Except the fact that Comcast has methodically been working on both vertical and horizontal monopolies. Did you miss their acquisition of NBC Universal? Funny thing about that acquisition, as a Comcast subscriber, I lost channels I used to have. One offhand was Universal Sports. Between then Versus, now NBC Sports Networks and Universal Sports, I used to be able get TV coverage of nearly all major cycling events. Comcast dropped Universal Sports, and now the only cycling I can get are maybe 1 or 2 spring races, and the grand tours.
No, you cannot have two signals on the same frequency on the same cable.
Yes, you can, as evidenced by cellphones. TDMA & CDMA are just 2 examples of methodologies that allow cooperative use of the same signal space. Also, in regards to the available signal space, cable companies & other hard-wired companies aren't quite as constrained as broadcast companies. With over-the-air broadcasts, you have to purchase & license a frequency range. Everything you do has to occur with in that band. As does all of your clients. Yes, you might be able to purchase different bands, maybe more in some areas, fewer in others. But, supporting more bands requires more complicated hardware, and depending on usage can severely affect power usage. Wired connections, you can pass a lot more through, as you theoretically, do not have any restriction on frequencies you can use. Yes, you can't cause undo E&M interference (and the FCC still regulates that - just look on your favorite device or the charger for it and you should see an FCC class identifier).
If I shoved down your throat any of your number of necessary required daily doses individually of: sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, hydrogen or oxygen, you would die. Yes, it's nice to read that little sheet on the back of something you ate/drank that says it gave you X% of what you need. But, if I shoved 100% of day's dose of any number of those things down your throat at once, it would kill you nearly within in a second. Might take 15. Yet still, the body needs all of those (and more) to survive, but it needs to get those in the right doses and means.
I think this is more paranoia. My political views are quite different from how I see mods applied, and I've never seen mine "taken away" or removed. My unused points just expire (Did you notice they only last for a few days?).
Well said. I can't believe the article failed to mention the inherent dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Arguably one of the single greatest killer of our children, but these evil chemical companies don't want us to know about it.
What are some of the dangers associated with DHMO?
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are
:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
The number of flagrantly ignorant companies shipping this dangerous chemical is endless. Just a few: Coca Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, Wendy's...anyone that sells anything liquid for consumption.
While your IQ may have fallen, you may not have become any less intelligent. IQ is a relative measurement. That your IQ has fallen doesn't necessarily mean you've lost any mental faculties, it means you have lost a relative edge towards those around you.
A short (but interesting) read over at National Geographic about history of road salt. From the article, it takes about 10-14 days for a reorder of salt.
While I'll agree Bush instigated a number of these policies/programs, it has been entirely within Obama's power to cease them, which he has not done. If anything, he has expanded upon them.
You're right, Congress wasn't "screwing around" as you put it. Bush never had a super-majority in either house see: party divisions. As much as I don't agree with a lot of what happened during Bush's administration, most of it occurred through the proper means, i.e. congressional legislation followed by a signature. Obama has now committed to use of executive order, and some of what he's proposing to order could be viewed as violation of established federal law, and be grounds for impeachment.
For instance, the recent executive order to increase the minimum wage for companies doing business with the federal government. This is sort of open ended. For instance, if an FBI agent buys lunch from McDonalds, is that doing business with the federal government? Does it matter if it was paid our of pocket versus expensed? Does he have the authority to do so? The federal minimum wage is a federal law, and he is countermanding federal law in doing so. I'm not a lawyer, but on the surface, this latest executive order could provide grounds for impeachment. The case law would be the impeachment of Andrew Jackson. He was impeached for countermanding federal law.
I definitely value that shop. I'd been there before, and they'd done good work. And they made that f'up right. That's what good shops do. I don't expect everyone to be infallible, but when you do make a mistake, own it and make it right. I actually think that correcting a f'up like that, and doing it in a friendly and helpful manner, can often make a more loyal customer than just getting it right the first time. (I'm thinking, someone that has always had results correct immediately will be more likely to switch "suppliers' of goods/services when they see a lower price).
