These kind of lasers are used for a lot of things almost everywhere and you don't realise its power or let alone how common they are. Lasers are used in almost all woodworking power tools like drills, jigsaws, circular saws, cut off saws or anything that needs a pencil mark to cut or drill. Then there are laser levels - the cheap ones (around $30) and the more expensive ones that can cast a line around 3 sides of a room. These are used in the building trades. Then there are lasers used in surveying, rangefinding and measurement, security and so on. Then there is the entertainment industry and you can get quite a powerful laser setup cheap if you want to set one up for a band. Lasers are common place and this new law will be difficult to police. It's better to restrict sales to under 18 than to ban them altogether.
lol It should actually be a NOP. It's just a mathematical trick that has gone wrong. Any number divided by 0 is really a NOP and not an error or infinity. Rationalism tells me so. It's pointless doing this long-hand as n/0 = 0? Well that's wrong for a start! n/0 = n? well that's also wrong! n/0 = infinity? Well if it won't go once, then why would it divide an infinite amount of times? It's just a NOP that the Greeks and the Arabs spent countless hours of proving an incorrect assumption. And today, they base a whole science on it! lol
Actually, the current state of affairs regarding the porn filter is that it is not isp based. I've had to order 3 CDs (Safe Eyes) last week. They still haven't turned up. I ph them and they said that everything was on backorder because there was more and more demand. http://www.netalert.gov.au/
I think that here, Australians generally believe freedom to be social normality. Anything considered outside normality is not valued under our principles of freedom. That is why we basically are swayed into more police powers because we all think "I'm normal, I've got nothing to hide"
There never really was a feeling of defense of those outside the norm who do no harm to others as a principle of freedom in Australia. Well said. Perceptive even! I tried to say that in a previous post but didn't have the words. I wonder how that 'social pressure' began? In the 60's, the social temperament was very lax and inviting. Bonfires on the beach, cracker night, pig shooting in Pilliga, shouts of beer, sheilas:) And now? We seem to be voluntarily turning into 'upright citizens' whatever that means! Fortunately I remember those times, but the current XYZ gen have no idea. If you start thinking of how restricted Australian life has become because we're 'told what to do and how to behave', it is worrying.
Liberty not democracy is the issue. That is exactly the point. You can have a democracy with almost no liberty. That's what's happening in Australia, and has been happening here for many years. Everything you do requires permission, a form to fill out, a registration or some other official or semi-official ok. Everything is controlled, and if it isn't, then there are 'expectations' that you tow the line.
VOTE LDP http://www.ldp.org/ Shake those Liberal/Labour/Greens up! Let them know that they are not the only choice out there!
Australia's first convict 1778 - last convict 1853 that's ummm... 75 years. Only a small proportion were convicts, the rest were free settlers. Then the damn yanks and chinese turned up for our very own gold-rush and stayed.
Just vote LDP http://www.ldp.org.au/ and stuff them both up! LDP is about the closest you'll get to a non-interfering government with minimal regulations and no bullshit. Back to the free country and even getting a Bill of Rights too!!!!
Mind you, I really appreciate having a Prime Minister (ermmm Kevin Rudd), that can tell the Chinese "WTF are you doing in Tibet?" in Mandarin!:)
No offense intended. I was just looking at the IT crowd lightly. Coders are unusual in that they are totally immersed in logic and loops - a generalization I admit. I know of one 'coder' who has spent decades coding FORTRAN for reports and nothing else. Support personnel who are very good at what they do. I've done both.
I got dragged into admin, overseeing the operations of over 20 linked establishments and that was all policy, human resource development and so on. At that point I didn't feel like I was in IT because I wasn't involved on a hands on level. I definitely felt that I was on the 'other side'.
On the old mechanical calculators, if you subtract 0, then it just whirs and shows you the same number. EG National cash registers and even the solenoid powered electric adding machines with paper tape printing. It's only microprocessors that can't handle div by 0 errors.
You're certainly not going to win any friends by telling the dev team they are part of IT. Strangely enough, around 1980 (?) the term 'IT' was introduced in my speciality (Computers in Education), before that we were 'Computer Literate' or 'Programmer' and IT became the defacto label for anyone working with computers, be it programmers, DTP or comms. It's comparatively recently that a distinction is being made within the IT field that IT is for support and everybody else goes by different titles. Maybe there's a hierarchy there... So it goes: Support:- 1. Frontline support - "Have you tried to turn it off and back on again?" 2. Level 1 support - "Did you turn it off and back on again?" 3. Level 2 support - "Is it plugged in?" 4. Level 3 support - "Turn it off, wait 30 seconds, then turn it back on again."
Network:- 1. Cat5 cable maker/tester 2. Guy who knows what IP stands for 3. Guy who knows what DNS stands for 4. Guy who knows stuff about wireless networks
Then there are titles that no-one else knows the meaning of like Systems Analyst who earns big bucks because they are System Analysts. Then there are Coders - who do the real work and have more than 3 brain cells. Then there are Coder bosses who haven't coded in 10 years:- "GWBASIC is NOT dead!" Then there is the Admin who delegate jobs and have been known to write batch files in DOS - as stated on their CVs
Not forgetting the 'Team', being a 'Team Player', Team this and Team that, Our Team, Team Goals, Team outcomes, Team evaluation, Team esteem, I feel like a group hug! Can I vomit now???
