> If a.ppt file is shared, then in 99 cases out of 100,
> it wasn't supposed to be shared.
Non-tech-savvy friends and relatives often send me "funny" ppts. It's not unusual to share this kind of files.
Those people wouldn't have the need (or know-how to setup even) for his suggested cures. We're talking about companies here.
To get past the ones with a cost (esp. from New York Times $3.95) and get free sources, click on 'Advanced archive search' next to the
search button, and choose only articles with 'no price'.
The gist of your post is one of the things I point out to my friends/family; every law that is passed takes away some of your rights. As you point out, I don't know of any which "give back" rights, and it's rare to hear of laws being overturned, found obsolete, etc.
So, what's the end game? One can envision a future with so many laws in place that almost everything could be interpreted as illegal. Then, we'd have to wipe the slate clean and start over again.
I'd hope that this "re-do" would include restrictions on passing laws (making them much more difficult to do), since each one essentially takes away some of your rights. Also, the multilayered approach to laws (federal, state, local) to things which should be considered "universal" confuse me (but I'm a programmer not a lawyer) -- for example, I'd think ideally there'd be a national consensus that if you are found guilty of first degree murder you'd get life imprisonment and there would not be allowed any state or local laws for this crime since it has a "universal" agreement on the punishment.
My $0.02
For what it's worth, since you don't mention it, this is exactly how Mathworks versions Matlab: current release is 2007b (of course, under the hood it is 7.5) and next one is 2008a.
our time is our most valuable commodity, the source of all other values, and public transportation's real expense is in lost time. Buses and trains seem cheaper when you don't factor in the very high hidden cost of all those people standing around at the station for fifteen minutes.
You just lost that one; what about when you're sitting on the 405 for an hour and a half when a train could have taken you there in 25 minutes. Now, that's high cost because it's lost time, lost money, lost gas, and lost planet.
Rather mild? Wow, you need to do some more reading. I've been to many talks given by the guys who crank these numbers, and NONE of the models generate what I would consider a 'mild' result.
If temperatures go up by ~0.2 deg C
Well, it already has gone up by 1+ deg C, and shows no signs of slowing.
winter is still winter is an ok reason not to worry all that much
Both are criminals. You (and I) propose locking up the husband of your friend, but what kind of punishment do you propose for Ken Lay then? Due to the sheer amount of fraud that his company participated in, a monetary punishment isn't enough (even if it's total, i.e. he's left penniless), there needs to be more of a deterrence than that. He was part of an organization which literally screwed-over the lives of thousands of people. And, if you count in the rolling blackouts, which Enron *caused*, it's possible that there is even accessory to murder in there -- seriously, imagine traffic lights going out, or life-support systems crashing, it's possible someone's death is a direct result of it.
Say, I'm looking at getting my first Mac notebook (have a PPC Mac Mini and love it), but am very concerned about these heat issues (reboots when watching DVDs, too much thermal paste, etc.). Can anyone tell me how I can know for sure when version two (of either the MacBook or MacBook Pro) comes out and if it fixes this serious issue? (I'd prefer to get notified as opposed to occasional visiting of some 'mac rumor' website)
Dooooode! I TOTALLY hear your most extreme form of frustration with your cable company. Like I said, they are no doubt all about the same; an order of magnitude more agrivating than the cellular companies, and to boot, you don't even have a choice (unless you want satellite, but then you have to use some other damn company for DSL service). For the consumers in this country it's really a losing situation and all-the-while because of the greed of the CEOs, we are slipping further and further behind other first world contries when it comes to residential digital services. I think it's outragous to pay $95 a month to get non-digital TV (with no premium channels) and speed limited internet. But again, what really is the compelling alternative? None. This story seems a little akin to what it would be like if the government hadn't disbanded the phone company back in the 80s -- just think, you'd be paying about $100 a month for a very basic cellular plan and wouldn't have any choice.
I purchased my mom a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner a couple years ago. Not only is it cool because it is thin and light, and doesn't need a power connection (it's powered by the USB cable), but it came with a nifty feature in it's driver where if you put several pictures on the glass, it attempts to use the white space around them to guess that they were individual pictures and then saves them as such. I tasked her to scan in many family pictures (mostly 4x6") and I'm sure that feature saved her some time.
