That's quite believable - with some customer locations and applications, it costs more to ship out a CPU module, fly out a field engineer, put the system on standby, insert the CPU module, test the system, reinstate the system into active use, and certify everything is working than it does to have the CPU module installed in the system but logically disabled, and activated by password.
Have someone, anyone check for dupes. Is it really possible that none of the "Editors" at Slashdot read their own site?
A better solution would be to do a keyword search on any submitted article by keyword. It could simply show the most recent article submissions. Then ask the user if they still want to submit their scoop.
An R&D architect is a person employed to design new technology in order for a company to maintain their technological lead. He or she will have be knowledgeable with the state of the art in their field of expertise and be able to investigate, propose, design, investigate and evaluate new methods to be used by the companies products.
As a registered village idiot, you are required by the Mational Association of Village Idiots to attend at least two national national trade conferences and one international trade each year. Associate village idiots need only attend one national trade conference, and student village idiots need only take out a student membership which provides a free subscription to the conference proceedings. Exceptions to this rule are provided in extreme personal circumstances. The red-eye flights to the conference really mess up your body clock.
The goal is to create small, inexpensive, smart robotic radio relay nodes that dismounted warfighters drop as they deploy in urban settings. The nodes then self-configure and form a mesh network - a temporary infrastructure that establishes communications over the region. As the situation changes, the nodes will adapt the network, such as self-healing if nodes are destroyed by the enemy. Through movement and density, the LANdroids will enable effective communications in complex non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments like those found in urban settings - dealing with phenomena like fades and shadows through strategic self-placement and chaining of the relays. ... For both the software and robotic areas, the program will develop LANdroids for use in settings where the ground is relatively level and traversing complex terrain is not required. In general, warfighters will deploy LANdroids in urban areas they want covered with communications and the warfighters themselves will provide a large percentage of the basic locomotion, i.e., will carry the LANdroids to a general setting and drop them. LANdroids are a solution that combines both density and intelligent autonomous movement. Thus, in practice there will be conditions under which LANdroids are unable to navigate a given terrain in order to self-heal or otherwise make large adjustments in the network.
The illustrations present the LANdroid as a combination of a mobile phone (status indicating monochrome LCD), the chassis of a radio-controlled tank (treads) and a WiFi station (four antennae).
Given the cheap cost of CCD chips, they might as well stick a web-cam and microphone on each system to help in surveillance and gunshot triangulation.
That's funny - there's a Glaxo-Smithkline vending machine in our building which stocks "health drinks", the biotonic kind that are filled with Aspartame and E-numbers.
From this article it appears there was a real battle over the useability of the systems, and the district did try and get the machines sent back.
Former school board member Frank Calton said he remembers the deal with IBM being touted by Marks as a mutually beneficial partnership.
"This was submitted to us as kind of a joint venture where IBM could showcase computers as learning tools for students," Calton said. "It was supposed to have a PR angle for IBM."
When asked by the Times last week, the district could not track down invoices for the purchases, so it is unclear how many and what type of computers were ordered. But administrators agree the computers already were outdated when the district got them.
"I think they were out of date before (Marks) even decided to buy them," Basalto said. "Every one of them was obsolete; they were absolutely useless."
Where the computers ended up also is a mystery. Basalto recalls that some were installed in schools, but some sat in warehouses, possibly never turned on.
The district tried to return some of the computers, said Ruth Vedovelli, West Contra Costa school district's current finance chief. IBM refused to take them back, leading to a years-long fight that also included battles over the actual cost.
Negotiations often got ugly, with Fred Stewart, the state trustee appointed to oversee the district's finances after it went into debt in 1990, often getting into shouting matches with IBM representatives, says Herb Cole, Marks' successor.
"He said, 'We can't pay you, so if you want them, come and get them,'" Cole said, adding that Stewart threatened to put the computers on the curb. "He was tough as nails with them at the time."
Stewart, who recently retired as the state trustee, declined to comment.
