You don't even have to go that far back to find examples.
One of the things I do is research aspects of US manufacturing history (we used to actually MAKE stuff here, believe it or not).
One of the ways I do this is by looking up old DBAs and incorporation documents, etc. Lets me know where companies were founded, by whom, address, major changes, when they went under, and often more. May not sound important, but to anyone interested in antiques, or perhaps the history of aviation companies, or steelmakers, whatever, this is valuable info.
Now, here in NY these documents are kept forever. I have fun digging through old musty records dating back to the 1890s. Earlier ones are missing only because of fire, etc.
I expected much the same elsewhere, but while living in CA I found that the records are only kept for a few years. There is no way to find the incorporation documents of a manufacturer which started in 1930 and went under in 1955... but worse, there was nothing even as recent as the 70s.
One clerk even told me the records were only kept for THREE YEARS. I found that hard to imagine, and still do, but was unable to find any evidence to contradict that.
Why pay someone 90% of the proceeds of your labor for the priviledge of working for them?
I am self-employed now (as much as I can be, with disabilities) and even if back to 100% health would never go to work for someone else again.
A friend is a mechanic, works for a big chain, doing mufflers and brakes. When the company has billed the customers $4000, his cut is about $300.
His customers are so loyal to his work that when he left one place and went to another, they followed. So I ask him "Why not just work for yourself, start out on your own?"
After all, he manages the day to day operations, knows all the ins and outs of ordering, etc.
Answer? NO GUTS.
For generations we have all been fed this lie - the American work ethic, that says to go to work for someone ELSE and work HARD, 40, 50, 60 hours a week to get by.
Corporations count on us buying into that so they will have a ready source of peons.
Doesn't this sound a bit like the argument the networks and the MPAA made that ReplayTV is copyright infringement because it allows you to bypass commercials?
I use my iPaq all the time. I don't even work since I'm disabled, but I use it to store all my contact info, which comes in handy during medical appointments when doctors want to confer with others.
I would forget all my various medical appointments etc. without it. And I have alarms set up to remind me to take meds on the strange schedule they require.
Also I play MP3s and games, of course.
I have software to track diet and exercise, but havent been disciplined enough to use that much yet really.
I listen to MP3s and play games or read ebooks while in waiting rooms.
have you gone to an otolanryngologist? How about an ENT? Anyone ever suggest Meniere's?
It's quite often missed by docs. I went to several who were clueless, and then finally went to an otolaryngologist who knew what I had the moment I walked into his office.
see, another example of why lengthy copyrights are bad... with the copyright enforced on the escher images (according to the page they are still under copyright) we wouldn't be able to have our society enriched by important derivative works such as these.;)
Got hit by a truck and had a skull fracture and brain damage, also one leg is now longer than the other because my pelvis was shattered. They figure that is the cause of all of this. (also had severe internal injuries)
Anyway... my point is that considering this, having my balance be fucked up is not the worst possible result.
There are a lot of things that effect balance. I have Meniere's disease - my vestibular system is faulty... I also have Nystagmus, involuntary eye movement... that causes balance problems. I also have reduced peripheral vision in various color ranges. The net result of all of this is that I can walk into a supermarket and the visual field of the aisles, combined with the lighting can send me into a sudden vertigo attack. I use my sense of proprioception (body position, etc) to help my balance. One of the important parts of therapy to try to deal with this involves having you stand on pillows, etc, to get used to balancing, as the proprioceptive signals from your feet are crucial to your overall sense of body position. Other things like head and arm position also have major effects.
So many things come into play that you never think about until you lose one of the components of balance... then you notice all of the others. It's a big adjustment.
I have been looking for a solution for a while. It's actually a bit distressing to me that someone somewhere hasn't come up with something that they would distribute free, out of the goodness of their heart. At least maybe a limited-feature release of their commercial product.
I know several people that are blind and who rely on voice synthesizers... and they have to live with the horrible speech of the standard Windows voice.
These people are on disability and can't afford hundreds or thousands of dollars for this... in addition, they need the software to be simple and to run in Windows.
One woman, for example, had never even touched a computer until after she had her eyes removed when she was in her sixties. Her entire experience with computers is based on learning to use windows with only horrible speech synthesis to guide her (you have to give her credit for that!)
For someone like that, any text to speech software has to be very simple to install and use, must run in windows, and the change must be as transparent as possible... anything else would be like blinding her all over again.
You would think that with all of the many millions of sightless people out there, many of them dirt poor, someone, say MS, AT&T or whomever would provide a simple and free system like this as a public service. Such a thing could dramtically improve the lives of so many, it would be great PR, and great advertising for their enterprise versions of the software!
(first I'd say it makes more sense to give away singles to get people to buy the album rather than making them PAY for the singles in order to whet their appetite... because a lot of people only want the singles... so if they feel that have already paid for them, they might not bother to buy the complete CD. This may actually take away from sales.)
