The Junk mail filter in Mac OS X 10.2s Mail application works well for me. I get about 40 spams a day. About half of them I can't even read (foreign character sets). Most days the junk filter catches all but one or two spams. I've only had one false positive in the past month, and that was just an automated reply from a web page reporting that the catalog I had ordered was on its way.
Apple Mail's junk filter does require some training. When I first got it, it only caught about 25% of the spam, but after a week or two of my marking spam messages, it was running very well.
I have been wondering if this junk filter can be integrated with some service like Razor.
1. The weight of the unit has to come down. The current 65 pound weight is a bit much to carry up and down staircases.
Follow mode is a power-assist mode for getting it up stairs or over rough terrain. On the other hand, the weight could still be a problem for getting it into a car trunk or up to the first step of the commuter train I take each morning.
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Tricycles (1 front wheel, two back) are quite stable because cornering puts pressure to the side and rear of the vehicle, on the non-stearing wheels. Front only has to apply lateral force to turn. The back has to hold it up.
Tricycles with one wheel in front are very unstable. Cornering puts pressure to the side and front of the vehicle.
Three wheeled recreational all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's) were very popular in the 1980's, until people got tired of broken arms and collar bones from when they rolled in sharp turns. Almost all of the ATV's sold today are four wheelers.
Could someone please find the reference for that rule? I can't walk down to AT&T Broadband and say that some little known rule mentioned in the newspaper says they have to offer me the SciFi channel and The Learning Channel for less than the full Bronze Package Price.
The Bentley brothers took the IGDS (Intergraph Graphics Data Standard) CAD file format and reverse engineered a better engine and interface for it. Intergraph then bought 51% of their company. A lot of their civil engineering and GIS software is built on top of Microstation now.
Intergraph has been around since about 1970. I worked at Intergraph from 1990-1996. They used to make their own CAD workstations; hardware & software. This was back when a high end CAD workstation would cost 50-75 thousand dollars. The hardware would often include it's own furniture with dual or triple monitors built in and a D-size digitizer.
They were never a consumer product company. They sold workstations to certain engineering and design niches. Their specialty is civil engineering and geographic infomation software. Have you ever looked at a topographic map? At one point all USCGS topographic maps were made on Intergraph workstations. They sell a lot of 911 systems, a spin-off of their other GIS stuff.
They sold some electronic design software, mostly a spin-off of the products they used in house to design their Clipper chip (not the encryption Clipper chip. Boy do I remember the furor when the govt started talking about that!).
They wrote their own publishing software based on a gencoding system similar to SGML. This was used for all of their in-house documentation. TV Guide used an enhanced version of this system for a few years.
I worked in their mechanical division. They were doing object oriented programming in the early 1980's, long before it became popular. Unfortunately, being one of the first, they made a lot of mistakes in the way they chose to implement it, which led to an enormous number of bugs and workarounds in the later products that were built on the same core technology. I could model anything in I/EMS. However, for anything beyond simple models, I'd spend about 40% of my time working around bugs. I/VDS (shipbuilding software) was built on top of I/EMS. They wone a $600 million contract with the Navy back in 1990-1991.
Shortly before the Pentium came out they were realizing that PC's were approaching serious CAD workstation levels. People were not going to pay $35k for a Clipper workstation when they could get a PC maybe half the speed, but one-tenth the cost. They made a couple of deals with Intel and sold their clipper chip unit to Sun. They were one of the first companies to ship a computer with a Pentium inside, and they were the first to ship a multi-processor Pentium machine. Back when a good $2k Pentium PC would ship with 16 or 32MB of RAM. They were shipping a $10k PC with 256MB of RAM, four processors, and a graphics card optimized for major vector graphics work. Note: vector graphics, not animation. Gamers were very disappointed when this $10k machine would do worse on Doom than their $2k machine at home. Still it had major horsepower. Bill Gates used an Intergraph workstation when he introduced Windows NT. When he said "This is the coolest machine in the world!", INGR stock rose about 30% the next day. Then one day as a couple of Intergraph's engineers were working with some Intel engineers to optimize Intergraph's next CAD workstation to work with the Pentium II the Intergraph engineer said "Hey, that looks an awful lot like one of our old Clipper designs." and the patent lawsuits and corporate warfare started.
Unfortunately, though they pioneered a lot of things, they kept getting passed by the new kid on the block. PTC's Pro/Engineer had all of the features of I/EMS with twice the speed, half the cost, and relatively no bugs. (That was back in 1995. Now Pro/E is in almost the same position relative to SolidWorks.) And in hardware, you can't keep selling $10k CAD workstations when 1GB of RAM is about $100. They've spunoff or shut down about 3/4 of their old operations and are concentrating on what they're good at. GIS and suing Intel.
You could spin the missile to reduce spot heating, but that's going to complicate guidance considerably.
Some missiles spin anyway. The Sidewinder missile was intentionally slightly unstable and spun so that it flew in a spiral. Its seeker had one degree of control, up-down relative to the center of the spiral. When the heat source it was looking at was near the center of the spiral, the spiral would narrow down towards the target. When the heat source was not near the center of the spiral, the spiral would broaden out in a cone until it reacquired the heat source. Fairly early in its development a filter was added so that it would ignore anything with the precise infrared signature of the sun.
