A spokesperson for the strong nuclear force confirmed today that the elemental constant was also considering a 'flip.' Consequences to industrialialized nations due to climate changes and possible universe-wide subatomic disruption will 'require further study.'
Gravity denied any connections to the magnetic, strong, or weak forces.
The right to free speech isn't at issue here -- it's the freedom from unwarranted search and seizure (Amend. IV of the Bill of Rights) that has, in the modern age, been widely (and often inbcorrectly) interpreted as granting some notion of privacy. And it has nothing to do with democracy per se, rather the tyranny of powerful states that the framers were trying to avoid.
Of course, we seem to be heading in that very direction now anyway.
an Australian port would experience strange garage door phenomena whenever the US Navy pulled into town, something to do with very high powered communications gear.. of course anything pumping enough watts through an antenna and pointing it in the right direction will make your microwave sing.
``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
I'd like to know: how many movies has Mr. Valenti paid for in the past year (admissions and DVDs)?
HBO. I pay them every month, they send my Tivo movies and Six Feet Under, no ads other than the occasional bumper.
You want to watch TV? Pay for the delivery.
You want to not pay? Fine, you're going to watch shows interspersed with ads, or (worse) you're going to watch shows that have ads built-in.
Despite what you think about quality, variety, creativity, & talent, TV production takes a huge amount of money, and that money is going to come from somewhere. Do yourself a favor now, contact your provider (satellite/cable/etc) and list what you like and what you don't. Accurate feedback and customer loyalty will produce better-than-mediocre programming.
..the Feds will complain and Congress will simply mandate that any US library that receives any federal aid (ie, all of them) use a browse/borrow system that can supply exactly this kind of information.
Patriot Act, indeed. If you want to be a patriot these days, go vote in November and boot these current idiots out of power.
..when their DVD player software did not perform 'as advertised.' A class action suit was brought, and anyone who had purchased iMacs during a certain period were invited to join.
The settlement allowed involved parties (ie end-users) to purchase Apple products, including an update to the Mac OS software, for reduced prices. I had updated the OS on my office Macs anyway, but I was able to purchase several Apple optical mice (ok, fine, they are still only one-button) for a decent discount.
Consumers need to read the fine print, and get organized. Companies do pay attention, even giants like M$.
Six US Apollo missions returned approx. 400 kilograms of lunar material to the Earth for study. Those samples gave probably several hundred KB of raw data: chemical and geological data (different than the untold TB or more of *analysis* of that data). The entire Apollo program also generated a huge amount of imagery and measurements of various physical characteristics, ie gravity, radiation, etc.
The Apollo program cost tens of billions of dollars, at a time when the United States was suffering from massive social instability, as well as the lives of three Americans who died. Also spurred the Soviet Union to spend a huge amount on its own largely unsuccessful lunar program.
Pretty expensive for a secret soundstage in Nevada.
Biz market is easy: businesspeople want simplicity and efficiency. That means things like not having to worry about getting the phone numbers from your PDA or Outlook address book into your phone without retyping them all -- this is what the Treo is going after.
Not to mention that a real road warrior, a 200 day-on-the-road kind of person, will always appreciate one less thing to pack: one less cable, one less power adapter, etc.
Are they unsexy? Yep. But so were cell phones back in the day, speaking of truly ugly Motorolas. But people bought them, used them, and pushed their development forward. Same will happen with the combos, until a good phone/PDA is as sleek as this Sony Clie is.
Now I just need 802.11 in the same unit and I'll be happy.
It's always a good idea to give clear, concise feedback to your employers, even when they are a municipal bureaucracy.
But the point you have to drive home here is that you are there to make a thing work well; it's not about having absolute authority, it's about accomplishing that task: make this thing work well. If you need some authority, ask for it and get it; if you need absolute authority, ask for it and explain why it needs to be absolute..
Don't be afraid to step on some toes doing this, either. The end result is going to piss at least one person off, but that's what it will take to be effective. You're trying to do your job, after all.
Seriosuly: it's about improving the quality of your TV viewing/consumption. This is the first geek product I've ever seen or used that is truly practical.
Last weekend I installed a DirecTV dish on the roof of my building, and a Philips DirecTiVo receiver to my ancient RCA TV.. four days later, I can't live without it. Greg The Bunny? Didn't miss it! Enterprise? Didn't miss it! Simpsons? Got, like 18 episodes saved already.. and all of them, I can skip commercials.
This thing is smart enough that when you are fast-forwarding at 2x or 3x, then press Play again, it actually backtracks (can't say rewind anymore) to compensate for your reaction time, and you don't have to rewind back to what you wanted to hit. That kind of attention tod etail is something that far too many other consumer electronics lack these days.
