This is a good idea, or better yet get one rated for natural gas and hook it into your residential supply. In any case, make sure you have one that is rated for indoor useage, which generally means it contains an oxygen sensor for auto shutoff. A battery powered CO detector would also be useful (with or withou the space heater). We have a 5 panel (6K, 18K, or 26K BTU) ceramic propane heater tied into our house supply and it can produce more than enough heat to keep most of the downstairs (approx 950 sq. ft.) cozy with 20 degree temps outside. Based on your requirements, this is also probably the most cost effective solution.
For windows you can try Total Recorder . It's not free but only costs $12.00 and basically records anything targeted at your sound system. Available from http://www.highcriteria.com/, and all I can say is that it just works.
It depends on how much DIY you are willing to tackle. I had to do a little googling but I located information on a DIY Hybrid that appeared in The Mother Earth News some years ago. Actually in 1979 with a followup in 1993. I purchased the plans and although I didn't get one completely finished, it's still a viable project. Actually applying an additional 10+ years of technology might make it easier &/or better. Try the following links as a starting point. The original article at: http://www.motherearthnews.com/index.php?page=arc& id=2263 and the followup at: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1279/is _n138/ai_13817084. A google search for ["mother earth news" hybrid electric car] yields about 350 links. Good luck.
I've had good results from http://www.zeehoo.com/ who have both USB and firewire drives as well as very inexpensive external cases. Buy one or inexpensively roll you own (USB &/or Fireware. Use the External Drive Cases link on the left.
Actually, X-10 uses carrier current to control devices (Lamp & Appliance Modules, etc.). The RF & IR are only used to control the controllers. Yes, the camera ads are a pain but the original technology controls most of my house and farm (fairly reliably).
Snippet from the/. link (bold text added to clarify the obvious)
"Forgent and a national law firm, who has made and continues to make a significant investment to develop Forgent's IP licensing program, are the sole beneficiaries of the patent license revenue."
Note is doesn't mention developing the technology. What a bunch of unscrupulous wh*res.
I've been in the same situation and turned down the counter offer. Either the current employer doesn't know what they had, or they knew it and they've basically been screwing you. If it's the first reason and you think they'll be responsive to future needs, then you might consider staying. If the actual dynamics of the situation haven't changed other than the salary increase, OR if it's for the second reason, then move on and don't look back. Loyalty is a two way street that seems to be pretty much gone in todays job market.
"The number of people put out of work by lost jobs in existing industries will be compensated by the jobs created in new industries."
He has a point here. If I'm an unemployed steel worker, all I have to do is study hard and get my MSCE and now I'm a tech worker. To bad workers are not simply interchangable cogs in a machine, because life would be so much easier.
Perhaps you haven't been using Unix as long as some of us old farts. Crypt(1) was a command that performed both encryption and decryption from the command line (or in a script).
From the OLD man pages: "A rotor-based crypt() function appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. The current style crypt() first appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX."
It was rather trivial since it used the old enigma based rotor system vs. the current one that uses DES but is IMHO a perfect example of prior art.
If you use Objective C you eliminate the code & data separation problem, and have an object model nearly identical to Java. OTOH all of the other disadvantages still exist. The security problem isn't a big deal in a generic sense, anymore than any other program running on any computer; unless, you're planning on making this an engine for applets and servlets, like Java. In this case it would IMHO be a requirement.
It's simple. The certified software will simply contact the "big gubment computer (BGC) (tm)" each time it is ready to perform a copy & ask for permission. If you're not copying anything illegal, you shouldn't have any complaints, right!!!;~(
These are all the specious arguments we've heard for years in the gun control debate. "If it doesn't affect me..., or "You have nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal..." have been the cry of the other side forever. Perhaps you anti-gunners on the list (& I know there are some) will think twice the next time the gubment tries to regulate something that only affects the "other guy". To paraphrase, we either work against all oppressive legislation together, or we shall hang separately".
"There is no such thing as an H&K MP5 machine gun"
I beg to differ. H&K make several models of the MP5 and SP5 which although they are technically SUB-machine guns because they shoot pistol ammunition, are never the less generically and correctly refered to as machine guns.
