OK, so you distill wine, it becomes brandy. You distill beer - a beverage made by yeast-fermenting malt sugars fortified with hops (and without said hops, it's not beer, it's basically a barleywine) - and what to call it?
Name a state that does not have some sort of periodic inhospitable condition, including natural disasters.
Besides, keep in mind that they said "Pacific Northwest". As in Seattle. And they note it's the Cascadia zone, which extends to Canada. And, by coincidence, northern California. This is pretty much along the western states.
Frankly, having grown up in California and now living in Seattle, I can deal with earthquakes - most of what they cause tends to be very mild widespread wide-scatter (emphasis on scatter) panic.
I'd rather live on the west coast than in, say, Pella Iowa. Not only are there twisters, but there is also little to do unless you're a dairy farmer.
(Incidentally, I left California for another problem that isn't so much a disaster: little to no opportunity for someone of my skills.)
In your case, by posting, one merely grants copyright to Slashdot - but you don't lose it. All it is, by definition, is "right to copy". Now if the publishers would figure out that it is not a big stick to wield (which will just piss people off), we might suss this whole debacle.
Part of copyright is that one should be watching out for their own material, and have any documentation to back it up. While many people do so as a courtesy, it is generally not the responsibility of somebody else to make sure that material they are not responsible for does not wind up in places it doesn't belong.
You know, I really hope that he does not test this using the waters of the Puget Sound, which is stupidly close to where he lives - the greater Seattle area. Besides, it's not like we don't already have enough clouds around here.
Like your take on the EVA suit. Moveover, though, if I were to design it, the wearer would have to be as mobile as they would be if they were in street clothes - currently existing suits don't exactly allow this.
Problem with such an idea is that the combined concept would involve something that is a) properly insulating against cold, vacuum, and radiation, and b) primarily consists of a spandex bodysuit. I don't think technology quite exists at this point that neatly combines the two.
As logistically goofy as it sounds, one can actually get multiple SIM cards, and just do a seasonal suspension on the account depending on where and how long they will be out of the country. You'll want to go GSM for this one, though.
Also, if Verizon can suspend the service, you should be able to get the CDMA carrier up in Canada to register the ESN of the device, since you're currently running Verizon. Check up there to find out the details. Again, look forward to seasonal suspensions.
Above all, TALK TO VERIZON and check your options.
As near as I can tell, your only hazard is if you come in direct physical contact with the transmitter antennas. RF burns are no fun, so don't do that.
Beyond that, while the frequency is in the range of what is used to, say, cook a hot dog in your microwave oven, keep in mind that a modern microwave oven will typically "transmit" over 1 KW of power. A cell broadcast tower does roughly 2% of this, as per was pointed out above.
Yanno, it's funny.
I just posted the similar question - this in not so many words. If people are so up in arms about how universal healthcare in the only first world nation that doesn't have it is going to curve our spines, infect our minds, and stop us from winning the war, they need to come up with a better solution.
One guy had the balls to tell me to either go get a different job or to buy my own insurance.
First, a note - if you just need a curses or other CLI based interface, theoretically, any PDA device or PDA phone should work.
Palm Tungsten or TX devices work OK, and Blazer works decently on the "mobile" version of King County (WA) Library's online catalog. It has a time parsing the full website however. Tungsten E2 devices run about $150 on Ebay. Note, too, that Tungstens and Tungsten E2s require a device to be added on through the SD card port on top to achieve wifi - beyond that, the line I think has inbuilt wifi.
Windows Mobile devices work OK, but Pocket IE is going to have the same issues parsing sites that Blazer does on the Palm devices.
From there, the Nokia tablets work incredibly well, and parse web pages better than the above PDA devices.
Going up in price, of course, you have the newer web-enabled phones - T-Mobile offers the G1, Samsung Behold and Memoir (the latter of which is just a Behold with a good res camera stapled to it), and other carriers will offer similar devices. Note, though, that at this point we're entering into the realm of cellphones - so this is probably going to be more than you need, especially since most libraries that I know of frown upon people using their cellphone inside their buildings.
Didn't mention the iPhone (aw, dammit!) because the keyboard interface...well, it's not a full keyboard, it's a keyboard-like interface that you would require one finger for. Two and that means that you have dropped the phone, put it on a table, or are good with your index and middle fingers. The iPod Touch is right out in that regard - the iPhone is basically a iPod Touch with a GSM phone in it.
Don't put anything on the net that you wouldn't want your own mother to see.
