The iPad will finally be better than Nook Color and Kindle Fire. It's really hard to go back to the mediocre iPad screen after using a Nook Color or Kindle Fire for any length of time.
At Lake Anna in Virginia, there are two man-made lakes. The north lake, used for hot water discharge from the nuclear plant, is very warm and never freezes. The cold, south lake is also slightly warmer on the portion nearest to the north lake. Local environmental studies are well established but since these lakes did not exist to begin with the local ecosystem is already radically changed, anyway.
On the Hudson River in NY, local environmental studies are just starting to understand the effect that the Indian Point nuclear plant's discharge water is having on the river's ecosystem. It's come to the point that Indian Point may be required to be retrofitted with low-profile cooling towers.
I should never have to do this, and, indeed, I haven't had to do anything special with LibreOffice and OpenOffice (and StarOffice) except de-install and re-install.
Point taken. The fact that they can track via cell phones would also fall under this ruling, but in practice, I think it already did. The random, jerry-rigged GPS hack device on the car is the new twist to this scenario, I'm guessing.
This ruling doesn't really matter. Most of us carry an even more accurate tracking device on our person every day, and this device is used exponentially more often than these silly GPS trackers.
A closed-loop geothermal system would have been better for the environment. The article states a seeming impossibility: water is fed into a "closed-loop" system. If water is being fed into it, it's not a "closed-loop" system.
Where is the heated water going? The article leaves us to speculate, and one would assume in the best case the water is injected back into the water table, but this is disruptive and stirs up the silt.
It's much, much better to use geothermal, which is a true closed-loop system, and which does little more than transfer heat, not the water, and doesn't require the acquifer and cools down to 58 degrees, not 65 degrees.
There's nothing "dumbed down" about Pale Moon. The only thing stripped out is ActiveX compatibility, which nobody used, anyway. As for capabilities, Pale Moon actually re-added the Status Bar which makes your point completely fallacious when it comes to Pale Moon.
I was also worried about not just data latency of VoIP but also the voice latency which tends to interrupt conversations since the pauses are too long. The TCP spoofing and VoIP audio data compression (and QoS on a shared link) really do go a long way in overcoming not just data latency but that oh-so-annoying satellite voice delay.
I had no idea, but VoIP over satellite really works. Something in the math makes the delay short enough to help your perception of the other caller's intentions (did he stop talking so I can start now?) We've all seen the funny interruption cycles on CNN with people via satellite, but when it's just VoIP, it really isn't a problem.
Ka-band in the rain is a completely different story--actually, it's a tragedy. If I were provisioning a remote site that only had satellite internet for telephones, I'd try to pick Ku-band FSS over Ka-band for VoIP traffic just to minimize the rain fade problem.
Still, satellite internet is still one of those need-it-because-we-can't-get-anything-else technologies. It's that pesky speed of light problem that gets in the way.
The original Barnes & Noble Nook Color is awesome. The Cyanogenmod turns it into the most versatile and inexpensive Android tablet you can get with a 170 DPI screen. The screen is so nice you'll stop using your iPad's awfully low-res 130 DPI screen. It's light and easy to carry unlike the iPad.
If you're reading this in December of 2011, search the internet for the Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0 release candidate for the best experience. Link: Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0
These devices can be obtained for between $100-$150 USD refurbished and $150 new.
I can't emphasize how great the screen is. It really is that good. The newer Nook Tablet has the same great screen and is much faster dual-core and more memory but it is not easily modified into an Android tablet.
I really recommend the Nook Color with Cyanogenmod for the very cheapest and most successful foray into Android tablets.
War zone, yes, it is still great paying job. State-side, though, the differential between cleared jobs and regular jobs in the private sector isn't that great anymore. In the Washington DC area the extra pay a cleared job gets fell below 10% in 2008 and hovers around 5% today. For my current career situation it was no longer worth the extra headaches that come with working at cleared positions.
Strictly speaking, in a war zone, you might considering comparing that pay with the expense and salary of simply moving to the Washington DC area. It's a fair bet you'd be earning more while living comfortably in Nothern VA and still be saving the world by working in the intelligence or homeland security communities.
This isn't the place to ask. Network around and be aware that you're going to need a security clearance. If you don't already have one, and you somehow do get the job, be prepared to sit on the bench from three to twelve months doing busy-work while you wait your clearance to be adjudicated.
Schools don't want obsolete computers. The ones they get usually end up costing the schools dearly in shipping and tipping fees at the local dump. Seriously, do not donate obsolete computers to schools. Just don't do it.
Some of the ideas of rebooting database servers regularly come from the fact that many databases use shared memory, i.e. shmget(2), and not only do they not release the segments when they crash, the segments are often locked in place due to open file handles held by zombie processes. Of course things are much better now in the Linux domain but it's something worth considering when you stop foaming over long uptimes.
