Get a numeric keypad, and pop off every other button cap. Map the remaining keys to whatever actions you want to control on the computer. Tape the keypad to the window on your hood, perhaps with blue masking tape (removes cleanly). Hit the buttons with your nose.
On Windows, I would get all the files opened, and have a key for Alt-Tab, and then keys for left, right, up and down.
Unless you are recycling something, metal gears are really expensive. Plastic ones are generally extruded or formed rather than machines, so their price is less, but the capacity is less, too.
Pulleys and belts are relatively inexpensive, and can handle a lot more misalignment. There are cogged pulleys and belts, if you have timing applications.
As others have posted, http://www.McMaster.com is the key reference. Their prices range from competitive to outrageous, depending on the item. Their shipping always seems ridiculously inexpensive, unless it is a long item (6ft long threaded rod, for instance).
I generally get bearings and drill rod (good for shafts/axles) from http://www.use-enco.com when they go on sale.
A mini-lathe might be helpful to make collars and sleeves to get oddball parts to fit together. Look here for more info http://www.mini-lathe.com.
There is already technology available to replace ranch hands. Trained up cattle dogs go for up to $5k each. A crew of good dogs can replace 2-3 hands in gathering cattle.
In my area, gathering cattle is done with day labor ($100/hand+horse/day). Cattle are gathered 2-3 times a year. The price of the system is going to have to come down a lot to compete.
The satellite companies need to push Tivo like devices with big hard drives. They currently stream 15-20 movies, looping them every hour and a half or so.
If they took one channel and played them all in series, an 80Gb drive could store them all. The viewer would have 20 movies available for VOD.
It would be my first choice for controlling anything if they would only make the damn thing a learning remote.
I find it incredibly frustrating to look at a 'TV Input' button that doesn't control the input on MY TV.
Sony models can learn on volume and mute buttons, and I think tv power, but even that isn't enough.
I switched to the Harmony remote that sort of looks like the Tivo one. It has it's own issues, but I never have to pull out an original remote to do something ordinary.
The best call center support I ever recieved was from the phone company. The reason was because the number was tagged as being owned by a person who only spoke Vietnamese.
When I called in for service, I was connected directly to a fairly knowledgable guy who had already heard the of problem (and remembered it).
Once I re-explained the problem, he connected me to an engineer right away.
I am guessing that a lot of the big support operations have special groups to support specific types of customers. If you can get listed as one of those types, you are set.
I think the argument SCO is making is so hard to understand because is it an inverse version of the GPL.
GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, FOR FREE (as in beer). BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must redistribute under this same license, making a source version available to your licensee.
ANTI-GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, for A LICENSE FEE. BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must only redistribute it in binary form. Any other methods of distribution are subject to breach of contract.
I think the argument SCO is making is so hard to understand because is it an inverse version of the GPL.
GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, FOR FREE (as in beer). BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must redistribute under this same license, making a source version available to your licensee.
ANTI-GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, for A LICENSE FEE. BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must only redistribute it in binary form. Any other methods of distribution are subject to breach of contract.
The only thing left is for the year to end so that the Must Transmit Caller ID information is in force.
I am dreading that feature being implemented. The lack of caller ID has been a very effective filtering tool. I have been using Pacific Bell's privacy manager add-on, which sends all calls that don't have caller ID to some kind of voice menuing thing before they can ring through. For the past couple of years, I haven't even bothered checking caller ID before picking up.
I guess I'll have to get my own equipment now, so I can filter calls through an area code blacklist or something.
If all ballot items were just a choice between two or more candiates, any system would seem like a no-brainer.
Here is a passage from the beginning of my Sample Ballot for a November 4th election in Santa Clara County, which is primarily San Jose, California and surrounding communities. San Jose is near San Francisco.
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ENGLISH - The first half of this pamplet is printed in English and the last half of the pamphet is printed in Spanish.
SPANISH - La primera mitad de este folleto esta escrita en ingles y la segunda midtad es su traduccion al espanol.
