I know this does not technically related to the subject topic but when Redhat release Psyche I was lucky enough to grab the first 3 iso's early from a fast mirror. After that I had it shared on Kazaa and for almost two weeks straight there were people downloading it from me.
I really would not expect anything but a canned response considering the current state of political mess we have. I do agree that a detailed later explaining your opinion would be looked at with more respect but it should not be that way. It should be assumed that I and rest of the voting public are capable of following the events and looking at both sides of a story and make a decision based on that. I should not be treated as if I am beneath a senators level and probably do not really know what is good for me. A representative acting in that manner is not representing me. If they feel I am not getting the whole story, they should not assume I am wrong and vote against me, they should hit the streets and explain why. If the people still do not agree with it, his vote should reflect that. Remember, he is our elected representative selected to represent me and the others in the district. They are not put in place to go off and do what they think is right. They are a convenient grouping of people to represent the areas they are responsible for, they are not CEO's or a board of directors of a private company. The current state of representation we have now has very little to do with "for the people", it is a huge behind the scenes PR effort for special interests, status quo, and campaign money.
Yes but the congresscritters want to know how committed you are to that point of view. So believe it or not a five line handwritten 'kitchen table' letter is regarded far more highly than a laser printed form letter.
That congressman is representing you by a vote you made at the polls. It should not matter that you send it carved in wood, scribed on paper, typed and emailed or yelled in from the next room. My opinion should not be judged on the method it arrived. The point is it came from me, one of the people in his district. I should not have to prove and explain my opinion with a page letter because I disagree or agree with his view. I should only have to say, I agree/do not agree with your stand on whatever. If he does not agree with the majority of people sending their short opinions then he then should explain back to them why not in great detail. If this does not happen then the congressman has a different motive beyond those in his own district or is simply supporting his parties decision and not his direct voters.
In the US I always thought you were innocent until PROVEN guilty. The DMCA and copy restricted material draws a very fine line but it is still LEGAL to more your media from one form to another. What if you already OWN the media in another form and simply d/l it in a different form like divx or mp3? Before someone could bust your doors down would they not have to have a reasonable doubt or some proof that you do not already own it? I don't think FBI raids are based on trial and error. I have over 30GB of divx movies that I either downloaded or converted myself for use on my laptop when on the road, everyone of them I own on DVD and a few on VHS.
In 5 years if all movies and audio were magically locked down, completely copy restricted, and required some non standard method of playing it, I would stop buying it completely and move on. Yeah I currently enjoy certain groups and certain types of movies but I'm sure I could find something equal in entertainment value by a no name group that was NOT restricted in any way. This is what I think the RIAA/MPAA is really afraid of and I believe the 'piracy' card is a front for this. The RIAA is not the only group sellng or distributing music in this world, that would be like AOL numbers falling and someone claiming internet usage is dropping. I wonder what total "music sales" numbers would like if you counted all the indies and free unrestricted stuff that is already on the internet.
If Time magazine knew it had a readerbase which consisted of a large group of gun-toting loonies then it would, indeed, be irresponsible to publish intimate details of murder by sniping.
The % of crazed people reading the article has NOTHING to do with the potential for copy cats. It only takes one crazed person to inflict damage. It's not hard to think of many ways to hurt hundreds of people and not be immediatley get caught.
I live in the DC area and listened to my police scanner during quite a few of the sniper incidents. Everyone had in their head that this person was shooting from a vehicle and speeding off like a typical Hollywood drive-by portrayed in the movies. Because of this hundreds of people were calling in every fucking white van that did not use a turn signal, was "speeding" by, or driving recklessly. Well, Northern VA is filled with white vans. Strange was everyone reporting these actually thought that every white van was doing something wrong so no doubt they exagerated when calling 911. This drew attention away from the real killers who more then likely casually drove away eating a 7-11 big bite. Every damn ex/retired police chief, fbi agent, and criminal investigator had a profile to share with the media and every fucking one of them was DEAD WRONG. These two did not fit what everyone thought and they got away with it for quite some time. I truely believe they would never been caught had they not called in themselves. Had people been able to see through the hype and look "outside the box" they may have been caught earlier. Maybe in the future when someone strays from the Hollywood movie style killing and speeding off, people will be more aware and responsive and catch them quicker. Hiding the fact that these things can be done does not make the public as a whole safer. It alerts them.
