I don't think banning added salt is logical or wanted, though I wish consumers would demand a more reasonable use of salt in restaurant food. That said, a couple of comments:
1) Salt is not a spice, it is a mineral. It does not enhance flavor, it adds its own unique flavor.
2) Yes, salt is necessary for us to survive, but you'll find that we get salt in almost everything we eat - enough for our needs without adding any.
Most Americans eat a lot of processed foods and, if they tracked their salt intake, will find that they have reached the maximum recommended daily allowance sometime early in their lunch. We, as a nation, eat entirely too much salt, and suffer high blood pressure and other maladies as a result.
I agree. I see nothing in Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 that suggests "it is officially a crime to steal wifi". The law was specifically written to delineate what constitutes fraud if a "protected computer" of the United States government, a financial institution or a computer involved in interstate or foreign commerce is accessed. In each case, the law is violated not only by intentionally accessing the computer, but also by obtaining information.
Does access to a computer even occur? Access through a router to the public Internet does not automatically mean we determined a computer's IP address on the local network, cracked whatever protection was present, and accessed information on it.
It can be a problem, even in Arizona. I used to work in Flagstaff and visit customers in Kayenta, Oraibi and Page. I'd start out in standard time in Flag, move into daylight time when I hit the Navajo Reservation, then back to standard in the Hopi Reservation, then back to daylight in the Navajo Reservation, then to standard when I got close to Page! If I went across the dam into Utah, I would have changed once again... It was a challenge making sure I got to meetings on time and didn't try to schedule a visit at lunchtime by mistake. Even though the Navajo Nation is mostly in Arizona, their capital, Window Rock, is in New Mexico, which uses daylight savings time.
The reason Arizona doesn't want daylight time is the simple fact that most of the people live in the low desert valleys, where you want the sun to go down as early as possible. People in northern areas don't have this concern.
Based on my own unscientific comparison, my personal Helio Ocean with 3G seems to be faster at bringing up web pages than my business Blackberry with EDGE. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though (accessing the same web page at the same time).
Technically true, but there is an inherent difference in quality between analog and digital television quality. Analog TV has a horizontal resolution of 330 lines maximum, and digital TV is 480 lines maximum.
Our local cable provider sends the first 60 channels out as analog (including local channels) on their "Digital TV" offering, and is thus subject to weak signals, line and radio interference, etc. I switched to DirecTV four years ago and won't consider cable again until they go all digital.
I decided to ramp up my eBay and web sales activity and formed a company. I decided to use Ubuntu 7.04 Linux on the business computer. There are some challenges in terms of software because of lack of mature eBay software for Linux. I circumvented that by using browser-based services:
Auctiva - Listing design and other services
ProStores - Web Store
PayPal - Payments and Shipping
USPS and UPS - Shipping when not using PayPal
eBay Selling Manager, My eBay, eBay Store Manager - Auction management and reporting (also Auctiva)
I also use the following software:
Appgen MyBooks Professional - Accounting ($59)
Evolution - Business Mail
Gimp - Photo Touchup and Re-Sizing
OpenOffice - Various Documents and Spreadsheets
xSane - Scanning Images
Two other programs I may use in the future are Scribus (desktop publishing) and Nvu (web site creation)
All this works extremely well on a six year old 1 GHz Sony VAIO computer (try that, Vista!).
My day job, however, is 100% Microsoft and it is impossible to do what you did because of VPN, Outlook/Microsoft Exchange, IT Support (including remote desktop access), etc.
I am of the same generation as Elton John, but his age isn't the problem. I agree that he doesn't get the Internet. I am personally excited by the positive impact of the Internet on the field of music. When I was young, my exposure to music was the Top 40 of local radio stations, and weekly TV programs like American Bandstand. Decisions of what I heard were in the hands of 'professionals'. Now, I have access to excellent music from all around the world. Good groups, barely making a living playing in local bars, can now create their own label and market their music on their website, or others like CD Baby or eMusic. I live in Austin, Texas (and blessed with a wide availability of music here) but now also have access to previously local artist's music - in Minneapolis, Nashville - or even Soweto or Amsterdam. I can get an instant biography, check tour dates and see what albums are available for any group I run across.
I can see how all this is disconcerting to someone who has made a lot of money under the old system. But for most musicians and all music fans, the Internet is a completely positive thing.
- Not all phones can run Skype - only those running Windows Mobile OS
- Not all phones have the processing power for Skype
- The $10/month also gives you unlimited access to all the U.S. T-Mobile HotSpot pay WiFi sites: Starbucks, Borders, FedEx Kinkos, T-Mobile Stores and many airports/hotels.
