Can't. Investment places take forever in issuing 1099's. I got a corrected 1099 just over a week ago. What is the point in doing my taxes early and then re-doing them two or three times?
We pay 3% flat rate across the board. No transaction fees. I've received a lot of processing fee quotes and never once have I seen one with rates like that.
I am a merchant that deals with internet and in person sales of my products. I'm also a computer engineer and have cursorary knowledge of security.
The credit card companies have no security. They don't care either. It's not them that will foot the bill. As a consumer it is great that you can only get stuck for $50 of fradulent charges. But as a merchant you loose your merchandise and the fraudulent payment. You can receive authorization from the credit card company saying the transaction is good, but they can and do still take the money away from you.
I've had about a dozen cases of obviously fraudulent orders. The first few I would call the credit card company, report the suspicious card, etc. They did nothing. On one I found out the real owner of the card, called them, and they hadn't even been contacted by the credit card company. I had all of the details that the police would have needed to get the scammer and the credit card company wouldn't even take that information.
> Environmental fuzzy save the birds you're killing from the reflection of your solar panels tax.2%
Reflection off the solar panels? A solar panel that is reflecting a significant amount of light isn't going to work as a solar panel very well. Killing birds? I've been working around solar panels for 10 years and I've never seen a dead bird around them.
Are you thinking of huge concentrating solar arrays out in the desert? These are relics from the past. The article is discussing small solar arrays on the roof or in the yard of a home or business. These are clean, low maintenance, long life-time items.
One of the things you can do with the C6 is actually put objects in the room. The floor of the C6 is made from a very thick plexiglass and can support well over 1,000 pounds. This allows you to wheel things like combine cabs into the room for doing VR simulations.
I worked for Iowa State and the Virtual Reality Application center until recently, so I know what I'm talking about.
Having stood below everything from 1000 watt home scale turbines, to 1 megawatt utility scale turbines I can tell you that they are not loud. A car travelling 55 MPH makes a much louder noise than any turbine I've heard.
Right down the road from me is Iowa Thin Film Technologies who have been making these sort of things for a number of years.
Disclaimer: I wasn't able to access TFA so I could be way off base.
-Jim KB0THN
Filener Laser also provides a great service. They will laser cut plastics and most non-metal materials, and will mark metals. I've sent them drawings in the past and gotten parts back in a matter of a few days. You can see a laser cut acrylic bezel on one of my products.
Not a representative of the company, just a really satisified customer.
Some years ago I purchased a 36 gigabyte 10,000 RPM Fiber Channel drive very inexpensively on e-bay. Drives like it were selling for two or three hundred dollars and I paid $40 for mine. Why? Because I intially spelled Fiber Channel as fibre channel.
There were two or three fiber channel products with british spelling and I think I was the only one that even bid on them.
Big colleges generally have pretty good surplus sales. At Iowa State University we have weekly Surplus Sales. University related departments and organizations get first dibs, but then the public and the students have free reign.
Some prices are good, but other prices are ridiculous. I picked up an old HP Netserver this afternoon for $30, and they are currently selling on eBay for a few hundred dollars. By the same token, they had SGI O2's for $500 which can be had cheaper from other places. If you were big time into reselling surplus stuff you could take advantages of palents of DEC Alphas for $50!
That's what PC104 is for. Take a look into these purpose built embedded systems. Many manufacturers make them.
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Cable modem require a two way cable network. IE all of the amplifiers need to be bi-directional, or the network needs to be broken down into small area nodes which are usually fed by fibre. The connections to the house can use the same coax as your TV, but the equipment on the cable company side is definitely different.
DSL does not require fibre, and can't even run over it. DSL's main requirement is close proximity to a telephone central office and somewhat decent phone lines.
I have customers (auto dealerships) in sites with cable modems, satellite links, DSL, ISDN, wireless, frame relay, and dial up. The customers with DSL and a decent ISP have the best service, based on what they tell me. The cable modem customers are generally happy, but sometimes the cable modem network goes dark for a few days leaving them without connectivity.
I did something like this last year using amateur radio's Automatic Packet Reporting system. Basically there are thousands of amateur radio operators that broadcast their GPS position. Using software I wrote along with MySQL and Mapserver I was able to create maps that showed real-life traffic flow.
