You can talk about economies of scale; however that doesn't take into account quality of services or volunteer efforts.
Yes rural areas have many more miles of roads, but they typically aren't as good. Many of them are tar and chip or even dirt. Drainage is typically a ditch along side the road. Not a network of storm drains. The cost per mile is significantly lower.
Fire departments are volunteer run. Yes, they have to buy the equipment, but it's not nearly as fancy and they rely on donations to keep going.
Water and Sewer - not a municipal service.
Trash removal - not a municipal service. Landfills are subsidized, but homeowners pay a handsome tipping fee.
Education - costs money. But salaries are lower and extra curricular activities rely on donations and volunteers for support.
XM does periodic subscriber surveys that ask you to list your favorite channels. I don't believe they have a method for actually monitoring what people are listening to.
I agree. I have Sirius. Given the type of antenna, the size of the unit and the fact that it transmits FM, it couldn't possibly be transmitting to the satellite as well. The FM transmitter is too weak for them to be picking up (due to FCC regulations I'm sure).
They must base it on customer feedback, song requests and monitoring usage of streaming audio from their website.
...just hump around a 12 volt car battery which weighs a fair bit less...
Yes, but then all you have to sleep in, eat, or shoot at bad guys with is a... 12 volt battery. This device generates power using loads that result from carrying other useful items.
I can see solar working better than this device in the desert. But I would think during jungle or arctic operations the sun would be less reliable. Perhaps a lightweight solar panel attached to the outside of this device would be the best of both worlds.
I don't think you'll have too much of a problem getting a job coming out of DeVry. Depending on your area of course. The tough part is the hiring managers will equate it to "will work cheap". So until you get some experience you'll have to work twice as hard as the CS guys for less money. I have an AS degree so I've gone through the same pains.
The good news is you may have an easier time getting in the door than someone with an MS in comp sci and no experience who epects good pay on their first assignment. Look for small shops that you think have growth potential.
It's not an easy thing to change, is it? Even in this day and age.
My pet peeve is meeting agendas. A three page agenda for a 10 person meeting equals 30 pieces of paper that get used for an hour or two then tossed.
I started putting the agendas on the projector in the conference room about 6 months ago. A few people stopped printing them since, but most folks just don't feel comfortable without a hard copy in hand.
You can make your own by simply using 'dd', but doctors are too dumb to know this.
While I don't dispute the general message behind your post, I'd like to say that dumb people generally do not become medical doctors. If a guy can fix something as complicated as the human body, I won't hold it against him for knowing squat about computers.
It would be wonderful to have a massive wild reserve in North America where Grizzlies, Wolves, Buffalo and numerous other endangered North American species could actually exist in their natural state devoid of human pressure.
I'll buy that and raise you one. Lets have a second massive wild reserve were humans can exist in their natual state devoid of society's bullshit.
I got a letter yesterday stating that I am now a criminal because I forgot to renew my dog's license on time. I've been found in violation of code bladdy bla of the agriculture act of bla bla bla. They want to know "how do I plea". I plea BULLSHIT!
Now try to get the millions of Joe Users to implement these types of restrictions/securities/etc and see the backlash. They just won't/can't do it. The tasks are just too technical for most.
I vote thin client for the masses. The service provider runs the primary server that connects when you power on the unit. If you want to access services by other providers, the two servers do a handshake and control is handed over. Now Ma, Pa, and Auntie Sue can surf the web, email, view pictures, balance the checkbook, and play some not-too video intensive games without any of the hassles of a PC.
If you want to run a webserver from your bedroom or play 3D games, then you buy a PC and standard internet access as we now know it.
These guys are also licensing their "design and branding elements". Which I understand to mean you can bottle the stuff, slap their logo on it and sell it?
I don't know why you would want to do that. But it's certainly in contrast to Coca Cola. Even if you had the recipe or managed to reverse engineer it, you couldn't sell it as Coke or even in a red can for that matter. Unless you enjoy being pecked to death by a swarm of vultures (aka coporate laywers).
"The history of beer in north america was changed dramatically by prohibition. During that period, they were brewing awful stuff, and serving it very very green. What was discovered, if you chill the beer till it's 'cold', folks liked it better....beer (ice cold), will numb many of the tastebuds..."
Ah Bologna. Cold beer in the US dates back at least to the mid 1800's where they used ice houses, especially in the hot west to keep beer cold through the summer. It was hot and it was dusty. And the townsfolk wanted something cold to drink. Plain and simple.
Here's an interesting beer history link for all the European beer snobs: http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/raley_ timetable.shtml
If you scroll down to modern history, it states: In the mid-19th Century (1850's) German immigrant brewers introduced cold maturation lagers to the US (Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Coors, Stroh, Schlitz, and Pabst roots begin here).
The modern era of brewing in the US began in the late 1800's with commercial refrigeration (1860), automatic bottling, pasteurization (1876), and railroad distribution.
Cold beer is just part of the American culture. There is something about reaching in a cooler after a hard day of work and grabbing a can or bottle that has been sitting in ice for hours. Even in the winter time the beer comes out of the car and goes in a snow bank for deep chilling before serving. And we like it that way!
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You can talk about economies of scale; however that doesn't take into account quality of services or volunteer efforts.
Yes rural areas have many more miles of roads, but they typically aren't as good. Many of them are tar and chip or even dirt. Drainage is typically a ditch along side the road. Not a network of storm drains. The cost per mile is significantly lower.
Fire departments are volunteer run. Yes, they have to buy the equipment, but it's not nearly as fancy and they rely on donations to keep going.
Water and Sewer - not a municipal service.
Trash removal - not a municipal service. Landfills are subsidized, but homeowners pay a handsome tipping fee.
