Sitting on my bookshelf is the first issue, with a copy of the ORIGINAL Ad for the magazine (I assume Dad cut it out of Penthouse - I was a tad young), with it's Original name - NOVA
Back when, the religious posts were not as ingrained - you would actually see reasoned discussions of the pros/cons of Microsoft Technology, but that's been gone a LONG long time (Look at my user ID - and it's not my original one - I lost the password to that one)
No, the broadcasters do NOT turn up the level on the commercials, the producers of the commercials do so - the guys running the tranmission chain at the stations run the tapes at the standard levels
It's the whole "Music loudness wars" all over - just for TV
which is part of the reason the "we deleted the raw data/we can't release the raw data due to confidentiality" stand over at East Anglica is so disturbing to ME. No one can try to reproduce their work from the raw data, so how can their work be checked for bias, either intentionally, or unintentionally? (Not saying there is, or is NOT a bias, just that it can't be checked)
Traditionally, in science, you're supposed to treat any new science/finding skeptically until people have reproduced/confirmed the science
I've always wondered with say, climate science (or any other seriously model based science) if they are doing the "blindly take a subsample of the data, develop your model, and then check against the rest of your data" routine? I know most good models do this.
There seems to be a distinct lack of things like "lab books" where everything is written down, and can't be fudged. "I have A, that I got from person 1, here is what I did..." all the way through, so that we can reproduce it
Of course, there is the whole "If someone is going to that point, is it really worth the worry, or do we have more imprtant things to worry about?" (like someone sticking a hidden camera watching the screen)
The Sanitation Inspectors (NOT the guys who pick up the trash - yes, we have police officers who do nothing but ticket trash violations) can get really crazy. I had one guy who ticketed me "Your newspapers are in a clear recycling bag, instead of tied up" - it was dismissed, as you're allowed to have them in a bag or tied up, but I had to fight it
God forbid someone tosses a can in the regular trash, or regular trash (say a McD's bag or whatever) in your recycling bin while it's sitting out front
One of the main reasons we stopped buying the newspaper is recycling. It's a PITA to have to store them, tie them up, etc. When the recycling rules/fines for getting it wrong got to the point where the paper became a pain, we stopped buying the paper
How do you say that - AT&T, and the other cell carriers paid for their airspace - we have collected taxtes back for our investment - I do say we should tax the snot out of them, but..
Listen, they don't want to invest, what SHOULD happen to them is what SHOULD have happened to GM - Out of business - the folks who blead them dry lose their investment (including the unions with the pensions). Oh well
You say demand is going to increase. You seem to forget there is a tradeoff - Supply, demand and cost - you really can play with the curve - too much demand for the amount of supply, you can easily increase cost, and it reduces demand. You can also increase supply to meet the demand
Maybe they are happy with the amount of cost/demand they are at right now. Are they losing customers due to low supply? Some (I won't get an iPhone because of it). Thing is, does it behoove them to build new cell sites to make me switch over? Probably not, as they won't make enough profit on me
Heck, if they have people clamoring for iPhones (They do) and for more bandwidth (they do), they can probably increase costs, and not improve their network at all. Don't like the package - go elsewhere
I wonder how much of this would have happened if it wasn't for RoHS? Let's face it, lead was in solder for a reason, and it's not like there was a huge lead problem due to solder - but when you get rid of all the top sources, something else is then the "top"
Sneaking a sniffer into a temest secure facility - OH, YOU are a funny person, even if you don't mean to be - hint - no electronic devices in or out, and you have a TS clearance just to walk in the front door
Up until the mid 1980s (can't remember the exact year) the codeword TEMPEST itself was classified at least Secret - I never needed to know more than "It's a kind of RF testing - here are some of the labs that do it, get some quotes for us" - and no, it wasn't done over the phone. I remember when it was declassified because I could finally get quotes on the phone. Ended up that the company I worked for never did win any of the contacts that needed TEMPEST, so I never had my security bumped up to do the work (I would have been the guy to go to the labs)
