Meaning do not forget what happens once it goes into production. Are the people who can troublshoot, maintain or update your app and source code redily available? Personally, this narrows it down to codes and applications using standard app servers like Java and ASP. Being able to hire most any java web developer to maintain your code, for example, is a good thing. Coding it in a language like C++ that many people know, but few know well, would nto be my prime choice.
So I put to you to be part of your decision, think down the road a year or 2, when new features need to be rolled out or there are bugs and perhaps your contractors are gone and/or not available.
As somone who does enterprise production support, it is exactly what you say about how patches are developed in some OSS apps that scares me. I have managed developers and work with them on a daily basis. Many times developers seperation from the reality of running things in production is downright scary!! I want that scrutiny you claim is a problem. I want that "signed off on." I want that testing from the vendor. Yes there can still be problems, but then there is accountability when it happens. Running a web server for your PHP site is vastly different than running an application that is relied upon by many tens of thousands of employees.
Why ask for money from friends and family. It is better to have them owe you a favor. Just tell them the going rate of whatever you think is fair and as them "whatcha got to trade." you can get dinners and other things out of it. Then you atleast feel like you got something out of the deal and they feel like you helped them out and gave them a deal. Plus instead of cash you get a social occasion and a great excuse to spend time with them. If they offer an object, just make sure it is worth your time. or think of a list of things you would like to have (keep the price reasonable) and give that to people as an idea list. get creative. you are doing them a favor, have them do something for you in return that is a favor. If they have nothing to barter, then they do not know you well enough to go out and buy you a birthday present either, so they get no services.
and I have the reverse. My thinkpad from work has TERRIBLE color and my PB 12" has an amazing screen. I have gone through 3 thinkpad shells in 1.5 years where my PB has been near perfect since I got it.
Much like a car, different people have different problems with something that "should" be universally correct. ah well.
The problem I have seen with CS graduates, in my years, is that most solve every problem same way. Maybe they can think, but it certainly is not creative thinking. I have a Bachelor Fine Arts degree and can develop code, manage development teams and do production support and have done them all. People like me get pulled in when the problem is difficult and many possibilities need to be thought of fast, thought of at a high level and then narrowed down to an actual solution to hand off to other people. More often then not, in my experience, idea generation like that does not come from a CS major. The best computer people I have worked with all had degrees other than CS. Granted I admit am generalizing, but that has been my experience.
When I was in school my last year I enrolled in a C++ class. I failed almost every assignment because i did not solve the problem and write my code the way the teacher wanted me to. I made it better. My code was correct, but I did different things because the excercise the prof put together had dumb features like a cash register program that didn't allow the user to make an error when submitting for the daily total and go back. I included an extra few lines to ask the user to confirm that they really wanted to do this since it destroyed data after it did it's calcs. a simple UI enhancement that made sense. I failed that assignment. i ended up pulling out of the class, not because i couldn't code, but because the prof was teaching us to be code drones and solve everything the same way. I just couldn't do it and i didn't want to hose my GPA for a class that was not in my major anyhow. solve problems the same way.
So just like your guidance counselor said in high school and everyone (including myself) ignored, make sure you have those extracuricular activities. Take an art or philosophy class and learn to see things from a new perspective. That is what rounds you out to be a better person. you'll be thankful later.
The possibility of your scenario is rare, but if it were to happen, like the ARRL article said, you would have no ground to stand on. Read the manual on your WiFi gear. The manufacturer makes no guarantees and any interference you have to just put up with. You have no legal ground to stand on.
So for example, if an HAM wanted to use his/her rig to put out enough power to use 802.11b protocols over the frequencies some are talking about over his 200 acres ranch so he/she could use his laptop out by his/her fence and you lived on the edge of the ranch and got interference, tough luck for you. As long as the HAM is not exceeding his/her power requirements as per their level of license and only using as much power as they needed to, they could certainly do this.
This could be a nail in the coffin of Sirius and XM radio.
Except that XM Radio has a nice thing in their music that DirectTV lacks in theirs.....really good programming. The stations and variety on XM are amazing. Fred and Ethel RULE. Throw in a little jazz, blues, all the classical, comedy and the 80s channels and you have a stunning group of stations. I traveled cross country in my truck with it 2 months ago and didn't hear the same song twice nor did I listen to a single CD.
BTW, Heidi Selexa, one of the DJs from the 80s channel is great!
The debate of what effect RF has on your body is older than the cell phone there smart guy. HAM radio operators have been dealing with this issue for years. Now granted that HAMs usualy deal with significantly more power than what a cell phone puts out, but that is not the point of an article. I will give you an example, the FCC limits the amount of RF radiation that is generated by verious towers in a given location. On a mountain top, you have to add up the amount of radiation that is being put out by ALL towers in that vicinity and if you want to put up a tower too, your power output combined with the output of the other towers CANNOT exceed the FCCs limit for a given geographic area.
