Both are from the Pacific NW. But "A Third Place" is the mantra of Mr Ron Shea not Howard Schultz. He is the owner developer of Crossroads mall, Lake Forest Mall, and importantly Third Place Books and he is the current owner of the Honey Bear Bakery (which lead seattle in the slice of cake and a coffee movement), which no longer exists in its original location.
Third Place describes the environment that he has tried to create at the Malls and the Third Place Books in the old PCC in Seattle. They have large central courts that are utilized by the general puplic, gaming communities (he likes chess it would appear), community theater and concerts. Along with a variety of food.
His idea is creating the "Third Place" that you go to hang out. After work and home.
He has been moderately successful, but not as univerally accepted as you may think. I think he is right that there exists the concept of third places, but alot of them exist spontaneously, (like Cheers) and only up to a size where everyone knows your name. And they aren't as successful larger than that. But the concept is successful enough, and they are very pleasent places to visit.
Why do I care what any anonymous person thinks about anything? Why does anyone think that cellphones are going to define *anything* about the generic content on the web? Who cares if my HTML is messy. Don't look at it.
I guess I will prognosticate some... XHTML 2.0 adoption will have nothing to do with cellphones.
The real problem here is that you "need the money", so you have a difficult time juggling resources like your time. The one thing that you can control is the amount of money that you spend. You need to be able to create an excess of cash. Once you have that you have options. One of the things is to figure out if you can get "layed off". This may not be so hard, employers who burn through employees also seem to lay off employees at a pretty regular clip. If you have saved money you can push back on overtime. Pushing back on overtime gives you time to look for a job.
That gives you time, money and savings. Then you can start looking for a job.
This has been a long standing argument (decades if not longer) in the Chess Community. Whether the actual records of moves belongs to the Players, Organizers, Publishers, or whether they are in the Public Domain.
So far, the Chess Moves have been considered public domain. Meaning anyone can profit off the republishing of those moves in any media. And you owe no one royalties.
I would have a tough time seeing anything different between baseball stats and Chess Moves.
You mean, there is a Hi-Tech company, and apparently NONE of the people in charge, or that work there, have EVER read or SEEN ANY science-fiction??? NOBODY?? Cripes. We are doomed.
Absolutely. Not because I am addicted to "media". But because I enjoy media, but it absolutely has to be on my terms. I have to be in control of when and how I watch it. You see this as some low value item that provides little benefit to you. Don't buy one, and you now what, I don't really care. Enjoy whatever it is that you do. But as a person that enjoys his TiVo, and has for years, it is wonderful to be able to find my whatever time during a week, and the "media" that I want to watch is sitting there waiting for me, and it really didn't take too much work to make that happen. Media sucked when I had to be there at a certain time. Media sucked when I was there, there was nothing on. Media doesn't suck anymore.
I had a BROKEN Phone stolen out of my car. I did not know this until after I got my bill for $500.00. (I had never used more than 100 minutes in my life). I called the police and the phone company who charged me for the time, even though it was stolen service from them. I changed phone providers, had to pay the $500 and the cancellation fee. When I moved my phone number I recieved a call from the thief's LAWYER that the thief had a court date. His girlfriend called me, and I left him a voice mail for him to call me. I found out that my phone had been confiscated by the police, I had the guy's name and number, he told me he repaired the phone. I even found the police officer that had confiscated the phone in an unrelated drug case.
The gist of it was the police refused to investigate. Refused to press charges, and refused to do anything else other than take a report, and Sprint STILL charged me.
I HATE SPRINT, and will hate any other cell service that does me as bad. Next year, after this contract, I move to prepaid minutes and no more contracts.
The current versions of Freehand and Fireworks are tightly integrated into.SWF creation. Since the Macromaedia crown jewels are SWF, you're not going to see an immediate dismantleing of the porduct line. However, The underlying object models are not the same and it will take quite a bit of engineering effort to move FH/FW to I/PS.
This won't be completely straightforward. There are design and user philosophy's that will need to be reconciled between the engineering groups.
I believe it will be 2 years or so, before you are going to see Illustrator and Photoshop be able to be feature equivilant so that you can finally shut down Freehand and Fireworks.
Isn't this like patenting using paint to protect the outside of your house?
Recognizing an identity and reacting to it, is a primary function and obvious function of RFID. You know like using lightbulbs to illuminate your closet.
Being smart is good and all, but it is not IQ that makes people "productive".
By far, the most productive people who are either Manic, or Manic/Depressive. It is this hyperactive brain that creates schemes and schema, that create song and prose, and code and invention. It is those that sit outside the norms that find the future.
