Indeed, system administration is more of a trade. Writing code is an art. Many people don't even realize that "programmer" and "sysadmin" are not the same thing.
This, my friend, should be corrected by changing the law, not the enforcement.
Indeed, but there's a wide gulf between The Way Things Are and The Way Things Should Be. Until rationality returns to legislation, I would not submit to an easily-abused system. And the potential for abuse and/or error in such a system is inordinatly high for its utility.
Why would you be at the scene of a crime and not want to talk to the police? Surely you'd either want to help them with their enquires, or you're the criminal. I don't see why making it harder for criminals to escape is a bad thing.
The problem is, what exactly is a "crime"? Murder? Assault? Sure. Buying drugs? Hiring a prostitute? Visiting the home of a known subversive? Reading subversive literature? Decrypting an encoded DVD? The point is, laws are not always rational. Just because something is illegal does not necessarily make it wrong. Right now it takes most of law enforcement's resources to enforce "real" crimes like murder, assault, robbery, etc. As soon as solving such crimes becomes instantaneous, do you think the police will sit around doing nothing? Hardly. They'll start looking for more "criminals".
FRS stands for Family Radio Service and GMRS for General Mobile Radio Service. They are intended for casual users who don't want to go throught the trouble of getting a Ham Radio license. You can use FRS radios without any sort of license, and GMRS with a no-test, send-them-$20 license from the FCC.
Actually, Garmin has petitioned the FCC to be allowed to do this. A company ignores the FCC at great peril, since if they try to sell non-FCC approved transmitters, the feds will walk in and seize everything. Besides, it's quite easy to lobby for an amendment to the rules. All it takes is time and money.
3) The mail company provided false documents about the letter reciept
I incline to believe the third one.
Except that in the US, certified mail is specifically a service of the US Postal Service. It's not some sleazy company serving papers, it's the Mail Carrier knocking on the door saying "letter for mister such and such". They don't care about the company, the suit, or the defendant. They're civil servants who just want to keep their jobs. Not delivering certified mail and forginf the signature on the receipt is an easy way to get fired from your cushy government job.
I'm seeing this as yet another way for the government to take away our money.
Amen to that, brother. Also consider that this is California we're talking about. Last year the governor turned our surplus into a defecit by signing long term contracts for electricity at exorbitant rates. They're looking for any way they can find to make money now.
Who did Stanford's Augmentation Research Center rip off?
If you were paying attention, you would know that these guys invented the mouse pointing device. Xerox PARC came up with the ball-driven mouse and was the first place the mouse really moved from a mere crufted-together tech-demo to a seriously usuable tool.
I once shut down a huge travel agency's datacenter (multiple servers PLUS their entire phone system) by bumping the switch on the UPS cabinet with my ass. An UPS is useless when some idiot removes the safety cover from the main power switch so someother idiot like me can run into it. I hit that switch and shut down every machine in the room. That room got quiet, and all the rooms outside got very loud...
Dude, you have it backwards. Just because cable is cheaper than a telco T1 doesn't mean it's not overpriced. The rates charged for a T1 are extortionate to begin with. Cable, being 1/16 as extortionate isn't necessarilly a good deal.
Yeah-- my math was off... but not by a huge amount
Yeah, 5 hours, 48 hours; you were only an order of magnitude off. Doofus.
So it is a day -- at best --
No, as previous posters have illustrated, it's probably about 6 hours at best. Hyperbole is ill-suited to technical discussions and only serves to make you look the fool.
The firewire charging "feature" is absurd. I drop my Palm m500 in its cradle every day upon arriving home and it gets charged whether I turn on my computer or not. And yes, I know you can buy a separate power brick-- I just think it's ridiculous that they don't include it as standard.
Sheesh, if you want it to be unbreakable you might as well ask for infinite storage capacity and a power source that lasts forever. Then it should also be pocket-sized and have a 27" screen.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's ludicrous to have to leave ones computer turned on just to charge the battery of a portable device? Sure, a lot of people leave their systems on all the time, but I find it quite presumptuous of the folks in Cupertino to assume we ALL do. I think they were either corner-cutting to avoid the cost of including a $2 power lump, or just thought they were so dang smart that they failed to see the obvious drawback of charge-via-firewire.
