Personally, I have a home network and use it as a hobby shop, but when I want to earn some dough, I teach.
I get out and teach dance that is. I also teach some IT stuff, but I mostly teach Lindy Hop. It's a lot of fun and a total departure from the daily grind of the IT world. Besides, it's probably the only way some of us IT guys are going to be able to hold a girl that close. *GRIN*
At least this applied to commercial vehicles instead of cars like the article said. Maybe I can get a little credit for that, and also getting my tech news from somewhere other than slashdot.
Also, the scenario in the article was fantasy. The reality is exactly what I described in my post. It was also in the article, but it appears it was overshadowed by those who read the first two paragraphs and considered it enough to claim they RTFA.
Recently on one of the cable channels, they had a program about an auto show in Hannover (I think). It wasn't your usual auto show with Daisy Duke and plastic shells of cars with no engine. Rather for commercial vehicles. There was a lot of cool stuff out there, and one thing in particular which caught my attention was the "auto-driving" bus from Mercedes Benz.
The bus has sensors to keep it in the lane. Basically, a camera or two kept an "eye" on the lane lines, and if the bus moved too close to the other lane without a turn signal indicating a switch to that lane, it either sounded an alarm or made a correction. I think it could also detect an emergency manouver and didn't counter that effort. The latter portion may be pure speculation though.
It also had a very cool feature I'd like to see on cars. It had a cruise control with a function to maintain following distance. You set your speed and follow distance, then let it do the work. If you got cut off, it wouldn't overreact, rather gradually open the distance. Now, if the drivers here in the US could master these concepts, it would be a lot nicer. Screw master...how about just occastionally recognize and follow them?
(The concepts were maintaining distance, not jamming on the brakes, and using turn signals.)
Any way you slice it - no pun intended - System X is still
a LOT cheaper, even if you allot, say $2M for professional installation and systems integration - an EXTREMELY liberal estimate, probably by an order of magnitude.
I'd like to thank you for being the first person in/. history to correctly use the words/phrases "allot" and "a lot" in a post on the site. Twogether on an single runon sentense. Uhmayzeng. =-)
Tongue in cheek - instructions for the humor impaired.
I know what this guy's feeling right now as I went through something similar.
I was driving my car down Wisconsin Ave. in Washington DC. I was just north of Georgetown, or possibly just in Georgetown, when I was coming down a hill at about 40 m.p.h. I hit the brakes to slow since there was a red light ahead. The car didnt' slow more than about 5 m.p.h. I put the car in neutral (manual tranny), let off the brakes and hit them again with no braking resulting from my actions.
I pulled up the emergency brake and made a quick right turn at the bottom of the hill just as the light changed to green. At this point, the brakes worked fine.
I went directly to the dealership and had them check the braking system. They weren't able to find any malfunction at all. The problem hasn't happened again. It took nearly three years for it to happen the first time. I certianly hope it doesn't happen again.
Nevertheless, I know what the guy is going through. I know my car wasn't braking. I'm certain I had my foot on the brake. I know the car was put into neutral. I know the car didn't slow and that the brake pedal didn't go all the way to the floor.
I suspect theere was a malfuction in the ABS. I think the bumps in the road caused the wheel to think it was about to slide so the braking system dropped the pressure to the wheels. The ABS didn't recalibrate after that during this harrowing experience. Had it functioned properly (in my opinion), it would have noted the first bump, adjusted the braking force, recalibrated with the new speed, adjusted the braking force as necessary. It failed at that task.
The car is a Mazda Protegé5 in case you were wondering. I plan on taking any car I test drive down that section of Wisconsin Ave. to see how the ABS works.
I'm a Green, and have been since I was introduced to the ideology in Germany. After my return to the US, I was happy to find the Green party growing, although not to the level we had in the Old World.
Recently, I took the test at Political Compass, and you came in as a great match for me. I wasn't surprised at all. I've often held firm to the Green ideal. I was happy to see the Greens here were similar to the party in Germany.