In late 1993 -- four years after the district agreed to buy the computers -- the parties reached a settlement that called for deferring the first major payment until 2008. That was the year the district, under its previous loan structure, was scheduled to be finished paying back $28.5 million it owed the state.
Prices haven't changed than much since the 1980's. You could get an IBM AT system for around $4500, or an IBM XT system for $2500. That would give around around 1000 to 2500 PC's. That would have to be several truck deliveries. IBM should at least be able to say where they were delivered to. Did the administrators keep them for themselves, and never hand them out to the schools? Or did they just send them back?
More likely the delivery was received by the staff, and then immediately returned.
The office I worked in as a intern had the exact same problem. They made out an order for 50 IBM PC's for a training room. Instead, they received 50 IBM PS/2's that came in huge palette sized boxes of 25 each. These had to be dismantled inside the container before we could take them out. As soon as our boss found out what they were, they were immediately returned.
This article seems to suggest a similar thing happened.
Nobody seems to know how many or what type of computers Marks ordered, or even whether they ended up being used. Several former district officials called them "obsolete" and "useless."
Adding an extra heatsink is embarassing because Microsoft does not want to admit that they failed to test properly under atypical, but common, usage conditions.
Like being placed on a thick rug carpet in a basement den with the central heating turned on high, and being played non-stop for 48 hours by teenagers having a Christmas war game party?
That really sucks - moisture is a real danger when trying to preserve anything. Wasn't the time capsule buried in the Blue Peter gardens or something similar?
Our primary school were involved in a time-capsule project in the late 1970's. The capsule was built into the foundations of a brand new concrete council office block which was expected to last over 50 years. Thirty years later they are planning to demolish the "eyesore building" due to condensation problems with the concrete.
If people don't like something, they can turn it off, change the channel, or simply stop watching entirely. There's no reason the rest of us have to wear blinders and earplugs.
Or they can cancel their entire cable/satellite subscription if they are really fed up. 50,000 Telewest/NTL subscribers cancelled their subscription when Sky News and Sky One were pulled from the UK cable network after the network became rebranded Virgin.
Being able to subscribe to channels individually seems to be the best choice.
Totally agree on both points. For me, the downfall became obvious when the front cover artwork switched from hand-drawn to product photographs, then finally the pastel shaded abstract drawings.
The geekiest artwork was in late 1970's - the December 1977 issue had the entire crew of Star-Trek standing behind a guy reading an "Understanding Basic". At this time, every article was either hardware or software home brewing. Other issues at this time had Escher like artwork or something to with history and modern technology (like Newton being hit by an apple falling from a tree).
Even up to 1987, the front covers always had something creative like a butterfly chip. In several of these issues Steve Ciarcia describes how to build his own graphics card from off-the-shelf chips.
By 1989, the artwork had switched to product pictures rather than hand-drawn images. I guess this reflects the marketing decision to switch from home brewer/programmer to corporate/business customers looking to buy new systems. By then, every article was simply a product review or a university tour than any in-depth programming.
Climatologists studying hurricanes. There is a direct correlation between the level of surface sea temperature near the equator and the intensity of hurricanes. Warmer sea water will mean more intense hurricanes.
According to this article, Kodak have added four new clear cells to the existing four cell Bayer pattern. Somehow this resolves to a 4x4 repeat pattern.
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The Egyptian fermentation process for beer also happened to generate tetracycline, an antibiotic.
Good link here
That's quite believable - with some customer locations and applications, it costs more to ship out a CPU module, fly out a field engineer, put the system on standby, insert the CPU module, test the system, reinstate the system into active use, and certify everything is working than it does to have the CPU module installed in the system but logically disabled, and activated by password.
Have someone, anyone check for dupes. Is it really possible that none of the "Editors" at Slashdot read their own site?
A better solution would be to do a keyword search on any submitted article by keyword. It could simply show the most recent article submissions. Then ask the user if they still want to submit their scoop.
An R&D architect is a person employed to design new technology in order for a company to maintain their technological lead. He or she will have be knowledgeable with the state of the art in their field of expertise and be able to investigate, propose, design, investigate and evaluate new methods to be used by the companies products.
