Its a caterpillar D9 model tracked bulldozer. They are pretty big almost 500 hp, and you would have to be in heavy industry, like mining or construction to be likely to operate one. Cat has a picture of one in action.
New VA investors could be considered contrarian, early VA investors would be sheep, or pigs. Contrarians would be the people who were selling in 1999 and 2000 and are big on the telecommunications industry now.
Your example of coke cans is a good one, because everyone knows that Coca-Cola was the first, and all the others are simply imitations. We get the proper name because we were the first United States of America, at least recorded by western history, so the others can be the united states of america, we get to be The United States of America. I think the other countries just want to be identified as Americans because were so much richer.
It was actually a pretty good way of enforcing a monopoly, and that's why the tables were overturned, with the speech about turning the house of the LORD into a den of thieves. The money changers exchanged other currencies for temple shekels. Which were used to purchase temple animals that would meet the requirements for approval to be offered. Animals had to be without blemish, so imagine if the inspectors for blemishes got to keep the animals and could sell certified animals. This was the practice that was so violently opposed by Jesus.
Its all pretty specific to each system then, but my advice would be learn the system report command for each OS that you are interested in purchasing, since most of them originally had an OS you can learn quite a bit about the internals. Also learn the ideosyncracies of the manufacturer's comps. I had a friend with a perfectly good Alpha that's network card was only recognised under WindowsNT, because it wasn't the original DEC card. Also you generally cant pick up proprietary stuff for nearly as cheap (under about $200) as old intel stuff, unless its total crap.
My point wasn't that they were fair, or even all good papers, but if you want to read about the newest trends in business and finance, grab the WSJ or FT. They both have covered the adoption of Linux pretty well. If you want to know what is going on in politics there isn't much substitute for the Post or Times. You do have to retain your judgement when reading any major paper, and check the op ed for a quick clue to the editors view points, but there aren't many unbiased sources. I'd have to say that I like that, because you get someone's view of the world. I enjoy seening another person's viewpoint whether or not I agree with it.
In other news USA Today changed their name to No Kidding. USA today is not the best paper for eposing new trends, in the world. The WSJ or FT, for business, WP or NYT, for Politics, and there are several good international papers for foreign news, and analysis. USA Today is sort of the everyman's paper, its more or less a recap of broad trends, and reports on older stories that might be impacting their more diverse readership. Also, Linux is quite an upstart on desktops, which are the computers most USA Today readers care about. In Desktops its less focused, doesn't have much market share, and isn't well known to people outside of the tech world. On servers its a worthy competitor to the big boys, but the readers of USA Today are less likely to have used, or even seen a server.
I'd guess that this is probably most of the problem with pinball's public popularity. Most of the big pinball fans, probably bought a machine rather than feed quarters into the one at the arcade.
I thought about making a LED powered projector, and priced it out, but never put it together, because my room isn't big enough for a projector. I don't know about the color, but would guess that LEDs would be in the 7000K+ range, since the're just a filter on blue ones. I think an array of about 60 would be close to 3000 lumens. But they should last alot longer than the other options, and you won't have to cool them as much.
The commons descibes the shared land around a village in the middle ages. Today, it is used, mostly by economists, to describe shared resouces. The economist usually study the different methods societies organize around managming the commons. Since each user using the commons for their own full best interest results in a far from optimal result, societies have many structures to limit use of the commons. GPL is probably the most interesting one I have seen, but the lobster harvesting claims on the east coast are a close rival.
You can probably find it fairly cheap in used book stores, there was a reprinting of it in paperback, after Schwarzkopf had it on his desk during a major interview. If you're really interested here's a cheap copy on ebay, not mine, as I still haven't finished it.
Panzer Battles by Maj. Gen. F. W. Von Mellenthin. Its very good, but quite technical, I found it quite similar to reading disertations, not as bad as say IEEE's Spectrum, but certainly not bedtime/beach reading for me.
One of the best sites avalable for broadband, is DSL reports. AFAIK it is simply the aggrigation of many IMOs and YMMV opinions of various DSL providers. While they are certainly much more local and easier to collect data on, there is no reason that a large collection of individual's opinions couldn't be aggrigated to get the best picture of the services. Incidentally that principle is what drives the US's free speach and free markets.
I personally use and love both Open Office Calc, and MS Excell, but that's mostly for stats and financial data, which is their strong points. However, StarOffice 5 allowed you to create functions using C or C++, I can't recall which, its been too long since I looked at it. I don't know if its in the newest version but you might want to see if that meets your needs. It looked to be pretty powerful, more so than Excel's add-in functions. I was wanting to add Black-Scholes to it as a function, but gave up and just made it a sheet. Also Maple, once your used to the odd syntax of the command line, is excellent unless your doing lots of DSP type stuff, which Matlab excelled at. I haven't used Mathmatica, but everything I've seen or heard about it has been excellent, and I would like to try it if I had anymore heavy duty math to do.
