Adobe has licensed Pantone color matching. If you don't have Pantone, you won't get anywhere, in the design world. Basically, using Pantone guarantees that the color you see on your mock-up is the exact color the press will produce on the final product. Not "close enough," not almost, but exactly. From posters to wallpaper to clothing to linoleum, pretty much. If your designer shows you a sample, you can pretty much rest easy that it will be that color.
I am wondering if they have something in mind for placing them in a silo or other library-type arrangement as a replacement for datacenter level backup systems. Even at these prices, it might be a viable alternative to tape, when taking into account shelf-life and size. Of course, it would probably help to RTFA before asking these questions. But this is Slashdot...
I can remember a few weeks ago - and this is purely anecdotal on my part - watching CNBC on the TV in the Cafeteria at work, and they were interviewing a couple of stock analysts about the "recovery" and offshoring labor, and one of the guys made a comment that made everyone in the room sort of gasp.
He said, paraphrasing, "America, which for the last fifty years or so has been consuming vastly greater amounts of resources than they produce, has had an artificially high standard of living. Its going to be painful until the American lifestyle comes more in line with the rest of the world."
Just thought I would relate that observation. It seemed appropriate when the topic of outsourcing and offshoring comes up. You can take it as either playing devil's advocate, or something to get you motivated to ensure that it doesn't happen.
The economic problems in the third-world are caused by two things far more than American imperialism.
1. Local corruption 2. SOCIALIST imperialism projecting anti-capitalist rules on these countries in the form of environmental laws and pressure not to use the natural resources to create local economies
Actually, a lot of the third world problems are caused by American economic and cultural imperialism.
Lets take the small central African country of Burkina Faso, for example. Their major product of export has traditionally been cotton. However, because the U.S. feels it necessary to subsidize the roughly 25,000 cotton farmers here to the tune of $3 billion a year (an amount higher than the value of the cotton even unsubsidized), the Burkinabe can't get their cotton to market for anything close to the artificially low price of American cotton. At the last global trade summit, our response was not "Lets slowly phase out these subsidies over a period of years and play fair," but rather "Tell you what. Here is an agro product we don't really deal with. Instead of cotton, how about you grow it?" And that, my friend, is Imperialism.
...but I really think that Bush is simply providing a way for the US Gov't to get out of the space business except for commercial and military satellite launches.
He has proposed eliminating the shuttle before a replacement is ready. People right now are saying the economics of manned space are unjustified given starving and homeless people, bad schools, etc. Will we be able to justify the economics after our manned program is in mothballs for even just the planned four years?
We have treaty-level obligations to the ISS. Our requirements to the ISS are equivalent to our requirements to NATO and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation. So we may well meet those obligations. Unless we somehow manage to convince the other members of the ISS program to let it go...
I am not surprised that the truth about Hubble is a financial and political issue, and not really safety. I will be really surprised if anything that is merely gathering knowledge for its own sake gets lobbed into space after the next few years...without a subscription fee to access the data, anyway.
At Southeast Missouri State University, they rented textbooks. After enrolling, students all went to Textbook Services and got the appropriate books for their classes. It was something like $10 per book per semester, and if you kept the book beyond the deadline at the end of the semester, you were billed for it.
Textbooks were cycled every three years or so. The bonus was, your book usually came with all the important stuff already highlighted!
Continuing my reading on the plan for the moon and mars, I am even more sure this is nothing but a plan to eliminate the US Gov't sponsored space program. It was made clear early in GWB's term that he would like to privatize the shuttle fleet, with NASA leasing the shuttles for launches. However, following Columbia, that was probably ruled out. After all, who would buy them?
If the plan is to phase out the shuttle after completing our treaty-level obligations to the ISS countries, and then rely on Russian, Japanese and European launches to service it for the four years until the replacement is ready, does anyone really think that we will pick it up after a four year lapse of no real launches by the US?
In my opinion, this is not really an offer to go anywhere. My guess is that its a response to the Chinese, in public relations only.
However, I would bet my first real paycheck that we will indeed see the first part of the plan come true: The elimination of the shuttle fleet. After that, of course, we will see service launches to the trimmed down ISS from Russia (until it is mothballed and allowed to fall, of course) and a continuation of unmanned probes.
