Maybe that's my problem then, I haven't been slumming it enough. I do prefer to not hear prostitutes in the next room, nor gunshots instead of the alarm close to wake me. I suppose easy access to drugs would be a plus, but bathtub crank, and dirty heroin aren't my things either.
You forgot the most common scenario.. If you lock it when you check out, it has to be unlocked and the code cleared for the next guest. So I'd bet that the cleaning crew has the code. The manager has better things to do than go running up to every room to reset the safe.
I've been finding it less and less common for hotels to have in-room safes, even the more expensive ones. The last time I saw one was in an Ibis hotel in Europe in 1999. I've stayed in hundreds of hotels since then (generally rating 3 to 5 stars), and none of them have had in-room safes. It's probably not cost effective, and isn't a feature that most guests even care about. I just carry my expensive gear with me in a backpack, or leave it locked in our cage at the datacenter. At the datacenters, my laptop is the least expensive piece of gear there.
And I got -1, Redundant! Oh, well, can't really complain as I post always as an AC, so that I don't earn any karma (or lose, the way things look...)
If you post as AC, you really have nothing to complain about. Really, we don't know if you're the person who wrote the previous, or another AC trolling. If you want accountability for what you write, log in . It's not like it's expensive or anything. Well, unless you can't afford free.
Some people mod down anything by AC. That's the price you have to pay for being lazy and not using your account.
Sony Glasstron have been around for years. There are several other manufacturers making their own versions of them. I had the first version, which had a fixed visor. As I recall, newer versions of it had removable visors so you could see through them. There were also hacks for the original ones, where people removed the visor (or parts of it), so you could see through them.
The original wouldn't work with a phone, but I believe others did use Bluetooth.
We have a setup here at the house, with a small eMachines ER1401, with a DLP projector, USB 2TB hard drive, wireless keyboard and mouse.
For screens, I've used everything from a plain white-ish wall, to white sheets, and real screen material in a custom frame. Needless to say, the real screen is much better than the other options. Being in a lit room works ok. If it's pitch black, it's so much better.
Watching movies from it, either stuff we already ripped from DVD to files, or direct from the DVD in another room over the network, it's great. I'm still having problems getting the sound to work properly. I can get stereo (2 speaker) and dolby surround sound (4 speaker), but better sound is hit and miss. I'm on our 3rd USB audio device, each with optical digital audio out. "good enough" versus 6.1 is a huge difference. The projector and receiver were better off attached to a HD TiVO. At least there, we did get 6.1 audio and the same quality video. Well, sometimes better video, it depended on how much the station was compressed.
Using it as a computer has a bit to be desired. What looks good for TV doesn't always look good for a computer screen. He'll find the resolution is much lower, unless he spends good money on a higher resolution projector. I run my screens at 1920x1080. I don't know how much a projector would cost, that does that resolution natively. A lot of the projectors automatically adjust the resolution to something they can show. So the advertised resolution just means it can accept it coming in, not that it shows that resolution. Sometimes that's deep in the fine print of the manual, or in a tech document on the manufacturers site that you'll have to really dig for.
It's still a project to hook everything up. My setup wouldn't be impossible, just impractical. You need to provide power to the PC and projector. Video cables and adapters as necessary. Some sort of speakers if you aren't hooking a receiver up with all its speakers. It takes me about 1 hour to move the whole setup, if I have all the wires laid out first, and pre-measured the locations of all the speakers, screen projector, and seating.
Or, as you and everyone else has said, buy a laptop.:) I wouldn't consider traveling with the projector, unless it's just for a business meeting, and even then I'd attach it to the laptop for the presentation. In reality, I've never brought my projector. Most businesses I've needed to present at, had their own projector in their conference room.
What I considered better than a projector, was a pair of Sony Glasstron. I picked them up to use in a datacenter that didn't have a monitor cart. It was easier to carry it, than a monitor in my luggage. I only used it on the servers though, not on the laptop, even though I could have. When traveling, it wasn't worth the trouble to take it out of the bag. I guess that's why none of them really sold all that well.
The FDA, because it's a "medical device", even though it's not much more than a small battery powered amplifier and speaker in a case that fits in your ear.
The FTC, because they regulate and monitor those who manufacture and sell them.
Many states require compliance testing and certification.
The insurance companies (as you mentioned). Although the *retail* value listed is outrageous, there are behind the scenes dealing that make make the manufacturer and large distributor plenty of cash, while not hurting the insurance companies.
