The B1G1 program gave US purchasers the same green & white one that impoversished children were getting because there was no way to make an alternative color. Yet the picture clearly shows an all-red OLPC at a trade show. Non-green/white plastic does exist after all and , wonder that.
I used to work at a nonprofit agency that took (among other things) computers that were then handed out to community centers, senior centers, churches, etc. People were always donating computers sans hard drives because they didn't want anyone to steal their info. So the warehouse had literally hundreds of unusable computers. PLEASE use the commercial or free open source package of your choice to wipe the thing then donate it! Nonprofits that deal in second hand computers are in dire need of spare hard drives of even modest capacity. And no, the lady who wants to print up the church newsletter is not some 133t h4x0r who is going to recover the wiped data and steal your identity.
paid 40% less than the market rate...the turnover rate is around 25% or more each year...since I started working there in the last 4 years
Not to be overly sarcastic but it appears that in really bucking the trend one must ask you: do they know something you don't or are you just a glutton for punishment in taking this 40% cut under market for so long? Let's face it, a 40% pay cut is fracking huge. If market is $100K then you've let $160K blow out the window.
It measures up well internationally, sitting at 17
The British don't mind being at any number as long as the best French *whatever* is lower ranked - 19 in the case of the latest supercomputer list. Although they might be a little out of sorts that Spain is above them at 13.
Note: if you are British or have any British friends, the above is 'funny' or 'insightful', not 'flamebait' or 'troll'.
Reporters looking for a sensational story wouldn't hesitate a moment to put up banner headlines screaming about near misses if there's any chance the data can be taken out of context. 1,000 feet of seperation is perfectly safe for planes flying in different directions as long as the 1,000 feet is vertical and not horizontal. I just got home from driving on the interstate where it was a LOT scarier and dangerous to be tailgated at 75 mph by a huge pickup truck. But the hick in the thing would respond probably positively to a congresscritter calling for more regulations and whatnot because planes were missing each other by ONLY 1,000 FEET AT 500 MPH!! OMG!!
As for the data, I thought it would be easy to import into a database but the dang files are not only PDF, there are several datasets in each giant PDF with column headers (titles) every page. They need to be broken apart into distinct tables' worth of data each and all the extra headers stripped. What a pain. I'll think about it.
The best pair of noise canceling headphones you can find
You and everyone else: the office is to be shared with the NETWORKING racks, not the SERVER racks. There'll be a jillion blinky LED's and a few low volume fans but there won't be the A/Cs, blaring fans, etc, that everyone is going on about. The room will be warmer than usual with even that kind of gear but with a little planning like an independent climate control it won't be that bad.
I'd just recommend you get a color of network cable that you like (I prefer the dark blue ones to the bright yellow ones) and plenty of organizers like the overhead raceways to keep them lined up neatly. Maybe a false ceiling under the raceways to hide them completely. Oh, and natural lighting. If you don't have a window, can you at least get a light tube?
Being able to pull signals from both systems means less downtime for land surveyors, and better field accuracy
No, it just means twice as many inaccurate readings. I think the different systems, operated by different countries' militaries, will NOT cheerfully work together to give you a better fix on your position.
When I said 'majority' I was referring to the majority of the 9 supreme court justices. Polls from the time of the Roe decision through today show the majority of US citizens oppose the abortion-on-demand that Roe enables. That's why it had to be done via supreme court mandate rather than the normal democratic process.
Abortion is NOT the problem with Roe - bad lawmaking is the problem with Roe.
Again, just because you favor it in this case it should NOT be OK for the judges to behave this way. I really don't care what liberties or rights or whatnot the court hands me in this fashion - it's bad precedent, bad law, and bad for liberty. I guarantee there will be a time when this small group arbitrates something that you won't like but then it will be too late.
You should also investigate his postition on Roe v. Wade - he'd do everything in his power to overturn it... Ron Paul is no friend of liberty.