I think one of the problems a lot of people have with suits is that they've only worn one or two suits for graduation and interviews. These were probably three times or more expensive than their casual wear even if they bought the cheapest suit available and they didn't even think about buying the next more expensive suit.
You can find more comfortable suits if you are willing to pay a bit more. Suits don't even have to be dry clean only. My Tilley jacket is comfortable, has ten working pockets, and the cleaning instruction tag says "Give it hell!"
If you're worried about melting the overpasses, use a gas turbine with co-generation like many ship powerplants do. When the low pressure exhaust leaves the gas turbine, it is run through a steam boiler. The steam could run a small steam turbine, or it could be used to heat passenger cars.
At Bromfield Camera, I've seen a quadpod camera stand built for one of the Nikon digital cameras that held the camera in the perfect position to take pictures of documents placed under it.
The T will be convenient to the convention center when the Silver Line is finished, but the Silver Line is not finished yet. Hopefully, the branch to the convention center will be done on time (December 2003 estimate).
I sure hope that they've finished the Big Dig (the I-90, I-93 construction project in Boston) by then. Otherwise everyone will be stuck in the potholes of South Boston before they ever get to the convention center. The Silver Line mass transit system is supposed to go to the convention center, but it's part of the Big Dig too.
In 1996, the Big Dig scheduled completion date was 2000.
In 2000, the Big Dig scheduled completion date was 2002.
In 2002, the Big Dig scheduled completion date is 2004 or 2005.
My person prediction has always been that they will finish the Big Dig when they have the contract signed for Big Dig II.
Putting the motor in the wheel has several real advantages.
- Fantastic traction control. When each wheel is independantly driven it is much easier to control traction on slippery surfaces. On the other hand, you want to make sure that the control programming is completely bug free. (Would you drive a steer-by-wire car running Windows?)
- No mechanical transmission losses. No mechanical drag in the transmission or differential.
- More room in the rest of the car, you don't have to make room for a bulky drive train, just a small power and control cables.
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Abundant yes. In a free form, no. Most oxygen is bound up in different oxides.
How about the people in rural locations who don't have any other options available?
My father lives in northern Maine. He has a 56k modem, that can barely get 24k on his phone line. No cable available. Positively no DSL, he's about 15 miles from the central office.
Reasonably priced satellite service would be great.
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The Junk mail filter in Mac OS X 10.2s Mail application works well for me. I get about 40 spams a day. About half of them I can't even read (foreign character sets). Most days the junk filter catches all but one or two spams. I've only had one false positive in the past month, and that was just an automated reply from a web page reporting that the catalog I had ordered was on its way.
Apple Mail's junk filter does require some training. When I first got it, it only caught about 25% of the spam, but after a week or two of my marking spam messages, it was running very well.
I have been wondering if this junk filter can be integrated with some service like Razor.
Three wheeled recreational all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's) were very popular in the 1980's, until people got tired of broken arms and collar bones from when they rolled in sharp turns. Almost all of the ATV's sold today are four wheelers.
Could someone please find the reference for that rule? I can't walk down to AT&T Broadband and say that some little known rule mentioned in the newspaper says they have to offer me the SciFi channel and The Learning Channel for less than the full Bronze Package Price.
My old roommate used to read everything Star Wars related that came out. After reading Anderson's novels, he proclaimed:
The Bentley brothers took the IGDS (Intergraph Graphics Data Standard) CAD file format and reverse engineered a better engine and interface for it. Intergraph then bought 51% of their company. A lot of their civil engineering and GIS software is built on top of Microstation now.
When was that for sale? I've paid only a little attention to them since I left in 1996.
I worked in Building 17C for a couple of years and then I was in the first department to move into Building 30.
Intergraph has been around since about 1970. I worked at Intergraph from 1990-1996. They used to make their own CAD workstations; hardware & software. This was back when a high end CAD workstation would cost 50-75 thousand dollars. The hardware would often include it's own furniture with dual or triple monitors built in and a D-size digitizer.
They were never a consumer product company. They sold workstations to certain engineering and design niches. Their specialty is civil engineering and geographic infomation software. Have you ever looked at a topographic map? At one point all USCGS topographic maps were made on Intergraph workstations. They sell a lot of 911 systems, a spin-off of their other GIS stuff.
They sold some electronic design software, mostly a spin-off of the products they used in house to design their Clipper chip (not the encryption Clipper chip. Boy do I remember the furor when the govt started talking about that!).
They wrote their own publishing software based on a gencoding system similar to SGML. This was used for all of their in-house documentation. TV Guide used an enhanced version of this system for a few years.
I worked in their mechanical division. They were doing object oriented programming in the early 1980's, long before it became popular. Unfortunately, being one of the first, they made a lot of mistakes in the way they chose to implement it, which led to an enormous number of bugs and workarounds in the later products that were built on the same core technology. I could model anything in I/EMS. However, for anything beyond simple models, I'd spend about 40% of my time working around bugs. I/VDS (shipbuilding software) was built on top of I/EMS. They wone a $600 million contract with the Navy back in 1990-1991.