The medical companies. No one likes cash like a doctor, or anyone affiliated with the medical industry.
So by the time it gets down to you, you see what your insurance claims they paid. Most likely they get huge rebates from the manufacturers with the promise that their product will continue to be on the insurance authorized lists. The doctor or clinic gets good money for "treating" you, and selling you the device or referring you to someone to buy from.
If you had to pay cash outright, you would pay those outrageous rates that the insurance claims to pay. It's more money for the doctor and the manufacturer.
If it weren't for all of the above, I'm sure there are plenty of folks, even just on here, who could make exactly the same devices for cheap, and sell them for affordable prices. If you or I were to start making and selling them, I'm sure we'd be shut down pretty fast, and hit with such penalties that we'd never recover from them.
Sure they will. And plenty of people will do exactly like you.
Cron isn't precise enough. I've noticed variation of a few seconds for some reason. So you'd want to keep your clock set as precisely as possible (assuming they do too). Calculate the network latency and time to submit, and right at the same moment, you and everyone else will hit.. It still ranks with dumb luck to who gets in closest.
I'm sorry, if I'm dropping 6 figures and planning on running a business with it, I don't want the deciding factor to if I or the competition succeed, to be dumb luck. I especially don't want to find out that someone gamed the system, because the server time was 1 minute 32.08 seconds off, and that was told to one of their friends to hit it at the skewed time instead of the correct time.
You can, of course, assume that the folks at ICAAN have no friends, so there is little risk of that happening.:)
Cloud storage is a hard drive on someone elses network. Cloud computer is a computer on someone elses network. Cloud web hosting is web hosting on someone elses computer on someone elses network. Private cloud is [something] on your network.
I agree though, we really didn't need a buzz word. I just got laid off from a place, where the new owners mantra was "cloud, cloud, cloud". so our mail was moved to a "cloud" provider. They're just a provider for email. That was a nightmare. They have a replica of the in-house AD server. Changes on their side will be sent straight over to our side. So if someone made an account on the AD server on their side, and added it to the VPN Users, Remote Users, and Administrator groups, now they'd have a user account that would be able to connect to the office VPN, production VPN, and have full Administrator rights.
But hey, what's wrong with that, they promise security. They manage that security. We don't get access to their logs, their firewall management, their security configurations at all. If there is an incident, we have to ask them to tell us what happened. Will we find out the truth? Not a prayer. What ever the report says coming back, it will indemnify them from any wrong doing. The intruder could have been an outside intruder to their network. The report will most likely say that it was an administrator on their network accidentally added it so it showed up on our network. Why was it used to remotely access and download confidential internal materials? That must have been a problem on our side.
But hey, once you cloud everything, all the security problems end up with someone else. It becomes impossible to analyze any intrusion, find out who got access to what, or do anything at all about it.
It will flip around eventually, when companies lose enough due to problems with cloud providers. And hey, that'll help the economy come back. Instead of $49.95/mo to a company to handle the service, it will be handled in-house again. Companies will start hiring their own IT staff again, rather than outsourcing all those jobs to cloud providers and Indian call centers.
It's not very good at sharpening a band saw. I tried. It was strangely satisfying though.
If I can get a few more donated, I'd like to try them as baking cookie sheets, shooting target backstops, and trebuchet ammunition.
Hurry up kids, send your donations, the trebuchet is almost done. The neighbors are starting to complain, so we'll have to do it soon. Maybe I shouldn't have been test firing it with neighborhood cats, free-roaming children, and random yard sale items. It's all for science, they should stop complaining.
Give MS a call, and tell them you found a critical security bug in Windows that you need fixed. Then tell them it's a DEC Alpha with WinNT 4.0 Server. Make sure you record it, I want to hear the laughter.:)
Ya, it really annoys me, I like generating long strong passwords, and keeping them stored safely away.
I get really annoyed when my password is rejected for being too long, or they won't accept the characters. I use standard ASCII characters, excluding similar ones (1, l, O, 0...). Some even refuse me for too many or two few numbers. It's nice to want numbers, but enforcing strict ruleset on the numbers is worthless. That's why people end up with stupid easy passwords. I'm not surprised people end up with stuff like abcd1234! , and you find their next ones are abcd1235! , abcd1236! {sigh}
It sounds like the whole cycle. Dating, marriage, and divorce.
