Is that since I both live and work in that zone, I have no Constitutional rights? Bullshit, I'll take those rights and if I have to use a weapon, so be it.
Is that whether you want to believe it or not, cloud computing is a subscription service.
Company I work for right now shells about $250 a month for Central Desktop, plus another $12 per mailbox for 26 people. Oh and add about $14 per Blackberry for about 8 people. Adds up to $674 a month, or $8,088 a year.
I frequently make the case that a little shoebox server could run Linux with Qmail and Apache on it and we could get the whole kit and kaboodle for lots less than $8K a year.
You'd be hard pressed to find anything now. Look at IDE for example, how many systems can you find with an IDE bus. Not many these days, it's all SATA and USB.
I have studied this issue since I once helped out an archive. During the study it was concluded that it was necessary to migrate old formats to new during the transitional period. Otherwise the further out in time you got, the less likely you could read the old formats.
If the number came out to 32,768 I'd be a little suspicious being that it's 2^15.
Up until the last year or so ago all they could detect was gas giants orbiting distant stars. Now the technology has advanced to the point that they can now detect smaller rocky planets too.
I look at the plethora of life on Terra and it's hard not jump to the conclusion that if there's liquid water, there's life of some sort. Doesn't even have to necessarily be liquid water too. Hydrocarbons would work.
My Italian ancestry pretty much overrides any chance of baldness. I'm serious - plus if I look at my family the only balding coot was my maternal-maternal-great grandfather. Everyone else went into the grave with a full head of hair.
The adoption of the DaVinci surgical robot. Right now they're all human controlled but I can see a point in the near term future where AI could be used in such robots.
All the pieces are or will soon be in place. We've got the advance scanning technology, and the robotics.
The same thing is happening with cars. They've gotten pretty advanced, some are even truly drive by wire. GPS is also evolving too. The biggest issue is coordinating maps with the lat/long coordinates.
And the DARPA Grand Challenges, the first one wasn't so successful but the Urban Challenge was fantastic.
So you have to ask, how long before the technology for an autonomous vehicle can be adapted to the consumer market. I'd say less than five years.
So an autonomous surgical robot isn't such a far stretch either.
It would be nice to be able to fire up my Touch and get my email though. There's fairly consistent Wi-Fi in my daily life that I can get away with that now.
Indeed. And it goes further, what if they manage to change the embedded code on a device. You'd never even know it was done. Look at the Diebold mess for a clear example.
We had this happen here in RI about a year or so ago. Except in our case the ring was being run by Armenians.
In that case they had posed as repairmen and then rigged the card machines. It forced Stop & Shop to replace all their credit card readers. But then it brings up another point.
What if these rings manage to get to the card readers before they're delivered to the merchants. I bet that is what happened here.
It's business too. I just started working for a startup company and guess what, all the machines are XP Pro, even though they have Vista license keys on the bottom of them.
Even on things that I had very little knowledge of I always scored at least 70%. I think part of it is my ability to spot patterns as most tests I've taken had definite patterns to them.
I managed to graduate with a 3.82GPA so I must've been doing something right.
Setting it to 50% scares me a bit. Considering a D is now passing and the percentage for a D is 60% the drop to 50% shouldn't suprise me.
A few years back there was a kid at Central High School in Providence, RI who got into some hot water.
He'd gotten video of the principal of the school smoking out behind the building. This in violation of school policies prohibiting smoking in school buildings and on school grounds.
The principal tried to railroad the kid but then the ACLU stepped in. That was fun to watch.
The in-car navigation systems have the voice component which is very nice. Those should have a heads up over the roadway which shows the path, signs, etc.
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Still, just because they're a corporation it doesn't give them the right to file suit to stop a municipality from building this out.
If sanity should prevail I hope they lose their appeal too. They have no case.
Is that since I both live and work in that zone, I have no Constitutional rights? Bullshit, I'll take those rights and if I have to use a weapon, so be it.
Is that whether you want to believe it or not, cloud computing is a subscription service.
Company I work for right now shells about $250 a month for Central Desktop, plus another $12 per mailbox for 26 people. Oh and add about $14 per Blackberry for about 8 people. Adds up to $674 a month, or $8,088 a year.
I frequently make the case that a little shoebox server could run Linux with Qmail and Apache on it and we could get the whole kit and kaboodle for lots less than $8K a year.
It's not just at&t, it's Sprint too. That seems to be a common flaw in the cell market.
Another good practice is to remove the CMOS batteries. Then immerse the mother board in a 5% solution bleach in de-ionized water.
