For those who don't know; In California it is legal to turn right on red after stopping, when safe to proceed, unless otherwise posted. One of the biggest complaints in a nearby Southern California jurisdiction was the high percentage of legal right on red turns being ticketed. After drivers get ticketed two or three times for this they become incensed at the mindless mismanagement of the red light cameras. Fighting the ticket means pissing away a day of time waiting for your turn in traffic court. Of course when you win you don't get the wasted day back nor will they compensate you. Here's a good round up http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/red-light-cameras-go-dark-across-state-7331
I read both The Emperor's New Mind and Gödel Escher Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid when they first came out and thought the GEB offered a lot more insight into consciousness, thought, self awareness, and self referential structures. At the physical level quantum mechanics explains the chemical reactions and electrical potentials in the wetware. Going beyond the physical layer and looking for quantum mechanics in consciousness sounds a lot like Sheldrake's morphogenetic field.
IBM was doing at least four of these in mainframes as early as 1982.
TSO/ISPF provided online help panels at the push of a button, usually F1 (PF1 for any 3270 purists out there).
IBM mainframes have an SMF (System Measurement Dataset) that records information on how the products are used.
IBM reps were always willing to sell upgrades or complementary products whether you needed them or not.
IBM sent routine maintenance and updates to their customers on tape. IBM provided both phone support and Customer Engineers to support applying such maintenance.
News is about trolling for eyeballs. The most sensational, shocking, scandalous and salacious stories attract the most eyeballs which means more advertising revenue. If it bleeds it leads. How can trolls be stamped out when the news media culture is rooted in a form of trolling?
I used RPN in the first grade but we didn't call it that. I'd write down the first number, then write down the second number then add or subtract them. I have never understood why the vast throngs think RPN is unconventional. So called algebraic calculators are hybrid notation. If they were truly algebraic you would enter cos(n)= instead of n, cos which is postfix notation.
Maybe Paul Allen realized that the Fermi Paradox was worth pondering. The late Michael Crichton gave a speech titled "Aliens cause global warming" at Cal Tech in 2003 (Read it here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122603134258207975.html) I found it educational. Not that doing the research was a bad idea, but after forty years we should have detected something more conclusive than the "wow" event. It means that there are no signals to detect (either they don't exist or are so attenuated that they cannot be detected) or that there is some flaw in our approach to detecting the signal.
A long time ago I worked in a data center where we had a Novell server that was consistently maxed out on connections. I made a snarky remark about kicking managers off the server to make room for analysts and developers. One manager who was known as POD or the Prince of Darkness did get kicked off by one of his developers and he went off on me. I replied "So it's not a problem until *YOU* can't log on." I think the same mindset is slowing the adoption of IPv6. As long as the vast throngs can access the net to get their email and the latest news there won't be pressure to force the migration.
This is commonplace. At the software vendor (Yeah, a business that makes money on consulting and software licensing) I used to work at back in 1994 we started rolling out Thinkpads, first to management and Sales then to other customer facing employees. Someone handed me a single copy of Act and told me to install it on ten systems. I refused. He did so himself and spread rumors that I wasn't a team player. Meanwhile the new data center manager institutionalized software piracy. We had a single copy of MS Project which was installed on the systems of anyone doing project management. This pattern was repeated for other software. My complaints were ignored and I was told to stay out of it. The data center manager was finally canned after telling someone in senior management that it would take three or four days to buy a modem cable through the vendor he was using. High stress thankless job working for cheapskate hypocrites.
I tried listening to classical music for years and discovered that I prefer simple music. Sonatas where much of the work is solo or with an accompaniment.
Adding to your list:
Mozart's sonata's for violin and piano. They have not gotten old for me. Variations on a theme in G is my favorite.
Arcangelo Corelli - Twelve Violin Sonatas opus five (Get the recording by Manze)
Pietro Locatelli - The Art of the Violin.
Weinawski - Scherzo Tarantella
I found Paganini's Caprices harsh but numbers five and twenty-four are among my favorites. Keep in mind these are exercises for advanced students and among some of the most difficult pieces ever composed.
A simple transistor oscillator is a good place to start.
