Except that what really makes water start to conduct is the impurities dissolved in it. Have you looked inside you computer lately? I've got industrial grade air scrubbers running in my house (roommate with allergies) and I still get dust buildup inside the case. As soon as that deionized water hits that dust, I'm sure the resulting mud would be conductive enough to be devastating.
On the other hand, we are getting closer to the point where everything inside the case that needs cooling could be hooked up to the water system. If we can add power supply and hard drives, then it might be possible to hermetically seal the case, and just cool the water.
That may be true, but the big difference this time, I hope, is that instead of some poor, overworked linux zealot in the IT department trying to get the switch made, there should be a highly paid, highly intelligent, Google team dispatched to counter the MS FUD pushers that will be dispatched from Redmond.
There is no way MS can win a fair fight, but until Google threw its hat into the ring, there was never any chance at a fair fight against MS. There may still not be, but at least now the competition is only one or two weight classes undersized.
To continue off topic, Billie is great, love her music.
The quote is actually from another song by another of my favorite, but far less well known, singers. Julia Ecklar wrote a song for the movie Ladyhawke, which was never used, and the quote comes from that song.
Unfortunately, I think we have already passed the tipping point.
From the news I see and hear, and the conversations I have with other people, it looks like the concept of "paying your debt to society" has been relegated to history. Even otherwise intelligent people I talk to seem to have come to the opinion that once you commit a crime, any crime, you should have to be responsible for that act for the rest of your life. We have somehow come to the point that no matter what punishment you endure, you will always be suspected as having a tendency re-commit. Innocent until proven guilty used to mean for each individual crime, but the feeling now is that if you were ever proven guilty of anything, then you can never again be truly innocent of anything.
Even worse, I see more and more the tendency to assume if you were ever even accused of the crime, you will always be under suspicion for the rest of your life. That is regardless of whether you were convicted or not, even if someone else was eventually convicted for the crime.
The only end I can see for this is, when everyone is convicted or under suspicion for something, the attitude will shift and people will feel that if they are going to be continually punished, then they might as well keep doing the crime. That will lead to a positive feedback loop of suspicion -> crime -> conviction -> suspicion -> crime.... until anarchy rebuilds society.
But then again, I'm in a black mood this week. Maybe it not as bad as I think, and the AnnaBritneyIdol stories leading the all the major news networks just have me weeping for humanity right now.
A 'penetration tester' that can scan other connections for open ports, and automatically launch code execution exploits. It has self replicating code, but the doctor says there is no viral payload.
It was basically an offline memory expander. You could store programs on magnetic memory cards to be read back later. You could buy some pre-programmed ones, but most of us would just write our own programs and store them. It actually was a huge upgrade over the punch cards that everyone who couldn't afford one had to use at the campus computing center. A bunch of us chipped in together to buy an infrared thermal printer (another accessory for the 41) and then we would share it around to print out programs steps and results.
"The HP-41C represents a totally new concept in the design of Hewlett-Packard calculators. In fact, because of the advanced capabilities of the HP-41C, it can even be called a personal computing system. The HP-41C is the first Hewlett-Packard handheld calculator offering an exciting array of alphanumeric capabilities.
With so many different kinds of calculator uses and applications in the world, we at Hewlett-Packard decided we could provide a significant contribution by designing and building you a quality calculator with expandable and flexible capability. The alphanumeric HP-41C is just the calculator."
The HP-41CV was the same as the HP-41C except that it had four memory modules built in for a total of 319 registers. (With the four ports still available to add other modules.) The HP-41CX was the same as the HP-41CV but added the Time module (stopwatch plus clock with alarms), an Extended Functions / Extended Memory module, a text editor, and some additional functions.
The 41CX was, and still is, a great calculator. The only one I've seen that I might upgrade to would be a 48SX, but now I've moved to a PDA with SpaceTime on it. Though 2/3 of the time the old 41CX is faster to turn on and use.
Bah...whipper snapper. I'm still more than happy with my 41CX with magnetic strip reader.
/If you can't picture equation graphs in your head, you need to study more. //still mad at the ex-dorm mate who left with the sliderule handed down to me by my dad...
