In India, student loans are 12% compound interest; while the borrowing rate in good banks is as high as 7.5% compunded quarterly.Money makes the world go round...
Yes and India's inflation rate is 8.3% (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html) and has been as high as 11% within the past year, but even at 8.3% that makes the real interest rate less than 4%.
I work in Jersey City in a skyscraper right at the bottom of the Hudson across from downtown Manhattan. I could see the plane that crashed into the Hudson from my desk.
Today was very different. Before I even saw it, it sounded like this plane was about to crash right into our building or one of the ones next to us. Then as it made multiple passes by the Statue of Liberty, accompanied by a military jet, it passed barely over our building. The first time it came by, people in my office were ducking and diving to the ground before everyone evacuated down 30+ floors via the stairs. There were people that had to be treated by paramedics because they suffered injuries due to the chaos occurring.
I'm not sure who was in charge of this, but this is absolutely unacceptable. Hopefully they'll be out a job.
This really depends on the company you work for. Many companies block all e-mailing, or in some industries such as Banking, it's mandated by law.
The key thing is to get your work done and don't send stupid shit like the Paris Hilton video via e-mail. Most companies accept e-mail as a communication tool, and don't have a problem with you sending an e-mail that says "I'm working til 6, let's meet at 6:30 at XYZ restaurant for dinner." What they're monitoring is inter-office relationships, confidential information or other things that will become a problem for a company and will result in your firing.
The main thing to ask yourself when you send an e-mail is "Is there anything in this e-mail I'd be embarassed about or nervous about if my boss read it?"
While the video drivers should just work and probably will for most people. I had a different experience, after the upgrade(which I did on Sunday) was done it prompted me to reboot, after I did this it went to grub, and then the ubuntu screen with the loading status bar. Afterwards I got a black screen on my laptop. Rebooted, same thing. Plugged it into my dock to try that, and the monitor didn't receive a signal. The only thing I could do was get into recovery mode and get to the console.
I would recommend that before you upgrade, and just in general, you burn a live CD, so that if something wrong you have a way of at least connecting to the internet and getting to ubuntu forums. I actually had to use my Wii to post to the ubuntu forums where someone was able to give me an hpkg reconfigure command that I could use in recovery mode. Wasn't too fun typing on my Wii.
If only they would recall my crappy thinkpad battery. When it was a year old it would barely hold a charge for a half hour with screen resolution all the way down and wifi. It is pretty much completely worthless now (2 years old), if the power cord becomes disconnected while it's on it immediately shuts down.
As someone currently working and typing this from my office building in Boston, I'm a bit worried about this. I've already had enough nightmares working in Boston with the tunnel collapsing, and there's enough corruption even beyond the big dig. No matter who ends up trying to implement this it's going to cost a lot of money, which Boston has already spent way too much of. I heard on the radio this morning that Boston is going to start fining non Boston residents that are at fault for accidents in Boston because of the police that are then needed to direct traffic when an accident happens. This is to generate a couple million a year. If they're that desperate for money they don't need a Wi-Fi.
Is anybody else also worried about the security implications of this. How long til someone just sits in Post Office Square running Cain and Able on their laptop just packet sniffing every worker that takes advantage of this free Wi-Fi. I know that there are ways to protect this, but it seems like it could be a major problems for the IT forces at large companies.
We have a course almost identical to this at RPI. Intro to Embedded Control, where we use an Intel 8051 microprocessor to program a robot to follow a white strip of tape around a course using IR LEDs and sensors. Hell, I remember doing stuff like this 10 years ago with a set of legos at an after school program at a nearby tech HS.
My intro to CS (I'm actually EE/CSE dual not CS) classes focused on the basic of programming with C++ including how the compiler worked etc, and then got into more complicated algorithms. The only debugging that was taught was the fact that you had to debug your programs when you did them wrong.
There's no way that video game companies are going to take the time to do this for every game, especially considering the fact that only some parts will be upgraded while some will look like the shitty blocks they were originally.
You will definately see some of the classics re-released with this technology because it will be a way to actual increase revenue and profits without being too much work. People want to play classic games like Zelda with modern graphics, I doubt there will be the same interest in 'Echo the Dolphin'.
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In India, student loans are 12% compound interest; while the borrowing rate in good banks is as high as 7.5% compunded quarterly.Money makes the world go round...
