Did the NPR really say, âoe... investigated by a coalition of 11 state attorney generalsâ? The NPR has editors and proofreaders, they know that itâ(TM)s not âoeattorney generalsâ but âoeattorneys generalâ, plus they know that DC is not a state. What their article said was, âoeNow, 10 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia are taking on the issue with an investigation into eight national fast-food chains.â
You can purchase a BioLite camping stove that has USB charging today. We have one at our office for emergency off the grid charging. In our test we recharged an iPad and and iPhone.
mccalli writes : "Thought people might find this amusing. In 1986, the UK compiled an electronic [copy of the] domesday book. They used BBC Master computers to do it, and the result was put on laserdisc. I actually used this project whilst at school. This article states that nothing can now read these merely 15-year old discs. The original, written approx. 1086, is still doing fine thank you very much." Sounds like a good candidate for Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Project. (Speaking of Sterling, the "graying cyberpunk" has an interesting article in the Austin Chronicle on the upcoming SXSW Interactive conference called "Information Wants to be Worthless" -- thanks to reader ag3n7.)
The Top Five Causes Of Unintentional Injury involving children:
1. Car Accidents: Kill 260,000 children a year and injure about 10 million children. They are the leading cause of death among children and a leading cause of child disability. 2. Drowning: Kills more than 175,000 children annually. Up to 3 million children each year survive a drowning incident. Due to brain damage in some survivors, nonfatal drowning has the highest average lifetime health and economic impact of any type of child injury. 3. Burns: Fire-related burns kill nearly 96,000 children a year. 4. Falls: Nearly 47,000 children fall to their deaths every year, but hundreds of thousands more children sustain serious injuries from a fall. 5. Poisoning: More than 45,000 children die each year from unintended poisoning.
Looks like there is a whole lot more that needs to be banned, or re-labeled. Think of the children.
Drakes formula allows some kind of estimate as to the number of intelligent societies there might be "out there".
The following is from a great book by A.K. Dewdney: Yes, We Have no Neutrons.
The formula is N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
For which: R* = number of new stars that form in our galaxy each year Fp = fraction of stars having planetary systems Ne = average number of life-supporting planets per star Fl = fraction of those planets on which life develops Fi = fraction of life forms that become intelligent Fc = fraction of intelligent beings that develop radio L = average lifetime of a communicating society
The formula has appeared in several popular science magazines with the values set to:
N = 10 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 0.01 x 0.1 x L
So, N = 0.01 x L
The only numbers in the formula which anything other than a guess can be made are R* and L. Based on current observations most set R* at 10. Everything else in the formula would be a wild guess, except for L. More is known about L than any other part of the formula, since we are a communication society. Since we receive more and more of our communication from satellites, cable, and the internet, we are broadcasting less and less away from the earth. In the near future we will likely go dark as a significant source of radio/broadcast signals capable of being detected from space. If we say that our source of signals is about 100 years, drop the 100 back into the formula and you get 1. That must be us.
I can read books printed 400 years ago in my living room without any special equipment. Books I purchase today will be able to be read by my children, and their children.
eBooks will not likely have this same durabilty, since they depend on some technology. As the technology changes you may not be able to read your eBooks on the new reader, and once your reader fails or is no longer supported, the eBooks you own may not be able to be read any longer.
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Drakes formula allows some kind of estimate as to the number of intelligent societies there might be "out there".
The following is from a great book by A.K. Dewdney: Yes, We Have no Neutrons.
The formula is N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
For which: R* = number of new stars that form in our galaxy each year Fp = fraction of stars having planetary systems Ne = average number of life-supporting planets per star Fl = fraction of those planets on which life develops Fi = fraction of life forms that become intelligent Fc = fraction of intelligent beings that develop radio L = average lifetime of a communicating society
The formula has appeared in several popular science magazines with the values set to:
N = 10 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 0.01 x 0.1 x L
So, N = 0.01 x L
The only numbers in the formula which anything other than a guess can be made are R* and L. Based on current observations most set R* at 10. Everything else in the formula would be a wild guess, except for L. More is known about L than any other part of the formula, since we are a communication society. Since we receive more and more of our communication from satellites, cable, and the internet, we are broadcasting less and less away from the earth. In the near future we will likely go dark as a significant source of radio/broadcast signals capable of being detected from space. If we say that our source of signals is about 100 years, drop the 100 back into the formula and you get 1. That must be us.
