You are prolly right, it is just KJI just bluffing, since North Korea has not tested a nuclear weapon.
Let China deal with him, because let's face it, that is where KJI is getting most of the food and weapons for his army from. All China has to do is cut off that, and the problem will solve it's self.
I can't believe this. Is this country going the way of Statinist Russia?
I am looking to buy a home some time next year, areial photographs and satellite photos are needed by my insurance agent to see if I live in a flood plain. If the government restricts access to pictures taken from space or from a plane, what's next I ask? We can't take pictures of the Washington Monument because we might be terrorists? Come on!!
Is this going to also include sat photos of other countries? I travel to Japan a lot, and I like to be able to see some of the country before I get there, and so I know my way around a bit.
This is a complete waste of time, effort, and money. If a terrorist is going to attack, do you think he is going to use a sat photo? Damn doubtful. More like a road map from Rand McNally.
For fear I will steal very sensitive data. The place I work for is in the legal field and all of the data we handle is either public record, or very sensitive. I have no problem with the rule.
I am a 27 year old systems analyst, and since my company doesn't allow mp3 players in here anymore, I and to revert back to using CDs. Here is what is in my CD wallet:
Nirvana's Nevermind, Incesticide, and In Utero
Hum's Electra 2000, You'd Prefer an Astronaut and Downward is Heavenward
REM's Monster (don't ask why)
Helmet "In the Meantime"
The Strokes "The Strokes" and "Room on Fire"
Dave Mathews Band "Under the Table and Dreaming"
Red Hot Chilli Peppers "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan"
THE WHO "Live at Leeds"
The Urge "Magically Delicious"
Foo Fighters "The Colour and the Shape"
Pink Floyd "Dard side of the Moon"
Smashing Pumpkins "Saimese Dream", "Melloncoly and the Infinite Sadness"
Weezer "Pinkerton"
Deftones "Adrenaline", "Around the Fur", "White Pony", and "Deftones"
ok, with that stated, where does that put me in this list? Not an old fart, but not a new geek. Now I am so lost
If he has a social phobia that was severe, why was he in one of the mostly densely populated countries in the world? Just walking in Narita International Airport would have been a major challenge for him.
I work for a litigation support company, i.e. scanning and copying legal stuff. I would call a litigation support company and see what they can do for you. I would suggest someone other than Icon or OmniDocs, because they suck ass and don't do a very good job. A mom and pop kind of place would do a great job, and quality control the scanning to see if all the pages were scanned in and in proper order. And depending on how many pages you have, you could get all of it back on CD in a day or two, making you look like a god. Try that, and if you need suggestions for a good company to help you out let me know.
...for them to think this is a "iPod Killer". It's too big, too heavy, and is in a format that sucks. If anyone buys one of these, they should be beaten about the head with old Win95 floppy install discs.
For the price they are wanting for this device, I would just get a striped down laptop. Or for more money, get a tablet PC. At least then, I can see the video better, and do more than just watch movies or listen to music.
Plus, I wonder what it is going to look like. Anything that big should be painted brick red, becuase, that is how much it is prolly going to weigh. MS needs to just stop, their brains have finally become completely filled with bullcrap, malted hops and bong resin.
I can see this company doing a couple of things different with this device. One, use a different protocol for transmission of the signal. I work in a office where our sales reps are always out when you need them to be here to answer questions. If this device had a hard set IP address, that is routeable, at least if the sales rep was near a hot spot, you could get ahold of them. Also, it would be nice to see some better design with this device. It's isn't huge or anything, but it needs to be stylish, something that this model does lack. Also the ability to encrypt any communication just in case you don't want evesdroppers and script kiddies sniffing your network or hearing what's going on.
Personally, I would like to see a earbud or something, just in case you wife calls you and wants to talk about what she want to do to you when you come home.
Actually, if the power goes out, your cable is still prolly working. Most broadband/cable tv providers power their networks with backups just for that.
There are overtones of "Big Brother" here. With the government subsitizing something like this, of course the NSA or CIA would love this, because they would get in on the buildout of the networks. But hey, what do we have to worry about if we are good people that are not doing anything wrong? I don't care if the government listens in on my phone conversations to friends and family, because I am not doing anything to subvert the government.
