Slightly OT but I was in a store here in Melbourne yesterday and noticed a little netbook (ACER, I think) running Android with the stock shell. Looked very nice. The strange thing was that it had a "Windows 7 Starter" sticker beside the keyboard.
Can you imagine how much it'd be worth if it was ad-supported?
Zuck would be Jimbo's bitch.
Better yet, imagine if advertisers were allowed to buy space in the articles itself, and to buy removal of links to their competitors? Yearly bidding, highest bidder gets ownership of an article for a year (to improve it and make it more accurate, of course)
The US controls the high ground. They have the best orbital remote sensing and the best air force, by far. Their only limitation is their reluctance to slaughter civilians. Apart from a few lapses over the years it is still possible to beat them in a guerrilla campaign.
If power is run improperly or unsafely in the ceiling, then it is indeed the fault of the electrician. If an electrician shorted hot to a metal strap, then the pipe or ceiling fixture attached to that strap is electrified, an inherently unsafe condition. That has next to nothing to do with pulling low-voltage cable.
It does because lots of different services have to coexist.
"I worked in a public school district and we weren't allowed to move any cable over 2 meters long, nothing in the dropped false ceiling, couldn't fix a cable, splice or crimp Cat-5 because of code."
Which is precisely the kind of thing that so pisses off citizens and causes them to complain about the costs of schooling. You make it sound like a hardcore Union shop... which in a way it probably is.
Those kinds of rules are BS.
Electrocution is not bullshit. A little bit of cable in isolation should be okay for an amateur to pull, but you have to combine it with power in the false ceiling, water pipes, different sorts of networks.
Say one amateur electrician shorts active to a metal strap and another tapes some CAT5 to it, then a child plugs it into a PC...
Not immune to visible light (which is also electromagnetic) but if the light is strong enough to scramble your data I suspect the crew may have more pressing problems.
Once your fibre cable is installed without kinks it should be okay. As for training I worked for our road transport agency where we ran our own fibre network for CCTV signals. We sent our techs away for training on how to handle splicing, etc and they handled it okay.
Hah. And here -I- was excited that fighter jet pilots would finally be able to watch YouTube and download torrents are amazingly high speeds with low latency, while doing those boring maneuvers.
Sounds likely since most of them will be flying UAVs.
Well okay but imagine you are trying to stop Bradley Manning from copying ten years of diplomatic cables and emailing them to Julian Assange. Controlling the list of systems with access to the "most embarrassing cables" network would be a good start.
I assume the article is referring to small businesses who can't buy gear in bulk. I maintained a server for a company like that. One guy used his own laptop on the company network and used the same machine to browse dodgy porn sites from home after hours. That machine was the sole source of virus infections on the LAN and I wish I had been able to ban that machine from the site.
In other news where I work people are buying tablets for web browsing because our IT policies contain no definition for acceptable use of company equipment beyond normal work.
Not so bad now that we know what a computer is. Requirements slip was of course a big problem in the early days as a little bit of experience in construction gave you 1000 new ideas to try to implement.
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Slightly OT but I was in a store here in Melbourne yesterday and noticed a little netbook (ACER, I think) running Android with the stock shell. Looked very nice. The strange thing was that it had a "Windows 7 Starter" sticker beside the keyboard.
That revenue stream is tiny.
Can you imagine how much it'd be worth if it was ad-supported?
Zuck would be Jimbo's bitch.
Better yet, imagine if advertisers were allowed to buy space in the articles itself, and to buy removal of links to their competitors? Yearly bidding, highest bidder gets ownership of an article for a year (to improve it and make it more accurate, of course)
Then it would be worth almost nothing.
The US controls the high ground. They have the best orbital remote sensing and the best air force, by far. Their only limitation is their reluctance to slaughter civilians. Apart from a few lapses over the years it is still possible to beat them in a guerrilla campaign.
If power is run improperly or unsafely in the ceiling, then it is indeed the fault of the electrician. If an electrician shorted hot to a metal strap, then the pipe or ceiling fixture attached to that strap is electrified, an inherently unsafe condition. That has next to nothing to do with pulling low-voltage cable.
It does because lots of different services have to coexist.
"I worked in a public school district and we weren't allowed to move any cable over 2 meters long, nothing in the dropped false ceiling, couldn't fix a cable, splice or crimp Cat-5 because of code."
Which is precisely the kind of thing that so pisses off citizens and causes them to complain about the costs of schooling. You make it sound like a hardcore Union shop... which in a way it probably is.
Those kinds of rules are BS.
Electrocution is not bullshit. A little bit of cable in isolation should be okay for an amateur to pull, but you have to combine it with power in the false ceiling, water pipes, different sorts of networks.
Say one amateur electrician shorts active to a metal strap and another tapes some CAT5 to it, then a child plugs it into a PC...
Not immune to visible light (which is also electromagnetic) but if the light is strong enough to scramble your data I suspect the crew may have more pressing problems.
Once your fibre cable is installed without kinks it should be okay. As for training I worked for our road transport agency where we ran our own fibre network for CCTV signals. We sent our techs away for training on how to handle splicing, etc and they handled it okay.
Don't forget that the copper cables need to be shielded against interference, while fibre is much more robust.
But they can.
Hah. And here -I- was excited that fighter jet pilots would finally be able to watch YouTube and download torrents are amazingly high speeds with low latency, while doing those boring maneuvers.
Sounds likely since most of them will be flying UAVs.
I live just an ICBM's throw away from the Everglades,
What a coincidence, so do I!
Well okay but imagine you are trying to stop Bradley Manning from copying ten years of diplomatic cables and emailing them to Julian Assange. Controlling the list of systems with access to the "most embarrassing cables" network would be a good start.
Sure but for me the android shell is better suited to integration between applications, while iOS encourages monolithic apps.
Who would have ever thought you could hook a phone up to a modem? OMG! LOL
"When it's oversimplified, it sure sounds stupid!"
I wish Slashdot registration required that you pass an Are-You-A-Nerd test.
One could create a captcha system which consists of questions like
So in iOS when you open a web page from your RSS reader, how to you then go back to RSS?
I assume the article is referring to small businesses who can't buy gear in bulk. I maintained a server for a company like that. One guy used his own laptop on the company network and used the same machine to browse dodgy porn sites from home after hours. That machine was the sole source of virus infections on the LAN and I wish I had been able to ban that machine from the site.
In other news where I work people are buying tablets for web browsing because our IT policies contain no definition for acceptable use of company equipment beyond normal work.
Must remember to think when posting.
Mercury is nasty stuff, but barometers often contain alcohol anyway.
The first stored program computer was the Manchester Baby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
Surprising to see how involved Turing was during that time. Imagine how the computer industry would have developed if he had lived.
Cheer up. Buy yourself a BMW.
You'd think a gin delay line would have no trouble getting finance.
I'm at a loss for why it will take so long.
Not so bad now that we know what a computer is. Requirements slip was of course a big problem in the early days as a little bit of experience in construction gave you 1000 new ideas to try to implement.
Should have been enough for anybody. I bet it could calculate my tax return in the time it takes me to log in to gnome.
typing in En_AU is ridiculously painful
Well, as a Pom, I think you're already doing it wrong in the first place, so you have no right to bitch ;)
I think we can agree its better than Fr_AU.
I wonder if they have a turnip to sell me.