Here's what I got in a service bulletin from Insight Cable, a regional ISP/cable company in central Illinois:
"(...) and restart your cable modem. If the aforementioned steps do not restore your Internet access, please visit our web site for additional troubleshooting information or to contact our support team."
On a complete tangent: Have you tried using a trackball? Preferably one that has the ball under your thumb? You symptoms sound a lot like the ones I have from working 8+ hours on a computer for almost every day for 20 years, and the only thing that made them go away for 5 years was a Logitech Trackman. I recently started a new job and had to use a mouse for the first week which brought the pain back within a day or two. Finally got a trackball and it went away in a day.
60 GHz has one additional problem for longer ranges: Oxygen molecules have an absorption line rigth about there. So in addition to 1/r^2, you also get thermal degradation. But they can, of course go a bit up or down in wave length.
Even though I use and love gmail for my private email and dabbled with the new and improved Yahoo mail, I still can't see using either for my work email.
-No on the fly spell checking (I fell to my knees and gave thanks to the lizzard when the Thunderbird 1.5 beta came out) -No filters and user defined folders on Gmail. Searching it fine, but seeing which emails come from developers for 15 different projects, product managers, business partners, or DQA at one glance is essential for me. -I want to be able to double click attachments without having to go through right-click, dialog box,...(Yes, I know what I am doing and haven't gotten a virus that way for the last 15 years) -I send and get a few hundred non-spam emails every day. The 50 conversations per page simply doesn't cut it. -A comment on Yahoo's "see all the messages in your inbox on one screen": I move every email out of the inbox either through filters, or once I read them, one of my colleagues has about 90,000 in hers. So that doesn't work for either of us. -Having multiple messages in differnt threads open is a pain. Even when using tabs. -I like to have local copies of my mail. On the one hand, it lets me find stuff when the T3 or out DNS server is down, and I can mine them using other programs or even write some quick code to do it.
I love the clean interface on Gmail and their grouping by conversations and they way they display them is brilliant, though. No matter what the three guys and the journalist say. For long threads, it is faster for me than the threaded modes in desktop programs.
So a steady diet of Kalhua and Bailey's will let me live forever?
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The Money Bin is at least 20 meters on each side. That's 8000 cubic meters. Take away the room for Scrooge's office and as a lower bound assume hexagonal closest packing of spherical gold coins, that leaves about 5500 m^3 of gold. At a specific weight of 19320kg/m^3 and today's closing gold price of $506 per troy oz, that's 1.66 _trillion_ dollars. And then there are his mining, shipping, ranching and other interests...
No, Jack got tossed by Fayette County Circuit Judge James Moore. The Ten Commandment case centered around Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Roy got removed from office in November 2003 Alabama's judicial ethics panel for his conduct in that case, by the way.
There were some really insightful comments in the The Future of Education presidential radio address.
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Not all of us. We (300+ employee ISV) had a external presenter at our user conference last year who needed a blank floppy. After 30 minutes of fruitless searching in our IT department and an email to all our employees, we had to point him to the nearest Office Depot.
Have you actually used a Sun Ray station? The might have improved tremendously over the last couple of years, but as of 2003, they were pretty much unusable except in very special circumstances (email lab, internet cafe,...). Maybe a call center. But anything that needs fast graphics, or a wide range of applications simply doesn't work.
They finally got rid of the original SunRay with the build in fairly crappy 15" monitor, but it still doesn't give you mobility in a way that a laptop does. You can move from Ray Station to Ray station, but you can't go to a meeting room, move from your table to a chair in the cafeteria, and so on.
The Sun Ray has its place when you need data terminals that people can move between. Nurse stations would be a perfect place for them--just give every nurse and doctor a smart card. But now what if the nurse or a doctor wants a computer to take into the patients' rooms on rounds? Do you put a Sun Ray at the end of every bed? Do you buy additional laptops for this purpose and then upload the data via WiFi to the central server and from there to the individual stations? The latter would work, but then you are back to having a mixed network which is what the Rays were supposed to avoid.
If and when the introduce a Ray laptop or tablet, it might be worth another look, but until then, a SunRay only slightly more mobile than a desktop.
I didn't happen in 1994, it didn't happen in 1995,...
Sun has been touting the "the network is the computer" mantra for the last 10 years--hurrying from failure to failure (anyone remember the SunOne?). I've had the dubious pleasure to attend three or four SunERCs over the last decade and this was the keynote speech each and every bleeding time. Beginning in 1999 or 2000, you could hear exasperated groans throughout the audience.
