The good software and hardware engineers give us features like:
Away Messages on Email
A Send Calls button on our phone (AT&T/Lucent/Avaya G3i and a 6408 desk set.) that pushes any calls to us off to our first coverage point. Mine dumps into my voice mail.
Most importantly - you can learn to ignore a ringing phone, or a trilling IM window. Ask any dad - his selective hearing is fully functional. I've just gained it through years of practice.
I've also perfected the skill of putting on an unaffected look when people are spouting something off at me. They then ask if I was listening and I can recite their diatribe pretty much verbatim.
I've had my amateur radio license for 13 years now. Went from no-code tech to extra in the space of a year.
How I managed to learn morse code is interesting. You see, I'd purchased the Gordon West series but never had a solid block of time to sit down and practice.
Then came a 4th of July camping trip. All it did was rain all week. I had my walkman, plenty of batteries, and the tapes, books, etc. as I was also studying for the General license.
By the end of that week I was proficient at 5WPM. Got some practice on HF, as I operated exclusively CW for the first 8 or so months I had my license. Fortunately I had friends who were Advanced and Extras so I could operate in those bands with them as control operator.
From there I took a new test about every two or three months. A year to the day of getting my no-code I had my extra. Hey, I even have 2x1 call. Kilo Delta One Sierra. Yeah, yeah, I got it under the vanity program. I also hold WE1RD as a club call.
So getting my extra the old fashioned way gives my bitching rights. If I did it, they should have to do it.
You can bet I'll be commenting once the NPRM comes out. And it won't be in favor of abolishing morse code. Hey, look what saved the world in the movie Indepence Day. Dah-dit-dah.
Were the FCC not in the pocket of the big telecom carriers I wouldn't worry so much about it.
But this is yet another in a string of ploys by the incumbent wire carriers to kill an upstart technology. The problem is that the upstart technology is putting a serious dent into profit of the incumnbents.
There really aren't technical issues with E-911. Instead they're political. Fix those and that so called problem goes away.
In states where the incumbent Bell doesn't own the E-911 infrastructure it's been a piece of cake to offer E-911 to VoIP customers. Lets face facts, VoIP works by exploiting excess capacity on digital switches. Those digital switches belong to FCC regulated carriers like Paetec and Focal. The VoIP is just the last mile. So there should be no technical reason for E-911 not to work with VoIP.
But in states where the incumbent Bell owns the whole E-911 system they'll throw up every roadblock they can think of.
"Websense, a company that develops web filtering and blocking software for schools and offices, is behind a study that's trumping up the costs of online surfing. First, their claims:"
Most of what we take as news today is actually a press release being used to stimulate business. Of course Websense would see that illicit browsing is up, they want to sell product.
The same has been proven true of the "Year of the Suit" campaign. Turns out that Gentleman's Wearhouse had been cranking out PR's stating that suits were back in, etc.
It's all advertising pretending to be news. The minute you see a specific company name in a supposed news article you know it's a press release.
But imagine if you stacked up all the servers in the world. I bet it'd be a damned sight bigger than the Empire State building and the cooling requirments would require the power of both Niagara and that Damned Dam out in Nevada/Arizona.
We're just starting on the path to contextual search. For example, CMF's sometimes take context into account. But they're somewhat primitive.
Bush was definitely a visionary. He was just born in the wrong time period.
The advantage is that being bipedal and having n degrees of motion it can do jobs that prior to this, only humans have been capable of.
Look at automobile manufacturing. The majority of a car's body is assembled by robots. It's only the piddling stuff like laying in seats, etc. that humans still do.
But a bipedal robot with that many degrees of freedom would be able to do it.
ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland) is one of the larger producers of corn in the United States. More so than is necessary for livestock feed and human feed.
So they were faced with what to do with all that excess corn. Ship it to starving nations? Nah. Lets make alcohol from it and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread. While they were at it they created MTBE and we know what a cluster that was.
They'd be better off putting the corn through TDP.