The fact remains, most of the hardware and networking tools are already on the market to make this kind of network possible. And if it comes out to be cheaper, I will jump at the chance to have a 10 or 100 mbit connection to my house that carries everything. Plus, all of it on one bill, that is two less checks I have to write out and mail every month.
Why would I want to uncap my cable modem? The people that do this are playing Russian Roulete and eventually, they will shoot themselves in the head. Not to mention piss off the neighbors for slowing down their porn searches.
It is true that cable is capped to control traffic, but usually is it because of the size of the pipe at the headend of the cable line. Most cities have at least a T3 line, some have OC-3, but I haven't heard of anything bigger than that. One ISP I worked for had 4 T1 lines, with only one of them dedicated to cable customers for their broadband.
And if your cable modem was going down 3 or 4 times a week, from experience I would say the cable in your house wasn't up to snuff, or the node that you were connected to with all the other houses in your neighborhood was not powerful enough. And I would agree in that most ISPs' don't do very well with tech support. Most of the people that you will talk to on the phone are salepersons, not techs. If you really want to talk to a tech, most generally, you have to ask for one. TW in the city I live does a pretty good job, but a lot of people in this city can't stand DSL, because SWB didn't do a good job laying out their network.
Either way, we all won't be happy until we get fiber to the house. But even then, we are still going to have problems.
The timing of the release of the new Xbox is very interersting. Almost a year before the PS3, so, maybe M$ is trying to get there money, and still allow PS fans to get a PS3 when they come out. There could be more than meets the eye with this. Plus, not to metion the use of a PPC processor. Maybe that is why M$ fired that guy for the picture of all the Mac G5s' being delievered. But, it's just my oppinion, I am prolly wrong.
I worked for a company that made plastic bags that your newspaper goes in when it is wet out. This place DID NOT have airconditioning, or heating. The machine that cuts the bags uses a heat bar, heated to between 700 to 950 degrees F. I worked on a two machine set, in between these heat bars during the summer in mid Missouri. The average temperature inside the production area during the summer was 130 degrees. To cool off you actually went outside where it was 98 degrees with 90% humidity.
The hottest was a afternoon when the temp hit 143 inside. All but three of the workers when home that night. I wasn't one of them.
But, what can I say, for a summer job in college, the money was great.
Film will not die for at least another 50 years. there are serval facts that play into this. Here they are in no paticular order:
Quality: The best digital camera pictures still have lose when you get into fine detail. And, I don't see gigapixel cameras for at least 15 or 20 years that most people can buy.
Price: Yes, film does have extra cost when it comes to developing, especially black and white film if you don't have a darkroom at home. But, you get a picture that your grandchildren can show their grandchildren. Unless you store a printed picture from a digital camera in a very dark, vaccum container of some sort, the colors will fade faster over time than film (just look at some of the movie posters in some dirt-mall video store).
Different Formats: In the film world, you have a choice of sizes for cameras. You have small (15mm to 35mm) Medium (36mm to 4") and Large(4" plus). Tell me where I can find a large format digital camera right now. A digital that can take a picture with no loss at 11"x17" in size. This is where film will domminate for years to come, the medium and large format cameras. And for you who don't know what a meduim or large format camera is, A Hasselbald is a medium format camera (those are the cameras used for the moon landings.) and large format is what Ansel Adams used for his stunning photos of landscapes.
I am glad that HP isn't going to support WMA format. I am glad that Apple isn't even really considering it. There are so many mp3 players out there and a few online music stores, but HP did it right, and licensed the iPod technology from Apple, and is going to use the iTMS. Plus, I am sure that Carly heard how bad WMA format is. I tried it once, and really, I couldn't believe how horrible it was compared to MP3 at 128, and even at 96!
Now, only if we can get Apple to relize that making OS X for x86 machines would be profitable...maybe HP would be selling OS X on there machines....what a wonderful world that would be..
Wait, you forgot one of the best parts of this defense. After listening to the SCO dribble for months and months on end, and the closing arguments of SCO's, The SUPPOSED jury members heads explode in a large bloody mess. Thus, causing a hung jury, and we have to listen to more SCO bullshit for the next trial.
I like the idea of a weapon that can stop a war-making machine without killing. But what is the long term effects of these kinds of weapons on living tissue? The last time I looked, a microwave pulse with that much power and in the frequency range of 10ghz was closer to gamma radiation. What is the long term canser risk from being exposed to one or two of these devices? What other effects could it have on your ememies civilian population? What about your own soldiers? Can it make you sterle (sp)?
