The problem with that approach is that, contrary to the popular saying, perception is, in fact not reality.
The worker who is already there when the boss comes in because he/she works 07:00-15:30 will get looked on more favourably than the one who comes in around 11:00 and works until 23:00 or midnight or later, even. Despite the fact that the latter is doing more work, or at least spending more time at work, he/she will be perceived as a slacker, simply because he comes in so late, even if the arrangement is on record. I've seen it.
The better approach is to use a carrot. The state used a stick. The carrot approach would have been to provide him with a car for business use, as mentioned before. If business use is too little to warrant him having his own company car, then establish a motor pool. Having worked for New York State, I can attest that the government here is certainly big enough to warrant a motor pool.
Alternatively, they could do what my current employer does, and issue a cell phone with GPS turned on and locked down (which, just for the record, stays home or gets its battery removed when I am not on call).
You know, it has seemed to me that a lot of the material from the 70's to the 90's suffered from this problem, regardless of what the mastering process was, and I suspect it had to do with a "that's good enough" attitude from the producers. Prior to this, the folks working on the projects were allowed to be true artisans, and afterwards, they started to realize that this wasn't good enough anymore.
There were exceptions, of course. There will always be really good and really bad.
I noticed that TV stations, CATV providers and TV manufacturers had the same attitude. For that matter, many cinemas even had that attitude. It sucked very much bad. I think somewhere around 2000 or so, people were finally getting fed up with it enough that the producers finally got enough negative feedback to do something about it.
Incidentally, a quick look on IMDB reveals that ST:TOS was even remastered into the 16:9 aspect ratio. It would be nice if they can pull that off with TNG.
I was thinking white, though now that I think about it, red and blue make more sense for grow lights. Still, the idea stands sound, even if the details need fine-tuning.
Use a battery to buffer the input and a high-efficiency voltage regulator to modulate it correctly. Underpowering them won't have any ill-effects. Use a switching voltage regulator to maintain a 4V power supply and a current limiting resistor. Optionally, you could use a big honking capacitor (e.g. I have some 20,000 uF caps that were salvaged from a large UPS) instead of a battery.
Most importantly, each component in this system provides a teaching opportunity.
School has always been a police state. The only difference is that they are no longer pretending otherwise.
Actually, in a sense, this might be for the better: it sounds like they get actual trials. When I was in school, accusation and sentence were pronounced in one sentence, and any objection you might voice only led to the sentence being added on to.
I knew the kid of one of the math teachers who was in his mother's classes as normally scheduled for his track. When his track went over to a different teacher's classes, so did he. In other words, the school treated him no differently than his peers.
That said, it was a very small school, having a student body of maybe 100 students from grades 9-12. As such, they might not have had the resources to perform this particular segregation. As I recall, there was only ever one teacher teaching any given class. For example (IIRC -- this was . . . 22-25 years ago), this teacher taught Math I and II and all of the Math Fundamentals classes; there was another math teacher who taught all of the more advanced classes.
My instinctive answer to the initial question is, simply, "no," but that doesn't really do it justice. You may have to stretch your mind a little to make it fit, but do it, and you won't regret it, even if you don't end up making the best use of it.
You might also want to see if you have any other interests you can turn into a side-gig or career. In my case, I'm a sound engineer and event DJ for my side-gig. Offshore that, motherfuckers!
Even when thinking of "that kind" of tube, they are not always made of glass, and, in fact, the higher-performance ones above audio frequencies are not made of glass.
I used to own a Hallicrafters S-38b shortwave/mediumwave radio. It had five tubes. All had metal envelopes.
Analogue radio can be quite effective . . . just use it with appropriate caution because it does give away your position when you transmit (though not when you listen) and can be listened in on by others.
CB, FRS, GMRS and Marine radios are easy to get your hands on. With a little more work, ham and MURS radios can be acquired.
Be aware that GMRS, Marine and ham radios require licenses and are subject to some specific rules, if you care. Also be aware that there are those who will defend these three radio services and will help authorities track you down if you abuse them (I will if I hear you on ham and you don't belong there). The other three are pretty much wide open.
1. Cooley Law School claims to be second-ranked law school in the country after only Harvard. The fact is that when they were last ranked, they were very near the bottom.
2. Someone called them on their bullshit. They decided to sue.
3. In bringing the lawsuit, rather than hiring lawyers from their own graduates, they hired lawyers who graduated from Georgetown University and University of Michigan, thereby demonstrating that even they don't believe their own bullshit.
