Heh, read Red Mars, where terrorists wrapped a Space Elevator twice around the planet and took out a number of settlements. That ought to be a real treat on a heavily populated planet like earth when that puppy comes down.
Then just go to a local Blockbuster and sign up for their Freedom Pass service, also no late fees and a certain number of movies out at one tim. I used to love Netflix bu them the post office or Netflix or both decided that the movies would not arrive in my mailbox. After wrangling with them for months over the issue I gave up on it and went with the local service. Turn around time on movies is now 0 days, where Netflix always takes time to get the next movie to you. I've found that with that type of turn-around time, I only need to have two movies out at once.
So I'm thinking that these companies are all using some wild compression algorithms on these mailboxes in order to provide us with all this space, so that we really aren't using 1GB on GMail or 2GB on Yahoo Mail. Can't wait for the corruption to creep in. I wonder what Google's corporate policy is on buying systems with or without ECC?
Redundant hardware. A chip that big is going to have a lot of flaws and we won't be able to just throw out chips that have the flaws. The chips will have to fail self-test and repair before they can be considered unusable.
And yet the PDF file you point to says that hydrogen does ignite easily, has a clear flame that firefighters have trouble handling without special equipment, and burns only 7% cooler than gasoline. It also says you are less likely to be burned at a distance, and "victims generally aren't burned unless they're actually in the flame." Also "the explosion requires at least twice as rich a mixture of hydrogen as of natural gas", such as you might find in a compressed fuel chamber. A puncture in a fuel chamber is far from being the same thing as being left to vent in open air and will not disperse as readily as their comparison to gasoline vapors. So for the driver in the car that blows up (very close to a hot fireball?), it is no safer than gasoline. Perhaps that is an endorsement after all?
And if they do run Linux, what makes you think that the existing software will run on Linux? Remember, the idea here is to get their existing service up and running as quickly as possible, not set up a platform for them to surf the web from instead of doing their actual work.
Don't buy it. The whole reason copy protection hasn't taken place all over the music market is that consumers are watching out for CDs that have these "features" and they are not selling well because of incompatibilities. Back when DVD first came out it was incompatibilities like that which kept some movies from being high sellers given the limited amount of movies available at the time.
Given that national park land takes up one-fourth of the US, would it not make sense to use a tiny amount of that space, at the land bordering closest to the nearest big city, and dedicate that land to use for wind turbines? After all, tax payer money is paying for the maintenance of all that land and we might as well get a benefit back from it.
Back on the "use" side of power, how does the heat generated by all these electrical devices affect the atmosphere, whether generated by oil or wind? Will a drop in price due to wind power cause more electrical use? And can something like this be used to "aeroform" the winds in the plains so that chance of tornados is reduced?
I think this came from the fact that some of the story had been leaked and we knew they were supposed to originally be wookies. The concept of the forest planet even comes from Kashyyk, the wookie planet. Somewhere that got cutesied because of the potential toy merchandizing and a million stomachs turned as they become ewoks. True, it's Uncle George's story and he can spin the yarn as he likes, but it's my eyes that rolled into the back of my head.
If the only thing accomplished by 3Com's entry into this market (and subsequent exit a year or so later) is lower Cisco prices for me, then it is a good thing. C'mon 3Com, let's see what you've got.
I already don't like Juniper's service. We've been a Netscreen customer since early 2000, and we acquired our Neoteris SSL-VPN about 4 months ago. I hope Juniper doesn't screw us with this.
3Com does this waaay too often. I pray that they never abandon the NBX telephone systems. Just because the market is hot for SIP and VoIP it doen't mean 3com won't go against the grain and screw us all as they have before. I'm sticking with Juniper's Netscreen and Neoteris products, of which we were customers before Juniper came along.
You must have missed that Return of the Jedi movie, then. At 13 years old, I could not believe what I was seeing on the screen. After Empire I expected magic out of that third movie. Biggest Letdown Ever.
Not to mention all the electricity required to either keep drives spinning so that the data can be readily accessed, or to power systems so that it can be read from whatever media is being used. Not a lot of energy going on to pick up a piece of paper and read it, but it's awfully easy to make a disorganized mess out of it. Not that most people use the full organizational power of their computers anyway.
