I'm guessing none of you guys have ever DONE a cable/fiber install. You don't lay excess capacity for "future use". You lay excess capacity because no sane company wants to have to dig up a 2 mile stretch of trench to fix the line every time it goes dark.
It's not EXCESS CAPACITY. It's being cheap. You lay enough fiber that you should almost never have to dig it up to repair it again. Fibers go dark for all sorts of stupid reasons. Even in good installs.
The idea is to lay SO MUCH that you can always just switch over to another "good" line when one goes bad.
What's cheaper? The extra cost of the fiber initially or the HUGE cost in having to dig up the line multiple times to repair it?
Like THIS is a recent thing. I mean maybe the fact that they're being "honest" about the sheer amount of it. To quote the article. ..
In the process they have gathered records of people who are not suspects, he said. "Once they get it they like to keep it, because you never know when it might turn out to be useful."
So, we've got a ever growing database that's now got a HUGE budget to fuel it's growth. Anyone else scared?
So you're saying that for mobile devices it's Windows, not Palm or Linux?
Color me surprised but when I walk into an electronics store and look at the PDA's I see 8 with "Microsoft" and 30 with Palm (and the ever popular Sharp outcast). WindowsRG (real gud) Edition may be selling in the high end pda market, but at least in my own locale it's the Palm powered devices (esp. those with long battery life) that are really moving in large chunks.
People are looking at PDA's and similar portable devices in ways that are fundamentally different than desktop or even laptop computers. Most people I know that owns one of these devices isn't watching movies on it or editing powerpoint slides. They're using it as a replacement for a daily planner. One that can interface with their desktop pc.
Doesn't mention where they rolled it. But in Anchorage, Alaska at least the vast majority of our roads all have two nice "ruts" per lane that would be deep enough to guide a bowling ball nicely for a mile or two. I've personally seen them be up to 4" deep. And while it's nice that a road is "designed" to be convex, they rarely stay that way for long in any area with heavy traffic and poor quality asphalt.
Horseshit. You haven't agreed to jack by reading the EULA and clicking OK.
You haven't agreed to a single legally binding thing. In no way does signing (let alone just reading and clicking OK) ANY sheet of paper (outside of a confession of treason) cause you to give up any of your legal rights. Such a contract is completely unenforceable and would be thrown out the second it enters court.
They can put in a clause to allow agents to crash at my house on the weekends and eat my dorritos but it doesn't mean it's in any way enforceable. Talk to an attorney. No matter how hard you try you can't sign your rights away. When it comes down to it most EULA's are slightly more valuable than toilet paper due to this fact. Hell, check your state laws. Many states have clauses in their local civil or criminal codes that basically say something to the effect that "contracts that are partially in violation of any participants rights are wholely illegal"
Do your research. Especially when it comes to your local right to privacy and to unsolicited mailings, phone calls, etc. Has it occured to anyone that "shotgun" tactics might in fact be considered SPAM. Let's get some anti-spam lawyers after their ass. Under my own state and city laws, unless I decide to bend over and say "oh yes please come in and dont' use lube" they can piss and moan all they want and that's about the limit to their "legal" recourse.
As someone that's had large fragments of lead removed from my skull in the last two years I can tell you that memory is tenuous, and often false. I find myself "remembering" events that never happened to me since the incident.
How true ARE our memories? When we run out, does our mind just "make" some?
Have you tried any of the stripped down version of Kazaa like KazaaLite?
I feel that Kazaa has a better engine in practice than the big G but without being stripped down to the bare essentials, Gnutella definately wins.
However, look at Kazaalite vs. Gnutella and there's quite a bit to like on the streamlined kazaa. Mostly tho, Gnutella (when I used it) was a bit bigger of a bandwidth hog than Kaz is. (however, i am NOT an ethernet techie, nor do I profess to know if this is due to my ignorance at implementing either program).
