Using the hard drive to hold patches just brings us back to Windows DLL Hell. This is considered acceptable on a desktop, but on a game console, it can be the death of the machine. People tolerate crashes on their PC's, they don't tolerate them on game machines.
I'm curious on this btw. Can you name an emergency in the last 50 years where morse code was the only method of communication in or out of the disaster area?
Not again - do you have any proof that lack of cw tests would turn the hf bands into cb? Read the FCC enforcement letters, there are actually more rule violators who have passed the cw requirement than not.
On the other hand to build a supercomputer for less than 89$ per gflop you still have to actually "build it". I mean who else is going to put it all together? Someone has to build it if you want cs students to use it.
And yes microbiology students will still have to build their own apparatus for experiments they conduct - I only know this because I took a class in microbiology a while back and I had to build the apparatus for all the required experiments I had to do.
I'm guessing in this case they not only put it together, but at the same time are going to use it and be trained in how super computers like this work.
Yes, hams get to play with cool toys. But ham radio is censored - it's self-censorship by the users, under the threat of license revocation and social pressure from other hams, but it's still censored, and that makes it much less useful. That's why unlicensed spectrum like the 2.4GHz band used by 802.11b and 5GHz used by 802.11a are *so* critical. We could do so much more if the ham bands weren't censored.
This isn't necessarily true - the only thing that is censored is acceptable language because the FCC holds hams to the same standards as they do broadcast radio and television.
In amateur radio hams can't have any pecuniary interests which means you can conduct business on the air as long as it doesn't benefiet you financially. The arrl operators manual uses the example of calling your dry cleaners, or order a pizza, or calling a tow truck over an autopatch - of course the control operator (the guy who runs the repeater, digipeater etc) may not allow that, and of course amateur radio service is not intended to be a commercial replacement. That is after all what your 802.11 is for, or your cell phone is for.
You talk about "ham radios" like they are something special - they aren't - they are in fact transcievers just like the kind the cops, military or commercial organizations use. If it wasn't for the vast infrastructure of volunteers it wouldn't be all that better then those frs radios you can get for 5$ at wallmart. Also I'm an Extra Class ham and I'm only 25 - I don't think I'm all that grungy... I'm just a regular guy who can help out - and thats what ham radio is.
"emergency personel" already have their own repeaters and equipment, but they aren't typically handeling traffic for regular people, non profits, hospitals (especially ones in the countryside) and things that civil servants typically also do. Who can you contact if you want to sent information during an emergency to loved ones and can't use regular communications? Call a ham:) - thats nothing anyone who is "emergency personel" would even be interested in.
Thing is what do you expect and outsourced tech support agent to do about your "third hop, [router name] in Albany" problem? I've been there - most of the time ISP tech support is about shuffeling customers until they go away and often times even the best technician will have no resources to respond to a call like that.
Chances are they don't even have computers that can even browse the net.
In the end its really your fault for chosing an ISP with such limited support. If more people switched to different providers maybe Adelphia wouldn't skimp on the training and the resources their support agents have.
You really need to investigate Dell enterprise support. If you get that you can actually send yourself replacement parts. If you have a lot of Dell's to support you should definately get it - the time you save will be worth it alone.
I do support a product that occasionally I have to replace hardware and or media.
90% of everyone who calls actually has good parts - a tech who sends parts out to EU's who have good parts usually ends up in trouble.
People calling tech support lines have bought a product which is meant to do something. The fact that they can't work it out even when everything is working is the fault of a bad UI - not the users.
A real call I had once (and I'm not kidding it was for a 400$ program...). They were having system issues (rule 1 - all EU's have system issues - all of them) and after reinstalling I wanted her to test the app,
Me: now click on the start button eu: whats the start button? Me: its the one that says start on it eu: I don't have one Me: every windows machine has one - its usually in the lower left hand corner. eu: where? Me: (enunciating) in the lower left hand corner. eu: I don't have one. Me: the lower left hand corner - take your left hand move it to the left hand side of your screen and look for for a button that says start on it. eu: (knowingly now) ohh the "start" button - why didn't you say so?
In this case the Windows GUI was perfect - they have a button from whence all programs are launched - it says start and its usually in the lower left hand corner. If you can't tell your left from your right you have no business using complex graphics software.
I've had calls where users have a hard time opening two windows at the same time and telling them apart. What would you change in the gui to help eu's with that?
I could go on and on - bottom line people are idiots.
I can understand why hams get a little touchy about interference. Being one - its funny you can operate out of your apartment for years, and if you don't tell anyone what you are doing everything is cool.
If you ever reveal what you are you are suddenly blamed for every glitch that happens in the neighborhood everything from snow on the TV Set to computers crashing. I've been blamed for interference even when I was on vacation and out of town.
Personally I'd hope that your proof would be your operator skill. I'm about the same age actually - got my license around the same time - did it because I wanted to:).