Anyway, the whole computers=ecofriendly thing is all wrong. Go ahead and buy your iMac, hippie, you're killing the environment in a different way.
You get to lose three per year before they lock the account and I had the account locked three times. It happened just when they opened the NY area facility, so I'm guessing it was some sort of inventory issue, but I wasn't in the mood to debug it for them.
Do you really believe that shareholders don't spend the money they get from sales of shares? Money which then goes into the economy to provide everyone else with their livelihood? The econosphere works much like the biosphere: there are big fish and little fish, and everyone is feeding something else.
At some point a type of work reaches the level where it is a commodity. Construction workers and garbage men are not as valued because just about anyone can swing a hammer or trash can with some skill. While many of us have run into morons in the IT business, we have to admit that to do our job there is a more select skill set that not everyone can do. Sure, for a while, everyone with a liberal arts degree thought they were a webmaster, but that was all part of the dotcom bubble that showed that webhosting was not a great business, and running/etc/rc2.d/S99blah was not that far behind. Sure the real demanding stuff isn't being exported, but the scriptmonkey stuff that can be run by 15 year-old l337-fR34X can honestly go. There is no innovation in that, and it's pretty much a dead end. If we can get other countries to do that work and buy the same goods you are buying here, then it keeps our economy moving where a company here might otherwise have just canned you and not hired a replacement.
Keeping these low wage jobs in the country just does not benefit us. So long as new jobs are created and training can be had quickly it should not be painful, and will keep relevant and innovative jobs in this country. THAT is what you want to ask for: training (education) and funding that encourages job creation.
What's even worse is when the friggin movie gets lost between their inventory and your mailbox, and they blame you and request an investigation with the post office that is never resolved. After having my account locked a number of times, I said screw it and went with Blockbuster's Freedom Pass. Same deal as Netflix, only I do get to go to the store when the whim hits me for a certain movie and rent it right away without worrying about shipping times. I can drop off the previous night's movie at the same time that I'm picking up that night's movie. No fuss, no muss.
While I have a TiVo series 1, I'm not sure I really care about this new idea. The download time for an entire DVD, while in the background, is going to really kick the crap out of my cable connection and will take a week. Not fast enough in my opinion. I already have a DVD player so I don't need this function in a box I will have to buy (TiVo series ??).
Hotspots and computing power have nothing to do with how unproductive people are. It's always been true that people with a task list need to organize it and focus on the current task at hand. The coming tasks will get their focus in turn, and worrying about them while working on something else causes you to forget steps, rush things out, and rush other people that might be associated with it (causing irritation ripples through time). The trick is getting other people who are unorganized and rushed into recognizing that you don't have time for their issue at this exact moment but they are in the queue. Realistic priorities must be respected: making everything priority 1 means nothing has priority over anything else, defeating the system. If things really were priority 1, that's a sure sign that things around you have broken down due to lack of resources and it's time to get out of that situation.
Technology like PDAs, most of which is now built into cell phones, can help by making a todo list, even if it is just a text file that you edit with a priority number. The rest is up to you to coordinate with fellow humans, and has nothing to do with technology. Most of us seem to lack those skills because you just don't get that sort of training in school.
Probably. It seems a little weird to walk up to someone's house these days and say "hi, I'm so and so, can I come in?" In the old days community centers like churches and the market were used for that sort of thing. Maybe something like that is done at malls where geeks walk into gaming stores and chat it up about what they are buying. Or people in clothing stores, or something similar. Seems these days when you strike up a conversation like that you might be thinking inside "is this guy asking me about that so he can come to my house and steal my Xbox and all my games?" or "I hope I never run into you again!" =)
On the contrary, they should welcome *us* as their overlords. Wait til they find what vicious bastards we all are. They're going to kill the scientists that thought up the idea of transmitting innocent peaceful signals into space. Their planet is going to be one big ball of Armageddon.
Why would that happen? Microsoft has a DRM wizard for moving your licensed music from one computer to another when you get a new computer. It's right there on the WMP download page where all the versions can be downloaded.
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Ah, thank goodness for the Porn Groove genre MP3s to set the theme.
