The IBM System x3755 has offered this feature since it came out as well. Instead of the fourth processor card you install a pass through card and it turns it into a three way. We've done a few benchmarks (warning pdf) with the Pass Through card and what it could do between 3CPU and 4CPU operations.
No kidding. I was wondering the exact same thing. It was a parody, and it was fun. Now it's going to get corporate sponsorship from the guys employer and I'd find it hard to think it'd be the same again.
The only times I've taken out the trash was when she was really ill, or not home because she's 'on vacation' and I've bought her a plane ticket to go see her friends for a long weekend up in MN. She does most of the house cleaning. Why? Because I have a high tolerance for clutter, she has a low tolerance. I have my own computer, my own office, and we can both be in the house and completely ignore each other for our own interests, and then get together and either do something out of the house together or watch TV/Movie/Other when we want to spend time with each other.
She's let me play a video game for 14 hours straight, bringing me breakfast, lunch and dinner while I did so. During the heart of my WoW playing I would do that every saturday and sunday and she never complained about it. She felt I needed my down time. When I quit playing I asked her about it and she said some days it was a bit much but most of the time it was OK because she had other things she could do.
If I want something, i buy it. She knows I'm not going to starve the family for the next big gadget, computer, tv, whatever. Weirdly, she doesn't like to go shopping, she doesn't like to spend a lot of money, the nice clothes she's own I've actually found online and ordered them for her and surprised her for a birthday, an anniversary, or just because I was tired of seeing her wearing cheap ass t-shirt & shorts in the summer and thought she should dress up every once in a while to maintain her sanity and remember what it is like to be an adult.
She also has the important job, she's just underpaid. She stays at home with our 5 and 3 year old kids. I work. She may go back to work after our youngest starts school but at this point we don't really know what the plan is, as she never got herself started in a career she enjoyed.
I'm sure she has a list of things she likes to do, but she doesn't surf forums, she doesn't do much on the internet. She uses her laptop I got her three years ago for email, and to read the fark headlines and laugh. Yet somehow we met on the internet in '96. When we finally met in person I asked her how she found me and she showed me. (Long story, but gist of it was, late night, studying for MCSE in late '95, coworker bets me $100 I wont' post an online ad on a dating place as I'd been single for three years at that point, so I did)
She went to webcrawler, searched for 'personal ads' picked the first one she found, searched based on how far away they were, picked two people, me and some guy that lived near where her mothers family was, I answered. That was it. Her email consisted of double clicking on an icon in Win 3.1, it was a terminal client that logged into a dec unix box, when the $ she knew to type in 'mail' and new she could read, but if she hit anything other than r she never knew how to get it back.
I'm not a big fan of religion, or fate, or whatever, but to this day I have no clue how all that lined up in such a way that I've managed to find someone like her through a bunch of random little events.
There is no 'you do this and i'll let you do something you want' give and take in our relationship, we each do what we like, and we like each other. I've had more people I know over the years exclaim in disbelief when I've called her at 3 AM while in a club in some foreign city to say hi, or how I'm in Vegas at 5AM drinking texting away as she is waking up on the east coast letting her know i'm in some burlesque bar and think I just saw a porn star she might know the name of. Stuff like that.
It can happen, but near as I can tell, it's rare as shit for something like that. I don't know a lot of other guys my age that have a free flowing open relationship where there aren't things like 'if you take out the trash I'll sleep with you tonight' type of trades or other odd things. To me, it's a foreign idea.
Contrary to popular belief it's not a competition, it is cooperation. I'm not pussy whipped and she's not some 1950s version of a submissive housewife. You don't dominate, you work together, and it works out fine.
Not only that, why bother taking it down? a huge portion of the population believes it didn't work and we faked it all.
Also, I'm not a rocket scientist. But to me this seems like publishing the diagram of how a computer motherboard is put together, but not mentioning at all how the pieces talk to each other.
I mean just because you connect tab A into Slot B would a saturn V fly? Don't you need the navigation and guidance part? or was that posted too?
I'd hate to see the cool blueprints & pics of one of the neatest things NASA ever did vanish. I do think there is a bit of an overreaction to think someone could build a few of those to lob nukes without us noticing. I mean just look at Google Maps and you could find it some days.
But ignorance like yours is just as bad as the ignorance shown against a minority.
