$2 bills are still legal tender and are in fact still in circulation (although in miniscule amounts compared to most other bills). I regularly get a stack of them to use as tips. Waitresses really remember the guy who leaves a $2 bill as a tip for a $8 meal =)
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Thanks, when I buy a home later this year I will look into this. Using cheap natural gas for heat in a manner that won't kick up my asthma will be great and maybe I can use the yard as a heat sink for cooling during the summer (though lowering humidity is a major part of cooling around here so might still need the AC unit)
As is Rendezvous with Rama! Rama is so light on hard science that it's more like fantasy than sci-fi. I imagine Enders Game if done even decently will fall more into sci-fi than fantasy.
LoTR tied for most Oscar's all time with Ben Hurr and Titanic. I guess the academy decided to wait for the finish of the series to give the props that they so deserved.
Average high temp during the summer is only about 8 degrees higher in Tampa Florida then it is in Cleveland Ohio, so yes we need AC just as much as they do.
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THANK YOU. I have been thinking that all the people whining about standby mode have been whining about nothing. Now I have the proof to back it up. Thirty cents per watt per year is so miniscule. Hell I saved almost $20/month by putting up drapes in front of my sliding glass door in addition to the blinds.
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Come on, a cheap mini-itx with a decent processor can be put together for less than the cost of a simple digital thermostat, let alone one as complex as a multizone controller.
No, it's not a bug it's a matter of style. So the question becomes why break things because someone disagrees with history, the official style guide (that's what the LSB is afterall), etc.
Wait, you think only things packaged by the distro reference a particular directory?!?! Tons of people probably have things that point to tools in the X11R6 directory structure. Besides X11 predates linux by quite a bit so bashing it at this point about style seems pointless.
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Uhhh, moving those tools out of the X11R6 subdir would break anything that expects those files to be there. Besides it's part of the Linux Standard Base and therefore not likely to be changed after all of the work that went into LSB.
He is SO stupid for saying that publicly. His time in prison will be HELL. Convicts DON'T like people who prey on children. I don't really think that exposing anyone to images is something worthy of a felony charge but this man is just scum.
It's the very fact that it was a FELONY to register some domain names. He didn't steal anything, he didn't attack anyone, he didn't kill anyone, etc. I think it's pretty disgusting that he targeted childrens websites but does it rise to the level of a felony?? I mean supplying alcohol to a minor is only a misdemenor in most jurisdictions, so showing a child a picture is somehow worse then supplying them with poison? (note: I don't agree with the drinking age restrictions in the U.S. just using this as an example)
Well Buckminsterfullerenes were origionally VERY rare and hard to make. Then the carbon arc method using high pressure rare gas atmosphere was developed and suddenly they were abundant. Hell I made such a device for my senior year independant study program in high scholl back in 1996-7. These would typically make a fairly high percentage Buckyballs in the soot but I don't think many buckytubes, I assume they are waiting for a similar process for making buckytubes.
Good point. I know my last client was a wireless equipment manufacturer and when they went from 900MHz for 802.11 to 2.4 Ghz for 802.11b their old equipment was worthless because it mostly topped out at 1GHz. The old equipment was sold off to employees but they probably would have been just as happy to give it to an educational institution if they had been asked.
New they are at least 4x that, and yes it is crazy to put a windows 9x device which you can't patch on the network. What we did is put ours on a vlan with the only other device being our SAN device. Then the data dumps were pulled off the SAN device for analysis on either the lab network or engineers desktop workstations.
Exactly, if computational fluid dynamics isn't enough proof for you then you probably don't believe in quantum physics either. And for most of us seeing an airplane fly is enough proof that they work =)
uhh, you bought the cheap model that didn't include those features. I see this all the time with motherboards. It's much cheaper to make one PCB and then leave out the components on the cheaper boards during assembly. If the box actually said it had the feature (not with an optional keyword) then you either got ripped or the wrong part was put in the wrong box.
I would think that MS PDA's would be just as vulnerable to macro viruses as their desktop cousins since they run essentially the same apps using mostly the same API.
