If it's a rental car, tire size is not an issue. They probably have pretty standard tires sizes on all of their vehicles.
Also, it would be unfiar to track speed using GPS alone. Measurements should be based on the car's speedometer so the person drivng will won't be penalized if he doen't know that he's speeding. If the tires are nonstandard or the speedometer is in accurate, the driver still ought to be responsible for that speed and not the GPS-calculated speed.
Certainly, new media such as web pages, television, and other electronic data sources are changing. They are in a perpetual state of change. To me, that isn't news. It doesn't grab my attention
I was, however, surprised when I saw this Attention Hunter mentality seep into more traditional media.
I'm in the high school class of 2002, and summertime is when we're expected to have our senior pictures made. The competition amoung the photography studios here is surprisingly intense. Representatives came into the lunchroom, passing out flyers. Each studio has promostion offers and rewards for students that refer other students to their business. None of this surprised me, though. I've received at least 20 flyers in the mail, each one personalized with my name, each one featuring photos of last year's graduating class, people I know. None of this surprised me, however, because colleges have been sending me these types of flyers for a few years now.
I was surprised when one day I recieved an undecorated evelope in the mail, my name and address handwritten on it, and with no return address. I open the envelope and inside is a newspaper clipping with a Stiki-Note attatched to it. Handwritten and feminine, the note reads:
Matthew-
Thought you might want to check this out!
-K
Attatched was a newspaper clipping of what appeared to be a favorable review of the the photography studio. It was not, however a favorable review, it was paid advertisement space, disguised as a review.
They sent me advertisement disguised as a friend's reccomendation referencing to another advertisement disguised as an critic's opinion.
Naturally, I'm disgusted, but they did trick me into viewing the matirial, I had immediately thrown everything else out. Has enyone else ever received anything like this?
Joe and Jane Sixpack aren't as self-reliant as we.
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I'd like to suggest that corporations that suck do so because of the absence of Unions. Look at Wal-Mart. I don't want to enumerate the reasons why Wal-Mart sucks, but I will say that Wal-Mart treats it's employees like garbage. (as garbage) They work for very little and their chances for advancement are always very small.
Why do the employees take the abuse?
During their training they are subjected to anti-union propaganda. Videos that might not brainwash the average Slashdotter are able to compltely melt the minds of Wal-Mart employees.
Wal-Mart works against unions in other ways too. Wal-Mart once had a meatpacking division, and when a Union was successfully formed, Wal-Mart terminated that part of their business.
While most IT professionals are well paid just because the skills are so in demand, and workplace hazards are limited to the vaporous carpal tunnel syndrome. Unskilled people are forced to take what they can get, and what they can get is very little without the power of unions. While unions in the IT industry do very little, if a union were to survive in a Wal-Mart-type environment it would really shake things up. Wal-Mart knows this. Realize that corporations are in business for shareholder's a profit, not worker's profit. Realize that Joe Sixpack has a crappy job, and he can't do anything about it on his own.
The rental car companies would be smart to deploy a system which uses GPS tracking to determine the speed limit and the car's own speedometer to read the speed.
Determining the speed limit of the location of the car would be within the capacity of the GPS, but as you said, determining speed would not.
I really doubt that this will ever be put into effect because the costs of implementing such a system in a market where prices are so competetive would be unacceptable.
I play counter-strike a lot, and the better servers have dedicated admins coupled with modifications that make voting easier. I only play on two servers, and there is always an admin on at all reasonable times if day. Volunteer admins and vote-kicking will save us all from the horror of cheating.
Just look at Slashdot. Volunteer admins, moderators, keep discussions clean, and on-topic.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to put a karma system into counter-strike. Players could get points for good play, and it would provide bragging rights for good players.
I don't think there will be any client-side problems with smart-tags. There will almost certainly be an option to toggle the tags. Unlike spam, this will be entirely optional.
Also, I think I might like to have the tags. They could be helpful when reading a slashdot post in which the poster neglected to put any links into the post.
If Microsoft is smart about smart-tags, they'll also make them a different color, just so there is never any confusing them with the author's intended content.
Scream that you're freedom is being taken away if you like, but I think this is a non-issue.
Ms. Thiverge tried everything she could to fix it: wrist bands, steroids, diuretic pills and physiotherapy. Her employers spent $4,500 on a microphone device so she could dictate into the computer.
What did they do? Build a recording studio? I'd like to see that microphone.
"And then there's N.C.'s aviation heritage," Hoyt says. "The fact that powered flight began with the Wright Brothers in 1903 just a couple of hours away from our site is a nice connection."
"Hopefully, in the late part of 2003, the prototype will be ready to come out of the (German) hangar and be certified," says Mike Hoyt, CargoLifter spokesman. "That will be the go signal for us here in North Carolina. Once that prototype is certified, then we will begin to clear land and start building here."
