For the record, it's not censorship for a retailer to choose what they're willing to sell. It bites, and the fact that they don't clearly label the "WalMart Edit" as such is bordering on deception, but it's not censorship.
A Government saying that no retailer can sell the unedited version, that'd be censorship.
FWIW, this predates email. My father had a well-worn copy of this on a sign above a type-setting machine in his graphics shop. I know that I'd seen it there in the mid 70s, and it was old when I got there.
Ok, I know I'm a late post to the story, but I did RTFA, and he didn't say a word about condensation.
When he temp-tested the main die, it was covered in frost. Now obviously, this setup was only done to set records, so he's not running it for more than a few minutes.
What do other sub-freezing cooling systems do about the frost?
But it seems like this is somewhere along the lines of telling someone where the nearest drug dealer is.[sic] Isn't/shouldn't that be illegal?
Um, no.
Talking isn't/shouldn't be illegal. Doing things that harm others is/should be illegal.
If person A is selling drugs, and person B is saying where person A can be found, then go and prosecute person A.
How about the flip side? I listen to NPR a lot, and if enough people are listening to non-corporate radio, it'll be really interesting to see what kinds of ads are displayed.
Wow, I must be further left-of-center than I thought. NPR isn't corporate radio?
To answer your original ponder about what kind of ads, how about ADM, Saab, Keane, etc. They're still ads, they're still for-profit corporations paying money for their ads to be placed on advertiser-supported broadcast radio. Pledge drives support the operations budget of the local re-broadcaster, not NPR.
You seem to feel strongly about this. What's "top quoting" anyway?
Just so long as this new client prevents top quoting. Those that are detected at the act of top quoting should be subject to the activation of a stun-gun embedded in their keyboards, followed by automated photoshopping of their head onto a picture of some redneck sodomizing a goat. This picture shall replace the actual content of the email (as an attachment, damnit!) and sent to all of the intended recipients. If no recipients have yet been specified, the email shall be sent to the user's congressman.
Well, you could buy a pre-packaged setup like the Beamer, which would let you video-conf with any other Beamer users. Or you could use a webcam and open standards, and be able to chat with any other PC/Mac users with a webcam
Reminds me of the first Soviet company to get a FAX machine. They were quite proud of themselves, until they realized they didn't have anyone else to call.
When I took a "Special Topics in Computer Networking" class from Evi Nemeth, she told us some stories from the early wiring at CU Boulder. Here's Evi's tip for how to lay out a SONET ring:
1: Don't squish the ring into a line, even though it's cheaper to dig one trench than two.
2: Dig a trench, then put a conduit (with your fiber) in the bottom. Lay down a foot of dirt, then a bright orange plastic sheet that says "FIBER OPTIC CABLE: STOP DIGGING"
3: Lay down some more dirt, then another layer of this plastic
Instead, what CU did was:
1: Cut trenching costs by laying both East and West sides of the ring in a single trench.
2: Lay the two conduits side-by-side, then drape bright orange plastic on top of the pipes, then add dirt.
At this point, she said they might as well label the plastic as "STOP DIGGING, YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN DOWN THE ENTIRE NETWORK"
Which, of course, they eventually did.
Funny thing is, the backhoe operator had the good sense to stop his work and contact Campus Networking. When the network tech came over, he picked up the fiber and looked at it to see if it was live. Now there's a guy with a black dot in one retina -- the tech, not the backhoe operator.
More annoying than jet noise are sonic booms. They are not going to be acceptable (by law) over populated areas. Therefore, any service is limited to coastal American airports (like New York City) because there just are not many airports approachable over ocean routes.
So why not go supersonic while you're over the ocean, then slow down to mach 0.95 for the last part of the trip?
Atlanta is inland, granted, but most of the trip from London to Atlanta is still over the ocean.
What phone is your Verizon friend using? My older Nokia drops calls in and around Boulder (city and east county) all the time. I was recently on the roof of a building in Boulder where I had line-of-sight to most of the city. I got three out of four bars.
