No great insights, but here's my opinion on a subject close to my heart.
Wireless or wired? wired will always be better for security, bandwidth and robustness than wireless. Any encoding tech that is developed for wireless can be reused for wired in a better environment. The main disadvantage - installation cost - doesn't apply to your situation. Of course you should have wireless as well:)
Fibre or Cat 6? Cat 6 - still the best price/performance. Notice that fibre didn't take over in the last 2 years, it probably won't in the next 2 either. But put in conduit so that you can pull anything relatively easily in future. Also, since you're at a point in the building process where it's easy to do, put in twice as many potential outlets as you think you'll need. It's so easy to do now and so hard to do later. Believe me - I've done it later:)
They probably aren't using GPS - they're just tracking which cellphone tower you're communicating with. And that's something you can do that using minigps
i used to use it tell me when the next bus was coming - the bus company had an html web interface for that data which I had to change to wml on my server
apartheid was overturned by a consumer boycott? only by a consumer boycott??? not terrorism, or internal opinions?
all governments use force to stay in power - that's practically the definition of government. They are the only ones legally allowed to use non-self-defensive force
VB's case insensitivity is OK. My problem with it is that it corrects the case of stuff that you type in.
so if you type "abc", it will search around looking for an "abc" and change your typed in word to match one of the ones it finds. It's unclear to me how it chooses it's model.
2 problems with this: - what if you don't like the model it chooses? you have to go through the entire project changing them one after the other until you find the "master model" and then they all change
- it's possible to load up the project with one of the files writable, change a line of (unrelated) code, check the differences before you check the file back in and VB has picked a frikkin variable name and changed the case on every instance of it, generating a load of spurious diffs
This could be a gigantic boon for the economy, in theory. Anybody who's interested in space has read about the resources and the possibilities in space, and if we could tap that such that space exploration could become self-sustaining, there's no practical upper limit to the wealth this could generate.
If ifs and buts were pots and pans...the problem with your argument is that no one appears to really believe in the economic benefits of space. we've had the ability to go to various places (orbit, moon, planets, comets etc) for decades and very little money is being invested there. For instance, I daresay you're not investing a portion of YOUR paycheck in it.
This is because you don't believe in it enough to put your money where your mouth is. It seems you believe in it enough to put other people's money there though:)
The money that NASA gives out didn't come from the air, it came out of the pockets of the citizens. If NASA hadn't taken the money, they would have spent/invested it in something else. If you're measuring economic benefits, you have to compare the Mars mission to the alternatives.
I don't think it will be beneficial economically - at root, economic growth comes from using and accessing raw materials in a more efficient way. You actually have to come up with better ways of doing things and making things.
Of course, there may be other benefits of people going to Mars, but they aren't economic.
would a UPS keep my cable modem connection up in a power outage? I always thought that the other end of the cable would be unpowered anyway during an outage.
nope - it supports hard links via junction points (see sysinternals junction.exe program), not symbolic links. unless you can point me to some program for creating them?
1 - there are far easier ways of getting a nuke in than shipping it here via FedEx
2 - would you really pay your employees extra just to prevent them from stealing from you??? I certainly wouldn't - if it was a problem I would take the policing option.
These aren't the reasons they get paid so much - it's their union.
erm...maybe they could just pay them based on flying experience/expertise? why do they have to go back down to 13k from 250k? Their value certainly hasn't dropped that much - it sounds like a silly rule in an industry that is not competitive.
this is pretty obvious if you think about it - if half of the electricity produced in the country was lost, you'd see a dramatic heating effect over transmission lines:)
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No great insights, but here's my opinion on a subject close to my heart.
