This is exactly what the CRTC has done: allowed Bell to double dip for service already paid for by the wholesalers. This is nothing more than an attempt to kill off all competition. The same competition that CRTC allowed to exist by creating tariffed access to Bell's network for wholesalers.
Bell seems intent on oversubscribing their network while making sure that their competition offers the same crappy service. Bell has had plenty of opportunity (and $) to improve infrastructure.
FYI: To implement this Bell must apply UBB to their own customers. In effect giving them permission to charge more for DSL while continuing to oversubscribe the equipment.
While you can produce ethanol from many sources, current US corn-based ethanol production could not survive without heavy subsidies. With the current subsidies in place there is no incentive to improve efficiencies.
Modern field corn production requires large amounts of fertilizer, in particular anhydrous ammonia, to produce the 150+ bushels per acre that we currently enjoy.
Ammonia prices have steadily climbed over the past decade as the price of natural gas climbs. Ammonia is made using the Haber process to combine nitrogen from the air with hydrogen obtained from natural gas.
I come from a long line of farmers:
In my great-grandfather's day, corn production rates were pitiful.
In my grandfather's day, the Haber process and corn hybridization produced bumper crops.
In my father's day, he stopped growing corn. Combined with the US embargo of Canadian beef it just wasn't worth the effort.
My own experience with lightning, for the lack of a better word, was simply awesome and I'm glad it wasn't a closer hit. A thunderstorm developed over the neighbouring fields of my parent's farm and slowly made it's way over our fields. It was an extremely hot and humid day, the sudden down pour settled the dust quickly while the temperature dropped several degrees in a few seconds. I watched a lightning bolt strike the ground in the middle of a flat empty field leaving the ground smoking even though it was raining cats & dogs.
I happened to be standing at the patio door: bare foot on a forced-air furnace register (vent) which was effectively well-grounded. The next lightning bolt struck a nearby tree or the house. It didn't really matter where it struck. I could literally feel the charge race through my body and make my hair stand on end. The flash and boom were simultaneous.
A few minutes later we were sitting at the kitchen table. Another close-by strike caused a 6-inch long blue arc that leapt from the electric stove's fuse panel through a stainless pot and grounded out through the stove's element. It also blew out all the lights on that side of the house.
That was by far the scariest storm I have ever experienced.
How about this?. Available in the US, CA, AU and EU. Compose your travel-log and email it home. Hold it up to any phone headset and automagically connect to the PocketMail service.
If I ever get around to a cross-NA bicycle tour I would consider subscribing to this service.
PS: I have no affiliation with PocketMail nor have I tried it.
In the US, there are no laws against someone standing on public property and taking a picture. It's hypocritical to suggest that committing fraud (pretending to be someone else to sign them up for junk mail) is somehow legally and morally superior to standing in a street taking pictures.
Was this "covert" mission poorly planned and executed? Yes. Was it a bad idea? Yes. Illegal? No.
Calling someone up and threatening them... now that's illegal. If you listen to the recordings, they are as amateur and ill advised as this poor fellow's attempts at spying.
Although Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" is a very good movie, and I would recommend it to anyone, the statistics related to gun ownership versus homicide by gun are a bit skewed. It is true that Canadians own a similar number of guns per capita as Americans. Canada suffers less than 300 homicides by gun per year compared to greater than 11000 for the US. However, handgun and assault rifle ownership is much tighter controlled in Canada than in the US. The vast majority of guns owned in Canada are of the hunting rifle variety and are limited in clip capacity.
That being said, it is still difficult to explain the two orders of magnitude difference in homicide rate. Another interesting statistic is that in Canada's largest city, Toronto, it is estimated that 3 out of 4 hand guns involved in a crime are imported illegally from the US.
The article notes that under Norwegian law it is perfectly legal to make a copy for your own personal use.
CSS does not prevent you from making a bit-by-bit copy of a DVD! You can mount a DVD and
look at the contents, move the file to your hard drive, etc. You just can't decode the contents without using an approved method.
CSS is designed to prevent me from playing media I legally purchased in a device I legally purchased unless I use approved software.
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I don't see how a centrifugal compressor will drive this thing the way it's been illustrated. Normally a centrifugal compressor takes axial flow and turns it into radial flow. According to the website they are using it to take in water upstream of the hub and blast it out a slot at the rear. They way this thing appears to be designed they are wasting an incredible amount of energy just spinning the flow around inside the rear wheel. I hate to think what cavitation will do to this thing.
