I am not a radio expert. Are you saying it isn't possible for an FM tuner on a cheap clock radio to change slightly the frequency it is tuned to? My experience would make me guess otherwise, but I suppose it is possible that I was bumping the dial without realizing it.
"The Macarena" (what better way than to wake up to a HORRIBLE song)
When I used to wake up to music on my alarm clock I actually noticed a big difference in my attitude depending on which station I had it preset to. Classical music woke me up slowly, gently and left me in a very agreeable mood. Pop music or Rock music was not nearly as pleasant to wake up to but it was highly dependent on the particular song playing. Country music was the worst. I don't mind hearing it in the middle of the day, but waking up to 'Achey Breaky Heart' made me want to spit bile and kill something.
I quit waking to music though because sometimes the station would drift and I wouldn't be woken up at all. The buzzer never lets me down.
Why should the public pay at all when so much has been stolen from them? The very same publishers who have gotten copyright lengthened until it no longer serves it originally purpose want the public to respect this hijacking of the Public Domain and pay for those old works as well as the new. There is only justice when both sides are treated fairly. Give us the Public Domain back and we'll be much more amenable to accepting DRM.
Could it be that there has just been a lot of fuss over nothing?
No. Because the fact that there is now a potential for abuse means that someday it will happen even if it hasn't already. The lid on Pandora's box is wedged open and the tyranny that Jefferson and Adams and the rest of the founding fathers fought to protect us from is slowly escaping to menace us once again.
Oh, you're from New York. Well please accept my apology. I shouldn't take a poke at a whole city just because I've run into a few a-holes from there. That is fantastic that you actually have the ear of somebody in the city government. I hope you can at least convince them to investigate this possiblity because I think it's a great idea.
If it were done as a municipal project just imagine NYC getting paid $200/ton to take other cities sludge and turn it into bio-fuel. The taxpayers would sure like that, wouldn't they? And something like that could help build a new reputation for New York as a clean, modern metropolis. Plus the mobsters could toss dead bodies in with the sludge instead of leaving them float down the East River. So that's a bonus.
Excellent idea. My spider-sense tells me that your math is off by about a magnitude though. Even so, If the city could save $200 bucks per ton and turn that into 2 barrels per ton (assuming its in the same ballpark as turkey guts) which could be burned in city vehicles then they would be about $300 per ton ahead of the game. I think you should email your suggestion to Fortune Magazine,CWT, plus whoever is currently mayor of that stinking cesspool at the mouth of the Hudson.
Ha, 40:1 ratio for desktop support personell for windows?
I used to work in an all-microsoft shop back when Nt4 was new and at that time the ratio for us was about 20-30 users to 1 support person. However we did more than just helpdesk support. But when I left to come to a NetWare shop I was amazed at how many more users were being supported per number of IT people. It was at least triple. And to top it off, at the NetWare shop we are responsible for much more than at the other place. In addition to data we also handle phone and security and support users at remote locations. So I think the ratio will differ from company to company depending on various things but I know from experience that Windows is support intensive.
We use Novell Groupwise where I work. I know it is way behind IBM and Microsoft in terms of marketshare but last I knew it was the #3 groupware. So I am surprised it isn't even mentioned. Or if they just wanted to look at email clients and not groupware then Lotus Notes shouldn't have been included either. Doing so gives people sticker shock and they don't realize that apples and oranges are being compared.
He said "I may have destroyed many innocent lives but at least I never claimed to have caught anyone. These guys are going to give witchhunting a bad name."
Is it possible for two photons moving in different directions to cancel eachother out (destructive interference)?
As you yourself pointed out light has the property of wave/particle duality. Interference can be understood by describing light as a wave rather than a particle.
The limitation of a liquid mirror is that it only points straight up, so it's not like a standard telescope that can be pointed in any direction and track objects in the sky. It only looks at the area of sky that is directly overhead.
Also, LMTs don't need expensive mounts, supports, tracking systems, or a dome.
But if those mounts, supports, and tracking system were added either to the initial design or as an upgrade later then the telescope could be aimed.
If you refer to this diagram you can understand what I am saying easier.
Since any circular section of the parabolic dish would itself be a smaller parabolic dish you could just use a smaller secondary mirror and tilt it to shift the prime focus to any point you wish (within limits). The cost of observing further and farther from the optimum focal point of "straight up" would be in having to use smaller and smaller secondary mirrors and therefore making less magnified observations.
Of course the increased complexity of the system would be a drawback in and of itself but I have to believe it would be worth it. The deep field images would not be endangered since any size secondary could be used right up to the optimum size to take advantage of the entire primary mirror.