One of the areas I would look at is conformal coating. Conformal coating is a urethane sealant and fungicide that is designed to protect electronics from moisture and fungus. You can get spray conformal coating from Newark or Mouser. You basically spray it on like any spray paint. You will need to mask your connectors so no coating gets on them. In computers this is usually okay because most connectors are gold plated and gold won't be disturbed by salt water or fish guts.
I don't really have any suggestions for disk drives and monitors. But conformal coating will get you started in putting a standard desktop computer on a yacht
Resturants pay to get rid of their waste oil. There are a few companies that take it to extract the glycerine (for soap and the like), but that is it.
At the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair I saw the system mentioned, went to a session on it, and talked to a man with a grease powered VW truck. He gets all of his grease for free, and one other person that had a converted vehicle mentioned that he gets paid to take the grease.
Just be sure you don't leave it in your drive for a few days... it will probably rot and drip slime all over:-)
That brings up the possibility that you could use the discs in an air free enviroment. It would be pretty easy to do, methinks. Set an aquarium upside and displace the air with a noble gas that is lighter than air (helium, hydrogen, whatever). Only open and store the DVD in that oxygen free enviroment and you should have any problems.
I don't think latency is *that* much of an issue with wireless connections. I have run 10 mile wireless links that provided 2.1ms round trip ping times. That was using 5+ year old Lucent ISA Wavelan cards.
What sort of ping times are typical of 802.11b? Proprietary wireless ISP hardware?
I'm guessing that Google stores the indexes in memory, but not the cached versions of the sites. I remember reading that they have thousands of machines, so it is quite possible that they have 1000's X 4GB of memory in each, and then big fibre channel fabrics to load the memory and serve the images from.
It would be really neat if Google would publish an updated technical overview.
I'll confess, I haven't read the 15MB PDF... but wouldn't the device you are describing be very similar to rail gun? How are it's passengers going to withstand those sort of G forces?
It would be pretty damn cool to smell the corona discharge after one of those things fired:-)
Why not have a self destruct mechanism... so if it started to fall high explosive would blow it into more manageable sections. Possibly only eliminating Equador:-)
That's only half of the battle. By increasing your power you have overcome some of the transmit side loss in your coax, but done nothing about recieve loss. It actually doesn't make any sense for a traditional access point. The wireless client cards have worse antennas and so they are presenting a lower SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) already. Now run the weak singal down coax and you loose 3dB which is the equivilent losing half the signal.
Where this has real benefit is for bridging applications. I tried doing a 6 mile link with two WAP11's and 24dBi dishes, but it wouldn't work. The increased power on both ends might have been just enough.
Still, it's a great hack (if it doesn't have unintended problems like overheating)!
I'm going to have to disagree with your analysis of missile silos. I won't pretend to be an expert but I have visited a few sites including the Pima Air and Space Musem TITAN missile silo.
The undergroud complex have massive air handling systems, security, and power generation subsystems.
"4ft thick concrete with 2inch rebar every 8inches"
"2 battery backups and a 500HP Diesel generator"
"Everything after the second blast door is isolated from shock"
"100,000-gallon [water] tank"
Anyhow, what your argument fails to address is that if you are building a data center in a missile silo, why would you have to reuse the commodity equipment. Obviously all of the equipment wasn't designed to support thousands of computers, but the point is that the structure can be reused for that purpose with stellar results.
PS2 Spec says 300ma @ 5 volts. The fan in the picture draws 100ma. No problem that I can see.
If you look at the schematic for a typical motherboard you will notice that the 5 volt line on the PS2 ports is usually directly connected to the 5 volt buss.
I don't pretend to be an expert on embedded linux, but I have designed a few devices - things based around everything from COP8, to PIC, to Lineo Nettel boxes.
Lineo has exceptional support and excellent dev tools. I had a small project where I would be selling two custom routers based around their Netel boxes running uClinux. I told them about the low volume, and that didn't affect their support at all. I was able to talk to the people that designed the hardware and wrote the code - and they provided actual answers and solutions. We looked at embedded NT and none of what we were doing would have been possible. At minimum we would have had to buy 10 licenses, which is big $$$.
