discuss how new technology's start-up company is innovative/doomed
discuss how start-up relates to existing industry leaders (provide links to stock prices) - consult staff market analyst
point out economic factors - consult staff economist
discuss how economic factors will doom/promote new start-up - consult magic 8 ball
discuss company's strategy for entering market and establishing foothold - mention start up's expected IPO date
if more inches needed for copy
provide breif overview of how new technology actually works - consult glossy side of start-up's brochure/PowerPoint presentation
discuss how new technology's start-up company is innovative/doomed
discuss how start-up relates to existing industry leaders (provide links to stock prices) - consult staff market analyst
point out economic factors - consult staff economist
discuss how economic factors will doom/promote new start-up - consult magic 8 ball
discuss company's strategy for entering market and establishing foothold - mention start up's expected IPO date
if more inches needed for copy provide breif overview of how new technology actually works - consult glossy side of start-up's brochure/PowerPoint presentation
I thought the built-in CRT was kinda neat, and the way the keyboard snaped into the front of it was sorta nifty, but the only thing I kept was the carrying case. Its the perfect fit for my old desktop case, was padded, and had a cumfy shoulder strap. Worked great when I had to move dorm rooms each year. Now it just sits on the shelf with the old case in it. Think I got it from work, iirc it was still in use and had some important stuff on it (go figure) but was dead. They wanted me to try and resurect it... I laughed
Another fun thing to play with that shows where all known (unclassified) satalites are in a nifty 3d Java thingy is on NASA's site:
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JT rack3D.html
You can zoom in/out, select individual satalites and see their orbit, speed up the motion or let it run real-time. Its interesting to see the patterns they are in, and how far out some are.
And finaly, eletrical power is so cheap that most people don't mind if you just plug your stuff in. When I bring my laptop just about anywhere, I can feel confident I'll be able to find an outlet to plug it into. I could even get an adapter for my car (actualy, an 9vdc->120vac to plug my 120vac ->12vdc power brick, but hey it works:P)
Hmm... most cars are 12v now days...but anyway..
I could think of many places where fuel cells would definately be more readily available than AC outlets... As another poster already mentioned, on planes unless your in the buisness class most dont have any type of outlet. In other countries, risk frying stuff using a voltage adapter and figuring out which settings and plug adapters to use? nah, just go to the nearest liquor store and get some grain alcohol. Hiking/working in a wilderness area w/a laptop for whatever reason, be it simply to download pics off a digital camera, keep a journal, view maps, chart some native civilization etc. Recharging the fuelcell might be easier than finding an AC outlet nearby, most civilizations have alcohol in some form. Then again you could just drag around a solarpanel...
Yes, you do. In cases such as these on Ebay, when many people are "buying" expensive Items to find out after they pay that the seller took the money and ran. If it was a news ad, the Newspaper should be the first to hear about it. They ran the ad, they have the seller's info, they can pull the ad from the newspaper and Ban that seller from advertising again at the very least. Ebay isnt doing that, even with many people complaining about the same users. To open an account now you have to have a credit card or some way for Ebay to collect their fees, which means there is at least some identification associated with the Ebay account. And Ebay itself even has rules to deal specifically with this situation that they themselves are not following....http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/ fpp.html
And once those P2P Networks are shut down, how long before the next file sharing network or even new sharing stratagy comes about? It didnt take long after Napster for Kaza and the other larger P2P nets to become popular. Once these nets are shut down, those "transaction costs" will be reduced once again by someone wanting an easy way to trade files. It could be as simple as a front-end to an IRC client that goes out and probes dcc servers on various irc networks, making file sharing on IRC "user friendly". Is the RCAA going to be able to shut down IRC because of file sharing?
They are like that for a reason... if the heads are part of the printer (like Epsons are), you have to send the whole printer off to be serviced when they clog, and replace the printer if they go bad (like my Epson 600). Not to mention that as the printer gets older, its output degrades with the heads. The also tend to use ALOT more ink cleaning the heads, since the heads cant be replaced. With HP, if they clog or go bad, get a new cart, it prints like new.
