Locus Magazine is a real magazine put together by Science Fiction Fans (notably Charlie Brown who has received many Hugo awards for it). Contains lots of reviews, you'll learn which reviewers have the same taste as you. Yeah, it's not a book club. The Young Adult section of the library (don't sneer - the quality of the Science Fiction there is very high) shouldn't be forgotten. Cory's Little Brother is a must-read, and is a YA novel.
Slashdot is now publishing press releases from military-industrial-complex vendors without any real commentary in the main post? Yeah, the military needs firewalls at all levels of networking, but is this news?
As a manager understand that part of your role is to be a buffer and a translator --You must always be looking both ways and translate and restate the information and requirements going both ways: for your management you need to make them understand the challenges and issues of your staff while protecting your staff from unreasonable demands and undue interference from above; for your workers you need to keep them focused on obtainable goals, shelter them from the unreasonable demands of management, cover for their weaknesses, and exploit their strengths. Your workers are your assets, you need to spend a lot of time tending to them, making sure that they are getting rewarded for what they do, and motivated to keep doing it. As you move up the food chain (yes it's a hackneyed simile, but it's appropriate), you need to realize that part of your job is to resist and even push back on management when things can't be done the way they want, or in the time they want. Some of these issues are technical, some are emotional, some are just rules of physics.
As an architect, your role is mostly technical. This is in direct conflict with your managerial role, and is therefor quite difficult to cope with. To resolve the differences, you need to balance the needs of product with the abilities of the people. You need to make your management understand that you are doing conflicting things, and that you may be arguing different points based on what role you're in at the moment. For you workers you need to limit your design goals to what is deliverable, features are a wonderful thing, but you still need to ship on deadline. I expect that you actually have a third role as well - supervisor. Heaven help you if you are in this triple trap. Use your managerial authority to get a supervisor to deal with the personnel issues of your workers - you can't be their design guru and their disciplinarian/fairy-god-mother at the same time. Managers manage products. Architects design systems and software. Supervisors supervise people.
Was SPACEWAR (this version is via PDP-1 assembler running on a java PDP-1 emulator) written in 1962 by a group calling themselves something like "The Hingham Institute for Space Warfare" the lead programmer was Stephen "Slug" Russell. The program was developed on a PDP-1 computer (the first "minicomputer" which cost 1/10th of other computers of the day (only $100,000)) donated by Digital Equipment Corp. to the students of MIT. More of the history. Steve got to testify on his prior art when Magnavox sued Atari on some related patents.
While the current units are expensive, these units have just been approved for land use (marine search and rescue is their prime purpose). When triggered, then send out an ID on the 406MHz emergency frequency, and various satellites will let search and rescue know your position. The ones with GPS can give a precise location. From a privacy perspective, they can only be used for emergencies, limiting abuse.
For hobby use, APRS, mentioned above works well, and even the Space Station is equipped. APRS is beginning to show up in consumer walkie-talkies as well.
OnStar and various private services use GPS and the cellphone and/or pager networks, and GPS in cellphones will soon become obiquious. I expect these folks won't sell many at that pricepoint for a single-purpose system.
The amount of blood taken for normal analysis isn't enough to give you direct physiological symptoms. The psychosomatic issues are generally the cause of dizzyness and fainting ( your brain, quite rightly, doesn't want you to have holes in vessels, or to give up any blood. Dropping your blood pressure to reduce blood loss is an evolutionary good thing).
A fingerprick will give enough volume for microsampling, but the number of fainters will diminish, not disappear. I volunteer at Red Cross blood drives, and I've seen a high-school football player faint from the fingerprick. I've also seen non-donors have issues (bring a friend for "moral support", watch THEM collapse!)
Anyone who tries to give blood is a hero, and those who are uncomfortable with the proccess, but donate anyway are bigger heros...
This is a well placed marketing story whose underlying goal is to sell space. There is a glut of hosting space available right now, and these people are doing a good job of getting seen. This facility has above average physical security due to the original use of the building they bought. The data center itself seems average.
The real selling points of HSPs are bandwidth and uptime (Power, Ping, and Pipe in the jargon). Professional services sweeten the pie and put a (theoretically) knowlegeable person on site.
For real HA, setup in multiple centers, and buy enough bandwidth to keep data live in both locations. What impresses people on touring the facilities are the ancillary functions that support this - generators, dead zones, mantraps, hard walls, biometric access control, fire sniffers, security guards, battery rooms, fuel storage tanks, NOCs.
What HSPs can't supply is data integrity. This is the job of the customer.
Mr. Coward here has it right -
--No fiber - when fiber is for houses, it'll probably be different. PVC cable is code in walls, and is easier to run than plenum cable.
-- No STP, a pain to terminate and ground correctly, not enough improvement to be worth it.
