nobody was suggesting everyone was going to wire everything with plastic, dude i've got a suggestion for you. Next time, before you flame me, read the article. Tell you what, even read the first SENTENCE of the article. Here, i'll paste it for you.
A new European project using plastic fiber and off-the-shelf components could make optical networking so cheap and simple that installation could be a DIY job for even a non-technical person. Now what business would a "non-technical" person have doing any of the things that have traditionally required optical networking?
Can this stereotype please die already? Most engineers that i know love parties and women, sometimes even more so than their fraternity dwelling counterparts.
Engineers are usually the ones who throw the illest parties anyhow since we tend to have way more lights, and sound equipment (half the engineers I know are DJs) than anybody on the block.
So please...stop using this stereotype....its really stupid.
What's the benefit of 100mbps plasti-fiber over gigabit cat-6? With fiber, you have at most 2 wires to deal with per connection....1 for transmit, and one for receive. With cat 6e you have to deal with 8, and they are a pain in the ass to use.
The problem with this, though, is that transmitting data isn't the only thing that Cat6 is used for. The fact that i have 8 little wires at my disposal running all over the building is a really great tool. I run POE (power over ethernet) on a few networking devices i have floating around. I also have used the White/Brown - Brown pair to run phones in a pinch (like when we end up having move gear in a room than we originally intended).
Fiber doesn't do this...at all. Not to mention the fact that you can't run a tone generator over fiber to find a cable inside of a bundle on the other side of the building.
Lets face it, folks, copper wiring isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Fiber is really great for long distance, high throughput links...but using it to wire everything in your house, or your office building is very very short-sighted.
where are you going to get the massive bandwidth required to operate an effective data center on a damn dock? And doesn't running the whole thing on diesel seem a little....stupid?
There are really not ANY benefits to running a data center on a ship that I can think of other than the ability to use pirate lingo.
What I find ironic is that the very thing that some of us were complaining about (iTunes DRM) might end up being the very thing that saves us in the end.
I can pick up around 15 wireless networks and all but 2 are password protected and most are using WPA or WPA2. When i moved into my new apartment and saw a similar scenario I went "SUHWEEEEET!" and busted out the ubiquiti gear, the amps, a giant satelite-dish-sized directional antenna and its tripod, and few soekris boxen.
Oh, and a little openwrt box that runs my wireless network. If you ever see a network called "secret_awesome" go ahead an join, i leave it open for anybody to use (you're going to get subnetted away from me though).
Please tell me I'm not the only one who did that...cause that would be really sad.
Exactly. It is the same thing I use when trying to explain theism to somebody who doesn't "get it". We are humans. We are made of matter, and we exist in our universe. Comprehending things that have no entropy (and therefor no "flow" of time) in impossible for us. Also, trying to comprehend anything other than what exists in our own universe is, likewise, impossible. It would be like trying to explain color to a creature who was born without sight, or had lived its entire life in a dark cave. So in my argument for theism, I'm not saying that there IS a god, just that to rule one out because humans are incapable of wrapping our heads around it is a little silly.
9. Firepond's patent covering automatic message-interpretation and routing systems. This patent, said Schultz, would effectively control the technology that allows consumers to call companies and have their calls routed based on a spoken command. Would anybody here be terribly unhappy if every company that used voice recognition technology in their phone tree was sued into oblivion?
"THANK YOU for Calling Verizon Business! now together with MCI!! Did you know that you can check the status of your order, open trouble tickets, and order an ice pick to stab yourself in the eyes after listening to this blatant advertisement online at www.verizon.com?.......
Please say the nature of your call:" me: "Somebody was out digging in front of our office and cut through the line that feeds us our T1s".......
"I'm sorry, i Didn't understand that" me: "I need you to send somebody out here to fix our T1s".....
"Did you say that you would like to hear about verizon's new firewall service? if so please say "Yes"" me: "I NEED YOU TO FUCKING SEND A GODDAMNED TECHNICIAN OUT TO FIX THE LINE!".....