Shortly before the Pentium came out they were realizing that PC's were approaching serious CAD workstation levels. People were not going to pay $35k for a Clipper workstation when they could get a PC maybe half the speed, but one-tenth the cost. They made a couple of deals with Intel and sold their clipper chip unit to Sun. They were one of the first companies to ship a computer with a Pentium inside, and they were the first to ship a multi-processor Pentium machine. Back when a good $2k Pentium PC would ship with 16 or 32MB of RAM. They were shipping a $10k PC with 256MB of RAM, four processors, and a graphics card optimized for major vector graphics work. Note: vector graphics, not animation. Gamers were very disappointed when this $10k machine would do worse on Doom than their $2k machine at home. Still it had major horsepower. Bill Gates used an Intergraph workstation when he introduced Windows NT. When he said "This is the coolest machine in the world!", INGR stock rose about 30% the next day. Then one day as a couple of Intergraph's engineers were working with some Intel engineers to optimize Intergraph's next CAD workstation to work with the Pentium II the Intergraph engineer said "Hey, that looks an awful lot like one of our old Clipper designs." and the patent lawsuits and corporate warfare started.
Unfortunately, though they pioneered a lot of things, they kept getting passed by the new kid on the block. PTC's Pro/Engineer had all of the features of I/EMS with twice the speed, half the cost, and relatively no bugs. (That was back in 1995. Now Pro/E is in almost the same position relative to SolidWorks.) And in hardware, you can't keep selling $10k CAD workstations when 1GB of RAM is about $100. They've spunoff or shut down about 3/4 of their old operations and are concentrating on what they're good at. GIS and suing Intel.
Some missiles spin anyway. The Sidewinder missile was intentionally slightly unstable and spun so that it flew in a spiral. Its seeker had one degree of control, up-down relative to the center of the spiral. When the heat source it was looking at was near the center of the spiral, the spiral would narrow down towards the target. When the heat source was not near the center of the spiral, the spiral would broaden out in a cone until it reacquired the heat source. Fairly early in its development a filter was added so that it would ignore anything with the precise infrared signature of the sun.
I think one of the problems a lot of people have with suits is that they've only worn one or two suits for graduation and interviews. These were probably three times or more expensive than their casual wear even if they bought the cheapest suit available and they didn't even think about buying the next more expensive suit.
You can find more comfortable suits if you are willing to pay a bit more. Suits don't even have to be dry clean only. My Tilley jacket is comfortable, has ten working pockets, and the cleaning instruction tag says "Give it hell!"
Personally I foresee this coming out a lot sooner than the electronic paper MIT's been talking about for at least five years.
Apple is big in DTP. New York is publishing central.
If you're worried about melting the overpasses, use a gas turbine with co-generation like many ship powerplants do. When the low pressure exhaust leaves the gas turbine, it is run through a steam boiler. The steam could run a small steam turbine, or it could be used to heat passenger cars.
At Bromfield Camera, I've seen a quadpod camera stand built for one of the Nikon digital cameras that held the camera in the perfect position to take pictures of documents placed under it.
The T will be convenient to the convention center when the Silver Line is finished, but the Silver Line is not finished yet. Hopefully, the branch to the convention center will be done on time (December 2003 estimate).
I got my first rifle when I was six. On the other hand I didn't have unsupervised access to ammunition until I was 14.
I sure hope that they've finished the Big Dig (the I-90, I-93 construction project in Boston) by then. Otherwise everyone will be stuck in the potholes of South Boston before they ever get to the convention center. The Silver Line mass transit system is supposed to go to the convention center, but it's part of the Big Dig too.
In 1996, the Big Dig scheduled completion date was 2000.
In 2000, the Big Dig scheduled completion date was 2002.
In 2002, the Big Dig scheduled completion date is 2004 or 2005.
My person prediction has always been that they will finish the Big Dig when they have the contract signed for Big Dig II.
Step 1: Someone develops a way to host a web site from a 3G phone.
Step 2: A story about the phone gets posted on Slashdot
Step 3: ...
I tried 3 or 4 shopping programs before I found one that really worked for me. HandyShopper is freeware and fantastic.
Putting the motor in the wheel has several real advantages.
- Fantastic traction control. When each wheel is independantly driven it is much easier to control traction on slippery surfaces. On the other hand, you want to make sure that the control programming is completely bug free. (Would you drive a steer-by-wire car running Windows?)
- No mechanical transmission losses. No mechanical drag in the transmission or differential.
- More room in the rest of the car, you don't have to make room for a bulky drive train, just a small power and control cables.
Abundant yes. In a free form, no. Most oxygen is bound up in different oxides.
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I don't think it is. Fire requires free oxygen and something to burn. You are not going to find much of that anywhere where there is not life.
The stars "burn", but they are fueled by fusion, not fire.
How about the people in rural locations who don't have any other options available?
My father lives in northern Maine. He has a 56k modem, that can barely get 24k on his phone line. No cable available. Positively no DSL, he's about 15 miles from the central office.
Reasonably priced satellite service would be great.
Two big holes. No support for Palm categories. No support for Palm custom fields.