I've got about 2000 books. I put them on www.librarything.com in a couple of days using a cuecat reader or just manually. The data is not always the best--you don't get full MARC records, but as Adam Osborne used to say (before he went bankrupt) "adequacy is sufficient." I even get cover art out of the deal. The records are exportable in cdf so I'm not wedded to the system. Quick and dirty does it.
It's not really a 'similar' service. They look at only a few genes. For example, you can ordr a test to determine Native American ancestry through the male line, or an MtDNA test to determine the same thing through teh female line. These tests have been available for several years from a number of places. The difference here is that you get the whole thing--not just a few pairs. It's much more comprehensive. Most of these programs are well run and do what they promise. One bad apple shouldn't reflect on the others.
Actually, that's not the case. Recent studies have suggested the single-source theory was wrong and that a significant migration came from Portugal by mariners following a sea route by hugging the coast of Europe, then Greenland, over to Canada, and down the east Coast. THIS study proves them wrong.
That's right: tasering is painful and should be outlawed. That way police can go back to bullets. There's absolutely nothing a taser can do that an assault rifle can't. After all, if they shoot you correctly (head, heart, done), you won't feel a thing. No pain: You're dead, ergo no torture. There will be no more accidental taser deaths; the deaths will be on purpose.
Amen, brother. Washington has always taxed custom programming. Big deal. Course, there is no state income tax, and property tax is 1% of value, but hey! I'm gonna move because I can't do the math and realize they will get you one way or another. You want to move to a low tax state, go ahead. Most of them are in the fly-over zone and they're pretty empty anyway.
On a recent trip to the UK I was amazed at how many nuclear facilities there were, configured in two, four, six, and even eight-packs all over the countryside, sometimes several clusters within view of each other. Some of them were so close to the freeways (er, um, motorways?) that you could throw a rock and hit a cooling tower as you drove past. You couldn't even think about a nuke plant in the US without a severe negative reaction. Why? Is the UK a hotbed of nuclear accidents and proliferation of fissionable material? Or has the eco-fascist environmental lobby stifled yet anothe move to energy independence?
Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket
That's hardly a revelation. My father took me out in the front yard and showed me the blinking light. He told me you couldn't see the actual satellite and that this was the booster rocket. And he was a bartender. It was common knowledge at the time.
If it's the university network, they are only paying for part of it. In a state school tuition covers what? 15-25% of the actual cost. In a private school the percentage is a lot more, but nowhere near 100%. The rest is endowments and contributions. So the bottom line is that the taxpayers are paying something like 75-80% of the cost to send Joe Gamer to a state school.
In other words I'm paying to send you to school. I don't want my taxes used to expand a school network to accommodate gamers. I certainly do not expect students to study 100%, but I strongly suspect an increase in network traffic in the night hours represents many thousands of wasted hours not spent on learning your topic. If you don't like it, get your own network and pay the full cost.
I agree. The real point is that Moore's Law is not dependent on Moore, nor on silicon. If in the past researchers had fixated on the vacuum tube, they never would have reached beyond the vacuum tube paradigm to make the advances that happened. I am encouraged by the results other research labs have already achieved with these new mediums. It's not so much that they still need to be invented as much as it is that their discoveries need to be developed. I think it was William Gibson who said, "The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed."
Moore is being short-sighted about his own law. It's not about silicon. If you extraploate backwards from the first integrated chip you see that "Moore's Law" has been in effect for over 100 years. It started with manual switches, then moved to electric motor switching, then to vacuum tubes, then to transistors, then to integrated circuits. Every one of those mediums has been subject to and demonstrates Moore's Law. Graph it and you'll see. It's a perfect logarithmic line. Every time the method itself peaks of its own accord a new medium is found which can continue the progress. (Any familiar with the growth of telco equipment can see this in the switching systems: Electric switches to step systems to crossbar to ESS.) If IC does run out, there is a future of possibilities: holographic, quantum, bio, etc. Moore's Law is like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going.
It could be that women are not 'losing ground' so much as 'wising up' to the fact that a career in IT sucks. You are expected to be God all the time, yet work, paradoxically, ungodlike hours. You are responsible for everything working correctly to the second. If it doesn't, the company stops working and starts bitching. You never have enough time to do excellent quality work, so you settle for what works and just gets you by. You have impossible deadlines set by people who have no idea what it takes because it 'sounds simple.' You work with end users who, by and large, have no idea what they are doing computer wise, couldn't care less, and blame you for having to do difficult things like, umm, reboot. Plus an IT career rarely leads to promotion to the Board Room or excellent salaries. Face it, many times being in IT is like being a Technological Janitor.
