Another thing which makes it this so unique is that it uses differential gears... This predates the current inventions by nearly 2 millenuim. Actually, it seems, the current differntial gears even took data from the Greeks for the same.
They really knew what they were doing. If a civilization knew maths, they knew quite a bit. Makes me wonder how much information would have been lost of the earlier civilizations, esp. the Indus Valley civilisations etc The civiliztion which was the epitome of mathematical knowledge at the time.
But, is there anyting called loyality, esp. in case of people with 10 etc years of experience? I am not too sure. As people become older (and thereby wiser), the concept of loyality etc goes out of the window. Most people are there in the company because 1. They are too lazy to check out other jobs 2. It is risky moving 3. When there is good experience, it is difficult to start off in a new company.
The problem is that company is much older and thereby much more wiser than the employee. So a company also dont have loyalty.
I have seen that the smaller the company is, the better they treat their employees. I think the reason is the same... i.e. the company is not old/wise enough.
Employment is just a contract between you and the employer. If you want to leave, you can. Similarly, if the employer wants to kick you out, they can also. What I have seen is that once you go up the management ladder, esp. in a big company, you tend to have less contact with the employee as a person. This inturn changes the view of the higher level manager about the employee - from a human being to just another resource.
And when you are just another resource (in their view), it is easier to replace them with any cheaper resource available, as long the quality of the product doesnt go down too much.
The tipping point is here, they can all claim they do it with the rationale, "everyone ELSE is doing it." Posh! The company is just looking at a way to maximize the profits and to stay alive in the competition. If everyone else is doing it, the company is taking a risk in NOT doing it. Business is very fickle, and if you are paying your employee more than what others are paying theirs, it is very easy to lose customers/market-share etc etc.
The problem here is that having a global economy goes both ways. You gain and you lose.
I am not too sure. VOIP shouldnt have any say in this. VOIP is primarily bearer channel, while for providing services etc, the signalling channel is what is important.
But it is true that signalling protocols are also changing for the better. Instead of the TDM based ISUP etc, the movement is towards SIP, which should help.
Mind you, this is not a new thing. SIP was completely ready by 2000 itself. Only that it is now everybody is moving towards it.
From the article Right now, for example, most of the mildly interesting stuff consumers can do with their phones - call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding - is programmed right into the big computers that route calls around the network. That makes it impossible for some some teenager tinkering at his computer to develop a new phone service.
Not exactly. Heard about IN or CAMEL ?? These were all designed as a way to take the power out from switches and provide a database which can be used by small switches. Using IN/CAMEL, it is very easy to provide/handle ANY service.
And what I want to see is how they are going to provide Lawful Intercept using the new platform.
Now that one mode of getting more revenue is closed (at $11K it is just a slap in the wrist, anyways), they will come up with workarounds. Maybe new hacks (patches??) which will plug in all M-rated items.
Thus, nobody can slight them on being on the wrong... since the M-rated areas are not part of the package... So, no recall of the game too.
The FTC should have blocked these too, in the ruling.
The article (press release ??) has NO data whatsoever on how they solved this issue? Since the high frequency makes it *very* less able to go around objects, how did they do it indeed? Were they able to use EIT ?
BTW, they did not speak about the degradation pattens in the article. Any ideas on the same?
I was just mentioning that politics is just one amongst the multitude of items that google search is used for. There are many many other colours in the palatte.. like science, literature, arts and philosophy, for which people use google as the first reference point.
Along with search, there are other services from google (for ex - google scholar), which I make extensive use of.
My question was, why should the people suffer for whatever the govt is accused of?
And how does this question become _apathy_ and _hypocrisy_ in your view?
no matter how you look at it, they chose the less moral option How? As long as they are not like Yahoo and gives out sensitive data about dissenters, how can it be considered less moral option? World is not black and white, and many a times, adapting to the different enviornments without surrendering the core values, might be always a _more_ moral option.
