Here's the problem:
Amazon payments charges:
Transactions greater than or equal to $10.00: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. So a $25 donation yields $23.97 to archive.org, or 95 cents on the dollar.
Transactions less than or equal to $9.99: 5.0% + $0.05 per transaction. So a $5 donation yields $4.70, or 94 cents on the dollar.
Now, they are most likely using Amazon's volume payment system, so are paying between 2.2 and 2.5% + $0.30 per transaction, but only for transactions greater than $9.99. Let's assume the lower rate (although it's calculated as a 3-month average, so I doubt they're eligible). Now a $25 donation yields $24.15, or 96 cents on the dollar. It's just not as cost-effective for them to solicit tiny donations (btw, PayPal's rates are similar).
As to the worth of the service, whether you use it or not, archive.org is still there 24/7/365. Would you prefer to submit your query and then wait 72 hours for the results?
Anyone who purchases gasoline is potentially being cheated because gas pumps measure volume without regard to temperature and the thermal expansion of gasoline.
A 5 degree C rise in temperature is equivalent to paying US$0.03 more per gallon.
Only the oldest CFLs used a magnetic ballast at line frequency; virtually all on the market today use a high frequency (> 10 kHz) switching supply to in order to reduce the size and cost of the transformer. If your CFLs are perceptibly flickering, it is due to some other device affecting the power quality (large appliance motors, usually).
Older and "bargain" tube-style fluorescent fixtures use magnetic ballasts, so it isn't uncommon for those to flicker.
Sometimes perceived flicker is due to vibration (jiggling eyeballs).
View the light source through a moving electric fan blade.
If you can see blade images (think wagon wheels in the movies), you have a magnetic ballast light source.
I'm pretty sure that no human can perceive flicker faster than ~110 Hz.
..if you use agricultural (or even residential) runoff. Here in the NE USA we build treatment plants to remove the phosphorus (from lawn chemicals and detergents) from wastewater and stormwater so as to prevent algal blooms in our lakes and streams.
“Marblar, these marblars want to change your marblar. They don't want Marblar or any of these marblars to live here because it's bad for their marblar. They use Marblar to try and force marblars to believe they're marblar. If you let them stay here, they will build marblars and marblars. They will take all your marblars and replace them with Marblar. These marblar have no good marblar to live on Marblar, so they must come here to Marblar. Please, let these marblars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marblars, marblars, or marblars.” -- Kyle Broflovski
It's a major component of having an informed citizenry, who can make educated decisions about public policy.
If more people understood basic statistics and risk, some basic chemistry, and Newtonian physics, we could have intelligent discussions about
subjects like nuclear power, hydraulic fracturing, antibiotic abuse, GMO's, climate change, etc. without whipsawing between the
two extreme positions selected by the media to maximize the vitriol.
The kids is 9. Forth is maybe about 2-3 years older as a first language.
The kid is described as "gifted" and doing math five grades above his class; I think he'd manage it just fine.
I fed a sample of Chapter 1 to an analyzer, it's written at a 6th grade level. Plus, the cartoon illustrations are better than the text.
Sure, it was published over 30 years ago, and FORTH gets (and often earns) the the moniker of a Write-Only Language,
but it allows concepts and code to be tested interactively, and as a language written in itself, lets the interested user learn
how it works, not just how to work it.
It's not exactly a resume builder, but knowledge of FORTH makes the concepts underlying other languages a lot easier to comprehend.
Nope sorry, didn't go to Webb. That summer, someone left the PDP-8's running with no air conditioning, and something blew in one of them.
My brother and I along with another kid put it in the station wagon and drove it out to Digital in Maynard, MA. After going to a couple of the wrong
buildings, we finally found the service depot, located in a giant warehouse located behind what was then an H.H. Scott stereo dealer.
A long-haired, mustached dude in an army jacket connected our box to a DECwriter, and got a paper tape loaded. A massive printout eventually ID'd what cards to swap out. It worked, but the core memory tended to fail whenever power was removed after that. I'm not sure how the repair was paid for, I think they just billed the school.