- Callers will usually call your T-Mobile number to reach you, not your Skype number, since the chance of reaching you is much higher on the former. With the $10/month service, the call will be routed via WiFi and not cost you minutes
zafo
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Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) has Blue Origin in Kent, Washington and has chosen an area near Van Horn in West Texas for the spaceport. He has bought 290,000 acres of desert ranch land. They tested the rocket at the spaceport on November 13th and plan 10 suborbital tests in the next year. There have been articles in AP, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC and other sources.
I started at 10.1 in June 2002 and we are currently at 10.4 four years later. One-two-three-four...
They have slowed down, however: the time between releases has been 7 months, 10 months, 12 months and 18 months. 10.5 was due to come out after 18 months, but delays by Apple look like it will be 22-24 months before it is released.
I guess I am a little weird, but after 4-1/2 years of running a Mac with OSX I just went full time to a Linux machine. I loved the Mac, but:
- I spent over $3,000 for it in 2002 (PowerMac system with LCD) - In order to keep current and keep all your software running, you have to buy a new MacOS X distribution once a year ($80-$129) - Even an iMac replacement would have cost me $1,700 (20" with extra SDRAM and upgraded graphics) vs. $1,000 (HP AMD64 X2 4600+ with 20" high res LCD and upgraded graphics)
I have struggled a bit with configuration but the new system is humming along pretty well now.
Someone came up with a $120/head number, but would only be the cost of production. Unless you are going to run it commercial-free, the network should rebate some of the advertising revenue in lieu of having to buy it. You might get a check back larger than your 'donation'...
I just went to Paris with a Palm Tungsten C and a Sharp SL-5600 Linux PDA. Up until then I had been leaning towards the Tungsten and was thinking about selling the Sharp, mostly due to the better display and bunch of purchased programs I have (I've been a Palm user since 1998).
The Palm had trouble finding, logging into and staying connected to WiFi. The browser is crap. The Sharp was a dream on WiFi, used in conjunction with Opera 7. The GPL software, and operation that is just like a full-blown Linux box, was great. I was also very impressed by the Hancom Office Suite that is included with the Sharp.
Palm may be able to win me back with Linux, but for now I am using the SL-5600 (unless I sell both and buy an SL-6000!). The Linux world, in my case, is better than the Palm world.
City of Austin, Texas will recycle any computer for free if you take it to their recycling center.
Macs do have amazing longetivity, but I've seen a lot of old (1984-90) Macs at garage sales, and they are just not selling. I've upgraded a number of PPC models, though. I just found a new Sonnet 260 MHz G3 upgrade at a garage sale for my 7100/66AV.
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I don't think banning added salt is logical or wanted, though I wish consumers would demand a more reasonable use of salt in restaurant food. That said, a couple of comments: 1) Salt is not a spice, it is a mineral. It does not enhance flavor, it adds its own unique flavor. 2) Yes, salt is necessary for us to survive, but you'll find that we get salt in almost everything we eat - enough for our needs without adding any. Most Americans eat a lot of processed foods and, if they tracked their salt intake, will find that they have reached the maximum recommended daily allowance sometime early in their lunch. We, as a nation, eat entirely too much salt, and suffer high blood pressure and other maladies as a result.
Try Gizmo. It's a SIP-based alternative that works quite well.
I agree. I see nothing in Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 that suggests "it is officially a crime to steal wifi". The law was specifically written to delineate what constitutes fraud if a "protected computer" of the United States government, a financial institution or a computer involved in interstate or foreign commerce is accessed. In each case, the law is violated not only by intentionally accessing the computer, but also by obtaining information.
Does access to a computer even occur? Access through a router to the public Internet does not automatically mean we determined a computer's IP address on the local network, cracked whatever protection was present, and accessed information on it.
It can be a problem, even in Arizona. I used to work in Flagstaff and visit customers in Kayenta, Oraibi and Page. I'd start out in standard time in Flag, move into daylight time when I hit the Navajo Reservation, then back to standard in the Hopi Reservation, then back to daylight in the Navajo Reservation, then to standard when I got close to Page! If I went across the dam into Utah, I would have changed once again... It was a challenge making sure I got to meetings on time and didn't try to schedule a visit at lunchtime by mistake. Even though the Navajo Nation is mostly in Arizona, their capital, Window Rock, is in New Mexico, which uses daylight savings time.
The reason Arizona doesn't want daylight time is the simple fact that most of the people live in the low desert valleys, where you want the sun to go down as early as possible. People in northern areas don't have this concern.
zafo
Based on my own unscientific comparison, my personal Helio Ocean with 3G seems to be faster at bringing up web pages than my business Blackberry with EDGE. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though (accessing the same web page at the same time).
Technically true, but there is an inherent difference in quality between analog and digital television quality. Analog TV has a horizontal resolution of 330 lines maximum, and digital TV is 480 lines maximum.
Our local cable provider sends the first 60 channels out as analog (including local channels) on their "Digital TV" offering, and is thus subject to weak signals, line and radio interference, etc. I switched to DirecTV four years ago and won't consider cable again until they go all digital.
