Our local company, Bartolotta's, and a number of other companies have already greatly increased the safety factor by using control panels to light off most of the fireworks. This means that for most of the fireworks, there are no people anywhere close to them during the actual show.
As an aside, the Bartolotta's do the Big Bang in Milwaukee each year, at the start of Summerfest. This year there were an average of 6000 fireworks set off each minute for well over 20 minutes. It's impressive. I grew up about 3 miles from the Bartolotta grounds, where they would occasionally test fireworks. Pretty neat seeing fireworks in the middle of the winter.:)
I stand corrected in my other post... I guess people will get worked up over this. So what you're saying is that we shouldn't have to pay for law enforcement to stop people from robbing your local McDonalds as well? If something is wrong, it's wrong, and if there's a law made against it, then officers should be in place to uphold that law. Otherwise our laws mean nothing. If you don't like this law, use your vote to show that. I really don't mind the government spending less than a penny per person on this when they're throwing a lot more money around on REALLY stupid projects.
That will end up costing each of us about 1/2 of one cent per year until 2009 then. I don't know... doesn't really matter to me except I'll have to wait for the movies to come out on DVD. I still go to at least 3 movies a month and purchase 2 DVD's per week, so I never felt bad about watching the occassional cam'd movie. Whatever... I'm guessing that even here on Slashdot people won't find anything too exciting about this.
- Get up and walk around every 15-30 minutes, at least for a minute or two. - Dim the lights in your office if possible... the reflection off a monitor gives me headaches. - Stretch your neck and shoulders every so often. Eye strain can be associated with upper body tension. - Get one of those screens that goes in front of the monitor to reduce glare. They also dim the monitor a bit more. - Make sure you're sitting far enough back. I have a tendancy to sit REALLY close to the monitor. You'll get used to sitting a ways back and it will help a lot. - Make sure you're getting enough sleep. Sounds silly, but I'm guilty of complaining about eye strain while not getting enough sleep (here I am, up at 4am)
Once again, damned if they do, damned if they don't. I don't for one second believe MS is doing this to help anyone but themselves, but do you really think that all of the other companies that open source their software are doing it for mankind either? Companies are in business to make a profit, and although I disagree with a lot of Microsoft's business tactics, I think that this is a move that will not only help them, but may actually prove beneficial for developers too. So what if they open some source to Visio, or MS Money... at least it will probably help people who use those products. If nothing else, MS is saying 'open sourcing software is not a bad thing', which is a big change from what they've been saying for years. I'm just sick of all the flaming of MS for EVERYTHING. Yeah we don't like them, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Are you serious? I have basic cable (TWC) for $12/month, plus an extra $7/month for a HD cable box. All of the stations I get with the basic package, I get the HDTV version (if it exists). So, for $19/month total I get NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Fox (soon), and WB (soon) all in HD. Granted, only the prime time stuff is in HDTV, but every new show is HiDef now (reality crap excluded). In addition, all my sports programming is in HD now (Packer games, Bucks games, Final Four, NBA Finals, NFL playoffs, some Brewer games). So, ina given night I watch around 1 hour of SD programming (local news + a rerun or two) and the rest is HD. Either you need to look into this more, or move to a better city.:)
Time Warner Cable in Milwaukee is now offering this HD DVR, and I believe they offer it elsewhere too. It may not be as nice as a Tivo, but it sure gets the job done.
Perhaps the smartest business method they could employ would be to build the scanner into the OS, provide free dat updates for the first x days/months/years, and then ask for a subscription fee after that, just like all the other companies do. If you don't want to use it, you can easily just install McAfee or Norton and turn off the MS scanner. Assuming they'd keep up with the viruses, just like McAfee does, I'd be willing to pay a small fee each year. If they kept it low ($1?), they'd have tons of people use the service and make lots more money.
Of course, it would be smart for them to provide free updates to protect against certain viruses if they're slamming the net hard. MS has to pay bandwidth fees too, so I'm sure they wouldn't mind getting slammed a little less when certain viruses come out.
