Um, I looked at your resume, and may I offer you some helpful hints.
1. What did you do at university for a year before you moved to a different uni to study civil engineering?
2. Do you think adding your religious affiliations will assist you in landing a job?
3. Whilst you may have an ethical issue with Unisys (I have ethical issues with several companies myself) it probably isn't wise to be broadcasting your distaste with a company while working there AND hoping someone reads your CV. The question any employer will ask is "will you diss our company while working for us?".. better that you quit in clear conscious and then look for a new job.
4. Is six sigma white belt going to mean anything..? Perhaps eliminate from your CV all those things you started and didn't get more than 25% of the way through (such as six sigma training, a year at uni).. leaving those things in will not inspire an employer who would want you to be completing what you start.
The concern I have with VoIP going forward is interoperability. This is on two levels:
1. voice data transfer, and
2. signalling transfer
Essentially the world telcos today send voice around the world at 64Kbps (or a slightly lower rate for the robbed-bit signalling format used by some Northern American telcos). They can encode their data in two companded formats: A-law and mu-law.
VoIP, on the other hand, can be transferred in a number of different codecs including G.703, G.711, etc.
When sending VoIP over the internet the biggest problem is having to use two identical clients that speak the same data transfer encoding. But getting agreed standards on codecs to use is simple compared to agreeing on signalling formats!
Let's use a call from Australia to the UK for example. Say that a telco in Australia sends a call from Australia to the USA on one fibre hop. Then a provider in the USA switches the call to the UK over another fibre hop. Will the data that I sent, compressed in codec A, be uncompressed at the US provider and re-encoded before sending to the UK?
What if I need to make a call that traverses 3 or 4 providers! Compressing and uncompressing using lossy codecs equals a lot of noise introduced into the signal.
Now, what if I want to make a VoIP call initiated by Yahoo! or Google or MSN or Skype or some other client desktop.. (dare I say Cisco or Nortel or Lucent or Alcatel?). If I want that call to, at another stage, enter another network there are so many compatibility problems to be sorted out.
The New Zealand one, in particular, is phenomenal. It allows you to specify a house address, and it will even allow you to zoom into the property boundaries!! It calculates how far you have to walk, which bus/train to catch, etc etc.
Google certainly aren't first. But if they can match the service provided in these two countries then they have a worthy product.
Isn't it amazing that the Australian version of the New Zealand product is but a mere shadow?
When considering a notebook drive the one thing I am more concerned about anything is ruggedness. The review even mentioned this as a factor to consider in the overview page.
The review, however, did not do any ruggedness testing!! At the very least they should have dropped each drive, one at a time, onto a carpet, then wooden, then concrete floor. What good is a notebook drive if a minor bumps sees the heads or platters destroyed?
I think the review is/was largely a waste of space.
As anyone who has studied fourier transforms, even the discrete cosine transform, would know the post by AxsDeny is, well, thoroughly misinformed. JPEG for natural real-world images, PNG for unnatural cartoon-like images.
There are times when the offence of speeding is hardly justified as a safety issue. Overtaking is one such time when, done properly, one may need to exceed the speed of the vehicle one is passing..
Of course one could have fun with this. After passing one vehicle registration plate recognition camera at 150MPH one could slam on the brakes and park on the motorway for a minute or so.. then drop the clutch and zoom off again..!
.. of a lot of slashdot posts is the way laws are used for profit and self-gain as opposed to development and sustainability of the people in general. Which is sad.
A lot of us became techies or engineers or what-not in the interests of making the world a better place for all. And we are constantly thwarted and bombarded by people with "business" or "political" sense.. (ie people with almost purely selfish and short-sighted motivations).
Will the power balance ever change.. is it possible for someone with a motivation to assist society in general to make it into a powerful position?
If the 'encrypted' drive has been filled with random garbage to start with, though, surely you have plausible denyability on your side? "But officer it's just random garbage I swear!"
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Um, I looked at your resume, and may I offer you some helpful hints. 1. What did you do at university for a year before you moved to a different uni to study civil engineering? 2. Do you think adding your religious affiliations will assist you in landing a job? 3. Whilst you may have an ethical issue with Unisys (I have ethical issues with several companies myself) it probably isn't wise to be broadcasting your distaste with a company while working there AND hoping someone reads your CV. The question any employer will ask is "will you diss our company while working for us?".. better that you quit in clear conscious and then look for a new job. 4. Is six sigma white belt going to mean anything..? Perhaps eliminate from your CV all those things you started and didn't get more than 25% of the way through (such as six sigma training, a year at uni).. leaving those things in will not inspire an employer who would want you to be completing what you start.
The concern I have with VoIP going forward is interoperability. This is on two levels:
1. voice data transfer, and
2. signalling transfer
Essentially the world telcos today send voice around the world at 64Kbps (or a slightly lower rate for the robbed-bit signalling format used by some Northern American telcos). They can encode their data in two companded formats: A-law and mu-law.
VoIP, on the other hand, can be transferred in a number of different codecs including G.703, G.711, etc.
When sending VoIP over the internet the biggest problem is having to use two identical clients that speak the same data transfer encoding. But getting agreed standards on codecs to use is simple compared to agreeing on signalling formats!
Let's use a call from Australia to the UK for example. Say that a telco in Australia sends a call from Australia to the USA on one fibre hop. Then a provider in the USA switches the call to the UK over another fibre hop. Will the data that I sent, compressed in codec A, be uncompressed at the US provider and re-encoded before sending to the UK?
What if I need to make a call that traverses 3 or 4 providers! Compressing and uncompressing using lossy codecs equals a lot of noise introduced into the signal.
Now, what if I want to make a VoIP call initiated by Yahoo! or Google or MSN or Skype or some other client desktop.. (dare I say Cisco or Nortel or Lucent or Alcatel?). If I want that call to, at another stage, enter another network there are so many compatibility problems to be sorted out.
*pulls out hair*
Check out:
http://www.rideline.co.nz/ (New Zealand) and
http://www.131500.info/ (Australia)
The New Zealand one, in particular, is phenomenal. It allows you to specify a house address, and it will even allow you to zoom into the property boundaries!! It calculates how far you have to walk, which bus/train to catch, etc etc.
Google certainly aren't first. But if they can match the service provided in these two countries then they have a worthy product.
Isn't it amazing that the Australian version of the New Zealand product is but a mere shadow?
The review, however, did not do any ruggedness testing!! At the very least they should have dropped each drive, one at a time, onto a carpet, then wooden, then concrete floor. What good is a notebook drive if a minor bumps sees the heads or platters destroyed?
I think the review is/was largely a waste of space.
As anyone who has studied fourier transforms, even the discrete cosine transform, would know the post by AxsDeny is, well, thoroughly misinformed. JPEG for natural real-world images, PNG for unnatural cartoon-like images.
There are times when the offence of speeding is hardly justified as a safety issue. Overtaking is one such time when, done properly, one may need to exceed the speed of the vehicle one is passing..
Of course one could have fun with this. After passing one vehicle registration plate recognition camera at 150MPH one could slam on the brakes and park on the motorway for a minute or so.. then drop the clutch and zoom off again..!
A lot of us became techies or engineers or what-not in the interests of making the world a better place for all. And we are constantly thwarted and bombarded by people with "business" or "political" sense.. (ie people with almost purely selfish and short-sighted motivations).
Will the power balance ever change.. is it possible for someone with a motivation to assist society in general to make it into a powerful position?
I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??
If the 'encrypted' drive has been filled with random garbage to start with, though, surely you have plausible denyability on your side? "But officer it's just random garbage I swear!"