I've not had a coke in a good three months, and the reason I did was I was in China and there was no bottled water around, it was hot, and I wasn't about to drink the tap water.
I've not had a cheesburger from Wendy's or any of those places in recent memory, I think the last time I did it was because I was traveling with the kids around Christmas and there aren't a lot of healthy choices that you can grab and go in the DFW airport.
Not sure where you get that bacon & eggs for breakfast is such a killer. A fried egg has 90 calories and 3 slices of bacon has 103 calories. So if you had two eggs and 3 slices of bacon you're looking at a whoppin 383 calories, that's just 19% of your total recommended number of 2000. and only 22% of your recommended total fat intake.
I've fought my weight since I turned 20. Something happened in my body that changed from being 140lbs at 5'10" tall at 18 to being 260 lbs at age 24. I actually ate less, because for at least the first 5 years after I moved out I was so damn broke I wasn't eating three square meals a day cooked by mom and there was no snacking because I couldn't afford it. Near the end of each month I'd skip lunch because I couldn't afford to buy it and my place of employment had no fridge/microwave to store anything.
I'm at an all time high now of about 318 last time I stepped on a scale. in '02 I managed to go from 300 down to 240 by doing the low carb thing religiously. I was in a monster grove and was loosing weight nicely over the entire year. By the end of the year though I had to have a tonsillectomy and a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty which made it really freakin hard to eat high protein because swallowing anything with an edge on it for the first few months after that hurt like hell and any drug you could take to make the pain go away also was addictive so they won't let you have much. After that I couldn't get back in the groove and my weight moved back upwards slowly but surely, with a few stops and starts between now and then trying to manage it.
So not all of us stuff our faces, gargle with coke, and eat king size kit kats all day long.
Have you walked down your street, knocking on doors, offering to educate them? It doesn't work too well. I tried it as a 'break the ice' to help secure unsecured networks from my neighbors (live in a single family home neighborhood, not an apartment complex) right after we moved in. A lot of people looked at me odd, and only one wanted to know about it, out of the 7 homes I tried before quitting. I'd walk the culdesac with my iBook showing them how anyone could log on and just a simple WEP password would scare most but the hardcore away, or if their router did it WPA-TSK.
Trying to clean a botnet infestation is about 100 times more invasive. ISPs have got to do what they can to help, and since people don't know/don't care/are completely fucking clueless about the entire idea of a bot let alone a huge bot net concept I find the education, while valiant, pretty damn near impossible.
I would have liked to seen them test it with the 'big three' OSes of Linux (RH and SUSE), VMware and WIndows. It would have been nice to see if the power management of the operating systems would have come into play some above and beyond just the single OS. Besides the OS the applications used run on any of those platforms.
It was 1972 actually, at least that's what my employer tells people when the talk about virtualization. Either some of the folks that came up with that date are incorrect, or something.
There is nothing new there, just not what you thought you read.
It's the Preps vs the Freaks & Geeks. It's an age old war fought in every school across America for the last 50 years. There are the cool kids, the wanna-be cool kids, the geeks/nerds/av club folks, and the freaks/stoners.
The Cool Kids took over Face book due to its invite only nature, etc. Myspace hung out with the freaks & geeks...
Read your straw man definition next time before accusing someone of doing it.
I didn't post something base on a fallacy. people do just what I described today. You can easily find blogs and websites by perusing the fark 'foobies.com' page that do just this. You can easily find copyrighted images on flickr that have been used in published works, or put on the front of a Porno DVD.
Right now the only way the powers that be think they can do this is DRM, and the tech community going out and helping people 'break' the DRM isn't the best use either.
So what every one is supposed to lock up their toys and go home? give me a break.
No, I hate the MPAA and the RIAA groups. I do however take photographs or people and sell them for money.
It costs me money to buy my camera gear, my time is worth something, and my expertise and knowledge about how to make it look really good are worth something.
The other person being able to right click and save it and go down to Costco and print it for $0.09 is not something I think should be legal any more than downloading someones song off the internet.
That being said, the RIAA suing their fans is the dumbest move ever, but it doesn't backfire one em because people keep buying music and no one will step up and sell music that the RIAA doesn't support.
