Don't forget California also suffered from NIMBY. The voters have regularly voted against building new powerplants for the last 20 years, leading to California importing more and more power.
Here in Florida, we have little worry about being effected by regional power comsumption/distribution problems as we generate nearly all our own power. We did have rolling blackouts 4 or 5 years ago, as summer demand outstripped production. Guess what, new construction followed. It helps to have a state government that is somewhat tough on the utilities, though they could always do better.
I wonder how difficult it'd be to create your own RFID setup, at home? Are there tags that can be applied to stuff I now own? And what about receiver/scanners? Is there a way to set up a system that'll be able to tell me what shelf (scanner per shelf, intigrated with close range GPS?) a particular book is on or where my daughter's doll is? Hell, I'd like to put one on each socket and wrench (daughter likes to 'help' Dad fix things, usually grabbing tools when my back is turned). The final criteria would be a way to encode the RFID signal so that war drivers couldn't go down the street, seeing just what everyone owns and coming back later to help themselves.
How is London a subtle reference to 1984 being set in Britain? Unless some people think it's London, Ontario? It'd be just like those unfunny Can-a-dians to pull something like that.
A fairly easy solution would be to form a pool, preferably with people with little or no connection to you. You all buy Toll/Fare/Smart cards with the same amount on them and then switch amongst yourselves. This way, yes your movements are being tracked but the info is attributed to someone else.
I drove up to Wichita Falls in February. It was sleeting, with ice on the roads. When I left in July, it was 104F. In between, I had a tornado blow in the windows of the new mall I was in, that was built after the city center was destroyed by an earlier tornado. Why they put 3 or 4 story high windows in a place that is center lane of tornado alley is beyond me. You'd think they'd build it half down with berms around the walls. The only cool thing about WF was the SCA folks there. Real friendly, however, when they hit you with sticks, it really hurts.
Mellow out. I used to travel up to Lawton for fun. Witchita Falls is an armpit. 14 radio stations and they're all country (or at least they were when I was stationed at Sheppard AFB, back in the '80's).
As for volcanos, it looks like the production of CO/CO2 in eruptions can have an effect on global warming. It turns out, however, that the ash/SO2 released into the atmosphere has a cooling effect. It also helps scatter sunlight, allowing for more robust tree growth which leads to more carbon being taken out of the atmosphere.
So, all we need to happen is for the Yellowstone (NetBSD) volcano to erupt (supposed to be violent enough to wipe out hoomanity) and fill the skys with enough ash and SO2 to bring on Fimbulwinter to slow down global warming. Or have a big rock smack into the Indian Ocean.
While humans are pumping a lot of greenhouse type gasses into the atmosphere, it's by no means certain that this is directly responsible for global warming. A good Krakatoa size eruption can dwarf 100 years of human output in a day, concerning CO release. And don't forget the giant caldera volcano under Yellowstone is scheduled to erupt 'any time now'.
Personally, I'm just bummed I never got to see the great central sea that covered the great plains. Stupid climactic variation. Why can't everything stay exactly as it was, the day I was born? Except for computers, of course. And space exploration (wait a minute, we went to the moon a year after I was born). And internet porn. And tv channels. Need more channels. And surround sound. My 5.1 setup is so outdated, women who wouldn't have noticed me before and now really not noticing me. But wait until I get my 7.1 setup. Then they'll...still ignore me. But I'll have 7.1 channels of surround sound, with which I'll enjoy...Road Trip? Dare Devil? Gaahh! Movies suck!
I use Apple's remote management software. Can't remember the name as it's changed 3 or 4 times in the last 6 years. It can reformat one drive to match the admin Mac. Yeah, it's not free but it's pretty slick. Wish Ghost was out for Macs.
True enough. I work at a small lib-arts college. Our big research is in marine science. It helps having a state university in town to collaberate with as well as NOAA and USGS. Since Eckerd (nothing to do with the chain, other than having the owner donate a butt-load of cash back in the '70's) is undergrad only, you have a chance to do some real work with professors, presenting papers at conferences, etc. One physics professor has been running experiments on carbon structures with only 3 or 4 students acually running the lab and writing up stuff as well as coming up with their own projects.
