My point, which may not have been clear I admit, was that calling 911 *FIRST* to test, before calling the dispatchers on a non-emergency number, can be a problem in some jurisdictions. I would think most places would be happy to allow the test - if they knew about it first. Once a 911 call comes in, without such a warning, the cops must roll a car in many areas nowadays.
It's like testing a fire or intrusion alarm which auto-dials 911. Most places no longer allow that due to the high rate of false alarms, I know. But, before that restriction was prevalent, you called the dispatchers and asked if you could test your alarm system. I never had a problem doing that. But, an inadvertant alarm call merited a $125 fee - on the first occurrence. Admittedly, the town waived it for us, but they did send us the bill to get the point across. (That was about 20 years ago.)
Obviously it varies depending on your needs and your existing phone system configuration.
We switched a client to VOIP because the phone lines were *LESS* reliable than their broadband (cable) data line. They gained much better sound quality and no longer had calls randomly cross-connected to neighboring buildings either. Obviously, their neighborhood had some local wiring issues. They had spent four years trying to get the phone company to resolve them. (I suspect the phone company would have eventually resolved them, but it likely would have required rewiring the neighborhood, which had a lot of legacy cabling issues from a building boom some years earlier. A phone company tech said it'd probably be at least five more years before they'd get to rewire that area. For example, DSL wasn't available there due to load coils and other wiring issues, even though it was well within the distance limits.)
The monthly cost per line went from about $30 plus calls ($50) to about $30. They had three lines. Since they had enough internal phone capacity, we simply used VOIP as a POTS replacement, so they didn't need VOIP phones. Other than the VOIP equipment, which cost $100 (two units needed), there were no additional equipment costs. Our labor was about a day. Payback was about 5 months.
Depending on how your local jurisdiction works, calling 911 without an emergency may constitute a crime. In Hawaii, it is a misdeamenor. Some areas in the country have a $1,000 fine and potentially jail time - presumably that is for flagrant false alarms. It would be foolish to risk that without checking with your local police department FIRST.
Calling the local police and asking whether you can test your 911 calling (explaining you now have VOIP) *BEFORE* you just call 911 would be prudent.
Since Alaska (and presumably other jurisdictions) apparently requires a visit by a police officer for each 911 call, no matter how it is ended, they may well consider any false 911 call to be an offense. Which is reasonable on the police's part, it could actually be an emergency, but the caller no longer feels safe saying so, so they've got to check it out. Most jurisdictions charge for false alarms, often rather expensively.
The Disk Operating System (DOS) was definitely an innovation. No more loading paper tapes. Files identified by name, rather than location. Easier interactive invocation of executables. A number of different improvements combined to create something which was an innovation over previous ways of doing things.
I realize for those who didn't start out with punch cards and paper tape, and those who don't distinguish between the concept of a Disk Operating System and the much later implementation of MS-DOS, it's easy to be snide.
Without a frame of reference spanning the transition created by an innovation, many innovations, in hindsight, appear obvious. They often have already become the norm and people no longer recollect how things used to be, nor why it was innovative to change these things.
That is why the study of history is valuable. You can have a frame of reference spanning a innovative transition by either living through it or by learning about the before and after of it.
To simply snidely criticize without understanding is the mark of a fool (which I have been many times myself).
You are correct. I was wrong to state two Lagrange points are stable without some qualification.
Since we were talking about Earth-Moon Lagrange points (presumably, as I did not RTFA). This system does exceed the stability ratio, so I didn't feel the need to qualify it. As you point out the Earth-Sun system also has two stable Lagrange points, as well as many other bodies in our solar system.
Of course, trying to try L1, L2 and L3 into choke points such as L4 & L5 would be a fuel expensive proposition.
In any event, keeping all of these points freely available I feel ought to bring far more benefits than restricting access to any of them. Again, I did not RTFA, so I'm just responding to the/. zeitgest FWIW.
> A HDD will last about 10 years with constant use, but just > sitting on the shelf in a dry enviorment it should last > pretty much forever.
