I thought in general PC makers capped total power draw at about 1kW for home PC's since that's about all you want to rely on being able to draw continuously from a standard outlet.
does USPTO give you PDF download of the full document? I go to see images, and I'm told I need a TIF plugin. a quick registration at freepatentsonline, and I can download the full PDF. Google patents, I can download a registration free PDF download. Both are 'image pdf' files with non selectable text. wikipatents is interesting, but doesn't quite do it for me.
USPTO is behind the times. But that's to be expected.
As an engineer, I can selfishly say that at that age you don't was to teach them science, you want to teach them engineering. You want them to take a small piece of science and do something physical and visual. Something they can touch. something they can make or change, and then see how they're changes affect it. But the key difference between that and a lab exercise, is that you have to let them play.
Another suggestion, let them make things. I recommend checking out something like RepRap. For $500 have the kids build a rapid prototyping machine, let them make parts, try different build materials, show them how it ticks. Here's a 1-page description of the RepRap concept (fully GPL i believe) http://reprap.org/pub/Main/WebHome/one-page.pdf Another similar project is Fab@Home, but that will run you $2-3000.
because the judge and opposing counsel are supposed to reign in irrelevancy, speculation, statements unsupported by fact, etc. We all know how good the media is at that.
oh, c'mon. They're contract jockeying. The contract term is coming up. Google spins up Chrome so they can argue Mozilla's less important. Mozilla starts chatting up other search providers so they can tell Google there are other fish in the sea. It's all posturing.
Actually, for the most part, yes. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Most users let Windows Update do its thing, and figure that handles most security issues. They know the virus scanner should be performing signature updates. If their copy of paint.net has an update, who cares as long as it doesn't throw errors and does what's needed.
Sure, I tend to update everything that pops up a 'new version available' message. But I couldn'd for the life of me tell you what version of LAME I have sitting on my windows box.
and there's the crux of the matter. Every school I know is under a budget crunch. It should be trivial to find out what the current IT cost is for the school. You have to beat that cost. Maybe you can work in cost savings on future upgrades or something to offset support, but you'd have to be careful how to work that. Many schools have one person (often the librarian) in charge of the school computers. That person needs to be convinced to let someone show them how it would get better, be easier to administer, whatever, relative to the current state
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Yours is a replacement technology. It must be better in terms of cost or performance, and transition costs work against you and must be factored in. But if you could promise a free changeover, and lower cost admin, they'd likely take it if it would help them meet budget.
good point. when the government is paying to have something done, the outcome is all that matters. Included in the outcome are: the results, the cost of achieving the results, the time taken to achieve the results (possibly considered a cost). Among costs are: dollars spent, capital expended, laws broken, environment damaged, etc., etc.
Specifying: "An open document format must be used for all reports" makes sense. Specifying what software is used to create that document is improper other than stipulating the format it must produce. Choices of whether to use open source or proprietary software should only factor into the 'cost' portion of the decision process. Nowhere else.
U.S. Navy issued a policy a couple years back on using OSS. In short, it enabled procurement officers to consider OSS as commercial, off-the-shelf products when obtaining comparative assessments for a purchase decision. I.e., when buying software, OSS alternatives must factor into the alternative cost-benefit analysis (recognizing that free does not equal cost free).
Now, tons of proprietary software is still used in the navy. But, the option is there if the cost/benefit analysis says its the right thing.
I believe the continuing Airbus / Boeing battles and accusations about protectionist strategies, public subsidies, unfair competition, etc. show that BOTH EU and US are more than happy to protect their home companies when it's useful.
but it sounds like you are talking about special access content in addition to the other free content. That's different from taking everything now offered for free, and tomorrow blocking everyone who doesn't pay. They'll go elsewhere.
right. if anyone made extra money, it was the manufacturers who were able to clear out their stock of PC's with substandard hardware. They'd have had to take a huge loss on a lot of that inventory if they couldn't have put Vista on it.
Select chapters from "Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People". By Steven Vogel.
More of a mechanical, physics based look at the world. Focuses a lot on biological comparison to things we've made. But there are some good chapters that focus on math in the real world without actually going into the math. (e.g., conical progressions in seashells)
I can't remember the name of it, but I had a Diff. Eq. prof in college who had us read a 'history of Diff eq' sort of book as extra credit. lots of newton, galileo, celestial body tracking, etc. again, no hard math, but a lot of the who behind it all. Interesting read, especially if any of your HS math students are also rather good on the English lit. side.
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I thought in general PC makers capped total power draw at about 1kW for home PC's since that's about all you want to rely on being able to draw continuously from a standard outlet.
An example:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ACM+Transactions+on+Embedded+Computing+Systems%22&btnG=Search
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,170
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I see 2 out of 10 with direct links to the papers. A couple possible... many right to ACM.
does USPTO give you PDF download of the full document? I go to see images, and I'm told I need a TIF plugin. a quick registration at freepatentsonline, and I can download the full PDF. Google patents, I can download a registration free PDF download. Both are 'image pdf' files with non selectable text. wikipatents is interesting, but doesn't quite do it for me.
