Granted they are more jewelry like than actual time reference objects...
I don't grant this. My Omega Seamaster is accurate to about 4 seconds/day; better than my Blackberry, and more than suitable for typical business and personal use.
... hugely inconveniencing more than 250,000 people a day...
That estimate is very low. First, the Bay Bridge typically hosts 270,000 vehicles per day. If we assume an average of 1.5 passengers per vehicle, we're still talking about 400,000 Bay Bridge passengers per day. Second, those diverting from the Bay Bridge are now overfilling BART trains and crowding on to other Bay Area bridges, indirectly inconveniencing many more people.
Enjoy it while you can, as Netflix's streaming service appears to be based on a partnership with Starz that in turn depends on a loophole in Starz's contract with the film studios. That loophole is likely to be closed when Starz's contract is renewed/renegotiated, and Netflix will then need to convince the studios to allow the all-you-can-eat stream to continue.
The referenced Dvorak column seems to be more a complaint about his the lack of personal love he's getting from MS than it does about Windows. Boo, f'in, hoo.
Atlantic City laws say you can't be kicked out for being a card counter.
Atlantic City law says that casinos can only offer games of chance. Asking card counters to leave due to their counting activity would be admitting that Blackjack is a game of skill.
Do this - publish your idea in the most obscure way possible.... I kid you not - this is advice I've had from multiple patent attorneys. It protects your idea, and is nearly free, without much chance of tipping off your competitors.
How does this protect your idea? IANAL, but it's my understanding that a public disclosure immediately invalidates your non-US patent rights, and starts a one-year clock ticking on the filing period for a US patent. The obscurity of your disclosure may prevent others from learning of your idea, but not disclosing it at all will have the same effect; neither method will prevent others from utilizing the idea, should they learn of it.
It's like everyone jumping overboard before they even know if the boat's sinking.
It's more like everyone rushing to the lifeboats as they see who the new captain is going to be. Commercial users, who currently license MySQL from Sun, will have to think long and hard about those contracts coming under the control (and renewal parameters) of Oracle.
Even the threat of Oracle owning MySQL is motivating commercial users to look more closely at the BSD-licensed PostgreSQL. If the sale goes forward, it may the biggest boost yet to the PostgreSQL community.
If you give it to charity it is no longer income, and won't be taxed.
I am not a tax lawyer or accountant, but I'd guess once you've accepted the XBox it becomes taxable income. You can't undo this by donating it to charity, though you will get a charitable deduction. Unless you're in a tax bracket that causes your charitable deductions to be phased out, these should cancel out. If not, you should have the originator of the XBox donate it directly to the charity.
I know for a fact that sellers have been able to include JS in their posts which can record the max-bid of the buyer.
All the more reason to bid at the last second via sniping software or a sniping site like auctionsniper.com. Knowing my max-bid is a lot less useful to a seller after the auction's already closed.
This is what makes me laugh when you hear about eBay's CEO thinking of a run for CA governor and the blurbs introducing the candidate as CEO fortune whatever company eBay... Of course, that prolly guarantees she'll be our next governor.
Meg Whitman is the former CEO of eBay; she left in March, 2008. Whether or not you agree with her politics, or think her experience as a CEO will translate to the governorship, it's hard to argue with her business acumen in growing eBay during a 10-year tenure that began in 1998, when eBay was still a very small company.
I had the *hardest* time making the overpaid vegetable manning the phone at Paypal [understand] that Media Mail shipments can't be tracked.
Not true. Delivery confirmation can be added to a Media Mail shipment. Whether or not Paypal offers this combination as an option through their mailing center is a different matter; but you can go to the post office and get it at the retail counter.
+1 Exploratorium
This was one of the first hands-on science museums, and retains its anarchic hippie charm to this day. It's planning a move from its cavernous home at the Palace of Fine Arts in a few years, so you'd have the bonus of catching it in its original digs. Make sure and reserve a tour of the Tactile Dome in advance.
+1
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has several one-of-a-kind exhibits, including a German submarine, a simulated coal mine, and an incredible art-deco streamline modern train.
Why does the government sell the spectrum, rather than lease it? Why aren't these frequencies an annuity for the public, rather than a profitable secondary market for private interests? I feel ripped off, no matter what the sale price.
I found that a simple lookup caused NetworkSolutions to register the domain. You have to wait 30-60 seconds before it shows up in a search on another site. No need to initiate a purchase or click "Add Domain(s) to Order."
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Granted they are more jewelry like than actual time reference objects...
I don't grant this. My Omega Seamaster is accurate to about 4 seconds/day; better than my Blackberry, and more than suitable for typical business and personal use.
Is there an optional one-way infinite tape drive?
... hugely inconveniencing more than 250,000 people a day...
That estimate is very low. First, the Bay Bridge typically hosts 270,000 vehicles per day. If we assume an average of 1.5 passengers per vehicle, we're still talking about 400,000 Bay Bridge passengers per day. Second, those diverting from the Bay Bridge are now overfilling BART trains and crowding on to other Bay Area bridges, indirectly inconveniencing many more people.