I've worked at two state universities and never seen undergrads able to do work like this. On the flip side, yeah, there isn't a lot of money available. A Mac lab that was just replaced has been in place since 1994. These 66MHz machines cost about what the top-of-the-line G5's cost today. Who knew they'd be around for so long.
We respected DNR in military hospitals. In the one case I was involved in, a women with cancer was DNR. When she coded, all we could do was hold her hands and let her know she wasn't alone. Hardest thing I ever had to do as a medic.
Majority of users (especially in business) wouldn't know a Radeon 9800 if they woke up next to one in bed. All they do is run Office, email, web browser, and IM apps. They might have some database front end app but that's about it. Laptops are more than powerful enough for all that.
This is the real problem that the industry has run into; 1GHz is fast enough for most users. Even XP hasn't dulled it's edge too much. Hell, where I'm at, we're planning on replacing all computers 300Mhz and lower. That's about 3/4's of the machines we cover. Why are we using such slow machines? Win/Office 98 does everything the users need. It's real hard to justify to management the upgrading of every computer every 2-3 years. Our 5 year cycle seems to work out for us. Now, if you need workstation power (scientific/engineering modeling, graphic/video production, programming/compiling, etc.) you are on a 2 year cycle.
There are three main parts to a computer system; input, display, and processor box. While laptops are great for putting all three pieces in a small package, it's not the best layout for comfortable computing. I like IBM's detachable, wireless keyboard. Makes sense, especially if they use the width of 17" computers for a full size keyboard.
As for the screen contorting itself between laptop and desktop orientations, I'd prefer a detachable screen that could be set on a stand at the right height and attached to the laptop for mobile computing. Or a processor box that is dockable. You'd arrive at work or home and click your processor box onto your dock with it's desktop screen(s). When you want to go mobile, you'd have a portable screen that would click onto the processor box.
Finally, you could leave the laptop as it is and create a dock that it could slide into, converting it into a desktop machine. This would finally work as laptop computers are fast enough for 90% of the users out there (how fast can you type into a word processor or an email program?).
As hot as the G4 PowerBooks get, they'll need some hellacious cooling on these things. Maybe they'll come with a string you can use to whirl the PB around your head, like a bullroarer. If it makes that cool sound, it'll be great.
iMac, eMac, iBook. They're all targeted at consumer user who doesn't need the latest and greatest. I'm a Mac tech and I'm still running a beige G3 at home because all I'm doing is checking mail, surfing the web, and doing some light DTP.
At work, on the other hand, I'll be getting a mid-range G5 as I have to at least be somewhat familiar with every software package I have to support. This includes two DV labs.
The high price of paperbacks may, as much as anything else, discourage purchases.
Used to be that paperbacks were less than the minimum wage. Now they're 10%-30% higher. Is the minimum wage not keeping up or are the price of paperbacks outpacing inflation? And where can one find a good inflation-ometer, where one can plug in the current price of goods and see them reflected back through time?
People have had the future crammed down their throats for the last 50 odd years and can't handle the present, much less think about the future. I see this all the time (IT at small college) with faculty, staff, and, yes, students, not being able to use all the cool gadgets they think they need. Hell, there's still the blinking VCR thing happening.
Very few people can hold or get a handle on the change in the world and project forward. To be able to do this and write and interesting book, with well developed characters is really rare.
Wish someone would make a movie of Bored of the Rings. Peter O'Toole would make a great Goodgulf Greytooth. It's too bad Dudley Moore's checked out. He'd be a great Dildo. Peter Cook would have done justice as Elrond (or whatever his Bored character was called.
Apple (Computer) had three laptops in development. Their code names were Cold Fusion, Piltdown Man, and Carl Sagan. You can see why he (Sagan, not the Piltdown Man) was upset, being included with two "psudo-science" terms. So they changed it to BHA; totally random initials they said. It's generally believed that BHA actually stands for Butt Headed Astronomer.
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Don't forget California also suffered from NIMBY. The voters have regularly voted against building new powerplants for the last 20 years, leading to California importing more and more power.
