Something like this happened to me -- the previous owner of the cell number wasn't paying his bills, and as soon as I got my new cell number, I started getting calls from collection agencies for him. A little explanation stopped the calls. (This was with T-Mobile.)
You also might be able to configure your phone to block calls from caller-id-blocked numbers. The only calls of this type I get are junk.
This will be great for CWRU wireless PDA users that can't run VPN software on their PDA. There's no good VPN software for Palm OS (Handspring) that works with the CWRU VPN right now.
Depreciation is when the value of your equipment decreases over time. You can count it as a "loss" because you're unable to recover the cost of your equipment, so you will then get a tax credit for the amount that you lost. (You can write off the amount of the depreciation as a business expense and then pay less taxes on your revenue.)
It appears that Florida is trying to put a tax on network equipment depreciation. This would reduce the tax credit of the depreciation and cause the business to pay higher taxes.
I wonder how hard 240V would be to do in the US (in a single house)? The electrical system seems to has the ability; the only problem would be finding 240V devices for sale in the US.
I had the same problem as you did with Windows GUI programming. The first thing I tried was the GPL'd "FLTK" library -- it acts as a (somewhat platform-independent) buffer between you and the raw Windows GUI code. The real solution for me was learning Java -- the classes for what you want to do (GUI programming, internet, etc) are built into the standard class library, and every Java book will tell you how to do this stuff. (I didn't even need that -- the docs on Sun's website are very good.)
We have about 30 infected machines. About an hour after infection, about half of them rebooted themselves with no warning. The event log showed installation of the patch. I wonder where it downloads the patch from?
The blackout had nothing to do with a nuclear power plant in Ohio. It was caused by problems in the power transmission system. The articles you posted are irrelevant to last week's blackout. In fact, if the trouble was caused by the nuclear plant, the rest of the power grid probably would have been unaffected.
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Many electric companies in the US have this too (green electricity), but not all of them. I can buy wind-produced electricity for a small extra fee in MN. (No, I'm not getting the same "electrons", but that's not the point.)
>for those of you who don't quite understand school spending/funding, let me explain. every > year, principals have an end of year "wish list", if there is money left over. why? if > they don't spend it, they get less next year. so, saving money is specifically NOT DESIRED.
This is nothing special. You'll find the same thing in any large corporation. In my high school, the sysadmin was fairly clueless, but the computer teacher didn't even know how to move a file into a folder.
Believe it or not, the whole paper-refereeing scene isn't that much different from the Slashdot moderation system. Referees are chosen more or less at random (from within the community of people who are knowledgeable about the paper's subject matter, and who are willing to read and comment on a paper.) And just like Slashdot, some of them won't take the time to read the paper completely, some won't understand what the paper is really saying, and some will let their own personal biases determine how they vote.
For some laptops, it's already here. You can put a password on the hard drive from the BIOS, and the hard drive is then unusable to anyone without the password. The sysadmin from the company I work at has a pile of unusable laptop hard drives -- employees left without disclosing the hard drive passwords, and the drives are now unusable! We hear that there's a way to wipe the disk with no password, but we're still working on that one...
I don't know what you should do in college, but it will get a lot easier once you get a job in a real office. It's FAR easier to concentrate when you get dressed and go to work every day -- your brain KNOWS that it's time to work, and you will actually do it. You need a good way to seperate your dorm/web surfing life from your homework/contract work life. If you find the answer, tell us; I'm sure that we'll be interested!
For an example of what On Demand Computing is all about, see IBM and Akamai's proof-of-concept site. IBM Research is developing technologies that would upload your J2EE applications onto a network of servers distributed around the world. The number of servers in use for an application will actually grow and shrink depending on demand! Server capacity can be rented from other sources during times of high demand. No more Slashdotting!!!
No, Windows XP does report BSODs. It then sends you to a web page where it looks up the filename of the driver that caused the crash (if it was a driver) and tells you which piece of hardware it was. It correctly detected that my TV card caused both crashes that I've had in the past 2 years.
The CVS client in Eclipse is nice (there is a plugin for Rational ClearCase too) but have you ever tried TortoiseCVS? I find it much easier to use than WinCVS. The main problem that I'm having with it is some performance problems -- Explorer sometimes performs actions very slowly while TortoiseCVS is installed. I'm still troubleshooting this problem...
I'm not sure if this is what you want, but can't you right-click on an EJB JAR project and click Generate > Deploy and RMIC code? I just started learning about J2EE, so if this isn't what you're trying to figure out how to do, ignore this post:)
" The most common example, the VOR, or 'very high omnidirectional radial beacon' sends out a radially sweeping signal at 3600hz. This is such a low frequency that it can be affected by non-primary frequencies in small electronic devices. For example: CDMA/TDMA cellular phones, while operating at (at least one of them) 1900Mhz (AFAIK), they have polling frequencies that could be very close to 3600hz. "
3600 hz? You're saying that the carrier wave is at 3.6 khz? I don't think so. VOR runs in the VHF band, above the FM radio frequencies. (That's what the "V" in "VOR" stands for.)
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Does anybody remember Henry Reed? The books weren't about science (time period is too long ago) but the boy had the mind of a geek for sure!
That's something that I don't understand. The people in his district seem to like him, but outside of his district, everyone laughs at me when I mention his name. Maybe he gets re-elected because he votes against the party line and his own personal beliefs when it would make his district happy (for example, abortion.)
Kucinich does seem to enjoy changing his position on major issues overnight. The bizarre and distructive decisions he made while mayor of Cleveland didn't help, either. I would actually be surprised if he carried Ohio in the primary; too many people have bad memories of him.
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Something like this happened to me -- the previous owner of the cell number wasn't paying his bills, and as soon as I got my new cell number, I started getting calls from collection agencies for him. A little explanation stopped the calls. (This was with T-Mobile.)