USPTO is behind the times. But that's to be expected.
well... yoda does look a bit trollish
As an engineer, I can selfishly say that at that age you don't was to teach them science, you want to teach them engineering. You want them to take a small piece of science and do something physical and visual. Something they can touch. something they can make or change, and then see how they're changes affect it. But the key difference between that and a lab exercise, is that you have to let them play.
Another suggestion, let them make things. I recommend checking out something like RepRap. For $500 have the kids build a rapid prototyping machine, let them make parts, try different build materials, show them how it ticks. Here's a 1-page description of the RepRap concept (fully GPL i believe) http://reprap.org/pub/Main/WebHome/one-page.pdf Another similar project is Fab@Home, but that will run you $2-3000.
because the judge and opposing counsel are supposed to reign in irrelevancy, speculation, statements unsupported by fact, etc. We all know how good the media is at that.
http://www.cicatelli.org/titleX/downloadable/Human%20Trafficking%20Statistics.pdf See "U.S. Investigations, Prosecutions, and Convictions" on page 3. Not zero, but a very tiny number compared to the estimated number of people involved as described on pages 1 and 2.
It's the only way to guarantee clean-room quality breathability.
report for termination.
would have been the most awesomest first post evar.
oh, c'mon. They're contract jockeying. The contract term is coming up. Google spins up Chrome so they can argue Mozilla's less important. Mozilla starts chatting up other search providers so they can tell Google there are other fish in the sea. It's all posturing.
please, anyone used to fighting Helghast knows that the knife is useless. You at least need a magic spear.
Actually, for the most part, yes. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Most users let Windows Update do its thing, and figure that handles most security issues. They know the virus scanner should be performing signature updates. If their copy of paint.net has an update, who cares as long as it doesn't throw errors and does what's needed.
Sure, I tend to update everything that pops up a 'new version available' message. But I couldn'd for the life of me tell you what version of LAME I have sitting on my windows box.
"then told us the contract was too much"
and there's the crux of the matter. Every school I know is under a budget crunch. It should be trivial to find out what the current IT cost is for the school. You have to beat that cost. Maybe you can work in cost savings on future upgrades or something to offset support, but you'd have to be careful how to work that. Many schools have one person (often the librarian) in charge of the school computers. That person needs to be convinced to let someone show them how it would get better, be easier to administer, whatever, relative to the current state
.
Yours is a replacement technology. It must be better in terms of cost or performance, and transition costs work against you and must be factored in. But if you could promise a free changeover, and lower cost admin, they'd likely take it if it would help them meet budget.
good point. when the government is paying to have something done, the outcome is all that matters. Included in the outcome are: the results, the cost of achieving the results, the time taken to achieve the results (possibly considered a cost). Among costs are: dollars spent, capital expended, laws broken, environment damaged, etc., etc.
Specifying: "An open document format must be used for all reports" makes sense. Specifying what software is used to create that document is improper other than stipulating the format it must produce. Choices of whether to use open source or proprietary software should only factor into the 'cost' portion of the decision process. Nowhere else.
U.S. Navy issued a policy a couple years back on using OSS. In short, it enabled procurement officers to consider OSS as commercial, off-the-shelf products when obtaining comparative assessments for a purchase decision. I.e., when buying software, OSS alternatives must factor into the alternative cost-benefit analysis (recognizing that free does not equal cost free).
Now, tons of proprietary software is still used in the navy. But, the option is there if the cost/benefit analysis says its the right thing.
I believe the continuing Airbus / Boeing battles and accusations about protectionist strategies, public subsidies, unfair competition, etc. show that BOTH EU and US are more than happy to protect their home companies when it's useful.
possibly once it has been demonstrated that the law has been broken, the penalty can be related to the financial impact of the crime...?
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but it sounds like you are talking about special access content in addition to the other free content. That's different from taking everything now offered for free, and tomorrow blocking everyone who doesn't pay. They'll go elsewhere.
right. if anyone made extra money, it was the manufacturers who were able to clear out their stock of PC's with substandard hardware. They'd have had to take a huge loss on a lot of that inventory if they couldn't have put Vista on it.
hey, someone's gotta keep the economy stimulated.
TRS-80, here we come!
sorry. Wikipedia's easier. It wins.
More of a mechanical, physics based look at the world. Focuses a lot on biological comparison to things we've made. But there are some good chapters that focus on math in the real world without actually going into the math. (e.g., conical progressions in seashells)
Paperback's only $12 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Paws-Catapults-Mechanical-Worlds/dp/0393319903
I can't remember the name of it, but I had a Diff. Eq. prof in college who had us read a 'history of Diff eq' sort of book as extra credit. lots of newton, galileo, celestial body tracking, etc. again, no hard math, but a lot of the who behind it all. Interesting read, especially if any of your HS math students are also rather good on the English lit. side.
a little rocket propellant, and anything can fly. :)