I've not read the book (although I've known about it for quite some time), so the reference wasn't intentional. Good of you to catch that, but I think it says more about Rand's tunnel vision and shortsightedness than anything about the technology.
This unit collects energy from the ambient electric fields using an on-board 'reverse Tesla Coil,' which in turn charges a large, on-board capacitor bank. The capacitors then drive a DC motor connected to one of the wheels, providing motive effort for the machine.
I wonder how much ambient electricity can be captured in a large city as an alternate means of powering an electric car?
Myspace and Livejournal both recently reformatted their profile pages, so apparently the Powers That Be at Slashdot felt compelled to participate in a little Monkey see, Monkey do.
There are 5 valid reasons for any business decision:
1. Legal: laws, rules and regulations
2. Contractual requirements
3. Positive impact to the bottom line by increasing revenue and/or decreasing expenses.
4. Quality of life issue for your customers
5. Quality of life issue for employees
You can look at things like backups and preventative maintenance as addressing both #1 and #3 as matters of risk reduction and business enablement. How much would it cost your company to not have its data? Or to not have access to it for 4, 8, 12, 24, or 48 hours?
Then you can look at the direct costing method: how many projects have you worked on, what were their budgets (capital and otherwise) and how much did your work contribute toward that?
Linux man pages tend to suck sewage water. Real Unix man pages (AIX, HP-UX, DG-UX, DEC) are awesome, and nearly all of them in 1 and 1M contain examples of use.
There also doesn't appear to be any redundancy, which has long been a design contention in the US and Russian schools of thoughts. I don't know where the ESA is, philosophically, on this issue. But, the absense of thrusters in the nose leaves few options if the brakes fail or are damaged.
There were about 100 people there at 8am this morning when I got to the polls, but it took longer for me to find a place to park than to stand in line to vote. Apparently people started lining up at 7:30. The process was quick and well ordered, which is what paper ballots will do for you. If there's a controversy this year with votes, it's won't be from NH.
Wasn't there an add-on TSR for Norton Commander that would store short-cuts (but they weren't called that) in a small frame at the bottom of the screen?
4th grade is the 9-11 year old range. If any of these kids are still eating random items at that age, they have bigger problems to deal with than lead poisoning.
Get a dead hard disk drive, take the cover off so the platters and read/write head are visible. Pass it around the class while you talk. Computers and IT will become immediately more real to them once they can touch it and see that a computer isn't just a fancy TV with keyboard and mouse.
If you want to add an analogy they can relate to, also bring a long a stack of encylopedias or an OED and do the "the words in X many of these books will fit on that disk" comparison.
Resellers make a lot of consulting dollars just on doing the Oracle db install and "tuning" for the applications going on top of the db. Now that Oracle can come pre-installed, this levels the playing field with respect to IBM's DB2 and MS SQL-Server.
It would be interesting to know whose idea this was initially: Oracle's or HP's, and to find out who each of them believe this is going to benefit more.
"On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable," he said. "A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging."
While he didn't actually use the word "control", that is precisely what he's meaning.
It's bad enough that we have government at every level trying to legislate away personal responsibility, now we have a respected industry leader advocating for the same sort of Orwellian control.
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Most homeowners don't want to own the wiring inside their homes, let alone the wiring outside of it.
I've not read the book (although I've known about it for quite some time), so the reference wasn't intentional. Good of you to catch that, but I think it says more about Rand's tunnel vision and shortsightedness than anything about the technology.
This unit collects energy from the ambient electric fields using an on-board 'reverse Tesla Coil,' which in turn charges a large, on-board capacitor bank. The capacitors then drive a DC motor connected to one of the wheels, providing motive effort for the machine.
I wonder how much ambient electricity can be captured in a large city as an alternate means of powering an electric car?
No, it was said by a Colonel from South Carolina
The Green Mountain Boys were from Vermont
more, undoubtedly more.
as the Hubble Space Telescope imaginary Advent Calendar?
Myspace and Livejournal both recently reformatted their profile pages, so apparently the Powers That Be at Slashdot felt compelled to participate in a little Monkey see, Monkey do.
There are 5 valid reasons for any business decision:
1. Legal: laws, rules and regulations
2. Contractual requirements
3. Positive impact to the bottom line by increasing revenue and/or decreasing expenses.
4. Quality of life issue for your customers
5. Quality of life issue for employees
You can look at things like backups and preventative maintenance as addressing both #1 and #3 as matters of risk reduction and business enablement. How much would it cost your company to not have its data? Or to not have access to it for 4, 8, 12, 24, or 48 hours?
Then you can look at the direct costing method: how many projects have you worked on, what were their budgets (capital and otherwise) and how much did your work contribute toward that?
move up to the top line of the block to be delete
mm (sets a marker "m")
move down to the last line in the block
d`m (deletes to marker "m", and that's the grave below the tilde, not the back-quote)
Linux man pages tend to suck sewage water. Real Unix man pages (AIX, HP-UX, DG-UX, DEC) are awesome, and nearly all of them in 1 and 1M contain examples of use.
Will he walk on water?
If it's cold enough, yes, he will!
There also doesn't appear to be any redundancy, which has long been a design contention in the US and Russian schools of thoughts. I don't know where the ESA is, philosophically, on this issue. But, the absense of thrusters in the nose leaves few options if the brakes fail or are damaged.
Who are "they" and what is their URL?
There were about 100 people there at 8am this morning when I got to the polls, but it took longer for me to find a place to park than to stand in line to vote. Apparently people started lining up at 7:30. The process was quick and well ordered, which is what paper ballots will do for you. If there's a controversy this year with votes, it's won't be from NH.
Does this mean I can get Knuth to cash my 25 Coronas?
They should encrypt the network, not the servers. Then you only need to encrypt the laptops and USB sticks and other removable media.
The picture is not a photograph, it is an artist's imagining of the event, and not a very good one at that.
Wasn't there an add-on TSR for Norton Commander that would store short-cuts (but they weren't called that) in a small frame at the bottom of the screen?
4th grade is the 9-11 year old range. If any of these kids are still eating random items at that age, they have bigger problems to deal with than lead poisoning.
Get a dead hard disk drive, take the cover off so the platters and read/write head are visible. Pass it around the class while you talk. Computers and IT will become immediately more real to them once they can touch it and see that a computer isn't just a fancy TV with keyboard and mouse.
If you want to add an analogy they can relate to, also bring a long a stack of encylopedias or an OED and do the "the words in X many of these books will fit on that disk" comparison.
Resellers make a lot of consulting dollars just on doing the Oracle db install and "tuning" for the applications going on top of the db. Now that Oracle can come pre-installed, this levels the playing field with respect to IBM's DB2 and MS SQL-Server. It would be interesting to know whose idea this was initially: Oracle's or HP's, and to find out who each of them believe this is going to benefit more.
There should be a disclaimer on these sort of product-placement articles. Oh wait, there is, it was posted by timothy.
FTFA:
"On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable," he said. "A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging."
While he didn't actually use the word "control", that is precisely what he's meaning.
It's bad enough that we have government at every level trying to legislate away personal responsibility, now we have a respected industry leader advocating for the same sort of Orwellian control.