10) Citizen's Memory LCD
"that retains the image even when turned off." and "Practical applications would include watches" That would be very useful for watches. It would always be 5 oclock PM friday as long as it is turned off. Practical.
You're like the 10th person I've seen make a lame comment on entry 10. I can't take it anymore, and have to respond.
Please think before typing. Right now an LCD watch display is almost always on and updating. Updating many many times per second. Assume, for the sake of this post I don't know the real frequency, that the display is updating 60 times per second. Do you really need to now down to 1/60th of a second when the time changes from 1:45:05 to 1:45:06? Now, turn the update frequency down to once per second, and you instantly save a ton of power, meaning your watch battery lasts much much longer. (If the 'memory lcd' took exactly the same amount of power that a regular LCD took to update you'd see a 60x improvement, for example).
Now, do you really need to know the difference between 1:45:06 and 1:45:07 at all? If you decide that you don't want seconds displayed on your watch, you could lower the refresh rate down even more, say once every 15 second. At that speed their could be up to 15 seconds when your watch was "a minute behind", but generally people don't need that resolution of time out of their watches (especially since the majority of people do not have watches synchronized with that accuracy to a known-good time source anyway). Now, you have increased your battery power even more.
Extra battery power could mean that your watch would last much longer, or it could mean that extra features could be jammed in to your watch. Having a 15 second refresh rate on the watch's main time display doesn't mean that it couldn't increase its frequency for other functions such as the fractional-second timer that people think they need in their watches.
Some are sophisticated, but the link is ALWAYS a give away. It is either some kind of redirect, an IP address, or a Bogus URL altogether.
My bank has a two word name so it has a couple of different URLs to get there, making sure htat they cover all their bases for how people might convert the real name in to a domain name. I got a phish a few months back that was nearly perfect, and the URL did -not- give it away, because it was just one more possible (legit) variation.
For example, if your bank 20th Street Bank and its main URL is 20thstreet.com, but they also purchased twentiethstreet.com Now, just be looking at the URL tell me out of 20thstreetbank.com, 20th-street.com, and 20th-street-bank.com which one the scam site would be at?
"Oh, just click the link and look at the site and you can tell". Umm, not right off the bat. It is extremely simple to suck a bunch of pages & graphics from a site (or just relative link the graphics, and make links on the homepage go to the correct page on the real site) to make an 99% perfect website.
Now that many companies use subdomains for their webapps, I use dozens of sites where the 'logon' link takes you to foo.20thstreet.com. Now, ignoring http verse https that many people don't understand, tell me if my bank owns all but one of those domain names is bankapp.20th-street.com going to steal my user ID or not?
It is not hard for an advanced scam group to trick even an experienced web user.
(oh and FYI, the thing that gave it away when I got my mail, other then my bank previously saying that any Visa charge confirmation requests would be done via phone rather then email, was the registration date for the domain name. They had lied about the owner/address/etc to make it look pretty convincing)
Starting with Windows Mobile 2003 you can. Better still is Windows Mobile 5 (devices with that have started coming out recently, like the Treo 700 (for a Pocket PC form factor) and the HTC Faraday (for a Smartphone form factor), you can have push mail. You need Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (or higher of course) to support it.
The original version of the push technology used specially crafted SMS messages to trigger the phone in to doing a sync. (i.e. the SMS message never showed up in your inbox, it was eaten by the software, nor was the email message actually included in the SMS itself) This means that with a cellular company that charges you for incoming SMS messages you may end up having to pay for them. Some of the cell companies put filters in place so that you didn't get charged for these system type messages.
The newer version of direct push no longer relies on SMS messages, so you don't have to worry about paying text messaging fees.
Personally, I like to just set my device to a scheduled sync (every 5 to 10 minutes) which is just as effective really.
I was about to post this same topic. 5 'whatever' points, plus a set of 3 or 4 OT-specific ones.
I don't think I've ever modded someone OT, because I always wanted to reward someone for an intelligent post - hitting someone with an OT just means that I don't get to reward the person who spent time to make a reasonable contribution to the discussion.
So you could eventually trick the patient in to believing that fuzzy bunnies are evil, and that armed militia are no threat. For whatever that is worth...
If you already know the exact amount of trauma that you would suffer having to kill someone / having to see someone being killed / etc, then good for you.
