And perhaps this is why he always maintains his status as a contractor (and in fact owns the contracting agency that places him there). Also please note that he works in the UK, thus making US pay scales a rather mute point.
Of course, I am refering to "THE" BOFH, not a bofh in general...
4. Charge for 40 hours of "out of hours" work at the standard double overtime rate for both you and the PFY. Mark on timesheet as "Removal of Fire Hazard Material"
Everybody uses the roads. In fact, before roads were maintained, people wore paths where the roads were later established.
Everybody doesn't use the Internet. Many people don't have that much interest in it.
While not everyone uses the internet, everyone I know has a TV and a phone. Both of these services can be provided for over a fiber connection better than they can be over copper.
The argument that not everyone uses the net isn't a good reason to not lay fiber. Let's look at it this way, I no longer have a land line based phone in the house (swiched to vonage). Does this mean that the phone compnay should rip the copper from my house just because I'll never use it again? Since I switched from cable to a dish, should the cable company rip the copper from my house? What about the next person to live there? Having a good solid infrastructor in place is critical, even if it's not filled to capacity.
With density like that there are a lot of service business models that work that _absolutely_ won't work in the US.
I'm sure there are some business models that will work in Japan that won't work in the US. However, Fiber to the home isn't one of them. There are a number of PUCs that have run fiber to the home here in the US and are paying off the costs of laying the fiber early.
Population density might make it more expensive, but doesn't make it a poor business model.
Good point! One would hope that they have a way to keep your packets from being sniffed on the lines.
My biggest concern with this is the ammount of line noise in my house. Even a slow protocall like the one that X10 uses is full of errors (usually the type that turns my bedroom light on in the middle of the night).
It's still illegal to use somebody elses data link without their permission.
Since my neighbor broadcasts his SSID and doesn't use WEP, can I assume that I have his permission to use it? Not only is the door to his network unlocked, it's got a big flashing sign for any 802.11b card to read that says - "Come On In! surf some pr0n on my connection!".
would it be hard to prosocute someone for breaking and entering if you have a big sign in your yard that says "Free Stuff Inside - help yourself"?
So these people have been around since at least the beginning of 2003?
They have been around since 1993 if you look at their financial sheets. Total 2002 sales of $4k and debt of over 7 Million. The register ran an article on them and another company back in 01 - I hadn't discovered the wonder of slashdot back then so if it was run here I wouldn't know.
Hey, any thoughts on how we could get them to go after the RIAA as well? If we could get the RIAA, MPAA, SCO and MS to fight it out - could be at least amusing.
The more important question is, why have Hollywood directors taken to making such incredibly long films?
Maybe it's because people like me are sick of the 80 minute movie full of crap. I'd much rather sit for 3 hours and deal with a full bladder and a sore ass than be bored and feel cheated for an hour and 20 minutes.
Looks like 3% of the transfer price is collected as a levy. So, if we base that on $0.20 for a blank CD, looks like you're paying an extra $0.006 for each CD.
Maybe things have changed, but this was the most recient link I was able to find.
I have to disagree. For under $5-10k I could mod a vehicle that would be able to finish the course. In fact, a few my friends at work and I are have been toying with this very idea. I haven't thought a lot about off road for a contest like this, but it wouldn't be that much more difficult.
Use 3-5 processors hooked into GPS, 360 degrees of camera coverage, maybe some IR camera's for night and a maybe a low powered sonar or laser system for distance detection. Map software onboard goes without saying.
Each processor decides what it thinks is best on it's own. It talks to the others and they vote - most votes wins on the course of action. The GPS gives you a rough idea of where you're at, confirmed by the visual data (OCR for street signs, etc). Finds obsticals by detecting edges and does some VERY simple shape recognition on them. Keeping it as simple as possible (KISS theory).
We've had the technology for years, in fact, the inner workings of an M1A1 tank are designed with this in mind. Bolos anyone?
Hey do us all (or at least me) a favor the next time he says the bubble is going to pop... post an article or drop me an email letting me know so I can get out of my ESOP before the bottom falls out of it again?
I have to agree! I get my "please don't leave us when your contract is up" cash in Jan. Please, please, please let this come to verizon, or at least them come out with a version compatable with US networks.
But is there one good thing you can say about the Bush administration
The reduction of income taxes? The reduction of the number of living terrorist? The reduction of tyrants in power? That this administration had the balls to do what they saw as right regardless of world opinion?
If you carefully read their criterea for "sexual relations" you will find a blowjob wasn't included. Nor are blowjobs normally considered sexual since you can't get pregnant by swollowing cum!!!!! I believe it's conservatives who advocate "procreation only" sex.
