I was thinking this too. Edwards AFB maybe?
Hmmm... only about 2500 ft apparently. We can get
to 5000 feet easily on a lot of places out west though,
and I'm sure the military already controls a lot of flat
land at that altitude or greater.
10000? I don't think you can do that without the
extra hassle of building on very steep land.
You've got some complicated legal dispute involving Interstate commerce,
anti-trust and tax. He just says, "you've got the source, figure
it out yourself or hire somebody who can".
Hmmm.... really no change. Yes. Linus for President.
400? Really? How will this compare in value to Apple Newtons 20 years from now? Maybe 400 is, paradoxicly, too low to pique the interest of collectors.
In order for it to be collectably bad, it probably has to fall into enough hands so that people will remember it.
In any event, if it's that rare an item it's probably worth holding on to it if you retain it un-opened, and have the extra space...
Maybe the only small apartments in his town are subsidized units
for low-income people. This issue was actually addressed in an Ayn Rand novel,
I can't remember exactly which one. In the novel, some entrepreneur
was able to screw the NIMBY zoning zealots, and build a SRO (Single Room Occupancy)
in a nice area. Of course, it was a Rand novel so it was occupied by people
of a wide variety of income brackets and classes who simply chose to live
simply. In reality, such housing tends to get occupied by drug addicts who
are *really* motivated to save so they can get every last fix, or prostitutes. Thus, it's really
hard to find such housing in an acceptable state of quality here.
I wager, his student housing was either on-campus (and thus barred to outsiders)
or was subsidized housing that he qualified for at the time; but no longer does.
Builders here assume that if you can afford to live in non-subsidized housing,
you want something bigger. The aforementioned zoning zealots may also stand in the
way of approving plans for truly affordable housing. Remember, almost everybody is
leveraged on their house in the US. Contrary to what they might say, nobody wants affordable housing
because it translates to lower property values. This is especially bad when you are leveraged--it amplfies
profits and losses. We saw the profit amplification during the boom, and now we are seeing the
loss amplification.
The best answer may be some form of exchange-traded non-leveraged REIT. AFAIK it doesn't exist.
This is one of my pet ideas... I digress...
I do. My e-mail has been there forever. Their financial charts
were, until recently, clean and uncluttered. They've started forcing
"revamped" basic charts on us; but even for a "web 2.0 compliant" chart,
they still managed to do it without too many bells and whistles. As another
pointed out, this may include their acquisition of Flickr which I have been
using for several years now.
Their search and directory were tired a long time ago. Their subscription
music was a failure; but they're diverse enough to survive that. I suspect
the people who wonder "who uses Yahoo?" get the aforementioned services from
someplace else. They're probably just accustomed to using $Whatever as I am
to using Yahoo.
Followed by, even when something is no longer "red hot", it retains a surprising
number of followers. I bet there are still tons of people with MySpace accounts, actively
maintaining them.
It's even more interesting to look at packets with a sniffer
on Comcast. Something out there is still broadcasting UDP
on this subnet. IIRC, there was a Windows service that used
to be enabled by default, that allowed you to send simple UDP
messages and have them pop up at people. AFAIK It's long since been
disabled; but you still see that kind of traffic on the network. Guess
what, it's all spammy messages too.
How many unpatcheable '98 or even '95 boxes are on the network?
Also, I defy any Linux user to come back and say that a 12 year
old distro wouldn't be an absolute cess pool if it were that popular.
Along similar lines, people still use Outlook? What if you need
to log in from somebody else's box? I'm not a big fan of "web apps
for everything", but email is one of those things where a web app
makes much more sense than a desktop app.
I just do not understand the logic behind their modus operandi of having usage by invite only
I think they thought that it would create buzz like Gmail did. Gmail was
invite only too when it started. I think their failure was in not realizing "special
invite to join Google's email" was far more enticing than "special invite to join
Google's experimental thingamabob".
Of course there were other problems with Wave too. It looked like it skipped
the "do one thing well" stage and went straight to bloatware.
Jojoba oil. Expensive, but a little dab 'l do ya.
Also, natural, sustainable and sometimes "organic".
Most retail jojoba is "cosmetic grade" so it shouldn't
bother your skin either. In fact, it's chemicly similar
to the oils that come out of your skin anyway.
I haven't actually tried it on laptop stickers; but it
does an excellent job of emulsifying the fat/charcoal combination
you get from your gril. It also lubed a sticky pantry door latch
for at least a year now, with just one drop. It would be brilliant
if the people who make electric razors would put a small tube
of jojoba in the package instead of that nasty mineral stuff
that has toxic warnings on it. You can *drink* jojoba and they
say it'll give you the runs like Olestra chips; but it's generally non-toxic.
