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>What about California?
Yes but there are valid reasons for living in California. The beach is not far from decent skiing, there are amazing cultures, restaurants, entertainment, and natural wonders in and/or near San Francisco, there's this place called Silicon Valley that should still hold some interest for the geek population. I've lived in the Northeast, I've lived in Southern Cal, I even had to live in the Midwest for awhile. I can put up with blizzards and earthquakes in exchange for skiing, fishing, mountain biking, dynamic urban diversity, meeting 10 different nationalities in one day, learning about different religions, seeing entertaining crazy people on the bus, and heck, being in or near green forest most of the time.
This is NOT a flame but a serious question, since you live in Tulsa, what is there that makes you stay there? Why put up with even one tornado? For those of us who view Tulsa as the capital of flat brown undifferentiated boredom on earth (heck just flying over it is depressing), could you please provide an insider's viewpoint?
You don't think Locksmiths are trained for their job by breaking into unsuspecting homeowners, do you?
Actually, an inordinate number of locksmiths are ex-cons. I was told this by a locksmith who was jealous of their real-world experience. He waxed romantic about it in the bar like he wished he could do that stuff rather than punch catalog numbers into an automatic key maker.
What would you be if you got out of prison and your only advanced skill was breaking and entering? Last time I needed one almost proves the above story. My car key broke off in the ignition. The locksmith came, took one look at my car, and tooled a new ignition key BY HAND, without looking anything up or examining the old broken key or anything. They don't teach that in locksmith school. His little laptop computer hooked up to a key maker could've done the job with a few clicks, (like they teach in locksmithing school). But he said he only used that for oddball cars he "had no experience with". He scoffed at 'locksmithing school' methods the same way some 'nix folks scoff at GUI admin tools. So maybe he wasn't an ex-con. Yeah right.
I live in the US. I agree about the government. But laws are different everywhere. The scientific community is global not US-centric.
Now, as far as US scientists are concerned, compare cloning to psychoactive research. What you will see is a community bent on educating the government about the potential of cloning, but afraid to take its head out of the sand concerning a vast array of possible brain research tools. That's what I'm talking about. The attitude of the community. The scientists who would love to do research on psychoactive compounds aren't campaiging for it at all because there is no support in the general scientific community. One might blame this on the attitude of academicians more than scientists, but still, show me a scientist who has campaigned for this type of research and I'll show you a scientist who's credibility in the scientific community has plummeted. Why? The answer is pathetic: FUD, close-mindedness, group-think, and apathy is causing interested scientists to either keep quiet or lose much credibility. The scientific community is supposed to above such things.
> most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity.
Yes, God forbid somebody actually do legitimate modern research on psychoactive compounds. ("Shut up you hippie, it's just an artifact of drug abuse")
The attitude of the scientific community with respect to this is pathetic. A community eager to create designer genes and programmable microbes, experiment with cloning, etc, etc, (with REAL moral and legal implications) brushes off what just might be a set of keys to some very interesting knowledge. Why? Because it's taboo? Because 30 odd years ago we learned all there is to learn? Shame on "Modern Science".
> We have discovered a new charm particle in an experiment designed to probe the difference between matter and antimatter using bottom quarks. Sometimes the most exciting discoveries come from unexpected directions.
One question: How do they know they accidentally discovered it and that they did not accidentally invent it anew?
...engineers are starting to program microbes to carry out behaviors that nature never dreamed of.// Eventually, the goal is to produce genetic 'applets', little programs you could download into a cell simply by sticking DNA into it, the way you download Java applets from the Internet.
Not to stir up the scare-mongers and doom-sayers but that is one huge can of strangely colored worms.
Combine this w/ personalized medicine and you might live to be 600, albeit going to the doctor every week for a Service Pack and virus definition update, losing any remaining autonomy you might have over your mind and body, and wow, just think of the Homeland Security Bill we'll need to contain the threat of body-java applets... Full DNA scan in the lobby every morning... How do we stamp "FDA approved" on these little buggers?
Damn I am stirring up the doomsayers. Well I guess that's what they're for. Bring it on.
The old "House Breaking" analogy is horrible here.