I had assumed that Verizon simply sucked, but maybe it's my phone.
They have picture and pretty graphs here! Happy now?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/564 9/1382 Which would be handy if I subscribed to Science.
I don't, so all I get is a "Please sign on" page
I would drive an electric vehicle everywhere if I could go 200 miles (with no slowing down towards the end) per charge, and a completely full charge only took 10 minutes.
200 miles of reasonable performance isn't that hard to do, but it costs more (economy of scale, probably) to build one.
Charging in 10 minutes isn't a factor of the batteries so much as the wire feeding them. I know of a company building a lead-acid based cell that has less internal cell resistance than an extension cord. You can charge their cells just about as fast as your house wiring can deliver the amps, but 15 amps @ 115 volts is still only 1725 watts, and 10 minutes @ 1725 watts isn't going to drive a car for 200 miles.
Yes, but if you play your cards right, this can work in your favor.
My computer is an aged Dell laptop (Lattitude CP-x, P3-650, maybe only 600) but it accepts newer batteries. Using the snazzy 75UYF cells at 3800 mAhours, I get between 9 and 10 hours of WiFi use if I pop two batteries in.
Dear product,
Thanks for your interesting letter. Unfortunately, we view you in a somewhat different light than you view yourself. You think that you are a consumer, and that your opinions matter.
Allow me to be blunt -- you are meat.
We buy you and sell you by the pound. We create "content" to engage your brain, but only in the way we want it to be engaged. We do this so that you'll do two things:
Keep coming back for more
Become so addled that you'll buy whatever crap our consumers will advertise to you
If, by some strange chance, you manage to see through this and start making up your own mind, we don't really care -- there's a line of mindless zombies behind you.
HTH, HAND
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For the record, it's not censorship for a retailer to choose what they're willing to sell.
It bites, and the fact that they don't clearly label the "WalMart Edit" as such is bordering on deception, but it's not censorship.
A Government saying that no retailer can sell the unedited version, that'd be censorship.
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The RIAA isn't setting out to do this, it's happening as a result of peoples' fear of a RIAA lawsuit.
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14 meters per minute? Bah! How much is that in furlongss per fortnight?
ps. It's a joke. I know that Google can tell me that it's about 23
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FWIW, this predates email. My father had a well-worn copy of this on a sign above a type-setting machine in his graphics shop. I know that I'd seen it there in the mid 70s, and it was old when I got there.
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Ok, I know I'm a late post to the story, but I did RTFA, and he didn't say a word about condensation.
When he temp-tested the main die, it was covered in frost. Now obviously, this setup was only done to set records, so he's not running it for more than a few minutes.
What do other sub-freezing cooling systems do about the frost?
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some times I wish mod points were on sale :) It would make ideal gift to many of my buddies and ofcourse to myself too..
Nahh, that'd never work
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Talking isn't/shouldn't be illegal.
Doing things that harm others is/should be illegal.
If person A is selling drugs, and person B is saying where person A can be found, then go and prosecute person A.
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Wow, I must be further left-of-center than I thought. NPR isn't corporate radio?
To answer your original ponder about what kind of ads, how about ADM, Saab, Keane, etc. They're still ads, they're still for-profit corporations paying money for their ads to be placed on advertiser-supported broadcast radio.
Pledge drives support the operations budget of the local re-broadcaster, not NPR.
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It'll probably turn out to be an alien goatse when they finally get it decoded.
<Marvin the Martian>
Where was the blood-curdling scream? There was supposed to be an "Ahhh! My Eyes!!!" scream!
</Marvin the Martian>
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Yeah, but they don't name the people whose SETI clients actually found these prospects. Bah!
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Well, you could buy a pre-packaged setup like the Beamer, which would let you video-conf with any other Beamer users.
Or you could use a webcam and open standards, and be able to chat with any other PC/Mac users with a webcam
Reminds me of the first Soviet company to get a FAX machine. They were quite proud of themselves, until they realized they didn't have anyone else to call.
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Classic, thanks for the torrent.
