Nautical miles are slightly longer than "plain" miles. They are 6076 feet, which is the length of a one minute arc on the earth's surface. I have no idea how the 5280' mile got its length.
I think the main reason that we haven't picked up the metric system is that American's have learned about how big a foot, yard, gallon, and the like are, but don't have any good estimates for how big kilograms, liters, and centimeters are. Also the average american hasn't done dynamics under the english system, messing up lbf and lbm more times than I could count in college was enough for me to see the logic in the metric system.
Integration issues are half the fun of the job. I'm usually angry at the time, but I always learn something when I put together a system. Last time it was why doesn't this boot, turns out the mobo was badly labeled and I was trying to run my Duron at 133MHz bus with normal voltage.
I would suggest looking on newegg, comparing the prices to pricewatch and unless something was significantly cheaper (>10% or so) going with pricewatch. You might also check the boards at anandtech and arstechnica they usually have some excellent deals on a pretty diverse mix of used hardware.
Feel free to drive REALLY FREAKING FAST through eastern Oregon or eastern Washington.
Hey, thats my home your talking about. If you follow his advice, do be careful, the cops are like locus around Ritxvile, and speeding tickets are pretty high in Washington. Actually that county has one of the highest fell aaleep at the wheel per capita death rates because its so boring and unpopulated.
Are the real people ads that successful? I didn't like em much, but have been considering a Mac since the Emac came out. Also, the Xserves seem quite cheap compared to a similarly equiped Dell with Windows. I had noticed the beginnings of buzz about them but attributed it to those, rather than the ads.
These systems will probably never be on store shelves. They are sold at the online arm of Wal-mart. Why give up higher prices and margins, in a store if you don't have to, they currently only sell HPQ systems in their bricks and morter stores. I would guess that they will add emachines, becuase its easier to negotiate if you have a second supplier. Also, the average wal-mart.com shopper is more likely to have, at least, heard of linux than a shopper in their physical stores.
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I wholeheartedly recommend Newton's Telecommunications Dictionary, its not exactly IT but has plenty of crossover with most IT stuff. Its a great reference that has quite a bit of info and background to almost all of the telecom industry jargon.
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You've never sighted in a rifle have you. All light, including the light that enters your scope travels in a straight line. Bullets of course follow a parabolic tragectory, and since we know this you simply adjust you sight for the rise or more likely fall of the bullet at the expected range. If you are shooting at distances other than your sighted in range, you have to adjust your aim for the difference in drop.
Scopes can be adjusted for ranges up to several hundered meters, so lasers should be equally good.
Its likely to be at least OC-48 (~2.5 gbps) in the smaller areas, and OC-192 (~10 gbps) in the major cities. However you can't eat bandwidth you need at least a little cash.
This article was written from a business standpoint. Businesses have very different concerns and values than hobbiests and home users, but I'm sure you know that. The cost differential is not nearly as large between a Dell and a similarly configured Mac. Then the study sites a lower annual maintenence cost which I would guess is a result of having fewer help desk and support people. Partly becuase less stuff works with it, so the stuff that does works well, becuase both sides have more time for testing.
My own guess is that while Microsoft gets (and deserves) lots of the blame for unstable PCs running Windows, lots of it can be heaped on the heads of some of the crappier companies making software and hardware. Macs have much less of this problem, since these companies generally stay out of the Mac market.
I started my college career as an electricall engineer, and we were reqired to take a C++ class, the only projects we did that I remembered were a game in which we added the variables reqired to make it work, and the final project a pool simulation, it didn't have teams and you just watched the balls go around the table (bonus points if you added pockets), but it was fun to turn the friction down and hit the cue hard to have all the balls go screeming around the table. The class was at Rose-Hulman and I don't remember the prof's name, sorry. More recently I have been working to prick up programming again and the book had a simple exercise for rote beginners, making a F to C converter.
I've never heard of this application of a co-op before but I ve been in others, and this one sounds like a pretty good one. First, someone else said it but it is truely important you have to make sure that all the members feel like they belong. Not in a freindly way, although that helps, but in the sense of their actions impose a cost on other members. Second, I would suggest incorporating to limit liability. Third, try to think of all the possible nast situations that could come up while you are writing the bylaws. You might want to go visit some established co-ops for ideas here. Finally, after you are more established a good idea to broaden membership is allow people to join without paying out any money, working for the co-op or something similar.