Have you ever thought of using SYSPREP from the W2K resource kit? It actually does work and can be used on machines with different hardware. There are limitations and for 50 completely different machines it might take considerable time getting it to work correctly for all of them. The more time you put into it the better and more efficient you can make the whole process but, there is a fine line you may cross and end up spending more time then you'd ever save. It comes to a balance of differences in hardware which increases the initial complexity, with how many applications you have to install after the base OS which decreases the overall install time. Of course this won't help you with the Linux machines but there are methods of reducing per machine specific installs for those too like thin clients, rsync, common home and bin dirs etc..
Well no crap. So are my included monthly minutes, free nights, free weekends, the free Cingular phone to phone calls, free customer service and the free phones I've been getting. Its all averaged in and bill one way or another.. But none of them are charged seperately and none of them go up in price regardless of how much I use them. Just like your ISP offering free personal web space or unlimited internet access. Bottom line is if you look at your monthly bill and it is to your liking it doesnt matter what they call it.
bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned
Everyone knows that HD's contain data.. I would be more impressed if they broke down the numbers of where the BAD drives came from. That would make a much more informative story. I've bought as-is before in person but never online.
All the phones I've owned had this set to "now or never"
Did you really mean a physical phone setting or the phone service provider? If the phone did not get the message then there is nothing for it to trash. If it did get a message then I assume that would be the "now" part? I don't quite follow you on this.
I have Cingular and mine are free both ways on both of my phones.. I am grandfathered under my old Cellular One rate plan from 1998 which I still maintain. For my useage pattern it is better then anything they offer now. Every two years I resign under the same old plan and get two more free phones. I guess with the cell competition high now, they would rather keep paying customers then void the old plans and risk losing them?
To stay on the subject.. I don't use SMS much but I was signed up on Yahoo to get daily stocks and weather (pain in the ass to cancel but I finally was able too), I would say that at least one a week did not come through, don't know if it was Yahoo or Cingular dropping the ball.
For all I care it's powered by gerbils running in exercise wheels.
It is called Linux advocacy. The more you hear about positive uses of a product, the more common that product becomes which brings on more positive uses. I would guess that over 95% of the non computer geek comunity would care less or even know anything about what gerbilware their computer was currently running had it not been for a strong MS advocacy and PR campaign to push the Windows name.
The Linux crowd should be focused on the real battleground, the desktop, and derailing MS's monopoly.
The embedded market has its own battleground which is just as real as what you want to battle for. Linux is many products to many people. The combination of all of them makes Linux what it is and where it will be later. I know that sounds like something you'd hear in a glorified PR but its true.
Multiple people are working on multiple things in Linux to fill a desired need. People are not being "pulled" away from the desktop to work on an odd side job.
My dog has one. It was standard policy for any dog adopted from the Humane society in Hawaii. I don't know if there are competing companies creating these but my current vet in VA has the ability to read the chip. I should probably update the location information on file somewhere as I would not want her being shipped back to HI if she was lost and found.
Retrieving a list of file names from someone should not be enough to prosecute them. I believe in order to prove you had a copyrighted file, the RIAA would have to download the entire file from that person and then listen to it to ensure it is what they thought it was. Nothing prevents me from creating thousands of fake files and giving them arbitrary names like "Metallica - Ride the Lightning.mp3". Having a file with this name is NOT illegal. I would also have to assume that the RIAA would have to provide some logs above and beyond what a P2P client has that shows where they got the file from and what time, maybe traceroutes and and traffic logging?. There are already tons of bogus files out there, wether they were planted or there by accident there is a chance you have a file name that is not what you think it is. I find it odd they have the power to mail abuse@your.isp and getting anything accomplished with that. You need solid evidence, you will not get arrested for having a file named i_tape_little_girls.mpg (although it may raise questions), but somehow you have less rights by having popular_song.mp3. It is obviously the corporate intrests involved that this is heading where it is. You need solid evidence to support a violation of the law for everything else in the world except for proving copyright violations.
