Cheap domains let them drop a few thousand dollars on a one-time credit card and keep recycling them. That's where they get things like "vniht698.com" and just keep recycling them without paying. Supposedly ICANN finally made the 20 cent fee non-refundable so that in lots of 1000+ it starts costing non-trivial money.
But that's the game. Democrats get to change things in short, big bursts. Then the Republicans stab them in the back in the midterms. Same thing happened with Clinton. Obama did good with the short time he had... that becomes the problem, trying to rate a president in 100 days, then calling them a failure with 1361 more days to work.
Where were the grand filibusters when Cheney and the PNAC rammed through PATRIOT and created !00k more government jobs in a 6 month period? Were were the Republicans when THEIR President pissed away $100B per year on Iraq, and why did they allow him to spend the money "off the budget" (which was already hugely in the red. they Borrowed nearly ALL of the money for Afghanistan & Iraq)
If you look at Wikipedia, the greatest spending has been under Republican Presidents with Republican Congresses. They lose all their "principals" about small government and balancing the budget and spend it all on business, crime & prisons, and wars. Republicans are only "conservative" when there's a Democrat around. Really think about it, Republicans stood the Democrats against the Wall on supporting the first war and then again on another one. Sure the Democrats voted too... any dissension or even asking for fiscal responsibility from the President got them called traitors. Yet the Republicans wouldn't budge an inch, or even bring reasonable ideas to the table over health care.
In reality both sides want to spend money, lots of money. Democrats would just rather spend the $700+ Billion on making citizens well, education, hell they could give it away. Not on blowing up some other country... really think about that... We spend more money in a month on war than NASA's entire budget for several years... we could buy several Apollo programs for that much money, or a new space shuttle more than every 30 years.
Hint: they're real aim is to donate to the WINNER, they could care less democrat or republican... they have enough political/economic power to get their way anyway.
At my work we have gone through a lot of stuff related to 5S for organizing and making workplaces efficient. A lot of that applies to being at home too. The biggest part is having the discipline to keep "everything in it's place", to leave your desk empty every single night before going home. It's harder to do at home with kids and such but it can be done (I saw it on the internet!)
At work I use a similar thing to keep track of things I'm asked to do. I date the pages with items asked to do and throw them away when all the items are complete. My company uses a ticket tracking system, so once all the information is copied from the notebook and emails into the ticket the rest is junk. When the notebook runs out of new pages I copy the handful of remaining items to a new book, decide if they're useful or completed and move on.
Google COULD have a field day with the networks if they wanted to... it would be really funny! They could make a switch to flip a different user agent every day of the week. (bonus points if they started using old Internet Explorer or Safari tags!!) Google could keep this up for ages if they wanted, it would be kind of fun.
it works good for things like spaceships that don't actually change much, and because it uses master-painted models and practical lighting allows really complex shots. But not so well for many moving things... like a bunch of dancing monsters.. you're still back to moving each one by hand.
That's the type of stuff young animators want to make, and it is way too hard for a hobby budget. The biggest problem I have with the kids stuff is matching the frames. It's not like we're building rigging and steady cams here. It would be nice if a program let you put some small object just out of frame and match it for size, position, tilt, zoom, etc as well as color and light balance between all the frames. That alone would make things 10x easier for the beginning amateur. Just getting frames queued up for iMovie would be a HUGE improvement, although it allows 24fps now so if they allow a time slice that small it might be usable.
I'm going to surf the comments for the other 10 apps people use that the NYT has no idea of. (slashdot is "long tail" in action)
Compare the amount of usefulness per dollar input versus people that buy boxed solutions? That's the real measure, yes there is big money there, but could you find a Software Company that could do the same thing with the same funds for the same Quality? There's a reason big software companies are willing to throw Apache and Linux developers big money because no single one of those companies could do ALL of what the big OSS projects do in their own house... and they definitely couldn't do it for the amount of money they donate.
Taiwan passed the same law a few years ago, because Asians go thru phones like shoes they had stacks and stacks of old chargers and wanted it to end a while ago. The side effect is that all the Taiwanese OEMS have had to switch over anyway and they're not going to make something "just" for export outside Asia, that would be a joke.
because most modern WinPCs allow USB to take up to 1000mA now, as long as they don't overload things. Of course that also causes goofy issues on "whitebox" machines because people that buy cheap hardware don't realize what's going on. I have machines a few years old that won't charge an iPod because the iTunes software was needed to trick the USB into allowing the higher amps for iPods to charge, it was a real problem, but everybody basically set all their ports for Apple's little trick and moved on.
it has a circuit that really wants up to a whole 1000mA. If the charger won't respond to the signal, then the iDevice stays in "trickle" mode.
