While most apartment complexes "ban" satellite dishes for their tenants, there is an interesting law explained here that in most cases does allow you to have a dish as long as your apartment is facing the right direction and there aren't trees in the way.
As for markets forcing change, with so few entities, all content providers (satellite and cable) look very much alike. Not until the bar to entry is lowered will the invisible hand force change.
Does anyone know of the existence of A4-sized engineering computation pads-those green pads with the back side cross-section grid that show through just enough. I'm a computer engineering student and these things are great for everything!
Totally OT now, but yes, an awesome game that maybe one day someone will pick up and retool for a modern operating system running on a modern computer. Alas, it won't run on my Mac OS X box nor my linux box.
Arthur Yes, I went round to find them yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call much attention to them had you? I man like actually telling anybody or anything!
Prosser The plans were on display.
Arthur Hah, and how many average members of the public are in the habit of casually dropping around to the local planning office of an evening. It's not exactly a noted social venue is it? And even if you had popped in one on the off chance that some raving beurocrat had wanted to knock your house down, the plans weren't exactly immediately obvious to the eye, were they?
Prosser That depends where you were looking.
Arthur I eventually had to go down to the cellar.
Prosser That's the display department.
Arthur With a torch!
Prosser The lights had...probably gone.
Arthur So had the stairs.
Prosser Well, you found the notice, didn't you?
Arthur Yes, it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard!". Ever thought of going into advertising?
I'm sure fire will still lick it pretty good. Until they start adding some of those redwood genes, it'll burn just fine.
I can understand environmentalist's concern that it is one mowing away from spreading (what happens when a golf course goes bankrupt?) so why not also neuter said grass? If it can't reproduce, it won't be going anywhere. There are already many varieties of grass that can't seed, reproducing through runners. A variety like that would not be susceptible to transplantation by birds carrying away seeds...
I actually prefer the separate application to start up. I'm using a Mac running OS X and non-IE-non-Windows browsers don't always put the controls in the right place. For audio, this isn't too much a problem, but video is especially bad. Let's not forget the unavailable double-size or full-screen controls that the stand-alone application has.
If you loose an entire precinct of voters, wouldn't that be a significant fraction of a local race? I know that through redistricting, the results are all guaranteed anyways, but for crying out loud!!!
"From what we have seen so far, we do not believe any of these instances where people voted in precincts they shouldn't have voted in would have affected any of the races," said Steve Rodermund, Orange County's registrar of voters.
I do not live in Orange County and did not get to use their new electronic voting machines, but it seems to me that if each person slides a state-issued ID card or driver's license, the machines could identify the person, make sure they are eligible to vote, and display the proper ballot. The system should check the person's name in a master database for having already voted.
<rant> Take 10 stations or however many you have, toss some wireless networking between them, one base station has the dial-up Internet connection for those polling places that don't have the Internet yet, secure the traffic and you're done! If we can securely have millions of ATM and credit card transactions floating around in cyberspace for banks, surely we can have votes safely cast. From the $1200 units I've seen demonstrated that my county purchased, you could buy a freakin' eMac with Airport. While I'm at it, print a God damn paper receipt for when the thing goes haywire!!! And make it open source! </rant >
Okay, so I know that a client can be built for any platform, but what about the emails that I compose on my cell phone? I can just see the 10 seconds of computations performed by the latest P4 taking hours on my cell phone! Or does no one use cell phones, PDAs, etc to send and receive email?
Let's not forget about those of us who haven't yet purchased our own homes and are stuck in an apartment. Sure, a wired system is best, but I'm not allowed to drill anything. Putting the cables along the baseboard is tacky. Wireless definitely wins here. If I need to transfer something a little larger, I'll run a temporary wire, but that is rare.
Besides, do you really expect the average do-it-yourselfer to pull cable, use a punch down tool, and install jacks? Wireless makes sense again.