I actually agree almost completely with you. The research I mention is precisely to determine which companies are good relative to the price their stock is selling for and which of the ones I own are now over valued and need to be let go. And yes, it is a much, much more difficult problem, especially since most of the "value" in a company these days is based on future expectations, not in real world, hard assets, but it is not an impossible task.
Also, Index funds are great. I have a large percentage of my portfolio in various ones, both domestic and foreign, but I do keep a percentage for individual company investing based on companies that I believe are going to do very well, even if their broader market may not look so good.
Day traders and the ignorant lead to a much higher volatility, lower medium term predictability, and valuations that have no backing in reality in the market. The only people that make money off of day traders are other day traders, like large banks and trading firms that use heuristic schemes. To make money off the day traders you must either 1) rely on luck, or 2) be able to invest such large amounts that getting in on a small swing in the direction you are betting nets big profits, even if you miss the peak in the swing. But either way it is much more of a gamble than a good long term investing strategy based on real viability and growth of a company. Day trading is almost by definition gambling. You buy or sell a stock betting on which way you think a large amount of investment money is going to move based on short term announcements. You are basically trying to guess how other people are going to react. It can be very profitable, that is why the large firms are getting into it, and in a much more comprehensive way than you average small investor, but it is still risky.
Real investors look at the market cap, business conditions, income and expense trends, etc. of a company to help determine if it is going to have growth over a longer time span. As one of the other replies to my parent post pointed out, Apple stock is high volatility in daily trading due mainly to day traders and the ignorant. Investors, myself included, pay almost no attention to the daily, or even hourly, swings based on whether Steve Jobs said this, or some analyst said that. Now speculations on Jobs SEC investigation and possible ouster, and both the immediate and long term effects they might have on the company's profitability and growth are of extreme interest to real investors. I still haven't decided if I'm going to sell AAPL, or not, but I am in no way going to base my decision on today's market swings, even though many day traders, including large firms, may make or lose a bundle on them before market close. Of course, that not to say that when I do decide to buy a stock, I'll try to do so on downswing, or sell it on an upswing, but the basic decision on what to buy or sell is based on a lot longer time frame. Almost all of my stocks I keep for a minimum of six months, and most I've had for over 5 years.
Except that if you rely on luck for your stock picking, you really need to get out of the market. No, really. Day traders and the ignorant make the jobs of real investors much more difficult. Not impossible, and really not even less profitable, just more difficult.
On the other hand, if you do your research, long term investing in well run businesses with good financials has far less risk and higher return than almost anything else you can do with your money.
Not only that, but if you compare how much pollution was created in the manufacture, and eventual disposal of the equipment, especially some of the toxins that may be in the solar cells and batteries, vs how much actual pollution could be accredited to production of the "grid" electricity from a modern, clean coal or even nuclear plant, he probably is significantly harming the environment as well. FTA it says that the $500k cost includes certain donations including $50,000 worth of batteries from Exide. They estimate the lifespan of the house and technologies at 25 years, but those batteries are only going to last 5-8 years before needing replacement, and they have very nasty stuff in them, whatever technology they are based on (probably gelcell). Talk about pollution intensive and not totaling all costs.
Also from the article, even if they could get the installation cost down to $100k, and if all the equipment lasts 25 years with no additional costs for maintenance, that is $4k per year in costs vs $1.5 per year in savings, which is the average family's annual energy cost in the U.S.
It reminds me of a story from a local City. A City Councilman got all upset in a Council meeting and jumped all over the City Manager because all the Councilman ever sees the guys at the fire station doing is playing basketball. He lectured the CM for 5 minutes about "can't we find something for these guys to do instead of just sitting around playing on our dime", and "no one else in the City gets to just goof around during their work time", etc. After he was done the CM responded that he was actually thrilled that the firemen spent all their time playing basketball and goofing off. Because the alternative was that they were out fighting fires, and that's a bad, and far more expensive, thing. Also, as far as finding them something else to do, was the Councilman actually suggesting that he would prefer to have them tied up in other work when an emergency call did come in, rather than being able in, literally, an instant to jump in the truck and respond to the emergency?
All the other Councilman gave the CM a round of applause and the Mayor told the original Councilman to shut up.
so you should either use a special glass to drink it out of, or invest in some Immodium.