So what this article is saying is that in places where there is RF shielding (the sheet metal), like a bus or train that metal is acting like a shield to keep the radiation inside the vehicle. When there are enough people using cell phones, what normally would be a minimal amount of RF radiation is larger because of sheer volume of the devices and the reflected amounts off the sheet metal. It is that simple.
You know what the real problem with the effect of RF radiation on the body is???? the fact that there hasn't been enough research over the past 30+ years to even scratch the surface on it's real effects on our bodies. So everyone speculates and companies produce more and more RF devices. The human body is sensative to 300Mhz to 3000Ghz depending on size and shape of the body. These frequencies have been used to make everyhging from cell phones to weapons. Yes, you can build an RF weapon that will hurt people using these frequencies. Now think of how many devices we use all the time that resonate at that frequency? It's enough that if it didn't look so stupid, you would want to wear a suit of a farrady cage.
yes, but if there are multiple simultaneous writes to the disk IDE has a problem with that. without the capability for true mulittasking in IDE, SCSI is still the king for applications like this, with FireWire hot on it's heels. In your example you talk about one stream, so yes it can do that, but once you start adding streams or running something else on the box simultaneously, you'll begin dropping frames, loosing quality and so on. And a SCSI RAID array with the proper RAID level would be even better. IDE is also processor bound, SCSI is not. So you can imagine the problems with that.
If IDE could do these things, SCSI wouldn't still be around.
Many of the watercooling systems I have seen come with dual pumps that run all the time. The system can run on one pump, but not efficiently. So it will shut down the machine in the case of a pump failure.
The people who design these things are no slouches when it comes to design. They have the same concerns you do. Why do you think they designed these systems?
as to the aquarium pump, when I had a fish tank as a kid, the pump I had ran continuously for something like 8 years. 24x7x365. the only reason it stopped was that I gave away my fish and sold the tank and all it's parts, because i went off to college and couldn't have them there.
...secure your satellite systems is a huge security breach. You just told us you don't use encryption and that to attempt communication you need a radio antenna. Some people do have access to radio antennas. Heck they aren't that hard to build yourself anyhow, there are specific books and internet articles on them. Pick up most books on HAM radio antennas and they atleast mention it. So given some time and effort could someone exploit your satelittes and crash them into another one?
and you need to surf while walking down the street because?????? This is just assanign. If you don't really need the range, don't do this hack. I can walk all over my house and even into my driveway ( i do work on my truck and look things up when i do it) and I have had no problems. Your neighbors are going to start to complain about cordless phone usage and what not at some point.
Again this is a neat hack. If you do need the range and it isn't going to interfere with anyone elses use of this band then by all means. But if it does interfere and/or you don't need the range, don't do it. If there is a HAM operator in your area, sooner or later you will be found, cause they use part of that band as well.
not to mention if your range is extended that then the 14 year old down the street can then hack your network from the privacy of their house instead of having to sit outside yours. have fun.
There are certainly risks associated with doing this hack. First thing is that the human body is most sensative to RF resonating between 30 and 3100 Mhz. Since this falls in that range, sitting next to that access point is probably not a good idea. And since sufficient studies have not been done to test the long term effects of RF on the human body, I wouldn't do it. Heck I keep my access point no less that 4 feet from me and I have the USB tranciever to keep it minimum 4 feet from me as well. And though 1 watt of power isn't a whole lot, when it is sitting next to you and is on all the time is probably not a good idea.
nah, sounds like just plain bad coding, nothing more. poor connection handling.
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...on www.bid4assets.com right now a place is dumping datacenter equipment like liebert coolers and UPS systems for crazy cheap!!!! and they come up in onesys twosys all the time on there. the other item for cooling you could get is from a hotel supply place. get one of thier wall mounted AC units. those things can cool a large area. a friend of mine had one in his workroom in his house. it could get downright nipply in there!!!
PayPal has been under investigation for a while by the government. it has nothing to with with if people think they *act* like a bank. They take in money, hold it for distrobution and in the mean time invest it for their own purposes. A "traditional" bank loans the money out to home buyers, invests in the stock market and so on. That is one of the many functions of a bank and not very different from what PayPal does. So what the person's point is... If it walk like a bank, talks like a bank, then it is a bank and needs to be regulated as such. cause right now PayPal is just some company with a merchant ID to process credit cards, a bank account and the ability to do electronic transfers to and from personal and business bank accounts. So you too can do this in your basement if you had enough time, money and people.
