You have a good point, but in the building shere I'm currently working, my client has several hundred dual screen PCs all running straight 2D and within a mile or so, you can multiply that many, many times.
In Europe, the general starting rule is to add between 30% and 50% to a permanent rate to get what you should be aiming for. If a permie is paid €100K per year, then that is around €364/day. You then add the magic figure of 30% which says that the market rate should be at least €484. If you are good, you may get up to €546;/day. This is based on a working time ratio of 84% (with the rest taken by sickness/holiday on the basis that if you are sick then you deduct from your holiday time). The rest of the money goes towards the extra cost of social/health insurance.
The working ratio above is based on 6 weeks holiday plus two weeks public holiday, which you can't work anyway. Six weeks holiday a year is what the permie gets, but in your case that also includes the time between gigs. In the US holidays are typically less, but you still have to allow for time between gigs.
Contracting at the higher end tends to mean shorter gigs and longer periods between, so you really do need the extra money to average out. At the higher end, you also need to 'put out' more, entertaining clients and appearances at trade conferences etc.
The good point in Europe is that as an external you usually can deduct a lot more against taxes. Note that you can now holiday in places like Goa, and study some stuff (Java in Hindi?) at the same time and write everything off against tax.
All work is illusory, permanent work especially so.
It really depends on how immersive you want to make the experience. As you rightly say, motion sickness can become a serious risk.
I don't know about wraparound screens, but I know about the experiments with VR glasses that were done earlier by NASA amongst others and there were a lot of problems (some of which may be solved by faster GPUs).
I still think that a basic three screen arrangement with the left and right screen not showing any dashboard or weapon, then it should be reasonably clear that you can only do something out of the front screen and you should centre before firing.
Real flight simulators work a little like this with multiple GPUs to give front and peripheral vision. The peripheral stuff isn't rendered to the same detail.
You only ever 'fly' using the front windscreen so the peripheral stuff doesn't confuse (especially, as the cockpit windows are physically represented between you and the screens.
The problem is that genuine Microsoft updates (AS WELL AS OTHERS) usually have components that register themselves for launch during startup to complete the installation, so it isn't as simple as saying no.
Agreed, anything evil has to be started somehow. Mike's program works well at picking up autostart changes, but I don't know whether I would give it to a general user.
As the other poster said, most bits get tracked. The reason is that although space is pretty big, many available orbit slots are not and you really don't want to bump into anything that is already up there.
Astronomers don't particularly want 'another white streak' across their CCDs either so they tend to pay attention as well.
We start with an ID card, we then use it for half a dozen different Govt departments and then turn it into a smart-card data with extremely dodgy biometric information.
Having everything on one card makes it easier to forge an identity. It also creates a ready market in forged cards, or at least ones that have been incorrectly issued.
You may have a lot of trust in your government but most British (and Americans) do not. They do not mind giving pieces of information to lots of different organisations but we do resent having it concentrated in one place. We also have a suspicion that once a card is introduced, a carry law will follow and the accompanying right of authority to demand the card at any time.
A friend of mine studied military stuff as part of his Institute of Physics course in St. Petersburg. The MiG radar sets of the time was regarded as EMP-hardened qand that was what my friend was told.
Generally stuff at the time was designed by the Soviets to be field repairable. The equivalent US stuff was modular, but the modules themselves were only factory repairable. Note this wasn't just an issue of technology, it was philosophy learned during the "Great Patriotic War".
I know that some of those Siemens phones are actually standard DECT devices which in theory means they can interoperate. In other words, once a handset is registered to the base, it can be used no matter who it comes from.
One of the problems of Nazi Germany was the centralisation of control. Post-nazi Germany was created to devolve power between federal agencies with carefuly set boundaries and a separation between federal and state government.
It was quite clever, keeping much of the control but without giving it to any one agency. Interestingly enough, the main layers behind modern Federal Germany were indeed the allies, and particularly the Americans.