No, it was neither a superman movie, nor office space. They'd have just been lost in the ether; likely some clients would have been overcharged, some under. It was a simple case of doing, in python, "int(currency * 100) / 100" versus "round(currency, 2)".
web 2.0 and how the things on our site were rendered too small. One of the sonofabitches actually said, " When people see small things on your screen, they think small. Think BIG! 16-point text and 500-pixel padding minimum! "
Sounds those asshats went on to work on the nbcnews.com website. Have you seen that in the past week? Horrible.
At my last job, we brought in consultants to implement a "workflow" solution for tracking trading agreements. The system was to leverage our internal systems for reference data that would be tracked in a third party document storage platform. The primary user of the system was our internal legal team. The consultants refused to design or implement the system with real-time connectivity because of an uptime requirement. They claimed a "5 9s requirement". They insisted on dumping, en mass, data from our primary store into their system. I knew straight off it was a joke, because they were pulling the data from a core trading system that was required to be available for all but 2 hours over the weekend (even then, we only had 15 minute outages maybe once every 6 months for deployments). And, having recently retired a process that synched data between two systems (migration from a legacy to new system), in real time, I had all sorts of horror stories and cautionary tales to share. It all fell on deaf ears. I took concerns to my management and said I would not implement their solution and outlined why. Their response was to pull me from the project and put in a yes-man that would do whatever he was told.
It should be said that there are personal & legal responsibilities that PEs & licensed engineering interns hold above and beyond a normal employee. It doesn't just extend to quality of design, but also ethics.
Residing in Illinois, I've yet to hear about anything resembling a PE for software/computer science. I did, however, take and pass the EIT (the Engineers Internship Test - or something resembling that) for electrical engineering. I've not tested for the PE, because I've not met the requirements: minimum "apprenticeship" working underneath a licensed PE for 2 years in your field (I've been working the last decade as a software engineer).
Just because software doesn't crash or generate an error doesn't mean it's bug free. I wrote a bug that was exceptionally easy to miss and overlook. It did not cause a crash and it was exceptionally subtle. The bug? Truncating to a cent instead of correct rounding. This was in testing a tool to migrate portfolios to a new trading platform. I didn't notice because we were testing with portfolios worth billions or trillions in the appropriate currency. It was really easy to overlook being off by 1 two places after the decimal point. It wasn't a design bug, it didn't cause any crashes, it was because I made a bad assumption.
I disagree. An old truck of mine died one day on the highway, leaving a toll booth. Completely dead, wouldn't even try and turn over. I had it towed, paid around $500 in diagnostics, parts and labor. A wiring harness came free, was hitting the exhaust manifold, melted the insulation, shorted, blew the fuse to the ECM. When they fixed it, I requested to show me where the problem was. They did. A few weeks later, the problem reoccurred. This time I was able to yank the wires off the manifold, replace the fuse and limp back to the garage. Said something along the lines of "you fixed the symptom, not the cause, make it right", and they did. They re-replaced the damaged wires and properly secured the harness gratis the second time around. I'd wager you'll more likely see this sort of behavior from a small shop, as they typically live and die on reputation and word of mouth. But, I think even chains/large companies have wised up and will strive to do the right thing (might not always happen) because of the ease today versus 20, even 10 years ago of spreading word about your experience.
How odd that the more socialist this government becomes, the more things like this occur. There's always a ruling class and a subjugated class, no matter the form of government. Some are just more transparent about it than others.
The executive branch is accountable to the legislative. The whole checks and balances thing. If Mr. President does decide to continue this surveillance on executive order, it could very well get him impeached (repubs are looking for a reason, and this is would be a damn good reason).
Odd, I didn't have any problems with Rage on the 360, nor much later on the PC.
One thing that annoyed me about FNV (and Skyrim to a smaller extent) was that my follower would disappear for around 30 minutes (if I stayed overland) after I took a route they refused to follow. If I'd fast travel or enter a dungeon, boom, they'd reappear. It was hard to tell if they were lost of you didn't realize you accidentally killed them. Lots of frustration.
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Except the fact that Comcast has methodically been working on both vertical and horizontal monopolies. Did you miss their acquisition of NBC Universal? Funny thing about that acquisition, as a Comcast subscriber, I lost channels I used to have. One offhand was Universal Sports. Between then Versus, now NBC Sports Networks and Universal Sports, I used to be able get TV coverage of nearly all major cycling events. Comcast dropped Universal Sports, and now the only cycling I can get are maybe 1 or 2 spring races, and the grand tours.