Richochet supported Macs on their USB modems -- I looked into setting up several of my PowerBook users with the 128k service in New York City. A month later the company fell over.
Still, if Aerie is claiming to focus on 'tech-savvy markets' you'd think they'll realize that supporting other-than-Windows would be a smart move.
Ever drive a big American car made in the 70s? With a big-block V8?
My friend Dennis had a `76 Caddy Fleetwood with a damn big engine. The car probably weighed two tons, it was huge, and it had pickup. Redlined at 5k RPM.
A few years later, when I was in college, my roommate Dan had a Ford Escort GT. It was tiny, it had a small engine with hoses everywhere, and it redlined somewhere in the high 6ks IIRC.
The Caddy was way faster.
Mot G4s are like that compared to Intel x86: they push more through, less often. The difference isn't big enough to say that an 800 mhz G4 can top a 2 ghz P4.. Just need to remember that MHZ/= MHZ on different CPU types.
The truly interesting use of this kind of scan would be not just to restore, but to replicate historically and archaeologically interesting sites; you have a perfect 3D model, the original is safe, build a few replicas and ship them off.
The Temple of Dendur is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in NYC; it was a gift from Egypt to the USA for their assistance in building the Aswan dam and handling the many sites that would have been lost to the waters. Think of the Elgin marbles in London, and the long fight between the UK and Greece over where those marbles should live; why should other important pieces or structures be denied to the countries that originally produced them?
Build me a convincing replica, and then I won't have to deal with the Chinese air pollution anyway.
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A spokesperson for the strong nuclear force confirmed today that the elemental constant was also considering a 'flip.' Consequences to industrialialized nations due to climate changes and possible universe-wide subatomic disruption will 'require further study.'
Gravity denied any connections to the magnetic, strong, or weak forces.
Check out Webster's 4th and lookup "sarcasm." Anonymously, if you must.
Gee, adding barcodes would make it *so* much harder to track the users.
The right to free speech isn't at issue here -- it's the freedom from unwarranted search and seizure (Amend. IV of the Bill of Rights) that has, in the modern age, been widely (and often inbcorrectly) interpreted as granting some notion of privacy. And it has nothing to do with democracy per se, rather the tyranny of powerful states that the framers were trying to avoid.
Of course, we seem to be heading in that very direction now anyway.
Did you vote today?
Not true, but close:
an Australian port would experience strange garage door phenomena whenever the US Navy pulled into town, something to do with very high powered communications gear.. of course anything pumping enough watts through an antenna and pointing it in the right direction will make your microwave sing.
``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
I'd like to know: how many movies has Mr. Valenti paid for in the past year (admissions and DVDs)?
HBO. I pay them every month, they send my Tivo movies and Six Feet Under, no ads other than the occasional bumper.
You want to watch TV? Pay for the delivery.
You want to not pay? Fine, you're going to watch shows interspersed with ads, or (worse) you're going to watch shows that have ads built-in.
Despite what you think about quality, variety, creativity, & talent, TV production takes a huge amount of money, and that money is going to come from somewhere. Do yourself a favor now, contact your provider (satellite/cable/etc) and list what you like and what you don't. Accurate feedback and customer loyalty will produce better-than-mediocre programming.
I also support PBS.
My God! Not screenshots??!?!
Because a screenshot seen somewhere on the Internet is *definitive* proof of something's existence!
..the Feds will complain and Congress will simply mandate that any US library that receives any federal aid (ie, all of them) use a browse/borrow system that can supply exactly this kind of information.
Patriot Act, indeed. If you want to be a patriot these days, go vote in November and boot these current idiots out of power.
If your father was too oblivious to TURN OFF his cell phone while on a quote vacation unquote,
then you all deserved to be bothered and annoyed.
Don't want to be bothered when you're out? Turn it off. Don't give the number out. Etc. Blaming the technology here is idiotic.
I run to the flames when others flee.
I slay Cisco, RAID and PowerPoint enemies.
I retreat in darkness until called again.
You need not know my name, for I am legion...
CNet's Tech News has an image next to the story's headline of a crown, perched over two Mac OS-style windows...
n g2 .jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/pg/070802browserki
-mj
..when their DVD player software did not perform 'as advertised.' A class action suit was brought, and anyone who had purchased iMacs during a certain period were invited to join.
The settlement allowed involved parties (ie end-users) to purchase Apple products, including an update to the Mac OS software, for reduced prices. I had updated the OS on my office Macs anyway, but I was able to purchase several Apple optical mice (ok, fine, they are still only one-button) for a decent discount.
