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34mpg is not 'fantastic'
They're both pretty nice compact cars that get fantastic mileage (~34mpg) without any fancy hybrid stuff.
My 1994 Honda Civic VX gets between 32 (worst-ever, uphill one-way) and 62 miles per gallon (470 and 480 freeway miles round-trip). Over the last 29,242 miles, I've averaged 44.66mpg (45.37 if I correct for the larger tires that were on the car when I got it). The car has 162,000 miles, and I'm sure I'd've done better if Arizona wasn't so hilly, and if I hadn't kept the speed below 72mph for so many freeway miles (it really does get better mileage at 75mph vs 71mph, due to the change in the camshaft timing @2500rpm).
My Civic VX fuel log spreadsheet - there is a graph of MPG on sheet 3.
COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF FUEL ECONOMY IMPROVEMENTS IN 1992 HONDA CIVIC HATCHBACKS, by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
My car has a lean-burn feature, whereas the new Fit doesn't, due to pollution regulations (my car puts out extra nitrous oxides, I guess).
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Advertising & Marketing is about more than cli
Advertisers count the click through rates, but they are also interested in establishing brand impressions such that you may never click on an advert, but your mind still registers & remembers that impact. So later when you are at the store you might pass by a display and think to yourself that piece of hardware looks cool(will get you laid), is being sold for a reasonable price, the company makes quality products, or whatever bullshit. This is why retailers pipe in elevator music to try to distract shoppers so they linger & make impulse purchases when all you really want to do is buy the one thing you actually need and get the fuck out of there.
Researchers have found that slow tempo muzak can increase sales as much as 38 percent in retail stores because it encourages leisurely shopping.
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Pervasive commercial advertising, by constantly reinforcing a bogus association between consumption and happiness and by focusing on individual immediate needs, leads to a squandering of resources and stands in the way of a discussion of fundamental societal and long-term needs.
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Something's up
When I went to the site, I didn't see any watermarks in the images, which indicated to me that the Prism Coalition had fixed the problem, either by acquiring the images through the proper channels or by painstakingly editing the photos.
Then I went to the Google cache of http://www.prismcoalition.org/. The bar at the top says that the cache was made on August 23, four days before the blog post from the summary. There are not any watermarks in the Google cache. If the cache is accurate and accurately dated, then the watermarks were added and then removed sometime in the last four days. That is, if they ever were there at all.
Something fishy is going on here. In addition to the fishiness that was the original topic of discussion, I mean.
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Looks like they took down "Driver Downloads"
Compare the current page with the cache.
Looks like they took the entire "Driver Downloads" category, the one that Ubuntu was in, down.
Also, Notice what category Download.com has Ubuntu under. BIOS & System Updates, same as the Microsoft page. So I'd wager that Microsoft was using a script to aggregate download links rather than do them by hand.
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Win32 dev bad? NOT for Delphi/Kylix & Win32/Li
Well, there is Kylix (which is Delphi for Linux)!
Linux RAD/GUI Development
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Borland's Kylix allows you to (for the MOST part) easily & nearly instantly, no added work needed really (other than loading the code's text & gui's into the compiler IDE), to rather easily "port" your Win32 designed apps to Linux IF you avoid a few 'Windows specific things' like"
1.) Win32 API calls being used directly in code
2.) Windows registry work (does not exist on Linux afaik, lol)
3.) Some diff.'s/issues in the GUI interface in KDE vs. Windows (but, Kylix does the Qt lib, & Tcp/IP diff.'s that exist between Linux & Windows!)
(There may be more, but that is what I recall now...)
Keep it in mind - sometimes, having done code on Win32 OS is a GOOD THING, for rapid ports of it to Linux using Kylix (Delphi for Linux!)...
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google cache
I couldn't get to the page... here's the cache version from google: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:jT6FOBaQYw8J:
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from google cache
here is the posting from google's cache that got this started. haha
Dear Ashley Heyer,
There was no way you could've known. You had this really astoundingly good Maryland fake ID, and you were on a date with a boy who was over 21 and would show you the world of beer. Except, one hitch, me.
