This whole step-thread is the exact reason why Linux is not and will not the operating system for the regular "normal" people out there. The only people who understand this whole particular thread are obviously geeks.:-)
I am surprise that no one has even mentioned mapsonus yet. The service has many nice features, gray printing, labeling, different resolutions, and sizes. It even has this feature to select "less feature" on a map if you want to have only major streets and temporarily ignore the smaller details at the current resolution/zooming ratio.
And it is free and fast (webbased)
It works great for me all these years. I believe the tech is from TeleAtlas NA. I had used mapblast/yahoo fro directions and maps in Southern California and both performed badly, gave out wrong directions at various times.
During a long road trip in 2000 thru the Southwest (CA/AZ/NM/TX) I used the mapsonus service to map the whole trip and it worked great without any errors. I am still using it to this date. Try it out and see if it works the same for you.
First, I cant imagine how anyone could unintentionally subject themselves to an environment without a word processor. I didn't believe a story like this would be possible these days.
Not everyone is at his or her desk all the time. Writing inspiration or ideas come at anytime that one would need a pen and some paper to scribble on. Inventions on napkin papers are famous and can be found on ebay that worth thousands of dollars.
For me, slugging a laptops or a typewriter on the trails, in the hot California deserts, or the cold mountains is not really an idea of fun. At times of lightouts like recent NYC blackout, one can always fall back to the old trusty pens to jot down his thoughts. Word processors were idle on the desk, quietly.
And not just any pen or any fountain pen. How about pen with removable nibs to be dipped into inkpot?
I love those pens, and nibs with the curved hoods to hold the ink there for a while. Any day when I recieve a handwritten note with the onmipresent purple colour of the old Asian romantical past, I 'd choke up in tears. Hehehe how geeky is that?
P.S. Vietnamese grade schools used to force everyone to use the purple dipping pens. We were not allow to use fountain pens and other pens until 6th grade. Ink-blot hell, one 'd say.
In Viet Nam, they forced us to practice with pencils and then pens with nibs to be dipped into inkpots. Very hard to learn how to be tidy and neat while I was an 8-year-old kid tried to learn how to write at with ink blots all over my hands, books, notebooks and tables. Usually, the neatfreaks always get good points and grades.
The HERO fountain pens were lifesavers for us when they allow fountian pens at the starting of 6th grade. We were so fond of them especially the Hero 600 and Hero 600. They were so easy to write with less ink problems tha nthe dipping nibs. Many kids were beaten up cuz of these pens. Such memories.:-)
By the way, I am looking for real good purple/lavender ink. All over Asia, they used to use this kind of ink. Now it is so hard to find. They use to have small bullets that one can drop into hot boiling water and make ink to use for months. And ink powder too. Anyone know of a dealer/website?
In 2000, NY state and NYC officals used the 1996 triple-digit-heat-related blackout in the West Coast as one of their major points to lure Californian businesses over to their state, in additional to the faked-power crisis then. The matter is that all power grid(s) in the US is antiquated and unprepared for unexpected heat/cold changes like this. Leave a lot to wonder what would happen if Al-Queada starts to stare at the power lines for a while.
The power went out on a hot, humid day when many residents had been blasting their air conditioning. In New York's Central Park, it was a sultry 88 degrees when the power went out. It was 87 degrees in Detroit and Cleveland at 4:30 p.m. ET, and 81 degrees in Toronto.
... since there are several hundred earthquakes (and aftershocks) everyday. Like in the SoCal-NV area, there are dozens quakes just today. Yes, we get that many quakes and everyone is very much blase about it since it is much ado about nothing.:-)
They can prove if the system works (or not) in no time. The interesting is how the organization of evacuations and prepareness can be trickled down to people. Truth to be told, many SoCal residents still do not know that to do when an earthquake hits. Many homes do not have quake prepared kit. Water, foods, tools etc.. are lacking... We are less prepared than those in the East Coast who have to deal with tornadoes, storms year in and year out:-) (Sorry folks)
I used to use lot of Russian-made appliances and hold-house items like you mention. But the quality is crap to the level of quality faked from Hong Kong. Almost anything household items made by Russian was of very low quality compare to stuffs Made in Japan and U.S.A. And that was then, a little bit of 14 years since I have moved to the US.