Some technical reasons
-Wireless broadband simply isn't there yet. And it might never be if you are outside of major cities and away from interstates. Hell, I can't get my cell to connect half of the time when I am on vacation. (Vail, southern New Mexico, large parts of Arizona, even here in Illinois, you can loose cell coverage by taking any exit on I-57 and driving 3 miles). And don't get me started on roaming charges. -People want to own stuff. Otherwise, we'd all take trains and busses. The same argument applies there:more efficient, more reliable, you don't have to check your oil, rotate your tires, or take them to the shop. -Joe Sixpack will never store their porn on a Sun server.
He's right that a lot of people in developing or emerging countries will first see the Internet on their cell phone. China, for example, has 300 million or so cell phones and far fewer internet connections. But the user experience on a cell is an unmitigated pain in the ass. The other thing that will keep wireless and online use from making the PC obsolete is the greed of wireless providers--if your cable is $50 a month, imagine what cable+wireless+free software is going to be. Since the cost of computer hardware is now marginal (new Dell==6 months of Internet connection), why wouldn't someone buy a PC, no matter what s/he can do on his/her cell?
I really liked Sun for a long time, but they DO desperately need a change in management. If not, I'll welcome our new Dell/Sun rack server overlords.
Could you explain that in a bit more detail? Who forces the US to export soybeans and machine tools to China? Oh, you mean because they pay us money for them?
Seriously, though, since the US is running up a 162 billion dolalr trade deficit with China, a trade embargo would be really successful. You'll stand in an empty WalMart way before anyone in China can't get raw materials. (Hint: they don't that much from the US. Machine tools come from Europe, mainly Germany, ICs are *exported* from China and Taiwan to the US, wood from Canada, oil from the Persian Gulf, and they can live without soy beans, or get them from Brazil).
In Firefox 1.5b1, the stuff after Read More has really odd linebreaks when you set your/. preferences to the bare minimum. (no graphics, threshold 3 and higher...)
Or they are the people who are intelligent and trusted enough that they can send around an email saying: "I'll be working from home today, send me some email if you really need to get a hold of me." Which is a great perk at my place of work.;)
Also, above a certain level of code monkey, you will have to take your laptop on the road occasionally.
Did anyone actually RTFP? It's one of the most spurious pieces of "research" I've ever read. And with a biophysics degree, I have read quite a few. The author actually didn't investigate any actual papers, but he builds a mathematical model out of his own biases, statistical projections, and some back of the envelope computation. Even then, his conclusions are much less stringent than the submitter makes them out to be. He "proves" that under all his assumptions, half the research papers *might* be wrong, but shows not even statistical evidence that they are.
I think PLoS is peer reviewed, but that paper should never have survived peer review. Occasionally, bad papers slip through, even in the so called hard sciences. This one seems to be one of them. Since PLoS Medicine is pretty well respected for an open access publication, lets assume that this was a lark and more on.
But it makes me curious what the fraction of bad papers looks like in an open access publication like PloS versus a traditional journal like, say, Nature, The Lancet, or New England Journal of Medicine. One reservation people have about open access (or author pays) models was that since PLoS gets paid about $1500 from they authors, they might be accepting vanity papers, or don't triage as well as traditional journals. I don't think they are, but if this paper is any indication, PLoS might take a second look at their peer review process.
The reason they looked was probably more that the earlier patent was filed by Microsoft who have a huge stable of lawyers to make sure that no patents are awarded that might compete with Microsoft patents. I'd be surprised if the USPTO would ever be able to miss prior art by the likes of IBM, GM, GE..
As much as Slashdotters and I don't like some of MS's business practices, the computer industry would not be close to anything without them. Apple dropped the ball big time, and nobody who's been there would want to go back to the pre-DOS days when almost every computer was different. Back in 1987 when I started at my university, we had SGI, VAX, DEC Unix, Atari ST (great for control applications), a few Suns, EWS6000 (?) and PCs running whatever operating system and networking. All in the same department, and you constantly had to switch between systems. When I went back for a visit last year, it was basically all Windows and Linux.
