Actually it's available to all the chartered Canadian banks. And the cost is $1.50 for any transfer up to $1000 (which is the 24 hour limit). It is FAR cheaper than Paypal or Google Checkout. 2% vs. 1% on any transfer over $150
Interesting. I don't suppose this includes Credit Unions, does it?
Where to find more information on this? What's it called? I used to have a roommate that paid his share of rent through a similar service, but it was $3-$5, iirc.
In Canada, you can send money through your bank accounts via email, as long as both of you have access to your bank's online banking. Unfortunately it's something not many people know about.
It's several dollars per transaction, and it's not offered by all banks. It's no replacement for Paypal et al.
perhaps you should learn from my personal experience.
Ah yes. "Don't hang around with people who have casual attitudes towards other people's property while you're tripping out of your mind on a collection of illicit substances." Got it.
This tends to support the notion suggested by a family member who did several years' time: Some guys in jail are innocent of their charges, but that sure don't mean they're innocent.
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So, what's the payback time on your PV system? (I'll assume that's PhotoVoltaic, or solar cells)
Soviet engineer Nourbey Gulia had been working on flywheel energy storage. His work resulted in many original solutions for wheel suspension, sealing the vacuum chamber, rotation rate decline compensator and hydraulic transmission. However, the primary advance was the composite flywheel capable of rotation rates exceeding 40,000 rpm, running for up to a week when not loaded, and resistant to explosive destruction. Gulia's "super flywheels" were tightly wound of metal or plastic tape. These had tensile strength higher than that of molded steel, and in the case of failure simply unwound inside the chamber, filling it and grinding to a stop. Gulia's first wheels were made of steel tape, but the latest models used Kevlar filament, wound not unlike a bobbin of thread.
I scanned through the article, but didn't see this mentioned:
What kind of power storage technology is used for the $10k "filing cabinet" model? How much capacity does it have? What's the round-trip efficiency?
If it uses batteries, what is the lifetime of the batteries? Many battery technologies have a severely limited charge-discharge cycle lifetime.
I answered some of my questions from Gridpoint's site: - Gridpoint sells these in 7kw and 10kw capacity - Price is between $9k and $19k MSRP. The 7kw model is likely the $9k model - The batteries are VRLA (Valve Regulated Lead Acid) - Rated capacity is 10 hours at 1kW AC Avg Load. That's 1000/120 ~= 8A load, about half of a single 15A household circuit. This unit isn't rated high enough to run a typical hair dryer.
I couldn't find details on what kind of lifetime to expect out of the batteries.
it seems it takes up a lot of CPU even if I'm only downloading one torrent
I noticed that resource utilization seems spiky, causing video playback to skip or freeze briefly. I think this is largely due to the buffering that Azureus does by default - waiting for a certain amount of data to be received before writing to disk, or reading ahead on files being sent.
I think this buffering is somewhat misguided. The operating system already does write caching and readahead, and can make more intelligent decisions on when to do so based on the running programs.
After disabling write caching and readahead in Azureus, the spiky resource utilization disappeared, and video playback is smooth once again.
It seems that the inverter dies more often than the CCFL, in my experience. I don't have a good way of figuring out which it is, though I'd imagine a voltmeter would be helpful.
CPUs already operate this way. Modern processors are superscalar and have multiple execution units that specialize in different operations. The CPU also performs elaborate tricks to keep as many of these units busy at a time, like instruction reordering and register aliasing.
However, each process has a great deal of context associated with it, and switching between these contexts is an expensive operation. Multi-core CPUs can handle the same number of processes with less context switching.
Instructions in a single process usually depend on each other, making it difficult to schedule them across multiple execution units. Instructions are usually independant between processes, so multiple cores means more fully utilized execution units.
Analogue equipment can never fully 100% represent an analogue curve either. I think that's what the original poster was trying to get at.
Barring the case, of course, where you're recording with analogue equipment that introduces no noise and no bias into the signal, and recording onto a medium that has infinite dynamic range. If you've got one of these setups, you probably also have a digital recorder with an infinite sampling rate.
Very similar specs to the Compaq TC1100. Similar price as well, once you add the keyboard, which can snap on and make it stand more like a regular laptop.
I like the idea of a removeable keyboard for a tablet. It just adds weight that you don't use very often.
Incidentally, the discontinued Compaq TC1000 used a Transmeta Crusoe processor as well. Wonder why they switched..
I clicked "Check Now" in the Software Update section using Firefox 1.0.6, and no update was shown. The Firefox box was checked. Anyone else seeing this, or is this just a proxy issue?
This was well over a day after the release of 1.0.7. What URL is used to check for updates, and do they have appropriate options set on server to prevent long caching?
If I had mod points today, I'd probably mod the parent up, as it is at least a good point for discussion to start.
Metamoderation would correct that. It's an old, tired discussion attended only by neophytes with more fire than sense, proposing solutions that are unworkable and/or ineffective, or lead to worse problems than the one it solves.
For instance, active ISP monitoring:
Increases ISP cost
Increases ISP liability
Zombie identification difficult as zombies evolve and authors intentionally obscure activity.
Sets a precedence for increased monitoring by ISP
And it doesn't even fix the problem, as zombie writers just have to write around the filters.
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I don't see it. How is selling advertising space similar to the challenges of Linux in a Windows world?
Seems like that was just thrown in as a hook.
