You have to take these alarmist predictions with a grain of salt. Remember in the 1978 when we were told that we had less than 10 years worth of oil still in the ground? Since then we have learned quite the opposite. I am not saying we shouldn't address the issues of so-called "greenhouse gases," but we don't have to go at it in a panic-stricken manner. We should do what we can to maintain a clean and stable atmosphere.
Carbon Sinks are an important component of this discussion. From the article referenced in the first sentence:
Buildup of atmospheric C02 is moderated by "sinks" on the earth's surface that use some C02 and store much of the carbon in living organisms, organic matter and carbonate minerals, says soil scientist H.H. Cheng. These carbon sinks include the oceans that cover more than 70 percent of the earth surface, forests and other vegetation covering the land, and organic matter in the soil.
Interestingly, this article talks about soil as a possible source of CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, making the El Nino effect not always a good indicator of how much a rise or fall in atmospheric CO2 should be.
Finally, here is article that that argues that rises in atmospheric CO2 are not a cause for alarm: PortlandTribune.com | Rise in CO2 levels is no cause for alarm
I don't think these court "settlements" slow this guy down at all. He was also successfully sued and ordered to pay $104,104 this past April. You can read about that case here. I am wondering if it is the case that he makes so much money sending spam that these fines and settlements are no more than the cost of doing business.
Amazon does not disclose exactly how it scans books, but a spokeswoman for the company, Jani Baker, said Amazon has already scanned 120,000 books and hopes to archive "virtually everything" in the company's catalog.
I think this is the relevant part of the interview that confirms the Treo 650 rumor.
PJA: Let's talk straight for a moment, Ed. There have been marketing pix of the Treo 650 out on the web for months, and in the past week, at least 2 people have had Sprint reps let them use and photograph actual T650's. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak... Handspring embraced the web community, and leveraged them to build a lot of pre-release buzz for the 600. Why is pa1mOne issuing all the 'no comments'?
EC: Were not being cagey...we have a plan for release and marketing of the next-gen Treo...and the Treo family. We appreciate the fact that there's a lot of interest built up already. However, we're not going to be rushed by any news leaks on the web.
PJA: Sooooo...there will be a next-gen Treo? Will it be released before the end of the year?
EC: Absolutely! We will be making an announcement soon.
I was a loyal Mac fan from the first "skinny" 128KB mac up to the Mac II (worked for a dealer from '83 to '99). Then Apple got too arrogant for my tastes and Windows was catching up in terms of a decent GUI so I switched to Wintel. However, if OX X worked well within x86 platform I would seriously consider switching. I think the number of people that would switch is not a small number. In fact, I am guessing it is a big enough number to make it worth considering. What I do not know about are any technological hurdles. Does anyone know if this is possible within a cost framework that would allow OS-X86 to be sold at a reasonable price and profit? Surely they have thought about this.
Put a simple process in place. When someone makes a copyright claim send them an email asking for written proof of who they are and evidence that they do have a legitimate copyright ownership. The party making the request should do all of the work, the burden is on them. They would then have to mail all of this, by certified mail, to the ISP. If the party making the request does all of this properly than a takedown decision can be made. A legitimate party with a legitimate claim should have no problem complying with such a request/process.
I am amazed that an ISP wouldn't have some process in place to at least check the validity of a party making that request and check the validity of the copyright as well. It wouldn't take much to put such a process in place.
Last year when I was doing web work for a car dealer a state policeman happened to come into the showroom asking for assistance. He had a piece of a tailight lens and that was it. Something had hit a parked car on some private property and that piece of lens was the only evidence. When the parts department said they couldn't help I poked my head up and volunteered. This drew some sneers from the "pros" behind the counter who felt that I couldn't possibly help with anything related to cars. Anyway, using Google I narrowed it down to a specific year and model of a Ford pickup. The police were able to track down the owner - it's not that big of a town. It was fun, though it took about two hours and I got quite a headache looking at so many images.
