Huh? Every bank I've ever been to is happy to take unrolled coins. They have a fancy coin counting machine that they dump the entire mess into, and a few minutes latter it tells you how much you have. No big deal. I know you can buy coin sorters, but most people just take the mess to the bank.
Make sure you get a good bank. Some will charge a small fee. Which is why I'm a member of a credit union.
Minnesota. I've seen the same in Wisconsin. Owners here realize that the cost of internet is trivial, and people will buy the coffee.
Every Panera Bread shop (about the best fast food you can get, which isn't saying much - chicks dig it though so I like to go for the eye candy) has free wi-fi. They are a national chain, but they don't cover most states yet. You might consider opening a franchise.
Dunn Brothers Coffee also has free wi-fi. I can't stand coffee, but those who like it inform me that it is better than Starbucks.
Many cafes in the city or near the interstate have it. In the city because business people expect to see it. Near the interstate because truckers look for it. (Near the interstate they often have ethernet at the table for those without wi-fi)
Hmm... Most coffee shops I see have a sign on the door that says "free WiFi". Several of the mid-scale restaurants[1] around here do too. I'm surprised StarBucks hasn't dropped T-mobile yet, a DSL line is cheap, and an access point is hardly anything. It can't cost anything significant to get it away.
[1]I'm not sure what to call it really. A step above McDonald's (which is starting to offer this too) or Subway. Nothing fancy where you go for the food quality.
The CEO of our company called an out sourced to provide our VOIP phones. Still much cheaper than normal phones, and we get a lot more features on the phone. Well they get more features, our Sysadmin told them that his underlings (meaning me) don't need those features. (I use the phone once every other month on average, and from the complaints the others have I suspect he is right)
Its worth looking into though if you don't have someone who can deal with Asterisk in house. Even if you do have someone it might be worth it when you consider the issues involved.
Congress has granted a monopoly to MLB. The St. Paul Saints are AFAIK the only minor league team not affiliated with a major league team. They made a big deal about this when they first started about 10 years ago, but I haven't heard much lately, so there might be more now. I'm pretty sure they are still MLB affiliated somehow though.
Yes there is on reason this is a bad idea: most probes slingshot off other planets to gain speed. We often will send a probe destined for the outer solar system to Venus first, where it will gather speed from gravity before moving to deeper space. (of course this requires careful calculation to make sure you go in the direction you want, particularly if your goal is a planet and not just leaving)
One other disadvantage: there is much less interesting things when you get off the plane of the ecliptic. If we are going to send a probe out we want to get data. There is a lot of interesting things about various planets. There isn't much interesting about a vacuum. Now this probe is designed for a different purpose.
However if some of the instruments would be useful in a planet fly-by I would argue that it is a better use of our money to go by a planet (comet or asteroid, whatever) and gather that information. If none of the instruments can collect useful data then this isn't a concern.
Considering the cost of a launch, if there is room in the budget (weight) for an experiment that only applies to a planet you can fly by it is normally worth changing your path to go by that planet. Assuming you will have enough power latter on. (though if you a slingshotting off a planet you might go by anyway)
I do not know if you can slingshot off a planet and then take off in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the ecliptic. I don't see why not, but I don't know. Concerns like this are important.
One advantage of not going along the plane of the ecliptic is you do not have to navigate the asteroid belt. We have done that before so it isn't apparently a big deal, but effort needs to be made somewhere to make sure you don't hit a rick in space, and the asteroid belt has a lot of rocks to hit.
I have a laptop for where I want a small computer. I can plug in external keyboards and mice when I want a larger size. I can plug in an external monitor if I want. Or I just unplug all that junk, and I can operate my computer for several hours where ever I happen to be.