Actually OS-X runs on a BSD variant which is a real Unix. As far as the NeXTStep stuff, I love it. IMHO if Jobs hadn't had his head so far up his a** back in the NeXT days, Microsoft would be a much smaller player. The NeXTStep development environment was a lot like cocaine. Once you try it, nothing else will ever satisfy you again. The development tools and the underlying infrastructure give you a big productivity boost. I'm a Unix/Linux kind'a guy but after playing with a G4, I seriously thinking about getting one just for the development environment.
Microsoft (MSN) IS the ISP. Starband is a joint effort of EchoStar Communications (DISH Network), Gilat Satellite, and Micro$oft. For the average non-geek type living in the boonies it's a better than what you have solution, although I don't expect Micro$oft to ever support anything but their own stuff. As a very happy Echostar customer I got in line for the Starband (originally called Gilat to home) as soon as I could, but couldn't stomach the terms they wanted just to be a beta site. Still waiting for DSL where I live.
I received an email from ARRL (The Ham radio advocacy organization) a few weeks ago indicating that this has already happened. A rather large chunk around 17GHz IIRC has been set aside by the ITU from the available pool for any country to use for transmitting.
I concure with DISH. I've been a subscriber coming up on three years and the service and quality is excellent. They just annouced a new system (Model 7100) which contains an 8.4 Gb hard drive and can work with Web TV (Boo Hiss) but the system itself (minus the Web TV) looks great. You can pause an incoming channel for up to 30 minutes and resume where you left off. They are also promising digital VCR software by the end if the year downloaded right off the bird. The package content and costs are IHMO very reasonable, but the again I also don't care much about football, etc.
I checked the book out at Barnes and Noble and they have it for $30 a copy. They also have the $720 with the 30% discount for a package of 24 books. Looks like a BIG typo on Amazon
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This is a good idea, or better yet get one rated for natural gas and hook it into your residential supply. In any case, make sure you have one that is rated for indoor useage, which generally means it contains an oxygen sensor for auto shutoff. A battery powered CO detector would also be useful (with or withou the space heater). We have a 5 panel (6K, 18K, or 26K BTU) ceramic propane heater tied into our house supply and it can produce more than enough heat to keep most of the downstairs (approx 950 sq. ft.) cozy with 20 degree temps outside. Based on your requirements, this is also probably the most cost effective solution.
For windows you can try Total Recorder . It's not free but only costs $12.00 and basically records anything targeted at your sound system. Available from http://www.highcriteria.com/, and all I can say is that it just works.
It depends on how much DIY you are willing to tackle. I had to do a little googling but I located information on a DIY Hybrid that appeared in The Mother Earth News some years ago. Actually in 1979 with a followup in 1993. I purchased the plans and although I didn't get one completely finished, it's still a viable project. Actually applying an additional 10+ years of technology might make it easier &/or better. Try the following links as a starting point. The original article at: http://www.motherearthnews.com/index.php?page=arc& id=2263 and the followup at: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1279/is _n138/ai_13817084. A google search for ["mother earth news" hybrid electric car] yields about 350 links. Good luck.
I've had good results from http://www.zeehoo.com/ who have both USB and firewire drives as well as very inexpensive external cases. Buy one or inexpensively roll you own (USB &/or Fireware. Use the External Drive Cases link on the left.
Actually, X-10 uses carrier current to control devices (Lamp & Appliance Modules, etc.). The RF & IR are only used to control the controllers. Yes, the camera ads are a pain but the original technology controls most of my house and farm (fairly reliably).
So these weren't really voters .... they were actually beta testers. Cuts the QA costs I suspect.
Snippet from the /. link (bold text added to clarify the obvious)
"Forgent and a national law firm, who has made and continues to make a significant investment to develop Forgent's IP licensing program, are the sole beneficiaries of the patent license revenue."
Note is doesn't mention developing the technology. What a bunch of unscrupulous wh*res.
