Oh man, just hearing that damned map in my head made me shiver. He always sounded like he was trapped, pleading for his life - that somehow if the viewer made it to the end the animators would stop torturing him. It was just sad.
I am so glad my daughter is out of that phase. Of course, now she watches Handy Manny - which I'm amazed they actually produced. A show about a hispanic handy man? A short jewish shop owner with a cat and a combover? (the cat has a combover, too, btw). And I think there's just a little too much sexual tension between Manny and Kelly (the chick who owns the hardware store).
Do you really have PC systems or servers that have 95% of the HD space as static storage? I usually make sure all of my machines are no more than 75% full, and preferrably 50% or less. On traditional HDs, small space means lots of fragmentation and slow machines.
Besides, with a simple utility you could "defrag" your flash drive occasionally and have the internal management software/firmware do a remap to get files which are over x days old into memory which has a disproportionate number of cycles. Further, laptop users are used to part wearing out over time. Anyone who runs on battery frequently knows that after a few hundred cycles the batteries are shot. I've taken thinking of each battery-usage cycle as a $0.25 charge for being cordless, and I've already been through one battery on my machine that's barely 2 years old, and my second is probably down to 80% max cap already.
Nice try. You'll only really get $12-$18 a year if you intend to keep up with inflation. Since inflation is running 2.5-3%, you'd need 1.03M invested the next year to get a 3% cost of living raise, so you have to reinvest most of your "earnings" just to break even the next year.
Whoops - I editied the post without re-reading it before I hit submit. I was assuming a 40GB drive. I also just read the second article and my numbers are off for their drives: let me update...
32GB, 32MB/s write speed, 57MB read speed. Assumed 100k cycles. 3.2PB at 32MB/s...8 years of service. I still don't have any 8 year old drives in my box-o-stuff, though.
I've always wondered about this. Most modern flash seems to get 100k writes (many more reads). Fast flash is on the order of 13MB/s write.
With load balancing, you wouldn't notice a failure until all the locations were rewritten just shy of 100,000 times. So the drive will "fail" in once you've written 40GB of data 99,999 times, or almost 4PB of write ops. At 13MB/s, that's just under 10 years of 100% duty cycle writes. If you presume you'll read that data once at 20MB/s, and you allow only an 82% duty cycle overall (to make the math easy), then your drive should last 20 years.
I don't know about you, but I don't have any 20 year old computers or drives. The computer I had 20 years ago (PS/2 model 30, iirc) used 720k floppies, and a 20MB hard drive was a $400 option. Wait, check that. I do have a copy of Windows 1.04 on floppy disk here. It fits on three 720k floppies.
There are two reasons for this. Some teleworkers really are lazy, and the dweeb in finance is jealous. I suspect it's a bit more the latter than the former.
I don't see the issue here, really. Promotion usually means a change in function which reduces the direct productive work you do in favor of management. Teleworkers are all about productive work - if they really wanted to be management, they'd hang out with the people at the office trying to climb the ladder. This usually is because they either don't like real work, or really like managing people as their work (or both). Neither of these sorts are the type of people who want to telecommute (well, maybe the former, but they get fired for getting nothing done - at least when they're in the office they can pretend to work and make it "look good").
But potentially more significant innovations are planned for next year, when Skype will introduce services with Yahoo and Google that will allow Web surfers to click a button and call a business they have found during a search.
Mr. Albert said the concept, known as "click to call," was an important example of combining eBay's expertise in online sales with Skype's capacity to allow people to make inexpensive calls.
Industry analysts have mixed opinions about how successful such a program can be and whether it can help justify the hefty price eBay paid for Skype.
Well, if there is a patent involved in this "click to call" thing, and it turns out to be popular, I think there could be lots of dollars out there.
So, we're looking for a planetoid that moves, because that makes building a permanent settlement easier? Oh, yeah, I'd love to set up a new colony in a place that has the stability of Loma Prieta.
No, offer him advertising space on your website, and threaten to add more websites above him on Google if he doesn't! Dean should tell him that he intends to play hardball, and will have Google strike his entry entirely if necessary.
I used to love NFL-ST. Then DTV slowly jacked the rates up to $300, and tacked on another $100 if you wanted it in HD. For $150-$200 it was kind of cool. For $400 I'll go do something else on Sundays.
