I was at Disney World a few months ago and the condition of the park wasn't so great. In EPCOT, Some of the buildings needed basic updating and others were hopelessly lost in the 70's. The Magic Kingdom contained a lot of attactions that were no better than what you would find at six flags. Most of the public areas didn't look thier best and most of the bathrooms needed work as well.
I really disliked being serialized through some cheesy shop after every ride, with the toys and such placed exactly at a child's eye level. I hope we never return.
Here are the rules for trademarking names and infringement. This is written for a non-laywer, so the english is fairly free of jargon.
The commonly quoted case is that of LEXUS the law archival and search company and Toyota who wanted to use the same name of thier luxury division. LEXUS sued and lost.
This is a top notch keyboard. The keys have enough feedback and the regular sized cursor navigation keys make this a great choice over the cheaper, smaller natural keyboard. The small USB hub means I have one less cable snaking down to my host.
Too bad MS no longer makes this product.:-( I think it's been replaced by some keyboard with way too many of those extra buttons across the top.
Before the this, my weapon of choice was the upgraded Dell keyboard.
>> By default GCJ, unlike GCC, will include debug if you dont use an optimize setting
Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.:-) I compiled both again with -O2. gcc ran about twice and fast and the gcj compiled code just a bit slower. I good improvement for gcc and a huge one gcj.
Execept for the I/O, and I would attribute that more to the classes, which add a whole bunch of overhead.
I was somwhat surprised on the difference in the trig tests, as both appear to use libm. Not surprised that the IO was slower, the Java IO classes are nifty but do add quite a bit of overhead compared fputs/fgets.
(Sorry about the formatting, it was the best I could do)
Most people select hotels on the basis of amenities that they never use, and I don't think this is much different. You may want to see if you how you could increase the base quality of the product for the same amount you spend on the wireless service. Like a hotel, if the basic service isn't good, amenities typically won't bring people back.
Along those lines, It would be neat, but expensive, to figure out how many people selected your business because it had free wireless versus how many of those people actually used the service.
I recall a Coase book containing lectures and the point was that transaction costs determined the size of a firm. If internal external transaction costs were lower than internal transaction costs, the company would no longer be a profitable concern compared to a group of companies all interacting with each other.
The last thing of his I read was The Firm, The Market and the Law and that was at least 10 years ago, so my memory is sort of fuzzy. I do recall that Coase conveyed his thoughts with fantastic clarity. Don't be turned off by the dreary title. One simple question Coase poses is "Why is there more than one company?" and the answer is less obvious than what you first think.
Most newer plans with undergound wiring work like this. If you live in a ares where the lines were buried after the house was built somebody built an addition on the house, that would explain the odd placement. One more thing to consider, if the house is old enough, the basement floor has probably been replaced and the walls dug out and french drained and water treated, the footer could have been replaced as well. During all of that work, the phone line could have been moved.
You could be seeing the leftovers of a temporary service as well.
>> satiate my hatred for the overwhelming majority who purchased them to keep up with the Jonses
SUVs represent reasonable response to the market distortions caused by government regulation, mainly the fleet fuel economy rules that apply to sedans and not light trucks or SUVs. Under these rules the avg. MPG for all of the vehicles offered must be a certain amount of greater. It doesn't matter if the sales of the vehilces occur or not. SUVs and light trucks did not have the same amount of gov't saftey testing and regulation as well.
Consumers want spacious vehicles. While a big sedan would reduce the fleet MPG, a bug SUV would not. So the manuf. has the incentive to offer big vehicles of a different class, probably with a lower MPG, than just being free to offer a big car. As a result, the average MPG for all vehilces sold has been declining, even while the offical fleet MPG from the gov't perspective has been the same or drifting upwards the past 10 years.
One more thing that's sort of important. If you have multiple kids, you just can't cram 'em in the back seat like sardines anymore. You need large child safety seats that take 1.5 the space of a regular person, meaning you can't put your 3 child / 2 adult family in sedan if they're under 50 pounds. In fact, you can't put a kid in the front seat because of the air bags, as most cars don't have a off switch and a deploying passenger-side airbag can kill a child.
I have a buddy that will only buy cars with 100K because he "wants to make sure they could go that far" Maybe his jokes sound better when delivered in person.:-)
I do pretty much the same thing. I drive a 11 year old car with 180K, got 4 years ago for $2500 and probably put another 2K in repairs/maint over the years, putting my annual driving cost at about 1K/year. Pretty good. Compare this with a new car at 20K with 50% depr over the first 4 years.
