I was fine curating my blog reading with Google Reader. All the meaningful up to date content I wanted. I have no idea where all those great content creators are now. Creating email newsletters?
The final Monorail stop is approximately one mile from McCarran Airport, the main Las Vegas Airport. That last mile by taxi is around $20 bucks, by Lyft it is around $12. The monorail is a fixed $5 for the whole line. (local residents pay $1)
(guess here) 75% of the patrons in Las Vegas fly into McCarran Airport. If the Las Vegas Monorail were extended that last mile to the McCarran Airport it's ridership would quadruple.
Nobody, NOBODY! wants the Monorail to succeed. All the hospitality vested interests have no cake in the game of helping the monorail.
It is the easiest bet in Vegas, build the last mile to McCarran and ridership will become meaningful.
I took it last month on a short Vegas vacation. It's clean, fun, dependable, and very user unfriendly. One must repeatedly ask, and dig and dig to indentify a monorail station location. They are buried far away from the eyes of those customers, who the hospitality industry desperately need to stay put.
The old UI was meh, the new one is different. It is pretty limited in capacity and the old version displayed most of the information in an okay format. It is still limited and still shows most of it in an okay format.
The wifi scale concept is great, it is really simple, and if it just tracks that it is fine. There really isn't much to do with a single daily data point. I like the scale so I bought the watch. It is pretty nice looking, but the functionality/data doesn't really do much for me. I still wear it though, and look at the data.
Get some of their stuff (if on a really good sale)
Good timing on this post. I just got a job where there is an 'atomic' clock hanging on my wall. It did not auto advance over the time change, so I was geeking around with it today. It'd be cool to have that old analog technology work, but alas that particular clock doesn't get the signal and autoadjust. I took it outside the building, and pushed the button where the type of beeps report the strength of the signal. Mine read 'weak.' As some other wag wrote, mine is just a plastic battery wall clock.
The gut microbiome is the subject. The extent and breadth of it's impact on the human host is the study. External climate on the host effects the gut microbiome composition and the consequence is the result.
Hmm, good point. T-mobiles "Free Music" is a variation of tiered-service that breaks net neutrality.
Tiered service: An ISP allows customers to full stream at top speed from Ourflix (TM), but streaming from Netflix is throttled unless the ISP is paid (by Netflix or the user).
Tmo-Tiered service: For our flat rate you can have "Free Music" from our select partners Ourmusic(TM), but streaming music from sites from which we do not have agreements will cost the user their paid for data limits.
The folks ripping the "Lunching" article are welcome to dislike the idea. But to disparage its meaning is wrong. The people oriented/task oriented dichotomy is a canard. "I want to be at work as little as possible" is as well.
Everyone eats. With a twenty-four hour daily cycle it is plain simple to incorporate eating at a set time in the middle of the day..ie. lunch. Having a bunch of homo sapien programus on that same comfortable easily adapted eating cycle has benefits for the company. Having all the silverback "everyone else is a moron" variants sharing the fact that the inferior other is also on the same eating cycle, and also does in fact eat, has benefits to the company.
Any misanthrope, or social phobe, of introvert, or engineer can make compelling arguments against the humanity and value of others, but this article is suggesting, as written by the head of a company, that the company benefits from the practice. Those who are antagonized cannot prevent or deny that they too "eat" and also that their feeding tubes are very easily adaptable to the idea of eating around noon everyday. Beyond their impulse or preference the practice benefits the company.
Lastly, a company considering this early on can make it easily happen and get the benefits. Company's that don't plan, or incorporate the idea, don't get the benefits and anger folks by clumsily trying to make it happen ad hoc and after the fact of the company's culture..
Regarding the "How can you tax a semi at 80K pounds and a prius at 3K pounds the same rate" you don't. Currently commercial vehicles have separate tax and DMV fees, nothing changes.
$1/1 lbs. annual car tax.
1. Incentive to choose a lighter vehicle 2. Average weight of vehicles decreasing leads to less road wear. 3. Lighter weight vehicles will use less gasoline. 4. No Hummer/Smartcar collision fears because the consumer pull for cars will be for lighter weight
The manufactures will be motivated to innovate on reducing weight to meet demand. Less death, less gas, less road wear, initially more taxes accrued.
The desktop O/S is irrelevant. An optimized HURD kernel running flawlessly won't make a difference. Kids today, and adults tomorrow simply won't sit at desktops and be sys admins for their desktop computers. Think Nexus-One, Garmin 405, Nanos.
