There was a case in the early 80s or late 70s called Larson V. California that went to the supreme court where the court held that requiring ID was not consitutional.
The background was California had a law requiring ID. A man was stopped by police while walking down the street and for no reason ordered to produce ID. He had none and was arrested. The subtext was that he was black and the neighborhood he was in was a rich white area.
While the parent post may have been inteded as a "funny" or a flame it is really to the point. Population is a multiplier for any action so population control/reduction will do more than any other environment action.
The one thing you can count on is change and you must be able to adapt to that change. If you become a lumber jack and cut down all of the trees where you live you are either going to have to move or find another line of work.
I expect IT to become much more plug and run and that IT jobs will go the way of typewriter rapair jobs.
Longer bar codes are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the core, they'll be taking the key from the door.;-)
IAAEE (I am an electrical engineer) and I have been through the process of type authority approval (UL/FAA/EU/FCC etc.) and what goes into the rating plate on the back of the box it can be confusing. Different specs cause it to mean different things depending on the approving authority. For example, on radios the important safety issues is usually peak power, while on power supplies it is usually average power (too much current causes fires in the house wiring).
The "ideal" goal of any consumer products manufacture would be to list their device as having the lowest power draw so that you can plug as many of these devices into a single wall outlet. However, there is nothing in the spec preventing a manufacture from placing a higher current DRAW on the rating plate as it does not increase the fire risk to the consumer. OTOH, they must be able to DELIVER the power output on the rating plate. Of course, the more you draw the more likely you'll shorten the life of the product ( and see higher ripple if it's a power supply).
Now that's ideal, the truth about PC power supplies is that most of them are cheep pieces of junk. Unless you are willing to pay several hundred dollars for a 300W AT power supply do expect them to really live up to your expectations.
So, to the point of what your system is using, on average, is probably a small fraction of what is on the rating plates. If you average is even close to half the rating plates I expect that you are going to see high failure rates on consumer products. It's just not designed for that level of average usage. The only real way to measure usage is to measure the usage with a meter. And measuring AC power usage is a whole course in school. The simple answer is to find a quality RMS logger and a good meter, at least a Fluke 83 (probably better), to measure peak usage.
...I'm starting a cell company and I don't know anything about technology or business but I will be getting $G to invest in infrastructure, but I don't want to blow a few $k on existing research please do my work for me.
There is an IEC spec number 945 for marine electronics. It is a very good one and you should follow it. Do NOT follow some land based spec as the marine environment is unique. I was lead EE for a team that designed the hardware used for navigation on many US Navy ships, supertankers and large fishing vessels and let me tell you meeting IEC 945 is tough.
For example, there is a special RF emissions curve that you need to meet to be sure that you are not preventing your radios from hearing weak emergency calls. Also, power on ships is VERY problematic. Just what does "Ground" really mean on a ship? I saw 100 V potiental between Ground and Neutral on a US carrier. And you do not want to know what all of this does to RF shielding. While RF may be no big deal on shore, remember that you are using radar and all kinds of radio communications on board ship. One thing that kept surprising me was the levels of ESD on board. I assumed that the moist marine air and metal decks would kill any ESD, but I had to keephaving to over building ESD protection for our keyboard. The other kicker is that the ship has to be kept in electrical "balance" with the sea to keep the metal from coroding into the sea.
Another area of the spec that surprised us was vibration. The shake and vibe spec on IEC-945 is a bear to pass. We started with a standard industrial chassis resting on shock mounts in the base of our console. We put that on the shake table and it killed the PC dead. The vibration was so bad that it caused the fingers of the backplane connectors to cut through the daughter cards. I was seeing fiber glass poking through the gold fingers when I did a post mortum. As an EE I learned that intuative answers are not good enough for the "real-world" mechanicals and that you need to hire a shake and vibe ME to make it work. (As an asside I had a friend who had his 36 ft sail boat out in the ocean and hit a standing wave that rattled his boat so hard that it shattered his ceraic head. Gotta wonder what the impulse was on that hit)
There are also a host of other issues such as fungus that will grow inside warm enclosures and choke-off ventalation
You should be able to buy IEC 945 PCs if that's all you need (HP used to sell some). If you really need this hardware to survive buy real IEC 945 hardware if you can live without it (and I do mean live) then go buy some laptop and assume that it is disposable. You'll pay through the nose for this level of hardware, but it will be cheaper and much quicker than doing it yourself.
HAMs have been dealing with these type of issues for decades. One very simple solution is to hide it in plain sight. Want to put up 10 meter antenna without ticking-off your neighbors? Put up a 10 meter wooden flag pole and glue your antenna to the pole. Heck, your cranky neighbor may very well help you raise your "flag pole."
Other antenna solutions include a PVC "vent pipe extension" that fits over an existing vent pipe and include a built-in antenna.
