You can't always get them over the air. In my market, I'm about 30 miles away from our local tower farm and I'm not easily able to put up a really good antenna.
When I read the title, I thought that the article was going to be about the large number of people being hired away from large corporation to work at Uber...
I'm sure that some will see this as inappropriate, but I wonder if research will eventually discover that men and women have slightly different mechanisms for location mapping in their brains...
Since the days of computers first came into common use there must have been tens of thousands of database programs written. There are probably thousands of database projects underway as you read these words. And somewhere today, at least one of them is failing.... Databases are wheels that have been re-invented so often that many veteran developers could stumble through such projects with their eyes closed. Yet these efforts sometimes still manage to fail.
Or, install an indoor repeater with a dummy load on the outdoor antenna port. The signal from the cell phone will be "captured" by the repeater, but the user won't be able to get a channel to place a call.
and it looks like us. I only had time to skim the PDF, but I noticed that the aliens look like small children on their "merry-go-round" ships or fat old men drink beers in front of Cessnas. They could easily blend into our culture and drink beer.
You mentioned what she's good at. Try to find out what she likes and see if there's a match there. Sure, she's got the potential, but if she's not happy doing it - even if she follows it through, she's doing it for the wrong reasons. She'll probably not be happy doing it.
I concur. I have Sprint EVD0 RevA and it works well. I got the all you can eat plan because their breakdown is something like 40Mb per *month* or unlimited. I go over 40Mb everytime I get on line.
Anyhow, one interesting thing that I've seen is a wired/wireless LAN router that has a card slot for EVD0 PCMCIA broadband cards. It apparently works pretty well, but it's pricey ($~260).
Indeed I am part of the 'old guard.' I was going to make a quip about these kids never having heard of an Amdahl let alone spending an entire weekend trying to get a 100-line Fortran program running (or stopped) on one, but that's just being silly.
On the other hand, I really wonder what'll happen when a lot of these kids end up in a corporate environment where they are *forced* to use MS Exchange for work. Then, a year later, they're given a laptop and they're migrated to Lotus Notes (come on, it *could* happen). Somewhere, in there, they decide that this is too much trouble so they start forwarding everything to their Yahoo mail account and they somehow "lose" or "misplace" a lot of data that belongs to their employers and/or employers' clients.
Not that this sort of thing doesn't happen now, but a collegiate environment that prevents a diverse experience will only encourage this.
"as schools grapple with entering freshmens' already entrenched online habits." Since when has this been a problem, let alone a priority for schools? Did schools somehow become democracies that care what the students previous habits were in things like email? How does it teach them anything, if they don't expose them to different environments and conditions that don't conform to what they do in their bedrooms at home? What will happen to them in the corporate world, or military world, or just about any workplace that has a modicum of technology "to deal with?"
I presume that the administration didn't come down on these students in a vacuum. They probably have published guidelines for acceptable use. These are most likely a non-optional condition for use of the school's computer network/systems/bandwidth/etc.
I'm all for the maxim that "you've gotta know the rules to know how to break them properly," but when you take it upon yourself to break the rules, you've got to be prepared for the consequences. Period.
There's also a point to something like: if slashdotters didn't debate every little issue uttered, people like Bruce Schneier and J.C. Dvorak wouldn't have jobs... Maybe I'm just having an anti-pundit sort of day >:-(
Okay, so I just called in a karmic air-strike on my own foxhole... Back to your regularly scheduled bickering...
This is probably indicative of other "problems" at this company, too. If they're willing to violate licensing on software, what else are they willing to do? Plagiarize on published works? Cheat on their taxes? Skim a little off the top of the profit-sharing pie?
There is no middle ground to stand on here; you know it's wrong, you've told them that it's wrong (and hopefully documented it). You can refuse to do what's wrong or you can agree to do what's wrong.
If they're going to force you to do what's wrong, or fire you for doing the Right Thing(tm), do you *really* want to work there?
I've had Sprint for MANY years and found their voice quality to be quite good wherever I've traveled. I almost gave them up when my contract recently ended and my new boss gave me a Blackberry to use on Cingular.
Then, I turned on the Blackberry and actually tried to use it for a phone call. What was I thinking??? It sounds like cr*p, it drops calls and does so in a slow, painful noisy way. And, what's up with that d*mned noise I hear whenever it's near anything with a speaker???