Something seemed wrong. Maybe it was the way the hologram reminded me of iridescent paper I had used once at an art studio, maybe it was how my old Maryland license had a bump where the rather ghetto real hologram was- and yours didn't.
So I asked you for a back-up ID. It was a NYU undergrad ID. Never the fool I asked, where did you go to high school? You replied, actually I went to school in Iowa.
Iowa.
No one from Pikesville goes to school in Iowa. I know, because I went to school with half of Pikesville. It's a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, which would also bring into question that altruistic organ donor choice. And the road, oh Ash, you couldn't have known that only rural or inner city (DC) roads are labeled like that. You definitely couldn't have guessed that I knew the road naming patterns from Pikesville, because I drove home so many kids from my high school, and developers are never creative.
You jumped to the rescue with, it's the new Maryland ID, and I said, no, it's the old one. I have the new one. You can't drink here, darling, and I'm keeping your ID.
But you went to high school in Iowa. Your father, Bradley, donated 125$ to a campaign for Iowa State House representative, republican, Carmine Boal. You were a a page at the Iowa State House for a bit too. You did grow up on 3601 NW 92nd Place-- in Polk City IA 50226.
It does have a very nice photo on it, better than the real Maryland machines take. And you were sweet and sad and smiley, in that friendly Iowa way - even though you're a republican. I'm sure you cursed me when I was out of sight.
Maybe, some day, you'll come back to the castle, when you're 21, with your totally real Iowa ID, and order that glass of Lucifer you so desire. Perhaps we can talk politics for a while. Maybe you'll know how to defend yourself.
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Re:latex
Er, most TeX-generated PS/PDF documents that I've seen print fine but look horrible on screen. IIRC, it's got something to do with them using an unusual font format.
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Re:Reasons to like Alexa?
The critics' claim is that Alexa's data is not representative, in other words the sites that choose to give Alexa their data are somehow don't represent a random sample of all the websites out there. It isn't a question of size but rather of quality.
AFAIK, Alexa statistics are generated from the browsing habits of Alexa Toolbar users and from nothing else.
In other words, the sites browsed do not talk to Alexa or Amazon.
Read what Alexa has to say in their Disclaimer.
I'll give you the quick version: Sites with less than 1,000 monthly visitors are likely to have poor statistics backing up their ranking.
I imagine Alexa has people smarter than the both of us combined working on their stats. I doubt you're going to catch them in a "gotcha!" moment. -
Re:No David, and more caveats.Even though Devon mentioned in the pilot episode it was "Completely fuel efficient"
I hope for your sake you've made that up and didn't really know that off the top of your head. Sadly, I did know that off the top of my head. Someday, I shall show you my Geek Card.
But, just to prove to myself that my memory isn't failing, I just now looked up the script that had that quote.
Knight of the Phoenix Part 1 (HTML Version) (PDF Version), Page 21 of the script, you'll find Devon's quote. Text search for the word "efficient". -
20% of Maya sales are Mac
Yes, Maya is on the Mac - but you'll be hard-pressed to find many companies using Maya on said Mac.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:pfgF8E0i5C8J:w ww.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm%3FNewsID%3D14619+ macworld+maya+mac+sales+autodesk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd= 1&gl=us
20% of Maya sales are the Mac version, according to Autodesk. (Google cache since Macworld UK is apparently down.) -
google's cache
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Re:Let's add some heat!
Wouldn't evaporating or boiling some of the water via nuclear reactors
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
Seriously do you have any idea of the amount of energy involved to do what you propose? Here's a hint: multiply 1370 W/m^2 minus 590 W/m2 by the cross sectional area of mars (around 3.6 x 10^13 m^2) to give you 2.7 x 10^16 Watts.
That's pretty much around the amount of energy you need to produce with your nuclear reactors to keep mars at around earthlike temperatures... To put this in perspective, a 1 Megaton nuclear device has a yield of around 4 x 10^15 Joules. You would need to be exploding the equivalent of 6 of these devices on the planet EVERY SECOND to generate enough energy. Then there's the problem of distributing the heat evenly... -
Are you thinking of Crimea?
