If you can, try stopping for a few minutes, and putting a warm compress over your eyes for a few minutes (put a washcloth under running hot water, wring it out). For me I've found that the rare migraines are usually coming from my sinuses, and this helps open them up again.
Even now, they have no clue what they want to be, an ink and printer 'giant'? Give me a break.
They should invest in 3D scanning/printing, and market a reasonable 3D printer. There are several interesting technologies that require consumables, which seems to be what they were best at marketing.
Haven't seen anything listed, but I would bet that they somehow "fingerprint" their media, and then use something akin to Shazam to see if a given soundtrack can be matched against the fingerprints in their catalogue.
The real issue here is how do you handle Copyright for "naturally occurring sounds" (Birds, Waves, Wind through Trees)? Chances are someone produced a library of these things for license. Do they hold the copyright and are they allowed to license their library? I'd say sure. They produced it with (presumably work on their part).
Okay, now someone else (as in our story), goes out and produces an all new original recording of the same naturally occurring phenomena. Why should the new person not have the copyright for their new work? How do you prove actual infringement?
The only way I can think of is that in order to prove copyright for naturally occurring sounds, there must be some acoustic signature inserted so that they are no longer naturally occurring sounds.
Its akin to me taking a picture of the skyline and using it on a web page, and then being sued because someone else already took a picture of that skyline and had it in a database somewhere.
The "large" in "large guns" was not from my post. I used the word "guns". Unless, and until armored ships appear on the scene, a standard.30 caliber machine gun will be devastating to almost any spaceship.
The Soviets equipped their space stations with 23mm aircraft cannons. That should be enough for everyone.:-)
Good point. I'd assume the fact that they KEPT doing it, meant they probably tested it out once or twice and it seemed to work (backup emergency propulsion system?:) )
You have to bring the enemy to battle, to destroy them. Convoys have precisely this purpose.
A 100km is close in space terms.
This.
The two main ways to look at space warfare are basically "Air Warfare in Space" or "Naval Warfare in Space". I think most people agree that the Naval Warfare model is more likely given current technology levels.
Two fleets would need to find each other, engage each other, and ports of call (Planets/Asteroids/Space Stations) would be good targets.
Yeah, weaponry will be a bit better than cannon, but considering we keep mentioning mass-drivers and planetary bombardment... Cannon seem like a good analogy.:)
If I had to guess, I'd bet they had a problem meeting demand in 2007-2009 after their reputation (and the market for flat screens) grew (starting in 1996), and probably outstripped their production capacity, so they went for quick/cheap components?
amn your grandparents' laziness, you could have been drinking 30 year old mead!
I know you're joking, but... the best find was a bottle of cherry liquor that my great-grandmother set to ferment in a cask (somewhere between the 20's and 60's), and that my grandmother found while cleaning up the basement and bottled.
Probably only aged in the cask for ~30-60 years (depending on when she actually casked it), but knowing the people involved made it priceless.
(we remembered my grandmother finding the cask and filtering/bottling it, but didn't know there was any left:) )
Substitute Jiu-Jitsu or Karate for Judo (not sure Judo does much work on Joint locks/breaks, versus throws, which may be less useful in truly tight quarters), and I'd agree with you.
Heck, they can even chem-snif/x-ran my bags if they really want to, and make me walk through a magnetometer and drink from any liquid I'm bringing on board (if they really feel a need), but the ridiculous level of pseudo security we have reached is mind-boggling.
... Technically speaking, my state would be well within its rights to enforce it's current laws on operation of X-ray emitting equipment if it is shown that the operator is not a licensed radiologist, if the use of the device is not for a medical purpose, and if the devices are not inspected and tested on the required schedule. That'd be a $25 fine per person screened, and perhaps a couple of weeks in prison for the operator.
I'd love to see states like CA and TX start telling the feds to fuck off. Let's get the dismantling of the federal government - pointless at best, corrupt and evil at worst - underway.
Not sure how things stand now (between the redeployment of National Guard troops, and other things), but it sure makes for an interesting read of one way things could play out.
Heck, when we were cleaning out my grandparents house we found a jar of honey that had to be at least 30-40 years old (pre-zipcode in address and no barcode, but a "recognizable" brand name).
We cracked it open and enjoyed it with some similar vintage alcohols (also found during the cleaning), on some (newly bought) crackers, as part of our "good-bye meal" after we finished emptying everything else.
I think most people looked at their huge collection of DVD's and their huge collection of VHS and realized that no matter what format they purchased, it was effectively wasting money. Especially since you watch once and never watch again.
Really? I think "Boy, I'm glad I bought that disc for $8 and could watch it at home with my wife, eating the food/drink of my choice, on the timetable of our choosing, instead of paying $25 to watch it in a theater, and then being gouged for Soda/Popcorn/Snacks."
