I watched a work crew dig a trench a couple miles down a local highway headed in my direction (w00t) and then I watched as they laid a pipe that was obviously a fiber conduit. The trench and conduit go a few miles down the highway and then stop. (not w00t) That was several years ago and they haven't done anything since.
I live in an area that is considered rural because it is isolated by terrain rather than distance from town. Hell, at night I can lights from houses on the ridge about a mile away and who live in "town" and who probably have all the broadband they can possible use.
My area is not even an option for any carrier of cable or DSL because there aren't enough people out there to justify the expense. I'm sure the minute one of the neighbors sells out to a subdivision there will be telco and cable trucks everywhere. Until then, I get 56k on a good day.
But you can buy uncut currency which most likely have sequential numbers. I don't know if there are any standards about precision of the cuts, but I think it would be cool to whip out a sheet of these ($2 bills would enhance the effect) and use some scissors to cut off what you need right there at the register.
What font? What font size? What line spacing? What margins? What kind of paper? What kind of ink? (over the course of printing a Gigabyte the volume of ink/toner required would add at least some weight.
How much of the weight is actually from spilled alcohol, which would obviously be involved in such a venture?
Holodecks incorporate replicator technology for many objects that interact with the user. Therefore, a meal eaten on a holodeck is a 'real' replicated meal. Replication is used for other things such as sand, clothing, etc...
Yeah, don't say it, I know...too much time poking around DITL.
Family are too far away for that to matter. I used to have a big problem with people I know who wanted stuff done. When I got tired of that I just made sure that everyone knew that my time was too valuable to be helping everyone who had a problem. I did this by charging between 20-40 dollars an hour depending on how much I liked the person.
Problem solved.
People hardly ever ask anymore, and when they do it is when they've got their system so screwed up that they don't care how much it costs.
I noticed that it is now a little more verbose in actually telling you what it is doing while repairing. There are several things that aren't new, however they do have slight gui enhancements to make them more useful.
They get even more fun when some of the pieces get jagged and rusty.
My tonka's reduced many a nice neat pile of landscaping dirt/gravel to a spread all over the yard mess.
In our field we had a dump truck full of some kind of sand due to some sort of mixup with the hauling company. It was the kind that after a winter of rain, it was hard for the first several inches. I think there might still be a tonka buried out there somewhere.
The coolest thing was when we got a pile of decomposed granite. When it first comes, it is soft and fluffy. But after it has been rained on and dried out by the sun it becomes rock hard all the way through. We used to dig a vertical shaft about a foot deep at the highest point and then push a garden hose down it. Then we would turn the hose on really low. For the next four hours we would build cities and play with the tonka trucks around the artifical river we built. It was cool because the little river had all of the characteristics of a real river. Sometimes we would guide the river along a path to maximize the length within the area we had to work with. But there was erosion and the "river" would change courses and build deltas.
So I guess that is my recommendation metal Tonka trucks and a dump truck full of decomposed granite.
Sure you can pick apart the premise all you want, in the context of reality. BUT (1)This is a movie, and (2) The force is involved.
In star wars, there is nothing wrong with being angry, however there is a danger for someone who is sensitive to the force. The dark side is accessed through strong negative emotions such as anger and hate. Because such emotions are easier to come by than calm detachement there is a danger that someone could become addicted to and corrupted by, not the emotions, but by the power that comes from being able to wield the dark side.
"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton
Above all, remember that this is a movie. George Lucas has never said that there were any deep philosophical concepts in it. It is a Good-vs-Evil-lasers-blasting-stuff-blowing-up-good -guy-tries-to-get-the-girl-but-realizes-she-is-his -sister-so-the-backup-good-guy-gets-the-girl movie.
If people want more philosophy than action than go to the library and start in the section labeled 100 (dewey)
I'm not where I can get it, but I have the images from the original article, and the stuff they made back then was not very good optically. Not only have they figured out how to make lots of it, but their technique is better.
The picture in this article is kind of small but it looks like, even though some of the glass isn't perfectly transparent, it is still clear. Rather than being cloudy it is just colored. One looks like it would be great for tinted windows.
In the old days if you were talking you yourself they threw you in the nuthouse. Now we have cell phone earbuds and bluetooth earpieces, and talking to yourself is a status symbol.
Now, if you pee your pants you are laughed at and people find you disgusting. In the future, when we all have fuel cell powered laptops, a stain on one's crotch will be considered a status symbol.