There are some ancient dew collectors. Check this one.
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Re:$0.12 per episode won't work <-- yes it does
Now the numbers above are completely fictional, I have no idea what the average viewership of BSG is, or the average cost per episode. If anyone can find these two items of information, we can calculate the minimum cost per episode to a viewer for BSG to be produced. I'm guessing it'll be closer to $1.99/episode than $0.12/episode.
It's harder to do with cable than broadcast, because cable channels get per-viewer subscriber fees for their revenues in addition to advertising. The subscriber fee is for the whole channel, so they can decide how the apportion it to a particular show.
For broadcast, it's basically around 60 to 80 cents that advertisers pay per viewer for a popular show. For broadcast, a solid popular show gets around 10 million viewers. Cable ratings are much lower. Battlestar Galactica specifically gets around 2 million viewers on a good night. But since it's on cable, they can still afford it since they have those subscriber fees.
Subscriber fees for the Sci-Fi channel are 16 cents per month per subscriber, and they have 79.88 million total subscribers, so $12.8 million a month. How much of that to apportion to Battlestar Galactica? That's what makes this hard. Flat per hour division gives you roughly $18,000 per hour. Cable ad rates are like $6500 per 30-second spot (who knows if the Sci-Fi channel can command a higher rate?), and assuming about 20 paid 30 second spots per hour (don't include promos, PSAs and the like), you get $148,000 revenue for an episode of BSG.
So: ~$150,000 revenue per show / ~2 million viewers = $0.075. Seven and a half cents per viewer is what they are happy to take in to show you BSG (they haven't canceled it, so they must think it's worth it). So it seems closer to your guessed at 12 cents than the $1.99. Don't worry for the media companies, they're swimming in profits. -
Here is your stinking reference.
This so-called analysis was written by thinking of a conclusion first, then filling in the blanks. There are no citing of references to support his claims.
Google has an html version of Vista Content Crippling Spec. and points to an obfuscated version I don't care to download. More can be fond here.
The author's opinion and interpretation of the document look solid to me. There really are "tilt bits" and other concepts I checked are there. It goes a long way to explaining Vista's reported bugs, bloat and lack of drivers for existing equipment. None of it changes the bottom line, M$ is the only thing that's going to fall down the "analog hole".
Debating the details is pointless because the results are already in. The specifics of the "secure path" implementations can only provide amusement. Everyone said it was going to fail and it has already in Windows Media Center and other equipment critics have panned and no one is buying. Vista has much the same in store, it's not going to work and people are not going to buy it.
People are going to avoid Vista and are going to be very pissed as M$ "updates" remove functionality from XP, which will never be allowed to view "premium" content.
The only winners will be content providers that avoid the whole mess. Movie and music publishers who provide DRM free media are going make a lot of money while the majors continue to insult and sue their shrinking fan base.
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Clarification of SMB support/FUDThe "25 Shortcomings of Vista" reeks of misconceptions or even just plain outright lies. I'm just going to pick out one that is, as you said, purely speculative. I have a samba server setup at home on Gentoo and I can access it just fine from linux. WinXP can access my Vista PC fine, as can my samba server mount and use a share I setup on Vista.
Also, #18:Buried Controls
Many options and controls are further buried, requiring a half-dozen mouse clicks or more to get to. Network settings and display settings are offenders here.
Funny, some might have said the same thing in WinXP, until they realized there is a classic view. Vista also has this classic view.
And, #25:WordPad
Ability to open .doc files has been removed.
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open .doc files? I can't even believe they would list this as a shortcoming. When people want to open .doc files, they use the obvious program: Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Besides, even when you could open .doc files in WordPad, it never opened them correctly - if the document contains images of any kind, don't count on viewing them, and it never got table data aligned correctly.
