We should probably establish a permanent colony in Antarctica. This way many of the problems of self sufficiency can be worked out first. You would also have the benefit of having a place to weed out potential candidates in a real harsh environment before sending them to the harsh reality that is Mars.
It's called switchable privacy glass. 3M sold them for a while but then discontinued because of technical issues. I think they may have started up again. Here is a company that sells the windows.
I've been waiting more than 5 years for the price to drop to a reasonable level.
IF I could find music software comperable or superior to band in a box, transkriber and some other thing he has( I forget what it is). For a brilliant person it's strange to see him so completely helpless when it comes to computers. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has had their computer infected as much as he has.
So where can I find music software for professional classical musicians?
With Thermal dempolymerization we don't have to worry about toxic waste anymore. We can take any waste and convert it to oil, minerals and water. Just throw those used batteries in with everything else and you'll end up with clean by products. By the way, one of the major investors of changing world technologes is Howard G. Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett so I don't think this technology will disappear. In fact I'm drafting a letter to my county representative to see if we can get one of these plants for our landfill and sewage treatment plant. I recommend that each of you do the same. If local plants can sell oil for half the price of opec then we are one step closer to energy independence and distributed energy creation.
Of course, on/. we are morally opposed to lawyers making any sort of reasonable profit, so we would never participate in such a suit. We just complain and cry over the unfairness of it all, and hope some diety magically fixes the problem.
Would that be diet coke or diet pepsi? I think diet pepsi is more magical, but that's me.
Actually the republicans want to take my money and my kids' and grandkids' money. Hell, if they keep borrowing and spending like they have been they'll have my great grandkids money too.
Don't buy into the republican lies. Listen to what they say and then observe what they actually do. It's not that hard.
I have no monthly subsription charge. I thought ahead and paid the lifetime charge. If my Tivo dies, I'll get another one and set the serial number to the one that died.
Almost all people who make the comments that you have made, haven't used Tivo. In fact, I used to make the very same comments myself. Now I have two networked Tivos and I love them.
I don't even have to tell my Tivo to record. It already knows what to record. What a pain in the ass it would be to have to update a schedule manually if the show I wanted to watch switched time slots.
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You don't have to disable RFID tags to screw with the data collection and tracking systems. If you are able to find and collect RFID tags you can carry them around with you wherever you go. Imagine having three or four car RFID tags on you as well as about a hundred refridgerator RFID tags. Dumpster diving for RFID tags would be great fun. You'd have tags from stuff that never really led back to you and would confuse the hell out of anyone trying to make sense of the history of the items. You could do things like remove all of the RFID tags from your clothes and keep only one RFID tag in your wallet that was from a pair of underwear. If anyone looked at the data they'd think some guy in the same pair of underwear he's been wearing for weeks is walking around carrying a few cars and a bunch of Refridgerators.
This would be much more fun than filling our frequent shopper cards with bogus information or completing surveys with ridiculous answers.
I posted this yesterday but I don't think many people saw it. An umbrella insurance policy would cover you if your kid was in a similar situation. I work for an insurance company and I did some checking. We would have to cover any legal costs in such a situation. If enough people with umbrella policies decide to fight, you can bet the insurance companies will try to make sure they win in court.
An umbrella policy covers the insured for incidents like a child doing something that causes the parent to be sued. If you have such a policy then your insurance will cover the court costs and any damages that might be awarded to the RIAA should you lose. If the insurance companies start losing money on this they may try to have the law changed.
They might also try to exclude such coverage but insurance is very heavily regulated and they may not be able to legally make such exclusions on their umbrella policies in some states.
This free internet access could easily be the resource that some aspiring young sports reporter needs to get a leg up on his traditional competition. Just because you can't think of good application of the technology, that doesn't mean there isn't one. Also what you consider perfect enjoyment is not necessarily what others consider perfect enjoyment. Perhaps for some people a little internet connectivity at the ball park creates nirvana for them.
Well he has also supported the extremely immoral assert forfeiture laws. The guy is a plague on the senate. He may be the voice of moderation for Utah, but most people in Utah are crazy mormons so you don't really have to do much to look moderate when compared to the rest of the yokels.
