Not the source code. In today's business environment most of the development we do involves databases and complex relationships. Use a flowchart to analyze where the data starts, what needs to happen to it and where it needs to wind up. The UI and the code will take care if it's self.
As I stated earlier I'VE USED SPREADSHEETS IN THAT MANNER. I wrote several dll's for Quatro Pro back in 1995 (Excel was a POS at that time), used dbIII and alot of macro programming to get my job done. BTW it took 45 min. for the spreadsheet to recalculate on a 386DX33 with a math co. All of this in a process that ran once a month. It would have been much better if I could have used the proper tools. I understand that management ties the hands of the users and insists on using the tools that THEY provide. But, maybe those biologists might use something more complex if it enabled them to do better research...
If you are using VBA in your spread sheet you need to move to a better solution - a dbms and a decent programming language. You are doing the equivilant of using a table knife for a screwdriver. I've used spread sheets in the fashion that you state. I've also written dll's to be called by said spreadsheet. It's MUCH faster (performance wise) to use a programming language (Delphi, Kylix, C/C++) and a dbms to achieve your results. The learning curve of programming is a language is a little steeper but the payoffs are well worth the effort.
Not only will dBaseIII teach the fundamentals of database design it will teach resource management and promote a genuine enthusiasm for REAL database servers!!!
Try Dallas Semicondictor's iButton technology (www.ibutton.com). You should be able to get an iButton evaluation kit for $30-$40 (US). Nice thing about the iButton is that if the power goes off it can still log time/temperature.
Howard Strauss,
Did it ever occur to you that there MIGHT be people in this world that are not Self Centered, Paranoid, Money Grubbing,
and Power Hungry ? Open source software is supported by companies that feel that open standards are better than propriatary ones, ever heard of ASCII? Which is is more widely used ASCII (open standard) or EBCDIC (IBM propriatary)? Open Source software is also supported by software developers that: A) Enjoy writing software, B) Wish to contribute something back to the computing community. (By the way item B is the core ideal of most societies.)
I am sure that these points have already been raised here at/. but they need said again.
In all the talk about Global Warming and blaming CO2, I haven't seen any one do a study on the effects of concrete and asphalt. Come on, all the concrete and asphalt in our cities is just one Huge passive solar collector. The amount of solar radation absorbed by that much concrete has the effect of changing the local climate for the city in question (or did you think it was magic that it's 5-15 degrees warmer in the city as opposed to the contry).
This is the old misunderstanding of Mass vs Weight. If a cloud weighed 550 tons it COULD NOT BE LIGHTER THAN AIR. However a cloud is constructed of billions of tiny droplets of water that are lighter than air. The collective MASS of the cloud could be in the Millions of tons.
usually work the best for me. The Welsh alphabet uses the same 26 characters as english but the pronounciation and the dipthongs are more complex. Also all the dd's, ll's, and y's male the names properly fantasy like. However lately in games that I have several scenarios, I've taken to naming my characters after their class. It's easier to keep things straight.
"I do one last check of my DC transformer, which I bought online from a guy who specializes..."
Last time I checked there was no such thing as a DC transformer, maybe a DC electromagnet but not a transformer. By it's very nature a transformer needs AC to operate. This looks and smells like a
The problem with old houses and esp. stone foundations is that the holes tend to be below ground level. I went on a "morter and trowel" mission a ways back however I can't get to the below ground problems. Rats and Chipmonks seem to like to use the below groound entrances. I have found that DeConn works rather well, if you can stand the stench 5 days later.
and it's successor (iNBC I think) tried this back in '99 and you see where they are today. Lots of subscibers had web sites for hosting their digital art work. Most of the ones I knew (my self included) removed their sites and left a message on their home page explaining why.
I'll probably get shot for this, but if you go to their comments section and ask intellegently you'll usually get an answer. Also you can get a few laughs reading the comments.
