I've been waiting forever to read the news that the Toronto Raptors are filing a lawsuit against Mozilla for (what in my opinion) is a blatent infringement of the Raptor logo.
What would you consider the essential ingredients to keep stocked in your pantry? And how long do these items keep? I'm sure the box of baking powder I rarely use isn't as good as when I bought it 3 years ago.
And fresh herbs... your recipe calls for a sprinkle of dill or coriander or something, so go buy a bunch from the local market. After you've used your sprinkle, what is the best way to keep the remainder fresh? I've found that putting parsley in a glass of water (like flowers in a vase) in the fridge seems to work okay... but you're the guy with the TV show.
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Between 1820 and 1842, the boundary between Maine and Canada was disputed.
In 1903, the border between Canada and the US along the Alaskan "pan-handle" was finally decided.
In 1925, a treaty with the UK clarified the boundary through the Lake of the Woods (Minnisota), resulting in the transfer of a few acres between countries. US residents in this area actually wanted to secede from the US at one point due to fishing regulations.
Several towns straddle the New York/Quebec border, where the border can run through a library. That page also mentions that many people in the region have dual citizenship because they were born in the States.
It looks like they've lost the onboard S-video output. That was a cool feature for anyone who wanted to turn one of these boxes into a PVR or something similar.
Sure, you can get AGP cards with S-video, but if you're not doing for hardcore gaming, it looks like that's one more thing to have to buy now.
Mapping the audio outputs is nice though.
Also, it looks (from the photos on their site) like the case is getting slightly bigger in the newer models. Soon we'll have a (gasp) mini-tower again!
-- "There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Some time ago, Hayes Microcomputer Products got a patent -- known as the "Heatherington patent" -- on its method of doing modem escape sequences. The patent was a "submarine" patent -- that is, one that issues long after others in the industry have begun using the same technique or technology -- and was bitterly disputed by other modem vendors, who didn't want to pay money to Hayes. However, Hayes gradually one most of the lawsuits due to deep pockets, clever lawyers, and the idiosyncrasies of the patent system.
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Hayes, bitter about not being paid royalties by these vendors, sabotaged its own press releases by placing the characters "+++ATH0" at the top of
each document and then circulating them widely. (The idea, I suppose, was to make the press believe that other brands of modems were not reliable.) I exposed this primitive denial of service attack in my InfoWorld column in 1991.
IMHO, it's time to build a lossy format for storing graphics...
Well, the Portable Network Photograph project promised this, but their mailing list seems to have been inactive for a few years. Other places mention wavelet compression formats or Adobe's Bravo format (although a search on www.adobe.com came up with nothing).
1) Make ads worth watching. I'll stop and watch an ad if it's funny or intelligent or otherwise better than the drek that is most advertising. Entertain me, don't recycle that Tremclad ad from 5 years ago, or the Bites 'n' Bites one from 20 years ago.
2) Give up on the 30 second spot. If PVRs come with built in 30-sec FFWD buttons, stop making ads 30 seconds long. Sure, people will still zap through the ads, then back up to catch the bit of the show they missed, but they might see something interesting along the way and stop to look. (Although it probably messes up the entire pricing structure of the ad industry, I bet the creatives would have a field day being let out of the 30 second constraint).
3) Run ads in parallel with the shows. Like those tickers on CNN or MSNBC, just shrink the show picture down a little bit, and run thin ads along the bottom of the screen. Heck, they already do this during the credits of most shows (although, the day they decide to do this to the *entire* show is the day I stop watching that channel).
4) Give up. PVRs aren't giving the consumer anything new in terms of commercial skipping. When I taped shows on my VCR, I ffwded through the commercials. Before I had a VCR, I used the commercial time to take a leak or refill my drink. As someone already posted, the value of tv commercials to advertisers is immeasurable, ridiculously over-stated, and perpetrated by the networks, ratings agencies, etc..
Commercials (and advertising in general I would venture to say) are becoming so predominant that the average citizen has tuned them out. Do you remember what the ad was on your bus stop this morning? I don't. Advertisers think the solution to this is to find new and unexpected places to put their ads: taxi cab hubcaps, entire cars, sides of trucks that drive around with no purpose but to show ads (and pollute, of course), toilets, steps in the subway, public garbage cans... At some point they are going to either a) run out of space to advertise, at which point our cities are going to be so saturated that ads become part of the landscape and people tune them out, or b) hit a point where there is a huge public backlash and they are forced to admit that what they are doing is wasteful and intrusive.