I mean if Steve Jobs' thoughts about music included 'hey, and by the way, for $495 you can buy this software package that will package up your song into an album, incorporate cover art, and let you post it to iTunes and we'll take $0.25 in sales to do all that work for you' as part of the 'anti-drm' measure do you think someone like Bon Jovi or Britany Spears would wait for their contract to end and jump on over to doing it this way?
probably bad example of bands because one is actually good and the other one needs a producer to sound good. But the point being I bet even then at that point when the artists make money directly people will still not want to pay for it.
Yeah I had a semi-grudging respect for what they were trying to do at first, and then I saw that. I still think they're going bass ackwards about it though. They take the fight to make a created work free. One thing I do not get about this whole thing is their version of making it free is take someones hard work, and let anyone who wants it get it without collecting any monetary reward for the person who did the work.
This image site can do the same thing (ignoring the pedo stuff). Someone could go to the store, buy a Playboy Mag, scan in every image and post it to the site and everyone else could download the pics for free if they new the URL and of they go. So all the money playboy paid the model, the photography crew, the editors, the printers, poof.
Contrary to some of the internet ho's out there who like their pictures posted for free some people like monetary compensation for their investment/grace of good luck genes and deserve to be rewarded for it. How is supporting hosting of their images for no monetary fee 'free speech'
If they were hosting Neo-Nazi's, Black Panther, Anti-semtic, Islamic Jihadist stuff, sure ok that's free speech. But taking someones work and providing it for free? That's what copyright was intended for and it's not free speech, it's theft of services or whatever is the new legal mumbo jumbo for saying stealing money from someone who worked to earn it.
The one part that bothered me in Bowling for Columbine that seemed a bit sketchy was the sequence of events regarding the Detroit shooting and the interview with Mr. Heston.
I would have liked to seen the rest of the letter. It was fuzzed out in the version I read except for the sentence or two that highlighted what he wanted said, but there was a lot of text there that you couldn't read. Why hide something (other than the name/address) if there was nothing to hide?
Just seemed iffy.
I'll probably watch this one too when it hits DVD. But I also think Michael Moore taints his 'documentary' to be more of a spin than a real documentary. Though I don't know how you'd film something 'National Geographic style' by hiding in alleys and using telephoto lenses on people
The number of places I felt some respect for their ability have really bummed me out recently. Leo Laporte's rant on the latest Macbreak Weekly about how it's some new lock in for non-open standards was very disappointing. This article is just a Dvorak style 'bash apple and draw attention to me from the fanboy's' type article, not worth the bandwidth.
It's always amazing when Apple announces something new with little/no detail behind the motivation and everyone assumes their either going to Die, or try and take over the world.
Maybe they just wanted 95% of the computers out there to be able to develop an application for their new phone?
Ever consider that the other partner in the relationship is part of the problem? I mean how would you think the conversation would have gone if Apple came in with their demands, and Cingular was supposed to play whipping boy.
Apple: Yeah, we're going to make a device that everyone wants, will sell their kids for, will sell their soul for. we're going to make 40 pts of profit margin on it and you have the honor of selling it at the same margin we give a reseller, and they don't have to even buy a plan, they can just buy the phone and we'll let them get a sim card for whomever, and it'll be 3G.
Cingular: Go fark yourself. It'll only come from us, require two year exclusive agreement with us, only work on our network for those two years, and you can't get one without it. Oh and that 3G thing? we don't think our network could handle the load of all your fanboys that run out and buy one the day it comes out. we'll do the old and busted one that way when it fails on the release date we can blame it on you.
Actually they're looking at taxing per mile with GPS encoders in your car showing how far you drove.
I believe Oregon has already piloted said program. The problem seems to be as people push for higher per mile return on the fuel it uses their revenues go down. So now they feel they should get a per-mile rate instead of a per-gallon rate.
I'm a bit surprised this was tagged with humor, as it's not really funny and it's really happening to this guy and sets a precedent for other states to come after all of the folks interested in not burning oil products to make their cars move.
I'm sure we'll see some asinine proposals to add taxes to wind power generation/solar generation that is done by individuals to live off-grid or to reduce their consumption because once again with the taxes placed on the electrical usage reducing your usage of it via these methods is stripping the state of it's ability to generate revenue.
Heaven forbid the states actually reduce their output as well. There sure seems to be a lot of waste in government, at least in my experience with seeing the back end of government entities.
Entourage entertains me, if it wasn't coming back in a few weeks i'd have turned HBO off as well. once it's over though, HBO is off again until it comes back.
