Speaking of 3 cylinders and last week's/., the Smart Car was in town here last weekend and the local media were all over it. A lot of snide comments scripted for the announcers but a lot of camera time in the face of people who said they loved the test ride and would buy one.
This is quite surprising. I always thought the US was awash with options.
Just like our politics: two options. In our area, that is Comcast cable or DirectTV dish. And when there are only two, they can play the same games together for the mutual screwing of the customer.
Which is why I went with the outsider option: MythTV broadcast. I spend all my time on the net anyway.
No kidding. A person has to figure "somebody", most likely "somebodies" since nobody seems to have noticed what was going on, pulled a sweet crime getting away with stealing millions in PCs from a place with crap for accountability. I don't see why IBM should be particularly sympathetic to a mix of criminals and morons.
OK, dualing anecdotes: "Relatives said Rodriguez was vomiting blood and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated" Ignored By 911, Woman Dies In Hospital
Point? Go with the actuarial tables of life expectancy: U.S. at 78, Cuba at 77.08. Pretty damn good for a 3rd world country at pennies on the dollar. CIA factbook (obviously a commie liberal tool, right?)
Looking at the hospitals isn't the key. Early intervention public health is the key.
There is a retired "rocket scientist" and SF writer who attends the Twin Cities Convergence Con most years and he has lectured in greater detail on the topic: pros and cons of the various forms of propulsion proposed, optimal velocities and such. His conclusion isn't entirely different in that it would certainly require astounding amounts of power but he would like to believe we may be able to come up with an energy production and delivery system "some time after the inner solar system has been colonized". In particular, a refinement on beaming energy to a craft that then doesn't have to carry the bulk of it's own fuel.
And, yes, "colonization" is a loaded term. More like a small research mission for a species that has run out of lesser challenges or a small group of females and a sperm bank in a desperate attempt to maintain the species as it then exists.
Yeah, basically, "Doesn't hurt." What percentage of web sites know they "should" check their layout on a Mac but the employer doesn't provide one for in-house webmasters? If you can write on linux or test at home, you can give Konqueror a look. At least now even Windows people who don't have a Mac have something "Mac-like" to check code against. Seems like that's incrementally worthwhile.
So we're up to "hundreds of billions"? Considering the GDP of the US was about 13 trillion last year I guess that not only means a large part of everything the US does these days is make music and movies but we are bleeding _another_ several percent of potential US GDP in "lost income" from that economic engine. So we should envision the RIAA getting battered by Katrina several times per year and barely able to say afloat in the torrent of downloads.
[My Intro to Soc prof wrote Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. Actually, intelligent people have sincerely claimed even stupider things with even less self interest so I guess I'm not surprised we're up the "hundreds of billions".]
Yeah, the Western Hemisphere belongs to the U.S.! Or something.
Whether you love Chavez or hate him, whether you think our actions in the hemisphere over the last century have been prudent or monstrous, one thing is clear: while Bush is (incompetently) chasing the middle eastern oil, he's letting our control of Central and South America slip away. So, how many of you Neocons still think Dubya is a bold imperial genius?
At least I think I know what precedent they are hoping to set. A forensic technician in a raid wouldn't power down the computer because there might be something worthwhile in the ram, right? So the judge is saying, you power down in an investigative situation, you are de facto interfering with an investigation. Hey, prove you _weren't_.
Just another judgment along the line of, "Citizen if you have nothing to hide, you will cooperate."
So no more music store sample clips? Or they propose a system where approved clips are registered and watermarked like the whole song? Or only downloadable from approved IPs or what? What's the difference between an approved sample clip and 5 bootleg clips that can be cat'ed into the whole song?
If I were cdnow.com wouldn't I think this has potential suckiness?
A lot of flashy animation and rapid jump cuts is entertainment. Mr. Wizard was instruction. It empowered kids with the knowledge and mindset to _do_ things themselves. In a class by itself.
So there's contention because Sony says a Microsoft feature doesn't work but Microsoft says Sony corporation just can't figure out _how_ to make it work?
