The big question is will it have a vector processor? If so, it could end up in an Apple design, if for no other reason, to keep the pressure on Intel. If not, this is simply another PowerPC embedded CPU...
>Try to find iPods siginficantly below Apple's MSRP...
Price fixing? Not really. Most retailers charge what they do because there's not much margin on iPods.
For example, PCConnection sells a 512K shuffle for 94 bucks, or $5 under Apple's retail. A few months ago, I asked my rep at PCConnection give me a quote on 500 shuffles for a project for a client. We've done business with him for a long time, so his response was to tell me his cost and ask me what I needed the price to be. In the end, I got a pretty good deal, but the fact was there simply wasn't much room to go a lot lower.
You'd think that the bullet point "Yes, I know. I wrote that line in the docs. It's still really irritating" in the presentation might have clued the (grand)parent in that Bowen was on the Apache team...
They weren't dropped out of crew considerations, but out of weight and safety considerations. Every pound lighter that you can make the orbiter translates to an additional pound of payload. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think the seats were about 500 pounds apiece.
The other thing to recall is that ejection seats are powered by an explosive charge. That's a safety issue and not something you want on what was considered an "operational" orbiter.
>AFAIK there is an ejection system. Nope. There used to be ejection seats on Columbia for the Commander and Pilot, which were useful to 100K feet. (If you listen to recordings of the first four launches, you'll hear a call from the CAPCOM, "Negative seats" or somesuch as the vehicle passes that altitude.)
They weren't used after the first four flights, and were removed when Columbia went in for its first refurb.
The poster's exactly right. Applying both ice and heat to an injury manage the circulation to the area.
When you have an acute injury, say, a sprained ankle, you get an inflammatory response -- swelling. That's nature's way of splinting and immobilizing the injury. That problem is that all that swelling later turns to scar tissue, in essence, crippling you afterwards.
What you're trying to do is to use cold to decrease circulation during the acute phase of an injury (to reduce swelling), and to use heat and motion to increase circulation during the chronic phase (to help break up scarring and create new muscle and bone). The rule of thumb is ice for the first three days, then heat, but really, you want to ice as long as there's heat coming off the injury.
Both ice and heat will make you feel better. In my experience, ice is initially less comfortable, but WAY more effective in the end. And, ice combined with Aleve is even better.:-)
As an aside, ultrasound therapy works the same way as heat, albeit in a more focused and comfortable way. You never want to use it acutely, but for things like old hamstring injuries, it's the freaking bomb.
During rehab, (and frankly, if you're playing competitively, you're ALWAYS in rehab) you end up using both heat and cold. Usually, that's heat beforehand (to increase flexibility and circulation) and cold afterwards (to reduce inflamation from the trauma to old injuries). After a while, you just get used to the routine -- although spending a half hour with your balls in an ice whirlpool is never any fun.
No, I'm not a doctor or a physical therapist, but after a broken leg, a blown hamstring, one remaining ligament between two ankles, twenty five years in the cage, and a trip playing in the World Games, you get to know these things...
Second, and more importantly, there are a ton of issues that go into a hiring decision, many of which don't have a thing to do with the specifics of a job. An applicant may have skills, but may not have the right temperament, outlook, or might not be a good fit for the company's culture. (Or a zillion other reasons...)
I've hired, and I've (thankfully rarely) fired. Bringing on the wrong person isn't good for anyone, and from a company's perspective, is tremendously expensive in time and money.
Finding your own replacement for a job is just a bad idea all around.
Ermmm, these judges actually took a "strict constructionist" approach. Congress didn't give the Executive Branch the authority to regulate, so the Court properly slapped the FCC down.
The real problem...
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...is that when white-hat cops get legal court orders for good VOIP wiretaps, smart "bad guys" will be using the phone to chat about the weather, and using encrypted P2P messaging to do their real communication.
Time and resources will go into collecting and analysing the recorded voice conversations, which will be wasted, and oftentimes nobody will be bothered to think of other ways wiretap targets may be communicating.
You missed one -- the 8500. Every single one we bought -- with G3 or G4 upgrades -- is still doing useful work.
They've migrated down the food chain, so they're not in use as desktop machines. One's running filemaker server for our time tracking and invoiceing system, a couple are used as Shockwave multiuser servers, a couple are stream sources for Flash audio and video broadcasts, etc.
We'll get 15 years of use out of 'em before they're retired...
The one thing that makes this palatable is you don't actually have to install the Y! toolbar -- you're given an option and can decline the toolbar install. Problem solved.
Macromedia's been doing this for a while with the Shockwave plug-in, and while developers HATE it (including me), the revenue from yahoo's been a godsend for the Director team. (No, Director's not dead, despite what the Flash team at MACR wants you to think...)
