So um... why don't you just cancel your service and use someone else? I assume you don't have a choice for some reason. Did you try contacting the better business bureau or some similar organization?
Of all the tools I thought were useful in college for helping learn, having working projectors and white boards in every room helped a great deal. The projector is good because it allows the professors to spend more time talking about the subject instead of writing nasty, ugly looking notes on a chalk board. More so, it gives students the opportunity to have the presentations at some point to study from. No these aren't replacements for your own notes, but it helped me tremendously in the past.
I think better textbooks would help tremendously, i.e., course material that isn't designed by someone trying to do a social experiment. It actually amazes me that the same quality management criteria used in business can't be applied to the generation of these books. That is, the text books should improve gradually over time, not radically to try some math teaching method of the month club.
Yeah, I think this is a huge problem with power management. Unless you use the fan connectors on the motherboard, the cooling fans keep going. Would be nice if the power supply could add some intelligence and make specific fan connectors that shutoff when sleeping.
I hope everyone realizes that's UNcylopedia, and everything is photoshopped;) Although this kind of hack would definately be technically possible, but a little more effort would be needed than what's shown.
Why would it be too late? Trying to plan that far in the future is futile, because you can't predict the results. Have you ever thought that it would be trillions of dollars cheaper to go into these poor countries and remedy their infrastructure, before we consider hampering world economic growth? Why do you believe it would be the end of the human race? That's an overstatement.
I just ordered my 3rd LCD monitor yesterday. It's just amazing how darn cheap these have become and how much the quality has improved. LG's 1680x1050, 22", 2ms, 3000:1 contrast ratio. $380. This is far superior to any CRT in almost all regards.
My main LCD is 24" 1920x1200 and i have a 19" 1280x1024 2ms. My wish is to someday get a 30" to replace the 19", but now I'm thinking that practically, that won't fit on my desk.
Google already has an excellent Maps application that runs on Windows Mobile. It's absolutely amazing in that it has almost the exact functionality as the PC browser version. All the map content is downloaded over the network as images and even so, it runs even faster than Pocket Streets. Way more useful too.
You don't think the best perk might be say... the hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock options employees received pre-IPO? If you gave some employs the choice between these additional perks vs. the true cost in cash, I bet you'd find many people choosing the cash instead. Besides, my guess is some Google employees use these services disproportionately to others.
How did he get marked interesting? I'm pretty sure he was trying to be funny by quoting a popular Java phrase. Truth is, Java is pretty popular, but never got the market share they wanted. Still way to many platforms out there.
"some WAN optimization gear can terminate the SSL sessions, shrink the traffic and re-encrypt it for the next leg of the trip."
Doesn't this completely defeat the point of SSL? An encrypted link from client to server? If you got to an SSL website through this WAN link, it's not going to be encrypted anymore unless you trust the keys from the WAN access point. So, unless each WAN has it's own trusted key through a signature authority this isn't going to work. Seems pretty stupid to me. Isn't SSL traffic already compressed as part of the encryption procedure like PGP does?
Why the heck would you generate TIFF files from the camera? The raw file (which varies by manufacturer) has far more data than the TIFF file could have. I'm not sure if TIFF's support 16 bit colors per channel or not, but with a raw format you can reprocesses it into TIFF easily and adjust the brightness levels beyond what you're stuck with on TIFF.
Note I didn't capitalize raw because it's not a format. It's just describing the file.
Picking fruit and digging ditches isn't hard work. It's machine's work. We designed and engineer machines to do these tasks. The fact that a human can also do these tasks instead of doing something else is pointless. That's the problem with people thinking we need illegal immigration. We don't. We need automation. We need advanced engineering and innovation. The technology is rapidely approaching that even cars can drive themselves, i'm pretty sure they could pick fruit and dig ditches.
"pushing papers" is a lot more stressful than you think. When your entire mind has to be devoted to a task and you have the stress of several bosses, things are a lot different then if you can just do something that doesn't require a lot of stress.
Yeah, let's face it. People in Congress are old and computer illiterate. It's pathetic. This is why government is so inefficient. Anytime I see someone holding a book, a binder, or caring BOXES of freakin' papers into congress. It's just absolutely pathetic. Or even worse, those poster boards they have generated that they yap about on CSPAN, as if powerpoint was too complicated for them.
I've been trying to convince the people where I work to go digital with all our documents, I even started a wiki for documents. Sadly, it's hard to change old BAD habbits. I have almost 500 user manuals on a server, easy to find. Where do people go first? The filing cabinet. And most of the docs there are out of date anyway.
I'm more amazed just comparing my phone to my first PC. 486, 25MHz, 4MB of RAM, 200 MB of storage. Now my cellphone is 200Mhz, 64MB of RAM, and 2GB of storage and it does things you would never even dream about back then.
Not to mention there would be almost no innovation or increased features in existing plans (such as T-Mobile adding the "5 Friends" that can be on any network that do not count against your minutes) and prices definitely would not be coming down, and maybe even be going up with increased demand."
