The DVDs are great. Some friends and I are planning a "pre-movie" party where we will show some of the episodes from the DVDs a few days before the movie comes out. So far interest is good and some people will be there that never saw the show when it was on TV...
Uhm, not entirely sure what the billboard is doing...but you don't have to be in "discoverable" mode for someone (or something) to "see" your signal and hack your phone.
Keep in mind that pretty much the only services that charge monthly fees are the ones that have PTSN access and a PTSN # packaged in the service. I have 3 different VOIP providers configured in my Asterisk switch for different things. Only one of them (Voicepulse Connect) charges me a monthly fee...and that's just because my incoming number is on that account. The others just charge based on my usage of the PTSN (at
In the end though I'm just playing Devils advocate to a degree. I agree the numbers appear to be skewed. With all the VOIP providers out there, there has got to be more then 2.7 million customers. Like some of my accounts, many of them may not be generating significant revenue, but then VOIP was never meant to be a cash cow service.
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Hmmm, Wifi times 16...
According to my math, 802.11 x 16 = 12,833.76
I guess we get discounted down to $12K for buying in volume?
I met a guy a while back that put a large Olds V6 in a Yugo. It went wicked fast and the oddness of the whole setup made it kinda cool. But he did it just because he could, not to commute, race, or pick up chicks.
The moral of this story? Sometimes you have to do something just because you can:)
There's no evidence on the host machine of what you were running or what you did"
NOW I understand. TFA mentioned the device is targeted to certain corporate users. I mean what more could a corporate espionage operative **cough** I mean "corporate user" want then a device that leaves no trace of them having accessed a boxen and it's attached network?
Wow, I would be surprised if that could be done in two years. And you better have a whole team being paid alot more then $12/hr and devoting all their time to it plus a panel of medical experts and medical case data to work with. Oh, and written all in.php is what pushes it over the edge totally into the super-natural.
I would laugh at them, stop for a moment and stare at them, then laugh at them even harder.
Later on you might consider devoting your life to actually building it (in whatever environment you choose) and then selling it for at least $900,000/license 20 years from now when you are crazy but have finally finished your masterpiece. Something that suggests treatment and gives statistical treatment option analysis would be worth some serious bank...alot more then $26,000 a pop.
Whatever you do, don't forget to budget for ample supplies of chicken blood and other black magic staples. You know you will need it when the boss asks for those apps and hardware that magically do things that aren't possible in the natural realm.
Makes sense to me... Taxpayers don't have to cover the costs of food, clothing, guards salaries or cable TV for a dead prisoner. Sounds to me like those Texans (and Bush) are being wise stuards of the taxpayers' money.
It was also posted on slashdot a couple times before...we have graduated from dups to triplicate posts... Though I can't find the original posts now...stupid search function:(
Actually they used to paint over the foam. The layer of paint added alot of weight and expense though and someone asked "why do we bother to paint it?". Appearantly nobody knew why so they stopped painting them. For a while they got away with it...and then with no paint to help keep the foam solidly on the unit, a piece breaks off and hits a heat shield tile and there is an "accident". Why none of the decision makers have yet said "why don't we start painting them again and just accept the fact that we need to sacrifice a little payload capacity for safety" is beyond me. Or alternately come up with some other insulation that doesn't break off. It seems like it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to keep something from falling off a rocket ship. Maybe follow the lead of M&M/Mars and spray the exterior with a hardener that creates a "hard candy shell" that melts in re-entry, not break up on ascent? Just a thought...
Well any mistakes made in education at a point in history aren't going to have any immediate effects. It takes at least 20 years for the children of that generation to get into positions of influence overall in society...and then some of the mistakes require a few generations to compound over before things really get out of hand. OF course by then it's too late to do much about it and the people responsible for starting the whole problem are dead.
Spam wars... Wow, first there was the Browser Wars, now we have Spam Wars. I wonder if Sarge will fight in the Spam Wars too. He was a LT in the Browser Wars...maybe he can get a promotion...