Not only that but really good equipment like HP Vectra's has a way to recover from even a dead BIOS. With most Vectra's you can place a floppy in the drive with just the BIOS code and hold down a special key to have it load it without a firmware loader program (F12 if my normally faulty memory serves me right, haven't had to do it in several years).
Yes and some of the time things don't go so well. I bought the first CDRW drive available (Ricoh MP 2600A) and when the Multiplay standard was finalized there was an incompatibility between the standard and something the Ricoh did. So they put out a firmware upgrade. Well being a person who likes my equipment to conform to standards I upgraded the firmware, only when I rebooted the unit couldn't be found, not by windows, not by linux, not by the SCSI card's firmware and not by Ricoh's diagnostics. Of course this was 13 months after I purchased the unit so no waranty support. I lucked out and found a hack on a support site, you needed to unplug the power connector and replug it before the SCSI bus was finished initializing. This wiped the firmware update area and put the unit back to origional factory code. Turns out even Ricoh's senior support engineer didn't know about this! That was NOT something a normal person would have done but the power didn't frighten me in the least and I figured I had nothing to lose.
They do this in the LA area, you get to know what roads are congested miles ahead of time and they even recomend alternate routes if one is available. Of course at times almost EVERYTHING is a parking lot so it doesn't matter. Btw don't live there just visit ocassionally for work.
Thank jebus we don't have traffic cameras around here and my state has outlawed photo-radar (you have the right to face your acuser, damn machine can't be questioned in court). The only traffic control around here is a cop with a radar or lidar gun and they are predictable enough that intelligent people who drive sensibly won't get caught =)
Gigabit would be good for reducing latency (bandwidth probably isn't a problem) but with only 12 nodes you probably don't need to do any segmentation as most switching fabrics can handle that at full speed. What I want to know is why no one I've seen has used a Cisco 6513 with gigabit modules for clustering, it's switching fabric is more than up to the task.
Very good (98+% recovery from a fleet of dead Hitachi drives in one departments Thinkpad laptops) but NOT cheap. I think the typical bill was a couple thousand dollars to have couple day service with DVD's shipped back to us.
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$2 bills are still legal tender and are in fact still in circulation (although in miniscule amounts compared to most other bills). I regularly get a stack of them to use as tips. Waitresses really remember the guy who leaves a $2 bill as a tip for a $8 meal =)
Thanks, when I buy a home later this year I will look into this. Using cheap natural gas for heat in a manner that won't kick up my asthma will be great and maybe I can use the yard as a heat sink for cooling during the summer (though lowering humidity is a major part of cooling around here so might still need the AC unit)
Uhh, this was the third year in a row that a LoTR movie won for best visual effects!!
As is Rendezvous with Rama! Rama is so light on hard science that it's more like fantasy than sci-fi. I imagine Enders Game if done even decently will fall more into sci-fi than fantasy.
LoTR tied for most Oscar's all time with Ben Hurr and Titanic. I guess the academy decided to wait for the finish of the series to give the props that they so deserved.
Average high temp during the summer is only about 8 degrees higher in Tampa Florida then it is in Cleveland Ohio, so yes we need AC just as much as they do.
THANK YOU. I have been thinking that all the people whining about standby mode have been whining about nothing. Now I have the proof to back it up. Thirty cents per watt per year is so miniscule. Hell I saved almost $20/month by putting up drapes in front of my sliding glass door in addition to the blinds.
Come on, a cheap mini-itx with a decent processor can be put together for less than the cost of a simple digital thermostat, let alone one as complex as a multizone controller.
No, it's not a bug it's a matter of style. So the question becomes why break things because someone disagrees with history, the official style guide (that's what the LSB is afterall), etc.
Wait, you think only things packaged by the distro reference a particular directory?!?! Tons of people probably have things that point to tools in the X11R6 directory structure. Besides X11 predates linux by quite a bit so bashing it at this point about style seems pointless.
Uhhh, moving those tools out of the X11R6 subdir would break anything that expects those files to be there. Besides it's part of the Linux Standard Base and therefore not likely to be changed after all of the work that went into LSB.
He is SO stupid for saying that publicly. His time in prison will be HELL. Convicts DON'T like people who prey on children. I don't really think that exposing anyone to images is something worthy of a felony charge but this man is just scum.