Imagine what kind of blow this sort of program will take if they DO cut corners and some idiot blows not only himself to hell but manages to twirl and whirl his way into a Pick One:
A. Major City
B. Military Base
C. Martha Stewarts summer home..
oh wait. . no. . cutting corners is seeming like a better and better idea
He's absolutely right. If your artists are independents and are NOT signed to the RIAA or similar then you don't have to pay a dime to the bastards
That's right. Not a stinking single dime.
However, you're gonna have to keep MAD records to hold up the evidence that none of your music is from RIAA artists.
Who buys the most players? Is it the US? Singapore? China? More importantly, are the major markets for players doing well financially? I'd say that drops in chip prices are all well and good, but the bottom line is price is going to be dictated by both demand, and what the market can bear in terms of durable goods. Does anyone remember what the computer makers predicted for this quarter and what actually happened? Sales didn't just stay flat, in many cases compared to projections they nosedived. Durable goods are just that. Durable. Long term. You can only buy so many. Unless there is a compelling reason to upgrade, most people don't. So who IS the major "market" for the players? Anyone have any good links/data?
Bare with me, biology was a LONG time ago and chemistry was more recent.
A virus is basically a self replicating (with a hosts help) package of RNA.
A germ (or bacteria) is a single celled organism.
Here's the problem as I see it. "spoiled" milk is not JUST caused by bacterial action. It's also a chemical conversion of lactose and lipids. Unless this stuff is some Uber-Converter that can reverse time, this story is full of crap.
Now, it COULD have enough energy to 'dissolve' the biological matter present in it. Hell, if I put a huge current though an ionic solution, I can almost guarantee everything in it is going to be toast too.
That's not remarkable, that's bad swimming pool pump maintenace.
While it's great that we're getting mobile video that can finally keep up with the processor, it's rather sad that the "fastest" mobile video solution seems to be barely on the "approved" list for this game. New engines are great, but not when 80% of your market can't run them. The impression that I've been getting is that the news sites are telling me I'm going to actually need the New GeForce 5 Ti6660 or perhaps The Radeon 12000 to play this game?
I really feel for everyone that will be playing this thing on their P3 1.2gHz and GeForce3 Ti500. "Wow John, you got above 15frames a minute? That's incredible!"
I mean good lord man, you're telling me every symptom of every business that I've seen go under locally. The whole "balls to the walls" syndrome is often more of a "we're cutting budgets that we really shouldn't" syndrome. I fully expect that you'll find that the same managers that are willing to have YOU (not them) put in 15 hour days are also the ones willing to say "sure we can do X+Y at the budget for just X" to his higher ups just to look better.
well yes, laser surgury often does use a specific band of light to target types of tissue and avoid (and in fact in some cases pass strait through) other tissue. However, as an avid user of surplus crap, there are LOTS of materials that can filter all but a specific wavelength of light (say you ONLY want red light, or blue light, or maybe you JUST want red light filtered out) and I would think that if you wanted a specific spectrum of light, you'd just slap on the appropriate filters and KAZZAM you've got the correct wavelength for those difficult to treat tumors/warts/nasal cavity lodged cheesie poofs.
ZERO WING Probably the greatest waste of my entire summer. I never really understood what it was about (other than blowing aliens up) but it was grand fun trying to understand the manual.
Like many Sega-Genesis import games, ZW suffered from what could be kindly called KungFu Movie Syndrome in which the translation is done by bored graduate students who never actually studied the language in question and were paid in beer. Which was consumed during translation.
I went for a Nike PSA Play. I know it doesn't have HUGE capacity/etc. but you can NOT beat the design of the thing. Plus it's nice that (at least the one I have) it comes with an arm band which for me at least is a much more convenient way of carrying the damn thing. It's small, fairly water resistant, and so far has done very well accidentally being droppped/kicked/abused in other ways not mentionable around the gym. That's the big thing for me. I'm a clutz, especially around my 9th set for the day. I like something that's fairly impact resistant.
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"480sec Anti-shock"
Anti-Shock protection? Hard drives and solid state electronics skip now? Since when? Did I miss a meeting again?
