What really gets me ROTFLMSAO is that the original drive to get rid of analog TV was so that the Government could make a bundle by selling off the frequencies.
At last look, the proceeds from selling those frequencies won't cover this program, though.
I thought that radio stations paid the record companies a license fee in order to broadcast their music? Can somebody in the industry (or with knowhow) clarify how this works?
No, they are only required to pay the composers. The artists get nothing, which is why so many of them write their own (mediocre at best) material rather than cover something better. That, and they use the records and airtime to get fans for concert gigs, which is where the real money is.
Now, "Internet radio" is something else. They have to pay per play not only to the composers but to the record labels, and they pay handsomely. Of course, the artists still don't get anything but at least we're being protected from the horrors of radio over the Internet.
It is stupid, however, I don't need to tell my State legislature this because they already agree. I live in Arizona; we don't do that DST crap (except for some of the tribes up north, I have no idea why they got suckered into that).
It it isn't obvious, I'm also in Arizona.
As for the Navajo, it's pretty simple. The Big Res is split between NM and AZ, with more of it in NM and more contact with off-res there. Thus, since the Tribe (reasonably) wanted a single Navajo time, they stayed with NM. Can't really fault them for that.
That extra hour of daylight after work is seriously awesome.
That extra hour working late, waiting for the temperature to come down to the point where you can get into your car without risking second-degree burns?
That extra hour of hiding in your air-conditioned house waiting for the temperature to come down to the point where cooking dinner won't run up the bill for the whole month?
That extra hour of waiting for it to cool off enough that you can get some chores done without risking heatstroke?
And don't forget:
The one less hour before work at the only time of day when you can actually go outside for more than a brief dash?
The one less hour before work when you can do chores without risking heatstroke?
The one less hour before work when you might even (briefly) enjoy being outside during the early spring and early fall?
Yeah, great idea. Keep people inside with the AC cranked up. That sure saves the country energy.
How does this work with NTP? Will the system just stay up-to-date from another system that understands the new rules, or does NTP all work on UTC so that it's not aware of this, or something?
NTP will keep you system clock (as Heaven intends) coordinated with UTC.
However, if you're using an old zoneinfo file for local time, the interpretation of that UTC time is something else again, and NTP won't help you at all.
(Well, assuming you don't live in Arizona or Hawaii. Indiana's timing sucks, doesn't it?)
Or, of course, you could have dealt with the root cause of the problem: the biannual insanity of running around changing otherwise perfectly good clocks.
How many of you, after all, have told your State legislatures that this is stupid and it's time to opt out?
I've been reading this bull for over thirty years. Every year, some group or another projects engineering job growth in the USA to vastly outstrip the number of available engineers, regardless of the engineering unemployment rate.
It always turns out be published by large employers (who would love to have higher unemployment rates to keep salary competition under control) and universities (who of course want more paying students.) It also usually involves funny bookkeeping, such as five different defense contractors all assuming that they'll get a contract and all planning to staff up accordingly. Multiply by the whole economy.
In the Gates piece, he curiously segues from "IT employment" to "CS degrees" without mentioning that most of the projected IT jobs don't require CS degrees, and in fact that a CS degree would likely get you turned down as overqualified. How curious -- that would put you in the "unemployed CS" market, depressing CS salary competition.
For quite a while the rule has been, "don't upgrade until the first service pack." With that in mind, SP1 has been moving earlier and earlier to drive upgrades.
I suppose that the day will come when SP1 arrives coincidentally with the official release -- or maybe even sooner.
About time -- here it's taken something like fifteen years to get back the damage done when Symantec bought it out and plowed it under (presumably in favor of the Norton Desktop.)
hows about this you setup your rig it gets put in the cargo hold and then at 30K it goes off and turns into a glob of metal
possibles
1 fire on the plane torch the luggage (fail the airframe)
2 very large hole in the plane (the cargo hold drops to not many psi or 0.0?? atmospheres)
3 get very lucky and you might sever the flyby wire system (oops backups should get the plane on the ground)
4 depending on what the plane is doing you might hit a fuel tank (fails the airframe OOH NIFTY KABOOM)
Never been much around thermite, have you?
The stuff turns into a blob of iron and alumina at thousands of degrees Celsius, which will "drip" through an amazing amount of just about anything on its way to the center of the Earth.
A kilogram of it won't have any problem at all getting to the skin of the bird -- which it will immediately heat to well above the ignition point of aluminum. If you have enough of it (and I don't know what "enough" is but am willing to bet it would fit in a suitcase) you can get that skin to a sustainable reaction, especially given the above-mentioned forced air feed.
Have you ever seen an aluminum fire? Now consider a hundred tons of aluminum fire...
I wonder how it is at distinguishing between common metallic solids and thermite?
A little oxidized iron, a little aluminum powder, a tiny amount of binder, press, and you have the makings of some attractive plaques or statuary. A bit of magnesium wire and a battery and you have everything you need to start a large mass of aluminum burning. Spectacularly.
Good thing none of the Bad Guys have the brains of a flatworm. Or at least, that's what our whole air travel security strategy assumes.