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Meaning do not forget what happens once it goes into production. Are the people who can troublshoot, maintain or update your app and source code redily available? Personally, this narrows it down to codes and applications using standard app servers like Java and ASP. Being able to hire most any java web developer to maintain your code, for example, is a good thing. Coding it in a language like C++ that many people know, but few know well, would nto be my prime choice.
So I put to you to be part of your decision, think down the road a year or 2, when new features need to be rolled out or there are bugs and perhaps your contractors are gone and/or not available.
As somone who does enterprise production support, it is exactly what you say about how patches are developed in some OSS apps that scares me. I have managed developers and work with them on a daily basis. Many times developers seperation from the reality of running things in production is downright scary!! I want that scrutiny you claim is a problem. I want that "signed off on." I want that testing from the vendor. Yes there can still be problems, but then there is accountability when it happens. Running a web server for your PHP site is vastly different than running an application that is relied upon by many tens of thousands of employees.
Why ask for money from friends and family. It is better to have them owe you a favor. Just tell them the going rate of whatever you think is fair and as them "whatcha got to trade." you can get dinners and other things out of it. Then you atleast feel like you got something out of the deal and they feel like you helped them out and gave them a deal. Plus instead of cash you get a social occasion and a great excuse to spend time with them. If they offer an object, just make sure it is worth your time. or think of a list of things you would like to have (keep the price reasonable) and give that to people as an idea list. get creative. you are doing them a favor, have them do something for you in return that is a favor. If they have nothing to barter, then they do not know you well enough to go out and buy you a birthday present either, so they get no services.
and I have the reverse. My thinkpad from work has TERRIBLE color and my PB 12" has an amazing screen. I have gone through 3 thinkpad shells in 1.5 years where my PB has been near perfect since I got it.
Much like a car, different people have different problems with something that "should" be universally correct. ah well.
The problem I have seen with CS graduates, in my years, is that most solve every problem same way. Maybe they can think, but it certainly is not creative thinking. I have a Bachelor Fine Arts degree and can develop code, manage development teams and do production support and have done them all. People like me get pulled in when the problem is difficult and many possibilities need to be thought of fast, thought of at a high level and then narrowed down to an actual solution to hand off to other people. More often then not, in my experience, idea generation like that does not come from a CS major. The best computer people I have worked with all had degrees other than CS. Granted I admit am generalizing, but that has been my experience.
When I was in school my last year I enrolled in a C++ class. I failed almost every assignment because i did not solve the problem and write my code the way the teacher wanted me to. I made it better. My code was correct, but I did different things because the excercise the prof put together had dumb features like a cash register program that didn't allow the user to make an error when submitting for the daily total and go back. I included an extra few lines to ask the user to confirm that they really wanted to do this since it destroyed data after it did it's calcs. a simple UI enhancement that made sense. I failed that assignment. i ended up pulling out of the class, not because i couldn't code, but because the prof was teaching us to be code drones and solve everything the same way. I just couldn't do it and i didn't want to hose my GPA for a class that was not in my major anyhow. solve problems the same way.
So just like your guidance counselor said in high school and everyone (including myself) ignored, make sure you have those extracuricular activities. Take an art or philosophy class and learn to see things from a new perspective. That is what rounds you out to be a better person. you'll be thankful later.
The possibility of your scenario is rare, but if it were to happen, like the ARRL article said, you would have no ground to stand on. Read the manual on your WiFi gear. The manufacturer makes no guarantees and any interference you have to just put up with. You have no legal ground to stand on.
So for example, if an HAM wanted to use his/her rig to put out enough power to use 802.11b protocols over the frequencies some are talking about over his 200 acres ranch so he/she could use his laptop out by his/her fence and you lived on the edge of the ranch and got interference, tough luck for you. As long as the HAM is not exceeding his/her power requirements as per their level of license and only using as much power as they needed to, they could certainly do this.
This could be a nail in the coffin of Sirius and XM radio.
Except that XM Radio has a nice thing in their music that DirectTV lacks in theirs.....really good programming. The stations and variety on XM are amazing. Fred and Ethel RULE. Throw in a little jazz, blues, all the classical, comedy and the 80s channels and you have a stunning group of stations. I traveled cross country in my truck with it 2 months ago and didn't hear the same song twice nor did I listen to a single CD.
BTW, Heidi Selexa, one of the DJs from the 80s channel is great!
The debate of what effect RF has on your body is older than the cell phone there smart guy. HAM radio operators have been dealing with this issue for years. Now granted that HAMs usualy deal with significantly more power than what a cell phone puts out, but that is not the point of an article. I will give you an example, the FCC limits the amount of RF radiation that is generated by verious towers in a given location. On a mountain top, you have to add up the amount of radiation that is being put out by ALL towers in that vicinity and if you want to put up a tower too, your power output combined with the output of the other towers CANNOT exceed the FCCs limit for a given geographic area.
