WinCE is much too big for the CURRENTLY tiny microcontrollers that control engines brakes, gear shifts, and so on.
Just because that's the case now doesn't mean it's going to be the case forever. And given all the personal stories of being trapped inside cars NOW, I really think tempting fate is a bad thing.
Exactly right, in fact, the theater I used to work at had a standard of a minimum of 10 minutes commercials/trailers, for big-name movies with long trailers, the reel could hit up to 20 minutes worth or more. An interesting note is that the theaters decide on the advertising, the distributers decide on the trailers they want to open a movie with
Sure the customer might not always be right, but they ARE the customer. I used to work at a movie theater, and a saying used in training was 'The guest may not always be right, but the guest is always the guest.' Translated: It is the business's job to make the customer choose their products/services over the competition. So be nice to them, even if they're dead wrong.
True, but when you get run over the same script more than once with no resolution, it's a clear sign that something's wrong.
I once spent 1 hour on the phone with ISP 'tech' support trying to configure a USB DSL modem for a friend. The hardware installed properly, everything was configured properly in device manager and network properties...but the ISP's access manager software refused to recognize any network devices installed.
After running through the script 4 times (including the rep recommending downloading the latest version of software off the 'net), I said 'Ok, the USB modem isn't working, ship me an ethernet model to replace it.' Then I had to convince the rep that it might have an effect.
At that point I said (to myself) 'fuckit' and recommended a change of ISPs, they agreed and are completely satisfied with cable service.
While I don't know if tech support was outsourced overseas or not, I do know that the rep had a slightly unusual accent, and seemed to have slight difficulty understanding simple statements.
Ya know, that would be a really GOOD idea. I've been recieving bounced email from mail daemons because some spammers have been using my email address in the 'from' and 'reply-to' fields of their spam.
Disclaimer: I live in Canada, our dollar is a bit lower than the states, all dollar amounts below are in Canadian dollars.
I used to work in a movie theater. Concessions are where the theater makes the majority of its money from. On an average week during the summer, our core concessions (drinks, popcorn, nachos, hotdogs, candy) would net over $40 grand a week. Our RBOs (retail business outlets, ie, Pizza Hut, Burger King) would net between $1 grand and $2 grand per week, each.
Why is it so profitable? Popcorn costs literally pennies per bag, drinks? same deal. Then you pay a high-school student minimum wage to sell them to patrons. Speed of service goals are under 1 minute for a single person order. Min wage here is $6.85/hr. A large popcorn, large drink (which is what they're trained to upsell to) costs $10.75.
Let's do the math, 50 orders per hour (when it's busy, on average), times 10.75/order (on average), results in... 537.50 per hour gross, minus the wage ($6.85, and the food cost, let's be generous and say a whopping $15 for the whole hour), per open cash, and when it's busy, about 10 cashes open, so about $5000 NET per HOUR on a busy night.
Actually, the point I was trying to make was that we (the employees) couldn't figure out why the supervisor in question was promoted. It certainly wasn't their skill.
Your male you know that women get payed less, hold lower status positions, and must work harder than male counterparts, to attain these.
I assume that by this you're refering to the (supposed) earnings gap between men and women? I can tell you that as far as I've seen, at least in the service industry, it's the opposite way around.
I used to work in a movie theater, at one time, we had 5 food service supervisors, 2 men, 3 women. 2 were really good at their jobs, 2 were good, and one was crap. Guess which one was crap.
Additionally, when I walk into a fast-food restaurant, I notice that behind the counter, most of the time, it's a woman on the cash, and a guy in the back cooking the food, with a woman supervisor.
I don't have any personal experience with corporate culture, but from my point of view, the pendulum has started to swing the other way.
How would said homeless people remove copper wire that's presumably affixed at both ends, runs through small underground conduits, and at the junction points is presumably secured with locks?
That's great. In my area, 1.5Mbps ADSL is as fast as it goes, cable is also available, either 1.5 or 3.0 down. Upstream is the same as with DSL.
I would love even symmetrical 1.5, or better, 3/1. But in my area, there's no real incentive for ISPs to offer such packages in any form other than T-1s and above.
If I a) had finished my education, b) spoke japanese, and c) had the money to do so, I'd be bloody tempted to move there. Highspeed internet up here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (the nation's capital) is a joke.
While your veiled references to e-books sound attractive, the fact is that a number of people (including myself) find paper books much easier to read and refer to than e-books. Also, if you've got limited desktop space, you're not going to be able to refer to both the book and the problem at the same time.
Right, but isn't the punishment supposed to fit the crime?
The maximum penalty that she (or more accurately, her parents) are facing is more than the punitive damages that McDonalds had to pay out in the coffee case. How does that fit the crime?