I worked with a guy once, who said that everything a woman said could be summarized to "I want..." and "I need...". The second could still be summarized as "I want..."
I waited years to prove him wrong. I couldn't. When he was around, and a woman was talking, I was always waiting to be able to say "See, she didn't say want or need!" It wasn't necessarily in the first few seconds of talking, but those were just the introduction to "I want..." or "I need..." In the end, it usually involves money. Sometimes directly like "I need $20". Sometimes indirectly "Wouldn't it be nice if we had a new car?" (meaning, "I want a new car.")
There are exceptions to this. She is my girlfriend.:) There may be others out there, but you'll be hard pressed to find one.
Those who deny it, are ignoring what's really being said.
And now that you've read this, you'll see how often it does occur.
7 limit password changes to N a month (with further changes being done at the IT office).
Why would you want to do that? The user should have the opportunity to change their password any time they feel it's necessary. If I want to go around changing my passwords daily, more power to me.
I've gone to sites where they botch the password updates. So I've had to do multiple password resets just to make it work. For example, if they happen to be stripping characters that assumed would be legitimate. I've seen places strip some or all of [!@#$%^&*()], so it accepts the submission, but hashes it one or more characters missing, therefore I can't log in with what I know the password to be. (i.e., "th@tp@$$" becomes "thtp"). I also change passwords any time I feel that I've been in a potentially insecure situation.
I've only noticed some sites strip characters, because I've experimented with dropping out non-alphanumeric characters when the known password doesn't work.
Just a rough guess from the article, it wasn't a short while. I'd say at least a few weeks. Who knows what finally did them in though. A little while without rain could have depleted their water supply. Exposure to the sun could have done it. There wasn't a mention of any makeshift cover. For all we know, a particularly nasty storm could have swept them out to sea. A 1938 report stated that the highest point was 16 feet above low sea level, and nothing is to say that they camped at the highest point. Looking at the island with Google Maps, it appears the sea sweeps across the southern side on a regular basis.
It would be nice to think they only survived for days. It could have been months. With no real supplies, something as simple as a cut could have been fatal.
In any case, they didn't survive. That is very unfortunate, as they could have if they had been found in time.
But can it identify pie? Sometimes I need a computer to determine what kind of pie a pie is. Is it raspberry pie, raspberry cobbler, raspberry rhubarb pie, raspberry jam sandwich, apple pie, apple crumb pie, or apple cobbler. Could it identify doughnuts too? I hate thinking I'm about to eat a Boston cream doughnut, just to find out they put that nasty lemon filling in.
Voice recognition has already been done.. Dessert identifiers, *that* is the future! Desert identifiers would be useful too, but may be slightly off topic.
I'm pretty sure most of my post wasn't passive aggressive, but hey. I assume you didn't read the my tagline either.
Sending an anonymous email is real easy. I forget sometimes that there are people who read and write on here that actually don't know how to do simple IT things.
I've had a few different ones. Two were Sony, and one was another name brand that I can't recall right off. I don't go strictly on reviews, most were impulse buys because I knew I'd be flying. One set, I got at the airport magazine shop, because the one I had with me broke.
Mostly what I've looked for is pricing, something below about $100, and name brand. As far as design, I look for the full headset that goes all the way around the ear, with good padding.
You'll always hear yourself, like you said via bone conduction. Opening your mouth will also allow sound to get in, shaking the back of your eardrum via your eustachian tube. It seems the air path through your sinuses seems to absorb sound better. I clench my jaw when I sleep, so I don't end up hearing anything except maybe a grinding sound.
I frequently have problems with my eustachian tubes. They don't always clear, no matter what I do. I could go the surgical route to correct it, but I doubt I'd find a doctor willing to do it, if I can manage fine with pressure relief ear plugs.
That's why I blew my left eardrum on one flight. If you've never had the pleasure, I suggest that you avoid it at all costs. It's a unique experience, that I'd wish on no one. Thousands of flights, and only one popped eardrum, now I never board a plane without the earplugs.
I usually did. They'd jump me first thing when I came in, and right after lunch. I set no expectations of doing anything else for those periods. They'd also grab me on my way to/from bathroom breaks, and visit me in the smoking lounge (i.e., outside) for smoke breaks. I didn't mind discussing work during the smoke breaks, even though the final thing I'd always ask for was to send me an email with their request. I'm big into paper trails. They've covered my ass on more than one occasion.
That's like what I do for flying, or going to the shooting range.
