When I have to get up early for a long day of work, or if I hit my afternoon drearies, I always do one of the online crossword apps. I find that kind of puzzle-solving to be very stimulating and raises my level of alertness and clarity. For just a 10-15 minute commitment, I've improved my workflow for hours to come.
Much better than sogging ever so slowly-but-surely toward that I-Need-a-Nap afternoon lull...
that promise to do for radio what the TiVo digital video recorder has done for television
so wait -- didn't radio come out before TV? So, doesn't that mean that advances to radio should...hmmm...theoretically come before advances to TV? Or maybe, just maybe, it just means that if TV gets the advance first, it's already too late for radio....
SCO appears to be trying to change their primary source of revenue to be that which they get from lawsuits rather than actually selling services like they used to be doing. I don't know how viable of a business strategy this is
the RIAA/music labels have already adapted their business strategy to this concept, and it seems to work well for them. hey, if they can squeeze $100 trillion out of those college students (ha!) they don't need to sell any CDs for a looong time.
Ray Kroc, owner of the McDonald's franchise until his death in 1984, once asked some students that had attended his business seminar, what is my business? They responded, Hamburgers, of course! No, he told them, his business was real estate, and that is where the majority of McDonald's income comes from. McDonald's is the largest single owner of real estate in the entire world, even more than the Catholic church.
And now the music labels seem to be running off of a similar philosophy. I can just imagine how a seminar with Hilary Rosen would go:
H: What is my business? Audience: Music, of course! H: Wrong! My business is in lawsuits. The RIAA and the major music labels make most of their money from suing other people. We have complete control over more greedy, crooked lawyers than any other institution in the world -- including Microsoft!
unfortunately I don't know any more specifics on the phone -- it was the owner that told me of the vibrations, so I don't have first hand experience on the matter. But I've got a Philips Sonicare toothbrush myself that has the same thing you're talking about with your Braun, so I know exactly what you mean there. I wasn't aware that it was the same principle as a transformer though (that was the section in physics class where my mind really started to wonder!)
I had an idea kind of like this a while back, when I had to replace the little watch battery in the key fob for my car (the little remote-control that unlocks my doors). So instead of having to replace this battery, I thought it would be a good idea to make it a small rechargable battery. It would utilize the kinetic vibrations of the car, which would be transfered into electricity. Or to be more precise, inside the keyfob would be a tiny magnet on the end of a tiny spring. The vibrations would cause the spring to wave the magnet around, and the moving electromagnetic field would be transferred into electricity.
This would be especially efficient for the keyfobs that are part of the key structure themselves, so that they are directly connected to the steering column (as opposed to the ones that are simple part of the keychain and just dangle under the steering column)
And it's not like I'm claiming originality on this -- I got the idea from a tiny cell phone a friend brought back from Japan. It had no connectors on it to recharge the battery, but the recharger base would vibrate when the phone was set on it, and passed the electicity via electromagnetic fields.
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I had the great fortune of taking a class in college on Vampire mythology (very cool class) and one of the really interesting revelations is that the mythology of the vampire and the mythology of the werewolf have the same roots. Many hundreds of years ago, and in many culture across the globe, the two were the same beast.
I only probably hoping beyond hope, but it would be fantastic if this movie would reference that somehow. It would be almost like H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, where humans evolved in two branches, the Elois and the Morlocks.
(well, maybe mythological creatures don't take as long to evolve -- or maybe they simple evolve at the same rate as the myths that are based on them)
of course we won't have to worry about the health risks of nanotech -- because we'll all have little nanotech robots in our bloodstream cleaning up all the nanotech particles they and other nanotech devices with leave behind....
To get this off the ground, it only takes one company to tie up with some mp3 player makers. If it succeeds, others will be quick to jump on the bandwagon and the RIAA will be left wondering what hit them.
Why 'company'? It seems to me like this could work equally well on an artist level. Of course it might take a few more artists, or at least a couple of really popular ones, to get the mp3 player manufacturers to move on it, but even a dozen artists will move many times faster than a single label.
This technique uses a concept called a Lagrange Point, where gravity from multiple bodies (usually in a orbiting situation) cancel each other out -- which results in a place where a parked object can sit and stay in place in relation to the orbiting system.
This technique is used to keep the SOHO sun observation satellite at Lagrangian point 1 in the earth/sun system, so that it keeps a constant view of the sun.
The concept behind this is extended in this instance to reveal tunnels which offer the 'path of least resistance.'
In fact, this has been discussed on Slashdot before. Slashdot users have also discussed Lagrangian points in relations to one or both of Earth's sub-moons.
When the enourmous transfer was detected by AOL's server, it was determined to consist entirely of SPAM, 1 billion SPAM emails to be exact.
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The big problem with this is when all of those little piece of junk start flying around in orbit at 22,000 mph. Just imagine if the kleenex that caught last month's sneeze is ultimately responsible for knocking great big holes in a GPS satellite.
