Firefox is not Mozilla.
Firefox does not have a built-in email client
Most importantly: The subject of this story is an extension - something that is *optionally* installed by the end-user. It is not something that has been checked into the source by the developers.
Unfortunately it's not working out that way here. I live in the what's becoming the second largest population region of PA (the Lehigh Valley). There's no decent broadband where I live. Most homes are too far away from the switching office to get DSL - perfect opportunity for cable providers. But the cable companies overstretched themselves 5 years ago and don't have the cash right now to roll out broadband. The innercity regions do have it - which isn't too bad if you live there. But most people where I am are in the ring suburbs.
Part of the problem really is the fact that there are more pressing issues at hand in the state right now. We're a very elderly population (demographically) and the bigger issue is the cost of prescription drugs. Until that's solved - the majority of our voters won't care at all about the fact that the state is falling further and further behind in its ability to compete and attract new jobs. Our state legislators are not the sorts of people who can chew gum and walk at the same time. (I won't even point out the head of Homeland Security was once head of the legislature here - it's too scary. Grin.)
PA is, by some measures, the state with the largest percentage of its citizens living in rural settings. Looks like we're going back to being a primarily farming state since the business people are all fleeing to places with decent infrastructure. Our broadband problems are just a symptom of a much more intractable issue.
I agree with you that there is much more Buddhsm in the Matrix than most western observers give it credit for. (I haven't seen the latest movie, so I can't comment on that one yet.)
But there's also a great deal of Christian idealism in the original as well. Neo's willingness to come back to lead others to safety strikes me as different than the Buddhist leitmotif of detachment. (I'm not a practicing Buddist, so if there is a strong tradition of self-sacrifice for others as being foundational to being a good Buddhist, I'd appreciate being corrected.)
The transformation that apparently accompanies death and morphs into a "new" form of existence is certainly a Christian belief, though it is clearly not exclusive to Christianity. What I was struck by though in the original film was the rather explicit reference to Zion as a place of idealized life as well as the existence of a faithful remnant that will not live according to the rules of the "world".
The Judas like betrayal of the crew in the first movie, which ultimately leads to Neo's transformation is pretty evocative of the Christian Passion narrative as well.
I grabbed one of those Telezappers while I was waiting in line at Staples last week buying a UPC. Danged if the silly thing doesn't work.
It emits the three tones that the phone company plays when you dial an out of service phone number. Everyone hears it when I answer any call - but the cool part is listening to the auto-dialers automatically hangup when they "hear" it.
There ought to be some way to hack together a similar machine using an old voice modem and some sort Tone controller - kind of a hybrid box for getting long distance phone calls for free. (Anyone else remember those?)
I have a cellphone with Verizon (and an associated vtext account for messages.) I tried signing up for weather alerts on my cellphone but found out quickly that the messages sent were too long to be useful.
I was able to unsubscribe from the alerts - but even after I unsubscribed from the alerts, I kept receiving advertisements from the service sent to my cellphone.
After a couple of unsucessful attempts to get it stopped I finally poked around on the Vtext site and found out that I was able to block a specified domain from sending to my cellphone.
Blocking the domain of the weather alerts provider killed the spam as well.
See if your provider doesn't let you filter out @yahoo.com messages.
I was a huge fan of the books when I was younger (I read them, and the Silmarillion, dozens of times), but I felt that the movie lacked the sense of mystery and sadness (at the passing of the great ages of magic and elves) that the books had. To me, the magic of the written word could not be translated into the screen.
I don't know if you've seen the extended version of the movie yet or not - but if you haven't go and do so. I found that the longer version fixed most of the rough spots of the studio release version and added enough atmosphere that I really felt I had seen Middle Earth at the turn of the age.
Many, many kudos to Jackson for an extraordinary bit of work. It's a true pity that the longer version wasn't the studio release version - it's truly a masterpiece.
You have infinity to play with. That means even though a given star might only be able to emit one photon into the solid angle that represents the area of our iris, and infinite number of stars would emit and an infinite number of photons into our eyes.
And even if the star is too dim to give us even one photon, there's a small but finite chance that some star in the direction will emit a photon that is captured by our eye. Now multiply that small chance by infinity, and BOOM - and infinite number of photons.
Poe was actually right - he pointed out the simplest solution to Olber's Paradox. But this has been known for some time. (I'm not sure why this is news - I've been teaching my students this factoid for years.)
There is nothing comparable (as a PIM) to Outlook in Windows. Symbian's Evolution approaches it for Linux (albeit lacking PocketPC synch support), but this is about Gateway's Win boxes.
It took me ten years to find it - but check out Time and Chaos.
It has all the functionality (PIM'wise) of Outlook - but allows you to share calendars on a simple LAN without the use of a server. It's the perfect solution for our small church LAN - and it's allowed us to start moving away from Outlook both as a PIM and as an email client.
