I suspect she was trying to be like Ellen Feiss but misinterpreted something.
She was probably trying to get baked and then talk about Apple, but instead baked the Apple.
Simple mistake, really. Anyone could have made it.
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I've been hearing a lot about the 30 seconds of telemetry that was too weak for the computers to display during the shuttle break-up but that is now being analyzed from backups. Does anybody have any more information on what this data?
As I understand it, the last 'good readings' were full-scale low or high on a lot of the temperature sensors, which to me would indicate sensor failure. Several of these sensors reported such values before communication was lost. This kind of makes me wonder what benefit there would be in examining whatever else came back after those failures--I can't imagine the data would be particularly accurate, though there may be some valuable information. Can anybody elaborate?
From all the experience I've had with X applications, a sound server is the first thing that they need.
I've used a lot of X apps that have crashed due to bad requests (especially those dealing with unsupported colourmaps), and it makes sense that someone would shore up the current state of the code and work on stability. But why has it taken so long?
At any rate, this is a good step forward--hopefully we'll see more X-based apps improved as to stability and speed (X isn't the speediest thing in the world).
...I bet he's not as good as he used to be at the ol' vids.
Kinda reminds me of that commercial for batteries on TV where the grandfather is playing some fighting video game against his grandson and keeps losing until the grandson's battery dies, giving the old man a chance to win.
Oh Nolan, what hast thou wrought? Happy birthday, buddy.:-)
So does this mean that '0' is now a legal first digit in an area code or exchange? I haven't seen any 0xx area codes or exchanges yet--can you point me to any that are in use? (I don't doubt you--I'm just curious to see one of these).
I just heard my first toll-free 855 the other day. Boy, those sure are going fast. Seems like 877 and 866 were just introduced.
People complaining about the H1-B quota being so high mention that in today's badly bruised IT economy, so many American IT professionals are out of jobs, so the H1-B program should be scaled back to give these people jobs.
Bullshit.
I'm a Canadian on an H1-B visa and I've conducted recent interviews for software developer-style positions. The US talent is embarrassingly bad. I saw no less than five candidates who could not write a simple C routine to traverse a linked list. And this was one of the simpler questions.
This is why they can't find work, not because of foreign competition.
I'm tired of poorly-qualified or schooled native IT people complain that they ought to get the job because they're citizens or permanent residents. It doesn't work like that! If you don't know how to code, or explain the difference between an abstract base class and a regular class, then you don't deserve the job.
Stop blaming H1-B candidates and start brushing up on your skills, because it's your lack thereof holding you back.
Exactly! When I was a chipper, geeky first-year CS student back in the very early 90s, I was surrounded by a class of similarly-minded people--people who enjoyed coding, figuring out problems, loved the all-nighter culture and did just swell.
Years later, as a TA at the height of the dot-com revolution, the first-year class was full of fucking fratboys, dumbasses each and every one of them, there because 'dude, this is where the bucks are!' They had no love for it, no dedication to their craft, no doing it for fun at home even after weeks of slaving on assignments. They were there to get rich. It's those people that we're currently purging for those that truly do know what they're doing, people who do love what they do, and we'll be a stronger workforce for it. In a few years, the cycle will begin again.
The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S. consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities
Good grief! Can you the ultimate evil company's board of directors?
CEO, EvilCo: Satan himself VP of Intellectual Property, West Coast: Jack Valenti VP of Intellectual Property, East Coast: Hilary Rosen VP of Sales and Marketing: The Direct Marketing Association CFO: David Skilling
VP of Getting Royally Screwed Every Time Shit Goes Down: The customer.
Unlicensing the spectrum, in these times of budget deficits and an impending war, doesn't seem like a good idea fiscally.
When the UHF TV spectrum for channels 69-83 was removed in favour of fixed mobile communications over a decade ago, the bidding brought in hundreds of millions of dollars to the US government. With the burgeoning demand for wireless devices that is growing even in this fallow economy, where is the benefit to the country's coffers in unlicensing the spectrum?
Is it that perhaps this will spur new R&D in wireless devices and protocols to use this new spectrum, returning value to the economy this way? Or is there something I'm missing?
Please don't get me wrong: I am not necessarily in favour of the spectrum being one big free-for-all unlicensed hodgepodge, but I wonder why Congress hasn't stepped in and seen this as an idea to raise funds.
Yet, however, companies continue to pour money into losing ventures against the almighty click-through because of the Internet's explosive growth and this mistaken belief that people will click them.