This is the problem i've had with meta-tagging. Someone uses a tag, and then 500 other people abuse it the second day, and it exponentially compounds so that it's hard to find things again.
I switched to a Kodak 1400 Dye-Sublimation printer and their tiny 4x6 dye sub printer about two years ago now. Before that sunk a lot of money into ink/paper for a Canon S9000.
I do a non-scientific Fridge Test. That is, I do what most families do with their prints. The put a magnet, stick em to the fridge, and leave them.
Within 45 days anything from my S9000 printer would fade, even more annoying if the magnet didn't move you'd get the magnet outline because underneath it was ok, but anything exposed to the air vanishes.
On my Kodak 1400, and my Kodak Printer Dock 3 the same 'fridge test' has them still looking like new (i'll print a new one every six months and compare in regular light) and I've had several on my fridge for two years. To the best of my knoweldge Kodak (and other) DyeSub printers stand up just like silver halide based on what I've read on the web - take that FWIW. Silver Halide printing would last about 20 years exposed to the air.
That being said, on the Canon S9000 if your print is under glass in a frame - it does not fade. I printed six 4x6s, three dyesub, and three Canon S9000. I put them in a 6 4x6 frame and they've been on my desk at the office now for 18 months. No fading on any of the images.
I'm now all DyeSub. I have the Kodak 4x6 printer, a Mitsubishi 9550DW that I use for printing 4x6, 5x7, and 6x8 for my Photography business and my Kodak 1400 for printing 8x10s. I know the cost per page exactly, and don't have to guess. That's the other thing I hated about inkjets, you never really now when/why you run out of ink.
I've not seen an inkjet that can 'out do' the printer at a lower cost. I'm very happy with the dyesubs.
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The IBM System x3755 has offered this feature since it came out as well. Instead of the fourth processor card you install a pass through card and it turns it into a three way. We've done a few benchmarks (warning pdf) with the Pass Through card and what it could do between 3CPU and 4CPU operations.
pretty cool ability for a few things.
No kidding. I was wondering the exact same thing. It was a parody, and it was fun. Now it's going to get corporate sponsorship from the guys employer and I'd find it hard to think it'd be the same again.
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The only times I've taken out the trash was when she was really ill, or not home because she's 'on vacation' and I've bought her a plane ticket to go see her friends for a long weekend up in MN. She does most of the house cleaning. Why? Because I have a high tolerance for clutter, she has a low tolerance. I have my own computer, my own office, and we can both be in the house and completely ignore each other for our own interests, and then get together and either do something out of the house together or watch TV/Movie/Other when we want to spend time with each other.
She's let me play a video game for 14 hours straight, bringing me breakfast, lunch and dinner while I did so. During the heart of my WoW playing I would do that every saturday and sunday and she never complained about it. She felt I needed my down time. When I quit playing I asked her about it and she said some days it was a bit much but most of the time it was OK because she had other things she could do.
If I want something, i buy it. She knows I'm not going to starve the family for the next big gadget, computer, tv, whatever. Weirdly, she doesn't like to go shopping, she doesn't like to spend a lot of money, the nice clothes she's own I've actually found online and ordered them for her and surprised her for a birthday, an anniversary, or just because I was tired of seeing her wearing cheap ass t-shirt & shorts in the summer and thought she should dress up every once in a while to maintain her sanity and remember what it is like to be an adult.
She also has the important job, she's just underpaid. She stays at home with our 5 and 3 year old kids. I work. She may go back to work after our youngest starts school but at this point we don't really know what the plan is, as she never got herself started in a career she enjoyed.
I'm sure she has a list of things she likes to do, but she doesn't surf forums, she doesn't do much on the internet. She uses her laptop I got her three years ago for email, and to read the fark headlines and laugh. Yet somehow we met on the internet in '96. When we finally met in person I asked her how she found me and she showed me. (Long story, but gist of it was, late night, studying for MCSE in late '95, coworker bets me $100 I wont' post an online ad on a dating place as I'd been single for three years at that point, so I did)
She went to webcrawler, searched for 'personal ads' picked the first one she found, searched based on how far away they were, picked two people, me and some guy that lived near where her mothers family was, I answered. That was it. Her email consisted of double clicking on an icon in Win 3.1, it was a terminal client that logged into a dec unix box, when the $ she knew to type in 'mail' and new she could read, but if she hit anything other than r she never knew how to get it back.
