I had false information on my report that delayed the closing of my mortgage, forcing us to spend hundreds in extra rent, wrecking all our plans for friends helping us to move, etc.
I had been preapproved already, but apparently they only checked two of the three credit beaureaus (or something). Word to the wise: preapproval means very little.
Getting it ironed out took quite a while but wasn't too hard, they had no proof since the allegations were completely false. The guy in question didn't even have the same middle name as I do.
What makes me mad is that we were on the hook for all the inconvenience and expense of this false credit information. Somehow the credit agencies can sell false information about you, causing you massive headaches and expense, with no liability whatsoever unless they fail to make corrections after you discover their mistakes. In other words, you are liable for their dealings. I'm sure some lobbyist got a big bonus for getting that one pushed through.
Well, if you don't like it, vote with your dollars.
What's wrong with voting with my vote? If people vote that they want a public local WiFi, why can't they have one?
It's a falsehood that all government services are compulsory and supported equally by all. Many government services have use taxes, like garbage, water, roads (gas tax), and parks with entrance fees.
Purchase service from competitors and convince your friends to do the same.
Competitors? We're talking about telco here. Look, most people are not in favor of government services where competition can efficiently offer viable alternatives. But the idea that this is always the case is just blind faith.
I'll take a government service over a private monopoly any day. At least then I get a vote.
I went out to Best Buy at 5:45am on Black Friday. The line was so long I just turned around and left. The problem with Best Buy is they sell some expensive stuff, so the discounts can run into the hundreds and people will wait for hours.
I headed over to Staples, and bought a 160GB drive for $40 (it was $30 at BB). A guy (fortunately) behind me bought out their stock - he picked up 12 of the drives. He said he asked the cashier if he could get the deal on more than one drive and she said yes. I think she was wrong.
There were also loads of people back at the "free after rebate" table grabbing armloads of stuff, or one of everything. They may not get their rebates, but that won't help you if they claw their way to the "free" table first.
Then I spent a few hours over the weekend trying to access overloaded rebate websites, and filling out rebate forms (multiple forms *per item* for those great prices!) We'll see if the rebates come through.
Getting stuff for the absolute minimum price takes a lot of time and effort. It's not realistic to figure those prices into estimates for anything.
I doubt that the DoD even *wants* a draft. It's at odds with their current doctrine of highly trained professional soldiers. All draftees are good for is cannon fodder (see Vietnam).
The question, obviously, is what to do when you run out of poor people willing/desparate enough to "volunteer."
The private school I attended did audits to ensure they were NOT more than x% public funded (not trivial when you factor in all grants etc). The point of this was to ensure the school's independence, i.e. to ensure it's still a private school by legal standards.
So the short answer to your question is: there's some percentage funding that makes a school no longer private, but I don't know what it is.
Those pictures from Abu Ghraib weren't rosy. NBC's footage of a marine point-blank executing a wounded, unarmed Iraqi weren't rosy.
It's hard to know how much of the full picture we are getting, but honestly, yes, I think we're getting more than most people in other times and other places.
Worse yet, due to the assyemtry, if you let BitTorrent use that full 384Kbps upstream, all other Internet use will be abysmally slow. So you're best off capping it at half that, or so.
You can get around that, at least on Linux, using LARTC. I have set up my box so "miscellaneous" packets (p2p, email, etc) are only sent if there are NO ssh or web browsing packets ready to go (script). There may be a few remnants of wondershaper in there, but I think mine is better:)
It does work. With this in place the effect of running BitTorrent (or whatever) in the background is tiny.
If you can't think of lots of applications for cameras with attached processors and networking, you're not thinking hard enough. The worst thing about cellphones and PDAs is the low-bandwidth data entry. Camera + software = high-bandwidth data entry.
Most of the pictures in my PDA are of business cards, sticky notes, handouts, and whiteboards. There's a map of a trail I hiked, captured at the trail-head. Then there are some funny spur-of-the-moment shots, like my wife bouncing on a pogo stick at Toys R Us (the image quality isn't great but it still makes me laugh).
What makes me mad is the appalling lack of applications... where is the onboard, automatic image-stitching software to get high-res images from this low-res sensor? Where's the OCR? Face recognition for those embarrasing moments when I can't remember a name?
Interesting... my Clie TH55 (no longer solid in the Americas or Europe) has a built-in camera that makes a shutter noise you can't turn off. You can select the "shutter sound," and the volume, too, but there is no "off" volume which is weird. It's also annoying. Sometimes you want to grab a business card in a meeting, or a book excerpt in the library, without disturbing everybody.
Let me get this straight. They post an ad for a full-time position, even yet to be approved, but they want to bring you on as a contractor because it's easier to get approval.
I think you're confusing "full-time" with "permanant."
Of course some might question whether a siamesed pair of processors actually constitutes a single IC.....
That's the rub right there. Moore's law under its broad interpretation - "computers get exponentially faster" - was great because new processors could run the same old programs with exponentially increasing speed. (Moore's law under its narrow interpretation - transistor count - is quite useless, since nobody cares about transistor counts per se).
N parallel processors are never as good as a single processor N times faster. Even if you're lucky and your algorithm is perfectly parallelizable (which it never is), the parallel implementation is more complex - meaning higher cost and more bugs for the same algorithm.
That said, I guess it's job security. It will take a whole different mindset to program for 1024 processors. We might even start dumping efficient algorithms for alternates that take more cycles overall but are more parallelizable.
That could happen, but let's not jump the gun by slamming "vigilante" protocols. TCP just doesn't make sense for everything, e.g. real-time apps (including games) where retransmissions are counterproductive. As good as TCP is, we can't improve on it without experimentation. The time may come for collaboration through the IETF as you suggested, but only after lots of small-scale experimentation I think.
