They always seem to come up with the most wackiest boarding systems:
Method #1: Your place in the queue getting onto the plane is based upon how early you checked in (1-30 first, 30-60 second, 60-90 last).
Method #2: Reverse of Method #1 (1-30 last, 30-60 second, 60-90 last).
Method #3: People with no hand luggage get on first, people with hand luggage get on last.
Method #4: Priority booking first - anyone who pays an extra 10 pounds or so, can get onto the plane first. Of course, it takes an additional 20 minutes to find all the people who do have these tickets, and to explain to foreign ticket-holders, that "No, you just have an ordinary ticket, you do not have the super-easy-queue-get-onto-the plane-first ticket".
Method #5: Free-for-all. Everyone gets to run towards the nearest set of stairs onto the plane. But families with children and disabled people get a ten-minute head-start.
That happens with my laptop (Sony Vaio) - for some time I had this battle where the system would state that the power cable had been disconnected and it was switching to battery power (even thought it was still plugged in). I would end up having the system remaining off for the entire evening. This always seemed to happen when the weather had suddenly become colder. I am not sure if this was a dodgy power supply voltage or whether the room was slightly colder. But shifting the power cable connector around a bit seemed to fix the problem. Maybe the temperature caused a heat expansion size mismatch between the socket and the connector.
That's nothing new to the industry - I was watching an old Horizon documentary from the 1980's on genetic research - one of the interviewed researched stated that "Every time there is a new discovery in genetic research, there is always the assumption that this is the final piece of the jigsaw put into place. Invariably this is proved to be not the case." There is always another receptor/gene/protein found that has a moderating effect on whatever interaction is being studied.
In the UK, the emergency services get instant access to the Caller-ID information associated with the land-line. I once lived in a inner-city apartment when a guy got hit over the head with brick by some drunk kids. I called the emergency services giving the location without giving my address or number, the Police had the latter relayed to them as they were confirming witness details.
I didn;t actually RTFA but I'm going to have to, just to see how in the hell a web site will become an ISP.
Search engine portals - Their web spiders spend their lifetime crawling the web downloading and analyzing web pages. Buying high-speed internet access for this level of usage is usually charged according to how much data is transferred. It makes sense for such multinational companies to set up their own network and have a flat-rate maintainence overhead.
If any other web site has high data transfer rates (movies, videos, audio) then they too should be looking to see if it is cheaper in the long run to do the same. Many small commercial web-sites went out of business due to the costs they encountered from people downloading videos.
ISP's have a conflict of interest - their business customers mainly want to send E-mail, and download/provide webpages. Home users will want to download music, videos and movies as well as E-mail and webpages. There is no real incentive for them to upgrade just for home users.
By making the suggestion that major websites could invest in their own network infrastructure and not go through the incumbent telcos, this is one way of getting the telco's to start shuffling forward instead of treating the existing market of customers as a cash cow.
The world is always moving forward. If you're not moving forward as well by advancing your knowledge of algorithms, designing and implementing systems, working with the latest versions of API's, you're moving backwards - vegetating, falling behind. Since no job lasts forever these days, this will make it far harder for you to find employment the next time round.
Since major cities have more crime than before why don't create new cities.
They are doing this gradually. Remove all the tree, bushes, gardens and parklands that criminals hide in. Place homes close together so that there are no alleyways for criminals to hide in. Require that people make sure that their homes have iron bars over the windows and doors so that no one can break in. Surround office blocks and residential areas with high security fencing and place CCTV cameras everywhere so that no area is unmonitored. Have biometric scanners to make sure nobody isn't who they say they are. Make sure that all financial transactions are logged and audited electronically.
It might not be a fun place to live in, but at least no crime will go unpunished.
From the people that I have met (who have architected international specifications and written books on their area knowledge), the superstars are the laid-back and chilled out programmers, while the arrogant programmers are the wannabes - if they really knew as much as they thought they did, they wouldn't be so insecure.
The original poster of this disussion hasn't specified what the nature of the work is - is it user-interface - is his company designing the next killer application. Then they would need someone who knows how to design and implement really polished application UI's.
Are they looking for someone to implement highly computational intensive core libraries - then maybe a programmer with Matlab experience or someone with a mathematics background would be more suitable.
Or are they looking for someone to write general purpose libraries that can be reused - then someone with good object-oriented design experience would be best.
If they are just looking for a programmer to implement specifications, then looking a someone who has done similar ework in a final year project or thesis would be a good place to look.
