Depends on the layout of the domicile. For both of the apartments I rented, the entry door opened into the living room, and when we were looking for apartment options for my inlaws same thing. When I consider the houses that I've lived in and the houses that I've visited, only ones over say, 2500 sqft had a true entryway that wasn't either a stub of the main common room or just opening right into that common room.
So the risk of someone seeing your living room is very much greater than zero.
Too many HOAs would object. Too many neighborhoods with HOAs also now have grouped mailboxes at the end of the block instead of individual mailboxes on each residence too.
This also doesn't address high-density like apartment buildings.
For single-family homes, if you're really worried about theft then you integrate a secure package receiving chute into the wall next to the front door or you put a different mailbox/post in, with such a device.
If you're living somewhere higher-density than that or cannot make modifications, and if your building has no doorman or has no provision to securely receive packages for you, then you should probably consider either Amazon Locker or else USPS General Delivery so that someone receives your package for you.
The only way I would want strangers delivering things into my house is if it's a small local private company that I've vetted myself, and that I've established the rules of entry for. I'm thinking keypad access where when I make a purchase, I dictate the ten digit number that they have to use to unlock the front door, that only works for five minutes from the time it's first entered when they arrive, and is authenticated on my equipment rather than on theirs.
There's already a singlemode fiber standard for armored cable with OSP rating. Hell, they have one that's indoor/outdoor rated if one doesn't want to have to fusion-splice as one enters the structure. The FMC jacket protects the watertight jacket inside, and the gel or powder inside of that protects the buffered strands from the water. Works well. Costs some bucks, but works.
If they're doing aerial though, that could be a problem. Would have to find one manufactured as a figure-8 cable or would have to properly tie it to a messenger wire strung between poles.
What's not sensible is the undeserved smug sense of superiority that is prevalent among German engineers. Even the quality stuff usually isn't so much better to justify the attitude, and there have been many cases in the last few years where their automotive quality in particular has gone downhill compared to the level it used to have.
Yes, but when you've got 2000 printers and you want to maintain ready stocks of other parts besides the toner cartridges to avoid excessive downtime, it starts to make sense to surplus them when you've exhausted your parts and subsequently had enough non-repair failures that meant users had overly long outages. Besides, the replacement printers kick out pages 5x faster and may have job-control features that let the printer hold the job until the user keys in their code, similar to how the copiers do it.
Frankly I wouldn't want them printing to-retain the permanent instructions. If a permanent procedure is refined to be kept for a long time it probably makes more sense to print it terrestrially and then laminate it or bind it into a booklet and send it up on the next flight. Once the permanent copy is there, they should dispose of the temporary thermal-wax copy.
Fundamentally there was not a lot of difference in HP laser products other than the speed of paper handling for something like two decades. We've only recently seen a push to retire out the HP LaserJet 4 and 5 printers, and only because of the costs for toner due to lack of availability. Until then we just let them naturally go when they physically failed, which was not often.
Frankly I'm amazed that an inkjet printer was recommended. In my experience dating back to the first Deskjets in the nineties, the inkjet printers were always worse than their laser equivalents, and I don't see how they're getting around gravity-feed (or lack thereof) for the pickup rollers.
I also get why they would seek to avoid laser, since laser can suffer from problems of uncontained toner getting out and airborne, which would be a real problem for a space station.
The tech that I would have expected would be a thermal process similar to receipt printing or old fax machines for monochrome output, and a color thermal-wax process similar to what's used to print ID badges for the little bit of full color that's needed. Granted, that means two printers, but both technologies are extremely reliable and with no need for ink for the monochrome model as it's part of the paper, it should not be a lot worse for materials storage space.
It means that the Paper Cassette needs attention, and the attention is to "load letter" paper in to it.
HP printers had two-character displays back in the day. "PC" for paper cassette was what they came up with. When they increased the number of characters they simply added to the existing messages. I'm going to hazard a guess that industrial printing control platforms could take that information through some kind of management network, and with newer printers still using that same system it was easier to just leave the original two-character message so that the control system still knew how to parse it.
I have to admit that I have noticed this with them but had not applied it to Google Fiber since network infrastructure backbone is normally a straightforward and now that singlemode fiber has beat-out copper technologies as the future, fairly stable and somewhat future-proof.
