cameldrv

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by cameldrv 18y ago
If all you want is a printer, the old HPs are really good. The Laserjet 4 in particular was a high water mark in quality. You can find them fairly cheaply, and if you fix the one problem they have (accordion jams), which is not very diffi
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by cameldrv 18y ago
Them missing the shift to software wasn't for lack of trying. They had lots of mainframe software, and then had a huge division making PC applications software in the eighties, which no one much liked. Then they made a major push with OS/
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A Colorado school district does away with grade levels(csmonitor.com)
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by cameldrv 18y ago
Interesting but I'm not sure if it's any better than digram or trigram frequency. The real difficulty of course is the k-nearest-neighbors problem when you are trying to search for the duplicate.
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by cameldrv 18y ago
Simple. Buy the iphone for $200, set aside $200 for the ETF. Your iphone is now $400. If you stay put for the two years, throw yourself a party or something.
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by cameldrv 18y ago
The reason airline pilots aren't overpaid is that the feeders to them are underpaid. An airline pilot has to spend at least 20 years before he gets to the 200k+ salary. A pilot usually has to pay for his own training up to Commercial Inst
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by cameldrv 19y ago
Or they could just get a copy of Timesprite now, which does the same thing (windows only)
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by cameldrv 20y ago
The problem is that not many people benchmark the write access time for flash. It's pretty bad, often 50ms+. There is a product I know of, the Zeus IOPS, which gets extremely fast write speeds to flash. Unfortunately it costs about $250/