WHy spend $20 extra for the 20% of customers that will use one?
And then thos ecustomers will complain that they didn't get the 0-gauge, platinum-plated, "archival quality" Monster (TM) cable and that their picture looks back because of that.
I've rented Segways a couple times and it's not as easy as it looks. It's not easy to fall over, but it is easy to go around crashing into stuff. The Segway vendors do a brisk business in new fenders.
I rode around Santa Barbara (CA) which has a lot of uneven sidewalks. The classic scenario is to hang up one wheel on something (the Segway is wider than your shoulders), then you execute an immediate 90-degree crash turn into whatever happens to be there. Negotiating curb cuts is tricky, since the device must remain reasonably level in the roll axis. Once you get some situational awareness it fine. It will stop on a dime (I was actually able to make the tires skid.)
I was surprised how powerful the device was. It could lug my 200 pound white ass up the steep hills on the edge of S.B.'s downtown. After an hour of fooling around, I was down about 2/3 of a charge, although that included some hill-climbing, just to see how much torque the thing could crank out.
This is all because AOL dropped dialup service. (Could you ever get it in the UK? There must have been an equivalent.)
My cousins conspired against me and gave my mother a computer last winter. Now she is calling me with questions like "how do I get the email into the computer?" and "Do I have to plug the computer in for it to work?" I TOLD her not to sign up for broadband but she did anyway and has had it for six months and never AFAIK seen a single web page or sent a single email.
If I had the time I would develop a Linux liveCD "GrandpaOS". (Knoppix and the ilk come close but still have too many bells and whistles.) Instead, I will give all my cousins' small children drum sets next Christmas.
Yahoo's web interface doesn't do a terrible job of filtering, I'll agree. But the POP spool seems to be completely unfiltered. So, again, why forward to a POP account when the web mail interfaces work fairly well.
This used to happen all the time back in the good old days. Now that industry is beginning to equilibrate after the bust, the cycles are shortening and it's back to the good old days of semiannual semiconductor boom-bust cycles.
Intel used to have every manager rank their employees in order, "on a curve" so to speak. This was done [quarterly, annually?] and was IMHO a fair way to force managers to evaluate their people objectively, which every manager ought to do anyway. I suppose one side beneft is that there was always a list at hand when it was time to sack N% of the workforce.
My ISP SBC/Yahoo's spam filtering sucks so utterly that I would find it pointless to forward mail FROM somewhere to my SBC/Yahoo account. No email sent to my SBC/Yahoo account is ever read. Apparently Comcast's spam filtering is run by morons too, so why bother to forward TO your ISP?
My mail gets forwarded via Godaddy to Gmail. Godaddy does a halfway decent job filtering out most of the junk and Gmail handles the rest. The idea being to forward TO the agent with the most effective spam filtering.
The Well has a pretty good reputation, and I would expect them to be fairly adept at spam filtering, and have decent customer support. Why forward backwards?
Without the might power of flaming Youtube videos, I am sure the recall would have taken DAY later.
I am sure that UPS and the USPS, for example, don't give a fig if a plane with some laptops on it catches on fire every now and then. They are huge evil corporations! Keep it up INTERWEB! SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!
Who even needs to print? I have a dumpster-dived 930c that's had the same set of catridges for 3 years. I print maybe 2 pages per month, airline e-tickets are pretty much it.
If I actually ever need to buy new cartridges I'll just email PDFs to the local Kinkos and pay them 50c per page to print it there, it's cheaper.
And that is a bunch of amateurs writing SW licenses.
"The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm a ny human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
Doesn't even say anything about any "Military". What if one reads "RIAA" for "Military"?
vs $291/hr for a Piper Malibu Mirage (pressuized single engine piston).
Obviously they would fudge the numbers in their favor but if this technology takes off it will only be a sign of disrespect if your company forces you to fly on a domestic airline, especially for short hops.
No, no guarantees is the Microjets start turning into lawn darts in the hands of cheapo air taxi operations hiring minimum wage pilots, or, worse, every rich asshole in the US buys one and insists on trying to fly it into their favorite ski resort in the dead of winter.
But of I had a few million I'd buy one right now. I have piston-powered aircraft. Nothing but trouble!
Another possibility that might save the day - a no-carryon-luggae airline. I'd be first in line. I've had it with assholes trying to carry on (real world examples) steamer trunks, elk antlers dripping with blood, and 6-foot stuffed llamas. All you people with big carryon items - you deserve the crap your getting now at the hands of the airlines.
Document management is a technique for turning all the crappy little internal web sites in your company running Apache, PHPNuke, or some random blogging thing into giant bloated internal web sites with exactly the same content, overpriced on-site consultants, and $50K per year support contracts.
