I actually got this here in Singapore with my DSL from SingNet. Basically, they give you a free entry-level mobile internet plan if you sign up for DSL, although this is only with the DSL service and not with their fiber service.
Does SingTel cane your ass and post the action on their website, if you go over your entry-level data cap?
Eole is actually building several models to handle different climates. The Pacific Northwest model is similar to the model pictured, but smaller and in place of the turbine is a large handle. It's just a big bucket.
That's what I thought. Thought the same about the barefoot bandit. But fear not, they'll get the kid in college, hook him up with a job and turn him into a cubicle drone in no time.
At 800 liters a day I'm wondering how many of these can operate without severely upsetting the desert ecosystem. If they're sucking out moister in the day, how much moisture will remain in the air to condense during the night for wildlife?
This type of technology never goes to anybody who can actually use it. This will sound cynical, because I am, but this (impressive) invention is only likely to affect the ecosystem around the ivy league university that purchases one. If Marc is lucky, he'll get a military contract and our Troops will be able to enjoy gallon after life-giving gallon....after blowing up a village full of sleeping women and children, or if we're lucky, a glass with their antipsychotic meds.
Imdustry shouldn't have followed the government's lead when they instituted titles like that. Is industry going to start using the term Tsar soon, too? Or maybe they want their CIOs to multitask and also work as bean counters now. Kind of like industry wants me to design systems, administer them AND be able to program like a pro. Everybody needs to do more to ensure we keep that unemployment rate high, employment insecurity high, fear levels high and wages real LOW, right?
"According to the Computer History Museum, the C-level position for IT is believed to have started in military and government, then becoming adopted by industry. William Synnott and William Gruber get credit for coining the term in 1981."
I have found that PhD means you are very focused, not necessarily smart. You just happen to know way more about one thing than most anyone else at the expense of being well rounded.
Just my anecdotal observation YMMV.
You're definitely on to something. The highly educated are selected for obedience. It's society's way of keeping the argumentative sorts; the kind who might question the status quo, away from power. If you're the type who can do pointless assignments and tasks (that you know are worthless), just to get a diploma, you've passed the obedience test and are on your way to a successful career. If you're the type who questions everything, it's unlikely you'll do well outside strict sciences and you had best keep your questions and criticisms *well* within the scientific realm, because if you question the system or any kind of heirarchy, your fancy job won't last long. You'll be labeled a "loose cannon". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6lFOhLJ0c
It's rare to see so much hyperbolic balderdash on slashdot. The shuttle was practically designed with slide rules and is at this point a technological embarrassment. It's impressive for when it was made, but so was the Commodore 64. That's the best humanity has to offer? I sincerely say hello no. Who in their right minds thinks the US government and a politically controlled agency can do anything right? Do you really want the government in charge of something as important as space travel? The government is incapable of doing ANYTHING efficiently, on time, or on budget. All this romanticism about "ohh I love seeing burning fuel shooting up into the sky" and the sentiment that things are going to hell and there will never be anything as good... is the sentiment of old people who are on their way out. Get off of my fucking lawn and make room for the future - what a bunch of whining has-beens. Today is here, you can do absolutely anything. Quit living in the past and get out and do something that makes the past look as pathetic as it is. Or cry over your chamomile tea about how kids today don't appreciate how awesome buggies used to be.
You're nothing but a corporate propaganda success story.
I want free markets for my economy like I was a leprechaun for my President -- which is to say, even if one existed, which it doesn't, I still wouldn't want it.
Markets are good; free markets are bad, or would be if they were real.
How was this modded 'Troll'? Apparently some moderators have a tricky relationship with the truth. The post is true. 1) Free markets do not and never have existed 2) If a Free Market did exist, nobody would like it, including business. Does anybody really think Oil, Agriculture, Finance, High Tech, Medical, Pharma....does anybody really think those industries thrive in a "free market"? Get real.
