I think they are probably counting me as one of those three million (I signed up on one of their developer sites for a free copy of windows). While I can make a mean hello world program (and occasionally automate something in Excel), I daresay that you would find one hour of the oracle guy's time is yields you much more than I could do in a year.
Oracle claims to be running their internal corporate database on a cluster of x86 boxes (I think they are Dell's). They also claim to have chosen it, not for cost savings--Oracle has plenty of cash, but because the cluster x86 was much faster than availible Unix systems. I had a friend running their developer edition (free download) on his PII 400 at school but it wasn't doing much more than organizing his MP3 collection (test for a database class). I think he had 256 mb of ram (and this was Windows). Oracle has free downloads for non production systems go check it out and see if it meets your needs.
How many people will read the comments, or will be that intuitive. You might have solved his little problem. Significantly less needless clicking (ohh something new in the internet must go) but he gets a nice amount of publicity.
I just started learning it and it's a pretty fun game. I'm getting the basics down and beginning to learn the different bidding styles. If anyone wants to learn it there is an excellent GPL tutorial called EasyBridge floating around out there.
Perfect play with counting, last time I checked. The trick that small cards favor the house who hits up til 17 while 10s favor the player (forcing the house to bust). If the deck (shoe) becomes favorable (lots of 10s and fewer small cards) the player increases their bet to boost their odds of walking away with more money. Craps (with odds) offers one of the lowest house odds in the casino with no basic strategy required. It's also a much faster game than the others allowing many more rolls per visit.
On a side note one should probably at least go look at the Baccarat tables (especially if they are in their own room with all the glitz going. The house take is only slightly higher than craps and a bit better than the basic blackjack strategy. Also all you have to bet is player or bank, the rest of the game is completely structured with no additional decisions.
I was browsing at -1, until the page widening trolls really took off. Shortly after that I added all the interesting folk from -1 to my friend list and gave all friends +6, now I get all the gems without wading through the muck. That being said some of those rants against the editors were pretty funny.
What should happen is Amtrak should be reduced to an east coast network, a west coast line, and an occasional transcontinental trip. Unfortunatly most elected reps in the flyover states see it as their duty to preserve Amtrak spending on the line that goes through their state, so it has to keep providing service to areas that have never been economical to service.
It was profitable because the only two large* producers of the metals platinum and palladium are Russia and South Africa. When the cold war was in effect the ANC was getting plenty of funding from the USSR while the west was happy to trade the happiness of the black South Africans in exchange for access to those metals. The sanctions were designed to quiet the political protestors in western nations that needed access but couldn't fully support the regime. We're doing pretty similar things in Saudi Arabia (and Nigeria) for oil today. All three materials are necessary to win a protracted war.
*I realize that there are additional sources of both metals. I happen to live by a mine that produces both, but nowhere else has the quantity of either Russia or South Africa.
In the US you can do most things on your own house yourself (electric, gas, and perhaps plumbing must be inspected). However you are not allowed to sell your plumbing services (or electrical services) without certification. I am not sure if the general contractor test covers this, or if you have to go through the apprentace/journeyman/master plumer trades.
IANAP, but my dad and I plumbed our house a few years back. It depends on where the drip is coming from three likely sources are condensation on the fitting, the threaded area where the fitting connects to the tube leading to your toilet tank, or a malfuctioning valve. If the fitting is covered with condensation and it is dripping you can wrap it (with cotton or linen) to slow the dripping and spread it allowing evaporation to do the work. If the leak is coming from the threaded connection, it's an easy fix. Close the valve, flush the toilet grab a bucket and wrench and unscrew it. Once it's off get a new o ring and wrap the threads with teflon tape (it's a white tape that sticks to itself and will provide a better seal for the threads). Slightly more expensive is to replace the entire flex tube that goes to the toilet tank, you'll still want some teflon tape. Take the old one in or measure it and just buy a new one if the leak is coming form somewhere in the flex tube. If the valve is leaking (usually from the handle. You will have to replace the valve fitting. To do that you will need a propane torch to turn off the water prior to the valve, there should be some sort of shut off between the water entry and that valve, and a new fitting. You melt the solder and replace the valve and solder it back into place. To learn this you will probably want to see it and give it a try at one of those DIY shows at home depot or lowes. You'll probably have to cut the sheet rock out of the wall and patch that with plaster as well. Reply back with questions.
