One site shows pics and says they have at least prototyped a flat panel c-band antenna: http://www.skygate.bg/skygate/Acivities/SampleProd ucts.htm They are a Bulgarian company with Dutch backing partnering with AlcaTel I might be a bit difficultto buy one from them however.
Since real has licensed QT codecs I wonder how they figured out who has what penetration? They must be looking at what people are using to view/listen to the media as opposed to actual installed user base.
Ad for reading other peoples documents when I was an IT director all of our documents were published in SGML using word perfect. What you are failing to see it that just because everyone else is doing it is not a valid reason. I am taking a corespondence course right now and after I had signed up I found out that MS Word was required for the class. I was told plain text would not suffice so I argued for PDF since I didn't think they woul dbe competent to open anything else. The sesult acceptance and it is now even reccomended over word docs ( after a nasty group of viruses hit some students computers from a proff's machine.)
Absolutely assuming you have the money to drop on it duplications houses are the way to go definately. However if you are a small band like Factories => Shameless plug for my friends band then you can't get 200+ disks done at a time becaus eyou can't pay for it... of course then you couldn't afford the printer and cfs either but think of it as a one time cost.
You can of course buy printable CDs and DVDs and use a printer like the one I use which is an ezcd4200 it costs me about 12 extra per cd or dvd but I do get full colour with it. Oh and if you are going to do any volume remeber to buy a continuous flow system for your pritner. In fact here is a tutorial I found on hacking your own CFS System
No, I didn't miss this point, I specificly mentioed older software as well and I fail to see the functionality increase for the business office user. I understand that MS Office XP wont run well on NT4 (if at all) and wouldn't run well at all on a p200 but what makes word xp better than wp 7 for the office user? Its a rhetoriclal question
According to the first Paragraph of the article 1.5 of the 1.8 Tonnes is water or roughtly 83.3% of the amount listed. I do agree its pretty obscene the amount of fuel that goes into the manufacturing process however (240kg of fuel). I would also stand behind the articles point of
"donating the old computer so that it may continue to be used offer potential energy savings of between five and 20 times those gained by recycling"
So what can be done curb this kind of thing? Well I for one would suggest some of the following:
Donation of older systems
Businesses really do not need to upgrade as often as they do Is there really that much functionality to the officeworker of an athlon FX 64 bit machine compared to a P200? I mean Word perfect and Lotus 1,2,3 both worked great on mine under OS/2 2.1 Now I am talking for business purposes hear not gaming or rendering or scientific maches servers etc. Just your typical iffice users 8-5 kind of thing
Move more and more to clustered computing. Need a render farm after hours? Use the machines already in place. When I worked for a design firm we had a render farm but I would use the other network machines after hours to speed things up considerably and it meant I didn't have to upgrade so rapidly.
Boot diskless terminals (kind of like the reverse of the previous comment) another 10 users may equal a change in processor and memmory and the addition of a new drive no need to build an entire system for each one.
What other responsible actions can we think of to turn the tide? I know the computer manufacturers certainly dont want to see it happen but the whole situation has become quite silly.
BTW just because of this topic I am posting from my 7350 dual 180Mhz 604e server
I got my start in security doing secure medical databases and so I have been tracking this for quite some time. The real issue is not dealing with the doctors (since they rarely make the descisions) but the head nurse, billing and office managers. Plus most medical billing systems or emr systems are incredibly proprietary. It just isn't worth their time. To get to see the actual descision makers is nigh impossible anyways, unless you are going to pay for an office visit. As for rich doctors, well maybe specialists but paying off student loans and the costs of running a practice tends to eat into the moneies that doctors make for quite a while. In the long run 1500 a year just is not much of a savings in the grand sceme of things for an office. To retrain the employees would easily cost more than this and with the multi year contracts most emr and billing systems have teh window is pretty narrow too. On a 5 year contract they will start pushing for a renewal after only 2-3 years. The only way this can really spread is virally. Get it into the schools ( where the systems are usually donated anyway so not much luck there) or into a doctor's office run by your family ( then you are limited to a single site). Research databases ( what I did for a couple of years) are different in that every system is custom and there open standards are very important so you can retrieve the data forever.