Heh, read Red Mars, where terrorists wrapped a Space Elevator twice around the planet and took out a number of settlements. That ought to be a real treat on a heavily populated planet like earth when that puppy comes down.
Then just go to a local Blockbuster and sign up for their Freedom Pass service, also no late fees and a certain number of movies out at one tim. I used to love Netflix bu them the post office or Netflix or both decided that the movies would not arrive in my mailbox. After wrangling with them for months over the issue I gave up on it and went with the local service. Turn around time on movies is now 0 days, where Netflix always takes time to get the next movie to you. I've found that with that type of turn-around time, I only need to have two movies out at once.
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So I'm thinking that these companies are all using some wild compression algorithms on these mailboxes in order to provide us with all this space, so that we really aren't using 1GB on GMail or 2GB on Yahoo Mail. Can't wait for the corruption to creep in. I wonder what Google's corporate policy is on buying systems with or without ECC?
Redundant hardware. A chip that big is going to have a lot of flaws and we won't be able to just throw out chips that have the flaws. The chips will have to fail self-test and repair before they can be considered unusable.
And yet the PDF file you point to says that hydrogen does ignite easily, has a clear flame that firefighters have trouble handling without special equipment, and burns only 7% cooler than gasoline. It also says you are less likely to be burned at a distance, and "victims generally aren't burned unless they're actually in the flame." Also "the explosion requires at least twice as rich a mixture of hydrogen as of natural gas", such as you might find in a compressed fuel chamber. A puncture in a fuel chamber is far from being the same thing as being left to vent in open air and will not disperse as readily as their comparison to gasoline vapors. So for the driver in the car that blows up (very close to a hot fireball?), it is no safer than gasoline. Perhaps that is an endorsement after all?
Scouring of the Shire...
Scouring of the Shire...
Scouring of the Shire...
And if they do run Linux, what makes you think that the existing software will run on Linux? Remember, the idea here is to get their existing service up and running as quickly as possible, not set up a platform for them to surf the web from instead of doing their actual work.
Yeah, I doubt anyone will pick this up until the Bad Thing has happened. Next.
Don't buy it. The whole reason copy protection hasn't taken place all over the music market is that consumers are watching out for CDs that have these "features" and they are not selling well because of incompatibilities. Back when DVD first came out it was incompatibilities like that which kept some movies from being high sellers given the limited amount of movies available at the time.
Given that national park land takes up one-fourth of the US, would it not make sense to use a tiny amount of that space, at the land bordering closest to the nearest big city, and dedicate that land to use for wind turbines? After all, tax payer money is paying for the maintenance of all that land and we might as well get a benefit back from it.
Back on the "use" side of power, how does the heat generated by all these electrical devices affect the atmosphere, whether generated by oil or wind? Will a drop in price due to wind power cause more electrical use? And can something like this be used to "aeroform" the winds in the plains so that chance of tornados is reduced?
I think this came from the fact that some of the story had been leaked and we knew they were supposed to originally be wookies. The concept of the forest planet even comes from Kashyyk, the wookie planet. Somewhere that got cutesied because of the potential toy merchandizing and a million stomachs turned as they become ewoks. True, it's Uncle George's story and he can spin the yarn as he likes, but it's my eyes that rolled into the back of my head.
If the only thing accomplished by 3Com's entry into this market (and subsequent exit a year or so later) is lower Cisco prices for me, then it is a good thing. C'mon 3Com, let's see what you've got.
I already don't like Juniper's service. We've been a Netscreen customer since early 2000, and we acquired our Neoteris SSL-VPN about 4 months ago. I hope Juniper doesn't screw us with this.
3Com does this waaay too often. I pray that they never abandon the NBX telephone systems. Just because the market is hot for SIP and VoIP it doen't mean 3com won't go against the grain and screw us all as they have before. I'm sticking with Juniper's Netscreen and Neoteris products, of which we were customers before Juniper came along.
You must have missed that Return of the Jedi movie, then. At 13 years old, I could not believe what I was seeing on the screen. After Empire I expected magic out of that third movie. Biggest Letdown Ever.
