That's true. Our local radio station would always pretend they had a dog in the studio and have it "bark" close to the end of the track, and the DJ would go "Down rover, down, back into your basket. Sorry about that."
Sometimes the recording added an interesting effect to the music. There's one song I remember, but I can't find on Youtube. It sounded like Prince's Bat Dance but it was all muffly and echoey like a music hall. Never been able to find any video with that effect.
I used to like to watch Night-Time on ITV, but couldn't really stay up to 6am in the morning. So I would get a long-play VHS tape (8-hours) and record the whole six hours from midnight to 6am.
What you do is download the videos onto your home PC, transfer the videos onto a hundred GByte SD card and view them that way, rather than blowing your monthly data network allowance on streaming the same video over and over again. So the solution is... get rid of the data caps or allow Youtbe to use DRM to store a video that you mark as "cache locally". You also use a decent pair of DJ/gaming headphones to listen to the music rather than the tinny speaker.
I'm a software developer. I see agencies trying to offer me jobs that match some of the work I've done in the past, but the work I do now is my life ambition and what I always dreamt of doing. No amount of money, no relocation package, no free four week hotel stay or even an offer of living in the wealthiest country in the center of Europe would make me compromise on my goals. So it isn't just money.
There's are risks involved with changing jobs. These include being bait-and-switched, the hassle factor of relocation, staying in hotels, putting and taking things into and out of storage. Things put into storage tend to "disappear". Employers tend to try and make jobs sound sexy by adding keywords; "Oh, we just add those to winkle out the post-docs from their research labs". Or you find that guru software developer position they wanted to fill, simply involves training up your foreign replacements rather than getting to do the work yourself. Or you find that the employer has a little deal with all the other local employers, and you can't simply change jobs when you want to. I'll avoid one company towns simply for the fact that there are no tech Meetup groups.
Canadians were leaving decades ago because there all sorts of affirmative action programs were implemented. With the arrival of Hong Kong Chinese, the government instructed companies to make it their priority to make them feel welcome. So they got the entry level engineering jobs and salaries fell. Canadians then had to move to the USA.You'll see that with Computer Science PhD's.
I remember the Bay Area well. The on ramps came ofter the off ramps on the freeway. So there is a lane of slow traffic waiting to get off trying to weave through the lane of slow traffic trying to get onto the freeway.
The public transportation was a bit hit and miss. They had the Caltrain from San Jose to San Francisco. That was good if your offices were a ten minute walk from the station. But any distance further than 10 minutes walk was pushing it not just because of the heat in Summer, but because of all the major road intersections you had to cross (six lanes plus a barrier in the middle. It's easy to see where the inspiration for Frogger came from).
For me, it takes around three manual restarts, because I have a dual-boot system and the default option is to boot into Linux. Even if Windows does download the update, it then sits around for so long with no indication of what it is doing that the screen blanks out. Then it just sits there pondering and reboots into Linux. Then I reboot back into Windows, which tells me that updates have to be installed. Then it sits around a bit more with a blank screen, then it reboots.
So an automatic update isn't going to be automatic, and it comes as a rather unpleasant surpise to boot into Windows, only to find that the updates weren't installed or need to be downloaded and installed before I can get any work done. If this update system were designed correctly, it should simply clone the existing Windows config, apply the updates, and only say a new version is available when everything is working correctly.
I have seen computer systems that could create a virtual newspaper given any GPS coordinate, radius and time period. It would aggregate all the news articles that matched that specification and automatically format all the pages and pictures into a newspaper.
Nuclear safety is basically reduced down to "where can we find somewhere remote to store toxic stuff that isn't already a national park, isn't at risk from earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, subsidence, fault lines, landslides, forest fires, or property developers for at least 10,000 years".
We built high-rises in the UK. My relatives lived in one, and it had absolutely beautiful views across the city and the sea close to the horizon. Every floor has waste chutes for rubbish bags. Apartments had double glazing, central heating and were actually on two floors. The architects took a traditional two up, two down and stacked them up on top of each other. However, the problem is the neighbors. Some are alcoholics, some would use the communal hallways as playpens for their children; just basically throw them out and let them play until bedtime. Others woul run home businesses and use their apartments as storage room for stock. Teenagers would get bored and start surfing elevators and ultimately break them.