I can tell you why it's slow; everyone (especially Microsoft) insists on storing data in the registry. Proof: if you do a fresh install of WinXP, it's snappy, but as you add programs (especially Visual Studio or MS Office for example) it sloooows down. No, it's not because the harddrive is filling, it's because to do anything, the OS has to navigate the now bloated registry file.
Just say NO to registry bloat -- next time you write software, use an *.xml file to store configuration data!
Sure, this lets you measure something without getting too close to it (e.g. disturbing a crime scene or disturbing a fish)
For about $70 we use an underwater version of this:
Epoxy or rubber silicone them to a block which can attach to camera mount.
Of course you expoy them while they are aligned. We do this with their dots at 2 1/2". This setup gives very accurate measurements well over 40' (that is, beyond the point at which you can even really see in a photo anything that small).
I've got one for that episode (not really a myth, but fun to see):
-get a helium balloon
-put it inside your car so it doesn't touch the top and has room to swing around
-drive at 25-30mph or so
-quickly (and safely) brake
Does the balloon go foreward like your head? Why (or why not)?
Okay, here's another interesting thing to see:
-get two polarized lenses that you can overlap
-hang an object on a string and set it swinging in a straight plane
-now, looking at the swinging object with both eyes, hold up to one eye the two lenses and rotate them so that you can vary the darkness.
What do you see? Why?
!SPOILER ALERTS!
-For the first one; the balloon will actually go backwards because helium is lighter than air and with the slight movement of airmass in the car displacing forewards, the balloon reacts by moving slightly backwards (you can see it react when you go around corners too, but not as obviously).
-For the second one; as the one eye's amount of incoming light is decreased, the appearance of the swing will shift from a straight arc to an ellipse. I think this is a perception thing with our brains processing a brighter scene first, and therefore a timing issue being setup.
Disclaimer: I'm no physics genius, so all my explainations may be WAY off.
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> If a .ppt file is shared, then in 99 cases out of 100,
> it wasn't supposed to be shared.
Non-tech-savvy friends and relatives often send me "funny" ppts. It's not unusual to share this kind of files.
Those people wouldn't have the need (or know-how to setup even) for his suggested cures. We're talking about companies here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon
CodeBuster's main point about cost still stands.
You can start here: http://news.google.com/archivesearch
To get past the ones with a cost (esp. from New York Times $3.95) and get free sources, click on 'Advanced archive search' next to the search button, and choose only articles with 'no price'.
Here's an example: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=rosenbergs&num=10&as_price=p1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_user_ldate=1950&as_user_hdate=1959&lnav=d3&hdrange=1980,2008
You may relate to this talk given by Clay Shirky:
http://blip.tv/file/855937
The gist of your post is one of the things I point out to my friends/family; every law that is passed takes away some of your rights. As you point out, I don't know of any which "give back" rights, and it's rare to hear of laws being overturned, found obsolete, etc.
So, what's the end game? One can envision a future with so many laws in place that almost everything could be interpreted as illegal. Then, we'd have to wipe the slate clean and start over again.
I'd hope that this "re-do" would include restrictions on passing laws (making them much more difficult to do), since each one essentially takes away some of your rights. Also, the multilayered approach to laws (federal, state, local) to things which should be considered "universal" confuse me (but I'm a programmer not a lawyer) -- for example, I'd think ideally there'd be a national consensus that if you are found guilty of first degree murder you'd get life imprisonment and there would not be allowed any state or local laws for this crime since it has a "universal" agreement on the punishment. My $0.02
As for fbi.us, according to the whois database, the US Department of Justice does own it, and probably always will.
And I'd much prefer if the OS could refrain from nagging every 15 minutes about that....
XP does let you get under the hood a little bit -- you may find #2 here alleviates your nagging issue: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html
For what it's worth, since you don't mention it, this is exactly how Mathworks versions Matlab: current release is 2007b (of course, under the hood it is 7.5) and next one is 2008a.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE
In Russia, globe warm you... ah, never mind.
Rather mild? Wow, you need to do some more reading. I've been to many talks given by the guys who crank these numbers, and NONE of the models generate what I would consider a 'mild' result.
If temperatures go up by ~0.2 deg C
Well, it already has gone up by 1+ deg C, and shows no signs of slowing.
winter is still winter is an ok reason not to worry all that much
Guess you're not a polar bear...