If you make a career off of porn and your mom understands this, that's fine. But if you're going to put a picture on your Cryspace page that has you giving oral sex to somebody, or talk about your deranged beliefs that you're really some anime character that's been killed and reincarnated, well, as fascinating as some people would find this, you've just engaged in a nice friendly career limiting move. The former shows you as irresponsible, the latter shows you as creepy.
Yeah, but figure that with the Iphone, you unlock it and change carriers, and you get a good, stiff shunning from Apple. If you do this with the G1, well, it'll probably work on EDGE.
Well, this is fine, and all, but what kind of extensibility are you looking for? Is it just going to do email, and that's it? OK, fine, a PC with postfix will work. Do you need it to do more, such as backup and deployment of stuff you find on an exchange server? OK, fine, Exchange, evolution data server, things of that nature. Google can fit the bill. Need it to talk to windows mobile devs? Exchange. Done. Maybe evolution, dunno. Want open source? Evolution, done.
Look, expandability is great, but your posts are amazingly vague here. What are you looking to do with this thing?
One thing I've seen is that this guy (check his FAQ for this domain) won't sell his, but will lease it for a nominal very large fee. I think this is what keeps him from running afoul of any anti-squatting regulation, and still allows him to offer his services for a fee.
I'm willing to bet that DVD-R{W,OM} will still be at least readable in 25 years, for the simple reason that, while the connector interface for the hardware will change, the protocols probably won't - so even if you get some . That said, the other posters are right - never underestimate the archival power of dead trees.
So this, then, if approved, will have the now much maligned SCO scontinuing, most likely - just not at the hands of the litigious Darl McBride.
You know what? I kind of hope this gets approved. McBride's name is already mud, so he doesn't deserve to be with this company or running it. Some of the board have already left. (Is Sontag still there?) Basically, this would be a wise business and bankruptcy decision - resuscitate the company, but resuscitate it without those responsible for running it into the ground.
This comes back, then, to the pursuit of the legal claims. IANAL, but checking on things, just because they're "pursuing" them doesn't mean they are going to attempt to pursue them to an end that is in their favor (i.e., the original SCO vs. IBM case that brought this up in the first place), more properly it means that they're likely going to merely weigh their options and see if it's worth going in on. What I predict is that, if approved, the new SCO will settle with Novell, drop their claims against IBM, scuttle the SCOSource program, and focus on what they were doing in the first place. What they do with Unix or Linux dev is anybody's guess.
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OK, so you distill wine, it becomes brandy. You distill beer - a beverage made by yeast-fermenting malt sugars fortified with hops (and without said hops, it's not beer, it's basically a barleywine) - and what to call it?
Besides, keep in mind that they said "Pacific Northwest". As in Seattle. And they note it's the Cascadia zone, which extends to Canada. And, by coincidence, northern California. This is pretty much along the western states.
Frankly, having grown up in California and now living in Seattle, I can deal with earthquakes - most of what they cause tends to be very mild widespread wide-scatter (emphasis on scatter) panic.
I'd rather live on the west coast than in, say, Pella Iowa. Not only are there twisters, but there is also little to do unless you're a dairy farmer. (Incidentally, I left California for another problem that isn't so much a disaster: little to no opportunity for someone of my skills.)
In your case, by posting, one merely grants copyright to Slashdot - but you don't lose it. All it is, by definition, is "right to copy". Now if the publishers would figure out that it is not a big stick to wield (which will just piss people off), we might suss this whole debacle.
Part of copyright is that one should be watching out for their own material, and have any documentation to back it up. While many people do so as a courtesy, it is generally not the responsibility of somebody else to make sure that material they are not responsible for does not wind up in places it doesn't belong.
You know, I really hope that he does not test this using the waters of the Puget Sound, which is stupidly close to where he lives - the greater Seattle area. Besides, it's not like we don't already have enough clouds around here.
Problem with such an idea is that the combined concept would involve something that is a) properly insulating against cold, vacuum, and radiation, and b) primarily consists of a spandex bodysuit. I don't think technology quite exists at this point that neatly combines the two.
All they have to do is look at the streets of Seattle, WA, US for good examples.
As logistically goofy as it sounds, one can actually get multiple SIM cards, and just do a seasonal suspension on the account depending on where and how long they will be out of the country. You'll want to go GSM for this one, though. Also, if Verizon can suspend the service, you should be able to get the CDMA carrier up in Canada to register the ESN of the device, since you're currently running Verizon. Check up there to find out the details. Again, look forward to seasonal suspensions. Above all, TALK TO VERIZON and check your options.