Itanium is very little more than PA-RISC64. The people who needed it didn't know they wanted it and when AMD x86-64 came out they ignored Itanium and SPARC to their peril. As a result, performance has suffered dearly. PA-RISC64 and SPARC64 are the true multiprocessing performers. Intel Xeon and Pentium represent at least one decade-worth of performance setbacks when it comes to multiprocessing performance.
But, Linux runs great on x86-64, so why bother with high performance? Too bad. We still struggle with SMP on x86-64 and Intel PAE. What a shame.
Would it help if I also point out that the brake pedal indicated zero application? In these cases surviving drivers always claim to be "standing" on the brakes but in reality the brake pedal and brake system instrumentation reflects *zero* application on both.
Mass hysteria is usually real.
Oh, to keep on topic, I own a Kindle and it goes through X-ray machines regularly and it's perfect. It's also got a non-lighted cover with painted metal clips and the battery never dies. *Shrug*
Toyota somewhat respectfully did release results from the so-called "sudden acceleration" problem. In one specific case, where the retired state trooper killed himself and his family in a Lexus, the in-car computer recorded several seconds of full application of the accelerator pedal before the data stopped recording. We're not talking about the throttle, we're talking about the user input device, the accelerator pedal, that was at full application. Of course, it was operator error, and everyone knew that from the beginning. It's sad.
So, yes, this is mass hysteria. Same thing happened to Audi/VW back in the early 1990s where claimants insisted their Audis' cruise control caused cars to plow into buildings when moving from a parking space. Audio/VW's solution was to prevent shifting without simultaneous application of the brake pedal. On newer Audis these instructions are on the display in big, bright letters.
Do they keep the air conditioning and the heat running? Do they stage ambulances to keep the operation going in the summer? There's a very disturbing profile on the internet of a large Amazon distribution center in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.
Oswald McWeany, your situation is not as uncommon as it may seem.
I think the solution would not be changing jobs but starting your own company and either building your own products or contracting out for gigs that are less than a year long.
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The iPad will finally be better than Nook Color and Kindle Fire. It's really hard to go back to the mediocre iPad screen after using a Nook Color or Kindle Fire for any length of time.
At Lake Anna in Virginia, there are two man-made lakes. The north lake, used for hot water discharge from the nuclear plant, is very warm and never freezes. The cold, south lake is also slightly warmer on the portion nearest to the north lake. Local environmental studies are well established but since these lakes did not exist to begin with the local ecosystem is already radically changed, anyway.
On the Hudson River in NY, local environmental studies are just starting to understand the effect that the Indian Point nuclear plant's discharge water is having on the river's ecosystem. It's come to the point that Indian Point may be required to be retrofitted with low-profile cooling towers.
I should never have to do this, and, indeed, I haven't had to do anything special with LibreOffice and OpenOffice (and StarOffice) except de-install and re-install.
This release has problems.
On Windows 7 x86_64 it, unfortunately, crashes before even starting. This is highly unusual.
I'll be waiting for the point release.
Nicotine-stained tablet touch-screens are probably not something I'd want to touch, anyway.
Has anyone yet honestly thought about the excessively non-sanitary aspect of publically-accessible, touch-screen tablets?
Gross!!
They're indispensible for Antlion outbreaks.
Point taken. The fact that they can track via cell phones would also fall under this ruling, but in practice, I think it already did. The random, jerry-rigged GPS hack device on the car is the new twist to this scenario, I'm guessing.
This ruling doesn't really matter. Most of us carry an even more accurate tracking device on our person every day, and this device is used exponentially more often than these silly GPS trackers.
A closed-loop geothermal system would have been better for the environment. The article states a seeming impossibility: water is fed into a "closed-loop" system. If water is being fed into it, it's not a "closed-loop" system.
Where is the heated water going? The article leaves us to speculate, and one would assume in the best case the water is injected back into the water table, but this is disruptive and stirs up the silt.
It's much, much better to use geothermal, which is a true closed-loop system, and which does little more than transfer heat, not the water, and doesn't require the acquifer and cools down to 58 degrees, not 65 degrees.
There's nothing "dumbed down" about Pale Moon.
The only thing stripped out is ActiveX compatibility, which nobody used, anyway.
As for capabilities, Pale Moon actually re-added the Status Bar which makes your point completely fallacious when it comes to Pale Moon.
Windows users should investigate the Pale Moon browser over at www.palemoon.org. Firefox optimized and without all the gunk.
I was also worried about not just data latency of VoIP but also the voice latency which tends to interrupt conversations since the pauses are too long. The TCP spoofing and VoIP audio data compression (and QoS on a shared link) really do go a long way in overcoming not just data latency but that oh-so-annoying satellite voice delay.
