Noncompetes are just a way to keep you from using your talents against your former employer.
They're also just a way to deter you from changing to a job with better conditions (salary/vacation/benefits/stuff).
The clause is there to prevent you from bringing their trade secrets to a competitor.
That's what NDAs are for. You could spill trade secrets all you want without ever violating a noncompete agreement, since you don't have to work for a competitor in order to reveal the information to them.
for those bank routing and account numbers to be laying around unsecured,
Bank routing and account numbers are different from credit card numbers. There's very little you actually can do with a routing and account number because these two don't give you any authorization to do any withdrawals from that account (at least if the US system has some basic degree of sanity).
At least over here (Europe), giving your account numbers to other people and have them deposit money to your account is a very common way of receiving payments. They can deposit to your account, but they cannot withdraw from it.
Now, if you were talking about credit card numbers, that would be a different beast altogether.
I guess the best thing about this is that it might raise some people's awareness of how much energy different electrical devices use during the day and might help them remember to shut them off and think of energy efficiency when they buy new equipment.
Yes. Try generating 200W of electrical power with your body, and see how long you can keep it up.
In the past I would just grab a standard VGA card for $20, plug it in and go,
What's keeping you from doing that today ? There's plenty of cheap graphics cards out there (they may all say that they're "3D" cards, but the cheap versions are way too slow in this area to be useful). You don't even need to get the latest generation of cheap-ass cards, since the ones from two generations ago may already have been available in PCIe/PEG flavors.
ATI X300/X1300, Geforce 6200/7300GS, whatever is cheapest.
I'm late to the party, but check out ReadyBoost, turn flash drives into memory.
It doesn't turn them into memory - it basically turns them into a hard disk cache for files that are frequently read, but rarely written to. It might help make your applications start faster (almost as fast as if you were running WinXP), but it doesn't do anything for running applications that require more RAM.
Buy yourself a fast USB flash drive with 8GB or so of ram.
Flash memory isn't RAM. It's EEPROM, with a high but limited number of write cycles (10^5 to 10^7, usually) per sector. If you use this for an application that is pretty much defined by lots and lots of write operations - i.e. as a swap partition - you've come up with a recipe for trouble. Especially since you cannot expect "cheap" flash media to perform any kind of wear levelling.
Vista can make use of Flash media in another way - by using them to store data that is read frequently, but rarely overwritten (i.e. the executables and data of your applications)
....the fact that a corporation was holding its own interests over that of its founding nation?
Corporations are founded and owned by people, who first and foremost expect the corporation to make money.
"Corporation ignores serious national security concerns because there was no obvious profit."
Corporations will do anything they can get away with to pursue the goal specified above.
I always wonder... do businesses really think they're immune to the affairs of their "mother country?"
War or even just insecurity is good for business, especially if you develop and manufacture for the military and the country you're in has little to zero risk of ever getting bombed to rubble itself.
To be a republic without being a democracy you need a autocratic president, like Iraq under Saddam Hussein; and while the George Bush might be bad, he is not quite Saddam.
And for completeness sake:
If you're a democracy without being a republic, then you're most likely a constitutional monarchy like Norway, Spain or Denmark.
If you're neither a democracy nor a republic, then you're most likely an absolute monarchy, like Saudi-Arabia.
They deal with it by having intelligent people working in their security forces, including at the airport.
I assume that intelligence is only one factor. Proper training (which includes training them to use their brain, not just robotically follow some procedure) and paying them significantly above minimum wage should also be factors.
Do some calculations and see that since we started burning oil, we've unleashed a disturbing amount of energy into the atmosphere - enough to cause some global warming on its own without even considering the greenhouse effect.
Eh. The amount of global atmospheric heating caused by any form of energy generation (nuclear produces heat, too) is pretty much insignificant compared to the solar heat input.
The problem is that we're preventing heat from escaping into space.
[1]: Ice giants like Uranus and Neptune, despite their name, aren't made of water ice, but comprise a lot of gases like methane. Astronomers call methane "ice" no matter whether it's gaseous, liquid or ice.
To them, any atom that's not hydrogen is automatically a metal, too. "Metal-rich" means "contains lots of stuff that's not hydrogen" to an astronomer.
Theorically, they could already since all they need is to detect O2, which is very very unlikely to exist without life,
O2 can be generated by photolysis of water (or other molecules). I think one of the moons of Saturn has a thin oxygen atmosphere because of this effect.
Thus, the difference it makes is within regular variability of the star such that the variability overwhelms the planet's contribution.
In that case, you just need more observations. It's not like the star or the planet are going to disappear any time soon - you can basically take your time in measuring the spectrum of the star, and the spectrum of (star + planet) as often as you wish (as long as you're looking a planets with short "years").
Notice that? Resolution at 320 x 200 16 colours. That translates to 4000 bytes of graphics memory..
Now my Macbook Pro can do 1680 x 1050 32-bit colour. That is over 7MB of graphics memory. (Is this correctly calculated?)
The latter is, the former isn't.
320 x 200 x 4 bpp (bits per pixel) is 32 kB. However, the C64 had 16 colors only in low-res (160x200) - so it's 16 kB. At least afair. I was too young to care about the exact specs back then.
Expanding both X and Y-resolution and even colour, makes the juice required exponential..
Not exponential, but with O^2. Doubling the X and Y resoluting quadruples the memory requirement, tripling the resolution requires nine times the memory (if it were exponential, it would require 16x the memory).