About 3 years ago my local ISP was bought out by a large nation wide ISP (E****Link). Up until that point(5 + yrs of internet access) I was in control of my email (read 2 - 5 spams a week). Once the acquisition (or was that inquision, as in Spanish) I was getting 30 - 40 SPAMS PER DAY. Explain how it was my fault. I have since changed ISP's and thus my email address and am back to 0 spam.
practically no. There are several factors at work here. First of all is that in order to create electricity a conductor (your bike) must move perpendicular to the magnetic field. By riding parallel to the power lines you are, in effect, riding parallel to the magnetic field. However, since the power lines cary AC current the magnetic field is expanding and collapsing around you so your bike is moving (or rather the magnetic field is moving) through the magnetic field. Secondly the generation of a magnetic field around a wire is a function of the amount of power (Voltage * Current) in the wire. In other words a wire that is carrying 200K Volts but very little current, say 0.005 Amps would have a smaller and less powerfull magnetic field than a wire with 12 Volts carrying 200 Amps. Thirdly the Inverse Square Law takes affect in this situation. Simply put, it states that the magnetic field is reduced in strength proportional to the sqaure of the distance you are from the wire. If you are 4 feet from the wire the strength of the magnetic field is a factor of 16 less than the maximum (right at the wire). At 5 feet the factor is 25, at 6 feet the factor is 36 etc.
Has a solution that is platform independent and will run over the web, it's called IntraWeb and it comes with Delphi 7 Enterprise and Architect. My company is currently using it to create a web based interface for our Policy Management System, we're an insurance company (not an agency). The full version of IntraWeb (available from AtoZedsoftware.com) is also CLX compatable so it can be hosted on a Linux server and developed under Kylix.
Until you get some balls I suggest that you take your own advice. OS software may not cost $$. But how many lines are you willing to write for the common good?
Ignore the Dragon Sig. You are not crunchy and there isn't enough ketchup in the world to make you taste good!!
age of your house you may have metal studs in the walls. This could cause problems. All of the other sugestions are great too. You may just have to play around with the position of the WAP and it's antenae.
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Not the source code. In today's business environment most of the development we do involves databases and complex relationships. Use a flowchart to analyze where the data starts, what needs to happen to it and where it needs to wind up. The UI and the code will take care if it's self.
Kaa-Ching. P. T. Barnum was right.
As I stated earlier I'VE USED SPREADSHEETS IN THAT MANNER. I wrote several dll's for Quatro Pro back in 1995 (Excel was a POS at that time), used dbIII and alot of macro programming to get my job done. BTW it took 45 min. for the spreadsheet to recalculate on a 386DX33 with a math co. All of this in a process that ran once a month. It would have been much better if I could have used the proper tools. I understand that management ties the hands of the users and insists on using the tools that THEY provide. But, maybe those biologists might use something more complex if it enabled them to do better research...
If you are using VBA in your spread sheet you need to move to a better solution - a dbms and a decent programming language. You are doing the equivilant of using a table knife for a screwdriver. I've used spread sheets in the fashion that you state. I've also written dll's to be called by said spreadsheet. It's MUCH faster (performance wise) to use a programming language (Delphi, Kylix, C/C++) and a dbms to achieve your results. The learning curve of programming is a language is a little steeper but the payoffs are well worth the effort.
Not only will dBaseIII teach the fundamentals of database design it will teach resource management and promote a genuine enthusiasm for REAL database servers!!!
Try Dallas Semicondictor's iButton technology (www.ibutton.com). You should be able to get an iButton evaluation kit for $30-$40 (US). Nice thing about the iButton is that if the power goes off it can still log time/temperature.
Howard Strauss, /. but they need said again.
Did it ever occur to you that there MIGHT be people in this world that are not Self Centered, Paranoid, Money Grubbing, and Power Hungry ? Open source software is supported by companies that feel that open standards are better than propriatary ones, ever heard of ASCII? Which is is more widely used ASCII (open standard) or EBCDIC (IBM propriatary)? Open Source software is also supported by software developers that: A) Enjoy writing software, B) Wish to contribute something back to the computing community. (By the way item B is the core ideal of most societies.)