About ten years ago, when Verizon first came into being, there was a forum put up at verizonreallysucks.com. I posted there a lot.
One day, my phone rang. It was the owner of the site, and he wanted to make me aware that someone who held an opposing view to mine had posted my phone number, but that he had redacted it for me. We had a good, long chat, and when we were back off the phone, I got on-line and posted a response basically mocking him for figuring out how to use a phone book, and then posting simple, human-verifiable checksums of his phone numbers (he had two) by summing the digits.
I've never had an unlisted phone number (cell phone doesn't count) until recent years, when I changed to a VoIP provider who does it by default.
I say tough. Neither Microsoft nor Google are doing anything here that couldn't also be done by anyone with the resources. I suspect that a crowdsourced project to accomplish this end might also be feasible.
From wardriving, I've been able to put together a pretty good timeline of where I was and when whenever Kismet was running, and that's without having a GPS receiver connected to the computer. It's out there in the public view; deal with it.
If you do not like this, then the suggestion I would have is not to use wireless.
Switches, sure. Routers, maybe. Proxies, however, no. I think that's the gist of it.
Not sure I agree that these things should go away, but the point that they alter the way things work is true, especially given that this is the point of their existence. The trick is to cause them to exist in a non-intrusive manner. This is where things often fail.
At home, I have a wireless network which is mostly transparent (which doesn't mean open . . . it is secured). NAT is involved, of course, and there is available (but not required) a web proxy and there is a DNS proxy which is required. These are, of course, performance enhancers. The web proxy caches content locally, and the DNS proxy caches DNS requests and also provides local DNS.
Meanwhile, at my workplace, we have a wireless network for guest and employee use (using it right now), which pushes all web content through a filtering proxy (may be monitored, too, don't know; I generally assume and act as though it were) and prohibits outbound connections on all but a handful of ports (used for http, https, smtp, pop, imap).
Going further, a cafe near here has free wireless access. After clicking through, you can only use port 80, period. It sucks very much bad.
The first example is an example of the middleboxes not hosing things up; the second is of them being annoying; the last of them being waaaaaay overboard.
Incidentally, I have also seen one in the opposite extreme: My doctor's office has a wireless network that consists of two components: a Linksys router and a cable modem. It is as open as it gets.
Now, of course, there will be those who (rightly) point out the private property element of the examples I just gave, but these are just that: examples. Where it starts to get iffy is when you take these differing paradigms and move them into the realm of what the ISP is doing. If the only broadband provider in an area is phucking around with the connectivity, it has the potential of breaking something, and I think that's really the main point here.
Talk to any sound engineer (read non-audiphile subscriber) and they will have tons of stories on how fickle sound set ups can be when no one knowledgeable is watching the setup and correcting things.
Consider that seconded. It occasionally puts me at odds with a DJ friend of mine.
Incidentally, I own a 35-year-old amplifier and a pair of 42-year-old speakers for my personal system. The amp only packs 20W per channel, but they are 20 real watts, which is to say, you can put in a sine wave on an arbitrary frequency, and expect the amp to be able to sustain 20W RMS, out of both channels, at the same time without distorting it noticeably.
I'm not convinced that it is the quantity of government, but rather its specific content. The government is doing things that it should not, and not doing things that it should. Reducing the size of government might reduce the number of things it is doing that it should not, but I assure you the other side of this imbalance will only get worse, because the government will likely also stop doing several things that it should be doing.
I think that the problem is that BluRay was the wrong thing at the wrong time, coupled with being involved in a format war with HD-DVD for several years.
I'm not saying Blu-Ray is good or bad. I don't own the gear, so I can't comment there, What I can comment on is that DVD looks good enough on my HDTV, even though it does not look as nice as the broadcasts do. It also sounds good enough, as AC3, despite being lossy, is a pretty darned good codec. I gather that a lot of people have taken this point of view, and so have had no drive to upgrade their relatively-recently-upgraded-from-VHS movie collections to Blu-Ray.
Maybe if SVCD or VCD had caught on, then Blu-Ray might have had a better chance, because of catching things at a different stage of the market cycle. SVCD is a slam-dunk against VHS (VCD not so much) for picture quality, and DVD, while it looks better than SVCD, it doesn't look that much better.
Then there was this unnecessary format war. Blu-Ray might have fared better if, instead of duking it out, the HD-DVD consortium had agreed to allow players to be built that could read both formats. I think that the transport mechanism wouldn't be much different than that which is found in Blu-Ray players anyway, which carry both blue and red lasers so that they can read DVD and other legacy disc formats as well as Blu-Ray.
