I'm sure the next use someone will come up with will be a mechanism for content protection. "Sorry, this picture is not authorized. Please remain calm and wait for the police."
This sounds like a service google could run--you snap a pic of the barcode, and your phone goes to a site where you read reviews about how great the product is/how much it sucks.
On Windows XP, I never required admin. access to run a game until Battlefield 1942. All the games before then that I ran, including other FPS games, required user accounts only.
Or just set the thing down next to a speaker and listen for the characteristic click-click-buzz when it's transmitting. Some phones are even powerful enough that my car stereo picks it up, or leaks into the signal of a nearby land-line (the PBX phones are work are real sensitive to it).
On occasion I've put my phone down next to an LED flashlight, and when the phone rings the flashlight turns on!
That effect is precisely why I never want to see cell phones allowed on airplanes.
I drove past that Future Shop you refer to and saw the extremely long line. Went and took my chances at the Wal-Mart around the corner 45 minutes to opening, as I knew they had 36 units and the line didn't look too long. Only the people who showed up with 15 minutes to go were disappointed. Manager comes out and announces that they are sorry that they only have 54 units (!!!). They did sell out their entire game and controller stock as well, although today, one day later, they had a lot of Zelda on the shelf.
This is also pretty standard for treated industrial wastewater--take a sample from the outflow on a regular basis, send it to a lab, and they stick fish in it and see how many die within 24 hours. Some setups even have a small side stream so that you can get results in real time.
Okay blue LEDs aren't so bad, it's all the designers sticking them in their products. One thing I really don't like is the tendancy to stick bright blue LEDs in car audio equipment. Hindering a driver's night vision is not a good idea at all. You'll notice that even the old dashboards, controls, and radios that were backlit by incandescent bulbs normally used subdued green, yellow, or orange, and this applied for digital dashboards as well. I do wonder how many people have blue speedometers now.
I have had many connectivity problems since this was installed. My response has been to turn the power on my WRT54GS all the way up (third-party firmware), and lock-in to 802.11b mode. 802.11b is plenty fast enough for the only reason I use it, internet, and maybe the higher power level blasts my neighbor off from time to time.
Most fast food places with >20 employees already use a computer to schedule staff based on sales volume and abilities. However, the systems are far from perfect. When I was in college, I was an assistant manager for a major fast food chain. The computer was used to generate a schedule that would then require heavy modification to be workable.
Anyways, I was responsible for scheduling for a year. Each employee had about 20 parameters you could enter, which included tasks that they could do, and a rating of their ability. However filling these fields in is more difficult than you think--for one, how an employee works when the manager is around is much different than how he works the rest of the time. Also, unless they assign one person to spend 40 hours a week observing people, it is impossible to get objective scores for any task. If you have 3 hours a week to make the schedule, with 80 employees, you don't have such time.
The other half of the problem is that sales volumes (kept track of by the POS system) only tell half of the story. Were the sales low because only 2/3 of the necessary 21 staff were scheduled? Well, the computer will schedule only 10 next time. Two employees can never work with each other without getting into a major screaming match and catfight--the computer does not have a way to set this criteria. Of course, you can build a system that takes many more inputs, and has overrides for special cases, like telling it that you got completely screwed due to lack of staff, but then these will just be abused by individual management to their own ends--a computer isn't a very good lie detector, and can't tell that Jeremy keeps pushing the panic button so that the next week he can sit around in the office with three of his employees (who are the only friends he has) and make straw swords with which to re-enact episode 2.
Computers are also pretty bad at phoning people on the day when 5 people called in sick (usually when there's some major attraction in town for the weekend, or it's a really nice sunny day) to find replacement workers. It's hard for a computer to appeal on an emotional level without making threats -- "Come in, or you're fired!" rarely works, making false promises does.
Finally, it's pretty damn hard to fire a $100 000 computer for being a complete moron of a manager. Humans are accountable because they usually have bills to pay, family that depends on them, etc. What are you going to do, sue the software vendor who made you sign a 20 page disclaimer first?
I knew people like this--their tuition was paid by their parents, and they took out government sponsered student loans and just bought stocks with them. Usually they lied on their applications.
What with the current middle east problems, this shouldn't even be on the radar. Then again, this is the same industry that tried to have anti-piracy measures tacked onto the PATRIOT act. If that isn't treason, I don't know what is.
The difference between a standard atmosphere and the vacuum of space is 14.696 psi. Airplane tires normally run around 120 psi. The extra ~15 psi is within the design of the tires. Also, the best information on google states that they are already exposed to vacuum.
How about if it came with some kind of OS other than the crappy ones usually bundled with phones? I'd like to see a device like this with Windows Mobile or something linux based, that normal people can actually write programs for.
The article, in typical mass-media fashion, does not name the alcohol, but I assume this is methyl alcohol. That, and the cost of NaOH, makes this a non-cheap process.
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I'm sure the next use someone will come up with will be a mechanism for content protection. "Sorry, this picture is not authorized. Please remain calm and wait for the police."
This sounds like a service google could run--you snap a pic of the barcode, and your phone goes to a site where you read reviews about how great the product is/how much it sucks.
On Windows XP, I never required admin. access to run a game until Battlefield 1942. All the games before then that I ran, including other FPS games, required user accounts only.
Or just set the thing down next to a speaker and listen for the characteristic click-click-buzz when it's transmitting. Some phones are even powerful enough that my car stereo picks it up, or leaks into the signal of a nearby land-line (the PBX phones are work are real sensitive to it).