Not even going into China would have just decreased the information that the people there would be getting. Not everybody is interested in political, and thereby sensitive, information. There are other subjects like art/science etc in which google is mostly the first reference point.
From the article "There won't be a head-on collision. and the storms' outer bands will pass quite close to one another. I guess the summary was a little bit of a hyperbole. Esp. for an event that happens every two years.
There are quite a bit of peacetime military missions. Like - reconnaissance for instance. But, I do agree, such recons should not be at the risk of personnel - should be done by satellites and such.
Maybe for countries who dont have such capabilities.
Another set is 'helping' out guerilla missions against incumbent neighbouring govt, which is done by most of the countries.
Maybe the Virus writer did a mistake and did *not* use cryptography. Or The antivirus guys paid the Virus Writer for the password and published it. Since it is the same for everybody, it comes out as cracked.
Next time, the virus writer would be more careful and would generate a password for each m/c he infects
on why they might have sent the tracking patterns out.
Actually, compared to the local calls, a very high fraction of international calls (esp. from the countries mentioned pak, middle east etc) would have the reciever following up the news rxd to other family members in america. Since the intl call costs are quite high, the caller invariably asks the person to forward the message to everyone. This is going to be a big mess to be sorted out.
Now, the terrorist organisations would be on the lookout for any tracking patterns, and would get this flagged to all sleeper cells here. From now on, the messages sent to sleeper cells would have different behaviour -i.e. the people would use other phones to get the message out, or email or something.
Since NSA already have data for the numbers with the earlier patterns, any change in pattern would be flagged and would have a higher % capture rate.
Others would not care to change the patterns at all.
Why did they make this public? Since the terrorists already have a network, they will just put more safe-guards on this, i.e. all. Now the person, instead of making calls from the same line where it recived the intl call, might start calling others using different lines.
Guess this will be good for linux (atleast for a short time) If they are going to tax the sender - all the m/c which are hacked to send SPAMs would be first ones to get affected adversely. This will cause the average joe to wake up to the frailities of Windows... Nothing like a bill to get a persons attention. Thus many more people will go to more secure systems - and Linux since it currently has the name of being a secure system, would benefit.
But once many people move to Linux, the hacking would start in Linux then... Then who knows - Minix might be king:-)
Actually it is not that amazing. The probability of intelligent lives discovering truth is indeed small... But, as you mentioned, there is so much matter and so much variations in the universe, that this probability converts to millions of possibilities. We are just lucky that we fell in to that lot.
I guess this has lots and lots of issues, due to which it was taken out.. but anyways here goes - The problem now is that there is no way of controlling fusion. Then dont control it.
Have some huge contraption made ready such that a huge explosion at some specific point can be used to set up potential energy reservoirs which then can be tapped slowly and efficiently. Now, explode anything, and now we do have a means to obtain energy from the same.
How etc is very vauge, since this is just a germinating idea. But if this is possible, then we have fusion that can be tapped (albeit inefficeintly).
The listed prices range from $149 (student) to $499 (Professional Plus) with no price listed for the required SharePoint Server (volume licensing only). Oh, subtract $170 or so for the upgrade version.
Ooh!! Are they going to pay me then if I upgrade to a student version ?? Should I do a deal with the devil -- sell my soul for $21... ---What the heck!! Soul cant buy be 2 med sized pizzas... YYo Vista..
I understood the question wrong. I read it as - the harmonics of power line (50Hz) would interfere with the signal that carries the data, rather than the power line acting as a stub and radiating the signals out. My bad.
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Another thing which makes it this so unique is that it uses differential gears ...
This predates the current inventions by nearly 2 millenuim.
Actually, it seems, the current differntial gears even took data from the Greeks for the same.
They really knew what they were doing.
If a civilization knew maths, they knew quite a bit.
Makes me wonder how much information would have been lost of the earlier civilizations, esp. the Indus Valley civilisations etc
The civiliztion which was the epitome of mathematical knowledge at the time.
But, is there anyting called loyality, esp. in case of people with 10 etc years of experience?
I am not too sure.
