Sucks, if they threaten your meal ticket, but this whole trend has been going on since Sears & Roebucks sent out their first catatlog.
In 1897 and for years after the Sears catalog had a large grocery section --- a much better selection than the small country store could offer and very attractively priced.
No perishable goods like fresh fruits or meats, of course.
On almost every page Sears pushed the notion of buying in bulk or "clubbing" your orders with neighbors to gain the most favorable shipping rates.
As if he couldn't get someone else to proxy for him already. If apple keeps him away and he finds something worth while, he'll find someone else that is willing to front for him and just submit another app to prove his point
That doesn't means the proxy gets to keep the new app in the app store.
Talk of using a front is talk of a forming a conspiracy against Apple. It becomes a whole new ball game where the stakes are much higher.
The very least that can be expected is that Apple will be screening its developers and its apps all that more closely. Where Apple leads, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and all the rest are sure to follow.
We have free health care. It's called WebMD. Remove prescription requirements for non-narcotics and you eliminate 80-90% of health care demand.
The geek has gone off his meds again, I see.
That, or he has never learned how to read the fine print.
The [WebMD] Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the WebMD Site!
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. WebMD does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site.
Reliance on any information provided by WebMD, WebMD employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of WebMD, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk.
You will find this under the bland head Addtitional Information on the back pages of the WebMD site and not on the front page, which is where it belongs. I have bolded and parsed it for emphasis here.
I am a rather complex prescription drug regime myself, only one of which is on the restricted list, and not a narcotic by legal definition but does require clinical monitoring.
The term is, today, imprecisely defined and typically has negative connotations. When used in a legal context in the US, a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of strict governmental regulation, such as heroin or morphine.
I think people like the convenience of consoles, mainly. Turn them on, and bang, you're playing in a moment. The locked-in hardware means that everything you run on it will be compatible, or updates will be auto-installed.
The Geek
However, we've gotten sick of the console-makers' sense that somehow they OWN us as customers, and can reach further and further into our lives to control the console experience downstream.
If I mod my console, that's MY BUSINESS, not the hardware-sellers.
The console is couch-friendly social gaming. It is popular entrainment and not a social cause.
How many PS3 owners upgraded their firmware without shedding a single tear for the passing of the Other OS?
About 64 milllion, if the geek is being honest with himself.
Yeah, you can ask anybody who studied antique history. We all know that the romans grew wine in England. How do people think they managed to do that? Of course it was warmer back then than nowadays.
What matter is the varieties you grow and how you manage them.
But "what we all now" isn't always true.
Pre-Roman Britain
Whether or not vines were grown and wine made in Britain before the arrival of the Romans is open to debate as there are no reliable records pointing one way or the other. Wine amphorae, dating from before the Roman conquest, have been discovered on sites in southern England.
Strong trading links with France and Italy allowed wine to be imported relatively easily and it would therefore seem unlikely that there was any need to establish vineyards in this country.
Roman Britain
It is generally agreed that the Romans introduced the vine to Britain. It has also been inferred that the climate in Britain at that time was warmer.
At the end of the first century AD, however, the writer Tacitus declared that our climate was ''objectionable'', and not at all suitable for growing vines, which could suggest that someone had at least tried to establish vines, even if they had been unsuccessful.
The Romans liked their wine - whether home grown or imported. After invading Britain in AD 43, wine drinking became more commonplace and whenever Roman villas, houses and garrisons have been excavated, there is nearly always archaeological evidence of wine amphorae and drinking cups, and occasionally grape pips and stems of bunches of grapes.
You can a manufacturer of cups and amphorae and not be a grower. You can be importer of wines and not be grower. You can be a grower of grapes and still not have a marketable product.
The gas station example is specifically not horseshit. The number of independent gas station owners dropped dramatically after a number of insane regulations that required $100K's of dollars of unnecessary retrofitting.
From the WSJ:
Until the past five years or so, many gas stations were owned by the big energy companies. But most have since sold off their portfolio of stations to focus on more profitable areas, such as wholesale fuel sales.
Since 2008, for instance, Exxon Mobil Corp has sold more than 95% of the roughly 2,000 stations it owned, and it plans to sell the rest by year-end. Chevron Corp had 491 company-owned stations at the end of 2011, down from 1,348 in 2001.