Now there's an advertisement for hap-hap-happy Windows user friendliness. Wanna pay $400 to set me up with some Vista _real_ soon with news like that.
One of my favorite personal sayings, "I've been around computers so long I can remember when non-Microsoft products were PC Magazine's "office applications of the year".
Dreamweaver seems like the easy one to get rid of. You're not only going to want to code but you're going to want to test the code in various browsers you have up anyway, so, really, who cares about GUI mode? My wife is in the biz and hasn't used her own copy of Dreamweaver at home for years even though she can access it through Win4Lin and has a QEMU XP available. I switched her to Bluefish and she's happy. Probably would have been happy with Quanta Plus as well.
Everything else is "interesting": GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, OpenOffice save as PDF, some of the _really_ fledgling attempts at.swfs, etc. There's no way my wife will not have Photoshop. She uses Dreamweaver at work as well rather than cause trouble but she _wants_ to use Photoshop. In part I think it _is_ because of the layout. If GIMPShop were the standard layout, I think a lot more people would be comfortable learning on it and use it casually. Maybe then it would be easier to get some professionals to spend enough time on it to better qualify just what essentials are missing and work to correct the situation.
Twice the efficiency _is_ technologically interesting. But a generator lasts, what, 10-20-30 years? These cells are what? One use recycled? So how many dozens, hundreds, or whatever fuel cells need to be built to get that "doubled efficiency" of building one generator? And what's the closed system total cost of each system over time?
I notice the article is suspiciously devoid of "$" signs.
I think it's fun to watch the transitions as stations position themselves. We have the aggressive 16:9 HDTV local news, 4:3 HDTV local news -- neither of which broadcast SD. Then we have the SD and HD dual broadcast stations and one truth-in-advertising SD station that just calls their digital transmission local news "DT".
I'm surprised more commercials haven't transitioned over to 16:9. Our weather bunny on the 16:9 station has referenced things off screen before "You people with HD know what I'm talking about". But I would think most commercials could be conceived to accommodate cropping.
Probably more practical than my first thought of putting the house on hydraulic stilts. But the stilts could be computer controlled (as long as there is a backup generator)!
Either way, yacht or house on polynesian-style stilts, I'd definitely go with solar panels and high efficiency electronics for independence. And Euro high-efficiency toilets for conserving water. Solar water heating should be very practical in New Orleans and how about a rainwater collection system?
Keep a smaller boat in what is currently the back yard. That could also operate on batteries and be solar rechargeable. And consider a room dedicated to weapons and MREs so you can decide which neighbors it might be useful to allow on your above-water dwelling in a crisis.
Seriously, the government hasn't done anything substantive, has it, to assure that New Orleans won't flood again under the same circumstances? And Katrina wasn't even a bullseye direct hit. So where are these properties available: ebay?
McCain is the willing sock puppet of GOP leadership. He wants to be president so badly he's driven to say EVERYTHING along the policy line exactly like they want him to say it. And he'll forgive anything. Make fun of his wife's black baby and he'll say, "Yes, Sir! Can I have another!" And ask them how he can serve them better.
He has to be a hollow shell. Add the rages he is supposed to get into in private with people and he's the poster child for 30 years of untreated PTSD and torture survival. I pity him more than I respect him and I sure as hell don't want a _second_ crazy president in a row.
I believe they have been doing this for some time. It makes economic sense but you have to think it would be a nightmare if your player got stolen.
I can just see the scenario at the police station, "No, officer. This is SERIOUS. I could be sued for TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. I want to file a detailed report because you have to put finding the person who took my music player at the top of your investigative priorities." Complain loud enough and long enough down that theme and you'd probably find yourself in a cell just on principle for being a pain in the ass.
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Speaking of 3 cylinders and last week's /., the Smart Car was in town here last weekend and the local media were all over it. A lot of snide comments scripted for the announcers but a lot of camera time in the face of people who said they loved the test ride and would buy one.
Doesn't matter. What they'll do to you won't be legal either.
This is quite surprising. I always thought the US was awash with options.
Just like our politics: two options. In our area, that is Comcast cable or DirectTV dish. And when there are only two, they can play the same games together for the mutual screwing of the customer.
