I'm 63 and I've been working with computers for 45 years. I often print out long emails or Web sites. It's not because of habit or lack of familiarity with computers, it's because my eyes are old and I don't see as well as all you youngsters.
Absolutley! It's just that I've been hearing about that penny rounding scheme since the mid-sixties (yes, I'm that old) and have never been able to trace it to an actual incident.
It would be easy for someone to slip in a virus to round off the fractions of a cent in the interest computations and put the remainders in an account.
It's not that easy. You calculate the interest on an account and post the credit to the account and the debit to interest paid. The debit and the credit have to match. There's nothing left over for the rogue programmer.
Yes, I know, I've had the same experience more often than I care to admit. Nonetheless, Senators' aides do pay attention to the volume of mail taking a particular position, even if they don't really read the individual letters. If enough people write supporting a point of view it makes a difference.
By the way, is the parent from Alaska? If so, I hope he'll write lots of letters.
The most useful thing we can do here is to write to our Senators. If enough people write, they pay attention. Besides, you'll probably get a nice glossy photograph in the mail.
Well, you certainly win. I do remember radios powered by lead-acid batteries (called 'accumulators'). I worked in a radio/tv store in Notting Hill and we used to charge people's accumulators on shelves in the basement. We had big caraffes of sulphuric acid to top up the cells. There wasn't much ventilation so it's a wonder the hydrogen given off by the cells didn't blow the place to kingdom come.
This was also a time when houshold appliances were still considered repairable. (London was still pretty poor that soon after WW II - otherwise know as 'The War'.) I still know how to repair an iron (usually the failure was in the bimetal strip that functioned as the thermostat rather than the in heating coils). And I'd be sent out to neighboring apartments to repair old ladies fuses when they blew. The fuses were ceramic holders and the fuseable element was an open piece of wire. You just took a new piece of fuse wire off the spool and fastened it onto the holder.
The other really cool place was Lisle Street. It was the center for war surplus electronics. There were probably 15 stores each with untold treasures: Signaling lamps, Radar consoles, radios, servo controls, all sorts of stuff that you might or might not be able to figure out. These stores alternated with bordellos. The ladies would stand in the doorways and accost passers by. Every once in a while one would try me and then realize that I was only 13 and say "Sorry Luv."
Our milkman in London had an electric vehicle that looked like a cart. He walked in front of it and steered with a handle. We still had a gaslighter too, when I first got there in '55, but he was soon made redundant by advanced automated gas lighting technology. There's nothing quite like the atmosphere from a gaslight.
When I lived in London in the 50's Harrods had a lending library. You paid a monthly fee and they assigned a librarian to you. He/she (mostly she) picked out books for you - or you could request specific titles. The books were delivered in Harrods green electric vans. When you'd finished a book Harrods would pick it up and ship you another one. Sound like a familiar business model? It even involved technology (the electric vans).
(I've posted this information before, but it seems to bear repeating.)
Actually, if you wanted to crack the drm this would be a big first step. Now you have the encrypted text (the original file) and the clear text (the AAC frames). That should make it much easier to break the encryption.
The trouble with putting them in your checked bags is that most people don't check luggage. Instead they come on board with a huge bag and a suit hanger plus a laptop. This makes boarding and getting off the plane far more unpleasant than it need be and saves them a few minutes at baggage claim. I for one wouldn't be sorry to see carry-on luggage other than a purse or small bag banned.
My bet is that they will find that they have a systematic error in the traffic speed. The cell phone users are driving more slowly than the rest of the cars. Might help to predict accidents, though.
Ah, 40+ years ago I used to work on Honeywell computers. To start one up you would first clear memory by setting 15 00 00 00 01 into the switches on the front pannel and pushing the go button. Those funny numbers translated into LCA 0000 0001, that is copy memory address 0001 to 0000, and continue copying. This would run around and around all 2k of memory and when you got tired of that you would press the stop button. Now why can I remember that sequence and not the grammar for an http link? (Oh yes, we did have modems. They worked at 15 cps, yes, that's right: 15 six-bit characters per second.)
I have an engineer friend who worked on the Big Dig as a trouble shooter. He told me many years ago that the project was destined to cost way more than projected because it had been put out to bid in very short stretches of highway. Every few hundred yards was a separate contract. This was done to maximize the number of contractors who could get a piece of the action. The difficulty was that most construction problems arise at the interface between different contractors. The way the project was bid maximised the number of contractors and hence the number of interfaces.
How about letting us moderate the stories as well as just the comments. That way if we don't like a story we can just mod it down instead of complaining about it. That would both provide some measure of the value of the stories and get some of us off Taco's back:)
I noticed a big improvement when I switched to fast cards on my Pentax Optio S4i. I've also found that transfering images through the camera's USB connection is both slow and eats up the camera's memory.
Good advice in the parent. Also, if you are on a trip and your laptop has a CD burner, not a DVD burner, then it's a lot better to have 500 Mb cards than 1 or 2 gigs. The problem with the large cards is that their contents won't fit on a single CD.
The motor is going to need a lot higher voltage than a laptop. This means that the batteries have to be organized in series/parallel banks. 6831 is a plausible number since it is 23 x 11 x 3 x 3 x 3. This gives you a lot of flexibility in arranging the banks. You could have 99 banks of 69 batteries in series, presumably giving you something like 345 volts. That sounds about right for a DC motor.
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PCs are cheap. Purpose-built hardware is expensive. Why not use the PC? (Apart from the stray virus, I mean.)
I'm 63 and I've been working with computers for 45 years. I often print out long emails or Web sites. It's not because of habit or lack of familiarity with computers, it's because my eyes are old and I don't see as well as all you youngsters.
