Another good way to do it is to outline the tasks/project goals and do a best estimation of time it will take to acomplish each (yes it can be hard to do, but you know the way you work and since you are familiar with the project it shouldn't be too hard.)
Set an hourly rate and use that to quote the price (lean towards the high side) for the steps and full project if possible. Clients like that. Add to your writeup that any additional hours above those outlined or due to client changes will be billed at set rate. Since you have planned on the high side you have room to negociate with them without going under what your bottom line would be.
"The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said."
hmm... and what exactly classifies as "unauthorized devices" and who decides?
This could be a security plus if the control were in the hands of the users, but even then I can't really think of any situations where this would be needed. I don't know about you, but i have never had an "unauthorized device" in my computer. Obviously the system will be in the control of Windows/M$, definately not something we want.
There is a reason geeks can't get dates... If geeks had dates while they were teenagers, they would be knocking up girls and sporting brand new babies. That would cause the quick end of the entire geek phenomenon. No more geeks?...
Hmm.. From skimming thru the article (which was pretty dull) it seems to me that these fellas are more yuppies than geeks. Guess they didn't look to slashdot when they were recruiting.
Plasma screens aren't really the best thing to spend your money on considering the high price and the fact that they loose brightness VERY fast. It didn't say what they paid for theirs but seems like it was a LARGE percentage of their budget.
They bought a G4 powerbook. hehe..;)
They didn't even build a custom pc. HP Pavilion.. bah!
What about using a combination of lossy compression at relatively high bit rates and lossless compression to achieve better quality at an even lower bitrate? Or is it harder to apply lossless compression to lossy compressed data?
Maybe I'm missing something with all of this, but how did DirectTV get their hands on this customer list?
If these companies were raided under some DMCA provision those raids were conducted by some federal or local police. The customer lists would be held by them and should not be given to DirectTV without some process of the police confirming that they are actually stealing the signals.
So... how did DirectTV get this list?!
Also, I wonder if any of these people are Canadians that are allowed to do this because they recieve the signal but cannot buy the service. In this case they aren't stealing anything.
"Chan designed and built a mechanical water strider. Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its middle legs."
It's amazing the parts they get to work with at these prestigous, expensive, high-tech universities!;)
While everyone is laughing and making jokes about your question of the shooting star, I am not. On Saturday night, between say 10:30 and 11:30 I saw the longest, most amazing shooting star ever in my life. I have seen plenty, but this one went for maybe 6-7 seconds and coverd almost the whole length of the sky. Usually you see a shooting star and say wow or something, the people look and it's gone already. I said wow, and my girlfriend and another friend looked up and got to see most of it too.
Towards the last 1/3 of it, it broke up into 3 or 4 pieces and then burned up. We were left wondering how big the thing must have been.
I'm in Vancouver, BC right now and it was high in the south sky traveling from east to west.
Deos anyone know of a public site/place that reports large objects like these entering the atmosphere?
From the article: "(Imagine that, though: a computer that would glow different colors based on how much of its processing power was being used. When it turned red, you'd know that a crash was imminent.)"
Ya, and we all know that our computers crash when CPU usage gets to 100%;)
The DraganFlyer 4 is relatively cheap and has an optional mini wireless camera too. It flies with all the same controls as a normal helicopter but it is much easier to assemble and requires much less maintenence.
If you are in the market to get an RC chopper, especially for beginners, this is the way to go. Once you learn to fly with one of these, then if you like go and buy an expensive heli.
One of my good friends had struggled with all the common problems (cost, maintanence, steep learning curve) with his 2 RC helis before he found these folks and got his DraganFlyer.
DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with that company in any way. I do own a DraganFlyer 3 and have learned to fly it with no previous experience.