Gosh, I would have thought that a a department head for a social services agency such as the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services would have hard time getting away with such a nasty and unnecessary comment such as this:
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said.
However justified the firing of the employee, there was no reason to make such a denigrating comment about that employee. Smith should file a complaint and Hayes should publicly apologize. I hope that if Hayes ever makes a mistake he is treated a whole lot better than he chose to treat this man. I sent an email to them asking how this manager can behave in such an awful and slanderous manner. If you feel so inclined you can go here and do the same.
It doesn't. I'm not using I.E. and I am not sure what you need a browser for other than initially downloading the application. It doesn't require any browser. Once the app is running you are dealing with a drive icon, that's it.
Jeeze, pretty amazing. Downloaded the filed, installed it, and was transferring files in less than 60 seconds. No kidding! Files transfer faster than when I email the same sized attachment which is pretty nice. When you click/double-click on the drive it opens like any other drive/folder window and you see the files that are stored there. A free gig of off-site storage. I haven't tried to transfer something bigger than the 10MB attachment limit yet, but I will give it a shot. A great app!
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This guy has kids and writes rather well compared to most other homebrew websites. Don't know what's up with the all lower case letters thing.
This look like it's going to be a great website - worth bookmarking. I read the section on making a lava lamp and was impressed with the detail and the writing. I am looking forward to their daily hacks.
Use this page to find your senators, then click your way to their homepage and fill out an "email" form with your thoughts about these bills. It's easy. It took me about three or four minutes to email both of my senators.
Here is the text that I sent to Mikulski & Sarbanes. It is not pretty prose but it makes my point.
H.R. 4077 and H.R. 2391 are not the types of bills that ordinary citizens like myself would want passed if we really understood what it contains. I don't want to be forced to watch the ads and promos that are bundled into DVD's that I buy or rent. I don't want the gov't requiring manufacturers to cripple DVD players so that the MPAA and other such organizations can find new ways to squeeze even more revenue out of folks. There really does have to be a better way to address use and piracy concerns without stepping all over law abiding people who want to be able to use their home office and entertainment equipment however they wish. Thanks, Erick.
I am tired of it as well. I sent an email to my two representatives (Senators Mikulski & Sarbanes) asking them not to suppor this bill as it is. That is about all one can do. However if lots of people do it, then maybe the bill will looked at from other than just the point of view of those who want to "protect" us.
Considering that we now have over one trillion dollars in credit card debt in the U.S. I'm not sure being wealthy has much to do with owning lotsa toys. I gave up credit cards six years ago when I turned forty. It was an ugly-ass hard thing to do. I am finally used to only buying what I can actually pay for in money that I have already earned, not money that I have yet to earn.
Can you imagine how quickly wallet manufacturers would come out with new wallets that either sandwich your drivers license between two pieces of metal (aluminum foil I guess) or shield the entire wallet? I don't usually get too excited about privacy issues because I don't believe we have any these days. But, it is way too easy to imagine thieves walking around with readers and harvesting drivers licenses numbers and info in crowds. A drivers license often has all you need to get a credit card, especially if your state uses your social security number as your drivers license number (do any states do that anymore?).
I've been on the marketing & sales side of computers for 21 years (started in Oct '83) and the only cycle I've ever been able to reliably predict is a slow down in corporate purchasing during the month of February. That does not necessarily relate at all to the semiconductor cycle, if there is one. I used to meet regularly with Intel marketing reps and they never mentioned a cycle. There may well be a longer term cycle, such as a four year or five year cycle where so many machines are bought at the beginning of a major product cycle such as the intro of the P4, for example. In that case, a lot of machines would come out of service starting at 2 years (leases) and out to five years (fully depreciated). This is all to be taken with a grain of sale of course - there are just too many variables (intervening and contravening).
We will see next legislative session. I am surprised it died this time. I think that tells us that there are reasonable folks on the side of not passing this and it may not come down to who has the tallest pile of money. At least, I hope it doesn't come down to that. For now, I am encouraged.