BTW the systems work well together and while freeb needs some polish its well on its way.
ah but if you read teh majority opinion you find the key phrase " 1 Thus, under these various provisions, the State imposes a statewide sales tax of 4.225% on sales of goods within the State and a statewide use tax of 4.225% on goods brought into the State after being purchased elsewhere. These taxes are not challenged here." the key being the last line the usage tax was not challenged now its been more than a few years since I studied Con Law ( 19 in fact ) but the challenge seems to have been based off of the diversity of rates across teh state in reference to the "usage" tax. I did search findlaw and a few other places and I am certainly neither a tax or con law atty but I think a challenge could still be made.
This concernes me for the following reason States do not have teh right to tax things outside of their own borders. If a transaction takes place across that states borders what allows them to tax it In some ways ( taken to its logical extreme) its like Texas saying it is going to tax all transactions in Massachusetts. Now if the Federal Govt wanted to tax sales across the borders this would be legitimate ( state's borders that is). Of course it will take a contest case to sort it all out.
You may well be correct, I do see to remember that they were talking about both companies at the time and that the same thing had happened at both companies or at least similar things. Of course I was driving at the time and its not like I was taking notes:)
I used to be billed out at over 300 dollars an hour for training. of course i was only paid $16.50 an hour at that time so as you can imagine I went to work elsewhere. And as a note several retailers sell or did sell an hour onsite training and computer setup for 150 - 175. Of course these days I wouldn't mind a steady 16.50 an hour.. security business is drying up and medical isn't doing new projects right tis minute. Course what I really want is to go back to school (seminary)
It was more like Dude you getting voted out. The Article doesn't mention it, but radio mentioned that he did not get re- elected to his position as CEO and so they decided to split the position. I can't find mention of it online yet however so no link.
The cyberman aka mouse on a stick allowed for 6 degrees of movement witch is important in a 3-d world. or did you mean VRML? I was doing modeling for a trade show company I worked for at the time. We rendered out vrml files from FormZ ( well not directly formZ to autocad dxf to vrml) before sending them to the render far mto check object and sound placement and give customers a quick and dirty look at what we had envisioned for them.
Make me proud to think that some of the 200 bucks i just spent on parts for my car will go to laying the smack down on Darl. Of course if they roll over I will just have to take my business elsewhere.
The issue is often ratios of matrials present. In the potasium argon situation dating is done by the present ratio and then dated back to the "balance" point. You would have to know what the balance point ( or origin point) was in order to do such. So how do we find out what that should be? My issue is teh relativeness of these measurements it is one conjecture based on another. I could bring up the issues of Glenrose, Texas (strata dating) or even Mt. St Helens and Mt. Vesuvious (K - Ar dating vs historical data). As for bombardment of elements and sampling decay rates this would provide substantial proof if we were to measure it over a leangth of time. However again I know of no known studies on this and to be honest it would really only be applicable for irradiated/ bombarded particles. In the end I have strong doubts about any claim that has not been backed up by independent research, as what seems to happen regularly is a spectacular claim is made and after teh intial furor and acceptance it is shown wrong or inconclusive. However the retraction has a signifigantly lower acceptance rate than the initial claim.
As for the record I continued my Physics work at the graduate level but I am now a general technologist and security consultant. I do a fair amount of work with lasers and so deal with atomic state theorums on a regular baseis but truth be told I am going back to school to study music at the current time.
HFStar will however pickup resource forks you can install it seperately or with fink. On the plus side the source is full available and it is of course GOL compliant.
Yes it is possible but not equally probable that we could all simultaneously cease to exist . Yes, I have studied statistics to answer your question. And to counter your argument about gravity it is much more like someone saying gravity is 9.8mss cecause everywhere we have looked this was teh case. Now teh universe as a whole? I think we can observe that not only does gravity act in predicatble ways but we can manipulate it with ease ( add mass increase density etc) On the other hand I am talking about observing a dynamic substance over an infantesimal period of its existance. In fact I do not know of anything except for things like the platinum Kilogram standard and its ilk that have been studied for any duration. And to be honest I have my doubt about even that. Supposedly the kilogram is becoming less massive due to various factors, but those factors are well within the limits of measurement. More importantly than my knowledge of statistics would have been little things like my appointment to City College London to study Physics and Materials Sciences 14 years ago. What were you doing then?
