GoodReader also has Samba support, so great for accessing network resources. Works with services other than Dropbox as well.
But, to really use the iPad effectively as a catalog replacement I have needed dedicated apps. Navigating a thousand page catalog on any tablet is an exercise in frustration. Separate files for chapters/sections can help, as long as you don't need to jump between them often.
Can't the co-op terminate calls with anybody they choose? If you have a pipe, why wouldn't you tunnel SIP to the provider with the best/cheapest fees? "Peer" with local co-ops directly, and maybe even set up a clearinghouse for co-ops that brokers interconnects with the LECs and CLECs.
The 50 has more mushy, plastic keys. The screen of the 48 cracked (in gate checked luggage on a business trip) when it was ~10 years old and it was about the same price to get the screen fixed or just go for a 49. The 49 lasted about three years of use, and a year of storage and stopped functioning. The biggest down-side to the 50 though is that it runs through batteries in 3-5 months, but it has lasted about five years now.
I wonder if I still have the 49 in a drawer somewhere...
I have an HP-48G emulator on my phone and a physical HP-50 at my desk. (The '48 and '49 have died long ago.) I would much rather use the physical keyboard rather than touch screen when needing to do calculations-- one less thing to think about by not needing to look at the keys.
The commonality is uncanny though-- I get home wondering why the result from something isn't in the stack on the phone.
They did it out of a desire to have turn-by-turn directions which were precluded from their agreement with Google. They determined that to be a must-have feature.
I'm sure Williamson was not fired solely because of his actions on Maps; he likely didn't get along with Eddy Cue as well as he did with Forstall. I also imagine his priority was on making the must-have feature of turn-by-turn directions work, and not dealing with the lack of accuracy in the databases it licensed from others. That was a fundamental blunder, and quite honestly I don't like the way turn-by-turn works. I much preferred how it worked with the Google application, with more emphasis on the overview and simpler navigation to specific points of interest. But, I don't drive much so I might not be the target audience.
The crossover point is actually pretty high though. I did a few comparisons for UC Davis "professional" categories that I knew private sector equivalents, and the government positions were generous up through $275-300k. Above that, sure you can make more in the private sector, but we are talking about how many total positions-- 0.5%? At that level, you work for government for different reasons than salary or retirement benefits.
You don't want to pressurize the tank, but you can use long shaft turbine pumps or compressed air displacement pumps in the basement and air compressors at a safe elevation. Not very efficient, but it can be done.
This has been part of the fire code for ages; it has nothing to do with 9/11. It is also not that hard to have a fuel system that can survive a flooded basement. If you really want to go wild and crazy you can get over the lift limits on suction pumps and still keep all your electrical components on the third floor or higher.
That used to be the case. Now government employees make quite comparable wages to the private sector in general terms. It is public information; I would suggest taking a look.
I know the answer to why private sector employees don't get better benefits-- employers can't afford it. Employers pay 7.5% to Social Security, and we also provide 5% as an employer match to 401k. That is about the ceiling of what you can provide, and only that much when the long-term risk is shifted away from the employer. Pensions worked because it shifted responsibility down the road, but I would be curious to find statistics on what percentage are actually paid by employers rather than through bailout insurance, etc.
Our overhead costs are about 70-75% of per-employee salary, which is pretty typical of most organizations I have worked for. Our revenue per employee is about 2-2.5x salary; under ideal conditions it hits 3x. That puts you at about a 12.5% gross profit margin.
To actually fund a pension plan, you would need to set aside about 12-15% of salary for 40 years, which would leave you with a 5-6% profit margin and huge long term liabilities. Not much of an incentive to hire anybody.
Austerity measures are a failure because of implementation. The percentage of the GDP spent by the federal and state governments needs to be reduced over time, as does the percentage of the GDP spent on healthcare. (Two birds with one stone.) Without that happening, we will keep ending up with a system that at best just redistributes wealth.
I am all for a safety net, and because of the nature of hiring and firing in the corporate world today I think much of that needs to be fortified. At the same time, I am not convinced that spending billions widening freeways offers the same economic value as investing in better rail systems, or that the accounting requirements to comply with FAR really add value commensurate with the benefits. Likewise, the amount of money required for filings, accounting, etc., for small businesses distracts from the value they provide.
My company is a certified "women owned" business. Three different agencies certify us! Why? What is the logic of paying taxes to the feds, state, county, and city instead of streamlining the accounting and having it broken up in one fell swoop? Why should the federal government be giving money to the state government at all? Why do government employees have better retirement benefits than anyone in the private sector?
