First of all, the reconstruction of Iraq will probably not employ a single American outside of a management role. Since the work will not be taking place in the US, MCI is going to hire the cheapest labor they can and outsource as much as possible to low-cost countries.
The network planning will probably be done in India and the equipment will probably be dropshipped from China or Taiwan. MCI will probably hire Iraqis to do the actual labor in Iraq (keep in mind that Iraq is not a country of cavepeople - it's a modern society where people actually do know things. There are engineers in Iraq just like there are engineers here or anywhere else).
This whole project will probably be managed out of a foreign MCI profit center anyway. There will probably be a few dozen american managers who rake in lots of bonus money, but that will be the extent to which this is economically stimulating for the U.S.
"I bet you're still living in your parents' cellar Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar Posting "me too" like some brain-dead AOLer I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller You're about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller"
Ok, so MCI gets to build a GSM network in Iraq. Get over it - the reason that Sprint isn't doing it is because a) CDMA sucks monkey member and b) the US is more or less the only country on the planet that does NOT use GSM. It wouldn't make any sense to drop a CDMA network in Iraq when all of the surrounding countries use GSM. Also, there is already a lot of equipment for GSM in Iraq that can be reused (of course MCI will probably bill for new equipment even though they use the old stuff).
The U.S. has a horrible track record of going with non-standards in order to try to lock out foreign competition - or at least make them build a different widget just to sell in the U.S.
Here are some examples:
U.S - TV uses NTSC, the rest of the world uses PAL, so TV and VCR makers have to make a completely different product to sell here.
U.S. - HDTV over the air uses 8VSB (because of political lobbying), an inferior modulation method to COFDM, which the rest of the world uses because of its technical merit.
U.S. - uses the English system of measure whereas the rest of the world uses the more intuitive metric system
U.S. - drives on the wrong damn side of the road
I'm sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of other examples..
What I'd like to know is - how the *F* did the U.S. make such a logical and sound conclusion as to what network to use in Iraq?
ahhhh ok, I see the mechanics now.. so say I have a box (mail.ie-ap.org) and it has something like 40 users receiving mail, would I have to assign each user their own virtual domain (i.e. username.ie-ap.org) and everything going to that domain, regardless of what is before the '@', woudl end up in that user's inbox... do I have it right now?
Hey this looks pretty cool! So it seems from your site that people don't have to strip out the added digits. My question is, how would I tell sendmail how not to freak out when it received the bizzarre TO: address that was actually supposed to be valid?
Yes I remember that. I actually saw a prototype (in 1992) of a V-6 camaro that had a giant 2-way speaker (18" woofer, 5" midrange) underneath the trunk floor that was tied to a small embedded computer that measured engine speed and throttle position, and then drove the speakers with the sound that the 350cid V-8 made...
It was quite a sad display - it cost more for the speaker system than the difference in cost to simply upgrade to the V-8, so that project never came to fruition - thank god..
1) Get frustrated with the FUD Campaign against Linux 2) License SCO IP and/or buy out beleaguered company 3) Patent "Description of Linux-like O/S here" (We all know this would probably get by the patent office, greased with lots of greenbacks) 4) Sue the pants off of anybody who runs linux as "infringers of M$ IP" 5) Profit...
Where are the teen-punks going to put the fart cannon? The giant spolier? Where are all the stickers going to go?
Maybe if they put a "Type-R" sticker on the back, they'd be popular.
A quick google didn't show any aftermarket vinyl racing stripes to make these go faster, so I don't see where these will do very well.
Ooohhh I know what I'll patent now - a giant speaker to mount under the rear with a continuous-loop recording of a highly-amplified bumble-bee, just to make it sound like it has an engine. Then it'll sell:)
Right, but what is lost in your argument is that a gas engine is 13% or so efficient while a gas-fired electric plant is >70% efficient in transferring energy from gas to electricity (including delivery losses). So a hypothetical electric plant that runs on gasoline could make 5 electric cars go the same distance as one gasoline car - all other things being equal.
"Find a way to extract energy from hydrogen (and likewise convert it into energy a vehicle can use) that doesn't require more net energy (and waste) in the process and then come talk to me."
Again, all energy conversions are suboptimal. There is no way to change energy from one form to another without losing some of it. This is why photovoltaics aren't really viable - because it takes more energy to refine the silicon and grow the cell than the cell delivers during its lifetime. All energy conversion processes have waste - there's no way around it.
