>Basically, for those of us in IT: imagine your average user.
My average user either has a Masters in an engineering field, or military experience developing aircraft components, or both. For the record, this isn't always better than having the cliché "average user".
>Apart from the fact that he seemed to think that the long delay in delivering "an Internet" [email] was due to those tubes being >clogged, rather than the more likely explanation of a mail server being overloaded or offline.
Or the far more likely possibility that the assistant lied about sending the message on Friday.
>You probably wouldn't be surprised that most of the things that end up shooting through Congress are over the heads of the >politicians.
I wonder how well the members of the first Congress understood things like naval combat, or iron casting cannons, or detailed issues of agricultural commerce, or whatever technological specialties had to be dealt with in the day.
In college I lived in an apartment building that was converted from a bank. It still had a mostly functioning pneumatic system, and we had a few cassettes. Every now and then we would start it up and send various things (various things) between rooms. That was a really bizarre place to live. One of the rooms had the vault (no door left just empty space), and another room had the men's room (3 urinals, 2 crappers, 2 sinks, which the girl who lived there used as planters!)
>He deserves flak for his infamous bridge to nowhere
The bridge wasn't such a bad idea at all. The people who lived on that island didn't think it would be unreasonable to have a road that could connect them to their airport. It wasn't as "nowhere" as you've been led to believe.
The felony indictment was (potentially) consequences enough for the things he did to engender that indictment. I never really thought attacking him over the "tubes" comment or the road project were appropriate. (The town where I grew up is not much bigger than Ketchikan and *we* had civil infrastructure, as it were. *shrug*).
>He was clearly referencing tubes, as in radio tubes.
I always thought he meant tubes, as in bank pneumatics. I've used box/bag/envelope analogies when lecturing on TCP, but I wouldn't want to be accused of thinking that the internet was *actually* bags and envelopes.
>You're right. Now do you have $100,000 to get it in front of a judge?
I'd love to see, specifically, what he would have to file that would cost $100,000. I guess he could consult a lawyer for 10 hours that charges $10,000 per hour, but that's ridiculous.
It doesn't cost that much to file a motion. He hasn't even been named as a party in a lawsuit, so there's nothing to file anyway, and there are no costs so far.
>If I were into this guy's shoes, they could beg me to continue and I would still say no.
But I wouldn't make the excuse about not being able to afford a fight which has cost $0 so far. People assume things about legal costs, even though they don't have much basis for the assumptions. The "fan" obviously wants out. He should just remove the content and put up a copy of the C&D letter, and let the company fight it out internally.
Yes, and I always note whether or not it is a court order. If it is not a court order, it's just a letter saying what someone would like me to do, and may seek a court order in the future. Until then, it's just a letter, exactly as if I wrote you a letter.
The Prius drivers I know all would be paying a car payment about the same amount one way or another, but they are saving money on fuel -- something that is budgeted on a bi-weekly basis, in reality. I doubt any of the Prius drivers I know could be convinced to switch back to a regular car. The savings on gasoline are *substantial* by the anecdotal evidence available to me, and it is not a minor consideration that alternative-fuel vehicles get to use the HOV lane on the highways here, not to mention tax considerations.
There should be factors of human proportions that limit the need for exponentially increasing growth at some point.
Human perception in audio has already been passed both in frequency and dynamic domains. Static images are reaching that threshold, and we do already have lossless encodings that pass it. Motion pictures will be the next threshold, and then I suppose holography. So there goes my argument that we can limit the need for exponential growth, oh well.
I think it's funny that you can probably store all known pre-17th century literature and a decent representation of art, music, and architecture of the whole pre-industrial period on a pocketable medium.
>Every major city has dozens of metalwork and crafts shops >that can build reasonable-looking badges.
It's true, but it's also such a serious crime to do so that courts will universally find it not reasonable to open with this suspicion.
If someone has it in for you to the degree that they are impersonating a police force to the point that a reasonable person will believe that they are police, it's probably game over for you anyway.
>Several years ago I did a stint as a security guard.