Dishes are more problematic, but put up a fiberglass garden shed and then put you dish inside, create some fiberglass "art" and put your dish inder it. You can build your raydome out of wood, but be sure to use glue, not nails.
There is a one handed mouse/keyboard combo, more of a hocky puck with buttons on it that you hold called Twiddler from Handy Key . I've not trieded it, but I've always been meaning to.
This is my old stand-by edit I place on every box. I tend tto use an IDE, such as Jbuilder6 on Win boxes, but it I have to open a source file for a language that I don't have my IDE open I use PFE.
A simular type of group (beer, fun and exercise) is the Hash House Harriers. They call themselves "a drinking club with a running problem." They can be found in just about every city worldwide and always welcome visitors. A good introduction can be found at half mind. I've always been able to find a hash in any city I go to and it beats going back to the hotel and atching CNN.
Capitalism is the investment of capital (read money) in a business in exchange for equity (read ownership). Capitalism can flourish even in heavily regulated states such as Nokia in Finland, or even in state Capitalism such as many of the red army owned factories in China. Indeed,
Capitalism can have some real failures in wide open economies such as the current Russian Republic, the US in the 1920s or even the current US if their is not a working rule of law.
Concepting? What world do you live in? That's as bad as Colin Powell said yesterday about "operationalizing" something./signed/
your former english teacher
It would be an interesting business model for Apple to release X for x86 (would that make it x86X). It would be a new income stream for them, and cut directly against MS's core cash cow. The real question is would it hurt their hardware business? I think for the near term loyal mac users will stay with "known good" hardware. It would be interesting to see a OS price war.
To add the the above post. Their is no best char. Ergonomics is very personal. In the '70s, at the height of the joggin craze, Runner's World had their annual shoe review and listed the "best shoe." Fortunes were won or lost on the shoe review. And many feet, leggs and back were trashed because there is no "best" shoe. Only the shoe that meets your needs. If your ankles fold in you need a motion control shoe, but if you have stiff ankles you need a high cushion shoe. If you are a 260 pound linebacker and get a high cushion shoe designed for a 90 pound ultra-marathoner your knees won't last a week. You are one of a kind. Bodies are as personal as you can get. Your ergonomic appliances (shoes, chairs, mouse, keyboards, racket, etc) need to be the same.
More to the point, I've seen people who are only comfortable standing and leaning against a wooden stool and I've seen others only able to work using semi-reclining full ergo outfits.
Other posts say to exercise. They are correct. The other thing is to move while you work. Change your position. Pull that keyboar into your lap for an hour, stand-up during those compiles. There are a number of workstations for assembly work that use moterized tables that slowly go up and down over the course of a day to prevent injury. Remember we are talking about repetative strain here, so don't repeat the strain.
I disagree. Good design methodology is not the same as good mfg. methodology. SQC is not going to do much to improve software design. The will to improve the product WILL improve the product.
By will I mean corporate will such as proper staff that is not over worked (>40 hour weeks and real 6 week vacations). As a good start I would suggest doubbling you staff levels and use the extra staff to work on long term libraries.
You may not always get what you pay for, but you seldom get more than you pay for.
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The background was California had a law requiring ID. A man was stopped by police while walking down the street and for no reason ordered to produce ID. He had none and was arrested. The subtext was that he was black and the neighborhood he was in was a rich white area.
They used to do this with handcuffs and briefcases. The only problem was that too many curriers ended up sans hands.
Take home message: cross your leggs people!
I expect IT to become much more plug and run and that IT jobs will go the way of typewriter rapair jobs.
Longer bar codes are coming to win us They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us Longer boats are coming to win us Hold on to the core, they'll be taking the key from the door. ;-)
Ooops. So you don't want to enter my cube and run your narcware on my computer?
Have a nice day.
It has often been speculated that mitrocondria, the "energy factories" of the cell are in fact symbiotes. Mitrocondria even have their own DNA.
I mean the metal turning kind can make any tool for you that BMW can make. Think of it as real open sourse hardware.
The "ideal" goal of any consumer products manufacture would be to list their device as having the lowest power draw so that you can plug as many of these devices into a single wall outlet. However, there is nothing in the spec preventing a manufacture from placing a higher current DRAW on the rating plate as it does not increase the fire risk to the consumer. OTOH, they must be able to DELIVER the power output on the rating plate. Of course, the more you draw the more likely you'll shorten the life of the product ( and see higher ripple if it's a power supply).
Now that's ideal, the truth about PC power supplies is that most of them are cheep pieces of junk. Unless you are willing to pay several hundred dollars for a 300W AT power supply do expect them to really live up to your expectations.
