You'd be clear on copyright of the performance (mechanical copyright), as you did your own performance.
You may have the administrators of your country's performing rights association on your back though, for performing someone else's work without permission and without paying royalty.
Dang, I'm violating that one right now by not singing! And so is anyone who has "a minute's silence" in memory of whatever...
Who cares what it's called. Can anti-spyware vendors alter their programs just a little, so they tell the user (in simple-ish) terms what the software does, what it claims to do, and give them the option of deleting it anyway?
Kind of like an enhanced "Add and remove programs" app that isn't reliant on the app playing nicely..
Cool thing is it's kinda both.. designed to be installed in small exchanges, or in a pit / on a pole and run using line power. I like that... hope it comes through.
My employer has some fairly remote sites that get data thanks to "SCADS" - solar-powered box with 2M fibre upstream, ISDN / Frame Relay / pots downstream up to 30 x 64kpbs cumulative. They're scattered along some of the roads I travel.
I live 6 hours north of Sydney. Water restrictions vary around the state. The dam that supplies Sydney is lower than it's been in a jolly long time.
However, I have heard (credibly) that droughts and floods around here run in 11-year cycles, and every 3rd cycle is more severe. That means projections based on a 30 year history are not so significant. I've read about droughts in the 1800's that were more severe than anything we've seen in the past few decades...
Not sure about some of the international gear, but basic rate ISDN (2x64 + 16) in Australia is actually provisioned using a 192kbps bearer (as is frame relay for speeds up to 128k).
The amount of power in 13W is 13W. Obstacles include cabling standards and qualities. To be classified as Extra Low Voltage, you need to stay under 42V d.c. and 60V a.c. so we're talking 250-330mA, meaning cable losses will be significant. Using multiple pairs to carry power would help.
Going above ELV means following LV cabling rules (ie general power wiring) except in certain circumstances involving current limiting. There is such thing as Telecommunications Network Voltage which does go higher than ELV for the sake of backward compatibility with millions of phones.
Regarding safety: - phone lines already carry TNV which can give you a good tingle, but it's current limited. - it's not just whether someone thinks it's ok, but has to meet applicable standards and laws.
A capable person with technical challenges is often working when not at work and not at the computer. Chewing over the best way to approach a problem. Realising they've just half-written a module that's almost redundant, if you only do this with that.
When the pressure is on and the work is non-trivial, thinking-time is actually hours of value that employers get for free.
Aus GST, if charged, is deductible to the employer, so count it separately at the end. Payroll tax isn't payable by individuals - it depends what state you're in and how many employees you have. It could be counted as part of an employer's cost in having you on staff, though.
Allow time for covering your overheads, preparing bills etc. Not all your time will be billable.
Rule of thumb I've heard is 1000 hours of profit. e.g. a $70k salary package, converted to private contracting, should become $70/hr. I don't know how well that translates under different countries' tax rates.
This brings out the whole problem with the way.com is used and given out. It's meaningless. It's become a virtual zero-level domain. When you see what proportion of domains are in.com, why bother with it? We might as well dispense with.com and have a flat domain model - just type in "ibm" or "slashdot" or "caseydonnovan". Subdomains can still be used within those.
I'd actually rather it went the other way. Expire current.com entries except for proveably multinational companies, allow registered USA businesses to use.com.us. Same goes for.org,.edu,.person (where is your address or citizenship? your incorporation?)
Largely agree. I'm in rural Australia, working for a manuf/export agribusiness with $500m ann turnover. Our IT dept is in transition to being outsourced - to a company comprising recent ex-employees. (We get made redundant on the back of a contract to supply..)
Much of what we do couldn't be sent elsewhere just because you have to know the local situations, and there's not enough work in any single project that offshoring economies would overcome the overheads. That said, we occasionally subcontract devt to people we've previously dealt with, where-ever they are at the time. (one was in England for a while)
In the meantime, my house and yard cost 20% of what it would in the nearest capitol city, I see many trees out my window, and our town does have pizza deliveries:-)
If you want to minimise disruptions, you run critical things via the UPS (that's why it's called UnInterruptible), and for longer outages feed the UPS from a generator. BUT many UPSs won't do it; they'll see the irregular waveform from the generator and say "that seems dodgy, better just run off battery until it's better".
Some UPSs can take it - they'll run or charge off irregular power just fine, but they cost more. Check with the manufacturer.
Also, some explicitly support battery expansion units.
I thought the article mentioned butting chips up to each other. i.e. a cache (or other memory) chip against 1 side of the CPU. Dust wouldn't be a problem, but magnetic particles, or slivers of wire would - but stray metal is bad for all kinds of electrics.
It would give new meaning to terms like "North bridge" though - actual physical orientation of the ports on a chip!
