The reply was largely jest, too - I can't imagine these things in place. Put them in parking lots.
My ancient Peugeot tourer sets these things off like crazy. My Cannondale road seems a bit tougher, but I could be dreaming.
Around here, the club roadies who can't wait at a light are in the same league as the motorists who gun their engine to prove just how inconvenient it was to have to wait a half second for the bike to swerve around the storm drain...
Please please PLEASE label them as such. For the love of God and the sake of cyclists - who need to line their metal bike frame right on the telltale loop wound in the pavement, it's the only way to get the light to change at intersections when there's no cars.
I'd hate to think of what happens to my bike frame and its passenger when the loop in the road starts inducing much field in the frame... I love a good science demo as much as the next person, but this is sadistic!
The object the woman's hiolding in photo essay pic #8 looks suspiciously like the things Arthur, Ford, & Zaphod were getting slapped in the face with enroute to rescue Trillian...
..."Commander Cody" as a character name. After several isolated references to him as "Commander" or "Cody", they finally do pull the trigger on this one and call him "Commander Cody". Sadly, no sign of the Lost Planet Airmen. Wonder if this is a George Lucas fave - the real Commander Cody did live in Marin county for some time...
"The Curve of Binding Energy" with Ted Taylor walking John McPhee through how much damage you could do for surprisingly little effort. Including a tour around southern Manhattan and speculation on using a poorly made nuke to topple a World Trade tower into the river...
That book inspired...
"Mushroom" by John Aristotle Philips about his paper at Princeton describing how to build a bomb. A student of Freeman Dyson, he got far more info than he ever dreamed he could get. The very impressive paper saved some less than stellar grades, and generated quite a buzz, more than a few cloaky phone calls and IIRC the paper got classified by the gummint.
We're jumping from infancy to fully developed characters going from III to IV.
How does Luke go from noisture farmer's son (now THERE's a country song just waitin to be written) to ace pilot? How does a senator's daughter become a princess? (OK, OK, thats a straight line you could drive a semi through, have at it...)
No, I don't read the parallel books / comics / etc.
But this stuff seems at least as important as how Boba Fett got his game.
Let's take this out for a spin!
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dayh onew- so fat so gppd. for somwe reaibns noebofy id snawering muy emaiuls. day 3 - saving sm,lots of eiumt not havfing tp dealqwoth thopse pesky editostial comments foptme may copopwrkers d 4 -ollk at akkthe tiume i;m sabinh - thus us mych faSTRE THWN HUNTUNG FOR TEH RITW KEY@@@
On Discovery channel they have a show called "It Takes A Thief" whose point it is to show people how vulnerable their houses are.
The difference is the 'victims' agree to all this.
The school did not.
I'm amazed we're still debating this and claiming its the only/best/useful way to make security better.
Individuals guessing that so and so might not have listened to a technical alert therefore you have to hijack passwords w/o permission is a risky guess. If you didn't try Plan A then you have no real reason to go to illegal Plan B.
Imagine someone picked your pocket to show you how insecure your back pocket was, copied all your credit cards and medical info and license, then gave you back your wallet and swore they'd destroyed the copies.
I haven't RTFA, but I'm shuddering to think of the stuff these startups are in for - if they could actually ship Bob and ME and Works and Clippy, imagine the technologies MS saw fit NOT to foist upon the public? Oh, the humanity!
Online for up to half the cost of the print medium (7-day in-city subscription rate), and here's why:
I can only get delivery at $3/week sunday only - that's $150 per year for one day a week's paper.
They have to put the whole thing online somewhere anyway, that's how newspapers are made today (I still like to think it's Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell doing it all at high volume, but alas...) They've already paid the mortgage on the infrastructure, the part of it that makes things public html costs not as much as all of the tech they need in order to get the paper out every day. This is a lot like the phone companies cutting prices once everyone saw the internet model and realized that they didn't have to run a special/new wire from my house in CT to so-and-so in CA so we could talk. They don't have to wake someone up to create a web page just because I logged on.
They won't get a lot of people who are online-y to cart a pile of paper home no matter how attractive they seem to make it. (and "attractive" seems to mean raise the out of town prices to horriffic levels - how come USAToday costs the same all over the country but NYT seems to be delivered outside of NYC by gold-plated burros who eat caviar? Hint - distributed printing)
So I'll (and lots like me'll) will get their news online somewhere, but not at paper-based prices and weights.
They'll have me at up to half subscription rate. There's a sweet spot there somewhere. It's fair, it's not the smug "information wants to be free" half of the argument. Maybe it's a mexican standoff, but they won't get me at print, and I can get news lots of places for free.