Keep in mind that Hubbert peak means that we don't continue to increase production (not that we run out that day). At that point oil in the ground becomes more valuable (making alternate fuel sources more competitive and allowing some transition time). The weakness in the dollar is nearly entirely related to the tanking of our equity markets (over the last four years), exceedingly low interest rates, and Asian central bank buying (they don't care about interest rates). The only impact our imbruglio in Iraq has had is some political related disinvestment by foriegners in our capital markets and the increased scrutiny by our financial cops causing secretive (both legit and not-legit) investors to seek other markets to invest. Consolidation affects refining margins (which have improved, but are still pretty low) not oil prices.
Yeah but ultimatly all they care about is the margin. If buying algae sludge is cheaper than pulling crude out of the ground (and biodiesel sells for the same amount as regular Diesel), they will switch their refineries (which are still quite important. If they didn't a new refining company will be able to extract rents by being the first to experment with this new fuel source.
There's an old military saying, "novices study tactics, experts study logistics." Almost every war is eventually won or lost on the ability of a country to project force. There have been many, many shrewd tactitions who eventually lost because they didn't have material to utilize. WHy do you think the west put up with the racist apartid government in South Africa for so long?
In the 1930s we had a huge surplus of labor that FDR put to use making dams (and canal works) all over the west. They were (and are) engineering marvels in that they operate only by gravity and provide water to millions of square miles of farmland. Not quite a garden hose, but a 1/4 acre's allotment of water would easily fill a pool.
I feel old. Several years ago, there was a show on called Family Matters it featured a police officer's (the cop from Die Hard) family and the neighbor boy who had a crush on the daughter. Steve Urkel was the neighbor boy. He was the quintessental geek (missmatched patterns, suspenders, high water pants, huge hornrim glasses, and a love of learning essoteric topics). He happened to drive an Isetta which looked a lot like this only with room for at least two. It has a front hatch that opens out.
Occasionally it pays to spend the $100,000 and drive the poor sucker into the ground, as an example. This helps to cut down on baseless suits. You don't have to go to trial everytime, just often enough that the sue happy party wonders if they will be next.
I'd add consume whole wheat flour (it's a bit more expensive, and the taste is different, buy most people end up prefering it to wonder). However, you will have to become accustomed to reading labels (they have to call it whole wheat flour in the ingredient list but a bunch of bread is died brown and sold as wheat or multi-grain bread that isn't whole wheat. Also I've always prefered anaerobic excercise to aerobic, so I'd add to get a pair of barbells to your apartment excercise collection. Then before bed, do some (3 sets of 8-10 is a good start) curls, a tricep lift (bench press, military press) some squats (you'll have to go very slow or invest in another set of weights). Once they get easy invest in some weightier barbells. You'll build muscle which makes you look better, feel stronger, and I believe it helps to burn more calories the rest of the day (not much but a bit). At least for me, while buring calories is important I don't notice the same progression as quickly and having some visible improvement makes it easier to stick with the program.
I use a modified method of this, picked it up here a few years ago. Pick a sentance from a big book (LoTR, Illiad, Odyssy etc) then take the first letters (Tell me Oh Muse...) Now if the word is a noun use the number of letters in the word, if it's a verb use the last letter, if none of these use the first letter of the word. From the line above you would have the password lmo4oti4wd3a4ahhdtf4o4. What you remember is, "Tell me oh muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy." You have enough for two passwords there. If you wanted extra security you could add a rule to use the symbol (shift+number) of letters in pronouns or linking words. Feel free to improve on my letter swapping method, all that matters is consistency. This method has the advantage that you can leave your cypher book near the computer as long as and the basic scheme (and rotation frequency and method) is memorized.
Best description I've ever heard of the dichotomy between Europe and the US, was that Europe is more adult while the US is still a teenager. Look at the contrasts, in the US we glom on to new styles and add whole wardrobes based on seasonal trends, in Europe they pay a whole lot more for each article but only buy one or two and keep them for years. And what is more of a teenage property than a lack of foresight and desire to push limits.
Most basic research labs are funded by monopolies (and appear to be one of the few reasons they are tolerated by customers in the first place). There was an interesting evaluation that MS isn't really towing the line as the dominant monopolist in their funding of basic research. Bell Labs gave us the transistor and laser, PARC (in the 1950s and 1960s Xerox was the shiznit of technology companies and the only copier maker) the mouse and GUI, and IBM gave us the PC, while MS has given us Clippy (hopefully XBRL takes of and becomes something that really delivers financial information to the masses)!
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I think they are probably counting me as one of those three million (I signed up on one of their developer sites for a free copy of windows). While I can make a mean hello world program (and occasionally automate something in Excel), I daresay that you would find one hour of the oracle guy's time is yields you much more than I could do in a year.