Or don't, and just drink the thin brown stuff that comes out... it'll taste the same as the first time. Chimay seem to be the "choice" for beer snobs that want to look down on Guinness drinkers, but for my money it tastes like a$$. Give me a Spaten, Paulaner, or Ayinger over Chimay any day.
I have to second Unibroue. Tres Pistoles is very nice. Of course, I can only get it down here at the "World Market". All the regular liquor stores in Dallas all carry the same 20 (or fewer) imports. It takes a pilgrimage and holy quest to get some variety that you can take home. Although for pubs with variety The Flying Saucer and The Bavarian Grill get me through the tough times.
Of course, I'm sure you would have said exactly this 10 years ago about how, due to the overwhelming barriers to entry created by AOL and Compuserve, no one can compete in the fascist, monopolistic marketplace of the internet. There would be no way for two, poor college students to create a company that could overtake the evil industrial giants. It would take government subsidies, regulation, and the wholesale socialization of the internet to wrest it from the corrupt industrial machine.
Just like in ten years you'll be whining about how, whoever has replaced Google, has a lock on the technology and power, and no one can assail them, and we need the government to come in and regulate it to make it fair. Because we all know how government regulation or operation has improved every aspect of life that it touches. Why look at the great schools, fantastic emergency management, luxurious social retirement, and etc. systems the government has provided for us.
Hmmmm... let's say you weigh 500 lbs. You want to spend your money on another McDonald's Big Mac. However, the government knows that you would be better off spending your money at a health club. So they take your money from you and use it to provide parks and jogging trails. They still can't make you use them, but they can increase your opportunity to make better choices. Another example would be your desire to sit and watch Oprah and Springer, but they use some of your money to sponsor PBS in the hope you might learn something useful.
Not sayin.... just sayin...
Anyone who's read any of my posts knows I'm much more Libertarian than the above implies. However, we do need to recognize that there are certain legitimate uses of government to improve the common welfare that individuals wouldn't, or in case of large projects couldn't, choose to do for themselves. I really like the interstate highway system, but without a government to take my, and everyone's, money and get it built and keep it maintained, it would never have happened. I really like the internet, but once again, it is a result that no one person could have created, and a result that 20 years ago, you couldn't have gotten most of us to personally invest in because we wouldn't have understood how connections between computers would ever have any personal meaning in our lives.
Before you hope that people learn their lesson, why can't you hope that voting democrat might solve your problems?
Umm.... because it never has before? Just like voting Republican never has before. Einstein's definition of insanity applies here. If you keep doing exactly the same thing, and keep expecting different results, that's insane. For people who really want change to occur, the only hope is to do something different. Vote for the candidate that actually comes closest to representing your views, not for the one you think most electable that you can barely stomach over the other guy. I don't care if you vote Libertarian, Green, or whatever, but until enough people are sick enough of the existing regime to actually vote for something different, you wont see any changes.
People will respond with but.. but.. but.. throw away your vote... blah, blah, blah. The thing is, it is a chicken and egg problem. If you never take a stand for what you want to have happen, it will never happen. Yes, you may take your stand and lose, over and over again, but at the end of the day you know what? I can feel good about the choices I made. Most of my candidates over the years have lost, some have won, and every one of those has a voting record, so far, that I can agree with. In the last presidential election, I knew that I couldn't stand Bush. I knew that Kerry would do things that I would abhor. I knew that one of them was going to be in charge for the following four years. But I also knew that I would have a comfortable conscience, having voted for the person I thought would do the best job. And, If the person I voted for actually by some miracle won, I knew that I could look forward to things actually improving. If they didn't then I could at least say, in good conscience, that I had still done my best. How many people who voted Bush in actually agreed with most of the things he was promising to do and are happy and proud about it today? How many people who voted for Kerry, actually agreed with what he was promising to do, and would have been happy and proud with the results if he had won. Don't give me, "Well it would have been better than this." No! It still would have sucked to have Kerry extend the DCMA (a Clinton Era law). And if you think that Kerry would have been less of a **AA shill than Clinton was, you are sadly mistaken.
