However a tour can last 7 months, and may or may not be more physically brutal than set-it-up-and-and run in a harsh environment. Each venue is setup, operated in whatever air-conditioned/non-air-conditioned/heat/cold/sun/dust/mud/rain/stage fog environment you happen to have, shut down, tear down, load into a truck by less than cautious stagehands, travel over god-knows-how-rough roads to next venue. Repeat.
A lot of the current gear (projectors, media servers, lighting consoles) are built on either PC or linux platforms embedded in specialized hardware, but not necessarily mil-spec.
Are these the same Gurus who looked at me cross-eyed when I asked if they carried a USB MIDI interface? (This is after the first flunky on the floor pointed me to the "Mini USB" cables, and then took me to the more technical guys.)
I can feel my IQ drop every minute I'm in a Best Buy.
Introducing Google Recall(tm pending), the search engine for your brain! With Google Recall you can catalog your memories and review them at a later time, or share them with your friends online!
EULA: By using Google Recall you grant Google a perpetual license to use your memories, and any Intellectual Property contained therein, in any way we see fit. We can tell you just read this EULA, therefore you have used the service, thus accepting these terms of service.
As we are constantly reminded by the **AA... license != own. The Chrome terms of service gives Google a LICENSE, not OWNERSHIP RIGHTS (that is specifically NOT given to Google in a previous section).
Seriously, how much difference is there in 41cm imagery and 50 cm imagery? Is this talking lens size, like a camera (e.g. 35mm, where a different lens size can make a big difference) or is it maximum resolution of objects on the ground?
Wasn't the MS argument in the anti-trust case that it was impossible to NOT bundle the browser with XP because it was inextricably tied to the Operating System? I seem to remember the "solution" was to make displaying the IE shortcut on the desktop optional for OEMs who wanted to provide Netscape as the default browser. Therefore, if IE5=XP then IE8 should be expected to be > XP?
A manufacturer had a problem with one of the older machines on their line. It shut down the line and held up production, costing many thousands of dollars in lost production. Since it was older equipment it was hard to find someone knowledgeable in repairing the machine, and nobody on-site knew what the problem could be. They found a technician with knowledge of the machine and hired him to come in and fix it.
When the technician arrived on site he listened to the client's description of the problem, examined the machine, opened a panel, and turned a single screw. He restarted the machine and it was back to full function. The line was up and running and the manufacturer was happy.
A week later the manufacturer received a bill for services: $1000. They called the technician and demanded an explanation - after all, they reasoned, he had only turned one screw to fix the problem. He agreed to re-bill, this time with itemized charges. The next bill contained two lines.
Turning the screw... $1
Knowing which screw to turn... $999
There is nothing new under the sun. This proposal (I only RTFSummary, of course) sounds just like the surcharge that is applied to blank media (blank cassettes or "Music" CD-Rs), just expanding it to get it to apply to more digitial media.
I thought it was general knowledge that ordinary people (not just Americans) don't know enough to make informed decisions. Not just science based issues, but all issues.
If history hasn't been revised in the time I type this, that was a big factor in setting up America as a representative republic rather than a pure democracy. The electoral college in particular is based on this mindset of the founders.
Unfortunately, it assumes those MAKING the decisions are actually knowledgeable and informed. These days that doesn't seem to be the case either.
Yep - easy enough to learn to get by.
I had a class in college (early 90s) where the assignments could be done in Modula-2 or COBOL. I hadn't had to do Modula-2 for a couple quarters, and didn't want to have to use it again, so I decided to learn COBOL on the fly for the class. (And because I was sickly curious why it was so disliked).
I aced the course and haven't touched COBOL since. Easy enough to learn, but not something I put on the resume.
(B) EXCLUSION- Such term does not include voice communications using a phone installed on an aircraft.
Nice loophole... just put on your bluetooth earpiece for the call and hold the airplane phone handset to your head for looks.
I smell a lobbyist... Sounds like this bill is really designed to protect the airlines' phone service, by keeping it the exclusive air-land communication medium in-flight?
Your DBA's didn't know what they were doing. Was this an Oracle sales rep or a technical consultant? They were clueless too - there is NO reason to run the Oracle database in that way.
I can't speak to the Istore or concurrent manager stuff, but if their lack of knowledge on the core database product was this bad, I can only imagine...
Prepared Statements:
* You can avoid SQL injection (improved security)
* You can use "bind variables" (improved DB performance, improved security - see above)
Stored Procedures:
* You can write a transaction API in the database, and leave all that "ghastly" SQL out of your Java/PHP/languageOfChoice.
* Your data will outlive the cool-hip-language-of-the-day. Keeping that transaction API in the database means you don't have to rewrite all the data access/business rules when you want to change languages for your application.
There are more reasons, but these are the big ones.
The "analog hole" doesn't refer to the analog broadcast, but to the conversion to audio when you go to the speakers. You can always intercept the analog audio signal at or just before the speaker and re-route it to a recording device - that's the hole they dread.
