Never under estimate the influence of the Big 3 when it comes to local a municipalitie's decision regarding public transit. Public transit is the first enemy of the auto industry. Even the hybrid / electric car industry is part of the auto industry.
Does anyone else think these sound like the large buildings in Sim City 2000 that were friggin expensive but where a fully contained Commerce, Industry, and Residential neighborhood?
I see this as pretty much a waste of time and money (not to mention the subject matter of the class . . . who really cares or needs to know; Yet another Art History Major with little future use). Talk about a tenuious connection between the field of study (architecture) and the best use of the device (music / files). Now I know the project said the purpose was to "illustrate creative uses for the machine," but that seems to me to be more like people that hook iPods up to stereos in vehicles, or using iPods for portable Auto CAD / 3dsMax file storage.
May be I just have a beef against the liberal arts majors getting to play with cool toys while the CS departments of the world are using old HPUX systems and scraping funding off the backs of Engineering colleges around the nation.
Someone could easily move in and start whoring out your fat pipe for spam.
Make sure TOS eliminate all server services. Serriously though, if a techie wanted to live their and host a web/ssh/ or whatever server, then charge them extra. Otherwise, eliminate almost all incomming traffic.
That doesn't matter to them. If the ISP is interested more in money than satasfaction, then they will care how many computers are behind it. Many computers hints of a home business trying to pass itself off as a private user. And everyone knows that business stuff is more expensive (note sarcasm).
That is the usual route they take. My local Cable internet provider will sell up to 3 IPs through the same cable modem (marketing or hw/sw limitations don't allow more than 3 per modem)
Fortunately, I never had to worry about that with the use of a simple Linksys gateway router. Now I don't know how the gateway router changes the bits of packet headers to eliminate host counting (one way to count hosts behind NAT).
I bet Microsoft would love to take all of those suggestions and stick them in their Windows 2006 OS, which would be completely locked out from talking to other OS'es.
All those ideas a good (most of them) as long as the body that generates the standards does not involve a single OS / app provider.
Those objects are in geo-synchronous orbit. They are moving at the same speed the earth is rotating and in the same direction.
If the earth were not rotating on its axis, those objects would orbit the earth 365.26 times every earth year (or every orbit of the earth around the sun).
But because the earth is rotating on its axis and because the satalites are moving the same direction at the same speed, they appear to stay over the same part of the earth.
I was pretty impressed with their info and site until you pointed this out and I took a look. My experience in graphics programs stops at PaintShop Pro and using it to change resolutions/image types/sizes, etc. But I could tell that the several pixles surrounding the nozle were obviously artifacts of image insertion.
I am disappointed that any agency seeking credibility would do that. But time will tell the merits of their work.
We in the states tend to run in to other limitations on the amount of time non-violent criminals can stay in jail. These limitations many times have to do with money. It is dam expensive to keep a convict behind bars, fed 3 squares, and given his cabel/sat TV. When a prison system has to choose between keeping a rape vs a computer crime offender, they should choose to keep the violent crime and release the other.
That is why many convicts are released before being reformed. I also tend to believe that keeping an alcoholic in a dorm full of alcoholics is not the best way to reform the individual. The company surrounding an individual affects their actions. If the people surrounding a convict reinforce their past behavior, then you cannot expect any real change in their actions.
Take a look at games like Starcraft and Tribes(1). There are still hundreds of active servers (just in north america) to join for each of those games. They each had great gameplay. But that game play would be greatly diminished if it wern't for the tight network code. You can't play either of these games if the connections are laggy. That would destroy their reputations as great multiplayer games.
I am trying to find a link to this article I read about (possibly was poset on/. as well) regarding these wall ports that looked like a house lac system. You plug plastic duct work on to your computers fan outputs and duct it into the interior walls of your house, which typically have no insulation and connect directly to the attic where most houses have decent venting.
This is what you need to move the heat out of your room. In the summer this would be ideal, since the AC systems for houses return air from around the house back to the cooling uint where your newly generated hot air must be cooled. If the hot air was sent outside of the AC system's environment, then only the cooler air of the house has to be cooled.
I was wondering about that. The speakers seem to be on some sort of springs. Would that many speakers be enough to create the vibrations to start a shock spring rolling?
I also can't see what happened to get that funky windshield wiper walking creature to move? The windshield washer pump sprays fluid on to the glass, but what causes it to start the next stage?
I did this demo as part of a University Chemistry team when we would go aroudn to grade schools in rural areas and help out the science teachers. We always used a turkey baster filled with flour and then just bashed on the bulb while pointing the thing across the path of a blow torch. Worked like a charm and sent up a 2-4 foot ball of flames.
