Where do you think that private data comes from? Its mostly from the census department with the private company making minor changes to it or merging it with point of interest data. At least thats how it works for every company I know who is doing street level maps for the US.
The problem is the map data isn't any good and its very expensive. The Aussie gov't wants to change about $25 per suburb per user for road data. There are about 1000 suburbs in the state of Victoria. That data isn't very high quality and will be on some unknown map datum so you can't just use it as is. Compare that to the free data you can get on any US city thats almost all on the WGS84 datum so the coordinates match what the GPS says.
Having to learn to drive during the 55 days in Oklahoma when the de facto speed limit was 70, I find it odd how well the Aussies obey the speed limit on the highways. yesterday I didn't see a single car going over 105 on the 100 km/hr freeway. This road is Interstate and Autobahn quality but has nearly 100% speed limit compliance which sounds like a good thing toll you check the accident stats and find out that its 4 times deadlier than any Interstate or Autobahn and its not safer than a typical large city street. The Aussie freeways are the deadliest roads of their class in the world and as far as I know the only place that has such a high speed limit compliance. They do have speed cameras on the highways that can give everyone a ticket. They are building a camera system on the road between Melbourne and Sydney that will figure out when you leave and when you get to the state border and fine you based on the time you took.
With the way Aussies put up road signs, you need this.
In Melbourne, they tend to have one sign indicating what the next exit is so if you miss it, your out of luck. Maybe that explains so many people making a mad dash towards the exit and the resulting wrecks.
Street name signs are even worse. On three lane roads, they use small signs that you can't read until its too late to indicate and then turn.
If your on a side street you better know the major roads because there won't be any street name signs when you cross larger roads. They also insist the the sign be on the side of the pole that the road is on so it sort of points down the road. Of course that means that 25% to 50% of all street signs are hidden from some place on the intersection where people might want to be able to read the signs. Sometimes it seems that they look at an intersection to find the one spot that won't be lit up by a street light and choose that to be the location for the street name signs.
Add in lack of lane ending signs added with the habiit of ending the slow lane on the highway. When there is a lane ending sign it will be a white with words. Not the yellow diamond picture warning signs that cost less and follow the rules about sign colors.
that problem has been solved. Pallet comes in, gets counted, smaller boxes moved to the store, empty pallet goes out and any rfid tags left get nailed are rejects which get deducted from the next order. If you double of the rfid tags in the pallet, they get noticed at checkout when the customer gets double billed.
As an American living in Australia, I like the idea of a Vonage like service where I can have a US phone number ring a phone here. The problem is Vonage seems to have its gateway on the East Coast which is just to far away.
Does anyone know of a service that has their gateway on the West Coast? I can get ping times of about 258 or 340 to vonage while I get pings of 270 or 230 to ServerPath in San Jose. From what I can tell, 250ms is useable for VoIP and much more than that isn't.
I know there are also terms of service issues about using it overseas but I'm willing to see how far I can get away with that.
I would says BBS's went downhill after the rise of the PC and cheap modems. You didn't get crud on Ward and Randy's BBS in the early days because if you weren't in Chicago, then you were calling long distance before the breakup of AT&T so the rates were high and the high speed modems were 300 baud. Their BBS started in early 1978 about 26.6 years ago.
I'm not sure lasers are 0.0000% danger. I know some idiots that were pointing a laser pointer at some homeless druggies and if they hadn't been faster, there would have been a beatdown.
Remember according to CFR1040, a legal class II laser is only legal if its used for less than 3000 seconds then it becomes class III. That even applies for the laser based speed guns used by the highway patrol.
The parsing is too complex: It can loop in scary ways where you end up eating up memory forever or take up time forever. Both are bad in an email system. The parsing is too complex: It can't be done as a sane add in for most mailers and requires a largeish library for what it does. Compare that to DNSBL which does exactly the same thing but is very tiny.
I'm not going to put an example up here about loops.
Can't be properly parsed in sendmail: The key words there is "in sendmail". overhead of milter is very high compared to other options.
There are some complex problems with the ISO 8339 type codes and how they are delt with and all the bugs haven't been worked out yet.
What I don't understand is why do this the hard way when the DNSBL has already shown the way to do it the easy way. Why not just use an A record and lookup $IP.$USER._at.$DOMAIN?
You only found 2 issues with SPF? How about a few more
Since I wrote that, I've managed to come up with SPF rulesets that cause DOS on some of the common implementations, my dns has been scaned countless times looking for SPF records and I've had over 1000 spam messages with valid SPF records.
Most LCDs only use the analog pins anyway so it won't matter what pin you plug it into however... if you have two, could it be that for some odd reason the video card has decided to needs a second interrupt and that one is being shared with the mouse? That would cause a nasty delay that might be noticed.
Where have you been? Admin comes second in the US. The largest amount gets spent on those yellow school busses. Does any other country in the world have dedicated school buses? Most of the ones I've been in just work out a deal with the local bus company.
I agree that admin is too high. Look at any school district and compare their admin numbers to what it was 20 years ago. Same goes with city government as well.
