FCC has sent some much greater punches down the pipe then a requirement to publish vote rates. Digital conversion has had much greater impact and was pushed out with even less notice. FCC dictates the term of the license and their rule is pretty much supreme. There are about a zillion mandates in the regulations from everything to programming to the antenna. It's a daily effort to stay in check with those regulations.
Rates for political candidates are based on the lowest rate ever sold. Stations are pretty keen not to lower rates too much for fear of reducing potential campaign dollars. The heavy campaign years generally see the most stringent restrictions for offerings.
I'm not seeing that much potential for disaster as sales are entirely fluid and the only buyer a station is required to offer fixed rates are in regard to campaign dollars.
For embedded systems maybe one or two of my peers in school really understood everything. Even at that level we were just poking a few memory addresses and sending in data down the bus to flip a few latches. Precision, timing and the code in a big pot tended to throw some off. Made a killing in tutoring for those classes as my rates were extremely high. (No one was displeased)
Most if it has rotted away, but I can still look at a spec sheet to get a feel for the chip. The things we do today are always impressive and if given the chance I could probably release the magic smoke. (Magic smoke for the uninformed is the core component to most electronics. Accidentally shorting a line could produce a puncture which releases the gas and renders the component useless.)
Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it! Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I'm doing my best! Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner? Major Asshole: I did sir. He's my cousin. Dark Helmet: Who is he? Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir. Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name? Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole! Dark Helmet: And his cousin? Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole! Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway? [Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand] Entire Bridge Crew: Yo! Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes! [Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down] Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
I asked my car very nicely to start in the morning.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work and it the vehicle tells me to go f' myself. Repeatedly hitting the car can coax some much needed respect, but I've stopped doing that now. The other day I was about to strike the dashboard and it said, "Maybe today your breaks fail when you exit the intersection. Maybe they work just fine. I dunno, I'm not really an expert on brakes. I do know that seat belt has been real finicky lately. Just sayin."
Anyhow, that is the last time I buy a used car from an Italian stereotype.
I also get where you are coming from in terms of users being clueless. Many of the things posted inside of the industry I work in are quite wrong. I can't really comment on those, but it's funny how wrong sometimes highly rated comments are.
However wrong views may be there is a take away from these points. The content is viewed as a negative aspect and likely wouldn't have been labeled a slashvertisement if it was a positive contribution.
Unfortunately, not everyone can be happy in every situation. We are the barbarians of the tech age I'm afraid and we like our pray diced and chopped.
NewEgg has been pulling the same vendor sponsored layouts, but without a fair roundup of the competition it's not that much of a value add. Providing bias in an article isn't really necessary since there is plenty of input from users. Multiple topics (as mentioned elsewhere here) will generate a substantial amount of data and commenter activity. The strongest element slashdot has going for it is the rich comments. Really, give us something to rattle on about and many discussions will be had.
I grew up on Atari (at leas somewhat young) and I never paid near those costs.
At a yard sale I could pick up a cart for a dollar. I remember scouting many many of those venues to scavenge some pretty awful games.
The one title I had purchased retail was E.T. This is rated as the worst game ever by Angry Video Game Nerd. (He was right too).
Colleco Vision, Pong, Commodore 64 (with tape drive) and many many other toys were all purchased through my yard sale rummaging. I wish I kept them, but being somewhat adventurous I always took things apart. (Usually, they did not back together.)
Now the every man can enjoy running his own credit institution from the comfort of his own backyard. There may be issues with neighborhood housing associations sanctioning said vault owners as I plan to use some old wood and rusty nails. Still, the price/performance ratio should be well received.
My understanding is when transferring goods to a non-profit you can write off the full original value of the merchandise. However, someone actually has to accept the goods in the first place. Obviously, you can keep junking the same place twice.
However, it's been a while since I've dealt with a non-profit, but that is what I remember anyway.
I don't think they are going to actually strip it.
These guys basically destroyed tens of thousands worth of property to make twenty dollars at the scrap yard.
On a bit of a karma note I once heard about a scrap yard theft. The guys would pull up next to the yard in a boat (it was next to the river) and haul in a bunch of copper. The next day or so they would come back to the scrap yard and sale the theft back to them.