When flying, I frequently need the pressure equalizing ear plugs. I have this aversion to having another eardrum blow out because the cabin pressure changed too quickly. I wear noise cancelling headphones over them, and I'm at peace for the whole flight. I'm usually not listening to anything, it's just the silence I appreciate.
When I'm at the shooting range, when I clench my jaw it tends to lift the shooting earmuffs off just enough for me to hear the loud crack of other people's weapons. A lot of ranges don't allow just earplugs any more.. So I wear the foam earplugs under the earmuffs. People have to shout anyways, but with the little bit of sound I can hear, along with lip reading, I do fine.
Cube spaces are excellent for various things. You can prepare notes that say "shut up", wad them up, and lob them over the wall without anyone noticing who sent it. When they start getting pissy saying "Who threw the note at me that said shut up?" Everyone else would admit to it.
If they didn't get the clue, a stockpile of "borrowed" desk items (pens, highlighters, staplers, etc) would start following. It only takes a few staplers to the head for them to realize that they're too being too loud.
That, or transcribing their not-work-related conversations, and anonymously sending them to their supervisor.
I've been known to do that. I'd wear noise cancelling headphones, so I don't hear idle chatter, doors opening and closing, phones ringing, or all the rest of the nonsense that is associated with an office. Sometimes I'd have music playing, sometimes I wouldn't.
One thing I was advised about it though was, occasionally I'd talk to myself a little. Usually a "Hmm", or "ah ha", or even quiet rambling about the problem as I was working through it. Since I couldn't hear myself talk, my internal dialogue would sometimes not be internal.
I usually managed to quell interruptions by explaining to people that there is a startup time for doing any work. Interruptions reset that time. So if it takes 5 minutes to mentally get back into what I was doing, and they stop by to ask me something every 15 minutes, they've delayed the work they want done by 20 minutes per hour, plus as long as they were talking. I was always clear to let people know when their request was done, so they learned not to interrupt to see if I was done yet.
They'd also see multiple shells open, all doing something different or pending email responses to complete a task, so their interruptions didn't only hurt task, but others too.
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Maybe that's my problem then, I haven't been slumming it enough. I do prefer to not hear prostitutes in the next room, nor gunshots instead of the alarm close to wake me. I suppose easy access to drugs would be a plus, but bathtub crank, and dirty heroin aren't my things either.
You forgot the most common scenario.. If you lock it when you check out, it has to be unlocked and the code cleared for the next guest. So I'd bet that the cleaning crew has the code. The manager has better things to do than go running up to every room to reset the safe.
I've been finding it less and less common for hotels to have in-room safes, even the more expensive ones. The last time I saw one was in an Ibis hotel in Europe in 1999. I've stayed in hundreds of hotels since then (generally rating 3 to 5 stars), and none of them have had in-room safes. It's probably not cost effective, and isn't a feature that most guests even care about. I just carry my expensive gear with me in a backpack, or leave it locked in our cage at the datacenter. At the datacenters, my laptop is the least expensive piece of gear there.
So, you're saying we should have a moderation: "-1 SYNTAX ERROR"
Oohhh, the fun we'd all have with that one.
If you post as AC, you really have nothing to complain about. Really, we don't know if you're the person who wrote the previous, or another AC trolling. If you want accountability for what you write, log in . It's not like it's expensive or anything. Well, unless you can't afford free.
Some people mod down anything by AC. That's the price you have to pay for being lazy and not using your account.
Sony Glasstron have been around for years. There are several other manufacturers making their own versions of them. I had the first version, which had a fixed visor. As I recall, newer versions of it had removable visors so you could see through them. There were also hacks for the original ones, where people removed the visor (or parts of it), so you could see through them.
The original wouldn't work with a phone, but I believe others did use Bluetooth.
I agree with 1,2,and 4. 3, on the other hand....
We have a setup here at the house, with a small eMachines ER1401, with a DLP projector, USB 2TB hard drive, wireless keyboard and mouse.
For screens, I've used everything from a plain white-ish wall, to white sheets, and real screen material in a custom frame. Needless to say, the real screen is much better than the other options. Being in a lit room works ok. If it's pitch black, it's so much better.