Not to mention all the electricity required to either keep drives spinning so that the data can be readily accessed, or to power systems so that it can be read from whatever media is being used. Not a lot of energy going on to pick up a piece of paper and read it, but it's awfully easy to make a disorganized mess out of it. Not that most people use the full organizational power of their computers anyway.
Anyway, the whole computers=ecofriendly thing is all wrong. Go ahead and buy your iMac, hippie, you're killing the environment in a different way.
You get to lose three per year before they lock the account and I had the account locked three times. It happened just when they opened the NY area facility, so I'm guessing it was some sort of inventory issue, but I wasn't in the mood to debug it for them.
Do you really believe that shareholders don't spend the money they get from sales of shares? Money which then goes into the economy to provide everyone else with their livelihood? The econosphere works much like the biosphere: there are big fish and little fish, and everyone is feeding something else.
/etc/rc2.d/S99blah was not that far behind. Sure the real demanding stuff isn't being exported, but the scriptmonkey stuff that can be run by 15 year-old l337-fR34X can honestly go. There is no innovation in that, and it's pretty much a dead end. If we can get other countries to do that work and buy the same goods you are buying here, then it keeps our economy moving where a company here might otherwise have just canned you and not hired a replacement.
At some point a type of work reaches the level where it is a commodity. Construction workers and garbage men are not as valued because just about anyone can swing a hammer or trash can with some skill. While many of us have run into morons in the IT business, we have to admit that to do our job there is a more select skill set that not everyone can do. Sure, for a while, everyone with a liberal arts degree thought they were a webmaster, but that was all part of the dotcom bubble that showed that webhosting was not a great business, and running
Keeping these low wage jobs in the country just does not benefit us. So long as new jobs are created and training can be had quickly it should not be painful, and will keep relevant and innovative jobs in this country. THAT is what you want to ask for: training (education) and funding that encourages job creation.
What's even worse is when the friggin movie gets lost between their inventory and your mailbox, and they blame you and request an investigation with the post office that is never resolved. After having my account locked a number of times, I said screw it and went with Blockbuster's Freedom Pass. Same deal as Netflix, only I do get to go to the store when the whim hits me for a certain movie and rent it right away without worrying about shipping times. I can drop off the previous night's movie at the same time that I'm picking up that night's movie. No fuss, no muss.
While I have a TiVo series 1, I'm not sure I really care about this new idea. The download time for an entire DVD, while in the background, is going to really kick the crap out of my cable connection and will take a week. Not fast enough in my opinion. I already have a DVD player so I don't need this function in a box I will have to buy (TiVo series ??).
Hotspots and computing power have nothing to do with how unproductive people are. It's always been true that people with a task list need to organize it and focus on the current task at hand. The coming tasks will get their focus in turn, and worrying about them while working on something else causes you to forget steps, rush things out, and rush other people that might be associated with it (causing irritation ripples through time). The trick is getting other people who are unorganized and rushed into recognizing that you don't have time for their issue at this exact moment but they are in the queue. Realistic priorities must be respected: making everything priority 1 means nothing has priority over anything else, defeating the system. If things really were priority 1, that's a sure sign that things around you have broken down due to lack of resources and it's time to get out of that situation.
Technology like PDAs, most of which is now built into cell phones, can help by making a todo list, even if it is just a text file that you edit with a priority number. The rest is up to you to coordinate with fellow humans, and has nothing to do with technology. Most of us seem to lack those skills because you just don't get that sort of training in school.
Probably. It seems a little weird to walk up to someone's house these days and say "hi, I'm so and so, can I come in?" In the old days community centers like churches and the market were used for that sort of thing. Maybe something like that is done at malls where geeks walk into gaming stores and chat it up about what they are buying. Or people in clothing stores, or something similar. Seems these days when you strike up a conversation like that you might be thinking inside "is this guy asking me about that so he can come to my house and steal my Xbox and all my games?" or "I hope I never run into you again!" =)
On the contrary, they should welcome *us* as their overlords. Wait til they find what vicious bastards we all are. They're going to kill the scientists that thought up the idea of transmitting innocent peaceful signals into space. Their planet is going to be one big ball of Armageddon.
Why would that happen? Microsoft has a DRM wizard for moving your licensed music from one computer to another when you get a new computer. It's right there on the WMP download page where all the versions can be downloaded.