What was a nice thing for solving problems otherwise difficult to solve, has turned into something that is making my expensive computer grind to a halt. Currently no browser likes to have multiple commercial pages open at the same time (which is how I often browse). Everybody from the content hoster, the ad folks, the editorial, and design folks gotta have some Ajax running. VERY VERY little does anything useful from either a UI or Content view, but in the end makes browsing slower, makes my computer slower, and makes me hate the F77ck3rs who think Ajax is cool. I hope this comes to a quick near death like when Java was cool.
It also brings legality into question for other distribution mechanisms, I would think. If Kontiki is legal, how would caching a bittorrent for an episode of "Lost" be any different?
Because it is ostensibly controlled by the owner of the copyright, which means they are controlling the means and methods of distribution, which is the central power of copyright. Nothing here changes or makes the illicit distribution of "Lost" legal.
Bill has continually sold shares into the stock market floating millions and millions of shares into the marketplace that buyers have to absorb. Which they do at a relatively cheap price, and the stock has not moved during one of the largest bull runs in Nasdaq history, while company sales and profits have been increasing at a fantastic rate.
Essentially, he is taking his voting shares, converting them into money at the expense of the shareholders and then giving the money away.
If Microsoft PAID him billions of dollars it would not have had the negative effect the millions of extra shares in the marketplace has had on the stock price.
Again, when he cashes in that much stock in the market, it depresses the market. It takes value from the marketplace and transfers it to him. Why is HE better qualified to spend that value than the rest of the owners? Why is he better qualified than most pensioners? Why is HE better qualified than me?
Give him more than a million dollar a year salary. Give him gigantic bonuses. But as a person who is entrusted with enhancing shareholder value, why should he be damaging it so directly.
You know, all this money he gives away is not coming out of his salary, or even the profits of his company. It comes directly out of the pockets of the shareholders of the company. It comes out of most of the pension plans in the country. It comes from his employees. It comes from everywhere but HIM.
Essentially continually depressing the stock price by dumping by the millions of shares, by the billions of dollars he is taking everyone ELSES money and deciding what to do with it. What makes him more qualified to do with the money than ME? Keep his voting shares, give him a big raise, or even a huge freakin' bonus that he can spend however he likes, but keep your freakin' hands out of my pocket.
Because it takes too much time to recharge a battery. Because batteries lose their charge. Because when I am on the side of the road because my battery has gone dead it will be way more difficult to get my battery to work.
Fuels/gases have many attributes which makes cars work better. The essence of a car is time and mobility. Fuels have to answer the time mobility question. Cars now have to also answer an emmisions question and hydrogen does that very well. It is now mostly accepted we are at peak oil generation. Hydrogen is a by-product of gasoline extraction. Hydrogen is generated via Natural gas (which there is "more" of than oil). Long term generation can be done via Nuclear generation. Hydrogen works because we have a need for a clean fuel for a variety of reasons.
The government subsidizes the blind (ostensibly the largest market) to buy audiobooks. This allows the audio book companies to charge extraordinarily high prices which makes it high for the rest of us. I suspect that if the subsidy went away it would dramatically lower the price and increase the number of audiobooks that are sold. But I also suspect that it would be very hard to stop subsidies for the blind politically.
I also make this claim. Yes, it is not a "great" video player, just as yes, it is not a "great" games machine. First and formost better ipod, more storage, nicer screen, thinner, and it also plays videos, why not, it also plays games, and stores photos.
On top of this I can do this whole new thing, and as to the dowloading from the internet thing. You're kidding yourself if you don't start finding IPOD specific torrent material start showing up.
So I have a question, in what units do we measure C? The reason I ask, is does the formula still work if C is measured in units of C? Because in that case C^2 == 1.
Or does C have to be in units relative to the resting state of the observer? And in that case does the energy in a given mass by another observer change . And still what is to say that an observer doesn't go around talking in stellar units rather than anything smaller than that (again c^2 1)?
Ok, holy freakin crap, but this thing is HUGE... This is bigger than most hard drives , and it holds ONE gigaBYTE of data . You are NOT fooling me with your non-standard measurements. I would have expected a bit better from "NANO" technology.
This is not going to replace ANYTHING with these dimensions... I can get an Ipod NANO with 4 GB of space, and I get a screen, a click wheel, audio processor, and a battery in less space...
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Both are from the Pacific NW. But "A Third Place" is the mantra of Mr Ron Shea not Howard Schultz. He is the owner developer of Crossroads mall, Lake Forest Mall, and importantly Third Place Books and he is the current owner of the Honey Bear Bakery (which lead seattle in the slice of cake and a coffee movement), which no longer exists in its original location.
