I used my good address to buy something on ebay and paid via paypal, one of those two or the seller, or ebay's listing of addresses got my name on several lists. That and shortly thereafter I drank the punch and did a survey for a DVD for Colonize.
In order to make time wasting more enjoyable, the department of public sloth has established the hot grits medal for proclimation of double entrys on popular weblogs. If you happen to notice an announcment of a double entry on a popular weblog, popular defined by able to render useless pages hosted on less than a dual Xeon with T1, please let the department of public sloth know immediately. Remember kids if you read a second story about the same topic the terrorists have already won!
There is a really good piece on Prof. Krugman's page that explains why California's idea of how a free market for power should be structured didn't work. It boils down to as long as the last guy can sell half his power at more than double a competitive price someone will make sure that enough capacity is offline to keep prices high. What should have happened was what the phone companies did, local distribution monopolies and many competitive power providers that users choose and pay the power provider's rates, I don't know anyone who is paying more for long distance than they did 20 years ago, not a pooled average.
For the same reason that you don't generally see slashdotters try to violate the GPL on all the other projects. The RBOCs all see each other as friends rather than competitors. Qwest would be in an excellent position to do this to everyone else, since it has the long distance network, and it doesn't have enough major cities in its region for it to be worth advertisign in for competitors, but when managment was asked point blank why they won't do it they cited undsustainability and generally putforward the belief that they would be scum for trying.
I'm using my system as the center of my home theater, and really like it.
If you don't mind spending a good chunk of cash get yourself some Genelec active monitors. You have to find a reciever with balanced pre-amp outputs, I think Dennon makes one. The setup will cost a pretty penny, I think the Genelecs are about $1000 a pair, but you will be rewarded with a very nice system if you do that. It would also be nice for your occasional production work.
I'm running a much lower-end system some Paradigm bookshelf units and a sub are plenty for my DVD and music needs. I have a decent Technics amp, mostly because it has plenty of digital inputs. I think that is by far the best way to use your PC, get the digital stream out of the relativly noisy PC case. You might want to look into some of the silent PCs out there, because all those fans can get loud.
Realize that NAD, more than other audio companies, seriously underreports their power capabilities. I think they have an extreme standard of distortion that they allow and rate their power handling around that standard. It seems like they are at least 30%-50% low compared with other high end companies which are all nearly an order of magnitude lower than the low end crap you can find.
Just so you know Amex currently has a black card, its called something like the Centurian Card, comes with a whole host of nifty features, and requires that you spend something like $100,000 a month on your current account to be considered for it. The only person I have know of who has one is Larry Ellison.
That was a very informative post, does anyone know if motor oil is conductive, I would think that a quart of 5W20 or another light oil would flow pretty well through a small submersable pump. My favorite transformer oil story was from a local Utility guy who came to our school years ago. He asked us if we ever wanted to shoot the transformers with our pellet guns, and then told us that he used to want to as a kid, but that it would be a bad idea since the oil would leak and the transformer would fail possibly explosivly. What I found funny was that I don't think a single person had ever thought about shooting a transformer until he mentioned it, and the fact that they could explode might be something that would encourage young boys to shoot one with their pellet gun.
Do you really think that Microsoft lost $1.2 Billion last year (with no end in sight) on the X-Box just to have a $10 per game licensing fees? That is exactly their plan, but I think they want home users to subscribe to their applications as well as businesses. How many people wouldn't buy or have the $200 PC, and then pay $10/mo for office, $5 for a tax return, $5/mo for Money, $3/mo for Flight Sim/Mechwarrior/WarcraftV, it looks like a pretty sweet revenue stream to me, Microsoft could also get a cut of other software products, for hosting and access to the local machines. As a bonus, piracy is pretty difficult, and Linux goes away as a competitor.
Happily, you can too, they even have to tell you when they are buying and selling so you can take advantage of the information. Just so you know they have been selling through October, the last time an AOL insider traded, I think they have to report a trade within 30 days, it might be shorter after the passage of the recently passed corporate accounting act.
The hundred billion dollar loss is real, but it is mostly just the shifting of accounts, not cash out the door. Think of it this way, if you bought a ferarri for $45,000. Later you found out that is was only a body replica on a Fiero, and was only worth $5,000 you would have taken a $40,000 loss but it wouldn't mean cash out the door, you just don't have the same value of assets that you used to have.
Replace the ferarri with AOL, TimeWarner Cable, and what ever else AOL bought prior to TimeWarner at inflated bubble prices and you can see where the billion dollars comes from. Most of the transactios were stock only so the whole thing was based on funny money. What that really is is the realization that TimeWarner's shareholders screwed up badly by selling their company for stock in AOL at the peak of the bubble. Now they have to adjust the accounting to show what the markets did over the last two years. AOL, both the service nad the combined company, still generate pretty decent cash flows, but they do have a mountain of debt, and investor concerns about the stability of those cash flows could be their undoing.
One of the gas companies was testing fiber to the home using their gas lines. They had delivery worked out, but I think the corrosive nature of natural gas was eating the fiber. Either that or they shuttered the program to save some money, I think it was El Paso, but it could have been Dynegy, neither one is really an example of great finacial health these days.
