Moot point on NORAD's Chyenne Mountain facilty.. they shut that down well before 9-11.. The other military facilities maybe closed or have racked up their security where you wont get to see much..
She's stuck using the margins that are available to them on the manual typewriter... You see, shes sitting there rattling away and then, DING! end of margin. No word wrap, no automatic carriage return. She has to hit the manual return level to move the unit back to its original position, thus issuing a CR to the program. The other issue is ZERO arrow keys so if she has to move the cursor to edit or change posistion or shift to another page, she has to fuss around with the mouse, hence more chances for her carpal tunnel to get worse. He should have butchered the machine up, disabled the automatic advance, got the backspace to work, and then found a way to wire in a 10-key keypad that would have given almost all the functions of a standard 101 KB.
Oh, I can see her now, trying to enter a URL on a browser with it... heheh it'll drive her bonkers...
Old hates are just resurfacing... The divide has always been there in the business world folks. And the way that it is going it'll just deepen and worsen unless management gets their act squared away and tries to heal matters, no matter what it takes. THAT might take a couple hundered years since management is a problem in itself.
It's enough to make half of them estatic and the other half running scared from the exposure.. Oh well.. they can have their fun as long as they dont start glowing.. then it'll get really ugly..
Some of these nuts are actually pretty close to sustaining a reaction using this method.. One post had a guy running a sustained reaction for 10-15 seconds, pouring out alot of neutrons (3.29E+06 neutrons/sec). Unfortunately the energy budget is still too high (50 Kv @ 20mA (1KW)). And all he had to say is that he had a good weekend.. *shakes his head in amazement* If they keep this up, they might ecplise CERN's work as well as overhaul the X-Ray fusion reactor thats under development.
I was thinking of http://www.x10.com , but your explanation will do nicley.. Thanks!
I would like to recommend to everyone that uses SmartHome gear to make it clear that you are using the product, instead of the generic name in which will cause plenty of folks needless grief.
The amount of money that SBC/BooHoo(yahoo) put up for their advertising campaign would have enabled another 15-20K users to get barebones DSL access by installing and upgrading their telco equipment.
I run a small business, so I know that marketing is a needed facet of maintaining a operation. BUT when it comes to spying on your own customers to get demographic information to resell just to make a quick buck, I think that its time to talk with your local congresscritter and senator to see if there is a law that needs to be created to bitchslap the jerks in marketing down.
Case in point: The Rockport Tx market for then Southwestern Bell (now Cingular) had the town in their back pocket for their analog service. 3 years ago Verizon came in and put a tower up in nearby Aransas Pass and issued a mandate ordering SWBell to reduce their output in the Analog service. Since then service went to hell and then some. NOW comes along the name change to Cingular Wireless, only it just gets worse. Their buyout of several cellular systems inspire management to attempt to MERGE the databases without proper testing. That knocked out over 65% of the digital service for the Rockport market. Their claim is that the phones were defective.. Bullshit! There were people coming in from other Cingular regions and their phones were not able to ringout, but able to receive calls! So you tell me what happened here... Heh! The store I worked for became a former Cingular dealer and settled for selling Sprint PCS, in which did very well.
Concur with catbeller on this matter. Even with two inches of flooring and walls the odd shape becomes more like a regular home, or like a geodesic dwelling. The flooring and walls would do twofold work and save on logistics when it comes to infrastructure. They would serve as runs for your power, telco, light plumbing (1 inch PVC would be as much as you could run in two inch high flooring unless you get creative) networking, as well as your satellite cable.
Oh, and draperies or some kind of curtains hanging on the walls would do the trick on breaking up the oval look to the place too!
Oh, i can see it now.. (hee hee) "Honey, wheres the hammer drill and bits?" "They are with your sewing kit dear."
Thats what it's going to take to set anchors for those curtains and any kind of wall hangings.
As for the cracking issues, those homes were built with older mixtures of concrete. The evolution of concrete has come a long way baby. You can see planes, floating boats and even a working spring made out of concrete!