The funny thing is that now even with a "Made in the U.S.A." label, it does not mean it is of high quality. Many American companies, having to compete with cheap labor and cheaper materials elsewhere in the world, begin to produce cheap products. Cheap in price, and cheap in quality as well...
Ah-shucks.
Anyway, on the topic:
About sophistication, I think the word is used by the article's author. The degree of sophistication of an algorithm or strategy should be judge on its ability to achieve it goal in the prescribed time. Entire goal! Which means winning eventually.
Made by a team of well-funded scientists, or a well-schooled person, a powerful country, does not necessarily mean it is sophisticated. Especially if it is crap by said criteria.
What fun is it if your side won many of the battles but dead and lost the whole war?
What is the sophistication if you are dead before your opponents are?
The same outcome that best described this scenario is repeating many times in The World Pokers Series... it is a great exercise your mind and ballz:-). Check it out.
I believe that the team from NASA should study the code/algorithm from the Russian. And learn from it. And it might prove that their knowledge of how natural selection workings is wrong. or their knowjdge is fine, but wrong application/method/rate/whatever.
This is the whole point of the contest, isn't it?
And hopefully pay that guy a shitload of money. Please. (-:
If they do make themselves incompatible, a third party will come along, incorporate both compressions and will win the market.
Like the modem war? The good old telephone modem war. What a laugh it was. History repeats itself. Or rather, the fools who do not learn anything about history repeat the same old mistake, AGAIN.
Geocoding more or less hands you the destination on a silver platter. I mean, a ten metre radius can be searched with a metal detector in what, fifteen minutes? (Most caches are either in metal boxes, or contain metal objects, from the sounds of it.) Where is the challenge?
The challenge is that box lies somewhere in the woods. One has to hike/walk a while to get to it. Anything to get your behind off the Aeron chair is good for you, Sir.:-) I personally prefer virtual caches that are deep in the forest, rewarding the hiker with a spectacular view after a hard and good workout.
Here in Los Angeles, there are nature trails everywhere, less than an hour of driving. Some trails are less than a few miles from the freeway/road. Park the car and 15 minutes later immerse oneself into total tranquility and beauty of nature. Ahhhh.
A great visionary does not always follow what other people think in the first place. He might have listened to people to see what the needs and wants are, but he should not ever cut off his vision by just listening to negative comments from others.
Had Mr. Jobs listened to anyone a few years ago... "The Mac is dead" and quitted...
Many comments I see here are complaining about the graphs. Fine, whoever made that graph is a bit confused about metric and 60-based time. However those who complain are blindly ignore the fact: the time is still less.
Also the other whining type of comments is "just you wait" for the G5 which will come out in... well whenever, and will be available for consumers in.. well who knows..
And in the mean time, the earth still turns and the world still goes on. Intel and AMD still continue to churn out faster and faster chips, with cheaper and cheaper prices.
[FLAME ON]
All of these comments prove again, that the Apple followers are some special bunches of people, who are very "devoted" if not fanatical and far away from reality who will make up any excuses to ignore their shortcomings.
[FLAME OFF]
I wish, however, that one day Photoshop and other fine products in media manipulations can be available on Linux so we can actually crow about the potential gains. (-: Unfortunately, we have no numbers and no real fact to compare how these applications run our beloved OS.
Our company requires almost perfect GPA for college student to intern here (look up my other post). Part of it cuz we pay them good money(ugrad $15 + $1/yr, grad $20 + $1/yr). But in general we tend to ignore the GPA part, provided that some _current_ employee can front for you: good work ethics and verifiable skills.
Knowing someone can get you half way in. But you have to do well in the interview, present your skill and knowledge well. Many of the guys (yeah sorta male-oriented here) came in handful with MCSE and certs but do not actually know any _real_world_ experience at all.
It is hard to have your hands on every thing, but we tend to assume that if you know the current employee, then somehow you 'd get access to the technologies (java/j2ee/sun/lunix). Hand-on exp counts a lot. Good grade and no exp = no hire.
We are still having interns coming to work for us every semesters and summers. Just that we are asking from the local best schools (USC, UCLA and the likes) with high CS GPA. Skills like Java/J2EE, Linux/Unix (Sun) and good working knowledge of Windows (servers) products are extremely important.