Watching movies from it, either stuff we already ripped from DVD to files, or direct from the DVD in another room over the network, it's great. I'm still having problems getting the sound to work properly. I can get stereo (2 speaker) and dolby surround sound (4 speaker), but better sound is hit and miss. I'm on our 3rd USB audio device, each with optical digital audio out. "good enough" versus 6.1 is a huge difference. The projector and receiver were better off attached to a HD TiVO. At least there, we did get 6.1 audio and the same quality video. Well, sometimes better video, it depended on how much the station was compressed.
Using it as a computer has a bit to be desired. What looks good for TV doesn't always look good for a computer screen. He'll find the resolution is much lower, unless he spends good money on a higher resolution projector. I run my screens at 1920x1080. I don't know how much a projector would cost, that does that resolution natively. A lot of the projectors automatically adjust the resolution to something they can show. So the advertised resolution just means it can accept it coming in, not that it shows that resolution. Sometimes that's deep in the fine print of the manual, or in a tech document on the manufacturers site that you'll have to really dig for.
It's still a project to hook everything up. My setup wouldn't be impossible, just impractical. You need to provide power to the PC and projector. Video cables and adapters as necessary. Some sort of speakers if you aren't hooking a receiver up with all its speakers. It takes me about 1 hour to move the whole setup, if I have all the wires laid out first, and pre-measured the locations of all the speakers, screen projector, and seating.
Or, as you and everyone else has said, buy a laptop. :) I wouldn't consider traveling with the projector, unless it's just for a business meeting, and even then I'd attach it to the laptop for the presentation. In reality, I've never brought my projector. Most businesses I've needed to present at, had their own projector in their conference room.
What I considered better than a projector, was a pair of Sony Glasstron. I picked them up to use in a datacenter that didn't have a monitor cart. It was easier to carry it, than a monitor in my luggage. I only used it on the servers though, not on the laptop, even though I could have. When traveling, it wasn't worth the trouble to take it out of the bag. I guess that's why none of them really sold all that well.
Maybe he really did mean proscribe. I kind of doubt it though. :)
There are a lot of hands in it.
The FDA, because it's a "medical device", even though it's not much more than a small battery powered amplifier and speaker in a case that fits in your ear.
The FTC, because they regulate and monitor those who manufacture and sell them.
Many states require compliance testing and certification.
The insurance companies (as you mentioned). Although the *retail* value listed is outrageous, there are behind the scenes dealing that make make the manufacturer and large distributor plenty of cash, while not hurting the insurance companies.
The medical companies. No one likes cash like a doctor, or anyone affiliated with the medical industry.
So by the time it gets down to you, you see what your insurance claims they paid. Most likely they get huge rebates from the manufacturers with the promise that their product will continue to be on the insurance authorized lists. The doctor or clinic gets good money for "treating" you, and selling you the device or referring you to someone to buy from.
If you had to pay cash outright, you would pay those outrageous rates that the insurance claims to pay. It's more money for the doctor and the manufacturer.
If it weren't for all of the above, I'm sure there are plenty of folks, even just on here, who could make exactly the same devices for cheap, and sell them for affordable prices. If you or I were to start making and selling them, I'm sure we'd be shut down pretty fast, and hit with such penalties that we'd never recover from them.
Sure they will. And plenty of people will do exactly like you.
Cron isn't precise enough. I've noticed variation of a few seconds for some reason. So you'd want to keep your clock set as precisely as possible (assuming they do too). Calculate the network latency and time to submit, and right at the same moment, you and everyone else will hit.. It still ranks with dumb luck to who gets in closest.
I'm sorry, if I'm dropping 6 figures and planning on running a business with it, I don't want the deciding factor to if I or the competition succeed, to be dumb luck. I especially don't want to find out that someone gamed the system, because the server time was 1 minute 32.08 seconds off, and that was told to one of their friends to hit it at the skewed time instead of the correct time.
You can, of course, assume that the folks at ICAAN have no friends, so there is little risk of that happening. :)
Because network isn't enough.
Cloud storage is a hard drive on someone elses network.
Cloud computer is a computer on someone elses network.
Cloud web hosting is web hosting on someone elses computer on someone elses network.
Private cloud is [something] on your network.
I agree though, we really didn't need a buzz word. I just got laid off from a place, where the new owners mantra was "cloud, cloud, cloud". so our mail was moved to a "cloud" provider. They're just a provider for email. That was a nightmare. They have a replica of the in-house AD server. Changes on their side will be sent straight over to our side. So if someone made an account on the AD server on their side, and added it to the VPN Users, Remote Users, and Administrator groups, now they'd have a user account that would be able to connect to the office VPN, production VPN, and have full Administrator rights.