Then, I saw the 3rd Party Debates on C-Span. You came across as bitter, mean, and just plain angry. I can understand your anger, but presentation is key and after seeing that display, I was almost ashamed.
Were you instructed to come across that way? Did your consultants direct you to come across as an angry bitter person? Hopefully you'll change your personal presentation. It really drives people away. I was completely turned away from the party although I still hold the ideals. I'm experiencing a real Catch 22 here.
Also, a change in frequency and a change in frequency in relation to time are two different things.
The frequency changes from n to n+?. It's not talking about the rate of change. Had it been the rate of change, then you'd be correct. Also, my original post takes that possibility into account.
So we're not talking about a Doppler shift. We're talking about two (or more different frequencies).
So, for a mere extra $47, can you halve the size of your hard drive? Also, is that "shared DDR SDRAM" sharing with the video card? That doesn't seem like a very good deal to me.
Nice try, though. I'll give you credit for getting just under the wire even if you skimped on some of the specs. More money for less computer. Who would have thought Dell would come up with that. *GRIN*
I find it amazing and certainly think someone should alert the NIMH. Software and hardware are each capable of EMOTIONS! Not just that, but complex ones at that. Who knew my little hunk of plastic, silicon, and metal would be so insecure? Is it because of my incessant banging away on the keyboard? Am I touching the mouse inappropriately? How do you tell?
I'd bet it's when I'm taping out the BPM for the music loaded on the drive. It has to be like the Chinese water torture. Poor little computer.
Please, let us make amends. I'm offering a sincere apology and promise to do what I can in the future to keep you from feeling battered and furthering your feelings of insecurity.
Good thing I've got all your patches up to date, or you might find strangers abusing you from far away locations. I'd never let you have such unsecured access. It' would only lead to more insecurity.
I have yet to be told I wasn't allowed to change seats on an aircraft. The last flight I took, both to and from my destination, I was in a seat other than the assigned one. The time before that, my girlfriend changed seats on the return flight to be able to sit with me.
Changing seats is very common on flights where seats are still open. It's also common when a "couple" gets divided and the nice passenger between them switches seats.
If you notice, the flight attendant doesn't check roll. A head count is all. They want to be certain they didn't leave anyone or add anyone. If the numbers are correct, all's well.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the US fight WITH the British against the French and Indians in the French and Indian War before the American Revolution?
It was my understanding, which again, please correct me if I'm wrong, a lot of the reason for taxes being jacked up on the colonists in the new world was because the crown needed to pay for the war.
I'm not against the point you're trying to make, as I lean left and agree with the spirit of what you're saying. However, the continental army in cahoots with the red coats, fought together before the revolution where the French were on the side of the colonists and the Brits had to get the Germans (Hessians I believe) to help.
After all, I was insecure for years from my pre-teen through mid-teen years. Finally, I got over the problem and became an egomaniac. Some day I hope to take over the world. First I need to build a "laser" on my "death star".
The software is provided WITH the iPod. When you get your iNquiry stuff, it's delivered on an iPod. You can automagically set up your cluster nodes with it by simply plugging the iPod in. It's a very cool system.
Basically all you need is a simple multitrack editor. If you want the information to be subliminal, you'd mix it to the point where you just can't hear it. That would mean, push up the (virtual) fader until you can just barely hear it at all, then come back a "notch" to where you don't hear it.
DO NOT make it an mp3/aac/ogg or any other compressed format as that will drop the "unheard" information from the file. That would defeat the purpose. You need to save the file as aiff or any other PCM format.
Studies on whether or not this actually works are inconclusive. It may depend on your receptiveness to the method. Good luck.
The "day-to-day operations" are very likely not for cgi. They're probably more like merging versions of the site, checking links, and creating the password protection files (.htaccess) for the different pages.