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Seriously?
Star Trek (variants). I learned Linear Algebra working out how to move my ship around hyper-space on the Star Trek game a friend and I wrote on our TRS-80 model 1.
Lemonade Stand on the Apple II+.
There was a stock market sort of game that came standard with the Comodore Pet.
Wumpus was big on the Kim MOE-1 (but you had to enter the code each time you wanted to play - we didn't have the cassette tape interface.)
My favorite game was a Dungeons and Dragons game that I got the majority of the code from out of an article in Byte. We hacked the code up into a fun little game. I remember missing a date with my girlfriend - later my wife - because I was so excited about showing some friends a new monster and attack that I had coded.
What's truly impressive is the improved memory management that Netscape seems to have over Mozilla, at least on my computer. Mozilla gives up it's shared memory pretty reluctantly. Netscape slims down to a lovely little 1.2 Mb when minimized to the task bar.
Not to split hairs with you here, but I'd be really surprised if Apple's EULA allows you to move your copy of the MacOS from machine to machine.
Why would you want to do this? Other than a machine manufactured by Apple, what could you install the operating system on? Since they sell all their machines with their operating systems already installed... other than trying to retroactively install OS X on old hardware (that it probably wouldn't run on) what would be the point?
Mind you - I think I'm done with Windows since XP and Licensing 6.0 was released. I've got Linux (Mandrake) on a couple of home computers, and my next personal computer is definately going to be a return to my Mac roots.
Like I mentioned elsewhere - this is exactly what my wife and I did. I bought her an emerald ring with 4 small diamonds on the side. I think it was called a "cocktail" ring at the time.
She's gotten lots of compliments on it over the years, and the stone is much larger than a diamond of equivalent price would have been. (And it's a natural emerald - so it's much nicer looking than the synthetic ones we used to have laying around in the lab.)
There's a note on squabble.org (in the morning's chatty post) from a person who seems to indicate this whole thing is a troll. (I don't want to link because I like squabble and they're bandwidth poor right now.)
Is there any evidence other than the text in the message that this was received by a legit AT&T employee?
Jupiter is a planet. The fact that it puts out more heat than it takes in is a consequence of its size - the gravitational well is causing a massive heating of the material, and it's radiating that heat in the Microwave and Radio. A "star" is generally an object creating heat through nuclear fusion, not throught gravitational force.
What I find most interesting about this article is the preponderance of moons in the solar system. It's pretty hard to just "drop" something into a stable orbit around another object - and even harder when the central object is small, and in a place where there are other objects to perturb the "moon's" orbit. Apparently there something about orbits and gravity that makes reasonably stable orbits more common than most would expect.
Perhaps it has something to do with the sum total of all the gravitating objects sorting things into these kinds of orbits (sort of like the Jupiter and Saturn systems.) At any rate, it would be an interesting simulation to run on some super computer...
So I've been out of the field for a while... What are the implications to the standard model now that these oscillations have been confirmed?
Is there an upper/lower limit to the nu mass? (I'm more of a cosmologist - and nu mass amounts are interesting, especially in working out the virial relations for Galactic clusters... and geometry of the Universe.)
So I can't read the article - the Seattle site seems to be already slashdotted...
But what exactly is going on here? I already see people worrying and having heart palpitations. The story submission says "Microsoft Passport technology" not Microsoft Passport.
In priniciple this just means that Goverment is going to start tracking people as they access goverment online services... kinda like they already do using our Social Security numbers in meat-space - and/or cookies set by goverment servers in cyber-space. (I think it would be foolishly naive to imagine that people aren't already being tracked.)
This is just a logical extension of what is already going on.
Good questions to ask: "Can a user opt out?" "What about users from other countries and locales?" "What is going to be done with the info?".
Who was it who said "Privacy is dead already - all we have anymore is obscurity." (Or something like that.) Obviously this is the direction we've been heading for quite sometime. Now we see clearly - before we saw through a glass darkly...
There's a brand new - like *today* - plugin that allows you much finer control over PGP. Near as I can tell it lets you bypass the hard-coded PGP built in and use the standard distributions.
There'll probably be more information forth coming, but in the meantime, go hit the archives of the mail list. (Links found on the support pages at RIT Labs.)
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This is the application mentioned on Handspring's KB article that allows you to do just what you're asking -
http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/index.php
Follow this link for a discussion about the upcoming release of a new version of Netscape
Firefox is not Mozilla. Firefox does not have a built-in email client Most importantly: The subject of this story is an extension - something that is *optionally* installed by the end-user. It is not something that has been checked into the source by the developers.
Maybe they're referring to the Cassini mission that arrives at Saturn next year? Here's a good site for basic info.
You'd think that wouldn't you?
