There's a lot of money to be made catering to the general public who's too ignorant to know good service from bad.
Their service is great, it just works 100%. Renewed my domain for ten years back in '05, expires in 2015. Never a problem. The service they provide to me, is pointing my domain name to my dns servers, thats all. I have no idea how much or little their other services may or may not suck, but its kind of pointless, like comparing the quality of the bottled apple juice at walmart to the quality of the hunting rifle ammo at walmart...
Now their marketing website currently looks like a very bad parody of an early tween-ager myspace page. And I've heard bad things about their customer service, but I'll only interact with them via website once per decade, so that puts them lightyears ahead of most major companies.
McDonalds would never survive if the average customer only visited once a decade, I'm missing the point of the endless stripper ads on TV.
(A good reason to never volunteer to test prototypes, especially if your lifestyle includes the occasional pub visit)
The problem is, part of the testing job is to determine the beer / vomit / smoke resistance of the prototype, before the users test the production models in the same environment. At least they got data on its "theft resistance" characteristics...
Or do you want one with no option to turn on the automatic stuff?
Its the UI. On my old K1000, the front ring on the lens is focus, back ring is D.O.F / F-stop, Mostly-Single-Function rotary dial on the top for shutter speed (and a complicated way to change film speed for the light meter, etc), a film advance lever, and a shutter release. Also a combination film rewind/back opener dial on the top. The UI is physically fast, simple, intuitive, instant to learn, lifetime to master. Like a CLI.
On the other hand, on an automatic digital Cannon from a couple years back, its clicky heaven, definitely a windows style interface. Clicky Clickly Clicky thru the menus and dials, no rhyme or reason, and maybe you can adjust the shutter speed, but not really interactively or easily. Like a GUI. Like trying to use a real camera while wearing oven mitts.
Yes, gimme a digital back for a K1000. I had one of those in the 90s.
A fairly common set up is a telescope or microscope with an industry standard lens t-mount, then a ridiculously overcomplicated digital camera, complete with all kinds of useless gimmick features. Great, I can now take micro-photographs in sepia tones. Fan freaking tastic. All that junk does is get in the way.
A dig back for a K1000 would be about perfect, since all I really need the camera for, is to act as a light-tight spacer between the t-mount and the dig back's CCD. It should be cheaper, also?
Any specifics for encryption key storage? How bout another column in the DB? That seems a likely implementation, very convenient and all that. Or we could just hardcode it to something memorable "password".
Any specifics for encryption scheme? I've heard ROT-13 is fast, but XOR is faster.
Sure it wasn't a METAL tube like a piece of broken off IV needle? You even mentioned he was in for surgery.
Also, bone particles? Every couple years for a decade or two, a tiny little shard of bone from a broken molar extraction works its way to the surface of the skin of my mouth, makes a little pimple, hurts for about a day, pops out, and its gone. We're talking tiny little pieces of bone here, like the ball on the end of a ball point pen.
Finally, your hand is semi-translucent. Hold it up in front of a bright lamp and you'll see what I mean. Also they have a tendency to be blown off in explosions and generally smacked around. I'm not thinking hand would be location choice #1 for an implant, although I suppose it depends on the application.
Do they mean something really weird like superglueing a passkey/ibutton to your skin? That's a new one I've never even heard of, and I've been interested in this general area of research for a long time (not for paranoid reasons, but more for medical and UI reasons)
'Microchip' means any... electronically readable marking,
Ah, so no barcodes, no "mark of the beast" in GA etc. Technically a tattoo parlor inking a bar code would be "implanting a microchip" according to this bizarre law.
Such term shall not include pacemakers.
And there's the out. You'll get all the implants they want, just with a pacemaker feature that is not enabled.
That can't be the reason; synchronizing to DCF77 time by radio is accurate up to the nanosecond and has been since 1973 -- and the receivers literally only cost pennies.
Perhaps the GPS clock works better than a DCF77 clock at high temperatures... like when the gatso is set on fire... See pics:
Also, Conrad's 641138-89 DCF77 module is more like ten pounds, rather than "literally pennies" or whatever. At that price, what the heck, may as well upgrade to the GPS unit, especially if there are later plans to use the location data for something (tagging the ticket? Automatic distance determination to do the V=d/t calculation? Who knows?)
Whoever owns the systems.... have a right to have access.
Who can and cannot have access is specified in policy.