Get out and vote people, but vote for who you believe in. Not which new bum can throw the old bum out.
Brilliant. Just shove me back to the days of dial-up when every time I changed my ISP, I had to alert all of my contacts, web groups, list subscriptions, etc. to my new email address. It's bad enough with Comcast buying Charter and making me change, and now Time Warner bought Comcast, so they will change it to a Roadrunner address soon. Or is your solution that everyone go get a gmail or hotmail account and use web based email exclusively?
I actually have my own domain with email hosting through the same provider as my web host, who is NOT my ISP. I actually use POP to access, receive AND send, my gmail accounts. So, from your business perspective, you don't mind blackholing my emails? Fine. I didn't want to do business with you anyway. I'm sure your competitor wants my money.
Besides blocking *.gif is stupid, most of the SPAM images I see are *.jpg. And if you want to block *.jpg, I hope you aren't a landscape architect, or architech of any kind, or interior designer, or advertising agency, etc. Any business involved in a highly visual field, that has to communicate design issues and changes to their customers relies heavily on graphic attachments.
Imax 3D does not work by blocking one eye for alternate frames. It works through polarization. One frame is polarized vertically, the other at 90 degrees. The polarization in the glasses is 90 degrees apart for each eye. Next time you are watching an Imax 3D movie, try tilting your head and you will see the images diverge. This is also nice when watching the movie without glasses. The slight blur you see from the images being at two different locations (much more noticeable for objects that are supposed to be far away than for near objects) is far better than the 'halo' effect that the red-blue method produced.
I would hypothesize that the headache you experienced was a combination of factors. The first time I watched one of these, my eyes had a hard time focusing on the images. I started to get a headache, then realized I was straining to see, when I really didn't need to. I closed my eyes and relaxed for 30 seconds, then consciously relaxed my eyes as I was viewing. It made a world of difference. I also tend to sit with my head cocked to the side, and that caused problems, but the images diverge enough that it is noticeable before it causes a headache. I have also had dates (girls who don't normally wear glasses) tell me that the unfamiliar pressure and/or weight of the glasses gives them a headache.
Right now, I see every movie I can in Imax 3D. I would love for this to be the new general format for movies. They are much more immersive and can make an ok movie into a fantastic movie. The Imax version of The Christmas Express was jaw dropping. I saw it twice and was stunned both times. I wondered how they were going to accomplish the same shot in the 2D version. When I finally saw it in 2D it was such a let down.
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Except that what really makes water start to conduct is the impurities dissolved in it. Have you looked inside you computer lately? I've got industrial grade air scrubbers running in my house (roommate with allergies) and I still get dust buildup inside the case. As soon as that deionized water hits that dust, I'm sure the resulting mud would be conductive enough to be devastating.
On the other hand, we are getting closer to the point where everything inside the case that needs cooling could be hooked up to the water system. If we can add power supply and hard drives, then it might be possible to hermetically seal the case, and just cool the water.
That may be true, but the big difference this time, I hope, is that instead of some poor, overworked linux zealot in the IT department trying to get the switch made, there should be a highly paid, highly intelligent, Google team dispatched to counter the MS FUD pushers that will be dispatched from Redmond.
There is no way MS can win a fair fight, but until Google threw its hat into the ring, there was never any chance at a fair fight against MS. There may still not be, but at least now the competition is only one or two weight classes undersized.
To continue off topic, Billie is great, love her music.
The quote is actually from another song by another of my favorite, but far less well known, singers. Julia Ecklar wrote a song for the movie Ladyhawke, which was never used, and the quote comes from that song.
What really worries me is when I start having flashbacks, in daily life, back to my old college days playing 'Paranoia'.
Unfortunately, I think we have already passed the tipping point.
From the news I see and hear, and the conversations I have with other people, it looks like the concept of "paying your debt to society" has been relegated to history. Even otherwise intelligent people I talk to seem to have come to the opinion that once you commit a crime, any crime, you should have to be responsible for that act for the rest of your life. We have somehow come to the point that no matter what punishment you endure, you will always be suspected as having a tendency re-commit. Innocent until proven guilty used to mean for each individual crime, but the feeling now is that if you were ever proven guilty of anything, then you can never again be truly innocent of anything.
