I really don't understand the whole idea of going paperless. The vast majority of paper we get, we don't really need to keep more than a month or so. Bills, etc, when you get them, you review them for errors, if everything looks good you pay it, at most I keep 2 months worth of back bills around. If you close an account, keep the last statement for a year or two. Taxes, insurance papers, titles & deed, those you need to keep long term, but 7 years worth of returns, insurance contracts, deeds & titles will fit easily in one, maybe two, plastic file boxes that you can get from Staples for $20. A 2 draw filing cabinet and a couple plastic file boxes should handle the filing needs of the average family. Most people just keep too much paper. The reason you want to keep paper around is if there is ever a disagreement it is usable in court. I'm not sure scanned documents can be submitted to court, so I would never just scan then shred my tax returns.
Really? Karma? I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone, no matter what. Most of these "guards" are just your average woefully ignorant citizen of America. They believe what the TSA tells them since they don't know any better and don't have the means to think otherwise.
I've taught software design and engineer and have used the engineering analogy to software in the past.
There is one big difference between building a bridge and software. When you build a bridge it will have many bolts holding it together, but in software the analogy would be having one bolt holding the bridge together. If I use a string library in my code, it will be the same routines that are run no matter where it is called. If the library fails in one part of the application, given the same inputs it will fail in the same fashion in another part of the code.
This lack of redundency is what makes software are to work with. The one bolt has to hold everything.
Just like engineering and architecture. if you have a poor architect, you're going to have a poor desing. For anyone to think differently of software development is foolish. Most people don't UML to its fullest potential and as a result their diagrams and designs aren't good. UML can go all the way from Use cases scenarios to software deployment. I've found its most useful when writing multithreaded programs because you can visualize the when and how information is exchanged between threads.
The majority of software out there isn't designed very well. I believe this is for two reasons. Schools don't concentrate on teaching students how to design, they teach them how to code. Second there are a lot of managers that architects who shouldn't be designing either so the people that look to them for insight get wrong ideas
I don't know about this dude. He probably drop a little too much ACID in the day and doesn't realize the trip is over. If he thinks that people will still be using a file system struct like today ~20 years from now he's nuts. The way I see it is when I get my whiz-bang 3d interface I won't be putting files in directories, I'll be placing them in a location. Financial info over there, cool sites down here, etc. Can't remember where I put a file no problemo, just type in its name and boom, I get zoomed over to it like mary poppins:-) If we ever get to that point I won't give a rats ass whether its a flat directory or not cause I won't care
MS actually has done a lot of innovation in NT and 2000, just look at IO completion ports or their new Thread Pool stuff, even overlapped I/O doesn't exist in UNIX/Linux. At first I didn't care for MS stuff either, but I do have have to admit they do have good ideas every once in a while. I realize that everything above "could" be implemented in userspace under UNIX but the fact that it is part of the OS in NT makes it easy to use.
In my opinion, US companies that use lawsuits to fight copyright laws on the net are hurting themselves more than they are helping. Eventually they are just going to end up pushing people who have questionable content off shore.
I'm just waiting for some small 3rd world country that doesn't get assistance from the US to realize this, and setup shop as a haven for this type of material. Got Lyrics put it on our servers, got code that decodes DVD put it here,...
Then companies will have no real recourse and will just have learn to deal with it in better ways
I'm currently a college student in Troy NY area and I got Nokia 6185 this past fall with the 50$/500minute plan. I must say I'm quite pleased with the combination, I can always get a digital signal unless i'm in a concrete/steel building without windows (basically only one building on campus) I've taken the phone on a cross country trip and always got a digital signal around metropolitan areas, though in the boonys it switched to analog.
The UI is easy, I can switch between silent mode(vibrate only, built in to the phone) and regular mode without needing to look at the phone which is great in class. Telephone number entry is so easy I can do it faster that writing the number down by hand practically. Same with checking messages, in fact the only things is I wish the IR port on top worked(for some reason they don't seem to be enabled it in the US)
As for punishment, its bounced off of sinks, floor and taken a 20 foot ride down a rock face and still works.
The battery life is great I got the extend life battery for those days when I leave my apartment at 8am and don't return till 12am, but they regular battery is fine otherwise.
I don't even have a local phone (though my roommates do) last year I was spending 50$ month between local access and long distance calls, now I talk the same amount AND carry my phone with me.