And there's other savings too: - The insurance is a whopping 450 annually; new car insurance would be at least double that. - No finance costs. Even if you paid cash for the new car, you'd loose interest on the money you could have invested.
And the speed difference between laser and dotmatrix is incredible. I've worked at sites where the you could see a line printer move through a big box paper in minutes. These beasts didn't have a moving head, they had a row of fixed pins spanning an entire page width, so the entire line was printed at once. I guess you could get similar performance in a laser printer, but not for the same price. Boy, were those printers were loud too.
Because most PCs are not built from scratch to accommodate Linux, as they are for Windows, almost everything requires extra work. Windows certainly has its quirks, but there are millions of off-the-shelf, readily available hardware and software add-ons for Windows PCs--assuming they're not already built in. That's not true of Linux.
Sigh... Read the whole article for additional PHB enlightenment.
This is like saying a gallon is stronger than a quart.
Currencies are just different units of measurement. What you need to keep your eye on is the PPP, or purchasing power parity, fancy econ-speak for the idea that all currencies should have equal claim on resources after differences in the currency's face value have been worked out. The PPP for all currencies should be about the same in the long run, or arbitrage will occur to shore up the difference.
Check out the Big Mac for a semi-serious overview of PPP.
I think this job is best left to Windows. Wait until the first of these is seized by police filled with p0rn, credit card numbers or who-knows-what.
Plus, software development is an implementation of problem solving skills. The best hardware teaching people problem solving is those brain-teaser books and pencils. Not as sexy as notebooks, so not the best way to appear tech friendly for the voters.
How about davenport? This is what my aunt calls couches of all types.
For those who care about etymology, sofa decends directly from an arabic work that means long cloth-covered seat that/may/ have a back and arm rests suitable for conversion into a bed. Couch, OTHO, means upholstered funiture desiged for sitting and relaxing. Couch also has some interesting verb usage, like "The hunter couched his rifle at the target"
The phone company has to pay for the DSLAM on the other side of the loop to split out the data part of the signal and wrap it into a ATM circuit. Think of this as an additional line card the phone company must buy/finance/install/fix/power/administer. When I was working with these things, they cost a ~$500 a line to buy, and a small DSLAM would service 64 lines. But that few hundred per line would be much more if the phone company did not sell all the space on the DSLAM. I'm not sure about the additonal equipment for the uplink to the phone company's network.
First hand knowledge: Folks in the ICU constantly wash hands. Each station has a sink and *everyone* washes with soap and water before and after going to a patient's bed. Infection is the biggest risk in ICU.
The phones, I'm sure aren't the biggest problem. I was surprised I could go in there with my feet and hair uncovered. I'm sure even one "clean" human hair or dandruff (sic) flake has more germs on it than a cell-phone.
The parents who let the kids scream are doing the Right Thing.
If a child knows that screaming/crying/nagging will result in the desired outcome, they will keep doing this until they get thier way. When told No they scream/cry/nag even more because they know, if done enough, it will work.
And, if you're in a grocery store, what else do you expect but loud kids?:-)
As a kid, I recall the first time I noticed the MW, I must have stared for an hour. I live an hour outside of Pittsburgh now and most of the sky is washed out. so I don't know how my kids are going to get the same treat. I was on a cruise last year and it was overcast at night, so we didn't get the chance to see much:-|
One positive side-effect: the constilations are much easier to locate, because the dimmer stars have washed out. I always had trouble spotting Orion's arms/torso, now those are the only things bright enough to be seen.
You can put down quite a bit on a cell phone. For entertainment, I was able to put together one for about 25K using the configurator on thier site and I was going cheap. They call the phones instruments, just like Lilly Tomlin.:-)
For the same reason you need to buy curtains and a door with a lock.
there's already technology for that problem
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Get one of of those cheap latches, mount it 12 inches from the TOP of the door. The kids can't figure out how to make stable tower high enough to reach the latch. Problem solved for about $1.50.
I have three small children^W escape artists and this stops them cold.
And no posts about how terrible a parent this person is, kids wait until you're in the bathroom to pull these stunts off.
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Getting your application to work using SWT/JFace without the entire Eclipse framework isn't that difficult. Check out this article for detailed instructions.
FWIW, I've actually done this and the results are great.
You have an expectation of privacy by default. You have the right to be treated as a law abiding citizen.
What happens when police start reviewing tapes and round-up people associating with suspects, even if you were just talking to the guy about the crappy movie selection. Do you want your conversations recorded as well? It could help catch a terrorist, right?
I know for sure we have no idea of the worst thing that could happen.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Ben Franklin
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>> tanking...parks.
