I hate carrying cards in my wallet, so it's nice that Safeway can use a phone number. And the only number I use is my friend's that was disconnected 4 years ago. So do all of our friends. Let's see what happens if I put it on slashdot.
If anyone wants the safeway club discounts, feel free to try this number: 503.626.3217
If they notice you're not the name on the receipt just say that's your roomate who owns the house. And if you're not in 503 arecode just say you're visiting or just moved there and have yet to get your own number. Or something.
If you have your own mail server, set up an address that forwards to your phone's address. Then you can whitelist that address and just give that out. So for example, myphone@mydomain.com goes to ##########@mobile.att.net.
Of course this won't stop programs from sending directly to your number. But in the future if you change providers you can just change the forwarded address and your friends don't need any update. J
Yeah, the g's could be something to plan for. I'm sure there's some technological solution to packaging the people to handle it better. Maybe in a laying down position. Or pillows, lots of em.
The wind thing we already got figured out. Just using doppler radar to measure the exact wind at the moment, then calculate a correction for the wind, and just aim the cat a wee bit left or right. No prob!
Gotta get back to work now weaving these bungee cords...
I've been trying to convince my friends for years that catapults is the answer. Stategically placed around the city, maybe a spoke pattern, or maybe some hubs. With a landing zone and another launcher or two aimed at other fixed LZ's.
How cool would that be?! Sure, there's some (minor) details to figure out (how many people at a time, how should they be packaged, etc etc), but it'd be fast, easy, efficient, and above all a FUCKING TRIP! No more boring commutes!
I gotta start writing my representatives again on this...
Just another view of all this... How many people died from terrorists last year in the world. 700ish I heard? How many people died in car accidents just in America? 50,000ish? How much money are we (our dictator Bush) spending on playing cowboys and Iragis? 75 billion I think he requested?
I know I'm stretching connections here but it's still interesting to think what could happen if we spent 75 bil$ on transportation in this country. How many lives would be saved just by improving mass transit, or better bike lanes, or just some informative commercials or billboards for all the thick-headed drivers around here.
I don't think simulating cities is actually as easy as it sounds. It was only a few years ago that we reached the capability to simulate traffic in cities over a day or so. The actual growth of a city over years could take some big doing, or dumbing down of the simulation detail.
I guess this will make it difficult to change the name from 'blog' to 'weblog' in every day speech, now that Google might be using it on the front page. Blog has got to be one of the dumbest buzz words to come out of the net yet.
But most likely in a couple years when the blog fad dies down we can stop cringing at the word.
Great... they go from being oppressed and threatened by one crazy guy to a stack of crazy laws that threaten their intellectual freedom.
When they're jailed for 10 years for making a copy of a CD, they'll realize that not much has changed.
J
I was going to a tech show and they make you fill out your bio before slapping on a name tag. I was one of two 'computer guys' at my company and tired of all the usual titles, so I thought I'd do something different just because I knew this would end up in a marketing db somewhere. I wrote down "Alien Brain". I liked it. The lady behind the counter liked it too and I actually wore the name tag.
So to this day (that was 4+ years ago) I get junk mail addressed to Alien Brain.
Hmmmm I still kinda like the sound of it.
Jason
Alien Brain
I agree, it's good to see Mozilla out in front. Although, to be honest, I'm not sure what Netscape really does anymore. It seems it would make the most sense for Mozilla to focus on these sweet components. Then have Netscape bundle them together into a suite. It makes less sense for Mozilla to have a fairly large installation package.
Some people complain about the bloat in mozilla- they should complain about the bloat in netscape, and praise the components put out by moz.
Jason
Slashdot Mirror
Can't upset the censors.
J
Police are at a loss to explain why the software wasn't effective, since it seemed to work fine in controlled testing, Guidara said.
Guess they had trouble with the smoke blowing away and the mirrors getting dirty in the real world.
J
When you hire spammers or buy their products, you're supporting terrorism!
Maybe we should tell Georgie.
I agree. Freenet? Again?
At least we know who to thank- on the bottom of frottle's page under the special thanks is:
jas for coming up with such a catchy name
Yay jas.... very catchy.
J
I hate carrying cards in my wallet, so it's nice that Safeway can use a phone number. And the only number I use is my friend's that was disconnected 4 years ago. So do all of our friends. Let's see what happens if I put it on slashdot.