It was President Clinton's attorney that refined the definations of "sexual relations", not anyone in the prosecutor's office. (just learned that tonight, thanks).
As for conseratives advocate "procreation only" sex, not all who are conserative with thier votes are conserative in the bedroom. I myself got "fixed" several years back, and have had all sorts of sex (before I descovered/. of course) that had NOTHING to do with procreation, unless maybe we're refering to the procreation of orgasms.
Hey, I'm republican and I care about the sex! I care a lot about the sex I get. About the only other person who's sex life I care about is my girlfriend.
Of course, I didn't really care about the sex President Clinton had, or even that he lied about it (it was pretty well established that he was dishonest before all this). What *really* pissed me off was that he did it on the job, in the oval office, while making troop decisions that effected my best friend's unit (we were both active duty military at the time).
If it got found out that I was having sex at work, while doing something really important, I think I'd rather expect to be fired.
Is it possible to have very conserative political views and very liberal lifestyle views? Yep, sure is.
Thanks for the ground work AC. Looks like Hop-on is actually making a go of it and has actual product on some of the shelves. News stories from this year even! Also look like DTC Products (the orignal link I was thinking of has given up the ghost.
I for one wouldn't mind having an ultra cheap paper cell phone that I could keep in the car, and maybe one for the kids to keep in their backpacks for emergencies. At prices between $5 and $40, even the working class can get these. Cell phones in happy meals?
Great idea for 99% of the population. I guess where I work is the exception. We have several machines that are old enough to still use legacy stuff that was never upgraded- so when it came to upgrade the old P2 processors, I was forced with finding a modern MB that had 2 or more ISA slots.
A couple hours of searching turned up a P4 Soyo board that must of been made with us in mind. I never did find an Athlon solution and that's just sad.
A few years back, didn't the same company promise us paper cell phone and laptops that were disposable and going to come in happy meals? Or was that someone else?
First of all, what you are saying will make no sense if EVERYONE (or a large number of people) own guns. In such a case, the criminal will choose anyone.
You may very well be correct. However, as the way things are currently, those who have guns and make it known deter people from picking those people as targets over those who do not have or do not make it known.
Secondly, the person has to "advertise" the fact that they are armed. If you don't have a sign saying "protected by armed residents" it won't work. This may or may not work. How many criminals break into houses with stickers saying "protected by Alarm Force (or whatever)?"
Again, letting it be known that you have a gun will deter the average "bad guy" from picking you over someone else. Perhaps my example should of been _advertising_ a gun rather than just having one.
Lastly...this is the main reason actually... a criminal that wants to harm you, they will. You can't stop it. Arming yourself just gives you a fake sense of safety. A criminal will simply use smarter techniques to defeat those that are armed. This is just like defeating a car alarm. Car protection has increased a hundread fold (if not more) over the decades. Yet cars are stolen as much as they always were.
If you want to own guns, fine; but it's not going to protect you...
While it may be true that there are people who don't care how badly you can harm them while defending yourself, the average person is reasonable, and a reasonable criminal will pick the easier target over the harder one. The secret service knows that if a man is willing to try to give his life to take out the president, they may not be able to stop that person. However, they exist to protect the president from the 99.99% of those they can stop.
Saying that just because a bad guy wants to do you harm means that there is nothing you can do to stop it would be foolish. I know hand to hand self defense, I was expert rating with small arms in the military. A bad guy wants to do me harm, I'm not going to roll over and let him.
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BTW, your website sucks... it is IMPOSSIBLE to read the text on your site. Either lighten the background colour or lighten the foreground colour...
Off topic? The whole thread is off topic, since this is about black boxes in cars, but this being/. that's the norm.
Thanks for at least checking out my web site. It's been ages since I've done an update and think perhaps the text on the child pages are probably easier to read than those on the main page - next update I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the feedback. Your web page on the other hand is very easy to read. But then again, html is easy, saying something that doesn't suck is hard. I disagree with your views since everything you know is wrong:-), but that's what makes the web such a beautiful place.
10,000 people intentionally killed by guns a year.
40,000 people killed as a "side-effect" by motor vehicles a year
Hey, nice way to kinda put things in perspective, asumming your numbers are even somewhat close to the truth, I feel they are both probably rather inflated, but the point stands. Well put.
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And perhaps this is why he always maintains his status as a contractor (and in fact owns the contracting agency that places him there). Also please note that he works in the UK, thus making US pay scales a rather mute point.
Of course, I am refering to "THE" BOFH, not a bofh in general...
4 is pretty simple in this one...
4. Charge for 40 hours of "out of hours" work at the standard double overtime rate for both you and the PFY. Mark on timesheet as "Removal of Fire Hazard Material"
Everybody uses the roads. In fact, before roads were maintained, people wore paths where the roads were later established.