I was at Disneyland on 23 June 2004. The display was wonderful. While they did not mention that display was being launched by air, they did state in English, Spanish, and Japanese that the display was powered by HP.
My boss has written at least 20 published books since I've worked for him. He hates MS Word and its ilk. He writes it all in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. He would prefer to use WordPerfect 5.0 but we cannot get it to work consistently on his new Dell.
He hates all the extras that Word adds - he says it makes it slow and clunky. He also complains that Word does not let you see and edit the raw codes like you can in WordPerfect.
I'm not sure what he'll do when MS no longer supports 8 bit DOS applications.
The company I work for has been doing this with spoken word audio cassettes for more than 25 years. Our customers pay a rate (ours is an annual subscription from 1 to 36 cassettes at a time) based on how many cassettes they want at a time, there are no late fees, and we send new cassettes as they return old ones.
I'd say we have prior art in a few of the areas they are claiming.
A PO Box will not shield you from stalkers. The counter workers frequently give out information gathered in the application process for a PO Box.
Here is what you must give the fine workers to get your PO Box:
http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm/d910.htm#Rbr39715
2.2Verification
An application for post office box service may not be approved until the applicant's identity and current permanent physical address where he or she resides or conducts business is verified. Verification criteria are as follows:
a. At the time of application, applicants must present two items of valid identification; one item must contain a photograph of the applicant. Social Security cards or credit cards and birth certificates are unacceptable as identification. The following are acceptable identification:
(1) Valid driver's license or state non-driver's identification card.
(2) Armed forces, government, university, or recognized corporate identification card.
(3) Passport, alien registration card, or certificate of naturalization.
(4) Current lease, mortgage, or deed of trust.
(5) Voter or vehicle registration card.
(6) Home or vehicle insurance policy.
b. The identification presented must be current. It must contain sufficient information to confirm that the applicant is who he or she claims to be and must be traceable to the bearer.
My company purchased a SmartBoard from SmartTech several years ago. We've had a wonderful experience with it - never hangs, always does what you'd expect. We installed it in our conference room, and use it weekly for strategy meetings. The software allows you to pick up right where you left off; we can access notes from years ago. You can also publish what you've drawn on the SmartBoard to web pages - great for reviewing at your desk.
The software also lets the board act as a giant mouse tablet, making all of your software touch aware. Project a web page and touch the board with your finger and it's the same as if you clicked on the link.
I've done demonstrations for several high schools and colleges in our area who've been interested in new teaching aids.
I don't think that it can be done properly. If it has much more information than is currently listed on a USA passport it can devolve into something with an undesired purpose at a later. Photo, name, finger print - fine, anything else is asking for trouble.
According to a presentation by Jim Fussell, Education Director, Prevent Genocide International:
"Group Classification on National ID Cards as a Facilitating Factor in Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Widespread Violations of Human Rights"
The role played by group classification on national identity cards in crimes of genocide in Rwanda and in Nazi Germany should trouble all persons concerned with prevention of genocide. In Nazi Germany in July 1938, only a few months before Kristallnacht, the infamous "J" stamp was introduced on ID cards and later on passports. The use of specially-marked ID cards by Nazi Germany and some Axis allies preceded the yellow Star of David badges. In Norway, where yellow cloth badges were not introduced, the stamped ID card was used in the identification of more than 800 Jews deported to death camps in Poland. Ethnic classification on ID Cards in Rwanda, instituted by the Belgian colonial government and retained after independence, was central in shaping, defining and perpetuating ethnic identity. Once the 1994 genocide in Rwanda began, an ID card with the designation "Tutsi" spelled a death sentence at any roadblock. No other factor was more significant in facilitating the speed and magnitude of the 100 days of mass killing in Rwanda.