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, please state the nature of the call" me: *0* "I'm sorry, but that is not a recognized option....Main menu.....Did you know that you can open trouble tickets, check the status of your order, or order blah balh blah blah blah"
I'm not sure there is anything out there that irritates me more than voice activated phone trees....the only thing that comes close is customer service reps who keep repeating the phrase "okay, i can definitely help you with this" or end every conversation with "okay Mr. Johnson, is there anything else i can help you with? no? okay well you have a terrific day, thank you for calling sprint now together with nextel!!". These two things usually go hand in hand though, so.....take them both down!:)
the get the 60+ year old old school As/400 Admins on the job who will get you little whipper snappers into shape with their linux running virtually on a system5 with VMware running on top of that.
But the IBM commercial told me that i could replace my entire datacenter with a single server! Are you telling me that those two youngish looking racially diverse guys having a conversation at a coffee shop about sloshing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware around even though neither of them really seems to be sure what all of it does were LYING TO ME!?
Don't forget getting rid of the 3.5" floppy drive. Those things were not going away in the PC world, even though they were good for nothing. is this supposed to be sarcastic? The loss of the floppy drive is one of the biggest pains in the butt as far as home/office computing goes. Without a floppy, there is no rewritable, removable, bootable media that you can use for recovery when something goes awry (at that time).
Granted, cd writers have become ubiquitous...but there is nothing that beats a DOS boot disk in a pinch.
you'll never read this unless you check your profile page and notice but:
#1 i was being sarcastic. #2 what country are you from? I'm from the US but wasn't blaming the US gov't. It was a joke, and in the context of the joke i was blaming every government on the planet...saying that they waste money on planting flowers that could have been wasted on seeing if an asteroid is going to hit mars.
"not knowing the exact position, velocity, and mass of the object due to inadequate funding that has been, instead, spent on countless "beautification" projects around major cities uncertainty principal"
If you double space your comments, not as many people are going to read them. Double spaced lines give the illusion of size...when you have short, 1 line sentences couple with that spacing...the clash is just too much and its a pain in the ass to read because you brain will start trying to interpret it like a poem. Your post is NOT a poem (i hope) and therefore has no rhythm to follow.
Yes, i work in advertising, and this is one of my pet peeves.
The projection system is front-projection (you can see the projector between the front row seats in one of the photos), yet in the picture with the curtain half raised the picture is only visible on the exposed part of the screen--there's no hint of it on the curtain itself. I would think that would only be possible with a rear projector? the photoshop is not strong with this one. They photochopped a full screen into the picture because the shadow of the curtain would look really nasty. Plus it makes it look like every home theater owners dream: a projector that comes on with the picture at the MOMENT the curtains open.....
or the ultimate....SOUND and a Projector that comes on at the moment the curtains open.......wait a second...could i just put a little motorized shutter in front of the projector, and have it open along with the CURTAINS!?!? THEN an automatic volume control that is linked to the curtains as well!?!?!
HOLY CRAP!
I'll see you guy later...I'm off to the workshop to start playing with some servos!
btw, that is the first thing that i noticed too;-)
. "So Iran gets lambasted and carefully watched for producing enriched uranium which they say is being used for nuclear power, but this tiny island nation wants to create Tesla's death ray and that's acceptable?" If you fail to see the difference between a device that can literally vaporize an entire city in the blink of an eye, and a microwave transmitter that fires a few meters wide beam at a stationary platform on the surface that, if pointed at somebody, would cause little or no harm at all unless they stood there enjoying the warm feeling for a few hours.
Good luck finding somebody who actually still uses a PS2 keyboard. The only keyboards I even have in my company that use that are mine (cause it's a Model M) and the ones on our dumb terminals.../me RUSHES TO THE DUMB TERMINALS!
Okay, i get it, you want to argue with me....but c'mon, don't call me "infantile" and "uneducated" when you're the one making personal insults in a purely philosophical argument.
Obviously, yes, drunk drivers should be punished. Driving drunk is terrible. However, please look at my argument a little deeper than surface level. It is by the same logic that I am arguing that drunk drivers haven't committed a crime that one reaches the conclusion that bittorrent is a completely harmless protocol. Bittorrent in and of itself is completely harmless and innocent. It is, however, a tool uesd to many many pirates to commit copyright infringement. What I am arguing is that people should evaluate what somebody has actually DONE before punishing them, and not just what they COULD do.
