The nice thing that I can do is settle credit card transactions online instead of over a modem, which cuts the settlement time from about 20-30 seconds to about 2 seconds.
At my previous job (IT for a Chain Store), I spent a month replacing the 9600 baud modems with higher speed networking(Frame Relay) and we went from 30 second Credit card transactions to about 8 seconds. the frame relay went back to the main office and from there we had a reletively high speed connection of some sort to validate the credit cards with. I'm not sure what they were using for it as only the Network admin was allowed to work with or know about that line. anyhow my point is that there was no way that anyone from the internet could hack and steal credit card numbers and I hope that there is some sort of security in the way you transmit over the community wireless.
Glucometers for Diabetes are the same way, in a lot of cases the companies Give the meters away because they know that they have you trapped buying the test strips for $50.00 for a bottle of 25.
Are you a kid? Does your microwave oven belong to your parents? If so, then don't even THINK about trying any of these experiments. I'm serious. If I wreck my microwave oven, I can buy another. Also, I'm a professional electrical engineer. I know enough physics and RF effects to take correct safety precautions when I'm experimenting. But you don't know the precautions, so you should be smart: read and enjoy my writing, but don't duplicate my tests unless you grow up to become an electronics tech, engineer, etc., and buy your OWN microwave oven.
hmm familiar
Please try to keep Microwave experiments on topic.
Try to Learn from other people's Mistakes instead of Making your own. .........
Build a foil Protector cup for your reproductive organs before attempting these experiments!
I think that this is a bad analogy, as I have seen hard core Java apps that are less than 70k in size (Think Embeded cell phone/PDA apps) thats not an SUV. This guy hates SUV's and he Hates Java so he has equated them. Automatically makes this a bad analogy and more of a rant. In fact In my experience there is not a lot in this life that makes a good analogy to software engineering
Personally I dislike Java, Mainly for its unpredictable garbage collection and all the issues listed in the other comments above dealing with incompatable JVM's,deprecation etc, etc, etc.
And I have had some rough experiences in mixing Java with Reused Legacy Code in Other Languages(Situations where Management,Customer and 3'rd Party Vendors don't give a lot of choice as to waht languages you can use)
What really scares me is that there is a big push for a real-time Java for the military in hopes that Ada can be replaced with Java: Java in Mil Article J-Consortium JCP
Could be that it does, but since most Of my Business trips take me from NYS to Much warmer Climes, dressing this way also helps my body adjust to the difference in temperatures faster. Especially in the winter and I have yet to be on a flight during the winter where the heat wasn't turned up so high in the plane that it was hard not to feel sick.
From the SNNS licensing terms: SNNSv4.1 is available NOW free of charge for research purposes under a...
LGPL(Joone's Licensing) is a VERY attractive License for commercial users, "free for research purposes" would preclude some from being able to use it,
other wise I agree this Joone seems to have less features/algorithm support than SNNS
through Security wearing Metal Collar Stays, or at least remember to take them off before walking through the detector, but as they are Kinda pointy youll probably lose them anyway
Also If you are a female passenger Never wear an underwire bra, My wife and several female co-workers were pulled aside on several occasions for a firm patting down by a female security worker for setting off the detectors and wands.
Although I have to say it is somewhat amusing to watch a germ-o-phobic person trying to keep there bare/sock feet off the floor when their shoes are being checked, and I can laugh as I seem to get flagged for Super Secret Squirrel Security Every almost every Business trip...I've just taken to traveling in sandels and light loose fitting Jogging-wear...
happens so often its only a matter of time before it really hurts someone:
First, technicians from another satellite program... removed the bolts...without proper documentation. several programs I have worked on have had near accidents because parts were "borrowed" without redtags being applied.
Second, the NOAA team working today failed to follow the procedure to verify the configuration of the NOAA "turn over cart" since they had used it a few days earlier.
Complacency(sp?) Happens way to often in every job environment. And it takes a lot of discipline to force yourself to follow the procedures everytime day in/day out and beyond.
