Where on the first floor does the cable need to come out to be closest to the device it connects to. In the attic, you can go horizontally very easily, so it is trivial to come up say in the SW corner and run a line across the rafters to the NE corner. (assuming an unfinished attic) What you want to do is find a series of wall cavities as close as possible to where the cable needs to emerge on the finished floors. It's easy to go vertically, but a messy pain in the butt trying to drill through all the wall studs in a given room to go across horizontally.
As a hypothetical case, I will assume you want to start a cable run from the furnace and hot water tank closet/room where your ISP connection comes into the house and then run Ethernet from there up to a home office in a finished attic in the diagonally opposite corner of the home. (since you mention possibly using the furnace exhaust)
You want to come up with a path that is vertical as possible until it reaches the attic space, going straight up from where your modem and/or router are. If you are lucky, there will be a closet on the second floor over the furnace space. Worst case scenario would be a bathroom right over it. I can't give you a simple map to follow, but I can give you general guidelines you can follow.
1. Going up through interior walls is preferable to going up through exterior walls. You want to avoid damaging the house insulation and vapour barrier envelope unless you are prepared to fix that as you go along. (problem is, the electromechanical stuff is almost always closest to an exterior wall...)
2) If possible, cut your holes in closets, your patch work will be a lot less noticeable there
3) attics always have triangular waste spaces between the eaves of the house and the knee walls of the room. If you have to, it is comparatively easy to go around even three sides of a square in the attic of you have to, in order to use the most direct path on the vertical segment coming up from the first floor.
4) As a rule, you plan your cable route from the bottom up, but then cut and drill from the top down.
As a former cable monkey and electrician apprentice, I'd like to add, for the love of rich chunky amps, PLEASE know where you're drilling! For most stick built homes, if you need a 100 inch long drill bit, you're doing it wrong. That's long enough to go from the base plate on the second floor, down into the wall cavity on the first floor and into the base plate there. And since you are drilling blind, you could easily drill through power lines or possibly water lines without knowing it. In the case of power lines, it is possible to get seriously hurt, or worse, damage insulation and be totally unaware until the electrical wiring fire occurs later that year.
On one job site, a fellow apprentice totally fried his drill when he hit a 220V 40 amp stove line that had been installed for a mother-in-law suite but then abandoned and stuffed in the wall when the prior tenant moved out. Thank you CSA for double insulated power tools!
The right way to do it requires no more than a 36' drill bit. If you are ordering online or with a building supply guy who is savvy, what you are looking for is called a bell hanger bit. They are not only quite long, but very flexible. (being largely spring steel, they snap quite easily if you drill too far off axis though) They commonly come in the smaller sizes needed to run simple low voltage lines like thermostats and door bells (hence the name) but can be found in larger sizes needed to run Ethernet.
They are just the ticket for cutting a hole big enough for the outlet box and drilling from outside that, down through the base plate and into the cavity below. You then go downstairs and open another small hole and drill down to the basement. Having an assistant is invaluable when fishing the line, s/he can listen for the fish tape knocking in the first floor cavity if there is any doubt at all where your drill came out.
Even with Plenum rated cable, I'd avoid running it in an air duct if there was any way at all to avoid it. It's better to go around, using an extra handful of meters of cable for the longer route, then it is to have the duct cleaning guy get his brushes tangled in it next year. If you do use the duct anyway, use a grommet where it passes through the sheet steel, not only to protect the cable from being cut by the sharp edge, but also to reduce leakage from the ducts into the wall cavities.
and this is no doubt the reason behind all the annoying twits and senior citizens who take two friggin' steps into the grocery store and stop, look around to remind themselves where they are, what they wanted and where to find it. Damn few people seem to think of that when going from parking lot of door.
I find getting run over by my shopping cart seems to wake them up....
Google up the world's smallest train set sometime. If I remember correctly, a guy basically took a tiny plastic tube, carved a train consist along the circumference of one end and inserted it up into a 1/4" block which was decorated for scenery. IIRC, the scale was something on the order of 1:3200. 180 cars at ~50' each (neglecting couplers) is 4000 feet. at 1:3200 the Golden Gate would be about 2 1/2 feet So even the smallest scale model train I have ever heard of (aside from lab demos) is still roughly twice the size needed to fit the model in question.