Actually not lately I guess. I went through twice in 95 and twice in 98. One of the times in 95 I was in a U-Haul that maxed out at 57.75 mph, I believe the signs I saw were 65 but I was told by a few locals near the hotels I stayed at that they don't really ticket until after dark. Every other time through I had the cruise set above 80, I did that pretty much the whole way from Chicago to almost Seattle and back. Many places were VERY unpopulated and nothing for 10's of miles. I've also made a round trip from DC to San Fran, different route but it all looked the same once past Chicago. Everytime it was a fun and enjoyable trip.
My 5.0L ~225hp Mustang gets roughly 28-30mpg at a steady 80mph (2k rpm) on the highway. With mixed and "rough" driving I can get about 12-20mpg but it greatly depends on how I am driving. My 1.3L 68hp Ford Aspire averages about 35-42mpg in mixed city highway driving but always gets the lower end if not less then 35 and under when making extended 80mph runs. It is obviously not as efficient at that speed.
For the original poster.. Is there still a national speed limit? I've been through Montana a few times and in daylight I believe the speed limit is reasonable and prudent. I95 is mostly 65mph but let's be realistic, I don't think you'd be safe only going that fast in most parts.
On a flight from DC to Chicago I sat next to a guy from a multinational corporation that was in DC to discuss third world labor issues with some government committee, he did not specifically mention what corporation so for all I knew he could have been a Kirby salesman. Anyway he had some very interesting points about third world labor, his examples were with farmers in central and south america exporting to the US. We talked about it for almost an hour but his bottom line was...
The people are poor, have no homes, no jobs, and no money, and basically a non existant standard of living before a company comes in. If the incoming company can provide even a slightly higher amount of money and steady jobs to the people in the area, it is better then what they already had. Not a decent living by what people in non third world contries are used to, but they are working now and bringing home more then they were before. Basically meaning the point of reference for a "better life" is relative to what they already had, not to what people in more industrialized counties have. He even gave a comparision of starting an industry in southern Texas paying everyone minimum wage to starting the same thing in Central America paying out $15 a day. Based on what the CA's already had (basically nothing), they were now much better off and experiencing a more "improved" standard of living then the people in Texas would have been at the minimum wage level. The people in CA now had enough to provide some basic housing and get food. Of course he went into more detail then I could ever do here typing but he did seem to have some valid points that I never considered before..
I did not agree with everything he said but it was interesting to here that viewpoint.
foremen could fire up their PocketPC handhelds and see what their teams were working on that day.
And they call that a good use of.net? Think about this situation for a minute. How the hell can a foreman really know or have a true idea how a major system overhaul is going by looking at a palm pilot? If he is satisified with recieving updates in that manner he should not be a foreman and should be working behind a desk in accounting adding up numbers or work for the planning department which is not involved with the actual work. I've worked in project management before in a shipyard environment. A PDA is great for standard messages, reminders, or reporting very specific tasks but that is far from what a foreman on down does.
You know, this subject comes up every time an article featuring the TiVo is posted, and every time someone gets "+5, Insightful" for whining about the TiVo monthly fee.
Yeah, and the same amount or TiVo lovers try to downplay or put down every other PVR as if they are threatened by them personally or afraid to admit the the technology is getting more common and the earlier TiVo's might someday be made obsolete by a newer product.
You start your post with "whining about the TiVo monthly fee" and "That's cheaper than the burrito I ate for lunch" as if cost means nothing to you and then follow it up with three paragraphs of money figures talking about how much money you save with the your current setup as if money does matter to you?
Oh yeah, every advantage you gave about the TiVo can be had with ANY PVR, maybe even ones from RCA with no monthly fee..
Mod me away as everyone knows that the non bandwagon followers always seem to be marked as trolls..
Besides, truly ingenious people could MAKE a peristaltic pump themselves.
So your not the least bit impressed in their project but had they made a small pump that pushed fliud through a flexible tube you would consider it ingenoius?
If they got their pumps from old cars in the junk yard, I'd be worried.. Now if the washer pumps are similar to a wagner power sprayer with a spring and magnet where the pumped fliud is the coolant and lubricant for the pump, I hate to agree with you (blah!) but that MIGHT be a little unclean..
Retail stores are a very good place for HD's. You will often find BestBuy/CompUSA/Staples/CircuitCity/OfficeMax etc will have lower prices on HD's then what is at pricewatch, local computer stores, and even regional computer expos. More then likely you get a retail drive in a box with full warranty (mainly 1 year now) and maybe even a UDMA cable and 5.25 adapters. Most mail ordered I've seen are OEM and 30 days at best. CDRW's are the same way.
