This does happen in the US, they buy power from Canada, and in some cases Quebec (french population).
I'm no power expert but i did live in a 'nuclear' community out side of Toronto (yes, it actually did have a working nuclear powerplant, and still does, 8 reactors). I know lots of the energy was sold back to NY state power companies, along with powering Torontoians..I think they made more money selling it to the States then to Canadians. Also there was a huge hydro electric dam project in Quebec, almost for the sole purpose of selling energy to the US.
Once you buy off Canada, there isn't much else on this continent to buy. Who else could they hit up for electricity??? Mexico?? ahahhaha
Uh.. ok.. i might be missing something, i'm not too up on the starband as i'm in Canada but wouldn't using a 9/25pin serial cable just slow the whole thing down? max rate on a serial connection is 115kbps (unless they changed the specs and no one told me) so wouldn't that stop your 'max of 400kbps' data rate from hitting the computer? bottleneck??
I have already read some horror stories on 2way satellite, all to do with latency and low connection speeds.. this would just compound to the problem. The point of using USB is to avoid the 'network card' requirement while still providing a fast bandwidth rate into the computer.
just my thoughts.. but i wouldn't suggest doing that...
I know there are no lists on there yet, but i was thinking of buying one of those Super sweet powerbooks and then trying to offload it on ebay, similar to the PS2 fiasco. We have all seen the apple supply problems, so chances are that they won't have enough supply to meet demand, and they will be backlogged for months, so someone will pay a nice increase to get it ASAP.... but i don't really have the $3700 to gamble on that
I'm not sure what company is providing the modem, but the Wiz computer store in NYC is giving out free cable modems too. You have to spend $250 to get one for free.. i'm sketchy on the details as i live near Detroit and just seen the ads on satelite
As if they don't already cover the landscape, great now i need them showing up in my newspaper, stuck under my windshield wipers at public place and wrapped around my soda cans...
I find it interesting that they didn't say what sort of jobs these people held at the off who were getting laid off. My guess is that the company is losing some dead weight, so 25 marketoids loose their job, it's not the end of the world!.
Could also be slacker coders and other people who are pretty much useless. We all know that every company has them, those people who bullshit so much and don't do any work, they were hired during a blitz to get more staff and the HR were so impressed by all the buzz words that they were hired. Most companies need to do this from time to time
I don't recall the name of the scientist who has developed this theory, he won the Nobel prize in Biology for his work on extracting DNA chains, Casey someone.. Anways, it sort of works like this we couldn't deplete the ozone layer even if we tried.
First we produce CFC's to eat the ozone.. everyone knows this (sic). Well ozone is produced by the conversion of O2 with the reaction to UV light. So we build a big hole in the ozone, UV passes thru hitting the 02, converting to ozone, we continue the process till we deplete all the O2, we as species die (ya.. we need 02) well the plants start producing 02 from the Co2, and again the uv turns it to ozone.. we are all dead but we have an ozone layer..
oh.. it seems ironic that just as the patient for CFC's ran out it suddenly became banded and a new chemical formula was devise to be used a coolant.. makes you think.....
Sure.. you got the money for the equipment and net connection?? I've been trying to get someone to do this for years.. well i hear that one ISP is doing this, and i know Wincom has some wireless stuff too.
-b
The maps that PC computing gave out that showed the 'whole' internet, this was sometime around 1994 or so.. i think i still have mine in a box somewhere.
i think they did one on the whole web too.. would show the old DARPA and NCSA backbones..
This is nothing new, some guy did this in the 70's, jumped from a high altitude ballon. He wore a pressure suit as well..
He was the first human to reach mach 1 with out the assistances of mechanized means.. all gravity baby! I saw it on the Discovery channel, one of those "Need for Speed" shows. It's been well documented, as they had video footage of his jump from the ballon and a check to make sure he broke the sound barrier.
DIY.. which can mean get DHIS if you have cable or DSL, run the server at your house. Minimal costs hell, i don't think you even have to get a domain name.. check out www.dhis.org.