There have been cases where trained fire fighters freeze up when they get inside of a burning building. There are tons of cases where police officers have to make multiple visits to the shrink after shooting someone / getting shot at. There are many many cases of people totally shutting down, to the point where the can't talk or stand for awhile, when they are in a war. In the heat of the moment average citizens do heroic things, then sometimes weeks later suddenly realize what they've done and end up with repeating nightmares.
Apparently you are smarter than all of those trained professionals, since you already know exactly how a horrible situation is giong to affect you.
To dup something I said elsewhere in these comments: Locks.
The A/V equipment that people don't need to touch should be in a locked cabinet. The 'real' remotes go in that cabinet too. The people with the keys are the only ones that should be messing with that stuff. The only 'unlocked' interface should be really simple and task-focused (buttons like "I want to show a video presentation", "my laptop is plugged in to the big cable labled 'laptop' and i want it shown on the projection screen')
Buy locks. Seriously. There are different types of locks, cables (metal, not computer), connectors, and security tape that can prevent things from being moved. You can put little locked box-things over cable connectors on the wall to keep people from plugging the telephone in to the ethernet, or unplugging the video camera to charge their laptop. Same type of stuff can be done with the cables that go in to the backs of computers, TVs, and the conference phones.
Nothing is foolproof though, but that type of stuff sure does help. Tape doesn't work though. I used duct tape to cover up a power button on a computer and then taped a Post-It that said 'Do Not Turn This Off' over the button, and taped the power cord in. A few weeks later... someone had used scissors to cut through the tape to turn the machine off. Why? What were they trying to accomplish? There is not telling. But they did it... Can't get through the metal boxes nearly as easily.
And if you think that you should tell the CEO/President/VP/"upper echelon management" how to run their meetings... They aren't going to take that very well. Having a friend in the top-tier of the company is going to be much more beneficial in the long term than pissing off one of them (in that case you might not even have a 'long term'!)
Yea, if the people are in a nearby building, or are Face to face meetings are totally valueable, and there should be no excuse for not having at least a few face to face meetings between key project players during the process. But, expecting people to fly all over the world at the drop of a hat is not realistic.
Even if it takes a half hour to set the meeting up on both sides, and the meeting ends up starting 15 minutes late, you are still going to save -way- more time than if you had to wait on airplanes. It is much easier to pull people in to the meeting on an as-needed basis when it is a video conference too.
Actually the most complicated conference room we have is easier to use than the mid-range conference room. In the mid-range conference room you have to do things manually (i.e. multiple remotes/cables/switches). In the complicated conference room, with wayyy more 'stuff', everything is controlled by a single fancy LCD remote control. The on-screen buttons are very easy to figure out (basically 'press this to turn the lights on' 'press this to turn on the projector and show the computer' 'press this to turn the project off and brighten the lights back up').
So basically the summary here is 'you get what you pay for', and 'if the system is unusable it doesn't matter how cool it is'.
Well we also have giant lecture room / auditorium rooms that actually have official camera operators & light/sound guys and other fancy stuff, but those aren't for regular everyday meetings.
Because having deep techinicaly understanding of computer software & telepresense systems is necessary for the president of a mechnical manufacturing company? for the president of a fertilizer company? for the president of an automotive company? Even though auto companies use CAD programs extensively doesn't mean the president needs to know how to use it, maybe he used to make car models out of clay (which they still do), maybe he is best at knowing what customers want and analyzing business stuff, maybe he is a negotiator - none of those require technical skills in every field.
I know some network engineers who can't make a decent "powerpoint-style" presentation to save their lives - but the management at their companies have never fired them because they 'don't know their ass from a hole in the ground', they continue to employ them becuase they are good at the specific stuff their job is about.
I can't imagine that you've done that succesfully on multiple occasions for big meetings. You can't stop a big meeting for the presenter to "move out of the way" so that the camera can transmit a clear image to the other side.
You've got glare to deal with too, white boards (at least the ones we have here) are extremely glossy and the overhead lighting ends up being a solar flare on the screen.
And I'd be impressed if you found a 'webcam' that you could put in an out-of-the-way location that is able to clearly capture the entirety of the multi-whiteboard arrays commonly found in large conference rooms.
Yea, the mimio-type devices are pretty expensive, but they quickly pay for themselves if your company values the productivity of global meetings.
