Any of the hardware based USB devices with a PCCARD->USB2 adapter. Even at the full data rate of my Hauppauge PVR card it's only ~2.5MB/s which even a laptop HDD can sustain. The only problem might be displaying the content as a laptop of that vintage may or may not have enough hardware acceleration in the video card to assist the anemic processor at displaying high bandwidth MPEGII.
It wouldn't matter because there is unlikely a plane carried laser can sustain 100kW for anything approaching 6 seconds. Also, the JSF laser system is only rated for 10km at MACH 1, the adaptive optics probably won't be anywhere near good enough for the speed and altitude this thing is supposed to operate at. Oh yeah, and then there's cooling and power production. The JSF laser is expected to use 1MW of power to produce that 100kW beam, which means 900kW of thermal load, something a small scramjet is unlikely to be able to handle since that is the main limiting factor with current research designs. The JSF it supposed to use it's large fuel tanks as a thermal sink for its laser, but in a scramjet that's already the sink for the thermal load generated by engine compression.
Offering a discount for cash or a penalty for using a CC is against the merchants agreement with the credit card processor. If someone complains they can lose their merchant account and thus most of their customers. Besides, failing to build up credit just means you are most likely going to pay out whatever savings you made several times over in a higher interest rate on your mortgage. I have an almost perfect credit score, yet I have never paid a fee or any interest on any of my debt except my mortgage.
I'm really not convinced that exposure to loud noise leads to hearing loss. I'm almost thirty and I can hear sounds that are supposedly hard for those in their late teens to hear. I've stood in front of 25" subs at many a rock concert or rave, and I work in a loud datacenter almost every day. Of course I've always had VERY good hearing, so perhaps I am suffering just as big a loss as others but my large lead means I am still an outlier?
It's my understanding that they generally still use the same type of boats, so the danger and experience is still there, they just use more humane ways of actually killing the animals. As the speartip shows attacks with primitive weapons are not always effective, and while this whale survived, many do not, they simply die a slow agonizing death to infection.
You think it's Europeans overhunting whales?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA! It's the Asians, hardly ANY of the world's whale hunt is consumed in North America or Europe, what little is consumed is mostly in Scandanavia.
Wiping out another species WOULD be in keeping with Inuit culture. The Inuit's ancestors wiped out 95% of the large mammals in North America within a few thousand years of arriving here.
Why should they stop their whaling? It's not like the Asians are going to stop any century soon, so why not let them catch a couple percent of the global take each year to continue their heritage.
Well, at $300 more than the 360 it's $100 more than the 360+HD-DVD combo, so they are screwed even if you are looking for a next generation movie player. I personally plan to get the 360 HDDVD drive for my PC, I already have all the gaming I want, plus excellent media center capabilities on the PC, why not add next generation movie capabilities for a third the cost of a PS3 =)
In reality most commercial weights are traced to the NIST standard weights, even my international supply catalogs always list the reference weights as traceable to NIST. I assume it's because so much science is done in US labs and their standards for grants probably specify NIST traceability.
Hmm, I forgot about wireline to wireless portability. I would have to ask my friend how that is handled. It's possible that the clearinghouse keeps track of ported numbers and they get a quarterly(?) update, or perhaps numbers outside the traditional cellular blocks aren't covered under the law.
Uh, yeah, tax codes DO change monthly. I worked for a mid sized accounting firm and just about every package we supported had at least quarterly updates, if not monthly (and often weekly around the new year). We were national in scope so we had to keep up with codes for all cities, states, and federal. It was a bitch keeping our Citrix servers updated and synchronized.
RIM is apparently working on divorcing the BB functionality from the physical device. They already have several BB emulators for a few model specific JAVA implementations, they just need to make it a bit more generic and then certify devices. I think they are worried that Exchange/Windows Mobile will eat their lunch and so they are doing everything they can to get their software onto as many devices as they can.
Even if I was working for myself I would be doing it as a consultant and that would just mean switching to the unlimited world plan at $20/month and picking up my own internet and adding a cellphone with a bill similar to yours. I wouldn't need $300/month cable or any hosting bills. I've always believed that the only thing most of us has to sell is our time, and trying to sell anything more than that is simply attaching the value of your time to a physical object. This usually results in a significantly lower rate for your time, so why do it?
Wow, I can't imagine spending the equivalent of several car payments a month on telecom. My out of pocket is $30/month. My $40/month internet is picked up by my employer, my cellphone is too. My wifes cellphone is on my dad's family share plan at $15/month and the other $15/month is my VoIP line with unlimited in-state calling, unlimited incoming, and US rates of 3.9 cents a minute with international at around the same rate except where national monopolies jack up the price. They have a plan for $25/month with unlimited calling to 35 countries. This is with Broadvoice which I have been mostly pleased with.