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that your two quotes neatly summarized his trial. Written policy and contract ordered him not to give out passwords to any random elected official, and an elected official ordered him to break the written policy and contract. Remove all the technology and its an ancient story.
as we envision our signatures outliving our bodies
Well, the worldwide death rate is supposedly 0.837% of the population per year, round to 1% per year. Estimate from 96 to seven years from now, to be about 20 years.
So, for about 20% of the folks whom signed, their signatures DID outlast their bodies... Not bad, not bad.
You said they might just need to use a bit more fuel to correct, but the story also mentions that that they went to great lengths to preserve as much fuel as possible, so i still wonder if they needed to use relativity or not...
Random variation in solar activity, random outgasing of surfaces, and random light pressure effects on decaying surface patterns/paints should totally swamp any relativity effects.
There are also experimentally observed effects that have no current explanation. Perhaps they are just noise, perhaps not. The topics you need to search for are Flyby Anomaly and Pioneer Anomaly. That will give you enough background on the scale of unknown orbital forces to compare with the theoretical effects of relativity calculations.
I have also talked with people at Johnson Space Center about this and they use programs like Matlab to determine the orbit maneuvers and another program I can't recall offhand for visualizing it.
ORSA is popular with the ESA; perhaps folks at JSC use it. Its also used by the NASA and JPL crowd. Most likely, the name you cannot recall is ORSA.
Refridgerating your pizza first doesn't sound weird to me but more like a case of mysophobia.
Mysophobia, no, I'm cool with dirt. Pathological fear of food poisoning, now thats me. I've had some simply astounding experiences a several hours after consuming McDonalds breakfast egg-product sandwiches, and of course the proverbial Taco Bell. Could not find the word for that phobia, despite some google searching. SitoToxiPhobia? Maybe just "commonsense"?
I like cheese on crackers, cold pizza is about the same technology but tastes better.
Fast food is something you finish in less then 30 minutes. At least that's my definition. A proper meal 1) takes at least one hour 2) is not eaten alone 3) if it's eaten alone, you must have a newspaper or a good book handy for the pauses you take between the starters, main courses and the dessert.
Dominos was on the list. The pizza delivery joint.
My pizza eating experience goes something like:
Eat a slice a pizza, wipe hands on shirt (just being honest here), wash down w/ sip of beer, play a couple rounds of civilization or other non-realtime strategy game, repeat until no longer hungry or out of pizza and/or beer. Takes at least an hour, and eating room temperature pizza probably violates all kinds of safe food handling rules, so I sometimes refrigerate before eating (weird, but true).
Here we used to use IM internally, until it was ruined. We generally, no longer use IM.
Other folks figured out they can try to skip procedures by using IM. You know all those procedures? F those procedures we'll just send an IM to some random person, that's the new procedure.
A lot of complaining about our work schedules in a 24x7 department. Why, I never reported it because so-and-so was on vacation so I couldn't IM him. What about the three guys sitting there doing nothing? Well, they're not in my buddy list.
"Phone Book" problems. People whom transfer to other depts but keep their name getting IMs to work their old job.
Also internal scheduling became intolerable. IM worked OK for folks whom only do one task all day every day. Special projects became impossible when other individuals started managing our incoming workload.
Documentation becomes impossible. Stuff that belongs in a wiki procedure is just IMed by those too lazy to edit. Stuff that belongs on the calendar is just IMed by folks too lazy to use outlook. Stuff that belongs in a ticket is just IMed by those too lazy to use RT. The lazy people made life hell on the non-lazy people.
Collaboration? Impossible. You can email any arbitrary group of folks. IM? In any group of three workers, they'll try to cut and paste each other, but fail.
Then there's the freaks. Such a broad spectrum of responsiveness. Some folks treat it like an email, as long as they reply by the end of the day, its all good. Then there's the lunatics whom expect a response within 1 second or else you're snubbing them, obviously the universe revolves around them and how dare you imply it doesn't, by not dropping everything to reply to their IM (lots of that type in lower level mgmt)
Finally no audit trail. I IMed someone whom never did what I asked. Turns out that's someone at a meeting, away from desk, whatever. Just lost in the aether.
After enough complaints, each individual got rid of it as their threshold was reached. Very few people indeed still use IM where I work.
So at roughly $4/GB that'd place us where, back at the late 90s? I'm not sure what part of 'catching up' people seem to think of when they're talking about SSDs replacing HDDs.