Why do I want a mini on my desktop? For most people I cannot recommend a desktop at all anymore as laptops are so much more versatile. Those who cannot make use of a laptop need a large tower case for all the junk they want internal to their computer. (I don't know many hard core-gamers, and they don't ask for my opinion, but the mac mini won't work for that crowd anyway)
Take my advice: get a laptop as your main computer. Don't even think about anything else until you prove a need for two computers. There are some groups that this advice won't apply to, but they already know who they are.
I had a friend who told the judge at his dad's sentencing to "lock that man up". Course this dad was a pedophile, not just into a little fraud. Still sometimes you have to face the facts: someone you love doesn't deserve love, and needs to be locked up.
At the last WineConf (almost exactly one year ago) some of the Wine developers were testing the hot mail virus of the day to make sure it ran. That was the one that activated as a DDoS on www.sco.com. It ran, and after putting making www.sco.com resolve to 127.0.0.1 in/etc/hosts it attempted to take down the local machine.
We also found the back door, and came close to getting arbitrary programs to run from it, but supper came before we got that part working. We think it would have worked if a free meal hadn't gotten in the way.
So now you know. If a windows virus doesn't run under wine you can thank CodeWeavers for buying everyone a meal before we got it implimented.
My mother couldn't do this in Windows either without help.
Nothing against my mother, she is smart. She just has no interest in computers. She won't even bother to try to do anything we have not showed her how.
Unless you have a technical admin Windows is not useable either. I get calls all the time, from people who do RTFM, because windows is not easy to admin.
I try to send people to the mac, which is a lot easier to admin remotely, but even mac users need technical help from time to time.
Good point. Does anyone know who to get around this issue? I have a lab full of machines that I re-install all the time. I only have 2 XP machines back there now, but I've used all my MSDN licenses, mostly on machines that no longer function. My computers are legal, but the license system thinks they are not.
My mom has been using linux for nearly 5 years now. No she is not technical at all. All she knows is how to log into her account and start a few programs. For the end user linux is easier because they don't have root/admin, so they can't make a critical mistake.
Windows users end up running as admin which gives my mom too much power. (In theory she doesn't need to, but in practice too many programs require admin)
My dad is a computer guy, and he maintains all the computers. Dad installs all the software, takes care of backups, and all the other admin work. Mom doesn't worry about those issues. My mom also cannot admin a windows machine. My mom is a non-technical user and doesn't pretend she is anything more. It is only the non-technical people who pretend to be an admin that have problems with linux.
I refuse to help anyone buy a hardware without linux drivers. Sure they run windows, but I will always advise that hardware is junk unless it has linux drivers. Except for the case of video cards (where good drivers do not exists and people on the street talk about various cards) I require good open source drivers.
I figure one day they might hand that machine down to me for my next server, and linux will be the first thing installed (well *bsd by preference, but I use linux in places) so I need to be proactive. Even if I never get hands on that machine I prefer to reward those who provide good linux drivers.
You mistake the problem! A good manager does not need to understand your job to understand that the deadline is impossible. A good manager will give your priorities so you can say "It is not possible to get the entire thing done on time, but things will be done in this order so that by the deadline we have something working."
A good manager also understands that sometimes little technical details that have no obvious customer benefit must be done before the critical features can be done. However the good manager doesn't need to understand those details.
Now I will agree that a manager who knows how to do you job will believe you when you say a deadline is not reachable. However there are also managers who will believe you without knowing why.
Suicide is only attempted by those who are mentally ill. It is not illegal because normal people do it, they never do. It is illegal because it allows the courts to force someone that ill into hospitals where they can get help after attempting it. Most attempts go on to become productive people after the incident.
Suicide also affects others. Those who attempt it fail to realize how much it hurts others who love them.
So? I just want them to know how to think and work a good job. Standardize curricula has only one advantage: you can give standard tests and then compare results. So long as the books are not wrong, I don't care. I'm not going to be looking at their grades. In the real world the only ones who hire them will be watching closely to see results, so grades won't matter much to them either.
