No, actually at higher frequencies, the impedance of the line increases dramatically (current is only flowing on the outer surface, rather than through the entire cross-section as you would see with DC).
Little flakey, yes, but it also offers the opportunity to place "commodity" repeaters wherever you have poor signal. Much cheaper than adding another WAP.
Excel is the big stumbling block now, not Word. More and more people have shitty little VB scripts that do the "real" work within a spreadsheet. Excel creates mini-applications that include formatting, automation, etc.
The same holds true for AutoCAD; it isn't the software you buy that makes it hard to change, it is what you write in-house!
I actually take issue to the government using PDF forms; to actually save the data on a form, Joe Sixpack must purchase Acrobat! It is not a functional electronic form without that minimal level of support, so we loose some level of access to our government. Really, who has a (working) typewriter anymore?
iDVD is an application that comes bundled with apple SuperDrives. It is not freely available (update patches are, but the actual application is not).
The problem is that people are misled into believing (through the marketing) that this ability is part of their new Mac. While they might not be able to afford the super drive today, they figure that they can get that functionality later.
Technically, you are correct. The website specifically states:
The SuperDrive
iMac with SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) lets you burn your own movies and photos on a DVD that plays in almost any standard DVD player.
I think a big thing that people are forgetting is that someone estimates how much the software will cost prior to bidding the project out. When they recieve a bid lower than their estimate, two things happen:
They become unsure of how well the bidder understands the scope of work
They fear looking bad because they over-estimated the cost. The project in question may include aspects beyond what that particular bid includes, which may have been starved to cover the costs of this element.
In the example of spending an extra $10k-- their expectations (the level of interaction they will play in the ongoing development) might be high enough to warrant the additional expense.
Also, if there are multiple bids, common practice is to throw out low and high bids and work from the remaining. Ultimately, it is foolish to expect price alone to be the determining factor.
"For a long time, we kept asking cable operators to let us import our traditional business model into the broadband arena," said Lisa Hook, who oversees America Online's high-speed, or broadband, business for AOL Time Warner. "We kept saying, `Sell us wholesale access to your network and we will have the direct relationship with the customer,' " Ms. Hook recalled in an interview last week. "It became clear that that was really unknown in the cable industry, and we've realized that moving more toward an HBO model for carriage makes a lot of sense."
Boy, adapting your business model to the likings of the cable companies really sounds like a recapie for disaster! The only reason cable companies are successful is because they can extort their clients; competition for the last mile really destroys this advantage.
When there is no CD Layer you will have to get the SACD info, but you can't just take the "analog" data from the RCA jack, you have to add in a matched inductor to turn the PWM into a real analog signal!
Another good (technical) play by Sony.
But, who are we really kidding? Someone will find a way to copy them before too long.
They have compact wind power devices from Windside, a Finnish company. Their equipment regularly runs at -60C, not sure how much colder it could take, though.
For the summer, supplemental solar would work, and batteries (somehow magically kept warm) can provide a good buffer.
Actually, if they just skip the plywood and let the cube walls do their job, it will cut down on sound a lot. Problem is you want sight lines to make it look "cool," while at the same time hiding how crowded/not it is.
All the places I have seen in SE Asia have been loud and obnoxious for "adults," but I guess the "kids" like it.
Main trick would be high ceilings with acoustic tile ceilings, block line-of sight to the speakers with interior partitions, with some kind of background music and white noise. There isn't much low frequency rumble to make it too rough on whomever would use the place.
Going about it the wrong way?
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First some issues with what you have indicated:
had seriously under-estimated the cultural differences Then what are you looking for
looking at permanent work abroad for the stability and long term career path This is inconsistent with your desire to be a "world traveller."
speak basic French Took it in High School, eh?
start learning a language when I reach my destination So, what expertise do you REALLY have?
What you have failed to mention is why.
This is really important when you go to work as an expat. The term in HK was "FILTH." Failed In London, Try Hong Kong. Most of the people that end up as long-term expats are middle-aged and have personal/marital problems. While they were "failures" in London, they excelled abroad (in part) because of these problems.
In HK, an expat would make 3-4x what a local Chinese person with the same training would earn. An employer would pay the person that with certain expectations:
Better managerial skills. Some cultures don't believe in deadlines, or admitting to problems... western businesses have a much easier time relating to westerners in this regard.
Better client-relationship skills. If the "money" is from other western businesses, the expat social network is useful.
No personal life, strong work ethic. You might be paid more, but you will be working a hell of a lot more hours... or expected to be considerably more productive.
Expert. Someone who has training that far exceeds local availability, and clients that are willing to pay more for it. Look at the Oil Industry as a prime example here.
on the other hand, if you are wanting to see different cultures, you are looking at it the wrong way. If you have qualifications that can earn you some money on the side, try doing something else as your mainstay, and save the computer stuff for building relationships and managing long-term plans.
