I owned the Nomad Jukebox III.. Thought it was great until I bought the iPod.. It's not just the size. It's not just the UI. It's not the fast file transfers (as the NMJB3 only had USB 1.1 and Firewire). It's all of it combined.
It might be fairly easy to defeat... however, it also presents additional problems. Would you be taxed for out of state driving?
How about disabling the GPS receiver so the signal isn't recieved?
Seems like a huge hassle in the name of "revenue capturing"? Why not increase the gas tax? Seems easier and less of a new beauracracy... Then, they will have to increase the taxes to support the new GPS Monitors administration...
Silly, silly taxmen
Sounds like a good idea. However, if you think about it, the further we move forward, the more disposable everything becomes.
Cell Phones, TVs, Monitors, Computers, DVDs, many appliances, even some cars.
Wish it weren't true, however, I can remember when there was a thriving TV repair sector. Now, the only time something gets repaired is when it's in warranty.
So, while I think it would be nice, when was the last time you repaired your broken harddrive? Me neither.
I admit I am conservative. Come out and admit that you value only those opinions that coincide with yours.
Evolve beyond hypocrisy. Learn that conservative doesn't mean neophyte. We may have differences of opinions, but at least I don't bash yours.
Here's a Liberal Democrat who opposed the Kyoto Treaty:
WASHINGTON, DC - The Clinton Administration's attempt to promote the Kyoto treaty on global climate change suffered another blow this week as Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a liberal Democrat from California, offered an amendment to H.R. 1743, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation Authorization Act, that prohibits the EPA from issuing rules or regulations to implement the agreement until it has been ratified by the Senate.
Lofgren's amendment was approved during the House Science Committee's consideration of this important bill. U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), a staunch opponent of the Kyoto treaty, applauded this development.
"I am pleased that Congresswoman Lofgren has joined my effort to prevent the Clinton Administration from implementing the Kyoto treaty through backdoor regulatory actions.
"This fatally-flawed agreement would cripple our economy, send American jobs overseas, and erode the standard of living in our nation. Given the stakes involved, Congress must remain vigilant in protecting America's economic interests by opposing the Kyoto treaty."
Knollenberg, who serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that is responsible for funding the EPA, included a provision in last year's budget that prevents the agency from moving forward with the Kyoto treaty prior to Senate ratification. Lofgren's amendment is almost identical to Knollenberg's language.
"There is strong bipartisan opposition to the Kyoto treaty because it's a bad deal for the American people. With liberal Democrats like Zoe Lofgren coming out in opposition to this agreement, it's clear that the Clinton Administration's agenda is in deep trouble," Knollenberg concluded.
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It's not a Bush thing. Basically, the treaty put controls not on all goverments, but developed governments. Hence, putting more costs into goverments and developed economies yet not developing areas.
I don't believe there's any such thing as global warming, the way it's being described around here. I believe, just my hypothesis, that the earth moves between cooler and warmer periods. It's just an evoluationary thing. If it we just global warming, this would be a trend that could be felt for centuries. However, it's a proven fact that the earth has been both cooler and warmer than it is now.
In fact, Harvard recently released a study on this:
A team of Harvard University scientists examined 1,000 years of global temperatures and reviewed more than 240 scientific journals from the past 40 years and concluded that despite man's influence on our environment, current temperatures are not as warm as during the Middle Ages.
So, to say that we have the ability to destroy the earth is just a large amount of hubris, self elevation and chicken little.
If SUVs are so vile and evil, why aren't busses, boats, trucks and cars? They all suck down gas at varying rates? Go into any american store and buy something not wrapped in a petroleum product outside of the produce area. Hell, in the produce section, what do you do? Grab a plastic bag and shove your items in it.
It's simply a hypocrosy people have right now. Much less everything else that uses petroleum products within your house. Anything plastic? Carpet? What about the wood? Everyone clamores for cutting down trees, but I don't see people saying they don't want wood in their houses.
It's not a Republican or Democrat thing. It's not a liberal or conservative thing. It's not a Bush or Kerry thing.
