You gonna put all the support infrastructure on that truck? You have to swap battery packs after every run, load up new packages, make inspections and repairs of the drones, etc. And you need a pretty large area to stage all the takeoffs and landings.
It won't. Same as it won't work for my house out in the sticks surrounded by tall trees. I don't think there's a clear area bigger than 20'x20' except the spot where the house sits. Oh, maybe the parking area in front of the garage would be big enough. Nevermind. I'm good. Sucks for you, tho, unless your apartment building has a flat roof that you can access.
I was looking into the same thing a couple years ago and came to the same conclusion. It ain't easy. Even in states where it is legal, there are few choices. If I recall correctly, I found two locations in my state where a natural burial is possible, tho I may have extended my search to neighboring states. They still require a container because reasons but at least it can be biodegradable.
Some friends and I run a BBS on an old Dell Dimension from the mid-90s. The box was used when it was repurposed around 2000 and is still running the OS from that build so the current configuration is about 15-16 years old and the hardware (except for the hard drive) is 19-20 years old. In 2011, the hard drive started to fail so, I changed the hard drive, then handed it off to someone else when I started my vagrant phase in 2013. Before I got it and after I handed t off, it was running in garages with no heating or AC. Chugging away year after year. I'm supposed to be taking over care and feeding again but the current caretaker hasn't gotten around to sending it. If it ever shows up on my doorstep, I'll probably take a shot at making an image that I can put on a VPS. Or at least get it on something more modern and compact.
I just had a creative gig and, for me, creativity doesn't happen only between 8am and 5pm. And it may strike for a few minutes or ten hours. Maybe I wake up at 3am with a flash of inspiration and I'm back to sleep by 3:30. Or nothing clicked until 4pm and I worked until 2am. I did the job for a flat rate with a couple check-in points to be sure I was producing what they wanted but how I managed my time was my business because I was working alone.
On the flip side, most of my career has required that I be available during regular business hours because I was working directly with other employees and clients who kept regular business hours. It's hard to work as a team if everyone floats in and out whenever they feel like it.
As for removing stress, I've found the best way to do that is have a big chunk of money in the bank and no debt. I highly recommend it.
Seriously. Most popular books are already in electronic formats. While there may be some solid questions about whether it's legal, I think it's a perfectly ethical move. You're going from print to print, not audiobook, play, or movie version of a printed book that you own.
And scanning it is probably illegal anyway so it's not like all the extra work will protect you. Yeah, Google got away with it but they've got millions of dollars worth of lawyers who argued that their work was done for research purposes.
Exactly. I've got a dishwasher that has 6 major cycles and another half dozen modifiers that can be applied. I use one cycle. Auto. I bought it for the quiet operation but manufacturers don't seem to be interested in reducing noise until they've run out of cycles to add.:P
Also, before starting the dishwasher, run the hot water at the sink until it comes out hot. And don't use the cheapest store brand detergent you can find.
There's a simple and reasonably fair solution. Tack it on to their next sentence. If they're doing well in society, employed, supporting themselves and their families, and not committing new crimes, leave them alone. The point of prison is supposed to be to reform criminals and there wouldn't be any point in disrupting the lives of people who have been reformed. That couldn't possibly have a positive effect on society.
I saw Android 2-in-1s going for 80 last week. And Win10 2-in-1s starting at $100. And those include display/keyboard/trackpad so they're ready to go out of the box. They're not amazingly powerful but neither is this thing. Why would I pay $70 for something in the same class that lacks input devices, a display, and a battery? $25 tops.
Your mother's maiden name isn't an identity check. It's like "What's your first pet's name". Nobody has the name of your first pet in a big database used to verify your identity. It's just a passphrase that can be anything. In fact, you should use something other than your mother's actual maiden name. Anyone can do a bit of research and find out your mother's maiden name. But they can't do research to find out the fake name you used so they won't be able to use that information to take over an established account.
...my company's accountant told me that someone in Los Angeles had used my SSN and the IRS was trying to garnish my wages. She told them that I was certainly not Mr. Aguilar and that I was not responsible for Mr. Aguilar's debt to the IRS. Seems like a simple thing but she was not supposed to tell me about the incident. Because if the proles ever found out how often this happens, they'd lose faith in the integrity of The System. I, as the taxpayer and rightful SSN holder was never contacted by the IRS to either collect money or warn me that there was someone out there using my SSN, possibly ruining my credit.
I know. I've seen me do it. I got my 24/7 internet with a routeable/29 subnet thru an internet cooperative back in the early/mid 90s. Sure, it was dialup but that's what was available at the time. We built it because everything available through dialup was metered at around 50 hours per month except for a couple ISPs that would kick you off after X hours then bitch at you if you had an autodialer that reconnected. With 20 connections, it really didn't cost a whole lot more than a regular account. After a few years, we co-located our equipment at a new ISP (instead of a residence) and were able to do ISDN. Then cable and DSL rolled out simultaneously and we shut down pretty much overnight. It was neat while it lasted but the world finally caught up.
