It's kinda scary that Nader's answers appear the most thought out. Bush basically answered "this is what I did" to most of the questions, regardless of whether it was the right thing to do, or even matched the question. Kerry mostly said, "we need to change" (yeah but how?).
Just like the Apollo program died after a few missions to the moon. Been there done that.
Or remember when the shuttle was first launched? Every network had wall to wall coverage of the entire event. Then prior to Challenger, they wouldn't even cover the launches live, just a 15 second segment on the evening news.
I read the article in the dead tree version when I first received it in the mail and found if very insightful.
The one analogy I liked was that the Catholic church lost control of content when moveable type was invented. Perhaps the RIAA won't take 400 years to realize that Galileo (in this case P2P) was right.
There was also an article in the mag about the program director for XM. You can draw some comparisons with XM since they have a number of niche stations that could play selections from the long tail.
It really is unfortunate that Branson was not able to take over Concorde after BA and AF stopped supersonic passenger service.
I think Sir Richard could have done a good job of restoring Concorde to its former glory. SpaceShipOne is just his latest go-fast toy.
After all Branson speding a billion to play with his toys (SpaceShipOne, Concorde) is no different than any hobby we may have. Of course it is a billion, but overall it's a small percentage of his assets.
So do you think Virgin Galactic will have a codeshare with other airlines?
Plus you won't receive that many miles for the trip. Don't you only go up a few miles and then back down? With Delta that would get your the minimum of 500 miles for the trip.
I know a great deal of smaller towns are getting it for the economic development 'buzz'. The biz-dev guys say 'we gotta have wifi in the downtown area to attract the high-tech crowd'
So the city council approves the spending on the hopes that having a free wifi network will attract new business downtown. But it's not only new businesses it's foot traffic. Got wifi in your park? then perhaps the businesses and restaurants around it will benefit somewhat.
Sometimes the development is pretty easy since they piggy-back on an existing wifi network, i.e. for fire or police.
Just like a few years ago the big thing among the communities in our area was fiber. Somehow if the city had an extensive fiber network then high-tech firms would come beating down your door, or perhaps choose you over another location that didn't have fiber.
I would always tell the local biz-dev guys, if large company X is coming here and have an immediate need for the bandwidth that fiber has they most likely already have a relationship with a telco, and that telco will lay fiber to them to keep this business. So what's the point of the fiber you just buried?
Of course now with cable and dsl most small/medium sized businesses don't need to worry about fiber.
Cop1: Sir, may we search your vehicle? You: Sure, no problem Cop2: (opens trunk, plants item) Cop2: What do we have here? Cop1: Step out of the car sir You: That's not mine! Cop1: Sure sir.
What I find strange about this article is that supposedly Mark made these comments on Wednesday of this past week.
On Friday, Mark did two live radio interviews in my market to promote the upcoming DVD releases. In both interviews the host asked about the next trilogy. Although he did not give the same answer word-for-word, he basically said, "I don't know, most of the time the fans know more than I do"
Did Mark say too much on Wednesday and was told to keep his mouth shut?
The practice of a deposit is very common in Europe, but not very popular in the U.S. Talk to any local 5K promoter and they'll tell you the same, i.e.
"Race registration is $25, whoops don't have your own chip that will be $65"
So as an athlete which race are you going to do? The one that provides chip timing and charges $25 or another race with chip timing that charges $65?
In Europe there is a much higher percentage of personal chip owners so they never pay the deposit for a race, it's an incentive to have your own chip.
Also as a side note, most European athletes rarely go home with their whole deposit back. Why? Because the race venue is set-up so that once you return your chip and have cash in hand you are directed into the vendor area, where you will most likely spend a little bit of that money burning a hole in your pocket.
You are correct, that is why ChampionChip and other RFID timing systems are not used for high speed races such as the short-distance track events. They are mostly used in road races (5K, 10K, etc) and other events such as triathlons.
Some RFID manufacturers have developed a chip that is placed in the bib (race number) There are a few problems with this though.
1. Reads - Champion Chip and other RFID systems usually operate with a pad on the ground and the read height is a factor of outside EMI. On a good day I can get a ChampionChip to read at about waist level, so accurately reading a chest-level tag would be difficult. Of course we could crank up the power on the readers but that may not be the safest environment. There are some European systems that use an exposed antennae but they are not actually approved by the FCC or EU since they emit quite a bit of EMI into the air.
