The best example I can point to of a concentration camp would be Guantanamo Bay.
The difference is the handling of the protesters in nyc vs boston was the difference in nypd vs bpd. Nypd is good at their job, bpd my be good too, I don't know. I would be fairly surpised if either party had a whole lot of say in how the police handled the crowds.
The crap about the holy war I can leave out of this as flamebait
war vs. police action is an interesting point though. I would say that the war part is done and it is a police action now. (albeit w/ the military as the police)
you know as well as I do that the unemployment number you quote is a bullshit number. That is only people still collecting benefits, not people that have timed out. There are alot more people out of work now than then. Maybe that is just in my sphere of relations.
I will agree that the economy could be worse, could be better, may not be bush's fault. He just hasn't shown any particular leadership in dealing w/ it. OK fair enough, i don't know what to do about it either.
The civil liberties is a big problem. I didn't say they all vanished overnight but they are going. The big problem w/ the patriot act was that it took away some of the checks and balances. It gave the "man on the ground" alot more power to decide if something needed to be done. Alot of these things could be done w/o judicial oversight. That is the main problem. The judicial oversight is necessary. You can't have the cop or fbi agent that is personally involved in a case making the judgement calls on civil liberties. This is why we ahve a judicial oversight, an impartial observer who is supposed to error on the side of personal liberties. (better to have 9 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man convicted and all that).
Bush was directly responsible for some of this. Well, let's say the Bush administration was. I was very happy when the supreme court finally told him that there is no way he can hold citizens w/o a phone call or a lawyer. (gitmo anyone)
Ack. there are plenty, the librarian not allowed to tell the patrons that she gave up their borrowing records. Anyway, we can debate that more if you wish. That right there is enough for me to vote against this administration though.
On to the war. I do agree that Clinton had no real opportunity to mount a real attack w/o an untenable amount of international backlash. We were attacked and we leveled Afganistan for it. This was expected. But we are still there and it is still a quagmire.
Around here is where I start really disagreeing w/ you though. I do not in any way believe that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 (nor has President Bush or his administration ever said so). That is just not true. Where were you when the administration was presenting the "evidence" linking bin Laden to hussein. All the hubbub about Iraq sponsoring terrorist camps. The administration did it's damndest to show us that Iraq was the big problem and we had to do something about it. which brings us to: he was a force of instability in a dangerously unstable region. He, like the Taliban, thumbed his nose at the international community and its very legitimate responses to his past and on-going horrific actions. His army routinely fired on United States pilots patrolling the No-Fly zones imposed by the United Nations itself.
OK, they fired upon planes dropping bombs on them. That isn't exactly surpising. He may have been a threat 10 years ago before we bombed him back to the 19th century and then blockaded him for the next 10 years. Iraq was not a threat. Iraq was a poster child for not fucking w/ the UN. But the Bush administration stood and led us to war. Powell was in front of the UN making his case w/ 27 8x10 glossy photographs and the president assured us there was not only weapons of mass destruction but the means to get them here.
None of this was true. He may have been looking to get them. He may have wanted them. But when "everybody said no, let's try diplomacy" it was largely b/c he wasn't a threat yet. Diplomacy didn't "not work", it was still going. That was the main EU objection to the war, There was no pressing issue demanding it. Other than bush.
I do not agree that there was any real danger in other countries following saddam's defiant stance. Iraq had been effectively cut off from the international community. He was chastized and his country suffered for it. I see nobody that could have looked at teh state of Iraq (pre-war) and think "Gee he really got away w/ it".
You speak of Bush's determination. I'll give you determination, stubborn, bullheaded determination. He decided he wanted a war and went for it. One of the big problems w/ that is... he didn't put nearly as much pla
What is it you support about president bush. We are in a war, the economy is struggling, we are losing our civil rights and all that once made us "the land of the free". What is it that we should like about bush?
Hey, don't underestimate the bait and switch. If the current administration stays in power, do you really think it is beyond them to convince the induhviduals that this would have stopped them? The did the bait and switch very successfully w/ Iraq.