I get close to zero spams in my Inbox in Gmail, maybe one or two a week normally, but every three weeks or so I do I get a clump of 10 or so all at once.
This makes me think part of Gmail's success in blocking spam is application of their search technology to the problem, when a new trick comes along it takes an hour or two for their stuff to "learn" it. Think of a very large Bayesian system, helped along by millions of users clicking on "Report Spam".
Yahoo has always been and continues to be totally fsking useless at blocking spam. But then my Yahoo mail email addresses are only used as spam magnets.
DC isn't any more dangerous than AC of similar voltage and current.
380 VDC isn't going to fry you any more dead than 120VAC.
You also may have a misconception that DC requires large currents. Well, yes, at 48V. And at those currents you can easily, like, weld a wrench to a rack rail before a breaker trips.
I've always been a fan of 240V. 99% of equipment made today will run on anything between 100 and 240 volts, and at 240 you need half the current. Whenever I bring this up as part of a data center design, I'm met with blank, puzzled stares. Good luck with HV DC.
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah UDBH Syndrome 0xb6 Memory Module Board 3 J3801 > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 436398 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 ECC Data Bit 30 was in error and corrected > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 858871 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 Corrected Memory Error on Board 3 J3801 is Persistent > Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 888460 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU10, errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55
As the hardware gets older these errors become more frequent. Leftover form the dot-com boom days, they can be safely ignored, and one just keeps on drinking.
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WHy spend $20 extra for the 20% of customers that will use one?
And then thos ecustomers will complain that they didn't get the 0-gauge, platinum-plated, "archival quality" Monster (TM) cable and that their picture looks back because of that.
Whiners.
I've rented Segways a couple times and it's not as easy as it looks. It's not easy to fall over, but it is easy to go around crashing into stuff. The Segway vendors do a brisk business in new fenders.
I rode around Santa Barbara (CA) which has a lot of uneven sidewalks. The classic scenario is to hang up one wheel on something (the Segway is wider than your shoulders), then you execute an immediate 90-degree crash turn into whatever happens to be there. Negotiating curb cuts is tricky, since the device must remain reasonably level in the roll axis. Once you get some situational awareness it fine. It will stop on a dime (I was actually able to make the tires skid.)
I was surprised how powerful the device was. It could lug my 200 pound white ass up the steep hills on the edge of S.B.'s downtown. After an hour of fooling around, I was down about 2/3 of a charge, although that included some hill-climbing, just to see how much torque the thing could crank out.
If it cost $2000 less I would buy one.
This is all because AOL dropped dialup service. (Could you ever get it in the UK? There must have been an equivalent.)
My cousins conspired against me and gave my mother a computer last winter. Now she is calling me with questions like "how do I get the email into the computer?" and "Do I have to plug the computer in for it to work?" I TOLD her not to sign up for broadband but she did anyway and has had it for six months and never AFAIK seen a single web page or sent a single email.
If I had the time I would develop a Linux liveCD "GrandpaOS". (Knoppix and the ilk come close but still have too many bells and whistles.) Instead, I will give all my cousins' small children drum sets next Christmas.
Yahoo's web interface doesn't do a terrible job of filtering, I'll agree. But the POP spool seems to be completely unfiltered. So, again, why forward to a POP account when the web mail interfaces work fairly well.
"Now, can I have your information, dear customer"
All those pitches from PayPal keep calling me "dear customer". I was nearly hoodwinkled!
This used to happen all the time back in the good old days. Now that industry is beginning to equilibrate after the bust, the cycles are shortening and it's back to the good old days of semiannual semiconductor boom-bust cycles.
Intel used to have every manager rank their employees in order, "on a curve" so to speak. This was done [quarterly, annually?] and was IMHO a fair way to force managers to evaluate their people objectively, which every manager ought to do anyway. I suppose one side beneft is that there was always a list at hand when it was time to sack N% of the workforce.
My ISP SBC/Yahoo's spam filtering sucks so utterly that I would find it pointless to forward mail FROM somewhere to my SBC/Yahoo account. No email sent to my SBC/Yahoo account is ever read. Apparently Comcast's spam filtering is run by morons too, so why bother to forward TO your ISP?
My mail gets forwarded via Godaddy to Gmail. Godaddy does a halfway decent job filtering out most of the junk and Gmail handles the rest. The idea being to forward TO the agent with the most effective spam filtering.
The Well has a pretty good reputation, and I would expect them to be fairly adept at spam filtering, and have decent customer support. Why forward backwards?
Without the might power of flaming Youtube videos, I am sure the recall would have taken DAY later.