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I worked at CWUSA from 94 to 2001 and I have been predicting their demise for years now. Around 96 the executives were complaining that they were only making 3 cents of profit for every 6 cent call. Having had experience in a mature sector(retail) I recognized immediately that they were spoiled by huge margins. I knew that once the telecom industry became saturated and they actually had real competition that they would either adapt or change. Management did change but instead of concentrating on their core business, telecom services and custom billing for small businesses(which brought them to the Billion in rvenue mark), they decided to buy MCI's crappy internet backbone and become an internet company. Nevermind that they had no experience in this market and the executives didn't know what they were buying. Internet was sexy and they could market that much easier than boring old long distance. Their long distance service was an incredible cash cow.
New offerings were brought up and provisioning and billing systems were rushing into place(sometimes). Often a new product would have to be provisioned manually and there was no way to tell if a customer wasn't paying their bill for well over a year after they first started selling the product.
Then to top it all off the mothership(PLC) decided they were going to become a global organization and they ended up picking up the biggest inept blowhards in CWUSA to help create the global organization. While all this was going on they were still having their yearly layoffs, which they did even when they were making a billion a year. Management would lay off the workers and keep the management around. It was not uncommon to know of managers and directors with no people.
Not long after I left they decided to lay off all the techincal people and outsource the work to IBM. Many people were gone for good and many were tranferred to IBM. But the funniest thing about this grand plan was the first task of the plan-- assign a senior management team to organize the layoffs(to them management teams were the "magic pixie dust"). Those people were so management happy that they have a few building in Vienna Virginia stocked with managers, senior managers, director and AVPs that are quite adept at bullshitting, creating powerpoint documents and dodging bullets but they can't manage a damn thing.
I could write for hours about the shenanigans that went on in that place but I'll just end with something an old relative who has been a businessman since WWII told me. "Anyone can make money when times are good, it's when times are tough that you find out who the real businessmen are."
They were poseurs and it was only a matter of time before their hubris coupled with reality bite them in the ass. The sad thing is these same losers will end up getting nice cushy management positions at Verizon, Worldcom or AT&T and probably for more money.
I've got life time subscriptions on both of my Tivos and they have already paid for themselves in the savings I get by not having a monthly fee. ReplayTV has a subscription fee but it is lifetime and built into the cost of the machine. The thing I've been mulling over lately is hardware emulation of the Tivo. At some point I will have a hard time finding replacement parts for my Tivos, drives do die. If I could emulate the hardware I could use whatever the latest storage technology is and not have to worry about losing my lifetime subscription. Also this way if the company ever goes out of business I can still use their UI which I find most pleasing.
integrated cameras? It seems like an integrated camera would be much more useful for applications like video phones. The way these devices are set up now the angle is all wrong and it doesn't look like you are looking into the eyes of the person you are speaking with. If you put small cameras interspersed with the pixels you should be able to get the desired result.
I'm sorry but the law requires that food served in a restaurant be edible. Coffee that can cause third degree burns is not edible. Furthermore, McDonalds knew their coffee was too hot but the bean counters decided that a handful of scarred people was OK. The huge amount of the damages were not what was being sought, the old lady just needed to pay for her skin grafts. The reason the jury gave such a huge award was because they felt McDonald's was not getting the message and that they simply didn't care that people needed skin grafts because of their coffee.
If your food can make your skin peel off, it's not food.
To make a do call database. That way consumers who want telemarketers to contact them can opt in. It certainly would be an easier list to maintain.
I've always rankled at the fact that the phone company charges you extra to not sell your information to people or to not publish your number. I finally followed some examples of the people at slashdot and have gotten rid of my landline, except for the fax line. Now, only friends and people I do business with get my number. I keep my phone on vibrate and when I watch farscape I turn the phone off. My voicemail states that without leaving a message you have a 1% chance of actually getting me on the phone and a zero % chance if your number doesn't come up on Caller ID.
I'm seriously contemplating turning the ringer off altogether except for certain numbers. I'm just having a hard time deciding if my wife's number should ring silently or not.
Furthurmore, the "three-ness" of Rama was intrinsic to the first story - the folks who build Rama did everything in threes, with trilateral symmetry. Why? What does it mean?
Nothing, we find out in the sequels. It was just made that way for the purposes of the experiment.
