You could move a portable ATM yourself if the money safe/drawer assmebly were removed from it. And those items are hardly required for a voting machine.
I do this type of work as a side-line (campaign consultant, mostly on technical issues). I don't allow campaigns that I work with to send out mass email, but I do provide for an opt-in list for people who want to be informed.
Political campaigns sending spam is about the same as unsuspecting businesses sending spam: they are mostly so technically inept that they don't even know it's a bad thing. It's up to people like me to advise them agains this practice, and it won't hurt if the rest of you register your disapproval with polispam whenever you receive it.
I'm with you. I enjoy my IT work. I always have. I'm a network engineer, and I know business. When I leave at the end of the day, I don't have anything in my hands that I made, but I did solve problems or streamline precesses that make the tools that companies use (network-attached tools, mind you) work better, more efficiently, and/or more reliably. It makes them work better and make more money doing whatever it is that they happen to do.
I don't work insane hours (I did when it was my own consulting firm, but I sold that several years ago......you see....problem identified, solution created and implemented....lern the process all you whiners out there), and I don't get shat on. Because I'm conscientious about the work I do, and I'm good at it. And I'm polite to people, even those that don't know how to use a computer as well as I do (another thing many geeks need to learn).
I like my life and my job. If you are among those who can't say that, you ought to try identifying what the problem is and then figure out how to fix it (which means actually coming up with a realistic way to fix it and actually doing that, not just whining about how you can't for x, y, and z reasons and bitching some more).
But the real main issue is: If this takes off, what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc.
Just like everything else that has been made "easy" with a computer, this too will find it's place where the people who really know what they are doing in the business will learn to use computers as a tool. It definitely doesn't mean that anyone, or any geek, will be able to make feature-length movies at home.
Let's take for example the publishing industry: one used to need some expensive and specilaized equipment as well as knowledge to layout a page. Now anyone who is decent at using a computer can do that with minimal software. The problem is evident everywhere: quality. Just because you know how to use a computer does not give you an eye for layout or graphic design. The page layouts produced by an amateur look like crap. You know the ones I'm talking about....they are on community bulletin boards and stuffed under your windshield wipers all the time (usually on some obnoxious colored paper). But the people who are talented and actually know how to make a decent page layout have simply assimilated computers into their process and use them as a way to reduce costs and turn-around time. They still need to bring their skill in the actual layout with them to make something professional.
Computers have taken the base mechanical complexities out of taks like layout, sound editing, NLE for video production, and undoubtedly soon CG. But it will still take the same people who are silled in these fields to really make use of the technology, simply as another tool in their trade, to make anything useful of it.
It's fantastic in the way that is reduces costs and increases the pace of production. It even better how it reduces the entry barriers into these markets. But it's not going to turn everyone into producers.
I already named one....the cost of the infrastructure to bring it to your house. Another is the cost of the administrative structure needed to bill customers. Another one is the help desk/tech support. Another one is advertising. Shall I keep going, troll?
Just because they don't have fans doesn't mean they run cooler. The CRT iMacs use thermal induction to cool themselves. The heat from the CRT acts as a fan to draw air through the case, over the components which colls them.
It's yet another slick design by Apple. I don't know the numbers on power consumption exactly...but take the former for what it's worth. (what you paid for it)
I own my car, can I scratch the VIN off it? Providing you do not attempt to register it with the DMV or sell it without applying for a rebuilt title (which comes with VIN tags and instructions on how and where to affix them).
I own my gas supply, can I leave it running until the street blows up? If you own the street and, municipality laws vary, you get a burn permit and it's not within 2000' of a structure.
I own a radio scanner, can I use it to scan police frequencies? Quite simply, yes.
Society has rules, if you don't like them, fucking leave it! Thje world is not black and white. Crawl out from under your compter desk and go see it sometime.
It would be best to have an "appliance server" that is capable of handling the communications to the devices and generating interfaces from standard libraries created for appliance control.
I can see it now....the HP ApplicanceDirect EX for your old appliances (some soldering required) and new stoves coming with a proprietary slot for the internal version.
Strange...I have a 1Gig Jaz which I now use as a backup drive. I used it for about 3 years as a secondary harddisk. All my 8 Jaz disks work fine and have no errors. It has been reliable for over 5 years without any problems.
So you don't move it. I was using a parallel zip drive when I was a lowly road tech years ago. It broke every few months. The zip disks were fine, other than the one that were in the drive during a "click of death" incident.
The jaz platters and drive (yes, plural...RMA'd 4 times) lasted only days. Same treatment. I'm not saying gentle or anything, but my laptops were in the same bag and were always fine.
And when the Iomega crap died, I still had my stack of floppies that always worked.
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Huh? They are both distributed on bootable CD's.
Sounds like your dated hardware requires you to make boot disks.
Which makes your position even worse, when even someone who is stupid enough to spell incorrectly can see how obviously uninformed you are.
Wow...you're a f**king genious.
That's called escrow. And it's what 1/2 of the comments so far have been talking about.
Buy It Now for US $1,500,000,000
This option disappears
once a bid is placed.
I'm using SnapStream. It's problem is not output to a TV, it's lack of an integrated guide feature.
Is PS/2 software and a NIC really a better or even less costly alternative than a video card with an S-VIDEO out? No.
And I _DID_ read the article. This is stupid. It's a poor solution to a "problem" that doesnt' really exist.
You could move a portable ATM yourself if the money safe/drawer assmebly were removed from it. And those items are hardly required for a voting machine.
No, just a DC/DC transformer definitely would NOT work. Line conditioning is required. Most alternators produce very dirty and unpredictable power.
