traffic using the same information. Yes, like that's going to help anything.
The only solution is to provide enough bandwidth. Sooner or later a limit on the amount of traffic will be reached as nobody is going to drive for more than 24 hours/day.
That's a point that is lost on the mentally-challenged planners where I live. These turds are closing roads, narrowing roads, lowering speed limits and installing roadblocks instead of making life easy. My daily commute time has gone up by 40 minutes daily over the last 5 years. That's over five full days of my life lost per year.
Try to imagine an accountant, an auditor and finally a tax inspector looking over that 'Mandrake Club' line for 'professional services' in the books.
While the name is catchy and goes well with the yellow-star-on-night-blue-background theme, I would advise the company to choose a more business-like name for future products.
have canceled all subscriptions to magazines & papers. I had to read something published in newspaper format recently, and I had almost forgotten how that sucks.
don't watch TV except for maybe 2h/week. The news and even well-done documentaries are too slow for my taste. I read a lot faster than listening to voices that drip 2 words/second. I only watch movies from rented DVDs.
still listen to FM radio at work & in the car, mostly for news once a day but way more hours to internet radio (DI.fm) and mp3s (on PCs & iPod).
feel an atavistic urge to e-buy a technical book sometimes but I end up with buyers remorse - the book is on the desk and I still find myself looking up more details online on topics I've just read.
get fiction in my mothertongue in the library, or read e-books on a Libretto when the planning doesn't work out (i.e. I didn't get enough books). I don't mind at all reading on a monitor. Autoscroll, no need to turn pages, last page is remembered, searchable. Great for reading in bed: self-lighted, readable on my back and both sides. I long for mothertongue e-books though, and a monitor that can be read outside in the sun and longer battery life.
A lot of people complain that you can't trust what you read on the net. This might be true, but I have no problem using my common sense to draw my own conclusions from possibly disparate info.
Each time I'm outside in similar conditions (a warm summer evening, yummy...) I hope to see something like that again.
Your remark made me think again on how the internet and the ubiquitousness of cameras have changed everything. While I wanted to report it back then I didn't get to doing it due to lack of contact info. This would be a no-brainer now.
On a summer evening in the center of Belgium some five years ago my brother-in-law and I saw a very bright, green-glowing (slashdot color, but much brighter) object zooming overhead from the south to the east. We thought a crash was imminent; it was quite threatening even if it didn't make any noise.
Unfortunately I haven't found any references to it anywhere. I'm pretty sure others must have seen it too.
This Wales fireball seems even more impressive though.
A story (don't know the origin) involves a thirsty emperor arriving at a bar and ordering a pint of mead (old times, you know). When the waitress arrives she holds the pint by the ear so that the emperor cannot grab it easily.
The mead must have tasted well enough for him to return to the bar with a built-to-order pint with two opposite handles. Sure enough the waitress returns the full pint to the emperor holding the pint with both hands by both handles.
Third time's a charm, the emperor must have thought as het returned to the bar, this time with a pint having three handles. Unimpressed the waitress returns the full pint holding it by two handles with the third handle pointing towards her chest.
Moral: idiot-proof design is difficult, and requires many iterations.
I saw and ate them when I was in Venezuela. Driving around we went to a steak house. Our ordering of a big steak was met with despise from the waiter. Oh yes, it was Good Friday and, Venezuela being a very Catholic country, they didn't want to serve meat.
Capybara was ok, however. They consider it to be a fish since it lives in swamps.
I didn't like it too much though; the meat is rather tasteless and fibery.
One of the things I really like doing in bed (lame replies welcome) is listening to music with excellent earphones (Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia).
The deprivation of other senses at night (floating on the matress, pitch dark, no other sounds) lets you fully grasp the details in the music.
Beats listening to a stupid phone.
"No doubt, music piracy is... certainly no more a societal concern than elder abuse, drunk driving, vandalism, violence, identity theft, investor fraud, and a host of other behaviors."
Right on. That's what I have been saying all the time to people suggesting the use of fluorescents everywhere.
Fluorescents (and LEDs) have a discontinuous spectrum, and the absorbtion and reflection spectra of most materials are also discontinuous.
The result is that there is little overlap, and so fluorescent lighting turns out to be much darker in actual use than what is promised theoretically. And colors look dull. Very dull. Glassware does not sparkle due to the large size of the light source (LEDs will be better at this)
I'll stick to halogen lamps running off a high frequency convertor. Perfect color quality, no flicker, lively reflections and extremely long lifetime due to the slow start and the stabilised 11.5V. I haven't changed the halogens in my living room in 7 years (9000 hours of use).