Federal law requires Santa Clara County to provide election materials in Spanish as well as in English. Persons who wish to receive voter information in alternate languages may call:
ENGLISH/ESPANOL (Spanish)
ENGLISH/VIET NGU (Vietnamese)
ENGLISH/some characters that look like some flavor of Chinese
ENGLISH/TAGALOG (Philippino)
and the phone number.
----------------
In my county, anyway, all ballot materials are printed in five languages. In this election, there would have to be at least a hundred different ballots printed and distributed. There are different water districts, sanitation districts, city councils, hospital districts, and school districts. Many of these districts overlap in different areas. Right now, they only have to print up Sample Ballots, which only list and describe the choices that are for a particular voting area.
In the punch card days, all candidates and measures had their own number on a punch card, so only one punch card type was used for all election areas. If you punched out a number you were not allowed, or punched too many times, that section of your vote would be invalid. In these brave, new, untrackable touch screen system days, I'll see only the choices for my local area. No chance of a procedural error on my part.
I readily see the need for more complicated methods of voting.
The reasons why Diebold and the others don't want paper hasn't been discussed outside of fraud issues. A likely reason is that if you have a paper trail, any competent voting official would insist that they also have a vetted means of counting votes using that paper trail. It would in, in essence, force the official to have two complete sets of vote counting machinery. With a touch screen/paper setup, the obvious way to go about it would be to have a sophicated paper vote counting setup, and a simple, cheap touchscreen just capable enough of producing a paper ballot. The simplest, cheapest paper ballot generating touchscreen setup probably costs the same as the hardware that Diebold uses for its totally electronic approach.
The bill says the states have to pay you a "reasonable" amount to cover the costs of collecting and reporting the sales taxes. I bet all kinds of companies (credit card processors to start with) are going to throw software and services at you to get that money.
ATA officials have said about 2 million of the 6.5 million people working at telemarketing call centers across the nation will lose their jobs because of the rules that established the nationwide "Do Not Call" list.
so 5% of the USA's 140 million labor force work as telemarketers? Why did the journalist let them get away with those numbers?
I would certainly hope that on-demand production of an identification card would fall under the fourth amendment - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
I can think of no reason for an on-demand rule, except to give the police an excuse to detain you for a little bit.
In my section of California (SF bay area), any patrol car can look up your vitals, including a photo, with just your name and address. The need for physical ID card is not there.
BTW, running a stop sign on a bicycle is considered equivalent to running a stop sign in a car. Same ticket, same insurance hit. You just don't need to carry a driver's license.
When a stock is borrowed to short, it has to be returned upon demand. The short seller will have to buy replacement shares at the current price. More sellers are willing to sell at this price, which causes more shorted shares to be called for return. This becomes a cycle that can rapidly bump up the price for a day or two.
Shorting a stock is definitely a short term gamble. It would be better to use options, but they are not offered on SCOX.
If they are, it seems to me that they would be non-GPL'd IP, and rights to use the trademarked names could be revoked from those who displease the trademark holders.
Why wasn't Boies involved? The conference was to spin the Red Hat lawsuit and announce the new licensing scheme. If I hired a laywer based on his clout, I would drag him out at every opportunity.
Three million people? That is about 1% of the US population. There are only 12 million subscribers to DirecTv.
More likely is that they have sold 15 million recievers, and only 12 million are current subscribers. The other 3 million are obviously violating copyrights.
Computers are cheap, proprietary hardware is not. Your hardware does something and outputs data. Cobble some kind of software/hardware interface between a second computer of your choosing and the equipment, and have at it with whatever tools strike your fancy.
I used to work (not too long ago), with systems that run Microsoft/SCO Xenix 286. They are still in service, and I get a consulting job out of them every so often.
The main thing is to control the equipment, and get the data out. Process it somewhere else. Don't waste your time or the vendor's time.
The time to specify things like OS and computers is in the purchase order.
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Kind of a clunky idea, but here goes.