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You have to take these alarmist predictions with a grain of salt. Remember in the 1978 when we were told that we had less than 10 years worth of oil still in the ground? Since then we have learned quite the opposite. I am not saying we shouldn't address the issues of so-called "greenhouse gases," but we don't have to go at it in a panic-stricken manner. We should do what we can to maintain a clean and stable atmosphere.
Buildup of atmospheric C02 is moderated by "sinks" on the earth's surface that use some C02 and store much of the carbon in living organisms, organic matter and carbonate minerals, says soil scientist H.H. Cheng. These carbon sinks include the oceans that cover more than 70 percent of the earth surface, forests and other vegetation covering the land, and organic matter in the soil.
Interestingly, this article talks about soil as a possible source of CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, making the El Nino effect not always a good indicator of how much a rise or fall in atmospheric CO2 should be. Finally, here is article that that argues that rises in atmospheric CO2 are not a cause for alarm: PortlandTribune.com | Rise in CO2 levels is no cause for alarm
I don't think these court "settlements" slow this guy down at all. He was also successfully sued and ordered to pay $104,104 this past April. You can read about that case here. I am wondering if it is the case that he makes so much money sending spam that these fines and settlements are no more than the cost of doing business.
Amazon does not disclose exactly how it scans books, but a spokeswoman for the company, Jani Baker, said Amazon has already scanned 120,000 books and hopes to archive "virtually everything" in the company's catalog.
This guy has a $150,000 machine that scan 1,500 bound pages per hour. That would certainly help though it sounds expensive . . .
PJA: Let's talk straight for a moment, Ed. There have been marketing pix of the Treo 650 out on the web for months, and in the past week, at least 2 people have had Sprint reps let them use and photograph actual T650's. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak... Handspring embraced the web community, and leveraged them to build a lot of pre-release buzz for the 600. Why is pa1mOne issuing all the 'no comments'?
EC: Were not being cagey...we have a plan for release and marketing of the next-gen Treo...and the Treo family. We appreciate the fact that there's a lot of interest built up already. However, we're not going to be rushed by any news leaks on the web.
PJA: Sooooo...there will be a next-gen Treo? Will it be released before the end of the year?
EC: Absolutely! We will be making an announcement soon.
I was a loyal Mac fan from the first "skinny" 128KB mac up to the Mac II (worked for a dealer from '83 to '99). Then Apple got too arrogant for my tastes and Windows was catching up in terms of a decent GUI so I switched to Wintel. However, if OX X worked well within x86 platform I would seriously consider switching. I think the number of people that would switch is not a small number. In fact, I am guessing it is a big enough number to make it worth considering. What I do not know about are any technological hurdles. Does anyone know if this is possible within a cost framework that would allow OS-X86 to be sold at a reasonable price and profit? Surely they have thought about this.
Put a simple process in place. When someone makes a copyright claim send them an email asking for written proof of who they are and evidence that they do have a legitimate copyright ownership. The party making the request should do all of the work, the burden is on them. They would then have to mail all of this, by certified mail, to the ISP. If the party making the request does all of this properly than a takedown decision can be made. A legitimate party with a legitimate claim should have no problem complying with such a request/process.
I am amazed that an ISP wouldn't have some process in place to at least check the validity of a party making that request and check the validity of the copyright as well. It wouldn't take much to put such a process in place.
Last year when I was doing web work for a car dealer a state policeman happened to come into the showroom asking for assistance. He had a piece of a tailight lens and that was it. Something had hit a parked car on some private property and that piece of lens was the only evidence. When the parts department said they couldn't help I poked my head up and volunteered. This drew some sneers from the "pros" behind the counter who felt that I couldn't possibly help with anything related to cars. Anyway, using Google I narrowed it down to a specific year and model of a Ford pickup. The police were able to track down the owner - it's not that big of a town. It was fun, though it took about two hours and I got quite a headache looking at so many images.
