"flaircraft" that "fly" with weird wings that push against high pressure squeezed between them and the ground a few feet below. Make it big enough and it can transport a lot passingers in comfort.
passenger and cargo submarines that go fast and save fuel because they are under the surface turbulence.
Giant planes with giant clear bubble domes on top and swimming pools.
Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream's in sight
You've got to admit it
At this point in time that it's clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there's time
The fix is in
You'll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we've got to win
Here at home we'll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
This much appreciated endorsement of Sneakemail was not solicited or sanctioned by the management of Sneakemail in any way.
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All shameless promotion of Sneakemail on/. comes only directly from me.
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When spam is made illegal in brand-name countries, it will just move, and you'll start hearing terms like "off-shore spammers" and "swiss spam accounts". If it isnt obvious, this paralles the drug trade, where drugs were made much more profitable.
my point is, HDTV is NOT better. Would you say that a car that is faster is better? I'm sitting at an Athlon800 with 256M ram and two 20G hard drives and a GForce2. The only time I can tell the difference between my machine now and my last machine which was a k62400 is when I boot up into windows and play games. Now, typing into netscape, if feels no different, it is NOT better. Having billions more pixels on my tv screen will make it LOOK better, but it will not BE better. And dont tell me I'm being old fashioned, I'm watching everything through tivo, and I couldnt stand to go back to my vcr. Sometimes "superior" technology makes a difference, sometimes it doesnt.
the color movie thing is a very bad analogy, color was a new feature, or added dimension, HD is just higher resolution. And that ram reference, look at who you're quoting.
YES I HAVE, it looks cool, but who cares? I go to the movies too but I'm not bitching about the dust and hair I see projected on the screen. Consider the millions and millions of people that dont have perfect eyesight and cant see the screen perfectly. Consider all those people that had a bit of money to spend and they bought those projector tvs. Those SUCK, but people with money bought them anyway. And consider this, digital vcrs like tivo will not work, or work well, with HDTV. Having used tivo I can tell you that it is, without any doubt, a disruptive technology of great magnitude, and it will be less compatable with HDTV, which JUST has a better picture. I'm convinced that HDTV and digital vcrs are incompatable. Right now my tivo can only encode/decode a single channel, so I cant record two things at once, or watch one thing and record another. Soon they will offer "multi encoding/decoding" and people will learn to love it, and when they get HDTV, digital vcrs will probably only sample the signals, killing the resolution, or just barely handle one.
I totally agree, could somebody tell me what, of everything I watch on tv, needs to be in high definition? I use tivo, and that REDUCED the quality of the picture, but I watch more tv because tivo makes it easier- if I'm an average consumer, what does that say about us, and how we'll accept HDTV?
Stephen King ONLY made $120,000??? Thats a real shame considering how much quality probably went into "the plant". Let me guess, its about a plant that becomes powerful and evil after a comet passes close to the earth.
How many times have you paid good money for music, magazines or books, taken them home and realized they are pure crap. I figure that a lot of money is made out in the brick and mortar world just because people are too lazy to bring it back, or cant. With the internet, we know right away things are crap.
Sucessful musicians are going to have to eventually get used to living very comfortably, rather than like royality. Its just a confluence of circumstances that let them earn so much money new, while aids researchers and the like dont.
Advertising does work on the internet, just not as well as tv or radio, just dont have hundreds of people working on one site and expect advertising income to pay for them all.
The internet is for the poor man to talk to the world, if we lost amazon.com, ebay and whatever things will be fine.
As soon as I press submit I'm sure I'll think of something else to say.
this phenomenon is documented in this
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963037900/ qid%3D978370314/105-0638863-0920703
A bit of the profound wisdom from the book... "what women say they want, what they think they want and what they actually respond to are not necessarly the same thing."
reminds me of that sci-fi story in which an expedition of cryo-suspended people wake up at their destination and find people already there because along the way they were passed by faster, more advanced ships.
De Beers had this same problem with resale of diamonds (de beers basically controls the worlds supply of gem quality diamonds), so they came up with the ad campaign "A diamond is forever". Of course publishers don't even have the decency to print their books on acid-free paper so that the books dont turn yellow and fall apart
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actually, after thinking it through, it wouldnt end up like a siphon, the air inside the tube at the far end would either escape, or get pulled down, until the conditions in the tube matched the outside of the tube, like a big barameter.
