The raw materials to build these goods from scratch, however, are often mined from the ground, and if the used products are placed in landfills, that's exactly to where they'll return.
While it's atrocious that companies should mislead their customers like this, I'm thankful that in this case the Earth is the greatest beneficiary.
? I hope this is a joke, and I just don't get it...Yes, the materials used to make computers did at some point come from the ground. But, in order to make them useful, high energy or chemical alterations were made to them, so that they are now unstable...
This is the basic principle of toxic waste...The fact that we have combined or changed some elements into unstable materials that will constantly degrade and steal or lose electrons with things surrounding them. If this is human flesh, good things don't happen.
Things like lead (which is an element) are returned to the earth, but in un-natural and dangerous proportions...
That's hardly what will happen. I'm sure if there is any major media coverage (ie: not/. or Broadbandreports.com) it will absoltely make these people out to be 'hackers' or use the word 'hack' as a verb...
The majority of Ohio broadband users, I'm sure, do not consider themselves hackers, and believe everything they read in their local paper about some 'hackers' 'stealing internet access'...
I think there are obviously a lot of details left out as to how this optical technology actually interfaces with the 'processors' of the nodes...
If we assume router means IP, and switch means Ethernet, than the difference between a router and a switch is very small nowadays...
The major difference is that a router typically re-addresses the source and destination of the lower layer protocol before forwarding to the appropriate port, while a switch will just forward to the appropriate port without changing anything. Both make a forwarding decision, however, based on the destination address (MAC or IP).
As to how either of these would practically work in this technology, I have no idea;)
Movielink also snubs non-US based users by IP address! That's right. I live in Japan, and I get an error screen saying 'sorry, Movielink is only offered to customers within the US' when I go to their webpage. When going through a proxy w/ a US based IP address, I go to the front page no problem...
I'm sure they have several reasons for doing this (most importantly because they don't want to hear from people who have slow download speeds complaining) but it is discrimination regardless...
The idea of optical routing is that, even in typical gigabit or any optical based networking media, the bottleneck is the processors in the routers. This is because the light must be converted to electrical signals, and then routing decisions and switching are done on the processor of the router. After being processed, the signals are converted back to optical to be sent out the appropriate port.
Optical switching means that the light coming in on fiber from different devices is never converted to electrical to be routed. The actual light signals are switched from port to port. This was originally planned to be done with very small mirrors! (no joke!) which would aim incoming light to the corresponding outgoing port.
According to the whitepaper on Chiaro's website, they have found a way to avoid the mirrors (which have an obvious bottleneck themselves, as well as potential mechanical failure) and they are able to multiplex or switch the light based on applying an electrical field to some of the optical components which them changes the angle and therefore the destination of the light.
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This is half business as usual, but half the result of the ongoing corporatization of America... The majority of publicly held companies face serious pressure to make greater and greater (not just sustainable) profits for obvious reasons. As most shareholders only have an interest in the return on their investment, they don't give a shit about how it happens. Thats what these upper-management types get paid to do; squeeze as much profit out of the company as possible, regardless of the way customers or the environment or (insert innocent victim here) is affected. And, take the fall for the shareholders when they screw up enough to get in trouble legally, or in some way that adversely affects profits.
As the article says, the fees that are shown separately as fees are done so very intentionally...You don't see anywhere on your wireless bills your share of the $415,000 in PAC campaign contributions that SBC made in 2002 alone. Or, the $548,000 that AT&T made.
Or, conversely, that they receive millions in 'corporate welfare' every year in the forms of subsidies and tax breaks that don't translate into lower prices, but....You guessed it:
EMusic is similar to a buffet advertised as "all you can eat." For the restaurant to be successful, it has to have reasonable limitations that apply to people that stay too long, eat more than their fair share -- or waste food. The service is indeed unlimited for the vast majority of the restaurant's customers whose actions never draw attention. The restaurant reserves the right to deny service to any customer.
This entry won 2nd place, and for good reason...Here's the gist of it:
This device sits in between your TV and your cable or antenna source. It strips out the close captioning information, and replaces it with custom information from your PC and/or caller ID, and prints it as a headline on your TV using the close captioning feature.
