True, not the car company, but the design company of a similar name.
They do have a reputation for quite stunning industrial design, though. I have a Fuji camera designed by F.A. Porsche Design. They also design pens, mountain bikes, and just about anything else a customer is willing to pay to have designed.
I found a F.A. Porsche Design store when I was in Orange County a few months ago. The variety of overpriced shiny objects they had for sale was amazing!
If you are only moving between apartments within the same city, it's pretty easy.
- Start packing early. Take the stuff you don't use too often (last 7 years worth of tax paperwork, the winter clothes that you don't need if you are moving in August, etc.) and pack it a couple of weeks in advance. Anything fragile should be packed with lots of packing paper in a sturdy box. Label it all well.
- Pack "spatially" for anything that isn't really important that you get at in the first day or two at the new place. Pack up all those books in your office into SMALL boxes. Pack up most of the kitchen stuff together, etc.
- Pack a couple of the last boxes with the "can't live without" items. Toilet paper. Shampoo. Microwave oven. Web server. Label these "OPEN FIRST".
- Inventory everything you like. If it gets lost or broken, having an inventory (maybe even some pictures) will help with the insurance claim.
- Pack it into the truck biggest items first. Fill in the empty spaces with the smaller items ("big rocks first") Strap everything down unless you want it to go flying about the truck.
Now, for a real challenge, try moving two people, two dogs, three vehicles, and an entire bungalow full of possesions 3600km across the country during the X-mas holidays. Without spending $15,000. Oh yes, this is fun...
It sounds as if power supply makers are taking a marketing lesson from audio amplifier companies... bigger is better, and no-one ever actually verifies those numbers.
My favorite was a $25 amp car audio amp I bought about 10 years ago. I kid you not, this thing is about 2x the size of a deck of cards, and is rated at 500W per channel. Ha ha ha ha! No, I didn't buy it for it's amazing power, I bought it because it was $25 and I needed a cheap amp for some tinkering!
It's not the retailers like Future Shop who are at fault here... TiVo and ReaplyTV simply do not offer the programming guide data for Canada. It's been pissing me off for years. The guide data is available from other sources, but you'll have fun getting your TiVo to actully find it and use it (it IS possible, but not easy.)
You can buy a PVR from the US and use it in Canada, but you won't get any of the really useful features. What you get is basically a really expensive VCR with about the same quality as an S-VHS deck.
Right after TLC was bought by Discovery, it quickly became "The Xtreme Discovery Channel!"
What I am waiting for is the new reality-based show, where two sets of neighbors are asked to build each other a house out of nothing but what can be found in the Junkyard. Fun for all ages!
Now that Discovery is spinning off dedicated channels for all of their really good shows and themes, it too is starting the downhill slide.
I picked a very similar R/C car up at a Discovery Channel store months back (looks like the same chasis, different brand name). My 150lb Newfoundland dog is TERRIFIED of it! Kinda like a mouse and an elephant. Pretty funny.
Actually, this could have a huge impact on the current SSL Certificate Market.
To start with, I worked for Entrust for many years. It was my job for 1.5 of those years to run just about everything technical behind their SSL certificate business.
Now you see, a company can't just hang out a shingle and start selling SSL certs. First, they need to have their root cert 'trusted' by the browsers. How to do this is different with each company who makes a browser.
But even if you know all the right people to talk to, and you get your root cert in the next shipment of all the browsers, you still don't have much of a business since there are all of those annoying older browsers still kicking around.
This is why Verisign can charge more for a cert than a place like Globalsign or Entrust. They have their root cert in a much higher percentage of the browsers. Big companies eat that fact up. Why pay $150 to get 95% browser penetration when for only $349 you can have 99.5% penetration?
Verisign's entire SSL cert business is based on this. The near impossibility of anyone else entering this market within the next few years allows them a virtual monopoly. (90% of the market? it's dropped a lot since the $45 certs started coming out.)
