Well, the author of the article failed to mention that all pictures, videos and any information gathered won't be released to the public until there are hundreds of requests via FOIA, which they will fight and maybe not ever release for years, if ever, anyway! Don underestimate this "spill", it could be of apocalypse scale and severity. This one could end a lot more than we think, and the media is not exactly making a huge deal out of it.
http://www.helium.com/items/1864136-how-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millions Now this is an interesting theory. The probability of course is unknown. Any thoughts from geologists who are experts on the gulf sea floor or with enough knowledge they could call themselves an expert witness, might shed some light.
And, well Sarah Palin is calling for "divine intervention" on her twitter feed....damn if only she were president things would really be moving along....hah.
HP consumables (i.e.: ink cartridges) were the most profitable division in HP for a long time (probably still is). Just read old analyst reports.
HP consumables (i.e.: ink cartridges) also are very profitable for retailers, with a very high profit margin per square foot. Ask any electronics buyer or global sourcing veep.
The packaging costs is more than the ink (cartridge with proprietary IC and nice color box). Many printer manufacturers sold printers at zero margin or a LOSS, in order to get that ink consuming box (i.e.: printer) into the hands of the consumer so they will buy the ink. Must be quite embarrassing to actually bold face lie about it! Get an equity analyst asking the same question, and the answer is going to be lot different!!!
I think a lot of people posting have taken the referral to Xbox, Playstation and iPads out of context. Let's have a look at the quotes again:
1. "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.
This is referring to the "information", which I understand to be the INFORMATION that one receives from browsing the web, get news feeds (from any source out there), watching videos (again, from any source), etc.
2. He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.
I understand this to mean anything that did not come from mass media (i.e.: TV), is a "crazy claim".
3. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
I think that kind of pressure is good. The pressure for real information to get out there, information that is true or partially true, but ignored by the mass media. In fact this is putting pressure where it should be, on our politicians to start behaving...........
This is very heartwarming. It is about time we had some media consolidation. It will surely help remove the bias stemming from the extremely fragmented ownership and production base of the mainstream media of today.........
It is interesting when you consider that there are less than 6000 board seats on the fortune 500, less than 15% are women, less than 8% are African Americans. These 6000 people now have the power to spend on direct adveIt is interesting when you consider that there are less than 6000 board seats on the fortune 500, less than 15% are women, less than 8% are African Americans. These 6000 people now have the power to spend on direct advertising to swing votes to candidates that they support.
These 6000 people already had the power of free speech (to spend their own money if they pleased, and they all get a vote).
Now, our politicians get to beg to these 6000 people (on hands and knees) to back them with advertising. Is that really what we needed?rtising to swing votes to candidates that they support.
These 6000 people already had the power of free speech (to spend their own money if they pleased, and they all get a vote).
Now, our politicians get to beg to these 6000 people (on hands and knees) to back them with advertising. Is that really what we needed?
Here is a synopsis for ya:
Every single citizen above the age of 18 has a right to free speech both with their pocket book and their vote.
Now corporations and unions are made of what? Citizens and non-citizens (shareholders, board of directors, managers, employees). How corporations money is spent on campaigns and politicians is normally limited to board level decisions (the deciding power of usually no more than 20 people in a corporation). So, in effect we are giving these 20 people of each corporation extra dollar votes. They are able to spend other people's money (shareholders money), in effect "speech" twice! Once for themselves and once again for themselves using other people's money. Why do we feel the need to let these 20 or so board members get extra spending power. If those 20 want to spend on campaigns why don't they all pool their bonuses and buy an advertisement? Why is it they are able to spend shareholder money on campaigns? We are just giving them more power, its a beautiful coup for the people who control the corporations in the US, they now get more swing power with mass opinion. And oh yeah, and do you think that when Citibank or Exxon's big Saudi shareholders tell the board who they want in office and the company really should run some ads for that politician, do you think they will do it? That's right, we now have more foreign interest swaying public opinion.
Next, if corporations really are people and get to spend whatever they like, we might as well let them vote, oh yeah, how many votes do they get? I suggest everyone write your congressman and senators and bitch about this one. It is so much bigger than everybody thinks.