"3. If you can, ride your bike in to work every once in awhile. You'd be suprised how impressed people are by that shit. It gives the impression that you are dedicated and athletic - the boss will think that these qualities will transfer to your office work - coworkers will think you have a life outside of work, and be jealous, thus increasing your status in their eyes. Make sure to leave your bike helmet and gear prominently displayed in your cubicle to maximize the benefit."
== snip
I do this every single day. I even carry my bike into the building and keep it in my cube with me. I have my CamelBak, helmet (complete with helmet-mounted 15W headlight), bike shoes, and all manner of parephrenalia on my desk, on top of my file cabinet, or wherever. I even have a couple of hangars for my bike clothes... sometimes, if I'm feeling particulary saucy, I "forget" to turn my tail light off, so people walking by see this bright red blinking light.
I think most people at the office, if you ask them what i do for a living, they'll tell you "I dunno, but that guy bikes to work at 3 in the morning every damn day! I don't know how he does it!"
*cha CHING*
I also get there just before 4 every morning and am sure to respond to a couple of emails from the previous afternoon as soon as I can - makes it look like I got there even earlier. Then I go shower, change, and head to my lab for a nice nap.. I wake up around 5:45am, just before other people start getting there.
Boss could care less that I leave at 2 in the afternoon every day. I have so many brownie points to burn that I can even "work at home" whenever it rains so I don't have to bike in the rain.
Of course, it helps that my job is ridiculously easy - thank god I work for a gigantic multinational that doesn't really challenge anyone to do anything besides jump through hoops and wear lots of hats...
So, a) my security card is always registered before 4 in the morning b) I still get enough sleep c) people are in awe of me d) boss thinks I'm kickass dedicated to the company and e) I get paid a shitload of money for doing essentially working 6 hours per day.
Now, why I have such a problem with work but have no problem biking 70 miles every day is beyond me. I guess I'd be a cyclist for a living if work didn't pay so much more...
"Also, we all know that ATI and NVidia optimise their drivers for benchmarks"
This is why all benchmarks are completley meaningless. As soon as a benchmark is published, everyone writes their code/designs their hardware to be good at the benchmark and not necessarily good at anything else.
This is why I have never and will never pay one iota of attention to CPU/Video/Ram/$RANDOM_WIDGET/Software "benchmarks."
Besides, I'm much more concerned about how accurately my AthlonMP calculates 2.999999+0.000001=3.000000 than how fast my Intel can calculate 2.999999+0.000001=3.000084...
I have one server that is a dual Athlon machine with three 40GB hard disks arranged in a raid-5 array for a total capacity of 80GB.
Then, I bought a bunch of 10/100 Ethernet cards that had EEPROM sockets and used EtherBoot to create a boot image for it. You can also make a boot image on the web here, here, or here .
The only directories that are not identical across the virtual machines are/etc,/var, along with the obvious/dev,/boot,/proc, and so on./usr and/home are the same mount on each "machine."
The easiest way to pad is using white noise. It's EXTREMELY incompressible because it is so random, and therefore you don't have to use so much.
Of course, you could just taunt the hell out of them by recording 400MB of white noise, then compressing it, then encrypting it, and call it something like "Matrix Reloaded.divx.pgp" or something.. put it on $P2P_NETWORK and let it propagate wildly... they may even commit so much time and effort to decrypt it, only to find white noise.
Don't try this at home, kids... this is just pie-in-the-sky speculation...
... mod this story down as "Trolling for free consulting on Slashdot"...
There are what, 4 or 5 of the "Hey everybody, I'm thinking about creating a plasma-phase inverted-field warp drive, has anyone ever tried this or done this, or can anyone just do it for me? That'd be great. Thanks!" stories every week now...
I had two C340s and one C4235. On the C340s, I couldn't get X working and on the 4235, there was some bug that prevented that particular hard disk from working with that particular controller.. I spent a long horrible time trying to get things to work, but gave up.
I never managed to get either issue resolved...
But, on the positive side, I still use one of the C340s with linux to run my webserver (www.ie-ap.org), but it was never usable as a workstation.
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"What? Have they switched? Last time I looked they drove on the right side of the road."
:)
You haven't been to New Jersey lately, have you?
"Why aren't the government trying to expel all foreign nationals, freeing up jobs for the indiginous populace?"
Because the corporations that benefit from cheap foreign labor are the ones who put our current government in place...
First of all, the reconstruction of Iraq will probably not employ a single American outside of a management role. Since the work will not be taking place in the US, MCI is going to hire the cheapest labor they can and outsource as much as possible to low-cost countries.