Now, however, something terrible has happened. It seems that 90% of the browsers in that 99.5% penetration number can't be trusted (these numbers pulled directly from my ass... just using them as a rough example.) There is a serious flaw in the SSL implementation. What this could do is reset the playing field. No longer does Verisign have that 10-year head start getting their root certs into the browsers. If it comes down to everyone with IE needing to install a patch, and most likely upgrade to a newer version of IE, they lose their biggest selling point. Their sales types are losing sleep over this right now.
Suddenly that company selling SSL certs for $45, but with only a 85% browser penetration, is looking pretty good. Since you shouldn't trust all of those old browsers that fall into the 15% that are not supported by these cheap SSL certs, why bother spending the extra $300? Hell, some SSL cert companies can turn around a cert request in a few minutes now since they have basically stopped doing any verification other than domain ownership. (Just put an "ou=this domain has not been verified" in there to keep the lawyers happy.) $45 certs in 15 minutes instead of $349 certs in 3-5 days? Sign me up.
Whoops, there goes the SSL certificate market.
I'm sure that Verisign and MS will spin this to reduce the damage, but the fact that this exploit exists means that you simply can't trust any SSL website while using one of these broken browsers. Well, you can study the certificate chain yourself and look for irregularities, but come on, I doubt that even 1% of the -slashdot- crowd knows how to do that, let alone the general web-surfing population.
Sometimes I'm glad I'm not in that business anymore...
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The very first PVR available in Canada was only released a few months ago, and it is tied to a specific satellite TV system. I would be very surprised if TiVo had a system that worked in Australia.
The annoying part is that all it would take to make a TiVo fully functional up here are the show listings. We use the exact same TV standards as the US. We even get some of the same channels. Yet after all these years, there still isn't TiVo or Replay support for Canada.
I had a nice Sony phone with a scroll-wheel/button on the side. It was sweet for scrolling through menus, phone numbers, etc. Very nice.
Problem is, this mechanical bit was the first thing to die. I had a couple of these phones, and friends with these phones, and the scroll-wheel was almost always broken or flakey.
An optical version of this, with no moving parts to wear out, would be a nice feature. And since you are not limited to one-dimensional movement as you are with a scroll wheel, new navigational ideas are possible (how about the entire alphabet on the screen, you just mouse over the the letter you want and tap, and it jumps to that letter in your phone book. I'm sure others can come up with better ideas.)
And, of course, when DOOM is ported to a nice J2ME enabled phone, you're going to need something better than the keypad...
Hmmm, so if I were to take a video camera into a movie theatre and record the movie, I could claim credit for the video, which all my P2P buddies are watching, of the movie, which is the original work? Or would that only be allowed for movies already in the public domain?
I don't think Rueters is taking credit for the picture, they are just putting their name at the bottom so everyone knows who put that fancy drop-shadow effect in there!
For about 3 weeks back in the summer of 2000, "t" was the next big letter (well, at least at Entrust where I worked at the time!).
"t", you see, is for Trust(ed). email is old news, t-mail is where it's at. t-business. t-brokerage. t-communications. It rolls off the tounge so nicely.
But then the marketing department got distracted by something shiny and we never heard about the big "t" again.
Uggghhhh, Dooku's line right here was easily the worst line in the movie. Even worse than the 3PO dialogue. I have this feeling that while the movie was being edited, someone decided that we really needed that horribly forced line of dialogue to explain why they pull out the light sabres.
I can hardly wait for "Episode 2.1: Attack of The Editors" so we can be rid of a couple of the scenes.
I love this quote right at the start of the review: First, the basics. Mozilla and Netscape mirror each other in ease of installation with an idiot-proof GUI installer. I just downloaded the installer in a tar.gz format. Unpacked into my home directory, the files went into/home/tina/mozilla-installer. I entered the directory, changed to superuser because I want the rest of my family to be able to use Mozilla, too, and typed sh mozilla-installer. The GUI interface came up, and I accepted the default installation directory:/usr/local/mozilla. If you're the only one who uses your computer, you could just install it in/home/your_home/mozilla.
