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Specifiactions on the laptop can change without notice. The specifications can not be lower technology, though.
Availability of the Medison Celebrity model depends on how many orders we get per day. It might take one or two weeks longer to get the laptop.
Terms (date and price) of offer may change without notice.
Taxes vary from country to country and from state to state. Medison is not responsible for paying any additional taxes in your country or state.
Fees taken by our authorized partner 2CO are U$6.45 + 5,5% and extra on the price. Some smaller fees might be taken by your bank and varies on what bank and card you have.
Shipping and handling is taken care of by our partner MK Electronics. (end paste)
Food for thought, tho I REALLY hope it is for real.
At least it now lets you drag the routing away from some of the really bad choices it makes. (provided you know what to avoid)
I still like the NJ to FL routes that jump off of 95 to go thru DC and Baltimore. Tho getting it to avoid using the AC Expressway and choose a route direct to the destination requires some effort.
Mapquest makes the same errors too, mapping/routing AI still seems to have its own sense of humor in general.
We schedule our data center jobs etc in MM 7.5 using the colored labels to show who did what. The 15 min intervals & large-ish daily/multi day view keep the app still in use. Add in the goofy MM formatted files & we seem to be stuck using an app that's meant for lightweight use in totally different market.
The ver 8.+ vers for MM choke on 100+ events a day & when they're scheduled to "continue forever" it makes life interesting if you try to replace the app:-(
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Chk out Lockwood-Hiller or X-Jet as search phrases...And warn the neighbors if you do try it.
For under the volcano Mount Fuji, sleeps the giant radioactive mosnster we call Homer-san. If he awakes, there will be no donuts left in all of Japan & the Suntory brewery will be empty.
The wonderful client server apps that companies like McKesson dump on those foolish enough to buy them.
Need upgrades? 4k users need local admin rights. Wonder why some PC's end up w/ 4 versions of AOL installed on them?
There was a "valued" tech who's sole purpose seemed to be ratting out users who had screen savers enabled. PC's run by interns and spawn of management seem to get ignored tho. A "data security" dept that focused not on securing the network, but on tracking what data the peons were seeing & reading their email.
Too many Pointy Haired Bosses spoil the software soup.
One more thing to go wrong in that vast rolling sea of lowest bidder parts that requires specialized tools to work on. Metric, standard, hex/allen, Torx and "tamper resistant" all in 1 car already. Just imagine what fun this will add.
I also wonder if Ford and company will treat the data the same way they treat "their" proprietary data on the ECU's and such?
Both sides have had that ability for quite some time now. Google "infinity transmitter", they used to be avail in kit form in the old Popular Electronics or Radio Electronics circa 1980-ish
(A big IF no less)
Under the premise that this thing works, he's found a replacement (almost) for the ion drive/thruster. One thing that the article ignores until its reaching a bit past the claimed results is the cooling of the "thruster". That will add weight & require some engery too. Adding 1kw+ heaters to any spacecraft should be done carefully. I doubt this thing can radiate heat faster than it will generate it.
(add a coiled cooling tube, have the microwaves heat the working fluid and use that thrust?)
Working for a non-profit gives me a slightly odd view of this but...
We recently outsourced our help desk to a "Red Bank, NJ" company that switched to India for "off hours" support.
The 1st month was quality work, didn't matter who or where the phone was answered.
That went to hell quickly with equal speed for BOTH support sites. Call got redircted to us at the bottom here with: "You need to reboot that server!", from NJ w/no ticket # or even a contact. "Person have problem with (application name), not work", with no correct name, contact # or any real info of use. Call might be routed to techs on site for a password reset.(both locations) Hang-ups and dead air seemed to be random or tied into "We had network down time" w/no notifications from either support location.
We've got a user base of 6k and the most important thing seems to be...Who you know. Hiring prefs to friends and family members are more the rule than exception.
It was (at least) once proposed that NASA have the shuttle carry the "empty" fuel tank into orbit & have them assembled into a "station" at some later point.
A small semi-dumb "tug-bot" could do the dragging into similar orbits part. However, it might take a few humans with wrenches to do the rest.
The cost would have been a reduced payload capacity for the shuttle(xx percent??). However, how many times have they launched at "full" capacity?.
Cryo fuels would be interesting due to the long term effects of extremes heating & cooling, but a few "sun shades" might help there. Using bladders for other fuels would prob work for a "quick" fix.
Not a clue about the bug/syndrome/skin thingy, but the "responsible" medical community response sounds all too familar in alot of ways to what lyme patients were hearing 15-ish years ago.
