We have a broken screen iBook G4. The screen still works, just large black splotches cover about 20% of the viewing area. My daughter uses it to watch videos and play some kids software, we use it for playing iTunes and for listening to streaming radio. Still works as a machine.
Oh the baby carrots... the poor, poor baby carrots!!! If only those terrible Vegans would stop eating!
Actually, baby carrots are made from adult carrots. They take them, chop them and chip them until they are uniform little stubs that look like baby carrots all so the Vegans can eat with a clear conscious knowing that they did not hurt animals. Lots have studies have shown that animals AND plants react to pain and remember it. This is nothing new.
Of course, what is worse is the Vegans are eating those carrots alive. You were aware that the fruits and veggies were still alive when eaten raw weren't you? This is far worse than what is done to animal life.
Vegans are simply hypocritical kingdomists.
The real question is does it matter. Yes, what you eat was once a living thing. That is the nature of things. You too are part of the web of life and the food web. In your time you too shall be eaten, I hope, by the worms and turn into compost for the next generation of life. Unless of course you are so greedy as to choose to be pickled (embalmed) or fried extra crispy (cremated) both of which are a tremendous waste of resources and energy.
I could tell you but then I would have to kill you...
Okay, you still want to know... Just don't say I didn't warn you!
Each successive backup is made to alternating magnetic media and then periodically to optical media on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual schedule.
Each backup sequence is protected at separate, isolated mountain underground cave locations by 10 ninja guardian dogs and 100 ferocious, vicious, man eating attack pigs. If you get through those two rings of defenses then the marauding chickens will peck out your eyes while pooping down your throat. Survivors will be composted, along with the failures.
So far nobody has stolen any of our backups so it must be working. The DVD optical backup does kind of make sure that nobody can erase the backups unless they manage to get through the rings seven rings of defenses. ("Seven you ask? Seven? He only described three rings...?" Yes, well, I'm not going to forewarn you about all the secret defenses!:) )
Seriously though, optical is much more permanent.
Awful idea. It is tiring enough to have to make facial expressions to interact with people. When I interface with my computer I don't want to waste that effort.
The best shot at getting President Obama to pay attention to this issue is if he or his family gets sued by the RIAA. Until then he's frying other fish.
And the point? People, especially those in the mainstream media, keep making out like only Wikipedia has mistakes. I find a dozen or more errors in every edition of our daily newspaper and more in the Sunday paper. The nice thing about Wiki is there is the ability to correct things and there is a history of edits. If only the mainstream media were so good.
Yes, I can see it as possible, in vast mast production, but $10 is a bit ambitious. Still, if any country were going to do it, India with it's semi-socialism, semi-capitalism and very large population is certainly a candidate. It needs to be very simple, no physical buttons, no moving parts, built in solar cell on the back, screen on the front, complete touch interface. Simplify, simplify, simplify.
What might be a better idea, is to plan on a cost tag of $100, again with all possible simplification, and then subsidize the cost down to $10 via advertising on the device. Turn all those kiddies into future consumers. With what one asks...
$10 is possible, if it's kept simple and there are no middlemen adding to the costs. Products we make get doubled or quadrupled in price before they get to consumers. The wonders of retailing. The real cost of manufacturing is generally about a quarter to a tenth of the price.
You don't see a problem?
Fairpoint has a monopoly.
We have no other choice in providers.
They control our access to the world through the internet.
I have written to them and to all of my representatives protesting their move.
Edit the contract. The have the right to make demands. You have the right to accept or modify the contract. They have the right to then accept the contract with modifications. It is negotiations. I edit contracts and other legal documents I sign all the time. It is binding. My edits, with my initials by them, show that I only accept the contract provided that those edits are accepted. If you don't like the terms, negotiate or walk. It's that simple. FYI, I've virtually never had anyone reject my changes and my changes have been binding when issues arose.
I don't have oaks at our place but at the oak trees I know I didn't see any shortage and I would have noticed as I collected acorns since my goal is to have some here. Most likely it is isolated anomalies.
Health and exercise fight this to a large degree.
Both physical and mental exercise.
This is much like people saying their bodies get weaker as they age.
Not me. I am 46 years old and I am as strong or stronger than I have ever been.
Every day I push both my body and my mind to work hard. Then I rest both of them.
I also eat right and all of that good stuff. It really does make a difference.
If you want strong muscles you work out.
If you want a strong brain, work it.
This is part of why I chose what I do. I farm. It is very mentally and physically invigorating. I'm outdoors much of the day. There are always new challenges. I also program, write, draw, take photos and do other interesting things. Don't get in a rut.