Or you could rent server space (rackspace.com) and set the stuff up yourself.. secure everything. Remember that the person who owns the machine also owns the data (as i recall) so these people still have rights to examine that data (or quickly turn it over to the authorities)
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Come on people.. this is a huge Troll by AT&T!! Get real. If you were a online seller do you think you would stand for this? No, there are plenty of other Backbone providers, you call them up and get a circuit from them. Hell, they might even be giving discounts to former AT$T customers who would want to jump ship. This is all about market share, they aren't going to jeoperdize that, espically since i know most ISP/ Datacenters back to Multiple Teir 1 providers. AT&T trys and pulls that shit, they will loss customers so fast they wouldn't know what hit the.
Besides.. you encrypt the data, and they don't know what you are sending. Hell, go look at http://www.distributed.net, all those cpus and they still haven't cracked RC5-64.. no chance that that AT&T would beable to crack billions of encrypted 128 bit sessions..
I think everyone is missing the point, they are saying how they have personally experianced this or that but this isn't about the individual. This is about a society as a whole, you are all a very small part of a demographic group!
This forum is so overly bias in the tech area, ask the average person what 'slashdot' is and they will give you a blank stare like you are speaking another language. Go to a nite club and try and pick up a girl with a line like "I was just reading on how they overclock the K7's up to 1GHZ..." The girl will run to get away from you (not that i have tried this). Females place certian things higher on a priority list, maslov's 7 requirements seem to slip by most geeks as computer prowless drops to the bottom rung being first over food and shelter.
Get with the program, males and females are different, not just at the chromosome level but in every aspect, would we really want everyone to be the same? how lame would that be, a society full of blandness, we should rejoice in the differences. Long live the hotties.
If you happen to be a Canadian, there is a pretty easy way to get into the US to work, it's called the TN-1 work permit. It is designated under the NAFTA (so i suppose it's valid for Mexican's too) which allows skilled workers with degrees from college or university work in the US. This seems to be adding to the intellectual drain on Canada because companies in the US can pay higher wages then a Canadian counterpart. If you live in a Border city and willing to commute, you can make more money working in the US and bringing it back to Canada. All you require for this 1 year renewable permit is a Degree, a letter from the hiring firm stating position, salary and that you are not removing a job from an American and your $56usd registration fee (i think that what it is). You can get this done in one day at any International border crossing. There should be at least one Nafta officer per crossing, but beware cause sometimes they work weird hours and you have to be there when they are there to get it done.
Some companies like this because they can interview an hire with little problems, all they need to produce is that letter and the person can take care of the work permit.. no problems to the company at all.
Ok. I do pretty much the same thing. I have learned some pretty interesting facts. I work out of windsor which is a small technology backwards city at the doorstep of Detroit.
1. That wonderful 6 figure job that a friend of a friend got. Myth.. doesn't existed. Sure maybe someone one time did get a great deal but since then this story has been floating around the livingrooms of relatives and associates for years.
2. It's who you know. Knowing people in companies to get your foot in the door is a huge help. Job placements are filled based on referals, after that they then start to look at the qualifications.
3. Use buzzwords, it's like the management buzzword bingo, they only understand certain words "java2" computes to them as "skdfj" where "java" is "JAVA!!!!" they don't know that java2 is the newer implementation of java.
4. Contracting is cyclical. Much like the ocean it comes in waves, sometimes you are bored out of your mind and can't find anything, next thing you know 4 jobs drop in your lap.
5. Ask friends with small businesses for work, tell them you will do it at dirt cheap rates, this will give you experiance in something that you may not know yet (like OO), while keeping the image of being busy.. cause after all who would you rather have the busy guy who everyone else wants or the guy that is doing nothing that no one wants.
6. If you work for yourself, give good deals to the client (within reason). Everyone knows that large consulting firms assrape clients, so they are much more likely to pass on good information about you and your work if they feel they received a good value.
