Get a DVD burner like the Sony DRU-700A that can read all formats. Most of the time you are burning for your own use and it doesn't really matter what format you use. With a burner like the DRU700A, when you do burn for someone else, you'll have options.
Speaking of distribution of wealth, this little example put things into perspective back when people thought a $100B surplus was a big thing. Taking India as the example, and rounding it to 1B people, that $100B dollars would have given each of those people only $100...and that would have been the end of the money, just as it was in the US. In the case of the US, some people were given a few hundred $$$ in the form of a tax break.
The problem with distributing the wealth is that in these cases (as it seems to be with inheritances) the money is individually squandered into things that bring slightly more comfort in reaction to the past discomfort. The real changes happen when you can amass that money into larger entities in order to generate further funds. Granted $100 might be a lot in India, but eventually the lowest on the totem pole will still spend it to temporarily relieve cold and starvation (not a worthless cause, BTW), and get back nothing more than their daily wages while the people they paid for goods and services then trickle that money upstream. Unless, of course, some smartly invest that bit into something that will one day return something better. In all cases, you pay now or pay later.
It took a business trip to India in early 2001 to help me appreciate how good I have it. Then again, India is still striving for space programs, nukes, and armed parity with the Paks, so everyone's blowing a lot of money that could be used to lift up others. But then, that's the same old story, so nothing's new. Some won a genetic lottery, some lived just to die for a headline. 5 billion years from now when the sun blows it all to dust no one will be around to judge it all.
Paid $600 total for my 20 hour TiVo two years ago: $200 for the TiVo itself, $100 per 80 GB hard drive (2 of them) $200 for the lifetime subscription
Everyone forgets to factor in that subscription cost. Had I gone with the recurring monthly fee, I would have paid $110 more than the above by now. I expect to have my series 1 TiVo for at least another two years. I figure by then I will be convinced by new features to spring for a new one. Now the new TiVos are $99 each, but I would still have to get another subscription to support it, and that is what keeps me from doing it. Were that fee 1/2 of what it is now, I feel many people would trample their friends to get a TiVo in the house.
Security-wise, you should probably handle vulnerable systems on a test lan isolated from the rest of the net by NAT, but still able to access the outside world, until it can be brought up to the current patch standard. Of course not everyone can afford VLANs and implementing best practices.
How do you debug something that is technically more intelligent than you are? To do so is to be branded a heretic.
The Mind will tell us all we need to know, and at long last we humans will be able to relax our minds into the bleakness of de-evolution. God help us if The Mind goes crazy.
The publisher for this is ESellerate, which is just a software selling outfit. PDF files are no different than a copy of some antivirus software when it comes to publishing.
I'm more interested in streaming to the AirPort Express from my Linux box which hosts my music disk. I'm not interested in touching Apple's iTunes music software or sales service.
For enterprise wide capability, combine the drive letter mappings with Active Directory Dfs. Gives you an automounter type capability centrally managed across the domain tree.
Who needs space giraffes? Our native giraffes probably think we're assholes for stealing their grazing areas and diminishing their herds. When the space giraffes hear about this, they are going to be PISSED!
Seriously, we barely care what the native animal populations on this planet think about our activities. Some space giraffe is going to have a hard time getting our respect. Especially since we depict them as toy-hawking comedy routines every Christmas for Toys R Us. =)
For all we know we walked on some intelligent sand on the moon in 1969.
This is assuming that the 10,000 year lifespan of that civilization happened to coincide with our simliar lifespan out of billions of years of history. So their radio waves have already come and gone.
Perhaps they evolved to where there were able to create a global economy that pissed off some radicals in a corner of the globe that set off a global war in which they all nuked each other. All that before they were able to travel through space. Sort of like we're aiming to end up. =)
More universe for all of us. With this much universe each diverse human group can go find their own chunk of rock to terraform and stay away from the people they do not know how to play nice with. Not that humans ever needed an excuse like religion or politics to hurt each other.
Just being pissed on a Saturday night is enough to set some people off. What would happen if some drunk fool beat up the Eplovian ambassador because the guy was green? Here all alone, we don't have to worry about intergalactic fleets showing up as a consequence. When the Eplovians hear about this, they are going to be angry. I get the feeling if there is life out there, we barbarians have nothing to offer them in the form of entertainment or intellect. We are just one big race with "Does not play well with others" tatooed on our foreheads.
As Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) recently found out, he could not prevent "Fahrenheit 9-11" from being titled as such because one cannot copyright a title.