One major European thought it was a great idea to outsource and offshore. So much so that they offshored the handling of the SWIFT keys. The SWIFT keys give the user the ability to make irrevocable payments to banks anywhere in the world on behalf o the holding bank.
Normally SWIFT keys are looked after by procedures and also legislation. Whether a company in a developing country can do either is arguable, even if the company is a wholely owned subsidiary.
Get a clue, it don't matter what you taxation is. What matters is the monthly bill. Simple example. $100 tax bill + $0 medical bill vs $50 tax bill $100 medical bill.
The approach in some other parts of Europe is to have lots of small insurance companies and for health facilities to have different and complex billing facilities. They don't tend to be particularly efficient and there is a lot of duplication so the administrative overhead is high. So actually the cost in your example turns out actually more, that $150 becomes $175.
In the case of the UK, the healthsevice isn't properly privatised as chronic (i.e., expensive) problems must often still be dealt with off insurance, i.e. through the NHS.
I'm also regrettably in agreement with you about Blair and MS.
Doctors are very interested in epidemics as they are responsible for attempting to save what they can to increase survivability. Doctors can be interested in all kinds of things because of that from road accidents, narcotics, to lead poisoning (particularly the kind coming from impact).
Most respectable western juridictions will tax the parent company on global income if it is resident in the country. Tax paid offshore may be recovered against by the parent company as a deduction when a double-taxation treaty is in place.
What is interesting is that the US applies this also to its citizens and green card holders across the world. If you are a US citizen living in Paris, you must file for US taxes unless you receive a very small amount. However higher french taxes and a double-taxation treaty means that you don't get to pay taxes in the US.
Not quite right. VMS was a descendent of RSX-11M/M+, which in turn had very little to do with RSX-11D/IAS which bosted some really ugly code. DOS-11 was also known as DOS/BATCH had some bits from RSX-11D/IAS but was really its own very primitive thing. At the time, DOS/BATCH was seen if anything to have some relation to the IBM 1130/1800 operating system which the PDP was taking over from.
TOPS-20 was somewhat of a rewrite if TOPS-10.
RT-11 doesn't really relate to RSX. The source code was quite different. However there were some similiarities with one of the command line interpreters (DCL) and some utilities like PIP. It should be noted that PIP (Peripheral Interchange Program) had been knocking around for a long time and then something like it ended up in CP/M.
I wouldn't really call CP/M a clone of RT, many of the system services and concepts behind them were very different. RT-11 was designed as a lab operating system and had a foregroun/background mechanism built-in, which was less of a hack than CPM's TSRs. The PDP-11 had a very advanced instruction architecture at the time and many concepts did not translate to the 8088.
The best customer for Iridium is the DoD. Now they have a telephone that truely does work anywhere they happen to be invading. State uses them too for providing emergency communications in places with a dodgy infrastructure. True, I guess their call-plans are pretty good, but it is people like that who will keep it going.
Some countries use Inmarsat for embassy/consular emergency comms, but it needs a pretty good horizon to get a signal if you are far from the equator as the sats are geostationary.
The main mistake of Inmarsat was to discount the growth of GSM roaming which for most people is pretty adequate. It doesn't work everywhere but you would be amazed where it does work (even in Malaysian jungles).
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You have a good point, but in the building shere I'm currently working, my client has several hundred dual screen PCs all running straight 2D and within a mile or so, you can multiply that many, many times.
The working ratio above is based on 6 weeks holiday plus two weeks public holiday, which you can't work anyway. Six weeks holiday a year is what the permie gets, but in your case that also includes the time between gigs. In the US holidays are typically less, but you still have to allow for time between gigs.
Contracting at the higher end tends to mean shorter gigs and longer periods between, so you really do need the extra money to average out. At the higher end, you also need to 'put out' more, entertaining clients and appearances at trade conferences etc.
The good point in Europe is that as an external you usually can deduct a lot more against taxes. Note that you can now holiday in places like Goa, and study some stuff (Java in Hindi?) at the same time and write everything off against tax.