And if it does cause canser, wouldn't this be a bad thing? Your ememy maybe dying, but their relatives and childern would hate you even more, leading to more terrorists attacks.
What if the government did put a small tax on email? Ok, pretty simple plan here. Normal people, send what? about 10 15 emails a week maybe more or less? Well, it is simple fix.
Normal people, no tax for sending less than 15 emails a week. Business, no tax for sending 100 emails a week per employee.
Spammers, well, for your abuse to email servers around the world, you will be charged 1 cent for every email over 200 per day.
I didn't run any numbers, but it would be interesting to see what someone would come up with.
Oh yeah, if I am off with some of my numbers, sorry, I am going from my own personal experience.
This isn't new. I worked for a company here in Kansas City that was doing basicly VoIP three years ago. The customer didn't need a special phone or anything. The company ran their own fiber and heavy coax in the city, the CPE stuff was pretty basic, and was very reliable. It worked much like this: From the cable node or repeater on the telephone pole behind someone's house a new cable was ran (This isn't some Time Warner thing). Then the customer gets a new box put on the back of their house, the NID. The NID did all the frequency splitting and stuff, and has an IP address in it. All we had to do was hook up the already exsisting cable lines that were in the house and telco lines to the NID, and you had VoIP. You even got high speed internet access.
The installing stuff is just the Image Manager (I can't remember the actual name) So you can take out any program or files from the image before you make your "offical" image. It was nice to have if you were rebuilding a friend's computer and didn't want them to see your My Documents folder with all your "special" files.;-)
Eventhough I don't own an iPod, I did some looking and found that if you have one of the older pods, you can order and change out the battery. There are serveral sites with instructions on how to do so. So, point number 1 in the article is mute now, at least if you have an older iPod.
And if you wanted to know what I typed in google to find that out, it was just this: replacing an iPod battery simple enough.
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You are prolly right, it is just KJI just bluffing, since North Korea has not tested a nuclear weapon.
Let China deal with him, because let's face it, that is where KJI is getting most of the food and weapons for his army from. All China has to do is cut off that, and the problem will solve it's self.
I can't believe this. Is this country going the way of Statinist Russia? I am looking to buy a home some time next year, areial photographs and satellite photos are needed by my insurance agent to see if I live in a flood plain. If the government restricts access to pictures taken from space or from a plane, what's next I ask? We can't take pictures of the Washington Monument because we might be terrorists? Come on!! Is this going to also include sat photos of other countries? I travel to Japan a lot, and I like to be able to see some of the country before I get there, and so I know my way around a bit. This is a complete waste of time, effort, and money. If a terrorist is going to attack, do you think he is going to use a sat photo? Damn doubtful. More like a road map from Rand McNally.
Nah, geeks will think of a way to not have to actually throw a punch. Geeks will use the Sony robot to do all the punching for them.
For fear I will steal very sensitive data. The place I work for is in the legal field and all of the data we handle is either public record, or very sensitive. I have no problem with the rule.
I am a 27 year old systems analyst, and since my company doesn't allow mp3 players in here anymore, I and to revert back to using CDs. Here is what is in my CD wallet:
Nirvana's Nevermind, Incesticide, and In Utero
Hum's Electra 2000, You'd Prefer an Astronaut and Downward is Heavenward
REM's Monster (don't ask why)
Helmet "In the Meantime"
The Strokes "The Strokes" and "Room on Fire"
Dave Mathews Band "Under the Table and Dreaming"
Red Hot Chilli Peppers "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan"
THE WHO "Live at Leeds"
The Urge "Magically Delicious"
Foo Fighters "The Colour and the Shape"
Pink Floyd "Dard side of the Moon"
Smashing Pumpkins "Saimese Dream", "Melloncoly and the Infinite Sadness"
Weezer "Pinkerton"
Deftones "Adrenaline", "Around the Fur", "White Pony", and "Deftones"
ok, with that stated, where does that put me in this list? Not an old fart, but not a new geek. Now I am so lost
If he has a social phobia that was severe, why was he in one of the mostly densely populated countries in the world? Just walking in Narita International Airport would have been a major challenge for him.
