i know this was a humorous post but i still feel the need to remind people of the differnce between passive and active rfid. it is true that passive (really small, the size of a large grain of rice) only work within a few cms. they contain a capacitor charged by rf and then discharged to give off its id. these are what we tag pets with. active rfid have a small battery and are about the size of.... well.... a watch battery + a grain of rice. these work for about 2-3 meters and would be a great application for this task. this is how we see how often the cattle come in to eat.
so long as people are not forced to use them, and so long as in using them you are not required to give out your identity, it would be a great idea. if a person could check one out for a $20 deposit and get the cash back when they return it to the rental place, this could save many lives and even many man-hours of searching.
I'm with you there. There are alot of people on that list whom deserve to be credited for making this God forsaken machine I make my living with. I hope some of the more worthy win.
Man: An argument isn't just contradiction.
Mr. Vibrating: CAN be!
Man: No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Mr. Vibrating: No it isn't!
Man: Yes it is! 'tisn't just contradiction.
Mr. Vibrating: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position!
Man: Yes but that's not just saying "no it isn't".
Mr. Vibrating: Yes it is!
Man: No it isn't! Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
You you belive that right now YOUR ISP doesn't have the abillity to monitor where you are surfing? Unless you have some very non-standard surfing techniques, they do have, and always will have, that abillity. If they are the "provider" they can watch what they provide.
Actully you are exactly wrong. Broadcasting is pentamount to the freedom of speech. A person standing on the street corner isnt really passing a message on to anyone. Could a president win an election without any broadcast (radio, tv, newpaper, internet)? How many people can we tell a message without using a broadcast medium? Even before electricity, important messages were broadcasted via harolds or semaphore. If we take the most widely used for of communication and give it to just 1 company, let call them Clear Channel for fun, wouldn't that give them the right to impose their views on the masses. I mean they could do things like pull radio shows when they think them to be offincive or restrict the use of the word "scumbag". It would be a sad state. LPFM is a very good thing but those that use it need to be respectful of others. Which, by the way, is true for all radio transmittors.
That sounded like a good idea to me too when I first started thinking about it. However, after more thought, I remembered that the police will go to your safe deposit box, assuming they can find it, in the event that they are investigating you as a suspect for a crime. I would hate to be in mild amount of trouble for something innocent like embezzlement and end up inadvertently handing all of my tax returns, banking info, off shore accounts, ect. to the authorities. Now, an even better idea would be to store your stuff in your friend's safe deposit box or in a safe at a friend's house. That would at least be difficult to get a warrant for and could be destroyed before the police are on to where it is.
there isn't 220,000 man-hours to spare. the point was is that continuing to run microsoft windows is by far the cheapest way to go. the patches cost is minimal if dealt with correctly.
btw, chances are that the haemorrhaging would end shortly after the chapter 11.
No, he's right. Java is a single inheritance lang, C++ is multiple. I code in both and change the structures of my code depending on language. Also, I would take a different approch to organizing my visual compenents based on the way a language works.
Further, teachers need to know how to organize instruction. If one teacher teaches HS kids VB, one perl, and one VB, no matter how the test is made, one of these 3 classes will have an advantage over another. The only fair way is to have a standarized approch to the test.
Even simple questions have very different answers in a loosly coded language like perl vs. a impossibly hardly coded language like java.
I'm happy to see java make another move ahead when it seems to be losing ground.
Without engaging a holy war, Migrating to Linux involves retraining of employees, this is a cost beyond your imagination. It involves retraining of IT (or hiring a new staff altogether.) It involves moving all of our apps to Linux compatible apps. This is where it gets impossible. Microsoft project manages most of our projects. Is there an alternative, prob but more training dollars. Visio makes our product drawings, more training dollars. Visual studio and visual source safe, more training dollars. Ect. Pretty soon we have spent more in training than we bring in, our apps are flakey at best and we have moved from everything working 99.97% of the time to struggling every day with the question, "Ok, now how do we use THIS one with Linux?" It would be cheaper to have 25 people working 24 hours just waiting around to test patches when they come out.