Still, I think most of Macromedia's top-level management are pinheads, and this is more proof of it...
I saw this one close up. True.com's hired a professional lobbyist to try to push a bill through in Virginia, and it resulted in this: The Online Dating Safety Act, HB2467
I was bird-dogging the House Science and Technology Committee meeting the day they dealt with it, and had a front-row seat on the results. Even among the most socially conservative legislators, it was seen as a company trying to legislate their business model for competitive purposes. Gotta hand it to the lobbyist, he took the True.com reps to all the right people. But in the end, it didn't really matter. When the bill came up, there was lots of snickering, and the bill died a quick and painless death.
Better check to see that derivatives of your SSN are prohibited, as well, otherwise, your ID will become XXX-XX-XXXX-01 or somesuch. Think that's too stupid to happen? That's exactly what happened in Virginia when passed a similar law.
The result? Another trip to the legislature required...
Credit card companies are NOT on the hook for fraud. They use charge backs and the MERCHANT is the one on the hook for any fraud.
Yeah, except when the merchies are part of the fraud, themselves. Plenty of cases of that. Go look it up.
In any case, you need to look at it systemically. Fraud costs the system, if customers aren't liable. It's cheaper for credit card issuers and their member banks to cooperate to keep fraud costs down because that keeps the system's cost down. More profit for everybody. I'm sure even you can understand that.
Banks ARE on the hook for any fraud over $50. This is because they don't have the same types of charge reversal capabilities that credit card companies do since they don't require merchant accounts before transactions take place.
By "credit card companies", I mean (and probably most everyone in this discussion means) the whole food chain. Fraud prevention happens from the top, all the way down, and not just on the "bank" level. Think that credit card from your local credit union came directly from them? Think again...
It obviously WOULD be incredibly expensive for banks to get into the fraud prevention business. Do you have any idea of the work/money required for enterprise software development?
Ummm, as a matter of fact, I do. Both in general, and specifically. One of my best friends worked for Cap 1 doing enterprise software development for years (for their Canadian credit card processing group), before she got out. Another friend of mine spent half a decade maintaining a local bank's back end, before they were bought out. Buddy, I've got war stories out the wazzu.
If it wasn't "all that expensive" it would be in place already.
The reason that it hasn't happened already is that "not all that expensive" costs money than nothing, which is the case now. If banks were liable for their screw-ups, you'd see "fraud protection for your bank account" pretty damn quick.
With some accounts, say checking accounts linked to Visa/Mastercard Check Cards, the infrastructure already exists.
By the way: "ad hominem". Go look it up. It's a pretty good indicator that the argument following it's use isn't very good.
Should my bank analyse every transaction made on my account...
Why not? Credit card companies do all the time. A couple of years ago, I put an unusual charge on one of my cards while I was out of town. The credit card company tracked me down at my hotel to ask me if I had authorized it, and asked me a couple of random questions about my account to confirm that they really were talking to me.
Credit card companies do this, because they're on the hook for any fraud over 50 bucks. Banks don't, because they're not and its cheaper for them to not take any responsibility.
It's not like this would even be all that expensive for them -- it's all automated, and the software that credit card companies are already using could be easily repurposed for bank accounts.
Note Table 6: Ten States With the Highest Percentage Catholic. In order, they are:
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Connecticut
New York
New Mexico
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Illinois
Pennsylvania
It's not an exact match, but there's a pretty high correlation, no? Seven of the nine "low divorce" states are on the list. Seven of the ten "high divorce" states are on the "Lowest Percentage Catholic" list. And it should be noted that of the two "low divorce" states that missed the top 10 list (Maine and Vermont, the percentage of Catholics among "Religious Adherents" is above 60%
More than, say, Texas?
Texas is interesting. It's on the Top 10 Most Catholic list, but the percentage of Catholics among "Adherents" is only 38% or so.
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As I said to the previous poster, I got head and she will see me again..
Yeah, until she finds out that you told the world she gave you head. Women, as a rule, tend to punish men for this sort of thing...
...was reported in the sky over Virginia last night.
Astronomers initially believed it was a meteor, but it was later determined to be SCO's case against IBM cratering spectacularly...
The big question is will it have a vector processor? If so, it could end up in an Apple design, if for no other reason, to keep the pressure on Intel. If not, this is simply another PowerPC embedded CPU...
...the simplest solution turns out to be the best.
>Try to find iPods siginficantly below Apple's MSRP...
Price fixing? Not really. Most retailers charge what they do because there's not much margin on iPods.
