Both of those tapes are specifically designed for easy removal. Do you really think they're still going to be attached a year or two later when you have to do something with the setup?
Surely there's a label printer out there that just prints directly to the cable...
I'd rather pay more money than have ads, though. 5 minutes of my time is more valuable to my employer (as evidenced by how much I'm payed for it, which doesn't need to be very much at all for this to be true) than it is to the media companies. Especially since they expect to consume both my time and money (as a portion of the price of all the things I buy).
It's not an "obscure computer" It's the very computer you're still typing on
^h = control key + h. The "trick" you probably don't know is that control + character combos are shorthand for ascii control characters. Specifically, the characters a-z correspond to 1-26, and a few off the surrounding keys also map to control characters (there are 32 total control characters)
You will find that, in windows programs like Word, etc, many or all of the combos are trapped, and made to do other things that may be more useful to the user, but in, say, a command window, the ones that make sense there will do what they always did.
It's not relevant to many of your current tasks, but it's not so far obscure that you couldn't even experience it any more. In fact, I use about ten of them every day working with.. an obscure, proprietary program needed for work that apparently was implemented as a terminal program. For instance, It turns out that u,d,l,and r map to the same ascii control characters as the up, down, left, and right arrow keys, and it happens that I hate moving my hands off of the home row if possible.
And.. you know what.. forget everything. It looks like you meant to say, "obscure computer trick," which is pretty true at this point.
If money laundering is successful, it doesn't look like a crime has occurred. If it is not successful, can you really say that money laundering has occurred? At best, I'd think you'd have evidence for attempted money laundering...
Fission != Decay. Pu-238 RTGs use decay heat, which is possible because of their short half-lives as you said, but the parent poster was positing the existence of some kind of micro-sized fission pile, which if it exists, would certainly extract energy from U-235 more quickly than natural decay.
However, any kind of active mechanical device, whether solar or nuclear for the heat source, will have significant longevity problems. You can't exactly do routine maintenance and lubrication a billion miles from the nearest service station. Might be useful for near-earth projects, but deep space probes are where RTGs are king, and probably always will be.
Eh.. nothing wrong with the streaming model, as far as network bandwidth goes, and there are advantages for things that lots of people are trying to get: under the streaming model, you can use multicast a little better. For instance, if something just needs to be downloaded, you can multicast it in a continuous loop and clients can assemble the pieces in the right order at their end, waiting until they have enough to finish.
Or you can have multiple streams staggered (for say, video), so that people can join in at almost any time and get on a stream.
The other advantage of streaming is that if, say, a client is downloading video and the user decides halfway through to stop watching, you don't have to send any more bits.
Out-of-order downloading still works best over a fast link, though, because you want those out-of-order frames to come in quickly so you can stick them up right away....
There's no way that competitor can offer $70/month and not be oversubscribed. Based on the vast gap between the prices, I doubt that they're selling the same product at all.
That said.. I wouldn't mind being on an oversubscribed gigabit network if I had to be throttled to "only" 10Mb average.... For web browsing, a bunch of brief bursts of however fast you can make it really improves the responsiveness. I would pay a fair price for a product like that, if the average was sufficient for one netflix HD stream. Web browsing isn't *all* I use my connection for.
Apple has a revenue of about 900k per employee*. If they're paying any kind of wage out of that, their employees are going to be fine.
* I doubt this counts the Foxconn factory workers....
The facility is being built for Apple employees, not generic tech workers. Apple knows what it's paying them and where they live. I'm sure it went into the decision process.
Oh, noes, you might need to get TWO antennas and space them apart by a half wavelength. The expense!
Raw signal strength is not how RDF is done. The above is not even how it's done anymore, especially in aircraft, although it's still quite effective for transmitter hunt parties.
Windows. Malls don't tend to have 'em in very great abundance. Which is one of the reasons that they're a sucky place to work.