Linux due to its flexibility will live on as it retains utilitarian functionality. Whether it is a desktop O/S pales in its ability to exist everywhere else.
Yup, I agree with the other posters. Old TVs are a liability.
In Cali. you can pay the $20 hazardous waste disposal fee, and hope for the best.
Putting it on the curb, or simply giving it to an equally or less responsible person ensure it will quickly be disposed of improperly.
There is a large misconception that leaving your nuclear waste out front with a "Free" sign on it, and having it taken, somehow means it has gone to a better, responsibility-free place. It ain't so.
There is the reputation of Raiser's Edge being expensive, but it sounds like this growing competitor Convio is up there too. How can a small non-profit put out that dough for a member management software suite.
Manila folders might be more effective for very small non-profits.
> just have the machine produce a printout > which the individual voter can verify, > then in case of doubt you can always > resort to a manual count.
The DRE interface is good to use in making selections in an election. A machine prints or punches or otherwise indicates the voters intent on a piece of paper (a paper ballot). The voter holds it, looks at it, and confirms it is a proper rendering of their vote. Then they take their paper ballot and walk away from the DRE. The DRE holds no more information than a stapler holds after having stapled documents together.
The piece of paper (ballot) is carried over somewhere else and is OCR'd, or manually counted, or whatever. The DRE isn't a part of counting votes. Only the paper ballots, verified by the voter, are sources for counting results. We can machine count the ballots, hand count, whatever.
DREs are great interface, and machines can print/punch out beautiful accurate paper ballots that are free from extraneous marks and outside the line marks etc. But once it is in the voters hand, and the voter looks and approves of it, the paper ballot is the only data source.
Not 'voter verified paper trail receipts' it must be 'voter verified paper ballots'.
I love Slackware. Other then a brief gentoo thing, I've used nothing but Slack since putting it on my 486. But shouldn't this topic have come out next week/month/year when Slack 11 is *actually* released?
It'll be ready Real Soon Now. Let's really discuss it then.
Think it'll have 2.6 as its default? Huh, huh, huh?
If Plame pulled strings in the pursuit of getting Amb. Wilson to Niger to study the yellowcake case. And Chaney leaked the identity of an undercover agent(Plame) ostensibly due to her minor infraction and in reality for political payback. His "Chenney's" leak was political with a fig leaf of responding to her string pulling.
The principle of an appropriate response is where Chenney's leak falls. He could have quietly had her reprimanded. But alas, he had no political gain in that.
The word 'leak' is a poor choice to describe this phenomena. These leaks are techniques to do politics. These are conscious choices to sway opinion and politics toward the goals of the leaker.
There is also the noble libertarian overworked underpaid (slashdot reader) government employee who stands up and 'outs' nefarious government actions.
Mostly this second type is found in movies. Most leakers are trying to furthering their own goals, objectives, and careers.
These articles often come out and are similar, this one seemed a bit more accomodating. None the lese an honest evaluation would have this author with two of these laptops side by side. Both with empty unformated drives. And two installation sets.
The newest Xandros installation set(or some such), and the newest windows instatation set.
Then write an honest article comparion oranges to oranges.
If the WSJ writer discovered installing Xandros was more simple for the 'average' user, would the Journal headline read "Linux easier to install then Windows!". Uh..no.
I was rather shocked, as around six months ago I began a new job at a Windows98 shop. In six months, and around 20 PC running in this shop, I have personally experience two BSODs, and I have observed at least five others.
> but really, when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?
Slack 10.2 has run flawlessly for over six months on my home K6-III 450, on which I am writing this.
I'm typing this on a "Happy Hacker II" It is small, jet black, with 'proper' key placement of my control key.
I get so many compliments and questions. I really never quite understood why the masses didn't follow. A very nice piece of 'windows key'-less technology!
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I was fine curating my blog reading with Google Reader. All the meaningful up to date content I wanted.
I have no idea where all those great content creators are now. Creating email newsletters?
No surprise. Aunt Betty opens a linkedin account and she is asked if she wants to connect with the people in her address book.
As you and aunt Betty have exchanged holiday greetings, she can now give your email address to linkedin in method the company uses to gain membership.
Linkedin then send you the email asking if you want to join and connect with your aunt.
Of course only our more well to do iPhone sisters and brothers can utilize the info and get to the shore. Let us Android One people eat cake.
Hey, we can just make stuff up here? Cool. "Anonymous Cowards are cool" see, I did it too.
