There's Union College as well right in nearby schenectady. I just recieved my MSEE from Union and there appears to be more entry level EE positions in the Albany region then even on Long Island where I grew up.
I'm splitting an apartment in one of the nicer areas of schenectady with two other friends. It's small but $150 a month rent ($450 split 3 ways) is an incredible way to pay back sizable school debt.
I was planning on moving out to CA in a few years just for the heck of it, but if this whole thing pans out I may have to reconsider.
It always appeared to me that Nandrake/Suse was most strongly targeted at the desktop, while redhat maintained the most alignment with the server market.
A serious comitment by Mandrake/Suse to the server market my be pulling mandrake in too many directions at once.
-Chris
Re:Yeah, we think highly of foreigners here.
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does that mean that the value of each bill can vary anywhere between 5 to 20% ?:-)
-Chris
The Most Successfully Counterfeited in the World
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I mean you think they would be embarassed to be the most successfully counterfeited currency in the world.
Given...The US is behind compared to other countries in counterfeiting measures. However is it merely coincidence that American currency is also one of the strongest and most universaly accepted in the world?
Think about it...let's assume for a momment that it was equaly easy to counterfiet all currency....would you be printing up pesos, francs, or US dollars?
There's a good chance that even with improved anti-counterfeiting measures, US currency would remain the most successfully counterfeited in the world simply due to it's liquidity.
I do know that I blacked out for a few seconds while riding Nitro in Six Flags / New Jersey. It was right at the top of a peak and I imagine the coaster was pulling some serious negative G's.
Anyway...I remember my vision starting to darken and then go black....and returning a few seconds later. I'm a young adult, in fairly good shape and could see how this could become a serious problem for other riders.
Remember....think back to early Coney Island when there were very few safety regulations, and injury was more the norm then the exception.
Technicaly the technique being employed is considered a form of non-robust watermarking, rather then steganography.
Steganographic techniques embed covert information in a an object or "stego-cover". Typicaly the information is highly encrypted and neither visualy or satisticly alters the image.
The technique described here falls more under the catagory of watermarking, principaly the application of tamper-detection. Tamper-detection watermarks such as this are designed to be as fragile as possible, such that any alteration destorys the watermark. This family of watermarks thus ensure that the content has not been altered since original distribution.
Looking over the statistics at boxofficemojo.com, i've made an interesting observation.
To begin, the unadjusted statistics are meaningless. It's like looking at the price of a 1910 hotdog and concluding that the cost of lips and a$$holes has increased.
Looking over the adjusted all-time records boxofficemojo.com, things look a bit more sensible. I have no doubt that these movies represent the most popular movies of all time (about half are even on the AFI top-100).
However, if we compare this to the adjusted all-time opening weekened statistics boxofficemojo.com , we see that Not One of the top 100 was more recent then 1989.
What this indicates to me, is that over the course of the last two decades, hollywood has shifted it's advertising dollar from a constant support of a released movie, to an all-out blitz opening weekends. Why?
Say....god forbid....a small country secures themselves enough weapons grade plutonium to build a nuclear device and detonates it in a city. Should all city buildings be nuclear-proofed? Should all buildings for that matter?
What I think some people fail to understand is that some events...despite any amount of planning, can not be prevented.
-Chris
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Yeah, but a 5V motor would draw MORE current, wouldn't it?
This is because the motors being currently used in hard drives pull a few amps at spinup time, and the wire guage used for signalling cannot possibly carry this much current. There is a thought that once the market is serial ATA native, the HD manufacturers will then standardize on a 5V, low current motor instead of the current 12V beasts
I'd wager that most hard drive failures are caused by either in adequate cooling, or poor quality power supplies. I've come across a fair number of machines that were regularly getting bad clusters, and occasionaly weird noises. Replacing the power supply with a pcpower&cooling, or at the worst an antec tended to make both of these problems go away.