Now I can post this from tens of thousands of feet over the ocean.
Your opinion is terrible. Maybe I'm on vacation and I hooked up my cell phone to the hotel's TV with an MHL cable and streamed movies from Amazon Prime in the evenings. Last time I checked, an HD stream from Amazon can run around 2 gigs per hour. You could exceed 23 gigs in a week just watching a movie a day. On a TV, not the phone's display. Did I just blow your mind??? I'm glad the world isn't limited by your imagination.
Sprint said the policy operates in real time and only applies if a cell site is constrained. Performance for an affected customer returns to normal as soon as the local traffic returns to normal.
That's what companies say but it's never what they do. Back in the 90s, DirecPC (Now HughesNet) implemented The FAP. Fair (it wasn't) Access (it impeded access) Policy (no customer-facing employees knew about it so it wasn't much of a policy). After the class action was started, they claimed it was only used when a transponder was saturated. So I declared on the usenet group that I was going to leave a download going all night and if someone from DPC happened to send me a copy of the log, I'd show that I was being throttled consistently while transponder use declined. So I started my data transfer, went to bed, then got up early to stop it before daytime rates kicked in. Soon after, a log was forwarded to me showing that night's traffic. There was my stream chugging along at a steady rate while utilization steadily dropped off until I was almost the only traffic on the transponder when I stopped the download.
But that kind of information is almost never available to the consumer. I never found out who was leaking information but somebody on the inside was not happy with what was happening and they were feeding us just about everything we asked for.
They tell you that these throttling policies only kick in when traffic is heavy on a particular transponder/cell/node and the restrictions are lifted as soon as traffic drops off but it's a lie. A lie they know you can't prove without a contact on the inside feeding you information that will get them fired if they're caught.
I was just discussing this last night. I found a smartphone for $29.99 on Virgin Mobile's site. Sure, it's an old, low-spec 3G phone but it's still a smartphone. They have an LTE phone for $49.99.
That's two smartphones for under $50 in less than a minute of searching.
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You gonna put all the support infrastructure on that truck? You have to swap battery packs after every run, load up new packages, make inspections and repairs of the drones, etc. And you need a pretty large area to stage all the takeoffs and landings.
It won't. Same as it won't work for my house out in the sticks surrounded by tall trees. I don't think there's a clear area bigger than 20'x20' except the spot where the house sits. Oh, maybe the parking area in front of the garage would be big enough. Nevermind. I'm good. Sucks for you, tho, unless your apartment building has a flat roof that you can access.
I was looking into the same thing a couple years ago and came to the same conclusion. It ain't easy. Even in states where it is legal, there are few choices. If I recall correctly, I found two locations in my state where a natural burial is possible, tho I may have extended my search to neighboring states. They still require a container because reasons but at least it can be biodegradable.
Some friends and I run a BBS on an old Dell Dimension from the mid-90s. The box was used when it was repurposed around 2000 and is still running the OS from that build so the current configuration is about 15-16 years old and the hardware (except for the hard drive) is 19-20 years old. In 2011, the hard drive started to fail so, I changed the hard drive, then handed it off to someone else when I started my vagrant phase in 2013. Before I got it and after I handed t off, it was running in garages with no heating or AC. Chugging away year after year. I'm supposed to be taking over care and feeding again but the current caretaker hasn't gotten around to sending it. If it ever shows up on my doorstep, I'll probably take a shot at making an image that I can put on a VPS. Or at least get it on something more modern and compact.
I just had a creative gig and, for me, creativity doesn't happen only between 8am and 5pm. And it may strike for a few minutes or ten hours. Maybe I wake up at 3am with a flash of inspiration and I'm back to sleep by 3:30. Or nothing clicked until 4pm and I worked until 2am. I did the job for a flat rate with a couple check-in points to be sure I was producing what they wanted but how I managed my time was my business because I was working alone.
On the flip side, most of my career has required that I be available during regular business hours because I was working directly with other employees and clients who kept regular business hours. It's hard to work as a team if everyone floats in and out whenever they feel like it.
As for removing stress, I've found the best way to do that is have a big chunk of money in the bank and no debt. I highly recommend it.
Seriously. Most popular books are already in electronic formats. While there may be some solid questions about whether it's legal, I think it's a perfectly ethical move. You're going from print to print, not audiobook, play, or movie version of a printed book that you own.
And scanning it is probably illegal anyway so it's not like all the extra work will protect you. Yeah, Google got away with it but they've got millions of dollars worth of lawyers who argued that their work was done for research purposes.
Exactly. I've got a dishwasher that has 6 major cycles and another half dozen modifiers that can be applied. I use one cycle. Auto. I bought it for the quiet operation but manufacturers don't seem to be interested in reducing noise until they've run out of cycles to add. :P
Also, before starting the dishwasher, run the hot water at the sink until it comes out hot. And don't use the cheapest store brand detergent you can find.