News flash: this isn't the case. Whereas ads on television have a 50-year history to draw from, and whereas ads on TV are expected, most Internet surfers would say they're an annoyance and a hindrance to them. Contrast ads on TV--slick, designed to pique the viewer's interest, versus a huge window flashing saying, 'THERE MAY BE PORN ON YOUR COMPUTER! YOU ARE BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS, SO YOU'RE VULNERABLE.'
Instead of focusing on more obtrusive, bigger pieces of real estate, perhaps Internet advertisements would work if they leveraged the unique nature of the medium to get their point across. Flash and/or Java ads that are visually interesting and interactive have a better chance of setting clicks than big, flashing banners.
I don't know if I'd expect the ad community to get the message, though. They want us to see theirs, but won't listen to their audience to see what works.
I was willing to give Shatner the benefit of the doubt--I had heard he was somewhat terse and a bit of an 'asshole', but I thought I'd wait for the replies before I made up my mind.
Then I read his blow-off reply to the question about the charity he set up in his wife's name. The information he gave in his reply, which was more or less nothing more than its name and what it does, which was already brought up in the question, did nothing to expand on the information or reply about how things were progressing.
That's just cold. Something he ostensibly cares about and he flips back a reply that shouts out, 'I really don't give a damn'.
Usually, celebrities would be a hell of a lot happier answering questions about the charities that they support or helped form rather than your standard 'what was it like working with X on the set of Y?' set of questions, but I guess Shatner cares about neither.
I suspect you're trolling, but I'm going to bite anyway.
This has nothing to do with pricing, competition, or even the quality of your service. Donating money to the EFF isn't going to lead to the fall of capitalism and the beginnings of a socialist empire.
Rather, by not donating to the EFF and helping to fight some of their free-speech causes, you might find that all of your beloved competing Internet providers won't provide you with certain sites or materials that the government deems offensive that day. Imagine having six or seven Internet providers to choose from, their prices kept low by competition, only to not be able to surf a large majority of the Web that has been silenced by government regulators.
So I guess you'd be happy to choose Acme DSL and pay only $12/mo but only get to surf AOLTimeWarnerViacomCBSNYT's media sites and those sites that haven't been censored by the government. Worth it?
...is that while the EFF does good works, and I am a member in good standard having given nearly $500 in the past year, the problem is one of motivation.
While regular folks and even a lot of techies realize that not paying their DSL/cable modem/satellite Internet bills is going to get their service cut off, the same cannot be said for the EFF. Yes, I totally agree that there may very well come a day where we cannot do anything due to companies strong-arming governments to pass legislation to reduce what we can do with the Internet, but unless and until the majority of folks get this message and understand its severity and urgency, Lessig's challenge will be unsuccessful.
I would also like to point out that many people take issue at some of the causes that the EFF fights. Please don't let one or two court challenges that the EFF helps with deter you from becoming a member if you already haven't. The fact is that the majority of the EFF's aid is of critical importance to my and your free speech rights and they need every cent of help we can offer.
Jack Valenti sees press release, has massive breakdown and is committed to a mental institution, rocking back and forth, muttering softly to himself.
Seriously though, how long will it be before this thing ends up on the wrong end of a protracted legal battle? If the networks, MPAA and whoever else controls the content don't like the mere PVR, imagine the controversy that this little box should cause.
The basic problem with the decision is that it's simply not punitive enough.
Let's face it: The amount of people that can see a message when sent via e-mail is a hell of a lot more than any advertiser could hope for via any other medium. And a $100K judgement, I believe, isn't enough incentive to stop anyone from spamming.
Besides, the real problem with spam tends to lie overseas, out of the reach of the US justice system. Most of the spam I receive day in, day out seems to originate from the Orient--China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, etc.
While I applaud the decision here at home, I wonder what sort of effect it will ultimately have on curbing the spam problem. Sadly, I don't think it's going to make even the smallest of dents.
I'm no EE, but I studied enough analog electronics design to know that creating RF circuits at that kind of frequency is no easy feat.
Open up an 802.11 card for instance--these work at about 1/60th of that frequency--and look at the traces for an idea. It's not just what components are connected together--it's the layout of the traces that define most of the circuit. Inductors are little squiggles, a resistor is the thinning of a trace, etc., all of which is highly dependent on frequency.
In other words, these guys are pretty slick and you just have to bow to them.
What would happen if they aren't able to be issued visas in time? Would it be constitutionally valid to try someone in absentia? The case going on in Philadelphia right now (can't remember his name right now, sorry) is interesting in that French authorities refused to extradite the defendant to the US because his original trial was held, and he was convicted, in absentia. This apparently contravened the European Convention of Human Rights, and the US had to agree to retry him before France would agree to the extradition. I wonder if there are any UN treaties that both Russia and the US would be a party of that might prevent poor Skylarov from more machinations of the US justice system.