I'm an extra, and I took the exam when it was "lowered" to 5 (its actually 18 wpm character rate with 5 wpm spacing) but (and I don't mean to brag or anything) I can still operate code faster than 13 wpm because I practice - which anyone could do even if they lift the requirement.
One nice thing about being a ham is your always connected. I can drive across america and with my mobile hf transciever talk around the country and world (one of my first contacts on 10 meters mobile was an operator in Japan for instance). I can talk on satellites to other operators around the country for free.
When its your radio, antenna and the world there are no corperations to shut off your access or to rely on for that matter. Its all you.
Which is what gets me about BPL - there's a profit to be made so they are willing to throw all that way.
I suppose one difference is in the US its illegal to modify your radio to recieve blocked frequencies wheras in most countries you can get a scanner that recieves everything, but your just now allowed to.
Its also technically illegal to go to canada and import radios capable of recieving cellular repeaters.
yeah but he said "these things" (ie jet fighters in general) - I wouldn't have replied if he had said F-22's cannot be flown without the onboard computer.
But fighter jets in general? His statement is incorrect.
IMNSHO, it's basically common knowledge that these things CAN NOT be flown without computers
Thats not necessarily true. In 1959 the soviets flew a mig 21 at 2388 kmph (just under mach 2). Soviet computers were not small enough to put in mig-21's in 1959.
Even relatively modern jets like the Mig-21 and the Su-33 can be flown without onboard computer - even though they rely on them heavily for targeting and navigation.
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What a waste of all those CPU cycles!
Ahh the very nature of Seti@home.
After I quit using it my power bill went down over 20$ a month and I'm not kidding in the slightest.
Before that it struck me - what's the actual probability of finding intelligent life? I work in tech support 90% of all the people I talk to each day are complete morons.
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Using the hard drive to hold patches just brings us back to Windows DLL Hell. This is considered acceptable on a desktop, but on a game console, it can be the death of the machine. People tolerate crashes on their PC's, they don't tolerate them on game machines.
dll hell is a myth - sfc long since fixed that.
I just remember all the application conflicts that programs like 386max and qemm used to cause :).
But for the most part it worked okay.
I'm curious on this btw. Can you name an emergency in the last 50 years where morse code was the only method of communication in or out of the disaster area?
Not again - do you have any proof that lack of cw tests would turn the hf bands into cb? Read the FCC enforcement letters, there are actually more rule violators who have passed the cw requirement than not.
You guys should become hams :). FRS radio? I wonder why more 802.11 geeks aren't more interested in ham radio :).
There must be something wrong with mine I have a 733 Mac G4, but it seems like 2 times slower than my P3-933 that sits next to it.
You must be a memeber of the flat earth society...
They are released - I saw them in a bbc catalogue a while back.
For me though - I recoreded them when they were broadcast on the local npr station.
On the other hand to build a supercomputer for less than 89$ per gflop you still have to actually "build it". I mean who else is going to put it all together? Someone has to build it if you want cs students to use it.
And yes microbiology students will still have to build their own apparatus for experiments they conduct - I only know this because I took a class in microbiology a while back and I had to build the apparatus for all the required experiments I had to do.
I'm guessing in this case they not only put it together, but at the same time are going to use it and be trained in how super computers like this work.
Yes, hams get to play with cool toys. But ham radio is censored - it's self-censorship by the users, under the threat of license revocation and social pressure from other hams, but it's still censored, and that makes it much less useful. That's why unlicensed spectrum like the 2.4GHz band used by 802.11b and 5GHz used by 802.11a are *so* critical. We could do so much more if the ham bands weren't censored.
This isn't necessarily true - the only thing that is censored is acceptable language because the FCC holds hams to the same standards as they do broadcast radio and television.
In amateur radio hams can't have any pecuniary interests which means you can conduct business on the air as long as it doesn't benefiet you financially. The arrl operators manual uses the example of calling your dry cleaners, or order a pizza, or calling a tow truck over an autopatch - of course the control operator (the guy who runs the repeater, digipeater etc) may not allow that, and of course amateur radio service is not intended to be a commercial replacement. That is after all what your 802.11 is for, or your cell phone is for.
What does this have to do with censorship?
You talk about "ham radios" like they are something special - they aren't - they are in fact transcievers just like the kind the cops, military or commercial organizations use. If it wasn't for the vast infrastructure of volunteers it wouldn't be all that better then those frs radios you can get for 5$ at wallmart. Also I'm an Extra Class ham and I'm only 25 - I don't think I'm all that grungy... I'm just a regular guy who can help out - and thats what ham radio is.
:) - thats nothing anyone who is "emergency personel" would even be interested in.
"emergency personel" already have their own repeaters and equipment, but they aren't typically handeling traffic for regular people, non profits, hospitals (especially ones in the countryside) and things that civil servants typically also do. Who can you contact if you want to sent information during an emergency to loved ones and can't use regular communications? Call a ham
Me too - none of my 3 windows machines (including the one at work) were affected at all :(.