Not only not new, but the codeword Tempest was declassified in the 80s - not the standards, just the codeword. The Government has been doing this for a LONG time
It's not even that. ARES is reusing a LOT of parts from the STS, including jigs, fixtures, drawings etc. Guess what units they used when designed back in the 1970s? Hint, it wasn't metric
actually, max/day is 4000mg - I have a standing script for 4/day of 7.5-750s right now. When my leg wound was BAD, I was on 10-500s, with Advil (600mg) as a chaser. yes, I was in PAIN - serious pain. At one point I was in the hospital for 2 weeks for infection control and morphine (6mg every 4)
Chronic severe pain is NOT something I'd wish on anyone
The good news is I'm down to 1-2 pills on a bad day, on a GOOD day, no pills
The problem is that in the USA, the ones without the acetaminophen are what, schedule II - the other reason they were sold mixed was to prevent folks from taking 20 "You'll die if you do that"
Heck, you guys still often give weights in Stones, and we won't go into BA and Whitworth fasteners
Me? My hobby is having a machine shop - I have no problems with someone saying something is 110.134 inches - it's as decimal as metric - we just don't use feet and the like
Then again, I do have to look up "what exactly IS the diameter of a #6 screw" (actually, I almost never care - I grab the drill index that has the slot for the #23 (i think off the top of my head) drill (wire gages - yea!) run it in, and tap the hole
We get to deal with all sorts of weird stuff - Inches, MM, wire gage, sheetmetal gage, B&S gage (all different) - Morse tapers (and it's a different angle on every size), Jacob taper (a 33 is sized between a 2 and a 3)
I have one recurring job I do - mill a 3/4"x5/8"x.410" pocket into 1/2steel, then center drill the side wall with a #2 center drill, and finish with a 6mm holeto fit a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack, onto which I've soldered 26 gage wire - How many different units of measue did I just use?
I love some of the fudged metric units "A4" paper - yeah, there is a metric measure for you - why not just use A sized? I know - so that the A4 comes out even in MM, but still
1) ALL the servers in the company run anti-virus - it's the policy of the company we outsourced that stuff to 2) Install windows - yeah, when WE want to install stuff, they make sure we document stuff out the wazoo - but they seem to do what they please 3)Testing lab - Yep, can see that - they have a lab, but not one where developers can well, develop, and do things like hit the development servers - One of the previous places I worked, they stuck us on out own isolated segment - probably the best way - but see #1 above 4) Well, we tend to need Admin rights, as we are developing Winforms aps, and without Admin, you can't install/test DLLs 4A) We never ask them to troubleshoot our boxes - we have one in department guy who is "ours", but in general, the idea is "you break it, you fix it" - I tend to do anything at all risky in a VM setup with rollback disks, and just roll back as needed
We often NEED special configurations on our machines "YES, we need an account with Admin rights on our box, NO we don't need it every day. We can either have 2 accounts, or one admin account"
We often have strange requests, that are high priority "Guys, that latest push of the new rules for NAV just broke a Mission Critical application on boxes Name and Name, at IP addresses NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN - I need it fixed NOW, or we go off the air (we're a TV station)" (They learned from THAT mistake NOT to mess with those 2 boxes with calling us FIRST (which had been documented - in writing, renewed every 6 months - "special application - Ports NNNN must be open" - the "missed" that - and did the primary AND backup at the same time)
On the other hand, we will do our best to try and keep our boxes running. The "fun" comes when you look at them and say "Listen, I want to dual boot to Win7 (or Vista or...), so that I can test my development under both platforms, can you join it to the domain" - around here the usual response is "We are still evaluating Win7 (or Vista or SP3 or..), and you can have it when it rolls out to the users" (Great - so now the users software might break because we could spend a few days making sure it would work)
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I have a copy of the AD for it called NOVA, not the Mag. I have Issue 1 of Omni - with a full page ad for "Nova" showing the cover
Sitting on my bookshelf is the first issue, with a copy of the ORIGINAL Ad for the magazine (I assume Dad cut it out of Penthouse - I was a tad young), with it's Original name - NOVA
