a friend of mine during college did something like that for his senior engineering project. his team (composed of a few mech eng's, EE's, and some graphic design majors) basically hooked a camera to a kite and then did some processing on the images to generate some simple 3D imagery of the landscape.
if i find links i'll post 'em, but it's going back several years and the webpages have probably been purged.
it sounds like you have a good filing system already, but lack the discipline to stick to it. you'll probably find a large number of people who file by month, and a large number who file by account. I myself am sorta a both. I keep monthly bills by account, and keep store credit/debit card receipts by month.
pick a filing system you like and get yourself into the habit of sticking to it in January, and dont let teh papers keep piling up into june.
depending on the local code, the extension cords might only be restricted from running across the floor because that could be a tripping hazard. It might (again, might) be ok to string the cord up the wall, along the ceiling, and dropping down to the rack. Another option may be getting one of those long (several feet long) rubber covers that go over the cord and provide a small hump to walk over for people in the room. (like these - first hit on google)
i read an article on this earlier (dont remember if it was the one linked)
a spokesperson for Lindows says that the company was unaware of the suits filed by microsoft in Finland and Sweden. This means Lindows didnt have opportunity to defend themselves. IANAL, and certainly not one overseas, but who's job is it to inform a defendant of a lawsuit? The court? The plaintiff (MS in ths case)? or (remember this isnt the US) does MS simply have to make their argument for preliminary injunction without the judge being presented counter arguments?
that's me you're talking about. but what about the average joe (or parent buying christmas gifts) who just wants a mp3 player, and isnt aware of the differences between the various selections other than capacity? They're more likely to go the cheapest offering, and it's there where apple's is more likely to end up losing.
right now seems like a good chance for me to say thank you to all who provided useful comments and tips in the article posted earlier this week on the lack of discounts available for the Apple iPod.
alas, I still have not been able to find a decent deal. Many have pointed to apple's refurb'd items store, but it's out of stock on ipods. the best thing I've got right now is that Target will give you a $15 gift card when you buy an ipod.
my best hope is that some marketer at Apple will see the original post and the responses and perhaps have a change of heart in what seems to be their "no discounting" policy, and how the cheaper prices offered by their competitors might be beating them in the market.
Looking at the ToC on Amazon's page for this book, it says Stream Control Transmission Protocol, and is in the same chapter as TCP and UDP, implying it's a transport layer protocol. I've never heard of it. Anyone know of a decent tutorial page on it?
one thing mentioned in the article is Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who secretly sold secrets to the former Soviet GRU and KGB agencies, and the now Russian SVR agency. I forget the title and author, but there is a very good book I've read about the man's second life.
also mentioned is that no polygraph has ever caught a spy. I find that particularly interesting because one thing Hanssen did while an FBI agent in the counter-intelligence division (the dept responsible for catching spies, including himself) was recommend against the use of the polygraph as a screening device for new agents. Even so, Hansen appears to be the type of person a poly wouldnt catch anyway, since some psychologists believe he may be completely bi-polar given the long succcess (20+ years) he had in leading his double- (at one point triple) life.
take a trip to Deleware. You'll find that labeled price of an item matches what you pay for it. Strongly recommended for those big ticket consumer electronics items. My parents just bought a $600 snow blower in DE, and I'm thinking about headed down for an iPod with this 10% coupon off that came in the mail for BestBuy.
no, the correct answer was a merger between Wachovia and First Union, and retained the name Wachovia to represent the result.
I think one reason they decided on that name was because of the obvious acronym that developed over the name "First Union Center" - the arena for the Philadelphia Flyers and Sixers.
sounds like you might benefit from switching banks. they're fairly numerous and many (particularly the big nation-wide banks) have reasonable free services because of that competition. Yeah, my bank (First Union, now Wachovia) charges me a buck if I dont use their ATM, but they're branches are plentiful enough I usually dont have to worry about it. And I've never had any kind of error occur with them.
You know you're being given good service when you dont have to complain about it.
that we're all hobbyists and only do OSS in our spare time (the description often made in news articles).
Not necessarily the case, especially with the more major OSS products. Companies of various sizes have staff writing and contributing OSS code as their full-time job, and many university students also contribute as part of research projects. Even CmdrTaco could fall under the category of a small-company contributer for his work on Slashcode.
The hobbyist argument is often made in FUD from MS to try and say that "we have professionals working for us, who does OSS have?" We should answer with somehting like "Redhat, IBM, Sun, Novell,..." and so on.....
firstly, it was Netscape who coined the term JavaScript.