Yes, the requirements are rather high but the pay is decent: freshmen start around $15, adding about one dollar for each subsequent year; grad students start around $20, additional years adding one dollar. Add in to the fact that you can very much set your own flexible work schedule, I think it worth it.
We are (F-10) in the 310/MDR area. You just have to look up your school posting more regularly. Despite the (permanent) hiring freeze, I have seen plenty of new (intern) faces recently.
Sorry if you do not fit the requirements tho. Hard times -> plenty of resumes; we get to be picky and choosy. One just have to re-position, educate himself or herself with the skills needed by the market.
You, Sir, is a brave man. Many of the people here would not admit it. Your case is an interesting example for not to install everything by default, and an [bad] example in system design that assumes/requires the user need to know it all to have a decent secured system.
Anyhow, Thank you. Thank you for your brave and honesty. We all can learn from hacks like this.
Most banks are very conservative. They do not use anything MS for their ciritical, backend systems. Most are legacy systems from ancient times.
The BSOD you are seeing on the ATM are indeed NT 4.0. Many banks nowdays do not produce their own ATMs any more but buy basic machines from NCR/Semiens, and the likes. These machines contain a core PC which NT usualy resides on. In trying to cut down cost, many of the biggest banks are using NT as the prefer OS of choice for ATMs since they can be written once cheaply (with ASP, ISS) and utilized exsiting device drivers.
Hold the jokes for Microsoft Windows on ATM. When installed correctly under strict guidelines, NT 4.0 can be very safe system/os. By strict, I mean none of the sample codes, no extra services, no belsl and whistles.
SQL Server 2000 is another matter. Not sure why BoA deployed the new, unproven softare on so many of their services. As you can see clearly, only a few banks were affected.
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This whole step-thread is the exact reason why Linux is not and will not the operating system for the regular "normal" people out there. The only people who understand this whole particular thread are obviously geeks. :-)
I am surprise that no one has even mentioned
mapsonus yet. The service has many nice features, gray printing, labeling, different resolutions, and sizes. It even has this feature to select "less feature" on a map if you want to have only major streets and temporarily ignore the smaller details at the current resolution/zooming ratio.
And it is free and fast (webbased)
It works great for me all these years. I believe the tech is from TeleAtlas NA. I had used mapblast/yahoo fro directions and maps in Southern California and both performed badly, gave out wrong directions at various times.
During a long road trip in 2000 thru the Southwest (CA/AZ/NM/TX) I used the mapsonus service to map the whole trip and it worked great without any errors. I am still using it to this date. Try it out and see if it works the same for you.
First, I cant imagine how anyone could unintentionally subject themselves to an environment without a word processor. I didn't believe a story like this would be possible these days.
Not everyone is at his or her desk all the time. Writing inspiration or ideas come at anytime that one would need a pen and some paper to scribble on. Inventions on napkin papers are famous and can be found on ebay that worth thousands of dollars.
For me, slugging a laptops or a typewriter on the trails, in the hot California deserts, or the cold mountains is not really an idea of fun. At times of lightouts like recent NYC blackout, one can always fall back to the old trusty pens to jot down his thoughts. Word processors were idle on the desk, quietly.
And not just any pen or any fountain pen. How about pen with removable nibs to be dipped into inkpot?
I love those pens, and nibs with the curved hoods to hold the ink there for a while. Any day when I recieve a handwritten note with the onmipresent purple colour of the old Asian romantical past, I 'd choke up in tears. Hehehe how geeky is that?
P.S. Vietnamese grade schools used to force everyone to use the purple dipping pens. We were not allow to use fountain pens and other pens until 6th grade. Ink-blot hell, one 'd say.
Oh, the memory!
:-)
In Viet Nam, they forced us to practice with pencils and then pens with nibs to be dipped into inkpots. Very hard to learn how to be tidy and neat while I was an 8-year-old kid tried to learn how to write at with ink blots all over my hands, books, notebooks and tables. Usually, the neatfreaks always get good points and grades.
The HERO fountain pens were lifesavers for us when they allow fountian pens at the starting of 6th grade. We were so fond of them especially the Hero 600 and Hero 600. They were so easy to write with less ink problems tha nthe dipping nibs. Many kids were beaten up cuz of these pens. Such memories.
