alot of people really took that "Death before Dishonor" thing seriously
That is exactly why the Japanese treated their prisoners of war so badly. Because In the Japanese eyes at the time, Prisoners of War were dishonourable and unworthy of humane treatment.
Maybe not. Many antennas are directionally aimed outwards away from the tower. That close to the tower and you may NOT actually get reasonable reception, simply because you are not within the directional arc of the antenna.
Sounds exactly like the sort of thing Australia's government run telecomms monopoly would do, Telstra. (Or better known as Helstra, or Tel$tra or ripoff merchants.)
There best effort for me was watching a Telstra tech out on the street playing in the Telecomms pit. He accidently disconnected an E1 (30 digital phone lines) of ours at work. I noticed it go down so immediately went out to speak to him.
He realised what he had done and appologised. I asked him to fix it, he said he wasnt able to do that, and Id have to ring Telstra and lodge a fault. But HE broke it! Not me! Sorry, but he couldnt raise a fault or escalate it.
So I ring Telstra in a bad mood. We have a few decent service contracts with them, so it shouldnt be a problem. No worries, I ring telstra and lodge the fault. The woman on the other end of the phone mentions that they will have to Test the line and that it would take FOUR HOURS. But the tech is already there! Call him. He will tell you that its broken and exactly what the problem is. Sorry, they cant do that, they have to test it and you WILL have to wait 4 hours. (Meanwhile we are short 30 phone lines.)
I get a call in four hours, that yes the E1 is down (no shit sherlock!) and they will need to send a Tech out. But there is a tech already here! Anyway, three hours later and another tech arrives, but he sees the first tech in the pit still, so he leaves. Another call to Telstra sees him come back. The tech then speaks with the first tech and decides that he cant do anything that the first tech cant, so we need a DATA technician. Guess what, I need to call tesltra again. Why me?
But heres the best bit, Its now very late on a friday, because of all their time wasting antics, so a Data Technician wont be able to come out to MONDAY. A weekend with out the E1 we desperately have to have in our crucial period.
When we did get our data tech out, it took 30 minutes of him scratching his head, and 30 seconds to do something in the exchange to fix it.
Sorry, you wont be able to use them. F1 Has very strict rules on the amount of testing that F1 teams are allowed to complete. Hondas testing would already be pre-planned and mapped out across the year. (Maybe see if they still have last years car available)
Much of software engineering is received wisdom. It involves little engineering and even less science.
I dont agree at all. That is exactly half the problem, too many 'coders' dont involve ANY engineering process into the system at all. Science isnt involved here, as science is the research into better computing.. However, engineering is the production of systems that work. Design, implementation, testing, production and delivery are ALL engineering processes. Adherence to engineering thought through out these processes WILL result in a better product.
Menu option to use Reverse Polish Notation (been too long since I studied CS, can't even remember what this should do or look like now - changes '=' button to 'enter', though)
Reverse polish notation is stack like...
Consider
5 x (2+3) = 25
In reverse polish notation, it is represented as:
5 enter 2 enter 3 enter + x
Simply,
enter adds the previous number to the stack.
+ removes the top two numbers from the stack, performs an addition operation on them and returns the result to the stack.
x peforms the same function as + but using multiply instead of addition.
Truth is a 100% defense against charges of slander and libel.
Not necessarily, depending on your location. For example, New South Wales in Australia (the State that Sydney is located in), the truth is NOT a 100% defense against defamation and slander.
Adelaide South Australia removed all the conductors on their trains many many years ago. Now all the Trains have Security Gaurds and Ticket Inspectors instead. So the job that was done by one person, was replaced by an expensive automated ticketing system, and then eventually another TWO people.
Heck, I can see it now, our server rooms will eventually have a rack or two devoted entirely to the radiators for the liquid cooling systems of servers, which run hot enough form plasma.
Too many people forget history. These problems have all been solved before. If you look at the Computer Science Divisions of most universities, you will generally find a lake or large pond nearby. Why? Because it was originally designed as a radiator for the cooling of the early computers.
Essentially Australia's phone system has gone through the exact same debacle. Initially Phone Services were all provided by the Federal Owned Monopoly, Telecomm Australia, which was renamed to Telstra before half was sold while the remaining half remains under the control of the Federal Government.
I concur with the Parent post. It looks great and seems like a great idea until you actually try to use it.
Parity VOS's Graphical Call Flow Charter (which was bought by intel and ignored a while ago) is an example of this. Anything other than a very simple call flow ends up being many many square meters of virtual screen real estate.
I will be very very happy once we finally get away from it, and I'm looking forward to a simple perl scripting based replacement.