All work is illusory, permanent work especially so.
I still think that a basic three screen arrangement with the left and right screen not showing any dashboard or weapon, then it should be reasonably clear that you can only do something out of the front screen and you should centre before firing.
Barcodes should be unique on consumer goods. One problem is that identical products destined for different countries will pick up different IDs.
You only ever 'fly' using the front windscreen so the peripheral stuff doesn't confuse (especially, as the cockpit windows are physically represented between you and the screens.
Yep, but the Matrox was cool for 2d and it ran fast enough too. If all the graphics you do are standard graphs then it was easily fast enough.
The problem is that genuine Microsoft updates (AS WELL AS OTHERS) usually have components that register themselves for launch during startup to complete the installation, so it isn't as simple as saying no.
Agreed, anything evil has to be started somehow. Mike's program works well at picking up autostart changes, but I don't know whether I would give it to a general user.
Astronomers don't particularly want 'another white streak' across their CCDs either so they tend to pay attention as well.
OTOH, hybrid tech is well known on the railways. Diesel-electrics have been used for many, many years due to the ease of power control.
Has anyone looked at the possibility of reconditioning/recycling large Li-Ion or other batteries?
Having everything on one card makes it easier to forge an identity. It also creates a ready market in forged cards, or at least ones that have been incorrectly issued.
You may have a lot of trust in your government but most British (and Americans) do not. They do not mind giving pieces of information to lots of different organisations but we do resent having it concentrated in one place. We also have a suspicion that once a card is introduced, a carry law will follow and the accompanying right of authority to demand the card at any time.
Generally stuff at the time was designed by the Soviets to be field repairable. The equivalent US stuff was modular, but the modules themselves were only factory repairable. Note this wasn't just an issue of technology, it was philosophy learned during the "Great Patriotic War".
I know that some of those Siemens phones are actually standard DECT devices which in theory means they can interoperate. In other words, once a handset is registered to the base, it can be used no matter who it comes from.
It was quite clever, keeping much of the control but without giving it to any one agency. Interestingly enough, the main layers behind modern Federal Germany were indeed the allies, and particularly the Americans.
Normally SWIFT keys are looked after by procedures and also legislation. Whether a company in a developing country can do either is arguable, even if the company is a wholely owned subsidiary.
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In the case of the UK, the healthsevice isn't properly privatised as chronic (i.e., expensive) problems must often still be dealt with off insurance, i.e. through the NHS.
I'm also regrettably in agreement with you about Blair and MS.
Doctors are very interested in epidemics as they are responsible for attempting to save what they can to increase survivability. Doctors can be interested in all kinds of things because of that from road accidents, narcotics, to lead poisoning (particularly the kind coming from impact).
What is interesting is that the US applies this also to its citizens and green card holders across the world. If you are a US citizen living in Paris, you must file for US taxes unless you receive a very small amount. However higher french taxes and a double-taxation treaty means that you don't get to pay taxes in the US.
TOPS-20 was somewhat of a rewrite if TOPS-10.
RT-11 doesn't really relate to RSX. The source code was quite different. However there were some similiarities with one of the command line interpreters (DCL) and some utilities like PIP. It should be noted that PIP (Peripheral Interchange Program) had been knocking around for a long time and then something like it ended up in CP/M.
I wouldn't really call CP/M a clone of RT, many of the system services and concepts behind them were very different. RT-11 was designed as a lab operating system and had a foregroun/background mechanism built-in, which was less of a hack than CPM's TSRs. The PDP-11 had a very advanced instruction architecture at the time and many concepts did not translate to the 8088.
Some countries use Inmarsat for embassy/consular emergency comms, but it needs a pretty good horizon to get a signal if you are far from the equator as the sats are geostationary.
The main mistake of Inmarsat was to discount the growth of GSM roaming which for most people is pretty adequate. It doesn't work everywhere but you would be amazed where it does work (even in Malaysian jungles).