Get a numeric keypad, and pop off every other button cap. Map the remaining keys to whatever actions you want to control on the computer. Tape the keypad to the window on your hood, perhaps with blue masking tape (removes cleanly). Hit the buttons with your nose.
On Windows, I would get all the files opened, and have a key for Alt-Tab, and then keys for left, right, up and down.
Good Luck!
Unless you are recycling something, metal gears are really expensive. Plastic ones are generally extruded or formed rather than machines, so their price is less, but the capacity is less, too.
Pulleys and belts are relatively inexpensive, and can handle a lot more misalignment. There are cogged pulleys and belts, if you have timing applications.
As others have posted, http://www.McMaster.com is the key reference. Their prices range from competitive to outrageous, depending on the item. Their shipping always seems ridiculously inexpensive, unless it is a long item (6ft long threaded rod, for instance).
I generally get bearings and drill rod (good for shafts/axles) from http://www.use-enco.com when they go on sale.
A mini-lathe might be helpful to make collars and sleeves to get oddball parts to fit together. Look here for more info http://www.mini-lathe.com.
There is already technology available to replace ranch hands. Trained up cattle dogs go for up to $5k each. A crew of good dogs can replace 2-3 hands in gathering cattle.
In my area, gathering cattle is done with day labor ($100/hand+horse/day). Cattle are gathered 2-3 times a year. The price of the system is going to have to come down a lot to compete.
I am surprised that IT workers were not exempt already.
Here is the list of workers who are already exempt from overtime (IT is already on the list): http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_OvertimeExemptions.htm
If they took one channel and played them all in series, an 80Gb drive could store them all. The viewer would have 20 movies available for VOD.
I figure the postman will call the police when I don't empty the mailbox for a few weeks.
Just enough time to turn it on so airport security will let you pass the checkpoint. Handy as a UPS, too.
I find it incredibly frustrating to look at a 'TV Input' button that doesn't control the input on MY TV.
Sony models can learn on volume and mute buttons, and I think tv power, but even that isn't enough.
I switched to the Harmony remote that sort of looks like the Tivo one. It has it's own issues, but I never have to pull out an original remote to do something ordinary.
When I called in for service, I was connected directly to a fairly knowledgable guy who had already heard the of problem (and remembered it). Once I re-explained the problem, he connected me to an engineer right away.
I am guessing that a lot of the big support operations have special groups to support specific types of customers. If you can get listed as one of those types, you are set.
GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, FOR FREE (as in beer). BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must redistribute under this same license, making a source version available to your licensee.
ANTI-GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, for A LICENSE FEE. BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must only redistribute it in binary form. Any other methods of distribution are subject to breach of contract.
Damn HTML preview.
I think the argument SCO is making is so hard to understand because is it an inverse version of the GPL. GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, FOR FREE (as in beer). BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must redistribute under this same license, making a source version available to your licensee. ANTI-GPL: Here is code. Use it for whatever you want to do with it, for A LICENSE FEE. BUT, if you want to distribute what you have done, you must only redistribute it in binary form. Any other methods of distribution are subject to breach of contract.
You have a lot more 'ethics' than me.
If you remember back to the 1500's
1500's? Hell, I can't even remember last week.
I am dreading that feature being implemented. The lack of caller ID has been a very effective filtering tool. I have been using Pacific Bell's privacy manager add-on, which sends all calls that don't have caller ID to some kind of voice menuing thing before they can ring through. For the past couple of years, I haven't even bothered checking caller ID before picking up.
I guess I'll have to get my own equipment now, so I can filter calls through an area code blacklist or something.
Here is a passage from the beginning of my Sample Ballot for a November 4th election in Santa Clara County, which is primarily San Jose, California and surrounding communities. San Jose is near San Francisco.
--------------
ENGLISH - The first half of this pamplet is printed in English and the last half of the pamphet is printed in Spanish.
SPANISH - La primera mitad de este folleto esta escrita en ingles y la segunda midtad es su traduccion al espanol.