IT@large_corporate_network here. True, auto updates aren't good for business critical machines. Microsoft gives you 2 ways to do the updates, you could use the automatic updater and put up a update server so you can control what is updated. Alternately, you could use SMS. If it takes you weeks to do testing, you should consider a more standardized loadset. If you were using one, the 90% of the systems who can use that loadset could be tested in a few hours. If you have users requiring manual installs, there are options like patch management systems (I like HFNetChkPro by Shavlik) or putting the patch installer into the login script. On adding to the corp. build, you need a leaner process, I can get it up in about a week. For all of this, and the server reboots, let me remind you that the patch was 21 days before the worm.
Also, why does this article act like the worm is a new concept?
Not true. As an individual, I receive at least 2 NSF notices per week from my bank. But you guys are talking like they give you money, mine cost me $22 each.
"Pretty print" is worth whatever dollar amount they put on it. It virtually eliminates mistakes made by careless calculator users. I am an engineering student in my senior year and I don't know how I would have survived without my TI-89.
I am really astonished that TI (or anyone else) continues to make any calculators at all without this function.
--for non-TI 89 users-- "Pretty Print" is the feature which takes: lim(e^(42x*sqrt(2))\x,x,0) and puts it on the display as you would have written it by hand. It also keeps pi/sqrt(2) as an answer as you would have written that by hand rather than a decimal approximation (unless you use the approximation button)
I don't belive that it crashed in a field in PA. I spent that day in a government building (work related) and we were watching the news pretty close. The plane was under the control of a terrorist pilot, the piolet was not reponding. Two F-16s caught up the the plane and were escorting it. THe plane went down in a field, the front was over 5 miles from the tail, this indicates an explotion occured on the plane, or, that the plane was shot down.
Minutes later, the president made a statement that all planes were accounted for and that the heros rushed the plane and it was lost. The wrekage was never again discussed and no news agency wanted to state that the people on the plane were not the heros. The story died. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I'm pretty sure that this story was not covered with the standard fervor of the american press.
I know, i have always thought that it was odd that I bought the cisco that was considered the top of the line (and the only card that supported leap) and then couldnt use netstumbler. I will be loading up the new version tonight and giving it a spin.
You're right that it is odd, perhaps if I was from the same culture as Moses, this sort of logic would have made more sense to me. Reguardless light came to be first. If you belive that light from the sun is the only light which can make plants grow, you should visit the basement of every stoner in the world. Light comes from many sources, includeing the unnamed on in Genesis 1 before the creation of the sun.
I am a little confused as to which came first, the sun or the earth. You say that they were both about 10 billion years later, but you didn't mention which was first and, more importantly, how you know. Truth is, we dont know, we can make a guess as to when matter came to be yet not as to exactly what order all the matter in the universe was created.
I never said that earth would be orbiting the sun at the time the sun turned on (and it likely wasn't.) Things which fly by large gravitational centers are affected by them and sometimes orbit them for a while. I said that the ball of rock _could_ have existed before the sun turned on, somewhere in the universe. Truth is, we don't know that either.
Genesis 1 3.And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day....
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
The way I read it, earth and sun both day 1. Plants, day 3. It did list the earth before the sun, but any respectable big bang theorist will tell you: 1. All matter came to be at approx the same time 2. Stars are born and the earth very likley came to be a ball of rock before the sun became a big fireball. 3. No one knows what happened in the first few instants of the universe.
I'm sad to see that so many posters are slaves to their mediums. I can think deeply about all the content which I receive, regardless of how it was transmitted. I have the ability to examine the mother-daughter relationship in Gilmore girls (TV), or the glass menagerie (live theater), or the scarlet letter (novel). I have seen/read all of the above and I have the ability to examine the differences.
As one other poster stated, you can drift off doing anything. I don't see this as being either good or bad but it is true.
Active or passive engagement in any activity is at the sole discretion of the person engaging in it. You could sit watching NYPD Blue or Taking Lives and just wonder what will happen and await the conclusion, or you could actively engage your mind in figuring out the end. Further, you could watch football and just wonder when the home team will go back on offence and if they will throw or run this play or you could actively consider the game and put yourself in the coaches place. Slowing down the process by using a slower way of transferring data doesn't make the data worth more.
If not for commercials, most people would not know that there was a bow-flex or a ginsu knife. This does help promote consumerism.
The jury's of 50 years ago would have no concept of what was going on in the courtroom around them. just a lot of long words and what not. Thanks to Court TV, OJ Simpson, and Law & Order, people at least have an idea of what is going on beyond what is actually told to them. Do you think that the jurors you served with chose the best ending for the story or did they choose what they thought was right? I don't think that educating the populous is such a bad thing.