#8:Activation
The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
I suppose the author of the article missed the article on their own website about key management servers, and also on the Microsoft support website, which states:Key Management Service
Your organization can host the Key Management Service (KMS) internally to automatically activate computers running Windows Vista. To use the KMS, you must have a minimum of 25 computers running Windows Vista that are connected together. Computers that have been activated through KMS will be required to reactivate by connecting to your organization's network at least every six months.
Currently the KMS software runs on a local computer running Windows Vista or the Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" operating system. In the future, it will run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system.
Last but not least, #6:Memory
Vista loves RAM, but more is better. Plan on 2 Gbytes to meet real-world needs.
No... just, no. Vista does use more RAM than WinXP, but why do you think that is? That's right, Aero and the Windows Sidebar. Between those two, I'm using a whopping 48 megs of RAM. You can always turn them off if your system is strapped for RAM. Right now my system is sitting at 696MB usage, which might seem like a lot, until you read that 452MB of that is for cache. So, I'm really only using 244MB. -
Clarification of SMB support/FUDThe "25 Shortcomings of Vista" reeks of misconceptions or even just plain outright lies. I'm just going to pick out one that is, as you said, purely speculative. I have a samba server setup at home on Gentoo and I can access it just fine from linux. WinXP can access my Vista PC fine, as can my samba server mount and use a share I setup on Vista.
Also, #18:Buried Controls
Many options and controls are further buried, requiring a half-dozen mouse clicks or more to get to. Network settings and display settings are offenders here.
Funny, some might have said the same thing in WinXP, until they realized there is a classic view. Vista also has this classic view.
And, #25:WordPad
Ability to open .doc files has been removed.
Are they serious? Who the hell uses WordPad to open .doc files? I can't even believe they would list this as a shortcoming. When people want to open .doc files, they use the obvious program: Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Besides, even when you could open .doc files in WordPad, it never opened them correctly - if the document contains images of any kind, don't count on viewing them, and it never got table data aligned correctly.
#8:Activation
The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
I suppose the author of the article missed the article on their own website about key management servers, and also on the Microsoft support website, which states:Key Management Service
Your organization can host the Key Management Service (KMS) internally to automatically activate computers running Windows Vista. To use the KMS, you must have a minimum of 25 computers running Windows Vista that are connected together. Computers that have been activated through KMS will be required to reactivate by connecting to your organization's network at least every six months.
Currently the KMS software runs on a local computer running Windows Vista or the Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" operating system. In the future, it will run on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system.
Last but not least, #6:Memory
Vista loves RAM, but more is better. Plan on 2 Gbytes to meet real-world needs.
No... just, no. Vista does use more RAM than WinXP, but why do you think that is? That's right, Aero and the Windows Sidebar. Between those two, I'm using a whopping 48 megs of RAM. You can always turn them off if your system is strapped for RAM. Right now my system is sitting at 696MB usage, which might seem like a lot, until you read that 452MB of that is for cache. So, I'm really only using 244MB. -
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So rather than wait for this blogger to cave into some asshat's demands, we smoke his server utterly. Nice. -
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Google cache links:
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So rather than wait for this blogger to cave into some asshat's demands, we smoke his server utterly. Nice. -
Re:US DOJ saysGee, why ever would someone from The City misread the Second like that. I'm sure it's never happened before!
All you have to do is consider why the states would need such an amendment in the first place. There is no need for the Second to preform that task as the Tenth already does so:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Furthermore, the creation of state "militias" can be handled under Article I, Section 10:No state shall, without consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace...
And now some quotes on the subject:
No free man shall be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson, Proposal for a Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
"Letters from the Federal Farmer" (Pamphlet, 1788)
The great object is that ever man be armed.
Patrick Henry
Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Federal Constitution
The people are confirmed by the next article in the right to keep and bear their private arms.
Federal Gazette June 18, 1789 (describing Madison's proposal for a Bill of Rights)
We have found no historical evidence that the Second Amendment was intended to convey
militia power to the states, limit the federal government's power to maintain a standing
army, or applies only to members of a select militia while on active duty.