--Run security and alarm cables in separate run up by the ceiling, where the detectors and most of the sensors will be. Fire, Smoke, and CO detectors usually daisychain, and should not be run to your data patch. If you're building a SomewhatSmarterHouse (motion detectors for lights and heating, etc). You'll probably need a whole nuther set of cable runs for that, and a separate patch panel.
-- Before the sheetrock goes up, take a camera and photograph each wall in each room. Get them printed immediately, and put together in a notebook with the pictures keyed to the floorplan. Cause when we need the details even the best of us RTFM (we just don't admit it).
--Data outlets go in the next stud bay from the electric, this keeps it separate both in the wall and on the way to the computer.
-- If you bribe your construction crew with beer, deliver the bribe at the end of the workday as they leave, preferably on Friday. Bringing them a good lunch a couple of times during the job works as well, and probably won't trigger anybody's addiction.
These kinds of payloads are sent up as ballast with other missions, so have no direct cost. There is an actual cost for the fuel for payload weight, but they fill the tanks anyway.
On the shuttle they call these hitchhiker payloads.
Look at the pictures for the Starshine satellites -- Disco Balls in Space! With lots of hand polished retro-reflectors on a spinning sphere. The mirrors are to make it a naked-eye object. Sighting info should be available on the heavens-above.com satellite viewing site , which also calculates sighting info for other sky clutter like the space station and the Iridium satellites...
According to the article Fingered by the Movie Cops on Salon, in the US Excite is not actively scanning content, but is reacting to complaints by third parties, as they are required to do under the DMCA. In other contries other rules apply, usually with much less protection of speech than here in the US.
One of the things that worries me is that under current international law - the Berne Convention - eveything created is implicitly copyrighted. No need for the circle-c or "Copyright yyyy" incantations (these provide some additional notice of copyright, but aren't needed for protection like they were in the past). So restrictions of posting of copyrighted material can apply to everything, bringing discussion to a halt. Since the US claims to be in line with Berne, there is also the concept of "fair use", but various court interpretations have made this a very muddy field indeed. Replying to a post and quoting it is considered universally OK, but there are limits to the size of quotes for review or commentary (posting someone's entire book to merely say that you agree with it would still be unacceptable). If everyone in your office went to a library to copy a magazine article for their own use that is probably OK. If you make several copies to distribute to them (exact same effect) it is not ok.
The DMCA seems to change all of this, and is being used extraterritorially as well. The prior restraint requirement is extremely troubling.
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Locus Magazine is a real magazine put together by Science Fiction Fans (notably Charlie Brown who has received many Hugo awards for it). Contains lots of reviews, you'll learn which reviewers have the same taste as you. Yeah, it's not a book club.
The Young Adult section of the library (don't sneer - the quality of the Science Fiction there is very high) shouldn't be forgotten. Cory's Little Brother is a must-read, and is a YA novel.
Slashdot is now publishing press releases from military-industrial-complex vendors without any real commentary in the main post?
Yeah, the military needs firewalls at all levels of networking, but is this news?
As a manager understand that part of your role is to be a buffer and a translator --You must always be looking both ways and translate and restate the information and requirements going both ways: for your management you need to make them understand the challenges and issues of your staff while protecting your staff from unreasonable demands and undue interference from above; for your workers you need to keep them focused on obtainable goals, shelter them from the unreasonable demands of management, cover for their weaknesses, and exploit their strengths. Your workers are your assets, you need to spend a lot of time tending to them, making sure that they are getting rewarded for what they do, and motivated to keep doing it. As you move up the food chain (yes it's a hackneyed simile, but it's appropriate), you need to realize that part of your job is to resist and even push back on management when things can't be done the way they want, or in the time they want. Some of these issues are technical, some are emotional, some are just rules of physics.
As an architect, your role is mostly technical. This is in direct conflict with your managerial role, and is therefor quite difficult to cope with. To resolve the differences, you need to balance the needs of product with the abilities of the people. You need to make your management understand that you are doing conflicting things, and that you may be arguing different points based on what role you're in at the moment. For you workers you need to limit your design goals to what is deliverable, features are a wonderful thing, but you still need to ship on deadline.
I expect that you actually have a third role as well - supervisor. Heaven help you if you are in this triple trap. Use your managerial authority to get a supervisor to deal with the personnel issues of your workers - you can't be their design guru and their disciplinarian/fairy-god-mother at the same time.
Managers manage products.
Architects design systems and software.
Supervisors supervise people.
Was SPACEWAR (this version is via PDP-1 assembler running on a java PDP-1 emulator) written in 1962 by a group calling themselves something like "The Hingham Institute for Space Warfare" the lead programmer was Stephen "Slug" Russell. The program was developed on a PDP-1 computer (the first "minicomputer" which cost 1/10th of other computers of the day (only $100,000)) donated by Digital Equipment Corp. to the students of MIT. More of the history. Steve got to testify on his prior art when Magnavox sued Atari on some related patents.