2. Cost - The chest level (bib) chips need to be an active chip to increase reads. Active chips are more expensive than passive chips (what Champion Chip uses) and have a shelf life since there is a battery in there. So as a race timer/organizer what do you do for a large race such as a marathon? If an active chip in the bib costs say $40 per unit, do you build that into the cost of the race? No. So now you must rely upon the race staff/volunteers to retrieve all the chips, so for each lost chip the race timer is out $40 bucks. Of course you know who lost/kept the chip so you can send them a letter asking for it back, or at least your $40 but the results usually aren't that good.
The problem is all the people that received the shares are only going to be paid a small amount of what they might be worth after the IPO.
For example, Joe Worker is thinking about moving to another job 2 years ago because he can get a higher salary. Google offers him 1000 shares. Joe sees alot of cash at the end of that rainbow, so sticks with working at Google.
Jump to today, Google says "we made a mistake, we'll buy your shares back for $25 (my guess)"
Two days later Google IPOs and hits $250, Joe is out $225K
So now Joe has cause for lawsuit, he deferred other employment based upon the 1000 shares he got 2 years ago, which ends up was illegal for Google to give him. So he is suing for at least $225K and any other pain and suffering.
So that $25 million buy back ends up being about $250million+ in lawsuits
I find it interesting that the New York Times version of the story is titled, 'Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery' seems they had to throw that 'Emergency' in there. The other places I have seen the story never mention 'Emergency' in the title or the body of the article.
So how many times do you think Steve is going to be checking in on Tim? I say he gets about 5-10 calls per day, then of course Steve will show up for un-announced visits.
I certainly hope there is not a single slip-up when Steve is gone, otherwise Tim is out the door in September.
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Looks like PearPC helped break the cherry, of MacOS emulation.
It's kinda scary that Nader's answers appear the most thought out. Bush basically answered "this is what I did" to most of the questions, regardless of whether it was the right thing to do, or even matched the question. Kerry mostly said, "we need to change" (yeah but how?).
Just like the Apollo program died after a few missions to the moon. Been there done that.
Or remember when the shuttle was first launched? Every network had wall to wall coverage of the entire event. Then prior to Challenger, they wouldn't even cover the launches live, just a 15 second segment on the evening news.
I read the article in the dead tree version when I first received it in the mail and found if very insightful.
The one analogy I liked was that the Catholic church lost control of content when moveable type was invented. Perhaps the RIAA won't take 400 years to realize that Galileo (in this case P2P) was right.
There was also an article in the mag about the program director for XM. You can draw some comparisons with XM since they have a number of niche stations that could play selections from the long tail.
I think Sir Richard could have done a good job of restoring Concorde to its former glory. SpaceShipOne is just his latest go-fast toy.
After all Branson speding a billion to play with his toys (SpaceShipOne, Concorde) is no different than any hobby we may have. Of course it is a billion, but overall it's a small percentage of his assets.
So do you think Virgin Galactic will have a codeshare with other airlines?
Plus you won't receive that many miles for the trip. Don't you only go up a few miles and then back down? With Delta that would get your the minimum of 500 miles for the trip.
I know a great deal of smaller towns are getting it for the economic development 'buzz'. The biz-dev guys say 'we gotta have wifi in the downtown area to attract the high-tech crowd'
So the city council approves the spending on the hopes that having a free wifi network will attract new business downtown. But it's not only new businesses it's foot traffic. Got wifi in your park? then perhaps the businesses and restaurants around it will benefit somewhat.
Sometimes the development is pretty easy since they piggy-back on an existing wifi network, i.e. for fire or police.
Just like a few years ago the big thing among the communities in our area was fiber. Somehow if the city had an extensive fiber network then high-tech firms would come beating down your door, or perhaps choose you over another location that didn't have fiber.
I would always tell the local biz-dev guys, if large company X is coming here and have an immediate need for the bandwidth that fiber has they most likely already have a relationship with a telco, and that telco will lay fiber to them to keep this business. So what's the point of the fiber you just buried?
Of course now with cable and dsl most small/medium sized businesses don't need to worry about fiber.
That's what I thought of first, the pr0n impact.
Then of course during the first 'interface' with your new sensitive doll, it would remark... "is that all you got?"
Cop1: Sir, may we search your vehicle?
You: Sure, no problem
Cop2: (opens trunk, plants item)
Cop2: What do we have here?
Cop1: Step out of the car sir
You: That's not mine!
Cop1: Sure sir.
