With this technology, they should outfit all cars with geiger counters hooked to the network.
That way, if a terrorist was transporting a nuke down a highway, a swarm of sensors could pick it up and transmit alerts to the authorities.
Granted, there would probably be issues with trucks carrying smoke detectors and cars with people who have been treated with radiation....but I think this would work better than physical checkpoints built into static points on a roadway.
Last year on Hawaiian Shirt Day, I was attempting to print out my TPS reports (with the new cover sheets) when the printer displayed a message saying "PC Load Letter"
We gave that printer the beatdown it deserved - and Lumberg never noticed!
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Imagine combining this technology with "The Brown Noise"...now that would be the ultimate weapon!
Some resume advice: instead of focusing on the tasks you performed, clearly communicate what you accomplished for each organization you worked for.
These days, it's very common for a person to have bounced between many jobs. The number of jobs isn't as important as what a person achieved at each of them.
Every person has a story - it's up to you to tell it in the most compelling light.
Back in 1996, I worked for a Cyber-cafe type operation. With a few days til launch, the "bricks" side of the operation wasn't complete. (To be fair, neither was the "clicks" side)
They were still doing construction, so there was sawdust and paint particles in the air. My partner and I had to wear respirators and goggles for two days while we wrote code.
The worst part was that we had to do some motherboard surgery one night. We didn't finish, so we left the PC cases open and put up a big sign that said "DO NOT PAINT IN THIS ROOM".
Of course, we came in the next day to find the room freshly painted, along with the motherboards. They used a power sprayer which coated everything in the room.
I was on the fence about this for a while. Being a nerd, I wanted to build my own system. But after using a friend's Tivo, I was convinced that the usability of the system was something I could never replicate.
So, I went ahead and bought a Tivo and it's one of the greatest things I've ever owned. For a device that uses a remote control as its input mechanism, it's fantastic. The UI is nice and clean, and it's incredibly easy to use. My wife, who is generally a technophobe and shys away from geeky things, can't rave enough about Tivo. She was up and using it on the first day.
So, although building a Tivo is a nice challenge, it's totally worth the 5 bucks a month for the value you get from Tivo. Rolling your own solution would be a massive hassle, and you have to program a UI on top of it. IMHO, you'll never get the level of usability that you get with the Tivo.
Plus, you get the added ability to hack it - which in my opinion is a lot more fun than trying to contruct my own.
So what happens when Iran puts anonymizer.com on their list of "immoral" sites and blocks access to it?
The article claims that "In Iran, we're prepared to change the proxy address every day if necessary."
Sure - but if Iran blocks the hostname "Anonymizer.com" - it doesn't matter what the IP address of the proxy server is. Is the US planning to spam every Iranian email address with info on what server IP to connect to?
Sounds like an expensive cat and mouse game that is futile at best.
I don't know how old the machines you're working on are, but if there are any Apple ][ systems there - Beagle Brothers used to have all sorts of great utilities. You won't find software at that link, but a museum to what they had.
And Disk Muncher is always key in case any of your scientist buddies show up with a game (say, Conan?) that's not yet in your library.
I used to subscribe to a service called ViewTron in the early 80s, and dialed in over a 300 baud modem.
They had a network connection to the local Ticketron computers, and I bought tickets for Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA tour online using my mom's credit card...no SSL required!
Verizon DSL gives such limited upstream bandwidth, that it's not ideal to host a web server - unless you're paying for one of their more expensive packages.
As I recall, the You Don't Know Jack web site had this form of interstitial advertising on it a few years back. Because the quality of the game was so good, I never really minded the commercials.
The interesting thing about advertising in the UK is that since people pay a TV tax, commercials are viewed as an intrusion on people's time. So, the quality of commercials from the UK are generally higher than they are in the US.
Let's hope this same philosophy applies to these interstitials!
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With this technology, they should outfit all cars with geiger counters hooked to the network.
That way, if a terrorist was transporting a nuke down a highway, a swarm of sensors could pick it up and transmit alerts to the authorities.
Granted, there would probably be issues with trucks carrying smoke detectors and cars with people who have been treated with radiation....but I think this would work better than physical checkpoints built into static points on a roadway.