Hate to say the analogy of choice is the old "Information Superhighway". If you're driving along and get lost or take an unfamiliar turn...If the road isn't marked Closed then it isn't closed. There is no way to tell a Private Driveway apart from a side street unless it's marked. Same with networks.
With a ubiquity of connections sprouting everywhere, all different, we need to drop that house analogy yesterday. The highway analogy is much better, especially if it is assumed most cars are on partial autopilot most of the time. Can you imagine asking explicit permission to drive down every road not marked "State Route" or "Public Road"? Of course not.
You know what, this analogy really carries. I disagree with the NH bill because it requires more than marking the network (road). It requires a chain on the road and guard gate. That's too far the other way.
All the law should require is that the owner properly mark, warn, post, whatever. No more, no less.
It seems no one from a photography or graphic design background has posted yet.
This monitor is currently the second best there is as far as anyone knows. The first best is Sony's top of the line of the same size, but it's more than double the price. I own the NEC. 1600x1200 "wall-to-wall" perfection. Only the Sony is a few % better at reds and saturation, at more than double the price.
This Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's 1961 orbit of Earth.
Struck me as odd that that was left out. An anniversary is the celebration of a specific date is it not?
This is cool. If all these people around the world can celebrate a 42 year old achievement, maybe we will have another amazing space accomplishment or 2 to celebrate in the near future. This kind of thing shows there is very significant worldwide support for space exploration. Go humanity go!
Read about the benefits of breastfeeding. Print it out and give it to your wife and have a serious talk about it. It's hard for us guys to believe, but those breasts weren't put there for us.
There are many non-trivial benefits to breastfeeding. Unless the mother is physically unable to nurse, the ONLY benefit to formula feeding is convenience.
I concur. Additionally, the most important thing about ANY wireless service is coverage. I'm a former Sprint customer specifically because the service is awful. I dropped about every other call.
You can't roll out service like this for anything important (aka your business) w/o being sure coverage is excellent. And what do we get from this review? A short blurb about the great coverage in Arizona, where you can see all the way to Las Vegas on a good day.
Somebody please wake me for the detailed review on coverage from Wheeling, WV to Bangor, ME. From Colorado Springs to Steamboat Springs. From San Francisco all the way to Seattle.
Until then the rest of this review is pretty much covered here unless the suck factor of 2 inch WAP browsing is new to you.
Registering a new .eu domain
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...will now have the additional option of a single, European Union domain name as well.
"Those wishing to register must remit payment in Euros. You WILL learn to use them dammit! No exceptions!
Delivering meds seems like a fine idea. But what about doing things with contact lenses that relate to vision? I want ones that darken slightly in bright light and come in a polarized, blue blocking, 'Like-Revo' version. At least give us some glare reduction for winter, water sports, and CRT viewing.
I don't want to change my eye color, I don't want to change my 2 week replacement schedule. They're already so comfortable I can't feel them. So when AccuView 3's come out how about we see some advances in functionality? Seems a bit overdue.
Eventually I fully expect a Heads-Up-Display on my contacts.
> I enjoy technology, and I don't understand how someone else who does (im guessing this dude does) would find this beautiful or relaxing
See things from the other side of the coin, walk a mile in somebody else's shoes, enjoy a thunderstorm after weeks of sun, Declare a no-cell-phone day. No yin without yang. Clichés ad infinitum.
The "Value PCs" are the ones for family. No I'm not affiliated in any way. I just LOVE this guy's service and the nice clean builds he does with all the unneeded windows junk, services, etc turned off. He stands behind 5 and 7 year warranties. Uses all top shelf parts as far as Home PC's are concerned. When he shipped a PC to my brother I knew every single part in it. Basically a custom built PC for your family only the custom builder isn't you, and the warranty is outstanding. Not only that, he includes norton firewall, a video tutorial on Windows for newbies, and no "free MSN", AOL or any other junk on there. I own one of the beefy one because I wanted the warranty and didn't feel like building it myself. He did a better job than I would've. My brother got one 18 months ago and I haven't heard anything but good things so far. This vendor responds almost instantly to problems, and will know your mother by name when she calls or emails.
