Yeah, right. Basic XM service is $12.95 per month. Once they've got you hooked, they'll raise the rates and add fees and surcharges, just like cable TV.
Completing the Grand Challenge has very little to do with the vehicle chosen, and nearly everything to do with the robotics that drive the thing. VW sponsored the team, so they used a VW vehicle.
The only reason the VW vehicle finished, and finished first, is because the team from Stanford is made of briliant people. I'm sure they would have won with a Jeep, Hummer, Ford or whatever.
My congratulations to all of the teams that finished. That was a difficult problem. I honestly didn't think that any team would finish, given last years performance.
About 10 years ago, an engineer from our systems vendor predicted that one day, our computers would be the card-sized. We were looking at a PCMCIA flash card at the moment. Keyboard/mouse/display terminals would be everywhere, and we would just carry the cards around and plug them in wherever. PDA type terminals would be available for portable use. Sounds like it's coming to pass. Wonder if the guy got a patent out of that idea?
Part of the next step is convincing web site developers to support Firefox. There are a lot of sites out there that require IE to work. For some of them, like one of my financial service providers, there is no workaround - I must run Windows and IE (vmware does the job without requiring extra hardware). I don't like it, and I have complained, but it's not a big enough problem to make me switch to another provider so I doubt that my complaints will be acted upon.
It seems to me that the ex-Bell Labs folks that Google hired would be Computer Science types. The Bell Labs folks involved in space missions would have included physicists, electrical, chemical and mechanical engineers as well as computer geeks, and probably others as well. Has Google hired experts in those other fields?
[disclosure: formerly worked at Bell Labs, speculate in Google stock]
I hope they target rural and outlying areas as well as the cities and suburbs. It seems that all of the new services target areas that are already have multiple broadband providers.
I'm in a semi-rural area, and DSL was not available until just two years ago. I have a choice of DSL from the local telco or satellite, both very expensive compared to urban and suburban areas with more choices.
I know that in truly rural areas, they only choice is satellite. It's expensive, with high latency and low download limits.
Since the "last mile" is an RF link, the investment should be much less than pulling fiber or copper.
But Wal-Mart DOES charge you for electricity and paper and every other cost of doing business. How else would they turn a profit? It's included in the price of the product. They just don't itemize it on your receipt. Every company passes costs on to the customer, and raises prices when those costs increase. The telcos, for whatever reason, choose to itemize all of those costs. Probably so they can advertise a low base rate, then nail you with the real cost later.
like global temperatures, the number of Saturnian Spokes is inversely related to the number of pirates
Given that the number of intellectual property pirates has increased dramatically in recent years, is it possible that that global temperatures and Saturnian spokes will decrease in the near future?
Yup, I want a fourth way to close the tab. Obviously, you (and many others) don't. Making it a configurable option would let me do things my way, and everyone else on the planet can continue to do it the normal way.
Judging by the responses to my suggestion, it is unlikely that it will be implemented. If it were, I'm sure that my way would not be the default.
Yeabut...my habit (and presumably the OP's habit) is to click on the X in the top right corner of the window. I know the X is there in the tab bar, but I don't always go for it first.
Shouldn't be difficult to make the action of the main window X configurable to do one of the following: 1. Always close the current tab. 2. Always close the window (implies close all tabs). 3. Ask what to do - close current tab, close all, cancel.
I wonder if a plug-in can do that?
Yeah, I know it's open source and I can change it myself, but I'm not going to, because I'm lazy and it's not real high on my priority list.
The best way to find a good physician is to ask a nurse for a referral. Nurses in hospitals work with many physicians, and have definite opinions about them. And they share those opinions with fellow nurses. This method has never failed to help me find a good, intelligent, caring physician, whether a specialist or general practitioner.
In Japan, this game is getting a LOT of casual and female gamers into the DS, which is good for Nintendo and good for the DS and good for gaming.
In general, the Nintendo pocket systems (GameBoys, and now the DS) have had more games that appeal to girls than any other system. My son, age 16, and daughter, age 12, have been gamers since they could push buttons. We have at least one of nearly every game system ever made. My son plays many different games on all of them - there are a lot of games that appeal to males. My daugther rarely useses anything except her GBA or DS - that is where the games that appeal to her run.
Funny story - my daughter had a DS on day one, and was the first on her school bus to have one. Quote from a jealous 11 year old boy: "You got a DS!! No way! Girls can't play video games!"
Proud dad story - daughter got the DS because son bought it for her, with his own hard-earned cash!
I would pay for that, maybe $2 for a half-hour show. Subtitled foriegn shows (yeah, I'm talkin' about Anime) would probably make some good money for the studios.
Thanks for taking the time to post that, Sheetrock. I'm trying to work out a system for converting old home videos to DVD and your post gives me a some good places to start. Unfortunately, no mod points today, otherwise you would get +1, Informative.
