Good point. I'm certainly not condoning AT&T in this case. They could have done a better job at hiding their stuff. Yeah, it would suck AT&T put a box in my front yard.
I was making a point more about the experience I've I had with the general population, not so much defending AT&T. My company just installed a cell network for a major US city. We have about 450 cell towers that we built on top of telephone poles. They are designed to be quiet and be non intrusive. They are painted brown on are really hard to notice unless you are looking for them.
Our teams only need to be in the area for construction and initial setup. When I'm out in the field, I've made a point of treating residents with respect and courtesy. I know that one my coworkers might have to visit the location again at a later date and I don't want the residents to be pissed at them for my actions. (The urban areas are pretty dangerous.)
I've had people come out of their homes yelling at me telling me to remove the tower from the pole. They don't understand what it does and are just unhappy with it. It's funny but I still like my job... it's always interesting.
I work for a company that builds cell networks for cell providers (such as Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, etc.). We have a right of way, provided by the FCC under the same laws that allow telephone companies to install poles and wires, to put out equipment nearly any where we please. We do try to stay out of the way of residents and maintain a low profile in the city. However, since cell tower location is an important factor in network coverage, some complaints by residents just can't be resolved.
People really want cell phones. They want them to work nearly everywhere with full reception. However, they don't want to see or hear any of the construction or upkeep of the equipment that is required to be placed in their neighborhoods. Obviously, these are conflicting desires. Something has to give.
AT&T probably did a poor job here in the placement of its equipment. But IMHO, most residents are unrealistic when they crave services but are unwilling to deal with the equipment required to run the services.
Good for Suse. It's nice to see Suse getting some love. I've been running openSuse 10.3 on an older IBM T40 Thinkpad and my mythtv box for a few months. Both machines ran so well that all my roommates have installed it on their machines. I've really enjoyed the distro. I must say that YaST package management has gotten a lot better since when I ran openSuse 9.2 back in the day.
Hopefully, this will increase exposure to Suse and make the OS I like even better.
Another one to consider is soda. Pepsi is roughly $1.50 per 20oz, which is nearly $10 a gallon.
How can something made from renewable products, such as sugar and water, be so expensive?
I realize there are deeper truths to consider here such as cost of marketing and less demand (no one buys 20 gallons of Pepsi at a gas station). It's just weird to this that the cost per gallon of Pepsi is that high.
Of course, if 32GB microSDHC (11mm by 15mm) cards were used instead of 1GB CF cards, then paving the road would need 300.2 times as much storage, or a total of 118 zettabytes. Very funny. I should have know someone on/. would have checked my math. I was mostly referring, in jest, to the 'Did You Know' blurbs right before a commercial break on the history channel. It seems like every show has a comparison that relates the topic at hand to paving a road from New York to LA.
Google should look to Karen, the computer wife of Plankton on SpongeBob SquarePants. Karen is so advanced her natural language responses even include sarcasm.
No good tech story is complete without a comparison of a tangible tech object to *bytes. FTA:
Cisco notes that three exabytes is equivalent to 750 million DVDs.
I'm having a little trouble wrapping my mind around that number. Tell me, how many songs is that? How many 40GB iPods Beowulf clustered together make three exabytes? Consider this, you could pave a 4 lane highway from New York to LA with 1GB flash drives and that road still wouldn't have enough space to hold three exabytes.
but anyone with a photo, a protractor, and a scientific calculator can figure out at least the top design speed.
I've heard about this before. This is why press photographers can only take pictures of new planes at certain angles. The "hull" design is very telling of the bird's top speed.
Left turning cars are a big cause of motorcycle accidents. (It happened to Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers.) I've read a lot about motorcycle safety and a major point was too look out for cars who are turning left. They never see you and cause some of the worst types of crashes.
FTA:
the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes
Wow thats a lot of miles. This is a really good use of software engineering.
It is weird that Happy Birthday is still under copyright. This is why large chain restaurants don't sing it to you on your birthday. Instead they sing some crappy restaurant-theme specific version of a birthday song. Texas Roadhouse has some crappy cowboy birthday song and the former Chi-Chi's has a silly Mexican birthday song.
This is the typical Linus Torvalds interview. Interviewer asks loaded question about war between Linux and Windows. Linus dodges fairly well and says he is just a happy developer hoping to incrementally improve the kernel. Interviewer really wants a "title line" about why Linux trumps Windows. So he asks why Win Server is much better than Linux. Linus again says he has no idea and just wants to talk about Linux.
I think by now, we've all figured out that Linus doesn't use or care too much about Windows. It's like asking, "Hey, Linus, how has Windows Desktop Search changed your life in the past few months?"
I actually like the idea. Yeah, it's somewhat elitist (which is addressed in their FAQ). However, it's still your website and if you would prefer to have people make use correct punctuation and spelling, that's your right.
From their FAQ:
"The StupidFilter will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren."
It's not a way to silence critics, it's just a way of ensuring those critics present their arguments in a 'non-stupid' way.
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The PC Pro article give me the impression that IE7 isnt microsoft internet browser...but that its some kind of pop star. How often do "Windows fans took matters into their own hands" to just get one glimmer of IE7. Lame.
Isn't posting a story about how free internet content will be ruined by Mozilla's Adblock feature only going to give it more users. If you were really concerned about a cause you definately wouldn't have notified millions of nerds of a new way to get out of advertising. By hey, Thanks! Adblock works great! I dont see anymore adds.
