But nothing stops you from acquiring and reinstalling said equipment after the purchase is complete (perhaps the law, but that doesn't count much if you were thinking about doing it anyway).
If you can afford the plane, you can afford the fuel. You can also afford the connections to get the FAA to allow you to go supersonic over US soil (which, currently, you can't unless you have a military/experimental exception).
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
Actually, you don't need to go to a known point. Differential GPS works by having a stationary receiver send corrections over FM or cellular networks to a moving GPS receiver. The stationary GPS receiver can eliminate both atmospheric anomalies, as well as selective availability. Most DGPS stations were run by......the US Coast Guard up until selective availability was turned off. Unfortunately, you were limited in how far your mobile GPS could be from the stationary GPS receiver, as the corrections were fairly location specific (at least with regards to atmospheric anomalies).
The "new" version of DGPS is called WAAS (wide area augmentation system), which is where airports in the US will have local DGPS stations send their correction data to the WAAS satellite, and these corrections will be distributed to aircraft flying over the US for use as precision approaches (instead of the use of radio equipment at the end of runways).
Yea, god forbid someone actually needs to bring in some cash to pay for the hardware, colo costs, etc. to provide that service. Since when is being financially sound selling out to the man?
I reject your argument. Just because that's the cost of food for a month, doesn't mean that's expensive. That RAM will be good for several years (at least 3). Assuming you amoratize the cost over 3 years, that's only 3.34 EUR/month. So while there is an upfront investment, you don't have to pay 120EUR/month for RAM like you do for food.
RAM is cheap. My desktop rig has 8GB. I don't mind firefox using 500-1024MB as long as my browsing is snappy and I can get to old closed tabs for some time (hence the high memory usage).
Nota Bene: One thing I've found to be awesome - get up a script that sends a copy of your Exchange logs to another box... that way you're not fighting store.exe for RAM when you want to parse through them, and you can use a real text editor (vi or EMACS - you pick) to read them.
We grab the Exchange logs off the box every 15 minutes and shove them into Postgresql. We can then use a PHP interface to view them. Very nice compared to notepad on the Exchange box.
Note how many folks own Google stock, yet they're buying class B shares with no rights, while all the top folks have class A shares with voting power. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, I'm just saying it happens all the time.
My T-Mobile G1 works fine with only a WiFi connection, as does the Nexus One (google for the youtube video of Adobe demonstrating Flash on it. You'll notice that they have no SIM card in the device, and are surfing over WiFi).
I have a Blackberry Curve from T-Mobile with UMA, and let me tell you, it's AWESOME. I visited Japan a couple months back for two weeks. As long as I was near wifi, I got free calls back to the US. As long as you have Wifi anywhere, you don't even need to be in a T-Mobile service area. It's a great feature, and wish the Nexus One would have it, as I'm moving to that.
The downside of liquid helium is that it's damned expensive, and getting more so by the minute. Running at full capacity I could blow through several thousand liters in a year, and at several dollars a liter minimum plus overhead, that's real money. As a bonus, lately our supplier of helium has become incredibly unreliable, missing orders and generally flaking out, while simultaneously raising prices because of actual production shortages. I just had to read the sales guy the riot act, and if service doesn't improve darn fast, we'll take our business elsewhere, as will the other users on campus. (Helium comes from the radioactive decay of uranium and other alpha emitters deep in the earth, and comes out of natural gas wells.) The long-term solutions are (a) set up as many cryogen-free systems as possible, and (b) get a helium liquifier to recycle the helium that we do use. Unfortunately, (a) requires an upfront cost comparable to about 8 years of a system's helium consumption per system, and (b) also necessitates big capital expenses as well as an ongoing maintenance issue. Of course none of these kinds of costs are the sort of thing that it's easy to convince a funding agency to support. Too boring and pedestrian.
By the way, I spend most of my days on site at the largest US particle accelerator. Let me know if you'd like to chat with the cryo dept. about how much the tankers of liqiud helium cost;)
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But nothing stops you from acquiring and reinstalling said equipment after the purchase is complete (perhaps the law, but that doesn't count much if you were thinking about doing it anyway).
If you can afford the plane, you can afford the fuel. You can also afford the connections to get the FAA to allow you to go supersonic over US soil (which, currently, you can't unless you have a military/experimental exception).