Third Place describes the environment that he has tried to create at the Malls and the Third Place Books in the old PCC in Seattle. They have large central courts that are utilized by the general puplic, gaming communities (he likes chess it would appear), community theater and concerts. Along with a variety of food.
His idea is creating the "Third Place" that you go to hang out. After work and home.
He has been moderately successful, but not as univerally accepted as you may think. I think he is right that there exists the concept of third places, but alot of them exist spontaneously, (like Cheers) and only up to a size where everyone knows your name. And they aren't as successful larger than that. But the concept is successful enough, and they are very pleasent places to visit.
This is JUST WRONG!
ID software defined Indie Hits. And if that is not recent enough for you...
CounterStrike redefined Indie Hit.
The premise of the article is wrong. Yes it is hard to make a hit indie. But it happens, and happens with a vengence.
Why do I care what any anonymous person thinks about anything? Why does anyone think that cellphones are going to define *anything* about the generic content on the web? Who cares if my HTML is messy. Don't look at it.
I guess I will prognosticate some... XHTML 2.0 adoption will have nothing to do with cellphones.
The real problem here is that you "need the money", so you have a difficult time juggling resources like your time. The one thing that you can control is the amount of money that you spend. You need to be able to create an excess of cash. Once you have that you have options. One of the things is to figure out if you can get "layed off". This may not be so hard, employers who burn through employees also seem to lay off employees at a pretty regular clip. If you have saved money you can push back on overtime. Pushing back on overtime gives you time to look for a job.
That gives you time, money and savings. Then you can start looking for a job.
Whenever the cost of supporting the customers that comes from supporting those customers, exceeds the benefits of satisfying those customers.
The trick is determining the costs and benefits. But often it is not that hard.
This has been a long standing argument (decades if not longer) in the Chess Community. Whether the actual records of moves belongs to the Players, Organizers, Publishers, or whether they are in the Public Domain.
So far, the Chess Moves have been considered public domain. Meaning anyone can profit off the republishing of those moves in any media. And you owe no one royalties.
I would have a tough time seeing anything different between baseball stats and Chess Moves.
You mean, there is a Hi-Tech company, and apparently NONE of the people in charge, or that work there, have EVER read or SEEN ANY science-fiction??? NOBODY?? Cripes. We are doomed.
Absolutely. Not because I am addicted to "media". But because I enjoy media, but it absolutely has to be on my terms. I have to be in control of when and how I watch it.
You see this as some low value item that provides little benefit to you. Don't buy one, and you now what, I don't really care. Enjoy whatever it is that you do. But as a person that enjoys his TiVo, and has for years, it is wonderful to be able to find my whatever time during a week, and the "media" that I want to watch is sitting there waiting for me, and it really didn't take too much work to make that happen. Media sucked when I had to be there at a certain time. Media sucked when I was there, there was nothing on. Media doesn't suck anymore.
I had a BROKEN Phone stolen out of my car. I did not know this until after I got my bill for $500.00. (I had never used more than 100 minutes in my life). I called the police and the phone company who charged me for the time, even though it was stolen service from them. I changed phone providers, had to pay the $500 and the cancellation fee. When I moved my phone number I recieved a call from the thief's LAWYER that the thief had a court date. His girlfriend called me, and I left him a voice mail for him to call me. I found out that my phone had been confiscated by the police, I had the guy's name and number, he told me he repaired the phone. I even found the police officer that had confiscated the phone in an unrelated drug case.
The gist of it was the police refused to investigate. Refused to press charges, and refused to do anything else other than take a report, and Sprint STILL charged me.
I HATE SPRINT, and will hate any other cell service that does me as bad. Next year, after this contract, I move to prepaid minutes and no more contracts.
The current versions of Freehand and Fireworks are tightly integrated into .SWF creation. Since the Macromaedia crown jewels are SWF, you're not going to see an immediate dismantleing of the porduct line. However, The underlying object models are not the same and it will take quite a bit of engineering effort to move FH/FW to I/PS.
This won't be completely straightforward. There are design and user philosophy's that will need to be reconciled between the engineering groups.
I believe it will be 2 years or so, before you are going to see Illustrator and Photoshop be able to be feature equivilant so that you can finally shut down Freehand and Fireworks.
Isn't this like patenting using paint to protect the outside of your house?
Recognizing an identity and reacting to it, is a primary function and obvious function of RFID. You know like using lightbulbs to illuminate your closet.
Being smart is good and all, but it is not IQ that makes people "productive".
By far, the most productive people who are either Manic, or Manic/Depressive. It is this hyperactive brain that creates schemes and schema, that create song and prose, and code and invention. It is those that sit outside the norms that find the future.
It is a good thing we have ritalin to fix them.