Sure, you might be investigated... but in both cases probably cleared.
This used to be my arguement but it has one fatal flaw. The investigation itself. Sure I could weasle out whatever horrible violation that brought the feds to my door (even if I did it) by pointing out my unsecured wifi connection. But they would still seize my comp gear in the investigation. If it turns out that not all my software is licensed correctly or some of my media may not have easily accessible originals I am still fucked.
why not just integrate the whole lot on the motherboard as just another plug in memory module
As the tech becomes more commonplace they probably will do this. The big advantage to making the interface SCSI or SATA is ease of adoption. W/ the same interface, it becomes just a fancier new drive w/ better specs. W/o the interface it becomes something that requires a decision to design your machine differently.
The biggest question for a prescription like yours is how thick your cornea is. Go to one of these eye docs and he will to a corneal thickness measurement. He needs to have enough cornea to reshape sufficiently to fix your prescription and still have enough of a "buffer zone" to be safe. They will know if they are in the range after a 10 minute visit.
If you do decide to go w/ full boxes I highly recommend sophisticated imaging. Many public internet terminal shops do this. Image your workstation. Then, when a user is done, automagically wipe it and lay down teh image again. Done right, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes and it eliminates problems w/ users downloading/installing/messing around. If you don't want to do it between each user, set them to do it on boot. That way, if you have a problem, your troubleshooting can come down to hitting the reset button.
Just a thought. And BTW, you definitely sound pretty savvy for a non professional. Impressive considering you do a real job too.
Yeah, long term effect is definitely a large concern. I am banking on us being able to grow me a new eyeball by the time these concerns become real. We have roughly 20 years of experience w/ these so far and nothing has changed. The procedure is to burn out a bit of material in teh mid cornea. Supposedly, after a year or two, there is no scar and a doc can't even tell it happened (by looking through a microscope). This may mean, there will be no long term effects (other than the improved sight).
As a glasses user, I gave into science long ago. I would have never been able to make it in a hunter gather type of world. Even in this world w/o relying on technology (glasses) i'd be sunk. Since I gave in so long ago, everything else is an incremental step. I was already refocussing the light as it came to the optical nerve. IMHO, what difference does it make if it is 2" out(glasses), 1.1" out (contacts) or 1" out(LASIK).
My recommendations first and then maybe a short version of the story.
Schedule appts w/ a couple of doctors. I ended up seeing nearly 20 before I chose. You will learn alot about the process. Plus, if you have a stigmatism you get a cool 3d picture of exactly how it looks (mine was hourglass shaped)
Being a comp guy, I decided that the most important factor for me was to get the kewl laser. At my time it was the Visx S3. All teh doctors will tell you they have the coolest laser so do some research. The key points, as I recall, were that the laser tracked and pulsed 10k times/sec (so if I moved my eye it would adjust) and the width of the beam. My pupil was large so I needed a large laser to help minimize the potential for the halo effect at night.
Docs were charging anywere from 500 - 5000 / eye. I ended up w/ a guy at 1800 for both and was very happy. He was in teh same office (same equipment) as one of the 5000/eye guys.
I don't know how much the doc really does. Supposedly, he takes your measurements (perscription, stigmatism, corneal depth) and plugs them into some equation that is fed to the computer. Supposedly, coming up w/ the equation is the "artful" part.
The actual procedure was daunting but fairly painless. I got to the waiting room and spent a few minutes after check in telling myself how stupid I was to be fucking w/ my sight. Glasses aren't so bad, better than being blind, etc...
I was called in and they did the final bits of tests, the long one was to test peripheral vision.
After all the tests they gave me some valium and told me to relax for a bit. About 1/2 hour later, it was time to get zapped. I went into the room and layed down in the chair. they covered me up and gave me a small stuffed teddy bear. Seemed odd at the time but I was fairly glad I had it later. A TV screen above displayed a 27in close up view of my eye. My ex, watching from teh other room, snapped a pic (w/ flash) and got yelled at by the doctor. Then we began.