Consumers need to read the fine print, and get organized. Companies do pay attention, even giants like M$.
-mj
Six US Apollo missions returned approx. 400 kilograms of lunar material to the Earth for study. Those samples gave probably several hundred KB of raw data: chemical and geological data (different than the untold TB or more of *analysis* of that data). The entire Apollo program also generated a huge amount of imagery and measurements of various physical characteristics, ie gravity, radiation, etc.
The Apollo program cost tens of billions of dollars, at a time when the United States was suffering from massive social instability, as well as the lives of three Americans who died. Also spurred the Soviet Union to spend a huge amount on its own largely unsuccessful lunar program.
Pretty expensive for a secret soundstage in Nevada.
Give me that 1970s setup where my alpha waves drive slotcars around the track.... now *that's* relaxation.
Biz market is easy: businesspeople want simplicity and efficiency. That means things like not having to worry about getting the phone numbers from your PDA or Outlook address book into your phone without retyping them all -- this is what the Treo is going after.
Not to mention that a real road warrior, a 200 day-on-the-road kind of person, will always appreciate one less thing to pack: one less cable, one less power adapter, etc.
Are they unsexy? Yep. But so were cell phones back in the day, speaking of truly ugly Motorolas. But people bought them, used them, and pushed their development forward. Same will happen with the combos, until a good phone/PDA is as sleek as this Sony Clie is.
Now I just need 802.11 in the same unit and I'll be happy.
-mj
Two words: off-shore.
It's always a good idea to give clear, concise feedback to your employers, even when they are a municipal bureaucracy.
But the point you have to drive home here is that you are there to make a thing work well; it's not about having absolute authority, it's about accomplishing that task: make this thing work well. If you need some authority, ask for it and get it; if you need absolute authority, ask for it and explain why it needs to be absolute..
Don't be afraid to step on some toes doing this, either. The end result is going to piss at least one person off, but that's what it will take to be effective. You're trying to do your job, after all.
> Four US stealth fighters, or 40 stealth bombers.
Another Microsoft product with a terrible crash record.
-mj
I dislike TV also, and I work in advertising...
Seriosuly: it's about improving the quality of your TV viewing/consumption. This is the first geek product I've ever seen or used that is truly practical.
Last weekend I installed a DirecTV dish on the roof of my building, and a Philips DirecTiVo receiver to my ancient RCA TV.. four days later, I can't live without it. Greg The Bunny? Didn't miss it! Enterprise? Didn't miss it! Simpsons? Got, like 18 episodes saved already.. and all of them, I can skip commercials.
This thing is smart enough that when you are fast-forwarding at 2x or 3x, then press Play again, it actually backtracks (can't say rewind anymore) to compensate for your reaction time, and you don't have to rewind back to what you wanted to hit. That kind of attention tod etail is something that far too many other consumer electronics lack these days.
Go get one, you'll be glad you did.
On http://www.apple.com/cinematools/ just above the Apple logo on the display, note a teeny tiny little Dock icon for:
Quake III Arena.
Richochet supported Macs on their USB modems -- I looked into setting up several of my PowerBook users with the 128k service in New York City. A month later the company fell over.
Still, if Aerie is claiming to focus on 'tech-savvy markets' you'd think they'll realize that supporting other-than-Windows would be a smart move.
Unstable molecues.
Ever drive a big American car made in the 70s? With a big-block V8?
/= MHZ on different CPU types.
My friend Dennis had a `76 Caddy Fleetwood with a damn big engine. The car probably weighed two tons, it was huge, and it had pickup. Redlined at 5k RPM.
A few years later, when I was in college, my roommate Dan had a Ford Escort GT. It was tiny, it had a small engine with hoses everywhere, and it redlined somewhere in the high 6ks IIRC.
The Caddy was way faster.
Mot G4s are like that compared to Intel x86: they push more through, less often. The difference isn't big enough to say that an 800 mhz G4 can top a 2 ghz P4.. Just need to remember that MHZ
-mj
The truly interesting use of this kind of scan would be not just to restore, but to replicate historically and archaeologically interesting sites; you have a perfect 3D model, the original is safe, build a few replicas and ship them off.
The Temple of Dendur is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in NYC; it was a gift from Egypt to the USA for their assistance in building the Aswan dam and handling the many sites that would have been lost to the waters. Think of the Elgin marbles in London, and the long fight between the UK and Greece over where those marbles should live; why should other important pieces or structures be denied to the countries that originally produced them?
Build me a convincing replica, and then I won't have to deal with the Chinese air pollution anyway.