a WAP is a workspace device, like a computer or TV. It cannot be concealed in wiring closet that may be as much as 300 feet away and still hope to serve the area it's needed for. Hell, I have some buildings where two floors are served by one IDF and there are close to a hundred WAPs patched.
Modern Cisco WAPs have annoyingly bright LEDs on the workspace-facing side. I have three 3602e WAPs that I use for my home learning lab and home wifi, and I have disabled the LEDs on one and probably will on another. An option to either dim or to disable the blue color when not in a fault state would prevent having to do that.
There was a TV Pilot called Earth II starring Gary Lockwood where this was a plot-point; at the beginning a saboteur was preparing to shoot the rocket on the pad with a high-powered rifle before he was stopped and killed by launch facility defense personnel.
There have been special rifles designed to target equipment rather than humans, so it is not inconceivable that someone could use such a rifle to explosively destroy a rocket once it's fueled or as its fueling.
I like the fact that once I have my CDs and DVDs they can't take-back the rights when I have physical media, and I don't have to worry about losing my media when I have a hard disk failure.
In practice this is also true for Blu-Ray. If I remember what I read back when the Blu-ray standard was first released there was apparently a mechanism to invalidate Blu-ray discs, but I don't think it's been applied in-practice and you'd have to have a network-connected player that the vendor is still providing updates to for that to happen anyway.
I look at the phone industry and think.. hmm this is looking like how the car industry plays out. Aside from actual safety and engine improvements, is there any real benefit to continually changing styling every year - aside from trying to convince buyers that "new is better"?
At least with vehicles there are visible differences. Phones, you have the little rectangle, the medium-sized rectangle, and the big rectangle. The color of the rectangle might be changable or might be enclosable with a case.
Does anyone really care what their phone looks like? Really?
If it's any consolation my vehicles are 21 years old at the newest. My large, powerful sedan is still a large, powerful sedan. My pickup truck is still a pickup truck.
Am I the only one who cares that systemd is following the path of much of the rest of the Linux ecosystem in adding more and more features before bothering to extinguish all the bugs in the existing feature set? Has it proven that it should be gobbling up other features and breaking the old UNIX model of discreet chunks of competent tightly-focused code yet?
No, you're not the only one. I'm installing new boxes at home with Devuan because I like my Linux boxes to use Init. I am aware that this will be the more difficult path, but Debian seems to have violated its own rules regarding adding new packages to Stable after it's made stable.
I do not like all-in-one solutions, and my experiences with random problems with PulseAudio leaves me distrustful of other software from the same developer, and to me this looks like fixing something that isn't broken.
If Systemd becomes ubiquitous and unavoidable I'll look at other UNIX/UNIX-Like operating systems.
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
Then they need to ask themselves what device accomplishes these tasks, and then start comparing extra features that cost more along with various price points.
After they've done all that, basically identified needs, wants, what's superfluous, then they're in a positon to actually make a choice.
We tend to be a bit conservative with our spending, using devices until they stop working, and in some cases doing a bit of home repair to keep them going when there are problems. I used an HTC Dream until the "A" key quit. We used Galaxy SII phones until her power button kept getting stuck where it was engaged, fixed that a couple times before having enough, and I used my SII until something failed and it no longer recognized SIM cards or that it had a WIFI chip. She didn't feel a need for more functionality than the SII so we replaced it with a Galaxy Core Prime, and I wanted durable without needing a case so I went with the Kyocera DuraForce XD. She spent around $200, I spent around $400, both a far cry from the $700 phones that are so common, and I expect these will give us many years of good service.
Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
Only place I've ever had a problem with it, the other drivers with broken vehicles at the same place also had problems. We all hit some debris and punctured tires. No one had cell service and there were other companies represented.
This serves to try to keep people that dabble in Linux from moving entirely away from Microsoft, basically allowing Microsoft to keep their foot in the door.