All your wavs are belong to us....
Last year on Hawaiian Shirt Day, I was attempting to print out my TPS reports (with the new cover sheets) when the printer displayed a message saying "PC Load Letter"
We gave that printer the beatdown it deserved - and Lumberg never noticed!
Imagine combining this technology with "The Brown Noise"...now that would be the ultimate weapon!
Some resume advice: instead of focusing on the tasks you performed, clearly communicate what you accomplished for each organization you worked for.
These days, it's very common for a person to have bounced between many jobs. The number of jobs isn't as important as what a person achieved at each of them.
Every person has a story - it's up to you to tell it in the most compelling light.
If scientists at IBM Research had come up with this, would they have called it UnunPowerPC?
Back in 1996, I worked for a Cyber-cafe type operation. With a few days til launch, the "bricks" side of the operation wasn't complete. (To be fair, neither was the "clicks" side)
They were still doing construction, so there was sawdust and paint particles in the air. My partner and I had to wear respirators and goggles for two days while we wrote code.
The worst part was that we had to do some motherboard surgery one night. We didn't finish, so we left the PC cases open and put up a big sign that said "DO NOT PAINT IN THIS ROOM".
Of course, we came in the next day to find the room freshly painted, along with the motherboards. They used a power sprayer which coated everything in the room.
Yeah, that sucked.
So, I went ahead and bought a Tivo and it's one of the greatest things I've ever owned. For a device that uses a remote control as its input mechanism, it's fantastic. The UI is nice and clean, and it's incredibly easy to use. My wife, who is generally a technophobe and shys away from geeky things, can't rave enough about Tivo. She was up and using it on the first day.
So, although building a Tivo is a nice challenge, it's totally worth the 5 bucks a month for the value you get from Tivo. Rolling your own solution would be a massive hassle, and you have to program a UI on top of it. IMHO, you'll never get the level of usability that you get with the Tivo.
Plus, you get the added ability to hack it - which in my opinion is a lot more fun than trying to contruct my own.
In my humble opinion, it's not how many clicks it takes for the user to get to the content they're seeking - it's how easy each click it.
No matter if it's 3, 7 or 10 clicks - if the user finds the content in a logical path without getting confused, then the UI has done its jorb.
Oh man, imagine hacking Tivo to work with this!
So what happens when Iran puts anonymizer.com on their list of "immoral" sites and blocks access to it?
The article claims that "In Iran, we're prepared to change the proxy address every day if necessary."
Sure - but if Iran blocks the hostname "Anonymizer.com" - it doesn't matter what the IP address of the proxy server is. Is the US planning to spam every Iranian email address with info on what server IP to connect to?
Sounds like an expensive cat and mouse game that is futile at best.
If self destruct mechanisms are built into PC's...how long will it be before a virus, worm or trojan finds a way to trigger them?
Senator Hatch must have been wearing his Bad Idea jeans when he pitched this idea.
I don't know how old the machines you're working on are, but if there are any Apple ][ systems there - Beagle Brothers used to have all sorts of great utilities. You won't find software at that link, but a museum to what they had.
And Disk Muncher is always key in case any of your scientist buddies show up with a game (say, Conan?) that's not yet in your library.
http://www.homestarrunner.com
probably the greatest cartoon to come out since ren n stimpy.
If you like the Fhqwhgads song, you'll have even more fun making Bubs dance to it: http://www.homestarrunner.com/dance.html
Now if Tivo only had a Real Time fast forward capability, I'd take up sports gambling as a profession.
I used to subscribe to a service called ViewTron in the early 80s, and dialed in over a 300 baud modem.
They had a network connection to the local Ticketron computers, and I bought tickets for Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA tour online using my mom's credit card...no SSL required!
Verizon DSL gives such limited upstream bandwidth, that it's not ideal to host a web server - unless you're paying for one of their more expensive packages.
The interesting thing about advertising in the UK is that since people pay a TV tax, commercials are viewed as an intrusion on people's time. So, the quality of commercials from the UK are generally higher than they are in the US.
Let's hope this same philosophy applies to these interstitials!