One Dr who's name escapes me but was a "respected" Dr at Shore Memorial Hospital (Somers Point NJ) was quoted in the local paper saying "It's all in their heads". He wasn't alone in that opinion, but I think he learned that when you make comments like that w/a portion of the staff going thru IV antibiotic treatment for lyme that life can be....Interesting.
As was mentioned, the "Easy" part of the NBC triangle had already been deployed in Japan by Aum Shinrikyo. Oddly, the "Hard" part had already been deployed there 2x circa 1945.
A gov't at great expense & a group of fanatics at an expense that a gov't would not notice, make for quite a range of possibles.
Yes, the article can be seen as leading, but it's not that much of a reach. Bioweaponry has been deployed on "small" scales both intentionally & by accident already.
(WWII Soviets, Japanese & Germans all did some "field work" reportedly & the accident the Soviets had w/anthrax was also notable. The "fun with food poisioning" event should also be noted, even if only at the salad bar)
This article should prob been seen as a "poke" to try to get someone's attention and remind them to try to think outside the box sometimes.
(getting some to actually think in some cases would be newsworthy tho)
IBM didn't know what to do with the "odd thing" that one of the research branches created. It was created as was ordered, but the Personal Computer thing didn't fit in. Off the shelf parts, an odd operating system thrown on it that some no-name company that IBM didn't even want to buy had cobbled together and it didn't fit in ANYWHERE in the business plan.
The research division went away a short time later and IBM's lack of flexibility launched MicroSoft and helped create Compaq.
For once, maybe ol' Bill's looking back and realizing the IBM does learn from some of it's errors. Slowly do the giant wheels turn.
The fusion lab folks have already made magnetic fields stong enough to kill even Keith Richards & the only other worldly thing they've gotten is bigger budgets and a few REALLY neat pix of the secondary discharges.
Actually, I think they're well into to the "even kills roaches" levels.
One and three. If it was all 3, I could deal. Only 2, I could deal.
One and three sux.
As to rules...
Keep management off the raised floor at all costs. (Nothing like a data center with a H2O fire supression system and NO offsite DR contract. "Sungard charges too much".)
Do you realize the horrible danger that this could cause??
What if everyone with a computer wanted a particle accelerator???
(set sarcasm OFF)
PET scans used hot glucose if I recall,and the 1/2 life on that stuff is pathetic. I got more radiation for my money when I got my cardiac scan. Complete with a warning not to visit the White House for 1 week.
Now for the energetic photons and particle folks...Neon signs do a nice job of charged plasma photon emission (makes light) and anyone who's got a CRT is also looking at 15-30kv accellerated electrons slamming into the phosphor(light and some x-rays).
The electron gun in the CRT is a particle accelerator.
One of those(a pointed wire in the tube will do), a chunk of metal, a vac pump & some major glass blowing skills all hooked up with a HV source will get you a "crude" X-ray tube.
Tell them they'll be vaulued, their opinions valued and their employers will care how they feel. Tell them that some bean counter who has no idea of what's going on will ever cut their budget, staffing or supplies. That the Help Desk will have to never support 6k users with a staff of 2 or 3.
Sorry, that's not just IT anymore, that's everywhere:-(
OR, tell them the plumber will make more $$ than they do.
Altho Juno was useful back in the days when mailing lists were "big", I was a former CRFFL (cruffler)list follower & the "throw away" Juno address was very useful.
Folks who don't have much of a "need" for net access, like my mother-in-law, still use NetZero. She's the only one of my supported "family users" that's still using dial-up in an area w/all the DSL flavors & cable.
And it's folks like these who have no bandwidth that'll fall for this scheme.(and then wonder loudly & often "Why is the computer so slow?" when you're trying to update something.
"Today's episode of WindowsTV is brought to you by Tos-Sony-Dell-HP Corporation, the people who bought the Internet."
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(begin paste)
Pricing is based on the value of US Dollar and may therefore vary between countries and may also change without notice.
Specifiactions on the laptop can change without notice. The specifications can not be lower technology, though.
Availability of the Medison Celebrity model depends on how many orders we get per day. It might take one or two weeks longer to get the laptop.
Terms (date and price) of offer may change without notice.
Taxes vary from country to country and from state to state. Medison is not responsible for paying any additional taxes in your country or state.
Fees taken by our authorized partner 2CO are U$6.45 + 5,5% and extra on the price. Some smaller fees might be taken by your bank and varies on what bank and card you have.