It's the very fact that it was a FELONY to register some domain names. He didn't steal anything, he didn't attack anyone, he didn't kill anyone, etc. I think it's pretty disgusting that he targeted childrens websites but does it rise to the level of a felony?? I mean supplying alcohol to a minor is only a misdemenor in most jurisdictions, so showing a child a picture is somehow worse then supplying them with poison? (note: I don't agree with the drinking age restrictions in the U.S. just using this as an example)
Well Buckminsterfullerenes were origionally VERY rare and hard to make. Then the carbon arc method using high pressure rare gas atmosphere was developed and suddenly they were abundant. Hell I made such a device for my senior year independant study program in high scholl back in 1996-7. These would typically make a fairly high percentage Buckyballs in the soot but I don't think many buckytubes, I assume they are waiting for a similar process for making buckytubes.
Good point. I know my last client was a wireless equipment manufacturer and when they went from 900MHz for 802.11 to 2.4 Ghz for 802.11b their old equipment was worthless because it mostly topped out at 1GHz. The old equipment was sold off to employees but they probably would have been just as happy to give it to an educational institution if they had been asked.
New they are at least 4x that, and yes it is crazy to put a windows 9x device which you can't patch on the network. What we did is put ours on a vlan with the only other device being our SAN device. Then the data dumps were pulled off the SAN device for analysis on either the lab network or engineers desktop workstations.
Exactly, if computational fluid dynamics isn't enough proof for you then you probably don't believe in quantum physics either. And for most of us seeing an airplane fly is enough proof that they work =)
uhh, you bought the cheap model that didn't include those features. I see this all the time with motherboards. It's much cheaper to make one PCB and then leave out the components on the cheaper boards during assembly. If the box actually said it had the feature (not with an optional keyword) then you either got ripped or the wrong part was put in the wrong box.
I would think that MS PDA's would be just as vulnerable to macro viruses as their desktop cousins since they run essentially the same apps using mostly the same API.
Not only that but really good equipment like HP Vectra's has a way to recover from even a dead BIOS. With most Vectra's you can place a floppy in the drive with just the BIOS code and hold down a special key to have it load it without a firmware loader program (F12 if my normally faulty memory serves me right, haven't had to do it in several years).
Yes and some of the time things don't go so well. I bought the first CDRW drive available (Ricoh MP 2600A) and when the Multiplay standard was finalized there was an incompatibility between the standard and something the Ricoh did. So they put out a firmware upgrade. Well being a person who likes my equipment to conform to standards I upgraded the firmware, only when I rebooted the unit couldn't be found, not by windows, not by linux, not by the SCSI card's firmware and not by Ricoh's diagnostics. Of course this was 13 months after I purchased the unit so no waranty support. I lucked out and found a hack on a support site, you needed to unplug the power connector and replug it before the SCSI bus was finished initializing. This wiped the firmware update area and put the unit back to origional factory code. Turns out even Ricoh's senior support engineer didn't know about this! That was NOT something a normal person would have done but the power didn't frighten me in the least and I figured I had nothing to lose.
They do this in the LA area, you get to know what roads are congested miles ahead of time and they even recomend alternate routes if one is available. Of course at times almost EVERYTHING is a parking lot so it doesn't matter. Btw don't live there just visit ocassionally for work.
Thank jebus we don't have traffic cameras around here and my state has outlawed photo-radar (you have the right to face your acuser, damn machine can't be questioned in court). The only traffic control around here is a cop with a radar or lidar gun and they are predictable enough that intelligent people who drive sensibly won't get caught =)
Gigabit would be good for reducing latency (bandwidth probably isn't a problem) but with only 12 nodes you probably don't need to do any segmentation as most switching fabrics can handle that at full speed. What I want to know is why no one I've seen has used a Cisco 6513 with gigabit modules for clustering, it's switching fabric is more than up to the task.
Very good (98+% recovery from a fleet of dead Hitachi drives in one departments Thinkpad laptops) but NOT cheap. I think the typical bill was a couple thousand dollars to have couple day service with DVD's shipped back to us.