I don't know about that, I've got a 32" Samsung LCD I bought back in 2006 that's still going strong. Cost me $1600 new, compared to the $1000 the 55" cost that ended up taking it's place, so it wasn't cheap, but it's not nearly as bad as the Sanyos and Visios and shit I see people replacing every other year.
Still, I get what you're saying. My grandmother's ancient console TV in the basement worked from the day they bought it in the 60's until they sold it in the early 2000's. I doubt a single appliance or device I've bought within the last 10 years will last even half that.
I was thinking the same thing. I bought a Samsung 32" for ~$1200 in 2006, and (so far) its been running fine. The TV I have to set the bar on for comparison was an old TV w/remote (wireless), that my parents had that was bought in the early 80's and lasted ~20 years (surviving two moves).
I haven't had any problem with it, but I know it was right before Sumsung became popular, so maybe as demand increased, quality dropped?
~shrug~ over the airwaves 1080p content looks VERY nice to me. All it cost me was a $40 antenna (and of course the TV). Ditched cable over a year ago, and haven't looked back.
But, yes, I totally agree about the streaming content... the artifacting is quite noticeable, though passable (as in it still looks better than the SD streamed content).
... and me without my mod points.
I've actually been amazed at the picture quality since I've ditched cable (~2.5 years and counting). It took a bit of time to figure out how to position the antenna, but the signals are MUCH clearer than I ever got via TWC. Not sure what they are actually transmitting the signals at, but I can tell you they aren't compressing the heck out of them like the Cable Companies do (used to?).
Throw in a TiVo Premier (w/Lifetime service) and Hulu+, and the wife is very happy watching Hulu, recording shows, and switching around between the two built in tuners.
All through one HDMI cable between the TiVo and the TV, an Ethernet cable into the TiVo for network connectivity, a coax cable for Over-The-Air signals, and power for both boxes. Even set up the TiVo remote to power the TV on/off and raise/lower the volume, and change inputs if I want to switch to play Blu-Ray/DVD/Games (and yes, it keeps the settings through battery changes).
[rhetorical]Is the shredding/compaction process along with the delivery by trucks and collection by individual citizens truly superior to simply sending the unprocessed notes off to be burned in great, big boilers to generate steam-powered electricity for wider, cheaper distribution of power?[/rhetorical]
I know you said rhetorical, so you probably know the answer, but:
Sure, burning it in one place for power generation would probably be a more efficient use of the "disposable cash", assuming that is the problem they are trying to solve. In this case though the problem is: "We have these poor people who are freezing in the winter." and someone else noticed "Hey, we're going to burn this used money we took out of circulation. If we can process it a little more, maybe we can give it away to the poor and kill two birds with one 1,000 Euro brick."
Doesn't make it the MOST efficient way of doing things, just a better use of the resources they had available.
To make everyone happy, those who disapprove of the solution can complain that "They just keep throwing money at the problem and expect it to go away".
I mostly agree that Samsung (and the like) are doing real hardware innovation, but I think Apple's innovation is more a matter of actually creating a computer "Appliance" that people use and feel comfortable with, in the same way as a toaster over.
Yeah, sure, if you care about the exact temperature, or want to play with convection oven circulating speeds, they won't expose all the controls you want, but if you find it all intimidating, and just want to hit a button marked "Toast" and have the oven do its job, then you might like it (especially if its "stylish").
Not saying I agree with all the lockdown, but their modus-operandi of making things "appliance-like" while bucking most geeks feelings about it, are MUCH MUCH better aligned with what the vast majority of users want.
Heck, my mother-in-law recently got an iPhone. For the first time since she got a cell phone (at least 15-20 years), she's now picking up voice mails, making text messages, and taking pictures (still hasn't learned how to attach them to Messages yet). Not saying she Couldn't have learned on any other phone, but she hadn't yet.
(note: I think all of these lawsuits are ridiculous, but I also think Apple has done a fair amount of innovating in putting together a cohesive product that IS more than just the sum of its parts)
Watched the video. Not sure how much energy it takes to process the currency into briquets, but it is certainly one of the most innovative "Recycling" programs I've seen, and from the looks of it, one that actually benefits all parties involved (Central Bank gets to destroy old currency, Poor get free fuel).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Personally I almost wish this scenario had played out as in:
A State Of Disobedience: http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743471709/0743471709.htm?blurb
If you can, try stopping for a few minutes, and putting a warm compress over your eyes for a few minutes (put a washcloth under running hot water, wring it out). For me I've found that the rare migraines are usually coming from my sinuses, and this helps open them up again.
New Jersey, India, and China.
Ah yes, the new "Axis of Evil"!
AT&T will charge Netflix, and that will cause Netflix to increase their prices. You'll pay the price either way.
... and either way the money goes to AT&T.
