Well, your at least close with all but one of those... I happen to live in Delaware and its about as big as the little half of one of those Pacific islands people always get stranded on, plus the fact that almost all of those nearly 800,000 are in the northern part of the state where it is basically nothing but suburbia. For the other though I would assume that the majority of the state's population center's around urban areas. (Don't have any statistics though... just an assumption.)
The Art kids or the math kids at my work, they don't give a shit about a front-side bus speed or a clock multiple. It's an iMac.
Sorry, couldn't resist... I'm an art kid and I have a beautiful new(ish, best out there at the time anyhow) Athlon 1.4 system, PC133 RAM, etc. Though I suppose I'm in the minority on this one, my roommate has an iMac.:-)
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Well, it depends on where you go. I work at an FYE (aka Saturday Matinee, The Wall, Record Town... same company and I've worked for them all) where the official policy is that any hardware issues with game systems is the responsibility of the manufacturer and not ours. This is understandable as the margins on game systems are next to nothing and its not worth more losses in terms of time and effort excluding the fact that the company probably is reimbursed for defective merchandise. Now that's not to say that we don't always refuse a return, pretty much that depends on the manager on duty and the circumstances.
Also, on a completely side and off-topic note... I just found out that FYE's parent company TWEC just signed a major deal with MSN to become its provider of music and movies location. Also we will be getting a number of kiosks for previewing movies and music on, each one running XP... shoot me now, please. So now I am part of the evil empire. I can use a Mac, refuse to fix my roommates horrible Compaq, but MS will find some way to get you. *sigh*
Dremedia isn't the only one working on this. despite the Business 2.0 article's nearly sole focus on that particular company. A few others in the field include, and of course is not limited to, MediaSite (which looks to have recently been acquired by the audio and video editing software company Sonic Foundry), Virage, Pictron and Vodium. Its worth checking out each of the sites respective products page to see how they each are approaching this this new field.
IMDB has a good overview of the general feeling from the major newspapers from across the country. Basically... not all that great, but could be a lot worse worse. I still need to see Ali personally, and I think I'll be renting this one if I were to end up seeing it.
The New York Times is also running the story, mostly the same info but with a few interesting facts not mentioned in the Yahoo version.
The great ignorance that created this...
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Robert Kaley, the environmental affairs director for Solutia who also serves as the PCB expert for the American Chemistry Council, said it is unfair to judge the company's behavior from the 1930s through 1970s by modern standards.
This is perhaps what struck me the most of all in the article as it speaks to all the naiveté that creates problems like the Monsanto Dump or Love Canal. THe point he tries to make is akin to saying, "Hitler or Stalin did some pretty bad things, but that was fifty years ago and times were different!"...as if no one noticed Milosevic or the Khmer Rouge or Rwanda. To write off the past as something that can't be repeated due to our "advanced sensibilities" is to write the same past into our futures.
Heh, well... even if Network Solutions did make lots of money because of this, in the end it didn't really help them as they were aquired by VeriSign last year.
Its somewhat ironic that the drop is happening now, just as getting a domain name is cheaper and easier than ever before. I remember lot too long ago when I went to register my first domain name (www.instinctdesign.com) and the only option was Network Solutions at a wonderful 70 dollars a pop for the first two years. Since the break-up of that particular monopoly I have registered a number more for only ten dollars a year and if you buy in bulk (thank you, I'm not that nuts) it can get even cheaper prices.
Odd though that the new TLDs only got a passing mention, sure was a lot of whoopla over what seems to have turned out to be... well, not much.
Researchers have identified a new axon guidance receptor found in the tips of growing neurons that can exist in more than 38,000 slightly different forms.
The unprecedented diversity of proteins derived from this single gene may offer an important hint that a fundamental code directs the precise wiring of trillions of neurons in the brain...
Also, an interesting, abet rather short, article from Popular Mechanics tells how researchers were able to actually "see" neurons changing at the synapse between two of the tens of million of nerve cells in the brain of a rat.
This is a bit off-topic, but I'd just like to say doh! Does this happen often?
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I was able to find a few images of mars, this one here is particularly good. In terms of color it seems fairly ok to me, though the other color references are a bit limited. Also, a basic overview of Raleigh Scatter for those who are interested can be found at www.people.cornell.edu/pages/eac26/RaleighScatteri ng.html. A quick quote from it, Have you ever seen a brilliant red sunset? After all of the colors have scattered out of the white light, we see the oranges and reds. Where on the horizon are the red colors found? The reds are found close to the horizon because the sunlight must pass through many particles before we reach the point that red is scattered out. So if the atmosphere of Mars is particularly dusty for instance then you'd get a more red hue (at least if I'm reading this right), making the Mars sky closer in hue to a reddish color.
The Silicon Valley article mentions SGI's recent military involvement, but you can also check out this article from CNN which provides a few more interesting details.
I can't comment on the numbers but it wouldn't surprise me that they were true. However, its rare that a large sector of the economy really just spirals down en-mass just after much of the world has been caught up in its all to rapid rise.
Figuring that "In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier" and that those also-rans either were bought or went out of business, is it just be or does anyone else find it ironic that Excite, of the Excite@Home group, is running this story?
It appears that this patch doesn't work in Release Canidate 2 (which I happen to be running), so if your using anything other than the final version of XP (2600), then don't bother getting it.
So its more that there really isn't a set day when it was created, just a span of a few months where-in it was developed. Hence the disclaimer (well, sort of anyhow) in the Times' article. Is a bit funny though, I wish I got two birthdays.
This is a great example for shareholders on how to screw yourself over. Frankly, I'll be happy when Comcast gets us all switched over to their own system.
