It was a very captivating experience when I was young and helped build a foundation for visualizing programs. Ii've often wondered how it could be 3D-ized, especially with the tardis-like robot interiors.
Really if you are on a budget, the important part is that you run a few multistrand bundles anywhere that it will be a pain to rip into the walls to run it again later, and run it along with the copper so that you don't have to pay for the manpower all over again. Make sure there is plenty of service loop. The jacks and end runs can come later on an as-needed basis. Most of the cost is always in the manpower, not the cabling, so think who will have to do what to realize fiber to a given point, and how much that might disrupt operations, and preinstall anywhere where it would be tricky to do after the fact. Try to avoid situations where you'll need splicing, but for in-building use you don't usually have to worry about having too many intermediary patch panels.
Hopefully not, but you never know given the patent laws these days.
I used to build these things when I got bored. There were others before me, and I suspect they have existed ever since the first appliances containing a stepper motor got old enough to be scavenged for components.
That said, I don't know if the claim that the pattern changes with windspeed is just based on the different voltages of different color LEDs. Once I put an independent timer that ran at an entirely different rate than the coils in there -- now that was an interesting display.
Boy, you don't know how good you have it these days, to complain about that. Now you have dbus/hald standardizing things. Back when I was walking to school uphill both ways, we were lucky to have an EDID versus probing ID0-4 pins directly, and you'd be editing XConfig to set your VGA MMIO window base.
Anyway, while I agree the "yet another library" thing gets old, it is my impression that the display system configuration gets pretty intimate with the desktop suite, and any generic library for configuring the display system would just spawn the need for another such library in which to specify the proper behaviors the desktop system should engage in during changes. As such be glad it's a library, and not just hand edited into a monolithic codebase.
Their support line can tell if you are calling from one of their phones. They could just put an "unlock my account" button in their account maintainance menu on the phone.
Having been in the recesses of their website as a customer, this does not surprise me at all. The deeper past the front page you go, the more the whole thing has the feel of something somebody's cousin "who's good with computers" threw together.
Two hypothesis: one is sort of as you said, it may be contagious as reading a bunch of such mistakes might preload the brain in such a way as to encourage making them.
Another is this: I notice I sometimes make such mistakes when I post when I'm tired or distracted. Perhaps certain articles just attract more bleary-eyed posters, or posters whose attentions are divided.
At some point facebook will fall out of favor due to a superior service. Then that will also fail. The failures will start coming in increasing intervals, and eventually the concept of a "portable" profile will become popular because people are sick of rebuilding their services. At that point providers running Diaspora guest services will be able to make a grab for market share because they can promise portability and interoperability with self-hosted instances where those geek friends that some customers do have have long since moved, so maybe then they will again start to get answers when they ask a computer question.
It is tempting to say that Facebook has a captive market, but remember that was once said of AOL.
It doesn't take a powerful computer to make and distribute a virus. That would be pointless. Any such crippling would probably be more effectively done by restricting protocol usage (e.g. number of connections per second, etc.) given that the biggest threat consumer devices pose to industry is in their DDoS and botnet potential.
Just be glad the thieves over on Wall Street don't seem to have figured out how to make enough money of prior knowlege of a corporate security incident to justify the assumed risk in comitting IT sabotage. Once that crime^H^H^H^H^Hbusiness model rears its head things are going to get a bit ugly.
"Enterprise" is a buzz word that caught on with PHBs until coders started putting it in their code for brownie points and every product that was a step up from the cheapest consumer level crap had to have in in its PR material. For a while it served the purpose of giving us something to say instead of "industrial grade" when we weren't talking in an "industry" setting, but these days it is a completely meaningless verbal ornament.
BTW, TFA is completely wrong. The word "innovate" means even less what they want it to mean than it is currently connotated. Installing three pronged electrical outlets in a old house is, yes, technically innovation. Innovation is more a process of application than one of invention, art, or inspiration. They need to go find themselves a different word.
Or at least a tarpit. Everyone should do their part by making the scripts work those few extra few seconds. At the very least it will make the coders writing them learn to do asyncronous event loops, so maybe they can go get a real job.
It's also dangerous in that any theft of your plaintext key from one of your clients could go quite unnoticed. So then you have to password protect your key, making it no more convenient, or you just accept risk equivalent to putting your password in a text file on a networked machine named HERE_ARE_MY_PASSWORDS.txt.
Compared to just choosing a very good password, and changing it once in a while, I find that to be an inferior strategy.