Even now, they have no clue what they want to be, an ink and printer 'giant'? Give me a break.
They should invest in 3D scanning/printing, and market a reasonable 3D printer. There are several interesting technologies that require consumables, which seems to be what they were best at marketing.
Agreed. I just pulled a small 3.2 fl oz sample I just got from the Dentist of "Listerine: Total Care"
It's got an expiration date in 2012, and the label lists ingredients as:
Active:
Sodium Fluoride 0.0221% (0.01% w/v fluoride ion)
Inactive:
Water, Sorbitol Solution, Alcohol (21.6%), flavors, poloxamer 407, sodium lauryl sulfate, phosphoric acid, sucralose, dibasic sodium phosphate, FD&C red no. 40, FD&C blue no. 1
Directions are:
Vigorously swish 10 ml (2 teaspoonfulls) of rinse between your teeth for 1 minute and then spit out.
Haven't seen anything listed, but I would bet that they somehow "fingerprint" their media, and then use something akin to Shazam to see if a given soundtrack can be matched against the fingerprints in their catalogue.
The real issue here is how do you handle Copyright for "naturally occurring sounds" (Birds, Waves, Wind through Trees)? Chances are someone produced a library of these things for license. Do they hold the copyright and are they allowed to license their library? I'd say sure. They produced it with (presumably work on their part).
Okay, now someone else (as in our story), goes out and produces an all new original recording of the same naturally occurring phenomena. Why should the new person not have the copyright for their new work? How do you prove actual infringement?
The only way I can think of is that in order to prove copyright for naturally occurring sounds, there must be some acoustic signature inserted so that they are no longer naturally occurring sounds.
Its akin to me taking a picture of the skyline and using it on a web page, and then being sued because someone else already took a picture of that skyline and had it in a database somewhere.
The "large" in "large guns" was not from my post. I used the word "guns". Unless, and until armored ships appear on the scene, a standard .30 caliber machine gun will be devastating to almost any spaceship.
The Soviets equipped their space stations with 23mm aircraft cannons. That should be enough for everyone. :-)
Good point. I'd assume the fact that they KEPT doing it, meant they probably tested it out once or twice and it seemed to work (backup emergency propulsion system? :) )
The nearest we have is sea-warfare.
You have to bring the enemy to battle, to destroy them. Convoys have precisely this purpose.
A 100km is close in space terms.
This.
The two main ways to look at space warfare are basically "Air Warfare in Space" or "Naval Warfare in Space". I think most people agree that the Naval Warfare model is more likely given current technology levels.
Two fleets would need to find each other, engage each other, and ports of call (Planets/Asteroids/Space Stations) would be good targets.
Yeah, weaponry will be a bit better than cannon, but considering we keep mentioning mass-drivers and planetary bombardment ... Cannon seem like a good analogy. :)
If I had to guess, I'd bet they had a problem meeting demand in 2007-2009 after their reputation (and the market for flat screens) grew (starting in 1996), and probably outstripped their production capacity, so they went for quick/cheap components?
Which suffered higher failure rates?
amn your grandparents' laziness, you could have been drinking 30 year old mead!
I know you're joking, but ... the best find was a bottle of cherry liquor that my great-grandmother set to ferment in a cask (somewhere between the 20's and 60's), and that my grandmother found while cleaning up the basement and bottled.
Probably only aged in the cask for ~30-60 years (depending on when she actually casked it), but knowing the people involved made it priceless.
(we remembered my grandmother finding the cask and filtering/bottling it, but didn't know there was any left :) )
Substitute Jiu-Jitsu or Karate for Judo (not sure Judo does much work on Joint locks/breaks, versus throws, which may be less useful in truly tight quarters), and I'd agree with you.
Heck, they can even chem-snif/x-ran my bags if they really want to, and make me walk through a magnetometer and drink from any liquid I'm bringing on board (if they really feel a need), but the ridiculous level of pseudo security we have reached is mind-boggling.
And yet, sadly, they don't.
The Rhode Island State Airlines wouldn't even be able to taxi to the end of the runway.
I thought they were going to start using Bi-Planes again?
Drivers licenses are issued by states.
To federal standards.
I'd love to see states like CA and TX start telling the feds to fuck off. Let's get the dismantling of the federal government - pointless at best, corrupt and evil at worst - underway.
Try reading A State of Disobedience.
Interesting depiction of a second U.S. Civil War.
Not sure how things stand now (between the redeployment of National Guard troops, and other things), but it sure makes for an interesting read of one way things could play out.
Heck, when we were cleaning out my grandparents house we found a jar of honey that had to be at least 30-40 years old (pre-zipcode in address and no barcode, but a "recognizable" brand name).
We cracked it open and enjoyed it with some similar vintage alcohols (also found during the cleaning), on some (newly bought) crackers, as part of our "good-bye meal" after we finished emptying everything else.