I was at Disney World a few months ago and the condition of the park wasn't so great. In EPCOT, Some of the buildings needed basic updating and others were hopelessly lost in the 70's. The Magic Kingdom contained a lot of attactions that were no better than what you would find at six flags. Most of the public areas didn't look thier best and most of the bathrooms needed work as well.
I really disliked being serialized through some cheesy shop after every ride, with the toys and such placed exactly at a child's eye level. I hope we never return.
Here are the rules for trademarking names and infringement. This is written for a non-laywer, so the english is fairly free of jargon.
The commonly quoted case is that of LEXUS the law archival and search company and Toyota who wanted to use the same name of thier luxury division. LEXUS sued and lost.
This is a top notch keyboard. The keys have enough feedback and the regular sized cursor navigation keys make this a great choice over the cheaper, smaller natural keyboard. The small USB hub means I have one less cable snaking down to my host.
:-( I think it's been replaced by some keyboard with way too many of those extra buttons across the top.
Too bad MS no longer makes this product.
Before the this, my weapon of choice was the upgraded Dell keyboard.
>> I bet you've never walked out to find that all the humidity in you nose froze up all at once when you inhaled...some people never lived
You don't have to go Canada for that. The fluid over your eyes freezing, now that's living!
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>> By default GCJ, unlike GCC, will include debug if you dont use an optimize setting
:-) I compiled both again with -O2. gcc ran about twice and fast and the gcj compiled code just a bit slower. I good improvement for gcc and a huge one gcj.
Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.
Execept for the I/O, and I would attribute that more to the classes, which add a whole bunch of overhead.
Comparison against gcc, gcj and Java 1.4.1 on the same host:I was somwhat surprised on the difference in the trig tests, as both appear to use libm. Not surprised that the IO was slower, the Java IO classes are nifty but do add quite a bit of overhead compared fputs/fgets.
(Sorry about the formatting, it was the best I could do)
Most people select hotels on the basis of amenities that they never use, and I don't think this is much different. You may want to see if you how you could increase the base quality of the product for the same amount you spend on the wireless service. Like a hotel, if the basic service isn't good, amenities typically won't bring people back.
Along those lines, It would be neat, but expensive, to figure out how many people selected your business because it had free wireless versus how many of those people actually used the service.
I recall a Coase book containing lectures and the point was that transaction costs determined the size of a firm. If internal external transaction costs were lower than internal transaction costs, the company would no longer be a profitable concern compared to a group of companies all interacting with each other.
The last thing of his I read was The Firm, The Market and the Law and that was at least 10 years ago, so my memory is sort of fuzzy. I do recall that Coase conveyed his thoughts with fantastic clarity. Don't be turned off by the dreary title. One simple question Coase poses is "Why is there more than one company?" and the answer is less obvious than what you first think.
Most newer plans with undergound wiring work like this. If you live in a ares where the lines were buried after the house was built somebody built an addition on the house, that would explain the odd placement. One more thing to consider, if the house is old enough, the basement floor has probably been replaced and the walls dug out and french drained and water treated, the footer could have been replaced as well. During all of that work, the phone line could have been moved.
You could be seeing the leftovers of a temporary service as well.
>> satiate my hatred for the overwhelming majority who purchased them to keep up with the Jonses
SUVs represent reasonable response to the market distortions caused by government regulation, mainly the fleet fuel economy rules that apply to sedans and not light trucks or SUVs. Under these rules the avg. MPG for all of the vehicles offered must be a certain amount of greater. It doesn't matter if the sales of the vehilces occur or not. SUVs and light trucks did not have the same amount of gov't saftey testing and regulation as well.
Consumers want spacious vehicles. While a big sedan would reduce the fleet MPG, a bug SUV would not. So the manuf. has the incentive to offer big vehicles of a different class, probably with a lower MPG, than just being free to offer a big car. As a result, the average MPG for all vehilces sold has been declining, even while the offical fleet MPG from the gov't perspective has been the same or drifting upwards the past 10 years.
One more thing that's sort of important. If you have multiple kids, you just can't cram 'em in the back seat like sardines anymore. You need large child safety seats that take 1.5 the space of a regular person, meaning you can't put your 3 child / 2 adult family in sedan if they're under 50 pounds. In fact, you can't put a kid in the front seat because of the air bags, as most cars don't have a off switch and a deploying passenger-side airbag can kill a child.
