I flew a lot for a previous job, and had a lot of 3 point flights, (e.g. portland to atlanta to new york to portland.) and the thing that seemed to trigger searches and the "SSSS" tag that goes on your boarding pass, (in case you hadn't noticed the "super-secret-search-selection! (or whatever the hell it stands for...)) more often than not, was one-way flights. When I flew round trip, I never got the "SSSS" tag, when I had a series of one-way flights, I always did.
I was behind Arianna Huffington in one of those security lines once, and had a chat with her 'handler.' The TSA guy there may have been spreading misinformation, but I think he was just chatty.
There are of course other criteria, but that seems to be a big one.
I think the true difference between mac and win is really that over here people actually *follow* those guidelines. (some of them actually improve on them!)
the nicest thing about having a one button mouse is that eventually you learn not to use it at all...
just to make Exxon a few more bucks <sarcasm>because we all know that what really counts is that the free markets should flourish unimpeded by government control...[cough]subsidy[/cough]</sarcasm>
it seems a pity to have to be so explicit, but things do seem to get misunderstood around here...
a further benefit to hemp being that it grows really quickly. which means that the source of paper can be renewed over short time periods, unlike trees. I wonder if the logging lobby is doing anything in particular about these sorts of laws these days.
the fibers make a nice fabric too, (as well as the well known rope...)
trees to paper just seems like a very inefficient way to do things. I suppose we should be thankful they weren't printing on vellum, PETA would go ballistic.
Over the last 4 years of powerbook ownership, I think I can remember about 15-24 boots. and most of those were when I was a bit careless with the reserve battery,
right aound 2170 then?
there are plenty of reasons to worry about flash drive life span, and apple's commercial tendencies, but reboot count isn't really one of them...
is there not a 'date' field in the rss schema already? can you not figure out what's new from that? does that not imply an order?? I don't understand....
Executives are paid by the board of a company, not by the employees. There are many ways to manipulate a company so that the shareholders can make money from it.
Actually making a good product or providing a wanted service are not even very high on that list anymore.
I don't think keeping people employed actually appears anywhere on that list at all.
You'd be hard pressed to find another 'cost-cutting' measure that's as good and also has the fringe benefits of freeing up the assets of the equipment they work on and building they work in for 'liquidation.'
more's the pity...
I think in general that privately held companies can and will do the same thing, but often (not always,) privately held companies tend to think of the employees.
Has anyone else ever noticed that people who own a lot of stock tend to forget that at the other end of that certificate, there are a lot of people and not just an abstraction. Due to my recent employment experience, I know some of the lengths that people (in the military say,) will go to dehumanize other people so that when the moment comes, you can act without a thought towards the person you are acting against. Does anyone know if this is true in business school as well?
the best was gizo, no contest. But it was waaaaaaaaay undermarketed.
I think they have renamed it "upshot" now. the real pity is that they used to sell the antidote too, a kava drink. (I have rarely slept better.) but it is no longer on the market... http://www.drinksthatwork.com/
for a while, when I was working at the circus, vodka redbull was *the* drink, (I think there may have actually been a deal, all the tours got red bull coolers for a bit, don't know details...) but everybody eventually settled on Monster. for both work and play.
but in my experience, gizo was it. (I won't speak to the comparison to meth, never tried it, but versus any over the counter alternative, nothing came close. period)
(words of warning. 1)the fruit flavor is cranberry, despite the orange label. this leads you to think that it tastes like bad orange rather than okay cranberry. 2) do not even drink decaf coffee if you have one. just trust me on this. )
I've travelled a big chunk of North America and Europe, which I suppose doesn't really give me that much basis for comparison, (haven't been to South America, Asia or Africa yet, (beyond a couple of weeks in Egypt.)) But where I have gone, this is very true. In fairness, it is frequently true of people everywhere, but the difference I have seen is largely that people from the US are surprised if others *have* something, where others are surprised that people from the US *haven't*
I would not, however, say that it is as limited as tom makes out though. I was born and raised in Rhode Island, and one time travelling through the midwest I was asked if I had ever seen a farm before. People who don't travel, in general*, have little idea of what goes on in other places. [note: other *places* not other *countries*, (or for that matter, states, counties, nations, continents etc.)] I've been in the far reaches of new england for the last 10 months, and people on one side of the state have little conception of what goes on on the other side of the state, and this is new england for crying out loud, so that's not very far.) All over, there are people who have never been more than a few miles from home, and it is a definite minority of those who have a balanced world view. Especially if you get that world view from the current US media...
