That is the visible threshold. But, any optician or cognative scientist will be able to tell you that constant flicker will affect you after a prologned period of time, where "prolonged" is less than an hour.
No, the original DOS defrag was from Central Point. Central Point was acquired by Norton about the same time as DOS 6.2 came out with the Central Point defrag and scandisk built in. AFAIK, it was 1997 before Norton was fully acquired by Symantec.
Correct. Sometimes royalties go to BMI instead of ASCAP. It is usually listed on the back of CD's where the royalties should go. In fact, restaurants are supposed to pay royalties for music they play, as well as stadiums and any other public venue playing copyright music.
Hockey is about 3 hours of men ice skating. In that three hours, an occaisional goal is scored, in a game where a high score is 5. Occaisionally someone gets their stick tangled in an opponent's stick, and try push each other. And it just isn't worth wasting 3 hours of your life at a place that sells small platic cups of beer for $6.50, in a seat that costs $75 and is way above the rink.
Most newer desktop flat panels (i.e. NOT laptop) have realy low pixel refresh latency. I found that my DFP is great for playing Quake III, watching full motion video, etc. In fact, I notice more motion blur on my really old 15" CRT than on my LCD. Also, most manufacturers publsih the latency times, so it is easy to compare this when you're shopping.
Just as most doctors offices refuse to fax charts, I doubt any practice or hospital will allow online viewing of charts. They refuse to fax charts because they cannot be sure who is waiting at the receiving end of the fax machine, even if they verified the number was correct. As easy as it is to steal someone's social security number, name and address, it would be all to easy to get someone else's chart online. No doctor wants that kind of lawsuit, and people don't want to see their charts online bad enough to offset the costs. If you want a copy of your chart, have it over-nighted or pick it up in person. If someone intercepts it that way, it is either the patient or shipping company's liability then, not to doctor's.
Isn't that what the Apple ][ computers did back in the 80's, or what the game consoles (PSX, DC at least) do now? Instead of having a user apparent operating system, let's just turn the computer on with a disk in a drive, and it just starts running the application. That works fine for games, and worked great in the 80's. Why? Because back then you didn't run more than one application on an 8bit 1Mhz processor with 128KB. With gaming consoles, you aren't going to be CTRL-TABing from WipeOut XL to a word processor. Try to get preemptive multitasking done without an adaptive OS. And of course many of the other features we use cannot be done if we take an OS out of the picture.
I have three case fans sitting here. They each are rated at a maximum power of 0.72W, 0.96W, and 1.2W. I've seen a few large (>15cm) case fans that were from larger workstations of the early 90's, and they were all rated under 2W. I think we can rule fans out as a major power suck. The electrical resistance from heat due to lack of cooling would probably consume more power than the fans themselves, not to mention the power it takes to replace failed components due to heat. If we can reduce the power consumption in other parts of the computer, then it may become beneficial to reduce cooling.
Has anyone had any experience running NetBSD or Linux on the DC? The $99 price tag may make a nice little appliance. I'd imagine that the performance is better than the iOpener or any of the other embedded network computers.
Of course it may be a while before the broadband adapter is supported...
Any potential employer with a commision-compensated human resources department should be a BIG RED FLAG. Perhaps it would be acceptable if you weren't being offered the job pending completion of a several thousand dollar training course. My girlfriend is interviewing with several companies for positions that require certain licenses or certifications, and they all have offered to pay her to take the courses and exams.
Many find the dynamic nature of Java better suited to dynamic loading. It is quite easy to do dynamic loading with Java. And, for most people Java applications can be implemented much more quickly than in C. But, if speed is what you're after, C beats the hell out of Java on any platform. Generally C will produce smaller object files, especially if add the JRE/JVM to the total size of a Java app. If one of these characteristcs has higher priority, then it should be an easy pick. If they are equal priority, then you might just pick the one you are most comfortable with. After all, they are both great languages, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
My computers have heat exchangers that simultaneously cool the cpu and warm the room. They are called heat sinks, with fans helping distribute the warm air throughout the room. A 300W system (assuming it's using all 300W) is just over 1000BTUs... In fact, Sun lists the BTUs for just about all their systems so users can anticipate external cooling needs in their datacenter/noc.
You should sit down and talk with the coworkers you call friends, and let them know how you feel. Tell them you think the company is doomed, and have some better outlook on the horizon. If the company is as bad as you make it sound, then they are aware of the situation too. They may be staying just to wait and see if their friends leave. If you talk it out with your friends, maybe you can work together to make sure that everyone has their future secured somehow.