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Wireless or wired? wired will always be better for security, bandwidth and robustness than wireless. Any encoding tech that is developed for wireless can be reused for wired in a better environment. The main disadvantage - installation cost - doesn't apply to your situation. Of course you should have wireless as well
Fibre or Cat 6? Cat 6 - still the best price/performance. Notice that fibre didn't take over in the last 2 years, it probably won't in the next 2 either. But put in conduit so that you can pull anything relatively easily in future. Also, since you're at a point in the building process where it's easy to do, put in twice as many potential outlets as you think you'll need. It's so easy to do now and so hard to do later. Believe me - I've done it later
This is subject to the weather problems of building onsite. Factory building can make cool-looking homes too...
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They probably aren't using GPS - they're just tracking which cellphone tower you're communicating with. And that's something you can do that using minigps
That should tell you which process is listening on that port. Then you can stop the appropriate service or kill the appropriate process.
i used to use it tell me when the next bus was coming - the bus company had an html web interface for that data which I had to change to wml on my server
ntfs only supports hard links via something like the junction program.
apartheid was overturned by a consumer boycott? only by a consumer boycott??? not terrorism, or internal opinions?
all governments use force to stay in power - that's practically the definition of government. They are the only ones legally allowed to use non-self-defensive force
I was surprised to see you say refer to a NASA mission as non-JPL. What do you mean by this? Isn't JPL is a part of NASA? Also, what about this
such a dull book
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chapters of boring poetry...
make camp...
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etc
VB's case insensitivity is OK. My problem with it is that it corrects the case of stuff that you type in.
so if you type "abc", it will search around looking for an "abc" and change your typed in word to match one of the ones it finds. It's unclear to me how it chooses it's model.
2 problems with this:
- what if you don't like the model it chooses? you have to go through the entire project changing them one after the other until you find the "master model" and then they all change
- it's possible to load up the project with one of the files writable, change a line of (unrelated) code, check the differences before you check the file back in and VB has picked a frikkin variable name and changed the case on every instance of it, generating a load of spurious diffs
it's creepy to watch a bunch of people watching normal tv. sometimes their mouths hang open :)
If ifs and buts were pots and pans...the problem with your argument is that no one appears to really believe in the economic benefits of space. we've had the ability to go to various places (orbit, moon, planets, comets etc) for decades and very little money is being invested there. For instance, I daresay you're not investing a portion of YOUR paycheck in it.
This is because you don't believe in it enough to put your money where your mouth is. It seems you believe in it enough to put other people's money there though :)
The money that NASA gives out didn't come from the air, it came out of the pockets of the citizens. If NASA hadn't taken the money, they would have spent/invested it in something else. If you're measuring economic benefits, you have to compare the Mars mission to the alternatives.
I don't think it will be beneficial economically - at root, economic growth comes from using and accessing raw materials in a more efficient way. You actually have to come up with better ways of doing things and making things.
Of course, there may be other benefits of people going to Mars, but they aren't economic.
wake me up when they have a bluetooth THUMB-BOARD, let alone the driver.
why is this? surely the flashing program isn't using any dos-specific calls to actually do the writing.
why doesn't it just recharge them when they run down? even if it's not in the best position to charge, for example, something's better than nothing.
would a UPS keep my cable modem connection up in a power outage? I always thought that the other end of the cable would be unpowered anyway during an outage.
If everyone owned stock in the corporations producing the goods, they would make money off the robotic advances too.
nope - it supports hard links via junction points (see sysinternals junction.exe program), not symbolic links. unless you can point me to some program for creating them?
1 - there are far easier ways of getting a nuke in than shipping it here via FedEx
2 - would you really pay your employees extra just to prevent them from stealing from you??? I certainly wouldn't - if it was a problem I would take the policing option.
These aren't the reasons they get paid so much - it's their union.
erm...maybe they could just pay them based on flying experience/expertise? why do they have to go back down to 13k from 250k? Their value certainly hasn't dropped that much - it sounds like a silly rule in an industry that is not competitive.
of course the top cause of divorce is money problems, but at least you got good pictures of your wedding right? The hell with the cost! :)
this is what obex does. obex works over bluetooth, irda, http etc.
this is pretty obvious if you think about it - if half of the electricity produced in the country was lost, you'd see a dramatic heating effect over transmission lines :)