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Another good book on the subject is Yes, We Have No Neutrons by A.K. Dewdney. He describes the various mistakes in the scientific process that led up to the announcement of cold fusion.
The book also has chapters on other so-called scientific studies: SETI and Biosphere 2. Written for the layman by a scientist.
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Did the NPR really say, âoe... investigated by a coalition of 11 state attorney generalsâ? The NPR has editors and proofreaders, they know that itâ(TM)s not âoeattorney generalsâ but âoeattorneys generalâ, plus they know that DC is not a state. What their article said was, âoeNow, 10 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia are taking on the issue with an investigation into eight national fast-food chains.â
Copy/paste is your friend.
You can purchase a BioLite camping stove that has USB charging today. We have one at our office for emergency off the grid charging. In our test we recharged an iPad and and iPhone.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-10-16/
Booths need:
Magic tricks
Special effects
Raffles
Booth babes
From a 2002 slashdot story:
mccalli writes :
"Thought people might find this amusing. In 1986, the UK compiled an electronic [copy of the] domesday book. They used BBC Master computers to do it, and the result was put on laserdisc. I actually used this project whilst at school. This article states that nothing can now read these merely 15-year old discs. The original, written approx. 1086, is still doing fine thank you very much."
Sounds like a good candidate for Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Project. (Speaking of Sterling, the "graying cyberpunk" has an interesting article in the Austin Chronicle on the upcoming SXSW Interactive conference called "Information Wants to be Worthless" -- thanks to reader ag3n7.)
I always say California has first world taxes and third world roads.
According to Alive Past 5 .com
The Top Five Causes Of Unintentional Injury involving children:
1. Car Accidents: Kill 260,000 children a year and injure about 10 million children. They are the leading cause of death among children and a leading cause of child disability.
2. Drowning: Kills more than 175,000 children annually. Up to 3 million children each year survive a drowning incident. Due to brain damage in some survivors, nonfatal drowning has the highest average lifetime health and economic impact of any type of child injury.
3. Burns: Fire-related burns kill nearly 96,000 children a year.
4. Falls: Nearly 47,000 children fall to their deaths every year, but hundreds of thousands more children sustain serious injuries from a fall.
5. Poisoning: More than 45,000 children die each year from unintended poisoning.
Looks like there is a whole lot more that needs to be banned, or re-labeled. Think of the children.
I posted this in January 2005:
Drakes formula allows some kind of estimate as to the number of intelligent societies there might be "out there".
The following is from a great book by A.K. Dewdney: Yes, We Have no Neutrons.
The formula is N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
For which:
R* = number of new stars that form in our galaxy each year
Fp = fraction of stars having planetary systems
Ne = average number of life-supporting planets per star
Fl = fraction of those planets on which life develops
Fi = fraction of life forms that become intelligent
Fc = fraction of intelligent beings that develop radio
L = average lifetime of a communicating society
The formula has appeared in several popular science magazines with the values set to:
N = 10 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 0.01 x 0.1 x L
So, N = 0.01 x L
The only numbers in the formula which anything other than a guess can be made are R* and L. Based on current observations most set R* at 10. Everything else in the formula would be a wild guess, except for L. More is known about L than any other part of the formula, since we are a communication society. Since we receive more and more of our communication from satellites, cable, and the internet, we are broadcasting less and less away from the earth. In the near future we will likely go dark as a significant source of radio/broadcast signals capable of being detected from space. If we say that our source of signals is about 100 years, drop the 100 back into the formula and you get 1. That must be us.
I can read books printed 400 years ago in my living room without any special equipment. Books I purchase today will be able to be read by my children, and their children.
2 7 /. story from 2002 "1086 Domesday Book Outlives 1986 Electronic Rival" gives many good reasons why printed books are here to stay.
eBooks will not likely have this same durabilty, since they depend on some technology. As the technology changes you may not be able to read your eBooks on the new reader, and once your reader fails or is no longer supported, the eBooks you own may not be able to be read any longer.
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Drakes formula allows some kind of estimate as to the number of intelligent societies there might be "out there".
The following is from a great book by A.K. Dewdney: Yes, We Have no Neutrons.