Just from looking at the confluences around my home town, Hillsborough, NJ, USA (Lat: 40.48N, Lon: 74.63W - all four completed) I can see that within the boundaries of each confluence zone there is a huge variety. If this were to be a "way of seeing what the world is like" by just the four zones in my area of "Normandy Beach, Ocean, NJ", "Riverton, Burlington, NJ", "Old Tappan (near Westwood), Bergen, NJ", and "Blairstown, Warren, NJ", one would missing quite a lot of the world considering that this covers the Philadelphia-New York metropolitan area. Each tiny square is a whole different world in its own way. It would be interesting instead to see how similar each of these places are, especially those on the other side of the world. I think they could leverage more out of this database by including links to confluences of a matching square on the other side of the planet and a random square somewhere else in the world. Link it to the CIA factbook so that people can learn about their planetmates.
Nothing new here. Virage Logic Corporation has had these designs on the shelf for their Self-Test and Repair (STAR) Memory System for some time now. It has been licensed to quite a few parties already for use in the various fabs so this is already being done.
This is not true!! General Mbuabua and Abassador Ngibu continue asking me for more money to help them release their funds. One you send them that first check they just don't stop.
Who's to say Jaster isn't a cover he has to pick up somewhere along the way to go into hiding for committed as a youthful indiscretion. Besides, since Boba won't be more than 10 in this movie, his younger days can still be left up to the writers.
Like I said, this was "for my money". Not everyone has the money for Audi A4's or Volvos, so luckily we have alternatives like Geo Metros or my ten year old Ford Escort. Some are forced to have these "character traits". Those leather seats would surely float my boat, but my paycheck says otherwise.
In other news, a German company has come up with the idea for using human skulls as cereal bowls and human skin for lamp shades. I wonder what's in the soap?
I saw this in action in Xerox's Philadelphia office running a Docutech for SAP's convention back in 1994. Very small office and this baby did the job at spitting out piles of complete copies from Powerpoint slides that were pre-ripped to Postscript. 10 years later this is making headlines...I think this has moved beyond News for Nerds.
Pardon him. He hasn't heard that we Americans are the most rapidly weight-gaining population ever. I'm not sure if he's a shill for the South Beach Diet books, or if he's makeing a connection between reading and exercise. Anyway, off to read before my Simpsons rerun comes on...
For less than that price, I just bought a Creative Zen 40GB. It doesn 90% of the same things and I don't really have a need to hook up little attachements like a voice recorder to it.
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Get a DVD burner like the Sony DRU-700A that can read all formats. Most of the time you are burning for your own use and it doesn't really matter what format you use. With a burner like the DRU700A, when you do burn for someone else, you'll have options.
Speaking of distribution of wealth, this little example put things into perspective back when people thought a $100B surplus was a big thing. Taking India as the example, and rounding it to 1B people, that $100B dollars would have given each of those people only $100...and that would have been the end of the money, just as it was in the US. In the case of the US, some people were given a few hundred $$$ in the form of a tax break.
The problem with distributing the wealth is that in these cases (as it seems to be with inheritances) the money is individually squandered into things that bring slightly more comfort in reaction to the past discomfort. The real changes happen when you can amass that money into larger entities in order to generate further funds. Granted $100 might be a lot in India, but eventually the lowest on the totem pole will still spend it to temporarily relieve cold and starvation (not a worthless cause, BTW), and get back nothing more than their daily wages while the people they paid for goods and services then trickle that money upstream. Unless, of course, some smartly invest that bit into something that will one day return something better. In all cases, you pay now or pay later.
Just dropped off 3 invites myself. It's a very small thing for me to do, but can mean a lot for the recipient.
fire up the autopr0n!
It took a business trip to India in early 2001 to help me appreciate how good I have it. Then again, India is still striving for space programs, nukes, and armed parity with the Paks, so everyone's blowing a lot of money that could be used to lift up others. But then, that's the same old story, so nothing's new. Some won a genetic lottery, some lived just to die for a headline. 5 billion years from now when the sun blows it all to dust no one will be around to judge it all.
Paid $600 total for my 20 hour TiVo two years ago:
$200 for the TiVo itself,
$100 per 80 GB hard drive (2 of them)
$200 for the lifetime subscription
Everyone forgets to factor in that subscription cost. Had I gone with the recurring monthly fee, I would have paid $110 more than the above by now. I expect to have my series 1 TiVo for at least another two years. I figure by then I will be convinced by new features to spring for a new one. Now the new TiVos are $99 each, but I would still have to get another subscription to support it, and that is what keeps me from doing it. Were that fee 1/2 of what it is now, I feel many people would trample their friends to get a TiVo in the house.
Security-wise, you should probably handle vulnerable systems on a test lan isolated from the rest of the net by NAT, but still able to access the outside world, until it can be brought up to the current patch standard. Of course not everyone can afford VLANs and implementing best practices.
How do you debug something that is technically more intelligent than you are? To do so is to be branded a heretic.