The article says that the treatment is for type 2 Diabetics, I wonder if a type 1 diabetic like me could use the Lizard spit to take less injections, for example I take a Large dose of the Lantus 24 hour insulin to keep my base insulin levels up and I take humalog at meals, maybee I could replace the lantus dose with the Lizard spit derivative. Iether that or I just get a pet lizard and let it bite me on a daily basis and see how it goes;)
Therefore, issues of ethics and morality do not apply to them.
Maybee the issues of ethics and morality(IOEAM) dont apply to the nano-beings quite yet, However the IOEAM do apply to the human beings in charge of devising ways to use these devices. While they are not nano devices look at the uproar over RFID tags in retail stores, same thing is going to happen. We need to instill some responsibility in the people who come up with uses for new technology. To summarize you are correct, IOEAM should never apply to the technology itself but is to be applied to the users and creators of the technology.
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already/.ed
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
Not necessarily Tech but cool anyway:
Niagra Falls (From the Canadian and/or American Sides)
Any power dams/plants that Still Offer Tours(rarer since 9/11)
If you're in the real "Upstate NY" check out the St. Lawrence SeaWay:
Alexandria Bay - 1000 islands Boldt Castle Tour
Massena - THe Eisenhower(sp?) and Snell Locks
Massena the Long Sault Dam and Robert Moses Power Dam
The Adirondack Mountains - Lake Placid area: You can ride the Olympic Bobsled&Luge runs for a fee. The adirondack/Lake Champlain area has a lot of natural and historic sites.
Go Skating on the Canals in Ottawa, Canada....this makes for an awsome way to spend the day!
Any New England Lobster Festivals
Finger lakes(NY) or California Wine Regions
Any Pacific Beaches in Central California
and not to be morbid or anything but WTC-Ground Zero, SHould be on everyones list to see as should Pearl Harbor(although not feasible by backpacking),
Just some places I've been that have inspired me
They were 68008's and 68012's I believe although I haven't worked with many of those products Since I have Worked here in "upstate"!? NY at what used to be the Mother Link and is now a sad ghostly shell of what it once was. But the Link Advanced Products Division, Produced some awsome documents, I haven't seen the one you have referferenced but I found a copy of the Engineering Handbook they produced while cleaning out a cube so I could work in it, It is a treasure trove of info.
You could try LyX (www.lyx.org) as a front end to LaTeX. Or try the venerable Lotus Word Pro(LWP) the formula tool was awsome!, I used LWP to write the reports for my Junior and Sophmore Labs till senior lab came along and required LaTeX, and I could run circles around all the other punks tring to make do with MS Word's formula tool(bleah!).
The US $ is at Historic lows because it is no longer backed by Gold and silver (precious metal backing ended in 1969), basically the US $ is following the pattern of every other currency that stopped backing itself with gold and silver...etc, down the drain! And IANAE (I am Not an Economist) but doesnt doing things to stimulate the US economy and not the economies of every other country in the world make some sense???
THis would probably backfire and people would become even more obese as now all they would do is stay home and watch TV. Seriously, have you ever been to a Government housing complex where the majority of the people have no cars?? There is usually a store within a block or 2 of the Complex so that people really dont have to walk that far and Comparatively speaking the people in these complexes tend to be a lot more obese on average than people living in an area where the majority of people have cars.
The other insidious side affect of "slapping on a huge tax increase" to gasoline is to really hurt the economy...especially businesses that run fleets of vehicles, and it really hurts the average Joe in the rural areas where many people may be commuting long distances to get to work (there is no public transportation system in the sticks--I know first hand I grew up in the sticks).
Taxation is never the answer cause there is no such thing as our Gvmt. "living within their means" especially in NYS
And as for pollution why aren't the car manufactures being given huge incentives to make the 100+mpg engines? and to make the Hybrid cars more affordable?? I would love a hybrid, just cant afford it.
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My thought was Natural language Processing?
The nice thing that I can do is settle credit card transactions online instead of over a modem, which cuts the settlement time from about 20-30 seconds to about 2 seconds.