By the way, I am looking for real good purple/lavender ink. All over Asia, they used to use this kind of ink. Now it is so hard to find. They use to have small bullets that one can drop into hot boiling water and make ink to use for months. And ink powder too. Anyone know of a dealer/website?
Thanks in advance,
Annamite
In 2000, NY state and NYC officals used the 1996 triple-digit-heat-related blackout in the West Coast as one of their major points to lure Californian businesses over to their state, in additional to the faked-power crisis then. The matter is that all power grid(s) in the US is antiquated and unprepared for unexpected heat/cold changes like this. Leave a lot to wonder what would happen if Al-Queada starts to stare at the power lines for a while.
Oh the karma.
And this is from ABCnews article
Please, it is near 90 degree F.
... since there are several hundred earthquakes (and aftershocks) everyday. Like in the SoCal-NV area, there are dozens quakes just today. Yes, we get that many quakes and everyone is very much blase about it since it is much ado about nothing. :-)
... We are less prepared than those in the East Coast who have to deal with tornadoes, storms year in and year out :-) (Sorry folks)
They can prove if the system works (or not) in no time. The interesting is how the organization of evacuations and prepareness can be trickled down to people. Truth to be told, many SoCal residents still do not know that to do when an earthquake hits. Many homes do not have quake prepared kit. Water, foods, tools etc.. are lacking
is 122F.. That is not good enough for Southern California. (Not everyone has A/C car, you insensitive clod!)
Anyone knows what the non-usage temperature is before everything melts and render unusable later even in cooler temp?
"Its luck runs out."
/., just waking up from a nap. :-)
Hmmm should not post on
Evidently, that particular genetic algorithm has serious problems.
:-)
Or one would say, "By chance, it lucks run out".
I respectfully disagree.
...
... it is a great exercise your mind and ballz :-). Check it out.
I used to use lot of Russian-made appliances and hold-house items like you mention. But the quality is crap to the level of quality faked from Hong Kong. Almost anything household items made by Russian was of very low quality compare to stuffs Made in Japan and U.S.A. And that was then, a little bit of 14 years since I have moved to the US.
The funny thing is that now even with a "Made in the U.S.A." label, it does not mean it is of high quality. Many American companies, having to compete with cheap labor and cheaper materials elsewhere in the world, begin to produce cheap products. Cheap in price, and cheap in quality as well
Ah-shucks.
Anyway, on the topic:
About sophistication, I think the word is used by the article's author. The degree of sophistication of an algorithm or strategy should be judge on its ability to achieve it goal in the prescribed time. Entire goal! Which means winning eventually.
Made by a team of well-funded scientists, or a well-schooled person, a powerful country, does not necessarily mean it is sophisticated. Especially if it is crap by said criteria.
What fun is it if your side won many of the battles but dead and lost the whole war?
What is the sophistication if you are dead before your opponents are?
The same outcome that best described this scenario is repeating many times in The World Pokers Series
I believe that the team from NASA should study the code/algorithm from the Russian. And learn from it. And it might prove that their knowledge of how natural selection workings is wrong. or their knowjdge is fine, but wrong application/method/rate/whatever.
This is the whole point of the contest, isn't it?
And hopefully pay that guy a shitload of money. Please. (-:
Too bad I 've used all of my modpoints already.
Rate that one Hilarious.
Mod it up.
Like the modem war? The good old telephone modem war. What a laugh it was. History repeats itself. Or rather, the fools who do not learn anything about history repeat the same old mistake, AGAIN.
The article is clearly marked:
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:58 p.m. ET
Per argeement, the NYTimes uses that article on their paper/website. They have nothing to do with the reporting or fact-checking.
The challenge is that box lies somewhere in the woods. One has to hike/walk a while to get to it. Anything to get your behind off the Aeron chair is good for you, Sir.
Here in Los Angeles, there are nature trails everywhere, less than an hour of driving. Some trails are less than a few miles from the freeway/road. Park the car and 15 minutes later immerse oneself into total tranquility and beauty of nature. Ahhhh.
Try it. You might like it.
On this direction, this movies The 13th Floor have solved the mystery in 1999 in a much better presentation and a shorter time too.
