I'm puzzled about the comment in the bill that just before 9/11 they tried to get a warrant and couldn't. I have a hard time believing that.
Also, I want to see a time limit on the secrecy --- having a secret court issue warrants is no help if it has no oversight. Even a few congresspeople is not much. Their activities need to be made public in a reasonable amount of time in order to prevent eventual abuse.
I've always said, if you want me to watch your ads, make them interesting enough to want to watch. There are any number of them that fit that bill: the Toyota RAV4 commercial on You Tube is one I've shown a number of people. Charge for hosting commercial videos like that and it'll pay for the rest...
How well they work is another matter... several years ago I created some ads for the interior of bus and light rail for my ISP business. They were designed to be interesting to look at and read, while demonstrating some of the interesting things you could find on the Internet. The transit system got lots of calls from people who liked them. I got nothing but a few more months leaving them up for free from the transit system.
I'd say we're there now; in the near future, it'll be the people *living* here that will start fearing. Unfortunately, few believe that, and won't until it's too late.
That assumes mere scientific exploration of remote worlds is the entire goal. We will learn a considerable amount about living and working on those remote worlds by starting on the moon, which is relatively close by. Even the science on remote worlds will advance faster once you have an actual lab with humans on site where you can adapt to what you find on the fly. And once the technology is bootstrapped by these leaders, the rest of us will be able to follow. As with all tech toys, it will start out expensive, e.g. the $20M trips to the space station, but they're paving the way for the rest of us. I can only hope I live long enough to see it, but it would be exceedingly short sighted to believe that we shouldn't start down the path just because some of those present won't be able to enjoy the fruits...
I completely agree. How about Firefox fix bugs and fight bloat instead of trying to become more bloated? About once a week, I have to kill and restart the one on my Mac at work as it gets near 1G footprint and machine responsiveness goes into the toilet (probably from paging, but haven't dug into it). If I wanted a monolithic browser, I'd use AOL.
It's not even a matter of storage or not: it's just simply an absurd statement. If replacing a 60W bulb == 1.3 million cars, that means those cars run on 46 microwatts. Maybe if they're nanocars... The Prius is spec'd at 50kW, so it's more like one car == 833 light bulbs. You don't actually use a car at full power all the time, so 500 would probably be a good ball park. That assumes they're used about the same amount of time/day, which probably isn't true either, but close enough to show the absurdity of the comparison.
And no, if you don't use it, it won't "just be wasted", unless it's wind, solar or to some extent, hydro (the water may or may not be let through the dam anyhow, depending on season and other factors). But generally, if you don't use it, that's oil, coal or gas not burned, or uranium not fissed (or whatever the proper term is;-) ).
Sticky labels can off-balance the CD and make it hard to read in picky readers.
I use the P-touch labeler which uses "M" cartridges. The tape is about 1/4" wide and very light. Never had a problem yet; if you're really worried, use the smallest font size, trim the ends and put it as close to the center as you can. OK, I had it peel the CD layer itself entirely off the plastic disc once when I tried to remove the label. Don't do that;-)
asks "Is it that hard to put a thermal printer behind a glass shield?"
Thermal paper might be good if you don't care about verifying the election more than a month or two down the road. I'm a terminal procrastinator when it comes to doing my accounting, and it royally pisses me off when I look at a receipt and see a slightly tan piece of paper with just a few hints that it ever carried any information. Ballots should be archivable.
What could an x86 processor do with a 1.7 billion transistor budget? With a vast cache and/or multiple cores and/or pipelines I would think you'd get into the same performance range or maybe even better, without a (relatively) weird architecture.
I would think typing while walking on a treadmill would be really uncomfortable and difficult, as well as anything requiring semi-precision mouse work...
Long before there were DVRs, I was ignoring commercials with the mute button. The fast forward just wastes less of my time in the process. I'm with the guy that said basically, if ABC wants to do it fine, I'll watch other shows instead. There's too many good ones anyhow.
Not crashing while using a phone != good driving while using a phone.
No, but it's the only objective indicator that can be usefully posted to a forum like this, and it is a good indicator that my claims about my judgement has some basis in fact.
I fucking hate car drivers !