What I find strange about this article is that supposedly Mark made these comments on Wednesday of this past week.
On Friday, Mark did two live radio interviews in my market to promote the upcoming DVD releases. In both interviews the host asked about the next trilogy. Although he did not give the same answer word-for-word, he basically said, "I don't know, most of the time the fans know more than I do"
Did Mark say too much on Wednesday and was told to keep his mouth shut?
Not only do we get the standard /. effect they have a 2MB .mp3 that contains the content everybody wants to read/hear.
So I guess you can't say RTFA you'll have to say L2TFA.
that or r-blo is extremely lucky, perhaps he/she could pick some lottery numbers for me?
Also known as the Nude Bomb. Luckily Agent 99 saved us from this terrifying Weapon of Polyester Destruction (WPD) back in 1980.
Obviously you have not seen the new Apple Cinema Displays in person. They're rather impressive.
I agree though the design won't be as clean, but I imagine that Apple counts on alot of 'design' freaks to upgrade to wireless options.
The practice of a deposit is very common in Europe, but not very popular in the U.S. Talk to any local 5K promoter and they'll tell you the same, i.e.
"Race registration is $25, whoops don't have your own chip that will be $65"
So as an athlete which race are you going to do? The one that provides chip timing and charges $25 or another race with chip timing that charges $65?
In Europe there is a much higher percentage of personal chip owners so they never pay the deposit for a race, it's an incentive to have your own chip.
Also as a side note, most European athletes rarely go home with their whole deposit back. Why? Because the race venue is set-up so that once you return your chip and have cash in hand you are directed into the vendor area, where you will most likely spend a little bit of that money burning a hole in your pocket.
Perhaps one of the developers is a balding male who has a small penis with erectile dysfunction and bad credit?
This is done in professional triathlons. Athletes wear a chip on each ankle.
If you look at this picture from the men's road race:
You can see the transponder on the right fork (left side of the picture) it is blue.
Like many other things in business, Swatch is licsensing timing system from other vendors to time the events.
You are correct, that is why ChampionChip and other RFID timing systems are not used for high speed races such as the short-distance track events. They are mostly used in road races (5K, 10K, etc) and other events such as triathlons.
Some RFID manufacturers have developed a chip that is placed in the bib (race number) There are a few problems with this though.
1. Reads - Champion Chip and other RFID systems usually operate with a pad on the ground and the read height is a factor of outside EMI. On a good day I can get a ChampionChip to read at about waist level, so accurately reading a chest-level tag would be difficult. Of course we could crank up the power on the readers but that may not be the safest environment. There are some European systems that use an exposed antennae but they are not actually approved by the FCC or EU since they emit quite a bit of EMI into the air.
2. Cost - The chest level (bib) chips need to be an active chip to increase reads. Active chips are more expensive than passive chips (what Champion Chip uses) and have a shelf life since there is a battery in there. So as a race timer/organizer what do you do for a large race such as a marathon? If an active chip in the bib costs say $40 per unit, do you build that into the cost of the race? No. So now you must rely upon the race staff/volunteers to retrieve all the chips, so for each lost chip the race timer is out $40 bucks. Of course you know who lost/kept the chip so you can send them a letter asking for it back, or at least your $40 but the results usually aren't that good.
The problem is all the people that received the shares are only going to be paid a small amount of what they might be worth after the IPO.
For example, Joe Worker is thinking about moving to another job 2 years ago because he can get a higher salary. Google offers him 1000 shares. Joe sees alot of cash at the end of that rainbow, so sticks with working at Google.
Jump to today, Google says "we made a mistake, we'll buy your shares back for $25 (my guess)"
Two days later Google IPOs and hits $250, Joe is out $225K
So now Joe has cause for lawsuit, he deferred other employment based upon the 1000 shares he got 2 years ago, which ends up was illegal for Google to give him. So he is suing for at least $225K and any other pain and suffering.
So that $25 million buy back ends up being about $250million+ in lawsuits
Each soldier will have their left leg surgically removed and replaced with a Li-Ion battery cell.
I find it interesting that the New York Times version of the story is titled, 'Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery' seems they had to throw that 'Emergency' in there. The other places I have seen the story never mention 'Emergency' in the title or the body of the article.
So how many times do you think Steve is going to be checking in on Tim? I say he gets about 5-10 calls per day, then of course Steve will show up for un-announced visits.
I certainly hope there is not a single slip-up when Steve is gone, otherwise Tim is out the door in September.
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