I played in HS band...never had a problem with the DB level, although my HS band was relatively small. I can see guys who play snare having problems. Those damn things were insanely loud.
I am also an experienced sound engineer. I remember talking with a sax player in a loud band. He always wore a hat that covered his ears for protection. He said plugs were impossible since the vibration from the mouthpiece went through his teeth straight into his skull and it was impossible to hear his "tone". I played sax in HS band so I knew exactly what he was talking about. HS bands, (concert or marching), are incredibly dynamic (except for those snares...) compared to a rock band. I agree a HS band can get loud but playing with plugs would be impractical and,IMO, ruin the whole experience (not to mention the music being produced...."oh..was I playing too loud?")
Where can I get a job blasting helpless animals like that?
Do frat-boys count? When I was in college I ran sound for bands, usually at frat partys. Those were the loudest shows I ever ran. I always wore plugs and I would GIVE plugs to anyone who asked for them, but that was rare. I think the frat-boys figured they had a better chance with the sorority girls if the girls couldn't hear what they were saying.
I've had them about a year and I'm very pleased. Great download speeds, especially from their news servers. I don't think I download enough to warrant a warning though. I think I've had all of an hour of downtime in that year.
-Steve
Not when you only have two high bandwidth ISPs in your area. I have DSL access from verizon. I use to have cable-modem from Charter but they were horrible on up-time and real bandwidth. Verizon is 1000% better.
I have two choices, one of which isn't really a choice. Luckily Verizon has good service.
-Steve
By law in any commercial (and most definitely Government) building you MUST have a LICENSED electrician perform this work. The local maintenance guys cant even do it. The electrical code for residential wiring is large, for commercial buildings it's very large, and for industrial it's scary!. You need an electrician.
-Steve
I'm just waiting for the follow up story on how it was a worm on his computer sending out the spam and he had no idea. I'd be pissed if my mom got arrested under this law because she didn't have her computer patched and got some spam-worm.
-Steve
My second year as a CS major, one of my profs offered extra credit for a Hanoi tower solution that didn't use recursion in any way. I solved it, but it was much harder than I thought it was going to be. (I think it was coded in Turbo Pascal 5.5. I bet that wasn't one of the 108 implementations.) A friend in the same class actually implemented pictures of of discs moving from one tower to another. He got extra-extra credit. Steve
I work for a LARGE financial institution. I am a developer. I was, as the saying goes, born to code. I love it.
All our systems are so goverened by beaucrocy and red tape by so many departments (most of which with NO accountability to anyone it seems) that it's impossible to do anything. Recently we had to move an unused server from point A to point B. It also had to have OS & Oracle reinstalled. This didn't require any financial approval since we weren't buying a new server and the project was already well funded. The move took 6 MONTHS. Once the box was in place it took me 4 hours to set it up. Right in the middle of the move we found out that the SA's were no longer allowed to "moves & install" hardware, there was now a dedicated team for that. (?!?!?) The install of the OS took over a month. (Done by yet another department, not SAs.)
Somehow, the Oracle install WAS allowed to be done by the DBA so that only took two days. Sheesh!
I recently got a new boss and boss^2. The boss^2 wanted to know why a particular app had so many problems, and I told him. He then told me, in pretty much these words: "Fix it! Dont worry about billing your time, just fix it!". I was dumbfounded. No project, no project plan, no project manager, no approval for funds, no capacity plan, no meeting with the architechts. The only preliminary doc I delivered was a short blurb on my proposed solution which received a "Sounds good."
I've made amazing progress in the last month, learned a LOT, become a better programmer, I'm happier at work and at home, and built a solution that could save my company MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
But I know it wont last. IF my solution ever gets used (which I doubt...) then I'll be back to the same old routine. Any future changes to it will require the same old certification, proposal, architechture, blah blah blah. But...I'm happy now.
