We wouldn't need aeroplanes. Just make sure you are wearing your parachute, step on the correct conveyor belt for your destination, and let the laws governing projectile motion do the rest.
Google Maps, the other purchases, google weather and tracking.
Google maps (and Google Earth) would be much more useful if they had all the urban areas covered at the same resolution.
There's nothing worse that trying to find the location for an interview, or an apartment to rent, look at the satellite view, only to find a fuzzy collage of grey, black and green blobs.
I don't know about the USA, but if in the UK, if you are within a certain distance of the school (less than 2 miles) your kids are banned from using the school bus. So parents are effectively forced to drive their kids to school - yes, they could walk, but no-one has time to walk their kids to school, walk back and then drive to work.
The education boards are so insistent on this, that they even have inspectors who go out and measure the exact distance to the nearest metre.
But as others have pointed out, if you drop the thing both drives run the risk of getting damaged. This seems to be only a feature to protect against normal failures and not accidents or mishandling. that makes it somewhat less useful IMHO.
That could be fixed by having one of the drives stored in a cartridge type case that could be removed and placed in your pocket. My current backup solution consists of an external USB hard drive. I'd really like to get rid of that USB cable and just plug the second drive directly into the laptop. Maybe space could be found by moving the PCMCIA sockets and memorystick socket out of the way.
Because Murphy's Law predicts that things will always go wrong at the worst possible time.
If you have backups and keep them at the home/office then you will be screwed if you are away at a conference and your hard disk drive fails on the night before you have to make a Powerpoint presentation.
Having a RAID Level 1 architecture, gives you the chance to have two hard-disk drives with identical copies of the same information. At least if one fails, you still have the other.
Although, I would hope that both hard disk drives are kept away from each other within the laptop, as if one overheated, it could very well fry the other one.
I've seen the pictures, and going be the angle they were taken, would definitely assume they came from the CCTV cameras mounted above the doors.
I personally can't see what they have to cover up. The worst penalty the officer who fired the shots could get would be 3 years for manslaughter. The police made it far worse for themselves by constantly changing the story on a daily basis (and it keeps seeming to change - now they are blaming poor radio communications underground).
Being caught can lead to a fine of up to 5000 pounds ($10K US dollars) per bat. A recent court case.
We had bats in our attic too - they were getting in through the gaps in the eaves of the house. For several months, we had always wondered why our cats were going into the room and jumping about. It wasn't until I was sleeping in the room one night, and was woken up to hear a scraping noise above on the wall beside me. I switch on the light and.... there are three bats clinging to the wall and slowly climbing down towards me.....
But there is also the danger that you will lose those original copies should there be a fire - and many more will also be lost due to water damage. I'm not saying you shouldn't have those original copies, but you should have copies archived somewhere else.
Work began immediately to determine exactly how much stock had been destroyed. The following picture emerged:
* Books: around 5,750 books were lost. Some 400 items were on loan at the time of the fire and, over a period of several months, some 250 were returned. The remaining 150 were lost in the fire, having been in offices throughout the building
* Conference proceedings: some 1,400 UK and overseas items were destroyed
* Journals: there were 61 current subscriptions and 47 dead titles. Most of the journal holdings began in the 1980s, but several dated back to the 1970s. All were lost
* University of Edinburgh theses and dissertations: some 1,125 PhD theses, MSc dissertations and undergraduate dissertations were destroyed. Some PhD theses and unbound copies of MSc dissertations belonging to the school survived as they were shelved elsewhere in the building
* University of Edinburgh research reports: around 4,500 research reports were lost. As with the theses, they represented a significant loss of the intellectual output of the school over four decades. Some archival material from the school was retrieved from a store located away from the library itself
* Other research reports: around 28,000 items from some 100 universities and other research institutions around the world were lost. Around 1,500 reports were saved from an adjacent store.
Maybe because the police already had the Mr de Menezes restrained before they started shooting.
If the Police argue that was because they thought he had a bomb, why did they let him on a bus, let alone into the station?
I don't see why Sir Ian Blair should resign though - it really looks like the armed unit were trying to justify their actions and avoid prosecution. Especially considering how the security cameras in both the station and carriage seem not to have been working.
Canada is the same. There are special collection days where the city council will remove all large items like old sofas, beds and freezers. At this time, students (and some home owners) will go round looking for cheap bargains.
If you specialize only on bathroom installation/shower repairs, you can avoid the smelly work altogether, and only do the high profit work. But you must be familiar with all the different shower systems.