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As a registered village idiot, you are required by the Mational Association of Village Idiots to attend at least two national national trade conferences and one international trade each year. Associate village idiots need only attend one national trade conference, and student village idiots need only take out a student membership which provides a free
subscription to the conference proceedings. Exceptions to this rule are provided in extreme personal circumstances.
The red-eye flights to the conference really mess up your body clock.
My favourite Ryanair maneuver is powering up the engines while still turning to get onto the main runway.
Must save around 30 seconds on flight time.
you'll also have fairly intensive use of water.
You have a more or less closed system - the water can be recovered from the air conditioning/drainage.
i>One being that the interior of a city isn't the best place to get sunlight from
Light can be brought into the lower levels of a building using light pipes, or through arrangement of the buildings levels (London Gherkin)
If pot plants (the office kind) can grow in an office environment, crops shouldn't be too difficult.
Perhaps this is a UK thing, but plenty of city gardeners have been able to grow their own food using greenhouses and allotments.
From the PDF document (page 10)
...
The goal is to create small, inexpensive, smart robotic radio relay nodes that
dismounted warfighters drop as they deploy in urban settings. The nodes then self-configure and
form a mesh network - a temporary infrastructure that establishes communications over the
region. As the situation changes, the nodes will adapt the network, such as self-healing if nodes
are destroyed by the enemy. Through movement and density, the LANdroids will enable
effective communications in complex non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments like those found in
urban settings - dealing with phenomena like fades and shadows through strategic self-placement
and chaining of the relays.
For both the software and robotic areas, the program will develop LANdroids for use in settings
where the ground is relatively level and traversing complex terrain is not required. In general,
warfighters will deploy LANdroids in urban areas they want covered with communications and
the warfighters themselves will provide a large percentage of the basic locomotion, i.e., will carry
the LANdroids to a general setting and drop them. LANdroids are a solution that combines both
density and intelligent autonomous movement. Thus, in practice there will be conditions under
which LANdroids are unable to navigate a given terrain in order to self-heal or otherwise make
large adjustments in the network.
The illustrations present the LANdroid as a combination of a mobile phone (status indicating monochrome LCD), the chassis of a radio-controlled tank (treads) and a WiFi station (four antennae).
Given the cheap cost of CCD chips, they might as well stick a web-cam and microphone on each system to help in surveillance and gunshot triangulation.
Here's a BBC article - the time capsules were buried in the gardens.
That's funny - there's a Glaxo-Smithkline vending machine in our building which stocks "health drinks", the biotonic kind that are filled with Aspartame and E-numbers.
From this article it appears there was a real battle over the useability of the systems, and the district
did try and get the machines sent back.
Former school board member Frank Calton said he remembers the deal with IBM being touted by Marks as a mutually beneficial partnership.
"This was submitted to us as kind of a joint venture where IBM could showcase computers as learning tools for students," Calton said. "It was supposed to have a PR angle for IBM."
When asked by the Times last week, the district could not track down invoices for the purchases, so it is unclear how many and what type of computers were ordered. But administrators agree the computers already were outdated when the district got them.
"I think they were out of date before (Marks) even decided to buy them," Basalto said. "Every one of them was obsolete; they were absolutely useless."
Where the computers ended up also is a mystery. Basalto recalls that some were installed in schools, but some sat in warehouses, possibly never turned on.
The district tried to return some of the computers, said Ruth Vedovelli, West Contra Costa school district's current finance chief. IBM refused to take them back, leading to a years-long fight that also included battles over the actual cost.
Negotiations often got ugly, with Fred Stewart, the state trustee appointed to oversee the district's finances after it went into debt in 1990, often getting into shouting matches with IBM representatives, says Herb Cole, Marks' successor.
"He said, 'We can't pay you, so if you want them, come and get them,'" Cole said, adding that Stewart threatened to put the computers on the curb. "He was tough as nails with them at the time."
Stewart, who recently retired as the state trustee, declined to comment.