Actually by the time we invade Iraq, even if we had them, they would sit unused. Deserts are almost ideal for tank battles. I still have an excellent book by a military stratigest, written from the stand point of being at the WWII African battles, he actually went down to study these. Since by and large tank strategies haven't changed alot since WWI or even before, the strategy didn't change the peices just got bigger. Our tank heavy forces are nearly unbeatable. That is one of the main reasons Desert Storm, was so much more successful than Vietnam. Wheeled and tracked vehicles don't have many disadvantages to walkers on flat open ground. This might get used in heavly damaged urban areas, but that would be about it.
If you don't want to see them set your preferences above 0 or so. However there is some pretty good stuff that gets missed or occasionally suppressed at 0.
There is a drought there, so this year they requre additional corn, in future years, barring additional rainfall shortage, they would like to export to Europe. Europe will refuse GE tainted corn, without an export market future crops would be much more difficult to sell.
I don't know about a track ball, I have to clean mine regularly on dry land, wouldn't want to imagine an hour's worth of residue from salt water. I think an external optical mouse might be the best choice.
Comcast is purchasing AT&T's cable operations sometime this year, I can't remember the exact date. I think the whole thing will be called Comcast/AT&T but I don't know if the local operations will keep their separate brands or merge them as well.
OC-192 they are all multiples, you're right but the economics are the same, revenues don't even come close to the cost of bandwidth if everyone runs their line anywhere near saturation.
Cost of Dial-up: $15. Cost of Additional line: $20. Premium paid for faster acces: $5. Doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me. Watch one they can segment out heavy users for the expensive service, they'll start offering no-frills probably download limited service for about $30 or less a month.
Same reason that staying over on a Saturday saves you most of the price of the plane ticket. Companies know that business users can save quite a bit throught their residential services, so they wish to recover some of that savings, go check the prices for T-1 or DS3 access sometime. To recover some of the savings they introduce the business package. The static IP is an indicator that the user's alternative is likely to be something priced in the T-1 range, so they can double home access prices and still save that user a bundle. Additionally, users that use static IPs and other business class services are likely to use more bandwidth, and cost more to serve than the average (web surfing, emailing, etc) client.
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Its a caterpillar D9 model tracked bulldozer. They are pretty big almost 500 hp, and you would have to be in heavy industry, like mining or construction to be likely to operate one. Cat has a picture of one in action.
New VA investors could be considered contrarian, early VA investors would be sheep, or pigs. Contrarians would be the people who were selling in 1999 and 2000 and are big on the telecommunications industry now.
Your example of coke cans is a good one, because everyone knows that Coca-Cola was the first, and all the others are simply imitations. We get the proper name because we were the first United States of America, at least recorded by western history, so the others can be the united states of america, we get to be The United States of America. I think the other countries just want to be identified as Americans because were so much richer.
It was actually a pretty good way of enforcing a monopoly, and that's why the tables were overturned, with the speech about turning the house of the LORD into a den of thieves. The money changers exchanged other currencies for temple shekels. Which were used to purchase temple animals that would meet the requirements for approval to be offered. Animals had to be without blemish, so imagine if the inspectors for blemishes got to keep the animals and could sell certified animals. This was the practice that was so violently opposed by Jesus.
Its all pretty specific to each system then, but my advice would be learn the system report command for each OS that you are interested in purchasing, since most of them originally had an OS you can learn quite a bit about the internals. Also learn the ideosyncracies of the manufacturer's comps. I had a friend with a perfectly good Alpha that's network card was only recognised under WindowsNT, because it wasn't the original DEC card. Also you generally cant pick up proprietary stuff for nearly as cheap (under about $200) as old intel stuff, unless its total crap.
My point wasn't that they were fair, or even all good papers, but if you want to read about the newest trends in business and finance, grab the WSJ or FT. They both have covered the adoption of Linux pretty well. If you want to know what is going on in politics there isn't much substitute for the Post or Times. You do have to retain your judgement when reading any major paper, and check the op ed for a quick clue to the editors view points, but there aren't many unbiased sources. I'd have to say that I like that, because you get someone's view of the world. I enjoy seening another person's viewpoint whether or not I agree with it.
In other news USA Today changed their name to No Kidding.
USA today is not the best paper for eposing new trends, in the world. The WSJ or FT, for business, WP or NYT, for Politics, and there are several good international papers for foreign news, and analysis. USA Today is sort of the everyman's paper, its more or less a recap of broad trends, and reports on older stories that might be impacting their more diverse readership.
Also, Linux is quite an upstart on desktops, which are the computers most USA Today readers care about. In Desktops its less focused, doesn't have much market share, and isn't well known to people outside of the tech world. On servers its a worthy competitor to the big boys, but the readers of USA Today are less likely to have used, or even seen a server.