Two of the drawbacks mentioned were having to run Lotus Notes under Wine and IBM Web services only supporting IE. But Novell has a Groupwise client that runs very nicely under Linux and most of their recent web apps work well with Mozilla and Firefox under both Windows and Linux. They also have NetWare file services running on Linux (I think its in open beta now). There is a good open source NCP client as well as rumours of an official Novell client for Linux.
Having recently watched Fahrenheit 911 I find it interesting that the Carlyle Group is mixed up in this. Are George Bush Sr and Jr still part of the Carlyle Group or are they now only friends and former business associates with its investors?
I order things that I am later billed for and those businesses don't want to retain a copy of my birth certificate. Examples: magazine subscriptions, plumbers, and mail order COD. As for the phone company, I would be happy to pay in advance for local phone service and have long distance turned off just like they can turn off 900 numbers. I would never use Amerisuck for long distance anyway.
The reason I don't have a phone is that when I built my house, the regional bell would not hook up a new phone service unless I provided them with copies of 2 of the following 3 documents: drivers license, social security card, birth certificate. I explained to them that the grocer and gas station and numerous other businesses don't demand to keep my personal information on file in order to allow me to buy from them. The woman I was talking to informed me that if I wanted a phone I didn't have a choice in the matter. I begged her pardon but I do have a choice. Bye bye Ameritech. You've lost a customer for life. I found I am much happier without a phone anyway. In the year and a half since then I have not had one telemarketing call disturb my dinner or television shows and I have other things I can spend $30 a month on like high speed internet access.
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But the winner was a hair-straightening treatment by Bioionic, called Ionic Hair Retexturizing: "Water molecules are broken down to a fraction of their previous size... diminutive enough to penetrate through the cuticle, and eventually into the core of each hair". Shrinking molecules caused some concern among the physicists at the ceremony, since IHR was available just 200 yards away, and the only other groups who have managed to create superdense quark-gluon plasma used a relativistic heavy ion collider. The prospect of such equipment being used by hairdressers was deemed worthy of further investigation.
I half expected to find them using Randell Mill's BlackLight Process to create "Oxygen Dihydrino".
That's 2.5 million before taxes. Uncle Sam will take about a third. Then Ken being the clean cut Mormon that he is will tithe 10% to the church. Then he will buy his mother a gold cadillac like Elvis did along with other assorted gift giving leaving him with a little over 1 million.
Then... if we believe that luck is distributed randomly throughout space and time; Ken has flipped the coin 75 times and it came up heads every time. Now he is in luckdebt. His current wife leaves him taking half of the million he has left. Fedex sues him for defamation and inciting labor unrest which burns up the rest of his winnings on attourney fees. Examination of video footage shows that Ken had a squarish hump in the back of his suit jacket ala George Bush in the first debate which prompts an FCC investigation into gameshow fixing leading to his becoming the most reviled man in America. Desperate for fifteen more minutes in the limelight, Ken drives to LA and mocks Gary Coleman with "Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?" until Gary loses his cool and bitch slaps him. The police refuse to file his complaint and the press ignores the incident leading to his complete mental breakdown and a six week bender on peppermint schnapps and cheap wine ending in Ken waking up signed to a one year merchant marine contract on a supertanker headed for the persian gulf. He jumps ship in Mumbai India and spends the next 5 years writing crappy vbscript for an offshoring firm and trying to save enough money to buy a forged birth certificate and plastic surgery so he can re-enter the U.S. under a fake name. Ken gets his wish at long last but is picked up by the Office of Homeland Security at the border and spends the rest of his life at Guantanamo Bay Cuba refusing to acknowledge his true identity but paradoxically answering everything in the form of a question.
Thanks. I see that now. I think the format of their webpage is busy and confusing since it repeats the page 1 title and says 'by Hillary Rosen' at the top. I thought 'Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution' was a quote being attributed to Lessig. So now instead of sounding like spin from her, it sounds like pessimism from him.
But the question remains. Is it really illegal to use sound bites from a public figure in the same ways that are considered fair use when they are in writing?
What would really be funny is if all 1,886 of those black voters switched their affiliation to the Republican party to get "the man" off their backs, voted for complete idiots at the primaries, and then still voted Democrat on election day.
"Get a license or do not sample." So held the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in September, in a case that asked whether there is any right of fair use in musical recordings. There is not, the court ruled. Sampling is piracy, and the law bans piracy.
Does this include all speech or only musical recordings? Does it apply to public figures or only to performance artists? Why would the court extend their decision to all sound recordings if the case concerned only musical recordings? Does anyone have a link to this decision? I am curious whether this is mostly "spin" by Hillary Rosen due to her slanted view of the world. No, I don't trust her sudden, apparent reversal of attitude.
You may think that's OK for pop stars. But forget about them for a moment. Think about your kids. After they get bored downloading all the music they can find, they're going to discover the power - practically bundled into the machine if it's a Mac - to remix the culture they've collected. They could add a bass track to a violin concerto. They could make a home movie and sync Tom Petty to the images. They could splice together a politician's speeches to prove she's a waffler.