MPG is usually stated in the units used in the market where the car is sold, which in this case is the UK. Google the passat -- it's 65.2 in U.S. gallons of diesel. Multiply that by a 0.88 GGE for diesel, and it's 57ish MPG.
Well from where I'm standing, this "data mining" campaign consists of sending copious amounts of snail mail to people who they could easily tell are going D this year just by checking fundrace.
How is that different than what already happens? The tax penalty makes going naked less attractive, not more. The only thing that makes going naked more attractive is the ban on declining coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Personally I think your plan is foolish, as you won't be covered for emergency care and you'll be paying full price for preventative tests, which at your age won't be cheap. People who buy coverage because they actually want to be covered will do so for the emergency coverage. People who go naked will have $900 less of a reason to do so, and most aren't really using their heads, so they'd do so anyway with or without the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
More care for less price per unit of care, consumers win. Less free-rider problems and more systematic efficiencies, insurance companies and providers win. Less overall cost to taxpayers by preventing illnesses that would be more expensive if left untreated, taxpayers win. Popular Democratic president vindicated by history, Republican politicians lose.
Yes. Because generally when you propose win-win compromises, everyone buys in (except for your political opponents, who just don't want anyone to see you suceed at anything.)
Expect more large increases whether or not we keep Obamacare
FTFY.
Though, I have say I have yet to see anybody actually make a convincing argument that Obamacare will increase premiums, and theoretically the deal struck was that premiums would stabilize after 2014 when the rate-review and the medical-loss-ratio provisions kick in, in return for the assured customer base. If the Republicans do grab control of both houses and perhaps even the presidency, then they can indeed repeal the ACA, and as such they will repeal everything that was in the pipeline to hold premiums down. Of course, their mouth-breathing followers will then have to go find a new Democrat to blame the spiraling health care costs on.
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It was a very captivating experience when I was young and helped build a foundation for visualizing programs. Ii've often wondered how it could be 3D-ized, especially with the tardis-like robot interiors.
With all that interference, 3G/4G repeaters to keep staff's cell phones well lit might be worth consideration.
Really if you are on a budget, the important part is that you run a few multistrand bundles anywhere that it will be a pain to rip into the walls to run it again later, and run it along with the copper so that you don't have to pay for the manpower all over again. Make sure there is plenty of service loop. The jacks and end runs can come later on an as-needed basis. Most of the cost is always in the manpower, not the cabling, so think who will have to do what to realize fiber to a given point, and how much that might disrupt operations, and preinstall anywhere where it would be tricky to do after the fact. Try to avoid situations where you'll need splicing, but for in-building use you don't usually have to worry about having too many intermediary patch panels.
If this were the case (it isn't, mine had no guts on them), then this would constitute a renewable powered bug zapper.
Hopefully not, but you never know given the patent laws these days.
I used to build these things when I got bored. There were others before me, and I suspect they have existed ever since the first appliances containing a stepper motor got old enough to be scavenged for components.
That said, I don't know if the claim that the pattern changes with windspeed is just based on the different voltages of different color LEDs. Once I put an independent timer that ran at an entirely different rate than the coils in there -- now that was an interesting display.
Boy, you don't know how good you have it these days, to complain about that. Now you have dbus/hald standardizing things. Back when I was walking to school uphill both ways, we were lucky to have an EDID versus probing ID0-4 pins directly, and you'd be editing XConfig to set your VGA MMIO window base.
Anyway, while I agree the "yet another library" thing gets old, it is my impression that the display system configuration gets pretty intimate with the desktop suite, and any generic library for configuring the display system would just spawn the need for another such library in which to specify the proper behaviors the desktop system should engage in during changes. As such be glad it's a library, and not just hand edited into a monolithic codebase.
Their support line can tell if you are calling from one of their phones. They could just put an "unlock my account" button in their account maintainance menu on the phone.
Having been in the recesses of their website as a customer, this does not surprise me at all. The deeper past the front page you go, the more the whole thing has the feel of something somebody's cousin "who's good with computers" threw together.
Yes, these just float away if you forget to secure them in their bays. Huge improvement over the NJ debacle.
Two hypothesis: one is sort of as you said, it may be contagious as reading a bunch of such mistakes might preload the brain in such a way as to encourage making them.
Another is this: I notice I sometimes make such mistakes when I post when I'm tired or distracted. Perhaps certain articles just attract more bleary-eyed posters, or posters whose attentions are divided.