As people become older (and thereby wiser), the concept of loyality etc goes out of the window.
Most people are there in the company because
1. They are too lazy to check out other jobs
2. It is risky moving
3. When there is good experience, it is difficult to start off in a new company.
The problem is that company is much older and thereby much more wiser than the employee.
So a company also dont have loyalty.
I have seen that the smaller the company is, the better they treat their employees.
I think the reason is the same... i.e. the company is not old/wise enough.
This is my view
Employment is just a contract between you and the employer.
If you want to leave, you can.
Similarly, if the employer wants to kick you out, they can also.
What I have seen is that once you go up the management ladder, esp. in a big company, you tend to have less contact with the employee as a person.
This inturn changes the view of the higher level manager about the employee - from a human being to just another resource.
And when you are just another resource (in their view), it is easier to replace them with any cheaper resource available, as long the quality of the product doesnt go down too much.
The tipping point is here, they can all claim they do it with the rationale, "everyone ELSE is doing it." Posh!
The company is just looking at a way to maximize the profits and to stay alive in the competition.
If everyone else is doing it, the company is taking a risk in NOT doing it.
Business is very fickle, and if you are paying your employee more than what others are paying theirs, it is very easy to lose customers/market-share etc etc.
The problem here is that having a global economy goes both ways.
You gain and you lose.
Why would you say that people STILL will choose AMD over INTEL?
When the cost goes down, unless AMD cuts costs (they started doing it now), majority of people will NOT choose AMD over intel.
People who are undecided would now go for INTEL.
What the heck, even AMD zealots might now sing a different tune.
Money rules the market.
Does this mean, I was paying up to 160% more than what I should have, till now?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I am not too sure.
VOIP shouldnt have any say in this.
VOIP is primarily bearer channel, while for providing services etc, the signalling channel is what is important.
But it is true that signalling protocols are also changing for the better.
Instead of the TDM based ISUP etc, the movement is towards SIP, which should help.
Mind you, this is not a new thing. SIP was completely ready by 2000 itself. Only that it is now everybody is moving towards it.
From the article
Right now, for example, most of the mildly interesting stuff consumers can do with their phones - call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding - is programmed right into the big computers that route calls around the network. That makes it impossible for some some teenager tinkering at his computer to develop a new phone service.
Not exactly.
Heard about IN or CAMEL ??
These were all designed as a way to take the power out from switches and provide a database which can be used by small switches.
Using IN/CAMEL, it is very easy to provide/handle ANY service.
And what I want to see is how they are going to provide Lawful Intercept using the new platform.
Now that one mode of getting more revenue is closed (at $11K it is just a slap in the wrist, anyways), they will come up with workarounds.
... since the M-rated areas are not part of the package ...
Maybe new hacks (patches??) which will plug in all M-rated items.
Thus, nobody can slight them on being on the wrong
So, no recall of the game too.
The FTC should have blocked these too, in the ruling.
$11 K per violation? .. for complanies that make money in millions...
this is absurd
that it was not hacked...
Just a question
The article (press release ??) has NO data whatsoever on how they solved this issue?
Since the high frequency makes it *very* less able to go around objects, how did they do it indeed?
Were they able to use EIT ?
BTW, they did not speak about the degradation pattens in the article.
Any ideas on the same?
I do not understand.
.. like science, literature, arts and philosophy, for which people use google as the first reference point.
I was just mentioning that politics is just one amongst the multitude of items that google search is used for.
There are many many other colours in the palatte
Along with search, there are other services from google (for ex - google scholar), which I make extensive use of.
My question was, why should the people suffer for whatever the govt is accused of?
And how does this question become _apathy_ and _hypocrisy_ in your view?
Not all of science can _ever_ get automated by computer (atleast not until actual AI comes along)
Science, especially pure sciences, need a lot of intuition and many a times, an understanding far above and different than that of others.
It is impossible as far as computers are concerned... (unless self-aware self-modifying programs come along??)
This will help in routine checks and scientific experiments.. that is all.
no matter how you look at it, they chose the less moral option
How?
