Does anyone else remember this exact thing happening at the end of the book Idoru by W. Gibson?
Notice of his death was posted on a fan bulletin board and thousands of teenage Japanese girls mobbed the love hotel where it was supposed to have taken place.
Company Profile Wireless Network Helps Yakima County Protect Community The Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network, employing Cisco Aironet(R) technology, is giving law-enforcement agencies in Yakima County, Washington, a high-tech edge in crime prevention and resolution.
Yakima County is the second-largest land area and the seventh-largest population area in Washington state. It ranks first in the nation in the number of fruit trees, was recently ranked the 25th most-livable city in the United States and has also been designated a high-impact drug trafficking area. That inauspicious development was, in part, behind the creation in 2000 of the Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network.
The network consists of a series of antennas and radios arranged in a line-of-sight pattern that transmits and receives encrypted signals. These signals travel from the county courthouse in the city of Yakima southward through the Yakima Valley. The radio signals contain data from a central location that law-enforcement and public-safety agencies can access. This allows the agencies to share information and track lawbreakers throughout the lower valley in real time. The upper valley will be added to the network in the near future.
With five backbone sites in place overlooking the valley, the network reaches police departments in six lower valley communities: Wapato, Toppenish, Zillah, Grandview, Sunnyside, and Granger. County offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are also on the wireless network, and the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are among several other law-enforcement agencies that have expressed interest.
The network's nodes are linked via nearly 30 Cisco Aironet 340 Series wireless bridges. Designed to ensure high-speed, long-range point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless connections between Ethernet networks, these bridges are not deterred by physical barriers or inclement weather, making them ideal for the Pacific Northwest's weather and terrain. Direct sequence spread spectrum technology enables a data rate of 11 Mbps, comparable to that of Category 3 cable.
High Costs Deflated Original Plan Yakima County Technology Services originally designed a frame-relay-based solution but found it would cost thousands of dollars per month, according to George Helton, Director of Technology Services. "Then we came up with a design operating in the 2.4 GHz band. We engineered a wireless network emanating from the Yakima courthouse and using point-to-point aerials and radios to reach 80 miles down the valley. This lets us deliver data to police and other law-enforcement agencies, and it preserves all those thousands of dollars we would otherwise be spending for data circuits," he said.
"As we were implementing this, our radio engineer suggested that we could possibly make our data available to mobile users if we used an omni-antenna at each major backbone site. We did so and have created a wireless network where you can drive at 70 mph while still communicating on the network at 11 Mbps," Helton said. Officers can rapidly access traffic records, police files and other data through links with state and federal agencies. "We also are able to conduct video surveillance, hold network meetings, train Web cameras on officers during stops, and handle all sorts of data applications. The sky's the limit: Anything you can do in your office, you can do at your car."
Access for Mobile Officers Not all law-enforcement agencies on the Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network have extended the wireless network to their vehicles. For some, the network is used exclusively for office work, but most plan to add vehicular capability eventually. Those who have made the network mobile did so by installing Cisco Aironet 340 Series wireless bridges in their patrol cars. The bridges allow officers to ac
I agree whole heartedly! I suggest we put together an email describing spam and asking those idiots (0.1% of us) not to reply to the emails. Hmmm.... but since we don't know who those 0.1% are, let's send the message to the other 99.9% as well. Sound good?
You don't happen to have a mail server we can do this with do you?
What MS is good at is getting people to accept crappy products over better ones
While I'll agree with the general spirit of your post -- I'll take the liberty to reword your last statement. No thanks required.
What MS is good at is getting corporations to accept products that are good enough.
All personal opinions aside, that's really what most companies are looking for. Bleeding edge and best in the market aren't always what purchasing managers are willing to go for.
Want to motivate yourself to work hard to get that desk, er... cube job with the big $$$? Do something that requires physical labor. This isn't to say that most CS grads are adverse to using a little muscle power to get a job done (no carrying your laptop to class doesn't count), but many have no idea how "those blue collar people" work.
Spend some time eliminating things that you won't want to do for the rest of your life and you'll definitely appreciate it when you get that cube job.
Another university professor that's never worked a day outside of academia relishing in the fact that they can "influence students in a way that nobody else can".
Don't get me wrong, there are some amazing profs out there. It's the ones (like this poster) that stay in school and decide to teach simply to avoid the move out of their safe academic environment that piss me off.
Does the term 'practical knowledge' mean anything to you? Oh wait, you said you could also do consulting on the side. Now I understand...
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My guess is that it was a Boblbe-e. Great bags, yet a little expensive.
http://www.boblbee.com
Does anyone else remember this exact thing happening at the end of the book Idoru by W. Gibson?
Notice of his death was posted on a fan bulletin board and thousands of teenage Japanese girls mobbed the love hotel where it was supposed to have taken place.
