Tom Magliozzi who, along with his brother Ray, hosted NPRÃ(TM)s hit comedy show Car Talk for the last 37 years, died Monday morning from complications of AlzheimerÃ(TM)s Disease. ÃoeTurns out he wasnÃ(TM)t kidding,Ã said Ray. ÃoeHe really couldnÃ(TM)t remember last weekÃ(TM)s puzzler.Ã
The military really doesn't care much it it is "green" or not, they just want the UAV on mission as long as possible. If it takes a "green" fuel cell, then fine. But if it took a ton of black coal to do the mission, then the dirty coal would be the fuel.
Chose LAX *bzzz*
Chose Virgin *ding*
Chose JFK *bzzz*
one of three ain't bad, must have wifi at JFK to get some work done on my 5 hour layover to the UAE. Its New York, I don't expect them to "do free" and I will be stuck paying for that part. hey, will take the free in-flight wi-fi...
In response to Swine Flu, MEX airport, they have deployed an thermal camera that takes your temperature via your face. This is done before you can check in to your flight. You step in front of a ordinary looking camera, and the security officer then allows you to pass, there is a screen where you can see your own face & temp. Pretty darn accurate. Strangely enough I am sort of sick today, sore throat, but that has been going around the office.
When these were installed in Portland some years ago, I distinctly remember telling my friend there "this may be convenient, but once you let these meters in, you realize, they can charge you whatever they want."
While not the case in Portland, where these bastards have been installed in L.A. the rate for parking has "magically" gone from a reasonable $1.50/hr to $4!! per hour. You see, where once a dollar or $1.50 was "reasonable" for a person to pay in quarters, once the debit system is used, well, The Sky Is The Limit. L.A. has, for the moment, the highest street parking rates in the nation. That is until some other city installs these bastards and charges whatever they damn please for street parking.
to analyze who the f*ck keeps calling me on my do not call listed cell offering crappy cheapo health care. A few months ago it was auto warranties. Hope this can track down the various unlisted/spoofed numbers I get these calls from.
Maybe we can build the *equivalent* of a human brain (number of neural connections in software, silicon or combination), but we don't even know how the thing functionally works as it is. How are we going to model it?
I disagree, in terms of Amazon following the inkjet model. You would not see $5-10 best sellers, they would be full price, Amazon would have to make the $500 cost of the Kindle up somehow. Then everyone would gripe about e-books being the same cost as a hardback bestseller ($30 and up). Thank God someone ISN'T following the inkjet model.
As for me, I would rather have the Kindle over a laptop, those $400 laptops don't have batteries to last even a couple of hours. I can't stand reading on a screen, but my friend's Sony is very easy on the eyes.
Almost exactly what an atomic detonation would look like from space, even down to the clouds being pushed aside and the "pileus cloud" that you see above atomic blasts from years ago.
Foster & Partners usually does a good job.
The Millau Bridge is Foster, as is the Gherkin in London
other Foster projects http://www.pixelmap.com/dma_foster.html
I think the thing is quite stunning myself.
Its funny, as soon as the car warranty scammers stopped calling last month, I now get robocalls for some cheapo health care ripoff. On my cell, on the do not call list. So it begins again.....
Parabolic flights are simulated zero G. If I jump out of a plane in a cardboard box, then I, too have the illusion of zero G. In relation to my confining cardboard walls, I think I am floating. These flights are exactly the same principle. When they marry onboard a Virgin Galactic flight, then we can argue. Even then, they will be in micro gravity, not true "Zero G."
Brilliant marketing, in this case, well, maybe.
But brilliant marketing overall, as a company, M$ can be pretty poor. Just look at the Bing release. Hoopla, media attention galore, and what do people *still* get when the enter bing.com into their browser? "Coming Soon." yeah. Just what I want to see on a big, mother-of-all-launches-to-take-on-google hype machine. Well, they sure blew it, yesterday & today Bing was the talk of the office, but, meh, who in my office is going to remember Bing in the middle of next week when the media machine has moved on and there is work to get done?
Well, rescinding the 3 app limit may be good marketing, but, boy does M$ know how to blow it sometimes.