Everybody doesn't use the Internet. Many people don't have that much interest in it.
While not everyone uses the internet, everyone I know has a TV and a phone. Both of these services can be provided for over a fiber connection better than they can be over copper.
The argument that not everyone uses the net isn't a good reason to not lay fiber. Let's look at it this way, I no longer have a land line based phone in the house (swiched to vonage). Does this mean that the phone compnay should rip the copper from my house just because I'll never use it again? Since I switched from cable to a dish, should the cable company rip the copper from my house? What about the next person to live there? Having a good solid infrastructor in place is critical, even if it's not filled to capacity.
With density like that there are a lot of service business models that work that _absolutely_ won't work in the US.
I'm sure there are some business models that will work in Japan that won't work in the US. However, Fiber to the home isn't one of them. There are a number of PUCs that have run fiber to the home here in the US and are paying off the costs of laying the fiber early.
Population density might make it more expensive, but doesn't make it a poor business model.
Good point! One would hope that they have a way to keep your packets from being sniffed on the lines.
My biggest concern with this is the ammount of line noise in my house. Even a slow protocall like the one that X10 uses is full of errors (usually the type that turns my bedroom light on in the middle of the night).
I don't see how this system would be any more or less secure than a cable modem. You'd still need an adapter to tap into the service.
Except it says no such thing. There's no "free pr0n here" flag in the 802.11 specs.
;-)
Maybe not on *your* WAP...
It's still illegal to use somebody elses data link without their permission.
Since my neighbor broadcasts his SSID and doesn't use WEP, can I assume that I have his permission to use it? Not only is the door to his network unlocked, it's got a big flashing sign for any 802.11b card to read that says - "Come On In! surf some pr0n on my connection!".
would it be hard to prosocute someone for breaking and entering if you have a big sign in your yard that says "Free Stuff Inside - help yourself"?
If robots manufactured every material thing in the world for free, people would pay money for ideas. Or for the human touch
Hey now, some of us already pay for the human touch... or are you saying that sort of thing might be made legal?
So these people have been around since at least the beginning of 2003?
They have been around since 1993 if you look at their financial sheets. Total 2002 sales of $4k and debt of over 7 Million. The register ran an article on them and another company back in 01 - I hadn't discovered the wonder of slashdot back then so if it was run here I wouldn't know.
I'm still calling vaporware until there is actually a way to buy one. My previous comment about these here
Hey, any thoughts on how we could get them to go after the RIAA as well? If we could get the RIAA, MPAA, SCO and MS to fight it out - could be at least amusing.
The more important question is, why have Hollywood directors taken to making such incredibly long films?
Maybe it's because people like me are sick of the 80 minute movie full of crap. I'd much rather sit for 3 hours and deal with a full bladder and a sore ass than be bored and feel cheated for an hour and 20 minutes.
Guess our tastes just vary.
Not sure where you live, but I'm pretty sure this is already in place here in the good 'ol US of A.
for Example TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 10 > SUBCHAPTER C > Sec. 1004. Paragraph (b)
Looks like 3% of the transfer price is collected as a levy. So, if we base that on $0.20 for a blank CD, looks like you're paying an extra $0.006 for each CD.
Maybe things have changed, but this was the most recient link I was able to find.
I have to disagree. For under $5-10k I could mod a vehicle that would be able to finish the course. In fact, a few my friends at work and I are have been toying with this very idea. I haven't thought a lot about off road for a contest like this, but it wouldn't be that much more difficult.
Use 3-5 processors hooked into GPS, 360 degrees of camera coverage, maybe some IR camera's for night and a maybe a low powered sonar or laser system for distance detection. Map software onboard goes without saying.
Each processor decides what it thinks is best on it's own. It talks to the others and they vote - most votes wins on the course of action. The GPS gives you a rough idea of where you're at, confirmed by the visual data (OCR for street signs, etc). Finds obsticals by detecting edges and does some VERY simple shape recognition on them. Keeping it as simple as possible (KISS theory).
We've had the technology for years, in fact, the inner workings of an M1A1 tank are designed with this in mind. Bolos anyone?
I think the sales of your new device would increase drastically if you also marketed a version for the males.
Hey do us all (or at least me) a favor the next time he says the bubble is going to pop... post an article or drop me an email letting me know so I can get out of my ESOP before the bottom falls out of it again?
Thanks!
I have to agree! I get my "please don't leave us when your contract is up" cash in Jan. Please, please, please let this come to verizon, or at least them come out with a version compatable with US networks.
But is there one good thing you can say about the Bush administration
The reduction of income taxes? The reduction of the number of living terrorist? The reduction of tyrants in power? That this administration had the balls to do what they saw as right regardless of world opinion?