Oracle claims to be running their internal corporate database on a cluster of x86 boxes (I think they are Dell's). They also claim to have chosen it, not for cost savings--Oracle has plenty of cash, but because the cluster x86 was much faster than availible Unix systems. I had a friend running their developer edition (free download) on his PII 400 at school but it wasn't doing much more than organizing his MP3 collection (test for a database class). I think he had 256 mb of ram (and this was Windows). Oracle has free downloads for non production systems go check it out and see if it meets your needs.
How many people will read the comments, or will be that intuitive. You might have solved his little problem. Significantly less needless clicking (ohh something new in the internet must go) but he gets a nice amount of publicity.
I just started learning it and it's a pretty fun game. I'm getting the basics down and beginning to learn the different bidding styles. If anyone wants to learn it there is an excellent GPL tutorial called EasyBridge floating around out there.
Do some casinos still rent tables rather than taking a cut of the pot?
Perfect play with counting, last time I checked. The trick that small cards favor the house who hits up til 17 while 10s favor the player (forcing the house to bust). If the deck (shoe) becomes favorable (lots of 10s and fewer small cards) the player increases their bet to boost their odds of walking away with more money. Craps (with odds) offers one of the lowest house odds in the casino with no basic strategy required. It's also a much faster game than the others allowing many more rolls per visit.
On a side note one should probably at least go look at the Baccarat tables (especially if they are in their own room with all the glitz going. The house take is only slightly higher than craps and a bit better than the basic blackjack strategy. Also all you have to bet is player or bank, the rest of the game is completely structured with no additional decisions.
I was browsing at -1, until the page widening trolls really took off. Shortly after that I added all the interesting folk from -1 to my friend list and gave all friends +6, now I get all the gems without wading through the muck. That being said some of those rants against the editors were pretty funny.
What should happen is Amtrak should be reduced to an east coast network, a west coast line, and an occasional transcontinental trip. Unfortunatly most elected reps in the flyover states see it as their duty to preserve Amtrak spending on the line that goes through their state, so it has to keep providing service to areas that have never been economical to service.
Yeah but if you lanced it first and got a nice drop of blood to form you could call it art and put it on the wall at Guggenheim.
It was profitable because the only two large* producers of the metals platinum and palladium are Russia and South Africa. When the cold war was in effect the ANC was getting plenty of funding from the USSR while the west was happy to trade the happiness of the black South Africans in exchange for access to those metals. The sanctions were designed to quiet the political protestors in western nations that needed access but couldn't fully support the regime. We're doing pretty similar things in Saudi Arabia (and Nigeria) for oil today. All three materials are necessary to win a protracted war.
*I realize that there are additional sources of both metals. I happen to live by a mine that produces both, but nowhere else has the quantity of either Russia or South Africa.
In the US you can do most things on your own house yourself (electric, gas, and perhaps plumbing must be inspected). However you are not allowed to sell your plumbing services (or electrical services) without certification. I am not sure if the general contractor test covers this, or if you have to go through the apprentace/journeyman/master plumer trades.
IANAP, but my dad and I plumbed our house a few years back. It depends on where the drip is coming from three likely sources are condensation on the fitting, the threaded area where the fitting connects to the tube leading to your toilet tank, or a malfuctioning valve. If the fitting is covered with condensation and it is dripping you can wrap it (with cotton or linen) to slow the dripping and spread it allowing evaporation to do the work.
If the leak is coming from the threaded connection, it's an easy fix. Close the valve, flush the toilet grab a bucket and wrench and unscrew it. Once it's off get a new o ring and wrap the threads with teflon tape (it's a white tape that sticks to itself and will provide a better seal for the threads). Slightly more expensive is to replace the entire flex tube that goes to the toilet tank, you'll still want some teflon tape. Take the old one in or measure it and just buy a new one if the leak is coming form somewhere in the flex tube.
If the valve is leaking (usually from the handle. You will have to replace the valve fitting. To do that you will need a propane torch to turn off the water prior to the valve, there should be some sort of shut off between the water entry and that valve, and a new fitting. You melt the solder and replace the valve and solder it back into place. To learn this you will probably want to see it and give it a try at one of those DIY shows at home depot or lowes. You'll probably have to cut the sheet rock out of the wall and patch that with plaster as well. Reply back with questions.