Unfortunately it's not working out that way here. I live in the what's becoming the second largest population region of PA (the Lehigh Valley). There's no decent broadband where I live. Most homes are too far away from the switching office to get DSL - perfect opportunity for cable providers. But the cable companies overstretched themselves 5 years ago and don't have the cash right now to roll out broadband. The innercity regions do have it - which isn't too bad if you live there. But most people where I am are in the ring suburbs.
Part of the problem really is the fact that there are more pressing issues at hand in the state right now. We're a very elderly population (demographically) and the bigger issue is the cost of prescription drugs. Until that's solved - the majority of our voters won't care at all about the fact that the state is falling further and further behind in its ability to compete and attract new jobs. Our state legislators are not the sorts of people who can chew gum and walk at the same time. (I won't even point out the head of Homeland Security was once head of the legislature here - it's too scary. Grin.)
PA is, by some measures, the state with the largest percentage of its citizens living in rural settings. Looks like we're going back to being a primarily farming state since the business people are all fleeing to places with decent infrastructure. Our broadband problems are just a symptom of a much more intractable issue.
I agree with you that there is much more Buddhsm in the Matrix than most western observers give it credit for. (I haven't seen the latest movie, so I can't comment on that one yet.)
But there's also a great deal of Christian idealism in the original as well. Neo's willingness to come back to lead others to safety strikes me as different than the Buddhist leitmotif of detachment. (I'm not a practicing Buddist, so if there is a strong tradition of self-sacrifice for others as being foundational to being a good Buddhist, I'd appreciate being corrected.)
The transformation that apparently accompanies death and morphs into a "new" form of existence is certainly a Christian belief, though it is clearly not exclusive to Christianity. What I was struck by though in the original film was the rather explicit reference to Zion as a place of idealized life as well as the existence of a faithful remnant that will not live according to the rules of the "world".
The Judas like betrayal of the crew in the first movie, which ultimately leads to Neo's transformation is pretty evocative of the Christian Passion narrative as well.
mod: +1 genius.
That's great - I hadn't heard that they were available for download.
Not as much fun as generating them on the fly I suppose - but it's a quick and dirty hack.
On a related note:
I grabbed one of those Telezappers while I was waiting in line at Staples last week buying a UPC. Danged if the silly thing doesn't work.
It emits the three tones that the phone company plays when you dial an out of service phone number. Everyone hears it when I answer any call - but the cool part is listening to the auto-dialers automatically hangup when they "hear" it.
There ought to be some way to hack together a similar machine using an old voice modem and some sort Tone controller - kind of a hybrid box for getting long distance phone calls for free. (Anyone else remember those?)
I have a cellphone with Verizon (and an associated vtext account for messages.) I tried signing up for weather alerts on my cellphone but found out quickly that the messages sent were too long to be useful.
I was able to unsubscribe from the alerts - but even after I unsubscribed from the alerts, I kept receiving advertisements from the service sent to my cellphone.
After a couple of unsucessful attempts to get it stopped I finally poked around on the Vtext site and found out that I was able to block a specified domain from sending to my cellphone.
Blocking the domain of the weather alerts provider killed the spam as well.
See if your provider doesn't let you filter out @yahoo.com messages.
I was a huge fan of the books when I was younger (I read them, and the Silmarillion, dozens of times), but I felt that the movie lacked the sense of mystery and sadness (at the passing of the great ages of magic and elves) that the books had. To me, the magic of the written word could not be translated into the screen.
I don't know if you've seen the extended version of the movie yet or not - but if you haven't go and do so. I found that the longer version fixed most of the rough spots of the studio release version and added enough atmosphere that I really felt I had seen Middle Earth at the turn of the age.
Many, many kudos to Jackson for an extraordinary bit of work. It's a true pity that the longer version wasn't the studio release version - it's truly a masterpiece.
NASA has posted a little Palm OS applet to aid people who want to try counting the meteor rate.
You can find it here.
And information about it over on Space.com.
Almost -
You have infinity to play with. That means even though a given star might only be able to emit one photon into the solid angle that represents the area of our iris, and infinite number of stars would emit and an infinite number of photons into our eyes.
And even if the star is too dim to give us even one photon, there's a small but finite chance that some star in the direction will emit a photon that is captured by our eye. Now multiply that small chance by infinity, and BOOM - and infinite number of photons.
Poe was actually right - he pointed out the simplest solution to Olber's Paradox. But this has been known for some time. (I'm not sure why this is news - I've been teaching my students this factoid for years.)
There is nothing comparable (as a PIM) to Outlook in Windows. Symbian's Evolution approaches it for Linux (albeit lacking PocketPC synch support), but this is about Gateway's Win boxes.
It took me ten years to find it - but check out Time and Chaos.
It has all the functionality (PIM'wise) of Outlook - but allows you to share calendars on a simple LAN without the use of a server. It's the perfect solution for our small church LAN - and it's allowed us to start moving away from Outlook both as a PIM and as an email client.
