The sewing machine requires a computer to embroider (but not sew). If it doesn't have the computer, it can't figure out where to stitch, More expensive embroidery machines have a built in cpu and a built in screen. The whole point of the Singer is that it's cheaper than the competition.They certainly don't compete on the basis of reliability and precision.
It would probably be cheaper to buy a second "Windows XP" machine--probably a netbook since that takes up the least space-- and dedicate that to "sewing duty."
None of them would in anyway cause me to think less of James Joyce, but then there is very little that could. I remember in 7th or 8th grade my English teacher went over the elements that made for a good novel. My English teacher the following year told me what a great writer James Joyce was because he didn't include any of those elements. I've never understood why he is considered a great writer.
Online job applications at the NSF are up sharply.
The NSF used to have a lax computer policy. As long as an employee was productive, he or she could use the internet for personal use.
NSF's policy on the personal use of NSF IT resources states that the resources:are authorized for occasional personal use (excluding private business use) when the additional cost to the government is negligible and when the personal use is of reasonable duration and during personal time as much as possible so there is no interference with official business. Employees should consult with their supervisor if there is any question about âoeoccasionalâ use or âoenegligible costs.â Any personal use of the agencyâ(TM)s property is subject to the overriding expectation that employ- ees will give the government a full dayâ(TM)s labor for a full dayâ(TM)s pay. . . . Employees may make use of the Internet and electronic mail for matters that are not official business provided that . . . the use is not offensive to coworkers or the public (such as sexually explicit or otherwise inap- propriate web sites)....
"Offensive to the public" is a bit open ended-- the public can construe "wasting time on the government's dime" as bitterly as it wants to.
We received information that an NSF senior official was viewing sexually explicit material on his NSF computer in violation of NSFâ(TM)s computer use policies. We determined that, for the past two years, the employee had been repeatedly and excessively visiting pornographic websites and spend- ing up to 20 percent of his official work time viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit on-line âoechatsâ with various women. Based on the employeeâ(TM)s salary we identified a potential loss of more than $58,000 in employee compensation for that personal time. When interviewed, the employee acknowledged using his NSF computer to visit pornographic websites and admitted that he spent excessive time chatting with women at the sites during official government work hours. We determined that the employee charged more than $40,300 to his personal credit card over 24 months to cover the cost of participating in these on-line chats. We concluded that the employeeâ(TM)s activities adversely affected the workplace making it offensive and hostile. In response to our referral, the agency issued the employee a Notice of Proposed Removal, and then a Notice for Removal, after which he left NSF.
The Library of Congress has an archive of early films printed frame by frame onto paper, because at the time of deposition, still photographs were copyrightable while motion pictures were not.
Some poor worker would end up having to administer it, and once you factor in his salary, and the salary of his replacement-- because he's spending too much time plugging censorware holes...
It's a bureaucracy. At some point, some accountant had to justify so many hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on maintaining an investigation squad, and somehow, because they spent some fraction of that time investigating Dr. X, Dr X gets blamed for costing the NSF some fraction times the entire budget of the investigation squad.
Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
Naturally, the bulk of that cost was eaten by the cost of the investigation. If one employee, with salaries and benefits and admin overhead, totaling 100K estimated that he spent between 13.8% and 58% of his time monitoring this guy's internet connection, then this one guys appetite for porn cost the NSF 13800--58000.
I think the NSF needs honest accountants, but employing one would probably add the porn bill.
The 9400m is a lot better than the Intel GMA integrated graphics, especially when you consider that most Mac games were written expressly for ATI and nVidia chipsets. But the 9600 is 50 to 100 percent faster than the 9400m. I suppose that it doesn't matter if you don't play games, or play only relatively undemanding games that "take advantage" of the smallish 1280*800 screen.
If any apps you use are rewritten to take advantage of OpenCL, the 9600 will run them faster.
Yep. 3dB doubles the sound. You know that, I know that. The OSHA exposure limits (which are, by far, the most permissive of the three in my link), however, are graded by 5dB.
The OSHA standard stops at 115 db for 15 minutes. If we extrapolate the chart upwards (strictly against regulations), we'll see 120 db for 7.5 minutes, 125 db for 3.75 minutes, 130 db for 1.875 minutes, 135 db for 56 seconds, 140 db for 28 seconds, 145 db for 14 seconds, and 150 db for 7 seconds.
7 seconds is prolonged exposure? OK. Tell me another one.
Oh yes it is. Uptime is "up and running." Downtime is "not running." If your operating system update needs to reboot the computer, you can either reboot a cpu at a time, or you can redesign the update.
Power supply conked out? No matter. Take it out, let the system run on the spare, and put the replacement in. CPU died? Call up IBM, have them activate the spare.
A number of companies make HTPC or Media Center cases. Some of those have room for normal PCIe cards, and some of them require a riser. The real acid test, though, is whether the heat generated by a decent graphics card is compatible with a quiet living room.
While I think that the "curved" arrangement of monitor is probably the best way to make use of multiple monitors, at times, the graphics looked skewed and distorted.
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And what do yo compile on it? How long does it take to build?
What sort of window manager does it use?
And how much does it weigh?
The sewing machine requires a computer to embroider (but not sew). If it doesn't have the computer, it can't figure out where to stitch, More expensive embroidery machines have a built in cpu and a built in screen. The whole point of the Singer is that it's cheaper than the competition.They certainly don't compete on the basis of reliability and precision.
It would probably be cheaper to buy a second "Windows XP" machine--probably a netbook since that takes up the least space-- and dedicate that to "sewing duty."