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said.
However justified the firing of the employee, there was no reason to make such a denigrating comment about that employee. Smith should file a complaint and Hayes should publicly apologize. I hope that if Hayes ever makes a mistake he is treated a whole lot better than he chose to treat this man. I sent an email to them asking how this manager can behave in such an awful and slanderous manner. If you feel so inclined you can go here and do the same.
It doesn't. I'm not using I.E. and I am not sure what you need a browser for other than initially downloading the application. It doesn't require any browser. Once the app is running you are dealing with a drive icon, that's it.
10MB limit applies. Oh well, still very cool.
Jeeze, pretty amazing. Downloaded the filed, installed it, and was transferring files in less than 60 seconds. No kidding! Files transfer faster than when I email the same sized attachment which is pretty nice. When you click/double-click on the drive it opens like any other drive/folder window and you see the files that are stored there. A free gig of off-site storage. I haven't tried to transfer something bigger than the 10MB attachment limit yet, but I will give it a shot. A great app!
This guy has kids and writes rather well compared to most other homebrew websites. Don't know what's up with the all lower case letters thing.
This look like it's going to be a great website - worth bookmarking. I read the section on making a lava lamp and was impressed with the detail and the writing. I am looking forward to their daily hacks.
Use this page to find your senators, then click your way to their homepage and fill out an "email" form with your thoughts about these bills. It's easy. It took me about three or four minutes to email both of my senators.
H.R. 4077 and H.R. 2391 are not the types of bills that ordinary citizens like myself would want passed if we really understood what it contains. I don't want to be forced to watch the ads and promos that are bundled into DVD's that I buy or rent. I don't want the gov't requiring manufacturers to cripple DVD players so that the MPAA and other such organizations can find new ways to squeeze even more revenue out of folks. There really does have to be a better way to address use and piracy concerns without stepping all over law abiding people who want to be able to use their home office and entertainment equipment however they wish. Thanks, Erick.
I am tired of it as well. I sent an email to my two representatives (Senators Mikulski & Sarbanes) asking them not to suppor this bill as it is. That is about all one can do. However if lots of people do it, then maybe the bill will looked at from other than just the point of view of those who want to "protect" us.
Considering that we now have over one trillion dollars in credit card debt in the U.S. I'm not sure being wealthy has much to do with owning lotsa toys. I gave up credit cards six years ago when I turned forty. It was an ugly-ass hard thing to do. I am finally used to only buying what I can actually pay for in money that I have already earned, not money that I have yet to earn.
That is very insulting to the pig.
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Can you imagine how quickly wallet manufacturers would come out with new wallets that either sandwich your drivers license between two pieces of metal (aluminum foil I guess) or shield the entire wallet? I don't usually get too excited about privacy issues because I don't believe we have any these days. But, it is way too easy to imagine thieves walking around with readers and harvesting drivers licenses numbers and info in crowds. A drivers license often has all you need to get a credit card, especially if your state uses your social security number as your drivers license number (do any states do that anymore?).
I've been on the marketing & sales side of computers for 21 years (started in Oct '83) and the only cycle I've ever been able to reliably predict is a slow down in corporate purchasing during the month of February. That does not necessarily relate at all to the semiconductor cycle, if there is one. I used to meet regularly with Intel marketing reps and they never mentioned a cycle. There may well be a longer term cycle, such as a four year or five year cycle where so many machines are bought at the beginning of a major product cycle such as the intro of the P4, for example. In that case, a lot of machines would come out of service starting at 2 years (leases) and out to five years (fully depreciated). This is all to be taken with a grain of sale of course - there are just too many variables (intervening and contravening).
We will see next legislative session. I am surprised it died this time. I think that tells us that there are reasonable folks on the side of not passing this and it may not come down to who has the tallest pile of money. At least, I hope it doesn't come down to that. For now, I am encouraged.