Well, Washington isn't getting as much in taxes as they could if they had a state income tax...I guess they're only getting it from the sales and property taxes.
Actually, I think it's the Google icons that are off; the image tag on the icons come up with exactly the same weather forcast as weatherunderground.com does (partly sunny, 3X chance of rain) for Seattle.
It might be nice to see all the icons they use to depict the weather (I suppose I could zoom around the country and discover them one by one)
Unless the sites are spaced something like along a road, a mesh network would probably work and be much easier to setup as well as much more robust (I presume the network carries vital info on temperatures, greenhouse equipment status, etc).
Whether or not it will work on Cingular is another question.
My ATT GSM phone shows the Cingular network in this area as an available roaming network (and it does so in other areas where ATT service doesn't show up), so I think the GSM networks are compatible.
This article, as well as the one referenced at the Homepower site both mention the key point make your solar panel installation pay off: You need to sell high and buy low! The Sacramento Bee article goes into detail on the key points:
Switch your bill to time of day rates, where you pay more during periods of high usage and less nights and weekends.
Do everything you can to not use electicity during prime time.
By selling your solar energy back to the utility during prime time you get paid much more than it costs when you buy it back at night; one example mentioned that the utility paid 52 cents/kWh during the day, but they paid only 15 cents/kWh at night, so you can buy ~4 kWh's for every one you generate.
This will make your payback short enough that solar panels are a good deal (that, and the state/federal tax credits, and in CA the rebate from the state energy commission).
or, try Quantix, which is derived from cluster knoppix. A self-booting ISO with data analysis software, based on Knoppix. This is geared more for scientific apps; it doesn't come with open office, etc, which cluster knoppix does.
Can you spell cruel and unusual punishment? This will be reduced, at least, on appeal. It's like many of the multi-million dollar judgements (ie, the MacDonald's too hot coffee) that make the headlines, but they end up being awarded a fraction of the original amount.
This site is a high school web site for a beginning course called Introduction to Computer Programming. The instructor uses Python, and has a link to the iso of the CD given to each person in the class. I have the previous (2001) version of the CD and it has Linux, Windows and Mac versions of Python, all documentation, Tutorials, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, sample code and games and much more. While Knoppix is great, I think this CD is better.
For me, not really. New CPUs mean more wastage, more software bloat, and more wasted resources and money spent pointlessly on upgrading. The average person business user wants to use the www, email, play solitair, type things out, print things, and look at some pictures now and then. A 486DX 50mhz system with 16mb of ram is well enough for these purposes from a hardware point of view.
Guess you haven't used a 486DX 50 recently. I have. IE 3.0 is the only browser that was there; it bombed on about 1/3 of the pages I tried to view. But, it did play solitare fine.
It does matter, and the Alpha is still better for many applications. I have three I support (Tru64), but just bought a dual-Athelon 2000MP server for $1600 that will power one of our typical jobs about 10X faster than the 600 Mhz 21164 Alpha systems.
This job is coded in perl, and involves processing thru 80Gb of data (not really floating point intensive, more just summarizing the data). A sample of 1/1000 of the data takes about 1 hour on the Alpha(ie, 40+ days!), but about 11 minutes on a P4 2.4Ghz and about 15 minutes on an XP1600 This is almost directly proportional to the SPEC numbers. I was blown away by these comparisons as I think the Alphas are great.
I wanted to buy a 21264 1 Ghz Alpha system (and we can get them at educational prices), but $12,000 vs $1600 is hard to justify for about the same raw power.
I'll second the SMP. I have a dual PPro 200 at work that I've had for nearly 5 years. Runs NT4.0, has bluescreened maybe 3 times in that time. I have a new 2.5Ghz Pentium 4 sitting in a box that I haven't had time to set up; my first use will be to load Perl on it and use it for a distributed programming run that would take 65+ days on one of our servers. With this machine, and 4 or 5 others it will only take 7-10 days.
Then, and only then, will I probably transfer my desktop to it.
Oh, yeah, and my Pentium 150 laptop works fine for everything I need on the road!
(but my home machine is an XP1600+ )
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My boss gets lots of complaints because we pass the 3% credit card charge on directly. Like somehow people who pay with cash or check should subsidize the credit industry.
This is illegal in some jurisdictions (like California, unless you're the government!) See this brief explanation
YeahWrite is very small ( 1Mb), very fast, runs under everything from Win 3.1 on up. It probably does everything your relatives want, though it isn't completely full featured. It is also very intuitive to use; it automatically saves your files for you, opens the last document you used. It organizes documents around file folders and drawers.
Drawbacks include only one font per document, although is does support various font sizes for headings and titles. The program does not support hyphenation, endnotes, footnotes, a table of contents or an index. A document can have only one margin setting. But, I'd bet your relatives probably don't need these. There is a full spelling check, thesaurus,etc.
I've used YeahWrite for kids as they don't have to remember to save the document (a big problem). It also takes almost no instruction.
You can download the free version and try it, you can enable the full version for 15 days, and it's only $29 to buy anyway.
Yeahwrite was written by former WordPerfect programmers under Pete Peterson, one of the founders of WP.