Anyway, it's not like the US would ever send people into another country to kidnap someone whom they wanted to put on trial... Nah, that would never happen. </sarcasm>
Actually, it is you whom we ought to thank, firstly for all the work you are doing with the library and also for pressing the case and having the tenacity to take it all the way to the Supremes.
Regardless of the outcome, you have raised this issue in the media and finally people are starting to become aware of the awesome power of the copyright holders and the great potential of the public domain that may be lost if it weren't for you.
I do have a vested interest: I put a lot of poetry (Dickinson, Poe, St. Vincent Millay [if you win:-)]) to music in a modern setting, bringing the great works to a whole new audience. If you win, and I sincerely hope you do, then it benefits not just you, not me, but everybody.
When I was in university, my Chem professor (who attended the University of Kentucky) regaled us with the story of when she and four of her friends went down to Stores and checked out one kilogram of sodium. It was stored in a jar filled with some sort of oil (so it wouldn't react).
The kids headed out under deep cover of night to a local place called 'High Bridge', so called because it was, essentially, a very high bridge over a river, parked their car, and carefully removed the sodium from the jar. On the count of three, they tossed the chunk of sodium off the bridge, letting it fall to the river below.
She ended the story by saying, 'We sped away as fast as we could, but strangely didn't hear or really see anything unusual. We had resigned ourselves to the fact that our 'experiment' had failed until one of my friends turned back to look at the bridge and said 'Oh... my... God...'. The mushroom cloud and resulting explosion had lit the sky bright red in a remote area of Kentucky at 2am in the morning.
There was a report in the paper the next day but no explanation as to what had happened.
And that's why my bad-assed Chem professor will always have my utmost respect.:-)
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I suspect she was trying to be like Ellen Feiss but misinterpreted something.
She was probably trying to get baked and then talk about Apple, but instead baked the Apple.
Simple mistake, really. Anyone could have made it.
I've been hearing a lot about the 30 seconds of telemetry that was too weak for the computers to display during the shuttle break-up but that is now being analyzed from backups. Does anybody have any more information on what this data?
As I understand it, the last 'good readings' were full-scale low or high on a lot of the temperature sensors, which to me would indicate sensor failure. Several of these sensors reported such values before communication was lost. This kind of makes me wonder what benefit there would be in examining whatever else came back after those failures--I can't imagine the data would be particularly accurate, though there may be some valuable information. Can anybody elaborate?
From all the experience I've had with X applications, a sound server is the first thing that they need.
I've used a lot of X apps that have crashed due to bad requests (especially those dealing with unsupported colourmaps), and it makes sense that someone would shore up the current state of the code and work on stability. But why has it taken so long?
At any rate, this is a good step forward--hopefully we'll see more X-based apps improved as to stability and speed (X isn't the speediest thing in the world).
...I bet he's not as good as he used to be at the ol' vids.
:-)
Kinda reminds me of that commercial for batteries on TV where the grandfather is playing some fighting video game against his grandson and keeps losing until the grandson's battery dies, giving the old man a chance to win.
Oh Nolan, what hast thou wrought? Happy birthday, buddy.
So does this mean that '0' is now a legal first digit in an area code or exchange? I haven't seen any 0xx area codes or exchanges yet--can you point me to any that are in use? (I don't doubt you--I'm just curious to see one of these).
I just heard my first toll-free 855 the other day. Boy, those sure are going fast. Seems like 877 and 866 were just introduced.
(n/t)
People complaining about the H1-B quota being so high mention that in today's badly bruised IT economy, so many American IT professionals are out of jobs, so the H1-B program should be scaled back to give these people jobs.
Bullshit.
I'm a Canadian on an H1-B visa and I've conducted recent interviews for software developer-style positions. The US talent is embarrassingly bad. I saw no less than five candidates who could not write a simple C routine to traverse a linked list. And this was one of the simpler questions.
This is why they can't find work, not because of foreign competition.
I'm tired of poorly-qualified or schooled native IT people complain that they ought to get the job because they're citizens or permanent residents. It doesn't work like that! If you don't know how to code, or explain the difference between an abstract base class and a regular class, then you don't deserve the job.
Stop blaming H1-B candidates and start brushing up on your skills, because it's your lack thereof holding you back.
No matter what you think, having either in your wallet isn't necessarily going to get you laid. :-)
They're not the brightest, just the most greedy.
