All of which they will recoup with increased tax revenue from tourists visiting to see the installation and spending money in the local shops and restaurants.
Is the quality of the balancing compared to the modern equivalent device shops use. Is it still accurate after 25 years? Was it ever accurate or as accurate as a modern device can calculate?
What ITT and similar places provide is education similar to what any teenager could get at a vocational school. The problem is that applicants read the pamphlet saying ITT has placed students at companies like IBM, Apple, and so forth but fail to realize those students got entry-level temp work like Administrative Assistant, QA Tester, etc... When they find out they have no chance of getting a 6-figure senior level position they feel like they've been lied to, in actuality it was just the school not volunteering to tell them the reality of what types of jobs they would be employable for. While the financial predatory practices are shameful, the instruction provided by ITT was legitimate just not what students believed it to would lead to.
I considered going to one of the competitors of ITT after my Senior year of High School but I had already been working in the real world for 2 years at that point and realized the cost of the education was high, the jobs were ones I had already been working and I could get a much cheaper and transferable education from the local city college that would leave the option of going to University available for me. The downside to not going to the vocational place was missing out on the far superior hands-on courses they provided that city college did not.
I do not think less of anyone for going to such a place to get their basic training in an industry, so long as they kept their expectations in check. I would certainly hire someone from such a place for an entry level position but that's because I already know what to expect is the limit of their ability.
When iOS 6 came out I did not experience any issues after power cycling the phone at least once. With iOS 10 I am having problems with the new unlock screen "feature" failing to work correctly (it is opening the Home screen 50% of the time) and apps are crashing and glitching on me daily including Apple's own apps. I highly recommend anyone that has not upgraded yet to not do so and instead wait for 1 or 2 point releases.
If they want to actually make any money from these pop-up stores they should sell some of the most popular AmazonBasics items which will also help increase exposure of that line of products. Things like: batteries, keyboards, mice, mouse pads, various cables, coffee mugs, and so on. Things that go along with other things a shopper might have already purchased in the mall and that will remind them of Amazon when they use them with other company's products.
I gave up on optical as a backup method when CDs I had burned back in the mid-90's on archive grade discs stopped working. Even with entertainment products (music, movies, TV shows) I immediately backup the discs to a file server for long term storage. At this point there is no optical format capable of storing enough data to suit my needs. For added protection of non-replaceable content like photos I post them to online services like Facebook, Google+, and Amazon Photos.
I dumped Linux on my file server that was using LVM for storage pools due to problems with Samba disconnecting in the middle of video streams and switched to Windows 10 using Storage Spaces instead. Windows 10 has been rock-solid with the only nagging issue being the automatic reboots from updates. My setup uses a full tower case with dual 4x3 5.25" SATA hot-swap modules from iStarUSA connected to a HighPoint RocketRAID (non-RAID card.) I have a total of 8 WD RED drives, currently 6 4TB drives and 2 6TB drives divided evenly into two Storage Spaces of 18TB each. One of the Spaces serves as the primary "Archive" and the 2nd set serves as the "Backup". I then have SyncBack Free running as a scheduled task in the wee hours of the morning to sync the two spaces, basically duplicating whatever is on the Archive to the Backup. This is not without risks, I run the risk of massive downtime in the event that any part of the computer fails, and also if something goes screwy with the Archive the automated sync will just duplicate the screw-up to the Backup. The data is not valuable to me though, just backups of media I own physical copies of (I do not torrent anything.) My long term plan is to build one smaller system with 4 drives to serve as a secondary Backup that will be synced manually. The cost of the drives is the main thing holding me back at this point. At present I upgrade 2 drives a year with larger capacity drives. I originally started with 2TB WD RED drives and have cycled through 3TB and 4TB drives. Not a single drive has failed on me. The 2 6TB drives were this years edition and I expect to swap in 2 more next year, maybe even step up to 8TB if they become affordable. Constantly upgrading storage drives is how I avoid catastrophic failure of drives, in fact after more than 20 years I have not had a single drive fail on me while in use. Even with SSD drives I have cycled them out within 3 years of original installation.
You completely miss the point that with an electric car you do not pull in to a gas station. You go to your destination then you go home and charge your vehicle at home. It's like having your own gas station at home.
I never once saw it advertised despite being online since before the Internet was a thing. In the summer of '95 I taught public school teachers how to use the Internet as a part of a summer program and the instructions we gave included how to use Gopher but I never saw it used outside of school. It was on all of the school computers and the limited computer instruction given to students included an introduction to Gopher but no one ever bothered with it. Usenet, IRC, even BBSes were more popular. Basically, the lack of pr0n and warez were its downfall.
