from the article summary (http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050124/full/05012 4-10.html)
The project's final predictions are based on the 2,017 simulations that were able to mimic the current climate. All predicted temperature rises. Most were about 3.4 C, the average value predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; many were far more severe.
> Apart from Iraq vs. Kuwait, which invasions do you think of? (last 30 years)
How about:
1) Syria into the Golan Heights 2) Israel into the Golan Heights 3) Russia into Afganistan (ok, Russia is on the UN Security Council) 4) Argentina into Falklands
Having their own wallpaper is a VERY minor customization. How many of these people:
Optimized their screen resolution for their hardware and eyesight?
Have set it so any command line window opened opens with more than 25 lines?
Changed it so they can do quick cut and paste with the mouse buttons in command line windows?
Changed it so the mouse wheel scrolls a page at a time, rather than by lines?
Changed IE so that it scrolls quickly, rather than smoothly?
Every one of these changes makes working with the machine more effective. There will be similar mods at the application layer. Again, how many people will have done them? A few....
Am I only earning $20k/year because I don't have the tools to keep required information to hand?
A Palm device that offers internal backup (like the Clie T-425 using MemoryStickBackup aka MSBackup) can be a very cost-effective way of
1) keeping information to hand even when walking long distances and biking to save money 2) looking organized and technical
The second point can matter in landing new possibilities.
You should be able to find one on ebay inexpensively. Make sure to get a 32Mb+ Memory stick for backups, and arrange access to a friend's PC for occasional software installs and extra backups. Keep the memory stick at home, not in the PDA -- that way you won't lose the data.
As far as getting value from it--check out one of those self-improvement books from the library. Put the date the book needs to be back into the Palm, and you won't have any library fines!
"Handwriting was a pain in the ass"
Graffiti is slow, and difficult to do while standing on a train. I have recently acquired a Sony TG50 and love the device. Some recent activities:
Downloading 30+ Word format docs(some up to 150 pages) that make up the user level and internals documentation for new systems management software I am learning. Reading this on the train, tracking required revisions or unanswered questions in TODO items. Details go in via cutting and pasting, or typing away on the keyboard.
Also reading PDFs.
Tracking passwords for 45+ systems in an RSA encrypted store that is backed up daily when I sync
Sending SMS messages using a keyboard, rather than the mobile phone "press three times if really want a letter C"
Reading online newspapers from across the world without the fuss of finding, buying, and throwing them away.
Yes, the Palm market does have momentum. The lower prices of the Zire and similar models is making them more attractive to non-technical consumers. One instance of this is Rymans (a UK office supply chain commonly found in the center of towns), who have recently begun stocking them.
The biggest threat to the overall Palm market is Dell's recent low cost bundle of the Axim. I haven't seen any manufacturer bundling Palms with system purchase...
It is estimated that the 250,000 Microsoft chat rooms worldwide will get two weeks' notice to close down. The company says chat room users will be able to communicate using Microsoft Messenger instead.
Of course, there's a major difference between these two mediums:
In a chatroom, I'm only in that chatroom.
On Microsoft Messenger, I'm in all groups that ever talk to me.
The ability to choose and focus on a single conversation will be lost. At least until people move to other chatrooms.
If they are doing this analysis based on log files, there the first weak point in the analysis. How did mi2g get these logs? Are they from sites where they have been called in *after a breakin*?
If low-bandwidth (and streaming things in gradually) would interest you, check into CDPD. When I was in Manitoba last summer, MTS offered always-on connectivity at $CA 40/month--in places where telephone lines were not available. (IE, very rural.)
There were two drawbacks:
1) Equipment outlay was about $1500 2) Bandwidth was not high. Theoretically 9.6 Kbaud, the higher latency and error rate than a wired connection reduced the throughput.
This is the way I expect WiFi access to evolve. Fee paying (particularly at more than $1/day) WiFi hotspots will only survive in spots with limited access and one landlord like airports.
>Also, the only time this method for reporting error is used at all is when customers are on broadband connections, or in office networks
Office networks? I suspect that the majority of Fortune 1000 have error reporting disabled on their standard disk images. I certainly hope that my bank does...