Unfortunately, that trick only works so many times.
I used to work with some fairly high powered transmitters here and there. Funny thing about large antennas is they tend to be located in lovely remote areas. Generally, the places where no one lives and consequently a great target for moronic thieves. Depending your point of you view you could say it was very fortunate our equipment always needed maintenance or was always failing. Consequently, we spent many events at an uncomfortable distance to the population. Being occupied during the day and night was a great deterrent to douche bags. (I know because after we left the thieves moved in like jackals I'm told)
On one occasion it looked like someone had started to cut the copper from air conditioning unit, but gave up for some unknown reason. Now, what I had been waiting for was an attempted theft at the coax line for any number of transmitters. There was a metric crap ton of this and the word coax does not lend credit to the thickness of these particular runs. Such an act would create an immediate alarm and nor would it be fun to be on the receiving end of the line. The return feedback during the process would disengage the transmission, but not before baking a few fleshy components.
Indeed, at a previous employer one group of our data centers or co-locations had some pretty lousy techs. I had worked over the phone to remotely have some one off equipment cabled up and it was complete fail sauce. Eventually, I decided to stop wasting our money as I was scheduled to go out to do maintenance anyway. My cabling worked quite fine and the time they wasted would have paid for the flight and hotel.
Oddly, they had to borrow my onsite equipment to do the work as well. We kept fully stocked shelves for virtually every need. Even so far as to providing our own server lift. (I felt bad for the guys so my thoughts were you can borrow it, but I don't want to know in case you hurt yourselves.)
Newer venues cost the theater quite a bit more then ones which have been ongoing. One of my friends explained the price drop in the cost of their seat license in terms of weeks. Most don't really make it past the 4th to 5th week which is when the cost to the actual cinema drops significantly. I believe the major exception which was home alone which aired for more then one Christmas.
Only in some very large cinema complexes have I seen varied rates and these were grouped by wing. They controlled the flow of traffic into those wings with gateed access and of course there were employees at each gate validating tickets. With multiple level and multiple wings they can dictate cost.
Otherwise, I would envision a good deal of people purchasing tickets for the lesser know film and stopping by the slightly more expensive one.
It's been a while since I've actually seen gated access to the individual theaters in large complexes likely due to cost.
I was told by a very powerful source that the only way to protect my data was via a contract for my soul. Among the things needed for the incantation a guinea pig was cited.
Look at Paragraph 367 Subsection 32... "Satan will personally hover over your data with an army of undead ghouls.^3214"
I'm still trying to find foot note three thousand two hundred fourteen.
These deals with the devil are almost as bad as FCC mandates.
I had an isolated network I was required to do this on once. I had no servers and several isolated independent networks. Unfortunately, the network isolation created several issues with our existing toolset so it wasn't a matter of spinning up a host and moving some software over.
I ended up using puppy linux on a usb stick which would spin up an instance that contained a pxe server containing another puppy linux ramdisk. It's sole function was to serve the ramdisk to other machines in the isolated network. The usb stick could be removed once the OS was booted. (Puppy boots and remounts it's ramdisk over/). Once all of the machines were showing tons of disk activity I simply hit the space bar and the puppy host would begin running the same utility set on the host machine.
It takes some of the work out of creating a ramdisk distro that supports dhcp/tftp/pxe. However, since it doesn't contain a great deal of the libraries that would normally be found in linux most applications need to be compiled statically. Despite setting CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS I remember having to manually edit the make files in a few instances to set the -static option.
Entirely doable and it should be a good project for the requester.
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This sounds more like someone is planning for a divorce.
As every telecom expert knows...
C Pound.
Scrap dealers will buy it for the metal.
This is a fairly standard term for purchasing equipment which can only be taken away as scrap.
FCC has sent some much greater punches down the pipe then a requirement to publish vote rates. Digital conversion has had much greater impact and was pushed out with even less notice. FCC dictates the term of the license and their rule is pretty much supreme. There are about a zillion mandates in the regulations from everything to programming to the antenna. It's a daily effort to stay in check with those regulations.