Most U.S. gas stations are owned by tens of thousands of individual operators, many of whom have one or more locations. These independent station owners typically buy their fuel from distributors for the major fuel wholesalers like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. The regional distributors own or hire tanker trucks that go from the so-called racks at gasoline terminals to storage tanks at the individual stations.
The station owners, in turn, set their gas prices for consumers so that the average markup, or gross margin, on gas is typically around 15 cents or 16 cents a gallon.
Because consumers these days use plastic even for spontaneous small purchases such as gas, snacks and smokes, the station owners say their margins are eroding.
Frank Reluzco, owner of an Exxon station, auto-repair business and convenience store in Frederick, Md., said that roughly 90% of his sales are paid by credit card today, compared with about 75% five years ago. "It costs so much to fill a tank right now; no one's going to carry around that much cash."
Increased competition from supermarkets and warehouse clubs is also a challenge. Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco Wholesale Corp added its first gas pumps alongside one of its stores in Tucson, Ariz., in 1995.
The device 'will allow developers to easily create and sell their games and be fully ''hackable'' --- anyone will be able to pull the machine apart and tinker with it to their heart's content.'
The gamer simply wants to play games.
The console maker offers a broad range of services and a clearly name-branded console-oriented community of gamers and other users.
The purchase of a Wii comes with a different set of expectations then the PS3 or XBox 360.
But console gaming has always been meat-space, couch-friendly, social. That is not the Android market.
PC and console gaming is cyclical: what is hot today is cold tomorrow.
That is true in both hardware and software.
You can see this in the listings at Gog.com --- an overview of 25 years of PC gaming. In the Humble Bundle. I think I have had my fill of the Indie physics-based platformer.
There is a risk in trying to emulate the success of the last generation entry-level hardware product. There is a risk that "casual gaming" tablet-style will prove just as ephemeral as every other genre and platform. The geek who has been whining about Metro should have been the first to pick up on that.
Turns out they have to break your window and connect to your OBD port... This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car....
True and, in the real world, a lot can happen in three minutes.
Right, because what I wanted for an input device for my word processing and spreadsheet applications is an 80" display that has no keyboard or mouse and relies on multitouch.
I want it for presentations, training sessions and so on.
It would be trivially easy to launch an on-screen keyboard or keypad when needed.
I'd really like it to be tightly integrated and optimized with a particular operating system instead of deciding on my own what is best for my needs.
Tech like this is shared like a photocopier and is not your personal, private, playground.
On October 10, 2006, following the second search of his home, Oakland police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigators removed a number of items. HSI had been investigating Reiser for money laundering. Police announced that they were now treating the disappearance as a homicide case, and Reiser was arrested for the murder of Nina Reiser.
It's five in the morning here and I am in no mood to be charitable.
The lawsuit was initiated by the children's grandmother. Their legal guardian. Her lawyers are working pro bono.
No fees. No slice of the pie. Got that?
Moving on.
Reiser is defending himself.
In a way, he is always defending himself. Reiser, it seems, can do no wrong.
He is the one who asked the judge to drag the kids into court.
"Why?" you ask.
What he wanted to do was to draw them into a grandiose scheme to promote his new and improved conspiracy theories and defense for the murder. The judge isn't playing along.
He claims his wife was abusing the kids, that she had Factitious disorder by proxy --- often referred to as Munchausen syndrome by proxy --- where a caregiver harms or even kills someone they are in charge of in order to gain sympathy and attention. During the 2008 trial, Reiser alluded to that as well, accusing his wife of having the disease when she wanted to get their son surgery for severe hearing loss.
In the unlawful death case, he now says why: ''I defended my children from harm.'' He added that, by murdering his wife, ''I stopped multiple felonies by doing so.''
In his papers, he accuses the courts, the prison system, county children's services, his trial attorneys and others of conspiring against him, during his murder trial and now in the civil case.
''There are extensive legal grounds under multiple arguments for defending an innocent child when the state will not, at the cost of a non-innocent party's life,'' Hans Reiser wrote.