Just today I finally got my Bluetooth-enabled wireless mouse to play nicely with my PowerBook Al (the one with the integrated Bluetooth). Gone is the possibility of ripping a poor RF receiver from a USB socket since this mouse talks to the built-in receiver. Logitech failed to produce drivers for the MX-900 on the Mac OS X platform, but the thing is HID compliant and works right out of the box, save the extra buttons. Along comes GamePadCompanion and now all buttons work like a charm.
I'm sitting here typing this on Apple's BT keyboard, using a BT mouse, just as my BT enabled cell phone mutes my iTunes and announces on-screen that I have a phone call and even says who is calling me! Now if I could afford a BT headset I'd be set! It's too bad Bluetooth is dead!
Higher fines have not seemed to reduce the drinking and driving problem. People still drink a little too much, sometimes way too much and drive.
About 6 months ago, I was out at a local restaurant and had a few drinks. Because I wasn't going to drive while intoxicated, I passed my keys to a buddy of mine who hadn't had a thing. As we are heading home while stopped at a red light, a drunk plows into my new car, totaling it. Here I had "done the right thing" and refused to drive drunk myself, only to still end up in an alcohol-related accident. Luckily no one was seriously hurt, but my car was totaled and the guy was uninsured (only had $1500 in uninsured motorist coverage, my mistake). Oh well, on with my idea:
Get caught driving drunk? Crush the car! I think a portable car crusher would work marvelously. What? You are borrowing your friend's car? That'll be a tough one for you to explain to him.
Get caught driving drunk again? Crush the car again, only this time you don't get to climb out before the crushing! No more repeat offenders...
If the car is stolen, I suppose we can't crush it, so let the offender rot in jail instead. Of course there are technical reasons why you can't just crush it on the spot (oil, battery acid, radiator fluid leakage, etc.) but the idea of it still is fun.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet
whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea..."
--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Excellent try, but you just pointed out your unfamiliarity with today's iPod. iPods have been carrying around our address books for quite some time now. You should try one.
If you are going to be doing any more jogging, I've been really happy with my Ogio Metro backpack which I found at eBags.com for around $60. eBags is great because not only do they provide excellent service, but they also have terrific user feedback on all of their products. I'm currently using my bag for my PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15". It won't fit much bigger than the PowerBook though, but it holds my laptop snugly, with lots of padding. The bag also has plenty of extra pockets for my power adapter, extra battery, and all of my school work.
That's great news. If FOX can do that for Family Guy, how about the old favorite M*A*S*H?!? Of course they'd have to do it all CGI, but it could happen...:-D
It appears that they are choosing to use some flavor of Windows as their operating system. Did anyone see their choice? Obviously they can't toss Windows ME or XP on there. So say we throw Windows 2003 Server on there. Still not my choice, but as long as they remember to update it, it will probably work reasonably well (at least until their non-ECC RAM corrupts their data or their non-RAID drive fails).
Last time I checked, Windows 2003 Server was $1100 for only 10 licenses! Configuring a GNU/Linux server is certainly beyond these people so we better give them an XServe.
Yeah, and those 70's and 80's vintage cars seem to come out of accidents looking a whole lot better. Old cars are stronger but certainly not safer.
I was just rear-ended a month ago. The guy totaled my Saturn even though it was *only* a 40 MPH impact (I was at a red light, he was drunk and uninsured). I was able to walk away with no injuries simply because the car took the energy from the impact instead of me.
But instead of needing all the buttons, let the PDAs do what they do well: handwriting recognition! Imagine writing out a textbook-style equation only to have the calculator break it down for you and compute whatever you ask. Seems like it wouldn't be that difficult...
IANAL myself, but I believe the fair use provisions protect such things as a critiquing of a copyrighted work, not simple piracy. Academic institutions are not immune to copyright law nor should they be. They still have to pay the rights for books, multimedia, software, etc that they use. This case isn't really about a legitimate fair use at all. A couple of students outside of class time were downloading music.
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While most apartment complexes "ban" satellite dishes for their tenants, there is an interesting law explained here that in most cases does allow you to have a dish as long as your apartment is facing the right direction and there aren't trees in the way.