Actually, in particle physics, you do, sort of. Electron-Volts (eV) and multiples thereof (keV, MeV, GeV) are common units for energy if you look at particles.
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Of course I could adapt, but why should I ? Adapting to a different job where my "special" expertise is worthless generally means making less money.
Noncompetes are just a way to keep you from using your talents against your former employer. They're also just a way to deter you from changing to a job with better conditions (salary/vacation/benefits/stuff).
That's what NDAs are for. You could spill trade secrets all you want without ever violating a noncompete agreement, since you don't have to work for a competitor in order to reveal the information to them.
Judging from the rest of the thread, it's more likely that your superiors will wave your e-mail around saying "There's our prime suspect !".
This leaves you in a pretty strong position
Bank routing and account numbers are different from credit card numbers. There's very little you actually can do with a routing and account number because these two don't give you any authorization to do any withdrawals from that account (at least if the US system has some basic degree of sanity).
At least over here (Europe), giving your account numbers to other people and have them deposit money to your account is a very common way of receiving payments. They can deposit to your account, but they cannot withdraw from it.
Now, if you were talking about credit card numbers, that would be a different beast altogether.
Yes. Try generating 200W of electrical power with your body, and see how long you can keep it up.
What's keeping you from doing that today ? There's plenty of cheap graphics cards out there (they may all say that they're "3D" cards, but the cheap versions are way too slow in this area to be useful). You don't even need to get the latest generation of cheap-ass cards, since the ones from two generations ago may already have been available in PCIe/PEG flavors.
ATI X300/X1300, Geforce 6200/7300GS, whatever is cheapest.
It's the same thing as an ME career that doesn't involve arc welding.
Erm ... "when it wears out" is exactly the point where Windows will crash most horribly. Windows doesn't expect swap partitons to wear out.
I'm late to the party, but check out ReadyBoost, turn flash drives into memory. It doesn't turn them into memory - it basically turns them into a hard disk cache for files that are frequently read, but rarely written to. It might help make your applications start faster (almost as fast as if you were running WinXP), but it doesn't do anything for running applications that require more RAM.
Flash memory isn't RAM. It's EEPROM, with a high but limited number of write cycles (10^5 to 10^7, usually) per sector. If you use this for an application that is pretty much defined by lots and lots of write operations - i.e. as a swap partition - you've come up with a recipe for trouble. Especially since you cannot expect "cheap" flash media to perform any kind of wear levelling.
Vista can make use of Flash media in another way - by using them to store data that is read frequently, but rarely overwritten (i.e. the executables and data of your applications)
Corporations are founded and owned by people, who first and foremost expect the corporation to make money.
"Corporation ignores serious national security concerns because there was no obvious profit."
Corporations will do anything they can get away with to pursue the goal specified above.
I always wonder... do businesses really think they're immune to the affairs of their "mother country?"
War or even just insecurity is good for business, especially if you develop and manufacture for the military and the country you're in has little to zero risk of ever getting bombed to rubble itself.
And for completeness sake:
If you're a democracy without being a republic, then you're most likely a constitutional monarchy like Norway, Spain or Denmark.
If you're neither a democracy nor a republic, then you're most likely an absolute monarchy, like Saudi-Arabia.
Entrepreneurship is to succeed in life.
If you're a CxO, you might technically still be an employee.
You could do that without sharpening the stick first.
Yeah, so they crafted something, big deal. I bet it was white or even grey. It'll be millenia before they'll craft anything rare or epic.
I assume that intelligence is only one factor. Proper training (which includes training them to use their brain, not just robotically follow some procedure) and paying them significantly above minimum wage should also be factors.
Its necessary for all life on earth,
What part of "trace amounts" don't you understand ?
BTW, methane is FAR FAR greater a greenhouse gas than CO2.
Methan that's trapped in solid form under the ocean isn't a gas at all. What part of "gas" don't you understand ?
I breath CO2 all the time, doesn't seem to hurt me.
Do the world a favor and breathe a 10% CO2, 20% O2 and 70% N2 mix for ten minutes. The other six billion people will thank you for your heroic effort.
Eh. The amount of global atmospheric heating caused by any form of energy generation (nuclear produces heat, too) is pretty much insignificant compared to the solar heat input.
The problem is that we're preventing heat from escaping into space.
To them, any atom that's not hydrogen is automatically a metal, too. "Metal-rich" means "contains lots of stuff that's not hydrogen" to an astronomer.
O2 can be generated by photolysis of water (or other molecules). I think one of the moons of Saturn has a thin oxygen atmosphere because of this effect.
In that case, you just need more observations. It's not like the star or the planet are going to disappear any time soon - you can basically take your time in measuring the spectrum of the star, and the spectrum of (star + planet) as often as you wish (as long as you're looking a planets with short "years").
The latter is, the former isn't.
320 x 200 x 4 bpp (bits per pixel) is 32 kB. However, the C64 had 16 colors only in low-res (160x200) - so it's 16 kB. At least afair. I was too young to care about the exact specs back then.
Expanding both X and Y-resolution and even colour, makes the juice required exponential..
Not exponential, but with O^2. Doubling the X and Y resoluting quadruples the memory requirement, tripling the resolution requires nine times the memory (if it were exponential, it would require 16x the memory).
Actually, in particle physics, you do, sort of. Electron-Volts (eV) and multiples thereof (keV, MeV, GeV) are common units for energy if you look at particles.