So, to the point of what your system is using, on average, is probably a small fraction of what is on the rating plates. If you average is even close to half the rating plates I expect that you are going to see high failure rates on consumer products. It's just not designed for that level of average usage. The only real way to measure usage is to measure the usage with a meter. And measuring AC power usage is a whole course in school. The simple answer is to find a quality RMS logger and a good meter, at least a Fluke 83 (probably better), to measure peak usage.
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For example, there is a special RF emissions curve that you need to meet to be sure that you are not preventing your radios from hearing weak emergency calls. Also, power on ships is VERY problematic. Just what does "Ground" really mean on a ship? I saw 100 V potiental between Ground and Neutral on a US carrier. And you do not want to know what all of this does to RF shielding. While RF may be no big deal on shore, remember that you are using radar and all kinds of radio communications on board ship. One thing that kept surprising me was the levels of ESD on board. I assumed that the moist marine air and metal decks would kill any ESD, but I had to keephaving to over building ESD protection for our keyboard. The other kicker is that the ship has to be kept in electrical "balance" with the sea to keep the metal from coroding into the sea.
Another area of the spec that surprised us was vibration. The shake and vibe spec on IEC-945 is a bear to pass. We started with a standard industrial chassis resting on shock mounts in the base of our console. We put that on the shake table and it killed the PC dead. The vibration was so bad that it caused the fingers of the backplane connectors to cut through the daughter cards. I was seeing fiber glass poking through the gold fingers when I did a post mortum. As an EE I learned that intuative answers are not good enough for the "real-world" mechanicals and that you need to hire a shake and vibe ME to make it work. (As an asside I had a friend who had his 36 ft sail boat out in the ocean and hit a standing wave that rattled his boat so hard that it shattered his ceraic head. Gotta wonder what the impulse was on that hit)
There are also a host of other issues such as fungus that will grow inside warm enclosures and choke-off ventalation
You should be able to buy IEC 945 PCs if that's all you need (HP used to sell some). If you really need this hardware to survive buy real IEC 945 hardware if you can live without it (and I do mean live) then go buy some laptop and assume that it is disposable. You'll pay through the nose for this level of hardware, but it will be cheaper and much quicker than doing it yourself.
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Other antenna solutions include a PVC "vent pipe extension" that fits over an existing vent pipe and include a built-in antenna.
Dishes are more problematic, but put up a fiberglass garden shed and then put you dish inside, create some fiberglass "art" and put your dish inder it. You can build your raydome out of wood, but be sure to use glue, not nails.
The USPS already does have an Electronic Postmark service.
There is a one handed mouse/keyboard combo, more of a hocky puck with buttons on it that you hold called Twiddler from Handy Key . I've not trieded it, but I've always been meaning to.
This is my old stand-by edit I place on every box. I tend tto use an IDE, such as Jbuilder6 on Win boxes, but it I have to open a source file for a language that I don't have my IDE open I use PFE.
A simular type of group (beer, fun and exercise) is the Hash House Harriers. They call themselves "a drinking club with a running problem." They can be found in just about every city worldwide and always welcome visitors. A good introduction can be found at half mind. I've always been able to find a hash in any city I go to and it beats going back to the hotel and atching CNN.
Capitalism is the investment of capital (read money) in a business in exchange for equity (read ownership). Capitalism can flourish even in heavily regulated states such as Nokia in Finland, or even in state Capitalism such as many of the red army owned factories in China. Indeed, Capitalism can have some real failures in wide open economies such as the current Russian Republic, the US in the 1920s or even the current US if their is not a working rule of law.
Concepting? What world do you live in? That's as bad as Colin Powell said yesterday about "operationalizing" something. /signed/
your former english teacher
It would be an interesting business model for Apple to release X for x86 (would that make it x86X). It would be a new income stream for them, and cut directly against MS's core cash cow. The real question is would it hurt their hardware business? I think for the near term loyal mac users will stay with "known good" hardware. It would be interesting to see a OS price war.
More to the point, I've seen people who are only comfortable standing and leaning against a wooden stool and I've seen others only able to work using semi-reclining full ergo outfits.
Other posts say to exercise. They are correct. The other thing is to move while you work. Change your position. Pull that keyboar into your lap for an hour, stand-up during those compiles. There are a number of workstations for assembly work that use moterized tables that slowly go up and down over the course of a day to prevent injury. Remember we are talking about repetative strain here, so don't repeat the strain.
Be sure to ask for a return tickst ;-)
Compliers by Aho, Sethi & Ullman "The Dragon Book"
Information Rules by Shaprio & Varian, an IP/biz book
Learn some real hardware:
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill
Something about VHDL or Verilog
Also, get a free subscription to EE times
That's why my department hires EE as our coders.
By will I mean corporate will such as proper staff that is not over worked (>40 hour weeks and real 6 week vacations). As a good start I would suggest doubbling you staff levels and use the extra staff to work on long term libraries.
You may not always get what you pay for, but you seldom get more than you pay for.