Absolutley! It's just that I've been hearing about that penny rounding scheme since the mid-sixties (yes, I'm that old) and have never been able to trace it to an actual incident.
It would be easy for someone to slip in a virus to round off the fractions of a cent in the interest computations and put the remainders in an account.
It's not that easy. You calculate the interest on an account and post the credit to the account and the debit to interest paid. The debit and the credit have to match. There's nothing left over for the rogue programmer.
Yes, I know, I've had the same experience more often than I care to admit. Nonetheless, Senators' aides do pay attention to the volume of mail taking a particular position, even if they don't really read the individual letters. If enough people write supporting a point of view it makes a difference.
By the way, is the parent from Alaska? If so, I hope he'll write lots of letters.
The most useful thing we can do here is to write to our Senators. If enough people write, they pay attention. Besides, you'll probably get a nice glossy photograph in the mail.
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Well, you certainly win. I do remember radios powered by lead-acid batteries (called 'accumulators'). I worked in a radio/tv store in Notting Hill and we used to charge people's accumulators on shelves in the basement. We had big caraffes of sulphuric acid to top up the cells. There wasn't much ventilation so it's a wonder the hydrogen given off by the cells didn't blow the place to kingdom come.
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This was also a time when houshold appliances were still considered repairable. (London was still pretty poor that soon after WW II - otherwise know as 'The War'.) I still know how to repair an iron (usually the failure was in the bimetal strip that functioned as the thermostat rather than the in heating coils). And I'd be sent out to neighboring apartments to repair old ladies fuses when they blew. The fuses were ceramic holders and the fuseable element was an open piece of wire. You just took a new piece of fuse wire off the spool and fastened it onto the holder.
The other really cool place was Lisle Street. It was the center for war surplus electronics. There were probably 15 stores each with untold treasures: Signaling lamps, Radar consoles, radios, servo controls, all sorts of stuff that you might or might not be able to figure out. These stores alternated with bordellos. The ladies would stand in the doorways and accost passers by. Every once in a while one would try me and then realize that I was only 13 and say "Sorry Luv."
Oh dear, now I'm feeling old. Back to
Our milkman in London had an electric vehicle that looked like a cart. He walked in front of it and steered with a handle. We still had a gaslighter too, when I first got there in '55, but he was soon made redundant by advanced automated gas lighting technology. There's nothing quite like the atmosphere from a gaslight.
Here's the link to the ghost of the vans. Sadly, the real thing are gone. The color was much nicer than it looks in the photo.
When I lived in London in the 50's Harrods had a lending library. You paid a monthly fee and they assigned a librarian to you. He/she (mostly she) picked out books for you - or you could request specific titles. The books were delivered in Harrods green electric vans. When you'd finished a book Harrods would pick it up and ship you another one. Sound like a familiar business model? It even involved technology (the electric vans).
(I've posted this information before, but it seems to bear repeating.)
Actually, if you wanted to crack the drm this would be a big first step. Now you have the encrypted text (the original file) and the clear text (the AAC frames). That should make it much easier to break the encryption.
Lenovo claims that their batteries are safe. They are, however, made by Sony.
Ah yes, but 2003 R2 is 2005. That's at least closer.
The trouble with putting them in your checked bags is that most people don't check luggage. Instead they come on board with a huge bag and a suit hanger plus a laptop. This makes boarding and getting off the plane far more unpleasant than it need be and saves them a few minutes at baggage claim. I for one wouldn't be sorry to see carry-on luggage other than a purse or small bag banned.
My bet is that they will find that they have a systematic error in the traffic speed. The cell phone users are driving more slowly than the rest of the cars. Might help to predict accidents, though.
Ah, 40+ years ago I used to work on Honeywell computers. To start one up you would first clear memory by setting 15 00 00 00 01 into the switches on the front pannel and pushing the go button. Those funny numbers translated into LCA 0000 0001, that is copy memory address 0001 to 0000, and continue copying. This would run around and around all 2k of memory and when you got tired of that you would press the stop button. Now why can I remember that sequence and not the grammar for an http link? (Oh yes, we did have modems. They worked at 15 cps, yes, that's right: 15 six-bit characters per second.)
A pica is 1/6 of an inch. A point is 1/72 of an inch. Thus there are are 12 points to a pica.
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I have an engineer friend who worked on the Big Dig as a trouble shooter. He told me many years ago that the project was destined to cost way more than projected because it had been put out to bid in very short stretches of highway. Every few hundred yards was a separate contract. This was done to maximize the number of contractors who could get a piece of the action. The difficulty was that most construction problems arise at the interface between different contractors. The way the project was bid maximised the number of contractors and hence the number of interfaces.
How about letting us moderate the stories as well as just the comments. That way if we don't like a story we can just mod it down instead of complaining about it. That would both provide some measure of the value of the stories and get some of us off Taco's back :)
I noticed a big improvement when I switched to fast cards on my Pentax Optio S4i. I've also found that transfering images through the camera's USB connection is both slow and eats up the camera's memory.
Good advice in the parent. Also, if you are on a trip and your laptop has a CD burner, not a DVD burner, then it's a lot better to have 500 Mb cards than 1 or 2 gigs. The problem with the large cards is that their contents won't fit on a single CD.
The motor is going to need a lot higher voltage than a laptop. This means that the batteries have to be organized in series/parallel banks. 6831 is a plausible number since it is 23 x 11 x 3 x 3 x 3. This gives you a lot of flexibility in arranging the banks. You could have 99 banks of 69 batteries in series, presumably giving you something like 345 volts. That sounds about right for a DC motor.
Wow! Can you imagine what this will look like if the batteries come from Dell's supplier. Frying eggs will be nothing :)