On the contrary - the Roe decision is the antithesis of liberty because the nine unelected judges made new law over an issue the majority thought was the right way to behave. Not the several hundred elected congresscritters, not the thousands of elected state congresscritters. Nine people made a dramatic and sweeping change to the social landscape of the entire country. There is no Constitutional basis for the Roe decision (please read the actual decision where they admit this). That small group just made it up to suit their own sense of right and wrong. You agree with them so you call it 'liberty'.
Take a step back and see that Roe was a crushing blow to liberty.
Like abortion? Get a Constitutional amendment passed that says what Roe says - but DO NOT get happy that a very, very small group of unelected and unaccountable people have made up ANY law, nevermind one so sweeping, on their own and pushed it on everyone else. You may not like it so much when the next issue they decide for you goes against what you prefer.
sufficiently advanced life that would detect, and try to protect itself, or stop, said "death ray"
If there's a civilization that can shut down supermassive black holes at will then we'd know about it by now. Either because we're on the menu or we're needed to help clean the sewer mains on the black-hole-shutting-down supership.
Not only are the record companies opposing the request, they're asking the Judge not to even read it. Isn't this standard lawyer behavior? Objecting to everything the other side does?
It's not standard practice for judges to take orders on what they may any may not do except from judges on higher ranked courts. Anyone else trying to order a judge around just irritates the heck out of said judge.
USB can not do the same thing easily since host and device do not use the same interface, hence you can not connect two computers with a cable without an adapter.
Not only that but also USB networking requires special software. Linux/WinXP/2K/98 all do FW networking out of the box. Vista does NOT, however, so keep that in mind if you need it.
And who in the end pays that price in some form or another? Yup, us.
It's a private sector company. The only way they get your money is if they use said spectrum with some amazingly cool widget or service that you're willing to spring for it. Otherwise they lose out and that's just tough. So they're really motivated to make such widgets and services that will bring you enough benefit that you'll pay the premium. So *IF* you pay for it, it'll be a good thing.
The fact that criminalization is just throwing people in prison and billions of dollars down the drain and has done little to solve the problem is lost on you. Is it really being "tough on crime" when it hasn't done jack shit for crime?
I said nothing of the sort, thank you anonymous troll: demand AND supply must be eradicated. Farmers in 3rd world plots should get legitimate crops to grow and potential users need much better education about the risks and other activities like meaningful employment. Disincentives like jail alone don't work hardly at all. Creating extra demand by legalizing, and therefore putting a tacit stamp of approval on, hard drugs is NOT the solution.
Libertarians are great except that they're isolationists in the jet age and they haven't seen any of their friends or relatives get addicted to hard drugs and waste away.
I'd like to know everyone's opinion about which presidential candidate
Before it even starts, can we just mod the entire discussion 'troll' and 'flamebait'? Instead of trawling for opinions, please browse either the Senate voting records or gubernatorial voting records of the candidates.
What to do with your kite is the least of Mr. Sailor's worries when monster wave comes along.
I would expect a big red quick-release button on the bridge would cut the thing free in a crisis. Preferably by means of explosive charges. Explosions during a crisis are always just the thing to get the crew extra motivated.
I was under the impression that the US did not have a national power grid with enough capacity to move significant power around
I'm not sure what you mean by capacity to move it around - doesn't electricity just loose strength over long distances unless the wires are made of pure gold or silver or somesuch? I don't think it's possible to move electricity from, say, New York to Los Angeles without an affordable outdoor-temperature superconductor.
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The B1G1 program gave US purchasers the same green & white one that impoversished children were getting because there was no way to make an alternative color. Yet the picture clearly shows an all-red OLPC at a trade show. Non-green/white plastic does exist after all and , wonder that.
