What we really need is an Adopt an Orbit program. This Orbit Adopted by Shriners #123 or This Orbit Adopted by Boys and Girls Club ABC etc. Then all we'd have to worry about is a few signs like that, some orange bags scattered around and the occasional crew wearing orange vests.
Of course, UTF-8 was defined so that anyone using ASCII (like this post) was by definition using UTF-8. They used UTF-8 before UTF-8 existed!
That's like creating a blend of nitrogen and oxygen, adding a bit of CO2, allowing other gaseous impurities in small (mostly single-digit percentages or less) in proportions the same as the atmosphere of earth, and then calling it NO. Everyone here has used NO in some way or another.
Equipment or not, fancy degree or not, press pass or not, it doesn't matter. If somebody wants to get out there in the path of a storm, more power to them. I hope they are smart enough to take care of themselves, and I hope they are considerate enough to help those more stupid or less fortunate. But in the end it's nobody's business (and nobody's responsibility) but the guy making the decision to be there.
And look, if anybody has any more rights to the roads than anybody else, it is the locals.
In addition to the posts suggesting a camera, if you can project a regular grid of light over the map when you photograph it, it will be VERY helpful to compensate for any distortion caused by the digitization.
In fact, with a good grid you don't even have to totally flatten the map, as long as you get enough pixels to pick up the detail thruout the photo. (You can take two or more photos from different angles if need be.) Software can then analyze the grid and appropriately scale the areas of the image.
(And go ahead, while you are set up, double up on photos, one with the light grid and one without)
The only downside is that there seems to be fewer Sears stores than there used to be. Too many "real Americans" would prefer to buy the cheap knockoffs of everything for a few cents less at Wal-Mart.
Fewer stores is a big problem. Where I live there used to be two Sears stores. One downtown where I hated to travel and parking was nasty closed several years ago. The other is at the mall where travel is just as bad and I detest visiting there between black Friday and mid-January. Now add the K-Mart since they are part of Sears. K-Mart is halfway to the mall, but the store, while greatly improved, still has a long way to go in shopper friendly. Ever noticed that every K-Mart smells the same funky way? And for some reason, it seems that K-Mart employees (at least here) could really do with some attitude and friendliness improvement. Do they really begrudge the customers that come in or what?
Compare that to WalMart... I'd drive past two before I get to K-Mart, and another before I get to Sears. Talk about convenient. Better lighting, wider aisles, more selection. And the employees seem happier.
Of course, I can't remember the last time I went to any of those places!
I'd drive past three big box home centers on the way to K-Mart. That makes them pretty convenient, and typically they will honor the Craftsman warranty in exchange for Husky/Kobalt hand tools.
And finally, did anyone mention Harbor Freight (right across the street from K-Mart and half the price)? They also have a lifetime warranty, so if you're buying cheap crap, might as well pay less and get the warranty. And if you shop careful, some stuff is a great value.
There's at least one obvious flaw in his reasoning. He talks about removing the 8-bit version field in the header and replacing that with a 1-bit portion of the flags field to distinguish it from a hypothetical future version. That only works if one assumes there will only *ever* be two versions (v1 and v2).
No, the flaw is yours. The 1 bit merely says "this is not the original version" and anyone that only knows the original version just stops there. Anyone that knows the 2nd version has enough smarts to look at the 2nd version bit (or field).
Repeat after me: Businesses do not just pass on all costs to consumers.
Ask yourself...
*) Does a business have expenses?
*) Does a business have sources of income?
*) Does a business make a profit?
If the answer to all three questions is yes, then you can be 100% certain that all costs are paid by those sources of income.
In the case of a business where you call the source of income "consumers" then yes, all costs are paid by the consumers. Trying to claim anything else is delusional.
Because HP was around when the 'net was created, and acquired 15./8.
And because DEC was around when the 'net was created, and acquired 16./8.
