Great, we're shipping lead/acid batteries to countries that have no infrastructure to handle the cells when they die. Time to rethink the lifecycle impact of the product.
Globalism is real. I found about the same prices at the Akihabara as I did Kyoto as I did in S'pore's "Electronic Malls." as I have in Fry's. It is fun to see so much consumer stuff in one place, but don't expect any super deals.
I think Douglas Adams had a line something like. "How come duty-free shops can sell things so much cheeper, but don't?"
OK, so I travel too much and don't go to the right tourest traps like I should.
I'm sure we all have those bugs that we catch in bench testing. Mine was forgeting to add a cancel button to the following dialog box:
"OK to delete database"
When I caught that one I had visions of a user who had his/her million dollar database deleted charging into our office with a shotgun and... well, you read the papers. Glad I caught that one before I released it to test.
Most likely they "split" your phone line. I know as this happened at my house. Splitting is used to provide more phone lines with no additional copper to the neighborhood. With so many people wanting second lines and the telecos not wanting to invest in digging in more lines they multiplex two logical lines over one copper pair at some point. This, of course, cuts the bandwidth in half (slightly less then half because of overhead). A dead giveaway to splitting is that you NEVER get over 28K BPS with ANY of several different name brand modems (try Lucent).
Now you may scream to them that's not fair, but in most states you are buying "voice" lines not "data" lines. In point of fact "toll quality" only requires about 8K BPS. Good voice quality is fine at 14 K BPS.
There are several tricks you can use to try and get better service. First do NOT call and yell at your teleco, you'll just tip your hand. Call up and order a second line then be sure and be there the first time when the installer shows up. Be very nice to the installer and explain the problem, offer him/her cookies and milk, beer and pizza, or what ever. Rinse and repeat until you get a full line. Then cancel the other lines.
You may find that your brand name PCs have some strange form factor (i.e., not true ATX). IF so swaping out mother boards may be unworkable.
Also how much can you update and still pass the M$ EULA??
I wonder if this bill will preempt the state's rights to pass stronder bills. If so this could, in the long run, resuilt in less privacy. Right now many of your local legislators are writing very strong privacy protectin bills, but a federal bill will at the least put the breaks on state efforts and at the worst over ride state laws with weaker federal protection. This bill may be better than we have now, but any holes in it could give away your privacy for a very long time. I wonder how the marketoids feel about this bill?
Successfull consoles have a 5+ year life. You can still find new SNS systems being solld in the 3rd world. And GameBoy has been around for 12 years and sold 120 million.
Nintendo History
And N64 is like an American mountian bike. It's fast, easy to handle, goes places noboby thought it's class of device could go and was engineered by a bunch of SGI nerds.
XBox is just M$'s set top box. Billy G' dosen't care about games he just wants a home PC attached to the TV
Whan this tax on phone service was created it was to help farmers and others get phone service. This was needed because no company would touch these areas, including Bell. This was to every one's benefit. City folk could now call their county cousins and country folk could call the fire department when their barn caught fire. Non-monopoly ag has alwaus been a very low profit proposition and it was clear that rural user could not afford the high cost of teleco infrastructure. This was also done for rural electrafication along time ago (by general fund taxes I think). If you don't think you benefit from community civil works than I suggest you move to Chad and see what it's like to live without a real government.
The real long term fact of life is that there is no longer a need for publishers when the cost of replication is zero. Why do band need labels if there is nothing to label? If an album is $1.00 how many more folks are going to be willing to pay for it on line? I'll bet the bands are going to see a lot more return when the labels go away. You are going to see the same thing in ASCII publishing. You will also see the Amazones go away too. Who need an intermediary when an author can pop up a web site for next to nothing and pay a financial intermediary (visa, paypal, etc) 1% to help with the cash transfer.
The DOT.COMs had it all backwards. The net is a great way to make money when it is used to eliminate intermediaries not to build new middlemen.
Algorithm for dealing with PHB
on
Deep Algorithms?
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· Score: 0, Redundant
More Detail <-------| | | V | (Too mch detail) | | | V | Less Detail | | | V | (Too little Detail) | | | +--------------|
The only problem with this algorithm is that there is no exit point without killing the PHB thread.
