Your comments about the murder rate vs. terror rate and torching the constitution were strong.
You lost me with the conspiracy theory about the neocons planning 9/11. As much as I distrust Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their puppet, the theories about missles hitting the Pentagon just aren't credible to me. At most, I will believe that 9/11 was a happy accident which Cheney leveraged to enrich his friends at Haliburton. He sold it to Bush as an opportunity to finish what his dad had started. Rumsfeld? Well, that guy wanted to prove a war could be fought on the cheap and wanted to take credit for that accomplishment. Turned out it can be fought on the cheap, so long as you're not concerned with winning.
If the Plays-for-Sure betrayal is any track record, the companies who sign onto Games-for-Windows can expect perhaps a year of support, then Microsoft will completely dump the standard for some incompatible scheme where they make and sell all the content.
Within the comments on Gilmore's blog posting, many people are already pointing out that citizen journalism is not dependable. Sure, we capture some moments to terrific effect (JFK assassination), but news isn't all big events surrounded by crowds. The majority of photos published in newspapers or video footage broadcast on televised news programs are of stale topics like meetings or portraits of people involved in the news. If news agencies were to dismiss their photography staff, they'd find themselves struggling before deadline every day hoping some yokel will post a photo of the mayor speaking at the city council meeting or the police chief speaking at a press conference. News agencies have a staff that are assigned to cover these things and therefore the content can be published in a reliable and timely manner.
The Zune is literally a marketing catastrophe. Andy I. is alerting his readers of the trainwreck it represents. He's identifying the showstoppers that make this a poor purchase. When we're talking about a $250 buy-in, it's important to warn consumers that the glitches are not minor. Even if MS got everything else right with this player, it would be something for parents to avoid purchasing if they're going to have to manually create and install.dll files on X-mas morning.
There's no sense for Andy to discuss the finer details of weight, size, etc. The problems cancel out how superior the form factor might be over the iPod. It's like you're asking for a reporter to discuss the positive aspects of Osama Bin Laden-- "Well, he exhales carbon dioxide, which plants need for photosynthesis." Yes, I'm in agreement with Andy on this, the Zune is the Alqueda of mp3 players.
At the edge of climate change, these things begin to occur with more strength and frequency. Because of the millions of variables at play, it's not an immediate change that you detect in a given year. "Wow. Now we have 10 Katrinas every year starting in 1995." That's not the way it begins. It's in fits and spurts. If this year were any inidcation of what the future holds, people would have answered the "Should we rebuild New Orleans?" question by saying, "Well, let's see how 2006 pans out. If it's clear, then we don't have anything to worry about."
Hey, I'd like to highlight the parent ninja's recommendation for phpmyadmin.
It's a very convenient tool for performing a lot of tedious command-line operations. Perhaps the one thing I've run into as a failure is when you try to export large data sets, the PHP renderer usually will timeout. That's when you gotta bust the command-line out and earn your keep. Phpmyadmin is also great for performance-tuning your DB. It shows you where the bottlenecks are and advises on what config parameters should be modified.
It took the killing of 3000 innocent people and the destruction of 2 buildings and part of the pentagon to convince people that the global war on terror was a good idea.
Somehow the near total destruction of New Orleans didn't convince people that perhaps climate change has some tangible consequences.
At first I was going to bid the minister a hearty, "Good luck starting from scratch!" Then I realized that he's choosing a path guaranteed to furnish him with a huge government budget and staff to control. I figured this out when I noticed he never used the word 'cheaper' when comparing open to closed source options.
Moving corporate headquarters to a democratic country. Selling 'Borg' cube-shaped buildings in Redmond Washington. Priced to move, but will accept Google stock.
I heartily congratulate you on putting action where your thoughts are. So many people are discontent with 'the way things are' yet they rationalize their surrender by saying resistance is futile. Your campaign is inspiring and should stand as an example that we don't have to sit back and accept things as they're presented to us.
Vote.
Talk.
Organize.
Change is possible, but it ain't going to happen without these steps.
In the past six months, I've noticed two computer newb friends of mine doing the same exact thing-- When provided a URL for a website, they don't know they can type it into the browser's URL field. Instead, they use their bookmark for google (it's also set as their home page) and then type the URL into the google search field. In most instances, Google returns a link to the URL they have just typed.