Keep in mind that Hubbert peak means that we don't continue to increase production (not that we run out that day). At that point oil in the ground becomes more valuable (making alternate fuel sources more competitive and allowing some transition time). The weakness in the dollar is nearly entirely related to the tanking of our equity markets (over the last four years), exceedingly low interest rates, and Asian central bank buying (they don't care about interest rates). The only impact our imbruglio in Iraq has had is some political related disinvestment by foriegners in our capital markets and the increased scrutiny by our financial cops causing secretive (both legit and not-legit) investors to seek other markets to invest. Consolidation affects refining margins (which have improved, but are still pretty low) not oil prices.
Yeah but ultimatly all they care about is the margin. If buying algae sludge is cheaper than pulling crude out of the ground (and biodiesel sells for the same amount as regular Diesel), they will switch their refineries (which are still quite important. If they didn't a new refining company will be able to extract rents by being the first to experment with this new fuel source.
There's an old military saying, "novices study tactics, experts study logistics." Almost every war is eventually won or lost on the ability of a country to project force. There have been many, many shrewd tactitions who eventually lost because they didn't have material to utilize. WHy do you think the west put up with the racist apartid government in South Africa for so long?
In the 1930s we had a huge surplus of labor that FDR put to use making dams (and canal works) all over the west. They were (and are) engineering marvels in that they operate only by gravity and provide water to millions of square miles of farmland. Not quite a garden hose, but a 1/4 acre's allotment of water would easily fill a pool.
Meet DRM Domokun (second cousing to the Domokun you already know and love). He not only chases kittens, he chases parrots, too!
I feel old. Several years ago, there was a show on called Family Matters it featured a police officer's (the cop from Die Hard) family and the neighbor boy who had a crush on the daughter. Steve Urkel was the neighbor boy. He was the quintessental geek (missmatched patterns, suspenders, high water pants, huge hornrim glasses, and a love of learning essoteric topics). He happened to drive an Isetta which looked a lot like this only with room for at least two. It has a front hatch that opens out.
I'd buy one too, but I'd have trouble choosing between a nice light G3 thinkpad (now) or waiting a while and get a blazing G5 Thinkpad.
Occasionally it pays to spend the $100,000 and drive the poor sucker into the ground, as an example. This helps to cut down on baseless suits. You don't have to go to trial everytime, just often enough that the sue happy party wonders if they will be next.
I'd add consume whole wheat flour (it's a bit more expensive, and the taste is different, buy most people end up prefering it to wonder). However, you will have to become accustomed to reading labels (they have to call it whole wheat flour in the ingredient list but a bunch of bread is died brown and sold as wheat or multi-grain bread that isn't whole wheat. Also I've always prefered anaerobic excercise to aerobic, so I'd add to get a pair of barbells to your apartment excercise collection. Then before bed, do some (3 sets of 8-10 is a good start) curls, a tricep lift (bench press, military press) some squats (you'll have to go very slow or invest in another set of weights). Once they get easy invest in some weightier barbells. You'll build muscle which makes you look better, feel stronger, and I believe it helps to burn more calories the rest of the day (not much but a bit). At least for me, while buring calories is important I don't notice the same progression as quickly and having some visible improvement makes it easier to stick with the program.
It will be distributed P2P until his kids fire up the ole' Kazaa on that CPU thingy.
I use a modified method of this, picked it up here a few years ago. Pick a sentance from a big book (LoTR, Illiad, Odyssy etc) then take the first letters (Tell me Oh Muse...) Now if the word is a noun use the number of letters in the word, if it's a verb use the last letter, if none of these use the first letter of the word. From the line above you would have the password lmo4oti4wd3a4ahhdtf4o4. What you remember is, "Tell me oh muse of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy." You have enough for two passwords there. If you wanted extra security you could add a rule to use the symbol (shift+number) of letters in pronouns or linking words. Feel free to improve on my letter swapping method, all that matters is consistency. This method has the advantage that you can leave your cypher book near the computer as long as and the basic scheme (and rotation frequency and method) is memorized.
Best description I've ever heard of the dichotomy between Europe and the US, was that Europe is more adult while the US is still a teenager. Look at the contrasts, in the US we glom on to new styles and add whole wardrobes based on seasonal trends, in Europe they pay a whole lot more for each article but only buy one or two and keep them for years. And what is more of a teenage property than a lack of foresight and desire to push limits.
Most basic research labs are funded by monopolies (and appear to be one of the few reasons they are tolerated by customers in the first place). There was an interesting evaluation that MS isn't really towing the line as the dominant monopolist in their funding of basic research. Bell Labs gave us the transistor and laser, PARC (in the 1950s and 1960s Xerox was the shiznit of technology companies and the only copier maker) the mouse and GUI, and IBM gave us the PC, while MS has given us Clippy (hopefully XBRL takes of and becomes something that really delivers financial information to the masses)!