Better than Peter Pan/Greyhound are the Chinatown buses that run from Chinatown Boston to Chinatown NY (and on to DC, but I don't know where). They cost about $40 round trip compared to the PP/G $80, and they leave on the half-hour instead of the hour. There's no difference in time or comfort of ride (the Chinatown buses don't have VCRs to play horrid old movies, so that's a plus). As far as safety, I have no idea; there are good reasons to fear both kinds of carriers. I did see a Chinatown bus broken down on the side of the road once while going to Boston on another Chinatown bus.
There are at least three different services: Fung-Wa and Sunshine are two, I can't remember the name of the third. There are posters plastered all of Chinatown advertising them, you can find the bus adverts right next to the ones hawking calling cards.
Oh, the other fun thing with the Chinatown buses is buying the tickets. For Fung-Wa, you buy from a little hole in the wall next to a temple (NY) or go into a certain coffee shop/bakery and talk to a woman permanently set up at one of the tables (Bos).
What if there was a satellite with the adaptive optics that the La Palma observatory is using to take pictures of the sun? I have only a layman's knowledge of this, but it seems that if the CIA put a laser on your roof pointing straight up, the satellite could use the laser point as a reference and be able to resolve enough so they could clearly see anything they wanted.
I thought this was a rip-off until someone pointed out a nice side effect of paying for incoming calls: telemarketers can't call you. Since they would be costing you money to talk to you, you have a money-related complaint that you can give to your cell-phone provider, Better Business Buereau, or politician to make them block telemarketers. IANAL, but I believe the legal reason they can call your house but not your cell is that calling your land line is protected because of Freedom of Speech, but businesses don't have the freedom to cost you money without your consent. The lack of telemarketing spam is such a valuable service that I would consider paying for it even after competition forces cell phone companies to offer free incoming calls.
Would it be worth buying the fastest processor you can today so that you can have a Palladium free system as long as possible? I've been thinking of doing that.
In your example, if you buy three computers over the next year for cheap, and the last of your three computers has hardware-based digital rights protection, do you end up with more value for the money?
Isn't the army looking into some sort of camouflage using the same technology? I believe I saw a reference to it in slashdot, but I can't remember where. There's some discussion of it in this press release. So, it could be that the company (or person?) Ray Alden hopes to get rich quick by putting a patent in place before the army and MIT do any actual developement.
One of the important features of the artificial heart that became newsworthy last year is that its batteries are charged with transdermal power and therefore can run continuously without wires breaking the skin.
I don't recommend Dover Publications for math and science texts. Their primary advantage is that they have a large catalogue of books which are still excellent but are very cheap and hard to find under any other publisher. This is because they use texts in the public domain.
However, Dover doesn't spend any significant energy on error checking (there is no economic advantage to coming out with a 2nd edition of a public-domain text), so their texts can have significant errors in the logic of their proofs and in their diagrams. This can be a real problem if you are engaged in self-study, because you don't have a professor with you who can point out the flaws.
Any of the big-name authors, like the three mentioned above, are published by University presses and with more reliable editing and better diagrams. I don't know about obscure works, but I would suspect that there's a publisher out there who specializes in high-level Math texts and can give you a better version of most of the Dover catalogue.
The price will be significantly higher because the books will be from limited printings, but if you are following a course of self-study buying cheap-but-flawed texts is false economy. (If you are taking a course on Einstein at the local university and need a copy of The Principles of Relativity, the Dover edition could be a good choice)
Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is extremely high.
I liked this lie the best; it is so poorly presented and supported. What statistics? Compiled by who? Extremely high compared to what? If anyone supports their argument with such transparent sophistry, I would consider all of their reasons suspect.
I wasn't terribly interested in the article until I read your vituperative tirade. Having seen it myself, I must say you are needlessly spiteful and arrogant. The man wrote a throw-away piece, for the amusement of passersby, on a shopping excursion he took in Japan. There is no weight of authority in his description; he admits that he is an uninformed, Anglophone tourist. For those of us who have never been to Akihabara, or any of Japan, it is an innocent diversion.
While your critique of his narrative was interesting and informative, its tone was certainly unnecessary. You happen to have the benefit of experience but used this only for your own vainglorious self-adulation. The acerbity and dudgeon of your jeremiad betrayed a stunted and tawdry sense of worth.
Yeah, there probably are worse movies, I just never saw them. I avoided Battlefield Earth because it looked rotten and sort of morally wrong to watch, since I'd be giving $$ to the scientologists.
This guy has directed some of the worst movies I have ever seen. They don't even have the redeeming value of being campy. I left Executive Decision in a rage. Not because I was out $6, but because I lost 1 hour my life. Just gone; nothing to show for it.