He says the box itself can decode caller ID info from your phone, and has a wireless link to get IM or 'You've Got Mail' type updates from your PC...Pretty sneaky. er...Geeky
here in Japan, and I can't imagine how well it would translate on a console. The whole point is the interface in the arcades is a huge taiko drum that you bang on with drum sticks!
There are lots of games like this in Japan. A similar game has you pushing back and forth on oars in a river rafting game. Also, there's a fire-fighting game where you (IIRC) pump the water for the fire fighters...Another is a truck driving game with this HUGE almost horizontal steering wheel that you use to drive the big rigs.
A story about the cannon published last week in The Herald-Times of Bloomington was picked up by The Associated Press, leading to calls from reporters as far away as Great Britain.
I actually saw a TV news spot on this thing here in Japan...(probably from the AP spot)
Isn't it possible that Reuters had a bookmarked link to this URL? I know they say that it was unpublished, but maybe they had done redirection in the past, and Reuters bookmarked the redirected URL?
While it may not be illegal to actually view and read this information, its potentially creating a conflict of interest for investors. If this was an earnings report published before its intended publication date, people will trade off that information. This could create a situation similar to insider trading.
And regardless of this, if it is proved that Reuters did this intentionally, they are totally at fault. They know this information affects the markets, and that the information gives their clients a (potentially unfair) competitive advantage.
If Intentia had an obvious Earnings Report or financial press release procedure, Reuters should know they will potentially be held responsible for releasing false information.
What if this wasn't the final Earnings Report? Than Reuters would potentially affect the trading of Intentia stock based on false information...
I've got more and more respect for Krakow'sreviews. They seem very honest, and answer the questions most people would have. And, the variety of products covered convinces me that he is a journalist; not a propagandist working for MS.
Even so, I'm not sure I'd want to run into him in a dark alley behind this WalMart he frequents...
The problem with the Greens/Socialists is that they want to replace the system of primarily corporate development and activity, which, while it has problem, actually works, with a system that has been demonstrated to not work on several occasions, all for the benefit of spotted tree frogs and the like. They will never get anywhere, because the American public likes their SUV's, McDonald's, non-fair-trade coffee, and cheap sweatshop clothing, and don't want to be told to change, and definitely not that they are evil.
I really don't think the greens think the American public are evil, or are specifically concerned with saving spotted frogs.... They are interested in holding corporations responsible for their abuses of power and common exploitation of consumers' lack of rights. There is a difference between saying that corporations are evil and must be banished, and saying that corporations should be held responsible for their abuse of the environment and their exploitation of extreme financial and therefore political advantage.
Is this the WHOLE Adventure? I didn't play as a kind, but I beat this thing in like 15 minutes. I tried to change the game, but it just stayed at "1" in the middle of the screen. Is this just the first level,or am I missing something?
Because of the widespread use of Halon 1301 in the United States, which is safer than carbon dioxide at fire-fighting concentrations, there may be a lower awareness of the hazards surrounding carbon dioxide use. Experience has shown that a relatively higher margin of safety has been experienced with the use of Halon 1301 compared to carbon dioxide. This high safety margin may add to the lack of awareness of the dangers involved with using carbon dioxide systems.
I heard a similar story when I asked the guys who I work with why EVERY SINGLE power cord on about 20 racks are double tied with tie wraps to their rack based outlets. (This is before we got the twist-lock kind, which are a great invention!)
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The raw materials to build these goods from scratch, however, are often mined from the ground, and if the used products are placed in landfills, that's exactly to where they'll return.
While it's atrocious that companies should mislead their customers like this, I'm thankful that in this case the Earth is the greatest beneficiary.
? I hope this is a joke, and I just don't get it...Yes, the materials used to make computers did at some point come from the ground. But, in order to make them useful, high energy or chemical alterations were made to them, so that they are now unstable...
This is the basic principle of toxic waste...The fact that we have combined or changed some elements into unstable materials that will constantly degrade and steal or lose electrons with things surrounding them. If this is human flesh, good things don't happen.