Here in Florida, we have little worry about being effected by regional power comsumption/distribution problems as we generate nearly all our own power. We did have rolling blackouts 4 or 5 years ago, as summer demand outstripped production. Guess what, new construction followed. It helps to have a state government that is somewhat tough on the utilities, though they could always do better.
Could DMCA apply to reverse engineering or disabling RFID tags?
I wonder how difficult it'd be to create your own RFID setup, at home? Are there tags that can be applied to stuff I now own? And what about receiver/scanners? Is there a way to set up a system that'll be able to tell me what shelf (scanner per shelf, intigrated with close range GPS?) a particular book is on or where my daughter's doll is? Hell, I'd like to put one on each socket and wrench (daughter likes to 'help' Dad fix things, usually grabbing tools when my back is turned). The final criteria would be a way to encode the RFID signal so that war drivers couldn't go down the street, seeing just what everyone owns and coming back later to help themselves.
What about these, out at Virginia Tech?
How is London a subtle reference to 1984 being set in Britain? Unless some people think it's London, Ontario? It'd be just like those unfunny Can-a-dians to pull something like that.
A fairly easy solution would be to form a pool, preferably with people with little or no connection to you. You all buy Toll/Fare/Smart cards with the same amount on them and then switch amongst yourselves. This way, yes your movements are being tracked but the info is attributed to someone else.
SOBRIGHTS burn my fingers when I change them.
I drove up to Wichita Falls in February. It was sleeting, with ice on the roads. When I left in July, it was 104F. In between, I had a tornado blow in the windows of the new mall I was in, that was built after the city center was destroyed by an earlier tornado. Why they put 3 or 4 story high windows in a place that is center lane of tornado alley is beyond me. You'd think they'd build it half down with berms around the walls. The only cool thing about WF was the SCA folks there. Real friendly, however, when they hit you with sticks, it really hurts.
Hey Man,
Mellow out. I used to travel up to Lawton for fun. Witchita Falls is an armpit. 14 radio stations and they're all country (or at least they were when I was stationed at Sheppard AFB, back in the '80's).
How do you get rid of nasty infections? Autoclave! Heat things up enough to smoke out all those nasty hoomins and things can get back to normal around here.
As for volcanos, it looks like the production of CO/CO2 in eruptions can have an effect on global warming. It turns out, however, that the ash/SO2 released into the atmosphere has a cooling effect. It also helps scatter sunlight, allowing for more robust tree growth which leads to more carbon being taken out of the atmosphere.
So, all we need to happen is for the Yellowstone (NetBSD) volcano to erupt (supposed to be violent enough to wipe out hoomanity) and fill the skys with enough ash and SO2 to bring on Fimbulwinter to slow down global warming. Or have a big rock smack into the Indian Ocean.
While humans are pumping a lot of greenhouse type gasses into the atmosphere, it's by no means certain that this is directly responsible for global warming. A good Krakatoa size eruption can dwarf 100 years of human output in a day, concerning CO release. And don't forget the giant caldera volcano under Yellowstone is scheduled to erupt 'any time now'.
Personally, I'm just bummed I never got to see the great central sea that covered the great plains. Stupid climactic variation. Why can't everything stay exactly as it was, the day I was born? Except for computers, of course. And space exploration (wait a minute, we went to the moon a year after I was born). And internet porn. And tv channels. Need more channels. And surround sound. My 5.1 setup is so outdated, women who wouldn't have noticed me before and now really not noticing me. But wait until I get my 7.1 setup. Then they'll...still ignore me. But I'll have 7.1 channels of surround sound, with which I'll enjoy...Road Trip? Dare Devil? Gaahh! Movies suck!
I use Apple's remote management software. Can't remember the name as it's changed 3 or 4 times in the last 6 years. It can reformat one drive to match the admin Mac. Yeah, it's not free but it's pretty slick. Wish Ghost was out for Macs.
True enough. I work at a small lib-arts college. Our big research is in marine science. It helps having a state university in town to collaberate with as well as NOAA and USGS. Since Eckerd (nothing to do with the chain, other than having the owner donate a butt-load of cash back in the '70's) is undergrad only, you have a chance to do some real work with professors, presenting papers at conferences, etc. One physics professor has been running experiments on carbon structures with only 3 or 4 students acually running the lab and writing up stuff as well as coming up with their own projects.