My father has the same phone and the only issue he's had with it is the belt clip on the back of the phone broke( I wasn't surprised, it was only a thin piece of plastic) He has at&t one-rate and seems to be satisfied.
My brother has the nokia chrome deal (looks like a zippo) and seems to be happy with it as well though he has only had for a few weeks.
All in all Nokia seems to be a reliable phone manufacturer, I'm please with Sprint PCS converage and availability, major areas I've used the phone in are San Jose/San Fran, Austin, Albany/Troy, Chicago, Newark, Houston, El Paso, Las Vegas, Pheonix, and Montreal (yes canada, though I had to pay extra for the minutes there)
Actually in some cases they throw the data out entirely. most motion capture systems suffer from jitter as well as other errors. Kaiser-Wallsach (sp?) was the company behind the CG for the new spiderman ride, they originally had actors doing the motion and captured the data. They had so much trouble working with the data that they ended up tossing it out the window. In fact the only case where motion capture seems to have worked really well was in the ghost catching performace at cooper union
The only problem with your comment about the Missiles is that they were first engineered and designed by Goddard (an american) it was just that the US Forces laughed at his ideas. Something like 90% of the German designs were Goddard's designs. After the war when some of the german scientists were interrogated as to how they came up with the designs, they told the allies to go talk to Goddard. Goddard was also very disturbed when he finally got his hands on a V1 and saw some of his designs being used. Being a true scientist, before the war he was always willing to give info about his rocket designs and it just so happened that the only ones interested were the Germans. In fact I think his basic designs and theories are still in use today and the Saturn V is a modification on a design of his which is why we have the Goddard Space Center
In the release they mentioned that they changed the TCP/IP Stack. Anybody have any idea what they did? I remember the TCP/IP stack was one of the contributing factors to Linux having lesser scalability than NT (something to do with multithreading if memory serves me) in the benchmarks. If they improved it, I'd love to see another set of benchmarks.
I know that when I was using Java IM if you ran it from an xterm you could see what was send. It was just plain text, infact it was a subset of HTML, you could type html tags in your messages the receive would see the results like B hello/B with the \ would make hello bold on the other users screen I always wonder what would happen with other tags ;-)
Imagine using glasses like Crystal Eyes (lcd shutter glasses) if your card can pump out 70 fps that goes to 35 fps per eye which in turn equals very smooth True 3D graphics:-)
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I really don't understand the whole idea of going paperless. The vast majority of paper we get, we don't really need to keep more than a month or so. Bills, etc, when you get them, you review them for errors, if everything looks good you pay it, at most I keep 2 months worth of back bills around. If you close an account, keep the last statement for a year or two. Taxes, insurance papers, titles & deed, those you need to keep long term, but 7 years worth of returns, insurance contracts, deeds & titles will fit easily in one, maybe two, plastic file boxes that you can get from Staples for $20. A 2 draw filing cabinet and a couple plastic file boxes should handle the filing needs of the average family. Most people just keep too much paper. The reason you want to keep paper around is if there is ever a disagreement it is usable in court. I'm not sure scanned documents can be submitted to court, so I would never just scan then shred my tax returns.
Really? Karma? I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone, no matter what. Most of these "guards" are just your average woefully ignorant citizen of America. They believe what the TSA tells them since they don't know any better and don't have the means to think otherwise.
Here you go, already being done.
I've taught software design and engineer and have used the engineering analogy to software in the past.
There is one big difference between building a bridge and software. When you build a bridge it will have many bolts holding it together, but in software the analogy would be having one bolt holding the bridge together. If I use a string library in my code, it will be the same routines that are run no matter where it is called. If the library fails in one part of the application, given the same inputs it will fail in the same fashion in another part of the code.
This lack of redundency is what makes software are to work with. The one bolt has to hold everything.
Just like engineering and architecture. if you have a poor architect, you're going to have a poor desing. For anyone to think differently of software development is foolish. Most people don't UML to its fullest potential and as a result their diagrams and designs aren't good. UML can go all the way from Use cases scenarios to software deployment. I've found its most useful when writing multithreaded programs because you can visualize the when and how information is exchanged between threads.