One of the very common mistakes I find on smaller US sites is the ability pay with a non-US card. Your address verification must allow for a wide variety of addresses.
A second problem is that of allowing non-US shipping addresses for a card that has a US billing address--but that won't apply in your case.
The NIPC (www.nipc.gov) should be addressing these sorts of issues, and working with the individual telecoms companies and customers to make sure their networks are resilient.
I don't think Sean Gorman's future should be in any doubt now. Any graduate school that refused to recognize the end result of his work (evidently a very useful atlas) would have difficultly justifying their stance.
You said "With over 75 Exchange boxes in production..."
If the machine listed above scales so nicely, why don't you add another couple of drives to it so don't run 75 other servers?
> Ummm...I can think of a couple of easy ways to have my number follow me on the circuit-switched network. Cellphone? Call forwarding?
But that's only for call initiation. For it to be fully useful, you need to be able to carry on phone conversations once started. One of the Scandanavian countries has done a good job with this--extending the mobile phone signal down into the subways with dedicated repeaters.
Getting large numbers of sensors in the field in the field is only part of the battle. Once this is done you must
1) Make sure that you're not swapping sensors around. Reading temperature sensors in the shade versus one in the sun will back a huge difference. 2) Calibrate the sensors so the readings are sensible. 0.1 degreees may not sound like much, until you're at the edge of frost formation. 3) Reliably deliver that data to a server. 4) Detect failing sensors. 5) Grant visisibility of the data to only those people who should see it. 6) Raise alerts if things get far out of range. This will often require a model of how things should behave...
and most imporantly 7) Let the users access the gathered data in many ways. For example, the raw temperature may be important--but rate of change even more so. You'll also want to be able to compare different fields, and this year's data against last year's. Graphed versus downloadable, etc.
We've been working on remote sensing for a while, check out www.telegnomic.com.
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from the article summary (http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050124/full/05012 4-10.html)
The project's final predictions are based on the 2,017 simulations that were able to mimic the current climate. All predicted temperature rises. Most were about 3.4 C, the average value predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; many were far more severe.
If the service is running with admin rights that is significant.
> Apart from Iraq vs. Kuwait, which invasions do you think of? (last 30 years)
How about:
1) Syria into the Golan Heights
2) Israel into the Golan Heights
3) Russia into Afganistan (ok, Russia is on the UN Security Council)
4) Argentina into Falklands
There is a UK variant of the software described that has been up and running for a while.
http://www.locustworld.com/
I've not compared the two solutions.
as many songs as they want each month for $9.95.
Check out online radio from MusicMatch. It cost less, and it works nicely.
I am a happy subscriber.
- Optimized their screen resolution for their hardware and eyesight?
- Have set it so any command line window opened opens with more than 25 lines?
- Changed it so they can do quick cut and paste with the mouse buttons in command line windows?
- Changed it so the mouse wheel scrolls a page at a time, rather than by lines?
- Changed IE so that it scrolls quickly, rather than smoothly?
Every one of these changes makes working with the machine more effective. There will be similar mods at the application layer. Again, how many people will have done them? A few....Ask instead the opposite question:
Am I only earning $20k/year because I don't have the tools to keep required information to hand?
A Palm device that offers internal backup (like the Clie T-425 using MemoryStickBackup aka MSBackup) can be a very cost-effective way of
1) keeping information to hand even when walking long distances and biking to save money
2) looking organized and technical
The second point can matter in landing new possibilities.
You should be able to find one on ebay inexpensively. Make sure to get a 32Mb+ Memory stick for backups, and arrange access to a friend's PC for occasional software installs and extra backups. Keep the memory stick at home, not in the PDA -- that way you won't lose the data.
As far as getting value from it--check out one of those self-improvement books from the library. Put the date the book needs to be back into the Palm, and you won't have any library fines!
Graffiti is slow, and difficult to do while standing on a train. I have recently acquired a Sony TG50 and love the device. Some recent activities:
- Downloading 30+ Word format docs(some up to 150 pages) that make up the user level and internals documentation for new systems management software I am learning. Reading this on the train, tracking required revisions or unanswered questions in TODO items. Details go in via cutting and pasting, or typing away on the keyboard.