And this guy did Tomb Raider? Another candidate for worst movie of all time.
If this guy remains in charge, Nemesis is going to suck. I'm really surprised that he can still get work. Someone has got to realize that not even the American public can stomach his crap.
That is an excellent idea, poiuty. I did a lot of tech support of Windows systems for my company a few years back, and although I've found the level of Linux documentation to be good enough for my purposes (a couple of installations to play around with; no system administration), the average Windows/Mac user wants to spend much less attention or intelligence using his computer than is currently required. (My roommate got an IMac, and the instructions to set up and get onto the internet were about as easy as could be hoped for. It involved 5 pictures, each accompanied by a redundant descriptive clause.) What would be perfect for teaching new users would be a system similar to everything2 called something like "linuxnewbies.org". All the simple questions answered in understandable, easy, and cross-referenced format.
I actually use everything2 for this type of thing already, but it's not really designed for idiot-proof consumption. You have to know a bit about what you're looking for and the most new users don't even know that.
If you examine the ancient legends carefully, you'll find the location of Tir na nOg to be Union Square, Somerville, MA.
Which, it turns out, is exactly where it is:)
CmdrTaco is pretty accurate in his review. The only problem is that the movie is so bad that one person can't be expected to remember all of the idiocy involved. My friends and I saw it on Saturday only because every other movie at that time was sold out and we were paying for 2 hours of air-conditioned protection from the east coast heat wave. The funny thing was, the 4 groups of people around us in line saw the movie for the same reason: it was the last thing available. The movie was so uninteresting that it became very relaxing to watch--just a bunch of colored lights flickering on the screen. My biggest complaint was that the movie theater wasn't nearly cold enough to justify paying $8. I had a slight fear that we were contributing to first weekend revenue figures, but from the looks of things the movie is going to be such a flop I won't feel guilty about that.
The feature is really nice use, if your familiar with computers. It's much faster to browse this way rather than skipping up to the navigation keys at the top of the screen.
However, it will be nearly impossible for people unfamiliar with computes to master. They'll be clicking and dragging the mouse in every direction at once and not having any idea what just happened. It's hard enough to get them to understand Ctrl + key functions.
Still, it's terrifically easy and intuitive. The only other problem I see is if other programs start having their own different set of mouse gestures and confusing everyone.
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That would make sense, wouldn't it? Thanks for the info.
Better than Peter Pan/Greyhound are the Chinatown buses that run from Chinatown Boston to Chinatown NY (and on to DC, but I don't know where). They cost about $40 round trip compared to the PP/G $80, and they leave on the half-hour instead of the hour. There's no difference in time or comfort of ride (the Chinatown buses don't have VCRs to play horrid old movies, so that's a plus). As far as safety, I have no idea; there are good reasons to fear both kinds of carriers. I did see a Chinatown bus broken down on the side of the road once while going to Boston on another Chinatown bus.
There are at least three different services: Fung-Wa and Sunshine are two, I can't remember the name of the third. There are posters plastered all of Chinatown advertising them, you can find the bus adverts right next to the ones hawking calling cards.
Oh, the other fun thing with the Chinatown buses is buying the tickets. For Fung-Wa, you buy from a little hole in the wall next to a temple (NY) or go into a certain coffee shop/bakery and talk to a woman permanently set up at one of the tables (Bos).
What if there was a satellite with the adaptive optics that the La Palma observatory is using to take pictures of the sun? I have only a layman's knowledge of this, but it seems that if the CIA put a laser on your roof pointing straight up, the satellite could use the laser point as a reference and be able to resolve enough so they could clearly see anything they wanted.
I thought this was a rip-off until someone pointed out a nice side effect of paying for incoming calls: telemarketers can't call you. Since they would be costing you money to talk to you, you have a money-related complaint that you can give to your cell-phone provider, Better Business Buereau, or politician to make them block telemarketers. IANAL, but I believe the legal reason they can call your house but not your cell is that calling your land line is protected because of Freedom of Speech, but businesses don't have the freedom to cost you money without your consent. The lack of telemarketing spam is such a valuable service that I would consider paying for it even after competition forces cell phone companies to offer free incoming calls.
Would it be worth buying the fastest processor you can today so that you can have a Palladium free system as long as possible? I've been thinking of doing that.
In your example, if you buy three computers over the next year for cheap, and the last of your three computers has hardware-based digital rights protection, do you end up with more value for the money?
Isn't the army looking into some sort of camouflage using the same technology? I believe I saw a reference to it in slashdot, but I can't remember where. There's some discussion of it in this press release. So, it could be that the company (or person?) Ray Alden hopes to get rich quick by putting a patent in place before the army and MIT do any actual developement.