Last night, I spent an hour filling out a government form on the computer, only to find that unless I purchase the $250 Acrobat package, I couldn't save my form data!
This is exactly the reason that the government should not be using proprietary formats.
Add one more warezed copy of Acrobat to the BSA's bill!
If the company goes bust, then the players cannot contact the server and you would probably not be able to play the content that you paid for.
To this, I would add that you are never sure what you have actually purchased: With DRM it is possible for the owner to change the terms of use at a later date. Moreover, it is in the distributor's best interests to reduce what you are allowed to do over time, to continue to extort money from consumers....I mean really, isn't it only fair for you to pay The Who every time you listen to _?
This all (well, aside from the Cap'n) makes sense when you look at it as a data transfer problem, but that is what the broadcasters are afraid of!
If all a TV station is doing is sending out data for someone else to compile, they have been commoditized; they offer no more than a fat pipe to the home.
Broadcasters also stand to benefit from the proposed measure, though. Advertising is suddenly worth more because people can't time-shift commercials to obscurity.
The problem is that the whole scheme isn't relavent once people aren't forced to buy into the "prime-time" mentality. TiVo and its ilk are damaging to both broadcasters and the content providers:
Content providers don't get as much value from re-broadcasts. There's no point in showing a movie five times a weekend if everyone time-shifts it from the first broadcast.
Broadcasters don't have as much identity or cross-marketing capability when the consumer focuses on the content rather than the station that broadcasts it. If you "yank the movies out of the equation", you damage the whole precious balance; what is there to justify all these channels?!
If you want to suffer go ahead, just don't screw it up for the rest of us...
No. If you want to watch a movie with that resolution, fine. But, why should everyone else sacrifice fair-use rights so the signals can be broadcast over public airwaves?
The average household uses an average of 1kw. Of course, it depends on where you are; in California lighting loads are much lower because of local energy codes than (say) the midwest, where seeing 800 watts of lighting for a kitchen wouldn't seem that odd.
So, as a proportion of total usage, 150W is fairly large number, especially if it is continuous, and on PV/batteries.
Here's a CatEye's Stadium 3 light. It's a mountain bike light, not exactly what you would want to get, but... good for the basics:
Expensive. This thing is $400. But, it's 1/4 the power (and heat) as halogen
Big. As the parent stated, the ballast for these things is important.
Not too good on the color rendition. It's important to remember that you don't just want to look for color temperature, you also need to make sure that the light gives good color rendition; that it has good spikes not only on the blues, but also the reds and greens.
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No, actually at higher frequencies, the impedance of the line increases dramatically (current is only flowing on the outer surface, rather than through the entire cross-section as you would see with DC).
Little flakey, yes, but it also offers the opportunity to place "commodity" repeaters wherever you have poor signal. Much cheaper than adding another WAP.
If you turn it off, you aren't participating in the mesh. Don't think that is a realistic option.
Maybe a low power setting would work, though.
The cabin is pressurized, but only to 8,000ft. Basically this means that there is less O2 in the cabin than on the ground.
As for your specific concern, I wouldn't worry too much. The bigger hazard is in small fire starting and people panicing!
Excel is the big stumbling block now, not Word. More and more people have shitty little VB scripts that do the "real" work within a spreadsheet. Excel creates mini-applications that include formatting, automation, etc.
The same holds true for AutoCAD; it isn't the software you buy that makes it hard to change, it is what you write in-house!
I actually take issue to the government using PDF forms; to actually save the data on a form, Joe Sixpack must purchase Acrobat! It is not a functional electronic form without that minimal level of support, so we loose some level of access to our government. Really, who has a (working) typewriter anymore?
Technically, you are correct. The website specifically states:
They become unsure of how well the bidder understands the scope of work
They fear looking bad because they over-estimated the cost. The project in question may include aspects beyond what that particular bid includes, which may have been starved to cover the costs of this element.
In the example of spending an extra $10k-- their expectations (the level of interaction they will play in the ongoing development) might be high enough to warrant the additional expense.
Also, if there are multiple bids, common practice is to throw out low and high bids and work from the remaining. Ultimately, it is foolish to expect price alone to be the determining factor.
Boy, adapting your business model to the likings of the cable companies really sounds like a recapie for disaster! The only reason cable companies are successful is because they can extort their clients; competition for the last mile really destroys this advantage.
Mod 'im up!
Fair use isn't a valid argument against copy protection. It might be a valid argument against being sued by the DMCA, I would hope
When there is no CD Layer you will have to get the SACD info, but you can't just take the "analog" data from the RCA jack, you have to add in a matched inductor to turn the PWM into a real analog signal!
Another good (technical) play by Sony.
But, who are we really kidding? Someone will find a way to copy them before too long.
