I had a debt collection agency come after our business for $100 unpaid cell phone bill. It was from a lone disused cell phone where we had either never received the invoice or admin had misplaced it. I said no problems, just give me a copy of the invoice and we'll pay up. They said. Can't do that. To cut a long story short, the phone company sells anything past due date to a collection agency BUT doesn't bother to give them the supporting documentation. How retarded is that!
We are about to embark on designing a similar product. Essentially we want a gateway that can select from either a Cell Phone embeded data modem such as the Telit HE910, or local WiFi, then provide an internal data link via USB or Ethernet to our device and some remote connectivity for setup via Bluetooth. We need good power management, and the ability to add local peripherals (such as a keypad, status LEDs, etc) OpenWRT looks like the right foundation, but which chipset to select is more difficult. Any suggestions from hardware devs out there?
Australia has a minimum wage of around $20/hr and we are a very prosperous country. Higher wages just take profits from the mega corps and give it to the working poor who , shock horror, spend it, and create more wealth!
You know you yanks looked incredibly brain washed from out the US of A. A gun is a tool that allows quick any easy DEATH. Such tools should be highly regulated.
. What a person does with their own body is not the government's business.
Well it does matter in the rest of the developed world that has socialised health care systems.
For example. Smoking in Australia, although not banned, is now incredibly invonvenient. The goverment banned all advertising; smoking in workplaces, all public enclosed spaces, outdoor eating places, street malls; jacked the price up to $20 a packet; hid the packets under counters; removed all branding from the packets themselves. Why? because the government (ie the tax payer, ie me) bears the burden of providing their health care. The same can be argued for huge serviving of HFCS drinks.
The trick is striking a balance between restricting an activity that reduces your lifespan and costs society $$ vs the individuals freedom.
I'm suprised it took this far down the comments for such a basic mistake to be corrected. For clarity these are correct ways to refer to power produced.
20GWh was produced over a one hour period. The solar output peaked at 20GW.
Energy is measured in joules which is watts x seconds. Power is measured in Watts which is volts x amps. (yes there are other definitions, but this is in context)
Maybe adoption of ipv6 is slow because it is so damn complicated. Why did they have to make the number more than atoms of the universe when they could have just turned the ipv4 from 8 to 16 bits. Like abcd:1234:cdef:9876
This is the backup system i eventually settled on. First line of defence is is raid 6 running on ssd's on our hyper v server. Second is altaro backup backing up our vm's to a nas drive running raid6 Third is shadow protect which runs on the domain/file server, to provide long term historical backups. The altaro backups are copied to an offsite drive once per week.
We are against it because it can't grow or shink with the econmoic value it represents. There will only ever be about double the bitcoins available as there are now. If the world switched to bit coins now, their value would have to hyperinflate creating economic carnage. Those of us that can see that want to warn the rest not to participate. Bit coins are technologically clever but economically dumb.
I've been watching some documentaries lately, along the lines of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead & Food Matters (both worth watching). The common theme (which I have heard for many years now) is to eat raw and stay away from processed foods: the reason being; most chronic disease is caused by the lack of avaiable micronutients. You may be getting energy from processed foods, but all the complex biomechanics for healty cell life is being starved, causing heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, etc etc. From your experience with food around the world, what do you think is the optimum daily diet.
Except Chrome ditched side tabs 2 years ago. I'm not sure how anyone uses 16:9 screens without moving tabs bars for whatever software they can, to the side. In FF this the treeview addin. In windows, unlock and move the start bar to the side.
Seriously. is there something wrong with your eyes?. The retina screen is the best thing to happen to the computing industry in the last 10 years. Retina products are sooo much nicer to use and is easily a reason to upgrade to at least an ipad 3.
Great suggestions ludwig. I've also found golf attracts anal retentives, making a round a chore rather than some fun. Not much you can do about them though.
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Not sure where you got $6k from.
We have a Yamaha & Juki machines and they cost between $60k and $120k new + feeders.
For $6k you get somthing more like this.
http://www.alibaba.com/product...
I had a debt collection agency come after our business for $100 unpaid cell phone bill.
It was from a lone disused cell phone where we had either never received the invoice or admin had misplaced it.
I said no problems, just give me a copy of the invoice and we'll pay up.
They said. Can't do that.
To cut a long story short, the phone company sells anything past due date to a collection agency BUT doesn't bother to give them the supporting documentation.
How retarded is that!
We are about to embark on designing a similar product. Essentially we want a gateway that can select from either a Cell Phone embeded data modem such as the Telit HE910, or local WiFi, then provide an internal data link via USB or Ethernet to our device and some remote connectivity for setup via Bluetooth.