Astroturfing? If it were some studio toady writing on Amazon then yeah, but it's Kevin H. Smith fer crying out loud. I trust his judgement on film, given his talent for writing, directing and his eye for good cinema. Given his background, Star Wars films doubly so.
But deeper than that, I have a big order with Apple that I've held off on until Tiger ships and is included with new CPUs.
As long as we're thinking litigation...
If they throw this wrench into Apple's rollout, and shipping on Tiger halts and flatpacks of the OS have to be pulled from machines otherwise shipping Friday, and our project grinds to a halt, I - and everyone like me - (and I think there's a few folks who have been holding out for Friday) are harmed, Tiger Direct stands to lose not only their action against Apple, but wouldn't everyone whose work was hung up have a claim against them?
IIRC Douglas' pal Alan Kay was a Disney Fellow about the time this all started gelling. Disney is at its core, a company determined to bring otherwise impossible things to 'life' and amaze people often thru technology, invention and creativity. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to imagine all those entities linking up to supply DNA with a company that could support his vision. Hell, they made Tron based on a story by Alan's wife Bonnie. Back in 1998 Disney was less seemingly evil entity. Despite what goes on in the courtrooms and boardrooms, you can still be middle aged being from an unregarded region of the galaxy, spend a day or three in Disney World and be very amazed at what humans can conjure up. In those terms, they're a fitting place to try and turn this visioninto a film, and in 72 hours, we'll see if it was a safe bet.
Three Mattel ads, or something that's supposed to get me interested in seeing the wrapup to an epic that started 27 years ago...
These looked like toy ads. The only thing missing was "Now with kung-fu grip!" Depressing especially when you see the progressionl of ads from 1977 that was on the EPII bonus features - the first ads for Star Wars were embarrasingly bad, they evolved and got pretty good by ROTJ. These feel like the earlier ones. And not in a good, nostalgic way. Maybe it was the hiatus, but the EPI trailers and spots made you want to see what was new and going to happen. In some ways Lucas has painted himself into a corner, as we all know what must happen for ANH to occur.
But everyone knew what happened to the Titanic, and still everyone went to see the film. Everyone who wanted to see LOTR already knew the story, but you want to see the epic unfold on the screen - to see it brought to life. So where's the life? These trailers are full of gritty one-liners that tell you very little of what's in the story, and barely give you enough time to recognize characters. Maybe it's the TV attention span, but I doubt it. These movies demand good storytelling - it's actually a 12-hour narrative when you line them all up - it needs to work and you need to get the story arcs, or else they won't be remembered, even if they make lots of money. God knows they played loose with some of LOTR but the continuum worked. And the characters were convincing.
I didn't think it was possible to coax a more wooden performance out of the likes of Ewen McGregor (Trainspotting, Life Less Ordinary, etc...) and Natalie Portman (The Professional, Garden State...) But he did.
I'll see it, in the theaters, of course. I hope there's much, much more than has been in the trailers. Then some time this fall, I'll pull the phone from the wall and watch all six movies in order some weekend and take in the big picture. So far I think it will work, if for no other reason than the movies definitely get better as you watch them in order - and start to get 'deeper' if such judgments are allowed about all this.
I've been teaching science for 25 years - the complicated way to turn on a flashlight is apparently to hand someone a bulb, a battery, and a wire and ask them to make it work. It's amazing how many people (kids AND adults) can't do this or do it after many many wrong tries.
Really? You can sleep thru a 747 flight. You will not sleep thru a shuttle mission, even with the slimmest of task lists.
The shuttle is landed fly-by-wire, a couple of computer controlled landings have been done but always with a hand on the stick - the landing programs have never been certified, initially because of a lack of funding - it would have been about a million dollar job back in 1980 to certify the landing program, and you can imagine what it would cost now, and we nickel and dime NASA programs literally to death.
The multi-piece o-ring design for the solid rocket motors was used because the single-casing design would cost 10-15% more, and the money wasn't there. True, the launch decisions and magical thinking gave it the opportunity to fail, but the preferred design would not have had that problem to begin with.
Remember, in the year before the first shuttle launched, Americans spent more money in quarters to run Space Invaders arcade machines than we did to get the shuttle ready.
I've got many years of "Spinoff" on the shelf above my desk - something NASA has never pushed as much as they should - to let people know that their NASA dollars do more than send people 200 miles for photo ops.
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The reply was largely jest, too - I can't imagine these things in place. Put them in parking lots.
My ancient Peugeot tourer sets these things off like crazy. My Cannondale road seems a bit tougher, but I could be dreaming.
Around here, the club roadies who can't wait at a light are in the same league as the motorists who gun their engine to prove just how inconvenient it was to have to wait a half second for the bike to swerve around the storm drain...