Rates for political candidates are based on the lowest rate ever sold. Stations are pretty keen not to lower rates too much for fear of reducing potential campaign dollars. The heavy campaign years generally see the most stringent restrictions for offerings.
I'm not seeing that much potential for disaster as sales are entirely fluid and the only buyer a station is required to offer fixed rates are in regard to campaign dollars.
For embedded systems maybe one or two of my peers in school really understood everything. Even at that level we were just poking a few memory addresses and sending in data down the bus to flip a few latches. Precision, timing and the code in a big pot tended to throw some off. Made a killing in tutoring for those classes as my rates were extremely high. (No one was displeased)
Most if it has rotted away, but I can still look at a spec sheet to get a feel for the chip. The things we do today are always impressive and if given the chance I could probably release the magic smoke. (Magic smoke for the uninformed is the core component to most electronics. Accidentally shorting a line could produce a puncture which releases the gas and renders the component useless.)
It is rather a strong password good sir!
I find the correct horse battery staple password for ages. Thanks xkcd!
Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I'm doing my best!
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Major Asshole: I did sir. He's my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole!
Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway?
[Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand]
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!
[Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down]
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
Here's a not-so-made up response.
Combo mp3 player cell phones still suck. I need that power to keep the damn pda/phone actually working.
I can live with the mp3 player running out of juice, but the phone I cannot.
I asked my car very nicely to start in the morning.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work and it the vehicle tells me to go f' myself. Repeatedly hitting the car can coax some much needed respect, but I've stopped doing that now. The other day I was about to strike the dashboard and it said, "Maybe today your breaks fail when you exit the intersection. Maybe they work just fine. I dunno, I'm not really an expert on brakes. I do know that seat belt has been real finicky lately. Just sayin."
Anyhow, that is the last time I buy a used car from an Italian stereotype.
I also get where you are coming from in terms of users being clueless. Many of the things posted inside of the industry I work in are quite wrong. I can't really comment on those, but it's funny how wrong sometimes highly rated comments are.
However wrong views may be there is a take away from these points. The content is viewed as a negative aspect and likely wouldn't have been labeled a slashvertisement if it was a positive contribution.
Unfortunately, not everyone can be happy in every situation. We are the barbarians of the tech age I'm afraid and we like our pray diced and chopped.
NewEgg has been pulling the same vendor sponsored layouts, but without a fair roundup of the competition it's not that much of a value add. Providing bias in an article isn't really necessary since there is plenty of input from users. Multiple topics (as mentioned elsewhere here) will generate a substantial amount of data and commenter activity. The strongest element slashdot has going for it is the rich comments. Really, give us something to rattle on about and many discussions will be had.
I grew up on Atari (at leas somewhat young) and I never paid near those costs.
At a yard sale I could pick up a cart for a dollar. I remember scouting many many of those venues to scavenge some pretty awful games.
The one title I had purchased retail was E.T. This is rated as the worst game ever by Angry Video Game Nerd. (He was right too).
Colleco Vision, Pong, Commodore 64 (with tape drive) and many many other toys were all purchased through my yard sale rummaging. I wish I kept them, but being somewhat adventurous I always took things apart. (Usually, they did not back together.)
Funny and true, Ron Jeremy still has a valid teacher's license. However, I think his current job pays a bit better.
Great Scott!
I've had a brilliant idea.
I'm going to build ultra low cost banks.
Now the every man can enjoy running his own credit institution from the comfort of his own backyard. There may be issues with neighborhood housing associations sanctioning said vault owners as I plan to use some old wood and rusty nails. Still, the price/performance ratio should be well received.
My understanding is when transferring goods to a non-profit you can write off the full original value of the merchandise. However, someone actually has to accept the goods in the first place. Obviously, you can keep junking the same place twice.
However, it's been a while since I've dealt with a non-profit, but that is what I remember anyway.
I'll foil the system by using a stolen bank card!
You'll never catch me, nyaaah!
I don't think they are going to actually strip it.
These guys basically destroyed tens of thousands worth of property to make twenty dollars at the scrap yard.
