Became outdated when my state employment agency moved from touch tone phone reporting to web reporting.
It used to be, in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Oregon, that weekly reporting for the unemployed was done on a complicated touch tone interface. Worse yet, the recession of 2001-2003 made it almost impossible to get through on the phone line on a Sunday morning- the system was completely overwhelmed.
Being an unemployed computer programmer at the time, I wrote a simple little VB6 program that used standard Hayes modem commands to dial the phone, detect busy, redial, then pause appropriately and continue with the script that put in the standard answers.
I really should have made it shareware. I didn't. That was my stupidity. Over 10,000 downloads and 5 years later, Oregon started web reporting as standard.
17 years in the industry and I'm so burned out I no longer do side projects with the efficiency I once did. Heck, I can't even find the energy to clean out my computer room enough to find my X10 interface now that I've got a spare laptop to put the server on again.
No need for that. Unlike Japan, we have *all* the natural and human resources needed to keep creating the highest technological society in the world. Japan has no natural resources to speak of, and in isolation, is only suited to 15th century technology.
So I ask again, why mess with foreign trade when we don't need to? Other than, of course, using up the by-products of the oil industry in bunker oil.
In fact, given traditional Asian morality for governments, I'd expect the norm to become to simply stop shipping food to any such village and enslave whomever survives in the factory. It's what they've been doing for 3000 years.
I live in a 4G area, and T-Mobile actually recommends their new unlimited data plan for people who exceed 5GB. Of course, you've got to get a value plan to get it, but with their new "Bridge to Value" there are all sorts of neat ways to do so.
If he is significantly rural, he might not be running a wifi password at all. My brother's wifi is barely accessible outside of his house, let alone the.75 miles between his house and the nearest public road, so he does not bother with it.
In comparison, I keep a strong wifi password, as I just found out that my wifi is line-of-sight accessible from the picnic pavilion in the park across the street (literally line of sight, the router is in the living room with only a few panes of glass between).
Yes, this. Or better yet, by different crap. These days I'd replace all TVs with either projectors or tablets, depending upon room size. Ryko boxes are nice and cheap (under ~$80) and will save you the cable bill, and there is plenty of video available on the web.
I'd also replace my wired broadband connection at this point with a cellular hot spot I can take with me when the whole family goes on vacation.
Forget single-use media players; Android or iOS phones replace them entirely.
And yes, all of this is available on Craigslist from your friendly neighborhood fence, who stole it from your neighbors.
Add $15 worth of proximity detecting radar to the design, with software interrupt, and that shouldn't be that big of a problem.
OTOH, if my solution is taken seriously, just wait until the local police try to catch a UAV with fouled up communications programmed to play keep-away.
and used to look forward to the end of my allergies every year when the farmers did this: http://www.deq.state.or.us/aq/factsheets/07aq019_field.pdf at least until the city people in Eugene and Salem complained (gee, what part of "don't drive through a dense cloud of smoke" is so hard to understand?!?!?).
When it comes to the smoke from untreated paper (which is really, just finely ground wood mixed with water), it isn't my favorite burning smell, but it's a good sight better than the carcinogenic, oily, black stuff that you get burning plastic.
Huh? Why won't paper in a landfill decay? I've used paper bags cut up as weed blockers in my garden for years, and they are *always* gone by next season (the plus side being that the decaying wood cellulose will help fertilize your garden).
Sounds like from the description (the car accelerated every time he hit the brakes) that he's got a fly-by-wire system, not physical controls- and somehow the cruise control is on the fritz, speeding up when he hit the brakes.
Might be an even worse screw job- for all you know, they're selling the actual energy converter for $5000. We don't know, because all they are selling so far is the CARTRIDGES.
Of course, I also note on their main site that their product is "FAA Approved", which your average can of butane at Walgreen's isn't. Perhaps some extra neaty-keano pressurized can technology is involved for that engineering requirement? Which makes the real product for the cartridges not the fuel, but the containment system?
Ok, so the butane cartridges are available, but the pre-order page isn't up yet at the main site (despite promising to be up over a month ago) and I see nothing on the other link about the actual device to plug the butane cartridges into to convert the butane to electricity.
And even if they are paying customers, what is to stop them from paying $20/seat/year for a Office 365 subscription (no kidding, I need Access for some of my older home applications, was examining licensing on Office, and found I could get 5 Installs for $99/year! Covers my family's main 3 machines plus a couple of friends! And I don't *have* to use the skydrive if I don't want to)?
I suspect this number should be much, much smaller. $150 for a single seat, CD-Rom install license is overpriced *even when you compare Microsoft licenses to other Microsoft Licenses*.
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And a nuclear missile is a 1 million:1 force multiplier. Game set and match.
93 posts and nobody mentioned EDEN! And Atlantis was in the "Atlantic" ocean, duh.
I fear for the education of today's children on mythology. You are all making me feel old.
Most Americans learn to challenge authority. Very few seem to learn to do it INTELLIGENTLY.
Became outdated when my state employment agency moved from touch tone phone reporting to web reporting.
It used to be, in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Oregon, that weekly reporting for the unemployed was done on a complicated touch tone interface. Worse yet, the recession of 2001-2003 made it almost impossible to get through on the phone line on a Sunday morning- the system was completely overwhelmed.
Being an unemployed computer programmer at the time, I wrote a simple little VB6 program that used standard Hayes modem commands to dial the phone, detect busy, redial, then pause appropriately and continue with the script that put in the standard answers.