ABC news describes this being done in the Maryland/Virginia area back in December 1999:
Under a $750,000 contract, U.S. Wireless Corp. of San Ramon, Calif. will install computer equipment on cellular towers that will monitor the location of cell phone users as they drive on a 15-mile stretch of the Capital beltway south of Washington. Cell phone use will be monitored between U.S. 5 in Maryland and the interchange of Interstates 95, 495 and 395 in Springfield, Va.
The stock symbol "HP" belongs to some mining company.
Actually it belongs to Helmerich & Payne, an oil exploration company in Tulsa, OK, that's been around since 1920. Though, Hewlett Packard owns hp.com while Helmerich has hpinc.com.
Well, much as I'd like Davis to have to eat all this, I think this quote from the Sacramento Bee pretty much sums up our esteemed guvnuh's involvement, though he has spent the last 4 years in office doing nothing much more than raising money for reelection:
Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio said Davis "knew nothing about the contract" and generally is "completely mystified by technology."
I'd take a 50% pay cut but in exchange I would only work 2.5 days a week or 4 hours days
well, that's the way it might work out. The large state university I work for cut everyone's pay (including the faculty) 5% for 9 months back in the early 90's. Several faculty I know just worked 5% less. Though, after a few months they cut the paycut so it averaged 3.7% over the whole period, but I think some of these folks still worked less that year.
They did give us the equivelent in some type of retirement; mine is sitting in some account that pays 8%/year or such.
Well, I don't know about the Suns, but we use Alpha's to crunch multi-gigabyte financial data (I've bought over 2Tb of RAID in the past 9 months). We could (and may, in the future) spread this out over multi PC systems, but the I/O bandwidth just isn't there compared to our Alpha systems (on a 1 to 1 comparison).
Any person, firm, corporation, or association shall be entitled to sue for and have injunctive relief, in any court of the United States having jurisdiction over the parties, against threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws, including sections 13, 14, 18, and 19 of this title, when and under the same conditions and principles as injunctive relief against threatened conduct that will cause loss or damage is granted by courts of equity, under the rules governing such proceedings, and upon the execution of proper bond against damages for an injunction improvidently granted and a showing that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is immediate, a preliminary injunction may issue: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any person, firm, corporation, or association, except the United States, to bring suit for injunctive relief against any common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board under subtitle IV of Title 49. In any action under this section in which the plaintiff substantially prevails, the court shall award the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to such plaintiff.
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Well, Washington isn't getting as much in taxes as they could if they had a state income tax...I guess they're only getting it from the sales and property taxes.
Actually, I think it's the Google icons that are off; the image tag on the icons come up with exactly the same weather forcast as weatherunderground.com does (partly sunny, 3X chance of rain) for Seattle.
It might be nice to see all the icons they use to depict the weather (I suppose I could zoom around the country and discover them one by one)
Unless the sites are spaced something like along a road, a mesh network would probably work and be much easier to setup as well as much more robust (I presume the network carries vital info on temperatures, greenhouse equipment status, etc).
2 2/wirelessmesh.html for an overview
See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/01/
They caved in and dropped Linux support for a database they sell. Is this the first educational institution that has sold out?
Whether or not it will work on Cingular is another question.
My ATT GSM phone shows the Cingular network in this area as an available roaming network (and it does so in other areas where ATT service doesn't show up), so I think the GSM networks are compatible.
Mandrake has offered XFS since at least 9.0
Mandrake has had XFS earlier than that; I have an 8.2 system that uses it (when you've got 80Gb files, you needs something other than ext2/ext3).
This will make your payback short enough that solar panels are a good deal (that, and the state/federal tax credits, and in CA the rebate from the state energy commission).
or, try Quantix, which is derived from cluster knoppix. A self-booting ISO with data analysis software, based on Knoppix. This is geared more for scientific apps; it doesn't come with open office, etc, which cluster knoppix does.
Can you spell cruel and unusual punishment?
This will be reduced, at least, on appeal. It's like many of the multi-million dollar judgements (ie, the MacDonald's too hot coffee) that make the headlines, but they end up being awarded a fraction of the original amount.
This site is a high school web site for a beginning course called Introduction to Computer Programming. The instructor uses Python, and has a link to the iso of the CD given to each person in the class. I have the previous (2001) version of the CD and it has Linux, Windows and Mac versions of Python, all documentation, Tutorials, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, sample code and games and much more. While Knoppix is great, I think this CD is better.
Guess you haven't used a 486DX 50 recently. I have. IE 3.0 is the only browser that was there; it bombed on about 1/3 of the pages I tried to view. But, it did play solitare fine.
No, it's the same one (1). It's used differently inside the US than dialing from overseas.
you forgot the lunch bags and the helium...
It does matter, and the Alpha is still better for many applications. I have three I support (Tru64), but just bought a dual-Athelon 2000MP server for $1600 that will power one of our typical jobs about 10X faster than the 600 Mhz 21164 Alpha systems.
This job is coded in perl, and involves processing thru 80Gb of data (not really floating point intensive, more just summarizing the data).