Heh, that's a whole heck of a lot of steps just to get to the GUI installer. Isn't there anything available for Linux that would provide the functionality of something like a self-extracting ZIP file on Windows?
Got to admit, Moz 1.0 is pretty sweet. It got a little bit faster with each release, and a lot more stable.
Now if only the Mozilla email bits would work properly. All sorts of issues there. My favorite is Mozilla crashing whenever you try to sign/encrypt any S/MIME message when you are not logged into the certificate manager. Nice.
Does anyone have any idea how this would actually work? I've worked in telecom for several years, and in PKI for several years, and I really don't know how this could work from a technical stand.
Anyone have any insight? The press release is mighty vague, as usual.
Gee, this sounds a LOT like cell-phones. Gotta buy the phone from the company providing the service, no chance to use a phone from elsewhere even if it is compatible with their network. The only difference is that they make you -buy- the phone that you can't use elsewhere instead of renting it.
Or at least that's the way things are run here in Canada.
Since Lucas claims to be waiting for the current trilogy to be complete before releasing IV, V, and VI on DVD, it looks like we'll end up being stuck with the latest and greatest bastardization of the originals. Time to invest in a laser disc player.
Maybe there will be a hidden feature that will let you play the movie in the original, uncut version.
Here's my question... what the hell is the school bus driver thinking letting kids on/off the bus on a busy road or expressway? Yikes! Sounds to me like the right way to fix this problem is to not load/unload kids in the middle of an expressway. If a kid has to cross any busy road (without a set of lights/active corsswalk/overpass), then the bus is letting kids off in the wrong place.
> Quoting from the MSNBC Article: > >"We have right now in America, a roller coaster arms >race where each amusement park advertises that they >have the fastest, the most dangerous ride," says >Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.
Has anyone, anywhere, ever heard a park declare "Come ride the most dangerous rollercoaster ever!"? I don't think so. Taller, faster, more inversions, newest gimmick, most coasters. All claims that are made. Scariest, wildest, biggest, again, all claims that are used. But most dangerous? I don't think so.
From my vast personal experience, you are much more likely to get injured on an older coaster than a newer one. Expecially if you're big (like me... 6'3", 250lbs), since most of the older coasters assume a much smaller rider (so your knees get jammed into the car in front, restraints don't brab onto the correct parts of your anatomy, etc.)
The most painful coaster I have ever ridden is "Outer Limits" Flight Into Fear". It's LIM-launched, completely in the dark, and has very, very sharp corners. The head restraints are only an inch or so away from each ear, and your head gets boxed around side to side for the entire 90 seconds of the ride. Ouch. After 6 rides in a row, I was dizzy:-)
On the other hand, Raptor (which is shown in the video in this story) is gentle in comparasin. Amazing first drop, tonnes of great features, plenty of thrill. Still my favorite coaster of all time. But hardly a sharp jolt or nasty bump in the entire ride.
I seem to recall an explination of this having something to do with Superman moving the muslces in his face very rapidly while he was being Superman, thus obscuring his identity.
You'd think his mom would tell him that his face will stay like that if he keeps doing it...
How about a hint on where to buy these? It took me a while, but I finally found their website, but they do not list a price, or where you can actually get one.
Looks like it has a couple of PCI slots too, so you could add a video-in card.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to add in the cost of a wireless keyboard, mouse, and universal remote to the overall cost.
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True, not the car company, but the design company of a similar name.
They do have a reputation for quite stunning industrial design, though. I have a Fuji camera designed by F.A. Porsche Design. They also design pens, mountain bikes, and just about anything else a customer is willing to pay to have designed.
I found a F.A. Porsche Design store when I was in Orange County a few months ago. The variety of overpriced shiny objects they had for sale was amazing!