That is an interesting site. What sort of tilt does the average reader over there have? Is it satirical use of "Jesus" or does it have a generally Christian reader base?
Trackable info is GOLD. Take the following which happened to a guy I know at the same company I'm contracted to:
Guy I know got fired from [US printer company], then hired back as a contract. When working the contract, a full time employee complained about the quality of his test matrix, so they scheduled meetings and re-wrote it. Both of them kept notes, and both emailed the other with their copy of the notes to make sure they had all the same info. She complained again, then they did the meetings, re-wrote the notes, etc etc. It went on like this for about 7 iterations:
1)need more test cases
-doubled # of test cases 2)need test overviews seperated into different docs
-seperated into 3 different.doc files 3)need more test cases
-added test cases to each.doc 4)need fewer.docs
-combined to 2.docs 5)too many test cases
-reduced test cases in each.doc 6)don't like formatting of.doc
-used different fonts, spacing, etc 7)too many test cases and docs
-combined docs; reduced test cases 8)[yelling] you are a terrible engineer (I kid you not)
-take it up the butt because you can't talk that way to employees but they can to you.
The result of this month of run-around that she gave the guy was that she didn't like him and wanted his project canceled and delayed (ie no work for months) so that a different contractor could be brought in to do the same job . . . one that would do the work just how she wanted it (YES MAN) but with out her actually doing the work.
At meetings with the VP of the contract agency, and meetings with the [US printer company] bosses the guy presented 300+ pages of printouts including each iteration of the test spec, the notes from each meeting, and all emails between them (he auto logged all emails). The VPs concluded that the guy did an excelent job of fulfilling the job requirements, but that because she didn't like him his contract would be canceled. The contract firm VP admitted privately later that this is very common with [US printer company] and there is absolutely nothing that could be done about it. Since both bosses agreed, the guys record was not adversely affected, but he still can't work in her division ever again.
When you offer your trained expert opinion to an idiot, expect nothing less that idiocy in return.
Hopefully this isn't a common experience with other companies and other contract workers.
"If you have a negative expectation about your subordinate, you will tend to act condescendingly toward him and deprive him of opportunities to excel," Plaks says. "This in turn can lead the subordinate to actually perform worse. Expectations about a person can actually shape that person's reality."
That is an interesting bit of psychology that does make sense. Think of inner city kids giving up on hopes for a progressive future away from poverty. They see the obstacles, they see the discrimination (race, economic, locale, etc) and fulfill the expectations.
They were basically making too good of a product. If you make a product that lasts for 10 years with few problems, then you are shooting yourself in the foot. Your customers will buy from you once every 10 years. If you can get them to buy more frequently, then you get more money. Think of MS and their strategy for faster OS turn over.
I went through that same searching on every OS I have tried besides my main machine (a windows one). These other OSes I have hunted through include: HP-UX, Linux (RedHat & Mandrake), Mac OS 9, Mac OS X. The problem is that they all aren't Windows.
If the same developers would work for all the OSes then we could have something constant. That would be nice.
But that won't happen. So accept the truth, that a different OS will have a totally different system for organizing menu functionality.
I invested some time (though not a lot) to finding the menus I needed in Linux. I invested about 5 minutes to trying to figure out the Mac end of things (gave up). I invested about 10 minutes in HP-UX and after those 10 minutes I had all I needed to know (not an admin, just a programmer).
Oh come on. Hitler's speeches were full of talk about killing the Jews and ridding the land of the lesser peoples (including African's and homosexuals). You can't tell me they did not know about that.
We will soon find out if the missles used recently against Kuwait were Scuds. It is unknown at this time, but several were taken down by Patriot or Arrow missles.
(in reference to posting AC; not in reference to the topic of the poster using AC)
Why post as anon.? Could it be fear of a confrontation on a stance on some issue? Why so? Do AC posters not trust their facts and logic enough to put it to the test?
I post AC rarely, and only when posting very stupid comments (Me to!, etc) but never when voicing any thought out stance. To date I have done it 3 times.
I have many opinions considered dead wrong by many on/. yet I don't hide behind AC to voice them.
It is correct to hide behind AC when voicing opinions if the opinions are not founded on logical reasoning and facts. Not doing so would either expose the poster's factual gaps or the posters lack of knowledge / research.