Obligatory quote:
REG:
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers. LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers. REG:
Yeah. LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers. REG:
Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?! XERXES:
The aqueduct? REG:
What? XERXES:
The aqueduct. REG:
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah. COMMANDO #3:
And the sanitation. LORETTA:
Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like? REG:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done. MATTHIAS:
And the roads. REG:
Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads-- COMMANDO:
Irrigation. XERXES:
Medicine. COMMANDOS:
Huh? Heh? Huh... COMMANDO #2:
Education. COMMANDOS:
Ohh... REG:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough. COMMANDO #1:
And the wine. COMMANDOS:
Oh, yes. Yeah... FRANCIS:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh. COMMANDO:
Public baths. LORETTA:
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg. FRANCIS:
Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this. COMMANDOS:
Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. REG:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? XERXES:
Brought peace. REG:
Oh. Peace? Shut up!
How do "most people expect anonymity from the documents they print?"
Printed pages are NEVER anonymous. Apart from fingerprints, DNA traces, ink and paper matching, how many people print stuff that they pass out anonymously? Most letters have a sender, books and other prints have a copyright note. And once you distribute any printed materials, others can trace it back.
If you go to the trouble to buy the printed at Best Buy at a best buy 500 miles from your home with cash that you got from a bank while wearing a full body condom and face mask, don't transport it in your car, and keep it in a clean room at an anonymous location, I agree that you probably expect privacy. But at that point, you have probably been arrested as a weirdo somewhere along the way.
In the same way antibiotics don't cure all infectous diseases, one cancer treatment doesn't cure all cancers.
Over the last decade, there have been huge successes in curing a number of cancers. One example is hairy cell leukemia which used to be a death sentence. In a recent study, only 2 out of 250 patients who were medicated with pentostatin died in the 9 years after the initial treatment, while over 170 were completely cancer free 5 years after the treatment started. That is a 9 year survival rate of over 99%, which IMO is pretty good.
In the simplest possible terms, "frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good" means that both observers can move at different speeds, but that neither one can accelerate or decelerate while the observation is made.
This is important because you can always tell by mechanical means if you are accelerating, but without a point of reference, you are unable to tell if you are moving at constant speed. (Gravity and circular motions are just accelerations)
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Here's what I got in a service bulletin from Insight Cable, a regional ISP/cable company in central Illinois:
"(...) and restart your cable modem. If the aforementioned steps do not restore your Internet access, please visit our web site for additional troubleshooting information or to contact our support team."
Thank god I moved six weeks later...
On a complete tangent: Have you tried using a trackball? Preferably one that has the ball under your thumb? You symptoms sound a lot like the ones I have from working 8+ hours on a computer for almost every day for 20 years, and the only thing that made them go away for 5 years was a Logitech Trackman. I recently started a new job and had to use a mouse for the first week which brought the pain back within a day or two. Finally got a trackball and it went away in a day.
60 GHz has one additional problem for longer ranges: Oxygen molecules have an absorption line rigth about there. So in addition to 1/r^2, you also get thermal degradation. But they can, of course go a bit up or down in wave length.
Even though I use and love gmail for my private email and dabbled with the new and improved Yahoo mail, I still can't see using either for my work email.
...(Yes, I know what I am doing and haven't gotten a virus that way for the last 15 years)
-No on the fly spell checking (I fell to my knees and gave thanks to the lizzard when the Thunderbird 1.5 beta came out)
-No filters and user defined folders on Gmail. Searching it fine, but seeing which emails come from developers for 15 different projects, product managers, business partners, or DQA at one glance is essential for me.
-I want to be able to double click attachments without having to go through right-click, dialog box,
-I send and get a few hundred non-spam emails every day. The 50 conversations per page simply doesn't cut it.
-A comment on Yahoo's "see all the messages in your inbox on one screen": I move every email out of the inbox either through filters, or once I read them, one of my colleagues has about 90,000 in hers. So that doesn't work for either of us.
-Having multiple messages in differnt threads open is a pain. Even when using tabs.
-I like to have local copies of my mail. On the one hand, it lets me find stuff when the T3 or out DNS server is down, and I can mine them using other programs or even write some quick code to do it.
I love the clean interface on Gmail and their grouping by conversations and they way they display them is brilliant, though. No matter what the three guys and the journalist say. For long threads, it is faster for me than the threaded modes in desktop programs.
Who are you and what are you doing on Slashdot?????
So a steady diet of Kalhua and Bailey's will let me live forever?