It's one of those things that is technically "standard" as USB is only SUPPOSED to provide 500mA max (so you don't fry the motherboard), but Apple calibrates EVERYTHING (even the ports on their laptops) to stick strictly to the standard, but then allows their OWN stuff to cheat with a bit of wiring. Motorola phones do the same thing too, even though they have a proper mini-USB port the devices won't properly charge unless the charger responds to their own little catch. Once everybody figured out what the trick was it became a non-issue and most generic chargers compensate for all the little tricks now.
Except they blocked INTERNET CUSTOMERS of that same company's IP block from watching those shows on HULU as well.
Really think about what they did....
Net Neutrality is gone, and now that internet access has settled to just a few companies, the content players have the cards again. We need to get rid of the "telcom" vs "data" idea of "fairness" and separate all the "wire" providers from the content providers. Also, take the time to consolidate the artificial distinction of "telephone" versus "cable"... just past the box outside your house, it's all "the internet" and has been for close to 20 years now... they just don't want YOU to know that. Just like when the Baby Bells were prohibited from selling "services" that would compete with their customers, things like news, reporting, services, content that for a long time the telcos were prohibited from offering. Those laws are the basis for what we called "Net Neutrality" back in the 90's and 00's.
except the company's business is selling the software to all the branches. They are probably big enough in with the Pentagon the CIA can't just make them roll over. They probably also have government contracts to SELL the product to other agencies, and those agencies won't let the product just be taken away, so the CIA was just being dicks because they're not used to following the rules.
Not quite. Typically they show up and claim the item as a important for "national security" just like they do for people in advanced mathematics, cryptography, fire arms design, ect. Now that the CIA has the case in court they will probably show up with a check, tell the judge it is "reasonable" and tell the judge they want the product and all the software tools, for "national security". The company will have their work gutted and the Company will have it's software.
But that is the ORIGINAL MODEL for the University... the students hired the teachers... they weren't cattle to be passed around.
To be honest, most university undergrad degrees have less "hands on" instructor time than the degree you would get from Phoenix. You can sit in a class with 100+ other students to learn 200-300 level classes just as well as sitting at home in the quiet and learn them. The whole problem is that the University "System" exists to support the PhD level work which (combine with sports teams) brings in the Executive "business". Undergrads are just there to fulfill their State funding requirements and provide a "fee" base to buy research toys with.
The majority of workers are employed by small business (that's less that 75 employees) and modern universities have almost nothing to offer regular business owners anymore. Would a small business want somebody from university or somebody from Phoenix, Baker, Davenport, ITT, etc. Do YOU want to learn from a professor that's sat in a lab for 20 years (but worked for Nasa launching the Moon rocket) or do you want to learn from a Sales guy that teaches in between meetings with customers right now? Or how about learning business from a guy that actually started his own business and uses it to feed his family?
don't forget that CRTs cost more than triple to SHIP. For vendors like Dell that's a big chunk of change. Also for all shippers an LCD in packaging is 5 to 10 times less volume than an equal-sized CRT. I have one of the 30" Samsung CRTs with ATSC tuners from 5 years ago and it's nice. It's a bit too small to appreciate the 1080i (and like I said before cable, etc isn't "really" HD anyway) but it's got to be 75 pounds to lift... I can do it myself, but it's dangerous. An equivalent-sized LCD can be comfortably picked up in one hand... It's the difference between USPS and Freight delivery charges.
the issue is that LCD manufacturing companies are having a hard time selling 75MHz 30" cinema displays at 2500+ resolution. Even the biggest "retail" HDTVs are still "only" 1920x1080... which is why they've become so cheap... you can get a more complex screen in a laptop. 3D is an attempt to make "expensive" TVs now that Broadcast is pinned to 1080i there's really no great need for more for another 20 years at least. Ultimately, nobody is really using all of their 1080p TVs anyway... Cable's and Satellite "HD" is only about 1/2 Broadcast quality due to compression. The only true "HD" is Broadcast and Blu-Ray. Frankly nobody has the storage space for very many movies at 15-19 Mb per second but that's "real HDTV", hence 90% of content people are going for isn't going to tax their 720p sets, let alone 1080p @ 120 MHz+. People also don't have the pipes for that kind of stuff to download.... you'd get about 10 hours of "real" HD for your Cable's 250GB download limit. The people willing to pay $100+ for high speed pipes and buy a $2000+ TV are pretty slim pickings... let alone have the skills to actually get 1080p content beyond blu-ray.