The final Monorail stop is approximately one mile from McCarran Airport, the main Las Vegas Airport. That last mile by taxi is around $20 bucks, by Lyft it is around $12. The monorail is a fixed $5 for the whole line. (local residents pay $1)
(guess here) 75% of the patrons in Las Vegas fly into McCarran Airport. If the Las Vegas Monorail were extended that last mile to the McCarran Airport it's ridership would quadruple.
Nobody, NOBODY! wants the Monorail to succeed. All the hospitality vested interests have no cake in the game of helping the monorail.
It is the easiest bet in Vegas, build the last mile to McCarran and ridership will become meaningful.
I took it last month on a short Vegas vacation. It's clean, fun, dependable, and very user unfriendly. One must repeatedly ask, and dig and dig to indentify a monorail station location. They are buried far away from the eyes of those customers, who the hospitality industry desperately need to stay put.
Yeah, what he said.
The old UI was meh, the new one is different. It is pretty limited in capacity and the old version displayed most of the information in an okay format. It is still limited and still shows most of it in an okay format.
The wifi scale concept is great, it is really simple, and if it just tracks that it is fine. There really isn't much to do with a single daily data point.
I like the scale so I bought the watch. It is pretty nice looking, but the functionality/data doesn't really do much for me. I still wear it though, and look at the data.
Get some of their stuff (if on a really good sale)
Good timing on this post. I just got a job where there is an 'atomic' clock hanging on my wall. It did not auto advance over the time change, so I was geeking around with it today. It'd be cool to have that old analog technology work, but alas that particular clock doesn't get the signal and autoadjust. I took it outside the building, and pushed the button where the type of beeps report the strength of the signal. Mine read 'weak.' As some other wag wrote, mine is just a plastic battery wall clock.
Scratching my butt, while typing this response.
The gut microbiome is the subject. The extent and breadth of it's impact on the human host is the study. External climate on the host effects the gut microbiome composition and the consequence is the result.
Yeah, but you know, it's in Philly. :)
Thank you for understanding my tortured summary.....see the "Variation on Tiered Service" for a more clear description.
Hmm, good point. T-mobiles "Free Music" is a variation of tiered-service that breaks net neutrality.
Tiered service: An ISP allows customers to full stream at top speed from Ourflix (TM), but streaming from Netflix is throttled unless the ISP is paid (by Netflix or the user).
Tmo-Tiered service: For our flat rate you can have "Free Music" from our select partners Ourmusic(TM), but streaming music from sites from which we do not have agreements will cost the user their paid for data limits.
The folks ripping the "Lunching" article are welcome to dislike the idea. But to disparage its meaning
is wrong. The people oriented/task oriented dichotomy is a canard. "I want to be at work as little
as possible" is as well.
Everyone eats. With a twenty-four hour daily cycle it is plain simple to incorporate eating at a set
time in the middle of the day..ie. lunch. Having a bunch of homo sapien programus on that same
comfortable easily adapted eating cycle has benefits for the company. Having all the silverback
"everyone else is a moron" variants sharing the fact that the inferior other is also on the same
eating cycle, and also does in fact eat, has benefits to the company.
Any misanthrope, or social phobe, of introvert, or engineer can make compelling arguments
against the humanity and value of others, but this article is suggesting, as written by the
head of a company, that the company benefits from the practice. Those who are antagonized
cannot prevent or deny that they too "eat" and also that their feeding tubes are very easily
adaptable to the idea of eating around noon everyday. Beyond their impulse or preference
the practice benefits the company.
Lastly, a company considering this early on can make it easily happen and get the benefits.
Company's that don't plan, or incorporate the idea, don't get the benefits and anger folks
by clumsily trying to make it happen ad hoc and after the fact of the company's culture..
I wholeheartedly agree.
Regarding the "How can you tax a semi at 80K pounds and a prius at 3K pounds the same rate" you don't.
Currently commercial vehicles have separate tax and DMV fees, nothing changes.
$1/1 lbs. annual car tax.
1. Incentive to choose a lighter vehicle
2. Average weight of vehicles decreasing leads to less road wear.
3. Lighter weight vehicles will use less gasoline.
4. No Hummer/Smartcar collision fears because the consumer pull for cars will be for lighter weight
The manufactures will be motivated to innovate on reducing weight to meet demand. Less death,
less gas, less road wear, initially more taxes accrued.
The desktop O/S is irrelevant. An optimized HURD kernel running flawlessly won't make a difference.
Kids today, and adults tomorrow simply won't sit at desktops and be sys admins for their desktop
computers. Think Nexus-One, Garmin 405, Nanos.