While the current units are expensive, these units have just been approved for land use (marine search and rescue is their prime purpose). When triggered, then send out an ID on the 406MHz emergency frequency, and various satellites will let search and rescue know your position. The ones with GPS can give a precise location. From a privacy perspective, they can only be used for emergencies, limiting abuse.
For hobby use, APRS, mentioned above works well, and even the Space Station is equipped. APRS is beginning to show up in consumer walkie-talkies as well.
OnStar and various private services use GPS and the cellphone and/or pager networks, and GPS in cellphones will soon become obiquious. I expect these folks won't sell many at that pricepoint for a single-purpose system.
The amount of blood taken for normal analysis isn't enough to give you direct physiological symptoms. The psychosomatic issues are generally the cause of dizzyness and fainting ( your brain, quite rightly, doesn't want you to have holes in vessels, or to give up any blood. Dropping your blood pressure to reduce blood loss is an evolutionary good thing).
A fingerprick will give enough volume for microsampling, but the number of fainters will diminish, not disappear. I volunteer at Red Cross blood drives, and I've seen a high-school football player faint from the fingerprick. I've also seen non-donors have issues (bring a friend for "moral support", watch THEM collapse!)
Anyone who tries to give blood is a hero, and those who are uncomfortable with the proccess, but donate anyway are bigger heros...
This is a well placed marketing story whose underlying goal is to sell space. There is a glut of hosting space available right now, and these people are doing a good job of getting seen. This facility has above average physical security due to the original use of the building they bought. The data center itself seems average.
The real selling points of HSPs are bandwidth and uptime (Power, Ping, and Pipe in the jargon). Professional services sweeten the pie and put a (theoretically) knowlegeable person on site.
For real HA, setup in multiple centers, and buy enough bandwidth to keep data live in both locations. What impresses people on touring the facilities are the ancillary functions that support this - generators, dead zones, mantraps, hard walls, biometric access control, fire sniffers, security guards, battery rooms, fuel storage tanks, NOCs.
What HSPs can't supply is data integrity. This is the job of the customer.
Mr. Coward here has it right -
--No fiber - when fiber is for houses, it'll probably be different. PVC cable is code in walls, and is easier to run than plenum cable.
-- No STP, a pain to terminate and ground correctly, not enough improvement to be worth it.
--Run security and alarm cables in separate run up by the ceiling, where the detectors and most of the sensors will be. Fire, Smoke, and CO detectors usually daisychain, and should not be run to your data patch. If you're building a SomewhatSmarterHouse (motion detectors for lights and heating, etc). You'll probably need a whole nuther set of cable runs for that, and a separate patch panel.
-- Before the sheetrock goes up, take a camera and photograph each wall in each room. Get them printed immediately, and put together in a notebook with the pictures keyed to the floorplan. Cause when we need the details even the best of us RTFM (we just don't admit it).
--Data outlets go in the next stud bay from the electric, this keeps it separate both in the wall and on the way to the computer.
-- If you bribe your construction crew with beer, deliver the bribe at the end of the workday as they leave, preferably on Friday. Bringing them a good lunch a couple of times during the job works as well, and probably won't trigger anybody's addiction.
These kinds of payloads are sent up as ballast with other missions, so have no direct cost. There is an actual cost for the fuel for payload weight, but they fill the tanks anyway.
On the shuttle they call these hitchhiker payloads.
Look at the pictures for the Starshine satellites -- Disco Balls in Space! With lots of hand polished retro-reflectors on a spinning sphere. The mirrors are to make it a naked-eye object. Sighting info should be available on the heavens-above.com satellite viewing site , which also calculates sighting info for other sky clutter like the space station and the Iridium satellites...
According to the article Fingered by the Movie Cops on Salon, in the US Excite is not actively scanning content, but is reacting to complaints by third parties, as they are required to do under the DMCA. In other contries other rules apply, usually with much less protection of speech than here in the US. One of the things that worries me is that under current international law - the Berne Convention - eveything created is implicitly copyrighted. No need for the circle-c or "Copyright yyyy" incantations (these provide some additional notice of copyright, but aren't needed for protection like they were in the past). So restrictions of posting of copyrighted material can apply to everything, bringing discussion to a halt. Since the US claims to be in line with Berne, there is also the concept of "fair use", but various court interpretations have made this a very muddy field indeed. Replying to a post and quoting it is considered universally OK, but there are limits to the size of quotes for review or commentary (posting someone's entire book to merely say that you agree with it would still be unacceptable). If everyone in your office went to a library to copy a magazine article for their own use that is probably OK. If you make several copies to distribute to them (exact same effect) it is not ok. The DMCA seems to change all of this, and is being used extraterritorially as well. The prior restraint requirement is extremely troubling.