For example, to type the letter "a," a typist moves the left dome to the left and the right dome toward the computer screen. Pressing one of the domes down first generates a capital "A."
Let's see, 8 x 8 = 64. I guess it's possible to do everything with that number, but how do you capitalize a letter if it takes two hands just to type a letter. Do you shift by banging your head on something, or is that another movement of the hands (i.e. shift then letter.)
The Congress shall have Power...
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
I don't know what arguement allows the states to get away with Use Tax. But they should expect a fight if they want retailers in other states to collect their sales tax.
I'm not sure if I understand the need for this system.
As suggested by other above, the most beneficial use of the system would be transition. There will come a time in the future when people won't want to have two systems for receiving phone calls, but we wont all switch over to IP at the same time.
Smooth transition should also help the large telcos who will eventually see a stop in their subscriber growth followed by a steady death march downward as more and more people move to communicating by alternatives to conventional telephone service. (Probably just a dream, but a nightmare without someway to pad the fall if it happens.)
I'm not sure how it's done, but I get excellent reception throughout our local mall which is a huge complex of concrete and steel some of which is partially underground. I've been told they have antennas inside the mall, so a solution to your problem should exist.
For a goverment site, 'Universal Access' should be paramount. Here's a link to a site called Bobby which will test sites for access and has explainations on how to comply with W3C recommendations for accessiblity.
This site has some stuff to show you a map of the stars based on observing point and day.
Also, regarding telescope, you might find using binoculars from the moon and space station a good start. I found the jump in orders of magnification a bit abstract when I was a kid.
The article makes no mention about whether they want to store the content of the communication, or simply that it happened.
Judging by the cost projected, it would seem that they simply want to log the fact that communication occured. If true, this wouldn't be a new concept. Currently, all phone calls are logged (atleast in the US.)
There are legitimate law enforcement concerns to know that communication between two parties occured (mainly to provide circumstantial proof of the opportunity for conspiracy.)
The real question is how much do they want to log and what protections will be put on this information.
I'm all for anonymous, lawful communication, but not at the expense of having no way to trace drug sales and child porn back to the source.
Think about it, how many of you don't use the phone because the call is going to be logged. Where you doing somthing illegal at the time?
if only they'd carry better full-lengths like Red Dwarf,
Speaking of Red Dwarf, BBC America will be airing a toon of it on the weekend leading up to New Year's Eve, if the DirecTV Guide can be believed. It looks like 2 days of non-stop Red Dwarf with occasional news breaks.
It all depends on whether you want to talk about the user experience or the kernel. Of course the kernel isn't fragmented, much. But the user experience very much is and has been for a while.
Different distribution default to different X environs, different system tools, and most importantly, dramatically different ways to add/remove programs. This is what the user sees already.
For example: Take two distros meant to be infront of desktop users: Corel & RedHat. These things are so far apart as to be nearly incompatible. Moving an application between the two pretty much requires that you be an expert. Your typical user isn't gonna want to compile, iron out libc conflicts, work out differences in file system structure, etc. And that's if the software maker provided the source. Otherwise, good luck installing it on a distro other than what it was packaged for.
Yes, at its core and by its licensing, it'll be hard to truely fragment Linux, but by the time it reaches the user (where it counts), it's practically broken already.
I think if you simply looked to graph the price over time for a given model by a given manufacturer, I think you'll find a downward pattern, but by the time you want it, it'll no longer exist or be a generation behind what's current.
What would be better would be more of a Consumer Guide that compared like things and tracked them, for example: Live and Historical information across manufacturer and model lines for $/MB of disk drive. Seeing what a historical low is for storage, and the current price range, might be a good thing.
Of course, for disk space, the historical chart will still trend downward, but not so for memory (atleast not lately.)
If this site also gave links to buy cheaply on the net, even better.
I remember the ISP thing. Some morons introduced a BGP route for everything (0.0.0.0/0) into the backbone. Hours of giant sucking sound for a large part of the net.
There was also that moment of bliss when a software upgrade stopped authentication at AOL for something like 8 hours. Not 99% of the net but, it was a start in the right place.;)
If you're really keen on links, I'll track 'em down, but it was a couple years ago when life revolved around the two MAEs. We're better off now.