7. Don't bother with/for a company that doesn't want to pay cash value, i know this seems silly but i have dealt with people who want to give me a peice of their 'business' for the work done. I do not take this anymore, there are 1000's of businesses that are going to fail, and more being started by idiots who see the.com gold rush.
8. Lean as much about something as you can, preferably new technology, in your spare time, this means you do some computer work at home. Good computer people enjoy using the computer, it's just not a 9-5 thing.
well that's my list of things that you should know....
Real is good if your users are going to be computer illiterate, most home users have problems figuring out Winamp (or any other mp3 player) as it's not well documented. Real player on the otherhand is pretty much idiot proof. Little trick i use to use on those free servers was to download a couple copies to different email's (25ppl free server) then run them on successive ports 7777 7778 7779 7780, write your web page as a cgi, so it would do a query to find the least busiest audio server then output the port address to that for the user. The box would handle it, problem was bandwidth, it would sometimes kill our ISP, but hey, not my problem.
For those of us who recieve our TV via digital means in the sky (aka DTV), it looks like the show will be airing a day later. Times are 10pm EST and 2am EST on Friday Mar 31 2000. I just checked the PBS site cause I couldn't find it on the menu tonite.
Looks like we will either have to wait or slum it by hooking up the old antenna and going analog.
The items mentioned in the article here are simple devices that we can understand. Typically we don't see alot of these things because North Americans are too big and clumsy to use them. The cellphones that they were talking about have been out for ages, I was there over 6 months ago and these devices were in mass uses. I have a digital audio player that I bought there that puts the current mp3 players to shame (all instructions were in japanese, and took me a while to figure out). It's footprint is smaller then a credit card and it's about 1/4 inch thick. On top of that it uses Smartmedia cards to store the data so you can swap the chips in and out with different tunes on them. It weighs next to nothing, and it does have an LCD screen on it to give track info. Other items that caught my eye were the tv goggles (multiple models) ranging from about $300 to $600, the phones, language converters (they love to learn english), GPS for cars (like 50% of the cars I saw in Tokyo had these). North Americans fingers are too big, we tend to break the delicate items and we are generally not very good to our electronics.
Oh.. buy the way, the cellphones, you think that we have lots of models, well they have 100's of models.. walls filled with cellphones in every shape and colour, and not one bigger then the smallest phone we have here.
Akaihabara is the gadget-ophile's wet dream, if you ever go to japan, this is a must see for slashdot readers.
Hook up with the hardware giant, not only will they have point of presence in every US state but you can all hook-up from almost every major city on the planet. It costs a little more then a normal dialup account but well worth it if you travel. I'm sure you can sign up in you home country, setup your laptop and get local dialup numbers all before leaving home.
BBS's are dead, they were the early-adaptor clubs of the late 70's and 80's. They were the breaking ground for those who were fascinated by technology and not afraid to venture forth. It's an era that will live in some people's minds as vivid as the hippy 60's, the disco 70's or the glamrock 80's. Everyone who actively participated has fond memories of the boards they frequiented, and glimpsing memory of all the numbers you would wardial looking for still running boards to leach warez off.
The Internet changed that, it brought digital communication to the masses, easy to understand, relativly idiot proof package. This is evident by the populatarity of AOL, the emergance of 'flash traffic' and advertisment of websites. Most of us who were there for the BBS years are still around doing the more interesting projects in this realm, we communicate on/., read ARS technica, and don't beleive the hype about some latest virus. We are the one building the network bigger, faster, and more robust.
I just wonder how long it will be till we start refering to the 'web years' or the 'slashdot effect' with the same kind of fondness.
Back when 486's were the bomb chip, Compaq use to 'cheat' on the advertising by selling 486/66's computers (this was a nice peice of hardware). I had one open one day at the store and decided to check it out inside, noticing that they didn't have a fan on the sink, as it was one huge ass sink (similar to those now see in the G4's) I thought it was odd, so I pulled that sucker off to get a good look at the chip and low and behold this was 486SX66. For those who recall this stuff the SX chips didn't have a math coprocessor on board, which not only made it slower in some apps but also run cooler.
