It was Apple's former CEO John Scully who pushed the intelligent agent who sat on your desktop knew everthing you needed at you fingertips and got you whatever else you wanted.
Microsoft jumped on this idea and invented the Office Assistants like Clippy.
They found that SLOWER planes do much better on flights of 600 miles or less. The current airline system wins for longer trips like coast-to-coast.
My ancient plane goes only 150MPH, but I can be in the on my way in an hour. I will be 150 miles closer to the destination by the time the airliner leaves the gate.
The research suggests that planes can be made safer and easier to fly and require shorter runways, so communities will be encouraged to BUILD airports nearer city centers The Air traffic system would be automated so each plane would "own" a smalller piece of airspace around it and be warned if another aircraft is nearby.
Tony Goodhew, a Microsoft product manager, stressed that the software giant is not trying to force customers to upgrade. But he said small businesses and consumers who depend on the older OS should make sure to keep a copy of the operating system.
"If the dog goes and eats your DVD, that could be a problem," Goodhew said.
Yeah, I got my copy of Windows 95 on DVD. I had to hang on to it for 6 years before I could get a PC that could read it!
Actually I feel a little strange about this... Can anyone just fly over the city like that?
Yep. But the plane has to be a minimum 1000 feet above a congested area - 500 feet otherwise, unless it's taking off or landing and at an altiude "allowing, in the event a power unit fails, landing without undue harm to persons or property on the ground" The altitudes are less for helicopters.
And why is it called "war
flying"?
Because driving around in a car looking for APs is called "wardriving."
..and show me VCR that let's you watch the show from the beginning while it's recording an hour into it. That you can tell "get me The Sopranos" and it finds a showing on HBO of an episode it hasn't recorded and doesn't conflict with other things you want to record....that can hold 106 hours or more of recordings...that you can record two things at once while you watch a third (with a DirecTivo). That will record something you *might* like based on what you've told it you do like.
True story: Got the GF set up with a modded HDVR2 DirectTivo with an additional 80GB. It was one day old when it recorded "Real Woman Have Curves" as a suggestion. She loved the movie. She could not believe I hadn't arranged the recording. I hadn't
A troll like this shows up in every thread mentiong DVRs or TiVos. I guess IHTBT. BTW, VHS tape look huge these days,
You don't have to invent the solution when an inexpensive commerical one has been sold for over decade. Get a Sensaphone. It should cost $200 or less.
I've used Sensaphones to monitor remote computer rooms. It has alarm input contacts on it so you can connect water sensors and such. It calls a list of phone numbers when triggered by an alarm or low/high temperature and gives the problem and status to you in a voice announcement.
There are other similar slef-contained alarm dialer solutions
Step 1 in release cycle: Pick the release date. Not just at your company, but in every company I've ever worked at this was the case.
I worked for a very smart director who was an experienced senior project manager. We drilled the sales force and management to show our potential customers the timeline that said we would deliver the completed project they hired us for in 180 days. She said she has never missed a deadline and we actually never failed to meet that deadline.
One night we retired to dinner and drinks and she us in on the secret: we NEVER, ever said when day 0 on the timeline was! Effectively day 0 was 180 days or less before the completion date!
I noticed the #2 chain here doing an intentional scam.
Example: They had a promotion for a basket of strawberries for 99 cents. The display in produce had a huge sign above touting the sale. Under the sign was a bit of empty space and baskets of premium strawberries priced at $4.00 a basket. The first time I grabbed the basket under the sign and when I noticed that the price didn't match the sign I told the cashier, who said she would credit the price and literally, "...if you're not lying." (Once again they fail to realize who is a customer and who is thief.)
On later trips I noticed that it was fairly standard to see the premium choice stocked directly under the "On Special" sign with none of the "on sale" version there. It wasn't an oversight. It was intentional to catch shoppers who don't pay attention.
...they'll probably just use the restore CD they reformat, which would just put the spyware back on.
Those "restore" CDs also restore the PC back to its fully factory-default unsecure glory, before Windows Update downloaded and installed 126 different security patches. You can go online and run Windows Update again, but you can't win the race to update before you're infected.
