Exactly! Most new homes have 200-amp service, and you can't use all of that for recharging. A large aircon unit might have a 60-amp circuit, and an electric dryer is usually on a 30-amp circuit.
I'm just guessing here, but I'd say that the five-minute top-off would only occur near a power station, and that a full recharge at home would be an overnight affair. OTOH, a lot of businesses and industries have high-amperage, three-phase service at their buildings, so there's the possibility of a quick recharge at someone's place of work.
Like any other eBay transaction, you have to be careful, but I can see how someone would make a slight spelling error and not realize it. It wouldn't turn me off from placing a bid if their feedback score was up to snuff.
Many of the tips have corollaries for buyers. For example, if you're a buyer, search for misspellings, as the closing prices tend to be lower. I can see the big caveat to bidding on an auction with a reserve--you could end up the high bidder, but not a winner. Bidding on reserve auctions might work better for a buyer who needs a large quantity of a particular product--so losing one individual auction wouldn't be terribly frustrating.
At the undergraduate university I attended, professors in the management and MIS departments were among the highest paid, and many of them own successful businesses or do consulting work on the side.
I agree with the other posters regarding biometric locks--Mythbusters recently tested them and was not impressed with their ability to distinguish real and fake fingerprints.
Abloy (also known as Assa-Abloy) and Medeco both manufacture physical locks that are difficult to pick. It is also difficult to find someone to duplicate them.
Perhaps, after years of customer mistreatment, outsourced call centers, and obvious evidence of engineering to the lowest common denominator, people might have gotten the idea that Dell is evil, and point this out whenever Dell makes the slightest slip-up.
I haven't finished RTFA, but here are my gripes regarding modern CFLs:
1. The light output is over-rated. A CFL that claims to be the equivalent of a 100w incandescent lamp is actually only a little brighter than a 60w lamp, and nowhere near the output of a 100w lamp. 2. Color. Many of the CFLs available are a blueish cool white, not the yellow incandescent color people are used to, or even the blueish GE Reveal color that many seem to like. 3. Warm-up time. When you flip the switch, a modern CFL turns on immediately, but does not reach full brightness immediately. Some take a minute or more. It's even worse if it's being used in a cold area. While this may be useful in some situations, people are used to having instantaneous full brightness from their lamps. 4. Noise. I bought and returned a three-pack of CFLs because they produced a buzzing sound that was quite irritating for a reading lamp.
The project is already a failure due to the massive cost overruns and the fact that the politicians wouldn't abandon the project even after they realized it would cost much, much more than anyone expected. And it all started because someone said, "Gee, it would look a whole lot prettier if we didn't have to see the interstate going through Boston." So what? Highway access is a necessity of every major city.
Absolutely! SCO and its attorneys are searching for talented coders to help identify SCO's stolen code and hold those responsible for stealing it accountable. I hear that Darl McBride even posts here on Slashdot. You might gain extra favour with him by identifying yourself as a fellow Slashdotter.
Depending on what kind(s) of loan(s) the OP has, they may not even be accruing interest until he graduates. If he has the discipline not to spend the money frivolously, I'd suggest parking it in an Emigrant Direct high-yield savings account until I was sure I didn't need it.
If he has earned income on his tax return, and sufficient funds to do so, I would suggest funding a Roth IRA now while he's in a low tax bracket.
Dave Ramsey's makeover, although not terrible advice for anyone, seems to be designed for people who are bad at managing money and rack up a lot of consumer debt--via credit cards or withdrawals from home equity.
If someone isn't making them a profit, or is (gasp) taking their time or effort without a mechanically measurable payoff of some kind, people are only too ready these days to "kick them to the curb" and look for friends who are profitable or represent a measurable gain of some kind, whether in prestige or job prospects or exclusive memberships or exploitable expertise/skills.
Maybe I'm an idealist, but I consider the above behavior to be using someone. It's probably true that we live in an environment that provides few consequences for such behavior, but that doesn't make it right.
The cancel-via-mail option is a scam. I tried it. They will send back a preprinted postcard claiming that you failed to include all of the required information. I did include all of the required information, got the card, and ended up having to call them and listen to their spiel for 45 minutes. AOL is committed to the highest level of customer disservice.
I don't know what the situation is now, but Toshiba and IBM used to be two of a small number of manufacturers who offered the keyboard clit instead of the trackpad. I have seen Dells with dual controls--keyboard clits and trackpads--recently, so perhaps this alternative pointing device is catching on.
It's not "a bit slow," it takes twice as long to boot as an installation of Windows XP with all the updates installed. I'm looking at a boot time of two minutes on a 2.4 GHZ machine with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Linspire from my computer (and my consideration) for this reason.
The thing that these news stories seem to ignore is that, on every satnav I have ever used, if you take a different route than it specifies, the system automatically recalculates a new route to your destination, and updates its directions accordingly. A driver could easily turn around once they realized that the satnav was leading them on an unpaved road, and wouldn't even be inconvenienced by having to manually reprogram their route.
"Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now. This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page."
Great, we've Slashdotted Google. Anyone have a mirror?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? The rule against perpetuities applies to future interests in any property--land, objects, or money. Upon your death, you can not set up a trust to devise all of your estate to your descendants 200 years down the line, none of whom have been born yet.
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Exactly! Most new homes have 200-amp service, and you can't use all of that for recharging. A large aircon unit might have a 60-amp circuit, and an electric dryer is usually on a 30-amp circuit.
I'm just guessing here, but I'd say that the five-minute top-off would only occur near a power station, and that a full recharge at home would be an overnight affair. OTOH, a lot of businesses and industries have high-amperage, three-phase service at their buildings, so there's the possibility of a quick recharge at someone's place of work.