The beginning of Monday's trial was marked by impatience from the judge and the children's legal team. The complaint against Reiser was originally filed in August 2008 by the children's maternal grandmother and legal guardian, Irina Sharanova. The case has been stalled as Reiser filed various motions to delay proceedings and claimed that he has not had adequate access to his legal documents while at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.
''This trial has been pending for a really long time,'' said Judge Dennis Hayashi about the pretrial claims. ''I also made it clear that I'm not delaying this any further.... We need to move on.''
Reiser, dressed in his orange prison uniform and appearing antsy at Hayashi's denials, has subpoenaed his children to appear in court.
They are living in Russia with Sharanova and are not expected at the trial, [Sharanova's attorney] said.
"I personally don't think it would do the children any good to come here and testify in this trial,"
"They'd have to relive what they went through as very young children."
Both of the children were at their father's house in the Montclair district when the killing is believed to have taken place.
ESI will collect your DNA sample, package it into a storage container mounted on the company's Lunar Descent Vehicle and fly it to the surface of the moon where it will be preserved for all time.
Inside a container subject to extreme temperatures hot and cold and with no meaningful protection against cosmic radiation?
Nothing is forever:
Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts placed the first of several retroreflector arrays on the lunar surface. Their continued usefulness for laser ranging might suggest that the lunar environment does not damage optical devices. However, new laser ranging data reveal that the efficiency of the three Apollo reflector arrays is now diminished by a factor of 10 at all lunar phases and by an additional factor of 10 when
the lunar phase is near full Moon. These deficits did not exist in the earliest years of lunar ranging, indicating that the lunar environment damages optical equipment on the timescale of decades. Dust or abrasionon the front faces of the corner-cube prisms may be responsible.
I remember one sci-fi writer arguing that quantum effects would set a limit to any form of suspended animation. In time too much information would be erased to make revival possible.
In my free time I run a vegetable gardening website - so a very non-technical, home-oriented audience.
You haven't told us the number of visitors to your site or its location.
No one who posts stats like yours to Slashdot ever does.
So we don't know how representative you are when compared to Burpee Seeds, Better Homes & Gardens...
The 4-H, Cornell University, Cooperative Extension (broken down by state and county) and any of the other 15 million or so "vegetable gardening" sites that will be exposed in a search through Google.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser.
Net Applications collects stats for 12,415 clients the size of Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Roche, the Moz Foundation, CNN, the WSJ, the New York Times and so on. The guys paying for these stats don't give a damn about the geek. They do give a damn about what is happening in their core markets.
The difference is the USPS is a government sponsored monopoly where legally you cannot compete with them.
The U.S. mail box is protected.
It was one way our town was able to fight back against the distribution of poison pen letters and cobbled together tabloid news sheets by a corrupt and vicious faction that taken control of our local school board ---
a faction too clever to be caught paying postage, but not quite clever enough to avoid being spotted on the road.
For a courier service, cherry-picking the big metro markets has always been easy and profitable. Universal postal service --- affordable flat rate delivery anywhere in the fifty states and territories --- is a very different beast.
the campaign will at first "focus on countries like Singapore, where certain homosexual activities are illegal
Mountain View is 13,680 km from Singapore --- the cultural distance can be far greater still. The question then becomes whether pressure for change from so distant a source will be ignored or resisted on instinct alone.
Telephones were invented in the 1870s but did not change our lives until the 1900s. Motion pictures were born in the 1890s but became an important industry in the 1920s
This argument is forced.
The most obvious example would be all-electronic television, commercially viable no later than 1939, but deployment held back by World War Two.
Take a closer look at the history of the movies:
The Birth of a Nation began filming in 1914 and pioneered such camera techniques as the use of panoramic long shots, the iris effects, still-shots, night photography, panning camera shots, and a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras made to look like thousands. It also contains many new artistic techniques, such as color tinting for dramatic purposes, building up the plot to an exciting climax, dramatizing history alongside fiction, and featuring its own musical score written for an orchestra.
The film cost $112,000 (the equivalent of $2.41 million in 2010). A ticket to the film cost a record $2 (equal to $45.95 today).
