by a small pin on the magazine follower, and sometimes that little part breaks off and thus the slide won't lock back after the last round is ejected.
One of my favs is when people pull out double-action semi-autos and you get the *click* sound of a hammer being cocked even when the pistol doesn't have an external hammer, such as Glocks and some HKs.
And then there's the people carrying semi-auto pistols who always have to chamber a round when they pull their weapons out. When I carried concealed, there was always a round in the chamber and I never needed to look to see if it was there. I have seen scenes where someone goes to chamber a round in a pump-action shotgun and a live round gets ejected, I always have to laugh at that one.
But my all-time favorite gun snafu was Remo Williams. This putz is trained to jack the slide, then eject the magazine on all these goons that he's beating up. I'd let him, then pop that single round into his brain. I can just picture his master after burying him: "Damn, it's DROP the magazine THEN cycle the slide! I keep getting that confused!"
We were hoping for a White Sands landing as it is 30 miles away from our house. I didn't know that it had previously landed there until early this year I was spending time at the White Sands Missile Range museum. Apparently the sand on the runway did quite a number on the brakes.
I think it might have landed here once while being flown from California on the back of its 747, but I'm not certain.
It's not going to attract AOL-type users as you have to pass tests on regulations, radio theory, and electronics theory in order to get your ticket. The Morse requirement was from the ITU which regulates world-wide radio. ITU never specified the speed, just that you had to know it.
I used the original Bose a few years ago when my office was in this tiny closet that was both our server room and the telco POS. They were wonderful! Extremely effective, I'd definitely recommend them. My only problem is that one channel died: the noise canceling was still effective for both ears, but when I plugged it into my computer to play MP3s, I only got one ear.
In our case, we're decommissioning Win98/P2/P3 boxes that would require significant upgrades to run XP. We won't be taking Vista machines out of service for probably four years, so it's a good concept but won't be worthwhile in the near term. There's no telling how soon we'll see Vista at our university because we site license XP Pro.
It's quite amusing to see a XP machine running Deep Freeze to come up with a warning that the computer might be running an illegal copy of the OS.
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Phil Zimmermann + PGP-like implementation + VoIP = Zfone! Hopefully it's not vulnerable to kryptonite meteor showers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfone and http://zfoneproject.com/
I've been wanting to set up an experimental install with this with a friend in Mexico to check this out, though I need to see if it does conferencing yet. Pity it doesn't work under Skype, but that's Skype's implementation that's screwing that up.
My wife and I largely share your opinion re: "as long as she wants me and vice versa". She didn't want to get married as long as gay people could not marry, she didn't want privileges/benefits that other equally committed, though same sex, people could not enjoy. The main reason that we did get married was because her father was dying, and she's the youngest of her siblings. He made it through the ceremony and died eleven days later.
And we used our married status when her father passed away. She flew from El Paso to Phoenix (where I was) then subsequently to Ohio for the funeral. We bought a round-trip for me Phoenix Ohio, she went to the gate agent and explained that we were married and they adjusted seating so that we could sit together. She immediately expresed her displeasure to me that she didn't think the airline would have made the same accomodation for a gay couple.
But enough of my blathering.
And her doctorate is in astrophysics, in case anyone is interested, but I wouldn't trust her to assemble a PC! Then again, we're now Mac people -- she's a long-term user as they're very popular amongst astronomers and heavily used at her observatory, I'm a recent convert, though I'm still a SQL Server DBA for employment.
I recently got DSL through Qwest. My ISP is now officially MSN. I have a two month old MacBook. MSN software doesn't work outside of the Windows environment.
Then again, I haven't used an ISP for anything except connectivity for years. I use Yahoo and my web site for email, so the ISP is largely irrelevant to me.
Vista is not a server OS. We've got Windows 2003 Server, which is pretty good, and Windows 2008/9(?) Server in the wings. I'm sure that the server OS market isn't as much money as their desktop OS market, but it is critical because it supports their database and development tools. The combined market on the server side might be comparable to the desktop side
You'd get mod points from me for humor if they were mine to give. I still think Face/Off is a better movie, though. Slayter doesn't do it for me, but the Cage/Travolta combo was excellent!
I'm sure people at the Fed level have been reading /. for as long as it's been up. I've been on since we first got the web in the early 90's. I've only been at the state and city level, never the fed level.
/. (or at least he didn't at that time) and he went and yanked the outside connection to our firewall. It did hit us, but very lightly compared to the rest of the city and for some reason the payload did effectively no damage.
As a network and database admin, I've found it to be pretty darn important. I first read about I Love You at 7am at work when it sprang, told our security admin who doesn't read
Slashdot is important, regardless of for whom you work.
I've been in gov't IT for 15 years, this should never have left the server farm. If it had to be on a portable device, it should have been a laptop and heavily encrypted, not that I can see a good reason to give anyone that info. The retirement planning people can make do with very little info.
Well, it's missing and important. Not unlike the missing hard drives at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab. It later turned out that their inventory was incorrect and the drives had been destroyed.
She's an astronomer, said the Sloan Digital Sky Survey produces about a terabyte of data a year. Not as much as the Hubble, but still pretty cool.
that 30-60% of a company CAN'T work from home. Secretaries have to have papers to push and type, tech support has to be on-site to fix computers, mechanics need tools and vehicles to work on, electronics techs need soldering irons and things to fix, managers have to attend meetings and wander around to make sure we're not playing WoW, etc. I missed one day of work a couple of weeks ago because the campus closed early on a snow day, otherwise I'm there five days a week.
A lot of the work force cannot work from home.
Though I have a fairly minimal tech support job, my preferred job is doing SQL Server administration and development. The development I could do from home; I'd have no problem doing admin part-time from home, but I'd prefer to be on-site a lot of the time.