There is, kind-of. It just runs the other way. Each year, laptops become more powerful, and are engineered to not-run-down-quicker.
If there was a market for laptops with passive LCD screens and 30MHz CPUs and no optical drive, they'd be lasting a long time.
Actually, there are a few low-power models floating around, but they don't stack up against current desktops so look like a different market - most fit into the palmtop/handheld category. Heck, my 2 yr old palm-phone is more powerful than my first 4 Intel-based computers were, and supports a folding external keyboard. Screen's a bit small though.
You must have had a modern TV. My Grandpa's old TV (b&w, ~12 channels in VHF only) was the old turn-the-knob-and-it-clunks type. It had a remote! It was wired, did volume (actually contained a speaker in the remote), and had a channel button. You configured the channels by setting pegs on a wheel inside the TV. Push the [channel] button, and a motor would start turning/clunking through the channels until it hit the next one with a peg.
That's my memory from ~30 years ago, not sure when he first got the thing...
On the other hand, a METRE pretty much fixed a bit bigger than a yard. Darned yanks. Gallons are worse - there are two kinds. Pounds worse still, as some items require a pound to be volumetric, and not necessarily weigh the same as a pound of anything else. Or it could be money.
I used to do that too, but if it was networked (ie for accessing a file server) then we found 8M made all the difference. In the meantime, I also used OS/2 in 4M and that was ok. Linux guys at the time were saying "Linux flies in 4M".
The extra memory required to make Windows happy was a big deal at the time.
Thing is, my mobile phone is more powerful than that now. Howcome it isn't my desktop computer? All it should take is a screen and a keyboard...
Compare with Joel's discussion ( www.joelonsoftware.com ) - somewhere he has a thesis on wanting your companion products to be commodity.
e.g. if you sell apps, you want the required o/s to be as available and cheap as possible. If you sell o/s's, you want the hardware or apps to be as cheap as possible. If you sell cars, you want petrol to be available and affordable everywhere.
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I think the energy exerted in using a "bag phone" is considerable. You remember, mobiles before they were pocket-sized? Laptop phones really...
So where is it?
Perhaps this is another patent that just sitting there keeping (this time) battery manufacturers in business.
Maybe I could patent doing the same thing with a mouse..
You'd be clear on copyright of the performance (mechanical copyright), as you did your own performance.
You may have the administrators of your country's performing rights association on your back though, for performing someone else's work without permission and without paying royalty.
Dang, I'm violating that one right now by not singing! And so is anyone who has "a minute's silence" in memory of whatever...
Who cares what it's called. Can anti-spyware vendors alter their programs just a little, so they tell the user (in simple-ish) terms what the software does, what it claims to do, and give them the option of deleting it anyway?
Kind of like an enhanced "Add and remove programs" app that isn't reliant on the app playing nicely..
Cool thing is it's kinda both.. designed to be installed in small exchanges, or in a pit / on a pole and run using line power. I like that... hope it comes through.
My employer has some fairly remote sites that get data thanks to "SCADS" - solar-powered box with 2M fibre upstream, ISDN / Frame Relay / pots downstream up to 30 x 64kpbs cumulative. They're scattered along some of the roads I travel.
Whirlpool has a current article on that too..
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1432
I live 6 hours north of Sydney. Water restrictions vary around the state. The dam that supplies Sydney is lower than it's been in a jolly long time.
However, I have heard (credibly) that droughts and floods around here run in 11-year cycles, and every 3rd cycle is more severe. That means projections based on a 30 year history are not so significant. I've read about droughts in the 1800's that were more severe than anything we've seen in the past few decades...
Not sure about some of the international gear, but basic rate ISDN (2x64 + 16) in Australia is actually provisioned using a 192kbps bearer (as is frame relay for speeds up to 128k).
The amount of power in 13W is 13W.
Obstacles include cabling standards and qualities. To be classified as Extra Low Voltage, you need to stay under 42V d.c. and 60V a.c. so we're talking 250-330mA, meaning cable losses will be significant. Using multiple pairs to carry power would help.
Going above ELV means following LV cabling rules (ie general power wiring) except in certain circumstances involving current limiting. There is such thing as Telecommunications Network Voltage which does go higher than ELV for the sake of backward compatibility with millions of phones.
Regarding safety:
- phone lines already carry TNV which can give you a good tingle, but it's current limited.
- it's not just whether someone thinks it's ok, but has to meet applicable standards and laws.
A capable person with technical challenges is often working when not at work and not at the computer. Chewing over the best way to approach a problem. Realising they've just half-written a module that's almost redundant, if you only do this with that.
When the pressure is on and the work is non-trivial, thinking-time is actually hours of value that employers get for free.