A simple class A voltage amplifier can be built with one PNP or NPN transistor, a few resistors and capacitors. It's a good way to demonstrate how small changes in the base current regulate the current flow across the junction.
Old fashion TTL chips are still available. Five dollars worth of TTL chips, some LEDs for output indicators, some breadboard sockets can help students understand how logic gates such as AND, OR, NAND, NOR work. Ambitious students might cobble together a four bit ALU. It would give them an appreciation of the computer in their cellphone.
Frequency splitter circuits such as those used in speaker crossover networks might be of interest. These can show how capacitors block low frequency. All of these can run on low voltage
Speed figures are mostly meaningless. While they are going seventeen thousand miles per hour they are also accelerating towards the primary focus of an elliptical orbit. The acceleration is not uniform. The dynamics of an orbit are somewhat counter intuitive. Faster means a higher orbit, slower means a lower orbit. Catching up with something requires a higher orbit that intersects the orbit of the object you're chasing, when you and that object are at the point of intersection, then some well executed piloting to drop into the same orbit, rendezvous and dock without breaking anything.
I am incredulous at this patent. When you get to [49] you realize you've been reading bloviated shaggy dog joke. Could IBM have a few smartass Slashdotters working in Engineering? My last thought is some engineers in between projects needed to work on something and this was it.
Excellent post. Thank you. The opening of TFA had the odor of a human race snuff fantasy. It was long on FUD and short on science. There are alternatives to a long term power outage. During the ice storms that shut down cities in Canada a few years back they used railroad locomotives for emergency power generation.
"Zero, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife. This book was engaging and does not require any special math skills. It traces the origins of the number zero through history and made me appreciate not having learn how to perform arithmetic on Roman Numerals.
A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer was recommended by a colleague.
"Godel, Escher, Bach; An Eternal Golden Graid" by Douglas Hofstadler is excellent but takes a year to finish if you're intent on grokking any of it. The concept of incomplete formal systems still messes with my head.
Skip "e, the story of a number" It was not engaging enough to finish.
I had to use this bloated crapware the last place I worked. Notes is among the most antisocial products I've ever used. If the source code is as awful as the user interface it would serve as an example of bad programming. The interface hall of shame once stated that if they had seen Lotus Notes they wouldn't have needed to look at any other products for all of the examples of bad user interface design they had cited elsewhere. I want them to open source cc:Mail. A nice user friendly mostly text based office email product that was borged by Lotus and killed while they pimped Bloated Notes.
I've used Basic and Pascal. In the past when I have taught a non technical peer something about programming I've always started with the old standards of "Hello world". Then I move on to a classic bubble sort. Sorting a list of numbers or words is something we all understand. Then move on to searches and binary searches. If there is time towards the end of the class; rewrite the bubble sort storing the unordered list in a binary tree and parse out the sorted list using a recursive routine. The kids might not get their brains wrapped around the concept but it will give them something to think about. Do not underestimate them; they lack experience not brains.
I recall that DDR Womans Swim Team collected a lot of medals in seventy-two and seventy-six. National Lampoon even did a sort of "reverse drag" spoof photo of them.
Lets say you owned a substantial collection of original scores by Mozart, Corelli and other renowned composers, a First Folio by Shakespeare, A handwritten copy of Visions in a Dream, a first edition of the Principia. Would you want a bunch of slashdotters pawing through them? If I owned such treasures I wouldn't handle them myself.
Datapoint: Antonio Stradivari made approximately fifteen hundred instruments in his lifetime. These were recognized as exceptional instruments during Stradivari's career and handled carefully by the musicians who owned them. Even handled carefully less than half that number of Stradivari's survive today.
Doing this is labor intensive. Ask me how I know. USB or Firewire enclosure. I doubt that the improved speed of Firewire will make much difference with older drives and USB is more common.
For Windows I like Eraser from http://www.heidi.ie/eraser. It's FOSS and allows you to configure erasure patterns that suit your level or paranoia or you can use one of the supplied patterns which include two Uncle Sam mil spec standards. Each pass of pseudo random noise takes about a minute per gig on an ATA100 device.