Good luck!
Verbal contracts under the UCC, the US standardizations of English common law, are legallly binding contracts, but if I remeber my business law correctly there has to be written evidence of the contract if the contract is for the purchase of goods over $100. Written evidence can be a note that mentions the conversation, I think a bill of sale or similar items that would inderectly refer to the verbal agreement.
You don't purchase the software itself, you license it. Contract law allows competent adults the ability to negotiate almost any deal, as long as a few requirements are met, there has to be consideration, usually dollars for goods or services, there has to be a date, the date on your recipt will work, and there is one additional reqirement that I don't remember. But the contract doesn't have to involve a sale of an item. Leases or even agreements to sell something in the future are allowed as contracts.
Even if true, it doesn't mean that the 96% who aren't being transfered are being axed. This is fairly common in politics, the department or bill with the funding, has budgets transfered to it and the staff doesn't change. It just restructures who pays for their salary and toys. Since congress and the taxpayers seem more willing to fund homeland security now, it makes sense to bureaucrats to tranfer budgets that it would be politically impossible to increase to the new popular department.
It would have been a great idea, except that Qwest can't afford the network now. They are facing their own cash crunch. The only suitors I have heard mentioned are AT&T, BT, and Colt Telecomm if they dont get all of KPNQwest's customers first. Qwest might surprise everyone with an offer, but I doubt their stock and bond holders would be very happy about it. They might get mad enough to do something about it, like can current managment.
Some American Express cards have no credit limit, purchases are approved based on your credit history. Ellison carries their centurian card, and I would guess that if he were to make a million dollar purchase, it would be approved.
Sonic Blue is clearancing their Pro Gear 1050 web tablets. They run linux on a TMTA processor, 128 MB of RAM, and a 5 gig hard drive They also have 802.11b cards and a PCMCIA slot. I had never heard of them prior to seeing the clearance sale, so I can't say anything about using it but it looks like it was a pretty nice little pad. The price is 599 USD while they last, when iniatally created they were 2800 USD.
You can't get blood from a stone, its tough to collect unsecured debts from bankrupt companies. I doubt that the collections problems are from companies that are still in business, its likely that they extended credit to any and all willing buyers during the good times, and now are trying to collect from these bankrupt companies which entails lots of court visits and negotiations with all the other creditors. They would have extended credit to show revenue growth to their owners and the public market analysts, which drove their increaseing stock price in 2000. Its sort of amazing the complete difference between then and now, the equity alone was worth several billion then, and now no one is willing to pay $200 million for their network assets.
Someone is going to become the next Standard Oil by scooping up all of these destressed telecomunications networks nursing them back to life over the next decade. Our kids will revile them as much as we do to Microsoft.
Actually it takes 0 to fly an airline jet. The computer can do it, if there are no problems. However because problems are not scheduled and computers are not to the level where they can adapt well, people are still needed for emergencies.
No, but most of the people who will blow more than 5000 on an amp are. I spent my cash on decent speakers, and a cheap amp and CD player and 14 gauge wire from wal-mart. I'm more than happy with the sound it all produces.
If you are spending mucho dinero on your amp, why are you running low bit rate mp3s through it, surely you can afford a larger hard drive (for higher bitrate mp3s) or some CDs. Better yet a turn table and records.
I have no idea if this would work, but would it be possible to query the kernal to obtain version numbers and apply the correct driver from a list of drivers compatable with the respective kernal you are using?
So if I get there really early can I have McNealy's office or Zander's old offfice? And if I get their offices can I make the decisions for the day?
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If you can convince him that you will have an equally capable replacement, I would guess that it would reduce his fears. Not knowing much about unix I would be concerned if I had to find a good unix admin myself.
Mems is the technology behind DLP the movie theater light projection. The only problems I have heard is that it takes some adjustment a few hours for you eyes to adjust to the rapid flashes, friends will likely get a headache the first time they come over.