*Yes, I know my numbers are very rough, I couldn't be bothered to be more precise. But if anyone else feels like giving us more reliable numbers, please feel free
good point, but in the citizens favour is the fact that he is one person, making repeated but solitary calls to a single number, and one that is one of the official lines of communication with his representative. (with recent events, it's hard to write that without laughing, as if the politician actually represented any of his electors!)
The politician, on the other hand, is making thousands of calls, to thousands of numbers. In many cases, they are calling a given individual more than once as they cycle through the landlines, business lines and cell numbers assigned within a geographic area.. Therein lies the basis.I'd like to see such laws challenged. Does the American telephone marketing law exemptions allow a politician to call people who can't vote for him because they live outside the district he represents? Does the exemption allow repeated calls to the same individual? Does it allow him to call businesses? (since the point of the calls is to "get out the vote" and businesses can't vote, if they are big enough, they don't need to vote, they control him anyway. If they aren't big enough, then they don't matter...)
I'm a Canadian, I have an Ontario area code, yet last year I and a few others with the same area code and exchange actually got a few calls from a NY politicians robocaller. I assume it was an error in setting up the dialer program, because only a bare handful of us got called (that I know of) before the calls stopped. Still, I'm sure it would have been mighty embarrassing if we had decided to pursue a class action against the guy in a US court.
simple solution for that, just set your phone to call forward to the politicians call centre! Done right, and with a bit of luck, you could take out multiple call agents (and trunk bandwidth with every call they make!
At first glance, the summary fails to say how this development (which appears to make demand more likely) manages to ease the problems on the supply-side of the hydrogen fuel cell option.
What it didn't include is the information that a solid oxide fuel cell can conceivably burn any hydrocarbon fuel stock. TFA mentions gasoline, diesel, natural gas and propane. The idea is that a fuel cell extracts more energy from hydrocarbon fuels than the pitiful 25% claimed for ICE technology.
What isn't stated is whether this new fuel cell can handle any of the hydrocarbon fuels without any hardware changes. e.g. pipe in propane or natural gas or supply liquid diesel or gasoline for either gas or liquid based fuelling.
Define black market. If by that term you mean goods being sold without government oversight and taxation, then you'd be AMAZED at the extent of black market cigarettes. Or aren't you aware of the phenomenon of buying smokes on the nearest First Nations Reserve? If cannabis were legalized, it'd be tempting beyond the power of the various legislatures to resist to tax the hell out of it. (As is already being done with tobacco and alcohol in many places) Once the taxes start getting onerous, it becomes profitable to evade that tax.
Here in Canada, I think the bands have a bit more autonomy than US bands, and up here, the only people living in nice houses or driving nice vehicles on the reserve are connected with the tax-free tobacco sales in some way. Sean Maracle, a well known activist type up this way is being sued for one billion, yes BILLION dollars by a consortium of tobacco companies because his tax free sales represent an unfair market advantage. They have to sell a product that is taxed something like 450%, with pretty comprehensive bands on advertising. Stores even have to keep all tobacco products behind opaque cupboards so that people can't see the brightly coloured packages. They compete with a guy selling smokes from a third hand office trailer, one of the smallest tobacco vendors in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation. (there is a widely accepted rumour that the reason Sean is being singled out is because he always manages to step on the toes of the band council and they have sicced the tobacco companies {that they get much of their supply from} on him.)
At the nearest corner store, a carton of 200 cigarettes is 70-odd dollars plus HST of 14%, a 200 count bag of generic smokes from the reservation is 16$, as low as 12 if you are willing to drive to one of the smaller, out of the way shops and buy more than four bags at a time. The margin is so high that apparently there are people who go out to the reservation and buy cases of smokes and then sell them out of their homes with a nominal 4 or 5 bucks mark-up for their profit. If that isn't black market, I don't know what is...