The Money Bin is at least 20 meters on each side. That's 8000 cubic
meters. Take away the room for Scrooge's office and as a lower bound
assume hexagonal closest packing of spherical gold coins, that leaves
about 5500 m^3 of gold. At a specific weight of 19320kg/m^3 and
today's closing gold price of $506 per troy oz, that's 1.66 _trillion_
dollars. And then there are his mining, shipping, ranching and other
interests...
No, Jack got tossed by Fayette County Circuit Judge James Moore. The Ten Commandment case centered around Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Roy got removed from office in November 2003 Alabama's judicial ethics panel for his conduct in that case, by the way.
There were some really insightful comments in the The Future of Education presidential radio address.
Not all of us. We (300+ employee ISV) had a external presenter at our user conference last year who needed a blank floppy. After 30 minutes of fruitless searching in our IT department and an email to all our employees, we had to point him to the nearest Office Depot.
Have you actually used a Sun Ray station? The might have improved tremendously over the last couple of years, but as of 2003, they were pretty much unusable except in very special circumstances (email lab, internet cafe,...). Maybe a call center. But anything that needs fast graphics, or a wide range of applications simply doesn't work.
They finally got rid of the original SunRay with the build in fairly crappy 15" monitor, but it still doesn't give you mobility in a way that a laptop does. You can move from Ray Station to Ray station, but you can't go to a meeting room, move from your table to a chair in the cafeteria, and so on.
The Sun Ray has its place when you need data terminals that people can move between. Nurse stations would be a perfect place for them--just give every nurse and doctor a smart card. But now what if the nurse or a doctor wants a computer to take into the patients' rooms on rounds? Do you put a Sun Ray at the end of every bed? Do you buy additional laptops for this purpose and then upload the data via WiFi to the central server and from there to the individual stations? The latter would work, but then you are back to having a mixed network which is what the Rays were supposed to avoid.
If and when the introduce a Ray laptop or tablet, it might be worth another look, but until then, a SunRay only slightly more mobile than a desktop.
I didn't happen in 1994, it didn't happen in 1995,...
Sun has been touting the "the network is the computer" mantra for the last 10 years--hurrying from failure to failure (anyone remember the SunOne?). I've had the dubious pleasure to attend three or four SunERCs over the last decade and this was the keynote speech each and every bleeding time. Beginning in 1999 or 2000, you could hear exasperated groans throughout the audience.
Some technical reasons
-Wireless broadband simply isn't there yet. And it might never be if you are outside of major cities and away from interstates. Hell, I can't get my cell to connect half of the time when I am on vacation. (Vail, southern New Mexico, large parts of Arizona, even here in Illinois, you can loose cell coverage by taking any exit on I-57 and driving 3 miles). And don't get me started on roaming charges.
-People want to own stuff. Otherwise, we'd all take trains and busses. The same argument applies there:more efficient, more reliable, you don't have to check your oil, rotate your tires, or take them to the shop.
-Joe Sixpack will never store their porn on a Sun server.
He's right that a lot of people in developing or emerging countries will first see the Internet on their cell phone. China, for example, has 300 million or so cell phones and far fewer internet connections. But the user experience on a cell is an unmitigated pain in the ass. The other thing that will keep wireless and online use from making the PC obsolete is the greed of wireless providers--if your cable is $50 a month, imagine what cable+wireless+free software is going to be. Since the cost of computer hardware is now marginal (new Dell==6 months of Internet connection), why wouldn't someone buy a PC, no matter what s/he can do on his/her cell?
I really liked Sun for a long time, but they DO desperately need a change in management. If not, I'll welcome our new Dell/Sun rack server overlords.
Could you explain that in a bit more detail? Who forces the US to export soybeans and machine tools to China? Oh, you mean because they pay us money for them?
Seriously, though, since the US is running up a 162 billion dolalr trade deficit with China, a trade embargo would be really successful. You'll stand in an empty WalMart way before anyone in China can't get raw materials. (Hint: they don't that much from the US. Machine tools come from Europe, mainly Germany, ICs are *exported* from China and Taiwan to the US, wood from Canada, oil from the Persian Gulf, and they can live without soy beans, or get them from Brazil).
In Firefox 1.5b1, the stuff after Read More has really odd linebreaks when you set your /. preferences to the bare minimum. (no graphics, threshold 3 and higher...)
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As for why WinMX might want to relocate there from Canada, this link should also shed a little light on the issue...