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but, take the thought experiment to the extreme, if the tube was long enough and extended far enough into space, and you could initially fill it with air, would it not act as a siphon? But, in regards to the initial question, the air in the tube doesnt know, and isnt acted upon by any additional forces, then the air right next to it on the outside of the tube.
btw, if anybody wants to try my kinesis and see if it works for you and you live in the boston area drop me an email, I'll meet you at a starbucks or something. I'm not lending out my datahand, needless to say, it costs five times as much:)
Requires much more force than most keyboards I've used. You may not be bother by this because your ailments might be more of a result of movement rather than force. If you ever used a datahand you'd realize that you could almost breath on a key to press it.
I should add that the hand pads on the datahand are very hard. If your hands are sensitive to pressure, maybe because of resting them on the edge of a desk for years, these will hurt, they could be made of wood and you wouldnt notice the difference. I suggested using a much softer material, like those gel wrist cushions or senco stuff but they ignored me.
I have a datahand, I have that scooped out keyboard that flashes buy on the front page of http://www.ergointerfaces.com/, I've gone through lots of ordinary keyboards because they hurt in verying degrees, let me share what I know.
The Kenesis (scooped out keyboard), nice shape, really crappy key action, a nightmare.
Datahand, very nice hardware and construction, very very very expensive. Taking dictation is one thing, but using a shell and emacs, with all the key combinations, requires a whole other level of proficiency. Also a warning, after suffering RSI for a while I got a datahand, learned how to use it, got allured into the speed and short movements, and crashed and burned. Was in pain for months.
Just bought a Logitec remote keyboard, real harsh action. The Logitec fancy trackball, whatever its called (FX), was so bad I had to take it back because of the difficult buttons.
The real secret to low impact keyboarding is typing with two fingers, period. And if thats to uncomfortable use two pencils held in a stabbing position, erasures down.
If you feel any typing pain at all run out and get this book: "Its not carpel tunnel syndrome".
Does anybody know if dsl/cable is worrying AOL? I cant help but wonder that if dsl/cable became huge, if everybody traded up in bandwidth, in the next few years would AOL be toast?
WTF?, I read this months ago, its not news, its just a page on a web site, it could have been there for years. Maybe/. can direct us to some more musty, aged web pages like a flock of nerd sheep. Must be a very slow news day. Did andover.net impose some sort of quota?
Slashdot Mirror
Anyway, catagorize this along with
"flaircraft" that "fly" with weird wings that push against high pressure squeezed between them and the ground a few feet below. Make it big enough and it can transport a lot passingers in comfort.
passenger and cargo submarines that go fast and save fuel because they are under the surface turbulence.
Giant planes with giant clear bubble domes on top and swimming pools.
Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream's in sight
You've got to admit it
At this point in time that it's clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there's time
The fix is in
You'll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we've got to win
Here at home we'll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Could we make it a tradition that instead of useless first posts somebody create a nyt username/password just for a story and post it?
This much appreciated endorsement of Sneakemail was not solicited or sanctioned by the management of Sneakemail in any way.
8-)
All shameless promotion of Sneakemail on
When spam is made illegal in brand-name countries, it will just move, and you'll start hearing terms like "off-shore spammers" and "swiss spam accounts". If it isnt obvious, this paralles the drug trade, where drugs were made much more profitable.
my point is, HDTV is NOT better. Would you say that a car that is faster is better? I'm sitting at an Athlon800 with 256M ram and two 20G hard drives and a GForce2. The only time I can tell the difference between my machine now and my last machine which was a k62400 is when I boot up into windows and play games. Now, typing into netscape, if feels no different, it is NOT better. Having billions more pixels on my tv screen will make it LOOK better, but it will not BE better. And dont tell me I'm being old fashioned, I'm watching everything through tivo, and I couldnt stand to go back to my vcr. Sometimes "superior" technology makes a difference, sometimes it doesnt.
the color movie thing is a very bad analogy, color was a new feature, or added dimension, HD is just higher resolution. And that ram reference, look at who you're quoting.
YES I HAVE, it looks cool, but who cares? I go to the movies too but I'm not bitching about the dust and hair I see projected on the screen. Consider the millions and millions of people that dont have perfect eyesight and cant see the screen perfectly. Consider all those people that had a bit of money to spend and they bought those projector tvs. Those SUCK, but people with money bought them anyway. And consider this, digital vcrs like tivo will not work, or work well, with HDTV. Having used tivo I can tell you that it is, without any doubt, a disruptive technology of great magnitude, and it will be less compatable with HDTV, which JUST has a better picture. I'm convinced that HDTV and digital vcrs are incompatable. Right now my tivo can only encode/decode a single channel, so I cant record two things at once, or watch one thing and record another. Soon they will offer "multi encoding/decoding" and people will learn to love it, and when they get HDTV, digital vcrs will probably only sample the signals, killing the resolution, or just barely handle one.