Of course, there's a world of difference. A "security guard" is a private individual, completely distinct from a police officer who is acting as an agent of the government.
If a private person has the right to demand identification from another private person, then he has the right to demand it from a "security guard", otherwise no. Security guards do have some special privileges, such as weapon permits and limits to liability for the property they protect, but the elevation ends there.
There's never a situation where a person has no right to walk away from a security guard. Forcible detention is assault. This is totally different from a police officer.
The "no knock" warrant is a bit of a red herring anyway. There's probably never been a search/arrest warrant that required the police to knock on any door.
It's because Astronomy is such a lucrative profession, they have to keep the barriers to entry high. Too many people on that Astronomy gravy train wouldn't be good, right?
I remember seeing astrophotographs 30+ years ago that were made by amateurs with homemade gear, and those guys got breathtaking, amazing results. Seems like the state of the art has taken a giant step back since then, at least for amateurs who don't have unlimited budgets.
Holding them back doesn't always put them on an "equal playing field". More often it reinforces the bully class, adding to a population that is at-risk of severe delinquency.
>This was completely against the principles of the JEDEC working groups
Principles are one thing, but negotiated contracts secured by exchanges of valuable consideration are much more valuable in this sort of scenario. Did someone breach an enforceable contract clause, or did they go counter to an assumed guideline? One of these would be evidence in a federal court, the other would simply be a bummer.
I upgraded a call center once (about 1500 workstations) where it turned out to be significantly less expensive to replace all the computers, than to upgrade the RAMBUS memory.
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>Basically, for those of us in IT: imagine your average user.
My average user either has a Masters in an engineering field, or military experience developing aircraft components, or both.
For the record, this isn't always better than having the cliché "average user".
>Apart from the fact that he seemed to think that the long delay in delivering "an Internet" [email] was due to those tubes being >clogged, rather than the more likely explanation of a mail server being overloaded or offline.
Or the far more likely possibility that the assistant lied about sending the message on Friday.
>You probably wouldn't be surprised that most of the things that end up shooting through Congress are over the heads of the
>politicians.
I wonder how well the members of the first Congress understood things like naval combat, or iron casting cannons, or detailed issues of agricultural commerce, or whatever technological specialties had to be dealt with in the day.
In college I lived in an apartment building that was converted from a bank. It still had a mostly functioning pneumatic system, and we had a few cassettes. Every now and then we would start it up and send various things (various things) between rooms. That was a really bizarre place to live. One of the rooms had the vault (no door left just empty space), and another room had the men's room (3 urinals, 2 crappers, 2 sinks, which the girl who lived there used as planters!)
Good times.
>He deserves flak for his infamous bridge to nowhere
The bridge wasn't such a bad idea at all. The people who lived on that island didn't think it would be unreasonable to have a road that could connect them to their airport. It wasn't as "nowhere" as you've been led to believe.
The felony indictment was (potentially) consequences enough for the things he did to engender that indictment. I never really thought attacking him over the "tubes" comment or the road project were appropriate. (The town where I grew up is not much bigger than Ketchikan and *we* had civil infrastructure, as it were. *shrug*).
>He was clearly referencing tubes, as in radio tubes.
I always thought he meant tubes, as in bank pneumatics. I've used box/bag/envelope analogies when lecturing on TCP, but I wouldn't want to be accused of thinking that the internet was *actually* bags and envelopes.
>You're right. Now do you have $100,000 to get it in front of a judge?
I'd love to see, specifically, what he would have to file that would cost $100,000.
I guess he could consult a lawyer for 10 hours that charges $10,000 per hour, but that's ridiculous.
It doesn't cost that much to file a motion. He hasn't even been named as a party in a lawsuit, so there's nothing to file anyway, and there are no costs so far.
>If I were into this guy's shoes, they could beg me to continue and I would still say no.
But I wouldn't make the excuse about not being able to afford a fight which has cost $0 so far.
People assume things about legal costs, even though they don't have much basis for the assumptions.
