The article only refers to the growing set of 'red light cameras' here.
Police are very scarce overall in Dallas. I go for days without seeing a police car.
I will watch now! I drive with a camera and will take my own pix and chat with any offending officer.
I have the brass to buck the system. A few years ago I got onto a plainclothes officer for always parking in handicapped in my apartments. Boy was he pissed. He tried intimidation. He slowly put his gun harness on, stuck his glock in it. Then zoomed off. Then shortly afterwards he moved. Hope your are nicer now. But most police here really are great and wonderful people.
I am taken aback by most comments on this topic that want to tear the building down. To me that is one of the better moments of Silicon Valley history.
But I must admit I am kind of a Luddite myself. I love technology and history at the same time.
One history moment that stuns me is standing on the site of the first space launch down at KSC. To think humans had the audacity to to go into space on that tiny vehicle? I think that someday some kid not yet born might stand on that site and be inspired to weave string theory into viable interstellar travel.
I would like to see the building restored to its seminal or best moment in time. Complete with the old cars out front. Likewise this site might inspire another kid to do great things.
I wonder, on your comment. If testing for vitamin c is not cutting edge science, then how would I test for vitamin C ascorbic acid? And how does one differentiate between other acids that might exist in the drink?
Then on your "why has nobody tested". Ah a most interesting comment. We consumers stumble around fat, dumb, and happy. Other things that have not been tested. What about the melamine in dog/cat food wheat gluten? Does the USA have a low mad cow disease rate because no one looks? Why have honey bee colonies experienced mass die offs this Spring in the USA?
True I am probably the about the age as your dad. I am not afraid of the younger workers or younger managers. This because at my geek geezer age, I take university classes where everyone else is under 22.
The difference in my situation was the replacement was much cheaper than me. Because they were from India.
Then I did perform IT support for about seven years. I got out of that and went to programming because I saw that newer operating systems would fix the problems I had to fix in my IT support role. In the IT support role, a funny thing with Microsoft, when I found a few fixes to their non working fix, Microsoft removed the non working fix and never posted my good one. That left support people out there without a paddle.
To clarify, it was the same company, JCPenney for 17 years. But any large IT department has many facets. I worked several different jobs within that company. Helped define the corporate network, designed the layout of PC systems i.e. corporate desktop, did a logistics project that tracked shipments, and another project that performed analysis of future selling trends. Then if you go into a store today and look at the sale signs, I did the barcodes down on the bottom of those. All very fun things to do.
Your Dad's advice certainly is true for me. And its true for ALL OTHER SLASHDOTTERS. LISTEN UP FOLKS. If something stinks about your current job situation then CHANGE! Change projects, change managers, change jobs. But CHANGE. Don't sit still.
Oh no, no anger at all. Confusion if anything. Its like hitting your pet dog for no reason. Confuses the heck out of them. So I see things with better clarity now. Its such a wonderful relief. Better thinking now, my brain is not wasting half its effort worrying.
As I have said in other replies, what defines our economy? Its bigger than my job or yours. What fundamental economic practices produce our jobs? What made the original crossroads back in 1820 or so (where you now live) turn into a thriving metropolis? What ultimately makes the economy of a city run? Is it a woodworker in some basement who is the actual core of an economy? (That's the weather butterfly effect writ small for our city economics. And Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" also comes to mind.).
Probably like yourself, I was treated horribly because of corporate dismissal policies where managers warp reality to gain their ends. Thats their problem though, I forgave them in the parking lot before I left. Life has a funny way of getting even with people like that. I bet your old manager has ulcers or worse right now - I know mine does.
I am infinitely better off right now. I am happy. Each day is a joy. I am an intuitive thinker so I have all these different projects that have common threads. I am working on being a bit more of a renaissance thinker.
Here in Dallas the economy is expanding but it appears to be hourly service jobs. Certainly lots of automobiles running around. Wow.
Best wishes with your life, sounds like you are on the correct path. That's pretty good. Most people only manage a few steps in what might not even be the right direction.
I am doing just fine right now. After all those years chasing a deadline, I can now relax. So my plans include learning Greek (to get the flavor of the bible in its original language), working on my math skills, collecting slide rules, reconnecting with friends, and thinking of what a better computer interface might look like. I also have taken up service rifle shooting and enjoy that very much. One of my friends coaches me. Went as part of the state team to Camp Perry nationals last year (I am not that good though).
So what are your plans and such for your off time?