I think that there were a few combo players, but they don't count because they were rare and ungodly expensive. You need to put that in the hands of the audience and then convince them that it's worth the upgrade. If he still likes what came before, then it isn't going to work.
Oh, yeah, I agree with you 100%. I'm currently a hard-core Linux lover, though I have got to say that I miss the days of being able to write scripts that could prompt for a needed resource just by referring to the resource. That was a wicked nice touch in the OS. On the other hand, I don't miss the incessant click-click-click of the floppy drive, and I would say that in the last decade, PC technology caught up with where the Amiga was in the early 90's, and has since surpassed it.
Note, though, getting back on the main point, that DOS is rarely a part of that. Taking the DOS out of Windows was one of Microsoft's smarter moves. Avoiding Microsoft altogether, however, is preferred.
Perhaps the most important lesson I learned in my youth is that marketing beats quality or usability. I remember in 1993 or so, buying a Zip drive to hook up to my Amiga and telling one of my friends about it. His reaction (as a DOS/Windows 3 user) was "where did you get a driver from?" He was gobsmacked to find out that I didn't need one.
Okay, so I'm an old fart, but I'm not going to wax poetic over DOS. I never liked it, because somehow, I saw through the marketing and understood that spending $500ish on a machine that had colour video, decent stereo audio (the likes of which has only in the last five or six years started to seem dated), an OS that can be run by GUI or CLI kludge-free, a superior processor, etc was a better deal than spending four times that for a machine that couldn't get out of its own way to repaint monochrome text on a block-mapped screen, and couldn't make better than little "bleep bloop" type sounds.
Yet, the less capable, far more expensive machine won. It was very disappointing to me.
Well . . . I do realize that this is Slashdot, but, if you had bucked the trend and actually RTFA, then you would know that they are asking the same question and preparing to explore that next.
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The problem with that approach is that, contrary to the popular saying, perception is, in fact not reality.
The worker who is already there when the boss comes in because he/she works 07:00-15:30 will get looked on more favourably than the one who comes in around 11:00 and works until 23:00 or midnight or later, even. Despite the fact that the latter is doing more work, or at least spending more time at work, he/she will be perceived as a slacker, simply because he comes in so late, even if the arrangement is on record. I've seen it.
The better approach is to use a carrot. The state used a stick. The carrot approach would have been to provide him with a car for business use, as mentioned before. If business use is too little to warrant him having his own company car, then establish a motor pool. Having worked for New York State, I can attest that the government here is certainly big enough to warrant a motor pool.
Alternatively, they could do what my current employer does, and issue a cell phone with GPS turned on and locked down (which, just for the record, stays home or gets its battery removed when I am not on call).
You know, it has seemed to me that a lot of the material from the 70's to the 90's suffered from this problem, regardless of what the mastering process was, and I suspect it had to do with a "that's good enough" attitude from the producers. Prior to this, the folks working on the projects were allowed to be true artisans, and afterwards, they started to realize that this wasn't good enough anymore.
There were exceptions, of course. There will always be really good and really bad.
I noticed that TV stations, CATV providers and TV manufacturers had the same attitude. For that matter, many cinemas even had that attitude. It sucked very much bad. I think somewhere around 2000 or so, people were finally getting fed up with it enough that the producers finally got enough negative feedback to do something about it.
Incidentally, a quick look on IMDB reveals that ST:TOS was even remastered into the 16:9 aspect ratio. It would be nice if they can pull that off with TNG.
I was thinking white, though now that I think about it, red and blue make more sense for grow lights. Still, the idea stands sound, even if the details need fine-tuning.
Use a battery to buffer the input and a high-efficiency voltage regulator to modulate it correctly. Underpowering them won't have any ill-effects. Use a switching voltage regulator to maintain a 4V power supply and a current limiting resistor. Optionally, you could use a big honking capacitor (e.g. I have some 20,000 uF caps that were salvaged from a large UPS) instead of a battery.
Most importantly, each component in this system provides a teaching opportunity.
For bonus points, how about powering them from a small wind turbine like this one?
School has always been a police state. The only difference is that they are no longer pretending otherwise.
Actually, in a sense, this might be for the better: it sounds like they get actual trials. When I was in school, accusation and sentence were pronounced in one sentence, and any objection you might voice only led to the sentence being added on to.
Honestly, I probably would not block banner ads if only they didn't slow down browsing so much.