He Googled for it of course.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao340a p/profiles/lnfyc_cp.htm
Company Profile
Wireless Network Helps
Yakima County Protect Community
The Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network, employing Cisco Aironet(R) technology, is giving law-enforcement agencies in Yakima County, Washington, a high-tech edge in crime prevention and resolution.
Yakima County is the second-largest land area and the seventh-largest population area in Washington state. It ranks first in the nation in the number of fruit trees, was recently ranked the 25th most-livable city in the United States and has also been designated a high-impact drug trafficking area. That inauspicious development was, in part, behind the creation in 2000 of the Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network.
The network consists of a series of antennas and radios arranged in a line-of-sight pattern that transmits and receives encrypted signals. These signals travel from the county courthouse in the city of Yakima southward through the Yakima Valley. The radio signals contain data from a central location that law-enforcement and public-safety agencies can access. This allows the agencies to share information and track lawbreakers throughout the lower valley in real time. The upper valley will be added to the network in the near future.
With five backbone sites in place overlooking the valley, the network reaches police departments in six lower valley communities: Wapato, Toppenish, Zillah, Grandview, Sunnyside, and Granger. County offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are also on the wireless network, and the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are among several other law-enforcement agencies that have expressed interest.
The network's nodes are linked via nearly 30 Cisco Aironet 340 Series wireless bridges. Designed to ensure high-speed, long-range point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless connections between Ethernet networks, these bridges are not deterred by physical barriers or inclement weather, making them ideal for the Pacific Northwest's weather and terrain. Direct sequence spread spectrum technology enables a data rate of 11 Mbps, comparable to that of Category 3 cable.
High Costs Deflated Original Plan
Yakima County Technology Services originally designed a frame-relay-based solution but found it would cost thousands of dollars per month, according to George Helton, Director of Technology Services. "Then we came up with a design operating in the 2.4 GHz band. We engineered a wireless network emanating from the Yakima courthouse and using point-to-point aerials and radios to reach 80 miles down the valley. This lets us deliver data to police and other law-enforcement agencies, and it preserves all those thousands of dollars we would otherwise be spending for data circuits," he said.
"As we were implementing this, our radio engineer suggested that we could possibly make our data available to mobile users if we used an omni-antenna at each major backbone site. We did so and have created a wireless network where you can drive at 70 mph while still communicating on the network at 11 Mbps," Helton said. Officers can rapidly access traffic records, police files and other data through links with state and federal agencies. "We also are able to conduct video surveillance, hold network meetings, train Web cameras on officers during stops, and handle all sorts of data applications. The sky's the limit: Anything you can do in your office, you can do at your car."
Access for Mobile Officers
Not all law-enforcement agencies on the Lower Valley Wireless Public Safety Network have extended the wireless network to their vehicles. For some, the network is used exclusively for office work, but most plan to add vehicular capability eventually. Those who have made the network mobile did so by installing Cisco Aironet 340 Series wireless bridges in their patrol cars. The bridges allow officers to ac
I agree whole heartedly! I suggest we put together an email describing spam and asking those idiots (0.1% of us) not to reply to the emails. Hmmm.... but since we don't know who those 0.1% are, let's send the message to the other 99.9% as well. Sound good?
You don't happen to have a mail server we can do this with do you?
What MS is good at is getting people to accept crappy products over better ones
While I'll agree with the general spirit of your post -- I'll take the liberty to reword your last statement. No thanks required.
What MS is good at is getting corporations to accept products that are good enough.
All personal opinions aside, that's really what most companies are looking for. Bleeding edge and best in the market aren't always what purchasing managers are willing to go for.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM - er... MS.
Turn off html mail for Outlook and help keep them from validating your address through this method.
.reg files of their own and be able to quickly switch between viewing html and plain text mail. taah dahhh!
. 0\ Outlook\Options\Mail]0 1
. 0\ Outlook\Options\Mail]0 0
Place these two keys in
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10
"ReadAsPlain"=dword:000000
OR to turn it back on and view those pretty pictures
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10
"ReadAsPlain"=dword:000000
"Windows hackers extinct! Now if we could only get rid of the generation of script kiddies we've created."
"Goggles: Integrated into the frame of exciting, stylish sports eyewear"
"Stylish" and "geek toys" like this are mutually exclusive aren't they?
Spot on...
Want to motivate yourself to work hard to get that desk, er... cube job with the big $$$? Do something that requires physical labor. This isn't to say that most CS grads are adverse to using a little muscle power to get a job done (no carrying your laptop to class doesn't count), but many have no idea how "those blue collar people" work.
Spend some time eliminating things that you won't want to do for the rest of your life and you'll definitely appreciate it when you get that cube job.
Another university professor that's never worked a day outside of academia relishing in the fact that they can "influence students in a way that nobody else can".
Don't get me wrong, there are some amazing profs out there. It's the ones (like this poster) that stay in school and decide to teach simply to avoid the move out of their safe academic environment that piss me off.
Does the term 'practical knowledge' mean anything to you? Oh wait, you said you could also do consulting on the side. Now I understand...