I deployed a 586 based single board computer using a 4 gig CF as the boot drive about a year ago. Entire system draws about 4 watts total and no moving parts. I would call it vaguely mid 90s ish specifications. If you define HDD as advancing about one year per year, then SSDs seem to be advancing about half a decade per year, thus "catching up" at a rate of about 4 years per calendar year, and currently "about a decade behind" so figure SSD will pass HDD around the end of the world, late 2012-ish. Sign of the Apocalypse?
Slapping what I assume to be a ton of chips together wont make for an impressive benchmark.
Same as:
... I would rather raid together a bunch of and small fast ssd's than 1 big one.
SSD seek time is zero, there is no multi-spindle advantage. Unless you are trying to exceed a system thruput of 3 gigs/sec, the limit of a single SATA channel...
You don't need a solid state drive for storing media. It's completely useless.
If you say so...
Mostly in places where you have a lot of reads all over the disk in a very short amount of time.
Yeah, like my video server trying to feed multiple HD streams at the same time. Zero seek time sure would be nice. Good thing video is not media, because then it would be useless.
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There's a lot of money to be made catering to the general public who's too ignorant to know good service from bad.
Their service is great, it just works 100%. Renewed my domain for ten years back in '05, expires in 2015. Never a problem. The service they provide to me, is pointing my domain name to my dns servers, thats all. I have no idea how much or little their other services may or may not suck, but its kind of pointless, like comparing the quality of the bottled apple juice at walmart to the quality of the hunting rifle ammo at walmart...
Now their marketing website currently looks like a very bad parody of an early tween-ager myspace page. And I've heard bad things about their customer service, but I'll only interact with them via website once per decade, so that puts them lightyears ahead of most major companies.
McDonalds would never survive if the average customer only visited once a decade, I'm missing the point of the endless stripper ads on TV.
(A good reason to never volunteer to test prototypes, especially if your lifestyle includes the occasional pub visit)
The problem is, part of the testing job is to determine the beer / vomit / smoke resistance of the prototype, before the users test the production models in the same environment. At least they got data on its "theft resistance" characteristics...
What controls did the cameras you tried lack?
Or do you want one with no option to turn on the automatic stuff?
Its the UI. On my old K1000, the front ring on the lens is focus, back ring is D.O.F / F-stop, Mostly-Single-Function rotary dial on the top for shutter speed (and a complicated way to change film speed for the light meter, etc), a film advance lever, and a shutter release. Also a combination film rewind/back opener dial on the top. The UI is physically fast, simple, intuitive, instant to learn, lifetime to master. Like a CLI.
On the other hand, on an automatic digital Cannon from a couple years back, its clicky heaven, definitely a windows style interface. Clicky Clickly Clicky thru the menus and dials, no rhyme or reason, and maybe you can adjust the shutter speed, but not really interactively or easily. Like a GUI. Like trying to use a real camera while wearing oven mitts.
Yes, gimme a digital back for a K1000. I had one of those in the 90s.
A fairly common set up is a telescope or microscope with an industry standard lens t-mount, then a ridiculously overcomplicated digital camera, complete with all kinds of useless gimmick features. Great, I can now take micro-photographs in sepia tones. Fan freaking tastic. All that junk does is get in the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-mount
A dig back for a K1000 would be about perfect, since all I really need the camera for, is to act as a light-tight spacer between the t-mount and the dig back's CCD. It should be cheaper, also?
Any specifics for encryption key storage? How bout another column in the DB? That seems a likely implementation, very convenient and all that. Or we could just hardcode it to something memorable "password".
Any specifics for encryption scheme? I've heard ROT-13 is fast, but XOR is faster.
US Army implanted a glass-tube into his hand
Sure it wasn't a METAL tube like a piece of broken off IV needle? You even mentioned he was in for surgery.
Also, bone particles? Every couple years for a decade or two, a tiny little shard of bone from a broken molar extraction works its way to the surface of the skin of my mouth, makes a little pimple, hurts for about a day, pops out, and its gone. We're talking tiny little pieces of bone here, like the ball on the end of a ball point pen.
Finally, your hand is semi-translucent. Hold it up in front of a bright lamp and you'll see what I mean. Also they have a tendency to be blown off in explosions and generally smacked around. I'm not thinking hand would be location choice #1 for an implant, although I suppose it depends on the application.
Unlike most slashdotters I actually read the bill as passed.