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One site shows pics and says they have at least prototyped a flat panel c-band antenna:d ucts.htm They are a Bulgarian company with Dutch backing partnering with AlcaTel I might be a bit difficultto buy one from them however.
http://www.skygate.bg/skygate/Acivities/SamplePro
Since real has licensed QT codecs I wonder how they figured out who has what penetration? They must be looking at what people are using to view/listen to the media as opposed to actual installed user base.
Ad for reading other peoples documents when I was an IT director all of our documents were published in SGML using word perfect. What you are failing to see it that just because everyone else is doing it is not a valid reason. I am taking a corespondence course right now and after I had signed up I found out that MS Word was required for the class. I was told plain text would not suffice so I argued for PDF since I didn't think they woul dbe competent to open anything else. The sesult acceptance and it is now even reccomended over word docs ( after a nasty group of viruses hit some students computers from a proff's machine.)
Absolutely assuming you have the money to drop on it duplications houses are the way to go definately. However if you are a small band like Factories => Shameless plug for my friends band then you can't get 200+ disks done at a time becaus eyou can't pay for it ... of course then you couldn't afford the printer and cfs either but think of it as a one time cost.
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yeah its geocities
You can of course buy printable CDs and DVDs and use a printer like the one I use which is an ezcd4200 it costs me about 12 extra per cd or dvd but I do get full colour with it. Oh and if you are going to do any volume remeber to buy a continuous flow system for your pritner. In fact here is a tutorial I found on hacking your own CFS System
Yes I agree that backlighting an LED panel would definately be silly, How about backlighting an LCD though ... oh wait thats prolly what you meant :)
Sorry about the dig it was just one of those things that jumped out at me.
No, I didn't miss this point, I specificly mentioed older software as well and I fail to see the functionality increase for the business office user. I understand that MS Office XP wont run well on NT4 (if at all) and wouldn't run well at all on a p200 but what makes word xp better than wp 7 for the office user? Its a rhetoriclal question
Donation of older systems
Businesses really do not need to upgrade as often as they do Is there really that much functionality to the officeworker of an athlon FX 64 bit machine compared to a P200? I mean Word perfect and Lotus 1,2,3 both worked great on mine under OS/2 2.1 Now I am talking for business purposes hear not gaming or rendering or scientific maches servers etc. Just your typical iffice users 8-5 kind of thing
Move more and more to clustered computing. Need a render farm after hours? Use the machines already in place. When I worked for a design firm we had a render farm but I would use the other network machines after hours to speed things up considerably and it meant I didn't have to upgrade so rapidly.
Boot diskless terminals (kind of like the reverse of the previous comment) another 10 users may equal a change in processor and memmory and the addition of a new drive no need to build an entire system for each one.
What other responsible actions can we think of to turn the tide? I know the computer manufacturers certainly dont want to see it happen but the whole situation has become quite silly.
BTW just because of this topic I am posting from my 7350 dual 180Mhz 604e server
I got my start in security doing secure medical databases and so I have been tracking this for quite some time. The real issue is not dealing with the doctors (since they rarely make the descisions) but the head nurse, billing and office managers. Plus most medical billing systems or emr systems are incredibly proprietary. It just isn't worth their time. To get to see the actual descision makers is nigh impossible anyways, unless you are going to pay for an office visit. As for rich doctors, well maybe specialists but paying off student loans and the costs of running a practice tends to eat into the moneies that doctors make for quite a while. In the long run 1500 a year just is not much of a savings in the grand sceme of things for an office. To retrain the employees would easily cost more than this and with the multi year contracts most emr and billing systems have teh window is pretty narrow too. On a 5 year contract they will start pushing for a renewal after only 2-3 years. The only way this can really spread is virally. Get it into the schools ( where the systems are usually donated anyway so not much luck there) or into a doctor's office run by your family ( then you are limited to a single site). Research databases ( what I did for a couple of years) are different in that every system is custom and there open standards are very important so you can retrieve the data forever.
BTW the systems work well together and while freeb needs some polish its well on its way.
Sorry for the rambling post
ah but if you read teh majority opinion you find the key phrase " 1 Thus, under these various provisions, the State imposes a statewide sales tax of 4.225% on sales of goods within the State and a statewide use tax of 4.225% on goods brought into the State after being purchased elsewhere. These taxes are not challenged here." the key being the last line the usage tax was not challenged now its been more than a few years since I studied Con Law ( 19 in fact ) but the challenge seems to have been based off of the diversity of rates across teh state in reference to the "usage" tax. I did search findlaw and a few other places and I am certainly neither a tax or con law atty but I think a challenge could still be made.