It could be that women, even if they are attracted to technology, see what a terrible quality of life is to be had in IT and opt out. Women don't go into IT because they are too smart to fall for it.
John Henry Browne is a highly visible and controversial defense attorney in the Seattle area. He specializes in high-profile cases. The Pang case involved Martin Pang who torched his mother's food warehouse where several firemen were killed. He fled to South America where he was caught and extradited back to the US. He was an attorney for Ted Bundy, who told him, "I want to be a good person. I'm just not." Browne reported that conversation in the newspaper after Bundy was executed. He is constantly in the newspaper. If it's something big and spectacular, you can expect to see Browne's name associated with it. I have been told that the Mafia recommends him highly. In my opinion, Browne does not shy away from any publicity and that this is an example of creating some.
Really? Thee entire watrfront from the ferry dock, which itself is brand new, to the Manette Bridge is changing from parking lots and slums to high-price condos sold out before they are finished. (Maybe a better use than a parking lots, ya think?) A developer just bought the old JC Penney building and has interesting plans. The governmental center just opened on 6th street. The theatre between 5th and 6th is completely rennovated and is a major draw. It was going to be torn down.) The library on 5th has just undergone extensive rennovation and recommitment by the city after a serious threat of closure. the old city hall has attracted businesses, including the regions largest ISP. The art gallery scene has resulted in several galleries featuring noted artists; it's a virtual art colony down there. Housing values in the entire Bremerton area have grown rapidly in the last few years. Within a few months WiFi will blanket the entire downtown area just like Spokane. Compared to five years ago when it was drawing its last breath, Bremerton is on a roll. People actually want to go there now. Bozeman has done more for that city since he got there than the previous dozen (and less than stellar) mayors combined. Thank goodness Bremerton got out from underneath the stick-in-the-mud Bremers and Sorianos preventing any development at all to be able to do something for a change. You'll be amazed at what that place will be like in another five years. No, it's not done. It will take awhile to reverse a quarter century of neglect. But compared to how it was in, say, 1985? Wow!
Don't know that this will get to you under the AC circumstances, but Bremerton is undergoing a revitalization of the downtown core with condos on the waterfront, a new convention center, etc. So that building is worth a lot more. I heard he lost it, though. Who knows why or how.
It's a shame. It's actually worse than the article indicates. Michael just lost a building in downtown Bremerton that was providing some income to the firm. This also had the offices of Liftport. He's now in his parent's garage. One of the risk factors he always said was that of the regulatory bodies, and that's what got him this time. The guy had a vision and was trying to go for it. I feel kind of sorry for him. (I worked in Bremerton for years and am very familiar with the area. I've been on his mailing list awhile--even sent him a resume. I'm retired, thought it would be a fun gig to promote.)
MS is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If MS put AV in Vista there would be loud cries of "unfair competition, you're taking away our niche!" and we'd be on another round of anti-MS propaganda. If they don't, the cries are "unfair! I wanted to buy a door with a lock and now anyone can get in."
Just some FYI. In my state there are three categories of "sex offender." Level Three are those people who are "highly likely to re-offend." They refuse any treatment for their sexual proclivities. They've been caught more than once already. Most of them, frankly, are real nutcases and the kind you'd better be wary of. One look at their mug shot and you'd think Nick Nolte was a sharp dresser.
However, this leads to a catch-22 for those people who are accused, but are innocent. I know of one case (boarder of a mother of a friend), a middle-aged woman, who absolutely insists she is innocent and attributes her troubles to a very nasty ex-husband in a divorce case. She refused treatment on the basis that she was innocent, so not only did she refuse treatment, she showed no remorse. This double whammy shoved her into Level Three, where she not only has to register, but her mug shot is on the county web site for all to see.
Now, I have no idea whether she is "really" innocent. MOST ALL criminals are innocent if you ask them about it. But let's say she WAS innocent. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. It's like Kafka's "The Trial."
Oh, Okay. I get it. Since Qwest is my DSL provider and since they take my money for it, and since I don't really have a choice, then Qwest is responsible for defending me when I use their services to commit a crime. makes sense to me.