The first of these ships will be launched 100 years after the original, and everybody knows that the number three is significant. Something very important is afoot here.
In other news... Germany starts a another World War. Plans to produce Hospital sized thermonuclear devices, or "H-Bombs", are presently under development.
Maybe America(tm) was a little inaccurate, but so few Americans seem to know that America is a continent that it might not matter. Canada has always been more liberal than the U.S. and that translates into a corporate climeate that is not as commercial.
They could do good things for the internet community. I'l like them to form a partnership with Odigo, and try to knock AIM and ICQ down a few notches. I really thinnk they'd be wasting opportunity if they didn't catch onto instant messaging soon after the merge.
Just my.02. I use Odigo, and although it's compatible with the AOL networks, I'd like to have connections to more using Odigo's native network.
Did you use punctuation? I think the capital letters might cause it to treat the sentence as single words, losing proper word ordering when translated into English.
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In the article, it mentioned the radiation being detectible through concrete.
Also, beta radiation was mandatory for the types of experiments he was attempting. Remember the baruim?
Anyhow, he shortened his life. Big deal. He should be conforted by the fact that within a sea of clones, he is unique.
Tux:(free Linux distribution CD in hand) Hello, gentlemen.
Bo Guard:(nightstick and beer in hand) Say, that looks like free software.
Tux:(smugly) Looks like, but isn't.
Bo Guard:(angry) Alright, wise guy, what is it?
Tux: I care about Microsoft's property so much I brought my own coaster. Would you like one?
Bo Guard:(smugly) Alright, I have you now, you're passing out free Linux-branded coasters! Come with me.
Tux: Free? Who said anything about free? I meant, 'would you like to buy one from me?' This is a fifty dollar coaster. See? (holds coaster to the light) It's holographic.
Bo Guard:(thinking himself to be very clever) Yes, I will buy one of your shiny coasters. Here is the money that I am giving you in order to purchase the coaster. (gives Tux $50)
Tux: It has been a pleasure oding business with you. (pockets money and gives a disc to Bo)
Bo Guard: Ha! Now I have you! Solicitation isn't allowed in this area. Come with me!
Tux:(goes quietly, speaking under his breath) Ha. Now I have fifty dollars.
I guess this is true for all the photos if galaxies that we are shown. Horsehead nebula, whatever, I seem to remember all of them in more than one color. Does anyone know where to find un-colored images? I'd guess that they're either white or invisible.
When organic matirials burn, they produce CO2.
So it could be said you're getting it in the face with or without a Fire-fighting, Trinity-Loving robot?
Looking into your link, without seeing the title or anything I thought I was looking a magnified scrubbing bubble.
Freaked me out for a second.
Those stupid bubbles and their accursedly smug faces always make me want to lash out. I usually make a big mess. Ordinary cleaners just won't do. Thus a viscious cycle begins in the MulluskO household. This is why I never leave my computer alone for more than five minutes at a time.
Creature comforts will leap forward. A television, having studied and learned its owner's reactions to various shows, will suggest programs to make one laugh (or, if you prefer, cry). The Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has already designed skin-surface sensors that are able to divine emotions, including happiness, sadness, anger, and fear.
I don't think so. Watching the news doesn't always make me laugh, cry, or wince, but I like the news. I don't think anyone will ever want to have a television read their emotions for the purposes of determining what they watch, although this sort of thing could totally revolutionize the way rating data is collected. Any mildly intelligent human being has the capability to sift through 500 channels. Even so, in the real future we will have fewer channels because the satellite networks will offer more flexiblity while ordering content.
I laugh, cry, and wince whenever George W. Bush is in the news.
I'd suggest that NASA isn't going to put the rock samples that it may one day bring back from Mars at a great expense into an incinerator.
Also,...it has been found to remain infective after 360 degrees C for 1 hour or even after incineration....
Samples will need to be studied with Level III[search prion] precautions. I trust if there is a possiblilty of TSE contamination, NASA will quarantine. I believe there is a possiblity that TSEs exist on Mars, and I support the panel.
The article mentioned something about punching in a key and switching into data mode. It's hard to read translated text, but I think they mean the keys for the encryption. Any thoughts from anyone that actually speaks German? Or has better reading comprehension?
Slashdot Mirror
If it's a rental car, tire size is not an issue. They probably have pretty standard tires sizes on all of their vehicles.
Also, it would be unfiar to track speed using GPS alone. Measurements should be based on the car's speedometer so the person drivng will won't be penalized if he doen't know that he's speeding. If the tires are nonstandard or the speedometer is in accurate, the driver still ought to be responsible for that speed and not the GPS-calculated speed.
They posted that information without a liscence like GPL protecting them, it's their fault,
Certainly, new media such as web pages, television, and other electronic data sources are changing. They are in a perpetual state of change. To me, that isn't news. It doesn't grab my attention
I was, however, surprised when I saw this Attention Hunter mentality seep into more traditional media.
