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Regardless of how specialized the profession is, notes, acronyms, and diagrams should make sense to someone with the same training.
I don't like documenting the specifics of the GRE tunnel or the TCP MSS settings that I set up on our network the other day, but it is documented so that other network engineers would understand what was done, even if the helpdesk personnel don't.
We do have better missiles, and better drones...all flown and developed by the Air Force.
The AF also controls and commands the AFSCN - the Air Force Satellite Control Network, GPS, and much of the ISR satellites. Flying planes is actually very little of what they do.
As a network technician for the Air Force I can say that our shop is often frustrated by the restrictions placed on what software is allowed on our network. We've opened our eyes and seen some awesome opensource applications that we would love to use to manage and monitor our Cisco equipment with (Wireshark was the last application we fought to be able to use).
Understandingly the Information Assurance office has to be able to certify that each and every line of code does not have some backdoor or potential exploit that could be used by a foreign country. With the massive increase of Chinese hacking going on throughout the DoD, it's no wonder that an organic opensource application has a long process to go through before acceptance.
This is nothing new to anyone that has served in the Air Force. The internet filter applied blocks most sites. Most news sites are allowed, but most blogs, sites with profanity, or game sites are blocked. In fact, there are a whole list of reasons why a site can be banned.
Although I hate the stupid filter and how well the administer it, I see the reason for it, besides all the security implications. When you're working, you're supposed to be working. Marines and anyone else deployed get extra pay for doing so. They knew by signing up that deployment was likely. Nobody expects a deployment, especially Iraq, to be Club Med.
The political bias referred to by the original poster doesn't seem accurate either, and if anyone feels that a site that is being blocked should be unblocked they can petition for that site to be unblocked.
Well that could explain the huge rebates that have been coming out lately on all their existing products. After an announcement like that most consumers would be willing to wait for the product to come to market than buy one of their existing products.
Unfortunately I decided to take advantage of the savings and try out a new Tivo system for the first time. A new product such as this though will most likely grow their userbase even more because of the ease of use created by the added features.
'Ear bud' headphones can cause hearing loss, experts warn
Lee Bowman, Associated Press
All those ears ringing from newly gifted iPods and MP3 players may not be able to hear next year's Christmas bells as well if music lovers aren't careful, hearing specialists are warning.
"We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people that's typically found in aging adults,'' said Dean Garstecki, an audiologist and professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
The big culprits aren't the devices themselves, but the tiny "ear bud'' style headphones that the music players use. "Unfortunately, the earbuds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players,'' Garstecki said.
In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, researchers at Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were, the higher their output levels at any given volume-control setting.
And other studies have shown that because the tiny phones inserted into the ears are not as efficient at blocking outside sounds as the cushioned headsets, users tend to crank up the volume to compensate.
"I have an audiologist friend at Wichita State University who actually pulls off earphones of students he sees and asks, in the interest of science, if he could measure the output of the signal going into their heads,'' Garstecki said. Often he finds students listening at 110 to 120 decibels.
"That's a sound level equivalent to measures that are made at rock concerts,'' said Garstecki. "And it's enough to cause hearing loss after only about an hour and 15 minutes.''
A study done by Australian researchers last summer found that about a quarter of iPod users between 18 and 54 years of age listened at volumes sufficient to cause hearing damage.
Moreover, having music players with longer-lasting batteries and more storage capacity encourages people with portable players to listen longer, not giving the ears a chance to recover.
Hearing advocates are pressing for people to turn down the volume. The rule of thumb suggested by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital is to hold the volume of a music player no higher than 60 percent of the maximum, and use it for only about an hour a day.
The National Hearing Conservation Association also recommends that parents try to find audio gear for their kids that have volume-limiting devices built-in.
"If music listeners are willing to turn the volume down further still and use different headphones, they can increase the amount of time that they can safely listen,'' Garstecki said.
The problem here isn't hardware design, it's the element of escapism that so many of the gamers experience. Most ipodders will agree that one of the great attractions to music is the element that you can get "lost" in a good song. The moods that are provoked by a good playlist don't want to get watered down by the outside noises, hence the volume is turned up. Some of the newer headphones like these that I just got here are sony and block out more of the ambient noise allowing a lower volume setting.
The trick here is allowing the mp3's to play through the daily humdrum noise without hurting the ear in the execution.
