I have a Tesla Roadster on order, hopefully for delivery in 2008 (it was supposed to be 2007). Does anyone know if there is a marketplace for the buying and selling a 2008 production slot?
I received my XO about a week ago, live in the US, and I can't connect it to the internet reliably. Googling around, I found a lot of discussion about how poorly the XO laptops work with wireless access points. This weekend, I'll try setting my home access point to channel 1, 6 or 11, something OLPC recommends trying. This problem certainly took some shine off an otherwise cool little computer for kids.
I work a couple of blocks from the Stata Center. I think the design is hideous, and it is hard to find the rooms where talks are being given. I'm glad I don't have an office there, and I'm really glad I can't see it from my office window.
But, it does have one thing going for it. From a block away, there is a view of the building from down a railroad track overgrown with sumac. That view has a cool end-of-the-world dystopian sci-fi look to it.
So, here's the deal. Mod this post up to at least +3, and I'll run out, take a picture, and post it.
Maybe the Storm Worm is the answer to computer problems for most people. Once it is on your computer, Storm Worm keeps it running by keeping more malevolent software off your computer. The price to pay is some CPU cycles and bandwidth, which might not be so bad.
The problem with his methods is that he tells people of his predictions about how they will behave ahead of time. If they hear the predictions and believe them, that changes their behavior, making the predictions invalid.
The only way to make consistently accurate predictions is to not tell anyone until after events have happened. That way, you can be much more accurate!
If the negative counts inserted on the memory cards had been just a few thousand higher, everything would have been different. Who would have thought so many people would turn out and vote!
Or...Wait!...Maybe we've been out hacked! Maybe the Dems have better hackers than us!
What you are looking for is Ecco Pro. It was discontinued years ago, but there is still an avid support group.
The closest thing I've found in current software is ShadowPlan (codejedi.com). It runs on Palm Pilots. There is a desktop version, but it is incomplete.
I use a simple system to generate and remember passwords. I'm posting it here so others can use it. If it has problems, please let me know!
First, memorize a long sentence or paragraph. It should not be a well known sentence.
Next, form passwords by choosing two consecutive words and placing a number between them. The number between each word can correspond to which sequential pair they are in the sentence. For example, if your sentence began with "Four score and seven years ago" the first password would be four1score and the second score2and.
You don't want to use the same password everywhere, so next choose a simple numbering scheme for the types of accounts you are protecting. Let's say you choose 00 for accounts you don't care much about (so you use it often for things like NYT registration), and other numbers for other types of accounts. Embed the number somewhere in your password, perhaps at the end. Just be consistent in where you place them. If placing at the end, the example passwords now become four1score00 and score2and00.
You now have a system that can generate a large number of strong passwords, and all you have to do is remember the sentence you started with, and the account number system.
To get started, choose the first two words in your sentence, and password protect everything according to account type. Everyone once in a while (e.g. once a year), move to the next pair of words and incrementally update passwords as you encounter old ones.
The real utility of this system comes into play when you forget a password, since there are only a small number of combinations to try. Simply determine which account types might have been used, and then try previous word combinations. I've gone back and logged into accounts that I haven't accessed in years, where the password was long forgotten.
Instead of generating billions of random works, write a program that generates all possible melodies of a specified length based on a set of parameters, and copyright both the program and all its possible parameters. You have now copyrighted all possible melodies. To demonstrate a copyright violation, simply run the program with the appropriate parameter settings.
We recently bought a small fridge for the office, turned it to cold, and filled it with Diet Coke. The next day, we heard a muffled thump and noises like coke cans tumbling. In the kitchen/storage area, the door of the fridge was open, bits of frozen coke were everywhere, and most surprisingly, a hole the size of a can of can punched through the top plastic shelf on which the exploded can had been sitting. A plastic tray above the shelf was cracked. The exploded can had its top blown off, the bottom was bowed out, and the side split from top to bottom. The pop top was intact.
So, some cans can explode. We turned off the compressor and let the other cans warm up before removing them to clean up the mess.
I've used Motorola StarTac phones for years, and I don't think I would want to give up folding the phone closed to hang up. Also, when the phone is folded, the buttons and screen are protected.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what happens to a phone like the Nokia 3650 when you stuff it in your pocket and it's banging around with your keys and stuff?
Around about 1975, when I was an undergraduate student at a small, private, and somewhat uptight college, Alan Kay gave an afternoon talk in one of the main auditoriums. In the middle of the presentation, seemingly unrelated to what he was talking about, he said, "Watching television is like mental masturbation." He then seemed to lose his train of thought, so the sentence just hung there for several seconds. He then continued on talking about the Dynabook or whatever like nothing had happened.
28 years later, that's the only part of the talk I remember.
When I was younger, in early high school, I discovered that my father was trying to build a perpetual motion machine in his basement workshop. It was a rotating wheel with slots that contained ball bearings. The idea was that the bearings would roll in the slots in such a way that the wheel would constantly be unbalanced, causing it to rotate forever. He hadn't quite gotten it to work, of course, and was concerned about the angle of the slots and friction at the hub. I had taken some physics by then, and tried to explain to my dad about conservation of energy and how his machine, in principle, could never work. Maybe he was already discouraged by then, but he quit working on it shortly after that.
When airlines first started doing "random" checks of passengers, I was searched three flights in a row in about a month's time period. Assuming about a 1/100 chance of being selected, the odds of being selected three times in a row is 1/1000000. I have a beard as well.
Since then, I've flown a fair amount, and haven't been selected once. Perhaps they changed their profile.
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I have a Tesla Roadster on order, hopefully for delivery in 2008 (it was supposed to be 2007). Does anyone know if there is a marketplace for the buying and selling a 2008 production slot?
