I'm pretty sure if anyone was going to e-mail me that a relative had just died, they wouldn't just say "Call me".
What I was asking was which is more valuable - the last handwritten letter from the relative that died, or the last email from that same relative that said "Call me" and you most likely deleted pretty quickly.
Yes, but the point is that it was done hand to medium. Its the inherent value of it. Its the fingers on the page, if you will. The value of the Rosetta Stone is not just that its a centuries-old equivalent of a font sample.
Someone took the time to do it. Would that someone have used a computer to do it had they the opportunity? Oh, probably. Point is, though, they didn't.
In 20 years I have never written or recieved a handwritten letter.
Thats a real shame is pretty much all I can say.
That I have had someone willing to take the time to sit and write in their own style, knowing that its that person's hand that has touched the pen to paper, and I can open the small box on the shelf and reread the joys and pains of an entire life...
Has modern life gotten so disposable that this sort of sentiment can be replaced with You send your files from the computer to the "PRINTER"?
I think Samuel Pepys would care about the end of writing.
There are so many concerns about digitizing documents and what format to choose because readers may not be available even five years after the project, let alone 400.
Meanwhile, thanks to the ability to handwrite, we have the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hammurabi's Laws, the Rosetta Stone.
And as the CNN version of this story mentions, which is more significant to you? The handwritten letter that you received from your relative just he or she died, or that quick email saying "Call me" you got and deleted?
Like the prof of humanties in an above post, I am talking more in the "Liberal Arts" arena. My degrees are in English Lit and Theater. And generally, profs in these types of fields tend to despise even the new-fangled white boards and dry ink markers idea, let alone computers in their classrooms.
...like the use of paper and pen. Having gone to college for a long time, at several different schools at different stages (in my 30s and only fully finished two years ago), I can tell you that most professors absolutely abhor the student who flips open the laptop and begins typing away during lectures. You'll be lucky to only get scowled at. You may get flat out kicked until you show up with a spiral notebook. Seen it happen more than once.
Get a small tape recorder that you can send with a friend to lectures you can't make. Never trust someone else's notes completely.
If you live in the dorms, perhaps something in a Shuttle SS-51 with an LCD monitor or laptop for doing homework and such. Not much room to play with in most college dorms.
Keeping schedules should be done with a Franklin organizer or such, even if you use a PDA. Hardcopy is always easiest in school. Canvas binders tend not to get lifted. Pretty and shiny disappears.
Yes, but there are a great many considerations. I personally abhor the thought of every *LEC having to install their own infrastructure.
In my opinion, anyone should be allowed to provide service of any kind over the lines, even if it is "Joe's Crab Shack and Telephone Company, home of Great Jambalaya and Intra-State Long Distance." However, I don't think that every city block should look like a Fort Apache from a Hollywood western because of the number of poles required to run lines to their own customers.
Between electricity, ILEC and cable, there are entirely too many dead stripped trees in urban areas as it is.
And wireless is just not there yet, nor will it be anytime soon, in my opinion. Not for 10 or 100 Mbit to each and every home in a neighborhood.
While I can't provide studies that directly link automotive exhaust to asthma, it can be safely inferred.
Studies have shown that the majority of urban pollution comes from vehicle emissions. Other studies have linked increase in respiratory ailments (asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, etc) to urban pollution levels. Therefore, it can safely be inferred that automotive emissions contribute to asthma and other respiratory difficulties.
How would that work? I mean, your location and the location of all others on the map has to be sent out to the PC to know where to draw you. How do you let the machines participating in the game know where to put people if the information isn't in the data stream?
I guess they really want my kid and the kids at my neice's school to get into the pr0n. We use both use SquidGuard to keep them out of the nasty stuff.
And we most certainly have more machines than the five IP addresses we got with the business DSL account.
Dunno about students' acquisitions, but everywhere I go, every secretary, administrator and staff member has an iMac. I am sitting in front of one right now, in a what I assume is strawberry.
And I didn't say one wouldn't have to get there quick. Its property disposition. Its a glorified garage sale. But they have them.
You might want to check out Color Kinetics as a possible solution. They are DMX controllable, and allow 65k colors. They were considered for some architectural lighting in a remodelling project where I work.
