Comdex was originally the home of Apple. They only pulled out when they wanted more publicity and importance on their products. Why be a pavillion when you can be the whole shebang. As for Linux? They had a pavillion too, but once Linux World got going, people wanted to set up booths there instead.
CES used to be home to all the video games too, Nintendo, Sega, Atari, 3d0, NeoGeo all had booths. That's another industry that spun off into it's own convention.
Point is, they all did it when the economy was awesome and people could take trips to all these different shows. Now, it just makes sense to re-organize and absorb the smaller conventions back into bigger ones. (Hell, even the porno conventions spun off, those used to be integrated too)
I found a site with a lot of good links here: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall /8701/p iralynx.htm
He has a link to some stories about the FCC's new regulation which licenses 10 and 100 watt stations (10 Watt is the lowest legal amount of power you cna have). This would be the cheapest legal way for you to get set up.
Pirate radio stations are often in the 2.5 watt range, which is enough to cover about a mile to 2 mile radius. Once you get more power than that, you become easier to catch. Typical pirate stations only run for a few hours a day, or week, since they are usually operated by a lone DJ.
A kit to get you started should be about $500.
On a side note, just about everyone has pirate broadcast equipment sitting around their house, but doesn't know it. You can take your VCR and hook up an antenna to your video-out co-ax connection (instead of a piece of coax cable into the back of your TV) and bango! You're boradcasting at an incredible.75 watt to channel 3 or 4 of all the TV's in the vicinity. What fun.
This movie was a special sneak preview at the 29th Telluride Film Festival, Labor Day Weekend. It played twice and was well recieved. I saw the first showing and I was pretty impressed. TFF also premiered Mononoke when it came out a couple years ago.
Of the 2 movies, I think that Mononoke is better. The story is a little more enjoyable for me. Spirited Away has the excellent animation that you'd expect from Miyazaki, and the excellent voice acting that we've come to expect from Disney. All in all, It's a great translation and a good film. I think it's geared towards a slghtly younger audience than Mononoke was though.
I remember seeing this displayed at Fall Comdex, 1999. It's not particurally practical, especially since many people already wear polarized sunglasses.
On a side note, has anyone tried to look at an LCD while wearing polarized glasses? It doesn't work. Try it on your laptop, car stereo or watch.
CINCINNATI--Lawyers for Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, warned Monday that the doctor will sue anyone who performs his patented procedure without paying royalties. "The Heimlich maneuver is a registered trademark of my client," attorney Steve Greene said. "We are prepared to protect Mr. Heimlich's proprietary rights, even if it means filing a legal injunction against any non-royalty-paying choking victims."
Every night, during the Telluride Tech Fest, they have a Tesla coil demonstration. Some poeple are given fluorescent light bulbs to hold, which light up when in the vicinity of the coil, no wires attached. It's a really impressive show.
Summarized statement of problems: Groundwater Contamination - A freshwater aquifer lies beneath Yucca Mountain.
Earthquakes - Since 1976, there have been more than 600 seismic events of a magnitude greater than 2.5 within a 50-mile radius of Yucca Mountain.
Transportation - Whether the waste is transported by truck or rail, it will be carried in transportation casks. These casks have never been fully tested. The most recent analysis indicates that this deadly cargo would pass through 44 states and the District of Columbia en route to Yucca Mountain.
Even if Yucca Mountain proceeds, it will be 60 to 100 years before rising spent fuel inventories at reactor sites are substantially depleted. As long there are reactors operating, there will continue to be spent fuel stored above-ground all across America.
By the time Yucca Mountain is filled to its design capacity in the year 2046, there will be at least as much spent nuclear fuel stored at reactors across the country as there is inside the mountain, even if no new plants are built.
Yucca Mountain will contribute nothing to the our nuclear waste problem, but will only compound that problem as new plants are built.
Lucas commented in the 80's that there would be episode 4, 5, and 6, followed by 1, 2, and 3 around 15 years later. Following this, 7, 8, and 9 would show up a subsequent 15 years later. Thus, you should envy your not-yet-concieved grandchildren, as they are truly the ones who will get to witness the complete 23 hours (if Lucas makes 1,2,3 special editions, haha) all the way through.