There's a simple and reasonably fair solution. Tack it on to their next sentence. If they're doing well in society, employed, supporting themselves and their families, and not committing new crimes, leave them alone. The point of prison is supposed to be to reform criminals and there wouldn't be any point in disrupting the lives of people who have been reformed. That couldn't possibly have a positive effect on society.
Yeah, and anyone who looks up my tax bill will think, "That guy doesn't have anything worth stealing."
That's pretty sick.
I hope they win and get awarded $1 in damages. Rounded up, of course.
Walmart cyberwhatever sale. Still available as I'm typing.
Don't forget Cops.
Red Mars,
Red Mars,
Whatcha gonna do,
When they terraform you?
I saw Android 2-in-1s going for 80 last week. And Win10 2-in-1s starting at $100. And those include display/keyboard/trackpad so they're ready to go out of the box. They're not amazingly powerful but neither is this thing. Why would I pay $70 for something in the same class that lacks input devices, a display, and a battery? $25 tops.
I thought 8 and 10tb helium-filled drives had been around for a while. Like a year or so.
...for about half an hour.
I keep seeing reports of this saying "4,800,000 parents" and "227,000 children". Can someone please explain this?
I bought stuff over the web earlier than that in 1994. Probably as much as a year earlier. And more than a year if you count non-web transactions.
the first retail transaction on the Internet using a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy.
The /. summary leaves out that significant caveat.
Don't forget that everything that moves and half the stuff that doesn't is deadly.
Your mother's maiden name isn't an identity check. It's like "What's your first pet's name". Nobody has the name of your first pet in a big database used to verify your identity. It's just a passphrase that can be anything. In fact, you should use something other than your mother's actual maiden name. Anyone can do a bit of research and find out your mother's maiden name. But they can't do research to find out the fake name you used so they won't be able to use that information to take over an established account.
...my company's accountant told me that someone in Los Angeles had used my SSN and the IRS was trying to garnish my wages. She told them that I was certainly not Mr. Aguilar and that I was not responsible for Mr. Aguilar's debt to the IRS. Seems like a simple thing but she was not supposed to tell me about the incident. Because if the proles ever found out how often this happens, they'd lose faith in the integrity of The System. I, as the taxpayer and rightful SSN holder was never contacted by the IRS to either collect money or warn me that there was someone out there using my SSN, possibly ruining my credit.
I know. I've seen me do it. I got my 24/7 internet with a routeable /29 subnet thru an internet cooperative back in the early/mid 90s. Sure, it was dialup but that's what was available at the time. We built it because everything available through dialup was metered at around 50 hours per month except for a couple ISPs that would kick you off after X hours then bitch at you if you had an autodialer that reconnected. With 20 connections, it really didn't cost a whole lot more than a regular account. After a few years, we co-located our equipment at a new ISP (instead of a residence) and were able to do ISDN. Then cable and DSL rolled out simultaneously and we shut down pretty much overnight. It was neat while it lasted but the world finally caught up.
Now I can post this from tens of thousands of feet over the ocean.
Your opinion is terrible. Maybe I'm on vacation and I hooked up my cell phone to the hotel's TV with an MHL cable and streamed movies from Amazon Prime in the evenings. Last time I checked, an HD stream from Amazon can run around 2 gigs per hour. You could exceed 23 gigs in a week just watching a movie a day. On a TV, not the phone's display. Did I just blow your mind??? I'm glad the world isn't limited by your imagination.
Sprint said the policy operates in real time and only applies if a cell site is constrained. Performance for an affected customer returns to normal as soon as the local traffic returns to normal.
That's what companies say but it's never what they do. Back in the 90s, DirecPC (Now HughesNet) implemented The FAP. Fair (it wasn't) Access (it impeded access) Policy (no customer-facing employees knew about it so it wasn't much of a policy). After the class action was started, they claimed it was only used when a transponder was saturated. So I declared on the usenet group that I was going to leave a download going all night and if someone from DPC happened to send me a copy of the log, I'd show that I was being throttled consistently while transponder use declined. So I started my data transfer, went to bed, then got up early to stop it before daytime rates kicked in. Soon after, a log was forwarded to me showing that night's traffic. There was my stream chugging along at a steady rate while utilization steadily dropped off until I was almost the only traffic on the transponder when I stopped the download.
But that kind of information is almost never available to the consumer. I never found out who was leaking information but somebody on the inside was not happy with what was happening and they were feeding us just about everything we asked for.
They tell you that these throttling policies only kick in when traffic is heavy on a particular transponder/cell/node and the restrictions are lifted as soon as traffic drops off but it's a lie. A lie they know you can't prove without a contact on the inside feeding you information that will get them fired if they're caught.
I was just discussing this last night. I found a smartphone for $29.99 on Virgin Mobile's site. Sure, it's an old, low-spec 3G phone but it's still a smartphone. They have an LTE phone for $49.99.
That's two smartphones for under $50 in less than a minute of searching.