I liked the fact that it didn't really mean anything. It's not that the "threeness" was intrinsic to the story so much as it was important to the characters. Humans have a tendency to assign meaning even if there is none and this was a very good example of our tendency to do that.
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We should probably establish a permanent colony in Antarctica. This way many of the problems of self sufficiency can be worked out first. You would also have the benefit of having a place to weed out potential candidates in a real harsh environment before sending them to the harsh reality that is Mars.
It's called switchable privacy glass. 3M sold them for a while but then discontinued because of technical issues. I think they may have started up again. Here is a company that sells the windows.
I've been waiting more than 5 years for the price to drop to a reasonable level.
IF I could find music software comperable or superior to band in a box, transkriber and some other thing he has( I forget what it is). For a brilliant person it's strange to see him so completely helpless when it comes to computers. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has had their computer infected as much as he has.
So where can I find music software for professional classical musicians?
Not the lead silly, the acid. The lead will of course be cleaned up and available for recycling.
With Thermal dempolymerization we don't have to worry about toxic waste anymore. We can take any waste and convert it to oil, minerals and water. Just throw those used batteries in with everything else and you'll end up with clean by products. By the way, one of the major investors of changing world technologes is Howard G. Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett so I don't think this technology will disappear. In fact I'm drafting a letter to my county representative to see if we can get one of these plants for our landfill and sewage treatment plant. I recommend that each of you do the same. If local plants can sell oil for half the price of opec then we are one step closer to energy independence and distributed energy creation.
Using a modern machine for small applications is the very thing that underclocking is good for.
How do you control the thing? Can you use a remote control with it?
Actually the republicans want to take my money and my kids' and grandkids' money. Hell, if they keep borrowing and spending like they have been they'll have my great grandkids money too. Don't buy into the republican lies. Listen to what they say and then observe what they actually do. It's not that hard.
For a remote control the pressure could be pressure from pushing the button.
I have no monthly subsription charge. I thought ahead and paid the lifetime charge. If my Tivo dies, I'll get another one and set the serial number to the one that died. Almost all people who make the comments that you have made, haven't used Tivo. In fact, I used to make the very same comments myself. Now I have two networked Tivos and I love them.
I don't even have to tell my Tivo to record. It already knows what to record. What a pain in the ass it would be to have to update a schedule manually if the show I wanted to watch switched time slots.
You don't have to disable RFID tags to screw with the data collection and tracking systems. If you are able to find and collect RFID tags you can carry them around with you wherever you go. Imagine having three or four car RFID tags on you as well as about a hundred refridgerator RFID tags. Dumpster diving for RFID tags would be great fun. You'd have tags from stuff that never really led back to you and would confuse the hell out of anyone trying to make sense of the history of the items. You could do things like remove all of the RFID tags from your clothes and keep only one RFID tag in your wallet that was from a pair of underwear. If anyone looked at the data they'd think some guy in the same pair of underwear he's been wearing for weeks is walking around carrying a few cars and a bunch of Refridgerators.
This would be much more fun than filling our frequent shopper cards with bogus information or completing surveys with ridiculous answers.
I wonder if you could set up a company that derives most of its income from this "save a label" program. How does one qualify for the handout?
I posted this yesterday but I don't think many people saw it. An umbrella insurance policy would cover you if your kid was in a similar situation. I work for an insurance company and I did some checking. We would have to cover any legal costs in such a situation. If enough people with umbrella policies decide to fight, you can bet the insurance companies will try to make sure they win in court.
An umbrella policy covers the insured for incidents like a child doing something that causes the parent to be sued. If you have such a policy then your insurance will cover the court costs and any damages that might be awarded to the RIAA should you lose. If the insurance companies start losing money on this they may try to have the law changed.
They might also try to exclude such coverage but insurance is very heavily regulated and they may not be able to legally make such exclusions on their umbrella policies in some states.
This free internet access could easily be the resource that some aspiring young sports reporter needs to get a leg up on his traditional competition. Just because you can't think of good application of the technology, that doesn't mean there isn't one. Also what you consider perfect enjoyment is not necessarily what others consider perfect enjoyment. Perhaps for some people a little internet connectivity at the ball park creates nirvana for them.
Well he has also supported the extremely immoral assert forfeiture laws. The guy is a plague on the senate. He may be the voice of moderation for Utah, but most people in Utah are crazy mormons so you don't really have to do much to look moderate when compared to the rest of the yokels.