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle;-)
That was one of the interesting points in the article: that it's more the fatigue than the alcohol at the low limits currently in place that make the difference. How risky his behavior is depends on how much he's partaking in the pub over what time period. If he's been accident free for 30 years, he's clearly judging his state reasonably well. Though, if I were doing that regularly, I think I'd get one of those meters. I have to admit, I always suspected that lowering the limit from.1 to.08 was more of a political "we have to do something" move than it was based on any actual difference in impairment. I haven't done any empirical testing though, being a pretty casual drinker, but I'd say that article backs it up...
If this scaremongering were true, accident rates would be skyrocketing along with cell phone use. The fact is, that while it may impair driving a little, it's not doing it enough to affect accident rates, so it's just one more bandwagon for people to get on without thinking. There are a lot of bad drivers out there; it's no surprise that more of them are talking on cell phones when they crash because more people are talking on cell phones, so they're more likely to be doing so when they do something stupid. And it's a rather visible activity, so it's easy for people to latch onto it. What's worse is that people seem to like to latch on to one or two instances, when if you actually watch, there are a lot of people talking and driving and doing just fine. The majority of them.
I've been talking and driving for 30 accident free years, well over 10 of them with a cell phone. If someone can't talk and drive at the same time, they should be banned from driving, not banned from cell phone use.
I like mine; it is too hot, but the speakers are better than anything I would expect in something that size. You're not going to get anywhere near audiophile in something that size though. It's the first laptop I've ever had that would reliable suspend/resume. Of course, it's my first Mac laptop too;-)
Land of the free, indeed. Whatever happened to doing whatever you wanted unless it hurt someone else?
My fellow countryman seem to have completely given up any desire for anything even remotely resembling freedom. It's appalling and it's depressing. This is just the latest instance in our downward slide, and the worst of it is that I can't think of anyplace else that isn't just as bad in one way or another.
You have no insurrance on any of the money in your paypal account, which could be 'fozen' at any time
Which is why I keep a minimal amount in the account. And I *never* click on a link to anything having to do with money out of email. I always use a bookmark or type in the URL manually. The only problem I have with Paypal is their history download is a joke: the balance doesn't change between some transactions, only to have it be added to another transaction later. It makes balancing the account a royal pain in the butt. But it's also the easiest way to do business online, and I've never had a problem with they're handling of my money.
On the other hand, my credit union (which for about 20 years has been the best bank I've ever worked with) went through a software upgrade at the end of April and they're still dealing with so many issues they had to oursource their call center.
The human eye can't resolve the extra detail in the picture from 8' on a 42" diagonal.
I'm in agreement with Lucas it looks like --- I like to sit about a screen width or so away from my 8' wide screen (and the 10' one I had in my previous house, and the 11' one a friend has). I do find I'm happy with 720p, but I'm looking forward to when 1080p projectors are affordable, and will want the content to feed it...
I also like the upconversion feature because it greatly simplifies your system to not have to deal with a bazillion different formats.
Unfortunately, I will not buy a player until I can get one that plays both formats. If they can't agree on one, then they'll have to support all of them, as far as I'm concerned.
Diverging slightly, this reminds me of the problem I ran into: I just bought a new house and setup a theater in it. As part of that, I bought a new Denon 3805, which has a feature where it converts all video inputs to HDMI, so I only have to run one relatively small cable to the projector, a Sharp XV-Z10000. It has a DVI input, but HDMI-DVI adapters are simple and readily available. Get everything hooked up, and find that my HD Tivo works, my progressive DVD recorder works, my old regular Tivo does not, and my non-progressive dvd player does not work. After some discussion with Crutchfield tech support (which almost made paying their premium worth it), it came out that the Sharp does not support interlaced input on the DVI port, and the Denon doesn't de-interlace in the up-conversion process. I nearly sent the receiver back, but the old one had some other problems the new one solved, and 99% of my watching is either the HD Tivo or the progressive dvd player, and running an extra S-video cable isn't that big of a deal, so I kept it.
It reared its ugly head again recently when I wanted to record something from the HD Tivo to the DVD recorder: I've not used the S-video connection for some time, and for various reasons, the cabling is still temporary. I had to tell the HD Tivo to switch to the S-video output to record to the DVD recorder, and found the S-video connection wasn't working. Try reconfiguring a Tivo without the video working!
I'm told by a knowledgeable friend that the DVI spec does not include interlaced input options. I assume HDMI must or the upconversion feature would be useless, but it's yet another reminder to double check interface compatibility when getting things you want to talk to each other.
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I'm puzzled about the comment in the bill that just before 9/11 they tried to get a warrant and couldn't. I have a hard time believing that.