I can't say for sure since the site with the scripts is about to die under the load of the slashdot effect. However, I'd go check it out and see what the scripts really are before you go spouting off about how no webmaster in his right mind would use such crap. You can use a script for more than server side extensions.
I've been fighting using up mod points on this thread and now that I'm posting, I can't use them which is probably a good thing right now. =-)
The solution here is very simple. You need to isolate the noise coming from the computer. As many people have suggested, keeping everything in different rooms is ideal. That's why "real" recording studios have a control room, a record booth, and a machine room. Since this is not possible in this situation, make it possible with a little sideways thinking.
We know the computer needs to be in a different room since that will isolate the noise to that room. What's to keep us from bringing the other room into the recording booth (or control room)? Size mostly...
So bring a smaller "room" into the room. Mid Atlantic has some nice solutions for you. They aren't that expensive. Using an iso-rack in the control room is quite common in most Pro Tools installations.
I've used Pro Tools in professional situations for about 6 years now. Basically, since the point it became "ready for prime-time" (literally). I work on a prime-time television show. We used to use the AMS-Neve Logic3 and Audiofile system. Then, Pro Tools finally became good enough to use. The problem was the noise. We "stole" one of the Mid Atlantic iso-racks from one of the unused Avid suites, and have been very pleased at the result.
True, you can still hear an old 9600 in there, but a dual G4 or a new G5 would be under the noise floor for the room.
I'm posting this message from the NIH right now. This year, our IT budget was cut to (not by) a third. We still have all the same problems to handle, but now we have to do it with two thirds less money.
Now if I could just get them to drop the Windows based email and servers and move over to *BSD/Linux/OSX, we'd be able to meet our budget problem. I'm doing my part, one computer at a time. =-)
1. "Brake checking" is dangerous, and illegal. You're intentionally attempting to cause an accident.
2. If you're in the left lane, not passing someone, you're wrong. You have no business in the left lane if you aren't actively engaged in passing another vehicle. There are exceptions like the idiotic left exits I see around the US, and if there's debris in the lane ahead of you should obviously go around it.
3. It's not a citizen's responsibility to enforce the speed limit. If someone is trying to go faster than you, they may have a legitimate reason. The best thing is to let them pass. They become RADAR fodder. The speed trap down the road will certainly nail them, and allow you to pass by peacefully without worrying about being caught for a few miles/kilometers over the limit.
I can come up with more, but I honestly don't think you'll listen.
So basically, if I go out and buy a new portable CD player, a pair of AA batteries to go with it, and start feeding it CDs for me to listen to, I should expect to get more than 18 months out of the batteries? If that's the case, then we all need to be suing the Energizer, and Duracell makers.
I typically listen to my iPod for about 6-8 hours a day. I charge it up every two days. I've had it for almost a year now. The battery is fine for me. But of course, being an audio engineer, I don't listen at earsplitting levels so my battery isn't used up by driving the output amplifier.
Let's do a little basic math here. I spend $3 on some batteries...long life Duracell or Energizer. I go through a pair in two days at my usual listening rate of 6-8 hours per day. So that's $1.50 a day in batteries. In a month, I've spent $30 (an average of 20 work days a month, at $1.50 per day). In a year, I will spend $360 in batteries. If you stretch that out to the 18 months the guy is complaining about, you end up spending $540.
So, in 18 months, he can spend $540 on batteries, or $499 on a new iPod and $41 on music from the iTMS.
Or, he could spend $499 on a new iPod, and in 18 months, for only an additional $10 investment, get a new battery. So he now spends $550 and get's an iPod for 36 months.
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Personally, I have a home network and use it as a hobby shop, but when I want to earn some dough, I teach.
I get out and teach dance that is. I also teach some IT stuff, but I mostly teach Lindy Hop. It's a lot of fun and a total departure from the daily grind of the IT world. Besides, it's probably the only way some of us IT guys are going to be able to hold a girl that close. *GRIN*
Note to self:
RTFA FIRST, then post.