Anyway, if IT is NOT the collective noun, then what is? I can imagine a conversation that goes: "I'm in database." "Isn't that IT?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan's_Brain was the earliest piece I read ages ago. The article also explores the development of the theme.
A reference to the title can also be found at the end of the Larry Niven short story Becalmed in Hell, in which the character Eric, who lives as a brain and spinal cord on life-support, and works as the directly-connected controller of a NASA exploratory vessel, signs a telegram "DONOVAN'S BRAIN", either as a joke of his own or because Niven surnamed the character "Donovan" in homage.
All you've got to do is to wrap the rocket in sound deadening materials - or negate the sounds by amplifying the same sound out of phase. What's so hard about that? Rocket science.... Hrumph!
A month ago I got an email from Paypal to update my credit card details as my card went out of date. I proceeded to update the details, when I was informed that people can pay me with paypal, but I couldn't withdraw any funds unless I fax them 2 forms of identity. I immediately baulked at this. They are asking for details reserved for Banks etc when they are not a bank. In fact they are a private escrow company without complying with anything.
But my problem is that I do commission sales for people who have no idea how to sell on-line. Big, single items worth hundreds or thousands. So now I have to prove my identity with these documents, just to be able to draw money out of the account. The whole thing sucks and I'm definitely going to say "PayPal NOT preferred" from now on.
Can't go past amber. Lode Runner on Amber Monitor Apple ][+ was the clearest and best for my eyes. In fact all text and mono graphics. I hate white backgrounds as other posts have pointed out. This development was Apple's fault when they introduced the first Mac. The concept developed from WYSIWYG and DTP with white representing a blank sheet of paper. It caught on unfortunately and now we're plagued with it everywhere. Even on/.
Can't agree with you more - on both points. My basement is a shipping container, in which I feel protected somewhat, but I also spent 4 years in a small blizzard wrapped mountain community in an isolated part of Australia. Death seemed to be always close by, and I got close to what 'surviving' really meant. But I never felt paranoid, because I knew exactly what I was up against. Paranoia is really when you imagine danger or threat in some manner or other.
If you read the FA, you might of picked up a bit of MS Speak:
Whether I'll be missed is a question better fielded by the audience of our blog and the members of the community influencer program I managed. I come across MS Speak every now and then. Some of it surprises me for its arrogance, and some shows how insular the MS culture can be.
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Ignore that. It was meant for a different post..... my bad.
You're an idiot again.
These kind of lasers are used for a lot of things almost everywhere and you don't realise its power or let alone how common they are.
Lasers are used in almost all woodworking power tools like drills, jigsaws, circular saws, cut off saws or anything that needs a pencil mark to cut or drill.
Then there are laser levels - the cheap ones (around $30) and the more expensive ones that can cast a line around 3 sides of a room. These are used in the building trades.
Then there are lasers used in surveying, rangefinding and measurement, security and so on.
Then there is the entertainment industry and you can get quite a powerful laser setup cheap if you want to set one up for a band.
Lasers are common place and this new law will be difficult to police. It's better to restrict sales to under 18 than to ban them altogether.
lol It should actually be a NOP.
It's just a mathematical trick that has gone wrong.
Any number divided by 0 is really a NOP and not an error or infinity. Rationalism tells me so. It's pointless doing this long-hand as n/0 = 0? Well that's wrong for a start!
n/0 = n? well that's also wrong!
n/0 = infinity? Well if it won't go once, then why would it divide an infinite amount of times?
It's just a NOP that the Greeks and the Arabs spent countless hours of proving an incorrect assumption.
And today, they base a whole science on it! lol
Actually, the current state of affairs regarding the porn filter is that it is not isp based.
I've had to order 3 CDs (Safe Eyes) last week.
They still haven't turned up. I ph them and they said that everything was on backorder because there was more and more demand.
http://www.netalert.gov.au/
And the Milo.
There never really was a feeling of defense of those outside the norm who do no harm to others as a principle of freedom in Australia. Well said. Perceptive even! I tried to say that in a previous post but didn't have the words.
I wonder how that 'social pressure' began? In the 60's, the social temperament was very lax and inviting. Bonfires on the beach, cracker night, pig shooting in Pilliga, shouts of beer, sheilas
And now? We seem to be voluntarily turning into 'upright citizens' whatever that means!
Fortunately I remember those times, but the current XYZ gen have no idea.
If you start thinking of how restricted Australian life has become because we're 'told what to do and how to behave', it is worrying.
Thanks. But there should be some way of fighting a tyrannical oppressive system without resorting to guns. Isn't that why we have democracy?
VOTE LDP http://www.ldp.org/ Shake those Liberal/Labour/Greens up! Let them know that they are not the only choice out there!