Nokia needs a hit. Microsoft can afford to speculate. Did Nokia agree to use MS only? It might even be interesting to give customers a choice of the same hardware running Android or Windows Phone software, if the hardware is so great.
No amount of marketing money would convince users to use a Windows phone. And seriously, it wouldn't matter if it was identical to iPhone, pixel-for-pixel. People don't want Microsoft on their phones. They think it means it will crash. It doesn't matter what reality is. It just doesn't.
That's true!...and the reality is, their last Windows OS offering did crash (I think it was 6.2), not to mention the UI was needlessly, ridonkulously complicated. I bought my mom a Windows phone a few years back, thinking it would be easier for her to use. Well, not living in the same city, I wasn't able to actually see what I'd done. On a trip to visit a yeat later, I picked up her phone and tried using it....the phone was sold on Craigslist later that day. She admitted she'd had a lot of trouble using it. MS has no business in the mobile arena after that abortion. People remember that kind of garbage, then shy away....rightly.
Nuclear Power has its issues. But the alternatives are not exactly free of cost either. At the end of hte day, the costs of nuclear power are arguably less than anything else that is capable of generating power at that scale. Wind / Solar would be optimal, but they do not have the scale yet to be seriously considered as alternatives unless you are content to live at a level of technology comparable to 1910.
From an environmental standpoint, I think it would be a better choice to try to deal with the accumulated nuclear waste than to deal with trying to undo the damage of the toxic emissions from using fossil fuels. The nuclear waste is at least highly localized and it can be collected and contained. You cannot really clean up all the emissions from burning coal or oil.
The problem with Nuclear power is that the costs associated with an accident are so massive (environmentally and financially) and they are incurred all at once. You will never convince most people to buy a car for $30 000 in one lump sum, but it is easy to sell someone on paying $40 000 if you tell them they can pay a little bit each month.
A service that's no longer required.... The real problem is that while innovation is hard, distribution is not anymore.
That's not entirely true.
Perhaps distribution is easy, but promotion is still expensive (perhaps more so now). You may argue that people should be playing locally, but to achieve global fame one needs very, very expensive promotion.
You would probably refer me to a number of self-published successes (like Louis CK)? Well, for some reason every one of those self-publishing successes was first made famous by the very media companies that you are claiming to be irrelevant
P.S. Yes, media companies are keeping too much, but there is still at least one service they do provide. Whether you think it is worth it, is another question.
What service does the public have an interest in again? Creating god-like, fame obsessed, super rich "artists" via "very, very expensive promotion"? What purpose does that serve that it requires denying non profit entities the free use of modern technology? So, people live to enjoy life, music, food, etc, but somebody wants to control certain parts of that for a psychopathic obsession with money and the public should support this why? I don't care about some psychopathic company that only cares about profit setting up a psychopathic "artist" who only cares about fame. It just seems to me a bunch of people who need mental help and I have no desire to support any of it. I'll take the free streaming music, thanks. Just looking out for my own "self interest". They/You should be able to understand that, right?
Being modded Troll cut deep. Yeah, could be a neo-con who disagrees (although I don't see how) or some PC doof with poor reading comprehension who thinks I'm being 'mean' to Iraqis. Afterall, haven't they suffered enough by all they brought on themselves!!!????:-D
Here are some simple, but often overlooked facts: 1) The tyrannical corporation you work for is completely fascist. There's not even the pretense of bothering to hide that from you and there never has been. 2) Your company tells you they'll monitor your communications on their network, in no uncertain terms. 3) You allow "right to work" (aka right to get fired for no reason) laws to pass in your state. 4) You bitch about the SIZE of government constantly (you know, the only thing that can regulate your fascist, tyrannical company) 5) You hate unions and think they have no place in the modern world (they're only responsible for every benefit you've ever had from working) 6) Without protest you allowed corporations to achieve "personhood", without so much as a pitchfork or torch showing up at the supreme court.
And NOW you take issue with how they'll collate some data?