He still died in Aspen, instead of jail. I'd say he still has a little net worth if he owns property in Aspen.
Both are criminals. You (and I) propose locking up the husband of your friend, but what kind of punishment do you propose for Ken Lay then? Due to the sheer amount of fraud that his company participated in, a monetary punishment isn't enough (even if it's total, i.e. he's left penniless), there needs to be more of a deterrence than that. He was part of an organization which literally screwed-over the lives of thousands of people. And, if you count in the rolling blackouts, which Enron *caused*, it's possible that there is even accessory to murder in there -- seriously, imagine traffic lights going out, or life-support systems crashing, it's possible someone's death is a direct result of it.
Say, I'm looking at getting my first Mac notebook (have a PPC Mac Mini and love it), but am very concerned about these heat issues (reboots when watching DVDs, too much thermal paste, etc.). Can anyone tell me how I can know for sure when version two (of either the MacBook or MacBook Pro) comes out and if it fixes this serious issue? (I'd prefer to get notified as opposed to occasional visiting of some 'mac rumor' website)
Dooooode! I TOTALLY hear your most extreme form of frustration with your cable company. Like I said, they are no doubt all about the same; an order of magnitude more agrivating than the cellular companies, and to boot, you don't even have a choice (unless you want satellite, but then you have to use some other damn company for DSL service). For the consumers in this country it's really a losing situation and all-the-while because of the greed of the CEOs, we are slipping further and further behind other first world contries when it comes to residential digital services. I think it's outragous to pay $95 a month to get non-digital TV (with no premium channels) and speed limited internet. But again, what really is the compelling alternative? None. This story seems a little akin to what it would be like if the government hadn't disbanded the phone company back in the 80s -- just think, you'd be paying about $100 a month for a very basic cellular plan and wouldn't have any choice.
Um, the last I checked, TFA was about COX, not Comcast. (Although, I'd bet anyone's experiences would be about the same between the two...)
I purchased my mom a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner a couple years ago. Not only is it cool because it is thin and light, and doesn't need a power connection (it's powered by the USB cable), but it came with a nifty feature in it's driver where if you put several pictures on the glass, it attempts to use the white space around them to guess that they were individual pictures and then saves them as such. I tasked her to scan in many family pictures (mostly 4x6") and I'm sure that feature saved her some time.
I can tell you why it's slow; everyone (especially Microsoft) insists on storing data in the registry. Proof: if you do a fresh install of WinXP, it's snappy, but as you add programs (especially Visual Studio or MS Office for example) it sloooows down. No, it's not because the harddrive is filling, it's because to do anything, the OS has to navigate the now bloated registry file.
Just say NO to registry bloat -- next time you write software, use an *.xml file to store configuration data!
In Soviet Russia, geeks beat you!
- Two Trident Underwater laser pointers (~$30.00 ea.)
- Epoxy or rubber silicone them to a block which can attach to camera mount.
Of course you expoy them while they are aligned. We do this with their dots at 2 1/2". This setup gives very accurate measurements well over 40' (that is, beyond the point at which you can even really see in a photo anything that small).You may want to checkout Spellbound.
I've got one for that episode (not really a myth, but fun to see):
-get a helium balloon
-put it inside your car so it doesn't touch the top and has room to swing around
-drive at 25-30mph or so
-quickly (and safely) brake
Does the balloon go foreward like your head? Why (or why not)?
Okay, here's another interesting thing to see:
-get two polarized lenses that you can overlap
-hang an object on a string and set it swinging in a straight plane
-now, looking at the swinging object with both eyes, hold up to one eye the two lenses and rotate them so that you can vary the darkness.
What do you see? Why?
!SPOILER ALERTS!
-For the first one; the balloon will actually go backwards because helium is lighter than air and with the slight movement of airmass in the car displacing forewards, the balloon reacts by moving slightly backwards (you can see it react when you go around corners too, but not as obviously).
-For the second one; as the one eye's amount of incoming light is decreased, the appearance of the swing will shift from a straight arc to an ellipse. I think this is a perception thing with our brains processing a brighter scene first, and therefore a timing issue being setup.
Disclaimer: I'm no physics genius, so all my explainations may be WAY off.