Note to landshark guys: It aint a turbine unless you're extracting power from the flow. In your case it's just a centrigual pump. Mount a forward pointing scoop that directs flow down the axis of the pump, then collect _all_ the radial flow and direct it out the exit.
PS. You are driving this thing with the equivalent of the guts of an air-raid siren. How appropriate.
All fans will make some noise. As the goal is to move a minimum amount of heat (in the form of hot air) with the least amount of noise, you need to use larger diameter fans running at lower speeds. And the more you can fit in the better.
Let me preface the following statements by stating that I program in C/C++/Fortran within a high performance computing environment.
There are many, many numerical based libraries available (see LAPACK, BLAS, SPARSEKIT, etc) that were originally written in Fortran. Many people much smarter than I have spent countless hours writing, optimizing and verifying these libraries.
Since there is no point in reinventing the wheel, I make heavy use of the above.
However, just because they are written in Fortran doesn't mean I have to write in Fortran. I can link in these libraries using whatever language I chose. In my case, that's C/C++.
The advantage and disadvantage of C/C++ is that they are advanced languages. You are given more than enough rope to hang yourself multiple times.
At the same time you can write some amazingly powerful stuff. Good style and experience can protect you from many pitfalls.
You mention that you find you are spending too much time fixing bugs related to your lack of experience with C++. If you are more experienced in Fortran than C++, then certainly you may find your time better spent coding in Fortran.
However, there is no evidence to believe that Fortran is a superior numerical coding language based solely upon the large available base of libraries. Packages such as Blitz++
written in C++ have already demonstarted performance on par with Fortran based codes.
If you have the freedom of choice use whatever you are most comfortable in using. The reason Fortran numerical libraries are still around is sheer inertia. Personally I can't imagine coding in a language as full of vestigial punchcard idiosyncrasies as Fortran on a daily basis.
I've been using the STL extensively in a multiplatform environment for the past 5 years, and I heartily recommend it. It certainly beats rolling your own, and execution speed is typically not an issue. Most of the pitfalls mentioned here are common to C++ in general. They can be summarized as follows:
Learn who owns what. Learn how to handle pointers and references in an intelligent manner. Garbage collection is neat but is no substitute for good programming.
Read Those Fine Manuals. See SGI STL Tech Pages for a good online STL reference. Pay particular attention to stated efficiencies. You can use an iterator to loop through any container, but not all containers are created equal.
Get a good compiler. Template and inline code bloat can be minimized by selecting a decent compiler and flags.
You can use things like for_each, but remember you can also use a standard for with iterators.
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Mod parent up!
This is exactly what the CRTC has done: allowed Bell to double dip for service already paid for by the wholesalers. This is nothing more than an attempt to kill off all competition. The same competition that CRTC allowed to exist by creating tariffed access to Bell's network for wholesalers.
Bell seems intent on oversubscribing their network while making sure that their competition offers the same crappy service. Bell has had plenty of opportunity (and $) to improve infrastructure.
FYI: To implement this Bell must apply UBB to their own customers. In effect giving them permission to charge more for DSL while continuing to oversubscribe the equipment.
Series-ly, I can't keep up with all these parallel electric circuit jokes!
Finally, I can now read /. RSS headlines that are worth the paper they are printed on!
Remove dupes by tearing out a square (or more)!
While you can produce ethanol from many sources, current US corn-based ethanol production could not survive without heavy subsidies. With the current subsidies in place there is no incentive to improve efficiencies.
Modern field corn production requires large amounts of fertilizer, in particular anhydrous ammonia, to produce the 150+ bushels per acre that we currently enjoy.
Ammonia prices have steadily climbed over the past decade as the price of natural gas climbs. Ammonia is made using the Haber process to combine nitrogen from the air with hydrogen obtained from natural gas.
I come from a long line of farmers:
In my great-grandfather's day, corn production rates were pitiful.
In my grandfather's day, the Haber process and corn hybridization produced bumper crops.
In my father's day, he stopped growing corn. Combined with the US embargo of Canadian beef it just wasn't worth the effort.
A /.-er with a girlfriend! Now we know you're just making that part up.
