Pretty much anywhere on the east coast within 100 miles, especially for a night launch. I happened to be in Daytona for spring break one year when they had a night launch with, IIRC, a new moon, and it was spectacular even from 60 miles away. The whole beach was pretty well lit up for about half a minute or so. I'm not sure if the next launch is planned for day or night (probably day since night launches are fairly infrequent), but I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad view from Daytona even during the day.
4033 Industrial Shredder The Ultimate in Central Shredding Systems. Designed to be versatile to work as a stand alone destruction unit or in combination with a disintegrator for maximum size reduction. The Model 4033 shredder is capable of destroying bulk product from roll stock to whole computer towers into pieces 2" wide at random lengths. Add a disintegrator to achieve particle sizes to meet DoD requirements.
Disintigrator description:
Waste material is fed into the machine through a safety feed hopper. The cutting mechanism consists of 2 to 5 knives mounted on a steel rotor that pass 2 stationary bed knives (0.005 inch gap) at 500-600 rotations per minute (RPM) for up to 6,000 cuts per minute.
Waste is cut until small enough to fall through a perforated steel screen beneath the cutting rotor. The screens are interchangeable so that the degree of destruction can be varied from 3/32 to 3 inches. Thick, tough materials such as diskettes and CD-ROMs can be destroyed with less power and less chance of jams due to the high mass of the rotor and thickness of the knives.
Although personally, the only times I've bought a new mobile phone were to replace the old ones I'd lost or broken. If someone wants to try to repair a phone that's taken a saltwater bath in order to steal my contact numbers, more power to them.
Your proposed solution is insane and ridiculous....
Sure, they make perfect sense, but if only sensible laws were passed, we wouldn't have the DMCA right now
Well which is it?
Anyway, banning breeds won't work for the reasons I mentioned, and because people can just crossbreed the animals. It's a finger in the proverbial dyke at best -- not that I believe dog attacks are a huge problem that's spiraling out of control to begin with.
The dog bite problem should be reconceptualized as a largely preventable epidemic. Breed-specific approaches to the control of dog bites do not address the issue that many breeds are involved in the problem and that most of the factors contributing to dog bites are related to the level of responsibility exercised by dog owners.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fc gi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8657532&dopt=A bstract
That pits were involved in the greatest number of fatalities is more likely due to the fact that they are large and powerful animals than because they are inherently aggressive. Additionally, while not everyone who owns a large dog is a bad owner, it seems that aggressive people frequently prefer large, powerful animals to enhance their own image and project their supposed power.
At any rate, banning a particular breed won't solve the problem of bad owners. They'll simply choose the next largest dog -- perhaps a rott, doberman, or german shepherd, or just a mutt -- and the spotlight will shift to the next breed. The best (but by no means 100% effective) solution is to hold owners directly responsible for the behavior of their animals. Owners of dogs who attack should be subject to heavy fines, and perhaps 3-6 months for a second offense. Fatal attacks should result in manslaughter charges, or 2nd degree murder if there's significant evidence that the owner trained the dog to be a killer.
Too many people shirk off the responsibilty of protecting themselves on their animals. While dogs are naturally protective, aggressive behavior such as nipping and growling should be discouraged. There are many, many guides and references for training dogs, but the best thing to do is just socialize the dog with a large variety of people of different ages, races, and genders when it's young, along with other (friendly) dogs.
"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic." -- Abby Adams
By posting a video he's putting a face to the issue -- he becomes an actual person rather than merely a collection of words. It's far more engaging, and it makes a much greater impression than a semi-anonymous essay posted somewhere. Additionally, he probably wouldn't have gotten the press coverage he's getting if he had done as you suggest.
In the US, we're too lazy too obtain a chicken costume, so we just wear our normal clothes. Even the name "Chicken Chase" is too long -- we just call it "tag."
According to MS, it's 1.5 times the total RAM. I assume you're asking because you're trying to avoid a fragmented page file. While the benefits of an unfragmented page file are dubious at best (since it will be randomly accessing different parts of the page file), it's better to err on the side of caution: If you have 2GB of memory, you likely have an equally compensating-for-something hard drive, so you probably won't miss 3GB of space, or even 4. It's better to waste a little space than have Windows run out of Virtual Memory. Otherwise, just let it do its dynamic page file adjustment thing.
If you're asking about creating a swap partition for Linux then 1.5X is also recommended. Just be generous, unless -- for some reason -- you've got 2GB of RAM and a 50 meg hard drive. Too much is always better than not enough.
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The CS field as a whole apologizes for the fact that computers are hard.