Think about it, pal. The iPod can't use a 2.5" (9.5mm profile) hard drive when it is itself about the size of a 2.5" drive. It uses a 1.8" (5mm profile) Toshiba drive which was originally designed for use as a PCMCIA hard drive.
What are you, an idiot? If people didn't post links to mirrors where would we be? Karma whoring or not, it's still usefull. Who gives a shit why he posted it? If you're sick of the karma whoring, rag on the dumbass moderators who mod mirrors up to "+5, orgasmic".
It is correct to say "near miss". You're misinterpreting the meaning of "near" in this instance. "Near" does not mean the same thing it would if you said "nearly missed". In this case it is simply a categorization of the type of "miss" event (a "far miss" being another), rather than the opposite of "nearly didn't miss".
Wedge is my favorite character. In all three movies he saves everyone else's bacon just by being the best damn pilot the Alliance has. For example, in Ep4-ANH Luke has a tie fighter on his tail in the final attack and Wedge comes at them head-on gets off an amazing shot at the last second and flies through the TIE fighter debris cloud- all without any "yee-haw" or "hoo-WEE" noises. Just a quiet, confident dude in glasses who could fly like nobody's business.
Dude, lesson one of The Jedi Manual: Your eyes can deceive you.
Remember the line (paraphrasing) "but with the blast shield down I can't see anything!"
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off on a tangent here, but I agree. I see no use in teaching children a form of handwriting that was originally optimized for quill pens. Sure, it's easier to write long documents in cursive, but who writes long documents by hand anymore?
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Indeed, system administration is more of a trade. Writing code is an art. Many people don't even realize that "programmer" and "sysadmin" are not the same thing.
This, my friend, should be corrected by changing the law, not the enforcement.
Indeed, but there's a wide gulf between The Way Things Are and The Way Things Should Be. Until rationality returns to legislation, I would not submit to an easily-abused system. And the potential for abuse and/or error in such a system is inordinatly high for its utility.
Why would you be at the scene of a crime and not want to talk to the police? Surely you'd either want to help them with their enquires, or you're the criminal. I don't see why making it harder for criminals to escape is a bad thing.
The problem is, what exactly is a "crime"? Murder? Assault? Sure. Buying drugs? Hiring a prostitute? Visiting the home of a known subversive? Reading subversive literature? Decrypting an encoded DVD? The point is, laws are not always rational. Just because something is illegal does not necessarily make it wrong. Right now it takes most of law enforcement's resources to enforce "real" crimes like murder, assault, robbery, etc. As soon as solving such crimes becomes instantaneous, do you think the police will sit around doing nothing? Hardly. They'll start looking for more "criminals".
FRS stands for Family Radio Service and GMRS for General Mobile Radio Service. They are intended for casual users who don't want to go throught the trouble of getting a Ham Radio license. You can use FRS radios without any sort of license, and GMRS with a no-test, send-them-$20 license from the FCC.
Actually, Garmin has petitioned the FCC to be allowed to do this. A company ignores the FCC at great peril, since if they try to sell non-FCC approved transmitters, the feds will walk in and seize everything. Besides, it's quite easy to lobby for an amendment to the rules. All it takes is time and money.
3) The mail company provided false documents about the letter reciept
I incline to believe the third one.
Except that in the US, certified mail is specifically a service of the US Postal Service. It's not some sleazy company serving papers, it's the Mail Carrier knocking on the door saying "letter for mister such and such". They don't care about the company, the suit, or the defendant. They're civil servants who just want to keep their jobs. Not delivering certified mail and forginf the signature on the receipt is an easy way to get fired from your cushy government job.
I'm seeing this as yet another way for the government to take away our money.
