VoD is dead in the water as implemented by the cable companies. It's a train wreck that has already happened.
I have Time-Warner. Their advertising slogan is 'watch it when you want'. It should be 'watch it when our server isn't completely overbooked'. Pause the movie and you loose the connection. We lost 'AVP' 10 minutes from the end and couldn't finish watching it till the next day.
Which is even worse that just picking 200 or so 'trusted sites'.
Time and again, important news stories put out through blogs are ignored by the big companies with lots of 'reporters' and lots of stories regurgitated from the AP newswire.
This is nothing more than an idiotic push for more 'corporate' news in an attempt to drown out the smaller people.
When was the last time you even got to know about how foreign workers on H1-Bs are employed and paid. I get tired of this typically ignorant bullshit everytime the foreign workers issue comes up. FYI, everytime a visa is granted, the applicant/employer has to get a prevailing wage certificate either from the state EDD or agencies like www.erieri.com, whoch cost about $350-$450 for a single page with three lines of typed text. These certificates state the prevailing wage for the position for which the employer wants to hire, which includes the min, median and max. The data for that is calculated every year or every other year, depending on the survey by polling employers for specific geographical areas. The applicant/employer then HAS to pay the foreign worker at least 5% more than the minimum in the certificate. Without this the application for a visa will not even get accepted. Get your fucking facts straight before you go off on the $20,000 salary.
OK. Let's go with your numbers. An experienced, professional engineer would expect to get $70K to $80K. The wet behind the ears college grad would expect $40K. The take the survey, and tey see a range from 40K to 80K. The company hires what the recruiting company passes off as a seasoned professional for $42K.
Using your own logic, I'm going to have to stand with the grand-parent.
So I have a great idea and start a company. I work 16 hour days for ten years, barely pulling in minimum wage, but after all that labor I'm successful enough to hire an assistent.
Now, after all MY work, you are telling me that I have no rights in the hiring process? I must hand the hiring process over to government bureaucrats who've not lifted a finger to help me build my company. And what claim does the "blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or South Asians" have to a position at the company I built.
I'm not sure where your from, but if from the US, the 'hide-under-desk' drills were from the 50's. They were really just a means to convince people that a nuclear war was survivalbe.
An in-board memory test is not the same as a proper memory test using a dedicated test set. The in-board approach will not be able to reproduce the range of voltage levels, speeds and timings of a test set.
No, all it can tell you is how the chip will perform in its current condition. Since the VAST majority of offices are climate controlled, the currect condition will be all but static. A dedicated tester will be great if you want to know the the DRAM will work anywhere, but very few people care about that.
I'd happily buy the unmarked stuff to save the dollars. It's not like the rest of my self-assembled boxes were ever system or compatibility tested before I put them together. And if you think Dell is doing a thorough burn in of every system they sell, all I can say is 'HA!'
I think what is most likely happening is that the Asian manufacturers are doing spot testing, which is most definitely a valid methodology used throughout many high production manufacturing sectors.
At least in the US, take a ride in a small plane, preferably at around 1000'. Look around and you will be suprised at how HARD it will be to hit anything of value. A very large percentage of pilot's who don't owe anything on their plane fly without insurance, because it in most cases the only thing that will be destroyed in an accident is their own plane.
Why would somebody store their crack in the tank of the space shuttle? Wouldn't the managers pick up on the smell if they were smoking it in there? Don't they give astronauts blood test? How do the drug runners recover the crack from the tank? Is this really an efficient way to run a smuggling operation?
Just build the exterior portions of the base on a platform. There's no air on the moon to raise the dust, so just stay out of it. A single tunnels leads underground to the main habitat. Design landing docs so that the rocket exhaust blows the dust away (again, there's no air so there won't be a problem with vortices bringing the air back to you).
Military vehicle designers have a name for big round blobs sitting on top of stilts. They call it 'a target'. There is a reason that both the Abram's tank and the Hummer are wide flat vehicles. You get the carrying capacity, and if a shell explodes nearby there is less chance of flipping the vehicle. The typical 'mech' design would be easily toppled and rendered useless with a simple hand tossed grenade, and that big round blob provide lots of area to absorb the blast.
But you can't do a damn thing with whatever is out there at the heliopause other than say, "Oooh! Neat picture."
If you put a man on Mars, then you've moved the world to colonizing another planet. To quote a few people from./, "We've got to colonize other planets it's a matter of survival." There'll be spinoff that will be immediately useful, and science and commerce will expand faster in ways that people can actually see.