Had to call a plumber to fix my broken hot water boiler. He had the same air of authority as a senior hardware architect from the Bay Area, and charge the same rate: 20 pounds call out charge, 40 pounds time plus 40 pounds parts. Not bad for 30 minutes work.
The consultant surgeon failed to read the X-rays correctly, and never received the patients notes. Consequently, the hospital goes for an out of court no blame placed settlement, and puts in policies to make sure X-rays are labelled correctly in future.
There was once a lawsuit over a defective X-ray pictures - there were no markings to indicate which side was front or back, so the surgeons got the patients left and right sides mixed up.
Back in 1993/94, it was easy to read E-mail, ftp, telnet on a 20MHz 386 with a 14.4 baud modem. And if you had a decent VGA card, you could use Mosaic to surf the web.
Even now, that would still be possible. The real CPU-grinder are the latest video-codecs, which will stutter even on a four year old Pentium-III.
You mean a titanium iris that sits right at the event horizon of the stargate? Without the right codes, any unwanted spam is disintegrated across the galaxy.
Part of the cost is caused by the need to take out insurance in case of a malpractice lawsuit, and to carry out usability and safety tests. You don't want to have to liquidate the entire company simply because some technician left his coffee cup on a floppy disk which led to the contents of the disk to be corrupted, leading to a missed diagnosis, and ultimately leading to the untimely death of an octogenarian.
But a similar thing happened in Iraq. US Marines put together a water well inspection system out of a webcam, a torch, some rope and USB extension cables. Six months later a defence company comes out with the offical "military standard" version at around $100K per unit.
From the functions of the calculator I guess this would be advanced engineering/mathematics using differential equations, root finding and maybe topology?
Many schools and colleges have an official standard on the type of calculator allowed into an exam room. And this will be the same calculator recommended for classrooms.
Although I am puzzled why an exam board would allow any device with 180K of storage memory into an exam room.
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We wouldn't need aeroplanes. Just make sure you are wearing your parachute, step on the correct conveyor belt for your destination, and let the laws governing projectile motion do the rest.
You would still attend a medical office, but they would have backup communication lines (cable, satellite).
Google Maps, the other purchases, google weather and tracking.
Google maps (and Google Earth) would be much more useful if they had all the urban areas covered at the same resolution.
There's nothing worse that trying to find the location for an interview, or an apartment to rent, look at the satellite view, only to find a fuzzy collage of grey, black and green blobs.
Domesticated mammals living in captivity are known to live longer than those in the wild.
And humans living in basic conditions don't live as long as those with advanced medical care, even if they do have a healthy diet.
I don't know about the USA, but if in the UK, if you are within a certain distance of the school (less than 2 miles) your kids are banned from using the school bus. So parents are effectively forced to drive their kids to school - yes, they could walk, but no-one has time to walk their kids to school, walk back and then drive to work.
The education boards are so insistent on this, that they even have inspectors who go out and measure the exact distance to the nearest metre.
Not forgetting any precession that may be happening as well. Then there are going to be all sorts of interesting oscillation patterns.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a motorcyclist with a rucksack full of data tapes.
But as others have pointed out, if you drop the thing both drives run the risk of getting damaged. This seems to be only a feature to protect against normal failures and not accidents or mishandling. that makes it somewhat less useful IMHO.
That could be fixed by having one of the drives stored in a cartridge type case that could be removed and placed in your pocket. My current backup solution consists of an external USB hard drive.
I'd really like to get rid of that USB cable and just plug the second drive directly into the laptop. Maybe space could be found by moving the PCMCIA sockets and memorystick socket out of the way.
Because Murphy's Law predicts that things will always go wrong at the worst possible time.
If you have backups and keep them at the home/office then you will be screwed if you are away at a conference and your hard disk drive fails on the night before you have to make a Powerpoint presentation.
Having a RAID Level 1 architecture, gives you the chance to have two hard-disk drives with identical copies of the same information. At least if one fails, you still have the other.
Although, I would hope that both hard disk drives are kept away from each other within the laptop, as if one overheated, it could very well fry the other one.
I've seen the pictures, and going be the angle they were taken, would definitely assume they came from the CCTV cameras mounted above the doors.
I personally can't see what they have to cover up. The worst penalty the officer who fired the shots could get would be 3 years for manslaughter. The police made it far worse for themselves by constantly changing the story on a daily basis (and it keeps seeming to change - now they are blaming poor radio communications underground).
You are also lucky you are in Colorado.
.... there are three bats clinging to the wall and slowly climbing down towards me.....
In the UK and in some parts of Europe, it's illegal to injure, kill or otherwise disturb bats while they are breeding.