An expired patent number on a product has positive social
benefit. If anything, we should require the manufacturer to
continue affixing the patent number to the product for a period
after the patent expires. This lets you know how to reproduce
the product, which you now have the right to do.
I don't know about the rest of you, but whenever I see
a patent number on something interesting, I think, "OK, I
can look that up and see when it expires". If they aren't
allowed to keep putting the number there, the answer will
always be "sometime in the future" as opposed to "x number
of years ago".
In other words, if they aren't allowed to put the expired
number there, it'll be harder to get the good news.
Maybe there's enough power in a capacitor on his board so that
RAM state can be flushed to disk when loss of power is detected.
I haven't dug into power management aspects on any of the kernels.
Is there an "impending doom" signal?
All Wikileaks would have to do is begin publishing some sort of "news-like-content" and bam, they'd become shielded.
Alternatively, some enterprising source that already operates that way could selectively source
news from Wikileaks. They might occasionally make some donations to keep it going too.
The way I understand it, the homogenous mass-market American beer has something to do with the way the industrial revolution impacted the US. Cheap beer arrived with the railroad and squeezed out the competition.
Then, prohibtion killed the industry for a while.
We have Jimmy Carter (yes, Carter!) to thank for re-legalizing home brewing in the US. That set the stage for a craft brewing revival that seemed to peak in the late 90s along with dot-com. Many of those micro-brews survive, along with a number of historic breweries that weathered the storm.
If you visit the US and *look* for good and interesting beers, you'll find them. Of course, you'll also still find mass-market brews in the convenience stores, next to McDonalds. If you're American and you have taste, you know where to find better food and beer without killing your pocketbook. Poke around when you come to the States. Get off the beaten track (but educate yourself to make sure you don't wind up in da hood). You'll find some good stuff.
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iendedi. s/istartedi/iendedi/g. Whoah!
I was thinking this too. Edwards AFB maybe? Hmmm... only about 2500 ft apparently. We can get to 5000 feet easily on a lot of places out west though, and I'm sure the military already controls a lot of flat land at that altitude or greater. 10000? I don't think you can do that without the extra hassle of building on very steep land.
Oh sure.
You've got some complicated legal dispute involving Interstate commerce, anti-trust and tax. He just says, "you've got the source, figure it out yourself or hire somebody who can".
Hmmm.... really no change. Yes. Linus for President.
It's all been done
400? Really? How will this compare in value to Apple Newtons 20 years from now? Maybe 400 is, paradoxicly, too low to pique the interest of collectors.
In order for it to be collectably bad, it probably has to fall into enough hands so that people will remember it.
In any event, if it's that rare an item it's probably worth holding on to it if you retain it un-opened, and have the extra space...
Maybe the only small apartments in his town are subsidized units for low-income people. This issue was actually addressed in an Ayn Rand novel, I can't remember exactly which one. In the novel, some entrepreneur was able to screw the NIMBY zoning zealots, and build a SRO (Single Room Occupancy) in a nice area. Of course, it was a Rand novel so it was occupied by people of a wide variety of income brackets and classes who simply chose to live simply. In reality, such housing tends to get occupied by drug addicts who are *really* motivated to save so they can get every last fix, or prostitutes. Thus, it's really hard to find such housing in an acceptable state of quality here.
I wager, his student housing was either on-campus (and thus barred to outsiders) or was subsidized housing that he qualified for at the time; but no longer does.
Builders here assume that if you can afford to live in non-subsidized housing, you want something bigger. The aforementioned zoning zealots may also stand in the way of approving plans for truly affordable housing. Remember, almost everybody is leveraged on their house in the US. Contrary to what they might say, nobody wants affordable housing because it translates to lower property values. This is especially bad when you are leveraged--it amplfies profits and losses. We saw the profit amplification during the boom, and now we are seeing the loss amplification.
The best answer may be some form of exchange-traded non-leveraged REIT. AFAIK it doesn't exist. This is one of my pet ideas... I digress...
I do. My e-mail has been there forever. Their financial charts were, until recently, clean and uncluttered. They've started forcing "revamped" basic charts on us; but even for a "web 2.0 compliant" chart, they still managed to do it without too many bells and whistles. As another pointed out, this may include their acquisition of Flickr which I have been using for several years now.
Their search and directory were tired a long time ago. Their subscription music was a failure; but they're diverse enough to survive that. I suspect the people who wonder "who uses Yahoo?" get the aforementioned services from someplace else. They're probably just accustomed to using $Whatever as I am to using Yahoo.
Followed by, even when something is no longer "red hot", it retains a surprising number of followers. I bet there are still tons of people with MySpace accounts, actively maintaining them.