In the most recent instance, it didn't because it was a website I had just created for my friend. He told me on the phone that he couldn't find the website I had sent him the URL for. I knew the domain was propagated in DNS, so this sounded odd to me. Then when I visited him at his house, I saw him typing it into google instead of the browser's URL field and I had to explain that google didn't yet know about the website and that he needed to request it directly.
The other guy opens his browser, which has google set as his home page, then he types "www.hotmail.com" into the search field so he can check his email.
So, yeah, Google has established itself as a fundamental component of the internet for many, many people.
I spent $1,800 on a B/W G3 450 mhz tower in 1998. It ran every version of OS X until I bought a powerbook last year. I was doing video editing with that slug using Final Cut Pro 3. The models you're referring to are an extreme minority of all MACs released in the last 9 years.
Windows Vista restrictions work great until the child boots from a Knoppix Live DVD.
Seth
what is this watch device you speak of?
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I'm not familiar with this 'watch' technology. Reading these posts, it sounds like some new apparatus which tells time. That doesn't sound like anything I need. My cellphone tells the time just perfectly.
Oh, now I get it. The thing is worn on the writst so I don't have to fumble in my pocket everytime I want to see what time it is. Now that's a breakthrough!
I recognized you were talking about the difference between oil and metals. I apologize if my previous post sounded pedantic. I didn't mean to understimate your grasp on recycling concepts.
You're assuming current technology won't advanced before we need to get that metal back.
The deal is, as technology improves at sifting metal out of non-metal materials, mining companies will return to work mines that have 'petered out.' That is, places where these metals had been mined, but operations ceased when the density dropped to unprofitable levels (i.e. how much ore shipped for processing yeilded too little metal). If scientists find cheaper ways to get small amounts of metal out of large amounts of ore, those mines will still be more profitable than mining landfills because they've still got higher densities of metal than landfills.
If there are lots of other (somewhat) valuable material in there (such as using it as fuel to power an electric generator) then extracting the metals becomes nearly-free.
That "Mr. Fusion" scene in Back to the Future was a fun concept, but it would be foolhardy to expect that quantum breakthrough to occur in our lifetimes. And even when fusion energy production is realized, it will work best from raw, pure materials rather than mish-mash post-processed landfill contents.
At the same time as I'm attempting to refute your assertions, I have to admit, it is conceivable to me that nano-technology could be developed that would produce nanobots that could be programmed to devour organic garbage for fuel to gather metalic molecules from landfills. In the meantime, I'm going to keep recycling.
Recycling is all about conserving energy, not materials. By recycling an aluminum can, you're not saving a precious metal, you're saving the energy used to mine ore and seperate it via electrolysis.
Elemental metals like aluminum exist all around us (even in our bodies), but are mined from concentrated deposits so that less material will need to be seperated from the desired metal by electrolysis, metling, etc. The energy conservation of recycling aluminum vs. harvesting ore and processing it is approximately 95%.
If you mix your metals with kabillions of tons of garbage, then you exponentially decrease the concentration of metal in your 'ore'. The energy expense required to seperate specific metals from trash makes garbage dump mining an unfeasible prospect.
Throwing aluminum (or computers) in the trash and rationalizing that it'll get recycled 'later' by dump mining is a cop out.
I've seen other people use a hacksaw and it was a very labor-intensive process.
If we had been watching more closely, half of our work would have been unneccessary. When we spin the lock around, the bracket of the lock comes out of the hole in like two more cranks on the jack, but we didn't notice it until we cranked about ten times.
I've heard a sawz-all can work, but it probably still takes longer than a jack.
The video I just uploaded titled "how to break a kryptonite lock" is for informational purposes only and is not intended to affect the reputation of the Kryptonite lock company.
Seth
healthcare jobs already being outsourced
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It seems that the economic engine that is the health care industry is already having its fuel siphoned to India. Employers are enrolling their staff in healthcare plans that will send patients overseas for medical procedures that can be scheduled in advance.