The point is, they are working on the implementation of this system now. This is called real-world research. At some point in the future, producing hydrogen WILL become cost effective. This project, and hundreds of others, will help give data on reliability of equipment, and storage issues. Not to mention the fact that they will already be set to take advantage of the cheaper sources of hydrogen, when they come into being.
In short, just because it's expensive now doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done. By that reasoning, computers wouldn't have ever developed, as they were only marginally faster than a human working the same problems at first.
(abridged, taken from http://www.infogrames.com/corp_history.php)
1988 - Releases SimCity (distributor)
1992 - Releases Alone in the Dark
1999 - It is announced in November that Infogrames is to acquire the North American video game publisher GT Interactive. This move is significant in that it gives Infogrames a massive inroad into the North American market as well as a catalogue of titles including the infamous Driver and Unreal franchises.
1999 - In the closing days of 2000, Infogrames announces it is to acquire Hasbro (Interactive)and along with it, the properties of Microprose and Atari. Microprose has a long line of impressive titles, specifically on the PC and also the Atari name and properties of Atari including classics like Centipede, Missile Command and Pong.
So, based on the sucess of their other ventures, why would they bother making such a dumb little swap-meet item? I wish them luck, but I don't see this unit selling all that well, except at the $.99 store.
Also, a bit of trivia for you. Do you remember the Nintendo Virtual Boy? This system was actually concieved by Hasbro and sold to Nintendo.
I used to work for a tech support outsourcer, ClientLogic. They had tech support for Dell, MicronPC, BellSouth, Logitech, and Sephora Cosmetics in the call center I worked in.
I worked for Dell, and we had a 17 minute Average Handle Time (AHT) goal. If we spent more than 15 minutes with a customer, a flag would go off up at the Supervisor on Duty's desk, and someone would come by and have us put the customer on hold. Several techs were not knowledgable at all, but were so frustrating for the customer to deal with that they would give up. Thus, the worst techs had the best call times. Other techs would focus on getting the cust off the phone by dispatching parts.
One man, about 70 years old, would call in about once or twice a week (looking back through the call logs), and he was simply inept at using the computer. This man had been sent a video card, sound card and motherboard. This was a simple case of techs not wanting to deal with this guy and his lack of aptitude.
ClientLogic is just one outsourcer, there are others. Some companies, like Dell outsource to multiple companies, while maintaining their own base of techs, usually for their more valuable customers. We were given home and small business. Laptops, Servers and larger companies were handled by Dell directly.
"Director Peter Jackson takes you behind the scenes on The Two Towers and talks about his process and inspiration for this special extended footage. See this new footage only in theaters everywhere with The Fellowship of the Ring starting on Friday, March 29th." (emphasis added)
So, this is not some once-off thing. It will continue to play for the foseeable future. That's how I read it.
Is anyone else getting bombed by this screensaver email? It's got an attached.scr file, which isn't detected as a virus. I've gotten it 3 times to a Hotmail account I've got, and about 7 times to my regular address. It seems really suspicious, but maybe I'm just paranoid.
Subject is: Melt the Heart of your Valentine with this beautiful Screen saver
And guess where all of the messaged have originated from (so far as I can tell): China. Too bad that firewall doesn't keep all the garbage IN.
I can't even get onto WindowsUpdate with my win2k or winxp machines. I tried off and on for most of saturday and eventually it worked. Now, I try again, and I'm getting the same old Can't Find Server message. Anyone else having problems with the site, or is it just me?
Since the technology dumps the duplicate frames, this would make those infinitely long art films in which nothing happens much shorter. Real-Time Warhol films would all of a sudden become time-lapse. Sweet.
Nevada is a relatively easy place to become incorporated. This O'Bannon guy is using the service of a firm specializing in doing incorporations (Budget Corporate Renewals), which is located in 89107. Upon closer examination of the address, I see that it is located in a residential area behind a Target. Their phone numbers (702-870-5351 and 702-880-7044) correspond with this area of town. My guess is it is some home business thing.
I doubt if O'Bannon has any base of operations out of Vegas at all.
Hibernation is great. Much faster boot up is the end result. C'mon, if MS can implement it smoothly, it must be possible in UNIX/LINUX/BSD. It's invaluable for laptops, somewhat less for desktops, and neglible for servers, except in this guy's situation.
