I'm from the American West and have literally driven all over it. The combination of roads we took in Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming produced a bizarre combination of social sights and incredible natural beauty. One convenience store carried knives, Mormon cookbooks, and beer. No headphones.
... on a road trip across the West. Eight solid hours of a four year old pontificating. I searched the car high and low for the travel headphones so I could get a break with my MP3 player. Couldn't find them and the only stores for thousands of miles in any direction sold only alcohol, Mormon cookbooks, and knives.
I've never seen basic cable cost over $40 per month, and digital satellite companies have plans starting at $30 per month. I'm all for "sticking it to the man", but exaggerating prices at every opportunity doesn't make us sound like a reasonable group.
His pricing is right on with what I pay. I signed up for $50 a month basic cable that became $60 a month after taxes. Add to that $15 for a digital box so I can get On Demand, toss in the broadband, and it's $100.00 a month. It would be $15 less if I didn't have digital, but if I want HBO or any similar channel it's another $15.
Not complaining - no one forced me to get cable. But the pricing he quoted is consistent with what I pay for Comcast.
Other than those two mountains, yes, it's perfectly fine advice. I own a Mac, so I chose the "expensive" route with a PowerBook. It's worth every penny, but it cost a lot of pennies.
This isn't necessarily the case - the Mac Mini, which can be used with the former PC monitor and probably the keyboard and maybe even the printer - offers a cheaper than Wintel route for moving to Mac. I'll not read the book (applied those lessons a few ago;-) but an interesting appendix would be going with a Mac Mini. A breakdown of cost and software alternatives would be interesting from a ROI perspective.
I remember Desqview - I ran it into 1996, well past Windows 95. It was great software, which just goes to show that marketing and salesmanship can turn any bad idea into a good one.
Changing the course of a society takes a huge, concentrated effort over a long period of time.
This is certainly true, and points out one reason why the U.S. is sliding in science and other countries (primarily in Europe and Asia) are reaching and passing contributions U.S. science has made. By "U.S. science" I mean companies that are essentially headquartered in the U.S. and are supported by U.S. universities. That doesn't matter to science - but it's salient here because we're talking about the state of science in the U.S.
However, I'd argue that globalization has much more to do with this than any degree of disinterest in science. While the Soviets are the sole provider of missions to the I.S.S. the U.S. is also leaps beyond anyone else when it comes to commercial exploration of space.
Back to globalization: The U.S. was dominant in science because the aftermath of WW II, among other things. It was U.S. science and military spending that sustained technological growth that started in WW II and continued through the end of the Cold War.
But with companies becoming less nationalistic it stands to reason other countries will be reaching the mantle of scientific contributions. And that's a great thing - science depends upon money to fuel research and the more diversified that money the more stable its input will be.
So don't get too emotional slamming the U.S. - globalization has a lot to do with other countries gaining economies capable of sustaining the budgets science requires. Just because Europe and Asia are making contributions faster today than yesterday does not mean the U.S. is slowing down - it just means others are contributing more today than yesterday. If U.S. scientific contributions sustain or slow just a bit the 'gap' appears to be very large.
Verification issues aside, I think it's high time we adopted the "but your kids don't belong here" approach to more...
As a parent I cannot agree more. Nothing burns me more than being told "Oh sure, bring your kid, that's fine" and getting to someone's house for a party only to find... no other kids and a house that is not geared towards the dexterity of a seven year old boy (who can sail through Mario Brothers like a friggin' bird but can't carry a plate into the kitchen without dumping dinner on the floor. Twice).
There needs to be age appropriate signage and alerts. If I go to Vegas with my wife it's to see Vegas as intendend - not a "kid safe" or "family safe" Vegas. I think most parents want to know beforehand if children are appropriate. Those who don't wonder that should probably put some serious thinking towards towards family planning.
I hear there's a war over there, to protect personal freedoms and instill democracy. Guess I'll move my blog, err, homepage, from joelsanda.blogspot.com to joelsanda.blogspot.iq.
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WATCHING LOST ON A 2.5" SCREEN! I WANT TO WATCH IT ON A LARGE SCREEN, AND NOT BY FIDDLING AROUND CONNECTING AN iPOD TO MY TV! I WANT THE FILES ON MY HOME MEDIA SERVER!
Wow... I have a suggestion. Why not shout about your disastisfaction with a product you are not required to use in a forum where, I'm quite certain, thousands of others wish to hear you whining.
My seven year old child doesn't whine like that. And it's a damn good thing to, otherwise I'd have failed him.
My last two Palms - a Tungsten and a Zire 72 - made high-pitched humming noises. So loud I could hear it while sitting down and reading an eBook or reviewing notes. The Zire 72 runs out of battery juice within 45 minutes if I have the Wi-Fi card running.
Add to that experience the poor syncing with my Mac OS X and frequent Palm Desktop crashes with Windows XP SP2, I started syncing my calendar, address book, and notes to my iPod.