The "fan" obviously wants out. He should just remove the content and put up a copy of the C&D letter, and let the company fight it out internally.
>Have you ever read a cease and desist notice?
Yes, and I always note whether or not it is a court order. If it is not a court order, it's just a letter saying what someone would like me to do, and may seek a court order in the future. Until then, it's just a letter, exactly as if I wrote you a letter.
>The AC is spreading FUD
The Prius drivers I know all would be paying a car payment about the same amount one way or another, but they are saving money on fuel -- something that is budgeted on a bi-weekly basis, in reality. I doubt any of the Prius drivers I know could be convinced to switch back to a regular car. The savings on gasoline are *substantial* by the anecdotal evidence available to me, and it is not a minor consideration that alternative-fuel vehicles get to use the HOV lane on the highways here, not to mention tax considerations.
There should be factors of human proportions that limit the need for exponentially increasing growth at some point.
Human perception in audio has already been passed both in frequency and dynamic domains. Static images are reaching that threshold, and we do already have lossless encodings that pass it. Motion pictures will be the next threshold, and then I suppose holography. So there goes my argument that we can limit the need for exponential growth, oh well.
I think it's funny that you can probably store all known pre-17th century literature and a decent representation of art, music, and architecture of the whole pre-industrial period on a pocketable medium.
>Other than the 3d rendering (uhhh, why not a photo?!)
I would bet that it is related to the fact that the article doesn't feature Zahi Hawass chiming in.
It's funny how much control Hawass has on what is said and shown about Egyptian antiquity.
Now you'll notice that you rarely, if *ever*, see anything in Egypt without Zahi Hawass telling you what to think about it.
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>Every major city has dozens of metalwork and crafts shops
>that can build reasonable-looking badges.
It's true, but it's also such a serious crime to do so that courts will universally find it not reasonable to open with this suspicion.
If someone has it in for you to the degree that they are impersonating a police force to the point that a reasonable person will believe that they are police, it's probably game over for you anyway.
>Several years ago I did a stint as a security guard.
Of course, there's a world of difference. A "security guard" is a private individual, completely distinct from a police officer who is acting as an agent of the government.
If a private person has the right to demand identification from another private person, then he has the right to demand it from a "security guard", otherwise no. Security guards do have some special privileges, such as weapon permits and limits to liability for the property they protect, but the elevation ends there.
There's never a situation where a person has no right to walk away from a security guard. Forcible detention is assault. This is totally different from a police officer.
The "no knock" warrant is a bit of a red herring anyway. There's probably never been a search/arrest warrant that required the police to knock on any door.
>Astronomy gear is grossly overpriced, IMO.
It's because Astronomy is such a lucrative profession, they have to keep the barriers to entry high. Too many people on that Astronomy gravy train wouldn't be good, right?
I remember seeing astrophotographs 30+ years ago that were made by amateurs with homemade gear, and those guys got breathtaking, amazing results. Seems like the state of the art has taken a giant step back since then, at least for amateurs who don't have unlimited budgets.
Sounds like an opportunity to clean up a manufacturing process. If there are enough failures to create a whole market, there's something really wrong.
>it's not because your cooling is subpar
If your hardware can undergo a heat-related failure, then you have substandard cooling. That's pretty much the definition of substandard cooling.
Holding them back doesn't always put them on an "equal playing field". More often it reinforces the bully class, adding to a population that is at-risk of severe delinquency.
>This was completely against the principles of the JEDEC working groups
Principles are one thing, but negotiated contracts secured by exchanges of valuable consideration are much more valuable in this sort of scenario. Did someone breach an enforceable contract clause, or did they go counter to an assumed guideline? One of these would be evidence in a federal court, the other would simply be a bummer.
I upgraded a call center once (about 1500 workstations) where it turned out to be significantly less expensive to replace all the computers, than to upgrade the RAMBUS memory.
>A friend, my wife and myself play "Baldur's Gate 2:Throne of Bhaal" (two in the same room and one in Alaska, 3000 miles away).
Please tell me the friend is the one in Alaska.