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Nautical miles are slightly longer than "plain" miles. They are 6076 feet, which is the length of a one minute arc on the earth's surface. I have no idea how the 5280' mile got its length.
I think the main reason that we haven't picked up the metric system is that American's have learned about how big a foot, yard, gallon, and the like are, but don't have any good estimates for how big kilograms, liters, and centimeters are. Also the average american hasn't done dynamics under the english system, messing up lbf and lbm more times than I could count in college was enough for me to see the logic in the metric system.
Integration issues are half the fun of the job. I'm usually angry at the time, but I always learn something when I put together a system. Last time it was why doesn't this boot, turns out the mobo was badly labeled and I was trying to run my Duron at 133MHz bus with normal voltage. I would suggest looking on newegg, comparing the prices to pricewatch and unless something was significantly cheaper (>10% or so) going with pricewatch. You might also check the boards at anandtech and arstechnica they usually have some excellent deals on a pretty diverse mix of used hardware.
Feel free to drive REALLY FREAKING FAST through eastern Oregon or eastern Washington.
Hey, thats my home your talking about. If you follow his advice, do be careful, the cops are like locus around Ritxvile, and speeding tickets are pretty high in Washington. Actually that county has one of the highest fell aaleep at the wheel per capita death rates because its so boring and unpopulated.
Are the real people ads that successful? I didn't like em much, but have been considering a Mac since the Emac came out. Also, the Xserves seem quite cheap compared to a similarly equiped Dell with Windows. I had noticed the beginnings of buzz about them but attributed it to those, rather than the ads.
These systems will probably never be on store shelves. They are sold at the online arm of Wal-mart. Why give up higher prices and margins, in a store if you don't have to, they currently only sell HPQ systems in their bricks and morter stores. I would guess that they will add emachines, becuase its easier to negotiate if you have a second supplier. Also, the average wal-mart.com shopper is more likely to have, at least, heard of linux than a shopper in their physical stores.
I wholeheartedly recommend Newton's Telecommunications Dictionary, its not exactly IT but has plenty of crossover with most IT stuff. Its a great reference that has quite a bit of info and background to almost all of the telecom industry jargon.
You've never sighted in a rifle have you. All light, including the light that enters your scope travels in a straight line. Bullets of course follow a parabolic tragectory, and since we know this you simply adjust you sight for the rise or more likely fall of the bullet at the expected range. If you are shooting at distances other than your sighted in range, you have to adjust your aim for the difference in drop.
Scopes can be adjusted for ranges up to several hundered meters, so lasers should be equally good.
Its likely to be at least OC-48 (~2.5 gbps) in the smaller areas, and OC-192 (~10 gbps) in the major cities. However you can't eat bandwidth you need at least a little cash.
This article was written from a business standpoint. Businesses have very different concerns and values than hobbiests and home users, but I'm sure you know that. The cost differential is not nearly as large between a Dell and a similarly configured Mac. Then the study sites a lower annual maintenence cost which I would guess is a result of having fewer help desk and support people. Partly becuase less stuff works with it, so the stuff that does works well, becuase both sides have more time for testing. My own guess is that while Microsoft gets (and deserves) lots of the blame for unstable PCs running Windows, lots of it can be heaped on the heads of some of the crappier companies making software and hardware. Macs have much less of this problem, since these companies generally stay out of the Mac market.
I started my college career as an electricall engineer, and we were reqired to take a C++ class, the only projects we did that I remembered were a game in which we added the variables reqired to make it work, and the final project a pool simulation, it didn't have teams and you just watched the balls go around the table (bonus points if you added pockets), but it was fun to turn the friction down and hit the cue hard to have all the balls go screeming around the table. The class was at Rose-Hulman and I don't remember the prof's name, sorry. More recently I have been working to prick up programming again and the book had a simple exercise for rote beginners, making a F to C converter.
I've never heard of this application of a co-op before but I ve been in others, and this one sounds like a pretty good one. First, someone else said it but it is truely important you have to make sure that all the members feel like they belong. Not in a freindly way, although that helps, but in the sense of their actions impose a cost on other members. Second, I would suggest incorporating to limit liability. Third, try to think of all the possible nast situations that could come up while you are writing the bylaws. You might want to go visit some established co-ops for ideas here. Finally, after you are more established a good idea to broaden membership is allow people to join without paying out any money, working for the co-op or something similar. Good luck!