Once you've conquered the inner solar system, sending probes to the outer reaches 1)makes more sense cause you'll actually be able to do something with the data, 2) will be much easier as you'll be working in shallower gravity wells and 3) will return much more data because you'll be able to send better equipment.
Billions of dollars spent on 'space exploration' and all you get is a bunch of pretty pictures from scientist who want to show that there is a planet around another star somewhere. Ostensibly, from reading their supporters here, so that they can prove there isn't a God somehow. But unless you're into pretty pictures, IT'S TOTALLY USELESS FOR THE FORSEABLE FUTURE.
There's a concept in business called 'opportunity cost'. If you chase opportunity A, you won't have resources to chase opportunity B. You have to decide which furthers your goals the best.
And enough with the Bush bashing already. He didn't tell NASA which project to cut. His PROPOSAL just didn't give them as much of an increase as they wanted. And remember his PROPOSAL must be approved by Congress. He's trying to cut taxes across the board, because the US Federal government is to damn fat. It was never burdened with exploring space, but it was given the responsibility to protect American's from foreign threats. Threats like terrorist harboring dictators like Saddam Hussein, and them damn French croissants.
The more important thing is HIDING from lawsuits in the US.
Talk to someone who has actually run a decent sized company for a while. Lawyers get people coming in their office all the time with no money and a whiney complaint. OK, the lawyer will work on contingency...BUT ONLY IF the defendant has ASSETS. If the lawyer finds a deficiency of assets, he'll wait for the next whiner to walk through the door. If the company does have assets, he won't actually be trying to go to court. He'll try to tie up the defendants assets until said defendant cries uncle and hands over a cash settlement or goes out of business.
Leasing means the lawyer doesn't have anything to have injunctions pressed against. The multi-layer 'lease to yourself' method stated above is often used just for this purpose, except the holding companies will often be held by relatives with different last names, silent partners, and good friends. The point in all cases is to make it hard(er) for the lawyer to tie all the loose strings back to the defendant.
This applies only to the US, and I hope to GOD that the legal system in other countries isn't so ridiculously foolish.
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Lately, there's been a trend towards "faking AI". This comes under such names as "social computing". The idea is to pick up cues and act intelligent when interacting with humans, even if there's no comprehension.
Are you sure there not working on a replacement for the pointy-haired boss?
So, exactly how much time will a person save by having the first link (which will obviously be so authoritative that everyone automatically chooses it anyway) loaded before clicking it?
You type in your search terms - sanford 3 or 4 seconds expire before Google returns sanford.edu You immediately click on sanford.edu.
The most you'll save is the few seconds it takes to read sanford.edu and click on it. Right?
Expect the military to be one of the first to pick up on this. Take a fighter jet, for instance. One of the worst problems designers have is developing interfaces for all the devices on board. Just look at all the buttons and switches on the flight stick. It's so bad that they actually include a second person on most ships just to handle some of the workload. Recognize target. Identify. Select ordinance. Aim. Release. Each step requiring different inputs from a set of motor functions. Neural input would remove the need to concentrate on all those motor functions.
Or how about a vehicle mounted machine gun. Instead of a driver and a gunner, the soldier will be able to just think "shoot left" while driving right.
Have you considered tying in directly and pulling the packages from a service like BitTorrent? As often as not, I try to install a piece of software that doesn't come with the Distro, run into dependancy hell, and then spend hours Googling for the dependancies before giving up in frustration.
It often happens that a developer specifies a library at http://www.foo.org/depository/bar.lib, and by the time you come along six months later, foo.org has shut down. Let everything float in the BitStream, and we won't have to depend on foo.org and we give more legal uses to BitTorrent.
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VoD is dead in the water as implemented by the cable companies. It's a train wreck that has already happened.
I have Time-Warner. Their advertising slogan is 'watch it when you want'. It should be 'watch it when our server isn't completely overbooked'. Pause the movie and you loose the connection. We lost 'AVP' 10 minutes from the end and couldn't finish watching it till the next day.
I'd much rather have the DVD.
IF news_organization = 'FOX' && subjec = 'CBS' then DAN_RATHER_LYING_AGAIN = 1.
Anymore?!
"Common sense ain't all that common"
-Samuel Clemmons
(I probably screwed up the quotation, but it was very close to that.)
