A friend of ours with leukemia made a plea to donate cord blood to help others in her situation. We looked into it and found that there were no donation companies in our state. However, one company would ship us a collection kit to FedEx back to them. Because it would be shipped, if we delivered certain times of the week then they wouldn't be able to accept the sample.
The doctor was great about collecting the cord blood, especially at 4:30 in the morning. The thing we didn't know was that the hospital staff wouldn't take responsibility for putting the blood together for the kit--they didn't want to accept the liability. That responsibility fell to me... after 18 hours of labor, even though I wasn't the one delivering it was still difficult.
We did get a thank-you form letter from the company. Hope it helped someone out.
Golden week... that's what a friend calls the time of the month that falls outside his girlfriend's week before, week of, and week after. He's a big fan of that week.
Made me wonder whose week Digital Music was enjoying.
But back on topic, I wonder how closely the rate of gift-download redemption follows the rate of gift-card redemtption.
Suicide bombers in Israel like to blow up shops, cafes and bus stops.
Just a note: suicide bombers in Israel don't set out to target these places. They wind up at them since more damaging targets like shopping malls, movie theaters, and other large public buildings have security guards at the doors.
Until security guards were posted at outdoor cafes and shops, they were the next easiest target. Now the easiest targets are buses and bus stops, since it's not feasible to post guards at all of these.
My roommate and I were a Neilsen family, too, for one week. We got one booklet for each TV in the house. There was a page in the booklet for listing shows that you taped while watching another program.
In my case, I taped a show while I was out and watched it later... I think I followed the directions correctly when I wrote "VCR" next to program in its proper time slot.
Of course, I also watched the Simpsons at another house and marked it in my own booklet. Heck, what's the difference?
[S]ix major labels just announced that they're collaborating on a music download service, which creates a much more compelling case that the labels are leveraging their copyrights to advance their own distribution businesses.
The recording labels are not collaborating on a music download service. It is music retailers that are doing this.
I recall an article about the formation of one of the download services (pressplay?) that was a collaboration between RIAA labels. The article mentioned that their lawyers were acutely aware of antitrust laws to the point of not even allowing executives of the different companies in the same room when discussing the service.
Don't worry about requests. Requests don't exist. Playlists are developed by a radio station's program director (PD) well ahead of time, and it's the DJ's job to play the songs in order. Also, to speak when the script says to speak. Sure, DJ's will take requests. Odds are the song will be coming up soon anyway. At the very least, they can make up a name.
There's one exception I'm aware of. KQRS in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, allows (or allowed) four requests per hour during the overnight. This is unusual, though: most stations completely automate the overnight shift.
I've got a buddy who often works the Saturday, noon-6pm, and Sunday, 6am-noon, shifts at an outstate rock station. He'll voicetrack the midnight-6am shifts for the rest of the weekend.
There's a way to tell if the station's being voicetracked. Listen to the weather report. If the DJ tells you the current temperature, it's live.
As for the webcasting rates. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rates established are compulsory only in the abscence of another deal between the artist(s) and the webcaster. So, perhaps a group of independent artists could license their music at a cheaper rate. "Play songs by these artists, and we'll charge you less."
I had a similar experience, only it was 5 years ago and the razor was a SensorExcel. Never did figure out where they got my address (now that I think about it, it might've been related to the University admissions process).
A good example of targetted advertising, I think. I'd already been using the regular Sensor--that got me to upgrade. I'm still using SensorExcel to this day.
Well, I misunderstood part of the original quotation (a very good Canadian programmer makes only a little more than a beginning American programmer). My mistake.
However, my point still stands if we're talking about wages in general: 55k USD can be a very livable wage in Minneapolis... at least for a single man without much debt.
A MechE friend (recently out of college) who lives 70 miles out of Minneapolis makes less than $40k. He and his wife make house and car payments--and still live comfortably.
Why because labor is CHEAP! A very good programmer in Canada makes about 90K CDN, which translates to about 55K USD. This wage is good in Canada, but buys you very little outside of Canada.
Is $55k really that little? I graduated a year ago with a Computer Eng'g degree and went to work at a telecom in a Minneapolis, MN, suburb. I started at $50k--and I thought that was extremely generous, having had no prior experience save for an internship with the company the previous summer.