To scribble quick notes down I use The PocketMod - an ingenious combination of paper, planner, and orgami. A single sheet of paper becomes a folded booklet with eight different pages. No batteries, it's paper so if I drop it I don't cringe, and I get a new one every week!
The "I'm getting cancer and my kids have ADD because of the powerlines in my house" crowd and their lawyers are going to have a field day with this!
Yeah... especially when the attorneys (whose suits will still cost more than their laptops and cell phones) are typing away on their laptops using WiFi and mobile phones with Bluetooth!
Yeah, which is why no one can afford cars and homes and electrical devices or airline tickets or food or beverages - all of which are regulated heavily by nearly all governments in their jurisdiction.
OSS isn't going to go anywhere as a result of quality issues - it could go away if unscrupulous politicians (sorry for the redundancy) use regulation as a means for boosting one company and killing its competition.
Let me clue you in: the marketplace has decided on a low (as in almost non-existant) demand for guarantees and warranties on consumer software. It's not developers doing this, it's the users.
Which is precisely where regulatory practices are born. I can understand the general point you are making, however the statement "But not at the price of authoritarian government" is a little over the top. Name one regulartory control that seeks to govern quality rates that has not come about as a result of consumer injury; either fiscal or physical. Once those costs get high enough to garner enough attention legislative controls that set minimum standards are put into place.
Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online".
Well, shoot, that's great! I can't do any of that with Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, or Firefox! I can't wait to see what I've been missing.
Someday, the Chronicles will be made into a movie, and then everything will be right in the world.
Yup. Eberron is an interesting setting, but with its trains (or lightning rails) and planes (sky wagons) I found myself longing for the high fantasy of Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms. Those stories would have been nearly impossible if the companions had a train to hop...
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I wish they'd add simple data input methods to the iPod. Though it synchronizes with the Stickies (notes), iCal, and Address Books on my Mac, I can't add information to the iPod. That must happen on the Mac.
It would be nice if they added data input on these devices. Call it the iPDA or something...
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I'm from the American West and have literally driven all over it. The combination of roads we took in Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming produced a bizarre combination of social sights and incredible natural beauty. One convenience store carried knives, Mormon cookbooks, and beer. No headphones.
Your poor child. I hope you have money saved for the therapist.
Yeah, for me. He got that from his mother.
... on a road trip across the West. Eight solid hours of a four year old pontificating. I searched the car high and low for the travel headphones so I could get a break with my MP3 player. Couldn't find them and the only stores for thousands of miles in any direction sold only alcohol, Mormon cookbooks, and knives.
This is a cool idea.
I've never seen basic cable cost over $40 per month, and digital satellite companies have plans starting at $30 per month. I'm all for "sticking it to the man", but exaggerating prices at every opportunity doesn't make us sound like a reasonable group.
His pricing is right on with what I pay. I signed up for $50 a month basic cable that became $60 a month after taxes. Add to that $15 for a digital box so I can get On Demand, toss in the broadband, and it's $100.00 a month. It would be $15 less if I didn't have digital, but if I want HBO or any similar channel it's another $15.
Not complaining - no one forced me to get cable. But the pricing he quoted is consistent with what I pay for Comcast.
Other than those two mountains, yes, it's perfectly fine advice. I own a Mac, so I chose the "expensive" route with a PowerBook. It's worth every penny, but it cost a lot of pennies.
This isn't necessarily the case - the Mac Mini, which can be used with the former PC monitor and probably the keyboard and maybe even the printer - offers a cheaper than Wintel route for moving to Mac. I'll not read the book (applied those lessons a few ago;-) but an interesting appendix would be going with a Mac Mini. A breakdown of cost and software alternatives would be interesting from a ROI perspective.
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fiber or rice-based paper box with an iron loop protruding from the sides, in the fashion of a simple handle; typical of that age.
I remember Desqview - I ran it into 1996, well past Windows 95. It was great software, which just goes to show that marketing and salesmanship can turn any bad idea into a good one.
Changing the course of a society takes a huge, concentrated effort over a long period of time.
This is certainly true, and points out one reason why the U.S. is sliding in science and other countries (primarily in Europe and Asia) are reaching and passing contributions U.S. science has made. By "U.S. science" I mean companies that are essentially headquartered in the U.S. and are supported by U.S. universities. That doesn't matter to science - but it's salient here because we're talking about the state of science in the U.S.
However, I'd argue that globalization has much more to do with this than any degree of disinterest in science. While the Soviets are the sole provider of missions to the I.S.S. the U.S. is also leaps beyond anyone else when it comes to commercial exploration of space.
Back to globalization: The U.S. was dominant in science because the aftermath of WW II, among other things. It was U.S. science and military spending that sustained technological growth that started in WW II and continued through the end of the Cold War.
But with companies becoming less nationalistic it stands to reason other countries will be reaching the mantle of scientific contributions. And that's a great thing - science depends upon money to fuel research and the more diversified that money the more stable its input will be.