My family said "this is 20-25% more expensive than Dell!" I said, "It's much better, it'll last a lot longer, it's better supported, and if you want me to do tech support for you at all, you need to get your PC here...(see sig)
Michaels Computers has been, and continues to be a thousand blessings when it comes to doing (actually NOT doing) family tech support. For that he is a minor hero of mine. Plus I love the monster box he built me that I can muck around with to hearts content with no worries. He's even emailed me pin-outs on a 2 hour notice. Can I say more?
Do not stick him at a command prompt. Let him discover that like the secret underground passage that it is.
From lots of personal experience, I suggest instead of asking 'What OS', ask "How can I introduce computers to my 6 year old in a fun way?" And go from there. In other words your solution should be application specific, not OS specific. Games are good. Making his name flash on the screen is good. If you really want him to learn fast lock him out of folders named "Christmas List", "Secrets", etc.
Reading, computing, microscopes, and ant farms. These things all need to FUN for kids otherwise it's work and kids learn to hate it quickly.
>Very few people are going to be in favor of manditory government-imposed child restrictions.
I don't know whether I'm in that camp or not. But if I think of it as a parenting restriction, and keep in mind that society requires us to have licenses in order to drive, sell apples, and go fishing, and then I look around at a few of the other parents, well, I start to give myself Orwelian chills.
>I read an article about a year ago about how massive amounts of hydrogen were found along the Canada/US border
I'm not doubting you here but could you please clarify? Hydrogen just doesn't loiter around the border looking for trouble, just hanging out trying to avoid the border patrol and any hint of wind.
It is either chemically bound to something, like water, or in a tighter than air-tight container, or swapping stories with low-earth-orbit satellites.
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>What about California?
Yes but there are valid reasons for living in California. The beach is not far from decent skiing, there are amazing cultures, restaurants, entertainment, and natural wonders in and/or near San Francisco, there's this place called Silicon Valley that should still hold some interest for the geek population. I've lived in the Northeast, I've lived in Southern Cal, I even had to live in the Midwest for awhile. I can put up with blizzards and earthquakes in exchange for skiing, fishing, mountain biking, dynamic urban diversity, meeting 10 different nationalities in one day, learning about different religions, seeing entertaining crazy people on the bus, and heck, being in or near green forest most of the time.
This is NOT a flame but a serious question, since you live in Tulsa, what is there that makes you stay there? Why put up with even one tornado? For those of us who view Tulsa as the capital of flat brown undifferentiated boredom on earth (heck just flying over it is depressing), could you please provide an insider's viewpoint?
You don't think Locksmiths are trained for their job by breaking into unsuspecting homeowners, do you?
Actually, an inordinate number of locksmiths are ex-cons. I was told this by a locksmith who was jealous of their real-world experience. He waxed romantic about it in the bar like he wished he could do that stuff rather than punch catalog numbers into an automatic key maker.
What would you be if you got out of prison and your only advanced skill was breaking and entering? Last time I needed one almost proves the above story. My car key broke off in the ignition. The locksmith came, took one look at my car, and tooled a new ignition key BY HAND, without looking anything up or examining the old broken key or anything. They don't teach that in locksmith school. His little laptop computer hooked up to a key maker could've done the job with a few clicks, (like they teach in locksmithing school). But he said he only used that for oddball cars he "had no experience with". He scoffed at 'locksmithing school' methods the same way some 'nix folks scoff at GUI admin tools. So maybe he wasn't an ex-con. Yeah right.
What you really need is ICR, Intelligent Character Recognition. There is a free trial version of one such product here.
Better Google searching makes the difference.
If you can draw really really fast while on the phone please contact Jason W. above.
I live in the US. I agree about the government. But laws are different everywhere. The scientific community is global not US-centric.
Now, as far as US scientists are concerned, compare cloning to psychoactive research. What you will see is a community bent on educating the government about the potential of cloning, but afraid to take its head out of the sand concerning a vast array of possible brain research tools. That's what I'm talking about. The attitude of the community. The scientists who would love to do research on psychoactive compounds aren't campaiging for it at all because there is no support in the general scientific community. One might blame this on the attitude of academicians more than scientists, but still, show me a scientist who has campaigned for this type of research and I'll show you a scientist who's credibility in the scientific community has plummeted. Why? The answer is pathetic: FUD, close-mindedness, group-think, and apathy is causing interested scientists to either keep quiet or lose much credibility. The scientific community is supposed to above such things.