On occasion I've put my phone down next to an LED flashlight, and when the phone rings the flashlight turns on!
That effect is precisely why I never want to see cell phones allowed on airplanes.
A real hose is easier to hold up, because it has a constant force from the water flying out the end that tends to hold it in place.
What about in the Cube farm, where if you have your monitor in the corner of your desk, you may have the backs of three monitors pointing at you?
I drove past that Future Shop you refer to and saw the extremely long line. Went and took my chances at the Wal-Mart around the corner 45 minutes to opening, as I knew they had 36 units and the line didn't look too long. Only the people who showed up with 15 minutes to go were disappointed. Manager comes out and announces that they are sorry that they only have 54 units (!!!). They did sell out their entire game and controller stock as well, although today, one day later, they had a lot of Zelda on the shelf.
It's dead, Jim.
This is also pretty standard for treated industrial wastewater--take a sample from the outflow on a regular basis, send it to a lab, and they stick fish in it and see how many die within 24 hours. Some setups even have a small side stream so that you can get results in real time.
l'd love to see a folder ''up" button in Firefox and other browsers--it would make "hacking" easier and perhaps educate.
Okay blue LEDs aren't so bad, it's all the designers sticking them in their products. One thing I really don't like is the tendancy to stick bright blue LEDs in car audio equipment. Hindering a driver's night vision is not a good idea at all. You'll notice that even the old dashboards, controls, and radios that were backlit by incandescent bulbs normally used subdued green, yellow, or orange, and this applied for digital dashboards as well. I do wonder how many people have blue speedometers now.
I have had many connectivity problems since this was installed. My response has been to turn the power on my WRT54GS all the way up (third-party firmware), and lock-in to 802.11b mode. 802.11b is plenty fast enough for the only reason I use it, internet, and maybe the higher power level blasts my neighbor off from time to time.
Most fast food places with >20 employees already use a computer to schedule staff based on sales volume and abilities. However, the systems are far from perfect. When I was in college, I was an assistant manager for a major fast food chain. The computer was used to generate a schedule that would then require heavy modification to be workable.
Anyways, I was responsible for scheduling for a year. Each employee had about 20 parameters you could enter, which included tasks that they could do, and a rating of their ability. However filling these fields in is more difficult than you think--for one, how an employee works when the manager is around is much different than how he works the rest of the time. Also, unless they assign one person to spend 40 hours a week observing people, it is impossible to get objective scores for any task. If you have 3 hours a week to make the schedule, with 80 employees, you don't have such time.
The other half of the problem is that sales volumes (kept track of by the POS system) only tell half of the story. Were the sales low because only 2/3 of the necessary 21 staff were scheduled? Well, the computer will schedule only 10 next time. Two employees can never work with each other without getting into a major screaming match and catfight--the computer does not have a way to set this criteria. Of course, you can build a system that takes many more inputs, and has overrides for special cases, like telling it that you got completely screwed due to lack of staff, but then these will just be abused by individual management to their own ends--a computer isn't a very good lie detector, and can't tell that Jeremy keeps pushing the panic button so that the next week he can sit around in the office with three of his employees (who are the only friends he has) and make straw swords with which to re-enact episode 2.
Computers are also pretty bad at phoning people on the day when 5 people called in sick (usually when there's some major attraction in town for the weekend, or it's a really nice sunny day) to find replacement workers. It's hard for a computer to appeal on an emotional level without making threats -- "Come in, or you're fired!" rarely works, making false promises does.
Finally, it's pretty damn hard to fire a $100 000 computer for being a complete moron of a manager. Humans are accountable because they usually have bills to pay, family that depends on them, etc. What are you going to do, sue the software vendor who made you sign a 20 page disclaimer first?
I see that Manbearpig features in this video. The Southpark people should sue.
I knew people like this--their tuition was paid by their parents, and they took out government sponsered student loans and just bought stocks with them. Usually they lied on their applications.
I'd like to see one with the Half-Life 2 G-man's face.
"Intruder in the driveway. The catapult is standing by. It's time to choose..."
What with the current middle east problems, this shouldn't even be on the radar. Then again, this is the same industry that tried to have anti-piracy measures tacked onto the PATRIOT act. If that isn't treason, I don't know what is.
The difference between a standard atmosphere and the vacuum of space is 14.696 psi. Airplane tires normally run around 120 psi. The extra ~15 psi is within the design of the tires. Also, the best information on google states that they are already exposed to vacuum.
Paper ballots can be rigged, but 95% of the population knows how it is done. Observers are at par with anyone stuffing the box.
Electronics ballots can be rigged, but 1% of the population knows how it is done. Observers are at ad a disadvantage with anyone stuffing the box.
How about if it came with some kind of OS other than the crappy ones usually bundled with phones? I'd like to see a device like this with Windows Mobile or something linux based, that normal people can actually write programs for.
Patrick Moore (co-founder of Greenpeace) editorial in the Washington Post about Nuclear.
The article, in typical mass-media fashion, does not name the alcohol, but I assume this is methyl alcohol. That, and the cost of NaOH, makes this a non-cheap process.
Don't techs have a code of conduct? Or, is it considered perfectly acceptable in IT to snoop through other people's private photos?
Don't try to claim that you needed to look at their jpegs to investigate why there was spyware on the system. That argument is bunk and you know it.
Make Faire = Do Do
Bit redundant, do do you think?
Windows XP (and maybe 2000) uses a Windows flag by default in the corner.