I just got my fiancee a Dachsund last month. We love spending time with her. I took her to Home Depot and had every girl in the place talking to me so they could pet her. The whole time I was thinking "Why didn't I do this when I was single?!?!?" So...I bring this wisdom to my fellow single geeks @/. Get a cute dog. Don't get a Chihuahua though. Despite their recent success from Taco Hell commercials and Legally Blonde movies, they never stop barking and are not to friendly to strangers. (My neighbors have two.) Dachsunds are cuter and nicer. If you get a Dachsund you have to give it a clever name. Despite being female, ours is named Oscar. Other possibilities: Frank. Homer. Slinky. Stretch. Sorry this is off topic.
Steve
Yeah...saw that episode.
They didn't get it working until the third cable. They were able to morse-code to the UK for a couple days until one of the cable operators (I think on the UK side) thought the signal would come in better if he up'd the voltage to about 1200. Fried it.
-Steve
I find it especially useful for tabbed-browsers. I use myIE2 (which rocks!) and dragging a link to open a new tab (especailly from search results) and highlighting and dragging to do a google search save me gobs of time. ....and it's just cool as shit too.
-Steve
How would the law define email?
What about web mail?
What about web message boards?
What about news groups?
What about IM?
What about Cell phone chat?
What about P2P?
etc. etc. etc.
He'd have better luck putting a tax on each bit that goes through my ISP than taxing email specifcally.
What's that famous quote from the lawmaker that tried to outlaw porn?
"I cant define it, but I know it when I see it."
-Steve
One of my college roomates was Austrailian, but he'd been in the states since he was 11 so he had lost his Aussie accent. But when he got drunk, his accent came back. His brother use to get high all the time but being stoned didn't have the same affect (or his brother lost his accent at an earlier age and couldn't recover it.)
The pay isn't as good as other IT jobs, but the environment is easy-going (unless were doing a merger....) and my bank gives you 21 days off (count 'em!) after you become an officer. That's not including the 10 paid federal holidays. Do the math...that's a lot of travel time to go where I please. There was a 1 1/2 year gap between my graduation and my job that I was hoping to do all kinds of stuff. I've traveled more since I got my job (since I have the money to travel.) When I was in college I always said I'd never work for a bank or an insurance company. I caved and got this bank job and was very surprised how technologically sophisticated they were. There's always talk of banks moving programming overseas (BofA did it) but there's always tons of IT jobs that have to stay on-site....and large banks always have lots of sites. Steve
But the student did make it a goal to circumvent the copy protection on this device.
The goal of any student is not to find (illegal or not) ways to circumvent a copy protection scheme, but to STUDY the protection mechanism and determine it's robustness. This has both academic and industry advantages. e.g.If someone comes up with a new encryption algorithm that gains attention/use, you better believe the academic community will analyze the hell out of it. And if they were to come up with a weakness of that algorithm, everyone would benifit. That's what academic people do...analyze things and report on it. This is exactly why DMCA is so immoral... it hinders knowledge (as you can see in the report...he didn't accept the EULA...) which hurts everyone. If I were this grad student, I'd send SunnComm a bill for the research.
-STeve
I posted the original article but I wanted to detail my own experience. I had a dell tower at work and constantly begged for another video card and monitor but I was told I'd have to have approval from the CIO since we were in a budget crunch. (I work for a LARGE corporation and the CIO is about 20 levels above me.) I finally got fed up and brought in my own VooDoo3 2000 PCI card (which is a great card for secondary monitors BTW,) and a Samsung 17" flat screen. I had this set up for a couple months when they announced we'd be getting laptops with docking stations and we'd be losing the towers. I love my dell laptop but I was SOL for using the second monitor. Then I found a different model docking station on EBay that has two PCI slots. I bought it (again using my own money for the good of my employer...) and got it working! I had two PCI video cards in it running a total of three monitors. Then a corporate order was handed down stating we couldn't have personal hardware at work. Sheesh. I just cant win.