Personally, I think an unencrypted WAP is a much better defense than turning off sharing, why?
Because p2p file SHARING DEPENDS ON PEOPLE SHARING STUFF TO DOWNLOAD! If nobody shares a file, how does someone go about downloading it? Oh right. They CAN'T.
Mod me down if you will, but that's the truth, if nobody shares, then nobody can download, if only a few share, then downloads are really, really, really slow as 100s of people try to grab from a single source. Only if everyone shares does a p2p network truely work.
Ok, if you really want to minimize pollution, refine the ore in orbit using solar furnaces (with no atmosphere to absorb energy, a suitably big array could generate some really nice temperatures at the focal point) and ship it down using re-usable ceramic heat shields, you'll eat a higher cost getting the shields back into orbit and repairs on them, but if you can bring down the cost to put stuff into orbit it becomes more reasonable.
While eventually we will have to expand to other planetary bodies, for now IMHO, we need the moon as a (possible) source of oxygen and water which is much more readily accessable than earth. (with 1/6th the gravity of the earth, it's a lot easier to loft something into orbit from the moon than it is from earth)
While it does cost a LOT to put something into orbit (tens of thousands of dollars a pound), getting something back from space costs as much as you want to spend on it.
From a little bit of reaction mass for just kicking it into earth's gravity well and letting gravity doing the rest, all the way up to taking it down bit by bit in a space shuttle (the most expensive way there is at the moment).
Quite frankly, the rock itself is an ablative heat shield, all you need is some way to control descent velocity, much cheaper than getting stuff into orbit from the bottom of a gravity well.
Depending on what kind of 'net access the reciever has, they might already be paying per recieved message (if they pay x per y MB downloaded). Does taxing that really make sense? Hell no.
IMHO, what's really needed is a micropayment system, you can say 'if you pay me x, I'll let you place your email in my inbox, if it's interesting, I'll refund the fee.' as for implementation, either the end-user would need to run their own mail server, or the ISPs would need to get on board and offer the service.
Also, another good way to check for unsolicited email is to run a whois lookup on the mail server IP, if it doesn't match the 'from' OR 'reply to' domain, then reject it.
Your suggestion of splitting up mail servers and blocking senders based on invalid addresses sounds like a good idea, so long as they're smart about it.
I'm experiencing a problem at the moment, some spammers are using my email address in the 'from' and 'reply to' fields of their spam, so I get all the mail daemon messages for their invalid addresses. I'm contacting the abuse addresses at the senders' ISPs, but an automated system, unless it was intelligently put together would block my email to the ISPs which recieved the spam.
If the automated system were to perform a whois lookup on the 'recieved' portion of the header and kick an email to the abuse address of that domain, it would probably be a bit more effective, and would result in fewer false positives.
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Just because that's the case now doesn't mean it's going to be the case forever. And given all the personal stories of being trapped inside cars NOW, I really think tempting fate is a bad thing.
In canada, there's already a levy on blank CDRs which goes to the music industry...
And how long before Halo released were screenshots of the Warthog posted by Bungie?
Exactly right, in fact, the theater I used to work at had a standard of a minimum of 10 minutes commercials/trailers, for big-name movies with long trailers, the reel could hit up to 20 minutes worth or more. An interesting note is that the theaters decide on the advertising, the distributers decide on the trailers they want to open a movie with
Sure the customer might not always be right, but they ARE the customer. I used to work at a movie theater, and a saying used in training was 'The guest may not always be right, but the guest is always the guest.' Translated: It is the business's job to make the customer choose their products/services over the competition. So be nice to them, even if they're dead wrong.
I once spent 1 hour on the phone with ISP 'tech' support trying to configure a USB DSL modem for a friend. The hardware installed properly, everything was configured properly in device manager and network properties...but the ISP's access manager software refused to recognize any network devices installed.
After running through the script 4 times (including the rep recommending downloading the latest version of software off the 'net), I said 'Ok, the USB modem isn't working, ship me an ethernet model to replace it.' Then I had to convince the rep that it might have an effect.
At that point I said (to myself) 'fuckit' and recommended a change of ISPs, they agreed and are completely satisfied with cable service.
While I don't know if tech support was outsourced overseas or not, I do know that the rep had a slightly unusual accent, and seemed to have slight difficulty understanding simple statements.
To stop spam, we must make it unprofitable for the spammers to continue sending it.
Ya know, that would be a really GOOD idea. I've been recieving bounced email from mail daemons because some spammers have been using my email address in the 'from' and 'reply-to' fields of their spam.
Why is it so profitable? Popcorn costs literally pennies per bag, drinks? same deal. Then you pay a high-school student minimum wage to sell them to patrons. Speed of service goals are under 1 minute for a single person order. Min wage here is $6.85/hr. A large popcorn, large drink (which is what they're trained to upsell to) costs $10.75.