You also might be able to configure your phone to block calls from caller-id-blocked numbers. The only calls of this type I get are junk.
This will be great for CWRU wireless PDA users that can't run VPN software on their PDA. There's no good VPN software for Palm OS (Handspring) that works with the CWRU VPN right now.
Depreciation is when the value of your equipment decreases over time. You can count it as a "loss" because you're unable to recover the cost of your equipment, so you will then get a tax credit for the amount that you lost. (You can write off the amount of the depreciation as a business expense and then pay less taxes on your revenue.)
It appears that Florida is trying to put a tax on network equipment depreciation. This would reduce the tax credit of the depreciation and cause the business to pay higher taxes.
I wonder how hard 240V would be to do in the US (in a single house)? The electrical system seems to has the ability; the only problem would be finding 240V devices for sale in the US.
I had the same problem as you did with Windows GUI programming. The first thing I tried was the GPL'd "FLTK" library -- it acts as a (somewhat platform-independent) buffer between you and the raw Windows GUI code. The real solution for me was learning Java -- the classes for what you want to do (GUI programming, internet, etc) are built into the standard class library, and every Java book will tell you how to do this stuff. (I didn't even need that -- the docs on Sun's website are very good.)
We have about 30 infected machines. About an hour after infection, about half of them rebooted themselves with no warning. The event log showed installation of the patch. I wonder where it downloads the patch from?
We had a bunch of windowsupdate problems at work today. It was working fine for us before; the servers are probably hosed because of all the viruses.
The blackout had nothing to do with a nuclear power plant in Ohio. It was caused by problems in the power transmission system. The articles you posted are irrelevant to last week's blackout. In fact, if the trouble was caused by the nuclear plant, the rest of the power grid probably would have been unaffected.
Many electric companies in the US have this too (green electricity), but not all of them. I can buy wind-produced electricity for a small extra fee in MN. (No, I'm not getting the same "electrons", but that's not the point.)
>for those of you who don't quite understand school spending/funding, let me explain. every
> year, principals have an end of year "wish list", if there is money left over. why? if
> they don't spend it, they get less next year. so, saving money is specifically NOT DESIRED.
This is nothing special. You'll find the same thing in any large corporation. In my high school, the sysadmin was fairly clueless, but the computer teacher didn't even know how to move a file into a folder.
Have you read the story surrounding "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"? This physicist submitted a paper full of complete nonsense to a social science journal, and they actually accepted it! He later reveals his hoax in a later paper. Needless to say, the original journal did not publish it.
Hmmm, the AS/400 line is pretty modern. I think IBM classified that line as a "minicomputer" line instead of a "mainframe" line though.
For some laptops, it's already here. You can put a password on the hard drive from the BIOS, and the hard drive is then unusable to anyone without the password. The sysadmin from the company I work at has a pile of unusable laptop hard drives -- employees left without disclosing the hard drive passwords, and the drives are now unusable! We hear that there's a way to wipe the disk with no password, but we're still working on that one...
I think it was AOpen that made the tube audio motherboard.
I don't know what you should do in college, but it will get a lot easier once you get a job in a real office. It's FAR easier to concentrate when you get dressed and go to work every day -- your brain KNOWS that it's time to work, and you will actually do it. You need a good way to seperate your dorm/web surfing life from your homework/contract work life. If you find the answer, tell us; I'm sure that we'll be interested!
For an example of what On Demand Computing is all about, see IBM and Akamai's proof-of-concept site. IBM Research is developing technologies that would upload your J2EE applications onto a network of servers distributed around the world. The number of servers in use for an application will actually grow and shrink depending on demand! Server capacity can be rented from other sources during times of high demand. No more Slashdotting!!!
No, Windows XP does report BSODs. It then sends you to a web page where it looks up the filename of the driver that caused the crash (if it was a driver) and tells you which piece of hardware it was. It correctly detected that my TV card caused both crashes that I've had in the past 2 years.
The CVS client in Eclipse is nice (there is a plugin for Rational ClearCase too) but have you ever tried TortoiseCVS? I find it much easier to use than WinCVS. The main problem that I'm having with it is some performance problems -- Explorer sometimes performs actions very slowly while TortoiseCVS is installed. I'm still troubleshooting this problem...
I'm not sure if this is what you want, but can't you right-click on an EJB JAR project and click Generate > Deploy and RMIC code? I just started learning about J2EE, so if this isn't what you're trying to figure out how to do, ignore this post :)
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" The most common example, the VOR, or 'very high omnidirectional radial beacon' sends out a radially sweeping signal at 3600hz. This is such a low frequency that it can be affected by non-primary frequencies in small electronic devices. For example: CDMA/TDMA cellular phones, while operating at (at least one of them) 1900Mhz (AFAIK), they have polling frequencies that could be very close to 3600hz. "
3600 hz? You're saying that the carrier wave is at 3.6 khz? I don't think so. VOR runs in the VHF band, above the FM radio frequencies. (That's what the "V" in "VOR" stands for.)
Does anybody remember Henry Reed? The books weren't about science (time period is too long ago) but the boy had the mind of a geek for sure!
That's something that I don't understand. The people in his district seem to like him, but outside of his district, everyone laughs at me when I mention his name. Maybe he gets re-elected because he votes against the party line and his own personal beliefs when it would make his district happy (for example, abortion.)
> Is it because he was against the Patriot ACT?
The Patriot ACT? Is this the new standardized test that we've been hearing about?
Kucinich does seem to enjoy changing his position on major issues overnight. The bizarre and distructive decisions he made while mayor of Cleveland didn't help, either. I would actually be surprised if he carried Ohio in the primary; too many people have bad memories of him.