No, you cannot have two signals on the same frequency on the same cable.
Yes, you can, as evidenced by cellphones. TDMA & CDMA are just 2 examples of methodologies that allow cooperative use of the same signal space. Also, in regards to the available signal space, cable companies & other hard-wired companies aren't quite as constrained as broadcast companies. With over-the-air broadcasts, you have to purchase & license a frequency range. Everything you do has to occur with in that band. As does all of your clients. Yes, you might be able to purchase different bands, maybe more in some areas, fewer in others. But, supporting more bands requires more complicated hardware, and depending on usage can severely affect power usage. Wired connections, you can pass a lot more through, as you theoretically, do not have any restriction on frequencies you can use. Yes, you can't cause undo E&M interference (and the FCC still regulates that - just look on your favorite device or the charger for it and you should see an FCC class identifier).
If I shoved down your throat any of your number of necessary required daily doses individually of: sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, hydrogen or oxygen, you would die. Yes, it's nice to read that little sheet on the back of something you ate/drank that says it gave you X% of what you need. But, if I shoved 100% of day's dose of any number of those things down your throat at once, it would kill you nearly within in a second. Might take 15. Yet still, the body needs all of those (and more) to survive, but it needs to get those in the right doses and means.
I think this is more paranoia. My political views are quite different from how I see mods applied, and I've never seen mine "taken away" or removed. My unused points just expire (Did you notice they only last for a few days?).
Well said. I can't believe the article failed to mention the inherent dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. Arguably one of the single greatest killer of our children, but these evil chemical companies don't want us to know about it.
What are some of the dangers associated with DHMO?
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are
:
The number of flagrantly ignorant companies shipping this dangerous chemical is endless. Just a few: Coca Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, Wendy's...anyone that sells anything liquid for consumption.
While your IQ may have fallen, you may not have become any less intelligent. IQ is a relative measurement. That your IQ has fallen doesn't necessarily mean you've lost any mental faculties, it means you have lost a relative edge towards those around you.
Yeah, but causation can lead to correlation.
A short (but interesting) read over at National Geographic about history of road salt. From the article, it takes about 10-14 days for a reorder of salt.
That those acts were passed doesn't make them constitutional. Not that the constitution seems to pass for anything other than a napkin these days.
While I'll agree Bush instigated a number of these policies/programs, it has been entirely within Obama's power to cease them, which he has not done. If anything, he has expanded upon them.
You're right, Congress wasn't "screwing around" as you put it. Bush never had a super-majority in either house see: party divisions. As much as I don't agree with a lot of what happened during Bush's administration, most of it occurred through the proper means, i.e. congressional legislation followed by a signature. Obama has now committed to use of executive order, and some of what he's proposing to order could be viewed as violation of established federal law, and be grounds for impeachment.
For instance, the recent executive order to increase the minimum wage for companies doing business with the federal government. This is sort of open ended. For instance, if an FBI agent buys lunch from McDonalds, is that doing business with the federal government? Does it matter if it was paid our of pocket versus expensed? Does he have the authority to do so? The federal minimum wage is a federal law, and he is countermanding federal law in doing so. I'm not a lawyer, but on the surface, this latest executive order could provide grounds for impeachment. The case law would be the impeachment of Andrew Jackson. He was impeached for countermanding federal law.
I definitely value that shop. I'd been there before, and they'd done good work. And they made that f'up right. That's what good shops do. I don't expect everyone to be infallible, but when you do make a mistake, own it and make it right. I actually think that correcting a f'up like that, and doing it in a friendly and helpful manner, can often make a more loyal customer than just getting it right the first time. (I'm thinking, someone that has always had results correct immediately will be more likely to switch "suppliers' of goods/services when they see a lower price).
No, it was neither a superman movie, nor office space. They'd have just been lost in the ether; likely some clients would have been overcharged, some under. It was a simple case of doing, in python, "int(currency * 100) / 100" versus "round(currency, 2)".