And as for tablet's... I used to carry a tabbed & spiral bound 'project book', but switched to using a tablet over 2 years ago. I am way more effective, and my notes are way more organized. You just can't go back and insert big chunks of text in a paper notebook without it getting messy, you can't replace quick sketches with more detailed drawing without it getting messy, you can't easily share clips, etc. Sure you -can- do almost everything with pen & paper as you can with a tablet (as far as note-taking goes), sure you can take a polaroid camera with you and tape pictures in your notebook, sure you can carry a pack of post-it notes to interject notes in previously written pages, but that doesn't mean it is highly effective.
Yep, you're right. I'm highly afraid of homosexuals. Whenever you go out in public you run the risk of being sneezed on by a homosexual and then your life would be thrown own end since it is so contagious. That's it, clearly.
I find it interesting that you feel sodomy is more deviant than hanging body parts on your wall. Seeking medical attention is definitely something you should consider.
Yea, the integration of their head chef with their dining facility is still in Beta - they want to keep traffic low while they continue testing. If you check on eBay you could probably find someone selling one of their spare invites, and after you've eaten there a few times you could make your money back selling yours!
I've been running XP x64 as my primary machine for as long as x64 has been available. (years). I've found it to be quite stable, more stable than my 32 bit laptop as a matter of fact.
In response to the grandparent post: Beta was in September of 2003. I would say that is more than 'a few days'.
In response to the parent post: You are exactly correct. Real world scenarios are excellent for testing. Contrived test cases are of course 100% necessary, but every developer on/. knows that weird stuff goes on in the real world. While a project is under active development you certainly wouldn't move 100% of your system over, you would move boxes over on schedules so you are able to analyze how systems interact and so that you have a safety net in case you need to take a server offline for some time to have it debugged.
Actually libSystem is the only 64 bit library on the box. Processes can see the whole memory space, but GUI apps are actually 32 bit apps. If you want your GUI app to do some thing with 64 bit math, for example, you write a little helper app that goes off and processes the data and hands back a result.
Completely coincidence that you are having issues at the same time the article was released.
Migrations actually started quite awhile back, there was no "okay, the press release is going live in 15 minutes does everyone in the datacenter have their hands on power switches so we can flip everything over at the same time?";)
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You're like the 10th person I've seen make a lame comment on entry 10. I can't take it anymore, and have to respond.
Please think before typing. Right now an LCD watch display is almost always on and updating. Updating many many times per second. Assume, for the sake of this post I don't know the real frequency, that the display is updating 60 times per second. Do you really need to now down to 1/60th of a second when the time changes from 1:45:05 to 1:45:06? Now, turn the update frequency down to once per second, and you instantly save a ton of power, meaning your watch battery lasts much much longer. (If the 'memory lcd' took exactly the same amount of power that a regular LCD took to update you'd see a 60x improvement, for example).
Now, do you really need to know the difference between 1:45:06 and 1:45:07 at all? If you decide that you don't want seconds displayed on your watch, you could lower the refresh rate down even more, say once every 15 second. At that speed their could be up to 15 seconds when your watch was "a minute behind", but generally people don't need that resolution of time out of their watches (especially since the majority of people do not have watches synchronized with that accuracy to a known-good time source anyway). Now, you have increased your battery power even more.
Extra battery power could mean that your watch would last much longer, or it could mean that extra features could be jammed in to your watch. Having a 15 second refresh rate on the watch's main time display doesn't mean that it couldn't increase its frequency for other functions such as the fractional-second timer that people think they need in their watches.
My bank has a two word name so it has a couple of different URLs to get there, making sure htat they cover all their bases for how people might convert the real name in to a domain name. I got a phish a few months back that was nearly perfect, and the URL did -not- give it away, because it was just one more possible (legit) variation.
For example, if your bank 20th Street Bank and its main URL is 20thstreet.com, but they also purchased twentiethstreet.com Now, just be looking at the URL tell me out of 20thstreetbank.com, 20th-street.com, and 20th-street-bank.com which one the scam site would be at?
"Oh, just click the link and look at the site and you can tell". Umm, not right off the bat. It is extremely simple to suck a bunch of pages & graphics from a site (or just relative link the graphics, and make links on the homepage go to the correct page on the real site) to make an 99% perfect website.
Now that many companies use subdomains for their webapps, I use dozens of sites where the 'logon' link takes you to foo.20thstreet.com. Now, ignoring http verse https that many people don't understand, tell me if my bank owns all but one of those domain names is bankapp.20th-street.com going to steal my user ID or not?
