>I gave my resignation letter on a Friday. I gave them 3 weeks to transfer knowledge. I come in on Monday with my office door locks changed and all my personal property, including family photos and expensive vest in the dumpster. All the electronic stuff like phone chargers, drive docks and desk lamps were stolen. Fun times.
Yeah, that's why you take everything home ahead of time. At many jobs, giving notice is rewarded with immediately being walked to the parking lot by security, so better to pack up your things yourself than by some oaf who will break or mangle things. Don't take everything at once, as that's obvious; just take a few things every day.
When people notice your desk looking sparse, tell them something about spring cleaning or minimalism or redecorating. You can have plenty of stuff on your desk - just make sure it's the company's stuff.
Geosynchronous orbit (where most existing internet sats are) is about 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above sea level, or 42,164 km from the center of the Earth. Since we're transmitting from sea level or above, we use that number.
35,786 km / the speed of light = 0.119369247 seconds, or about.24 seconds round-trip. Most requests would go from you to sat, to ground station, to ISP, then back through ground station, sat, then you. That's two round trips to the sat, so 480 ms minimum; throw on 20 ms for the actual internet connection and you're up to 500 ms as a minimum.
If you're only going 100 km up, then your delay is 100 km / the speed of light = 0.000333564095 seconds, or 1 ms for a round-trip. That's why they're estimating 30 ms: 2 ms for two round trips to the sat and 29 ms for the ground.
30 ms is quite achievable. Profitable may be another story.
>If I read your statement correctly, if my wife dies, her debts held under her name only are her debts, and even joint ownership property that would get tangled up in her estate aren't subject to settlement of her debts -- like they couldn't force me to refinance the house to take out equity to pay them off.
Wrong. A court may order a joint-owned asset to be sold to satisfy a singly-owned debt.
When you die, all your assets and debts are added up, both singly-owned and joint-owned. If you want to run up a debt before you die, you have to get all assets - including joint assets - out of your name, along with making sure the debts are not joint debts.
>he said that the inheritance remained somehow exclusive to her
Inheritances are a specific exception, and treated just like assets you owned before the marriage. What you do with the funds once married doesn't matter much - the source of the funds matter.
It's not really complex at all. My money is my money, your money is your money, and our money is our money. Anything earned during the course of the marriage (inheritances aren't "earned") is "our" money and normally split 50/50.
You don't even have to do that. Just drop a pin (either search for an address/name, or long-press on a road), and then a photo pops up in the corner, and you click on that to switch to street view.
Why shouldn't a washer take 3 hours, if it uses less electricity and less water to do so? I'd rather have my washer take more time and cost less. It's got a timer anyways, so those 3 hours can be whenever I want, including right before I wake up, or right before I arrive home from work.
Unless you're doing more than 7 loads a week, the amount of time the washer takes doesn't really matter. Take out the previous day's load, load up the next day's load, set the timer, and you're done for the day.
So.. what was he sending schematics of? The article just has a statement from his lawyer that "The technology discussed was not sensitive or restricted"
Your BMR may still be 2000, you just aren't absorbing all 3-4000 calories that you eat. In other words your intestines are crappy and you're pooping out half your calories.:)
Gut bacteria play a huge role in how much nutrition/calories we absorb from our food.
>Hmm, do "amicable partners" actually get divorced?
Sometimes you don't hate the other person, you just realize that they aren't who you want to spend the rest of your life with. Lots of reasons for that - misjudging the other person from the start, you misjudging yourself, or one or both of you changed significantly during the relationship.
Even if you are angry, that doesn't mean you're also spiteful and greedy; you may hate the other partner but aren't trying to screw him/her over.
Of course, those types of divorces don't make the news; they just quietly happen.
The Steam version is also DRM free; Steam is just used as a downloader. Once downloaded you can move it to another directory or even another computer, and even uninstall Steam.
You could always buy directly from Squad as well and just download a ZIP file.
You forgot DHCPv6 being rejected because stateless autoconfig/RAs would be enough - except you couldn't get DNS or PXE boot info that way because it's not part of routing, so couldn't be included in router advertisements (politics, not technical). So, DHCPv6 was bolted on after.
>So, what exactly is the point of manned space stations?
For one thing, testing various methods for keeping humans alive, healthy, and sane in space.
We need to expand beyond Earth. To do that, we'll need space stations as jump-off points, and we'll need to know how to survive extended periods in space (months and years). To do that, we need somewhere to test survival, like the ISS.