Luckily for me, Dell released an updated driver that allows you to use the laptop screen and an
external monitor as dual monitors. Its not the same but it's better than nothing. I'm still fighting the good fight to get the better dock and another monitor.
-Steve
has this feature NOW!
It is used by companies for internal chat.
Sametime, which is part of the Notes suite, is owned by IBM, which I imagine has barrels of lawyers to throw around. I can't imagine IBM tucking tail and removing this feature.
-Steve
IANA celestial physicist but from what I understand, the definition of open and closed universe is not refering to a boundry, or infinite space. From what I've read, there is a finite amount of "space" (not to mention matter) regardless of open or closed. Here's my breakdown: The universe was born around 15 billion years ago and it's been expanding ever since. Whether it continues to expand depends on the amount of matter in the universe. If there is not enough matter (i.e. not enough gravity), the universe will continue expanding at an accelerated rate. This is an open universe. If there is a LOT of matter, the universe will stop expanding and start to contract with predictable results. This is a closed universe. The third option, you didn't mention, is where scientists think we are now....a 'flat' universe. This refers to a very narrow spot on the graph between open and closed in which the universe will ALWAYS expand, but at a decelerated rate; the expansion never stops but gets slower. The fact that our universe conveniently has just the right amount of matter to fall in this range has brought up a lot of discussion about God, etc. etc. So to get back to the point of the thread, in my opinion, there could be a center of the universe, but I don't think it has to do with the universe being open, closed, or flat. It has more to do with who's creating the map.:)
-Steve
I usually just hang up on them. I have a friend that listens intently, maybe asks some questions, then says 'Hold on while I get my credit card.' Then he puts the phone down and doesn't check back for at least a half hour. One telemarketer he did this to called him back later from his home to bitch about all the time wasted from making a quota or some BS like that. I actually work in a call center (service ONLY, no telemarketing) and I've heard of some unusual things happening. People calling from their car and getting into a wreck because they're trying to read an account number from their checkbook; some guy even had a heart-attack right when he called, the phone rep (who luckily already had his account info) called the paramedics for him. That's not a time when you want to hear 'Your call is very important to us....' -Steve
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I played in HS band...never had a problem with the DB level, although my HS band was relatively small. I can see guys who play snare having problems. Those damn things were insanely loud.
I am also an experienced sound engineer. I remember talking with a sax player in a loud band. He always wore a hat that covered his ears for protection. He said plugs were impossible since the vibration from the mouthpiece went through his teeth straight into his skull and it was impossible to hear his "tone". I played sax in HS band so I knew exactly what he was talking about.
HS bands, (concert or marching), are incredibly dynamic (except for those snares...) compared to a rock band. I agree a HS band can get loud but playing with plugs would be impractical and,IMO, ruin the whole experience (not to mention the music being produced...."oh..was I playing too loud?")
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I've had them about a year and I'm very pleased. Great download speeds, especially from their news servers. I don't think I download enough to warrant a warning though. I think I've had all of an hour of downtime in that year.
-Steve
Not when you only have two high bandwidth ISPs in your area. I have DSL access from verizon. I use to have cable-modem from Charter but they were horrible on up-time and real bandwidth. Verizon is 1000% better.
I have two choices, one of which isn't really a choice. Luckily Verizon has good service.
-Steve
By law in any commercial (and most definitely Government) building you MUST have a LICENSED electrician perform this work. The local maintenance guys cant even do it.
The electrical code for residential wiring is large, for commercial buildings it's very large, and for industrial it's scary!. You need an electrician.
-Steve
Especially here
Actually, I'm from VA and have a friend in Lynchburg. Not a bad city.
-Steve
I'm just waiting for the follow up story on how it was a worm on his computer sending out the spam and he had no idea.
I'd be pissed if my mom got arrested under this law because she didn't have her computer patched and got some spam-worm.
-Steve
My second year as a CS major, one of my profs offered extra credit for a Hanoi tower solution that didn't use recursion in any way. I solved it, but it was much harder than I thought it was going to be. (I think it was coded in Turbo Pascal 5.5. I bet that wasn't one of the 108 implementations.)