Those historic brownstones and other apartment blocks were only poorly maintained and decrepit because they had become overcrowded and there was more wear and tear than the rent would cover.
The freeways were deliberately planned to go down between wealthy middle-class neighborhoods and low income areas. They form a natural barrier to prevent undesirables from wandering in. Get the right combination of rivers, freeways, railway lines, clifftops, industrial estates and you end up with a walled city without the need for ramparts and watch towers.
Given that shareware file system explorers and encryption routines are standard library functions, and it's easy enough to create a webpage with paypal and bitcoin pay buttons, just tacking on some network system exploits will allow the implementation of instant randomware.
Hospitals moved to computer because it saved space storing data on a server rather than rack and racks of shelves with paper notes with scribbly doctors writing. These would have to be thrown out after three years if the patient never returned. Then when someone is referred to another doctor, clinic, practise, specialist, consultant, those paper notes would have to be transferred across as well. Needless to say, they would end up being lost. Medical notes weren't the right size to store X-ray plates let alone modern digital data like Ultrasounds or NMR/MRI/CAT scan volumetric data (1024^3 cubes of pixels at HD resolution). Once medical data is digitized, the next problem is transferring the data across from department to department. So they need an intra-net. It's not connected to the Internet, but since there are university hospitals and wif-i services, there's always the risk.
The design and layout of an efficient public transport system isn't any different from the design of a supercomputing system. In the former, we are shuffling people around, in the latter we are shuffling data around. Consider a multi-GPU system, the CPU's are like the downtown areas with offices, hotels and apartments, the GPU's are like the industrial areas with warehouses and manufacturing plants, freeways and public transport are like the data bus systems.
Somehow we can design high-performance consumer electronics, but still can't reduce commute times.
The problem is then that the property speculators would have built housing along that I-195. They would claim "just 5 minutes off intersection I-5, new development of luxury condo's with concierge service, minutes from the supermarket, bars and restaurants". Then shopping malls would have been built to be close the apartments. Schools and hospitals would need to be built. And the whole problem would spring up again. Everyone in a large metropolitan area is constantly looking to reduce their commute, so if they see a chance, they will take it.
The UK had similar policies. The choice was between renovating old apartment blocks to modern standards or demolishing them, building ring roads, interconnects to downtown and freeways, and relocating the displaced population to new high-rise tower blocks. Traditionally apartments had outdoor backgarden bathrooms but some had modernized to communal staircase bathrooms. But now the expectation was per-apartment bathrooms, washing machines, double-glazing and central heating).
For those cities that moved to ring roads, they ended up with all sorts of other social problems. The cities that kept their old apartments now have properties that are valued on the global market.
Assuming there was interest, and you were able to get the network up and running, it would have to be encrpyted to protect privacy. Then it would be considered a paradise for criminals by the media. If it wasn't encrypted, then it would be considered a paradise for data mining companies. Other companies would see the opportunity to offer route owners franchises and memberships to create sub-networks where they could mine all the data passing through, maybe even offer bonus points and discounts on other products for the amount of traffic going through.
Even if you try and run your own mail-server with no objections from your ISP, all the other corporate and academic system admins will already have your IP address blocked due to a ban-list of IP addresses related to dynamic IP ranges, all to block spamming from botnet hosts. Even using the official ISP mailbox, simply involves being forwarded to a third party mailbox service based on Windows servers.
Oh yes, some city have road layouts that make you think the urban planners used a pre-release beta version of a freeware game map editor with a buggy road layout randomizer that couldn't handle intersections with more than four exits. After several attempts, the urban planners got bored and decided to see how many roundabouts, freeway overpasses and junctions they could cluster together before everything slowed to a halt. Then after Mom called them down for dinner, they went back and finished off with the random placement of fire stations, city halls and hospitals, airports, bus and train stations. If you are lucky all three are actually in the same location or just a 10 minute walk away. If you are extremely unlucky, they are miles apart.
It does if the router is not configured to block SMB. I have a consumer router provided by my ISP. I had to dig through an entire menu system and scroll down to the very bottom of one screen to find the configuration menu option that disables SMB file sharing pass-through.
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That's true. Our local radio station would always pretend they had a dog in the studio and have it "bark" close to the end of the track, and the DJ would go "Down rover, down, back into your basket. Sorry about that."