All of the evidence indicates that the Second Amendment, like other parts of the Bill of Rights, applies
to and protects individual Americans. We find that the history of the Second Amendment reinforces the plain meaning of its text, namely that it protects individual Americans in their right to keep and bear arms whether or
not they are a member of a select militia or performing active military service or training.
We reject the collective rights and sophisticated collective rights models for interpreting the
Second Amendment. We hold, consistent with Miller, that it protects the right of individuals,
including those not then actually a member of any militia or engaged in active military
service or training, to privately possess and bear their own firearms, such as the pistol
involved here, that are suitable as personal, individual weapons and are not of the general
kind or type excluded by Miller. However, because of our holding that section 922(g)(8), as
applied to Emerson, does not infringe his individual rights under the Second Amendment
we will not now further elaborate as to the exact scope of all Second Amendment rights.
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In light of the proceeding, please pray tell how people with your world view invent this collective right hogwash. There is no evidence from the time period suggesting it, there is no way to correctly read the sentence that will support it. So please, tossing aside for a moment the relative crime statistics involved, what is the basis of your logic? Are you aware of some super secret Federalist paper that says: "Oh yeah, that Second amendment thing doesn't really mean what it says. It really means something totally different and inconsistent with the language of the rest of the Constitution. Feel free to ignore it at will." -
Re:Asshats
Clearly some reasonable talent went into the game, but i doubt i will get much replay value out of it, as its essentially a beefed up version of Scorched Earth, so itll really be the same game over and over again, therefore killing its value.
Totally off topic, but Scorched 3D has to be almost as addicting as the original (though it takes a little longer to get the hang of it). Best of all, it's free, open source, and available for just about any OS you prefer.
Of course, I try to shill this game, and the site is down. Go to the Google cache for download links. -
Graduation Bonu$
We should give kids who graduate highschool on time a $1000 bonus, cash, no strings attached. They can spend it on college, a car, gas, CDs, or crack (as long as they don't get caught), whatever. Maybe kids who graduate only a year late can get $500.
It costs over $30K:y to jail people. Plus the damage they did to go to jail. Plus the lost productivity from them both while commiting crimes and in jail. Plus their reduced productivity with jail on their career record. Plus the lost productivity policing, judging and jailing them. All deducted from their value producing even $30K:y at a job, without consuming justice system resources. By the time you account for the two parallel lives, we're probably saving at least $50K:y, maybe $100K:y, for every kid who gets a legit job instead of a criminal career, for probably at least 2-5 years per person. So every $1000 kid kept straight saves probably $300K - paying for 299 kids who got their bonus who would have stayed straight anyway. Those kids get to reinvest the money in something productive (except the tiny percentage who will spend it on crack).
We graduate about 3M kids from HS every year in the US. Even if the stats in this article we're discussing weren't a 31% dropout rate just in "the nation's 100 largest public school districts", but nationwide, that means a maximum of under 4.5M kids getting a maximum of $1K each, which would cost $4.5B a year. The extra $9K a year more than dropouts that HS grads earn would pay back the $1K right away; if the dropout rate were lowered only 5 points, they'd still pay back the program in 7 years. And that's before counting the societal savings in working instead of going to jail.
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Re:LinuxBIOS has a problem
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Re:IMO, a step towards improving our educationBy the way, the teachers in my State (Illinois) are incredibly paid for the work they perform. They keep saying they're doing it for the children, but they're the first to picket when their pay doesn't meet what they expect.
Oh, those greedy teachers! How dare they!
Nevermind that teachers work far more than 40 hours a week, and have to put up with far more shit than most of the rest of us have to put up with, all while supporting the future of our communities.
BTW, just to inject some reality into this discussion:Only about a dozen of the National Education Association's 14,000 locals have gone on strike since the start of [the 2005] school year, according to the nation's largest teachers' union [as of November 2005].
source. I guess a 0.09% strike rate is still too high, though, since seeing people exercise their collective bargaining rights is anathema to you. -
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Re:It seems the article has been taken down.
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Re:No offense...
This is worse than fighting random wars? I don't hear about this telescope killing a few dozen Americans per week.