From that point, I made sure I would tell all customers interested in buying those machines that they were sx units and not dx. Back in the day this would have been similar to using a celeron vs. the pentiumII cores.
After reading your comments I had done almost the same thing, your life reads similar execpt that I did not get free education at the University which I was employed. I was disenchanted with the education system when I had to teach Doctored professors how to use an Xterminal and move files between a unix server and a pc. Also when the Networking prof. started asking me questions about ISDN to teach in his class, well maybe I shouldn't really attend classes.
Anyways, I have begun to try and continue with finishing my degree, though i find it tough to actually find time to do the course material, I'm attending Athabasca University which I seem to enjoy cause it's pretty much self teaching from an textbook (yes i interact better with a book). I haven't had to write a test but the only thing i had to do was get a transcript from my old university, everything else I have done online. You can even pay for course via credit card online (sweet, get airmiles on those courses along with a tax deduction!). This university is the only one to offer distance education which is credited at the same level as all other University Institutions in Canada. Course are around $400 each (about 300usd) with a $100 enrollement fee. The online site is pretty good.
I have been satisfied with it so far. I have looked into the online student chat areas and have found that there are others in the area who might not really be quailified to take courses (i'm doing java right now). I was expecting the java course to be a breeze but it's more a lesson in OOP then 'java' as they are teaching the fundimentals of OOP with java. There are students taking this who expected it to be a bird course, sort of like 'chips for dips' or 'dos for dummies'. If the level of education for the rest of the course are comparable then it would actually give a person a good foundation in CS, which is after all what they are suppose to be doing right?
I would suggest that you get a lawyer (preferable a friend who won't charge you) to draft up a letter basically telling them to go screw themselves. I have seen this a number of times, as there are lawyers out there soliciting companies to retain them to do this sort of work, they send out a letter to any/all internet sites that contain any parts of the name then try and harrass them in to giving them the domain. This is total bullshit. I had an ISP, which was Trademarked in Canada, had legal grounds, and some dumbass down in Texas tryed to force us to relinquish the domain name. Needless to say, we had just as much grounds for the name rights as they did. Drafted up a similar letter telling them to stop using our name and likeness (copy of their letter back on a legal header) and they pretty much went away.
The new internet domain name harrassment by lawyers is pretty much the digital equivalent to ambulance chasing.
Also working in a University enviroment, i'm sure the legal department doesn't have a whole lot to do, so they decide to draft up some letters to all people with the word 'purdue' in a domain name and try and make them turn it over. Looks great when it comes to a senate meeting and they get to report on the progress of conforming all purdue internet addresses to control of the university.
I wonder if they send a letter to the purdue chicken guy, bet not, as he has the resources to sue their ass off. Too bad that NetSol. now requires you pay for the domain up front, or i would register hundreds of domains with the word "purdue" in them, then tell them they can have them all, which they would register and pay for each of them.
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I'm no power expert but i did live in a 'nuclear' community out side of Toronto (yes, it actually did have a working nuclear powerplant, and still does, 8 reactors). I know lots of the energy was sold back to NY state power companies, along with powering Torontoians..I think they made more money selling it to the States then to Canadians. Also there was a huge hydro electric dam project in Quebec, almost for the sole purpose of selling energy to the US.
Once you buy off Canada, there isn't much else on this continent to buy. Who else could they hit up for electricity??? Mexico?? ahahhaha
I have already read some horror stories on 2way satellite, all to do with latency and low connection speeds.. this would just compound to the problem. The point of using USB is to avoid the 'network card' requirement while still providing a fast bandwidth rate into the computer.
just my thoughts.. but i wouldn't suggest doing that...
plus my vaio still gets the job done.. ;)
I'm not sure what company is providing the modem, but the Wiz computer store in NYC is giving out free cable modems too. You have to spend $250 to get one for free.. i'm sketchy on the details as i live near Detroit and just seen the ads on satelite
advertising is going to kill us..
