I don't know why GV is not better integrated into my phone. My choices in GV settings are to use GV for ALL calls, NO calls, or PROMPT when calling. If you use PROMPT when calling, you are then asked, on a per call basis, if you wish to make the call with GV or not. But there's no "Remember this choice for this contact" checkbox, and to me it's an incredibly lame oversight. It is for this reason alone that I have GV set to NO calls, and only use GV for received voicemails. I used to use the GV Chrome extension to send text messages, but instead I bought BrowserTexting (a combination of an Android app and Chrome extension) to see and send SMS from my computer.
It's great for Tesla owners that SuperChargers will be blanketing the nation, but I have a LEAF and wonder if, when SuperChargers start appearing near me, will I be able to charge there - paying for it as I would with Blink or any other EV charging network.
I see mixed news on this. My LEAF SV has two charging receptacles: a standard SAE J1772-2009 connector for level 1 and 2 charging (120/220 volts AC) and a JARI high-voltage DC connector designed by TEPCO for DC fast charging (480 volts DC 125 amps) using the CHAdeMO protocol.
The Tesla S uses a proprietary connector. The connectors are not the issue, as they can be added quite trivially.
It is Tesla's business decision to either permit or forbid competing vehicles to be customers of their charging facilities. Does anyone know of "other" vehicles can or will be able to use the Tesla facilities?
re: "Real" realtors will still blacklist listings by online or DIY listings Correct. Such was the fate of Foxton's, which in addition to paying poor commissions, left the homeowner to basically show their own home.
But there is something very good tom come of this for the traditional local Realtor (tm). In the case of our reagional MLS, you HAD TO USE WINDOWS to use their website.
Perhaps this will be the stimulus required to open up the MLS to non-Windows access?
Am I sick? Perhaps. Am I a dinosaur destined for early extinction? Yeah, probably. But I truly love programming. It's what I do. It fulfills me and sustains me . . . and I'm never in a hurry to "just be done with it." I can't stand sloppiness in my work, so for me that means writing the smallest, tightest, fastest, most economical computer programs possible. And THAT means authoring Windows applications in Assembly Language.
Though the rest of the world may argue that they're more "productive" (when measured by hard disk space consumed per second), I stand by the principle that: "Small Is Beautiful".
I believe that Gerrymandering persists because voters simply don't know the outline of their districts. If electoral votes are awarded by district then severely Gerrymandered districts will stick out and voters will address the issue of Gerrymandering on its own merits.
Maine and Nebraska both use an alternative method of distributing their electoral votes, called the Congressional District Method. Currently, these two states are the only two in the union that diverge from the traditional winner-take-all method of electoral vote allocation.
With the district method, a state divides itself into a number of districts, allocating one of its state-wide electoral votes to each district. The winner of each district is awarded that district's electoral vote, and the winner of the state-wide vote is then awarded the state's remaining two electoral votes.
This method has been used in Maine since 1972 and Nebraska since 1996, though since both states have adopted this modification, the statewide winners have consistently swept all of the state's districts as well. Consequently, neither state has ever split its electoral votes.
Although this method still fails to reach the full ideal of one-man one-vote, it has been proposed as a nationwide reform for the way in which Electoral votes are distributed.
What I find most attractive about the Congressional District Method:
Ends the red-washing / blue washing that introduces significant rounding error to Electoral voting
Allows for a third political party to show up on the "big map" on election night
Could lead to the balkanization of larger states, California a prime example of a state that should be 2 or 3 states (and picks up additional Senate seats in the bargain)
Though "selling real estate on the sun" is not truly what I describe, it still applies that if large solar catchers are deployed, then a shadow will be created. If that shadow is cast upon the surface of the earth, then a given region will be denied the usual-strength shower of photons (and other solar radiation). If the "recovered" (to borrow a term from the oil industry) light is redirected from a path NOT leading to the earth's surface (a bank shot of concentrated light energy), then there will still be a "lane" of shadow to be cast across the solar system, potentially shading alien worlds light years away (or will they even notice?). If solar sails are widely employed (for transportation), these dark lanes could be consider the light equivalent to the Doldrums here on earth.