I have to admit, 3 out of 3 times when I've tried to do anything significant on Sprint's web site (like order a phone, or change plans), I had to spend a couple of hours on the phone to correct what they ultimately did to my orders. And, the last time I renewed my contract was like buying a car - it took 2 hours and numerous transfers and one call back. However, I now have a phone that sounds good, works well and, well, I only have to deal with Sprint once every 2 years.
I almost went with Verizon, but Sprint gave me some goodies to stay that changed the economics of the deal significantly. I briefly looked at T-Mobile, but it has a reputation (around Houston) for having the coolest phones and the worst coverage of all the carriers.
This is a design deficiency, not a programming error. I would say that that probably means that it's not a "bug" per se, but a lack in the original specification. Since it was identified, I'd venture a guess that it was probably a *known* deficiency and NASA felt that not flying over the new year change was a simple and reasonable limitation for something that was first flown 26 or so years ago.
Uh, my bad. Maybe I shouldn't have named RedHat directly - I meant any meaningful, well-heeled distribution.
And the reason to buy a *RedHat-like company* is to buy its name, its customers, its business infrastructure and intellectual property, not the distribution itself..
Given what I perceive to be their past history and what the industry does regularly, I would expect them to *buy* RedHat, not compete against them. Or, someone else that's ripe for taking (over).
Actually, I thought the bigges problem was *the content*.
I have Sprint's "ultimate" package. It has two music channels (audio only), one NBC news channel that shows news clips updated periodically, Fox news live,and.... A BAZILLION "PREVIEWS".
Previews of movies, of tv shows, etc. The Talladega Nights preview has been on there forever. The entire Sony "channel" is movie previews. Plus, the previews aren't for content that you can actually watch on the phone.
There might be other content in there somewhere (some 2 minute interviews with Big Brother cast members or something equally intellectual), but I really don't care to spend the time trying to find it. When I did try to watch something - say a news feed, the signal breakup causes pixelation quite often - as much as a Real networks broadcast...
Add to that the privelege of buying music downloads for $2 each that pretty much are stuck on your phone and well...
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You can't always get them over the air. In my market, I'm about 30 miles away from our local tower farm and I'm not easily able to put up a really good antenna.
When I read the title, I thought that the article was going to be about the large number of people being hired away from large corporation to work at Uber...
I downloaded Java yesterday and saw that it had the Yahoo option already in there and pre-checked for my convenience....
I'm sure that some will see this as inappropriate, but I wonder if research will eventually discover that men and women have slightly different mechanisms for location mapping in their brains...
Yes, and they're only out about 60 multimeters...
(I kid, I kid.... they're not QUITE that expensive)
Since the days of computers first came into common use there must have been tens of thousands of database programs written. There are probably thousands of database projects underway as you read these words. And somewhere today, at least one of them is failing. ... Databases are wheels that have been re-invented so often that many veteran developers could stumble through such projects with their eyes closed. Yet these efforts sometimes still manage to fail.
Or, install an indoor repeater with a dummy load on the outdoor antenna port. The signal from the cell phone will be "captured" by the repeater, but the user won't be able to get a channel to place a call.
1) Load all 30 computers
2) Lock all 30 computers in a closet.
and it looks like us.
I only had time to skim the PDF, but I noticed that the aliens look like small children on their "merry-go-round" ships or fat old men drink beers in front of Cessnas.
They could easily blend into our culture and drink beer.
Does Mass have a seatbelt law? Is the Lt. Gov exempt from such laws? Data shows that during both bag deployments, the driver's seatbelt was unbuckled.
How about a big QR code on each door and a camera hooked up to a laptop at the way-points?
Where's that leak again?
You mentioned what she's good at. Try to find out what she likes and see if there's a match there. Sure, she's got the potential, but if she's not happy doing it - even if she follows it through, she's doing it for the wrong reasons. She'll probably not be happy doing it.
My first thought is similar to yours - if it's that far out of the norm, it's probably a calculation error.
I concur. I have Sprint EVD0 RevA and it works well. I got the all you can eat plan because their breakdown is something like 40Mb per *month* or unlimited. I go over 40Mb everytime I get on line.
Anyhow, one interesting thing that I've seen is a wired/wireless LAN router that has a card slot for EVD0 PCMCIA broadband cards. It apparently works pretty well, but it's pricey ($~260).
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/
Mark
Indeed I am part of the 'old guard.' I was going to make a quip about these kids never having heard of an Amdahl let alone spending an entire weekend trying to get a 100-line Fortran program running (or stopped) on one, but that's just being silly.