The bonus of having segmented sections is that its flexibility in design, as well as the ability to handle any kind of flexing the earth might dish out during it's lifespan.
*smacks ya silly* We've moved Large precast overpass beams this way, as well as large mobile homes weighing just as much as one of those pipes.. The logisitcs are feasable, but the crane rental is going to kill your wallet! Now how do you think they manage to move those pipes out of their yard? You got it... Flatbed trucks, flagged as WIDE LOADS.
I worked for a franchise for a couple of years and got out of there when things got right here a few months ago. (don't ask) Their policy on name collection at franchises are as this: They DO have a collection quota on names, at least about 50-65% of the number of tickets for each monthly period. The franchise REQUIRED that names and addresses be put on ALL sales when a check was taken, dish sale, internet service, or cell phone sales. Small stuff or cash sales, strictly optional or we simply forego taking the name and cycle the customer out of the way and go on to the next potential dish or cell phone customer.
Now to go on the corporate side (please forgive me).
RADIO SHACK does NOT sell ANY, repeat, ANY of the addresses that they collect at their stores, may they be either franchise or corporate stores.
IANAL, but that is what i've been told by store management, regional mangement, a former RS corporate secretary, and others "on the take".
1. a pair of two-man bolt cutters 2. a volunteer to help use the cutters 3. a driver
We putter on over to his barn in the dead of the night, *snip* *snip* his T1 cable in two places and let him scream bloody murder at his provider trying to get his T1 repaired in due order... I get this right, his CO is ameritech operated, so it'll take 3 days or more to get the repairs done. If it's fiber that he's got, those two cuts will force the telco to replace the entire segment to the pole, costing both the telco and ralsky money that he dont have.
"Fine, ill dig up the dirt and you hurl it at the incoming rock." Ok two problems with mass drivers.. For starts, the energy budget they consume launching items up into orbit from a gravity well that is the Earth. They are more feasable if they are used to launch materials from the moon. Second, how far into the future are we from building these oversized railguns on a reasonable budget? By the time we get one built and operational it might be too late for us.. Quick and dirty scheme, AKA, Care for a new Moon? Send up a ship loaded with many small nukes (50Kt or smaller) and set them up on one side of the asteroid. Once it is in the correct posistion, set off the nukes in a prearrainged sequence to change the rock's orbit and velocity until it slips into a reasonable orbit. And Voila! Your own instant orbital colony, research facility, and mining operation, all wrapped into one!
(Just have to move all those satellites that are in the way though....)
Not unless the channel was blotting out the police band with sounds from the Sci-Fi channel. This does not come under Part 15, i can assure you of that.. The equipment comes under the emergency frequency band subclause. Any kind of interference or jamming would result in a IMMEDIATE investigation into the cause and the subsequent arrest and fining of the offender.
Under FCC regulations, any interference with official bands (IE, police, fire, ambulance) by a TV station is considered illegal by law and MUST immediately stop of be fined per day per channel that experiences the interference. This occurred with one cable TV station over in one town that i stayed in. They had brought up another channel into their lineup using AINCENT cable equipment that generated a harmonic with the City police's repeater and caused massive interference with their communications. The city immediately moved and filed a complaint with the FCC on this and the Gov't submitted a court order stating that the cable company shut down ALL services until this issue was cleared up. The channel was immediately shut down and the station was shifted to another channel that was more clearer and did not cause any further problems.
Union Pacific did run about 30 of the GTEL (Gas Turbine Electric Locomotive) 8500 series on their lines in 1949 and they would haul mile-long trains at a swift 70 MPH. Their drivetrains could deliver about 8500SHP at the cars and were later upgraded to 10,000SHP! U.P. calculated that a single unit (thats a rail term for each car in a train, for you new to railroading) could haul 734 fully loaded rail cars at a steady 12 MPH! BUT for the long hauls, a tender full of Jet-A was needed to quench thirst of the gas guzzlers and were subsequently retired in 1970. These monsters of the rail line were the prime moneymakers of UP's lineup and did their duty without complant and with plenty of punch.