I don't think Bush even has a real interest in maintaining a true manned space program in the US. It just doesn't have the economic benefits for Lockheed or Boeing that defense contracts do.
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I would, however, be uncomfortable with a robot as phlebotomist. I can only imagine sticking my arm in a thing like the bloodpressure checkers at KMart so that a robot arm can scan for a good vein and draw blood. Ugh...
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They do, to a certain extent.
I have been to a couple with fully automatic beverage dispensers. The order is placed with the cashier, which sends a signal and the system drops a cup of appropriate size, feeds it under the appropriate soda flavor, and conveys it out to a person to give to the customer. Someone just has to fill the cup hopper.
And I have seen the soap-and-squeegie equivalent of the Roomba moving about in one once, as well.
Because Newline dictated to Peter Jackson that none of the movies could be longer than three hours in their original release. So he cut them to 2h57m, with the understanding that prior to the release of each of the films, the "Extended Special Edition" DVDs could be released in time for people to buy or rent before seeing the next installment.
The right to speedy trial is a criminal thing. As this is a civil case, they can drag it out as long as they see fit. Which, in this case, is long enough to make everyone so sick of it, someone will want to come along and offer $2 more than current market price per share to buy SCO just to shut them up.
He did? I haven't heard that he has been proven guilty and convicted in a court of law.
When it has become "guilty until proven innocent," we all might as well simply march to the Library of Congress and torch the Constitution. Because it just doesn't matter anymore.
Well, considering that "Pentium V" basically means "the fifith five," I guess they should look at a name change. Because otherwise they are going to be running into things like "The Fifth Seven" or "The Fifth Ten."
My guess is, as was posted somewhere else, that the add-on module for 64-bit extensions is actually a full replacement CPU, and the lower one that lacks those 64-bit do-dads is disabled...
Remembering this, perhaps the 4th generation Aibo could use similar technology. And with the AIBOne bone thing in this unit, its a step toward having it feed itself.
Drop a couple little hydrogen capsule "treats" in a bowl, and then go around picking up empty ones from behind the couch.
Well, as they said, perhaps with an access point at a hospital or emergency management center, they could demonstrate the feasibility of remote triage by video.
What he is saying is that all the junk packets running loose on the 'net are going to completely eliminate the open-systems model on which the Internet is supposed to be based. That because of all the spam flooding mail servers and ISPs re-using IP addresses and DNS servers not properly updated and all the other things that just generate the equivalent of "static noise" on the Internet, various networks that previously would simply take the packets and forward them on to their destination, regardless of where that is, will begin to filter it. They will begin to separate themselves and only carry packets bound for destinations on their own network, hence the "Balkanization" of the Internet.
No longer will it be a anarchic sort of mesh of various networks all interconnected, but will be a group of "city-states" all surrounded by high stone walls, connected by a few broad roads, and only allowing people in that can prove they belong there. No more letting someone to be "just passing through town".
Unfortunately, no, you can't get a PVR that can decode digital cable signals.
Each cable company codes their boxes with a unique identifier and encryption that prevents the end user from being able to do anything with the digital spectrum of channels without the cable company knowing it, because you need the box.
And even if some company were to come up with a card that was compatible with, say, a Motorola DCTxxxx, your cable company would most likely refuse to provide you with the necessary information to program your card, nor would they send a technician out to do it.
The digital cable is designed to require the box. And there is nothing that you, as a subscriber, can do about it, unfortunately.
If it happens to take you four days to hitchhike from Saginaw (Simon & Garfunkle reference) perhaps you can stop in Dearborn and check out The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Sure, its an historical preservationists nightmare, as most of the buildings in GV are completely out of context, and out of their original state or country for that matter. But you get to see Edison's orgininal lab and Webster's home where he wrote his dictionary. In the museum you can see Lincoln's Ford Theater chair and JFK's Dallas limo. And some really freakin' huge steam engines and locomotives.
the article is not talking about the end of writing... just the end of writing by hand
Actually, the article is talking about the end of writing in cursive, not printing or the pseudo-script known as italic.
Its everyone else who seems to be taking the ball and running with it as the end of handwriting. And its these people that make me simply shake my head...
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currently at "Life of the creator +way too many years"?
Well, at least no one could make another derivative work of Michael Crichton's books.