I agree Jean, my anecdotal comment is but one tiny grain of sand on the beach.
Regarding other's bitter comments, it hurts when your life is turned upside down. I am fine because of my solid faith. But those who work endless 14 hour days (including commute time) and who are devoted to their jobs, they suffer the most when their dedication is rejected. Its a rejection of their core being.
I think a deeper economic analysis needs to be made of the situation. Thats what I am studying right now. Its more tricky today. In the past when farming went to manufacturing that took fifty years with plenty of time to adjust. Same when manufacturing went to information technology\services. But when information services vanish, what's left?
I worked for a major retailer for 17 years, then Feb 18 2005 wammo! My job was replaced by offshoring. The person now at my desk is a figurehead (or project manager) for a programming group in Bangalore.
"Grace" is a classic name namevoyager says "Grace" was most popular in 1880 with 5,000 per year named. That dwindled to a low in the 1970's with a recent upswing in 2006.
You were close to greatness living in Pentagon City near Grace Hopper. And shopping in the same underground center as she did.
I was lucky in school to meet Captain Hopper (Captain Cobol - she was promoted many times later.). In 1979 Captain Hopper visited my university, then ETSU and now TAMU Commerce, bringing her loop of microsecond wire. The computer club that night had a drink session for my one and only time as bartender and I served Ms Hopper a drink. Also there was Gary Shelley of "Structured Cobol" fame.
I am sure this story of Grace Hopper has been repeated across the USA in numerous colleges and universities in the years before, during, and after. Grace Hopper was a tireless and wonderful advocate for COBOL.
God bless her soul, Jim Burke
PS There were other Cobol promoters out there such as Gerald Weinberg. As far as I know Gerald Weinberg mostly visited corporations with the message.
Your problem could be your users or it could be you.
USER LAZINESS Suspect email to the user sits in Earthlink's SuspectEmail page for a default of 14 days. Earthlink users can easily go that page to move email and add you to their address book. However checking a web page takes energy and users might not do that very diligently.
MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES One problem with some businesses email is they constantly change their internal email address. For example NRA (National Rifle Association) always winds up in my Earthlink suspect email. Below are two NRA examples. NRA_Endorsed_Insurance_Programs.UM.A.2.4767@www.nr anews.org NRA_Endorsed_Insurance_Programs.UM.A.2.4687@www.nr anews.org
I use Earthlink for email. Earthlink spamblocker is practically my home page because I check it all the time.
Teachers call back NIST committee, they flunked the sixth grade. But NIST itself does many wonderful brainy things.
As an IT person and as an election judge here in Texas here are my comments. I omit those of despair
PARALLEL LOGIC. Voting electronics are PC embedded based (the ones I have seen boot up). Votes are precious. Lets assume the operations part of voting goes wacko clear down to the chip level. So create electronics based on outer space electronics. Copy each vote (time stamp and who voted for) to a dedicated vote saver chip that is completely separate from the operations part. Something that is write only for that election. Something that is electronically non volatile. This would be a different electronic KIND of saving counts than that on the main operations part of the system. For a weak example, say main operations saves to a register and dedicated save is a writable CD.
REDO THE VOTING MACHINES. One committee member decried changes saying everything would have to be replaced. You bet fella! Its brkoe ('broke'; see I had to replace my misspelled word).
THE VOTE PROCESS HAS A DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY FROM IT. The vote process is kind of slow and crusty because it values those votes. So we have a problem with an IT approach (flush everything & reboot) vs be careful with everything approach. Really there is no happy medium. We must move to a more careful approach. Almost as far as keeping a change database of each line of operations code.An example is NASA's "They Write the Right Stuff".
I worry about the occasional fire disaster overtaking museums and their irreplaceable contents. This happens more often than we think. For example the Library at Alexandria Egypt fire, the 1988 Leningrad Library Fire, the Duchess Anna Amalia library fire, and many many more.
So imagine the 23 bulbs be divided up into several batches and distributed to have a couple on each continent. Taking the large view we should create two Smithsonian type museums with approximately duplicate contents.
Biblical fragments (i.e papyri, uncial fragments, and minuscules) have been distributed thusly. There are more than 600 fragments that compose modern bibles and those fragments are all over the world.
It never hurts to have backups. Even outside of IT.