On a side note, although the enermax power supplies are all the rage right now, they're NOT good power supplies. Hardware review's for powersupplies mostly read like "Wow, looks cool...fan spins....and look, it's got a gold grille cover!" I've yet to see a power supply review break out a multimeter and scope and look at the supply lines under load.
A few informal tests by forum members over at www.storagereview.com have revealed that the line regulation and actual loaded power output of the enermax supplies are aweful. You're far better off with a sparkle, antec or PCP&C if you can afford it.
I've never understood hardware fanatics that spend uber cash on a dual cpu rigs and lots of hardrives, and then slap in the first power supply they can get their hands on. A power supply is NOT like a case; It's a critical part of reliable system design.
In the case of the 75GXP, i have no doubt that the original had a serious design flaw. I do think however that once news of the 75GXP's problems because widespread, ANY IBM drive failure was then lumped along with it. The fact of the matter is that i've heard of ten-times more 75GXP failures then 60GXP failures (based on percentage of sales), however people seem to lump the 60GXP's along with the 75GXP whenever they talk about drive reliability.
Lastly, www.storagereview.com DID have a drive reliability survey in operation until a slight SQL mishap...well...we don't like to talk about that. There has however been talk of starting it back up again.
-Chris
Slashdot Mirror
I just removed a pound of "cruft" from my air filters earlier today...
-Chris
There's Union College as well right in nearby schenectady. I just recieved my MSEE from Union and there appears to be more entry level EE positions in the Albany region then even on Long Island where I grew up.
I'm splitting an apartment in one of the nicer areas of schenectady with two other friends. It's small but $150 a month rent ($450 split 3 ways) is an incredible way to pay back sizable school debt.
I was planning on moving out to CA in a few years just for the heck of it, but if this whole thing pans out I may have to reconsider.
-Chris
-Chris
go figure, I post the link
http://www.cooperet.com/products_supercapacitors.a sp
and slashcode splits up the 'a' and the 'sp'. Damn open source hippies.
-Chris
Have folks seen these yet?
http://www.cooperet.com/products_supercapacitors.a sp
Very interesting for low voltage applications. Wicked high capacitance ratings at very, very low ESR.
-Chris
It always appeared to me that Nandrake/Suse was most strongly targeted at the desktop, while redhat maintained the most alignment with the server market.
A serious comitment by Mandrake/Suse to the server market my be pulling mandrake in too many directions at once.
-Chris
does that mean that the value of each bill can vary anywhere between 5 to 20% ?
-Chris
Given...The US is behind compared to other countries in counterfeiting measures. However is it merely coincidence that American currency is also one of the strongest and most universaly accepted in the world?
Think about it...let's assume for a momment that it was equaly easy to counterfiet all currency....would you be printing up pesos, francs, or US dollars?
There's a good chance that even with improved anti-counterfeiting measures, US currency would remain the most successfully counterfeited in the world simply due to it's liquidity.
-Chris
SimEarth XP
System Requirements:
40Tflop 5120 Processor Cluster
10TB of System Memory
256 Color Display
4X Cdrom Drive
Arctic Rated Parka
"Sales thus far have been slow..." confessed Wright, "...however we're expecting at least one large customer in the coming months."
-Chris
Yeah but i thought only pirates bought computers without windows? :-)
"BUT I don't see it happening. Not without an act of God."
In other news, an army of locusts rained down on Redmond today before being swallowed up in a sea of fire and brimstone.
Hey...you never know :-)
-Chris
It's absolutely true; I find any new pricing scheme that charges heavy users without rewarding light users to be highly suspect.
My question is; would they continue to advertise the connection as unlimited?
-Chris
I do know that I blacked out for a few seconds while riding Nitro in Six Flags / New Jersey. It was right at the top of a peak and I imagine the coaster was pulling some serious negative G's.
Anyway...I remember my vision starting to darken and then go black....and returning a few seconds later. I'm a young adult, in fairly good shape and could see how this could become a serious problem for other riders.
Remember....think back to early Coney Island when there were very few safety regulations, and injury was more the norm then the exception.