http://utahrails.net/all-time/all-time-loco-chro n- 02.htm http://www.riverraisinmodels.com/up8500.ht ml
Research into Turbine/electric locomotives went back to post WWII days when they experimented with a coal fueled turbo/electric. http://www.railpower.com/2support/locomotives.htm Oh, it packed plenty of power but it's efficiency rating was very poor and it guzzled fuel like a SUV.. The current design fares better but it still does not achieve no higher than 50% efficiency on the bench. GE just came out with a turbine designed to drive generators for home electric useage that IS the size of a locomotive and achives a whopping 60% efficiency rating. http://www.fe.doe.gov/techline/tl_ats_ge1.shtml The major issue with anything thats powered by a gas turbine is gas mileage, hence why diesels have yet to be replaced by a more efficient power plant. Diesels burn all of it's charge with high energy return. This promotes high torque and high horsepower ratings. Gas turbines have powerful, but thin legs. If they were put on a very high high torque test they would stall and flameout, possibly inducing a burner chamber blowout.
One of the big reasons why their interface sucks is that marketing got their claws in it and tore it up badly. Plus marketing screwed up so frelling badly when they made that big ad campaign back in the mid-90s without consulting R&D to see if they would have any problems with a large influx of subscriptions. This is some of the reasons why I dislike marketing so much is they think they run the business.. Nope they dont.. They bring in the customers, BUT they need a working product or system first.. DONT oversell, or try to sell something that aint tangable or is not working, dammot! THIS is what pisses customers off so much and makes them cynical toward businesses like AOHell.
Plus dont piss off your most vital asset, volunteers. They were the heart of AOHell back in the early days of the operation. I guess the suits looked at the papers and reports instead of actually going into the chat rooms and seeing for themselves (which would not surprise me). Plus their employeee relations with their customer support team. ( www.observers.net enuf said) There are horror stories rolling out of that department that SICKEN me for gods sake! I've made it a policy to ask employees of a company if they like working for that company in general before I purchase anything from that business to see if I want to sink my money into a business that takes pride in its people, or takes pride in "revolving doors" and high turnovers due to poor morale or other issues. You take care of your people, keep marketing on a short leash, and make dammed sure that your customers are happy, no matter what it takes, you'll do fine.
HP LJ 1100 = $25.00 secondhand.. Pagecount on it was 635 pages and is cherry. Paid 20 bucks for a MC-30 cable for the printer.
prr, prr, prr.....
It's still on its first cartridge too, approaching a thousand copies right now and has yet to hit its stride.
Lexmark JP 5770 = 25 bucks... It was used to print out a thousand brochures and put aside.. Two fresh carts in it and two spares for it too. Prrr, prrr, prrr......
Im seeing alot of posts saying "so what? my toy has plastic fibers in it too".... Unh huh.. The requirement for fiber optics are FLEXIBILLITY, PURITY, and STRENGTH. The toys with the plastic fiber, are impure and if used for data transmission would have errors in the stream at any length. Some plastic fibers cannot take flexing very well without cracking, and once agian, corrupting the data. How can these plastics handle being strung up on poles and maintain its integrity for years and years? If this breakthrough works "down under", then Corning and the other major fiber makers might shift some of its facilities to start making plasfiber optics. Then God and the almighty buck willing, the telcos and cable companies will start making curb drops with this plasfiber at the last mile and get rid of their detriorating copper conductors.
*sighs*
Now how to deal with a telco that has made a partial rollout with DSL in this commumity then flat out refused to cover the entire community with the DSL service. It can be either legal, or illegal, it just needs to be done.
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Moot point on NORAD's Chyenne Mountain facilty.. they shut that down well before 9-11..
The other military facilities maybe closed or have racked up their security where you wont get to see much..
She's stuck using the margins that are available to them on the manual typewriter... You see, shes sitting there rattling away and then, DING! end of margin. No word wrap, no automatic carriage return. She has to hit the manual return level to move the unit back to its original position, thus issuing a CR to the program.