The most popular one I've seen is the "Cenatek Rocket Drive"
I'm guessing none of you guys have ever DONE a cable/fiber install. You don't lay excess capacity for "future use". You lay excess capacity because no sane company wants to have to dig up a 2 mile stretch of trench to fix the line every time it goes dark.
It's not EXCESS CAPACITY. It's being cheap. You lay enough fiber that you should almost never have to dig it up to repair it again. Fibers go dark for all sorts of stupid reasons. Even in good installs.
The idea is to lay SO MUCH that you can always just switch over to another "good" line when one goes bad.
What's cheaper? The extra cost of the fiber initially or the HUGE cost in having to dig up the line multiple times to repair it?
In the process they have gathered records of people who are not suspects, he said. "Once they get it they like to keep it, because you never know when it might turn out to be useful."
So, we've got a ever growing database that's now got a HUGE budget to fuel it's growth. Anyone else scared?
I can't be the only one that instantly associated LAPD and Driveby am I?
Color me surprised but when I walk into an electronics store and look at the PDA's I see 8 with "Microsoft" and 30 with Palm (and the ever popular Sharp outcast). WindowsRG (real gud) Edition may be selling in the high end pda market, but at least in my own locale it's the Palm powered devices (esp. those with long battery life) that are really moving in large chunks.
People are looking at PDA's and similar portable devices in ways that are fundamentally different than desktop or even laptop computers. Most people I know that owns one of these devices isn't watching movies on it or editing powerpoint slides. They're using it as a replacement for a daily planner. One that can interface with their desktop pc.
Doesn't mention where they rolled it. But in Anchorage, Alaska at least the vast majority of our roads all have two nice "ruts" per lane that would be deep enough to guide a bowling ball nicely for a mile or two. I've personally seen them be up to 4" deep. And while it's nice that a road is "designed" to be convex, they rarely stay that way for long in any area with heavy traffic and poor quality asphalt.
Doesn't affect me. In fact Amazon.com states Hawaii, Alaska & Vermont will be exempt.
You haven't agreed to a single legally binding thing. In no way does signing (let alone just reading and clicking OK) ANY sheet of paper (outside of a confession of treason) cause you to give up any of your legal rights. Such a contract is completely unenforceable and would be thrown out the second it enters court.
They can put in a clause to allow agents to crash at my house on the weekends and eat my dorritos but it doesn't mean it's in any way enforceable. Talk to an attorney. No matter how hard you try you can't sign your rights away. When it comes down to it most EULA's are slightly more valuable than toilet paper due to this fact. Hell, check your state laws. Many states have clauses in their local civil or criminal codes that basically say something to the effect that "contracts that are partially in violation of any participants rights are wholely illegal"
Do your research. Especially when it comes to your local right to privacy and to unsolicited mailings, phone calls, etc. Has it occured to anyone that "shotgun" tactics might in fact be considered SPAM. Let's get some anti-spam lawyers after their ass. Under my own state and city laws, unless I decide to bend over and say "oh yes please come in and dont' use lube" they can piss and moan all they want and that's about the limit to their "legal" recourse.
How true ARE our memories? When we run out, does our mind just "make" some?
Have you tried any of the stripped down version of Kazaa like KazaaLite? I feel that Kazaa has a better engine in practice than the big G but without being stripped down to the bare essentials, Gnutella definately wins. However, look at Kazaalite vs. Gnutella and there's quite a bit to like on the streamlined kazaa. Mostly tho, Gnutella (when I used it) was a bit bigger of a bandwidth hog than Kaz is. (however, i am NOT an ethernet techie, nor do I profess to know if this is due to my ignorance at implementing either program).
Having seen the movie in the theatre, the shirt IS supposed to be white.
Imagine what kind of blow this sort of program will take if they DO cut corners and some idiot blows not only himself to hell but manages to twirl and whirl his way into a
.
Pick One:
A. Major City
B. Military Base
C. Martha Stewarts summer home.
oh wait. . no. . cutting corners is seeming like a better and better idea
VapoChill systems. I don't have a link but they're pretty damn impressive in what they can do.