Sometimes you may have to deal with a rebate to get the good deal but at least one of the above retailers has one good deal a week. Not sure if SalesCircular covers all areas of the US but it is a good place to scope out retailers sale prices for a week.
Okay that makes sense, I guess I was hiding under a rock when this was announced. Based on the Wired article I am assuming the main advantage of this tech seems to when used along with the digital radio part of a stations broadcast. If you are also not tuned to or actively listening to the associated audio broadcast, many of the advantages of this system seem not so exciting or of very limited use. I guess we'll see what else MS has in store.
I believe the ASE (the main auto cert system) has their best interests in mind when they offer their certifications. If they can impress on the public that having their certs makes a difference then the public will look for those certs. Techs and businesses now have to have a program in place to get those certs to meet the publics demands. Not many of the ASE certs are even remotely related to safety, okay, maybe the brakes but the braking system is not complex by any means. State run vehicle inspection mechanics do not have to be ASE certified, they have to be certified from the state, it is not hard test. Remembering the states or regions requirements and specifications is 95% of the test. IMHO, the ASE certs are a solution to a problem that did not exist. There was never an outbreak of saftey issues from non certified mechanics that this system was needed. Understanding all of the automotive systems from various companies is no easy task, specilized training is definately a plus and experience is a must but the claim that certs are required for safety if FUD.
What the hell do they mean by FM? Frequency Modulation? As in the same things that all pagers, radio stations, wireless microphones, family radios, walkie talkies, cordless phones, two-way radios, etc. that all use FM for signal transmission. I don't consider that innovative. Using frequencies in the same band as FM radio (88-108Mhz) is different but there is no corrolation between a radio station your listening to on a seperate reciever and what your watch is tuned to? I am confused. Now if they were using light beam or amplitude modulation, that would something different...
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I know this does not technically related to the subject topic but when Redhat release Psyche I was lucky enough to grab the first 3 iso's early from a fast mirror. After that I had it shared on Kazaa and for almost two weeks straight there were people downloading it from me.
To 99% of the general public, MS is the only OS. Still very poor reporting though. Looking for the scare tactic I assume.
I really would not expect anything but a canned response considering the current state of political mess we have. I do agree that a detailed later explaining your opinion would be looked at with more respect but it should not be that way. It should be assumed that I and rest of the voting public are capable of following the events and looking at both sides of a story and make a decision based on that. I should not be treated as if I am beneath a senators level and probably do not really know what is good for me. A representative acting in that manner is not representing me. If they feel I am not getting the whole story, they should not assume I am wrong and vote against me, they should hit the streets and explain why. If the people still do not agree with it, his vote should reflect that. Remember, he is our elected representative selected to represent me and the others in the district. They are not put in place to go off and do what they think is right. They are a convenient grouping of people to represent the areas they are responsible for, they are not CEO's or a board of directors of a private company. The current state of representation we have now has very little to do with "for the people", it is a huge behind the scenes PR effort for special interests, status quo, and campaign money.
Yes but the congresscritters want to know how committed you are to that point of view. So believe it or not a five line handwritten 'kitchen table' letter is regarded far more highly than a laser printed form letter.
That congressman is representing you by a vote you made at the polls. It should not matter that you send it carved in wood, scribed on paper, typed and emailed or yelled in from the next room. My opinion should not be judged on the method it arrived. The point is it came from me, one of the people in his district. I should not have to prove and explain my opinion with a page letter because I disagree or agree with his view.
I should only have to say, I agree/do not agree with your stand on whatever. If he does not agree with the majority of people sending their short opinions then he then should explain back to them why not in great detail. If this does not happen then the congressman has a different motive beyond those in his own district or is simply supporting his parties decision and not his direct voters.
In the US I always thought you were innocent until PROVEN guilty. The DMCA and copy restricted material draws a very fine line but it is still LEGAL to more your media from one form to another. What if you already OWN the media in another form and simply d/l it in a different form like divx or mp3? Before someone could bust your doors down would they not have to have a reasonable doubt or some proof that you do not already own it? I don't think FBI raids are based on trial and error. I have over 30GB of divx movies that I either downloaded or converted myself for use on my laptop when on the road, everyone of them I own on DVD and a few on VHS.