Of course, you (and I) are stuck here. The only way we're getting to watch multiple things at the same time is with multiple converters.
I just cram everything I watch through TiVo and accept the delay. What are the commercial things of which people speak;) Nice watching a 1 hour show in ~45 minutes.
I think the biggest obstacle for digital video recorders to become mainstream is the price point.
What value do you put on your time? Once you've got TiVo setup for the shows you like, you're done. If the network moves it, TiVo moves too. Also, forget time spent rewinding.
Then, of course, there's the ability to pause live TV.
I think it's a mistake to simply compare TiVo to a VCR. It does more/different things. You still need a VCR if you want to watch VHS tapes or save a show for good.
I have the TiVo and I think if given a choice between the two options, I'd take the TiVo method.
It takes a little getting used to, but the FF system on TiVo corrects for reasonable reaction time. You can, typically, lean on the FF button 3 times and when you see the show, press it again. Nearly every time I do this, It jumps right back to the end of the last commercial and off I go.
Also, occasionally, it's nice to say, "WTF?" and back-up to see the commercial/news trailer that just winged by. My impression is that you miss these things with a true skip feature.
I'm kinda hoping they'll be "Highly collectible antique Americana" usuable as coasters in Millennium inspired theme restaurants. Probably be worth $20-30 bucks each (of course bread will be $50/loaf.)
Of course, AOL has this market covered, but it's a thought.
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I usually see a religious preference, non-smoker, that kind of thing, but D&D??? Weird.
Seriously? Well, in that context D&D means "Drugs & Disease"
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"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that." - Bruce Campbell
.sigs, where is this from? It's funny out of context. I'll bet it's hysterical in context.
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For example, to type the letter "a," a typist moves the left dome to the left and the right dome toward the computer screen. Pressing one of the domes down first generates a capital "A."
Ah, missed that. Thanks.
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Let's see, 8 x 8 = 64. I guess it's possible to do everything with that number, but how do you capitalize a letter if it takes two hands just to type a letter. Do you shift by banging your head on something, or is that another movement of the hands (i.e. shift then letter.)
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I think he's pointing out that Llama was spelled wrong and that it's pronounced differently from Lama
It's not la-ma it's ya-ma.
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I look forward to the once-a-week finale when someone gets shoved out the airlock.
Hmmm. Can't decide who to vote for this time. Oh wait, 'hatch' is kinda synonymous with air lock...I've got an idea.
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The punishment cannot be 'cruel or unusual'. Of course, since this is 'cruel AND unusual', I'm all for it ;)
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The odds of there being someone hit at all are 1 in 250.
Hmmm. Well, I suspect the statistics suggested in the joke still stand unless Iridium had ~24 million customers.
Now, what are the odds it'll hit a former Iridium customer...
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I'm not sure if I understand the need for this system.
As suggested by other above, the most beneficial use of the system would be transition. There will come a time in the future when people won't want to have two systems for receiving phone calls, but we wont all switch over to IP at the same time.
Smooth transition should also help the large telcos who will eventually see a stop in their subscriber growth followed by a steady death march downward as more and more people move to communicating by alternatives to conventional telephone service. (Probably just a dream, but a nightmare without someway to pad the fall if it happens.)
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I'm not sure how it's done, but I get excellent reception throughout our local mall which is a huge complex of concrete and steel some of which is partially underground. I've been told they have antennas inside the mall, so a solution to your problem should exist.
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Just A Second is a computer store in Albany, NY that specializes in low-end computers and parts for older computers.
Imagine, an entire aisle of VT terminals. Not sure if they have that many anymore, but it was a nice sight.
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For a goverment site, 'Universal Access' should be paramount. Here's a link to a site called Bobby which will test sites for access and has explainations on how to comply with W3C recommendations for accessiblity.
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This site has some stuff to show you a map of the stars based on observing point and day.
Also, regarding telescope, you might find using binoculars from the moon and space station a good start. I found the jump in orders of magnification a bit abstract when I was a kid.
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The article makes no mention about whether they want to store the content of the communication, or simply that it happened.
Judging by the cost projected, it would seem that they simply want to log the fact that communication occured. If true, this wouldn't be a new concept. Currently, all phone calls are logged (atleast in the US.)
