Huh? Telocity was bought in December by Hughes Electronics, who has also provided millions in interim financing.
Granted, Telocity's had quite a few service problems of late, mostly with routing and their NNTP servers, but things are a bit better now.
The environmental Nazis claim the USA is a polluting nation, but with technology like this, we have demonstrated quite clearly how we will dominate the market for 'green' automobiles in the future. BMW and Mercedes and Honda have nothing like this.
Actually BMW has done (and may still be doing) research on hydrogen power, and Honda has the Insight, which is a gasoline/electric hybrid.
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[i]I'm British and sad as it is, one of the few things I really like about travelling to the US (*) is the bathrooms (in the english sense - shower & co included) - I wonder why they don't work the same way elsewhere? Is there some fundamental plumbing difference that stops it?[/i]
My impression, based on what my business partner (born and raised near London) has told me, is that the UK's water system infrastructure is, for the most part, quite old and unable to meet the demands of US/Canadian-style plumbing. He's told me that Thames Water (the main water supplier for Greater London) loses more than half the water it pumps, mostly due to leaks in their 100+ year-old pipes. If they were to make the investment in modernizing their system, it would probably be capable of delivering enough pressure & volume to support North American plumbing standards.
FWIW, New York City suffers some of these problems, though not to the same extent.
But Ebola, at least in the strains that have infected humans, isn't transmitted through the air; it's transmitted through contact with infected people/animals.
IIRC, the Reston strain, which infected monkeys and not humans, was airborne.
you can take your old cell phone (with charger, please) to your nearest fire station. They'll see that it gets a good home.
I discovered this program when I was in Manhattan on a contract gig back in May/June, so it may or may not still be in effect.
Back in my days as an undergrad physics major, my fellow geeks and I used to do that with liquid nitrogen. Instead of adding water, we'd drop a lead block on the bottle -- we weren't patient enough to wait for nature to take its course.
If we can build something which is genuinely capable of turning off tornadoes, there are plenty of high-risk zones that will suddenly be lucrative development opportunities. They'll be developed. It will be necessary to turn off the storms in those areas to prevent massive damage to life and property.
Actually, large cities tend to be somewhat tornado-resistant. They tend to be a bit warmer than the surrounding countryside, which seems to deflect twisters, and reinforced concrete construction, which is a standard for many commercial buildings, handles tornadoes pretty well, and in fact, seems to weaken any funnel clouds that have the temerity to attack them.
There are several CE keyboards currently or about to be on the market -- they usually attach to the serial port. In fact, the keyboard from the old Apple Newton can be adapted to this purpose.
It's already happening -- I received the following spam early this morning:
Hi,
A Poll is being taken to settle the issue whether
commercial e-mail or SPAM is a good form of advertisement,
which you would like more of or it's a bad form of
advertisement which you are against.
The arguments go more or less as follows:
Pro:
Commercial E-mail is a very efficient, cost effective means
of informing people about new goods and services. This translates
into substantial savings to the consumer. That the vast majority
of internet users don't mind Spam and want to hear about new
goods and services.
That for Years now, more advanced bulk mailing software
has allowed bulk mailers to shoulder the full cost of Spamming.
This cost has increased and access has become much more difficult
due to unfair and illegal practices by the big providers (the
later day Robber Barons) Who have a vested interest in keeping
Costs and Profits high for as long as possible, and with the news
media with whom most have formed alliances, have and continue
to wage a war of misinformation, deceptions, and out and out lies.
That through an unholy alliance with vix.com, individuals
and companies have been targeted by cyber terrorists who have
attacked their equipment, programming and subjected people to
threats of violence by posting personal information on these
legitimate companies employees and individuals home addresses,
phone numbers, which leads to threats against them, there
families and children.
Lastly, that the Robber Barons (Big Internet Providers) use
special identification programs in their efforts to stop free
trade that invades the privacy of all individuals by identifying,
reading, and then determining whether or not you will get your
mail or not (ask yourself this question, if AOL or SPRINT or AT&T
or MicroSoftNetwork, (MSN), sent someone to your house to
intercept your mail, open it, read it, and then arbitrarily
decide whether they will put it in your mail box or not. Would
you put up with that?) They call it filtering, we know it by
its more insidious name, CENSORSHIP.
