When we declared chapter 7 ten years ago my wife's old student loans were indeed written off. They were included because a certain amount of time had passed since the borrowing.
I used to have this pair of "ear filters" I bought in a music store once that were soft rubbery stuff with a little machined aluminum insert. It was supposed to have a labyrinth inside that would attenuate the frequencies most damaging to your ears. You could hear much better with these in than with the normal foam earplugs.
Came in handy at a Smashing Pumpkins show once, but the subwoofers were so powerful they literaly shook up my guts.
Sorry, but if you don't get a mild buzz from 3 beers of any sort, you are a mid-stage alcoholic. Don't feel too bad, you're in good company.
I top 300 lbs, with a lean body mass of over 200, and one pint of decent ale gives me a mild buzz. I'd still drive (sans kids) after 2, but not after 3.
I can't actually get drunk on anything other than tequila shots these days. Otherwise I'd just get sick first.
Just last week after nerve conduction and myograph tests, I was officially diagnosed with severe carpal tunnel syndrome, moderate cubital tunnel syndrome (compression of the ulnar nerves in the elbows) and cervical radiculopathy (damage to the roots of the nerves leaving the spine towards the arms). So at least I'm not nuts or a hypchondriac.
I had never heard of this cubital tunnel syndrome before and I found this interesting article on the subject of the disorder as it relates to guitarists. I pretty much gave up serious guitar playing 15 years ago when I just could not maintain enough force for clean barre chords over an entire set. Maybe it wasn't my wrists at all! Anyway this can be treated fairly successfully by moving the ulnar nerve out of the way of the pinch-point in the elbow.
Carpal tunnel surgery is better than it used to be but still results in loss of strength in the wrist due to the severing of the carpal ligaments.
The cervical radiculopathy thing is no surprise to me either. I hunch my neck forward when I'm in front of the computer, when I watch TV in my recliner, and when I drive my car with it's G*) D@&3 broken seat. I have a feeling that I will be able to improve my situation most by getting my neck straightened out through physical therapy and better ergonomics at work, at rest, and while driving.
Of course first they want to rule out any "underlying etiology" like diabetes, heavy metal poisoning, MS or other neuro-degenerative diseases.
I can confirm, in my little town most houses have Propane (LP) tanks. A lot of houses use it for everything, we just use it for cooking and drying clothes. The propane dryer is a lot faster than an electric dryer, and is cheaper to run. I just prefer gas for cooking.
For hot water, we have a tankless hot water coil in our oil-fired furnace. It probably uses less than 50 gallons of oil for the whole non-heating season and the furnace man tells me the unit will last longer because it doesn't sit idle every summer to get gummed up.
Let's leave aside executable content for a moment. We'll limit the discussion to Audio and Video.
First of all the user who buys/leases (yechh) the rights to some media must authenticate themselves. One way to do this would be a tamper-resistant hardware token containing the private half of a public-key pair. The user submits their claim of identity to some remote authentication server, which responds with something that only the token can decrypt. Of course this key exchange must take place over and encrypted channel. The two parties could use diffie-helman for that. So the token ends up with a stored "ticket" ala kerberos authorizing use of some specific media for some specific time period.
The media player software has to be able to communicate securely with the authentication token. More crypto.
The Audio and video output hardware must also be able to communicate securely with the media player software. They must prove their identity cryptographically. Once having proved their identity they can be "trusted" to make it impossible to copy the media. Now I suppose you could push the crypto out to a video monitor that has no outputs. Then you'd have to hack the hardware to extract a video signal. I can imagine this.
But can anyone imagine speakers that have to identify themselves and use encrypted commuications ? Something tells me those $5 headphones at walmart aren't going to do that. Because if the device has an 1/8" stereo output, the audio can be copied, even if the quality is degraded.
With video you'd have to point a camera at the screen, which sounds less practical, the rise in popularity of "screeners" not withstanding.
So to summarize, I don't think a trusted bios is required. What *is* required is trusted output devices, and that's where the real sick sad world of tomorrow's DRM begins.
The article said a 1MW pilot used 40 37' reflectors. That sounds ok to me. I wonder how much each one costs to buy and maintain.
So in the hot climate of the American South, these thing ought to start popping up on rooftops. Building a few tens of thousands of the things for Edison ought to help them smooth out the manufacturing process. How many 25KW units will you need to air condition a 100,000 sq. ft building ?
Making power only during the day isn't so bad since the air conditioning load in buildings is higher during the day, of course.
I think it has more to do with the shape of the roads. In the UK, you go through lots of towns, the roads curve more, they are narrower and harder to overtake. In the US, they are straight for miles at a time. You can overtake without changing gear, which is generally not possible in the UK.
Maybe that's why they call where I live "New England". The only straight roads here are the big highways.