Even the total efficiency is not too bad as the generated heat is welcome during wintertime, when the lights are used most.
I faced the same choice. Plasma was > 15000$ while SXGA projectors were around 6000$.
I went for an LCD projector, installed upside down (in ceiling mode) and projecting onto a 100" diagonal pull-down screen. DVD playback via PC VGA out; TV/Video S-Video in). 5x100W RMS + 150W RMS sub sound system with excellent speakers.
I've watched around 400 DVDs by now. Haven't changed the lamp yet. The power supply broke down once (300$ repair) and the projector has developed a nasty 'shadow'. Fixing it is quoted 2000$ so this is out of the question. (I could fix it myself; probably a leaky capacitor in the A/D conversion but the schematics are not available)
What I don't like: - steep projector repair prices (avoid InFocus ?). - screen is not quite flat causing waving lines. - darkening the room is mandatory (problematic in summer) - projector and PC are noisy (tho my sound system can easily overwhelm them) - watching non-HD TV. The quality sucks. - not suitable for 'background' TV viewing.
All in all I've had a very good time (at about $10/hour in viewing costs), and while prices have come down significantly I don't regret my 'investment'.
A TV and a home theatre are very different things. So when HDTV becomes available I think I'd go for plasma.
Laserprinting did not work as the resolution and the opacity of the printers at my disposal were not high enough.
For my second try I had the raster typeset onto a standard transparant foil. While the opacity of the blacks was now nearly perfect, I noticed the unevenness of the pattern even with the high resolution of the typesetter.
Adjusting the sheet to the laptop LCD proved excruciatingly difficult, and the end result was a strangely colored moire patterns instead of 3D.
For 3D I prefer to put the left(right) image on the right(left) monitor of my dual monitor setup and use the 'cross your eyes' technique. Works like a charm in full resolution after some time getting used to this (and no headaches) !
The hour infers inflamatory for this. This statistical method will beat besides the grammar and this rule basis, at least will be England, will be favors this simple reason:
England is not the language
or something, similar one but it compared to it are, the IMO. Is idiomaticas expression was not more great collects its absolutely rapid change (and not only by familiar form, right glance does movement this politics corrects fraseologia). You compared to know to historical... are more exceptions is the rule which legitimately thinks, the matter language wise person is considered incorrectly in any event, with vice versa, and so on.
One does not have not to think its advantage; Its relatively easy academic society correspondence foundation because of it by conjugate weak, to be had article genderless, quite simple uncased official lecture structure. But, he are strangely dominate and I suspect the most localities are partial I are not the real master (do not mention this orthographical nightmare; The only language and the spelling bee's competitor is English)
This reason is frank new lingua (or it must now be lingua angla) he always is the techno partner politics likely case. Stops harping uses the American is to big scale scope monolingue. " why does Romans do not have the academic society place language when they controlled Europe? Because they do not have. " if each condition speaks one different language, that with Europe related, there then is necessary.
A technology that is on the rise is called Ethernet over SONET (EoS). Standards have been establish to carry 10, 100 and 1Gig ethernet packets in SONET envelopes using a technique called Virtual Concatenation.
This way carriers will soon be offering ethernet access, without having to abandon their ample investments in SONET.
Expect to hear about this technology a lot in the coming years.
True. Lately I've been looking for a GSM/MP3/PDA combo. The P800 nearly fit the bill, but the Memory Stick Duo (a smaller version, with even less capacity) turned me off.
I'm wondering how much sales Sony is missing by sticking to its memory.
I would love, love, love to see "Planet of Adventure" as a quadrilogy on the screen. The races are astounding in their complexity and grandeur, the action is funny and breathtaking and the hero has physical and mental excellence.
Even a single book contains enough details to make a full mini-series.
But alas, I fear the trap of turning it into a joke costume drama with pancake characters would be too big to avoid by filmmakers.
I read a long time ago that hiccups are a sudden muscle contraction. Somehow I found out and actually felt which muscle it was. Actively controlling it ensures that I never have a second hiccup either.
It made me think how we may have a lot of muscles that we cannot control simply because we haven't found the right mental interface to the nerves linking it to the brain. I'm still trying to find out a way to control my eyes completely independently. No luck yet.