> Or would the money, time and effort be better invested in some other types of space activity - automated experimental stations, or - let's dream - building a "real" base in space?
The ISS cost $150 billion over 20 years, or about $7.5 billion a year to construct and maintain. The US currently spends about $3 billion a year to keep it going - or about $8 per person. It's not a lot of money. Think about that - watching a movie about space costs more than actually maintaining a real life space station.
We have to start somewhere. All the work put into building and maintaining ISS was necessary experience before would could build a "real" base. We can design all we want but there are a lot of lessons to learn when you try to put theory into practice.
Yes, for each individual experiment, automated experiments are cheaper and easier. They're still done: http://www.space.com/27003-rus...
We don't have to do ISS *or* automated experiments - we do both.
Space is the future and it takes big investments right now. They do pay off now, and they'll pay off even more in the future.
Bandwidth isn't like water or electricity. You either use it in the moment or don't. You can't save it for later.
Not using bandwidth at 3am doesn't help the traffic jam at peak time (6pm). ISPs have to build enough infrastructure to handle peak times - they have to have larger pipes - but it doesn't actually matter how much bandwidth you use except for peak times. There's no good reason to meter traffic during non-peak times.
I'm not saying metering is a good idea - as I understand it, simply increasing bandwidth is often a cheaper option and better for users - but metering during non-peak times is just greed.
> I get to do 2 clicks if I use a mouse or windows key + start typing
You can do the same thing in Windows 7 (Windows key + start typing, or click on "Start" button and start typing), plus you have the organization of nested menus.
For items you use often, you can pin them to the menu instead of digging through "All Programs".
The start screen isn't an improvement in any way for desktop users. It is better for touch screens since the icons are larger and easier to click.
>especially ability to pin apps to a monitor.
Pinning apps to a monitor has nothing to do with start screen vs start menu. There's no reason that functionality couldn't be added to normal desktop windows ("always start this app on monitor x, fullscreen/windowed"), and in fact by default Windows 7 will remember where you last had an app and restore it to that monitor (not always correctly, but it tries).
The Metro interface is not only less functional for keyboard and mouse users, but confusing as well. There's no obvious way to close a Metro app, and swiping from the top is hard to do with a mouse. Alt-F4 works, but non-techie users don't know that. There's also no obvious way to shut down the computer! Swiping from the right is non-obvious and again, hard to do with a mouse. Remembering a keyboard shortcut (Win+C) is difficult for "normal" people. Yes, they could press the power button (on supported hardware), but decades of telling people to always shut down via software have made them nervous about that.
I've had a Windows 8 laptop at home for about 1.5 years now. Once I learned Win+C and Win+X, and customized the start menu a bit, it was fine. But I'm a computer person; all the "normal" people I know hate it and just want XP back (or something that looks like XP).
>I have a 1st Gen iPad and see no reason to replace it with a 2, 3, or 4.
The main reason I didn't buy the first gen and did buy the second was the camera. Videoconferencing with technically inept far-off relatives was too difficult with real computers, but an iPad+Skype worked great for them.
They have that - they're just called "high deductible" plans now. You have a $5000 yearly deductible, and after that, everything's covered. For minor stuff you'll pay cash, and for the triple-bypass the insurance will kick in.
1. Teslas don't need oil changes. You know what's better than a great dealer experience for required maintenance? Not needing maintenance in the first place!
Tesla Valet Service Tesla is putting in place a valet service, so that your car is seamlessly picked up and replaced with a loaner and then returned as soon as we are done. There is no additional charge for this.
Tesla Rangers Come to You Tesla Rangers are service technicians who make house calls. For an additional fee, they can come to your home or office to perform most maintenance and warranty repairs.
4. "air conditioned seats, rear DVD, 360 degree camera surround support, automatic parking, adaptive cruise control, automatic crash braking". Ok, Teslas don't have any of that.
>You have to manage an inventory of expensive $20k+ parts that could be stolen,
All inaccessible and underground. They're also fairly useless to thieves; who would they sell a stolen Tesla Model S battery pack to?
The battery packs are heavy, unwieldy, and can't be resold to anyone. If you're a thief, there are much better targets.
>you have multiple sizes and model of battery,
All the loaner packs can be the same size and model.
> and different wear states. The batteries lose power constantly.