Yeah, I know its not truly derivative, since he wrote the screenplay, but you get the point.
Adobe has licensed Pantone color matching. If you don't have Pantone, you won't get anywhere, in the design world. Basically, using Pantone guarantees that the color you see on your mock-up is the exact color the press will produce on the final product. Not "close enough," not almost, but exactly. From posters to wallpaper to clothing to linoleum, pretty much. If your designer shows you a sample, you can pretty much rest easy that it will be that color.
Here you go...
University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School
There are other bits if you google for "breathable liquid"
I am wondering if they have something in mind for placing them in a silo or other library-type arrangement as a replacement for datacenter level backup systems. Even at these prices, it might be a viable alternative to tape, when taking into account shelf-life and size. Of course, it would probably help to RTFA before asking these questions. But this is Slashdot...
I can remember a few weeks ago - and this is purely anecdotal on my part - watching CNBC on the TV in the Cafeteria at work, and they were interviewing a couple of stock analysts about the "recovery" and offshoring labor, and one of the guys made a comment that made everyone in the room sort of gasp.
He said, paraphrasing, "America, which for the last fifty years or so has been consuming vastly greater amounts of resources than they produce, has had an artificially high standard of living. Its going to be painful until the American lifestyle comes more in line with the rest of the world."
Just thought I would relate that observation. It seemed appropriate when the topic of outsourcing and offshoring comes up. You can take it as either playing devil's advocate, or something to get you motivated to ensure that it doesn't happen.
Actually, a lot of the third world problems are caused by American economic and cultural imperialism.
Lets take the small central African country of Burkina Faso, for example. Their major product of export has traditionally been cotton. However, because the U.S. feels it necessary to subsidize the roughly 25,000 cotton farmers here to the tune of $3 billion a year (an amount higher than the value of the cotton even unsubsidized), the Burkinabe can't get their cotton to market for anything close to the artificially low price of American cotton. At the last global trade summit, our response was not "Lets slowly phase out these subsidies over a period of years and play fair," but rather "Tell you what. Here is an agro product we don't really deal with. Instead of cotton, how about you grow it?" And that, my friend, is Imperialism.
Umm...afterburners...
Barbecue?
...but I really think that Bush is simply providing a way for the US Gov't to get out of the space business except for commercial and military satellite launches.
He has proposed eliminating the shuttle before a replacement is ready. People right now are saying the economics of manned space are unjustified given starving and homeless people, bad schools, etc. Will we be able to justify the economics after our manned program is in mothballs for even just the planned four years?
We have treaty-level obligations to the ISS. Our requirements to the ISS are equivalent to our requirements to NATO and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation. So we may well meet those obligations. Unless we somehow manage to convince the other members of the ISS program to let it go...
I am not surprised that the truth about Hubble is a financial and political issue, and not really safety. I will be really surprised if anything that is merely gathering knowledge for its own sake gets lobbed into space after the next few years...without a subscription fee to access the data, anyway.
At Southeast Missouri State University, they rented textbooks. After enrolling, students all went to Textbook Services and got the appropriate books for their classes. It was something like $10 per book per semester, and if you kept the book beyond the deadline at the end of the semester, you were billed for it.
Textbooks were cycled every three years or so. The bonus was, your book usually came with all the important stuff already highlighted!
Continuing my reading on the plan for the moon and mars, I am even more sure this is nothing but a plan to eliminate the US Gov't sponsored space program. It was made clear early in GWB's term that he would like to privatize the shuttle fleet, with NASA leasing the shuttles for launches. However, following Columbia, that was probably ruled out. After all, who would buy them?
If the plan is to phase out the shuttle after completing our treaty-level obligations to the ISS countries, and then rely on Russian, Japanese and European launches to service it for the four years until the replacement is ready, does anyone really think that we will pick it up after a four year lapse of no real launches by the US?
In my opinion, this is not really an offer to go anywhere. My guess is that its a response to the Chinese, in public relations only.
However, I would bet my first real paycheck that we will indeed see the first part of the plan come true: The elimination of the shuttle fleet. After that, of course, we will see service launches to the trimmed down ISS from Russia (until it is mothballed and allowed to fall, of course) and a continuation of unmanned probes.