Enjoy it while you can, as Netflix's streaming service appears to be based on a partnership with Starz that in turn depends on a loophole in Starz's contract with the film studios. That loophole is likely to be closed when Starz's contract is renewed/renegotiated, and Netflix will then need to convince the studios to allow the all-you-can-eat stream to continue.
The referenced Dvorak column seems to be more a complaint about his the lack of personal love he's getting from MS than it does about Windows. Boo, f'in, hoo.
Shouldn't this article have been titled "Data Errors Entry Resulted In Sentences Improper"?
Though I did want to point out that it wasn't until almost 1900 before secret ballots were used over the entire US.
Indeed. The history of voting and ballots in the U.S. is quite interesting. Check out this article from 2008.
Atlantic City laws say you can't be kicked out for being a card counter.
Atlantic City law says that casinos can only offer games of chance. Asking card counters to leave due to their counting activity would be admitting that Blackjack is a game of skill.
Do this - publish your idea in the most obscure way possible. ... I kid you not - this is advice I've had from multiple patent attorneys. It protects your idea, and is nearly free, without much chance of tipping off your competitors.
How does this protect your idea? IANAL, but it's my understanding that a public disclosure immediately invalidates your non-US patent rights, and starts a one-year clock ticking on the filing period for a US patent. The obscurity of your disclosure may prevent others from learning of your idea, but not disclosing it at all will have the same effect; neither method will prevent others from utilizing the idea, should they learn of it.
It's like everyone jumping overboard before they even know if the boat's sinking.
It's more like everyone rushing to the lifeboats as they see who the new captain is going to be. Commercial users, who currently license MySQL from Sun, will have to think long and hard about those contracts coming under the control (and renewal parameters) of Oracle.
Even the threat of Oracle owning MySQL is motivating commercial users to look more closely at the BSD-licensed PostgreSQL. If the sale goes forward, it may the biggest boost yet to the PostgreSQL community.
If you give it to charity it is no longer income, and won't be taxed.
I am not a tax lawyer or accountant, but I'd guess once you've accepted the XBox it becomes taxable income. You can't undo this by donating it to charity, though you will get a charitable deduction. Unless you're in a tax bracket that causes your charitable deductions to be phased out, these should cancel out. If not, you should have the originator of the XBox donate it directly to the charity.
Perhaps Apple could deprecate the new connector on the day it's released so that we can get on with the transition to the next new thing?
I know for a fact that sellers have been able to include JS in their posts which can record the max-bid of the buyer.
All the more reason to bid at the last second via sniping software or a sniping site like auctionsniper.com. Knowing my max-bid is a lot less useful to a seller after the auction's already closed.
This is what makes me laugh when you hear about eBay's CEO thinking of a run for CA governor and the blurbs introducing the candidate as CEO fortune whatever company eBay... Of course, that prolly guarantees she'll be our next governor.
Meg Whitman is the former CEO of eBay; she left in March, 2008. Whether or not you agree with her politics, or think her experience as a CEO will translate to the governorship, it's hard to argue with her business acumen in growing eBay during a 10-year tenure that began in 1998, when eBay was still a very small company.
They enforce that for your safety!! Won't somebody please think of the children?!?
Not to mention that when you use an unapproved payment processor, the terrorists win.
I had the *hardest* time making the overpaid vegetable manning the phone at Paypal [understand] that Media Mail shipments can't be tracked.
Not true. Delivery confirmation can be added to a Media Mail shipment. Whether or not Paypal offers this combination as an option through their mailing center is a different matter; but you can go to the post office and get it at the retail counter.
+1 Exploratorium This was one of the first hands-on science museums, and retains its anarchic hippie charm to this day. It's planning a move from its cavernous home at the Palace of Fine Arts in a few years, so you'd have the bonus of catching it in its original digs. Make sure and reserve a tour of the Tactile Dome in advance.
+1 The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has several one-of-a-kind exhibits, including a German submarine, a simulated coal mine, and an incredible art-deco streamline modern train.
The Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY is bound to be educational, one way or the other. Only 30 minutes from downtown Cincinnati!
Anyone know if they're planning anymore live shows?
Joel, Trace, Frank, Mary Jo and J. Elvis hit the road in February and March: http://cinematictitanic.com/wpmu/121/
So who's missing from Al Gore's Internet? Who do we know who's hosted on ThePlanet?
Why does the government sell the spectrum, rather than lease it? Why aren't these frequencies an annuity for the public, rather than a profitable secondary market for private interests? I feel ripped off, no matter what the sale price.
Finally we'll be able to teach Pastafarianism in public schools! www.venganza.org
I found that a simple lookup caused NetworkSolutions to register the domain. You have to wait 30-60 seconds before it shows up in a search on another site. No need to initiate a purchase or click "Add Domain(s) to Order."