At least this applied to commercial vehicles instead of cars like the article said. Maybe I can get a little credit for that, and also getting my tech news from somewhere other than slashdot.
Also, the scenario in the article was fantasy. The reality is exactly what I described in my post. It was also in the article, but it appears it was overshadowed by those who read the first two paragraphs and considered it enough to claim they RTFA.
Recently on one of the cable channels, they had a program about an auto show in Hannover (I think). It wasn't your usual auto show with Daisy Duke and plastic shells of cars with no engine. Rather for commercial vehicles. There was a lot of cool stuff out there, and one thing in particular which caught my attention was the "auto-driving" bus from Mercedes Benz.
The bus has sensors to keep it in the lane. Basically, a camera or two kept an "eye" on the lane lines, and if the bus moved too close to the other lane without a turn signal indicating a switch to that lane, it either sounded an alarm or made a correction. I think it could also detect an emergency manouver and didn't counter that effort. The latter portion may be pure speculation though.
It also had a very cool feature I'd like to see on cars. It had a cruise control with a function to maintain following distance. You set your speed and follow distance, then let it do the work. If you got cut off, it wouldn't overreact, rather gradually open the distance. Now, if the drivers here in the US could master these concepts, it would be a lot nicer. Screw master...how about just occastionally recognize and follow them?
(The concepts were maintaining distance, not jamming on the brakes, and using turn signals.)
I'd like to thank you for being the first person in /. history to correctly use the words/phrases "allot" and "a lot" in a post on the site. Twogether on an single runon sentense. Uhmayzeng. =-)
Tongue in cheek - instructions for the humor impaired.
And I just spent my last mod points yesterday on a "Funny" posting when I could have created a whole new "Clever" moderation for this post. ;-)
Chances are I won't see mod points again for a few days, and by then, someone will realize who Richard Burns is and mod this "Insightful".
Damnitman...cursing the day...
I know what this guy's feeling right now as I went through something similar.
I was driving my car down Wisconsin Ave. in Washington DC. I was just north of Georgetown, or possibly just in Georgetown, when I was coming down a hill at about 40 m.p.h. I hit the brakes to slow since there was a red light ahead. The car didnt' slow more than about 5 m.p.h. I put the car in neutral (manual tranny), let off the brakes and hit them again with no braking resulting from my actions.
I pulled up the emergency brake and made a quick right turn at the bottom of the hill just as the light changed to green. At this point, the brakes worked fine.
I went directly to the dealership and had them check the braking system. They weren't able to find any malfunction at all. The problem hasn't happened again. It took nearly three years for it to happen the first time. I certianly hope it doesn't happen again.
Nevertheless, I know what the guy is going through. I know my car wasn't braking. I'm certain I had my foot on the brake. I know the car was put into neutral. I know the car didn't slow and that the brake pedal didn't go all the way to the floor.
I suspect theere was a malfuction in the ABS. I think the bumps in the road caused the wheel to think it was about to slide so the braking system dropped the pressure to the wheels. The ABS didn't recalibrate after that during this harrowing experience. Had it functioned properly (in my opinion), it would have noted the first bump, adjusted the braking force, recalibrated with the new speed, adjusted the braking force as necessary. It failed at that task.
The car is a Mazda Protegé5 in case you were wondering. I plan on taking any car I test drive down that section of Wisconsin Ave. to see how the ABS works.
I'm a Green, and have been since I was introduced to the ideology in Germany. After my return to the US, I was happy to find the Green party growing, although not to the level we had in the Old World.
Recently, I took the test at Political Compass, and you came in as a great match for me. I wasn't surprised at all. I've often held firm to the Green ideal. I was happy to see the Greens here were similar to the party in Germany.
Then, I saw the 3rd Party Debates on C-Span. You came across as bitter, mean, and just plain angry. I can understand your anger, but presentation is key and after seeing that display, I was almost ashamed.
