People here have been robbed by paying at stores with their ATM card.
instead of paying stupid ATM fee
ATM fee? ATMs are free. That stupid gum costs money.
2. Use your credit card to withdraw cash
Out here that costs SERIOUS money. Like $7 per use. Regardless of how much you withdraw. Regardless of how fast you pay.
How will using your credit card reduce risks?
I ordered some equipment and paid by credit card. Delivery was promised in 2 to 3 days. They failed to deliver for two weeks. I then told them I had gotten the equipment differently, so I would cancel the order. They said: OK. you'll have your money back in 10 days. 20 days later I'm still out of my money, and the credit card charges my money to my account. So I call the credit card company, and they tell me they can't reverse the charge.
This company had nothing on me except my number and expiration date. And they shipped the item to a completely unrelated address. (I tried to enter my work-address but mistyped it. I told the people there to call me when the package would arrive, and they eventually did (after I had cancelled the order)).
A hangglider and paraglider have the bulk of the weight below the wing. This thing will have the pilot (i.e. most of the weight) above the wing.
You will have to pull some pretty hefty aerodynamic tricks to get the thing to be stable. Higher aspect ratio, wings tilted upwards and back. Things like that. Look at the cartoon picture and the movie to see that these guys implemented those tricks!
I expect this thing to be flying at speeds comparable to a hangglider: 30-60 km/h. (20-40 mph). Way slower than a motorcycle on the freeway.
About bugs in eyes: I fly paragliders (i.e. a bit slower), and never had a bug in my face. But I wear corrective glasses.
About arm strength: To be able to fly safely, the thing needs to be stable. So you should be able to fly hands-off. But ask any paraglider or hangglider pilot how he/she feels after a 3 hour flight. (Exhausted, but not reserved for olympic-sporter-level people). Distance records are set in 8 to 10 hour flights!
Never forget: the purpose of a resume is to get you an interview.
Right! So, you have to explain (tersely) the reason for not continuing on the projects on the resume. I know people who have a history of quick jobchanges just because they are incompetent at what they want to be doing.
As an employer, I know I weigh in the opinion of others when I can. If 5 other people decided for one reason or another that this person was not worth employing, then they might have a point. Why risk them being right?
Not quite, the spams are selling a product at some point, someone is somehow receiving payment for doing the advertising and there is where you get them, whether it be the actual spammer or the company being advertised.
Company being advertized needs to say: We're just in business like lots of other companies, we didn't initiate nor authorize this spam run.
* The ribbon would end up fluttering down and wouldn't be dangerous at all
Ehmm. You seem to think that a ribbon that would "flutter" is strong enough for the task, but at current technology levels, that "ribbon" doesn't exist yet, and would be km's across. i.e. it would be very, very heavy and it falling for 1km would mean major trouble, falling for hundreds of km's would be pretty painful for the whole world....
But the whole thing doesn't exist yet, so it depends on where you put your assumptions...
no, nono, nonono! This is exactly the same as is going on with the Radeons in the laptops: they happen to be 9000 chips, with a performance level comparable to the competitors 9200 products.
Well, I do have the impression that the "unlimited access" accounts are going out of fashion here, and that you can now get accounts with different limits for different prices. So out here in the Netherlands, the market is drifting towards a truth in advertizing, where the limits are being published.
Such accounting would require full, per-session, netflow collection.
Bullshit. In Linux I'd just add a rule that counts the local traffic (i.e. from customer, to localnet) and then add in a rule "from customer". Wether or not the second also counts the first is easy to find out and correct for either way.
The pressure outside the ISS is quite close to zero. Water boils at quite a low temperature at that pressure. So, the water won't condensate to water droplets as in the cold in the winter.
The reason your breath makes a plume is that the warm air touches/mixes with the cold air outside, and therefore cools down. Outside the ISS there is no air to touch and cool down the escaping air.
The gas will cool while expanding. As in a CO2 fire extinguiser, this may lower the temperature of the gas below boiling/freezing point. However, the question then is: what's the boiling point of air in vacuum? I expect WAY lower than the obtained temperature through expansion.
Look at it this way: As there is no counter-pressure outside the ISS, an escaping molecule of air/water will simply continue going in the direction and speed that it was going when it passed the smallest point in the leak. It will most likely be km's away before it will hit another molecule, and then it will bounce off, instead of clumping together (i.e. forming something in the liquid or solid state).
I.E. would you see a small stream of gas? As far as I remember from my physics classes, the gas they use in the ISS for life support (commonly referred to as "air") is transparent.
The ISP should be making sure that 100% of their bandwidth is being used, and everyone is getting service.
Exactly. Some time ago, they were going to install caps, but I was perfectly willing to use whatever bandwidth they had available.
The service was too slow (115kbps) to do download when you wanted something, so I'd schedule them when I wasn't around myself to be annoyed by the bandwidth hog. Mostly at night.