He administered a bunch of drops of various drugs. He puts a speculum kind of thing around my eye to keep my eyelids out of the way. Then, he brought out the cutter (don't remember the technical term, i would proably opt for the laser version now, they were too new when I did it). He warns me that I am giong to feel some pressure and then my vision is giong to either blur or go out completely. This is basically what glaucoma is I guess. Sure enough, I felt some pressure and bang! complete blackness in that eye. (i think my other eye was covered at this point. i was much more worried about the eye w/ the speculum though so I don't recall) The cutting tool is built into the "pressure giver". I hear a whir and feel a blade go around my eye in a circle. I was anestitized (sp?) but not hurting is not the same as not feeling it. That was fairly scary (but not the worst part).
He pulled the cutter off and I could see the lights above again. My sight came back more or less instantly. Then he reached in w/ a tool and flipped the top of my cornea back. Everything went super blurry and my grip on teh bear tightened.
"Your only job for the next 45 seconds is to look at the red light and DON'T MOVE", ordered teh doc. I looked at the red light and resolved myself to completely immobility. I think the doc even held my head.
The laser made a loud "TAC-TAC-TAC-TAC" and a smell of burning cat drifted to my nostrils. This was definitely the scariest part. This went on for maybe 30 seconds.
A bunch more drops and then he flipped my cornea back down. Holy shit, I can see. I could already tell the lights above me were much clearer.
This whole procedure took maybe 3-4 minutes, max. Then we did teh other eye. I was out of there in less than 10 minutes.
They taped big swisscheesed plstic eyeshields to my face and sent me to a dark room to lie down. By this point, the adreline was definitely beating the valium b
Hotmail left unix long ago. I recall hearing the same things when they first switched over but I believe they put it on an early version of 2k on their second attempt and ran it ok.
I do know that they were one of the sites that dogfooded win 2k3. They were completely converted over a good 8 mths before 2k3 was released to the public.
The headaches will go away after a few "dry" days. I also have trouble staying awake in boring meetings and I find a glass of water helps me just as much as coffee. I rarely drink coffee anymore, aside from the random "hanging out on a sunday w/ good coffee" type thing.
Plus, since I stopped I have gotten back to the point where it works on me, so if i stayed up drinking all night, coffee actually helps me get through the day.
if you haven't plugged it in for 6 mths, how are you getting tv schedule updates? If I leave mine unplugged for more than 2 weeks I run out of data and it stops recording. I guess I could do it by time but then it is just a basic vcr.
I have been travelling and my tivo is being borrowed. if I get hit w/ this bug though, i am going to ditch it and go mythtv.
I have this card and it is fine, though I don't use any of the pvr functions. I wish i had bought the hauppage though. From all i read/hear they work great and they are better supported (MCE and linux). Besides, I am annoyed w/ ATI's driver crap anyway.
I don't have the actual details so you will have to do the googling.
My father works maintenance and a really expensive "assisted living" place. The other day, one of hte tenants comes up to him and says, "I am putting a dish on teh roof".
"Well sir," starts my father, "We are going to have to check w/ management to see if we can do it."
"No, according to section blah blah of FCC code, I can legally do it. I was just letting you know as a courtesy."
And he put it up. The guy was a lawyer and management didn't bitch.
Anecdotal but you may be able to find some fcc code (if it exists). Then you just have to decide if you trust your neighbors enough to leave it in a public space.
not the original poster but i did this once. I was paid pretty well for a college job. i think it was around 10 bux an hour. I don't recall any success minumums but we had to basically stay on teh phone all day.
On a side note, that is the only job i have ever left hanging. One saturday I woke up and realized I just couldn't be that guy any longer. So I just turned over and went to sleep. They treated us like children so I had no feeling of responisiblity to them as I did to other jobs i have had.
we were calling for donations to a hospital. our script had us start out asking for 2 grand and work our way down. my two favorite calls: 1. one lady told me that if I paid for her divorce, she would donate the 2k 2. One guy said he wasn't interested. I asked why? Poor service (this was a hospital remember). Not for him but for his wife. Oh really, I say, what happened? Well, she died. I could understand him not really being interested in giving the hospital that killed his wife a donation so I quickly got off the phone. Apparently the bosses were listening in on that one and told me not to let them off so easily but to continue to press harder. In fact, I think that was the last shift I completed.
