Re:It's worse than that
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When I went to UC Davis, the engineering department showed off a hybrid...It averaged 66 MPG
Really, demostations are great as a starting point, but many times they come up lacking in "real life", did your Taurus have:
An air conditioner (hooked up)
A radio (hooked up)
power steering
power brakes
anything other than "power to the wheels"
any (power robbing) polution controls for the gasoline part of the system.
"get up and go"
a battery system that doesn't need to be replaced every few months.
an electric engine/generator with a reliable long life.
any room for people (after adding the electic engine, batteries, and large generator)
was the entire system crash tested.
I have heard many complaints that the hybrids are "living up to the hype", but in realitiy they are just starting the learning curve for the technology. Just think, your school's 1997 test bed, was an ancsector of today's production hybrid, that a steep learning curve in an industry that is know to be lumbering.
My bother had an `88 Honda CRX HF (the high fuel efficentcy model, I think it was the "HF"), I remeber that it was rated by the EPA to be "over 50 mph Highway". In reality, when I drove it in (like) `93 it got about 35-40 mph and it wasn't very quick. That car was the high water mark for the fuel effiency boom started in the early '70s with the gas crunch. Relitively cheap gas in the late `80s and all of the `90s killed the market for them.
In response to an internal tech newsletter about "what you wanted to see", I anwsered with an idea about an "internal forum" with postings about every project, it's general status, design and questions (and hopefully answers) on technology.
Apparently only the name stuck, our "Forum" is an web page form to ask questions, which are to be answered by (appenently) the newsletter staff.
In fact, I am only quessing about my idea being turned into an email page becuase I never heard a word back on my suggestion, not even a "hey, thanks" to indicate that it was even read; I suppose other people may have suggested such a "forum" (or even just the general idea).
I glad the idea has a specific name, now that there is a buzz word attached to the idea maybe someone who matters will pick up on it and champion the idea, it would be useful, no matter what it's called.
I'll buck the trend and go on record as saying that the price will start high and end lower, and will go down as an approbation of the "traditional IPO". I like the idea of a dutch auction, to me it is the best way to fairly price an IPO for the benefit of the company, but the market is not used to it (at least for a huge highly anticipated IPO).
A Dutch IPO (if you will) front ends all of the speculation, combine that with the (still) recent tradition of making boat loads of money off of an Internet IPO; a recipe for disaster. Most people purchasing the stock in the auction will be eager to sell within minutes of open sales.
(Total guesses:) I say it will be capitalized at $25 to $45 billion at the start, and drop to $7 to $15 billion by the end of the day, with a low as little as $2 to $5 billion. The IPO will not bust (as all the shares will sell), but it will scare the pants off of most investors, look for many stocks to suffer.
The leading effect on other tech stocks is hard to gage, part of me says that people will sell of their tech stocks to raise money for purchasing stock, but the other part of me says that tech stocks will rise in anticipation of a new tech boom; either way, its a good idea to play it safe in the market that week.
I love Popular Science as well, but almost all of their "forward-looking" inventions are vaporware. Sometimes, I think, their qualification for story submission is a good color drawing of the "product" and lots of hype about how the worlds going to change because of it in 2 to 6 years. For how many years now have they been saying "flying cars are right around the corner". I am not saying that they are always wrong (or every fraudulent), their coverage on new products and (working) prototypes is good, but just don't count on anything that needs an "artist rendering", like the fire-fighting plane you (apparently) saw in that mag.
What do you read when you are on the toilet? Or does reading distract you from your "purpose", a maximum time of two minutes to make "number 2" is pretty damn impressive. I (like many men) take longer, maybe 5 to 10 minutes, not too long, but still long enough that I get bored. I used to take the newspaper to the can sometimes, now I get all my news from the internet. In the bathroom I have a small collection of "short read subjects" , expecially good are the collections of daily comics. "Bloom County", and "the Far Side" are too of my favorites. However, you can only read the old books so many times, I've taken a laptop in the can maybe twice, but it's too big, a phone or a PDA would be more appropiate.