But my main point is about the RADIO sinles, as they call them. Well, what is a radio single? My guess is that they mean a single in RADIO QUALITY audio.
Wait... you're publicly advising us to join an organization that is likely to be determined to "have ties to known terrorist sympathisers" in the very near future???
Get a copy of Patent It Yourself as mentioned above.
Then do the patent search yourself at a local patent depository library. An online search is not enough.
Luckily for you, the San Francisco Main Library is a United States Patent & Trademark Depository Library!
Go to the 5th floor, and there they are, all the patent gazettes, AND the complete collection of CDroms to allow you to do your own patent search!
Expect to devote 2-3 days for a thorough search. Sometimes the staff there can provide advice.
And thats that!
Most places I know of use illiterate rejects without high-school diplomas for PHYSICAL security, so they can pay them minimum wage.
Are they going to go to the expense of paying network security experts to watch the door 12 hours, or are they going to take the risk of entrusting the network to former McDonald's employees?
Crayola today announced the release of thier new 64,000 color crayon assortment. Upon initial examination, the new assortment looks similar to their old 64 color box, but company officials explained that the 64,000 assortment uses a new crayon technology called "color mixing" which enables users to combine several color crayons to create a unique effect.
Company officials would not comment on the recent lawsuit by Daniel LeFaviour of Dupont, MI wherein he claims to have patented the crayon colormixing technology.
They speculate in the article that Americans would not be happy to know that every time we buy a cell phone we help to fuel a war...
Well, we sure don't seem to to mind that every time we fill our gas tanks we help to fuel wars (along with our cars), so why would anyone expect this to be any different?
Hell, I knew about this years ago when I would have 999 extra lives playing Star Castle on my Vectrex.
Hours would pass and I was off somewhere else in my mind not even paying attention to the game, and my movements were all reflex. (If you know Star Castle, you know how much attention it normally requires)
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I remember reading an article about this tech over TEN YEARS ago... maybe 15. Nothing has come of it since then...
You don't even have to go that far back to find examples. One of the things I do is research aspects of US manufacturing history (we used to actually MAKE stuff here, believe it or not). One of the ways I do this is by looking up old DBAs and incorporation documents, etc. Lets me know where companies were founded, by whom, address, major changes, when they went under, and often more. May not sound important, but to anyone interested in antiques, or perhaps the history of aviation companies, or steelmakers, whatever, this is valuable info. Now, here in NY these documents are kept forever. I have fun digging through old musty records dating back to the 1890s. Earlier ones are missing only because of fire, etc. I expected much the same elsewhere, but while living in CA I found that the records are only kept for a few years. There is no way to find the incorporation documents of a manufacturer which started in 1930 and went under in 1955... but worse, there was nothing even as recent as the 70s. One clerk even told me the records were only kept for THREE YEARS. I found that hard to imagine, and still do, but was unable to find any evidence to contradict that.
Why pay someone 90% of the proceeds of your labor for the priviledge of working for them? I am self-employed now (as much as I can be, with disabilities) and even if back to 100% health would never go to work for someone else again. A friend is a mechanic, works for a big chain, doing mufflers and brakes. When the company has billed the customers $4000, his cut is about $300. His customers are so loyal to his work that when he left one place and went to another, they followed. So I ask him "Why not just work for yourself, start out on your own?" After all, he manages the day to day operations, knows all the ins and outs of ordering, etc. Answer? NO GUTS. For generations we have all been fed this lie - the American work ethic, that says to go to work for someone ELSE and work HARD, 40, 50, 60 hours a week to get by. Corporations count on us buying into that so they will have a ready source of peons.
Hell, when pushed into a corner, the French won't even admit to believing in France.
Doesn't this sound a bit like the argument the networks and the MPAA made that ReplayTV is copyright infringement because it allows you to bypass commercials?
Things are getting scary out there folks.
I use my iPaq all the time. I don't even work since I'm disabled, but I use it to store all my contact info, which comes in handy during medical appointments when doctors want to confer with others. I would forget all my various medical appointments etc. without it. And I have alarms set up to remind me to take meds on the strange schedule they require. Also I play MP3s and games, of course. I have software to track diet and exercise, but havent been disciplined enough to use that much yet really. I listen to MP3s and play games or read ebooks while in waiting rooms.
A new copy PROTECTION method. The only way there can be a new COPYRIGHT method is via legislation.
have you gone to an otolanryngologist? How about an ENT? Anyone ever suggest Meniere's? It's quite often missed by docs. I went to several who were clueless, and then finally went to an otolaryngologist who knew what I had the moment I walked into his office.
see, another example of why lengthy copyrights are bad... with the copyright enforced on the escher images (according to the page they are still under copyright) we wouldn't be able to have our society enriched by important derivative works such as these. ;)
Got hit by a truck and had a skull fracture and brain damage, also one leg is now longer than the other because my pelvis was shattered. They figure that is the cause of all of this. (also had severe internal injuries)
Anyway... my point is that considering this, having my balance be fucked up is not the worst possible result.
thanks :)
;)
Yes, I'm a superhero. Stumbleboy. My main super power is projectile vomiting.