My own experience with lightning, for the lack of a better word, was simply awesome and I'm glad it wasn't a closer hit. A thunderstorm developed over the neighbouring fields of my parent's farm and slowly made it's way over our fields. It was an extremely hot and humid day, the sudden down pour settled the dust quickly while the temperature dropped several degrees in a few seconds. I watched a lightning bolt strike the ground in the middle of a flat empty field leaving the ground smoking even though it was raining cats & dogs.
I happened to be standing at the patio door: bare foot on a forced-air furnace register (vent) which was effectively well-grounded. The next lightning bolt struck a nearby tree or the house. It didn't really matter where it struck. I could literally feel the charge race through my body and make my hair stand on end. The flash and boom were simultaneous.
A few minutes later we were sitting at the kitchen table. Another close-by strike caused a 6-inch long blue arc that leapt from the electric stove's fuse panel through a stainless pot and grounded out through the stove's element. It also blew out all the lights on that side of the house.
That was by far the scariest storm I have ever experienced.
If I ever get around to a cross-NA bicycle tour I would consider subscribing to this service.
PS: I have no affiliation with PocketMail nor have I tried it.
The hard part is tilling and planting the mine field first!
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Was this "covert" mission poorly planned and executed? Yes. Was it a bad idea? Yes. Illegal? No.
Calling someone up and threatening them ... now that's illegal. If you listen to the recordings, they are as amateur and ill advised as this poor fellow's attempts at spying.
Note to future 007's: Shut off the flash.
That being said, it is still difficult to explain the two orders of magnitude difference in homicide rate. Another interesting statistic is that in Canada's largest city, Toronto, it is estimated that 3 out of 4 hand guns involved in a crime are imported illegally from the US.
Draw your own conclusions.
CSS does not prevent you from making a bit-by-bit copy of a DVD! You can mount a DVD and look at the contents, move the file to your hard drive, etc. You just can't decode the contents without using an approved method.
CSS is designed to prevent me from playing media I legally purchased in a device I legally purchased unless I use approved software.
Note to landshark guys: It aint a turbine unless you're extracting power from the flow. In your case it's just a centrigual pump. Mount a forward pointing scoop that directs flow down the axis of the pump, then collect _all_ the radial flow and direct it out the exit.
PS. You are driving this thing with the equivalent of the guts of an air-raid siren. How appropriate.
I predict that behind the stone at the end of the tunnel wil be ... more stone.
There are many, many numerical based libraries available (see LAPACK, BLAS, SPARSEKIT, etc) that were originally written in Fortran. Many people much smarter than I have spent countless hours writing, optimizing and verifying these libraries. Since there is no point in reinventing the wheel, I make heavy use of the above.
However, just because they are written in Fortran doesn't mean I have to write in Fortran. I can link in these libraries using whatever language I chose. In my case, that's C/C++.
The advantage and disadvantage of C/C++ is that they are advanced languages. You are given more than enough rope to hang yourself multiple times. At the same time you can write some amazingly powerful stuff. Good style and experience can protect you from many pitfalls.
You mention that you find you are spending too much time fixing bugs related to your lack of experience with C++. If you are more experienced in Fortran than C++, then certainly you may find your time better spent coding in Fortran.
However, there is no evidence to believe that Fortran is a superior numerical coding language based solely upon the large available base of libraries. Packages such as Blitz++ written in C++ have already demonstarted performance on par with Fortran based codes.
If you have the freedom of choice use whatever you are most comfortable in using. The reason Fortran numerical libraries are still around is sheer inertia. Personally I can't imagine coding in a language as full of vestigial punchcard idiosyncrasies as Fortran on a daily basis.
As PDA Live appears to be /.ed:
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/toshiba740.htm
Learn who owns what. Learn how to handle pointers and references in an intelligent manner. Garbage collection is neat but is no substitute for good programming.
Read Those Fine Manuals. See SGI STL Tech Pages for a good online STL reference. Pay particular attention to stated efficiencies. You can use an iterator to loop through any container, but not all containers are created equal.
Get a good compiler. Template and inline code bloat can be minimized by selecting a decent compiler and flags.
You can use things like for_each, but remember you can also use a standard for with iterators.
Overcoat Man: Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry but could I bother you to move over. I really must sit there.
Old Woman: Oh... ok.
Man sits down, opens up briefcase, activates laptop and proceeeds to download wireless secret transmission.
Mmmmm... vat grown meat.