But the EE field as a whole laughs in your general direction with a hearty "Ha! Ha!"
I assume they're using the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive, which is the first gen of desktop drives with perpendicular recording (AFAIK), and are badass according to TH's tests, with average read rates on par with the 70GB Raptor, second only to the the 150GB Raptor. Also Tiger Direct has a $60 rebate on them through Thursday, which brings the total cost to about $50 less than anything I saw on Froogle and would make the price per GB ~$0.46US -- well below the ~$1.60US/GB of the 150GB Raptor.
It depends on the printer model. I have an HP Photosmart 3000 series, and it uses 6 individual ink cartridges - Black, Yellow, Cyan, Light Cyan, Magenta, and Light Magenta -- and has a single print head which is not replaced with the cartridges. Not that the printer isn't without its "quirks." Oddly the ink in the "Light" cartridges never seems to run out -- I haven't replaced one yet and the ink gauge reports that they are full -- yet the standard colors have all been replaced at least once in the 3 months I've owned it. The Magenta has been replaced twice.
The first set of replacements I bought was genuine HP ink. Upon closer inspection, the ink sold by HP all varies in its quantity. The Yellow might be 8ml, while the Light Cyan is 6ml, etc. You would think they'd be trying to put the most ink in the common colors, but it seems that exactly the opposite is true (with the exception of black) -- the most commonly used ink has the lowest quantity. After that, I bought generic ink online, because the Magenta ran out AGAIN after about 60 pages. The generic ink has double the quantity of the HP ink, and so far the quality seems fine.
Anyway, if I had it to do over again, I'd get a Canon with pigment instead of (water based) ink. Maybe next time.
The interferance really isn't that big of a deal. I work with critical RF communications equipment, and our facility is lit entirely by fluorescent. Unless your equipment is particularly poorly designed (like you built it yourself in a wooden box), or you use an unshielded antenna run, we're talking interferance well below -90dBm, which isn't anything to get your panties in a bunch over. Granted, you can see the difference on a Spec-An. inside just by turning off the lights, but if you hook it to the shielded antenna cable, the difference is almost immeasurable.
One of my co-workers is also a HAM fanatic. His light sockets are exclusively populated with CFLs, and he gets more interferance from the switching power supply than the lightbulbs.
At any rate, the RF is produced by the same process that creates the light -- the ionization of gas -- so there's really no way to prevent that. You could put a Faraday cage around it, but that would dim the light considerably.
The cases may have positive pressure compared to the room (which I doubt since it's not even close to airtight.. maybe a couple millibar at best), but as long as the air flow is the same as [given case], it still has the same potential to accumulate dust. It may not seep in from the cracks, but unless the air flowing through is less than some other setup, the dust will still get in at the same rate.
I have no interest in trial & erroring for an hour when I'd rather kill monsters.
Translation: I have no interest in actually solving puzzles when I could be hitting repetitive button sequences, with little or no thought given to the process, until I'm rewarded with a fanfare and an animation of something fading out of existance.
That's the exception, not the rule, and the people really at risk weren't the customers but the salespeople, who were exposed to radiation on a daily basis.
At any rate, what you're doing is called rationalization, which is the process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. People fear new things; an a priori fear, if you will, meaning they don't need past experience to explain it. You can come up with all the arguments in the world for why this fear is valid, but the reality is that most new things are benign or beneficial; people just don't like changing the status quo. My kids were scared of roller coasters before they rode them, yet we've never been in any sort of crash nor, to their knowledge, has anyone else. They simply feared them because they look dangerous and they don't understand how they work. That's the mindset of children though. It's reasonable to be cautious about new things, but rejecting them outright because of imagined dangers is neither rational nor beneficial.
Imagine what the world might be like if we'd built nuclear power plants in the 80s & 90s instead of perpetuating our dependance on oil. Of course there's no way of knowing for sure, but it seems likely that our environment would be cleaner, and maybe we'd even be less entangled in the mid-east.
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Pretty much anywhere on the east coast within 100 miles, especially for a night launch. I happened to be in Daytona for spring break one year when they had a night launch with, IIRC, a new moon, and it was spectacular even from 60 miles away. The whole beach was pretty well lit up for about half a minute or so. I'm not sure if the next launch is planned for day or night (probably day since night launches are fairly infrequent), but I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad view from Daytona even during the day.
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But if you want to get closer, there's plenty of hotels right across the bay: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=hotels&ne
Directions to the KSC are here: http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/KSC/directions.
And if you want to get really close, you can buy tickets here.