There are plenty of places where the processes can be improved. The starting point is making a 50-year plan and working towards that every year. You update the vision statement every four or five years, but you stick with it.
Combined cycle gas turbines are more efficient than coal boilers. There are some plants that use natural gas turbines with a coal-fired booster on the heat recovery steam generator, but I am not quite sure what the logic is-- possibly just to boost capacity and efficiency in a coal-fired plant.
I kind of for that impression from the video and him repeating "this is very very fast" a few hundred times... Unless that was a code word for "bring new foul weather gear... Mine is fouled..."
Burning coal is cleaner than it was 100 years ago, but you can't get around the fact that it is about 70% carbon, which results in at least 50% higher CO/CO2 emissions per energy generated. Scrubbers and SCRs also reduce efficiency, which further hurts the case for coal. Sequestration is pretty much a joke, but maybe some day something useful can be done with the co2.
Sadly, Lynx is becoming my go-to browser more and more often. Easy enough to create different instances with different settings/permissions. Haven't tried setting lynx to be my user agent string yet though and see what happens.
Advertisers don't have a right, but the content producers have some rights. Unfortunately, the anti ad-blocking systems are getting more advanced/annoying so it will be interesting to see where things go.
I am getting close to wanting to set up an ad-blocking proxy for myself rather than rely on the browser. Too many annoying little bits that I don't want to be subjected to.
Not sure what the end-game is, but I don't want to support advertising as a solution to pay content producers.
There are two ways I can think of this being a direct reaction within the timescale-- existing idled coal-fired plants / multi-source plants switching to coal, or the addition of coal fired boilers at existing plants.
I have done work in CO2 distillation plant that took feed from a nearby refinery; it is pretty hard for me to imagine carbon sequestration ever being a commercially viable means to keep coal attractive. I would have thought that in-situ gasification would have happened by now.
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You can add them to the PDF in good reader, and I believe there is another means of storing them as well.
GoodReader also has Samba support, so great for accessing network resources. Works with services other than Dropbox as well.
But, to really use the iPad effectively as a catalog replacement I have needed dedicated apps. Navigating a thousand page catalog on any tablet is an exercise in frustration. Separate files for chapters/sections can help, as long as you don't need to jump between them often.
Can't the co-op terminate calls with anybody they choose? If you have a pipe, why wouldn't you tunnel SIP to the provider with the best/cheapest fees? "Peer" with local co-ops directly, and maybe even set up a clearinghouse for co-ops that brokers interconnects with the LECs and CLECs.
The 50 has more mushy, plastic keys. The screen of the 48 cracked (in gate checked luggage on a business trip) when it was ~10 years old and it was about the same price to get the screen fixed or just go for a 49. The 49 lasted about three years of use, and a year of storage and stopped functioning. The biggest down-side to the 50 though is that it runs through batteries in 3-5 months, but it has lasted about five years now.
I wonder if I still have the 49 in a drawer somewhere...
Keys are better on the 48/49 than the mushy 50 keys, but at least the 50 has the EEX key in the logical location.
Took me a few years to get over the baggage handlers destroying my 48, and the 49 was quite short lived for reasons that escape me.
I have an HP-48G emulator on my phone and a physical HP-50 at my desk. (The '48 and '49 have died long ago.) I would much rather use the physical keyboard rather than touch screen when needing to do calculations-- one less thing to think about by not needing to look at the keys.
The commonality is uncanny though-- I get home wondering why the result from something isn't in the stack on the phone.
I would add a non-contact voltage tester and a hepa vac.
They did it out of a desire to have turn-by-turn directions which were precluded from their agreement with Google. They determined that to be a must-have feature.
I'm sure Williamson was not fired solely because of his actions on Maps; he likely didn't get along with Eddy Cue as well as he did with Forstall. I also imagine his priority was on making the must-have feature of turn-by-turn directions work, and not dealing with the lack of accuracy in the databases it licensed from others. That was a fundamental blunder, and quite honestly I don't like the way turn-by-turn works. I much preferred how it worked with the Google application, with more emphasis on the overview and simpler navigation to specific points of interest. But, I don't drive much so I might not be the target audience.
What, you haven't heard of a fuel polisher? 8-)
The crossover point is actually pretty high though. I did a few comparisons for UC Davis "professional" categories that I knew private sector equivalents, and the government positions were generous up through $275-300k. Above that, sure you can make more in the private sector, but we are talking about how many total positions-- 0.5%? At that level, you work for government for different reasons than salary or retirement benefits.
The HTC agreement likely has a "do not clone" clause like Nokia's. Samsung has "cloned" Apple designs, which makes the situation different.