As an active duty Air Force tech controller I work almost daily with the satellite operators that "fly" the GPS satellites. Some of their systems are more than antiquated, but still function with adequate redundancy built in. Although the lifespan might have been eclipsed the telemetry data recieved by the operators give them the state of health of the satellites which allows them to plan for future launches.
In fact, a newer GPS satellite was just launched weeks ago. As stated before, the DOD has a special spot in their hearts for GPS. The GPS operators get treated extra special because of the US military's reliance on them. There are already plans in place for each satellite to be super-orbited when the time comes and for a new launch to follow.
In other words, if the military isn't worried about it, neither should we be.
At the shop that I work at we have over a thousand circuits that we have to keep track of. Visio not only allows us to keep track of all the equipment, circuit flow, extra data, etc via making simple circuit layout records, but it is also easy enough that only minimal training is needed for new users.
As an added bonus images can be stored and used over and over again so no "drawing" is required.
RTA they didn't pay $300 for Office. They paid $108 for Office and W2k3. Add in the higher cost for good linux admins and compatibility and it really is as easy as 2+2.
IMHO I think you're wrong, as does microsoft. Bill Gates is one of the greatest philanthropists of our time, as he should be, and already has many charities in other areas. Microsoft also funds it's fair share of charitable foundations.
I'm glad that they donated the money the way that they did so that phishers, scammers, spammers, and ID theives can get what's coming to them and I'll be a little safer online.
My favorite was when people would come to the cash register with one product but the upc code of another. It was sometimes blatantly obvious that this was the case when the $180 hard drive they were buying shows $30 Calc on the monitor...
Staples...or pretty much any office store will always run coupons and specials. Call them, find out what they are, what days they are for, and if they can beat out the competitor. Even if they are the lowest price, they go to insane measures to cut the competitor if they are threatened with it because their profit margin is so high and they figure that they will create return business if they get you the first time.
--I just don't know who I want to see get screwed more: Microsoft or Eolas--
It's not just Microsoft who's going to get screwed. They shouldn't care too much about the money anyway. If you don't think this is going to affect Mozilla, Opera, and the rest of the web then you've lost focus of what the article is really all about.
According to his job title (AFSC) he is in the Air Force (which is the most corporate of all the services. And yes, you are right, to join the Army for a tech job he would have to be a sucker.
It seems that licensed developers would only have to mark up open source code a bit, review it, and then implement it in a smaller business setting.
On a national level licensing developers will be a minimal cost.
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Regardless of how specialized the profession is, notes, acronyms, and diagrams should make sense to someone with the same training.
I don't like documenting the specifics of the GRE tunnel or the TCP MSS settings that I set up on our network the other day, but it is documented so that other network engineers would understand what was done, even if the helpdesk personnel don't.
Yes. It's the one that all the other's call crazy. His name is Ron Paul.
We do have better missiles, and better drones...all flown and developed by the Air Force.
The AF also controls and commands the AFSCN - the Air Force Satellite Control Network, GPS, and much of the ISR satellites. Flying planes is actually very little of what they do.
As a network technician for the Air Force I can say that our shop is often frustrated by the restrictions placed on what software is allowed on our network. We've opened our eyes and seen some awesome opensource applications that we would love to use to manage and monitor our Cisco equipment with (Wireshark was the last application we fought to be able to use).
Understandingly the Information Assurance office has to be able to certify that each and every line of code does not have some backdoor or potential exploit that could be used by a foreign country. With the massive increase of Chinese hacking going on throughout the DoD, it's no wonder that an organic opensource application has a long process to go through before acceptance.
Although I hate the stupid filter and how well the administer it, I see the reason for it, besides all the security implications. When you're working, you're supposed to be working. Marines and anyone else deployed get extra pay for doing so. They knew by signing up that deployment was likely. Nobody expects a deployment, especially Iraq, to be Club Med.
The political bias referred to by the original poster doesn't seem accurate either, and if anyone feels that a site that is being blocked should be unblocked they can petition for that site to be unblocked.
Unfortunately I decided to take advantage of the savings and try out a new Tivo system for the first time. A new product such as this though will most likely grow their userbase even more because of the ease of use created by the added features.
'Ear bud' headphones can cause hearing loss, experts warn
Lee Bowman, Associated Press All those ears ringing from newly gifted iPods and MP3 players may not be able to hear next year's Christmas bells as well if music lovers aren't careful, hearing specialists are warning.
