What's the use of a gated community on the web? Don't you want patients and clients to be able to get to your web site? Will these.pro sites only allow other people with.pro addresses in? Add to that the use of "a premium brand, enabling effective, secure communication" and it begins to look like a full scale buzz words attack.
Other than having balls enough to do it, or a lack of brains, are these "baloonauts" really doing anything? Could they just as easily place put a monkey on the baloon, or a corpse for that matter? Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems that if anyone should get credit for the new record it should be the engineers. But, of course, we never get credit for anything.
I think the biggest advantage that this has over other "Natural" alternatives is that it will be easily converted to by polymer manufacturers. This article talks about how the NatureWorks stuff is delivered to manufacturers. It comes in small plastic pellets that manufacturers are used to handling. There are some adjustments to be made, the article doesn't mention what they are, but the plants will not have to completly retool to begin using this. I suppose that if they could tool their plants in such a way as to use either the NatureWorks or petroleum based pellets, they could play the two technologies off each other and lower the cost of producing things. Not that we'd see any price reduction, but the thought is nice.
Who really cares if two aging giants get stomped on together or seperatly? Honestly, this whole court case has been a battle between a rich boy who is living off his father's brilliance, and two CEOs who are desperatly looking for something to lift their reputations out of the duldrums. How will this affect consumers, be they corporate or home? Not one bit other than to have 1 fewer meaningless "label" to choose from.
At the very least, one has to wonder if being treated like a criminal would start to make someone act like a criminial.
This is an excellent point! I think that as people feel that they are not trusted anywhere and that they have to fight for every little freedom, they will begin to fight dirty in an effort to survive. They will look to take advantage of "the company" every chance they get. If the corporations, like Turner, would be open and trusting with their customers, customers would react in the same manner and Turner would be better off. But we're already on the slippery slope to be cliche. Turner claims it's customers are criminals, customers feel and then act like criminals, Turner execs are proved correct and they ratchet down the controls one more step. This will end up making more trouble for both sides.
I'm curious, what does private insurance cost for someone doing freelance work? I've been considering it, but haven't looked into what extra costs I'm going to have to cover.
Newsflash: Schools have been buying up the new Apple eMacs like hotcakes. One principal was heard saying, "We have a big problem with students stealing computers from the schools, but with the new eMacs there's no handle, so the kids won't be able to carry off the computers." This new breakthrough in physical security was characterised by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as "wicked". "We wanted to give the customer what they asked for, and what we gave them was a wicked fast processor and a wicked, non-handled box. That's so wicked", the CEO and co-founder stated in a press conference. The large Apple after-market manufacturers are already working on a handle add-on that could destroy the new security feature before it really catches on.
All right, I will have to concede on the carry over people. I did not know there were so many. Thanks for the info.
On the Middle East though, I think that the main reason that Bush wanted to stay out of the middle east was to avoid becoming the world's police force. That was the main problem with Clinton's foreign policy. Civil wars will happen, and that can't be helped. You can't be the mediator in every conflict and you can't stop all the violence in the world. I don't see why the US has to weigh in on every issue. These are grown people. If they can't work things out for themselves and they won't agree on outsiders' proposals, what can we do for them. You're right in that Bush is in a no win situation. I can't say what he should do, I just get very frustrated when the immatureness of the middle east rubs off poorly on the US.
The thing is, a good majority of the administration are from the Reagan era.
I'd like to see who all is back from the Reagan era. I know Cheney and Rumsfeld. Admitidly two very high ranking officials, but who else. It seems a bit generous to say "a good majority"
Unfortunately what the administration has found is that it has opened up Pandora's box and does not know how to handle it anymore.
Just when did the US create a situation in the middle east? Look at Britain that created Israel. Look at the arab countries for attacking Israel. Look at Israel for rocketing innocent people. Look at childish leaders that can't agree on how to meet for peace, let alone discuss peace terms. There are lots of people to blame for the problems but hardly the US, unless giving hope of some sort of peace settlement is a bad thing.
Two boides are attrackted while spinning in orbit around another, larger body. They start to co-orbit. That's physics people. Why do we have to call the smaller of these two objects a moon? These are just two asteroids who are orbiting each other. That's it. Sheesh.
Although, if crooks know that these cars are out there looking like any other car, they may be less likely to steal any car.
The big problem with this is if they come up with a way to detect the GPS signal coming from the car. It would be cool if you could simulate any signature it gives off and deter crooks that are savy enough to look for the signal.