At least they'd get oil out the other side.
You've done an excellent job of summing up why I wouldn't hire someone who only had an MCSE.
Unless they've been in the real I.T. world for a couple of years their knowledge is highly suspect.
One time I was at a family gathering and my two sisters had brought along their boyfriends. One of them was this uptight ass, while the other was a pretty cool guy. The uptight ass had just finished his MCSE certification and was so proud of it. The other guy and I were disucssing an issue with routing and this guys chimes in thinking he knows all that. From that moment on we knew the guy wasn't a l33t MS guy but a wannabe.
Sadly the uptight ass is now my brother in law. The other sister ditched the other guy because he drank to much. Hello, the town he was from in Ireland had something like 400 bars and pubs in a few square miles. Ain't nothing else to do but drink.
This probably explains why I don't talk to him all that much.
My transmogrifier is much more effective. Turns the babbling creetins into whatever I chose to write onto the legend of the dial. Set, push and presto!
Your bullshit detector is in violation of some law though. I'm sure of it.
After all - remember the old saw about how can you tell if a politician is telling a lie? His/Her/Its mouth is moving.
You are right on the money. For example, Providence, RI used to have trolleys all over the city in from the mid 1800's to the mid 1900's. Granted, the earliest were pulled by horses while the later were propelled by electric motors.
Not only the city but the entire state has a number of abandoned railways. Of course state government, being in the pocket of big business, thinks turning abandoned rail into bike paths will solve everything. They can't be more wrong.
There have been many proposals for light rail serving east bay and west bay communities. But the Dept. of Transportation loathes rail. So they dump the money into shoddy highway repairs, etc.
Our state public transit system is ok, but rail would make it better. But until we're pushed against the wall nobody wants to think about sharing a train car with the unwashed and smelly. In reality, this is a myth at least during commuter hours. But the myth prevails.
I'm in a prime location to put up a beast like this. Only problem is that I don't own the building.
The rear of the building faces a highway and train tracks. They certainly wouldn't complain about it.
But I feel for you Crow. MA is out of control these days.
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Most important should be the ability to think. Too many schools teach students how to take a test. That is readily observable under NCLB rules.
Critical reasoning skills generally don't get taught until college and by then it is usually far too late.
I feel fortunate that the Catholic schools I attended from grades one through twelve taught me thinking skills that would carry me far in life.
Not only did it teach me to think, it also gave me a healthy dose of scepticism about organized religion.
I hear of it mostly second hand. Many people have had themselves cooked my microwave radiation. And as I said, that's using military spec of the 60's and 70's.
Just look how sound energy affects marine mammals. It's scary.
There have been somewhat credible reports that microwave radiation from cell phones causes tissue heating. In turn, that sometimes leads to cancers near the areas heated. Most people don't realize that they're holding a 15cm radiator next to their grey matter.
With the truly conclusive research available as to the injurious effects of RF on human tissue I have to offer my experiences with RF from 20m to 70cm.
If you make contact with a radiator or counterpoise while a transmitter is operating you will suffer an RF induced burn.
Also ask those killed while servicing naval RADAR systems. Those are centimeter units running at significant power.
Now we have millimeter microwave being used to scan people. This will be used on a daily basis so exposure levels are sure to go up.
I wonder how long it will be before we know the true effects of concentrated RF on the body.
Oh that's just too easy. I bought one of those cheap individual pies. Once I'd eaten it I realized that the base of the aluminum pie pan had enough play in it to vibrate nicely.
Used some plastic to support a permanent magnet around which a small cardboard tube with coiled magnet wire was wrapped.
Test out to about 22K ohms which actually worked for my Bell System Speech Synthesis kit.
Just imagine the civil unrest of that 12% when analog goes dark.
Will we see increases of library business? Or will we see criminal activity increase? Only time will tell.
HDTV has to get below the $200 mark in order to capture the entire market. I won't buy an HDTV set until my current analog set completely dies. Sure, I've got cable and the set is sliding toward the red so it'll be sooner than later.