An ideal solution, although it's somewhat expensive, is to do SATA RAID. Adaptec has a controller card that is excellent for this and runs about $330. Then you'll need some SATA hard drives. The card can do RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, and RAID-10, so you still have flexibility that way. If you can afford it, do it.
I don't mean this as flamebait... I guess I just don't understand why paying for airtime is disallowed to begin with. I think the RIAA has a lot of underhanded tactics, and skirting laws is yet another one, but I don't know why there's a law to begin with. Seems like we all love to champion open competition and free markets as long as people stay within the rules, why is paying a radio station to play music any different? Perhaps I just need a lesson in radio economics.:/
There has to be a better method for making the primary link stand out. Perhaps the editors could place it in bold? I don't want to click on every link, wait for the pages to load (slowly under the/. affect), then realize the page doesn't have the most pertinent information.
"Which would you rather have, the safety or the cash? Almost every American would take the cash; that's exactly what we learn from studies like Viscusi's."
This is just dumb. Perhaps if the monetary value were higher than the 83 cents they've calculated. They also fail to take into account that the safety increase is not just for that individual, but also for everyone they care about. So, would you rather have 83 cents, or the knowledge that you, your family, and friends are slightly safer?
Gates is already in: Current Inductees. There's a few others that should be on that list though. There's still plenty to choose from for this year, though. Hopefully not everyone will get in on name recognition alone.
Although I'd love to see Bill face some jail time, comparing him to Martha isn't really fair. Martha isn't going to jail for illegal stock activity, she's going because she lied to federal investigators.
Look into how a Dutch auction IPO works, which is how Google will be doing this. It is a much smarter method for a dot-com type company, especially when people are afraid that the stock will be overpriced. They're doing this the right way.
Yeah, because every company that has gone public has stopped innovative R&D and constant steady growth. Look at some of the major public companies out there (3M and General Electric) to see what R&D can really accomplish. Add in the fact that Google will gain at least $2 billion that they can use towards more services, current research, and increasing infrastructure. Your comment is baseless.
Right from the horse's mouth. There's already a crapload of articles. Of note, they're doing a Dutch Auction IPO and want to earn $2.7B, although speculation puts this closer to $20B. The underwriters are Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston.
It doesn't just affect people who use the minibrowser. If you have Winamp set up as the default program for xm files, you're vulnerable. All someone would have to do is redirect the web page to a malformed page that sends a Content-Type: audio/xm (or whatever) header. This would execute Winamp, attempt to load the location, and cause problems.
Since when is -R the most compatible with set top players? Last time I checked, which was about a month ago, all of the major brand DVD players handled the +R format, while some of them didn't handle the -R format. I got a multi-format burner anyway, but I think your comment is wrong.
While I agree that installing linux has gotten a lot easier with Mandrake (or even Redhat), it's still far from being as simple as a Windows install. Non linux users don't know what window manager they should pick, what packages they really do need (nothing has a simple name... it's like reading a novel when doing an install), or what sizes their partitions need to be. Granted they have default settings, but I think someone needs to come out with a distro that takes it all down to the basics: 1 window manager, 1 partition setup, and 1 set of common apps. If people need more, give them an easy way of installing new packages... one with a nice GUI that doesn't require additional configuration (see Add/Remove Windows Components for a good example). Windows still has an edge on linux for installation... hopefully linux can continue to get better.
While it's great that these other countries are providing some type of competition for the US, we have a pretty big edge for Mars right now. Only a handful of other countries have been able to get in orbit around Mars so far (Russia and the EU?), and isn't the US the only one to get a working rover on the surface (3, in fact?). Now that we have a proven method for getting rovers to the surface, I don't doubt that we'll be sending quite a few more in the near future. We'll have the most survey information about the surface, the most scientific data, the most proven methods, and are the only country that has successfully put a man on another celestial object... that sure would give us a head start for a manned mission.
Good luck to the rest of you countries... I hope you catch up to make it more interesting.:)
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A little ironic, don't you think. A little too ironic, yeah I really do think.
