Let it dry out and I am guessing it will be okay. If it is not, find a technician (unless you are comfortable doing it) and open the case and you may have to clean out any mineral deposits and/or rinse the circuit board(s) with distilled water and allow to dry. It's surprising how well electronics can survive a plop into the water. I've learned this over the past 21 years in the computer industry. Good luck and I hope it turns out well.
Well, having read all of the Harry Potter books aloud to my two sons, I think I might enjoy something a little different and oriented more towards adults. I think the reviewer is indicating I might enjoy this novel if that is what I want. I almost expect reviews of a novel to be somewhat negative so I can discount the overall negativeness of the review and give the book a chance.
A level system would be bastardized very quickly. There are so many possible permutations of hardware combinations that it would be difficult to even come up with general levels. You would instantly run into, for example, "Level 5 with the video card of a level 8." or "Level 7 but double the ram," ect., etc. You might also end up with "flavors" of a level such as maybe Dell's idea of a Level 5 ends up better than Compaq's. Once again, as I have often had occasion to say with regards to these type of ideas, we have a solution in search of a problem.
As far as I can tell from the article and their website, this software is free so I don't see how this is advertising. At least not in the traditional sense of advertising to make money from selling a product or service.
Don't you think you are being a bit hypocritical complaining about advertising when you are trolling for referrals for your free iPod? Now that is an example of advertising for a profit. If the shoe fits....
The features section of the website is certainly impressive. If I were starting a new business or, for some reason, had to get out of a current PBX contract, I would give this a try. Having worked in large companies with large PBX systems, the money saved would not be insignicant. I didn't see in the article or the features list if there was any sort of limit to the amount of phones that this would support. For example will it work with 400 employees? 4000? 40,000?
I think it is very likely. If 16 sensors per sq cm is their first go 'round, you gotta figure it will be close to 100 before too long. Once the density is higher and the size of each sensor correspondingly smaller, the "skin" can be even thinner and can be wrapped more tightly and around things such as "fingers." Well, anyway, it sure sounds like a good idea. I hope it happens.
The bill approved by Barton's committee would require software makers to notify people before loading new programs on their machines that can collect information about them. Violators could face millions of dollars in fines.
A lot of these programs do tell you that they are going to load Gator or some other piece of sh*tware. However, it is buried in the middle of the EULA which most people "pagedown" through rather than read 10 or 15 screens of fine type legalese. I do read them or at least scan them for the part about giving me even more
"free productivity"
software. This legislation like the spam legislation (CanSpam), will simply embolden those who have been hesitant. Now that they can legally load your system up with spyware as long as tell you somewhere, no matter how hard it would be to actually find it, they will do so. I just wonder what these politicians are smoking when they come up with these "solutions."
My 10 and 14 year old sons can buy any video game they want. They do understand, however, that I will be sitting around for the initial game play and if it is inappropriate for them, they lose it. As a result, they buy what they know they are allowed to buy. If parents are letting their kids buy video games that they would object to, then they need to try harder to be a part of that purchasing decision. I don't think brochures are going go make any more difference than brochures about using condoms. The target audiences are not much into brochure reading.
So now, after months and months of news about this trial, it's all over now ?
Since Dr. Randall Davis is an expert witness for IBM, I am guessing that SCO will say, "ain't so!" and then they will ask for time to refute Randall's findings and perhaps come up with an expert witness of their own that finds thousands of "matches." Hopefully the judge in this case will recognize Randall for the expert that he is and accept his findings. However, that just doesn't seem likely to me. This is just another round in a case that will continue like this ad nauseum.
I decided on XM Radio earlier this year when I decided to try satellite radio. I am a big "talk radio" fan and XM has a lot of talk radio channels from the typical political "right/left" to Art Bell, with channels for pro sports, college ball, NASCAR (one channel just streams audio from within a chosen race car), home improvment, ad nauseum. It is about the best $9.95 I spend per month. Oh, yeah, almost 100 commercial free music channels covering just about every imaginable genre of music.
I wish the article had specified whether or not the online service will include the non-music channels such as the sports channels or just music. Since the title is XM Radio Online and it is, I think, replacing the XM PC reciever, then wouldn't it seem that it is for all of the XM service? However, why charge $7.99 for an online version of XM Radio instead of the $9.99 charged if you own the radio receiver? The article does refer to it as a "online music service" as well as XM Radio Online so it's not 100% clear if it just for the music channels or all of the channels. Well, maybe somebody knows?
A few years ago I bought a few books on lock picking as well as a lock pick set from England. It turned out to be a great skill to pick up. I have opened countless door locks, cabinets, etc. and saved myself and others money and aggravation. The downside is that if it's widely known that you have this skill you may well be a "suspect" when an office or house is broken into. Anyway, the book sounds good.
But he also attributes some of the job losses to corporations farming high-tech jobs out to overseas companies that promise to do such highly skilled work for lower wages.
He said the study shows that high-tech workers "are really bearing the brunt of economic restructuring strategies."
You know, I was really starting to buy into some of the arguments about how sourcing some of these jobs overseas was actually a good idea if you looked at it just so....... Well, I had no idea that the scope of the loss was this big and that the overall job market for such workers had shrunk. How can it shrink? I think something stinks here....
I went to the Platte River Power Authority site and found a table entitled Monthly Wind Speed and Performance Data 2004. It is interesting to see the variations, which are not small, from month-to-month. For example, January saw two millon kWh of energy produced and an average wind speed of 27.8 mph versus July which showed about 820,000 kWh and 13 mph.
The wind energy is not exactly bought directly, though:
Platte River is a community-owned, wholesale power supplier to the cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, and the Town of Estes Park. You can sign up for the wind program in any of these communities, and the wind energy you receive will come from Platte River's Medicine Bow Wind Project.