Which is why I went with the outsider option: MythTV broadcast. I spend all my time on the net anyway.
No kidding. A person has to figure "somebody", most likely "somebodies" since nobody seems to have noticed what was going on, pulled a sweet crime getting away with stealing millions in PCs from a place with crap for accountability. I don't see why IBM should be particularly sympathetic to a mix of criminals and morons.
OK, dualing anecdotes: "Relatives said Rodriguez was vomiting blood and writhing in pain for 45 minutes while she was at a hospital waiting area. Experts have said she could have survived had she been treated" Ignored By 911, Woman Dies In Hospital
Point? Go with the actuarial tables of life expectancy: U.S. at 78, Cuba at 77.08. Pretty damn good for a 3rd world country at pennies on the dollar. CIA factbook (obviously a commie liberal tool, right?)
Looking at the hospitals isn't the key. Early intervention public health is the key.
There is a retired "rocket scientist" and SF writer who attends the Twin Cities Convergence Con most years and he has lectured in greater detail on the topic: pros and cons of the various forms of propulsion proposed, optimal velocities and such. His conclusion isn't entirely different in that it would certainly require astounding amounts of power but he would like to believe we may be able to come up with an energy production and delivery system "some time after the inner solar system has been colonized". In particular, a refinement on beaming energy to a craft that then doesn't have to carry the bulk of it's own fuel.
And, yes, "colonization" is a loaded term. More like a small research mission for a species that has run out of lesser challenges or a small group of females and a sperm bank in a desperate attempt to maintain the species as it then exists.
Yeah, basically, "Doesn't hurt." What percentage of web sites know they "should" check their layout on a Mac but the employer doesn't provide one for in-house webmasters? If you can write on linux or test at home, you can give Konqueror a look. At least now even Windows people who don't have a Mac have something "Mac-like" to check code against. Seems like that's incrementally worthwhile.
So we're up to "hundreds of billions"? Considering the GDP of the US was about 13 trillion last year I guess that not only means a large part of everything the US does these days is make music and movies but we are bleeding _another_ several percent of potential US GDP in "lost income" from that economic engine. So we should envision the RIAA getting battered by Katrina several times per year and barely able to say afloat in the torrent of downloads.
[My Intro to Soc prof wrote Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. Actually, intelligent people have sincerely claimed even stupider things with even less self interest so I guess I'm not surprised we're up the "hundreds of billions".]
Yeah, the Western Hemisphere belongs to the U.S.! Or something.
Whether you love Chavez or hate him, whether you think our actions in the hemisphere over the last century have been prudent or monstrous, one thing is clear: while Bush is (incompetently) chasing the middle eastern oil, he's letting our control of Central and South America slip away. So, how many of you Neocons still think Dubya is a bold imperial genius?
Who gets to pick the questions that the candidates won't answer?
It is telling that the questions won't be picked by the number of times viewed.
At least I think I know what precedent they are hoping to set. A forensic technician in a raid wouldn't power down the computer because there might be something worthwhile in the ram, right? So the judge is saying, you power down in an investigative situation, you are de facto interfering with an investigation. Hey, prove you _weren't_.
Just another judgment along the line of, "Citizen if you have nothing to hide, you will cooperate."
So no more music store sample clips? Or they propose a system where approved clips are registered and watermarked like the whole song? Or only downloadable from approved IPs or what? What's the difference between an approved sample clip and 5 bootleg clips that can be cat'ed into the whole song?
If I were cdnow.com wouldn't I think this has potential suckiness?
A lot of flashy animation and rapid jump cuts is entertainment. Mr. Wizard was instruction. It empowered kids with the knowledge and mindset to _do_ things themselves. In a class by itself.
So there's contention because Sony says a Microsoft feature doesn't work but Microsoft says Sony corporation just can't figure out _how_ to make it work?
Now there's an advertisement for hap-hap-happy Windows user friendliness. Wanna pay $400 to set me up with some Vista _real_ soon with news like that.
One of my favorite personal sayings, "I've been around computers so long I can remember when non-Microsoft products were PC Magazine's "office applications of the year".