Oh please... innovation is completely non-existent in cellphone networks. My cellphone plan has cost roughly $40-$60 month for the last 6 years with the following results:
* Audio quality remains below POTS despite higher bandwidth of cell towers in many areas * Still based on charging you random fees on text messages, pictures, videos, ring tones, when they are all simply raw data * 3G roll out in U.S. is almost non-existent * Locked down phones, so software developers cannot innovate on them
What I consider innovation? * Higher voice quality * Higher QoS * Better data plans
Why don't you generate some benchmarks to prove your point? Speculation is useless in computer architecture. Do some experiments yourself with SiSoft. It's funness!
Yeah, because the U.S. went to war with Canada in 2005 for water rights in Alberta. Aw, I remember that day fondly when we invaded.
Seriously, this is the most ridiculous argument ever. Dams have always been built to help farmers by controlling flooding, providing a CONSTANT source of water for irrigation, and to top it off, you get ample power generation that could be used to help these farmers and the cities that support them. There's just so much ignorance that people think that rivers are "fed by glaciers". Rivers are fed by water run off and the ground water table.
Okay, how many of us get our water from "glacier melt for fresh water"? You do realize that most water comes from reservoirs that are vigorously maintained though advanced technologies. And actually, most fresh water exists in the ground water table.
I just see way too many technological pessimists out here... okay let's stop using technology to stop global warming, instead of fixing the small problems as they come along with technology.
I'm guessing that moving the stuff overseas is hardly wasteful vs. moving it across country via shipping truck or air craft. As far as economies of scale, you'd think that a cargo ship holding thousands of those containers will use fuel much more efficiently than 1000's of diesel trucks. Also, given that the sending and receiving ports are on land, it's probably not that bad. Also, cargo ships can get away with burning some pretty cheap, nasty high sulfur, almost crude fuel because they operate on international waters (no environmental laws out there, etc....).
Well, Livermore, CA. Sierra club and company vs. a home builder on a ballot issue to allow development. Yeah, it was another suburban development, but you know what happens instead? Yep, people build houses another 20 miles further out from the city. So thanks to them we have the most expensive, worthless cow pasture in the world in the middle of a city. This is a huge country, and if people in cities love looking at cows, they should you know, not think they are the center of the world and head out of the city to see how much open land there really is.
I'm not really a fan of huge suburbs, but forcefully denying someone to build on their own land is a very command-and-control style of government to me. Stay off my land Sierra club! Go buy your own playground.
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I was just noticing that. It's like he re-stated the obvious in a non-ranting way like he normally would. I'm impressed.
which is why I assumed that he didn't have a choice. ;)
So um... why don't you just cancel your service and use someone else? I assume you don't have a choice for some reason. Did you try contacting the better business bureau or some similar organization?
Of all the tools I thought were useful in college for helping learn, having working projectors and white boards in every room helped a great deal. The projector is good because it allows the professors to spend more time talking about the subject instead of writing nasty, ugly looking notes on a chalk board. More so, it gives students the opportunity to have the presentations at some point to study from. No these aren't replacements for your own notes, but it helped me tremendously in the past.
I think better textbooks would help tremendously, i.e., course material that isn't designed by someone trying to do a social experiment. It actually amazes me that the same quality management criteria used in business can't be applied to the generation of these books. That is, the text books should improve gradually over time, not radically to try some math teaching method of the month club.
Yeah, I think this is a huge problem with power management. Unless you use the fan connectors on the motherboard, the cooling fans keep going. Would be nice if the power supply could add some intelligence and make specific fan connectors that shutoff when sleeping.
Nice! Actually, I would prefer all cables to be metric, but eh... what can you do?
I bought a 10 foot DVI cable for $15 on newegg. Anyone who spends more is an idiot.
I hope everyone realizes that's UNcylopedia, and everything is photoshopped ;) Although this kind of hack would definately be technically possible, but a little more effort would be needed than what's shown.
Why would it be too late? Trying to plan that far in the future is futile, because you can't predict the results. Have you ever thought that it would be trillions of dollars cheaper to go into these poor countries and remedy their infrastructure, before we consider hampering world economic growth? Why do you believe it would be the end of the human race? That's an overstatement.
I just ordered my 3rd LCD monitor yesterday. It's just amazing how darn cheap these have become and how much the quality has improved. LG's 1680x1050, 22", 2ms, 3000:1 contrast ratio. $380. This is far superior to any CRT in almost all regards.
My main LCD is 24" 1920x1200 and i have a 19" 1280x1024 2ms. My wish is to someday get a 30" to replace the 19", but now I'm thinking that practically, that won't fit on my desk.
Google already has an excellent Maps application that runs on Windows Mobile. It's absolutely amazing in that it has almost the exact functionality as the PC browser version. All the map content is downloaded over the network as images and even so, it runs even faster than Pocket Streets. Way more useful too.
You don't think the best perk might be say... the hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock options employees received pre-IPO? If you gave some employs the choice between these additional perks vs. the true cost in cash, I bet you'd find many people choosing the cash instead. Besides, my guess is some Google employees use these services disproportionately to others.
How did he get marked interesting? I'm pretty sure he was trying to be funny by quoting a popular Java phrase. Truth is, Java is pretty popular, but never got the market share they wanted. Still way to many platforms out there.