Microsoft did try this before when they first brought out Windows NT. They provided a very minimal shell environment along with some unix emulation commands (make, ls, df, du, vi) as well as being able to get OpenGL drivers ported over. The idea was to provide these commands to get the applications ported over, and then to silently withdraw the suppport once the applications were ported.
There are still emulation libraries by Cygwin and MKS
Shell scripts are Microsofts weakness. Microsoft held off from including Monad into Vista for security fears. This was in a previous Slashdot discussion
Anyone involved in the design of ASIC chips has access to chip grinders and electron microscopes, which while normally used for quality-assurance purposes, can be used to examine competitors architectures. See Chip art at wikipedia.
There are standard ways of communicating with hardware (memory-mapped registers, IO ports, DMA transfers), so there isn't much that isn't known already.
Although, most of the optimisations in the use of 3D hardware seem to be related to memory mapping, caching, ordering and buffering, which are patented (The OpengL extension registry lists the restrictions assigned to each extension). These are probably the reason that the drivers remain proprietary.
Here at slashdot, you place your comments in less-than and greater-than signs, not square brackets, in to provide italics, thus you would need to use < i > and </i >
Whats the point of placing the server in a nuclear bunker when you can just snip the cable (both metaphorically and physically) to limit the access.
Advantages of operating in a nuclear bunker? Less variation in temperature and humidity which will probably be near constant. Notice the number of animals that make homes underground when they hibernate. Less chance of being affected by rioting crowds, crash-landing small planes, flooding and fires from adjacent buildings, chemical spills and power cuts. The bunker will have its own generators, and will probably also have its own satellite dish, so that even if the cables are cut (from maurading bulldozers or diggers), it would still be able to communicate with the outside world.
It's not just IMDb.com. Vodafone have a customer accounts webpage that allows anyone to check the balance on their account, which is great for wireless modems. Except of course, you have go through three pages of corporate logos, login prompts and adverts.
Going back to the days of dial-up speeds really makes it obvious where all the bandwidth is going... fancy full-screen wide curvy squiggly frames, flash movies, clicky-soundy buttons, pop-up animations, fancy animated sparkly animations that follow the pointer around...
I thought it was more to do with the orbitals of the electrons rather than the atomic number of the atom, and the orbitals of the electrons depend on the crystalline arrangement of atoms, and whether they have been ionised or not. Even different ions of the same atom will have a different absorption spectrum and emission spectrum. So no atom has one unique color, but may have a series of wavelengths of light that it can emit, which our sight would perceive as a mix of red, green or blue wavelengths, but provide us with a specific visual interpretation (eg. greenish-blue).
I've read some of the reviews for that book. The story about everyone in a street ending up using water amplifiers (pressure boosters) to guarantee that they get their fair share of water is funny. Some things don't seem to different from other parts of the world.
Dumping garbage in the street - that happens elsewhere whenever the authorities impose apparently madhatter legislation; Example, a country in Europe creates a whole nation-wide network of recycling centers to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill - Totally sensible. Anyone could enter, and recycle their old boxes, cartons, polystyrene boxes, lawnmowers, furniture, whatever. Then the authorities decide that too many people are making too many journeys, so they decide that each family can only get a ticket to allow them to recycle once every two months. So now, everyone drives around looking for somewhere to dump their recyclables, even filling in the communal rubbish bins of neighbouring villages. Others simply burn it instead.
Remember, IBM lost $1 billion on OS2, and then lost another $1 billion.
Which they because they chose to bundle OS/2 with the IBM Personal System/2, which in turn had proprietary patented architecture. The idea was that customers would be happy to pay a higher premium for a more advanced architecture. Unfortunately for IBM, customers were happier with the existing PC architecture and upgrading the components they needed to upgrade.
Only yesterday, they were proposing to send some telecommunications satellites to orbit the Moon so that there would be all-over lunar coverage for astronauts with satellite phones.
The Japanese experimented with incendiary devices that used the jet stream to travel across the USA. To maintain the correct altitude, the balloon would either dump ballast or vent hydrogen. It might even be possible to make of the fact that wind direction and speed can be completely different depending upon altitude. * Building a balloon that could survive a three-day trip across the Pacific and then automatically drop its warload was technically challenging. Since a hydrogen balloon expands in the sunlight and rises, then contracts at night and falls, the Japanese engineers had to develop a battery-operated automatic control system to maintain altitude. When the balloon descended below 9 kilometers (29,500 feet), it electrically fired charges to cut loose sandbags. The sandbags were carried on a cast-aluminum four-spoked wheel, and discarded two at a time to keep the wheel balanced. Similarly, when the balloon rose above about 11.6 kilometers (38,000 feet), the altimeter activated a valve to vent hydrogen; the hydrogen was also vented if the balloon's pressure reached a critical level.