So, we were doing it 25 years ago, we still need to do it today, what have the schools been doing in the time in between?
They've been responding to the demands of the companies that provide them with grant money: crank out people we can hire today with minimal post-hire training. Ideally, ones who will work cheaply so that we can keep a lid on salaries for the senior staff who we can accuse of being "behind the times."
My vote is for someone who understands the fundamentals and how to extend them -- thinkers, in other words. Education, not training. The well-trained monkeys start out with a few months head start in knowing tools (if they're lucky) and after that fall behind for the rest of their careers. Before you know it their only options are Marketing and Management.
I'll second the unanimous opinion of the professors we spoke with at quite a few Universities when the boys were deciding where to go: "You can never get too much math or physics." It didn't matter whether they were professors in engineering, CS, physics,...
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At last look, the proceeds from selling those frequencies won't cover this program, though.
... tossing your beer is only the start. Next, get it to toss its cookies.
Now, "Internet radio" is something else. They have to pay per play not only to the composers but to the record labels, and they pay handsomely. Of course, the artists still don't get anything but at least we're being protected from the horrors of radio over the Internet.
... is how Clear Channel and the Big Five are going to neuter this so that they technically comply but don't mess up a good thing.
As for the Navajo, it's pretty simple. The Big Res is split between NM and AZ, with more of it in NM and more contact with off-res there. Thus, since the Tribe (reasonably) wanted a single Navajo time, they stayed with NM. Can't really fault them for that.
That extra hour of hiding in your air-conditioned house waiting for the temperature to come down to the point where cooking dinner won't run up the bill for the whole month?
That extra hour of waiting for it to cool off enough that you can get some chores done without risking heatstroke?
And don't forget:
The one less hour before work at the only time of day when you can actually go outside for more than a brief dash?
The one less hour before work when you can do chores without risking heatstroke?
The one less hour before work when you might even (briefly) enjoy being outside during the early spring and early fall?
Yeah, great idea. Keep people inside with the AC cranked up. That sure saves the country energy.
However, if you're using an old zoneinfo file for local time, the interpretation of that UTC time is something else again, and NTP won't help you at all.
(Well, assuming you don't live in Arizona or Hawaii. Indiana's timing sucks, doesn't it?)
How many of you, after all, have told your State legislatures that this is stupid and it's time to opt out?
Of course, we've been using domino logic for a long time.
It always turns out be published by large employers (who would love to have higher unemployment rates to keep salary competition under control) and universities (who of course want more paying students.) It also usually involves funny bookkeeping, such as five different defense contractors all assuming that they'll get a contract and all planning to staff up accordingly. Multiply by the whole economy.
In the Gates piece, he curiously segues from "IT employment" to "CS degrees" without mentioning that most of the projected IT jobs don't require CS degrees, and in fact that a CS degree would likely get you turned down as overqualified. How curious -- that would put you in the "unemployed CS" market, depressing CS salary competition.
Who'd have thunk it?
Sorry, the "open letter" is just a bit too familiar to anyone who's raised children.
All without doing anything squinky: just identify which torrents are hot, add one of their own. It's what BitTorrent does, after all.
I suppose that the day will come when SP1 arrives coincidentally with the official release -- or maybe even sooner.
PC Tools for Windows is finally back.
About time -- here it's taken something like fifteen years to get back the damage done when Symantec bought it out and plowed it under (presumably in favor of the Norton Desktop.)
The stuff turns into a blob of iron and alumina at thousands of degrees Celsius, which will "drip" through an amazing amount of just about anything on its way to the center of the Earth.
A kilogram of it won't have any problem at all getting to the skin of the bird -- which it will immediately heat to well above the ignition point of aluminum. If you have enough of it (and I don't know what "enough" is but am willing to bet it would fit in a suitcase) you can get that skin to a sustainable reaction, especially given the above-mentioned forced air feed.
Have you ever seen an aluminum fire? Now consider a hundred tons of aluminum fire ...
A little oxidized iron, a little aluminum powder, a tiny amount of binder, press, and you have the makings of some attractive plaques or statuary. A bit of magnesium wire and a battery and you have everything you need to start a large mass of aluminum burning. Spectacularly.
Good thing none of the Bad Guys have the brains of a flatworm. Or at least, that's what our whole air travel security strategy assumes.
My vote is for someone who understands the fundamentals and how to extend them -- thinkers, in other words. Education, not training. The well-trained monkeys start out with a few months head start in knowing tools (if they're lucky) and after that fall behind for the rest of their careers. Before you know it their only options are Marketing and Management.
I'll second the unanimous opinion of the professors we spoke with at quite a few Universities when the boys were deciding where to go: "You can never get too much math or physics." It didn't matter whether they were professors in engineering, CS, physics, ...
Obviously, these are the honking corporate printers, not your desktop inkjet.
Obviously, this isn't your $50 inkjet printer.
The big difference is that they're not managed the same by the IT department, which means that they don't get updates, don't have antivirus, etc.
Think back to all of the remote exploits that have come out for MSWindows in the last several years, then take another look at your printers.