There's considerable debate of the "last pretty much forever." How long can bearings sit before freezing up? Fluid bearings suffer from evaporation, for example. Hard drive platters have a very thin lubricant layer, if I recollect. How long does that last before chemical degradation?
Devices cannot be presumed to "last forever" just because they are not being used. In fact, just sitting and not being used may actually shorten their life.
(While it is not a fair comparison, try starting a vehicle that's been in storage for a couple of years - seals dry out, mechanisms gum up, and so forth.)
So, the jury is out on how long a hard drive sitting on a shelf will last.
> Up to 1,700 F. for one hour with the interior temperature > remaining below 350 F.
Fine for paper (Fahrenheit 451). Not so fine for magnetic tape (125 F) or CD/DVD (248 F) media, both would be damaged long before 350 F.
There are a number of data media rated fire resistant safes that will keep under 125 F for an hour for a 1800 F fire.
From http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib4300.shtml#SEC759-SUBSEC3 The glass transition temperature for polycarbonate is approximately 140 degrees Celsius. If the temperature gets within 20 degrees Celsius of the glass transition temperature, there is a likelihood of significant disc deformation.
From http://vsg.cape.com/~pbaum/magtape.htm Other than a fire, the real danger of high temperatures (above 80 degrees Fahrenheit) is an increase in tape pack tightness caused by wound in debris, tape distortion caused by this pressure, and possible layer to layer adhesion. Print-through is increased by approximately 1.4 dB for every 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit).
> There might not be someone in the station 24 hours a day, > but I've never heard of a place that doesn't have > police/fire/ambulance services 24/7.
What station? I know a number of towns which don't have a police station (or even a police department). The fire "station" is a shed with an old fire engine in it. It is manned by volunteers when they are called. Ambulance is a private company out of town.
> we've had 24/7 fire/ambulance services at the least > for over a century.
Some places have, I agree. It has definitely not been universal since 1904 as you state.
If you are not familiar with rural and village life, I can understand your assumption that such services would be universal.
Nowadays, with modern communications, such coverage is more feasible. In 1904, my home town did not have electricity or telephone or paved roads. There were bells in steeples, which would call neighbors together in case of fire. That's it. Nothing like 24/7 coverage, though often neighbors lived close enough to provide some coverage for each other.
When I installed Vonage (at three different locations so far), you were most definitely told that you have to activate 911 and that it did not take effect immediately when you activated it. Activating it took about 10 seconds. It was part of the installation process, if I recollect. Once activated, I received an email telling me that it was not available yet. In a day or two, I received an email saying it was active.
Do you have some evidence of Vonage's 911 relay working only during office hours? Since, as far as I know, Vonage's 911 relay is a single 24/7 point for the entire country (in Arizona, I believe) I find that unlikely.
I could buy that some of the emergency services (police/fire/ambulance) are only available during office hours. Not all areas have 24/7 police/fire/ambulance services. That is not a Vonage issue, that is a locality issue. There are still areas not served by 911. In many rural areas, 911 relays to different dispatchers depending on the time of day (State Police vs. Town Police, for example). Vonage likely does not have direct access to 911 at that level.
I agree that 911 and VOIP need to work together much more. 911 is a complicated system. There seems to definitely be some turf issues I recollect from when it was deployed in my home state a few years back.
(For those who do not live in rural areas, please accept that very small towns often don't have the same level of emergency services coverage that cities do. I've been in towns where you have to call the State Police during work hours, because the policeman is volunteer and works during the day. You could call him once he got home from work though. In the town where I grew up you called Florence - she figured out who to call for you because she had a list of where all the volunteers worked.)
Probably depends on your state. The folk I know who do it do not feel that way.
While I don't home school (as I don't have kids), I know several who do and I have been involved in locating materials, researching state requirements (and will be providing guest lessons on my areas of knowledge).
In New Hampshire, the requirements are pretty flexible. They do require you tell them you are home schooling (so they know that the student isn't a truant), you give them some idea of what you are teaching (a one page summary is ok) and once a year you have someone whom YOU choose review your material with your kid. This is not a formal process. (This is to make sure the kid is actually learning the material intended to be learned.) That's it.
