If your data consists of party and public event photographs, then the odds are that someone else has similar photographs. If you are a photographer (for private events), artist (looking for reference material for clients projects), or software developer (doing applications) then keeping your data secure and not leaking around is your highest priority. Having a private cloud server on your own premises with a VPN is about the only option.
They were in 2001. It was most noticable in the evenings. Just looking out the office window or taking the train down, and you'd see back to back triple rows of red and white car lights all along the freeways, as commuters working in the peninsula were trying to get across the San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges (http://goo.gl/maps/llXdt). It was faster walking, so long as there were actually sidewalks.
Yeah, I remember the dot com boom when they put on extra trains to handle the extra demand. Around mid 1990's, hardly anyone used the Caltrain between 9am and 10am. By the peak of the boom, every week saw another person competing for a seat, until there was a scrum of people trying to get on every day. Wasn't helped by Caltrain's policy of roping off the end carriage for school trips, or having direct access to the station from one side only. When they did bring in "new" carriages, these were some old Virginia Express carriages that had fold-up steps. I remember everyone going "OMG!! WTF!!!" when they first saw them.
Apple would have been better building their campus into a Tensegrity Sphere. Then they could relocate their campus whichever city offered the cheapest airspace taxes.
Small cities aren't too much of a problem (~ 500,000 people) . Usually, you could always find somewhere to rent or own within four blocks, or within a bus-ride to downtown. And there aren't any wild-eyed drunk hobos crashed out on the streets either. Maybe a few homeless people selling "The Big Issue" and chuggers (charity muggers) trying get cash off you. And everywhere is within walking distance; doctor, dentist, stores, shopping malls. Large rows of apartments give you considerable anonymity.
It's the larger cities with the need for a 1+ hour commute by train or tube that are the most intimidating. Particularly having to squash up in tube carriages during rush hour because the central core is too expensive, and the inner suburbs are too dangerous. Otherwise they are more like twenty small cities grown into each other.
Silicon Valley is more like thirty downtown cores all connected by a train network, with each station have bus-routes as spurs. You can get from one city to another 10 miles away in 15 minutes by train. But it takes you an hour to get from one side of the city to downtown by bus. Even longer if you try and take a bus across cities. With somewhere like Sunnyvale, then everything is at least a mile to three miles away from where you are (shopping mall, supermarket, dentist, doctor). Trying to use public transport to get anywhere was like trying to plan a deep space probe mission. There were public transport routes that would take you one place to another, but trying to determine when and where they met up was the hard part. Sometime the map would should the two routes intersecting, but you find that they are opposite side of the street (an eight-lane expressway), with the overpass half a mile away on each side. Or there is a 1-hour wait as one service stops and leaves minutes before the other one. Almost done as if on purpose.
"1984" the novel. Or you can watch the movie. The Eurythmics did an album for the movie. Always enjoyed listening to "Double Plus Good" while studying.
You make it sound so last century. Back in the 1990's when property owners realized that LAN connectivity was a must-have option for their portfolios, they paid contractors hundreds of dollars an hour just to haul those yellow cables through all the crawlspaces, attics, lie-ins, up and down risers, around ante-rooms, across varnished wood meeting rooms. Then they repeated the process when internet phones replaced analog switchboards. After that, they gave up on renting office space in old buildings, moved out of downtown and many buildings became discount hotels with wi-fi, where wired security wasn't important.
That would suggest that the problem is due to a lack of myelin sheathing over the neurons. Which would cause the meatware equivalent of electrical engineering "cross-talk".
Avoid those companies which have had your predecessors leave because "they weren't allowed to learn anything new", or which see the group you are working in "as a holding tank for staff to move onto other projects". In each case, they'll be paranoid to make sure you don't talk to other employees let alone visit trade shows to network and socialize.
Also avoid companies which have had layoffs. This ages a company - a company goes from being a toddler (a startup company learning how to grow), to a teenager (knows where it wants to be, but not how to get there), to an adult (got close to where it wants, but still has to pay the bills), to an aristocrat (has built up large amount of money and an empire with influence). Every time a company has had layoffs, they'll be more guarded about letting new staff on board.
Best thing is to make contacts with people in the company, so you can know the right time to apply for a position. There is nothing worse than applying for a position, passing the interview and getting the position, only to be "bait-and-switched" on day one because head office wants the brightest graduate on marketing biggest itch.
At the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 150 kilometers, solar output is about 1 kilowatt per square meter (500 watts infra-red, 500 watts visible light and 2 watts UV light). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight
If we were to scale that back up to the surface of the Sun and assuming a theoretical spherical distribution, that would be 4x as much energy per square meter for distance halved, so by the time you get to the surface of the sun, the energy is around 256 KiloWatts/square meter (assuming surface radius of 500,000 kilometers). If you were to scale that down to the centre of the sun, then that's 148 MegaWatts per square meter.