After we spend billions arming and installing what can only be described as the Middle East's classiest dictator ever (ah the 80s), we were forced to spend years of diplomatic man hours sanctioning you senseless (the roaring 90s), then finally something like $1 trillion literally removing your precious, regional Hitler by force....How about a little thanks for (possibly) becoming the 4th most used telecommunications go-between for European and Asian (countries that matter) communication? We've already got our oil firms pumping all that pesky oil for you. Is there anything else we can do for you, ingrates?? You never had it so good.
1) Homosexuality is a sin.
2) All sexual immorality is a sin.
3) We should still devote money, time and resources to curing AIDS.
4) Hating people is also a sin. So pay attention to #3.
5) Religious nuts are still nuts, even if you find the odd Christian still barely sane enough to admit a homosexual is entitled to treatment.
6) Religious nuts think they're morally superior for rising to the level of base morality that would allow 'money, time and resources' to be spent on somebody who engaged in "sexual immorality"
7) Religious nuts can't see the irony in that even a run-of-the-mill athiest wouldn't even have to think through 1-2 & 4 before automatically thinking 3.
Can you ask him why it sometimes takes 20 hours for an SMS, made from an at*t phone on an at*t tower, to a likewise phone/tower, to deliver?
If it's a national problem (everyone affected nationally), it could be a problem with the SMSC, particularly the SMSC database. Seemed to always be its weak spot. If you can't text or make calls and it's a national problem, it could be the HLR. If the problem only happens in one area, or it's all the time, but only with your phone, it's more likely to be a problem with a tower or maybe your own device. Your best bet is to try narrowing it down. Does it happen everywhere? Is it happening every day at 4pm? Could be congestion or it could be SMSC congestion. The things have to move like some odd billion messages a year now. The database can get slammed. Or maintenance. The things are never engineered out (capacity wise) far enough, so the real problem was always capacity (you and your fancy iPhones). So there's a lot of night maintenance, database purges, emergency stuff to keep them running while more are being built. That's why it took so long for the iPhone to have MMS...those things are tough to launch into the network and it just couldn't be done overnight, no matter how much money you pay or how hard you work your engineers (I basically, finally had a nervous breakdown). Anyway, it's complicated. You should call tech support. lol
Please yourself. We are a nation with many statutes, a very significant number of which have a "Section 13". It's entirely your own fault you didn't bother to specify which Act you were referring to.
Yaz
The point was, your government has its flaws, like any power system (maybe a little more hypocitical) and will do what it takes to keep the reigns. And you share some of the blame for not simply asking for clarification. I'm not an expert on the Canadian government, but know it's another government power system and they all have a few ugly things in common. You smug Canadians can get off of your high horses now.
I seriously doubt you worked as a system engineer if you don't know the difference between an IMSI and and IMEI.
IMSI = International Mobile Subscriber Identity, allows you to find out information about the account hold. Its on the sim. It allows you to violate people's privacy, which is why Joe Tech should not be able to look this up, not without a warrant.
IMEI = International Mobile Equipment Identity, a unique number built into the hardware. It can be used to block service to the device. That will bring the user in to complain. No warrant needed.
It was IMEI, you're right. I'm not as much into cell phones..unix, linux, and the actual messaging systems in the background (SMTP email schleping). Was just a tool I had access to. My actual title was Engineer IV. I reported to Kevin Tromp, still the director of Messaging. Yes, I did work there.;-)
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I actually got this here in Singapore with my DSL from SingNet. Basically, they give you a free entry-level mobile internet plan if you sign up for DSL, although this is only with the DSL service and not with their fiber service.
Does SingTel cane your ass and post the action on their website, if you go over your entry-level data cap?
Eole is actually building several models to handle different climates. The Pacific Northwest model is similar to the model pictured, but smaller and in place of the turbine is a large handle. It's just a big bucket.
Now the birds will get dry eyes.
We will need to squeegee them off the turbine blades in order to confirm the eyes were dry before impact...
That is seriously hilarious.
Now the birds will get dry eyes.
