Yea, kids need to get out more and play real baseball and get hit in the head a few times. This teaches physics lessons (Newton's third law) better than any simulation can.
Right now we are out in the boonies. There are lots of dead areas for cell phones. A bag phone helps but you have to pay extra for the second number.
As far as broadband for home goes, we have ISDN and that is IT. I would be very interested in what it would take to deploy a wireless network. Could it be done? Could you even break even? We do have plenty of mountains and hills. Maybe repeaters could be deployed on the power poles.
I would be very interested to know if anyone is doing this in rural areas and what their experience is?
>The next great world power is going to be a country that has less stringent IP laws, and a reasonable patent system, one that encourages invention and improvement of invention. Not one like ours that has basically become a corporate blackmail and extortion tool.>
It looks like it's going to be the EU. Doing business by suing is NOT going to help the US world wide. There is a severe lack of trust in the US world wide. The Euro is now worth over $1 US and may replace the dollar as the currency of choice if the lack of trust in America continues. The corporate greed needs to stop or it will bite us all including the greedy eventually.
This is old news. Walmart has been doing this on their web site for a while now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all of their Linux machines available only on their web site and not in the stores? When WalMart put Linux in thier stores, that will be news. I haven't seen that yet.
Not so fast! You are being socially engineered right now. I just checked out that number and it is the same as 1-800-FONE-SEX. Get your credit card ready. =|-(0-
Yes, that was my favorite too. I believe Atari came out with one that had vector graphics like an oscilloscope and in 3 colors (i think). That was the definitive one alright, but I believe Atari did that one and not Lucas Arts. I'm not sure. It was long ago and far away.
>>First, he can fly. That's a HUGE advantage. Second, he's really strong. Really REALLY strong...
Yes, but Superman is really Really REALLY STUPID. Batman is really smart and would get CatWOMEN and/or BATwomen to trick him into drinking some GBH and then they would lay some KryptoNITE on him.
Superman wouldn't stand a chance against that.
-- It's not the meaning but the mechanics that maters.
Very simple, it's all about control. Only by selling 10 million CD's can an artist make money off of album sales. 95% of artists make most of thier money from the live shows which their CD promotes. If they don't need the RIAA to promote them then what are they good for? If they try to over do it, then the artist will promote themselves on the internet. The next step for the big corporations will be to try to control the internet itself. Watch OUT!
Yea, that really bugs me too. We get probably a couple of hate e-mails a day just because our address was in their "from" field. They didn't bother to look at the header. Oh well....0-(
I wonder if DSL has different rules? We don't have broadband out here in the sticks. Aldelphia was supposed to bring cable in but I gues it ain't happening now. Verizon is our only other hope and I'm not optomistic about that either.
>>Well, so far that's proved to be useless, considering the lack of a commercial OS to run off of it, no inter-web games available as of yet, and no use of this would-be harddrive that couldn't be achieved on a PS-2.
Actually it does have a use. you can rip mp3's to it. I think it also loads part of the game there so that it is not constantly stopping to read the DVD during game play. That's about it. That is where PS2 and GameCube can beat XboX on profit/loss (i.e. no hard drive). Microsoft does have a huge war chest and a bunch of lawyers but in the end I think the Box will be hackable.
Right! I get quite a few with gArbAge characters in them and a lot of Russian p0rn0. I think we have a lot of people here going to porn sites and giving them our email at work. Maybe that's how they get it. Maybe the spammerz crawl for it. I don't know but we get mostly porn and a bunch wanting to make this thing or that thing larger. Don't they know that everybody's stuff and thingy's here is big enough?
I wonder if there is a geographic map somewherz? Maybe we could send the FBI after them for stealing my bandwidth. All 49K of it. ##%(0)-
>>These people abused the service, their service should be cut and then they should be sued for what they stole, plus damages and a punitive fine. But give them back their fricking hardware. The cops have no business here, they delivered the message and that's where it ends.
Maybe they were spammers. If so, maybe the cops DO have business there. I doubt if this was the case. They were prorbably just downloading AVI's and MP3's.
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Yea, kids need to get out more and play real baseball and get hit in the head a few times. This teaches physics lessons (Newton's third law) better than any simulation can.
C'mon MAN MOD me up. or NOT, oh well....sigh
Right now we are out in the boonies. There are lots of dead areas for cell phones. A bag phone helps but you have to pay extra for the second number.
As far as broadband for home goes, we have ISDN and that is IT. I would be very interested in what it would take to deploy a wireless network. Could it be done? Could you even break even? We do have plenty of mountains and hills. Maybe repeaters could be deployed on the power poles.