I haven't known anyone who was told the material was inappropriate, but I think that is probably self-selection from the sort of folk I know who do home schooling. In other words, submitting "we'll read from the Bible - or Koran, etc. - from dawn to dusk" likely would get questioned. So would "we'll commune with nature all day." In other words, there has to be some GENERAL education in the material.
In New Hampshire, at least, a home schooler has full access to all the local school's resources. So, if you need access to a school lab, you can get it. You can also send a home schooled kid to regular school for any portion of the year (like every Wednesday or whatever). You do need to tell the school beforehand so they can include it in their planning.
Other states may be more difficult (or even easier) to deal with. So, YMMV.
Actually, I used to write document conversion programs many years ago (back when dedicated word processors were still common). There were a couple of document formats which did support forward compatibility. It's been 25 years, but I believe IBM was one. The other escapes me (maybe Aquarius?). (I guess you can count SGML as supporting forward compatibility too.)
Basically, an older program could read any version of the document format. When it encountered elements it did not recognize, it retained them, but ignored them for rendering purposes. So, when the document was saved, the ignored elements were saved with it. A newer version of the word processor could then use them, even after the older version had edited the document.
You are mixing programs and document formats. The two do not have to have the same behavior.
It does depend on the version of Word which created the.DOC file, the method of saving (fast save vs. normal) and how heavily edited the document.
I just searched several hundred.DOC files for human-readable strings. Twelve documents had any significant human-readable text in them, barring phrases such as "Word.Document.8", "Dan Jenkins", etc. - document metadata, in other words.
Some others had phrases or occaisional paragraphs which were human-readable, the rest was not.
Years ago I wrote document conversion software (back when dedicated word processors were still common). One of the last conversions I was involved in was Microsoft Word. Their format was extremely complicated compared to the majority of word processors of the time. The format was also not linear. You had to follow binary pointers from section to section of the document. So, the contents of paragraph 23 might preceed paragraph 5. Also, deleted material could well be retained in the document.
The bank was FAXING customer financials to the junk yard owner for several years. He finally sued to recover the costs of fax supplies - and presumably effort.
"The normal English speaking rate is between 130-200 words per minute (wpm).
My bad.:( OTOH, when composing or coding, is your output 100 wpm? Perhaps when writing fiction, but I doubt it coding.
And I doubt it when writing fiction, or creating anything.
In spurts everything flows and 100 wpm may be feasible, but most of the time there are pauses for thoughts to coalesce.
If normal speech is 130-200 wpm, I wonder how much typically are noise words (ummm, you know, like those).
It's located in Hampton Beach. This is less than an hour from Boston and the Route 128 belt. About a quarter million who live in New Hampshire are within an hour of it. It is a major tourist location for the region. New Hampshire's economy is heavily based on tourists. I believe Hampton Beach alone has several hundred thousand visitors every summer. The state gets millions.
Myth: No Terminal Services client
Fact: rdesktop worked fine for years now
stratjakt commented:
TFA is talking about a client, not a server. We need to be able to start a windows terminal session from a linux desktop.
I can tell you that I couldn't use linux on my desktop box at work for this very reason, I regulary have to connect to clients machines via Terminal Services, or PCAnywhere.
I may have some techie cred in our office, but I have no say in what OS our clients want to run, and I can't tell them to install VNC or anything.
Uh. RDesktop is a Windows Terminal Server client. I've used it to connect to Windows Servers for several years.
I'm using one of the Mouse Systems reflective mouse pads right now. Of course, not with the original optical mouse. We sold them back in 1985 if I recollect right. I found a stack in storage awhile back. Makes a pretty good mouse pad for a standard optical mouse.
To keep this relevant to Microsoft's new mouse, I shall observe that Microsoft definitely didn't make the first optical ones. We've been selling technology for the last 3 decades. Their first couple of generations of serial mice were very reliable and lasted well. We had trouble with the next wave, and we stopped carrying Microsoft Mice then. Recent (last 4 years) opticals have been pretty good. Personally, I can't find a use for the extra buttons and scrolling features. Some customers like them.
Based on the appearance of this new mouse, it does resemble the Apple ones. Personally, I don't like them. I prefer a distinct button I click, not depressing the mouse itself. That's personal taste.