Let's put all of this in perspective. 9/11 was a tragic event, but lets not turn Dr. Strangelove loose. There have always been threats, both here and abroad, but rampant spending and uncheck paranoia do not serve us.
To put this in hard perspective the 3K+ lives lost is equal to 3 days smoking deaths in the US. I don't see the US calling out the National Guard to protect our children from the tobacco companies. Sure, all of us who fly have always know that airport security was a joke and still is. There are two important points to remember about airport security. The first is that given a few weeks most/. readers could engineer away around any security scheme that the flying public is willing to accept. Second, the 9/11 attackers did not use awesome technology. They used every day items. The real reason for their success was social engineering. They understood that flight crews, and by extension the public, were trained to be passive to takeovers. It took only a few minutes for the passengers on the forth jet to grock the picture and try to take the plane back. While it is clearly a good idea to keeps knives out of the hands of drunk passengers in the throws of air-rage, what is really to be gained by keeping nail clippers out of the cabin? The prevention of ingrown tow nail?
We can spread our selves too thin. There are places where we strong security. Nuclear plants and other sources of high toxicity, any site that has a high potential energy such as petroleum storage or hydro dams etc. On the other hand, Having every deputy sheriff staying up late reading Tom Clancy Novels and adding Tempest grade shielding to their accounting computer is just keeping them from doing their job (as an aside, try asking for your local security plans, you local yokels are likely to say the only security is through obscurity. Does that sound like self delusion or what?). We have far fewer critical systems then these system's managers might suppose. Terrorist are able to do far more damage going after "minor" targets than hardened ones. How much did hitting the Pentagon really effect the functioning of the US military? Far less than one might have supposed before 9/11. On the other hand imagine where our economy might have be today if half a dozen car bombs had gone off outside of shopping mall during the X-mass rush (say at a cost to the terrorist of $300/ junker * 6 + buss fair + $50 radio shack parts).
We currently have an administration that before 9/11 tended to paranoid secrecy, just look at how it formulated it's properly public energy policy in secret. Now we have this hybrid Dr. Strangelove/Joseph McCarthy loose. We have a public running scared due to lack of leadership and seem happy to forfeit their right and freedoms to a nebulous notion of safety. We are going to have the mother of all pork-barrel projects, Starwars/Missile Defense pushed through as if a terrorist is going to both to develop a launch vehicle when FedEx will deliver a tactical nuc overnight when is "absolutely, positively has to be there over night." Heck, with FedEx can even track the location of your Nuc on the web. Even if Starwars could work why would a terrorist or small nation use missile technology to deliver an attack against the US when conventional shipping services are so much more reliable than any ballistic missile? Sure, you shipping container may get hung-up in customs, but blowing up a port or two will also do significant damage to a county.
It's time to put our fear aside and take a sober look at security what is really needed and what is being done in the name of security for agendas that have nothing to do with our welfare.
Phonic based encoding simply lists letter (say, 6x8=48 bits for a typical word "letter") Why can't brush strokes be used to describe ideograms?
I assume (with our knowledge) that common ideograms are of limited complexity due to simplification over time and that seldom used ones tend to remain complex. With a stroke encoding scheme you should end-up with a unique string of bits not too much longer than a roman word.
True, this would play hobb with the functions in the stanard libs, but in real life you really are searching for words (multi byte symbols), not single chars.
ISA is still a gread bus for low speed IO. It very simple to toss a couple PALs on a PCB and rock & roll. You also have the joy of interrupt lines (including NMI). Try that with USB.
Over 10 years ago a company called Penwalt (sp?) was selling stuff like this. Sound quality depends on how ou mount it. The really cool part of Piezio film is that it works "both ways." Apply sound to it and you get a signal out. Onr really demo is to take a glass tube and wrap two strips of film each around a different end of the tube. Connect an opamp between the two and then speak into the tube. It will start ringing at it's natural harmonic. Turn up the gain on the amp and good-bye glass tube.
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For just $99999.99 * a month you too can have your own space suit.
* $99.99 per month for 1000 years, shipping and handling extra (just 6M USD).
Great, we're shipping lead/acid batteries to countries that have no infrastructure to handle the cells when they die. Time to rethink the lifecycle impact of the product.