On the other hand, I really wonder what'll happen when a lot of these kids end up in a corporate environment where they are *forced* to use MS Exchange for work. Then, a year later, they're given a laptop and they're migrated to Lotus Notes (come on, it *could* happen). Somewhere, in there, they decide that this is too much trouble so they start forwarding everything to their Yahoo mail account and they somehow "lose" or "misplace" a lot of data that belongs to their employers and/or employers' clients.
Not that this sort of thing doesn't happen now, but a collegiate environment that prevents a diverse experience will only encourage this.
"as schools grapple with entering freshmens' already entrenched online habits." Since when has this been a problem, let alone a priority for schools? Did schools somehow become democracies that care what the students previous habits were in things like email? How does it teach them anything, if they don't expose them to different environments and conditions that don't conform to what they do in their bedrooms at home? What will happen to them in the corporate world, or military world, or just about any workplace that has a modicum of technology "to deal with?"
I presume that the administration didn't come down on these students in a vacuum. They probably have published guidelines for acceptable use. These are most likely a non-optional condition for use of the school's computer network/systems/bandwidth/etc.
I'm all for the maxim that "you've gotta know the rules to know how to break them properly," but when you take it upon yourself to break the rules, you've got to be prepared for the consequences. Period.
There's also a point to something like: if slashdotters didn't debate every little issue uttered, people like Bruce Schneier and J.C. Dvorak wouldn't have jobs... Maybe I'm just having an anti-pundit sort of day >:-(
Okay, so I just called in a karmic air-strike on my own foxhole... Back to your regularly scheduled bickering...
This is probably indicative of other "problems" at this company, too. If they're willing to violate licensing on software, what else are they willing to do? Plagiarize on published works? Cheat on their taxes? Skim a little off the top of the profit-sharing pie?
There is no middle ground to stand on here; you know it's wrong, you've told them that it's wrong (and hopefully documented it). You can refuse to do what's wrong or you can agree to do what's wrong.
If they're going to force you to do what's wrong, or fire you for doing the Right Thing(tm), do you *really* want to work there?
I've had Sprint for MANY years and found their voice quality to be quite good wherever I've traveled. I almost gave them up when my contract recently ended and my new boss gave me a Blackberry to use on Cingular.
Then, I turned on the Blackberry and actually tried to use it for a phone call. What was I thinking??? It sounds like cr*p, it drops calls and does so in a slow, painful noisy way. And, what's up with that d*mned noise I hear whenever it's near anything with a speaker???
I have to admit, 3 out of 3 times when I've tried to do anything significant on Sprint's web site (like order a phone, or change plans), I had to spend a couple of hours on the phone to correct what they ultimately did to my orders. And, the last time I renewed my contract was like buying a car - it took 2 hours and numerous transfers and one call back. However, I now have a phone that sounds good, works well and, well, I only have to deal with Sprint once every 2 years.
I almost went with Verizon, but Sprint gave me some goodies to stay that changed the economics of the deal significantly. I briefly looked at T-Mobile, but it has a reputation (around Houston) for having the coolest phones and the worst coverage of all the carriers.
My 2cents.
Mod parent up.
This is a design deficiency, not a programming error. I would say that that probably means that it's not a "bug" per se, but a lack in the original specification. Since it was identified, I'd venture a guess that it was probably a *known* deficiency and NASA felt that not flying over the new year change was a simple and reasonable limitation for something that was first flown 26 or so years ago.
Uh, my bad. Maybe I shouldn't have named RedHat directly - I meant any meaningful, well-heeled distribution.
And the reason to buy a *RedHat-like company* is to buy its name, its customers, its business infrastructure and intellectual property, not the distribution itself..
Given what I perceive to be their past history and what the industry does regularly, I would expect them to *buy* RedHat, not compete against them. Or, someone else that's ripe for taking (over).
Actually, I thought the bigges problem was *the content*.
.... A BAZILLION "PREVIEWS".
I have Sprint's "ultimate" package. It has two music channels (audio only), one NBC news channel that shows news clips updated periodically, Fox news live,and
Previews of movies, of tv shows, etc. The Talladega Nights preview has been on there forever. The entire Sony "channel" is movie previews. Plus, the previews aren't for content that you can actually watch on the phone.
There might be other content in there somewhere (some 2 minute interviews with Big Brother cast members or something equally intellectual), but I really don't care to spend the time trying to find it. When I did try to watch something - say a news feed, the signal breakup causes pixelation quite often - as much as a Real networks broadcast...
Add to that the privelege of buying music downloads for $2 each that pretty much are stuck on your phone and well...
Live and learn...