It is not hard for an advanced scam group to trick even an experienced web user.
(oh and FYI, the thing that gave it away when I got my mail, other then my bank previously saying that any Visa charge confirmation requests would be done via phone rather then email, was the registration date for the domain name. They had lied about the owner/address/etc to make it look pretty convincing)
Starting with Windows Mobile 2003 you can. Better still is Windows Mobile 5 (devices with that have started coming out recently, like the Treo 700 (for a Pocket PC form factor) and the HTC Faraday (for a Smartphone form factor), you can have push mail. You need Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (or higher of course) to support it.
The original version of the push technology used specially crafted SMS messages to trigger the phone in to doing a sync. (i.e. the SMS message never showed up in your inbox, it was eaten by the software, nor was the email message actually included in the SMS itself) This means that with a cellular company that charges you for incoming SMS messages you may end up having to pay for them. Some of the cell companies put filters in place so that you didn't get charged for these system type messages.
The newer version of direct push no longer relies on SMS messages, so you don't have to worry about paying text messaging fees.
Personally, I like to just set my device to a scheduled sync (every 5 to 10 minutes) which is just as effective really.
I was about to post this same topic. 5 'whatever' points, plus a set of 3 or 4 OT-specific ones.
I don't think I've ever modded someone OT, because I always wanted to reward someone for an intelligent post - hitting someone with an OT just means that I don't get to reward the person who spent time to make a reasonable contribution to the discussion.
So you could eventually trick the patient in to believing that fuzzy bunnies are evil, and that armed militia are no threat. For whatever that is worth...
If you already know the exact amount of trauma that you would suffer having to kill someone / having to see someone being killed / etc, then good for you.
There have been cases where trained fire fighters freeze up when they get inside of a burning building. There are tons of cases where police officers have to make multiple visits to the shrink after shooting someone / getting shot at. There are many many cases of people totally shutting down, to the point where the can't talk or stand for awhile, when they are in a war. In the heat of the moment average citizens do heroic things, then sometimes weeks later suddenly realize what they've done and end up with repeating nightmares.
Apparently you are smarter than all of those trained professionals, since you already know exactly how a horrible situation is giong to affect you.
But the goggles... the goggles do nothing!
To dup something I said elsewhere in these comments: Locks.
The A/V equipment that people don't need to touch should be in a locked cabinet. The 'real' remotes go in that cabinet too. The people with the keys are the only ones that should be messing with that stuff. The only 'unlocked' interface should be really simple and task-focused (buttons like "I want to show a video presentation", "my laptop is plugged in to the big cable labled 'laptop' and i want it shown on the projection screen')
Buy locks. Seriously. There are different types of locks, cables (metal, not computer), connectors, and security tape that can prevent things from being moved. You can put little locked box-things over cable connectors on the wall to keep people from plugging the telephone in to the ethernet, or unplugging the video camera to charge their laptop. Same type of stuff can be done with the cables that go in to the backs of computers, TVs, and the conference phones.
Nothing is foolproof though, but that type of stuff sure does help. Tape doesn't work though. I used duct tape to cover up a power button on a computer and then taped a Post-It that said 'Do Not Turn This Off' over the button, and taped the power cord in. A few weeks later... someone had used scissors to cut through the tape to turn the machine off. Why? What were they trying to accomplish? There is not telling. But they did it... Can't get through the metal boxes nearly as easily.
Forgot to add this to my previous post...
And if you think that you should tell the CEO/President/VP/"upper echelon management" how to run their meetings... They aren't going to take that very well. Having a friend in the top-tier of the company is going to be much more beneficial in the long term than pissing off one of them (in that case you might not even have a 'long term'!)
Yea, if the people are in a nearby building, or are
Face to face meetings are totally valueable, and there should be no excuse for not having at least a few face to face meetings between key project players during the process. But, expecting people to fly all over the world at the drop of a hat is not realistic.
Even if it takes a half hour to set the meeting up on both sides, and the meeting ends up starting 15 minutes late, you are still going to save -way- more time than if you had to wait on airplanes. It is much easier to pull people in to the meeting on an as-needed basis when it is a video conference too.