FOCAL-69 on two DEC PDP-8/L's with ASR-33 teletypes with paper tape reader/punch.
We had a KENBAK-1 "trainer" that I learned the basics of logic and machine language on.
There was no formal class; there was an interested math teacher who taught the basics after school to some kids,
who then taught the rest (including me).
The PDP-8's were eventually replaced, first with a rented Wang minicomputer (cassette tape drive and video terminal),
then a Polymorphic 88 micro (floppy drives). BASIC on both.
was, hands down, the best feature of the phone/tablet.
A cute little base that the phone clung to magnetically, and it would charge.
No fiddling with the fragile micro-USB cover, no getting the connector upside-down.
Never misplaced my phone, because I would just park it on the Touchstone at home or work (I bought two).
TI holds a monopoly thanks to their sole approval with Educational Testing Service for use on the ACT and SAT exams.
Any calculator would be fine, TI and ETS would have you believe that anything else would be a cheating device.
That's why they go to such ridiculous lengths to make them difficult to hack (encrypted loaders, secret keys, etc).
Have you ever tried to help an 80+ year-old relative with their computer?
"Just start the VNC server, auntie."
"Is that the 'start' button thingy?"
"No, just click on the icon that says 'VNC'."
"All I see is the email from cousin Ruby."
"Ok, close the email first."
"Do I turn off the computer? That's what I do when I'm done reading my mail..."
(continues for 35 minutes)
The point being, the folks who need the help can't be relied upon to start/stop a VNC server, or carry out any other task
that isn't part of their normal routine. And leaving a VNC server running, with circa-1985 eight-character password, on a standard port,
is a security risk.
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with an Intel i3 540 3.06 Ghz CPU running 64-bit Debian 5.
I think they use that mobo because it has lots of SATA ports.
Amazon payments charges:
Transactions greater than or equal to $10.00: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. So a $25 donation yields $23.97 to archive.org, or 95 cents on the dollar.
Transactions less than or equal to $9.99: 5.0% + $0.05 per transaction. So a $5 donation yields $4.70, or 94 cents on the dollar.
Now, they are most likely using Amazon's volume payment system, so are paying between 2.2 and 2.5% + $0.30 per transaction, but only for transactions greater than $9.99. Let's assume the lower rate (although it's calculated as a 3-month average, so I doubt they're eligible). Now a $25 donation yields $24.15, or 96 cents on the dollar. It's just not as cost-effective for them to solicit tiny donations (btw, PayPal's rates are similar).
As to the worth of the service, whether you use it or not, archive.org is still there 24/7/365. Would you prefer to submit your query and then wait 72 hours for the results?
Might I suggest that you are a cheapskate.
$25/annum = 7 cents ($0.07) per day.
How much do you pay for your mobile data plan and/or ISP?
My time is worth more than $1.00.
Let me set the price, FB can take 10%.
A "2,000 year old" ice core implies that was how long ago it was drilled...
Just sayin'....
The jury's still out as to whether it warms up passing through the pump...
Anyone who purchases gasoline is potentially being cheated because gas pumps measure volume without regard to temperature and the thermal expansion of gasoline.
A 5 degree C rise in temperature is equivalent to paying US$0.03 more per gallon.
Only the oldest CFLs used a magnetic ballast at line frequency; virtually all on the market today use a high frequency (> 10 kHz) switching supply to in order to reduce the size and cost of the transformer.
If your CFLs are perceptibly flickering, it is due to some other device affecting the power quality (large appliance motors, usually).
Older and "bargain" tube-style fluorescent fixtures use magnetic ballasts, so it isn't uncommon for those to flicker.
Sometimes perceived flicker is due to vibration (jiggling eyeballs).
View the light source through a moving electric fan blade.
If you can see blade images (think wagon wheels in the movies), you have a magnetic ballast light source.
I'm pretty sure that no human can perceive flicker faster than ~110 Hz.