The Mind will tell us all we need to know, and at long last we humans will be able to relax our minds into the bleakness of de-evolution. God help us if The Mind goes crazy.
The publisher for this is ESellerate, which is just a software selling outfit. PDF files are no different than a copy of some antivirus software when it comes to publishing.
I'm more interested in streaming to the AirPort Express from my Linux box which hosts my music disk. I'm not interested in touching Apple's iTunes music software or sales service.
For enterprise wide capability, combine the drive letter mappings with Active Directory Dfs. Gives you an automounter type capability centrally managed across the domain tree.
Who needs space giraffes? Our native giraffes probably think we're assholes for stealing their grazing areas and diminishing their herds. When the space giraffes hear about this, they are going to be PISSED!
Seriously, we barely care what the native animal populations on this planet think about our activities. Some space giraffe is going to have a hard time getting our respect. Especially since we depict them as toy-hawking comedy routines every Christmas for Toys R Us. =)
For all we know we walked on some intelligent sand on the moon in 1969.
This is assuming that the 10,000 year lifespan of that civilization happened to coincide with our simliar lifespan out of billions of years of history. So their radio waves have already come and gone.
Perhaps they evolved to where there were able to create a global economy that pissed off some radicals in a corner of the globe that set off a global war in which they all nuked each other. All that before they were able to travel through space. Sort of like we're aiming to end up. =)
More universe for all of us. With this much universe each diverse human group can go find their own chunk of rock to terraform and stay away from the people they do not know how to play nice with. Not that humans ever needed an excuse like religion or politics to hurt each other.
Just being pissed on a Saturday night is enough to set some people off. What would happen if some drunk fool beat up the Eplovian ambassador because the guy was green? Here all alone, we don't have to worry about intergalactic fleets showing up as a consequence. When the Eplovians hear about this, they are going to be angry. I get the feeling if there is life out there, we barbarians have nothing to offer them in the form of entertainment or intellect. We are just one big race with "Does not play well with others" tatooed on our foreheads.
As Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) recently found out, he could not prevent "Fahrenheit 9-11" from being titled as such because one cannot copyright a title.
Just from looking at the confluences around my home town, Hillsborough, NJ, USA (Lat: 40.48N, Lon: 74.63W - all four completed) I can see that within the boundaries of each confluence zone there is a huge variety. If this were to be a "way of seeing what the world is like" by just the four zones in my area of "Normandy Beach, Ocean, NJ", "Riverton, Burlington, NJ", "Old Tappan (near Westwood), Bergen, NJ", and "Blairstown, Warren, NJ", one would missing quite a lot of the world considering that this covers the Philadelphia-New York metropolitan area. Each tiny square is a whole different world in its own way. It would be interesting instead to see how similar each of these places are, especially those on the other side of the world. I think they could leverage more out of this database by including links to confluences of a matching square on the other side of the planet and a random square somewhere else in the world. Link it to the CIA factbook so that people can learn about their planetmates.
Nothing new here. Virage Logic Corporation has had these designs on the shelf for their Self-Test and Repair (STAR) Memory System for some time now. It has been licensed to quite a few parties already for use in the various fabs so this is already being done.
Look through the website. IBM is even a customer.
This is not true!! General Mbuabua and Abassador Ngibu continue asking me for more money to help them release their funds. One you send them that first check they just don't stop.
So what do you want, more of the same "New Icons for GNOME 2!!!" crap? This is better than a re-post of an old story.
Who's to say Jaster isn't a cover he has to pick up somewhere along the way to go into hiding for committed as a youthful indiscretion. Besides, since Boba won't be more than 10 in this movie, his younger days can still be left up to the writers.
Like I said, this was "for my money". Not everyone has the money for Audi A4's or Volvos, so luckily we have alternatives like Geo Metros or my ten year old Ford Escort. Some are forced to have these "character traits". Those leather seats would surely float my boat, but my paycheck says otherwise.
In other news, a German company has come up with the idea for using human skulls as cereal bowls and human skin for lamp shades. I wonder what's in the soap?
I saw this in action in Xerox's Philadelphia office running a Docutech for SAP's convention back in 1994. Very small office and this baby did the job at spitting out piles of complete copies from Powerpoint slides that were pre-ripped to Postscript. 10 years later this is making headlines...I think this has moved beyond News for Nerds.
Pardon him. He hasn't heard that we Americans are the most rapidly weight-gaining population ever. I'm not sure if he's a shill for the South Beach Diet books, or if he's makeing a connection between reading and exercise. Anyway, off to read before my Simpsons rerun comes on...
For less than that price, I just bought a Creative Zen 40GB. It doesn 90% of the same things and I don't really have a need to hook up little attachements like a voice recorder to it.