I have a buddy that will only buy cars with 100K because he "wants to make sure they could go that far" Maybe his jokes sound better when delivered in person. :-)
I do pretty much the same thing. I drive a 11 year old car with 180K, got 4 years ago for $2500 and probably put another 2K in repairs/maint over the years, putting my annual driving cost at about 1K/year. Pretty good. Compare this with a new car at 20K with 50% depr over the first 4 years.
And there's other savings too:
- The insurance is a whopping 450 annually; new car insurance would be at least double that.
- No finance costs. Even if you paid cash for the new car, you'd loose interest on the money you could have invested.
And the speed difference between laser and dotmatrix is incredible. I've worked at sites where the you could see a line printer move through a big box paper in minutes. These beasts didn't have a moving head, they had a row of fixed pins spanning an entire page width, so the entire line was printed at once. I guess you could get similar performance in a laser printer, but not for the same price. Boy, were those printers were loud too.
Says the article:
Sigh... Read the whole article for additional PHB enlightenment.
>> stronger than the dollar
This is like saying a gallon is stronger than a quart.
Currencies are just different units of measurement. What you need to keep your eye on is the PPP, or purchasing power parity, fancy econ-speak for the idea that all currencies should have equal claim on resources after differences in the currency's face value have been worked out. The PPP for all currencies should be about the same in the long run, or arbitrage will occur to shore up the difference.
Check out the Big Mac for a semi-serious overview of PPP.
I think this job is best left to Windows. Wait until the first of these is seized by police filled with p0rn, credit card numbers or who-knows-what.
Plus, software development is an implementation of problem solving skills. The best hardware teaching people problem solving is those brain-teaser books and pencils. Not as sexy as notebooks, so not the best way to appear tech friendly for the voters.
How about davenport? This is what my aunt calls couches of all types.
/may/ have a back and arm rests suitable for conversion into a bed. Couch, OTHO, means upholstered funiture desiged for sitting and relaxing. Couch also has some interesting verb usage, like "The hunter couched his rifle at the target"
For those who care about etymology, sofa decends directly from an arabic work that means long cloth-covered seat that
The phone company has to pay for the DSLAM on the other side of the loop to split out the data part of the signal and wrap it into a ATM circuit. Think of this as an additional line card the phone company must buy/finance/install/fix/power/administer. When I was working with these things, they cost a ~$500 a line to buy, and a small DSLAM would service 64 lines. But that few hundred per line would be much more if the phone company did not sell all the space on the DSLAM. I'm not sure about the additonal equipment for the uplink to the phone company's network.
First hand knowledge: Folks in the ICU constantly wash hands. Each station has a sink and *everyone* washes with soap and water before and after going to a patient's bed. Infection is the biggest risk in ICU.
The phones, I'm sure aren't the biggest problem. I was surprised I could go in there with my feet and hair uncovered. I'm sure even one "clean" human hair or dandruff (sic) flake has more germs on it than a cell-phone.
The parents who let the kids scream are doing the Right Thing.
:-)
If a child knows that screaming/crying/nagging will result in the desired outcome, they will keep doing this until they get thier way. When told No they scream/cry/nag even more because they know, if done enough, it will work.
And, if you're in a grocery store, what else do you expect but loud kids?
As a kid, I recall the first time I noticed the MW, I must have stared for an hour. I live an hour outside of Pittsburgh now and most of the sky is washed out. so I don't know how my kids are going to get the same treat. I was on a cruise last year and it was overcast at night, so we didn't get the chance to see much :-|
One positive side-effect: the constilations are much easier to locate, because the dimmer stars have washed out. I always had trouble spotting Orion's arms/torso, now those are the only things bright enough to be seen.
You can put down quite a bit on a cell phone. For entertainment, I was able to put together one for about 25K using the configurator on thier site and I was going cheap. They call the phones instruments, just like Lilly Tomlin. :-)
For the same reason you need to buy curtains and a door with a lock.
Get one of of those cheap latches, mount it 12 inches from the TOP of the door. The kids can't figure out how to make stable tower high enough to reach the latch. Problem solved for about $1.50.
I have three small children^W escape artists and this stops them cold.
And no posts about how terrible a parent this person is, kids wait until you're in the bathroom to pull these stunts off.
Getting your application to work using SWT/JFace without the entire Eclipse framework isn't that difficult. Check out this article for detailed instructions.
FWIW, I've actually done this and the results are great.
You have an expectation of privacy by default. You have the right to be treated as a law abiding citizen.
What happens when police start reviewing tapes and round-up people associating with suspects, even if you were just talking to the guy about the crappy movie selection. Do you want your conversations recorded as well? It could help catch a terrorist, right?
I know for sure we have no idea of the worst thing that could happen.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Ben Franklin