There's got to be a way to calculate the maximum amount traveled per gallon of gasoline cumbusted by looking at the maximum theoretical energy released by that process, and given a minimum reasonable drag/friction, and the requirement to initially get a minimum reasonable mass up to a speed reasonable to calculate the MPG.
I'm not particularly capable of determining the inputs, nor do I know the calculation to apply, but it'd be interesting to see what an ideal might be, to measure percent efficiency attained.
Just like investing in a gold mine in Venezuela (see NYSE:KRY), in a startup, some Hugo Chavez type can make it all go away in a blink. High reward if it works out, high risk if it doesn't.
I actually had myself down for some shares but remembered to go cancel before the 19th. Sanity got the better of me. The cable companies are growing so much faster than Vonage, offer the simplicity of bundling, and if they decide not to pursue network neutrality, Vonage is done for.
I've been happy with the service, but the future doesn't look so bright.
Aside from whether or not business methods should be patentable... since they were granted the patent, it's pretty obvious that they had come up with a novel process which was straight-up copied. On the legal merits, they should certainly win.
We're headed to a duopoly on the pipes to the home, cable and ILEC. Of course, with FiOS, Verizon's figured out the way to block out alternate DSL providers... once the phone companies don't have to share IP access, and the cable companies don't (see NCTA v. Brand X), they'll have control of both pipes into the home.
WiMax might have a place out in the burbs, but in New York, I can't see how it can possibly serve the populace without interfering with its competition.
Like boiled lobsters, damaged ears cannot be returned to their previous state.
While yes, it's best to avoid things that are bad for you, why don't I see anything about ear therapy? Is there something one could be doing besides limiting noise to help the ear? Treating it like a binary "loud bad, quiet good", there's got to be something that can be done to help the ear in its downtime, no?
Does anyone else find it strange that France and Israel are collaborating on this? It seems an unlikely marriage. Just about the only thing that the two countries seem to have in common which they don't have with other "Western" nations in the vicinity is rioting Muslims.
I find the one long search results scrolling page to be quite overwhelming. I like the chunking effect of 10 or 20 results per page. While it definitely emphasizes the importance of position on the page, which might be unfair to #7, for example, at least it's mentally manageable.
DRM doesn't always go bad. Relatively speaking, Apple's FairPlay implementation hasn't had any glaring problems. Yes, Apple did push out a change to the rights with an iTunes update, but it hasn't lead to mass hysteria because of huge problems.
That said, the "balance" the RIAA seeks is a see saw with them on the end that's touching the ground.
Hell, it happens in the bathroom where I work in midtown Manhattan (New York). It happens in the subway. It happens at various times all around the city of New York. It also happens as I head out into Connecticut or New Jersey, at various points. I don't really buy the "we have service everywhere" people, though I did manage pretty well with a triband when I was based out of London and went to Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, even on the train moving at high speed.
Microsoft's Todd Proebsting claims that compiler optimization only adds 4% performance per year, based on some back of the envelopes on x86 hardware.
This radical of a change in architecture should at least provide an accelerated growth from introduction through the next several years, which I'm sure will provide added incentive for those involved in compiler optimization -- finally, some real enhancements.
I would imagine that kids who were off and up to no good would pop in a different SIM card and meet up with their friends. The thing about cell phone tracking is that it would be quite hard to prove someone wasn't just out of range (elevator, basement), so even if the tracking were to say, "No Data Available", you can't assume that the kid turned off the phone or changed SIMs.
When done right, servers should have considerably faster I/O and considerably higher reliability than desktops. And yeah, shitty audio and video. Video, if you've got it on a server, is there for administration, not for playing games. And who could hear anything from audio on a box that belongs in a noisy server room?
I'm sick of seeing "open" or "market" for salary ranges.
I'm sick of seeing job postings that want someone to be experts in Cisco, Windows administration, Exchange, AD, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SAP, and perl scripting experts for $60k.
I'm sick of seeing job postings with technology contradictions, including requiring more years of experience with a technology than it's been around.
I'm sick of seeing job postings for jobs that don't exist -- find a way to penalize recruiters who post non-existant jobs for resume collection.
I'm sick of seeing job postings which misclassify jobs entirely. Find standardized ways of describing a position, like using SAGE's job descriptions -- http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm
I think you're ignoring the reasoning behind this. It's one thing for language to evolve because the participants find new ways to communicate which are more comfortable, done to be different, because of a lack of exposure to the standard language and rules of grammar, etc.
It's quite another when there's a distinct resentment of rules and education, and the idea that education is distinctly conformist and therefore a mark of evil.
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Personally, I think that this points out why people should be buying Steve Ballmer gifts.
There's got to be a way to calculate the maximum amount traveled per gallon of gasoline cumbusted by looking at the maximum theoretical energy released by that process, and given a minimum reasonable drag/friction, and the requirement to initially get a minimum reasonable mass up to a speed reasonable to calculate the MPG.
I'm not particularly capable of determining the inputs, nor do I know the calculation to apply, but it'd be interesting to see what an ideal might be, to measure percent efficiency attained.
They could, but then they'd have spelled "losing" wrong.