If this was an error in the code, then how were they able to repair it in just 54 minutes? That's a pretty narrow window when it comes to rounding up the programmers, searching through the source, then repairing, testing, redistributing to the entire system, and rebooting the whole thing.
Kind of like how Hugh Jackman can hack into the DoD from a computer he's never touched before in Swordfish.
I'm tempted to think that this was much more human error than a bonefide "computer glitch". Maybe that 54 minutes was the time it took to call in their expert, have him look at the system, and declare "Why, you must have hit F11, which toggles the flight information. Just hit it again and it comes back."
hey watch out -- one day if this kind of lard gets passed, the LA Times could legally hack into Slashdot servers because you posted their copyrighted content for distribution!
(in response to the other response)...or more like saying that a landlord is aiding and abetting in a murder committed by one of his tenants in his apartment building
What I find most interesting about this is not the use of the junk fax law, but that Mark was able to sue Sears about it. This is something I've been wondering lately anyway: even if it might be next to impossible to track down the sender of a spam email, could you not still hold the company whose products are being advertised responsible for the spam?
IANAL, but I don't find it a fair stretch to say that, possibly even in a legal sense, the spammer was respresenting the company. The same can extrapolated to cover owners of websites, etc. -- any person, company or service that is the subject of the spam.
I was doubtful of this until now -- it seems like Mark pulled it off!
So then, why we don't stop trying to stop spammers, and go after the source? By attacking those that fund the spammers the spammers will still go down, and the targets are easier to find.
In other news, CNN.com had a piece last week on the explosion of cyberbegging.
I have nothing against Salon, but why should we get all weepy when their business plan fails? More to the point, why is Slashdot giving them free advertising? Funny how my site wasn't slashdotted when I really needed some sales.
excellent point. if they polled a the checkout lines, they were polling people that obviously were buying cds, regardless of price. if they polled random people on the street, I guarantee it would be different.
I don't think it's as obvious as you think it is. I orded a book from half.com last year (Scott Adams' God's Debris), and when it arrived the shipping envelope and back cover of the book were just wet char. The whole package had been on fire and was then doused. It was a sad and dissappointing mess, and all I got from it was a prefabricated note of apology.
but the $159,600 was from the manipulation of the stock market, not from selling advertising. This is breaking federal law -- as opposed to typically spamming which, in the strictest sense, still isn't actually illegal.
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Where did this number come from? Matrix2 has made $209 Million, not $365 Million. (as of May 26, 2003)
what is this, the new government-run slashdot?
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When I have to get up early for a long day of work, or if I hit my afternoon drearies, I always do one of the online crossword apps. I find that kind of puzzle-solving to be very stimulating and raises my level of alertness and clarity. For just a 10-15 minute commitment, I've improved my workflow for hours to come.
Much better than sogging ever so slowly-but-surely toward that I-Need-a-Nap afternoon lull...
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Having run a business from home for the last two years, let me stress that you must lay down rules with your wife.
Because sooner or later, she's going to ask you to do the dishes "because you are home"
SCO appears to be trying to change their primary source of revenue to be that which they get from lawsuits rather than actually selling services like they used to be doing. I don't know how viable of a business strategy this is
the RIAA/music labels have already adapted their business strategy to this concept, and it seems to work well for them. hey, if they can squeeze $100 trillion out of those college students (ha!) they don't need to sell any CDs for a looong time.
Ray Kroc, owner of the McDonald's franchise until his death in 1984, once asked some students that had attended his business seminar, what is my business? They responded, Hamburgers, of course! No, he told them, his business was real estate, and that is where the majority of McDonald's income comes from. McDonald's is the largest single owner of real estate in the entire world, even more than the Catholic church.
And now the music labels seem to be running off of a similar philosophy. I can just imagine how a seminar with Hilary Rosen would go:
H: What is my business?
Audience: Music, of course!
H: Wrong! My business is in lawsuits. The RIAA and the major music labels make most of their money from suing other people. We have complete control over more greedy, crooked lawyers than any other institution in the world -- including Microsoft!
unfortunately I don't know any more specifics on the phone -- it was the owner that told me of the vibrations, so I don't have first hand experience on the matter. But I've got a Philips Sonicare toothbrush myself that has the same thing you're talking about with your Braun, so I know exactly what you mean there. I wasn't aware that it was the same principle as a transformer though (that was the section in physics class where my mind really started to wonder!)
I had an idea kind of like this a while back, when I had to replace the little watch battery in the key fob for my car (the little remote-control that unlocks my doors). So instead of having to replace this battery, I thought it would be a good idea to make it a small rechargable battery. It would utilize the kinetic vibrations of the car, which would be transfered into electricity. Or to be more precise, inside the keyfob would be a tiny magnet on the end of a tiny spring. The vibrations would cause the spring to wave the magnet around, and the moving electromagnetic field would be transferred into electricity.