What does this mean?
'Implant' includes any means intended to introduce a microchip .... or applied to the skin of a person.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/versions/sb235_As_passed_Senate_5.htm
Do they mean something really weird like superglueing a passkey/ibutton to your skin? That's a new one I've never even heard of, and I've been interested in this general area of research for a long time (not for paranoid reasons, but more for medical and UI reasons)
'Microchip' means any ... electronically readable marking,
Ah, so no barcodes, no "mark of the beast" in GA etc. Technically a tattoo parlor inking a bar code would be "implanting a microchip" according to this bizarre law.
Such term shall not include pacemakers.
And there's the out. You'll get all the implants they want, just with a pacemaker feature that is not enabled.
Are you kidding?
1) find the GPS receiver .50 Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol
2) shoot GPS receiver with
3) write a letter to Gordon Brown telling him to fuck off
As a quick examination of
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
will show, the S.O.P. is to place a tyre around the camera and ignite. You see, you have to pay to purchase ammunition, but worn out tyres are free.
That can't be the reason; synchronizing to DCF77 time by radio is accurate up to the nanosecond and has been since 1973 -- and the receivers literally only cost pennies.
Perhaps the GPS clock works better than a DCF77 clock at high temperatures... like when the gatso is set on fire... See pics:
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
Also, Conrad's 641138-89 DCF77 module is more like ten pounds, rather than "literally pennies" or whatever. At that price, what the heck, may as well upgrade to the GPS unit, especially if there are later plans to use the location data for something (tagging the ticket? Automatic distance determination to do the V=d/t calculation? Who knows?)
So what is so new with the ipad in this sense?
When you really want to buy an ipad for yourself, and you tell the wife its actually for the kids.
Whoever owns the systems .... have a right to have access.
Who can and cannot have access is specified in policy.
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that your two quotes neatly summarized his trial. Written policy and contract ordered him not to give out passwords to any random elected official, and an elected official ordered him to break the written policy and contract. Remove all the technology and its an ancient story.
as we envision our signatures outliving our bodies
Well, the worldwide death rate is supposedly 0.837% of the population per year, round to 1% per year. Estimate from 96 to seven years from now, to be about 20 years.
So, for about 20% of the folks whom signed, their signatures DID outlast their bodies... Not bad, not bad.
You said they might just need to use a bit more fuel to correct, but the story also mentions that that they went to great lengths to preserve as much fuel as possible, so i still wonder if they needed to use relativity or not...
Random variation in solar activity, random outgasing of surfaces, and random light pressure effects on decaying surface patterns/paints should totally swamp any relativity effects.
There are also experimentally observed effects that have no current explanation. Perhaps they are just noise, perhaps not. The topics you need to search for are Flyby Anomaly and Pioneer Anomaly. That will give you enough background on the scale of unknown orbital forces to compare with the theoretical effects of relativity calculations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyby_anomaly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
I have also talked with people at Johnson Space Center about this and they use programs like Matlab to determine the orbit maneuvers and another program I can't recall offhand for visualizing it.
ORSA is popular with the ESA; perhaps folks at JSC use it. Its also used by the NASA and JPL crowd. Most likely, the name you cannot recall is ORSA.
http://orsa.sourceforge.net/atwork.html
Refridgerating your pizza first doesn't sound weird to me but more like a case of mysophobia.
Mysophobia, no, I'm cool with dirt. Pathological fear of food poisoning, now thats me. I've had some simply astounding experiences a several hours after consuming McDonalds breakfast egg-product sandwiches, and of course the proverbial Taco Bell. Could not find the word for that phobia, despite some google searching. SitoToxiPhobia? Maybe just "commonsense"?
I like cheese on crackers, cold pizza is about the same technology but tastes better.
Fast food is something you finish in less then 30 minutes. At least that's my definition. A proper meal 1) takes at least one hour 2) is not eaten alone 3) if it's eaten alone, you must have a newspaper or a good book handy for the pauses you take between the starters, main courses and the dessert.
Dominos was on the list. The pizza delivery joint.
My pizza eating experience goes something like:
Eat a slice a pizza, wipe hands on shirt (just being honest here), wash down w/ sip of beer, play a couple rounds of civilization or other non-realtime strategy game, repeat until no longer hungry or out of pizza and/or beer. Takes at least an hour, and eating room temperature pizza probably violates all kinds of safe food handling rules, so I sometimes refrigerate before eating (weird, but true).
