One financial argument is that it reinforces the stereotype of Indiana as a bunch of backwards-assed country fscks who don't know how to change their damn clocks, and why on earth should anyone do business with them?
I've been living on Indiana Stupid Time for fifteen years now (after 25 years in DST states) and am damn glad that we're finally adopting DST. I am tired of explaining to people elsewhere in the country that our time difference varies depending on what time of year it is.
This was especially fun last fall, when I worked on a program that hosted daily teleconferences with participants from all six* CONUS time zones - we reminded them daily for a week before the time change that our time difference would also be changing. It took us a week after the time change to get everybody to hook up at the correct time. I don't necessarily want to call BS on the parent post, but our mileage DEFINITELY varied.
Not that I'm a diehard DST fan or anything - I'd be just as happy if the whole country dumped DST altogether, either by Springing Ahead and never Falling Back again or vice versa.
If this scales, and somebody can build a cost-competitive box that takes wastewater, bacteria, and a little power in, and puts hydrogen and clean water out, that may well solve one of the biggest problems of transitioning to an H2 economy - the distribution network. Every cow/pig/chicken farmer in the world could become his own fuel station!
Because I *am* the kind of person who annoys those around me by shouting out continuity errors in theaters, here's what was in the hidden frame of the Clockwork Orange-like training video:
Congratulations You have found the hidden frame. If you have time to look for things like this, you have way too much time on your hands. You are probably the kind of person who watches movies just to look for continuity issues, shouting out, "Hey, that guy in the background is wearing a different pair of cufflinks than he did two seconds ago!" - as if anyone else cares. You tend to dream up elaborate conspiracy theories that involve movie stars, politicians, and the logos of certain brands of cereal. You used to stuff grasshoppers into soda bottles and bury them in the playground during recess just to see how long they survived without oxygen. You should definitely seek professional help of some kind even before you check in to the Institute for Backup Trauma.
I'm neither a linguist nor a historian, but I recently read (well, listened to as an audiobook--maybe that'll keep the OT moderations to a minimum) Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, and the reason he gives for China's sudden halt in technological progression is political infighting; specifically, one faction of the court was well known for their support of exploration and 'treasure fleets' - monstrous collections of ships that dwarfed anything the Euros were putting together about the same time. A rival faction gained control of the court, and, wanting to punish their opponents, the first thing they did was recall the treasure fleets and destroy them. The second thing they did was dismantle the shipyards. There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I've gone too far OT as it is.
OK, so this method may not be able to compete with the commercial power generation industry, and IANAChEng, but how hard would it be to crack the methane into hydrogen for use in the fuel cells that (we've been promised) are just around the corner?
If feasible, this would also solve, at least partially, one of the primary obstacles to a hydrogen-based economy: the distribution network. When every [cow | pig | chicken] farmer or landfill can set up a methane-driven hydrogen station for around $300K, plus or minus the differential cost of using a H2 cracker instead of a big generator, the need for a massive pipeline network, fleet of H2 tankers, etc., would be greatly diminished.
I use Opera as my primary browser but leave IE as the default program for HTML files. I also set ZoneAlarm to query when IE tries to go outside the box. That way, when a com object call tries to start IE, ZA asks me if I want to let it out. Most of the time, I tell it no.
My question is, do all those frustrated calls get queued up somewhere, just waiting for me to let IE hit the net so they can all go tell on me?
"All three stages of the
Proton vehicle performed normally . ...
Preliminary flight information indicates that the second burn of the
Block DM upper stage did not occur as planned, and the ASTRA
1K satellite was separated into the parking orbit. "
My first thought was "that's an interesting new twist on the term 'performed normally'",
but it's actually four stages, right? The three-stage Proton plus the Block DM upper stage?
Using the new [Yahoo!] "beta" web mail browser, you can actually flag a mail in your inbox as spam, and "report" it. However, you must OPEN the message to report it as spam.
And in so doing, you trip any web bugs therein, thus verifying your address for future generations of spammers. Geez, Yahoo!, thanks but no thanks.
Why don't they let you select messages and Report As Spam from the folder listing?
It was a hearing of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission; there doesn't seem to be a DA involved anywhere, so I doubt he'd get immunity in exchange for anything.
Even if you can reduce your CD cost below.25/track by flogging the CD clubs (a practice I heartily endorse!), you're still only getting one song you like, two songs that aren't painful to listen to, and nine batches of line noise.
Although I'd prefer a.10 price point (hell, what consumer wouldn't?),.25 would be fine by me.
Sorry, got my songs crossed. I meant The Saga Begins was derived from American Pie but poked fun at Episode I. Yoda, of course, poked fun at Episode V.
--parking_god
Unchock the wheels of your lower companion and roll into the Reserved Space.