Please please PLEASE label them as such. For the love of God and the sake of cyclists - who need to line their metal bike frame right on the telltale loop wound in the pavement, it's the only way to get the light to change at intersections when there's no cars.
I'd hate to think of what happens to my bike frame and its passenger when the loop in the road starts inducing much field in the frame... I love a good science demo as much as the next person, but this is sadistic!
The object the woman's hiolding in photo essay pic #8 looks suspiciously like the things Arthur, Ford, & Zaphod were getting slapped in the face with enroute to rescue Trillian...
..."Commander Cody" as a character name. After several isolated references to him as "Commander" or "Cody", they finally do pull the trigger on this one and call him "Commander Cody". Sadly, no sign of the Lost Planet Airmen. Wonder if this is a George Lucas fave - the real Commander Cody did live in Marin county for some time...
"The Curve of Binding Energy" with Ted Taylor walking John McPhee through how much damage you could do for surprisingly little effort. Including a tour around southern Manhattan and speculation on using a poorly made nuke to topple a World Trade tower into the river...
That book inspired...
"Mushroom" by John Aristotle Philips about his paper at Princeton describing how to build a bomb. A student of Freeman Dyson, he got far more info than he ever dreamed he could get. The very impressive paper saved some less than stellar grades, and generated quite a buzz, more than a few cloaky phone calls and IIRC the paper got classified by the gummint.
We're jumping from infancy to fully developed characters going from III to IV.
How does Luke go from noisture farmer's son (now THERE's a country song just waitin to be written) to ace pilot?
How does a senator's daughter become a princess? (OK, OK, thats a straight line you could drive a semi through, have at it...)
No, I don't read the parallel books / comics / etc.
But this stuff seems at least as important as how Boba Fett got his game.
dayh onew- so fat so gppd. for somwe reaibns noebofy id snawering muy emaiuls.
day 3 - saving sm,lots of eiumt not havfing tp dealqwoth thopse pesky editostial comments foptme may copopwrkers
d 4 -ollk at akkthe tiume i;m sabinh - thus us mych faSTRE THWN HUNTUNG FOR TEH RITW KEY@@@
Second Prize: Two meetings with Bill Gates.
On Discovery channel they have a show called "It Takes A Thief" whose point it is to show people how vulnerable their houses are.
The difference is the 'victims' agree to all this.
The school did not.
I'm amazed we're still debating this and claiming its the only/best/useful way to make security better.
Individuals guessing that so and so might not have listened to a technical alert therefore you have to hijack passwords w/o permission is a risky guess. If you didn't try Plan A then you have no real reason to go to illegal Plan B.
Imagine someone picked your pocket to show you how insecure your back pocket was, copied all your credit cards and medical info and license, then gave you back your wallet and swore they'd destroyed the copies.
What would you do?
iPod dangerous when clueless teen thinks one mistake can be fixed by stabbing the battery of a $300 device with a screwdriver.
It's cheaper to stick a fork in the toaster.
Some of the earliest hard drives were filled with oil - at slow speeds it kept the heads flying.
I haven't RTFA, but I'm shuddering to think of the stuff these startups are in for - if they could actually ship Bob and ME and Works and Clippy, imagine the technologies MS saw fit NOT to foist upon the public? Oh, the humanity!
Online for up to half the cost of the print medium (7-day in-city subscription rate), and here's why:
I can only get delivery at $3/week sunday only - that's $150 per year for one day a week's paper.
They have to put the whole thing online somewhere anyway, that's how newspapers are made today (I still like to think it's Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell doing it all at high volume, but alas...) They've already paid the mortgage on the infrastructure, the part of it that makes things public html costs not as much as all of the tech they need in order to get the paper out every day. This is a lot like the phone companies cutting prices once everyone saw the internet model and realized that they didn't have to run a special/new wire from my house in CT to so-and-so in CA so we could talk. They don't have to wake someone up to create a web page just because I logged on.
They won't get a lot of people who are online-y to cart a pile of paper home no matter how attractive they seem to make it. (and "attractive" seems to mean raise the out of town prices to horriffic levels - how come USAToday costs the same all over the country but NYT seems to be delivered outside of NYC by gold-plated burros who eat caviar? Hint - distributed printing)
So I'll (and lots like me'll) will get their news online somewhere, but not at paper-based prices and weights.
They'll have me at up to half subscription rate. There's a sweet spot there somewhere. It's fair, it's not the smug "information wants to be free" half of the argument. Maybe it's a mexican standoff, but they won't get me at print, and I can get news lots of places for free.
... he needs some other beloved business to trash.
"I think George Lucas gonna sue somebody!"
(given the spoilers)
Astroturfing? If it were some studio toady writing on Amazon then yeah, but it's Kevin H. Smith fer crying out loud. I trust his judgement on film, given his talent for writing, directing and his eye for good cinema. Given his background, Star Wars films doubly so.
