Oh right... as if the software couldn't be rigged to rip you off the same way. Boy are you trusting.
In the real world, more vegetable toppings make the pizza take longer to cook, and the vegetables contain a lot of water diminishing the crispiness of the pizza because the water can't cook off before the bottom of the pizza is perfect. Sometimes the pizzaiolo (or feminine: pizzaiola) is doing you a favor by not fucking up your mush, pepper, onion, zucchini, and (perish the thought)...pineapple.
If it's gambling, then explain: "the top 1 percent of DraftKings winners receive the vast majority of the winnings." Wouldn't there be a more even distribution of winners? It could be that there's some combination of skill and chance like blackjack. But then it's gambling. I'm a libertarian and I'm OK with being treated like an adult, so I would favor legalization.
Don't' get me wrong, I'm sick of seeing their commercials constantly and the participation of major league sports doesn't seem kosher. and the electronic media who is the beneficiary of hundreds of millions in ad revenue seems to be mostly silent in this discussion.
At some point in the 80's I stopped giving them the info as I figured out given how often I went to Rat Shack, by the time I died I would have saved myself about two weeks of agony. I didn't foresee the internet and was overly optimistic about Shadio Rack's retail smarts, but I'll bet I made myself a nice weekend.
This is so old, I'll bet the patents have expired. I'm sure I saw it close to 20 years ago. The "Anonymous" that suggested it was probably the marketing droid that was responsible for the press release (follow the link) that got some lazy editor to post it on Gizmag.
We live under an approach to Logan Airport (BOS), about 20 years ago a British Ariways flight loses a chunk of its flap, which is a flat- ish piece of wing-shaped aluminum that weighed maybe 100 lbs. Tumbles down a few thousand feet and bounces off the roof of a house about 300 feet away from mine. bounces again off the family car and lands on the driveway. Family is inside having a holiday dinner, family includes a couple of attorneys BTW. You can probably guess how this turned out for them.
My wife asks me if we're insured for that sort of thing, I say "Sweetie...we only need insurance if our house hits their plane."
No problem with *original* programming as they own it.
If they carry Phillies games, they won't be able to stream that as MLB streams their own and the local stations don't have streaming rights. I assume the NFL, NBA and NHL have similar restrictions.
Interestingly, here in Boston the talk and sports radio stations stream, but don't carry all the commercials. I suppose they want extra money from some advertisers to stream their ads.
And a tip o' the hat to Luc Bresson for showing us the future in secure, safe air travel (OK, it was interplanetary travel in the movie). The flight attendant says "sweet dreams" and hits a button. When you wake up, you're on the ground at your destination.
To bring it back on-topic, there seems general agreement that checking laptops as baggage as unacceptably risky, the flying public and big business will not stand for the banning of laptops as carry-on and the Brits went and reversed the ban that started this whole discussion in the first place.
Hah. already sold nearly every bit of real estate inside 128. Their coporate HQ (3 buildings)near Kendall Square (MIT)went last year, a big buncha office and R&D space in Cambridge and Newton, everything but their new HQ building (which used to be their old HQ building)the quasi art-deco one in Cambridgeport next to MicroCenter, which isn't all that big and wouldn't bring that much cash in.
Oh, and they haven't sold their Manufacturing facilities, as it would interrupt what little cash flow they have. Damn near everything else has been moved to their campus in (I forget the town) but it is waaaay out in the sticks, out on 495.
Buy a 6 foot by 40 inch Door (hollow core) cheapest they have....
sandpaper, GALLON of polyurethane (house brand), disposable paintbrush, 2 sawhorse kits.
lay the polyurethane on THICK (3 coats), it strengthens the surface of the door. all you need is a hammer to put the sawhorses together...
Also worth mentioning here is that Feynman illustrated the O-ring failure during the public (televised?) hearings, with nothing more than 1) A glass of Icewater, 2)A sample of the O-ring material, and 3) A pair of Vise-grips.
It seems that I should remind people what's Legal and what's not (IANAL) as I understand it.
Nothing seized/banned was Video-only. Hidden video cameras in clocks, smoke detectors, stuffed toys are totally legal.
It's the audio stuff that was seized, or the combination audio/video stuff.
Why? wiretap laws going back to the 1930's. every bank and donut shop hereabouts runs video surveillance, but the donut chain started to record audio in a few of its stores and got into big trouble (surprisingly, the FBI didn't execute a search warrant).
Now If I were the judge and applied the law very conservatively (whether or not I agreed with it) I'd have to say that just 2 of ramsey's items crossed the line here and those would be
Sure the net has attracted the best and the brightest.
But consider the other side of the coin. It's also attracted (in some way or other) the Scum of the Earth. Just think what Havoc they'd wreak elsewhere, if we (ahem, the best and brightest) weren't keeping them busy here.
Dontcha think even as we speak, predators are cruisin these very pages, hoping to get rich of the back of some nerds?
I think that in an alternate timeline, McNealy would've played in the NHL.
Funny, nobody at Slashdot noticed this in the Boston Globe when it ran last week. But then again Hiawatha Bray is almost universally ignored by the Boston nerd community, as his computer-related columns tend to fall into two catagories. 1)those which demonstrate his limited grasp of technology, and B)"master of the obvious" notices something.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry Tim, I can't hear those words without thinking of the Monty Python bit from "Holy Grail"
Haven't we seen this, (or a variation) every year for oh, the last 5 years?
Just Sayin'.
Oh right... as if the software couldn't be rigged to rip you off the same way. Boy are you trusting.