So what this article is saying is that in places where there is RF shielding (the sheet metal), like a bus or train that metal is acting like a shield to keep the radiation inside the vehicle. When there are enough people using cell phones, what normally would be a minimal amount of RF radiation is larger because of sheer volume of the devices and the reflected amounts off the sheet metal. It is that simple.
You know what the real problem with the effect of RF radiation on the body is???? the fact that there hasn't been enough research over the past 30+ years to even scratch the surface on it's real effects on our bodies. So everyone speculates and companies produce more and more RF devices. The human body is sensative to 300Mhz to 3000Ghz depending on size and shape of the body. These frequencies have been used to make everyhging from cell phones to weapons. Yes, you can build an RF weapon that will hurt people using these frequencies. Now think of how many devices we use all the time that resonate at that frequency? It's enough that if it didn't look so stupid, you would want to wear a suit of a farrady cage.
yes, but if there are multiple simultaneous writes to the disk IDE has a problem with that. without the capability for true mulittasking in IDE, SCSI is still the king for applications like this, with FireWire hot on it's heels. In your example you talk about one stream, so yes it can do that, but once you start adding streams or running something else on the box simultaneously, you'll begin dropping frames, loosing quality and so on. And a SCSI RAID array with the proper RAID level would be even better. IDE is also processor bound, SCSI is not. So you can imagine the problems with that.
If IDE could do these things, SCSI wouldn't still be around.
Many of the watercooling systems I have seen come with dual pumps that run all the time. The system can run on one pump, but not efficiently. So it will shut down the machine in the case of a pump failure.
The people who design these things are no slouches when it comes to design. They have the same concerns you do. Why do you think they designed these systems?
as to the aquarium pump, when I had a fish tank as a kid, the pump I had ran continuously for something like 8 years. 24x7x365. the only reason it stopped was that I gave away my fish and sold the tank and all it's parts, because i went off to college and couldn't have them there.
...secure your satellite systems is a huge security breach. You just told us you don't use encryption and that to attempt communication you need a radio antenna. Some people do have access to radio antennas. Heck they aren't that hard to build yourself anyhow, there are specific books and internet articles on them. Pick up most books on HAM radio antennas and they atleast mention it. So given some time and effort could someone exploit your satelittes and crash them into another one?
and you need to surf while walking down the street because?????? This is just assanign. If you don't really need the range, don't do this hack. I can walk all over my house and even into my driveway ( i do work on my truck and look things up when i do it) and I have had no problems. Your neighbors are going to start to complain about cordless phone usage and what not at some point.
Again this is a neat hack. If you do need the range and it isn't going to interfere with anyone elses use of this band then by all means. But if it does interfere and/or you don't need the range, don't do it. If there is a HAM operator in your area, sooner or later you will be found, cause they use part of that band as well.
not to mention if your range is extended that then the 14 year old down the street can then hack your network from the privacy of their house instead of having to sit outside yours. have fun.
There are certainly risks associated with doing this hack. First thing is that the human body is most sensative to RF resonating between 30 and 3100 Mhz. Since this falls in that range, sitting next to that access point is probably not a good idea. And since sufficient studies have not been done to test the long term effects of RF on the human body, I wouldn't do it. Heck I keep my access point no less that 4 feet from me and I have the USB tranciever to keep it minimum 4 feet from me as well. And though 1 watt of power isn't a whole lot, when it is sitting next to you and is on all the time is probably not a good idea.
nah, sounds like just plain bad coding, nothing more. poor connection handling.
...on www.bid4assets.com right now a place is dumping datacenter equipment like liebert coolers and UPS systems for crazy cheap!!!! and they come up in onesys twosys all the time on there. the other item for cooling you could get is from a hotel supply place. get one of thier wall mounted AC units. those things can cool a large area. a friend of mine had one in his workroom in his house. it could get downright nipply in there!!!
totally agree with you. BTW, here is the definition from dictionary.com:
"A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged."
sounds like PayPal to me!
PayPal has been under investigation for a while by the government. it has nothing to with with if people think they *act* like a bank. They take in money, hold it for distrobution and in the mean time invest it for their own purposes. A "traditional" bank loans the money out to home buyers, invests in the stock market and so on. That is one of the many functions of a bank and not very different from what PayPal does. So what the person's point is... If it walk like a bank, talks like a bank, then it is a bank and needs to be regulated as such. cause right now PayPal is just some company with a merchant ID to process credit cards, a bank account and the ability to do electronic transfers to and from personal and business bank accounts. So you too can do this in your basement if you had enough time, money and people.