I think most people looked at their huge collection of DVD's and their huge collection of VHS and realized that no matter what format they purchased, it was effectively wasting money. Especially since you watch once and never watch again.
Really? I think "Boy, I'm glad I bought that disc for $8 and could watch it at home with my wife, eating the food/drink of my choice, on the timetable of our choosing, instead of paying $25 to watch it in a theater, and then being gouged for Soda/Popcorn/Snacks."
I don't know about that, I've got a 32" Samsung LCD I bought back in 2006 that's still going strong. Cost me $1600 new, compared to the $1000 the 55" cost that ended up taking it's place, so it wasn't cheap, but it's not nearly as bad as the Sanyos and Visios and shit I see people replacing every other year.
Still, I get what you're saying. My grandmother's ancient console TV in the basement worked from the day they bought it in the 60's until they sold it in the early 2000's. I doubt a single appliance or device I've bought within the last 10 years will last even half that.
I was thinking the same thing. I bought a Samsung 32" for ~$1200 in 2006, and (so far) its been running fine. The TV I have to set the bar on for comparison was an old TV w/remote (wireless), that my parents had that was bought in the early 80's and lasted ~20 years (surviving two moves).
I haven't had any problem with it, but I know it was right before Sumsung became popular, so maybe as demand increased, quality dropped?
The first time I saw an ipod i thought. Where's the record button. Stallman is right. Right to read that is.
They added it back in on later models.
~shrug~ over the airwaves 1080p content looks VERY nice to me. All it cost me was a $40 antenna (and of course the TV). Ditched cable over a year ago, and haven't looked back.
But, yes, I totally agree about the streaming content... the artifacting is quite noticeable, though passable (as in it still looks better than the SD streamed content).
... and me without my mod points.
I've actually been amazed at the picture quality since I've ditched cable (~2.5 years and counting).
It took a bit of time to figure out how to position the antenna, but the signals are MUCH clearer than I ever got via TWC. Not sure what they are actually transmitting the signals at, but I can tell you they aren't compressing the heck out of them like the Cable Companies do (used to?).
Throw in a TiVo Premier (w/Lifetime service) and Hulu+, and the wife is very happy watching Hulu, recording shows, and switching around between the two built in tuners.
All through one HDMI cable between the TiVo and the TV, an Ethernet cable into the TiVo for network connectivity, a coax cable for Over-The-Air signals, and power for both boxes. Even set up the TiVo remote to power the TV on/off and raise/lower the volume, and change inputs if I want to switch to play Blu-Ray/DVD/Games (and yes, it keeps the settings through battery changes).
Who says it has to be difficult?
[rhetorical]Is the shredding/compaction process along with the delivery by trucks and collection by individual citizens truly superior to simply sending the unprocessed notes off to be burned in great, big boilers to generate steam-powered electricity for wider, cheaper distribution of power?[/rhetorical]
I know you said rhetorical, so you probably know the answer, but:
Sure, burning it in one place for power generation would probably be a more efficient use of the "disposable cash", assuming that is the problem they are trying to solve. In this case though the problem is: "We have these poor people who are freezing in the winter." and someone else noticed "Hey, we're going to burn this used money we took out of circulation. If we can process it a little more, maybe we can give it away to the poor and kill two birds with one 1,000 Euro brick."
Doesn't make it the MOST efficient way of doing things, just a better use of the resources they had available.
To make everyone happy, those who disapprove of the solution can complain that "They just keep throwing money at the problem and expect it to go away".
I mostly agree that Samsung (and the like) are doing real hardware innovation, but I think Apple's innovation is more a matter of actually creating a computer "Appliance" that people use and feel comfortable with, in the same way as a toaster over.
Yeah, sure, if you care about the exact temperature, or want to play with convection oven circulating speeds, they won't expose all the controls you want, but if you find it all intimidating, and just want to hit a button marked "Toast" and have the oven do its job, then you might like it (especially if its "stylish").
Not saying I agree with all the lockdown, but their modus-operandi of making things "appliance-like" while bucking most geeks feelings about it, are MUCH MUCH better aligned with what the vast majority of users want.
Heck, my mother-in-law recently got an iPhone. For the first time since she got a cell phone (at least 15-20 years), she's now picking up voice mails, making text messages, and taking pictures (still hasn't learned how to attach them to Messages yet). Not saying she Couldn't have learned on any other phone, but she hadn't yet.
(note: I think all of these lawsuits are ridiculous, but I also think Apple has done a fair amount of innovating in putting together a cohesive product that IS more than just the sum of its parts)
Watched the video. Not sure how much energy it takes to process the currency into briquets, but it is certainly one of the most innovative "Recycling" programs I've seen, and from the looks of it, one that actually benefits all parties involved (Central Bank gets to destroy old currency, Poor get free fuel).