Clinton seems like he'd be more willing to bargain for a better deal, but Bush is more athletic, and so might be able to make Bill his bitch.
Maybe you missed it, but when former Presidents Clinton and George HW Bush went to visit Indonesia, Bush came back totally charmed by Clinton. George would definitely wind up as the catcher (he WAS a cheerleader, BTW).
The prices are due to the public's willingness to pay $250 to see Madonna. The public is either stupid are has more money than sense. None of it has anything to do with P2P. If the public refused to pay $250 by simply not going to any of her shows, you'd see her tickets going for $50 in no time.
Actually, Madonna is a bad example. She has a huge base of gay male fans. They skew prices because gay couples generally have two male incomes (historically higher then female ones) and rarely have the expense of children. This make spending $250 for a ticket a more bearable expense.
Personally, all the best concerts I've seen have cost less than $25, with some of the best costing only $8 or even nothing. I know some astonishingly talented musicians who will come to your house to play a concert for the $250 that Madonna wants for single seat. OK, they won't be bringing a huge lighting rig, video screens or dancers but all that stuff is rather beside the point, isn't it? Here in Chicago, I can see a whole summer's worth of concerts by musicians I can thank personally for less than I'd pay for a Madonna ticket.
This is a pet peeve of mine. In seemingly every TV show or movie, they have an Apple computer. Even in corporations where the bean-counters are not going to pay 50% more for a computer. The Whitehouse staff on "The West Wing" all had Powerbooks. I have no problem if the character is a writer, photographer, graphic artist or reasonably successful musician. Those people are in the 5% of the population that will pay the "Mac Tax". The rest of the population uses Windows boxes (Slashdot readers possibly excepted).
Among the interesting bits: to meet full compliance we added an option that allows our administrators to add a "skip repetative navigation" link to the top of the page; this specifically allows audio readers to skip directly to the unique content on the page.
Man, I wish IMDB had a "skip repetative navigation" link! I have a Treo 600 and Sprint's slow-ass Vision service and the only reason I finally got a cell was to look up movie information. IMDB, and most web sites, are painfully slow and force me to get the same menu information over and over again while trying to get the information I actually want.
And a lot of the viewing audience would have studied this aspect of British history at school and uni...
As far as I can remember, this was covered in the 4th grade in my school in Kansas City, MO. "Westward Expansion" is not a graduate-level course. The Erie Canal was the high tech of it's time...as were the railroads and the freeway system.
Analogies are always fuzzy. His was just "This is newer, better technology. We are older, slower technology." Canals to railroads is a decent enough one for his case.
The drag is that NASA also has a mandate to try to make money with the tools they develop. NASA scientists developed a great image analysis program called VISAR back in 1996 to clean up video for the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing. Since then, they've been trying to sell it to companies. To my knowledge, this has never appeared in a consumer-priced product - only in a $100k+ system to be sold to big police departments, the FBI/CIA and big casinos.
I can never justify the megabucks Intergraph system, nor can the hundreds of smaller police departments or sheriff's departments. The money that went into the NASA budget from Intergraph is a tiny amount compared to the value to the public at large of releasing this under an open source licence. If it was opened, Intergraph could still sell packaged systems (this still requires decent processor power) and support. But it could appear in free stand-alone tools, in video editing systems and in secutity systems.
Currently, a huge amount of security video that could be analyzed in this way is not, because of the cost. Making this free could save lives.
The first product from the the engineers who developed the Amiga was the Joyboard. It had to be more difficult to use than a lot of the things on their list. And it inspired the "Guru Meditation Error" of the early Amiga OS.
Heck, I worked two blocks east of that plant for years. The plant itself is one full block south of the Sears Tower - across the street from 311 S. Wacker (the "White Castle Building" for those of you in the area). For a while, I had to drive into the area and parked in an underground parking garage in the recently renovated Insurance Exchange Building (an old Beaux Arts building next to the Chicago Board of Trade). During the renovation, they switched to the new cold water system for A/C - you could see the tubes crawling along the ceiling of the garage.
Yep! (4152'34.00"N 8738'8.17"W). The other building is on State and Adams (the building with the big fans on top at 4152'46.52"N 8737'38.43"W).
Wouldn't it make more sense to cool the water to just ABOVE freezing?
The point is not to make chilled water on demand. Every building in Chicago does that currently. They make ice at night, when energy demand is less. A nuke plant has the ability to turn out the same amount of electricity 24 hours a day. By making ice, they are able to store energy generated at night (when they have excess capacity) and use it during the day (when they are most stressed). Making ice is actually very efficient compared to any other method of storing electricity, especially when the desired result - ice water - can be obtained with no additional energy cost.