I have run several tests and verified the results using disk investigator.
As previously noted: Pick the quietest air circulation available and make sure that your office space is isolated from the fan noise.
If you don't have air conditioning being brought in for the racks make sure there is at least an exhaust fan to dump the waste heat. (Don't laugh, I've seen network racks installed without additional air conditioning.)
Make sure there is room to work around the racks.
Lockable storage.
Desk and workstation for office and administrative stuff. Workbench with storage for tools for server surgery. Your desk should not have to double as a workbench.
Buy a copy of WinRAR and a few spindles of quality media.
Break the digital master into RAR files.
Burn the RAR files DVD's as data files.
Store the DVD's in the vault next to the film.
Profit.
How can this be more expensive than storeing film?
Soulds like the people who are saying this be the same people involved in the production of so many awful movies. Same apparent lack of intelligence, they exhast their technical aptitude sharpening pencils, they have never backed up their own system and have probably lost data. All of this leads them to drool on themselves when confronted with something that requires a mildly technical solution that an above average middle school kid could implement.
I'm sure RBN would love "Datacenter in a Box." As soon as the authorities begin sniffing around the datacenter can be trucked somewhere else.
How long before someone steals one and sells it on ebay.
Lots of dial up users will disable auto update because the updates take "too long to download." Then they neglect to manually update the software.
Antivirus software is becoming antisocial nagware as well which will cause many users to disable the features either incrementally with rules or just turn it off and forget to turn it back on. I've been frustrated with product quality over the years and have changed products several times since 2000. I dumped McAfee because I despised the business practices of NAI, then dumped Norton because of the "elephant in the livingroom" footprint and the frequent forced reboots when it updated. Trend got the boot this year for excessive and unnecessary overhead (Moving a bunch of zip files from one folder to another on the same volume should not require scanning every file.) Now Kaspersky is nagging every time I launch an existing application because of registry access. It even nagged me about svchost. Many users would just give up and not replace the product. They just disable it and forget it's disabled.
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For those who don't know; In California it is legal to turn right on red after stopping, when safe to proceed, unless otherwise posted. One of the biggest complaints in a nearby Southern California jurisdiction was the high percentage of legal right on red turns being ticketed. After drivers get ticketed two or three times for this they become incensed at the mindless mismanagement of the red light cameras. Fighting the ticket means pissing away a day of time waiting for your turn in traffic court. Of course when you win you don't get the wasted day back nor will they compensate you. Here's a good round up http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/red-light-cameras-go-dark-across-state-7331
I read both The Emperor's New Mind and Gödel Escher Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid when they first came out and thought the GEB offered a lot more insight into consciousness, thought, self awareness, and self referential structures. At the physical level quantum mechanics explains the chemical reactions and electrical potentials in the wetware. Going beyond the physical layer and looking for quantum mechanics in consciousness sounds a lot like Sheldrake's morphogenetic field.
IBM was doing at least four of these in mainframes as early as 1982. TSO/ISPF provided online help panels at the push of a button, usually F1 (PF1 for any 3270 purists out there). IBM mainframes have an SMF (System Measurement Dataset) that records information on how the products are used. IBM reps were always willing to sell upgrades or complementary products whether you needed them or not. IBM sent routine maintenance and updates to their customers on tape. IBM provided both phone support and Customer Engineers to support applying such maintenance.
News is about trolling for eyeballs. The most sensational, shocking, scandalous and salacious stories attract the most eyeballs which means more advertising revenue. If it bleeds it leads. How can trolls be stamped out when the news media culture is rooted in a form of trolling?
I used RPN in the first grade but we didn't call it that. I'd write down the first number, then write down the second number then add or subtract them. I have never understood why the vast throngs think RPN is unconventional. So called algebraic calculators are hybrid notation. If they were truly algebraic you would enter cos(n)= instead of n, cos which is postfix notation.
Maybe Paul Allen realized that the Fermi Paradox was worth pondering. The late Michael Crichton gave a speech titled "Aliens cause global warming" at Cal Tech in 2003 (Read it here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122603134258207975.html) I found it educational. Not that doing the research was a bad idea, but after forty years we should have detected something more conclusive than the "wow" event. It means that there are no signals to detect (either they don't exist or are so attenuated that they cannot be detected) or that there is some flaw in our approach to detecting the signal.