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Never under estimate the influence of the Big 3 when it comes to local a municipalitie's decision regarding public transit. Public transit is the first enemy of the auto industry. Even the hybrid / electric car industry is part of the auto industry.
robi
not a conspiracy theory advocate
Does anyone else think these sound like the large buildings in Sim City 2000 that were friggin expensive but where a fully contained Commerce, Industry, and Residential neighborhood?
robi
Or your weight in grams
robi
I think the aim was 3rd party apps.
robi
I see this as pretty much a waste of time and money (not to mention the subject matter of the class . . . who really cares or needs to know; Yet another Art History Major with little future use). Talk about a tenuious connection between the field of study (architecture) and the best use of the device (music / files). Now I know the project said the purpose was to "illustrate creative uses for the machine," but that seems to me to be more like people that hook iPods up to stereos in vehicles, or using iPods for portable Auto CAD / 3dsMax file storage.
May be I just have a beef against the liberal arts majors getting to play with cool toys while the CS departments of the world are using old HPUX systems and scraping funding off the backs of Engineering colleges around the nation.
robi
Someone could easily move in and start whoring out your fat pipe for spam.
Make sure TOS eliminate all server services. Serriously though, if a techie wanted to live their and host a web/ssh/ or whatever server, then charge them extra. Otherwise, eliminate almost all incomming traffic.
That is just plain easier, safer, an egalitarian.
robi
That doesn't matter to them. If the ISP is interested more in money than satasfaction, then they will care how many computers are behind it. Many computers hints of a home business trying to pass itself off as a private user. And everyone knows that business stuff is more expensive (note sarcasm).
robi
That is the usual route they take. My local Cable internet provider will sell up to 3 IPs through the same cable modem (marketing or hw/sw limitations don't allow more than 3 per modem)
Fortunately, I never had to worry about that with the use of a simple Linksys gateway router. Now I don't know how the gateway router changes the bits of packet headers to eliminate host counting (one way to count hosts behind NAT).
robi
I bet Microsoft would love to take all of those suggestions and stick them in their Windows 2006 OS, which would be completely locked out from talking to other OS'es.
All those ideas a good (most of them) as long as the body that generates the standards does not involve a single OS / app provider.
robi
Or even as a talent pool for engineers that want to play with bigger budgets.
robi
Those objects are in geo-synchronous orbit. They are moving at the same speed the earth is rotating and in the same direction.
If the earth were not rotating on its axis, those objects would orbit the earth 365.26 times every earth year (or every orbit of the earth around the sun).
But because the earth is rotating on its axis and because the satalites are moving the same direction at the same speed, they appear to stay over the same part of the earth.
robi
I was pretty impressed with their info and site until you pointed this out and I took a look. My experience in graphics programs stops at PaintShop Pro and using it to change resolutions/image types/sizes, etc. But I could tell that the several pixles surrounding the nozle were obviously artifacts of image insertion.
I am disappointed that any agency seeking credibility would do that. But time will tell the merits of their work.
robi
We in the states tend to run in to other limitations on the amount of time non-violent criminals can stay in jail. These limitations many times have to do with money. It is dam expensive to keep a convict behind bars, fed 3 squares, and given his cabel/sat TV. When a prison system has to choose between keeping a rape vs a computer crime offender, they should choose to keep the violent crime and release the other.
That is why many convicts are released before being reformed. I also tend to believe that keeping an alcoholic in a dorm full of alcoholics is not the best way to reform the individual. The company surrounding an individual affects their actions. If the people surrounding a convict reinforce their past behavior, then you cannot expect any real change in their actions.
robi
Take a look at games like Starcraft and Tribes(1). There are still hundreds of active servers (just in north america) to join for each of those games. They each had great gameplay. But that game play would be greatly diminished if it wern't for the tight network code. You can't play either of these games if the connections are laggy. That would destroy their reputations as great multiplayer games.
robi
I am trying to find a link to this article I read about (possibly was poset on /. as well) regarding these wall ports that looked like a house lac system. You plug plastic duct work on to your computers fan outputs and duct it into the interior walls of your house, which typically have no insulation and connect directly to the attic where most houses have decent venting.
This is what you need to move the heat out of your room. In the summer this would be ideal, since the AC systems for houses return air from around the house back to the cooling uint where your newly generated hot air must be cooled. If the hot air was sent outside of the AC system's environment, then only the cooler air of the house has to be cooled.
robi
I was wondering about that. The speakers seem to be on some sort of springs. Would that many speakers be enough to create the vibrations to start a shock spring rolling?
