Very funny, but as an aside, people choosing VHS over Betamax did make sense (at least at the time). Sony would not licence the Betamax technology to any other company. JVC on the otherhand freely licensed VHS to anyone who wanted to make a player/recorder. We all know from our economics class that high supply against low demand generally results in a lower price. So consumers gobbled up the VHS players, and BetaMax players were left to those who would spend the money for the better quality. Intel learned that lesson and worked with AMD to put Cyrix out of business. Sony didn't learn it's own lesson, and MiniDiscs enjoyed little marketshare over a regular CD player.
Kirk: Scotty... have you... gotten... the Diamond... Nitrogen... crystals, re... crystalized?
Scotty: We've put them in Mr. Spock's boot-crack. He's giving it all he's got.
Spock: Mmmmm. Pure energy.
When this is all said and done, and there will be no more innocent animal victims, but the planet is going to be the victim of overpopulation from animals, letting off CO2 and methane.
Yes, it's important that we don't kill off all animals, and yes it's important that they're treated humanely, but my lunch and winter wear is darned important too! Not to mention the ability to live on a safe and hospitable planet.
When I was a young lad in college (all of 10 years ago), I had to learn Fortran for one of my Chem Eng classes. We were learning Fortran77, mostly cause my profressor didn't think we would need it in the future, and didn't want us to be concerned with some of the new structures in more current versions.
The Aero's also had to learn it (I know cause I taught it to them, since their prof sucked). So what sectors of industry are people working in with Fortran? Is it still just the Chemical and Aeronautical fields, are other places (where a different language might be more beneficial, say) still using it, cause no one wanted to convert systems?
Yes and No. The no: According to "experts" the universe is ever expanding. If the universe was of infinite size, then universe wouldn't have any place to expand. The yes: Not "expert can prove that the statement above is nothing more than theory. We may just be in some huge omniscient being's snow-globe paperweight sitting on a stack of his tax papers.
Blackboxes which provide data about what might have happened already exist for cars. There have been numerous court cases regarding the privacy issues surrounding it's uses, mostly because drivers have no clue they exist in their cars. Apparently Ford and GM have been doing this since the 90s. So Ford is probably just taking their technology a step further.
DeBeers still has awhile to inflate their market by the simple fact that these are "colored diamonds". The process that is used in Boston and in Florida have been used to create artificial diamonds for quite a few years now (Where else do diamond tipped blades for saws come from?) The aritificial diamonds always had problems with clarity and color due to the process used. Once that problem is fixed then DeBeers will have issues.
This should make construction companies happy, as they find a new reason to tear up streets just to lay down new asphault. Of course, knowing how New York City works, someone will notice 2 mos after the 4 year project is complete (of course over budget), that the 'new' asphault is actually the old asphault... Such is life.
The problem is Access's data storage is in a flat file format. Which means it'll be slower than dookie after it gets to be a certain size and complexity. Especially when sharing the database with many users. I'd suggest SQL Server, with a vb frontend or even an Access frontend with the SQL Server tables linked into Access.
Unfortunately the question was pertaining to open source, probably because the owner of the data, doesn't want to drop a chunk of change on a major database. Yes Access comes with Windows, but the performance issue is too big.
I went to a hotel once, that spoke to me, gushed blood and tried to make me kill my annoying-voiced scrawny wife... oh wait that was a movie.
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You should read it again:
"New York City fans of HBO's Sex & The City who could care less about the 20 or more channels that must be bought to get that particular premium service could slash their monthly cable bill from $56 to about $31. The smaller fee would get HBO and the major TV networks."
As I recall the major TV networks is not part of the basic package, and has been a required provision of the cable company since time long gone.
MTV not being lumped in as a standalone is because Viacom offers Showtime, MTV, VH1, and Nickleodeon together to the cable companies, so the companies, in turn, must offer it to subscribers. The Discovery channels would probably do the same with Discovery, TLC, and Animal Planet.
I wouldn't be surprised about the rental of a cable box though...