I am sure that these points have already been raised here at
Roy Owen
Software Developer/Engineer
In all the talk about Global Warming and blaming CO2, I haven't seen any one do a study on the effects of concrete and asphalt. Come on, all the concrete and asphalt in our cities is just one Huge passive solar collector. The amount of solar radation absorbed by that much concrete has the effect of changing the local climate for the city in question (or did you think it was magic that it's 5-15 degrees warmer in the city as opposed to the contry).
This is the old misunderstanding of Mass vs Weight. If a cloud weighed 550 tons it COULD NOT BE LIGHTER THAN AIR. However a cloud is constructed of billions of tiny droplets of water that are lighter than air. The collective MASS of the cloud could be in the Millions of tons.
usually work the best for me. The Welsh alphabet uses the same 26 characters as english but the pronounciation and the dipthongs are more complex. Also all the dd's, ll's, and y's male the names properly fantasy like. However lately in games that I have several scenarios, I've taken to naming my characters after their class. It's easier to keep things straight.
- Popular Electronics
April Fools joke.The problem with old houses and esp. stone foundations is that the holes tend to be below ground level. I went on a "morter and trowel" mission a ways back however I can't get to the below ground problems. Rats and Chipmonks seem to like to use the below groound entrances. I have found that DeConn works rather well, if you can stand the stench 5 days later.
How do you patch the holes in a 150 year old house. The foundation is mountain stone, it has more holes than Windows!!
and it's successor (iNBC I think) tried this back in '99 and you see where they are today. Lots of subscibers had web sites for hosting their digital art work. Most of the ones I knew (my self included) removed their sites and left a message on their home page explaining why.
I'll probably get shot for this, but if you go to their comments section and ask intellegently you'll usually get an answer. Also you can get a few laughs reading the comments.
About 3 years ago my local ISP was bought out by a large nation wide ISP (E****Link). Up until that point(5 + yrs of internet access) I was in control of my email (read 2 - 5 spams a week). Once the acquisition (or was that inquision, as in Spanish) I was getting 30 - 40 SPAMS PER DAY. Explain how it was my fault. I have since changed ISP's and thus my email address and am back to 0 spam.
That the rest of the world see's the same things that we at /. have been concerned about.
practically no. There are several factors at work here. First of all is that in order to create electricity a conductor (your bike) must move perpendicular to the magnetic field. By riding parallel to the power lines you are, in effect, riding parallel to the magnetic field. However, since the power lines cary AC current the magnetic field is expanding and collapsing around you so your bike is moving (or rather the magnetic field is moving) through the magnetic field. Secondly the generation of a magnetic field around a wire is a function of the amount of power (Voltage * Current) in the wire. In other words a wire that is carrying 200K Volts but very little current, say 0.005 Amps would have a smaller and less powerfull magnetic field than a wire with 12 Volts carrying 200 Amps. Thirdly the Inverse Square Law takes affect in this situation. Simply put, it states that the magnetic field is reduced in strength proportional to the sqaure of the distance you are from the wire. If you are 4 feet from the wire the strength of the magnetic field is a factor of 16 less than the maximum (right at the wire). At 5 feet the factor is 25, at 6 feet the factor is 36 etc.
to an online utility and an explanation of how it works Hard Drive Balancer
Has a solution that is platform independent and will run over the web, it's called IntraWeb and it comes with Delphi 7 Enterprise and Architect. My company is currently using it to create a web based interface for our Policy Management System, we're an insurance company (not an agency). The full version of IntraWeb (available from AtoZedsoftware.com) is also CLX compatable so it can be hosted on a Linux server and developed under Kylix.
MCM Electronics has the part for $5.99 (US) here is the url
NES Connector
The best part is no case mods required.
Here is the obligatory Mutant-X post. Can any one say genome-X?
Until you get some balls I suggest that you take your own advice. OS software may not cost $$. But how many lines are you willing to write for the common good?
Ignore the Dragon Sig. You are not crunchy and there isn't enough ketchup in the world to make you taste good!!
If, like me, you were skeptical of uClinux because the idea of redesigning a desktop operating system...
I always thought that *nix was a server OS...
age of your house you may have metal studs in the walls. This could cause problems. All of the other sugestions are great too. You may just have to play around with the position of the WAP and it's antenae.