In 5 years if all movies and audio were magically locked down, completely copy restricted, and required some non standard method of playing it, I would stop buying it completely and move on. Yeah I currently enjoy certain groups and certain types of movies but I'm sure I could find something equal in entertainment value by a no name group that was NOT restricted in any way. This is what I think the RIAA/MPAA is really afraid of and I believe the 'piracy' card is a front for this. The RIAA is not the only group sellng or distributing music in this world, that would be like AOL numbers falling and someone claiming internet usage is dropping. I wonder what total "music sales" numbers would like if you counted all the indies and free unrestricted stuff that is already on the internet.
If Time magazine knew it had a readerbase which consisted of a large group of gun-toting loonies then it would, indeed, be irresponsible to publish intimate details of murder by sniping.
The % of crazed people reading the article has NOTHING to do with the potential for copy cats. It only takes one crazed person to inflict damage. It's not hard to think of many ways to hurt hundreds of people and not be immediatley get caught.
I live in the DC area and listened to my police scanner during quite a few of the sniper incidents. Everyone had in their head that this person was shooting from a vehicle and speeding off like a typical Hollywood drive-by portrayed in the movies. Because of this hundreds of people were calling in every fucking white van that did not use a turn signal, was "speeding" by, or driving recklessly. Well, Northern VA is filled with white vans. Strange was everyone reporting these actually thought that every white van was doing something wrong so no doubt they exagerated when calling 911. This drew attention away from the real killers who more then likely casually drove away eating a 7-11 big bite. Every damn ex/retired police chief, fbi agent, and criminal investigator had a profile to share with the media and every fucking one of them was DEAD WRONG. These two did not fit what everyone thought and they got away with it for quite some time. I truely believe they would never been caught had they not called in themselves. Had people been able to see through the hype and look "outside the box" they may have been caught earlier. Maybe in the future when someone strays from the Hollywood movie style killing and speeding off, people will be more aware and responsive and catch them quicker. Hiding the fact that these things can be done does not make the public as a whole safer. It alerts them.
Security through obscurity which DOES NOT work.
Have you ever thought of using SYSPREP from the W2K resource kit? It actually does work and can be used on machines with different hardware. There are limitations and for 50 completely different machines it might take considerable time getting it to work correctly for all of them. The more time you put into it the better and more efficient you can make the whole process but, there is a fine line you may cross and end up spending more time then you'd ever save. It comes to a balance of differences in hardware which increases the initial complexity, with how many applications you have to install after the base OS which decreases the overall install time. Of course this won't help you with the Linux machines but there are methods of reducing per machine specific installs for those too like thin clients, rsync, common home and bin dirs etc..
Well no crap.
So are my included monthly minutes, free nights, free weekends, the free Cingular phone to phone calls, free customer service and the free phones I've been getting. Its all averaged in and bill one way or another.. But none of them are charged seperately and none of them go up in price regardless of how much I use them. Just like your ISP offering free personal web space or unlimited internet access. Bottom line is if you look at your monthly bill and it is to your liking it doesnt matter what they call it.
bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned
Everyone knows that HD's contain data.. I would be more impressed if they broke down the numbers of where the BAD drives came from. That would make a much more informative story. I've bought as-is before in person but never online.
All the phones I've owned had this set to "now or never"
Did you really mean a physical phone setting or the phone service provider? If the phone did not get the message then there is nothing for it to trash. If it did get a message then I assume that would be the "now" part? I don't quite follow you on this.
I have Cingular and mine are free both ways on both of my phones.. I am grandfathered under my old Cellular One rate plan from 1998 which I still maintain. For my useage pattern it is better then anything they offer now. Every two years I resign under the same old plan and get two more free phones. I guess with the cell competition high now, they would rather keep paying customers then void the old plans and risk losing them?
To stay on the subject.. I don't use SMS much but I was signed up on Yahoo to get daily stocks and weather (pain in the ass to cancel but I finally was able too), I would say that at least one a week did not come through, don't know if it was Yahoo or Cingular dropping the ball.
For all I care it's powered by gerbils running in exercise wheels.