Education - costs money. But salaries are lower and extra curricular activities rely on donations and volunteers for support.
UK: I haven't got a nose.
US: I don't have a nose.
Alabama: I don't got no nose, boy. It done got bitt off by Bubba's houn' dawg.
New Jersey: BAM BAM BAM Stare at my nose now - bitch!
XM does periodic subscriber surveys that ask you to list your favorite channels. I don't believe they have a method for actually monitoring what people are listening to.
I agree. I have Sirius. Given the type of antenna, the size of the unit and the fact that it transmits FM, it couldn't possibly be transmitting to the satellite as well. The FM transmitter is too weak for them to be picking up (due to FCC regulations I'm sure).
They must base it on customer feedback, song requests and monitoring usage of streaming audio from their website.
Yes, but then all you have to sleep in, eat, or shoot at bad guys with is a... 12 volt battery. This device generates power using loads that result from carrying other useful items.
I can see solar working better than this device in the desert. But I would think during jungle or arctic operations the sun would be less reliable. Perhaps a lightweight solar panel attached to the outside of this device would be the best of both worlds.
I don't think you'll have too much of a problem getting a job coming out of DeVry. Depending on your area of course. The tough part is the hiring managers will equate it to "will work cheap". So until you get some experience you'll have to work twice as hard as the CS guys for less money. I have an AS degree so I've gone through the same pains.
The good news is you may have an easier time getting in the door than someone with an MS in comp sci and no experience who epects good pay on their first assignment. Look for small shops that you think have growth potential.
I found this remark strange also.
Arguably, white space is the important part of a document. Just like silence is the most important part of a song. Even Stevie Wonder knows that.
It's not an easy thing to change, is it? Even in this day and age.
My pet peeve is meeting agendas. A three page agenda for a 10 person meeting equals 30 pieces of paper that get used for an hour or two then tossed.
I started putting the agendas on the projector in the conference room about 6 months ago. A few people stopped printing them since, but most folks just don't feel comfortable without a hard copy in hand.
You can make your own by simply using 'dd', but doctors are too dumb to know this.
While I don't dispute the general message behind your post, I'd like to say that dumb people generally do not become medical doctors. If a guy can fix something as complicated as the human body, I won't hold it against him for knowing squat about computers.
use his Zaurus from the bathroom.
Eeeew! I'm glad my job isn't to refurbish Zaurus units that were sent in due to the buttons sticking.
It would be wonderful to have a massive wild reserve in North America where Grizzlies, Wolves, Buffalo and numerous other endangered North American species could actually exist in their natural state devoid of human pressure.
I'll buy that and raise you one. Lets have a second massive wild reserve were humans can exist in their natual state devoid of society's bullshit.
My bad, the poster does mention benefit.
might hopefully show that hydrogen is a more attractive fuel
Although he certainly doesn't claim that this is an effecient use of energy.
I think the poster misunderstood the benefit of this...
The poster didn't say there was any benefit.How true this is.
I got a letter yesterday stating that I am now a criminal because I forgot to renew my dog's license on time. I've been found in violation of code bladdy bla of the agriculture act of bla bla bla. They want to know "how do I plea". I plea BULLSHIT!
In a word, YES.
Agreed. Had the show Mythbusters been around when I was a kid, I would have gotten more into science.
Careful what you ask for. Look around at the people you work with... Do you really want Naked Fridays?
Not a problem, simply spend Friday's hanging around the marketing department. Always better looking folks there.
Now try to get the millions of Joe Users to implement these types of restrictions/securities/etc and see the backlash. They just won't/can't do it. The tasks are just too technical for most.
I vote thin client for the masses. The service provider runs the primary server that connects when you power on the unit. If you want to access services by other providers, the two servers do a handshake and control is handed over. Now Ma, Pa, and Auntie Sue can surf the web, email, view pictures, balance the checkbook, and play some not-too video intensive games without any of the hassles of a PC.
If you want to run a webserver from your bedroom or play 3D games, then you buy a PC and standard internet access as we now know it.
You won't see buzzards circling like I can from my office window.
Those aren't buzzards. They are RIAA spy drones. Move your desk to the basement as soon as possible.
These guys are also licensing their "design and branding elements". Which I understand to mean you can bottle the stuff, slap their logo on it and sell it?
I don't know why you would want to do that. But it's certainly in contrast to Coca Cola. Even if you had the recipe or managed to reverse engineer it, you couldn't sell it as Coke or even in a red can for that matter. Unless you enjoy being pecked to death by a swarm of vultures (aka coporate laywers).
"The history of beer in north america was changed dramatically by prohibition. During that period, they were brewing awful stuff, and serving it very very green. What was discovered, if you chill the beer till it's 'cold', folks liked it better. ...beer (ice cold), will numb many of the tastebuds..."
Ah Bologna. Cold beer in the US dates back at least to the mid 1800's where they used ice houses, especially in the hot west to keep beer cold through the summer. It was hot and it was dusty. And the townsfolk wanted something cold to drink. Plain and simple.
Here's an interesting beer history link for all the European beer snobs: http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/raley_ timetable.shtml
If you scroll down to modern history, it states:
In the mid-19th Century (1850's) German immigrant brewers introduced cold maturation lagers to the US (Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Coors, Stroh, Schlitz, and Pabst roots begin here).
The modern era of brewing in the US began in the late 1800's with commercial refrigeration (1860), automatic bottling, pasteurization (1876), and railroad distribution.
Cold beer is just part of the American culture. There is something about reaching in a cooler after a hard day of work and grabbing a can or bottle that has been sitting in ice for hours. Even in the winter time the beer comes out of the car and goes in a snow bank for deep chilling before serving. And we like it that way!