Exactly! When I was a chipper, geeky first-year CS student back in the very early 90s, I was surrounded by a class of similarly-minded people--people who enjoyed coding, figuring out problems, loved the all-nighter culture and did just swell.
Years later, as a TA at the height of the dot-com revolution, the first-year class was full of fucking fratboys, dumbasses each and every one of them, there because 'dude, this is where the bucks are!' They had no love for it, no dedication to their craft, no doing it for fun at home even after weeks of slaving on assignments. They were there to get rich. It's those people that we're currently purging for those that truly do know what they're doing, people who do love what they do, and we'll be a stronger workforce for it. In a few years, the cycle will begin again.
Forget that! Does something like that have the resolution to peer into my hot neighbour's shower? :-)
The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S. consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities
Good grief! Can you the ultimate evil company's board of directors?
CEO, EvilCo: Satan himself
VP of Intellectual Property, West Coast: Jack Valenti
VP of Intellectual Property, East Coast: Hilary Rosen
VP of Sales and Marketing: The Direct Marketing Association
CFO: David Skilling
VP of Getting Royally Screwed Every Time Shit Goes Down: The customer.
Unlicensing the spectrum, in these times of budget deficits and an impending war, doesn't seem like a good idea fiscally.
When the UHF TV spectrum for channels 69-83 was removed in favour of fixed mobile communications over a decade ago, the bidding brought in hundreds of millions of dollars to the US government. With the burgeoning demand for wireless devices that is growing even in this fallow economy, where is the benefit to the country's coffers in unlicensing the spectrum?
Is it that perhaps this will spur new R&D in wireless devices and protocols to use this new spectrum, returning value to the economy this way? Or is there something I'm missing?
Please don't get me wrong: I am not necessarily in favour of the spectrum being one big free-for-all unlicensed hodgepodge, but I wonder why Congress hasn't stepped in and seen this as an idea to raise funds.
Yet, however, companies continue to pour money into losing ventures against the almighty click-through because of the Internet's explosive growth and this mistaken belief that people will click them.
News flash: this isn't the case. Whereas ads on television have a 50-year history to draw from, and whereas ads on TV are expected, most Internet surfers would say they're an annoyance and a hindrance to them. Contrast ads on TV--slick, designed to pique the viewer's interest, versus a huge window flashing saying, 'THERE MAY BE PORN ON YOUR COMPUTER! YOU ARE BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS, SO YOU'RE VULNERABLE.'
Instead of focusing on more obtrusive, bigger pieces of real estate, perhaps Internet advertisements would work if they leveraged the unique nature of the medium to get their point across. Flash and/or Java ads that are visually interesting and interactive have a better chance of setting clicks than big, flashing banners.
I don't know if I'd expect the ad community to get the message, though. They want us to see theirs, but won't listen to their audience to see what works.
I was willing to give Shatner the benefit of the doubt--I had heard he was somewhat terse and a bit of an 'asshole', but I thought I'd wait for the replies before I made up my mind.
Then I read his blow-off reply to the question about the charity he set up in his wife's name. The information he gave in his reply, which was more or less nothing more than its name and what it does, which was already brought up in the question, did nothing to expand on the information or reply about how things were progressing.
That's just cold. Something he ostensibly cares about and he flips back a reply that shouts out, 'I really don't give a damn'.
Usually, celebrities would be a hell of a lot happier answering questions about the charities that they support or helped form rather than your standard 'what was it like working with X on the set of Y?' set of questions, but I guess Shatner cares about neither.
People are right--you are an asshole, Shatner.
I suspect you're trolling, but I'm going to bite anyway.
This has nothing to do with pricing, competition, or even the quality of your service. Donating money to the EFF isn't going to lead to the fall of capitalism and the beginnings of a socialist empire.
Rather, by not donating to the EFF and helping to fight some of their free-speech causes, you might find that all of your beloved competing Internet providers won't provide you with certain sites or materials that the government deems offensive that day. Imagine having six or seven Internet providers to choose from, their prices kept low by competition, only to not be able to surf a large majority of the Web that has been silenced by government regulators.
So I guess you'd be happy to choose Acme DSL and pay only $12/mo but only get to surf AOLTimeWarnerViacomCBSNYT's media sites and those sites that haven't been censored by the government. Worth it?
...is that while the EFF does good works, and I am a member in good standard having given nearly $500 in the past year, the problem is one of motivation.
