FTA "“You’re the ones who’ve been slacking off!” proclaims Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University (and one of the other speakers at Future Tense). He refers, of course, to SF writers. The scientists and engineers, he seems to be saying, are ready and looking for things to do. Time for the SF writers to start pulling their weight and supplying big visions that make sense."
Daniel Suarez provided some interesting near term solutions to some of these stagnation issues in his recent very enjoyable "Daemon" and "Freedom" novels. Sad that I also agree with his vision that these solutions would be violently resisted by various interests.
Went full streaming nearly a year ago.
1 ea of Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, WD TV Live Plus, and an older Roku connected to various TVs all streaming Netflix, plus a mix of platform specific channels.
Hulu and a few others play on the WD TV Live Plus via a Playon server running on a PC. The WD TV Live Plus is really a great device, playing movies and other media shared on networked PCs.
Mostly we watch Netflix and have ran up to three simultaneous streams on a 12Mbps Comcast connection.
To complete the streaming experience, our Logitech Squeezebox radio is a fabulous Wifi music only streamer- finding local streaming radios stations automatically, playing Pandora, and blending nicely with the decor. The 6 hours of life in the optional battery pack makes it great for portable music outside.
Downsides are lack of live sports. Upsides include the reduction in random bored TV watching and queuing Netfix videos from the phone when someone suggests one, instead of trying to remember what they suggested later.
Agreed. When someone "experiences something weird", there is an explanation. But that explanation may be beyond our current limited understanding of the workings of our universe and reality. It seems to be arrogant to claim that "ghosts" don't exist, when some limited cases may be phenomena beyond our current ability to measure and explain. Before the discovery of bacteria, we could sense and measure their effects, but were unable to explain the mechanism. This didn't mean that bacteria didn't exist though.
a president can win the popular vote but lose the election
Though I agree with your other points, the US does not have a national "popular vote". It has separate popular votes in each state. Think of it this way- the winner of the World Series is not the team that scores the most total runs over the course of World Series, but the team that wins the greatest number of games. A "national popular vote" would result in less populous states becoming irrelevant.
Gateway sold off a PC business unit to MPC a few years back, supposedly also selling off the warranty responsibilities as well. MPC then went out of business. Severals clients had Gateway PCs fail that Gateway refused to repair, claiming they were MPC's problem- I took one case all the way to the Gateway head office, only to be refused. Terrible business practice. Gateway is on the "actively avoid" list for all our clients.
Surely, those Net Admins at Comcast will be looking at this and figuring out where the test is connecting to, and then modifying their configurations so that their filtering/slowdown settings do not interfere with a users ability to get FULL speed just to the testing site.
Now, to figure out how to use broadband.gov as a proxy..
"One Second After" was a great, if very sad, book. After reading it, I asked a few friends in law enforcement and EMS if they had plans for this type of emergency- no cell phones, no radios, no vehicles. To quote one response "Ahh, yeah, we haven't prepped for that. Every man for themselves."
And i could have sworn i bumped into a story somewhere on the net where a guy had wrestled with the topic, via burger flippers that was guided by wireless headsets and sound prompts from a computer, via robots and the poorhouse for displaced workers, to a kind of utopia set up in australia, where people had free food and housing, and could use a daily allotment of "resource points" either on themselves or pool them to "fund" greater projects someone was working on
SOA - What a gold mine that one was. Calling it "web services" didn't command a very high premium. But tack on a great acronym like SOA and you can charge lots more!
Thanks for a good laugh! I couldn't remember what SOA stood for, so I looked it up.
3 or 4 reporters can't turn into an ugly mob when a gov't official starts shoveling shit down their throats.
The press pools of recent history in the US hardly approach anything remotely resembling angry mobs. Any truly challenging reporter is denied access in the first place precisely to prevent this.
Newegg did something similar a couple years back (not claiming the OP refers to Newegg, just posting my personal experience with something similar Newegg did). I posted a negative review of an item, shortly thereafter Newegg emailed me asking to resolve my complaint about the item in exchange for removing the negative review. To their credit, Newegg resolved the issue, but the net result was to artificially alter the reviews of the product.
Following the Great Depression and World War II, the leaders of our society decided to start taxing the wealthy more and more, while using that money for the betterment of society as a whole. It was called the New Deal. And this policy worked quite well, propelling America into a period of rapid economic growth, while at the same time creating a profound sense of economic security for the middle class
The strong growth of the US economy after WWII had more to do with the fact that the US's industrial and personnel base were not subject to years of bombing, and were well equipped to supply those many countries that were not as fortunate.
he tells me his computer guru neighbor fixed his computer because it had a bad hard disk and now everything is nice a fast again.