You couldn't be more completely wrong. The best manager I ever had, had no idea how to do my job. He didn't need to know that, there were senior engineers who did know how to do the job that he turned me to when I needed technical leadership. However he did an excellent job of running interference for me so that I could work. I didn't have to worry about went on over my head because he did all the political fighting, and reported back to me what happened. He was smart enough to find out what would be an issue in the future, and start the political process to solve them now, before they became a big deal.
While working under him I was under some of the worst upper management I've ever seen, but my day to day job was a pleasure because I was only vaguely aware of how bad things were.
Management's job is not to get things done, it is to get others to get the job done. Sometimes management must jump in and hands on get things done, but even then the manager must never forget that the first duty is to get the others to do the work.
I'm not sure Bill can write this all off either, in fact I'd be surprised if he can. Once you write off so much, the Alternative minimum tax kicks in, which puts an effective limit on what can be written off. Most people with as much money as he has have to pay this.
Of course his tax returns are not public, and I wouldn't bother reading them if they were, so I can't say for sure. However I can make estimates based on what is public about his income (as a major office holder his income from Microsoft work is public, though he may have other income we know nothing about), donation levels, the tax code, and such.
Don't forget to factor in China's strict one child per family policy (It has relaxed a little in recent years, but not much). Most of the people in China now will be dead in 50 years, and they did not have enough kids to come close to replacing them. Their population is expanding because modern medical care has allowed their current old people to live longer, not because they are having many children.
China's GDP will expand, no doubt about it. However I question their ability to get as Large as the US in that time, because their population does not support it.
I reveal my password anytime someone asks.,X177987 Of course that password was only valid 10 years ago at a job a place I don't work anymore, and they forced random changes monthly. However that is my password. It just isn't valid for anything, and never will be again because I don't reuse my passwords.
I hope they arrive quick, before the earth moves too far from here. I'm not sure how to stop the earth from orbiting about the sun, much less that pesky twisting of our galaxy.
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Huh? Every bank I've ever been to is happy to take unrolled coins. They have a fancy coin counting machine that they dump the entire mess into, and a few minutes latter it tells you how much you have. No big deal. I know you can buy coin sorters, but most people just take the mess to the bank.
Make sure you get a good bank. Some will charge a small fee. Which is why I'm a member of a credit union.
Minnesota. I've seen the same in Wisconsin. Owners here realize that the cost of internet is trivial, and people will buy the coffee.
Every Panera Bread shop (about the best fast food you can get, which isn't saying much - chicks dig it though so I like to go for the eye candy) has free wi-fi. They are a national chain, but they don't cover most states yet. You might consider opening a franchise.
Dunn Brothers Coffee also has free wi-fi. I can't stand coffee, but those who like it inform me that it is better than Starbucks.
Many cafes in the city or near the interstate have it. In the city because business people expect to see it. Near the interstate because truckers look for it. (Near the interstate they often have ethernet at the table for those without wi-fi)
Hmm... Most coffee shops I see have a sign on the door that says "free WiFi". Several of the mid-scale restaurants[1] around here do too. I'm surprised StarBucks hasn't dropped T-mobile yet, a DSL line is cheap, and an access point is hardly anything. It can't cost anything significant to get it away.
[1]I'm not sure what to call it really. A step above McDonald's (which is starting to offer this too) or Subway. Nothing fancy where you go for the food quality.
The CEO of our company called an out sourced to provide our VOIP phones. Still much cheaper than normal phones, and we get a lot more features on the phone. Well they get more features, our Sysadmin told them that his underlings (meaning me) don't need those features. (I use the phone once every other month on average, and from the complaints the others have I suspect he is right)
Its worth looking into though if you don't have someone who can deal with Asterisk in house. Even if you do have someone it might be worth it when you consider the issues involved.
Congress has granted a monopoly to MLB. The St. Paul Saints are AFAIK the only minor league team not affiliated with a major league team. They made a big deal about this when they first started about 10 years ago, but I haven't heard much lately, so there might be more now. I'm pretty sure they are still MLB affiliated somehow though.