The users haven't demanded it, and I do everything I can to discourage them from thinking in that direction. Sure, you can do a lot in the way of having rich interactive web interface, but it is a royal pain. [X]HTML is for presentation, period.
I'm going to start sitting there with my (non camera)cell phone held up in front of me. Then when they come after me, all they will find is a (non camera)cell phone with a picture on the screen (sent by someone with a camera phone) of a hand with it's middle finger extended.
I wanted to patent, a process by which grants are made by a governing entity that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.
And yet, Rambus, Amazon, SCO and others can patent stuff like dirt, and get away with it.
We will arm you with the knowledge to make killer sales copy so you can convert a lot of those who open your sales letter into sales today!
Oh, yEaH, sPaMmers write the best ad copy ofanybody!!!!!!!!!!
Just 5 minutes, a monkey, a pound of salt, three feet of cat-5, 1 match, a can of orange paint (oil base), a magnet, a ream of copy paper, 1 square meter of bubble wrap, a laser pointer, one spammer, and a small room. That's all I ask.
If I buy a DVD drive, I expect to be able to watch DVDs, just like I would have expected to be able to listen to music CDs if I bought a CD drive.
Yeah, I have a DVD player hooked up to my TV, I have a DVD player in my computer. Why do I need to install a decoder on my computer, when I don't need to install one in my TV?
Is it really valid to make the distinction between the two? I could pirate movies using my TV, it just isn't as easy as on the computer. (I don't)
And there's the rub. I suffer with dial-up because it is the only internet access I can get. Just a mile away, people are getting Qwest DSL @ 1.5Mbps for ~$27USD per month, and I have dial-up. I do have broadband at work, and hence the reason I bought a fairly large USB memory stick, because satisfying dependencies over dial-up sucks.
Spybot is cool because it allows you to immunize IE against the more common spyware entry points. It also has an active part that runs and stops some other known bad stuff. I like how it can add thousands of known Spyware producing urls to your host file, pointed to 127.0.0.1, so IE will not even go to some dangerous URLs.
I also use Ad-Aware because it has more current definitions.
At home I run as administrator on my windows boxes because they are incapable of seeing the outside world (Dial-Up == why bother). At work (in a internet capable environment) I run as a power user. If I need to do something as admin. *right click* > Run As...
The parent is right, Windows security problems come from the fact that the software needs too many permissions to run. And so, users run as admin. On the other hand I have turned down some Linux packages that wanted root, and I found another package that could do without.
In some cases windows is good about asking if you would like to put in higher level permissions, but I think that it needs to ask that more often. Maybe the security should be more granular. The admin user can see every thing, and can execute anything, but the program runs under a different set of permissions unless it runs into a problem, and then it asks for permission. But that is up to others to figure out.
I think what it all comes down to is: Does the user believe that usability means less passwords? It has always been true that users will be less happy if they have to jump through security hoops, so OS makers try to present them with fewer hoops. I am not a zealot for any one OS because as far as a number of factors, no OS can claim to be "better" Certain OS's are better for certain people/situations. And it always falls to the maker to determine the proper mix of hoops, and no hoops.
A couple of the magazines that I subscribe to have ads in them (*gasp*) that are targeted at me. Somewhere on the ad there will by my name, and, for example, the address of the Napa Autoparts store closest to my house, or something similar depending on the ad. However it has never been something that is this well done. It is always low resolution sloppy text squirted reasonably close to where they meant it to be on the ad.
It'll probably be like some of the other shows that I started to watch. Whether they are lawyer shows, medical shows, or whatever. They start out dealing with interesting topics/situations. However, at some point the characters start having a personal life. They start banging other characters. Then they start banging clients. Then the show starts bringing in a new outrageous guest star every week. Then they start swapping new characters in every month. Another thing they do is to do "ripped from the headlines" plots. And since it takes months for a show to go through production and actually make it to TV, I never remember what the hell they are talking about.
I wonder if this could be used to feed corrective balance information to people who do have balance and vertigo problems? You could figure out how to calibrate it to counteract whatever false information your real sense of balance is sending. Of course it wouldn't work if the medical condition can't be quantified as a constant.
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I watched a work crew dig a trench a couple miles down a local highway headed in my direction (w00t) and then I watched as they laid a pipe that was obviously a fiber conduit. The trench and conduit go a few miles down the highway and then stop. (not w00t) That was several years ago and they haven't done anything since.