Did you test the hard drive? Your friend may well have had a good drive, and only needed a windows reinstall. The neighbor may have tested the drive, or came across bad sectors in the process of cloning the drive. Drives are so inexpensive compared to the labor required to reinstall a second time, that it's silly not to replace them if there's any sign of trouble.
Street Survival is a national SCCA program that teaches young drivers emergency car control skills.
As an instructor, it's gratifying to see the improvements students make in an inexpensive one day class that teaches panic braking, skid control, and emergency lane change skills.
These are potentially life saving skills that aren't taught in standard drivers education classes, and sorely need improvement in nearly all drivers.
"But we produce everything we need to exist, food, housing, medicine. So, again, I ask, what's the problem?"
There is less credit available because of the financial problems. Many of these productive activities depend on the availability of short term credit, and will be reduced (potentially causing layoff and raising prices) without it. Note the addition of the purchase of "commercial paper" (short term loans to businesses) to the emergency plan.
+ for Mwave. Been buying from them for 5+ years. I've placed 30+ orders so far this year, 50+ last year- I order roughly weekly for items that are more expensive at Ingram, Tech Data, etc. Fast shipping, great order completion, good service on the very small number of RMAs and returns I've had to do.
How do you try this feature out? I RTFA, WVFYTV (*** you tube video), read the new feature page (which as far as I can see, doesn't mention this feature), did a few searches on the feature, then installed picasa 3 and fiddled with tagging photos, but no tag suggestions have come up. Can someone please enlighten me as to how this works?
What happens when you take the inherently strong natural shape of a tree, and modify it to suite the shape a human needs to be useful? Is there still a benefit over say, concrete block? Or does the unnatural shape so foreign to the strengths of the plant, that the benefits are mitigated?
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Here's a link to Manna, a great read: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
taking their rightful places on the junk heap of other failed ideologies and social/economic systems which are based upon....greed.
Agree with your other points, but capitalism works because it accounts for greed. Many of the other systems fail because they don't.
Daniel Suarez provided some interesting near term solutions to some of these stagnation issues in his recent very enjoyable "Daemon" and "Freedom" novels. Sad that I also agree with his vision that these solutions would be violently resisted by various interests.
Good luck fitting a useful EDR to a pre-OBD vehicle. NHTSA means to mandate EDRs in all new vehicles. Here's a more accurate article: http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/feds-to-require.php
Went full streaming nearly a year ago. 1 ea of Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, WD TV Live Plus, and an older Roku connected to various TVs all streaming Netflix, plus a mix of platform specific channels. Hulu and a few others play on the WD TV Live Plus via a Playon server running on a PC. The WD TV Live Plus is really a great device, playing movies and other media shared on networked PCs. Mostly we watch Netflix and have ran up to three simultaneous streams on a 12Mbps Comcast connection. To complete the streaming experience, our Logitech Squeezebox radio is a fabulous Wifi music only streamer- finding local streaming radios stations automatically, playing Pandora, and blending nicely with the decor. The 6 hours of life in the optional battery pack makes it great for portable music outside. Downsides are lack of live sports. Upsides include the reduction in random bored TV watching and queuing Netfix videos from the phone when someone suggests one, instead of trying to remember what they suggested later.
Agreed. When someone "experiences something weird", there is an explanation. But that explanation may be beyond our current limited understanding of the workings of our universe and reality. It seems to be arrogant to claim that "ghosts" don't exist, when some limited cases may be phenomena beyond our current ability to measure and explain. Before the discovery of bacteria, we could sense and measure their effects, but were unable to explain the mechanism. This didn't mean that bacteria didn't exist though.
a president can win the popular vote but lose the election
Though I agree with your other points, the US does not have a national "popular vote". It has separate popular votes in each state. Think of it this way- the winner of the World Series is not the team that scores the most total runs over the course of World Series, but the team that wins the greatest number of games. A "national popular vote" would result in less populous states becoming irrelevant.
Gateway sold off a PC business unit to MPC a few years back, supposedly also selling off the warranty responsibilities as well. MPC then went out of business. Severals clients had Gateway PCs fail that Gateway refused to repair, claiming they were MPC's problem- I took one case all the way to the Gateway head office, only to be refused. Terrible business practice. Gateway is on the "actively avoid" list for all our clients.