I'm not a big fan of religion, or fate, or whatever, but to this day I have no clue how all that lined up in such a way that I've managed to find someone like her through a bunch of random little events.
There is no 'you do this and i'll let you do something you want' give and take in our relationship, we each do what we like, and we like each other. I've had more people I know over the years exclaim in disbelief when I've called her at 3 AM while in a club in some foreign city to say hi, or how I'm in Vegas at 5AM drinking texting away as she is waking up on the east coast letting her know i'm in some burlesque bar and think I just saw a porn star she might know the name of. Stuff like that.
It can happen, but near as I can tell, it's rare as shit for something like that. I don't know a lot of other guys my age that have a free flowing open relationship where there aren't things like 'if you take out the trash I'll sleep with you tonight' type of trades or other odd things. To me, it's a foreign idea.
Contrary to popular belief it's not a competition, it is cooperation. I'm not pussy whipped and she's not some 1950s version of a submissive housewife. You don't dominate, you work together, and it works out fine.
been married 10 years
Huge being a relative term in all but when 6% thought the moon landing was faked, and 5% had no opinion that's huge to me, that's 33,125,394 people who either think it's fake, or don't have an opinion that something really happened.
Of course you could argue the poll is goofy or whatever, but still that's the data you have to go on.
Still funny, especially in light of recent events
Last I knew he didn't make it to the moon....that's the way I read the original post was that some how the US and Germany have been to the moon.
Not only that, why bother taking it down? a huge portion of the population believes it didn't work and we faked it all.
Also, I'm not a rocket scientist. But to me this seems like publishing the diagram of how a computer motherboard is put together, but not mentioning at all how the pieces talk to each other.
I mean just because you connect tab A into Slot B would a saturn V fly? Don't you need the navigation and guidance part? or was that posted too?
I'd hate to see the cool blueprints & pics of one of the neatest things NASA ever did vanish. I do think there is a bit of an overreaction to think someone could build a few of those to lob nukes without us noticing. I mean just look at Google Maps and you could find it some days.
You have a link to the German details? That part isn't mentioned here in the USA anywhere.
But ignorance like yours is just as bad as the ignorance shown against a minority.
I've not had a coke in a good three months, and the reason I did was I was in China and there was no bottled water around, it was hot, and I wasn't about to drink the tap water.
I've not had a cheesburger from Wendy's or any of those places in recent memory, I think the last time I did it was because I was traveling with the kids around Christmas and there aren't a lot of healthy choices that you can grab and go in the DFW airport.
Not sure where you get that bacon & eggs for breakfast is such a killer. A fried egg has 90 calories and 3 slices of bacon has 103 calories. So if you had two eggs and 3 slices of bacon you're looking at a whoppin 383 calories, that's just 19% of your total recommended number of 2000. and only 22% of your recommended total fat intake.
I've fought my weight since I turned 20. Something happened in my body that changed from being 140lbs at 5'10" tall at 18 to being 260 lbs at age 24. I actually ate less, because for at least the first 5 years after I moved out I was so damn broke I wasn't eating three square meals a day cooked by mom and there was no snacking because I couldn't afford it. Near the end of each month I'd skip lunch because I couldn't afford to buy it and my place of employment had no fridge/microwave to store anything.
I'm at an all time high now of about 318 last time I stepped on a scale. in '02 I managed to go from 300 down to 240 by doing the low carb thing religiously. I was in a monster grove and was loosing weight nicely over the entire year. By the end of the year though I had to have a tonsillectomy and a Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty which made it really freakin hard to eat high protein because swallowing anything with an edge on it for the first few months after that hurt like hell and any drug you could take to make the pain go away also was addictive so they won't let you have much. After that I couldn't get back in the groove and my weight moved back upwards slowly but surely, with a few stops and starts between now and then trying to manage it.
So not all of us stuff our faces, gargle with coke, and eat king size kit kats all day long.
Have you walked down your street, knocking on doors, offering to educate them? It doesn't work too well. I tried it as a 'break the ice' to help secure unsecured networks from my neighbors (live in a single family home neighborhood, not an apartment complex) right after we moved in. A lot of people looked at me odd, and only one wanted to know about it, out of the 7 homes I tried before quitting. I'd walk the culdesac with my iBook showing them how anyone could log on and just a simple WEP password would scare most but the hardcore away, or if their router did it WPA-TSK.