If anyone wants the safeway club discounts, feel free to try this number:
503.626.3217
If they notice you're not the name on the receipt just say that's your roomate who owns the house. And if you're not in 503 arecode just say you're visiting or just moved there and have yet to get your own number. Or something.
J
Yeah, it was at compag and now HP. There's lots of info if you google it.
Could be some cool tech. I'm looking forward to seeing it in more real applications.
Jason
What is Laos gonna do in 50 years or whenever it's actually a pretty wired country? What does gov.la point to? Something's gotta give in that time.
J
If you have your own mail server, set up an address that forwards to your phone's address. Then you can whitelist that address and just give that out. So for example, myphone@mydomain.com goes to ##########@mobile.att.net.
Of course this won't stop programs from sending directly to your number. But in the future if you change providers you can just change the forwarded address and your friends don't need any update.
J
Would make a good bar story...
"That's a good one! But let me tell you about the time I fucked a gorilla..."
J
Isn't mondays 'patch your ms box' day?
Maybe it isn't the web developers....
J
Yeah, the g's could be something to plan for. I'm sure there's some technological solution to packaging the people to handle it better. Maybe in a laying down position. Or pillows, lots of em.
The wind thing we already got figured out. Just using doppler radar to measure the exact wind at the moment, then calculate a correction for the wind, and just aim the cat a wee bit left or right. No prob!
Gotta get back to work now weaving these bungee cords...
Jason
"Catapults"
I've been trying to convince my friends for years that catapults is the answer. Stategically placed around the city, maybe a spoke pattern, or maybe some hubs. With a landing zone and another launcher or two aimed at other fixed LZ's.
How cool would that be?! Sure, there's some (minor) details to figure out (how many people at a time, how should they be packaged, etc etc), but it'd be fast, easy, efficient, and above all a FUCKING TRIP! No more boring commutes!
I gotta start writing my representatives again on this...
Jason
Just another view of all this... How many people died from terrorists last year in the world. 700ish I heard? How many people died in car accidents just in America? 50,000ish? How much money are we (our dictator Bush) spending on playing cowboys and Iragis? 75 billion I think he requested?
I know I'm stretching connections here but it's still interesting to think what could happen if we spent 75 bil$ on transportation in this country. How many lives would be saved just by improving mass transit, or better bike lanes, or just some informative commercials or billboards for all the thick-headed drivers around here.
Just pondering...
Jason
I don't think simulating cities is actually as easy as it sounds. It was only a few years ago that we reached the capability to simulate traffic in cities over a day or so. The actual growth of a city over years could take some big doing, or dumbing down of the simulation detail.
Here's the info on the traffic sim:
Los Alamos gains corporate partner for traffic simulation
Incidently, here's an interesting if not mildly amusing 'amatuer' traffic analysis:
Traffic Waves
And a more thorough site on better driving (which is actually pretty sweet- this should be required reading for drivers):
Big City Driver
Happy trails,
Jason
I guess this will make it difficult to change the name from 'blog' to 'weblog' in every day speech, now that Google might be using it on the front page. Blog has got to be one of the dumbest buzz words to come out of the net yet.
But most likely in a couple years when the blog fad dies down we can stop cringing at the word.
J
Great... they go from being oppressed and threatened by one crazy guy to a stack of crazy laws that threaten their intellectual freedom. When they're jailed for 10 years for making a copy of a CD, they'll realize that not much has changed. J
Umm.. that's one way of putting it. Could be a handy phrase though in the future.
"The server didn't crash, it just hard-landed."
Jason
I was going to a tech show and they make you fill out your bio before slapping on a name tag. I was one of two 'computer guys' at my company and tired of all the usual titles, so I thought I'd do something different just because I knew this would end up in a marketing db somewhere. I wrote down "Alien Brain". I liked it. The lady behind the counter liked it too and I actually wore the name tag. So to this day (that was 4+ years ago) I get junk mail addressed to Alien Brain. Hmmmm I still kinda like the sound of it. Jason Alien Brain
I agree, it's good to see Mozilla out in front. Although, to be honest, I'm not sure what Netscape really does anymore. It seems it would make the most sense for Mozilla to focus on these sweet components. Then have Netscape bundle them together into a suite. It makes less sense for Mozilla to have a fairly large installation package. Some people complain about the bloat in mozilla- they should complain about the bloat in netscape, and praise the components put out by moz. Jason