Actually, I checked out the patents, they do use the word plurality, however:)...
They're retarded. Both require that the 'textual' and 'graphical' content of the site be from a 'CD-ROM' or 'optical device'. I know of very few sites that do this. Additionally, the first patent defines that the device which essentially serves contents require a device for displaying graphical content. I guess the patent doesn't take into affect that some people host their shiznit on boxes without a monitor.
So, fear not the whores. (I hope the lawsuits backfire on that blasted company)
Here is essentially the bomb for Atari ST computers
http://www.errorwear.com/huge-atarist.html
It would just show up on the left side of the screen. Sometimes there were more than three bombs though. Couldn't find a screen shot and I don't care to take the Atari out of the garage and put it back together for a digicam pic.
it really doesn't matter what type of equipment they use. I have worked with an engineer that designed the east coast phone systems. What happens is that they are all linked together and *supposed* to be redundant. When one circuit goes down, the lines are transferred to redundant (in use by other systems) circuits. There was only one problem. The redundant circuits can't handle the extra load and also shutdown. So thus, one outage causes a chain reaction of outages. This is not a 'vulnerability':) It was a lazy ass engineer with the major telco (I'm fairly certain it was Bell) that created a redundant circuit that fails when initiated (eg, kind of like the Cisco routers that slashdot used [except those were mis-configured for redundancy, not defective]). Nonetheless, the Telco's have known about the problem since there were nationwide phone service.
Checkout with your local telco's on running 45 miles of fiber:) While that *sounds* expensive, I've seen the cost of fiber in some areas *massively* reduced. If you can run a fiber link straight from a choice ISP to your building it might not be too bad. As far as running wireless across 45 miles, that can't really be done for $80k with low-latency. You could daisy chain wireless by setting up access points, but that's too complex - what if you had to troubleshoot it?
I would really suggest doing 3 things. Contact your Local Telco (SWB, Ameritech, Verizon, whoever it is), Cisco, and *maybe* contact Lucent Technologies.
You may be able to setup a link like: ISPT1FiberT1School (that could be more than 1 T1) via your local Telco. This way you wouldn't have to run it entirely by fiber.
Cisco has got wireless shtuff. They may have new technologies which they are looking for people to test. A school would provide Cisco with PR and a testbed. Same thing with Lucent, but I don't like Lucent (personal pref). I do know Lucent has equip to run 10mb over 10 miles.
That's just my suggestions. I didn't give any real details because that would take too much time. But it looks like wireless isn't really the way to go imo.
Well-rounded education is a good direction... As long as it doesn't take away from the time that people need to specialize on the things they enjoy doing, or are good at doing (eg programming, engineering, football, etc). I also believe that companies do appreciate someone that knows a little about everything - more importantly though, someone who will say they don't know something but will know exactly how to find it out. A well-rounded education would allow this. What IS bad, is not alloying someone to specialize. If we didn't have intelligent individuals who specialized on certain thinks, I really don't think we would be posting comments on slashdot from a keyboard on the other side of the world.
I would agree with that and furthemore believe Microsoft is one of the most expensive hits to productivity there is. Vulnerability here, exploit there, patch here, reboot there...
I'm not so sure this is all true. Of course it is an experiment and nothing is stated as fact. But I believe that everyone has a certain ability of true multitasking and not losing any production at the same time. Sure an interruption may delay something simply because of the time it takes, but loss in productivity is not always there. When it is, it's simply there as part of a learning curve. If we humans couldn't multitask, then we'd all be dead. I don't recall forgetting to breath or losing heart beats from replying to an icq message. They say the avg person can't multitask productively, but they also say the human doesn't use more than 10% of the brain. Studies have also shown that the brain can become efficient at multitasking but there is a learning curve. So yeh, if your not used to, interuptions could disrupt things and reduce productivity, but after being used to it (the brain becomes more efficient) and viola, it's not so much a problem anymore. It's like when you are having a conversation and someone interrupts you...you forget what you were saying and say 'what was I saying again', totally oblivious to what you were saying. Then the person says the last 2 or 3 words you were saying and poof you remember and go on. Well, if instead you wrote down the last 3 words before the interruption and look at them, you'd remember and go on. Eventually, if your interrupted a lot you learn how to keep track of what your saying and not have to ask the other person. You ask yourself and remember and go on. Then you subconsciously learn how to perform the 'remembering' task and it doesn't reduce your ability to have a conversation if someone interrupts you. Same goes with coding, reading, running, or anything else. Anybody can do math, read or run (well...literate people). But it's hard to do all three. But on the other hand, some read or run or do math faster than others simply because they can concentrate better whether there are interruptions or not. So, to judge the brains ability to multitask by such simple experimentation I believe, has no degree of accuracy. It does show points of adding tasks to an individuals current work load. The real question is, is the decrease in productivity for the person to learn how to manage the added task worth the productivity that will be produced once the individual has experience with the added task? This does of course involve the risk of reaching a persons limitations, but if those limitations are reached, I would imagine a pay raise could change the limitations, the person will quit, the person will complain, or the person will be replaced with someone with better 'limitations'. This article as someone said is pretty much stating the obvious, but I think it's also leaving out some real good details at the same time.