There are a lot of things that effect balance.
I have Meniere's disease - my vestibular system is faulty... I also have Nystagmus, involuntary eye movement... that causes balance problems.
I also have reduced peripheral vision in various color ranges. The net result of all of this is that I can walk into a supermarket and the visual field of the aisles, combined with the lighting can send me into a sudden vertigo attack.
I use my sense of proprioception (body position, etc) to help my balance.
One of the important parts of therapy to try to deal with this involves having you stand on pillows, etc, to get used to balancing, as the proprioceptive signals from your feet are crucial to your overall sense of body position.
Other things like head and arm position also have major effects.
So many things come into play that you never think about until you lose one of the components of balance... then you notice all of the others. It's a big adjustment.
I have been looking for a solution for a while.
It's actually a bit distressing to me that someone somewhere hasn't come up with something that they would distribute free, out of the goodness of their heart. At least maybe a limited-feature release of their commercial product.
I know several people that are blind and who rely on voice synthesizers... and they have to live with the horrible speech of the standard Windows voice.
These people are on disability and can't afford hundreds or thousands of dollars for this... in addition, they need the software to be simple and to run in Windows.
One woman, for example, had never even touched a computer until after she had her eyes removed when she was in her sixties. Her entire experience with computers is based on learning to use windows with only horrible speech synthesis to guide her (you have to give her credit for that!)
For someone like that, any text to speech software has to be very simple to install and use, must run in windows, and the change must be as transparent as possible... anything else would be like blinding her all over again.
You would think that with all of the many millions of sightless people out there, many of them dirt poor, someone, say MS, AT&T or whomever would provide a simple and free system like this as a public service. Such a thing could dramtically improve the lives of so many, it would be great PR, and great advertising for their enterprise versions of the software!
The press release calls them RADIO singles.
(first I'd say it makes more sense to give away singles to get people to buy the album rather than making them PAY for the singles in order to whet their appetite... because a lot of people only want the singles... so if they feel that have already paid for them, they might not bother to buy the complete CD. This may actually take away from sales.)
But my main point is about the RADIO sinles, as they call them. Well, what is a radio single? My guess is that they mean a single in RADIO QUALITY audio.
64k MP3s, anyone?
Hey, I used to own immunotherapist.com that's worse.
Wait... you're publicly advising us to join an organization that is likely to be determined to "have ties to known terrorist sympathisers" in the very near future???
...was one awesome game!
Bionic Commando - best scroller of all time!
Master Blaster was good.
Sorry to correct you, but you are a bit off.
They landed several Venera landers, two of which took B&W photos and two of which took color ones...
They did fail relatively quickly, but not in only seconds. And they failed due to the crushing atmospheric pressure, not acidity.
Get a copy of Patent It Yourself as mentioned above. Then do the patent search yourself at a local patent depository library. An online search is not enough. Luckily for you, the San Francisco Main Library is a United States Patent & Trademark Depository Library! Go to the 5th floor, and there they are, all the patent gazettes, AND the complete collection of CDroms to allow you to do your own patent search! Expect to devote 2-3 days for a thorough search. Sometimes the staff there can provide advice. And thats that!
Most places I know of use illiterate rejects without high-school diplomas for PHYSICAL security, so they can pay them minimum wage. Are they going to go to the expense of paying network security experts to watch the door 12 hours, or are they going to take the risk of entrusting the network to former McDonald's employees?
personally I found this even more interesting http://www.farnovision.com/chronicles/fusion/vassi latos.html
Crayola today announced the release of thier new 64,000 color crayon assortment.
Upon initial examination, the new assortment looks similar to their old 64 color box, but company officials explained that the 64,000 assortment uses a new crayon technology called "color mixing" which enables users to combine several color crayons to create a unique effect.
Company officials would not comment on the recent lawsuit by Daniel LeFaviour of Dupont, MI wherein he claims to have patented the crayon colormixing technology.
They speculate in the article that Americans would not be happy to know that every time we buy a cell phone we help to fuel a war... Well, we sure don't seem to to mind that every time we fill our gas tanks we help to fuel wars (along with our cars), so why would anyone expect this to be any different?
Hell, I knew about this years ago when I would have 999 extra lives playing Star Castle on my Vectrex.
Hours would pass and I was off somewhere else in my mind not even paying attention to the game, and my movements were all reflex.
(If you know Star Castle, you know how much attention it normally requires)