If they'd tell me: 'you have a 1Gb download limit (something enormous at the time), but downloads between 1AM and 7AM don't count' I'd be perfectly happy. I'd be able to use their otherwise unused infrastructure.
One major ISP-ISP (i.e. an ISP that services the ISPs) here would charge for the bandwidth used in the three most busy 5-minute periods every month. Well, if they were on that policy, I'd use "quiet hour" bandwidth that they didn't have to pay for anyway.
My ISP defines "acceptable" as something like 4Gb/month on my subscription. They also define what happens when I pass that limit: They limit my bandwidth to about what I'd get from a normal modem. Still 24/24, but just less bandwidth.
However, according to their mesurements I've never reached that limit. According to mine, I have...:-)
No. The amount of energy involved in getting an object from Low Earth Orbit into the solar system is very significant. And you need to be in interplanetary space to be able to start to slingshot around planets.
The amount of heat (energy) generated by reentry is directly proportional to the weight of the shuttle on reentry. So the heavier it is the higher the temperature-load on the machine. We now know how dangerous that is.
The amount of energy you have to put into an object to put it into orbit is WAY WAY significant.
Now if you calcuate how much you'd have to pay for gasoline to provide that much energy, things'd not be dramatic. It becomes dramatic if you consider the amount of energy you have to put in the last 10% of the fuel for it to be in the right place to provide it's energy.
If it weighs half a ton and is up there, better leave it there....
Most of the energy in pushing the water through the channels is lost as heat. Just a tiny fraction will end up dissociating atoms electrically.
So efficiency will be fundamentally low. If you have something where in theory you can harvest all the energy, you have a good chance of achieving 50% in practise (e.g. fuel cells). And sometimes even better (e.g. turbines).
As the efficiency is fundamentally low, I don't expect much from this "invention".
People seem to misunderstand how you'd work this invention: You should have a small container containing pressurised AIR, this should be made to push the water through the element.
For for example cellphones, a handpump might be enough to recharge the battery....
I bought one on a whim, my colleague likes them, so he's been typing on it for over two years now. But I was concerned about what would happen if he'd drop his coffee into it or something. So I bought a spare one. It's also (currently) 19 years old just like the one it's going to replace if it ever fails.....
I do Linux device driver work. It pays to have a quickly-booting diskless machine to do the device driver work on.
So my old workstation (486DX33 -> 486DX66 -> Pentium PRO/150) is now performing that duty. It's still in the case which used to house the 486DX33 (which I bought in nov/dec 1991) with a whopping 8MB ram so that I could run X. Those were the days.
I also use a computer I got from a scrapheap (I think a client left it: "No I don't need it back") as a router. 166MHz pentium.
Until today, for me the wildcard in.com wasn't much trouble. Everybody was making a lot of noise about basically nothing.
However, today I mistyped a domainname by one character. I then get redirected to some stupid sitefinder. I realize my mistake and mouse over to the addressbar to correct that single character typo. Not so. I Have to retype the whole thing.
I think the idea is to try the idea without the added complexity of compression first, then worry about the compression.
Comodity hardware compression decompression can hanlde "normal" screen sizes and bitrates. Not this stuff. So if you'd want to build such a machine, how would you do it?
How about 16 compression units working in parallel to compress parts of the screen? Well, I'll tell you: the human eye will be able to see the lines dividing the 16 separate compression units.
There are some interesting technical problems here: You need at least 66 drives to stream the data to RAM for display. You need at least 3 separate PCIX busses to stream the data over.
Yes, Microsoft got into trouble because they didn't make uninstallment easy. And because they have a HUGE marketshare, and therefore it can be considered a bullying of the market.
If someone expects it to be a blank harddrive: Fine. Those people simply won't notice. There is however a percentage of the people who will "run into" the OS and try it. Great.
Another class of people who might "give it a try" is those that bought an extra drive, and get the card with it that says: "Lindows preinstalled, give it a try". If you're vaguely insterested in Linux/Lindows, you might just unplug the old drive, plug in the new one, and test-drive it.
If you move a harddrive from one system to the next, the OS has been told it's configured, and the unconfigure/reconfigure of that "on average one" subsystem is unexpected. If however, the install on that drive KNOWS that it's going to be running on an "unknown" computer, it should be configured to run all configuration stuff at first boot. Should be doable....
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1. If you can, go to a supermarket... cashback
People here have been robbed by paying at stores with their ATM card.
instead of paying stupid ATM fee
ATM fee? ATMs are free. That stupid gum costs money.
2. Use your credit card to withdraw cash
Out here that costs SERIOUS money. Like $7 per use. Regardless of how much you withdraw. Regardless of how fast you pay.
How will using your credit card reduce risks?