Here we used to use IM internally, until it was ruined. We generally, no longer use IM.
Other folks figured out they can try to skip procedures by using IM. You know all those procedures? F those procedures we'll just send an IM to some random person, that's the new procedure.
A lot of complaining about our work schedules in a 24x7 department. Why, I never reported it because so-and-so was on vacation so I couldn't IM him. What about the three guys sitting there doing nothing? Well, they're not in my buddy list.
"Phone Book" problems. People whom transfer to other depts but keep their name getting IMs to work their old job.
Also internal scheduling became intolerable. IM worked OK for folks whom only do one task all day every day. Special projects became impossible when other individuals started managing our incoming workload.
Documentation becomes impossible. Stuff that belongs in a wiki procedure is just IMed by those too lazy to edit. Stuff that belongs on the calendar is just IMed by folks too lazy to use outlook. Stuff that belongs in a ticket is just IMed by those too lazy to use RT. The lazy people made life hell on the non-lazy people.
Collaboration? Impossible. You can email any arbitrary group of folks. IM? In any group of three workers, they'll try to cut and paste each other, but fail.
Then there's the freaks. Such a broad spectrum of responsiveness. Some folks treat it like an email, as long as they reply by the end of the day, its all good. Then there's the lunatics whom expect a response within 1 second or else you're snubbing them, obviously the universe revolves around them and how dare you imply it doesn't, by not dropping everything to reply to their IM (lots of that type in lower level mgmt)
Finally no audit trail. I IMed someone whom never did what I asked. Turns out that's someone at a meeting, away from desk, whatever. Just lost in the aether.
After enough complaints, each individual got rid of it as their threshold was reached. Very few people indeed still use IM where I work.
I'll bet it's a Soekris box, and you've added a spinning 2.5 hard drive to it to as well. Did I guess right?
Yup meet my IP PBX (and other services). Love the Soekris stuff, it just works.
Once that happens you have no way of knowing if anyone was watching.
You are confusing authentication/authorization with accounting.
Screwing around in the auth arena, is not a solution for having no accounting system at all.
I put an SSD in my new HTPC because I wanted it to boot up fast, and while it probably halves the boot time there it's otherwise pretty underwhelming.
Isn't it quieter? When I installed a SSD in my mythtv frontend, hard drive noise went from noticeable, to gone.
So at roughly $4/GB that'd place us where, back at the late 90s? I'm not sure what part of 'catching up' people seem to think of when they're talking about SSDs replacing HDDs.
I deployed a 586 based single board computer using a 4 gig CF as the boot drive about a year ago. Entire system draws about 4 watts total and no moving parts. I would call it vaguely mid 90s ish specifications. If you define HDD as advancing about one year per year, then SSDs seem to be advancing about half a decade per year, thus "catching up" at a rate of about 4 years per calendar year, and currently "about a decade behind" so figure SSD will pass HDD around the end of the world, late 2012-ish. Sign of the Apocalypse?
Slapping what I assume to be a ton of chips together wont make for an impressive benchmark.
Same as:
... I would rather raid together a bunch of and small fast ssd's than 1 big one.
SSD seek time is zero, there is no multi-spindle advantage. Unless you are trying to exceed a system thruput of 3 gigs/sec, the limit of a single SATA channel...
You don't need a solid state drive for storing media. It's completely useless.
If you say so...
Mostly in places where you have a lot of reads all over the disk in a very short amount of time.
Yeah, like my video server trying to feed multiple HD streams at the same time. Zero seek time sure would be nice. Good thing video is not media, because then it would be useless.
So, when an American aerospace company realizes they can't compete with imports, they refuse to enter that market segment.
When an American automotive company realizes they can't compete with imports, they double down, then get bailed out by the govt.
I'm confused why the different reactions. Just random chance that it falls out this way?
which intended to sell less-advanced fighter designs to U.S. allies to limit the possibility of front-line U.S. technology falling into Soviet hands
It wasn't necessarily less advanced, it was just slightly lower performance and not quite as export controlled.
It turns out to cost almost as much money to develop and manufacture a new 90% cutting edge fighter as a 100% cutting edge fighter.
Once folks were allowed to select from either, at about the same cost, the F-5 went bye bye.
The whole situation was just a reaction to the Iranian Shah's airforce, which had some pretty nice (for the time) aircraft.