I just made a CD for a friend that hasn't got her new laptop online yet. Besides OpenOffice it has Steve Gibson's DCOMbobulator on it. We'll run that before the first dial-up ISP call.
More importantly, as I've mentioned Ward, with Randy Suess, also INVENTED THE BBS when this very same Dennis Hayes sent them one of his original 300 baud autodial/auto-answer modems.
Ward will tell you fun details like why CBBS looks for the modem's RING result and then sends the ATO to make the modem answer. CBBS never puts the modem into auto-answer mode.
Why? So that if the CBBS program wasn't running happily, the caller wouldn't waste money on an answered phone call to a BBS that wasn't working.
Ward takes more credit for CBBS than the MODEM* protocol because MODEM was written quickly to fix a problem (sending program files to Randy over the modem-modem link) but CBBS was planned. Ward says MODEM was a response "like a sneeze" He doesn't like taking credit for a sneeze.
* - The real name of the protocol is MODEM. Ward's original MODEM comm program had an option to auto-receive files,. XMODEM was MODEM with the option. When you're the first you don't put in version qualifiers.
I can beat this down like a UT noob playing Tacops. Once, and only once, I have had a two dollar bill. Where do I take it? McD's. Only to be told that it is counterfeit because - can you see this coming? - there is no such thing as a two dollar bill.
I had a similar circumstance. I ordered a pop at an airport concession counter. Reaching in my pocket for change I think, "Wow, a wheat penny. You don't see those too often these days." I hand over the penny to make the change work out. The clerk begins to say, "Do you have another penny?" I already JUST KNEW was coming but I had to ask, "Why?" "We don't take CANADIAN MONEY!" I gave her another "American" penny to avoid any more delay but first pointed put that the other side of that "Canadian" penny had that famous "Canadian" President, Abraham Lincoln.
About 6 months ago I had an ATM bluescreen on me while it was halfway through printing my receipt. I did get my card back though.
You're lucky. I was using a not-my-bank ATM one night when it froze up for a minute or so in the middle of the transaction. It swallowed my ATM card and showed me the "Welcome to the ATM" screen.
The first thing the following day I called that bank and asked them if they were going to mail me my captured card. "Oh no!. We put those in the shredder!" I had to call my bank and request a new card, which of course, takes weeks to arrive.
Thus we have the wonderful policy of punishing the end customer for system failures.
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I still don't understand why neither the human or the computer could figure that one out.
The computer model was human high-school female type, and the human assistant was a manager.
You don't understand? One of my favorite minor amusements is to always hand the cash drone small change to make the change work out and watch the fun that results.
The tab comes to $6.62. Hand 'em two fives, two nickels and two pennies. Watch as the clerk counts it up and keys in the $10.12 they have (that will take longer than it should.) Then the POS computer tells them to hand you $3.50. Watch as they get the 3 dollars, then three dimes before the light bulb goes off and they figure that it will work as two solid quarters. They put back the dimes, grab the quarters, and hand you your change.
One of three things will happen: The clerk will think you're some sort of math wiz; The clerk will spend the rest of the shift wondering if you knew it would work out that way; The clerk will begin worrying that you ripped 'em off in a quick-change scam.
How often do you have opportunities to amaze mere mortals?
When they checked out the "Buried Alive!" urban legends by burying one in a metal coffin to see how long the air lasted, they didn't have all the information they needed.
The funeral home was happy to sell them a metal coffin but didn't tell them they bury coffins inside a concrete burial vault.
When the Mythbusters dumped several tons of dirt on the coffin with the tester inside the coffin began to collapse from the load.
They never did explain why they had that problem - A modern coffin can't be - and isn't buried by itself.
. Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
No. Stop generating FUD. Sheesh.
Reminds me when the rumor was that Microsfot was going to come out with their own online service so AOL was doomed. The word was that Paul Allen sold his huige position in AOL right before the last board meeting. What does he know that we don't? Omigawd AOL is DOOMED!