When I was working in 3D animation, one of my clients was Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago electric company. ComEd's plants were mostly nukes. I loved working for them, because most of the work I did was to explain concepts. Anyway...
They have a project called "Northwind". It consists of two 5 story tall buildings in downtown Chicago (eventually four) that, during the summer months, make ice all night long. During the day, the ice melts and the 33 degree water travels through pipes to subscribers to air-condition buildings. This allows client buildings to avoid wasting floors on their own chillers and avoid using electricity during the day for air-conditioning. ComEd can even out the demand for power and avoid building additional plants for a while.
Maybe he was trying to hook an X-Box to an HDTV? He'd have to get the X-Box in HD resolution, make sure the HD set was configured correctly, make sure he had the right cables and adaptors, and was hooked to the right input. Even something as simple as a component input has two varients YPbPr and YBbCr. Or this could have been a European TV and he needed a SCART adaptor. Or the TV only had an HDMI input - or a VGA - or a DVI.
Whatever. This job can be complicated even for those of us who have been doing this since the 1970s.
Nothing new here. My Dad was a policeman in Kansas City Missouri in the 1970s. During morning drivetime, he'd do traffic reports for WDAF - from our bathroom. He'd listen to a police scanner for cops reporting accidents or stuck in traffic. Hundreds of policemen everywhere all over the metropolitan area were a lot more effective than one lone traffic reporter in a helicopter or airplane. He'd jot down what he'd heard and extemporize a report via phone every 15 minutes. And at the same time he'd be doing his morning routine of bathing, shaving, etc. He'd do the afternoon drivetime as well, from anyplace where he could plug in his scanner and get a phone (this was pre-cell-phone). He did this for years, and was considered the most effective and reliable traffic reporter in the market.
That is: Run Firefox, run Linux when you can, and don't be stupid. Download things that you're reasonably sure are good.
"Known good" doesn't make any sense in a world where giant corporations like Sony are trying to install rootkits on your machine. One of the more persistant pieces of spyware I've run into in the past month was from the formerly respectable department store Nordstrom's!
"Spyware - it's not just for fake Viagra and porn anymore!"
Another big fan of Ewido. I spend more time hunting spyware these days than anything else. An Ewido scan in "safe mode", followed by a final grovel with Hijack This will get virtually any system clean.
Spyware is practically a "Geek Full Employment Program", but I'd prefer to live in a world where this crap did not exist. It's worse than viruses, because spyware has a profit motive. I compare it to shoveling mud out of a pit in a rainstorm - you shovel it out, and it always winds up sliding back in.
Plumbing is moving away from copper pipes. My brother is a master plumber, and most supply lines in both new and renovation plumbing in his work is a plastic tubing called "Pex". It still uses brass fittings for joints and valves, but compared to an all-copper home, only a small amount of copper is needed. Copper is still needed for air-conditioning systems.
The linked article shows no power usage math and get as technical as saying the thing is the size of a "stereo speaker". I have had a lot of stereo equipment over the years but I have absolutely no idea how to translate that unit of measurement.
No you're not. You could just as well exist if the hypnotist had had absolutely no effect.
Actually, my sister (the breach presentation) is a better proof of the value of the technique. Our mom was awake and feeling no pain, and was able to cooperate more fully with the doctor's instructions than she otherwise would have.
You're talking about an experience which varies greatly and saying that because a given result was supposedly observed (with a measly sample group of one), hypnotism must have caused it.
Please re-read my post. This was not a sample of one. This was one woman who had such a positive experience that she chose the same technique, doctor and hospital for four births - my older sister, myself, my younger sister and a third sister who died of a heart defect (the sort of thing that could be repaired today, but was a death sentence in the 1960s).
I'm a male, so it's obviously impossible for me to know how painful childbirth is, but I've talked to many women who've delivered without drugs and, other than my mother, not a one of them reported a pain-free experience.
I've never met anyone other than my family members who were delivered in this way, but I'm not suprised it's rare. It requires a lot of doctor/paitient interaction - far more than most MDs are able to give these days.
I, and my two sisters, were delivered by an Ostopath/hypnotist. Our mother said she felt no pain but had no drugs during any of the three deliveries. He had worked with her during preganecies, implanting the suggestion that she would feel no pain and that "it would be a beautiful experience". Pretty effective, as my younger sister was a breach presentation, and the doctor was able to move the baby around so that a Cesarian was avoided.
Me and my two sisters were delivered by a D.O. who was also a hypnotist. Our mother had no pain-relieving drugs, but felt no pain during any of the three births. The D.O. had been working with her during her pregnancies implanting the suggestion that she would feel no pain, and that it would be a "beautiful experience". This was back in the very late 50s to the early 60s (I'm 46).