Seriously?
Star Trek (variants). I learned Linear Algebra working out how to move my ship around hyper-space on the Star Trek game a friend and I wrote on our TRS-80 model 1.
Lemonade Stand on the Apple II+.
There was a stock market sort of game that came standard with the Comodore Pet.
Wumpus was big on the Kim MOE-1 (but you had to enter the code each time you wanted to play - we didn't have the cassette tape interface.)
My favorite game was a Dungeons and Dragons game that I got the majority of the code from out of an article in Byte. We hacked the code up into a fun little game. I remember missing a date with my girlfriend - later my wife - because I was so excited about showing some friends a new monster and attack that I had coded.
Works fine for me. I just used it to check out my Hotmail spam receptacle of an email account.
I was able to go in and delete today's harvest of genital enlargement adverts without any problem.
Have fun with the new toy.
Yes - both are fixed, at least for me.
What's truly impressive is the improved memory management that Netscape seems to have over Mozilla, at least on my computer. Mozilla gives up it's shared memory pretty reluctantly. Netscape slims down to a lovely little 1.2 Mb when minimized to the task bar.
Not to split hairs with you here, but I'd be really surprised if Apple's EULA allows you to move your copy of the MacOS from machine to machine.
Why would you want to do this? Other than a machine manufactured by Apple, what could you install the operating system on? Since they sell all their machines with their operating systems already installed... other than trying to retroactively install OS X on old hardware (that it probably wouldn't run on) what would be the point?
Mind you - I think I'm done with Windows since XP and Licensing 6.0 was released. I've got Linux (Mandrake) on a couple of home computers, and my next personal computer is definately going to be a return to my Mac roots.
Like I mentioned elsewhere - this is exactly what my wife and I did. I bought her an emerald ring with 4 small diamonds on the side. I think it was called a "cocktail" ring at the time.
She's gotten lots of compliments on it over the years, and the stone is much larger than a diamond of equivalent price would have been. (And it's a natural emerald - so it's much nicer looking than the synthetic ones we used to have laying around in the lab.)
A number of people that I've talked with really like the free (beer) software Cartes du Ciel. You can find it at this website
There a great OpenGl lunar atlas that I'm using now as well (beats the heck out of the paper versions) here
There are links from either site to more software for variable star observering and sky chart contruction.
There's a note on squabble.org (in the morning's chatty post) from a person who seems to indicate this whole thing is a troll. (I don't want to link because I like squabble and they're bandwidth poor right now.)
Is there any evidence other than the text in the message that this was received by a legit AT&T employee?
Couple of points:
Jupiter is a planet. The fact that it puts out more heat than it takes in is a consequence of its size - the gravitational well is causing a massive heating of the material, and it's radiating that heat in the Microwave and Radio. A "star" is generally an object creating heat through nuclear fusion, not throught gravitational force.
What I find most interesting about this article is the preponderance of moons in the solar system. It's pretty hard to just "drop" something into a stable orbit around another object - and even harder when the central object is small, and in a place where there are other objects to perturb the "moon's" orbit. Apparently there something about orbits and gravity that makes reasonably stable orbits more common than most would expect.
Perhaps it has something to do with the sum total of all the gravitating objects sorting things into these kinds of orbits (sort of like the Jupiter and Saturn systems.) At any rate, it would be an interesting simulation to run on some super computer...
So I've been out of the field for a while... What are the implications to the standard model now that these oscillations have been confirmed?
Is there an upper/lower limit to the nu mass? (I'm more of a cosmologist - and nu mass amounts are interesting, especially in working out the virial relations for Galactic clusters... and geometry of the Universe.)
So I can't read the article - the Seattle site seems to be already slashdotted...
But what exactly is going on here? I already see people worrying and having heart palpitations. The story submission says "Microsoft Passport technology" not Microsoft Passport.
In priniciple this just means that Goverment is going to start tracking people as they access goverment online services... kinda like they already do using our Social Security numbers in meat-space - and/or cookies set by goverment servers in cyber-space. (I think it would be foolishly naive to imagine that people aren't already being tracked.)
This is just a logical extension of what is already going on.
Good questions to ask: "Can a user opt out?" "What about users from other countries and locales?" "What is going to be done with the info?".
Who was it who said "Privacy is dead already - all we have anymore is obscurity." (Or something like that.) Obviously this is the direction we've been heading for quite sometime. Now we see clearly - before we saw through a glass darkly...
The links are at the bottom of the page.
There's even a disclaimer, letting joe user know that he's about to leave the nice safe shallow end of the Internet found on MSNBC.com...
There'll probably be more information forth coming, but in the meantime, go hit the archives of the mail list. (Links found on the support pages at RIT Labs.)