requirements are key, I couldn't care less about how it looks. Right now I'm using a ZTE F930 tethered to my laptop for interweb access, my carry-around is a Motorola V3. Basic model, no memory card slot, vga camera but it's rugged and works everywhere. The smartphone might be pretty but that's precisely why I don't carry it - who's gonna want to steal an eight year old EDGE/GPRS handset??
I've always viewed Apple hardware as the toaster oven of computers. In that, I don't *care* what's going on under the hood, I just want the bloody thing to work - which it does, barring spouses leaving it switched on and resting on a feather pillow (ouch time!). When I want something to tinker with, I crank up my Linux box and if I really have a few hours to kill, on goes the Wintendo.
I sort of want a Galaxy Note. It's the happy middle ground between a tablet and a phone, but oddly I don't really see myself holding something with 5.3" screen up to my ear...
"I CAN'T TALK, I'M AT THE THEATRE! NO, IT'S RUBBISH!"
pretty simple: the battery packs are 12v sealed lead acid or gel acid deepcycle, and I wanted the ability to switch out dead bricks on a live circuit without having to power the lot down to do it.:)
...the variety that supplies power not from the line (which is random and sporadic at the best of times, *often* spiking over 1200v here), but from the battery via a complex circuit which ends up supplying a very clean 50Hz signal at 220v while being continuously charged from the main. So what we have basically is:
dirty line 220-1200vac->isolator step-down to 13.5vac->regulator to 12vdc->battery stack->isolator step-up to 240v->regulator to 220vac->terminal
Works very well, I have a 15-minute grace in the event of a power loss and there's a small computer attached via the RS232 port to signal the workhorses to perform a clean shutdown if the power goes. The same monitor system (a laptop with an internal battery good for nearly two hours) also has the capability to power up the workhorses when power is restored.
Electronic protection and SOHO system automation rolled into one!
VAT on hardware, depreciation of same, R&D, commutes for x thousand employees at 50 cents a mile, vehicles; for a tech company that does what Google does that'd be a fair chunk of their tax liability written off right there.
In fact the commute would probably be the biggest chunk. I know of someone who "commutes" 3400 miles (Southern Spain to UK and back), on the money he's on the tax man ends owing *him* near on £400 a week just on the mileage deduction! In other words, he pays NO TAX and he's sitting pretty on over £1,000pw nett. If you live half a continent away and commute just twice a month, what you save in tax will more than pay for digs at a Holiday Inn at the work end.
The thing is, to do this you need to register as self employed and work to contract. PAYE workers will not have this option, because the tax is deducted before the remainder hits your bank account and reclaiming overpayments of income tax is like trying to get a blowjob off the Queen.
For example, it can be used to track samples of gold back to the mine where it was extracted; to track radiation sources back to where they were extracted, where they were refined, even down to the batch and position in the reactor. Every compound sample has a unique fingerprint which is the same as any other sample taken from the same batch. As long as you have a control sample (which is what they do for "conflict free" mineral ores otherwise they don't get to market), then you can match any random sample to the mine where it was first extracted.
The simple fact is that wind farms will never pay for themselves, economically or ecologically. They're just an excuse for Governments to force energy suppliers to spend money they could better spend in, oh, I don't know, improving particulate filters in fossil-fired plants?
It would not surprise me too much if someone piped up and said that a goodly portion of the courses offered at your university are subsidised partly or wholly by large companies. We have the same here, from junior to high and through college. They're called "Academies", and they're subsidised by the likes of IBM, Siemens, BOC, ICI, BP, Experian, GPT, Ford Motor Company, Samsung, Hyundai Electronics, and Microsoft. All very large companies that pay fuck all in tax in the UK. Anyone else see some under-the-table dealing going on here?
in the UK at least, they're already criminals (section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 makes it an offence to gather any data howsoever if unauthorised).
Slashdot Mirror
...for toner.
Anthrax?
requirements are key, I couldn't care less about how it looks. Right now I'm using a ZTE F930 tethered to my laptop for interweb access, my carry-around is a Motorola V3. Basic model, no memory card slot, vga camera but it's rugged and works everywhere. The smartphone might be pretty but that's precisely why I don't carry it - who's gonna want to steal an eight year old EDGE/GPRS handset??
