Wow....censors? So they bleep out my foul language when the light turns red?
Seriously though, sensor-equipped lights are great, but many intersections rely strictly on timers. It would be great if the money was available to convert these lights, or to make sure they're synchronized so that you don't have to stop at every light on a given road. Instead, money is being spent on automatic enforcement devices, which turn into a relatively cheap revenue stream for the municipality.
To get these things through, they use emotional stories of people getting killed so that no one can argue against it without being branded as encouraging the deaths of others. (Try debating against lowering the legal blood-alcohol levels...facts and rational thought are useless against sobbing mothers in the public eye.)
So, let's say we agree that red-light cameras are great, and that any infringement on personal liberty is outweighed by the benefits to society. After a few years, everyone is used to the idea of being watched in this way. Now, imagine if the local police could put video cameras in every room of your house and monitor them for illegal activity. You'd feel a lot safer, wouldn't you? The cops would be able to see if someone had broken in and was trying to kill you. Giving up any amount of liberty in the name of safety is a slippery slope....
Yep....it makes me wonder just how concerned they are about security if people have been running SETI for over a year before they discovered it. Why didn't they find the application sooner? Why didn't they see the processes running sooner? Why didn't they notice the freakin' traffic to and from berkeley.edu?
The security risk here isn't SETI, but rather TVA's seeming inability to notice violations of their security policies. Maybe I can pick up a Y2K surplus generator on the cheap, since now that we know how much attention they pay to their network, it's going to be a big cracking target...
And since most GPS units come with Windows- (and sometimes Mac-) only software, especially useful for those with Other Operating Systems.
While it's true that GPS manufacturers typically include Windows software with their units, you definitely aren't restricted to only using their software.
Nearly all GPS receivers will send NMEA data out via serial port, which is a nice simple ASCII location stream.
Further, most, if not all, manufacturers publish their other communication protocols for things like retrieving waypoints to a computer.
The software that is included with the unit is usually extremely basic, and the manufacturer relies on other software developers to implement support for their protocol within more advanced programs.
Yeah...that Frontline was excellent. What the marketing machine did for Limp Bizkit, was done for Korn a few years before.
Go back to 1994, when Korn's label was throwing tons of promo material to radio stations. They were determined that Korn _would_ be the next big thing. Most of thought they sucked and threw the stuff away, but the label kept it up, and eventually all the kids knew who Korn was and thought they rawked. A star is born.
You combine all of this with the fact that the FCC will now allow a single owner to hold most of a market, and it gets even worse. The corporate owner (Clear Channel, Emmis, Infinity) figures they can save a few bucks by not duplicating staff all over the country. So pretty soon, a single MD and PD handle any given station format from corporate HQ, and you now have complete homogenization across the country.
Yep. TLG wasn't perfect, but I thought it was a pretty well done tongue-in-cheek kind of show. Plus, some of the crude humor was great: "We are so blown, and not in a good way".
Oh well. Now on Fridays I can go to the bar until SVU is on....
Well, let's see. Betamax is still the best videotape technology around. While it died off in the consumer market, it's still the standard for broadcast video cameras....
A company the size of Sony can afford to throw a lot of ideas against the wall to see if any stick. And since lots of other companies license components from Sony, it's quite possible that you'll see this technology in things other than Sony products.
I find it curious that only now is Boeing upgrading to Office 2000, and we're just finishing upgrading all our desktops from Win95 to NT4. Not only isn't XP (Windows or Office) in the pipeline, it isn't even on the horizon.
Well, most of the corporate MS licenses allow employees to duplicate their work environment at home, so that's not anything specific to Boeing. Just because Boeing was an Exchange early-adopter doesn't much, since that was largely a server-side rollout. Upgrading the desktop OS, or the productivity suite, is in some ways a more complicated undertaking in a company the size of Boeing.
Boeing probably has about a gazillion in-house apps that had to be tested and some rewritten to run correctly on NT.
If you're only interested in the mail features of Outlook, you can run any MAPI mail client, and if your admins have IMAP configured, pretty much any mail client.
Parallel Crystal picks up where Crystal Reports starts having problems. Since you've already invested effort into building reports through Crystal, Parallel Crystal would be a great way to improve your reporting performance.
If you're not averse to having one component of your solution running on NT or 2000, and need this for a big n-tier solution, consider Parallel Crystal. It uses Crystal Reports to design the reports, then runs them on a scalable report server which integrates into a Java web application server. Output can be to a number of formats, including PDF.