I'm sure someone has pointed it out by now, but stenography (shorthand) is not the same as steganography.
The mistake is apparently common enough that the first line of the wikipedia entry for steganography says, "Not to be confused with stenography".
Know what a swedish lightsaber sounds like?
Björnnnn!
Interesting. I don't suppose this includes Credit Unions, does it?
Where to find more information on this? What's it called? I used to have a roommate that paid his share of rent through a similar service, but it was $3-$5, iirc.
It's several dollars per transaction, and it's not offered by all banks. It's no replacement for Paypal et al.
Works fine here with the local cable company, though it takes several hops to get to it.
It's a virtual network, so as long as one provider advertises it you should be able to use it almost anywhere.
Both of the designs draw too much attention to the styling elements. This is to be expected for a design contest, I suppose.
However, the site elements should blend into the background. The focus should be on the articles, not the curved-and-gradiated superheaders.
Ah yes. "Don't hang around with people who have casual attitudes towards other people's property while you're tripping out of your mind on a collection of illicit substances." Got it.
This tends to support the notion suggested by a family member who did several years' time: Some guys in jail are innocent of their charges, but that sure don't mean they're innocent.
So, what's the payback time on your PV system? (I'll assume that's PhotoVoltaic, or solar cells)
Someone's covered that. From Wikipedia's Flywheel energy storage article:
I scanned through the article, but didn't see this mentioned:
What kind of power storage technology is used for the $10k "filing cabinet" model? How much capacity does it have? What's the round-trip efficiency?
If it uses batteries, what is the lifetime of the batteries? Many battery technologies have a severely limited charge-discharge cycle lifetime.
I answered some of my questions from Gridpoint's site:
- Gridpoint sells these in 7kw and 10kw capacity
- Price is between $9k and $19k MSRP. The 7kw model is likely the $9k model
- The batteries are VRLA (Valve Regulated Lead Acid)
- Rated capacity is 10 hours at 1kW AC Avg Load. That's 1000/120 ~= 8A load, about half of a single 15A household circuit. This unit isn't rated high enough to run a typical hair dryer.
I couldn't find details on what kind of lifetime to expect out of the batteries.
Heh, Jan 2005 is a little bit more than a month ago ;)
I was curious, so I checked it out.
There is no Kevin Dahm at #323. The general manager who's there has had the position since September 2005.
You making this up, or did you typo?
it seems it takes up a lot of CPU even if I'm only downloading one torrent
I noticed that resource utilization seems spiky, causing video playback to skip or freeze briefly. I think this is largely due to the buffering that Azureus does by default - waiting for a certain amount of data to be received before writing to disk, or reading ahead on files being sent.
I think this buffering is somewhat misguided. The operating system already does write caching and readahead, and can make more intelligent decisions on when to do so based on the running programs.
After disabling write caching and readahead in Azureus, the spiky resource utilization disappeared, and video playback is smooth once again.
They do it to sell more ad impressions. Each time you go to the next page you load a new ad.
It seems that the inverter dies more often than the CCFL, in my experience. I don't have a good way of figuring out which it is, though I'd imagine a voltmeter would be helpful.
CPUs already operate this way. Modern processors are superscalar and have multiple execution units that specialize in different operations. The CPU also performs elaborate tricks to keep as many of these units busy at a time, like instruction reordering and register aliasing.
However, each process has a great deal of context associated with it, and switching between these contexts is an expensive operation. Multi-core CPUs can handle the same number of processes with less context switching.
Instructions in a single process usually depend on each other, making it difficult to schedule them across multiple execution units. Instructions are usually independant between processes, so multiple cores means more fully utilized execution units.
Hope that helps.
but may be a step in the right direction.
And which direction would that be?
Analogue equipment can never fully 100% represent an analogue curve either. I think that's what the original poster was trying to get at.
Barring the case, of course, where you're recording with analogue equipment that introduces no noise and no bias into the signal, and recording onto a medium that has infinite dynamic range. If you've got one of these setups, you probably also have a digital recorder with an infinite sampling rate.
I like the idea of a removeable keyboard for a tablet. It just adds weight that you don't use very often.
Incidentally, the discontinued Compaq TC1000 used a Transmeta Crusoe processor as well. Wonder why they switched..
Some networks don't allow requests to nonstandard ports like 8090 that Coral Cache uses.
I clicked "Check Now" in the Software Update section using Firefox 1.0.6, and no update was shown. The Firefox box was checked. Anyone else seeing this, or is this just a proxy issue?
This was well over a day after the release of 1.0.7. What URL is used to check for updates, and do they have appropriate options set on server to prevent long caching?
Metamoderation would correct that. It's an old, tired discussion attended only by neophytes with more fire than sense, proposing solutions that are unworkable and/or ineffective, or lead to worse problems than the one it solves.
For instance, active ISP monitoring:
And it doesn't even fix the problem, as zombie writers just have to write around the filters.
Your idea needs further thought.
They'll start with a brute-force of the passphrase. Many people choose foolishly short passphrases.
Then comes the rubber hose. Basically, they just beat the key out of you.
Forget the cryptanalysis stuff. That takes too long, and unless the subject is dead or it has to be covert, this is much faster.
Uunless the size of the "DNA" is larger than the size of the information being hashed, there will always be duplicates in the hash space.
Basic information theory. Nothing to do with file formats, transfer protocols, or endianness.