Umm... Republicans were majority (all be it close for several terms) for 6 Sessions in a row. It's the same Republicans that beat up Clinton, the same ones Cheney ruled with an Iron Fist when Bush was elected. For the first 6 years of Bush's Presidency there was an uncontested Republican control of BOTH the Executive and Legislative branches.
remember too, that the cargo hold may be unpressurized... which means at 35,000 feet the Lithium-ion batteries are going to leak hydrogen causing more of a fire hazard as they're usually not rated for operation above 10,000 feet and the chemical reactions go all wonky.
that's exactly why Gandhi used that tactic though. You can't fight armed soldiers at all... they will just keep bringing bigger guns. They way of change is to make the people at the top out for what they really are.. make them CHOOSE to be men or monsters and make it clear to the public it's a CHOICE they made, not for necessity or security.
It's Cheney's (because Bush wasn't really in charge) legacy that "the Party" has become almost violently "with us or against us" in terms of the far right tail wagging the people in the middle to "choose sides"... there can be no "compromise"! I think the Republicans will split in 10 years or less. The "big media" is more "Republican" than ever... because owners and editors have always been conservative... it's just "man on the street" reporters that want sense of it all that are the "flaming liberals". Cheney's White House did a "cleaning house" job on the media under the guise of "security"... up to framing several men for treason to prove a point. The Party leaders knew any Republican was toast... after all they controlled both houses for 6 of 8 years Bush was President... they new the public had to let off steam, they are thinking War strategy, setting the President of the United States up to fail before he was even elected... they're dogs that need put down.
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Cheap domains let them drop a few thousand dollars on a one-time credit card and keep recycling them. That's where they get things like "vniht698.com" and just keep recycling them without paying. Supposedly ICANN finally made the 20 cent fee non-refundable so that in lots of 1000+ it starts costing non-trivial money.
But that's the game. Democrats get to change things in short, big bursts. Then the Republicans stab them in the back in the midterms. Same thing happened with Clinton. Obama did good with the short time he had... that becomes the problem, trying to rate a president in 100 days, then calling them a failure with 1361 more days to work.
Where were the grand filibusters when Cheney and the PNAC rammed through PATRIOT and created !00k more government jobs in a 6 month period? Were were the Republicans when THEIR President pissed away $100B per year on Iraq, and why did they allow him to spend the money "off the budget" (which was already hugely in the red. they Borrowed nearly ALL of the money for Afghanistan & Iraq)
If you look at Wikipedia, the greatest spending has been under Republican Presidents with Republican Congresses. They lose all their "principals" about small government and balancing the budget and spend it all on business, crime & prisons, and wars. Republicans are only "conservative" when there's a Democrat around. Really think about it, Republicans stood the Democrats against the Wall on supporting the first war and then again on another one. Sure the Democrats voted too... any dissension or even asking for fiscal responsibility from the President got them called traitors. Yet the Republicans wouldn't budge an inch, or even bring reasonable ideas to the table over health care.
In reality both sides want to spend money, lots of money. Democrats would just rather spend the $700+ Billion on making citizens well, education, hell they could give it away. Not on blowing up some other country... really think about that... We spend more money in a month on war than NASA's entire budget for several years... we could buy several Apollo programs for that much money, or a new space shuttle more than every 30 years.
Hint: they're real aim is to donate to the WINNER, they could care less democrat or republican... they have enough political/economic power to get their way anyway.
At my work we have gone through a lot of stuff related to 5S for organizing and making workplaces efficient. A lot of that applies to being at home too. The biggest part is having the discipline to keep "everything in it's place", to leave your desk empty every single night before going home. It's harder to do at home with kids and such but it can be done (I saw it on the internet!)
At work I use a similar thing to keep track of things I'm asked to do. I date the pages with items asked to do and throw them away when all the items are complete. My company uses a ticket tracking system, so once all the information is copied from the notebook and emails into the ticket the rest is junk. When the notebook runs out of new pages I copy the handful of remaining items to a new book, decide if they're useful or completed and move on.
organization gives your brain time for other things!
