A separate long-term Pentagon blueprint calls for a quantum leap in drones, from hand-launched planes for battlefield surveillance
My son and I were involved in the construction of some of those recently. They were manufactured from sheets of cellulose fiber, carefully bent into the best aerodynamic shapes and flown in our indoor testing ground.
We're still working on the surveillance part but the hand-launching went well. Many made it all the way across the house.
There is no evidence that the more interaction you have, the more likely democracy will flow into the non-democratic state.
May I point to the Soviet Union, where during the time I was there (1977-1979) Westerners were reviled in the media, and the Soviets were told they had it very good. Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s. As the USSR became more open during glasnost, the pace toward democracy accelerated, until finally it tore itself apart. Gorbachev did not intend democracy, but once the openness started it was impossible to stop.
For all those people who claim that Google has suddenly gone over to the dark side.. check the labels on your shirts. Check who made your kid's toy. Your new appliance. China?
The truth of the matter is that everyone deals with people or organizations that may not hold the same ideals as they do. Witness the fact that the U.S. government, which has stated it wants democracy everywhere, deals with countries such as Saudi Arabia that do not have a democratic system.
I submit to you that the more interaction there is with a non-democratic state, the more likely democracy will flow to the non-democratic state. As someone else said, information is the key. Even with Google's self-imposed censorship, things will get through and it can only be good.
Isn't it funny how people post here about the angst-ridden LJ'ers and yet have all day to moan and complain here? Is your angst just directed toward different things?
And yes, I'm aware of the irony of me whining about other users on Slashdot. And yes, I have a LJ account.
My AdSense revenue has gone up. However, I've expanded my ads to more of my site so I expect that. I don't see any kind of relationship between the two.
I just heard yesterday that one of our PCs in a remote shack died, when a mouse crawled in through the fan hole (how it survived I don't know), chewed on the IDE cable for a while, and eventually died in there.
The current trend is toward smaller, more distributed power, not massive single units. Distributing power generation closer to where it is needed reduces transmission line losses. Putting all your generation in a few, large units also causes problems when one or two of them go down at the same time. Can you say brownout?
The real solution is twofold: use more efficient powerplants (use waste heat from powerplants rather than dumping it into rivers and oceans), and more importantly, reduce consumption.
Larry Rosin, the president of Somerville, N.J.-based Edison Media Research, said... "Anybody who says that the Internet has not affected sales is just not paying attention to what is going on out there," he said. "It's had an effect on everything else in life, why wouldn't it have an effect on this?"
I think everyone agrees that the Internet has affected CD sales. What they (RIAA) don't get is that it can have a very positive impact on music sales and marketing. It opens a new way to sell music, which the RIAA has failed to take advantage of in any meaningful way. If they were to embrace the possibilities I think they could increase sales dramatically.
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A lot of them are one-shot domains, yes, but I often see repeats in the space of a couple of days.
Besides, I filter out the common one-shots like yahoo, hotmail, etc. Noone uses those to send business email to me.
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2971 lines in my Junk Senders file and growing.
But that, and about 20 rules filtering out Viagra and various misspellings, cans about 80% of the spam I get. It's almost enough for me.
Now if I could figure out how to get Outlook to hide the mail envelope in the taskbar for messages automatically deleted, I'd be laughing.
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It's core memory all over again! But in a smaller package.
Did you know core memory was hand-made?
Seriously, I can see some application for this between flash memory and hard drives, but it will take some time to get the costs down.
Email is the TCP of human-human communications protocols via computer. (IM is UDP) You can layer on it.
Collaboration software is the OSI model. It's the soup-to-nuts model.
We all know how well the OSI model did.
http://www.alesis.com/product.php?id=1
The previous link provided has broken menus at the top.
One hopes the seismometers won't be sensitive to notice the NSA tapping into the undersea fiberoptic cables!
A separate long-term Pentagon blueprint calls for a quantum leap in drones, from hand-launched planes for battlefield surveillance
My son and I were involved in the construction of some of those recently. They were manufactured from sheets of cellulose fiber, carefully bent into the best aerodynamic shapes and flown in our indoor testing ground.