You overlook his mother, who was on the board of numerous high profile charitable and for-profit organizations, and as such had the extensive contacts and networking that helped Bill get that crucial first appointment at IBM because she knew Mr Opel, the IBM chairman, personally.
in other words, good ol' know who is what got Bill started...
I think that getting the magic acronyms on your resume is important before it ever sees a human being. Many of the larger companies are using software to skim through the various job boards. If your resume has enough of the filter criteria, then it gets flagged and brought to the attention of a HR rep. Only then does the format, legibility etc etc of your CV matter.
I suggest three things:
1) on any job board you belong to, have a utterly plain ASCII version of your resume, loaded with all the buzzwords that you can justify. Not just what you have worked on, but also what you can reasonably be expected to handle because of it's large similarity to things you have done. Your trying to get past the filters of the software at this point.
2) The HR folks quite often ask for an updated resume for any person who makes it past the filter and then makes it past the first rough cut of applicants. This is when you craft a resume targeted at that company. Do your research, find out not just what the job entails, but what other technologies that company uses that you may be able to work with. The idea here is that you want to be able to mention other things that may be familiar to the HR person or will grab the attention of the technical person s/he shows the resume to once they have the final short list. They may be just hiring you for X, but if they use Y as well and see that you have some knowledge there, that makes you a much more flexible and hence valuable candidate than a competitor that only lists X.
3) A lot of the projects or companies you worked with are defunct, fair enough, that sort of thing happens, especially in the I.T. field where start ups come and go routinely. Take the time to track down and then keep in touch with the actual people you worked with. Sure Initech may have failed during the start up phase, but Samir has moved on to bigger and better things. If he is now working for Intertrode, then he can still give you a reference, possibly even a heads up about unannounced openings at Intertrode. I can't speak for any HR person obviously, but if I noticed a candidate was still in touch with people he worked with years ago, and they still has nice things to say, I'd find that pretty impressive. Both for the organized networking that it implies and the quality of work the candidate must have done to still be worth praising years later.
I interpret atheism to be the belief that there is no God(s), which is why theists so often claim that atheism is just as much a religious stance as theism is.
I use the following definitions as my own guideline in these things:
Theist : believes in one or more gods, often thinks *his god* is real while yours is nothing but empty idolatry
atheist : believes there are no gods at all, and thinks that makes him superior to the theist
militant atheist : believes there are no gods, and the fact that you choose to believe otherwise annoys the hell out of him
agnostic : says he doesn't know if there is a god or not
hardline agnostic. says he doesn't know if there any god(s) or not, but is also pretty certain that you don't know for sure either.
militant agnostic, says he doesn't know, and is pretty annoyed by attempts by others to convince him otherwise
and finally, what I define myself as:
ignostic : I don't know if there is a god or not, but I really don't see how it makes any difference either way...
I approve of taking down public forums because I find moral judgement of strangers (as opposed to ethical or legal judgement) to be disgusting and wrong...
You're right about older works of fiction often having order forms in the back of them for more by the same author(s) or works from other writers in the same genre. But I seem to recall that this was only in the paperback and digest formats, especially for book club editions. Hard covers, anthologies and what are called trade paperbacks usually didn't have them. For more popular titles, publishers would often print a library edition, paperback or trade paperback in size, but sewn, not perfect bound and with a hard cover.
For what it's worth, as I recall the library system in Toronto didn't care about those in-book ads, but the library system down in the Fort Erie area did, their books had a stamp to indicate that they were library property on one of the flyleaves. If the book had an ad page, that was where they stuck the card pocket, and if there were more ad pages, they stamped all of them with the library name, rendering both page and stamp almost illegible.
Thus, I think you find that whether a library cares about such ads is somewhat variable. And I suspect that some of those libraries that don't object to them rationalise it as promoting further book consumption as a good principle. The problem with Amazon ads in e-books would be that these ads probably would not be limited to just offering more works by same author or in the same genre. Amazon advertises all sorts of consumer products on their website, I'd imagine that they would be pretty tempted to do the same in the e-books, if they are not already doing so.