Is this stuff flexible enough to be used as rope? Could it replace hemp or other synthetics for ships or theatrical counter-weight systems?
I mean, if the only start to the manufacturing of carbon nanotubes is a NASA contract for a few million kilometers of the stuff for a certain special project, its gonna cost $100 a foot or more.
I commented on this in a post previously regarding telecommunications. But I can't remember what the topic was and I'm too laszy to search.
Basically, and this is only my opinion, of course, but the only real solution that I see is to remove services from infrastructure. Let a single recognized monopoly exist that does one thing: owns the copper. Thats it, nothing more, and never allowed to provide service.
Then bill access out to any and all comers from Sprint and AT&T to Billy-Jim's Telephone and Crab Shack to provide the actual voice and/or data. If there is ever a new technology that needs to roll out, let the cost of the system be shared between the infrastructure company and those service companies that see themselves as providers of that service.
But that is an even more drastic change to the telecommunications industry than was the Bell breakup.
It would be nice, but so much for my well-supported Earthlink/Covad DSL...
Yes, I suppose he will be the star of the show, but for some of us, the opportunity to see Peta Wilson of La Femme Nikita all vamped out is definitely something to look forward to!
I really wouldn't be surprised if the production is billed the cost of the $1000 microphone every time.
I know where I work (a theater - as in Shakespeare, not Schwarzenegger), when someone rents the space and asks for some gaffer's tape, even if they use only three inches of the stuff, they get billed the cost of an entire roll. And we keep the used one too.
To allow the RIAA to apply a "tax" to all ISPs is an idea that is totally anethema to the capitalist system upon which the RIAA is based.
It would require Congress to pass a law, and that would be state-sponsored support of a particular industry that would collapse otherwise. Most citizens of the US, if made aware of this, would blow a gasket. Very few are even aware of the money paid for blank media. This would be something passed quietly and as a rider to a bill that would support Social Security or something that no Congressman could possibly vote against.
Music would not stop. However, its distribution would suddenly be much different than it is now. Likewise if Congress actually does something about the modern equivalent of Payola and suddenly Clear Channel loses up to a third of their revenue, which comes from music "promoters".
Stick a card (something like the Hauppauge PVRs) into a machine and record across your Cat5. Then connect a basic Via or Shuttle mini-atx box into the network with S-video or whatever to your TV.
I set mine to record to my IDE RAID5 server and then go upstairs and start watching.
Its easy. And its quieter. And the Hauppauge card uses TitanTV to set shows into the scheduler, or you can do it manually. Either way you don't pay a monthly fee or a one-time $250 membership.
Thats what I did. I have my central file server in the basement, and my Hauppauge Win PVR 250 in a machine next to it. It dumps the show across the 100Mb network to the server and I just load up the MPG from a Shuttle SS51G with wireless keyboard and mouse and the audio out to the stereo. Its quiet, and I have a nice RAID5 storage for entire seasons worth of shows. That can be quickly and easily dumped to either SVCD or DVD for longer term storage.
I had a similar discussion at the bar the other day with a friend over telecomms and the Worldcom failure and all that.
We finally settled on a solution that would never be implemented, but in our non-specialist, non-economist minds would be the only real solution:
Separate infrastructure from services completely. Let your regional ILEC become an entity that does only one thing...own copper. Thats it.
And then they provide access to that copper to any and all service providers at a competitive rate. The same competitive rate for Earthlink as Jimmy-Joe's ISP and Crab Shack. If there is a technology that is coming that would provide great service that customers and the various service providers want, they can all (infrastructure and services companies) help pay the upgrade costs.
But as I said this would never be implemented. Disenfranchising the ILEC would make too many people upset.
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I'm pretty sure if anyone was going to e-mail me that a relative had just died, they wouldn't just say "Call me".
What I was asking was which is more valuable - the last handwritten letter from the relative that died, or the last email from that same relative that said "Call me" and you most likely deleted pretty quickly.
Yes, but the point is that it was done hand to medium. Its the inherent value of it. Its the fingers on the page, if you will. The value of the Rosetta Stone is not just that its a centuries-old equivalent of a font sample.
