To borrow from the Graduate, plastic has no future - is it really necessary to possess physical plastic cards and scan them? Not at all, the future is biometric/electronic/e-wallets and in at least one large retailer's case, regular customers will be able to walk out of the door without ever approaching a cash register.
That slot on a Polaroid camera was actually an edge connector. The flash bar was printed on a PCB and had gold trace "fingers" on a protruding section, like an ISA card. These are very cheap, as only one side of the connector even is a connector at all, the other is just a PCB. But they also aren't physically very strong and aren't good for a lot of insertion/removal cycles.
The iPod 30-pin has a metal shelled connector on both mating pieces. These are more precise, last longer and with the a latch system (present on some iPod cables, not others) physically strong. You can hang an iPod Mini easily from a latched 30-pin connector while the Polaroid flash bars fell out without even putting weight on them.
Also note Steve Jobs didn't design Apple's 30-pin connector, Donald J Novotney did.
Interesting update - thanks very much for the info
Yes, and then rubbing them over every upper-stage rocket you can lay your hands on - in 40,000 years or so, you'll be Galactic Emperor, or wait,... the Sixth Cylon?
The winnowing measures of Plan Lean by IBM are a part of a larger problem confronting Corporate America. By the early 90's, downsizing became a mantra for efficiency experts in management. Corporations were becoming 'lean and mean' with corporations...The main driver to payroll cost cutting is the handsome compensation packages given to CEO's and to shore up shares of the company. In a study of 229 firms that laid off employees at least once between 1993 and 1999, Craig Rennie-Professor of Business/Financial Markets in the Walton College found that specifically, for the year after a layoff occurred, CEOs of these firms received 22.8 percent more in total pay than CEOs of firms that did not have layoffs.
Thanks - I just added "Children of Heaven" to my Netflix queue.
I've used Netflix for years now, and can't do without, especially the wide selection. The further comfort I have with online commerce (Amazon Prime, eBay,etc.) makes me prefer well-run online options I am, however a miniscule part of the huge non-online customer base of Blockbuster. It's surprising they could make a loss with such a comfortable, non-technical population
I wrote a blogpost about the Netflix settlement, where I named the law firm. A few weeks back I got a vaguely worded threat from the lawfirm - left as a HaloScan comment - with a number to call, etc.
I spoke to a pro bono lawyer who handles stuff for another website I run, and she advised it was fluff, but recommended I take the name of the firm down, as apparently the BIG firm was using a SMALL firm as a front in the lawsuit, and thereby could claim misrepresentation, lost business, etc.
The shuttle?
Probably about $50 million, and not have to worry about getting sniped at the last second.
eBay yanked the shuttle debris auctions in 2003
Something really cool is the space shuttle simulator, apparently available on ebay
He doesn't have an RSS feed, so technically this isn't podcasting. It's still cool. This bit,
Just incredible to be way out there on the end of that arm all by myself and see no evidence of humans anywhere. Just me and the Space Station and the Space Shuttle from a view that neither I nor anybody else has ever seen, and watch the sun come up over the bottom of the Space Shuttle, and get to sort of drink in that big view. I'll never forget it, and I'll never be able to describe it adequately, I'm sure. But I feel very fortunate to have been able to get a chance to do that. And also very glad that it worked!
I joined Amazon Prime - the all-you-can-eat shipping program, and it significantly changed my shopping habits - I'm buying more stuff, but it's relevant to my preferences. And I always look on Amazon first. Two-day shipping is great too.
On the Netflix competition front, it is interesting that Netflix has not yet, AFAIK, used it's patent on the DVD delivery/rental service that it took out a long time back.
Culturally, Amazon will be a better fit, competitively, than Wal-mart and Blockbuster, because it has no brick-and-mortar affiliation or overhead, similar to Netflix.
I believe that an acquisition is not ruled out here. It's basically a 'Buy v. Build' decision, IMHO
It's a manga-train.