Yep. Port fowarding works just dandy for this. I've got web servers, mail servers (SMTP and IMAP), and other stuff all behind a Linux Router Project box.
For example, I read to blind children on a regular basis, about once a week. At these reading I always had my company shirt on and a couple of brochures. When someone would ask me about myself, I would go on tell them and pitch my company at the same time.
I don't mean to be crass here, but doesn't wearing your company T-shirt around a bunch of blind kids seem a bit ironic?
I know, you're not marketing to the kids, but it just sounded funny...
Yes, you do need to demonstrate that you've made efforts to protect your mark if you don't want to lose it. However, trademark laws are designed to prevent consumer confusion. Seeing that joke on the rec.humor.funny site is not likely to cause anyone to think that Mastercard wrote it.
Which is a royal pain in the ass when you're supporting other users. All I want is an executable patch that I can either point users to or put in their login script.....
Yes, companies rate their engines based upon the engine's output, but when the horsepower of a car is given, it's in BHP, which includes the tranny and diff in the numbers.
Having worked for an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, I think I can comment on this. As it stands right now, new oil exploration and production and the US is an expensive pain. The current money is in natural gas. Improved 3-D seismic surveys and analysis have made it possible to find very productive pockets of gas. And since gas fired power plants are going up all over, the energy companies still get their money.
Now, whether the power generating capacity would be able to keep up if we added a bunch of electric cars into the mix is another issue...
Nice ski areas near SLC, but unfortunately there is that big stinky briny lake. When I was there, we didn't even get to the water. The smell was horrible, and the flies were busy biting us.
The public lands are nice, except that the ranchers think that only means them. Be careful if on BLM land, and don't dare wear anything that might make someone think you could be a government employee....
Gotta love the short-term requirements of investors. Oh no! The company lost 7% more this quarter than the analysts said they would! They better cut jobs!
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Wow....censors? So they bleep out my foul language when the light turns red?
Seriously though, sensor-equipped lights are great, but many intersections rely strictly on timers. It would be great if the money was available to convert these lights, or to make sure they're synchronized so that you don't have to stop at every light on a given road. Instead, money is being spent on automatic enforcement devices, which turn into a relatively cheap revenue stream for the municipality.
To get these things through, they use emotional stories of people getting killed so that no one can argue against it without being branded as encouraging the deaths of others. (Try debating against lowering the legal blood-alcohol levels...facts and rational thought are useless against sobbing mothers in the public eye.)
So, let's say we agree that red-light cameras are great, and that any infringement on personal liberty is outweighed by the benefits to society. After a few years, everyone is used to the idea of being watched in this way. Now, imagine if the local police could put video cameras in every room of your house and monitor them for illegal activity. You'd feel a lot safer, wouldn't you? The cops would be able to see if someone had broken in and was trying to kill you. Giving up any amount of liberty in the name of safety is a slippery slope....
Yep....it makes me wonder just how concerned they are about security if people have been running SETI for over a year before they discovered it. Why didn't they find the application sooner? Why didn't they see the processes running sooner? Why didn't they notice the freakin' traffic to and from berkeley.edu?
The security risk here isn't SETI, but rather TVA's seeming inability to notice violations of their security policies. Maybe I can pick up a Y2K surplus generator on the cheap, since now that we know how much attention they pay to their network, it's going to be a big cracking target...
And since most GPS units come with Windows- (and sometimes Mac-) only software, especially useful for those with Other Operating Systems.
While it's true that GPS manufacturers typically include Windows software with their units, you definitely aren't restricted to only using their software.
Nearly all GPS receivers will send NMEA data out via serial port, which is a nice simple ASCII location stream.
Further, most, if not all, manufacturers publish their other communication protocols for things like retrieving waypoints to a computer.
The software that is included with the unit is usually extremely basic, and the manufacturer relies on other software developers to implement support for their protocol within more advanced programs.
Yeah...that Frontline was excellent. What the marketing machine did for Limp Bizkit, was done for Korn a few years before.
Go back to 1994, when Korn's label was throwing tons of promo material to radio stations. They were determined that Korn _would_ be the next big thing. Most of thought they sucked and threw the stuff away, but the label kept it up, and eventually all the kids knew who Korn was and thought they rawked. A star is born.