Google Voice gets is well enough, proving the technology to defeat a "press # to complete this call" would be defeated in a matter of hours by phone spammers.
You can simply google "the warranty has expired on your car" and get message board complaints going back a few years now. Apparently tens of thousands of people complained. But when they finally rang Ted Schumer, during a Senate session, god forbid, action against these scammers actually happened. http://gothamist.com/2009/05/11/schumer_calls_for_investigation_int.php
Why the *bleep* did it take this long for action? I am on the no call list, and I have gotten these calls constantly for 2 years now on my cell. They tend to come in clusters, many calls in a week or two then "quiet."
These guys should be locked up in a cell for 10 years with ringing phone that cannot be picked up with the number posted daily on 4chan. Rot in hell.
It really isn't the fault of Linux, rather the expectations of customers changed the nature of the netbook from the start. The netbook could have been a small appliance to surf the web, do email and such. Instead, the netbook just became a small PC, with all the expectations of a PC.
The general layman knows that he/she isn't going to install Office on a Palm or iphone. Those are whole different machines, after all. But the netbook simply became a small laptop PC. From a Linux standpoint, THAT became the problem. Nothing wrong with Linux, just the expectations of the customer changed to expect Windows.
When I went in on the last weekend when Good Guys liquidated a few years ago. I actually had good memories of GG, as a highschooler drooling over various high end audio & video. They were one of the first to have plasma TV's, if you had 20K than you could also take one home. Even better, the one on La Cienega in L.A. was open an astonishing 24 hours (unheard of in the day). I did find un-blown-out speakers at a third of the price and stands at the GG liquidation that I still enjoy now.
CC always blew monkey chunks, their big DVD sale a couple of years ago was a joke. Never set foot in one again.
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Tom Magliozzi who, along with his brother Ray, hosted NPRÃ(TM)s hit comedy show Car Talk for the last 37 years, died Monday morning from complications of AlzheimerÃ(TM)s Disease. ÃoeTurns out he wasnÃ(TM)t kidding,Ã said Ray. ÃoeHe really couldnÃ(TM)t remember last weekÃ(TM)s puzzler.Ã
The military really doesn't care much it it is "green" or not, they just want the UAV on mission as long as possible. If it takes a "green" fuel cell, then fine. But if it took a ton of black coal to do the mission, then the dirty coal would be the fuel.
Chose LAX *bzzz* Chose Virgin *ding* Chose JFK *bzzz* one of three ain't bad, must have wifi at JFK to get some work done on my 5 hour layover to the UAE. Its New York, I don't expect them to "do free" and I will be stuck paying for that part. hey, will take the free in-flight wi-fi...
IANAL, but is this legal? I somehow think that Microsoft doesn't have 150K photographer releases in their paws.
In response to Swine Flu, MEX airport, they have deployed an thermal camera that takes your temperature via your face. This is done before you can check in to your flight. You step in front of a ordinary looking camera, and the security officer then allows you to pass, there is a screen where you can see your own face & temp. Pretty darn accurate. Strangely enough I am sort of sick today, sore throat, but that has been going around the office.
but now back, in California
When these were installed in Portland some years ago, I distinctly remember telling my friend there "this may be convenient, but once you let these meters in, you realize, they can charge you whatever they want." While not the case in Portland, where these bastards have been installed in L.A. the rate for parking has "magically" gone from a reasonable $1.50/hr to $4!! per hour. You see, where once a dollar or $1.50 was "reasonable" for a person to pay in quarters, once the debit system is used, well, The Sky Is The Limit. L.A. has, for the moment, the highest street parking rates in the nation. That is until some other city installs these bastards and charges whatever they damn please for street parking.
makes about as much sense as locating the Hockey Hall of Fame in Rio de Janiero or calling Des Moines Surf City USA.
to analyze who the f*ck keeps calling me on my do not call listed cell offering crappy cheapo health care. A few months ago it was auto warranties. Hope this can track down the various unlisted/spoofed numbers I get these calls from.