Why is reading more rewarding than TV? Slower, yes, but more rewarding? The story told on my favorite sitcom this week could have been a short story. I could have read it in just 3 hours or so, but I watched it in a sixth of that time.
Why is the novel intrinsically better than the movie? Other than the fact you committed 2 months rather than 2 hours. In many ways, TV is superior to other forms of entertainment. It can be done on my schedule, unlike the dinner theater which I must make by 6 PM. Comic timing is much better spoken than read. Comedy clubs are fine here in LA, but not to many good comedians play in Hometown, USA. Also, through broadcast technology, we can have an audience be 1000's of times bigger without feeling like you are sitting behind 10,000 people to watch the show.
TVs are addictions. As adults we are allowed to be addicted to things, that's our right. Addictions are not bad in and of themselves. Find one CEO of a fortune 500 who isn't a workaholic.
Smoking is a whole other ball of wax. It is harmful to those around you and to our environment. TVs are very low wattage devices and generally cause people to sit around. Further, TVs give outlets for advertisements, thus furthering our economy.
Next week, I shall make it a point to watch twice as much TV to make up for all those who don't watch any.
I would have to agree with the parent. Bugs happen, thats life. You wouldn't be competative if you put off release until perfect (which would come eventully but not in a timly manner.)
OTOH, It is also true that I dont have a rune blade and therefore there are somethings I can't do so I might have to give it to the grandparent, the writer of perfect code.
I think the people that find these vulnerabilities should but an expire date
most of them do.
the article was saying that we should think of a way to create simulntainous deploys and such to speed the release of pacthes at a certain release day. (and giving a resonable way to do so.) This is a different plan but about as effective as the way that norton live update works. This is not the same as just procrastinating a release. It is just not a rush to release, hope people are patching right now, sort of approch.
A. If he had an MS bias, this article would have been posted. Unless I missed the law which says that all sites must cover switching from microsoft to another OS.
B. Since when is there a "simple Win-to-*nix install"? Admins and techno-junkies _still_ have problems with this. It almost never works correctly the first time and then once you have it up and running, there is a huge learning curve on how to use it for anything beyond OOo and mozilla.
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i know this was a humorous post but i still feel the need to remind people of the differnce between passive and active rfid. it is true that passive (really small, the size of a large grain of rice) only work within a few cms. they contain a capacitor charged by rf and then discharged to give off its id. these are what we tag pets with. active rfid have a small battery and are about the size of.... well.... a watch battery + a grain of rice. these work for about 2-3 meters and would be a great application for this task. this is how we see how often the cattle come in to eat.
so long as people are not forced to use them, and so long as in using them you are not required to give out your identity, it would be a great idea. if a person could check one out for a $20 deposit and get the cash back when they return it to the rental place, this could save many lives and even many man-hours of searching.
I'm with you there. There are alot of people on that list whom deserve to be credited for making this God forsaken machine I make my living with. I hope some of the more worthy win.
Mr. Vibrating: CAN be!
Man: No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Mr. Vibrating: No it isn't!
Man: Yes it is! 'tisn't just contradiction.
Mr. Vibrating: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position!
Man: Yes but that's not just saying "no it isn't".
Mr. Vibrating: Yes it is!
Man: No it isn't! Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
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You you belive that right now YOUR ISP doesn't have the abillity to monitor where you are surfing? Unless you have some very non-standard surfing techniques, they do have, and always will have, that abillity. If they are the "provider" they can watch what they provide.
Actully you are exactly wrong. Broadcasting is pentamount to the freedom of speech. A person standing on the street corner isnt really passing a message on to anyone. Could a president win an election without any broadcast (radio, tv, newpaper, internet)? How many people can we tell a message without using a broadcast medium? Even before electricity, important messages were broadcasted via harolds or semaphore. If we take the most widely used for of communication and give it to just 1 company, let call them Clear Channel for fun, wouldn't that give them the right to impose their views on the masses. I mean they could do things like pull radio shows when they think them to be offincive or restrict the use of the word "scumbag". It would be a sad state. LPFM is a very good thing but those that use it need to be respectful of others. Which, by the way, is true for all radio transmittors.