Trying to clean a botnet infestation is about 100 times more invasive. ISPs have got to do what they can to help, and since people don't know/don't care/are completely fucking clueless about the entire idea of a bot let alone a huge bot net concept I find the education, while valiant, pretty damn near impossible.
I would have liked to seen them test it with the 'big three' OSes of Linux (RH and SUSE), VMware and WIndows. It would have been nice to see if the power management of the operating systems would have come into play some above and beyond just the single OS. Besides the OS the applications used run on any of those platforms.
It was 1972 actually, at least that's what my employer tells people when the talk about virtualization. Either some of the folks that came up with that date are incorrect, or something.
(I work for IBM)
You'd be banging two rocks together in the hot sun right now if it' wasn't for the ability to abstract.
Without abstraction you wouldn't have the innovation that alows you to have this conversation.
There is nothing new there, just not what you thought you read.
It's the Preps vs the Freaks & Geeks. It's an age old war fought in every school across America for the last 50 years. There are the cool kids, the wanna-be cool kids, the geeks/nerds/av club folks, and the freaks/stoners.
The Cool Kids took over Face book due to its invite only nature, etc. Myspace hung out with the freaks & geeks...
Read your straw man definition next time before accusing someone of doing it.
I didn't post something base on a fallacy. people do just what I described today. You can easily find blogs and websites by perusing the fark 'foobies.com' page that do just this. You can easily find copyrighted images on flickr that have been used in published works, or put on the front of a Porno DVD.
Right now the only way the powers that be think they can do this is DRM, and the tech community going out and helping people 'break' the DRM isn't the best use either.
So what every one is supposed to lock up their toys and go home? give me a break.
No, I hate the MPAA and the RIAA groups. I do however take photographs or people and sell them for money.
It costs me money to buy my camera gear, my time is worth something, and my expertise and knowledge about how to make it look really good are worth something.
The other person being able to right click and save it and go down to Costco and print it for $0.09 is not something I think should be legal any more than downloading someones song off the internet.
That being said, the RIAA suing their fans is the dumbest move ever, but it doesn't backfire one em because people keep buying music and no one will step up and sell music that the RIAA doesn't support.
I mean if Steve Jobs' thoughts about music included 'hey, and by the way, for $495 you can buy this software package that will package up your song into an album, incorporate cover art, and let you post it to iTunes and we'll take $0.25 in sales to do all that work for you' as part of the 'anti-drm' measure do you think someone like Bon Jovi or Britany Spears would wait for their contract to end and jump on over to doing it this way?
probably bad example of bands because one is actually good and the other one needs a producer to sound good. But the point being I bet even then at that point when the artists make money directly people will still not want to pay for it.
Yeah I had a semi-grudging respect for what they were trying to do at first, and then I saw that. I still think they're going bass ackwards about it though. They take the fight to make a created work free. One thing I do not get about this whole thing is their version of making it free is take someones hard work, and let anyone who wants it get it without collecting any monetary reward for the person who did the work.
This image site can do the same thing (ignoring the pedo stuff). Someone could go to the store, buy a Playboy Mag, scan in every image and post it to the site and everyone else could download the pics for free if they new the URL and of they go. So all the money playboy paid the model, the photography crew, the editors, the printers, poof.
Contrary to some of the internet ho's out there who like their pictures posted for free some people like monetary compensation for their investment/grace of good luck genes and deserve to be rewarded for it. How is supporting hosting of their images for no monetary fee 'free speech'
If they were hosting Neo-Nazi's, Black Panther, Anti-semtic, Islamic Jihadist stuff, sure ok that's free speech. But taking someones work and providing it for free? That's what copyright was intended for and it's not free speech, it's theft of services or whatever is the new legal mumbo jumbo for saying stealing money from someone who worked to earn it.
I've watched most of his films except Roger & Me.
The one part that bothered me in Bowling for Columbine that seemed a bit sketchy was the sequence of events regarding the Detroit shooting and the interview with Mr. Heston.
I would have liked to seen the rest of the letter. It was fuzzed out in the version I read except for the sentence or two that highlighted what he wanted said, but there was a lot of text there that you couldn't read. Why hide something (other than the name/address) if there was nothing to hide?