Google COULD have a field day with the networks if they wanted to... it would be really funny! They could make a switch to flip a different user agent every day of the week. (bonus points if they started using old Internet Explorer or Safari tags!!) Google could keep this up for ages if they wanted, it would be kind of fun.
it works good for things like spaceships that don't actually change much, and because it uses master-painted models and practical lighting allows really complex shots. But not so well for many moving things... like a bunch of dancing monsters.. you're still back to moving each one by hand.
Um...Klay World anybody? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqjJzuaNSE
That's the type of stuff young animators want to make, and it is way too hard for a hobby budget. The biggest problem I have with the kids stuff is matching the frames. It's not like we're building rigging and steady cams here. It would be nice if a program let you put some small object just out of frame and match it for size, position, tilt, zoom, etc as well as color and light balance between all the frames. That alone would make things 10x easier for the beginning amateur. Just getting frames queued up for iMovie would be a HUGE improvement, although it allows 24fps now so if they allow a time slice that small it might be usable.
I'm going to surf the comments for the other 10 apps people use that the NYT has no idea of. (slashdot is "long tail" in action)
"IT'S A TRAP"
They both have their naughty bits molded into permanent undershorts... They can only "bump" the bits.
Compare the amount of usefulness per dollar input versus people that buy boxed solutions? That's the real measure, yes there is big money there, but could you find a Software Company that could do the same thing with the same funds for the same Quality? There's a reason big software companies are willing to throw Apache and Linux developers big money because no single one of those companies could do ALL of what the big OSS projects do in their own house... and they definitely couldn't do it for the amount of money they donate.
Taiwan passed the same law a few years ago, because Asians go thru phones like shoes they had stacks and stacks of old chargers and wanted it to end a while ago. The side effect is that all the Taiwanese OEMS have had to switch over anyway and they're not going to make something "just" for export outside Asia, that would be a joke.
because most modern WinPCs allow USB to take up to 1000mA now, as long as they don't overload things. Of course that also causes goofy issues on "whitebox" machines because people that buy cheap hardware don't realize what's going on. I have machines a few years old that won't charge an iPod because the iTunes software was needed to trick the USB into allowing the higher amps for iPods to charge, it was a real problem, but everybody basically set all their ports for Apple's little trick and moved on.
it has a circuit that really wants up to a whole 1000mA. If the charger won't respond to the signal, then the iDevice stays in "trickle" mode.
It's one of those things that is technically "standard" as USB is only SUPPOSED to provide 500mA max (so you don't fry the motherboard), but Apple calibrates EVERYTHING (even the ports on their laptops) to stick strictly to the standard, but then allows their OWN stuff to cheat with a bit of wiring. Motorola phones do the same thing too, even though they have a proper mini-USB port the devices won't properly charge unless the charger responds to their own little catch. Once everybody figured out what the trick was it became a non-issue and most generic chargers compensate for all the little tricks now.
Except they blocked INTERNET CUSTOMERS of that same company's IP block from watching those shows on HULU as well.
Really think about what they did....
Net Neutrality is gone, and now that internet access has settled to just a few companies, the content players have the cards again. We need to get rid of the "telcom" vs "data" idea of "fairness" and separate all the "wire" providers from the content providers. Also, take the time to consolidate the artificial distinction of "telephone" versus "cable"... just past the box outside your house, it's all "the internet" and has been for close to 20 years now... they just don't want YOU to know that. Just like when the Baby Bells were prohibited from selling "services" that would compete with their customers, things like news, reporting, services, content that for a long time the telcos were prohibited from offering. Those laws are the basis for what we called "Net Neutrality" back in the 90's and 00's.
except the company's business is selling the software to all the branches. They are probably big enough in with the Pentagon the CIA can't just make them roll over. They probably also have government contracts to SELL the product to other agencies, and those agencies won't let the product just be taken away, so the CIA was just being dicks because they're not used to following the rules.
Not quite. Typically they show up and claim the item as a important for "national security" just like they do for people in advanced mathematics, cryptography, fire arms design, ect. Now that the CIA has the case in court they will probably show up with a check, tell the judge it is "reasonable" and tell the judge they want the product and all the software tools, for "national security". The company will have their work gutted and the Company will have it's software.
