This is true.. anything beyond 20/20 has to do with the brian reciving the information... test the general reflexes of a person with 20/20 and that of a person with 20/10 vision... you'll see that being able to just see the letters on the eye chart isn't enough....FYI... next time your given an ey exam.. notice that the optomitrist is counting while you read top to bottom starting with the big E...
As a long time resident of the caribbean, I have always noticed that years we have large hurricanes (catigory 4 or 5) the amount of earthquakes in other parts of the world increase. The caribbean inlands sit on a fault line that is connected across Mexico to California and up to Alaska. One of our biggest Hurricanes in recent memory (Hugo in 89, Catigry 5) came 28 days before the big quake in SF. A quick Google search will come up with a few other coincedeces.. The other thing google found is the high amount of quakes in September, when during any given year we have 4 to 7 actve storms in the Atlantic, Caribbean, or Gulf of Mexico. Just a bit more food for thought...
If i Remembrer correctly he has a High speed DSL/ISDN something line to that house for his spam servers.. somebody find his IP address and post it on the front page..that'll be a lesson;0 even might cost him on his bandwidth cap..doh!!
I think the only other consideration is, once operational how do you balance the wieght of the payload on the elevator + the fact that it moves (i.e increaces or decreaces with altitude) I guess you'd have to build two "elevators" one to earth and one on the balance teather out past Geo. Put one the same wieght as what's comming up and move it in synch with the other side. sounds like a britty big balancing act but not impossable.
Accually your very correct.. The site didn't crash, everyone got to see his little tirad about "not asking Permission" If the guy get's a bill for going over his Bandwidth limit it's the price he pays for not just pulling the plug...:)
Her's how it works..Brian a friend of mine owns the local FM rock station..He pays a yearly fee for the use of the music.. his rate is dependant on his "Market Share" i.e. how many people listen to his station... the more market share the more he pays.. but this is ok.. the higher the market share the more he can charge foe advertising.. he asks all of his customers as in businesses who pay him for comercials to play his station in thier shops, bars, resturaunts what not.. because all it does is give him better market share and makes his advertising make more money...when asked about this BS about charging customers fees for listening to music he tells me it's all wrong and in most cases if the business refuses they never hear from them again.. although that's only if it's broadcast radio, if it's store bought CDs it's another story, you'd have to pay not $15 or $20 for the disc it would be acording to how many people on average came into your business... i'll trust his advice..he's been in FM radio for years and has to deal with thease "Lowlifes".. at least that's what he calls them
"In that sense, the problem facing Bond filmmakers is similar to the problem faced by software companies, cell phone carriers, and other high-tech firms, who seem to only offer barely noticeable incremental improvements to technologies their consumers already have, rather than radical new products. In this sense, art is imitating life -- or at least the Nasdaq."
At This point, And it's been said here on/. many times.. What is left for the younger generations to invent.. it seems that the more the tech sector grows..the less the "real" or "radical" inventions come to be a reality.. or it could just be me...
as a former Ackley employee I can speak with experence, There really was no "company" that put in the WDSL system it was Gordons son and a few of his friends that came up with it.. it's accually an amazing thing that it works as well as it does.. i've been up to the towers and i've seen most of the equiptment.. I used to install and configure the sonicwalls on the customer end.. Currently I'm a freelance tech in STX but travel to STT a few times a month for service calls. I have heard the comercials but they didn't sound all that informative. As a local tech with alot of long time customers, I'd like to have something to offer them.. and your very correct.. WW is WAY over they're capacity.. and short or taking down and completly re-doing the entire system they could never upgrade.. I'll drop you a line with my current e-mail and maybe we can work something out.. M
as a resedent of St. Croix and a WDSL user I'd like to know what they might be doing here in the islands.. the WDSL system is a few years old and can have some issues...please tell me they're getting ready to upgrade it...:)
I'm not sure i agree.. if you RTFA it says he sleeps outside alot.. i'm assuming he's homeless. if you have no home you carry whatever you own with you.. think of him as a creative shoping cart guy..just no shopping cart.. it is a tad extreem but it's a rough world out there and u gotta be ready for anything..
IIRC this happened with Western Digital 4.3GB and 6.4GB Drives.. after about 6 months they would just garble the info and need a low level format to fix the problem. About 90% of the drives were bad, some would just stop showing up in the bios after this happened a few time with the same drive.. I RMAed the drives and Western Digital replaced them without a question but never gave a clue what the problem was. this was in late 98 early 99 I'm wondering if this ws a similar problem...