I picked one up for $230 and picked up a 3 yr warranty for $40.. since this was paid for by a non-profit I work for.
It's churned out several hundred 11x17 posters on 100# hammermill for 68 bucks worth of ink so far. (black and cyan). It willl need yellow and magenta soon. So far it's been great. If I want more than a dozen or so of one poster I use kinkos/fedex and they appear at my door in 2 days but they won't print on 100# paper and I usually don't want to wait.
at Boston's MOFA, I used a self-guided tour thingy that seemed to be based on a cd player.
The beauty of it was that I could wait until I was actually able to see a particular painting up close (in the very crowded gallery) before playing the audio clip associated with that painting.
So I think you have to leave it up to the user when to play the content rather than just triggering it based on location.
I don't have much experience with cobblestones, there not being many near me, but I do strongly believe that walking on uneven surfaces is great exercise.
If I walked a couple of miles on asphalt even with very good shoes, I would be hurting.
But I can walk the same distance in boots with little cushioning as long as the trail is uneven. A mix of sand, gravel, rock and softer stuff like loam and leaf mould is great. Also it's good if the trail rolls up and down and includes some sideways traverses of slopes.
Much more exercise and it feels great. It strengthens all the stability muscles in your legs and in the torso too.
The link was to a 4U rackmount chassis, not a 19" rack. $69 is pretty low.. they've been in the $300-400 range. I'm sure you get what you pay for to some extent, but for home use this is indeed interesting to me.
The first Microvax seemed pretty small. It was the first system that was smaller and lighter than the manual set it came with. No joke! I still have some orange binders around here somewhere...
Back in the day, around 1980 at DEC, we had a big PDP-11/70 that was set up to use fixed-head disks for swapping. I think they were called RS04s ? 1 or 2 MB each is all they held, which was small compared to the 40 to 80 MB removable disks it used for storage, but big compared to the amount of ram available which was something under half a MB.
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When we declared chapter 7 ten years ago my wife's old student loans were indeed written off. They were included because a certain amount of time had passed since the borrowing.
I used to have this pair of "ear filters" I bought in a music store once that were soft rubbery stuff with a little machined aluminum insert. It was supposed to have a labyrinth inside that would attenuate the frequencies most damaging to your ears. You could hear much better with these in than with the normal foam earplugs.
Came in handy at a Smashing Pumpkins show once, but the subwoofers were so powerful they literaly shook up my guts.
Sorry, but if you don't get a mild buzz from 3 beers of any sort, you are a mid-stage alcoholic. Don't feel too bad, you're in good company.
I top 300 lbs, with a lean body mass of over 200, and one pint of decent ale gives me a mild buzz. I'd still drive (sans kids) after 2, but not after 3.
I can't actually get drunk on anything other than tequila shots these days. Otherwise I'd just get sick first.
Just last week after nerve conduction and myograph tests, I was officially diagnosed with severe carpal tunnel syndrome, moderate cubital tunnel syndrome (compression of the ulnar nerves in the elbows) and cervical radiculopathy (damage to the roots of the nerves leaving the spine towards the arms). So at least I'm not nuts or a hypchondriac.
I had never heard of this cubital tunnel syndrome before and I found this interesting article on the subject of the disorder as it relates to guitarists. I pretty much gave up serious guitar playing 15 years ago when I just could not maintain enough force for clean barre chords over an entire set. Maybe it wasn't my wrists at all! Anyway this can be treated fairly successfully by moving the ulnar nerve out of the way of the pinch-point in the elbow.
Carpal tunnel surgery is better than it used to be but still results in loss of strength in the wrist due to the severing of the carpal ligaments.
The cervical radiculopathy thing is no surprise to me either. I hunch my neck forward when I'm in front of the computer, when I watch TV in my recliner, and when I drive my car with it's G*) D@&3 broken seat. I have a feeling that I will be able to improve my situation most by getting my neck straightened out through physical therapy and better ergonomics at work, at rest, and while driving.
Of course first they want to rule out any "underlying etiology" like diabetes, heavy metal poisoning, MS or other neuro-degenerative diseases.
I can confirm, in my little town most houses have Propane (LP) tanks. A lot of houses use it for everything, we just use it for cooking and drying clothes. The propane dryer is a lot faster than an electric dryer, and is cheaper to run. I just prefer gas for cooking.
For hot water, we have a tankless hot water coil in our oil-fired furnace. It probably uses less than 50 gallons of oil for the whole non-heating season and the furnace man tells me the unit will last longer because it doesn't sit idle every summer to get gummed up.
Another Business idea:
I'll pick up your trash at the curb (in its metal container) and immediately run it through a chipper/degausser guaranteed to kill 98.5% of RFID tags.