If I were in charge of a municipal or other large library system and wanted to do business with Amazon for it's e-books, here's what I would require from them in order for me to accept the addition of ads in the e-books.
1)Ads only at the rear of the book. no in-line ads
2) colour ads only in print works that include colour art
3) moving/video ads attached only to content that itself is video/moving images
(a general principle here is that you are merely providing information that the patron would find useful, NOT attempting to sell to him in the usual attention grabbing way we usually see things being marketed in digital formats.
4) absolutely NO tracking of the borrowers in any way, not even as anonymous data for the recommendation engine. Use the website data for that, not the library patrons. This would also include recording metrics such as length of time spent reading, how long it was loaned out and so on.
5) The content is not tied to proprietary devices. A library owns books for incredibly long times compared to consumers. I don't want to lose content because a company went under or the hardware became obsolete. I also don't want the tax money I would be responsible for being used to subsidise one company. I'd also like it if patrons could also bring their own device.
6) Ads are for similar content only. You can advertise other recipe books in the back of a recipe book, but not BBQ's, kitchen utensils, aprons and so on.
7) No "click here to buy" stuff. At most, I can accept a non hyperlink reference to an authors merchandise page. There are some very good authors out there, especially comic artists who make their real living from the t-shirts, mugs and bumperstickers based on their art. Since the market value of the "printed" work is fast falling to zero, I have no objection to authors finding other revenue sources. On the other hand, I'm running a library, not a bookstore. My patrons are not a captive market for some company to mine for revenue.
8) advertise a wide range of books, not just the ones published by the same author and publisher as is seen in the physical books. I'm a science fiction fan, but I don't buy from just one publisher, I might buy similar stuff by any number of publishing houses.
9) Absolutely, positively NO filtering, censoring or banning of books except for titles that I or my gov't tell you cannot be published or distributed in my country. I don't care if the United Sates has seen fit to ban X or Y works. They are not banned here, so should be made
As others have mentioned, that's been done. I just have a couple of thoughts to throw out there:
1) I think it'd be pretty expensive and enormously disruptive to raise existing track at the stations along with the stations themselves. Adding a flywheel system, either under the platform or in the service area at the end of the platform would be a lot easier.
2) In some cities, the track at the stations is actually lower than the main line because the station had to be squeezed in under existing buildings or the below ground infrastructure.
3)In some cities the main track has to deal with enough changes in elevation as it is; enough, I suspect to negate the benefits of elevated track at the stations. The Bloor-Danforth line rises up out of the Don River valley quite a ways before it meets up with the Scarborough RT.
IIRC from my local history class; that line was mostly done with the cut and cover method, which is much cheaper, as long as you follow the surface terrain loosely, otherwise some areas the trenches get impractically deep. (which is why some of the line was tunneled)
As far as I know, the vast majority of R/C aircraft are small machines, usually light enough to pick up in one hand (albeit awkwardly in some cases.) I've seen a few very large scale R/C (a 1:16 scale Lanc with working bomb bay doors and servo driven turrets is cool) but they are decidedly in the minority since they are expensive to build, almost always home-built by someone who loves the hobby and the aircraft and so is very very careful with it when it's flown.
R/C flying is almost always done in open fields where the hobbyist can keep a line of sight on the craft in flight, mainly because that is the only way you can see what the plane is actually doing. The radios are also not really trustworthy beyond line of sight either.
It's my opinion that any R/C hobbyist who was in a disaster zone would have much more important things to worry about that getting his or her bird up in the air to take a look around. Even if one was lunatic enough to operate in an air space where SAR choppers are going to be working, his field of view would make him very aware of any potential collision and if even that fails, his little toy is light enough to be swatted out of the air by the rotor wash long before it becomes a threat.
Almost any ROV/RPV/UAV however, is designed from the get-go to be operated out of the operators line of sight, guided mainly by the cameras view as displayed on the monitor at the operators station. Much harder to anticipate air to air collisions that way.
The Observer claims and pictures a Parrot A.R. as the model the Daily is using, but Forbes describes The Daily as using the microdrone md4-1000. (and submitted an inquiry to the FAA regarding it.)