But hey, what's wrong with that, they promise security. They manage that security. We don't get access to their logs, their firewall management, their security configurations at all. If there is an incident, we have to ask them to tell us what happened. Will we find out the truth? Not a prayer. What ever the report says coming back, it will indemnify them from any wrong doing. The intruder could have been an outside intruder to their network. The report will most likely say that it was an administrator on their network accidentally added it so it showed up on our network. Why was it used to remotely access and download confidential internal materials? That must have been a problem on our side.
But hey, once you cloud everything, all the security problems end up with someone else. It becomes impossible to analyze any intrusion, find out who got access to what, or do anything at all about it.
It will flip around eventually, when companies lose enough due to problems with cloud providers. And hey, that'll help the economy come back. Instead of $49.95/mo to a company to handle the service, it will be handled in-house again. Companies will start hiring their own IT staff again, rather than outsourcing all those jobs to cloud providers and Indian call centers.
It's not very good at sharpening a band saw. I tried. It was strangely satisfying though.
If I can get a few more donated, I'd like to try them as baking cookie sheets, shooting target backstops, and trebuchet ammunition.
Hurry up kids, send your donations, the trebuchet is almost done. The neighbors are starting to complain, so we'll have to do it soon. Maybe I shouldn't have been test firing it with neighborhood cats, free-roaming children, and random yard sale items. It's all for science, they should stop complaining.
Give MS a call, and tell them you found a critical security bug in Windows that you need fixed. Then tell them it's a DEC Alpha with WinNT 4.0 Server. Make sure you record it, I want to hear the laughter. :)
Ya, it really annoys me, I like generating long strong passwords, and keeping them stored safely away.
I get really annoyed when my password is rejected for being too long, or they won't accept the characters. I use standard ASCII characters, excluding similar ones (1, l, O, 0 ...). Some even refuse me for too many or two few numbers. It's nice to want numbers, but enforcing strict ruleset on the numbers is worthless. That's why people end up with stupid easy passwords. I'm not surprised people end up with stuff like abcd1234! , and you find their next ones are abcd1235! , abcd1236! {sigh}
It sounds like the whole cycle. Dating, marriage, and divorce.
I worked with a guy once, who said that everything a woman said could be summarized to "I want ..." and "I need ...". The second could still be summarized as "I want ..."
I waited years to prove him wrong. I couldn't. When he was around, and a woman was talking, I was always waiting to be able to say "See, she didn't say want or need!" It wasn't necessarily in the first few seconds of talking, but those were just the introduction to "I want..." or "I need..." In the end, it usually involves money. Sometimes directly like "I need $20". Sometimes indirectly "Wouldn't it be nice if we had a new car?" (meaning, "I want a new car.")
There are exceptions to this. She is my girlfriend. :) There may be others out there, but you'll be hard pressed to find one.
Those who deny it, are ignoring what's really being said.
And now that you've read this, you'll see how often it does occur.
People still use the same password for multiple sites? :)
Why would you want to do that? The user should have the opportunity to change their password any time they feel it's necessary. If I want to go around changing my passwords daily, more power to me.
I've gone to sites where they botch the password updates. So I've had to do multiple password resets just to make it work. For example, if they happen to be stripping characters that assumed would be legitimate. I've seen places strip some or all of [!@#$%^&*()], so it accepts the submission, but hashes it one or more characters missing, therefore I can't log in with what I know the password to be. (i.e., "th@tp@$$" becomes "thtp"). I also change passwords any time I feel that I've been in a potentially insecure situation.
I've only noticed some sites strip characters, because I've experimented with dropping out non-alphanumeric characters when the known password doesn't work.
Just a rough guess from the article, it wasn't a short while. I'd say at least a few weeks. Who knows what finally did them in though. A little while without rain could have depleted their water supply. Exposure to the sun could have done it. There wasn't a mention of any makeshift cover. For all we know, a particularly nasty storm could have swept them out to sea. A 1938 report stated that the highest point was 16 feet above low sea level, and nothing is to say that they camped at the highest point. Looking at the island with Google Maps, it appears the sea sweeps across the southern side on a regular basis.
It would be nice to think they only survived for days. It could have been months. With no real supplies, something as simple as a cut could have been fatal.
In any case, they didn't survive. That is very unfortunate, as they could have if they had been found in time.