A friend in the same class actually implemented pictures of of discs moving from one tower to another. He got extra-extra credit.
Steve
I work for a LARGE financial institution. I am a developer. I was, as the saying goes, born to code. I love it. All our systems are so goverened by beaucrocy and red tape by so many departments (most of which with NO accountability to anyone it seems) that it's impossible to do anything. Recently we had to move an unused server from point A to point B. It also had to have OS & Oracle reinstalled. This didn't require any financial approval since we weren't buying a new server and the project was already well funded. The move took 6 MONTHS. Once the box was in place it took me 4 hours to set it up.
Right in the middle of the move we found out that the SA's were no longer allowed to "moves & install" hardware, there was now a dedicated team for that. (?!?!?) The install of the OS took over a month. (Done by yet another department, not SAs.) Somehow, the Oracle install WAS allowed to be done by the DBA so that only took two days. Sheesh!
I recently got a new boss and boss^2. The boss^2 wanted to know why a particular app had so many problems, and I told him. He then told me, in pretty much these words: "Fix it! Dont worry about billing your time, just fix it!".
I was dumbfounded. No project, no project plan, no project manager, no approval for funds, no capacity plan, no meeting with the architechts. The only preliminary doc I delivered was a short blurb on my proposed solution which received a "Sounds good."
I've made amazing progress in the last month, learned a LOT, become a better programmer, I'm happier at work and at home, and built a solution that could save my company MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
But I know it wont last.
IF my solution ever gets used (which I doubt...) then I'll be back to the same old routine. Any future changes to it will require the same old certification, proposal, architechture, blah blah blah. But...I'm happy now.
I just got my fiancee a Dachsund last month. We love spending time with her. I took her to Home Depot and had every girl in the place talking to me so they could pet her. The whole time I was thinking "Why didn't I do this when I was single?!?!?" So...I bring this wisdom to my fellow single geeks @/. Get a cute dog. Don't get a Chihuahua though. Despite their recent success from Taco Hell commercials and Legally Blonde movies, they never stop barking and are not to friendly to strangers. (My neighbors have two.) Dachsunds are cuter and nicer. If you get a Dachsund you have to give it a clever name. Despite being female, ours is named Oscar. Other possibilities: Frank. Homer. Slinky. Stretch.
Sorry this is off topic.
Steve
Yeah...saw that episode.
They didn't get it working until the third cable. They were able to morse-code to the UK for a couple days until one of the cable operators (I think on the UK side) thought the signal would come in better if he up'd the voltage to about 1200. Fried it.
-Steve
Can anyone elaborate? I use myIE2 and I've never noticed any adware/spyware. Thanks.
-Steve
I find it especially useful for tabbed-browsers. I use myIE2 (which rocks!) and dragging a link to open a new tab (especailly from search results) and highlighting and dragging to do a google search save me gobs of time.
....and it's just cool as shit too.
-Steve
....all those emails I've been getting from my naive relatives warning me about the impending email-tax bill in congress really weren't a hoax.
-Steve
How would the law define email?
What about web mail?
What about web message boards?
What about news groups?
What about IM?
What about Cell phone chat?
What about P2P?
etc. etc. etc.
He'd have better luck putting a tax on each bit that goes through my ISP than taxing email specifcally.
What's that famous quote from the lawmaker that tried to outlaw porn?
"I cant define it, but I know it when I see it."
-Steve
One of my college roomates was Austrailian, but he'd been in the states since he was 11 so he had lost his Aussie accent. But when he got drunk, his accent came back. His brother use to get high all the time but being stoned didn't have the same affect (or his brother lost his accent at an earlier age and couldn't recover it.)
The pay isn't as good as other IT jobs, but the environment is easy-going (unless were doing a merger....) and my bank gives you 21 days off (count 'em!) after you become an officer. That's not including the 10 paid federal holidays. Do the math...that's a lot of travel time to go where I please. There was a 1 1/2 year gap between my graduation and my job that I was hoping to do all kinds of stuff. I've traveled more since I got my job (since I have the money to travel.)