Just like investing in a gold mine in Venezuela (see NYSE:KRY), in a startup, some Hugo Chavez type can make it all go away in a blink. High reward if it works out, high risk if it doesn't.
That'd be thins slamming into Uranus.
...and a duplicate post within a day.
I actually had myself down for some shares but remembered to go cancel before the 19th. Sanity got the better of me. The cable companies are growing so much faster than Vonage, offer the simplicity of bundling, and if they decide not to pursue network neutrality, Vonage is done for.
I've been happy with the service, but the future doesn't look so bright.
Aside from whether or not business methods should be patentable... since they were granted the patent, it's pretty obvious that they had come up with a novel process which was straight-up copied. On the legal merits, they should certainly win.
We're headed to a duopoly on the pipes to the home, cable and ILEC. Of course, with FiOS, Verizon's figured out the way to block out alternate DSL providers... once the phone companies don't have to share IP access, and the cable companies don't (see NCTA v. Brand X), they'll have control of both pipes into the home.
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WiMax might have a place out in the burbs, but in New York, I can't see how it can possibly serve the populace without interfering with its competition.
With QoS, Vonage is going to slowly go down the tubes, as Time Warner, Cablevision, Comcast, AT&T, et al provide themselves better IP service than their competitors. (We know what Ed Whitacre, AT&T CEO thinks about this... http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/ma
Oh, well. Squeeze your buttcheeks together.
Like boiled lobsters, damaged ears cannot be returned to their previous state.
While yes, it's best to avoid things that are bad for you, why don't I see anything about ear therapy? Is there something one could be doing besides limiting noise to help the ear? Treating it like a binary "loud bad, quiet good", there's got to be something that can be done to help the ear in its downtime, no?
If you're doing something on Solaris 10 that doesn't need you to pay out the ass for Oracle, you can get PostgreSQL supported by Sun.
e +PostgreSQL/2100-1014_3-5958850.html
http://news.com.com/Sun+backs+open-source+databas
Does anyone else find it strange that France and Israel are collaborating on this? It seems an unlikely marriage. Just about the only thing that the two countries seem to have in common which they don't have with other "Western" nations in the vicinity is rioting Muslims.
I find the one long search results scrolling page to be quite overwhelming. I like the chunking effect of 10 or 20 results per page. While it definitely emphasizes the importance of position on the page, which might be unfair to #7, for example, at least it's mentally manageable.
I think I should wait until the quad venti skim latte kicks in before contemplating the coffee deathmatch.
Personally, I rip used CDs as well. Cheaper, no further payment to RIAA beyond what they already got, and I can rip at whatever bitrate I want.
DRM doesn't always go bad. Relatively speaking, Apple's FairPlay implementation hasn't had any glaring problems. Yes, Apple did push out a change to the rights with an iTunes update, but it hasn't lead to mass hysteria because of huge problems.
That said, the "balance" the RIAA seeks is a see saw with them on the end that's touching the ground.
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!
Hell, it happens in the bathroom where I work in midtown Manhattan (New York). It happens in the subway. It happens at various times all around the city of New York. It also happens as I head out into Connecticut or New Jersey, at various points. I don't really buy the "we have service everywhere" people, though I did manage pretty well with a triband when I was based out of London and went to Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, even on the train moving at high speed.
Microsoft's Todd Proebsting claims that compiler optimization only adds 4% performance per year, based on some back of the envelopes on x86 hardware.
This radical of a change in architecture should at least provide an accelerated growth from introduction through the next several years, which I'm sure will provide added incentive for those involved in compiler optimization -- finally, some real enhancements.
I would imagine that kids who were off and up to no good would pop in a different SIM card and meet up with their friends. The thing about cell phone tracking is that it would be quite hard to prove someone wasn't just out of range (elevator, basement), so even if the tracking were to say, "No Data Available", you can't assume that the kid turned off the phone or changed SIMs.
When done right, servers should have considerably faster I/O and considerably higher reliability than desktops. And yeah, shitty audio and video. Video, if you've got it on a server, is there for administration, not for playing games. And who could hear anything from audio on a box that belongs in a noisy server room?
I'm surely not the only slashdotter who thinks that honeypot sounds like a euphemism for vagina, am I?
I'm sick of seeing "open" or "market" for salary ranges.
I'm sick of seeing job postings that want someone to be experts in Cisco, Windows administration, Exchange, AD, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SAP, and perl scripting experts for $60k.
I'm sick of seeing job postings with technology contradictions, including requiring more years of experience with a technology than it's been around.
I'm sick of seeing job postings for jobs that don't exist -- find a way to penalize recruiters who post non-existant jobs for resume collection.
I'm sick of seeing job postings which misclassify jobs entirely. Find standardized ways of describing a position, like using SAGE's job descriptions -- http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm
I think you're ignoring the reasoning behind this. It's one thing for language to evolve because the participants find new ways to communicate which are more comfortable, done to be different, because of a lack of exposure to the standard language and rules of grammar, etc.
It's quite another when there's a distinct resentment of rules and education, and the idea that education is distinctly conformist and therefore a mark of evil.
Finally, a real use for clippy!
"I noticed that you're having some problems with Farsi."