The network planning will probably be done in India and the equipment will probably be dropshipped from China or Taiwan. MCI will probably hire Iraqis to do the actual labor in Iraq (keep in mind that Iraq is not a country of cavepeople - it's a modern society where people actually do know things. There are engineers in Iraq just like there are engineers here or anywhere else).
This whole project will probably be managed out of a foreign MCI profit center anyway. There will probably be a few dozen american managers who rake in lots of bonus money, but that will be the extent to which this is economically stimulating for the U.S.
If it's such an undesireable trait, then why do we keep electing them to office?
"I bet you're still living in your parents' cellar
Downloading pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
Posting "me too" like some brain-dead AOLer
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller"
[Banky] "Who is Helen Keller?"
Ok, so MCI gets to build a GSM network in Iraq. Get over it - the reason that Sprint isn't doing it is because a) CDMA sucks monkey member and b) the US is more or less the only country on the planet that does NOT use GSM. It wouldn't make any sense to drop a CDMA network in Iraq when all of the surrounding countries use GSM. Also, there is already a lot of equipment for GSM in Iraq that can be reused (of course MCI will probably bill for new equipment even though they use the old stuff).
The U.S. has a horrible track record of going with non-standards in order to try to lock out foreign competition - or at least make them build a different widget just to sell in the U.S.
Here are some examples:
U.S - TV uses NTSC, the rest of the world uses PAL, so TV and VCR makers have to make a completely different product to sell here.
U.S. - HDTV over the air uses 8VSB (because of political lobbying), an inferior modulation method to COFDM, which the rest of the world uses because of its technical merit.
U.S. - uses the English system of measure whereas the rest of the world uses the more intuitive metric system
U.S. - drives on the wrong damn side of the road
I'm sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of other examples..
What I'd like to know is - how the *F* did the U.S. make such a logical and sound conclusion as to what network to use in Iraq?
ahhhh ok, I see the mechanics now.. so say I have a box (mail.ie-ap.org) and it has something like 40 users receiving mail, would I have to assign each user their own virtual domain (i.e. username.ie-ap.org) and everything going to that domain, regardless of what is before the '@', woudl end up in that user's inbox... do I have it right now?
$obligatory_hotmail_spamming_rant
Hey this looks pretty cool! So it seems from your site that people don't have to strip out the added digits. My question is, how would I tell sendmail how not to freak out when it received the bizzarre TO: address that was actually supposed to be valid?
Yes I remember that. I actually saw a prototype (in 1992) of a V-6 camaro that had a giant 2-way speaker (18" woofer, 5" midrange) underneath the trunk floor that was tied to a small embedded computer that measured engine speed and throttle position, and then drove the speakers with the sound that the 350cid V-8 made...
It was quite a sad display - it cost more for the speaker system than the difference in cost to simply upgrade to the V-8, so that project never came to fruition - thank god..
1) Get frustrated with the FUD Campaign against Linux
:)
2) License SCO IP and/or buy out beleaguered company
3) Patent "Description of Linux-like O/S here" (We all know this would probably get by the patent office, greased with lots of greenbacks)
4) Sue the pants off of anybody who runs linux as "infringers of M$ IP"
5) Profit...
See? no "..." step in this one...
Where are the teen-punks going to put the fart cannon? The giant spolier? Where are all the stickers going to go?
:)
Maybe if they put a "Type-R" sticker on the back, they'd be popular.
A quick google didn't show any aftermarket vinyl racing stripes to make these go faster, so I don't see where these will do very well.
Ooohhh I know what I'll patent now - a giant speaker to mount under the rear with a continuous-loop recording of a highly-amplified bumble-bee, just to make it sound like it has an engine. Then it'll sell
Right, but what is lost in your argument is that a gas engine is 13% or so efficient while a gas-fired electric plant is >70% efficient in transferring energy from gas to electricity (including delivery losses). So a hypothetical electric plant that runs on gasoline could make 5 electric cars go the same distance as one gasoline car - all other things being equal.
"Find a way to extract energy from hydrogen (and likewise convert it into energy a vehicle can use) that doesn't require more net energy (and waste) in the process and then come talk to me."
Again, all energy conversions are suboptimal. There is no way to change energy from one form to another without losing some of it. This is why photovoltaics aren't really viable - because it takes more energy to refine the silicon and grow the cell than the cell delivers during its lifetime. All energy conversion processes have waste - there's no way around it.
"3. If you can, ride your bike in to work every once in awhile. You'd be suprised how impressed people are by that shit. It gives the impression that you are dedicated and athletic - the boss will think that these qualities will transfer to your office work - coworkers will think you have a life outside of work, and be jealous, thus increasing your status in their eyes. Make sure to leave your bike helmet and gear prominently displayed in your cubicle to maximize the benefit."