I have a couple large electric fans for cooling the radiator on my Honda. For whatever reason some engineer thought it would be a good idea for both fans to come on at the same time when the radiator needed cooling. At idle having these fans comes on produces a very noticable drop in RPM and if I'm watching a volt meter you can see the system voltage drop to seriously low levels (it will kick one of my inverters into protect mode every time). That's on a 1.7L 135HP engine. Consider if you will that those fans are drawing (educated guess) ~10amps a piece (12V). Imagine adding an electrical load of another ~40amps(12V) to that in peltiers. Plus another 10amps at least of fans to blow the air around them. You would have to add another alternator to handle that much load (you could upgrade the existing one but an upgraded one able to handle that much load would be prohibitively expensive). And at that point you are basically just replaceing the load of the air conditioning pump with load of another alternator. Unless they somehow found a way to magically make the peltiers move just as much heat on less current then they normally operate on, I don't see how this would be any more efficient then conventional A/C...possibly less efficent. Almost everything is designed for or has been converted to freon alternatives now that don't hurt the ozone. So other then the no-moving-parts arguement I don't see a benefit.
I have never seen a 1000baseTX device in real life, but they do support POE. The gigabit stuff we see all over is actually 1000baseT which uses all 8 wires and leaves no room for POE. Back in the day there was a little battle over which standard (1000baseT or 1000baseTX) would catch on [much like the short battle between 100baseT and 100baseTX back in the day]. I even posted on slashdot about it. The end result this time though was that the T standard won because the end hardware was cheaper to produce and available first.
Speaking of newer standards that won't support power though...what about the move to fibre? Fibre cables are plastic, no way to pump voltage through those.
I think POE is great and will be around for a long time in specific applications. But it's not going to take over our world as long as fibre continues to proliferate.
I was thinking pickup trucks. But anyway, still seems silly to have to use a common carrier to deliver the installation software for your operating system:P
A quick glance at the pictures also gives one a sense of how styles have changed since the 1970s as well. Gotta love the hair on the picture of the chic carrying a tape reel in the datacenter:P
So glad we don't use stacks of punch cards anymore. I mean can you imagine how many truckloads of punch cards you would need to install windows XP?:P
Oh yeah. I recently bought a new laptop. It of course came with windows XP. After getting frusterated for a week with all the lame "wizards" for everything (discussion of how confusing XP wizards are saved for another thread), I decided to load windows 2000 on it. Within an hour or two I was able to find W2K drivers for all the hardware on the laptop and start loading. I was slightly surprised to find that some of the W2K drivers actually worked better and had more options then the XP version (was true for both the wireless card and processor speed control).
In use I found that the biggest difference was that I had to install 3rd party software on 2000 to do a few things like handle zip files and burn CDs. In all cases the 3rd party software is more powerful then the built-in XP stuff anyway. I am way more efficient in W2K with it's cleaner interface to administrative functions. All things considered, I view moving from XP to 2000 an "upgrade".
XP is to 2000 as ME is to 98SE. The former in each case being a product with more "widget" features, but less usability.
I don't know how those researchers came up with their numbers but something doesn't jive. I have done enough research into Ethanol Vs. Biodiesel as feul sources to see right away there are some issues with their numbers.
The article states it takes 29% more energy to make ethanol then you get out. Then it states it takes 27% more energy to create biodiesel then you get out. These numbers are impossibly backward when looking at real-world production facilities. Making biodiesel from soybeans is a complex process that first requires alot of energy to press the oil out of the soybeans. Then adding chemicals that have to be produced somewhere (read more energy). Enormous amounts of energy to cook the ingrediants. Ethanol only reqires one cooking without any chemicals. The only real trick to ethanol is that you have to cook it a while and keep the pressure tightly regulated to get the purity you need. Roughly translated from the cost figures I last looked at, ethanol takes somewhere between 2/3 and 1/2 as much energy to produce then soy based biodiesel does. So any claims that soy based biodiesel is MORE efficient to produce then ethanol is obviously based on some incorrect math or missing some facts.
My guess? The researchers got all their data from the National Biodiesel Board... Or better yet, Exxon-Mobil;)
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The DVDs are great. Some friends and I are planning a "pre-movie" party where we will show some of the episodes from the DVDs a few days before the movie comes out. So far interest is good and some people will be there that never saw the show when it was on TV...