I knew the kid of one of the math teachers who was in his mother's classes as normally scheduled for his track. When his track went over to a different teacher's classes, so did he. In other words, the school treated him no differently than his peers.
That said, it was a very small school, having a student body of maybe 100 students from grades 9-12. As such, they might not have had the resources to perform this particular segregation. As I recall, there was only ever one teacher teaching any given class. For example (IIRC -- this was . . . 22-25 years ago), this teacher taught Math I and II and all of the Math Fundamentals classes; there was another math teacher who taught all of the more advanced classes.
So fix it!
This accurately describes me, as well.
My instinctive answer to the initial question is, simply, "no," but that doesn't really do it justice. You may have to stretch your mind a little to make it fit, but do it, and you won't regret it, even if you don't end up making the best use of it.
You might also want to see if you have any other interests you can turn into a side-gig or career. In my case, I'm a sound engineer and event DJ for my side-gig. Offshore that, motherfuckers!
Even when thinking of "that kind" of tube, they are not always made of glass, and, in fact, the higher-performance ones above audio frequencies are not made of glass.
I used to own a Hallicrafters S-38b shortwave/mediumwave radio. It had five tubes. All had metal envelopes.
Analogue radio can be quite effective . . . just use it with appropriate caution because it does give away your position when you transmit (though not when you listen) and can be listened in on by others.
CB, FRS, GMRS and Marine radios are easy to get your hands on. With a little more work, ham and MURS radios can be acquired.
Be aware that GMRS, Marine and ham radios require licenses and are subject to some specific rules, if you care. Also be aware that there are those who will defend these three radio services and will help authorities track you down if you abuse them (I will if I hear you on ham and you don't belong there). The other three are pretty much wide open.
Your microwave oven will have a cavity magnetron in it, which is a vacuum tube.
Also, if you have an older TV, CRTs are vacuum tubes.
1. Cooley Law School claims to be second-ranked law school in the country after only Harvard. The fact is that when they were last ranked, they were very near the bottom.
2. Someone called them on their bullshit. They decided to sue.
3. In bringing the lawsuit, rather than hiring lawyers from their own graduates, they hired lawyers who graduated from Georgetown University and University of Michigan, thereby demonstrating that even they don't believe their own bullshit.
Good point.
About ten years ago, when Verizon first came into being, there was a forum put up at verizonreallysucks.com. I posted there a lot.
One day, my phone rang. It was the owner of the site, and he wanted to make me aware that someone who held an opposing view to mine had posted my phone number, but that he had redacted it for me. We had a good, long chat, and when we were back off the phone, I got on-line and posted a response basically mocking him for figuring out how to use a phone book, and then posting simple, human-verifiable checksums of his phone numbers (he had two) by summing the digits.
I've never had an unlisted phone number (cell phone doesn't count) until recent years, when I changed to a VoIP provider who does it by default.
I say tough. Neither Microsoft nor Google are doing anything here that couldn't also be done by anyone with the resources. I suspect that a crowdsourced project to accomplish this end might also be feasible.
From wardriving, I've been able to put together a pretty good timeline of where I was and when whenever Kismet was running, and that's without having a GPS receiver connected to the computer. It's out there in the public view; deal with it.
If you do not like this, then the suggestion I would have is not to use wireless.
So no more routers & switches?
Switches, sure. Routers, maybe. Proxies, however, no. I think that's the gist of it.
Not sure I agree that these things should go away, but the point that they alter the way things work is true, especially given that this is the point of their existence. The trick is to cause them to exist in a non-intrusive manner. This is where things often fail.
At home, I have a wireless network which is mostly transparent (which doesn't mean open . . . it is secured). NAT is involved, of course, and there is available (but not required) a web proxy and there is a DNS proxy which is required. These are, of course, performance enhancers. The web proxy caches content locally, and the DNS proxy caches DNS requests and also provides local DNS.
Meanwhile, at my workplace, we have a wireless network for guest and employee use (using it right now), which pushes all web content through a filtering proxy (may be monitored, too, don't know; I generally assume and act as though it were) and prohibits outbound connections on all but a handful of ports (used for http, https, smtp, pop, imap).
Going further, a cafe near here has free wireless access. After clicking through, you can only use port 80, period. It sucks very much bad.
The first example is an example of the middleboxes not hosing things up; the second is of them being annoying; the last of them being waaaaaay overboard.
Incidentally, I have also seen one in the opposite extreme: My doctor's office has a wireless network that consists of two components: a Linksys router and a cable modem. It is as open as it gets.
