My daughter did (at least the 5YO equivalent of that). Funny thing, the only channels on the SAT receiver with parental controls enabled are the Disney channels... Noggin and Sprout are my kids favorite channels, and that's fine with me. (With a side of Scooby Doo and Voltron). -nB
The OP was correct in attitude, but incorrect in assumption. In fact, a like for like exchange is usually a non-issue for the store, as there is a supply chain mechanism for dealing with that. My gripe would be that since I can not legally make a backup of the game (in case I do something like this) then I expect a nominal fee replacement of damaged media. IIRC I did this with a damaged Halo2 disk and the charge from MS was $5.00 for the replacement and $6.95 S&H. Still better than $60.00, though Netflix proves that the S&H was way over what it should be. -nB
I use the company machine and HDD. Anything personal is in a truecrypt volume, labeled personal.tc... My company has a "reasonable personal use" provision, so this is ok. I use True Crypt so if I leave and never see that machine I know my personal stuff is safe. Any files I need to transfer I do so with a USB key. meh.
Um.... Not sure if you're trolling or serious. Video (especially progressive scan stuff) is nothing but a sequence of pictures.
Color photos are wasteful of imaging sensor resolution. To make a color photo you have to filter the light that hits the image sensor, either the way home digicams do it (RGBG filtering over individual pixels, thus 1/4 of your raw sensor resolution is available for final image resolution), or the way instrumentation cameras do it: Spin a color wheel (RGB) in front of your sensor element taking three photos at max sensor resolution, then in post combining those images (including the couple pixel offset as the craft moves) into a color image.
I'll take the post processed version any day for images not of moving subjects. 4x the effective resolution from the same sensor. -nB
built it. Cypress semiconductor USB HID micro. Connected it to a small SRAM I had laying around form the old 80386 days. It's a crude hack, and it only holds the key to one device, which in-turn has the keys for each block device on the system. The SRAM is a 128K cache chip, but I only had enough pins for 1024 bytes worth of address lines with a 16 bit data bus. -nB
no. in a multi chip module (MCM), intel calls it a Multi Chip Package (MCP). It's two single chips of 6 cores each in one package. It is two chips in one socket. -nB
I have one USB key that is magic. It's not flash, and it requires a source of voltage to keep it's state information. There is a battery, and there is a jumper.
*THUD THUD THUD* "Police! we have a warrant!" *Crash*/pull USB key/close jumper (shorting battery)/yank power cord from PC/sit calmly and wait
Keys are gone. I don't know them. data is gone. no one can get it. forensically provable.
Prior to actually reading the warrant you don't know what they are actually looking for so technically you have not been served, and thus have not willfully destroyed evidence.
-nB
(the key is simply a USB HID micro and a battery backed 1024K SRAM.)
As I noted elsewhere. We have 4 dedicated charging stations, with a commitment form management to build more if demand presents its self. In fact it is part of the compensation package, just not one many employees take advantage of. -nB
all you say is true, but remember that I'll be replacing an 11mpg truck for daily driving. Even at $3.00 gallon this looks good, at $5 it looks awesome, add in the almost certain subsidy for early adopters and it's getting close to slam dunk territory. -nB
FWIW without divulging my employer... We currently have 4 charging stations, configured for both EV1/2 (carryover) style paddle chargers, and with 110V20A & 208V20A available. we have 3 people using homebrew EVs that charge there in the fair weather months. When I was having power issues on my old diesel Merc I used the open slot to run a charger and block heater during the winter. (two bum glow plugs and a bum cylinder)...
Anyway, I talked to building management a while back about if I built an EV that needed different power requirements (208V30A or 208V20A3Phase) and they said they'd wire it up. In addition they will add as many stations as there is demand for. As long as the stations see use they will build more. Ironically, when I asked about converting the Merc to veggie oil they wouldn't give me the used oil from the cafe because of liability concerns (non EPA approved fuel, not taxed, etc.) fair enough, I guess.
So, in short I'm not worried about having my boss steal the station;) -nB
should be available by 2010 according to this morning news. I'll be buying one as well. My RT commute is ~24 miles. I can charge at work. Free gas anyone?