If you are only moving between apartments within the same city, it's pretty easy.
- Start packing early. Take the stuff you don't use too often (last 7 years worth of tax paperwork, the winter clothes that you don't need if you are moving in August, etc.) and pack it a couple of weeks in advance. Anything fragile should be packed with lots of packing paper in a sturdy box. Label it all well.
- Pack "spatially" for anything that isn't really important that you get at in the first day or two at the new place. Pack up all those books in your office into SMALL boxes. Pack up most of the kitchen stuff together, etc.
- Pack a couple of the last boxes with the "can't live without" items. Toilet paper. Shampoo. Microwave oven. Web server. Label these "OPEN FIRST".
- Inventory everything you like. If it gets lost or broken, having an inventory (maybe even some pictures) will help with the insurance claim.
- Pack it into the truck biggest items first. Fill in the empty spaces with the smaller items ("big rocks first") Strap everything down unless you want it to go flying about the truck.
Now, for a real challenge, try moving two people, two dogs, three vehicles, and an entire bungalow full of possesions 3600km across the country during the X-mas holidays. Without spending $15,000. Oh yes, this is fun...
It sounds as if power supply makers are taking a marketing lesson from audio amplifier companies... bigger is better, and no-one ever actually verifies those numbers.
My favorite was a $25 amp car audio amp I bought about 10 years ago. I kid you not, this thing is about 2x the size of a deck of cards, and is rated at 500W per channel. Ha ha ha ha! No, I didn't buy it for it's amazing power, I bought it because it was $25 and I needed a cheap amp for some tinkering!
It's not the retailers like Future Shop who are at fault here... TiVo and ReaplyTV simply do not offer the programming guide data for Canada. It's been pissing me off for years. The guide data is available from other sources, but you'll have fun getting your TiVo to actully find it and use it (it IS possible, but not easy.)
You can buy a PVR from the US and use it in Canada, but you won't get any of the really useful features. What you get is basically a really expensive VCR with about the same quality as an S-VHS deck.
Right after TLC was bought by Discovery, it quickly became "The Xtreme Discovery Channel!"
What I am waiting for is the new reality-based show, where two sets of neighbors are asked to build each other a house out of nothing but what can be found in the Junkyard. Fun for all ages!
Now that Discovery is spinning off dedicated channels for all of their really good shows and themes, it too is starting the downhill slide.
I picked a very similar R/C car up at a Discovery Channel store months back (looks like the same chasis, different brand name). My 150lb Newfoundland dog is TERRIFIED of it! Kinda like a mouse and an elephant. Pretty funny.
Actually, this could have a huge impact on the current SSL Certificate Market.
To start with, I worked for Entrust for many years. It was my job for 1.5 of those years to run just about everything technical behind their SSL certificate business.
Now you see, a company can't just hang out a shingle and start selling SSL certs. First, they need to have their root cert 'trusted' by the browsers. How to do this is different with each company who makes a browser.
But even if you know all the right people to talk to, and you get your root cert in the next shipment of all the browsers, you still don't have much of a business since there are all of those annoying older browsers still kicking around.
This is why Verisign can charge more for a cert than a place like Globalsign or Entrust. They have their root cert in a much higher percentage of the browsers. Big companies eat that fact up. Why pay $150 to get 95% browser penetration when for only $349 you can have 99.5% penetration?
Verisign's entire SSL cert business is based on this. The near impossibility of anyone else entering this market within the next few years allows them a virtual monopoly. (90% of the market? it's dropped a lot since the $45 certs started coming out.)
Now, however, something terrible has happened. It seems that 90% of the browsers in that 99.5% penetration number can't be trusted (these numbers pulled directly from my ass... just using them as a rough example.) There is a serious flaw in the SSL implementation. What this could do is reset the playing field. No longer does Verisign have that 10-year head start getting their root certs into the browsers. If it comes down to everyone with IE needing to install a patch, and most likely upgrade to a newer version of IE, they lose their biggest selling point. Their sales types are losing sleep over this right now.