Since they're at the charging station, they can keep the batteries topped off. As they wear out, they'll be replaced. Tesla owns the loaner packs. The battery swap is actually a loan, not a true swap like propane. You have to go back to that station and get your original pack back.
>You have to manage liability, if you install a defective battery and it catches fire who pays.
Tesla, since they're both the manufacturer and the battery swapper.
>You have complicated machinery that you need to have many of to handle rushes that go unused at other times
It takes 93 seconds to swap batteries. http://www.teslamotors.com/bat... They really only need one swapping machine on site for the foreseeable future, and if they get to the point where they need more swapping machines, then they're doing very very well.
Especially since swapping isn't going to be used day-to-day; you'll charge at home or work. Swapping is really only for long-distance trips.
>And you still need to have the same order of magnitude of power available to charge up the swapped out batteries as you would to just charge them in the car.
Of course. The advantage of battery swap is that you can run out your current battery, swap at the station, drive wherever you're going, come back, swap back for your now-recharged pack, and go home. 186 seconds during the trip, versus having to stop and charge for a few hours.
>A quick check at one service which lists such large amounts, you would be looking at almost $20k/year to keep a single offsite copy of tha
Amazon Glacier would be about $205/year to store 20 TB. A full restore would be like $2,000 though, unless you want to restore 1 GB/month. Still, that's a significant difference from $20k/year.
>But you must keep in mind (as I mentioned above) that to get monetary renumeration--rather than an injunction--you must have registered your work with the Copyright Office before the violation. And it must be registered--before or after the violation--to be able to make a claim.
I thought you were wrong, so I started looked up references. As it turns out, you're right.
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>I gave my resignation letter on a Friday. I gave them 3 weeks to transfer knowledge. I come in on Monday with my office door locks changed and all my personal property, including family photos and expensive vest in the dumpster. All the electronic stuff like phone chargers, drive docks and desk lamps were stolen. Fun times.
Yeah, that's why you take everything home ahead of time. At many jobs, giving notice is rewarded with immediately being walked to the parking lot by security, so better to pack up your things yourself than by some oaf who will break or mangle things. Don't take everything at once, as that's obvious; just take a few things every day.
When people notice your desk looking sparse, tell them something about spring cleaning or minimalism or redecorating. You can have plenty of stuff on your desk - just make sure it's the company's stuff.
Geosynchronous orbit (where most existing internet sats are) is about 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above sea level, or 42,164 km from the center of the Earth. Since we're transmitting from sea level or above, we use that number.
35,786 km / the speed of light = 0.119369247 seconds, or about .24 seconds round-trip. Most requests would go from you to sat, to ground station, to ISP, then back through ground station, sat, then you. That's two round trips to the sat, so 480 ms minimum; throw on 20 ms for the actual internet connection and you're up to 500 ms as a minimum.
If you're only going 100 km up, then your delay is 100 km / the speed of light = 0.000333564095 seconds, or 1 ms for a round-trip. That's why they're estimating 30 ms: 2 ms for two round trips to the sat and 29 ms for the ground.
30 ms is quite achievable. Profitable may be another story.
Right, but that's a shared debt, not paying for someone else's singly-owned debt.
>If I read your statement correctly, if my wife dies, her debts held under her name only are her debts, and even joint ownership property that would get tangled up in her estate aren't subject to settlement of her debts -- like they couldn't force me to refinance the house to take out equity to pay them off.
Wrong. A court may order a joint-owned asset to be sold to satisfy a singly-owned debt.
When you die, all your assets and debts are added up, both singly-owned and joint-owned. If you want to run up a debt before you die, you have to get all assets - including joint assets - out of your name, along with making sure the debts are not joint debts.
>he said that the inheritance remained somehow exclusive to her
Inheritances are a specific exception, and treated just like assets you owned before the marriage. What you do with the funds once married doesn't matter much - the source of the funds matter.
It's not really complex at all. My money is my money, your money is your money, and our money is our money. Anything earned during the course of the marriage (inheritances aren't "earned") is "our" money and normally split 50/50.
You don't even have to do that. Just drop a pin (either search for an address/name, or long-press on a road), and then a photo pops up in the corner, and you click on that to switch to street view.
Why shouldn't a washer take 3 hours, if it uses less electricity and less water to do so? I'd rather have my washer take more time and cost less. It's got a timer anyways, so those 3 hours can be whenever I want, including right before I wake up, or right before I arrive home from work.