Second - Java is well recognized for application development and deployment within the corporate environment, the target audience of the JDS product. Thus, they're going for name recognition and are probably trying to distance themselves from the Solaris name.
they've done at least the second and third items you've listed. they also did the penny drop some weeks back. as for when you get wet more, i dont recall that one, though it may have been the week I missed since another poster listed it as one the myths they've tested. (for the results, wait for the re-runs or let some lamer spoil it for you)
the simple reason is that it gets tedious having to manually count all those ballots - it easily lends itself to human error, though this can be mitigated with multiple people counting, recounts to confirm the original count, etc.
IMO - any computerized voting must (under all circumstances) produce a paper receipt, but can still produce a vote count report at the end of the day. this way, if the machine crashes or there's power loss or some other fault, the lost votes can still be counted if they get dropped from the report. simply empty out the box of receipts and store them aside when a fault occurs and hold them until it's time to count them, and add them to that location's totals.
if there's an error like the one in this article (more votes than voters), the paper votes can confirm the actual tally. if there's uncertainty in the totals reported by the machine, the paper votes can be counted. if any other questions are raised - the paper votes can be counted. doesnt even require being open source or anything like that, if a paper receipt is made for each vote, integrity of the ballot will be acheived because the paper votes can still be counted.
If any voting company exec wants to show off the confidence he/she has in their equipment - they should challenge voting boards to take an SRS (simple random sample) of machines, and manually recount the votes to confirm the effectiveness of the machinery. If any discrepancies show up, the voting board will know what to do with the machines for next year's election.
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a friend of mine during college did something like that for his senior engineering project. his team (composed of a few mech eng's, EE's, and some graphic design majors) basically hooked a camera to a kite and then did some processing on the images to generate some simple 3D imagery of the landscape.
if i find links i'll post 'em, but it's going back several years and the webpages have probably been purged.
it sounds like you have a good filing system already, but lack the discipline to stick to it. you'll probably find a large number of people who file by month, and a large number who file by account. I myself am sorta a both. I keep monthly bills by account, and keep store credit/debit card receipts by month.
pick a filing system you like and get yourself into the habit of sticking to it in January, and dont let teh papers keep piling up into june.
depending on the local code, the extension cords might only be restricted from running across the floor because that could be a tripping hazard. It might (again, might) be ok to string the cord up the wall, along the ceiling, and dropping down to the rack. Another option may be getting one of those long (several feet long) rubber covers that go over the cord and provide a small hump to walk over for people in the room. (like these - first hit on google)
guess that means Osama is still on the list ;-)
And of course, I foresee thousands of emails going in for Duke Nukem Forever and Windows Security.
isnt that the only school in the country whose women's basketball team is more popular and beat the crap out of the men's team?
i read an article on this earlier (dont remember if it was the one linked)
a spokesperson for Lindows says that the company was unaware of the suits filed by microsoft in Finland and Sweden. This means Lindows didnt have opportunity to defend themselves. IANAL, and certainly not one overseas, but who's job is it to inform a defendant of a lawsuit? The court? The plaintiff (MS in ths case)? or (remember this isnt the US) does MS simply have to make their argument for preliminary injunction without the judge being presented counter arguments?
you must be psychic or something. I live/work in South Jersey and went to school near Penn.
Dumb question: Do you have to be a Penn student to purchase something at that particular store?
be sure you cite this thingamajig from Dave Barry's gift guide as prior art on that patent application
that's me you're talking about. but what about the average joe (or parent buying christmas gifts) who just wants a mp3 player, and isnt aware of the differences between the various selections other than capacity? They're more likely to go the cheapest offering, and it's there where apple's is more likely to end up losing.
right now seems like a good chance for me to say thank you to all who provided useful comments and tips in the article posted earlier this week on the lack of discounts available for the Apple iPod.
alas, I still have not been able to find a decent deal. Many have pointed to apple's refurb'd items store, but it's out of stock on ipods. the best thing I've got right now is that Target will give you a $15 gift card when you buy an ipod.
my best hope is that some marketer at Apple will see the original post and the responses and perhaps have a change of heart in what seems to be their "no discounting" policy, and how the cheaper prices offered by their competitors might be beating them in the market.
the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry
true, however, the more that pile of unclean clothes in the corner grows the more they start to stink up the joint.