Someone took the time to do it. Would that someone have used a computer to do it had they the opportunity? Oh, probably. Point is, though, they didn't.
In 20 years I have never written or recieved a handwritten letter.
Thats a real shame is pretty much all I can say.
That I have had someone willing to take the time to sit and write in their own style, knowing that its that person's hand that has touched the pen to paper, and I can open the small box on the shelf and reread the joys and pains of an entire life...
Has modern life gotten so disposable that this sort of sentiment can be replaced with You send your files from the computer to the "PRINTER"?
I think Samuel Pepys would care about the end of writing.
There are so many concerns about digitizing documents and what format to choose because readers may not be available even five years after the project, let alone 400.
Meanwhile, thanks to the ability to handwrite, we have the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hammurabi's Laws, the Rosetta Stone.
And as the CNN version of this story mentions, which is more significant to you? The handwritten letter that you received from your relative just he or she died, or that quick email saying "Call me" you got and deleted?
Like the prof of humanties in an above post, I am talking more in the "Liberal Arts" arena. My degrees are in English Lit and Theater. And generally, profs in these types of fields tend to despise even the new-fangled white boards and dry ink markers idea, let alone computers in their classrooms.
And the schools I am talking about are places like Southeast Missouri State.
...like the use of paper and pen. Having gone to college for a long time, at several different schools at different stages (in my 30s and only fully finished two years ago), I can tell you that most professors absolutely abhor the student who flips open the laptop and begins typing away during lectures. You'll be lucky to only get scowled at. You may get flat out kicked until you show up with a spiral notebook. Seen it happen more than once.
Get a small tape recorder that you can send with a friend to lectures you can't make. Never trust someone else's notes completely.
If you live in the dorms, perhaps something in a Shuttle SS-51 with an LCD monitor or laptop for doing homework and such. Not much room to play with in most college dorms.
Keeping schedules should be done with a Franklin organizer or such, even if you use a PDA. Hardcopy is always easiest in school. Canvas binders tend not to get lifted. Pretty and shiny disappears.
The Hulk is a good example, as well, of movement being "too smooth." In the trailer, the CGI Hulk looks like a giant green animated Jell-o mold.
Yes, but there are a great many considerations. I personally abhor the thought of every *LEC having to install their own infrastructure.
In my opinion, anyone should be allowed to provide service of any kind over the lines, even if it is "Joe's Crab Shack and Telephone Company, home of Great Jambalaya and Intra-State Long Distance." However, I don't think that every city block should look like a Fort Apache from a Hollywood western because of the number of poles required to run lines to their own customers.
Between electricity, ILEC and cable, there are entirely too many dead stripped trees in urban areas as it is.
And wireless is just not there yet, nor will it be anytime soon, in my opinion. Not for 10 or 100 Mbit to each and every home in a neighborhood.
While I can't provide studies that directly link automotive exhaust to asthma, it can be safely inferred.
Studies have shown that the majority of urban pollution comes from vehicle emissions. Other studies have linked increase in respiratory ailments (asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, etc) to urban pollution levels. Therefore, it can safely be inferred that automotive emissions contribute to asthma and other respiratory difficulties.
How would that work? I mean, your location and the location of all others on the map has to be sent out to the PC to know where to draw you. How do you let the machines participating in the game know where to put people if the information isn't in the data stream?
Or, for the full-on Star Trek nerd experience:
... (twitchy lip here) ... ape.
Of my friend, I can only say this, that of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most
I guess they really want my kid and the kids at my neice's school to get into the pr0n. We use both use SquidGuard to keep them out of the nasty stuff.
And we most certainly have more machines than the five IP addresses we got with the business DSL account.
Dunno about students' acquisitions, but everywhere I go, every secretary, administrator and staff member has an iMac. I am sitting in front of one right now, in a what I assume is strawberry.
And I didn't say one wouldn't have to get there quick. Its property disposition. Its a glorified garage sale. But they have them.
Check with University of Michigan's property disposition. They are an all-Mac school.
And they have some pretty good deals, too. I got an HP LaserJet 4M+ with Postscript module, MIO, and almost new toner cartridge for $100.
UofM Property Disposition
How long did it take for the Banana Jr. 6000 to go away from Bloom County?