Correct, it's been so long that memory was fuzzy on the terms.
web 2.0 and how the things on our site were rendered too small. One of the sonofabitches actually said, " When people see small things on your screen, they think small. Think BIG! 16-point text and 500-pixel padding minimum! "
Sounds those asshats went on to work on the nbcnews.com website. Have you seen that in the past week? Horrible.
At my last job, we brought in consultants to implement a "workflow" solution for tracking trading agreements. The system was to leverage our internal systems for reference data that would be tracked in a third party document storage platform. The primary user of the system was our internal legal team. The consultants refused to design or implement the system with real-time connectivity because of an uptime requirement. They claimed a "5 9s requirement". They insisted on dumping, en mass, data from our primary store into their system. I knew straight off it was a joke, because they were pulling the data from a core trading system that was required to be available for all but 2 hours over the weekend (even then, we only had 15 minute outages maybe once every 6 months for deployments). And, having recently retired a process that synched data between two systems (migration from a legacy to new system), in real time, I had all sorts of horror stories and cautionary tales to share. It all fell on deaf ears. I took concerns to my management and said I would not implement their solution and outlined why. Their response was to pull me from the project and put in a yes-man that would do whatever he was told.
You're an AC, spill the beans, just don't say anything that could tie it back to you as an individual.
It should be said that there are personal & legal responsibilities that PEs & licensed engineering interns hold above and beyond a normal employee. It doesn't just extend to quality of design, but also ethics.
Residing in Illinois, I've yet to hear about anything resembling a PE for software/computer science. I did, however, take and pass the EIT (the Engineers Internship Test - or something resembling that) for electrical engineering. I've not tested for the PE, because I've not met the requirements: minimum "apprenticeship" working underneath a licensed PE for 2 years in your field (I've been working the last decade as a software engineer).
Just because software doesn't crash or generate an error doesn't mean it's bug free. I wrote a bug that was exceptionally easy to miss and overlook. It did not cause a crash and it was exceptionally subtle. The bug? Truncating to a cent instead of correct rounding. This was in testing a tool to migrate portfolios to a new trading platform. I didn't notice because we were testing with portfolios worth billions or trillions in the appropriate currency. It was really easy to overlook being off by 1 two places after the decimal point. It wasn't a design bug, it didn't cause any crashes, it was because I made a bad assumption.
I disagree. An old truck of mine died one day on the highway, leaving a toll booth. Completely dead, wouldn't even try and turn over. I had it towed, paid around $500 in diagnostics, parts and labor. A wiring harness came free, was hitting the exhaust manifold, melted the insulation, shorted, blew the fuse to the ECM. When they fixed it, I requested to show me where the problem was. They did. A few weeks later, the problem reoccurred. This time I was able to yank the wires off the manifold, replace the fuse and limp back to the garage. Said something along the lines of "you fixed the symptom, not the cause, make it right", and they did. They re-replaced the damaged wires and properly secured the harness gratis the second time around. I'd wager you'll more likely see this sort of behavior from a small shop, as they typically live and die on reputation and word of mouth. But, I think even chains/large companies have wised up and will strive to do the right thing (might not always happen) because of the ease today versus 20, even 10 years ago of spreading word about your experience.
Easy: with his executive hard on^H^H^H^H^H^H^Horder that he is ever so fond of.
How odd that the more socialist this government becomes, the more things like this occur. There's always a ruling class and a subjugated class, no matter the form of government. Some are just more transparent about it than others.
which court is going to say no to that?
Hopefully the Supreme. It is their job, after all, as dictated by the Constitution (for whatever that's worth, these days).
The executive branch is accountable to the legislative. The whole checks and balances thing. If Mr. President does decide to continue this surveillance on executive order, it could very well get him impeached (repubs are looking for a reason, and this is would be a damn good reason).
Odd, I didn't have any problems with Rage on the 360, nor much later on the PC.
One thing that annoyed me about FNV (and Skyrim to a smaller extent) was that my follower would disappear for around 30 minutes (if I stayed overland) after I took a route they refused to follow. If I'd fast travel or enter a dungeon, boom, they'd reappear. It was hard to tell if they were lost of you didn't realize you accidentally killed them. Lots of frustration.