Hey, its worth watching to see whether some predator evolves that wants to eat the lancewood tree. Plantae could have premonition and fork the universe to save their kind! Please just don't tell my wife, she slammed me yesterday for "not knowing what she's thinking" because we've been together for almost 10 years.......Don't want her to know that even plants are more sensitive than us men.
Note that some of the biggest corruption I have seen in China are orchestrated with the help of US and other foreign investors, corporations, etc.
Take for example a large NASDAQ listed company, that was under internal investigation last year. I can't name names, but this is second hand knowledge from someone I know involved as a customer to this company and questioned in the investigation. Here goes:
1. NASDAQ listed company founders and management write a huge option on their shares with a foreign bank. The shares are in lockup and due to be able to float in 6 months. The price that the bank pays, is based on a price they can sell (estimated) at the end of the lockup period in 6 months.
2. Investigation begins, because of revenues being booked through companies the auditors (and competitors) have never heard of. It comes to light in the investigation, that the revenues are actually the proceeds from the share option sale (management and founders), to drive up stock price before the end of the lockup period.
3. Underwriters, major investors (big names in US and Europe, can't say the names here) are all aware. Auditors are paid off. One board seat is changed. The truth is buried. The news never comes out because too many investors, banks would get burned.
4. Stock still flying to this day. Fact is the company is a great model, but a big part of the accelerated growth prior to lockup expiring was fraud. Investors, bankers, underwriters knew it. Corruption on a mass scale involving US and European banks and investors.
So, this is why I call China "the wild east". Things can go very backward fast and it is very hard to see the "real" picture in anything you do here.
That being said, there are companies, like GE, that do very well in China while staying for the most part very "clean". It is not impossible to succeed in China without being corrupt. But the stories of corruption I have heard involving foreigners number at least on par with those involving locals only.............its a human disease not a "communist" or "socialist" or even "democratic" problem.....its human.
These are flawed numbers. In China according to 2007 corporate law foreigners can own 100% of technical/services firms, trading companies, factories, and a whole lot more. Please see my other post in the parent discussion for details on how any limitations still lingering in the law can be worked around legally.
OK, I see a lot of posts here with some misleading info. Just to clear the air:
1. Foreign companies can own 100% of China enterprises (in some industries), and this is called a WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise)
2. For any company to operate a web site in China, they need an ICP (Internet Content Provider) license.
3. Only domestic PRC entities (citizens), can get an ICP license (any foreign ownership and ICP license cannot be issued)
4. There are ways around #2+#3, through a legal loophole which is quite simply, a) the foreign company has their in country manager or other domestic person setup a 100% domestic owned PRC company to get the ICP license. b) the foreign company has a proxy agreement and share pledge with the "official" shareholder(s) of that PRC domestic company which are side contracts giving control and management of the domestic company to the foreign owned (WOFE) of the foreign investors. c) The WOFE also has a contract with the PRC company to extract all revenue out through a "technical services and management agreements". d) The WOFE then is able to book all the revenue from the company, making it a synthetic subsidiary and thus getting around all the laws forbidding foreign investment in the PRC company. (interesting note, this structure was designed in the 70's to get around foreign investment limitations in petrochemical industries, and is now used by all the major internet and game companies listed abroad, ie: tom.com, sina.com, snda.com, Google, Yahoo etc.)
5. The telcos here (China Netcom and China Telecom) often seem to re-direct traffic as the post claims. I have seen google.com traffic redirected for an entire weekend to 114.cn, which is China Telecom's lame search engine! Baidu.com redirect I see much less often. There are also many others for instance ALL traffic was redirecting to Yahoo.cn on my cable broadband connection from my house yesterday, no idea why Yahoo.cn, but it was.
6. A lot of traffic to the China internet portal kings is fake, by fake think how gold farming in MMOGs works, people playing for gold and getting paid 0.50 cents an hour to play in China. I have heard *rumors* from insider friends saying that many portals pay people the equivalent to click on links all day.....think market cap and ad revenue reporting.....it would not surprise me in the least but I can't say I have seen it personally.