The Parrot A.R. Drone website actually bills it's product as "The Flying Video Game" which strongly implies that the operator will be looking down at the screen and not up to see where the craft actually is in relation to other objects in the air.
Thankfully, the Parrot A.R. is a comparatively tiny thing, so it to would be swatted out of the sky by rotor wash and according to the Parrot site, it only has a 12 minute battery life in which to present any threat. Nonetheless, I don't think any SAR pilot would appreciate having this thing cluttering up his airspace when he's trying to work.
The microdrone md4-1000 on the other hand, is a more sizable proposition, so it might be able to handle a bit of rotor wash, at least long enough for a boom or tail rotor strike anyway. It is also a lot more plausible as a platform for a network news broadcast worthy camera system then the Parrot A.R. is. It can stooge around for over an hour and carry over 2.5 lbs (1200 grams technically) of camera equipment or possibly extra batteries to extend the range.
Honestly? concern for air space safety over disaster or crime scenes will probably be the reason these things get regulated, but my real concern is privacy. I have no doubt the paparazzi will jump on these things in a hot second, but as celebrities, the targets will be well able to take steps to protect their privacy when they wish. The only time I am ever going to get on the news though is if I am in a natural disaster or crime/accident scene. If I am busy trying to save my family and home from a flood, the last thing I want is some news agency putting my distress on the nightly news for the whole world to see. Unfortunately, I don't have much of a leg to stand on since a flood is a legitimate news item and as one of those affected by it, I am a legitimate subject for photography or video imaging. (I just believe that any ethical news agency will have a reporter who will make eye contact and and at least say "Sir, do you mind if we put you and your family on camera?" something that can't be done with a drone)
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As a hypothetical case, I will assume you want to start a cable run from the furnace and hot water tank closet/room where your ISP connection comes into the house and then run Ethernet from there up to a home office in a finished attic in the diagonally opposite corner of the home. (since you mention possibly using the furnace exhaust)
You want to come up with a path that is vertical as possible until it reaches the attic space, going straight up from where your modem and/or router are. If you are lucky, there will be a closet on the second floor over the furnace space. Worst case scenario would be a bathroom right over it. I can't give you a simple map to follow, but I can give you general guidelines you can follow.
1. Going up through interior walls is preferable to going up through exterior walls. You want to avoid damaging the house insulation and vapour barrier envelope unless you are prepared to fix that as you go along. (problem is, the electromechanical stuff is almost always closest to an exterior wall...)
2) If possible, cut your holes in closets, your patch work will be a lot less noticeable there
3) attics always have triangular waste spaces between the eaves of the house and the knee walls of the room. If you have to, it is comparatively easy to go around even three sides of a square in the attic of you have to, in order to use the most direct path on the vertical segment coming up from the first floor.
4) As a rule, you plan your cable route from the bottom up, but then cut and drill from the top down.
The right way to do it requires no more than a 36' drill bit. If you are ordering online or with a building supply guy who is savvy, what you are looking for is called a bell hanger bit. They are not only quite long, but very flexible. (being largely spring steel, they snap quite easily if you drill too far off axis though) They commonly come in the smaller sizes needed to run simple low voltage lines like thermostats and door bells (hence the name) but can be found in larger sizes needed to run Ethernet. They are just the ticket for cutting a hole big enough for the outlet box and drilling from outside that, down through the base plate and into the cavity below. You then go downstairs and open another small hole and drill down to the basement. Having an assistant is invaluable when fishing the line, s/he can listen for the fish tape knocking in the first floor cavity if there is any doubt at all where your drill came out.
Even with Plenum rated cable, I'd avoid running it in an air duct if there was any way at all to avoid it. It's better to go around, using an extra handful of meters of cable for the longer route, then it is to have the duct cleaning guy get his brushes tangled in it next year. If you do use the duct anyway, use a grommet where it passes through the sheet steel, not only to protect the cable from being cut by the sharp edge, but also to reduce leakage from the ducts into the wall cavities.
I find getting run over by my shopping cart seems to wake them up....
I never thought I'd say this about an AC, but for the love of slide rules, how can we get you hired as a slashdot editor???
what is a summary?