The condition you're referring to is called Auditory Processing Disorder . My nephew suffers badly from this, he's only 7 years old. Needless to say, he has major problems in a traditional classroom. They (teachers, doctors, parents) originally thought he was autistic.
More common, especially as we age, is high frequency hearing loss. Most of the information needed to understand speech is at higher frequencies, but most of the acoustic energy is at lower frequencies. Even though one may easily hear the sound, it is difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment, or female or children's voices.
I have slight high frequency hearing loss, and often need to ask people to repeat themselves. A hearing aid would help, but I don't have one.
That's a running joke in my house. My wife does a lot of graphics, photo and video editing (hobby stuff). I keep buying her bigger HDs, each time stating "You'll never fill this one!". She takes it as a challenge. Her 200GB drive is nearly full...
The efficiency isn't spectacular, but that's only part of the issue. What does 1L of hydrogen cost using this method? If the price is low, say $0.25USD per liter, then the low efficiency is a non-issue.
Another factor is the waste products of producing the hydrogen pellets. Burning the H gives only H20, which is a non-issue. But what about the manufacturing process? And, as others mentioned, what happens to the pellets once the H is extracted?
A large number of organizations (as well as Debian Stable and Redhat) still use 2.4.
Big companies don't like to change things. They don't want to be on the bleeding edge, due to perceived risk or some other nonsense. At my employer (a mega insurance company) there are still desktops and servers running Windows 2000, because it's too risky to upgrade. "They" are afraid something will break.
None of our servers run the latest Solaris, AIX, DB2, WebSphere, Java VM or anything else for the same reason. No production Linux in this shop, but if there were, it would be RHEL 9.
Assuming you mean Microsoft Windows, yes, it does.
If you just want to run some programs that are designed for MS Windows, look at Wine. It can be a pain to set up, but it's free and it works.
If you want to run a MS Windows OS, then you need VMware. This lets you run MS Windows in a virtual machine under Linux (or vice-versa). It's nto free, but works well.
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just wait until the costs come down more
Yeah, right. Basic XM service is $12.95 per month. Once they've got you hooked, they'll raise the rates and add fees and surcharges, just like cable TV.
I fully expect some company to start up Pirate Cruises in the near future, actually getting harassed by pirates or your money back!
I know a few guys who would sign up for such a cruise, provided they were allowed to bring their own weapons. Target practice!
It ain't the vehicle, it's the robotics!
Completing the Grand Challenge has very little to do with the vehicle chosen, and nearly everything to do with the robotics that drive the thing. VW sponsored the team, so they used a VW vehicle.
The only reason the VW vehicle finished, and finished first, is because the team from Stanford is made of briliant people. I'm sure they would have won with a Jeep, Hummer, Ford or whatever.
My congratulations to all of the teams that finished. That was a difficult problem. I honestly didn't think that any team would finish, given last years performance.
About 10 years ago, an engineer from our systems vendor predicted that one day, our computers would be the card-sized. We were looking at a PCMCIA flash card at the moment. Keyboard/mouse/display terminals would be everywhere, and we would just carry the cards around and plug them in wherever. PDA type terminals would be available for portable use. Sounds like it's coming to pass. Wonder if the guy got a patent out of that idea?
If you like metal and symphonies, you might like Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Part of the next step is convincing web site developers to support Firefox. There are a lot of sites out there that require IE to work. For some of them, like one of my financial service providers, there is no workaround - I must run Windows and IE (vmware does the job without requiring extra hardware). I don't like it, and I have complained, but it's not a big enough problem to make me switch to another provider so I doubt that my complaints will be acted upon.
It seems to me that the ex-Bell Labs folks that Google hired would be Computer Science types. The Bell Labs folks involved in space missions would have included physicists, electrical, chemical and mechanical engineers as well as computer geeks, and probably others as well. Has Google hired experts in those other fields?
[disclosure: formerly worked at Bell Labs, speculate in Google stock]
ahem... it's FlyingPurpleWombat, thank-yew-very-much!
I hope they target rural and outlying areas as well as the cities and suburbs. It seems that all of the new services target areas that are already have multiple broadband providers.
I'm in a semi-rural area, and DSL was not available until just two years ago. I have a choice of DSL from the local telco or satellite, both very expensive compared to urban and suburban areas with more choices.
I know that in truly rural areas, they only choice is satellite. It's expensive, with high latency and low download limits.
Since the "last mile" is an RF link, the investment should be much less than pulling fiber or copper.
I visited New Jersey for a couple of days last year and I thought it was very pretty.
He's lying! Stay away! There are too many people here already!
The state motto should be "Welcome to New Jersey. Now, go home - Or else we'll send out the plaque-ridden mice!"