A sample of 1/1000 of the data takes about 1 hour on the Alpha(ie, 40+ days!), but about 11 minutes on a P4 2.4Ghz and about 15 minutes on an XP1600 This is almost directly proportional to the SPEC numbers. I was blown away by these comparisons as I think the Alphas are great.
I wanted to buy a 21264 1 Ghz Alpha system (and we can get them at educational prices), but $12,000 vs $1600 is hard to justify for about the same raw power.
I'll second the SMP. I have a dual PPro 200 at work that I've had for nearly 5 years. Runs NT4.0, has bluescreened maybe 3 times in that time. I have a new 2.5Ghz Pentium 4 sitting in a box that I haven't had time to set up; my first use will be to load Perl on it and use it for a distributed programming run that would take 65+ days on one of our servers. With this machine, and 4 or 5 others it will only take 7-10 days.
Then, and only then, will I probably transfer my desktop to it.
Oh, yeah, and my Pentium 150 laptop works fine for everything I need on the road!
(but my home machine is an XP1600+ )
My boss gets lots of complaints because we pass the 3% credit card charge on directly. Like somehow people who pay with cash or check should subsidize the credit industry.
This is illegal in some jurisdictions (like California, unless you're the government!)
See this brief explanation
You can, however give a discount for cash.
Let me try this again...
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# Klez worm procmail filter - courtesy of www.shove-it.com
*^135AAItEjhyJRI8ci0SOGIlEjxiLRI4UiUSPFItEjhCJ
/dev/null
This one works better I think...
:0 Bi 0SODIlEjwyLRI4IiUSPCItE$ /dev/null
# Klez worm procmail filter - courtesy of www.shove-it.com
* ^135AAItEjhyJRI8ci0SOGIlEjxiLRI4UiUSPFItEjhCJRI8Q
klez/
YeahWrite is very small ( 1Mb), very fast, runs under everything from Win 3.1 on up. It probably does everything your relatives want, though it isn't completely full featured. It is also very intuitive to use; it automatically saves your files for you, opens the last document you used. It organizes documents around file folders and drawers.
Drawbacks include only one font per document, although is does support various font sizes for headings and titles. The program does not support hyphenation, endnotes, footnotes, a table of contents or an index. A document can have only one margin setting. But, I'd bet your relatives probably don't need these. There is a full spelling check, thesaurus,etc.
I've used YeahWrite for kids as they don't have to remember to save the document (a big problem). It also takes almost no instruction.
You can download the free version and try it, you can enable the full version for 15 days, and it's only $29 to buy anyway.
Yeahwrite was written by former WordPerfect programmers under Pete Peterson, one of the founders of WP.
ABC news describes this being done in the Maryland/Virginia area back in December 1999:
Under a $750,000 contract, U.S. Wireless Corp. of San Ramon, Calif. will install computer equipment on cellular towers that will monitor the location of cell phone users as they drive on a 15-mile stretch of the Capital beltway south of Washington. Cell phone use will be monitored between U.S. 5 in Maryland and the interchange of Interstates 95, 495 and 395 in Springfield, Va.
The stock symbol "HP" belongs to some mining company.
Actually it belongs to Helmerich & Payne, an oil exploration company in Tulsa, OK, that's been around since 1920.
Though, Hewlett Packard owns hp.com while Helmerich has hpinc.com.
Well, much as I'd like Davis to have to eat all this, I think this quote from the Sacramento Bee pretty much sums up our esteemed guvnuh's involvement, though he has spent the last 4 years in office doing nothing much more than raising money for reelection:
Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio said Davis "knew nothing about the contract" and generally is "completely mystified by technology."
I'd take a 50% pay cut but in exchange I would only work 2.5 days a week or 4 hours days
well, that's the way it might work out. The large state university I work for cut everyone's pay (including the faculty) 5% for 9 months back in the early 90's. Several faculty I know just worked 5% less. Though, after a few months they cut the paycut so it averaged 3.7% over the whole period, but I think some of these folks still worked less that year.
They did give us the equivelent in some type of retirement; mine is sitting in some account that pays 8%/year or such.
Well, I don't know about the Suns, but we use Alpha's to crunch multi-gigabyte financial data (I've bought over 2Tb of RAID in the past 9 months). We could (and may, in the future) spread this out over multi PC systems, but the I/O bandwidth just isn't there compared to our Alpha systems (on a 1 to 1 comparison).
You don't have to be a state:
16 Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 26
Injunctive relief for private parties; exception; costs
Any person, firm, corporation, or association shall be entitled to sue for and have injunctive relief, in any court of the United States having jurisdiction over the parties, against threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws, including sections 13, 14, 18, and 19 of this title, when and under the same conditions and principles as injunctive relief against threatened conduct that will cause loss or damage is granted by courts of equity, under the rules governing such proceedings, and upon the execution of proper bond against damages for an injunction improvidently granted and a showing that the danger of irreparable loss or damage is immediate, a preliminary injunction may issue: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any person, firm, corporation, or association, except the United States, to bring suit for injunctive relief against any common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board under subtitle IV of Title 49. In any action under this section in which the plaintiff substantially prevails, the court shall award the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to such plaintiff.