On another note, it may be time for a remake of the "Bullet Train", one of my favorite films, and possibly the original for "The Speed"
Ternary is the base 3 numeral system. Ternary digits are known as trits (trinary digit), analogous to bit. This system is also known as trinary.
Although ternary most often refers to a system in which the three numerals, 0, 1 and 2, are all positive integers, the adjective also lends its name to the balanced ternary system, useful for comparison logic.
Pop go the Weasel(s)!
Did they take the approval of the site owners to do what they did? or is 'ownz0ring' - will they get paid back in their own coin?
As is par for Cory's work, the topics are cutting edge - dealing with ebay-driven in-game economics, dietary restrictions on kids,anti-globalization criticism, puns on the Bradbury/Moore controversy and female rights a la SuicideGirls(?). In another time, a little girl might play with a golliwog, a Barbie or a teaset. In this post-modern age, she is a skilled character in a game that borrows from Everquest, Ray Bradbury, Quake and Tolkien - more a killer than a wayfarer. Her participation in, and then disavowal of, an in-game conspiracy to terminate characters who produce in-game gold to be sold for real money on ebay, is bracketed with the onset of youthful diabetes, induced perhaps by the sweetshops just outside the 500 m sugar-free zone at her school.
Firstly, evidently Amazon is able to better leverage pricing with the shippers - allowing them greater flexibility in the order fulfilment process. Look for Amazon to acquire/embrace a shipping company - this would mean near-complete vertical integration, and even greater cost efficiency.
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also further extends Amazon's utilization of their single-click patent - If signed in and using the Single-Click option, you see additional buttons for Prime purchases, although you can add to the shopping cart and apply the Prime option later too.
Finally, it should drive up sales for Amazon - people will be more inclined to buy if they can pick up the odd book or two without having to jump through hoops to get it shipped fast and free.Also it locks in customers.
...worked out some numbers that would make this palatable. Using the Amazon shipping rates for 2-day shipments, and assuming purchases of books, music and CDs, it would take a purchase volume of 25 books, 15 CDs and 2 electronic items(approx 6 lbs per item) to cover the cost of approx $76. Alternatively, it would take about 4 shipments in the (slower) super saver shipping scheme. So if this works for you, give it a shot.
Ok, I just completed the dnload of the games knoppix, burnt to cd and slipped it into the CD Drive of my Dell Latitude laptop.
It boots, asks me to select a video mode or press space. I pressed space, it boots the kernel, scans for USB, enables DMA acceleration, then just sits at the next step:
Looking for CDROM in:/dev/scd0
Since it is booting from the CDROM, what can be wrong? How do I proceed?
Does this book evaluate the various versions out there? I played with the standard knoppix a bit, and as a new year's present have just started a torrent download of the Games Knoppix. I have never seen such a fast torrent dl
So, what lies ahead for Linux/Knoppix this year? Will it be the year that let the ant finally cross over the elephant's back? Or will it be another slogging inning, cricket as usual?
It is not the XBox License, it is the XBox Warranty - big difference, IANAL
IANAL, but the DMCA applies to hardware as well.
IANAL, but these guys were stooopid
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To borrow from the Graduate, plastic has no future - is it really necessary to possess physical plastic cards and scan them? Not at all, the future is biometric/electronic/e-wallets and in at least one large retailer's case, regular customers will be able to walk out of the door without ever approaching a cash register.
That slot on a Polaroid camera was actually an edge connector. The flash bar was printed on a PCB and had gold trace "fingers" on a protruding section, like an ISA card. These are very cheap, as only one side of the connector even is a connector at all, the other is just a PCB. But they also aren't physically very strong and aren't good for a lot of insertion/removal cycles.
The iPod 30-pin has a metal shelled connector on both mating pieces. These are more precise, last longer and with the a latch system (present on some iPod cables, not others) physically strong. You can hang an iPod Mini easily from a latched 30-pin connector while the Polaroid flash bars fell out without even putting weight on them.