When I was in college I always said I'd never work for a bank or an insurance company. I caved and got this bank job and was very surprised how technologically sophisticated they were.
There's always talk of banks moving programming overseas (BofA did it) but there's always tons of IT jobs that have to stay on-site....and large banks always have lots of sites.
Steve
That's what academic people do...analyze things and report on it. This is exactly why DMCA is so immoral... it hinders knowledge (as you can see in the report...he didn't accept the EULA...) which hurts everyone. If I were this grad student, I'd send SunnComm a bill for the research.
-STeve
I keep /. on the flat screen pointed into my cube. My code is on the monitor that points toward the cube doorway.
-Steve
I posted the original article but I wanted to detail my own experience. I had a dell tower at work and constantly begged for another video card and monitor but I was told I'd have to have approval from the CIO since we were in a budget crunch. (I work for a LARGE corporation and the CIO is about 20 levels above me.)
I finally got fed up and brought in my own VooDoo3 2000 PCI card (which is a great card for secondary monitors BTW,) and a Samsung 17" flat screen. I had this set up for a couple months when they announced we'd be getting laptops with docking stations and we'd be losing the towers. I love my dell laptop but I was SOL for using the second monitor. Then I found a different model docking station on EBay that has two PCI slots. I bought it (again using my own money for the good of my employer...) and got it working! I had two PCI video cards in it running a total of three monitors. Then a corporate order was handed down stating we couldn't have personal hardware at work. Sheesh. I just cant win.
Luckily for me, Dell released an updated driver that allows you to use the laptop screen and an external monitor as dual monitors. Its not the same but it's better than nothing.
I'm still fighting the good fight to get the better dock and another monitor.
-Steve
...or it could mean that Utah did all the work and NEC and ATI gave them free hardware in exchange for having their name on the report.
-Steve
has this feature NOW! It is used by companies for internal chat. Sametime, which is part of the Notes suite, is owned by IBM, which I imagine has barrels of lawyers to throw around. I can't imagine IBM tucking tail and removing this feature.
-Steve
IANA celestial physicist but from what I understand, the definition of open and closed universe is not refering to a boundry, or infinite space. From what I've read, there is a finite amount of "space" (not to mention matter) regardless of open or closed. :)
Here's my breakdown:
The universe was born around 15 billion years ago and it's been expanding ever since. Whether it continues to expand depends on the amount of matter in the universe. If there is not enough matter (i.e. not enough gravity), the universe will continue expanding at an accelerated rate. This is an open universe.
If there is a LOT of matter, the universe will stop expanding and start to contract with predictable results. This is a closed universe.
The third option, you didn't mention, is where scientists think we are now....a 'flat' universe. This refers to a very narrow spot on the graph between open and closed in which the universe will ALWAYS expand, but at a decelerated rate; the expansion never stops but gets slower. The fact that our universe conveniently has just the right amount of matter to fall in this range has brought up a lot of discussion about God, etc. etc.
So to get back to the point of the thread, in my opinion, there could be a center of the universe, but I don't think it has to do with the universe being open, closed, or flat. It has more to do with who's creating the map.
-Steve
I usually just hang up on them. I have a friend that listens intently, maybe asks some questions, then says 'Hold on while I get my credit card.' Then he puts the phone down and doesn't check back for at least a half hour. One telemarketer he did this to called him back later from his home to bitch about all the time wasted from making a quota or some BS like that.
I actually work in a call center (service ONLY, no telemarketing) and I've heard of some unusual things happening. People calling from their car and getting into a wreck because they're trying to read an account number from their checkbook; some guy even had a heart-attack right when he called, the phone rep (who luckily already had his account info) called the paramedics for him. That's not a time when you want to hear 'Your call is very important to us....'
-Steve