Cylinders were transferred using a French-made Archeophone, using custom Shure styli from Expert Stylus in England. The audio was converted from analog to digital using a CEDAR ADA and captured at 44.1KHz with a bit depth of 24 bits in Steinberg Wavelab software running on a PC. Files were edited and normalized and then processed with CEDAR's Series X and Series X+ Declicker, Decrackler, Dehisser, and Debuzzer units. After "cleaning," a third file, dithered down to 16 bits, was created. Surrogate files for online distribution were created with Sound Forge 6.0's batch converter (mp3 files) and Cleaner XL (mov files). (We'd like to use this space as a soapbox to say that Cleaner XL is one of the worst pieces of software we've ever used, with numerous bugs, a bad interface, and constant crashes.)
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Maybe you missed it, but when former Presidents Clinton and George HW Bush went to visit Indonesia, Bush came back totally charmed by Clinton. George would definitely wind up as the catcher (he WAS a cheerleader, BTW).
Actually, Madonna is a bad example. She has a huge base of gay male fans. They skew prices because gay couples generally have two male incomes (historically higher then female ones) and rarely have the expense of children. This make spending $250 for a ticket a more bearable expense.
Personally, all the best concerts I've seen have cost less than $25, with some of the best costing only $8 or even nothing. I know some astonishingly talented musicians who will come to your house to play a concert for the $250 that Madonna wants for single seat. OK, they won't be bringing a huge lighting rig, video screens or dancers but all that stuff is rather beside the point, isn't it? Here in Chicago, I can see a whole summer's worth of concerts by musicians I can thank personally for less than I'd pay for a Madonna ticket.
This is a pet peeve of mine. In seemingly every TV show or movie, they have an Apple computer. Even in corporations where the bean-counters are not going to pay 50% more for a computer. The Whitehouse staff on "The West Wing" all had Powerbooks. I have no problem if the character is a writer, photographer, graphic artist or reasonably successful musician. Those people are in the 5% of the population that will pay the "Mac Tax". The rest of the population uses Windows boxes (Slashdot readers possibly excepted).
Man, I wish IMDB had a "skip repetative navigation" link! I have a Treo 600 and Sprint's slow-ass Vision service and the only reason I finally got a cell was to look up movie information. IMDB, and most web sites, are painfully slow and force me to get the same menu information over and over again while trying to get the information I actually want.
As far as I can remember, this was covered in the 4th grade in my school in Kansas City, MO. "Westward Expansion" is not a graduate-level course. The Erie Canal was the high tech of it's time...as were the railroads and the freeway system.
Analogies are always fuzzy. His was just "This is newer, better technology. We are older, slower technology." Canals to railroads is a decent enough one for his case.
The drag is that NASA also has a mandate to try to make money with the tools they develop. NASA scientists developed a great image analysis program called VISAR back in 1996 to clean up video for the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing. Since then, they've been trying to sell it to companies. To my knowledge, this has never appeared in a consumer-priced product - only in a $100k+ system to be sold to big police departments, the FBI/CIA and big casinos.
I can never justify the megabucks Intergraph system, nor can the hundreds of smaller police departments or sheriff's departments. The money that went into the NASA budget from Intergraph is a tiny amount compared to the value to the public at large of releasing this under an open source licence. If it was opened, Intergraph could still sell packaged systems (this still requires decent processor power) and support. But it could appear in free stand-alone tools, in video editing systems and in secutity systems.
Currently, a huge amount of security video that could be analyzed in this way is not, because of the cost. Making this free could save lives.
The first product from the the engineers who developed the Amiga was the Joyboard. It had to be more difficult to use than a lot of the things on their list. And it inspired the "Guru Meditation Error" of the early Amiga OS.
Yep! (4152'34.00"N 8738'8.17"W). The other building is on State and Adams (the building with the big fans on top at 4152'46.52"N 8737'38.43"W).
Chicago has unique legacy of tunnels running to the sub-basements of most of the buildings of it's downtown area. ComEd uses some of these for electric distribution and also for the chilled water pipes (and return).
The point is not to make chilled water on demand. Every building in Chicago does that currently. They make ice at night, when energy demand is less. A nuke plant has the ability to turn out the same amount of electricity 24 hours a day. By making ice, they are able to store energy generated at night (when they have excess capacity) and use it during the day (when they are most stressed). Making ice is actually very efficient compared to any other method of storing electricity, especially when the desired result - ice water - can be obtained with no additional energy cost.
When I was working in 3D animation, one of my clients was Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago electric company. ComEd's plants were mostly nukes. I loved working for them, because most of the work I did was to explain concepts. Anyway...