Just tested logging out and back in, I'm still using the same password for my Slashdot account I've had for far too long (the password that is.) In fact, it is my 2nd oldest password still in use, my oldest password of course being a scorned 5 letter password not accepted in modern Internet society.:(
Reminds me of a company I know that built a brand new data center, put in an over-sized UPS system, over-sized electric generator, state of the art power monitoring/transfer system, and tested the generator bi-annually. Only there were three problems when the area finally suffered a blackout:
1.) They never tested fail-over to the UPS, they had only tested starting up the generator and then manually switched off mainline power once the generator was fully operational to see if it worked.
2.) The UPS installer never bothered to connect the batteries to the power control unit so when power did fail everything immediately lost power (these were racks of large batteries wired together, not the plug-and-play consumer stuff.) When the generator kicked in, everything tried to turn back on at the same time and tripped the breaker. LOL.
3.) The air conditioner was not connected to the fancy power transfer system and after a little over an hour, servers started throttling and eventually shut down from the heat. This all happened in early August on one of the hottest days of that year.
"Street Legal" means not only can it turn (have you ever even been to a drag strip, even custom built dragsters can turn) but it can brake, has working lights, restraints, even a rear view mirror!
Stop trying to talk shit about something you have zero knowledge of and educate yourself before you look like a fool again.
As expected, the article is pure FUD spread by fossil fuel lobbyists, here's the reality included technical details and analysis: http://reneweconomy.com.au/201...
Quote: On Sunday, November 21, one of the two lines that links South Australian to Victoria was out for maintenance, when at 21:56 the second line “tripped” because of a faulty signal. It was blamed on “non-compatible protection relay configuration” that had been recently installed as part of an upgrade. It was probably human error.
This “trip” caused the the South Australian grid to be “islanded.” This should be a routine situation. 160MW of capacity was shed to deal with frequency issues, and under normal circumstances the power should have been re-established quickly, in less than 10 minutes.
However, the local network could not solve its frequency problems as it expected, but not because of too much or too little wind energy.
First, frequency levels were affected by a rise in output from “non scheduled” generators that lifted frequency levels – most likely co-generators and diesel gensets. Then, the situation was made much worse when the large Torrens Island gas generator ignored requests from the market operator to cut down its output. Instead, it kept raising it, by 65MW all told.
This pushed the frequency level above 50.58 Hertz, outside the normal frequency band, which meant that the South Australia grid was insecure and could not be synchronised with the main grid.
The result, says AEMO, was that instead of power from the inter-connector being restored within 9 minutes, it took an extra 26 minutes for the frequency control problems to be resolved and the link restored.
This year it's: -AMD APU in 2 out of 3 machines, intel Pentium (G3225?) in the 3rd for shits and giggles -Windows 10 on everything, great OS, runs so much faster and more reliably than Windows 7, auto-reboot updates are annoying -Chrome browser, it has some performance problems but it's the only browser I know of to offer free remote desktop over the Internet (Chrome Remote Desktop) -VLC, #1 essential on every computer -MakeMKV, for backing up DVD and Blu-rays discs -One 27" LED Monitor @1080P, same for each system other than HTPC which is hooked up to 42" Plasma @1080P -HP 10-key-less compact keyboard (shame they stopped making them) -Logitech mouse (the really good one that's 7 years old now, MX something?)
I fix computers for a living so no need for special software, I just consume media and games with my own computers. The only thing special I have are a good set of tools and anti-static mat/band gear. Everything else is in my brain from decades of experience.
No worries there, the one person that wrote the code in the first place has long since been laid off and replaced with 10,000 outsourced Indian contractors.
would be better off buying a pre-built gaming PC from the likes of Alienware, CyberPower, Falcon Northwest, and so on. They cost less than a comparable Apple computer, and remain relevant (useful) longer than any Apple computer. At most you will get 3 years out of an Apple device before Apple decides to arbitrarily obsolete it by releasing an OS upgrade that does not support your processor or GPU.
For anyone that cannot afford either of the above there are two options: build a PC yourself ($400-$800 is all you really need to spend) or buy a game console. If someone is spending over a thousand dollars on a PC they build themselves they are either spending too much or better damn well be a hardcore gamer that knows what they are doing. 99% of gamer's would be perfectly fine with an AMD A10-7890K APU ($149) but instead waste $350 on an Intel 6700K CPU.