The balloon had to carry about 900 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of gear, which meant a hydrogen balloon with a diameter of about 10 meters (33 feet). At first, the balloons were made of conventional rubberized silk, but there was a cheaper way to make an envelope that leaked even less. An order went out for ten thousand balloons made of "washi", a paper derived from mulberry bushes that was impermeable and very tough. It was only available in squares about the size of a road map, so it was glued together in three or four laminations using paste derived from a tuber with the Japanese name of "devil's-tongue".
- ATDP 5601750 to dial on a rotary/pulse phone (ATDT for touchtone) - +++ to get your modem's attention so you can issue commands like: - ATH to hang up
Those skills are still in use if you want to use a wireless or satellite modem using PPP and Linux - but not many people need to if they have a landline broadband connection.
I still use rabbit ears antennae for my PC - it has a TV card inside, but since the room it is in, doesn't have an external antennae socket, rabbit ears antennae are necessary. Not that the reception is improved that much.
I've always wondered whether this would work for pets as well. If you measured the electrical activity around the areas related to vocalisation, maybe we could figure what they are thinking about. Although it is usually easy to guess as they always look in the direction of what they are thinking about.
A $5 wireless modem from E-bay can do around 57.6K baud. An Iridium mobile phone has a data rate of 2200 to 3800 baud, which probably explains why the proposed data rate for the Moon is so low. But Iridium are proposing a next-generation of satellites by 2016.
It would seem to make more sense if you could get a satellite network around the Moon. Then the cost of rover exploring would be reduced as you wouldn't need the expense of an orbiter relay-station as well as the rover unit themselves. Maybe you could give people the chance to remotely drive a rover unit for a few hundred $$$/hour.
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They always seem to come up with the most wackiest boarding systems:
Method #1: Your place in the queue getting onto the plane is based upon how early you checked in (1-30 first, 30-60 second, 60-90 last).
Method #2: Reverse of Method #1 (1-30 last, 30-60 second, 60-90 last).
Method #3: People with no hand luggage get on first, people with hand luggage get on last.
Method #4: Priority booking first - anyone who pays an extra 10 pounds or so, can get onto the plane first. Of course, it takes an additional 20 minutes to find all the people who do have these tickets, and to explain to foreign ticket-holders, that "No, you just have an ordinary ticket, you do not have the super-easy-queue-get-onto-the plane-first ticket".
Method #5: Free-for-all. Everyone gets to run towards the nearest set of stairs onto the plane. But families with children and disabled people get a ten-minute head-start.
That happens with my laptop (Sony Vaio) - for some time I had this battle where the system would state that the power cable had been disconnected and it was switching to battery power (even thought it was still plugged in). I would end up having the system remaining off for the entire evening. This always seemed to happen when the weather had suddenly become colder. I am not sure if this was a dodgy power supply voltage or whether the room was slightly colder. But shifting the power cable connector around a bit seemed to fix the problem. Maybe the temperature caused a heat expansion size mismatch between the socket and the connector.
That's nothing new to the industry - I was watching an old Horizon documentary from the 1980's on genetic research - one of the interviewed researched stated that "Every time there is a new discovery in genetic research, there is always the assumption that this is the final piece of the jigsaw put into place. Invariably this is proved to be not the case." There is always another receptor/gene/protein found that has a moderating effect on whatever interaction is being studied.
In the UK, the emergency services get instant access to the Caller-ID information associated with the land-line. I once lived in a inner-city apartment when a guy got hit over the head with brick by some drunk kids. I called the emergency services giving the location without giving my address or number, the Police had the latter relayed to them as they were confirming witness details.
I didn;t actually RTFA but I'm going to have to, just to see how in the hell a web site will become an ISP.
Search engine portals - Their web spiders spend their lifetime crawling the web downloading and analyzing web pages. Buying high-speed internet access for this level of usage is usually charged according to how much data is transferred. It makes sense for such multinational companies to set up their own network and have a flat-rate maintainence overhead.
If any other web site has high data transfer rates (movies, videos, audio) then they too should be looking to see if it is cheaper in the long run to do the same. Many small commercial web-sites went out of business due to the costs they encountered from people downloading videos.