The appeal is obvious: Heart surgeries and hip replacements in such countries as India, Thailand and Mexico can be had for less than one-third the cost in the USA.
At the same time, medical costs in the USA are rising rapidly, with no end in sight.
For some reason I thought this hack would be a mozilla plugin that would automatically disable the myspace player when visiting a myspace page. Unfortunately, this hack doesn't protect web users from annoying music, it causes them to copy the horrible audio to their local computers. What's the phone number for DCMA enforcement?!?
the apple fanboys are just whining that microsoft did something right.
Microsoft doing something right still has yet to be seen with this product. Apple established the iPod's dominance in the market from the get-go with a superior software interface. For those who can remember the Diamond Rio, the software for loading mp3s onto the devise was a major pain in the a$$ to use. It was like a 3 step process to simply copy some songs over. Apple made it drag-and-drop simple.
With Microsoft's UI track record, I don't have high hopes for an elegant software interface.
Back in the days when you didn't need a business plan?
YouTube is in a very different situation. The failures in the dot com gold rush were speculative web site concepts. "If we build this type of site, maybe we'll get a kabillion visitors and from there, we can do XYZ to make money from the traffic." People were investing in the possibility of these schemes being successful at attracting traffic.
YouTube has already crossed the traffic hurdle. They've built amazing brand awareness with NO ADVERTISING. In the failed dot com model, the idea was always to build awareness through massive traditional advertising campaigns.
If YouTube were to have its nuts removed over copyright violations (ala Napster), there are plenty of companies out there that would purchase it for the brand awareness they've already built. If Ted Turner were to get interested in pay-per-view internet video streaming, which might even have a very different offering than YouTube, buying YouTube for $100 million would be attractive because starting his own brand would require a similar investment in advertising to draw visitors.
That's why Bertleman bought Napster after it had been disembowled.
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Your comments about the murder rate vs. terror rate and torching the constitution were strong.
You lost me with the conspiracy theory about the neocons planning 9/11. As much as I distrust Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their puppet, the theories about missles hitting the Pentagon just aren't credible to me. At most, I will believe that 9/11 was a happy accident which Cheney leveraged to enrich his friends at Haliburton. He sold it to Bush as an opportunity to finish what his dad had started. Rumsfeld? Well, that guy wanted to prove a war could be fought on the cheap and wanted to take credit for that accomplishment. Turned out it can be fought on the cheap, so long as you're not concerned with winning.
Seth
If the Plays-for-Sure betrayal is any track record, the companies who sign onto Games-for-Windows can expect perhaps a year of support, then Microsoft will completely dump the standard for some incompatible scheme where they make and sell all the content.
Seth
Within the comments on Gilmore's blog posting, many people are already pointing out that citizen journalism is not dependable. Sure, we capture some moments to terrific effect (JFK assassination), but news isn't all big events surrounded by crowds. The majority of photos published in newspapers or video footage broadcast on televised news programs are of stale topics like meetings or portraits of people involved in the news. If news agencies were to dismiss their photography staff, they'd find themselves struggling before deadline every day hoping some yokel will post a photo of the mayor speaking at the city council meeting or the police chief speaking at a press conference. News agencies have a staff that are assigned to cover these things and therefore the content can be published in a reliable and timely manner.
Seth
specific items within an assigned memory space are randomized
aka: security through obscurity.
Seth
The Zune is literally a marketing catastrophe. Andy I. is alerting his readers of the trainwreck it represents. He's identifying the showstoppers that make this a poor purchase. When we're talking about a $250 buy-in, it's important to warn consumers that the glitches are not minor. Even if MS got everything else right with this player, it would be something for parents to avoid purchasing if they're going to have to manually create and install
There's no sense for Andy to discuss the finer details of weight, size, etc. The problems cancel out how superior the form factor might be over the iPod. It's like you're asking for a reporter to discuss the positive aspects of Osama Bin Laden-- "Well, he exhales carbon dioxide, which plants need for photosynthesis." Yes, I'm in agreement with Andy on this, the Zune is the Alqueda of mp3 players.