Correct (other comments notwithstanding). The reason is the difference between parody and satire: satire is deriving from a protected work to poke fun (in this case) at the work itself, while parody is deriving from a protected work to poke fun at another protected work. Satire is always fair use; parody is not necessarily so. Fat was derived from Bad and poked fun at the work itself, so it was satire and Weird Al didn't need permission (although getting it was probably a good idea from a 'goodwill' standpoint). Yoda was derived from Lola but poked fun at Episode I, so it was parody and Al was wise to get permission (source: Writer's Digest, sometime in 1998, I forget which issue).
--parking_god
Unchock the wheels of your lower companion and roll into the Reserved Space
Red Herring went to a lot of trouble to do
theirs, even setting up a site for Dutch 'company' WaterNet, who purported to have the answer to the (impending) problem of bandwidth bottleneck: using the plumbing system to transport data. I bought it (even overlooking the DRIP acronym used to describe the 'research' project)
right up until their description of the "client-side nozzle." It wasn't until several hours later that I remembered that the plumbing system is grounded and can't carry a current!
--parking_god
I especially like the part where he refers to, essentially, boobytrapped players. "I'm sorry, we are now in Phase II of the RIAA Plan For World Domination. You must cripple, er, update the software before this unit will play MP3s again."
So what's to stop me from ripping next year's (or whenever) SDMI-crippled CDs and playing them on my first- or second-generation Rio? Nothing, so far as I can see. So I think the only way this model can work is for CDs to go away (leaving you nothing to rip), and others have addressed the non-viability of this idea better than I could.
Excellent article. I'm not a fan of The Nation in general, and my first assumption was that the article was written by some left-winger working under the 'Business BAD!' premise. Not so! The author is 'a columnist and editor of Automobile magazine', and as such is probably not (my guess) a regular Nation contributor. One question: I recall my father being concerned over the lead phaseout in the '70s because the lead additive supposedly lubricated the valve seats, extending engine life. However, the article doesn't list this as one of TEL's alleged benefits. Has anyone else ever heard this?
Slashdot Mirror
For the moment at least, Mark's Sysinternals Blog main page ( http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/ ) will get you there. The funny thing is that the permalink is http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-root kits-and-digital-rights.html , which is exactly the same link quoted in the /. entry, and is (as you noted) broken.
Wasn't that the premise behind Doom? Of course, I don't think Patient Zero was a volunteer...
One financial argument is that it reinforces the stereotype of Indiana as a bunch of backwards-assed country fscks who don't know how to change their damn clocks, and why on earth should anyone do business with them?
I've been living on Indiana Stupid Time for fifteen years now (after 25 years in DST states) and am damn glad that we're finally adopting DST. I am tired of explaining to people elsewhere in the country that our time difference varies depending on what time of year it is.
This was especially fun last fall, when I worked on a program that hosted daily teleconferences with participants from all six* CONUS time zones - we reminded them daily for a week before the time change that our time difference would also be changing. It took us a week after the time change to get everybody to hook up at the correct time. I don't necessarily want to call BS on the parent post, but our mileage DEFINITELY varied.
Not that I'm a diehard DST fan or anything - I'd be just as happy if the whole country dumped DST altogether, either by Springing Ahead and never Falling Back again or vice versa.
(* Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Indiana Stupid, Arizona Stupid)
... the 'tested' battery life should convince you otherwise:
iPod Nano Retail 8:23 play time
upgraded 200gb iPod 0:06
So you'd get to play about 1.5 of those 50,000 songs between recharges...
If this scales, and somebody can build a cost-competitive box that takes wastewater, bacteria, and a little power in, and puts hydrogen and clean water out, that may well solve one of the biggest problems of transitioning to an H2 economy - the distribution network. Every cow/pig/chicken farmer in the world could become his own fuel station!
Because I *am* the kind of person who annoys those around me by shouting out continuity errors in theaters, here's what was in the hidden frame of the Clockwork Orange-like training video:
Congratulations
You have found the hidden frame. If you have time to look for things
like this, you have way too much time on your hands. You are
probably the kind of person who watches movies just to look for
continuity issues, shouting out, "Hey, that guy in the background is
wearing a different pair of cufflinks than he did two seconds ago!"
- as if anyone else cares. You tend to dream up elaborate conspiracy
theories that involve movie stars, politicians, and the logos of certain
brands of cereal. You used to stuff grasshoppers into soda bottles
and bury them in the playground during recess just to see how long
they survived without oxygen. You should definitely seek professional
help of some kind even before you check in to the
Institute for Backup Trauma.