The cut-off date for kindergarten in most places is October 1st. Some places it is November 1st. You must be five by those dates to enroll that year. The definition of adult is 18 and over. Most students are 18 by the time they enroll in college, or within a month or so. So, yes, most students ARE adults when they enroll, and that means taking legal responsibility for yourself.
Typical of the entitlement generation. Unless part of your tuition goes to legal help, the university is not responsible for defending you for stealing music, regardless of the penalty. You're the one who says the penalty is "unjust," but you are also the thief. Last I heard a criminal doesn't get to set his own penalty. You're opinion doesn't much matter here. The University is responsible? You could say the same for Mommy and Daddy. They are in the same position, trying to teach you ethical ways of living. Does that mean they have to bail you every time you screw up? They may have to deal with it before you are 18, but after? Nope, you're a legal adult. Adults have full legal responsibility for themselves. If you don't, no one else is responsible for you. It's called "tough love." You do the crime, you do the time. Tough.
I agree--unless legal help is part of the tuition. To say it's because if the students get sued they won't have money to pay tuition? Mommy and Daddy do that a lot of the time, and if not, there're always more students who will fill an empty spot.
It may be a matter of scale and what you are trying to accomplish. Spokane, for example, has a muni system downtown that is free for X hours. They use it as a convention/tourist draw. Bremerton is installing one as we speak for the same reasons. They are trying to revitalize the downtown area with a new convention center/hotel, etc. If the goal is to get people to sign up and pay money so we can make a profit, maybe it won't work. But if the issue is to draw people to the area with a wi-fi infrastructure to suck up tourist convention dollars, then that's a different take on the issue.
I acknowledge that point, but the AC asked the poster WHY he was on/. IF he didn't know who Reiser was. He didn't say, "If you have been on/. you SHOULD know." which I (and you) would agree with. IMO, critical difference.
Let's see. Right now there are 20 stories on/. firstpage. One, arguably, is about a piece of software that is related to Linux and one on a person resigning from Novell, aruably related to Linux, kind of. There are four stories on Windows. Most of/. has nothing to do with Linux or the people involved. There is no particular reason to suppose a knowledge of Reiser is a prerequisite for reading/.
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I've got about 2000 books. I put them on www.librarything.com in a couple of days using a cuecat reader or just manually. The data is not always the best--you don't get full MARC records, but as Adam Osborne used to say (before he went bankrupt) "adequacy is sufficient." I even get cover art out of the deal. The records are exportable in cdf so I'm not wedded to the system. Quick and dirty does it.
It's not really a 'similar' service. They look at only a few genes. For example, you can ordr a test to determine Native American ancestry through the male line, or an MtDNA test to determine the same thing through teh female line. These tests have been available for several years from a number of places. The difference here is that you get the whole thing--not just a few pairs. It's much more comprehensive. Most of these programs are well run and do what they promise. One bad apple shouldn't reflect on the others.
Actually, that's not the case. Recent studies have suggested the single-source theory was wrong and that a significant migration came from Portugal by mariners following a sea route by hugging the coast of Europe, then Greenland, over to Canada, and down the east Coast. THIS study proves them wrong.
That's right: tasering is painful and should be outlawed. That way police can go back to bullets. There's absolutely nothing a taser can do that an assault rifle can't. After all, if they shoot you correctly (head, heart, done), you won't feel a thing. No pain: You're dead, ergo no torture. There will be no more accidental taser deaths; the deaths will be on purpose.
Amen, brother. Washington has always taxed custom programming. Big deal. Course, there is no state income tax, and property tax is 1% of value, but hey! I'm gonna move because I can't do the math and realize they will get you one way or another. You want to move to a low tax state, go ahead. Most of them are in the fly-over zone and they're pretty empty anyway.
Good for you, but you have an income tax, don't you? Not all states do.
On a recent trip to the UK I was amazed at how many nuclear facilities there were, configured in two, four, six, and even eight-packs all over the countryside, sometimes several clusters within view of each other. Some of them were so close to the freeways (er, um, motorways?) that you could throw a rock and hit a cooling tower as you drove past. You couldn't even think about a nuke plant in the US without a severe negative reaction. Why? Is the UK a hotbed of nuclear accidents and proliferation of fissionable material? Or has the eco-fascist environmental lobby stifled yet anothe move to energy independence?
Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket
That's hardly a revelation. My father took me out in the front yard and showed me the blinking light. He told me you couldn't see the actual satellite and that this was the booster rocket. And he was a bartender. It was common knowledge at the time.