It's even more interesting to look at packets with a sniffer on Comcast. Something out there is still broadcasting UDP on this subnet. IIRC, there was a Windows service that used to be enabled by default, that allowed you to send simple UDP messages and have them pop up at people. AFAIK It's long since been disabled; but you still see that kind of traffic on the network. Guess what, it's all spammy messages too. How many unpatcheable '98 or even '95 boxes are on the network?
Also, I defy any Linux user to come back and say that a 12 year old distro wouldn't be an absolute cess pool if it were that popular.
Along similar lines, people still use Outlook? What if you need to log in from somebody else's box? I'm not a big fan of "web apps for everything", but email is one of those things where a web app makes much more sense than a desktop app.
Some people have a problem with race. They think, "I know, I'll use space aliens". Now they have two problems.
unemployed guy who plays video games all day ends up getting AP coverage thereby legitimizing his unproductive ways
1. Move to town with funny name.
2. Play video games all day.
3. ???
4. Profit!
I just do not understand the logic behind their modus operandi of having usage by invite only
I think they thought that it would create buzz like Gmail did. Gmail was invite only too when it started. I think their failure was in not realizing "special invite to join Google's email" was far more enticing than "special invite to join Google's experimental thingamabob".
Of course there were other problems with Wave too. It looked like it skipped the "do one thing well" stage and went straight to bloatware.
I got an advanced copy, here's a preview
Maybe the warnings on the small tube of mineral oil that came with the last razor I bought were just CYA language from their legal department then.
Jojoba oil. Expensive, but a little dab 'l do ya. Also, natural, sustainable and sometimes "organic". Most retail jojoba is "cosmetic grade" so it shouldn't bother your skin either. In fact, it's chemicly similar to the oils that come out of your skin anyway.
I haven't actually tried it on laptop stickers; but it does an excellent job of emulsifying the fat/charcoal combination you get from your gril. It also lubed a sticky pantry door latch for at least a year now, with just one drop. It would be brilliant if the people who make electric razors would put a small tube of jojoba in the package instead of that nasty mineral stuff that has toxic warnings on it. You can *drink* jojoba and they say it'll give you the runs like Olestra chips; but it's generally non-toxic.
Glad that's settled. Now the winners and losers can gratiously shake hands and get on with their lives. Yeah, right.
They've been planting trees on the edge of the Taklamakan. I read about that years ago, here's a link.
As others have pointed out, prior humans may have created the problem, so we are really just repairing the damage.
I don't see how this ties in with terraforming very much, which is taking something that never had life in the first place and establishing it.
An expired patent number on a product has positive social benefit. If anything, we should require the manufacturer to continue affixing the patent number to the product for a period after the patent expires. This lets you know how to reproduce the product, which you now have the right to do.
I don't know about the rest of you, but whenever I see a patent number on something interesting, I think, "OK, I can look that up and see when it expires". If they aren't allowed to keep putting the number there, the answer will always be "sometime in the future" as opposed to "x number of years ago".
In other words, if they aren't allowed to put the expired number there, it'll be harder to get the good news.
Maybe there's enough power in a capacitor on his board so that RAM state can be flushed to disk when loss of power is detected. I haven't dug into power management aspects on any of the kernels. Is there an "impending doom" signal?
All Wikileaks would have to do is begin publishing some sort of "news-like-content" and bam, they'd become shielded.
Alternatively, some enterprising source that already operates that way could selectively source news from Wikileaks. They might occasionally make some donations to keep it going too.
Unfortunately, I have no voice as I am a legal alien in America and therefore cannot vote
Unfortunately, I have no voice as I am merely a citizen by birth in America and therefore cannot make corporate-sized campaign contributions.
Welcome to my world.
My paradigm shifted and, due to a cosmic ray was padded with random garbage instead of zeros. Now, I must take exception to all this...
The way I understand it, the homogenous mass-market American beer has something to do with the way the industrial revolution impacted the US. Cheap beer arrived with the railroad and squeezed out the competition.
Then, prohibtion killed the industry for a while.
We have Jimmy Carter (yes, Carter!) to thank for re-legalizing home brewing in the US. That set the stage for a craft brewing revival that seemed to peak in the late 90s along with dot-com. Many of those micro-brews survive, along with a number of historic breweries that weathered the storm.
If you visit the US and *look* for good and interesting beers, you'll find them. Of course, you'll also still find mass-market brews in the convenience stores, next to McDonalds. If you're American and you have taste, you know where to find better food and beer without killing your pocketbook. Poke around when you come to the States. Get off the beaten track (but educate yourself to make sure you don't wind up in da hood). You'll find some good stuff.
you do indeed make a goof argument, which I shall now follow
Yes. Yes indeed.
Oh no, they must have never seen the film:
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
Except next week they will "discover" the opposite...
Yeah. It's enough to drive me to drink.