*Yes, I know my numbers are very rough, I couldn't be bothered to be more precise. But if anyone else feels like giving us more reliable numbers, please feel free
Nike Missile project : circa 1945
Nike Athletics : First named Blue Ribbon Sports, renamed Nike in 1978
According to Wikipedia, BOTH were named after the goddess of victory....
The politician, on the other hand, is making thousands of calls, to thousands of numbers. In many cases, they are calling a given individual more than once as they cycle through the landlines, business lines and cell numbers assigned within a geographic area.. Therein lies the basis .I'd like to see such laws challenged. Does the American telephone marketing law exemptions allow a politician to call people who can't vote for him because they live outside the district he represents? Does the exemption allow repeated calls to the same individual? Does it allow him to call businesses? (since the point of the calls is to "get out the vote" and businesses can't vote, if they are big enough, they don't need to vote, they control him anyway. If they aren't big enough, then they don't matter...)
I'm a Canadian, I have an Ontario area code, yet last year I and a few others with the same area code and exchange actually got a few calls from a NY politicians robocaller. I assume it was an error in setting up the dialer program, because only a bare handful of us got called (that I know of) before the calls stopped. Still, I'm sure it would have been mighty embarrassing if we had decided to pursue a class action against the guy in a US court.
simple solution for that, just set your phone to call forward to the politicians call centre! Done right, and with a bit of luck, you could take out multiple call agents (and trunk bandwidth with every call they make!
At first glance, the summary fails to say how this development (which appears to make demand more likely) manages to ease the problems on the supply-side of the hydrogen fuel cell option. What it didn't include is the information that a solid oxide fuel cell can conceivably burn any hydrocarbon fuel stock. TFA mentions gasoline, diesel, natural gas and propane. The idea is that a fuel cell extracts more energy from hydrocarbon fuels than the pitiful 25% claimed for ICE technology. What isn't stated is whether this new fuel cell can handle any of the hydrocarbon fuels without any hardware changes. e.g. pipe in propane or natural gas or supply liquid diesel or gasoline for either gas or liquid based fuelling.
Here in Canada, I think the bands have a bit more autonomy than US bands, and up here, the only people living in nice houses or driving nice vehicles on the reserve are connected with the tax-free tobacco sales in some way. Sean Maracle, a well known activist type up this way is being sued for one billion, yes BILLION dollars by a consortium of tobacco companies because his tax free sales represent an unfair market advantage. They have to sell a product that is taxed something like 450%, with pretty comprehensive bands on advertising. Stores even have to keep all tobacco products behind opaque cupboards so that people can't see the brightly coloured packages. They compete with a guy selling smokes from a third hand office trailer, one of the smallest tobacco vendors in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation. (there is a widely accepted rumour that the reason Sean is being singled out is because he always manages to step on the toes of the band council and they have sicced the tobacco companies {that they get much of their supply from} on him.)
At the nearest corner store, a carton of 200 cigarettes is 70-odd dollars plus HST of 14%, a 200 count bag of generic smokes from the reservation is 16$, as low as 12 if you are willing to drive to one of the smaller, out of the way shops and buy more than four bags at a time. The margin is so high that apparently there are people who go out to the reservation and buy cases of smokes and then sell them out of their homes with a nominal 4 or 5 bucks mark-up for their profit. If that isn't black market, I don't know what is...
in other words, good ol' know who is what got Bill started...
I suggest three things:
1) on any job board you belong to, have a utterly plain ASCII version of your resume, loaded with all the buzzwords that you can justify. Not just what you have worked on, but also what you can reasonably be expected to handle because of it's large similarity to things you have done. Your trying to get past the filters of the software at this point.
2) The HR folks quite often ask for an updated resume for any person who makes it past the filter and then makes it past the first rough cut of applicants. This is when you craft a resume targeted at that company. Do your research, find out not just what the job entails, but what other technologies that company uses that you may be able to work with. The idea here is that you want to be able to mention other things that may be familiar to the HR person or will grab the attention of the technical person s/he shows the resume to once they have the final short list. They may be just hiring you for X, but if they use Y as well and see that you have some knowledge there, that makes you a much more flexible and hence valuable candidate than a competitor that only lists X.