What Ive been wondering for a long time (ever since I got an Epson 600) is how they advertise such high DPI ratings, yet fail to mention that thats only possible with a special "photo" cartridge on special paper on a certain day of the year at 3:05 am and only if you dont live in Canada. The epson I had, had the best dpi (720x720 iirc)at the time for a decently priced printer, but would only print at that res on expensive photo paper, at maybe 1 page per minute. Not only did it take forever, the output looked like crap compared to a lower dpi(600x300) HP printer (it also liked to clean its printheads ALOT).
Alot of the specs published on boxes are more misleading than just straight up lies. Sure the DPI is higher, but the lower res printer might actually render better dots, or do something with the dots to make the output look better. Sure it can print 7 pages per minute full color, but only if its in draft mode.
A couple of things that arent advertised that really gets to me are reliability and durability, and cost of cartridges. That epson worked good for about 3 months (just long enough that I could no longer return it), then started doing weird stuff. I had to replace the color cart after only 2 months. Epson wanted something around half the cost of the original printer for one, and the carts were only tanks, the heads were part of the printer.
I will NEVER buy a lexmark, after helping 3 too many friends attempt to get theirs working and having them die shortly after. In the end you get what you pay for, there's a reason those lexmarks cost only $20. I replaced the Epson with an HP 932c, and have had no problems since. Sure, it cost a little more, but I can count on it to print when I need to, and the carts dont cost more than the printer.
This is also similar to the way PSX discs are "protected". The discs are made with intentional bad sectors in specific areas. Normal copying software ignores the errors, and normal burners cant "burn" bad sectors the same way, so the discs are "un-copyable". The playstation looks for these errors when booting a disc and if not found, it wont load. The solution to this was the MOD chip. You make a copy of the disc without the errors, and the mod chip makes the PSX bypass the error checks. This new copy protection is going to be open to the same flaw, you wont be able to make a "perfect" copy of the disc, but whats to stop someone from bypassing it, de-crypting the disc and removing the protection, then re-burning it?
I work for a VoIP company, doing it with a pure Cisco solution and T1 data lines. The traffic is split at the end router on the customer's site (which has a UPS for itself and the T1 equipment). Their lan plugs into one jack, their phone system (POTS or digital PBX) block into another. The voice traffic goes over the same T1 and DS3's as the data, but on a different "private" network using IPs in the "unroutable" range, until it gets the the voice switch, where it is merged with the national POTS network. The data goes through the same channels, but on publicly accessable IP ranges. All the routers have standard Cisco access security, limiting access via another private network to only machines authed to do so. Also with traffic split in that way, DOS attacks only clog the data line, as the bandwidth for the voice portion is partially reserved.
As for down-time, the most common cause is the data line itself going down. And being provided by the same company as standard phone service (baby bells), gives the same down-time, or better. Also worthy of mention is that standard POTS lines are not the same old analog lines back to the telco as most people believe. They too get digitized along the way and are sent out on T1/DS1 T3/DS3 lines(DS3=28*DS1's, DS1=24*DS0 lines = 672POTS lines/DS3 using TDM/PCM).
Case in point, the NSS: National Space Society or National Speleological Society or Network Security Services or National Super Suction company (now NSS enterprises) or National Sports Services, or Nuclear Science Symposium or............ All are valid uses of 'NSS', some are commercial ventures, some are non-profits and several have trademarks or copyrights with their associated name, not the abbreviation.
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Re:SMART-1 Is Not First With Ion Propulsion
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Its also interesting to note that in the FAQ off of that NASA link:
"Ion propulsion is not of value for missions that require high acceleration, and it often will not be worthwhile for missions that can be done quickly using conventional propulsion systems (such as missions to the moon)."
Guess the "often" clause does not apply to this one.
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Re:Traffic Shaping Appliance-floppy Linux
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One floppy Linux distro that I've used with good results is Coyote Linux. Its based on the LRP, boots from one floppy and can do Masq'ing. You can even build a custom kernel to include the QOS stuff, so long as there is enough space on the disk. Once booted, it gives you a basic text menu for information and configuration. iirc it requires a Linux box to setup the distro and write the floppie, but that may have changed.
I was running this on old 386 and 486 machines with 8MB ram, though I think the newest releases require a little more ram (more ram would also allow for more firewalling rules).