I'm in the high school class of 2002, and summertime is when we're expected to have our senior pictures made. The competition amoung the photography studios here is surprisingly intense. Representatives came into the lunchroom, passing out flyers. Each studio has promostion offers and rewards for students that refer other students to their business. None of this surprised me, though. I've received at least 20 flyers in the mail, each one personalized with my name, each one featuring photos of last year's graduating class, people I know. None of this surprised me, however, because colleges have been sending me these types of flyers for a few years now.
I was surprised when one day I recieved an undecorated evelope in the mail, my name and address handwritten on it, and with no return address. I open the envelope and inside is a newspaper clipping with a Stiki-Note attatched to it. Handwritten and feminine, the note reads:
Matthew-
Thought you might want to check this out!
-K
Attatched was a newspaper clipping of what appeared to be a favorable review of the the photography studio. It was not, however a favorable review, it was paid advertisement space, disguised as a review.
They sent me advertisement disguised as a friend's reccomendation referencing to another advertisement disguised as an critic's opinion.
Naturally, I'm disgusted, but they did trick me into viewing the matirial, I had immediately thrown everything else out. Has enyone else ever received anything like this?
I'd like to suggest that corporations that suck do so because of the absence of Unions. Look at Wal-Mart. I don't want to enumerate the reasons why Wal-Mart sucks, but I will say that Wal-Mart treats it's employees like garbage. (as garbage) They work for very little and their chances for advancement are always very small.
Why do the employees take the abuse?
During their training they are subjected to anti-union propaganda. Videos that might not brainwash the average Slashdotter are able to compltely melt the minds of Wal-Mart employees.
Wal-Mart works against unions in other ways too. Wal-Mart once had a meatpacking division, and when a Union was successfully formed, Wal-Mart terminated that part of their business.
While most IT professionals are well paid just because the skills are so in demand, and workplace hazards are limited to the vaporous carpal tunnel syndrome. Unskilled people are forced to take what they can get, and what they can get is very little without the power of unions. While unions in the IT industry do very little, if a union were to survive in a Wal-Mart-type environment it would really shake things up. Wal-Mart knows this. Realize that corporations are in business for shareholder's a profit, not worker's profit. Realize that Joe Sixpack has a crappy job, and he can't do anything about it on his own.
The rental car companies would be smart to deploy a system which uses GPS tracking to determine the speed limit and the car's own speedometer to read the speed.
Determining the speed limit of the location of the car would be within the capacity of the GPS, but as you said, determining speed would not.
I really doubt that this will ever be put into effect because the costs of implementing such a system in a market where prices are so competetive would be unacceptable.
In my analogy, the protiens produced are like files saved by the executable, documents.
I'm a little young to remember this. Is this a series of formula-written novels like Goosebumps?
Formula writings always have a unique (ununique?) charm, remember Scooby-Doo? Repetitiveness gradually gives way to familiarity.
I play counter-strike a lot, and the better servers have dedicated admins coupled with modifications that make voting easier. I only play on two servers, and there is always an admin on at all reasonable times if day. Volunteer admins and vote-kicking will save us all from the horror of cheating.
Just look at Slashdot. Volunteer admins, moderators, keep discussions clean, and on-topic.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to put a karma system into counter-strike. Players could get points for good play, and it would provide bragging rights for good players.
Thanks for your time Admins!
DNA is less of a "source code" and more of an executable.
I don't think there will be any client-side problems with smart-tags. There will almost certainly be an option to toggle the tags. Unlike spam, this will be entirely optional.
Also, I think I might like to have the tags. They could be helpful when reading a slashdot post in which the poster neglected to put any links into the post.
If Microsoft is smart about smart-tags, they'll also make them a different color, just so there is never any confusing them with the author's intended content.
Scream that you're freedom is being taken away if you like, but I think this is a non-issue.
Ms. Thiverge tried everything she could to fix it: wrist bands, steroids, diuretic pills and physiotherapy. Her employers spent $4,500 on a microphone device so she could dictate into the computer.
What did they do? Build a recording studio? I'd like to see that microphone.
"And then there's N.C.'s aviation heritage," Hoyt says. "The fact that powered flight began with the Wright Brothers in 1903 just a couple of hours away from our site is a nice connection."
"Hopefully, in the late part of 2003, the prototype will be ready to come out of the (German) hangar and be certified," says Mike Hoyt, CargoLifter spokesman. "That will be the go signal for us here in North Carolina. Once that prototype is certified, then we will begin to clear land and start building here."
The first of these ships will be launched 100 years after the original, and everybody knows that the number three is significant. Something very important is afoot here.
In other news...
