Actually, aviation already uses red and green lights. IIRC, the left wingtip always has a red light, and the right wingtip has either white or green, I forget which. And certain airports flash an alternating white-green beacon at night.
If you're a colorblind pilot, you're already at a disadvantage. So they might as well makes the lasers color coded too.
"Did you guys know that Scott Card is a dedicated mormon?"
Yes, but that's not the problem. I no longer read Card because he took the Book of Mormon (essentially a companion to the Bible), made it scifi, and added lots of illicit sex in his "In Memory of Earth" series.
If you want to write about hot, sticky sex, fine -- but do not take religious canon (blatant plagarization) and then betray it's own most basic tenets by using it to promote fornication (hypocrasy, anyone?). I don't care if you believe The Book of Mormon is true or not, how can you respect a man who pulls a stunt like that?
I've done this on Windows 2000 for some time, and it seems to help. I thought I was clever because I came up with it all by myself, but obviously I was wrong.:)
Another thing I thought would increase performance was creating a software RAID-0 across partitions on two drives, then install my programs and place my data on the RAID array. I don't think it really helps much though, because whenever there is heavy I/O on the RAID array, Windows 2000 seems to use all of the CPU for disk access and my application performance just tanks. Guess you need hardware RAID to get a real performance boost.
The software RAID does let me have a single 30GB volume using two 20GB hard drives though, so that is one thing in its favor.
No, it shouldn't. I have been a contractor at HP for about three years now. I was hired with the expectations that the contract would be long-term (somewhere between 'indefinitely' and 'permanent') and that I would not receive the same benefits as HP employees. I accepted these terms -- and still accept them -- and hope to continue my employment as a contractor there for many more years. In fact, in the department I work in, none of the contractors are temporary. We are all in essentially "permanent" positions.
"No wonder SMS (at.50 per message) is used more often."
This boggles my mind. Assuming a voice call consumes a 9600 baud data rate, a 160 character SMS message consumes far less bandwidth than even one second of airtime, even if you factor in protocol overhead. Logically, SMS messages should cost less than one second of airtime; yet this is clearly not the case.
"The fiber optics will probably block UV since they tend to be made out of glass"
Most window glass has a lot of impurities, which is why it's green instead of clear when viewed edge-on (there is a rare and very expensive kind of glass called Starphire, which has much better transparency). I bet the fiber optic stuff is a lot more pure than window glass, or else the data signals would be rather attenuated over a distance. So my guess is that fiber probably doesn't block much UV.
"They then monitor the incoming light level and use the electric lights to balance the difference."
I didn't read TFA, but if you mounted lights in or next to normal skylights, you would lose 50% of the efficiency of the flourescents -- because you'd be using half their light to illuminate the sky above the building. Perhaps you could install reflective louvers that close above the tubes when the electric lights are on, though this adds to the cost and to the things that can break.
On one hand, it seems that "stooping" to the level of spammers seems as evil as the spamming itself.
On the other hand, maybe this is an appropriate response -- fighting fire with fire.
Only time will tell if the cure is worse than the disease... but at the moment, I think it's kind of cool to use the spammers' own tactics against them.
Or it could be a major pain in the neck, like the "reverse-backlit" monochrome Palm PDAs. In dim lighting conditions, you turn on the backlight, right? But instead of the white pixels lighting up, increasing contrast so you can see, the BLACK pixels light up. Now the backlit black pixels are approximately the same luminosity as the unlit white pixels, rendering the display a muddy, unintelligible mess of green and gray.
The older Palm pilots did it right, lighting up the white pixels. This sucked a lot of battery though, since most of the pixels are white; so some genius in his ivory tower got "a real bright idea". I want it to be publicly known that I hate that guy.
"One of the many, many things in life that really, really pisses me off is when I respond to a post, then the OP changes the post to make it look completely different."
That's why you quote their post in yours. Their edits do not change your quoted text, and the validity of your reply is not diminished.
No, the modem does not provide a dial tone. The modem and phone are both "clients", and the phone company is the "server". You need a "server" device such as the Vonage ATA device or the QuickNet Internet LineJack.
I didn't ponder; I knew ASK stands for Amplitude Shift Keying. It's a method of encoding data transmissions over RF (Radio Frequency) or IR (InfraRed).
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Interesting, thanks for the info. I wonder if a colorblind person can get a Sport Pilot license since those do not require a medical certificate?
Actually, aviation already uses red and green lights. IIRC, the left wingtip always has a red light, and the right wingtip has either white or green, I forget which. And certain airports flash an alternating white-green beacon at night.
If you're a colorblind pilot, you're already at a disadvantage. So they might as well makes the lasers color coded too.
"I thought the BBC-TV series was actually pretty good, but apparently I'm the only one that thinks so"
I also really enjoyed the BBC series. Of course, this from someone who also loved "Logans Run" and "Battle Beyond the Stars".
"Did you guys know that Scott Card is a dedicated mormon?"
Yes, but that's not the problem. I no longer read Card because he took the Book of Mormon (essentially a companion to the Bible), made it scifi, and added lots of illicit sex in his "In Memory of Earth" series.