MS updating has come a long way. Most any XP machine connected to a real connection has auto update on. Even the most clueless users can generally click "ok, protect my computer". I am on a large road trip now and I have been staying w/ many different families, most w/ little to no computer literacy, but w/ computers. The only ones who aren't keeping up w/ the MS auto update are the ones on dialup.
The other side to this. It is a small step from being trained to click every time MS asks to MS installing new/ changing functionality on you. (say to acquiese to a deal w/ the ??AA). That part is scary.
If you parcel the same zip out to everybody and they start crunching it, won't everybody be working on teh same part of the picture? Even w/ a pseudo random start point how are you guaranteeing all the nodes are working on all the pieces. I assume you have thought of this. The post seems to say that the more people you get, the more resolution you will have at the end. How are you doing this? How are you piecing together all the crunched numbers?
don't know if you are building an MS based system but MS has a virtual machine emulator in workable beta. I have spoken w/ companies using it w/ great success.
In all honesty, I wish the Russians had the American budget. They have proven their worth more than once in innovation, and it's a shame they can no longer afford it.
The russians prove their ingenuity b/c they have to or they don't get it done b/c they don't have the budget. THey have to figure other ways to do things. When I was first entering the workforce, it seemed as if all the russians produced really good tight code. We later realized why, you have to be efficient if your equipment is obsolete. Nothing bad here, just an observation
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The best example I can point to of a concentration camp would be Guantanamo Bay.
The difference is the handling of the protesters in nyc vs boston was the difference in nypd vs bpd. Nypd is good at their job, bpd my be good too, I don't know. I would be fairly surpised if either party had a whole lot of say in how the police handled the crowds.
The crap about the holy war I can leave out of this as flamebait
war vs. police action is an interesting point though. I would say that the war part is done and it is a police action now. (albeit w/ the military as the police)
you know as well as I do that the unemployment number you quote is a bullshit number. That is only people still collecting benefits, not people that have timed out. There are alot more people out of work now than then. Maybe that is just in my sphere of relations.
Ok, there are quite a few things to go over here.
I will agree that the economy could be worse, could be better, may not be bush's fault. He just hasn't shown any particular leadership in dealing w/ it. OK fair enough, i don't know what to do about it either.
The civil liberties is a big problem. I didn't say they all vanished overnight but they are going. The big problem w/ the patriot act was that it took away some of the checks and balances. It gave the "man on the ground" alot more power to decide if something needed to be done. Alot of these things could be done w/o judicial oversight. That is the main problem. The judicial oversight is necessary. You can't have the cop or fbi agent that is personally involved in a case making the judgement calls on civil liberties. This is why we ahve a judicial oversight, an impartial observer who is supposed to error on the side of personal liberties. (better to have 9 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man convicted and all that).
Bush was directly responsible for some of this. Well, let's say the Bush administration was. I was very happy when the supreme court finally told him that there is no way he can hold citizens w/o a phone call or a lawyer. (gitmo anyone)
Ack. there are plenty, the librarian not allowed to tell the patrons that she gave up their borrowing records. Anyway, we can debate that more if you wish. That right there is enough for me to vote against this administration though.
On to the war. I do agree that Clinton had no real opportunity to mount a real attack w/o an untenable amount of international backlash. We were attacked and we leveled Afganistan for it. This was expected. But we are still there and it is still a quagmire.
Around here is where I start really disagreeing w/ you though.
I do not in any way believe that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 (nor has President Bush or his administration ever said so).
That is just not true. Where were you when the administration was presenting the "evidence" linking bin Laden to hussein. All the hubbub about Iraq sponsoring terrorist camps. The administration did it's damndest to show us that Iraq was the big problem and we had to do something about it. which brings us to:
he was a force of instability in a dangerously unstable region. He, like the Taliban, thumbed his nose at the international community and its very legitimate responses to his past and on-going horrific actions. His army routinely fired on United States pilots patrolling the No-Fly zones imposed by the United Nations itself.