Originally you had to learn the entirely different mindset that POSIX/UNIX/Linux required. Multiuser, very little interactive as root, bunch of new tools, some kind of difficult to use, but powerful once they're learned. To be proficient you had to learn all of this and once learned you probably came to appreciate both the effort and the result. You probably weren't interested in Microsoft tools, which often felt late to the party and not very capable.
Now, you can attempt to work in a Linux/UNIX environment with Microsoft-feeling tools. You may not come to appreciate the GNU or POSIX stuff, you never really immerse yourself in it, so it's easier for Microsoft to call you back if you run into challenges. You haven't really mastered the UNIX model.
At least that's my concern. I've been in meetings with Microsoft product reps who would be very condescending towards non-Microsoft solutions even if those solutions were older, more mature, and more robust, often because the worse GUI or lack of GUI meant that you actually had to know what you were doing. It makes it easier to pander to managers that aren't as technical as they should be. This is just another tool in that toolkit.
Don't count on it. I was reading on the business of making movies and the consensus is that since Ghostbusters is supposed to be a comedy first, it cost far, far too much to make this movie compared to what they got. Normally comedies are carried on the skills of the performers. Even the original 1984 Ghostbusters featured fairly spartan numbers of effects, many of them practical with techniques like film double-exposure, suspension rigs for the actors (Sigourney Weaver floating), and physical things like the egg-countertop scene. The big effects like the final battle with Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man had plenty of practical elements and the scenes relied on the skill of the actors to pull them off more than on just the effects.
I understand that this 2016 version featured lots and lots of computer effects, far more than the original. That gets expensive and quickly.
I've heard that supposedly it made its budget back finally.
Thing is, its budget doesn't include things like publicity and distribution. I saw tie-ins for insurance, for restaurants, even an hour-long special about the eighties with a grossly-disproportionate segment right at the end about Ray Parker Jr. and the original *Ghostbusters Theme*, and I'm pretty sure that it was paid for by those attempting to publicize the new movie.
They may have made the original shooting/production budget back, but I suspect they've got a long way to go before they are actually in the black.
I donno, they seem to have gotten the news-media hooked on it, they will repeat whatever any C-lister or above says on shows like Entertainment Tonight, and if it catches enough attention there then it ends up making the actual news.
From a publicity point of view it's golden, doesn't cost anything and can increase exposure.
Why people care is what I don't quite get, but I've never really entirely understood why some things become popular anyway.
In the 1980s my father had a GRID laptop assigned to him. He'd work from home on the System 370 or would use it when on-call and something would come up, dialing-in to the S370 via modem.
I have a serial terminal sitting on my desk at work plugged into a network switch's serial port. I can administer the entire WAN through that terminal if I have to, no actual computer involved. I could take that terminal and hook it directly to a modem with a null-modem cable and dial-out to connect to other computers, which is basically late-sixties to early-seventies technology.
Since the dawn of the modem it's been possible to work from somewhere else if the software to do the work is capable of being used remotely. It's only the early GUI era when this broke as GUI applications required too much bandwidth to work over modem speeds. VPN and broadband Internet in the mid to late nineties essentially solved that, tech workers that don't physically touch the equipment could literally live anywhere.
I'm surprised that someone hasn't bashed-in his skull. Sounds like now that his name is out there, a bunch of people he's victimized may realize and someone may take action.
Think about it, if he has a lot of victims then it may be difficult to pin it on any one of 'em if no one talks.
Usually it costs less because there are fewer inputs and no ATSC tuner.
I just use a video projector. I have an Epson unit that's about four years old now, does 1080p. I've got an high-definition ATSC tuner (as opposed to one of those converter-box things) connected to the projector along with a computer, the Blu-ray player, the S-VHS deck, and a Laserdisc player.