You combine all of this with the fact that the FCC will now allow a single owner to hold most of a market, and it gets even worse. The corporate owner (Clear Channel, Emmis, Infinity) figures they can save a few bucks by not duplicating staff all over the country. So pretty soon, a single MD and PD handle any given station format from corporate HQ, and you now have complete homogenization across the country.
Yep. TLG wasn't perfect, but I thought it was a pretty well done tongue-in-cheek kind of show. Plus, some of the crude humor was great: "We are so blown, and not in a good way".
Oh well. Now on Fridays I can go to the bar until SVU is on....
I'm really sorry to see Fox pull the plug so damn fast
Fox seems to be awfully quick in pulling the plug on shows the last couple of years. The show "Action" comes to mind.....
Oops. My bad.
There's a nice overview at http://www.palsite.com/tapes.html
Well, let's see. Betamax is still the best videotape technology around. While it died off in the consumer market, it's still the standard for broadcast video cameras....
A company the size of Sony can afford to throw a lot of ideas against the wall to see if any stick. And since lots of other companies license components from Sony, it's quite possible that you'll see this technology in things other than Sony products.
Hmmm....look at Exchange Server, it's largely built on top of X.400....
I find it curious that only now is Boeing upgrading to Office 2000, and we're just finishing upgrading all our desktops from Win95 to NT4. Not only isn't XP (Windows or Office) in the pipeline, it isn't even on the horizon.
Well, most of the corporate MS licenses allow employees to duplicate their work environment at home, so that's not anything specific to Boeing. Just because Boeing was an Exchange early-adopter doesn't much, since that was largely a server-side rollout. Upgrading the desktop OS, or the productivity suite, is in some ways a more complicated undertaking in a company the size of Boeing.
Boeing probably has about a gazillion in-house apps that had to be tested and some rewritten to run correctly on NT.
If you're only interested in the mail features of Outlook, you can run any MAPI mail client, and if your admins have IMAP configured, pretty much any mail client.
Except their PDF generation isn't nearly as good/complete.
Parallel Crystal picks up where Crystal Reports starts having problems. Since you've already invested effort into building reports through Crystal, Parallel Crystal would be a great way to improve your reporting performance.
www.dynalivery.com
If you're not averse to having one component of your solution running on NT or 2000, and need this for a big n-tier solution, consider Parallel Crystal. It uses Crystal Reports to design the reports, then runs them on a scalable report server which integrates into a Java web application server. Output can be to a number of formats, including PDF.
Yep. Port fowarding works just dandy for this. I've got web servers, mail servers (SMTP and IMAP), and other stuff all behind a Linux Router Project box.
....drop a weighty tombe on their desk....
I know I hate it when someone leaves a burial vault on my desk....
For example, I read to blind children on a regular basis, about once a week. At these reading I always had my company shirt on and a couple of brochures. When someone would ask me about myself, I would go on tell them and pitch my company at the same time.
I don't mean to be crass here, but doesn't wearing your company T-shirt around a bunch of blind kids seem a bit ironic?
I know, you're not marketing to the kids, but it just sounded funny...
Yes, you do need to demonstrate that you've made efforts to protect your mark if you don't want to lose it. However, trademark laws are designed to prevent consumer confusion. Seeing that joke on the rec.humor.funny site is not likely to cause anyone to think that Mastercard wrote it.
SETI@home, a cool, but completely useless endevour
Scanning for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is hardly useless....
Which is a royal pain in the ass when you're supporting other users. All I want is an executable patch that I can either point users to or put in their login script.....
Yes, companies rate their engines based upon the engine's output, but when the horsepower of a car is given, it's in BHP, which includes the tranny and diff in the numbers.
Having worked for an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, I think I can comment on this. As it stands right now, new oil exploration and production and the US is an expensive pain. The current money is in natural gas. Improved 3-D seismic surveys and analysis have made it possible to find very productive pockets of gas. And since gas fired power plants are going up all over, the energy companies still get their money.
Now, whether the power generating capacity would be able to keep up if we added a bunch of electric cars into the mix is another issue...
Nice ski areas near SLC, but unfortunately there is that big stinky briny lake. When I was there, we didn't even get to the water. The smell was horrible, and the flies were busy biting us.
The public lands are nice, except that the ranchers think that only means them. Be careful if on BLM land, and don't dare wear anything that might make someone think you could be a government employee....
Yep. Enjoyed displaying my Darwin fish on the back of my car when I lived there.
Gotta love the short-term requirements of investors. Oh no! The company lost 7% more this quarter than the analysts said they would! They better cut jobs!