Linux due to its flexibility will live on as it retains utilitarian functionality. Whether it is a desktop
O/S pales in its ability to exist everywhere else.
Yup, I agree with the other posters. Old TVs are a liability.
In Cali. you can pay the $20 hazardous waste disposal fee,
and hope for the best.
Putting it on the curb, or simply giving it to an equally or less
responsible person ensure it will quickly be disposed of
improperly.
There is a large misconception that leaving your nuclear
waste out front with a "Free" sign on it, and having it
taken, somehow means it has gone to a better, responsibility-free
place. It ain't so.
User0x45
Wow, $100/month/seat for a non-profit.
There is the reputation of Raiser's Edge being expensive, but it sounds like this growing
competitor Convio is up there too. How can a small non-profit put out that dough for a member
management software suite.
Manila folders might be more effective for very small non-profits.
My provider, a regional cell-phone company MetroPCS already charges $2.00 USD for a paper bill.
What is this I hear about a class-action law suit?
--User0x45
> Votes are registered and received,
> but not monitored and traced on two ends.
That is a feature, not a bug. It is the Australian ballot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
--User0x45
Close, but just to be clear.
> just have the machine produce a printout
> which the individual voter can verify,
> then in case of doubt you can always
> resort to a manual count.
The DRE interface is good to use in making selections in an election. A machine prints or punches or otherwise indicates the voters intent on a piece of paper (a paper ballot). The voter holds it, looks at it, and confirms it is a proper rendering of their vote. Then they take their paper ballot and walk away from the DRE. The DRE holds no more information than a stapler holds after having stapled documents together.
The piece of paper (ballot) is carried over somewhere else and is OCR'd, or manually counted, or whatever. The DRE isn't a part of counting votes. Only the paper ballots, verified by the voter, are sources for counting results. We can machine count the ballots, hand count, whatever.
DREs are great interface, and machines can print/punch out beautiful accurate paper ballots that are free from extraneous marks and outside the line marks etc. But once it is in the voters hand, and the voter looks and approves of it, the paper ballot is the only data source.
Not 'voter verified paper trail receipts' it must be 'voter verified paper ballots'.
--User0x45
I love Slackware. Other then a brief gentoo thing, I've used nothing
but Slack since putting it on my 486. But shouldn't this topic have
come out next week/month/year when Slack 11 is *actually* released?
It'll be ready Real Soon Now. Let's really discuss it then.
Think it'll have 2.6 as its default? Huh, huh, huh?
--User0x45
Of course. Let the illeagality be known.
If Plame pulled strings in the pursuit of
getting Amb. Wilson to Niger to study the
yellowcake case. And Chaney leaked the
identity of an undercover agent(Plame) ostensibly
due to her minor infraction and in reality
for political payback. His "Chenney's"
leak was political with a fig leaf of
responding to her string pulling.
The principle of an appropriate response
is where Chenney's leak falls. He could
have quietly had her reprimanded. But
alas, he had no political gain in that.
--User0x45
Your statistic "99%" is baseless.
The word 'leak' is a poor choice to describe
this phenomena. These leaks are techniques
to do politics. These are conscious choices
to sway opinion and politics toward the goals
of the leaker.
There is also the noble libertarian overworked
underpaid (slashdot reader) government employee
who stands up and 'outs' nefarious government
actions.
Mostly this second type is found in movies. Most
leakers are trying to furthering their own goals,
objectives, and careers.
--User0x45
These articles often come out and are similar, this
one seemed a bit more accomodating. None the lese
an honest evaluation would have this author with two
of these laptops side by side. Both with empty
unformated drives. And two installation sets.
The newest Xandros installation set(or some such), and
the newest windows instatation set.
Then write an honest article comparion oranges to oranges.
If the WSJ writer discovered installing Xandros was more
simple for the 'average' user, would the Journal headline
read "Linux easier to install then Windows!". Uh..no.
--User0x45
I was rather shocked, as around six months ago I began a
new job at a Windows98 shop. In six months, and around 20
PC running in this shop, I have personally experience
two BSODs, and I have observed at least five others.
> but really, when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?
Slack 10.2 has run flawlessly for over six months on my
home K6-III 450, on which I am writing this.
So there, thbffftt!
User0x45 over and out.
I'm typing this on a "Happy Hacker II" It is small, jet black, with 'proper' key placement of my control key.
I get so many compliments and questions. I really never quite understood why the masses didn't follow. A very nice piece of 'windows key'-less technology!