Unfortunately, the US government's attempt at translating the ultimate SCO joke weapon into C++ and/or ASCII art has failed because the head programmer attempted to program two routines at once and is set to spend the next few weeks in hospital.
You're right. The article itself does say CSMA/CA, in my summarizing I put down/CD by mistake. After awhile, all these blasted acronyms get muddled together...And unfortunately wireless isn't my forte; I just figured this would be interesting for developer and troubleshooter types. If anyone has links to the 802.11* standard, or whitepapers and such, I would appreciate it...I'm still picking up stuff that Cisco forgot to mention...
Let's not forget the charge that recording shows without commercials (TiVo allows such, and, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't it allow you to completely skip commercials? sadly, I can't afford such wonderful technology/me poor) is "theft" because of the fact that the person recording doesn't see all the wonderful things the sponsor of said program has for them to buy, supposedly bringing down the revenue of the sponsor. Can't remember which imbecile TV bigwig said this, if can be found please post link.
I agree, if I have to pay an "infringement fee" whether or not I have recorded, pirated, ripped or what have you, I'm going to take the opportunity to build up my collection of my favorite shows (no point buying all eleven seasons of M*A*S*H (C) [just to be safe/sarcasm] if FX (C) has a four episode block every afternoon and repeated the following morning). I think the idea in the article, about a fee for the ISPs that took care of royalties, if it were reasonable, would be tolerable. The reason I download whatever music I download (usually not Brittany (C) Spears (C), Emin(C)m, nor Metalli(C)a) is because I don't have the money to buy a fifteen dollar cd when there's only one song that's worth paying a couple dollars for. I think the issue of a pre-emptive "infringment fee" on cable, while it is insulting to have to pay for a "crime" I probably haven't committed, if applied to webcasting (so long as it's kept reasonable) would take care of most of the things the publishers and the individuals are at odds about. Most of the arguments I've heard detracting the current "legality" of webcasting has to do with the outrageous fees placed, as described in the article. I haven't heard many people who were just totally unwilling to pay anything. My beef with the recording industry is the same as most of the people I talk to on a daily basis, that they're a bunch of fatcats.
Before I stray to far off topic (though I feel the article and the issue of the friasco the RIAA is in the process of making are intrinsically related), I'd better step off of my soapbox.
[pulls out freeze ray and sets to work on hapless town]
I work on a LAN that services somewhere around 300 students at an off-campus residence hall, and run into just about everything. I've found I always have a use for screwdrivers, preferably one with interchangeable bits, but at least one phillips and one slot-head. Torx drivers are also useful on computer hardware, now and again.
A static build up preventing wristband, the type that hooks up to the case is a must, especially when working with other people's equipment. Pliers come in handy, especially with some of the new ethernet receptacle types. If you are doing extensive work on a card or something, a chip grabber will do. I always carry spare screws, like from where I've had extra from installation kits. RJ-45 jacks and spare cable/spare straight through cable already made out for when you have to test a NIC and the client doesn't have any cat-5 patch cables (for whatever reason...had a guy a week or two ago who had lived at the property for three years and had never had a computer in his room).
Tweezers to grab small parts, nut drivers, place to store odds and ends (I hate losing screws, brackets, chips, or any electronic components while I'm working).
That about does it...For working on networks I have a laptop to verify port conectivity, but you can also use tone and probe testing kits...Fluke makes some good testers for everything...Oh, I shouldn't forget a punch down tool, which can basically be anything that will wedge a wire into place on a panel or such.
Yeah, I'm a physics major; all of my calculus classes have used the Stewart book...although I think we're fixing to start using a new edition...damn the rising cost of education!!
Physics: The Human Adventure, Gerald Holton and Stephen Brush Nice, historical look at how well known physical concepts of today were discovered.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Paul Fishbane and Stephen Gasiorowicz
First few chapters good if you have a basic knowledge of calculus. For the later chapters (ie, Electricity and Magnetism, basic quantum mechanics) good idea to have a calculus book handy, I reccomend
Calculus: Early Transcendentals, James Stewart First chapter is a good review of algebra, precalculus, and analytical geometry. Through chapter 7, fairly straightforward. Chapter on sequences and series is kind of fuzzy, though it mostly makes sense.
Hope this helps!
Welcome to the circular nature of economics...specifically with relation to a laissez faire style capitalist market.
(Disclaimer: IANE)
Let's look at the most extreme hypothetical:
A true capitalist market is set up (little or no government controls or regulations constricting business practices). Companies are allowed to compete and grow. Over time, the weakest of these are weeded out through buyouts, bankruptcies, etc. Remaining out of the ashes of the economic war (which is basically what laissez faire capitalism becomes) are a handful of companies addressing a specific part of the market. Over time, this number decreases through what amounts to an economic darwinism where the profitable survive, and everyone else is left indebted or whatever.
As competition dwindles, the companies can do whatever the hell they want, from price-gouging to this example of discriminatory pricing. I could see where it would start as something small and then get disastrously ot of hand, devoloving into a type of scenario as the parent suggests.