It always amazes me how technology on the cutting edge http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1473839 like this are utilized via commonly available commodity products by clever retailers. Unfortunately this seems to be another lack of support and customer service that ultimately scares the consumer away from these fabulous new technologies. I hope Best Buy learns that they really need to up the bar on customer service and support for these new technologies. I'm sure that Best Buy made the common profit driven mistake and did not include a cable to connect the memory tiles to the computer. As with HDTV's and lack of HDMI cables bundled with TV's at the retail level, they surely sell the memory tile cable at an extortionate markup, again scaring the consumer away from these wonderful new technologies. Of course I'm sure Best Buy support offered to send out the Geek Squad to fix the problem, but the cost to this poor consumer would be more than the item itself for the Geek Squad genius to configure the memory tiles, and that also required a 20 year service agreement sign up (including automatically signing up the consumer to MSN dialup account for life . Last but not least, I hope they branded with their private label to retain that customer marketing edge! Overall, I still give Best Buy the highest mark for running such a great company, good for the consumer, good for the economy, go Best Buy!
Well, I have been amazed that a company that has snapped up more genius talent than any other on the planet the past few years could not get its head around IMAP. I mean....WOW!
Its been my biggest complaint about Gmail. I think I wrote in a suggestion 5 minutes after I got my first Gmail account when it was limited to those invitees for "BETA" (which it still says BETA what's with that crazy silly marketing BS anyway....is someone in love with the word BETA over there?)
Unfortunately, my account does not have IMAP option, go figure.....
1) drag raced on public roads starting at 15 years of age for 3 years after almost every weekend. 2) canyon raced through the Colorado Rockies at least once a month on motorcycles, in a souped up Datsun 240Z, in compact cars, in a surburban. 3) always had fast cars and motorcycles and driven them at speeds much higher than the speed limit often (in over a dozen countries over a decade) 4) driven a route on public highways in Taiwan from Taipei to Kenting (where road conditions and traffic much worse than average US highways) in my highly modified 1994 3.8L BMW M5 and my friend's Porche 996 topping 220KPH many many times over the course of 3 years. 5) NEVER BEEN IN an accident while driving (only when others are driving have I actually been in an accident).
I'm 37 now, I've kind of grown out of all that. But I can tell you, yes I believe that Roy planned a lot better than I ever did and I really don't think it was that reckless. A little outcome bias? Maybe......
I've driven on the Autobahn once in a Ferrari F355 (for about 4 hours straight). I don't live there so don't expect to do it again any time soon (but I'm sure I will in this lifetime).
I've also driven a Yamaha R1 from Pheonix to LA averaging much faster than that guy, and surely with faster top speed. And yes, I only did it because I knew the road somewhat well (had driven the route many times before), and I also knew the bike well.
I would bet you that there was not one stretch of "residential" road that he drove 100MPH on. That was my whole point, he planned the route out very carefully for roads that provided the safest route for 100+MPH (highways, not suburban areas!).
First off, for all the negative posts that name-call this gentleman for being "unsafe" and "reckless", I hope you do some homework and inform yourself about the German Autobahns. For those of us who have driven on the autobahns faster than this man did at anytime in his journey, we know that safety is how you are paying attention and driving, not that you are following the laws of the US roads. The man planned with extreme detail, drove a car that was designed to drive this speed for much longer durations, and obviously from the videos it is clear they were "paying attention". Just because the name callers on these posts are not capable of driving the speeds and distances safely does not mean that that team could not do it. And they proved it.
So please stop whining about the "danger" to society. There are many countries with faster speed limits (or little or no enforcement which equals the same thing). And by the way, in this country if he were to have had an accident, he would have been sued into bankruptcy. But fact of the matter is who cares he did it safely!
1. Will it be backwards compatible with the existing internet? ------------- (If "no" for #1 above, it must be a Microsoft product!)
2. This kind of claim sounds like a marketing campaign, is this a marketing effort? ------------- (If "yes" for #2 above, it must be a Microsoft product!)
Now, that's a silly outcome. Couple of "what if" scenarios:
1. What if I rent my laptop from IBM, and I burn my purchased CD onto my laptop? Am I "distributing" to IBM? Is IBM infringing?