This is designed to compete with Verizon's FIOS project.
But if they're as nasty about it as I've read, I doubt many people will jump.
BTW, here's a story about how government and education in one state gets screwed, while in another they don't.
We're looking at an 8Mbps connection from Cox. $2,000 a month. Friend of mine works at a state university in MA, they pay $250 for the same bandwidth through Comcast.
I was telling my boss today that cable companies are required to re-up their franchise every so many years. Suggested we find out when the next is coming up and put the screws to Cox.
Providence - Boston is about 50 minutes by MBTA commuter. Of course if there weren't a zillion stops in between it would probably be 20-30 minutes.
Even by car, Providence --> Boston is a minimum 45 minutes. Boston --> Providence is ugly if you leave Boston at anything after 2:30PM. I not so fondly recall being stuck on the lower deck of I-93 while driving a 5 speed. Did this for a good four years which could explain the problems with my left knee.
I'd pay $25 round trip if you gave me express service to Boston and back. Hell, I might go as high as $40 or so if I really needed to get up there in 20 or 30 minutes.
But Amtrak and MBTA are missing out on a huge business opportunity
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The good software and hardware engineers give us features like:
Away Messages on Email
A Send Calls button on our phone (AT&T/Lucent/Avaya G3i and a 6408 desk set.) that pushes any calls to us off to our first coverage point. Mine dumps into my voice mail.
Most importantly - you can learn to ignore a ringing phone, or a trilling IM window. Ask any dad - his selective hearing is fully functional. I've just gained it through years of practice.
I've also perfected the skill of putting on an unaffected look when people are spouting something off at me. They then ask if I was listening and I can recite their diatribe pretty much verbatim.
It's just too fun to mess with people.
I've had my amateur radio license for 13 years now. Went from no-code tech to extra in the space of a year.
How I managed to learn morse code is interesting. You see, I'd purchased the Gordon West series but never had a solid block of time to sit down and practice.
Then came a 4th of July camping trip. All it did was rain all week. I had my walkman, plenty of batteries, and the tapes, books, etc. as I was also studying for the General license.
By the end of that week I was proficient at 5WPM. Got some practice on HF, as I operated exclusively CW for the first 8 or so months I had my license. Fortunately I had friends who were Advanced and Extras so I could operate in those bands with them as control operator.
From there I took a new test about every two or three months. A year to the day of getting my no-code I had my extra. Hey, I even have 2x1 call. Kilo Delta One Sierra. Yeah, yeah, I got it under the vanity program. I also hold WE1RD as a club call.
So getting my extra the old fashioned way gives my bitching rights. If I did it, they should have to do it.
You can bet I'll be commenting once the NPRM comes out. And it won't be in favor of abolishing morse code. Hey, look what saved the world in the movie Indepence Day. Dah-dit-dah.
Were the FCC not in the pocket of the big telecom carriers I wouldn't worry so much about it.
But this is yet another in a string of ploys by the incumbent wire carriers to kill an upstart technology. The problem is that the upstart technology is putting a serious dent into profit of the incumnbents.
There really aren't technical issues with E-911. Instead they're political. Fix those and that so called problem goes away.
In states where the incumbent Bell doesn't own the E-911 infrastructure it's been a piece of cake to offer E-911 to VoIP customers. Lets face facts, VoIP works by exploiting excess capacity on digital switches. Those digital switches belong to FCC regulated carriers like Paetec and Focal. The VoIP is just the last mile. So there should be no technical reason for E-911 not to work with VoIP.
But in states where the incumbent Bell owns the whole E-911 system they'll throw up every roadblock they can think of.
"Websense, a company that develops web filtering and blocking software for schools and offices, is behind a study that's trumping up the costs of online surfing. First, their claims:"
Most of what we take as news today is actually a press release being used to stimulate business. Of course Websense would see that illicit browsing is up, they want to sell product.