Unless you're doing more than 7 loads a week, the amount of time the washer takes doesn't really matter. Take out the previous day's load, load up the next day's load, set the timer, and you're done for the day.
So.. what was he sending schematics of? The article just has a statement from his lawyer that "The technology discussed was not sensitive or restricted"
Your BMR may still be 2000, you just aren't absorbing all 3-4000 calories that you eat. In other words your intestines are crappy and you're pooping out half your calories. :)
Gut bacteria play a huge role in how much nutrition/calories we absorb from our food.
>Hmm, do "amicable partners" actually get divorced?
Sometimes you don't hate the other person, you just realize that they aren't who you want to spend the rest of your life with. Lots of reasons for that - misjudging the other person from the start, you misjudging yourself, or one or both of you changed significantly during the relationship.
Even if you are angry, that doesn't mean you're also spiteful and greedy; you may hate the other partner but aren't trying to screw him/her over.
Of course, those types of divorces don't make the news; they just quietly happen.
Remained on the new ports for six weeks after... what? After the post was made, or after the complaint about the post was made?
1. Post is made
2. Six weeks later, guy complains
3. Same day as complaint, company removes comment
The Steam version is also DRM free; Steam is just used as a downloader. Once downloaded you can move it to another directory or even another computer, and even uninstall Steam.
You could always buy directly from Squad as well and just download a ZIP file.
KSP has never had DRM.
All of it will eventually deorbit, it just might take a while.
Much of the trash is from military and commercial launches - singling out "the scientific community" is silly.
There are several solutions that take an SSD and hard drive and present one logical drive to the OS.
Windows: Intel Smart Response
OS X: Fusion Drive
Linux: bcache/flashcache
You forgot DHCPv6 being rejected because stateless autoconfig/RAs would be enough - except you couldn't get DNS or PXE boot info that way because it's not part of routing, so couldn't be included in router advertisements (politics, not technical). So, DHCPv6 was bolted on after.
>So, what exactly is the point of manned space stations?
For one thing, testing various methods for keeping humans alive, healthy, and sane in space.
We need to expand beyond Earth. To do that, we'll need space stations as jump-off points, and we'll need to know how to survive extended periods in space (months and years). To do that, we need somewhere to test survival, like the ISS.
> Or would the money, time and effort be better invested in some other types of space activity - automated experimental stations, or - let's dream - building a "real" base in space?
The ISS cost $150 billion over 20 years, or about $7.5 billion a year to construct and maintain. The US currently spends about $3 billion a year to keep it going - or about $8 per person. It's not a lot of money. Think about that - watching a movie about space costs more than actually maintaining a real life space station.
We have to start somewhere. All the work put into building and maintaining ISS was necessary experience before would could build a "real" base. We can design all we want but there are a lot of lessons to learn when you try to put theory into practice.
Yes, for each individual experiment, automated experiments are cheaper and easier. They're still done: http://www.space.com/27003-rus...
We don't have to do ISS *or* automated experiments - we do both.
Space is the future and it takes big investments right now. They do pay off now, and they'll pay off even more in the future.
Bandwidth isn't like water or electricity. You either use it in the moment or don't. You can't save it for later.
Not using bandwidth at 3am doesn't help the traffic jam at peak time (6pm). ISPs have to build enough infrastructure to handle peak times - they have to have larger pipes - but it doesn't actually matter how much bandwidth you use except for peak times. There's no good reason to meter traffic during non-peak times.
I'm not saying metering is a good idea - as I understand it, simply increasing bandwidth is often a cheaper option and better for users - but metering during non-peak times is just greed.
> I get to do 2 clicks if I use a mouse or windows key + start typing
You can do the same thing in Windows 7 (Windows key + start typing, or click on "Start" button and start typing), plus you have the organization of nested menus.
For items you use often, you can pin them to the menu instead of digging through "All Programs".
The start screen isn't an improvement in any way for desktop users. It is better for touch screens since the icons are larger and easier to click.
>especially ability to pin apps to a monitor.
Pinning apps to a monitor has nothing to do with start screen vs start menu. There's no reason that functionality couldn't be added to normal desktop windows ("always start this app on monitor x, fullscreen/windowed"), and in fact by default Windows 7 will remember where you last had an app and restore it to that monitor (not always correctly, but it tries).