Surely, those Net Admins at Comcast will be looking at this and figuring out where the test is connecting to, and then modifying their configurations so that their filtering/slowdown settings do not interfere with a users ability to get FULL speed just to the testing site.
Now, to figure out how to use broadband.gov as a proxy..
"One Second After" was a great, if very sad, book. After reading it, I asked a few friends in law enforcement and EMS if they had plans for this type of emergency- no cell phones, no radios, no vehicles. To quote one response "Ahh, yeah, we haven't prepped for that. Every man for themselves."
And i could have sworn i bumped into a story somewhere on the net where a guy had wrestled with the topic, via burger flippers that was guided by wireless headsets and sound prompts from a computer, via robots and the poorhouse for displaced workers, to a kind of utopia set up in australia, where people had free food and housing, and could use a daily allotment of "resource points" either on themselves or pool them to "fund" greater projects someone was working on
Pretty sure you're thinking of "Manna" by Marshall Brain http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm A very enjoyable read!
or Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/10/
SOA - What a gold mine that one was. Calling it "web services" didn't command a very high premium. But tack on a great acronym like SOA and you can charge lots more!
Thanks for a good laugh! I couldn't remember what SOA stood for, so I looked it up.
Even the Wikipedia description for SOA could win a round of buzzword bingo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
3 or 4 reporters can't turn into an ugly mob when a gov't official starts shoveling shit down their throats.
The press pools of recent history in the US hardly approach anything remotely resembling angry mobs. Any truly challenging reporter is denied access in the first place precisely to prevent this.
Newegg did something similar a couple years back (not claiming the OP refers to Newegg, just posting my personal experience with something similar Newegg did). I posted a negative review of an item, shortly thereafter Newegg emailed me asking to resolve my complaint about the item in exchange for removing the negative review. To their credit, Newegg resolved the issue, but the net result was to artificially alter the reviews of the product.
Following the Great Depression and World War II, the leaders of our society decided to start taxing the wealthy more and more, while using that money for the betterment of society as a whole. It was called the New Deal. And this policy worked quite well, propelling America into a period of rapid economic growth, while at the same time creating a profound sense of economic security for the middle class
The strong growth of the US economy after WWII had more to do with the fact that the US's industrial and personnel base were not subject to years of bombing, and were well equipped to supply those many countries that were not as fortunate.
he tells me his computer guru neighbor fixed his computer because it had a bad hard disk and now everything is nice a fast again.
Did you test the hard drive? Your friend may well have had a good drive, and only needed a windows reinstall. The neighbor may have tested the drive, or came across bad sectors in the process of cloning the drive. Drives are so inexpensive compared to the labor required to reinstall a second time, that it's silly not to replace them if there's any sign of trouble.
As an instructor, it's gratifying to see the improvements students make in an inexpensive one day class that teaches panic braking, skid control, and emergency lane change skills.
These are potentially life saving skills that aren't taught in standard drivers education classes, and sorely need improvement in nearly all drivers.
(qoncept- Cheers to a fellow autocrosser)
Why Win7 is not purely 64 bit is beyond me
Windows 7 has the same driver model as Vista- which requires signed drivers for the 64 bit version. Many devices don't have 64 bit drivers.
"But we produce everything we need to exist, food, housing, medicine. So, again, I ask, what's the problem?" There is less credit available because of the financial problems. Many of these productive activities depend on the availability of short term credit, and will be reduced (potentially causing layoff and raising prices) without it. Note the addition of the purchase of "commercial paper" (short term loans to businesses) to the emergency plan.
+ for Mwave. Been buying from them for 5+ years. I've placed 30+ orders so far this year, 50+ last year- I order roughly weekly for items that are more expensive at Ingram, Tech Data, etc. Fast shipping, great order completion, good service on the very small number of RMAs and returns I've had to do.
Ahh, thanks. The article title and TFA are inaccurate, calling "Picasa Web Album" "Picasa". Bummer, was hoping it was done locally.
You can currently manually geotag with Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43896
How do you try this feature out? I RTFA, WVFYTV (*** you tube video), read the new feature page (which as far as I can see, doesn't mention this feature), did a few searches on the feature, then installed picasa 3 and fiddled with tagging photos, but no tag suggestions have come up. Can someone please enlighten me as to how this works?
What happens when you take the inherently strong natural shape of a tree, and modify it to suite the shape a human needs to be useful? Is there still a benefit over say, concrete block? Or does the unnatural shape so foreign to the strengths of the plant, that the benefits are mitigated?