Apprently, it uses EMI Records license for now. http://www.thebeatles.com/legalnotice.
:
... ancient times (-:
More history of this company which causes Apple Computer some headache
http://www.beatlemoney.com/applecofacts.htm
They have been around since ever
A great visionary does not always follow what other people think in the first place. He might have listened to people to see what the needs and wants are, but he should not ever cut off his vision by just listening to negative comments from others.
... "The Mac is dead" and quitted ...
Had Mr. Jobs listened to anyone a few years ago
You get the idea.
still does not change.
Many comments I see here are complaining about the graphs. Fine, whoever made that graph is a bit confused about metric and 60-based time. However those who complain are blindly ignore the fact: the time is still less.
Also the other whining type of comments is "just you wait" for the G5 which will come out in ... well whenever, and will be available for consumers in .. well who knows..
And in the mean time, the earth still turns and the world still goes on. Intel and AMD still continue to churn out faster and faster chips, with cheaper and cheaper prices.
[FLAME ON] All of these comments prove again, that the Apple followers are some special bunches of people, who are very "devoted" if not fanatical and far away from reality who will make up any excuses to ignore their shortcomings. [FLAME OFF]
I wish, however, that one day Photoshop and other fine products in media manipulations can be available on Linux so we can actually crow about the potential gains. (-: Unfortunately, we have no numbers and no real fact to compare how these applications run our beloved OS.
Just you wait,
Give us faith, :-)
Excellent sugesstion.
Our company requires almost perfect GPA for college student to intern here (look up my other post). Part of it cuz we pay them good money(ugrad $15 + $1/yr, grad $20 + $1/yr). But in general we tend to ignore the GPA part, provided that some _current_ employee can front for you: good work ethics and verifiable skills.
Knowing someone can get you half way in. But you have to do well in the interview, present your skill and knowledge well. Many of the guys (yeah sorta male-oriented here) came in handful with MCSE and certs but do not actually know any _real_world_ experience at all.
It is hard to have your hands on every thing, but we tend to assume that if you know the current employee, then somehow you 'd get access to the technologies (java/j2ee/sun/lunix). Hand-on exp counts a lot. Good grade and no exp = no hire.
We are still having interns coming to work for us every semesters and summers. Just that we are asking from the local best schools (USC, UCLA and the likes) with high CS GPA. Skills like Java/J2EE, Linux/Unix (Sun) and good working knowledge of Windows (servers) products are extremely important.
Yes, the requirements are rather high but the pay is decent: freshmen start around $15, adding about one dollar for each subsequent year; grad students start around $20, additional years adding one dollar. Add in to the fact that you can very much set your own flexible work schedule, I think it worth it.
We are (F-10) in the 310/MDR area. You just have to look up your school posting more regularly. Despite the (permanent) hiring freeze, I have seen plenty of new (intern) faces recently.
Sorry if you do not fit the requirements tho. Hard times -> plenty of resumes; we get to be picky and choosy. One just have to re-position, educate himself or herself with the skills needed by the market.
Good luck.
You, Sir, is a brave man. Many of the people here would not admit it. Your case is an interesting example for not to install everything by default, and an [bad] example in system design that assumes/requires the user need to know it all to have a decent secured system.
Anyhow, Thank you. Thank you for your brave and honesty. We all can learn from hacks like this.
Do you .... yahoo?
Most banks are very conservative. They do not use anything MS for their ciritical, backend systems. Most are legacy systems from ancient times.
The BSOD you are seeing on the ATM are indeed NT 4.0. Many banks nowdays do not produce their own ATMs any more but buy basic machines from NCR/Semiens, and the likes. These machines contain a core PC which NT usualy resides on. In trying to cut down cost, many of the biggest banks are using NT as the prefer OS of choice for ATMs since they can be written once cheaply (with ASP, ISS) and utilized exsiting device drivers.
Hold the jokes for Microsoft Windows on ATM. When installed correctly under strict guidelines, NT 4.0 can be very safe system/os. By strict, I mean none of the sample codes, no extra services, no belsl and whistles.
SQL Server 2000 is another matter. Not sure why BoA deployed the new, unproven softare on so many of their services. As you can see clearly, only a few banks were affected.