Things like lead (which is an element) are returned to the earth, but in un-natural and dangerous proportions...
That's hardly what will happen. I'm sure if there is any major media coverage (ie: not /. or Broadbandreports.com) it will absoltely make these people out to be 'hackers' or use the word 'hack' as a verb...
The majority of Ohio broadband users, I'm sure, do not consider themselves hackers, and believe everything they read in their local paper about some 'hackers' 'stealing internet access'...
No good sir, I'm on the level!
Mono - D'OH!
Shouldn't THAT be the big news? That Metroid Prime is released today, Nov. 20th? One of the most anticipated console games ever?!?!
I think there are obviously a lot of details left out as to how this optical technology actually interfaces with the 'processors' of the nodes...
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If we assume router means IP, and switch means Ethernet, than the difference between a router and a switch is very small nowadays...
The major difference is that a router typically re-addresses the source and destination of the lower layer protocol before forwarding to the appropriate port, while a switch will just forward to the appropriate port without changing anything. Both make a forwarding decision, however, based on the destination address (MAC or IP).
As to how either of these would practically work in this technology, I have no idea
Movielink also snubs non-US based users by IP address! That's right. I live in Japan, and I get an error screen saying 'sorry, Movielink is only offered to customers within the US' when I go to their webpage. When going through a proxy w/ a US based IP address, I go to the front page no problem...
I'm sure they have several reasons for doing this (most importantly because they don't want to hear from people who have slow download speeds complaining) but it is discrimination regardless...
The idea of optical routing is that, even in typical gigabit or any optical based networking media, the bottleneck is the processors in the routers. This is because the light must be converted to electrical signals, and then routing decisions and switching are done on the processor of the router. After being processed, the signals are converted back to optical to be sent out the appropriate port.
Optical switching means that the light coming in on fiber from different devices is never converted to electrical to be routed. The actual light signals are switched from port to port. This was originally planned to be done with very small mirrors! (no joke!) which would aim incoming light to the corresponding outgoing port.
According to the whitepaper on Chiaro's website, they have found a way to avoid the mirrors (which have an obvious bottleneck themselves, as well as potential mechanical failure) and they are able to multiplex or switch the light based on applying an electrical field to some of the optical components which them changes the angle and therefore the destination of the light.
This is half business as usual, but half the result of the ongoing corporatization of America... The majority of publicly held companies face serious pressure to make greater and greater (not just sustainable) profits for obvious reasons. As most shareholders only have an interest in the return on their investment, they don't give a shit about how it happens. Thats what these upper-management types get paid to do; squeeze as much profit out of the company as possible, regardless of the way customers or the environment or (insert innocent victim here) is affected. And, take the fall for the shareholders when they screw up enough to get in trouble legally, or in some way that adversely affects profits.
As the article says, the fees that are shown separately as fees are done so very intentionally...You don't see anywhere on your wireless bills your share of the $415,000 in PAC campaign contributions that SBC made in 2002 alone. Or, the $548,000 that AT&T made.
Or, conversely, that they receive millions in 'corporate welfare' every year in the forms of subsidies and tax breaks that don't translate into lower prices, but....You guessed it:
Higher profits!
Spaceballs the FLAME THROWER!
EMusic is similar to a buffet advertised as "all you can eat." For the restaurant to be successful, it has to have reasonable limitations that apply to people that stay too long, eat more than their fair share -- or waste food. The service is indeed unlimited for the vast majority of the restaurant's customers whose actions never draw attention. The restaurant reserves the right to deny service to any customer.
They obviously don't watch The Simpsons!
"Arrr...Come see Bottomless Pete! Come for the freak, stay for the food!" -Captain McCallister
This hobby could pay for itself. People like having photos of their houses from the sky; especially rich people with nice houses and land.
If you get the owners with their dogs in there, I bet they'd pay double!
That's 'Watch Out!' Radioactiveman...
This entry won 2nd place, and for good reason...Here's the gist of it:
This device sits in between your TV and your cable or antenna source. It strips out the close captioning information, and replaces it with custom information from your PC and/or caller ID, and prints it as a headline on your TV using the close captioning feature.