If it's the university network, they are only paying for part of it. In a state school tuition covers what? 15-25% of the actual cost. In a private school the percentage is a lot more, but nowhere near 100%. The rest is endowments and contributions. So the bottom line is that the taxpayers are paying something like 75-80% of the cost to send Joe Gamer to a state school.
In other words I'm paying to send you to school. I don't want my taxes used to expand a school network to accommodate gamers. I certainly do not expect students to study 100%, but I strongly suspect an increase in network traffic in the night hours represents many thousands of wasted hours not spent on learning your topic. If you don't like it, get your own network and pay the full cost.
I agree. The real point is that Moore's Law is not dependent on Moore, nor on silicon. If in the past researchers had fixated on the vacuum tube, they never would have reached beyond the vacuum tube paradigm to make the advances that happened. I am encouraged by the results other research labs have already achieved with these new mediums. It's not so much that they still need to be invented as much as it is that their discoveries need to be developed. I think it was William Gibson who said, "The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed."
Moore is being short-sighted about his own law. It's not about silicon. If you extraploate backwards from the first integrated chip you see that "Moore's Law" has been in effect for over 100 years. It started with manual switches, then moved to electric motor switching, then to vacuum tubes, then to transistors, then to integrated circuits. Every one of those mediums has been subject to and demonstrates Moore's Law. Graph it and you'll see. It's a perfect logarithmic line. Every time the method itself peaks of its own accord a new medium is found which can continue the progress. (Any familiar with the growth of telco equipment can see this in the switching systems: Electric switches to step systems to crossbar to ESS.) If IC does run out, there is a future of possibilities: holographic, quantum, bio, etc. Moore's Law is like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going.
It could be that women are not 'losing ground' so much as 'wising up' to the fact that a career in IT sucks. You are expected to be God all the time, yet work, paradoxically, ungodlike hours. You are responsible for everything working correctly to the second. If it doesn't, the company stops working and starts bitching. You never have enough time to do excellent quality work, so you settle for what works and just gets you by. You have impossible deadlines set by people who have no idea what it takes because it 'sounds simple.' You work with end users who, by and large, have no idea what they are doing computer wise, couldn't care less, and blame you for having to do difficult things like, umm, reboot. Plus an IT career rarely leads to promotion to the Board Room or excellent salaries. Face it, many times being in IT is like being a Technological Janitor.
It could be that women, even if they are attracted to technology, see what a terrible quality of life is to be had in IT and opt out. Women don't go into IT because they are too smart to fall for it.
John Henry Browne is a highly visible and controversial defense attorney in the Seattle area. He specializes in high-profile cases. The Pang case involved Martin Pang who torched his mother's food warehouse where several firemen were killed. He fled to South America where he was caught and extradited back to the US. He was an attorney for Ted Bundy, who told him, "I want to be a good person. I'm just not." Browne reported that conversation in the newspaper after Bundy was executed. He is constantly in the newspaper. If it's something big and spectacular, you can expect to see Browne's name associated with it. I have been told that the Mafia recommends him highly. In my opinion, Browne does not shy away from any publicity and that this is an example of creating some.
Really? Thee entire watrfront from the ferry dock, which itself is brand new, to the Manette Bridge is changing from parking lots and slums to high-price condos sold out before they are finished. (Maybe a better use than a parking lots, ya think?) A developer just bought the old JC Penney building and has interesting plans. The governmental center just opened on 6th street. The theatre between 5th and 6th is completely rennovated and is a major draw. It was going to be torn down.) The library on 5th has just undergone extensive rennovation and recommitment by the city after a serious threat of closure. the old city hall has attracted businesses, including the regions largest ISP. The art gallery scene has resulted in several galleries featuring noted artists; it's a virtual art colony down there. Housing values in the entire Bremerton area have grown rapidly in the last few years. Within a few months WiFi will blanket the entire downtown area just like Spokane. Compared to five years ago when it was drawing its last breath, Bremerton is on a roll. People actually want to go there now. Bozeman has done more for that city since he got there than the previous dozen (and less than stellar) mayors combined. Thank goodness Bremerton got out from underneath the stick-in-the-mud Bremers and Sorianos preventing any development at all to be able to do something for a change. You'll be amazed at what that place will be like in another five years. No, it's not done. It will take awhile to reverse a quarter century of neglect. But compared to how it was in, say, 1985? Wow!