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Good point. I'm certainly not condoning AT&T in this case. They could have done a better job at hiding their stuff. Yeah, it would suck AT&T put a box in my front yard.
I was making a point more about the experience I've I had with the general population, not so much defending AT&T. My company just installed a cell network for a major US city. We have about 450 cell towers that we built on top of telephone poles. They are designed to be quiet and be non intrusive. They are painted brown on are really hard to notice unless you are looking for them.
Our teams only need to be in the area for construction and initial setup. When I'm out in the field, I've made a point of treating residents with respect and courtesy. I know that one my coworkers might have to visit the location again at a later date and I don't want the residents to be pissed at them for my actions. (The urban areas are pretty dangerous.)
I've had people come out of their homes yelling at me telling me to remove the tower from the pole. They don't understand what it does and are just unhappy with it. It's funny but I still like my job... it's always interesting.
I work for a company that builds cell networks for cell providers (such as Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, etc.). We have a right of way, provided by the FCC under the same laws that allow telephone companies to install poles and wires, to put out equipment nearly any where we please. We do try to stay out of the way of residents and maintain a low profile in the city. However, since cell tower location is an important factor in network coverage, some complaints by residents just can't be resolved.
People really want cell phones. They want them to work nearly everywhere with full reception. However, they don't want to see or hear any of the construction or upkeep of the equipment that is required to be placed in their neighborhoods. Obviously, these are conflicting desires. Something has to give.
AT&T probably did a poor job here in the placement of its equipment. But IMHO, most residents are unrealistic when they crave services but are unwilling to deal with the equipment required to run the services.
Good for Suse. It's nice to see Suse getting some love. I've been running openSuse 10.3 on an older IBM T40 Thinkpad and my mythtv box for a few months. Both machines ran so well that all my roommates have installed it on their machines. I've really enjoyed the distro. I must say that YaST package management has gotten a lot better since when I ran openSuse 9.2 back in the day.
Hopefully, this will increase exposure to Suse and make the OS I like even better.
Another one to consider is soda. Pepsi is roughly $1.50 per 20oz, which is nearly $10 a gallon.
How can something made from renewable products, such as sugar and water, be so expensive?
I realize there are deeper truths to consider here such as cost of marketing and less demand (no one buys 20 gallons of Pepsi at a gas station). It's just weird to this that the cost per gallon of Pepsi is that high.
Google should look to Karen, the computer wife of Plankton on SpongeBob SquarePants. Karen is so advanced her natural language responses even include sarcasm.
No good tech story is complete without a comparison of a tangible tech object to *bytes. FTA:
Cisco notes that three exabytes is equivalent to 750 million DVDs.I'm having a little trouble wrapping my mind around that number. Tell me, how many songs is that? How many 40GB iPods Beowulf clustered together make three exabytes? Consider this, you could pave a 4 lane highway from New York to LA with 1GB flash drives and that road still wouldn't have enough space to hold three exabytes.
I've heard about this before. This is why press photographers can only take pictures of new planes at certain angles. The "hull" design is very telling of the bird's top speed.
Left turning cars are a big cause of motorcycle accidents. (It happened to Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers.) I've read a lot about motorcycle safety and a major point was too look out for cars who are turning left. They never see you and cause some of the worst types of crashes.
FTA:
Wow thats a lot of miles. This is a really good use of software engineering.
It has been how many years since tubgirl and we are still dealing with this shit. It hate goatse.
I'm at work. And seeing the word goatse buried at the end of that link. Not a good idea.
Good point. If the distance is the range of say the whole earth, wouldn't the "Nuke Found" LED be on constantly?
It is weird that Happy Birthday is still under copyright. This is why large chain restaurants don't sing it to you on your birthday. Instead they sing some crappy restaurant-theme specific version of a birthday song. Texas Roadhouse has some crappy cowboy birthday song and the former Chi-Chi's has a silly Mexican birthday song.
This is the typical Linus Torvalds interview. Interviewer asks loaded question about war between Linux and Windows. Linus dodges fairly well and says he is just a happy developer hoping to incrementally improve the kernel. Interviewer really wants a "title line" about why Linux trumps Windows. So he asks why Win Server is much better than Linux. Linus again says he has no idea and just wants to talk about Linux. I think by now, we've all figured out that Linus doesn't use or care too much about Windows. It's like asking, "Hey, Linus, how has Windows Desktop Search changed your life in the past few months?"
When we will be seeing satellites at Walmart next to the dollar DVD bin?
What a revolutionary piece of literature.
I was hoping to find out how to turn my old electronics into a bong... Dag.
Very good beer. I get it every time I'm in Canada. I wonder if it is any better in space?
Thank you for that info. I was worrying I was going to get Desktop search on my work computer and home computer without my knowledge.
I was just going to suggest this! Bastards!
The PC Pro article give me the impression that IE7 isnt microsoft internet browser...but that its some kind of pop star. How often do "Windows fans took matters into their own hands" to just get one glimmer of IE7. Lame.
Ellen DeGeneres is an authoritative source on technology, which is why Yahoo! has lured me into using their dashboard.
Isn't posting a story about how free internet content will be ruined by Mozilla's Adblock feature only going to give it more users. If you were really concerned about a cause you definately wouldn't have notified millions of nerds of a new way to get out of advertising. By hey, Thanks! Adblock works great! I dont see anymore adds.