She implies in this paragraph that it is illegal to sample a politician's speeches even for parody supposedly since she claims that 'In the Sixth Circuit, at least with sound recordings, there is apparently no tradition at all.'
So a parody such as "Fuzzy Math" is illegal in her opinion. This seems completely out of whack in a country where
a public figure can't even sue for defamation without proving malice. So someone needn't worry much about getting sued for making derogatory statements about a politician even if those statements turn out to be untrue, but we can't use their own words from their own mouths to make the same statement?
Baud is not an acronym. iirc, It was the name of someone who did some early telecommunications work and he was honored by naming this unit after him. Kind of like Kelvin or Fahrenheit.
You are obviously aware that they tried to make a go of NT on several other hardware platforms already. In addition to PowerPC there was also MIPS and Alpha. If I remember correctly, MS was dropped by one vendor and the other two were dropped by MS. There just wasn't enough of a demand for NT on workstations to pay for the development even with the cash cow of Windows on x86 PC's. So I guess my question to you is if they failed before what makes you think they could do well now?
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I am not a radio expert. Are you saying it isn't possible for an FM tuner on a cheap clock radio to change slightly the frequency it is tuned to? My experience would make me guess otherwise, but I suppose it is possible that I was bumping the dial without realizing it.
When I used to wake up to music on my alarm clock I actually noticed a big difference in my attitude depending on which station I had it preset to. Classical music woke me up slowly, gently and left me in a very agreeable mood. Pop music or Rock music was not nearly as pleasant to wake up to but it was highly dependent on the particular song playing. Country music was the worst. I don't mind hearing it in the middle of the day, but waking up to 'Achey Breaky Heart' made me want to spit bile and kill something.
I quit waking to music though because sometimes the station would drift and I wouldn't be woken up at all. The buzzer never lets me down.
Why should the public pay at all when so much has been stolen from them? The very same publishers who have gotten copyright lengthened until it no longer serves it originally purpose want the public to respect this hijacking of the Public Domain and pay for those old works as well as the new. There is only justice when both sides are treated fairly. Give us the Public Domain back and we'll be much more amenable to accepting DRM.
No. Because the fact that there is now a potential for abuse means that someday it will happen even if it hasn't already. The lid on Pandora's box is wedged open and the tyranny that Jefferson and Adams and the rest of the founding fathers fought to protect us from is slowly escaping to menace us once again.
Oh, you're from New York. Well please accept my apology. I shouldn't take a poke at a whole city just because I've run into a few a-holes from there. That is fantastic that you actually have the ear of somebody in the city government. I hope you can at least convince them to investigate this possiblity because I think it's a great idea.
If it were done as a municipal project just imagine NYC getting paid $200/ton to take other cities sludge and turn it into bio-fuel. The taxpayers would sure like that, wouldn't they? And something like that could help build a new reputation for New York as a clean, modern metropolis. Plus the mobsters could toss dead bodies in with the sludge instead of leaving them float down the East River. So that's a bonus.
Excellent idea. My spider-sense tells me that your math is off by about a magnitude though. Even so, If the city could save $200 bucks per ton and turn that into 2 barrels per ton (assuming its in the same ballpark as turkey guts) which could be burned in city vehicles then they would be about $300 per ton ahead of the game. I think you should email your suggestion to Fortune Magazine,CWT, plus whoever is currently mayor of that stinking cesspool at the mouth of the Hudson.
So you expect us to believe that a company with 250 employees running W2K can get by with an MIS department made up of exactly 1 person?
I used to work in an all-microsoft shop back when Nt4 was new and at that time the ratio for us was about 20-30 users to 1 support person. However we did more than just helpdesk support. But when I left to come to a NetWare shop I was amazed at how many more users were being supported per number of IT people. It was at least triple. And to top it off, at the NetWare shop we are responsible for much more than at the other place. In addition to data we also handle phone and security and support users at remote locations. So I think the ratio will differ from company to company depending on various things but I know from experience that Windows is support intensive.
We use Novell Groupwise where I work. I know it is way behind IBM and Microsoft in terms of marketshare but last I knew it was the #3 groupware. So I am surprised it isn't even mentioned. Or if they just wanted to look at email clients and not groupware then Lotus Notes shouldn't have been included either. Doing so gives people sticker shock and they don't realize that apples and oranges are being compared.
He said "I may have destroyed many innocent lives but at least I never claimed to have caught anyone. These guys are going to give witchhunting a bad name."
As you yourself pointed out light has the property of wave/particle duality. Interference can be understood by describing light as a wave rather than a particle.