Seth
At the edge of climate change, these things begin to occur with more strength and frequency. Because of the millions of variables at play, it's not an immediate change that you detect in a given year. "Wow. Now we have 10 Katrinas every year starting in 1995." That's not the way it begins. It's in fits and spurts. If this year were any inidcation of what the future holds, people would have answered the "Should we rebuild New Orleans?" question by saying, "Well, let's see how 2006 pans out. If it's clear, then we don't have anything to worry about."
Seth
Hey, I'd like to highlight the parent ninja's recommendation for phpmyadmin.
It's a very convenient tool for performing a lot of tedious command-line operations. Perhaps the one thing I've run into as a failure is when you try to export large data sets, the PHP renderer usually will timeout. That's when you gotta bust the command-line out and earn your keep. Phpmyadmin is also great for performance-tuning your DB. It shows you where the bottlenecks are and advises on what config parameters should be modified.
Seth
It took the killing of 3000 innocent people and the destruction of 2 buildings and part of the pentagon to convince people that the global war on terror was a good idea.
Somehow the near total destruction of New Orleans didn't convince people that perhaps climate change has some tangible consequences.
Seth
At first I was going to bid the minister a hearty, "Good luck starting from scratch!" Then I realized that he's choosing a path guaranteed to furnish him with a huge government budget and staff to control. I figured this out when I noticed he never used the word 'cheaper' when comparing open to closed source options.
Seth
For Sale: Corporate Campus
Moving corporate headquarters to a democratic country. Selling 'Borg' cube-shaped buildings in Redmond Washington. Priced to move, but will accept Google stock.
I heartily congratulate you on putting action where your thoughts are. So many people are discontent with 'the way things are' yet they rationalize their surrender by saying resistance is futile. Your campaign is inspiring and should stand as an example that we don't have to sit back and accept things as they're presented to us.
Vote.
Talk.
Organize.
Change is possible, but it ain't going to happen without these steps.
Seth
In the past six months, I've noticed two computer newb friends of mine doing the same exact thing-- When provided a URL for a website, they don't know they can type it into the browser's URL field. Instead, they use their bookmark for google (it's also set as their home page) and then type the URL into the google search field. In most instances, Google returns a link to the URL they have just typed.
In the most recent instance, it didn't because it was a website I had just created for my friend. He told me on the phone that he couldn't find the website I had sent him the URL for. I knew the domain was propagated in DNS, so this sounded odd to me. Then when I visited him at his house, I saw him typing it into google instead of the browser's URL field and I had to explain that google didn't yet know about the website and that he needed to request it directly.
The other guy opens his browser, which has google set as his home page, then he types "www.hotmail.com" into the search field so he can check his email.
So, yeah, Google has established itself as a fundamental component of the internet for many, many people.
Seth
I spent $1,800 on a B/W G3 450 mhz tower in 1998. It ran every version of OS X until I bought a powerbook last year. I was doing video editing with that slug using Final Cut Pro 3. The models you're referring to are an extreme minority of all MACs released in the last 9 years.
Seth
Windows Vista restrictions work great until the child boots from a Knoppix Live DVD.
Seth
I'm not familiar with this 'watch' technology. Reading these posts, it sounds like some new apparatus which tells time. That doesn't sound like anything I need. My cellphone tells the time just perfectly.
Oh, now I get it. The thing is worn on the writst so I don't have to fumble in my pocket everytime I want to see what time it is. Now that's a breakthrough!
Seth
Post anything remotely conservative, and be modded into troll oblivion.
Don't get the concept of 'conservative' confused with the George W. Bush administration.
Conservatives believe in less government intrusion into our lives.
Conservatives reduce government spending.
This administration is not conservative.
Seth
I recognized you were talking about the difference between oil and metals. I apologize if my previous post sounded pedantic. I didn't mean to understimate your grasp on recycling concepts.
You're assuming current technology won't advanced before we need to get that metal back.
The deal is, as technology improves at sifting metal out of non-metal materials, mining companies will return to work mines that have 'petered out.' That is, places where these metals had been mined, but operations ceased when the density dropped to unprofitable levels (i.e. how much ore shipped for processing yeilded too little metal). If scientists find cheaper ways to get small amounts of metal out of large amounts of ore, those mines will still be more profitable than mining landfills because they've still got higher densities of metal than landfills.