Allergan Inc is planning Restasis for Aves in anticipation
This type of technology never goes to anybody who can actually use it.
Huh? Who says oil sheiks don't need a Beverly Hills style swimming pool?
Yeah or picture a sad looking, rented Eole, in 2015, pumping out water for wet t-shirt contests and cleaning up piss and puke puddles at Burning Man.
That child is a beast. Too bad he got caught xD
That's what I thought. Thought the same about the barefoot bandit. But fear not, they'll get the kid in college, hook him up with a job and turn him into a cubicle drone in no time.
At 800 liters a day I'm wondering how many of these can operate without severely upsetting the desert ecosystem. If they're sucking out moister in the day, how much moisture will remain in the air to condense during the night for wildlife?
This type of technology never goes to anybody who can actually use it. This will sound cynical, because I am, but this (impressive) invention is only likely to affect the ecosystem around the ivy league university that purchases one. If Marc is lucky, he'll get a military contract and our Troops will be able to enjoy gallon after life-giving gallon....after blowing up a village full of sleeping women and children, or if we're lucky, a glass with their antipsychotic meds.
Imdustry shouldn't have followed the government's lead when they instituted titles like that. Is industry going to start using the term Tsar soon, too? Or maybe they want their CIOs to multitask and also work as bean counters now. Kind of like industry wants me to design systems, administer them AND be able to program like a pro. Everybody needs to do more to ensure we keep that unemployment rate high, employment insecurity high, fear levels high and wages real LOW, right? "According to the Computer History Museum, the C-level position for IT is believed to have started in military and government, then becoming adopted by industry. William Synnott and William Gruber get credit for coining the term in 1981."
I have found that PhD means you are very focused, not necessarily smart. You just happen to know way more about one thing than most anyone else at the expense of being well rounded.
Just my anecdotal observation YMMV.
You're definitely on to something. The highly educated are selected for obedience. It's society's way of keeping the argumentative sorts; the kind who might question the status quo, away from power. If you're the type who can do pointless assignments and tasks (that you know are worthless), just to get a diploma, you've passed the obedience test and are on your way to a successful career. If you're the type who questions everything, it's unlikely you'll do well outside strict sciences and you had best keep your questions and criticisms *well* within the scientific realm, because if you question the system or any kind of heirarchy, your fancy job won't last long. You'll be labeled a "loose cannon". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6lFOhLJ0c
It's rare to see so much hyperbolic balderdash on slashdot. The shuttle was practically designed with slide rules and is at this point a technological embarrassment. It's impressive for when it was made, but so was the Commodore 64. That's the best humanity has to offer? I sincerely say hello no. Who in their right minds thinks the US government and a politically controlled agency can do anything right? Do you really want the government in charge of something as important as space travel? The government is incapable of doing ANYTHING efficiently, on time, or on budget. All this romanticism about "ohh I love seeing burning fuel shooting up into the sky" and the sentiment that things are going to hell and there will never be anything as good... is the sentiment of old people who are on their way out. Get off of my fucking lawn and make room for the future - what a bunch of whining has-beens. Today is here, you can do absolutely anything. Quit living in the past and get out and do something that makes the past look as pathetic as it is. Or cry over your chamomile tea about how kids today don't appreciate how awesome buggies used to be.
You're nothing but a corporate propaganda success story.
Yeah, how could anybody be worse than Hitler? http://monthlyreview.org/2010/09/01/genocide-denial-with-a-vengeance-old-and-new-imperial-norms
I want free markets for my economy like I was a leprechaun for my President -- which is to say, even if one existed, which it doesn't, I still wouldn't want it.
Markets are good; free markets are bad, or would be if they were real.
How was this modded 'Troll'? Apparently some moderators have a tricky relationship with the truth. The post is true. 1) Free markets do not and never have existed 2) If a Free Market did exist, nobody would like it, including business. Does anybody really think Oil, Agriculture, Finance, High Tech, Medical, Pharma....does anybody really think those industries thrive in a "free market"? Get real.