I was very lucky in my childhood to have been taken overseas for a couple of years. Of course there are differences, (you'd be amazed at what you get for pizza in Italy if all you know is domino's.) and you see them because they stick out to you, you may not notice that the pharmacy has everything you are used to seeing.
Montreal is not even 100 miles from where I'm sitting, and it is a very different world in a lot of ways, but if you go there, you are not immediately struck by huge differences, but lots of little ones. On example 10 years ago, when I lived there, I was shocked (pleasantly) to see the uncut version of "the Unbearable Lightness of Being" on TV, while sitting at a bar. That was when It hit me that I was not subject to FCC rules. I was also surprised, (less pleasantly) to find out that right on red is illegal.
(Perhaps Toronto or Vancouver might be a better example because of the language thing.)
There's a PBS commentator, who does travellogues and in one of them he made a point about 'if you *really* can't live without something, bring it with you, but chances are you'll find it where you go, but on the off chance you don't, ask yourself, "how do X million Europeans get along fine without it?"'
When I was travelling with the touring show, we hired local staff in every city, and the number of people who would ask me things like "do you have $thing? up there in Canada?" where $thing could be as stupid as some brand of car, or radio, it got to be pretty inane, but amazingly consistent. even in the canadian cities (when they found out I was from the states,) though see the above caveat for the difference.
Sorry, drifted way of point, but to 'iterate' toms point, experience the damn world, but try not to leave a mess.
*generalizations like this are nasty, I know, but squeaky wheels and all that... If one goes by personal experiences, one can only go by the things that have drawn one's notice, and we 'Americans' certainly excel at that.
Command click on several genres, then command click on several artists, then on several albums.
Select a song with a double click...
On the other hand, using a computer to run an external sound device via playlists etc. sounds like what I used to do with opcode vision in 1992... I grant you the interface was different, but it did a great job of controlling external and internal sounds... and its interface was largely that of a stack of sequences that opened up to adeeper stack of sequences and so on till you ran out of RAM... This really has nothing to do with the debate, I was just reminiscing... (sigh)
solarization, for instance, is all about failure, and I don't think the digital filters do it right yet.
the original process of solarization, for those who don't know, is based on doing things wrong. usually you agitate the pan with the developer to keep fresh developer on the paper, with solarization you leave it still, and as the dark areas develop, the developer just above the dark areas gets 'dirty.' then, about halfway through the chemical process, you flash a light onto the picture in the pan, and the 'dirty' developer solution blocks the light, but just over the areas that are highly exposed.
after you flash the film, you agitate the pan for normal development, and where there was little exposure before, you have somewhat more, and there you have it, the thing is that solarization is somewhat more complicated than just reversing the middle area of the gamma curve, which is what most digital attempts at it do...
I thought it was his way of sublimating his desire to do so...? I think if he tried, Alice would have had him on the ground whimpering inside 10 seconds.
what, like.Mac? syncs petty nicely really... had it for 2 years... iCal, Mail, AddressBook, etc. available anywhere... but no, I don't run the server, and they don't sell the service privately, but I'm sure they could...
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps if you put the ellipsis inside the quotation marks...
any equity draughtsman around?
I flew a lot for a previous job, and had a lot of 3 point flights, (e.g. portland to atlanta to new york to portland.) and the thing that seemed to trigger searches and the "SSSS" tag that goes on your boarding pass, (in case you hadn't noticed the "super-secret-search-selection! (or whatever the hell it stands for...)) more often than not, was one-way flights. When I flew round trip, I never got the "SSSS" tag, when I had a series of one-way flights, I always did.