A long time ago I worked in a data center where we had a Novell server that was consistently maxed out on connections. I made a snarky remark about kicking managers off the server to make room for analysts and developers. One manager who was known as POD or the Prince of Darkness did get kicked off by one of his developers and he went off on me. I replied "So it's not a problem until *YOU* can't log on." I think the same mindset is slowing the adoption of IPv6. As long as the vast throngs can access the net to get their email and the latest news there won't be pressure to force the migration.
This is commonplace. At the software vendor (Yeah, a business that makes money on consulting and software licensing) I used to work at back in 1994 we started rolling out Thinkpads, first to management and Sales then to other customer facing employees. Someone handed me a single copy of Act and told me to install it on ten systems. I refused. He did so himself and spread rumors that I wasn't a team player. Meanwhile the new data center manager institutionalized software piracy. We had a single copy of MS Project which was installed on the systems of anyone doing project management. This pattern was repeated for other software. My complaints were ignored and I was told to stay out of it. The data center manager was finally canned after telling someone in senior management that it would take three or four days to buy a modem cable through the vendor he was using. High stress thankless job working for cheapskate hypocrites.
I tried listening to classical music for years and discovered that I prefer simple music. Sonatas where much of the work is solo or with an accompaniment.
Adding to your list:
Mozart's sonata's for violin and piano. They have not gotten old for me. Variations on a theme in G is my favorite.
Arcangelo Corelli - Twelve Violin Sonatas opus five (Get the recording by Manze)
Pietro Locatelli - The Art of the Violin.
Weinawski - Scherzo Tarantella
I found Paganini's Caprices harsh but numbers five and twenty-four are among my favorites. Keep in mind these are exercises for advanced students and among some of the most difficult pieces ever composed.
A simple transistor oscillator is a good place to start. A simple class A voltage amplifier can be built with one PNP or NPN transistor, a few resistors and capacitors. It's a good way to demonstrate how small changes in the base current regulate the current flow across the junction. Old fashion TTL chips are still available. Five dollars worth of TTL chips, some LEDs for output indicators, some breadboard sockets can help students understand how logic gates such as AND, OR, NAND, NOR work. Ambitious students might cobble together a four bit ALU. It would give them an appreciation of the computer in their cellphone. Frequency splitter circuits such as those used in speaker crossover networks might be of interest. These can show how capacitors block low frequency. All of these can run on low voltage
Speed figures are mostly meaningless. While they are going seventeen thousand miles per hour they are also accelerating towards the primary focus of an elliptical orbit. The acceleration is not uniform. The dynamics of an orbit are somewhat counter intuitive. Faster means a higher orbit, slower means a lower orbit. Catching up with something requires a higher orbit that intersects the orbit of the object you're chasing, when you and that object are at the point of intersection, then some well executed piloting to drop into the same orbit, rendezvous and dock without breaking anything.
I am incredulous at this patent. When you get to [49] you realize you've been reading bloviated shaggy dog joke. Could IBM have a few smartass Slashdotters working in Engineering? My last thought is some engineers in between projects needed to work on something and this was it.
Excellent post. Thank you. The opening of TFA had the odor of a human race snuff fantasy. It was long on FUD and short on science. There are alternatives to a long term power outage. During the ice storms that shut down cities in Canada a few years back they used railroad locomotives for emergency power generation.
"Zero, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife. This book was engaging and does not require any special math skills. It traces the origins of the number zero through history and made me appreciate not having learn how to perform arithmetic on Roman Numerals. A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer was recommended by a colleague. "Godel, Escher, Bach; An Eternal Golden Graid" by Douglas Hofstadler is excellent but takes a year to finish if you're intent on grokking any of it. The concept of incomplete formal systems still messes with my head. Skip "e, the story of a number" It was not engaging enough to finish.