Perhaps the virus writer has a bone to pick with the companies that are being advertised, or the brokers.
Making company X pay however many thousands of dollars in banner views is just as valid a motive as trying to collect that same money yourself... but much easier to get away with, I suspect.
I suspect that your problems have more to do with RCOM than with Neulevel.
If you register the name through RCOM, then their job is to take your money ('natch), and send the info to Neulevel, who *only* needs to know who your nameservers are.
[Although, Neulevel's requirement that any nameservers for a.US domain be physically located in the U.S. of A. is up there on the dumb idea scale. The point of DNS is redundancy. Why put all your nameservers in the same basket?]
From then on, your zone file and MX settings, etc., are handled by your DNS provider (i.e. whoever runs your nameservers). If RCOM said your "zone file got corrupted", it sounds like they are covering up for some other incompetence.
Sure the.US registry is a "new thing". Managing DNS isn't, and that's what your problem likely is. Go check out easyDNS or another outsourced DNS company.
A warning sign that's printed in every current language and several dead languages, so that, even in the event of a global catastrophy wiping out most human knowledge, there's a good chance that someone would recognize the warning.
Perfect! Now, how do you say "spent nuclear fuel waste" in Phrygian?
Better watch out... first they'll take over professional sports. Before you know it, their evil army of robots will soon be causing havoc in our streets and marrying Spice Girls.
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yeah, except that with each purchase of a $200k house you get... A FREAKIN $200k HOUSE!
... and usually the proceeds of sale from your previous house.
Yup
Uh, "their" should be "they're" ... which I would call a spelling error.
If they strike them down, they will only become more powerful than you could possibly imagine ...
I've been waiting forever to read the news that the Toronto Raptors are filing a lawsuit against Mozilla for (what in my opinion) is a blatent infringement of the Raptor logo.
Yeah ... with cups and string, it's pretty easy to detect a man-in-the-middle attack.
What would you consider the essential ingredients to keep stocked in your pantry? And how long do these items keep? I'm sure the box of baking powder I rarely use isn't as good as when I bought it 3 years ago.
... your recipe calls for a sprinkle of dill or coriander or something, so go buy a bunch from the local market. After you've used your sprinkle, what is the best way to keep the remainder fresh? I've found that putting parsley in a glass of water (like flowers in a vase) in the fridge seems to work okay ... but you're the guy with the TV show.
And fresh herbs
Right here.
You just need to build a robot that can hail a cab and dispense the fee, or walk into a Fedex office and say "ship me!"
Between 1820 and 1842, the boundary between Maine and Canada was disputed.
In 1903, the border between Canada and the US along the Alaskan "pan-handle" was finally decided.
In 1925, a treaty with the UK clarified the boundary through the Lake of the Woods (Minnisota), resulting in the transfer of a few acres between countries. US residents in this area actually wanted to secede from the US at one point due to fishing regulations.
Several towns straddle the New York/Quebec border, where the border can run through a library. That page also mentions that many people in the region have dual citizenship because they were born in the States.
So, it ain't that much of a joke.
... one of these? Just get the USB model, and there you go.
(for Canadians who want one, try here)
"[T]he company has gone to considerable lengths to train it's actors to avoid detection [as Ericsson spokespeople.]"
And I just stole one of those babies from these old tourists today so I could go play Battleship with these hot chicks I met at the bar last night.
Bah ... you register your own domain name and set up you@yourdomain.com.
easyDNS has been doing this for me for years. Through 3 ISP changes. Flawlessly.
And way cheaper than $.05 an email.
It looks like they've lost the onboard S-video output. That was a cool feature for anyone who wanted to turn one of these boxes into a PVR or something similar.
Sure, you can get AGP cards with S-video, but if you're not doing for hardcore gaming, it looks like that's one more thing to have to buy now.
Mapping the audio outputs is nice though.
Also, it looks (from the photos on their site) like the case is getting slightly bigger in the newer models. Soon we'll have a (gasp) mini-tower again!
--
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
- Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939
IMHO, it's time to build a lossy format for storing graphics...