Back when, the religious posts were not as ingrained - you would actually see reasoned discussions of the pros/cons of Microsoft Technology, but that's been gone a LONG long time (Look at my user ID - and it's not my original one - I lost the password to that one)
Only time I WAS in broadcast end was in college radio
Nope - and I don't watch ANY TV, rarely any videos - and haven't since long before I worked for them (Last show I watched was B5)
BTW - I should have put a disclaimer in there - I work for one of the TV Networks, but NOT in the broadcast area - and hint - I never watch TV
No, the broadcasters do NOT turn up the level on the commercials, the producers of the commercials do so - the guys running the tranmission chain at the stations run the tapes at the standard levels
It's the whole "Music loudness wars" all over - just for TV
which is part of the reason the "we deleted the raw data/we can't release the raw data due to confidentiality" stand over at East Anglica is so disturbing to ME. No one can try to reproduce their work from the raw data, so how can their work be checked for bias, either intentionally, or unintentionally? (Not saying there is, or is NOT a bias, just that it can't be checked)
Traditionally, in science, you're supposed to treat any new science/finding skeptically until people have reproduced/confirmed the science
I've always wondered with say, climate science (or any other seriously model based science) if they are doing the "blindly take a subsample of the data, develop your model, and then check against the rest of your data" routine? I know most good models do this.
There seems to be a distinct lack of things like "lab books" where everything is written down, and can't be fudged. "I have A, that I got from person 1, here is what I did..." all the way through, so that we can reproduce it
Sigh
Guess it wasn't a motto, but a command to us to follow, then we have nothing to hide, eh?
Of course, there is the whole "If someone is going to that point, is it really worth the worry, or do we have more imprtant things to worry about?" (like someone sticking a hidden camera watching the screen)
You DO have a choice - Spend $599 for the Droid - you'll be on a month to month, and you can walk at will
The Sanitation Inspectors (NOT the guys who pick up the trash - yes, we have police officers who do nothing but ticket trash violations) can get really crazy. I had one guy who ticketed me "Your newspapers are in a clear recycling bag, instead of tied up" - it was dismissed, as you're allowed to have them in a bag or tied up, but I had to fight it
God forbid someone tosses a can in the regular trash, or regular trash (say a McD's bag or whatever) in your recycling bin while it's sitting out front
One of the main reasons we stopped buying the newspaper is recycling. It's a PITA to have to store them, tie them up, etc. When the recycling rules/fines for getting it wrong got to the point where the paper became a pain, we stopped buying the paper
How do you say that - AT&T, and the other cell carriers paid for their airspace - we have collected taxtes back for our investment - I do say we should tax the snot out of them, but..
Listen, they don't want to invest, what SHOULD happen to them is what SHOULD have happened to GM - Out of business - the folks who blead them dry lose their investment (including the unions with the pensions). Oh well
You say demand is going to increase. You seem to forget there is a tradeoff - Supply, demand and cost - you really can play with the curve - too much demand for the amount of supply, you can easily increase cost, and it reduces demand. You can also increase supply to meet the demand
Maybe they are happy with the amount of cost/demand they are at right now. Are they losing customers due to low supply? Some (I won't get an iPhone because of it). Thing is, does it behoove them to build new cell sites to make me switch over? Probably not, as they won't make enough profit on me
Heck, if they have people clamoring for iPhones (They do) and for more bandwidth (they do), they can probably increase costs, and not improve their network at all. Don't like the package - go elsewhere
I wonder how much of this would have happened if it wasn't for RoHS? Let's face it, lead was in solder for a reason, and it's not like there was a huge lead problem due to solder - but when you get rid of all the top sources, something else is then the "top"
Last time I needed to really kill a drive, I put it in the lathe, and turned the platters - nice snall swarf chips
Sneaking a sniffer into a temest secure facility - OH, YOU are a funny person, even if you don't mean to be - hint - no electronic devices in or out, and you have a TS clearance just to walk in the front door