Please. We must support the troops. If you don't stand with them, you stand against them.
The $14M spent on Arecibo could be spent to support the troops in Iraq. Sure, some of that spending doesn't actually go over to Iraq, but that ignores the way things get done in our system. Without proper motivation, our national leadership is unable to focus on getting the job done.
It is cut and runners like you who are sap our legislative will to fight. Democrats know how sensitive Republicans are to criticism. Congress would have done better, if it weren't for unpatriotic people who don't support our troops.
But we shall stay the course: freedom is on the march. -
Re:Setting up the Nvidia drivers
Gentoo always struck me as the ultimate loser distro. You know like the losers who stick neonlights underneath their honda civic and then proudly display kanji stickers on their rearwindow upside down, because kanji is k3w1, but they don't know what it is.
Well yeah, everyone knows that Gentoo is for ricers. -
Link?
Not sure if the link is broke or if it's my work proxy but here's the Google Cache.
More on topic, most people won't/don't leave due to funds of moving. The closest place I'd venture most would move to is Canada. -
Re:I have a Vision
Do you mean airdropped or just airlifted (parachute vs slingload under a helo)? I saw plenty slingloaded, but never saw anything but "soft" material airdropped.
I have been told that the machines were airdropped, but I don't have any personal experience with this, so take it with a grain of salt. A helicopter airlift would make a rather juicy target, so you'd have to make sure the area was secure before you tried to airlift anything in.
FYI, the military does airdrop some rather hard items, including construction machinary, tanks, humvees, etc. Most of these are dropped using a low-level extraction airdrop vs. the far rougher high-altitude airdrops. -
$769 too!
Are they also happy about paying the equivalent to $769 USD and between $86 and $93 per game? See http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:LJb_-pNG69gJ:
w ww.ps3land.com/article-409.php+ps3+game+price+euro &hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a for details on that!
With another controller you are hitting almost $1000 USD for a game system with one game! I know I can't justify that and I make $130k USD a year.
And don't give me that baloney that it includes a "BluRay" player. Its not what people are buying right now. -
Re:Are you sure about that?
And stop with the Rhode Island comparisons already. According to this page, the area of the UK is "43,000 sq. km. (93,000 sq. mi.); slightly smaller than Oregon." Oregon is the 9th largest state out of the 50.
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Re:China Is a Potential Trade Partner
I hate reading stuff like this, especially when it is marked as a 5. "Well, that jamming station must not have worked well and I highly doubt it was put there by the Russians. I cannot think of a clear motive for it. Probably sold as surplus or exchanged for payment by a disgruntled soldier and found its way to Iraq." Google's cache of Space.com Why don't you look for one second besides idly speculating, and, in this case, being totally wrong in your assumptions. It was only three years ago!
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OPM
Look up Vista Output Protection Management
I'm sorry, but its not not your computer anymore. Its a Microsoft Appliance. You have no right to complain when you know that your new computer runs Windows XP/Vista. Deal with it.
Have a DRM quote from Microsoft:
Enable the PC to play premium content in 2006 and beyond
Have a link:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:hr1bH0lVtt0J:d ownload.microsoft.com/download/9/8/f/98f3fe47-dfc3 -4e74-92a3-088782200fe7/TWEN05006_WinHEC05.ppt+Mic rosoft+OPM+secure+path&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
Again, it's not your PC, its Microsofts.
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Re:Wrong manualThat's the triton manual. The one mentioned in TFA was a Tranax.
http://www.wegrowbusiness.ca/manuals/Tranax_MB_Op
e rator_Manual.pdfor from google cache
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Japan is way ahead of the US
Japan is a fiercely competitive DSL market. The CEO of Softbank forced the government to open the market in 1999 and came in with a low price and faster service than the incumbent, NTT. Japanese users can get DSL with 50Mbps down and now 12 Mbps up for about $40/month. Because of the DSL competition, companies started rolling out fiber. In Japan, you can get 100Mbps fiber to your house for $50/month.
