"Government" funding of roads and highways comes from the state and federal fuel taxes. Essentially they are user fees, just like the fare you pay on Amtrak. The additional money the government pours into Amtrak comes from the general fund--income tax, corporate tax, borrowing, etc. So the people that use the highways pay for them, but we all (well, those of us that actually pay taxes) end up subsidizing Amtrak, whether we want to use it or not.
The article has a quote attributed to, "a neuroscientist at Emory University, in Atlanta, who was not involved in the research." Further down, it says the research took place at the University of Amsterdam.
Not just difficult, but often just as or more expensive. Take Dell: I can get a basic Vostro with Windows for $299. There's no non-Windows option if you just select the Vostro from the main page. You have to search to find the "FreeDOS" version that you could then install Linux on yourself. And even then, the "starting price" is listed as $349 even though you can manage to get it for $299. The cheapest thing I could find with Ubuntu (or any Linux) preinstalled was $369.
Well, I regularly use my Blackberry through it's GUI console. Heck, I regularly use my Tivo through it's GUI console. I think it's definitely too broad. Give it another go.
If a Blackberry isn't a desktop, then clearly something can be designed that will be right on the line between that and an actual desktop. Maybe this is it.
I think you're using the term "sexually charged" to purposely obscure the point here. Sexually charged would be words like hot, sexy, sultry, or slutty. Virgin, if it can be called sexually charged at all, would in effect have a "negative charge." Are you suggesting that referring to the "Virgin Mary" is to speak of her in a "sexually charged" manner? Virginity is supposed to be a virtue, especially in the context of her church friends.
I saw elsewhere that it's a new school. It's definitely cheaper to go with IP phones if you'd have to buy analog phones anyway, plus you only have to wire network connections, not analog phone lines too. Get some Polycom 301s, 430s where you need speaker phones, and 601s for operators and receptionists. The 650s are nice because they are backlit and do HDVoice, but they're not out yet--just announced. I'd say they're more for the "executive" market. It looks like you'll be able to get them for $300-350 or maybe a little more.
I'm not sure about the others, but the Polycom phones are great for large installs. You just put an entry in your DHCP and they'll pull their config from a ftp or http(s) server. You can enter the MAC address in Trixbox and have it (with some help) auto-create the XML configs. We have created some software to do that. We will be releasing it to the community soon--you'll find it at voip-info.org. We're just trying to clean it up a little at this point.
The 601 (& prob. 650s) have an option of a microbrowser that will be handy for integrating with Asterisk for various tasks and we're excited about doing some of that. I think this stuff is great--it really brings out my geek-side.
I suppose it's a little cheaper to keep your phones and get a channel bank, but only just cheaper. You're going to pay more than 2000 for a full FXS channel bank plus ~$500 for the T1 card. You can get Polycom 301 phones for ~$115 each (probably less at that quantity) which comes to $2760 for a much better solution. We use all Polycom phones with Asterisk and they work great.
The disturbing part is, if the CO2 concentration is playing a role in the temperature variation, then the datapoints graphed over the last 100 years would create a temperature variation that is completely off of the graph.
Of course, the temperature increase preceeds the CO2 increase in the graph each time, so perhaps the causation is the other way around.
There is a Tivo hack that allows it to listen for caller ID and display it on your TV as you're watching a show, so you can decide to pause and pick it up, or let it go.
High energy means a small volume of used fuel
Every 12-24 months, U.S. plants are shut down and the oldest fuel assemblies are removed and replaced. All of the country's nuclear power plants together produce about 2,000 metric tons of used fuel annually. To put this in perspective, all the used fuel produced to date by the U.S. nuclear energy industry in more than 40 years of operation--some 40,000 metric tons--would cover an area the size of a football field to a depth of about five yards, if the fuel assemblies were stacked side by side and laid end to end.
And anyway, the only reason the only solution the industry has right now is because Carter banned reprocessing of the used fuel.
If we'd just get them going, Department of Energy laboratories could pretty much eliminate the problem, but anytime someone proposes doing that, who do you think blocks it? But then, if you let them create a way to eliminate the waste, you couldn't block nuclear plants by complaining there's nothing to do with the waste.
Actually, smugglers are often pirates too, these days. The point is they aren't traditional pirates, after particularly valuable cargo on the boat; they're after the boat itself for use in smuggling. The laws that allow law enforcement to confiscate the boat in cases of drug smuggling make it too expensive to keep buying boats for smuggling, so they pirate them.
