Farmed salmon have already contaminated wild stock in the Northeast. the battle is lost. I and every fisherman I know have caught their last Atlantic Salmon in America, and soon Canada will also end sport fishing, I fear.
I see the 1 minute record is pretty much unbelievable, but the 5 minute record is attainable. PC based records were considered suspect by us old farts from the typewriter days, since the buffer and all that software got in the way of accurate recording. We would want to see a specially made keyboard without buffer, able to reliabley send 300+ wpm, and then software to record that. Which requires a whole different way of testing.
My mom could type 90+ steadily on an Olympia SG3, and older competitions usually were dominated by standard (manual) typewriters. Electric typewriters are limited by the speed of either accelerating the typebar, or in the case of Selectrics, limited by the mechanism of cycle clutch and compensator. Selectrics have maximum speeds that cannot be overcome without changing the motor RPM, and there is probably an absolute maximum determined by the compensator and time to clear the selectors. Electric typewriters can only accelrate the typebars so fast, and most moder typewriters improve speed with a spring to throw the typebar back. for the purposes of typing speed, electronic typewriters are equivalent to PC keyboards in most cases. Some electronics have terrible printing mechanisms, and don't qualify.
I, for one, would love to mod a Displaywriter keyboard for speed tests. I think it's the best keyboard ever, surpassing the Selectric. Selectric keyboards introduced the pronounced curvature of the keyboard, equalizing the distance betweek the home row and top/bottom rows for comfort. this is lost with virtually every keyboard I've used on a PC except the IBM Model M, and some variants. I guess Unicomp stil makes them, no IBM logo though. Typing on today's short-throw keyboards means you're essentially pounding your fingers on a plastic board. I have the callouses to prove it. I had a true spacesaver M (no num pad) that was a pleasyre to use, but like all ofthem the cable finally went obsolete. I should have kept it and used adapters. arg.
Everywhere else they will speak English when pressed, even in Spain.
My globalization at work has shown me that Mexico, Latin American, and South America are difficult to deal with in English, though it varies outside of Mexico. Portugese is not important enough for me, and Brazil is easier to deal with. Otherwise, only Quebec and France are difficult, and surprisingly the Quebecois I deal with give in to English. Spanish is most important for Mexico. Mandarin goes without saying, though many Chinese are eager to speak English - I just don't want to be their tutor, but I have few options there. Everywhere else, English is accepted fairly well.
Now, if you leave programming, Farsi and Arabic are very lucrative. Working for Middle Eastern clients in programming would lead you to English very quickly, but speaking and translating, Farsi is probably a ticket to lifetime work for the intelligence community, be it government or private. Arabic ditto, more private right now. I know a friend's son who is getting proficient in Farsi in college, and he will be offered work in several 3-letter agencies. Steady inside work for a graduate is precious nowadays. Tell your children to learn Mandarin, Farsi, or auto repair. Plumbing if they can stand gettng dirty... All have excellent prospects for employment,
As for a second programming language, most of my programmer buddies are saying 'second? how about a sixth?'. But you really didn;t seem to be asking that.
In both states I've been licenced in, you *do* risk having your license suspended if you accumulate too many points. but, since speed cams are notorious doe problems, those tickets don't accumulate points.
And burying the power lines where the water table comes up after every shower is not so smart. Here in Arizona, sure. On Long Island, not so much.
Besides, despite the incompetence currently on display after Sandy, poles and wires are surprisingly easy to fix, compared to fishing new cables through waterlogged conduits. I survived the ice storm in Maine in 1998, no power for 11 days for me, but that was a very bad situation. Sandy also destroyed homes, roads, etc. Burying the lines in Maine is stupid, but even the high tension lines came down through much of the state. No burying those.
Why should I buy the labor of your robot, when I can buy my own robot and cut out the middleman.
And you will, of course, maintain and service your robot as needed to provide the highest level of productivity it can deliver, or at least the level I expect?
If this state would fund highway developent adequately so my evening commute was as quick as my morning commute, it would multiply my happiness.