At my previous job (IT for a Chain Store), I spent a month replacing the 9600 baud modems with higher speed networking(Frame Relay) and we went from 30 second Credit card transactions to about 8 seconds. the frame relay went back to the main office and from there we had a reletively high speed connection of some sort to validate the credit cards with. I'm not sure what they were using for it as only the Network admin was allowed to work with or know about that line.
anyhow my point is that there was no way that anyone from the internet could hack and steal credit card numbers and I hope that there is some sort of security in the way you transmit over the community wireless.
I agree this should not have been informative...I was just giving an example of yet another industry that does this ...LOL
Glucometers for Diabetes are the same way, in a lot of cases the companies Give the meters away because they know that they have you trapped buying the test strips for $50.00 for a bottle of 25.
Are you a kid? Does your microwave oven belong to your parents? If so, then don't even THINK about trying any of these experiments. I'm serious. If I wreck my microwave oven, I can buy another. Also, I'm a professional electrical engineer. I know enough physics and RF effects to take correct safety precautions when I'm experimenting. But you don't know the precautions, so you should be smart: read and enjoy my writing, but don't duplicate my tests unless you grow up to become an electronics tech, engineer, etc., and buy your OWN microwave oven.
... ... ...
hmm familiar
Please try to keep Microwave experiments on topic.
Try to Learn from other people's Mistakes instead of Making your own.
Build a foil Protector cup for your reproductive organs before attempting these experiments!
I think that this is a bad analogy, as I have seen hard core Java apps that are less than 70k in size (Think Embeded cell phone/PDA apps) thats not an SUV. This guy hates SUV's and he Hates Java so he has equated them. Automatically makes this a bad analogy and more of a rant. In fact In my experience there is not a lot in this life that makes a good analogy to software engineering
Personally I dislike Java, Mainly for its unpredictable garbage collection and all the issues listed in the other comments above dealing with incompatable JVM's,deprecation etc, etc, etc. And I have had some rough experiences in mixing Java with Reused Legacy Code in Other Languages(Situations where Management,Customer and 3'rd Party Vendors don't give a lot of choice as to waht languages you can use)
What really scares me is that there is a big push for a real-time Java for the military in hopes that Ada can be replaced with Java:
Java in Mil Article
J-Consortium
JCP
Could be that it does, but since most Of my Business trips take me from NYS to Much warmer Climes, dressing this way also helps my body adjust to the difference in temperatures faster. Especially in the winter and I have yet to be on a flight during the winter where the heat wasn't turned up so high in the plane that it was hard not to feel sick.
From the SNNS licensing terms:
SNNSv4.1 is available NOW free of charge for research purposes under a...
LGPL(Joone's Licensing) is a VERY attractive License for commercial users, "free for research purposes" would preclude some from being able to use it,
other wise I agree this Joone seems to have less features/algorithm support than SNNS
I would suspect that if this project is useful enough as it progresses more al-gore-ithms will be added to it
through Security wearing Metal Collar Stays, or at least remember to take them off before walking through the detector, but as they are Kinda pointy youll probably lose them anyway
Also If you are a female passenger Never wear an underwire bra, My wife and several female co-workers were pulled aside on several occasions for a firm patting down by a female security worker for setting off the detectors and wands.
Although I have to say it is somewhat amusing to watch a germ-o-phobic person trying to keep there bare/sock feet off the floor when their shoes are being checked, and I can laugh as I seem to get flagged for Super Secret Squirrel Security Every almost every Business trip...I've just taken to traveling in sandels and light loose fitting Jogging-wear...
happens so often its only a matter of time before it really hurts someone:
First, technicians from another satellite program... removed the bolts...without proper documentation.
several programs I have worked on have had near accidents because parts were "borrowed" without redtags being applied. Second, the NOAA team working today failed to follow the procedure to verify the configuration of the NOAA "turn over cart" since they had used it a few days earlier.
Complacency(sp?) Happens way to often in every job environment. And it takes a lot of discipline to force yourself to follow the procedures everytime day in/day out and beyond.
The article says that the treatment is for type 2 Diabetics, I wonder if a type 1 diabetic like me could use the Lizard spit to take less injections, for example I take a Large dose of the Lantus 24 hour insulin to keep my base insulin levels up and I take humalog at meals, maybee I could replace the lantus dose with the Lizard spit derivative. Iether that or I just get a pet lizard and let it bite me on a daily basis and see how it goes ;)
Therefore, issues of ethics and morality do not apply to them.