I totally agree, could somebody tell me what, of everything I watch on tv, needs to be in high definition? I use tivo, and that REDUCED the quality of the picture, but I watch more tv because tivo makes it easier- if I'm an average consumer, what does that say about us, and how we'll accept HDTV?
Stephen King ONLY made $120,000??? Thats a real shame considering how much quality probably went into "the plant". Let me guess, its about a plant that becomes powerful and evil after a comet passes close to the earth.
How many times have you paid good money for music, magazines or books, taken them home and realized they are pure crap. I figure that a lot of money is made out in the brick and mortar world just because people are too lazy to bring it back, or cant. With the internet, we know right away things are crap.
Sucessful musicians are going to have to eventually get used to living very comfortably, rather than like royality. Its just a confluence of circumstances that let them earn so much money new, while aids researchers and the like dont.
Advertising does work on the internet, just not as well as tv or radio, just dont have hundreds of people working on one site and expect advertising income to pay for them all.
The internet is for the poor man to talk to the world, if we lost amazon.com, ebay and whatever things will be fine.
As soon as I press submit I'm sure I'll think of something else to say.
this phenomenon is documented in this http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963037900
A bit of the profound wisdom from the book... "what women say they want, what they think they want and what they actually respond to are not necessarly the same thing."
reminds me of that sci-fi story in which an expedition of cryo-suspended people wake up at their destination and find people already there because along the way they were passed by faster, more advanced ships.
humor
--Kevin
De Beers had this same problem with resale of diamonds (de beers basically controls the worlds supply of gem quality diamonds), so they came up with the ad campaign "A diamond is forever". Of course publishers don't even have the decency to print their books on acid-free paper so that the books dont turn yellow and fall apart
actually, after thinking it through, it wouldnt end up like a siphon, the air inside the tube at the far end would either escape, or get pulled down, until the conditions in the tube matched the outside of the tube, like a big barameter.
but, take the thought experiment to the extreme, if the tube was long enough and extended far enough into space, and you could initially fill it with air, would it not act as a siphon? But, in regards to the initial question, the air in the tube doesnt know, and isnt acted upon by any additional forces, then the air right next to it on the outside of the tube.
no, what the heck is a maltron?
btw, if anybody wants to try my kinesis and see if it works for you and you live in the boston area drop me an email, I'll meet you at a starbucks or something. I'm not lending out my datahand, needless to say, it costs five times as much
Requires much more force than most keyboards I've used. You may not be bother by this because your ailments might be more of a result of movement rather than force. If you ever used a datahand you'd realize that you could almost breath on a key to press it.
I should add that the hand pads on the datahand are very hard. If your hands are sensitive to pressure, maybe because of resting them on the edge of a desk for years, these will hurt, they could be made of wood and you wouldnt notice the difference. I suggested using a much softer material, like those gel wrist cushions or senco stuff but they ignored me.
I have a datahand, I have that scooped out keyboard that flashes buy on the front page of http://www.ergointerfaces.com/, I've gone through lots of ordinary keyboards because they hurt in verying degrees, let me share what I know.
The Kenesis (scooped out keyboard), nice shape, really crappy key action, a nightmare.
Datahand, very nice hardware and construction, very very very expensive. Taking dictation is one thing, but using a shell and emacs, with all the key combinations, requires a whole other level of proficiency. Also a warning, after suffering RSI for a while I got a datahand, learned how to use it, got allured into the speed and short movements, and crashed and burned. Was in pain for months.
Just bought a Logitec remote keyboard, real harsh action. The Logitec fancy trackball, whatever its called (FX), was so bad I had to take it back because of the difficult buttons.
The real secret to low impact keyboarding is typing with two fingers, period. And if thats to uncomfortable use two pencils held in a stabbing position, erasures down.
If you feel any typing pain at all run out and get this book: "Its not carpel tunnel syndrome".
Does anybody know if dsl/cable is worrying AOL? I cant help but wonder that if dsl/cable became huge, if everybody traded up in bandwidth, in the next few years would AOL be toast?
My first reaction is, of course, this is terrible, but then I realized, the more they push me away from tv, the more of a favor they are doing me.
that thing looks pretty crappy, and it cant even do warp one, does it at least have phasers since it cant get away quickly?
WTF?, I read this months ago, its not news, its just a page on a web site, it could have been there for years. Maybe
my porn collection will look like a stamp collection
I read your sig and immediately thought- doesn't voyager average around warp 6? What a nerd.