Looking at the ToC on Amazon's page for this book, it says Stream Control Transmission Protocol, and is in the same chapter as TCP and UDP, implying it's a transport layer protocol. I've never heard of it. Anyone know of a decent tutorial page on it?
one thing mentioned in the article is Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who secretly sold secrets to the former Soviet GRU and KGB agencies, and the now Russian SVR agency. I forget the title and author, but there is a very good book I've read about the man's second life.
also mentioned is that no polygraph has ever caught a spy. I find that particularly interesting because one thing Hanssen did while an FBI agent in the counter-intelligence division (the dept responsible for catching spies, including himself) was recommend against the use of the polygraph as a screening device for new agents. Even so, Hansen appears to be the type of person a poly wouldnt catch anyway, since some psychologists believe he may be completely bi-polar given the long succcess (20+ years) he had in leading his double- (at one point triple) life.
you're right! He even got his name into it! The whole thing is, after all, based on Al-Gore-ithms. [sound of a million /.'ers groaning]
take a trip to Deleware. You'll find that labeled price of an item matches what you pay for it. Strongly recommended for those big ticket consumer electronics items. My parents just bought a $600 snow blower in DE, and I'm thinking about headed down for an iPod with this 10% coupon off that came in the mail for BestBuy.
no, the correct answer was a merger between Wachovia and First Union, and retained the name Wachovia to represent the result.
I think one reason they decided on that name was because of the obvious acronym that developed over the name "First Union Center" - the arena for the Philadelphia Flyers and Sixers.
sounds like you might benefit from switching banks. they're fairly numerous and many (particularly the big nation-wide banks) have reasonable free services because of that competition. Yeah, my bank (First Union, now Wachovia) charges me a buck if I dont use their ATM, but they're branches are plentiful enough I usually dont have to worry about it. And I've never had any kind of error occur with them.
You know you're being given good service when you dont have to complain about it.
that we're all hobbyists and only do OSS in our spare time (the description often made in news articles).
..." and so on.....
Not necessarily the case, especially with the more major OSS products. Companies of various sizes have staff writing and contributing OSS code as their full-time job, and many university students also contribute as part of research projects. Even CmdrTaco could fall under the category of a small-company contributer for his work on Slashcode.
The hobbyist argument is often made in FUD from MS to try and say that "we have professionals working for us, who does OSS have?" We should answer with somehting like "Redhat, IBM, Sun, Novell,
my ex-g/f liked to play GTA3.
firstly, it was Netscape who coined the term JavaScript.
Second - Java is well recognized for application development and deployment within the corporate environment, the target audience of the JDS product. Thus, they're going for name recognition and are probably trying to distance themselves from the Solaris name.
- booed Santa Claus (though he deserved it - if anyone wants the history I'll give it)
- ripped apart Connie Mack Stadium while the last game was still going on
- had a then-District-Attorney-now-PA-Governer dare someone into throwing snowballs at an Eagles game
- jumped Tie Domi in the penalty box
- gave JD Drew a bunch of D-cell batteries
Who'da thunk that hacking & spamming would join that list?of course it was a hardware failure: The box lost power. ;-)
they've done at least the second and third items you've listed. they also did the penny drop some weeks back. as for when you get wet more, i dont recall that one, though it may have been the week I missed since another poster listed it as one the myths they've tested. (for the results, wait for the re-runs or let some lamer spoil it for you)
eg - bike races are often on real city streets that are closed to normal traffic and pedestrians.
sometimes there are even NASCAR-style races. this is all the game appears to be. anyone know of examples of this?
the simple reason is that it gets tedious having to manually count all those ballots - it easily lends itself to human error, though this can be mitigated with multiple people counting, recounts to confirm the original count, etc.
IMO - any computerized voting must (under all circumstances) produce a paper receipt, but can still produce a vote count report at the end of the day. this way, if the machine crashes or there's power loss or some other fault, the lost votes can still be counted if they get dropped from the report. simply empty out the box of receipts and store them aside when a fault occurs and hold them until it's time to count them, and add them to that location's totals.
if there's an error like the one in this article (more votes than voters), the paper votes can confirm the actual tally. if there's uncertainty in the totals reported by the machine, the paper votes can be counted. if any other questions are raised - the paper votes can be counted. doesnt even require being open source or anything like that, if a paper receipt is made for each vote, integrity of the ballot will be acheived because the paper votes can still be counted.
If any voting company exec wants to show off the confidence he/she has in their equipment - they should challenge voting boards to take an SRS (simple random sample) of machines, and manually recount the votes to confirm the effectiveness of the machinery. If any discrepancies show up, the voting board will know what to do with the machines for next year's election.