[ducks]
Thanks for the warning! :)
But can it identify pie? Sometimes I need a computer to determine what kind of pie a pie is. Is it raspberry pie, raspberry cobbler, raspberry rhubarb pie, raspberry jam sandwich, apple pie, apple crumb pie, or apple cobbler. Could it identify doughnuts too? I hate thinking I'm about to eat a Boston cream doughnut, just to find out they put that nasty lemon filling in.
Voice recognition has already been done.. Dessert identifiers, *that* is the future! Desert identifiers would be useful too, but may be slightly off topic.
I'm pretty sure most of my post wasn't passive aggressive, but hey. I assume you didn't read the my tagline either.
Sending an anonymous email is real easy. I forget sometimes that there are people who read and write on here that actually don't know how to do simple IT things.
I've had a few different ones. Two were Sony, and one was another name brand that I can't recall right off. I don't go strictly on reviews, most were impulse buys because I knew I'd be flying. One set, I got at the airport magazine shop, because the one I had with me broke.
Mostly what I've looked for is pricing, something below about $100, and name brand. As far as design, I look for the full headset that goes all the way around the ear, with good padding.
You'll always hear yourself, like you said via bone conduction. Opening your mouth will also allow sound to get in, shaking the back of your eardrum via your eustachian tube. It seems the air path through your sinuses seems to absorb sound better. I clench my jaw when I sleep, so I don't end up hearing anything except maybe a grinding sound.
I frequently have problems with my eustachian tubes. They don't always clear, no matter what I do. I could go the surgical route to correct it, but I doubt I'd find a doctor willing to do it, if I can manage fine with pressure relief ear plugs.
That's why I blew my left eardrum on one flight. If you've never had the pleasure, I suggest that you avoid it at all costs. It's a unique experience, that I'd wish on no one. Thousands of flights, and only one popped eardrum, now I never board a plane without the earplugs.
I usually did. They'd jump me first thing when I came in, and right after lunch. I set no expectations of doing anything else for those periods. They'd also grab me on my way to/from bathroom breaks, and visit me in the smoking lounge (i.e., outside) for smoke breaks. I didn't mind discussing work during the smoke breaks, even though the final thing I'd always ask for was to send me an email with their request. I'm big into paper trails. They've covered my ass on more than one occasion.
That's like what I do for flying, or going to the shooting range.
When flying, I frequently need the pressure equalizing ear plugs. I have this aversion to having another eardrum blow out because the cabin pressure changed too quickly. I wear noise cancelling headphones over them, and I'm at peace for the whole flight. I'm usually not listening to anything, it's just the silence I appreciate.
When I'm at the shooting range, when I clench my jaw it tends to lift the shooting earmuffs off just enough for me to hear the loud crack of other people's weapons. A lot of ranges don't allow just earplugs any more.. So I wear the foam earplugs under the earmuffs. People have to shout anyways, but with the little bit of sound I can hear, along with lip reading, I do fine.
Cube spaces are excellent for various things. You can prepare notes that say "shut up", wad them up, and lob them over the wall without anyone noticing who sent it. When they start getting pissy saying "Who threw the note at me that said shut up?" Everyone else would admit to it.
If they didn't get the clue, a stockpile of "borrowed" desk items (pens, highlighters, staplers, etc) would start following. It only takes a few staplers to the head for them to realize that they're too being too loud.
That, or transcribing their not-work-related conversations, and anonymously sending them to their supervisor.
I've been known to do that. I'd wear noise cancelling headphones, so I don't hear idle chatter, doors opening and closing, phones ringing, or all the rest of the nonsense that is associated with an office. Sometimes I'd have music playing, sometimes I wouldn't.
One thing I was advised about it though was, occasionally I'd talk to myself a little. Usually a "Hmm", or "ah ha", or even quiet rambling about the problem as I was working through it. Since I couldn't hear myself talk, my internal dialogue would sometimes not be internal.
I usually managed to quell interruptions by explaining to people that there is a startup time for doing any work. Interruptions reset that time. So if it takes 5 minutes to mentally get back into what I was doing, and they stop by to ask me something every 15 minutes, they've delayed the work they want done by 20 minutes per hour, plus as long as they were talking. I was always clear to let people know when their request was done, so they learned not to interrupt to see if I was done yet.
They'd also see multiple shells open, all doing something different or pending email responses to complete a task, so their interruptions didn't only hurt task, but others too.