Absolutely valid point. It will be interesting to watch the company and the patent and see who licenses the technology, assuming they get it working well. Collection cameras could be put anywhere, it certainly makes rural life more appealing as many smaller communities won't be able to afford such tech. It should be possible to track installations by watching City Council agendas and see to whom they are giving contracts.
Did you ever read Roger Zelazny's My Name Is Legion? The opening premise becomes more and more real as time passes.
This is not meant to be sarcastic, but just how are they going to get terrorist iris scans into the database?
Perhaps it is meant to be sarcastic. Let's be realistic. They had no idea who the 9/11 hijackers were before they flew the planes into the buildings, they weren't on any watch lists. So just how will they get terrorist iris scans into the DB?
For that matter, your iris is not immutable. The pattern can change over time and due to medical conditions. So let's all break into optometrist offices and steal that bottle of solution that dilates your eye before flying. Just remember to re-apply before debarking your plane at your destination.
Unfortunately the James Webb Telescope is an infrared, it's images won't be like what we're used to seeing.
I wouldn't call Protospiel West competition, it's a symposium for game designers to test their games and get feedback from other game designers. And this is it's first year, so it may or may not last a few years; in fact, it's only a one-day event and it was yesterday.
Strategicon was a very good convention, I attended it for a number of years when I worked for Flying Buffalo. But it's been probably 5 years since I was last there.
I do a Phoenix game con called Phoenix Con Games which is a very good local convention. There's also HexaCon, but the parent scifi corp screwed over the organizer so he founded Con Games, a much better event.
I lived in Phoenix for 43 years, finally start a game company (http://www.sparebrainsgames.com) and don't make it out to GenCon SoCal. Then I move 500 miles further east, making it a two-day drive. And now they fold it. Oh, well. I've flown to Origins before, I can fly there again.
I don't know if all of the Apollo missions carried reflectors, but I do know that three did along with two Russian robotic probes. One of the Russians doesn't work, maybe it tipped over or a strut broke and the retroreflector is pointing off in who-knows-what direction.
t ory_Lunar_Laser-ranging_Operation
My wife operates the APOLLO lunar lasing system at Apache Point Observatory. The beam is fired through the telescope, so it's 3.5 meters wide exiting and heading towards the moon, apparently it's over 2km when it hits. I have no idea how big it is when it gets back to earth and is detected.
The laser has been operational and ranging for over a year, and it wasn't until earlier this year that she managed to hit all four retroreflectors in one night! She was extremely gleeful when she got home from that.
It's not quite as simple as just shining a laser up there, and that's ignoring the orbital mechanics of the earth and moon that have to be compensated for. The laser has to be pulsed so that the detector isn't blinded and can see the returning pulses. It's been several years in the making and is an incredible piece of technology. I really ought to make some good pix of the equipment and update the Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Point_Observa
There is also a Yahoo group, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardgamedesig n/, excellent resource. And there's the Protospiel conventions, upcoming is Protospiel West, http://www.protospielwest.com/, which is tomorrow. I don't recall when the original American Protospiel event is, but I'm sure you can find it. And don't forget the Chicago Toy Fair, which has lots of games.
And yes, I am a game designer and publisher. www.SpareBrainsGames.com.
my hunter just got a pattern for an armor that requires spider silk. I wonder if I could use the spider silk, and if so, how long it'll take for the synthetic stuff to make it to Warcraft?
You, sir, are a clever and sly humorist. I salute you!
Radio moon bounce is so lame, my wife bounces lasers off the moon a dozen or more times a month.
t ory_Lunar_Laser-ranging_Operation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Point_Observa
The slide is normally held back by a small pin on the magazine follower, and sometimes that little part breaks off and thus the slide won't lock back after the last round is ejected.
One of my favs is when people pull out double-action semi-autos and you get the *click* sound of a hammer being cocked even when the pistol doesn't have an external hammer, such as Glocks and some HKs.
And then there's the people carrying semi-auto pistols who always have to chamber a round when they pull their weapons out. When I carried concealed, there was always a round in the chamber and I never needed to look to see if it was there. I have seen scenes where someone goes to chamber a round in a pump-action shotgun and a live round gets ejected, I always have to laugh at that one.
But my all-time favorite gun snafu was Remo Williams. This putz is trained to jack the slide, then eject the magazine on all these goons that he's beating up. I'd let him, then pop that single round into his brain. I can just picture his master after burying him: "Damn, it's DROP the magazine THEN cycle the slide! I keep getting that confused!"
We were hoping for a White Sands landing as it is 30 miles away from our house. I didn't know that it had previously landed there until early this year I was spending time at the White Sands Missile Range museum. Apparently the sand on the runway did quite a number on the brakes.
I think it might have landed here once while being flown from California on the back of its 747, but I'm not certain.
It's not going to attract AOL-type users as you have to pass tests on regulations, radio theory, and electronics theory in order to get your ticket. The Morse requirement was from the ITU which regulates world-wide radio. ITU never specified the speed, just that you had to know it.
I used the original Bose a few years ago when my office was in this tiny closet that was both our server room and the telco POS. They were wonderful! Extremely effective, I'd definitely recommend them. My only problem is that one channel died: the noise canceling was still effective for both ears, but when I plugged it into my computer to play MP3s, I only got one ear.
In our case, we're decommissioning Win98/P2/P3 boxes that would require significant upgrades to run XP. We won't be taking Vista machines out of service for probably four years, so it's a good concept but won't be worthwhile in the near term. There's no telling how soon we'll see Vista at our university because we site license XP Pro.
It's quite amusing to see a XP machine running Deep Freeze to come up with a warning that the computer might be running an illegal copy of the OS.