Googleholes
I am getting flamed to high heaven in Slate's Fray for a piece of mine they just posted talking about some of the built-in limitations of the Google PageRank system. The general critique seems to be that I don't understand how to refine a search, which I guess I should have made clear in the piece itself. (I do, for the record. I also think Google is absolutely brilliant.) But as you can see if you follow the link, it's not a piece about how to use Google more effectively; it's a piece about ways that Google's system implicitly pushes us in certain directions, which makes it less like an authoritative reference source, and more like an op-ed page. (Nothing wrong with that, just something we should keep in mind.) Normally I quote from the articles themselves in this blog, but today I think I'll quote from a followup comment that I posted in the Fray:
The point I'm trying to make is that all other things being equal, Google will skew results towards online stores and pages linked to by the blogging community. (And away from books towards articles, though that's a slightly different point.) You can make things less than equal by doing more refined searches, but that doesn't mean the skew isn't important. This reminds me in a way of the old debate about Microsoft controlling the desktop -- the Microsoft folks would always say, "people can install their own application icons on the desktop so what's the big deal if our icons come as part of the default setup?" The point is that default biases in widely used tools have real effects, even if there are relatively easy ways around them.
Here's a more real-world example of the bias at work, which is equally self-reflexive: search on "steven johnson emergence." The top ten results are either from blogs, Amazon product pages, or the O'Reilly Network (very big with the open source and blogging communities.) Now, Emergence was reviewed by the NY Times, the Economist, the Village Voice, the UK Guardian, and dozens of other major publications with huge readerships. But Google doesn't think those results are as relevant as blogger reviews. Now, I'm a blogger, and I love the blogging community, so I think in a way that this is not necessarily bad news. But it's hard not to see it as a kind of bias.
On their website it says.. "You can only play fast cash Friday with MSN Messenger 6.0."
My question is, can they tell which version you are using, (I assume yes) and if so, how do the other clients like trillian, jabber, gaim, etc., handle this?
Slashdot Mirror
Another good way to do it is to outline the tasks/project goals and do a best estimation of time it will take to acomplish each (yes it can be hard to do, but you know the way you work and since you are familiar with the project it shouldn't be too hard.)
Set an hourly rate and use that to quote the price (lean towards the high side) for the steps and full project if possible. Clients like that. Add to your writeup that any additional hours above those outlined or due to client changes will be billed at set rate. Since you have planned on the high side you have room to negociate with them without going under what your bottom line would be.
"The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said."
hmm... and what exactly classifies as "unauthorized devices" and who decides?
This could be a security plus if the control were in the hands of the users, but even then I can't really think of any situations where this would be needed. I don't know about you, but i have never had an "unauthorized device" in my computer. Obviously the system will be in the control of Windows/M$, definately not something we want.
There is a reason geeks can't get dates... If geeks had dates while they were teenagers, they would be knocking up girls and sporting brand new babies. That would cause the quick end of the entire geek phenomenon. No more geeks?...
God would never allow that!
Well said.. I second that notion.
Hmm.. From skimming thru the article (which was pretty dull) it seems to me that these fellas are more yuppies than geeks. Guess they didn't look to slashdot when they were recruiting.
;)
Plasma screens aren't really the best thing to spend your money on considering the high price and the fact that they loose brightness VERY fast. It didn't say what they paid for theirs but seems like it was a LARGE percentage of their budget.
They bought a G4 powerbook. hehe..
They didn't even build a custom pc. HP Pavilion.. bah!
What to speak of the rest of it all.
What about using a combination of lossy compression at relatively high bit rates and lossless compression to achieve better quality at an even lower bitrate? Or is it harder to apply lossless compression to lossy compressed data?
Maybe I'm missing something with all of this, but how did DirectTV get their hands on this customer list?
If these companies were raided under some DMCA provision those raids were conducted by some federal or local police. The customer lists would be held by them and should not be given to DirectTV without some process of the police confirming that they are actually stealing the signals.
So... how did DirectTV get this list?!
Also, I wonder if any of these people are Canadians that are allowed to do this because they recieve the signal but cannot buy the service. In this case they aren't stealing anything.
Hmm... Diamond engagement ring for girlfriend or new 82 Ghz diamond CPU???
That's going to be a tough one.
"Chan designed and built a mechanical water strider. Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its middle legs."
;)
It's amazing the parts they get to work with at these prestigous, expensive, high-tech universities!
