Michael Connelly knows how to write a police procedural that you can't put down. His main line of novels feature a hard boiled LA detective named Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch. Bosch has his own code and is forever finding crooked cops. He has, literally, a love-hate relationship with the Feds - he has bedded at least two FBI agents, one of whom he married.
Get the whole Connelly opus and you won't stop reading until you've been through them all.
[reminisce]
Back in 1972 I did the first uP project at Cornell using a 4004. No assembler, no emulator, not even a PROM programmer. Just a list of op-codes and a sheet of paper that I wrote H or L for every bit of the PROM. That got sent to a electronics distributor that would program the part. Unfortunately, I can't claim to have done the first OPERATING uP project at Cornell!
[/reminisce]
University researchers make money by getting grants from industry and government. They get these grants by getting publicity in the business press. This is just a plea for money.
Monitorsdirect.com WAS a great place to buy LCD monitors. I had 5 on order from them in December when I received an email saying that my orders had been canceled with no charge to me. Subsequently it appears that they are Out Of Business. Sigh...
Philips actually had a finished LCos TV set ready for production. I saw it at a compliance testing lab that they use last January. I am not sure what kept them from marketing the set but I know that the lab tech said that it had problems with its RF emissions.
Actually Emerson Electric http://www.emersonelectric.com/(not the crap electronics Emerson) made those window fans and is one of the largest electric motor suppliers to this day!
It's getting very tiring reading the overtly partisan comments on shashdot. I would like to remind the everyone that there is an approximate even split in American public opinion on politics.
Being an election year means a long slog though the BS on both sides. Please let this be a retreat from it instead of an amplification of it.
Has anyone downloaded and installed Picasa? As part of the install I get a ZoneAlarm alert saying sp7zFh5.exe is trying to use Picasa to access the internet.
I think it is questionable coding practice to have obscurely named subprocesses running around wanting to get to the net.
The animation shows the machine making a framed structure on a prepared lot. Stick framing can already be done in a day (albeit with a few sets of human hands involved). The thing that takes time in building a house is the wiring, plumbing, hvac, and finishing.
I don't see much future for this until they can automate some of these functions.
RTFA
"over the last two years on the program... has generated a total of $43 million in new tax revenue and $6 million in refunds. (Yes, the system identifies overpayers, too.)"
It has really bugged me that there are no more really small scientific calculators. Casio Fx-68 is the last one that I know of. I have one but am hesitant to use it since it can't be replaced.
It's a shame that small, metal cased calculators are a thing of the past.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Friday rejected efforts by the recording industry to compel the nation's Internet providers to identify subscribers accused of illegally distributing music online.
In a substantial setback for the industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a ruling by the trial judge to enforce a copyright subpoena.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates had approved use of the subpoenas, forcing Verizon Communications Inc. to turn over names and addresses for at least four Internet subscribers. Since then, Verizon has identified dozens of its other subscribers to music industry lawyers.
The appeals court said one of the arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America "borders upon the silly," rejecting the trade group's claims that Verizon was responsible for downloaded music because such data files traverse its network.
Verizon had challenged the constitutionality of the subpoenas under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The law, passed years before downloading music over peer-to-peer Internet services became popular, compels Internet providers to turn over the names of suspected pirates upon subpoena from any U.S. District Court clerk's office. A judge's signature is not required. Critics contend judges ought to be more directly involved.
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet."
I went down to the Verizon office on Nov. 24, the first day of LNP. I switched two phone numbers from Sprint and was all done in about 1 hour. The actual switch happened about 2 hours later. It was very painless!
My old Sprint phones still display the old phone number when I turn them on-- I haven't delved into how to completely wipe them yet. I did call Sprint to make sure that they had terminated my account. They had.
Tourism is a commercially viable business. Don't think that just because they are not orbiting communications satellites that there is no money to be made!
If you had, oh say, $750K in your investment account wouldn't you be tempted to take a ride for $100K?
Most EEs who have been around a while remember the article that Bob Pease of National Semiconductor wrote on the Taguchi optimization of a power supply. It can be found here.
