The team that completes the Grand Challenge 2005 route within a specified time will receive a cash prize of $2 million, an increase from the $1 million prize offered at last year?s event.
In the first DARPA Grand Challenge, held on a desert route from California to Nevada, 15 teams from a field of 106 applicants progressed to the final event
Why increase the prize to $2M? If the goal of the challenge is to develop an autonomous vehicle, why not use the extra $1M as a grant to fund the top 15 teams from the last challenge.
"But pouring thousands into redundant servers and disks, is overkill for a biz your size."
I think it's a mistake to make a blanket statement that a RAID array overkill for a small business. My company is similar in size (18 employees) and a RAID is absolutely essential for us from a downtime perspective. We simply can't afford to be down becuase a drive crashed.
Sure, backups are essential for the lost/deleted file, but a RAID (or at least a mirrored drive) keeps your server up and running. Not everyone needs that type of reliability, but if you figure the cost of recovering from a failed hard drive (even in a small company), the additional cost of a RAID upfront is well worth the investment.
Just a guess (since I don't have the Linksys device in question) but most of these are powered by a 9/12/whatever volt wallwart. It should be a simple matter to convert the 12V from the battery to whatever voltage is needed by the router with either a 3 terminal voltage regulator or even a zener diode. Or a DC-DC converter if you need more efficiency or higher than 12 volts.
China: We have TD-SCDMA USA: Well, we have GSM-TD-SCDMA2000 ! China: Yeah?, well we have GSM-TD-SCDMA infinity. USA: So, my country can beat up your country.
If you don't happen to have your own domain, you can get the same benefits you described by setting up a Spamgourmet account.
You create throwaway addresses on the fly (just make them up - no logging in) and email gets forwarded to your real address. Works great for addresses you only expect to receive a few emails from (like when registering for NYT, etc), as the address automatically expires once you receive a certain number of emails. If you want to continually receive email at that address, you can specify an exclusive sender (by email address or domain) to allow email to come in indefinitely.
The reason for the higher prices in Europe is predictable: taxes. When currency and measurements are converted, the $5.38 that Britons were paying for gas last week included $4.16 in taxes. Rates are similar across Europe.
In the United States, each gallon is taxed 18.4 cents by the federal government, and with state taxes added on, Americans pay an average of 27 cents extra.
Just because our total price is lower doesn't mean we have no right to complain. In fact, one might wonder why Europeans tolerate such outrageous taxes on gasoline.
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Once again, California is one step ahead of the rest of the country.
You can say *that* again
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The team that completes the Grand Challenge 2005 route within a specified time will receive a cash prize of $2 million, an increase from the $1 million prize offered at last year?s event.
In the first DARPA Grand Challenge, held on a desert route from California to Nevada, 15 teams from a field of 106 applicants progressed to the final event
Why increase the prize to $2M? If the goal of the challenge is to develop an autonomous vehicle, why not use the extra $1M as a grant to fund the top 15 teams from the last challenge.
"The United States is the home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an internationally respected agency ..."
Is the USPTO is even *nationally* respected any longer?
"But pouring thousands into redundant servers and disks, is overkill for a biz your size."
I think it's a mistake to make a blanket statement that a RAID array overkill for a small business. My company is similar in size (18 employees) and a RAID is absolutely essential for us from a downtime perspective. We simply can't afford to be down becuase a drive crashed.
Sure, backups are essential for the lost/deleted file, but a RAID (or at least a mirrored drive) keeps your server up and running. Not everyone needs that type of reliability, but if you figure the cost of recovering from a failed hard drive (even in a small company), the additional cost of a RAID upfront is well worth the investment.
Just a guess (since I don't have the Linksys device in question) but most of these are powered by a 9/12/whatever volt wallwart.
It should be a simple matter to convert the 12V from the battery to whatever voltage is needed by the router with either a 3 terminal voltage regulator or even a zener diode.
Or a DC-DC converter if you need more efficiency or higher than 12 volts.
"Perhaps I should RTFA before posting..."
Begone, you Slashdot imposter!
"Is there some kind of geek accent I wasn't aware of?"
Perhaps you used the words "whoa-hai" or "glayven". That's usually a dead giveaway.
Why aren't they sending up a monkey or a peice of meatloaf first?
Because I don't think monkeys or meatloaf can actually *fly* a spacecraft.
In the same vain, did you not mean:
;-)
Best. Post. Ever
Anyhow, glad to see we agree on some things including the general cluelessness of mods. Welcome to my friends list.
If it took you that long, you obviously need to watch the video again.
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I am evil Homer.
Ask him what color he wants his SQL database.
If he says "I think mauve has the most RAM", run like hell.
Mod parent up
how much it costs for an "Anonymous Writer" to get a company press release posted as "news" on the front page of Slashdot.
Inquiring minds want to know(TM).
China: We have TD-SCDMA
USA: Well, we have GSM-TD-SCDMA2000 !
China: Yeah?, well we have GSM-TD-SCDMA infinity.
USA: So, my country can beat up your country.
Did the bytes join in solidarity?
Word up!
Posting a link to their website on Slashdot should help them out.
No need to render it useless. The service seems pretty useless all by itself.
If you don't happen to have your own domain, you can get the same benefits you described by setting up a Spamgourmet account.
You create throwaway addresses on the fly (just make them up - no logging in) and email gets forwarded to your real address. Works great for addresses you only expect to receive a few emails from (like when registering for NYT, etc), as the address automatically expires once you receive a certain number of emails. If you want to continually receive email at that address, you can specify an exclusive sender (by email address or domain) to allow email to come in indefinitely.
Works great and is free too.
You have a choice where you live
Maybe so, but you don't always have a choice where you work. I don't think moving is what the OP had in mind.
Really? I didn't realize they developed a shower add-on as well.
From this article
Just because our total price is lower doesn't mean we have no right to complain. In fact, one might wonder why Europeans tolerate such outrageous taxes on gasoline.
On the AdTI website, their 'mission statement' includes 'helping the spread of democracy.'
They must be talking about Ashcroft's democracy.
John Stossel better watch out. Word is that he's about to be sued by the producers of this