I live in an area that is considered rural because it is isolated by terrain rather than distance from town. Hell, at night I can lights from houses on the ridge about a mile away and who live in "town" and who probably have all the broadband they can possible use.
My area is not even an option for any carrier of cable or DSL because there aren't enough people out there to justify the expense. I'm sure the minute one of the neighbors sells out to a subdivision there will be telco and cable trucks everywhere. Until then, I get 56k on a good day.
But you can buy uncut currency which most likely have sequential numbers. I don't know if there are any standards about precision of the cuts, but I think it would be cool to whip out a sheet of these ($2 bills would enhance the effect) and use some scissors to cut off what you need right there at the register.
What font?
What font size?
What line spacing?
What margins?
What kind of paper?
What kind of ink? (over the course of printing a Gigabyte the volume of ink/toner required would add at least some weight.
How much of the weight is actually from spilled alcohol, which would obviously be involved in such a venture?
Holodecks incorporate replicator technology for many objects that interact with the user. Therefore, a meal eaten on a holodeck is a 'real' replicated meal. Replication is used for other things such as sand, clothing, etc...
Yeah, don't say it, I know...too much time poking around DITL.
Family are too far away for that to matter. I used to have a big problem with people I know who wanted stuff done. When I got tired of that I just made sure that everyone knew that my time was too valuable to be helping everyone who had a problem. I did this by charging between 20-40 dollars an hour depending on how much I liked the person.
Problem solved.
People hardly ever ask anymore, and when they do it is when they've got their system so screwed up that they don't care how much it costs.
I noticed that it is now a little more verbose in actually telling you what it is doing while repairing. There are several things that aren't new, however they do have slight gui enhancements to make them more useful.
Where's the X-303?
:D
I watch too much TV
They get even more fun when some of the pieces get jagged and rusty.
My tonka's reduced many a nice neat pile of landscaping dirt/gravel to a spread all over the yard mess.
In our field we had a dump truck full of some kind of sand due to some sort of mixup with the hauling company. It was the kind that after a winter of rain, it was hard for the first several inches. I think there might still be a tonka buried out there somewhere.
The coolest thing was when we got a pile of decomposed granite. When it first comes, it is soft and fluffy. But after it has been rained on and dried out by the sun it becomes rock hard all the way through. We used to dig a vertical shaft about a foot deep at the highest point and then push a garden hose down it. Then we would turn the hose on really low. For the next four hours we would build cities and play with the tonka trucks around the artifical river we built. It was cool because the little river had all of the characteristics of a real river. Sometimes we would guide the river along a path to maximize the length within the area we had to work with. But there was erosion and the "river" would change courses and build deltas.
So I guess that is my recommendation metal Tonka trucks and a dump truck full of decomposed granite.
I agree:
d -guy-tries-to-get-the-girl-but-realizes-she-is-his -sister-so-the-backup-good-guy-gets-the-girl movie.
Sure you can pick apart the premise all you want, in the context of reality. BUT (1)This is a movie, and (2) The force is involved.
In star wars, there is nothing wrong with being angry, however there is a danger for someone who is sensitive to the force. The dark side is accessed through strong negative emotions such as anger and hate. Because such emotions are easier to come by than calm detachement there is a danger that someone could become addicted to and corrupted by, not the emotions, but by the power that comes from being able to wield the dark side.
"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton
Above all, remember that this is a movie. George Lucas has never said that there were any deep philosophical concepts in it. It is a Good-vs-Evil-lasers-blasting-stuff-blowing-up-goo
If people want more philosophy than action than go to the library and start in the section labeled 100 (dewey)
I'm not where I can get it, but I have the images from the original article, and the stuff they made back then was not very good optically. Not only have they figured out how to make lots of it, but their technique is better.
The picture in this article is kind of small but it looks like, even though some of the glass isn't perfectly transparent, it is still clear. Rather than being cloudy it is just colored. One looks like it would be great for tinted windows.
The old images are very cloudy and rough looking.
...you insensitive clod. Slashdot is my only window on the world.
I found this article on MSDN a while ago.
It points out that most registry access by software is not necessary and can be avoided.
They are also finally catching up to the idea of Least-Privelege users in Longhorn. It's about time.
In the old days if you were talking you yourself they threw you in the nuthouse. Now we have cell phone earbuds and bluetooth earpieces, and talking to yourself is a status symbol.