In late 1993 -- four years after the district agreed to buy the computers -- the parties reached a settlement that called for deferring the first major payment until 2008. That was the year the district, under its previous loan structure, was scheduled to be finished paying back $28.5 million it owed the state.
Prices haven't changed than much since the 1980's. You could get an IBM AT system for around $4500, or an IBM XT system for $2500. That would give around around 1000 to 2500 PC's. That would have to be several truck deliveries. IBM should at least be able to say where they were delivered to. Did the administrators keep them for themselves, and never hand them out to the schools? Or did they just send them back?
More likely the delivery was received by the staff, and then immediately returned.
The office I worked in as a intern had the exact same problem. They made out an order for 50 IBM PC's for a training room. Instead, they received 50 IBM PS/2's that came
in huge palette sized boxes of 25 each. These had to be dismantled inside the container before we could take them out. As soon as our boss found out what they were, they were immediately returned.
This article seems to suggest a similar thing happened.
Nobody seems to know how many or what type of computers Marks ordered, or even whether they ended up being used. Several former district officials called them "obsolete" and "useless."
Adding an extra heatsink is embarassing because Microsoft does not want to admit that they failed to test properly under atypical, but common, usage conditions.
Like being placed on a thick rug carpet in a basement den with the central heating turned on high, and being played non-stop for 48 hours by teenagers having a Christmas war game party?
Even if it cost 10 trillion dollars and took 4000 years to get there. Its more about our motivation than our ability.
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But it would take another 4000 years before we could collect the taxes.
That really sucks - moisture is a real danger when trying to preserve anything. Wasn't the time capsule buried in the Blue Peter gardens or something similar?
Our primary school were involved in a time-capsule project in the late 1970's. The capsule was built into the foundations of a brand new concrete council office block which was expected to last over 50 years. Thirty years later they are planning to demolish the "eyesore building" due to condensation problems with the concrete.
I always liked the term "Conscientious Objectors against the War on Illiteracy".
If people don't like something, they can turn it off, change the channel, or simply stop watching entirely. There's no reason the rest of us have to wear blinders and earplugs.
Or they can cancel their entire cable/satellite subscription if they are really fed up. 50,000 Telewest/NTL subscribers cancelled their subscription when Sky News and Sky One were pulled from the UK cable network after the network became rebranded Virgin.
Being able to subscribe to channels individually seems to be the best choice.
2. Particle Physics: By finding the Higgs boson we could kill Iraqis over great distances.
Or better still, we can suck out all the oil from under their feet and they won't ever notice.
They might work for the recreation paths and small residential streets, but as soon as you're on a four lane main road, not a chance.
Just look at google maps for somewhere like San Jose, then decide.
Totally agree on both points. For me, the downfall became obvious when the front cover artwork switched from hand-drawn to product photographs, then finally the pastel shaded abstract drawings.
The geekiest artwork was in late 1970's - the December 1977 issue had the entire crew of Star-Trek standing behind a guy reading an "Understanding Basic". At this
time, every article was either hardware or software home brewing. Other issues at this time had Escher like artwork or something to with history and modern technology (like Newton being hit by an apple falling from a tree).
Even up to 1987, the front covers always had something creative like a butterfly chip. In several of these issues Steve Ciarcia describes how to build his own graphics card from off-the-shelf chips.
By 1989, the artwork had switched to product pictures rather than hand-drawn images. I guess this reflects the marketing decision to switch from home brewer/programmer to corporate/business customers looking to buy new systems. By then, every article was simply a product review or a university tour than any in-depth programming.
Who is to say warmer won't be better?
Climatologists studying hurricanes. There is a direct correlation between the level of surface sea temperature near the equator and the intensity of hurricanes. Warmer sea water will mean more intense hurricanes.
Increase in Major Hurricanes Linked to Warmer Seas
Severe Hurricanes Increasing, Study Finds
Small increases in sea temperature, he added, can "exponentially provide more and more fuel for the hurricanes."
According to this article, Kodak have added four new clear cells to the existing four cell Bayer pattern. Somehow this resolves to a 4x4 repeat pattern.