I don't think Bush even has a real interest in maintaining a true manned space program in the US. It just doesn't have the economic benefits for Lockheed or Boeing that defense contracts do.
I would, however, be uncomfortable with a robot as phlebotomist. I can only imagine sticking my arm in a thing like the bloodpressure checkers at KMart so that a robot arm can scan for a good vein and draw blood. Ugh...
They do, to a certain extent.
I have been to a couple with fully automatic beverage dispensers. The order is placed with the cashier, which sends a signal and the system drops a cup of appropriate size, feeds it under the appropriate soda flavor, and conveys it out to a person to give to the customer. Someone just has to fill the cup hopper.
And I have seen the soap-and-squeegie equivalent of the Roomba moving about in one once, as well.
Because Newline dictated to Peter Jackson that none of the movies could be longer than three hours in their original release. So he cut them to 2h57m, with the understanding that prior to the release of each of the films, the "Extended Special Edition" DVDs could be released in time for people to buy or rent before seeing the next installment.
All that is explained in the stuff on the DVDs.
The right to speedy trial is a criminal thing. As this is a civil case, they can drag it out as long as they see fit. Which, in this case, is long enough to make everyone so sick of it, someone will want to come along and offer $2 more than current market price per share to buy SCO just to shut them up.
He did? I haven't heard that he has been proven guilty and convicted in a court of law.
When it has become "guilty until proven innocent," we all might as well simply march to the Library of Congress and torch the Constitution. Because it just doesn't matter anymore.
Well, considering that "Pentium V" basically means "the fifith five," I guess they should look at a name change. Because otherwise they are going to be running into things like "The Fifth Seven" or "The Fifth Ten."
My guess is, as was posted somewhere else, that the add-on module for 64-bit extensions is actually a full replacement CPU, and the lower one that lacks those 64-bit do-dads is disabled...
Remembering this, perhaps the 4th generation Aibo could use similar technology. And with the AIBOne bone thing in this unit, its a step toward having it feed itself.
Drop a couple little hydrogen capsule "treats" in a bowl, and then go around picking up empty ones from behind the couch.
Well, as they said, perhaps with an access point at a hospital or emergency management center, they could demonstrate the feasibility of remote triage by video.
What he is saying is that all the junk packets running loose on the 'net are going to completely eliminate the open-systems model on which the Internet is supposed to be based. That because of all the spam flooding mail servers and ISPs re-using IP addresses and DNS servers not properly updated and all the other things that just generate the equivalent of "static noise" on the Internet, various networks that previously would simply take the packets and forward them on to their destination, regardless of where that is, will begin to filter it. They will begin to separate themselves and only carry packets bound for destinations on their own network, hence the "Balkanization" of the Internet.
No longer will it be a anarchic sort of mesh of various networks all interconnected, but will be a group of "city-states" all surrounded by high stone walls, connected by a few broad roads, and only allowing people in that can prove they belong there. No more letting someone to be "just passing through town".
Unfortunately, no, you can't get a PVR that can decode digital cable signals.
Each cable company codes their boxes with a unique identifier and encryption that prevents the end user from being able to do anything with the digital spectrum of channels without the cable company knowing it, because you need the box.
And even if some company were to come up with a card that was compatible with, say, a Motorola DCTxxxx, your cable company would most likely refuse to provide you with the necessary information to program your card, nor would they send a technician out to do it.
The digital cable is designed to require the box. And there is nothing that you, as a subscriber, can do about it, unfortunately.
Actually, it makes dem sound more like a Yuper.
If it happens to take you four days to hitchhike from Saginaw (Simon & Garfunkle reference) perhaps you can stop in Dearborn and check out The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Sure, its an historical preservationists nightmare, as most of the buildings in GV are completely out of context, and out of their original state or country for that matter. But you get to see Edison's orgininal lab and Webster's home where he wrote his dictionary. In the museum you can see Lincoln's Ford Theater chair and JFK's Dallas limo. And some really freakin' huge steam engines and locomotives.
the article is not talking about the end of writing... just the end of writing by hand
Actually, the article is talking about the end of writing in cursive, not printing or the pseudo-script known as italic.
Its everyone else who seems to be taking the ball and running with it as the end of handwriting. And its these people that make me simply shake my head...