On a side note, the Coldfire / Dragonball processors have great debugger support. I got a BDM module that lets me use GDB to control all of the registers in the processor and do line by line code debugging. Try getting that sort of hardware level debugger from an X86 - even if you had it, it would be a pain to step through 100,000+ lines of Micro$oft bloat in order to find my bug.
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Can't. Investment places take forever in issuing 1099's. I got a corrected 1099 just over a week ago. What is the point in doing my taxes early and then re-doing them two or three times?
We pay 3% flat rate across the board. No transaction fees. I've received a lot of processing fee quotes and never once have I seen one with rates like that.
I am a merchant that deals with internet and in person sales of my products. I'm also a computer engineer and have cursorary knowledge of security.
The credit card companies have no security. They don't care either. It's not them that will foot the bill. As a consumer it is great that you can only get stuck for $50 of fradulent charges. But as a merchant you loose your merchandise and the fraudulent payment. You can receive authorization from the credit card company saying the transaction is good, but they can and do still take the money away from you.
I've had about a dozen cases of obviously fraudulent orders. The first few I would call the credit card company, report the suspicious card, etc. They did nothing. On one I found out the real owner of the card, called them, and they hadn't even been contacted by the credit card company. I had all of the details that the police would have needed to get the scammer and the credit card company wouldn't even take that information.
Now I just delete any order that looks unusual.
> Environmental fuzzy save the birds you're killing from the reflection of your solar panels tax .2%
Reflection off the solar panels? A solar panel that is reflecting a significant amount of light isn't going to work as a solar panel very well. Killing birds? I've been working around solar panels for 10 years and I've never seen a dead bird around them.
Are you thinking of huge concentrating solar arrays out in the desert? These are relics from the past. The article is discussing small solar arrays on the roof or in the yard of a home or business. These are clean, low maintenance, long life-time items.
I would suggest you visit http://www.homepower.com/ for an introduction to solar.
Thanks,
-James Jarvis
APRS World, LLC
One of the things you can do with the C6 is actually put objects in the room. The floor of the C6 is made from a very thick plexiglass and can support well over 1,000 pounds. This allows you to wheel things like combine cabs into the room for doing VR simulations.
I worked for Iowa State and the Virtual Reality Application center until recently, so I know what I'm talking about.
Having stood below everything from 1000 watt home scale turbines, to 1 megawatt utility scale turbines I can tell you that they are not loud. A car travelling 55 MPH makes a much louder noise than any turbine I've heard.
Right down the road from me is Iowa Thin Film Technologies who have been making these sort of things for a number of years. Disclaimer: I wasn't able to access TFA so I could be way off base. -Jim KB0THN
Not a representative of the company, just a really satisified customer.
Some years ago I purchased a 36 gigabyte 10,000 RPM Fiber Channel drive very inexpensively on e-bay. Drives like it were selling for two or three hundred dollars and I paid $40 for mine. Why? Because I intially spelled Fiber Channel as fibre channel.
There were two or three fiber channel products with british spelling and I think I was the only one that even bid on them.
Some prices are good, but other prices are ridiculous. I picked up an old HP Netserver this afternoon for $30, and they are currently selling on eBay for a few hundred dollars. By the same token, they had SGI O2's for $500 which can be had cheaper from other places. If you were big time into reselling surplus stuff you could take advantages of palents of DEC Alphas for $50!
That's what PC104 is for. Take a look into these purpose built embedded systems. Many manufacturers make them.
Cable modem require a two way cable network. IE all of the amplifiers need to be bi-directional, or the network needs to be broken down into small area nodes which are usually fed by fibre. The connections to the house can use the same coax as your TV, but the equipment on the cable company side is definitely different.
DSL does not require fibre, and can't even run over it. DSL's main requirement is close proximity to a telephone central office and somewhat decent phone lines.
I have customers (auto dealerships) in sites with cable modems, satellite links, DSL, ISDN, wireless, frame relay, and dial up. The customers with DSL and a decent ISP have the best service, based on what they tell me. The cable modem customers are generally happy, but sometimes the cable modem network goes dark for a few days leaving them without connectivity.