I had to use this bloated crapware the last place I worked. Notes is among the most antisocial products I've ever used. If the source code is as awful as the user interface it would serve as an example of bad programming. The interface hall of shame once stated that if they had seen Lotus Notes they wouldn't have needed to look at any other products for all of the examples of bad user interface design they had cited elsewhere. I want them to open source cc:Mail. A nice user friendly mostly text based office email product that was borged by Lotus and killed while they pimped Bloated Notes.
I've used Basic and Pascal. In the past when I have taught a non technical peer something about programming I've always started with the old standards of "Hello world". Then I move on to a classic bubble sort. Sorting a list of numbers or words is something we all understand. Then move on to searches and binary searches. If there is time towards the end of the class; rewrite the bubble sort storing the unordered list in a binary tree and parse out the sorted list using a recursive routine. The kids might not get their brains wrapped around the concept but it will give them something to think about. Do not underestimate them; they lack experience not brains.
I recall that DDR Womans Swim Team collected a lot of medals in seventy-two and seventy-six. National Lampoon even did a sort of "reverse drag" spoof photo of them.
Lets say you owned a substantial collection of original scores by Mozart, Corelli and other renowned composers, a First Folio by Shakespeare, A handwritten copy of Visions in a Dream, a first edition of the Principia. Would you want a bunch of slashdotters pawing through them? If I owned such treasures I wouldn't handle them myself.
Datapoint: Antonio Stradivari made approximately fifteen hundred instruments in his lifetime. These were recognized as exceptional instruments during Stradivari's career and handled carefully by the musicians who owned them. Even handled carefully less than half that number of Stradivari's survive today.
Collectors with deep pockets often loan such items to museums or display them in their own museum.
Too bad they didn't film the monster wrecking havoc in the Hamptons. I'd pay to see that.
Doing this is labor intensive. Ask me how I know. USB or Firewire enclosure. I doubt that the improved speed of Firewire will make much difference with older drives and USB is more common. For Windows I like Eraser from http://www.heidi.ie/eraser. It's FOSS and allows you to configure erasure patterns that suit your level or paranoia or you can use one of the supplied patterns which include two Uncle Sam mil spec standards. Each pass of pseudo random noise takes about a minute per gig on an ATA100 device. I have run several tests and verified the results using disk investigator.
As previously noted: Pick the quietest air circulation available and make sure that your office space is isolated from the fan noise. If you don't have air conditioning being brought in for the racks make sure there is at least an exhaust fan to dump the waste heat. (Don't laugh, I've seen network racks installed without additional air conditioning.) Make sure there is room to work around the racks. Lockable storage. Desk and workstation for office and administrative stuff. Workbench with storage for tools for server surgery. Your desk should not have to double as a workbench.
Buy a copy of WinRAR and a few spindles of quality media. Break the digital master into RAR files. Burn the RAR files DVD's as data files. Store the DVD's in the vault next to the film. Profit. How can this be more expensive than storeing film? Soulds like the people who are saying this be the same people involved in the production of so many awful movies. Same apparent lack of intelligence, they exhast their technical aptitude sharpening pencils, they have never backed up their own system and have probably lost data. All of this leads them to drool on themselves when confronted with something that requires a mildly technical solution that an above average middle school kid could implement.
I'm sure RBN would love "Datacenter in a Box." As soon as the authorities begin sniffing around the datacenter can be trucked somewhere else. How long before someone steals one and sells it on ebay.
Lots of dial up users will disable auto update because the updates take "too long to download." Then they neglect to manually update the software. Antivirus software is becoming antisocial nagware as well which will cause many users to disable the features either incrementally with rules or just turn it off and forget to turn it back on. I've been frustrated with product quality over the years and have changed products several times since 2000. I dumped McAfee because I despised the business practices of NAI, then dumped Norton because of the "elephant in the livingroom" footprint and the frequent forced reboots when it updated. Trend got the boot this year for excessive and unnecessary overhead (Moving a bunch of zip files from one folder to another on the same volume should not require scanning every file.) Now Kaspersky is nagging every time I launch an existing application because of registry access. It even nagged me about svchost. Many users would just give up and not replace the product. They just disable it and forget it's disabled.