That said, who's gonna have the foresight to NOT strip this feature out of your own install to conserve server resources? Doh!
I've had a cable modem in my house since July '01. Once I got the Cable modem, I cancelled my cable TV, but it still worked, cause that's how it is. Until last week. They recently began installing these inline filters that block the channels, but still allow the modem to function. So, now I pay for both again.
Also, in their TOS, they limit downloads to 3gb per month!?!?! That's a weekend for me. They also have a policy against upstream traffic of more than 500mb in 24 hours (Section 8(s)). I suppose this is how they will effectively ban multiple user connections, since they don't care about routers. As long as you only use one DHCP IP, that's all you pay for. Cox AUP.
Luckilly, they don't enforce these rules vigorously (if at all) yet. Once they do, I'm out.
Ok, so I can read a review of a restaurant I'm already sitting at. Ummm, great. By the time, I'm in the place I'm ready to make my own review. I'm not going to go walking around finding a place to eat. I'm going to figure it out first.
On the other hand, it will be useful as a tour guide. Assuming of course we have our nice 3G device to pull down the info we need without it costing a fortune.
One last thing. GPS is accurrate to 50'. So, I'm in location A, and I get information about location B across the street, due to a glitch. That's not too helpful. Is it likely that the military will allow us to have more accurate devices? My fingers aren't crossed.
As mentioned, AOL owns lots of fun software. How much of it comes packed on the AOL CD? ZERO. RedHat will benefit from this. Linux will benefit from this. AOL isn't going to become an OS, they are just going to add another car to the Media Juggernaut that they are. The best thing is, since it is RedHat, AOL can never use it to become a monopoly. I hope to god this is true. Money has been running from Linux for too long.
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Comdex was originally the home of Apple. They only pulled out when they wanted more publicity and importance on their products. Why be a pavillion when you can be the whole shebang. As for Linux? They had a pavillion too, but once Linux World got going, people wanted to set up booths there instead.
CES used to be home to all the video games too, Nintendo, Sega, Atari, 3d0, NeoGeo all had booths. That's another industry that spun off into it's own convention.
Point is, they all did it when the economy was awesome and people could take trips to all these different shows. Now, it just makes sense to re-organize and absorb the smaller conventions back into bigger ones. (Hell, even the porno conventions spun off, those used to be integrated too)
I found a site with a lot of good links here:l /8701/p iralynx.htm
.75 watt to channel 3 or 4 of all the TV's in the vicinity. What fun.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hal
He has a link to some stories about the FCC's new regulation which licenses 10 and 100 watt stations (10 Watt is the lowest legal amount of power you cna have). This would be the cheapest legal way for you to get set up.
Pirate radio stations are often in the 2.5 watt range, which is enough to cover about a mile to 2 mile radius. Once you get more power than that, you become easier to catch. Typical pirate stations only run for a few hours a day, or week, since they are usually operated by a lone DJ.
A kit to get you started should be about $500.
On a side note, just about everyone has pirate broadcast equipment sitting around their house, but doesn't know it. You can take your VCR and hook up an antenna to your video-out co-ax connection (instead of a piece of coax cable into the back of your TV) and bango! You're boradcasting at an incredible
This movie was a special sneak preview at the 29th Telluride Film Festival, Labor Day Weekend. It played twice and was well recieved. I saw the first showing and I was pretty impressed. TFF also premiered Mononoke when it came out a couple years ago.
Of the 2 movies, I think that Mononoke is better. The story is a little more enjoyable for me. Spirited Away has the excellent animation that you'd expect from Miyazaki, and the excellent voice acting that we've come to expect from Disney. All in all, It's a great translation and a good film. I think it's geared towards a slghtly younger audience than Mononoke was though.
This sounds even better than a Missile Silo
First off, it's cheaper.
Secondly, these are more conveniently located
Lastly, it looks like there's a lot more of these than missile silos.
For $25k, it's a cheap way to get a couple of acres with some improvments.
I remember seeing this displayed at Fall Comdex, 1999. It's not particurally practical, especially since many people already wear polarized sunglasses.