3) A lot of the projects or companies you worked with are defunct, fair enough, that sort of thing happens, especially in the I.T. field where start ups come and go routinely. Take the time to track down and then keep in touch with the actual people you worked with. Sure Initech may have failed during the start up phase, but Samir has moved on to bigger and better things. If he is now working for Intertrode, then he can still give you a reference, possibly even a heads up about unannounced openings at Intertrode. I can't speak for any HR person obviously, but if I noticed a candidate was still in touch with people he worked with years ago, and they still has nice things to say, I'd find that pretty impressive. Both for the organized networking that it implies and the quality of work the candidate must have done to still be worth praising years later.
Theist : believes in one or more gods, often thinks *his god* is real while yours is nothing but empty idolatry
atheist : believes there are no gods at all, and thinks that makes him superior to the theist
militant atheist : believes there are no gods, and the fact that you choose to believe otherwise annoys the hell out of him
agnostic : says he doesn't know if there is a god or not
hardline agnostic. says he doesn't know if there any god(s) or not, but is also pretty certain that you don't know for sure either.
militant agnostic, says he doesn't know, and is pretty annoyed by attempts by others to convince him otherwise
and finally, what I define myself as:
ignostic : I don't know if there is a god or not, but I really don't see how it makes any difference either way...
depends... if it's caused by hardware then it's a segfault (ba-doom-pish!)
I approve of taking down public forums because I find moral judgement of strangers (as opposed to ethical or legal judgement) to be disgusting and wrong...
For what it's worth, as I recall the library system in Toronto didn't care about those in-book ads, but the library system down in the Fort Erie area did, their books had a stamp to indicate that they were library property on one of the flyleaves. If the book had an ad page, that was where they stuck the card pocket, and if there were more ad pages, they stamped all of them with the library name, rendering both page and stamp almost illegible.
Thus, I think you find that whether a library cares about such ads is somewhat variable. And I suspect that some of those libraries that don't object to them rationalise it as promoting further book consumption as a good principle. The problem with Amazon ads in e-books would be that these ads probably would not be limited to just offering more works by same author or in the same genre. Amazon advertises all sorts of consumer products on their website, I'd imagine that they would be pretty tempted to do the same in the e-books, if they are not already doing so.
If I were in charge of a municipal or other large library system and wanted to do business with Amazon for it's e-books, here's what I would require from them in order for me to accept the addition of ads in the e-books. 1)Ads only at the rear of the book. no in-line ads 2) colour ads only in print works that include colour art 3) moving/video ads attached only to content that itself is video/moving images (a general principle here is that you are merely providing information that the patron would find useful, NOT attempting to sell to him in the usual attention grabbing way we usually see things being marketed in digital formats. 4) absolutely NO tracking of the borrowers in any way, not even as anonymous data for the recommendation engine. Use the website data for that, not the library patrons. This would also include recording metrics such as length of time spent reading, how long it was loaned out and so on. 5) The content is not tied to proprietary devices. A library owns books for incredibly long times compared to consumers. I don't want to lose content because a company went under or the hardware became obsolete. I also don't want the tax money I would be responsible for being used to subsidise one company. I'd also like it if patrons could also bring their own device. 6) Ads are for similar content only. You can advertise other recipe books in the back of a recipe book, but not BBQ's, kitchen utensils, aprons and so on. 7) No "click here to buy" stuff. At most, I can accept a non hyperlink reference to an authors merchandise page. There are some very good authors out there, especially comic artists who make their real living from the t-shirts, mugs and bumperstickers based on their art. Since the market value of the "printed" work is fast falling to zero, I have no objection to authors finding other revenue sources. On the other hand, I'm running a library, not a bookstore. My patrons are not a captive market for some company to mine for revenue. 8) advertise a wide range of books, not just the ones published by the same author and publisher as is seen in the physical books. I'm a science fiction fan, but I don't buy from just one publisher, I might buy similar stuff by any number of publishing houses. 9) Absolutely, positively NO filtering, censoring or banning of books except for titles that I or my gov't tell you cannot be published or distributed in my country. I don't care if the United Sates has seen fit to ban X or Y works. They are not banned here, so should be made
Since the first person to witness the crime would the thief, I'm actually OK with that....