Or they are the people who are intelligent and trusted enough that they can send around an email saying: "I'll be working from home today, send me some email if you really need to get a hold of me." Which is a great perk at my place of work. ;)
Also, above a certain level of code monkey, you will have to take your laptop on the road occasionally.
Did anyone actually RTFP? It's one of the most spurious pieces of "research" I've ever read. And with a biophysics degree, I have read quite a few. The author actually didn't investigate any actual papers, but he builds a mathematical model out of his own biases, statistical projections, and some back of the envelope computation. Even then, his conclusions are much less stringent than the submitter makes them out to be. He "proves" that under all his assumptions, half the research papers *might* be wrong, but shows not even statistical evidence that they are.
I think PLoS is peer reviewed, but that paper should never have survived peer review. Occasionally, bad papers slip through, even in the so called hard sciences. This one seems to be one of them. Since PLoS Medicine is pretty well respected for an open access publication, lets assume that this was a lark and more on.
But it makes me curious what the fraction of bad papers looks like in an open access publication like PloS versus a traditional journal like, say, Nature, The Lancet, or New England Journal of Medicine. One reservation people have about open access (or author pays) models was that since PLoS gets paid about $1500 from they authors, they might be accepting vanity papers, or don't triage as well as traditional journals. I don't think they are, but if this paper is any indication, PLoS might take a second look at their peer review process.
The reason they looked was probably more that the earlier patent was filed by Microsoft who have a huge stable of lawyers to make sure that no patents are awarded that might compete with Microsoft patents. I'd be surprised if the USPTO would ever be able to miss prior art by the likes of IBM, GM, GE..
As much as Slashdotters and I don't like some of MS's business practices, the computer industry would not be close to anything without them. Apple dropped the ball big time, and nobody who's been there would want to go back to the pre-DOS days when almost every computer was different. Back in 1987 when I started at my university, we had SGI, VAX, DEC Unix, Atari ST (great for control applications), a few Suns, EWS6000 (?) and PCs running whatever operating system and networking. All in the same department, and you constantly had to switch between systems. When I went back for a visit last year, it was basically all Windows and Linux.
Obligatory quote:
REG:
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG:
Yeah.
LORETTA:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG:
Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES:
The aqueduct?
REG:
What?
XERXES:
The aqueduct.
REG:
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3:
And the sanitation.
LORETTA:
Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
MATTHIAS:
And the roads.
REG:
Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
COMMANDO:
Irrigation.
XERXES:
Medicine.
COMMANDOS:
Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO #2:
Education.
COMMANDOS:
Ohh...
REG:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1:
And the wine.
COMMANDOS:
Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
COMMANDO:
Public baths.
LORETTA:
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
FRANCIS:
Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
COMMANDOS:
Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
REG:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES:
Brought peace.
REG:
Oh. Peace? Shut up!
How do "most people expect anonymity from the documents they print?"
Printed pages are NEVER anonymous. Apart from fingerprints, DNA traces, ink and paper matching, how many people print stuff that they pass out anonymously? Most letters have a sender, books and other prints have a copyright note. And once you distribute any printed materials, others can trace it back.
If you go to the trouble to buy the printed at Best Buy at a best buy 500 miles from your home with cash that you got from a bank while wearing a full body condom and face mask, don't transport it in your car, and keep it in a clean room at an anonymous location, I agree that you probably expect privacy. But at that point, you have probably been arrested as a weirdo somewhere along the way.
In the same way antibiotics don't cure all infectous diseases, one cancer treatment doesn't cure all cancers.
Over the last decade, there have been huge successes in curing a number of cancers. One example is hairy cell leukemia which used to be a death sentence. In a recent study, only 2 out of 250 patients who were medicated with pentostatin died in the 9 years after the initial treatment, while over 170 were completely cancer free 5 years after the treatment started. That is a 9 year survival rate of over 99%, which IMO is pretty good.
Probably because Science is mainly a biology magazine nowadays. APL would have a very different selection.
And, as another of the respondents pointed out, the physics questions are much broader.
In the simplest possible terms, "frames of reference for which the equations of mechanics hold good" means that both observers can move at different speeds, but that neither one can accelerate or decelerate while the observation is made.
This is important because you can always tell by mechanical means if you are accelerating, but without a point of reference, you are unable to tell if you are moving at constant speed. (Gravity and circular motions are just accelerations)
No email for you, Osama!
Nope, what we have is froth.