I ordered some equipment and paid by credit card. Delivery was promised in 2 to 3 days. They failed to deliver for two weeks. I then told them I had gotten the equipment differently, so I would cancel the order. They said: OK. you'll have your money back in 10 days. 20 days later I'm still out of my money, and the credit card charges my money to my account. So I call the credit card company, and they tell me they can't reverse the charge.
This company had nothing on me except my number and expiration date. And they shipped the item to a completely unrelated address. (I tried to enter my work-address but mistyped it. I told the people there to call me when the package would arrive, and they eventually did (after I had cancelled the order)).
I was curious as to why they would do this.
It should be obvious. The enemy of your enemy is your friend. So Microsoft is Friends with SCO.
The more SCO damages Linux, the more Microsoft Wins.... So it pays for MS to pay SCO to give them funds to fight Linux. Simple.
A hangglider and paraglider have the bulk of the weight below the wing. This thing will have the pilot (i.e. most of the weight) above the wing.
You will have to pull some pretty hefty aerodynamic tricks to get the thing to be stable. Higher aspect ratio, wings tilted upwards and back. Things like that. Look at the cartoon picture and the movie to see that these guys implemented those tricks!
I expect this thing to be flying at speeds comparable to a hangglider: 30-60 km/h. (20-40 mph). Way slower than a motorcycle on the freeway.
About bugs in eyes: I fly paragliders (i.e. a bit slower), and never had a bug in my face. But I wear corrective glasses.
About arm strength: To be able to fly safely, the thing needs to be stable. So you should be able to fly hands-off. But ask any paraglider or hangglider pilot how he/she feels after a 3 hour flight. (Exhausted, but not reserved for olympic-sporter-level people). Distance records are set in 8 to 10 hour flights!
Never forget: the purpose of a resume is to get you an interview.
Right! So, you have to explain (tersely) the reason for not continuing on the projects on the resume. I know people who have a history of quick jobchanges just because they are incompetent at what they want to be doing.
As an employer, I know I weigh in the opinion of others when I can. If 5 other people decided for one reason or another that this person was not worth employing, then they might have a point. Why risk them being right?
Not quite, the spams are selling a product at some point, someone is somehow receiving payment for doing the advertising and there is where you get them, whether it be the actual spammer or the company being advertised.
Company being advertized needs to say: We're just in business like lots of other companies, we didn't initiate nor authorize this spam run.
Then what?
* The ribbon would end up fluttering down and wouldn't be dangerous at all
Ehmm. You seem to think that a ribbon that would "flutter" is strong enough for the task, but at current technology levels, that "ribbon" doesn't exist yet, and would be km's across. i.e. it would be very, very heavy and it falling for 1km would mean major trouble, falling for hundreds of km's would be pretty painful for the whole world....
But the whole thing doesn't exist yet, so it depends on where you put your assumptions...
no, nono, nonono! This is exactly the same as is going on with the Radeons in the laptops: they happen to be 9000 chips, with a performance level comparable to the competitors 9200 products.
Question for you all: What's an Athlon XP 1800+ ?
Well, I do have the impression that the "unlimited access" accounts are going out of fashion here, and that you can now get accounts with different limits for different prices. So out here in the Netherlands, the market is drifting towards a truth in advertizing, where the limits are being published.
So...after we charge $54.99/month (...) we get a whopping $17.49/month. Of this, we liberally figure we make an average of $1 profit.
I suggest you go ahead and charge $55.99/month. That will make 2 to 3% of your userbase flee away, but increase your profits by about 90%...
I should be limited to something like 4G per month. That's what they publish as the limit for my type of service.
I downloaded the digital pictures I took with my digital camera (22Gb) from a computer at work last week (took just over two days).
Such accounting would require full, per-session, netflow collection.
Bullshit. In Linux I'd just add a rule that counts the local traffic (i.e. from customer, to localnet) and then add in a rule "from customer". Wether or not the second also counts the first is easy to find out and correct for either way.
The pressure outside the ISS is quite close to zero. Water boils at quite a low temperature at that pressure. So, the water won't condensate to water droplets as in the cold in the winter.
The reason your breath makes a plume is that the warm air touches/mixes with the cold air outside, and therefore cools down. Outside the ISS there is no air to touch and cool down the escaping air.
The gas will cool while expanding. As in a CO2 fire extinguiser, this may lower the temperature of the gas below boiling/freezing point. However, the question then is: what's the boiling point of air in vacuum? I expect WAY lower than the obtained temperature through expansion.
Look at it this way: As there is no counter-pressure outside the ISS, an escaping molecule of air/water will simply continue going in the direction and speed that it was going when it passed the smallest point in the leak. It will most likely be km's away before it will hit another molecule, and then it will bounce off, instead of clumping together (i.e. forming something in the liquid or solid state).
I.E. would you see a small stream of gas? As far as I remember from my physics classes, the gas they use in the ISS for life support (commonly referred to as "air") is transparent.