Is this the video, or is there a more complete/better quality one going around? I'd love to get to see more of this.
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When I took a "Special Topics in Computer Networking" class from Evi Nemeth, she told us some stories from the early wiring at CU Boulder. Here's Evi's tip for how to lay out a SONET ring:
1: Don't squish the ring into a line, even though it's cheaper to dig one trench than two.
2: Dig a trench, then put a conduit (with your fiber) in the bottom. Lay down a foot of dirt, then a bright orange plastic sheet that says "FIBER OPTIC CABLE: STOP DIGGING"
3: Lay down some more dirt, then another layer of this plastic
Instead, what CU did was:
1: Cut trenching costs by laying both East and West sides of the ring in a single trench.
2: Lay the two conduits side-by-side, then drape bright orange plastic on top of the pipes, then add dirt.
At this point, she said they might as well label the plastic as "STOP DIGGING, YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN DOWN THE ENTIRE NETWORK"
Which, of course, they eventually did.
Funny thing is, the backhoe operator had the good sense to stop his work and contact Campus Networking. When the network tech came over, he picked up the fiber and looked at it to see if it was live. Now there's a guy with a black dot in one retina -- the tech, not the backhoe operator.
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That someone sue over the 10 minutes of commercials I'm forced to watch after putting a DVD in.
What commercials?
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No no no, not notebook.exe (notepad.exe?) -- change it to progman.exe The old Windows3.1 Program Manager is still there and works dandy.
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More annoying than jet noise are sonic booms. They are not going to be acceptable (by law) over populated areas. Therefore, any service is limited to coastal American airports (like New York City) because there just are not many airports approachable over ocean routes.
So why not go supersonic while you're over the ocean, then slow down to mach 0.95 for the last part of the trip?
Atlanta is inland, granted, but most of the trip from London to Atlanta is still over the ocean.
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What phone is your Verizon friend using? My older Nokia drops calls in and around Boulder (city and east county) all the time.
I was recently on the roof of a building in Boulder where I had line-of-sight to most of the city. I got three out of four bars.
I had assumed that Verizon simply sucked, but maybe it's my phone.
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They have picture and pretty graphs here! Happy now?4 9/1382
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/56
Which would be handy if I subscribed to Science.
I don't, so all I get is a "Please sign on" page
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I like the combination of this particular post with your sig:
"hey, can you throw ________ onto the server, i want that for my iPod."
No thanks I gave up ________ for lent.
I'll have to remember that the next time someone asks me to throw something onto the server.
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As any pilot can tell you, Helicopters don't fly. They're just so ugly that the earth pushes them away.
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I would drive an electric vehicle everywhere if I could go 200 miles (with no slowing down towards the end) per charge, and a completely full charge only took 10 minutes.
200 miles of reasonable performance isn't that hard to do, but it costs more (economy of scale, probably) to build one.
Charging in 10 minutes isn't a factor of the batteries so much as the wire feeding them. I know of a company building a lead-acid based cell that has less internal cell resistance than an extension cord. You can charge their cells just about as fast as your house wiring can deliver the amps, but 15 amps @ 115 volts is still only 1725 watts, and 10 minutes @ 1725 watts isn't going to drive a car for 200 miles.
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shhhh... Don't say that in public, you fool!
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Yes, but if you play your cards right, this can work in your favor.
My computer is an aged Dell laptop (Lattitude CP-x, P3-650, maybe only 600) but it accepts newer batteries. Using the snazzy 75UYF cells at 3800 mAhours, I get between 9 and 10 hours of WiFi use if I pop two batteries in.
How long does your laptop go between charges?
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Thanks for your interesting letter. Unfortunately, we view you in a somewhat different light than you view yourself. You think that you are a consumer, and that your opinions matter.
Allow me to be blunt -- you are meat.
We buy you and sell you by the pound. We create "content" to engage your brain, but only in the way we want it to be engaged. We do this so that you'll do two things:
If, by some strange chance, you manage to see through this and start making up your own mind, we don't really care -- there's a line of mindless zombies behind you.
HTH, HAND
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