As a street level tech mostly working on MS boxes I can be a tad upset about the "auto update" feature.. i've made so much money in billable hours on boxes that just needed windows updates and a disk defrag that i can't even count.. i usually charge $50 for this service and explain what i did and that they need to do it themselves evey once in a while... well i still get reapeat calls to do it about once every 10-12 months on most boxes..and they don't want to be bothered by learning to click on it themselves.. hey..let the little guy make a buck..:)
Being a long time Opera user and an old school (pre GUI user) it'll be hard to get used to this mouse thing... just joking.. I use keybord shortcuts in every prog i run it takes too long to reach for the mouse find where the hell the arrow is and then find the button your looking for.. Besides as a tech working on many machines at once you don't always have the option of the mouse.. cheap KVMs and such.. wait till You see the look on a new users face when you start bouncing around thier Winblows box without pluging in the mouse.. it's rather funny, they look at you like you've lost it or your a god of some sort.;) any way just 6 cents, ECC that is.....
BTW...if our state issued id card..drivers lics. or what not has your SSN# on it the state you live in just comitted a feloney...ask your local SSN office they will tell you..........
I think it would all depend on the reason they are blind.. if it's because of optical nerve dammage i doubt it but for retnal problems maybe.. the amazing thing is that they have microchips that can talk to nerve endings.. being someone who only has partial use of one foot because of nerve dammage in a car accident this is good news.. when you cut the nerves it extremly hard to get the nerve to transfer the electrical impulses properly again..but if they can make your retina see light again there is hope for other types of nerve endings in the body..i think this reaserch will help others regain the use of dammaged nerve endings..
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This is true.. anything beyond 20/20 has to do with the brian reciving the information... test the general reflexes of a person with 20/20 and that of a person with 20/10 vision... you'll see that being able to just see the letters on the eye chart isn't enough....FYI... next time your given an ey exam.. notice that the optomitrist is counting while you read top to bottom starting with the big E...
since the past 30 years of burning fossil fuels has warmed the arctic and cooled the equatorial regions.. wouldn't this effect be a good thing...
As a long time resident of the caribbean, I have always noticed that years we have large hurricanes (catigory 4 or 5) the amount of earthquakes in other parts of the world increase. The caribbean inlands sit on a fault line that is connected across Mexico to California and up to Alaska. One of our biggest Hurricanes in recent memory (Hugo in 89, Catigry 5) came 28 days before the big quake in SF. A quick Google search will come up with a few other coincedeces.. The other thing google found is the high amount of quakes in September, when during any given year we have 4 to 7 actve storms in the Atlantic, Caribbean, or Gulf of Mexico. Just a bit more food for thought...
I wish I got a dollar every time I've reloaded windows , i'd be a millionare by now
If i Remembrer correctly he has a High speed DSL/ISDN something line to that house for his spam servers.. somebody find his IP address and post it on the front page..that'll be a lesson ;0 even might cost him on his bandwidth cap..doh!!
Is it me or did everyone get that article surrounded by Verizon Flash Ads? .. I think that's a little bias but hey it might be just me :p
I think the only other consideration is, once operational how do you balance the wieght of the payload on the elevator + the fact that it moves (i.e increaces or decreaces with altitude) I guess you'd have to build two "elevators" one to earth and one on the balance teather out past Geo. Put one the same wieght as what's comming up and move it in synch with the other side. sounds like a britty big balancing act but not impossable.
Accually your very correct.. The site didn't crash, everyone got to see his little tirad about "not asking Permission" If the guy get's a bill for going over his Bandwidth limit it's the price he pays for not just pulling the plug... :)
Here at 17.4 deg.N.lat (St. Croix USVI) the typical thing to do is go to the beach or sailing, I did the latter.. :P MERRY X-MAS everybody...