Verbal contracts under the UCC, the US standardizations of English common law, are legallly binding contracts, but if I remeber my business law correctly there has to be written evidence of the contract if the contract is for the purchase of goods over $100. Written evidence can be a note that mentions the conversation, I think a bill of sale or similar items that would inderectly refer to the verbal agreement. You don't purchase the software itself, you license it. Contract law allows competent adults the ability to negotiate almost any deal, as long as a few requirements are met, there has to be consideration, usually dollars for goods or services, there has to be a date, the date on your recipt will work, and there is one additional reqirement that I don't remember. But the contract doesn't have to involve a sale of an item. Leases or even agreements to sell something in the future are allowed as contracts.
Even if true, it doesn't mean that the 96% who aren't being transfered are being axed. This is fairly common in politics, the department or bill with the funding, has budgets transfered to it and the staff doesn't change. It just restructures who pays for their salary and toys. Since congress and the taxpayers seem more willing to fund homeland security now, it makes sense to bureaucrats to tranfer budgets that it would be politically impossible to increase to the new popular department.
It would have been a great idea, except that Qwest can't afford the network now. They are facing their own cash crunch. The only suitors I have heard mentioned are AT&T, BT, and Colt Telecomm if they dont get all of KPNQwest's customers first. Qwest might surprise everyone with an offer, but I doubt their stock and bond holders would be very happy about it. They might get mad enough to do something about it, like can current managment.
Some American Express cards have no credit limit, purchases are approved based on your credit history. Ellison carries their centurian card, and I would guess that if he were to make a million dollar purchase, it would be approved.
Sonic Blue is clearancing their Pro Gear 1050 web tablets. They run linux on a TMTA processor, 128 MB of RAM, and a 5 gig hard drive They also have 802.11b cards and a PCMCIA slot. I had never heard of them prior to seeing the clearance sale, so I can't say anything about using it but it looks like it was a pretty nice little pad. The price is 599 USD while they last, when iniatally created they were 2800 USD.
You can't get blood from a stone, its tough to collect unsecured debts from bankrupt companies. I doubt that the collections problems are from companies that are still in business, its likely that they extended credit to any and all willing buyers during the good times, and now are trying to collect from these bankrupt companies which entails lots of court visits and negotiations with all the other creditors. They would have extended credit to show revenue growth to their owners and the public market analysts, which drove their increaseing stock price in 2000. Its sort of amazing the complete difference between then and now, the equity alone was worth several billion then, and now no one is willing to pay $200 million for their network assets.
Someone is going to become the next Standard Oil by scooping up all of these destressed telecomunications networks nursing them back to life over the next decade. Our kids will revile them as much as we do to Microsoft.
Actually it takes 0 to fly an airline jet. The computer can do it, if there are no problems. However because problems are not scheduled and computers are not to the level where they can adapt well, people are still needed for emergencies.
No, but most of the people who will blow more than 5000 on an amp are. I spent my cash on decent speakers, and a cheap amp and CD player and 14 gauge wire from wal-mart. I'm more than happy with the sound it all produces.
If you are spending mucho dinero on your amp, why are you running low bit rate mp3s through it, surely you can afford a larger hard drive (for higher bitrate mp3s) or some CDs. Better yet a turn table and records.
I have no idea if this would work, but would it be possible to query the kernal to obtain version numbers and apply the correct driver from a list of drivers compatable with the respective kernal you are using?
So if I get there really early can I have McNealy's office or Zander's old offfice? And if I get their offices can I make the decisions for the day?
If you can convince him that you will have an equally capable replacement, I would guess that it would reduce his fears. Not knowing much about unix I would be concerned if I had to find a good unix admin myself.
yeah for 3 bit color. The good ones move thousands of times each second. The best ones have 3 arrays one for red, green, and blue.
Mems is the technology behind DLP the movie theater light projection. The only problems I have heard is that it takes some adjustment a few hours for you eyes to adjust to the rapid flashes, friends will likely get a headache the first time they come over.