Just like Weston, I was in a high deductible (aka medical value) for years and years. Oops. Then in my mid 40's I got rheumatoid arthritis which quickly ate up the $2,600 deductible with all its initial testing. I got canned from work after being mocked because I could not move well (I forgive them, time will take care of them!). I have gotten used to $80 a month for blood tests.
Then you may be 20 and happy as a lark but watch out.
. Walking or driving a car can result in expensive health accidents rather quickly.
. Insurance is spread risk. What if someone in your risk pool needs a new kidney? Boom! Your deductible goes up a lot and your payment creeps up some.
That little truck was speeding toward me on a very slick pavement. My gentle warning of tapping the brake light saved me from a rear ender. It was with mixed emotions that I observed him sliding into the ditch; yes he deserved it for ignoring safety on the highway (the glee part), then the unhappy part was sliding into the ditch was too much, if he could have braked himself he should have.
Thanks for all the instances you folks have provided of this going on. I certainly will be most careful myself for the lone tree or lone rock that sits quietly beckoning by the side of the road.
I believe what you describe is what I call the NASCAR effect.
Last Spring I was on I20 rolling right along at 72mph. Then suddenly my speed jumped up 4 or 5 mph. What gives? There was this pickup truck a couple of feet behind he. He had entered my slipstream and gave me a boost. I like my car and life so I moved into the right lane quickly (we were passing another car at the time).
1. I did that (once only - I'm not totally evil) several years ago on a wet road. That is tapped the brakes to light them up. The rapidly approaching small truck braked hard and the road camber (curved road surface) moved him into the ditch. What a nice surprise.
2. Then my geology teacher came to class one day and said he tapped his brakes which sent some stupid #$% into the ditch. He was so grimly pleased I realized right there I never wanted to date his beautiful daughter (even if I could have).
Cool functions! Certainly those nixies and the servos were from Cape scrap. I think mostly scientific types were those who saw and used nixie tubes. Back in the early 1960's of B&W TV, some old tube radio in the kitchen, and a coffee percolator then what need was there then for a digital display device? Even transistor radios were happy to use a variable capacitance tuner instead of nixies. This because nixies used 105 or so dc volts and that would not go in a portable radio.
And the timer used servos and etc to emulate a geared clock. Rube Goldberg walked tall in those days!
What brand and model of voltage meter? A serial number and any dates. Where is your technical university?
Then perhaps a link to a picture. You are looking at history there! Russia did produce nixies through 1990. I think USA engineers in a fit of passion for the TI-2500 one day in 1972 decided to ditch both nixies and slide rules.
I think they did use Nixies on early Saturn test launches. I saw them on a launch shot of the Saturn I and 1B DVD. There the Saturn 1 is arcing during its apogee; then the nixies blink out one by one to indicate the angle.
I have a several Apollo DVDs from www.spacecraftfilms. The two starter ones are Saturn I and 1B and Saturn V. Then there is endless detail on DVDs for individual Apollo launches. Its interesting to see the Saturn V rollout and how skinny everyone was back then and how casual security was with a car filled road right next to the rollout path. Thats not part of any KSC tour today.
I admire very much anyone who worked on the Apollo and pre Apollo programs because they bootstrapped this country from pretty much flat ground space-wise clear to the moon. My gratitude to your father in law.
NPR radio said that it appeared in Greek literature that other complex devices were used by the wealthy to amuse guests.
Currently I have a Nixie clock for the same 'guest amusement' function. In several millennium when this creation is rediscovered it will seem oddly complex and mysterious. Bill Gates and Scott McNealy, what mysterious technical devices are in your living room?
Here in Dallas TX, we experience no traffic signs occasionally when stop lights go out. Especially awful with three lanes in one direction. Its instant 'blade runner' then.
"Villemarette said eating chips, in a roundabout way, presents a problem when a human skeleton is being processed. The [dermestid] beetles don't like to eat human tissue, he said, because of the volume of grease in human bones and meat."
Slashdot Mirror
The article only refers to the growing set of 'red light cameras' here.
Police are very scarce overall in Dallas. I go for days without seeing a police car.
I will watch now! I drive with a camera and will take my own pix and chat with any offending officer.
I have the brass to buck the system. A few years ago I got onto a plainclothes officer for always parking in handicapped in my apartments. Boy was he pissed. He tried intimidation. He slowly put his gun harness on, stuck his glock in it. Then zoomed off. Then shortly afterwards he moved. Hope your are nicer now. But most police here really are great and wonderful people.