Suddenly that company selling SSL certs for $45, but with only a 85% browser penetration, is looking pretty good. Since you shouldn't trust all of those old browsers that fall into the 15% that are not supported by these cheap SSL certs, why bother spending the extra $300? Hell, some SSL cert companies can turn around a cert request in a few minutes now since they have basically stopped doing any verification other than domain ownership. (Just put an "ou=this domain has not been verified" in there to keep the lawyers happy.) $45 certs in 15 minutes instead of $349 certs in 3-5 days? Sign me up.
Whoops, there goes the SSL certificate market.
I'm sure that Verisign and MS will spin this to reduce the damage, but the fact that this exploit exists means that you simply can't trust any SSL website while using one of these broken browsers. Well, you can study the certificate chain yourself and look for irregularities, but come on, I doubt that even 1% of the -slashdot- crowd knows how to do that, let alone the general web-surfing population.
Sometimes I'm glad I'm not in that business anymore...
The very first PVR available in Canada was only released a few months ago, and it is tied to a specific satellite TV system. I would be very surprised if TiVo had a system that worked in Australia.
The annoying part is that all it would take to make a TiVo fully functional up here are the show listings. We use the exact same TV standards as the US. We even get some of the same channels. Yet after all these years, there still isn't TiVo or Replay support for Canada.
Buh.
I had a nice Sony phone with a scroll-wheel/button on the side. It was sweet for scrolling through menus, phone numbers, etc. Very nice.
Problem is, this mechanical bit was the first thing to die. I had a couple of these phones, and friends with these phones, and the scroll-wheel was almost always broken or flakey.
An optical version of this, with no moving parts to wear out, would be a nice feature. And since you are not limited to one-dimensional movement as you are with a scroll wheel, new navigational ideas are possible (how about the entire alphabet on the screen, you just mouse over the the letter you want and tap, and it jumps to that letter in your phone book. I'm sure others can come up with better ideas.)
And, of course, when DOOM is ported to a nice J2ME enabled phone, you're going to need something better than the keypad...
Hmmm, so if I were to take a video camera into a movie theatre and record the movie, I could claim credit for the video, which all my P2P buddies are watching, of the movie, which is the original work? Or would that only be allowed for movies already in the public domain?
I don't think Rueters is taking credit for the picture, they are just putting their name at the bottom so everyone knows who put that fancy drop-shadow effect in there!
For about 3 weeks back in the summer of 2000, "t" was the next big letter (well, at least at Entrust where I worked at the time!).
"t", you see, is for Trust(ed). email is old news, t-mail is where it's at. t-business. t-brokerage. t-communications. It rolls off the tounge so nicely.
But then the marketing department got distracted by something shiny and we never heard about the big "t" again.
Uggghhhh, Dooku's line right here was easily the worst line in the movie. Even worse than the 3PO dialogue. I have this feeling that while the movie was being edited, someone decided that we really needed that horribly forced line of dialogue to explain why they pull out the light sabres.
I can hardly wait for "Episode 2.1: Attack of The Editors" so we can be rid of a couple of the scenes.
So you'd rather see a fight scene with Mr. Miagi from "The Karate Kid" than Trinity from "The Matrix"?
Wax on. Wax off.
If you want crisp, clear sound, ya gotta go with DAB, not satellite.
No idea if they have this in the US or not, though. It's in the middle of a nation-wide rollout here in Canada.
I love this quote right at the start of the review:
/home/tina/mozilla-installer. I entered the directory, changed to superuser because I want the rest of my family to be able to use Mozilla, too, and typed sh mozilla-installer. The GUI interface came up, and I accepted the default installation directory: /usr/local/mozilla. If you're the only one who uses your computer, you could just install it in /home/your_home/mozilla.