OK, they fired upon planes dropping bombs on them. That isn't exactly surpising. He may have been a threat 10 years ago before we bombed him back to the 19th century and then blockaded him for the next 10 years. Iraq was not a threat. Iraq was a poster child for not fucking w/ the UN. But the Bush administration stood and led us to war. Powell was in front of the UN making his case w/ 27 8x10 glossy photographs and the president assured us there was not only weapons of mass destruction but the means to get them here.
None of this was true. He may have been looking to get them. He may have wanted them. But when "everybody said no, let's try diplomacy" it was largely b/c he wasn't a threat yet. Diplomacy didn't "not work", it was still going. That was the main EU objection to the war, There was no pressing issue demanding it. Other than bush.
I do not agree that there was any real danger in other countries following saddam's defiant stance. Iraq had been effectively cut off from the international community. He was chastized and his country suffered for it. I see nobody that could have looked at teh state of Iraq (pre-war) and think "Gee he really got away w/ it".
You speak of Bush's determination. I'll give you determination, stubborn, bullheaded determination. He decided he wanted a war and went for it. One of the big problems w/ that is... he didn't put nearly as much pla
OK, this has been bugging me....
What is it you support about president bush. We are in a war, the economy is struggling, we are losing our civil rights and all that once made us "the land of the free". What is it that we should like about bush?
no, really...what?
Hey,
don't underestimate the bait and switch. If the current administration stays in power, do you really think it is beyond them to convince the induhviduals that this would have stopped them? The did the bait and switch very successfully w/ Iraq.
Sure, you might be investigated... but in both cases probably cleared.
This used to be my arguement but it has one fatal flaw. The investigation itself. Sure I could weasle out whatever horrible violation that brought the feds to my door (even if I did it) by pointing out my unsecured wifi connection. But they would still seize my comp gear in the investigation. If it turns out that not all my software is licensed correctly or some of my media may not have easily accessible originals I am still fucked.
why not just integrate the whole lot on the motherboard as just another plug in memory module
As the tech becomes more commonplace they probably will do this. The big advantage to making the interface SCSI or SATA is ease of adoption. W/ the same interface, it becomes just a fancier new drive w/ better specs. W/o the interface it becomes something that requires a decision to design your machine differently.
The biggest question for a prescription like yours is how thick your cornea is. Go to one of these eye docs and he will to a corneal thickness measurement. He needs to have enough cornea to reshape sufficiently to fix your prescription and still have enough of a "buffer zone" to be safe. They will know if they are in the range after a 10 minute visit.
good luck
If you do decide to go w/ full boxes I highly recommend sophisticated imaging. Many public internet terminal shops do this. Image your workstation. Then, when a user is done, automagically wipe it and lay down teh image again. Done right, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes and it eliminates problems w/ users downloading/installing/messing around. If you don't want to do it between each user, set them to do it on boot. That way, if you have a problem, your troubleshooting can come down to hitting the reset button.
Just a thought. And BTW, you definitely sound pretty savvy for a non professional. Impressive considering you do a real job too.
Yeah, long term effect is definitely a large concern. I am banking on us being able to grow me a new eyeball by the time these concerns become real. We have roughly 20 years of experience w/ these so far and nothing has changed. The procedure is to burn out a bit of material in teh mid cornea. Supposedly, after a year or two, there is no scar and a doc can't even tell it happened (by looking through a microscope). This may mean, there will be no long term effects (other than the improved sight).
As a glasses user, I gave into science long ago. I would have never been able to make it in a hunter gather type of world. Even in this world w/o relying on technology (glasses) i'd be sunk. Since I gave in so long ago, everything else is an incremental step. I was already refocussing the light as it came to the optical nerve. IMHO, what difference does it make if it is 2" out(glasses), 1.1" out (contacts) or 1" out(LASIK).
Well, bring on the bionics.
ej
The title is the short version.
My recommendations first and then maybe a short version of the story.