Which is even worse that just picking 200 or so 'trusted sites'.
Time and again, important news stories put out through blogs are ignored by the big companies with lots of 'reporters' and lots of stories regurgitated from the AP newswire.
This is nothing more than an idiotic push for more 'corporate' news in an attempt to drown out the smaller people.
When was the last time you even got to know about how foreign workers on H1-Bs are employed and paid. I get tired of this typically ignorant bullshit everytime the foreign workers issue comes up. FYI, everytime a visa is granted, the applicant/employer has to get a prevailing wage certificate either from the state EDD or agencies like www.erieri.com, whoch cost about $350-$450 for a single page with three lines of typed text. These certificates state the prevailing wage for the position for which the employer wants to hire, which includes the min, median and max. The data for that is calculated every year or every other year, depending on the survey by polling employers for specific geographical areas. The applicant/employer then HAS to pay the foreign worker at least 5% more than the minimum in the certificate. Without this the application for a visa will not even get accepted. Get your fucking facts straight before you go off on the $20,000 salary.
OK. Let's go with your numbers. An experienced, professional engineer would expect to get $70K to $80K. The wet behind the ears college grad would expect $40K. The take the survey, and tey see a range from 40K to 80K. The company hires what the recruiting company passes off as a seasoned professional for $42K.
Using your own logic, I'm going to have to stand with the grand-parent.
So I have a great idea and start a company. I work 16 hour days for ten years, barely pulling in minimum wage, but after all that labor I'm successful enough to hire an assistent.
Now, after all MY work, you are telling me that I have no rights in the hiring process? I must hand the hiring process over to government bureaucrats who've not lifted a finger to help me build my company. And what claim does the "blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or South Asians" have to a position at the company I built.
You, sir, have a very strange view of 'rights'.
And next week we'll present the history of this week. And the week after that...
The Captain is responsible for everything that happens on the ship. The OS is responsible for everything that happens in the PC.
Plain and simple.
It is functional, but I crash half a dozen times a day.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
And what makes you think that living on Mars/Venus/Moon will be any easier than living hear after any of the mentioned events?
I'm not sure where your from, but if from the US, the 'hide-under-desk' drills were from the 50's. They were really just a means to convince people that a nuclear war was survivalbe.
An in-board memory test is not the same as a proper memory test using a dedicated test set. The in-board approach will not be able to reproduce the range of voltage levels, speeds and timings of a test set.
No, all it can tell you is how the chip will perform in its current condition. Since the VAST majority of offices are climate controlled, the currect condition will be all but static. A dedicated tester will be great if you want to know the the DRAM will work anywhere, but very few people care about that.
I'd happily buy the unmarked stuff to save the dollars. It's not like the rest of my self-assembled boxes were ever system or compatibility tested before I put them together. And if you think Dell is doing a thorough burn in of every system they sell, all I can say is 'HA!'
I think what is most likely happening is that the Asian manufacturers are doing spot testing, which is most definitely a valid methodology used throughout many high production manufacturing sectors.
Very old technology. You evacuate the air by heating it. 8*)
No one ever even considers what happens when one of the engines craps out (note: that's not IF but WHEN). Here are the rules:
1)Double the engines equals double the likelyhood that a single engine will give out.
2)If designed to handle flight with one engine, both engines have to be large enough to carry the entire load PLUS a dead engine.
3)Assymetric thrust is a bitch.
The only one of the schemes that is in any way vialble is the Carter Copter. It actually has options in an engine out situation.
At least in the US, take a ride in a small plane, preferably at around 1000'. Look around and you will be suprised at how HARD it will be to hit anything of value. A very large percentage of pilot's who don't owe anything on their plane fly without insurance, because it in most cases the only thing that will be destroyed in an accident is their own plane.
Why would somebody store their crack in the tank of the space shuttle?
Wouldn't the managers pick up on the smell if they were smoking it in there?
Don't they give astronauts blood test?
How do the drug runners recover the crack from the tank?
Is this really an efficient way to run a smuggling operation?
Just build the exterior portions of the base on a platform. There's no air on the moon to raise the dust, so just stay out of it. A single tunnels leads underground to the main habitat. Design landing docs so that the rocket exhaust blows the dust away (again, there's no air so there won't be a problem with vortices bringing the air back to you).
Good analysis, but let me add just one point...