ISP's have a conflict of interest - their business customers mainly want to send E-mail, and download/provide webpages. Home users will want to download music, videos and movies as well as E-mail and webpages. There is no real incentive for them to upgrade just for home users.
By making the suggestion that major websites could invest in their own network infrastructure and not go through the incumbent telcos, this is one way of getting the telco's to start shuffling forward instead of treating the existing market of customers as a cash cow.
The world is always moving forward. If you're not moving forward as well by advancing your knowledge of algorithms, designing and implementing systems, working with the latest versions of API's, you're moving backwards - vegetating, falling behind. Since no job lasts forever these days, this will make it far harder for you to find employment the next time round.
Since major cities have more crime than before why don't create new cities.
They are doing this gradually. Remove all the tree, bushes, gardens and parklands that criminals hide in. Place homes close together so that there are no alleyways for criminals to hide in. Require that people make sure that their homes have iron bars over the windows and doors so that no one can break in. Surround office blocks and residential areas with high security fencing and place CCTV cameras everywhere so that no area is unmonitored. Have biometric scanners to make sure nobody isn't who they say they are. Make sure that all financial transactions are logged and audited electronically.
It might not be a fun place to live in, but at least no crime will go unpunished.
From the people that I have met (who have architected international specifications and written books on their area knowledge), the superstars are the laid-back and chilled out programmers, while the arrogant programmers are the wannabes - if they really knew as much as they thought they did, they wouldn't be so insecure.
The original poster of this disussion hasn't specified what the nature of the work is - is it user-interface - is his company designing the next killer application. Then they would need someone who knows how to design and implement really polished application UI's.
Are they looking for someone to implement highly computational intensive core libraries - then maybe a programmer with Matlab experience or someone with a mathematics background would be more suitable.
Or are they looking for someone to write general purpose libraries that can be reused - then someone with good object-oriented design experience would be best.
If they are just looking for a programmer to implement specifications, then looking a someone who has done similar ework in a final year project or thesis would be a good place to look.
Microsoft did try this before when they first brought out Windows NT. They provided a very minimal shell environment along with some unix emulation commands (make, ls, df, du, vi) as well as being able to get OpenGL drivers ported over. The idea was to provide these commands to get the applications ported over, and then to silently withdraw the suppport once the applications were ported.
There are still emulation libraries by Cygwin and MKS
Shell scripts are Microsofts weakness. Microsoft held off from including Monad into Vista for security fears. This was in a previous Slashdot discussion
Anyone involved in the design of ASIC chips has access to chip grinders and electron microscopes, which while normally used for quality-assurance purposes, can be used to examine competitors architectures. See Chip art at wikipedia.
There are standard ways of communicating with hardware (memory-mapped registers, IO ports, DMA transfers), so there isn't much that isn't known already.
Although, most of the optimisations in the use of 3D hardware seem to be related to memory mapping, caching, ordering and buffering, which are patented (The OpengL extension registry lists the restrictions assigned to each extension). These are probably the reason that the drivers remain proprietary.
Here at slashdot, you place your comments in less-than and greater-than signs, not square brackets, in to provide italics, thus you would need to use < i > and < /i >
Whats the point of placing the server in a nuclear bunker when you can just snip the cable (both metaphorically and physically) to limit the access.
Advantages of operating in a nuclear bunker? Less variation in temperature and humidity which will probably be near constant. Notice the number of animals that make homes underground when they hibernate. Less chance of being affected by rioting crowds, crash-landing small planes, flooding and fires from adjacent buildings, chemical spills and power cuts. The bunker will have its own generators, and will probably also have its own satellite dish, so that even if the cables are cut (from maurading bulldozers or diggers), it would still be able to communicate with the outside world.
It's not just IMDb.com. Vodafone have a customer accounts webpage that allows anyone to check the balance on their account, which is great for wireless modems. Except of course, you have go through three pages of corporate logos, login prompts and adverts.
Going back to the days of dial-up speeds really makes it obvious where all the bandwidth is going... fancy full-screen wide curvy squiggly frames, flash movies, clicky-soundy buttons, pop-up animations, fancy animated sparkly animations that follow the pointer around...
Thank goodness for text only browsers.
It has a USB port interface, and you can get USB wireless modems. Maybe a micro-short USB cable would help?