I have a copy of a contemporary essay from The Saturday Evening Post which explored the social changes that could already be seen at work in the success of the nickelodeon theaters of a decade earlier --- as the writer summed it up, the nickel theater was a night out anyone could afford and a national classroom for our new immigrant population.
To me, at least in this one narrow area, that all renders EPEAT's assessment obsolete, since it's failed to keep up with the times. It needs some way to account for such programs.
I want to make one thing clear:
Recycling is not the only issue.
EPEAT evaluates how much a given product impacts the environment, taking into account its recyclability, upgradeability, manufacturing processes, and energy consumption. Apple had previously touted EPEAT certification as a high point, with the company's most recent iMacs having received the organization's highest rating, EPEAT Gold.
Since I submitted this story, CNET has embedded a link to its video review of the Mac Book Retina. It is a beautiful machine. But it cannot be serviced or upgraded in any meaningful way.
Slashdot Mirror
Sucks, if they threaten your meal ticket, but this whole trend has been going on since Sears & Roebucks sent out their first catatlog.
In 1897 and for years after the Sears catalog had a large grocery section --- a much better selection than the small country store could offer and very attractively priced.
No perishable goods like fresh fruits or meats, of course.
On almost every page Sears pushed the notion of buying in bulk or "clubbing" your orders with neighbors to gain the most favorable shipping rates.
They're never useful, all they do is eat up CPU time or distract you with constantly-moving readouts. Hate those things.
For fact checking:
Sysinternals > sidebar.exe > Properties
Performance
Performance Graph
GPU Graph
On my system the current load is 0% GPU and 1.5-2% CPU.
The CPU and GPU monitors, almost certainly.
I've been tracking system and GPU cooling in our summer heat waves.
I have a couple of extremely useful gadgets installed, and don't want to see them go away.
They don't go away unless you want them to go away.
You don't need the Fix-It Tool.
Search>Windows Features>Turn Windows Features On or Off>Windows Gadget Platform
As if he couldn't get someone else to proxy for him already. If apple keeps him away and he finds something worth while, he'll find someone else that is willing to front for him and just submit another app to prove his point
That doesn't means the proxy gets to keep the new app in the app store.
Talk of using a front is talk of a forming a conspiracy against Apple. It becomes a whole new ball game where the stakes are much higher.
The very least that can be expected is that Apple will be screening its developers and its apps all that more closely. Where Apple leads, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and all the rest are sure to follow.
The walled garden is walled higher.
it would make a bloody mint if it existed. If only from people who rode it just so they could say they did it....
That is what they said about Concorde.
This game is awesome, and I know of many indie devs with the same story, "Everyone likes my game, except Steam reviewers."
The mother is not always the best judge of the child.
We have free health care. It's called WebMD. Remove prescription requirements for non-narcotics and you eliminate 80-90% of health care demand.
The geek has gone off his meds again, I see.
That, or he has never learned how to read the fine print.
The [WebMD] Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the WebMD Site!
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. WebMD does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on the Site.
Reliance on any information provided by WebMD, WebMD employees, others appearing on the Site at the invitation of WebMD, or other visitors to the Site is solely at your own risk.
You will find this under the bland head Addtitional Information on the back pages of the WebMD site and not on the front page, which is where it belongs. I have bolded and parsed it for emphasis here.
I am a rather complex prescription drug regime myself, only one of which is on the restricted list, and not a narcotic by legal definition but does require clinical monitoring.
The term is, today, imprecisely defined and typically has negative connotations. When used in a legal context in the US, a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of strict governmental regulation, such as heroin or morphine.
Narcotic
The interactions among prescription and non-prescription drugs can be subtle and dangerous.
They can mask the symptoms of other diseases, like pnemonia. It is so very easy and tempting to go off the prescribed regime. You feel good.
But you cannot always trust your own judgement.
Next week you may find yourself in the ER or in-patient under Intensive Care.
I've been down that road and the lessons it teaches come hard.
Fancy office space, dozens of designers/developers, Macs for everyone, etc. Somebody has pumped serious cash into this venture
How much of this is more real than a photo shopped web page --- and how leased or rented short term?
I think people like the convenience of consoles, mainly. Turn them on, and bang, you're playing in a moment. The locked-in hardware means that everything you run on it will be compatible, or updates will be auto-installed.
