This might come as a shock to you, but gas is distributed to homes via high-pressure, metallic (copper I think) pipes. The little hoses are just for the end bit.
Quite agree, I think if the airlines are serious they need to distribute power in every seat cluster and maybe hire out laptops for use by people who don't travel with them. Why are you asking about 11 hour flights btw?
(a) for some people an hour doing nothing is a long time and they can probably earn $100 in that time (b) obviously you don't fly very long distances, lots of people do. I do 23 hour flights a couple of times a year and I would kill for the service.
Basically the idea is to transmit the signal through the pipe, not through the air, just like waves can be transmitted through the air, or through a wire. This same concept is being used for Firewire over coaxial, providing networking without affecting the signal the wire is carrying.
I think that this infrastructure should be paid for by the state and allowed access to private companies against a fee for TV, Internet and phone services.
You'd think that the average government would see it this way, but they don't. They spend billions on roads and other infrastructure but don't see the importance or benefit of providing advanced networking and bandwidth. Once in place, cheap and acessible it could make a huge difference to the economy and quality of life, not to mention create industries and tech development.
Something to note if you're in the merchant business is that this (and PayPal) is much cheaper, as in free, to setup that a merchant account with your bank. With PayPal you can have multiple currencies which can save you $2-3K in setup fees.
I have to agree with John Perry, it's a somewhat valid strategy for dealing with procrastination. But I use a different structure. You might call his hierarchical procrastination, where tasks at the bottom tend to get done more often, while those at the top get tend not to get done.
You would probably call my system cyclical procrastination. The key is to be doing more than one thing at a time. To get started you pick the thing that is least anxiety producing and tell yourself that you can leave it at any time with the proviso that you have to pick up something else, with maybe a short stint reading Slashdot or a newspaper online in between. You then do a little of the task, essentially until you get to a point where something is difficult or you generally want to avoid it more than the second least anxiety producing task. So then you move to that one, since it has become more relaxing to do.
One of the reasons why this works is because after a long enough period, you have had time to think about the harder task and work out how to do it easier or legitimately avoid it, so you can eventually return to it. You also have to find fairly mundane bits of difficult tasks that then let you get drawn further into the task.
If getting anything done at all is highly anxiety producing then the best thing is to change very quickly between many tasks, then it won't feel like you're doing anything at all, when in actuality you are.
Wait, I feel a disturbance in the net... it was like the blabbering half-baked opinions of two hundred thousand 14 year olds, suddenly silenced......oh wait, Slashdot's gone down...
The new Apple hardware will be stylish, perform well, run the best combination of usability and power on the market and be compatible with the other 95% of the computing world. You'd have to be an ideological moron to give all this up because of a "connection" with something that's a bit on the nose. But those sorts of people are few and are already running Linux (but they call it GNU/Linux).
When Apple starts affecting my freedom to use my computer the way I want, or otherwise fucking up the user experience, I'll ditch them.
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The systems I have used do confirm your order, but like many such confirmations they're of little value since you reflexively click through them. The real problem is that they let an inexperienced trader trade a huge order. Their systems should have reasonable limits on trades. It is a general problem though because what is reasonable can still be huge. Customers ring up and make $2Bil orders routinely in government bonds and the like.
This actually happened to me once - I bought 100,000 of a derivative instead of 10,000 using an online system. Interestingly the issuer's trader noticed that I had put most of them straight back on the market and rang my broker who rang me and asked me if I wanted to reverse the transaction. Very thoughtful of him...
What a load of bull. What digital camera can compete with with 25 ASA film loaded into a 10x8 large format camera?
Go look at someone like Ansel Adam's work in the flesh before you start spouting such nonsense. Digital cannot compete on resolution, contrast or tonal range and for some extremes, like Adam's, probably never will.
Do they have to do that? In AU they have provisions where if you make a takeover bid and get 90% of the stock the other 10% have no choice but to hand over the shares. It fixes up people who don't know about it, etc.
Tridgell, pushing his own agenda, screws up Linus's very happy Bitkeeper deal.
Linus gets upset for this and speaks his mind. Note that Tridgell doesn't complains because he has gotten his way.
Perens calls Linus an idiot for being upset. He calls Larry names for being upset that he is upholding his side of the deal and others aren't.
Someone should tell zealots like Perens that in the real world, people compromise so everyone can be happy. Also that there is nothing wrong with with proprietary or comercial software. If it didn't exist free software would have nothing to 'libarate'.
I have to agree with you. Maybe because I spend so much time using my 12 inch in bed, often holding it up above my head. In particular I'd like to see them lose the CD drive, put in a 1.8" HD, slightly smaller battery and make it much thinner, otherwise it has perfect form and functionality. They could put a better screen in it though. It's much lower quality than the 15 and 17 inch models.
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This might come as a shock to you, but gas is distributed to homes via high-pressure, metallic (copper I think) pipes. The little hoses are just for the end bit.
Quite agree, I think if the airlines are serious they need to distribute power in every seat cluster and maybe hire out laptops for use by people who don't travel with them. Why are you asking about 11 hour flights btw?