Were you instructed to come across that way? Did your consultants direct you to come across as an angry bitter person? Hopefully you'll change your personal presentation. It really drives people away. I was completely turned away from the party although I still hold the ideals. I'm experiencing a real Catch 22 here.
The mirror you use for CPAN isn't updated with it yet. It took me a bit to figure that out as well. =-)
That's not what the post says.
Also, a change in frequency and a change in frequency in relation to time are two different things.
The frequency changes from n to n+?. It's not talking about the rate of change. Had it been the rate of change, then you'd be correct. Also, my original post takes that possibility into account.
So we're not talking about a Doppler shift. We're talking about two (or more different frequencies).
Please read before you reply.
Not to be picky or anything, but "hertz per second" is likely redundant.
/. were supposed to be smart. That's what I get for thinking.
Hertz (capitalized since it's a person's name) means "cycles per second". It's abbreviated "Hz".
If the signal is accelerating (or decelerating), then I suppose it could be Hz/s, but given the context, I don't think that's the case.
I thought people on
So, for a mere extra $47, can you halve the size of your hard drive? Also, is that "shared DDR SDRAM" sharing with the video card? That doesn't seem like a very good deal to me.
Nice try, though. I'll give you credit for getting just under the wire even if you skimped on some of the specs. More money for less computer. Who would have thought Dell would come up with that. *GRIN*
I find it amazing and certainly think someone should alert the NIMH. Software and hardware are each capable of EMOTIONS! Not just that, but complex ones at that. Who knew my little hunk of plastic, silicon, and metal would be so insecure? Is it because of my incessant banging away on the keyboard? Am I touching the mouse inappropriately? How do you tell?
I'd bet it's when I'm taping out the BPM for the music loaded on the drive. It has to be like the Chinese water torture. Poor little computer.
Please, let us make amends. I'm offering a sincere apology and promise to do what I can in the future to keep you from feeling battered and furthering your feelings of insecurity.
Good thing I've got all your patches up to date, or you might find strangers abusing you from far away locations. I'd never let you have such unsecured access. It' would only lead to more insecurity.
This is an interesting Catch 22 for moderation as it appears the GNAA posts might actually be *on topic* for once!
I never thought I'd see this day.
I have yet to be told I wasn't allowed to change seats on an aircraft. The last flight I took, both to and from my destination, I was in a seat other than the assigned one. The time before that, my girlfriend changed seats on the return flight to be able to sit with me.
Changing seats is very common on flights where seats are still open. It's also common when a "couple" gets divided and the nice passenger between them switches seats.
If you notice, the flight attendant doesn't check roll. A head count is all. They want to be certain they didn't leave anyone or add anyone. If the numbers are correct, all's well.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the US fight WITH the British against the French and Indians in the French and Indian War before the American Revolution?
It was my understanding, which again, please correct me if I'm wrong, a lot of the reason for taxes being jacked up on the colonists in the new world was because the crown needed to pay for the war.
I'm not against the point you're trying to make, as I lean left and agree with the spirit of what you're saying. However, the continental army in cahoots with the red coats, fought together before the revolution where the French were on the side of the colonists and the Brits had to get the Germans (Hessians I believe) to help.
After all, I was insecure for years from my pre-teen through mid-teen years. Finally, I got over the problem and became an egomaniac. Some day I hope to take over the world. First I need to build a "laser" on my "death star".
The software is provided WITH the iPod. When you get your iNquiry stuff, it's delivered on an iPod. You can automagically set up your cluster nodes with it by simply plugging the iPod in. It's a very cool system.
Basically all you need is a simple multitrack editor. If you want the information to be subliminal, you'd mix it to the point where you just can't hear it. That would mean, push up the (virtual) fader until you can just barely hear it at all, then come back a "notch" to where you don't hear it.
DO NOT make it an mp3/aac/ogg or any other compressed format as that will drop the "unheard" information from the file. That would defeat the purpose. You need to save the file as aiff or any other PCM format.