According to the wikipedia entry, the Sun generates 384.6 yotta watts (3.846×10^26 W) per second. 3.846 x 10^20 GigaWatts/second. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
"From this financial quarter onwards, as part of our corporate strategy of reducing paper usage, all corporate division teams will be required to provide monthly publication quality reports detailing how much paper they have purchased, used and have saved in the past month. Duplicate copies should be printed out and sent to their line managers, accounting, purchasing, IT and archives. Each team should also maintain their own local archive to provide the annual report at the end of the financial year."
In some European cities, street merchants and hotels would offer an exchange service for flat cellphone batteries vs. charged batteries. Rather than you leaving your phone lying around in your room plugged into the mains (and risk being stolen), you could go to reception or the street and get a swap.
You could get one of those gamers backlight keyboards - they have a single RGB color value that can be programmed so all the keys can be any one of 16 million colors. Some even have an itty-bitty 320x240 LCD screen that can be accessed via USB.
Makes me want to see what the RF spectrum of a city would look like from street view levels - I'm imagining seeing all the buildings in X-rays and all the noise sources looking like sparklers reflected by the steel frames, walls and signs.
Does the router need to be switched on? What if there is just a transformer and cable, but not a router? Does the router need wi-fi enabled? In the 2.5GHz band? In the 5Ghz band? Does the router need to be in line-of-sight, or can it be hermetically sealed in a container?
Some rural industrial estates were using their hot air from their cooling systems to grow plants.
One placed I worked in had the external parts of their air conditioning in a ground level sheltered car park. The heat was so incredible, that you could comfortably walk around in this bubble of warm air in a T-shirt or short-sleeve in the middle of Winter. The only was homeless people wandering by and building makeshift tents around one or more of the units in winter, tripping various CPU temperature alarms.
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Or better still, have better GPS antennae that can sense the location of transmissions and figure out that they are local.
If your data consists of party and public event photographs, then the odds are that someone else has similar photographs. If you are a photographer (for private events), artist (looking for reference material for clients projects), or software developer (doing applications) then keeping your data secure and not leaking around is your highest priority. Having a private cloud server on your own premises with a VPN is about the only option.
They were in 2001. It was most noticable in the evenings. Just looking out the office window or taking the train down, and you'd see back to back triple rows of red and white car lights all along the freeways, as commuters working in the peninsula were trying to get across the San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges (http://goo.gl/maps/llXdt). It was faster walking, so long as there were actually sidewalks.
Yeah, I remember the dot com boom when they put on extra trains to handle the extra demand. Around mid 1990's, hardly anyone used the Caltrain between 9am and 10am. By the peak of the boom, every week saw another person competing for a seat, until there was a scrum of people trying to get on every day. Wasn't helped by Caltrain's policy of roping off the end carriage for school trips, or having direct access to the station from one side only. When they did bring in "new" carriages, these were some old Virginia Express carriages that had fold-up steps. I remember everyone going "OMG!! WTF!!!" when they first saw them.
Apple would have been better building their campus into a Tensegrity Sphere. Then they could relocate their campus whichever city offered the cheapest airspace taxes.
Small cities aren't too much of a problem (~ 500,000 people) . Usually, you could always find somewhere to rent or own within four blocks, or within a bus-ride to downtown. And there aren't any wild-eyed drunk hobos crashed out on the streets either. Maybe a few homeless people selling "The Big Issue" and chuggers (charity muggers) trying get cash off you. And everywhere is within walking distance; doctor, dentist, stores, shopping malls. Large rows of apartments give you considerable anonymity.
It's the larger cities with the need for a 1+ hour commute by train or tube that are the most intimidating. Particularly having to squash up in tube carriages during rush hour because the central core is too expensive, and the inner suburbs are too dangerous. Otherwise they are more like twenty small cities grown into each other.
Silicon Valley is more like thirty downtown cores all connected by a train network, with each station have bus-routes as spurs. You can get from one city to another 10 miles away in 15 minutes by train. But it takes you an hour to get from one side of the city to downtown by bus. Even longer if you try and take a bus across cities. With somewhere like Sunnyvale, then everything is at least a mile to three miles away from where you are (shopping mall, supermarket, dentist, doctor). Trying to use public transport to get anywhere was like trying to plan a deep space probe mission. There were public transport routes that would take you one place to another, but trying to determine when and where they met up was the hard part. Sometime the map would should the two routes intersecting, but you find that they are opposite side of the street (an eight-lane expressway), with the overpass half a mile away on each side. Or there is a 1-hour wait as one service stops and leaves minutes before the other one. Almost done as if on purpose.