-Jim
You can see a sample of this type of map and learn a little bit about it at http://aprsworld.net/info/paper2002/giant-map-of-l a.php
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I don't really have any suggestions for disk drives and monitors. But conformal coating will get you started in putting a standard desktop computer on a yacht
-James Jefferson Amateur Radio Station KB0THN
Resturants pay to get rid of their waste oil. There are a few companies that take it to extract the glycerine (for soap and the like), but that is it.
At the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair I saw the system mentioned, went to a session on it, and talked to a man with a grease powered VW truck. He gets all of his grease for free, and one other person that had a converted vehicle mentioned that he gets paid to take the grease.
-Jim
Just be sure you don't leave it in your drive for a few days ... it will probably rot and drip slime all over :-)
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That brings up the possibility that you could use the discs in an air free enviroment. It would be pretty easy to do, methinks. Set an aquarium upside and displace the air with a noble gas that is lighter than air (helium, hydrogen, whatever). Only open and store the DVD in that oxygen free enviroment and you should have any problems.
Of course it is late and I could be way wrong
-Jim
I don't think latency is *that* much of an issue with wireless connections. I have run 10 mile wireless links that provided 2.1ms round trip ping times. That was using 5+ year old Lucent ISA Wavelan cards.
What sort of ping times are typical of 802.11b? Proprietary wireless ISP hardware?
-Jim
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I'm guessing that Google stores the indexes in memory, but not the cached versions of the sites. I remember reading that they have thousands of machines, so it is quite possible that they have 1000's X 4GB of memory in each, and then big fibre channel fabrics to load the memory and serve the images from.
It would be really neat if Google would publish an updated technical overview.
-Jim
I'll confess, I haven't read the 15MB PDF ... but wouldn't the device you are describing be very similar to rail gun? How are it's passengers going to withstand those sort of G forces?
:-)
It would be pretty damn cool to smell the corona discharge after one of those things fired
Why not have a self destruct mechanism ... so if it started to fall high explosive would blow it into more manageable sections. Possibly only eliminating Equador :-)
That's only half of the battle. By increasing your power you have overcome some of the transmit side loss in your coax, but done nothing about recieve loss. It actually doesn't make any sense for a traditional access point. The wireless client cards have worse antennas and so they are presenting a lower SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) already. Now run the weak singal down coax and you loose 3dB which is the equivilent losing half the signal.
Where this has real benefit is for bridging applications. I tried doing a 6 mile link with two WAP11's and 24dBi dishes, but it wouldn't work. The increased power on both ends might have been just enough.
Still, it's a great hack (if it doesn't have unintended problems like overheating)!
The undergroud complex have massive air handling systems, security, and power generation subsystems.
"4ft thick concrete with 2inch rebar every 8inches"
"2 battery backups and a 500HP Diesel generator"
"Everything after the second blast door is isolated from shock"
"100,000-gallon [water] tank"
Anyhow, what your argument fails to address is that if you are building a data center in a missile silo, why would you have to reuse the commodity equipment. Obviously all of the equipment wasn't designed to support thousands of computers, but the point is that the structure can be reused for that purpose with stellar results.
-Jim
PS2 Spec says 300ma @ 5 volts. The fan in the picture draws 100ma. No problem that I can see.
If you look at the schematic for a typical motherboard you will notice that the 5 volt line on the PS2 ports is usually directly connected to the 5 volt buss.
Lineo has exceptional support and excellent dev tools. I had a small project where I would be selling two custom routers based around their Netel boxes running uClinux. I told them about the low volume, and that didn't affect their support at all. I was able to talk to the people that designed the hardware and wrote the code - and they provided actual answers and solutions. We looked at embedded NT and none of what we were doing would have been possible. At minimum we would have had to buy 10 licenses, which is big $$$.
On a side note, the Coldfire / Dragonball processors have great debugger support. I got a BDM module that lets me use GDB to control all of the registers in the processor and do line by line code debugging. Try getting that sort of hardware level debugger from an X86 - even if you had it, it would be a pain to step through 100,000+ lines of Micro$oft bloat in order to find my bug.
-James Jefferson