The Epson was the first new one that I bought. I've had three different projectors over the past fifteen years or so, going from 800x600 to 1024x768, to 1920x1080 now. 100" electric roll-down screen which I have roll-down in front of the thin bookshelf that holds the DVDs and Blu-Rays. Got a six-way surround sound system in the room, three across the front, three across the back. Good big speakers so I don't miss the subwoofer. Works very well.
...fuck Wikipedia. It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor, regardless of any acumen or credentials with the subject matter, and without regard to any actual rules that govern article structure or citation.
If Wikipedia wants to fix this, they need to disallow users from camping on pet articles. They need to disallow reverts based on style that have nothing to do with substance and have no real benefit, and they need to ban users that continue to engage in these practices. Until that's done the entire process will be at the whim of the cave trolls that patrol the site because they have nothing better to do.
When these precedents were set, women were much more dependent on men for general quality-of-life and for income than women are now. The two divorces that I am most familiar with did not feature women making-bank. In one the woman lost child suport and lost custody when she couldn't maintain employment and ended up with family, and kept cracking-up cars that the ex-husband had purchased so that she could take the kids to things. If I remember right, the child welfare people even got involved and discovered that the house she was living in was in a terrible state. She now technically owes child-support to him but basically can't pay it.
In the other case with no children, their careers were reasonably close to parity. She bought-out his share of the house (was paid-off already) at a bit of a discount because of the little difference there was in lieu of dealing with alimony or other long-term commitment or support.
I remember one that had a sign in a mall or lobby or something, asking people to please not walk on a certain color of tile. Of course that was the dominant color of tile on that bit of floor. Usually made for some good laughs.
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a WAP is a workspace device, like a computer or TV. It cannot be concealed in wiring closet that may be as much as 300 feet away and still hope to serve the area it's needed for. Hell, I have some buildings where two floors are served by one IDF and there are close to a hundred WAPs patched.
Modern Cisco WAPs have annoyingly bright LEDs on the workspace-facing side. I have three 3602e WAPs that I use for my home learning lab and home wifi, and I have disabled the LEDs on one and probably will on another. An option to either dim or to disable the blue color when not in a fault state would prevent having to do that.
There was a TV Pilot called Earth II starring Gary Lockwood where this was a plot-point; at the beginning a saboteur was preparing to shoot the rocket on the pad with a high-powered rifle before he was stopped and killed by launch facility defense personnel.
There have been special rifles designed to target equipment rather than humans, so it is not inconceivable that someone could use such a rifle to explosively destroy a rocket once it's fueled or as its fueling.
I like the fact that once I have my CDs and DVDs they can't take-back the rights when I have physical media, and I don't have to worry about losing my media when I have a hard disk failure.
In practice this is also true for Blu-Ray. If I remember what I read back when the Blu-ray standard was first released there was apparently a mechanism to invalidate Blu-ray discs, but I don't think it's been applied in-practice and you'd have to have a network-connected player that the vendor is still providing updates to for that to happen anyway.
I look at the phone industry and think .. hmm this is looking like how the car industry plays out. Aside from actual safety and engine improvements, is there any real benefit to continually changing styling every year - aside from trying to convince buyers that "new is better"?
At least with vehicles there are visible differences. Phones, you have the little rectangle, the medium-sized rectangle, and the big rectangle. The color of the rectangle might be changable or might be enclosable with a case.
Does anyone really care what their phone looks like? Really?
If it's any consolation my vehicles are 21 years old at the newest. My large, powerful sedan is still a large, powerful sedan. My pickup truck is still a pickup truck.
Now we use them as VR systems, which will drive the need for faster phones with better displays and better positional tracking for years to come.
Is this a need, or is this a want?
Is this something that you need with you all of the time? Is this something that you need your communications device to do?
Am I the only one who cares that systemd is following the path of much of the rest of the Linux ecosystem in adding more and more features before bothering to extinguish all the bugs in the existing feature set? Has it proven that it should be gobbling up other features and breaking the old UNIX model of discreet chunks of competent tightly-focused code yet?