So, earlier today as I was typing out some magnum opus of an e-mail message in Outlook, I highlighted to copy it, and hit SPACE instead of Ctrl-C. Without thinking, I hit Ctrl-Z twice to 'undo' my folly. While the spaced-over text reappeared with the first Ctrl-Z, it disappeared again with the second Ctrl-Z. My typing was now undone forever, leaving me with a blank message. Pausing a moment to reflect, I realized that whoever came up with the "undo" button without providing a "redo" button only did a half-hearted job.
btw, the "Done buns can't be undone" saying from Insomnia keeps on playing in my head...
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traffic using the same information. Yes, like that's going to help anything.
The only solution is to provide enough bandwidth. Sooner or later a limit on the amount of traffic will be reached as nobody is going to drive for more than 24 hours/day.
That's a point that is lost on the mentally-challenged planners where I live. These turds are closing roads, narrowing roads, lowering speed limits and installing roadblocks instead of making life easy. My daily commute time has gone up by 40 minutes daily over the last 5 years. That's over five full days of my life lost per year.
Try to imagine an accountant, an auditor and finally a tax inspector looking over that 'Mandrake Club' line for 'professional services' in the books. While the name is catchy and goes well with the yellow-star-on-night-blue-background theme, I would advise the company to choose a more business-like name for future products.
Weird. Very weird. Adding another word to a search should narrow down the result set, not widen it.
Try it.
A lot of people complain that you can't trust what you read on the net. This might be true, but I have no problem using my common sense to draw my own conclusions from possibly disparate info.
All in all, a godsend.
Each time I'm outside in similar conditions (a warm summer evening, yummy...) I hope to see something like that again.
Your remark made me think again on how the internet and the ubiquitousness of cameras have changed everything. While I wanted to report it back then I didn't get to doing it due to lack of contact info. This would be a no-brainer now.
On a summer evening in the center of Belgium some five years ago my brother-in-law and I saw a very bright, green-glowing (slashdot color, but much brighter) object zooming overhead from the south to the east. We thought a crash was imminent; it was quite threatening even if it didn't make any noise.
Unfortunately I haven't found any references to it anywhere. I'm pretty sure others must have seen it too.
This Wales fireball seems even more impressive though.
A story (don't know the origin) involves a thirsty emperor arriving at a bar and ordering a pint of mead (old times, you know). When the waitress arrives she holds the pint by the ear so that the emperor cannot grab it easily.
The mead must have tasted well enough for him to return to the bar with a built-to-order pint with two opposite handles. Sure enough the waitress returns the full pint to the emperor holding the pint with both hands by both handles.
Third time's a charm, the emperor must have thought as het returned to the bar, this time with a pint having three handles. Unimpressed the waitress returns the full pint holding it by two handles with the third handle pointing towards her chest.
Moral: idiot-proof design is difficult, and requires many iterations.
I saw and ate them when I was in Venezuela. Driving around we went to a steak house. Our ordering of a big steak was met with despise from the waiter. Oh yes, it was Good Friday and, Venezuela being a very Catholic country, they didn't want to serve meat.
Capybara was ok, however. They consider it to be a fish since it lives in swamps.
I didn't like it too much though; the meat is rather tasteless and fibery.
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One of the things I really like doing in bed (lame replies welcome) is listening to music with excellent earphones (Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia). The deprivation of other senses at night (floating on the matress, pitch dark, no other sounds) lets you fully grasp the details in the music. Beats listening to a stupid phone.
"No doubt, music piracy is ... certainly no more a societal concern than elder abuse, drunk driving, vandalism, violence, identity theft, investor fraud, and a host of other behaviors."
Relieved, the one-eyed pirates are.
Right on. That's what I have been saying all the time to people suggesting the use of fluorescents everywhere.
Fluorescents (and LEDs) have a discontinuous spectrum, and the absorbtion and reflection spectra of most materials are also discontinuous.
The result is that there is little overlap, and so fluorescent lighting turns out to be much darker in actual use than what is promised theoretically. And colors look dull. Very dull. Glassware does not sparkle due to the large size of the light source (LEDs will be better at this)
I'll stick to halogen lamps running off a high frequency convertor. Perfect color quality, no flicker, lively reflections and extremely long lifetime due to the slow start and the stabilised 11.5V. I haven't changed the halogens in my living room in 7 years (9000 hours of use).
Even the total efficiency is not too bad as the generated heat is welcome during wintertime, when the lights are used most.
I faced the same choice. Plasma was > 15000$ while SXGA projectors were around 6000$.