It would take money, however, and time, and other resources. And ignoring the environmentalists. And abetting the car culture. And accepting that I do what I do for a reason, and not trying to tell me to do something else because it makes more sense to you, or suits your needs and desires, ad my government.
Oh, we were talking about corporations? Sorry, I was focusing on the real problem. Got lost there.
Exactly. In fact, having fewer people to manage may well make management skills even more valuable. It's one thing to annoy one out of 13,000 employees, and risk losing key skills or exprience. When the pool is smaller, then annoying one out of 3,000 makes the risk greater. And every one of those fewer employees may well be much more valuable than the math indicates.
IT has been managing these issues for decades. This is not new, and neither is the concept of a phone being used by someone in another country and the potential confusion in emergency calls.
Landlines aren't portable, like cellphones, but their users are. Someone from Germany, for instance, in New York on business, may well have to make an emergency call - how did they ever figure it out in the old days?
And my phone (my last 2 actually) doesn't have a useful speed dial to 911. I have to unlock it, find the dialer, and only then do I get to dial 911. I can't conceive of a reason to complain about one-button access yet, though of course I obviously haven't been in an emergency situation. How does an iPhone dial 911 quickly? I dunno, I use an Android phone. Quick doesn't seem to apply.
This really seems like ITU trying to impose something for the sake of it. Apparently they think they is important.
FWIW, some of my team members have a 16:9 and 4:3 setup, the 4:3 is handy for terminal sessions.
Me, I manage somehow with all that sidespace. All this so everything can become an HDTV. Or is it that they can make screens wider for substantially less effort and incremental cost than both taller and wider?
Wide format isn't showign me white space. It's showing me the scroll bar to make me scroll on every page. Forbid the devs could let me tab to the Submit button, or focus the next field, or even bother to focus at all. Web design in our intranet apps is abysmal. They build every page at least 1500 tall.
I was raised around Bangor, Maine, and among other distinctions Bangor was the smallest media market in the U.S. with all four major networks, which at the time were ABC, CBS, NBC, and 'public broadcasting'. By far the smallest. Many mid sized cities in the pre-cable era had two of the four and counted themselves lucky. Our ABC affiliate was sometimes percieved as substandard in many ways, though they worked very very hard, but that;s another story.
Anyways, it's 1976, bicentennial US celebrations and all, and for the Fourth of July our NBC affilate booked Willard Scott, NBC Today Show weatherman and bon vivant, to appear locally, which they did as part promotion and part scthick.
This is a major faux pas, and Willard should be somewhere else on the 200th July 4th celebration... ANYWHERE ELSE. Like D.C., or Rockerfeller Center, ANYWHERE ELSE.
And NBC thought they had an out. The Bangor affiliate, WLBZ, used a terrestrial microwave link to connect network programming from the Portand affiliate, WCSH, and send local progamming back down. And this worked very well, with very rare outages due to exceptionally heavy precipitation. Quality was good, hardware was very reliable, and it saved on a satellite dish and the associated costs. But NBC didn't trust it, and tied to back out of the appearance claiming it was not up to standard, blahblahblah.
WLBZ nailed it. They proved reliability, they proved signal quality, and they had a cameraman that was just an exceptionally talented and superbly competent. With no easy out short of annoying an affiliate and paying money, they got Willard up there, and it was a perfect spot.
Microwave is underrated. Well-built equipment is very reliable, data transmission is well understood, and I get this use of it by the quants and HFT gang immediately. It seems old-fashioned and out of date at first glance, but no, it probably will work for a long time. thinking about some of the DS wireless hauls I installed, I wish we had S-band microwave instead. I wish I was working with microwave again, great stuff.
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Just cuz u don't get it don't make it not funny. Oh, for you it hurts. I got that.
Yeah, two thumbs up for DBD!
If it's nit worth doing it right, perhaps they should get out of the business?
no, actually it *is* worth doing it wrong. follow the money.
Famous last words...
Farmed salmon have already contaminated wild stock in the Northeast. the battle is lost. I and every fisherman I know have caught their last Atlantic Salmon in America, and soon Canada will also end sport fishing, I fear.