We know now how successful MSN was at putting AOL out of business, right? Not even after MS made clicking on abuot any button in new Windows install make you sign up for an MSN account.
Just have to say, that is the *weirdest* plane I've ever seen in my whole life. I love it! It's an engineering marvel! Seems only appropriate that a fellow who "thinks different" should be using a Mac:-)
From an flight engineering standpoint the Boomerang IS a major breakthrough. Rutan credits computer-aided design software (which he runs on a Mac) for the calculations which led to the design.
It looks like it can't possibly work, but the assymetric design solves the problem of twin engine planes being very hard to control on a single engine. He says he can run on one engine with his feet on the floor - no rudder required - which is abosolutely amazing. In single engine opertion on a conventional twin you must use full opposite rudder to keep the plane from rolling onto its back around the remaining engine. The Boomerang flies fine single engine.
Burt Rutan's Boomerang twin-engine airplane has always used a PowerBook for instrumentation and navigation
although the Boomerang's PowerBook installation is more functional than as pretty as the one in the iCar.
What happened to using the Knoppix [knoppix.org] stuff in the Debian installer? I think the hardware detection of Knoppix really kicks ass.
Right!
I have a UNIX background, including a bit of UNIX on PCs going back 15 years. I'm a Linux newbie, but I've had great luck using Knoppix full time on an obsolete, almost diskless PC in the office.
Based on the idea that "Knoppix is just Debian"
I've been trying to install Debian on a PC where Knoppix just plain works. It's driving me nuts. The network install tells me the network card isn't there even though I point it to the right driver (out of 2-3 cryptically-named choices for a RealTek compatible.) I have a slight idea of the appropriate driver options after I boot into Windows and record the interrupts and such Windows sees. Still no luck.
I juggled and made disk space and downloaded the Woody ISOs...and the Sarge ISOs where it says that Sarge will only install if you have Woody first (I think) and the jigdo docs on how the Debian updates have to be applied to the.iso files (under Linux!) and then burned.
Anyway, I'm still willing as time allows to read and learn and try and read and learn and beat this but I KNOW it should be easier because KNOPPIX IS EASIER!
Yeah, I know I can install Knoppix on a hard disk. I want to try and learn "real" Debian.
Yeah, I know I can ask for help on the Debian forums. I have searched there for ideas. Asking for help is another thing I'll do when I get a round tuit.
OK, mine was a lousy explanation. What I meant was the original poster was decribing a lightning STRIKE. I have witnessed the damage from lots of those in my career, mostly from the fun lightning has with the potentials between phone lines and power lines.
I have always been under the impression that the damage comes when the actual bolt jumps into a power line or phone line somewhere in the neighborhood. If EMP inducing the current is a common cause of lightening damage then I have learned something.
A lightning strike is not EMP, it's an E experience in abundance. EMP=Electromagnetic Pulse as in waves going through the air like radio waves. A lightning strike is extremely high-voltage electric current discharging to and from earth ground in random in ways through wires, conductive objects, and the air.
The best protection from lighting strikes coming in power and phone lines is a surge protector that has a good ground reference (heavy solid conductors to a good earth ground) installed where the services enter the building.
To clarify, what Jack Valenti of the MPAA is trying to stop is movie piracy. There was a recent article here (I ain't looking for it) that said that Hollywood discovered that most leaks of pirated movies were coming from "insider" copies, like the video tapes sent to Motion Picture Academy members for their consideration in voting for Oscars.
As movie critic Roger Ebert explains the result is they started searching movie critics for video cameras at the entrance to film screenings and the MPAA ordered the studios to stop sending out tapes. That gives the major studios a huge advantage over small indie films which are hard to find in theaters.
Once again the security action is misdirection. The movies are leaking from insiders so they hassle outsiders.
The misdirection is a typical response. Like how the 9/11 terrorists used their real names, jumbo airliners, and were in the country legally so the feds make all airline passengers present IDs 22 times, come out up with tough new rules on small planes, and hassle foreigners to make sure they enter the country legally.
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Microsoft jumped on this idea and invented the Office Assistants like Clippy.