> most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity.
Yes, God forbid somebody actually do legitimate modern research on psychoactive compounds. ("Shut up you hippie, it's just an artifact of drug abuse")
The attitude of the scientific community with respect to this is pathetic. A community eager to create designer genes and programmable microbes, experiment with cloning, etc, etc, (with REAL moral and legal implications) brushes off what just might be a set of keys to some very interesting knowledge. Why? Because it's taboo? Because 30 odd years ago we learned all there is to learn? Shame on "Modern Science".
> We have discovered a new charm particle in an experiment designed to probe the difference between matter and antimatter using bottom quarks. Sometimes the most exciting discoveries come from unexpected directions.
One question: How do they know they accidentally discovered it and that they did not accidentally invent it anew?
Thanks.
...engineers are starting to program microbes to carry out behaviors that nature never dreamed of. // Eventually, the goal is to produce genetic 'applets', little programs you could download into a cell simply by sticking DNA into it, the way you download Java applets from the Internet.
Not to stir up the scare-mongers and doom-sayers but that is one huge can of strangely colored worms.
Combine this w/ personalized medicine and you might live to be 600, albeit going to the doctor every week for a Service Pack and virus definition update, losing any remaining autonomy you might have over your mind and body, and wow, just think of the Homeland Security Bill we'll need to contain the threat of body-java applets... Full DNA scan in the lobby every morning... How do we stamp "FDA approved" on these little buggers?
Damn I am stirring up the doomsayers. Well I guess that's what they're for. Bring it on.
The old "House Breaking" analogy is horrible here.
Hate to say the analogy of choice is the old "Information Superhighway". If you're driving along and get lost or take an unfamiliar turn...If the road isn't marked Closed then it isn't closed. There is no way to tell a Private Driveway apart from a side street unless it's marked. Same with networks.
With a ubiquity of connections sprouting everywhere, all different, we need to drop that house analogy yesterday. The highway analogy is much better, especially if it is assumed most cars are on partial autopilot most of the time. Can you imagine asking explicit permission to drive down every road not marked "State Route" or "Public Road"? Of course not.
You know what, this analogy really carries. I disagree with the NH bill because it requires more than marking the network (road). It requires a chain on the road and guard gate. That's too far the other way.
All the law should require is that the owner properly mark, warn, post, whatever. No more, no less.
Now we know why Intel was so anxious to get their anti-overclocking technology working.
It seems no one from a photography or graphic design background has posted yet.
This monitor is currently the second best there is as far as anyone knows. The first best is Sony's top of the line of the same size, but it's more than double the price. I own the NEC. 1600x1200 "wall-to-wall" perfection. Only the Sony is a few % better at reds and saturation, at more than double the price.
Anybody know any better please share.
This Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's 1961 orbit of Earth.
Struck me as odd that that was left out. An anniversary is the celebration of a specific date is it not?
This is cool. If all these people around the world can celebrate a 42 year old achievement, maybe we will have another amazing space accomplishment or 2 to celebrate in the near future. This kind of thing shows there is very significant worldwide support for space exploration. Go humanity go!
Read about the benefits of breastfeeding. Print it out and give it to your wife and have a serious talk about it. It's hard for us guys to believe, but those breasts weren't put there for us.
There are many non-trivial benefits to breastfeeding. Unless the mother is physically unable to nurse, the ONLY benefit to formula feeding is convenience.
Coming soon - "How to hook your power supply up to the 'intel inside' sticker.
I concur. Additionally, the most important thing about ANY wireless service is coverage.
I'm a former Sprint customer specifically because the service is awful. I dropped about every other call.
You can't roll out service like this for anything important (aka your business) w/o being sure coverage is excellent. And what do we get from this review? A short blurb about the great coverage in Arizona, where you can see all the way to Las Vegas on a good day.
Somebody please wake me for the detailed review on coverage from Wheeling, WV to Bangor, ME. From Colorado Springs to Steamboat Springs. From San Francisco all the way to Seattle.
Until then the rest of this review is pretty much covered here unless the suck factor of 2 inch WAP browsing is new to you.
...will now have the additional option of a single, European Union domain name as well.