It's a matter of opnions and theories. Each may be valid in certain areas, but they may all be wrong in others.
Kyoto... I could care less.
I did the same thing. My work had a Mac project so I picked one up. I told myself if I could use it for a month, I would buy one. So, about a month later, I bought a G4-Dual. Then I bought my son an iMac. Then I bought a 12" G4. Then I bought a Dual G5 and another iMac.
Haven't looked back. It's nice not reinstalling an OS every six months. Is it perfect? No. But, it's a helluva lot closer than what I had. I still use windows for work, but at home, I am all mac, now.
That works well until your car comes up for tag renewal. Some states check the OBD-II port. Wrong port (or doesn't respond to specific codes), no renewal. Ooops.
Not to mention that your car will then be listed as "modified" which will automatically give you a nice bump in premiums.
Insurance is simply placing a bet. They are betting you won't make a claim. You are betting you will.
Insurance companies lobbied to get states to require insurance. Now that insurance is mandatory, they get all bent out of shape when they need to pay money out. For example, look at Florida right now. Charley wiped through and the insurance companies had the money to pay for it because they raised the rates after Andrew. But, what would you like to bet after Frances comes by, insurance companies again raise the rates. They will cry poverty. However, when they aren't crying poverty they aren't reducing rates.
In addition to they, insurance companies have created shared databases to determine your claims against any insurance carrier. It doesn't matter how small or large the claim, it is in the database and they will check it prior to issuing a policy. To me, this smells of cooperation and doesn't breed true competition, which would lower insurance rates.
I don't mind paying for insurance, however, why is it when you need to make a claim, they don't want to pay what the claim is truly worth? Because it is simply the profit motive. And because there's no longer true competition in the insurance space, where else are you going to go?
I so want to have Microsoft Bob... I only wonder if the source code could tell us what the hell they were thinking... Just goes to show, most of MS's innovations suck. Their best products are ones they buy or steal.
Well, it may say that... but, as I own the unit and have about 7 dvds encoded with MP3s that I listen to with that unit.... I would take my experience over the marketing people's information.
When a DVD encoded with MP3s is added, it will give the status of the DVD (on the top left side of the screen) as "DVD/MP3/WMA".
The only think I can't get to play are AACs and most of my MP3s are encoded at 320kbps, Works very nice, except some of the navigation of directories. It resets to the top of the list rather than were you are if you go up directory levels. Beyond that, I like it a lot.
It's actually a very nice unit. The large display comes in handy, as you can easily browse directories (about 8 tracks per screen), shows almost all the information for the mp3s in a single screen, just touch and go. And, playing DVDs isn't bad either.:)
Isn't there a ton of prior art on this? I used//TODO for searching in files for my task list..
Not ro mention autodoc and other source parsing information availabe from source. What next, patent keystrokes?
This is a little old. IIRC, Pioneer displayed the same technology with an updated firmware and really didn't have to change the hardware, either. One notice can be found here.
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The original analogy is a little off. However, if you look at eBay, do they disclose how many systems they are running? How about Amazon? Do I care?
The real fact of the matter is, they have custom software that they run. The number of systems, speed, memory and OSs are simply a byproduct of what they really offer: a service.
Google is no different. They offer a service. As long as they are profitable, as an investor, I could care less if the systems were running on Dell's, White Boxes, Mac, or Commodore-64s. They have found a way to make the business run on the systems they have.
Mine manifested itself to be much worse. Seems in shipping, the cooling tubes became loose. My system would go into full fan afte a few minutes and eventually the system wouldn't even boot.
A simple trip to the local Apple store fixed the problem. Since then, the system is just as it should be, very quiet. I have heard the fans kick up only once since then.
Now, there have been rumors around for years about what the Amiga and corresponding technologies have been associated with. Max Headroom (for the background, if I remember).