Yup, its at least partially MS. Check out this article about the software from InternetWorld for details. A quote:
The sites will run on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition, the company's high availability, highly scalable server OS. The software will run on hundreds of Compaq ProLiant 8500 servers, each with eight 700-MHz Xeon processors and 4 GB of RAM.
The article mentions the PBS special Nerds 2.0.1 but doesn't link to the compendium site, which is worth checking out. Check out the Nerds 2.0.1 site, or more specifically, the section on Cisco.
It was a good series that is defiantly worth checking out if its on your local PBS station.
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Well, your at least close with all but one of those... I happen to live in Delaware and its about as big as the little half of one of those Pacific islands people always get stranded on, plus the fact that almost all of those nearly 800,000 are in the northern part of the state where it is basically nothing but suburbia. For the other though I would assume that the majority of the state's population center's around urban areas. (Don't have any statistics though... just an assumption.)
The Art kids or the math kids at my work, they don't give a shit about a front-side bus speed or a clock multiple. It's an iMac.
:-)
Sorry, couldn't resist... I'm an art kid and I have a beautiful new(ish, best out there at the time anyhow) Athlon 1.4 system, PC133 RAM, etc. Though I suppose I'm in the minority on this one, my roommate has an iMac.
Well, it depends on where you go. I work at an FYE (aka Saturday Matinee, The Wall, Record Town... same company and I've worked for them all) where the official policy is that any hardware issues with game systems is the responsibility of the manufacturer and not ours. This is understandable as the margins on game systems are next to nothing and its not worth more losses in terms of time and effort excluding the fact that the company probably is reimbursed for defective merchandise. Now that's not to say that we don't always refuse a return, pretty much that depends on the manager on duty and the circumstances.
Also, on a completely side and off-topic note... I just found out that FYE's parent company TWEC just signed a major deal with MSN to become its provider of music and movies location. Also we will be getting a number of kiosks for previewing movies and music on, each one running XP... shoot me now, please. So now I am part of the evil empire. I can use a Mac, refuse to fix my roommates horrible Compaq, but MS will find some way to get you. *sigh*
Dremedia isn't the only one working on this. despite the Business 2.0 article's nearly sole focus on that particular company. A few others in the field include, and of course is not limited to, MediaSite (which looks to have recently been acquired by the audio and video editing software company Sonic Foundry), Virage, Pictron and Vodium. Its worth checking out each of the sites respective products page to see how they each are approaching this this new field.
IMDB has a good overview of the general feeling from the major newspapers from across the country. Basically... not all that great, but could be a lot worse worse. I still need to see Ali personally, and I think I'll be renting this one if I were to end up seeing it.
The New York Times is also running the story, mostly the same info but with a few interesting facts not mentioned in the Yahoo version.
This is perhaps what struck me the most of all in the article as it speaks to all the naiveté that creates problems like the Monsanto Dump or Love Canal. THe point he tries to make is akin to saying, "Hitler or Stalin did some pretty bad things, but that was fifty years ago and times were different!"
Heh, well... even if Network Solutions did make lots of money because of this, in the end it didn't really help them as they were aquired by VeriSign last year.
Its somewhat ironic that the drop is happening now, just as getting a domain name is cheaper and easier than ever before. I remember lot too long ago when I went to register my first domain name (www.instinctdesign.com) and the only option was Network Solutions at a wonderful 70 dollars a pop for the first two years. Since the break-up of that particular monopoly I have registered a number more for only ten dollars a year and if you buy in bulk (thank you, I'm not that nuts) it can get even cheaper prices. Odd though that the new TLDs only got a passing mention, sure was a lot of whoopla over what seems to have turned out to be... well, not much.
This is a bit off-topic, but I'd just like to say doh! Does this happen often?
I was able to find a few images of mars, this one here is particularly good. In terms of color it seems fairly ok to me, though the other color references are a bit limited. Also, a basic overview of Raleigh Scatter for those who are interested can be found at www.people.cornell.edu/pages/eac26/RaleighScatteri ng.html. A quick quote from it, Have you ever seen a brilliant red sunset? After all of the colors have scattered out of the white light, we see the oranges and reds. Where on the horizon are the red colors found? The reds are found close to the horizon because the sunlight must pass through many particles before we reach the point that red is scattered out. So if the atmosphere of Mars is particularly dusty for instance then you'd get a more red hue (at least if I'm reading this right), making the Mars sky closer in hue to a reddish color.
The Silicon Valley article mentions SGI's recent military involvement, but you can also check out this article from CNN which provides a few more interesting details.
I can't comment on the numbers but it wouldn't surprise me that they were true. However, its rare that a large sector of the economy really just spirals down en-mass just after much of the world has been caught up in its all to rapid rise.
Figuring that "In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier" and that those also-rans either were bought or went out of business, is it just be or does anyone else find it ironic that Excite, of the Excite@Home group, is running this story?
It appears that this patch doesn't work in Release Canidate 2 (which I happen to be running), so if your using anything other than the final version of XP (2600), then don't bother getting it.
Why do I think "drugs" when I look at this?
Whew, they love their beveled edges on the other side of the pond.
Yeah, I know. Thats why I said "its at least partially MS" and not "it is MS."
This is a great example for shareholders on how to screw yourself over. Frankly, I'll be happy when Comcast gets us all switched over to their own system.
Cnet is also running a story on the new music pay service started by RealNetworks.
The article mentions the PBS special Nerds 2.0.1 but doesn't link to the compendium site, which is worth checking out. Check out the Nerds 2.0.1 site, or more specifically, the section on Cisco.
It was a good series that is defiantly worth checking out if its on your local PBS station.