I went for an LCD projector, installed upside down (in ceiling mode) and projecting onto a 100" diagonal pull-down screen. DVD playback via PC VGA out; TV/Video S-Video in). 5x100W RMS + 150W RMS sub sound system with excellent speakers.
I've watched around 400 DVDs by now. Haven't changed the lamp yet. The power supply broke down once (300$ repair) and the projector has developed a nasty 'shadow'. Fixing it is quoted 2000$ so this is out of the question. (I could fix it myself; probably a leaky capacitor in the A/D conversion but the schematics are not available)
What I don't like:
- steep projector repair prices (avoid InFocus ?).
- screen is not quite flat causing waving lines.
- darkening the room is mandatory (problematic in summer)
- projector and PC are noisy (tho my sound system can easily overwhelm them)
- watching non-HD TV. The quality sucks.
- not suitable for 'background' TV viewing.
All in all I've had a very good time (at about $10/hour in viewing costs), and while prices have come down significantly I don't regret my 'investment'.
A TV and a home theatre are very different things. So when HDTV becomes available I think I'd go for plasma.
I tried this.
Laserprinting did not work as the resolution and the opacity of the printers at my disposal were not high enough.
For my second try I had the raster typeset onto a standard transparant foil. While the opacity of the blacks was now nearly perfect, I noticed the unevenness of the pattern even with the high resolution of the typesetter.
Adjusting the sheet to the laptop LCD proved excruciatingly difficult, and the end result was a strangely colored moire patterns instead of 3D.
For 3D I prefer to put the left(right) image on the right(left) monitor of my dual monitor setup and use the 'cross your eyes' technique. Works like a charm in full resolution after some time getting used to this (and no headaches) !
England is not the language
or something, similar one but it compared to it are, the IMO. Is idiomaticas expression was not more great collects its absolutely rapid change (and not only by familiar form, right glance does movement this politics corrects fraseologia). You compared to know to historical... are more exceptions is the rule which legitimately thinks, the matter language wise person is considered incorrectly in any event, with vice versa, and so on.
One does not have not to think its advantage; Its relatively easy academic society correspondence foundation because of it by conjugate weak, to be had article genderless, quite simple uncased official lecture structure. But, he are strangely dominate and I suspect the most localities are partial I are not the real master (do not mention this orthographical nightmare; The only language and the spelling bee's competitor is English)
This reason is frank new lingua (or it must now be lingua angla) he always is the techno partner politics likely case. Stops harping uses the American is to big scale scope monolingue. " why does Romans do not have the academic society place language when they controlled Europe? Because they do not have. " if each condition speaks one different language, that with Europe related, there then is necessary.
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This way carriers will soon be offering ethernet access, without having to abandon their ample investments in SONET.
Expect to hear about this technology a lot in the coming years.
Read more here.
Enter EoS in the searchbox at the upper left.
Great ! Now we know what Doom 4 will look like in 2006.
True. Lately I've been looking for a GSM/MP3/PDA combo. The P800 nearly fit the bill, but the Memory Stick Duo (a smaller version, with even less capacity) turned me off. I'm wondering how much sales Sony is missing by sticking to its memory.
Even a single book contains enough details to make a full mini-series.
But alas, I fear the trap of turning it into a joke costume drama with pancake characters would be too big to avoid by filmmakers.
Spooky !
If the link doesn't work try viewing an image from 2003-04-11 at +/- 03 hours.
I read a long time ago that hiccups are a sudden muscle contraction. Somehow I found out and actually felt which muscle it was. Actively controlling it ensures that I never have a second hiccup either. It made me think how we may have a lot of muscles that we cannot control simply because we haven't found the right mental interface to the nerves linking it to the brain. I'm still trying to find out a way to control my eyes completely independently. No luck yet.
So, earlier today as I was typing out some magnum opus of an e-mail message in Outlook, I highlighted to copy it, and hit SPACE instead of Ctrl-C. Without thinking, I hit Ctrl-Z twice to 'undo' my folly. While the spaced-over text reappeared with the first Ctrl-Z, it disappeared again with the second Ctrl-Z. My typing was now undone forever, leaving me with a blank message. Pausing a moment to reflect, I realized that whoever came up with the "undo" button without providing a "redo" button only did a half-hearted job.
btw, the "Done buns can't be undone" saying from Insomnia keeps on playing in my head...
One drive to do them all
One drive to read them
One drive to write them all
and in the darkness bind them.
My native language is Dutch. In that language:
a parrots egg = papegaaieei
a shout of fear = angstschreeuw
And yes, both are easily pronounceable to Dutch speakers.