The same has been proven true of the "Year of the Suit" campaign. Turns out that Gentleman's Wearhouse had been cranking out PR's stating that suits were back in, etc.
It's all advertising pretending to be news. The minute you see a specific company name in a supposed news article you know it's a press release.
So it's hype. Don't worry about it.
But imagine if you stacked up all the servers in the world. I bet it'd be a damned sight bigger than the Empire State building and the cooling requirments would require the power of both Niagara and that Damned Dam out in Nevada/Arizona.
We're just starting on the path to contextual search. For example, CMF's sometimes take context into account. But they're somewhat primitive.
Bush was definitely a visionary. He was just born in the wrong time period.
The advantage is that being bipedal and having n degrees of motion it can do jobs that prior to this, only humans have been capable of.
Look at automobile manufacturing. The majority of a car's body is assembled by robots. It's only the piddling stuff like laying in seats, etc. that humans still do.
But a bipedal robot with that many degrees of freedom would be able to do it.
The pattern recognition fits very well with that.
So that's why bipedal robot research is critical.
ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland) is one of the larger producers of corn in the United States. More so than is necessary for livestock feed and human feed.
So they were faced with what to do with all that excess corn. Ship it to starving nations? Nah. Lets make alcohol from it and sell it as the best thing since sliced bread. While they were at it they created MTBE and we know what a cluster that was.
They'd be better off putting the corn through TDP. At least they'd get oil out the other side.
You've done an excellent job of summing up why I wouldn't hire someone who only had an MCSE.
Unless they've been in the real I.T. world for a couple of years their knowledge is highly suspect.
One time I was at a family gathering and my two sisters had brought along their boyfriends. One of them was this uptight ass, while the other was a pretty cool guy. The uptight ass had just finished his MCSE certification and was so proud of it. The other guy and I were disucssing an issue with routing and this guys chimes in thinking he knows all that. From that moment on we knew the guy wasn't a l33t MS guy but a wannabe.
Sadly the uptight ass is now my brother in law. The other sister ditched the other guy because he drank to much. Hello, the town he was from in Ireland had something like 400 bars and pubs in a few square miles. Ain't nothing else to do but drink.
This probably explains why I don't talk to him all that much.
My transmogrifier is much more effective. Turns the babbling creetins into whatever I chose to write onto the legend of the dial. Set, push and presto!
Your bullshit detector is in violation of some law though. I'm sure of it.
After all - remember the old saw about how can you tell if a politician is telling a lie? His/Her/Its mouth is moving.
How far can you bend it before it breaks? can you create a mobius strip out of it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
You are right on the money. For example, Providence, RI used to have trolleys all over the city in from the mid 1800's to the mid 1900's. Granted, the earliest were pulled by horses while the later were propelled by electric motors.
Not only the city but the entire state has a number of abandoned railways. Of course state government, being in the pocket of big business, thinks turning abandoned rail into bike paths will solve everything. They can't be more wrong.
There have been many proposals for light rail serving east bay and west bay communities. But the Dept. of Transportation loathes rail. So they dump the money into shoddy highway repairs, etc.
Our state public transit system is ok, but rail would make it better. But until we're pushed against the wall nobody wants to think about sharing a train car with the unwashed and smelly. In reality, this is a myth at least during commuter hours. But the myth prevails.
Local restrictions suck.
I'm in a prime location to put up a beast like this. Only problem is that I don't own the building.
The rear of the building faces a highway and train tracks. They certainly wouldn't complain about it.
But I feel for you Crow. MA is out of control these days.
Most important should be the ability to think. Too many schools teach students how to take a test. That is readily observable under NCLB rules.
Critical reasoning skills generally don't get taught until college and by then it is usually far too late.
I feel fortunate that the Catholic schools I attended from grades one through twelve taught me thinking skills that would carry me far in life. Not only did it teach me to think, it also gave me a healthy dose of scepticism about organized religion.
Or you could be cursed with the existence of Blockbuster Video. They censor movies.