Or just get one of these bad boys:
4033 Industrial Shredder
The Ultimate in Central Shredding Systems. Designed to be versatile to work as a stand alone destruction unit or in combination with a disintegrator for maximum size reduction. The Model 4033 shredder is capable of destroying bulk product from roll stock to whole computer towers into pieces 2" wide at random lengths. Add a disintegrator to achieve particle sizes to meet DoD requirements.
Disintigrator description:
Waste material is fed into the machine through a safety feed hopper. The cutting mechanism consists of 2 to 5 knives mounted on a steel rotor that pass 2 stationary bed knives (0.005 inch gap) at 500-600 rotations per minute (RPM) for up to 6,000 cuts per minute.
Waste is cut until small enough to fall through a perforated steel screen beneath the cutting rotor. The screens are interchangeable so that the degree of destruction can be varied from 3/32 to 3 inches. Thick, tough materials such as diskettes and CD-ROMs can be destroyed with less power and less chance of jams due to the high mass of the rotor and thickness of the knives.
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No home should be without one.
Although personally, the only times I've bought a new mobile phone were to replace the old ones I'd lost or broken. If someone wants to try to repair a phone that's taken a saltwater bath in order to steal my contact numbers, more power to them.
Your proposed solution is insane and ridiculous. ...
Sure, they make perfect sense, but if only sensible laws were passed, we wouldn't have the DMCA right now
Well which is it?
Anyway, banning breeds won't work for the reasons I mentioned, and because people can just crossbreed the animals. It's a finger in the proverbial dyke at best -- not that I believe dog attacks are a huge problem that's spiraling out of control to begin with.
That pits were involved in the greatest number of fatalities is more likely due to the fact that they are large and powerful animals than because they are inherently aggressive. Additionally, while not everyone who owns a large dog is a bad owner, it seems that aggressive people frequently prefer large, powerful animals to enhance their own image and project their supposed power.
At any rate, banning a particular breed won't solve the problem of bad owners. They'll simply choose the next largest dog -- perhaps a rott, doberman, or german shepherd, or just a mutt -- and the spotlight will shift to the next breed. The best (but by no means 100% effective) solution is to hold owners directly responsible for the behavior of their animals. Owners of dogs who attack should be subject to heavy fines, and perhaps 3-6 months for a second offense. Fatal attacks should result in manslaughter charges, or 2nd degree murder if there's significant evidence that the owner trained the dog to be a killer.
Too many people shirk off the responsibilty of protecting themselves on their animals. While dogs are naturally protective, aggressive behavior such as nipping and growling should be discouraged. There are many, many guides and references for training dogs, but the best thing to do is just socialize the dog with a large variety of people of different ages, races, and genders when it's young, along with other (friendly) dogs.
"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic." -- Abby Adams
Alaskins... PLEASE tell me you are doing something about this guy.
Dude, you're talking to a brick wall. There are no internet tubes running to Alaska yet, and even the oil tubes barely work.
By posting a video he's putting a face to the issue -- he becomes an actual person rather than merely a collection of words. It's far more engaging, and it makes a much greater impression than a semi-anonymous essay posted somewhere. Additionally, he probably wouldn't have gotten the press coverage he's getting if he had done as you suggest.
Before you get all teary eyed -- the camera system was just to make sure all the Coasties could knock-off at 1300 instead of having to stand watch.
;)
If they were smart, they would've just done what we do -- get the Marines to stand watch.
OMG.. you killed YouTube.
Good call.. too bad the link doesn't appear to work with an external referrer.
In the US, we're too lazy too obtain a chicken costume, so we just wear our normal clothes. Even the name "Chicken Chase" is too long -- we just call it "tag."
You're it.
According to MS, it's 1.5 times the total RAM. I assume you're asking because you're trying to avoid a fragmented page file. While the benefits of an unfragmented page file are dubious at best (since it will be randomly accessing different parts of the page file), it's better to err on the side of caution: If you have 2GB of memory, you likely have an equally compensating-for-something hard drive, so you probably won't miss 3GB of space, or even 4. It's better to waste a little space than have Windows run out of Virtual Memory. Otherwise, just let it do its dynamic page file adjustment thing.
If you're asking about creating a swap partition for Linux then 1.5X is also recommended. Just be generous, unless -- for some reason -- you've got 2GB of RAM and a 50 meg hard drive. Too much is always better than not enough.
The CS field as a whole apologizes for the fact that computers are hard.
But the EE field as a whole laughs in your general direction with a hearty "Ha! Ha!"
We're about to see another revolution, which is in network adapters -- that we [will] talk directly to [them] from application level.