Unless you cound the HP iPod.
But deeper than that, I have a big order with Apple that I've held off on until Tiger ships and is included with new CPUs.
As long as we're thinking litigation...
If they throw this wrench into Apple's rollout,
and shipping on Tiger halts
and flatpacks of the OS have to be pulled from machines otherwise shipping Friday,
and our project grinds to a halt, I - and everyone like me -
(and I think there's a few folks who have been holding out for Friday) are harmed,
Tiger Direct stands to lose not only their action against Apple,
but wouldn't everyone whose work was hung up have a claim against them?
We can look forward to another decade of...
"So how do I stop the computer?"
"You press 'Start'."
[Cue head pounding]
IIRC Douglas' pal Alan Kay was a Disney Fellow about the time this all started gelling. Disney is at its core, a company determined to bring otherwise impossible things to 'life' and amaze people often thru technology, invention and creativity. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to imagine all those entities linking up to supply DNA with a company that could support his vision. Hell, they made Tron based on a story by Alan's wife Bonnie. Back in 1998 Disney was less seemingly evil entity. Despite what goes on in the courtrooms and boardrooms, you can still be middle aged being from an unregarded region of the galaxy, spend a day or three in Disney World and be very amazed at what humans can conjure up. In those terms, they're a fitting place to try and turn this visioninto a film, and in 72 hours, we'll see if it was a safe bet.
Three Mattel ads, or something that's supposed to get me interested in seeing the wrapup to an epic that started 27 years ago...
These looked like toy ads. The only thing missing was "Now with kung-fu grip!" Depressing especially when you see the progressionl of ads from 1977 that was on the EPII bonus features - the first ads for Star Wars were embarrasingly bad, they evolved and got pretty good by ROTJ. These feel like the earlier ones. And not in a good, nostalgic way. Maybe it was the hiatus, but the EPI trailers and spots made you want to see what was new and going to happen. In some ways Lucas has painted himself into a corner, as we all know what must happen for ANH to occur.
But everyone knew what happened to the Titanic, and still everyone went to see the film. Everyone who wanted to see LOTR already knew the story, but you want to see the epic unfold on the screen - to see it brought to life. So where's the life? These trailers are full of gritty one-liners that tell you very little of what's in the story, and barely give you enough time to recognize characters. Maybe it's the TV attention span, but I doubt it. These movies demand good storytelling - it's actually a 12-hour narrative when you line them all up - it needs to work and you need to get the story arcs, or else they won't be remembered, even if they make lots of money. God knows they played loose with some of LOTR but the continuum worked. And the characters were convincing.
I didn't think it was possible to coax a more wooden performance out of the likes of Ewen McGregor (Trainspotting, Life Less Ordinary, etc...) and Natalie Portman (The Professional, Garden State...) But he did.
I'll see it, in the theaters, of course. I hope there's much, much more than has been in the trailers. Then some time this fall, I'll pull the phone from the wall and watch all six movies in order some weekend and take in the big picture. So far I think it will work, if for no other reason than the movies definitely get better as you watch them in order - and start to get 'deeper' if such judgments are allowed about all this.
...it's really this box http://www.apple.com/macosx/
... and not this one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302 787556/
I've been teaching science for 25 years - the complicated way to turn on a flashlight is apparently to hand someone a bulb, a battery, and a wire and ask them to make it work. It's amazing how many people (kids AND adults) can't do this or do it after many many wrong tries.
Really? You can sleep thru a 747 flight. You will not sleep thru a shuttle mission, even with the slimmest of task lists.
The shuttle is landed fly-by-wire, a couple of computer controlled landings have been done but always with a hand on the stick - the landing programs have never been certified, initially because of a lack of funding - it would have been about a million dollar job back in 1980 to certify the landing program, and you can imagine what it would cost now, and we nickel and dime NASA programs literally to death.
The multi-piece o-ring design for the solid rocket motors was used because the single-casing design would cost 10-15% more, and the money wasn't there. True, the launch decisions and magical thinking gave it the opportunity to fail, but the preferred design would not have had that problem to begin with.
Remember, in the year before the first shuttle launched, Americans spent more money in quarters to run Space Invaders arcade machines than we did to get the shuttle ready.
I've got many years of "Spinoff" on the shelf above my desk - something NASA has never pushed as much as they should - to let people know that their NASA dollars do more than send people 200 miles for photo ops.
Also known as two years' worth of daily changed inscrutable SIGs.
Mapquest USED to have a switch for photos, it went away some months ago.
http://mapper.acme.com/ has zip code and lat long resolved to topos and aerial photos.
Note that a lot of these are actually aerial photo surveys, not satellite images.
Sheesh.