You work for an Electrical Testing Laboratory and don't know what SCADA is?!
You don't want to pressurize the tank, but you can use long shaft turbine pumps or compressed air displacement pumps in the basement and air compressors at a safe elevation. Not very efficient, but it can be done.
This has been part of the fire code for ages; it has nothing to do with 9/11. It is also not that hard to have a fuel system that can survive a flooded basement. If you really want to go wild and crazy you can get over the lift limits on suction pumps and still keep all your electrical components on the third floor or higher.
That used to be the case. Now government employees make quite comparable wages to the private sector in general terms. It is public information; I would suggest taking a look.
I know the answer to why private sector employees don't get better benefits-- employers can't afford it. Employers pay 7.5% to Social Security, and we also provide 5% as an employer match to 401k. That is about the ceiling of what you can provide, and only that much when the long-term risk is shifted away from the employer. Pensions worked because it shifted responsibility down the road, but I would be curious to find statistics on what percentage are actually paid by employers rather than through bailout insurance, etc.
Our overhead costs are about 70-75% of per-employee salary, which is pretty typical of most organizations I have worked for. Our revenue per employee is about 2-2.5x salary; under ideal conditions it hits 3x. That puts you at about a 12.5% gross profit margin.
To actually fund a pension plan, you would need to set aside about 12-15% of salary for 40 years, which would leave you with a 5-6% profit margin and huge long term liabilities. Not much of an incentive to hire anybody.
Austerity measures are a failure because of implementation. The percentage of the GDP spent by the federal and state governments needs to be reduced over time, as does the percentage of the GDP spent on healthcare. (Two birds with one stone.) Without that happening, we will keep ending up with a system that at best just redistributes wealth.
I am all for a safety net, and because of the nature of hiring and firing in the corporate world today I think much of that needs to be fortified. At the same time, I am not convinced that spending billions widening freeways offers the same economic value as investing in better rail systems, or that the accounting requirements to comply with FAR really add value commensurate with the benefits. Likewise, the amount of money required for filings, accounting, etc., for small businesses distracts from the value they provide.
My company is a certified "women owned" business. Three different agencies certify us! Why? What is the logic of paying taxes to the feds, state, county, and city instead of streamlining the accounting and having it broken up in one fell swoop? Why should the federal government be giving money to the state government at all? Why do government employees have better retirement benefits than anyone in the private sector?
There are plenty of places where the processes can be improved. The starting point is making a 50-year plan and working towards that every year. You update the vision statement every four or five years, but you stick with it.
Combined cycle gas turbines are more efficient than coal boilers. There are some plants that use natural gas turbines with a coal-fired booster on the heat recovery steam generator, but I am not quite sure what the logic is-- possibly just to boost capacity and efficiency in a coal-fired plant.
I kind of for that impression from the video and him repeating "this is very very fast" a few hundred times... Unless that was a code word for "bring new foul weather gear... Mine is fouled..."
Closed loop turbines are extremely inefficient. You have temperature gradients to improve efficiency, hence the cooling towers.
Burning coal is cleaner than it was 100 years ago, but you can't get around the fact that it is about 70% carbon, which results in at least 50% higher CO/CO2 emissions per energy generated. Scrubbers and SCRs also reduce efficiency, which further hurts the case for coal. Sequestration is pretty much a joke, but maybe some day something useful can be done with the co2.
Sadly, Lynx is becoming my go-to browser more and more often. Easy enough to create different instances with different settings/permissions. Haven't tried setting lynx to be my user agent string yet though and see what happens.
Advertisers don't have a right, but the content producers have some rights. Unfortunately, the anti ad-blocking systems are getting more advanced/annoying so it will be interesting to see where things go.
I am getting close to wanting to set up an ad-blocking proxy for myself rather than rely on the browser. Too many annoying little bits that I don't want to be subjected to.
Not sure what the end-game is, but I don't want to support advertising as a solution to pay content producers.
There are two ways I can think of this being a direct reaction within the timescale-- existing idled coal-fired plants / multi-source plants switching to coal, or the addition of coal fired boilers at existing plants.
I have done work in CO2 distillation plant that took feed from a nearby refinery; it is pretty hard for me to imagine carbon sequestration ever being a commercially viable means to keep coal attractive. I would have thought that in-situ gasification would have happened by now.
Whew... Good thing they would never find the NAS drive or Sheva Plug that were actually responsible for the download. (No.)
Reminder to everyone... Create a guest network with 40 bit WEP and have a NAS device with an onboard Bit Torrent client do all your dirty work.
Might as well start using strategies of real criminals if this is the response. Might get you chance at unreasonable search and seizure.