The ISP should be making sure that 100% of their bandwidth is being used, and everyone is getting service.
Exactly. Some time ago, they were going to install caps, but I was perfectly willing to use whatever bandwidth they had available.
The service was too slow (115kbps) to do download when you wanted something, so I'd schedule them when I wasn't around myself to be annoyed by the bandwidth hog. Mostly at night.
If they'd tell me: 'you have a 1Gb download limit (something enormous at the time), but downloads between 1AM and 7AM don't count' I'd be perfectly happy. I'd be able to use their otherwise unused infrastructure.
One major ISP-ISP (i.e. an ISP that services the ISPs) here would charge for the bandwidth used in the three most busy 5-minute periods every month. Well, if they were on that policy, I'd use "quiet hour" bandwidth that they didn't have to pay for anyway.
Roger.
My ISP defines "acceptable" as something like 4Gb/month on my subscription. They also define what happens when I pass that limit: They limit my bandwidth to about what I'd get from a normal modem. Still 24/24, but just less bandwidth.
:-)
However, according to their mesurements I've never reached that limit. According to mine, I have...
Roger.
No. The amount of energy involved in getting an object from Low Earth Orbit into the solar system is very significant. And you need to be in interplanetary space to be able to start to slingshot around planets.
The amount of heat (energy) generated by reentry is directly proportional to the weight of the shuttle on reentry. So the heavier it is the higher the temperature-load on the machine. We now know how dangerous that is.
The amount of energy you have to put into an object to put it into orbit is WAY WAY significant.
Now if you calcuate how much you'd have to pay for gasoline to provide that much energy, things'd not be dramatic. It becomes dramatic if you consider the amount of energy you have to put in the last 10% of the fuel for it to be in the right place to provide it's energy.
If it weighs half a ton and is up there, better leave it there....
Most of the energy in pushing the water through the channels is lost as heat. Just a tiny fraction will end up dissociating atoms electrically.
So efficiency will be fundamentally low. If you have something where in theory you can harvest all the energy, you have a good chance of achieving 50% in practise (e.g. fuel cells). And sometimes even better (e.g. turbines).
As the efficiency is fundamentally low, I don't expect much from this "invention".
People seem to misunderstand how you'd work this invention: You should have a small container containing pressurised AIR, this should be made to push the water through the element.
For for example cellphones, a handpump might be enough to recharge the battery....
I buy them for $1 at the local garage sale....
I bought one on a whim, my colleague likes them, so he's been typing on it for over two years now. But I was concerned about what would happen if he'd drop his coffee into it or something. So I bought a spare one. It's also (currently) 19 years old just like the one it's going to replace if it ever fails.....
I do Linux device driver work. It pays to have a quickly-booting diskless machine to do the device driver work on.
So my old workstation (486DX33 -> 486DX66 -> Pentium PRO/150) is now performing that duty. It's still in the case which used to house the 486DX33 (which I bought in nov/dec 1991) with a whopping 8MB ram so that I could run X. Those were the days.
I also use a computer I got from a scrapheap (I think a client left it: "No I don't need it back") as a router. 166MHz pentium.
Until today, for me the wildcard in .com wasn't much trouble. Everybody was making a lot of noise about basically nothing.
However, today I mistyped a domainname by one character. I then get redirected to some stupid sitefinder. I realize my mistake and mouse over to the addressbar to correct that single character typo. Not so. I Have to retype the whole thing.
This annoys me to no end. Crash verisign, crash!
Roger.
I think the idea is to try the idea without the added complexity of compression first, then worry about the compression.
Comodity hardware compression decompression can hanlde "normal" screen sizes and bitrates. Not this stuff. So if you'd want to build such a machine, how would you do it?
How about 16 compression units working in parallel to compress parts of the screen? Well, I'll tell you: the human eye will be able to see the lines dividing the 16 separate compression units.
There are some interesting technical problems here: You need at least 66 drives to stream the data to RAM for display. You need at least 3 separate PCIX busses to stream the data over.
Yes, Microsoft got into trouble because they didn't make uninstallment easy. And because they have a HUGE marketshare, and therefore it can be considered a bullying of the market.
If someone expects it to be a blank harddrive: Fine. Those people simply won't notice. There is however a percentage of the people who will "run into" the OS and try it. Great.
Another class of people who might "give it a try" is those that bought an extra drive, and get the card with it that says: "Lindows preinstalled, give it a try". If you're vaguely insterested in Linux/Lindows, you might just unplug the old drive, plug in the new one, and test-drive it.
If you move a harddrive from one system to the next, the OS has been told it's configured, and the unconfigure/reconfigure of that "on average one" subsystem is unexpected. If however, the install on that drive KNOWS that it's going to be running on an "unknown" computer, it should be configured to run all configuration stuff at first boot. Should be doable....