Military vehicle designers have a name for big round blobs sitting on top of stilts. They call it 'a target'. There is a reason that both the Abram's tank and the Hummer are wide flat vehicles. You get the carrying capacity, and if a shell explodes nearby there is less chance of flipping the vehicle. The typical 'mech' design would be easily toppled and rendered useless with a simple hand tossed grenade, and that big round blob provide lots of area to absorb the blast.
But you can't do a damn thing with whatever is out there at the heliopause other than say, "Oooh! Neat picture."
./, "We've got to colonize other planets it's a matter of survival." There'll be spinoff that will be immediately useful, and science and commerce will expand faster in ways that people can actually see.
If you put a man on Mars, then you've moved the world to colonizing another planet. To quote a few people from
Once you've conquered the inner solar system, sending probes to the outer reaches 1)makes more sense cause you'll actually be able to do something with the data, 2) will be much easier as you'll be working in shallower gravity wells and 3) will return much more data because you'll be able to send better equipment.
Billions of dollars spent on 'space exploration' and all you get is a bunch of pretty pictures from scientist who want to show that there is a planet around another star somewhere. Ostensibly, from reading their supporters here, so that they can prove there isn't a God somehow. But unless you're into pretty pictures, IT'S TOTALLY USELESS FOR THE FORSEABLE FUTURE.
There's a concept in business called 'opportunity cost'. If you chase opportunity A, you won't have resources to chase opportunity B. You have to decide which furthers your goals the best.
And enough with the Bush bashing already. He didn't tell NASA which project to cut. His PROPOSAL just didn't give them as much of an increase as they wanted. And remember his PROPOSAL must be approved by Congress. He's trying to cut taxes across the board, because the US Federal government is to damn fat. It was never burdened with exploring space, but it was given the responsibility to protect American's from foreign threats. Threats like terrorist harboring dictators like Saddam Hussein, and them damn French croissants.
Fear sells in america. No one has vision anymore,
Anymore? You're not very old are you?
The more important thing is HIDING from lawsuits in the US.
Talk to someone who has actually run a decent sized company for a while. Lawyers get people coming in their office all the time with no money and a whiney complaint. OK, the lawyer will work on contingency...BUT ONLY IF the defendant has ASSETS. If the lawyer finds a deficiency of assets, he'll wait for the next whiner to walk through the door. If the company does have assets, he won't actually be trying to go to court. He'll try to tie up the defendants assets until said defendant cries uncle and hands over a cash settlement or goes out of business.
Leasing means the lawyer doesn't have anything to have injunctions pressed against. The multi-layer 'lease to yourself' method stated above is often used just for this purpose, except the holding companies will often be held by relatives with different last names, silent partners, and good friends. The point in all cases is to make it hard(er) for the lawyer to tie all the loose strings back to the defendant.
This applies only to the US, and I hope to GOD that the legal system in other countries isn't so ridiculously foolish.
Lately, there's been a trend towards "faking AI". This comes under such names as "social computing". The idea is to pick up cues and act intelligent when interacting with humans, even if there's no comprehension.
Are you sure there not working on a replacement for the pointy-haired boss?
So, exactly how much time will a person save by having the first link (which will obviously be so authoritative that everyone automatically chooses it anyway) loaded before clicking it?
You type in your search terms - sanford
3 or 4 seconds expire before Google returns sanford.edu
You immediately click on sanford.edu.
The most you'll save is the few seconds it takes to read sanford.edu and click on it. Right?
Expect the military to be one of the first to pick up on this. Take a fighter jet, for instance. One of the worst problems designers have is developing interfaces for all the devices on board. Just look at all the buttons and switches on the flight stick. It's so bad that they actually include a second person on most ships just to handle some of the workload. Recognize target. Identify. Select ordinance. Aim. Release. Each step requiring different inputs from a set of motor functions. Neural input would remove the need to concentrate on all those motor functions.
Or how about a vehicle mounted machine gun. Instead of a driver and a gunner, the soldier will be able to just think "shoot left" while driving right.
Have you considered tying in directly and pulling the packages from a service like BitTorrent? As often as not, I try to install a piece of software that doesn't come with the Distro, run into dependancy hell, and then spend hours Googling for the dependancies before giving up in frustration.
It often happens that a developer specifies a library at http://www.foo.org/depository/bar.lib, and by the time you come along six months later, foo.org has shut down. Let everything float in the BitStream, and we won't have to depend on foo.org and we give more legal uses to BitTorrent.