Oh, sorry, you asked for one. My bad.
If you carefully read their criterea for "sexual relations" you will find a blowjob wasn't included. Nor are blowjobs normally considered sexual since you can't get pregnant by swollowing cum!!!!! I believe it's conservatives who advocate "procreation only" sex.
/. of course) that had NOTHING to do with procreation, unless maybe we're refering to the procreation of orgasms.
It was President Clinton's attorney that refined the definations of "sexual relations", not anyone in the prosecutor's office. (just learned that tonight, thanks).
As for conseratives advocate "procreation only" sex, not all who are conserative with thier votes are conserative in the bedroom. I myself got "fixed" several years back, and have had all sorts of sex (before I descovered
Hey, I'm republican and I care about the sex! I care a lot about the sex I get. About the only other person who's sex life I care about is my girlfriend.
Of course, I didn't really care about the sex President Clinton had, or even that he lied about it (it was pretty well established that he was dishonest before all this). What *really* pissed me off was that he did it on the job, in the oval office, while making troop decisions that effected my best friend's unit (we were both active duty military at the time).
If it got found out that I was having sex at work, while doing something really important, I think I'd rather expect to be fired.
Is it possible to have very conserative political views and very liberal lifestyle views? Yep, sure is.
Thanks for the ground work AC. Looks like Hop-on is actually making a go of it and has actual product on some of the shelves. News stories from this year even! Also look like DTC Products (the orignal link I was thinking of has given up the ghost.
I for one wouldn't mind having an ultra cheap paper cell phone that I could keep in the car, and maybe one for the kids to keep in their backpacks for emergencies. At prices between $5 and $40, even the working class can get these. Cell phones in happy meals?
Great idea for 99% of the population. I guess where I work is the exception. We have several machines that are old enough to still use legacy stuff that was never upgraded- so when it came to upgrade the old P2 processors, I was forced with finding a modern MB that had 2 or more ISA slots.
A couple hours of searching turned up a P4 Soyo board that must of been made with us in mind. I never did find an Athlon solution and that's just sad.
A few years back, didn't the same company promise us paper cell phone and laptops that were disposable and going to come in happy meals? Or was that someone else?
First of all, what you are saying will make no sense if EVERYONE (or a large number of people) own guns. In such a case, the criminal will choose anyone.
/. that's the norm.
:-), but that's what makes the web such a beautiful place.
You may very well be correct. However, as the way things are currently, those who have guns and make it known deter people from picking those people as targets over those who do not have or do not make it known.
Secondly, the person has to "advertise" the fact that they are armed. If you don't have a sign saying "protected by armed residents" it won't work. This may or may not work. How many criminals break into houses with stickers saying "protected by Alarm Force (or whatever)?"
Again, letting it be known that you have a gun will deter the average "bad guy" from picking you over someone else. Perhaps my example should of been _advertising_ a gun rather than just having one.
Lastly...this is the main reason actually... a criminal that wants to harm you, they will. You can't stop it. Arming yourself just gives you a fake sense of safety. A criminal will simply use smarter techniques to defeat those that are armed. This is just like defeating a car alarm. Car protection has increased a hundread fold (if not more) over the decades. Yet cars are stolen as much as they always were.
If you want to own guns, fine; but it's not going to protect you...
While it may be true that there are people who don't care how badly you can harm them while defending yourself, the average person is reasonable, and a reasonable criminal will pick the easier target over the harder one. The secret service knows that if a man is willing to try to give his life to take out the president, they may not be able to stop that person. However, they exist to protect the president from the 99.99% of those they can stop.
Saying that just because a bad guy wants to do you harm means that there is nothing you can do to stop it would be foolish. I know hand to hand self defense, I was expert rating with small arms in the military. A bad guy wants to do me harm, I'm not going to roll over and let him.
---OFF-TOPIC---
BTW, your website sucks... it is IMPOSSIBLE to read the text on your site. Either lighten the background colour or lighten the foreground colour...
Off topic? The whole thread is off topic, since this is about black boxes in cars, but this being
Thanks for at least checking out my web site. It's been ages since I've done an update and think perhaps the text on the child pages are probably easier to read than those on the main page - next update I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the feedback. Your web page on the other hand is very easy to read. But then again, html is easy, saying something that doesn't suck is hard. I disagree with your views since everything you know is wrong
10,000 people intentionally killed by guns a year.
40,000 people killed as a "side-effect" by motor vehicles a year
Hey, nice way to kinda put things in perspective, asumming your numbers are even somewhat close to the truth, I feel they are both probably rather inflated, but the point stands. Well put.