Sometimes the recording added an interesting effect to the music. There's one song I remember, but I can't find on Youtube. It sounded like Prince's Bat Dance but it was all muffly and echoey like a music hall. Never been able to find any video with that effect.
I used to like to watch Night-Time on ITV, but couldn't really stay up to 6am in the morning. So I would get a long-play VHS tape (8-hours) and record the whole six hours from midnight to 6am.
What you do is download the videos onto your home PC, transfer the videos onto a hundred GByte SD card and view them that way, rather than blowing your monthly data network allowance on streaming the same video over and over again. So the solution is ... get rid of the data caps or allow Youtbe to use DRM to store a video that you mark as "cache locally". You also use a decent pair of DJ/gaming headphones to listen to the music rather than the tinny speaker.
I'm a software developer. I see agencies trying to offer me jobs that match some of the work I've done in the past, but the work I do now is my life ambition and what I always dreamt of doing. No amount of money, no relocation package, no free four week hotel stay or even an offer of living in the wealthiest country in the center of Europe would make me compromise on my goals. So it isn't just money.
There's are risks involved with changing jobs. These include being bait-and-switched, the hassle factor of relocation, staying in hotels, putting and taking things into and out of storage. Things put into storage tend to "disappear". Employers tend to try and make jobs sound sexy by adding keywords; "Oh, we just add those to winkle out the post-docs from their research labs". Or you find that guru software developer position they wanted to fill, simply involves training up your foreign replacements rather than getting to do the work yourself. Or you find that the employer has a little deal with all the other local employers, and you can't simply change jobs when you want to. I'll avoid one company towns simply for the fact that there are no tech Meetup groups.
Canadians were leaving decades ago because there all sorts of affirmative action programs were implemented. With the arrival of Hong Kong Chinese, the government instructed companies to make it their priority to make them feel welcome. So they got the entry level engineering jobs and salaries fell. Canadians then had to move to the USA.You'll see that with Computer Science PhD's.
I remember the Bay Area well. The on ramps came ofter the off ramps on the freeway. So there is a lane of slow traffic waiting to get off trying to weave through the lane of slow traffic trying to get onto the freeway.
The public transportation was a bit hit and miss. They had the Caltrain from San Jose to San Francisco. That was good if your offices were a ten minute walk from the station. But any distance further than 10 minutes walk was pushing it not just because of the heat in Summer, but because of all the major road intersections you had to cross (six lanes plus a barrier in the middle. It's easy to see where the inspiration for Frogger came from).
And if they fall asleep or die from exhaustion, the endoskeleton will keep on working until the shift is over.
For me, it takes around three manual restarts, because I have a dual-boot system and the default option is to boot into Linux. Even if Windows does download the update, it then sits around for so long with no indication of what it is doing that the screen blanks out. Then it just sits there pondering and reboots into Linux. Then I reboot back into Windows, which tells me that updates have to be installed. Then it sits around a bit more with a blank screen, then it reboots.
So an automatic update isn't going to be automatic, and it comes as a rather unpleasant surpise to boot into Windows, only to find that the updates weren't installed or need to be downloaded and installed before I can get any work done. If this update system were designed correctly, it should simply clone the existing Windows config, apply the updates, and only say a new version is available when everything is working correctly.
I have seen computer systems that could create a virtual newspaper given any GPS coordinate, radius and time period. It would aggregate all the news articles that matched that specification and automatically format all the pages and pictures into a newspaper.
Nuclear safety is basically reduced down to "where can we find somewhere remote to store toxic stuff that isn't already a national park, isn't at risk from earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, subsidence, fault lines, landslides, forest fires, or property developers for at least 10,000 years".
The waves of magnetism are actually photons, which are considered massless particles.
We built high-rises in the UK. My relatives lived in one, and it had absolutely beautiful views across the city and the sea close to the horizon. Every floor has waste chutes for rubbish bags. Apartments had double glazing, central heating and were actually on two floors. The architects took a traditional two up, two down and stacked them up on top of each other. However, the problem is the neighbors. Some are alcoholics, some would use the communal hallways as playpens for their children; just basically throw them out and let them play until bedtime. Others woul run home businesses and use their apartments as storage room for stock. Teenagers would get bored and start surfing elevators and ultimately break them.
Those historic brownstones and other apartment blocks were only poorly maintained and decrepit because they had become overcrowded and there was more wear and tear than the rent would cover.