I thought it was more to do with the orbitals of the electrons rather than the atomic number of the atom, and the orbitals of the electrons depend on the crystalline arrangement of atoms, and whether they have been ionised or not. Even different ions of the same atom will have a different
absorption spectrum and emission spectrum. So no atom has one unique color, but may have a series of wavelengths of light that it can emit, which our sight would perceive as a mix of red, green or blue wavelengths, but provide us with a specific visual interpretation (eg. greenish-blue).
I've read some of the reviews for that book. The story about everyone in a street ending up using water amplifiers (pressure boosters) to guarantee that they get their fair share of water is funny. Some things don't seem to different from other parts of the world.
Dumping garbage in the street - that happens elsewhere whenever the authorities impose apparently madhatter legislation; Example, a country in Europe creates a whole nation-wide network of recycling centers to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill - Totally sensible. Anyone could enter, and recycle their old boxes, cartons, polystyrene boxes, lawnmowers, furniture, whatever. Then the authorities decide that too many people are making too many journeys, so they decide that each family can only get a ticket to allow them to recycle once every two months. So now, everyone drives around looking for somewhere to dump their recyclables, even filling in the communal rubbish bins of neighbouring villages. Others simply burn it instead.
Remember, IBM lost $1 billion on OS2, and then lost another $1 billion.
Which they because they chose to bundle OS/2 with the IBM Personal System/2, which in turn had proprietary patented architecture. The idea was that customers would be happy to pay a higher premium for a more advanced architecture. Unfortunately for IBM, customers were happier with the existing PC architecture and upgrading the components they needed to upgrade.
Only yesterday, they were proposing to send some telecommunications satellites to orbit the Moon so that there would be all-over lunar coverage for astronauts with satellite phones.
The Japanese experimented with incendiary devices that used the jet stream to travel across the USA. To maintain the correct altitude, the balloon would either dump ballast or vent hydrogen. It might even be possible to make of the fact that wind direction and speed can be completely different depending upon altitude.
* Building a balloon that could survive a three-day trip across the Pacific and then automatically drop its warload was technically challenging. Since a hydrogen balloon expands in the sunlight and rises, then contracts at night and falls, the Japanese engineers had to develop a battery-operated automatic control system to maintain altitude. When the balloon descended below 9 kilometers (29,500 feet), it electrically fired charges to cut loose sandbags. The sandbags were carried on a cast-aluminum four-spoked wheel, and discarded two at a time to keep the wheel balanced. Similarly, when the balloon rose above about 11.6 kilometers (38,000 feet), the altimeter activated a valve to vent hydrogen; the hydrogen was also vented if the balloon's pressure reached a critical level.
The balloon had to carry about 900 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of gear, which meant a hydrogen balloon with a diameter of about 10 meters (33 feet). At first, the balloons were made of conventional rubberized silk, but there was a cheaper way to make an envelope that leaked even less. An order went out for ten thousand balloons made of "washi", a paper derived from mulberry bushes that was impermeable and very tough. It was only available in squares about the size of a road map, so it was glued together in three or four laminations using paste derived from a tuber with the Japanese name of "devil's-tongue".
Balloons in warfare
It hangs around trying to get your attention and annoys you until you respond.
So it won't be any different from going to the park to have lunch, only to find yourself surrounded by mine artists.
- ATDP 5601750 to dial on a rotary/pulse phone (ATDT for touchtone)
- +++ to get your modem's attention so you can issue commands like:
- ATH to hang up
Those skills are still in use if you want to use a wireless or satellite modem using PPP and Linux - but not many people need to if they have a landline broadband connection.
I still use rabbit ears antennae for my PC - it has a TV card inside, but since the room it is in, doesn't have an external antennae socket, rabbit ears antennae are necessary. Not that the reception is improved that much.
I've always wondered whether this would work for pets as well. If you measured the electrical activity around the areas related to vocalisation, maybe we could figure what they are thinking about. Although it is usually easy to guess as they always look in the direction of what they are thinking about.
It's about 4 pounds/meg in Europe ($15 Canadian dollars).
A $5 wireless modem from E-bay can do around 57.6K baud. An Iridium mobile phone has a data rate of 2200 to 3800 baud, which probably explains why the proposed data rate for the Moon is so low. But Iridium are proposing a next-generation of satellites by 2016.
It would seem to make more sense if you could get a satellite network around the Moon. Then the cost of rover exploring would be reduced as you wouldn't need the expense of an orbiter relay-station as well as the rover unit themselves. Maybe you could give people the chance to remotely drive a rover unit for a few hundred $$$/hour.