There are a variety of companies that do this, that have been doing it longer than Verisign. Maybe you (whomever) has just never got them before but this is nothing new to Verisign. There jsut as stupid for taking up the practice because I lose all respect for companies taht operate in this manner (and may switch my Verisign registrations because of it). But in general this seems to smell of a particular kid of/. whine....
Blackness crawling up from ocean deeps. Strange plagues that get dredged up from the ocean. Nothing goes away, even if we forget it. We may laugh a good joke of cthonic horros, but all folklore has it's basis in some piece of the world.
"That which is dead may eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die"
Go to you local home improvement store - in the lighting section you can buy clear glass covers for external post lamps. Be care when using them to experiment with microwave plasmoids - the glass is cheap and will easily crack under the intense heat of a plasmoid.
also, beware that plasmoids produce 'real' heat that will keep the glass hot for a longer period of time (as opposed to the 'fake' microwave heat that seems to quickly dissipate)
This was found quite a bit of time ago, though no one looked into it much because they could find a good use for it. I based part of my undergrad thesis on the effect because of some of less-explained effects. (like how the bubble continues to emit light 60,000 times/sec and never seems to 'run out' of what is being converted into light when the fusion occurs.) This reaction is principle to the formation of all celestial objects, i'll assert.
things the article doesn't mention: the light is brightest the closer that the water is to 0.4* C - it's triple point.
Note: the purpose of a document retention policy is not to keep documents, but to make sure they get destroyed according to policy before someone outside the company decides to use it against you.
Isn't this a rather flawed viewpoint? If you need to go about destroying old documents relating to business practice because you could later be incriminated or otherwise held accountable to them then your business model is probably flawed somewhere.... If you were doing things right all along and you were holding yourself accountable for your mistakes then there should be no fear of your documentation. Any mistakes could be written off as R&D and framed as additional assets to the company since you now have additional recources in teh form of quantifiable knowledge/learned experience. Your 'mitakes' are you tax breaks as long as you keep it floating
We had a 60" progressive input television in the common space for a couple of years, and i can say undoubtedly that it's much, much better than the analog sets. If you can sport for the rest of the home-theatre setup it only makes it better - though IMHO i don't know how you could not go ahead with the rest of teh setup if you're going to drop a chunk of change on the TV. This coming from someone who has the full gig, though, so 'caveats'.
however, i can also say that although the progressive-display TVs are wonderful and all, i really think that for your money you're better of getting a projector.
the units themselves take up a fraction of the space (and weight!) that a large TV does. You'll also be able to get a larger image, ultimately, if you choose to project it that big. Projectors have generally been less expensive new than a comperable 'TV' unit. you're only real caveat here is the lumens on the unit. If the projector is not bright enough you won't be able to put it in a room with _many_ windows. a few are always fine if you have any decent model, but if you have an older/underpowered unit then fore thana window or two, or leaving them uncovered, will seriously wash out your image. granted this will only bite you if you watch a lot of movie in the daytime - but for most people with day-jobs to afford all this stuff you don't need to worry about that much ; )
you'll also have to buy a decent screen or rig a nice white sheet on one of your walls with weights or tape. Friends walking in front of the projection beam will also be an 'issue', but these pretty much pale in comparison to the benefits,, IMHO. it's one of those things: when you see one setup and running it really strikes you how much better a projector is.
In most cases you'll also find that projectors have a VGA input for a computer monitor - something that most televisions won't have (and even if you convert the signal to get it in there you won't be able to read much of any text with it on a TV). Projectors make wonderful computer setups.
....and not to plug a mega-corp, but Sony makes a really great LCD projector right now for about $4-5000 new that we just got and installed. it's super-cool and all the new consoles rock on it. [you'll probably also find that tube projectors won't be worht it. the LCD tech is much better for the money unless you can afford to go DLP, but if you're worried about a 5K TV then DLP is not for you]
this is not something that needs to be created/solved through bioengineering. There are many, *many* plants called phytoindicators that change in response to environmental factors. Chinese Maple is a good example, whose leaves change from maroon to green in the presence of lots of nitrogen in the soil. You'll find this a lot when someoen has then in their garden and the fertilize with an artificial fertilizer which doe slittle but burn the soil.....
this is all 'old knowledge' - as in ~6000+ yr and started mostly with the natives of the American continents. It's a shame that this part of the world seems to be mostly ignored
I hope that it is linked very closely to the ancient mesoamerican peoples, it would be nice to see that their civilization stretched this far.