Uhm, not entirely sure what the billboard is doing...but you don't have to be in "discoverable" mode for someone (or something) to "see" your signal and hack your phone.
Keep in mind that pretty much the only services that charge monthly fees are the ones that have PTSN access and a PTSN # packaged in the service. I have 3 different VOIP providers configured in my Asterisk switch for different things. Only one of them (Voicepulse Connect) charges me a monthly fee...and that's just because my incoming number is on that account. The others just charge based on my usage of the PTSN (at
In the end though I'm just playing Devils advocate to a degree. I agree the numbers appear to be skewed. With all the VOIP providers out there, there has got to be more then 2.7 million customers. Like some of my accounts, many of them may not be generating significant revenue, but then VOIP was never meant to be a cash cow service.
Hmmm, Wifi times 16...
According to my math, 802.11 x 16 = 12,833.76
I guess we get discounted down to $12K for buying in volume?
I met a guy a while back that put a large Olds V6 in a Yugo. It went wicked fast and the oddness of the whole setup made it kinda cool. But he did it just because he could, not to commute, race, or pick up chicks.
The moral of this story? Sometimes you have to do something just because you can:)
There's no evidence on the host machine of what you were running or what you did"
NOW I understand. TFA mentioned the device is targeted to certain corporate users. I mean what more could a corporate espionage operative **cough** I mean "corporate user" want then a device that leaves no trace of them having accessed a boxen and it's attached network?
Well done sirs!
I guess I'll have to try out DHL now. I've heard a few good things about them...
Bah, capes are so passe! Haven't you seen The Incredibles?
Wow, I would be surprised if that could be done in two years. And you better have a whole team being paid alot more then $12/hr and devoting all their time to it plus a panel of medical experts and medical case data to work with. Oh, and written all in .php is what pushes it over the edge totally into the super-natural.
I would laugh at them, stop for a moment and stare at them, then laugh at them even harder.
Later on you might consider devoting your life to actually building it (in whatever environment you choose) and then selling it for at least $900,000/license 20 years from now when you are crazy but have finally finished your masterpiece. Something that suggests treatment and gives statistical treatment option analysis would be worth some serious bank...alot more then $26,000 a pop.
Whatever you do, don't forget to budget for ample supplies of chicken blood and other black magic staples. You know you will need it when the boss asks for those apps and hardware that magically do things that aren't possible in the natural realm.
Makes sense to me... Taxpayers don't have to cover the costs of food, clothing, guards salaries or cable TV for a dead prisoner. Sounds to me like those Texans (and Bush) are being wise stuards of the taxpayers' money.
I might prefer the slapping midget from "Master Of Disguise"...
It was also posted on slashdot a couple times before...we have graduated from dups to triplicate posts... Though I can't find the original posts now...stupid search function:(
Actually they used to paint over the foam. The layer of paint added alot of weight and expense though and someone asked "why do we bother to paint it?". Appearantly nobody knew why so they stopped painting them. For a while they got away with it...and then with no paint to help keep the foam solidly on the unit, a piece breaks off and hits a heat shield tile and there is an "accident". Why none of the decision makers have yet said "why don't we start painting them again and just accept the fact that we need to sacrifice a little payload capacity for safety" is beyond me. Or alternately come up with some other insulation that doesn't break off. It seems like it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to keep something from falling off a rocket ship. Maybe follow the lead of M&M/Mars and spray the exterior with a hardener that creates a "hard candy shell" that melts in re-entry, not break up on ascent? Just a thought...
Developers, developers, developers, developers... -Sarge (I think 26 times was enough)
Well any mistakes made in education at a point in history aren't going to have any immediate effects. It takes at least 20 years for the children of that generation to get into positions of influence overall in society...and then some of the mistakes require a few generations to compound over before things really get out of hand. OF course by then it's too late to do much about it and the people responsible for starting the whole problem are dead.
Spam wars... Wow, first there was the Browser Wars, now we have Spam Wars. I wonder if Sarge will fight in the Spam Wars too. He was a LT in the Browser Wars...maybe he can get a promotion...