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Our local company, Bartolotta's, and a number of other companies have already greatly increased the safety factor by using control panels to light off most of the fireworks. This means that for most of the fireworks, there are no people anywhere close to them during the actual show.
:)
As an aside, the Bartolotta's do the Big Bang in Milwaukee each year, at the start of Summerfest. This year there were an average of 6000 fireworks set off each minute for well over 20 minutes. It's impressive. I grew up about 3 miles from the Bartolotta grounds, where they would occasionally test fireworks. Pretty neat seeing fireworks in the middle of the winter.
I stand corrected in my other post... I guess people will get worked up over this. So what you're saying is that we shouldn't have to pay for law enforcement to stop people from robbing your local McDonalds as well? If something is wrong, it's wrong, and if there's a law made against it, then officers should be in place to uphold that law. Otherwise our laws mean nothing. If you don't like this law, use your vote to show that. I really don't mind the government spending less than a penny per person on this when they're throwing a lot more money around on REALLY stupid projects.
That will end up costing each of us about 1/2 of one cent per year until 2009 then. I don't know... doesn't really matter to me except I'll have to wait for the movies to come out on DVD. I still go to at least 3 movies a month and purchase 2 DVD's per week, so I never felt bad about watching the occassional cam'd movie. Whatever... I'm guessing that even here on Slashdot people won't find anything too exciting about this.
- Get up and walk around every 15-30 minutes, at least for a minute or two.
- Dim the lights in your office if possible... the reflection off a monitor gives me headaches.
- Stretch your neck and shoulders every so often. Eye strain can be associated with upper body tension.
- Get one of those screens that goes in front of the monitor to reduce glare. They also dim the monitor a bit more.
- Make sure you're sitting far enough back. I have a tendancy to sit REALLY close to the monitor. You'll get used to sitting a ways back and it will help a lot.
- Make sure you're getting enough sleep. Sounds silly, but I'm guilty of complaining about eye strain while not getting enough sleep (here I am, up at 4am)
Try Fountains of Paradise, and only after you read the article. Nice try, though. :)
Once again, damned if they do, damned if they don't. I don't for one second believe MS is doing this to help anyone but themselves, but do you really think that all of the other companies that open source their software are doing it for mankind either? Companies are in business to make a profit, and although I disagree with a lot of Microsoft's business tactics, I think that this is a move that will not only help them, but may actually prove beneficial for developers too. So what if they open some source to Visio, or MS Money... at least it will probably help people who use those products. If nothing else, MS is saying 'open sourcing software is not a bad thing', which is a big change from what they've been saying for years. I'm just sick of all the flaming of MS for EVERYTHING. Yeah we don't like them, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
It's right around 8GB per hour, which is about 4x the space that SD requires.
Are you serious? I have basic cable (TWC) for $12/month, plus an extra $7/month for a HD cable box. All of the stations I get with the basic package, I get the HDTV version (if it exists). So, for $19/month total I get NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Fox (soon), and WB (soon) all in HD. Granted, only the prime time stuff is in HDTV, but every new show is HiDef now (reality crap excluded). In addition, all my sports programming is in HD now (Packer games, Bucks games, Final Four, NBA Finals, NFL playoffs, some Brewer games). So, ina given night I watch around 1 hour of SD programming (local news + a rerun or two) and the rest is HD. Either you need to look into this more, or move to a better city. :)
http://www.sciatl.com/customers/Source/4004400.pd
Time Warner Cable in Milwaukee is now offering this HD DVR, and I believe they offer it elsewhere too. It may not be as nice as a Tivo, but it sure gets the job done.
Perhaps the smartest business method they could employ would be to build the scanner into the OS, provide free dat updates for the first x days/months/years, and then ask for a subscription fee after that, just like all the other companies do. If you don't want to use it, you can easily just install McAfee or Norton and turn off the MS scanner. Assuming they'd keep up with the viruses, just like McAfee does, I'd be willing to pay a small fee each year. If they kept it low ($1?), they'd have tons of people use the service and make lots more money.