331 quick looks at porn don't cost $40,000. Perhaps 331 wasted afternoons do.
"The demand that I make of my reader, is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works."
--James Joyce
None of them would in anyway cause me to think less of James Joyce, but then there is very little that could. I remember in 7th or 8th grade my English teacher went over the elements that made for a good novel. My English teacher the following year told me what a great writer James Joyce was because he didn't include any of those elements. I've never understood why he is considered a great writer.
Have you tried reading his books?
Online job applications at the NSF are up sharply.
The NSF used to have a lax computer policy. As long as an employee was productive, he or she could use the internet for personal use.
NSF's policy on the personal use of NSF IT resources states that the resources:are authorized for occasional personal use (excluding private business use) when the additional cost to the government is negligible and when the personal use is of reasonable duration and during personal time as much as possible so there is no interference with official business. Employees should consult with their supervisor if there is any question about âoeoccasionalâ use or âoenegligible costs.â Any personal use of the agencyâ(TM)s property is subject to the overriding expectation that employ- ees will give the government a full dayâ(TM)s labor for a full dayâ(TM)s pay. . . . Employees may make use of the Internet and electronic mail for matters that are not official business provided that . . . the use is not offensive to coworkers or the public (such as sexually explicit or otherwise inap- propriate web sites)....
"Offensive to the public" is a bit open ended-- the public can construe "wasting time on the government's dime" as bitterly as it wants to.
Those were charged to his personal credit card. To the tune of $20,000 per year.... The $58,000 is apparently just lost productivity.
Sometimes hysteria is justified.
We received information that an NSF senior official was viewing sexually explicit material on his NSF computer in violation of NSFâ(TM)s computer use policies. We determined that, for the past two years, the employee had been repeatedly and excessively visiting pornographic websites and spend- ing up to 20 percent of his official work time viewing sexually explicit images and engaging in sexually explicit on-line âoechatsâ with various women. Based on the employeeâ(TM)s salary we identified a potential loss of more than $58,000 in employee compensation for that personal time.
When interviewed, the employee acknowledged using his NSF computer to visit pornographic websites and admitted that he spent excessive time chatting with women at the sites during official government work hours. We determined that the employee charged more than $40,300 to his personal credit card over 24 months to cover the cost of participating in these on-line chats. We concluded that the employeeâ(TM)s activities adversely affected the workplace making it offensive and hostile. In response to our referral, the agency issued the employee a Notice of Proposed Removal, and then a Notice for Removal, after which he left NSF.
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At least he used his personal credit card.
We all "view" porn for one reason and one reason only: the money shot
Speak for yourself. I don't much care for money shots
It's like bukkake, but even more so.
The Library of Congress has an archive of early films printed frame by frame onto paper, because at the time of deposition, still photographs were copyrightable while motion pictures were not.
Now digital work can be downloaded and as such doesn't really need a museum.
Not a fan of curators, are you?
Some poor worker would end up having to administer it, and once you factor in his salary, and the salary of his replacement-- because he's spending too much time plugging censorware holes...
It's a bureaucracy. At some point, some accountant had to justify so many hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on maintaining an investigation squad, and somehow, because they spent some fraction of that time investigating Dr. X, Dr X gets blamed for costing the NSF some fraction times the entire budget of the investigation squad.
You should try to be more vague.
Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
Naturally, the bulk of that cost was eaten by the cost of the investigation. If one employee, with salaries and benefits and admin overhead, totaling 100K estimated that he spent between 13.8% and 58% of his time monitoring this guy's internet connection, then this one guys appetite for porn cost the NSF 13800--58000.
I think the NSF needs honest accountants, but employing one would probably add the porn bill.
The 9400m is a lot better than the Intel GMA integrated graphics, especially when you consider that most Mac games were written expressly for ATI and nVidia chipsets. But the 9600 is 50 to 100 percent faster than the 9400m. I suppose that it doesn't matter if you don't play games, or play only relatively undemanding games that "take advantage" of the smallish 1280*800 screen.
If any apps you use are rewritten to take advantage of OpenCL, the 9600 will run them faster.
I feel obliged to point out that Mythbusters pretty well debunked the concept
OK. I figured that the latency would be horrible.
Can you run a display off 10Gigabyte ethernet? If you had a choice of running video over DVI or ethernet, which would you choose?
You probably already have a eSATA port.
Yep. 3dB doubles the sound. You know that, I know that. The OSHA exposure limits (which are, by far, the most permissive of the three in my link), however, are graded by 5dB.
The OSHA standard stops at 115 db for 15 minutes. If we extrapolate the chart upwards (strictly against regulations), we'll see 120 db for 7.5 minutes, 125 db for 3.75 minutes, 130 db for 1.875 minutes, 135 db for 56 seconds, 140 db for 28 seconds, 145 db for 14 seconds, and 150 db for 7 seconds.
7 seconds is prolonged exposure? OK. Tell me another one.
Oh yes it is. Uptime is "up and running." Downtime is "not running." If your operating system update needs to reboot the computer, you can either reboot a cpu at a time, or you can redesign the update.
Power supply conked out? No matter. Take it out, let the system run on the spare, and put the replacement in. CPU died? Call up IBM, have them activate the spare.
A number of companies make HTPC or Media Center cases. Some of those have room for normal PCIe cards, and some of them require a riser. The real acid test, though, is whether the heat generated by a decent graphics card is compatible with a quiet living room.
While I think that the "curved" arrangement of monitor is probably the best way to make use of multiple monitors, at times, the graphics looked skewed and distorted.