First, the basics. Mozilla and Netscape mirror each other in ease of installation with an idiot-proof GUI installer. I just downloaded the installer in a tar.gz format. Unpacked into my home directory, the files went into
Heh, that's a whole heck of a lot of steps just to get to the GUI installer. Isn't there anything available for Linux that would provide the functionality of something like a self-extracting ZIP file on Windows?
Got to admit, Moz 1.0 is pretty sweet. It got a little bit faster with each release, and a lot more stable.
Now if only the Mozilla email bits would work properly. All sorts of issues there. My favorite is Mozilla crashing whenever you try to sign/encrypt any S/MIME message when you are not logged into the certificate manager. Nice.
Does anyone have any idea how this would actually work? I've worked in telecom for several years, and in PKI for several years, and I really don't know how this could work from a technical stand.
Anyone have any insight? The press release is mighty vague, as usual.
Gee, this sounds a LOT like cell-phones. Gotta buy the phone from the company providing the service, no chance to use a phone from elsewhere even if it is compatible with their network. The only difference is that they make you -buy- the phone that you can't use elsewhere instead of renting it.
Or at least that's the way things are run here in Canada.
Maybe Lucas is taking a marketting note from P-Diddy et.al. and is going to just start releasing "re-mix" movies...
Since Lucas claims to be waiting for the current trilogy to be complete before releasing IV, V, and VI on DVD, it looks like we'll end up being stuck with the latest and greatest bastardization of the originals. Time to invest in a laser disc player.
Maybe there will be a hidden feature that will let you play the movie in the original, uncut version.
Here's my question... what the hell is the school bus driver thinking letting kids on/off the bus on a busy road or expressway? Yikes! Sounds to me like the right way to fix this problem is to not load/unload kids in the middle of an expressway. If a kid has to cross any busy road (without a set of lights/active corsswalk/overpass), then the bus is letting kids off in the wrong place.
> Quoting from the MSNBC Article:
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>
>"We have right now in America, a roller coaster arms
>race where each amusement park advertises that they
>have the fastest, the most dangerous ride," says
>Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.
Has anyone, anywhere, ever heard a park declare "Come ride the most dangerous rollercoaster ever!"? I don't think so. Taller, faster, more inversions, newest gimmick, most coasters. All claims that are made. Scariest, wildest, biggest, again, all claims that are used. But most dangerous? I don't think so.
From my vast personal experience, you are much more likely to get injured on an older coaster than a newer one. Expecially if you're big (like me... 6'3", 250lbs), since most of the older coasters assume a much smaller rider (so your knees get jammed into the car in front, restraints don't brab onto the correct parts of your anatomy, etc.)
The most painful coaster I have ever ridden is "Outer Limits" Flight Into Fear". It's LIM-launched, completely in the dark, and has very, very sharp corners. The head restraints are only an inch or so away from each ear, and your head gets boxed around side to side for the entire 90 seconds of the ride. Ouch. After 6 rides in a row, I was dizzy
On the other hand, Raptor (which is shown in the video in this story) is gentle in comparasin. Amazing first drop, tonnes of great features, plenty of thrill. Still my favorite coaster of all time. But hardly a sharp jolt or nasty bump in the entire ride.
> A screwed-down battery lid so I don't break it by
> constantly playing with the latch
Pretty much every remote I have has tape on the back holding on the battery cover. Who designed that stupid little plastic latch?
Must be a slow news day, because I sumbitted this same story over a year ago. Of course, I didn't tack on the conspiracy theory either. Hmmmm...
I seem to recall an explination of this having something to do with Superman moving the muslces in his face very rapidly while he was being Superman, thus obscuring his identity.
You'd think his mom would tell him that his face will stay like that if he keeps doing it...
How about a hint on where to buy these? It took me a while, but I finally found their website, but they do not list a price, or where you can actually get one.
Looks like it has a couple of PCI slots too, so you could add a video-in card.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to add in the cost of a wireless keyboard, mouse, and universal remote to the overall cost.