If Taguchi works as well on spam we can just about forget another spam control methods!
Based on whois, Digital Convergence and museumcrystals.com share the same address. Museumcrystals is registered to JJ Philyaw.
JJ Phylaw's email address is emailjovan@yahoo.com.
The email for JH Pulitzer is also emailjovan@yahoo.com!
Here are the whois records:
Registrant: DIGITALCONVERGENCE, INC (DIGITALCONVERGENCE4-DOM)
9101 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 600
DALLAS, TX 75231-5926
US
Domain Name: DIGITALCONVERGENCE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Mathews, Dave (DM205) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DaveMathews.com
213 Missing Way
Dallas, TX 75222
530-684-9988 (FAX) 530-579-7759
Technical Contact:
Network Operations (NO59-ORG) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DigitalConvergence
9101 N Central EXPY STE 600
Dallas, TX 75231
USA
530-684-9988
Fax- 530-579-7759
Domain Name.......... museumcrystals.com
Creation Date........ 2002-02-07
Registration Date.... 2002-02-07
Expiry Date.......... 2003-02-07
Organisation Name.... J. Jovan Philyaw
Organisation Address. 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Dallas
Organisation Address. 75231
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... J. Jovan Philyaw
Admin Address........ 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Dallas
Admin Address........ 75231
Admin Address........ TX
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... emailjovan@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... 214-292-6000
Admin Fax............
Registrant: J. Hutton Pulitzer (JYDPHRZAUD)
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
Domain Name: JHUTTONPULITZER.COM
Administrative Contact:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (CWGSDZSMJO) emailjovan@yahoo.com
J. Hutton Pulitzer
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
972.383.1344 fax: 123 123 1234
Slashdot Mirror
Michael Connelly knows how to write a police procedural that you can't put down. His main line of novels feature a hard boiled LA detective named Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch. Bosch has his own code and is forever finding crooked cops. He has, literally, a love-hate relationship with the Feds - he has bedded at least two FBI agents, one of whom he married. Get the whole Connelly opus and you won't stop reading until you've been through them all.
What is the patent number of the alleged patent?
United SERVICES Automobile Association
Baer and Fox??? Sounds like a fairy tale!
[reminisce] Back in 1972 I did the first uP project at Cornell using a 4004. No assembler, no emulator, not even a PROM programmer. Just a list of op-codes and a sheet of paper that I wrote H or L for every bit of the PROM. That got sent to a electronics distributor that would program the part. Unfortunately, I can't claim to have done the first OPERATING uP project at Cornell! [/reminisce]
Certainly gives a new slant on Blue Screen of Death...
The two things tech products that seem to have been lost due to marketing pressures are:
The credit card sized scientific calculator. Casio used to sell some nice ones...
A decent digital wrist watch. The combo analog / digital watches were even better.
University researchers make money by getting grants from industry and government. They get these grants by getting publicity in the business press. This is just a plea for money.
Nothing to see here, move along...
Monitorsdirect.com WAS a great place to buy LCD monitors. I had 5 on order from them in December when I received an email saying that my orders had been canceled with no charge to me. Subsequently it appears that they are Out Of Business. Sigh...
Philips actually had a finished LCos TV set ready for production. I saw it at a compliance testing lab that they use last January. I am not sure what kept them from marketing the set but I know that the lab tech said that it had problems with its RF emissions.
I got home hoping to share this with my son only to find it evaporated.
Anyone have links to mirrors? I guess I can reconstruct it from my cache but I'm lazy...
Actually Emerson Electric http://www.emersonelectric.com/(not the crap electronics Emerson) made those window fans and is one of the largest electric motor suppliers to this day!
It's getting very tiring reading the overtly partisan comments on shashdot. I would like to remind the everyone that there is an approximate even split in American public opinion on politics.
Being an election year means a long slog though the BS on both sides. Please let this be a retreat from it instead of an amplification of it.
Off of my soapbox now...
Has anyone downloaded and installed Picasa? As part of the install I get a ZoneAlarm alert saying sp7zFh5.exe is trying to use Picasa to access the internet.