Let's do the math, 50 orders per hour (when it's busy, on average), times 10.75/order (on average), results in... 537.50 per hour gross, minus the wage ($6.85, and the food cost, let's be generous and say a whopping $15 for the whole hour), per open cash, and when it's busy, about 10 cashes open, so about $5000 NET per HOUR on a busy night.
Wow, that's not too bad at all.
Actually, the point I was trying to make was that we (the employees) couldn't figure out why the supervisor in question was promoted. It certainly wasn't their skill.
I assume that by this you're refering to the (supposed) earnings gap between men and women? I can tell you that as far as I've seen, at least in the service industry, it's the opposite way around.
I used to work in a movie theater, at one time, we had 5 food service supervisors, 2 men, 3 women. 2 were really good at their jobs, 2 were good, and one was crap. Guess which one was crap.
Additionally, when I walk into a fast-food restaurant, I notice that behind the counter, most of the time, it's a woman on the cash, and a guy in the back cooking the food, with a woman supervisor.
I don't have any personal experience with corporate culture, but from my point of view, the pendulum has started to swing the other way.
It shows that the employee has no real chance of advancement or improvement in its situation, it can only do its McJob.
Pretty much the same deal as Manager/Employee, but more relevant to today.
Governator/Taxinated?
How would said homeless people remove copper wire that's presumably affixed at both ends, runs through small underground conduits, and at the junction points is presumably secured with locks?
I would love even symmetrical 1.5, or better, 3/1. But in my area, there's no real incentive for ISPs to offer such packages in any form other than T-1s and above.
If I a) had finished my education, b) spoke japanese, and c) had the money to do so, I'd be bloody tempted to move there. Highspeed internet up here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (the nation's capital) is a joke.
While your veiled references to e-books sound attractive, the fact is that a number of people (including myself) find paper books much easier to read and refer to than e-books. Also, if you've got limited desktop space, you're not going to be able to refer to both the book and the problem at the same time.
Right, but isn't the punishment supposed to fit the crime?
The maximum penalty that she (or more accurately, her parents) are facing is more than the punitive damages that McDonalds had to pay out in the coffee case. How does that fit the crime?
I think the parent was trying to say that if we (citizens) don't stand up against unfair laws, then they'll never get changed.
Because p2p file SHARING DEPENDS ON PEOPLE SHARING STUFF TO DOWNLOAD! If nobody shares a file, how does someone go about downloading it? Oh right. They CAN'T.
Mod me down if you will, but that's the truth, if nobody shares, then nobody can download, if only a few share, then downloads are really, really, really slow as 100s of people try to grab from a single source. Only if everyone shares does a p2p network truely work.
What I want to know is what was the phone number? (I have some...uses for mass quantities of CDs)
Ok, if you really want to minimize pollution, refine the ore in orbit using solar furnaces (with no atmosphere to absorb energy, a suitably big array could generate some really nice temperatures at the focal point) and ship it down using re-usable ceramic heat shields, you'll eat a higher cost getting the shields back into orbit and repairs on them, but if you can bring down the cost to put stuff into orbit it becomes more reasonable.
While eventually we will have to expand to other planetary bodies, for now IMHO, we need the moon as a (possible) source of oxygen and water which is much more readily accessable than earth. (with 1/6th the gravity of the earth, it's a lot easier to loft something into orbit from the moon than it is from earth)
From a little bit of reaction mass for just kicking it into earth's gravity well and letting gravity doing the rest, all the way up to taking it down bit by bit in a space shuttle (the most expensive way there is at the moment).
Quite frankly, the rock itself is an ablative heat shield, all you need is some way to control descent velocity, much cheaper than getting stuff into orbit from the bottom of a gravity well.
IMHO, what's really needed is a micropayment system, you can say 'if you pay me x, I'll let you place your email in my inbox, if it's interesting, I'll refund the fee.' as for implementation, either the end-user would need to run their own mail server, or the ISPs would need to get on board and offer the service.
Also, another good way to check for unsolicited email is to run a whois lookup on the mail server IP, if it doesn't match the 'from' OR 'reply to' domain, then reject it.
I'm experiencing a problem at the moment, some spammers are using my email address in the 'from' and 'reply to' fields of their spam, so I get all the mail daemon messages for their invalid addresses. I'm contacting the abuse addresses at the senders' ISPs, but an automated system, unless it was intelligently put together would block my email to the ISPs which recieved the spam.
If the automated system were to perform a whois lookup on the 'recieved' portion of the header and kick an email to the abuse address of that domain, it would probably be a bit more effective, and would result in fewer false positives.