I would be very interested to know if anyone is doing this in rural areas and what their experience is?
>The next great world power is going to be a country that has less stringent IP laws, and a reasonable patent system, one that encourages invention and improvement of invention. Not one like ours that has basically become a corporate blackmail and extortion tool.>
It looks like it's going to be the EU. Doing business by suing is NOT going to help the US world wide. There is a severe lack of trust in the US world wide. The Euro is now worth over $1 US and may replace the dollar as the currency of choice if the lack of trust in America continues. The corporate greed needs to stop or it will bite us all including the greedy eventually.
This is old news. Walmart has been doing this on their web site for a while now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all of their Linux machines available only on their web site and not in the stores? When WalMart put Linux in thier stores, that will be news. I haven't seen that yet.
What happens if the system is hacked? Can the robots then be turned against us or do they just quit working?
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Rockets are sCary because it is a con-trolled eXplosion. Plus they are not the most stable shape there is to balance as it goes up either.
--I cn't spel--
Yes, blocking yahoo and Hotmail doesn't seem the way to go. We have too many cudtomers that use those.
I gave this link a go and it seems to help after about a month.
http://www.opt-out.cdt.org/
How does the naming system relate to the numbers? I'm most confused.
Not so fast! You are being socially engineered right now. I just checked out that number and it is the same as 1-800-FONE-SEX. Get your credit card ready.
=|-(0-
Yes, that was my favorite too. I believe Atari came out with one that had vector graphics like an oscilloscope and in 3 colors (i think). That was the definitive one alright, but I believe Atari did that one and not Lucas Arts. I'm not sure. It was long ago and far away.
>>First, he can fly. That's a HUGE advantage. Second, he's really strong. Really REALLY strong...
Yes, but Superman is really Really REALLY STUPID. Batman is really smart and would get CatWOMEN and/or BATwomen to trick him into drinking some GBH and then they would lay some KryptoNITE on him.
Superman wouldn't stand a chance against that.
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It's not the meaning but the mechanics that maters.
Very simple, it's all about control. Only by selling 10 million CD's can an artist make money off of album sales. 95% of artists make most of thier money from the live shows which their CD promotes. If they don't need the RIAA to promote them then what are they good for? If they try to over do it, then the artist will promote themselves on the internet. The next step for the big corporations will be to try to control the internet itself. Watch OUT!
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the oxen is slow but the earth is patient..SP.
Yea, that really bugs me too. We get probably a couple of hate e-mails a day just because our address was in their "from" field. They didn't bother to look at the header. Oh well....0-(
Why would I want to pay $1,499 for 10 gigs? This is being "ripped" off. Sony is part of the RIAA aren't they?
I wonder if DSL has different rules? We don't have broadband out here in the sticks. Aldelphia was supposed to bring cable in but I gues it ain't happening now. Verizon is our only other hope and I'm not optomistic about that either.
>>Well, so far that's proved to be useless, considering the lack of a commercial OS to run off of it, no inter-web games available as of yet, and no use of this would-be harddrive that couldn't be achieved on a PS-2.
Actually it does have a use. you can rip mp3's to it. I think it also loads part of the game there so that it is not constantly stopping to read the DVD during game play. That's about it. That is where PS2 and GameCube can beat XboX on profit/loss (i.e. no hard drive). Microsoft does have a huge war chest and a bunch of lawyers but in the end I think the Box will be hackable.
Useless and Clueless is right. 4442 x 2900 pixels and useless. What about HOTMAIL! They don't call it "HOTMAIL" for nuthin.
Right! I get quite a few with gArbAge characters in them and a lot of Russian p0rn0. I think we have a lot of people here going to porn sites and giving them our email at work. Maybe that's how they get it. Maybe the spammerz crawl for it. I don't know but we get mostly porn and a bunch wanting to make this thing or that thing larger. Don't they know that everybody's stuff and thingy's here is big enough?
I wonder if there is a geographic map somewherz? Maybe we could send the FBI after them for stealing my bandwidth. All 49K of it. ##%(0)-
>> Drug money sponsers terrorism? Who's laundering the drug money? (Click on homepage)
WorldCON's?
>>These people abused the service, their service should be cut and then they should be sued for what they stole, plus damages and a punitive fine. But give them back their fricking hardware. The cops have no business here, they delivered the message and that's where it ends.
Maybe they were spammers. If so, maybe the cops DO have business there. I doubt if this was the case. They were prorbably just downloading AVI's and MP3's.
>>Light from the 650 nm laser is focused on an object, such as a fingertip, creating an external cavity.
I want one that creates an INTERNAL cavity!