Studies on whether or not this actually works are inconclusive. It may depend on your receptiveness to the method. Good luck.
The "day-to-day operations" are very likely not for cgi. They're probably more like merging versions of the site, checking links, and creating the password protection files (.htaccess) for the different pages.
I can't say for sure since the site with the scripts is about to die under the load of the slashdot effect. However, I'd go check it out and see what the scripts really are before you go spouting off about how no webmaster in his right mind would use such crap. You can use a script for more than server side extensions.
The solution here is very simple. You need to isolate the noise coming from the computer. As many people have suggested, keeping everything in different rooms is ideal. That's why "real" recording studios have a control room, a record booth, and a machine room. Since this is not possible in this situation, make it possible with a little sideways thinking.
We know the computer needs to be in a different room since that will isolate the noise to that room. What's to keep us from bringing the other room into the recording booth (or control room)? Size mostly...
So bring a smaller "room" into the room. Mid Atlantic has some nice solutions for you. They aren't that expensive. Using an iso-rack in the control room is quite common in most Pro Tools installations.
I've used Pro Tools in professional situations for about 6 years now. Basically, since the point it became "ready for prime-time" (literally). I work on a prime-time television show. We used to use the AMS-Neve Logic3 and Audiofile system. Then, Pro Tools finally became good enough to use. The problem was the noise. We "stole" one of the Mid Atlantic iso-racks from one of the unused Avid suites, and have been very pleased at the result.
True, you can still hear an old 9600 in there, but a dual G4 or a new G5 would be under the noise floor for the room.
At NIH, they're both encouraged. OS X is very popular among the scientists. BSD is making a lot of ground because of the security concerns.
I'm posting this message from the NIH right now. This year, our IT budget was cut to (not by) a third. We still have all the same problems to handle, but now we have to do it with two thirds less money.
Now if I could just get them to drop the Windows based email and servers and move over to *BSD/Linux/OSX, we'd be able to meet our budget problem. I'm doing my part, one computer at a time. =-)
1. "Brake checking" is dangerous, and illegal. You're intentionally attempting to cause an accident.
2. If you're in the left lane, not passing someone, you're wrong. You have no business in the left lane if you aren't actively engaged in passing another vehicle. There are exceptions like the idiotic left exits I see around the US, and if there's debris in the lane ahead of you should obviously go around it.
3. It's not a citizen's responsibility to enforce the speed limit. If someone is trying to go faster than you, they may have a legitimate reason. The best thing is to let them pass. They become RADAR fodder. The speed trap down the road will certainly nail them, and allow you to pass by peacefully without worrying about being caught for a few miles/kilometers over the limit.
I can come up with more, but I honestly don't think you'll listen.
What exactly is the product the RIAA is peddling?
The last time I checked, the RIAA didn't have any products.
So basically, if I go out and buy a new portable CD player, a pair of AA batteries to go with it, and start feeding it CDs for me to listen to, I should expect to get more than 18 months out of the batteries? If that's the case, then we all need to be suing the Energizer, and Duracell makers.
I typically listen to my iPod for about 6-8 hours a day. I charge it up every two days. I've had it for almost a year now. The battery is fine for me. But of course, being an audio engineer, I don't listen at earsplitting levels so my battery isn't used up by driving the output amplifier.
Let's do a little basic math here. I spend $3 on some batteries...long life Duracell or Energizer. I go through a pair in two days at my usual listening rate of 6-8 hours per day. So that's $1.50 a day in batteries. In a month, I've spent $30 (an average of 20 work days a month, at $1.50 per day). In a year, I will spend $360 in batteries. If you stretch that out to the 18 months the guy is complaining about, you end up spending $540.
So, in 18 months, he can spend $540 on batteries, or $499 on a new iPod and $41 on music from the iTMS.
Or, he could spend $499 on a new iPod, and in 18 months, for only an additional $10 investment, get a new battery. So he now spends $550 and get's an iPod for 36 months.
This is utter silliness.