For example, PCConnection sells a 512K shuffle for 94 bucks, or $5 under Apple's retail. A few months ago, I asked my rep at PCConnection give me a quote on 500 shuffles for a project for a client. We've done business with him for a long time, so his response was to tell me his cost and ask me what I needed the price to be. In the end, I got a pretty good deal, but the fact was there simply wasn't much room to go a lot lower.
The May posting was a product annoucement-type story. This posting is actually a review.
While "dupe" is usually the way to bet, around here, you bet wrong this time. Thanks for playing...
>>"I stayed in their hotels, ate their food and patronized their stores."
>You forgot "looked at their boobies"
Isn't it more like ""looked at other tourist's boobies"?>Coincidence? Ummm, yes.
You'd think that the bullet point "Yes, I know. I wrote that line in the docs. It's still really irritating" in the presentation might have clued the (grand)parent in that Bowen was on the Apache team...
They weren't dropped out of crew considerations, but out of weight and safety considerations. Every pound lighter that you can make the orbiter translates to an additional pound of payload. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think the seats were about 500 pounds apiece.
The other thing to recall is that ejection seats are powered by an explosive charge. That's a safety issue and not something you want on what was considered an "operational" orbiter.
>AFAIK there is an ejection system.
Nope. There used to be ejection seats on Columbia for the Commander and Pilot, which were useful to 100K feet. (If you listen to recordings of the first four launches, you'll hear a call from the CAPCOM, "Negative seats" or somesuch as the vehicle passes that altitude.)
They weren't used after the first four flights, and were removed when Columbia went in for its first refurb.
Well, yes. Yes I have,,,
:-)
The poster's exactly right. Applying both ice and heat to an injury manage the circulation to the area.
When you have an acute injury, say, a sprained ankle, you get an inflammatory response -- swelling. That's nature's way of splinting and immobilizing the injury. That problem is that all that swelling later turns to scar tissue, in essence, crippling you afterwards.
What you're trying to do is to use cold to decrease circulation during the acute phase of an injury (to reduce swelling), and to use heat and motion to increase circulation during the chronic phase (to help break up scarring and create new muscle and bone). The rule of thumb is ice for the first three days, then heat, but really, you want to ice as long as there's heat coming off the injury.
Both ice and heat will make you feel better. In my experience, ice is initially less comfortable, but WAY more effective in the end. And, ice combined with Aleve is even better.
As an aside, ultrasound therapy works the same way as heat, albeit in a more focused and comfortable way. You never want to use it acutely, but for things like old hamstring injuries, it's the freaking bomb.
During rehab, (and frankly, if you're playing competitively, you're ALWAYS in rehab) you end up using both heat and cold. Usually, that's heat beforehand (to increase flexibility and circulation) and cold afterwards (to reduce inflamation from the trauma to old injuries). After a while, you just get used to the routine -- although spending a half hour with your balls in an ice whirlpool is never any fun.
No, I'm not a doctor or a physical therapist, but after a broken leg, a blown hamstring, one remaining ligament between two ankles, twenty five years in the cage, and a trip playing in the World Games, you get to know these things...
First, it's not his responsibility.
Second, and more importantly, there are a ton of issues that go into a hiring decision, many of which don't have a thing to do with the specifics of a job. An applicant may have skills, but may not have the right temperament, outlook, or might not be a good fit for the company's culture. (Or a zillion other reasons...)
I've hired, and I've (thankfully rarely) fired. Bringing on the wrong person isn't good for anyone, and from a company's perspective, is tremendously expensive in time and money.
Finding your own replacement for a job is just a bad idea all around.
Ermmm, these judges actually took a "strict constructionist" approach. Congress didn't give the Executive Branch the authority to regulate, so the Court properly slapped the FCC down.
Ain't nothin' "activist" about this.
Once a Mac version of this is available, Core Image and "Quartz 2D Extreme" will put the extra vram to pretty good use.
Ars has a pretty good explanation about why the extra elbow room will make a difference, namely, the GPU won't have to hit its backing cache in RAM as often.
Is it April 2nd, yet?
...is that when white-hat cops get legal court orders for good VOIP wiretaps, smart "bad guys" will be using the phone to chat about the weather, and using encrypted P2P messaging to do their real communication.
Time and resources will go into collecting and analysing the recorded voice conversations, which will be wasted, and oftentimes nobody will be bothered to think of other ways wiretap targets may be communicating.
You missed one -- the 8500. Every single one we bought -- with G3 or G4 upgrades -- is still doing useful work.
They've migrated down the food chain, so they're not in use as desktop machines. One's running filemaker server for our time tracking and invoiceing system, a couple are used as Shockwave multiuser servers, a couple are stream sources for Flash audio and video broadcasts, etc.