But that is the ORIGINAL MODEL for the University... the students hired the teachers... they weren't cattle to be passed around.
To be honest, most university undergrad degrees have less "hands on" instructor time than the degree you would get from Phoenix. You can sit in a class with 100+ other students to learn 200-300 level classes just as well as sitting at home in the quiet and learn them. The whole problem is that the University "System" exists to support the PhD level work which (combine with sports teams) brings in the Executive "business". Undergrads are just there to fulfill their State funding requirements and provide a "fee" base to buy research toys with.
The majority of workers are employed by small business (that's less that 75 employees) and modern universities have almost nothing to offer regular business owners anymore. Would a small business want somebody from university or somebody from Phoenix, Baker, Davenport, ITT, etc. Do YOU want to learn from a professor that's sat in a lab for 20 years (but worked for Nasa launching the Moon rocket) or do you want to learn from a Sales guy that teaches in between meetings with customers right now? Or how about learning business from a guy that actually started his own business and uses it to feed his family?
don't forget that CRTs cost more than triple to SHIP. For vendors like Dell that's a big chunk of change. Also for all shippers an LCD in packaging is 5 to 10 times less volume than an equal-sized CRT. I have one of the 30" Samsung CRTs with ATSC tuners from 5 years ago and it's nice. It's a bit too small to appreciate the 1080i (and like I said before cable, etc isn't "really" HD anyway) but it's got to be 75 pounds to lift... I can do it myself, but it's dangerous. An equivalent-sized LCD can be comfortably picked up in one hand... It's the difference between USPS and Freight delivery charges.
the issue is that LCD manufacturing companies are having a hard time selling 75MHz 30" cinema displays at 2500+ resolution. Even the biggest "retail" HDTVs are still "only" 1920x1080... which is why they've become so cheap... you can get a more complex screen in a laptop. 3D is an attempt to make "expensive" TVs now that Broadcast is pinned to 1080i there's really no great need for more for another 20 years at least. Ultimately, nobody is really using all of their 1080p TVs anyway... Cable's and Satellite "HD" is only about 1/2 Broadcast quality due to compression. The only true "HD" is Broadcast and Blu-Ray. Frankly nobody has the storage space for very many movies at 15-19 Mb per second but that's "real HDTV", hence 90% of content people are going for isn't going to tax their 720p sets, let alone 1080p @ 120 MHz+. People also don't have the pipes for that kind of stuff to download.... you'd get about 10 hours of "real" HD for your Cable's 250GB download limit. The people willing to pay $100+ for high speed pipes and buy a $2000+ TV are pretty slim pickings... let alone have the skills to actually get 1080p content beyond blu-ray.
Umm... Republicans were majority (all be it close for several terms) for 6 Sessions in a row. It's the same Republicans that beat up Clinton, the same ones Cheney ruled with an Iron Fist when Bush was elected. For the first 6 years of Bush's Presidency there was an uncontested Republican control of BOTH the Executive and Legislative branches.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
saying the Government did "nothing" but keep the lights on and chairs warm... that's a "bad" thing???
remember too, that the cargo hold may be unpressurized... which means at 35,000 feet the Lithium-ion batteries are going to leak hydrogen causing more of a fire hazard as they're usually not rated for operation above 10,000 feet and the chemical reactions go all wonky.
that's exactly why Gandhi used that tactic though. You can't fight armed soldiers at all... they will just keep bringing bigger guns. They way of change is to make the people at the top out for what they really are.. make them CHOOSE to be men or monsters and make it clear to the public it's a CHOICE they made, not for necessity or security.
It's Cheney's (because Bush wasn't really in charge) legacy that "the Party" has become almost violently "with us or against us" in terms of the far right tail wagging the people in the middle to "choose sides"... there can be no "compromise"! I think the Republicans will split in 10 years or less. The "big media" is more "Republican" than ever... because owners and editors have always been conservative... it's just "man on the street" reporters that want sense of it all that are the "flaming liberals". Cheney's White House did a "cleaning house" job on the media under the guise of "security"... up to framing several men for treason to prove a point. The Party leaders knew any Republican was toast... after all they controlled both houses for 6 of 8 years Bush was President... they new the public had to let off steam, they are thinking War strategy, setting the President of the United States up to fail before he was even elected... they're dogs that need put down.