Well, the Portable Network Photograph project promised this, but their mailing list seems to have been inactive for a few years. Other places mention wavelet compression formats or Adobe's Bravo format (although a search on www.adobe.com came up with nothing).
... one of these or even one of these. Little is where it's at, man!
I *swear* I remember seeing a mainstream product that did this at my local music store around 5 to 10 years ago. I'm sure of it.
... anyone else remember this?
A quick scan of Yamaha and Roland's websites don't turn anything up though.
I don't think dementia is setting in yet
The entire image could also be seen as a path heading into the distance (kinda like a road into a green sunset, I suppose).
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Not sure what that means, though
So, if you own a modem, your bill goes up $7. If you lease/rent from AT&T, your bill stays the same.
... so go rent a modem from AT&T and stick it in your closet.
Uh
... assuming, of course, that the modem-owner's bill was originally <= (the renter's bill + $7)
p.s. it also means that I can stream my MP3's from home (as well as Mpeg ;-)
:)
Yeah, I would *love* to be able to watch The Matrix or whatever on my cellphone's 100x100 pixel, black-and-green screen.
1) Make ads worth watching. I'll stop and watch an ad if it's funny or intelligent or otherwise better than the drek that is most advertising. Entertain me, don't recycle that Tremclad ad from 5 years ago, or the Bites 'n' Bites one from 20 years ago.
... At some point they are going to either a) run out of space to advertise, at which point our cities are going to be so saturated that ads become part of the landscape and people tune them out, or b) hit a point where there is a huge public backlash and they are forced to admit that what they are doing is wasteful and intrusive.
2) Give up on the 30 second spot. If PVRs come with built in 30-sec FFWD buttons, stop making ads 30 seconds long. Sure, people will still zap through the ads, then back up to catch the bit of the show they missed, but they might see something interesting along the way and stop to look. (Although it probably messes up the entire pricing structure of the ad industry, I bet the creatives would have a field day being let out of the 30 second constraint).
3) Run ads in parallel with the shows. Like those tickers on CNN or MSNBC, just shrink the show picture down a little bit, and run thin ads along the bottom of the screen. Heck, they already do this during the credits of most shows (although, the day they decide to do this to the *entire* show is the day I stop watching that channel).
4) Give up. PVRs aren't giving the consumer anything new in terms of commercial skipping. When I taped shows on my VCR, I ffwded through the commercials. Before I had a VCR, I used the commercial time to take a leak or refill my drink. As someone already posted, the value of tv commercials to advertisers is immeasurable, ridiculously over-stated, and perpetrated by the networks, ratings agencies, etc..
Commercials (and advertising in general I would venture to say) are becoming so predominant that the average citizen has tuned them out. Do you remember what the ad was on your bus stop this morning? I don't. Advertisers think the solution to this is to find new and unexpected places to put their ads: taxi cab hubcaps, entire cars, sides of trucks that drive around with no purpose but to show ads (and pollute, of course), toilets, steps in the subway, public garbage cans
Perhaps the virus writer has a bone to pick with the companies that are being advertised, or the brokers.
... but much easier to get away with, I suspect.
Making company X pay however many thousands of dollars in banner views is just as valid a motive as trying to collect that same money yourself
I suspect that your problems have more to do with RCOM than with Neulevel.
.US domain be physically located in the U.S. of A. is up there on the dumb idea scale. The point of DNS is redundancy. Why put all your nameservers in the same basket?]
.US registry is a "new thing". Managing DNS isn't, and that's what your problem likely is. Go check out easyDNS or another outsourced DNS company.
If you register the name through RCOM, then their job is to take your money ('natch), and send the info to Neulevel, who *only* needs to know who your nameservers are.
[Although, Neulevel's requirement that any nameservers for a
From then on, your zone file and MX settings, etc., are handled by your DNS provider (i.e. whoever runs your nameservers). If RCOM said your "zone file got corrupted", it sounds like they are covering up for some other incompetence.
Sure the
A warning sign that's printed in every current language and several dead languages, so that, even in the event of a global catastrophy wiping out most human knowledge, there's a good chance that someone would recognize the warning.
Perfect! Now, how do you say "spent nuclear fuel waste" in Phrygian?
Isn't Iran part of that scary Axis of Evil?
... first they'll take over professional sports. Before you know it, their evil army of robots will soon be causing havoc in our streets and marrying Spice Girls.
Better watch out