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HUD's featured in many japanese cars in the late 80's and early 90's. The S13 Silvia and 180sx (Japanese versions of the american 240sx) had optional Speedo Heads up display. So it can and has been done.
Basically, the computer scientists designing computers settled on 1024 bytes in a kilobyte.
Around the same time, the telecommunications engineers settled on 1000 bytes in a kilobyte.
At the time, the two industries were reasonably orthogonal, and hence there was no problem. Now there is.
The hard drive manufacturers just did it to make the hard drives sound bigger. SI units and international agreements not withstanding, theyd market their drives using the largest numbers possible.
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They both fly around Uranus looking for Klingons.
That is exactly why the Japanese treated their prisoners of war so badly. Because In the Japanese eyes at the time, Prisoners of War were dishonourable and unworthy of humane treatment.
This list aught to be good....
There best effort for me was watching a Telstra tech out on the street playing in the Telecomms pit. He accidently disconnected an E1 (30 digital phone lines) of ours at work. I noticed it go down so immediately went out to speak to him.
He realised what he had done and appologised. I asked him to fix it, he said he wasnt able to do that, and Id have to ring Telstra and lodge a fault. But HE broke it! Not me! Sorry, but he couldnt raise a fault or escalate it.
So I ring Telstra in a bad mood. We have a few decent service contracts with them, so it shouldnt be a problem. No worries, I ring telstra and lodge the fault. The woman on the other end of the phone mentions that they will have to Test the line and that it would take FOUR HOURS. But the tech is already there! Call him. He will tell you that its broken and exactly what the problem is. Sorry, they cant do that, they have to test it and you WILL have to wait 4 hours. (Meanwhile we are short 30 phone lines.)
I get a call in four hours, that yes the E1 is down (no shit sherlock!) and they will need to send a Tech out. But there is a tech already here! Anyway, three hours later and another tech arrives, but he sees the first tech in the pit still, so he leaves. Another call to Telstra sees him come back. The tech then speaks with the first tech and decides that he cant do anything that the first tech cant, so we need a DATA technician. Guess what, I need to call tesltra again. Why me?
But heres the best bit, Its now very late on a friday, because of all their time wasting antics, so a Data Technician wont be able to come out to MONDAY. A weekend with out the E1 we desperately have to have in our crucial period.
When we did get our data tech out, it took 30 minutes of him scratching his head, and 30 seconds to do something in the exchange to fix it.
Monopolies suck.
Try looking for your current problems, and then find some solutions to solve those problems.
Thats because they were making predictions about room temperature superconductors, which still dont exist yet.
NeoOfficeJ is the Mac Clone of OO and is perfectly usable in the native OSX environment..
I dont agree at all. That is exactly half the problem, too many 'coders' dont involve ANY engineering process into the system at all. Science isnt involved here, as science is the research into better computing.. However, engineering is the production of systems that work. Design, implementation, testing, production and delivery are ALL engineering processes. Adherence to engineering thought through out these processes WILL result in a better product.
Reverse polish notation is stack like...
Consider
5 x (2+3) = 25
In reverse polish notation, it is represented as:
5 enter 2 enter 3 enter + x
Simply,
enter adds the previous number to the stack.
+ removes the top two numbers from the stack, performs an addition operation on them and returns the result to the stack.
x peforms the same function as + but using multiply instead of addition.
Hopefully this clears some of it up for you...
Not necessarily, depending on your location. For example, New South Wales in Australia (the State that Sydney is located in), the truth is NOT a 100% defense against defamation and slander.
Adelaide South Australia removed all the conductors on their trains many many years ago. Now all the Trains have Security Gaurds and Ticket Inspectors instead. So the job that was done by one person, was replaced by an expensive automated ticketing system, and then eventually another TWO people.
Too many people forget history. These problems have all been solved before. If you look at the Computer Science Divisions of most universities, you will generally find a lake or large pond nearby. Why? Because it was originally designed as a radiator for the cooling of the early computers.
Parity VOS's Graphical Call Flow Charter (which was bought by intel and ignored a while ago) is an example of this. Anything other than a very simple call flow ends up being many many square meters of virtual screen real estate.
I will be very very happy once we finally get away from it, and I'm looking forward to a simple perl scripting based replacement.
However, You only have to insert a card with a magnetic stripe approximately half way in for the door to open.
Around the same time, the telecommunications engineers settled on 1000 bytes in a kilobyte.
At the time, the two industries were reasonably orthogonal, and hence there was no problem. Now there is.
The hard drive manufacturers just did it to make the hard drives sound bigger. SI units and international agreements not withstanding, theyd market their drives using the largest numbers possible.