Have you noticed the generally poor locations of those electronic signing pads at most stores? K-Mart's are generally pretty good, above everything, but there is no place to rest your arm. Most stores seem to put them with a wall or other large immobile object directly to the left of them.
I think its AOL Europe and AOL Latin America, I don't know if that is the local branding, but that is how it is refered to in the corporate documents. I don't think they draw much attention to what AOL is meant to stand for in the names of their foreign services.
The growth is either in the cheap ISP NetZero/Juno signed up somethign like 1 million subs in the fourth quarter, or in broadband. The RBOCs collectivly matched that number this quarter, too. I don't know what cable looked like but would guess it was somewhere in the 1-1.5 million new subscriber range.
That statement is pretty unclear, what they meant was that AOL is not signing up free trial customers in the same numbers just to keep their subscriber count growing. The drop was in the number of non-paying trial customers, that account for about 10% of their US subscriber base of about 26 million. They have another 8 in Europe, and the rest are mostly in Latin America. Thier paid subscriber base actually increaseed during the quarter, I believe. The full details are all in their quarterly conference call available on the corporate web page, for at least another week or so.
I remember an interview with Elizabeth Berkley in which she mentioned that she was riding an airplane shortly after Showgirls came out, with the in arm television screens. Her seat mate did not recognise her and picked Showgirls, she was shocked to look over and see that he was fast forwarding through all the non nude scenes. I got a pretty good laugh out of the fact that she was surprised by this.
Dang I accidentally picked/. before I realized you only get one, and now I think that SOVIET RUSSIA is filled with either Beowulf Clusters or Natalie Portman and hot grits depending on who you ask.
You might look into AAC, its a little harder to find good free encoders and decoders, PsyTel's is out there but not exactly easy to find, they seem to me to sound better for a given file size. Quicktime Pro supports it as well, they just call it mp4. I ripped mine at a VBR that averages about 160 kbps, and its rare that I notice a difference between it and the CD in an AB test.
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The first pattern I got was that if you have a line of three ones the one that is diagonal to the box is the correct one with the mine so long as you keep revealing ones around that box you can clear each of their border squares.
1 1 1 []
1 X 1 []
1 1 1 []
[] [] [][]
You could click all seven of the empty boxes [] as long as the bold 1 only borders the square that then must contain the mine and the other borders are all 1s.
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I used my good address to buy something on ebay and paid via paypal, one of those two or the seller, or ebay's listing of addresses got my name on several lists. That and shortly thereafter I drank the punch and did a survey for a DVD for Colonize.
In order to make time wasting more enjoyable, the department of public sloth has established the hot grits medal for proclimation of double entrys on popular weblogs. If you happen to notice an announcment of a double entry on a popular weblog, popular defined by able to render useless pages hosted on less than a dual Xeon with T1, please let the department of public sloth know immediately. Remember kids if you read a second story about the same topic the terrorists have already won!
There is a really good piece on Prof. Krugman's page that explains why California's idea of how a free market for power should be structured didn't work. It boils down to as long as the last guy can sell half his power at more than double a competitive price someone will make sure that enough capacity is offline to keep prices high. What should have happened was what the phone companies did, local distribution monopolies and many competitive power providers that users choose and pay the power provider's rates, I don't know anyone who is paying more for long distance than they did 20 years ago, not a pooled average.
For the same reason that you don't generally see slashdotters try to violate the GPL on all the other projects. The RBOCs all see each other as friends rather than competitors. Qwest would be in an excellent position to do this to everyone else, since it has the long distance network, and it doesn't have enough major cities in its region for it to be worth advertisign in for competitors, but when managment was asked point blank why they won't do it they cited undsustainability and generally putforward the belief that they would be scum for trying.
Yeah, but its also the only place where you can paint the house brown and sell it for 1.2 million later that week.
I'm using my system as the center of my home theater, and really like it. If you don't mind spending a good chunk of cash get yourself some Genelec active monitors. You have to find a reciever with balanced pre-amp outputs, I think Dennon makes one. The setup will cost a pretty penny, I think the Genelecs are about $1000 a pair, but you will be rewarded with a very nice system if you do that. It would also be nice for your occasional production work.
I'm running a much lower-end system some Paradigm bookshelf units and a sub are plenty for my DVD and music needs. I have a decent Technics amp, mostly because it has plenty of digital inputs. I think that is by far the best way to use your PC, get the digital stream out of the relativly noisy PC case. You might want to look into some of the silent PCs out there, because all those fans can get loud.
Realize that NAD, more than other audio companies, seriously underreports their power capabilities. I think they have an extreme standard of distortion that they allow and rate their power handling around that standard. It seems like they are at least 30%-50% low compared with other high end companies which are all nearly an order of magnitude lower than the low end crap you can find.
Just so you know Amex currently has a black card, its called something like the Centurian Card, comes with a whole host of nifty features, and requires that you spend something like $100,000 a month on your current account to be considered for it. The only person I have know of who has one is Larry Ellison.