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I dunno where you live, but I'm in NY. I have TW Cable, and they allow MSN, AOL, and Earthlink as ISPs over their cable modem service, in addition to their Roadrunner service.
I pay $42/mo. for the cable modem service, and have no cable tv. I also got the modem for free for the life of my subscription, installation was free and the first month free too. I'm pretty pleased.
My coworkers and I think that because of the AOL TW merger, one of the stipulations was the opening of their cable lines to other ISPs. It's definitly saved me a lot of money.
This site you provided has nothing to do with cooking with lava fresh from a volcano. Imu pits use lava rocks from a beach (which is lava that has cooled into rocks) and heated red hot with regular wood. A pig wrapped in banana or Ti leaves, and stuffed with some of the hot lava rocks is placed on top of these rocks, covered with more leaves, a tarp, and a load of dirt.
I think the guy with the fresh lava is kind of doing the same thing, but it seems pretty insane regardless.
The book The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene is about String Theory and the quest for the Ultimate Theory (the one Holy Grail theory that is the basis for all forces in the universe). It does have four or so chapters on Relativity that are really easy to understand. The overall read was great: layman enough not to go over your head, but not patronizing either.
I scanned all the responses and may have missed it, but no one seems to point out that in Great Britain commercials come every 15 minutes. Which is quite convenient. And the networks there don't seem to have problems with this, so why can't we adopt it?
Then again Great Britain is one of the paradoxical entities. They had atms before us, have better cell-phones, and technology in general, yet you can electrocute yourself while turning on/off a light switch with wet hands. Go figure....
D00d, the only way to get experience is to work. Certification is a series of classes and tests from an "institution" that somehow gets the label that they teach something marketable. Its a business, and its BS.
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Very funny, but as an aside, people choosing VHS over Betamax did make sense (at least at the time). Sony would not licence the Betamax technology to any other company. JVC on the otherhand freely licensed VHS to anyone who wanted to make a player/recorder. We all know from our economics class that high supply against low demand generally results in a lower price. So consumers gobbled up the VHS players, and BetaMax players were left to those who would spend the money for the better quality. Intel learned that lesson and worked with AMD to put Cyrix out of business. Sony didn't learn it's own lesson, and MiniDiscs enjoyed little marketshare over a regular CD player.
Them real time and embedded linux people sure know how to put together a logo. A watch and a penguin. Snappy!
Kirk: Scotty... have you... gotten... the Diamond... Nitrogen... crystals, re... crystalized? Scotty: We've put them in Mr. Spock's boot-crack. He's giving it all he's got. Spock: Mmmmm. Pure energy.
When this is all said and done, and there will be no more innocent animal victims, but the planet is going to be the victim of overpopulation from animals, letting off CO2 and methane.
Yes, it's important that we don't kill off all animals, and yes it's important that they're treated humanely, but my lunch and winter wear is darned important too! Not to mention the ability to live on a safe and hospitable planet.
Jiminy jillikers people.
When I was a young lad in college (all of 10 years ago), I had to learn Fortran for one of my Chem Eng classes. We were learning Fortran77, mostly cause my profressor didn't think we would need it in the future, and didn't want us to be concerned with some of the new structures in more current versions.
The Aero's also had to learn it (I know cause I taught it to them, since their prof sucked). So what sectors of industry are people working in with Fortran? Is it still just the Chemical and Aeronautical fields, are other places (where a different language might be more beneficial, say) still using it, cause no one wanted to convert systems?
I actually can tell the difference between mauve, tan taupe and beige, but I'm a guy: I don't care!
The Metric System is the work of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it!
Toothing on 'multiple devices'. Iguess that would be called 'Group Toothing', or cyber-swinging for geeks.
Might I suggest that your universe blows because you look up to a Star Trek character?
Yes and No. The no: According to "experts" the universe is ever expanding. If the universe was of infinite size, then universe wouldn't have any place to expand. The yes: Not "expert can prove that the statement above is nothing more than theory. We may just be in some huge omniscient being's snow-globe paperweight sitting on a stack of his tax papers.