I'm neither a linguist nor a historian, but I recently read (well, listened to as an audiobook--maybe that'll keep the OT moderations to a minimum) Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, and the reason he gives for China's sudden halt in technological progression is political infighting; specifically, one faction of the court was well known for their support of exploration and 'treasure fleets' - monstrous collections of ships that dwarfed anything the Euros were putting together about the same time. A rival faction gained control of the court, and, wanting to punish their opponents, the first thing they did was recall the treasure fleets and destroy them. The second thing they did was dismantle the shipyards. There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I've gone too far OT as it is.
OK, so this method may not be able to compete with the commercial power generation industry, and IANAChEng, but how hard would it be to crack the methane into hydrogen for use in the fuel cells that (we've been promised) are just around the corner?
If feasible, this would also solve, at least partially, one of the primary obstacles to a hydrogen-based economy: the distribution network. When every [cow | pig | chicken] farmer or landfill can set up a methane-driven hydrogen station for around $300K, plus or minus the differential cost of using a H2 cracker instead of a big generator, the need for a massive pipeline network, fleet of H2 tankers, etc., would be greatly diminished.
The author is an 'information architect' with Hastings Research. I'm not sufficiently hip to know what that means.
I use Opera as my primary browser but leave IE as the default program for HTML files. I also set ZoneAlarm to query when IE tries to go outside the box. That way, when a com object call tries to start IE, ZA asks me if I want to let it out. Most of the time, I tell it no.
My question is, do all those frustrated calls get queued up somewhere, just waiting for me to let IE hit the net so they can all go tell on me?
--pg
My first thought was "that's an interesting new twist on the term 'performed normally'", but it's actually four stages, right? The three-stage Proton plus the Block DM upper stage?
And in so doing, you trip any web bugs therein, thus verifying your address for future generations of spammers. Geez, Yahoo!, thanks but no thanks.
Why don't they let you select messages and Report As Spam from the folder listing?
--pg
They'd make a small killing by putting out season one [of The West Wing] here.
Maybe that's why they haven't done it yet--they're waiting until they can make a large killing!
--pg
The (IMO) scariest line in the whole article:
"No federal laws protect the privacy of medical records."
It was a hearing of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission; there doesn't seem to be a DA involved anywhere, so I doubt he'd get immunity in exchange for anything.
Even if you can reduce your CD cost below .25/track by flogging the CD clubs (a practice I heartily endorse!), you're still only getting one song you like, two songs that aren't painful to listen to, and nine batches of line noise.
.10 price point (hell, what consumer wouldn't?), .25 would be fine by me.
Although I'd prefer a
Today's show was brought to you by the number 52 and the letter B.
Heh. That's the _next_to_last_ panel in the cartoon I saw.
The last one shows an Air Force guy in a La-Z-Boy with a beer pointing a remote at the TV.
"Cable's out?!? That sucks!"
Sorry, got my songs crossed. I meant The Saga Begins was derived from American Pie but poked fun at Episode I. Yoda, of course, poked fun at Episode V.
--parking_god
Unchock the wheels of your lower companion and roll into the Reserved Space.
Correct (other comments notwithstanding). The reason is the difference between parody and satire: satire is deriving from a protected work to poke fun (in this case) at the work itself, while parody is deriving from a protected work to poke fun at another protected work. Satire is always fair use; parody is not necessarily so. Fat was derived from Bad and poked fun at the work itself, so it was satire and Weird Al didn't need permission (although getting it was probably a good idea from a 'goodwill' standpoint). Yoda was derived from Lola but poked fun at Episode I, so it was parody and Al was wise to get permission (source: Writer's Digest, sometime in 1998, I forget which issue).
--parking_god
Unchock the wheels of your lower companion and roll into the Reserved Space
Red Herring went to a lot of trouble to do theirs, even setting up a site for Dutch 'company' WaterNet, who purported to have the answer to the (impending) problem of bandwidth bottleneck: using the plumbing system to transport data. I bought it (even overlooking the DRIP acronym used to describe the 'research' project) right up until their description of the "client-side nozzle." It wasn't until several hours later that I remembered that the plumbing system is grounded and can't carry a current!
--parking_god
So what's to stop me from ripping next year's (or whenever) SDMI-crippled CDs and playing them on my first- or second-generation Rio? Nothing, so far as I can see. So I think the only way this model can work is for CDs to go away (leaving you nothing to rip), and others have addressed the non-viability of this idea better than I could.
Excellent article. I'm not a fan of The Nation in general, and my first assumption was that the article was written by some left-winger working under the 'Business BAD!' premise. Not so! The author is 'a columnist and editor of Automobile magazine', and as such is probably not (my guess) a regular Nation contributor. One question: I recall my father being concerned over the lead phaseout in the '70s because the lead additive supposedly lubricated the valve seats, extending engine life. However, the article doesn't list this as one of TEL's alleged benefits. Has anyone else ever heard this?