And because Compaq acquired DEC and HP acquired Compaq, leaving HP with 15./8 and 16./8 as well as a bunch of smaller blocks. (But when HP begat Agilent, while the heart and soul of the company was fractured, HP kept the IP blocks.)
15./8 used to be directly routable, then that went away but public DNS would still resolve all the internal systems. Then that went away and only a few internal systems were published in external DNS. Then that went away and only Mx records remained.
Strange how this mirrors the physical world... Someday, when all the physical land has been sold, HP will probably figure out a way to sell virtual land, aka IPv4 addresses.
sdb -- once at hpbs2024 and linux.boi.hp.com, and also hpdmd48.
> Surprising enough, it is hard to find a small form-factor PC at "1/3rd the price tag" of the cheap mac. 2/3 the price isn't too hard, but even 1/2 the price is a challenge.
Yet despite of that claimed difficulty I managed to mention 2 such machines in the message you quoted.
When I googled the two machines you mentioned, I checked at least 5 links for each one, and neither of those systems were $300 or less when purchased as a computer (i.e. not "barebones"). I did find one possible listing, but it was out of stock and would not take an order.
So yes you managed to mention 2 possible machines, but the challenge of finding a small-form-factor PC for $300 (half the price of the mac mini) remains.
In my experience I've found the easiest way to meet the challenge is to watch for a special sale or a closeout on a previous model. Granted this may not get you the same as the mac mini, but different is sometimes better. E.g. a laptop with less ram and processor, but it has a display and keyboard.
If he's thinking about an entirely new machine, something like an Acer Revo makes a lot more sense.
It's probably got similar power draw characteristics to a mini but only has 1/3rd the pricetag.
The Asrock 330 would be a similar option.
The mac mini starts at $600 right now from the apple store. No monitor, keyboard or mouse, but otherwise a usable computer with 2.2GHz Core2 Duo, Gb ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, nvidia dual monitor support, 2GB ram, 160 GB disk, dual layer dvd burner, etc. For $1000 Apple will sell you a 2.5GHz mac mini "server" with 4GB ram, 2x500GB drives and Snow Leopard Server.
Surprising enough, it is hard to find a small form-factor PC at "1/3rd the price tag" of the cheap mac. 2/3 the price isn't too hard, but even 1/2 the price is a challenge.
(Got my first mac early this summer, a mini, now it comes with 2x the ram, 25% more hard disk and 10% faster processor for the same price. C'est la vie. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard. Still prefer Ubuntu.)
Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux. It is a dead horse... Deal with it. Its a Dyeing market. Let Microsoft go down with that ship. Linux should be designed better for cloud/distributive processing, and server stuff. We are getting to a point we don't need desktops we need a thin client that can connect to the network. And let someone else do the work.
The only thing that has happened is that computing has become more and more pervasive as people hold more computing power in their hand than existed in the computer room 50 years ago.
If desktop computing ever goes away, it will be because the desk is gone. People will still have their own computer(s), and every computer will need an operating system. That OS might as well be Linux as anything else.
And in a proprietary project if customers want something fixed they can threaten to not pay which in even the most incompetent company will tend to make your boss tell you to fix it. In open source that mechanism does not exist.
In open source you can fix it yourself or pay to have it fixed. With proprietary software that mechanism does not exist.
When a customer says "fix it" re. proprietary software, it only means that the result passes some test. Very seldom does the customer see the code and understand the cruft involved. So that seldom if ever gets fixed, and nearly always gets much worse over time. In proprietary software the black box is truly black.
But when its open source, it's easier to think that maybe I cant be bothered to look at this now, someone else can do it. When its proprietary software and you get the assignment to look at it, you pretty much have to do it.
Absolutely true.
And so incomplete it is crippling.
With open source, that person who finally does something about it either has the overall vision and a good idea to improve it, or gets booed out of the room. Either the changes are rejected, or the project gets forked, or someone else has an obviously better idea that is used instead.
