I play games often, but it is always digital downloads when they go on sale on Steam. It server the same function as used games (pick up older game a few months after launch for cheap) but the money goes to the developers. This hurts used game retailers trying to sustain their shrinking business model, gamers without internet connections, and lovers of physical media.
The article mentions that the ideal place to house this type of energy plant would the desert, like the pilot in the American Southwest.
I am assuming that this is not a total closed system and thus will consume water. Since it mentions doubling the biomass in "a couple of hours" I assume it would consume a lot of water... (but IANAMarineBiologist)
As a resident of the southwest I can say that one of biggest ecoplogical hurdle we face is our need for water. We keep "doubling our biomass" with a constant influx of people excaping the big cities on the coasts with no new sources of water. We constantly are threatening to run the Rio Grande dry in spots and put many species and ecologies in threat. Not to mention all the farmers and communities competing for the same resource.
It sounds like a great idea but not in my backyard. Lets do it, but near a big water supply, not the desert southwest...
(Hmmm... I assume the algae can handle salt water, how about nearer to the ocean? But then the real estate costs more!)
My crew is in the same boat. I am the fourth tech and we are growing quickly with large new clients. We don't want to destroy the magic our team that has produced and the resumes we were getting were not great.
We have had one of those big AOL call centers shut down in our town and one of my friends is a GM there. I had him collect resumes from their IT staff. I feel bad about capatalizing on the center's misfortune but at least we might be able to give someone a job who really needs it.
It may some mercenary but if there are any big companies pulling out of your town, they might be a good place to look. The bonus is that you will get someone who is already familiar with large corporate deployment and strategies...
Not to mention in Symbol RF guns. Used heavily in warehouses throughout the nation, they are full functional mobile PCs. The newer ones have Windows CE, but not the one that connect to our servers, they have DOS.
I never knew how rusty my DOS skills were until I tried to walk a warehouse guy across the nation through troubleshooting 802.11 wireless authentication across a VPN tunnel on one...
I read an article about tire rubber that got me thinking about how much a good idea all these recycled rubber products really are:
"The rubber in car tires is typically about 40 percent natural--i.e., made from latex; there's even more latex rubber in truck tires. Putting a fine dust of latex into the air is a serious concern to those with latex allergies. Somewhere from 1 to 6 percent of the U.S. population has some sensitivity to latex, which can take the form of rashes, inflammation, asthma, and worse. (Health care workers who are constantly exposed to latex in the form of gloves and such have a higher rate of sensitivity, sometimes estimated at 15 percent or more.) While those values sound low and one can take steps to avoid latex exposure, if you live in an area with a lot of road traffic, airborne latex can make your life pretty miserable.
Those who aren't latex-sensitive don't get a break. Fine rubber particles, whether latex or synthetic, can lodge in your lungs and even enter your bloodstream. The Environmental Protection Agency has a whole category designated for such problematic particles: PM2.5, or particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in size. Excessive exposure can lead to reduced lung capacity, bronchitis, asthma, accelerated heart disease, and death. One study claims that nearly 60 percent of airborne tire particles are small enough to be easily inhaled. I've heard tell that radial tires produce a finer dust that's more hazardous than what's produced by older-style bias-ply tires; while that's plausible given tire construction differences, it's difficult to know for sure."
me: Thanks for calling AOL, how may I help you? guy: I want to start an online business. me: Try keyword Busines, just type... guy: Actually first I wanted to check out other businesses first. me: O-Kay... guy: The most successful online business are porn aren't they... me:...um, yeah. guy: Soo.. I was wondering if you could help me find some...
If you have the macromedia suite and basic knowledge of flash you can. (Not the easiest or cheapest way to go but it works...)
In Macromedia Flash you can Trace Bitmap and it will tranform it to a vector image. Select each color piece, remove the fill and add a stoke color (to give it a border around it.) Add numbers and you are done, happiness!!!
NEC? Sony? I have owned both and NEC makes a very nice dual layer burner for the price and is very popular. Why not include it in the comparison? (While we are at it, how about Ben-Q? Their prices are rock bottom but I always wondered if the quality was as well...)
Me too. It seems that there is a "staging center" local to me. The return address said "nearest nexflix location" but the closest is like two days away. Yet they know within a day, so I assume they get aggregated nearby, scanned and shipped back in mass.
Hey, here's an idea. Cut some metal words out of old scrap metal and make the phrase "This is a test" and put it inside your luggage. I wonder what kinds of things you could get through the screening system:-)
Except that the this-is-just-a-test screen appears "after a brief delay".
It would not be much of a test if all they had to look for was the words instead of the actual bomb in the luggage....
hmmm... No. They will just get thier rich boyfriend to buy them a new computer.
(Wish this was a joke. At the price point of a new PC now a days, many doctors at my hospital find it easier and more convenient to just buy a $400 computer now; than to pay a shop 300$ for a spyware clean up that take a few days...)