- Also reading PDFs.
- Tracking passwords for 45+ systems in an RSA encrypted store that is backed up daily when I sync
- Sending SMS messages using a keyboard, rather than the mobile phone "press three times if really want a letter C"
- Reading online newspapers from across the world without the fuss of finding, buying, and throwing them away.
AlanYes, the Palm market does have momentum. The lower prices of the Zire and similar models is making them more attractive to non-technical consumers. One instance of this is Rymans (a UK office supply chain commonly found in the center of towns), who have recently begun stocking them.
The biggest threat to the overall Palm market is Dell's recent low cost bundle of the Axim. I haven't seen any manufacturer bundling Palms with system purchase...
or at the very least off-topic.
Yes, insuring that the root servers are well spread across the continents makes sense. Latency is one reason.
Of course, there's a major difference between these two mediums:
- In a chatroom, I'm only in that chatroom.
- On Microsoft Messenger, I'm in all groups that ever talk to me.
The ability to choose and focus on a single conversation will be lost. At least until people move to other chatrooms.If they are doing this analysis based on log files, there the first weak point in the analysis. How did mi2g get these logs? Are they from sites where they have been called in *after a breakin*?
The road still supports your car from falling into the center of the earth even if there are no toll booths or satellite billing systems.
This is a toll *enforcement* system. Or maybe a toll *collection* system...
If low-bandwidth (and streaming things in gradually) would interest you, check into CDPD. When I was in Manitoba last summer, MTS offered always-on connectivity at $CA 40/month--in places where telephone lines were not available. (IE, very rural.)
There were two drawbacks:
1) Equipment outlay was about $1500
2) Bandwidth was not high. Theoretically 9.6 Kbaud, the higher latency and error rate than a wired connection reduced the throughput.
This is the way I expect WiFi access to evolve. Fee paying (particularly at more than $1/day) WiFi hotspots will only survive in spots with limited access and one landlord like airports.
>Also, the only time this method for reporting error is used at all is when customers are on broadband connections, or in office networks
Office networks? I suspect that the majority of Fortune 1000 have error reporting disabled on their standard disk images. I certainly hope that my bank does...
One of the very common mistakes I find on smaller US sites is the ability pay with a non-US card. Your address verification must allow for a wide variety of addresses.
A second problem is that of allowing non-US shipping addresses for a card that has a US billing address--but that won't apply in your case.
The NIPC (www.nipc.gov) should be addressing these sorts of issues, and working with the individual telecoms companies and customers to make sure their networks are resilient. I don't think Sean Gorman's future should be in any doubt now. Any graduate school that refused to recognize the end result of his work (evidently a very useful atlas) would have difficultly justifying their stance.
You said "With over 75 Exchange boxes in production..." If the machine listed above scales so nicely, why don't you add another couple of drives to it so don't run 75 other servers?
> Ummm...I can think of a couple of easy ways to have my number follow me on the circuit-switched network. Cellphone? Call forwarding? But that's only for call initiation. For it to be fully useful, you need to be able to carry on phone conversations once started. One of the Scandanavian countries has done a good job with this--extending the mobile phone signal down into the subways with dedicated repeaters.
Until a plane flies overhead and knocks your mobile phone off the air as it's dependent on a WiFi connection.
I'm cabled today in instead of using the wireless right now as planes flying overhead do disrupt my WiFi--something I never expected.
Getting large numbers of sensors in the field in the field is only part of the battle. Once this is done you must
1) Make sure that you're not swapping sensors around. Reading temperature sensors in the shade versus one in the sun will back a huge difference.
2) Calibrate the sensors so the readings are sensible. 0.1 degreees may not sound like much, until you're at the edge of frost formation.
3) Reliably deliver that data to a server.
4) Detect failing sensors.
5) Grant visisibility of the data to only those people who should see it.
6) Raise alerts if things get far out of range. This will often require a model of how things should behave...
and most imporantly
7) Let the users access the gathered data in many ways. For example, the raw temperature may be important--but rate of change even more so. You'll also want to be able to compare different fields, and this year's data against last year's. Graphed versus downloadable, etc.
We've been working on remote sensing for a while, check out www.telegnomic.com.