On a side note, has anyone tried to look at an LCD while wearing polarized glasses? It doesn't work. Try it on your laptop, car stereo or watch.
From TheOnion.com:
CINCINNATI--Lawyers for Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, warned Monday that the doctor will sue anyone who performs his patented procedure without paying royalties. "The Heimlich maneuver is a registered trademark of my client," attorney Steve Greene said. "We are prepared to protect Mr. Heimlich's proprietary rights, even if it means filing a legal injunction against any non-royalty-paying choking victims."
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Every night, during the Telluride Tech Fest, they have a Tesla coil demonstration. Some poeple are given fluorescent light bulbs to hold, which light up when in the vicinity of the coil, no wires attached. It's a really impressive show.
Good information here:/
Summarized statement of problems:
Groundwater Contamination - A freshwater aquifer lies beneath Yucca Mountain.
Earthquakes - Since 1976, there have been more than 600 seismic events of a magnitude greater than 2.5 within a 50-mile radius of Yucca Mountain.
Transportation - Whether the waste is transported by truck or rail, it will be carried in transportation casks. These casks have never been fully tested. The most recent analysis indicates that this deadly cargo would pass through 44 states and the District of Columbia en route to Yucca Mountain.
Even if Yucca Mountain proceeds, it will be 60 to 100 years before rising spent fuel inventories at reactor sites are substantially depleted. As long there are reactors operating, there will continue to be spent fuel stored above-ground all across America.
By the time Yucca Mountain is filled to its design capacity in the year 2046, there will be at least as much spent nuclear fuel stored at reactors across the country as there is inside the mountain, even if no new plants are built.
Yucca Mountain will contribute nothing to the our nuclear waste problem, but will only compound that problem as new plants are built.
Lucas commented in the 80's that there would be episode 4, 5, and 6, followed by 1, 2, and 3 around 15 years later. Following this, 7, 8, and 9 would show up a subsequent 15 years later. Thus, you should envy your not-yet-concieved grandchildren, as they are truly the ones who will get to witness the complete 23 hours (if Lucas makes 1,2,3 special editions, haha) all the way through.
The point is, they are working on the implementation of this system now. This is called real-world research. At some point in the future, producing hydrogen WILL become cost effective. This project, and hundreds of others, will help give data on reliability of equipment, and storage issues. Not to mention the fact that they will already be set to take advantage of the cheaper sources of hydrogen, when they come into being.
In short, just because it's expensive now doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done. By that reasoning, computers wouldn't have ever developed, as they were only marginally faster than a human working the same problems at first.
(abridged, taken from http://www.infogrames.com/corp_history.php)
1988 - Releases SimCity (distributor)
1992 - Releases Alone in the Dark
1999 - It is announced in November that Infogrames is to acquire the North American video game publisher GT Interactive. This move is significant in that it gives Infogrames a massive inroad into the North American market as well as a catalogue of titles including the infamous Driver and Unreal franchises.
1999 - In the closing days of 2000, Infogrames announces it is to acquire Hasbro (Interactive)and along with it, the properties of Microprose and Atari. Microprose has a long line of impressive titles, specifically on the PC and also the Atari name and properties of Atari including classics like Centipede, Missile Command and Pong.
So, based on the sucess of their other ventures, why would they bother making such a dumb little swap-meet item? I wish them luck, but I don't see this unit selling all that well, except at the $.99 store.
Also, a bit of trivia for you. Do you remember the Nintendo Virtual Boy? This system was actually concieved by Hasbro and sold to Nintendo.
Isn't Haiku 5-7-5? Yours is 5-5-5...
Porno flick tonight 5
Young couple in love 5
Motion sensor pegs. 5
I worked for Dell, and we had a 17 minute Average Handle Time (AHT) goal. If we spent more than 15 minutes with a customer, a flag would go off up at the Supervisor on Duty's desk, and someone would come by and have us put the customer on hold. Several techs were not knowledgable at all, but were so frustrating for the customer to deal with that they would give up. Thus, the worst techs had the best call times. Other techs would focus on getting the cust off the phone by dispatching parts.