Yes and India's inflation rate is 8.3% (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html) and has been as high as 11% within the past year, but even at 8.3% that makes the real interest rate less than 4%.
Well, I don't know about cool, but you certainly have the colder job.
I work in Jersey City in a skyscraper right at the bottom of the Hudson across from downtown Manhattan. I could see the plane that crashed into the Hudson from my desk.
Today was very different. Before I even saw it, it sounded like this plane was about to crash right into our building or one of the ones next to us. Then as it made multiple passes by the Statue of Liberty, accompanied by a military jet, it passed barely over our building. The first time it came by, people in my office were ducking and diving to the ground before everyone evacuated down 30+ floors via the stairs. There were people that had to be treated by paramedics because they suffered injuries due to the chaos occurring.
I'm not sure who was in charge of this, but this is absolutely unacceptable. Hopefully they'll be out a job.
Double ain't what it used to be, that's why I've moved on to BigDecimal.
This really depends on the company you work for. Many companies block all e-mailing, or in some industries such as Banking, it's mandated by law.
The key thing is to get your work done and don't send stupid shit like the Paris Hilton video via e-mail. Most companies accept e-mail as a communication tool, and don't have a problem with you sending an e-mail that says "I'm working til 6, let's meet at 6:30 at XYZ restaurant for dinner." What they're monitoring is inter-office relationships, confidential information or other things that will become a problem for a company and will result in your firing.
The main thing to ask yourself when you send an e-mail is "Is there anything in this e-mail I'd be embarassed about or nervous about if my boss read it?"
While the video drivers should just work and probably will for most people. I had a different experience, after the upgrade(which I did on Sunday) was done it prompted me to reboot, after I did this it went to grub, and then the ubuntu screen with the loading status bar. Afterwards I got a black screen on my laptop. Rebooted, same thing. Plugged it into my dock to try that, and the monitor didn't receive a signal. The only thing I could do was get into recovery mode and get to the console.
I would recommend that before you upgrade, and just in general, you burn a live CD, so that if something wrong you have a way of at least connecting to the internet and getting to ubuntu forums. I actually had to use my Wii to post to the ubuntu forums where someone was able to give me an hpkg reconfigure command that I could use in recovery mode. Wasn't too fun typing on my Wii.
If only they would recall my crappy thinkpad battery. When it was a year old it would barely hold a charge for a half hour with screen resolution all the way down and wifi. It is pretty much completely worthless now (2 years old), if the power cord becomes disconnected while it's on it immediately shuts down.
As someone currently working and typing this from my office building in Boston, I'm a bit worried about this. I've already had enough nightmares working in Boston with the tunnel collapsing, and there's enough corruption even beyond the big dig. No matter who ends up trying to implement this it's going to cost a lot of money, which Boston has already spent way too much of. I heard on the radio this morning that Boston is going to start fining non Boston residents that are at fault for accidents in Boston because of the police that are then needed to direct traffic when an accident happens. This is to generate a couple million a year. If they're that desperate for money they don't need a Wi-Fi.
Is anybody else also worried about the security implications of this. How long til someone just sits in Post Office Square running Cain and Able on their laptop just packet sniffing every worker that takes advantage of this free Wi-Fi. I know that there are ways to protect this, but it seems like it could be a major problems for the IT forces at large companies.
Windows, IIS, MS SQL Server, ASP.net WIMA?
We have a course almost identical to this at RPI. Intro to Embedded Control, where we use an Intel 8051 microprocessor to program a robot to follow a white strip of tape around a course using IR LEDs and sensors. Hell, I remember doing stuff like this 10 years ago with a set of legos at an after school program at a nearby tech HS.
My intro to CS (I'm actually EE/CSE dual not CS) classes focused on the basic of programming with C++ including how the compiler worked etc, and then got into more complicated algorithms. The only debugging that was taught was the fact that you had to debug your programs when you did them wrong.
There's no way that video game companies are going to take the time to do this for every game, especially considering the fact that only some parts will be upgraded while some will look like the shitty blocks they were originally. You will definately see some of the classics re-released with this technology because it will be a way to actual increase revenue and profits without being too much work. People want to play classic games like Zelda with modern graphics, I doubt there will be the same interest in 'Echo the Dolphin'.
I go to RPI, and I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Where are these tiles with letters?