I decided to ramp up my eBay and web sales activity and formed a company. I decided to use Ubuntu 7.04 Linux on the business computer. There are some challenges in terms of software because of lack of mature eBay software for Linux. I circumvented that by using browser-based services: Auctiva - Listing design and other services ProStores - Web Store PayPal - Payments and Shipping USPS and UPS - Shipping when not using PayPal eBay Selling Manager, My eBay, eBay Store Manager - Auction management and reporting (also Auctiva) I also use the following software: Appgen MyBooks Professional - Accounting ($59) Evolution - Business Mail Gimp - Photo Touchup and Re-Sizing OpenOffice - Various Documents and Spreadsheets xSane - Scanning Images Two other programs I may use in the future are Scribus (desktop publishing) and Nvu (web site creation) All this works extremely well on a six year old 1 GHz Sony VAIO computer (try that, Vista!). My day job, however, is 100% Microsoft and it is impossible to do what you did because of VPN, Outlook/Microsoft Exchange, IT Support (including remote desktop access), etc.
I am of the same generation as Elton John, but his age isn't the problem. I agree that he doesn't get the Internet. I am personally excited by the positive impact of the Internet on the field of music. When I was young, my exposure to music was the Top 40 of local radio stations, and weekly TV programs like American Bandstand. Decisions of what I heard were in the hands of 'professionals'. Now, I have access to excellent music from all around the world. Good groups, barely making a living playing in local bars, can now create their own label and market their music on their website, or others like CD Baby or eMusic. I live in Austin, Texas (and blessed with a wide availability of music here) but now also have access to previously local artist's music - in Minneapolis, Nashville - or even Soweto or Amsterdam. I can get an instant biography, check tour dates and see what albums are available for any group I run across.
I can see how all this is disconcerting to someone who has made a lot of money under the old system. But for most musicians and all music fans, the Internet is a completely positive thing.
- Not all phones can run Skype - only those running Windows Mobile OS - Not all phones have the processing power for Skype - The $10/month also gives you unlimited access to all the U.S. T-Mobile HotSpot pay WiFi sites: Starbucks, Borders, FedEx Kinkos, T-Mobile Stores and many airports/hotels. - Callers will usually call your T-Mobile number to reach you, not your Skype number, since the chance of reaching you is much higher on the former. With the $10/month service, the call will be routed via WiFi and not cost you minutes zafo
Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) has Blue Origin in Kent, Washington and has chosen an area near Van Horn in West Texas for the spaceport. He has bought 290,000 acres of desert ranch land. They tested the rocket at the spaceport on November 13th and plan 10 suborbital tests in the next year. There have been articles in AP, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC and other sources.
I started at 10.1 in June 2002 and we are currently at 10.4 four years later. One-two-three-four... They have slowed down, however: the time between releases has been 7 months, 10 months, 12 months and 18 months. 10.5 was due to come out after 18 months, but delays by Apple look like it will be 22-24 months before it is released.
I guess I am a little weird, but after 4-1/2 years of running a Mac with OSX I just went full time to a Linux machine. I loved the Mac, but:
- I spent over $3,000 for it in 2002 (PowerMac system with LCD)
- In order to keep current and keep all your software running, you have to buy a new MacOS X distribution once a year ($80-$129)
- Even an iMac replacement would have cost me $1,700 (20" with extra SDRAM and upgraded graphics) vs. $1,000 (HP AMD64 X2 4600+ with 20" high res LCD and upgraded graphics)
I have struggled a bit with configuration but the new system is humming along pretty well now.
Someone came up with a $120/head number, but would only be the cost of production. Unless you are going to run it commercial-free, the network should rebate some of the advertising revenue in lieu of having to buy it. You might get a check back larger than your 'donation'...
I just went to Paris with a Palm Tungsten C and a Sharp SL-5600 Linux PDA. Up until then I had been leaning towards the Tungsten and was thinking about selling the Sharp, mostly due to the better display and bunch of purchased programs I have (I've been a Palm user since 1998). The Palm had trouble finding, logging into and staying connected to WiFi. The browser is crap. The Sharp was a dream on WiFi, used in conjunction with Opera 7. The GPL software, and operation that is just like a full-blown Linux box, was great. I was also very impressed by the Hancom Office Suite that is included with the Sharp. Palm may be able to win me back with Linux, but for now I am using the SL-5600 (unless I sell both and buy an SL-6000!). The Linux world, in my case, is better than the Palm world.
City of Austin, Texas will recycle any computer for free if you take it to their recycling center. Macs do have amazing longetivity, but I've seen a lot of old (1984-90) Macs at garage sales, and they are just not selling. I've upgraded a number of PPC models, though. I just found a new Sonnet 260 MHz G3 upgrade at a garage sale for my 7100/66AV.