... until we seeing the actual pricing schedule. If the total cost is approx. the same as the one time cost over the usage lifespan, then it doesn't strike me as too heinous. Of course, if it is %200 over, then we are seeing some heavy gouging, and then we can pay the castle a little visit.
Couple thoughts.. How is this going to impact the OEM's? Are Dell and Gateway going to sell the generic BOX(tm) with the full version, or the crippleware? If it is the crippleware, how happy is Grandma going to be when she starts up to write a nice letter to the D.A.R., and finds that she needs to fork over X amount of dollars to Redmond?
Also, what about templated workstations? Obviously, there is going to be verification based on serial number; will the templated boxes have to have Office manually installed, each with a separate serial # entered? That would be pretty sucky.
One possible use for buckytubes that is being tossed about does use "putting stuff through it;" fuel cells. H storage is either large (balloon) or dense (compressed or liquid), each of these has drawbacks. A very long nanotube tank, (think steam engine tubing) would allow H atoms to be threaded through, thus allowing compact, yet isolated storage.
I am keeping an eye on Norsam's storage. Uses an electron beam instead of a laser, and an electron microscope to read the pits. 200GB per 5 inch disk; 10 of these stack in a cube, and then a wall mount of 30 cubes. 60 terabytes. mmmmm. Obviously these would not be form home use. These are still in vapor, but Norsam has some cool stuff they are doing now. They use licensed LANL tech to do nanotyping and create permanent analog storage discs that are read with an electron scope.
If Gore wants to stick it out, there are nine more days for the absentee ballots to arrive; Gore could also want to make legal challenges that might make this even longer. There is a potential for a long slog ahead of us.
It is pretty amusing, but remember, Nixon could have protested; however there was a lot of "irregularities" from the downstate ballots that would have come to light that Nixon probably would not want to have been discovered.
If they are anything like the RF tags used by the major manufacturer, there is little to worry about. A small incision into the tag will break the circuit, rendering it useless. The problem with the current RF tags (as opposed to the magnetic ones) is that they are too failure prone. Even holding two tags close to each other can disable them. I still like bar codes, not much can go wrong there...
Sure, it is their right to promote whatever they want. Even if the drug treatment is a hook to get eyeballs for Jesus. (Take a look at their curriculum; the first two books are _How can I know I am a Christian_ and _A Quick Look at the Bible_.) But when a Presidential canidate starts promoting this and other evangelical organizations as a model for a replacement of federal programs, I begin to worry about such trifling things as the establishment clause.
Also note how he left out any sort of mention of atheism, and the right to be protected religion. "Our faces and our landscapes are diverse and different - but the spirit of hope and renewal I saw at work in a drug rehabilitation program called Teen Challenge in Colfax, Iowa, is also at work in food pantries and after school programs and crisis pregnancy centers all across America"
Here is a line from the Teen Challenge Mission statement:Develop and nurture the transformation of restored individuals into useful, productive, law-abiding citizens; committed to Christian faith, values, and living.
Far from being a vaguely worded phrase, Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" is an expressed ideology to promote an evangelical ideology through the use of "faith based" organizations. (This is a scary but well documented clarification.)
I find it hard to "pity" a group of people who are part of the pervasive environment of harrassment in the typical high school. (once again the Onion is the voice of oracular truth for the end of the 20th Century.)Homecoming is the penultimate event of the stratification process of the school year. Students who do not want to participate should not have to withdraw to a nearly hermit-like status to avoid harassment. (Does this guy remind anyone else of the character of the sister in the movie Election?
I certainly don't object to asking a question about a specific topic, when other avenues of research have been exhausted, but I haven't seen one single source offered that this guy could not have found spending fifteen minutes on the web, or in a library. Research is part of the work and the learning process, by his skipping that part, it is in effect getting someone else to write a part of it.
As someone with inner ear damage, thus a bad sense of balance, I wonder if you could take one of these things, hook it up to a gyrosope, and provide a prosthetic balancing device?
Did anyone else find this comment to be a bit rich: "Moreover, he adds, DoubleClick itself would hand over to privacy advocates the list of participating companies if it could. But as in many lines of business, partners frown when their relationships are disclosed without their permission, he says." Did it cross their minds that other people might feel that way too?
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, so even believing in what you see can be incorrect. But I'd still rather trust my own sight, with it's imperfection as a known factor, than TV where you cannot trust anything.