Earthicans banned it in 2010...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/dry_cleaners_perchlorate.shtml
Thousands of zip ties. And lots of clippers for trimming / removing them.
You'll have to help, for a while...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crayon-physics-deluxe/id300830915?mt=8
..if you use agricultural (or even residential) runoff. Here in the NE USA we build treatment plants to remove the phosphorus (from lawn chemicals and detergents) from wastewater and stormwater so as to prevent algal blooms in our lakes and streams.
“Marblar, these marblars want to change your marblar. They don't want Marblar or any of these marblars to live here because it's bad for their marblar. They use Marblar to try and force marblars to believe they're marblar. If you let them stay here, they will build marblars and marblars. They will take all your marblars and replace them with Marblar. These marblar have no good marblar to live on Marblar, so they must come here to Marblar. Please, let these marblars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marblars, marblars, or marblars.” -- Kyle Broflovski
... so it's really just an abandoned amusement park ride. Recycle it as scrap.
It's a major component of having an informed citizenry, who can make educated decisions about public policy.
If more people understood basic statistics and risk, some basic chemistry, and Newtonian physics, we could have intelligent discussions about
subjects like nuclear power, hydraulic fracturing, antibiotic abuse, GMO's, climate change, etc. without whipsawing between the
two extreme positions selected by the media to maximize the vitriol.
The kid is described as "gifted" and doing math five grades above his class; I think he'd manage it just fine.
I fed a sample of Chapter 1 to an analyzer, it's written at a 6th grade level. Plus, the cartoon illustrations are better than the text.
Sure, it was published over 30 years ago, and FORTH gets (and often earns) the the moniker of a Write-Only Language,
but it allows concepts and code to be tested interactively, and as a language written in itself, lets the interested user learn
how it works, not just how to work it.
It's not exactly a resume builder, but knowledge of FORTH makes the concepts underlying other languages a lot easier to comprehend.
What happens when an actual bird moves in?
Nope sorry, didn't go to Webb. That summer, someone left the PDP-8's running with no air conditioning, and something blew in one of them.
My brother and I along with another kid put it in the station wagon and drove it out to Digital in Maynard, MA. After going to a couple of the wrong
buildings, we finally found the service depot, located in a giant warehouse located behind what was then an H.H. Scott stereo dealer.
A long-haired, mustached dude in an army jacket connected our box to a DECwriter, and got a paper tape loaded. A massive printout eventually ID'd what cards to swap out. It worked, but the core memory tended to fail whenever power was removed after that. I'm not sure how the repair was paid for, I think they just billed the school.
FOCAL-69 on two DEC PDP-8/L's with ASR-33 teletypes with paper tape reader/punch.
We had a KENBAK-1 "trainer" that I learned the basics of logic and machine language on.
There was no formal class; there was an interested math teacher who taught the basics after school to some kids,
who then taught the rest (including me).
The PDP-8's were eventually replaced, first with a rented Wang minicomputer (cassette tape drive and video terminal),
then a Polymorphic 88 micro (floppy drives). BASIC on both.
..just using a phone instead of a laptop, and built-in NFC instead of an RFID reader.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/207966/oyster-hackers-roam-london-for-free
was, hands down, the best feature of the phone/tablet.
A cute little base that the phone clung to magnetically, and it would charge.
No fiddling with the fragile micro-USB cover, no getting the connector upside-down.
Never misplaced my phone, because I would just park it on the Touchstone at home or work (I bought two).
TI holds a monopoly thanks to their sole approval with Educational Testing Service for use on the ACT and SAT exams.
Any calculator would be fine, TI and ETS would have you believe that anything else would be a cheating device.
That's why they go to such ridiculous lengths to make them difficult to hack (encrypted loaders, secret keys, etc).
The point being, the folks who need the help can't be relied upon to start/stop a VNC server, or carry out any other task
that isn't part of their normal routine. And leaving a VNC server running, with circa-1985 eight-character password, on a standard port,
is a security risk.
Since VNC is notoriously insecure, it's good practice to only run it over ssh on an untrusted network.
So, the answer is both.