'course, while i'm making up archeological data, i hope they find the missing balance for my cheque book, along with every plane that disappeared in the bermuda triangle
I still have not heard a good arguement for why airships are not used in this scenario. Most of the volume/weight is acquired on-location making transport cheaper/easier and the skin of the ballon could be made of a photo-voltaic substance that could harvest light for operation.
But unless I'm way off (very likely), isn't it in the best interest of the gov't to encourage and promote a flourishing economy - i.e., things that better the people? Economy = jobs = sustainence, despite other arguements about globalization/etc, which are for a different forum. Isn't ther e aplace for gov't monitoring/protection - or is this an area where corporations are intended to meet out their own justice through slef defensive structures? Banks made armored cars back in the day to stop bandits, and their still used today for the most part. Networking technology could be seen as a logical extension of corporations want for safety in money-faring. But since I see money-lending as a dubious practice as it is anyway i think i'll set this thought down for the moment.
whenever you decide to make such a poignant statement please include links or other reference material otherwise peopel will tend to write you off (such as i have) and your heart-felt and perhaps valid opinions will not be heard
this reference is a bit incorrect as well, but unfortunately i don't have a reference to cite for my info here either. Robots were first portrazying in a Futurist play around the turn of the century (pre-1920). Though I suppose i could be wrong in this as well, the term itself may have come form the Czech play.
didn't Nietzche say somethigna bout "He who fights with spammers might take care lest he thereby become a spammer. And if you gaze for long into an net, the net gazes also into you."
One of the reasons thati've balked at micropayments for individual pages is because of revisions. You'll go to the page, it'll get downloaded to your cache and there it'll remain until you 'redownload' it. Browsers will have to be changed to accomodate the notion that 'if i go to a page i may not want to redownload it' - giving you a revision index that will become unmanageable. Luckily we'll have a new storage medium explosion by then, so the fact that any web-connected computer will need a base of 30gb space won't be so big of a deal.
Then you'll get the chumps that will update something small - like the footer date, to trick you browser into announcing that a new version of the page is available. New browser revision will then start to trickle out that will tell you how many bytes have been changed from the old revision to the new one (if the protocols allow for that).
Next you'll see the emergence of Freenets, where content is not charged for. This will lead to a dichotomy that will cause a split in the net between 'corporate nets' and 'freenets'. 50 years later the prejudice will sift down to the hardware level and the corps will try to dump 'freeloaders' though legislation. They'll use the backing of eliminating 'pirate content' sites, which will post the most up-to-date revisions of any pay-per-view page. A new DCMA provision will come to vote
by this point though wireless hardware will ahve reache dthe same level as 486s and any kid will be able to tinker together mininets that they'll broadcast out of their backpacks as they walk down the halls at school. Teacher's won't catch on for a while, and only the most progressive schools will ban carrying backpacks to class; but it won't matter since those (probalby private) schools will mostly have rich kids anyway, that will buy smaller tech and hide it in a hollowed out book.
...and hopefully SOAP or it's equivalent will allow for the creation of elegent network-mapping tools that will generate data visualizations as you walk down the street and brush by local freenets, getting a 'feel' for the data-fare before you decide to jump in.
[IMO] 'Globalization' is an effort to set commerce as the fundament of the planet, the most underlying system of governence and communication. It says that you and I are both capable of communicating through objects & resources which we assign value, and that those values are equivacable via some system. One of the underlying problems is that the system was not designed in an open and level playing feild - it was designed by those already in a position to leverage more value out of their assets.
Non-economic factors, similarly, don't get equated intot he system since they have no equivalence in the matrix. HOw much is on'es health, or quality of life, 'worth'? What is one willing to 'payp' to support and allow the continuation of ones spiritual beliefs? These are things without/above/beyond value, and they are amongst a large group of factors that are left out of an economy-based system of governance.
Yea, well, when you lay-off a large portion of you mechanics and other maitenence support personel and then try to continue operating as normal something is bound to break. US Airways has been laying off large amounts of people too. Expect to see more of this if the trend continues.
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There are a variety of companies that do this, that have been doing it longer than Verisign. Maybe you (whomever) has just never got them before but this is nothing new to Verisign. There jsut as stupid for taking up the practice because I lose all respect for companies taht operate in this manner (and may switch my Verisign registrations because of it). But in general this seems to smell of a particular kid of /. whine....
-shpoffo
Blackness crawling up from ocean deeps. Strange plagues that get dredged up from the ocean. Nothing goes away, even if we forget it. We may laugh a good joke of cthonic horros, but all folklore has it's basis in some piece of the world.