Germany starts a another World War. Plans to produce Hospital sized thermonuclear devices, or "H-Bombs", are presently under development.
Maybe America(tm) was a little inaccurate, but so few Americans seem to know that America is a continent that it might not matter. Canada has always been more liberal than the U.S. and that translates into a corporate climeate that is not as commercial.
They could do good things for the internet community. I'l like them to form a partnership with Odigo, and try to knock AIM and ICQ down a few notches. I really thinnk they'd be wasting opportunity if they didn't catch onto instant messaging soon after the merge.
.02. I use Odigo, and although it's compatible with the AOL networks, I'd like to have connections to more using Odigo's native network.
Just my
Did you use punctuation? I think the capital letters might cause it to treat the sentence as single words, losing proper word ordering when translated into English.
In the article, it mentioned the radiation being detectible through concrete.
Also, beta radiation was mandatory for the types of experiments he was attempting. Remember the baruim?
Anyhow, he shortened his life. Big deal. He should be conforted by the fact that within a sea of clones, he is unique.
He did wear a lead apron, though.
Tux: (free Linux distribution CD in hand) Hello, gentlemen.
Bo Guard: (nightstick and beer in hand) Say, that looks like free software.
Tux: (smugly) Looks like, but isn't.
Bo Guard: (angry) Alright, wise guy, what is it?
Tux: I care about Microsoft's property so much I brought my own coaster. Would you like one?
Bo Guard: (smugly) Alright, I have you now, you're passing out free Linux-branded coasters! Come with me.
Tux: Free? Who said anything about free? I meant, 'would you like to buy one from me?' This is a fifty dollar coaster. See? (holds coaster to the light) It's holographic.
Bo Guard: (thinking himself to be very clever) Yes, I will buy one of your shiny coasters. Here is the money that I am giving you in order to purchase the coaster. (gives Tux $50)
Tux: It has been a pleasure oding business with you. (pockets money and gives a disc to Bo)
Bo Guard: Ha! Now I have you! Solicitation isn't allowed in this area. Come with me!
Tux: (goes quietly, speaking under his breath) Ha. Now I have fifty dollars.
Linux had the party. Microsft unknowingly provided the food beer.
From now on all the parties I host will be held near Microsoft trade shows.
Maybe Intel will bring us some hot dogs.
I guess this is true for all the photos if galaxies that we are shown. Horsehead nebula, whatever, I seem to remember all of them in more than one color. Does anyone know where to find un-colored images? I'd guess that they're either white or invisible.
Maybe they would... would.. would look like wood!
I found this "true color" image of the horsehead. It looks cool without any enhancements.
When organic matirials burn, they produce CO2.
So it could be said you're getting it in the face with or without a Fire-fighting, Trinity-Loving robot?
sorry
Looking into your link, without seeing the title or anything I thought I was looking a magnified scrubbing bubble.
Freaked me out for a second.
Those stupid bubbles and their accursedly smug faces always make me want to lash out. I usually make a big mess. Ordinary cleaners just won't do. Thus a viscious cycle begins in the MulluskO household. This is why I never leave my computer alone for more than five minutes at a time.
[follow the bubble link]
Creature comforts will leap forward. A television, having studied and learned its owner's reactions to various shows, will suggest programs to make one laugh (or, if you prefer, cry). The Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has already designed skin-surface sensors that are able to divine emotions, including happiness, sadness, anger, and fear.
I don't think so. Watching the news doesn't always make me laugh, cry, or wince, but I like the news. I don't think anyone will ever want to have a television read their emotions for the purposes of determining what they watch, although this sort of thing could totally revolutionize the way rating data is collected. Any mildly intelligent human being has the capability to sift through 500 channels. Even so, in the real future we will have fewer channels because the satellite networks will offer more flexiblity while ordering content.
I laugh, cry, and wince whenever George W. Bush is in the news.
After suffering through many (not always) bad dubbing jobs while watching anime, I think it's about time the bad-dubb bug went the other way around.
Of course I say all this without thinking about the time I watched Home Alone in my French class, dubbed in French.
Okay, so poorly dubbed films have been around for quite some time, so what popular English movie do you think would be the worst for export overseas?
Me?:
Crocodile Dundee
It can't be effective without the Austrailian accent.
I'd suggest that NASA isn't going to put the rock samples that it may one day bring back from Mars at a great expense into an incinerator.
...it has been found to remain infective after 360 degrees C for 1 hour or even after incineration....
Also,
Samples will need to be studied with Level III[search prion] precautions. I trust if there is a possiblilty of TSE contamination, NASA will quarantine. I believe there is a possiblity that TSEs exist on Mars, and I support the panel.
The article mentioned something about punching in a key and switching into data mode. It's hard to read translated text, but I think they mean the keys for the encryption. Any thoughts from anyone that actually speaks German? Or has better reading comprehension?