The fiber plant requires investment. The serious trunk lines have to be bought or built. The last-mile (or several miles) must be built as metro ethernet to the residence hasn't really existed until the last decade. Doing this requires a huge initial investment.
Thing is, one it's in, it puts the network owner in the same position that Bell was in at the beginning of the copper telephone network, which was eighty years of profitability off of a network that used much of the same technology. Sure, every decade or so the switches and the optics have to be changed out, but once the fiber is there the equipment changes are comparatively simple, and unlike the installation of fiber to every house where it's a special-case to do it, the equipment is standardized and volume purchases result in steep discounts.
And that basically was the market he worked in, financial systems that had to bridge the gap, so that people whose primary occupation was budgeting, or taxes, or other kinds of financials, where one is taking law and turning it into code. That code may even be directly reviewed by accountants or lawyers, so having something that is that legible is necessary to both initally comply and to allow editing to comply as laws and regulations change.
If he was programming for science, at that time it would have been Fortran. He was trained in that too ("Computing Science" was taught as a science degree rather than as a business degree at that time) but his work didn't call for that.
Because everyone handles their general-purpose portable computers like they're Faberge Eggs...
We had a problem with Lenovo Thinkpad Helix models. Look at 'em wrong and the screen breaks. Drop it with heaven-forbid a device connected to a port or the AC adapter connected, and the motherboard breaks-off at the port and the bezels snap.
Switched to Dell. They put enough of an edge around the screens such that casual handling doesn't break them, the ports are nearly all on daughter-cards, and both the bezels and those daughter cards are extremely inexpensive. Don't have near the same number of problems.
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Depends on the layout of the domicile. For both of the apartments I rented, the entry door opened into the living room, and when we were looking for apartment options for my inlaws same thing. When I consider the houses that I've lived in and the houses that I've visited, only ones over say, 2500 sqft had a true entryway that wasn't either a stub of the main common room or just opening right into that common room.
So the risk of someone seeing your living room is very much greater than zero.
Too many HOAs would object. Too many neighborhoods with HOAs also now have grouped mailboxes at the end of the block instead of individual mailboxes on each residence too.
This also doesn't address high-density like apartment buildings.
Probably not, or else Sears would have dealt with this back in the sixties when they didn't suck.
For single-family homes, if you're really worried about theft then you integrate a secure package receiving chute into the wall next to the front door or you put a different mailbox/post in, with such a device.
If you're living somewhere higher-density than that or cannot make modifications, and if your building has no doorman or has no provision to securely receive packages for you, then you should probably consider either Amazon Locker or else USPS General Delivery so that someone receives your package for you.
The only way I would want strangers delivering things into my house is if it's a small local private company that I've vetted myself, and that I've established the rules of entry for. I'm thinking keypad access where when I make a purchase, I dictate the ten digit number that they have to use to unlock the front door, that only works for five minutes from the time it's first entered when they arrive, and is authenticated on my equipment rather than on theirs.
I don't see the problem here...
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I received a different item. I can't use a pink female genitalia shaving machine on my beard.
Well, I mean, you can, but you just don't want to.
Like FMC?
There's already a singlemode fiber standard for armored cable with OSP rating. Hell, they have one that's indoor/outdoor rated if one doesn't want to have to fusion-splice as one enters the structure. The FMC jacket protects the watertight jacket inside, and the gel or powder inside of that protects the buffered strands from the water. Works well. Costs some bucks, but works.
If they're doing aerial though, that could be a problem. Would have to find one manufactured as a figure-8 cable or would have to properly tie it to a messenger wire strung between poles.
Ah, finally a production implementation of RFC-2549...
They're great until the odometer hits 100,000 miles.
Hmmm. basic code-page 437 punctuation now being handled by unicode?
That seems pretty stupid.
What's not sensible is the undeserved smug sense of superiority that is prevalent among German engineers. Even the quality stuff usually isn't so much better to justify the attitude, and there have been many cases in the last few years where their automotive quality in particular has gone downhill compared to the level it used to have.
Yes, but when you've got 2000 printers and you want to maintain ready stocks of other parts besides the toner cartridges to avoid excessive downtime, it starts to make sense to surplus them when you've exhausted your parts and subsequently had enough non-repair failures that meant users had overly long outages. Besides, the replacement printers kick out pages 5x faster and may have job-control features that let the printer hold the job until the user keys in their code, similar to how the copiers do it.