That was a very informative post, does anyone know if motor oil is conductive, I would think that a quart of 5W20 or another light oil would flow pretty well through a small submersable pump. My favorite transformer oil story was from a local Utility guy who came to our school years ago. He asked us if we ever wanted to shoot the transformers with our pellet guns, and then told us that he used to want to as a kid, but that it would be a bad idea since the oil would leak and the transformer would fail possibly explosivly.
What I found funny was that I don't think a single person had ever thought about shooting a transformer until he mentioned it, and the fact that they could explode might be something that would encourage young boys to shoot one with their pellet gun.
Do you really think that Microsoft lost $1.2 Billion last year (with no end in sight) on the X-Box just to have a $10 per game licensing fees? That is exactly their plan, but I think they want home users to subscribe to their applications as well as businesses. How many people wouldn't buy or have the $200 PC, and then pay $10/mo for office, $5 for a tax return, $5/mo for Money, $3/mo for Flight Sim/Mechwarrior/WarcraftV, it looks like a pretty sweet revenue stream to me, Microsoft could also get a cut of other software products, for hosting and access to the local machines. As a bonus, piracy is pretty difficult, and Linux goes away as a competitor.
I once helped someone install AOL, so they could connect and use the free trial to get Juno.
Happily, you can too, they even have to tell you when they are buying and selling so you can take advantage of the information. Just so you know they have been selling through October, the last time an AOL insider traded, I think they have to report a trade within 30 days, it might be shorter after the passage of the recently passed corporate accounting act.
The hundred billion dollar loss is real, but it is mostly just the shifting of accounts, not cash out the door. Think of it this way, if you bought a ferarri for $45,000. Later you found out that is was only a body replica on a Fiero, and was only worth $5,000 you would have taken a $40,000 loss but it wouldn't mean cash out the door, you just don't have the same value of assets that you used to have.
Replace the ferarri with AOL, TimeWarner Cable, and what ever else AOL bought prior to TimeWarner at inflated bubble prices and you can see where the billion dollars comes from. Most of the transactios were stock only so the whole thing was based on funny money. What that really is is the realization that TimeWarner's shareholders screwed up badly by selling their company for stock in AOL at the peak of the bubble. Now they have to adjust the accounting to show what the markets did over the last two years. AOL, both the service nad the combined company, still generate pretty decent cash flows, but they do have a mountain of debt, and investor concerns about the stability of those cash flows could be their undoing.
One of the gas companies was testing fiber to the home using their gas lines. They had delivery worked out, but I think the corrosive nature of natural gas was eating the fiber. Either that or they shuttered the program to save some money, I think it was El Paso, but it could have been Dynegy, neither one is really an example of great finacial health these days.
He's serious. Tacoma owns its own cable company.
Have you noticed the generally poor locations of those electronic signing pads at most stores? K-Mart's are generally pretty good, above everything, but there is no place to rest your arm. Most stores seem to put them with a wall or other large immobile object directly to the left of them.
I second this, so long as it includes the pinky and the brain episondes. Those were comic gold.
I think its AOL Europe and AOL Latin America, I don't know if that is the local branding, but that is how it is refered to in the corporate documents. I don't think they draw much attention to what AOL is meant to stand for in the names of their foreign services.
The growth is either in the cheap ISP NetZero/Juno signed up somethign like 1 million subs in the fourth quarter, or in broadband. The RBOCs collectivly matched that number this quarter, too. I don't know what cable looked like but would guess it was somewhere in the 1-1.5 million new subscriber range.
That statement is pretty unclear, what they meant was that AOL is not signing up free trial customers in the same numbers just to keep their subscriber count growing. The drop was in the number of non-paying trial customers, that account for about 10% of their US subscriber base of about 26 million. They have another 8 in Europe, and the rest are mostly in Latin America. Thier paid subscriber base actually increaseed during the quarter, I believe. The full details are all in their quarterly conference call available on the corporate web page, for at least another week or so.
Is there anything like a SPARC tadpole that uses IBM's POWER stuff? Can you run AIX on a Mac?
I remember an interview with Elizabeth Berkley in which she mentioned that she was riding an airplane shortly after Showgirls came out, with the in arm television screens. Her seat mate did not recognise her and picked Showgirls, she was shocked to look over and see that he was fast forwarding through all the non nude scenes. I got a pretty good laugh out of the fact that she was surprised by this.
Dang I accidentally picked /. before I realized you only get one, and now I think that SOVIET RUSSIA is filled with either Beowulf Clusters or Natalie Portman and hot grits depending on who you ask.
You might look into AAC, its a little harder to find good free encoders and decoders, PsyTel's is out there but not exactly easy to find, they seem to me to sound better for a given file size. Quicktime Pro supports it as well, they just call it mp4. I ripped mine at a VBR that averages about 160 kbps, and its rare that I notice a difference between it and the CD in an AB test.
The first pattern I got was that if you have a line of three ones the one that is diagonal to the box is the correct one with the mine so long as you keep revealing ones around that box you can clear each of their border squares.
1 1 1 []
1 X 1 []
1 1 1 []
[] [] [][]
You could click all seven of the empty boxes [] as long as the bold 1 only borders the square that then must contain the mine and the other borders are all 1s.