I don't see any reason for hoopla over a mouse though. This does seem mainly a shill's free ad.
Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing or decrementing the numbers in it... This is a good extension for those who do a lot of research online.
Yup. I find this priceless while "researching" the webs many sequentially numbered jpegs.
In all seriousness, there are a number of other types of sites which maintain inventory or articles in sequentially numbered designs. In those cases it can be nice to to walk through inventory or other pages sequentially. For example, (an antique weapons dealer site, Joe Salter) has sequentially numbered items, but no way to browse through them except by category and then clicking on each item, back and forth. There are other sites I've visited where Magpie would be handy too.
Disclaimer: Yes, my company did design the JoeSalter site. That's why it came to mind when I was thinking of an example. We have no financial involvement in the site.
> The question wasn't "Is it illegal?" > It was "Why is it illegal?".
I missed that question, partly because it appears self-evident to me.
Mail belongs to the recipient. It is property. You cannot take, alter or use someone's property without permission. Opening an envelope is equivalent to breaking and entering. The mailer has entrusted the mailed item to the post office to deliver. While in their possession, they are obligated to deliver it to the recipient, with the contents intact and sealed as it was when mailed. Delivery of email is a US Postal Service monopoly, which is why tampering with the mail is a federal felony. It is interfering with a government agent.
You can do the research yourself for the precise legalities. The postal service was established by the US Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, if I recollect). It is regulated under several different sets of laws, including the PES.
In other countries, of course, the rules are different.
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My point, which may not have been clear I admit, was that calling 911 *FIRST* to test, before calling the dispatchers on a non-emergency number, can be a problem in some jurisdictions. I would think most places would be happy to allow the test - if they knew about it first. Once a 911 call comes in, without such a warning, the cops must roll a car in many areas nowadays.
It's like testing a fire or intrusion alarm which auto-dials 911. Most places no longer allow that due to the high rate of false alarms, I know. But, before that restriction was prevalent, you called the dispatchers and asked if you could test your alarm system. I never had a problem doing that. But, an inadvertant alarm call merited a $125 fee - on the first occurrence. Admittedly, the town waived it for us, but they did send us the bill to get the point across. (That was about 20 years ago.)
Obviously it varies depending on your needs and your existing phone system configuration.
We switched a client to VOIP because the phone lines were *LESS* reliable than their broadband (cable) data line. They gained much better sound quality and no longer had calls randomly cross-connected to neighboring buildings either. Obviously, their neighborhood had some local wiring issues. They had spent four years trying to get the phone company to resolve them. (I suspect the phone company would have eventually resolved them, but it likely would have required rewiring the neighborhood, which had a lot of legacy cabling issues from a building boom some years earlier. A phone company tech said it'd probably be at least five more years before they'd get to rewire that area. For example, DSL wasn't available there due to load coils and other wiring issues, even though it was well within the distance limits.)
The monthly cost per line went from about $30 plus calls ($50) to about $30. They had three lines. Since they had enough internal phone capacity, we simply used VOIP as a POTS replacement, so they didn't need VOIP phones. Other than the VOIP equipment, which cost $100 (two units needed), there were no additional equipment costs. Our labor was about a day. Payback was about 5 months.
Everyone's situation is different.
Depending on how your local jurisdiction works, calling 911 without an emergency may constitute a crime. In Hawaii, it is a misdeamenor. Some areas in the country have a $1,000 fine and potentially jail time - presumably that is for flagrant false alarms. It would be foolish to risk that without checking with your local police department FIRST.
Calling the local police and asking whether you can test your 911 calling (explaining you now have VOIP) *BEFORE* you just call 911 would be prudent.
Since Alaska (and presumably other jurisdictions) apparently requires a visit by a police officer for each 911 call, no matter how it is ended, they may well consider any false 911 call to be an offense. Which is reasonable on the police's part, it could actually be an emergency, but the caller no longer feels safe saying so, so they've got to check it out. Most jurisdictions charge for false alarms, often rather expensively.
> Sounds more like they've patented unorganized data...
Isn't unorganized data equivalent to noise?