Being caught can lead to a fine of up to 5000 pounds ($10K US dollars) per bat. A recent court case.
We had bats in our attic too - they were getting in through the gaps in the eaves of the house. For several months, we had always wondered why our cats were going into the room and jumping about. It wasn't until I was sleeping in the room one night, and was woken up to hear a scraping noise above on the wall beside me. I switch on the light and
More like the UK - That's what caused the disruption to British Airways flights. The strike at Gate Gourmet was caused by the fact that part-time East European staff were being employed to do the work previously done by full-time Indian workers.
It costs some money to hire a pick-up and cart the items back to the basement flat or house.
But there is also the danger that you will lose those original copies should there be a fire - and many more will also be lost due to water damage.
I'm not saying you shouldn't have those original copies, but you should have copies archived somewhere else.
As a example, consider the loss of Edinburgh University's AI library due to a fire:
Work began immediately to determine exactly how much stock had been destroyed. The following picture emerged:
* Books: around 5,750 books were lost. Some 400 items were on loan at the time of the fire and, over a period of several months, some 250 were returned. The remaining 150 were lost in the fire, having been in offices throughout the building
* Conference proceedings: some 1,400 UK and overseas items were destroyed
* Journals: there were 61 current subscriptions and 47 dead titles. Most of the journal holdings began in the 1980s, but several dated back to the 1970s. All were lost
* University of Edinburgh theses and dissertations: some 1,125 PhD theses, MSc dissertations and undergraduate dissertations were destroyed. Some PhD theses and unbound copies of MSc dissertations belonging to the school survived as they were shelved elsewhere in the building
* University of Edinburgh research reports: around 4,500 research reports were lost. As with the theses, they represented a significant loss of the intellectual output of the school over four decades. Some archival material from the school was retrieved from a store located away from the library itself
* Other research reports: around 28,000 items from some 100 universities and other research institutions around the world were lost. Around 1,500 reports were saved from an adjacent store.
Maybe because the police already had the Mr de Menezes restrained before they started shooting.
If the Police argue that was because they thought he had a bomb, why did they let him on a bus, let alone into the station?
I don't see why Sir Ian Blair should resign though - it really looks like the armed unit were trying to justify their actions and avoid prosecution. Especially considering how the security cameras in both the station and carriage seem not to have been working.
Canada is the same. There are special collection days where the city council will remove all large items like old sofas, beds and freezers. At this time, students (and some home owners) will go round looking for cheap bargains.
If you specialize only on bathroom installation/shower repairs, you can avoid the smelly work altogether, and only do the high profit work. But you must be familiar with all the different shower systems.
Had to call a plumber to fix my broken hot water boiler. He had the same air of authority as a senior hardware architect from the Bay Area, and charge the same rate: 20 pounds call out charge, 40 pounds time plus 40 pounds parts.
Not bad for 30 minutes work.
The consultant surgeon failed to read the X-rays correctly, and never received the patients notes. Consequently, the hospital goes for an out of court no blame placed settlement, and puts in policies to make sure X-rays are labelled correctly in future.
There was once a lawsuit over a defective X-ray pictures - there were no markings to indicate which side was front or back, so the surgeons got the patients left and right sides mixed up.
Back in 1993/94, it was easy to read E-mail, ftp, telnet on a 20MHz 386 with a 14.4 baud modem. And if you had a decent VGA card, you could use Mosaic to surf the web.
Even now, that would still be possible. The real CPU-grinder are the latest video-codecs, which will stutter even on a four year old Pentium-III.
You mean a titanium iris that sits right at the event horizon of the stargate? Without the right codes, any unwanted spam is disintegrated across the galaxy.
Part of the cost is caused by the need to take out insurance in case of a malpractice lawsuit, and to carry out usability and safety tests. You don't want to have to liquidate the entire company simply because some technician left his coffee cup on a floppy disk which led to the contents of the disk to be corrupted, leading to a missed diagnosis, and ultimately leading to the untimely death of an octogenarian.
But a similar thing happened in Iraq. US Marines put together a water well inspection system out of a webcam, a torch, some rope and USB extension cables. Six months later a defence company comes out with the offical "military standard" version at around $100K per unit.
From the functions of the calculator I guess this would be advanced engineering/mathematics using differential equations, root finding and maybe topology?
Many schools and colleges have an official standard on the type of calculator allowed into an exam room. And this will be the same calculator recommended for classrooms.
Although I am puzzled why an exam board would allow any device with 180K of storage memory into an exam room.
Of course, the maximum size of the doors is about 5'6"....
Is that width or height?