The Geek
However, we've gotten sick of the console-makers' sense that somehow they OWN us as customers, and can reach further and further into our lives to control the console experience downstream.
If I mod my console, that's MY BUSINESS, not the hardware-sellers.
The console is couch-friendly social gaming. It is popular entrainment and not a social cause.
How many PS3 owners upgraded their firmware without shedding a single tear for the passing of the Other OS?
About 64 milllion, if the geek is being honest with himself.
Yeah, you can ask anybody who studied antique history. We all know that the romans grew wine in England. How do people think they managed to do that? Of course it was warmer back then than nowadays.
It is perfectly possible to produce quality table grapes and wines in a cool or cold climate. Winery and Vineyard Information By State
What matter is the varieties you grow and how you manage them.
But "what we all now" isn't always true.
Pre-Roman Britain
Whether or not vines were grown and wine made in Britain before the arrival of the Romans is open to debate as there are no reliable records pointing one way or the other. Wine amphorae, dating from before the Roman conquest, have been discovered on sites in southern England.
Strong trading links with France and Italy allowed wine to be imported relatively easily and it would therefore seem unlikely that there was any need to establish vineyards in this country.
Roman Britain
It is generally agreed that the Romans introduced the vine to Britain. It has also been inferred that the climate in Britain at that time was warmer.
At the end of the first century AD, however, the writer Tacitus declared that our climate was ''objectionable'', and not at all suitable for growing vines, which could suggest that someone had at least tried to establish vines, even if they had been unsuccessful.
The Romans liked their wine - whether home grown or imported. After invading Britain in AD 43, wine drinking became more commonplace and whenever Roman villas, houses and garrisons have been excavated, there is nearly always archaeological evidence of wine amphorae and drinking cups, and occasionally grape pips and stems of bunches of grapes.
The History of English Wine Production
You can a manufacturer of cups and amphorae and not be a grower. You can be importer of wines and not be grower. You can be a grower of grapes and still not have a marketable product.
The gas station example is specifically not horseshit. The number of independent gas station owners dropped dramatically after a number of insane regulations that required $100K's of dollars of unnecessary retrofitting.
From the WSJ:
Until the past five years or so, many gas stations were owned by the big energy companies. But most have since sold off their portfolio of stations to focus on more profitable areas, such as wholesale fuel sales.
Since 2008, for instance, Exxon Mobil Corp has sold more than 95% of the roughly 2,000 stations it owned, and it plans to sell the rest by year-end. Chevron Corp had 491 company-owned stations at the end of 2011, down from 1,348 in 2001.
Most U.S. gas stations are owned by tens of thousands of individual operators, many of whom have one or more locations. These independent station owners typically buy their fuel from distributors for the major fuel wholesalers like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. The regional distributors own or hire tanker trucks that go from the so-called racks at gasoline terminals to storage tanks at the individual stations.
The station owners, in turn, set their gas prices for consumers so that the average markup, or gross margin, on gas is typically around 15 cents or 16 cents a gallon.
Because consumers these days use plastic even for spontaneous small purchases such as gas, snacks and smokes, the station owners say their margins are eroding.
Frank Reluzco, owner of an Exxon station, auto-repair business and convenience store in Frederick, Md., said that roughly 90% of his sales are paid by credit card today, compared with about 75% five years ago. "It costs so much to fill a tank right now; no one's going to carry around that much cash."
Increased competition from supermarkets and warehouse clubs is also a challenge. Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco Wholesale Corp added its first gas pumps alongside one of its stores in Tucson, Ariz., in 1995.
Pain at Pump Is Hitting Gas Stations [April 5]
The device 'will allow developers to easily create and sell their games and be fully ''hackable'' --- anyone will be able to pull the machine apart and tinker with it to their heart's content.'
The gamer simply wants to play games.
The console maker offers a broad range of services and a clearly name-branded console-oriented community of gamers and other users.
The purchase of a Wii comes with a different set of expectations then the PS3 or XBox 360.
But console gaming has always been meat-space, couch-friendly, social. That is not the Android market.
PC and console gaming is cyclical: what is hot today is cold tomorrow.
That is true in both hardware and software.