== snip
I do this every single day. I even carry my bike into the building and keep it in my cube with me. I have my CamelBak, helmet (complete with helmet-mounted 15W headlight), bike shoes, and all manner of parephrenalia on my desk, on top of my file cabinet, or wherever. I even have a couple of hangars for my bike clothes... sometimes, if I'm feeling particulary saucy, I "forget" to turn my tail light off, so people walking by see this bright red blinking light.
I think most people at the office, if you ask them what i do for a living, they'll tell you "I dunno, but that guy bikes to work at 3 in the morning every damn day! I don't know how he does it!"
*cha CHING*
I also get there just before 4 every morning and am sure to respond to a couple of emails from the previous afternoon as soon as I can - makes it look like I got there even earlier. Then I go shower, change, and head to my lab for a nice nap.. I wake up around 5:45am, just before other people start getting there.
Boss could care less that I leave at 2 in the afternoon every day. I have so many brownie points to burn that I can even "work at home" whenever it rains so I don't have to bike in the rain.
Of course, it helps that my job is ridiculously easy - thank god I work for a gigantic multinational that doesn't really challenge anyone to do anything besides jump through hoops and wear lots of hats...
So, a) my security card is always registered before 4 in the morning b) I still get enough sleep c) people are in awe of me d) boss thinks I'm kickass dedicated to the company and e) I get paid a shitload of money for doing essentially working 6 hours per day.
Now, why I have such a problem with work but have no problem biking 70 miles every day is beyond me. I guess I'd be a cyclist for a living if work didn't pay so much more...
Don't forget to shamelessly rip off a scene from Office Space while you're at it... :)
"Also, we all know that ATI and NVidia optimise their drivers for benchmarks"
This is why all benchmarks are completley meaningless. As soon as a benchmark is published, everyone writes their code/designs their hardware to be good at the benchmark and not necessarily good at anything else.
This is why I have never and will never pay one iota of attention to CPU/Video/Ram/$RANDOM_WIDGET/Software "benchmarks."
Besides, I'm much more concerned about how accurately my AthlonMP calculates 2.999999+0.000001=3.000000 than how fast my Intel can calculate 2.999999+0.000001=3.000084...
It's very well-known that the last act of a desperate company is to start suing in a last-ditch effort to get cash.
"Well, we're down to $10,000... let's let it ride on the law-suit lottery and see what happens... maybe our lawyers can litigate some revenue for us"
And in other news, a group of entertainment businesses has been sued by a group of lawyers for attempting to steal the title of 'Litigation Industry.'
Then, I bought a bunch of 10/100 Ethernet cards that had EEPROM sockets and used EtherBoot to create a boot image for it. You can also make a boot image on the web here, here, or here .
You'll need a way to program the EEPROM, but there are lots of places to get info about that.
The only directories that are not identical across the virtual machines are /etc, /var, along with the obvious /dev, /boot, /proc, and so on. /usr and /home are the same mount on each "machine."
The easiest way to pad is using white noise. It's EXTREMELY incompressible because it is so random, and therefore you don't have to use so much.
Of course, you could just taunt the hell out of them by recording 400MB of white noise, then compressing it, then encrypting it, and call it something like "Matrix Reloaded.divx.pgp" or something.. put it on $P2P_NETWORK and let it propagate wildly... they may even commit so much time and effort to decrypt it, only to find white noise.
Don't try this at home, kids... this is just pie-in-the-sky speculation...
There was a jumper on the popular Alaris motherboards (which ran an IBM 486 SLC/2-33 or 66) that would cause the clock to increase from 33 to 40MHz.
Calculating the radar cross section of an $ARBITRARY_OBJECT?
That'll make your 3-day simulation seem like the blink of an eye...
... mod this story down as "Trolling for free consulting on Slashdot"...
There are what, 4 or 5 of the "Hey everybody, I'm thinking about creating a plasma-phase inverted-field warp drive, has anyone ever tried this or done this, or can anyone just do it for me? That'd be great. Thanks!" stories every week now...
... were the KLH 900B speakers... still have them after nearly 10 years, and they still sound better than anything else out there...
I had two C340s and one C4235. On the C340s, I couldn't get X working and on the 4235, there was some bug that prevented that particular hard disk from working with that particular controller.. I spent a long horrible time trying to get things to work, but gave up.
I never managed to get either issue resolved...
But, on the positive side, I still use one of the C340s with linux to run my webserver (www.ie-ap.org), but it was never usable as a workstation.