As for markets forcing change, with so few entities, all content providers (satellite and cable) look very much alike. Not until the bar to entry is lowered will the invisible hand force change.
Does anyone know of the existence of A4-sized engineering computation pads-those green pads with the back side cross-section grid that show through just enough. I'm a computer engineering student and these things are great for everything!
Totally OT now, but yes, an awesome game that maybe one day someone will pick up and retool for a modern operating system running on a modern computer. Alas, it won't run on my Mac OS X box nor my linux box.
Arthur Yes, I went round to find them yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call much attention to them had you? I man like actually telling anybody or anything!
Prosser The plans were on display.
Arthur Hah, and how many average members of the public are in the habit of casually dropping around to the local planning office of an evening. It's not exactly a noted social venue is it? And even if you had popped in one on the off chance that some raving beurocrat had wanted to knock your house down, the plans weren't exactly immediately obvious to the eye, were they?
Prosser That depends where you were looking.
Arthur I eventually had to go down to the cellar.
Prosser That's the display department.
Arthur With a torch!
Prosser The lights had...probably gone.
Arthur So had the stairs.
Prosser Well, you found the notice, didn't you?
Arthur Yes, it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard!". Ever thought of going into advertising?
I'm sure fire will still lick it pretty good. Until they start adding some of those redwood genes, it'll burn just fine.
I can understand environmentalist's concern that it is one mowing away from spreading (what happens when a golf course goes bankrupt?) so why not also neuter said grass? If it can't reproduce, it won't be going anywhere. There are already many varieties of grass that can't seed, reproducing through runners. A variety like that would not be susceptible to transplantation by birds carrying away seeds...
I actually prefer the separate application to start up. I'm using a Mac running OS X and non-IE-non-Windows browsers don't always put the controls in the right place. For audio, this isn't too much a problem, but video is especially bad. Let's not forget the unavailable double-size or full-screen controls that the stand-alone application has.
If you loose an entire precinct of voters, wouldn't that be a significant fraction of a local race? I know that through redistricting, the results are all guaranteed anyways, but for crying out loud!!!
I do not live in Orange County and did not get to use their new electronic voting machines, but it seems to me that if each person slides a state-issued ID card or driver's license, the machines could identify the person, make sure they are eligible to vote, and display the proper ballot. The system should check the person's name in a master database for having already voted.
<rant> Take 10 stations or however many you have, toss some wireless networking between them, one base station has the dial-up Internet connection for those polling places that don't have the Internet yet, secure the traffic and you're done! If we can securely have millions of ATM and credit card transactions floating around in cyberspace for banks, surely we can have votes safely cast. From the $1200 units I've seen demonstrated that my county purchased, you could buy a freakin' eMac with Airport. While I'm at it, print a God damn paper receipt for when the thing goes haywire!!! And make it open source! </rant >
Okay, so I know that a client can be built for any platform, but what about the emails that I compose on my cell phone? I can just see the 10 seconds of computations performed by the latest P4 taking hours on my cell phone! Or does no one use cell phones, PDAs, etc to send and receive email?
Let's not forget about those of us who haven't yet purchased our own homes and are stuck in an apartment. Sure, a wired system is best, but I'm not allowed to drill anything. Putting the cables along the baseboard is tacky. Wireless definitely wins here. If I need to transfer something a little larger, I'll run a temporary wire, but that is rare.
Besides, do you really expect the average do-it-yourselfer to pull cable, use a punch down tool, and install jacks? Wireless makes sense again.
So would you recommend the HBH-30?
Just today I finally got my Bluetooth-enabled wireless mouse to play nicely with my PowerBook Al (the one with the integrated Bluetooth). Gone is the possibility of ripping a poor RF receiver from a USB socket since this mouse talks to the built-in receiver. Logitech failed to produce drivers for the MX-900 on the Mac OS X platform, but the thing is HID compliant and works right out of the box, save the extra buttons. Along comes GamePadCompanion and now all buttons work like a charm.