The iColor MR (a PDF doc) is what we had considered. They are really rather snazzy little things that fit into a standard MR16 lamp.
Just put some sort of a translucent globe in front, come up with a DMX control sequence, and voila! You have your basic glowing cyber-ball.
You might want to check out Color Kinetics as a possible solution. They are DMX controllable, and allow 65k colors. They were considered for some architectural lighting in a remodelling project where I work.
...to make carbon nanotubes economical?
Is this stuff flexible enough to be used as rope? Could it replace hemp or other synthetics for ships or theatrical counter-weight systems?
I mean, if the only start to the manufacturing of carbon nanotubes is a NASA contract for a few million kilometers of the stuff for a certain special project, its gonna cost $100 a foot or more.
I commented on this in a post previously regarding telecommunications. But I can't remember what the topic was and I'm too laszy to search.
Basically, and this is only my opinion, of course, but the only real solution that I see is to remove services from infrastructure. Let a single recognized monopoly exist that does one thing: owns the copper. Thats it, nothing more, and never allowed to provide service.
Then bill access out to any and all comers from Sprint and AT&T to Billy-Jim's Telephone and Crab Shack to provide the actual voice and/or data. If there is ever a new technology that needs to roll out, let the cost of the system be shared between the infrastructure company and those service companies that see themselves as providers of that service.
But that is an even more drastic change to the telecommunications industry than was the Bell breakup.
It would be nice, but so much for my well-supported Earthlink/Covad DSL...
"whatsherface"?
Yes, I suppose he will be the star of the show, but for some of us, the opportunity to see Peta Wilson of La Femme Nikita all vamped out is definitely something to look forward to!
I really wouldn't be surprised if the production is billed the cost of the $1000 microphone every time.
I know where I work (a theater - as in Shakespeare, not Schwarzenegger), when someone rents the space and asks for some gaffer's tape, even if they use only three inches of the stuff, they get billed the cost of an entire roll. And we keep the used one too.
To allow the RIAA to apply a "tax" to all ISPs is an idea that is totally anethema to the capitalist system upon which the RIAA is based.
It would require Congress to pass a law, and that would be state-sponsored support of a particular industry that would collapse otherwise. Most citizens of the US, if made aware of this, would blow a gasket. Very few are even aware of the money paid for blank media. This would be something passed quietly and as a rider to a bill that would support Social Security or something that no Congressman could possibly vote against.
Music would not stop. However, its distribution would suddenly be much different than it is now. Likewise if Congress actually does something about the modern equivalent of Payola and suddenly Clear Channel loses up to a third of their revenue, which comes from music "promoters".
Stick a card (something like the Hauppauge PVRs) into a machine and record across your Cat5. Then connect a basic Via or Shuttle mini-atx box into the network with S-video or whatever to your TV.
I set mine to record to my IDE RAID5 server and then go upstairs and start watching.
Its easy. And its quieter. And the Hauppauge card uses TitanTV to set shows into the scheduler, or you can do it manually. Either way you don't pay a monthly fee or a one-time $250 membership.
Thats what I did. I have my central file server in the basement, and my Hauppauge Win PVR 250 in a machine next to it. It dumps the show across the 100Mb network to the server and I just load up the MPG from a Shuttle SS51G with wireless keyboard and mouse and the audio out to the stereo. Its quiet, and I have a nice RAID5 storage for entire seasons worth of shows. That can be quickly and easily dumped to either SVCD or DVD for longer term storage.
I had a similar discussion at the bar the other day with a friend over telecomms and the Worldcom failure and all that.
We finally settled on a solution that would never be implemented, but in our non-specialist, non-economist minds would be the only real solution:
Separate infrastructure from services completely. Let your regional ILEC become an entity that does only one thing...own copper. Thats it.
And then they provide access to that copper to any and all service providers at a competitive rate. The same competitive rate for Earthlink as Jimmy-Joe's ISP and Crab Shack. If there is a technology that is coming that would provide great service that customers and the various service providers want, they can all (infrastructure and services companies) help pay the upgrade costs.
But as I said this would never be implemented. Disenfranchising the ILEC would make too many people upset.