"Those wishing to register must remit payment in Euros. You WILL learn to use them dammit! No exceptions!
No not even francs."
I think
William Shatner...
Invented,
Power
Point
Delivering meds seems like a fine idea. But what about doing things with contact lenses that relate to vision? I want ones that darken slightly in bright light and come in a polarized, blue blocking, 'Like-Revo' version. At least give us some glare reduction for winter, water sports, and CRT viewing.
I don't want to change my eye color, I don't want to change my 2 week replacement schedule. They're already so comfortable I can't feel them. So when AccuView 3's come out how about we see some advances in functionality? Seems a bit overdue.
Eventually I fully expect a Heads-Up-Display on my contacts.
> I enjoy technology, and I don't understand how someone else who does (im guessing this dude does) would find this beautiful or relaxing
See things from the other side of the coin, walk a mile in somebody else's shoes, enjoy a thunderstorm after weeks of sun, Declare a no-cell-phone day. No yin without yang. Clichés ad infinitum.
Ignore at your peril.
Check my sig.
The "Value PCs" are the ones for family. No I'm not affiliated in any way. I just LOVE this guy's service and the nice clean builds he does with all the unneeded windows junk, services, etc turned off. He stands behind 5 and 7 year warranties. Uses all top shelf parts as far as Home PC's are concerned. When he shipped a PC to my brother I knew every single part in it. Basically a custom built PC for your family only the custom builder isn't you, and the warranty is outstanding. Not only that, he includes norton firewall, a video tutorial on Windows for newbies, and no "free MSN", AOL or any other junk on there. I own one of the beefy one because I wanted the warranty and didn't feel like building it myself. He did a better job than I would've. My brother got one 18 months ago and I haven't heard anything but good things so far. This vendor responds almost instantly to problems, and will know your mother by name when she calls or emails.
My family said "this is 20-25% more expensive than Dell!" I said, "It's much better, it'll last a lot longer, it's better supported, and if you want me to do tech support for you at all, you need to get your PC here...(see sig)
Michaels Computers has been, and continues to be a thousand blessings when it comes to doing (actually NOT doing) family tech support. For that he is a minor hero of mine. Plus I love the monster box he built me that I can muck around with to hearts content with no worries. He's even emailed me pin-outs on a 2 hour notice. Can I say more?
Do not stick him at a command prompt. Let him discover that like the secret underground passage that it is.
From lots of personal experience, I suggest instead of asking 'What OS', ask "How can I introduce computers to my 6 year old in a fun way?" And go from there. In other words your solution should be application specific, not OS specific. Games are good. Making his name flash on the screen is good. If you really want him to learn fast lock him out of folders named "Christmas List", "Secrets", etc.
Reading, computing, microscopes, and ant farms. These things all need to FUN for kids otherwise it's work and kids learn to hate it quickly.
>Very few people are going to be in favor of manditory government-imposed child restrictions.
I don't know whether I'm in that camp or not. But if I think of it as a parenting restriction, and keep in mind that society requires us to have licenses in order to drive, sell apples, and go fishing, and then I look around at a few of the other parents, well, I start to give myself Orwelian chills.
>I read an article about a year ago about how massive amounts of hydrogen were found along the Canada/US border
I'm not doubting you here but could you please clarify? Hydrogen just doesn't loiter around the border looking for trouble, just hanging out trying to avoid the border patrol and any hint of wind.
It is either chemically bound to something, like water, or in a tighter than air-tight container, or swapping stories with low-earth-orbit satellites.
Mobile phone theft, ID spoofing, and black market handset sales in Switzerland skyrocket.
Because of course now that anonymous cell phone usage is illegal, only criminals can protect their IDs on cell phones.
Ethical Opinions -
See no evil, hear no evil, your client is accountable for himself.
You are honor bound to protect your defenseless client to the best of your abilities.
Keep him informed of the situation and let him deal with it. That's the extent of your duties.
Harshly warn your client for jeopardizing your business and your credibility. Kick him out if doesn't comply. Protect your livelihood.
Insert coins and ask again.
Legal Opinion -
Ask elsewhere. A LAWYER would be good.
Sorry if this is curt. I just think that if an entire thread can be covered in one post then it should be.