I work for a litigation support company, i.e. scanning and copying legal stuff. I would call a litigation support company and see what they can do for you. I would suggest someone other than Icon or OmniDocs, because they suck ass and don't do a very good job. A mom and pop kind of place would do a great job, and quality control the scanning to see if all the pages were scanned in and in proper order. And depending on how many pages you have, you could get all of it back on CD in a day or two, making you look like a god. Try that, and if you need suggestions for a good company to help you out let me know.
...for them to think this is a "iPod Killer".
It's too big, too heavy, and is in a format that sucks. If anyone buys one of these, they should be beaten about the head with old Win95 floppy install discs.
For the price they are wanting for this device, I would just get a striped down laptop. Or for more money, get a tablet PC. At least then, I can see the video better, and do more than just watch movies or listen to music.
Plus, I wonder what it is going to look like. Anything that big should be painted brick red, becuase, that is how much it is prolly going to weigh. MS needs to just stop, their brains have finally become completely filled with bullcrap, malted hops and bong resin.
I can see this company doing a couple of things different with this device. One, use a different protocol for transmission of the signal. I work in a office where our sales reps are always out when you need them to be here to answer questions. If this device had a hard set IP address, that is routeable, at least if the sales rep was near a hot spot, you could get ahold of them. Also, it would be nice to see some better design with this device. It's isn't huge or anything, but it needs to be stylish, something that this model does lack. Also the ability to encrypt any communication just in case you don't want evesdroppers and script kiddies sniffing your network or hearing what's going on.
Personally, I would like to see a earbud or something, just in case you wife calls you and wants to talk about what she want to do to you when you come home.
I find that a hostile work environment makes me want to move on. Especially if it is strict deadline driven business like litigation support.
You would think that highly educated lawyers would be better at time management.
Actually, if the power goes out, your cable is still prolly working. Most broadband/cable tv providers power their networks with backups just for that.
There are overtones of "Big Brother" here. With the government subsitizing something like this, of course the NSA or CIA would love this, because they would get in on the buildout of the networks. But hey, what do we have to worry about if we are good people that are not doing anything wrong? I don't care if the government listens in on my phone conversations to friends and family, because I am not doing anything to subvert the government.
The fact remains, most of the hardware and networking tools are already on the market to make this kind of network possible. And if it comes out to be cheaper, I will jump at the chance to have a 10 or 100 mbit connection to my house that carries everything. Plus, all of it on one bill, that is two less checks I have to write out and mail every month.
Why would I want to uncap my cable modem? The people that do this are playing Russian Roulete and eventually, they will shoot themselves in the head. Not to mention piss off the neighbors for slowing down their porn searches.
It is true that cable is capped to control traffic, but usually is it because of the size of the pipe at the headend of the cable line. Most cities have at least a T3 line, some have OC-3, but I haven't heard of anything bigger than that. One ISP I worked for had 4 T1 lines, with only one of them dedicated to cable customers for their broadband.
And if your cable modem was going down 3 or 4 times a week, from experience I would say the cable in your house wasn't up to snuff, or the node that you were connected to with all the other houses in your neighborhood was not powerful enough. And I would agree in that most ISPs' don't do very well with tech support. Most of the people that you will talk to on the phone are salepersons, not techs. If you really want to talk to a tech, most generally, you have to ask for one. TW in the city I live does a pretty good job, but a lot of people in this city can't stand DSL, because SWB didn't do a good job laying out their network.
Either way, we all won't be happy until we get fiber to the house. But even then, we are still going to have problems.
The timing of the release of the new Xbox is very interersting. Almost a year before the PS3, so, maybe M$ is trying to get there money, and still allow PS fans to get a PS3 when they come out. There could be more than meets the eye with this. Plus, not to metion the use of a PPC processor. Maybe that is why M$ fired that guy for the picture of all the Mac G5s' being delievered. But, it's just my oppinion, I am prolly wrong.
I worked for a company that made plastic bags that your newspaper goes in when it is wet out. This place DID NOT have airconditioning, or heating. The machine that cuts the bags uses a heat bar, heated to between 700 to 950 degrees F. I worked on a two machine set, in between these heat bars during the summer in mid Missouri. The average temperature inside the production area during the summer was 130 degrees. To cool off you actually went outside where it was 98 degrees with 90% humidity.
The hottest was a afternoon when the temp hit 143 inside. All but three of the workers when home that night. I wasn't one of them.
But, what can I say, for a summer job in college, the money was great.