That sounded like a good idea to me too when I first started thinking about it. However, after more thought, I remembered that the police will go to your safe deposit box, assuming they can find it, in the event that they are investigating you as a suspect for a crime. I would hate to be in mild amount of trouble for something innocent like embezzlement and end up inadvertently handing all of my tax returns, banking info, off shore accounts, ect. to the authorities. Now, an even better idea would be to store your stuff in your friend's safe deposit box or in a safe at a friend's house. That would at least be difficult to get a warrant for and could be destroyed before the police are on to where it is.
there isn't 220,000 man-hours to spare. the point was is that continuing to run microsoft windows is by far the cheapest way to go. the patches cost is minimal if dealt with correctly.
btw, chances are that the haemorrhaging would end shortly after the chapter 11.
No, he's right. Java is a single inheritance lang, C++ is multiple. I code in both and change the structures of my code depending on language. Also, I would take a different approch to organizing my visual compenents based on the way a language works.
Further, teachers need to know how to organize instruction. If one teacher teaches HS kids VB, one perl, and one VB, no matter how the test is made, one of these 3 classes will have an advantage over another. The only fair way is to have a standarized approch to the test.
Even simple questions have very different answers in a loosly coded language like perl vs. a impossibly hardly coded language like java.
I'm happy to see java make another move ahead when it seems to be losing ground.
Without engaging a holy war, Migrating to Linux involves retraining of employees, this is a cost beyond your imagination. It involves retraining of IT (or hiring a new staff altogether.) It involves moving all of our apps to Linux compatible apps. This is where it gets impossible. Microsoft project manages most of our projects. Is there an alternative, prob but more training dollars. Visio makes our product drawings, more training dollars. Visual studio and visual source safe, more training dollars. Ect. Pretty soon we have spent more in training than we bring in, our apps are flakey at best and we have moved from everything working 99.97% of the time to struggling every day with the question, "Ok, now how do we use THIS one with Linux?" It would be cheaper to have 25 people working 24 hours just waiting around to test patches when they come out.
IT@large_corporate_network here.
True, auto updates aren't good for business critical machines. Microsoft gives you 2 ways to do the updates, you could use the automatic updater and put up a update server so you can control what is updated. Alternately, you could use SMS.
If it takes you weeks to do testing, you should consider a more standardized loadset. If you were using one, the 90% of the systems who can use that loadset could be tested in a few hours. If you have users requiring manual installs, there are options like patch management systems (I like HFNetChkPro by Shavlik) or putting the patch installer into the login script.
On adding to the corp. build, you need a leaner process, I can get it up in about a week.
For all of this, and the server reboots, let me remind you that the patch was 21 days before the worm.
Also, why does this article act like the worm is a new concept?
Not true. As an individual, I receive at least 2 NSF notices per week from my bank. But you guys are talking like they give you money, mine cost me $22 each.
"Pretty print" is worth whatever dollar amount they put on it. It virtually eliminates mistakes made by careless calculator users. I am an engineering student in my senior year and I don't know how I would have survived without my TI-89.
I am really astonished that TI (or anyone else) continues to make any calculators at all without this function.
--for non-TI 89 users--
"Pretty Print" is the feature which takes:
lim(e^(42x*sqrt(2))\x,x,0) and puts it on the display as you would have written it by hand. It also keeps pi/sqrt(2) as an answer as you would have written that by hand rather than a decimal approximation (unless you use the approximation button)
Minutes later, the president made a statement that all planes were accounted for and that the heros rushed the plane and it was lost. The wrekage was never again discussed and no news agency wanted to state that the people on the plane were not the heros. The story died. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I'm pretty sure that this story was not covered with the standard fervor of the american press.
I know, i have always thought that it was odd that I bought the cisco that was considered the top of the line (and the only card that supported leap) and then couldnt use netstumbler. I will be loading up the new version tonight and giving it a spin.
You're right that it is odd, perhaps if I was from the same culture as Moses, this sort of logic would have made more sense to me. Reguardless light came to be first. If you belive that light from the sun is the only light which can make plants grow, you should visit the basement of every stoner in the world. Light comes from many sources, includeing the unnamed on in Genesis 1 before the creation of the sun.
I am a little confused as to which came first, the sun or the earth. You say that they were both about 10 billion years later, but you didn't mention which was first and, more importantly, how you know. Truth is, we dont know, we can make a guess as to when matter came to be yet not as to exactly what order all the matter in the universe was created.
I never said that earth would be orbiting the sun at the time the sun turned on (and it likely wasn't.) Things which fly by large gravitational centers are affected by them and sometimes orbit them for a while. I said that the ball of rock _could_ have existed before the sun turned on, somewhere in the universe. Truth is, we don't know that either.