I don't buy the bit about checking line voltages.... software cannot tell whether the voltage difference means a recording device is down the line or that a new amplified speaker system is installed, or maybe I'm using 16ohm speakers instead of 8ohm speakers.
I was about to at least concede your main point, in spite of the poor support by the other statements, then I read the first linked site - it clearly has no understanding of physics or radio ("radio" as in how radio devices work, not the broadcast industry).
Ignoring the above, if the anyone can broadcast anything anytime you get the radio equivalent of MySpace or YouTube - not exactly high-quality content.
Sometimes I wonder if when we say "Artificial Intelligence" people really expect "Artificial Sentience", not just a transfer of specific knowledge or skills from human to computer?
We agree on points 1,2,3 - you just removed the satire. We disagree on the extent of human impact.
My point was that if, HYPOTHETICALLY, solar cycles cool the earth by one or two orders of magnitude more than man warms it, that will be a net cooling - and IF that happens, will the "consensus" claim that man's efforts were the biggest reason for the cooling?
1. Group A declares GLOBAL WARMING (and soylent green) comes from PEOPLE
2. Group B declares Nuh-uh! Not it doesn't!
3. World expends great effort in reducing human contribution, reducing warming by (a little bit)
4. Natural warming/cooling cycles shift, reducing warming by (a lot)
5. Earth cools due to natural cycle before effects of #3 really kick in.
6. Group A declares GLOBAL COOLING also came from human behavior. See! Told You So! Our efforts worked! We should do more of #3!
7. Group B says zOMG! The earth is cooling! Build more SUVs! Save the planet! Save the tropical fish from extinction!
8. The current arguments continue
I tried to look at the stunning images of the new monitor. Besides being slashdotted, I gave up realizing I'd be looking at their stunning display on my MacBook, which only pretends to do millions of colors anyway.
1) do I have to order my laptop as right-or-left-handed now?
2) Is it to late to get a design patent of the position of certain fingers in the hand impression? "...In one manifestation of the invention, all but the central digit are retracted..."
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However a tour can last 7 months, and may or may not be more physically brutal than set-it-up-and-and run in a harsh environment. Each venue is setup, operated in whatever air-conditioned/non-air-conditioned/heat/cold/sun/dust/mud/rain/stage fog environment you happen to have, shut down, tear down, load into a truck by less than cautious stagehands, travel over god-knows-how-rough roads to next venue. Repeat.
A lot of the current gear (projectors, media servers, lighting consoles) are built on either PC or linux platforms embedded in specialized hardware, but not necessarily mil-spec.
Sounds like the college football BCS - just what we need.
Are these the same Gurus who looked at me cross-eyed when I asked if they carried a USB MIDI interface? (This is after the first flunky on the floor pointed me to the "Mini USB" cables, and then took me to the more technical guys.)
I can feel my IQ drop every minute I'm in a Best Buy.
Introducing Google Recall(tm pending), the search engine for your brain! With Google Recall you can catalog your memories and review them at a later time, or share them with your friends online!
EULA: By using Google Recall you grant Google a perpetual license to use your memories, and any Intellectual Property contained therein, in any way we see fit. We can tell you just read this EULA, therefore you have used the service, thus accepting these terms of service.
As we are constantly reminded by the **AA... license != own. The Chrome terms of service gives Google a LICENSE, not OWNERSHIP RIGHTS (that is specifically NOT given to Google in a previous section).
*sigh*
Seriously, how much difference is there in 41cm imagery and 50 cm imagery? Is this talking lens size, like a camera (e.g. 35mm, where a different lens size can make a big difference) or is it maximum resolution of objects on the ground?
(only slightly tongue-in-cheek)
Wasn't the MS argument in the anti-trust case that it was impossible to NOT bundle the browser with XP because it was inextricably tied to the Operating System? I seem to remember the "solution" was to make displaying the IE shortcut on the desktop optional for OEMs who wanted to provide Netscape as the default browser. Therefore, if IE5=XP then IE8 should be expected to be > XP?
(Source unknown)
A manufacturer had a problem with one of the older machines on their line. It shut down the line and held up production, costing many thousands of dollars in lost production. Since it was older equipment it was hard to find someone knowledgeable in repairing the machine, and nobody on-site knew what the problem could be. They found a technician with knowledge of the machine and hired him to come in and fix it.
When the technician arrived on site he listened to the client's description of the problem, examined the machine, opened a panel, and turned a single screw. He restarted the machine and it was back to full function. The line was up and running and the manufacturer was happy.
A week later the manufacturer received a bill for services: $1000. They called the technician and demanded an explanation - after all, they reasoned, he had only turned one screw to fix the problem. He agreed to re-bill, this time with itemized charges. The next bill contained two lines.
