Blood Wine at the Alamo
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The Alamo Drafthouse was serving Klingon Blood Wine during the premiere of the 2009 Star Trek (also Romulan Ale and Raktajino). I wonder if CBS had to license them.
To be clear, I mean specifically the "multimeter with a yellow border = Fluke" trademark. As plenty of people in comments to the previous article noted, yellow is the natural color for a safety device.
As the article notes, SparkFun isn't about to try to resell these guys, so SparkFun is still out their entire shipment. What would have been a lot more meaningful of Fluke to do would be to cancel the trademark. That being said, I love Fluke multimeters. Five years of physics labs really made me believe their unofficial motto, "If it works, it's a Fluke."
My grandma wanted a simple computer to check her email and Google. I loaned her my Ubuntu netbook to try out. She loved it.
Unfortunately, the rest of my family decided they knew better and got her a giant, heavy Windows laptop which has proceeded to sit on her desk, collecting dust, ever since. Sigh.
The two are heavily correlated. I'd expect a much greater percentage of programmers to know about bitcoins than I would local law enforcement. Then again, if Bitcoins are actively being used for illegal transactions, I suppose it's plausible that the local popo are better informed than I might have thought (I still doubt they're being given history lessons on the currency...).
THIS! I work in an office filled with programmers, research scientists and software devs--when I told them Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity was revealed, they all said, "who?"
*If* she killed herself, it sounds like it was due to long-standing clinical depression rather than her "falling on her sword" or somesuch. But the truth is we don't know *what* happened, and everyone is just reporting on pure speculation.
According to the Washington Post, "Police have so far classified the death as 'unnatural,' which can mean an accident, misadventure, or suicide," and they've taken that and combined it with "Last month she linked to an article on entrepreneurs suffering depression, commenting above the link: everything has its price."
WaPo stops short of outright *saying* she committed suicide, but that's certainly the conclusion they're leading their readers to.
When I read "predicts death within five years," I inferred a "to," that is, I expected that the study predicted when a person would die to within a margin of error of five years (death clock), which would be a much bigger deal than what they actually did.
The Pitivi version I have (through Ubuntu 12.04) is 0.15.2. I'll check out the new one when I upgrade to 14.04 in a few months. But wow, fine--maybe my title was a bit hostile, but the point was just that there are better tools out there that I think are more deserving of support.
If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.
The nice thing about my particular example is that (1) you *have* to transfer from Green to Yellow (or Yellow to Green) for those commutes and (2) there are 4-9 stations (depending on the time of day) where you can make that transfer. So with smart phones, you could co-ordinate where to do the hand-off so as to minimize "twiddle-time."
This would also work for commuters doing FranconiaNew Carrolton (though once the Silver Line opens, Blue Line trains are going to be rarer than working escalators) or LargoVienna (though there are Rush+ Oranges that do that route with no transfers.
I've noticed Windows in a variety of weird places (airport arrivals boards first come to mind), and I usually notice because the screen is showing a blue screen of death or a "Windows has encountered an error" message. The version of Windows is invariably XP or older.
But there are good reasons why cities might want to maintain price differences for certain journeys — to encourage people to live in certain areas, for example.
I would *imagine* that BART charges more the longer you're on the subway. Just as pretty much every other system does that's not flat-rate. I wonder if the author thinks that AMTRAK charges more for tickets from DC to NYC than from DC to Philly because he thinks they're trying to encourage Pennsylvania tourism.
With that out of the way, yes, you could save a BOATLOAD by doing this in DC, although I'm sure it violates some ToS and would probably end up with you getting banned from the system. The minimum rush hour fare on DC Metro is $2.10, the maximum is $5.75. So if I'm travelling from Huntington to Greenbelt (for example), and I found someone who was doing the reverse trip, we'd just have to swap cards at Mt. Vernon Square, and we'd each save $7.30 a day, or about $150 a month.
Note that DC Metro is the one where the General Manager, during a period of service cutbacks (due to long overdue track maintenance) and unprecedented rate hikes, bragged about having a record surplus. So yeah. If I could get away with it, I'd totally do this just to "stick it to the man."
What are the regulations regarding wilderness survival camps? What about rock & roll fantasy camps? Is he going to start going after knitting retreats?
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Why would Klingons "fru-fru" up their coffee, not very warrior like IMO.
Have you seen their embassy?
The Alamo Drafthouse was serving Klingon Blood Wine during the premiere of the 2009 Star Trek (also Romulan Ale and Raktajino). I wonder if CBS had to license them.
After the commercial success of LoTR and the Hobbit trilogy, it's only a matter of time.
Oh wait.