One of the important features of the artificial heart that became newsworthy last year is that its batteries are charged with transdermal power and therefore can run continuously without wires breaking the skin.
I don't recommend Dover Publications for math and science texts. Their primary advantage is that they have a large catalogue of books which are still excellent but are very cheap and hard to find under any other publisher. This is because they use texts in the public domain.
However, Dover doesn't spend any significant energy on error checking (there is no economic advantage to coming out with a 2nd edition of a public-domain text), so their texts can have significant errors in the logic of their proofs and in their diagrams. This can be a real problem if you are engaged in self-study, because you don't have a professor with you who can point out the flaws.
Any of the big-name authors, like the three mentioned above, are published by University presses and with more reliable editing and better diagrams. I don't know about obscure works, but I would suspect that there's a publisher out there who specializes in high-level Math texts and can give you a better version of most of the Dover catalogue.
The price will be significantly higher because the books will be from limited printings, but if you are following a course of self-study buying cheap-but-flawed texts is false economy. (If you are taking a course on Einstein at the local university and need a copy of The Principles of Relativity, the Dover edition could be a good choice)
Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of
voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is
extremely high.
I liked this lie the best; it is so poorly presented and supported. What statistics? Compiled by who? Extremely high compared to what? If anyone supports their argument with such transparent sophistry, I would consider all of their reasons suspect.
Damn, you're right after all; my apologies. What you're doing is sort of funny. I guess it's my fault for reading at Level 4.
Actually, no. I replied to you.
I wasn't terribly interested in the article until I read your vituperative tirade. Having seen it myself, I must say you are needlessly spiteful and arrogant. The man wrote a throw-away piece, for the amusement of passersby, on a shopping excursion he took in Japan. There is no weight of authority in his description; he admits that he is an uninformed, Anglophone tourist. For those of us who have never been to Akihabara, or any of Japan, it is an innocent diversion.
While your critique of his narrative was interesting and informative, its tone was certainly unnecessary. You happen to have the benefit of experience but used this only for your own vainglorious self-adulation. The acerbity and dudgeon of your jeremiad betrayed a stunted and tawdry sense of worth.
Yeah, there probably are worse movies, I just never saw them. I avoided Battlefield Earth because it looked rotten and sort of morally wrong to watch, since I'd be giving $$ to the scientologists.
Nice review, by the way.
This guy has directed some of the worst movies I have ever seen. They don't even have the redeeming value of being campy. I left Executive Decision in a rage. Not because I was out $6, but because I lost 1 hour my life. Just gone; nothing to show for it.
And this guy did Tomb Raider? Another candidate for worst movie of all time.
If this guy remains in charge, Nemesis is going to suck. I'm really surprised that he can still get work. Someone has got to realize that not even the American public can stomach his crap.
That is an excellent idea, poiuty. I did a lot of tech support of Windows systems for my company a few years back, and although I've found the level of Linux documentation to be good enough for my purposes (a couple of installations to play around with; no system administration), the average Windows/Mac user wants to spend much less attention or intelligence using his computer than is currently required. (My roommate got an IMac, and the instructions to set up and get onto the internet were about as easy as could be hoped for. It involved 5 pictures, each accompanied by a redundant descriptive clause.) What would be perfect for teaching new users would be a system similar to everything2 called something like "linuxnewbies.org". All the simple questions answered in understandable, easy, and cross-referenced format.
I actually use everything2 for this type of thing already, but it's not really designed for idiot-proof consumption. You have to know a bit about what you're looking for and the most new users don't even know that.
If you examine the ancient legends carefully, you'll find the location of Tir na nOg to be Union Square, Somerville, MA. Which, it turns out, is exactly where it is :)
CmdrTaco is pretty accurate in his review. The only problem is that the movie is so bad that one person can't be expected to remember all of the idiocy involved. My friends and I saw it on Saturday only because every other movie at that time was sold out and we were paying for 2 hours of air-conditioned protection from the east coast heat wave. The funny thing was, the 4 groups of people around us in line saw the movie for the same reason: it was the last thing available. The movie was so uninteresting that it became very relaxing to watch--just a bunch of colored lights flickering on the screen. My biggest complaint was that the movie theater wasn't nearly cold enough to justify paying $8. I had a slight fear that we were contributing to first weekend revenue figures, but from the looks of things the movie is going to be such a flop I won't feel guilty about that.
However, it will be nearly impossible for people unfamiliar with computes to master. They'll be clicking and dragging the mouse in every direction at once and not having any idea what just happened. It's hard enough to get them to understand Ctrl + key functions.
Still, it's terrifically easy and intuitive. The only other problem I see is if other programs start having their own different set of mouse gestures and confusing everyone.