Also note Steve Jobs didn't design Apple's 30-pin connector, Donald J Novotney did.
Interesting update - thanks very much for the info
Interesting - how much time until there's an app for loading Polaroid pictures to the iOS?
Basic question - how do I learn how to program for the PS3?
Yes, and then rubbing them over every upper-stage rocket you can lay your hands on - in 40,000 years or so, you'll be Galactic Emperor, or wait,... the Sixth Cylon?
Thanks - I just added "Children of Heaven" to my Netflix queue.
I've used Netflix for years now, and can't do without, especially the wide selection. The further comfort I have with online commerce (Amazon Prime, eBay,etc.) makes me prefer well-run online options
I am, however a miniscule part of the huge non-online customer base of Blockbuster. It's surprising they could make a loss with such a comfortable, non-technical population
I wrote a blogpost about the Netflix settlement, where I named the law firm. A few weeks back I got a vaguely worded threat from the lawfirm - left as a HaloScan comment - with a number to call, etc.
I spoke to a pro bono lawyer who handles stuff for another website I run, and she advised it was fluff, but recommended I take the name of the firm down, as apparently the BIG firm was using a SMALL firm as a front in the lawsuit, and thereby could claim misrepresentation, lost business, etc.
'Nuff said - the firm name is gone.
The shuttle? Probably about $50 million, and not have to worry about getting sniped at the last second. eBay yanked the shuttle debris auctions in 2003 Something really cool is the space shuttle simulator, apparently available on ebay
I joined Amazon Prime - the all-you-can-eat shipping program, and it significantly changed my shopping habits - I'm buying more stuff, but it's relevant to my preferences. And I always look on Amazon first. Two-day shipping is great too.
On the Netflix competition front, it is interesting that Netflix has not yet, AFAIK, used it's patent on the DVD delivery/rental service that it took out a long time back.
Culturally, Amazon will be a better fit, competitively, than Wal-mart and Blockbuster, because it has no brick-and-mortar affiliation or overhead, similar to Netflix. I believe that an acquisition is not ruled out here. It's basically a 'Buy v. Build' decision, IMHO
So what do I do in spider and web to get started?? I'm studying that dang plate for an hour
It's a manga-train. On another note, it may be time for a remake of the "Bullet Train", one of my favorite films, and possibly the original for "The Speed"
Interestingly, AFAIK most of the local pot is grown by their conservative base, or at least in the regions of that base
So, then Wal-mart should start selling pot - sounds like a good fit for their business model.
From wikipedia,
This could be called "PC Next" - see this review of the XBox 360 for some notes I hope PC Gaming prices drop
Democracy and free markets seem to be better, in the long run, at fostering growth than totalitarian regimes, IMHO
Pop go the Weasel(s)! Did they take the approval of the site owners to do what they did? or is 'ownz0ring' - will they get paid back in their own coin?
Since Salon is quite restrictive in access, I put a DRM-free txt/html version on my blog along with a review.
The story itself is here(txt) and here(html).
A review of the story is also on my blog
Big shoppers will embrace this model
In the university area nearby,"Unseen University", and another one, "See You NT"
It boots, asks me to select a video mode or press space. I pressed space, it boots the kernel, scans for USB, enables DMA acceleration, then just sits at the next step:
Looking for CDROM in: /dev/scd0
Since it is booting from the CDROM, what can be wrong? How do I proceed?
Does this book evaluate the various versions out there? I played with the standard knoppix a bit, and as a new year's present have just started a torrent download of the Games Knoppix. I have never seen such a fast torrent dl
So, what lies ahead for Linux/Knoppix this year? Will it be the year that let the ant finally cross over the elephant's back? Or will it be another slogging inning, cricket as usual?
It is not the XBox License, it is the XBox Warranty - big difference, IANAL IANAL, but the DMCA applies to hardware as well. IANAL, but these guys were stooopid