The freeways were deliberately planned to go down between wealthy middle-class neighborhoods and low income areas. They form a natural barrier to prevent undesirables from wandering in. Get the right combination of rivers, freeways, railway lines, clifftops, industrial estates and you end up with a walled city without the need for ramparts and watch towers.
The tech consultants on the UK newschannels say that it is possible to buy randomware kits off the black market.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
Given that shareware file system explorers and encryption routines are standard library functions, and it's easy enough to create a webpage with paypal and bitcoin pay buttons, just tacking on some network system exploits will allow the implementation of instant randomware.
Hospitals moved to computer because it saved space storing data on a server rather than rack and racks of shelves with paper notes with scribbly doctors writing. These would have to be thrown out after three years if the patient never returned. Then when someone is referred to another doctor, clinic, practise, specialist, consultant, those paper notes would have to be transferred across as well. Needless to say, they would end up being lost. Medical notes weren't the right size to store X-ray plates let alone modern digital data like Ultrasounds or NMR/MRI/CAT scan volumetric data (1024^3 cubes of pixels at HD resolution). Once medical data is digitized, the next problem is transferring the data across from department to department. So they need an intra-net. It's not connected to the Internet, but since there are university hospitals and wif-i services, there's always the risk.
The design and layout of an efficient public transport system isn't any different from the design of a supercomputing system. In the former, we are shuffling people around, in the latter we are shuffling data around. Consider a multi-GPU system, the CPU's are like the downtown areas with offices, hotels and apartments, the GPU's are like the industrial areas with warehouses and manufacturing plants, freeways and public transport are like the data bus systems.
Somehow we can design high-performance consumer electronics, but still can't reduce commute times.
The problem is then that the property speculators would have built housing along that I-195. They would claim "just 5 minutes off intersection I-5, new development of luxury condo's with concierge service, minutes from the supermarket, bars and restaurants". Then shopping malls would have been built to be close the apartments. Schools and hospitals would need to be built. And the whole problem would spring up again. Everyone in a large metropolitan area is constantly looking to reduce their commute, so if they see a chance, they will take it.
The UK had similar policies. The choice was between renovating old apartment blocks to modern standards or demolishing them, building ring roads, interconnects to downtown and freeways, and relocating the displaced population to new high-rise tower blocks. Traditionally apartments had outdoor backgarden bathrooms but some had modernized to communal staircase bathrooms. But now the expectation was per-apartment bathrooms, washing machines, double-glazing and central heating).
For those cities that moved to ring roads, they ended up with all sorts of other social problems. The cities that kept their old apartments now have properties that are valued on the global market.
Hex-Ray is the modern day equivalent. I remember the days of replacing E6 60 with 90 90 for noisy DOS games.
Assuming there was interest, and you were able to get the network up and running, it would have to be encrpyted to protect privacy. Then it would be considered a paradise for criminals by the media. If it wasn't encrypted, then it would be considered a paradise for data mining companies. Other companies would see the opportunity to offer route owners franchises and memberships to create sub-networks where they could mine all the data passing through, maybe even offer bonus points and discounts on other products for the amount of traffic going through.
Even if you try and run your own mail-server with no objections from your ISP, all the other corporate and academic system admins will already have your IP address blocked due to a ban-list of IP addresses related to dynamic IP ranges, all to block spamming from botnet hosts. Even using the official ISP mailbox, simply involves being forwarded to a third party mailbox service based on Windows servers.
Oh yes, some city have road layouts that make you think the urban planners used a pre-release beta version of a freeware game map editor with a buggy road layout randomizer that couldn't handle intersections with more than four exits. After several attempts, the urban planners got bored and decided to see how many roundabouts, freeway overpasses and junctions they could cluster together before everything slowed to a halt. Then after Mom called them down for dinner, they went back and finished off with the random placement of fire stations, city halls and hospitals, airports, bus and train stations. If you are lucky all three are actually in the same location or just a 10 minute walk away. If you are extremely unlucky, they are miles apart.
It does if the router is not configured to block SMB. I have a consumer router provided by my ISP. I had to dig through an entire menu system and scroll down to the very bottom of one screen to find the configuration menu option that disables SMB file sharing pass-through.
Online backups, shadow volumes can get encrypted as well.