You can see this in the listings at Gog.com --- an overview of 25 years of PC gaming. In the Humble Bundle. I think I have had my fill of the Indie physics-based platformer.
There is a risk in trying to emulate the success of the last generation entry-level hardware product. There is a risk that "casual gaming" tablet-style will prove just as ephemeral as every other genre and platform. The geek who has been whining about Metro should have been the first to pick up on that.
Turns out they have to break your window and connect to your OBD port... This sucks, but to my mind, it's not a whole lot of difference between that and breaking the window then hot-wiring the car. ...
True and, in the real world, a lot can happen in three minutes.
Right, because what I wanted for an input device for my word processing and spreadsheet applications is an 80" display that has no keyboard or mouse and relies on multitouch.
I want it for presentations, training sessions and so on.
It would be trivially easy to launch an on-screen keyboard or keypad when needed.
I'd really like it to be tightly integrated and optimized with a particular operating system instead of deciding on my own what is best for my needs.
Tech like this is shared like a photocopier and is not your personal, private, playground.
On October 10, 2006, following the second search of his home, Oakland police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigators removed a number of items. HSI had been investigating Reiser for money laundering. Police announced that they were now treating the disappearance as a homicide case, and Reiser was arrested for the murder of Nina Reiser.
Hans Reiser
It's five in the morning here and I am in no mood to be charitable.
The lawsuit was initiated by the children's grandmother. Their legal guardian. Her lawyers are working pro bono.
No fees. No slice of the pie. Got that?
Moving on.
Reiser is defending himself.
In a way, he is always defending himself. Reiser, it seems, can do no wrong.
He is the one who asked the judge to drag the kids into court.
"Why?" you ask.
What he wanted to do was to draw them into a grandiose scheme to promote his new and improved conspiracy theories and defense for the murder. The judge isn't playing along.
He claims his wife was abusing the kids, that she had Factitious disorder by proxy --- often referred to as Munchausen syndrome by proxy --- where a caregiver harms or even kills someone they are in charge of in order to gain sympathy and attention. During the 2008 trial, Reiser alluded to that as well, accusing his wife of having the disease when she wanted to get their son surgery for severe hearing loss.
In the unlawful death case, he now says why: ''I defended my children from harm.'' He added that, by murdering his wife, ''I stopped multiple felonies by doing so.''
In his papers, he accuses the courts, the prison system, county children's services, his trial attorneys and others of conspiring against him, during his murder trial and now in the civil case.
''There are extensive legal grounds under multiple arguments for defending an innocent child when the state will not, at the cost of a non-innocent party's life,'' Hans Reiser wrote.
Convicted of Murder, Linux Guru Hans Reiser Returns to Court to Fight Civil Suit
"Wired" has it all, in Reiser's own handwriting.
More.
The beginning of Monday's trial was marked by impatience from the judge and the children's legal team. The complaint against Reiser was originally filed in August 2008 by the children's maternal grandmother and legal guardian, Irina Sharanova. The case has been stalled as Reiser filed various motions to delay proceedings and claimed that he has not had adequate access to his legal documents while at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.
''This trial has been pending for a really long time,'' said Judge Dennis Hayashi about the pretrial claims. ''I also made it clear that I'm not delaying this any further. ... We need to move on.''
Reiser, dressed in his orange prison uniform and appearing antsy at Hayashi's denials, has subpoenaed his children to appear in court.
They are living in Russia with Sharanova and are not expected at the trial, [Sharanova's attorney] said.
"I personally don't think it would do the children any good to come here and testify in this trial,"
"They'd have to relive what they went through as very young children."
Both of the children were at their father's house in the Montclair district when the killing is believed to have taken place.
Jury selection begins in Hans Reiser civil trial
ESI will collect your DNA sample, package it into a storage container mounted on the company's Lunar Descent Vehicle and fly it to the surface of the moon where it will be preserved for all time.
Inside a container subject to extreme temperatures hot and cold and with no meaningful protection against cosmic radiation?