It is called Linux advocacy. The more you hear about positive uses of a product, the more common that product becomes which brings on more positive uses. I would guess that over 95% of the non computer geek comunity would care less or even know anything about what gerbilware their computer was currently running had it not been for a strong MS advocacy and PR campaign to push the Windows name.
The Linux crowd should be focused on the real battleground, the desktop, and derailing MS's monopoly.
The embedded market has its own battleground which is just as real as what you want to battle for. Linux is many products to many people. The combination of all of them makes Linux what it is and where it will be later. I know that sounds like something you'd hear in a glorified PR but its true.
Multiple people are working on multiple things in Linux to fill a desired need. People are not being "pulled" away from the desktop to work on an odd side job.
My dog has one. It was standard policy for any dog adopted from the Humane society in Hawaii. I don't know if there are competing companies creating these but my current vet in VA has the ability to read the chip. I should probably update the location information on file somewhere as I would not want her being shipped back to HI if she was lost and found.
Another thing..
Retrieving a list of file names from someone should not be enough to prosecute them. I believe in order to prove you had a copyrighted file, the RIAA would have to download the entire file from that person and then listen to it to ensure it is what they thought it was. Nothing prevents me from creating thousands of fake files and giving them arbitrary names like "Metallica - Ride the Lightning.mp3". Having a file with this name is NOT illegal. I would also have to assume that the RIAA would have to provide some logs above and beyond what a P2P client has that shows where they got the file from and what time, maybe traceroutes and and traffic logging?. There are already tons of bogus files out there, wether they were planted or there by accident there is a chance you have a file name that is not what you think it is. I find it odd they have the power to mail abuse@your.isp and getting anything accomplished with that. You need solid evidence, you will not get arrested for having a file named i_tape_little_girls.mpg (although it may raise questions), but somehow you have less rights by having popular_song.mp3. It is obviously the corporate intrests involved that this is heading where it is. You need solid evidence to support a violation of the law for everything else in the world except for proving copyright violations.
Haven't been through Montana lately eh?
Actually not lately I guess. I went through twice in 95 and twice in 98. One of the times in 95 I was in a U-Haul that maxed out at 57.75 mph, I believe the signs I saw were 65 but I was told by a few locals near the hotels I stayed at that they don't really ticket until after dark. Every other time through I had the cruise set above 80, I did that pretty much the whole way from Chicago to almost Seattle and back. Many places were VERY unpopulated and nothing for 10's of miles. I've also made a round trip from DC to San Fran, different route but it all looked the same once past Chicago. Everytime it was a fun and enjoyable trip.
I experience your claim of efficiency daily.
My 5.0L ~225hp Mustang gets roughly 28-30mpg at a steady 80mph (2k rpm) on the highway. With mixed and "rough" driving I can get about 12-20mpg but it greatly depends on how I am driving. My 1.3L 68hp Ford Aspire averages about 35-42mpg in mixed city highway driving but always gets the lower end if not less then 35 and under when making extended 80mph runs. It is obviously not as efficient at that speed.
For the original poster.. Is there still a national speed limit? I've been through Montana a few times and in daylight I believe the speed limit is reasonable and prudent. I95 is mostly 65mph but let's be realistic, I don't think you'd be safe only going that fast in most parts.
On a flight from DC to Chicago I sat next to a guy from a multinational corporation that was in DC to discuss third world labor issues with some government committee, he did not specifically mention what corporation so for all I knew he could have been a Kirby salesman. Anyway he had some very interesting points about third world labor, his examples were with farmers in central and south america exporting to the US. We talked about it for almost an hour but his bottom line was...
The people are poor, have no homes, no jobs, and no money, and basically a non existant standard of living before a company comes in. If the incoming company can provide even a slightly higher amount of money and steady jobs to the people in the area, it is better then what they already had. Not a decent living by what people in non third world contries are used to, but they are working now and bringing home more then they were before. Basically meaning the point of reference for a "better life" is relative to what they already had, not to what people in more industrialized counties have. He even gave a comparision of starting an industry in southern Texas paying everyone minimum wage to starting the same thing in Central America paying out $15 a day. Based on what the CA's already had (basically nothing), they were now much better off and experiencing a more "improved" standard of living then the people in Texas would have been at the minimum wage level. The people in CA now had enough to provide some basic housing and get food. Of course he went into more detail then I could ever do here typing but he did seem to have some valid points that I never considered before..