In my call center it was more like the agents getting the bug. I did notice call volume drop which is a good thing.
Anything that messes up end users systems is always a good thing.
Thing is what do you expect and outsourced tech support agent to do about your "third hop, [router name] in Albany" problem? I've been there - most of the time ISP tech support is about shuffeling customers until they go away and often times even the best technician will have no resources to respond to a call like that.
Chances are they don't even have computers that can even browse the net.
In the end its really your fault for chosing an ISP with such limited support. If more people switched to different providers maybe Adelphia wouldn't skimp on the training and the resources their support agents have.
You really need to investigate Dell enterprise support. If you get that you can actually send yourself replacement parts. If you have a lot of Dell's to support you should definately get it - the time you save will be worth it alone.
I do support a product that occasionally I have to replace hardware and or media.
90% of everyone who calls actually has good parts - a tech who sends parts out to EU's who have good parts usually ends up in trouble.
People calling tech support lines have bought a product which is meant to do something. The fact that they can't work it out even when everything is working is the fault of a bad UI - not the users.
A real call I had once (and I'm not kidding it was for a 400$ program...). They were having system issues (rule 1 - all EU's have system issues - all of them) and after reinstalling I wanted her to test the app,
Me: now click on the start button
eu: whats the start button?
Me: its the one that says start on it
eu: I don't have one
Me: every windows machine has one - its usually in the lower left hand corner.
eu: where?
Me: (enunciating) in the lower left hand corner.
eu: I don't have one.
Me: the lower left hand corner - take your left hand move it to the left hand side of your screen and look for for a button that says start on it.
eu: (knowingly now) ohh the "start" button - why didn't you say so?
In this case the Windows GUI was perfect - they have a button from whence all programs are launched - it says start and its usually in the lower left hand corner. If you can't tell your left from your right you have no business using complex graphics software.
I've had calls where users have a hard time opening two windows at the same time and telling them apart. What would you change in the gui to help eu's with that?
I could go on and on - bottom line people are idiots.
You know another fun site is this one > www.techcomedy.com kinda like slashdot but full of tech stories and recorded calls
Thats rough...
I can understand why hams get a little touchy about interference. Being one - its funny you can operate out of your apartment for years, and if you don't tell anyone what you are doing everything is cool.
If you ever reveal what you are you are suddenly blamed for every glitch that happens in the neighborhood everything from snow on the TV Set to computers crashing. I've been blamed for interference even when I was on vacation and out of town.
Personally I'd hope that your proof would be your operator skill. I'm about the same age actually - got my license around the same time - did it because I wanted to :).
I'm an extra, and I took the exam when it was "lowered" to 5 (its actually 18 wpm character rate with 5 wpm spacing) but (and I don't mean to brag or anything) I can still operate code faster than 13 wpm because I practice - which anyone could do even if they lift the requirement.
One nice thing about being a ham is your always connected. I can drive across america and with my mobile hf transciever talk around the country and world (one of my first contacts on 10 meters mobile was an operator in Japan for instance). I can talk on satellites to other operators around the country for free.
When its your radio, antenna and the world there are no corperations to shut off your access or to rely on for that matter. Its all you.
Which is what gets me about BPL - there's a profit to be made so they are willing to throw all that way.
I suppose one difference is in the US its illegal to modify your radio to recieve blocked frequencies wheras in most countries you can get a scanner that recieves everything, but your just now allowed to.
Its also technically illegal to go to canada and import radios capable of recieving cellular repeaters.
Only better (at 10x the price) would be the AR-one here, almost forgot ... have to be a non-US location to ship to ...
:).
Its nice to have relatives in Canada
Its sad though. I think we are one of the few industrialized nations on earth who have rescrictions on what frequencies can be listened to and when.
Many states for instance have anti-scanner laws that prohibit you from having a R3 or another scanner in your car.
And you know the cops don't want you listening in when they switch to encrypted digital repeaters.
yeah but he said "these things" (ie jet fighters in general) - I wouldn't have replied if he had said F-22's cannot be flown without the onboard computer.
But fighter jets in general? His statement is incorrect.
IMNSHO, it's basically common knowledge that these things CAN NOT be flown without computers
Thats not necessarily true. In 1959 the soviets flew a mig 21 at 2388 kmph (just under mach 2). Soviet computers were not small enough to put in mig-21's in 1959.
Even relatively modern jets like the Mig-21 and the Su-33 can be flown without onboard computer - even though they rely on them heavily for targeting and navigation.
What a waste of all those CPU cycles!
Ahh the very nature of Seti@home.
After I quit using it my power bill went down over 20$ a month and I'm not kidding in the slightest.
Before that it struck me - what's the actual probability of finding intelligent life? I work in tech support 90% of all the people I talk to each day are complete morons.