We need good power management, and the ability to add local peripherals (such as a keypad, status LEDs, etc)
OpenWRT looks like the right foundation, but which chipset to select is more difficult.
Any suggestions from hardware devs out there?
Australia has a minimum wage of around $20/hr and we are a very prosperous country.
Higher wages just take profits from the mega corps and give it to the working poor who , shock horror, spend it, and create more wealth!
Damn. Wish there was a once year mod point for +6.
You know you yanks looked incredibly brain washed from out the US of A.
A gun is a tool that allows quick any easy DEATH. Such tools should be highly regulated.
. What a person does with their own body is not the government's business.
Well it does matter in the rest of the developed world that has socialised health care systems.
For example. Smoking in Australia, although not banned, is now incredibly invonvenient. The goverment banned all advertising; smoking in workplaces, all public enclosed spaces, outdoor eating places, street malls; jacked the price up to $20 a packet; hid the packets under counters; removed all branding from the packets themselves. Why? because the government (ie the tax payer, ie me) bears the burden of providing their health care. The same can be argued for huge serviving of HFCS drinks.
The trick is striking a balance between restricting an activity that reduces your lifespan and costs society $$ vs the individuals freedom.
I'm suprised it took this far down the comments for such a basic mistake to be corrected.
For clarity these are correct ways to refer to power produced.
20GWh was produced over a one hour period.
The solar output peaked at 20GW.
Energy is measured in joules which is watts x seconds.
Power is measured in Watts which is volts x amps.
(yes there are other definitions, but this is in context)
Maybe adoption of ipv6 is slow because it is so damn complicated.
Why did they have to make the number more than atoms of the universe when they could have just turned the ipv4 from 8 to 16 bits.
Like abcd:1234:cdef:9876
You could always move to Australia, where I can stream Netflix in HD even though Netflix doesn't even serve Australia!
Bzzzt.
Evolution is the creation of new information through genetic mutation.
Natural selection is the killing off of non optimal life forms.
Fruit flies?
http://www.icr.org/article/a-1...
I beleive in natural selection, but not evolution.
Wow!
If I was in my early 20's, I'd probabbly think I was 'leet'
Now in my mid 40's, I'd probabbly fire whomever wrote it.
American Date Format :DIE Already!!!!!!!!!!! .....[shhh the nsa is listening]
American Imperial Units: DIE Already!!!!!!!!!!
American Imperialism :
Been waiting for that 5 years now...
http://forums.informaction.com...
And the three years since some dude called 'glen' took out side tabs; which is why I went back to firefox (treestyle tabs ftw)
Fourth unhappy one? you're not making mistakes, you have a problem
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to love
What's love got to do with it?
It's a second hand emotion.
This is the backup system i eventually settled on.
First line of defence is is raid 6 running on ssd's on our hyper v server.
Second is altaro backup backing up our vm's to a nas drive running raid6
Third is shadow protect which runs on the domain/file server, to provide long term historical backups.
The altaro backups are copied to an offsite drive once per week.
Posting to undo incorrect moderation. (Was trying to mod you up not down)
We are against it because it can't grow or shink with the econmoic value it represents.
There will only ever be about double the bitcoins available as there are now. If the world switched to bit coins now, their value would have to hyperinflate creating economic carnage. Those of us that can see that want to warn the rest not to participate.
Bit coins are technologically clever but economically dumb.
No, dollars are backed by a stable government and the GDP of the USA. Bitcoin is backed by nothing.
Yes, funny: but the true value of a currency is it is the only currency the taxation office takes.
I've been watching some documentaries lately, along the lines of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead & Food Matters (both worth watching).
The common theme (which I have heard for many years now) is to eat raw and stay away from processed foods: the reason being; most chronic disease is caused by the lack of avaiable micronutients. You may be getting energy from processed foods, but all the complex biomechanics for healty cell life is being starved, causing heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, etc etc.
From your experience with food around the world, what do you think is the optimum daily diet.
Except Chrome ditched side tabs 2 years ago. I'm not sure how anyone uses 16:9 screens without moving tabs bars for whatever software they can, to the side. In FF this the treeview addin. In windows, unlock and move the start bar to the side.
Seriously. is there something wrong with your eyes?. The retina screen is the best thing to happen to the computing industry in the last 10 years. Retina products are sooo much nicer to use and is easily a reason to upgrade to at least an ipad 3.
There's going to be lots of crying babies!
Great suggestions ludwig.
I've also found golf attracts anal retentives, making a round a chore rather than some fun. Not much you can do about them though.