That's why we need a Brain and Brawn team to be in charge of the system. We can call them Simeon and Channa
Does that mean that vagina's are magnetic?
I certainly find them strangely and irresistibly attractive...
1) I think it'd be pretty expensive and enormously disruptive to raise existing track at the stations along with the stations themselves. Adding a flywheel system, either under the platform or in the service area at the end of the platform would be a lot easier.
2) In some cities, the track at the stations is actually lower than the main line because the station had to be squeezed in under existing buildings or the below ground infrastructure.
3)In some cities the main track has to deal with enough changes in elevation as it is; enough, I suspect to negate the benefits of elevated track at the stations. The Bloor-Danforth line rises up out of the Don River valley quite a ways before it meets up with the Scarborough RT. IIRC from my local history class; that line was mostly done with the cut and cover method, which is much cheaper, as long as you follow the surface terrain loosely, otherwise some areas the trenches get impractically deep. (which is why some of the line was tunneled)
Why does the satire by Jonathan Swift come to mind? A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick"
I can just imagine some horny teenage male going to the library to check out a sex worker in order to "for an extra credit assignment in sex ed class"
lulz
R/C flying is almost always done in open fields where the hobbyist can keep a line of sight on the craft in flight, mainly because that is the only way you can see what the plane is actually doing. The radios are also not really trustworthy beyond line of sight either. It's my opinion that any R/C hobbyist who was in a disaster zone would have much more important things to worry about that getting his or her bird up in the air to take a look around. Even if one was lunatic enough to operate in an air space where SAR choppers are going to be working, his field of view would make him very aware of any potential collision and if even that fails, his little toy is light enough to be swatted out of the air by the rotor wash long before it becomes a threat. Almost any ROV/RPV/UAV however, is designed from the get-go to be operated out of the operators line of sight, guided mainly by the cameras view as displayed on the monitor at the operators station. Much harder to anticipate air to air collisions that way.
The Observer claims and pictures a Parrot A.R. as the model the Daily is using, but Forbes describes The Daily as using the microdrone md4-1000. (and submitted an inquiry to the FAA regarding it.) The Parrot A.R. Drone website actually bills it's product as "The Flying Video Game" which strongly implies that the operator will be looking down at the screen and not up to see where the craft actually is in relation to other objects in the air. Thankfully, the Parrot A.R. is a comparatively tiny thing, so it to would be swatted out of the sky by rotor wash and according to the Parrot site, it only has a 12 minute battery life in which to present any threat. Nonetheless, I don't think any SAR pilot would appreciate having this thing cluttering up his airspace when he's trying to work. The microdrone md4-1000 on the other hand, is a more sizable proposition, so it might be able to handle a bit of rotor wash, at least long enough for a boom or tail rotor strike anyway. It is also a lot more plausible as a platform for a network news broadcast worthy camera system then the Parrot A.R. is. It can stooge around for over an hour and carry over 2.5 lbs (1200 grams technically) of camera equipment or possibly extra batteries to extend the range. Honestly? concern for air space safety over disaster or crime scenes will probably be the reason these things get regulated, but my real concern is privacy. I have no doubt the paparazzi will jump on these things in a hot second, but as celebrities, the targets will be well able to take steps to protect their privacy when they wish. The only time I am ever going to get on the news though is if I am in a natural disaster or crime/accident scene. If I am busy trying to save my family and home from a flood, the last thing I want is some news agency putting my distress on the nightly news for the whole world to see. Unfortunately, I don't have much of a leg to stand on since a flood is a legitimate news item and as one of those affected by it, I am a legitimate subject for photography or video imaging. (I just believe that any ethical news agency will have a reporter who will make eye contact and and at least say "Sir, do you mind if we put you and your family on camera?" something that can't be done with a drone)