... that only one person brought a book, and a lame one at that. I would wish that there would be at least one person with intellectual aspirations left to repopulate the planet. (oh, wait, one of them brought a guitar! )
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... until we seeing the actual pricing schedule. If the total cost is approx. the same as the one time cost over the usage lifespan, then it doesn't strike me as too heinous. Of course, if it is %200 over, then we are seeing some heavy gouging, and then we can pay the castle a little visit. Couple thoughts.. How is this going to impact the OEM's? Are Dell and Gateway going to sell the generic BOX(tm) with the full version, or the crippleware? If it is the crippleware, how happy is Grandma going to be when she starts up to write a nice letter to the D.A.R., and finds that she needs to fork over X amount of dollars to Redmond? Also, what about templated workstations? Obviously, there is going to be verification based on serial number; will the templated boxes have to have Office manually installed, each with a separate serial # entered? That would be pretty sucky.
One possible use for buckytubes that is being tossed about does use "putting stuff through it;" fuel cells. H storage is either large (balloon) or dense (compressed or liquid), each of these has drawbacks. A very long nanotube tank, (think steam engine tubing) would allow H atoms to be threaded through, thus allowing compact, yet isolated storage.
I am keeping an eye on Norsam's storage. Uses an electron beam instead of a laser, and an electron microscope to read the pits. 200GB per 5 inch disk; 10 of these stack in a cube, and then a wall mount of 30 cubes. 60 terabytes. mmmmm. Obviously these would not be form home use. These are still in vapor, but Norsam has some cool stuff they are doing now. They use licensed LANL tech to do nanotyping and create permanent analog storage discs that are read with an electron scope.
If Gore wants to stick it out, there are nine more days for the absentee ballots to arrive; Gore could also want to make legal challenges that might make this even longer. There is a potential for a long slog ahead of us.
It is pretty amusing, but remember, Nixon could have protested; however there was a lot of "irregularities" from the downstate ballots that would have come to light that Nixon probably would not want to have been discovered.
If they are anything like the RF tags used by the major manufacturer, there is little to worry about. A small incision into the tag will break the circuit, rendering it useless. The problem with the current RF tags (as opposed to the magnetic ones) is that they are too failure prone. Even holding two tags close to each other can disable them. I still like bar codes, not much can go wrong there...
Sure, it is their right to promote whatever they want. Even if the drug treatment is a hook to get eyeballs for Jesus. (Take a look at their curriculum; the first two books are _How can I know I am a Christian_ and _A Quick Look at the Bible_.) But when a Presidential canidate starts promoting this and other evangelical organizations as a model for a replacement of federal programs, I begin to worry about such trifling things as the establishment clause.
Also note how he left out any sort of mention of atheism, and the right to be protected religion. "Our faces and our landscapes are diverse and different - but the spirit of hope and renewal I saw at work in a drug rehabilitation program called Teen Challenge in Colfax, Iowa, is also at work in food pantries and after school programs and crisis pregnancy centers all across America" Here is a line from the Teen Challenge Mission statement:Develop and nurture the transformation of restored individuals into useful, productive, law-abiding citizens; committed to Christian faith, values, and living. Far from being a vaguely worded phrase, Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" is an expressed ideology to promote an evangelical ideology through the use of "faith based" organizations. (This is a scary but well documented clarification.)
I find it hard to "pity" a group of people who are part of the pervasive environment of harrassment in the typical high school. (once again the Onion is the voice of oracular truth for the end of the 20th Century.)Homecoming is the penultimate event of the stratification process of the school year. Students who do not want to participate should not have to withdraw to a nearly hermit-like status to avoid harassment. (Does this guy remind anyone else of the character of the sister in the movie Election?
(who am I trying to kid...) The project was "Venona" not "Verona" and it occurred after WWII...
I certainly don't object to asking a question about a specific topic, when other avenues of research have been exhausted, but I haven't seen one single source offered that this guy could not have found spending fifteen minutes on the web, or in a library. Research is part of the work and the learning process, by his skipping that part, it is in effect getting someone else to write a part of it.
As someone with inner ear damage, thus a bad sense of balance, I wonder if you could take one of these things, hook it up to a gyrosope, and provide a prosthetic balancing device?
Did anyone else find this comment to be a bit rich: "Moreover, he adds, DoubleClick itself would hand over to privacy advocates the list of participating companies if it could. But as in many lines of business, partners frown when their relationships are disclosed without their permission, he says." Did it cross their minds that other people might feel that way too?
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, so even believing in what you see can be incorrect. But I'd still rather trust my own sight, with it's imperfection as a known factor, than TV where you cannot trust anything.
... that only one person brought a book, and a lame one at that. I would wish that there would be at least one person with intellectual aspirations left to repopulate the planet. (oh, wait, one of them brought a guitar! )