He says the box itself can decode caller ID info from your phone, and has a wireless link to get IM or 'You've Got Mail' type updates from your PC...Pretty sneaky. er...Geeky
Whoops! Didn't realize it actually CAME WITH the drum..
here in Japan, and I can't imagine how well it would translate on a console. The whole point is the interface in the arcades is a huge taiko drum that you bang on with drum sticks!
There are lots of games like this in Japan. A similar game has you pushing back and forth on oars in a river rafting game. Also, there's a fire-fighting game where you (IIRC) pump the water for the fire fighters...Another is a truck driving game with this HUGE almost horizontal steering wheel that you use to drive the big rigs.
From the pumpkin gun story:
A story about the cannon published last week in The Herald-Times of Bloomington was picked up by The Associated Press, leading to calls from reporters as far away as Great Britain.
I actually saw a TV news spot on this thing here in Japan...(probably from the AP spot)
Isn't it possible that Reuters had a bookmarked link to this URL? I know they say that it was unpublished, but maybe they had done redirection in the past, and Reuters bookmarked the redirected URL?
While it may not be illegal to actually view and read this information, its potentially creating a conflict of interest for investors. If this was an earnings report published before its intended publication date, people will trade off that information. This could create a situation similar to insider trading.
And regardless of this, if it is proved that Reuters did this intentionally, they are totally at fault. They know this information affects the markets, and that the information gives their clients a (potentially unfair) competitive advantage.
If Intentia had an obvious Earnings Report or financial press release procedure, Reuters should know they will potentially be held responsible for releasing false information.
What if this wasn't the final Earnings Report? Than Reuters would potentially affect the trading of Intentia stock based on false information...
The CPU in the VIC-20 is far less interesting than the nostalgia gleamed from playing old games and reliving your childhood for an hour or so.
An hour !? Come on...Be honest now...
I've got more and more respect for Krakow's reviews. They seem very honest, and answer the questions most people would have. And, the variety of products covered convinces me that he is a journalist; not a propagandist working for MS.
Even so, I'm not sure I'd want to run into him in a dark alley behind this WalMart he frequents...
The problem with the Greens/Socialists is that they want to replace the system of primarily corporate development and activity, which, while it has problem, actually works, with a system that has been demonstrated to not work on several occasions, all for the benefit of spotted tree frogs and the like. They will never get anywhere, because the American public likes their SUV's, McDonald's, non-fair-trade coffee, and cheap sweatshop clothing, and don't want to be told to change, and definitely not that they are evil.
I really don't think the greens think the American public are evil, or are specifically concerned with saving spotted frogs.... They are interested in holding corporations responsible for their abuses of power and common exploitation of consumers' lack of rights. There is a difference between saying that corporations are evil and must be banished, and saying that corporations should be held responsible for their abuse of the environment and their exploitation of extreme financial and therefore political advantage.
Is this the WHOLE Adventure? I didn't play as a kind, but I beat this thing in like 15 minutes. I tried to change the game, but it just stayed at "1" in the middle of the screen. Is this just the first level,or am I missing something?
Inergen is different, and is specifically designed as a safe (for people and ozone layer) alternative to Halon.
This is a direct quote from the EPA's report on Carbon Dioxide Fire Suppression systems:
Because of the widespread use of Halon 1301 in the United States, which is safer than carbon dioxide at fire-fighting concentrations, there may be a lower awareness of the hazards surrounding carbon dioxide use. Experience has shown that a relatively higher margin of safety has been experienced with the use of Halon 1301 compared to carbon dioxide. This high safety margin may add to the lack of awareness of the dangers involved with using carbon dioxide systems.
CO2 is bad when it goes off because the room fogs and you can't see the exit.
AND, because it poisons you and kills you very quickly...
I heard a similar story when I asked the guys who I work with why EVERY SINGLE power cord on about 20 racks are double tied with tie wraps to their rack based outlets. (This is before we got the twist-lock kind, which are a great invention!)