I see the 1 minute record is pretty much unbelievable, but the 5 minute record is attainable. PC based records were considered suspect by us old farts from the typewriter days, since the buffer and all that software got in the way of accurate recording. We would want to see a specially made keyboard without buffer, able to reliabley send 300+ wpm, and then software to record that. Which requires a whole different way of testing.
My mom could type 90+ steadily on an Olympia SG3, and older competitions usually were dominated by standard (manual) typewriters. Electric typewriters are limited by the speed of either accelerating the typebar, or in the case of Selectrics, limited by the mechanism of cycle clutch and compensator. Selectrics have maximum speeds that cannot be overcome without changing the motor RPM, and there is probably an absolute maximum determined by the compensator and time to clear the selectors. Electric typewriters can only accelrate the typebars so fast, and most moder typewriters improve speed with a spring to throw the typebar back. for the purposes of typing speed, electronic typewriters are equivalent to PC keyboards in most cases. Some electronics have terrible printing mechanisms, and don't qualify.
I, for one, would love to mod a Displaywriter keyboard for speed tests. I think it's the best keyboard ever, surpassing the Selectric. Selectric keyboards introduced the pronounced curvature of the keyboard, equalizing the distance betweek the home row and top/bottom rows for comfort. this is lost with virtually every keyboard I've used on a PC except the IBM Model M, and some variants. I guess Unicomp stil makes them, no IBM logo though. Typing on today's short-throw keyboards means you're essentially pounding your fingers on a plastic board. I have the callouses to prove it. I had a true spacesaver M (no num pad) that was a pleasyre to use, but like all ofthem the cable finally went obsolete. I should have kept it and used adapters. arg.
Spanish and/or Mandarin.
Everywhere else they will speak English when pressed, even in Spain.
My globalization at work has shown me that Mexico, Latin American, and South America are difficult to deal with in English, though it varies outside of Mexico. Portugese is not important enough for me, and Brazil is easier to deal with. Otherwise, only Quebec and France are difficult, and surprisingly the Quebecois I deal with give in to English. Spanish is most important for Mexico. Mandarin goes without saying, though many Chinese are eager to speak English - I just don't want to be their tutor, but I have few options there. Everywhere else, English is accepted fairly well.
Now, if you leave programming, Farsi and Arabic are very lucrative. Working for Middle Eastern clients in programming would lead you to English very quickly, but speaking and translating, Farsi is probably a ticket to lifetime work for the intelligence community, be it government or private. Arabic ditto, more private right now. I know a friend's son who is getting proficient in Farsi in college, and he will be offered work in several 3-letter agencies. Steady inside work for a graduate is precious nowadays. Tell your children to learn Mandarin, Farsi, or auto repair. Plumbing if they can stand gettng dirty... All have excellent prospects for employment,
As for a second programming language, most of my programmer buddies are saying 'second? how about a sixth?'. But you really didn;t seem to be asking that.
Around here, that means voting for Centurylink. great choice.
No, I've gotten points assessed on a red light violation. My face is unmistakable in the front shot.
In both states I've been licenced in, you *do* risk having your license suspended if you accumulate too many points. but, since speed cams are notorious doe problems, those tickets don't accumulate points.
Lots of places get no appreciable sunlight for more than 4 days at a stretch.
And burying the power lines where the water table comes up after every shower is not so smart. Here in Arizona, sure. On Long Island, not so much.
Besides, despite the incompetence currently on display after Sandy, poles and wires are surprisingly easy to fix, compared to fishing new cables through waterlogged conduits. I survived the ice storm in Maine in 1998, no power for 11 days for me, but that was a very bad situation. Sandy also destroyed homes, roads, etc. Burying the lines in Maine is stupid, but even the high tension lines came down through much of the state. No burying those.
Why should I buy the labor of your robot, when I can buy my own robot and cut out the middleman.
And you will, of course, maintain and service your robot as needed to provide the highest level of productivity it can deliver, or at least the level I expect?
Right. Dumb as a blade of grass.
If this state would fund highway developent adequately so my evening commute was as quick as my morning commute, it would multiply my happiness.