When the PHB assigns someone to look at it, the result is often worse than when it started and it nearly always ships that way.
Neither model is perfect, but I've seen far more success with the volunteer efforts than in 20 years doing proprietary software.
Batteries have resistance. It's not 9V on a 4.5 ohm load; it's 9V out of a battery with 10 ohms resistance and a 4.5 ohm load (14.5 ohms).
Good so far...
If the solar panel's internal resistance is 4.5 ohms and a 0 ohm resistor (short, thick silver wire) is dropped across the leads, you'll get 2 amps at 9 volts.
Nonsense. What voltage will you measure across your "0 ohm resistor (short, thick silver wire)"? You will measure 0 volts. Since that wire is connected across the panel terminals you have 2amps at 0 volts, or 0 watts. (Solar panels, or any generating source, provide 0 watts when open circuit and 0 watts into an ideal short circuit. Peak power is somewhere in between varying with incident light, and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers adjust the load current to maintain peak power transfer.)
I wish I can get a hold of the batteries. I am sure they are a better replacement to the Trojan batteries I am using for my solar system.
Doubt it. A 9.6KW battery bank is less than 8 of the Trojan 6v golf car batteries which you can buy for under $1000. The Nissan batts are optimized for storage capacity, weight and size and require very sophisticated charge/discharge control to maximize cycle life. Your lead-acid batteries are optimized for storage capacity, cycle life and cost and are very tolerant of charge and discharge characteristics. You'll pay thru the the nose for the lightweight batteries and their required electronics and unless you are in an RV their size and light weight won't help you. If you want a better battery for a stationary solar system, and you have some tolerance on battery voltage, check out nickle-iron batteries.
Maybe you and a friend go riding together using both of your bikes... (Even if you don't ever loan a bike to a friend, some people do.)
Registration with the state should allow you to switch plates between between vehicles (probably only vehicles within the same class, not between motorcycle, car, truck, trailer, boat...) Insurance should be charged on the registration, not on which vehicle the plate is attached.
I agree with the idea that the cheaper vehicle should be free, and it applies also to registration.
Have more plates than insured drivers? Then the insurance should be discounted SIGNIFICANTLY for the surplus plates.
Likewise I see people who write, or print, at high speed with a ball point pen and produce beautiful handwriting
Like someone trained as a draftsman or accustomed to annotating technical drawings.
I have a neighbor pushing 80 who prints so perfectly that the first time I saw a note from him I assumed it was computer generated. Age is slowing him down, but his output is still amazing quality and plenty fast.
Don't use rubbing alcohol! That will also eat away at the contacts. Use either an electronic contact cleaner or hydrogen peroxide.
In the U.S., rubbing alcohol is typically 70% isopropanol in water. It would be better to get a 90% but 70% is very unlikely to cause any problem cleaning metal contacts. It is widely used for such, and often sold in very expensive tiny bottles (see the MSDS). Now if you have a different sort of rubbing alcohol in mind, all bets are off.
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What we really need is an Adopt an Orbit program. This Orbit Adopted by Shriners #123 or This Orbit Adopted by Boys and Girls Club ABC etc. Then all we'd have to worry about is a few signs like that, some orange bags scattered around and the occasional crew wearing orange vests.
What's with this "return the documents" crap? Has the pentagon lost their copies?
Maybe wikileaks should send them an invoice for backup services.
Of course, UTF-8 was defined so that anyone using ASCII (like this post) was by definition using UTF-8. They used UTF-8 before UTF-8 existed!
That's like creating a blend of nitrogen and oxygen, adding a bit of CO2, allowing other gaseous impurities in small (mostly single-digit percentages or less) in proportions the same as the atmosphere of earth, and then calling it NO. Everyone here has used NO in some way or another.
It counts for nothing.
http://www.bgmicro.com/RESKRESE3.aspx Not a super price (480 @ 1.5c/ea) or assortment. But happened to see it yesterday.
