I think this might be true for side mirrors, but my rear view mirrors have always seemed planar to my retinas. Then there's that dongle on the mirror frame that when flipped changes the angle of the mirror so as to dim the headlights of the car behind you (a birefringent mirror?) Anyway, it seems in today's world that rear view mirrors can be auto-dimming using an electronic device (link: here).
ok, so this can help drivers not to violate red traffic lights. Won't the traffic camers installed at intersections potentially record fewer violations of drivers going through the red light? (you know, take a snapshot of the car's license plate; send a bill to the owner.) Won't local communities demand a subsidy for the lost revenue due to this sensor system?
Sorry, maybe I am ignorant here. If vendors have a preference for MS, why would MS alter their OS in such a way so as to effectively "lock in" users and force upgrades?
I can't see that happening with linux, being open source. Here I'm thinking that services like Progeny(?) will allow users to maintain their Redhat distributions after RH bails at the end of 2003.
Yeah ok. Still, I just think the Republicans will do everything they can to use and extend Hussein's capture as a plank in their political platform. Osama being captured will probably incite a mass euphoria.
That makes me recall an experience I had at a Walgreens. I gave the checkout lady (who must have been upwards of 70 years old) some paper money along with assorted coinage, as I wanted to lighten my pocket. She counted it up and pointed out that if I could come cup with X amount more in coins that she could give me back (a more useful coin like) a quarter. I wasn't even thinking about that; I just wanted to get rid of the damn pennies.
So I for one can attest to the fact that there are some quick witted people out there.
Jeff Chasney, chief technical officer of CKE Restaurants Inc., which runs the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast-food chains, says the new cards are likely to increase sales because they are so easy to use and ensure that
a consumer won't be limited by the cash in his wallet.
Nothing like tapping into the cowstomer's (sic) impulse buying, especially in the US.
what about the learning curve?
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Did you know that your brain was preparing for that movement a full half-second before it actually took place? Even more spookily, your mind knew which hand it was going to lift before you made the conscious decision to lift it.
This sounds rather interesting, but it seems it would apply to people who have already learned a task. Therefore, the neural connections would already be "connected" and trained.
But what about teaching somebody a new task using an EEG hat or such? You'd then use this device to find out how the brain learns. I mean, originally....the first bootstrap, so to speak.
I don't think it would be entriely useless to apply to learning new experiences either. Although your brain would draw on that which was previously learned, it would still be trying to absorb a wealth of new information.
Your dream might not yet be dead -- I'm with you. But we will have to see how the gov't responds to the space race arising out of the Eastern hemisphere.
My guess is that it will come later rather than sooner. Right now the gov't is preoccupied with avenging itself of 9/11 and getting past the 2004 elections.
I used to work on macs exclusively, which as you may know come with ONLY ONE BUTTON. By the time I was seeking a 3-button mouse, hardly a vendor sold -- much less manufactured -- them any longer.
Dude, get the scroll mouse. You'll get used to it. And, as other respondants have readily pointed out, the wheel gives extra functionality in a single movement, rather than a keypress+middle button event. For example, you can transverse your web browser's (mozilla's) history using just the middle button, rather than use the window menu bar, ALT keypress combinations, or mouse context menus.
Logitech makes a fine basic three-button/scroll mouse (model S69). Your hand will probably wrap around it a little bit; it will not be fitting your hand like a catcher's mitt.
Maybe I'm still a bit wide-eyed, but I'd like to think that citywide (perhaps even nationwide) WiFi access could be the future for mobile internet access. I've had many occassions when I was on the road and wanted to access the web (my electronic encyclopaedia) to do things such as look up stores' websites while shopping, login to my home box to check a program running, get the latest slashdot update (nudge, wink), etc. I'd even accept pop-up ad-ware as a trade for a free, but secure, connection.
I don't see why everything shouldn't be connectable in principle: telephone/VoIP, PDA, laptop, desktop, TV/cable/video, satellite radio, GPS, etc.
I gave my (real) name. No address (not their business) and offered to pay whatever deposit they needed.
I agree, sure they will probably charge your CC in case you do damage to the room. But I can't understand why they couldn't do a "check in" and "check out" with you personally. I mean, car rental stores do that to clear you of pre-existing damage. But on the other hand, I don't know of anybody who has been able to rent a car without showing them their CC.
Sometimes it seems your credit card is a generic replacement for what once used to be the standard of presenting/giving your Social Security Number.
You've got the right idea, but the Uncertainty Principle puts a lower bound on the mutual uncertainties in time and energy measured, ie,
4 * pi * uncertainty in time * uncertainty in energy >= Planck's constant
(I believe you can use the standard deviation as the uncertainty here.) This "law" that results from our model for quantum mechanics thus tends to put a limit on how fast a quantum/optical computer can be.