Now, some people are saying it wasn't broadcast quality, however, a number of people disagree. When the video toaster came out, it replaced a 100K production system for 6K. It took video editing/production by storm. For example, the FOX affiliate in Anchorage used one for years. The station manager told me how it was just incredible and could do much more bang for the buck than anything out there (circa '95).
The effects, depending on how you used them, could look cool or cheesy. Think of the effects of Home Improvement, when they did the scene changed. The one I remember out of the box for the Toaster was the legs crossing on-screen for a scene change.
So, now's the real question... How easy or hard will this be to port? It looks to support other languages, as well. I noticed Kanjii support.
Is the source code Amiga specific? I know they had other systems supported, but later. Amiga source code, at least the OS specific functions, are a lot different than coding today.
Most of the apps they have source to didn't require the additional hardware that the VT came with, which is good.
Personally, I think there might be some gems, but I doubt you'll see whole ports of the applications. Too much has changed since 91.
See, I think the problem should be solved actively, if we are talking about terrorists. Forget gassing the plane. Simply push a button. When the button is pressed, the plane sends out an emergency beacon. It also removes all control of the airplane from within it, and immediately routes to the nearest capable airport for landing.
The only way to open the plane is from the outside. Then it's done.
The only way to have a 100% secure aircraft is to treat passengers like criminal. This method simply removes the ability to ram the plane into something, saving lives. This could be done on any moderately recent aircraft.
Not really. A number of years ago, Apple had commericials saying how fast their computers were compared to WinTel boxes.
They had the commericial with the snail, etc.
Mhz, Ghz...What's it really matter? Most systems today (within the last few months) are reasonably fast. For most end users, it doesn't matter how fast the box is, really. It's responsiveness and user experience.
I would agree. TeamTrack is a top notch tool for managing requests. Light weight, easy to define process models. It can sit on a variety of database backends and has the ability to handle tons of requests..
We modified it to fit our intranet site, so users don't need to know which system they are accessing. It has html templates that can be modified to change the look and feel.
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I owned the Nomad Jukebox III.. Thought it was great until I bought the iPod.. It's not just the size. It's not just the UI. It's not the fast file transfers (as the NMJB3 only had USB 1.1 and Firewire). It's all of it combined.
I switched to the iPod and never looked back.
It's going to be hard to replace.
It might be fairly easy to defeat... however, it also presents additional problems. Would you be taxed for out of state driving? How about disabling the GPS receiver so the signal isn't recieved? Seems like a huge hassle in the name of "revenue capturing"? Why not increase the gas tax? Seems easier and less of a new beauracracy... Then, they will have to increase the taxes to support the new GPS Monitors administration... Silly, silly taxmen
they drop the taxes already paid in each gallon of fuel... until then, it's double taxation...
Cell Phones, TVs, Monitors, Computers, DVDs, many appliances, even some cars.
Wish it weren't true, however, I can remember when there was a thriving TV repair sector. Now, the only time something gets repaired is when it's in warranty.
So, while I think it would be nice, when was the last time you repaired your broken harddrive? Me neither.
I admit I am conservative. Come out and admit that you value only those opinions that coincide with yours. Evolve beyond hypocrisy. Learn that conservative doesn't mean neophyte. We may have differences of opinions, but at least I don't bash yours.