At some point facebook will fall out of favor due to a superior service. Then that will also fail. The failures will start coming in increasing intervals, and eventually the concept of a "portable" profile will become popular because people are sick of rebuilding their services. At that point providers running Diaspora guest services will be able to make a grab for market share because they can promise portability and interoperability with self-hosted instances where those geek friends that some customers do have have long since moved, so maybe then they will again start to get answers when they ask a computer question.
It is tempting to say that Facebook has a captive market, but remember that was once said of AOL.
It doesn't take a powerful computer to make and distribute a virus. That would be pointless. Any such crippling would probably be more effectively done by restricting protocol usage (e.g. number of connections per second, etc.) given that the biggest threat consumer devices pose to industry is in their DDoS and botnet potential.
Just be glad the thieves over on Wall Street don't seem to have figured out how to make enough money of prior knowlege of a corporate security incident to justify the assumed risk in comitting IT sabotage. Once that crime^H^H^H^H^Hbusiness model rears its head things are going to get a bit ugly.
If you've got a cumbersome iptables, this may be more performance friendly than constantly adding/removing rules.
That's why an ipset is used, so you don't have to alter the rule table.
"Enterprise" is a buzz word that caught on with PHBs until coders started putting it in their code for brownie points and every product that was a step up from the cheapest consumer level crap had to have in in its PR material. For a while it served the purpose of giving us something to say instead of "industrial grade" when we weren't talking in an "industry" setting, but these days it is a completely meaningless verbal ornament.
BTW, TFA is completely wrong. The word "innovate" means even less what they want it to mean than it is currently connotated. Installing three pronged electrical outlets in a old house is, yes, technically innovation. Innovation is more a process of application than one of invention, art, or inspiration. They need to go find themselves a different word.
Or at least a tarpit. Everyone should do their part by making the scripts work those few extra few seconds. At the very least it will make the coders writing them learn to do asyncronous event loops, so maybe they can go get a real job.
It's also dangerous in that any theft of your plaintext key from one of your clients could go quite unnoticed. So then you have to password protect your key, making it no more convenient, or you just accept risk equivalent to putting your password in a text file on a networked machine named HERE_ARE_MY_PASSWORDS.txt.
Compared to just choosing a very good password, and changing it once in a while, I find that to be an inferior strategy.
This can also be rigged up in iptables using an ipset/recent/etc. Works pretty well, and keeps less state.
MPG is usually stated in the units used in the market where the car is sold, which in this case is the UK. Google the passat -- it's 65.2 in U.S. gallons of diesel. Multiply that by a 0.88 GGE for diesel, and it's 57ish MPG.
The thing that gets me is putting a $313 price tag on it. To me, my foreskin is worth way more than that.
Don't try to compare diesel MPG to gasoline MPG. Nor british gallons to US. Just don't.
That said, mid-50s MPG at highway speeds is emminently doable.
Well from where I'm standing, this "data mining" campaign consists of sending copious amounts of snail mail to people who they could easily tell are going D this year just by checking fundrace.
How is that different than what already happens? The tax penalty makes going naked less attractive, not more. The only thing that makes going naked more attractive is the ban on declining coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Personally I think your plan is foolish, as you won't be covered for emergency care and you'll be paying full price for preventative tests, which at your age won't be cheap. People who buy coverage because they actually want to be covered will do so for the emergency coverage. People who go naked will have $900 less of a reason to do so, and most aren't really using their heads, so they'd do so anyway with or without the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
More care for less price per unit of care, consumers win.
Less free-rider problems and more systematic efficiencies, insurance companies and providers win.
Less overall cost to taxpayers by preventing illnesses that would be more expensive if left untreated, taxpayers win.
Popular Democratic president vindicated by history, Republican politicians lose.
So I guess that's win-win-win-lose.
Yes. Because generally when you propose win-win compromises, everyone buys in (except for your political opponents, who just don't want anyone to see you suceed at anything.)
Expect more large increases whether or not we keep Obamacare
FTFY.
Though, I have say I have yet to see anybody actually make a convincing argument that Obamacare will increase premiums, and theoretically the deal struck was that premiums would stabilize after 2014 when the rate-review and the medical-loss-ratio provisions kick in, in return for the assured customer base. If the Republicans do grab control of both houses and perhaps even the presidency, then they can indeed repeal the ACA, and as such they will repeal everything that was in the pipeline to hold premiums down. Of course, their mouth-breathing followers will then have to go find a new Democrat to blame the spiraling health care costs on.