I've been in the same situation and turned down the counter offer. Either the current employer doesn't know what they had, or they knew it and they've basically been screwing you. If it's the first reason and you think they'll be responsive to future needs, then you might consider staying. If the actual dynamics of the situation haven't changed other than the salary increase, OR if it's for the second reason, then move on and don't look back. Loyalty is a two way street that seems to be pretty much gone in todays job market.
"The number of people put out of work by lost jobs in existing industries will be compensated by the jobs created in new industries."
He has a point here. If I'm an unemployed steel worker, all I have to do is study hard and get my MSCE and now I'm a tech worker. To bad workers are not simply interchangable cogs in a machine, because life would be so much easier.
Perhaps you haven't been using Unix as long as some of us old farts. Crypt(1) was a command that performed both encryption and decryption from the command line (or in a script).
From the OLD man pages: "A rotor-based crypt() function appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. The current style crypt() first appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX."
It was rather trivial since it used the old enigma based rotor system vs. the current one that uses DES but is IMHO a perfect example of prior art.
If you use Objective C you eliminate the code & data separation problem, and have an object model nearly identical to Java. OTOH all of the other disadvantages still exist. The security problem isn't a big deal in a generic sense, anymore than any other program running on any computer; unless, you're planning on making this an engine for applets and servlets, like Java. In this case it would IMHO be a requirement.
It's simple. The certified software will simply contact the "big gubment computer (BGC) (tm)" each time it is ready to perform a copy & ask for permission. If you're not copying anything illegal, you shouldn't have any complaints, right!!! ;~(
These are all the specious arguments we've heard for years in the gun control debate. "If it doesn't affect me..., or "You have nothing to worry about unless you're a criminal..." have been the cry of the other side forever. Perhaps you anti-gunners on the list (& I know there are some) will think twice the next time the gubment tries to regulate something that only affects the "other guy". To paraphrase, we either work against all oppressive legislation together, or we shall hang separately".
"There is no such thing as an H&K MP5 machine gun"
I beg to differ. H&K make several models of the MP5 and SP5 which although they are technically SUB-machine guns because they shoot pistol ammunition, are never the less generically and correctly refered to as machine guns.
Actually OS-X runs on a BSD variant which is a real Unix. As far as the NeXTStep stuff, I love it. IMHO if Jobs hadn't had his head so far up his a** back in the NeXT days, Microsoft would be a much smaller player. The NeXTStep development environment was a lot like cocaine. Once you try it, nothing else will ever satisfy you again. The development tools and the underlying infrastructure give you a big productivity boost. I'm a Unix/Linux kind'a guy but after playing with a G4, I seriously thinking about getting one just for the development environment.
Microsoft (MSN) IS the ISP. Starband is a joint effort of EchoStar Communications (DISH Network), Gilat Satellite, and Micro$oft. For the average non-geek type living in the boonies it's a better than what you have solution, although I don't expect Micro$oft to ever support anything but their own stuff. As a very happy Echostar customer I got in line for the Starband (originally called Gilat to home) as soon as I could, but couldn't stomach the terms they wanted just to be a beta site. Still waiting for DSL where I live.
I received an email from ARRL (The Ham radio advocacy organization) a few weeks ago indicating that this has already happened. A rather large chunk around 17GHz IIRC has been set aside by the ITU from the available pool for any country to use for transmitting.
I concure with DISH. I've been a subscriber coming up on three years and the service and quality is excellent. They just annouced a new system (Model 7100) which contains an 8.4 Gb hard drive and can work with Web TV (Boo Hiss) but the system itself (minus the Web TV) looks great. You can pause an incoming channel for up to 30 minutes and resume where you left off. They are also promising digital VCR software by the end if the year downloaded right off the bird. The package content and costs are IHMO very reasonable, but the again I also don't care much about football, etc.
I checked the book out at Barnes and Noble and they have it for $30 a copy. They also have the $720 with the 30% discount for a package of 24 books. Looks like a BIG typo on Amazon
Whether it's related to science, firearms, foreign affairs, software, or anything else that require intellect, these self appointed experts just never seem to get it. A little research would help, but that would be work and avoiding work seems to be why these guys got into journalism in the first place.