Beyond that, while the frequency is in the range of what is used to, say, cook a hot dog in your microwave oven, keep in mind that a modern microwave oven will typically "transmit" over 1 KW of power. A cell broadcast tower does roughly 2% of this, as per was pointed out above.
Yanno, it's funny. I just posted the similar question - this in not so many words. If people are so up in arms about how universal healthcare in the only first world nation that doesn't have it is going to curve our spines, infect our minds, and stop us from winning the war, they need to come up with a better solution. One guy had the balls to tell me to either go get a different job or to buy my own insurance.
Hmm... crab and clam sushi... yummy!
The problem with the girlfriend is that she will be bored, and if he re-draws himself to the game, will find herself a "warcrack widow".
First, a note - if you just need a curses or other CLI based interface, theoretically, any PDA device or PDA phone should work.
Palm Tungsten or TX devices work OK, and Blazer works decently on the "mobile" version of King County (WA) Library's online catalog. It has a time parsing the full website however. Tungsten E2 devices run about $150 on Ebay. Note, too, that Tungstens and Tungsten E2s require a device to be added on through the SD card port on top to achieve wifi - beyond that, the line I think has inbuilt wifi.
Windows Mobile devices work OK, but Pocket IE is going to have the same issues parsing sites that Blazer does on the Palm devices.
From there, the Nokia tablets work incredibly well, and parse web pages better than the above PDA devices.
Going up in price, of course, you have the newer web-enabled phones - T-Mobile offers the G1, Samsung Behold and Memoir (the latter of which is just a Behold with a good res camera stapled to it), and other carriers will offer similar devices. Note, though, that at this point we're entering into the realm of cellphones - so this is probably going to be more than you need, especially since most libraries that I know of frown upon people using their cellphone inside their buildings.
Didn't mention the iPhone (aw, dammit!) because the keyboard interface...well, it's not a full keyboard, it's a keyboard-like interface that you would require one finger for. Two and that means that you have dropped the phone, put it on a table, or are good with your index and middle fingers. The iPod Touch is right out in that regard - the iPhone is basically a iPod Touch with a GSM phone in it.
If you make a career off of porn and your mom understands this, that's fine. But if you're going to put a picture on your Cryspace page that has you giving oral sex to somebody, or talk about your deranged beliefs that you're really some anime character that's been killed and reincarnated, well, as fascinating as some people would find this, you've just engaged in a nice friendly career limiting move. The former shows you as irresponsible, the latter shows you as creepy.
I think I can speak for Pedro when I say... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
People have already mentioned M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead, but then have you also considered piping the output through M-x dispress?
Yeah, but figure that with the Iphone, you unlock it and change carriers, and you get a good, stiff shunning from Apple. If you do this with the G1, well, it'll probably work on EDGE.
Look, expandability is great, but your posts are amazingly vague here. What are you looking to do with this thing?
One thing I've seen is that this guy (check his FAQ for this domain) won't sell his, but will lease it for a nominal very large fee. I think this is what keeps him from running afoul of any anti-squatting regulation, and still allows him to offer his services for a fee.
I'm willing to bet that DVD-R{W,OM} will still be at least readable in 25 years, for the simple reason that, while the connector interface for the hardware will change, the protocols probably won't - so even if you get some . That said, the other posters are right - never underestimate the archival power of dead trees.
OK, that one wins the internet. =) MOD PARENT UP!
Then again, I ain't all that tough either. =)
OK, so if it does reignite, what the hell are we going to do about it? Lob a tac nuke or something? Waitaminit....
You know what? I kind of hope this gets approved. McBride's name is already mud, so he doesn't deserve to be with this company or running it. Some of the board have already left. (Is Sontag still there?) Basically, this would be a wise business and bankruptcy decision - resuscitate the company, but resuscitate it without those responsible for running it into the ground.
This comes back, then, to the pursuit of the legal claims. IANAL, but checking on things, just because they're "pursuing" them doesn't mean they are going to attempt to pursue them to an end that is in their favor (i.e., the original SCO vs. IBM case that brought this up in the first place), more properly it means that they're likely going to merely weigh their options and see if it's worth going in on. What I predict is that, if approved, the new SCO will settle with Novell, drop their claims against IBM, scuttle the SCOSource program, and focus on what they were doing in the first place. What they do with Unix or Linux dev is anybody's guess.
I, for one, didn't see the 10K report until I ran into in on Yahoo. Apparently, there aren't enough of us keeping eyes on PJ. =^_^=