He did?
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Genesis 1
3.And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
The way I read it, earth and sun both day 1. Plants, day 3. It did list the earth before the sun, but any respectable big bang theorist will tell you:
1. All matter came to be at approx the same time
2. Stars are born and the earth very likley came to be a ball of rock before the sun became a big fireball.
3. No one knows what happened in the first few instants of the universe.
Most people how have never tried heroin don't see why its so addictive.
Bandwidth is a drug. once you've had it, you can't live without it. no matter how much you have had, you want more.
I'm sad to see that so many posters are slaves to their mediums. I can think deeply about all the content which I receive, regardless of how it was transmitted. I have the ability to examine the mother-daughter relationship in Gilmore girls (TV), or the glass menagerie (live theater), or the scarlet letter (novel). I have seen/read all of the above and I have the ability to examine the differences.
As one other poster stated, you can drift off doing anything. I don't see this as being either good or bad but it is true.
Active or passive engagement in any activity is at the sole discretion of the person engaging in it. You could sit watching NYPD Blue or Taking Lives and just wonder what will happen and await the conclusion, or you could actively engage your mind in figuring out the end. Further, you could watch football and just wonder when the home team will go back on offence and if they will throw or run this play or you could actively consider the game and put yourself in the coaches place. Slowing down the process by using a slower way of transferring data doesn't make the data worth more.
If not for commercials, most people would not know that there was a bow-flex or a ginsu knife. This does help promote consumerism.
The jury's of 50 years ago would have no concept of what was going on in the courtroom around them. just a lot of long words and what not. Thanks to Court TV, OJ Simpson, and Law & Order, people at least have an idea of what is going on beyond what is actually told to them. Do you think that the jurors you served with chose the best ending for the story or did they choose what they thought was right? I don't think that educating the populous is such a bad thing.
Why is reading more rewarding than TV? Slower, yes, but more rewarding? The story told on my favorite sitcom this week could have been a short story. I could have read it in just 3 hours or so, but I watched it in a sixth of that time.
Why is the novel intrinsically better than the movie? Other than the fact you committed 2 months rather than 2 hours. In many ways, TV is superior to other forms of entertainment. It can be done on my schedule, unlike the dinner theater which I must make by 6 PM. Comic timing is much better spoken than read. Comedy clubs are fine here in LA, but not to many good comedians play in Hometown, USA. Also, through broadcast technology, we can have an audience be 1000's of times bigger without feeling like you are sitting behind 10,000 people to watch the show.
TVs are addictions. As adults we are allowed to be addicted to things, that's our right. Addictions are not bad in and of themselves. Find one CEO of a fortune 500 who isn't a workaholic.
Smoking is a whole other ball of wax. It is harmful to those around you and to our environment. TVs are very low wattage devices and generally cause people to sit around. Further, TVs give outlets for advertisements, thus furthering our economy.
Next week, I shall make it a point to watch twice as much TV to make up for all those who don't watch any.
There should be a mod:
-1 (used phrase "information superhighway")
I would have to agree with the parent. Bugs happen, thats life. You wouldn't be competative if you put off release until perfect (which would come eventully but not in a timly manner.)
OTOH, It is also true that I dont have a rune blade and therefore there are somethings I can't do so I might have to give it to the grandparent, the writer of perfect code.
most of them do.
the article was saying that we should think of a way to create simulntainous deploys and such to speed the release of pacthes at a certain release day. (and giving a resonable way to do so.) This is a different plan but about as effective as the way that norton live update works. This is not the same as just procrastinating a release. It is just not a rush to release, hope people are patching right now, sort of approch.
Computer world isn't going to "fall over." If it does, we could post the article then.
WHY do we mod up people who pollute the comments by copying the article into the comments?
Not informative. damn, where are my mod points when i need them?
A. If he had an MS bias, this article would have been posted. Unless I missed the law which says that all sites must cover switching from microsoft to another OS.
B. Since when is there a "simple Win-to-*nix install"? Admins and techno-junkies _still_ have problems with this. It almost never works correctly the first time and then once you have it up and running, there is a huge learning curve on how to use it for anything beyond OOo and mozilla.
C. He had problems? It looked sucessfull to me.
Tom is really, really good at hardware. OSes aren't hardware.