"some WAN optimization gear can terminate the SSL sessions, shrink the traffic and re-encrypt it for the next leg of the trip."
Doesn't this completely defeat the point of SSL? An encrypted link from client to server? If you got to an SSL website through this WAN link, it's not going to be encrypted anymore unless you trust the keys from the WAN access point. So, unless each WAN has it's own trusted key through a signature authority this isn't going to work. Seems pretty stupid to me. Isn't SSL traffic already compressed as part of the encryption procedure like PGP does?
Why the heck would you generate TIFF files from the camera? The raw file (which varies by manufacturer) has far more data than the TIFF file could have. I'm not sure if TIFF's support 16 bit colors per channel or not, but with a raw format you can reprocesses it into TIFF easily and adjust the brightness levels beyond what you're stuck with on TIFF.
Note I didn't capitalize raw because it's not a format. It's just describing the file.
Picking fruit and digging ditches isn't hard work. It's machine's work. We designed and engineer machines to do these tasks. The fact that a human can also do these tasks instead of doing something else is pointless. That's the problem with people thinking we need illegal immigration. We don't. We need automation. We need advanced engineering and innovation. The technology is rapidely approaching that even cars can drive themselves, i'm pretty sure they could pick fruit and dig ditches.
"pushing papers" is a lot more stressful than you think. When your entire mind has to be devoted to a task and you have the stress of several bosses, things are a lot different then if you can just do something that doesn't require a lot of stress.
Yeah, let's face it. People in Congress are old and computer illiterate. It's pathetic. This is why government is so inefficient. Anytime I see someone holding a book, a binder, or caring BOXES of freakin' papers into congress. It's just absolutely pathetic. Or even worse, those poster boards they have generated that they yap about on CSPAN, as if powerpoint was too complicated for them.
I've been trying to convince the people where I work to go digital with all our documents, I even started a wiki for documents. Sadly, it's hard to change old BAD habbits. I have almost 500 user manuals on a server, easy to find. Where do people go first? The filing cabinet. And most of the docs there are out of date anyway.
I'm more amazed just comparing my phone to my first PC. 486, 25MHz, 4MB of RAM, 200 MB of storage. Now my cellphone is 200Mhz, 64MB of RAM, and 2GB of storage and it does things you would never even dream about back then.
You have any data to back that up? Companies such as Akamai have been caching websites and large media files for years.
Not to mention there would be almost no innovation or increased features in existing plans (such as T-Mobile adding the "5 Friends" that can be on any network that do not count against your minutes) and prices definitely would not be coming down, and maybe even be going up with increased demand."
Oh please... innovation is completely non-existent in cellphone networks. My cellphone plan has cost roughly $40-$60 month for the last 6 years with the following results:
* Audio quality remains below POTS despite higher bandwidth of cell towers in many areas
* Still based on charging you random fees on text messages, pictures, videos, ring tones, when they are all simply raw data
* 3G roll out in U.S. is almost non-existent
* Locked down phones, so software developers cannot innovate on them
What I consider innovation?
* Higher voice quality
* Higher QoS
* Better data plans
Why don't you generate some benchmarks to prove your point? Speculation is useless in computer architecture. Do some experiments yourself with SiSoft. It's funness!
Yeah, because the U.S. went to war with Canada in 2005 for water rights in Alberta. Aw, I remember that day fondly when we invaded.
Seriously, this is the most ridiculous argument ever. Dams have always been built to help farmers by controlling flooding, providing a CONSTANT source of water for irrigation, and to top it off, you get ample power generation that could be used to help these farmers and the cities that support them. There's just so much ignorance that people think that rivers are "fed by glaciers". Rivers are fed by water run off and the ground water table.
Okay, how many of us get our water from "glacier melt for fresh water"? You do realize that most water comes from reservoirs that are vigorously maintained though advanced technologies. And actually, most fresh water exists in the ground water table.
I just see way too many technological pessimists out here... okay let's stop using technology to stop global warming, instead of fixing the small problems as they come along with technology.
I'm guessing that moving the stuff overseas is hardly wasteful vs. moving it across country via shipping truck or air craft. As far as economies of scale, you'd think that a cargo ship holding thousands of those containers will use fuel much more efficiently than 1000's of diesel trucks. Also, given that the sending and receiving ports are on land, it's probably not that bad. Also, cargo ships can get away with burning some pretty cheap, nasty high sulfur, almost crude fuel because they operate on international waters (no environmental laws out there, etc....).
Well, Livermore, CA. Sierra club and company vs. a home builder on a ballot issue to allow development. Yeah, it was another suburban development, but you know what happens instead? Yep, people build houses another 20 miles further out from the city. So thanks to them we have the most expensive, worthless cow pasture in the world in the middle of a city. This is a huge country, and if people in cities love looking at cows, they should you know, not think they are the center of the world and head out of the city to see how much open land there really is.
I'm not really a fan of huge suburbs, but forcefully denying someone to build on their own land is a very command-and-control style of government to me. Stay off my land Sierra club! Go buy your own playground.