The formula is N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
For which:
R* = number of new stars that form in our galaxy each year
Fp = fraction of stars having planetary systems
Ne = average number of life-supporting planets per star
Fl = fraction of those planets on which life develops
Fi = fraction of life forms that become intelligent
Fc = fraction of intelligent beings that develop radio
L = average lifetime of a communicating society
The formula has appeared in several popular science magazines with the values set to:
N = 10 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 0.01 x 0.1 x L
So, N = 0.01 x L
The only numbers in the formula which anything other than a guess can be made are R* and L. Based on current observations most set R* at 10. Everything else in the formula would be a wild guess, except for L. More is known about L than any other part of the formula, since we are a communication society. Since we receive more and more of our communication from satellites, cable, and the internet, we are broadcasting less and less away from the earth. In the near future we will likely go dark as a significant source of radio/broadcast signals capable of being detected from space. If we say that our source of signals is about 100 years, drop the 100 back into the formula and you get 1. That must be us.
With results like that it should be called MicroSearch.
I searched for "the" and MicroSearch returned ZERO, Google had about 5,460,000,000.
I was at Disneyland on 23 June 2004. The display was wonderful. While they did not mention that display was being launched by air, they did state in English, Spanish, and Japanese that the display was powered by HP.
My boss has written at least 20 published books since I've worked for him. He hates MS Word and its ilk. He writes it all in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. He would prefer to use WordPerfect 5.0 but we cannot get it to work consistently on his new Dell.
He hates all the extras that Word adds - he says it makes it slow and clunky. He also complains that Word does not let you see and edit the raw codes like you can in WordPerfect.
I'm not sure what he'll do when MS no longer supports 8 bit DOS applications.
Is that supposed to explain the typos?
The company I work for has been doing this with spoken word audio cassettes for more than 25 years. Our customers pay a rate (ours is an annual subscription from 1 to 36 cassettes at a time) based on how many cassettes they want at a time, there are no late fees, and we send new cassettes as they return old ones.
I'd say we have prior art in a few of the areas they are claiming.
I get it, on April 1st all the stories are false; On Thanksgiving the stories are dupes.
Does consuming gigantic quantities of turkey and dressing cause this -- I demand a study.
A PO Box will not shield you from stalkers. The counter workers frequently give out information gathered in the application process for a PO Box.
Here is what you must give the fine workers to get your PO Box:
http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm/d910.htm#Rbr39715
2.2Verification
An application for post office box service may not be approved until the applicant's identity and current permanent physical address where he or she resides or conducts business is verified. Verification criteria are as follows:
a. At the time of application, applicants must present two items of valid identification; one item must contain a photograph of the applicant. Social Security cards or credit cards and birth certificates are unacceptable as identification. The following are acceptable identification:
(1) Valid driver's license or state non-driver's identification card.
(2) Armed forces, government, university, or recognized corporate identification card.
(3) Passport, alien registration card, or certificate of naturalization.
(4) Current lease, mortgage, or deed of trust.
(5) Voter or vehicle registration card.
(6) Home or vehicle insurance policy.
b. The identification presented must be current. It must contain sufficient information to confirm that the applicant is who he or she claims to be and must be traceable to the bearer.
The software also lets the board act as a giant mouse tablet, making all of your software touch aware. Project a web page and touch the board with your finger and it's the same as if you clicked on the link.
I've done demonstrations for several high schools and colleges in our area who've been interested in new teaching aids.
Five nines (99.999) is 5.256 minutes of down time per YEAR! NOT 1.44 minutes per day.
None of my NT boxes can do that. My SCO box (nicknamed "The Uptime Server") is down only when I wish it down.
According to a presentation by Jim Fussell, Education Director, Prevent Genocide International:
Read his the full text of his presentation here:
http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/removing-fa cilitating-factors/IDcards/
Another good book on the subject is Yes, We Have No Neutrons by A.K. Dewdney. He describes the various mistakes in the scientific process that led up to the announcement of cold fusion.
The book also has chapters on other so-called scientific studies: SETI and Biosphere 2. Written for the layman by a scientist.