I'm single and don't normally spend much... but even after going out to lunch every day, paying for a new car, rent and all utilites, I still saved about 30% of my income (half of that in a 401(k)). (Okay, no student loans either--my parents paid for tuition.)
I got laid off, then found a new job thanks to a connection. I was a little surprised when they offered more than I'd been making at the telecom.
Later I found out that the job req had been open for 4 months. Some of my co-workers at the telcom had even been interviewed--but apparently they were expecting more money.
I think I learned a lesson. Either I'm very cheap... or I have a deflated sense of self-worth.
And ultimately (here's the conceptual leap) the studio stops making movies because there's no way to be a profitable studio if you take home video out of the equation. Period
Isn't it ironic that a technology the movie studios once considered a threat to their business is now the only way in which a movie can make a profit?
I would assume that MP3.com confirms the identity of a CD the same way CDDB does: by checking the table of contents stored on the disc. Since it is unlikely that multiple unrelated CDs share the same lengths of all their tracks, this can usually uniquely identify CDs.
Thanks to the (CDDB is now) Gracenote FAQ for this info.
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As a matter of fact, there is a response to the slippery logic issue in a Time Magazine article entitled "Our Imperial Judiciary." This was in the Dec. 4 issue, before the US Supreme Court heard arguments.
It deals mostly with logical inconsistencies in the Florida Supreme Court's arguments. I think my favorite argument is this:
The justices then denounce Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for "imposing an arbirtrary seven-day deadline." They then proceed, without irony, to impose their own arbirtrary five-day deadline. (Hers, unlike theirs, was not arbitrary but statutory.)
Unfortunately, the links it references are no longer active, and the U of Minnesota Daily seems to have forgotten to put it's July and August issues from 1995 online.
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The point has been made that whatever margin of victory Bush has falls well within the margin of error. It's like trying measure bacteria with a yardstick--you're never going to get an accurate result. So in this sense, no, the contest is not over.
But the question has to be asked, When will it be over? I for one enjoy the civics lesson, but this election can never be decided with 100% certainty. It is absolutely impossible, barring a new election that uses a ballot that can be read with complete certainty of a "voter's intent." We will never know the true outcome of the Florida (or for that matter, any other state) vote.
So there must be another way to conclude this thing, and the Supreme Court is the law of the land. I'd like the candidates to say, "I will drop all other lawsuits so long as we both agree that the Supreme Court's decision is the state of Florida's decision."
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My bank doesn't require an ID. Just the key, box number, and a signature they compare with what they have on file.
Just don't make the mistake of believing that Zen in the Art of Archery actually represents how kyudo is actually taught:
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenBookReviews/Shots_in_the_Dark.html
Herrigel is a bundle of contradictions. At the very least he started the "Zen in..." and "Zen and..." memes.
A friend of ours with leukemia made a plea to donate cord blood to help others in her situation. We looked into it and found that there were no donation companies in our state. However, one company would ship us a collection kit to FedEx back to them. Because it would be shipped, if we delivered certain times of the week then they wouldn't be able to accept the sample.
The doctor was great about collecting the cord blood, especially at 4:30 in the morning. The thing we didn't know was that the hospital staff wouldn't take responsibility for putting the blood together for the kit--they didn't want to accept the liability. That responsibility fell to me... after 18 hours of labor, even though I wasn't the one delivering it was still difficult.
We did get a thank-you form letter from the company. Hope it helped someone out.
Can't believe nobody else has mentioned what I consider the primary attraction: no-additional-cost vanity license plates (at least in Minnesota).
Golden week... that's what a friend calls the time of the month that falls outside his girlfriend's week before, week of, and week after. He's a big fan of that week.
Made me wonder whose week Digital Music was enjoying.
But back on topic, I wonder how closely the rate of gift-download redemption follows the rate of gift-card redemtption.
Until security guards were posted at outdoor cafes and shops, they were the next easiest target. Now the easiest targets are buses and bus stops, since it's not feasible to post guards at all of these.
My roommate and I were a Neilsen family, too, for one week. We got one booklet for each TV in the house. There was a page in the booklet for listing shows that you taped while watching another program.
In my case, I taped a show while I was out and watched it later... I think I followed the directions correctly when I wrote "VCR" next to program in its proper time slot.