So, they've patented static, in other words.
What an idiotic patent [office]...
Novell & Linux work quite well together in my experience.
(Not even counting that Novell owns Suse Linux now.)
Your school wouldn't need to buy new computers.
This isn't about new computers.
It is about software, not hardware.
The Disk Operating System (DOS) was definitely an innovation. No more loading paper tapes. Files identified by name, rather than location. Easier interactive invocation of executables. A number of different improvements combined to create something which was an innovation over previous ways of doing things.
I realize for those who didn't start out with punch cards and paper tape, and those who don't distinguish between the concept of a Disk Operating System and the much later implementation of MS-DOS, it's easy to be snide.
Without a frame of reference spanning the transition created by an innovation, many innovations, in hindsight, appear obvious. They often have already become the norm and people no longer recollect how things used to be, nor why it was innovative to change these things.
That is why the study of history is valuable. You can have a frame of reference spanning a innovative transition by either living through it or by learning about the before and after of it.
To simply snidely criticize without understanding is the mark of a fool (which I have been many times myself).
You are correct. I was wrong to state two Lagrange points are stable without some qualification.
. asp).
/. zeitgest FWIW.
Since we were talking about Earth-Moon Lagrange points (presumably, as I did not RTFA). This system does exceed the stability ratio, so I didn't feel the need to qualify it. As you point out the Earth-Sun system also has two stable Lagrange points, as well as many other bodies in our solar system.
While L4 & L5 are valuable real estate (in a sense) as the article apparently implies, L1, L2, & L3 are also of value for low energy transport nodes. (http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0207/21highway/ and http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050416/bob9
Of course, trying to try L1, L2 and L3 into choke points such as L4 & L5 would be a fuel expensive proposition.
In any event, keeping all of these points freely available I feel ought to bring far more benefits than restricting access to any of them. Again, I did not RTFA, so I'm just responding to the
Two words: Orbital mechanics.
g range.html
There are exactly and only five Lagrange points in any pair of orbiting bodies. Three are unstable and two are stable.
http://www.physics.montana.edu/faculty/cornish/la
> A HDD will last about 10 years with constant use, but just
> sitting on the shelf in a dry enviorment it should last
> pretty much forever.
There's considerable debate of the "last pretty much forever."
How long can bearings sit before freezing up?
Fluid bearings suffer from evaporation, for example.
Hard drive platters have a very thin lubricant layer, if I recollect. How long does that last before chemical degradation?
Devices cannot be presumed to "last forever" just because they are not being used. In fact, just sitting and not being used may actually shorten their life.
(While it is not a fair comparison, try starting a vehicle that's been in storage for a couple of years - seals dry out, mechanisms gum up, and so forth.)
So, the jury is out on how long a hard drive sitting on a shelf will last.
> Up to 1,700 F. for one hour with the interior temperature
0 .shtml#SEC759-SUBSEC3
> remaining below 350 F.
Fine for paper (Fahrenheit 451).
Not so fine for magnetic tape (125 F) or CD/DVD (248 F) media, both would be damaged long before 350 F.
There are a number of data media rated fire resistant safes that will keep under 125 F for an hour for a 1800 F fire.
From
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib430
The glass transition temperature for polycarbonate is approximately 140 degrees Celsius. If the temperature gets within 20 degrees Celsius of the glass transition temperature, there is a likelihood of significant disc deformation.
From
http://vsg.cape.com/~pbaum/magtape.htm
Other than a fire, the real danger of high temperatures (above 80 degrees Fahrenheit) is an increase in tape pack tightness caused by wound in debris, tape distortion caused by this pressure, and possible layer to layer adhesion. Print-through is increased by approximately 1.4 dB for every 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit).
GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC)
I just looked it up. I had no idea either.
> There might not be someone in the station 24 hours a day,
> but I've never heard of a place that doesn't have
> police/fire/ambulance services 24/7.
What station? I know a number of towns which don't have a police station (or even a police department). The fire "station" is a shed with an old fire engine in it. It is manned by volunteers when they are called. Ambulance is a private company out of town.
