Printers sure have gone downhill. Remember the old HP Laserjet(3,4) workhorses? Those things were stout. Even the new office printers are not the same quality they used to be.
Normally in the computer market, high end features trickle down into comsumer product features, I was hoping for a home printer that could hold a ream of paper and have separate trays for labels and envelopes and plug and play networking. Instead we have the mess that is the printer market today.
It's nice to see some common sense come out of a legislature. I like Rep. Joe Hackney's analogy:
I think if Ford Motor Company tried to completely control the aftermarket
by trying to control the tire you put on your car by some device, I think
this Legislature would act.
There are many areas of the market place that this should be applied.
The price of printers may go up, but we will still have Choice when it comes to ink.
Ink is by far the higher cost in the long run.
Were talking about it's Length(circumference). It's the easy formula pi * diameter. The parent used the formula:
(35786km(height of geo orbit) * 2) * 3.14
I stated that you must also use the diameter of the earth to properly figure the circumference:
(35786km(height of geo orbit) * 2 + 12756km) * 3.14
The figure 35786km is from the surface of the earth, but may actually be better stated as 39164km from it's Center. Not sure if that would change or not given the Earth was smaller, but the same mass.
They didn't take into account 4th of July weekend here in the States. A lot of people wnet out of town. 15% decrease with a 3 day weekend is Not a trend or a result of the threat.
Additionally, if it takes this much work to Kinda Get one guy, how are we ever going to get them all? Will the threat of isolated harassment stop most of these spammers, I doubt it.
Don't get me wrong, I still applaud these guys efforts, but it's an steep uphill battle.
Farmers are ordering broadband lines, and motorists on rural roads frequently pass blue information signs pointing them to the nearest place to access the Web.
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This needed to be said. This series is definately not for children.
However, I enjoyed it precisely because it is not cookie cutter fantasy. There's some seriuosly evil acts going on in this series and Martin holds no punches in describing them. I want real cuss words, not "Blood and Bloody Ashes":)
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I think your feelings are almost universal. I just finished book 10 and Nothing Happens. It doesn't even have the Final Showdown that the previous books have. Seriously, take a map and plot the movement of characters in book 10. And the plot gets about as far as they do.
As for Martin, I discovered him a couple of years. Read through the first two books, waited anxiously on the third an am waiting even more anxiously for the fourth.
Bose, Sony and others make Noise Cancelling headphones. I bought a pair of Sony's when I traveled a lot a couple of years ago. They definately cut down the noise, but got kind of uncomfortable on long trips.
I can't see any rates on their site because my line doesn't qualify. How much do they charge for regular ADSL and that(I want it, I want it, I WANT IT) 3.0/768? I don't know why I wouldn't qualify, I have 2 DSL accounts through Bellsouth lines and have qualified through Covad. Anyone in Georgia using Speakeasy?
I've been retro-fitting our new(to us) house for the past year. A whole spool of RG6 and on my 3rd spool of Cat5e.
Sad thing is I have over $200 worth of Quikport wall plates & cat5e, co-ax, phone, banana inserts sitting is a box. And yet I have holes in every wall with 2-6 cables sticking out.
I keep thinking I'm going to get to the finish work, but when I have free time I keep thinking of new places to run cable. The Kitchen Desk, the kitchen counter, the porch, the garage. I'll have LCD's hangin over the toilets before I get those damn wallplates installed:)
My analogy of the Altair was not from a computing perspective, just a timeline scale. Look at everything that has happened in the computing world since the Altair, yet pretty much our entire manned space program has not progressed in that time. The code that runs the shuttle is probably top notch. It's the 200,000 other parts and the manned cargo barge doctrine that need to be examined. It's old, old, old. It's our first and last(to date) reusable launch vehicle.
I was reading through this article, just waiting to respond. Then I got to the last two paragraphs and he laid it out perfectly.
We will always need astronauts to assume certain risks to develop the technology that allows for human exploration of space. The space shuttles and space stations may be necessary to fulfill that mission. However, we need to separate the goal of scientific experimentation from the desire for space exploration. I hope that the unfortunate death of the Columbia astronauts will forever sever the false link that has been created between the two.
Astronauts do not risk their lives to perform scientific experiments in space. They fly to fulfill a much more basic and human desire -- to experience the vastness of space.
We need to seriously rethink our goals. The Shuttle has been around for 1/2 the entire history of man in space. It was being desinged when the Altair was a hit. With modern computer and automation systems, surely the vast majority of research can be performed autonomously. We need a vehicle for this and a seperate vehicle to safely bring people back and forth.
I really prefer to have my reference seperate. I have dual monitors on my main workstation just so that I don't have to switch back and forth. I spend a lot of time 'on site' at various locations where I don't have the luxury of dual monitors.
The USB LCD sounds nice, but then you have a Very limited device that's tied to a desktop. I'd like to be able to read my ebooks while on a plane or in bed at night.