That doorstep-to-doorstep time is EXACTLY why Dr. Bruce Holmesof NASA's AGATE research program has predicted the end of hub and spoke airline system and the enpowerment of small aircraft with new tehnologies like "highways in the sky." http://lava.larc.nasa.gov/BROWSE/agate.html
They found that SLOWER planes do much better on flights of 600 miles or less. The current airline system wins for longer trips like coast-to-coast.
My ancient plane goes only 150MPH, but I can be in the on my way in an hour. I will be 150 miles closer to the destination by the time the airliner leaves the gate.
The research suggests that planes can be made safer and easier to fly and require shorter runways, so communities will be encouraged to BUILD airports nearer city centers The Air traffic system would be automated so each plane would "own" a smalller piece of airspace around it and be warned if another aircraft is nearby.
Keep that in mind the next time you read or hear some pundit saying the local telcos will become obsolete.
True story: Got the GF set up with a modded HDVR2 DirectTivo with an additional 80GB. It was one day old when it recorded "Real Woman Have Curves" as a suggestion. She loved the movie. She could not believe I hadn't arranged the recording. I hadn't
A troll like this shows up in every thread mentiong DVRs or TiVos. I guess IHTBT. BTW, VHS tape look huge these days,
Boeing commissioned the Century of Flight Edition of Monopoly. http://store.brainygames.com/usa193.html They tell me that more are on the way.
The 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight is December 17th.
Specifically the Sensaphone Cottage Sitter model.
I've used Sensaphones to monitor remote computer rooms. It has alarm input contacts on it so you can connect water sensors and such. It calls a list of phone numbers when triggered by an alarm or low/high temperature and gives the problem and status to you in a voice announcement.
There are other similar slef-contained alarm dialer solutions
One night we retired to dinner and drinks and she us in on the secret: we NEVER, ever said when day 0 on the timeline was! Effectively day 0 was 180 days or less before the completion date!
Example: They had a promotion for a basket of strawberries for 99 cents. The display in produce had a huge sign above touting the sale. Under the sign was a bit of empty space and baskets of premium strawberries priced at $4.00 a basket. The first time I grabbed the basket under the sign and when I noticed that the price didn't match the sign I told the cashier, who said she would credit the price and literally, "...if you're not lying." (Once again they fail to realize who is a customer and who is thief.)
On later trips I noticed that it was fairly standard to see the premium choice stocked directly under the "On Special" sign with none of the "on sale" version there. It wasn't an oversight. It was intentional to catch shoppers who don't pay attention.
I just made a CD for a friend that hasn't got her new laptop online yet. Besides OpenOffice it has Steve Gibson's DCOMbobulator on it. We'll run that before the first dial-up ISP call.
More importantly, as I've mentioned Ward, with Randy Suess, also INVENTED THE BBS when this very same Dennis Hayes sent them one of his original 300 baud autodial/auto-answer modems.
Ward will tell you fun details like why CBBS looks for the modem's RING result and then sends the ATO to make the modem answer. CBBS never puts the modem into auto-answer mode.
Why? So that if the CBBS program wasn't running happily, the caller wouldn't waste money on an answered phone call to a BBS that wasn't working.
Ward takes more credit for CBBS than the MODEM* protocol because MODEM was written quickly to fix a problem (sending program files to Randy over the modem-modem link) but CBBS was planned. Ward says MODEM was a response "like a sneeze" He doesn't like taking credit for a sneeze.
* - The real name of the protocol is MODEM. Ward's original MODEM comm program had an option to auto-receive files,. XMODEM was MODEM with the option. When you're the first you don't put in version qualifiers.
The tab comes to $6.62. Hand 'em two fives, two nickels and two pennies. Watch as the clerk counts it up and keys in the $10.12 they have (that will take longer than it should.) Then the POS computer tells them to hand you $3.50. Watch as they get the 3 dollars, then three dimes before the light bulb goes off and they figure that it will work as two solid quarters. They put back the dimes, grab the quarters, and hand you your change.