I recently bought a 25$ Car usb-power/MP3-player/FM-Transmitter adapter and it was defective. (the MP3s skipped) New Egg credited me my money back and did not want it shipped back. (which is cool because two thirds of it's features work, so I still use:)
I have always had great customer service from them and I use them all the time. In the rare case there is a problem they have bent over backwards to please me...
I can't wait to stick this on a desktop case and make a hole in for it stick out. Chrome the pipes, put a nice 70' red Camaro paint job on the case and I am done...
My cousin got offered a place is the Space Program. He choose to design satelittes rather than the astronaut position. (Better money, and he later went to the private sector. Obviously he is not a geek...:)
These are highly trained and educated individuals, I am sure they being employed gainfully...
Hmmm... I wonder if I get faster turn around times because most of my movies are older and not in demand. My stuff almost never has waits in my queue.
So maybe I never see this throttling effect because no one else wants the same DVDs......sounds kinda sad; lonely DVDs gathering dust waiting for an eccentric like me to dig them out...
Anyways, I rent a alot of old movies that have been out for a while and most of them are DVD-5s already, no shrinking necessary.
Even highly produced films like Shark Tale that come on DVD-9s, after you strip away the outrageous animated menus, the billion extras and all the languages end up being 100% quality on a DVD-5 no shrinkage necessary (anyDVD/CloneDVD2 rock!!!)
Uhhhh...so I hear... ummm... from a friend who heard it from a friend who is a... horrible dispicable pirate, I mean...
Wierd, I have been a long time subscriber and they have never done this to me. As a matter of fact they just opened a new distro center close to me and I can easily get 3 sets of movies in two weeks if I return them the same day direct to the Post Office... I have tried Blockbuster, walmart and Netflix and Netflix had the best selection and turn around time.
I understand that hydrogen Zepplins have become much safe since the Hindenbutg...:)
Seriously, since it is a lighter that air gas could you not just use collapsable lighter than air transports that get trucked back to the generator after they deliver it?
I understand that hydrogen Zepplins have become much safe since the hindenbutg...:)
Seriously, since it is a lighter that air gas could you not just use collapsable lighter than air transports that get trucked back to the generator after they deliver it? Why muck around with pipelines...
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They forgot Multipassium
I play games often, but it is always digital downloads when they go on sale on Steam. It server the same function as used games (pick up older game a few months after launch for cheap) but the money goes to the developers. This hurts used game retailers trying to sustain their shrinking business model, gamers without internet connections, and lovers of physical media.
The article mentions that the ideal place to house this type of energy plant would the desert, like the pilot in the American Southwest.
I am assuming that this is not a total closed system and thus will consume water. Since it mentions doubling the biomass in "a couple of hours" I assume it would consume a lot of water... (but IANAMarineBiologist)
As a resident of the southwest I can say that one of biggest ecoplogical hurdle we face is our need for water. We keep "doubling our biomass" with a constant influx of people excaping the big cities on the coasts with no new sources of water. We constantly are threatening to run the Rio Grande dry in spots and put many species and ecologies in threat. Not to mention all the farmers and communities competing for the same resource.
It sounds like a great idea but not in my backyard. Lets do it, but near a big water supply, not the desert southwest...
(Hmmm... I assume the algae can handle salt water, how about nearer to the ocean? But then the real estate costs more!)
My crew is in the same boat. I am the fourth tech and we are growing quickly with large new clients. We don't want to destroy the magic our team that has produced and the resumes we were getting were not great.
We have had one of those big AOL call centers shut down in our town and one of my friends is a GM there. I had him collect resumes from their IT staff. I feel bad about capatalizing on the center's misfortune but at least we might be able to give someone a job who really needs it.
It may some mercenary but if there are any big companies pulling out of your town, they might be a good place to look. The bonus is that you will get someone who is already familiar with large corporate deployment and strategies...
Not to mention in Symbol RF guns. Used heavily in warehouses throughout the nation, they are full functional mobile PCs. The newer ones have Windows CE, but not the one that connect to our servers, they have DOS.
I never knew how rusty my DOS skills were until I tried to walk a warehouse guy across the nation through troubleshooting 802.11 wireless authentication across a VPN tunnel on one...
I read an article about tire rubber that got me thinking about how much a good idea all these recycled rubber products really are:
"The rubber in car tires is typically about 40 percent natural--i.e., made from latex; there's even more latex rubber in truck tires. Putting a fine dust of latex into the air is a serious concern to those with latex allergies. Somewhere from 1 to 6 percent of the U.S. population has some sensitivity to latex, which can take the form of rashes, inflammation, asthma, and worse. (Health care workers who are constantly exposed to latex in the form of gloves and such have a higher rate of sensitivity, sometimes estimated at 15 percent or more.) While those values sound low and one can take steps to avoid latex exposure, if you live in an area with a lot of road traffic, airborne latex can make your life pretty miserable.
Those who aren't latex-sensitive don't get a break. Fine rubber particles, whether latex or synthetic, can lodge in your lungs and even enter your bloodstream. The Environmental Protection Agency has a whole category designated for such problematic particles: PM2.5, or particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in size. Excessive exposure can lead to reduced lung capacity, bronchitis, asthma, accelerated heart disease, and death. One study claims that nearly 60 percent of airborne tire particles are small enough to be easily inhaled. I've heard tell that radial tires produce a finer dust that's more hazardous than what's produced by older-style bias-ply tires; while that's plausible given tire construction differences, it's difficult to know for sure."