I wonder what the inch measure and cup sizes will be like.
Blackboxes which provide data about what might have happened already exist for cars. There have been numerous court cases regarding the privacy issues surrounding it's uses, mostly because drivers have no clue they exist in their cars. Apparently Ford and GM have been doing this since the 90s. So Ford is probably just taking their technology a step further.
Maybe the sick people were telemarketers...
DeBeers still has awhile to inflate their market by the simple fact that these are "colored diamonds". The process that is used in Boston and in Florida have been used to create artificial diamonds for quite a few years now (Where else do diamond tipped blades for saws come from?) The aritificial diamonds always had problems with clarity and color due to the process used. Once that problem is fixed then DeBeers will have issues.
This should make construction companies happy, as they find a new reason to tear up streets just to lay down new asphault. Of course, knowing how New York City works, someone will notice 2 mos after the 4 year project is complete (of course over budget), that the 'new' asphault is actually the old asphault... Such is life.
Separation of Church and State apparently applies to weather too.
The problem is Access's data storage is in a flat file format. Which means it'll be slower than dookie after it gets to be a certain size and complexity. Especially when sharing the database with many users. I'd suggest SQL Server, with a vb frontend or even an Access frontend with the SQL Server tables linked into Access.
Unfortunately the question was pertaining to open source, probably because the owner of the data, doesn't want to drop a chunk of change on a major database. Yes Access comes with Windows, but the performance issue is too big.
I went to a hotel once, that spoke to me, gushed blood and tried to make me kill my annoying-voiced scrawny wife... oh wait that was a movie.
You should read it again:
"New York City fans of HBO's Sex & The City who could care less about the 20 or more channels that must be bought to get that particular premium service could slash their monthly cable bill from $56 to about $31. The smaller fee would get HBO and the major TV networks."
As I recall the major TV networks is not part of the basic package, and has been a required provision of the cable company since time long gone.
MTV not being lumped in as a standalone is because Viacom offers Showtime, MTV, VH1, and Nickleodeon together to the cable companies, so the companies, in turn, must offer it to subscribers. The Discovery channels would probably do the same with Discovery, TLC, and Animal Planet.
I wouldn't be surprised about the rental of a cable box though...
I dunno where you live, but I'm in NY. I have TW Cable, and they allow MSN, AOL, and Earthlink as ISPs over their cable modem service, in addition to their Roadrunner service. I pay $42/mo. for the cable modem service, and have no cable tv. I also got the modem for free for the life of my subscription, installation was free and the first month free too. I'm pretty pleased. My coworkers and I think that because of the AOL TW merger, one of the stipulations was the opening of their cable lines to other ISPs. It's definitly saved me a lot of money.
This site you provided has nothing to do with cooking with lava fresh from a volcano. Imu pits use lava rocks from a beach (which is lava that has cooled into rocks) and heated red hot with regular wood. A pig wrapped in banana or Ti leaves, and stuffed with some of the hot lava rocks is placed on top of these rocks, covered with more leaves, a tarp, and a load of dirt. I think the guy with the fresh lava is kind of doing the same thing, but it seems pretty insane regardless.
The book The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene is about String Theory and the quest for the Ultimate Theory (the one Holy Grail theory that is the basis for all forces in the universe). It does have four or so chapters on Relativity that are really easy to understand. The overall read was great: layman enough not to go over your head, but not patronizing either.
I scanned all the responses and may have missed it, but no one seems to point out that in Great Britain commercials come every 15 minutes. Which is quite convenient. And the networks there don't seem to have problems with this, so why can't we adopt it?
Then again Great Britain is one of the paradoxical entities. They had atms before us, have better cell-phones, and technology in general, yet you can electrocute yourself while turning on/off a light switch with wet hands. Go figure....
D00d, the only way to get experience is to work. Certification is a series of classes and tests from an "institution" that somehow gets the label that they teach something marketable. Its a business, and its BS.