"That which is dead may eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die"
-shpoffo
Go to you local home improvement store - in the lighting section you can buy clear glass covers for external post lamps. Be care when using them to experiment with microwave plasmoids - the glass is cheap and will easily crack under the intense heat of a plasmoid.
also, beware that plasmoids produce 'real' heat that will keep the glass hot for a longer period of time (as opposed to the 'fake' microwave heat that seems to quickly dissipate)
-shpoffo
This was found quite a bit of time ago, though no one looked into it much because they could find a good use for it. I based part of my undergrad thesis on the effect because of some of less-explained effects. (like how the bubble continues to emit light 60,000 times/sec and never seems to 'run out' of what is being converted into light when the fusion occurs.) This reaction is principle to the formation of all celestial objects, i'll assert.
things the article doesn't mention: the light is brightest the closer that the water is to 0.4* C - it's triple point.
-shpoffo
Since it seems that this reply forum will be a kind of 'guestbook' at the reception, I think I'll leave a little ditty.
Congratulations to both of you
-shpoffo
Note: the purpose of a document retention policy is not to keep documents, but to make sure they get destroyed according to policy before someone outside the company decides to use it against you.
Isn't this a rather flawed viewpoint? If you need to go about destroying old documents relating to business practice because you could later be incriminated or otherwise held accountable to them then your business model is probably flawed somewhere.... If you were doing things right all along and you were holding yourself accountable for your mistakes then there should be no fear of your documentation. Any mistakes could be written off as R&D and framed as additional assets to the company since you now have additional recources in teh form of quantifiable knowledge/learned experience. Your 'mitakes' are you tax breaks as long as you keep it floating
Wake Up!
-shpoffo
yea, scroll down and read something more interesting
-shpoffo
holi! stale-ass moderators can't take a joke....
-shpoffo
BS: "Sir, the post can't be moderated any lower."
PS: "Damn the regulations! Flames on! Engage!"
eww.... what are "e.g." for-skins?
-shpoffo
-"..and if you're hands were magnetic, that would mean something"
We had a 60" progressive input television in the common space for a couple of years, and i can say undoubtedly that it's much, much better than the analog sets. If you can sport for the rest of the home-theatre setup it only makes it better - though IMHO i don't know how you could not go ahead with the rest of teh setup if you're going to drop a chunk of change on the TV. This coming from someone who has the full gig, though, so 'caveats'.
however, i can also say that although the progressive-display TVs are wonderful and all, i really think that for your money you're better of getting a projector.
the units themselves take up a fraction of the space (and weight!) that a large TV does. You'll also be able to get a larger image, ultimately, if you choose to project it that big. Projectors have generally been less expensive new than a comperable 'TV' unit. you're only real caveat here is the lumens on the unit. If the projector is not bright enough you won't be able to put it in a room with _many_ windows. a few are always fine if you have any decent model, but if you have an older/underpowered unit then fore thana window or two, or leaving them uncovered, will seriously wash out your image. granted this will only bite you if you watch a lot of movie in the daytime - but for most people with day-jobs to afford all this stuff you don't need to worry about that much ; )
you'll also have to buy a decent screen or rig a nice white sheet on one of your walls with weights or tape. Friends walking in front of the projection beam will also be an 'issue', but these pretty much pale in comparison to the benefits,, IMHO. it's one of those things: when you see one setup and running it really strikes you how much better a projector is.
In most cases you'll also find that projectors have a VGA input for a computer monitor - something that most televisions won't have (and even if you convert the signal to get it in there you won't be able to read much of any text with it on a TV). Projectors make wonderful computer setups.
....and not to plug a mega-corp, but Sony makes a really great LCD projector right now for about $4-5000 new that we just got and installed. it's super-cool and all the new consoles rock on it. [you'll probably also find that tube projectors won't be worht it. the LCD tech is much better for the money unless you can afford to go DLP, but if you're worried about a 5K TV then DLP is not for you]
-shpoffo
this is not something that needs to be created/solved through bioengineering. There are many, *many* plants called phytoindicators that change in response to environmental factors. Chinese Maple is a good example, whose leaves change from maroon to green in the presence of lots of nitrogen in the soil. You'll find this a lot when someoen has then in their garden and the fertilize with an artificial fertilizer which doe slittle but burn the soil.....
this is all 'old knowledge' - as in ~6000+ yr and started mostly with the natives of the American continents. It's a shame that this part of the world seems to be mostly ignored
-shpoffo
I hope that it is linked very closely to the ancient mesoamerican peoples, it would be nice to see that their civilization stretched this far.
