American auto companies are outfitting their fleet customers with alternative fuel vehicles. The government even provides incentives for meeting a certain percentage of alternative fuel vehicles in a fleet. GM's page on the subject has more information, as does Ford's alternative fuel fleet page and Chrysler's.
The Internet Archive seems to dig on this kind of thing. They put up the Prelinger archive when Rick Prelinger put it into the public domain, and they do a lot more than the Wayback Machine.
I forgot to address this in my other comment, but you've been more than welcome to pay for Movable Type 2. In fact I believe commercial entities were required to pay $150. http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Software/1140884 references this, but I can't find it on MovableType.org because the site is tad sluggish. If people weren't using MT in their companies because it was free they should have read the fine print a little better.
When you say "not crippled in any way" you mean that limiting it to 1 author and 3 blogs is an improvement over the current unlimited authors, unlimited blogs restrictions?
I don't have anything against SA trying to make a living, but they priced me out of the market. I run 3 or 4 blogs with around 10 - 15 users, I earn $0.00 on them and am expected to pay $600 to upgrade to a new version that only offers one new feature (comment management).
Like I said on my site, if they had offered me something that would meet my needs for $40 - $50 I would probably pay up. Instead I'm going to stick with 2.6.
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1. Install Freecache node at your ISP 2. Cache extremly popular media files for your customers 3. Advertise that customers can access Freecached files from the local network instead of the Internet. 4. Get more customers and pay less bandwidth costs. 5. PROFIT!!!!
Texas Safe Voting has a video on their site of election workers talking to a Diebold sales rep. It shows just how bad off we are with current evoting initatives. My favorite quote is "I just want to make sure this machine can add. Remember, we've had machines recently that didn't add."
I found a pretty insightful rant (safe for work) copied from the business guy at the altporn site Suicide Girls. I wish the RIAA would start tracking how people hear about the albums that they buy, so that they could stop freaking out.
Porn has a long history of figuring out how to use new media to their advantage. Perhaps because porn is driven by our basest instinct we understand it on far deeper levels than widget building, and can apply that understanding to things that we don't fully comprehend intellectually. Maybe it's just because there's such intense competition in the industry that forces companies to innovate. I'm sure there's a "free hand of the market" joke in there, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
The VCR was largely decried by the MPAA because they saw it as cutting into their profits. When the VCR was still new, MPAA president Jack Valenti said the VCR is [to the movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone. (which of course means that he wasn't opposed to the VCR). A driver of early VCR purchases was being able to watch porn movies without having to go to theaters filled with creepier people than you. Fast forward 20 years and that Boston strangler makes up a huge portion of movie studio profits.
iPods batteries can't be replaced by end users? Better tell the guys who replaced theirs. Let me guess, Macs don't work with two button mice either? Parent should be modded a troll (and I should be modded a troll-feeder)
You seem to have problems discerning cause and effect, or even normal time in general. I can't take a picture of an accident that was cased by taking a picture of the accident. That's called a paradox, and I don't think phones with that feature are coming out until next year. And then, only in Japan and Finland.
T68i supports 900, 1800 and 1900Mhz. And the shitty service wouldn't be a problem if they weren't phasing out 900Mhz for 850Mhz towers. My T68i worked fine 2 years ago, it's unusable now (which is why I ditched AT&T and am getting my T68i unlocked to be a T-Mobile backup)
T-Mobile and Cingular offer GSM, although since the latter just bought AT&T WS don't bet on it. Unfortunately your phone is most likely locked into AT&T service, so google for "n-gage unlock" or try to find a local mobile shop that will unlock the phone for you.
FYI, as someone who just switched away from AT&T, they charge $12/mo for 4MB of traffic... unlimited is closer to $80. If you want to do web surfing on your phone try T-Mobile or Sprint's Vision service.
For anyone who thinks that camera phones are useless, my anectdote is being able to email pictures of my car's accident to my insurance agent while still at the scene of the accident. She then changed her mind and decided that I really couldn't drive a car with that front end and they sent a tow truck.
I'm in Ann Arbor Michigan and had AT&T service with my T68i. Last year I had problems with dropped calls and my service meter would go from 5 bars to 0 when I would try to make a call. I got my handset replaced twice and it seemed to more or less alleviate the problem. This winter things got worse and worse.
Finally I got fed up and switched to T-Mobile. I got a nice phone for $0, and get unlimited wireless web usage for $10/mo (which got me 4 megs on AT&T). Getting my number transfered from AT&T to the new account took an 11 minute phone call and 6 hours to process.
Most importantly my calls aren't having the same problems, and I can actually use my phone again.
The irony is that between the time I called to switch my number and the time that the number switched I got an SMS saying that they were sending me a new (bluetoothless, underfeatured) phone for free. Now I'll have two to put up on eBay:)
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American auto companies are outfitting their fleet customers with alternative fuel vehicles. The government even provides incentives for meeting a certain percentage of alternative fuel vehicles in a fleet. GM's page on the subject has more information, as does Ford's alternative fuel fleet page and Chrysler's.
The Internet Archive seems to dig on this kind of thing. They put up the Prelinger archive when Rick Prelinger put it into the public domain, and they do a lot more than the Wayback Machine.
What are you typing into a home theater pc that you are afraid might get out?
Play CPE-1704-TKS^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Friends. "Christ, I almost had it play the launch code for the nukes!"
Yeah, Mozilla always seemed a bit bloated. Try Firefox.
