...something like the aliens in this sci-fi story whose ship radiates enough x-rays from its engines, while underway at cruising speed, to fry every biological molecule on Earth into constituent atoms. And the aliens are coming here to steal the entire planet of Jupiter for its massive hydrogen content, to use as fuel for their ship while they target the next Jupiter-like gas giant to do the same as they criss-cross the universe like nomadic space pirates.
Broadband will only increase in speed, capacity and availability as also does the corresponding abilities for "them" to surveil, record and data-mine the traffic also makes enough headway to stay ahead of the broadband deployment to the masses.
I used to buy from MWave a lot until I bought one of their supposedly pre-assembled and tested mobo/cpu/memory bundles and was shipped only the mobo and processor with no memory. They refused to make it right and accused me of trying to scam them for the memory. It didn't matter that I had bought over $3000 worth of stuff from them in the prior few weeks. I paid them the extra $10 fee for the "assembly and testing" as hope of some kind of insurance against getting shipped a DOA mobo but it would seem from my experience that is only a scam too since the cpu was still sealed in its original Intel retail box and had never been opened.
...is a list of all the prime numbers whose length in number of digits is also a prime number as well. I wonder if anyone has found any really big ones of those.
I've worked with many tech folks from (insert name of big telecom company here) ranging from the engineers who architected the systems down to the grunts who actually perform the installation of the hardware on-site. From the top to the bottom, they mostly tend to all operate on the DRGAF (Don't Really Give A F*ck) principle.
Oh, and also anytime their equipment or cabling fails or malfunctions, it's always the end-customers or the customers' equipment at fault. The telecom company's equipment always "tests good from their end", even when smoke is pouring out their fibermux cabinet.
What I need is an electric motor that weighs less than 125 lbs, and will put out 100 hp at 2500 RPM. Then I could build a decent light sport electric airplane!
I'm not going to disclose which brand and model of system, but the one my employer installs has zero capability right now of gathering license plate numbers if there's no hit in the "wanted vehicles" database. I've met and worked with the programmers who wrote the software of this system and there's no initiative at all to add GPS coordinate gathering to it at all, in fact they purchased the OCR capability from a third party and would probably have to hire an outside developer to add a GPS feature if they wanted to include such to their system because they are not all that sharp.
I work for an outfit in Texas that installs these systems into patrol cars. It's hard enough to get a current database for these systems to compare the OCR'd license plates against. They currently have no ability to correlate all scanned plates with GPS coordinates and it would take a substantial development effort to put such a monster together anyway. All they do is compare OCR'ed plate numbers against a pre-determined database of already known stolen or wanted tag numbers and the systems as they exist today can barely accomplish that task with enough accuracy to be worthwhile to install at all.
I work for an outfit in Texas that installs these systems into patrol cars. It's hard enough to get a current database for these systems to compare the OCR'd license plates against. They currently have no ability to correlate all scanned plates with GPS coordinates and it would take a substantial development effort to put such a monster together anyway. All they do is compare OCR'ed plate numbers against a pre-determined database of already known stolen or wanted tag numbers and the systems as they exist today can barely accomplish that task with enough accuracy to be worthwhile to install at all.
The one in my neighbor's back yard is made of solid sheet steel, weighs a ton and is about 8 feet in diameter. You could stir-fry enough Chinese food in it to feed the whole neighborhood. Hmmm, might be a good way to get rid of all those pesky feral cats roaming the neighborhood too.
I bought a $39 Buffalo wifi router and left the factory stock firmware (BSD-based) intact. I've *never* had to reset it due to a hang or crash or any problem. It's a juggernaut.... runs forever as long as you feed it power. Been running continuously almost a year now, it's been plugged into a UPS and running flawlessly since I made some config changes last summer. It replaced a Linksys router that was a complete piece of shit that needed rebooted about once a week.
I bought a Buffalo wifi router a couple years ago, when Worst Buy has them on clearance for $39. It runs stock firmware, which identifies itself as BSD based. The thing works flawlessly. I wish I had a couple more of them.
If you had *any* "linear" amplifier (RF transmitter power booster amp) connected to your CB radio, you were illegal. Back in the 70's, the FCC allotted you an absolute max of 5 watts of input power to the final RF amp in your CB transceiver. The transceiver had to be type-accepted by the FCC also, to be legal to be sold and used in the USA.
I wish people would stop calling China "communist," since it is not.
Hmm, let's see.... There is only one political party running China's government, and that would be their Communist Party. Plus they do not allow any of their other eight or so "political parties" to have any power and those 8 are only permitted to have any function whatsoever under the authority of the Communist Party.
Looks like a duck, Walks like a duck. Quacks like a duck.
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The idea of having a 2nd spacecraft at the ready in case of an emergency should've been the norm since the very inception of manned space flight.
...something like the aliens in this sci-fi story whose ship radiates enough x-rays from its engines, while underway at cruising speed, to fry every biological molecule on Earth into constituent atoms. And the aliens are coming here to steal the entire planet of Jupiter for its massive hydrogen content, to use as fuel for their ship while they target the next Jupiter-like gas giant to do the same as they criss-cross the universe like nomadic space pirates.
...*successfully* suing software makers for delivering faulty crapware?