Well, the dnetc.exe thats on the current release isn't optimized, but the Beta is. The old core was getting about the same keyrate as a p3-1.1G on a p4 1.8A. The new core increased that to close to 3MKeys/s.
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provide breif overview of how new technology actually works - consult glossy side of start-up's brochure/PowerPoint presentation
Finaly Ill be able to dl RM clips again, without having to use their damn spy-ware/annoy-ware player/virus.
Think I got it from work, iirc it was still in use and had some important stuff on it (go figure) but was dead. They wanted me to try and resurect it... I laughed
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/J
You can zoom in/out, select individual satalites and see their orbit, speed up the motion or let it run real-time. Its interesting to see the patterns they are in, and how far out some are.
Tm
Hmm... most cars are 12v now days...but anyway..
I could think of many places where fuel cells would definately be more readily available than AC outlets... As another poster already mentioned, on planes unless your in the buisness class most dont have any type of outlet. In other countries, risk frying stuff using a voltage adapter and figuring out which settings and plug adapters to use? nah, just go to the nearest liquor store and get some grain alcohol. Hiking/working in a wilderness area w/a laptop for whatever reason, be it simply to download pics off a digital camera, keep a journal, view maps, chart some native civilization etc. Recharging the fuelcell might be easier than finding an AC outlet nearby, most civilizations have alcohol in some form. Then again you could just drag around a solarpanel...
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Alot of the specs published on boxes are more misleading than just straight up lies. Sure the DPI is higher, but the lower res printer might actually render better dots, or do something with the dots to make the output look better. Sure it can print 7 pages per minute full color, but only if its in draft mode.
A couple of things that arent advertised that really gets to me are reliability and durability, and cost of cartridges. That epson worked good for about 3 months (just long enough that I could no longer return it), then started doing weird stuff. I had to replace the color cart after only 2 months. Epson wanted something around half the cost of the original printer for one, and the carts were only tanks, the heads were part of the printer.
I will NEVER buy a lexmark, after helping 3 too many friends attempt to get theirs working and having them die shortly after. In the end you get what you pay for, there's a reason those lexmarks cost only $20. I replaced the Epson with an HP 932c, and have had no problems since. Sure, it cost a little more, but I can count on it to print when I need to, and the carts dont cost more than the printer.
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I work for a VoIP company, doing it with a pure Cisco solution and T1 data lines. The traffic is split at the end router on the customer's site (which has a UPS for itself and the T1 equipment). Their lan plugs into one jack, their phone system (POTS or digital PBX) block into another. The voice traffic goes over the same T1 and DS3's as the data, but on a different "private" network using IPs in the "unroutable" range, until it gets the the voice switch, where it is merged with the national POTS network. The data goes through the same channels, but on publicly accessable IP ranges. All the routers have standard Cisco access security, limiting access via another private network to only machines authed to do so. Also with traffic split in that way, DOS attacks only clog the data line, as the bandwidth for the voice portion is partially reserved.
As for down-time, the most common cause is the data line itself going down. And being provided by the same company as standard phone service (baby bells), gives the same down-time, or better.
Also worthy of mention is that standard POTS lines are not the same old analog lines back to the telco as most people believe. They too get digitized along the way and are sent out on T1/DS1 T3/DS3 lines(DS3=28*DS1's, DS1=24*DS0 lines = 672POTS lines/DS3 using TDM/PCM).
Tm
All are valid uses of 'NSS', some are commercial ventures, some are non-profits and several have trademarks or copyrights with their associated name, not the abbreviation.
Tm
"Ion propulsion is not of value for missions that require high acceleration, and it often will not be worthwhile for missions that can be done quickly using conventional propulsion systems (such as missions to the moon)."
Guess the "often" clause does not apply to this one.
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I was running this on old 386 and 486 machines with 8MB ram, though I think the newest releases require a little more ram (more ram would also allow for more firewalling rules).
T
Well, the dnetc.exe thats on the current release isn't optimized, but the Beta is. The old core was getting about the same keyrate as a p3-1.1G on a p4 1.8A. The new core increased that to close to 3MKeys/s. T