I was behind Arianna Huffington in one of those security lines once, and had a chat with her 'handler.' The TSA guy there may have been spreading misinformation, but I think he was just chatty.
There are of course other criteria, but that seems to be a big one.
the band Chicago(tm) tried this once, and lost, so precedent is against them...
as a side note, the the word of the day in the "am I a script" box was 'orgasm' when I posted this... aren't they supposed to be random characters?
I think the true difference between mac and win is really that over here people actually *follow* those guidelines. (some of them actually improve on them!)
the nicest thing about having a one button mouse is that eventually you learn not to use it at all...
just to make Exxon a few more bucks
<sarcasm>because we all know that what really counts is that the free markets should flourish unimpeded by government control...[cough]subsidy[/cough]</sarcasm>
it seems a pity to have to be so explicit, but things do seem to get misunderstood around here...
you have to pay for VLC?
(granted you should...)
Just try to remember, the only pronoun left is "dude."
I feel your pain.
whoosh!
hey, both an entry and a comment!
I was hoping someone else would point this out.
a further benefit to hemp being that it grows really quickly. which means that the source of paper can be renewed over short time periods, unlike trees. I wonder if the logging lobby is doing anything in particular about these sorts of laws these days.
the fibers make a nice fabric too, (as well as the well known rope...)
trees to paper just seems like a very inefficient way to do things. I suppose we should be thankful they weren't printing on vellum, PETA would go ballistic.
try your local theatre ;-)
Over the last 4 years of powerbook ownership, I think I can remember about 15-24 boots. and most of those were when I was a bit careless with the reserve battery,
right aound 2170 then?
there are plenty of reasons to worry about flash drive life span, and apple's commercial tendencies, but reboot count isn't really one of them...
(yes I get the ipod battery reference joke...)
spellchecker?
;-)
themsselves?
sorry, couldn't resist...
is there not a 'date' field in the rss schema already? can you not figure out what's new from that? does that not imply an order?? I don't understand....
Well, no I guess not, but...
Executives are paid by the board of a company, not by the employees. There are many ways to manipulate a company so that the shareholders can make money from it.
Actually making a good product or providing a wanted service are not even very high on that list anymore.
I don't think keeping people employed actually appears anywhere on that list at all.
You'd be hard pressed to find another 'cost-cutting' measure that's as good and also has the fringe benefits of freeing up the assets of the equipment they work on and building they work in for 'liquidation.'
more's the pity...
I think in general that privately held companies can and will do the same thing, but often (not always,) privately held companies tend to think of the employees.
Has anyone else ever noticed that people who own a lot of stock tend to forget that at the other end of that certificate, there are a lot of people and not just an abstraction. Due to my recent employment experience, I know some of the lengths that people (in the military say,) will go to dehumanize other people so that when the moment comes, you can act without a thought towards the person you are acting against. Does anyone know if this is true in business school as well?
the best was gizo, no contest. But it was waaaaaaaaay undermarketed.
I think they have renamed it "upshot" now. the real pity is that they used to sell the antidote too, a kava drink. (I have rarely slept better.) but it is no longer on the market... http://www.drinksthatwork.com/
for a while, when I was working at the circus, vodka redbull was *the* drink, (I think there may have actually been a deal, all the tours got red bull coolers for a bit, don't know details...) but everybody eventually settled on Monster. for both work and play.
but in my experience, gizo was it. (I won't speak to the comparison to meth, never tried it, but versus any over the counter alternative, nothing came close. period)
(words of warning.
1)the fruit flavor is cranberry, despite the orange label. this leads you to think that it tastes like bad orange rather than okay cranberry.
2) do not even drink decaf coffee if you have one. just trust me on this.
)
how this got modded troll is beyond me...