There are legitimate law enforcement concerns to know that communication between two parties occured (mainly to provide circumstantial proof of the opportunity for conspiracy.)
The real question is how much do they want to log and what protections will be put on this information.
I'm all for anonymous, lawful communication, but not at the expense of having no way to trace drug sales and child porn back to the source.
Think about it, how many of you don't use the phone because the call is going to be logged. Where you doing somthing illegal at the time?
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if only they'd carry better full-lengths like Red Dwarf,
;)
Speaking of Red Dwarf, BBC America will be airing a toon of it on the weekend leading up to New Year's Eve, if the DirecTV Guide can be believed. It looks like 2 days of non-stop Red Dwarf with occasional news breaks.
What the hell, it'll be cold outside anyway
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The star of 'The Crossing' was Jeff Daniels.
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Small question on the side, how about international waters? A ship with a bunch of servers on it and a satellite uplink maybe?
Also need an eye patch, peg leg, parrot and a hook for a hand.
"12 miles out at see, beaming you an mp3" - slogan for www.daveyjoneslocker.com, the website for copyright pirates.
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Wait... let me explain.
It all depends on whether you want to talk about the user experience or the kernel. Of course the kernel isn't fragmented, much. But the user experience very much is and has been for a while.
Different distribution default to different X environs, different system tools, and most importantly, dramatically different ways to add/remove programs. This is what the user sees already.
For example: Take two distros meant to be infront of desktop users: Corel & RedHat. These things are so far apart as to be nearly incompatible. Moving an application between the two pretty much requires that you be an expert. Your typical user isn't gonna want to compile, iron out libc conflicts, work out differences in file system structure, etc. And that's if the software maker provided the source. Otherwise, good luck installing it on a distro other than what it was packaged for.
Yes, at its core and by its licensing, it'll be hard to truely fragment Linux, but by the time it reaches the user (where it counts), it's practically broken already.
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I think if you simply looked to graph the price over time for a given model by a given manufacturer, I think you'll find a downward pattern, but by the time you want it, it'll no longer exist or be a generation behind what's current.
What would be better would be more of a Consumer Guide that compared like things and tracked them, for example: Live and Historical information across manufacturer and model lines for $/MB of disk drive. Seeing what a historical low is for storage, and the current price range, might be a good thing.
Of course, for disk space, the historical chart will still trend downward, but not so for memory (atleast not lately.)
If this site also gave links to buy cheaply on the net, even better.
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I remember the ISP thing. Some morons introduced a BGP route for everything (0.0.0.0/0) into the backbone. Hours of giant sucking sound for a large part of the net.
;)
There was also that moment of bliss when a software upgrade stopped authentication at AOL for something like 8 hours. Not 99% of the net but, it was a start in the right place.
If you're really keen on links, I'll track 'em down, but it was a couple years ago when life revolved around the two MAEs. We're better off now.
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Of course, you (and I) are stuck here. The only way we're getting to watch multiple things at the same time is with multiple converters.
;) Nice watching a 1 hour show in ~45 minutes.
I just cram everything I watch through TiVo and accept the delay. What are the commercial things of which people speak
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I think the biggest obstacle for digital video recorders to become mainstream is the price point.
What value do you put on your time? Once you've got TiVo setup for the shows you like, you're done. If the network moves it, TiVo moves too. Also, forget time spent rewinding.
Then, of course, there's the ability to pause live TV.
I think it's a mistake to simply compare TiVo to a VCR. It does more/different things. You still need a VCR if you want to watch VHS tapes or save a show for good.
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I have the TiVo and I think if given a choice between the two options, I'd take the TiVo method.
It takes a little getting used to, but the FF system on TiVo corrects for reasonable reaction time. You can, typically, lean on the FF button 3 times and when you see the show, press it again. Nearly every time I do this, It jumps right back to the end of the last commercial and off I go.
Also, occasionally, it's nice to say, "WTF?" and back-up to see the commercial/news trailer that just winged by. My impression is that you miss these things with a true skip feature.
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just became a set of paperweights
I'm kinda hoping they'll be "Highly collectible antique Americana" usuable as coasters in Millennium inspired theme restaurants. Probably be worth $20-30 bucks each (of course bread will be $50/loaf.)
Of course, AOL has this market covered, but it's a thought.
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