"The defense said the guy was innocent, but they're the defense so of course they said that. The prosecution argued to the contrary, of course. Oh, well, no disinterested parties weighed in so I guess we'll have to declare a mistrial and move on."
What you've managed to do is completely ignore what both sides are saying. Why don't you listen in and see which is more convincing?
That's nifty to know, although IIRC, the xw8200 uses Prescott cores, meaning they still consume a lot of electrical power even at no load.
This is, IMHO, what really sets the Dual G5s apart from anything I've seen in the PC world - a dual CPU box really made for the desktop. I haven't seen a multi-cpu PC box that supports hibernation, or even speed-sensitive CPUs (that I've noticed).
No, I don't have dual G5 (my main computer is this IBM T40), but I'm laying plans to build an extremely powerful workstation, e.g. Quad dual-core Opterons (hopefully available soon?) or a little stack of Apple XServes. But I'd like it to all fit in one case and be quiet (except perhaps when heavily loaded). Orion Multisystems looks interesting, but the CPUs are Transmetas, and I'm afraid 12 of those might be slower than 4 single core Opterons.
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I had been preapproved already, but apparently they only checked two of the three credit beaureaus (or something). Word to the wise: preapproval means very little.
Getting it ironed out took quite a while but wasn't too hard, they had no proof since the allegations were completely false. The guy in question didn't even have the same middle name as I do.
What makes me mad is that we were on the hook for all the inconvenience and expense of this false credit information. Somehow the credit agencies can sell false information about you, causing you massive headaches and expense, with no liability whatsoever unless they fail to make corrections after you discover their mistakes. In other words, you are liable for their dealings. I'm sure some lobbyist got a big bonus for getting that one pushed through.
Information goes obsolete quickly. Without date restrictions, it's almost useless.
Putting the desired year in the query might be a poor man's workaround, but using less pertinent terms like that quickly degrades the search results.
It's a falsehood that all government services are compulsory and supported equally by all. Many government services have use taxes, like garbage, water, roads (gas tax), and parks with entrance fees.
Competitors? We're talking about telco here. Look, most people are not in favor of government services where competition can efficiently offer viable alternatives. But the idea that this is always the case is just blind faith.I'll take a government service over a private monopoly any day. At least then I get a vote.
I headed over to Staples, and bought a 160GB drive for $40 (it was $30 at BB). A guy (fortunately) behind me bought out their stock - he picked up 12 of the drives. He said he asked the cashier if he could get the deal on more than one drive and she said yes. I think she was wrong.
There were also loads of people back at the "free after rebate" table grabbing armloads of stuff, or one of everything. They may not get their rebates, but that won't help you if they claw their way to the "free" table first.
Then I spent a few hours over the weekend trying to access overloaded rebate websites, and filling out rebate forms (multiple forms *per item* for those great prices!) We'll see if the rebates come through.
Getting stuff for the absolute minimum price takes a lot of time and effort. It's not realistic to figure those prices into estimates for anything.
So the short answer to your question is: there's some percentage funding that makes a school no longer private, but I don't know what it is.
I'm surprised SMS isn't considered to be email in the first place.
It's hard to know how much of the full picture we are getting, but honestly, yes, I think we're getting more than most people in other times and other places.
It does work. With this in place the effect of running BitTorrent (or whatever) in the background is tiny.
Most of the pictures in my PDA are of business cards, sticky notes, handouts, and whiteboards. There's a map of a trail I hiked, captured at the trail-head. Then there are some funny spur-of-the-moment shots, like my wife bouncing on a pogo stick at Toys R Us (the image quality isn't great but it still makes me laugh).
What makes me mad is the appalling lack of applications... where is the onboard, automatic image-stitching software to get high-res images from this low-res sensor? Where's the OCR? Face recognition for those embarrasing moments when I can't remember a name?
Interesting... my Clie TH55 (no longer solid in the Americas or Europe) has a built-in camera that makes a shutter noise you can't turn off. You can select the "shutter sound," and the volume, too, but there is no "off" volume which is weird. It's also annoying. Sometimes you want to grab a business card in a meeting, or a book excerpt in the library, without disturbing everybody.
N parallel processors are never as good as a single processor N times faster. Even if you're lucky and your algorithm is perfectly parallelizable (which it never is), the parallel implementation is more complex - meaning higher cost and more bugs for the same algorithm.
That said, I guess it's job security. It will take a whole different mindset to program for 1024 processors. We might even start dumping efficient algorithms for alternates that take more cycles overall but are more parallelizable.
There are lots of portable, workable packaging systems. That's the problem.
That could happen, but let's not jump the gun by slamming "vigilante" protocols. TCP just doesn't make sense for everything, e.g. real-time apps (including games) where retransmissions are counterproductive. As good as TCP is, we can't improve on it without experimentation. The time may come for collaboration through the IETF as you suggested, but only after lots of small-scale experimentation I think.
"The defense said the guy was innocent, but they're the defense so of course they said that. The prosecution argued to the contrary, of course. Oh, well, no disinterested parties weighed in so I guess we'll have to declare a mistrial and move on."
What you've managed to do is completely ignore what both sides are saying. Why don't you listen in and see which is more convincing?
No, I don't have dual G5 (my main computer is this IBM T40), but I'm laying plans to build an extremely powerful workstation, e.g. Quad dual-core Opterons (hopefully available soon?) or a little stack of Apple XServes. But I'd like it to all fit in one case and be quiet (except perhaps when heavily loaded). Orion Multisystems looks interesting, but the CPUs are Transmetas, and I'm afraid 12 of those might be slower than 4 single core Opterons.