[waiting for relpy with a reference to a Sienfeld show....]
I downloaded the file [off Limewire] in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta...and to my delight the Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy"
We have got to come up with a name for "someone who makes a good effort at removing themselves from the Internet".
I can see it now...
Lean against the bar and accidently buy everybody a round!
Or better, yet muggers using a knife and cutting out the implant. I'd feel better if the scanner would only work an inch or two from the chip, rather than several feet. Otherwise, in a crowded bar how would you know who is paying?
It's funny because it's trivial. VoIP's appeal is "cheap calls". My unlimited domestic long distance is included with my local service (for about $14 more than the "old" local service[including fees]), so my cost savings vs VoIP whould be minimal. I suppose, if you make a lot of international calls there would be a real savings (at least for now), but you don't need a more expensive cell phone to use it. The long and the short of it is "if you are tying to save money using VoIP, why whould you spend the extra money just for something cool"
It might be useful to use it to access your home the internet connection while "on the can" (and avoid expensive per meg transfers on current wireless internet plans), or perhaps even use it as a temporary hub for your IEE 802 b or g devices (and use those expensive wireless internet plans), but even then the appeal would be limited.
if you offer me the right to use your car, is it fair to call me a thief? How about if you put a sign on it in the street ("Do you like Yugo's, then have this one!"), then call the cops when you see someone you don't like using it.
MY question really is: IS this a case of "default copyright status" or was there some kind of license offer by allowing (even encouraging) free download.
If default copyrights are applied, he could have just as easily decided to sue anyone who had taken his "offer" to download, distribute and use the images. I didn't see the site, but I am guessing that it said something like "download these images and use them, because we all love Linux". Could something like that be considered an license offer?
So everyone who has ever downloaded one of his images before April 24, will need to revisit the site to download a copy with the new license. Otherwise he could sue the pant off those (non-commerical) criminals who stole the images offered for download without license.
As of April 24th, the images are licensed under the Creative Commons License (Attribution/NonCommercial) which explicitly states that the work may not be used for commercial purposes, unless permission is provided by the author. Prior to the addition of the CC license on Klowner's wallpaper site, there was no specific copyright, although standard international copyrights still hold.
So, the CC license wasn't applied when the flash demo was created, in fact it was a response to the art appearing on the commercial site.
It's clear the the material was previously being offered "free" to anyone who wanted to download it, without any mention of a copyright. but does that imply a right to use the materical by a business. If you offer items for download, but do not state your intentions, does this allow commerical vendors to make a profit out of your work.
I think that now that he has applied the CC license, future uses in presentations would be protected, but I am not sure of the offending one.
I'll buy you the DVD set if you'll give me one of your kidneys.
Can I give you one of my kidneys, it would be easier than the "arm and a leg" price of [maybe] $75 for the box set. Of course, I be getting the kidney from the butcher's trash bin, so the resale might be somewhat disapointing.
A workaround is a configuration change a user makes with the existing software, a software upgrade is, well, a software upgrade. Some admins would rather use a quick workaround on a production system instead of taking the chance that a software upgrade will introduce a new bug.
What was the reason for using my money to send him into space again-to study the effects of weightlessness and the elderly? That seems like a useful study at this point in our space program.
Shoving John Glenn into orbit wasn't the only reason for that flight. They did a lot of studies on microgravity, you can see it in the press kit for that mission. You can bitch and moan about it, but it wasn't a bad mission. It worked on many levels, good science, good press, and a second flight for NASA's first man in Space. As for sending up the rich, well, more power to them. If I had $200 million, I'd buy a ticket for 10% of it. Hell, there are apartments which cost more than that.
So I'm going to guess he is over 21. I'm going to have to ask any future arresting officers to please NOT call my parents. The fam doesn't need to know everytime I get a drunk and disorderly.
Only if you haven't moved out of the house by then. (Just to be clear on this) Most likely the mail was sent to him, and was not addressed to "Parents of the offender" like some note from school. But if you do get arrested (and you still live at home), you might consider getting a temporary change of address from the Post Office to a P.O. box. (hope that helps!)