It would take money, however, and time, and other resources. And ignoring the environmentalists. And abetting the car culture. And accepting that I do what I do for a reason, and not trying to tell me to do something else because it makes more sense to you, or suits your needs and desires, ad my government.
Oh, we were talking about corporations? Sorry, I was focusing on the real problem. Got lost there.
Exactly. In fact, having fewer people to manage may well make management skills even more valuable. It's one thing to annoy one out of 13,000 employees, and risk losing key skills or exprience. When the pool is smaller, then annoying one out of 3,000 makes the risk greater. And every one of those fewer employees may well be much more valuable than the math indicates.
IT has been managing these issues for decades. This is not new, and neither is the concept of a phone being used by someone in another country and the potential confusion in emergency calls.
Landlines aren't portable, like cellphones, but their users are. Someone from Germany, for instance, in New York on business, may well have to make an emergency call - how did they ever figure it out in the old days?
And my phone (my last 2 actually) doesn't have a useful speed dial to 911. I have to unlock it, find the dialer, and only then do I get to dial 911. I can't conceive of a reason to complain about one-button access yet, though of course I obviously haven't been in an emergency situation. How does an iPhone dial 911 quickly? I dunno, I use an Android phone. Quick doesn't seem to apply.
This really seems like ITU trying to impose something for the sake of it. Apparently they think they is important.
So you think I'm blonde, eh?
FWIW, some of my team members have a 16:9 and 4:3 setup, the 4:3 is handy for terminal sessions.
Me, I manage somehow with all that sidespace. All this so everything can become an HDTV. Or is it that they can make screens wider for substantially less effort and incremental cost than both taller and wider?
Waste is what the RSS feed had in it. I'm just readin what they sendin.
Wide format isn't showign me white space. It's showing me the scroll bar to make me scroll on every page. Forbid the devs could let me tab to the Submit button, or focus the next field, or even bother to focus at all. Web design in our intranet apps is abysmal. They build every page at least 1500 tall.
3.2:2?
"Capitalism is all about maximizing profit."
There, FTFY
You think the chair can understand any of what their faculty is doing? bahahahaha. Even the faculty has to figure out what their GAs are doing.
Are you retarded? My story wasn't about microwave. It was about using unexpected tech and getting results despite objections.
Swoosh much?
I was raised around Bangor, Maine, and among other distinctions Bangor was the smallest media market in the U.S. with all four major networks, which at the time were ABC, CBS, NBC, and 'public broadcasting'. By far the smallest. Many mid sized cities in the pre-cable era had two of the four and counted themselves lucky. Our ABC affiliate was sometimes percieved as substandard in many ways, though they worked very very hard, but that;s another story.
Anyways, it's 1976, bicentennial US celebrations and all, and for the Fourth of July our NBC affilate booked Willard Scott, NBC Today Show weatherman and bon vivant, to appear locally, which they did as part promotion and part scthick.
This is a major faux pas, and Willard should be somewhere else on the 200th July 4th celebration... ANYWHERE ELSE. Like D.C., or Rockerfeller Center, ANYWHERE ELSE.
And NBC thought they had an out. The Bangor affiliate, WLBZ, used a terrestrial microwave link to connect network programming from the Portand affiliate, WCSH, and send local progamming back down. And this worked very well, with very rare outages due to exceptionally heavy precipitation. Quality was good, hardware was very reliable, and it saved on a satellite dish and the associated costs. But NBC didn't trust it, and tied to back out of the appearance claiming it was not up to standard, blahblahblah.
WLBZ nailed it. They proved reliability, they proved signal quality, and they had a cameraman that was just an exceptionally talented and superbly competent. With no easy out short of annoying an affiliate and paying money, they got Willard up there, and it was a perfect spot.
Microwave is underrated. Well-built equipment is very reliable, data transmission is well understood, and I get this use of it by the quants and HFT gang immediately. It seems old-fashioned and out of date at first glance, but no, it probably will work for a long time. thinking about some of the DS wireless hauls I installed, I wish we had S-band microwave instead. I wish I was working with microwave again, great stuff.
Mod this up further. And learn to use screen.