Spammers keep emailing me these damn >100k attachments promising to patch up my OS, thereby filling up my entire inbox. Maybe those people should be investigated.
No matter what you want to do or what needs to be done, there is always someone who will undermined you, attack you or make you jump through hoops. You can gain ground, but you will never win.
Consistent with this idea is the possibility that the top dogs want it to appear that the people in charge of security are largely inept. That could provide the "evidence" for demanding more fundage from the Administration. Just look at the so-called war on drugs....
Please remember: Just because I might sound paranoid does not necessarily mean I am entirely wrong.
I'll put in a partial vote for wcal. It's a calendar server that runs its own http daemon. It's got a few annoyances, but I never managed the transition to the Mozilla calendar extension. The specific reason for that was that at the time there wasn't a way to make a secure connection without resorting to some kind of tunnel, such as running VNC/tightVNC through an ssh tunnel.
Well, in the Star Trek universe there are also the matter transporters, so any waste could be dematerialised a put elsewhere. Of course, you could just use your phaser (set to kill, I suppose) to disperse the atoms comprising the waste.
But to take your point to heart, the jobs or roles available by society do change with the times, mainly due to technological advancement, but there are indeed the jobs americans in particular would rather not do (haul trash, eg.). That's one of the reasons why illegal aliens are permitted.
Isn't a national railroad something like the "last mile" problem of wired interest access to all residential homes, insofar as the claim is that the cost is prohibitive for any single company to do? (In fact, the first US transcontinental railroad was funded by several bond issues.) I can see how there could be fast rail service between nearby metropolitan areas (Milwaukee-Chicago was mentioned) though.
VoIP is an itch that some people need to scratch and therefore it will happen (well, it *is* happening). To me the question that remains is whether the teleglomerates are onboard or not. Saith the people: You are either with us, or against us -- otherwise you'll just have to lobby the regulations so deeply so as to hinder voip usage/access.
My parents bought one of those home desktop computer deals with free AOL time bundled in. Turns out they needed technical support from AOL and ended up talking with some guy with a heavy accent. The 'rents said even three separate phone calls, each reaching a different CSR, weren't enough to clear up the matter. They just couldn't understand the technicians' language.
So i am not surprised that large companies would be moving toward having more understandable CSRs if they want to help maintain their revenue stream.
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I think this might be true for side mirrors, but my rear view mirrors have always seemed planar to my retinas. Then there's that dongle on the mirror frame that when flipped changes the angle of the mirror so as to dim the headlights of the car behind you (a birefringent mirror?) Anyway, it seems in today's world that rear view mirrors can be auto-dimming using an electronic device (link: here).
ok, so this can help drivers not to violate red traffic lights. Won't the traffic camers installed at intersections potentially record fewer violations of drivers going through the red light? (you know, take a snapshot of the car's license plate; send a bill to the owner.) Won't local communities demand a subsidy for the lost revenue due to this sensor system?
Sorry, maybe I am ignorant here. If vendors have a preference for MS, why would MS alter their OS in such a way so as to effectively "lock in" users and force upgrades?
I can't see that happening with linux, being open source. Here I'm thinking that services like Progeny(?) will allow users to maintain their Redhat distributions after RH bails at the end of 2003.
Or could this be topologically equivalent?
It seems to be your quote applies to sexual intercourse as well:
Sex is like war: interesting when viewed from a safe distance, but quite exciting when it's in your face.
Yeah ok. Still, I just think the Republicans will do everything they can to use and extend Hussein's capture as a plank in their political platform. Osama being captured will probably incite a mass euphoria.
US stock markets surge Monday.
The US detains Saddam indefinitely to prevent Iraqis from assassinating him.
Bush gets re-elected.
That makes me recall an experience I had at a Walgreens. I gave the checkout lady (who must have been upwards of 70 years old) some paper money along with assorted coinage, as I wanted to lighten my pocket. She counted it up and pointed out that if I could come cup with X amount more in coins that she could give me back (a more useful coin like) a quarter. I wasn't even thinking about that; I just wanted to get rid of the damn pennies.
So I for one can attest to the fact that there are some quick witted people out there.
Nothing like tapping into the cowstomer's (sic) impulse buying, especially in the US.
This sounds rather interesting, but it seems it would apply to people who have already learned a task. Therefore, the neural connections would already be "connected" and trained.
But what about teaching somebody a new task using an EEG hat or such? You'd then use this device to find out how the brain learns. I mean, originally....the first bootstrap, so to speak.
I don't think it would be entriely useless to apply to learning new experiences either. Although your brain would draw on that which was previously learned, it would still be trying to absorb a wealth of new information.
(glugg, glugg) Help! I can't see my PDA!
Your dream might not yet be dead -- I'm with you. But we will have to see how the gov't responds to the space race arising out of the Eastern hemisphere.