Regressive tax is an economics term, one of the google results for define:regressive tax states it as such:
In an absolute sense, this is a tax in which the rate falls as the taxable base increases, as with early Social Security. In a relative sense, it is a rise in total taxes paid as a percentage of one's income, as with most property and sales taxes.
Legit telemarketers do NOT call you on your cellphone unless you have listed it as your contact number for one of their clients (and thus have an existing business relationship). One of the first filters telemarketers apply to phone lists is to remove all of the numbers that match their big database of all of the registered cellphone blocks. It's right up there with the national do not call list, the state do not call lists, and their own internal no call list(s). I know this because a friend works for IT in one of the big telemarketers and running a large call list against those different databases is a HUGE job that takes large DB servers a lot of time (and often causes him to work weekends if theres a hiccup.)
You think a 150KVA UPS will service 170 racks?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA
You have lost all credibility to determine what a datacenter is. A 150KVA UPS would service about 50 moderately loaded (about half empty) racks with most current equipment. 170 racks could power many midsized companies, my employer's an S&P 500 company and we have 11 racks moderately full. Wikipedia defines a datacenter as:
A data center is a facility used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and communications equipment. As the name implies, a data center is usually maintained by an organization for the purpose of handling the data necessary for its operations
Which I would say 170 racks could definitely qualify as.
Flat rate taxes, especially those with large fees like a yearly road tax, are inherently regressive. The current fuel tax system is somewhat regressive, because rich people do not necessarily drive more than poor people since the majority of travel is for work, but probably less so than a flat fee would be. The only way to make the tax progressive would be to tax based on vehicle value, but that would have very little relation to their impact on the roads.
You forgot a party to the taxation game, the OWNERS of the company, who extract the wealth generated by the company. Of course we no longer tax them because some pundit came up with the name "death tax" and American's plummeting savings rate (and the fact that Republicans were in power) meant they dropped the rate on the other main tax on the owners, the Capital Gains Tax.
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Any of the hardware based USB devices with a PCCARD->USB2 adapter. Even at the full data rate of my Hauppauge PVR card it's only ~2.5MB/s which even a laptop HDD can sustain. The only problem might be displaying the content as a laptop of that vintage may or may not have enough hardware acceleration in the video card to assist the anemic processor at displaying high bandwidth MPEGII.
Valkyrie was worth it just to make the most beautiful airplane of all time. If you've ever seen it in person at WPAFB you'd know what I mean.
It wouldn't matter because there is unlikely a plane carried laser can sustain 100kW for anything approaching 6 seconds. Also, the JSF laser system is only rated for 10km at MACH 1, the adaptive optics probably won't be anywhere near good enough for the speed and altitude this thing is supposed to operate at. Oh yeah, and then there's cooling and power production. The JSF laser is expected to use 1MW of power to produce that 100kW beam, which means 900kW of thermal load, something a small scramjet is unlikely to be able to handle since that is the main limiting factor with current research designs. The JSF it supposed to use it's large fuel tanks as a thermal sink for its laser, but in a scramjet that's already the sink for the thermal load generated by engine compression.
Offering a discount for cash or a penalty for using a CC is against the merchants agreement with the credit card processor. If someone complains they can lose their merchant account and thus most of their customers. Besides, failing to build up credit just means you are most likely going to pay out whatever savings you made several times over in a higher interest rate on your mortgage. I have an almost perfect credit score, yet I have never paid a fee or any interest on any of my debt except my mortgage.
Constant changes in and out of kernel space are never good for overall system performance.
I'm really not convinced that exposure to loud noise leads to hearing loss. I'm almost thirty and I can hear sounds that are supposedly hard for those in their late teens to hear. I've stood in front of 25" subs at many a rock concert or rave, and I work in a loud datacenter almost every day. Of course I've always had VERY good hearing, so perhaps I am suffering just as big a loss as others but my large lead means I am still an outlier?
Why not just use a kernel shim like the commercial closed source drivers do? It would still be faster than usermode!
It's my understanding that they generally still use the same type of boats, so the danger and experience is still there, they just use more humane ways of actually killing the animals. As the speartip shows attacks with primitive weapons are not always effective, and while this whale survived, many do not, they simply die a slow agonizing death to infection.
You think it's Europeans overhunting whales?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA! It's the Asians, hardly ANY of the world's whale hunt is consumed in North America or Europe, what little is consumed is mostly in Scandanavia.
Wiping out another species WOULD be in keeping with Inuit culture. The Inuit's ancestors wiped out 95% of the large mammals in North America within a few thousand years of arriving here.