What was a nice thing for solving problems otherwise difficult to solve, has turned into something that is making my expensive computer grind to a halt. Currently no browser likes to have multiple commercial pages open at the same time (which is how I often browse). Everybody from the content hoster, the ad folks, the editorial, and design folks gotta have some Ajax running. VERY VERY little does anything useful from either a UI or Content view, but in the end makes browsing slower, makes my computer slower, and makes me hate the F77ck3rs who think Ajax is cool. I hope this comes to a quick near death like when Java was cool.
It also brings legality into question for other distribution mechanisms, I would think. If Kontiki is legal, how would caching a bittorrent for an episode of "Lost" be any different?
Because it is ostensibly controlled by the owner of the copyright, which means they are controlling the means and methods of distribution, which is the central power of copyright. Nothing here changes or makes the illicit distribution of "Lost" legal.
In absence of contract, this was a "work for hire" and therefor they paid for it, they own it, and they can do with it what they wish.
Is there a line between software and copyright protection ?
Bill has continually sold shares into the stock market floating millions and millions of shares into the marketplace that buyers have to absorb. Which they do at a relatively cheap price, and the stock has not moved during one of the largest bull runs in Nasdaq history, while company sales and profits have been increasing at a fantastic rate.
Essentially, he is taking his voting shares, converting them into money at the expense of the shareholders and then giving the money away.
If Microsoft PAID him billions of dollars it would not have had the negative effect the millions of extra shares in the marketplace has had on the stock price.
Again, when he cashes in that much stock in the market, it depresses the market. It takes value from the marketplace and transfers it to him. Why is HE better qualified to spend that value than the rest of the owners? Why is he better qualified than most pensioners? Why is HE better qualified than me?
Give him more than a million dollar a year salary. Give him gigantic bonuses. But as a person who is entrusted with enhancing shareholder value, why should he be damaging it so directly.
You know, all this money he gives away is not coming out of his salary, or even the profits of his company. It comes directly out of the pockets of the shareholders of the company. It comes out of most of the pension plans in the country. It comes from his employees. It comes from everywhere but HIM.
Essentially continually depressing the stock price by dumping by the millions of shares, by the billions of dollars he is taking everyone ELSES money and deciding what to do with it. What makes him more qualified to do with the money than ME? Keep his voting shares, give him a big raise, or even a huge freakin' bonus that he can spend however he likes, but keep your freakin' hands out of my pocket.
Because it takes too much time to recharge a battery. Because batteries lose their charge. Because when I am on the side of the road because my battery has gone dead it will be way more difficult to get my battery to work.
Fuels/gases have many attributes which makes cars work better. The essence of a car is time and mobility. Fuels have to answer the time mobility question. Cars now have to also answer an emmisions question and hydrogen does that very well. It is now mostly accepted we are at peak oil generation. Hydrogen is a by-product of gasoline extraction. Hydrogen is generated via Natural gas (which there is "more" of than oil). Long term generation can be done via Nuclear generation. Hydrogen works because we have a need for a clean fuel for a variety of reasons.
The government subsidizes the blind (ostensibly the largest market) to buy audiobooks. This allows the audio book companies to charge extraordinarily high prices which makes it high for the rest of us. I suspect that if the subsidy went away it would dramatically lower the price and increase the number of audiobooks that are sold. But I also suspect that it would be very hard to stop subsidies for the blind politically.
I also make this claim. Yes, it is not a "great" video player, just as yes, it is not a "great" games machine. First and formost better ipod, more storage, nicer screen, thinner, and it also plays videos, why not, it also plays games, and stores photos.
On top of this I can do this whole new thing, and as to the dowloading from the internet thing. You're kidding yourself if you don't start finding IPOD specific torrent material start showing up.
So I have a question, in what units do we measure C? The reason I ask, is does the formula still work if C is measured in units of C? Because in that case C^2 == 1.
Or does C have to be in units relative to the resting state of the observer? And in that case does the energy in a given mass by another observer change . And still what is to say that an observer doesn't go around talking in stellar units rather than anything smaller than that (again c^2 1)?
Ok, holy freakin crap, but this thing is HUGE... This is bigger than most hard drives , and it holds ONE gigaBYTE of data . You are NOT fooling me with your non-standard measurements. I would have expected a bit better from "NANO" technology.
This is not going to replace ANYTHING with these dimensions... I can get an Ipod NANO with 4 GB of space, and I get a screen, a click wheel, audio processor, and a battery in less space...
Was when I found Tim's business card at the Cafe In bldg 18 at Microsoft. It was like finding RMS *buying* a beer or something...
Peer to Peer works when it is *SHARING*. Anything else and it is stealing. Cripes.