So don't get too emotional slamming the U.S. - globalization has a lot to do with other countries gaining economies capable of sustaining the budgets science requires. Just because Europe and Asia are making contributions faster today than yesterday does not mean the U.S. is slowing down - it just means others are contributing more today than yesterday. If U.S. scientific contributions sustain or slow just a bit the 'gap' appears to be very large.
Javascript is an accepted WWW standard.
By whom?
Verification issues aside, I think it's high time we adopted the "but your kids don't belong here" approach to more ...
As a parent I cannot agree more. Nothing burns me more than being told "Oh sure, bring your kid, that's fine" and getting to someone's house for a party only to find ... no other kids and a house that is not geared towards the dexterity of a seven year old boy (who can sail through Mario Brothers like a friggin' bird but can't carry a plate into the kitchen without dumping dinner on the floor. Twice).
There needs to be age appropriate signage and alerts. If I go to Vegas with my wife it's to see Vegas as intendend - not a "kid safe" or "family safe" Vegas. I think most parents want to know beforehand if children are appropriate. Those who don't wonder that should probably put some serious thinking towards towards family planning.
My skin color is (RGB) #d2b48c - "Tan"; likely due to the Shawnee tribe my family married into a few generations back. Does that count?
Admittedly, after October it fades to (RGB) #f0f8ff - "Antique White", but that's because I'm no longer wearing t-shirts outside.
I hear there's a war over there, to protect personal freedoms and instill democracy. Guess I'll move my blog, err, homepage, from joelsanda.blogspot.com to joelsanda.blogspot.iq.
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WATCHING LOST ON A 2.5" SCREEN! I WANT TO WATCH IT ON A LARGE SCREEN, AND NOT BY FIDDLING AROUND CONNECTING AN iPOD TO MY TV! I WANT THE FILES ON MY HOME MEDIA SERVER!
Wow ... I have a suggestion. Why not shout about your disastisfaction with a product you are not required to use in a forum where, I'm quite certain, thousands of others wish to hear you whining.
My seven year old child doesn't whine like that. And it's a damn good thing to, otherwise I'd have failed him.
My last two Palms - a Tungsten and a Zire 72 - made high-pitched humming noises. So loud I could hear it while sitting down and reading an eBook or reviewing notes. The Zire 72 runs out of battery juice within 45 minutes if I have the Wi-Fi card running.
Add to that experience the poor syncing with my Mac OS X and frequent Palm Desktop crashes with Windows XP SP2, I started syncing my calendar, address book, and notes to my iPod.
To scribble quick notes down I use The PocketMod - an ingenious combination of paper, planner, and orgami. A single sheet of paper becomes a folded booklet with eight different pages. No batteries, it's paper so if I drop it I don't cringe, and I get a new one every week!
MacOS users are dyin' to know ;-)
Any idea if Firefox and Opera would be supported?
What are those?
The "I'm getting cancer and my kids have ADD because of the powerlines in my house" crowd and their lawyers are going to have a field day with this!
Yeah ... especially when the attorneys (whose suits will still cost more than their laptops and cell phones) are typing away on their laptops using WiFi and mobile phones with Bluetooth!
Case ... dismissed!
Yeah, which is why no one can afford cars and homes and electrical devices or airline tickets or food or beverages - all of which are regulated heavily by nearly all governments in their jurisdiction.
OSS isn't going to go anywhere as a result of quality issues - it could go away if unscrupulous politicians (sorry for the redundancy) use regulation as a means for boosting one company and killing its competition.
Let me clue you in: the marketplace has decided on a low (as in almost non-existant) demand for guarantees and warranties on consumer software. It's not developers doing this, it's the users.
Which is precisely where regulatory practices are born. I can understand the general point you are making, however the statement "But not at the price of authoritarian government" is a little over the top. Name one regulartory control that seeks to govern quality rates that has not come about as a result of consumer injury; either fiscal or physical. Once those costs get high enough to garner enough attention legislative controls that set minimum standards are put into place.
The Google Reader image says it's beta - the light grey word "beta" right aligned after the lower part of the "g".
Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online".
Well, shoot, that's great! I can't do any of that with Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, or Firefox! I can't wait to see what I've been missing.
Someday, the Chronicles will be made into a movie, and then everything will be right in the world.
Yup. Eberron is an interesting setting, but with its trains (or lightning rails) and planes (sky wagons) I found myself longing for the high fantasy of Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms. Those stories would have been nearly impossible if the companions had a train to hop ...
I wish they'd add simple data input methods to the iPod. Though it synchronizes with the Stickies (notes), iCal, and Address Books on my Mac, I can't add information to the iPod. That must happen on the Mac.
It would be nice if they added data input on these devices. Call it the iPDA or something ...
I quit buying CDs the day after the iTunes music store came online. I've never once had a problem with poorly implemented DRM.