It puts local mom-and-pop operations at a disadvantage. Why should I purchase locally, even if it's the same price, when I can just "buy it over the internet, tax free". It puts all the retailers on the same level.
Mom and pop operations like Wal-mart? Or mom and pop operations like basement eBay sellers? Don't assume small operations are brick and morter, and online operations are all evil "corporations."
Also, sales taxes were designed to support the services used by store fronts: police, fire, water, etc. If I'm buying from out of state, the other state is providing those services to the business, not my locality.
Open source software packages do in fact have bugs! The key, though, is that being open source it was fixed in one day as opposed to the weeks it takes Microsoft to fix IE security bugs.
According to my wife, a practicing neuroscientist:
The blurb is pretty broadstroking- in humans, the basal ganglia is one part of a network for language implementation- language recognition, comprehension, processing, development etc itself is carried out through a complex network in the left hemisphere involving Broca's and Wernicke's areas (among a number of other pathways and stops) so to say "and it is the same way that a baby's random babbling eventually becomes the proficient speech of adults" is pretty bad leaping even for a lay person blurb. And then lets throw in buzz word of Parkinson's disease which is not "an inherited genetic condition" contrary to the whiz who wrote the blurb. Researchers believe there is a genetic predisposition in a portion of patients that develop Parkinson's. Goodness.
I guess it's like when we read something on Linux in USA Today.
Why should I use a CD-R, why not a CD-RW or DVD disk?
I do not recommend a CD-RW simply because it isn't necessary. A CD-R is "write-once", but in multi-session mode, tracks can be written one after the other, up to 99 tracks or the CD becomes full.
You could use a DVD-R, however I would discourage you. Puppy has a mechanism for keeping track of deleted files, and this may become unwieldy if a very large number of deleted files have to be kept track of. This mechanism works on a per-CD or per-DVD basis, and is going to be more manageable with the smaller number of files on the CD.
Also, it could take years before you fill-up a DVD, and in the meantime, unless you leave it permanently in the drive, there is the increased risk of it being scratched.
Note however, this is tentative advice -- it may turn out in practice that a DVD-R is a good way to go.
"Fast -- TALON is the fastest robot on the market today with seven speed settings."
Well, mine goes to eleven!
Seriously, who cares how many "settings" it has?!
I have to preface this by saying I really like Cloudscape, and I think it's great IBM is giving this to the community.
I do think it's interesting that one of the features of the new version 10, aka the Open Source version, is that it will have the same SQL as DB2, so you can more easily migrate. Unfortunately, it seems that means in almost every case, reduced SQL Functionality.
Luckily, as a current user, I can't think of any instances where I was using the removed functionality. It speaks to how strong a product the existing Cloudscape is, though. Also, it would have been nice if they'd improved the DB2 SQL rather than trimming back Cloudscape.
"Does anyone know how IBM arrived at that figure?"
From the article:
The $85 million value that I.B.M. placed on its code contribution is the price Informix, a database company, paid in 1999 for Cloudscape, a small start-up company. In 2001, I.B.M. acquired Informix for $1 billion.
We've been using it in our ZyrOSS product (video conference billing/reporting) for more than a year. It performs great for our needs. It has a pretty full SQL and is really maintenance free. It's great for a Java application because it's pure Java, so you don't need a platform dependant piece to complicate installs. Actually, there is no separate "install"--you just include a few extra jar files with your application. We had tried instantdb and mckoi, but they weren't robust enough. We've been very happy with it.
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"Government" funding of roads and highways comes from the state and federal fuel taxes. Essentially they are user fees, just like the fare you pay on Amtrak. The additional money the government pours into Amtrak comes from the general fund--income tax, corporate tax, borrowing, etc. So the people that use the highways pay for them, but we all (well, those of us that actually pay taxes) end up subsidizing Amtrak, whether we want to use it or not.
The article has a quote attributed to, "a neuroscientist at Emory University, in Atlanta, who was not involved in the research." Further down, it says the research took place at the University of Amsterdam.
ThinkFree allows you to host the server yourself. You can make it available only via VPN or SSL if you like.
Not just difficult, but often just as or more expensive. Take Dell: I can get a basic Vostro with Windows for $299. There's no non-Windows option if you just select the Vostro from the main page. You have to search to find the "FreeDOS" version that you could then install Linux on yourself. And even then, the "starting price" is listed as $349 even though you can manage to get it for $299. The cheapest thing I could find with Ubuntu (or any Linux) preinstalled was $369.