Thanks,
Jim The Java Man
I am taken aback by most comments on this topic that want to tear the building down. To me that is one of the better moments of Silicon Valley history.
But I must admit I am kind of a Luddite myself. I love technology and history at the same time.
One history moment that stuns me is standing on the site of the first space launch down at KSC. To think humans had the audacity to to go into space on that tiny vehicle? I think that someday some kid not yet born might stand on that site and be inspired to weave string theory into viable interstellar travel.
I would like to see the building restored to its seminal or best moment in time. Complete with the old cars out front. Likewise this site might inspire another kid to do great things.
Thanks,
Jim
I wonder, on your comment. If testing for vitamin c is not cutting edge science, then how would I test for vitamin C ascorbic acid? And how does one differentiate between other acids that might exist in the drink?
Then on your "why has nobody tested". Ah a most interesting comment. We consumers stumble around fat, dumb, and happy. Other things that have not been tested. What about the melamine in dog/cat food wheat gluten? Does the USA have a low mad cow disease rate because no one looks? Why have honey bee colonies experienced mass die offs this Spring in the USA?
Thanks,
Jim
True I am probably the about the age as your dad. I am not afraid of the younger workers or younger managers. This because at my geek geezer age, I take university classes where everyone else is under 22.
The difference in my situation was the replacement was much cheaper than me. Because they were from India.
Then I did perform IT support for about seven years. I got out of that and went to programming because I saw that newer operating systems would fix the problems I had to fix in my IT support role. In the IT support role, a funny thing with Microsoft, when I found a few fixes to their non working fix, Microsoft removed the non working fix and never posted my good one. That left support people out there without a paddle.
Thanks,
Jim
To clarify, it was the same company, JCPenney for 17 years. But any large IT department has many facets. I worked several different jobs within that company. Helped define the corporate network, designed the layout of PC systems i.e. corporate desktop, did a logistics project that tracked shipments, and another project that performed analysis of future selling trends. Then if you go into a store today and look at the sale signs, I did the barcodes down on the bottom of those. All very fun things to do.
Your Dad's advice certainly is true for me. And its true for ALL OTHER SLASHDOTTERS. LISTEN UP FOLKS. If something stinks about your current job situation then CHANGE! Change projects, change managers, change jobs. But CHANGE. Don't sit still.
Thanks,
Jim
Oh no, no anger at all. Confusion if anything. Its like hitting your pet dog for no reason. Confuses the heck out of them. So I see things with better clarity now. Its such a wonderful relief. Better thinking now, my brain is not wasting half its effort worrying.
As I have said in other replies, what defines our economy? Its bigger than my job or yours. What fundamental economic practices produce our jobs? What made the original crossroads back in 1820 or so (where you now live) turn into a thriving metropolis? What ultimately makes the economy of a city run? Is it a woodworker in some basement who is the actual core of an economy? (That's the weather butterfly effect writ small for our city economics. And Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" also comes to mind.).
Thanks,
Jim
Probably like yourself, I was treated horribly because of corporate dismissal policies where managers warp reality to gain their ends. Thats their problem though, I forgave them in the parking lot before I left. Life has a funny way of getting even with people like that. I bet your old manager has ulcers or worse right now - I know mine does.
I am infinitely better off right now. I am happy. Each day is a joy. I am an intuitive thinker so I have all these different projects that have common threads. I am working on being a bit more of a renaissance thinker.
Here in Dallas the economy is expanding but it appears to be hourly service jobs. Certainly lots of automobiles running around. Wow.
Best wishes with your life, sounds like you are on the correct path. That's pretty good. Most people only manage a few steps in what might not even be the right direction.
Thanks,
Jim
I am doing just fine right now. After all those years chasing a deadline, I can now relax. So my plans include learning Greek (to get the flavor of the bible in its original language), working on my math skills, collecting slide rules, reconnecting with friends, and thinking of what a better computer interface might look like. I also have taken up service rifle shooting and enjoy that very much. One of my friends coaches me. Went as part of the state team to Camp Perry nationals last year (I am not that good though).
So what are your plans and such for your off time?
Thanks,
Jim
I agree Jean, my anecdotal comment is but one tiny grain of sand on the beach.
Regarding other's bitter comments, it hurts when your life is turned upside down. I am fine because of my solid faith. But those who work endless 14 hour days (including commute time) and who are devoted to their jobs, they suffer the most when their dedication is rejected. Its a rejection of their core being.