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Globalism is real. I found about the same prices at the Akihabara as I did Kyoto as I did in S'pore's "Electronic Malls." as I have in Fry's. It is fun to see so much consumer stuff in one place, but don't expect any super deals.
I think Douglas Adams had a line something like. "How come duty-free shops can sell things so much cheeper, but don't?"
OK, so I travel too much and don't go to the right tourest traps like I should.
A tooth for a tooth
and soon you have a dirty database.
I'm sure we all have those bugs that we catch in bench testing. Mine was forgeting to add a cancel button to the following dialog box:
... well, you read the papers. Glad I caught that one before I released it to test.
"OK to delete database"
When I caught that one I had visions of a user who had his/her million dollar database deleted charging into our office with a shotgun and
Most likely they "split" your phone line. I know as this happened at my house. Splitting is used to provide more phone lines with no additional copper to the neighborhood. With so many people wanting second lines and the telecos not wanting to invest in digging in more lines they multiplex two logical lines over one copper pair at some point. This, of course, cuts the bandwidth in half (slightly less then half because of overhead). A dead giveaway to splitting is that you NEVER get over 28K BPS with ANY of several different name brand modems (try Lucent).
Now you may scream to them that's not fair, but in most states you are buying "voice" lines not "data" lines. In point of fact "toll quality" only requires about 8K BPS. Good voice quality is fine at 14 K BPS.
There are several tricks you can use to try and get better service. First do NOT call and yell at your teleco, you'll just tip your hand. Call up and order a second line then be sure and be there the first time when the installer shows up. Be very nice to the installer and explain the problem, offer him/her cookies and milk, beer and pizza, or what ever. Rinse and repeat until you get a full line. Then cancel the other lines.
You may find that your brand name PCs have some strange form factor (i.e., not true ATX). IF so swaping out mother boards may be unworkable. Also how much can you update and still pass the M$ EULA??
I wonder if this bill will preempt the state's rights to pass stronder bills. If so this could, in the long run, resuilt in less privacy. Right now many of your local legislators are writing very strong privacy protectin bills, but a federal bill will at the least put the breaks on state efforts and at the worst over ride state laws with weaker federal protection. This bill may be better than we have now, but any holes in it could give away your privacy for a very long time. I wonder how the marketoids feel about this bill?
If you go out and boy retail licenses for your few Win boxes you don't need a site license. Good reason to keep the number of win box down.
Check out CounterPane.com Bruce Schneirer's outfit (Appliend Crypto, etc)
Successfull consoles have a 5+ year life. You can still find new SNS systems being solld in the 3rd world. And GameBoy has been around for 12 years and sold 120 million. Nintendo History
And N64 is like an American mountian bike. It's fast, easy to handle, goes places noboby thought it's class of device could go and was engineered by a bunch of SGI nerds. XBox is just M$'s set top box. Billy G' dosen't care about games he just wants a home PC attached to the TV
Whan this tax on phone service was created it was to help farmers and others get phone service. This was needed because no company would touch these areas, including Bell. This was to every one's benefit. City folk could now call their county cousins and country folk could call the fire department when their barn caught fire. Non-monopoly ag has alwaus been a very low profit proposition and it was clear that rural user could not afford the high cost of teleco infrastructure. This was also done for rural electrafication along time ago (by general fund taxes I think). If you don't think you benefit from community civil works than I suggest you move to Chad and see what it's like to live without a real government.
The real long term fact of life is that there is no longer a need for publishers when the cost of replication is zero. Why do band need labels if there is nothing to label? If an album is $1.00 how many more folks are going to be willing to pay for it on line? I'll bet the bands are going to see a lot more return when the labels go away. You are going to see the same thing in ASCII publishing. You will also see the Amazones go away too. Who need an intermediary when an author can pop up a web site for next to nothing and pay a financial intermediary (visa, paypal, etc) 1% to help with the cash transfer.
The DOT.COMs had it all backwards. The net is a great way to make money when it is used to eliminate intermediaries not to build new middlemen.
More Detail <-------|
| |
V |
(Too mch detail) |
| |
V |
Less Detail |
| |
V |
(Too little Detail) |
| |
+--------------|
The only problem with this algorithm is that there is no exit point without killing the PHB thread.
