Sounds like a good idea.

If you are investing in LED lighting, which is superior to CFLs, please be sure to also match your screens with LED backlighting. You want the highest CRI on your light sources. Sunlight color temperature is 5500K, incadescent is 3300K. The post about 4200K is spot-on.

Dimmable light sources are a must.

Oh, and consider screens that are color-correct. I have 2 monitors on my desk right now and only one of them is easy to calibrate for colors properly. 42" industrial panels for the video wall will probably be more cost-effective and easy to replace without mounting headaches as the standards are well-established now.

I am designing a NOC as well, so I am looking into this as well.

That would be the silly "Legal Notice" in the local paper. It generally serves no purpose beneficial to the business owner. It helps data miners who sell this data on newly created businesses to their customers.

I've never bothered complying with that requirement when creating businesses.

A corporation would have to file that legal notice as well.

That statement likely means "You normally have to pay for it, but now you can access wsj.com at no extra charge from a Starbucks-hosted network in addition to the rest of the Internet". I don't think that's a bad thing. :)

Please see http://www.highwayrobbery.net/ for details (it's a site about how to beat these tickets).

Short version: these cameras decrease safety. Someone was kind enough to rear-end my vehicle for stopping at the end of yellow. In another case, a police vehicle nearly smashed into me. If there was no such camera, I would have behaved differently.

...in reality there are 3rd party smiley add-ons that work with IM software. You can recognize them by the "Your buddy sent you a smiley, to see it you need to install X software" type of IMs.

That software is not exactly good for your computer either.

For example: http://emoticons.smileycentral.com/yahoo-smileys.jsp

And its EULA http://helpint.mywebsearch.com/intlinfo/eula/eula.jhtml

Choice quotes from EULA

UNIFIED REGISTRATION: As a service to our users, we may consolidate registration data for Webfetti, My Fun Cards, Kazulah, Smiley Central and certain other specified websites, services or applications accessible via the Toolbar, so that users are only required to provide registration information once, and would then be able to use the same unique ID and password to access all such websites, services or applications.

Passwords. In order to access certain services, you may be required to accept additional terms and conditions and/or establish an account including an unique ID and password

After reading that EULA, which references a bunch of other EULAs... that's enough to send my head spinning.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(episode)

Brief summary -

Voyager gets stuck in the night sky of a planet and creates seismic disturbances.

The planet rapidly develops technology to blast it out of the sky.

Missiles are necessary to shoot high speed targets. A stationary target can be eliminated far less expensively. :)

So I added an article on my blog. :) http://knyshov.com/bad-business-practices/litigious-bastards-my-contribution-to-the-campaign-against-jones-day-v-blockshopper/

Well, I listen to http://di.fm/ premium stream on my Windows Mobile phone while driving. It's as simple as going to www.di.fm and selecting mp3, wma, or aac. If you are a premium subscriber, you can login and get your premium options. The thing plays using Windows Media player.

I would expect syncing up a PLS file from Shoutcast would enable similar functionality on the Apple platform.

I can also listen to SiriusXM on my phone. :)

Mine is VIKI. :)

Given fragment 0.5"x1"x2" figure out the curvature of a portion of a payload of unknown shape and size.

If that's not reverse engineering - recreating the initial object from a tiny fragment, I don't know what is. :)

Given a large quantity of misleading, inaccurate, and downright incorrect data figure out the reasons for anomalies. Sounds like reverse engineering to me.

I've read the entire article, have you?

Why is it that I always see that response?

A school is just another government institution. Every employee is employed by the government, hence is a government agent. Rights against government intervention are not waived.

You have just had an accident.
        Seven points have been temporarily
        removed...

You have one more point left on your license.

No. SGC.

Most of those who would really care about NASA have been already conditioned that Airforce == space exploration and technology assimilation.

I will be the second person to affirm that your assessment is incorrect.

The files are identical, but packaging is different. Some files are simply not included, while other features are disabled in Registry.

TabletPC and MCE are both based on XP Pro. The stated reason for disabling domain functionality in MCE, which by the way is still there and legal to use if you know how to enable it and I've done that for my clients, was to support Extenders.

Install a pure (the version systembuilders buy from distributors) OEM build of XP Home and a the same pure OEM build of XP Pro, and then compare. There will be no difference in stability.

A *lot* less.

My plan is $83.97 usd/mo with all fees and taxes.

It includes 3000 daytime minutes, unlimited Internet on handset, unlimited hotspot access, and unlimited SMS. It does not include long distance and unlimited nights and weekends airtime as I don't need them (I get 3000 minutes for the price of a 1000-minute "national" plan).

Nowadays, $99/mo is effectively unlimited everything, but fees and taxes add up to more.

I do use thousands of minutes, hence this plan is appropriate for me. Without Internet/SMS it would be $30 less. If I were to use every minute in my plan, it would effectively cost me $0.016/minute.

  At-A-Glance :
Get More 3000 plan $49.99
Unlimited Domestic Text and/or Instant Messaging $9.99
T-Mobile Total Internet Add-on $19.99
Total Due Monthly*
        $79.97

If I used less airtime, I'd use an even less expensive plan. Carriers have relatively unadvertised "regional" plans that, in my case, cover calls within California and Nevada.

In my experience, most people to whom I talk are on a wrong plan and are paying more than they could be. It can be complicated to accurately estimate the use. I routinely review my customers' bills and reconfigure their plans to save money.

In fact, I could probably drop the TXT portion of my plan and save some money, but I like to have a set not-to-exceed budget item referring to my cell phone bill.