No, you're not the only one. I'm installing new boxes at home with Devuan because I like my Linux boxes to use Init. I am aware that this will be the more difficult path, but Debian seems to have violated its own rules regarding adding new packages to Stable after it's made stable.
I do not like all-in-one solutions, and my experiences with random problems with PulseAudio leaves me distrustful of other software from the same developer, and to me this looks like fixing something that isn't broken.
If Systemd becomes ubiquitous and unavoidable I'll look at other UNIX/UNIX-Like operating systems.
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
Then they need to ask themselves what device accomplishes these tasks, and then start comparing extra features that cost more along with various price points.
After they've done all that, basically identified needs, wants, what's superfluous, then they're in a positon to actually make a choice.
We tend to be a bit conservative with our spending, using devices until they stop working, and in some cases doing a bit of home repair to keep them going when there are problems. I used an HTC Dream until the "A" key quit. We used Galaxy SII phones until her power button kept getting stuck where it was engaged, fixed that a couple times before having enough, and I used my SII until something failed and it no longer recognized SIM cards or that it had a WIFI chip. She didn't feel a need for more functionality than the SII so we replaced it with a Galaxy Core Prime, and I wanted durable without needing a case so I went with the Kyocera DuraForce XD. She spent around $200, I spent around $400, both a far cry from the $700 phones that are so common, and I expect these will give us many years of good service.
Replace the electronics when it's actually dead or doesn't meet your needs, not just because it's not as shiny as it once was.
Only place I've ever had a problem with it, the other drivers with broken vehicles at the same place also had problems. We all hit some debris and punctured tires. No one had cell service and there were other companies represented.
I heard that "Lindows" as a name is available again...
I am speechless. Like how useful is this?
This serves to try to keep people that dabble in Linux from moving entirely away from Microsoft, basically allowing Microsoft to keep their foot in the door.
Originally you had to learn the entirely different mindset that POSIX/UNIX/Linux required. Multiuser, very little interactive as root, bunch of new tools, some kind of difficult to use, but powerful once they're learned. To be proficient you had to learn all of this and once learned you probably came to appreciate both the effort and the result. You probably weren't interested in Microsoft tools, which often felt late to the party and not very capable.
Now, you can attempt to work in a Linux/UNIX environment with Microsoft-feeling tools. You may not come to appreciate the GNU or POSIX stuff, you never really immerse yourself in it, so it's easier for Microsoft to call you back if you run into challenges. You haven't really mastered the UNIX model.
At least that's my concern. I've been in meetings with Microsoft product reps who would be very condescending towards non-Microsoft solutions even if those solutions were older, more mature, and more robust, often because the worse GUI or lack of GUI meant that you actually had to know what you were doing. It makes it easier to pander to managers that aren't as technical as they should be. This is just another tool in that toolkit.
And here I am, having been an unlimited-everything T-Mobile customer for the better part of a decade...
Don't count on it. I was reading on the business of making movies and the consensus is that since Ghostbusters is supposed to be a comedy first, it cost far, far too much to make this movie compared to what they got. Normally comedies are carried on the skills of the performers. Even the original 1984 Ghostbusters featured fairly spartan numbers of effects, many of them practical with techniques like film double-exposure, suspension rigs for the actors (Sigourney Weaver floating), and physical things like the egg-countertop scene. The big effects like the final battle with Gozer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man had plenty of practical elements and the scenes relied on the skill of the actors to pull them off more than on just the effects.
I understand that this 2016 version featured lots and lots of computer effects, far more than the original. That gets expensive and quickly.
I've heard that supposedly it made its budget back finally.
Thing is, its budget doesn't include things like publicity and distribution. I saw tie-ins for insurance, for restaurants, even an hour-long special about the eighties with a grossly-disproportionate segment right at the end about Ray Parker Jr. and the original *Ghostbusters Theme*, and I'm pretty sure that it was paid for by those attempting to publicize the new movie.