Here is a big problem with the way that the US policy is made. Things are combined together on one bill when they have no correlation. This forces people to vote for something they might not have sepratly. If I believe that taping someone without thier knowledge is wrong and vote against the bill, come election time, the ads will run. "Senator Baxley voted against a bill to segregate porn on the internet! He's so bad!" Let's have these two be seperate bills and vote on each as it's merit lends.
While it may seem like a good idea to scam information off of Amazon, one day that will catch up with you. If Amazon changes their page layout, you're screwed, if Amazon changes their URL format, you're screwed, if Amazon finds out what you're doing, and if you make any money off it, you're sued. If we want a book database that is to be used widely , it must be something that is clear of the pitfalls of stealing from someone else.
Yikes, what does this say about the state of MP3s?
I think that the reson that we need this is to allow for a formatted, programatically accessible source of information. If you are just trying to find one book for your own use, it's not a big deal, but if you want to store the ISBN numbers of your personal collection and pull the other information from a central database, individual searches on google won't cut it. I image that you can find all of the information about each CD and track through google as well, but it would take a lot longer.
My biggest problem with replacing the land line phone with a cell phone or VoIP is that each phone unit is expensive and, in the case of cellular, small. I like to have a permanent phone in many rooms with one cordless that I can roam with. And the cordless is never where it's supposed to be when the phone rings! So can I use all of my regular phones with this?
From the article: Hook your cable modem or DSL line up to one end of the box, plug any ordinary phone into the other end, and you're ready to go.
Can I then plug the "box" into my existing phone network and enable all the phones that I currently have in the house? I think that might sell me right there. I'd be really interested if someone has found a way around the expensive cell phone problem also.
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It is good to see that at least Apple is still trying to do what the customer wants and not just what the big media companies think is best. This type of functionality is something that could be really usefull. With all the work the Apple is doing, it makes me want to run out and buy one just so I can be a part of all the new stuff. Go Apple!
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I'd hardly call this a laptop. There's no keyboard, and no mention of an alternative input method! This is just a portable monitor.
What's the use of a gated community on the web? Don't you want patients and clients to be able to get to your web site? Will these .pro sites only allow other people with .pro addresses in? Add to that the use of "a premium brand, enabling effective, secure communication" and it begins to look like a full scale buzz words attack.
Run for cover!!
Other than having balls enough to do it, or a lack of brains, are these "baloonauts" really doing anything? Could they just as easily place put a monkey on the baloon, or a corpse for that matter? Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems that if anyone should get credit for the new record it should be the engineers. But, of course, we never get credit for anything.
I'm interested, did you live in Eastern Colorado? I didn't think that tornados formed in the moutainous regions.
I think the biggest advantage that this has over other "Natural" alternatives is that it will be easily converted to by polymer manufacturers. This article talks about how the NatureWorks stuff is delivered to manufacturers. It comes in small plastic pellets that manufacturers are used to handling. There are some adjustments to be made, the article doesn't mention what they are, but the plants will not have to completly retool to begin using this. I suppose that if they could tool their plants in such a way as to use either the NatureWorks or petroleum based pellets, they could play the two technologies off each other and lower the cost of producing things. Not that we'd see any price reduction, but the thought is nice.
Say what you will about his business practices, Bill (with, I'm sure, some conscience prodding from his wife) is doing some good stuff with his money.
He's married to his lawyer?!
Who really cares if two aging giants get stomped on together or seperatly? Honestly, this whole court case has been a battle between a rich boy who is living off his father's brilliance, and two CEOs who are desperatly looking for something to lift their reputations out of the duldrums. How will this affect consumers, be they corporate or home? Not one bit other than to have 1 fewer meaningless "label" to choose from.
At the very least, one has to wonder if being treated like a criminal would start to make someone act like a criminial.
This is an excellent point! I think that as people feel that they are not trusted anywhere and that they have to fight for every little freedom, they will begin to fight dirty in an effort to survive. They will look to take advantage of "the company" every chance they get. If the corporations, like Turner, would be open and trusting with their customers, customers would react in the same manner and Turner would be better off. But we're already on the slippery slope to be cliche. Turner claims it's customers are criminals, customers feel and then act like criminals, Turner execs are proved correct and they ratchet down the controls one more step. This will end up making more trouble for both sides.
This is dumb. Please don't cross post articles.
I'm curious, what does private insurance cost for someone doing freelance work? I've been considering it, but haven't looked into what extra costs I'm going to have to cover.
Yeah, Winamp and ICQ have been abismal failures.