Why in the world should you be subjected to this, and have to pay
higher prices !
Anti SPAM:
Anti Spam arguments go something like this:
They don't seem to like it.
Have a different opinion, give us a call because, your
opinion on how to make this kind of advertisement better &
to increase its use, is vital. Or if this is a terrible
form of advertisement and how it should be curtailed,
regulated or ended all together.
Please call, 1-900-226-0388 and tell us.
The charges for registering your opinion are as follows:
Of the $1.99 per minute charge,
1-dollar goes to the telephone service Bureau
19 cents to retrieve your opinion
79 cents to transcribe this information into a viable format
Leaving a total of 2 cents.
So do call if you wish to get your 2 cents worth in !
Poll results will be shared with the World !
Attention both Pro and Anti Spam Advocates and those of you who
may have sought removal from any number of bulk mailing lists.
If you have received this e-mail it is because it is a conscious
decision on our part to try and include everyone in this important
poll. To not have included those who profess a dislike for this
form of advertisement would have eliminated those individuals
from the process and provide an unfair advantage to one side of
the poll. We sincerely hope that all interested individuals or
entity's understand the necessity of inclusion.
This message is sent in compliance of the proposed
bill: SECTION 301.
Per Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C) of S. 1618,
further transmissions to you by the sender of this
email may be stopped at no cost to you by sending a
reply to this email address with the word remove in
the subject line. This message is not intended for
residents in the State of Washington, screening of
addresses has been done to the best of our technical
ability. If you are a Washington, Virginia, or
California resident or otherwise wish to be removed
from this list, further transmissions to you by the
sender of this email may be stopped at no cost to you
by sending a reply to mstrsrvcs@mailme.org
with the word remove in the subject line.
See this Straight Dope article for more info on numbers stations -- Cecil seems to be of the opinion that they're more the CIA's bailiwick, and he knows everything, so he must be right.
As far as I know, should we be hit by something a few KM across, the devastation would be immense. Even after the initial impact had settled, there are likely to be worldwide temperature falls of a couple of degrees.
Well, if the global warming theorists are correct, a small asteroid or comet collision may be just what we need to bring rising temperatures back into line. So instead of figuring out how to repel these cosmic invaders, we need to figure out a way to attract them. Just plop one onto some sparsely populated area every few years, and we're all set.
The supermarkets could cut down on checkout clerks because now you would be doing the scanning for them.
It's on the way; some Kroger stores in metro Atlanta (and probably other cities, too) have self-serve checkouts where the shopper scans his/her own items and pays with cash, ATM, or debit/credit card.
Not really. Note that the story is from Reuters, a UK-based news service. The word scheme, in British usage, doesn't have the negative connotations that it does in American usage -- to them, the word is synonymous with plan.
Bill Gates, upon hearing this news, is reportedly trying to obtain a thermonuclear device to detonate in the slide area, which will cause a tsunami which will devastate much of the US East Coast, including Raleigh-Durham, NC and Washington, DC.
By this, Gates hopes to kill two birds with one stone, destroying the US Department of Justice and RedHat, a leading provider of the Linux operating system.
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Their Inspiron and Latitude laptops will support RedHat, at least according to this page. IIRC, you can order the machine with Linux pre-installed.
Telocity has basically gone under
Huh? Telocity was bought in December by Hughes Electronics, who has also provided millions in interim financing. Granted, Telocity's had quite a few service problems of late, mostly with routing and their NNTP servers, but things are a bit better now.
We still make lots of NICs (last I knew, every Dell computer ships with a 3Com chip on board).
Not this one (Inspiron 8000, with Intel 82559 chip).
Check out the straight dope on this...
The environmental Nazis claim the USA is a polluting nation, but with technology like this, we have demonstrated quite clearly how we will dominate the market for 'green' automobiles in the future. BMW and Mercedes and Honda have nothing like this.
Actually BMW has done (and may still be doing) research on hydrogen power, and Honda has the Insight, which is a gasoline/electric hybrid.