Static pages were nice when my site was slashdotted, my server didn't need to do several database queries for each pageload.
If that's the net effect, maybe Slashdot should start charging to post comments...
I forgot to address this in my other comment, but you've been more than welcome to pay for Movable Type 2. In fact I believe commercial entities were required to pay $150. http://www.vnunet.com/Products/Software/1140884 references this, but I can't find it on MovableType.org because the site is tad sluggish. If people weren't using MT in their companies because it was free they should have read the fine print a little better.
When you say "not crippled in any way" you mean that limiting it to 1 author and 3 blogs is an improvement over the current unlimited authors, unlimited blogs restrictions?
I don't have anything against SA trying to make a living, but they priced me out of the market. I run 3 or 4 blogs with around 10 - 15 users, I earn $0.00 on them and am expected to pay $600 to upgrade to a new version that only offers one new feature (comment management).
Like I said on my site, if they had offered me something that would meet my needs for $40 - $50 I would probably pay up. Instead I'm going to stick with 2.6.
1. Install Freecache node at your ISP
2. Cache extremly popular media files for your customers
3. Advertise that customers can access Freecached files from the local network instead of the Internet.
4. Get more customers and pay less bandwidth costs.
5. PROFIT!!!!
Actually, there are Minesweeper and Solitaire clones for Mozilla, as well as plenty other games.
Isn't the official BitTorrent client written in Python? Also, you have a 100 MBs Internet connection? I thought my 1.5 Mbs downstream was nice...
Texas Safe Voting has a video on their site of election workers talking to a Diebold sales rep. It shows just how bad off we are with current evoting initatives. My favorite quote is "I just want to make sure this machine can add. Remember, we've had machines recently that didn't add."
This seems about as smart an idea as Monopoly: The First Person Shooter.
Originally posted at http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/linkage/pr0n _leads_the_way.php:
I found a pretty insightful rant (safe for work) copied from the business guy at the altporn site Suicide Girls. I wish the RIAA would start tracking how people hear about the albums that they buy, so that they could stop freaking out.
Porn has a long history of figuring out how to use new media to their advantage. Perhaps because porn is driven by our basest instinct we understand it on far deeper levels than widget building, and can apply that understanding to things that we don't fully comprehend intellectually. Maybe it's just because there's such intense competition in the industry that forces companies to innovate. I'm sure there's a "free hand of the market" joke in there, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
The VCR was largely decried by the MPAA because they saw it as cutting into their profits. When the VCR was still new, MPAA president Jack Valenti said the VCR is [to the movie industry]...as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone. (which of course means that he wasn't opposed to the VCR). A driver of early VCR purchases was being able to watch porn movies without having to go to theaters filled with creepier people than you. Fast forward 20 years and that Boston strangler makes up a huge portion of movie studio profits.
While I'm skeptical that porn can drive any technology - who really needs porn on their cellphone at blazing speeds - the porn industry typically ahead of the curve. Let's hope the RIAA realizes this and stops suing 12 year old girls.
iPods batteries can't be replaced by end users? Better tell the guys who replaced theirs. Let me guess, Macs don't work with two button mice either? Parent should be modded a troll (and I should be modded a troll-feeder)
You seem to have problems discerning cause and effect, or even normal time in general. I can't take a picture of an accident that was cased by taking a picture of the accident. That's called a paradox, and I don't think phones with that feature are coming out until next year. And then, only in Japan and Finland.
That's not exactly the best time and place to negotiate a better deal on car insurance.
"Hello, I wanted to get insurance. Pre-existing problems? Uhhh...."
T68i supports 900, 1800 and 1900Mhz. And the shitty service wouldn't be a problem if they weren't phasing out 900Mhz for 850Mhz towers. My T68i worked fine 2 years ago, it's unusable now (which is why I ditched AT&T and am getting my T68i unlocked to be a T-Mobile backup)
T-Mobile and Cingular offer GSM, although since the latter just bought AT&T WS don't bet on it. Unfortunately your phone is most likely locked into AT&T service, so google for "n-gage unlock" or try to find a local mobile shop that will unlock the phone for you.
You explained it in your last sentence... they're trying to avoid a class action lawsuit.
FYI, as someone who just switched away from AT&T, they charge $12/mo for 4MB of traffic... unlimited is closer to $80. If you want to do web surfing on your phone try T-Mobile or Sprint's Vision service.
For anyone who thinks that camera phones are useless, my anectdote is being able to email pictures of my car's accident to my insurance agent while still at the scene of the accident. She then changed her mind and decided that I really couldn't drive a car with that front end and they sent a tow truck.
Sorry, GSM on all three phones. I'll probably wind up unlocking one of the AT&T ones to use as a backup.
I'm pretty sure the T68i is tri-band...
I'm in Ann Arbor Michigan and had AT&T service with my T68i. Last year I had problems with dropped calls and my service meter would go from 5 bars to 0 when I would try to make a call. I got my handset replaced twice and it seemed to more or less alleviate the problem. This winter things got worse and worse.
:)
Finally I got fed up and switched to T-Mobile. I got a nice phone for $0, and get unlimited wireless web usage for $10/mo (which got me 4 megs on AT&T). Getting my number transfered from AT&T to the new account took an 11 minute phone call and 6 hours to process.
Most importantly my calls aren't having the same problems, and I can actually use my phone again.
The irony is that between the time I called to switch my number and the time that the number switched I got an SMS saying that they were sending me a new (bluetoothless, underfeatured) phone for free. Now I'll have two to put up on eBay