The Romans had technology that was lost for more than a thousand years, concrete. They built buildings that were capable of surviving earthquakes. See http://filebox.vt.edu/users/calmond/concrete.htm for example. A goodly number of their structures still stand today, more than 2000 years later.
All the retirement planning in the world will be for naught should you or your family develop health problems.
Ever see a million bucks? I can hold in my hands over two million dollars in hospital bills just for my wife. As to my own health problems, one perscription now fully covered would cost me nearly a thousand a month should I retire. I would be a dead man without it.
All told, between the wife and I, we would run over two thousand a month for the perscriptions alone.
When my wife became disabled in '90, we nearly lost everything. I don't make now what we made then, as she was the prime wage earner, a nurse. I'm in a good job that pays well, but not all medical costs are covered, and that's with good coverage.
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Pigmei gigantum humeris impostiti plus quam ipsi gigantes vident.
Well, in order to save money, the school book publishers combine most, if not all, the school district requirements into a single text book. You now have a science book with everyone's pet science theories in it. The same applies to all subjects.
The book publishers aren't going to write a book that satisfies the 'creationist' requirements for a few school districts, and only sell a few hundred copies. They will put that into the book they sell to all the school districts.
RCN cable here in southeast PA has bumped us all up to 3mb per second from 1.5mb. I tested this as my employer uses a Yipes 10mb fiber connection. FTP from my employer to me is well over 300KB per second. RCN told all their customers that those who recieve cable TV along with the internet do not have to pay more for this improvement. We used to have Comcast (I live where we have the choice of cable company.) and jumped to RCN the first day they started signing up customers. Comcast has a lot of problems and costs.
As to the powerline connectivity, I hope they use really good capacitors and other components in the modem... At work I have a dead APC surge suppressor that exploded from a surge one day. We also lost a bunch of equipment and computers when the jolt hit.
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Nothing is impossible to those who do not have to do it themselves.
This is an admirable idea. Unfortunately, it will suffer the same fate that Linux suffers in most businesses; no drop-in replacement for MS-Access.
I'd love to see an 'Open Office' product replace that bloated hog MS Office, but my employer lives on Access. It's used as both a front end, and as stand alone single user databases.
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Is it possible for Newsforge to use an even smaller font? I can barely read it now...
Delorme vastly improved the importing of data in LAT / LON format back in Street Atlas 6. All that took was a bunch of us rockhounds requesting the feature. While it can't directly read other database files, it can import properly formatted text files.
Fellow rockhound Gerry Brown exported the USGS MASMILS database into state and commodity extracts. When imported into SA, it places a blue diamond icon for every line. It is possible to turn most of the state of California blue with all the mines and mineral occurances.
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And then there is salt. People have been selling salt for thousands of years, and everyone needs it.
https://xkcd.com/1504/ "That's Opportunity's side of the planet."
Tell that to Larry Ellison.
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The Amish Laptop...
The Romans had technology that was lost for more than a thousand years, concrete. They built buildings that were capable of surviving earthquakes. See http://filebox.vt.edu/users/calmond/concrete.htm for example. A goodly number of their structures still stand today, more than 2000 years later.
All the retirement planning in the world will be for naught should you or your family develop health problems.
Ever see a million bucks? I can hold in my hands over two million dollars in hospital bills just for my wife. As to my own health problems, one perscription now fully covered would cost me nearly a thousand a month should I retire. I would be a dead man without it.
All told, between the wife and I, we would run over two thousand a month for the perscriptions alone.
When my wife became disabled in '90, we nearly lost everything. I don't make now what we made then, as she was the prime wage earner, a nurse. I'm in a good job that pays well, but not all medical costs are covered, and that's with good coverage.
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Pigmei gigantum humeris impostiti plus quam ipsi gigantes vident.
The book publishers aren't going to write a book that satisfies the 'creationist' requirements for a few school districts, and only sell a few hundred copies. They will put that into the book they sell to all the school districts.
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Hell bent on saving the Damned.
Of course, with all the politically correct crap they are required to teach, when would they have the time...
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I yam Popeye of the Borg. Prepares ta beez askimiligrated.
As to the powerline connectivity, I hope they use really good capacitors and other components in the modem... At work I have a dead APC surge suppressor that exploded from a surge one day. We also lost a bunch of equipment and computers when the jolt hit.
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Nothing is impossible to those who do not have to do it themselves.
This is an admirable idea. Unfortunately, it will suffer the same fate that Linux suffers in most businesses; no drop-in replacement for MS-Access. I'd love to see an 'Open Office' product replace that bloated hog MS Office, but my employer lives on Access. It's used as both a front end, and as stand alone single user databases. --- Is it possible for Newsforge to use an even smaller font? I can barely read it now...
Delorme vastly improved the importing of data in LAT / LON format back in Street Atlas 6. All that took was a bunch of us rockhounds requesting the feature. While it can't directly read other database files, it can import properly formatted text files. Fellow rockhound Gerry Brown exported the USGS MASMILS database into state and commodity extracts. When imported into SA, it places a blue diamond icon for every line. It is possible to turn most of the state of California blue with all the mines and mineral occurances.
Looks more like a $100 cat toy.