Up until the mid 1980s (can't remember the exact year) the codeword TEMPEST itself was classified at least Secret - I never needed to know more than "It's a kind of RF testing - here are some of the labs that do it, get some quotes for us" - and no, it wasn't done over the phone. I remember when it was declassified because I could finally get quotes on the phone. Ended up that the company I worked for never did win any of the contacts that needed TEMPEST, so I never had my security bumped up to do the work (I would have been the guy to go to the labs)
Not only not new, but the codeword Tempest was declassified in the 80s - not the standards, just the codeword. The Government has been doing this for a LONG time
It's not even that. ARES is reusing a LOT of parts from the STS, including jigs, fixtures, drawings etc. Guess what units they used when designed back in the 1970s? Hint, it wasn't metric
actually, max/day is 4000mg - I have a standing script for 4/day of 7.5-750s right now. When my leg wound was BAD, I was on 10-500s, with Advil (600mg) as a chaser. yes, I was in PAIN - serious pain. At one point I was in the hospital for 2 weeks for infection control and morphine (6mg every 4)
Chronic severe pain is NOT something I'd wish on anyone
The good news is I'm down to 1-2 pills on a bad day, on a GOOD day, no pills
The problem is that in the USA, the ones without the acetaminophen are what, schedule II - the other reason they were sold mixed was to prevent folks from taking 20 "You'll die if you do that"
Heck, you guys still often give weights in Stones, and we won't go into BA and Whitworth fasteners
Me? My hobby is having a machine shop - I have no problems with someone saying something is 110.134 inches - it's as decimal as metric - we just don't use feet and the like
Then again, I do have to look up "what exactly IS the diameter of a #6 screw" (actually, I almost never care - I grab the drill index that has the slot for the #23 (i think off the top of my head) drill (wire gages - yea!) run it in, and tap the hole
We get to deal with all sorts of weird stuff - Inches, MM, wire gage, sheetmetal gage, B&S gage (all different) - Morse tapers (and it's a different angle on every size), Jacob taper (a 33 is sized between a 2 and a 3)
I have one recurring job I do - mill a 3/4"x5/8"x.410" pocket into 1/2steel, then center drill the side wall with a #2 center drill, and finish with a 6mm holeto fit a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack, onto which I've soldered 26 gage wire - How many different units of measue did I just use?
I love some of the fudged metric units "A4" paper - yeah, there is a metric measure for you - why not just use A sized? I know - so that the A4 comes out even in MM, but still
1) ALL the servers in the company run anti-virus - it's the policy of the company we outsourced that stuff to
2) Install windows - yeah, when WE want to install stuff, they make sure we document stuff out the wazoo - but they seem to do what they please
3)Testing lab - Yep, can see that - they have a lab, but not one where developers can well, develop, and do things like hit the development servers - One of the previous places I worked, they stuck us on out own isolated segment - probably the best way - but see #1 above
4) Well, we tend to need Admin rights, as we are developing Winforms aps, and without Admin, you can't install/test DLLs
4A) We never ask them to troubleshoot our boxes - we have one in department guy who is "ours", but in general, the idea is "you break it, you fix it" - I tend to do anything at all risky in a VM setup with rollback disks, and just roll back as needed
As a developer, we can be both a PITA and great
We often NEED special configurations on our machines "YES, we need an account with Admin rights on our box, NO we don't need it every day. We can either have 2 accounts, or one admin account"
We often have strange requests, that are high priority "Guys, that latest push of the new rules for NAV just broke a Mission Critical application on boxes Name and Name, at IP addresses NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN - I need it fixed NOW, or we go off the air (we're a TV station)" (They learned from THAT mistake NOT to mess with those 2 boxes with calling us FIRST (which had been documented - in writing, renewed every 6 months - "special application - Ports NNNN must be open" - the "missed" that - and did the primary AND backup at the same time)
On the other hand, we will do our best to try and keep our boxes running. The "fun" comes when you look at them and say "Listen, I want to dual boot to Win7 (or Vista or...), so that I can test my development under both platforms, can you join it to the domain" - around here the usual response is "We are still evaluating Win7 (or Vista or SP3 or..), and you can have it when it rolls out to the users" (Great - so now the users software might break because we could spend a few days making sure it would work)