They have compact wind power devices from Windside, a Finnish company. Their equipment regularly runs at -60C, not sure how much colder it could take, though.
For the summer, supplemental solar would work, and batteries (somehow magically kept warm) can provide a good buffer.
Actually, if they just skip the plywood and let the cube walls do their job, it will cut down on sound a lot. Problem is you want sight lines to make it look "cool," while at the same time hiding how crowded/not it is.
All the places I have seen in SE Asia have been loud and obnoxious for "adults," but I guess the "kids" like it.
Main trick would be high ceilings with acoustic tile ceilings, block line-of sight to the speakers with interior partitions, with some kind of background music and white noise. There isn't much low frequency rumble to make it too rough on whomever would use the place.
had seriously under-estimated the cultural differences Then what are you looking for
looking at permanent work abroad for the stability and long term career path This is inconsistent with your desire to be a "world traveller."
speak basic French Took it in High School, eh?
start learning a language when I reach my destination So, what expertise do you REALLY have?
What you have failed to mention is why.
This is really important when you go to work as an expat. The term in HK was "FILTH." Failed In London, Try Hong Kong. Most of the people that end up as long-term expats are middle-aged and have personal/marital problems. While they were "failures" in London, they excelled abroad (in part) because of these problems.
In HK, an expat would make 3-4x what a local Chinese person with the same training would earn. An employer would pay the person that with certain expectations:
Better managerial skills. Some cultures don't believe in deadlines, or admitting to problems... western businesses have a much easier time relating to westerners in this regard.
Better client-relationship skills. If the "money" is from other western businesses, the expat social network is useful.
No personal life, strong work ethic. You might be paid more, but you will be working a hell of a lot more hours... or expected to be considerably more productive.
Expert. Someone who has training that far exceeds local availability, and clients that are willing to pay more for it. Look at the Oil Industry as a prime example here.
on the other hand, if you are wanting to see different cultures, you are looking at it the wrong way. If you have qualifications that can earn you some money on the side, try doing something else as your mainstay, and save the computer stuff for building relationships and managing long-term plans.
I recommend scuba diving personally...
That would change the polarization.
Last night, I spent an hour filling out a government form on the computer, only to find that unless I purchase the $250 Acrobat package, I couldn't save my form data!
This is exactly the reason that the government should not be using proprietary formats.
Add one more warezed copy of Acrobat to the BSA's bill!
Risk Assessment. Understand the problem and act accordingly. Sometimes, it isn't worth paying for insurance.
The problem is that too much of the equation works just like the insurance industry... just another percentage off the top.
I mean, really... if it's just like a 5% premium on all your staff salaries it isn't that big of a deal, right?
What effect would a few hundred complaints to the Better Business Bureau about not being able to get a refund when it was promised?
If the company goes bust, then the players cannot contact the server and you would probably not be able to play the content that you paid for.
...I mean really, isn't it only fair for you to pay The Who every time you listen to _?
To this, I would add that you are never sure what you have actually purchased: With DRM it is possible for the owner to change the terms of use at a later date. Moreover, it is in the distributor's best interests to reduce what you are allowed to do over time, to continue to extort money from consumers.
This all (well, aside from the Cap'n) makes sense when you look at it as a data transfer problem, but that is what the broadcasters are afraid of!
If all a TV station is doing is sending out data for someone else to compile, they have been commoditized; they offer no more than a fat pipe to the home.
The problem is that the whole scheme isn't relavent once people aren't forced to buy into the "prime-time" mentality. TiVo and its ilk are damaging to both broadcasters and the content providers:
Content providers don't get as much value from re-broadcasts. There's no point in showing a movie five times a weekend if everyone time-shifts it from the first broadcast.
Broadcasters don't have as much identity or cross-marketing capability when the consumer focuses on the content rather than the station that broadcasts it. If you "yank the movies out of the equation", you damage the whole precious balance; what is there to justify all these channels?!
If you want to suffer go ahead, just don't screw it up for the rest of us...
No. If you want to watch a movie with that resolution, fine. But, why should everyone else sacrifice fair-use rights so the signals can be broadcast over public airwaves?
The average household uses an average of 1kw. Of course, it depends on where you are; in California lighting loads are much lower because of local energy codes than (say) the midwest, where seeing 800 watts of lighting for a kitchen wouldn't seem that odd.
So, as a proportion of total usage, 150W is fairly large number, especially if it is continuous, and on PV/batteries.
Expensive. This thing is $400. But, it's 1/4 the power (and heat) as halogen
Big. As the parent stated, the ballast for these things is important.
Not too good on the color rendition. It's important to remember that you don't just want to look for color temperature, you also need to make sure that the light gives good color rendition; that it has good spikes not only on the blues, but also the reds and greens.
Good luck...
Were they installed in an air-conditioned space? Were you in warm water or cold?