We're still working on the surveillance part but the hand-launching went well. Many made it all the way across the house.
stunningly, she has chosen to produce a *readable patent*
Now THAT process is worth patenting!
There is no evidence that the more interaction you have, the more likely democracy will flow into the non-democratic state.
May I point to the Soviet Union, where during the time I was there (1977-1979) Westerners were reviled in the media, and the Soviets were told they had it very good. Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s. As the USSR became more open during glasnost, the pace toward democracy accelerated, until finally it tore itself apart. Gorbachev did not intend democracy, but once the openness started it was impossible to stop.
For all those people who claim that Google has suddenly gone over to the dark side.. check the labels on your shirts. Check who made your kid's toy. Your new appliance. China?
The truth of the matter is that everyone deals with people or organizations that may not hold the same ideals as they do. Witness the fact that the U.S. government, which has stated it wants democracy everywhere, deals with countries such as Saudi Arabia that do not have a democratic system.
I submit to you that the more interaction there is with a non-democratic state, the more likely democracy will flow to the non-democratic state. As someone else said, information is the key. Even with Google's self-imposed censorship, things will get through and it can only be good.
Isn't it funny how people post here about the angst-ridden LJ'ers and yet have all day to moan and complain here? Is your angst just directed toward different things?
And yes, I'm aware of the irony of me whining about other users on Slashdot. And yes, I have a LJ account.
My AdSense revenue has gone up. However, I've expanded my ads to more of my site so I expect that. I don't see any kind of relationship between the two.
it's brakes, not breaks.
BRAKES are what stop your car.
Your car BREAKS when it hits something.
Thank you.
I just heard yesterday that one of our PCs in a remote shack died, when a mouse crawled in through the fan hole (how it survived I don't know), chewed on the IDE cable for a while, and eventually died in there.
Quite a surprise for the service technician.
I started to read the FAQ, but then I got a headache from all the trademarks:
Peer Impact(TM)
Peer Cash(TM)
Passive Distribution(TM)
Active Distribution(TM)
NoiseMakers(TM)
BadIdea(TM)
OK, maybe I made the last one up.
You must have loved APL. ;)
The current trend is toward smaller, more distributed power, not massive single units. Distributing power generation closer to where it is needed reduces transmission line losses. Putting all your generation in a few, large units also causes problems when one or two of them go down at the same time. Can you say brownout?
The real solution is twofold: use more efficient powerplants (use waste heat from powerplants rather than dumping it into rivers and oceans), and more importantly, reduce consumption.
>Those jokes are tired my man.
>Get some new material!
That was my whole point - they are tired, people still use them, so why not state them all at the front so some REAL discussion can happen.
I, for one, welcome our new Mac overlords.
I use a C64, you insensitive clod!
1. Use Darwin.
2. Emulate Windows.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Did I miss any?
Email address: bob@yahoo.com
URL: www.geocities.com/bob/me.jpg
Are you a criminal? _____
Larry Rosin, the president of Somerville, N.J.-based Edison Media Research, said ...
"Anybody who says that the Internet has not affected sales is just not paying attention to what is going on out there," he said. "It's had an effect on everything else in life, why wouldn't it have an effect on this?"
I think everyone agrees that the Internet has affected CD sales. What they (RIAA) don't get is that it can have a very positive impact on music sales and marketing. It opens a new way to sell music, which the RIAA has failed to take advantage of in any meaningful way. If they were to embrace the possibilities I think they could increase sales dramatically.
A lot of them are one-shot domains, yes, but I often see repeats in the space of a couple of days.
Besides, I filter out the common one-shots like yahoo, hotmail, etc. Noone uses those to send business email to me.
2971 lines in my Junk Senders file and growing.
But that, and about 20 rules filtering out Viagra and various misspellings, cans about 80% of the spam I get. It's almost enough for me.
Now if I could figure out how to get Outlook to hide the mail envelope in the taskbar for messages automatically deleted, I'd be laughing.
It was meant to be ironic. :)
There's got to be a research project in here somewhere... "Citrus Fruits and Their Implosion Properties". Maybe Apple would sponsor it.
Microsoft got too many support calls and figured it was time to reboot the Eastern seaboard. ;)
Darl said: "We get to really shake things up."
I think he meant to say "We get to shake them down!"