[Third gen NJ native]
Well, that explains the guy pushing a cart down the street yelling "Bring out your dead!" /from New Jersey
But Wal-Mart DOES charge you for electricity and paper and every other cost of doing business. How else would they turn a profit? It's included in the price of the product. They just don't itemize it on your receipt. Every company passes costs on to the customer, and raises prices when those costs increase. The telcos, for whatever reason, choose to itemize all of those costs. Probably so they can advertise a low base rate, then nail you with the real cost later.
like global temperatures, the number of Saturnian Spokes is inversely related to the number of pirates
Given that the number of intellectual property pirates has increased dramatically in recent years, is it possible that that global temperatures and Saturnian spokes will decrease in the near future?
Save the planet! Pirate music/videos/software!
Yup, I want a fourth way to close the tab. Obviously, you (and many others) don't. Making it a configurable option would let me do things my way, and everyone else on the planet can continue to do it the normal way.
Judging by the responses to my suggestion, it is unlikely that it will be implemented. If it were, I'm sure that my way would not be the default.
To each his own.
Yeabut...my habit (and presumably the OP's habit) is to click on the X in the top right corner of the window. I know the X is there in the tab bar, but I don't always go for it first.
Shouldn't be difficult to make the action of the main window X configurable to do one of the following:
1. Always close the current tab.
2. Always close the window (implies close all tabs).
3. Ask what to do - close current tab, close all, cancel.
I wonder if a plug-in can do that?
Yeah, I know it's open source and I can change it myself, but I'm not going to, because I'm lazy and it's not real high on my priority list.
The best way to find a good physician is to ask a nurse for a referral. Nurses in hospitals work with many physicians, and have definite opinions about them. And they share those opinions with fellow nurses. This method has never failed to help me find a good, intelligent, caring physician, whether a specialist or general practitioner.
In Japan, this game is getting a LOT of casual and female gamers into the DS, which is good for Nintendo and good for the DS and good for gaming.
In general, the Nintendo pocket systems (GameBoys, and now the DS) have had more games that appeal to girls than any other system. My son, age 16, and daughter, age 12, have been gamers since they could push buttons. We have at least one of nearly every game system ever made. My son plays many different games on all of them - there are a lot of games that appeal to males. My daugther rarely useses anything except her GBA or DS - that is where the games that appeal to her run.
Funny story - my daughter had a DS on day one, and was the first on her school bus to have one. Quote from a jealous 11 year old boy: "You got a DS!! No way! Girls can't play video games!"
Proud dad story - daughter got the DS because son bought it for her, with his own hard-earned cash!
I would pay for that, maybe $2 for a half-hour show. Subtitled foriegn shows (yeah, I'm talkin' about Anime) would probably make some good money for the studios.
Thanks for taking the time to post that, Sheetrock. I'm trying to work out a system for converting old home videos to DVD and your post gives me a some good places to start. Unfortunately, no mod points today, otherwise you would get +1, Informative.
The condition you're referring to is called Auditory Processing Disorder . My nephew suffers badly from this, he's only 7 years old. Needless to say, he has major problems in a traditional classroom. They (teachers, doctors, parents) originally thought he was autistic.
More common, especially as we age, is high frequency hearing loss. Most of the information needed to understand speech is at higher frequencies, but most of the acoustic energy is at lower frequencies. Even though one may easily hear the sound, it is difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment, or female or children's voices.
I have slight high frequency hearing loss, and often need to ask people to repeat themselves. A hearing aid would help, but I don't have one.
That's a running joke in my house. My wife does a lot of graphics, photo and video editing (hobby stuff). I keep buying her bigger HDs, each time stating "You'll never fill this one!". She takes it as a challenge. Her 200GB drive is nearly full...
The efficiency isn't spectacular, but that's only part of the issue. What does 1L of hydrogen cost using this method? If the price is low, say $0.25USD per liter, then the low efficiency is a non-issue.
Another factor is the waste products of producing the hydrogen pellets. Burning the H gives only H20, which is a non-issue. But what about the manufacturing process? And, as others mentioned, what happens to the pellets once the H is extracted?
There are penquins native to Hoboken, NJ, according to this
"Hoboken?!?! Ooooh, I'm dying!" - Bugs Bunny
A large number of organizations (as well as Debian Stable and Redhat) still use 2.4.
Big companies don't like to change things. They don't want to be on the bleeding edge, due to perceived risk or some other nonsense. At my employer (a mega insurance company) there are still desktops and servers running Windows 2000, because it's too risky to upgrade. "They" are afraid something will break.
None of our servers run the latest Solaris, AIX, DB2, WebSphere, Java VM or anything else for the same reason. No production Linux in this shop, but if there were, it would be RHEL 9.
Assuming you mean Microsoft Windows, yes, it does.
If you just want to run some programs that are designed for MS Windows, look at Wine. It can be a pain to set up, but it's free and it works.
If you want to run a MS Windows OS, then you need VMware. This lets you run MS Windows in a virtual machine under Linux (or vice-versa). It's nto free, but works well.