I used to work at a nonprofit agency that took (among other things) computers that were then handed out to community centers, senior centers, churches, etc. People were always donating computers sans hard drives because they didn't want anyone to steal their info. So the warehouse had literally hundreds of unusable computers. PLEASE use the commercial or free open source package of your choice to wipe the thing then donate it! Nonprofits that deal in second hand computers are in dire need of spare hard drives of even modest capacity. And no, the lady who wants to print up the church newsletter is not some 133t h4x0r who is going to recover the wiped data and steal your identity.
paid 40% less than the market rate...the turnover rate is around 25% or more each year...since I started working there in the last 4 years
Not to be overly sarcastic but it appears that in really bucking the trend one must ask you: do they know something you don't or are you just a glutton for punishment in taking this 40% cut under market for so long? Let's face it, a 40% pay cut is fracking huge. If market is $100K then you've let $160K blow out the window.
The Saudis NEED driverless cars when their wives, daughters, and girlfriends want to go to the mall and there is no male around to drive them
Then they'd have to sit in the parking lot because there wouldn't be a male relative to escort them in public.
So why are they spending all this money on this nonsense?
My bet is some GM execs saw "I, Robot".
It measures up well internationally, sitting at 17
The British don't mind being at any number as long as the best French *whatever* is lower ranked - 19 in the case of the latest supercomputer list. Although they might be a little out of sorts that Spain is above them at 13.
Note: if you are British or have any British friends, the above is 'funny' or 'insightful', not 'flamebait' or 'troll'.
Reporters looking for a sensational story wouldn't hesitate a moment to put up banner headlines screaming about near misses if there's any chance the data can be taken out of context. 1,000 feet of seperation is perfectly safe for planes flying in different directions as long as the 1,000 feet is vertical and not horizontal. I just got home from driving on the interstate where it was a LOT scarier and dangerous to be tailgated at 75 mph by a huge pickup truck. But the hick in the thing would respond probably positively to a congresscritter calling for more regulations and whatnot because planes were missing each other by ONLY 1,000 FEET AT 500 MPH!! OMG!!
As for the data, I thought it would be easy to import into a database but the dang files are not only PDF, there are several datasets in each giant PDF with column headers (titles) every page. They need to be broken apart into distinct tables' worth of data each and all the extra headers stripped. What a pain. I'll think about it.
The best pair of noise canceling headphones you can find
You and everyone else: the office is to be shared with the NETWORKING racks, not the SERVER racks. There'll be a jillion blinky LED's and a few low volume fans but there won't be the A/Cs, blaring fans, etc, that everyone is going on about. The room will be warmer than usual with even that kind of gear but with a little planning like an independent climate control it won't be that bad.
I'd just recommend you get a color of network cable that you like (I prefer the dark blue ones to the bright yellow ones) and plenty of organizers like the overhead raceways to keep them lined up neatly. Maybe a false ceiling under the raceways to hide them completely. Oh, and natural lighting. If you don't have a window, can you at least get a light tube?
Being able to pull signals from both systems means less downtime for land surveyors, and better field accuracy
No, it just means twice as many inaccurate readings. I think the different systems, operated by different countries' militaries, will NOT cheerfully work together to give you a better fix on your position.
But this is a MONSTER company, with a LONG reputation of doing anything illegal to keep their monopoly
Sounds like Microsoft failed to learn the lesson after hearing the tale of the boy who cried 'wolf!'
Read the fine print before bidding: the winning bidder can't have the thing til mid 2009.
When I said 'majority' I was referring to the majority of the 9 supreme court justices. Polls from the time of the Roe decision through today show the majority of US citizens oppose the abortion-on-demand that Roe enables. That's why it had to be done via supreme court mandate rather than the normal democratic process.
Abortion is NOT the problem with Roe - bad lawmaking is the problem with Roe.
Again, just because you favor it in this case it should NOT be OK for the judges to behave this way. I really don't care what liberties or rights or whatnot the court hands me in this fashion - it's bad precedent, bad law, and bad for liberty. I guarantee there will be a time when this small group arbitrates something that you won't like but then it will be too late.