I had no idea, but VoIP over satellite really works. Something in the math makes the delay short enough to help your perception of the other caller's intentions (did he stop talking so I can start now?) We've all seen the funny interruption cycles on CNN with people via satellite, but when it's just VoIP, it really isn't a problem.
Ka-band in the rain is a completely different story--actually, it's a tragedy. If I were provisioning a remote site that only had satellite internet for telephones, I'd try to pick Ku-band FSS over Ka-band for VoIP traffic just to minimize the rain fade problem.
Still, satellite internet is still one of those need-it-because-we-can't-get-anything-else technologies. It's that pesky speed of light problem that gets in the way.
Sorry, but Java ME is not an operating system.
The original Barnes & Noble Nook Color is awesome. The Cyanogenmod turns it into the most versatile and inexpensive Android tablet you can get with a 170 DPI screen. The screen is so nice you'll stop using your iPad's awfully low-res 130 DPI screen. It's light and easy to carry unlike the iPad.
If you're reading this in December of 2011, search the internet for the Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0 release candidate for the best experience. Link: Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC0
These devices can be obtained for between $100-$150 USD refurbished and $150 new.
I can't emphasize how great the screen is. It really is that good. The newer Nook Tablet has the same great screen and is much faster dual-core and more memory but it is not easily modified into an Android tablet.
I really recommend the Nook Color with Cyanogenmod for the very cheapest and most successful foray into Android tablets.
Not this old gag, again.
*snerk*
War zone, yes, it is still great paying job.
State-side, though, the differential between cleared jobs and regular jobs in the private sector isn't that great anymore. In the Washington DC area the extra pay a cleared job gets fell below 10% in 2008 and hovers around 5% today. For my current career situation it was no longer worth the extra headaches that come with working at cleared positions.
Strictly speaking, in a war zone, you might considering comparing that pay with the expense and salary of simply moving to the Washington DC area. It's a fair bet you'd be earning more while living comfortably in Nothern VA and still be saving the world by working in the intelligence or homeland security communities.
This isn't the place to ask. Network around and be aware that you're going to need a security clearance. If you don't already have one, and you somehow do get the job, be prepared to sit on the bench from three to twelve months doing busy-work while you wait your clearance to be adjudicated.
Schools don't want obsolete computers. The ones they get usually end up costing the schools dearly in shipping and tipping fees at the local dump. Seriously, do not donate obsolete computers to schools. Just don't do it.
Some of the ideas of rebooting database servers regularly come from the fact that many databases use shared memory, i.e. shmget(2), and not only do they not release the segments when they crash, the segments are often locked in place due to open file handles held by zombie processes. Of course things are much better now in the Linux domain but it's something worth considering when you stop foaming over long uptimes.
Uptimes.org is gone for a reason, folks.
Itanium is very little more than PA-RISC64. The people who needed it didn't know they wanted it and when AMD x86-64 came out they ignored Itanium and SPARC to their peril. As a result, performance has suffered dearly. PA-RISC64 and SPARC64 are the true multiprocessing performers. Intel Xeon and Pentium represent at least one decade-worth of performance setbacks when it comes to multiprocessing performance.
But, Linux runs great on x86-64, so why bother with high performance? Too bad. We still struggle with SMP on x86-64 and Intel PAE. What a shame.
Would it help if I also point out that the brake pedal indicated zero application? In these cases surviving drivers always claim to be "standing" on the brakes but in reality the brake pedal and brake system instrumentation reflects *zero* application on both.
Mass hysteria is usually real.
Oh, to keep on topic, I own a Kindle and it goes through X-ray machines regularly and it's perfect. It's also got a non-lighted cover with painted metal clips and the battery never dies. *Shrug*
Toyota somewhat respectfully did release results from the so-called "sudden acceleration" problem. In one specific case, where the retired state trooper killed himself and his family in a Lexus, the in-car computer recorded several seconds of full application of the accelerator pedal before the data stopped recording. We're not talking about the throttle, we're talking about the user input device, the accelerator pedal, that was at full application. Of course, it was operator error, and everyone knew that from the beginning. It's sad.
So, yes, this is mass hysteria. Same thing happened to Audi/VW back in the early 1990s where claimants insisted their Audis' cruise control caused cars to plow into buildings when moving from a parking space. Audio/VW's solution was to prevent shifting without simultaneous application of the brake pedal. On newer Audis these instructions are on the display in big, bright letters.
Do they keep the air conditioning and the heat running? Do they stage ambulances to keep the operation going in the summer? There's a very disturbing profile on the internet of a large Amazon distribution center in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.
It's AOLTV all over again. Something not done right that nobody wanted, anyway.
Oswald McWeany, your situation is not as uncommon as it may seem.
I think the solution would not be changing jobs but starting your own company and either building your own products or contracting out for gigs that are less than a year long.