The Metro interface is not only less functional for keyboard and mouse users, but confusing as well. There's no obvious way to close a Metro app, and swiping from the top is hard to do with a mouse. Alt-F4 works, but non-techie users don't know that. There's also no obvious way to shut down the computer! Swiping from the right is non-obvious and again, hard to do with a mouse. Remembering a keyboard shortcut (Win+C) is difficult for "normal" people. Yes, they could press the power button (on supported hardware), but decades of telling people to always shut down via software have made them nervous about that.
I've had a Windows 8 laptop at home for about 1.5 years now. Once I learned Win+C and Win+X, and customized the start menu a bit, it was fine. But I'm a computer person; all the "normal" people I know hate it and just want XP back (or something that looks like XP).
>I have a 1st Gen iPad and see no reason to replace it with a 2, 3, or 4.
The main reason I didn't buy the first gen and did buy the second was the camera. Videoconferencing with technically inept far-off relatives was too difficult with real computers, but an iPad+Skype worked great for them.
>Rain, snow, sleet, hail, rain, rain and more rain.
Umbrella, winter jacket, winter jacket+hat, winter jacket+helmet, umbrella, umbrella, and more umbrella
They have that - they're just called "high deductible" plans now. You have a $5000 yearly deductible, and after that, everything's covered. For minor stuff you'll pay cash, and for the triple-bypass the insurance will kick in.
1. Teslas don't need oil changes. You know what's better than a great dealer experience for required maintenance? Not needing maintenance in the first place!
2. Tesla doesn't have a dealer network, but they do have a service center network: http://www.teslamotors.com/ser...
3. You want a loaner? You'll get a loaner. From http://www.teslamotors.com/ser...:
Tesla Valet Service
Tesla is putting in place a valet service, so that your car is seamlessly picked up and replaced with a loaner and then returned as soon as we are done. There is no additional charge for this.
Tesla Rangers Come to You
Tesla Rangers are service technicians who make house calls. For an additional fee, they can come to your home or office to perform most maintenance and warranty repairs.
4. "air conditioned seats, rear DVD, 360 degree camera surround support, automatic parking, adaptive cruise control, automatic crash braking". Ok, Teslas don't have any of that.
>You have to manage an inventory of expensive $20k+ parts that could be stolen,
All inaccessible and underground. They're also fairly useless to thieves; who would they sell a stolen Tesla Model S battery pack to?
The battery packs are heavy, unwieldy, and can't be resold to anyone. If you're a thief, there are much better targets.
>you have multiple sizes and model of battery,
All the loaner packs can be the same size and model.
> and different wear states. The batteries lose power constantly.
Since they're at the charging station, they can keep the batteries topped off. As they wear out, they'll be replaced. Tesla owns the loaner packs. The battery swap is actually a loan, not a true swap like propane. You have to go back to that station and get your original pack back.
>You have to manage liability, if you install a defective battery and it catches fire who pays.
Tesla, since they're both the manufacturer and the battery swapper.
>You have complicated machinery that you need to have many of to handle rushes that go unused at other times
It takes 93 seconds to swap batteries. http://www.teslamotors.com/bat...
They really only need one swapping machine on site for the foreseeable future, and if they get to the point where they need more swapping machines, then they're doing very very well.
Especially since swapping isn't going to be used day-to-day; you'll charge at home or work. Swapping is really only for long-distance trips.
>And you still need to have the same order of magnitude of power available to charge up the swapped out batteries as you would to just charge them in the car.
Of course. The advantage of battery swap is that you can run out your current battery, swap at the station, drive wherever you're going, come back, swap back for your now-recharged pack, and go home. 186 seconds during the trip, versus having to stop and charge for a few hours.
>A quick check at one service which lists such large amounts, you would be looking at almost $20k/year to keep a single offsite copy of tha
Amazon Glacier would be about $205/year to store 20 TB. A full restore would be like $2,000 though, unless you want to restore 1 GB/month. Still, that's a significant difference from $20k/year.
>But you must keep in mind (as I mentioned above) that to get monetary renumeration--rather than an injunction--you must have registered your work with the Copyright Office before the violation. And it must be registered--before or after the violation--to be able to make a claim.
I thought you were wrong, so I started looked up references. As it turns out, you're right.
The law: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#412
Slightly more readable: http://thompsonhall.com/why-you-must-register-a-copyright/
In fact you can do exactly that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication
Search for "FSO laser". Example: http://www.lightpointe.com/freespaceoptics.html