Not having to charge at home means just a little more in my pocket each month. Since this will be replacing no vehicle (I'll keep my truck thankyouverymuch) I doubt it'll pay for its self simply on saved fuel, but maybe it will. I burn ~550 gallons of mid-grade fuel per year just on my commute. At $3/gallon that's $1650/year. Assuming the car lasts 10 years I'll save $16K just on not paying for commute fuel. Any other driving I do with it will still be more efficient than my pickup (at 11Mpg). -nB
My last death march lasted 2 weeks on inherited offshore code brought home to roost (wouldn't even compile). Fourteen 12 hour days later I was done, it worked well enough (internal *only* tool), and I took some time off. the paychecks were awesome (I get OT). See the thing is, if you are good about giving employees the time off you're claiming to comp them, or if they get paid for that OT then the death marches aren't so bad. Where they suck the life out of you is when you know you're getting screwed because you're not getting paid OT, nor will you get the comp time you're due. Then the life drains from you and you end up hating your job. In my case it was "please sir can I have some more?" an extra 48 hours of pay on that cheque made it totally worth it.
The group I'm in is odd though. We're part of a large multinational, but our direct manager makes the rules when it comes to hours. These are largely based on deadlines from higher-ups, but so long as the work gets done he pays/comps us fairly well. I'll not be leaving my job anytime soon, even if the pay is not top of the industry. Sanity is worth quite a bit of $$$ if you ask me. -nB
Damn! I'm on the other side of the country. I guess in a way it helps that I was not hired into an engineering role, but rather worked my way into it for the last 9+ years. That seems harsh though.
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silly fool, everyone knows pumpkins are for catapult and trebuchet, not cannon.
-nB
for want of mod points...
B-B-B... B-B-B.. B-B-B... Good Job Sir!
My daughter did (at least the 5YO equivalent of that).
Funny thing, the only channels on the SAT receiver with parental controls enabled are the Disney channels...
Noggin and Sprout are my kids favorite channels, and that's fine with me. (With a side of Scooby Doo and Voltron).
-nB
The OP was correct in attitude, but incorrect in assumption.
In fact, a like for like exchange is usually a non-issue for the store, as there is a supply chain mechanism for dealing with that.
My gripe would be that since I can not legally make a backup of the game (in case I do something like this) then I expect a nominal fee replacement of damaged media. IIRC I did this with a damaged Halo2 disk and the charge from MS was $5.00 for the replacement and $6.95 S&H. Still better than $60.00, though Netflix proves that the S&H was way over what it should be.
-nB
yeah, they and SCO will remain guilty, even if proven innocent.
Google OTOH is innocent even if found guilty.
-nB
I use the company machine and HDD. Anything personal is in a truecrypt volume, labeled personal.tc...
My company has a "reasonable personal use" provision, so this is ok. I use True Crypt so if I leave and never see that machine I know my personal stuff is safe. Any files I need to transfer I do so with a USB key.
meh.
yes, but for boys too young for the playstation. It's controller is much simpler, just a joystick.
Um....
Not sure if you're trolling or serious.
Video (especially progressive scan stuff) is nothing but a sequence of pictures.
Color photos are wasteful of imaging sensor resolution.
To make a color photo you have to filter the light that hits the image sensor, either the way home digicams do it (RGBG filtering over individual pixels, thus 1/4 of your raw sensor resolution is available for final image resolution), or the way instrumentation cameras do it: Spin a color wheel (RGB) in front of your sensor element taking three photos at max sensor resolution, then in post combining those images (including the couple pixel offset as the craft moves) into a color image.
I'll take the post processed version any day for images not of moving subjects. 4x the effective resolution from the same sensor.
-nB
not if it doesn't match to an identity.
Start with 999 and you'll be fine.
-nB
built it.
Cypress semiconductor USB HID micro. Connected it to a small SRAM I had laying around form the old 80386 days. It's a crude hack, and it only holds the key to one device, which in-turn has the keys for each block device on the system.
The SRAM is a 128K cache chip, but I only had enough pins for 1024 bytes worth of address lines with a 16 bit data bus.
-nB
no.
in a multi chip module (MCM), intel calls it a Multi Chip Package (MCP).
It's two single chips of 6 cores each in one package.
It is two chips in one socket.
-nB
I have one USB key that is magic. It's not flash, and it requires a source of voltage to keep it's state information. There is a battery, and there is a jumper.