BTW, someone said something about ridalin. I'm not sure that stuff is worth the money to buy it. I have adhd (oh yeh, i'm another victim and have a 'deficit' - o poor me!), but i've never needed medication to concentrate. I just had to learn how to concentrate just like all the other people in the world. Don't take offense, but if you work hard enough you don't need a drug. The brain is to complex, to resorting to taking medication. Of course if it helps it helps, and i'm not knockin it too much, but you can learn how to concentrate without it.
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I think it would be more-fit to call it self-repairing, or self-glueing. I think self-healing would be something more organic, and that would heal back to %100 strength. That, would probably be close to impossible. To the best of my knowledge, you can't break something (for ex a piece of glass), and put it back EXACTLY, molecular-bond to molecular-bond the same as it was before. For now, the only thing they will be able to do is just repair it. Now, what they could do is just set it up so that when it is repaired, it is stronger than what it was previously, and as one stated before, colored. That way you knew where the problem occured. When somoeone breaks a bone in their body, and, if it heals, it isn't weaker than what it was before, it is stronger. This could be close to teh same concept, but again, right now, it's not organic...
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Actually, I checked out the patents, they do use the word plurality, however :) ...
They're retarded. Both require that the 'textual' and 'graphical' content of the site be from a 'CD-ROM' or 'optical device'. I know of very few sites that do this. Additionally, the first patent defines that the device which essentially serves contents require a device for displaying graphical content. I guess the patent doesn't take into affect that some people host their shiznit on boxes without a monitor.
So, fear not the whores.
(I hope the lawsuits backfire on that blasted company)
Here is essentially the bomb for Atari ST computers
http://www.errorwear.com/huge-atarist.html
It would just show up on the left side of the screen. Sometimes there were more than three bombs though. Couldn't find a screen shot and I don't care to take the Atari out of the garage and put it back together for a digicam pic.
I still have 3 of the DVDs I rented from a year ago and still haven't paid late fees.
actually, just fyi as to what really happened...
:) It was a lazy ass engineer with the major telco (I'm fairly certain it was Bell) that created a redundant circuit that fails when initiated (eg, kind of like the Cisco routers that slashdot used [except those were mis-configured for redundancy, not defective]). Nonetheless, the Telco's have known about the problem since there were nationwide phone service.
it really doesn't matter what type of equipment they use. I have worked with an engineer that designed the east coast phone systems. What happens is that they are all linked together and *supposed* to be redundant. When one circuit goes down, the lines are transferred to redundant (in use by other systems) circuits. There was only one problem. The redundant circuits can't handle the extra load and also shutdown. So thus, one outage causes a chain reaction of outages. This is not a 'vulnerability'
just fyi and a couple cents...
what does sig mean?
eek, < - > didn't work. try it again...
ISP < - > T1 < - > Fiber < - > T1 < - > School
While DSL pipes might not work too well...
:) While that *sounds* expensive, I've seen the cost of fiber in some areas *massively* reduced. If you can run a fiber link straight from a choice ISP to your building it might not be too bad. As far as running wireless across 45 miles, that can't really be done for $80k with low-latency. You could daisy chain wireless by setting up access points, but that's too complex - what if you had to troubleshoot it?
Checkout with your local telco's on running 45 miles of fiber
I would really suggest doing 3 things. Contact your Local Telco (SWB, Ameritech, Verizon, whoever it is), Cisco, and *maybe* contact Lucent Technologies.
You may be able to setup a link like: ISPT1FiberT1School (that could be more than 1 T1) via your local Telco. This way you wouldn't have to run it entirely by fiber.
Cisco has got wireless shtuff. They may have new technologies which they are looking for people to test. A school would provide Cisco with PR and a testbed. Same thing with Lucent, but I don't like Lucent (personal pref). I do know Lucent has equip to run 10mb over 10 miles.