IMO a better path would have been to build a multi-purpose handheld optimized for e-book reading- license the Palm OS so that people could do all that other stuff too, but use a big, clear screen with dedicated nav buttons so it was the best darn e-book reading Palm money can buy. Or the best darn e-book reading Linux pad, I'm not picky.
The color Rocket(Gemstar) is a very nice looking, nice weight and comfortable. I've always thought it would be a great PDA. It wouldn't fit in your pocket, but you could just carry it along kinda like a real book.
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Normally in the computer market, high end features trickle down into comsumer product features, I was hoping for a home printer that could hold a ream of paper and have separate trays for labels and envelopes and plug and play networking. Instead we have the mess that is the printer market today.
I think if Ford Motor Company tried to completely control the aftermarket by trying to control the tire you put on your car by some device, I think this Legislature would act.
There are many areas of the market place that this should be applied.
The price of printers may go up, but we will still have Choice when it comes to ink. Ink is by far the higher cost in the long run.
(35786km(height of geo orbit) * 2) * 3.14
I stated that you must also use the diameter of the earth to properly figure the circumference:
(35786km(height of geo orbit) * 2 + 12756km) * 3.14
The figure 35786km is from the surface of the earth, but may actually be better stated as 39164km from it's Center. Not sure if that would change or not given the Earth was smaller, but the same mass.
I think it's actually 264789.92km long. You have to account for the Earth's diameter(12,756km) too.
I just got this mental image of someone screaming this at 5am with bloodshot eyes and hair all frazzled.
They didn't take into account 4th of July weekend here in the States. A lot of people wnet out of town. 15% decrease with a 3 day weekend is Not a trend or a result of the threat.
Don't get me wrong, I still applaud these guys efforts, but it's an steep uphill battle.
Anyone use this software? Does it work? Seems like it could be apdapted to a PDA.
And you Admit It?!?!!!
There are lots of 'rare' fish in the deep ocean. I don't think they are endangered, just hard to find in such an inhospitable place.
Would you rather have that or Mr. Burns three eyed fish on your dinner plate?
Farmers are ordering broadband lines, and motorists on rural roads frequently pass blue information signs pointing them to the nearest place to access the Web.
However, I enjoyed it precisely because it is not cookie cutter fantasy. There's some seriuosly evil acts going on in this series and Martin holds no punches in describing them. I want real cuss words, not "Blood and Bloody Ashes":)
As for Martin, I discovered him a couple of years. Read through the first two books, waited anxiously on the third an am waiting even more anxiously for the fourth.
Bose, Sony and others make Noise Cancelling headphones. I bought a pair of Sony's when I traveled a lot a couple of years ago. They definately cut down the noise, but got kind of uncomfortable on long trips.
I've shared bandwidth with roommates before and Porn Lag© during an internet Deathmatch game will make you scream.
Where are they trying to make routers illegal and for what reasons?
I can't see any rates on their site because my line doesn't qualify. How much do they charge for regular ADSL and that(I want it, I want it, I WANT IT) 3.0/768? I don't know why I wouldn't qualify, I have 2 DSL accounts through Bellsouth lines and have qualified through Covad. Anyone in Georgia using Speakeasy?
Sad thing is I have over $200 worth of Quikport wall plates & cat5e, co-ax, phone, banana inserts sitting is a box. And yet I have holes in every wall with 2-6 cables sticking out.
I keep thinking I'm going to get to the finish work, but when I have free time I keep thinking of new places to run cable. The Kitchen Desk, the kitchen counter, the porch, the garage. I'll have LCD's hangin over the toilets before I get those damn wallplates installed :)
My analogy of the Altair was not from a computing perspective, just a timeline scale. Look at everything that has happened in the computing world since the Altair, yet pretty much our entire manned space program has not progressed in that time. The code that runs the shuttle is probably top notch. It's the 200,000 other parts and the manned cargo barge doctrine that need to be examined. It's old, old, old. It's our first and last(to date) reusable launch vehicle.
We will always need astronauts to assume certain risks to develop the technology that allows for human exploration of space. The space shuttles and space stations may be necessary to fulfill that mission. However, we need to separate the goal of scientific experimentation from the desire for space exploration. I hope that the unfortunate death of the Columbia astronauts will forever sever the false link that has been created between the two.
Astronauts do not risk their lives to perform scientific experiments in space. They fly to fulfill a much more basic and human desire -- to experience the vastness of space.
We need to seriously rethink our goals. The Shuttle has been around for 1/2 the entire history of man in space. It was being desinged when the Altair was a hit. With modern computer and automation systems, surely the vast majority of research can be performed autonomously. We need a vehicle for this and a seperate vehicle to safely bring people back and forth.
Hey, is that porn in your pocket or are you glad to --- uhh that Is porn in your pocket!
And with the money he'd save he could put a down payment on a Tercel replacement.
The USB LCD sounds nice, but then you have a Very limited device that's tied to a desktop. I'd like to be able to read my ebooks while on a plane or in bed at night.
The color Rocket(Gemstar) is a very nice looking, nice weight and comfortable. I've always thought it would be a great PDA. It wouldn't fit in your pocket, but you could just carry it along kinda like a real book.