As I told they guys from Sun, If they mention Java, I'm walking out of the room. I'll listen to what they have to say to a point but I'm not letting them waste my time. It was hard for them to avoid that word. I looked at Java and its a real nice p-system but I've been down that road before and it wasn't paved in gold.
I've been using Suns since the sun 3 days. I buy their stuff because they make solid hardware and the core OS is also rock solid. I don't use any of their buzzword fluff and when I install ssolaris I remove quite a bit of their base install. Sun can stay in the game but they have to figure out what game they can win as opposed to what games they would like to win.
If IBM wants to help open source, then offer some of the developers access to their patent filling system. If they were fully behind open source for the reasons they state, there isn't any problem with them offing to fully cover the costs associated with getting 100 or so patents. The open source community can't protect its self without a patent portfolio and IBM knows that.
Don't forget, IBM was the MSFT of the 1980's in so many ways.
So I spend a few grand on an LCD that can't support its physical resolution and so get to have something other than a video card guess at color color the pixel should be? No thanks.
please don't tell that to my sparcstation 1 which is still dishing out web pages and being a dns server... It was made in late 1989 so I guess its now 15 years old.
IPv6 was to fix the problem of running out of addresses. The reason we are running out of address is they were allocated in/8,/16 and/24 chunks and then/20 and now/19. The result is the routers must hold tables for every single dual homed network in the world and all IPv6 does is take the size of data the router needs and increases by a factor of 4x.
Sorry but you can't by the unencumbered CDs. I was recently flipping through a local CD store and found all the new AC/DC re-mastered albums are at a nice premium over everything else however they were also dumping stock of the non-recently-re-mastered CDs.
The old ones have the energy levels and the new ones are clipped but at least they sound louder.
I think the reason so many planes still have ADF radios is so the pilots can listen to AM radio when going cross country. Its nice to have a radio in the plane complete with a thing that points to the station so you know if your getting closer. That ADF needle also helpfully points at thunderstorms too.
The pack is the key to a dog being good for security. A friend has a 1/2 Mastive and 1/2 grayhound that loves to run but learned that its pack leader was the cat of the house. Its owner moved into some land her father had where he had two older guard dogs. The older dogs didn't have the energy level that the young dog did so he ended up as top dog except the cat was still his pack leader and the cat would stay clear of the chicken which the dogs noticed. Talk about one messed up pack.
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Where do you think that private data comes from? Its mostly from the census department with the private company making minor changes to it or merging it with point of interest data. At least thats how it works for every company I know who is doing street level maps for the US.
The problem is the map data isn't any good and its very expensive. The Aussie gov't wants to change about $25 per suburb per user for road data. There are about 1000 suburbs in the state of Victoria. That data isn't very high quality and will be on some unknown map datum so you can't just use it as is. Compare that to the free data you can get on any US city thats almost all on the WGS84 datum so the coordinates match what the GPS says.
Having to learn to drive during the 55 days in Oklahoma when the de facto speed limit was 70, I find it odd how well the Aussies obey the speed limit on the highways. yesterday I didn't see a single car going over 105 on the 100 km/hr freeway. This road is Interstate and Autobahn quality but has nearly 100% speed limit compliance which sounds like a good thing toll you check the accident stats and find out that its 4 times deadlier than any Interstate or Autobahn and its not safer than a typical large city street. The Aussie freeways are the deadliest roads of their class in the world and as far as I know the only place that has such a high speed limit compliance. They do have speed cameras on the highways that can give everyone a ticket. They are building a camera system on the road between Melbourne and Sydney that will figure out when you leave and when you get to the state border and fine you based on the time you took.
With the way Aussies put up road signs, you need this.
In Melbourne, they tend to have one sign indicating what the next exit is so if you miss it, your out of luck. Maybe that explains so many people making a mad dash towards the exit and the resulting wrecks.
Street name signs are even worse. On three lane roads, they use small signs that you can't read until its too late to indicate and then turn.
If your on a side street you better know the major roads because there won't be any street name signs when you cross larger roads. They also insist the the sign be on the side of the pole that the road is on so it sort of points down the road. Of course that means that 25% to 50% of all street signs are hidden from some place on the intersection where people might want to be able to read the signs. Sometimes it seems that they look at an intersection to find the one spot that won't be lit up by a street light and choose that to be the location for the street name signs.
Add in lack of lane ending signs added with the habiit of ending the slow lane on the highway. When there is a lane ending sign it will be a white with words. Not the yellow diamond picture warning signs that cost less and follow the rules about sign colors.
that problem has been solved.
Pallet comes in, gets counted, smaller boxes moved to the store, empty pallet goes out and any rfid tags left get nailed are rejects which get deducted from the next order. If you double of the rfid tags in the pallet, they get noticed at checkout when the customer gets double billed.
Having kittens that like to walk on keyboards is the only sane argument I've ever known in the vi vs emacs wars...
How about 4 one meter dishes?
As an American living in Australia, I like the idea of a Vonage like service where I can have a US phone number ring a phone here. The problem is Vonage seems to have its gateway on the East Coast which is just to far away.