For instance. Look at what comcast does to protocols that they determine can only be used for bad. By your logic, they are completely in the right in doing this. THE VAST majority of traffic that flows over NNTP for example is criminal in nature. Should ISPs start shutting down usenet servers because of this? Or punishing people who own binary newsreading software? Absolutely not. If I own a copy of newsbin, for example, I absolutely haev the capability to commit copyright infringement. BUT I HAVEN'T. There is nothing inherantly wrong about simply owning the software, it is what I can do with it that is wrong.
I am arguing on principal. The principal outlines that one should only be punished for the crimes (that is actual wrongdoings) that they have committed, not just the ones that they COULD or LIKELY WILL commit.
Anybody who seriously argues that driving while intoxicated (notice I said intoxicated) is not a punishable offense is definitely a jackass. That is not what I am arguing. Please Please Please....look a little deeper at my argument.
Like said above, does that mean if I throw paint filled balloons onto a freeway and nobody gets hurt, I should be let off the hook? I COULD have caused a problem, but didn't. Same thing if you drink and drive, if you get home safely this time, you COULD have caused a problem, but didn't. Doesn't mean you shouldn't be punished. Lets say I am dropping paint balloons of an overpass with intentions of NOT hurting anyone; if I DON'T hurt anybody, then obviously I was being cautious enough to prevent anyone from getting hurt. I WAS being safe about doing it.
Similarly, if I drive home drunk, without the intent of hurting anybody, and don't....same thing, i WAS being cautious enough to prevent anybody from getting hurt.
DO you REALLY think that you should be punished because there was a possibility of something bad happening? What about guys who fly airplanes for fun? Or go on joy-rides in their car? They don't NEED to be on the road or in the sky, they're out doing it for fun. In doing so, they are putting the general population at risk because they might crash a several thousand pound vehicle into somebody. Should we bad all activities that COULD result in somebody being hurt?
These people are being punished, not because they actually caused a problem, but because they COULD have caused one? that problem being the helicopter crashing?
How is what thinksecret was doing in any way damaging to apple? I work in the marketing field. ALl of my peers and I agree that while we don't exactly buy into the apple lemming philosophy, they are absolutely GODS of marketing. Take a product like the iPhone....which is NOT revolutionary in any way, shape, or form...let apple's marketing department put their spin on it and before you know it, you've got people camping outside of stores to buy A CELLPHONE!
Most of us honestly thought that thinksecret was secretly owned and operated by apple...that would make sense. Thinksecret, really, was doing a service to their marketing goons. They were creating hype about products without giving TOO much information, and they were doing it for free.
HP, from being craptacular last decade, has done a much better job of "reinventing" themselves than Dell has. Amen to this.
HP/Compaq have moved their level 2 tech support to British Columbia. I have had 2 laptops in the last two years that have needed replacements and have actually had their tech support staff CALL ME BACK a few days after the warranty claim to check in with me.
That absolutely blew me away. IT wasn't an automated email, or phone message or anything. it was: "Ryan?...he this is Heather from HP....I talked to you earlier this week?" "oh hey!" "Yeah, i just wanted to make sure that you got the box to put your computer in and that everything was okay!"
awesome:) and no, i don't work for HP.... Everybody needs to model their tech support after THAT!
In addition to a non-vista option, they need to offer MS office 2003. A few months ago I logged into dell's website to order a batch of computers and noticed that the option for 2003 had was gone, and they were only offering 2007.
This is absurd. In my experience, there is almost no demand for 2007. What I ended up having to do was sign up for a site licensing agreement with microsoft to get my hands on 2003. In the mean time, I installed OpenOffice on the computers that I had ordered. This prompted my boss to go "Why are we spending 350 bucks a hit on something that we can get for free?".
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Can this stereotype please die already? Most engineers that i know love parties and women, sometimes even more so than their fraternity dwelling counterparts.
Engineers are usually the ones who throw the illest parties anyhow since we tend to have way more lights, and sound equipment (half the engineers I know are DJs) than anybody on the block.
So please...stop using this stereotype....its really stupid.
The problem with this, though, is that transmitting data isn't the only thing that Cat6 is used for. The fact that i have 8 little wires at my disposal running all over the building is a really great tool. I run POE (power over ethernet) on a few networking devices i have floating around. I also have used the White/Brown - Brown pair to run phones in a pinch (like when we end up having move gear in a room than we originally intended).
Fiber doesn't do this...at all. Not to mention the fact that you can't run a tone generator over fiber to find a cable inside of a bundle on the other side of the building.