Cheers
I am extremely good at math and sciences. People are a bit more of a mystery. I used my skills to develop a number of inventions (some of which you may well use). I also farm, raising pastured pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. It's a great life and my skills at math & science come in very handy giving me a deep understanding of things on the farm including mechanical, biological, chemistry, physics, statistics, etc. I love it. Our kids got my math and science skills plus my wife's people skills. What a deal.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/http://hollygraphicart.com/http://nonais.org/
Something I don't like about the Kindle is the drying up of the used books market that it represents. In a very similar vein I like to be able to loan my books out. My sons enjoy reading the same sorts of books I do. Sometimes my wife wants to read a book I got. Or my daughter. Or my brother might. I read a good book and then they want to. With the Kindle they've got to buy it separately and then we've got three copies of the same book kicking around the house and worse yet we have to have five kindles in the household.
No thanks.
Five easy steps:
Step #1: Write software in your spare time (make sure company you work for didn't have you sign a contract saying they own things you do in your own time. If you did sign such a contract then go directly to step #5.)
Step #2: Give away software in step #1 to charities, local small businesses, etc. This builds a portfolio.
Step #3: Start charging for your services using step #2 for references.
Step #4: Build your business up so it supports you. (Cut your expenses to make this easier.)
Step #5: Quit your day job.
You won't need to work for someone now because you have your own business.
It works.
DMCA laws are a good idea because they will allow the right full owners of information to hog it forever, even suppressing new ideas. Look at how wonderfully Disney does it. Fantasy land, a dark, dark fantasy land. A nightmare I wish we could wake up from. DMCA laws are wonderful. Not.
Now, the places to be will be the cities with high connectivity. It will be possible to minimize our interactions with others. Netgrocers would take off during these times.
Spoken like a true cliff dweller. You with your NetGrocers and other delivery services are in close contact with a lot of people. They touch something, hand it to someone else who hands it to you. Many hands all handling stuff you handle. A recipe for disease spread. In very rural areas we have very little contact with other people and we're used to long periods of isolation such as when the winter blizzard's strike, mud season and such. The city is the worst place to be but you are most welcome to keep it and please stay there when the quarantine is declared.
I find it funny that they believe that an epidemic will originate in Africa. I would expect most to come from extremely populated areas.
Uh, Africa is extremely populated. They have high densities as well as vast open lands with few people coupled with some other interesting traits that can lead to pandemics. They're certainly not unique in that though.
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We have a broken screen iBook G4. The screen still works, just large black splotches cover about 20% of the viewing area. My daughter uses it to watch videos and play some kids software, we use it for playing iTunes and for listening to streaming radio. Still works as a machine.
Oh the baby carrots... the poor, poor baby carrots!!! If only those terrible Vegans would stop eating!
Actually, baby carrots are made from adult carrots. They take them, chop them and chip them until they are uniform little stubs that look like baby carrots all so the Vegans can eat with a clear conscious knowing that they did not hurt animals. Lots have studies have shown that animals AND plants react to pain and remember it. This is nothing new.
Of course, what is worse is the Vegans are eating those carrots alive. You were aware that the fruits and veggies were still alive when eaten raw weren't you? This is far worse than what is done to animal life.
Vegans are simply hypocritical kingdomists.
The real question is does it matter. Yes, what you eat was once a living thing. That is the nature of things. You too are part of the web of life and the food web. In your time you too shall be eaten, I hope, by the worms and turn into compost for the next generation of life. Unless of course you are so greedy as to choose to be pickled (embalmed) or fried extra crispy (cremated) both of which are a tremendous waste of resources and energy.
I could tell you but then I would have to kill you... Okay, you still want to know... Just don't say I didn't warn you! Each successive backup is made to alternating magnetic media and then periodically to optical media on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual schedule. Each backup sequence is protected at separate, isolated mountain underground cave locations by 10 ninja guardian dogs and 100 ferocious, vicious, man eating attack pigs. If you get through those two rings of defenses then the marauding chickens will peck out your eyes while pooping down your throat. Survivors will be composted, along with the failures. So far nobody has stolen any of our backups so it must be working. The DVD optical backup does kind of make sure that nobody can erase the backups unless they manage to get through the rings seven rings of defenses. ("Seven you ask? Seven? He only described three rings...?" Yes, well, I'm not going to forewarn you about all the secret defenses! :) )
Seriously though, optical is much more permanent.
Awful idea. It is tiring enough to have to make facial expressions to interact with people. When I interface with my computer I don't want to waste that effort.
The best shot at getting President Obama to pay attention to this issue is if he or his family gets sued by the RIAA. Until then he's frying other fish.
Actually, I've noticed more and more available Wi-Fi. But even without that this would be very useful at home.
And the point? People, especially those in the mainstream media, keep making out like only Wikipedia has mistakes. I find a dozen or more errors in every edition of our daily newspaper and more in the Sunday paper. The nice thing about Wiki is there is the ability to correct things and there is a history of edits. If only the mainstream media were so good.