Even worse, I see more and more the tendency to assume if you were ever even accused of the crime, you will always be under suspicion for the rest of your life. That is regardless of whether you were convicted or not, even if someone else was eventually convicted for the crime.
The only end I can see for this is, when everyone is convicted or under suspicion for something, the attitude will shift and people will feel that if they are going to be continually punished, then they might as well keep doing the crime. That will lead to a positive feedback loop of suspicion -> crime -> conviction -> suspicion -> crime.... until anarchy rebuilds society.
But then again, I'm in a black mood this week. Maybe it not as bad as I think, and the AnnaBritneyIdol stories leading the all the major news networks just have me weeping for humanity right now.
It's both!
A 'penetration tester' that can scan other connections for open ports, and automatically launch code execution exploits. It has self replicating code, but the doctor says there is no viral payload.
Wish I had mod points today. Very insightful.
From the HP museum:
The 41CX was, and still is, a great calculator. The only one I've seen that I might upgrade to would be a 48SX, but now I've moved to a PDA with SpaceTime on it. Though 2/3 of the time the old 41CX is faster to turn on and use.
Bah...whipper snapper. I'm still more than happy with my 41CX with magnetic strip reader.
There, FTFY.
Remember kids, torture is a great way to learn new fairy tales, but a horrible way to actually get any kind of reliable information.
I actually agree almost completely with you. The research I mention is precisely to determine which companies are good relative to the price their stock is selling for and which of the ones I own are now over valued and need to be let go. And yes, it is a much, much more difficult problem, especially since most of the "value" in a company these days is based on future expectations, not in real world, hard assets, but it is not an impossible task.
Also, Index funds are great. I have a large percentage of my portfolio in various ones, both domestic and foreign, but I do keep a percentage for individual company investing based on companies that I believe are going to do very well, even if their broader market may not look so good.
Wrong. Well, partially.
Day traders and the ignorant lead to a much higher volatility, lower medium term predictability, and valuations that have no backing in reality in the market. The only people that make money off of day traders are other day traders, like large banks and trading firms that use heuristic schemes. To make money off the day traders you must either 1) rely on luck, or 2) be able to invest such large amounts that getting in on a small swing in the direction you are betting nets big profits, even if you miss the peak in the swing. But either way it is much more of a gamble than a good long term investing strategy based on real viability and growth of a company. Day trading is almost by definition gambling. You buy or sell a stock betting on which way you think a large amount of investment money is going to move based on short term announcements. You are basically trying to guess how other people are going to react. It can be very profitable, that is why the large firms are getting into it, and in a much more comprehensive way than you average small investor, but it is still risky.
Real investors look at the market cap, business conditions, income and expense trends, etc. of a company to help determine if it is going to have growth over a longer time span. As one of the other replies to my parent post pointed out, Apple stock is high volatility in daily trading due mainly to day traders and the ignorant. Investors, myself included, pay almost no attention to the daily, or even hourly, swings based on whether Steve Jobs said this, or some analyst said that. Now speculations on Jobs SEC investigation and possible ouster, and both the immediate and long term effects they might have on the company's profitability and growth are of extreme interest to real investors. I still haven't decided if I'm going to sell AAPL, or not, but I am in no way going to base my decision on today's market swings, even though many day traders, including large firms, may make or lose a bundle on them before market close. Of course, that not to say that when I do decide to buy a stock, I'll try to do so on downswing, or sell it on an upswing, but the basic decision on what to buy or sell is based on a lot longer time frame. Almost all of my stocks I keep for a minimum of six months, and most I've had for over 5 years.
Except that if you rely on luck for your stock picking, you really need to get out of the market. No, really. Day traders and the ignorant make the jobs of real investors much more difficult. Not impossible, and really not even less profitable, just more difficult.
On the other hand, if you do your research, long term investing in well run businesses with good financials has far less risk and higher return than almost anything else you can do with your money.