Now, if you pee your pants you are laughed at and people find you disgusting. In the future, when we all have fuel cell powered laptops, a stain on one's crotch will be considered a status symbol.
The users haven't demanded it, and I do everything I can to discourage them from thinking in that direction. Sure, you can do a lot in the way of having rich interactive web interface, but it is a royal pain. [X]HTML is for presentation, period.
I'm going to start sitting there with my (non camera)cell phone held up in front of me. Then when they come after me, all they will find is a (non camera)cell phone with a picture on the screen (sent by someone with a camera phone) of a hand with it's middle finger extended.
I wanted to patent, a process by which grants are made by a governing entity that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.
And yet, Rambus, Amazon, SCO and others can patent stuff like dirt, and get away with it.
I found this quote on one of the websites (http://www.emaillistclub.com/)
We will arm you with the knowledge to make killer sales copy so you can convert a lot of those who open your sales letter into sales today!
Oh, yEaH, sPaMmers write the best ad copy of anybody !!!!!!!!!!
Just 5 minutes, a monkey, a pound of salt, three feet of cat-5, 1 match, a can of orange paint (oil base), a magnet, a ream of copy paper, 1 square meter of bubble wrap, a laser pointer, one spammer, and a small room. That's all I ask.
If I buy a DVD drive, I expect to be able to watch DVDs, just like I would have expected to be able to listen to music CDs if I bought a CD drive.
Yeah, I have a DVD player hooked up to my TV, I have a DVD player in my computer. Why do I need to install a decoder on my computer, when I don't need to install one in my TV?
Is it really valid to make the distinction between the two? I could pirate movies using my TV, it just isn't as easy as on the computer. (I don't)
If it was available
And there's the rub. I suffer with dial-up because it is the only internet access I can get. Just a mile away, people are getting Qwest DSL @ 1.5Mbps for ~$27USD per month, and I have dial-up. I do have broadband at work, and hence the reason I bought a fairly large USB memory stick, because satisfying dependencies over dial-up sucks.
Spybot is cool because it allows you to immunize IE against the more common spyware entry points. It also has an active part that runs and stops some other known bad stuff. I like how it can add thousands of known Spyware producing urls to your host file, pointed to 127.0.0.1, so IE will not even go to some dangerous URLs.
I also use Ad-Aware because it has more current definitions.
At home I run as administrator on my windows boxes because they are incapable of seeing the outside world (Dial-Up == why bother). At work (in a internet capable environment) I run as a power user. If I need to do something as admin. *right click* > Run As...
The parent is right, Windows security problems come from the fact that the software needs too many permissions to run. And so, users run as admin. On the other hand I have turned down some Linux packages that wanted root, and I found another package that could do without.
In some cases windows is good about asking if you would like to put in higher level permissions, but I think that it needs to ask that more often. Maybe the security should be more granular. The admin user can see every thing, and can execute anything, but the program runs under a different set of permissions unless it runs into a problem, and then it asks for permission. But that is up to others to figure out.
I think what it all comes down to is: Does the user believe that usability means less passwords? It has always been true that users will be less happy if they have to jump through security hoops, so OS makers try to present them with fewer hoops. I am not a zealot for any one OS because as far as a number of factors, no OS can claim to be "better" Certain OS's are better for certain people/situations. And it always falls to the maker to determine the proper mix of hoops, and no hoops.
A couple of the magazines that I subscribe to have ads in them (*gasp*) that are targeted at me. Somewhere on the ad there will by my name, and, for example, the address of the Napa Autoparts store closest to my house, or something similar depending on the ad. However it has never been something that is this well done. It is always low resolution sloppy text squirted reasonably close to where they meant it to be on the ad.
Microsoft will definitely get into trouble when they start bundling computers with purchases of Windows.
It'll probably be like some of the other shows that I started to watch. Whether they are lawyer shows, medical shows, or whatever. They start out dealing with interesting topics/situations. However, at some point the characters start having a personal life. They start banging other characters. Then they start banging clients. Then the show starts bringing in a new outrageous guest star every week. Then they start swapping new characters in every month.
Another thing they do is to do "ripped from the headlines" plots. And since it takes months for a show to go through production and actually make it to TV, I never remember what the hell they are talking about.
I hate TV
I wonder if this could be used to feed corrective balance information to people who do have balance and vertigo problems? You could figure out how to calibrate it to counteract whatever false information your real sense of balance is sending. Of course it wouldn't work if the medical condition can't be quantified as a constant.