Conservation IS part of the answer. The reason there is such a shortage of electricity is quite simple economics. There are fixed prices that electricity must be sold at, yet it is bought by those utility companies at unprofitable prices. Supply is far exceeded by demand, because the price of electricity is lower than its actual value to customers. Electricity in California is far cheaper than most European countries, for example. You will notice that flourescent lights have replaced incadescents in Europe, for example. Why not do that in California? Because the price of electricity is cheap enough that there is not much incentive to conserve. On the other hand, if utilities were able to buy power at cheaper prices, they too would be able to buy more energy to supply customers. But since they cannot, they are forced to buy as much as they can afford, and force conservation on customers to prevent an unplanned blackout.
I know 25W is somewhat low for current x86 processors, but does anyone know what the power dissapation for, say a mobile 500MHz G4 is? I know the desktop G4's use a lot less power (no need for a cpu fan).
Can your Tivo come to your son's preschool graduation, and easily capture video from a camera? Are you willing to mail your TIVO to a friend when he wants to see a show you recorded? TIVO's are great, but they don't cover all of the needs tapes can, just as tapes don't cover all of the needs TIVO's can.
So we can use gzip or bzip2 and get hefty compression. Sure it isn't as hefty as MPEG, but it is lossless, and can still be decoded in real time. Hell, players could even be linked to zlib or bzlib!
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That is the visible threshold. But, any optician or cognative scientist will be able to tell you that constant flicker will affect you after a prologned period of time, where "prolonged" is less than an hour.
No, the original DOS defrag was from Central Point. Central Point was acquired by Norton about the same time as DOS 6.2 came out with the Central Point defrag and scandisk built in. AFAIK, it was 1997 before Norton was fully acquired by Symantec.
It is also worth noting that this "business" hosts its web server on a residential cable modem.
whois 65.33.229.88@arin.net
[arin.net]
Road Runner-Southeast (NETBLK-ROADRUNNER-SOUTHEAST)
13241 Woodland Park Road
Herndon, VA 20171
US
Netname: ROADRUNNER-SOUTHEAST
Netblock: 65.32.0.0 - 65.35.95.255
Maintainer: RRSE
...
Name: planw-65-33-229-88.pompano.net
Address: 65.33.229.88
on some South Pacific island logging camp at 2001-03-17 02:59:01
Correct. Sometimes royalties go to BMI instead of ASCAP. It is usually listed on the back of CD's where the royalties should go. In fact, restaurants are supposed to pay royalties for music they play, as well as stadiums and any other public venue playing copyright music.
Hockey is about 3 hours of men ice skating. In that three hours, an occaisional goal is scored, in a game where a high score is 5. Occaisionally someone gets their stick tangled in an opponent's stick, and try push each other. And it just isn't worth wasting 3 hours of your life at a place that sells small platic cups of beer for $6.50, in a seat that costs $75 and is way above the rink.
Most newer desktop flat panels (i.e. NOT laptop) have realy low pixel refresh latency. I found that my DFP is great for playing Quake III, watching full motion video, etc. In fact, I notice more motion blur on my really old 15" CRT than on my LCD. Also, most manufacturers publsih the latency times, so it is easy to compare this when you're shopping.
Just as most doctors offices refuse to fax charts, I doubt any practice or hospital will allow online viewing of charts. They refuse to fax charts because they cannot be sure who is waiting at the receiving end of the fax machine, even if they verified the number was correct. As easy as it is to steal someone's social security number, name and address, it would be all to easy to get someone else's chart online. No doctor wants that kind of lawsuit, and people don't want to see their charts online bad enough to offset the costs. If you want a copy of your chart, have it over-nighted or pick it up in person. If someone intercepts it that way, it is either the patient or shipping company's liability then, not to doctor's.
Isn't that what the Apple ][ computers did back in the 80's, or what the game consoles (PSX, DC at least) do now? Instead of having a user apparent operating system, let's just turn the computer on with a disk in a drive, and it just starts running the application. That works fine for games, and worked great in the 80's. Why? Because back then you didn't run more than one application on an 8bit 1Mhz processor with 128KB. With gaming consoles, you aren't going to be CTRL-TABing from WipeOut XL to a word processor. Try to get preemptive multitasking done without an adaptive OS. And of course many of the other features we use cannot be done if we take an OS out of the picture.