On a bit of a karma note I once heard about a scrap yard theft. The guys would pull up next to the yard in a boat (it was next to the river) and haul in a bunch of copper. The next day or so they would come back to the scrap yard and sale the theft back to them.
Unfortunately, that trick only works so many times.
I used to work with some fairly high powered transmitters here and there. Funny thing about large antennas is they tend to be located in lovely remote areas. Generally, the places where no one lives and consequently a great target for moronic thieves. Depending your point of you view you could say it was very fortunate our equipment always needed maintenance or was always failing. Consequently, we spent many events at an uncomfortable distance to the population. Being occupied during the day and night was a great deterrent to douche bags. (I know because after we left the thieves moved in like jackals I'm told)
On one occasion it looked like someone had started to cut the copper from air conditioning unit, but gave up for some unknown reason. Now, what I had been waiting for was an attempted theft at the coax line for any number of transmitters. There was a metric crap ton of this and the word coax does not lend credit to the thickness of these particular runs. Such an act would create an immediate alarm and nor would it be fun to be on the receiving end of the line. The return feedback during the process would disengage the transmission, but not before baking a few fleshy components.
Indeed, at a previous employer one group of our data centers or co-locations had some pretty lousy techs. I had worked over the phone to remotely have some one off equipment cabled up and it was complete fail sauce. Eventually, I decided to stop wasting our money as I was scheduled to go out to do maintenance anyway. My cabling worked quite fine and the time they wasted would have paid for the flight and hotel.
Oddly, they had to borrow my onsite equipment to do the work as well. We kept fully stocked shelves for virtually every need. Even so far as to providing our own server lift. (I felt bad for the guys so my thoughts were you can borrow it, but I don't want to know in case you hurt yourselves.)
Newer venues cost the theater quite a bit more then ones which have been ongoing. One of my friends explained the price drop in the cost of their seat license in terms of weeks. Most don't really make it past the 4th to 5th week which is when the cost to the actual cinema drops significantly. I believe the major exception which was home alone which aired for more then one Christmas.
Only in some very large cinema complexes have I seen varied rates and these were grouped by wing. They controlled the flow of traffic into those wings with gateed access and of course there were employees at each gate validating tickets. With multiple level and multiple wings they can dictate cost.
Otherwise, I would envision a good deal of people purchasing tickets for the lesser know film and stopping by the slightly more expensive one.
It's been a while since I've actually seen gated access to the individual theaters in large complexes likely due to cost.
I had a few friends play with BASIC stamps. Though it runs PBASIC.
I didn't follow it very much, but it still would indicate there are a few instance of hobbyists using basic.
I'm pretty sure it was shouting, "Hot hot hot hot!"
I'm fairly certain comet love joy won't be taking on any more dares for a while.
I totally destroyed those 4th graders.
That was just the ego boost I needed for the day.
Excellent,
I was told by a very powerful source that the only way to protect my data was via a contract for my soul. Among the things needed for the incantation a guinea pig was cited.
Look at Paragraph 367 Subsection 32... "Satan will personally hover over your data with an army of undead ghouls.^3214"
I'm still trying to find foot note three thousand two hundred fourteen.
These deals with the devil are almost as bad as FCC mandates.
I had an isolated network I was required to do this on once. I had no servers and several isolated independent networks. Unfortunately, the network isolation created several issues with our existing toolset so it wasn't a matter of spinning up a host and moving some software over.
I ended up using puppy linux on a usb stick which would spin up an instance that contained a pxe server containing another puppy linux ramdisk. It's sole function was to serve the ramdisk to other machines in the isolated network. The usb stick could be removed once the OS was booted. (Puppy boots and remounts it's ramdisk over /). Once all of the machines were showing tons of disk activity I simply hit the space bar and the puppy host would begin running the same utility set on the host machine.
It takes some of the work out of creating a ramdisk distro that supports dhcp/tftp/pxe. However, since it doesn't contain a great deal of the libraries that would normally be found in linux most applications need to be compiled statically. Despite setting CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS I remember having to manually edit the make files in a few instances to set the -static option.
Entirely doable and it should be a good project for the requester.