Come to think about it, it would be a great location for a disaster flick. Getting people over their fear of going there might be a problem. You'd have to pay a little more than scale.
Most people (except those who have been "highjacked" by new.net's malware, or willing participants in an alternative DNS) will never see the difference.
The real confict will come with people who have bought into the "alternative" DNS TLDs which ICANN is thinking of publishing. They have already set a presidence of ignoring the old registrations with.biz, and most likely will do the same with.xxx. (IMO).biz is a silly domain, but.xxx could be valuable real estate, with a real "land rush" for the most common search words. Porn is the largest market on the internet today, and related words are the biggest search engine terms. I could see some real court battles heating up over domain names in the.xxx TLD. It is one thing to fool a person to see a porn site (like www.whitehouse.com), but someone who is poking through.xxx domains is a real consumer, also it would eliminate the need for "warning pages".
The irony is that the current alternate.xxx registar will experience a big surge in registrations by companies wanting to squat certain names.
Most likely they'll hit space with a lone pilot a couple of times first. Ever flight so far only has 2 in the WK and 1 in the SSO. To win the X-Prize they would need 3 people in the SSO. So far they have been playing it safe by only having just as many people as needed(as they should), I don't see any reason they'll change the play. All the test runs they are making is showing the strength of their system, if this were NASA the runs would be 6 months apart. Besides, it's not like there is any other group so close to winning the prize. Maybe some other team might just pop outta nowhere and grab that brass ring, but they would have to be awefully sneaky to do that.
I wonder why these big companies waited until after the bill passed to begin lobbying. If the governor signs the bill, isn't it going to be a lot harder to get rid of it?
The legislation probally just slipped under their radar. Most companies (SCO excepted of course) just see Utah as "one of the 40 or so states that we don't have an office in". Add in legislator fustration (nothing moves bills quicker than a fustrated law-maker), and a dash of "just another privacy bill".
The AG didn't even cite the IP of the hardworking Record Industry Exec. I say he needs to pay for his flagrant copyright violation. Think of the children! What is Stevenson's children supposed to eat, when people are stealing his work wholesale.
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- An air conditioner (hooked up)
- A radio (hooked up)
- power steering
- power brakes
- anything other than "power to the wheels"
- any (power robbing) polution controls for the gasoline part of the system.
- "get up and go"
- a battery system that doesn't need to be replaced every few months.
- an electric engine/generator with a reliable long life.
- any room for people (after adding the electic engine, batteries, and large generator)
- was the entire system crash tested.
I have heard many complaints that the hybrids are "living up to the hype", but in realitiy they are just starting the learning curve for the technology. Just think, your school's 1997 test bed, was an ancsector of today's production hybrid, that a steep learning curve in an industry that is know to be lumbering.My bother had an `88 Honda CRX HF (the high fuel efficentcy model, I think it was the "HF"), I remeber that it was rated by the EPA to be "over 50 mph Highway". In reality, when I drove it in (like) `93 it got about 35-40 mph and it wasn't very quick. That car was the high water mark for the fuel effiency boom started in the early '70s with the gas crunch. Relitively cheap gas in the late `80s and all of the `90s killed the market for them.
I glad the idea has a specific name, now that there is a buzz word attached to the idea maybe someone who matters will pick up on it and champion the idea, it would be useful, no matter what it's called.
A Dutch IPO (if you will) front ends all of the speculation, combine that with the (still) recent tradition of making boat loads of money off of an Internet IPO; a recipe for disaster. Most people purchasing the stock in the auction will be eager to sell within minutes of open sales.
(Total guesses:) I say it will be capitalized at $25 to $45 billion at the start, and drop to $7 to $15 billion by the end of the day, with a low as little as $2 to $5 billion. The IPO will not bust (as all the shares will sell), but it will scare the pants off of most investors, look for many stocks to suffer.