The other issue is ZERO arrow keys so if she has to move the cursor to edit or change posistion or shift to another page, she has to fuss around with the mouse, hence more chances for her carpal tunnel to get worse.
He should have butchered the machine up, disabled the automatic advance, got the backspace to work, and then found a way to wire in a 10-key keypad that would have given almost all the functions of a standard 101 KB.
Oh, I can see her now, trying to enter a URL on a browser with it... heheh it'll drive her bonkers...
This is old hat.
Old hates are just resurfacing... The divide has always been there in the business world folks. And the way that it is going it'll just deepen and worsen unless management gets their act squared away and tries to heal matters, no matter what it takes.
THAT might take a couple hundered years since management is a problem in itself.
It's enough to make half of them estatic and the other half running scared from the exposure..
Oh well.. they can have their fun as long as they dont start glowing.. then it'll get really ugly..
Some of these nuts are actually pretty close to sustaining a reaction using this method.. One post had a guy running a sustained reaction for 10-15 seconds, pouring out alot of neutrons (3.29E+06 neutrons/sec). Unfortunately the energy budget is still too high (50 Kv @ 20mA (1KW)).
And all he had to say is that he had a good weekend.. *shakes his head in amazement*
If they keep this up, they might ecplise CERN's work as well as overhaul the X-Ray fusion reactor thats under development.
I was thinking of http://www.x10.com , but your explanation will do nicley.. Thanks!
I would like to recommend to everyone that uses SmartHome gear to make it clear that you are using the product, instead of the generic name in which will cause plenty of folks needless grief.
Not really... X10 IS X10 home automation, wireless cameras, PLUS very nosy ads..
Now if you can disprove this by URLs, go right ahead..
I'd be more than glad to purchase their product, IF they did not have their marketing campaign that pops up on almost every site I go to.
You call it the radio shack, i'm going to kill you... :p
I dont care if you are 802.11a/b/c/, you DONT call it the radio shack...
It brings back bad memories... :
The amount of money that SBC/BooHoo(yahoo) put up for their advertising campaign would have enabled another 15-20K users to get barebones DSL access by installing and upgrading their telco equipment.
I run a small business, so I know that marketing is a needed facet of maintaining a operation. BUT when it comes to spying on your own customers to get demographic information to resell just to make a quick buck, I think that its time to talk with your local congresscritter and senator to see if there is a law that needs to be created to bitchslap the jerks in marketing down.
Case in point: The Rockport Tx market for then Southwestern Bell (now Cingular) had the town in their back pocket for their analog service. 3 years ago Verizon came in and put a tower up in nearby Aransas Pass and issued a mandate ordering SWBell to reduce their output in the Analog service. Since then service went to hell and then some. NOW comes along the name change to Cingular Wireless, only it just gets worse. Their buyout of several cellular systems inspire management to attempt to MERGE the databases without proper testing. That knocked out over 65% of the digital service for the Rockport market. Their claim is that the phones were defective.. Bullshit! There were people coming in from other Cingular regions and their phones were not able to ringout, but able to receive calls! So you tell me what happened here... Heh! The store I worked for became a former Cingular dealer and settled for selling Sprint PCS, in which did very well.
Well gee, scratch another NT webserver....
Y C: www.evolution.com/product/consumer/er1/+&hl=en&ie= UTF-8
Google's cache down below
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:I80XtrgotR
We got these http://www.sunpipe.com/ currently available which do just that: pipe the sun in where you want it.
Concur with catbeller on this matter. Even with two inches of flooring and walls the odd shape becomes more like a regular home, or like a geodesic dwelling.
The flooring and walls would do twofold work and save on logistics when it comes to infrastructure. They would serve as runs for your power, telco, light plumbing (1 inch PVC would be as much as you could run in two inch high flooring unless you get creative) networking, as well as your satellite cable.
Oh, and draperies or some kind of curtains hanging on the walls would do the trick on breaking up the oval look to the place too!
Oh, i can see it now.. (hee hee)
"Honey, wheres the hammer drill and bits?"
"They are with your sewing kit dear."