We'll get 15 years of use out of 'em before they're retired...
"We retain the right to spy on you, profit from any good ideas you have, and tell your wife about your girlfriend."
I'm just guessing, but I'll bet no one thought to run that last part past their management team...
The one thing that makes this palatable is you don't actually have to install the Y! toolbar -- you're given an option and can decline the toolbar install. Problem solved.
Macromedia's been doing this for a while with the Shockwave plug-in, and while developers HATE it (including me), the revenue from yahoo's been a godsend for the Director team. (No, Director's not dead, despite what the Flash team at MACR wants you to think...)
Still, I think most of Macromedia's top-level management are pinheads, and this is more proof of it...
I saw this one close up. True.com's hired a professional lobbyist to try to push a bill through in Virginia, and it resulted in this: The Online Dating Safety Act, HB2467
I was bird-dogging the House Science and Technology Committee meeting the day they dealt with it, and had a front-row seat on the results. Even among the most socially conservative legislators, it was seen as a company trying to legislate their business model for competitive purposes. Gotta hand it to the lobbyist, he took the True.com reps to all the right people. But in the end, it didn't really matter. When the bill came up, there was lots of snickering, and the bill died a quick and painless death.
Better check to see that derivatives of your SSN are prohibited, as well, otherwise, your ID will become XXX-XX-XXXX-01 or somesuch. Think that's too stupid to happen? That's exactly what happened in Virginia when passed a similar law.
The result? Another trip to the legislature required...
The author is an idiot.
Oh, please. You must feel like a Big Man, now.
Credit card companies are NOT on the hook for fraud. They use charge backs and the MERCHANT is the one on the hook for any fraud.
Yeah, except when the merchies are part of the fraud, themselves. Plenty of cases of that. Go look it up.
In any case, you need to look at it systemically. Fraud costs the system, if customers aren't liable. It's cheaper for credit card issuers and their member banks to cooperate to keep fraud costs down because that keeps the system's cost down. More profit for everybody. I'm sure even you can understand that.
Banks ARE on the hook for any fraud over $50. This is because they don't have the same types of charge reversal capabilities that credit card companies do since they don't require merchant accounts before transactions take place.
By "credit card companies", I mean (and probably most everyone in this discussion means) the whole food chain. Fraud prevention happens from the top, all the way down, and not just on the "bank" level. Think that credit card from your local credit union came directly from them? Think again...
It obviously WOULD be incredibly expensive for banks to get into the fraud prevention business. Do you have any idea of the work/money required for enterprise software development?
Ummm, as a matter of fact, I do. Both in general, and specifically. One of my best friends worked for Cap 1 doing enterprise software development for years (for their Canadian credit card processing group), before she got out. Another friend of mine spent half a decade maintaining a local bank's back end, before they were bought out. Buddy, I've got war stories out the wazzu.
If it wasn't "all that expensive" it would be in place already.
The reason that it hasn't happened already is that "not all that expensive" costs money than nothing, which is the case now. If banks were liable for their screw-ups, you'd see "fraud protection for your bank account" pretty damn quick.
With some accounts, say checking accounts linked to Visa/Mastercard Check Cards, the infrastructure already exists.
By the way: "ad hominem". Go look it up. It's a pretty good indicator that the argument following it's use isn't very good.
Should my bank analyse every transaction made on my account...
Why not? Credit card companies do all the time. A couple of years ago, I put an unusual charge on one of my cards while I was out of town. The credit card company tracked me down at my hotel to ask me if I had authorized it, and asked me a couple of random questions about my account to confirm that they really were talking to me.
Credit card companies do this, because they're on the hook for any fraud over 50 bucks. Banks don't, because they're not and its cheaper for them to not take any responsibility.
It's not like this would even be all that expensive for them -- it's all automated, and the software that credit card companies are already using could be easily repurposed for bank accounts.
On what do you base your assumption that these are predominantly Catholic states?
Besides the fact I used to live in the Northeast?
There's a wealth of census-type data out there. This was a 10-second google.... http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/Catholic%20Note Table 6: Ten States With the Highest Percentage Catholic. In order, they are:
It's not an exact match, but there's a pretty high correlation, no? Seven of the nine "low divorce" states are on the list. Seven of the ten "high divorce" states are on the "Lowest Percentage Catholic" list. And it should be noted that of the two "low divorce" states that missed the top 10 list (Maine and Vermont, the percentage of Catholics among "Religious Adherents" is above 60%
More than, say, Texas?
Texas is interesting. It's on the Top 10 Most Catholic list, but the percentage of Catholics among "Adherents" is only 38% or so.