Now, of course, there will be those who (rightly) point out the private property element of the examples I just gave, but these are just that: examples. Where it starts to get iffy is when you take these differing paradigms and move them into the realm of what the ISP is doing. If the only broadband provider in an area is phucking around with the connectivity, it has the potential of breaking something, and I think that's really the main point here.
Talk to any sound engineer (read non-audiphile subscriber) and they will have tons of stories on how fickle sound set ups can be when no one knowledgeable is watching the setup and correcting things.
Consider that seconded. It occasionally puts me at odds with a DJ friend of mine.
Incidentally, I own a 35-year-old amplifier and a pair of 42-year-old speakers for my personal system. The amp only packs 20W per channel, but they are 20 real watts, which is to say, you can put in a sine wave on an arbitrary frequency, and expect the amp to be able to sustain 20W RMS, out of both channels, at the same time without distorting it noticeably.
I'm not convinced that it is the quantity of government, but rather its specific content. The government is doing things that it should not, and not doing things that it should. Reducing the size of government might reduce the number of things it is doing that it should not, but I assure you the other side of this imbalance will only get worse, because the government will likely also stop doing several things that it should be doing.
I think that the problem is that BluRay was the wrong thing at the wrong time, coupled with being involved in a format war with HD-DVD for several years.
I'm not saying Blu-Ray is good or bad. I don't own the gear, so I can't comment there, What I can comment on is that DVD looks good enough on my HDTV, even though it does not look as nice as the broadcasts do. It also sounds good enough, as AC3, despite being lossy, is a pretty darned good codec. I gather that a lot of people have taken this point of view, and so have had no drive to upgrade their relatively-recently-upgraded-from-VHS movie collections to Blu-Ray.
Maybe if SVCD or VCD had caught on, then Blu-Ray might have had a better chance, because of catching things at a different stage of the market cycle. SVCD is a slam-dunk against VHS (VCD not so much) for picture quality, and DVD, while it looks better than SVCD, it doesn't look that much better.
Then there was this unnecessary format war. Blu-Ray might have fared better if, instead of duking it out, the HD-DVD consortium had agreed to allow players to be built that could read both formats. I think that the transport mechanism wouldn't be much different than that which is found in Blu-Ray players anyway, which carry both blue and red lasers so that they can read DVD and other legacy disc formats as well as Blu-Ray.
I think that there were a few combo players, but they don't count because they were rare and ungodly expensive. You need to put that in the hands of the audience and then convince them that it's worth the upgrade. If he still likes what came before, then it isn't going to work.
Posessives: His, Hers, Its.
Contracted with "is": He's, She's, It's.
The pattern is brick-stupid simple when it is pointed out.
Oh, yeah, I agree with you 100%. I'm currently a hard-core Linux lover, though I have got to say that I miss the days of being able to write scripts that could prompt for a needed resource just by referring to the resource. That was a wicked nice touch in the OS. On the other hand, I don't miss the incessant click-click-click of the floppy drive, and I would say that in the last decade, PC technology caught up with where the Amiga was in the early 90's, and has since surpassed it.
Note, though, getting back on the main point, that DOS is rarely a part of that. Taking the DOS out of Windows was one of Microsoft's smarter moves. Avoiding Microsoft altogether, however, is preferred.
Yep, and it still sucks.
Perhaps the most important lesson I learned in my youth is that marketing beats quality or usability. I remember in 1993 or so, buying a Zip drive to hook up to my Amiga and telling one of my friends about it. His reaction (as a DOS/Windows 3 user) was "where did you get a driver from?" He was gobsmacked to find out that I didn't need one.
Okay, so I'm an old fart, but I'm not going to wax poetic over DOS. I never liked it, because somehow, I saw through the marketing and understood that spending $500ish on a machine that had colour video, decent stereo audio (the likes of which has only in the last five or six years started to seem dated), an OS that can be run by GUI or CLI kludge-free, a superior processor, etc was a better deal than spending four times that for a machine that couldn't get out of its own way to repaint monochrome text on a block-mapped screen, and couldn't make better than little "bleep bloop" type sounds.
Yet, the less capable, far more expensive machine won. It was very disappointing to me.
Well . . . I do realize that this is Slashdot, but, if you had bucked the trend and actually RTFA, then you would know that they are asking the same question and preparing to explore that next.
<sarcasm>Oh, is that what happened on Wall Street and in Detroit?! I get it now!</sarcasm>