Could also be slacker coders and other people who are pretty much useless. We all know that every company has them, those people who bullshit so much and don't do any work, they were hired during a blitz to get more staff and the HR were so impressed by all the buzz words that they were hired. Most companies need to do this from time to time
-b
First we produce CFC's to eat the ozone.. everyone knows this (sic). Well ozone is produced by the conversion of O2 with the reaction to UV light. So we build a big hole in the ozone, UV passes thru hitting the 02, converting to ozone, we continue the process till we deplete all the O2, we as species die (ya.. we need 02) well the plants start producing 02 from the Co2, and again the uv turns it to ozone.. we are all dead but we have an ozone layer..
oh.. it seems ironic that just as the patient for CFC's ran out it suddenly became banded and a new chemical formula was devise to be used a coolant.. makes you think.....
So far, Netscape4.75 looks like shit on on Solaris 2.7, and we can't get IE 4 or 5 to run on this platform at all.
any suggestions?
Sure.. you got the money for the equipment and net connection?? I've been trying to get someone to do this for years.. well i hear that one ISP is doing this, and i know Wincom has some wireless stuff too. -b
i think they did one on the whole web too.. would show the old DARPA and NCSA backbones..
odd .. no one complained about it back then..
-b
He was the first human to reach mach 1 with out the assistances of mechanized means.. all gravity baby! I saw it on the Discovery channel, one of those "Need for Speed" shows. It's been well documented, as they had video footage of his jump from the ballon and a check to make sure he broke the sound barrier.
same shit being recycled..
Or you could rent server space (rackspace.com) and set the stuff up yourself.. secure everything. Remember that the person who owns the machine also owns the data (as i recall) so these people still have rights to examine that data (or quickly turn it over to the authorities)
Besides.. you encrypt the data, and they don't know what you are sending. Hell, go look at http://www.distributed.net, all those cpus and they still haven't cracked RC5-64.. no chance that that AT&T would beable to crack billions of encrypted 128 bit sessions..
world according to me..
This forum is so overly bias in the tech area, ask the average person what 'slashdot' is and they will give you a blank stare like you are speaking another language. Go to a nite club and try and pick up a girl with a line like "I was just reading on how they overclock the K7's up to 1GHZ..." The girl will run to get away from you (not that i have tried this). Females place certian things higher on a priority list, maslov's 7 requirements seem to slip by most geeks as computer prowless drops to the bottom rung being first over food and shelter.
Get with the program, males and females are different, not just at the chromosome level but in every aspect, would we really want everyone to be the same? how lame would that be, a society full of blandness, we should rejoice in the differences. Long live the hotties.
Some companies like this because they can interview an hire with little problems, all they need to produce is that letter and the person can take care of the work permit.. no problems to the company at all.
VisualBasic Unleashed book - $54.99
Cost of Internet access - $19.99
Cost of flooding the internet with a M$ virus - Priceless!
1. That wonderful 6 figure job that a friend of a friend got. Myth.. doesn't existed. Sure maybe someone one time did get a great deal but since then this story has been floating around the livingrooms of relatives and associates for years.
2. It's who you know. Knowing people in companies to get your foot in the door is a huge help. Job placements are filled based on referals, after that they then start to look at the qualifications.
3. Use buzzwords, it's like the management buzzword bingo, they only understand certain words "java2" computes to them as "skdfj" where "java" is "JAVA!!!!" they don't know that java2 is the newer implementation of java.
4. Contracting is cyclical. Much like the ocean it comes in waves, sometimes you are bored out of your mind and can't find anything, next thing you know 4 jobs drop in your lap.
5. Ask friends with small businesses for work, tell them you will do it at dirt cheap rates, this will give you experiance in something that you may not know yet (like OO), while keeping the image of being busy.. cause after all who would you rather have the busy guy who everyone else wants or the guy that is doing nothing that no one wants.
6. If you work for yourself, give good deals to the client (within reason). Everyone knows that large consulting firms assrape clients, so they are much more likely to pass on good information about you and your work if they feel they received a good value.