Mine stops with a sharing violation when it tries to copy the swapfile.
Like any other eBay transaction, you have to be careful, but I can see how someone would make a slight spelling error and not realize it. It wouldn't turn me off from placing a bid if their feedback score was up to snuff.
Many of the tips have corollaries for buyers. For example, if you're a buyer, search for misspellings, as the closing prices tend to be lower. I can see the big caveat to bidding on an auction with a reserve--you could end up the high bidder, but not a winner. Bidding on reserve auctions might work better for a buyer who needs a large quantity of a particular product--so losing one individual auction wouldn't be terribly frustrating.
At the undergraduate university I attended, professors in the management and MIS departments were among the highest paid, and many of them own successful businesses or do consulting work on the side.
Since you are new to Slashdot, let me point out that you don't need to read the summary, article, or headline in order to comment. No one else does.
I agree with the other posters regarding biometric locks--Mythbusters recently tested them and was not impressed with their ability to distinguish real and fake fingerprints.
Abloy (also known as Assa-Abloy) and Medeco both manufacture physical locks that are difficult to pick. It is also difficult to find someone to duplicate them.
...7200.9 Rapor Drives (SATA)...
I'll take "The Rapist" for 500.
...his son deleted his entire windows user profile and all the files associated with it...
Sounds like grounds for lashing the son, rather than giving him his own system.
Perhaps, after years of customer mistreatment, outsourced call centers, and obvious evidence of engineering to the lowest common denominator, people might have gotten the idea that Dell is evil, and point this out whenever Dell makes the slightest slip-up.
I haven't finished RTFA, but here are my gripes regarding modern CFLs:
1. The light output is over-rated. A CFL that claims to be the equivalent of a 100w incandescent lamp is actually only a little brighter than a 60w lamp, and nowhere near the output of a 100w lamp.
2. Color. Many of the CFLs available are a blueish cool white, not the yellow incandescent color people are used to, or even the blueish GE Reveal color that many seem to like.
3. Warm-up time. When you flip the switch, a modern CFL turns on immediately, but does not reach full brightness immediately. Some take a minute or more. It's even worse if it's being used in a cold area. While this may be useful in some situations, people are used to having instantaneous full brightness from their lamps.
4. Noise. I bought and returned a three-pack of CFLs because they produced a buzzing sound that was quite irritating for a reading lamp.
The project is already a failure due to the massive cost overruns and the fact that the politicians wouldn't abandon the project even after they realized it would cost much, much more than anyone expected. And it all started because someone said, "Gee, it would look a whole lot prettier if we didn't have to see the interstate going through Boston." So what? Highway access is a necessity of every major city.
Are there any good IT jobs in Utah?
Absolutely! SCO and its attorneys are searching for talented coders to help identify SCO's stolen code and hold those responsible for stealing it accountable. I hear that Darl McBride even posts here on Slashdot. You might gain extra favour with him by identifying yourself as a fellow Slashdotter.
Depending on what kind(s) of loan(s) the OP has, they may not even be accruing interest until he graduates. If he has the discipline not to spend the money frivolously, I'd suggest parking it in an Emigrant Direct high-yield savings account until I was sure I didn't need it.
If he has earned income on his tax return, and sufficient funds to do so, I would suggest funding a Roth IRA now while he's in a low tax bracket.
Dave Ramsey's makeover, although not terrible advice for anyone, seems to be designed for people who are bad at managing money and rack up a lot of consumer debt--via credit cards or withdrawals from home equity.
Plan 9 isn't from Bell Labs, it's from Outer Space!
It's one of Ed Wood's finest pieces, featuring a strung-out Bela Lugosi.
"Warranty does not cover damage to equipment due to the use of water, fire extinguishers, or other extinguishing devices."
If someone isn't making them a profit, or is (gasp) taking their time or effort without a mechanically measurable payoff of some kind, people are only too ready these days to "kick them to the curb" and look for friends who are profitable or represent a measurable gain of some kind, whether in prestige or job prospects or exclusive memberships or exploitable expertise/skills.
Maybe I'm an idealist, but I consider the above behavior to be using someone. It's probably true that we live in an environment that provides few consequences for such behavior, but that doesn't make it right.
The cancel-via-mail option is a scam. I tried it. They will send back a preprinted postcard claiming that you failed to include all of the required information. I did include all of the required information, got the card, and ended up having to call them and listen to their spiel for 45 minutes. AOL is committed to the highest level of customer disservice.
Works for me. They're pretty damned annoying!
I don't know what the situation is now, but Toshiba and IBM used to be two of a small number of manufacturers who offered the keyboard clit instead of the trackpad. I have seen Dells with dual controls--keyboard clits and trackpads--recently, so perhaps this alternative pointing device is catching on.
It's not "a bit slow," it takes twice as long to boot as an installation of Windows XP with all the updates installed. I'm looking at a boot time of two minutes on a 2.4 GHZ machine with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Linspire from my computer (and my consideration) for this reason.
The thing that these news stories seem to ignore is that, on every satnav I have ever used, if you take a different route than it specifies, the system automatically recalculates a new route to your destination, and updates its directions accordingly. A driver could easily turn around once they realized that the satnav was leading them on an unpaved road, and wouldn't even be inconvenienced by having to manually reprogram their route.
I've been using Outlook Express to check Hotmail for the past five years, and it still works today. I never paid an extra fee to be able to do this.
"Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now.
This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page."
Great, we've Slashdotted Google. Anyone have a mirror?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? The rule against perpetuities applies to future interests in any property--land, objects, or money. Upon your death, you can not set up a trust to devise all of your estate to your descendants 200 years down the line, none of whom have been born yet.
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