2. What if I lease a server in Akamai for myself. I then upload my personal collection to the rack server for personal streaming anywhere in the world (only to myself). Am I "distributing" to Akamai? Is Akamai infringing?
3. What if I store my music on my home computer which I purchased, I then stream to myself at work. Am I distributing through my broadband provider (the content is, afterall traveling through their network)? And is my broadband provider infringing?
Im sure I can think of more.....that this case took this precendent is a bit disturbing....or silly?
Its very clear to me why the big push to Ethanol, just take a look at the Google ads that popped up when I clicked on the article:
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In Shanghai, Beijing, and every city across China, you walk into one of the many i-cafe's and they are full of people playing games. Although many are dark, strange places where social disfunctionality reigns, they do killer business providing the youth with a gaming atmosphere that they seem to enjoy. The reason they enjoy it is because there are many people in the same place playing games, creating an "exiting" atmosphere...
One has to wonder about the long term social consequences of an entire generation of 20-somethings spending 75% of their free time (and brainpower) in internet cafes playing games!!
I recently bought a Sony W800 phone. Wow, all I can say is great sound, easy enough to get my music on there, menus very similar to iPod and easy enough for a phone to play music, great camera with LED flash, and even the speaker does not sound that bad in worse case scenario no headphones. Also, the phone allows any MP3 to be a ringtone or message tone. Fast menus, not quite as intuitive as Nokia but much better than Motorola V3, etc.
Sony did a great job here. Not sure why there is no "buzz" around the phone. Only drawback is it looks like a toy phone with the silly white / metallic orange only case option. Great screen though. And memory stick can provide storage expansion, it came with 512K which is pretty good to start.
Another drawback, can't seem to transfer files over bluetooth, need to use USB cable for that.........
And yes, they do have "store" interface but have not figured out how to use it yet!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7K-ZPaLa8 Check out this sea flight view of the gulf. This is what the blimp will see
http://gizmodo.com/5547548/the-gulf-disaster-video-that-bp-doesnt-want-you-to-see Maybe they should send some subs for more pics like this?
http://gizmodo.com/5542969/gulf-oil-disaster-looks-very-scary-says-astronaut Hey, we already have space pics.....the blimp is really going to help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALAvTeRMYc&feature=related Ex Shell CEO saying "Its not going to stop"
http://www.helium.com/items/1864136-how-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millions Now this is an interesting theory. The probability of course is unknown. Any thoughts from geologists who are experts on the gulf sea floor or with enough knowledge they could call themselves an expert witness, might shed some light. And, well Sarah Palin is calling for "divine intervention" on her twitter feed....damn if only she were president things would really be moving along....hah.
This is pretty scary...um http://www.helium.com/items/1864136-hohttp://www.helium.com/items/1864136-how-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millionsw-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millions
HP consumables (i.e.: ink cartridges) were the most profitable division in HP for a long time (probably still is). Just read old analyst reports. HP consumables (i.e.: ink cartridges) also are very profitable for retailers, with a very high profit margin per square foot. Ask any electronics buyer or global sourcing veep. The packaging costs is more than the ink (cartridge with proprietary IC and nice color box). Many printer manufacturers sold printers at zero margin or a LOSS, in order to get that ink consuming box (i.e.: printer) into the hands of the consumer so they will buy the ink. Must be quite embarrassing to actually bold face lie about it! Get an equity analyst asking the same question, and the answer is going to be lot different!!!
1. "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.
This is referring to the "information", which I understand to be the INFORMATION that one receives from browsing the web, get news feeds (from any source out there), watching videos (again, from any source), etc.
2. He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.
I understand this to mean anything that did not come from mass media (i.e.: TV), is a "crazy claim".
3. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
I think that kind of pressure is good. The pressure for real information to get out there, information that is true or partially true, but ignored by the mass media. In fact this is putting pressure where it should be, on our politicians to start behaving...........
This is very heartwarming. It is about time we had some media consolidation. It will surely help remove the bias stemming from the extremely fragmented ownership and production base of the mainstream media of today.........