The new apple building concept drawing looks like there will be a lot of views of the outside from the offices, and outside isn't just some concrete canyon, it's going to be somewhat natured. From the exterior shots, you can't tell what the workers' point of view will be (maybe they have no sight line to a window unless they're management or something....), but it looks like a great place to work, assuming those great big windows are viewed by everyone.
It seems like that is the architect's main objection: the facility will not be nearly as shitty as facilities other workers have to deal with, and somehow that unfairness equates to bad design?
They do, but they have a stupid definition of "minimum security":
it's some small number of characters, at least one of which must be a number.
This is not a terribly onerous policy*, but iPods' screen keyboards do not have a number row. You have to switch to another page to input numbers, so people with iPods are going to tend to pick a specific subset of passwords with numbers - ones where all the numbers are together at either the beginning or the end.
I think that this may result in passwords that are actually less secure than the same length of just letters, even....
*although, until you start getting into 20+ char passwords, it turns out that adding one more character to the minimum length improves security by more than adding 10 more glyphs to the character pool....
What they should do is enforce a minimum password *strength*, and generate several passwords for using pre-defined rules which you can pick from (and which have been researched, so assuming random generation, their strength can be calculated), rather like the keychain works, actually...
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Both of those tapes are specifically designed for easy removal. Do you really think they're still going to be attached a year or two later when you have to do something with the setup?
Surely there's a label printer out there that just prints directly to the cable...
Dental floss, the poor man's waxed "linen" for short runs cable lacing. Zip ties leave ugly bumps every length.
I'd rather pay more money than have ads, though. 5 minutes of my time is more valuable to my employer (as evidenced by how much I'm payed for it, which doesn't need to be very much at all for this to be true) than it is to the media companies. Especially since they expect to consume both my time and money (as a portion of the price of all the things I buy).
Water is almost always part of the solution. It's the most common solvent by a significant margin over all the others.
And the underlying multiplexing has changed from TDMA to CDMA anyway. Time division multiplex was a stupid idea from the beginning.
In the book, the lawyer survived (and, iirc, was actually not a bad guy...), and Hammond was killed in a fairly disturbing fashion.
Nevertheless, the quotes from the movie are more memorable. I don't think I can recall any of Muldoon's lines from the book...
It's not an "obscure computer" It's the very computer you're still typing on
^h = control key + h. The "trick" you probably don't know is that control + character combos are shorthand for ascii control characters. Specifically, the characters a-z correspond to 1-26, and a few off the surrounding keys also map to control characters (there are 32 total control characters)
You will find that, in windows programs like Word, etc, many or all of the combos are trapped, and made to do other things that may be more useful to the user, but in, say, a command window, the ones that make sense there will do what they always did.
It's not relevant to many of your current tasks, but it's not so far obscure that you couldn't even experience it any more. In fact, I use about ten of them every day working with .. an obscure, proprietary program needed for work that apparently was implemented as a terminal program. For instance, It turns out that u,d,l,and r map to the same ascii control characters as the up, down, left, and right arrow keys, and it happens that I hate moving my hands off of the home row if possible.
And.. you know what.. forget everything. It looks like you meant to say, "obscure computer trick," which is pretty true at this point.
"money laundering"
If money laundering is successful, it doesn't look like a crime has occurred. If it is not successful, can you really say that money laundering has occurred? At best, I'd think you'd have evidence for attempted money laundering...
If I'm paying $600/month for 10Mb, I better not be sharing with the same number of people as the company selling $70/month gigE....
Fission != Decay. Pu-238 RTGs use decay heat, which is possible because of their short half-lives as you said, but the parent poster was positing the existence of some kind of micro-sized fission pile, which if it exists, would certainly extract energy from U-235 more quickly than natural decay.
However, any kind of active mechanical device, whether solar or nuclear for the heat source, will have significant longevity problems. You can't exactly do routine maintenance and lubrication a billion miles from the nearest service station. Might be useful for near-earth projects, but deep space probes are where RTGs are king, and probably always will be.