You should also investigate his postition on Roe v. Wade - he'd do everything in his power to overturn it ... Ron Paul is no friend of liberty.
On the contrary - the Roe decision is the antithesis of liberty because the nine unelected judges made new law over an issue the majority thought was the right way to behave. Not the several hundred elected congresscritters, not the thousands of elected state congresscritters. Nine people made a dramatic and sweeping change to the social landscape of the entire country. There is no Constitutional basis for the Roe decision (please read the actual decision where they admit this). That small group just made it up to suit their own sense of right and wrong. You agree with them so you call it 'liberty'.
Take a step back and see that Roe was a crushing blow to liberty.
Like abortion? Get a Constitutional amendment passed that says what Roe says - but DO NOT get happy that a very, very small group of unelected and unaccountable people have made up ANY law, nevermind one so sweeping, on their own and pushed it on everyone else. You may not like it so much when the next issue they decide for you goes against what you prefer.
sufficiently advanced life that would detect, and try to protect itself, or stop, said "death ray"
If there's a civilization that can shut down supermassive black holes at will then we'd know about it by now. Either because we're on the menu or we're needed to help clean the sewer mains on the black-hole-shutting-down supership.
Not only are the record companies opposing the request, they're asking the Judge not to even read it.
Isn't this standard lawyer behavior? Objecting to everything the other side does?
It's not standard practice for judges to take orders on what they may any may not do except from judges on higher ranked courts. Anyone else trying to order a judge around just irritates the heck out of said judge.
USB can not do the same thing easily since host and device do not use the same interface, hence you can not connect two computers with a cable without an adapter.
Not only that but also USB networking requires special software. Linux/WinXP/2K/98 all do FW networking out of the box. Vista does NOT, however, so keep that in mind if you need it.
Don't need to discuss Mussss
Change this line to:
"Don't need to discuss MUX"
And it'll be perfect.
Global Thermonuclear Jihad
"The only way to win is to play"?
And who in the end pays that price in some form or another? Yup, us.
It's a private sector company. The only way they get your money is if they use said spectrum with some amazingly cool widget or service that you're willing to spring for it. Otherwise they lose out and that's just tough. So they're really motivated to make such widgets and services that will bring you enough benefit that you'll pay the premium. So *IF* you pay for it, it'll be a good thing.
See, space is not empty
It's full of stars...
The fact that criminalization is just throwing people in prison and billions of dollars down the drain and has done little to solve the problem is lost on you. Is it really being "tough on crime" when it hasn't done jack shit for crime?
I said nothing of the sort, thank you anonymous troll: demand AND supply must be eradicated. Farmers in 3rd world plots should get legitimate crops to grow and potential users need much better education about the risks and other activities like meaningful employment. Disincentives like jail alone don't work hardly at all. Creating extra demand by legalizing, and therefore putting a tacit stamp of approval on, hard drugs is NOT the solution.
Libertarians are great except that they're isolationists in the jet age and they haven't seen any of their friends or relatives get addicted to hard drugs and waste away.
I'd like to know everyone's opinion about which presidential candidate
Before it even starts, can we just mod the entire discussion 'troll' and 'flamebait'? Instead of trawling for opinions, please browse either the Senate voting records or gubernatorial voting records of the candidates.
tortion from monster waves
What to do with your kite is the least of Mr. Sailor's worries when monster wave comes along.
I would expect a big red quick-release button on the bridge would cut the thing free in a crisis. Preferably by means of explosive charges. Explosions during a crisis are always just the thing to get the crew extra motivated.
Forget "grey goo" - that's quick and relatively painless. It's Borg nanoprobes that scare the willies out of me.
I was under the impression that the US did not have a national power grid with enough capacity to move significant power around
I'm not sure what you mean by capacity to move it around - doesn't electricity just loose strength over long distances unless the wires are made of pure gold or silver or somesuch? I don't think it's possible to move electricity from, say, New York to Los Angeles without an affordable outdoor-temperature superconductor.