In the real world, more vegetable toppings make the pizza take longer to cook, and the vegetables contain a lot of water diminishing the crispiness of the pizza because the water can't cook off before the bottom of the pizza is perfect. Sometimes the pizzaiolo (or feminine: pizzaiola) is doing you a favor by not fucking up your mush, pepper, onion, zucchini, and (perish the thought)...pineapple.
That's damning with faint praise.
Seconded.
Nothing else is even close.
"There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery”
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Streisand Effect? of course. Nobody would have pressured for the removal of the film if it was about the Flat Earth Society.
If it's gambling, then explain: "the top 1 percent of DraftKings winners receive the vast majority of the winnings."
Wouldn't there be a more even distribution of winners?
It could be that there's some combination of skill and chance like blackjack. But then it's gambling.
I'm a libertarian and I'm OK with being treated like an adult, so I would favor legalization.
Don't' get me wrong, I'm sick of seeing their commercials constantly and the participation of major league sports doesn't seem kosher.
and the electronic media who is the beneficiary of hundreds of millions in ad revenue seems to be mostly silent in this discussion.
At some point in the 80's I stopped giving them the info as I figured out given how often I went to Rat Shack, by the time I died I would have saved myself about two weeks of agony.
I didn't foresee the internet and was overly optimistic about Shadio Rack's retail smarts, but I'll bet I made myself a nice weekend.
This is so old, I'll bet the patents have expired. I'm sure I saw it close to 20 years ago. The "Anonymous" that suggested it was probably the marketing droid that was responsible for the press release (follow the link) that got some lazy editor to post it on Gizmag.
Tory, Grant and Kari get their own show on the new "Blowing Stuff Up" channel
We live under an approach to Logan Airport (BOS), about 20 years ago a British Ariways flight loses a chunk of its flap, which is a flat- ish piece of wing-shaped aluminum that weighed maybe 100 lbs. Tumbles down a few thousand feet and bounces off the roof of a house about 300 feet away from mine. bounces again off the family car and lands on the driveway. Family is inside having a holiday dinner, family includes a couple of attorneys BTW. You can probably guess how this turned out for them.
My wife asks me if we're insured for that sort of thing, I say "Sweetie...we only need insurance if our house hits their plane."
Or as Eddie Murphy once observed:
"Net points is monkey points, because they always make a monkey out of you"
No problem with *original* programming as they own it. If they carry Phillies games, they won't be able to stream that as MLB streams their own and the local stations don't have streaming rights. I assume the NFL, NBA and NHL have similar restrictions. Interestingly, here in Boston the talk and sports radio stations stream, but don't carry all the commercials. I suppose they want extra money from some advertisers to stream their ads.
And a tip o' the hat to Luc Bresson for showing us the future in secure, safe air travel (OK, it was interplanetary travel in the movie). The flight attendant says "sweet dreams" and hits a button. When you wake up, you're on the ground at your destination.
To bring it back on-topic, there seems general agreement that checking laptops as baggage as unacceptably risky, the flying public and big business will not stand for the banning of laptops as carry-on and the Brits went and reversed the ban that started this whole discussion in the first place.
Hah. already sold nearly every bit of real estate inside 128. Their coporate HQ (3 buildings)near Kendall Square (MIT)went last year, a big buncha office and R&D space in Cambridge and Newton, everything but their new HQ building (which used to be their old HQ building)the quasi art-deco one in Cambridgeport next to MicroCenter, which isn't all that big and wouldn't bring that much cash in.
Oh, and they haven't sold their Manufacturing facilities, as it would interrupt what little cash flow they have. Damn near everything else has been moved to their campus in (I forget the town) but it is waaaay out in the sticks, out on 495.
Go to any Home Depot
Buy a 6 foot by 40 inch Door (hollow core) cheapest they have....
sandpaper, GALLON of polyurethane (house brand), disposable paintbrush, 2 sawhorse kits.
lay the polyurethane on THICK (3 coats), it strengthens the surface of the door. all you need is a hammer to put the sawhorses together...
Presto! magnificent work area for less than $50
Also worth mentioning here is that Feynman illustrated the O-ring failure during the public (televised?) hearings, with nothing more than 1) A glass of Icewater, 2)A sample of the O-ring material, and 3) A pair of Vise-grips.
Send an E-mail to Jeff Bezos...
it worked for me.
"An armed society is a polite society"
-Robert Heinlein
It seems that I should remind people what's Legal and what's not (IANAL) as I understand it.
Nothing seized/banned was Video-only. Hidden video cameras in clocks, smoke detectors, stuffed toys are totally legal.
It's the audio stuff that was seized, or the combination audio/video stuff.
Why? wiretap laws going back to the 1930's.
every bank and donut shop hereabouts runs video surveillance, but the donut chain started to record audio in a few of its stores and got into big trouble (surprisingly, the FBI didn't execute a search warrant).
Now If I were the judge and applied the law very conservatively (whether or not I agreed with it) I'd have to say that just 2 of ramsey's items crossed the line here and those would be
CLK-3000WT Disguised Clock w/audio
SMK-3000WT Disguised Smoke w/audio
Sure the net has attracted the best and the brightest.
But consider the other side of the coin. It's also attracted (in some way or other) the Scum of the Earth. Just think what Havoc they'd wreak elsewhere, if we (ahem, the best and brightest) weren't keeping them busy here.
Dontcha think even as we speak, predators are cruisin these very pages, hoping to get rich of the back of some nerds?
I think that in an alternate timeline, McNealy would've played in the NHL.
Funny, nobody at Slashdot noticed this in the Boston Globe when it ran last week. But then again Hiawatha Bray is almost universally ignored by the Boston nerd community, as his computer-related columns tend to fall into two catagories. 1)those which demonstrate his limited grasp of technology, and B)"master of the obvious" notices something.
j3p0