Hmmm. The 2 and 2.5 numbers came directly from a DC/Allison presentation from a year or two ago. That doesn't mean I remembered it correctly. *shrug*
At 20 riders per efficient mile, 2 vs 40 is a wash. Consider that car miles are more efficient than busses (this is a guess - I'll say 30% more on average), and 20 riders average is a pipe dream. The busses in my town probably only seat 30-32 (okay, that's a guess, too - it's been a while since I've riden in one as I live close enough to work to walk). If you get 30% of max utilization out of bus, I'd call that a pretty impressive system (that's from...I don't remember and am not going to look it up, I think 20% is actually considered very good, but I'd have to check with my neighbor who happens to run the local transit authority). So 32 riders *.3 filled average / 1.3 bus miles/car mile *3.5mpg = 26mpg for a single rider vehicle (33 for a hybrid bus). My wife's grand caravan
Now, this doesn't address two of the big advantages to public transit - traffic congestion and parking. I'm all for efficient public transit - and there are very good reasons why it's valuable, but fuel savings over efficient in-town private vechles isn't one of them.
I did a bunch of photo repro about a decade ago, and made (real) negatives of the positives from the early-mid 1900s with my nikon body and a copy lens/table/strobes bought for the purchase. I bought the nikon lens and a high quality copy stand, and sold it for within $50 of what I paid. Buying/reselling top quality gear is by far the lest expensive way to get these kinds of things done if you have the time and patience to do it yourself.
Based on the popularity of contact lenses and PRK-like surgeries, I'm going to say that most of those 1.3B really would prefer to just look like everyone else.
OP had it right - quit making these things so homely that you wouldn't wear them where anyone could actually see you. If they have to tint the glasses to hide the electronics, so be it - for now. They can work on the transparency as you get better, but there will be be no money to keep them going if the only sales are to demo companies and the odd rich-geek or three.
Well, if you consider that economy cars get between 40 and 50 mpg in real-life, and a common, efficient deisel bus gets about 2mpg and wanders around town with two or three people on it during all but rush-hour, I'd say the economy car is the winner.
BTW - that mileage could be going up to 2.5-2.6 when the new hybrid deisel-electric busses from DaimlerChrysler/Allison, so PT is getting closer to matching the insight/prius set.
In your scenereo, having an "unlocked" phone wouldn't matter. Since there are different protocols, you would have to have a mytical "all protocol" phone which worked on all the different frequencies. Having a Cingular (GSM) phone wouldn't do you any good in an area without GSM service. You couldn't switch to Verizon, because they use CDMA and is incompaitble with your favorite phone.
I hear you, though. I want an HTC TyTn for my next phone, and would prefer to be on Verizon's network. No can do, so I'll probably suck it up and live with Cingular's network. It's got a couple more dead spots, but my cell phone is not my primary phone (or even my secondary one), and I need my pda more places than I need my cell phone. And I'll take that $400 Cingular discount in exchange for the lack of videophone camera (which isn't supported anyway).
You can double the range of GSM if you halve the number of possible connections (at least that's what I've read, and it seems to be used in AU).
The problem is that we have so many different "standards" that there is limited interoperability. It's like cable TV choice in SoCal - you can change to any of three or four cable TV providers, 'cause they're all in the valley. The only catch is that you have to move your residence to do so, because there was only one provider in a given area. (this was a decade ago, btw...things may have changed).
GSM is "bad" for US providers because there's no lock-in on the handsets (unless you're willing to hack, which they know 99.9999% of subscribers aren't). You're not a customer, you're a revenue stream - never forget that.
You've got three different nework types and some half a dozen different frequencies. Having an unlocked phone just means that you could jump between two or three of the eight or so carriers. What we really need is everyone on the same damned network and frequency.
Marketing departments usually find the _slowest_ competitor to base their stats on. I wouldn't be suprised if the speed was relative to early-generation flash in the hundreds of kB/s range. Not that 100MB/s would be considered slow, but it might not be the GB/s you would expect looking at today's fast flash drives.
Well, going back to basic English - the second amendment does not parse into a sentence.
You have four clauses separated by commas. Since two clauses directly adjacent and separated solely by comma cannot form both the subject and predicate. Yet the only subject which logically agrees with the predicate (though passive) are in the last two clauses. But that's really just technicality.
More to the point, if the intent were that anyone may own a firearm (okay, that the govenment may not prevnt someone from owning a firearm), why even bother with the introductory clauses? None of the other 10 amendments in the BOR list a reason for the right; why this one? How can felons be banned from owning firearms under your interpretation? The mentally incompetent? Aircraft passengers?
Clearly there is a disconnect that, since the writers are all dead, we will never sort out. However, I think you may be leaning a little far outside the mainstream on this one.
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Let me tell you, the terrorists have already won, my friends.
And just so you can spot them, they wear three piece suits and like to use code words in Latin for critical parts of their communication.
Or like telling computer programmers that they don't have to know how to code in machine language.