I am sure that UPS and the USPS, for example, don't give a fig if a plane with some laptops on it catches on fire every now and then. They are huge evil corporations! Keep it up INTERWEB! SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!
Who even needs to print? I have a dumpster-dived 930c that's had the same set of catridges for 3 years. I print maybe 2 pages per month, airline e-tickets are pretty much it.
If I actually ever need to buy new cartridges I'll just email PDFs to the local Kinkos and pay them 50c per page to print it there, it's cheaper.
Add to this thread to have a documented record of the prior art.
I hereby suggest "doing things with other things".
All you slackers aren't reading The Fine Print (TM). Energy created by interacting with magnetic fields is free, everyone knows that.
It's getting the fields to move that's the expensive part....
There once was an orbiting entity /.-ers snickered
Neither planet nor moon in identity
The IAU bickered
It was too close to Earth; no Pluton, pity.
And that is a bunch of amateurs writing SW licenses.
"The Program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm a
ny human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
Doesn't even say anything about any "Military". What if one reads "RIAA" for "Military"?
Pretty half-assed legalese if you ask me.
mixed with rain water. Do not avoid women, but do deny them your essence
-Jack
and it repeated itself after 400 iterations.
Which is not much more than first class
s .pdf
http://www.eclipseaviation.com/files/pdf/Economic
vs $291/hr for a Piper Malibu Mirage (pressuized single engine piston).
Obviously they would fudge the numbers in their favor but if this technology takes off it will only be a sign of disrespect if your company forces you to fly on a domestic airline, especially for short hops.
No, no guarantees is the Microjets start turning into lawn darts in the hands of cheapo air taxi operations hiring minimum wage pilots, or, worse, every rich asshole in the US buys one and insists on trying to fly it into their favorite ski resort in the dead of winter.
But of I had a few million I'd buy one right now. I have piston-powered aircraft. Nothing but trouble!
Another possibility that might save the day - a no-carryon-luggae airline. I'd be first in line. I've had it with assholes trying to carry on (real world examples) steamer trunks, elk antlers dripping with blood, and 6-foot stuffed llamas. All you people with big carryon items - you deserve the crap your getting now at the hands of the airlines.
Document management is a technique for turning all the crappy little internal web sites in your company running Apache, PHPNuke, or some random blogging thing into giant bloated internal web sites with exactly the same content, overpriced on-site consultants, and $50K per year support contracts.
I get close to zero spams in my Inbox in Gmail, maybe one or two a week normally, but every three weeks or so I do I get a clump of 10 or so all at once.
This makes me think part of Gmail's success in blocking spam is application of their search technology to the problem, when a new trick comes along it takes an hour or two for their stuff to "learn" it. Think of a very large Bayesian system, helped along by millions of users clicking on "Report Spam".
Yahoo has always been and continues to be totally fsking useless at blocking spam. But then my Yahoo mail email addresses are only used as spam magnets.
DC isn't any more dangerous than AC of similar voltage and current.
380 VDC isn't going to fry you any more dead than 120VAC.
You also may have a misconception that DC requires large currents. Well, yes, at 48V. And at those currents you can easily, like, weld a wrench to a rack rail before a breaker trips.
I've always been a fan of 240V. 99% of equipment made today will run on anything between 100 and 240 volts, and at 240 you need half the current. Whenever I bring this up as part of a data center design, I'm met with blank, puzzled stares. Good luck with HV DC.
- but we make up for it in volume!
(Web 2.0 my ass)
Although I actually did work for a web company that was cash-flow-positive, once. Then they got sold to VC's and had to stop making money.
"Ninety percent of everything is crap"
With Bush and Gore absent from the ticket, that's absolutely true.
The special bonus would be the most hilarious Vice-Presidential debate ever.
"Sheer-thickening?"
Learn to spell, sheesh.
A poll a while back found 1/4 of americans approve of insurance fraud
y n%5Cdynamicpressrelease_577.xml
http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=_d
So yeah, not a bad assumption to make.
Just the other day...
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah UDBH Syndrome 0xb6 Memory Module Board 3 J3801
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 436398 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 ECC Data Bit 30 was in error and corrected
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 858871 kern.info] [AFT0] errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55 Corrected Memory Error on Board 3 J3801 is Persistent
> Jul 25 04:11:11 blah SUNW,UltraSPARC-II: [ID 888460 kern.info] [AFT0] Corrected Memory Error detected by CPU10, errID 0x000a3f92.c551de55
As the hardware gets older these errors become more frequent. Leftover form the dot-com boom days, they can be safely ignored, and one just keeps on drinking.