It is interesting when you consider that there are less than 6000 board seats on the fortune 500, less than 15% are women, less than 8% are African Americans. These 6000 people now have the power to spend on direct adveIt is interesting when you consider that there are less than 6000 board seats on the fortune 500, less than 15% are women, less than 8% are African Americans. These 6000 people now have the power to spend on direct advertising to swing votes to candidates that they support. These 6000 people already had the power of free speech (to spend their own money if they pleased, and they all get a vote). Now, our politicians get to beg to these 6000 people (on hands and knees) to back them with advertising. Is that really what we needed?rtising to swing votes to candidates that they support. These 6000 people already had the power of free speech (to spend their own money if they pleased, and they all get a vote). Now, our politicians get to beg to these 6000 people (on hands and knees) to back them with advertising. Is that really what we needed?
Here is a synopsis for ya: Every single citizen above the age of 18 has a right to free speech both with their pocket book and their vote. Now corporations and unions are made of what? Citizens and non-citizens (shareholders, board of directors, managers, employees). How corporations money is spent on campaigns and politicians is normally limited to board level decisions (the deciding power of usually no more than 20 people in a corporation). So, in effect we are giving these 20 people of each corporation extra dollar votes. They are able to spend other people's money (shareholders money), in effect "speech" twice! Once for themselves and once again for themselves using other people's money. Why do we feel the need to let these 20 or so board members get extra spending power. If those 20 want to spend on campaigns why don't they all pool their bonuses and buy an advertisement? Why is it they are able to spend shareholder money on campaigns? We are just giving them more power, its a beautiful coup for the people who control the corporations in the US, they now get more swing power with mass opinion. And oh yeah, and do you think that when Citibank or Exxon's big Saudi shareholders tell the board who they want in office and the company really should run some ads for that politician, do you think they will do it? That's right, we now have more foreign interest swaying public opinion. Next, if corporations really are people and get to spend whatever they like, we might as well let them vote, oh yeah, how many votes do they get? I suggest everyone write your congressman and senators and bitch about this one. It is so much bigger than everybody thinks.
Hey, its worth watching to see whether some predator evolves that wants to eat the lancewood tree. Plantae could have premonition and fork the universe to save their kind! Please just don't tell my wife, she slammed me yesterday for "not knowing what she's thinking" because we've been together for almost 10 years.......Don't want her to know that even plants are more sensitive than us men.
Can you run a business with it?
Note that some of the biggest corruption I have seen in China are orchestrated with the help of US and other foreign investors, corporations, etc.
Take for example a large NASDAQ listed company, that was under internal investigation last year. I can't name names, but this is second hand knowledge from someone I know involved as a customer to this company and questioned in the investigation. Here goes:
1. NASDAQ listed company founders and management write a huge option on their shares with a foreign bank. The shares are in lockup and due to be able to float in 6 months. The price that the bank pays, is based on a price they can sell (estimated) at the end of the lockup period in 6 months.
2. Investigation begins, because of revenues being booked through companies the auditors (and competitors) have never heard of. It comes to light in the investigation, that the revenues are actually the proceeds from the share option sale (management and founders), to drive up stock price before the end of the lockup period.
3. Underwriters, major investors (big names in US and Europe, can't say the names here) are all aware. Auditors are paid off. One board seat is changed. The truth is buried. The news never comes out because too many investors, banks would get burned.
4. Stock still flying to this day. Fact is the company is a great model, but a big part of the accelerated growth prior to lockup expiring was fraud. Investors, bankers, underwriters knew it. Corruption on a mass scale involving US and European banks and investors.
So, this is why I call China "the wild east". Things can go very backward fast and it is very hard to see the "real" picture in anything you do here.
That being said, there are companies, like GE, that do very well in China while staying for the most part very "clean". It is not impossible to succeed in China without being corrupt. But the stories of corruption I have heard involving foreigners number at least on par with those involving locals only.............its a human disease not a "communist" or "socialist" or even "democratic" problem.....its human.
These are flawed numbers. In China according to 2007 corporate law foreigners can own 100% of technical/services firms, trading companies, factories, and a whole lot more. Please see my other post in the parent discussion for details on how any limitations still lingering in the law can be worked around legally.