Out of over a dozen jobs I've held there was only one where I would have gladly given a 1 month notice. That employer had solid benefits including bi-annual profit sharing and made a good effort to train and promote within the organization. They routinely held company outings, paid for travel expenses without any hassle, and provided financial assistance for me to relocate to another office halfway across the country. Loved them dearly and was sad to see them get bought out by a larger evil corporation that outsourced their entire IT department to India. I made some decent money as an independent contractor taking care of call backs to fix what the Indians kept breaking.
On the other hand, most jobs I would have quit without remorse if the manager had given me any sh!t. The way I saw it, employment-at-will is only acceptable if the ax swings both ways. Employers must encounter the pain of an employee quitting on the spot if they expect to have the right to fire on the spot. I've quit by simply leaving a post-it and my office key on a manager's desk while they were away on one of their 3 hour lunches.
My last contract gig I received no notice, simply got called into an office for a conference call with the local department manager who was halfway across the country and advised me I needed to leave on the spot. They didn't bother to have anyone from security present which I thought was rather dangerous for them if they had attempted to do that to someone less civilized than myself. The on-site department supervisor was at least shocked and ashamed of her boss to the extent that she told me to take as long as I needed to gather my belongings. Most companies I have worked for or contracted at will give a one week notice. Never have I received a two week notice.
That's when my 2 year Verizon contract runs out and I dump them for T-Mobile and an iPhone 7. I would rather do business with a company that competes by providing better service (free music streaming) than do business with a company that competes by cranking up prices. I'm surprised Comcast hasn't purchased Verizon, they seem like they do business the same way as one another.
If you have never heard of PCPer than you shouldn't be reading articles about enthusiast PC hardware components at all. You will find MacRumors or 9to5mac.com more to your liking. Don't bother watching This Week In Computer Hardware on Twit.tv either, you will see some guy named Ryan Shrout that you never heard of before and remain befuddled by the audacity of Twit to have someone host a show you don't know personally.
How well does the AI perform against rules of engagement, or will it blindly fire at any object or structure because it identified a threat being in said object or structure?
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All of which they will recoup with increased tax revenue from tourists visiting to see the installation and spending money in the local shops and restaurants.
Is the quality of the balancing compared to the modern equivalent device shops use. Is it still accurate after 25 years? Was it ever accurate or as accurate as a modern device can calculate?
People weren't willing to pay a penny to send e-mail: https://www.cnet.com/forums/di...
I am more concerned about a cheap IoT device shipping with spyware from China pre-installed than I am about someone hacking into my network.
What ITT and similar places provide is education similar to what any teenager could get at a vocational school. The problem is that applicants read the pamphlet saying ITT has placed students at companies like IBM, Apple, and so forth but fail to realize those students got entry-level temp work like Administrative Assistant, QA Tester, etc... When they find out they have no chance of getting a 6-figure senior level position they feel like they've been lied to, in actuality it was just the school not volunteering to tell them the reality of what types of jobs they would be employable for. While the financial predatory practices are shameful, the instruction provided by ITT was legitimate just not what students believed it to would lead to.
I considered going to one of the competitors of ITT after my Senior year of High School but I had already been working in the real world for 2 years at that point and realized the cost of the education was high, the jobs were ones I had already been working and I could get a much cheaper and transferable education from the local city college that would leave the option of going to University available for me. The downside to not going to the vocational place was missing out on the far superior hands-on courses they provided that city college did not.
I do not think less of anyone for going to such a place to get their basic training in an industry, so long as they kept their expectations in check. I would certainly hire someone from such a place for an entry level position but that's because I already know what to expect is the limit of their ability.
Most video card drivers default to having overscan turned on when connect to a TV, you need to turn it off in the video card driver.
When iOS 6 came out I did not experience any issues after power cycling the phone at least once. With iOS 10 I am having problems with the new unlock screen "feature" failing to work correctly (it is opening the Home screen 50% of the time) and apps are crashing and glitching on me daily including Apple's own apps. I highly recommend anyone that has not upgraded yet to not do so and instead wait for 1 or 2 point releases.
If they want to actually make any money from these pop-up stores they should sell some of the most popular AmazonBasics items which will also help increase exposure of that line of products. Things like: batteries, keyboards, mice, mouse pads, various cables, coffee mugs, and so on. Things that go along with other things a shopper might have already purchased in the mall and that will remind them of Amazon when they use them with other company's products.