Her's how it works..Brian a friend of mine owns the local FM rock station..He pays a yearly fee for the use of the music.. his rate is dependant on his "Market Share" i.e. how many people listen to his station... the more market share the more he pays.. but this is ok.. the higher the market share the more he can charge foe advertising.. he asks all of his customers as in businesses who pay him for comercials to play his station in thier shops, bars, resturaunts what not.. because all it does is give him better market share and makes his advertising make more money...when asked about this BS about charging customers fees for listening to music he tells me it's all wrong and in most cases if the business refuses they never hear from them again.. although that's only if it's broadcast radio, if it's store bought CDs it's another story, you'd have to pay not $15 or $20 for the disc it would be acording to how many people on average came into your business... i'll trust his advice..he's been in FM radio for years and has to deal with thease "Lowlifes".. at least that's what he calls them
One program to Crash everything..;p
/me thinks the EDs got Groundhog day and Thanksgiving day mixed up.......;P
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Dumb man + smart woman = marriage,
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy,
"In that sense, the problem facing Bond filmmakers is similar to the problem faced by software companies, cell phone carriers, and other high-tech firms, who seem to only offer barely noticeable incremental improvements to technologies their consumers already have, rather than radical new products. In this sense, art is imitating life -- or at least the Nasdaq." At This point, And it's been said here on /. many times.. What is left for the younger generations to invent.. it seems that the more the tech sector grows..the less the "real" or "radical" inventions come to be a reality.. or it could just be me...
as a former Ackley employee I can speak with experence, There really was no "company" that put in the WDSL system it was Gordons son and a few of his friends that came up with it.. it's accually an amazing thing that it works as well as it does.. i've been up to the towers and i've seen most of the equiptment.. I used to install and configure the sonicwalls on the customer end.. Currently I'm a freelance tech in STX but travel to STT a few times a month for service calls. I have heard the comercials but they didn't sound all that informative. As a local tech with alot of long time customers, I'd like to have something to offer them.. and your very correct.. WW is WAY over they're capacity.. and short or taking down and completly re-doing the entire system they could never upgrade.. I'll drop you a line with my current e-mail and maybe we can work something out .. M
as a resedent of St. Croix and a WDSL user I'd like to know what they might be doing here in the islands.. the WDSL system is a few years old and can have some issues...please tell me they're getting ready to upgrade it...:)
I'm not sure i agree.. if you RTFA it says he sleeps outside alot.. i'm assuming he's homeless. if you have no home you carry whatever you own with you.. think of him as a creative shoping cart guy..just no shopping cart.. it is a tad extreem but it's a rough world out there and u gotta be ready for anything..
IIRC this happened with Western Digital 4.3GB and 6.4GB Drives.. after about 6 months they would just garble the info and need a low level format to fix the problem. About 90% of the drives were bad, some would just stop showing up in the bios after this happened a few time with the same drive.. I RMAed the drives and Western Digital replaced them without a question but never gave a clue what the problem was. this was in late 98 early 99 I'm wondering if this ws a similar problem...
As a street level tech mostly working on MS boxes I can be a tad upset about the "auto update" feature.. i've made so much money in billable hours on boxes that just needed windows updates and a disk defrag that i can't even count.. i usually charge $50 for this service and explain what i did and that they need to do it themselves evey once in a while... well i still get reapeat calls to do it about once every 10-12 months on most boxes..and they don't want to be bothered by learning to click on it themselves.. hey..let the little guy make a buck..:)
Being a long time Opera user and an old school (pre GUI user) it'll be hard to get used to this mouse thing... just joking.. I use keybord shortcuts in every prog i run it takes too long to reach for the mouse find where the hell the arrow is and then find the button your looking for.. Besides as a tech working on many machines at once you don't always have the option of the mouse.. cheap KVMs and such.. wait till You see the look on a new users face when you start bouncing around thier Winblows box without pluging in the mouse.. it's rather funny, they look at you like you've lost it or your a god of some sort. ;) any way just 6 cents, ECC that is.....
BTW...if our state issued id card..drivers lics. or what not has your SSN# on it the state you live in just comitted a feloney...ask your local SSN office they will tell you..........
FYI....It it's against federal law for anyone to ask you for your SSN# other than your employer or the IRS
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...um..correction..19 yr old CHICK...
I think it would all depend on the reason they are blind.. if it's because of optical nerve dammage i doubt it but for retnal problems maybe.. the amazing thing is that they have microchips that can talk to nerve endings.. being someone who only has partial use of one foot because of nerve dammage in a car accident this is good news.. when you cut the nerves it extremly hard to get the nerve to transfer the electrical impulses properly again..but if they can make your retina see light again there is hope for other types of nerve endings in the body..i think this reaserch will help others regain the use of dammaged nerve endings..