> we've had 24/7 fire/ambulance services at the least
> for over a century.
Some places have, I agree. It has definitely not been universal since 1904 as you state.
If you are not familiar with rural and village life, I can understand your assumption that such services would be universal.
Nowadays, with modern communications, such coverage is more feasible. In 1904, my home town did not have electricity or telephone or paved roads. There were bells in steeples, which would call neighbors together in case of fire. That's it. Nothing like 24/7 coverage, though often neighbors lived close enough to provide some coverage for each other.
When I installed Vonage (at three different locations so far), you were most definitely told that you have to activate 911 and that it did not take effect immediately when you activated it. Activating it took about 10 seconds. It was part of the installation process, if I recollect. Once activated, I received an email telling me that it was not available yet. In a day or two, I received an email saying it was active.
Do you have some evidence of Vonage's 911 relay working only during office hours? Since, as far as I know, Vonage's 911 relay is a single 24/7 point for the entire country (in Arizona, I believe) I find that unlikely.
I could buy that some of the emergency services (police/fire/ambulance) are only available during office hours. Not all areas have 24/7 police/fire/ambulance services. That is not a Vonage issue, that is a locality issue. There are still areas not served by 911. In many rural areas, 911 relays to different dispatchers depending on the time of day (State Police vs. Town Police, for example). Vonage likely does not have direct access to 911 at that level.
I agree that 911 and VOIP need to work together much more. 911 is a complicated system. There seems to definitely be some turf issues I recollect from when it was deployed in my home state a few years back.
(For those who do not live in rural areas, please accept that very small towns often don't have the same level of emergency services coverage that cities do. I've been in towns where you have to call the State Police during work hours, because the policeman is volunteer and works during the day. You could call him once he got home from work though. In the town where I grew up you called Florence - she figured out who to call for you because she had a list of where all the volunteers worked.)
Probably depends on your state. The folk I know who do it do not feel that way.
While I don't home school (as I don't have kids), I know several who do and I have been involved in locating materials, researching state requirements (and will be providing guest lessons on my areas of knowledge).
In New Hampshire, the requirements are pretty flexible. They do require you tell them you are home schooling (so they know that the student isn't a truant), you give them some idea of what you are teaching (a one page summary is ok) and once a year you have someone whom YOU choose review your material with your kid. This is not a formal process. (This is to make sure the kid is actually learning the material intended to be learned.) That's it.
I haven't known anyone who was told the material was inappropriate, but I think that is probably self-selection from the sort of folk I know who do home schooling. In other words, submitting "we'll read from the Bible - or Koran, etc. - from dawn to dusk" likely would get questioned. So would "we'll commune with nature all day." In other words, there has to be some GENERAL education in the material.
In New Hampshire, at least, a home schooler has full access to all the local school's resources. So, if you need access to a school lab, you can get it. You can also send a home schooled kid to regular school for any portion of the year (like every Wednesday or whatever). You do need to tell the school beforehand so they can include it in their planning.
Other states may be more difficult (or even easier) to deal with. So, YMMV.
Actually, I used to write document conversion programs many years ago (back when dedicated word processors were still common). There were a couple of document formats which did support forward compatibility. It's been 25 years, but I believe IBM was one. The other escapes me (maybe Aquarius?). (I guess you can count SGML as supporting forward compatibility too.)
Basically, an older program could read any version of the document format. When it encountered elements it did not recognize, it retained them, but ignored them for rendering purposes. So, when the document was saved, the ignored elements were saved with it. A newer version of the word processor could then use them, even after the older version had edited the document.
You are mixing programs and document formats. The two do not have to have the same behavior.
It does depend on the version of Word which created the .DOC file, the method of saving (fast save vs. normal) and how heavily edited the document.
.DOC files for human-readable strings. Twelve documents had any significant human-readable text in them, barring phrases such as "Word.Document.8", "Dan Jenkins", etc. - document metadata, in other words.
I just searched several hundred
Some others had phrases or occaisional paragraphs which were human-readable, the rest was not.