I gave up on optical as a backup method when CDs I had burned back in the mid-90's on archive grade discs stopped working. Even with entertainment products (music, movies, TV shows) I immediately backup the discs to a file server for long term storage. At this point there is no optical format capable of storing enough data to suit my needs. For added protection of non-replaceable content like photos I post them to online services like Facebook, Google+, and Amazon Photos.
I dumped Linux on my file server that was using LVM for storage pools due to problems with Samba disconnecting in the middle of video streams and switched to Windows 10 using Storage Spaces instead. Windows 10 has been rock-solid with the only nagging issue being the automatic reboots from updates. My setup uses a full tower case with dual 4x3 5.25" SATA hot-swap modules from iStarUSA connected to a HighPoint RocketRAID (non-RAID card.) I have a total of 8 WD RED drives, currently 6 4TB drives and 2 6TB drives divided evenly into two Storage Spaces of 18TB each. One of the Spaces serves as the primary "Archive" and the 2nd set serves as the "Backup". I then have SyncBack Free running as a scheduled task in the wee hours of the morning to sync the two spaces, basically duplicating whatever is on the Archive to the Backup. This is not without risks, I run the risk of massive downtime in the event that any part of the computer fails, and also if something goes screwy with the Archive the automated sync will just duplicate the screw-up to the Backup. The data is not valuable to me though, just backups of media I own physical copies of (I do not torrent anything.) My long term plan is to build one smaller system with 4 drives to serve as a secondary Backup that will be synced manually. The cost of the drives is the main thing holding me back at this point. At present I upgrade 2 drives a year with larger capacity drives. I originally started with 2TB WD RED drives and have cycled through 3TB and 4TB drives. Not a single drive has failed on me. The 2 6TB drives were this years edition and I expect to swap in 2 more next year, maybe even step up to 8TB if they become affordable. Constantly upgrading storage drives is how I avoid catastrophic failure of drives, in fact after more than 20 years I have not had a single drive fail on me while in use. Even with SSD drives I have cycled them out within 3 years of original installation.
You completely miss the point that with an electric car you do not pull in to a gas station. You go to your destination then you go home and charge your vehicle at home. It's like having your own gas station at home.
I never once saw it advertised despite being online since before the Internet was a thing. In the summer of '95 I taught public school teachers how to use the Internet as a part of a summer program and the instructions we gave included how to use Gopher but I never saw it used outside of school. It was on all of the school computers and the limited computer instruction given to students included an introduction to Gopher but no one ever bothered with it. Usenet, IRC, even BBSes were more popular. Basically, the lack of pr0n and warez were its downfall.
"Facebook knows the secret to paying off your mortgage with this one simple trick!"
Just tested logging out and back in, I'm still using the same password for my Slashdot account I've had for far too long (the password that is.) In fact, it is my 2nd oldest password still in use, my oldest password of course being a scorned 5 letter password not accepted in modern Internet society. :(
Reminds me of a company I know that built a brand new data center, put in an over-sized UPS system, over-sized electric generator, state of the art power monitoring/transfer system, and tested the generator bi-annually. Only there were three problems when the area finally suffered a blackout:
1.) They never tested fail-over to the UPS, they had only tested starting up the generator and then manually switched off mainline power once the generator was fully operational to see if it worked.
2.) The UPS installer never bothered to connect the batteries to the power control unit so when power did fail everything immediately lost power (these were racks of large batteries wired together, not the plug-and-play consumer stuff.) When the generator kicked in, everything tried to turn back on at the same time and tripped the breaker. LOL.
3.) The air conditioner was not connected to the fancy power transfer system and after a little over an hour, servers started throttling and eventually shut down from the heat. This all happened in early August on one of the hottest days of that year.
"Street Legal" means not only can it turn (have you ever even been to a drag strip, even custom built dragsters can turn) but it can brake, has working lights, restraints, even a rear view mirror!
Stop trying to talk shit about something you have zero knowledge of and educate yourself before you look like a fool again.
As expected, the article is pure FUD spread by fossil fuel lobbyists, here's the reality included technical details and analysis: http://reneweconomy.com.au/201...
Quote:
On Sunday, November 21, one of the two lines that links South Australian to Victoria was out for maintenance, when at 21:56 the second line “tripped” because of a faulty signal. It was blamed on “non-compatible protection relay configuration” that had been recently installed as part of an upgrade. It was probably human error.
This “trip” caused the the South Australian grid to be “islanded.” This should be a routine situation. 160MW of capacity was shed to deal with frequency issues, and under normal circumstances the power should have been re-established quickly, in less than 10 minutes.
However, the local network could not solve its frequency problems as it expected, but not because of too much or too little wind energy.