Nokia needs a hit. Microsoft can afford to speculate. Did Nokia agree to use MS only? It might even be interesting to give customers a choice of the same hardware running Android or Windows Phone software, if the hardware is so great.
No amount of marketing money would convince users to use a Windows phone. And seriously, it wouldn't matter if it was identical to iPhone, pixel-for-pixel. People don't want Microsoft on their phones. They think it means it will crash. It doesn't matter what reality is. It just doesn't.
That's true! ...and the reality is, their last Windows OS offering did crash (I think it was 6.2), not to mention the UI was needlessly, ridonkulously complicated. I bought my mom a Windows phone a few years back, thinking it would be easier for her to use. Well, not living in the same city, I wasn't able to actually see what I'd done. On a trip to visit a yeat later, I picked up her phone and tried using it....the phone was sold on Craigslist later that day. She admitted she'd had a lot of trouble using it. MS has no business in the mobile arena after that abortion. People remember that kind of garbage, then shy away....rightly.
Nuclear Power has its issues. But the alternatives are not exactly free of cost either. At the end of hte day, the costs of nuclear power are arguably less than anything else that is capable of generating power at that scale. Wind / Solar would be optimal, but they do not have the scale yet to be seriously considered as alternatives unless you are content to live at a level of technology comparable to 1910.
From an environmental standpoint, I think it would be a better choice to try to deal with the accumulated nuclear waste than to deal with trying to undo the damage of the toxic emissions from using fossil fuels. The nuclear waste is at least highly localized and it can be collected and contained. You cannot really clean up all the emissions from burning coal or oil.
The problem with Nuclear power is that the costs associated with an accident are so massive (environmentally and financially) and they are incurred all at once. You will never convince most people to buy a car for $30 000 in one lump sum, but it is easy to sell someone on paying $40 000 if you tell them they can pay a little bit each month.
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"Not exactly free of cost" is right. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/opinion/waldman-mercury-dangers/index.html I'd like my tuna sandwich back now...thanks.
A service that's no longer required. ... The real problem is that while innovation is hard, distribution is not anymore.
That's not entirely true. Perhaps distribution is easy, but promotion is still expensive (perhaps more so now). You may argue that people should be playing locally, but to achieve global fame one needs very, very expensive promotion. You would probably refer me to a number of self-published successes (like Louis CK)? Well, for some reason every one of those self-publishing successes was first made famous by the very media companies that you are claiming to be irrelevant
P.S. Yes, media companies are keeping too much, but there is still at least one service they do provide. Whether you think it is worth it, is another question.
What service does the public have an interest in again? Creating god-like, fame obsessed, super rich "artists" via "very, very expensive promotion"? What purpose does that serve that it requires denying non profit entities the free use of modern technology? So, people live to enjoy life, music, food, etc, but somebody wants to control certain parts of that for a psychopathic obsession with money and the public should support this why? I don't care about some psychopathic company that only cares about profit setting up a psychopathic "artist" who only cares about fame. It just seems to me a bunch of people who need mental help and I have no desire to support any of it. I'll take the free streaming music, thanks. Just looking out for my own "self interest". They/You should be able to understand that, right?
Modded troll? That was hilarious!
Neo-con mod squad again, I guess.
Being modded Troll cut deep. Yeah, could be a neo-con who disagrees (although I don't see how) or some PC doof with poor reading comprehension who thinks I'm being 'mean' to Iraqis. Afterall, haven't they suffered enough by all they brought on themselves!!!???? :-D
Here are some simple, but often overlooked facts: 1) The tyrannical corporation you work for is completely fascist. There's not even the pretense of bothering to hide that from you and there never has been. 2) Your company tells you they'll monitor your communications on their network, in no uncertain terms. 3) You allow "right to work" (aka right to get fired for no reason) laws to pass in your state. 4) You bitch about the SIZE of government constantly (you know, the only thing that can regulate your fascist, tyrannical company) 5) You hate unions and think they have no place in the modern world (they're only responsible for every benefit you've ever had from working) 6) Without protest you allowed corporations to achieve "personhood", without so much as a pitchfork or torch showing up at the supreme court. And NOW you take issue with how they'll collate some data?