Then then thoroughly dry and re-install.
You'd be hard pressed to find anything now. Look at IDE for example, how many systems can you find with an IDE bus. Not many these days, it's all SATA and USB.
I have studied this issue since I once helped out an archive. During the study it was concluded that it was necessary to migrate old formats to new during the transitional period. Otherwise the further out in time you got, the less likely you could read the old formats.
If the number came out to 32,768 I'd be a little suspicious being that it's 2^15.
Up until the last year or so ago all they could detect was gas giants orbiting distant stars. Now the technology has advanced to the point that they can now detect smaller rocky planets too.
I look at the plethora of life on Terra and it's hard not jump to the conclusion that if there's liquid water, there's life of some sort. Doesn't even have to necessarily be liquid water too. Hydrocarbons would work.
When you pay people roughly minimum wage to run security.
You don't exactly get the best people and you get the opportunity for theft.
That said, my electronics NEVER get checked. They go through the x-ray machine where I can keep a fairly good eye on them.
B&W, NTSC color, and HD. Imagine that and I'm only 43 years old.
I do however still dream of green or amber letters on a black screen.
Ah ADB, we hardly knew ya. And how about AppleTalk. A non-routable protocol too. Lovely.
That's nice to know. I'm planning on buying a new MacBook Pro.
But I refuse to upgrade all my peripherals. Hell, even my 3G iPod Touch uses, you guessed it, USB.
Fortunately my Sanyo Xacti uses the SD cards so I can just plug them right into my laptop. It has a slot that reads/writes SD, XD, and MMC cards.
My Dell XPS laptop has a Firewire (IEEE-1394) port on it. I've NEVER used it.
The world has chosen USB for just about everything.
I just want something that gets good mileage. Really not too concerned with whether or not it looks mean or not.
My Italian ancestry pretty much overrides any chance of baldness. I'm serious - plus if I look at my family the only balding coot was my maternal-maternal-great grandfather. Everyone else went into the grave with a full head of hair.
The adoption of the DaVinci surgical robot. Right now they're all human controlled but I can see a point in the near term future where AI could be used in such robots.
All the pieces are or will soon be in place. We've got the advance scanning technology, and the robotics.
The same thing is happening with cars. They've gotten pretty advanced, some are even truly drive by wire. GPS is also evolving too. The biggest issue is coordinating maps with the lat/long coordinates.
And the DARPA Grand Challenges, the first one wasn't so successful but the Urban Challenge was fantastic.
So you have to ask, how long before the technology for an autonomous vehicle can be adapted to the consumer market. I'd say less than five years.
So an autonomous surgical robot isn't such a far stretch either.
That mobile porn surfing would be verboten.
It would be nice to be able to fire up my Touch and get my email though. There's fairly consistent Wi-Fi in my daily life that I can get away with that now.
But look at the cluster fuck Wi-Max became.
Indeed. And it goes further, what if they manage to change the embedded code on a device. You'd never even know it was done. Look at the Diebold mess for a clear example.
We had this happen here in RI about a year or so ago. Except in our case the ring was being run by Armenians.
In that case they had posed as repairmen and then rigged the card machines. It forced Stop & Shop to replace all their credit card readers. But then it brings up another point.
What if these rings manage to get to the card readers before they're delivered to the merchants. I bet that is what happened here.
It's business too. I just started working for a startup company and guess what, all the machines are XP Pro, even though they have Vista license keys on the bottom of them.
Because computers have been pretty static electricity resistant for a number of years now.
Even on things that I had very little knowledge of I always scored at least 70%. I think part of it is my ability to spot patterns as most tests I've taken had definite patterns to them.
I managed to graduate with a 3.82GPA so I must've been doing something right.
Setting it to 50% scares me a bit. Considering a D is now passing and the percentage for a D is 60% the drop to 50% shouldn't suprise me.
A few years back there was a kid at Central High School in Providence, RI who got into some hot water.
He'd gotten video of the principal of the school smoking out behind the building. This in violation of school policies prohibiting smoking in school buildings and on school grounds.
The principal tried to railroad the kid but then the ACLU stepped in. That was fun to watch.
Servers are very robust. So long as their fans are functional they'll stay well enough to run for some time.
However they will run a tiny bit hotter and their overall life may be shortened because of moisture and other elements.
Hell, I remember when the AC failed in a room with 70 servers and a phone system. Got very toasty in there very quickly.
The in-car navigation systems have the voice component which is very nice. Those should have a heads up over the roadway which shows the path, signs, etc.