As long as they are not like Yahoo and gives out sensitive data about dissenters, how can it be considered less moral option?
World is not black and white, and many a times, adapting to the different enviornments without surrendering the core values, might be always a _more_ moral option.
Not even going into China would have just decreased the information that the people there would be getting.
Not everybody is interested in political, and thereby sensitive, information.
There are other subjects like art/science etc in which google is mostly the first reference point.
From the article "There won't be a head-on collision. and the storms' outer bands will pass quite close to one another.
I guess the summary was a little bit of a hyperbole. Esp. for an event that happens every two years.
There are quite a bit of peacetime military missions.
Like - reconnaissance for instance.
But, I do agree, such recons should not be at the risk of personnel - should be done by satellites and such.
Maybe for countries who dont have such capabilities.
Another set is 'helping' out guerilla missions against incumbent neighbouring govt, which is done by most of the countries.
Maybe the Virus writer did a mistake and did *not* use cryptography.
Or
The antivirus guys paid the Virus Writer for the password and published it.
Since it is the same for everybody, it comes out as cracked.
Next time, the virus writer would be more careful and would generate a password for each m/c he infects
So, there.
on why they might have sent the tracking patterns out.
Actually, compared to the local calls, a very high fraction of international calls (esp. from the countries mentioned pak, middle east etc) would have the reciever following up the news rxd to other family members in america.
Since the intl call costs are quite high, the caller invariably asks the person to forward the message to everyone. This is going to be a big mess to be sorted out.
Now, the terrorist organisations would be on the lookout for any tracking patterns, and would get this flagged to all sleeper cells here. From now on, the messages sent to sleeper cells would have different behaviour -i.e. the people would use other phones to get the message out, or email or something.
Since NSA already have data for the numbers with the earlier patterns, any change in pattern would be flagged and would have a higher % capture rate.
Others would not care to change the patterns at all.
Why did they make this public?
Since the terrorists already have a network, they will just put more safe-guards on this, i.e. all.
Now the person, instead of making calls from the same line where it recived the intl call, might start calling others using different lines.
or - other safe-gaurds as such.
Obscurity does have its advantages.
Guess this will be good for linux (atleast for a short time)
:-)
If they are going to tax the sender - all the m/c which are hacked to send SPAMs would be first ones to get affected adversely.
This will cause the average joe to wake up to the frailities of Windows... Nothing like a bill to get a persons attention.
Thus many more people will go to more secure systems - and Linux since it currently has the name of being a secure system, would benefit.
But once many people move to Linux, the hacking would start in Linux then...
Then who knows - Minix might be king
Actually it is not that amazing.
The probability of intelligent lives discovering truth is indeed small...
But, as you mentioned, there is so much matter and so much variations in the universe, that this probability converts to millions of possibilities.
We are just lucky that we fell in to that lot.
I guess this has lots and lots of issues, due to which it was taken out.. but anyways here goes
-
The problem now is that there is no way of controlling fusion.
Then dont control it.
Have some huge contraption made ready such that a huge explosion at some specific point can be used to set up potential energy reservoirs which then can be tapped slowly and efficiently.
Now, explode anything, and now we do have a means to obtain energy from the same.
How etc is very vauge, since this is just a germinating idea. But if this is possible, then we have fusion that can be tapped (albeit inefficeintly).
The listed prices range from $149 (student) to $499 (Professional Plus) with no price listed for the required SharePoint Server (volume licensing only). Oh, subtract $170 or so for the upgrade version.
... ..
Ooh!! Are they going to pay me then if I upgrade to a student version ??
Should I do a deal with the devil -- sell my soul for $21
---What the heck!! Soul cant buy be 2 med sized pizzas...
YYo Vista
I tried the link, but it is slashdotted ...
Goodness gracious
I understood the question wrong.
I read it as - the harmonics of power line (50Hz) would interfere with the signal that carries the data, rather than the power line acting as a stub and radiating the signals out.
My bad.