Yes, I can see it as possible, in vast mast production, but $10 is a bit ambitious. Still, if any country were going to do it, India with it's semi-socialism, semi-capitalism and very large population is certainly a candidate. It needs to be very simple, no physical buttons, no moving parts, built in solar cell on the back, screen on the front, complete touch interface. Simplify, simplify, simplify. What might be a better idea, is to plan on a cost tag of $100, again with all possible simplification, and then subsidize the cost down to $10 via advertising on the device. Turn all those kiddies into future consumers. With what one asks... $10 is possible, if it's kept simple and there are no middlemen adding to the costs. Products we make get doubled or quadrupled in price before they get to consumers. The wonders of retailing. The real cost of manufacturing is generally about a quarter to a tenth of the price.
Now you know why you should have gotten a Mac - no sticker shock. :)
You don't see a problem? Fairpoint has a monopoly. We have no other choice in providers. They control our access to the world through the internet. I have written to them and to all of my representatives protesting their move.
Pretty but I have a better burglar alarm - dogs.
This expert says to switch away from Microsoft if any alternative exists in any application.
Edit the contract. The have the right to make demands. You have the right to accept or modify the contract. They have the right to then accept the contract with modifications. It is negotiations. I edit contracts and other legal documents I sign all the time. It is binding. My edits, with my initials by them, show that I only accept the contract provided that those edits are accepted. If you don't like the terms, negotiate or walk. It's that simple. FYI, I've virtually never had anyone reject my changes and my changes have been binding when issues arose.
Vista...? Yawn.
I don't have oaks at our place but at the oak trees I know I didn't see any shortage and I would have noticed as I collected acorns since my goal is to have some here. Most likely it is isolated anomalies.
Health and exercise fight this to a large degree. Both physical and mental exercise. This is much like people saying their bodies get weaker as they age. Not me. I am 46 years old and I am as strong or stronger than I have ever been. Every day I push both my body and my mind to work hard. Then I rest both of them. I also eat right and all of that good stuff. It really does make a difference. If you want strong muscles you work out. If you want a strong brain, work it. This is part of why I chose what I do. I farm. It is very mentally and physically invigorating. I'm outdoors much of the day. There are always new challenges. I also program, write, draw, take photos and do other interesting things. Don't get in a rut.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/
http://hollygraphicart.com/
http://nonais.org/
I am extremely good at math and sciences. People are a bit more of a mystery. I used my skills to develop a number of inventions (some of which you may well use). I also farm, raising pastured pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. It's a great life and my skills at math & science come in very handy giving me a deep understanding of things on the farm including mechanical, biological, chemistry, physics, statistics, etc. I love it. Our kids got my math and science skills plus my wife's people skills. What a deal. Cheers -Walter Sugar Mountain Farm in the mountains of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/ http://hollygraphicart.com/ http://nonais.org/
Something I don't like about the Kindle is the drying up of the used books market that it represents. In a very similar vein I like to be able to loan my books out. My sons enjoy reading the same sorts of books I do. Sometimes my wife wants to read a book I got. Or my daughter. Or my brother might. I read a good book and then they want to. With the Kindle they've got to buy it separately and then we've got three copies of the same book kicking around the house and worse yet we have to have five kindles in the household. No thanks.
I'll give you one more way you can save money. Stop using the CPA and do your taxes yourself. It's easy. Just follow the forms and instructions.
Five easy steps: Step #1: Write software in your spare time (make sure company you work for didn't have you sign a contract saying they own things you do in your own time. If you did sign such a contract then go directly to step #5.) Step #2: Give away software in step #1 to charities, local small businesses, etc. This builds a portfolio. Step #3: Start charging for your services using step #2 for references. Step #4: Build your business up so it supports you. (Cut your expenses to make this easier.) Step #5: Quit your day job. You won't need to work for someone now because you have your own business. It works.
They should be sued. This is one of the mega-reasons against DRM.
DMCA laws are a good idea because they will allow the right full owners of information to hog it forever, even suppressing new ideas. Look at how wonderfully Disney does it. Fantasy land, a dark, dark fantasy land. A nightmare I wish we could wake up from. DMCA laws are wonderful. Not.
Energy efficiency is out the window with 25% loss of transmitted power. Great. Fire up more power plants to power this mania.
The internet didn't melt because the olympics just aren't that important or interesting.
Now, the places to be will be the cities with high connectivity. It will be possible to minimize our interactions with others. Netgrocers would take off during these times. Spoken like a true cliff dweller. You with your NetGrocers and other delivery services are in close contact with a lot of people. They touch something, hand it to someone else who hands it to you. Many hands all handling stuff you handle. A recipe for disease spread. In very rural areas we have very little contact with other people and we're used to long periods of isolation such as when the winter blizzard's strike, mud season and such. The city is the worst place to be but you are most welcome to keep it and please stay there when the quarantine is declared. I find it funny that they believe that an epidemic will originate in Africa. I would expect most to come from extremely populated areas. Uh, Africa is extremely populated. They have high densities as well as vast open lands with few people coupled with some other interesting traits that can lead to pandemics. They're certainly not unique in that though.