They may have made the original shooting/production budget back, but I suspect they've got a long way to go before they are actually in the black.
I donno, they seem to have gotten the news-media hooked on it, they will repeat whatever any C-lister or above says on shows like Entertainment Tonight, and if it catches enough attention there then it ends up making the actual news.
From a publicity point of view it's golden, doesn't cost anything and can increase exposure.
Why people care is what I don't quite get, but I've never really entirely understood why some things become popular anyway.
By now?
In the 1980s my father had a GRID laptop assigned to him. He'd work from home on the System 370 or would use it when on-call and something would come up, dialing-in to the S370 via modem.
I have a serial terminal sitting on my desk at work plugged into a network switch's serial port. I can administer the entire WAN through that terminal if I have to, no actual computer involved. I could take that terminal and hook it directly to a modem with a null-modem cable and dial-out to connect to other computers, which is basically late-sixties to early-seventies technology.
Since the dawn of the modem it's been possible to work from somewhere else if the software to do the work is capable of being used remotely. It's only the early GUI era when this broke as GUI applications required too much bandwidth to work over modem speeds. VPN and broadband Internet in the mid to late nineties essentially solved that, tech workers that don't physically touch the equipment could literally live anywhere.
I'm surprised that someone hasn't bashed-in his skull. Sounds like now that his name is out there, a bunch of people he's victimized may realize and someone may take action.
Think about it, if he has a lot of victims then it may be difficult to pin it on any one of 'em if no one talks.
I don't think it matters what Taepodong they have if they can't get their 'dong up...
Usually it costs less because there are fewer inputs and no ATSC tuner.
I just use a video projector. I have an Epson unit that's about four years old now, does 1080p. I've got an high-definition ATSC tuner (as opposed to one of those converter-box things) connected to the projector along with a computer, the Blu-ray player, the S-VHS deck, and a Laserdisc player.
The Epson was the first new one that I bought. I've had three different projectors over the past fifteen years or so, going from 800x600 to 1024x768, to 1920x1080 now. 100" electric roll-down screen which I have roll-down in front of the thin bookshelf that holds the DVDs and Blu-Rays. Got a six-way surround sound system in the room, three across the front, three across the back. Good big speakers so I don't miss the subwoofer. Works very well.
Why shouldn't it be legal?
I bought it, I used it, I am selling it because I am no longer using it.
That may largely depend on if man and later the estate did what was necessary to maintain copyright.
...water has been found to be wet...
...the Pope is Catholic...
...Bears really do shit in the woods, so long as the forest is their habitat.
Aaaand, we're back to piss again.
...fuck Wikipedia. It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor, regardless of any acumen or credentials with the subject matter, and without regard to any actual rules that govern article structure or citation.
If Wikipedia wants to fix this, they need to disallow users from camping on pet articles. They need to disallow reverts based on style that have nothing to do with substance and have no real benefit, and they need to ban users that continue to engage in these practices. Until that's done the entire process will be at the whim of the cave trolls that patrol the site because they have nothing better to do.
This is slowly changing.
When these precedents were set, women were much more dependent on men for general quality-of-life and for income than women are now. The two divorces that I am most familiar with did not feature women making-bank. In one the woman lost child suport and lost custody when she couldn't maintain employment and ended up with family, and kept cracking-up cars that the ex-husband had purchased so that she could take the kids to things. If I remember right, the child welfare people even got involved and discovered that the house she was living in was in a terrible state. She now technically owes child-support to him but basically can't pay it.
In the other case with no children, their careers were reasonably close to parity. She bought-out his share of the house (was paid-off already) at a bit of a discount because of the little difference there was in lieu of dealing with alimony or other long-term commitment or support.
I remember one that had a sign in a mall or lobby or something, asking people to please not walk on a certain color of tile. Of course that was the dominant color of tile on that bit of floor. Usually made for some good laughs.