Do you know the case that said it was constitutional? Because, to the best of my knowledge, it has yet to be challenged.
This concernes me for the following reason States do not have teh right to tax things outside of their own borders. If a transaction takes place across that states borders what allows them to tax it In some ways ( taken to its logical extreme) its like Texas saying it is going to tax all transactions in Massachusetts. Now if the Federal Govt wanted to tax sales across the borders this would be legitimate ( state's borders that is). Of course it will take a contest case to sort it all out.
You may well be correct, I do see to remember that they were talking about both companies at the time and that the same thing had happened at both companies or at least similar things. Of course I was driving at the time and its not like I was taking notes :)
I used to be billed out at over 300 dollars an hour for training. of course i was only paid $16.50 an hour at that time so as you can imagine I went to work elsewhere. And as a note several retailers sell or did sell an hour onsite training and computer setup for 150 - 175. Of course these days I wouldn't mind a steady 16.50 an hour .. security business is drying up and medical isn't doing new projects right tis minute. Course what I really want is to go back to school (seminary)
It was more like Dude you getting voted out. The Article doesn't mention it, but radio mentioned that he did not get re- elected to his position as CEO and so they decided to split the position. I can't find mention of it online yet however so no link.
It was on broadcast TV not cable.
The cyberman aka mouse on a stick allowed for 6 degrees of movement witch is important in a 3-d world. or did you mean VRML? I was doing modeling for a trade show company I worked for at the time. We rendered out vrml files from FormZ ( well not directly formZ to autocad dxf to vrml) before sending them to the render far mto check object and sound placement and give customers a quick and dirty look at what we had envisioned for them.
Make me proud to think that some of the 200 bucks i just spent on parts for my car will go to laying the smack down on Darl. Of course if they roll over I will just have to take my business elsewhere.
I loved my cyberman but then I was hevily into VRML at the time. Eventually it wore out and I wasn't able to patch it back together.
I wasn't talking about prints I am talking about strata layers. but take it wherever you want.
The issue is often ratios of matrials present. In the potasium argon situation dating is done by the present ratio and then dated back to the "balance" point. You would have to know what the balance point ( or origin point) was in order to do such. So how do we find out what that should be? My issue is teh relativeness of these measurements it is one conjecture based on another. I could bring up the issues of Glenrose, Texas (strata dating) or even Mt. St Helens and Mt. Vesuvious (K - Ar dating vs historical data). As for bombardment of elements and sampling decay rates this would provide substantial proof if we were to measure it over a leangth of time. However again I know of no known studies on this and to be honest it would really only be applicable for irradiated/ bombarded particles. In the end I have strong doubts about any claim that has not been backed up by independent research, as what seems to happen regularly is a spectacular claim is made and after teh intial furor and acceptance it is shown wrong or inconclusive. However the retraction has a signifigantly lower acceptance rate than the initial claim.
As for the record I continued my Physics work at the graduate level but I am now a general technologist and security consultant. I do a fair amount of work with lasers and so deal with atomic state theorums on a regular baseis but truth be told I am going back to school to study music at the current time.
HFStar will however pickup resource forks you can install it seperately or with fink. On the plus side the source is full available and it is of course GOL compliant.
which if i was more awke I would have noticed he tried and didn't like. Works well for me though and no $99 a year for .mac
Not to feed trolls but there is always phpiCalander which would take the place of a .mac account.
Yes it is possible but not equally probable that we could all simultaneously cease to exist . Yes, I have studied statistics to answer your question. And to counter your argument about gravity it is much more like someone saying gravity is 9.8mss cecause everywhere we have looked this was teh case. Now teh universe as a whole? I think we can observe that not only does gravity act in predicatble ways but we can manipulate it with ease ( add mass increase density etc) On the other hand I am talking about observing a dynamic substance over an infantesimal period of its existance. In fact I do not know of anything except for things like the platinum Kilogram standard and its ilk that have been studied for any duration. And to be honest I have my doubt about even that. Supposedly the kilogram is becoming less massive due to various factors, but those factors are well within the limits of measurement. More importantly than my knowledge of statistics would have been little things like my appointment to City College London to study Physics and Materials Sciences 14 years ago. What were you doing then?