He's absolutely right. If your artists are independents and are NOT signed to the RIAA or similar then you don't have to pay a dime to the bastards
That's right. Not a stinking single dime.
However, you're gonna have to keep MAD records to hold up the evidence that none of your music is from RIAA artists.
Who buys the most players? Is it the US? Singapore? China? More importantly, are the major markets for players doing well financially?
I'd say that drops in chip prices are all well and good, but the bottom line is price is going to be dictated by both demand, and what the market can bear in terms of durable goods.
Does anyone remember what the computer makers predicted for this quarter and what actually happened? Sales didn't just stay flat, in many cases compared to projections they nosedived. Durable goods are just that. Durable. Long term. You can only buy so many. Unless there is a compelling reason to upgrade, most people don't.
So who IS the major "market" for the players? Anyone have any good links/data?
with this new moon I shall have a second orbital base for my friggin' lasers. . .
Making XLR to 1/4" adapters. . .
Making RCA to 1/8" adapters. . .
Cursing the need to replace the RCA connectors on half the equipment once a year. . .
Building patch bays from scratch due to cheap ass management. . .
I loved that job. Not the working part. Just making the patch cables. Beautiful, lovely patch cables. Perfect solder, shiny beautiful solder. . .
you know. . .now that I think about it. . maybe it was the lead fumes. . .
A virus is basically a self replicating (with a hosts help) package of RNA.
A germ (or bacteria) is a single celled organism.
Here's the problem as I see it. "spoiled" milk is not JUST caused by bacterial action. It's also a chemical conversion of lactose and lipids. Unless this stuff is some Uber-Converter that can reverse time, this story is full of crap. Now, it COULD have enough energy to 'dissolve' the biological matter present in it. Hell, if I put a huge current though an ionic solution, I can almost guarantee everything in it is going to be toast too.
That's not remarkable, that's bad swimming pool pump maintenace.
I really feel for everyone that will be playing this thing on their P3 1.2gHz and GeForce3 Ti500.
"Wow John, you got above 15frames a minute? That's incredible!"
Where is my demo! Bring me my demo!
GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!
I mean good lord man, you're telling me every symptom of every business that I've seen go under locally. The whole "balls to the walls" syndrome is often more of a "we're cutting budgets that we really shouldn't" syndrome. I fully expect that you'll find that the same managers that are willing to have YOU (not them) put in 15 hour days are also the ones willing to say "sure we can do X+Y at the budget for just X" to his higher ups just to look better.
well yes, laser surgury often does use a specific band of light to target types of tissue and avoid (and in fact in some cases pass strait through) other tissue.
However, as an avid user of surplus crap, there are LOTS of materials that can filter all but a specific wavelength of light (say you ONLY want red light, or blue light, or maybe you JUST want red light filtered out) and I would think that if you wanted a specific spectrum of light, you'd just slap on the appropriate filters and KAZZAM you've got the correct wavelength for those difficult to treat tumors/warts/nasal cavity lodged cheesie poofs.
Probably the greatest waste of my entire summer. I never really understood what it was about (other than blowing aliens up) but it was grand fun trying to understand the manual.
Like many Sega-Genesis import games, ZW suffered from what could be kindly called KungFu Movie Syndrome in which the translation is done by bored graduate students who never actually studied the language in question and were paid in beer. Which was consumed during translation.
Aww I can't beleive no one mentioned Axis and Allies the biggest time burner ever printed on paperboard.
I went for a Nike PSA Play.
I know it doesn't have HUGE capacity/etc. but you can NOT beat the design of the thing. Plus it's nice that (at least the one I have) it comes with an arm band which for me at least is a much more convenient way of carrying the damn thing.
It's small, fairly water resistant, and so far has done very well accidentally being droppped/kicked/abused in other ways not mentionable around the gym.
That's the big thing for me. I'm a clutz, especially around my 9th set for the day. I like something that's fairly impact resistant.