Lets face it, folks, copper wiring isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Fiber is really great for long distance, high throughput links...but using it to wire everything in your house, or your office building is very very short-sighted.
My biggest question is
where are you going to get the massive bandwidth required to operate an effective data center on a damn dock? And doesn't running the whole thing on diesel seem a little....stupid?
There are really not ANY benefits to running a data center on a ship that I can think of other than the ability to use pirate lingo.
What I find ironic is that the very thing that some of us were complaining about (iTunes DRM) might end up being the very thing that saves us in the end.
Well played itunes, well played.
Oh, and a little openwrt box that runs my wireless network. If you ever see a network called "secret_awesome" go ahead an join, i leave it open for anybody to use (you're going to get subnetted away from me though).
Please tell me I'm not the only one who did that...cause that would be really sad.
Exactly.
It is the same thing I use when trying to explain theism to somebody who doesn't "get it". We are humans. We are made of matter, and we exist in our universe. Comprehending things that have no entropy (and therefor no "flow" of time) in impossible for us. Also, trying to comprehend anything other than what exists in our own universe is, likewise, impossible. It would be like trying to explain color to a creature who was born without sight, or had lived its entire life in a dark cave. So in my argument for theism, I'm not saying that there IS a god, just that to rule one out because humans are incapable of wrapping our heads around it is a little silly.
"THANK YOU for Calling Verizon Business! now together with MCI!! Did you know that you can check the status of your order, open trouble tickets, and order an ice pick to stab yourself in the eyes after listening to this blatant advertisement online at www.verizon.com?...
Please say the nature of your call:"
me: "Somebody was out digging in front of our office and cut through the line that feeds us our T1s"
"I'm sorry, i Didn't understand that"
me: "I need you to send somebody out here to fix our T1s"
"Did you say that you would like to hear about verizon's new firewall service? if so please say "Yes""
me: "I NEED YOU TO FUCKING SEND A GODDAMNED TECHNICIAN OUT TO FIX THE LINE!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, please state the nature of the call"
me: *0*
"I'm sorry, but that is not a recognized option....Main menu.....Did you know that you can open trouble tickets, check the status of your order, or order blah balh blah blah blah"
I'm not sure there is anything out there that irritates me more than voice activated phone trees....the only thing that comes close is customer service reps who keep repeating the phrase "okay, i can definitely help you with this" or end every conversation with "okay Mr. Johnson, is there anything else i can help you with? no? okay well you have a terrific day, thank you for calling sprint now together with nextel!!". These two things usually go hand in hand though, so.....take them both down!
the get the 60+ year old old school As/400 Admins on the job who will get you little whipper snappers into shape with their linux running virtually on a system5 with VMware running on top of that.
But the IBM commercial told me that i could replace my entire datacenter with a single server! Are you telling me that those two youngish looking racially diverse guys having a conversation at a coffee shop about sloshing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware around even though neither of them really seems to be sure what all of it does were LYING TO ME!?
Granted, cd writers have become ubiquitous...but there is nothing that beats a DOS boot disk in a pinch.
you'll never read this unless you check your profile page and notice but:
#1 i was being sarcastic.
#2 what country are you from? I'm from the US but wasn't blaming the US gov't. It was a joke, and in the context of the joke i was blaming every government on the planet...saying that they waste money on planting flowers that could have been wasted on seeing if an asteroid is going to hit mars.
yes, there is. It is called the:
"not knowing the exact position, velocity, and mass of the object due to inadequate funding that has been, instead, spent on countless "beautification" projects around major cities uncertainty principal"
Dear Sco:
It was fun, but please DIAF (oops, too late).
Love,
The Community
P.S. F*CK YOU!
If you double space your comments, not as many people are going to read them. Double spaced lines give the illusion of size...when you have short, 1 line sentences couple with that spacing...the clash is just too much and its a pain in the ass to read because you brain will start trying to interpret it like a poem. Your post is NOT a poem (i hope) and therefore has no rhythm to follow.
Yes, i work in advertising, and this is one of my pet peeves.
Sorry.
or the ultimate....SOUND and a Projector that comes on at the moment the curtains open....
HOLY CRAP!