My guess is that it will come later rather than sooner. Right now the gov't is preoccupied with avenging itself of 9/11 and getting past the 2004 elections.
(apologies for the self reply)
Actually I own a Belkin USB 3-button mouse, but its size is a bit smaller than even the Logitech PS/2.
I used to work on macs exclusively, which as you may know come with ONLY ONE BUTTON. By the time I was seeking a 3-button mouse, hardly a vendor sold -- much less manufactured -- them any longer.
Dude, get the scroll mouse. You'll get used to it. And, as other respondants have readily pointed out, the wheel gives extra functionality in a single movement, rather than a keypress+middle button event. For example, you can transverse your web browser's (mozilla's) history using just the middle button, rather than use the window menu bar, ALT keypress combinations, or mouse context menus.
Logitech makes a fine basic three-button/scroll mouse (model S69). Your hand will probably wrap around it a little bit; it will not be fitting your hand like a catcher's mitt.
That's awesome. You lucky bum.
Maybe I'm still a bit wide-eyed, but I'd like to think that citywide (perhaps even nationwide) WiFi access could be the future for mobile internet access. I've had many occassions when I was on the road and wanted to access the web (my electronic encyclopaedia) to do things such as look up stores' websites while shopping, login to my home box to check a program running, get the latest slashdot update (nudge, wink), etc. I'd even accept pop-up ad-ware as a trade for a free, but secure, connection.
I don't see why everything shouldn't be connectable in principle: telephone/VoIP, PDA, laptop, desktop, TV/cable/video, satellite radio, GPS, etc.
I agree, sure they will probably charge your CC in case you do damage to the room. But I can't understand why they couldn't do a "check in" and "check out" with you personally. I mean, car rental stores do that to clear you of pre-existing damage. But on the other hand, I don't know of anybody who has been able to rent a car without showing them their CC.
Sometimes it seems your credit card is a generic replacement for what once used to be the standard of presenting/giving your Social Security Number.
You've got the right idea, but the Uncertainty Principle puts a lower bound on the mutual uncertainties in time and energy measured, ie,
4 * pi * uncertainty in time * uncertainty in energy >= Planck's constant
(I believe you can use the standard deviation as the uncertainty here.) This "law" that results from our model for quantum mechanics thus tends to put a limit on how fast a quantum/optical computer can be.
Spammers keep emailing me these damn >100k attachments promising to patch up my OS, thereby filling up my entire inbox. Maybe those people should be investigated.
No matter what you want to do or what needs to be done, there is always someone who will undermined you, attack you or make you jump through hoops. You can gain ground, but you will never win.
Consistent with this idea is the possibility that the top dogs want it to appear that the people in charge of security are largely inept. That could provide the "evidence" for demanding more fundage from the Administration. Just look at the so-called war on drugs....
Please remember: Just because I might sound paranoid does not necessarily mean I am entirely wrong.
I'll put in a partial vote for wcal. It's a calendar server that runs its own http daemon. It's got a few annoyances, but I never managed the transition to the Mozilla calendar extension. The specific reason for that was that at the time there wasn't a way to make a secure connection without resorting to some kind of tunnel, such as running VNC/tightVNC through an ssh tunnel.
Well, in the Star Trek universe there are also the matter transporters, so any waste could be dematerialised a put elsewhere. Of course, you could just use your phaser (set to kill, I suppose) to disperse the atoms comprising the waste.
But to take your point to heart, the jobs or roles available by society do change with the times, mainly due to technological advancement, but there are indeed the jobs americans in particular would rather not do (haul trash, eg.). That's one of the reasons why illegal aliens are permitted.
Isn't a national railroad something like the "last mile" problem of wired interest access to all residential homes, insofar as the claim is that the cost is prohibitive for any single company to do? (In fact, the first US transcontinental railroad was funded by several bond issues.) I can see how there could be fast rail service between nearby metropolitan areas (Milwaukee-Chicago was mentioned) though.
VoIP is an itch that some people need to scratch and therefore it will happen (well, it *is* happening). To me the question that remains is whether the teleglomerates are onboard or not. Saith the people: You are either with us, or against us -- otherwise you'll just have to lobby the regulations so deeply so as to hinder voip usage/access.
Oh joy. That is no better than a child in gradeschool having to raise his hand to go to the toilet. Yet another instance of adult power trips.
My parents bought one of those home desktop computer deals with free AOL time bundled in. Turns out they needed technical support from AOL and ended up talking with some guy with a heavy accent. The 'rents said even three separate phone calls, each reaching a different CSR, weren't enough to clear up the matter. They just couldn't understand the technicians' language.
So i am not surprised that large companies would be moving toward having more understandable CSRs if they want to help maintain their revenue stream.