[i]I'm British and sad as it is, one of the few things I really like about travelling to the US (*) is the bathrooms (in the english sense - shower & co included) - I wonder why they don't work the same way elsewhere? Is there some fundamental plumbing difference that stops it?[/i] My impression, based on what my business partner (born and raised near London) has told me, is that the UK's water system infrastructure is, for the most part, quite old and unable to meet the demands of US/Canadian-style plumbing. He's told me that Thames Water (the main water supplier for Greater London) loses more than half the water it pumps, mostly due to leaks in their 100+ year-old pipes. If they were to make the investment in modernizing their system, it would probably be capable of delivering enough pressure & volume to support North American plumbing standards. FWIW, New York City suffers some of these problems, though not to the same extent.
But Ebola, at least in the strains that have infected humans, isn't transmitted through the air; it's transmitted through contact with infected people/animals. IIRC, the Reston strain, which infected monkeys and not humans, was airborne.
It was Einstein, and he was talking about World War IV.
you can take your old cell phone (with charger, please) to your nearest fire station. They'll see that it gets a good home. I discovered this program when I was in Manhattan on a contract gig back in May/June, so it may or may not still be in effect.
Back in my days as an undergrad physics major, my fellow geeks and I used to do that with liquid nitrogen. Instead of adding water, we'd drop a lead block on the bottle -- we weren't patient enough to wait for nature to take its course.
If we can build something which is genuinely capable of turning off tornadoes, there are plenty of high-risk zones that will suddenly be lucrative development opportunities. They'll be developed. It will be necessary to turn off the storms in those areas to prevent massive damage to life and property.
Actually, large cities tend to be somewhat tornado-resistant. They tend to be a bit warmer than the surrounding countryside, which seems to deflect twisters, and reinforced concrete construction, which is a standard for many commercial buildings, handles tornadoes pretty well, and in fact, seems to weaken any funnel clouds that have the temerity to attack them.
I signed up on July 24 and am still waiting to receive my PIN via snailmail. Without it, I can't activate my membership.
There are several CE keyboards currently or about to be on the market -- they usually attach to the serial port. In fact, the keyboard from the old Apple Newton can be adapted to this purpose.
Again, Cecil Adams comes through -- this Straight Dope article discusses the legendary Vatican porn library.
See this Straight Dope article for more info on numbers stations -- Cecil seems to be of the opinion that they're more the CIA's bailiwick, and he knows everything, so he must be right.
Also, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down COPA as unconstitutional, so the law can't be enforced, even if it were violated.
As far as I know, should we be hit by something a few KM across, the devastation would be immense. Even after the initial impact had settled, there are likely to be worldwide temperature falls of a couple of degrees.
Well, if the global warming theorists are correct, a small asteroid or comet collision may be just what we need to bring rising temperatures back into line. So instead of figuring out how to repel these cosmic invaders, we need to figure out a way to attract them. Just plop one onto some sparsely populated area every few years, and we're all set.
Slashdot, bless it's heart is committed to giving teens a release for their violent impulses. This probably saves lots of windows.
/. has been accused of saving Windows.
This is probably the first time that
The supermarkets could cut down on checkout clerks because now you would be doing the scanning for them.
It's on the way; some Kroger stores in metro Atlanta (and probably other cities, too) have self-serve checkouts where the shopper scans his/her own items and pays with cash, ATM, or debit/credit card.
). The VHF aeronatutical band is just below the commercial FM band, by the way.
ObNitpick -- it's above the FM band.
Parts like wheels and axles just aren't biologically possible.
Well, maybe -- this Straight Dope column discusses this very topic.
MS is way ahead of you -- some of their docs refer to them as UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifiers).
I guess that Bill Gates, having achieved world domination (or close to it), decided to set his sights a bit higher...
Interesting that they refer to it as a "scheme".
Not really. Note that the story is from Reuters, a UK-based news service. The word scheme, in British usage, doesn't have the negative connotations that it does in American usage -- to them, the word is synonymous with plan.
Bill Gates, upon hearing this news, is reportedly trying to obtain a thermonuclear device to detonate in the slide area, which will cause a tsunami which will devastate much of the US East Coast, including Raleigh-Durham, NC and Washington, DC.
By this, Gates hopes to kill two birds with one stone, destroying the US Department of Justice and RedHat, a leading provider of the Linux operating system.