The earth receiving stations for such a light concentration system would need to be distributed at points around the globe, and some sort of safety system would also be required to prevent the concentrator/reflector from scorching a stripe across the earth's surface as the planet rotates. Such a reflector system could be abused as a weapon. For me, it would be not a question of "if", but "when".
The best location for the reflectors would be in geosychronous orbit, located on the periphery of the "dark side" of the earth, catching light that has already gone past earth and directing it back toward the night side of the planet, where it can do the most good through the shortest distribution paths. And because the energy would be arriving as "light", it would be inefficient to convert it to some other form for distribution. A system of light pipes could be used to distribute it to consumers, where it could be directly used for illumination or converted to heat which can, in turn, then be converted to electricity or mechanical (kinetic) energy.
Our traditional view of solar energy being bridged into electricity (to be compatible with our current power distribution grid) will be viewed as inefficient and antiquated.
I keep my own (above named) AP closed, but the neighbors are wide open, default admin passwords, etc.
I carry a Canary Wireless AP detector and am amazed by the number of wide open APs I find. I am a bit concerned that my MAC address remains in their DHCP table after I'm gone.
I recently downloaded the eval release of SMAC, which allows me to spoof my MAC address, otherwise it is possible that my WiFi card's MAC address could be used to track me down, being a unique number and all.
BTW, SMAC just automates an otherwise manually doable process, basically tweaking a couple registry settings.
1) Shorted a 110V to chassis during a change of a power supply - sparks and another trip to Fry's.
2) Deleted a NetWare volume while trying to mirror it - mirroring was an attempt to create a backup solution but ended in the worst -case scenario. The volume contained source code and the mirroring was an attemnpot at cloning the server. Wrote a low-level disk accessing program (Turbo Pascal) to read the deleted volume 4K block by 4K block, seek out source code-looking words like "begin" and "end;", and then save those chunks of disk to another, then went through those recovered blocks and stiched my project back together. Hoopha! That's one of those nights you end of napping under your desk:-)
Even doing a la carte on a monthly basis is too much of a committment - On HBO I want to watch the Real Time with Bill Maher, The Sopranos and Deadwood, and pretty much nothing else.
If true a la carte is possible, how much is a single episode of the Sopranos worth? Would I be willing to accept commercial interruptions in order to see it for free?
Slashdot Mirror
What will they do the following year?
He did so much for Apple, after all!
That's the ticket!
on demand????
JustSnipe charges a fee for bids closer to the end of the auction.
They're already found an application for the subject of the article!
I don't know why GV is not better integrated into my phone. My choices in GV settings are to use GV for ALL calls, NO calls, or PROMPT when calling. If you use PROMPT when calling, you are then asked, on a per call basis, if you wish to make the call with GV or not. But there's no "Remember this choice for this contact" checkbox, and to me it's an incredibly lame oversight. It is for this reason alone that I have GV set to NO calls, and only use GV for received voicemails. I used to use the GV Chrome extension to send text messages, but instead I bought BrowserTexting (a combination of an Android app and Chrome extension) to see and send SMS from my computer.
For in-town transportation to and from large scale public transit.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/gm-conjures-up-a-people-moving-pod/
It's great for Tesla owners that SuperChargers will be blanketing the nation, but I have a LEAF and wonder if, when SuperChargers start appearing near me, will I be able to charge there - paying for it as I would with Blink or any other EV charging network.
I see mixed news on this. My LEAF SV has two charging receptacles: a standard SAE J1772-2009 connector for level 1 and 2 charging (120/220 volts AC) and a JARI high-voltage DC connector designed by TEPCO for DC fast charging (480 volts DC 125 amps) using the CHAdeMO protocol.
The Tesla S uses a proprietary connector. The connectors are not the issue, as they can be added quite trivially.
It is Tesla's business decision to either permit or forbid competing vehicles to be customers of their charging facilities. Does anyone know of "other" vehicles can or will be able to use the Tesla facilities?
http://geeksoulbrother.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SpaceballMaid.jpg
Like a centipede
Coulter / Limbaugh, FTW!
re: "Real" realtors will still blacklist listings by online or DIY listings
Correct. Such was the fate of Foxton's, which in addition to paying poor commissions, left the homeowner to basically show their own home.