(An excerpt from Straight Dope)
Oh course, if it does not get recycled does it get disposed off in a way that is even worse? (Eternal tire fires, etc...)
me: Thanks for calling AOL, how may I help you? ...um, yeah.
guy: I want to start an online business.
me: Try keyword Busines, just type...
guy: Actually first I wanted to check out other businesses first.
me: O-Kay...
guy: The most successful online business are porn aren't they...
me:
guy: Soo.. I was wondering if you could help me find some...
If you have the macromedia suite and basic knowledge of flash you can. (Not the easiest or cheapest way to go but it works...)
In Macromedia Flash you can Trace Bitmap and it will tranform it to a vector image. Select each color piece, remove the fill and add a stoke color (to give it a border around it.) Add numbers and you are done, happiness!!!
NEC? Sony?
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I have owned both and NEC makes a very nice dual layer burner for the price and is very popular. Why not include it in the comparison? (While we are at it, how about Ben-Q? Their prices are rock bottom but I always wondered if the quality was as well...)
Their previous article linked on the first page had a Sony drive but no NEC.
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,
Me too. It seems that there is a "staging center" local to me. The return address said "nearest nexflix location" but the closest is like two days away. Yet they know within a day, so I assume they get aggregated nearby, scanned and shipped back in mass.
Hey, here's an idea. Cut some metal words out of old scrap metal and make the phrase "This is a test" and put it inside your luggage. I wonder what kinds of things you could get through the screening system :-)
Except that the this-is-just-a-test screen appears "after a brief delay".
It would not be much of a test if all they had to look for was the words instead of the actual bomb in the luggage....
hmmm... No. They will just get thier rich boyfriend to buy them a new computer.
(Wish this was a joke. At the price point of a new PC now a days, many doctors at my hospital find it easier and more convenient to just buy a $400 computer now; than to pay a shop 300$ for a spyware clean up that take a few days...)
From personal experience this is not the case.
:)
I recently bought a 25$ Car usb-power/MP3-player/FM-Transmitter adapter and it was defective. (the MP3s skipped) New Egg credited me my money back and did not want it shipped back. (which is cool because two thirds of it's features work, so I still use
I have always had great customer service from them and I use them all the time. In the rare case there is a problem they have bent over backwards to please me...
Ha, there is an animated Firefly series. It is called Cowboy Bebop...
I con't find the link but Fox announced that if Serenity does well they will bring back the series.
I can't wait to stick this on a desktop case and make a hole in for it stick out. Chrome the pipes, put a nice 70' red Camaro paint job on the case and I am done...
Finally a Google image search (with safe search off) link that does not bring up any porn in the results!! Work Safe! YIPPEE!!!
Yeah but he did it for the money not the joy of design....
My cousin got offered a place is the Space Program. He choose to design satelittes rather than the astronaut position. (Better money, and he later went to the private sector. Obviously he is not a geek... :)
These are highly trained and educated individuals, I am sure they being employed gainfully...
Hmmm... I wonder if I get faster turn around times because most of my movies are older and not in demand. My stuff almost never has waits in my queue.
...sounds kinda sad; lonely DVDs gathering dust waiting for an eccentric like me to dig them out...
So maybe I never see this throttling effect because no one else wants the same DVDs...
Anyways, I rent a alot of old movies that have been out for a while and most of them are DVD-5s already, no shrinking necessary.
Even highly produced films like Shark Tale that come on DVD-9s, after you strip away the outrageous animated menus, the billion extras and all the languages end up being 100% quality on a DVD-5 no shrinkage necessary (anyDVD/CloneDVD2 rock!!!)
Uhhhh...so I hear... ummm... from a friend who heard it from a friend who is a... horrible dispicable pirate, I mean...
Wierd, I have been a long time subscriber and they have never done this to me. As a matter of fact they just opened a new distro center close to me and I can easily get 3 sets of movies in two weeks if I return them the same day direct to the Post Office... I have tried Blockbuster, walmart and Netflix and Netflix had the best selection and turn around time.
Tim Berners-Lee recieved a Finnish Technology Award Foundation award to recognize his development of HTML. (1 million dollars)3 341741
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
I believe the part of the purpose of the award is to compensate those who benifitted the common good but did not make money off of it.
http://www.technologyawards.org/
I wonder how people get nomiated?
Transportation via Dirigible:
:)
I understand that hydrogen Zepplins have become much safe since the Hindenbutg...
Seriously, since it is a lighter that air gas could you not just use collapsable lighter than air transports that get trucked back to the generator after they deliver it?
I understand that hydrogen Zepplins have become much safe since the hindenbutg... :)
Seriously, since it is a lighter that air gas could you not just use collapsable lighter than air transports that get trucked back to the generator after they deliver it? Why muck around with pipelines...