Shipping and handling is taken care of by our partner MK Electronics.
(end paste)
Food for thought, tho I REALLY hope it is for real.
At least it now lets you drag the routing away from some of the really bad choices it makes.
(provided you know what to avoid)
I still like the NJ to FL routes that jump off of 95 to go thru DC and Baltimore. Tho getting it to avoid using the AC Expressway and choose a route direct to the destination requires some effort.
Mapquest makes the same errors too, mapping/routing AI still seems to have its own sense of humor in general.
"the state collects $1.2 billion each year"
It's such a pity that most have forgotten why tarring & feathering was once done.
As in Meeting Maker...Ick.
:-(
We schedule our data center jobs etc in MM 7.5 using the colored labels to show who did what. The 15 min intervals & large-ish daily/multi day view keep the app still in use. Add in the goofy MM formatted files & we seem to be stuck using an app that's meant for lightweight use in totally different market.
The ver 8.+ vers for MM choke on 100+ events a day & when they're scheduled to "continue forever" it makes life interesting if you try to replace the app
Chk out Lockwood-Hiller or X-Jet as search phrases...And warn the neighbors if you do try it.
For under the volcano Mount Fuji, sleeps the giant radioactive mosnster we call Homer-san. If he awakes, there will be no donuts left in all of Japan & the Suntory brewery will be empty.
The wonderful client server apps that companies like McKesson dump on those foolish enough to buy them. Need upgrades? 4k users need local admin rights. Wonder why some PC's end up w/ 4 versions of AOL installed on them? There was a "valued" tech who's sole purpose seemed to be ratting out users who had screen savers enabled. PC's run by interns and spawn of management seem to get ignored tho. A "data security" dept that focused not on securing the network, but on tracking what data the peons were seeing & reading their email. Too many Pointy Haired Bosses spoil the software soup.
That article was the best nap I ever took. Perhaps a tad long winded even?
Anyway, given even some of the safety features, Wiki's not safe from it's own admins.
Ex - Evil Inc web/print comic entry.
One more thing to go wrong in that vast rolling sea of lowest bidder parts that requires specialized tools to work on. Metric, standard, hex/allen, Torx and "tamper resistant" all in 1 car already. Just imagine what fun this will add.
I also wonder if Ford and company will treat the data the same way they treat "their" proprietary data on the ECU's and such?
Both sides have had that ability for quite some time now. Google "infinity transmitter", they used to be avail in kit form in the old Popular Electronics or Radio Electronics circa 1980-ish
(A big IF no less) Under the premise that this thing works, he's found a replacement (almost) for the ion drive/thruster. One thing that the article ignores until its reaching a bit past the claimed results is the cooling of the "thruster". That will add weight & require some engery too. Adding 1kw+ heaters to any spacecraft should be done carefully. I doubt this thing can radiate heat faster than it will generate it. (add a coiled cooling tube, have the microwaves heat the working fluid and use that thrust?)
Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security, deserve neither.
Working for a non-profit gives me a slightly odd view of this but...
We recently outsourced our help desk to a "Red Bank, NJ" company that switched to India for "off hours" support.
The 1st month was quality work, didn't matter who or where the phone was answered.
That went to hell quickly with equal speed for BOTH support sites. Call got redircted to us at the bottom here with:
"You need to reboot that server!", from NJ w/no ticket # or even a contact.
"Person have problem with (application name), not work", with no correct name, contact # or any real info of use. Call might be routed to techs on site for a password reset.(both locations)
Hang-ups and dead air seemed to be random or tied into "We had network down time" w/no notifications from either support location.
Wait for it...Cliche time, sorry.
Seems ya get what ya pay for.
(if this was fark that get an Obvious tag)
We've got a user base of 6k and the most important thing seems to be...Who you know. Hiring prefs to friends and family members are more the rule than exception.
It was (at least) once proposed that NASA have the shuttle carry the "empty" fuel tank into orbit & have them assembled into a "station" at some later point.
A small semi-dumb "tug-bot" could do the dragging into similar orbits part. However, it might take a few humans with wrenches to do the rest.
The cost would have been a reduced payload capacity for the shuttle(xx percent??). However, how many times have they launched at "full" capacity?.
Cryo fuels would be interesting due to the long term effects of extremes heating & cooling, but a few "sun shades" might help there. Using bladders for other fuels would prob work for a "quick" fix.
Not a clue about the bug/syndrome/skin thingy, but the "responsible" medical community response sounds all too familar in alot of ways to what lyme patients were hearing 15-ish years ago.