Why should they stop their whaling? It's not like the Asians are going to stop any century soon, so why not let them catch a couple percent of the global take each year to continue their heritage.
aren't they more biodegradable than traditional plastics as well?
Well, at $300 more than the 360 it's $100 more than the 360+HD-DVD combo, so they are screwed even if you are looking for a next generation movie player. I personally plan to get the 360 HDDVD drive for my PC, I already have all the gaming I want, plus excellent media center capabilities on the PC, why not add next generation movie capabilities for a third the cost of a PS3 =)
In reality most commercial weights are traced to the NIST standard weights, even my international supply catalogs always list the reference weights as traceable to NIST. I assume it's because so much science is done in US labs and their standards for grants probably specify NIST traceability.
Hmm, I forgot about wireline to wireless portability. I would have to ask my friend how that is handled. It's possible that the clearinghouse keeps track of ported numbers and they get a quarterly(?) update, or perhaps numbers outside the traditional cellular blocks aren't covered under the law.
Uh, yeah, tax codes DO change monthly. I worked for a mid sized accounting firm and just about every package we supported had at least quarterly updates, if not monthly (and often weekly around the new year). We were national in scope so we had to keep up with codes for all cities, states, and federal. It was a bitch keeping our Citrix servers updated and synchronized.
RIM is apparently working on divorcing the BB functionality from the physical device. They already have several BB emulators for a few model specific JAVA implementations, they just need to make it a bit more generic and then certify devices. I think they are worried that Exchange/Windows Mobile will eat their lunch and so they are doing everything they can to get their software onto as many devices as they can.
*Every* phone that is not a prepaid phone requires a contract,
Wrong! Every discounted phone comes with a contract. With any of the GSM providers you can bring your own phone and pay month to month.
Even if I was working for myself I would be doing it as a consultant and that would just mean switching to the unlimited world plan at $20/month and picking up my own internet and adding a cellphone with a bill similar to yours. I wouldn't need $300/month cable or any hosting bills. I've always believed that the only thing most of us has to sell is our time, and trying to sell anything more than that is simply attaching the value of your time to a physical object. This usually results in a significantly lower rate for your time, so why do it?
Wow, I can't imagine spending the equivalent of several car payments a month on telecom. My out of pocket is $30/month. My $40/month internet is picked up by my employer, my cellphone is too. My wifes cellphone is on my dad's family share plan at $15/month and the other $15/month is my VoIP line with unlimited in-state calling, unlimited incoming, and US rates of 3.9 cents a minute with international at around the same rate except where national monopolies jack up the price. They have a plan for $25/month with unlimited calling to 35 countries. This is with Broadvoice which I have been mostly pleased with.
Regressive tax is an economics term, one of the google results for define:regressive tax states it as such:
In an absolute sense, this is a tax in which the rate falls as the taxable base increases, as with early Social Security. In a relative sense, it is a rise in total taxes paid as a percentage of one's income, as with most property and sales taxes.
Legit telemarketers do NOT call you on your cellphone unless you have listed it as your contact number for one of their clients (and thus have an existing business relationship). One of the first filters telemarketers apply to phone lists is to remove all of the numbers that match their big database of all of the registered cellphone blocks. It's right up there with the national do not call list, the state do not call lists, and their own internal no call list(s). I know this because a friend works for IT in one of the big telemarketers and running a large call list against those different databases is a HUGE job that takes large DB servers a lot of time (and often causes him to work weekends if theres a hiccup.)
You think a 150KVA UPS will service 170 racks?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA
You have lost all credibility to determine what a datacenter is. A 150KVA UPS would service about 50 moderately loaded (about half empty) racks with most current equipment. 170 racks could power many midsized companies, my employer's an S&P 500 company and we have 11 racks moderately full. Wikipedia defines a datacenter as:
A data center is a facility used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and communications equipment. As the name implies, a data center is usually maintained by an organization for the purpose of handling the data necessary for its operations
Which I would say 170 racks could definitely qualify as.
Flat rate taxes, especially those with large fees like a yearly road tax, are inherently regressive. The current fuel tax system is somewhat regressive, because rich people do not necessarily drive more than poor people since the majority of travel is for work, but probably less so than a flat fee would be. The only way to make the tax progressive would be to tax based on vehicle value, but that would have very little relation to their impact on the roads.
You forgot a party to the taxation game, the OWNERS of the company, who extract the wealth generated by the company. Of course we no longer tax them because some pundit came up with the name "death tax" and American's plummeting savings rate (and the fact that Republicans were in power) meant they dropped the rate on the other main tax on the owners, the Capital Gains Tax.