Maybee the issues of ethics and morality(IOEAM) dont apply to the nano-beings quite yet, However the IOEAM do apply to the human beings in charge of devising ways to use these devices. While they are not nano devices look at the uproar over RFID tags in retail stores, same thing is going to happen. We need to instill some responsibility in the people who come up with uses for new technology. To summarize you are correct, IOEAM should never apply to the technology itself but is to be applied to the users and creators of the technology.
what if the toilets had those damned IR Motion detectors to flush...that would be a problem in a power outage
Thank you sir, its been a while since I have read the story
Dr. Jeckle(sp?) and Mr. Hyde isn't too far fetched after all. The "formula" Jeckle drinks to become Hyde simple turns on the alternate DNA sequence.
From the article:
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;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.
oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.
here's text as its already
Materials:case_closed
* 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
* 1 GPS receiver.
* 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
* 1 dewalt drill case.
* 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
* dallop of contact cement
* little bit of velcro.
* a bunch of speedy rivets.
* 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
* 1 duplex receptacle.
* nothing better todo on a weekend
case open Assembly:
Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).
Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table
Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.
To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)
The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.
Technical:
The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.
Someone Mod parent up! , This is an extremely salient point!
Oh yeah , almost forgot...The Museum of Science and Technology and Museum of Civilization in Ottawa are great.
Niagra Falls (From the Canadian and/or American Sides)
Any power dams/plants that Still Offer Tours(rarer since 9/11)
If you're in the real "Upstate NY" check out the St. Lawrence SeaWay:
- Alexandria Bay - 1000 islands Boldt Castle Tour
- Massena - THe Eisenhower(sp?) and Snell Locks
- Massena the Long Sault Dam and Robert Moses Power Dam
The Adirondack Mountains - Lake Placid area: You can ride the Olympic Bobsled&Luge runs for a fee. The adirondack/Lake Champlain area has a lot of natural and historic sites.Go Skating on the Canals in Ottawa, Canada
Any New England Lobster Festivals
Finger lakes(NY) or California Wine Regions
Any Pacific Beaches in Central California
and not to be morbid or anything but WTC-Ground Zero, SHould be on everyones list to see as should Pearl Harbor(although not feasible by backpacking),
Just some places I've been that have inspired me
They were 68008's and 68012's I believe although I haven't worked with many of those products Since I have Worked here in "upstate"!? NY at what used to be the Mother Link and is now a sad ghostly shell of what it once was. But the Link Advanced Products Division, Produced some awsome documents, I haven't seen the one you have referferenced but I found a copy of the Engineering Handbook they produced while cleaning out a cube so I could work in it, It is a treasure trove of info.
You could try LyX (www.lyx.org) as a front end to LaTeX. Or try the venerable Lotus Word Pro(LWP) the formula tool was awsome!, I used LWP to write the reports for my Junior and Sophmore Labs till senior lab came along and required LaTeX, and I could run circles around all the other punks tring to make do with MS Word's formula tool(bleah!).
The US $ is at Historic lows because it is no longer backed by Gold and silver (precious metal backing ended in 1969), basically the US $ is following the pattern of every other currency that stopped backing itself with gold and silver...etc, down the drain! And IANAE (I am Not an Economist) but doesnt doing things to stimulate the US economy and not the economies of every other country in the world make some sense???
That is an extremely perceptive observation!! I hadn't thought of it that way!
The other insidious side affect of "slapping on a huge tax increase" to gasoline is to really hurt the economy...especially businesses that run fleets of vehicles, and it really hurts the average Joe in the rural areas where many people may be commuting long distances to get to work (there is no public transportation system in the sticks--I know first hand I grew up in the sticks).
Taxation is never the answer cause there is no such thing as our Gvmt. "living within their means" especially in NYS
And as for pollution why aren't the car manufactures being given huge incentives to make the 100+mpg engines? and to make the Hybrid cars more affordable?? I would love a hybrid, just cant afford it.