Oh man, just hearing that damned map in my head made me shiver. He always sounded like he was trapped, pleading for his life - that somehow if the viewer made it to the end the animators would stop torturing him. It was just sad.
I am so glad my daughter is out of that phase. Of course, now she watches Handy Manny - which I'm amazed they actually produced. A show about a hispanic handy man? A short jewish shop owner with a cat and a combover? (the cat has a combover, too, btw). And I think there's just a little too much sexual tension between Manny and Kelly (the chick who owns the hardware store).
Do you really have PC systems or servers that have 95% of the HD space as static storage? I usually make sure all of my machines are no more than 75% full, and preferrably 50% or less. On traditional HDs, small space means lots of fragmentation and slow machines.
Besides, with a simple utility you could "defrag" your flash drive occasionally and have the internal management software/firmware do a remap to get files which are over x days old into memory which has a disproportionate number of cycles. Further, laptop users are used to part wearing out over time. Anyone who runs on battery frequently knows that after a few hundred cycles the batteries are shot. I've taken thinking of each battery-usage cycle as a $0.25 charge for being cordless, and I've already been through one battery on my machine that's barely 2 years old, and my second is probably down to 80% max cap already.
Nice try. You'll only really get $12-$18 a year if you intend to keep up with inflation. Since inflation is running 2.5-3%, you'd need 1.03M invested the next year to get a 3% cost of living raise, so you have to reinvest most of your "earnings" just to break even the next year.
Whoops - I editied the post without re-reading it before I hit submit. I was assuming a 40GB drive. I also just read the second article and my numbers are off for their drives: let me update...
32GB, 32MB/s write speed, 57MB read speed. Assumed 100k cycles. 3.2PB at 32MB/s...8 years of service. I still don't have any 8 year old drives in my box-o-stuff, though.
I've always wondered about this. Most modern flash seems to get 100k writes (many more reads). Fast flash is on the order of 13MB/s write.
With load balancing, you wouldn't notice a failure until all the locations were rewritten just shy of 100,000 times. So the drive will "fail" in once you've written 40GB of data 99,999 times, or almost 4PB of write ops. At 13MB/s, that's just under 10 years of 100% duty cycle writes. If you presume you'll read that data once at 20MB/s, and you allow only an 82% duty cycle overall (to make the math easy), then your drive should last 20 years.
I don't know about you, but I don't have any 20 year old computers or drives. The computer I had 20 years ago (PS/2 model 30, iirc) used 720k floppies, and a 20MB hard drive was a $400 option. Wait, check that. I do have a copy of Windows 1.04 on floppy disk here. It fits on three 720k floppies.
There are two reasons for this. Some teleworkers really are lazy, and the dweeb in finance is jealous. I suspect it's a bit more the latter than the former.
I don't see the issue here, really. Promotion usually means a change in function which reduces the direct productive work you do in favor of management. Teleworkers are all about productive work - if they really wanted to be management, they'd hang out with the people at the office trying to climb the ladder. This usually is because they either don't like real work, or really like managing people as their work (or both). Neither of these sorts are the type of people who want to telecommute (well, maybe the former, but they get fired for getting nothing done - at least when they're in the office they can pretend to work and make it "look good").
FTFA:
But potentially more significant innovations are planned for next year, when Skype will introduce services with Yahoo and Google that will allow Web surfers to click a button and call a business they have found during a search.
Mr. Albert said the concept, known as "click to call," was an important example of combining eBay's expertise in online sales with Skype's capacity to allow people to make inexpensive calls.
Industry analysts have mixed opinions about how successful such a program can be and whether it can help justify the hefty price eBay paid for Skype.
Well, if there is a patent involved in this "click to call" thing, and it turns out to be popular, I think there could be lots of dollars out there.
So, we're looking for a planetoid that moves, because that makes building a permanent settlement easier? Oh, yeah, I'd love to set up a new colony in a place that has the stability of Loma Prieta.
A slashdotting?
No, offer him advertising space on your website, and threaten to add more websites above him on Google if he doesn't! Dean should tell him that he intends to play hardball, and will have Google strike his entry entirely if necessary.
I used to love NFL-ST. Then DTV slowly jacked the rates up to $300, and tacked on another $100 if you wanted it in HD. For $150-$200 it was kind of cool. For $400 I'll go do something else on Sundays.
Wouldn't every body here want to see a blog by Mike Hunt?
Laugh. It's funny.
Okay, it isn't. It's tired and overused. And oddly enough, MikeHunt.com is safe for work. Whoddathunkit?