Actually the most complicated conference room we have is easier to use than the mid-range conference room. In the mid-range conference room you have to do things manually (i.e. multiple remotes/cables/switches). In the complicated conference room, with wayyy more 'stuff', everything is controlled by a single fancy LCD remote control. The on-screen buttons are very easy to figure out (basically 'press this to turn the lights on' 'press this to turn on the projector and show the computer' 'press this to turn the project off and brighten the lights back up').
So basically the summary here is 'you get what you pay for', and 'if the system is unusable it doesn't matter how cool it is'.
Well we also have giant lecture room / auditorium rooms that actually have official camera operators & light/sound guys and other fancy stuff, but those aren't for regular everyday meetings.
Because having deep techinicaly understanding of computer software & telepresense systems is necessary for the president of a mechnical manufacturing company? for the president of a fertilizer company? for the president of an automotive company? Even though auto companies use CAD programs extensively doesn't mean the president needs to know how to use it, maybe he used to make car models out of clay (which they still do), maybe he is best at knowing what customers want and analyzing business stuff, maybe he is a negotiator - none of those require technical skills in every field.
I know some network engineers who can't make a decent "powerpoint-style" presentation to save their lives - but the management at their companies have never fired them because they 'don't know their ass from a hole in the ground', they continue to employ them becuase they are good at the specific stuff their job is about.
I can't imagine that you've done that succesfully on multiple occasions for big meetings. You can't stop a big meeting for the presenter to "move out of the way" so that the camera can transmit a clear image to the other side.
You've got glare to deal with too, white boards (at least the ones we have here) are extremely glossy and the overhead lighting ends up being a solar flare on the screen.
And I'd be impressed if you found a 'webcam' that you could put in an out-of-the-way location that is able to clearly capture the entirety of the multi-whiteboard arrays commonly found in large conference rooms.
Yea, the mimio-type devices are pretty expensive, but they quickly pay for themselves if your company values the productivity of global meetings.
And as for tablet's... I used to carry a tabbed & spiral bound 'project book', but switched to using a tablet over 2 years ago. I am way more effective, and my notes are way more organized. You just can't go back and insert big chunks of text in a paper notebook without it getting messy, you can't replace quick sketches with more detailed drawing without it getting messy, you can't easily share clips, etc. Sure you -can- do almost everything with pen & paper as you can with a tablet (as far as note-taking goes), sure you can take a polaroid camera with you and tape pictures in your notebook, sure you can carry a pack of post-it notes to interject notes in previously written pages, but that doesn't mean it is highly effective.
Yep, you're right. I'm highly afraid of homosexuals. Whenever you go out in public you run the risk of being sneezed on by a homosexual and then your life would be thrown own end since it is so contagious. That's it, clearly.
I find it interesting that you feel sodomy is more deviant than hanging body parts on your wall. Seeking medical attention is definitely something you should consider.
Wow dude, that's rather sick. You may want to try talking to a counselor about your odd desires.
Heh, okay I'll take that to mean that you don't plan on leaving me alone any time soon.
AC if you don't mind I'd appreciate it if you stopped 'stalking' mey/. posts.
No douchery to see here, move along.
Yea, the integration of their head chef with their dining facility is still in Beta - they want to keep traffic low while they continue testing. If you check on eBay you could probably find someone selling one of their spare invites, and after you've eaten there a few times you could make your money back selling yours!
I've been running XP x64 as my primary machine for as long as x64 has been available. (years). I've found it to be quite stable, more stable than my 32 bit laptop as a matter of fact.
In response to the grandparent post: Beta was in September of 2003. I would say that is more than 'a few days'.
/. knows that weird stuff goes on in the real world.
In response to the parent post: You are exactly correct. Real world scenarios are excellent for testing. Contrived test cases are of course 100% necessary, but every developer on
While a project is under active development you certainly wouldn't move 100% of your system over, you would move boxes over on schedules so you are able to analyze how systems interact and so that you have a safety net in case you need to take a server offline for some time to have it debugged.
Actually libSystem is the only 64 bit library on the box. Processes can see the whole memory space, but GUI apps are actually 32 bit apps. If you want your GUI app to do some thing with 64 bit math, for example, you write a little helper app that goes off and processes the data and hands back a result.
Completely coincidence that you are having issues at the same time the article was released.
;)
Migrations actually started quite awhile back, there was no "okay, the press release is going live in 15 minutes does everyone in the datacenter have their hands on power switches so we can flip everything over at the same time?"