uhh... Ghostscript? the new OpenOffice? they both do a good job for me...
Especially for a pissant little report like this... its not like they used features like TOCs (which AFAIK there is a way to do in OO or GS) is it?
Read Peopleware - its a great book, really well written, and deals with this issue in some depth, along with other management stuff focussing on the tech-development industry.
This is the most intelligent idea I have heard about spam in a long time. Beats things like signed email hands-down...
It would also help tracking down spammers - if spam came through an ISPs general @superisp.com domain, and it can only be sent through their network - then they can more easily find out who sent it. Blacklists of domains would be a lot better...
Only problem I see is that domains are cheap - up to a certain point.
After doing some research on this for an undergrad paper, it turns out that it was a combination of bad luck and accounting/management.
The major 110kV CBD feeder lines had their lifetimes "reassessed" and it was decided that there were still plenty of years left in them. So they took their time replacing them (it was underway when the crisis started), but it turns out their lifetimes were more like the original specifications (funny that).
One major 110kV line failed while one was down for maintenance, which lead to the failure of another two 110kV lines a few days later due to overloading. It didn't help when some monkey roadworker dug thru one of the smaller 40kV feeders that were helping prop up the cbd either.
Then it got fun - rolling morning/afternoon blackouts, companies moving to offices out in the suburbs, temporary overhead lines erected running 20km to one of the other distribution yards, generators everywhere...
Deregulation hadn't been completed at that stage - the new lines/distribution company in Auckland which came in to being a year or so after the crisis is taking their job very seriously and has done a lot to improve uptime and redundancy.
Car manufacturers don't limit your choice of color because they only want you to have a few choices, they limit it because changing colors on the assembly line is a lot of time and work.
Thats exactly what the big manufacturer's said in the days before Dell. But Dell managed exactly that through coordination and efficiency throughout their supply chain, and other industries can do exactly the same...
One idea, start splitting up the manufacturing into stages... you could place many small "paint and interior" plants around the country instead of one enormous "do everything" plant (it would build the hard 90% of the car)..
And car costs wouldn't have to rise to accommodate this - the car companies just have to WANT it... then sit down and figure out HOW they are going to make it a reality. Whoever does it the best will get a competitive advantage over their not-so-customisable foes, and can stay in business.
When you buy batteries, look at the milliamp-hour rating. That's the capacity they can hold: for example, an 1800 mAh AA could supply (theoretically) 1 mA for 1800 hours, 1800 mA for one hour, or anything in between. While mAh ratings do tend to be stretched a bit (the tests are performed under the most favorable circumstances possible), it's the best guide you can get to how long the battery will last in the device you plan to use.
Actually, it doesn't neccessarily mean that. It means it can supply a nominal amount of current (specified by the manufacturer) for a nominal number of hours... which happen to multiply to 1800. You will never ever get 1800 hours or 1.8A for an hour... For example, from my handy databook Panasonic says their mAh ratings for NiMH batteries are at a discharge of 0.2C (C=battery rating in mAh). So a 1800mAh NiMH is only 1600mAh at a discharge rate of 360mA (ie. it will last 5 hours).
It is till the best guide for battery capacity though...
One other tip - NiMH batteries only generally last a maximum of 2 years or 500 cycles. So when they get that old, you've saved yourself tonnes of money already - just recycle them and get new ones rather than trying to bleed every last bit out of them...
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three? volume up, down, and sideways?
Many of them use texts which are listed and anyone is perfectly capable of buying from Amazon...
eg. 6.170 Software Engineering
Rob :)
uhh... Ghostscript? the new OpenOffice? they both do a good job for me... Especially for a pissant little report like this... its not like they used features like TOCs (which AFAIK there is a way to do in OO or GS) is it?
Read Peopleware - its a great book, really well written, and deals with this issue in some depth, along with other management stuff focussing on the tech-development industry.
Rob :)
This is the most intelligent idea I have heard about spam in a long time. Beats things like signed email hands-down...
:)
It would also help tracking down spammers - if spam came through an ISPs general @superisp.com domain, and it can only be sent through their network - then they can more easily find out who sent it. Blacklists of domains would be a lot better...
Only problem I see is that domains are cheap - up to a certain point.
Rob
After doing some research on this for an undergrad paper, it turns out that it was a combination of bad luck and accounting/management.
:)
The major 110kV CBD feeder lines had their lifetimes "reassessed" and it was decided that there were still plenty of years left in them. So they took their time replacing them (it was underway when the crisis started), but it turns out their lifetimes were more like the original specifications (funny that).
One major 110kV line failed while one was down for maintenance, which lead to the failure of another two 110kV lines a few days later due to overloading. It didn't help when some monkey roadworker dug thru one of the smaller 40kV feeders that were helping prop up the cbd either.
Then it got fun - rolling morning/afternoon blackouts, companies moving to offices out in the suburbs, temporary overhead lines erected running 20km to one of the other distribution yards, generators everywhere...
Deregulation hadn't been completed at that stage - the new lines/distribution company in Auckland which came in to being a year or so after the crisis is taking their job very seriously and has done a lot to improve uptime and redundancy.
Rob
dupe, of course :)
Thats exactly what the big manufacturer's said in the days before Dell. But Dell managed exactly that through coordination and efficiency throughout their supply chain, and other industries can do exactly the same...
One idea, start splitting up the manufacturing into stages... you could place many small "paint and interior" plants around the country instead of one enormous "do everything" plant (it would build the hard 90% of the car)..
And car costs wouldn't have to rise to accommodate this - the car companies just have to WANT it... then sit down and figure out HOW they are going to make it a reality. Whoever does it the best will get a competitive advantage over their not-so-customisable foes, and can stay in business.
Actually, it doesn't neccessarily mean that. It means it can supply a nominal amount of current (specified by the manufacturer) for a nominal number of hours... which happen to multiply to 1800. You will never ever get 1800 hours or 1.8A for an hour... For example, from my handy databook Panasonic says their mAh ratings for NiMH batteries are at a discharge of 0.2C (C=battery rating in mAh). So a 1800mAh NiMH is only 1600mAh at a discharge rate of 360mA (ie. it will last 5 hours).
It is till the best guide for battery capacity though...
One other tip - NiMH batteries only generally last a maximum of 2 years or 500 cycles. So when they get that old, you've saved yourself tonnes of money already - just recycle them and get new ones rather than trying to bleed every last bit out of them...
try a little bit harder :P You need to hack the registry in order for it to work super-nicely... see this post for details...