Of course, I also watched the Simpsons at another house and marked it in my own booklet. Heck, what's the difference?
This was a month ago.
The recording labels are not collaborating on a music download service. It is music retailers that are doing this.
I recall an article about the formation of one of the download services (pressplay?) that was a collaboration between RIAA labels. The article mentioned that their lawyers were acutely aware of antitrust laws to the point of not even allowing executives of the different companies in the same room when discussing the service.
Don't worry about requests. Requests don't exist. Playlists are developed by a radio station's program director (PD) well ahead of time, and it's the DJ's job to play the songs in order. Also, to speak when the script says to speak. Sure, DJ's will take requests. Odds are the song will be coming up soon anyway. At the very least, they can make up a name.
There's one exception I'm aware of. KQRS in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, allows (or allowed) four requests per hour during the overnight. This is unusual, though: most stations completely automate the overnight shift.
I've got a buddy who often works the Saturday, noon-6pm, and Sunday, 6am-noon, shifts at an outstate rock station. He'll voicetrack the midnight-6am shifts for the rest of the weekend.
There's a way to tell if the station's being voicetracked. Listen to the weather report. If the DJ tells you the current temperature, it's live.
As for the webcasting rates. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rates established are compulsory only in the abscence of another deal between the artist(s) and the webcaster. So, perhaps a group of independent artists could license their music at a cheaper rate. "Play songs by these artists, and we'll charge you less."
I had a similar experience, only it was 5 years ago and the razor was a SensorExcel. Never did figure out where they got my address (now that I think about it, it might've been related to the University admissions process).
A good example of targetted advertising, I think. I'd already been using the regular Sensor--that got me to upgrade. I'm still using SensorExcel to this day.
Well, I misunderstood part of the original quotation (a very good Canadian programmer makes only a little more than a beginning American programmer). My mistake.
However, my point still stands if we're talking about wages in general: 55k USD can be a very livable wage in Minneapolis... at least for a single man without much debt.
A MechE friend (recently out of college) who lives 70 miles out of Minneapolis makes less than $40k. He and his wife make house and car payments--and still live comfortably.
I'm single and don't normally spend much... but even after going out to lunch every day, paying for a new car, rent and all utilites, I still saved about 30% of my income (half of that in a 401(k)). (Okay, no student loans either--my parents paid for tuition.)
I got laid off, then found a new job thanks to a connection. I was a little surprised when they offered more than I'd been making at the telecom.
Later I found out that the job req had been open for 4 months. Some of my co-workers at the telcom had even been interviewed--but apparently they were expecting more money.
I think I learned a lesson. Either I'm very cheap... or I have a deflated sense of self-worth.
Check it out: you've made the New York Times. Congratulations, one user on Slashdot!
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http://nytimes.com/2001/12/20/technology/20ADCO
Here is the transcript of the oral argument:m ent_transcripts/99-8508.pdf
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argu
And this is the decision:5 08.pdf
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/00pdf/99-8
I find the oral argument especially compelling as an example of reasoned arguments taking shape.
Isn't it ironic that a technology the movie studios once considered a threat to their business is now the only way in which a movie can make a profit?
Thanks to the (CDDB is now) Gracenote FAQ for this info.
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Long time reader, fourth time poster.
It deals mostly with logical inconsistencies in the Florida Supreme Court's arguments. I think my favorite argument is this:
--Long time reader, third time poster.
http://www.skypoint.com/members/gimonca/burnin.htm l
Unfortunately, the links it references are no longer active, and the U of Minnesota Daily seems to have forgotten to put it's July and August issues from 1995 online.
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Long time reader, second time poster.
But the question has to be asked, When will it be over? I for one enjoy the civics lesson, but this election can never be decided with 100% certainty. It is absolutely impossible, barring a new election that uses a ballot that can be read with complete certainty of a "voter's intent." We will never know the true outcome of the Florida (or for that matter, any other state) vote.
So there must be another way to conclude this thing, and the Supreme Court is the law of the land. I'd like the candidates to say, "I will drop all other lawsuits so long as we both agree that the Supreme Court's decision is the state of Florida's decision."
That or a coin flip.
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Long time reader, first time poster.