Equipment or not, fancy degree or not, press pass or not, it doesn't matter. If somebody wants to get out there in the path of a storm, more power to them. I hope they are smart enough to take care of themselves, and I hope they are considerate enough to help those more stupid or less fortunate. But in the end it's nobody's business (and nobody's responsibility) but the guy making the decision to be there.
And look, if anybody has any more rights to the roads than anybody else, it is the locals.
Just remember that what goes around comes around.
Best wishes
Here, I'll hold your hand a little bit longer, but I'll leave you to pick which of the 10-20 variants they list will work best in your machine.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=notebook+hard+drive+optical+bay&l=1
I've looked everywhere but I cannot find anybody that sells a simple slim-DVD drive bracket.
http://www.idotpc.com/thestore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=74&idproduct=780
And there are many more turned up by google. Also look on the Mac sites (e.g. for putting two hard disks into a Mac Mini).
sdb
Q.E.D.
In addition to the posts suggesting a camera, if you can project a regular grid of light over the map when you photograph it, it will be VERY helpful to compensate for any distortion caused by the digitization.
In fact, with a good grid you don't even have to totally flatten the map, as long as you get enough pixels to pick up the detail thruout the photo. (You can take two or more photos from different angles if need be.) Software can then analyze the grid and appropriately scale the areas of the image.
(And go ahead, while you are set up, double up on photos, one with the light grid and one without)
The only downside is that there seems to be fewer Sears stores than there used to be. Too many "real Americans" would prefer to buy the cheap knockoffs of everything for a few cents less at Wal-Mart.
Fewer stores is a big problem. Where I live there used to be two Sears stores. One downtown where I hated to travel and parking was nasty closed several years ago. The other is at the mall where travel is just as bad and I detest visiting there between black Friday and mid-January. Now add the K-Mart since they are part of Sears. K-Mart is halfway to the mall, but the store, while greatly improved, still has a long way to go in shopper friendly. Ever noticed that every K-Mart smells the same funky way? And for some reason, it seems that K-Mart employees (at least here) could really do with some attitude and friendliness improvement. Do they really begrudge the customers that come in or what?
Compare that to WalMart... I'd drive past two before I get to K-Mart, and another before I get to Sears. Talk about convenient. Better lighting, wider aisles, more selection. And the employees seem happier.
Of course, I can't remember the last time I went to any of those places!
I'd drive past three big box home centers on the way to K-Mart. That makes them pretty convenient, and typically they will honor the Craftsman warranty in exchange for Husky/Kobalt hand tools.
And finally, did anyone mention Harbor Freight (right across the street from K-Mart and half the price)? They also have a lifetime warranty, so if you're buying cheap crap, might as well pay less and get the warranty. And if you shop careful, some stuff is a great value.
No, there is no requirement that the 2nd version do the same packet format or versioning.
And how is a checksum going to help you find the page header? All a checksum could do is help you verify the header once you've found it!
The article made a lot more sense in its criticism of OGG than any criticism of the article I've yet seen.
There's at least one obvious flaw in his reasoning. He talks about removing the 8-bit version field in the header and replacing that with a 1-bit portion of the flags field to distinguish it from a hypothetical future version. That only works if one assumes there will only *ever* be two versions (v1 and v2).
No, the flaw is yours. The 1 bit merely says "this is not the original version" and anyone that only knows the original version just stops there. Anyone that knows the 2nd version has enough smarts to look at the 2nd version bit (or field).
Repeat after me: Businesses do not just pass on all costs to consumers.
Ask yourself...
*) Does a business have expenses?
*) Does a business have sources of income?
*) Does a business make a profit?
If the answer to all three questions is yes, then you can be 100% certain that all costs are paid by those sources of income.
In the case of a business where you call the source of income "consumers" then yes, all costs are paid by the consumers. Trying to claim anything else is delusional.