Welcome to how a corporation performs accounting.
Worked like a champ for me at parent's link. Just reserved my Wii disc (already had a PS3 disc).
If I'm in the middle of the ocean, I'm probably switching to using the sun or the stars for navigation.
The "new" version of DGPS is called WAAS (wide area augmentation system), which is where airports in the US will have local DGPS stations send their correction data to the WAAS satellite, and these corrections will be distributed to aircraft flying over the US for use as precision approaches (instead of the use of radio equipment at the end of runways).
Yea, god forbid someone actually needs to bring in some cash to pay for the hardware, colo costs, etc. to provide that service. Since when is being financially sound selling out to the man?
Good point. But it's silly to argue amount performance if you're using less than 4GB of RAM (which netbooks and older desktops will accommodate).
I reject your argument. Just because that's the cost of food for a month, doesn't mean that's expensive. That RAM will be good for several years (at least 3). Assuming you amoratize the cost over 3 years, that's only 3.34 EUR/month. So while there is an upfront investment, you don't have to pay 120EUR/month for RAM like you do for food.
RAM is cheap. My desktop rig has 8GB. I don't mind firefox using 500-1024MB as long as my browsing is snappy and I can get to old closed tabs for some time (hence the high memory usage).
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http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
I suggest CES find another business model, as their roll as a middle man (as the recording industry found out) is coming to a close.
Correct. A suite is a swank office with a bedroom.
Nota Bene: One thing I've found to be awesome - get up a script that sends a copy of your Exchange logs to another box... that way you're not fighting store.exe for RAM when you want to parse through them, and you can use a real text editor (vi or EMACS - you pick) to read them.
We grab the Exchange logs off the box every 15 minutes and shove them into Postgresql. We can then use a PHP interface to view them. Very nice compared to notepad on the Exchange box.
I think I'm going to turn that into a quote. "Anything below a million bucks is money. Anything above a million bucks is freedom."
Note how many folks own Google stock, yet they're buying class B shares with no rights, while all the top folks have class A shares with voting power. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, I'm just saying it happens all the time.
My T-Mobile G1 works fine with only a WiFi connection, as does the Nexus One (google for the youtube video of Adobe demonstrating Flash on it. You'll notice that they have no SIM card in the device, and are surfing over WiFi).
So I'm *paying* for a box that improves AT&T's coverage for the service.......they're providing to me.
I have a Blackberry Curve from T-Mobile with UMA, and let me tell you, it's AWESOME. I visited Japan a couple months back for two weeks. As long as I was near wifi, I got free calls back to the US. As long as you have Wifi anywhere, you don't even need to be in a T-Mobile service area. It's a great feature, and wish the Nexus One would have it, as I'm moving to that.
Are you charged for incoming and outgoing minutes? Or just outgoing?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114341718
When it's as easy as 1) Search a torrent site and 2) Clicking the magnet link and wait for it to download, I would say yes.
The downside of liquid helium is that it's damned expensive, and getting more so by the minute. Running at full capacity I could blow through several thousand liters in a year, and at several dollars a liter minimum plus overhead, that's real money. As a bonus, lately our supplier of helium has become incredibly unreliable, missing orders and generally flaking out, while simultaneously raising prices because of actual production shortages. I just had to read the sales guy the riot act, and if service doesn't improve darn fast, we'll take our business elsewhere, as will the other users on campus. (Helium comes from the radioactive decay of uranium and other alpha emitters deep in the earth, and comes out of natural gas wells.) The long-term solutions are (a) set up as many cryogen-free systems as possible, and (b) get a helium liquifier to recycle the helium that we do use. Unfortunately, (a) requires an upfront cost comparable to about 8 years of a system's helium consumption per system, and (b) also necessitates big capital expenses as well as an ongoing maintenance issue. Of course none of these kinds of costs are the sort of thing that it's easy to convince a funding agency to support. Too boring and pedestrian.
By the way, I spend most of my days on site at the largest US particle accelerator. Let me know if you'd like to chat with the cryo dept. about how much the tankers of liqiud helium cost ;)
Ahh! I myself am at an age (27) where I hope for the same thing. Singularity and all that jazz.