Australia's first convict 1778 - last convict 1853 that's ummm... 75 years.
Only a small proportion were convicts, the rest were free settlers.
Then the damn yanks and chinese turned up for our very own gold-rush and stayed.
Hey that's 2 votes for the LDP in the one thread! They must be making ground! :)
Webmaster - http://www.lisamilat.org/
Just vote LDP http://www.ldp.org.au/ and stuff them both up!
:)
LDP is about the closest you'll get to a non-interfering government with minimal regulations and no bullshit. Back to the free country and even getting a Bill of Rights too!!!!
Mind you, I really appreciate having a Prime Minister (ermmm Kevin Rudd), that can tell the Chinese "WTF are you doing in Tibet?" in Mandarin!
Still doesn't help the rest of us. I mean 200k/year? Is there a correspondence course??? :)
No offense intended. I was just looking at the IT crowd lightly. Coders are unusual in that they are totally immersed in logic and loops - a generalization I admit. I know of one 'coder' who has spent decades coding FORTRAN for reports and nothing else. Support personnel who are very good at what they do. I've done both.
I got dragged into admin, overseeing the operations of over 20 linked establishments and that was all policy, human resource development and so on. At that point I didn't feel like I was in IT because I wasn't involved on a hands on level. I definitely felt that I was on the 'other side'.
According to this site: http://www.simonkelk.co.uk/sizeofwales.html
its weight is about 1.002 African Elephants.
On the old mechanical calculators, if you subtract 0, then it just whirs and shows you the same number.
EG National cash registers and even the solenoid powered electric adding machines with paper tape printing.
It's only microprocessors that can't handle div by 0 errors.
It's comparatively recently that a distinction is being made within the IT field that IT is for support and everybody else goes by different titles. Maybe there's a hierarchy there...
So it goes:
Support:-
1. Frontline support - "Have you tried to turn it off and back on again?"
2. Level 1 support - "Did you turn it off and back on again?"
3. Level 2 support - "Is it plugged in?"
4. Level 3 support - "Turn it off, wait 30 seconds, then turn it back on again."
Network:-
1. Cat5 cable maker/tester
2. Guy who knows what IP stands for
3. Guy who knows what DNS stands for
4. Guy who knows stuff about wireless networks
Then there are titles that no-one else knows the meaning of like Systems Analyst who earns big bucks because they are System Analysts.
Then there are Coders - who do the real work and have more than 3 brain cells.
Then there are Coder bosses who haven't coded in 10 years:- "GWBASIC is NOT dead!"
Then there is the Admin who delegate jobs and have been known to write batch files in DOS - as stated on their CVs
Not forgetting the 'Team', being a 'Team Player', Team this and Team that, Our Team, Team Goals, Team outcomes, Team evaluation, Team esteem, I feel like a group hug! Can I vomit now???
Anyway, if IT is NOT the collective noun, then what is?
I can imagine a conversation that goes:
"I'm in database."
"Isn't that IT?"
The article also explores the development of the theme. A reference to the title can also be found at the end of the Larry Niven short story Becalmed in Hell, in which the character Eric, who lives as a brain and spinal cord on life-support, and works as the directly-connected controller of a NASA exploratory vessel, signs a telegram "DONOVAN'S BRAIN", either as a joke of his own or because Niven surnamed the character "Donovan" in homage.
Agree.
Perfectly good satellite that can be saved or sold, but being dumped for insurance?
Makes no sense.
All you've got to do is to wrap the rocket in sound deadening materials - or negate the sounds by amplifying the same sound out of phase.
What's so hard about that?
Rocket science.... Hrumph!
A month ago I got an email from Paypal to update my credit card details as my card went out of date.
I proceeded to update the details, when I was informed that people can pay me with paypal, but I couldn't withdraw any funds unless I fax them 2 forms of identity.
I immediately baulked at this. They are asking for details reserved for Banks etc when they are not a bank. In fact they are a private escrow company without complying with anything.
But my problem is that I do commission sales for people who have no idea how to sell on-line. Big, single items worth hundreds or thousands. So now I have to prove my identity with these documents, just to be able to draw money out of the account.
The whole thing sucks and I'm definitely going to say "PayPal NOT preferred" from now on.
Well come to think of it, you have 'feet' and 'foot' and on that 'sheep' should be 'shoop' :)
Can't go past amber. Lode Runner on Amber Monitor Apple ][+ was the clearest and best for my eyes. In fact all text and mono graphics. /.
I hate white backgrounds as other posts have pointed out. This development was Apple's fault when they introduced the first Mac.
The concept developed from WYSIWYG and DTP with white representing a blank sheet of paper. It caught on unfortunately and now we're plagued with it everywhere. Even on
Can't agree with you more - on both points.
My basement is a shipping container, in which I feel protected somewhat, but I also spent 4 years in a small blizzard wrapped mountain community in an isolated part of Australia. Death seemed to be always close by, and I got close to what 'surviving' really meant.
But I never felt paranoid, because I knew exactly what I was up against. Paranoia is really when you imagine danger or threat in some manner or other.