I think it is questionable coding practice to have obscurely named subprocesses running around wanting to get to the net.
The animation shows the machine making a framed structure on a prepared lot. Stick framing can already be done in a day (albeit with a few sets of human hands involved). The thing that takes time in building a house is the wiring, plumbing, hvac, and finishing.
I don't see much future for this until they can automate some of these functions.
RTFA "over the last two years on the program... has generated a total of $43 million in new tax revenue and $6 million in refunds. (Yes, the system identifies overpayers, too.)"
It has really bugged me that there are no more really small scientific calculators. Casio Fx-68 is the last one that I know of. I have one but am hesitant to use it since it can't be replaced.
It's a shame that small, metal cased calculators are a thing of the past.
They are concerned about Otto's health.
Wanda
This just in:
From The Associated Press:
Dec 19, 10:45 AM EST
Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers
By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Friday rejected efforts by the recording industry to compel the nation's Internet providers to identify subscribers accused of illegally distributing music online.
In a substantial setback for the industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a ruling by the trial judge to enforce a copyright subpoena.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates had approved use of the subpoenas, forcing Verizon Communications Inc. to turn over names and addresses for at least four Internet subscribers. Since then, Verizon has identified dozens of its other subscribers to music industry lawyers.
The appeals court said one of the arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America "borders upon the silly," rejecting the trade group's claims that Verizon was responsible for downloaded music because such data files traverse its network.
Verizon had challenged the constitutionality of the subpoenas under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The law, passed years before downloading music over peer-to-peer Internet services became popular, compels Internet providers to turn over the names of suspected pirates upon subpoena from any U.S. District Court clerk's office. A judge's signature is not required. Critics contend judges ought to be more directly involved.
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet."
My old Sprint phones still display the old phone number when I turn them on-- I haven't delved into how to completely wipe them yet. I did call Sprint to make sure that they had terminated my account. They had.
I grew up in central Florida. Disney World wasn't opened until 1974 so it would be hard for MTWR to have closed in 1967!
If you had, oh say, $750K in your investment account wouldn't you be tempted to take a ride for $100K?
If Taguchi works as well on spam we can just about forget another spam control methods!
No, all gamma radiation is NOT alike. That's like saying all radio waves are alike. Read up on nuclear spectroscopy and then make a useful statement!
Based on whois, Digital Convergence and museumcrystals.com share the same address. Museumcrystals is registered to JJ Philyaw.
JJ Phylaw's email address is emailjovan@yahoo.com.
The email for JH Pulitzer is also emailjovan@yahoo.com!
Here are the whois records:
Registrant:
DIGITALCONVERGENCE, INC (DIGITALCONVERGENCE4-DOM)
9101 N CENTRAL EXPY STE 600
DALLAS, TX 75231-5926
US
Domain Name: DIGITALCONVERGENCE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Mathews, Dave (DM205) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DaveMathews.com
213 Missing Way
Dallas, TX 75222
530-684-9988 (FAX) 530-579-7759
Technical Contact:
Network Operations (NO59-ORG) dmathews@HOTMAIL.COM
DigitalConvergence
9101 N Central EXPY STE 600
Dallas, TX 75231
USA
530-684-9988
Fax- 530-579-7759
Domain Name.......... museumcrystals.com
Creation Date........ 2002-02-07
Registration Date.... 2002-02-07
Expiry Date.......... 2003-02-07
Organisation Name.... J. Jovan Philyaw
Organisation Address. 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Dallas
Organisation Address. 75231
Organisation Address. TX
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... J. Jovan Philyaw
Admin Address........ 9101 N. Central Expy 6th Floor
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Dallas
Admin Address........ 75231
Admin Address........ TX
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... emailjovan@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... 214-292-6000
Admin Fax............
Registrant:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (JYDPHRZAUD)
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
Domain Name: JHUTTONPULITZER.COM
Administrative Contact:
J. Hutton Pulitzer (CWGSDZSMJO) emailjovan@yahoo.com
J. Hutton Pulitzer
5001 Spring Valley Road, 400E
Dallas, TX 75244-3910
US
972.383.1344 fax: 123 123 1234