Just seemed iffy.
I'll probably watch this one too when it hits DVD. But I also think Michael Moore taints his 'documentary' to be more of a spin than a real documentary. Though I don't know how you'd film something 'National Geographic style' by hiding in alleys and using telephoto lenses on people
Amen.
The number of places I felt some respect for their ability have really bummed me out recently. Leo Laporte's rant on the latest Macbreak Weekly about how it's some new lock in for non-open standards was very disappointing. This article is just a Dvorak style 'bash apple and draw attention to me from the fanboy's' type article, not worth the bandwidth.
It's always amazing when Apple announces something new with little/no detail behind the motivation and everyone assumes their either going to Die, or try and take over the world.
Maybe they just wanted 95% of the computers out there to be able to develop an application for their new phone?
Beautiful Troll.
Ever consider that the other partner in the relationship is part of the problem? I mean how would you think the conversation would have gone if Apple came in with their demands, and Cingular was supposed to play whipping boy.
Apple: Yeah, we're going to make a device that everyone wants, will sell their kids for, will sell their soul for. we're going to make 40 pts of profit margin on it and you have the honor of selling it at the same margin we give a reseller, and they don't have to even buy a plan, they can just buy the phone and we'll let them get a sim card for whomever, and it'll be 3G.
Cingular: Go fark yourself. It'll only come from us, require two year exclusive agreement with us, only work on our network for those two years, and you can't get one without it. Oh and that 3G thing? we don't think our network could handle the load of all your fanboys that run out and buy one the day it comes out. we'll do the old and busted one that way when it fails on the release date we can blame it on you.
Actually they're looking at taxing per mile with GPS encoders in your car showing how far you drove.
I believe Oregon has already piloted said program. The problem seems to be as people push for higher per mile return on the fuel it uses their revenues go down. So now they feel they should get a per-mile rate instead of a per-gallon rate.
I'm a bit surprised this was tagged with humor, as it's not really funny and it's really happening to this guy and sets a precedent for other states to come after all of the folks interested in not burning oil products to make their cars move.
I'm sure we'll see some asinine proposals to add taxes to wind power generation/solar generation that is done by individuals to live off-grid or to reduce their consumption because once again with the taxes placed on the electrical usage reducing your usage of it via these methods is stripping the state of it's ability to generate revenue.
Heaven forbid the states actually reduce their output as well. There sure seems to be a lot of waste in government, at least in my experience with seeing the back end of government entities.
Entourage entertains me, if it wasn't coming back in a few weeks i'd have turned HBO off as well. once it's over though, HBO is off again until it comes back.
This is the problem i've had with meta-tagging. Someone uses a tag, and then 500 other people abuse it the second day, and it exponentially compounds so that it's hard to find things again.
I switched to a Kodak 1400 Dye-Sublimation printer and their tiny 4x6 dye sub printer about two years ago now. Before that sunk a lot of money into ink/paper for a Canon S9000.
I do a non-scientific Fridge Test. That is, I do what most families do with their prints. The put a magnet, stick em to the fridge, and leave them.
Within 45 days anything from my S9000 printer would fade, even more annoying if the magnet didn't move you'd get the magnet outline because underneath it was ok, but anything exposed to the air vanishes.
On my Kodak 1400, and my Kodak Printer Dock 3 the same 'fridge test' has them still looking like new (i'll print a new one every six months and compare in regular light) and I've had several on my fridge for two years. To the best of my knoweldge Kodak (and other) DyeSub printers stand up just like silver halide based on what I've read on the web - take that FWIW. Silver Halide printing would last about 20 years exposed to the air.
That being said, on the Canon S9000 if your print is under glass in a frame - it does not fade. I printed six 4x6s, three dyesub, and three Canon S9000. I put them in a 6 4x6 frame and they've been on my desk at the office now for 18 months. No fading on any of the images.
I'm now all DyeSub. I have the Kodak 4x6 printer, a Mitsubishi 9550DW that I use for printing 4x6, 5x7, and 6x8 for my Photography business and my Kodak 1400 for printing 8x10s. I know the cost per page exactly, and don't have to guess. That's the other thing I hated about inkjets, you never really now when/why you run out of ink.
I've not seen an inkjet that can 'out do' the printer at a lower cost. I'm very happy with the dyesubs.