Does anyone know of a service that has their gateway on the West Coast? I can get ping times of about 258 or 340 to vonage while I get pings of 270 or 230 to ServerPath in San Jose. From what I can tell, 250ms is useable for VoIP and much more than that isn't.
I know there are also terms of service issues about using it overseas but I'm willing to see how far I can get away with that.
I would says BBS's went downhill after the rise of the PC and cheap modems. You didn't get crud on Ward and Randy's BBS in the early days because if you weren't in Chicago, then you were calling long distance before the breakup of AT&T so the rates were high and the high speed modems were 300 baud. Their BBS started in early 1978 about 26.6 years ago.
I'm not sure lasers are 0.0000% danger. I know some idiots that were pointing a laser pointer at some homeless druggies and if they hadn't been faster, there would have been a beatdown.
Remember according to CFR1040, a legal class II laser is only legal if its used for less than 3000 seconds then it becomes class III. That even applies for the laser based speed guns used by the highway patrol.
Ok... I'll give more details...
The parsing is too complex: It can loop in scary ways where you end up eating up memory forever or take up time forever. Both are bad in an email system.
The parsing is too complex: It can't be done as a sane add in for most mailers and requires a largeish library for what it does. Compare that to DNSBL which does exactly the same thing but is very tiny.
I'm not going to put an example up here about loops.
Can't be properly parsed in sendmail: The key words there is "in sendmail". overhead of milter is very high compared to other options.
There are some complex problems with the ISO 8339 type codes and how they are delt with and all the bugs haven't been worked out yet.
What I don't understand is why do this the hard way when the DNSBL has already shown the way to do it the easy way. Why not just use an A record and lookup $IP.$USER._at.$DOMAIN?
You only found 2 issues with SPF?
How about a few more
Since I wrote that, I've managed to come up with SPF rulesets that cause DOS on some of the common implementations, my dns has been scaned countless times looking for SPF records and I've had over 1000 spam messages with valid SPF records.
So is Billy G an ass for giving the script kiddies something easy to use too?
Most LCDs only use the analog pins anyway so it won't matter what pin you plug it into however...
if you have two, could it be that for some odd reason the video card has decided to needs a second interrupt and that one is being shared with the mouse? That would cause a nasty delay that might be noticed.
Where have you been? Admin comes second in the US. The largest amount gets spent on those yellow school busses. Does any other country in the world have dedicated school buses? Most of the ones I've been in just work out a deal with the local bus company.
I agree that admin is too high. Look at any school district and compare their admin numbers to what it was 20 years ago. Same goes with city government as well.
The US Govt can't own a copyright. Thats why its publications are free. This is one area where the US is ahead of other countries in copyright law.
As I told they guys from Sun, If they mention Java, I'm walking out of the room. I'll listen to what they have to say to a point but I'm not letting them waste my time. It was hard for them to avoid that word. I looked at Java and its a real nice p-system but I've been down that road before and it wasn't paved in gold.
I've been using Suns since the sun 3 days. I buy their stuff because they make solid hardware and the core OS is also rock solid. I don't use any of their buzzword fluff and when I install ssolaris I remove quite a bit of their base install. Sun can stay in the game but they have to figure out what game they can win as opposed to what games they would like to win.
I've had this in two houses and the fuel costs where way too high and I don't think it worked as well as the standard tanks.
If IBM wants to help open source, then offer some of the developers access to their patent filling system. If they were fully behind open source for the reasons they state, there isn't any problem with them offing to fully cover the costs associated with getting 100 or so patents. The open source community can't protect its self without a patent portfolio and IBM knows that.
Don't forget, IBM was the MSFT of the 1980's in so many ways.
So I spend a few grand on an LCD that can't support its physical resolution and so get to have something other than a video card guess at color color the pixel should be? No thanks.
please don't tell that to my sparcstation 1 which is still dishing out web pages and being a dns server... It was made in late 1989 so I guess its now 15 years old.
IPv6 was to fix the problem of running out of addresses. The reason we are running out of address is they were allocated in /8, /16 and /24 chunks and then /20 and now /19. The result is the routers must hold tables for every single dual homed network in the world and all IPv6 does is take the size of data the router needs and increases by a factor of 4x.
Sorry but you can't by the unencumbered CDs. I was recently flipping through a local CD store and found all the new AC/DC re-mastered albums are at a nice premium over everything else however they were also dumping stock of the non-recently-re-mastered CDs.
The old ones have the energy levels and the new ones are clipped but at least they sound louder.
This explains the problem much better.
I think the reason so many planes still have ADF radios is so the pilots can listen to AM radio when going cross country. Its nice to have a radio in the plane complete with a thing that points to the station so you know if your getting closer. That ADF needle also helpfully points at thunderstorms too.
The pack is the key to a dog being good for security. A friend has a 1/2 Mastive and 1/2 grayhound that loves to run but learned that its pack leader was the cat of the house. Its owner moved into some land her father had where he had two older guard dogs. The older dogs didn't have the energy level that the young dog did so he ended up as top dog except the cat was still his pack leader and the cat would stay clear of the chicken which the dogs noticed. Talk about one messed up pack.