Hmmm. The 2 and 2.5 numbers came directly from a DC/Allison presentation from a year or two ago. That doesn't mean I remembered it correctly. *shrug*
At 20 riders per efficient mile, 2 vs 40 is a wash. Consider that car miles are more efficient than busses (this is a guess - I'll say 30% more on average), and 20 riders average is a pipe dream. The busses in my town probably only seat 30-32 (okay, that's a guess, too - it's been a while since I've riden in one as I live close enough to work to walk). If you get 30% of max utilization out of bus, I'd call that a pretty impressive system (that's from...I don't remember and am not going to look it up, I think 20% is actually considered very good, but I'd have to check with my neighbor who happens to run the local transit authority). So 32 riders *.3 filled average / 1.3 bus miles/car mile *3.5mpg = 26mpg for a single rider vehicle (33 for a hybrid bus). My wife's grand caravan
Now, this doesn't address two of the big advantages to public transit - traffic congestion and parking. I'm all for efficient public transit - and there are very good reasons why it's valuable, but fuel savings over efficient in-town private vechles isn't one of them.
I did a bunch of photo repro about a decade ago, and made (real) negatives of the positives from the early-mid 1900s with my nikon body and a copy lens/table/strobes bought for the purchase. I bought the nikon lens and a high quality copy stand, and sold it for within $50 of what I paid. Buying/reselling top quality gear is by far the lest expensive way to get these kinds of things done if you have the time and patience to do it yourself.
Based on the popularity of contact lenses and PRK-like surgeries, I'm going to say that most of those 1.3B really would prefer to just look like everyone else.
OP had it right - quit making these things so homely that you wouldn't wear them where anyone could actually see you. If they have to tint the glasses to hide the electronics, so be it - for now. They can work on the transparency as you get better, but there will be be no money to keep them going if the only sales are to demo companies and the odd rich-geek or three.
Well, if you consider that economy cars get between 40 and 50 mpg in real-life, and a common, efficient deisel bus gets about 2mpg and wanders around town with two or three people on it during all but rush-hour, I'd say the economy car is the winner.
BTW - that mileage could be going up to 2.5-2.6 when the new hybrid deisel-electric busses from DaimlerChrysler/Allison, so PT is getting closer to matching the insight/prius set.
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Can't we have a single discussion on
In your scenereo, having an "unlocked" phone wouldn't matter. Since there are different protocols, you would have to have a mytical "all protocol" phone which worked on all the different frequencies. Having a Cingular (GSM) phone wouldn't do you any good in an area without GSM service. You couldn't switch to Verizon, because they use CDMA and is incompaitble with your favorite phone.
I hear you, though. I want an HTC TyTn for my next phone, and would prefer to be on Verizon's network. No can do, so I'll probably suck it up and live with Cingular's network. It's got a couple more dead spots, but my cell phone is not my primary phone (or even my secondary one), and I need my pda more places than I need my cell phone. And I'll take that $400 Cingular discount in exchange for the lack of videophone camera (which isn't supported anyway).
You can double the range of GSM if you halve the number of possible connections (at least that's what I've read, and it seems to be used in AU).
The problem is that we have so many different "standards" that there is limited interoperability. It's like cable TV choice in SoCal - you can change to any of three or four cable TV providers, 'cause they're all in the valley. The only catch is that you have to move your residence to do so, because there was only one provider in a given area. (this was a decade ago, btw...things may have changed).
GSM is "bad" for US providers because there's no lock-in on the handsets (unless you're willing to hack, which they know 99.9999% of subscribers aren't). You're not a customer, you're a revenue stream - never forget that.
Based on most internet fourms, I thought all the wireless carriers were tied for last.
You've got three different nework types and some half a dozen different frequencies. Having an unlocked phone just means that you could jump between two or three of the eight or so carriers. What we really need is everyone on the same damned network and frequency.
Marketing departments usually find the _slowest_ competitor to base their stats on. I wouldn't be suprised if the speed was relative to early-generation flash in the hundreds of kB/s range. Not that 100MB/s would be considered slow, but it might not be the GB/s you would expect looking at today's fast flash drives.
Well, going back to basic English - the second amendment does not parse into a sentence.
You have four clauses separated by commas. Since two clauses directly adjacent and separated solely by comma cannot form both the subject and predicate. Yet the only subject which logically agrees with the predicate (though passive) are in the last two clauses. But that's really just technicality.
More to the point, if the intent were that anyone may own a firearm (okay, that the govenment may not prevnt someone from owning a firearm), why even bother with the introductory clauses? None of the other 10 amendments in the BOR list a reason for the right; why this one? How can felons be banned from owning firearms under your interpretation? The mentally incompetent? Aircraft passengers?
Clearly there is a disconnect that, since the writers are all dead, we will never sort out. However, I think you may be leaning a little far outside the mainstream on this one.