I've worked at two state universities and never seen undergrads able to do work like this. On the flip side, yeah, there isn't a lot of money available. A Mac lab that was just replaced has been in place since 1994. These 66MHz machines cost about what the top-of-the-line G5's cost today. Who knew they'd be around for so long.
We respected DNR in military hospitals. In the one case I was involved in, a women with cancer was DNR. When she coded, all we could do was hold her hands and let her know she wasn't alone. Hardest thing I ever had to do as a medic.
Majority of users (especially in business) wouldn't know a Radeon 9800 if they woke up next to one in bed. All they do is run Office, email, web browser, and IM apps. They might have some database front end app but that's about it. Laptops are more than powerful enough for all that.
This is the real problem that the industry has run into; 1GHz is fast enough for most users. Even XP hasn't dulled it's edge too much. Hell, where I'm at, we're planning on replacing all computers 300Mhz and lower. That's about 3/4's of the machines we cover. Why are we using such slow machines? Win/Office 98 does everything the users need. It's real hard to justify to management the upgrading of every computer every 2-3 years. Our 5 year cycle seems to work out for us. Now, if you need workstation power (scientific/engineering modeling, graphic/video production, programming/compiling, etc.) you are on a 2 year cycle.
There are three main parts to a computer system; input, display, and processor box. While laptops are great for putting all three pieces in a small package, it's not the best layout for comfortable computing. I like IBM's detachable, wireless keyboard. Makes sense, especially if they use the width of 17" computers for a full size keyboard.
As for the screen contorting itself between laptop and desktop orientations, I'd prefer a detachable screen that could be set on a stand at the right height and attached to the laptop for mobile computing. Or a processor box that is dockable. You'd arrive at work or home and click your processor box onto your dock with it's desktop screen(s). When you want to go mobile, you'd have a portable screen that would click onto the processor box.
Finally, you could leave the laptop as it is and create a dock that it could slide into, converting it into a desktop machine. This would finally work as laptop computers are fast enough for 90% of the users out there (how fast can you type into a word processor or an email program?).
As hot as the G4 PowerBooks get, they'll need some hellacious cooling on these things. Maybe they'll come with a string you can use to whirl the PB around your head, like a bullroarer. If it makes that cool sound, it'll be great.
iMac, eMac, iBook. They're all targeted at consumer user who doesn't need the latest and greatest. I'm a Mac tech and I'm still running a beige G3 at home because all I'm doing is checking mail, surfing the web, and doing some light DTP.
At work, on the other hand, I'll be getting a mid-range G5 as I have to at least be somewhat familiar with every software package I have to support. This includes two DV labs.
"Kiss my shiny, metal ass!"
The high price of paperbacks may, as much as anything else, discourage purchases.
Used to be that paperbacks were less than the minimum wage. Now they're 10%-30% higher. Is the minimum wage not keeping up or are the price of paperbacks outpacing inflation? And where can one find a good inflation-ometer, where one can plug in the current price of goods and see them reflected back through time?
People have had the future crammed down their throats for the last 50 odd years and can't handle the present, much less think about the future. I see this all the time (IT at small college) with faculty, staff, and, yes, students, not being able to use all the cool gadgets they think they need. Hell, there's still the blinking VCR thing happening.
Very few people can hold or get a handle on the change in the world and project forward. To be able to do this and write and interesting book, with well developed characters is really rare.
We (wifelike unit and I) gave up after he defeated communism by working.
Wish someone would make a movie of Bored of the Rings. Peter O'Toole would make a great Goodgulf Greytooth. It's too bad Dudley Moore's checked out. He'd be a great Dildo. Peter Cook would have done justice as Elrond (or whatever his Bored character was called.
I think it's refering to the $65 billion dollars. If you've put in a dollar sign, you don't need the word dollar after it.
Apple (Computer) had three laptops in development. Their code names were Cold Fusion, Piltdown Man, and Carl Sagan. You can see why he (Sagan, not the Piltdown Man) was upset, being included with two "psudo-science" terms. So they changed it to BHA; totally random initials they said. It's generally believed that BHA actually stands for Butt Headed Astronomer.