I have three case fans sitting here. They each are rated at a maximum power of 0.72W, 0.96W, and 1.2W. I've seen a few large (>15cm) case fans that were from larger workstations of the early 90's, and they were all rated under 2W. I think we can rule fans out as a major power suck. The electrical resistance from heat due to lack of cooling would probably consume more power than the fans themselves, not to mention the power it takes to replace failed components due to heat. If we can reduce the power consumption in other parts of the computer, then it may become beneficial to reduce cooling.
Has anyone had any experience running NetBSD or Linux on the DC? The $99 price tag may make a nice little appliance. I'd imagine that the performance is better than the iOpener or any of the other embedded network computers.
Of course it may be a while before the broadband adapter is supported...
Any potential employer with a commision-compensated human resources department should be a BIG RED FLAG. Perhaps it would be acceptable if you weren't being offered the job pending completion of a several thousand dollar training course. My girlfriend is interviewing with several companies for positions that require certain licenses or certifications, and they all have offered to pay her to take the courses and exams.
Many find the dynamic nature of Java better suited to dynamic loading. It is quite easy to do dynamic loading with Java. And, for most people Java applications can be implemented much more quickly than in C. But, if speed is what you're after, C beats the hell out of Java on any platform. Generally C will produce smaller object files, especially if add the JRE/JVM to the total size of a Java app. If one of these characteristcs has higher priority, then it should be an easy pick. If they are equal priority, then you might just pick the one you are most comfortable with. After all, they are both great languages, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
I wonder what it costs to look at the Windows source.
It probably costs you your sanity.
My computers have heat exchangers that simultaneously cool the cpu and warm the room. They are called heat sinks, with fans helping distribute the warm air throughout the room. A 300W system (assuming it's using all 300W) is just over 1000BTUs... In fact, Sun lists the BTUs for just about all their systems so users can anticipate external cooling needs in their datacenter/noc.
Another technology that excludes the other 95% of us who live more than 15,000 from the nearest CO.
You should sit down and talk with the coworkers you call friends, and let them know how you feel. Tell them you think the company is doomed, and have some better outlook on the horizon. If the company is as bad as you make it sound, then they are aware of the situation too. They may be staying just to wait and see if their friends leave. If you talk it out with your friends, maybe you can work together to make sure that everyone has their future secured somehow.
Conservation IS part of the answer. The reason there is such a shortage of electricity is quite simple economics. There are fixed prices that electricity must be sold at, yet it is bought by those utility companies at unprofitable prices. Supply is far exceeded by demand, because the price of electricity is lower than its actual value to customers. Electricity in California is far cheaper than most European countries, for example. You will notice that flourescent lights have replaced incadescents in Europe, for example. Why not do that in California? Because the price of electricity is cheap enough that there is not much incentive to conserve. On the other hand, if utilities were able to buy power at cheaper prices, they too would be able to buy more energy to supply customers. But since they cannot, they are forced to buy as much as they can afford, and force conservation on customers to prevent an unplanned blackout.
Found it here:
C ES SORS/32_BIT/POWERPC/MPC7XX/MPC7400FACT.pdf
http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/MICROPRO
The 450MHz G4 uses 5.0W typical, 11.5W maximum, at 1.8V. I'm guessing there is a little lower core voltage in the mobile G4.
I know 25W is somewhat low for current x86 processors, but does anyone know what the power dissapation for, say a mobile 500MHz G4 is? I know the desktop G4's use a lot less power (no need for a cpu fan).
I like how the lawyers allowed VA Linux to be referred to as only "Linux".
In connection therewith, Linux filed a registration statement, which incorporated a prospectus (the ``Prospectus''), with the SEC.
Most of us would rather have that 22" LCD than a 24" CRT. That accounts for a huge chunk of the price difference.
Can your Tivo come to your son's preschool graduation, and easily capture video from a camera? Are you willing to mail your TIVO to a friend when he wants to see a show you recorded? TIVO's are great, but they don't cover all of the needs tapes can, just as tapes don't cover all of the needs TIVO's can.
So we can use gzip or bzip2 and get hefty compression. Sure it isn't as hefty as MPEG, but it is lossless, and can still be decoded in real time. Hell, players could even be linked to zlib or bzlib!
CD formats degrade several orders of magnitude slower than tapes. And, they don't degrade as you play them.