Yes there is on reason this is a bad idea: most probes slingshot off other planets to gain speed. We often will send a probe destined for the outer solar system to Venus first, where it will gather speed from gravity before moving to deeper space. (of course this requires careful calculation to make sure you go in the direction you want, particularly if your goal is a planet and not just leaving)
One other disadvantage: there is much less interesting things when you get off the plane of the ecliptic. If we are going to send a probe out we want to get data. There is a lot of interesting things about various planets. There isn't much interesting about a vacuum. Now this probe is designed for a different purpose.
However if some of the instruments would be useful in a planet fly-by I would argue that it is a better use of our money to go by a planet (comet or asteroid, whatever) and gather that information. If none of the instruments can collect useful data then this isn't a concern.
Considering the cost of a launch, if there is room in the budget (weight) for an experiment that only applies to a planet you can fly by it is normally worth changing your path to go by that planet. Assuming you will have enough power latter on. (though if you a slingshotting off a planet you might go by anyway)
I do not know if you can slingshot off a planet and then take off in a direction orthogonal to the plane of the ecliptic. I don't see why not, but I don't know. Concerns like this are important.
One advantage of not going along the plane of the ecliptic is you do not have to navigate the asteroid belt. We have done that before so it isn't apparently a big deal, but effort needs to be made somewhere to make sure you don't hit a rick in space, and the asteroid belt has a lot of rocks to hit.
That is because ever computer science I ever knew was busying running *BSD. We only run Linux when BSD doesn't support our hardware.
I have a laptop for where I want a small computer. I can plug in external keyboards and mice when I want a larger size. I can plug in an external monitor if I want. Or I just unplug all that junk, and I can operate my computer for several hours where ever I happen to be.
Why do I want a mini on my desktop? For most people I cannot recommend a desktop at all anymore as laptops are so much more versatile. Those who cannot make use of a laptop need a large tower case for all the junk they want internal to their computer. (I don't know many hard core-gamers, and they don't ask for my opinion, but the mac mini won't work for that crowd anyway)
Take my advice: get a laptop as your main computer. Don't even think about anything else until you prove a need for two computers. There are some groups that this advice won't apply to, but they already know who they are.
I had a friend who told the judge at his dad's sentencing to "lock that man up". Course this dad was a pedophile, not just into a little fraud. Still sometimes you have to face the facts: someone you love doesn't deserve love, and needs to be locked up.
You invested everything in Artificial stupidity before playing M.U.L.E. too, didn't you?
At the last WineConf (almost exactly one year ago) some of the Wine developers were testing the hot mail virus of the day to make sure it ran. That was the one that activated as a DDoS on www.sco.com. It ran, and after putting making www.sco.com resolve to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts it attempted to take down the local machine.
We also found the back door, and came close to getting arbitrary programs to run from it, but supper came before we got that part working. We think it would have worked if a free meal hadn't gotten in the way.
So now you know. If a windows virus doesn't run under wine you can thank CodeWeavers for buying everyone a meal before we got it implimented.
My mother couldn't do this in Windows either without help.
Nothing against my mother, she is smart. She just has no interest in computers. She won't even bother to try to do anything we have not showed her how.
Unless you have a technical admin Windows is not useable either. I get calls all the time, from people who do RTFM, because windows is not easy to admin.
I try to send people to the mac, which is a lot easier to admin remotely, but even mac users need technical help from time to time.
Good point. Does anyone know who to get around this issue? I have a lab full of machines that I re-install all the time. I only have 2 XP machines back there now, but I've used all my MSDN licenses, mostly on machines that no longer function. My computers are legal, but the license system thinks they are not.
My mom has been using linux for nearly 5 years now. No she is not technical at all. All she knows is how to log into her account and start a few programs. For the end user linux is easier because they don't have root/admin, so they can't make a critical mistake.