First, frequency levels were affected by a rise in output from “non scheduled” generators that lifted frequency levels – most likely co-generators and diesel gensets. Then, the situation was made much worse when the large Torrens Island gas generator ignored requests from the market operator to cut down its output. Instead, it kept raising it, by 65MW all told.
This pushed the frequency level above 50.58 Hertz, outside the normal frequency band, which meant that the South Australia grid was insecure and could not be synchronised with the main grid.
The result, says AEMO, was that instead of power from the inter-connector being restored within 9 minutes, it took an extra 26 minutes for the frequency control problems to be resolved and the link restored.
This year it's:
-AMD APU in 2 out of 3 machines, intel Pentium (G3225?) in the 3rd for shits and giggles
-Windows 10 on everything, great OS, runs so much faster and more reliably than Windows 7, auto-reboot updates are annoying
-Chrome browser, it has some performance problems but it's the only browser I know of to offer free remote desktop over the Internet (Chrome Remote Desktop)
-VLC, #1 essential on every computer
-MakeMKV, for backing up DVD and Blu-rays discs
-One 27" LED Monitor @1080P, same for each system other than HTPC which is hooked up to 42" Plasma @1080P
-HP 10-key-less compact keyboard (shame they stopped making them)
-Logitech mouse (the really good one that's 7 years old now, MX something?)
I fix computers for a living so no need for special software, I just consume media and games with my own computers. The only thing special I have are a good set of tools and anti-static mat/band gear. Everything else is in my brain from decades of experience.
No worries there, the one person that wrote the code in the first place has long since been laid off and replaced with 10,000 outsourced Indian contractors.
would be better off buying a pre-built gaming PC from the likes of Alienware, CyberPower, Falcon Northwest, and so on. They cost less than a comparable Apple computer, and remain relevant (useful) longer than any Apple computer. At most you will get 3 years out of an Apple device before Apple decides to arbitrarily obsolete it by releasing an OS upgrade that does not support your processor or GPU.
For anyone that cannot afford either of the above there are two options: build a PC yourself ($400-$800 is all you really need to spend) or buy a game console. If someone is spending over a thousand dollars on a PC they build themselves they are either spending too much or better damn well be a hardcore gamer that knows what they are doing. 99% of gamer's would be perfectly fine with an AMD A10-7890K APU ($149) but instead waste $350 on an Intel 6700K CPU.
Out of over a dozen jobs I've held there was only one where I would have gladly given a 1 month notice. That employer had solid benefits including bi-annual profit sharing and made a good effort to train and promote within the organization. They routinely held company outings, paid for travel expenses without any hassle, and provided financial assistance for me to relocate to another office halfway across the country. Loved them dearly and was sad to see them get bought out by a larger evil corporation that outsourced their entire IT department to India. I made some decent money as an independent contractor taking care of call backs to fix what the Indians kept breaking.
On the other hand, most jobs I would have quit without remorse if the manager had given me any sh!t. The way I saw it, employment-at-will is only acceptable if the ax swings both ways. Employers must encounter the pain of an employee quitting on the spot if they expect to have the right to fire on the spot. I've quit by simply leaving a post-it and my office key on a manager's desk while they were away on one of their 3 hour lunches.
My last contract gig I received no notice, simply got called into an office for a conference call with the local department manager who was halfway across the country and advised me I needed to leave on the spot. They didn't bother to have anyone from security present which I thought was rather dangerous for them if they had attempted to do that to someone less civilized than myself. The on-site department supervisor was at least shocked and ashamed of her boss to the extent that she told me to take as long as I needed to gather my belongings. Most companies I have worked for or contracted at will give a one week notice. Never have I received a two week notice.
That's when my 2 year Verizon contract runs out and I dump them for T-Mobile and an iPhone 7. I would rather do business with a company that competes by providing better service (free music streaming) than do business with a company that competes by cranking up prices. I'm surprised Comcast hasn't purchased Verizon, they seem like they do business the same way as one another.
If you have never heard of PCPer than you shouldn't be reading articles about enthusiast PC hardware components at all. You will find MacRumors or 9to5mac.com more to your liking. Don't bother watching This Week In Computer Hardware on Twit.tv either, you will see some guy named Ryan Shrout that you never heard of before and remain befuddled by the audacity of Twit to have someone host a show you don't know personally.
How well does the AI perform against rules of engagement, or will it blindly fire at any object or structure because it identified a threat being in said object or structure?
Wow, not even a year under new management and you are already trolling the new owners. Typical old fart, change your bookmark to AARP.