Newsflash:
Schools have been buying up the new Apple eMacs like hotcakes. One principal was heard saying, "We have a big problem with students stealing computers from the schools, but with the new eMacs there's no handle, so the kids won't be able to carry off the computers." This new breakthrough in physical security was characterised by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as "wicked". "We wanted to give the customer what they asked for, and what we gave them was a wicked fast processor and a wicked, non-handled box. That's so wicked", the CEO and co-founder stated in a press conference. The large Apple after-market manufacturers are already working on a handle add-on that could destroy the new security feature before it really catches on.
True, it cerainly doesn't live up to the "explosion" definition.
There is a cool video there of the [Nanotube explosion] going off.
And with those words, you killed the site.
All right, I will have to concede on the carry over people. I did not know there were so many. Thanks for the info.
On the Middle East though, I think that the main reason that Bush wanted to stay out of the middle east was to avoid becoming the world's police force. That was the main problem with Clinton's foreign policy. Civil wars will happen, and that can't be helped. You can't be the mediator in every conflict and you can't stop all the violence in the world. I don't see why the US has to weigh in on every issue. These are grown people. If they can't work things out for themselves and they won't agree on outsiders' proposals, what can we do for them. You're right in that Bush is in a no win situation. I can't say what he should do, I just get very frustrated when the immatureness of the middle east rubs off poorly on the US.
The thing is, a good majority of the administration are from the Reagan era.
I'd like to see who all is back from the Reagan era. I know Cheney and Rumsfeld. Admitidly two very high ranking officials, but who else. It seems a bit generous to say "a good majority"
Unfortunately what the administration has found is that it has opened up Pandora's box and does not know how to handle it anymore.
Just when did the US create a situation in the middle east? Look at Britain that created Israel. Look at the arab countries for attacking Israel. Look at Israel for rocketing innocent people. Look at childish leaders that can't agree on how to meet for peace, let alone discuss peace terms. There are lots of people to blame for the problems but hardly the US, unless giving hope of some sort of peace settlement is a bad thing.
I don't see this in the article. Someone else mentioned it too though. Did the article change?
Two boides are attrackted while spinning in orbit around another, larger body. They start to co-orbit. That's physics people. Why do we have to call the smaller of these two objects a moon? These are just two asteroids who are orbiting each other. That's it. Sheesh.
Although, if crooks know that these cars are out there looking like any other car, they may be less likely to steal any car.
The big problem with this is if they come up with a way to detect the GPS signal coming from the car. It would be cool if you could simulate any signature it gives off and deter crooks that are savy enough to look for the signal.
Unfortunatly, I lost interest and didn't take the time to read all the way through it. I hope there wasn't anything I'm supposed to know in there.
Here is a big problem with the way that the US policy is made. Things are combined together on one bill when they have no correlation. This forces people to vote for something they might not have sepratly. If I believe that taping someone without thier knowledge is wrong and vote against the bill, come election time, the ads will run. "Senator Baxley voted against a bill to segregate porn on the internet! He's so bad!" Let's have these two be seperate bills and vote on each as it's merit lends.
While it may seem like a good idea to scam information off of Amazon, one day that will catch up with you. If Amazon changes their page layout, you're screwed, if Amazon changes their URL format, you're screwed, if Amazon finds out what you're doing, and if you make any money off it, you're sued. If we want a book database that is to be used widely , it must be something that is clear of the pitfalls of stealing from someone else.
Yikes, what does this say about the state of MP3s?
I think that the reson that we need this is to allow for a formatted, programatically accessible source of information. If you are just trying to find one book for your own use, it's not a big deal, but if you want to store the ISBN numbers of your personal collection and pull the other information from a central database, individual searches on google won't cut it. I image that you can find all of the information about each CD and track through google as well, but it would take a lot longer.
My biggest problem with replacing the land line phone with a cell phone or VoIP is that each phone unit is expensive and, in the case of cellular, small. I like to have a permanent phone in many rooms with one cordless that I can roam with. And the cordless is never where it's supposed to be when the phone rings! So can I use all of my regular phones with this?
From the article: Hook your cable modem or DSL line up to one end of the box, plug any ordinary phone into the other end, and you're ready to go.
Can I then plug the "box" into my existing phone network and enable all the phones that I currently have in the house? I think that might sell me right there. I'd be really interested if someone has found a way around the expensive cell phone problem also.
It is good to see that at least Apple is still trying to do what the customer wants and not just what the big media companies think is best. This type of functionality is something that could be really usefull. With all the work the Apple is doing, it makes me want to run out and buy one just so I can be a part of all the new stuff. Go Apple!