Federal law requires Santa Clara County to provide election materials in Spanish as well as in English. Persons who wish to receive voter information in alternate languages may call:
ENGLISH/ESPANOL (Spanish)
ENGLISH/VIET NGU (Vietnamese)
ENGLISH/some characters that look like some flavor of Chinese
ENGLISH/TAGALOG (Philippino)
and the phone number.
----------------
In my county, anyway, all ballot materials are printed in five languages. In this election, there would have to be at least a hundred different ballots printed and distributed. There are different water districts, sanitation districts, city councils, hospital districts, and school districts. Many of these districts overlap in different areas. Right now, they only have to print up Sample Ballots, which only list and describe the choices that are for a particular voting area.
In the punch card days, all candidates and measures had their own number on a punch card, so only one punch card type was used for all election areas. If you punched out a number you were not allowed, or punched too many times, that section of your vote would be invalid. In these brave, new, untrackable touch screen system days, I'll see only the choices for my local area. No chance of a procedural error on my part.
I readily see the need for more complicated methods of voting.
The reasons why Diebold and the others don't want paper hasn't been discussed outside of fraud issues. A likely reason is that if you have a paper trail, any competent voting official would insist that they also have a vetted means of counting votes using that paper trail. It would in, in essence, force the official to have two complete sets of vote counting machinery. With a touch screen/paper setup, the obvious way to go about it would be to have a sophicated paper vote counting setup, and a simple, cheap touchscreen just capable enough of producing a paper ballot. The simplest, cheapest paper ballot generating touchscreen setup probably costs the same as the hardware that Diebold uses for its totally electronic approach.
The bill says the states have to pay you a "reasonable" amount to cover the costs of collecting and reporting the sales taxes. I bet all kinds of companies (credit card processors to start with) are going to throw software and services at you to get that money.
ATA officials have said about 2 million of the 6.5 million people working at telemarketing call centers across the nation will lose their jobs because of the rules that established the nationwide "Do Not Call" list.
so 5% of the USA's 140 million labor force work as telemarketers? Why did the journalist let them get away with those numbers?
I would certainly hope that on-demand production of an identification card would fall under the fourth amendment - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
I can think of no reason for an on-demand rule, except to give the police an excuse to detain you for a little bit. In my section of California (SF bay area), any patrol car can look up your vitals, including a photo, with just your name and address. The need for physical ID card is not there.
BTW, running a stop sign on a bicycle is considered equivalent to running a stop sign in a car. Same ticket, same insurance hit. You just don't need to carry a driver's license.
Naw, more like the kid with the fake fin strapped to his back.
I believe it was a short squeeze.
When a stock is borrowed to short, it has to be returned upon demand. The short seller will have to buy replacement shares at the current price. More sellers are willing to sell at this price, which causes more shorted shares to be called for return. This becomes a cycle that can rapidly bump up the price for a day or two.
Shorting a stock is definitely a short term gamble. It would be better to use options, but they are not offered on SCOX.
Are Samba and GCC trademarks?
If they are, it seems to me that they would be non-GPL'd IP, and rights to use the trademarked names could be revoked from those who displease the trademark holders.
Why wasn't Boies involved? The conference was to spin the Red Hat lawsuit and announce the new licensing scheme. If I hired a laywer based on his clout, I would drag him out at every opportunity.
More likely is that they have sold 15 million recievers, and only 12 million are current subscribers. The other 3 million are obviously violating copyrights.
I used to work (not too long ago), with systems that run Microsoft/SCO Xenix 286. They are still in service, and I get a consulting job out of them every so often.
The main thing is to control the equipment, and get the data out. Process it somewhere else. Don't waste your time or the vendor's time.
The time to specify things like OS and computers is in the purchase order.
I find it hard to believe a gaming console company exists on a tourist road in the Florida keys, next to art galleries and restaurants.
The interview with the "PR guy" is quite dilbertian as well.