Thats what it's going to take to set anchors for those curtains and any kind of wall hangings.
As for the cracking issues, those homes were built with older mixtures of concrete. The evolution of concrete has come a long way baby. You can see planes, floating boats and even a working spring made out of concrete!
The bonus of having segmented sections is that its flexibility in design, as well as the ability to handle any kind of flexing the earth might dish out during it's lifespan.
*smacks ya silly* We've moved Large precast overpass beams this way, as well as large mobile homes weighing just as much as one of those pipes.. The logisitcs are feasable, but the crane rental is going to kill your wallet!
Now how do you think they manage to move those pipes out of their yard? You got it... Flatbed trucks, flagged as WIDE LOADS.
I worked for a franchise for a couple of years and got out of there when things got right here a few months ago. (don't ask)
Their policy on name collection at franchises are as this: They DO have a collection quota on names, at least about 50-65% of the number of tickets for each monthly period.
The franchise REQUIRED that names and addresses be put on ALL sales when a check was taken, dish sale, internet service, or cell phone sales. Small stuff or cash sales, strictly optional or we simply forego taking the name and cycle the customer out of the way and go on to the next potential dish or cell phone customer.
Now to go on the corporate side (please forgive me).
RADIO SHACK does NOT sell ANY, repeat, ANY of the addresses that they collect at their stores, may they be either franchise or corporate stores.
IANAL, but that is what i've been told by store management, regional mangement, a former RS corporate secretary, and others "on the take".
5016 Patrick Rd
West Bloomfield, MI 48322-1543
Now i need three items....
1. a pair of two-man bolt cutters
2. a volunteer to help use the cutters
3. a driver
We putter on over to his barn in the dead of the night, *snip* *snip* his T1 cable in two places and let him scream bloody murder at his provider trying to get his T1 repaired in due order...
I get this right, his CO is ameritech operated, so it'll take 3 days or more to get the repairs done.
If it's fiber that he's got, those two cuts will force the telco to replace the entire segment to the pole, costing both the telco and ralsky money that he dont have.
"Fine, ill dig up the dirt and you hurl it at the incoming rock."
Ok two problems with mass drivers.. For starts, the energy budget they consume launching items up into orbit from a gravity well that is the Earth.
They are more feasable if they are used to launch materials from the moon.
Second, how far into the future are we from building these oversized railguns on a reasonable budget? By the time we get one built and operational it might be too late for us..
Quick and dirty scheme, AKA, Care for a new Moon? Send up a ship loaded with many small nukes (50Kt or smaller) and set them up on one side of the asteroid. Once it is in the correct posistion, set off the nukes in a prearrainged sequence to change the rock's orbit and velocity until it slips into a reasonable orbit. And Voila! Your own instant orbital colony, research facility, and mining operation, all wrapped into one!
(Just have to move all those satellites that are in the way though....)
Not unless the channel was blotting out the police band with sounds from the Sci-Fi channel. This does not come under Part 15, i can assure you of that.. The equipment comes under the emergency frequency band subclause. Any kind of interference or jamming would result in a IMMEDIATE investigation into the cause and the subsequent arrest and fining of the offender.
Under FCC regulations, any interference with official bands (IE, police, fire, ambulance) by a TV station is considered illegal by law and MUST immediately stop of be fined per day per channel that experiences the interference.
This occurred with one cable TV station over in one town that i stayed in. They had brought up another channel into their lineup using AINCENT cable equipment that generated a harmonic with the City police's repeater and caused massive interference with their communications. The city immediately moved and filed a complaint with the FCC on this and the Gov't submitted a court order stating that the cable company shut down ALL services until this issue was cleared up. The channel was immediately shut down and the station was shifted to another channel that was more clearer and did not cause any further problems.
Union Pacific did run about 30 of the GTEL (Gas Turbine Electric Locomotive) 8500 series on their lines in 1949 and they would haul mile-long trains at a swift 70 MPH. Their drivetrains could deliver about 8500SHP at the cars and were later upgraded to 10,000SHP! U.P. calculated that a single unit (thats a rail term for each car in a train, for you new to railroading) could haul 734 fully loaded rail cars at a steady 12 MPH!