Why does Hewlett-Packard have not one but TWO /8 IPv4 address ranges?
Because HP was around when the 'net was created, and acquired 15./8.
And because DEC was around when the 'net was created, and acquired 16./8.
And because Compaq acquired DEC and HP acquired Compaq, leaving HP with 15./8 and 16./8 as well as a bunch of smaller blocks. (But when HP begat Agilent, while the heart and soul of the company was fractured, HP kept the IP blocks.)
15./8 used to be directly routable, then that went away but public DNS would still resolve all the internal systems. Then that went away and only a few internal systems were published in external DNS. Then that went away and only Mx records remained.
Strange how this mirrors the physical world... Someday, when all the physical land has been sold, HP will probably figure out a way to sell virtual land, aka IPv4 addresses.
sdb -- once at hpbs2024 and linux.boi.hp.com, and also hpdmd48.
P.S. Remember when hpdmd48 was a UUCP hub? ;)
> Surprising enough, it is hard to find a small form-factor PC at "1/3rd the price tag" of the cheap mac. 2/3 the price isn't too hard, but even 1/2 the price is a challenge.
Yet despite of that claimed difficulty I managed to mention 2 such machines in the message you quoted.
When I googled the two machines you mentioned, I checked at least 5 links for each one, and neither of those systems were $300 or less when purchased as a computer (i.e. not "barebones"). I did find one possible listing, but it was out of stock and would not take an order.
So yes you managed to mention 2 possible machines, but the challenge of finding a small-form-factor PC for $300 (half the price of the mac mini) remains.
In my experience I've found the easiest way to meet the challenge is to watch for a special sale or a closeout on a previous model. Granted this may not get you the same as the mac mini, but different is sometimes better. E.g. a laptop with less ram and processor, but it has a display and keyboard.
If he's thinking about an entirely new machine, something like an Acer Revo makes a lot more sense.
It's probably got similar power draw characteristics to a mini but only has 1/3rd the pricetag.
The Asrock 330 would be a similar option.
The mac mini starts at $600 right now from the apple store. No monitor, keyboard or mouse, but otherwise a usable computer with 2.2GHz Core2 Duo, Gb ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, nvidia dual monitor support, 2GB ram, 160 GB disk, dual layer dvd burner, etc. For $1000 Apple will sell you a 2.5GHz mac mini "server" with 4GB ram, 2x500GB drives and Snow Leopard Server.
Surprising enough, it is hard to find a small form-factor PC at "1/3rd the price tag" of the cheap mac. 2/3 the price isn't too hard, but even 1/2 the price is a challenge.
(Got my first mac early this summer, a mini, now it comes with 2x the ram, 25% more hard disk and 10% faster processor for the same price. C'est la vie. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard. Still prefer Ubuntu.)
Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux. It is a dead horse... Deal with it. Its a Dyeing market. Let Microsoft go down with that ship. Linux should be designed better for cloud/distributive processing, and server stuff. We are getting to a point we don't need desktops we need a thin client that can connect to the network. And let someone else do the work.
LOL
People have been denying the need for and predicting the death of desktop computing since before desktop computing existed (for at least 50 years, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote).
The only thing that has happened is that computing has become more and more pervasive as people hold more computing power in their hand than existed in the computer room 50 years ago.
If desktop computing ever goes away, it will be because the desk is gone. People will still have their own computer(s), and every computer will need an operating system. That OS might as well be Linux as anything else.
And in a proprietary project if customers want something fixed they can threaten to not pay which in even the most incompetent company will tend to make your boss tell you to fix it. In open source that mechanism does not exist.
In open source you can fix it yourself or pay to have it fixed. With proprietary software that mechanism does not exist.