This would be especially efficient for the keyfobs that are part of the key structure themselves, so that they are directly connected to the steering column (as opposed to the ones that are simple part of the keychain and just dangle under the steering column)
And it's not like I'm claiming originality on this -- I got the idea from a tiny cell phone a friend brought back from Japan. It had no connectors on it to recharge the battery, but the recharger base would vibrate when the phone was set on it, and passed the electicity via electromagnetic fields.
I had the great fortune of taking a class in college on Vampire mythology (very cool class) and one of the really interesting revelations is that the mythology of the vampire and the mythology of the werewolf have the same roots. Many hundreds of years ago, and in many culture across the globe, the two were the same beast.
I only probably hoping beyond hope, but it would be fantastic if this movie would reference that somehow. It would be almost like H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, where humans evolved in two branches, the Elois and the Morlocks.
(well, maybe mythological creatures don't take as long to evolve -- or maybe they simple evolve at the same rate as the myths that are based on them)
well, it would be cool anyway...
of course we won't have to worry about the health risks of nanotech -- because we'll all have little nanotech robots in our bloodstream cleaning up all the nanotech particles they and other nanotech devices with leave behind....
yeah, that's the world I want to live in...
Now they just need to make it in a brick form, and I will be happy knowing that at least something from Transformers is in the real world...
Finally a solution to keep people from yelling into their phones,
and you have to learn braille to use it?
oh wait, I see....
To get this off the ground, it only takes one company to tie up with some mp3 player makers. If it succeeds, others will be quick to jump on the bandwagon and the RIAA will be left wondering what hit them.
Why 'company'? It seems to me like this could work equally well on an artist level. Of course it might take a few more artists, or at least a couple of really popular ones, to get the mp3 player manufacturers to move on it, but even a dozen artists will move many times faster than a single label.
This technique uses a concept called a Lagrange Point, where gravity from multiple bodies (usually in a orbiting situation) cancel each other out -- which results in a place where a parked object can sit and stay in place in relation to the orbiting system.
This technique is used to keep the SOHO sun observation satellite at Lagrangian point 1 in the earth/sun system, so that it keeps a constant view of the sun.
The concept behind this is extended in this instance to reveal tunnels which offer the 'path of least resistance.'
In fact, this has been discussed on Slashdot before. Slashdot users have also discussed Lagrangian points in relations to one or both of Earth's sub-moons.
When the enourmous transfer was detected by AOL's server, it was determined to consist entirely of SPAM, 1 billion SPAM emails to be exact.
The big problem with this is when all of those little piece of junk start flying around in orbit at 22,000 mph. Just imagine if the kleenex that caught last month's sneeze is ultimately responsible for knocking great big holes in a GPS satellite.
If this was an error in the code, then how were they able to repair it in just 54 minutes? That's a pretty narrow window when it comes to rounding up the programmers, searching through the source, then repairing, testing, redistributing to the entire system, and rebooting the whole thing.
Kind of like how Hugh Jackman can hack into the DoD from a computer he's never touched before in Swordfish.
I'm tempted to think that this was much more human error than a bonefide "computer glitch". Maybe that 54 minutes was the time it took to call in their expert, have him look at the system, and declare "Why, you must have hit F11, which toggles the flight information. Just hit it again and it comes back."
...and if you pass that email to 10 of your friends, Bill Gates will give you $1,000,000. If you don't, you'll have six months of very bad luck
hey watch out -- one day if this kind of lard gets passed, the LA Times could legally hack into Slashdot servers because you posted their copyrighted content for distribution!
(in response to the other response) ...or more like saying that a landlord is aiding and abetting in a murder committed by one of his tenants in his apartment building
What I find most interesting about this is not the use of the junk fax law, but that Mark was able to sue Sears about it. This is something I've been wondering lately anyway: even if it might be next to impossible to track down the sender of a spam email, could you not still hold the company whose products are being advertised responsible for the spam?
IANAL, but I don't find it a fair stretch to say that, possibly even in a legal sense, the spammer was respresenting the company. The same can extrapolated to cover owners of websites, etc. -- any person, company or service that is the subject of the spam.
I was doubtful of this until now -- it seems like Mark pulled it off!
So then, why we don't stop trying to stop spammers, and go after the source? By attacking those that fund the spammers the spammers will still go down, and the targets are easier to find.
In other news, CNN.com had a piece last week on the explosion of cyberbegging.
I have nothing against Salon, but why should we get all weepy when their business plan fails? More to the point, why is Slashdot giving them free advertising? Funny how my site wasn't slashdotted when I really needed some sales.
excellent point. if they polled a the checkout lines, they were polling people that obviously were buying cds, regardless of price. if they polled random people on the street, I guarantee it would be different.
I don't think it's as obvious as you think it is. I orded a book from half.com last year (Scott Adams' God's Debris), and when it arrived the shipping envelope and back cover of the book were just wet char. The whole package had been on fire and was then doused. It was a sad and dissappointing mess, and all I got from it was a prefabricated note of apology.
but the $159,600 was from the manipulation of the stock market, not from selling advertising. This is breaking federal law -- as opposed to typically spamming which, in the strictest sense, still isn't actually illegal.