when my SDH 400 died, I stopped time shifting. I loved my Tivo- I couldn't see paying 8.31/12.95$ a month for tv guide data.
think about that-- TV guide is how much a year? 56 issue gift subscription is $31.92 and they snail mail it!
I read more than a few webcomments that the free basic was a major loser for tivo, far more people didn't convert to regular subscribers (including myself)
It was wonderful, I do miss it- now I catch my shows or I don't-- some I get from on demand later-- others I may never see, I'll live, and I'll do so with my
there is a related announcement coming soon from world leaders, and this pronouncement from the vatican is so that they don't bleed followers in the mayhem to follow.
nilbog writes "What's the actual cost of sending SMS messages? This article does the math and concludes that, for example, sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS. Why has the cost of bandwidth, infrastructure, and technology in general plummeted while the price of SMS messages have risen so egregiously? How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission?"
Let me get my old fart hat on. I first ever was in contact with a 419 via postal mail.
yes, 419 scams used to be pulled via the postal service.... international stamps the whole bit.
I admit- I was intrigued (and naive) and did nothing.. sounds too good to be true etc,, but I thought about it a whole lot. Since then, and before the prevalance of 419 emails, I've seen more than a few news stories about people getting into hot water for believing
now that 419 email is so widespread, and the topic so widely known, I acknowledge that it's funny on me.. but the subject matter is also very well known to many many people....
I read what you wrote, and a thought came to me, and they are my fears.
I wasn't thinking of anything as complex and gentle as the original posters suggested " not breed out "
I was thinking more like a very specific engineered bio-weapon, something based on your comment of "Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before..."
if specific such gene were discovered, that allowed for five 9's of probability that a person was black, how long do you think it would be before the first supremecist jackass with a little know how would attempt to use that knowledge in a way that would be particularly malevolent.
a few people, call them dedicated, call them focused, call them fanatics-- could make something that would on the surface appear to work to further their goals.. and they would think it was 'safe enough' to release..
I take a fragment of your statement Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before... ...the only way people would use genetics as a reason for some genocide and imagine
Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before... ...the best way people would use genetics as means to commit genocide
the playing field is level for all businesses- the business chose its location! they had the same opportunity to locate where the multi-billion dollar company did
(paraphrasing from a vorkosigan novel) imagine 50 little islands of economic evolution-
it makes a great system of checks and balances between citizens, government, and businesses
the corporations, and businesses can choose where they do business, based on the market and regulations in effect where they set up shop (yes, even the local mom & pops can decide where to sign a lease)
if an enlightened state greases their tax structure to be more appealing to a corporation, then the corporation will register there, build offices there, grow there, and the government base for revenue will grow
if a stodgy state taxes everything under the sun- business will leave, citizens will leave, and the governement will wither
Do you know how much Philadelphia & NY city wage tax sucks? terms of residence and state of residence variations?
I like it- as long as the field for government to tax is indepenedent of other states, they have to compete with other states or lose out either in citizenry or businesses
Slashdot Mirror
that's EXACTLY like television is...
I can see die hard, and swordfish, and the patriot, and all the other 'action' movies.
but I can't see dick of erotica.... entendre intentional.
there is no great suprise there.
and if you can't find porn elsewhere-- well, that's really sad man.
you've never heard of spontaneous combustion of human beings?
now you know the cause....
where they display in their opening screenshot
http://www.armada-online.com/screenshots/screenshots.html
someone referring to someone else as a NOOB
when my SDH 400 died, I stopped time shifting. I loved my Tivo- I couldn't see paying 8.31/12.95$ a month for tv guide data.
think about that-- TV guide is how much a year? 56 issue gift subscription is $31.92 and they snail mail it!
I read more than a few webcomments that the free basic was a major loser for tivo, far more people didn't convert to regular subscribers (including myself)
It was wonderful, I do miss it- now I catch my shows or I don't-- some I get from on demand later-- others I may never see, I'll live, and I'll do so with my
Yet.
on the surface it's sounds right...
but what if you drop coils under high-power transmission lines to garner free electricity?
what if you tune in on HBO or skinamax without a subscription?
what if you slurp a optical link between two banks using an IR bridge?
how about reading vibrations off a window with a laser to listen in on a conversation? or with a shotgun microphone
what if I'm standing across 86th ave in NYC in my apartment, looking into your bedroom making love to the wife, or the family dog?
these are all forms of 'radiation' that I can percieve, without entering your person or property....
there is a related announcement coming soon from world leaders,
and this pronouncement from the vatican is so that they don't bleed followers in the mayhem to follow.
nilbog writes
"What's the actual cost of sending SMS messages? This article does the math and concludes that, for example, sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS. Why has the cost of bandwidth, infrastructure, and technology in general plummeted while the price of SMS messages have risen so egregiously? How can carriers continue to justify the high cost of their apparent super-premium data transmission?"