That's just my suggestions. I didn't give any real details because that would take too much time. But it looks like wireless isn't really the way to go imo.
Well-rounded education is a good direction... As long as it doesn't take away from the time that people need to specialize on the things they enjoy doing, or are good at doing (eg programming, engineering, football, etc). I also believe that companies do appreciate someone that knows a little about everything - more importantly though, someone who will say they don't know something but will know exactly how to find it out. A well-rounded education would allow this. What IS bad, is not alloying someone to specialize. If we didn't have intelligent individuals who specialized on certain thinks, I really don't think we would be posting comments on slashdot from a keyboard on the other side of the world.
Even more reason Microsoft can lead to decreased productivity.
I would agree with that and furthemore believe Microsoft is one of the most expensive hits to productivity there is. Vulnerability here, exploit there, patch here, reboot there...
I don't see how you can compare the brain to a processor. If you can, then tell me, if a processor uses 0's and 1's, what does the brain use and why?
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I'm not so sure this is all true. Of course it is an experiment and nothing is stated as fact. But I believe that everyone has a certain ability of true multitasking and not losing any production at the same time. Sure an interruption may delay something simply because of the time it takes, but loss in productivity is not always there. When it is, it's simply there as part of a learning curve. If we humans couldn't multitask, then we'd all be dead. I don't recall forgetting to breath or losing heart beats from replying to an icq message. They say the avg person can't multitask productively, but they also say the human doesn't use more than 10% of the brain. Studies have also shown that the brain can become efficient at multitasking but there is a learning curve. So yeh, if your not used to, interuptions could disrupt things and reduce productivity, but after being used to it (the brain becomes more efficient) and viola, it's not so much a problem anymore. It's like when you are having a conversation and someone interrupts you...you forget what you were saying and say 'what was I saying again', totally oblivious to what you were saying. Then the person says the last 2 or 3 words you were saying and poof you remember and go on. Well, if instead you wrote down the last 3 words before the interruption and look at them, you'd remember and go on. Eventually, if your interrupted a lot you learn how to keep track of what your saying and not have to ask the other person. You ask yourself and remember and go on. Then you subconsciously learn how to perform the 'remembering' task and it doesn't reduce your ability to have a conversation if someone interrupts you. Same goes with coding, reading, running, or anything else. Anybody can do math, read or run (well...literate people). But it's hard to do all three. But on the other hand, some read or run or do math faster than others simply because they can concentrate better whether there are interruptions or not. So, to judge the brains ability to multitask by such simple experimentation I believe, has no degree of accuracy. It does show points of adding tasks to an individuals current work load. The real question is, is the decrease in productivity for the person to learn how to manage the added task worth the productivity that will be produced once the individual has experience with the added task? This does of course involve the risk of reaching a persons limitations, but if those limitations are reached, I would imagine a pay raise could change the limitations, the person will quit, the person will complain, or the person will be replaced with someone with better 'limitations'. This article as someone said is pretty much stating the obvious, but I think it's also leaving out some real good details at the same time. BTW, someone said something about ridalin. I'm not sure that stuff is worth the money to buy it. I have adhd (oh yeh, i'm another victim and have a 'deficit' - o poor me!), but i've never needed medication to concentrate. I just had to learn how to concentrate just like all the other people in the world. Don't take offense, but if you work hard enough you don't need a drug. The brain is to complex, to resorting to taking medication. Of course if it helps it helps, and i'm not knockin it too much, but you can learn how to concentrate without it. ______
Haha. Good. I wasn't going to get windows XP anyways. They can suck my 75GB MP3 RAID (too bad it's not bigger)
here is the goat that should be sacrificed!!! Goat
What about gyroscopes? ;)
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I think it would be more-fit to call it self-repairing, or self-glueing. I think self-healing would be something more organic, and that would heal back to %100 strength. That, would probably be close to impossible. To the best of my knowledge, you can't break something (for ex a piece of glass), and put it back EXACTLY, molecular-bond to molecular-bond the same as it was before. For now, the only thing they will be able to do is just repair it. Now, what they could do is just set it up so that when it is repaired, it is stronger than what it was previously, and as one stated before, colored. That way you knew where the problem occured. When somoeone breaks a bone in their body, and, if it heals, it isn't weaker than what it was before, it is stronger. This could be close to teh same concept, but again, right now, it's not organic... :)
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