I also can't see what happened to get that funky windshield wiper walking creature to move? The windshield washer pump sprays fluid on to the glass, but what causes it to start the next stage?
robi
I did this demo as part of a University Chemistry team when we would go aroudn to grade schools in rural areas and help out the science teachers. We always used a turkey baster filled with flour and then just bashed on the bulb while pointing the thing across the path of a blow torch. Worked like a charm and sent up a 2-4 foot ball of flames.
robi
That is an interesting site. What sort of tilt does the average reader over there have? Is it satirical use of "Jesus" or does it have a generally Christian reader base?
robi
Trackable info is GOLD. Take the following which happened to a guy I know at the same company I'm contracted to:
.doc files .doc .docs .docs .doc .doc
Guy I know got fired from [US printer company], then hired back as a contract. When working the contract, a full time employee complained about the quality of his test matrix, so they scheduled meetings and re-wrote it. Both of them kept notes, and both emailed the other with their copy of the notes to make sure they had all the same info. She complained again, then they did the meetings, re-wrote the notes, etc etc. It went on like this for about 7 iterations:
1)need more test cases
-doubled # of test cases
2)need test overviews seperated into different docs
-seperated into 3 different
3)need more test cases
-added test cases to each
4)need fewer
-combined to 2
5)too many test cases
-reduced test cases in each
6)don't like formatting of
-used different fonts, spacing, etc
7)too many test cases and docs
-combined docs; reduced test cases
8)[yelling] you are a terrible engineer (I kid you not)
-take it up the butt because you can't talk that way to employees but they can to you.
The result of this month of run-around that she gave the guy was that she didn't like him and wanted his project canceled and delayed (ie no work for months) so that a different contractor could be brought in to do the same job . . . one that would do the work just how she wanted it (YES MAN) but with out her actually doing the work.
At meetings with the VP of the contract agency, and meetings with the [US printer company] bosses the guy presented 300+ pages of printouts including each iteration of the test spec, the notes from each meeting, and all emails between them (he auto logged all emails). The VPs concluded that the guy did an excelent job of fulfilling the job requirements, but that because she didn't like him his contract would be canceled. The contract firm VP admitted privately later that this is very common with [US printer company] and there is absolutely nothing that could be done about it. Since both bosses agreed, the guys record was not adversely affected, but he still can't work in her division ever again.
When you offer your trained expert opinion to an idiot, expect nothing less that idiocy in return.
Hopefully this isn't a common experience with other companies and other contract workers.
robi
"If you have a negative expectation about your subordinate, you will tend to act condescendingly toward him and deprive him of opportunities to excel," Plaks says. "This in turn can lead the subordinate to actually perform worse. Expectations about a person can actually shape that person's reality."
That is an interesting bit of psychology that does make sense. Think of inner city kids giving up on hopes for a progressive future away from poverty. They see the obstacles, they see the discrimination (race, economic, locale, etc) and fulfill the expectations.
robi
They were basically making too good of a product. If you make a product that lasts for 10 years with few problems, then you are shooting yourself in the foot. Your customers will buy from you once every 10 years. If you can get them to buy more frequently, then you get more money. Think of MS and their strategy for faster OS turn over.
robi
I went through that same searching on every OS I have tried besides my main machine (a windows one). These other OSes I have hunted through include: HP-UX, Linux (RedHat & Mandrake), Mac OS 9, Mac OS X. The problem is that they all aren't Windows.
If the same developers would work for all the OSes then we could have something constant. That would be nice.
But that won't happen. So accept the truth, that a different OS will have a totally different system for organizing menu functionality.
I invested some time (though not a lot) to finding the menus I needed in Linux. I invested about 5 minutes to trying to figure out the Mac end of things (gave up). I invested about 10 minutes in HP-UX and after those 10 minutes I had all I needed to know (not an admin, just a programmer).
robi
Oh come on. Hitler's speeches were full of talk about killing the Jews and ridding the land of the lesser peoples (including African's and homosexuals). You can't tell me they did not know about that.
robi
We will soon find out if the missles used recently against Kuwait were Scuds. It is unknown at this time, but several were taken down by Patriot or Arrow missles.
robi
(in reference to posting AC; not in reference to the topic of the poster using AC)
/. yet I don't hide behind AC to voice them.
Why post as anon.? Could it be fear of a confrontation on a stance on some issue? Why so? Do AC posters not trust their facts and logic enough to put it to the test?
I post AC rarely, and only when posting very stupid comments (Me to!, etc) but never when voicing any thought out stance. To date I have done it 3 times.
I have many opinions considered dead wrong by many on
It is correct to hide behind AC when voicing opinions if the opinions are not founded on logical reasoning and facts. Not doing so would either expose the poster's factual gaps or the posters lack of knowledge / research.
robi