I was kinda surprised that I hadn't seen more about people questioning the voting systems, especially after exit polls seemed to reflect a different story than vote counts.
Seldon Technologies is a small nanotech research company that has been working on making purification filters.
Not sure what you do with all the stuff that it catches in the filter, but it's interesting stuff. I don't know if they're gone to production yet, but I believe that they've been working with the USAF.
If you happen to live in the NH/VT area, WinCycle is a nice option.
If its usable, they will fix it up and donate it to schools, etc. If not, they'll accept it for a very small fee (25 cents/lb or so) and make sure that it is properly disposed of (ie, working parts removed and reused, no working parts recycled).
As another poster pointed out, the images of Calvin pissing are completely out of line with the character that Bill Waterson created. If I'm not mistaken, Waterson never licensed any of the Calvin and Hobbes characters for merchandising, and copyright laws aside, his characters should not be ripped off like that.
While it clearly isn't a good thing for any worm to make unauthorized changes to a machine, this seems like another step in the direction of self healing networks.
If a such as this was written whenever a large vulnerability was discovered, and designed to be limited to a specific block of IP addresses, it could be a handy thing to have on hand for someone who admins a large private network. If your network doesn't get hit, then great, but if it does, just let this loose to clean things up.
A big part of it is advertising. When one company can offer sponsors a package deal of radio, tv, and newspapers, it is hard for smaller companies with only one of the above to compete. For better or for worse, most radio and tv stations can only exist if they can sell ads. If one company gets all the sponsors, they end up being the only company left.
Your idea of allowing only one instance of each type of media in a given market is a good one, and if i'm not mistaken, until relatively recently this was essentially the case (hence the recent explosion of cc/viacom since the changes). Unfortunately, I think that the chances of that passing are significantly less than this, in part because it would force the selling of many stations that these companys currently own. while this would be a good thing, it doesn't seem likely to happen.
I started out with a purple imac, which has served me well, though a lot of my friends have been less fortunate. Half way through I picked up a used latitude and wireless card, and it's been wonderful. I put linux on it to learn about it, and finished my final college paper this morning using OpenOffice.
If I could do it again, though, I'd go for an ibook. battery life is great (my latitude currently gets 45 minutes if i'm lucky, whereas my friends with bronze powerbooks still get 2-3 hours), they're small and rugged, etc. We're completely covered with wireless here (inside and out), so you can just pull it out anytime and be online. Especially in the summer, being able to write a paper sitting out on the grass is really nice.
I'd have to echo what another poster said about software though... don't spend your money until you find out what your school already has. Photoshop, Maple, Matlab, and a huge host of other products are available here, either via site licenses or a keyserver. MS office can be had from our campus store for $20 if you're a student. Talk to computing services at the school and find out what is supported (if you care about getting help when things go wrong), and what is available for free/discounts.
For any religion that believes that we are placed here by a higher being, we essentially are living in a simulation. God created us and is now sitting back watching us run around.
One of the articles mentions ways to change one's behavior upon realization that it is all a simulation... sound familiar?
Oh! I forget the mom-and-pop crowd does not use Mozilla
My mom uses Mozilla. Tabbed browsing and no popups got her hooked on "that lizard thing."
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I have to agree that most radio ads are terrible, but working at a fully commercial college station, I have to say that making commercials is one of the most fun things to do in radio. Its kinda like writing and producing a 30 second play, and if you get creative with it, you can make some really amusing stuff.
Of course, CC isn't big on promoting individual creativity, but there are still a few stations left that like to.
Often times the pop is due to a poor edit. I don't know the specifics, but if you edit the track in such a way that there is a sudden drop in the sound wave (if you're looking at a visual representation of it), you'll get a click. If you have an audio editor that will let you zoom in close enough to see the individual sample bits (I use cooledit 2000), you can either make a clean edit so that there is a smooth wave, or in some cases drag sample bits around so that the drop isn't as sudden.
Not exactly a technical answer, and certainly not the issue with the new ipods, but it's one thing that will cause pops in audio tracks.
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Apple's website says that it is available today at 6PM... seems like kind of an odd time?
Color Kinetics has done some of the coolest stuff that I've seen with LEDs.
www.popuptest.com Firefox once defeated this website with ease, now it shows em all
eh? I'm using Firefox with popup blocking on and no other ad blocking software, and I didn't see a single popup with any of their tests...