Here's a Liberal Democrat who opposed the Kyoto Treaty: WASHINGTON, DC - The Clinton Administration's attempt to promote the Kyoto treaty on global climate change suffered another blow this week as Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a liberal Democrat from California, offered an amendment to H.R. 1743, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation Authorization Act, that prohibits the EPA from issuing rules or regulations to implement the agreement until it has been ratified by the Senate. Lofgren's amendment was approved during the House Science Committee's consideration of this important bill. U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), a staunch opponent of the Kyoto treaty, applauded this development. "I am pleased that Congresswoman Lofgren has joined my effort to prevent the Clinton Administration from implementing the Kyoto treaty through backdoor regulatory actions. "This fatally-flawed agreement would cripple our economy, send American jobs overseas, and erode the standard of living in our nation. Given the stakes involved, Congress must remain vigilant in protecting America's economic interests by opposing the Kyoto treaty." Knollenberg, who serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that is responsible for funding the EPA, included a provision in last year's budget that prevents the agency from moving forward with the Kyoto treaty prior to Senate ratification. Lofgren's amendment is almost identical to Knollenberg's language. "There is strong bipartisan opposition to the Kyoto treaty because it's a bad deal for the American people. With liberal Democrats like Zoe Lofgren coming out in opposition to this agreement, it's clear that the Clinton Administration's agenda is in deep trouble," Knollenberg concluded. -- It's not a Bush thing. Basically, the treaty put controls not on all goverments, but developed governments. Hence, putting more costs into goverments and developed economies yet not developing areas. I don't believe there's any such thing as global warming, the way it's being described around here. I believe, just my hypothesis, that the earth moves between cooler and warmer periods. It's just an evoluationary thing. If it we just global warming, this would be a trend that could be felt for centuries. However, it's a proven fact that the earth has been both cooler and warmer than it is now. In fact, Harvard recently released a study on this: A team of Harvard University scientists examined 1,000 years of global temperatures and reviewed more than 240 scientific journals from the past 40 years and concluded that despite man's influence on our environment, current temperatures are not as warm as during the Middle Ages. So, to say that we have the ability to destroy the earth is just a large amount of hubris, self elevation and chicken little. If SUVs are so vile and evil, why aren't busses, boats, trucks and cars? They all suck down gas at varying rates? Go into any american store and buy something not wrapped in a petroleum product outside of the produce area. Hell, in the produce section, what do you do? Grab a plastic bag and shove your items in it. It's simply a hypocrosy people have right now. Much less everything else that uses petroleum products within your house. Anything plastic? Carpet? What about the wood? Everyone clamores for cutting down trees, but I don't see people saying they don't want wood in their houses. It's not a Republican or Democrat thing. It's not a liberal or conservative thing. It's not a Bush or Kerry thing. It's a matter of opnions and theories. Each may be valid in certain areas, but they may all be wrong in others. Kyoto... I could care less.
Funny,
I did the same thing. My work had a Mac project so I picked one up. I told myself if I could use it for a month, I would buy one. So, about a month later, I bought a G4-Dual. Then I bought my son an iMac. Then I bought a 12" G4. Then I bought a Dual G5 and another iMac.
Haven't looked back. It's nice not reinstalling an OS every six months. Is it perfect? No. But, it's a helluva lot closer than what I had. I still use windows for work, but at home, I am all mac, now.
That works well until your car comes up for tag renewal. Some states check the OBD-II port. Wrong port (or doesn't respond to specific codes), no renewal. Ooops.
Not to mention that your car will then be listed as "modified" which will automatically give you a nice bump in premiums.
Insurance is simply placing a bet. They are betting you won't make a claim. You are betting you will.
Insurance companies lobbied to get states to require insurance. Now that insurance is mandatory, they get all bent out of shape when they need to pay money out. For example, look at Florida right now. Charley wiped through and the insurance companies had the money to pay for it because they raised the rates after Andrew. But, what would you like to bet after Frances comes by, insurance companies again raise the rates. They will cry poverty. However, when they aren't crying poverty they aren't reducing rates.
In addition to they, insurance companies have created shared databases to determine your claims against any insurance carrier. It doesn't matter how small or large the claim, it is in the database and they will check it prior to issuing a policy. To me, this smells of cooperation and doesn't breed true competition, which would lower insurance rates.
I don't mind paying for insurance, however, why is it when you need to make a claim, they don't want to pay what the claim is truly worth? Because it is simply the profit motive. And because there's no longer true competition in the insurance space, where else are you going to go?
That always puzzled me. Why do old people drive so slow? Don't they know the END IS NEAR?!
Ford has tons of prior art on that!
I so want to have Microsoft Bob... I only wonder if the source code could tell us what the hell they were thinking... Just goes to show, most of MS's innovations suck. Their best products are ones they buy or steal.