I worked at CWUSA from 94 to 2001 and I have been predicting their demise for years now. Around 96 the executives were complaining that they were only making 3 cents of profit for every 6 cent call. Having had experience in a mature sector(retail) I recognized immediately that they were spoiled by huge margins. I knew that once the telecom industry became saturated and they actually had real competition that they would either adapt or change. Management did change but instead of concentrating on their core business, telecom services and custom billing for small businesses(which brought them to the Billion in rvenue mark), they decided to buy MCI's crappy internet backbone and become an internet company. Nevermind that they had no experience in this market and the executives didn't know what they were buying. Internet was sexy and they could market that much easier than boring old long distance. Their long distance service was an incredible cash cow.
New offerings were brought up and provisioning and billing systems were rushing into place(sometimes). Often a new product would have to be provisioned manually and there was no way to tell if a customer wasn't paying their bill for well over a year after they first started selling the product.
Then to top it all off the mothership(PLC) decided they were going to become a global organization and they ended up picking up the biggest inept blowhards in CWUSA to help create the global organization. While all this was going on they were still having their yearly layoffs, which they did even when they were making a billion a year. Management would lay off the workers and keep the management around. It was not uncommon to know of managers and directors with no people.
Not long after I left they decided to lay off all the techincal people and outsource the work to IBM. Many people were gone for good and many were tranferred to IBM. But the funniest thing about this grand plan was the first task of the plan-- assign a senior management team to organize the layoffs(to them management teams were the "magic pixie dust"). Those people were so management happy that they have a few building in Vienna Virginia stocked with managers, senior managers, director and AVPs that are quite adept at bullshitting, creating powerpoint documents and dodging bullets but they can't manage a damn thing. I could write for hours about the shenanigans that went on in that place but I'll just end with something an old relative who has been a businessman since WWII told me. "Anyone can make money when times are good, it's when times are tough that you find out who the real businessmen are." They were poseurs and it was only a matter of time before their hubris coupled with reality bite them in the ass. The sad thing is these same losers will end up getting nice cushy management positions at Verizon, Worldcom or AT&T and probably for more money.
I've got life time subscriptions on both of my Tivos and they have already paid for themselves in the savings I get by not having a monthly fee. ReplayTV has a subscription fee but it is lifetime and built into the cost of the machine. The thing I've been mulling over lately is hardware emulation of the Tivo. At some point I will have a hard time finding replacement parts for my Tivos, drives do die. If I could emulate the hardware I could use whatever the latest storage technology is and not have to worry about losing my lifetime subscription. Also this way if the company ever goes out of business I can still use their UI which I find most pleasing.
Actually you can extract shows via ethernet and burn them to DVD now.
See http://dealdatabase.com for details.
integrated cameras? It seems like an integrated camera would be much more useful for applications like video phones. The way these devices are set up now the angle is all wrong and it doesn't look like you are looking into the eyes of the person you are speaking with. If you put small cameras interspersed with the pixels you should be able to get the desired result.
Or maybe I'm just stupid.
I'm sorry but the law requires that food served in a restaurant be edible. Coffee that can cause third degree burns is not edible. Furthermore, McDonalds knew their coffee was too hot but the bean counters decided that a handful of scarred people was OK. The huge amount of the damages were not what was being sought, the old lady just needed to pay for her skin grafts. The reason the jury gave such a huge award was because they felt McDonald's was not getting the message and that they simply didn't care that people needed skin grafts because of their coffee.
If your food can make your skin peel off, it's not food.
To make a do call database. That way consumers who want telemarketers to contact them can opt in. It certainly would be an easier list to maintain.
I've always rankled at the fact that the phone company charges you extra to not sell your information to people or to not publish your number. I finally followed some examples of the people at slashdot and have gotten rid of my landline, except for the fax line. Now, only friends and people I do business with get my number. I keep my phone on vibrate and when I watch farscape I turn the phone off. My voicemail states that without leaving a message you have a 1% chance of actually getting me on the phone and a zero % chance if your number doesn't come up on Caller ID.
I'm seriously contemplating turning the ringer off altogether except for certain numbers. I'm just having a hard time deciding if my wife's number should ring silently or not.