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BUT for the long hauls, a tender full of Jet-A was needed to quench thirst of the gas guzzlers and were subsequently retired in 1970.
These monsters of the rail line were the prime moneymakers of UP's lineup and did their duty without complant and with plenty of punch.
http://utahrails.net/all-time/all-time-loco-chr
http://www.riverraisinmodels.com/up8500.h
Research into Turbine/electric locomotives went back to post WWII days when they experimented with a coal fueled turbo/electric. http://www.railpower.com/2support/locomotives.htm
Oh, it packed plenty of power but it's efficiency rating was very poor and it guzzled fuel like a SUV..
The current design fares better but it still does not achieve no higher than 50% efficiency on the bench.
GE just came out with a turbine designed to drive generators for home electric useage that IS the size of a locomotive and achives a whopping 60% efficiency rating.
http://www.fe.doe.gov/techline/tl_ats_ge1.shtml
The major issue with anything thats powered by a gas turbine is gas mileage, hence why diesels have yet to be replaced by a more efficient power plant. Diesels burn all of it's charge with high energy return. This promotes high torque and high horsepower ratings.
Gas turbines have powerful, but thin legs. If they were put on a very high high torque test they would stall and flameout, possibly inducing a burner chamber blowout.
One of the big reasons why their interface sucks is that marketing got their claws in it and tore it up badly. Plus marketing screwed up so frelling badly when they made that big ad campaign back in the mid-90s without consulting R&D to see if they would have any problems with a large influx of subscriptions.
This is some of the reasons why I dislike marketing so much is they think they run the business.. Nope they dont.. They bring in the customers, BUT they need a working product or system first..
DONT oversell, or try to sell something that aint tangable or is not working, dammot! THIS is what pisses customers off so much and makes them cynical toward businesses like AOHell.
Plus dont piss off your most vital asset, volunteers. They were the heart of AOHell back in the early days of the operation. I guess the suits looked at the papers and reports instead of actually going into the chat rooms and seeing for themselves (which would not surprise me).
Plus their employeee relations with their customer support team. ( www.observers.net enuf said) There are horror stories rolling out of that department that SICKEN me for gods sake! I've made it a policy to ask employees of a company if they like working for that company in general before I purchase anything from that business to see if I want to sink my money into a business that takes pride in its people, or takes pride in "revolving doors" and high turnovers due to poor morale or other issues.
You take care of your people, keep marketing on a short leash, and make dammed sure that your customers are happy, no matter what it takes, you'll do fine.
HP LJ 1100 = $25.00 secondhand.. Pagecount on it was 635 pages and is cherry.
:)
Paid 20 bucks for a MC-30 cable for the printer.
prr, prr, prr.....
It's still on its first cartridge too, approaching a thousand copies right now and has yet to hit its stride.
Lexmark JP 5770 = 25 bucks... It was used to print out a thousand brochures and put aside..
Two fresh carts in it and two spares for it too.
Prrr, prrr, prrr......
Gotta luv how things come together, ya know?
Im seeing alot of posts saying "so what? my toy has plastic fibers in it too"....
Unh huh..
The requirement for fiber optics are FLEXIBILLITY, PURITY, and STRENGTH. The toys with the plastic fiber, are impure and if used for data transmission would have errors in the stream at any length. Some plastic fibers cannot take flexing very well without cracking, and once agian, corrupting the data. How can these plastics handle being strung up on poles and maintain its integrity for years and years?
If this breakthrough works "down under", then Corning and the other major fiber makers might shift some of its facilities to start making plasfiber optics.
Then God and the almighty buck willing, the telcos and cable companies will start making curb drops with this plasfiber at the last mile and get rid of their detriorating copper conductors.
*sighs*
Now how to deal with a telco that has made a partial rollout with DSL in this commumity then flat out refused to cover the entire community with the DSL service. It can be either legal, or illegal, it just needs to be done.