Film will not die for at least another 50 years. there are serval facts that play into this. Here they are in no paticular order:
Quality: The best digital camera pictures still have lose when you get into fine detail. And, I don't see gigapixel cameras for at least 15 or 20 years that most people can buy.
Price: Yes, film does have extra cost when it comes to developing, especially black and white film if you don't have a darkroom at home. But, you get a picture that your grandchildren can show their grandchildren. Unless you store a printed picture from a digital camera in a very dark, vaccum container of some sort, the colors will fade faster over time than film (just look at some of the movie posters in some dirt-mall video store).
Different Formats: In the film world, you have a choice of sizes for cameras. You have small (15mm to 35mm) Medium (36mm to 4") and Large(4" plus). Tell me where I can find a large format digital camera right now. A digital that can take a picture with no loss at 11"x17" in size. This is where film will domminate for years to come, the medium and large format cameras. And for you who don't know what a meduim or large format camera is, A Hasselbald is a medium format camera (those are the cameras used for the moon landings.) and large format is what Ansel Adams used for his stunning photos of landscapes.
I am glad that HP isn't going to support WMA format. I am glad that Apple isn't even really considering it. There are so many mp3 players out there and a few online music stores, but HP did it right, and licensed the iPod technology from Apple, and is going to use the iTMS. Plus, I am sure that Carly heard how bad WMA format is. I tried it once, and really, I couldn't believe how horrible it was compared to MP3 at 128, and even at 96!
Now, only if we can get Apple to relize that making OS X for x86 machines would be profitable...maybe HP would be selling OS X on there machines....what a wonderful world that would be..
Well, this is great bathroom reading, if you had a dozen bran muffins this morning, and a Fibercon for lunch.
Wait, you forgot one of the best parts of this defense. After listening to the SCO dribble for months and months on end, and the closing arguments of SCO's, The SUPPOSED jury members heads explode in a large bloody mess. Thus, causing a hung jury, and we have to listen to more SCO bullshit for the next trial.
I like the idea of a weapon that can stop a war-making machine without killing. But what is the long term effects of these kinds of weapons on living tissue? The last time I looked, a microwave pulse with that much power and in the frequency range of 10ghz was closer to gamma radiation. What is the long term canser risk from being exposed to one or two of these devices? What other effects could it have on your ememies civilian population? What about your own soldiers? Can it make you sterle (sp)?
And if it does cause canser, wouldn't this be a bad thing? Your ememy maybe dying, but their relatives and childern would hate you even more, leading to more terrorists attacks.
That is just my view
What if the government did put a small tax on email? Ok, pretty simple plan here. Normal people, send what? about 10 15 emails a week maybe more or less? Well, it is simple fix.
Normal people, no tax for sending less than 15 emails a week.
Business, no tax for sending 100 emails a week per employee.
Spammers, well, for your abuse to email servers around the world, you will be charged 1 cent for every email over 200 per day.
I didn't run any numbers, but it would be interesting to see what someone would come up with.
Oh yeah, if I am off with some of my numbers, sorry, I am going from my own personal experience.
This isn't new. I worked for a company here in Kansas City that was doing basicly VoIP three years ago. The customer didn't need a special phone or anything. The company ran their own fiber and heavy coax in the city, the CPE stuff was pretty basic, and was very reliable. It worked much like this:
From the cable node or repeater on the telephone pole behind someone's house a new cable was ran (This isn't some Time Warner thing). Then the customer gets a new box put on the back of their house, the NID. The NID did all the frequency splitting and stuff, and has an IP address in it. All we had to do was hook up the already exsisting cable lines that were in the house and telco lines to the NID, and you had VoIP. You even got high speed internet access.
The installing stuff is just the Image Manager (I can't remember the actual name) So you can take out any program or files from the image before you make your "offical" image. It was nice to have if you were rebuilding a friend's computer and didn't want them to see your My Documents folder with all your "special" files. ;-)
Eventhough I don't own an iPod, I did some looking and found that if you have one of the older pods, you can order and change out the battery. There are serveral sites with instructions on how to do so. So, point number 1 in the article is mute now, at least if you have an older iPod.
And if you wanted to know what I typed in google to find that out, it was just this:
replacing an iPod battery
simple enough.
hmm...You have some great points, the math doesn't work out right. But, could you tell me where unified string theory plays into this?