If there are lots of other (somewhat) valuable material in there (such as using it as fuel to power an electric generator) then extracting the metals becomes nearly-free.
That "Mr. Fusion" scene in Back to the Future was a fun concept, but it would be foolhardy to expect that quantum breakthrough to occur in our lifetimes. And even when fusion energy production is realized, it will work best from raw, pure materials rather than mish-mash post-processed landfill contents.
At the same time as I'm attempting to refute your assertions, I have to admit, it is conceivable to me that nano-technology could be developed that would produce nanobots that could be programmed to devour organic garbage for fuel to gather metalic molecules from landfills. In the meantime, I'm going to keep recycling.
Seth
Recycling is all about conserving energy, not materials. By recycling an aluminum can, you're not saving a precious metal, you're saving the energy used to mine ore and seperate it via electrolysis.
Elemental metals like aluminum exist all around us (even in our bodies), but are mined from concentrated deposits so that less material will need to be seperated from the desired metal by electrolysis, metling, etc. The energy conservation of recycling aluminum vs. harvesting ore and processing it is approximately 95%.
If you mix your metals with kabillions of tons of garbage, then you exponentially decrease the concentration of metal in your 'ore'. The energy expense required to seperate specific metals from trash makes garbage dump mining an unfeasible prospect.
Throwing aluminum (or computers) in the trash and rationalizing that it'll get recycled 'later' by dump mining is a cop out.
Seth
I've seen other people use a hacksaw and it was a very labor-intensive process.
If we had been watching more closely, half of our work would have been unneccessary. When we spin the lock around, the bracket of the lock comes out of the hole in like two more cranks on the jack, but we didn't notice it until we cranked about ten times.
I've heard a sawz-all can work, but it probably still takes longer than a jack.
Seth
The video I just uploaded titled "how to break a kryptonite lock" is for informational purposes only and is not intended to affect the reputation of the Kryptonite lock company.
Seth
It seems that the economic engine that is the health care industry is already having its fuel siphoned to India. Employers are enrolling their staff in healthcare plans that will send patients overseas for medical procedures that can be scheduled in advance.
The appeal is obvious: Heart surgeries and hip replacements in such countries as India, Thailand and Mexico can be had for less than one-third the cost in the USA.
At the same time, medical costs in the USA are rising rapidly, with no end in sight.
Seth
For some reason I thought this hack would be a mozilla plugin that would automatically disable the myspace player when visiting a myspace page. Unfortunately, this hack doesn't protect web users from annoying music, it causes them to copy the horrible audio to their local computers. What's the phone number for DCMA enforcement?!?
Seth
the apple fanboys are just whining that microsoft did something right.
Microsoft doing something right still has yet to be seen with this product. Apple established the iPod's dominance in the market from the get-go with a superior software interface. For those who can remember the Diamond Rio, the software for loading mp3s onto the devise was a major pain in the a$$ to use. It was like a 3 step process to simply copy some songs over. Apple made it drag-and-drop simple.
With Microsoft's UI track record, I don't have high hopes for an elegant software interface.
Seth
Yeah, I agree. I think to a large extent they are suffering from dumb luck. Now they have to sort out what to do with their windfall.
Seth
Back in the days when you didn't need a business plan?
YouTube is in a very different situation. The failures in the dot com gold rush were speculative web site concepts. "If we build this type of site, maybe we'll get a kabillion visitors and from there, we can do XYZ to make money from the traffic." People were investing in the possibility of these schemes being successful at attracting traffic.
YouTube has already crossed the traffic hurdle. They've built amazing brand awareness with NO ADVERTISING. In the failed dot com model, the idea was always to build awareness through massive traditional advertising campaigns.
If YouTube were to have its nuts removed over copyright violations (ala Napster), there are plenty of companies out there that would purchase it for the brand awareness they've already built. If Ted Turner were to get interested in pay-per-view internet video streaming, which might even have a very different offering than YouTube, buying YouTube for $100 million would be attractive because starting his own brand would require a similar investment in advertising to draw visitors.
That's why Bertleman bought Napster after it had been disembowled.
Seth