One thing I like about askjeeves and a9.com is the way the present the search results.
I think the next step is to improve on the presentation of the results (data) to make it more usable/accessable.
Hit up askjeeves and run a search. The preview feature is pretty nice. And check out a9.com searches with their Site Info mouse-over.
to check the requirements for the rack. We have installed IBM racks for large systems and they have specific requirements. There has be a certain type of voltage to the rack...something weird like 48V DC or -48 V...good luck!
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a home built machine with an AMD CPU and nforce2 chipset and everything worked great out of the box. My Epson Scanner and Canon printer, my PDA and my digital camera all worked.
I went to Nvidia's site to download the latest nforce drivers for Linux and installed them w/o any issues.
Mandrakes new software update utility is the best. As good as or better than apt-get.
My brother and his wife are finishing up their house and he has an old (mid 80's) Oldsmobile with a hitch that he has used many times.
Last weekend we rented a trencher and he was able to pull it around with the old Olds.
My wife and I contracted our own house. We also did some of the work ourselves. We hung the cement siding, installed insulation, painted, laid the wood floor and tile. I ran a tractor to do the landscaping. We also ran CAT5 behind the electrician so all the rooms are "wired".
That's most of the stuff we thought we could reasonably do ourselves and save a few extra dollars. We would probably pass up on hanging the siding ourselves the next go around.
And we had some of the same stories as mentioned in the story. We got five bids for the HVAC (Heat,Vent,A/C). They ranged from $4,500 up to $7,800. Plumbing, we had bids from around $4,000 to over $10,000. We took the low plumbing bid, added a couple of extras (bigger jacuzzi tub) and still came in less than $6,000. Do you always take the lowest bid? No. Check the guy out, look at his/her other work. Ask for references. The subs are working for you!
Yes, we saved some money, but it was a lot of work and it took a lot of our time. My job at the time allowed me to have a more flexible schedule, today, it doesn't.
Even with my flexible schedule, we would be out working on the house until midnight three to four days out of the week.
Was it worth it to do some of the work ourselves? For us, yes. Reason being is that if the flooring, paint, or anything else we did is screwed up, it's our own fault and not some contractor. Some people may not understand, but I would rather look at a piece of tile that's not straight and tell myself that I'll have to do better next time than to wish I shouldn't have given some contractor a check for $3,000 for laying that same tile.
But as I said and others have said, it takes a lot of time and confidence in your abilities to deal with people who may be on the other end of social-economic spectrum. Even if you don't do any of the work yourself, it still takes some and causes plenty of headaches.
Oh yeah, if you don't have a truck, buy one! It doesn't have to be expensive. Actually, it's better if it's not expensive, just some old junker that runs.
Exactly. Making it even more improbable that there would be "two" of us or even two places ideally suited for us or an us...them...you know what I mean:-)
They have yet to find, and in my opinion, never will find a plant "just like earth". To find a planet with just the right mix of "stuff"...tilt, atmosphere, distance from sun, distance from other planets, satellites (moons) etc, etc, is a statistical improbability.
Sounds like everyone wants a portable computer, not a PDA. To me, a PDA is a cheap (inexpensive) electronic device I can use to store important information or take quick notes. And I still don't the products available are any good for even that. They still weigh too much and are too bulky.
I have a little paper notepad, smaller than my PDA, that I will use to jot down notes about this and that because it is much 'easier' and 'quicker' to do with the notepad than it is with my PDA (Sony Clie s360).
These 'all-in-one' devices belong in another category all together in my opinion.
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One thing I like about askjeeves and a9.com is the way the present the search results. I think the next step is to improve on the presentation of the results (data) to make it more usable/accessable. Hit up askjeeves and run a search. The preview feature is pretty nice. And check out a9.com searches with their Site Info mouse-over.
to check the requirements for the rack. We have installed IBM racks for large systems and they have specific requirements. There has be a certain type of voltage to the rack...something weird like 48V DC or -48 V...good luck!
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a home built machine with an AMD CPU and nforce2 chipset and everything worked great out of the box. My Epson Scanner and Canon printer, my PDA and my digital camera all worked. I went to Nvidia's site to download the latest nforce drivers for Linux and installed them w/o any issues. Mandrakes new software update utility is the best. As good as or better than apt-get.
Is to make sure we have driver support for our ATI 9700's so that we can actually play it.
My brother and his wife are finishing up their house and he has an old (mid 80's) Oldsmobile with a hitch that he has used many times. Last weekend we rented a trencher and he was able to pull it around with the old Olds.
My wife and I contracted our own house. We also did some of the work ourselves. We hung the cement siding, installed insulation, painted, laid the wood floor and tile. I ran a tractor to do the landscaping. We also ran CAT5 behind the electrician so all the rooms are "wired".
That's most of the stuff we thought we could reasonably do ourselves and save a few extra dollars. We would probably pass up on hanging the siding ourselves the next go around.
And we had some of the same stories as mentioned in the story. We got five bids for the HVAC (Heat,Vent,A/C). They ranged from $4,500 up to $7,800. Plumbing, we had bids from around $4,000 to over $10,000. We took the low plumbing bid, added a couple of extras (bigger jacuzzi tub) and still came in less than $6,000. Do you always take the lowest bid? No. Check the guy out, look at his/her other work. Ask for references. The subs are working for you!
Yes, we saved some money, but it was a lot of work and it took a lot of our time. My job at the time allowed me to have a more flexible schedule, today, it doesn't.
Even with my flexible schedule, we would be out working on the house until midnight three to four days out of the week.
Was it worth it to do some of the work ourselves? For us, yes. Reason being is that if the flooring, paint, or anything else we did is screwed up, it's our own fault and not some contractor. Some people may not understand, but I would rather look at a piece of tile that's not straight and tell myself that I'll have to do better next time than to wish I shouldn't have given some contractor a check for $3,000 for laying that same tile.
But as I said and others have said, it takes a lot of time and confidence in your abilities to deal with people who may be on the other end of social-economic spectrum. Even if you don't do any of the work yourself, it still takes some and causes plenty of headaches.
Oh yeah, if you don't have a truck, buy one! It doesn't have to be expensive. Actually, it's better if it's not expensive, just some old junker that runs.
Exactly. Making it even more improbable that there would be "two" of us or even two places ideally suited for us or an us...them...you know what I mean :-)
I would think a company like WM could handle the /. effect. No?
They have yet to find, and in my opinion, never will find a plant "just like earth". To find a planet with just the right mix of "stuff"...tilt, atmosphere, distance from sun, distance from other planets, satellites (moons) etc, etc, is a statistical improbability.
Sounds like everyone wants a portable computer, not a PDA. To me, a PDA is a cheap (inexpensive) electronic device I can use to store important information or take quick notes. And I still don't the products available are any good for even that. They still weigh too much and are too bulky.
I have a little paper notepad, smaller than my PDA, that I will use to jot down notes about this and that because it is much 'easier' and 'quicker' to do with the notepad than it is with my PDA (Sony Clie s360).
These 'all-in-one' devices belong in another category all together in my opinion.