Years ago I wrote document conversion software (back when dedicated word processors were still common). One of the last conversions I was involved in was Microsoft Word. Their format was extremely complicated compared to the majority of word processors of the time. The format was also not linear. You had to follow binary pointers from section to section of the document. So, the contents of paragraph 23 might preceed paragraph 5. Also, deleted material could well be retained in the document.
Not quite right.
The bank was FAXING customer financials to the junk yard owner for several years. He finally sued to recover the costs of fax supplies - and presumably effort.
My bad. :( OTOH, when composing or coding, is your output 100 wpm? Perhaps when writing fiction, but I doubt it coding.
And I doubt it when writing fiction, or creating anything. In spurts everything flows and 100 wpm may be feasible, but most of the time there are pauses for thoughts to coalesce.
If normal speech is 130-200 wpm, I wonder how much typically are noise words (ummm, you know, like those).
Then you type s-l-o-w-e-r than spoken language.
"The normal English speaking rate is between 130-200 words per minute (wpm).1 2576
Reference: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=1
It's located in Hampton Beach. This is less than an hour from Boston and the Route 128 belt. About a quarter million who live in New Hampshire are within an hour of it. It is a major tourist location for the region. New Hampshire's economy is heavily based on tourists. I believe Hampton Beach alone has several hundred thousand visitors every summer. The state gets millions.
Fact: rdesktop worked fine for years now
stratjakt commented:
TFA is talking about a client, not a server. We need to be able to start a windows terminal session from a linux desktop.
I can tell you that I couldn't use linux on my desktop box at work for this very reason, I regulary have to connect to clients machines via Terminal Services, or PCAnywhere.
I may have some techie cred in our office, but I have no say in what OS our clients want to run, and I can't tell them to install VNC or anything.
Uh. RDesktop is a Windows Terminal Server client. I've used it to connect to Windows Servers for several years.
AFAIK, RFID tags have *NO* batteries. The power comes from the reader. They are passive devices which are read by a scanner. Effectively like a UPC.
I'm using one of the Mouse Systems reflective mouse pads right now. Of course, not with the original optical mouse. We sold them back in 1985 if I recollect right. I found a stack in storage awhile back. Makes a pretty good mouse pad for a standard optical mouse.
To keep this relevant to Microsoft's new mouse, I shall observe that Microsoft definitely didn't make the first optical ones. We've been selling technology for the last 3 decades. Their first couple of generations of serial mice were very reliable and lasted well. We had trouble with the next wave, and we stopped carrying Microsoft Mice then. Recent (last 4 years) opticals have been pretty good. Personally, I can't find a use for the extra buttons and scrolling features. Some customers like them.
Based on the appearance of this new mouse, it does resemble the Apple ones. Personally, I don't like them. I prefer a distinct button I click, not depressing the mouse itself. That's personal taste.
I don't see any reason for hoopla over a mouse though. This does seem mainly a shill's free ad.
Yup. I find this priceless while "researching" the webs many sequentially numbered jpegs.
In all seriousness, there are a number of other types of sites which maintain inventory or articles in sequentially numbered designs. In those cases it can be nice to to walk through inventory or other pages sequentially. For example, (an antique weapons dealer site, Joe Salter) has sequentially numbered items, but no way to browse through them except by category and then clicking on each item, back and forth. There are other sites I've visited where Magpie would be handy too.
Disclaimer: Yes, my company did design the JoeSalter site. That's why it came to mind when I was thinking of an example. We have no financial involvement in the site.
> The question wasn't "Is it illegal?"
> It was "Why is it illegal?".
I missed that question, partly because it appears self-evident to me.
Mail belongs to the recipient. It is property. You cannot take, alter or use someone's property without permission. Opening an envelope is equivalent to breaking and entering. The mailer has entrusted the mailed item to the post office to deliver. While in their possession, they are obligated to deliver it to the recipient, with the contents intact and sealed as it was when mailed. Delivery of email is a US Postal Service monopoly, which is why tampering with the mail is a federal felony. It is interfering with a government agent.
You can do the research yourself for the precise legalities. The postal service was established by the US Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, if I recollect). It is regulated under several different sets of laws, including the PES.
In other countries, of course, the rules are different.
Of course, the usual disclaimer, IANAL.