While regular folks and even a lot of techies realize that not paying their DSL/cable modem/satellite Internet bills is going to get their service cut off, the same cannot be said for the EFF. Yes, I totally agree that there may very well come a day where we cannot do anything due to companies strong-arming governments to pass legislation to reduce what we can do with the Internet, but unless and until the majority of folks get this message and understand its severity and urgency, Lessig's challenge will be unsuccessful.
I would also like to point out that many people take issue at some of the causes that the EFF fights. Please don't let one or two court challenges that the EFF helps with deter you from becoming a member if you already haven't. The fact is that the majority of the EFF's aid is of critical importance to my and your free speech rights and they need every cent of help we can offer.
Jack Valenti sees press release, has massive breakdown and is committed to a mental institution, rocking back and forth, muttering softly to himself.
Seriously though, how long will it be before this thing ends up on the wrong end of a protracted legal battle? If the networks, MPAA and whoever else controls the content don't like the mere PVR, imagine the controversy that this little box should cause.
The lawyers rejoice yet again.
The basic problem with the decision is that it's simply not punitive enough.
Let's face it: The amount of people that can see a message when sent via e-mail is a hell of a lot more than any advertiser could hope for via any other medium. And a $100K judgement, I believe, isn't enough incentive to stop anyone from spamming.
Besides, the real problem with spam tends to lie overseas, out of the reach of the US justice system. Most of the spam I receive day in, day out seems to originate from the Orient--China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, etc.
While I applaud the decision here at home, I wonder what sort of effect it will ultimately have on curbing the spam problem. Sadly, I don't think it's going to make even the smallest of dents.
My $.02, anyway...
I'm no EE, but I studied enough analog electronics design to know that creating RF circuits at that kind of frequency is no easy feat.
Open up an 802.11 card for instance--these work at about 1/60th of that frequency--and look at the traces for an idea. It's not just what components are connected together--it's the layout of the traces that define most of the circuit. Inductors are little squiggles, a resistor is the thinning of a trace, etc., all of which is highly dependent on frequency.
In other words, these guys are pretty slick and you just have to bow to them.
They really did leave a lot of stuff out of the released version. I don't remember seeing Frodo's nude scene when it was in theatres... :-)
What would happen if they aren't able to be issued visas in time? Would it be constitutionally valid to try someone in absentia? The case going on in Philadelphia right now (can't remember his name right now, sorry) is interesting in that French authorities refused to extradite the defendant to the US because his original trial was held, and he was convicted, in absentia. This apparently contravened the European Convention of Human Rights, and the US had to agree to retry him before France would agree to the extradition. I wonder if there are any UN treaties that both Russia and the US would be a party of that might prevent poor Skylarov from more machinations of the US justice system.
Anyway, it's not like the US would ever send people into another country to kidnap someone whom they wanted to put on trial... Nah, that would never happen. </sarcasm>
Actually, it is you whom we ought to thank, firstly for all the work you are doing with the library and also for pressing the case and having the tenacity to take it all the way to the Supremes.
:-)]) to music in a modern setting, bringing the great works to a whole new audience. If you win, and I sincerely hope you do, then it benefits not just you, not me, but everybody.
Regardless of the outcome, you have raised this issue in the media and finally people are starting to become aware of the awesome power of the copyright holders and the great potential of the public domain that may be lost if it weren't for you.
I do have a vested interest: I put a lot of poetry (Dickinson, Poe, St. Vincent Millay [if you win
Thanks.
If the guy puts in a quarter quick enough, he may be able to resume where he left Earth...
...I mean off. :-)
When I was in university, my Chem professor (who attended the University of Kentucky) regaled us with the story of when she and four of her friends went down to Stores and checked out one kilogram of sodium. It was stored in a jar filled with some sort of oil (so it wouldn't react).
:-)
The kids headed out under deep cover of night to a local place called 'High Bridge', so called because it was, essentially, a very high bridge over a river, parked their car, and carefully removed the sodium from the jar. On the count of three, they tossed the chunk of sodium off the bridge, letting it fall to the river below.
She ended the story by saying, 'We sped away as fast as we could, but strangely didn't hear or really see anything unusual. We had resigned ourselves to the fact that our 'experiment' had failed until one of my friends turned back to look at the bridge and said 'Oh... my... God...'. The mushroom cloud and resulting explosion had lit the sky bright red in a remote area of Kentucky at 2am in the morning.
There was a report in the paper the next day but no explanation as to what had happened.
And that's why my bad-assed Chem professor will always have my utmost respect.
from the spreading-the-net-wide dept.
:-)
I kinda thought that was the domain of this guy.
(insert appropriate 'Do not open!' warnings here...)