Windows users end up running as admin which gives my mom too much power. (In theory she doesn't need to, but in practice too many programs require admin)
My dad is a computer guy, and he maintains all the computers. Dad installs all the software, takes care of backups, and all the other admin work. Mom doesn't worry about those issues. My mom also cannot admin a windows machine. My mom is a non-technical user and doesn't pretend she is anything more. It is only the non-technical people who pretend to be an admin that have problems with linux.
I refuse to help anyone buy a hardware without linux drivers. Sure they run windows, but I will always advise that hardware is junk unless it has linux drivers. Except for the case of video cards (where good drivers do not exists and people on the street talk about various cards) I require good open source drivers.
I figure one day they might hand that machine down to me for my next server, and linux will be the first thing installed (well *bsd by preference, but I use linux in places) so I need to be proactive. Even if I never get hands on that machine I prefer to reward those who provide good linux drivers.
You mistake the problem! A good manager does not need to understand your job to understand that the deadline is impossible. A good manager will give your priorities so you can say "It is not possible to get the entire thing done on time, but things will be done in this order so that by the deadline we have something working."
A good manager also understands that sometimes little technical details that have no obvious customer benefit must be done before the critical features can be done. However the good manager doesn't need to understand those details.
Now I will agree that a manager who knows how to do you job will believe you when you say a deadline is not reachable. However there are also managers who will believe you without knowing why.
Suicide is only attempted by those who are mentally ill. It is not illegal because normal people do it, they never do. It is illegal because it allows the courts to force someone that ill into hospitals where they can get help after attempting it. Most attempts go on to become productive people after the incident.
Suicide also affects others. Those who attempt it fail to realize how much it hurts others who love them.
So? I just want them to know how to think and work a good job. Standardize curricula has only one advantage: you can give standard tests and then compare results. So long as the books are not wrong, I don't care. I'm not going to be looking at their grades. In the real world the only ones who hire them will be watching closely to see results, so grades won't matter much to them either.
You couldn't be more completely wrong. The best manager I ever had, had no idea how to do my job. He didn't need to know that, there were senior engineers who did know how to do the job that he turned me to when I needed technical leadership. However he did an excellent job of running interference for me so that I could work. I didn't have to worry about went on over my head because he did all the political fighting, and reported back to me what happened. He was smart enough to find out what would be an issue in the future, and start the political process to solve them now, before they became a big deal.
While working under him I was under some of the worst upper management I've ever seen, but my day to day job was a pleasure because I was only vaguely aware of how bad things were.
Management's job is not to get things done, it is to get others to get the job done. Sometimes management must jump in and hands on get things done, but even then the manager must never forget that the first duty is to get the others to do the work.
I'm not sure Bill can write this all off either, in fact I'd be surprised if he can. Once you write off so much, the Alternative minimum tax kicks in, which puts an effective limit on what can be written off. Most people with as much money as he has have to pay this.
Of course his tax returns are not public, and I wouldn't bother reading them if they were, so I can't say for sure. However I can make estimates based on what is public about his income (as a major office holder his income from Microsoft work is public, though he may have other income we know nothing about), donation levels, the tax code, and such.
Don't forget to factor in China's strict one child per family policy (It has relaxed a little in recent years, but not much). Most of the people in China now will be dead in 50 years, and they did not have enough kids to come close to replacing them. Their population is expanding because modern medical care has allowed their current old people to live longer, not because they are having many children.
China's GDP will expand, no doubt about it. However I question their ability to get as Large as the US in that time, because their population does not support it.
I reveal my password anytime someone asks. ,X177987 Of course that password was only valid 10 years ago at a job a place I don't work anymore, and they forced random changes monthly. However that is my password. It just isn't valid for anything, and never will be again because I don't reuse my passwords.
Why have I not heard of all these school shootings? I cannot recall hearing of even one last year!
I hope they arrive quick, before the earth moves too far from here. I'm not sure how to stop the earth from orbiting about the sun, much less that pesky twisting of our galaxy.