I hear of it mostly second hand. Many people have had themselves cooked my microwave radiation. And as I said, that's using military spec of the 60's and 70's.
Just look how sound energy affects marine mammals. It's scary.
There have been somewhat credible reports that microwave radiation from cell phones causes tissue heating. In turn, that sometimes leads to cancers near the areas heated. Most people don't realize that they're holding a 15cm radiator next to their grey matter.
With the truly conclusive research available as to the injurious effects of RF on human tissue I have to offer my experiences with RF from 20m to 70cm.
If you make contact with a radiator or counterpoise while a transmitter is operating you will suffer an RF induced burn.
Also ask those killed while servicing naval RADAR systems. Those are centimeter units running at significant power.
Now we have millimeter microwave being used to scan people. This will be used on a daily basis so exposure levels are sure to go up.
I wonder how long it will be before we know the true effects of concentrated RF on the body.
For someone with enough money to patent the Process of taking a dump.
Step 1: Place toilet seat in the down position.
Step 2: Drop em', this includes the unmentionable bits.
Step 3: Park ass on seat.
Step 4: Squeeeeeeze!
Step 5: Wipe until paper comes back up clean.
Step 6: Pull pants up.
Step 7: Fasten buttons, zippers, etc.
Step 8: Flush!
Step 9: Check for trailing bits and remove if any found.
Step 10: Turn on hot and cold water and adjust mixture until desired temperature found.
Step 11: Dispense liberal amount of soap in hand.
And so on.
I'm just wating for the first asshat to patent a natural process. Wait, wait, hasn't that already happened?
Oh that's just too easy. I bought one of those cheap individual pies. Once I'd eaten it I realized that the base of the aluminum pie pan had enough play in it to vibrate nicely.
Used some plastic to support a permanent magnet around which a small cardboard tube with coiled magnet wire was wrapped.
Test out to about 22K ohms which actually worked for my Bell System Speech Synthesis kit.
It is always fun to exercise the inner geek.
Just imagine the civil unrest of that 12% when analog goes dark.
Will we see increases of library business? Or will we see criminal activity increase? Only time will tell.
HDTV has to get below the $200 mark in order to capture the entire market. I won't buy an HDTV set until my current analog set completely dies. Sure, I've got cable and the set is sliding toward the red so it'll be sooner than later.
The issue is pattern recognition in context. Computers haven't yet reached that level of sophistication.
/. every day I'm not surprised by duplication, even having been guilty of it once or twice.
And with the sheer number of posts occuring on
It's the price we pay for living on the bleeding edge.
This is designed to compete with Verizon's FIOS project.
But if they're as nasty about it as I've read, I doubt many people will jump.
BTW, here's a story about how government and education in one state gets screwed, while in another they don't.
We're looking at an 8Mbps connection from Cox. $2,000 a month. Friend of mine works at a state university in MA, they pay $250 for the same bandwidth through Comcast.
I was telling my boss today that cable companies are required to re-up their franchise every so many years. Suggested we find out when the next is coming up and put the screws to Cox.
Providence - Boston is about 50 minutes by MBTA commuter. Of course if there weren't a zillion stops in between it would probably be 20-30 minutes.
Even by car, Providence --> Boston is a minimum 45 minutes. Boston --> Providence is ugly if you leave Boston at anything after 2:30PM. I not so fondly recall being stuck on the lower deck of I-93 while driving a 5 speed. Did this for a good four years which could explain the problems with my left knee.
I'd pay $25 round trip if you gave me express service to Boston and back. Hell, I might go as high as $40 or so if I really needed to get up there in 20 or 30 minutes.
But Amtrak and MBTA are missing out on a huge business opportunity
Is the perp Indian or Pakistani? It's kind of hard to tell just by the names.
At least the affected companies were able to provide damage estimates above $20,000. Below that and the federal agencies rarely get involved.
How interesting that I thought of the very same fonts.
Ever hear of the Bell Curve?
None occur in nature. But some are more pleasing than others.
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