While everyone is laughing and making jokes about your question of the shooting star, I am not. On Saturday night, between say 10:30 and 11:30 I saw the longest, most amazing shooting star ever in my life. I have seen plenty, but this one went for maybe 6-7 seconds and coverd almost the whole length of the sky. Usually you see a shooting star and say wow or something, the people look and it's gone already. I said wow, and my girlfriend and another friend looked up and got to see most of it too.
Towards the last 1/3 of it, it broke up into 3 or 4 pieces and then burned up. We were left wondering how big the thing must have been.
I'm in Vancouver, BC right now and it was high in the south sky traveling from east to west.
Deos anyone know of a public site/place that reports large objects like these entering the atmosphere?
From the article: "(Imagine that, though: a computer that would glow different colors based on how much of its processing power was being used. When it turned red, you'd know that a crash was imminent.)"
;)
Ya, and we all know that our computers crash when CPU usage gets to 100%
how long it's going to be before a car bomb is parked outside the door of this company?
this company DraganFly Innovations has this remote control helicopter and this more expensive model.
The DraganFlyer 4 is relatively cheap and has an optional mini wireless camera too. It flies with all the same controls as a normal helicopter but it is much easier to assemble and requires much less maintenence.
If you are in the market to get an RC chopper, especially for beginners, this is the way to go. Once you learn to fly with one of these, then if you like go and buy an expensive heli.
One of my good friends had struggled with all the common problems (cost, maintanence, steep learning curve) with his 2 RC helis before he found these folks and got his DraganFlyer.
DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with that company in any way. I do own a DraganFlyer 3 and have learned to fly it with no previous experience.
found here at the authors website:
Googleholes
I am getting flamed to high heaven in Slate's Fray for a piece of mine they just posted talking about some of the built-in limitations of the Google PageRank system. The general critique seems to be that I don't understand how to refine a search, which I guess I should have made clear in the piece itself. (I do, for the record. I also think Google is absolutely brilliant.) But as you can see if you follow the link, it's not a piece about how to use Google more effectively; it's a piece about ways that Google's system implicitly pushes us in certain directions, which makes it less like an authoritative reference source, and more like an op-ed page. (Nothing wrong with that, just something we should keep in mind.) Normally I quote from the articles themselves in this blog, but today I think I'll quote from a followup comment that I posted in the Fray:
The point I'm trying to make is that all other things being equal, Google will skew results towards online stores and pages linked to by the blogging community. (And away from books towards articles, though that's a slightly different point.) You can make things less than equal by doing more refined searches, but that doesn't mean the skew isn't important. This reminds me in a way of the old debate about Microsoft controlling the desktop -- the Microsoft folks would always say, "people can install their own application icons on the desktop so what's the big deal if our icons come as part of the default setup?" The point is that default biases in widely used tools have real effects, even if there are relatively easy ways around them.
Here's a more real-world example of the bias at work, which is equally self-reflexive: search on "steven johnson emergence." The top ten results are either from blogs, Amazon product pages, or the O'Reilly Network (very big with the open source and blogging communities.) Now, Emergence was reviewed by the NY Times, the Economist, the Village Voice, the UK Guardian, and dozens of other major publications with huge readerships. But Google doesn't think those results are as relevant as blogger reviews. Now, I'm a blogger, and I love the blogging community, so I think in a way that this is not necessarily bad news. But it's hard not to see it as a kind of bias.
Very well said!
On their website it says.. "You can only play fast cash Friday with MSN Messenger 6.0."
My question is, can they tell which version you are using, (I assume yes) and if so, how do the other clients like trillian, jabber, gaim, etc., handle this?
What versions would they show up as to Microsoft?
Or how about a pitbull... then you can have the tumor taken out at the same time.
C:\Program Files\Nvidia Corporation\Nvidia Demos\Dawn\bin rename fairy.exe quake3.exe
C:\Program Files\Nvidia Corporation\Nvidia Demos\Dawn\bin rename quake3.exe ut2k3.exe
What Apple is really up to is combining this this this and this so that when Photoshop 8 comes out, we will actually be able to use it.