If you want to write about hot, sticky sex, fine -- but do not take religious canon (blatant plagarization) and then betray it's own most basic tenets by using it to promote fornication (hypocrasy, anyone?). I don't care if you believe The Book of Mormon is true or not, how can you respect a man who pulls a stunt like that?
I think you need to post some pictures here to back up you claims.
I've done this on Windows 2000 for some time, and it seems to help. I thought I was clever because I came up with it all by myself, but obviously I was wrong. :)
Another thing I thought would increase performance was creating a software RAID-0 across partitions on two drives, then install my programs and place my data on the RAID array. I don't think it really helps much though, because whenever there is heavy I/O on the RAID array, Windows 2000 seems to use all of the CPU for disk access and my application performance just tanks. Guess you need hardware RAID to get a real performance boost.
The software RAID does let me have a single 30GB volume using two 20GB hard drives though, so that is one thing in its favor.
Godwin's Law.
Well I'll be... crap, you had me going for a minute there. Good one.
"Contracting should be a temporary thing."
No, it shouldn't. I have been a contractor at HP for about three years now. I was hired with the expectations that the contract would be long-term (somewhere between 'indefinitely' and 'permanent') and that I would not receive the same benefits as HP employees. I accepted these terms -- and still accept them -- and hope to continue my employment as a contractor there for many more years. In fact, in the department I work in, none of the contractors are temporary. We are all in essentially "permanent" positions.
In short, contractor != temp.
" Acrobat Reader is the culprit"
Which is why I'm still on 5.0. Seems to be about 3X faster than the latest bloated slug of a program that Adobe released.
"No wonder SMS (at .50 per message) is used more often."
This boggles my mind. Assuming a voice call consumes a 9600 baud data rate, a 160 character SMS message consumes far less bandwidth than even one second of airtime, even if you factor in protocol overhead. Logically, SMS messages should cost less than one second of airtime; yet this is clearly not the case.
Bloody capitalism.
"specifically the PIN Number section"
That's the department over ATM machines with LCD displays, right?
"The fiber optics will probably block UV since they tend to be made out of glass"
Most window glass has a lot of impurities, which is why it's green instead of clear when viewed edge-on (there is a rare and very expensive kind of glass called Starphire, which has much better transparency). I bet the fiber optic stuff is a lot more pure than window glass, or else the data signals would be rather attenuated over a distance. So my guess is that fiber probably doesn't block much UV.
"They then monitor the incoming light level and use the electric lights to balance the difference."
I didn't read TFA, but if you mounted lights in or next to normal skylights, you would lose 50% of the efficiency of the flourescents -- because you'd be using half their light to illuminate the sky above the building. Perhaps you could install reflective louvers that close above the tubes when the electric lights are on, though this adds to the cost and to the things that can break.
"Enclosed areas like fire stairs, toilets, plant rooms will all stay cleaner if lit with natural light."
I'm not trying to be a troll, I just don't get it. How does light affect how dirty things get?
"This sounds like nuclear war, but with keywords."
And without the massive casualties, radiation burns, vomiting, hair loss, and slow, painful death from cancer or immune system failure.
On one hand, it seems that "stooping" to the level of spammers seems as evil as the spamming itself.
On the other hand, maybe this is an appropriate response -- fighting fire with fire.
Only time will tell if the cure is worse than the disease... but at the moment, I think it's kind of cool to use the spammers' own tactics against them.
"Hulk: Quite a good film if you ignore the rabid comic book fans"
What are you smoking?! I thought 'Hulk' was one of the worst movies evar, and I don't even read comic books.
"could be a real boost"
Or it could be a major pain in the neck, like the "reverse-backlit" monochrome Palm PDAs. In dim lighting conditions, you turn on the backlight, right? But instead of the white pixels lighting up, increasing contrast so you can see, the BLACK pixels light up. Now the backlit black pixels are approximately the same luminosity as the unlit white pixels, rendering the display a muddy, unintelligible mess of green and gray.
The older Palm pilots did it right, lighting up the white pixels. This sucked a lot of battery though, since most of the pixels are white; so some genius in his ivory tower got "a real bright idea". I want it to be publicly known that I hate that guy.
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"One of the many, many things in life that really, really pisses me off is when I respond to a post, then the OP changes the post to make it look completely different."
That's why you quote their post in yours. Their edits do not change your quoted text, and the validity of your reply is not diminished.
"editing" --> "edited". (I should have used preview.)
<Nelson>HA-ha!</Nelson>
Obviously, AC reads Piers Anthony... or is that Pier Xanthony?
Augh, I can't believe I said that.
Or even better, allow people to edit posts after they have posted them, just like every other web-based forum I have ever used.
No, the modem does not provide a dial tone. The modem and phone are both "clients", and the phone company is the "server". You need a "server" device such as the Vonage ATA device or the QuickNet Internet LineJack.
I didn't ponder; I knew ASK stands for Amplitude Shift Keying. It's a method of encoding data transmissions over RF (Radio Frequency) or IR (InfraRed).