The interesting thing is that the government there sees the value in having a strong, competitive market for broadband. Here is a link to a MITI presentation on Japan and broadband.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:fs0SbhXsEj0J:w ww.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/POL0610A.pps +japanese+p2p+traffic+statistics&hl=en&gl=us&ct=cl nk&cd=14 -
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After we make eye contact in the mirror, my cat will turn its head away to look at my _actual_ face.
Yes, I've seen cats do this many times. However, the fact that cats can recognize their owners and other objects in mirrors does nothing to answer the question of whether the cat has primate-level self-awareness. As I said earlier, it doesn't need to see its own image at all in order to react to you. I suggest reading here for more elaboration. Scroll down to the part where "mirror" is highlighted a bunch of times. -
Nothing new: simple Linear controllerThis is engineering 301 and nothing new. Here's a paper that shows the control algorithm and details of the Ballbot. Here's the PDF version. They're using a simple linear model; nothing new.
They could make it really robust and easier to develop had they used a fuzzy logic controller. But that would be a little too imaginative for American engineers. The Japanese have been doing stuff like this for more than 20 years. Some old American guy rolls a bowling ball across the floor, calls it a "Ballbot", and everyone jumps up and shouts.
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Re:Underwhelming
When I saw the article, I thought it was about an actual magnetic field bed, not just a floating mattress. You could levitate a person in a magnetic field of a few hundred Tesla or so, though perhaps a million euros might be cheap for that much magnetism
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Re:Yup,, Scientology
Clearwater is a hotbed of Scientology controversy. I half expected to see Dr. Brian Zwan (google cache) on the Board of Directors at Robotic Parking. Seems like businesses in Clearwater are required to have the corporate motto "Do Evil."
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Re:19 years - hospital?
This guy was recently featured in an often-repeated Discovery Health special about coma & brain damage. "The Man Who Slept for 19 Years"
DHC website doesn't have a lot on it, but this guy's http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:fl6GNF-iDgsJ:n athanjones.blogspot.com/2005/03/man-who-slept-for- 19-years.html+%22discovery+health+channel%22+%22Th e+Man+Who+Slept+for+19+Years%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=cln k&cd=3 blog [google cache copy] describes it pretty well. I don't recall if they specifically said for this guy, but the other patients in that show were in JFK Medical Center, NJ.
This show was done shortly after he woke up about 2 years ago. At that point, he had come out of his 19 year coma, and refused to beleive any time had passed. He thought Reagan was still President, and he was still 19 and able-bodied. Every day was the same, and he had no learned memory. Like the blog says, every day was "groundhog day".
Apparently, his family refused to give up on him, and dragged his limp body around to family events - even hunting and fishing trips. - I think this is odd, but amazing. I doubt I could have this much faith.
Really creepy was how his 19 year old daughter was dealing. Since he thought he was still 19, his 40-ish ex-wife (she gave up and moved on) wasn't anything he was interested in. He was flirting with the daughter, though. She was uncomfortable, but knows that Dad doesn't realize what he is doing.
NYTimes also picked the current story up. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/health/psycholog y/04coma.html?hp&ex=1152072000&en=31378eedf4a85e5c &ei=5094&partner=homepage Pictures and other links there. -
Re:largest in history?
I don't have time to search for the definitive answer to your question but I'm quite sure that the Gates Foundation (without Buffett's additional dollars) is many times larger in real dollars than the Rockefeller and/or Carnegie Foundation. I did find one article that makes reference to this at: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:oelJzbzrqKwJ:
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Re:Hype, hype, hype and even more hype
The best quote therefrom:
When Occam's razor is used on Web 2.0 all you are left with is a shred of pink cotton shirt and Web 1.0. That's when the dimensions come back together and reality is normalized to what it was before all this idiotic social "technology" nonsense.
Gives you the warm fuzzies, doesn't it?
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MAD TV episode here
The video is here.
Favorite lines are...
Fighter1: I came for a new life.
Fighter2: I make and sell soap.
Fighter1: Thanks - my life has meaning now.
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Re:Quoting is good! [Cache of link]