After we spend billions arming and installing what can only be described as the Middle East's classiest dictator ever (ah the 80s), we were forced to spend years of diplomatic man hours sanctioning you senseless (the roaring 90s), then finally something like $1 trillion literally removing your precious, regional Hitler by force....How about a little thanks for (possibly) becoming the 4th most used telecommunications go-between for European and Asian (countries that matter) communication? We've already got our oil firms pumping all that pesky oil for you. Is there anything else we can do for you, ingrates?? You never had it so good.
1) Homosexuality is a sin. 2) All sexual immorality is a sin. 3) We should still devote money, time and resources to curing AIDS. 4) Hating people is also a sin. So pay attention to #3.
5) Religious nuts are still nuts, even if you find the odd Christian still barely sane enough to admit a homosexual is entitled to treatment. 6) Religious nuts think they're morally superior for rising to the level of base morality that would allow 'money, time and resources' to be spent on somebody who engaged in "sexual immorality" 7) Religious nuts can't see the irony in that even a run-of-the-mill athiest wouldn't even have to think through 1-2 & 4 before automatically thinking 3.
Really? I used the feature today.... And I used it in 2004.... and all the years in between.
Then you're in some real specific area where they allowed it to stay. As far as I knew, the tool was yanked.
Can you ask him why it sometimes takes 20 hours for an SMS, made from an at*t phone on an at*t tower, to a likewise phone/tower, to deliver?
If it's a national problem (everyone affected nationally), it could be a problem with the SMSC, particularly the SMSC database. Seemed to always be its weak spot. If you can't text or make calls and it's a national problem, it could be the HLR. If the problem only happens in one area, or it's all the time, but only with your phone, it's more likely to be a problem with a tower or maybe your own device. Your best bet is to try narrowing it down. Does it happen everywhere? Is it happening every day at 4pm? Could be congestion or it could be SMSC congestion. The things have to move like some odd billion messages a year now. The database can get slammed. Or maintenance. The things are never engineered out (capacity wise) far enough, so the real problem was always capacity (you and your fancy iPhones). So there's a lot of night maintenance, database purges, emergency stuff to keep them running while more are being built. That's why it took so long for the iPhone to have MMS...those things are tough to launch into the network and it just couldn't be done overnight, no matter how much money you pay or how hard you work your engineers (I basically, finally had a nervous breakdown). Anyway, it's complicated. You should call tech support. lol
You're talking about Snooper?
That the name of the IMEI query application? I'm not sure. The tool was supported by IT and I was in Nat'l Eng Ops.
Oh please.
Please yourself. We are a nation with many statutes, a very significant number of which have a "Section 13". It's entirely your own fault you didn't bother to specify which Act you were referring to.
Yaz
The point was, your government has its flaws, like any power system (maybe a little more hypocitical) and will do what it takes to keep the reigns. And you share some of the blame for not simply asking for clarification. I'm not an expert on the Canadian government, but know it's another government power system and they all have a few ugly things in common. You smug Canadians can get off of your high horses now.
I seriously doubt you worked as a system engineer if you don't know the difference between an IMSI and and IMEI.
IMSI = International Mobile Subscriber Identity, allows you to find out information about the account hold. Its on the sim. It allows you to violate people's privacy, which is why Joe Tech should not be able to look this up, not without a warrant.
IMEI = International Mobile Equipment Identity, a unique number built into the hardware. It can be used to block service to the device. That will bring the user in to complain. No warrant needed.
It was IMEI, you're right. I'm not as much into cell phones..unix, linux, and the actual messaging systems in the background (SMTP email schleping). Was just a tool I had access to. My actual title was Engineer IV. I reported to Kevin Tromp, still the director of Messaging. Yes, I did work there. ;-)