Frankly I wouldn't want them printing to-retain the permanent instructions. If a permanent procedure is refined to be kept for a long time it probably makes more sense to print it terrestrially and then laminate it or bind it into a booklet and send it up on the next flight. Once the permanent copy is there, they should dispose of the temporary thermal-wax copy.
I've seen Office Space. I am well aware of the original reference.
Fundamentally there was not a lot of difference in HP laser products other than the speed of paper handling for something like two decades. We've only recently seen a push to retire out the HP LaserJet 4 and 5 printers, and only because of the costs for toner due to lack of availability. Until then we just let them naturally go when they physically failed, which was not often.
Probably.
Frankly I'm amazed that an inkjet printer was recommended. In my experience dating back to the first Deskjets in the nineties, the inkjet printers were always worse than their laser equivalents, and I don't see how they're getting around gravity-feed (or lack thereof) for the pickup rollers.
I also get why they would seek to avoid laser, since laser can suffer from problems of uncontained toner getting out and airborne, which would be a real problem for a space station.
The tech that I would have expected would be a thermal process similar to receipt printing or old fax machines for monochrome output, and a color thermal-wax process similar to what's used to print ID badges for the little bit of full color that's needed. Granted, that means two printers, but both technologies are extremely reliable and with no need for ink for the monochrome model as it's part of the paper, it should not be a lot worse for materials storage space.
Not for fucking pictures of Timmy and Lucy playing with old yellar and your wifes upskirts or husbands dick pics.
To quote Elton John, "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife, It's lonely out in space, On such a timeless flight..."
Seems like a way of keeping the astronauts sane, probably no small feat.
It means that the Paper Cassette needs attention, and the attention is to "load letter" paper in to it.
HP printers had two-character displays back in the day. "PC" for paper cassette was what they came up with. When they increased the number of characters they simply added to the existing messages. I'm going to hazard a guess that industrial printing control platforms could take that information through some kind of management network, and with newer printers still using that same system it was easier to just leave the original two-character message so that the control system still knew how to parse it.
Shatner's "get a life" sketch.
I have to admit that I have noticed this with them but had not applied it to Google Fiber since network infrastructure backbone is normally a straightforward and now that singlemode fiber has beat-out copper technologies as the future, fairly stable and somewhat future-proof.
The fiber plant requires investment. The serious trunk lines have to be bought or built. The last-mile (or several miles) must be built as metro ethernet to the residence hasn't really existed until the last decade. Doing this requires a huge initial investment.
Thing is, one it's in, it puts the network owner in the same position that Bell was in at the beginning of the copper telephone network, which was eighty years of profitability off of a network that used much of the same technology. Sure, every decade or so the switches and the optics have to be changed out, but once the fiber is there the equipment changes are comparatively simple, and unlike the installation of fiber to every house where it's a special-case to do it, the equipment is standardized and volume purchases result in steep discounts.
But did Google abandon it because, at least in part, lawsuits from entities like AT&T?
I am disappointed that they stopped. I want my singlemode fiber dammit.
And that basically was the market he worked in, financial systems that had to bridge the gap, so that people whose primary occupation was budgeting, or taxes, or other kinds of financials, where one is taking law and turning it into code. That code may even be directly reviewed by accountants or lawyers, so having something that is that legible is necessary to both initally comply and to allow editing to comply as laws and regulations change.
If he was programming for science, at that time it would have been Fortran. He was trained in that too ("Computing Science" was taught as a science degree rather than as a business degree at that time) but his work didn't call for that.
Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia
Took a bit to parse this.
Logically it feels more like the subjects are just swapped. "Russia Berated by Senators on Facebook, Twitter, and Google"
Then it looks like the senators that are doing the berating are Russian.
It would need to read something like, "Senators berate Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Russian Interference"
Because everyone handles their general-purpose portable computers like they're Faberge Eggs...
We had a problem with Lenovo Thinkpad Helix models. Look at 'em wrong and the screen breaks. Drop it with heaven-forbid a device connected to a port or the AC adapter connected, and the motherboard breaks-off at the port and the bezels snap.
Switched to Dell. They put enough of an edge around the screens such that casual handling doesn't break them, the ports are nearly all on daughter-cards, and both the bezels and those daughter cards are extremely inexpensive. Don't have near the same number of problems.