One of three things will happen: The clerk will think you're some sort of math wiz; The clerk will spend the rest of the shift wondering if you knew it would work out that way; The clerk will begin worrying that you ripped 'em off in a quick-change scam.
How often do you have opportunities to amaze mere mortals?
When they checked out the "Buried Alive!" urban legends by burying one in a metal coffin to see how long the air lasted, they didn't have all the information they needed.
The funeral home was happy to sell them a metal coffin but didn't tell them they bury coffins inside a concrete burial vault.
When the Mythbusters dumped several tons of dirt on the coffin with the tester inside the coffin began to collapse from the load.
They never did explain why they had that problem - A modern coffin can't be - and isn't buried by itself.
We know now how successful MSN was at putting AOL out of business, right? Not even after MS made clicking on abuot any button in new Windows install make you sign up for an MSN account.
AOL IS doomed, but not because of MSN.
It looks like it can't possibly work, but the assymetric design solves the problem of twin engine planes being very hard to control on a single engine. He says he can run on one engine with his feet on the floor - no rudder required - which is abosolutely amazing. In single engine opertion on a conventional twin you must use full opposite rudder to keep the plane from rolling onto its back around the remaining engine. The Boomerang flies fine single engine.
Burt Rutan's Boomerang twin-engine airplane has always used a PowerBook for instrumentation and navigation although the Boomerang's PowerBook installation is more functional than as pretty as the one in the iCar.
I have a UNIX background, including a bit of UNIX on PCs going back 15 years. I'm a Linux newbie, but I've had great luck using Knoppix full time on an obsolete, almost diskless PC in the office.
Based on the idea that "Knoppix is just Debian" I've been trying to install Debian on a PC where Knoppix just plain works. It's driving me nuts. The network install tells me the network card isn't there even though I point it to the right driver (out of 2-3 cryptically-named choices for a RealTek compatible.) I have a slight idea of the appropriate driver options after I boot into Windows and record the interrupts and such Windows sees. Still no luck.
I juggled and made disk space and downloaded the Woody ISOs...and the Sarge ISOs where it says that Sarge will only install if you have Woody first (I think) and the jigdo docs on how the Debian updates have to be applied to the .iso files (under Linux!) and then burned.
Anyway, I'm still willing as time allows to read and learn and try and read and learn and beat this but I KNOW it should be easier because KNOPPIX IS EASIER!
Yeah, I know I can install Knoppix on a hard disk. I want to try and learn "real" Debian.
Yeah, I know I can ask for help on the Debian forums. I have searched there for ideas. Asking for help is another thing I'll do when I get a round tuit.
What I meant was the original poster was decribing a lightning STRIKE. I have witnessed the damage from lots of those in my career, mostly from the fun lightning has with the potentials between phone lines and power lines.
I have always been under the impression that the damage comes when the actual bolt jumps into a power line or phone line somewhere in the neighborhood. If EMP inducing the current is a common cause of lightening damage then I have learned something.
A lightning strike is not EMP, it's an E experience in abundance. EMP=Electromagnetic Pulse as in waves going through the air like radio waves. A lightning strike is extremely high-voltage electric current discharging to and from earth ground in random in ways through wires, conductive objects, and the air.
The best protection from lighting strikes coming in power and phone lines is a surge protector that has a good ground reference (heavy solid conductors to a good earth ground) installed where the services enter the building.
Those of us who were on CompuServe many years before AOL, much less the Internet, was a gleem in Steve Case's eye know how silly an idea THAT was.
As movie critic Roger Ebert explains the result is they started searching movie critics for video cameras at the entrance to film screenings and the MPAA ordered the studios to stop sending out tapes. That gives the major studios a huge advantage over small indie films which are hard to find in theaters.
Once again the security action is misdirection. The movies are leaking from insiders so they hassle outsiders.
The misdirection is a typical response. Like how the 9/11 terrorists used their real names, jumbo airliners, and were in the country legally so the feds make all airline passengers present IDs 22 times, come out up with tough new rules on small planes, and hassle foreigners to make sure they enter the country legally.