Aus GST, if charged, is deductible to the employer, so count it separately at the end. Payroll tax isn't payable by individuals - it depends what state you're in and how many employees you have. It could be counted as part of an employer's cost in having you on staff, though.
Allow time for covering your overheads, preparing bills etc. Not all your time will be billable.
Rule of thumb I've heard is 1000 hours of profit.
e.g. a $70k salary package, converted to private contracting, should become $70/hr.
I don't know how well that translates under different countries' tax rates.
This brings out the whole problem with the way .com is used and given out. It's meaningless. It's become a virtual zero-level domain. When you see what proportion of domains are in .com, why bother with it? We might as well dispense with .com and have a flat domain model - just type in "ibm" or "slashdot" or "caseydonnovan". Subdomains can still be used within those.
.com entries except for proveably multinational companies, allow registered USA businesses to use .com.us. Same goes for .org, .edu, .person (where is your address or citizenship? your incorporation?)
I'd actually rather it went the other way. Expire current
Largely agree. I'm in rural Australia, working for a manuf/export agribusiness with $500m ann turnover. Our IT dept is in transition to being outsourced - to a company comprising recent ex-employees. (We get made redundant on the back of a contract to supply..)
:-)
Much of what we do couldn't be sent elsewhere just because you have to know the local situations, and there's not enough work in any single project that offshoring economies would overcome the overheads. That said, we occasionally subcontract devt to people we've previously dealt with, where-ever they are at the time. (one was in England for a while)
In the meantime, my house and yard cost 20% of what it would in the nearest capitol city, I see many trees out my window, and our town does have pizza deliveries
If you want to minimise disruptions, you run critical things via the UPS (that's why it's called UnInterruptible), and for longer outages feed the UPS from a generator.
BUT many UPSs won't do it; they'll see the irregular waveform from the generator and say "that seems dodgy, better just run off battery until it's better".
Some UPSs can take it - they'll run or charge off irregular power just fine, but they cost more. Check with the manufacturer.
Also, some explicitly support battery expansion units.
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Ride securly on 4 wheels, but chuck the occasional wheelie to look cool.
well, we all know what's programmed in there.
The answer is 42.
I thought the article mentioned butting chips up to each other. i.e. a cache (or other memory) chip against 1 side of the CPU.
Dust wouldn't be a problem, but magnetic particles, or slivers of wire would - but stray metal is bad for all kinds of electrics.
It would give new meaning to terms like "North bridge" though - actual physical orientation of the ports on a chip!
There is, kind-of. It just runs the other way.
Each year, laptops become more powerful, and are engineered to not-run-down-quicker.
If there was a market for laptops with passive LCD screens and 30MHz CPUs and no optical drive, they'd be lasting a long time.
Actually, there are a few low-power models floating around, but they don't stack up against current desktops so look like a different market - most fit into the palmtop/handheld category.
Heck, my 2 yr old palm-phone is more powerful than my first 4 Intel-based computers were, and supports a folding external keyboard. Screen's a bit small though.
For the sake of IBM-Lotus Domino and IBM DB2 licencing, a hyperthreading Intel CPU is a single CPU.
You must have had a modern TV. My Grandpa's old TV (b&w, ~12 channels in VHF only) was the old turn-the-knob-and-it-clunks type. It had a remote! It was wired, did volume (actually contained a speaker in the remote), and had a channel button. You configured the channels by setting pegs on a wheel inside the TV. Push the [channel] button, and a motor would start turning/clunking through the channels until it hit the next one with a peg.
That's my memory from ~30 years ago, not sure when he first got the thing...
... only the name "quick & dirty operating system" wasn't so marketable. Let's not call it "quick" :-)
Opposite approach to Windows NT ("New Technology")
It depends what kind of meter it is of course.
On the other hand, a METRE pretty much fixed a bit bigger than a yard. Darned yanks.
Gallons are worse - there are two kinds.
Pounds worse still, as some items require a pound to be volumetric, and not necessarily weigh the same as a pound of anything else. Or it could be money.
I used to do that too, but if it was networked (ie for accessing a file server) then we found 8M made all the difference. In the meantime, I also used OS/2 in 4M and that was ok. Linux guys at the time were saying "Linux flies in 4M".
The extra memory required to make Windows happy was a big deal at the time.
Thing is, my mobile phone is more powerful than that now. Howcome it isn't my desktop computer? All it should take is a screen and a keyboard...
So I assume the display now shows: /.'d
Compare with Joel's discussion ( www.joelonsoftware.com ) - somewhere he has a thesis on wanting your companion products to be commodity.
e.g. if you sell apps, you want the required o/s to be as available and cheap as possible. If you sell o/s's, you want the hardware or apps to be as cheap as possible. If you sell cars, you want petrol to be available and affordable everywhere.