If you're going to [will] insert words to correct someone else's writing, make sure [them] the changes are actually correct.
Log without a quantifier is assumed to be base 10.
Rumors are that devils0wn will have a "pre-order" discount in December.
Heh.. I don't make anywhere close to $70.6B, but I'd be happy if I only had an operating loss of $2.60.
I assume they're using the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive, which is the first gen of desktop drives with perpendicular recording (AFAIK), and are badass according to TH's tests, with average read rates on par with the 70GB Raptor, second only to the the 150GB Raptor. Also Tiger Direct has a $60 rebate on them through Thursday, which brings the total cost to about $50 less than anything I saw on Froogle and would make the price per GB ~$0.46US -- well below the ~$1.60US/GB of the 150GB Raptor.
It depends on the printer model. I have an HP Photosmart 3000 series, and it uses 6 individual ink cartridges - Black, Yellow, Cyan, Light Cyan, Magenta, and Light Magenta -- and has a single print head which is not replaced with the cartridges. Not that the printer isn't without its "quirks." Oddly the ink in the "Light" cartridges never seems to run out -- I haven't replaced one yet and the ink gauge reports that they are full -- yet the standard colors have all been replaced at least once in the 3 months I've owned it. The Magenta has been replaced twice.
The first set of replacements I bought was genuine HP ink. Upon closer inspection, the ink sold by HP all varies in its quantity. The Yellow might be 8ml, while the Light Cyan is 6ml, etc. You would think they'd be trying to put the most ink in the common colors, but it seems that exactly the opposite is true (with the exception of black) -- the most commonly used ink has the lowest quantity. After that, I bought generic ink online, because the Magenta ran out AGAIN after about 60 pages. The generic ink has double the quantity of the HP ink, and so far the quality seems fine.
Anyway, if I had it to do over again, I'd get a Canon with pigment instead of (water based) ink. Maybe next time.
The interferance really isn't that big of a deal. I work with critical RF communications equipment, and our facility is lit entirely by fluorescent. Unless your equipment is particularly poorly designed (like you built it yourself in a wooden box), or you use an unshielded antenna run, we're talking interferance well below -90dBm, which isn't anything to get your panties in a bunch over. Granted, you can see the difference on a Spec-An. inside just by turning off the lights, but if you hook it to the shielded antenna cable, the difference is almost immeasurable.
One of my co-workers is also a HAM fanatic. His light sockets are exclusively populated with CFLs, and he gets more interferance from the switching power supply than the lightbulbs.
At any rate, the RF is produced by the same process that creates the light -- the ionization of gas -- so there's really no way to prevent that. You could put a Faraday cage around it, but that would dim the light considerably.
What I'd really like to see is a review of machines with the most performance and features for the dollar.
The cases may have positive pressure compared to the room (which I doubt since it's not even close to airtight.. maybe a couple millibar at best), but as long as the air flow is the same as [given case], it still has the same potential to accumulate dust. It may not seep in from the cracks, but unless the air flowing through is less than some other setup, the dust will still get in at the same rate.
I have no interest in trial & erroring for an hour when I'd rather kill monsters.
Translation: I have no interest in actually solving puzzles when I could be hitting repetitive button sequences, with little or no thought given to the process, until I'm rewarded with a fanfare and an animation of something fading out of existance.
Da da da da.. da.. da.. da-da daaa!
That's the exception, not the rule, and the people really at risk weren't the customers but the salespeople, who were exposed to radiation on a daily basis.
At any rate, what you're doing is called rationalization, which is the process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. People fear new things; an a priori fear, if you will, meaning they don't need past experience to explain it. You can come up with all the arguments in the world for why this fear is valid, but the reality is that most new things are benign or beneficial; people just don't like changing the status quo. My kids were scared of roller coasters before they rode them, yet we've never been in any sort of crash nor, to their knowledge, has anyone else. They simply feared them because they look dangerous and they don't understand how they work. That's the mindset of children though. It's reasonable to be cautious about new things, but rejecting them outright because of imagined dangers is neither rational nor beneficial.
Imagine what the world might be like if we'd built nuclear power plants in the 80s & 90s instead of perpetuating our dependance on oil. Of course there's no way of knowing for sure, but it seems likely that our environment would be cleaner, and maybe we'd even be less entangled in the mid-east.
Pepsi beats Coke
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California beats Florida (and Hawaii)
Right beats left
MIT > all
And apparently, the number of people who say tomato almost exactly matches the number who say tomato, although it varies slightly by city as seen in the chart at the bottom. http://www.google.com/trends?q=tomato%2C+tomato&c