One Dr who's name escapes me but was a "respected" Dr at Shore Memorial Hospital (Somers Point NJ) was quoted in the local paper saying "It's all in their heads". He wasn't alone in that opinion, but I think he learned that when you make comments like that w/a portion of the staff going thru IV antibiotic treatment for lyme that life can be....Interesting.
As was mentioned, the "Easy" part of the NBC triangle had already been deployed in Japan by Aum Shinrikyo. Oddly, the "Hard" part had already been deployed there 2x circa 1945.
A gov't at great expense & a group of fanatics at an expense that a gov't would not notice, make for quite a range of possibles.
Yes, the article can be seen as leading, but it's not that much of a reach. Bioweaponry has been deployed on "small" scales both intentionally & by accident already.
(WWII Soviets, Japanese & Germans all did some "field work" reportedly & the accident the Soviets had w/anthrax was also notable. The "fun with food poisioning" event should also be noted, even if only at the salad bar)
This article should prob been seen as a "poke" to try to get someone's attention and remind them to try to think outside the box sometimes.
(getting some to actually think in some cases would be newsworthy tho)
IBM didn't know what to do with the "odd thing" that one of the research branches created. It was created as was ordered, but the Personal Computer thing didn't fit in. Off the shelf parts, an odd operating system thrown on it that some no-name company that IBM didn't even want to buy had cobbled together and it didn't fit in ANYWHERE in the business plan.
The research division went away a short time later and IBM's lack of flexibility launched MicroSoft and helped create Compaq.
For once, maybe ol' Bill's looking back and realizing the IBM does learn from some of it's errors. Slowly do the giant wheels turn.
Other than death? None.
The fusion lab folks have already made magnetic fields stong enough to kill even Keith Richards & the only other worldly thing they've gotten is bigger budgets and a few REALLY neat pix of the secondary discharges.
Actually, I think they're well into to the "even kills roaches" levels.
One and three. If it was all 3, I could deal. Only 2, I could deal.
One and three sux.
As to rules...
Keep management off the raised floor at all costs. (Nothing like a data center with a H2O fire supression system and NO offsite DR contract. "Sungard charges too much".)
What if everyone with a computer wanted a particle accelerator???
(set sarcasm OFF)
PET scans used hot glucose if I recall,and the 1/2 life on that stuff is pathetic. I got more radiation for my money when I got my cardiac scan. Complete with a warning not to visit the White House for 1 week.
Now for the energetic photons and particle folks...Neon signs do a nice job of charged plasma photon emission (makes light) and anyone who's got a CRT is also looking at 15-30kv accellerated electrons slamming into the phosphor(light and some x-rays).
The electron gun in the CRT is a particle accelerator.
One of those(a pointed wire in the tube will do), a chunk of metal, a vac pump & some major glass blowing skills all hooked up with a HV source will get you a "crude" X-ray tube.
Backyard reactor? Research reactor? Those, I'd worry about a little. http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/alpha.htm for the basic into for stuff that goes all atomic like.
Now, if this guy put a sign up that says synchrotron radiation research, I might not want to walk up to the front door when the lights are dimming.
BTW, I really, REALLY do not want to see this guy's electric bill. Nor do I want to find out if he find out what RF burns are.
Lie.
:-(
Tell them they'll be vaulued, their opinions valued and their employers will care how they feel. Tell them that some bean counter who has no idea of what's going on will ever cut their budget, staffing or supplies. That the Help Desk will have to never support 6k users with a staff of 2 or 3.
Sorry, that's not just IT anymore, that's everywhere
OR, tell them the plumber will make more $$ than they do.
And it is (was) called NetZero/Juno.
Altho Juno was useful back in the days when mailing lists were "big", I was a former CRFFL (cruffler)list follower & the "throw away" Juno address was very useful.
Folks who don't have much of a "need" for net access, like my mother-in-law, still use NetZero. She's the only one of my supported "family users" that's still using dial-up in an area w/all the DSL flavors & cable.
And it's folks like these who have no bandwidth that'll fall for this scheme.(and then wonder loudly & often "Why is the computer so slow?" when you're trying to update something.
"Today's episode of WindowsTV is brought to you by Tos-Sony-Dell-HP Corporation, the people who bought the Internet."
(Max Headroom reruns anyone?)
The staff at Lucas Electric Space Systems Division finds this highly irregular.
(snicker)
Doh! Killing that trailing / would help. http://www.surmet.com/docs/ALON%20Press%20Release_ August%202003.pdf