I received my XO about a week ago, live in the US, and I can't connect it to the internet reliably. Googling around, I found a lot of discussion about how poorly the XO laptops work with wireless access points. This weekend, I'll try setting my home access point to channel 1, 6 or 11, something OLPC recommends trying. This problem certainly took some shine off an otherwise cool little computer for kids.
Just turn your company into a giant Starbucks.
It's a nice day, so I went and took a picture regardless. Here it is.
But, it does have one thing going for it. From a block away, there is a view of the building from down a railroad track overgrown with sumac. That view has a cool end-of-the-world dystopian sci-fi look to it.
So, here's the deal. Mod this post up to at least +3, and I'll run out, take a picture, and post it.
Maybe the Storm Worm is the answer to computer problems for most people. Once it is on your computer, Storm Worm keeps it running by keeping more malevolent software off your computer. The price to pay is some CPU cycles and bandwidth, which might not be so bad.
The problem with his methods is that he tells people of his predictions about how they will behave ahead of time. If they hear the predictions and believe them, that changes their behavior, making the predictions invalid.
The only way to make consistently accurate predictions is to not tell anyone until after events have happened. That way, you can be much more accurate!
I didn't know you could do this kind of thing on a schedule!
Why would a company entrust Google with all their corporate emails, and many of their files as well?
If the negative counts inserted on the memory cards had been just a few thousand higher, everything would have been different. Who would have thought so many people would turn out and vote!
Or...Wait!...Maybe we've been out hacked! Maybe the Dems have better hackers than us!
This article has an overview of the companies doing R&D on solar panels and the VC firms that are funding them.
- The land is already available
- An industry already exists for keeping it cleared
- Roads already extend to most places where people need power
- Electric cars could be charged, and "gas" stations could service them. Same for electric trains.
- Roads would become revenue producing
Great phrase. Packs the same punch as "Christian Taliban" to refer to the extreme right.
Last weekend I downloaded and installed a driver for an HP inkjet printer on a Mac iBook. The size of the download was 38MB.
What you are looking for is Ecco Pro. It was discontinued years ago, but there is still an avid support group.
The closest thing I've found in current software is ShadowPlan (codejedi.com). It runs on Palm Pilots. There is a desktop version, but it is incomplete.
I use a simple system to generate and remember passwords. I'm posting it here so others can use it. If it has problems, please let me know!
First, memorize a long sentence or paragraph. It should not be a well known sentence.
Next, form passwords by choosing two consecutive words and placing a number between them. The number between each word can correspond to which sequential pair they are in the sentence. For example, if your sentence began with "Four score and seven years ago" the first password would be four1score and the second score2and.
You don't want to use the same password everywhere, so next choose a simple numbering scheme for the types of accounts you are protecting. Let's say you choose 00 for accounts you don't care much about (so you use it often for things like NYT registration), and other numbers for other types of accounts. Embed the number somewhere in your password, perhaps at the end. Just be consistent in where you place them. If placing at the end, the example passwords now become four1score00 and score2and00.
You now have a system that can generate a large number of strong passwords, and all you have to do is remember the sentence you started with, and the account number system.
To get started, choose the first two words in your sentence, and password protect everything according to account type. Everyone once in a while (e.g. once a year), move to the next pair of words and incrementally update passwords as you encounter old ones.
The real utility of this system comes into play when you forget a password, since there are only a small number of combinations to try. Simply determine which account types might have been used, and then try previous word combinations. I've gone back and logged into accounts that I haven't accessed in years, where the password was long forgotten.
Instead of generating billions of random works, write a program that generates all possible melodies of a specified length based on a set of parameters, and copyright both the program and all its possible parameters. You have now copyrighted all possible melodies. To demonstrate a copyright violation, simply run the program with the appropriate parameter settings.
Is that really true? If that's the case, how can an injured finger know how to grow the same pattern back?
What will it be like to have a robot companion that is thousands of times more intelligent than an ordinary person?
So, some cans can explode. We turned off the compressor and let the other cans warm up before removing them to clean up the mess.
Try the Mars books by Kim Stanley Robinson. Compelling characters and a great story.
I've used Motorola StarTac phones for years, and I don't think I would want to give up folding the phone closed to hang up. Also, when the phone is folded, the buttons and screen are protected. Maybe I'm missing something, but what happens to a phone like the Nokia 3650 when you stuff it in your pocket and it's banging around with your keys and stuff?
Around about 1975, when I was an undergraduate student at a small, private, and somewhat uptight college, Alan Kay gave an afternoon talk in one of the main auditoriums. In the middle of the presentation, seemingly unrelated to what he was talking about, he said, "Watching television is like mental masturbation." He then seemed to lose his train of thought, so the sentence just hung there for several seconds. He then continued on talking about the Dynabook or whatever like nothing had happened. 28 years later, that's the only part of the talk I remember.
When I was younger, in early high school, I discovered that my father was trying to build a perpetual motion machine in his basement workshop. It was a rotating wheel with slots that contained ball bearings. The idea was that the bearings would roll in the slots in such a way that the wheel would constantly be unbalanced, causing it to rotate forever. He hadn't quite gotten it to work, of course, and was concerned about the angle of the slots and friction at the hub. I had taken some physics by then, and tried to explain to my dad about conservation of energy and how his machine, in principle, could never work. Maybe he was already discouraged by then, but he quit working on it shortly after that.
When airlines first started doing "random" checks of passengers, I was searched three flights in a row in about a month's time period. Assuming about a 1/100 chance of being selected, the odds of being selected three times in a row is 1/1000000. I have a beard as well.
Since then, I've flown a fair amount, and haven't been selected once. Perhaps they changed their profile.