Nothing is forever:
Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts placed the first of several retroreflector arrays on the lunar surface. Their continued usefulness for laser ranging might suggest that the lunar environment does not damage optical devices. However, new laser ranging data reveal that the efficiency of the three Apollo reflector arrays is now diminished by a factor of 10 at all lunar phases and by an additional factor of 10 when the lunar phase is near full Moon. These deficits did not exist in the earliest years of lunar ranging, indicating that the lunar environment damages optical equipment on the timescale of decades. Dust or abrasionon the front faces of the corner-cube prisms may be responsible.
Long-term degradation of optical devices on the Moon
I remember one sci-fi writer arguing that quantum effects would set a limit to any form of suspended animation. In time too much information would be erased to make revival possible.
In my free time I run a vegetable gardening website - so a very non-technical, home-oriented audience.
You haven't told us the number of visitors to your site or its location.
No one who posts stats like yours to Slashdot ever does.
So we don't know how representative you are when compared to Burpee Seeds, Better Homes & Gardens...
The 4-H, Cornell University, Cooperative Extension (broken down by state and county) and any of the other 15 million or so "vegetable gardening" sites that will be exposed in a search through Google.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser.
Net Applications collects stats for 12,415 clients the size of Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Roche, the Moz Foundation, CNN, the WSJ, the New York Times and so on. The guys paying for these stats don't give a damn about the geek. They do give a damn about what is happening in their core markets.
Desktop Browser Market Share
Statcounter exposes more of its stats --- and there can be some big surprises:
Top 12 Browser Versions In China
Mobile vs. Desktop in China
The difference is the USPS is a government sponsored monopoly where legally you cannot compete with them.
The U.S. mail box is protected.
It was one way our town was able to fight back against the distribution of poison pen letters and cobbled together tabloid news sheets by a corrupt and vicious faction that taken control of our local school board ---
a faction too clever to be caught paying postage, but not quite clever enough to avoid being spotted on the road.
For a courier service, cherry-picking the big metro markets has always been easy and profitable. Universal postal service --- affordable flat rate delivery anywhere in the fifty states and territories --- is a very different beast.
the campaign will at first "focus on countries like Singapore, where certain homosexual activities are illegal
Mountain View is 13,680 km from Singapore --- the cultural distance can be far greater still. The question then becomes whether pressure for change from so distant a source will be ignored or resisted on instinct alone.
Telephones were invented in the 1870s but did not change our lives until the 1900s. Motion pictures were born in the 1890s but became an important industry in the 1920s
This argument is forced.
The most obvious example would be all-electronic television, commercially viable no later than 1939, but deployment held back by World War Two.
Take a closer look at the history of the movies:
The Birth of a Nation began filming in 1914 and pioneered such camera techniques as the use of panoramic long shots, the iris effects, still-shots, night photography, panning camera shots, and a carefully staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras made to look like thousands. It also contains many new artistic techniques, such as color tinting for dramatic purposes, building up the plot to an exciting climax, dramatizing history alongside fiction, and featuring its own musical score written for an orchestra.
The film cost $112,000 (the equivalent of $2.41 million in 2010). A ticket to the film cost a record $2 (equal to $45.95 today).
The Birth of a Nation
I have a copy of a contemporary essay from The Saturday Evening Post which explored the social changes that could already be seen at work in the success of the nickelodeon theaters of a decade earlier --- as the writer summed it up, the nickel theater was a night out anyone could afford and a national classroom for our new immigrant population.
Would be more useful in the long run.
How do you propose to do this over 10,000 km of open water?
To me, at least in this one narrow area, that all renders EPEAT's assessment obsolete, since it's failed to keep up with the times. It needs some way to account for such programs.
I want to make one thing clear:
Recycling is not the only issue.
EPEAT evaluates how much a given product impacts the environment, taking into account its recyclability, upgradeability, manufacturing processes, and energy consumption. Apple had previously touted EPEAT certification as a high point, with the company's most recent iMacs having received the organization's highest rating, EPEAT Gold.
Apple pulls its products from EPEAT 'green' certification registry
Since I submitted this story, CNET has embedded a link to its video review of the Mac Book Retina. It is a beautiful machine. But it cannot be serviced or upgraded in any meaningful way.
... they would rather see you translate Jolla as "Lifeboat," rather than "Dinghy."
"Lifeboat" tells me that your project is the Titanic and the ship is sinking.