I did not agree with everything he said but it was interesting to here that viewpoint.
foremen could fire up their PocketPC handhelds and see what their teams were working on that day.
.net? Think about this situation for a minute. How the hell can a foreman really know or have a true idea how a major system overhaul is going by looking at a palm pilot? If he is satisified with recieving updates in that manner he should not be a foreman and should be working behind a desk in accounting adding up numbers or work for the planning department which is not involved with the actual work. I've worked in project management before in a shipyard environment. A PDA is great for standard messages, reminders, or reporting very specific tasks but that is far from what a foreman on down does.
And they call that a good use of
You know, this subject comes up every time an article featuring the TiVo is posted, and every time someone gets "+5, Insightful" for whining about the TiVo monthly fee.
Yeah, and the same amount or TiVo lovers try to downplay or put down every other PVR as if they are threatened by them personally or afraid to admit the the technology is getting more common and the earlier TiVo's might someday be made obsolete by a newer product.
You start your post with "whining about the TiVo monthly fee" and "That's cheaper than the burrito I ate for lunch" as if cost means nothing to you and then follow it up with three paragraphs of money figures talking about how much money you save with the your current setup as if money does matter to you?
Oh yeah, every advantage you gave about the TiVo can be had with ANY PVR, maybe even ones from RCA with no monthly fee..
Mod me away as everyone knows that the non bandwagon followers always seem to be marked as trolls..
Besides, truly ingenious people could MAKE a peristaltic pump themselves.
So your not the least bit impressed in their project but had they made a small pump that pushed fliud through a flexible tube you would consider it ingenoius?
If they got their pumps from old cars in the junk yard, I'd be worried.. Now if the washer pumps are similar to a wagner power sprayer with a spring and magnet where the pumped fliud is the coolant and lubricant for the pump, I hate to agree with you (blah!) but that MIGHT be a little unclean..
Retail stores are a very good place for HD's. You will often find BestBuy/CompUSA/Staples/CircuitCity/OfficeMax etc will have lower prices on HD's then what is at pricewatch, local computer stores, and even regional computer expos. More then likely you get a retail drive in a box with full warranty (mainly 1 year now) and maybe even a UDMA cable and 5.25 adapters. Most mail ordered I've seen are OEM and 30 days at best. CDRW's are the same way.
Sometimes you may have to deal with a rebate to get the good deal but at least one of the above retailers has one good deal a week. Not sure if SalesCircular covers all areas of the US but it is a good place to scope out retailers sale prices for a week.
Great suggestion, that pump costs $100 more then what these guys spent on the entire project..
Okay that makes sense, I guess I was hiding under a rock when this was announced. Based on the Wired article I am assuming the main advantage of this tech seems to when used along with the digital radio part of a stations broadcast. If you are also not tuned to or actively listening to the associated audio broadcast, many of the advantages of this system seem not so exciting or of very limited use. I guess we'll see what else MS has in store.
I believe the ASE (the main auto cert system) has their best interests in mind when they offer their certifications. If they can impress on the public that having their certs makes a difference then the public will look for those certs. Techs and businesses now have to have a program in place to get those certs to meet the publics demands. Not many of the ASE certs are even remotely related to safety, okay, maybe the brakes but the braking system is not complex by any means. State run vehicle inspection mechanics do not have to be ASE certified, they have to be certified from the state, it is not hard test. Remembering the states or regions requirements and specifications is 95% of the test. IMHO, the ASE certs are a solution to a problem that did not exist. There was never an outbreak of saftey issues from non certified mechanics that this system was needed. Understanding all of the automotive systems from various companies is no easy task, specilized training is definately a plus and experience is a must but the claim that certs are required for safety if FUD.
What the hell do they mean by FM? Frequency Modulation? As in the same things that all pagers, radio stations, wireless microphones, family radios, walkie talkies, cordless phones, two-way radios, etc. that all use FM for signal transmission. I don't consider that innovative. Using frequencies in the same band as FM radio (88-108Mhz) is different but there is no corrolation between a radio station your listening to on a seperate reciever and what your watch is tuned to? I am confused. Now if they were using light beam or amplitude modulation, that would something different...