I've always viewed Apple hardware as the toaster oven of computers. In that, I don't *care* what's going on under the hood, I just want the bloody thing to work - which it does, barring spouses leaving it switched on and resting on a feather pillow (ouch time!). When I want something to tinker with, I crank up my Linux box and if I really have a few hours to kill, on goes the Wintendo.
I sort of want a Galaxy Note. It's the happy middle ground between a tablet and a phone, but oddly I don't really see myself holding something with 5.3" screen up to my ear...
"I CAN'T TALK, I'M AT THE THEATRE! NO, IT'S RUBBISH!"
pretty simple: the battery packs are 12v sealed lead acid or gel acid deepcycle, and I wanted the ability to switch out dead bricks on a live circuit without having to power the lot down to do it. :)
...the variety that supplies power not from the line (which is random and sporadic at the best of times, *often* spiking over 1200v here), but from the battery via a complex circuit which ends up supplying a very clean 50Hz signal at 220v while being continuously charged from the main. So what we have basically is:
dirty line 220-1200vac->isolator step-down to 13.5vac->regulator to 12vdc->battery stack->isolator step-up to 240v->regulator to 220vac->terminal
Works very well, I have a 15-minute grace in the event of a power loss and there's a small computer attached via the RS232 port to signal the workhorses to perform a clean shutdown if the power goes. The same monitor system (a laptop with an internal battery good for nearly two hours) also has the capability to power up the workhorses when power is restored.
Electronic protection and SOHO system automation rolled into one!
VAT on hardware, depreciation of same, R&D, commutes for x thousand employees at 50 cents a mile, vehicles; for a tech company that does what Google does that'd be a fair chunk of their tax liability written off right there.
In fact the commute would probably be the biggest chunk. I know of someone who "commutes" 3400 miles (Southern Spain to UK and back), on the money he's on the tax man ends owing *him* near on £400 a week just on the mileage deduction! In other words, he pays NO TAX and he's sitting pretty on over £1,000pw nett. If you live half a continent away and commute just twice a month, what you save in tax will more than pay for digs at a Holiday Inn at the work end.
The thing is, to do this you need to register as self employed and work to contract. PAYE workers will not have this option, because the tax is deducted before the remainder hits your bank account and reclaiming overpayments of income tax is like trying to get a blowjob off the Queen.
I haven't finished the QLA yet!
and thanks for all the fish.
For example, it can be used to track samples of gold back to the mine where it was extracted; to track radiation sources back to where they were extracted, where they were refined, even down to the batch and position in the reactor. Every compound sample has a unique fingerprint which is the same as any other sample taken from the same batch. As long as you have a control sample (which is what they do for "conflict free" mineral ores otherwise they don't get to market), then you can match any random sample to the mine where it was first extracted.
aha... "Arbeit macht Frei"? Sounds familiar...
Careful, you're projecting.
I've got Freesat. No subscriptions, five thousand channels.
TPB it is, then.
The simple fact is that wind farms will never pay for themselves, economically or ecologically. They're just an excuse for Governments to force energy suppliers to spend money they could better spend in, oh, I don't know, improving particulate filters in fossil-fired plants?
I accept your challenge.
http://www.techspot.com/news/22178-wardriving-credit-card-thief-gets-9-years-in-jail.html
http://www.crn.com/news/security/26806554/wardrivers-plead-guilty-sentenced-to-jail-time.htm
and one from the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/6565079.stm
It would not surprise me too much if someone piped up and said that a goodly portion of the courses offered at your university are subsidised partly or wholly by large companies. We have the same here, from junior to high and through college. They're called "Academies", and they're subsidised by the likes of IBM, Siemens, BOC, ICI, BP, Experian, GPT, Ford Motor Company, Samsung, Hyundai Electronics, and Microsoft. All very large companies that pay fuck all in tax in the UK. Anyone else see some under-the-table dealing going on here?
Bill and Miranda who??
I read "EMF" and started humming "Unbelievable". Bastard.
in the UK at least, they're already criminals (section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 makes it an offence to gather any data howsoever if unauthorised).
Evil is a point of view.
- Lestat
^^
...is only 26m AMSL, so say the yardsticks every half mile sticking out of the Trent. The map doesn't blue out until 40m. I call shenanigans.
Wow, someone else who sees it for what it is?? Am I hallucinating??
I for one, welcome our six-digit apex libertarian overlords...
Oh, namecalling now, is it? You lose.
no, they wanted rid of Bing because it is a money pit.