But there is something very good tom come of this for the traditional local Realtor (tm). In the case of our reagional MLS, you HAD TO USE WINDOWS to use their website.
Perhaps this will be the stimulus required to open up the MLS to non-Windows access?
from http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
Huh? . . . Windows in Assembler?
Am I sick? Perhaps. Am I a dinosaur destined for early extinction? Yeah, probably. But I truly love programming. It's what I do. It fulfills me and sustains me . . . and I'm never in a hurry to "just be done with it." I can't stand sloppiness in my work, so for me that means writing the smallest, tightest, fastest, most economical computer programs possible. And THAT means authoring Windows applications in Assembly Language.
Though the rest of the world may argue that they're more "productive" (when measured by hard disk space consumed per second), I stand by the principle that: "Small Is Beautiful".
I believe that Gerrymandering persists because voters simply don't know the outline of their districts. If electoral votes are awarded by district then severely Gerrymandered districts will stick out and voters will address the issue of Gerrymandering on its own merits.
Though "selling real estate on the sun" is not truly what I describe, it still applies that if large solar catchers are deployed, then a shadow will be created. If that shadow is cast upon the surface of the earth, then a given region will be denied the usual-strength shower of photons (and other solar radiation). If the "recovered" (to borrow a term from the oil industry) light is redirected from a path NOT leading to the earth's surface (a bank shot of concentrated light energy), then there will still be a "lane" of shadow to be cast across the solar system, potentially shading alien worlds light years away (or will they even notice?). If solar sails are widely employed (for transportation), these dark lanes could be consider the light equivalent to the Doldrums here on earth.
The earth receiving stations for such a light concentration system would need to be distributed at points around the globe, and some sort of safety system would also be required to prevent the concentrator/reflector from scorching a stripe across the earth's surface as the planet rotates. Such a reflector system could be abused as a weapon. For me, it would be not a question of "if", but "when".
The best location for the reflectors would be in geosychronous orbit, located on the periphery of the "dark side" of the earth, catching light that has already gone past earth and directing it back toward the night side of the planet, where it can do the most good through the shortest distribution paths. And because the energy would be arriving as "light", it would be inefficient to convert it to some other form for distribution. A system of light pipes could be used to distribute it to consumers, where it could be directly used for illumination or converted to heat which can, in turn, then be converted to electricity or mechanical (kinetic) energy.
Our traditional view of solar energy being bridged into electricity (to be compatible with our current power distribution grid) will be viewed as inefficient and antiquated.
SMAC!
http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/24/characters/jack_bauer .shtml
I keep my own (above named) AP closed, but the neighbors are wide open, default admin passwords, etc.
I carry a Canary Wireless AP detector and am amazed by the number of wide open APs I find. I am a bit concerned that my MAC address remains in their DHCP table after I'm gone.
I recently downloaded the eval release of SMAC, which allows me to spoof my MAC address, otherwise it is possible that my WiFi card's MAC address could be used to track me down, being a unique number and all.
BTW, SMAC just automates an otherwise manually doable process, basically tweaking a couple registry settings.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/0 2/0011220&tid=198&tid=126&tid=134&tid= 1
1) Shorted a 110V to chassis during a change of a power supply - sparks and another trip to Fry's.
:-)
2) Deleted a NetWare volume while trying to mirror it - mirroring was an attempt to create a backup solution but ended in the worst -case scenario. The volume contained source code and the mirroring was an attemnpot at cloning the server. Wrote a low-level disk accessing program (Turbo Pascal) to read the deleted volume 4K block by 4K block, seek out source code-looking words like "begin" and "end;", and then save those chunks of disk to another, then went through those recovered blocks and stiched my project back together. Hoopha! That's one of those nights you end of napping under your desk
For my spirit
http://www.thesunmagazine.org
For my wallet
http://www.businessweek.com
For my politics
http://www.thenation.com
For my news
http://www.theweekmagazine.com
Even doing a la carte on a monthly basis is too much of a committment - On HBO I want to watch the Real Time with Bill Maher, The Sopranos and Deadwood, and pretty much nothing else.
If true a la carte is possible, how much is a single episode of the Sopranos worth? Would I be willing to accept commercial interruptions in order to see it for free?
Take a look at the Powers of 2 Clock and you'll know what I mean.