Don't know that this will get to you under the AC circumstances, but Bremerton is undergoing a revitalization of the downtown core with condos on the waterfront, a new convention center, etc. So that building is worth a lot more. I heard he lost it, though. Who knows why or how.
It's a shame. It's actually worse than the article indicates. Michael just lost a building in downtown Bremerton that was providing some income to the firm. This also had the offices of Liftport. He's now in his parent's garage. One of the risk factors he always said was that of the regulatory bodies, and that's what got him this time. The guy had a vision and was trying to go for it. I feel kind of sorry for him. (I worked in Bremerton for years and am very familiar with the area. I've been on his mailing list awhile--even sent him a resume. I'm retired, thought it would be a fun gig to promote.)
MS is damned if they do and damned if they don't. If MS put AV in Vista there would be loud cries of "unfair competition, you're taking away our niche!" and we'd be on another round of anti-MS propaganda. If they don't, the cries are "unfair! I wanted to buy a door with a lock and now anyone can get in."
Just some FYI. In my state there are three categories of "sex offender." Level Three are those people who are "highly likely to re-offend." They refuse any treatment for their sexual proclivities. They've been caught more than once already. Most of them, frankly, are real nutcases and the kind you'd better be wary of. One look at their mug shot and you'd think Nick Nolte was a sharp dresser.
However, this leads to a catch-22 for those people who are accused, but are innocent. I know of one case (boarder of a mother of a friend), a middle-aged woman, who absolutely insists she is innocent and attributes her troubles to a very nasty ex-husband in a divorce case. She refused treatment on the basis that she was innocent, so not only did she refuse treatment, she showed no remorse. This double whammy shoved her into Level Three, where she not only has to register, but her mug shot is on the county web site for all to see.
Now, I have no idea whether she is "really" innocent. MOST ALL criminals are innocent if you ask them about it. But let's say she WAS innocent. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. It's like Kafka's "The Trial."
Oh, Okay. I get it. Since Qwest is my DSL provider and since they take my money for it, and since I don't really have a choice, then Qwest is responsible for defending me when I use their services to commit a crime. makes sense to me.
The cut-off date for kindergarten in most places is October 1st. Some places it is November 1st. You must be five by those dates to enroll that year. The definition of adult is 18 and over. Most students are 18 by the time they enroll in college, or within a month or so. So, yes, most students ARE adults when they enroll, and that means taking legal responsibility for yourself.
Typical of the entitlement generation. Unless part of your tuition goes to legal help, the university is not responsible for defending you for stealing music, regardless of the penalty. You're the one who says the penalty is "unjust," but you are also the thief. Last I heard a criminal doesn't get to set his own penalty. You're opinion doesn't much matter here. The University is responsible? You could say the same for Mommy and Daddy. They are in the same position, trying to teach you ethical ways of living. Does that mean they have to bail you every time you screw up? They may have to deal with it before you are 18, but after? Nope, you're a legal adult. Adults have full legal responsibility for themselves. If you don't, no one else is responsible for you. It's called "tough love." You do the crime, you do the time. Tough.
I agree--unless legal help is part of the tuition. To say it's because if the students get sued they won't have money to pay tuition? Mommy and Daddy do that a lot of the time, and if not, there're always more students who will fill an empty spot.
It may be a matter of scale and what you are trying to accomplish. Spokane, for example, has a muni system downtown that is free for X hours. They use it as a convention/tourist draw. Bremerton is installing one as we speak for the same reasons. They are trying to revitalize the downtown area with a new convention center/hotel, etc. If the goal is to get people to sign up and pay money so we can make a profit, maybe it won't work. But if the issue is to draw people to the area with a wi-fi infrastructure to suck up tourist convention dollars, then that's a different take on the issue.
which is why I'm holding my daughter's $2000 piano as hostage until she pays up. Hope it was worth it.
I acknowledge that point, but the AC asked the poster WHY he was on /. IF he didn't know who Reiser was. He didn't say, "If you have been on /. you SHOULD know." which I (and you) would agree with. IMO, critical difference.
Let's see. Right now there are 20 stories on /. firstpage. One, arguably, is about a piece of software that is related to Linux and one on a person resigning from Novell, aruably related to Linux, kind of. There are four stories on Windows. Most of /. has nothing to do with Linux or the people involved. There is no particular reason to suppose a knowledge of Reiser is a prerequisite for reading /.