I think a deeper economic analysis needs to be made of the situation. Thats what I am studying right now. Its more tricky today. In the past when farming went to manufacturing that took fifty years with plenty of time to adjust. Same when manufacturing went to information technology\services. But when information services vanish, what's left?
Thanks for your great comment,
Jim
I worked for a major retailer for 17 years, then Feb 18 2005 wammo! My job was replaced by offshoring. The person now at my desk is a figurehead (or project manager) for a programming group in Bangalore.
Thanks,
Jim
"Grace" is a classic name namevoyager says "Grace" was most popular in 1880 with 5,000 per year named. That dwindled to a low in the 1970's with a recent upswing in 2006.
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See for yourself
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.htm
Thanks,
Jim Burke
You were close to greatness living in Pentagon City near Grace Hopper. And shopping in the same underground center as she did.
I was lucky in school to meet Captain Hopper (Captain Cobol - she was promoted many times later.). In 1979 Captain Hopper visited my university, then ETSU and now TAMU Commerce, bringing her loop of microsecond wire. The computer club that night had a drink session for my one and only time as bartender and I served Ms Hopper a drink. Also there was Gary Shelley of "Structured Cobol" fame.
I am sure this story of Grace Hopper has been repeated across the USA in numerous colleges and universities in the years before, during, and after. Grace Hopper was a tireless and wonderful advocate for COBOL.
God bless her soul,
Jim Burke
PS There were other Cobol promoters out there such as Gerald Weinberg. As far as I know Gerald Weinberg mostly visited corporations with the message.
Hey Brian,
r anews.orgr anews.org
Your problem could be your users or it could be you.
USER LAZINESS Suspect email to the user sits in Earthlink's SuspectEmail page for a default of 14 days. Earthlink users can easily go that page to move email and add you to their address book. However checking a web page takes energy and users might not do that very diligently.
MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES One problem with some businesses email is they constantly change their internal email address. For example NRA (National Rifle Association) always winds up in my Earthlink suspect email. Below are two NRA examples.
NRA_Endorsed_Insurance_Programs.UM.A.2.4767@www.n
NRA_Endorsed_Insurance_Programs.UM.A.2.4687@www.n
I use Earthlink for email. Earthlink spamblocker is practically my home page because I check it all the time.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
Teachers call back NIST committee, they flunked the sixth grade. But NIST itself does many wonderful brainy things.
t ml
As an IT person and as an election judge here in Texas here are my comments. I omit those of despair
PARALLEL LOGIC. Voting electronics are PC embedded based (the ones I have seen boot up). Votes are precious. Lets assume the operations part of voting goes wacko clear down to the chip level. So create electronics based on outer space electronics. Copy each vote (time stamp and who voted for) to a dedicated vote saver chip that is completely separate from the operations part. Something that is write only for that election. Something that is electronically non volatile. This would be a different electronic KIND of saving counts than that on the main operations part of the system. For a weak example, say main operations saves to a register and dedicated save is a writable CD.
REDO THE VOTING MACHINES. One committee member decried changes saying everything would have to be replaced. You bet fella! Its brkoe ('broke'; see I had to replace my misspelled word).
THE VOTE PROCESS HAS A DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY FROM IT. The vote process is kind of slow and crusty because it values those votes. So we have a problem with an IT approach (flush everything & reboot) vs be careful with everything approach. Really there is no happy medium. We must move to a more careful approach. Almost as far as keeping a change database of each line of operations code.An example is NASA's "They Write the Right Stuff".
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.h
Thanks slashdot for tickling our brains,
Jim Burke
I worry about the occasional fire disaster overtaking museums and their irreplaceable contents. This happens more often than we think. For example the Library at Alexandria Egypt fire, the 1988 Leningrad Library Fire, the Duchess Anna Amalia library fire, and many many more.
So imagine the 23 bulbs be divided up into several batches and distributed to have a couple on each continent. Taking the large view we should create two Smithsonian type museums with approximately duplicate contents.
Biblical fragments (i.e papyri, uncial fragments, and minuscules) have been distributed thusly. There are more than 600 fragments that compose modern bibles and those fragments are all over the world.
It never hurts to have backups. Even outside of IT.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
Just like Weston, I was in a high deductible (aka medical value) for years and years. Oops. Then in my mid 40's I got rheumatoid arthritis which quickly ate up the $2,600 deductible with all its initial testing. I got canned from work after being mocked because I could not move well (I forgive them, time will take care of them!). I have gotten used to $80 a month for blood tests.