Schedule appts w/ a couple of doctors. I ended up seeing nearly 20 before I chose. You will learn alot about the process. Plus, if you have a stigmatism you get a cool 3d picture of exactly how it looks (mine was hourglass shaped)
Being a comp guy, I decided that the most important factor for me was to get the kewl laser. At my time it was the Visx S3. All teh doctors will tell you they have the coolest laser so do some research. The key points, as I recall, were that the laser tracked and pulsed 10k times/sec (so if I moved my eye it would adjust) and the width of the beam. My pupil was large so I needed a large laser to help minimize the potential for the halo effect at night.
Docs were charging anywere from 500 - 5000 / eye. I ended up w/ a guy at 1800 for both and was very happy. He was in teh same office (same equipment) as one of the 5000/eye guys.
I don't know how much the doc really does. Supposedly, he takes your measurements (perscription, stigmatism, corneal depth) and plugs them into some equation that is fed to the computer. Supposedly, coming up w/ the equation is the "artful" part.
The actual procedure was daunting but fairly painless. I got to the waiting room and spent a few minutes after check in telling myself how stupid I was to be fucking w/ my sight. Glasses aren't so bad, better than being blind, etc...
I was called in and they did the final bits of tests, the long one was to test peripheral vision.
After all the tests they gave me some valium and told me to relax for a bit. About 1/2 hour later, it was time to get zapped. I went into the room and layed down in the chair. they covered me up and gave me a small stuffed teddy bear. Seemed odd at the time but I was fairly glad I had it later. A TV screen above displayed a 27in close up view of my eye. My ex, watching from teh other room, snapped a pic (w/ flash) and got yelled at by the doctor. Then we began.
He administered a bunch of drops of various drugs. He puts a speculum kind of thing around my eye to keep my eyelids out of the way. Then, he brought out the cutter (don't remember the technical term, i would proably opt for the laser version now, they were too new when I did it). He warns me that I am giong to feel some pressure and then my vision is giong to either blur or go out completely. This is basically what glaucoma is I guess. Sure enough, I felt some pressure and bang! complete blackness in that eye. (i think my other eye was covered at this point. i was much more worried about the eye w/ the speculum though so I don't recall) The cutting tool is built into the "pressure giver". I hear a whir and feel a blade go around my eye in a circle. I was anestitized (sp?) but not hurting is not the same as not feeling it. That was fairly scary (but not the worst part).
He pulled the cutter off and I could see the lights above again. My sight came back more or less instantly. Then he reached in w/ a tool and flipped the top of my cornea back. Everything went super blurry and my grip on teh bear tightened.
"Your only job for the next 45 seconds is to look at the red light and DON'T MOVE", ordered teh doc. I looked at the red light and resolved myself to completely immobility. I think the doc even held my head.
The laser made a loud "TAC-TAC-TAC-TAC" and a smell of burning cat drifted to my nostrils. This was definitely the scariest part. This went on for maybe 30 seconds.
A bunch more drops and then he flipped my cornea back down. Holy shit, I can see. I could already tell the lights above me were much clearer.
This whole procedure took maybe 3-4 minutes, max. Then we did teh other eye. I was out of there in less than 10 minutes.
They taped big swisscheesed plstic eyeshields to my face and sent me to a dark room to lie down. By this point, the adreline was definitely beating the valium b
Hotmail left unix long ago. I recall hearing the same things when they first switched over but I believe they put it on an early version of 2k on their second attempt and ran it ok.
I do know that they were one of the sites that dogfooded win 2k3. They were completely converted over a good 8 mths before 2k3 was released to the public.
he fault there was with the poorly-coded app, not the OS.
Nope, sorry. I don't care how hard an app crashes, if it brings down the OS, it is the OS's fault.
The headaches will go away after a few "dry" days. I also have trouble staying awake in boring meetings and I find a glass of water helps me just as much as coffee. I rarely drink coffee anymore, aside from the random "hanging out on a sunday w/ good coffee" type thing.