Alt-F4 works on most of them, too.
I'd guess that this is probably most of the problem with pinball's public popularity. Most of the big pinball fans, probably bought a machine rather than feed quarters into the one at the arcade.
I thought about making a LED powered projector, and priced it out, but never put it together, because my room isn't big enough for a projector. I don't know about the color, but would guess that LEDs would be in the 7000K+ range, since the're just a filter on blue ones. I think an array of about 60 would be close to 3000 lumens. But they should last alot longer than the other options, and you won't have to cool them as much.
EV & Maelstrom are my favorite mac games.
The commons descibes the shared land around a village in the middle ages. Today, it is used, mostly by economists, to describe shared resouces. The economist usually study the different methods societies organize around managming the commons. Since each user using the commons for their own full best interest results in a far from optimal result, societies have many structures to limit use of the commons. GPL is probably the most interesting one I have seen, but the lobster harvesting claims on the east coast are a close rival.
You can probably find it fairly cheap in used book stores, there was a reprinting of it in paperback, after Schwarzkopf had it on his desk during a major interview. If you're really interested here's a cheap copy on ebay, not mine, as I still haven't finished it.
Panzer Battles by Maj. Gen. F. W. Von Mellenthin. Its very good, but quite technical, I found it quite similar to reading disertations, not as bad as say IEEE's Spectrum, but certainly not bedtime/beach reading for me.
Cell One, at least in MT, has switched to CDMA. The service isn't great, because of the mountians, but it is much better.
One of the best sites avalable for broadband, is DSL reports. AFAIK it is simply the aggrigation of many IMOs and YMMV opinions of various DSL providers. While they are certainly much more local and easier to collect data on, there is no reason that a large collection of individual's opinions couldn't be aggrigated to get the best picture of the services. Incidentally that principle is what drives the US's free speach and free markets.
I personally use and love both Open Office Calc, and MS Excell, but that's mostly for stats and financial data, which is their strong points. However, StarOffice 5 allowed you to create functions using C or C++, I can't recall which, its been too long since I looked at it. I don't know if its in the newest version but you might want to see if that meets your needs. It looked to be pretty powerful, more so than Excel's add-in functions. I was wanting to add Black-Scholes to it as a function, but gave up and just made it a sheet. Also Maple, once your used to the odd syntax of the command line, is excellent unless your doing lots of DSP type stuff, which Matlab excelled at. I haven't used Mathmatica, but everything I've seen or heard about it has been excellent, and I would like to try it if I had anymore heavy duty math to do.
Actually by the time we invade Iraq, even if we had them, they would sit unused. Deserts are almost ideal for tank battles. I still have an excellent book by a military stratigest, written from the stand point of being at the WWII African battles, he actually went down to study these. Since by and large tank strategies haven't changed alot since WWI or even before, the strategy didn't change the peices just got bigger. Our tank heavy forces are nearly unbeatable. That is one of the main reasons Desert Storm, was so much more successful than Vietnam. Wheeled and tracked vehicles don't have many disadvantages to walkers on flat open ground. This might get used in heavly damaged urban areas, but that would be about it.
If you don't want to see them set your preferences above 0 or so. However there is some pretty good stuff that gets missed or occasionally suppressed at 0.
There is a drought there, so this year they requre additional corn, in future years, barring additional rainfall shortage, they would like to export to Europe. Europe will refuse GE tainted corn, without an export market future crops would be much more difficult to sell.
I don't know about a track ball, I have to clean mine regularly on dry land, wouldn't want to imagine an hour's worth of residue from salt water. I think an external optical mouse might be the best choice.
Comcast is purchasing AT&T's cable operations sometime this year, I can't remember the exact date. I think the whole thing will be called Comcast/AT&T but I don't know if the local operations will keep their separate brands or merge them as well.
OC-192 they are all multiples, you're right but the economics are the same, revenues don't even come close to the cost of bandwidth if everyone runs their line anywhere near saturation.
Cost of Dial-up: $15.
Cost of Additional line: $20.
Premium paid for faster acces: $5.
Doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me. Watch one they can segment out heavy users for the expensive service, they'll start offering no-frills probably download limited service for about $30 or less a month.
Same reason that staying over on a Saturday saves you most of the price of the plane ticket. Companies know that business users can save quite a bit throught their residential services, so they wish to recover some of that savings, go check the prices for T-1 or DS3 access sometime. To recover some of the savings they introduce the business package. The static IP is an indicator that the user's alternative is likely to be something priced in the T-1 range, so they can double home access prices and still save that user a bundle. Additionally, users that use static IPs and other business class services are likely to use more bandwidth, and cost more to serve than the average (web surfing, emailing, etc) client.