I'll see you guy later...I'm off to the workshop to start playing with some servos!
btw, that is the first thing that i noticed too
Then please DIAF.
the USB ones are quite a bit more expensive, and MUCH more noticeable.
Braniac.
Good luck finding somebody who actually still uses a PS2 keyboard. The only keyboards I even have in my company that use that are mine (cause it's a Model M) and the ones on our dumb terminals... /me RUSHES TO THE DUMB TERMINALS!
Okay, i get it, you want to argue with me....but c'mon, don't call me "infantile" and "uneducated" when you're the one making personal insults in a purely philosophical argument.
Obviously, yes, drunk drivers should be punished. Driving drunk is terrible. However, please look at my argument a little deeper than surface level. It is by the same logic that I am arguing that drunk drivers haven't committed a crime that one reaches the conclusion that bittorrent is a completely harmless protocol. Bittorrent in and of itself is completely harmless and innocent. It is, however, a tool uesd to many many pirates to commit copyright infringement. What I am arguing is that people should evaluate what somebody has actually DONE before punishing them, and not just what they COULD do.
For instance.
Look at what comcast does to protocols that they determine can only be used for bad. By your logic, they are completely in the right in doing this. THE VAST majority of traffic that flows over NNTP for example is criminal in nature. Should ISPs start shutting down usenet servers because of this? Or punishing people who own binary newsreading software? Absolutely not. If I own a copy of newsbin, for example, I absolutely haev the capability to commit copyright infringement. BUT I HAVEN'T. There is nothing inherantly wrong about simply owning the software, it is what I can do with it that is wrong.
I am arguing on principal. The principal outlines that one should only be punished for the crimes (that is actual wrongdoings) that they have committed, not just the ones that they COULD or LIKELY WILL commit.
Anybody who seriously argues that driving while intoxicated (notice I said intoxicated) is not a punishable offense is definitely a jackass. That is not what I am arguing. Please Please Please....look a little deeper at my argument.
Similarly, if I drive home drunk, without the intent of hurting anybody, and don't....same thing, i WAS being cautious enough to prevent anybody from getting hurt.
DO you REALLY think that you should be punished because there was a possibility of something bad happening? What about guys who fly airplanes for fun? Or go on joy-rides in their car? They don't NEED to be on the road or in the sky, they're out doing it for fun. In doing so, they are putting the general population at risk because they might crash a several thousand pound vehicle into somebody. Should we bad all activities that COULD result in somebody being hurt?
These people are being punished, not because they actually caused a problem, but because they COULD have caused one? that problem being the helicopter crashing?
That makes perfect sense!
How is what thinksecret was doing in any way damaging to apple? I work in the marketing field. ALl of my peers and I agree that while we don't exactly buy into the apple lemming philosophy, they are absolutely GODS of marketing. Take a product like the iPhone....which is NOT revolutionary in any way, shape, or form...let apple's marketing department put their spin on it and before you know it, you've got people camping outside of stores to buy A CELLPHONE!
Most of us honestly thought that thinksecret was secretly owned and operated by apple...that would make sense. Thinksecret, really, was doing a service to their marketing goons. They were creating hype about products without giving TOO much information, and they were doing it for free.
R.I.P. thinksecret.
HP/Compaq have moved their level 2 tech support to British Columbia. I have had 2 laptops in the last two years that have needed replacements and have actually had their tech support staff CALL ME BACK a few days after the warranty claim to check in with me.
That absolutely blew me away. IT wasn't an automated email, or phone message or anything. it was:
"Ryan?...he this is Heather from HP....I talked to you earlier this week?"
"oh hey!"
"Yeah, i just wanted to make sure that you got the box to put your computer in and that everything was okay!"
awesome
and no, i don't work for HP....
Everybody needs to model their tech support after THAT!
In addition to a non-vista option, they need to offer MS office 2003. A few months ago I logged into dell's website to order a batch of computers and noticed that the option for 2003 had was gone, and they were only offering 2007.
This is absurd.
In my experience, there is almost no demand for 2007. What I ended up having to do was sign up for a site licensing agreement with microsoft to get my hands on 2003. In the mean time, I installed OpenOffice on the computers that I had ordered. This prompted my boss to go "Why are we spending 350 bucks a hit on something that we can get for free?".
So now we use OO exclusively.
THANKS DELL/MICROSOFT!