Well, it may say that... but, as I own the unit and have about 7 dvds encoded with MP3s that I listen to with that unit.... I would take my experience over the marketing people's information. When a DVD encoded with MP3s is added, it will give the status of the DVD (on the top left side of the screen) as "DVD/MP3/WMA". The only think I can't get to play are AACs and most of my MP3s are encoded at 320kbps, Works very nice, except some of the navigation of directories. It resets to the top of the list rather than were you are if you go up directory levels. Beyond that, I like it a lot.
It's actually a very nice unit. The large display comes in handy, as you can easily browse directories (about 8 tracks per screen), shows almost all the information for the mp3s in a single screen, just touch and go. And, playing DVDs isn't bad either. :)
I have one. It's called the Kenwood KVT-815DVD. Plays DVDs and MP3 dvds...
As for cost, and extra features... It's plenty on both.
Isn't there a ton of prior art on this? I used //TODO for searching in files for my task list..
Not ro mention autodoc and other source parsing information availabe from source. What next, patent keystrokes?
This is a little old. IIRC, Pioneer displayed the same technology with an updated firmware and really didn't have to change the hardware, either. One notice can be found here.
The original analogy is a little off. However, if you look at eBay, do they disclose how many systems they are running? How about Amazon? Do I care?
The real fact of the matter is, they have custom software that they run. The number of systems, speed, memory and OSs are simply a byproduct of what they really offer: a service.
Google is no different. They offer a service. As long as they are profitable, as an investor, I could care less if the systems were running on Dell's, White Boxes, Mac, or Commodore-64s. They have found a way to make the business run on the systems they have.
I can think of a technology we have been using for more that 100 years... the Wheel.
Mine manifested itself to be much worse. Seems in shipping, the cooling tubes became loose. My system would go into full fan afte a few minutes and eventually the system wouldn't even boot. A simple trip to the local Apple store fixed the problem. Since then, the system is just as it should be, very quiet. I have heard the fans kick up only once since then.
Now, there have been rumors around for years about what the Amiga and corresponding technologies have been associated with. Max Headroom (for the background, if I remember).
Now, some people are saying it wasn't broadcast quality, however, a number of people disagree. When the video toaster came out, it replaced a 100K production system for 6K. It took video editing/production by storm. For example, the FOX affiliate in Anchorage used one for years. The station manager told me how it was just incredible and could do much more bang for the buck than anything out there (circa '95).
The effects, depending on how you used them, could look cool or cheesy. Think of the effects of Home Improvement, when they did the scene changed. The one I remember out of the box for the Toaster was the legs crossing on-screen for a scene change.
So, now's the real question... How easy or hard will this be to port? It looks to support other languages, as well. I noticed Kanjii support.
Is the source code Amiga specific? I know they had other systems supported, but later. Amiga source code, at least the OS specific functions, are a lot different than coding today.
Most of the apps they have source to didn't require the additional hardware that the VT came with, which is good.
Personally, I think there might be some gems, but I doubt you'll see whole ports of the applications. Too much has changed since 91.
The only way to open the plane is from the outside. Then it's done.
The only way to have a 100% secure aircraft is to treat passengers like criminal. This method simply removes the ability to ram the plane into something, saving lives. This could be done on any moderately recent aircraft.
For the uninitiated, can you provide a power point here? So, sorry, that dumbs them down..
Not really. A number of years ago, Apple had commericials saying how fast their computers were compared to WinTel boxes.
They had the commericial with the snail, etc.
Mhz, Ghz...What's it really matter? Most systems today (within the last few months) are reasonably fast. For most end users, it doesn't matter how fast the box is, really. It's responsiveness and user experience.
Who cares how fast Solitaire bounces the cards?
I would agree. TeamTrack is a top notch tool for managing requests. Light weight, easy to define process models. It can sit on a variety of database backends and has the ability to handle tons of requests.. We modified it to fit our intranet site, so users don't need to know which system they are accessing. It has html templates that can be modified to change the look and feel. For more information TeamShare