'course, while i'm making up archeological data, i hope they find the missing balance for my cheque book, along with every plane that disappeared in the bermuda triangle
-shpoffo
I still have not heard a good arguement for why airships are not used in this scenario. Most of the volume/weight is acquired on-location making transport cheaper/easier and the skin of the ballon could be made of a photo-voltaic substance that could harvest light for operation.
-shpoffo
But unless I'm way off (very likely), isn't it in the best interest of the gov't to encourage and promote a flourishing economy - i.e., things that better the people? Economy = jobs = sustainence, despite other arguements about globalization/etc, which are for a different forum. Isn't ther e aplace for gov't monitoring/protection - or is this an area where corporations are intended to meet out their own justice through slef defensive structures? Banks made armored cars back in the day to stop bandits, and their still used today for the most part. Networking technology could be seen as a logical extension of corporations want for safety in money-faring. But since I see money-lending as a dubious practice as it is anyway i think i'll set this thought down for the moment.
-shpoffo
whenever you decide to make such a poignant statement please include links or other reference material otherwise peopel will tend to write you off (such as i have) and your heart-felt and perhaps valid opinions will not be heard
-shpoffo
this reference is a bit incorrect as well, but unfortunately i don't have a reference to cite for my info here either. Robots were first portrazying in a Futurist play around the turn of the century (pre-1920). Though I suppose i could be wrong in this as well, the term itself may have come form the Czech play.
-shpoffo
THANK YOU! for illustrating this point and esp. pointing out its reference int he article. I'd Mod you up if I could.
-shpoffo
didn't Nietzche say somethigna bout "He who fights with spammers might take care lest he thereby become a spammer. And if you gaze for long into an net, the net gazes also into you."
-shpoffo
i have long awaited the arrival of my GabeCube - i'm hoping they ship my M-W cd with it too....
-shpoffo
One of the reasons thati've balked at micropayments for individual pages is because of revisions. You'll go to the page, it'll get downloaded to your cache and there it'll remain until you 'redownload' it. Browsers will have to be changed to accomodate the notion that 'if i go to a page i may not want to redownload it' - giving you a revision index that will become unmanageable. Luckily we'll have a new storage medium explosion by then, so the fact that any web-connected computer will need a base of 30gb space won't be so big of a deal.
Then you'll get the chumps that will update something small - like the footer date, to trick you browser into announcing that a new version of the page is available. New browser revision will then start to trickle out that will tell you how many bytes have been changed from the old revision to the new one (if the protocols allow for that).
Next you'll see the emergence of Freenets, where content is not charged for. This will lead to a dichotomy that will cause a split in the net between 'corporate nets' and 'freenets'. 50 years later the prejudice will sift down to the hardware level and the corps will try to dump 'freeloaders' though legislation. They'll use the backing of eliminating 'pirate content' sites, which will post the most up-to-date revisions of any pay-per-view page. A new DCMA provision will come to vote
by this point though wireless hardware will ahve reache dthe same level as 486s and any kid will be able to tinker together mininets that they'll broadcast out of their backpacks as they walk down the halls at school. Teacher's won't catch on for a while, and only the most progressive schools will ban carrying backpacks to class; but it won't matter since those (probalby private) schools will mostly have rich kids anyway, that will buy smaller tech and hide it in a hollowed out book.
...and hopefully SOAP or it's equivalent will allow for the creation of elegent network-mapping tools that will generate data visualizations as you walk down the street and brush by local freenets, getting a 'feel' for the data-fare before you decide to jump in.
-shpoffo
how the hell did i get mod down to 0 - some strange staff-mod back door? I'm going to scour the local stores for a GabeCube you injuts...
looks liek i know where i'm going on my lunch break......
-shpoffo
[IMO] 'Globalization' is an effort to set commerce as the fundament of the planet, the most underlying system of governence and communication. It says that you and I are both capable of communicating through objects & resources which we assign value, and that those values are equivacable via some system. One of the underlying problems is that the system was not designed in an open and level playing feild - it was designed by those already in a position to leverage more value out of their assets.
Non-economic factors, similarly, don't get equated intot he system since they have no equivalence in the matrix. HOw much is on'es health, or quality of life, 'worth'? What is one willing to 'payp' to support and allow the continuation of ones spiritual beliefs? These are things without/above/beyond value, and they are amongst a large group of factors that are left out of an economy-based system of governance.
-shpoffo
Yea, well, when you lay-off a large portion of you mechanics and other maitenence support personel and then try to continue operating as normal something is bound to break. US Airways has been laying off large amounts of people too. Expect to see more of this if the trend continues.
-shpoffo