Also, I want to see a time limit on the secrecy --- having a secret court issue warrants is no help if it has no oversight. Even a few congresspeople is not much. Their activities need to be made public in a reasonable amount of time in order to prevent eventual abuse.
How many neural connections are there in a brain? More than a couple billion, but that never stopped Hollywood before...
I've always said, if you want me to watch your ads, make them interesting enough to want to watch. There are any number of them that fit that bill: the Toyota RAV4 commercial on You Tube is one I've shown a number of people. Charge for hosting commercial videos like that and it'll pay for the rest...
How well they work is another matter... several years ago I created some ads for the interior of bus and light rail for my ISP business. They were designed to be interesting to look at and read, while demonstrating some of the interesting things you could find on the Internet. The transit system got lots of calls from people who liked them. I got nothing but a few more months leaving them up for free from the transit system.
I'd say we're there now; in the near future, it'll be the people *living* here that will start fearing. Unfortunately, few believe that, and won't until it's too late.
That assumes mere scientific exploration of remote worlds is the entire goal. We will learn a considerable amount about living and working on those remote worlds by starting on the moon, which is relatively close by. Even the science on remote worlds will advance faster once you have an actual lab with humans on site where you can adapt to what you find on the fly. And once the technology is bootstrapped by these leaders, the rest of us will be able to follow. As with all tech toys, it will start out expensive, e.g. the $20M trips to the space station, but they're paving the way for the rest of us. I can only hope I live long enough to see it, but it would be exceedingly short sighted to believe that we shouldn't start down the path just because some of those present won't be able to enjoy the fruits...
I completely agree. How about Firefox fix bugs and fight bloat instead of trying to become more bloated? About once a week, I have to kill and restart the one on my Mac at work as it gets near 1G footprint and machine responsiveness goes into the toilet (probably from paging, but haven't dug into it). If I wanted a monolithic browser, I'd use AOL.
"Never mind"
It's not even a matter of storage or not: it's just simply an absurd statement. If replacing a 60W bulb == 1.3 million cars, that means those cars run on 46 microwatts. Maybe if they're nanocars... The Prius is spec'd at 50kW, so it's more like one car == 833 light bulbs. You don't actually use a car at full power all the time, so 500 would probably be a good ball park. That assumes they're used about the same amount of time/day, which probably isn't true either, but close enough to show the absurdity of the comparison.
;-) ).
And no, if you don't use it, it won't "just be wasted", unless it's wind, solar or to some extent, hydro (the water may or may not be let through the dam anyhow, depending on season and other factors). But generally, if you don't use it, that's oil, coal or gas not burned, or uranium not fissed (or whatever the proper term is
I love vegetarians --- some of my favorite foods are vegetarian.
Sticky labels can off-balance the CD and make it hard to read in picky readers.
;-)
I use the P-touch labeler which uses "M" cartridges. The tape is about 1/4" wide and very light. Never had a problem yet; if you're really worried, use the smallest font size, trim the ends and put it as close to the center as you can. OK, I had it peel the CD layer itself entirely off the plastic disc once when I tried to remove the label. Don't do that
asks "Is it that hard to put a thermal printer behind a glass shield?"
Thermal paper might be good if you don't care about verifying the election more than a month or two down the road. I'm a terminal procrastinator when it comes to doing my accounting, and it royally pisses me off when I look at a receipt and see a slightly tan piece of paper with just a few hints that it ever carried any information. Ballots should be archivable.
What could an x86 processor do with a 1.7 billion transistor budget? With a vast cache and/or multiple cores and/or pipelines I would think you'd get into the same performance range or maybe even better, without a (relatively) weird architecture.
I would think typing while walking on a treadmill would be really uncomfortable and difficult, as well as anything requiring semi-precision mouse work...
Long before there were DVRs, I was ignoring commercials with the mute button. The fast forward just wastes less of my time in the process. I'm with the guy that said basically, if ABC wants to do it fine, I'll watch other shows instead. There's too many good ones anyhow.
checkout.google.com was "temporarily unavailable" when I just went there (though it's back now); if they can't handle a simple slashdotting...
Not crashing while using a phone != good driving while using a phone.
;-)
No, but it's the only objective indicator that can be usefully posted to a forum like this, and it is a good indicator that my claims about my judgement has some basis in fact.
I fucking hate car drivers !