7. Don't bother with/for a company that doesn't want to pay cash value, i know this seems silly but i have dealt with people who want to give me a peice of their 'business' for the work done. I do not take this anymore, there are 1000's of businesses that are going to fail, and more being started by idiots who see the .com gold rush.
8. Lean as much about something as you can, preferably new technology, in your spare time, this means you do some computer work at home. Good computer people enjoy using the computer, it's just not a 9-5 thing.
well that's my list of things that you should know....
Real is good if your users are going to be computer illiterate, most home users have problems figuring out Winamp (or any other mp3 player) as it's not well documented. Real player on the otherhand is pretty much idiot proof. Little trick i use to use on those free servers was to download a couple copies to different email's (25ppl free server) then run them on successive ports 7777 7778 7779 7780, write your web page as a cgi, so it would do a query to find the least busiest audio server then output the port address to that for the user. The box would handle it, problem was bandwidth, it would sometimes kill our ISP, but hey, not my problem.
Looks like we will either have to wait or slum it by hooking up the old antenna and going analog.
Oh.. buy the way, the cellphones, you think that we have lots of models, well they have 100's of models.. walls filled with cellphones in every shape and colour, and not one bigger then the smallest phone we have here.
Akaihabara is the gadget-ophile's wet dream, if you ever go to japan, this is a must see for slashdot readers.
b
Hook up with the hardware giant, not only will they have point of presence in every US state but you can all hook-up from almost every major city on the planet. It costs a little more then a normal dialup account but well worth it if you travel. I'm sure you can sign up in you home country, setup your laptop and get local dialup numbers all before leaving home.
sort of like visa... everywhere you want to be!
The Internet changed that, it brought digital communication to the masses, easy to understand, relativly idiot proof package. This is evident by the populatarity of AOL, the emergance of 'flash traffic' and advertisment of websites. Most of us who were there for the BBS years are still around doing the more interesting projects in this realm, we communicate on /., read ARS technica, and don't beleive the hype about some latest virus. We are the one building the network bigger, faster, and more robust.
I just wonder how long it will be till we start refering to the 'web years' or the 'slashdot effect' with the same kind of fondness.
-b
From that point, I made sure I would tell all customers interested in buying those machines that they were sx units and not dx. Back in the day this would have been similar to using a celeron vs. the pentiumII cores.
Anyways, I have begun to try and continue with finishing my degree, though i find it tough to actually find time to do the course material, I'm attending Athabasca University which I seem to enjoy cause it's pretty much self teaching from an textbook (yes i interact better with a book). I haven't had to write a test but the only thing i had to do was get a transcript from my old university, everything else I have done online. You can even pay for course via credit card online (sweet, get airmiles on those courses along with a tax deduction!). This university is the only one to offer distance education which is credited at the same level as all other University Institutions in Canada. Course are around $400 each (about 300usd) with a $100 enrollement fee. The online site is pretty good.
I have been satisfied with it so far. I have looked into the online student chat areas and have found that there are others in the area who might not really be quailified to take courses (i'm doing java right now). I was expecting the java course to be a breeze but it's more a lesson in OOP then 'java' as they are teaching the fundimentals of OOP with java. There are students taking this who expected it to be a bird course, sort of like 'chips for dips' or 'dos for dummies'. If the level of education for the rest of the course are comparable then it would actually give a person a good foundation in CS, which is after all what they are suppose to be doing right?
good luck.
The new internet domain name harrassment by lawyers is pretty much the digital equivalent to ambulance chasing.
Also working in a University enviroment, i'm sure the legal department doesn't have a whole lot to do, so they decide to draft up some letters to all people with the word 'purdue' in a domain name and try and make them turn it over. Looks great when it comes to a senate meeting and they get to report on the progress of conforming all purdue internet addresses to control of the university.
I wonder if they send a letter to the purdue chicken guy, bet not, as he has the resources to sue their ass off. Too bad that NetSol. now requires you pay for the domain up front, or i would register hundreds of domains with the word "purdue" in them, then tell them they can have them all, which they would register and pay for each of them.
good luck.