I do this type of work as a side-line (campaign consultant, mostly on technical issues). I don't allow campaigns that I work with to send out mass email, but I do provide for an opt-in list for people who want to be informed.
Political campaigns sending spam is about the same as unsuspecting businesses sending spam: they are mostly so technically inept that they don't even know it's a bad thing. It's up to people like me to advise them agains this practice, and it won't hurt if the rest of you register your disapproval with polispam whenever you receive it.
Probably.
./ too ;)
Sorry about that. I'm typical
I'm with you. I enjoy my IT work. I always have. I'm a network engineer, and I know business. When I leave at the end of the day, I don't have anything in my hands that I made, but I did solve problems or streamline precesses that make the tools that companies use (network-attached tools, mind you) work better, more efficiently, and/or more reliably. It makes them work better and make more money doing whatever it is that they happen to do.
I don't work insane hours (I did when it was my own consulting firm, but I sold that several years ago......you see....problem identified, solution created and implemented....lern the process all you whiners out there), and I don't get shat on. Because I'm conscientious about the work I do, and I'm good at it. And I'm polite to people, even those that don't know how to use a computer as well as I do (another thing many geeks need to learn).
I like my life and my job. If you are among those who can't say that, you ought to try identifying what the problem is and then figure out how to fix it (which means actually coming up with a realistic way to fix it and actually doing that, not just whining about how you can't for x, y, and z reasons and bitching some more).
You Said:
/.
Except that you're assuming this effect is negative
He Said:
We are affecting things, for good or bad we don't even know.
Did you just get tired of reading and decided to reply? So typical
But the real main issue is: If this takes off, what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc.
Just like everything else that has been made "easy" with a computer, this too will find it's place where the people who really know what they are doing in the business will learn to use computers as a tool. It definitely doesn't mean that anyone, or any geek, will be able to make feature-length movies at home.
Let's take for example the publishing industry: one used to need some expensive and specilaized equipment as well as knowledge to layout a page. Now anyone who is decent at using a computer can do that with minimal software. The problem is evident everywhere: quality. Just because you know how to use a computer does not give you an eye for layout or graphic design. The page layouts produced by an amateur look like crap. You know the ones I'm talking about....they are on community bulletin boards and stuffed under your windshield wipers all the time (usually on some obnoxious colored paper). But the people who are talented and actually know how to make a decent page layout have simply assimilated computers into their process and use them as a way to reduce costs and turn-around time. They still need to bring their skill in the actual layout with them to make something professional.
Computers have taken the base mechanical complexities out of taks like layout, sound editing, NLE for video production, and undoubtedly soon CG. But it will still take the same people who are silled in these fields to really make use of the technology, simply as another tool in their trade, to make anything useful of it.
It's fantastic in the way that is reduces costs and increases the pace of production. It even better how it reduces the entry barriers into these markets. But it's not going to turn everyone into producers.
I already named one....the cost of the infrastructure to bring it to your house. Another is the cost of the administrative structure needed to bill customers. Another one is the help desk/tech support. Another one is advertising. Shall I keep going, troll?
Just because they don't have fans doesn't mean they run cooler. The CRT iMacs use thermal induction to cool themselves. The heat from the CRT acts as a fan to draw air through the case, over the components which colls them.
It's yet another slick design by Apple. I don't know the numbers on power consumption exactly...but take the former for what it's worth. (what you paid for it)
Of course it is. mySQL is a "relational" SQL-ish front end for BerkeleyDB.
So just how is that trottle lever marked?
-- Walk --
-- Trot --
--Canter--
--Gallop--
I own my car, can I scratch the VIN off it?
Providing you do not attempt to register it with the DMV or sell it without applying for a rebuilt title (which comes with VIN tags and instructions on how and where to affix them).
I own my gas supply, can I leave it running until the street blows up?
If you own the street and, municipality laws vary, you get a burn permit and it's not within 2000' of a structure.
I own a radio scanner, can I use it to scan police frequencies?
Quite simply, yes.
Society has rules, if you don't like them, fucking leave it!
Thje world is not black and white. Crawl out from under your compter desk and go see it sometime.
Where I work and where I go to college
followed by....
haven't had the opertunity
Sorry. I don't believe that you are going to college if you can't spell opportunity.
Then the world was invaded by the likes of PCLink, the Commodore 64 version of PCLink
QuantumLink.
Ask me how I know that.
I hope you aren't being serious.
Just in case...here't the blatantly obvious, and most expensive one: The infrastructure that gets the T1 from the POP to your house.
Only 0.4 % of which have EVER used the Internet. So we're back to "who cares?" as it realtes to the current topic.
It would be best to have an "appliance server" that is capable of handling the communications to the devices and generating interfaces from standard libraries created for appliance control.
I can see it now....the HP ApplicanceDirect EX for your old appliances (some soldering required) and new stoves coming with a proprietary slot for the internal version.
Dude...hook me up with your dealer. You must be getting some really good stuff.
A NIC with PXE or other netboot capability.....but of course you need a server online already of it's a project and a half to make use of it.
Strange...I have a 1Gig Jaz which I now use as a backup drive. I used it for about 3 years as a secondary harddisk. All my 8 Jaz disks work fine and have no errors. It has been reliable for over 5 years without any problems.
So you don't move it. I was using a parallel zip drive when I was a lowly road tech years ago. It broke every few months. The zip disks were fine, other than the one that were in the drive during a "click of death" incident.
The jaz platters and drive (yes, plural...RMA'd 4 times) lasted only days. Same treatment. I'm not saying gentle or anything, but my laptops were in the same bag and were always fine.
And when the Iomega crap died, I still had my stack of floppies that always worked.