I used to truly love my Klein screwdriver. There it is right on the home page. Sniff.
It made the Xcelite tools seem like toys.
Let's leave aside executable content for a moment. We'll limit the discussion to Audio and Video.
First of all the user who buys/leases (yechh) the rights to some media must authenticate themselves. One way to do this would be a tamper-resistant hardware token containing the private half of a public-key pair. The user submits their claim of identity to some remote authentication server, which responds with something that only the token can decrypt. Of course this key exchange must take place over and encrypted channel. The two parties could use diffie-helman for that. So the token ends up with a stored "ticket" ala kerberos authorizing use of some specific media for some specific time period.
The media player software has to be able to communicate securely with the authentication token. More crypto.
The Audio and video output hardware must also be able to communicate securely with the media player software. They must prove their identity cryptographically. Once having proved their identity they can be "trusted" to make it impossible to copy the media. Now I suppose you could push the crypto out to a video monitor that has no outputs. Then you'd have to hack the hardware to extract a video signal. I can imagine this.
But can anyone imagine speakers that have to identify themselves and use encrypted commuications ? Something tells me those $5 headphones at walmart aren't going to do that. Because if the device has an 1/8" stereo output, the audio can be copied, even if the quality is degraded.
With video you'd have to point a camera at the screen, which sounds less practical, the rise in popularity of "screeners" not withstanding.
So to summarize, I don't think a trusted bios is required. What *is* required is trusted output devices, and that's where the real sick sad world of tomorrow's DRM begins.
where are my mod points when I need them ?!
It's the "load coils" for me. Cable is my only option at the moment.
The article said a 1MW pilot used 40 37' reflectors. That sounds ok to me. I wonder how much each one costs to buy and maintain.
So in the hot climate of the American South, these thing ought to start popping up on rooftops. Building a few tens of thousands of the things for Edison ought to help them smooth out the manufacturing process. How many 25KW units will you need to air condition a 100,000 sq. ft building ?
Making power only during the day isn't so bad since the air conditioning load in buildings is higher during the day, of course.
You stole fizzy lifting drinks!
Maybe that's why they call where I live "New England". The only straight roads here are the big highways.
I picked one up for $230 and picked up a 3 yr warranty for $40.. since this was paid for by a non-profit I work for.
It's churned out several hundred 11x17 posters on 100# hammermill for 68 bucks worth of ink so far. (black and cyan). It willl need yellow and magenta soon. So far it's been great. If I want more than a dozen or so of one poster I use kinkos/fedex and they appear at my door in 2 days but they won't print on 100# paper and I usually don't want to wait.
So...
IF they fix IE7 so all the hacks we use for IE6 are no longer neccessary, and we stop using those hacks...
THEN we'll be helping them squeeze everybody off of Win2K and earlier since they won't put IE7 on Win2K.
That's an ugly thought.
But what other OS has directory recursion built into the shell (like VMS) ?
First time I had to use the find command on UNIX light dawned on Marblehead...
at Boston's MOFA, I used a self-guided tour thingy that seemed to be based on a cd player.
The beauty of it was that I could wait until I was actually able to see a particular painting up close (in the very crowded gallery) before playing the audio clip associated with that painting.
So I think you have to leave it up to the user when to play the content rather than just triggering it based on location.
I don't have much experience with cobblestones, there not being many near me, but I do strongly believe that walking on uneven surfaces is great exercise.
If I walked a couple of miles on asphalt even with very good shoes, I would be hurting.
But I can walk the same distance in boots with little cushioning as long as the trail is uneven. A mix of sand, gravel, rock and softer stuff like loam and leaf mould is great. Also it's good if the trail rolls up and down and includes some sideways traverses of slopes.
Much more exercise and it feels great. It strengthens all the stability muscles in your legs and in the torso too.
So go Geocaching today!
The link was to a 4U rackmount chassis, not a 19" rack. $69 is pretty low.. they've been in the $300-400 range. I'm sure you get what you pay for to some extent, but for home use this is indeed interesting to me.
Just had to do some googling after I read this. I was amazed to find that one can get a rack mount cases from $69. See here.
much more like this and God will just do
sync; sync; halt
The first Microvax seemed pretty small. It was the first system that was smaller and lighter than the manual set it came with. No joke! I still have some orange binders around here somewhere...
I thought it might be Billy Chenowith now that he's flushing his lithium down the toilet again.
C'mon, everyone quit bellowing about the bad puns!
Back in the day, around 1980 at DEC, we had a big PDP-11/70 that was set up to use fixed-head disks for swapping. I think they were called RS04s ? 1 or 2 MB each is all they held, which was small compared to the 40 to 80 MB removable disks it used for storage, but big compared to the amount of ram available which was something under half a MB.