"We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people that's typically found in aging adults,'' said Dean Garstecki, an audiologist and professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
The big culprits aren't the devices themselves, but the tiny "ear bud'' style headphones that the music players use. "Unfortunately, the earbuds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players,'' Garstecki said.
In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, researchers at Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were, the higher their output levels at any given volume-control setting.
And other studies have shown that because the tiny phones inserted into the ears are not as efficient at blocking outside sounds as the cushioned headsets, users tend to crank up the volume to compensate.
"I have an audiologist friend at Wichita State University who actually pulls off earphones of students he sees and asks, in the interest of science, if he could measure the output of the signal going into their heads,'' Garstecki said. Often he finds students listening at 110 to 120 decibels.
"That's a sound level equivalent to measures that are made at rock concerts,'' said Garstecki. "And it's enough to cause hearing loss after only about an hour and 15 minutes.''
A study done by Australian researchers last summer found that about a quarter of iPod users between 18 and 54 years of age listened at volumes sufficient to cause hearing damage.
Moreover, having music players with longer-lasting batteries and more storage capacity encourages people with portable players to listen longer, not giving the ears a chance to recover.
Hearing advocates are pressing for people to turn down the volume. The rule of thumb suggested by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital is to hold the volume of a music player no higher than 60 percent of the maximum, and use it for only about an hour a day.
The National Hearing Conservation Association also recommends that parents try to find audio gear for their kids that have volume-limiting devices built-in.
"If music listeners are willing to turn the volume down further still and use different headphones, they can increase the amount of time that they can safely listen,'' Garstecki said.
©2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
The trick here is allowing the mp3's to play through the daily humdrum noise without hurting the ear in the execution.
In fact, a newer GPS satellite was just launched weeks ago. As stated before, the DOD has a special spot in their hearts for GPS. The GPS operators get treated extra special because of the US military's reliance on them. There are already plans in place for each satellite to be super-orbited when the time comes and for a new launch to follow.
In other words, if the military isn't worried about it, neither should we be.
At the shop that I work at we have over a thousand circuits that we have to keep track of. Visio not only allows us to keep track of all the equipment, circuit flow, extra data, etc via making simple circuit layout records, but it is also easy enough that only minimal training is needed for new users. As an added bonus images can be stored and used over and over again so no "drawing" is required.
RTA they didn't pay $300 for Office. They paid $108 for Office and W2k3. Add in the higher cost for good linux admins and compatibility and it really is as easy as 2+2.
IMHO I think you're wrong, as does microsoft. Bill Gates is one of the greatest philanthropists of our time, as he should be, and already has many charities in other areas. Microsoft also funds it's fair share of charitable foundations. I'm glad that they donated the money the way that they did so that phishers, scammers, spammers, and ID theives can get what's coming to them and I'll be a little safer online.
My favorite was when people would come to the cash register with one product but the upc code of another. It was sometimes blatantly obvious that this was the case when the $180 hard drive they were buying shows $30 Calc on the monitor...
So not only does it allow us geeks to explain it all to the nubes, but it helps those of us needing a humidifier too.
Staples...or pretty much any office store will always run coupons and specials. Call them, find out what they are, what days they are for, and if they can beat out the competitor. Even if they are the lowest price, they go to insane measures to cut the competitor if they are threatened with it because their profit margin is so high and they figure that they will create return business if they get you the first time.
Good for Microsoft. Nice to see a move in the right direction.
Hey this is such great news! Can you also let us know about every new song they put up too. Every little bit of iTunes news is just so enthralling!
--I just don't know who I want to see get screwed more: Microsoft or Eolas--
It's not just Microsoft who's going to get screwed. They shouldn't care too much about the money anyway. If you don't think this is going to affect Mozilla, Opera, and the rest of the web then you've lost focus of what the article is really all about.
According to his job title (AFSC) he is in the Air Force (which is the most corporate of all the services. And yes, you are right, to join the Army for a tech job he would have to be a sucker.
It seems simply an obvious statement of fact.
Those that can afford nicer toys are those that usually are smart enough to get better jobs and make more money. Great article...
Too bad their server overload isn't...
Here's the text of the article before the server gets slashdotted:
I also resemble that!
It seems that licensed developers would only have to mark up open source code a bit, review it, and then implement it in a smaller business setting. On a national level licensing developers will be a minimal cost.
This guy is always trolling...Mod Down. Better yet make him your enemy.