Well, the fee-shifting, if warranted, should include all four parties involved. The two parties in the dispute, and their lawyers....
Interesting. That is not available to me, however, as I do not live in Sweden, rural or otherwise. What is the immigration policy like over there?
And how many electronic computers existed in the world in 1943? 1944? 1945-1953?
Eh.. nothing wrong with the streaming model, as far as network bandwidth goes, and there are advantages for things that lots of people are trying to get: under the streaming model, you can use multicast a little better. For instance, if something just needs to be downloaded, you can multicast it in a continuous loop and clients can assemble the pieces in the right order at their end, waiting until they have enough to finish.
Or you can have multiple streams staggered (for say, video), so that people can join in at almost any time and get on a stream.
The other advantage of streaming is that if, say, a client is downloading video and the user decides halfway through to stop watching, you don't have to send any more bits.
Out-of-order downloading still works best over a fast link, though, because you want those out-of-order frames to come in quickly so you can stick them up right away....
There's no way that competitor can offer $70/month and not be oversubscribed. Based on the vast gap between the prices, I doubt that they're selling the same product at all.
That said.. I wouldn't mind being on an oversubscribed gigabit network if I had to be throttled to "only" 10Mb average.... For web browsing, a bunch of brief bursts of however fast you can make it really improves the responsiveness. I would pay a fair price for a product like that, if the average was sufficient for one netflix HD stream. Web browsing isn't *all* I use my connection for.
Apple has a revenue of about 900k per employee*. If they're paying any kind of wage out of that, their employees are going to be fine.
* I doubt this counts the Foxconn factory workers....
The facility is being built for Apple employees, not generic tech workers. Apple knows what it's paying them and where they live. I'm sure it went into the decision process.
Oh, noes, you might need to get TWO antennas and space them apart by a half wavelength. The expense!
Raw signal strength is not how RDF is done. The above is not even how it's done anymore, especially in aircraft, although it's still quite effective for transmitter hunt parties.
Windows. Malls don't tend to have 'em in very great abundance. Which is one of the reasons that they're a sucky place to work.
The new apple building concept drawing looks like there will be a lot of views of the outside from the offices, and outside isn't just some concrete canyon, it's going to be somewhat natured. From the exterior shots, you can't tell what the workers' point of view will be (maybe they have no sight line to a window unless they're management or something....), but it looks like a great place to work, assuming those great big windows are viewed by everyone.
It seems like that is the architect's main objection: the facility will not be nearly as shitty as facilities other workers have to deal with, and somehow that unfairness equates to bad design?
Why would they do that? Those easter eggs are the main reason why Trekkies would even buy the HD versions...
Well by all means, tell us how you would define the fairest price for concert tickets.
My definition is "the price at which all the seats are sold and no one who wants a seat couldn't get one."
They do, but they have a stupid definition of "minimum security":
it's some small number of characters, at least one of which must be a number.
This is not a terribly onerous policy*, but iPods' screen keyboards do not have a number row. You have to switch to another page to input numbers, so people with iPods are going to tend to pick a specific subset of passwords with numbers - ones where all the numbers are together at either the beginning or the end.
I think that this may result in passwords that are actually less secure than the same length of just letters, even....
*although, until you start getting into 20+ char passwords, it turns out that adding one more character to the minimum length improves security by more than adding 10 more glyphs to the character pool....
What they should do is enforce a minimum password *strength*, and generate several passwords for using pre-defined rules which you can pick from (and which have been researched, so assuming random generation, their strength can be calculated), rather like the keychain works, actually...
If you can make a profit by buying all the concert tickets and reselling them, then the original promoters failed by not setting the price correctly.
The Social Security trust fund holds over $2.5 trillion
Technically true, but does not hold this in cash, gold, or even piles of unmilled grain. It holds debt: It's invested in Treasuries.
In other words, the money you pay for SS is used, in part, to incur a monetary obligation on your part to pay even more!
Regular certs should work that way, too....