-Chris
"The Lone Gunman Are Dead"
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"The Lone Gunmen Aren't Dead"
Gee people....if yer gonna spoil episodes, at least get your facts straight. :-)
Technicaly the technique being employed is considered a form of non-robust watermarking, rather then steganography.
Steganographic techniques embed covert information in a an object or "stego-cover". Typicaly the information is highly encrypted and neither visualy or satisticly alters the image.
The technique described here falls more under the catagory of watermarking, principaly the application of tamper-detection. Tamper-detection watermarks such as this are designed to be as fragile as possible, such that any alteration destorys the watermark. This family of watermarks thus ensure that the content has not been altered since original distribution.
-Chris
How about MATLAB?
$99 buys you the base linux version...and $159 buys you the base version along with the most useful toolboxes.
Looking over the statistics at boxofficemojo.com, i've made an interesting observation.
To begin, the unadjusted statistics are meaningless. It's like looking at the price of a 1910 hotdog and concluding that the cost of lips and a$$holes has increased.
Looking over the adjusted all-time records boxofficemojo.com, things look a bit more sensible. I have no doubt that these movies represent the most popular movies of all time (about half are even on the AFI top-100).
However, if we compare this to the adjusted all-time opening weekened statistics boxofficemojo.com , we see that Not One of the top 100 was more recent then 1989.
What this indicates to me, is that over the course of the last two decades, hollywood has shifted it's advertising dollar from a constant support of a released movie, to an all-out blitz opening weekends. Why?
The VCR perhaps?
-Chris
http://www.vu.union.edu/about.html
Our version allowed you to waste time, mis-appropriate Student Activities funds, and decide if you should revoke accounts for warez hosting.
Hardware requirements are minimal, but the renewal fee is quite high (34+ K/year.)
-Chris
This works for the same reason that raised decks don't crash down...the post holes are usualy dug 3-4 feet deep and filled with concrete.
At the speeds this monorail moves i'd imagine that 95% of the load is vertical....which the posts should't have any problem with at all.
-Chris
Say....god forbid....a small country secures themselves enough weapons grade plutonium to build a nuclear device and detonates it in a city. Should all city buildings be nuclear-proofed? Should all buildings for that matter?
What I think some people fail to understand is that some events...despite any amount of planning, can not be prevented.
-Chris
Yeah, but a 5V motor would draw MORE current, wouldn't it?
I'd wager that most hard drive failures are caused by either in adequate cooling, or poor quality power supplies. I've come across a fair number of machines that were regularly getting bad clusters, and occasionaly weird noises. Replacing the power supply with a pcpower&cooling, or at the worst an antec tended to make both of these problems go away.
On a side note, although the enermax power supplies are all the rage right now, they're NOT good power supplies. Hardware review's for powersupplies mostly read like "Wow, looks cool...fan spins....and look, it's got a gold grille cover!" I've yet to see a power supply review break out a multimeter and scope and look at the supply lines under load.
A few informal tests by forum members over at www.storagereview.com have revealed that the line regulation and actual loaded power output of the enermax supplies are aweful. You're far better off with a sparkle, antec or PCP&C if you can afford it.
I've never understood hardware fanatics that spend uber cash on a dual cpu rigs and lots of hardrives, and then slap in the first power supply they can get their hands on. A power supply is NOT like a case; It's a critical part of reliable system design.
In the case of the 75GXP, i have no doubt that the original had a serious design flaw. I do think however that once news of the 75GXP's problems because widespread, ANY IBM drive failure was then lumped along with it. The fact of the matter is that i've heard of ten-times more 75GXP failures then 60GXP failures (based on percentage of sales), however people seem to lump the 60GXP's along with the 75GXP whenever they talk about drive reliability.
Lastly, www.storagereview.com DID have a drive reliability survey in operation until a slight SQL mishap...well...we don't like to talk about that. There has however been talk of starting it back up again. -Chris
uh.....3 years.
PS - IBM Scsr drives have a ::5:: year warranty.
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