When a customer says "fix it" re. proprietary software, it only means that the result passes some test. Very seldom does the customer see the code and understand the cruft involved. So that seldom if ever gets fixed, and nearly always gets much worse over time. In proprietary software the black box is truly black.
sdb
But when its open source, it's easier to think that maybe I cant be bothered to look at this now, someone else can do it. When its proprietary software and you get the assignment to look at it, you pretty much have to do it.
Absolutely true.
And so incomplete it is crippling.
With open source, that person who finally does something about it either has the overall vision and a good idea to improve it, or gets booed out of the room. Either the changes are rejected, or the project gets forked, or someone else has an obviously better idea that is used instead.
When the PHB assigns someone to look at it, the result is often worse than when it started and it nearly always ships that way.
Neither model is perfect, but I've seen far more success with the volunteer efforts than in 20 years doing proprietary software.
sdb
Batteries have resistance. It's not 9V on a 4.5 ohm load; it's 9V out of a battery with 10 ohms resistance and a 4.5 ohm load (14.5 ohms).
Good so far...
If the solar panel's internal resistance is 4.5 ohms and a 0 ohm resistor (short, thick silver wire) is dropped across the leads, you'll get 2 amps at 9 volts.
Nonsense. What voltage will you measure across your "0 ohm resistor (short, thick silver wire)"? You will measure 0 volts. Since that wire is connected across the panel terminals you have 2amps at 0 volts, or 0 watts. (Solar panels, or any generating source, provide 0 watts when open circuit and 0 watts into an ideal short circuit. Peak power is somewhere in between varying with incident light, and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers adjust the load current to maintain peak power transfer.)
sdb
I wish I can get a hold of the batteries. I am sure they are a better replacement to the Trojan batteries I am using for my solar system.
Doubt it. A 9.6KW battery bank is less than 8 of the Trojan 6v golf car batteries which you can buy for under $1000. The Nissan batts are optimized for storage capacity, weight and size and require very sophisticated charge/discharge control to maximize cycle life. Your lead-acid batteries are optimized for storage capacity, cycle life and cost and are very tolerant of charge and discharge characteristics. You'll pay thru the the nose for the lightweight batteries and their required electronics and unless you are in an RV their size and light weight won't help you. If you want a better battery for a stationary solar system, and you have some tolerance on battery voltage, check out nickle-iron batteries.
sdb
Maybe you and a friend go riding together using both of your bikes... (Even if you don't ever loan a bike to a friend, some people do.)
Registration with the state should allow you to switch plates between between vehicles (probably only vehicles within the same class, not between motorcycle, car, truck, trailer, boat...) Insurance should be charged on the registration, not on which vehicle the plate is attached.
I agree with the idea that the cheaper vehicle should be free, and it applies also to registration.
Have more plates than insured drivers? Then the insurance should be discounted SIGNIFICANTLY for the surplus plates.
sdb
Likewise I see people who write, or print, at high speed with a ball point pen and produce beautiful handwriting
Like someone trained as a draftsman or accustomed to annotating technical drawings.
I have a neighbor pushing 80 who prints so perfectly that the first time I saw a note from him I assumed it was computer generated. Age is slowing him down, but his output is still amazing quality and plenty fast.
sdb
sdb
I abandoned cursive in 1976 when my school teachers quit requiring it. Even my signature is an odd mix of block and script characters.
I did adopt simpler cursive forms for some characters (e.g. d and n tend to be single-stroke and so lose the little dangling tail).
Or perhaps you could say that I invented my own cursive script with slight more breaks between characters than normal.
Either way, I never write "traditional" cursive and struggle if I need to read it.
sdb
Don't use rubbing alcohol! That will also eat away at the contacts. Use either an electronic contact cleaner or hydrogen peroxide.
In the U.S., rubbing alcohol is typically 70% isopropanol in water. It would be better to get a 90% but 70% is very unlikely to cause any problem cleaning metal contacts. It is widely used for such, and often sold in very expensive tiny bottles (see the MSDS). Now if you have a different sort of rubbing alcohol in mind, all bets are off.
sdb