-s
Let's put all of this in perspective. 9/11 was a tragic event, but lets not turn Dr. Strangelove loose. There have always been threats, both here and abroad, but rampant spending and uncheck paranoia do not serve us.
/. readers could engineer away around any security scheme that the flying public is willing to accept. Second, the 9/11 attackers did not use awesome technology. They used every day items. The real reason for their success was social engineering. They understood that flight crews, and by extension the public, were trained to be passive to takeovers. It took only a few minutes for the passengers on the forth jet to grock the picture and try to take the plane back. While it is clearly a good idea to keeps knives out of the hands of drunk passengers in the throws of air-rage, what is really to be gained by keeping nail clippers out of the cabin? The prevention of ingrown tow nail?
To put this in hard perspective the 3K+ lives lost is equal to 3 days smoking deaths in the US. I don't see the US calling out the National Guard to protect our children from the tobacco companies. Sure, all of us who fly have always know that airport security was a joke and still is. There are two important points to remember about airport security. The first is that given a few weeks most
We can spread our selves too thin. There are places where we strong security. Nuclear plants and other sources of high toxicity, any site that has a high potential energy such as petroleum storage or hydro dams etc. On the other hand, Having every deputy sheriff staying up late reading Tom Clancy Novels and adding Tempest grade shielding to their accounting computer is just keeping them from doing their job (as an aside, try asking for your local security plans, you local yokels are likely to say the only security is through obscurity. Does that sound like self delusion or what?). We have far fewer critical systems then these system's managers might suppose. Terrorist are able to do far more damage going after "minor" targets than hardened ones. How much did hitting the Pentagon really effect the functioning of the US military? Far less than one might have supposed before 9/11. On the other hand imagine where our economy might have be today if half a dozen car bombs had gone off outside of shopping mall during the X-mass rush (say at a cost to the terrorist of $300/ junker * 6 + buss fair + $50 radio shack parts).
We currently have an administration that before 9/11 tended to paranoid secrecy, just look at how it formulated it's properly public energy policy in secret. Now we have this hybrid Dr. Strangelove/Joseph McCarthy loose. We have a public running scared due to lack of leadership and seem happy to forfeit their right and freedoms to a nebulous notion of safety. We are going to have the mother of all pork-barrel projects, Starwars/Missile Defense pushed through as if a terrorist is going to both to develop a launch vehicle when FedEx will deliver a tactical nuc overnight when is "absolutely, positively has to be there over night." Heck, with FedEx can even track the location of your Nuc on the web. Even if Starwars could work why would a terrorist or small nation use missile technology to deliver an attack against the US when conventional shipping services are so much more reliable than any ballistic missile? Sure, you shipping container may get hung-up in customs, but blowing up a port or two will also do significant damage to a county.
It's time to put our fear aside and take a sober look at security what is really needed and what is being done in the name of security for agendas that have nothing to do with our welfare.
Phonic based encoding simply lists letter (say, 6x8=48 bits for a typical word "letter") Why can't brush strokes be used to describe ideograms?
I assume (with our knowledge) that common ideograms are of limited complexity due to simplification over time and that seldom used ones tend to remain complex. With a stroke encoding scheme you should end-up with a unique string of bits not too much longer than a roman word.
True, this would play hobb with the functions in the stanard libs, but in real life you really are searching for words (multi byte symbols), not single chars.
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Nintendo Of America is also located in Redmond. If fact Nintendo was in Redmond first.
Don't put two prima donnas in the same room. It is not a nice sight.
Geeze, some hackers union 31337 would make
I have a full flex time option and can work any schedule, just so long as I work at least 168 hours per week :-/
ISA is still a gread bus for low speed IO. It very simple to toss a couple PALs on a PCB and rock & roll. You also have the joy of interrupt lines (including NMI). Try that with USB.
Over 10 years ago a company called Penwalt (sp?) was selling stuff like this. Sound quality depends on how ou mount it. The really cool part of Piezio film is that it works "both ways." Apply sound to it and you get a signal out. Onr really demo is to take a glass tube and wrap two strips of film each around a different end of the tube. Connect an opamp between the two and then speak into the tube. It will start ringing at it's natural harmonic. Turn up the gain on the amp and good-bye glass tube.