And then, when it gets its worst, you wind up with a market-imposed communism. Interesting concept...hopefully no one would actually be stupid enough to try this...
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Unfortunately, the US government's attempt at translating the ultimate SCO joke weapon into C++ and/or ASCII art has failed because the head programmer attempted to program two routines at once and is set to spend the next few weeks in hospital.
You're right. The article itself does say CSMA/CA, in my summarizing I put down /CD by mistake. After awhile, all these blasted acronyms get muddled together...And unfortunately wireless isn't my forte; I just figured this would be interesting for developer and troubleshooter types. If anyone has links to the 802.11* standard, or whitepapers and such, I would appreciate it...I'm still picking up stuff that Cisco forgot to mention...
Sorry, my fault...I missummarized.
[running from chidren throwing balls to stop his using freeze-ray]
I agree, if I have to pay an "infringement fee" whether or not I have recorded, pirated, ripped or what have you, I'm going to take the opportunity to build up my collection of my favorite shows (no point buying all eleven seasons of M*A*S*H (C) [just to be safe /sarcasm] if FX (C) has a four episode block every afternoon and repeated the following morning). I think the idea in the article, about a fee for the ISPs that took care of royalties, if it were reasonable, would be tolerable. The reason I download whatever music I download (usually not Brittany (C) Spears (C), Emin(C)m, nor Metalli(C)a) is because I don't have the money to buy a fifteen dollar cd when there's only one song that's worth paying a couple dollars for. I think the issue of a pre-emptive "infringment fee" on cable, while it is insulting to have to pay for a "crime" I probably haven't committed, if applied to webcasting (so long as it's kept reasonable) would take care of most of the things the publishers and the individuals are at odds about. Most of the arguments I've heard detracting the current "legality" of webcasting has to do with the outrageous fees placed, as described in the article. I haven't heard many people who were just totally unwilling to pay anything. My beef with the recording industry is the same as most of the people I talk to on a daily basis, that they're a bunch of fatcats.
Before I stray to far off topic (though I feel the article and the issue of the friasco the RIAA is in the process of making are intrinsically related), I'd better step off of my soapbox.
[pulls out freeze ray and sets to work on hapless town]
I work on a LAN that services somewhere around 300 students at an off-campus residence hall, and run into just about everything. I've found I always have a use for screwdrivers, preferably one with interchangeable bits, but at least one phillips and one slot-head. Torx drivers are also useful on computer hardware, now and again.
A static build up preventing wristband, the type that hooks up to the case is a must, especially when working with other people's equipment. Pliers come in handy, especially with some of the new ethernet receptacle types. If you are doing extensive work on a card or something, a chip grabber will do. I always carry spare screws, like from where I've had extra from installation kits. RJ-45 jacks and spare cable/spare straight through cable already made out for when you have to test a NIC and the client doesn't have any cat-5 patch cables (for whatever reason...had a guy a week or two ago who had lived at the property for three years and had never had a computer in his room).
Tweezers to grab small parts, nut drivers, place to store odds and ends (I hate losing screws, brackets, chips, or any electronic components while I'm working).
That about does it...For working on networks I have a laptop to verify port conectivity, but you can also use tone and probe testing kits...Fluke makes some good testers for everything...Oh, I shouldn't forget a punch down tool, which can basically be anything that will wedge a wire into place on a panel or such.
Yeah, I'm a physics major; all of my calculus classes have used the Stewart book...although I think we're fixing to start using a new edition...damn the rising cost of education!!
Physics: The Human Adventure, Gerald Holton and Stephen Brush
Nice, historical look at how well known physical concepts of today were discovered.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Paul Fishbane and Stephen Gasiorowicz
First few chapters good if you have a basic knowledge of calculus. For the later chapters (ie, Electricity and Magnetism, basic quantum mechanics) good idea to have a calculus book handy, I reccomend
Calculus: Early Transcendentals, James Stewart
First chapter is a good review of algebra, precalculus, and analytical geometry. Through chapter 7, fairly straightforward. Chapter on sequences and series is kind of fuzzy, though it mostly makes sense.
Hope this helps!
Welcome to the circular nature of economics...specifically with relation to a laissez faire style capitalist market. (Disclaimer: IANE) Let's look at the most extreme hypothetical: A true capitalist market is set up (little or no government controls or regulations constricting business practices). Companies are allowed to compete and grow. Over time, the weakest of these are weeded out through buyouts, bankruptcies, etc. Remaining out of the ashes of the economic war (which is basically what laissez faire capitalism becomes) are a handful of companies addressing a specific part of the market. Over time, this number decreases through what amounts to an economic darwinism where the profitable survive, and everyone else is left indebted or whatever. As competition dwindles, the companies can do whatever the hell they want, from price-gouging to this example of discriminatory pricing. I could see where it would start as something small and then get disastrously ot of hand, devoloving into a type of scenario as the parent suggests. And then, when it gets its worst, you wind up with a market-imposed communism. Interesting concept...hopefully no one would actually be stupid enough to try this...