OK, I see a lot of posts here with some misleading info. Just to clear the air:
1. Foreign companies can own 100% of China enterprises (in some industries), and this is called a WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise)
2. For any company to operate a web site in China, they need an ICP (Internet Content Provider) license.
3. Only domestic PRC entities (citizens), can get an ICP license (any foreign ownership and ICP license cannot be issued)
4. There are ways around #2+#3, through a legal loophole which is quite simply, a) the foreign company has their in country manager or other domestic person setup a 100% domestic owned PRC company to get the ICP license. b) the foreign company has a proxy agreement and share pledge with the "official" shareholder(s) of that PRC domestic company which are side contracts giving control and management of the domestic company to the foreign owned (WOFE) of the foreign investors. c) The WOFE also has a contract with the PRC company to extract all revenue out through a "technical services and management agreements". d) The WOFE then is able to book all the revenue from the company, making it a synthetic subsidiary and thus getting around all the laws forbidding foreign investment in the PRC company. (interesting note, this structure was designed in the 70's to get around foreign investment limitations in petrochemical industries, and is now used by all the major internet and game companies listed abroad, ie: tom.com, sina.com, snda.com, Google, Yahoo etc.)
5. The telcos here (China Netcom and China Telecom) often seem to re-direct traffic as the post claims. I have seen google.com traffic redirected for an entire weekend to 114.cn, which is China Telecom's lame search engine! Baidu.com redirect I see much less often. There are also many others for instance ALL traffic was redirecting to Yahoo.cn on my cable broadband connection from my house yesterday, no idea why Yahoo.cn, but it was.
6. A lot of traffic to the China internet portal kings is fake, by fake think how gold farming in MMOGs works, people playing for gold and getting paid 0.50 cents an hour to play in China. I have heard *rumors* from insider friends saying that many portals pay people the equivalent to click on links all day.....think market cap and ad revenue reporting.....it would not surprise me in the least but I can't say I have seen it personally.
It always amazes me how technology on the cutting edge http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1473839 like this are utilized via commonly available commodity products by clever retailers. Unfortunately this seems to be another lack of support and customer service that ultimately scares the consumer away from these fabulous new technologies. I hope Best Buy learns that they really need to up the bar on customer service and support for these new technologies. I'm sure that Best Buy made the common profit driven mistake and did not include a cable to connect the memory tiles to the computer. As with HDTV's and lack of HDMI cables bundled with TV's at the retail level, they surely sell the memory tile cable at an extortionate markup, again scaring the consumer away from these wonderful new technologies. Of course I'm sure Best Buy support offered to send out the Geek Squad to fix the problem, but the cost to this poor consumer would be more than the item itself for the Geek Squad genius to configure the memory tiles, and that also required a 20 year service agreement sign up (including automatically signing up the consumer to MSN dialup account for life . Last but not least, I hope they branded with their private label to retain that customer marketing edge! Overall, I still give Best Buy the highest mark for running such a great company, good for the consumer, good for the economy, go Best Buy!
Well, I have been amazed that a company that has snapped up more genius talent than any other on the planet the past few years could not get its head around IMAP. I mean....WOW!
Its been my biggest complaint about Gmail. I think I wrote in a suggestion 5 minutes after I got my first Gmail account when it was limited to those invitees for "BETA" (which it still says BETA what's with that crazy silly marketing BS anyway....is someone in love with the word BETA over there?)
Unfortunately, my account does not have IMAP option, go figure.....
As someone who has personally:
1) drag raced on public roads starting at 15 years of age for 3 years after almost every weekend.
2) canyon raced through the Colorado Rockies at least once a month on motorcycles, in a souped up Datsun 240Z, in compact cars, in a surburban.
3) always had fast cars and motorcycles and driven them at speeds much higher than the speed limit often (in over a dozen countries over a decade)
4) driven a route on public highways in Taiwan from Taipei to Kenting (where road conditions and traffic much worse than average US highways) in my highly modified 1994 3.8L BMW M5 and my friend's Porche 996 topping 220KPH many many times over the course of 3 years.
5) NEVER BEEN IN an accident while driving (only when others are driving have I actually been in an accident).