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/29/0244208&from=rss
it's been what- 60+ years?
take a look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_800 from 1996
now read this from 1998
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29630
you find out they don't have it and are only paying 45,000 in fines..
so long as it supports remote desktop connection..
I can run the horsepower I have at home just fine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/quotes
turn in yer nerd ID please....
if the crime has a name, someone thought of it....
10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 x = x +1
30 ? x
40 goto 10
and it was a complete failure...
even
10 ? "crap"
fails...
how good is this implementation?
http://www.slayersaves.com/tour-dates.php
Take a look-- it should blow your mind..
look at 2007....
a great 31 PPM HP 4700 that has been a champ (and cost 2k new)
and an epson 1800...
why? lasers don't do full bleed,
and tabloid/oversize color lasers make my wallet bleed.
I occasionally need edge to edge, and occasionally need a 11X14 or 13X19 print
Let me get my old fart hat on.
I first ever was in contact with a 419 via postal mail.
yes, 419 scams used to be pulled via the postal service.... international stamps the whole bit.
I admit- I was intrigued (and naive) and did nothing.. sounds too good to be true etc,, but I thought about it a whole lot.
Since then, and before the prevalance of 419 emails,
I've seen more than a few news stories about people getting into hot water for believing
now that 419 email is so widespread, and the topic so widely known, I acknowledge that it's funny on me..
but the subject matter is also very well known to many many people....
not just entertainning, but educational!
CGI child porn is still illegal.. and hey-- no children involved!
they may just decide to self-clone/cannibalize...
use their OWN flesh as the source of their cloned steak..
they can't object to the 'suffering' of themselves if they want some nice ribs....
is nice, beacuse all the media player apps I use from bed fit their controls into the bottom & top 5% of the screen
media player, VLC, winamp, the dvd software I use... the bars fit perfectly, I can leave them live and watch 16:9 content
I read what you wrote, and a thought came to me, and they are my fears.
I wasn't thinking of anything as complex and gentle as the original posters suggested " not breed out "
I was thinking more like a very specific engineered bio-weapon, something based on your comment of
"Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before..."
if specific such gene were discovered, that allowed for five 9's of probability that a person was black, how long do you think
it would be before the first supremecist jackass with a little know how would attempt to use that knowledge in a way that would be particularly malevolent.
a few people, call them dedicated, call them focused, call them fanatics-- could make something that would on the surface appear to work
to further their goals.. and they would think it was 'safe enough' to release..
that's my concern...
Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before...
and imagine
Let's say we find out that africans, asians, and europeans have differences in genes that we didn't notice before...
what kinds of adsense relationships they can match to genetic markers.
the mind boggles....
marker for a small penis and low intelligence? show them a camarro
small penis and high intelligence? corvette
CE sucks on what is for it 'larger screens'
ce on VGA is poor...
CE on larger than VGA resolutions is very painful
lots of apps & displays & views don't work right.
it lists 4 with a higher deathcount,
the greatest of which both triples titanic and was in the last 20 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll
4,300 - 4,500 - Doña Paz, (Philippines, 1987)(Estimates vary because of overloading and unmanifested passengers, only 21 survived [3][4][5])
3,920 - Jiangya ship explosion off Shanghai, (China, 1948)
1,863 - MV Joola (Senegal, 2002)
1,547 - Sultana (Mississippi River, 1865)
the playing field is level for all businesses-
the business chose its location!
they had the same opportunity to locate where the multi-billion dollar company did
(paraphrasing from a vorkosigan novel)
imagine 50 little islands of economic evolution-
it makes a great system of checks and balances between citizens, government, and businesses
the corporations, and businesses can choose where they do business,
based on the market and regulations in effect where they set up shop
(yes, even the local mom & pops can decide where to sign a lease)
if an enlightened state greases their tax structure to be more appealing to a corporation,
then the corporation will register there, build offices there, grow there, and the government base for revenue will grow
if a stodgy state taxes everything under the sun- business will leave, citizens will leave, and the governement will wither
Do you know how much Philadelphia & NY city wage tax sucks? terms of residence and state of residence variations?
I like it- as long as the field for government to tax is indepenedent of other states,
they have to compete with other states or lose out either in citizenry or businesses