(a) for some people an hour doing nothing is a long time and they can probably earn $100 in that time (b) obviously you don't fly very long distances, lots of people do. I do 23 hour flights a couple of times a year and I would kill for the service.
Basically the idea is to transmit the signal through the pipe, not through the air, just like waves can be transmitted through the air, or through a wire. This same concept is being used for Firewire over coaxial, providing networking without affecting the signal the wire is carrying.
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AMD says that the quad cores will have the same thermal footprint as the dual cores, so it should have similar power consumption. See http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?artic leID=192000031
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I think that this infrastructure should be paid for by the state and allowed access to private companies against a fee for TV, Internet and phone services.
You'd think that the average government would see it this way, but they don't. They spend billions on roads and other infrastructure but don't see the importance or benefit of providing advanced networking and bandwidth. Once in place, cheap and acessible it could make a huge difference to the economy and quality of life, not to mention create industries and tech development.
Something to note if you're in the merchant business is that this (and PayPal) is much cheaper, as in free, to setup that a merchant account with your bank. With PayPal you can have multiple currencies which can save you $2-3K in setup fees.
Telepathic communication is the new thing.
Ha! I just trolled your brain.
I have to agree with John Perry, it's a somewhat valid strategy for dealing with procrastination. But I use a different structure. You might call his hierarchical procrastination, where tasks at the bottom tend to get done more often, while those at the top get tend not to get done.
You would probably call my system cyclical procrastination. The key is to be doing more than one thing at a time. To get started you pick the thing that is least anxiety producing and tell yourself that you can leave it at any time with the proviso that you have to pick up something else, with maybe a short stint reading Slashdot or a newspaper online in between. You then do a little of the task, essentially until you get to a point where something is difficult or you generally want to avoid it more than the second least anxiety producing task. So then you move to that one, since it has become more relaxing to do.
One of the reasons why this works is because after a long enough period, you have had time to think about the harder task and work out how to do it easier or legitimately avoid it, so you can eventually return to it. You also have to find fairly mundane bits of difficult tasks that then let you get drawn further into the task.
If getting anything done at all is highly anxiety producing then the best thing is to change very quickly between many tasks, then it won't feel like you're doing anything at all, when in actuality you are.
Wait, I feel a disturbance in the net... it was like the blabbering half-baked opinions of two hundred thousand 14 year olds, suddenly silenced... ...oh wait, Slashdot's gone down...
I agree and disagree with you: it's not music (or art) becuase it has no emotion. The structure and form is irrelevant.
filling wings with rock doesn't seem like such a good idea.
They can kiss my coloured ring sporting festival in seven years time.
I quite agree. I've just registered crazygooglerumors.com and am taking submissions for piss-takes, just post them as a reply and I will be in touch.
The new Apple hardware will be stylish, perform well, run the best combination of usability and power on the market and be compatible with the other 95% of the computing world. You'd have to be an ideological moron to give all this up because of a "connection" with something that's a bit on the nose. But those sorts of people are few and are already running Linux (but they call it GNU/Linux).
When Apple starts affecting my freedom to use my computer the way I want, or otherwise fucking up the user experience, I'll ditch them.
The systems I have used do confirm your order, but like many such confirmations they're of little value since you reflexively click through them. The real problem is that they let an inexperienced trader trade a huge order. Their systems should have reasonable limits on trades. It is a general problem though because what is reasonable can still be huge. Customers ring up and make $2Bil orders routinely in government bonds and the like.
This actually happened to me once - I bought 100,000 of a derivative instead of 10,000 using an online system. Interestingly the issuer's trader noticed that I had put most of them straight back on the market and rang my broker who rang me and asked me if I wanted to reverse the transaction. Very thoughtful of him...
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What a load of bull. What digital camera can compete with with 25 ASA film loaded into a 10x8 large format camera?
Go look at someone like Ansel Adam's work in the flesh before you start spouting such nonsense. Digital cannot compete on resolution, contrast or tonal range and for some extremes, like Adam's, probably never will.
Really, what is the point of stalking them after you've married them?
Makes me wish I had a Mac fast enough to play the bloody things. See http://trailers.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/reco mmendations.html
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Do they have to do that? In AU they have provisions where if you make a takeover bid and get 90% of the stock the other 10% have no choice but to hand over the shares. It fixes up people who don't know about it, etc.
Let me see if I can get this right:
Tridgell, pushing his own agenda, screws up Linus's very happy Bitkeeper deal.
Linus gets upset for this and speaks his mind. Note that Tridgell doesn't complains because he has gotten his way.
Perens calls Linus an idiot for being upset. He calls Larry names for being upset that he is upholding his side of the deal and others aren't.
Someone should tell zealots like Perens that in the real world, people compromise so everyone can be happy. Also that there is nothing wrong with with proprietary or comercial software. If it didn't exist free software would have nothing to 'libarate'.
I have to agree with you. Maybe because I spend so much time using my 12 inch in bed, often holding it up above my head. In particular I'd like to see them lose the CD drive, put in a 1.8" HD, slightly smaller battery and make it much thinner, otherwise it has perfect form and functionality. They could put a better screen in it though. It's much lower quality than the 15 and 17 inch models.