A copy of the original script is available for download:
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/Duel.pdf
The largest list of credits I could find:
http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/richard-matheson/credits/265673
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558577/
D-Wave claimed to have a 512 quantum bit system: http://m.npr.org/news/Technology/185532608?start=5
"1984" the novel. Or you can watch the movie. The Eurythmics did an album for the movie. Always enjoyed listening to "Double Plus Good" while studying.
I'm surprised Diebold machines don't have a "Front toward enemy" stamped in raised text somewhere on the front.
Or they get free advertising for having the artifacts placed in a museum and a finders fee for discovering those items.
carbon dioxide dissolved in water forms carbonic acid. Useful for respiration, but bad for the oceans (ocean acidification).
You make it sound so last century. Back in the 1990's when property owners realized that LAN connectivity was a must-have option for their portfolios, they paid contractors hundreds of dollars an hour just to haul those yellow cables through all the crawlspaces, attics, lie-ins, up and down risers, around ante-rooms, across varnished wood meeting rooms. Then they repeated the process when internet phones replaced analog switchboards. After that, they gave up on renting office space in old buildings, moved out of downtown and many buildings became discount hotels with wi-fi, where wired security wasn't important.
That would suggest that the problem is due to a lack of myelin sheathing over the neurons. Which would cause the meatware equivalent of electrical engineering "cross-talk".
My doctor says "it's unsporting to battle wits with an unarmed opponent".
Avoid those companies which have had your predecessors leave because "they weren't allowed to learn anything new", or which see the group you are working in "as a holding tank for staff to move onto other projects". In each case, they'll be paranoid to make sure you don't talk to other employees let alone visit trade shows to network and socialize.
Also avoid companies which have had layoffs. This ages a company - a company goes from being a toddler (a startup company learning how to grow), to a teenager (knows where it wants to be, but not how to get there), to an adult (got close to where it wants, but still has to pay the bills), to an aristocrat (has built up large amount of money and an empire with influence). Every time a company has had layoffs, they'll be more guarded about letting new staff on board.
Best thing is to make contacts with people in the company, so you can know the right time to apply for a position. There is nothing worse than applying for a position, passing the interview and getting the position, only to be "bait-and-switched" on day one because head office wants the brightest graduate on marketing biggest itch.
At the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 150 kilometers, solar output is about 1 kilowatt per square meter (500 watts infra-red, 500 watts visible light and 2 watts UV light). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight
If we were to scale that back up to the surface of the Sun and assuming a theoretical spherical distribution, that would be 4x as much energy per square meter for distance halved, so by the time you get to the surface of the sun, the energy is around 256 KiloWatts/square meter (assuming surface radius of 500,000 kilometers). If you were to scale that down to the centre of the sun, then that's 148 MegaWatts per square meter.
According to the wikipedia entry, the Sun generates 384.6 yotta watts (3.846×10^26 W) per second. 3.846 x 10^20 GigaWatts/second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
"From this financial quarter onwards, as part of our corporate strategy of reducing paper usage, all corporate division teams will be required to provide monthly publication quality reports detailing how much paper they have purchased, used and have saved in the past month. Duplicate copies should be printed out and sent to their line managers, accounting, purchasing, IT and archives. Each team should also maintain their own local archive to provide the annual report at the end of the financial year."
In some European cities, street merchants and hotels would offer an exchange service for flat cellphone batteries vs. charged batteries. Rather than you leaving your phone lying around in your room plugged into the mains (and risk being stolen), you could go to reception or the street and get a
swap.
You could get one of those gamers backlight keyboards - they have a single RGB color value that can be programmed so all the keys can be any one of 16 million colors. Some even have an itty-bitty 320x240 LCD screen that can be accessed via USB.
Makes me want to see what the RF spectrum of a city would look like from street view levels - I'm imagining seeing all the buildings in X-rays and all the noise sources looking like sparklers reflected by the steel frames, walls and signs.
Advertising banners and messages ...
There are so many combinations:
Does the router need to be switched on?
What if there is just a transformer and cable, but not a router?
Does the router need wi-fi enabled? In the 2.5GHz band? In the 5Ghz band?
Does the router need to be in line-of-sight, or can it be hermetically sealed in a container?
Some rural industrial estates were using their hot air from their cooling systems to grow plants.
One placed I worked in had the external parts of their air conditioning in a ground level sheltered car park. The heat was so incredible, that you could comfortably walk around in this bubble of warm air in a T-shirt or short-sleeve in the middle of Winter. The only was homeless people wandering by and building makeshift tents around one or more of the units in winter, tripping various CPU temperature alarms.