Broadband will only increase in speed, capacity and availability as also does the corresponding abilities for "them" to surveil, record and data-mine the traffic also makes enough headway to stay ahead of the broadband deployment to the masses.
I used to buy from MWave a lot until I bought one of their supposedly pre-assembled and tested mobo/cpu/memory bundles and was shipped only the mobo and processor with no memory. They refused to make it right and accused me of trying to scam them for the memory. It didn't matter that I had bought over $3000 worth of stuff from them in the prior few weeks. I paid them the extra $10 fee for the "assembly and testing" as hope of some kind of insurance against getting shipped a DOA mobo but it would seem from my experience that is only a scam too since the cpu was still sealed in its original Intel retail box and had never been opened.
No more MWave for me. I'm done with them.
See.... nobody, not even Google themselves ever reads the freakin' legal boilerplate crap you have to click on to install software.
buy ati
Yeah, someday they might actually release the Glaze3D video cards now that they own BitBoys Oy. Hopefully just in time to be able to play DNF on them.
...is a list of all the prime numbers whose length in number of digits is also a prime number as well. I wonder if anyone has found any really big ones of those.
I've worked with many tech folks from (insert name of big telecom company here) ranging from the engineers who architected the systems down to the grunts who actually perform the installation of the hardware on-site. From the top to the bottom, they mostly tend to all operate on the DRGAF (Don't Really Give A F*ck) principle.
Oh, and also anytime their equipment or cabling fails or malfunctions, it's always the end-customers or the customers' equipment at fault. The telecom company's equipment always "tests good from their end", even when smoke is pouring out their fibermux cabinet.
I brew my coffee with Water Joe, you wimps.
It's like clothing, the styles recycle themselves if you wait long enough.
Then I'd like to see hot pants and miniskirts make their comeback soon.
What I need is an electric motor that weighs less than 125 lbs, and will put out 100 hp at 2500 RPM. Then I could build a decent light sport electric airplane!
...is to get yourself labeled as a crackpot.
I'm not going to disclose which brand and model of system, but the one my employer installs has zero capability right now of gathering license plate numbers if there's no hit in the "wanted vehicles" database. I've met and worked with the programmers who wrote the software of this system and there's no initiative at all to add GPS coordinate gathering to it at all, in fact they purchased the OCR capability from a third party and would probably have to hire an outside developer to add a GPS feature if they wanted to include such to their system because they are not all that sharp.
I work for an outfit in Texas that installs these systems into patrol cars. It's hard enough to get a current database for these systems to compare the OCR'd license plates against. They currently have no ability to correlate all scanned plates with GPS coordinates and it would take a substantial development effort to put such a monster together anyway. All they do is compare OCR'ed plate numbers against a pre-determined database of already known stolen or wanted tag numbers and the systems as they exist today can barely accomplish that task with enough accuracy to be worthwhile to install at all.
...did Slashdot post this to the Brian May thread? I responded to the thread below it, dealing with license plate reader system on cop cars.
I work for an outfit in Texas that installs these systems into patrol cars. It's hard enough to get a current database for these systems to compare the OCR'd license plates against. They currently have no ability to correlate all scanned plates with GPS coordinates and it would take a substantial development effort to put such a monster together anyway. All they do is compare OCR'ed plate numbers against a pre-determined database of already known stolen or wanted tag numbers and the systems as they exist today can barely accomplish that task with enough accuracy to be worthwhile to install at all.
Written over ten years ago, but oh so foretelling of things to come
The one in my neighbor's back yard is made of solid sheet steel, weighs a ton and is about 8 feet in diameter. You could stir-fry enough Chinese food in it to feed the whole neighborhood. Hmmm, might be a good way to get rid of all those pesky feral cats roaming the neighborhood too.
Is there any way to force a process to run over 2 cores at 100%?
Sure there is. Just install Oracle Database Server on it and hit it with some poorly-written queries over an ODBC connection.
I bought a $39 Buffalo wifi router and left the factory stock firmware (BSD-based) intact. I've *never* had to reset it due to a hang or crash or any problem. It's a juggernaut.... runs forever as long as you feed it power. Been running continuously almost a year now, it's been plugged into a UPS and running flawlessly since I made some config changes last summer. It replaced a Linksys router that was a complete piece of shit that needed rebooted about once a week.
Too bad you can't buy the Buffalos new anymore.
I bought a Buffalo wifi router a couple years ago, when Worst Buy has them on clearance for $39. It runs stock firmware, which identifies itself as BSD based. The thing works flawlessly. I wish I had a couple more of them.
If you had *any* "linear" amplifier (RF transmitter power booster amp) connected to your CB radio, you were illegal. Back in the 70's, the FCC allotted you an absolute max of 5 watts of input power to the final RF amp in your CB transceiver. The transceiver had to be type-accepted by the FCC also, to be legal to be sold and used in the USA.
the staredown between the DOJ geeks and the MS geeks as they both fight for superiority. Think there'll be fistfights in the breakroom?
Nope, because the DOJ geeks will have badges, guns, pepper spray and tasers.
I wish people would stop calling China "communist," since it is not.
Hmm, let's see.... There is only one political party running China's government, and that would be their Communist Party. Plus they do not allow any of their other eight or so "political parties" to have any power and those 8 are only permitted to have any function whatsoever under the authority of the Communist Party.
Looks like a duck,
Walks like a duck.
Quacks like a duck.