To be clear, I mean specifically the "multimeter with a yellow border = Fluke" trademark. As plenty of people in comments to the previous article noted, yellow is the natural color for a safety device.
As the article notes, SparkFun isn't about to try to resell these guys, so SparkFun is still out their entire shipment. What would have been a lot more meaningful of Fluke to do would be to cancel the trademark. That being said, I love Fluke multimeters. Five years of physics labs really made me believe their unofficial motto, "If it works, it's a Fluke."
I read somewhere that new articles are red until they get comments, but this doesn't seem 100% consistent in my experience.
I love how the submitter headed us off.
Actually, according to CIA, it was them attempting to retrieve stolen documents.
Citation: Washington Post
My grandma wanted a simple computer to check her email and Google. I loaned her my Ubuntu netbook to try out. She loved it.
Unfortunately, the rest of my family decided they knew better and got her a giant, heavy Windows laptop which has proceeded to sit on her desk, collecting dust, ever since. Sigh.
How will residents of Turkey's largest city learn of their home's rich history?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg
Or, if you prefer the classic version...
The two are heavily correlated. I'd expect a much greater percentage of programmers to know about bitcoins than I would local law enforcement. Then again, if Bitcoins are actively being used for illegal transactions, I suppose it's plausible that the local popo are better informed than I might have thought (I still doubt they're being given history lessons on the currency...).
THIS! I work in an office filled with programmers, research scientists and software devs--when I told them Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity was revealed, they all said, "who?"
*If* she killed herself, it sounds like it was due to long-standing clinical depression rather than her "falling on her sword" or somesuch. But the truth is we don't know *what* happened, and everyone is just reporting on pure speculation.
According to the Washington Post, "Police have so far classified the death as 'unnatural,' which can mean an accident, misadventure, or suicide," and they've taken that and combined it with "Last month she linked to an article on entrepreneurs suffering depression, commenting above the link: everything has its price." WaPo stops short of outright *saying* she committed suicide, but that's certainly the conclusion they're leading their readers to.
Vive Jay Sherman. Vive Quebec
When I read "predicts death within five years," I inferred a "to," that is, I expected that the study predicted when a person would die to within a margin of error of five years (death clock), which would be a much bigger deal than what they actually did.
Haven't tried it in a couple of years. You know how things go--when you finally find a set of tools that work, you're loathe to try anything you.
Yeah, the reply above yours was quite informative. It's just really too bad, imo.
The Pitivi version I have (through Ubuntu 12.04) is 0.15.2. I'll check out the new one when I upgrade to 14.04 in a few months. But wow, fine--maybe my title was a bit hostile, but the point was just that there are better tools out there that I think are more deserving of support.
If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.
The nice thing about my particular example is that (1) you *have* to transfer from Green to Yellow (or Yellow to Green) for those commutes and (2) there are 4-9 stations (depending on the time of day) where you can make that transfer. So with smart phones, you could co-ordinate where to do the hand-off so as to minimize "twiddle-time."
This would also work for commuters doing FranconiaNew Carrolton (though once the Silver Line opens, Blue Line trains are going to be rarer than working escalators) or LargoVienna (though there are Rush+ Oranges that do that route with no transfers.
I've noticed Windows in a variety of weird places (airport arrivals boards first come to mind), and I usually notice because the screen is showing a blue screen of death or a "Windows has encountered an error" message. The version of Windows is invariably XP or older.
First, dealing with some idiocy:
But there are good reasons why cities might want to maintain price differences for certain journeys — to encourage people to live in certain areas, for example.
I would *imagine* that BART charges more the longer you're on the subway. Just as pretty much every other system does that's not flat-rate. I wonder if the author thinks that AMTRAK charges more for tickets from DC to NYC than from DC to Philly because he thinks they're trying to encourage Pennsylvania tourism.
With that out of the way, yes, you could save a BOATLOAD by doing this in DC, although I'm sure it violates some ToS and would probably end up with you getting banned from the system. The minimum rush hour fare on DC Metro is $2.10, the maximum is $5.75. So if I'm travelling from Huntington to Greenbelt (for example), and I found someone who was doing the reverse trip, we'd just have to swap cards at Mt. Vernon Square, and we'd each save $7.30 a day, or about $150 a month.
Note that DC Metro is the one where the General Manager, during a period of service cutbacks (due to long overdue track maintenance) and unprecedented rate hikes, bragged about having a record surplus. So yeah. If I could get away with it, I'd totally do this just to "stick it to the man."
Big Blue wants to sell off its manufacturing operations, but will continue to design its own chips.
As "will continue to design its own chips" is not a complete sentence, the comma before "but" is not appropriate.
What are the regulations regarding wilderness survival camps? What about rock & roll fantasy camps? Is he going to start going after knitting retreats?