Maybe we can build the *equivalent* of a human brain (number of neural connections in software, silicon or combination), but we don't even know how the thing functionally works as it is. How are we going to model it?
I disagree, in terms of Amazon following the inkjet model. You would not see $5-10 best sellers, they would be full price, Amazon would have to make the $500 cost of the Kindle up somehow. Then everyone would gripe about e-books being the same cost as a hardback bestseller ($30 and up). Thank God someone ISN'T following the inkjet model. As for me, I would rather have the Kindle over a laptop, those $400 laptops don't have batteries to last even a couple of hours. I can't stand reading on a screen, but my friend's Sony is very easy on the eyes.
...but does it blend?
This is about stopping used games sales, nothing more, nothing less
Almost exactly what an atomic detonation would look like from space, even down to the clouds being pushed aside and the "pileus cloud" that you see above atomic blasts from years ago.
Foster & Partners usually does a good job. The Millau Bridge is Foster, as is the Gherkin in London other Foster projects http://www.pixelmap.com/dma_foster.html I think the thing is quite stunning myself.
Now get it out to the protesters in Iran and spread it in China for that matter.
Its funny, as soon as the car warranty scammers stopped calling last month, I now get robocalls for some cheapo health care ripoff. On my cell, on the do not call list. So it begins again.....
Parabolic flights are simulated zero G. If I jump out of a plane in a cardboard box, then I, too have the illusion of zero G. In relation to my confining cardboard walls, I think I am floating. These flights are exactly the same principle. When they marry onboard a Virgin Galactic flight, then we can argue. Even then, they will be in micro gravity, not true "Zero G."
They want the technology of building a large automobile & other auto-related technology and practices. They are getting it pretty cheap.
Brilliant marketing, in this case, well, maybe. But brilliant marketing overall, as a company, M$ can be pretty poor. Just look at the Bing release. Hoopla, media attention galore, and what do people *still* get when the enter bing.com into their browser? "Coming Soon." yeah. Just what I want to see on a big, mother-of-all-launches-to-take-on-google hype machine. Well, they sure blew it, yesterday & today Bing was the talk of the office, but, meh, who in my office is going to remember Bing in the middle of next week when the media machine has moved on and there is work to get done? Well, rescinding the 3 app limit may be good marketing, but, boy does M$ know how to blow it sometimes.
Google Voice gets is well enough, proving the technology to defeat a "press # to complete this call" would be defeated in a matter of hours by phone spammers.
You can simply google "the warranty has expired on your car" and get message board complaints going back a few years now. Apparently tens of thousands of people complained. But when they finally rang Ted Schumer, during a Senate session, god forbid, action against these scammers actually happened. http://gothamist.com/2009/05/11/schumer_calls_for_investigation_int.php Why the *bleep* did it take this long for action? I am on the no call list, and I have gotten these calls constantly for 2 years now on my cell. They tend to come in clusters, many calls in a week or two then "quiet." These guys should be locked up in a cell for 10 years with ringing phone that cannot be picked up with the number posted daily on 4chan. Rot in hell.
It really isn't the fault of Linux, rather the expectations of customers changed the nature of the netbook from the start. The netbook could have been a small appliance to surf the web, do email and such. Instead, the netbook just became a small PC, with all the expectations of a PC. The general layman knows that he/she isn't going to install Office on a Palm or iphone. Those are whole different machines, after all. But the netbook simply became a small laptop PC. From a Linux standpoint, THAT became the problem. Nothing wrong with Linux, just the expectations of the customer changed to expect Windows.
The press is lazy, always have been. Nothing like sourcing your story in a few keystrokes.
When I went in on the last weekend when Good Guys liquidated a few years ago. I actually had good memories of GG, as a highschooler drooling over various high end audio & video. They were one of the first to have plasma TV's, if you had 20K than you could also take one home. Even better, the one on La Cienega in L.A. was open an astonishing 24 hours (unheard of in the day). I did find un-blown-out speakers at a third of the price and stands at the GG liquidation that I still enjoy now. CC always blew monkey chunks, their big DVD sale a couple of years ago was a joke. Never set foot in one again.