*THUD THUD THUD* "Police! we have a warrant!" /pull USB key /close jumper (shorting battery) /yank power cord from PC /sit calmly and wait
*Crash*
Keys are gone.
I don't know them.
data is gone.
no one can get it.
forensically provable.
Prior to actually reading the warrant you don't know what they are actually looking for so technically you have not been served, and thus have not willfully destroyed evidence.
-nB
(the key is simply a USB HID micro and a battery backed 1024K SRAM.)
gasoline polymerizes into longer chains as it ages.
nothing to do with the tank material, everything to do with how it's made.
-nB
ATI has crossfile.
and no, this is not an antitrust issue (unless it's against nVidia), as Intel is paying nVidia for the tech.
As I noted elsewhere. We have 4 dedicated charging stations, with a commitment form management to build more if demand presents its self. In fact it is part of the compensation package, just not one many employees take advantage of.
-nB
I too sold cars. Selling cars has nothing to do with knowing how to maintain them or what's best for them. We have porters for that.
That said, You are correct. My plan was to put 5 gallons into the tank as a "battery reserve" and burn that down to ~1 gallon each month.
-nB
Yeah. Cash is king. Paid cash for the truck. Will pay cash for the car (or if anything is financed it will be about a years worth of payments).
-nB
all you say is true, but remember that I'll be replacing an 11mpg truck for daily driving. Even at $3.00 gallon this looks good, at $5 it looks awesome, add in the almost certain subsidy for early adopters and it's getting close to slam dunk territory.
-nB
really? /runs to figure out how to leach from ~100 year old subsidy no one knows about...
I have goats...
Maybe I won't need the EV afterall
FWIW without divulging my employer...
We currently have 4 charging stations, configured for both EV1/2 (carryover) style paddle chargers, and with 110V20A & 208V20A available. we have 3 people using homebrew EVs that charge there in the fair weather months. When I was having power issues on my old diesel Merc I used the open slot to run a charger and block heater during the winter. (two bum glow plugs and a bum cylinder)...
Anyway, I talked to building management a while back about if I built an EV that needed different power requirements (208V30A or 208V20A3Phase) and they said they'd wire it up. In addition they will add as many stations as there is demand for. As long as the stations see use they will build more. Ironically, when I asked about converting the Merc to veggie oil they wouldn't give me the used oil from the cafe because of liability concerns (non EPA approved fuel, not taxed, etc.) fair enough, I guess.
So, in short I'm not worried about having my boss steal the station ;)
-nB
should be available by 2010 according to this morning news.
I'll be buying one as well.
My RT commute is ~24 miles. I can charge at work. Free gas anyone?
Not having to charge at home means just a little more in my pocket each month. Since this will be replacing no vehicle (I'll keep my truck thankyouverymuch) I doubt it'll pay for its self simply on saved fuel, but maybe it will. I burn ~550 gallons of mid-grade fuel per year just on my commute. At $3/gallon that's $1650/year. Assuming the car lasts 10 years I'll save $16K just on not paying for commute fuel. Any other driving I do with it will still be more efficient than my pickup (at 11Mpg).
-nB
Commie!
My last death march lasted 2 weeks on inherited offshore code brought home to roost (wouldn't even compile). Fourteen 12 hour days later I was done, it worked well enough (internal *only* tool), and I took some time off. the paychecks were awesome (I get OT). See the thing is, if you are good about giving employees the time off you're claiming to comp them, or if they get paid for that OT then the death marches aren't so bad. Where they suck the life out of you is when you know you're getting screwed because you're not getting paid OT, nor will you get the comp time you're due. Then the life drains from you and you end up hating your job. In my case it was "please sir can I have some more?"
an extra 48 hours of pay on that cheque made it totally worth it.
The group I'm in is odd though. We're part of a large multinational, but our direct manager makes the rules when it comes to hours. These are largely based on deadlines from higher-ups, but so long as the work gets done he pays/comps us fairly well. I'll not be leaving my job anytime soon, even if the pay is not top of the industry. Sanity is worth quite a bit of $$$ if you ask me.
-nB
Damn!
I'm on the other side of the country. I guess in a way it helps that I was not hired into an engineering role, but rather worked my way into it for the last 9+ years. That seems harsh though.
I work for the fire department you insensitive clod