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle
That was one of the interesting points in the article: that it's more the fatigue than the alcohol at the low limits currently in place that make the difference. How risky his behavior is depends on how much he's partaking in the pub over what time period. If he's been accident free for 30 years, he's clearly judging his state reasonably well. Though, if I were doing that regularly, I think I'd get one of those meters. I have to admit, I always suspected that lowering the limit from .1 to .08 was more of a political "we have to do something" move than it was based on any actual difference in impairment. I haven't done any empirical testing though, being a pretty casual drinker, but I'd say that article backs it up...
If this scaremongering were true, accident rates would be skyrocketing along with cell phone use. The fact is, that while it may impair driving a little, it's not doing it enough to affect accident rates, so it's just one more bandwagon for people to get on without thinking. There are a lot of bad drivers out there; it's no surprise that more of them are talking on cell phones when they crash because more people are talking on cell phones, so they're more likely to be doing so when they do something stupid. And it's a rather visible activity, so it's easy for people to latch onto it. What's worse is that people seem to like to latch on to one or two instances, when if you actually watch, there are a lot of people talking and driving and doing just fine. The majority of them.
I've been talking and driving for 30 accident free years, well over 10 of them with a cell phone. If someone can't talk and drive at the same time, they should be banned from driving, not banned from cell phone use.
...has always been: "I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!"
I like mine; it is too hot, but the speakers are better than anything I would expect in something that size. You're not going to get anywhere near audiophile in something that size though. It's the first laptop I've ever had that would reliable suspend/resume. Of course, it's my first Mac laptop too ;-)
Land of the free, indeed. Whatever happened to doing whatever you wanted unless it hurt someone else?
My fellow countryman seem to have completely given up any desire for anything even remotely resembling freedom. It's appalling and it's depressing. This is just the latest instance in our downward slide, and the worst of it is that I can't think of anyplace else that isn't just as bad in one way or another.
You have no insurrance on any of the money in your paypal account, which could be 'fozen' at any time
Which is why I keep a minimal amount in the account. And I *never* click on a link to anything having to do with money out of email. I always use a bookmark or type in the URL manually. The only problem I have with Paypal is their history download is a joke: the balance doesn't change between some transactions, only to have it be added to another transaction later. It makes balancing the account a royal pain in the butt. But it's also the easiest way to do business online, and I've never had a problem with they're handling of my money.
On the other hand, my credit union (which for about 20 years has been the best bank I've ever worked with) went through a software upgrade at the end of April and they're still dealing with so many issues they had to oursource their call center.
The human eye can't resolve the extra detail in the picture from 8' on a 42" diagonal.
I'm in agreement with Lucas it looks like --- I like to sit about a screen width or so away from my 8' wide screen (and the 10' one I had in my previous house, and the 11' one a friend has). I do find I'm happy with 720p, but I'm looking forward to when 1080p projectors are affordable, and will want the content to feed it...
I also like the upconversion feature because it greatly simplifies your system to not have to deal with a bazillion different formats.
Unfortunately, I will not buy a player until I can get one that plays both formats. If they can't agree on one, then they'll have to support all of them, as far as I'm concerned.
Diverging slightly, this reminds me of the problem I ran into: I just bought a new house and setup a theater in it. As part of that, I bought a new Denon 3805, which has a feature where it converts all video inputs to HDMI, so I only have to run one relatively small cable to the projector, a Sharp XV-Z10000. It has a DVI input, but HDMI-DVI adapters are simple and readily available. Get everything hooked up, and find that my HD Tivo works, my progressive DVD recorder works, my old regular Tivo does not, and my non-progressive dvd player does not work. After some discussion with Crutchfield tech support (which almost made paying their premium worth it), it came out that the Sharp does not support interlaced input on the DVI port, and the Denon doesn't de-interlace in the up-conversion process. I nearly sent the receiver back, but the old one had some other problems the new one solved, and 99% of my watching is either the HD Tivo or the progressive dvd player, and running an extra S-video cable isn't that big of a deal, so I kept it.
It reared its ugly head again recently when I wanted to record something from the HD Tivo to the DVD recorder: I've not used the S-video connection for some time, and for various reasons, the cabling is still temporary. I had to tell the HD Tivo to switch to the S-video output to record to the DVD recorder, and found the S-video connection wasn't working. Try reconfiguring a Tivo without the video working!
I'm told by a knowledgeable friend that the DVI spec does not include interlaced input options. I assume HDMI must or the upconversion feature would be useless, but it's yet another reminder to double check interface compatibility when getting things you want to talk to each other.