Turning the screw... $1
Knowing which screw to turn... $999
There is nothing new under the sun. This proposal (I only RTFSummary, of course) sounds just like the surcharge that is applied to blank media (blank cassettes or "Music" CD-Rs), just expanding it to get it to apply to more digitial media.
If history hasn't been revised in the time I type this, that was a big factor in setting up America as a representative republic rather than a pure democracy. The electoral college in particular is based on this mindset of the founders.
Unfortunately, it assumes those MAKING the decisions are actually knowledgeable and informed. These days that doesn't seem to be the case either.
It's not working for me... must be a bug... can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Look: 12345
Yep - easy enough to learn to get by.
I had a class in college (early 90s) where the assignments could be done in Modula-2 or COBOL. I hadn't had to do Modula-2 for a couple quarters, and didn't want to have to use it again, so I decided to learn COBOL on the fly for the class. (And because I was sickly curious why it was so disliked).
I aced the course and haven't touched COBOL since. Easy enough to learn, but not something I put on the resume.
It must be all those SUVs in Bikini Bottom!
Or maybe just the grill at the Krusty Krab.
Nice loophole... just put on your bluetooth earpiece for the call and hold the airplane phone handset to your head for looks.
I smell a lobbyist... Sounds like this bill is really designed to protect the airlines' phone service, by keeping it the exclusive air-land communication medium in-flight?
Your DBA's didn't know what they were doing. Was this an Oracle sales rep or a technical consultant? They were clueless too - there is NO reason to run the Oracle database in that way. I can't speak to the Istore or concurrent manager stuff, but if their lack of knowledge on the core database product was this bad, I can only imagine...
Prepared Statements:
* You can avoid SQL injection (improved security)
* You can use "bind variables" (improved DB performance, improved security - see above)
Stored Procedures:
* You can write a transaction API in the database, and leave all that "ghastly" SQL out of your Java/PHP/languageOfChoice.
* Your data will outlive the cool-hip-language-of-the-day. Keeping that transaction API in the database means you don't have to rewrite all the data access/business rules when you want to change languages for your application.
There are more reasons, but these are the big ones.
The "analog hole" doesn't refer to the analog broadcast, but to the conversion to audio when you go to the speakers. You can always intercept the analog audio signal at or just before the speaker and re-route it to a recording device - that's the hole they dread. I don't buy the bit about checking line voltages.... software cannot tell whether the voltage difference means a recording device is down the line or that a new amplified speaker system is installed, or maybe I'm using 16ohm speakers instead of 8ohm speakers. I was about to at least concede your main point, in spite of the poor support by the other statements, then I read the first linked site - it clearly has no understanding of physics or radio ("radio" as in how radio devices work, not the broadcast industry). Ignoring the above, if the anyone can broadcast anything anytime you get the radio equivalent of MySpace or YouTube - not exactly high-quality content.
Sometimes I wonder if when we say "Artificial Intelligence" people really expect "Artificial Sentience", not just a transfer of specific knowledge or skills from human to computer?
You missed the point.
We agree on points 1,2,3 - you just removed the satire. We disagree on the extent of human impact.
My point was that if, HYPOTHETICALLY, solar cycles cool the earth by one or two orders of magnitude more than man warms it, that will be a net cooling - and IF that happens, will the "consensus" claim that man's efforts were the biggest reason for the cooling?
1. Group A declares GLOBAL WARMING (and soylent green) comes from PEOPLE
2. Group B declares Nuh-uh! Not it doesn't!
3. World expends great effort in reducing human contribution, reducing warming by (a little bit)
4. Natural warming/cooling cycles shift, reducing warming by (a lot)
5. Earth cools due to natural cycle before effects of #3 really kick in.
6. Group A declares GLOBAL COOLING also came from human behavior. See! Told You So! Our efforts worked! We should do more of #3!
7. Group B says zOMG! The earth is cooling! Build more SUVs! Save the planet! Save the tropical fish from extinction!
8. The current arguments continue
I tried to look at the stunning images of the new monitor. Besides being slashdotted, I gave up realizing I'd be looking at their stunning display on my MacBook, which only pretends to do millions of colors anyway.
Nothing for me to see here. I'm moving along.
Fred: So let's see whose really behind the phantom's plot to drive everyone off the Internet...
Daphne: It's old man Gates from the haunted software company!
Velma: We figured it out after unraveling the clue - Mr. Ballmer was responsible for the ghostly floating chairs!
Bill: And we'd've gotten away with it too! If it weren't for you meddling script kiddies!
Computers don't oppress people. People oppress people. (No, I'm not an NRA member).
In other news, a masked man wearing sneakers supplied by Nike robbed a Quickie-Mart.
Sensationalist summary - move along.
When do we head to Boston and Ctrl-Alt-Delete this out-of-control government?
1) do I have to order my laptop as right-or-left-handed now?
2) Is it to late to get a design patent of the position of certain fingers in the hand impression? "...In one manifestation of the invention, all but the central digit are retracted..."