Then you may be 20 and happy as a lark but watch out.
. Walking or driving a car can result in expensive health accidents rather quickly.
. Insurance is spread risk. What if someone in your risk pool needs a new kidney? Boom! Your deductible goes up a lot and your payment creeps up some.
Happy everything folks!
Jim
That little truck was speeding toward me on a very slick pavement. My gentle warning of tapping the brake light saved me from a rear ender. It was with mixed emotions that I observed him sliding into the ditch; yes he deserved it for ignoring safety on the highway (the glee part), then the unhappy part was sliding into the ditch was too much, if he could have braked himself he should have.
Thanks for all the instances you folks have provided of this going on. I certainly will be most careful myself for the lone tree or lone rock that sits quietly beckoning by the side of the road.
Thanks,
Jim the b
I believe what you describe is what I call the NASCAR effect.
Last Spring I was on I20 rolling right along at 72mph. Then suddenly my speed jumped up 4 or 5 mph. What gives? There was this pickup truck a couple of feet behind he. He had entered my slipstream and gave me a boost. I like my car and life so I moved into the right lane quickly (we were passing another car at the time).
Thanks,
Jim Burke
Thats probably a common thing.
1. I did that (once only - I'm not totally evil) several years ago on a wet road. That is tapped the brakes to light them up. The rapidly approaching small truck braked hard and the road camber (curved road surface) moved him into the ditch. What a nice surprise.
2. Then my geology teacher came to class one day and said he tapped his brakes which sent some stupid #$% into the ditch. He was so grimly pleased I realized right there I never wanted to date his beautiful daughter (even if I could have).
Thanks
Jim the B!
Cool functions! Certainly those nixies and the servos were from Cape scrap. I think mostly scientific types were those who saw and used nixie tubes. Back in the early 1960's of B&W TV, some old tube radio in the kitchen, and a coffee percolator then what need was there then for a digital display device? Even transistor radios were happy to use a variable capacitance tuner instead of nixies. This because nixies used 105 or so dc volts and that would not go in a portable radio.
And the timer used servos and etc to emulate a geared clock. Rube Goldberg walked tall in those days!
Thanks,
Jim Burke
What brand and model of voltage meter? A serial number and any dates. Where is your technical university?
Then perhaps a link to a picture. You are looking at history there! Russia did produce nixies through 1990. I think USA engineers in a fit of passion for the TI-2500 one day in 1972 decided to ditch both nixies and slide rules.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
I think they did use Nixies on early Saturn test launches. I saw them on a launch shot of the Saturn I and 1B DVD. There the Saturn 1 is arcing during its apogee; then the nixies blink out one by one to indicate the angle.
I have a several Apollo DVDs from www.spacecraftfilms. The two starter ones are Saturn I and 1B and Saturn V. Then there is endless detail on DVDs for individual Apollo launches. Its interesting to see the Saturn V rollout and how skinny everyone was back then and how casual security was with a car filled road right next to the rollout path. Thats not part of any KSC tour today.
I admire very much anyone who worked on the Apollo and pre Apollo programs because they bootstrapped this country from pretty much flat ground space-wise clear to the moon. My gratitude to your father in law.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
NPR radio said that it appeared in Greek literature that other complex devices were used by the wealthy to amuse guests.
Currently I have a Nixie clock for the same 'guest amusement' function. In several millennium when this creation is rediscovered it will seem oddly complex and mysterious. Bill Gates and Scott McNealy, what mysterious technical devices are in your living room?
So whats a Nixie? Forgot already have we? Jeff Thomas and Laurence Wilkins build good Nixie clocks.
http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/clockpage.html
Cheers,
Jim Burke
Here in Dallas TX, we experience no traffic signs occasionally when stop lights go out. Especially awful with three lanes in one direction. Its instant 'blade runner' then.
So whats your mileage with no traffic signs?
Jim
Also humans are too fat like bacon.
/ 110106dnbusskulls.2e2231f.html
"Villemarette said eating chips, in a roundabout way, presents a problem when a human skeleton is being processed. The [dermestid] beetles don't like to eat human tissue, he said, because of the volume of grease in human bones and meat."
Source: a Boston Globe article that was widely distributed in October.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories
Off topic, I wish this would slot under "The Robot Got it Right"
Thanks,
Jim Burke