Of course, it would be smart for them to provide free updates to protect against certain viruses if they're slamming the net hard. MS has to pay bandwidth fees too, so I'm sure they wouldn't mind getting slammed a little less when certain viruses come out.
An ideal solution, although it's somewhat expensive, is to do SATA RAID. Adaptec has a controller card that is excellent for this and runs about $330. Then you'll need some SATA hard drives. The card can do RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, and RAID-10, so you still have flexibility that way. If you can afford it, do it.
More info here.
I don't mean this as flamebait... I guess I just don't understand why paying for airtime is disallowed to begin with. I think the RIAA has a lot of underhanded tactics, and skirting laws is yet another one, but I don't know why there's a law to begin with. Seems like we all love to champion open competition and free markets as long as people stay within the rules, why is paying a radio station to play music any different? Perhaps I just need a lesson in radio economics. :/
There has to be a better method for making the primary link stand out. Perhaps the editors could place it in bold? I don't want to click on every link, wait for the pages to load (slowly under the /. affect), then realize the page doesn't have the most pertinent information.
This is just dumb. Perhaps if the monetary value were higher than the 83 cents they've calculated. They also fail to take into account that the safety increase is not just for that individual, but also for everyone they care about. So, would you rather have 83 cents, or the knowledge that you, your family, and friends are slightly safer?
Stupid, pointless article.
Gates is already in:
Current Inductees. There's a few others that should be on that list though. There's still plenty to choose from for this year, though. Hopefully not everyone will get in on name recognition alone.
Although I'd love to see Bill face some jail time, comparing him to Martha isn't really fair. Martha isn't going to jail for illegal stock activity, she's going because she lied to federal investigators.
Look into how a Dutch auction IPO works, which is how Google will be doing this. It is a much smarter method for a dot-com type company, especially when people are afraid that the stock will be overpriced. They're doing this the right way.
Yeah, because every company that has gone public has stopped innovative R&D and constant steady growth. Look at some of the major public companies out there (3M and General Electric) to see what R&D can really accomplish. Add in the fact that Google will gain at least $2 billion that they can use towards more services, current research, and increasing infrastructure. Your comment is baseless.
Right from the horse's mouth. There's already a crapload of articles. Of note, they're doing a Dutch Auction IPO and want to earn $2.7B, although speculation puts this closer to $20B. The underwriters are Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston.
It doesn't just affect people who use the minibrowser. If you have Winamp set up as the default program for xm files, you're vulnerable. All someone would have to do is redirect the web page to a malformed page that sends a Content-Type: audio/xm (or whatever) header. This would execute Winamp, attempt to load the location, and cause problems.
Since when is -R the most compatible with set top players? Last time I checked, which was about a month ago, all of the major brand DVD players handled the +R format, while some of them didn't handle the -R format. I got a multi-format burner anyway, but I think your comment is wrong.
While I agree that installing linux has gotten a lot easier with Mandrake (or even Redhat), it's still far from being as simple as a Windows install. Non linux users don't know what window manager they should pick, what packages they really do need (nothing has a simple name... it's like reading a novel when doing an install), or what sizes their partitions need to be. Granted they have default settings, but I think someone needs to come out with a distro that takes it all down to the basics: 1 window manager, 1 partition setup, and 1 set of common apps. If people need more, give them an easy way of installing new packages... one with a nice GUI that doesn't require additional configuration (see Add/Remove Windows Components for a good example). Windows still has an edge on linux for installation... hopefully linux can continue to get better.
While it's great that these other countries are providing some type of competition for the US, we have a pretty big edge for Mars right now. Only a handful of other countries have been able to get in orbit around Mars so far (Russia and the EU?), and isn't the US the only one to get a working rover on the surface (3, in fact?). Now that we have a proven method for getting rovers to the surface, I don't doubt that we'll be sending quite a few more in the near future. We'll have the most survey information about the surface, the most scientific data, the most proven methods, and are the only country that has successfully put a man on another celestial object... that sure would give us a head start for a manned mission.
:)
Good luck to the rest of you countries... I hope you catch up to make it more interesting.
A little ironic, don't you think. A little too ironic, yeah I really do think.