As regarding fulfilling a great deal of energy needs from wind their website has this to say:
While it is theoretically possible to produce enough energy from wind turbines to supply all our needs, it's not technically feasible at present. This is because wind is an "intermittent" resource, i.e., the wind doesn't blow all the time. Since electricity can't be stored in large amounts, we still need other resources to ensure that energy is available when people need to use it. Research continues on the effect of wind generation on electric system reliability. A recent study of California wind farms found that wind can make up as much as 10% of total electricity capacity without significantly impacting the reliability of the electric grid.
I found the web site for the energy company to be a pretty interesting place to get a fair amount of detail about how an energy company harnesses energy from the wind and blends into their grid.
If nothing else, go look at this just to see the panels installed and "lit up." He does a good job explaining how he did this (it took about a year). The eight 15" LCD panels make two faux windows look stunning! I am impressed at folks that can imagine something like this and have the courage (and wallet) to see it through.
For folks like myself who would like to know more about what the book covers, but is not going to spend several weeks working through the math and learning math. Perhaps the content goes beyond what can be known without doing the math, I don't know. Hell, how could I?
That is an interesting point that seems obvious but I don't see it expressed that often. If spam really did get so bad that the Internet was noticeably affected, I mean to the point that big businesses were losing big money, I bet a very creative solution would be forthcoming pretty quickly. I think that is what it migh take. -erick
Spam, if that is what it was (as opposed to junk mail) was a bit more costly to Cunard than to modern day spammers. If he had not the cost of the telegrams he might have sent the sales pitch to the entire assembly rather than the "select" group. Junk mail is cheaper still than telegrams but not nearly as cheap as email spam where you can reach out and touch millions for a pittance. So long as spam is that inexpensive, and a least a few souls click to their way to more hair, a longer penis, $35,000,000 from a besieged politico in Nigeria, then we will continue to have spam. Short of taxing email (would that even work?), spam is here to stay. No need to repay them, they seemingly pay themselves very well, and, possibly , at your expense.
What in the world happened to you in your childhood that made you aversive to the polite custom of attaching your name to the end of any type of communication? Get a life - then work on being nice.
It seems that AMD's success on these occasions are due to notebook sales:
Duboise continues: "promotions continue to be the driving force behind retail PC sales and AMD's successes. In fact, $699 notebook promotions have been the driving force behind three incidents this year when notebook sales were able to overcome desktop sales. As long as Intel continues to place more emphasis on the more lucrative and successful notebook market, it leaves the door open for AMD's desktop wins."
I wonder if they believe that they can eventually drive notebook sales upward to the point that they outsell Intel more often than a handful of times a year?
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Don't you think you are being a bit hypocritical complaining about advertising when you are trolling for referrals for your free iPod? Now that is an example of advertising for a profit. If the shoe fits....
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The formatting errors in my post did not show up in the Preview screen so I submitted the post. Sorry.
A lot of these programs do tell you that they are going to load Gator or some other piece of sh*tware. However, it is buried in the middle of the EULA which most people "pagedown" through rather than read 10 or 15 screens of fine type legalese. I do read them or at least scan them for the part about giving me even more
"free productivity"
software. This legislation like the spam legislation (CanSpam), will simply embolden those who have been hesitant. Now that they can legally load your system up with spyware as long as tell you somewhere, no matter how hard it would be to actually find it, they will do so. I just wonder what these politicians are smoking when they come up with these "solutions."-erick
And this relates to the topic how?
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Since Dr. Randall Davis is an expert witness for IBM, I am guessing that SCO will say, "ain't so!" and then they will ask for time to refute Randall's findings and perhaps come up with an expert witness of their own that finds thousands of "matches." Hopefully the judge in this case will recognize Randall for the expert that he is and accept his findings. However, that just doesn't seem likely to me. This is just another round in a case that will continue like this ad nauseum.
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You know, I was really starting to buy into some of the arguments about how sourcing some of these jobs overseas was actually a good idea if you looked at it just so....... Well, I had no idea that the scope of the loss was this big and that the overall job market for such workers had shrunk. How can it shrink? I think something stinks here....
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The wind energy is not exactly bought directly, though:
Platte River is a community-owned, wholesale power supplier to the cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, and the Town of Estes Park. You can sign up for the wind program in any of these communities, and the wind energy you receive will come from Platte River's Medicine Bow Wind Project.
As regarding fulfilling a great deal of energy needs from wind their website has this to say:
While it is theoretically possible to produce enough energy from wind turbines to supply all our needs, it's not technically feasible at present. This is because wind is an "intermittent" resource, i.e., the wind doesn't blow all the time. Since electricity can't be stored in large amounts, we still need other resources to ensure that energy is available when people need to use it. Research continues on the effect of wind generation on electric system reliability. A recent study of California wind farms found that wind can make up as much as 10% of total electricity capacity without significantly impacting the reliability of the electric grid.
I found the web site for the energy company to be a pretty interesting place to get a fair amount of detail about how an energy company harnesses energy from the wind and blends into their grid.
Cheers,
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That is an interesting point that seems obvious but I don't see it expressed that often. If spam really did get so bad that the Internet was noticeably affected, I mean to the point that big businesses were losing big money, I bet a very creative solution would be forthcoming pretty quickly. I think that is what it migh take. -erick
Cheers,
Erick
Cheers,
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Duboise continues: "promotions continue to be the driving force behind retail PC sales and AMD's successes. In fact, $699 notebook promotions have been the driving force behind three incidents this year when notebook sales were able to overcome desktop sales. As long as Intel continues to place more emphasis on the more lucrative and successful notebook market, it leaves the door open for AMD's desktop wins."
I wonder if they believe that they can eventually drive notebook sales upward to the point that they outsell Intel more often than a handful of times a year?
Cheers,
Erick