They have a project called "Northwind". It consists of two 5 story tall buildings in downtown Chicago (eventually four) that, during the summer months, make ice all night long. During the day, the ice melts and the 33 degree water travels through pipes to subscribers to air-condition buildings. This allows client buildings to avoid wasting floors on their own chillers and avoid using electricity during the day for air-conditioning. ComEd can even out the demand for power and avoid building additional plants for a while.
Maybe he was trying to hook an X-Box to an HDTV? He'd have to get the X-Box in HD resolution, make sure the HD set was configured correctly, make sure he had the right cables and adaptors, and was hooked to the right input. Even something as simple as a component input has two varients YPbPr and YBbCr. Or this could have been a European TV and he needed a SCART adaptor. Or the TV only had an HDMI input - or a VGA - or a DVI.
Whatever. This job can be complicated even for those of us who have been doing this since the 1970s.
Note: 33 trillion to 1 odds do not apply if the football player in question is OJ Simpson.
That's the best part about having gay friends - when you use the toilet at their house, you can leave the damn seat up!
Nothing new here. My Dad was a policeman in Kansas City Missouri in the 1970s. During morning drivetime, he'd do traffic reports for WDAF - from our bathroom. He'd listen to a police scanner for cops reporting accidents or stuck in traffic. Hundreds of policemen everywhere all over the metropolitan area were a lot more effective than one lone traffic reporter in a helicopter or airplane. He'd jot down what he'd heard and extemporize a report via phone every 15 minutes. And at the same time he'd be doing his morning routine of bathing, shaving, etc. He'd do the afternoon drivetime as well, from anyplace where he could plug in his scanner and get a phone (this was pre-cell-phone). He did this for years, and was considered the most effective and reliable traffic reporter in the market.
"Known good" doesn't make any sense in a world where giant corporations like Sony are trying to install rootkits on your machine. One of the more persistant pieces of spyware I've run into in the past month was from the formerly respectable department store Nordstrom's!
"Spyware - it's not just for fake Viagra and porn anymore!"
Another big fan of Ewido. I spend more time hunting spyware these days than anything else. An Ewido scan in "safe mode", followed by a final grovel with Hijack This will get virtually any system clean.
Spyware is practically a "Geek Full Employment Program", but I'd prefer to live in a world where this crap did not exist. It's worse than viruses, because spyware has a profit motive. I compare it to shoveling mud out of a pit in a rainstorm - you shovel it out, and it always winds up sliding back in.
Too, too true. I had a very nasty epiphany a number of years ago when I realized that fully one-half of the population is dumber than the other half.
This realization has brought me peace.
Plumbing is moving away from copper pipes. My brother is a master plumber, and most supply lines in both new and renovation plumbing in his work is a plastic tubing called "Pex". It still uses brass fittings for joints and valves, but compared to an all-copper home, only a small amount of copper is needed. Copper is still needed for air-conditioning systems.
Yeah, it could be the size of this speaker.
Actually, my sister (the breach presentation) is a better proof of the value of the technique. Our mom was awake and feeling no pain, and was able to cooperate more fully with the doctor's instructions than she otherwise would have.
Please re-read my post. This was not a sample of one. This was one woman who had such a positive experience that she chose the same technique, doctor and hospital for four births - my older sister, myself, my younger sister and a third sister who died of a heart defect (the sort of thing that could be repaired today, but was a death sentence in the 1960s).
I'm a male, so it's obviously impossible for me to know how painful childbirth is, but I've talked to many women who've delivered without drugs and, other than my mother, not a one of them reported a pain-free experience.
I've never met anyone other than my family members who were delivered in this way, but I'm not suprised it's rare. It requires a lot of doctor/paitient interaction - far more than most MDs are able to give these days.
Somebody moderated this as "Funny"? That's bizzare, as it's the truth. Dr. Pickering at Normandy Osteopathic Hospital in 1960.
I, and my two sisters, were delivered by an Ostopath/hypnotist. Our mother said she felt no pain but had no drugs during any of the three deliveries. He had worked with her during preganecies, implanting the suggestion that she would feel no pain and that "it would be a beautiful experience". Pretty effective, as my younger sister was a breach presentation, and the doctor was able to move the baby around so that a Cesarian was avoided.
Me and my two sisters were delivered by a D.O. who was also a hypnotist. Our mother had no pain-relieving drugs, but felt no pain during any of the three births. The D.O. had been working with her during her pregnancies implanting the suggestion that she would feel no pain, and that it would be a "beautiful experience". This was back in the very late 50s to the early 60s (I'm 46).
I've used it. It is, in fact, a piece of crap.