Not only that, but if you compare how much pollution was created in the manufacture, and eventual disposal of the equipment, especially some of the toxins that may be in the solar cells and batteries, vs how much actual pollution could be accredited to production of the "grid" electricity from a modern, clean coal or even nuclear plant, he probably is significantly harming the environment as well. FTA it says that the $500k cost includes certain donations including $50,000 worth of batteries from Exide . They estimate the lifespan of the house and technologies at 25 years, but those batteries are only going to last 5-8 years before needing replacement, and they have very nasty stuff in them, whatever technology they are based on (probably gelcell). Talk about pollution intensive and not totaling all costs.
Also from the article, even if they could get the installation cost down to $100k, and if all the equipment lasts 25 years with no additional costs for maintenance, that is $4k per year in costs vs $1.5 per year in savings, which is the average family's annual energy cost in the U.S.
It reminds me of a story from a local City. A City Councilman got all upset in a Council meeting and jumped all over the City Manager because all the Councilman ever sees the guys at the fire station doing is playing basketball. He lectured the CM for 5 minutes about "can't we find something for these guys to do instead of just sitting around playing on our dime", and "no one else in the City gets to just goof around during their work time", etc. After he was done the CM responded that he was actually thrilled that the firemen spent all their time playing basketball and goofing off. Because the alternative was that they were out fighting fires, and that's a bad, and far more expensive, thing. Also, as far as finding them something else to do, was the Councilman actually suggesting that he would prefer to have them tied up in other work when an emergency call did come in, rather than being able in, literally, an instant to jump in the truck and respond to the emergency?
All the other Councilman gave the CM a round of applause and the Mayor told the original Councilman to shut up.
so you should either use a special glass to drink it out of, or invest in some Immodium.
Or don't, and just drink the thin brown stuff that comes out... it'll taste the same as the first time. Chimay seem to be the "choice" for beer snobs that want to look down on Guinness drinkers, but for my money it tastes like a$$. Give me a Spaten, Paulaner, or Ayinger over Chimay any day.
No accounting for taste, though.
I have to second Unibroue. Tres Pistoles is very nice. Of course, I can only get it down here at the "World Market". All the regular liquor stores in Dallas all carry the same 20 (or fewer) imports. It takes a pilgrimage and holy quest to get some variety that you can take home. Although for pubs with variety The Flying Saucer and The Bavarian Grill get me through the tough times.
You could have just put a condom over it. Oh... philosophy professor and slashgeek... No condoms available due to lack of need, never mind.
Of course, I'm sure you would have said exactly this 10 years ago about how, due to the overwhelming barriers to entry created by AOL and Compuserve, no one can compete in the fascist, monopolistic marketplace of the internet. There would be no way for two, poor college students to create a company that could overtake the evil industrial giants. It would take government subsidies, regulation, and the wholesale socialization of the internet to wrest it from the corrupt industrial machine.
Just like in ten years you'll be whining about how, whoever has replaced Google, has a lock on the technology and power, and no one can assail them, and we need the government to come in and regulate it to make it fair. Because we all know how government regulation or operation has improved every aspect of life that it touches. Why look at the great schools, fantastic emergency management, luxurious social retirement, and etc. systems the government has provided for us.
Hmmmm... let's say you weigh 500 lbs. You want to spend your money on another McDonald's Big Mac. However, the government knows that you would be better off spending your money at a health club. So they take your money from you and use it to provide parks and jogging trails. They still can't make you use them, but they can increase your opportunity to make better choices. Another example would be your desire to sit and watch Oprah and Springer, but they use some of your money to sponsor PBS in the hope you might learn something useful.
Not sayin.... just sayin...
Anyone who's read any of my posts knows I'm much more Libertarian than the above implies. However, we do need to recognize that there are certain legitimate uses of government to improve the common welfare that individuals wouldn't, or in case of large projects couldn't, choose to do for themselves. I really like the interstate highway system, but without a government to take my, and everyone's, money and get it built and keep it maintained, it would never have happened. I really like the internet, but once again, it is a result that no one person could have created, and a result that 20 years ago, you couldn't have gotten most of us to personally invest in because we wouldn't have understood how connections between computers would ever have any personal meaning in our lives.
Before you hope that people learn their lesson, why can't you hope that voting democrat might solve your problems?