The majority of software out there isn't designed very well. I believe this is for two reasons. Schools don't concentrate on teaching students how to design, they teach them how to code. Second there are a lot of managers that architects who shouldn't be designing either so the people that look to them for insight get wrong ideas
I don't know about this dude. He probably drop a little too much ACID in the day and doesn't realize the trip is over. If he thinks that people will still be using a file system struct like today ~20 years from now he's nuts. The way I see it is when I get my whiz-bang 3d interface I won't be putting files in directories, I'll be placing them in a location. Financial info over there, cool sites down here, etc. Can't remember where I put a file no problemo, just type in its name and boom, I get zoomed over to it like mary poppins :-) If we ever get to that point I won't give a rats ass whether its a flat directory or not cause I won't care
MS actually has done a lot of innovation in NT and 2000, just look at IO completion ports or their new Thread Pool stuff, even overlapped I/O doesn't exist in UNIX/Linux. At first I didn't care for MS stuff either, but I do have have to admit they do have good ideas every once in a while. I realize that everything above "could" be implemented in userspace under UNIX but the fact that it is part of the OS in NT makes it easy to use.
In my opinion, US companies that use lawsuits to fight copyright laws on the net are hurting themselves more than they are helping. Eventually they are just going to end up pushing people who have questionable content off shore.
I'm just waiting for some small 3rd world country that doesn't get assistance from the US to realize this, and setup shop as a haven for this type of material. Got Lyrics put it on our servers, got code that decodes DVD put it here,...
Then companies will have no real recourse and will just have learn to deal with it in better ways
The UI is easy, I can switch between silent mode(vibrate only, built in to the phone) and regular mode without needing to look at the phone which is great in class. Telephone number entry is so easy I can do it faster that writing the number down by hand practically. Same with checking messages, in fact the only things is I wish the IR port on top worked(for some reason they don't seem to be enabled it in the US)
As for punishment, its bounced off of sinks, floor and taken a 20 foot ride down a rock face and still works.
The battery life is great I got the extend life battery for those days when I leave my apartment at 8am and don't return till 12am, but they regular battery is fine otherwise.
I don't even have a local phone (though my roommates do) last year I was spending 50$ month between local access and long distance calls, now I talk the same amount AND carry my phone with me.
My father has the same phone and the only issue he's had with it is the belt clip on the back of the phone broke( I wasn't surprised, it was only a thin piece of plastic) He has at&t one-rate and seems to be satisfied.
My brother has the nokia chrome deal (looks like a zippo) and seems to be happy with it as well though he has only had for a few weeks.
All in all Nokia seems to be a reliable phone manufacturer, I'm please with Sprint PCS converage and availability, major areas I've used the phone in are San Jose/San Fran, Austin, Albany/Troy, Chicago, Newark, Houston, El Paso, Las Vegas, Pheonix, and Montreal (yes canada, though I had to pay extra for the minutes there)
cheers
Actually in some cases they throw the data out entirely. most motion capture systems suffer from jitter as well as other errors. Kaiser-Wallsach (sp?) was the company behind the CG for the new spiderman ride, they originally had actors doing the motion and captured the data. They had so much trouble working with the data that they ended up tossing it out the window. In fact the only case where motion capture seems to have worked really well was in the ghost catching performace at cooper union
The only problem with your comment about the Missiles is that they were first engineered and designed by Goddard (an american) it was just that the US Forces laughed at his ideas. Something like 90% of the German designs were Goddard's designs. After the war when some of the german scientists were interrogated as to how they came up with the designs, they told the allies to go talk to Goddard. Goddard was also very disturbed when he finally got his hands on a V1 and saw some of his designs being used. Being a true scientist, before the war he was always willing to give info about his rocket designs and it just so happened that the only ones interested were the Germans. In fact I think his basic designs and theories are still in use today and the Saturn V is a modification on a design of his which is why we have the Goddard Space Center
In the release they mentioned that they changed the TCP/IP Stack. Anybody have any idea what they did? I remember the TCP/IP stack was one of the contributing factors to Linux having lesser scalability than NT (something to do with multithreading if memory serves me) in the benchmarks. If they improved it, I'd love to see another set of benchmarks.
I know that when I was using Java IM if you ran it from an xterm you could see what was send. It was just plain text, infact it was a subset of HTML, you could type html tags in your messages the receive would see the results like B hello /B with the \ would make hello bold on the other users screen
I always wonder what would happen with other tags
;-)
Imagine using glasses like Crystal Eyes (lcd shutter glasses) if your card can pump out 70 fps that goes to 35 fps per eye which in turn equals very smooth True 3D graphics :-)