We've had good luck with mp4 videos. They'll play back in QuickTime on Mac/Win and seem to have a pretty good quality:size ratio.
Not sure there is a player for them on linux, but I'm guessing there is.
I was kinda surprised that I hadn't seen more about people questioning the voting systems, especially after exit polls seemed to reflect a different story than vote counts.
I guess we'll see what happens....
Seldon Technologies is a small nanotech research company that has been working on making purification filters.
Not sure what you do with all the stuff that it catches in the filter, but it's interesting stuff. I don't know if they're gone to production yet, but I believe that they've been working with the USAF.
If you happen to live in the NH/VT area, WinCycle is a nice option.
If its usable, they will fix it up and donate it to schools, etc. If not, they'll accept it for a very small fee (25 cents/lb or so) and make sure that it is properly disposed of (ie, working parts removed and reused, no working parts recycled).
Why is the parent modded as a troll?
As another poster pointed out, the images of Calvin pissing are completely out of line with the character that Bill Waterson created. If I'm not mistaken, Waterson never licensed any of the Calvin and Hobbes characters for merchandising, and copyright laws aside, his characters should not be ripped off like that.
If a such as this was written whenever a large vulnerability was discovered, and designed to be limited to a specific block of IP addresses, it could be a handy thing to have on hand for someone who admins a large private network. If your network doesn't get hit, then great, but if it does, just let this loose to clean things up.
A big part of it is advertising. When one company can offer sponsors a package deal of radio, tv, and newspapers, it is hard for smaller companies with only one of the above to compete. For better or for worse, most radio and tv stations can only exist if they can sell ads. If one company gets all the sponsors, they end up being the only company left.
Your idea of allowing only one instance of each type of media in a given market is a good one, and if i'm not mistaken, until relatively recently this was essentially the case (hence the recent explosion of cc/viacom since the changes). Unfortunately, I think that the chances of that passing are significantly less than this, in part because it would force the selling of many stations that these companys currently own. while this would be a good thing, it doesn't seem likely to happen.
I started out with a purple imac, which has served me well, though a lot of my friends have been less fortunate. Half way through I picked up a used latitude and wireless card, and it's been wonderful. I put linux on it to learn about it, and finished my final college paper this morning using OpenOffice.
If I could do it again, though, I'd go for an ibook. battery life is great (my latitude currently gets 45 minutes if i'm lucky, whereas my friends with bronze powerbooks still get 2-3 hours), they're small and rugged, etc. We're completely covered with wireless here (inside and out), so you can just pull it out anytime and be online. Especially in the summer, being able to write a paper sitting out on the grass is really nice.
I'd have to echo what another poster said about software though... don't spend your money until you find out what your school already has. Photoshop, Maple, Matlab, and a huge host of other products are available here, either via site licenses or a keyserver. MS office can be had from our campus store for $20 if you're a student. Talk to computing services at the school and find out what is supported (if you care about getting help when things go wrong), and what is available for free/discounts.
For any religion that believes that we are placed here by a higher being, we essentially are living in a simulation. God created us and is now sitting back watching us run around.
One of the articles mentions ways to change one's behavior upon realization that it is all a simulation... sound familiar?
Oh! I forget the mom-and-pop crowd does not use Mozilla
My mom uses Mozilla. Tabbed browsing and no popups got her hooked on "that lizard thing."
I have to agree that most radio ads are terrible, but working at a fully commercial college station, I have to say that making commercials is one of the most fun things to do in radio. Its kinda like writing and producing a 30 second play, and if you get creative with it, you can make some really amusing stuff.
Of course, CC isn't big on promoting individual creativity, but there are still a few stations left that like to.
Often times the pop is due to a poor edit. I don't know the specifics, but if you edit the track in such a way that there is a sudden drop in the sound wave (if you're looking at a visual representation of it), you'll get a click. If you have an audio editor that will let you zoom in close enough to see the individual sample bits (I use cooledit 2000), you can either make a clean edit so that there is a smooth wave, or in some cases drag sample bits around so that the drop isn't as sudden.
Not exactly a technical answer, and certainly not the issue with the new ipods, but it's one thing that will cause pops in audio tracks.