Umm.... because it never has before? Just like voting Republican never has before. Einstein's definition of insanity applies here. If you keep doing exactly the same thing, and keep expecting different results, that's insane. For people who really want change to occur, the only hope is to do something different. Vote for the candidate that actually comes closest to representing your views, not for the one you think most electable that you can barely stomach over the other guy. I don't care if you vote Libertarian, Green, or whatever, but until enough people are sick enough of the existing regime to actually vote for something different, you wont see any changes.
People will respond with but.. but.. but.. throw away your vote... blah, blah, blah. The thing is, it is a chicken and egg problem. If you never take a stand for what you want to have happen, it will never happen. Yes, you may take your stand and lose, over and over again, but at the end of the day you know what? I can feel good about the choices I made. Most of my candidates over the years have lost, some have won, and every one of those has a voting record, so far, that I can agree with. In the last presidential election, I knew that I couldn't stand Bush. I knew that Kerry would do things that I would abhor. I knew that one of them was going to be in charge for the following four years. But I also knew that I would have a comfortable conscience, having voted for the person I thought would do the best job. And, If the person I voted for actually by some miracle won, I knew that I could look forward to things actually improving. If they didn't then I could at least say, in good conscience, that I had still done my best. How many people who voted Bush in actually agreed with most of the things he was promising to do and are happy and proud about it today? How many people who voted for Kerry, actually agreed with what he was promising to do, and would have been happy and proud with the results if he had won. Don't give me, "Well it would have been better than this." No! It still would have sucked to have Kerry extend the DCMA (a Clinton Era law). And if you think that Kerry would have been less of a **AA shill than Clinton was, you are sadly mistaken.
Get out and vote people, but vote for who you believe in. Not which new bum can throw the old bum out.
No, it's are they african or european.
Then of course the answer is, I don't know.
Then.... see the subject line of this thread.
\Way to go blowing a perfect MP reference AC.
Brilliant. Just shove me back to the days of dial-up when every time I changed my ISP, I had to alert all of my contacts, web groups, list subscriptions, etc. to my new email address. It's bad enough with Comcast buying Charter and making me change, and now Time Warner bought Comcast, so they will change it to a Roadrunner address soon. Or is your solution that everyone go get a gmail or hotmail account and use web based email exclusively?
I actually have my own domain with email hosting through the same provider as my web host, who is NOT my ISP. I actually use POP to access, receive AND send, my gmail accounts. So, from your business perspective, you don't mind blackholing my emails? Fine. I didn't want to do business with you anyway. I'm sure your competitor wants my money.
Besides blocking *.gif is stupid, most of the SPAM images I see are *.jpg. And if you want to block *.jpg, I hope you aren't a landscape architect, or architech of any kind, or interior designer, or advertising agency, etc. Any business involved in a highly visual field, that has to communicate design issues and changes to their customers relies heavily on graphic attachments.
Imax 3D does not work by blocking one eye for alternate frames. It works through polarization. One frame is polarized vertically, the other at 90 degrees. The polarization in the glasses is 90 degrees apart for each eye. Next time you are watching an Imax 3D movie, try tilting your head and you will see the images diverge. This is also nice when watching the movie without glasses. The slight blur you see from the images being at two different locations (much more noticeable for objects that are supposed to be far away than for near objects) is far better than the 'halo' effect that the red-blue method produced.
I would hypothesize that the headache you experienced was a combination of factors. The first time I watched one of these, my eyes had a hard time focusing on the images. I started to get a headache, then realized I was straining to see, when I really didn't need to. I closed my eyes and relaxed for 30 seconds, then consciously relaxed my eyes as I was viewing. It made a world of difference. I also tend to sit with my head cocked to the side, and that caused problems, but the images diverge enough that it is noticeable before it causes a headache. I have also had dates (girls who don't normally wear glasses) tell me that the unfamiliar pressure and/or weight of the glasses gives them a headache.
Right now, I see every movie I can in Imax 3D. I would love for this to be the new general format for movies. They are much more immersive and can make an ok movie into a fantastic movie. The Imax version of The Christmas Express was jaw dropping. I saw it twice and was stunned both times. I wondered how they were going to accomplish the same shot in the 2D version. When I finally saw it in 2D it was such a let down.
But do you still have your red swingline?