I have a couple large electric fans for cooling the radiator on my Honda. For whatever reason some engineer thought it would be a good idea for both fans to come on at the same time when the radiator needed cooling. At idle having these fans comes on produces a very noticable drop in RPM and if I'm watching a volt meter you can see the system voltage drop to seriously low levels (it will kick one of my inverters into protect mode every time). That's on a 1.7L 135HP engine. Consider if you will that those fans are drawing (educated guess) ~10amps a piece (12V). Imagine adding an electrical load of another ~40amps(12V) to that in peltiers. Plus another 10amps at least of fans to blow the air around them. You would have to add another alternator to handle that much load (you could upgrade the existing one but an upgraded one able to handle that much load would be prohibitively expensive). And at that point you are basically just replaceing the load of the air conditioning pump with load of another alternator. Unless they somehow found a way to magically make the peltiers move just as much heat on less current then they normally operate on, I don't see how this would be any more efficient then conventional A/C...possibly less efficent. Almost everything is designed for or has been converted to freon alternatives now that don't hurt the ozone. So other then the no-moving-parts arguement I don't see a benefit.
I have never seen a 1000baseTX device in real life, but they do support POE. The gigabit stuff we see all over is actually 1000baseT which uses all 8 wires and leaves no room for POE. Back in the day there was a little battle over which standard (1000baseT or 1000baseTX) would catch on [much like the short battle between 100baseT and 100baseTX back in the day]. I even posted on slashdot about it. The end result this time though was that the T standard won because the end hardware was cheaper to produce and available first.
Speaking of newer standards that won't support power though...what about the move to fibre? Fibre cables are plastic, no way to pump voltage through those.
I think POE is great and will be around for a long time in specific applications. But it's not going to take over our world as long as fibre continues to proliferate.
I was thinking pickup trucks. But anyway, still seems silly to have to use a common carrier to deliver the installation software for your operating system:P
Wow! I had no idea the slashdot site was written in quick basic. I'm going to go check out the slashcode site now. I have to see this!
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[Yes, I know...but I had to post something like this this week. One must maintain balance of carma
A quick glance at the pictures also gives one a sense of how styles have changed since the 1970s as well. Gotta love the hair on the picture of the chic carrying a tape reel in the datacenter:P
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So glad we don't use stacks of punch cards anymore. I mean can you imagine how many truckloads of punch cards you would need to install windows XP?
Oh yeah. I recently bought a new laptop. It of course came with windows XP. After getting frusterated for a week with all the lame "wizards" for everything (discussion of how confusing XP wizards are saved for another thread), I decided to load windows 2000 on it. Within an hour or two I was able to find W2K drivers for all the hardware on the laptop and start loading. I was slightly surprised to find that some of the W2K drivers actually worked better and had more options then the XP version (was true for both the wireless card and processor speed control).
In use I found that the biggest difference was that I had to install 3rd party software on 2000 to do a few things like handle zip files and burn CDs. In all cases the 3rd party software is more powerful then the built-in XP stuff anyway. I am way more efficient in W2K with it's cleaner interface to administrative functions. All things considered, I view moving from XP to 2000 an "upgrade".
XP is to 2000 as ME is to 98SE. The former in each case being a product with more "widget" features, but less usability.
I don't know how those researchers came up with their numbers but something doesn't jive. I have done enough research into Ethanol Vs. Biodiesel as feul sources to see right away there are some issues with their numbers.
The article states it takes 29% more energy to make ethanol then you get out. Then it states it takes 27% more energy to create biodiesel then you get out. These numbers are impossibly backward when looking at real-world production facilities. Making biodiesel from soybeans is a complex process that first requires alot of energy to press the oil out of the soybeans. Then adding chemicals that have to be produced somewhere (read more energy). Enormous amounts of energy to cook the ingrediants. Ethanol only reqires one cooking without any chemicals. The only real trick to ethanol is that you have to cook it a while and keep the pressure tightly regulated to get the purity you need. Roughly translated from the cost figures I last looked at, ethanol takes somewhere between 2/3 and 1/2 as much energy to produce then soy based biodiesel does. So any claims that soy based biodiesel is MORE efficient to produce then ethanol is obviously based on some incorrect math or missing some facts.
My guess? The researchers got all their data from the National Biodiesel Board... Or better yet, Exxon-Mobil;)
Cool! Sounds like the perfect sort of company to compete with big oil! :D