I'm 37 now, I've kind of grown out of all that. But I can tell you, yes I believe that Roy planned a lot better than I ever did and I really don't think it was that reckless. A little outcome bias? Maybe......
I've driven on the Autobahn once in a Ferrari F355 (for about 4 hours straight). I don't live there so don't expect to do it again any time soon (but I'm sure I will in this lifetime).
I've also driven a Yamaha R1 from Pheonix to LA averaging much faster than that guy, and surely with faster top speed. And yes, I only did it because I knew the road somewhat well (had driven the route many times before), and I also knew the bike well.
I would bet you that there was not one stretch of "residential" road that he drove 100MPH on. That was my whole point, he planned the route out very carefully for roads that provided the safest route for 100+MPH (highways, not suburban areas!).
First off, for all the negative posts that name-call this gentleman for being "unsafe" and "reckless", I hope you do some homework and inform yourself about the German Autobahns. For those of us who have driven on the autobahns faster than this man did at anytime in his journey, we know that safety is how you are paying attention and driving, not that you are following the laws of the US roads. The man planned with extreme detail, drove a car that was designed to drive this speed for much longer durations, and obviously from the videos it is clear they were "paying attention". Just because the name callers on these posts are not capable of driving the speeds and distances safely does not mean that that team could not do it. And they proved it.
So please stop whining about the "danger" to society. There are many countries with faster speed limits (or little or no enforcement which equals the same thing). And by the way, in this country if he were to have had an accident, he would have been sued into bankruptcy. But fact of the matter is who cares he did it safely!
1. Will it be backwards compatible with the existing internet?
------------- (If "no" for #1 above, it must be a Microsoft product!)
2. This kind of claim sounds like a marketing campaign, is this a marketing effort?
------------- (If "yes" for #2 above, it must be a Microsoft product!)
Now, that's a silly outcome. Couple of "what if" scenarios:
1. What if I rent my laptop from IBM, and I burn my purchased CD onto my laptop? Am I "distributing" to IBM? Is IBM infringing?
2. What if I lease a server in Akamai for myself. I then upload my personal collection to the rack server for personal streaming anywhere in the world (only to myself). Am I "distributing" to Akamai? Is Akamai infringing?
3. What if I store my music on my home computer which I purchased, I then stream to myself at work. Am I distributing through my broadband provider (the content is, afterall traveling through their network)? And is my broadband provider infringing?
Im sure I can think of more.....that this case took this precendent is a bit disturbing....or silly?
Its very clear to me why the big push to Ethanol, just take a look at the Google ads that popped up when I clicked on the article:
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In Shanghai, Beijing, and every city across China, you walk into one of the many i-cafe's and they are full of people playing games. Although many are dark, strange places where social disfunctionality reigns, they do killer business providing the youth with a gaming atmosphere that they seem to enjoy. The reason they enjoy it is because there are many people in the same place playing games, creating an "exiting" atmosphere...
One has to wonder about the long term social consequences of an entire generation of 20-somethings spending 75% of their free time (and brainpower) in internet cafes playing games!!
oh no, either:
1. i encode all my music in ultra cool 1kbps bit rate mono "especially lossy"
or
2. DOH, typed in K not M!
I recently bought a Sony W800 phone. Wow, all I can say is great sound, easy enough to get my music on there, menus very similar to iPod and easy enough for a phone to play music, great camera with LED flash, and even the speaker does not sound that bad in worse case scenario no headphones. Also, the phone allows any MP3 to be a ringtone or message tone. Fast menus, not quite as intuitive as Nokia but much better than Motorola V3, etc.
Sony did a great job here. Not sure why there is no "buzz" around the phone. Only drawback is it looks like a toy phone with the silly white / metallic orange only case option. Great screen though. And memory stick can provide storage expansion, it came with 512K which is pretty good to start.
Another drawback, can't seem to transfer files over bluetooth, need to use USB cable for that.........
And yes, they do have "store" interface but have not figured out how to use it yet!
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/k opp/apjemp.html
http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/classes/2001Fa ll/Phyx135-2/19/emp.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/ebomb.html