Well, I regularly use my Blackberry through it's GUI console. Heck, I regularly use my Tivo through it's GUI console. I think it's definitely too broad. Give it another go. If a Blackberry isn't a desktop, then clearly something can be designed that will be right on the line between that and an actual desktop. Maybe this is it.
That's only if you call the Eee pc a desktop. Don't they even refer to it as a "mobile internet device" or something like that?
I think you're using the term "sexually charged" to purposely obscure the point here. Sexually charged would be words like hot, sexy, sultry, or slutty. Virgin, if it can be called sexually charged at all, would in effect have a "negative charge." Are you suggesting that referring to the "Virgin Mary" is to speak of her in a "sexually charged" manner? Virginity is supposed to be a virtue, especially in the context of her church friends.
I'm not sure about the others, but the Polycom phones are great for large installs. You just put an entry in your DHCP and they'll pull their config from a ftp or http(s) server. You can enter the MAC address in Trixbox and have it (with some help) auto-create the XML configs. We have created some software to do that. We will be releasing it to the community soon--you'll find it at voip-info.org. We're just trying to clean it up a little at this point.
The 601 (& prob. 650s) have an option of a microbrowser that will be handy for integrating with Asterisk for various tasks and we're excited about doing some of that. I think this stuff is great--it really brings out my geek-side.
I suppose it's a little cheaper to keep your phones and get a channel bank, but only just cheaper. You're going to pay more than 2000 for a full FXS channel bank plus ~$500 for the T1 card. You can get Polycom 301 phones for ~$115 each (probably less at that quantity) which comes to $2760 for a much better solution. We use all Polycom phones with Asterisk and they work great.
I've used Digium support several times and always been pleased. They have always been able to ssh into the box and fix any problems I've had.
There is a Tivo hack that allows it to listen for caller ID and display it on your TV as you're watching a show, so you can decide to pause and pick it up, or let it go.
If we'd just get them going, Department of Energy laboratories could pretty much eliminate the problem, but anytime someone proposes doing that, who do you think blocks it? But then, if you let them create a way to eliminate the waste, you couldn't block nuclear plants by complaining there's nothing to do with the waste.
It's twenty bucks cheaper on Amazon
Actually, smugglers are often pirates too, these days. The point is they aren't traditional pirates, after particularly valuable cargo on the boat; they're after the boat itself for use in smuggling. The laws that allow law enforcement to confiscate the boat in cases of drug smuggling make it too expensive to keep buying boats for smuggling, so they pirate them.
Time for /. to convert to PostgreSQL!
Also, sales taxes were designed to support the services used by store fronts: police, fire, water, etc. If I'm buying from out of state, the other state is providing those services to the business, not my locality.
Open source software packages do in fact have bugs! The key, though, is that being open source it was fixed in one day as opposed to the weeks it takes Microsoft to fix IE security bugs.
Why should I use a CD-R, why not a CD-RW or DVD disk?
I do not recommend a CD-RW simply because it isn't necessary. A CD-R is "write-once", but in multi-session mode, tracks can be written one after the other, up to 99 tracks or the CD becomes full. You could use a DVD-R, however I would discourage you. Puppy has a mechanism for keeping track of deleted files, and this may become unwieldy if a very large number of deleted files have to be kept track of. This mechanism works on a per-CD or per-DVD basis, and is going to be more manageable with the smaller number of files on the CD. Also, it could take years before you fill-up a DVD, and in the meantime, unless you leave it permanently in the drive, there is the increased risk of it being scratched. Note however, this is tentative advice -- it may turn out in practice that a DVD-R is a good way to go.
"Fast -- TALON is the fastest robot on the market today with seven speed settings." Well, mine goes to eleven! Seriously, who cares how many "settings" it has?!
I do think it's interesting that one of the features of the new version 10, aka the Open Source version, is that it will have the same SQL as DB2, so you can more easily migrate. Unfortunately, it seems that means in almost every case, reduced SQL Functionality.
Luckily, as a current user, I can't think of any instances where I was using the removed functionality. It speaks to how strong a product the existing Cloudscape is, though. Also, it would have been nice if they'd improved the DB2 SQL rather than trimming back Cloudscape.
From the article:
We've been using it in our ZyrOSS product (video conference billing/reporting) for more than a year. It performs great for our needs. It has a pretty full SQL and is really maintenance free. It's great for a Java application because it's pure Java, so you don't need a platform dependant piece to complicate installs. Actually, there is no separate "install"--you just include a few extra jar files with your application. We had tried instantdb and mckoi, but they weren't robust enough. We've been very happy with it.