I've travelled a big chunk of North America and Europe, which I suppose doesn't really give me that much basis for comparison, (haven't been to South America, Asia or Africa yet, (beyond a couple of weeks in Egypt.)) But where I have gone, this is very true. In fairness, it is frequently true of people everywhere, but the difference I have seen is largely that people from the US are surprised if others *have* something, where others are surprised that people from the US *haven't*
I would not, however, say that it is as limited as tom makes out though. I was born and raised in Rhode Island, and one time travelling through the midwest I was asked if I had ever seen a farm before. People who don't travel, in general*, have little idea of what goes on in other places. [note: other *places* not other *countries*, (or for that matter, states, counties, nations, continents etc.)] I've been in the far reaches of new england for the last 10 months, and people on one side of the state have little conception of what goes on on the other side of the state, and this is new england for crying out loud, so that's not very far.) All over, there are people who have never been more than a few miles from home, and it is a definite minority of those who have a balanced world view. Especially if you get that world view from the current US media...
I was very lucky in my childhood to have been taken overseas for a couple of years. Of course there are differences, (you'd be amazed at what you get for pizza in Italy if all you know is domino's.) and you see them because they stick out to you, you may not notice that the pharmacy has everything you are used to seeing.
Montreal is not even 100 miles from where I'm sitting, and it is a very different world in a lot of ways, but if you go there, you are not immediately struck by huge differences, but lots of little ones. On example 10 years ago, when I lived there, I was shocked (pleasantly) to see the uncut version of "the Unbearable Lightness of Being" on TV, while sitting at a bar. That was when It hit me that I was not subject to FCC rules. I was also surprised, (less pleasantly) to find out that right on red is illegal.
(Perhaps Toronto or Vancouver might be a better example because of the language thing.)
There's a PBS commentator, who does travellogues and in one of them he made a point about 'if you *really* can't live without something, bring it with you, but chances are you'll find it where you go, but on the off chance you don't, ask yourself, "how do X million Europeans get along fine without it?"'
When I was travelling with the touring show, we hired local staff in every city, and the number of people who would ask me things like "do you have $thing? up there in Canada?" where $thing could be as stupid as some brand of car, or radio, it got to be pretty inane, but amazingly consistent. even in the canadian cities (when they found out I was from the states,) though see the above caveat for the difference.
Sorry, drifted way of point, but to 'iterate' toms point, experience the damn world, but try not to leave a mess.
*generalizations like this are nasty, I know, but squeaky wheels and all that... If one goes by personal experiences, one can only go by the things that have drawn one's notice, and we 'Americans' certainly excel at that.
no, that's hindsight.
Command click on several genres, then command click on several artists, then on several albums.
Select a song with a double click...
On the other hand, using a computer to run an external sound device via playlists etc. sounds like what I used to do with opcode vision in 1992... I grant you the interface was different, but it did a great job of controlling external and internal sounds... and its interface was largely that of a stack of sequences that opened up to adeeper stack of sequences and so on till you ran out of RAM... This really has nothing to do with the debate, I was just reminiscing... (sigh)
solarization, for instance, is all about failure, and I don't think the digital filters do it right yet.
the original process of solarization, for those who don't know, is based on doing things wrong. usually you agitate the pan with the developer to keep fresh developer on the paper, with solarization you leave it still, and as the dark areas develop, the developer just above the dark areas gets 'dirty.' then, about halfway through the chemical process, you flash a light onto the picture in the pan, and the 'dirty' developer solution blocks the light, but just over the areas that are highly exposed.
after you flash the film, you agitate the pan for normal development, and where there was little exposure before, you have somewhat more, and there you have it, the thing is that solarization is somewhat more complicated than just reversing the middle area of the gamma curve, which is what most digital attempts at it do...
I thought it was his way of sublimating his desire to do so...? I think if he tried, Alice would have had him on the ground whimpering inside 10 seconds.
what, like .Mac?
syncs petty nicely really...
had it for 2 years...
iCal, Mail, AddressBook, etc. available anywhere... but no, I don't run the server, and they don't sell the service privately, but I'm sure they could...
"easy remote administration!"
After the 'original' couple, one has to believe that there's python involved somewhere...
"Time = Money, Money != Time."
it does if you write it like that...
"One of these days Alice..."