One man, about 70 years old, would call in about once or twice a week (looking back through the call logs), and he was simply inept at using the computer. This man had been sent a video card, sound card and motherboard. This was a simple case of techs not wanting to deal with this guy and his lack of aptitude.
ClientLogic is just one outsourcer, there are others. Some companies, like Dell outsource to multiple companies, while maintaining their own base of techs, usually for their more valuable customers. We were given home and small business. Laptops, Servers and larger companies were handled by Dell directly.
"Director Peter Jackson takes you behind the scenes on The Two Towers and talks about his process and inspiration for this special extended footage. See this new footage only in theaters everywhere with The Fellowship of the Ring starting on Friday, March 29th." (emphasis added)
So, this is not some once-off thing. It will continue to play for the foseeable future. That's how I read it.
But... How much is that in REAL money?
I wonder if that sole employee got to keep his Aeron chair.
If not, maybe he'll get enough from the suit, to pick up a new one at Sam's Club
Is anyone else getting bombed by this screensaver email? It's got an attached .scr file, which isn't detected as a virus. I've gotten it 3 times to a Hotmail account I've got, and about 7 times to my regular address. It seems really suspicious, but maybe I'm just paranoid.
Subject is: Melt the Heart of your Valentine with this beautiful Screen saver
And guess where all of the messaged have originated from (so far as I can tell): China. Too bad that firewall doesn't keep all the garbage IN.
I can't even get onto WindowsUpdate with my win2k or winxp machines. I tried off and on for most of saturday and eventually it worked. Now, I try again, and I'm getting the same old Can't Find Server message. Anyone else having problems with the site, or is it just me?
NASA is currently recruiting a team of flute-playing Snake Charmers to coax the cable into the air and keep it there. Send your demo tapes now!
Since the technology dumps the duplicate frames, this would make those infinitely long art films in which nothing happens much shorter. Real-Time Warhol films would all of a sudden become time-lapse. Sweet.
Nevada is a relatively easy place to become incorporated. This O'Bannon guy is using the service of a firm specializing in doing incorporations (Budget Corporate Renewals), which is located in 89107. Upon closer examination of the address, I see that it is located in a residential area behind a Target. Their phone numbers (702-870-5351 and 702-880-7044) correspond with this area of town. My guess is it is some home business thing.
I doubt if O'Bannon has any base of operations out of Vegas at all.
Hibernation is great. Much faster boot up is the end result. C'mon, if MS can implement it smoothly, it must be possible in UNIX/LINUX/BSD. It's invaluable for laptops, somewhat less for desktops, and neglible for servers, except in this guy's situation.
That said, who's gonna have the foresight to NOT strip this feature out of your own install to conserve server resources? Doh!
I've had a cable modem in my house since July '01. Once I got the Cable modem, I cancelled my cable TV, but it still worked, cause that's how it is. Until last week. They recently began installing these inline filters that block the channels, but still allow the modem to function. So, now I pay for both again.
Also, in their TOS, they limit downloads to 3gb per month!?!?! That's a weekend for me. They also have a policy against upstream traffic of more than 500mb in 24 hours (Section 8(s)). I suppose this is how they will effectively ban multiple user connections, since they don't care about routers. As long as you only use one DHCP IP, that's all you pay for. Cox AUP.
Luckilly, they don't enforce these rules vigorously (if at all) yet. Once they do, I'm out.
Ok, so I can read a review of a restaurant I'm already sitting at. Ummm, great. By the time, I'm in the place I'm ready to make my own review. I'm not going to go walking around finding a place to eat. I'm going to figure it out first.
On the other hand, it will be useful as a tour guide. Assuming of course we have our nice 3G device to pull down the info we need without it costing a fortune.
One last thing. GPS is accurrate to 50'. So, I'm in location A, and I get information about location B across the street, due to a glitch. That's not too helpful. Is it likely that the military will allow us to have more accurate devices? My fingers aren't crossed.
As mentioned, AOL owns lots of fun software. How much of it comes packed on the AOL CD? ZERO. RedHat will benefit from this. Linux will benefit from this. AOL isn't going to become an OS, they are just going to add another car to the Media Juggernaut that they are. The best thing is, since it is RedHat, AOL can never use it to become a monopoly. I hope to god this is true. Money has been running from Linux for too long.