Plus, since I stopped I have gotten back to the point where it works on me, so if i stayed up drinking all night, coffee actually helps me get through the day.
ej
if you haven't plugged it in for 6 mths, how are you getting tv schedule updates? If I leave mine unplugged for more than 2 weeks I run out of data and it stops recording. I guess I could do it by time but then it is just a basic vcr.
I have been travelling and my tivo is being borrowed. if I get hit w/ this bug though, i am going to ditch it and go mythtv.
I have this card and it is fine, though I don't use any of the pvr functions. I wish i had bought the hauppage though. From all i read/hear they work great and they are better supported (MCE and linux). Besides, I am annoyed w/ ATI's driver crap anyway.
most of them just have some of that shiny tape that leaves the "shiny" behind if you peel it back. if it isn't intact you have voided your warranty.
Not sure if dell is like that but some are. (not that I have had a waranteed machine in at least 5 years...)
because no american show has ever aired there, huh? and you make all your own movies too, no hollywood drivel in your neck of the woods.
I don't have the actual details so you will have to do the googling.
My father works maintenance and a really expensive "assisted living" place. The other day, one of hte tenants comes up to him and says, "I am putting a dish on teh roof".
"Well sir," starts my father, "We are going to have to check w/ management to see if we can do it."
"No, according to section blah blah of FCC code, I can legally do it. I was just letting you know as a courtesy."
And he put it up. The guy was a lawyer and management didn't bitch.
Anecdotal but you may be able to find some fcc code (if it exists). Then you just have to decide if you trust your neighbors enough to leave it in a public space.
To make it more even handed we simply need to put them all in a padded room together and whoever comes out alive wins.
and of course, you then have that guy on murder charges. Do it all in TX and give him the chair
not the original poster but i did this once. I was paid pretty well for a college job. i think it was around 10 bux an hour. I don't recall any success minumums but we had to basically stay on teh phone all day.
On a side note, that is the only job i have ever left hanging. One saturday I woke up and realized I just couldn't be that guy any longer. So I just turned over and went to sleep. They treated us like children so I had no feeling of responisiblity to them as I did to other jobs i have had.
we were calling for donations to a hospital. our script had us start out asking for 2 grand and work our way down. my two favorite calls:
1. one lady told me that if I paid for her divorce, she would donate the 2k
2. One guy said he wasn't interested. I asked why? Poor service (this was a hospital remember). Not for him but for his wife. Oh really, I say, what happened? Well, she died. I could understand him not really being interested in giving the hospital that killed his wife a donation so I quickly got off the phone. Apparently the bosses were listening in on that one and told me not to let them off so easily but to continue to press harder. In fact, I think that was the last shift I completed.
MS updating has come a long way. Most any XP machine connected to a real connection has auto update on. Even the most clueless users can generally click "ok, protect my computer". I am on a large road trip now and I have been staying w/ many different families, most w/ little to no computer literacy, but w/ computers. The only ones who aren't keeping up w/ the MS auto update are the ones on dialup.
The other side to this. It is a small step from being trained to click every time MS asks to MS installing new/ changing functionality on you. (say to acquiese to a deal w/ the ??AA). That part is scary.
you're an idiot. SETI parcels out a different package to each user. This guy didn't seem to be doing that, hence the question.
If you parcel the same zip out to everybody and they start crunching it, won't everybody be working on teh same part of the picture? Even w/ a pseudo random start point how are you guaranteeing all the nodes are working on all the pieces. I assume you have thought of this. The post seems to say that the more people you get, the more resolution you will have at the end. How are you doing this? How are you piecing together all the crunched numbers?
don't know if you are building an MS based system but MS has a virtual machine emulator in workable beta. I have spoken w/ companies using it w/ great success.
In all honesty, I wish the Russians had the American budget. They have proven their worth more than once in innovation, and it's a shame they can no longer afford it.
The russians prove their ingenuity b/c they have to or they don't get it done b/c they don't have the budget. THey have to figure other ways to do things. When I was first entering the workforce, it seemed as if all the russians produced really good tight code. We later realized why, you have to be efficient if your equipment is obsolete. Nothing bad here, just an observation