The leading effect on other tech stocks is hard to gage, part of me says that people will sell of their tech stocks to raise money for purchasing stock, but the other part of me says that tech stocks will rise in anticipation of a new tech boom; either way, its a good idea to play it safe in the market that week.
I love Popular Science as well, but almost all of their "forward-looking" inventions are vaporware. Sometimes, I think, their qualification for story submission is a good color drawing of the "product" and lots of hype about how the worlds going to change because of it in 2 to 6 years. For how many years now have they been saying "flying cars are right around the corner". I am not saying that they are always wrong (or every fraudulent), their coverage on new products and (working) prototypes is good, but just don't count on anything that needs an "artist rendering", like the fire-fighting plane you (apparently) saw in that mag.
[waiting for relpy with a reference to a Sienfeld show....]
Lean against the bar and accidently buy everybody a round!
Or better, yet muggers using a knife and cutting out the implant. I'd feel better if the scanner would only work an inch or two from the chip, rather than several feet. Otherwise, in a crowded bar how would you know who is paying?
It might be useful to use it to access your home the internet connection while "on the can" (and avoid expensive per meg transfers on current wireless internet plans), or perhaps even use it as a temporary hub for your IEE 802 b or g devices (and use those expensive wireless internet plans), but even then the appeal would be limited.
MY question really is: IS this a case of "default copyright status" or was there some kind of license offer by allowing (even encouraging) free download.
If default copyrights are applied, he could have just as easily decided to sue anyone who had taken his "offer" to download, distribute and use the images. I didn't see the site, but I am guessing that it said something like "download these images and use them, because we all love Linux". Could something like that be considered an license offer?
So everyone who has ever downloaded one of his images before April 24, will need to revisit the site to download a copy with the new license. Otherwise he could sue the pant off those (non-commerical) criminals who stole the images offered for download without license.
So, the CC license wasn't applied when the flash demo was created, in fact it was a response to the art appearing on the commercial site. It's clear the the material was previously being offered "free" to anyone who wanted to download it, without any mention of a copyright. but does that imply a right to use the materical by a business. If you offer items for download, but do not state your intentions, does this allow commerical vendors to make a profit out of your work. I think that now that he has applied the CC license, future uses in presentations would be protected, but I am not sure of the offending one.
Better than that...
Encode your data into the DNA of Cockroaches!
A workaround is a configuration change a user makes with the existing software, a software upgrade is, well, a software upgrade. Some admins would rather use a quick workaround on a production system instead of taking the chance that a software upgrade will introduce a new bug.
Come to think about it, it would be a great location for a disaster flick. Getting people over their fear of going there might be a problem. You'd have to pay a little more than scale.
The real confict will come with people who have bought into the "alternative" DNS TLDs which ICANN is thinking of publishing. They have already set a presidence of ignoring the old registrations with .biz, and most likely will do the same with .xxx. (IMO) .biz is a silly domain, but .xxx could be valuable real estate, with a real "land rush" for the most common search words. Porn is the largest market on the internet today, and related words are the biggest search engine terms. I could see some real court battles heating up over domain names in the .xxx TLD. It is one thing to fool a person to see a porn site (like www.whitehouse.com), but someone who is poking through .xxx domains is a real consumer, also it would eliminate the need for "warning pages".
The irony is that the current alternate .xxx registar will experience a big surge in registrations by companies wanting to squat certain names.
Most likely they'll hit space with a lone pilot a couple of times first. Ever flight so far only has 2 in the WK and 1 in the SSO. To win the X-Prize they would need 3 people in the SSO. So far they have been playing it safe by only having just as many people as needed(as they should), I don't see any reason they'll change the play. All the test runs they are making is showing the strength of their system, if this were NASA the runs would be 6 months apart. Besides, it's not like there is any other group so close to winning the prize. Maybe some other team might just pop outta nowhere and grab that brass ring, but they would have to be awefully sneaky to do that.
The AG didn't even cite the IP of the hardworking Record Industry Exec. I say he needs to pay for his flagrant copyright violation. Think of the children! What is Stevenson's children supposed to eat, when people are stealing his work wholesale.