Dreamweaver seems like the easy one to get rid of. You're not only going to want to code but you're going to want to test the code in various browsers you have up anyway, so, really, who cares about GUI mode? My wife is in the biz and hasn't used her own copy of Dreamweaver at home for years even though she can access it through Win4Lin and has a QEMU XP available. I switched her to Bluefish and she's happy. Probably would have been happy with Quanta Plus as well.
.swfs, etc. There's no way my wife will not have Photoshop. She uses Dreamweaver at work as well rather than cause trouble but she _wants_ to use Photoshop. In part I think it _is_ because of the layout. If GIMPShop were the standard layout, I think a lot more people would be comfortable learning on it and use it casually. Maybe then it would be easier to get some professionals to spend enough time on it to better qualify just what essentials are missing and work to correct the situation.
Everything else is "interesting": GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, OpenOffice save as PDF, some of the _really_ fledgling attempts at
Twice the efficiency _is_ technologically interesting. But a generator lasts, what, 10-20-30 years? These cells are what? One use recycled? So how many dozens, hundreds, or whatever fuel cells need to be built to get that "doubled efficiency" of building one generator? And what's the closed system total cost of each system over time?
I notice the article is suspiciously devoid of "$" signs.
I think it's fun to watch the transitions as stations position themselves. We have the aggressive 16:9 HDTV local news, 4:3 HDTV local news -- neither of which broadcast SD. Then we have the SD and HD dual broadcast stations and one truth-in-advertising SD station that just calls their digital transmission local news "DT".
I'm surprised more commercials haven't transitioned over to 16:9. Our weather bunny on the 16:9 station has referenced things off screen before "You people with HD know what I'm talking about". But I would think most commercials could be conceived to accommodate cropping.
"Don't forget that the basement will need a pool with sharks."
Dude, it's properties in _New_Orleans_.
All in good time, the shark's come to him.
Probably more practical than my first thought of putting the house on hydraulic stilts. But the stilts could be computer controlled (as long as there is a backup generator)!
Either way, yacht or house on polynesian-style stilts, I'd definitely go with solar panels and high efficiency electronics for independence. And Euro high-efficiency toilets for conserving water. Solar water heating should be very practical in New Orleans and how about a rainwater collection system?
Keep a smaller boat in what is currently the back yard. That could also operate on batteries and be solar rechargeable. And consider a room dedicated to weapons and MREs so you can decide which neighbors it might be useful to allow on your above-water dwelling in a crisis.
Seriously, the government hasn't done anything substantive, has it, to assure that New Orleans won't flood again under the same circumstances? And Katrina wasn't even a bullseye direct hit. So where are these properties available: ebay?
Doesn't surprise me. She doesn't skip ahead on the commercials the MythTV doesn't autoflag when I'm not around. Old habits die hard.
If I remember, I didn't get a hard drive at home or work until 1988 or '89.
McCain is the willing sock puppet of GOP leadership. He wants to be president so badly he's driven to say EVERYTHING along the policy line exactly like they want him to say it. And he'll forgive anything. Make fun of his wife's black baby and he'll say, "Yes, Sir! Can I have another!" And ask them how he can serve them better.
He has to be a hollow shell. Add the rages he is supposed to get into in private with people and he's the poster child for 30 years of untreated PTSD and torture survival. I pity him more than I respect him and I sure as hell don't want a _second_ crazy president in a row.
I believe they have been doing this for some time. It makes economic sense but you have to think it would be a nightmare if your player got stolen.
I can just see the scenario at the police station, "No, officer. This is SERIOUS. I could be sued for TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. I want to file a detailed report because you have to put finding the person who took my music player at the top of your investigative priorities." Complain loud enough and long enough down that theme and you'd probably find yourself in a cell just on principle for being a pain in the ass.
I want to go. Honestly I do. I have this urge to buy some bib overalls, a flannel shirt, and blacken a couple teeth for a souvenir photo shoot.
Where is Michael Moore's weekly TV show when you need it? Maybe a Penn and Teller Bullshit special?