I really should have made it shareware. I didn't. That was my stupidity. Over 10,000 downloads and 5 years later, Oregon started web reporting as standard.
17 years in the industry and I'm so burned out I no longer do side projects with the efficiency I once did. Heck, I can't even find the energy to clean out my computer room enough to find my X10 interface now that I've got a spare laptop to put the server on again.
No need for that. Unlike Japan, we have *all* the natural and human resources needed to keep creating the highest technological society in the world. Japan has no natural resources to speak of, and in isolation, is only suited to 15th century technology.
So I ask again, why mess with foreign trade when we don't need to? Other than, of course, using up the by-products of the oil industry in bunker oil.
I don't get it. What is so hard about designing these systems as Ad-hoc Wifi instead of whatever method they're currently using?
Given the natural resources of the United States, what makes you think we couldn't do it?
In fact, given traditional Asian morality for governments, I'd expect the norm to become to simply stop shipping food to any such village and enslave whomever survives in the factory. It's what they've been doing for 3000 years.
I live in a 4G area, and T-Mobile actually recommends their new unlimited data plan for people who exceed 5GB. Of course, you've got to get a value plan to get it, but with their new "Bridge to Value" there are all sorts of neat ways to do so.
If he is significantly rural, he might not be running a wifi password at all. My brother's wifi is barely accessible outside of his house, let alone the .75 miles between his house and the nearest public road, so he does not bother with it.
In comparison, I keep a strong wifi password, as I just found out that my wifi is line-of-sight accessible from the picnic pavilion in the park across the street (literally line of sight, the router is in the living room with only a few panes of glass between).
Yes, this. Or better yet, by different crap. These days I'd replace all TVs with either projectors or tablets, depending upon room size. Ryko boxes are nice and cheap (under ~$80) and will save you the cable bill, and there is plenty of video available on the web.
I'd also replace my wired broadband connection at this point with a cellular hot spot I can take with me when the whole family goes on vacation.
Forget single-use media players; Android or iOS phones replace them entirely.
And yes, all of this is available on Craigslist from your friendly neighborhood fence, who stole it from your neighbors.
This is downright funny coming two posts after in slashdot's strange threading method from the guy who wants to use quadcopters to deliver pizzas.
Add $15 worth of proximity detecting radar to the design, with software interrupt, and that shouldn't be that big of a problem.
OTOH, if my solution is taken seriously, just wait until the local police try to catch a UAV with fouled up communications programmed to play keep-away.
OBVIOUSLY a city person then. I actually find the smell of several varieties of burning organics to be quite pleasant, which is why I own one of these babies to flavor my food:
http://www.smokehouseproducts.com/prod_lure_select.cfm?Stock=9900&ProductNo=9900-000-0000
and go to a church that uses one of these occasionally:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurible
and used to look forward to the end of my allergies every year when the farmers did this:
http://www.deq.state.or.us/aq/factsheets/07aq019_field.pdf
at least until the city people in Eugene and Salem complained (gee, what part of "don't drive through a dense cloud of smoke" is so hard to understand?!?!?).
When it comes to the smoke from untreated paper (which is really, just finely ground wood mixed with water), it isn't my favorite burning smell, but it's a good sight better than the carcinogenic, oily, black stuff that you get burning plastic.
Yep. After all, it's pretty conservative to ok gay marriage just to bring in tourist dollars.
Not really. You only need guns if you have something to be scared of.
You like the smell of burning plastic better than the smell of burning paper?
I looked it up and found the problem. What I call a landfill, and what I call a garbage dump, are two entirely different things.
A landfill to me is something that farmers do with garbage to either enhance soil or fill in a ravine.
You're talking commercial garbage dumps, where there is so much garbage that the oxygen level goes down, preventing decomposition.
Huh? Why won't paper in a landfill decay? I've used paper bags cut up as weed blockers in my garden for years, and they are *always* gone by next season (the plus side being that the decaying wood cellulose will help fertilize your garden).
My guess is laziness of Americans is the real cause- both in the questionable research AND the unwashed shopping bags.
Hitler: 6 million deaths
Margaret Sanger: 55 million deaths.
She belongs in the list.
Sounds like from the description (the car accelerated every time he hit the brakes) that he's got a fly-by-wire system, not physical controls- and somehow the cruise control is on the fritz, speeding up when he hit the brakes.
Might be an even worse screw job- for all you know, they're selling the actual energy converter for $5000. We don't know, because all they are selling so far is the CARTRIDGES.
Of course, I also note on their main site that their product is "FAA Approved", which your average can of butane at Walgreen's isn't. Perhaps some extra neaty-keano pressurized can technology is involved for that engineering requirement? Which makes the real product for the cartridges not the fuel, but the containment system?
Ok, so the butane cartridges are available, but the pre-order page isn't up yet at the main site (despite promising to be up over a month ago) and I see nothing on the other link about the actual device to plug the butane cartridges into to convert the butane to electricity.
Looks like Vaporware to me.
And even if they are paying customers, what is to stop them from paying $20/seat/year for a Office 365 subscription (no kidding, I need Access for some of my older home applications, was examining licensing on Office, and found I could get 5 Installs for $99/year! Covers my family's main 3 machines plus a couple of friends! And I don't *have* to use the skydrive if I don't want to)?
I suspect this number should be much, much smaller. $150 for a single seat, CD-Rom install license is overpriced *even when you compare Microsoft licenses to other Microsoft Licenses*.