I'm sitting here typing this on Apple's BT keyboard, using a BT mouse, just as my BT enabled cell phone mutes my iTunes and announces on-screen that I have a phone call and even says who is calling me! Now if I could afford a BT headset I'd be set! It's too bad Bluetooth is dead!
Higher fines have not seemed to reduce the drinking and driving problem. People still drink a little too much, sometimes way too much and drive.
About 6 months ago, I was out at a local restaurant and had a few drinks. Because I wasn't going to drive while intoxicated, I passed my keys to a buddy of mine who hadn't had a thing. As we are heading home while stopped at a red light, a drunk plows into my new car, totaling it. Here I had "done the right thing" and refused to drive drunk myself, only to still end up in an alcohol-related accident. Luckily no one was seriously hurt, but my car was totaled and the guy was uninsured (only had $1500 in uninsured motorist coverage, my mistake). Oh well, on with my idea:
Get caught driving drunk? Crush the car! I think a portable car crusher would work marvelously. What? You are borrowing your friend's car? That'll be a tough one for you to explain to him.
Get caught driving drunk again? Crush the car again, only this time you don't get to climb out before the crushing! No more repeat offenders...
If the car is stolen, I suppose we can't crush it, so let the offender rot in jail instead. Of course there are technical reasons why you can't just crush it on the spot (oil, battery acid, radiator fluid leakage, etc.) but the idea of it still is fun.
--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The way I understand it, the roots would still be in the ground providing that erosion control for a period of time before they decompose...
Excellent try, but you just pointed out your unfamiliarity with today's iPod. iPods have been carrying around our address books for quite some time now. You should try one.
If you are going to be doing any more jogging, I've been really happy with my Ogio Metro backpack which I found at eBags.com for around $60. eBags is great because not only do they provide excellent service, but they also have terrific user feedback on all of their products. I'm currently using my bag for my PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15". It won't fit much bigger than the PowerBook though, but it holds my laptop snugly, with lots of padding. The bag also has plenty of extra pockets for my power adapter, extra battery, and all of my school work.
Don't forget your tin foil hat!
That's great news. If FOX can do that for Family Guy, how about the old favorite M*A*S*H?!? Of course they'd have to do it all CGI, but it could happen... :-D
It appears that they are choosing to use some flavor of Windows as their operating system. Did anyone see their choice? Obviously they can't toss Windows ME or XP on there. So say we throw Windows 2003 Server on there. Still not my choice, but as long as they remember to update it, it will probably work reasonably well (at least until their non-ECC RAM corrupts their data or their non-RAID drive fails).
Last time I checked, Windows 2003 Server was $1100 for only 10 licenses! Configuring a GNU/Linux server is certainly beyond these people so we better give them an XServe.
Now who wants to bet that the largest chunk of change they are asking for is going towards the lawyers? Come on now!
What do you call Longhorn on Itanium 2's?!?
Yeah, and those 70's and 80's vintage cars seem to come out of accidents looking a whole lot better. Old cars are stronger but certainly not safer.
I was just rear-ended a month ago. The guy totaled my Saturn even though it was *only* a 40 MPH impact (I was at a red light, he was drunk and uninsured). I was able to walk away with no injuries simply because the car took the energy from the impact instead of me.
Cars are expendable. People are not.
But instead of needing all the buttons, let the PDAs do what they do well: handwriting recognition! Imagine writing out a textbook-style equation only to have the calculator break it down for you and compute whatever you ask. Seems like it wouldn't be that difficult...
IANAL myself, but I believe the fair use provisions protect such things as a critiquing of a copyrighted work, not simple piracy. Academic institutions are not immune to copyright law nor should they be. They still have to pay the rights for books, multimedia, software, etc that they use. This case isn't really about a legitimate fair use at all. A couple of students outside of class time were downloading music.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of quarter-inch tapes. Or a US postal truck leaving NetFlix's warehouse.