Since any circular section of the parabolic dish would itself be a smaller parabolic dish you could just use a smaller secondary mirror and tilt it to shift the prime focus to any point you wish (within limits). The cost of observing further and farther from the optimum focal point of "straight up" would be in having to use smaller and smaller secondary mirrors and therefore making less magnified observations.
Of course the increased complexity of the system would be a drawback in and of itself but I have to believe it would be worth it. The deep field images would not be endangered since any size secondary could be used right up to the optimum size to take advantage of the entire primary mirror.
Two of the drawbacks mentioned were having to run Lotus Notes under Wine and IBM Web services only supporting IE. But Novell has a Groupwise client that runs very nicely under Linux and most of their recent web apps work well with Mozilla and Firefox under both Windows and Linux. They also have NetWare file services running on Linux (I think its in open beta now). There is a good open source NCP client as well as rumours of an official Novell client for Linux.
Having recently watched Fahrenheit 911 I find it interesting that the Carlyle Group is mixed up in this. Are George Bush Sr and Jr still part of the Carlyle Group or are they now only friends and former business associates with its investors?
I order things that I am later billed for and those businesses don't want to retain a copy of my birth certificate. Examples: magazine subscriptions, plumbers, and mail order COD. As for the phone company, I would be happy to pay in advance for local phone service and have long distance turned off just like they can turn off 900 numbers. I would never use Amerisuck for long distance anyway.
The reason I don't have a phone is that when I built my house, the regional bell would not hook up a new phone service unless I provided them with copies of 2 of the following 3 documents: drivers license, social security card, birth certificate. I explained to them that the grocer and gas station and numerous other businesses don't demand to keep my personal information on file in order to allow me to buy from them. The woman I was talking to informed me that if I wanted a phone I didn't have a choice in the matter. I begged her pardon but I do have a choice. Bye bye Ameritech. You've lost a customer for life. I found I am much happier without a phone anyway. In the year and a half since then I have not had one telemarketing call disturb my dinner or television shows and I have other things I can spend $30 a month on like high speed internet access.
Your right. We've been duped!
I half expected to find them using Randell Mill's BlackLight Process to create "Oxygen Dihydrino".
That's 2.5 million before taxes. Uncle Sam will take about a third. Then Ken being the clean cut Mormon that he is will tithe 10% to the church. Then he will buy his mother a gold cadillac like Elvis did along with other assorted gift giving leaving him with a little over 1 million.
Then... if we believe that luck is distributed randomly throughout space and time; Ken has flipped the coin 75 times and it came up heads every time. Now he is in luckdebt. His current wife leaves him taking half of the million he has left. Fedex sues him for defamation and inciting labor unrest which burns up the rest of his winnings on attourney fees. Examination of video footage shows that Ken had a squarish hump in the back of his suit jacket ala George Bush in the first debate which prompts an FCC investigation into gameshow fixing leading to his becoming the most reviled man in America. Desperate for fifteen more minutes in the limelight, Ken drives to LA and mocks Gary Coleman with "Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?" until Gary loses his cool and bitch slaps him. The police refuse to file his complaint and the press ignores the incident leading to his complete mental breakdown and a six week bender on peppermint schnapps and cheap wine ending in Ken waking up signed to a one year merchant marine contract on a supertanker headed for the persian gulf. He jumps ship in Mumbai India and spends the next 5 years writing crappy vbscript for an offshoring firm and trying to save enough money to buy a forged birth certificate and plastic surgery so he can re-enter the U.S. under a fake name. Ken gets his wish at long last but is picked up by the Office of Homeland Security at the border and spends the rest of his life at Guantanamo Bay Cuba refusing to acknowledge his true identity but paradoxically answering everything in the form of a question.
Does this mean I have to declare my cellphone at the border? Will an import permit be required?
Thanks. I see that now. I think the format of their webpage is busy and confusing since it repeats the page 1 title and says 'by Hillary Rosen' at the top. I thought 'Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution' was a quote being attributed to Lessig. So now instead of sounding like spin from her, it sounds like pessimism from him.
But the question remains. Is it really illegal to use sound bites from a public figure in the same ways that are considered fair use when they are in writing?
What would really be funny is if all 1,886 of those black voters switched their affiliation to the Republican party to get "the man" off their backs, voted for complete idiots at the primaries, and then still voted Democrat on election day.
Baud is not an acronym. iirc, It was the name of someone who did some early telecommunications work and he was honored by naming this unit after him. Kind of like Kelvin or Fahrenheit.
You are obviously aware that they tried to make a go of NT on several other hardware platforms already. In addition to PowerPC there was also MIPS and Alpha. If I remember correctly, MS was dropped by one vendor and the other two were dropped by MS. There just wasn't enough of a demand for NT on workstations to pay for the development even with the cash cow of Windows on x86 PC's. So I guess my question to you is if they failed before what makes you think they could do well now?