Amen to that, brother. Also consider that this is California we're talking about. Last year the governor turned our surplus into a defecit by signing long term contracts for electricity at exorbitant rates. They're looking for any way they can find to make money now.
Who did Stanford's Augmentation Research Center rip off?
If you were paying attention, you would know that these guys invented the mouse pointing device. Xerox PARC came up with the ball-driven mouse and was the first place the mouse really moved from a mere crufted-together tech-demo to a seriously usuable tool.
I once shut down a huge travel agency's datacenter (multiple servers PLUS their entire phone system) by bumping the switch on the UPS cabinet with my ass. An UPS is useless when some idiot removes the safety cover from the main power switch so someother idiot like me can run into it. I hit that switch and shut down every machine in the room. That room got quiet, and all the rooms outside got very loud...
Dude, you have it backwards. Just because cable is cheaper than a telco T1 doesn't mean it's not overpriced. The rates charged for a T1 are extortionate to begin with. Cable, being 1/16 as extortionate isn't necessarilly a good deal.
Yeah-- my math was off... but not by a huge amount
Yeah, 5 hours, 48 hours; you were only an order of magnitude off. Doofus.
So it is a day -- at best --
No, as previous posters have illustrated, it's probably about 6 hours at best. Hyperbole is ill-suited to technical discussions and only serves to make you look the fool.
The firewire charging "feature" is absurd. I drop my Palm m500 in its cradle every day upon arriving home and it gets charged whether I turn on my computer or not. And yes, I know you can buy a separate power brick-- I just think it's ridiculous that they don't include it as standard.
Sheesh, if you want it to be unbreakable you might as well ask for infinite storage capacity and a power source that lasts forever. Then it should also be pocket-sized and have a 27" screen.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's ludicrous to have to leave ones computer turned on just to charge the battery of a portable device? Sure, a lot of people leave their systems on all the time, but I find it quite presumptuous of the folks in Cupertino to assume we ALL do. I think they were either corner-cutting to avoid the cost of including a $2 power lump, or just thought they were so dang smart that they failed to see the obvious drawback of charge-via-firewire.
Think about it, pal. The iPod can't use a 2.5" (9.5mm profile) hard drive when it is itself about the size of a 2.5" drive. It uses a 1.8" (5mm profile) Toshiba drive which was originally designed for use as a PCMCIA hard drive.
What are you, an idiot? If people didn't post links to mirrors where would we be? Karma whoring or not, it's still usefull. Who gives a shit why he posted it? If you're sick of the karma whoring, rag on the dumbass moderators who mod mirrors up to "+5, orgasmic".
It is correct to say "near miss". You're misinterpreting the meaning of "near" in this instance. "Near" does not mean the same thing it would if you said "nearly missed". In this case it is simply a categorization of the type of "miss" event (a "far miss" being another), rather than the opposite of "nearly didn't miss".
Who says time is the X axis?
Yes. He was a fleet officer participating in the hunt for the Milennium Falcon
Wedge is my favorite character. In all three movies he saves everyone else's bacon just by being the best damn pilot the Alliance has. For example, in Ep4-ANH Luke has a tie fighter on his tail in the final attack and Wedge comes at them head-on gets off an amazing shot at the last second and flies through the TIE fighter debris cloud- all without any "yee-haw" or "hoo-WEE" noises. Just a quiet, confident dude in glasses who could fly like nobody's business.
Dude, lesson one of The Jedi Manual: Your eyes can deceive you.
Remember the line (paraphrasing) "but with the blast shield down I can't see anything!"
off on a tangent here, but I agree. I see no use in teaching children a form of handwriting that was originally optimized for quill pens. Sure, it's easier to write long documents in cursive, but who writes long documents by hand anymore?
Yeah, and we'll still roll our eyes and say to ourselves "when will they learn to run network cable somewhere other than through doors and windows?"
"Hey Uncle Bob! Here's your latency problem: the cable has been smashed by the door."
What about the other 12%?
He said it "felt slower"? Wow, there's a really solid piece of anecdotal evidence.