Came to say this - she was trying to make this about google glass, when it was about her speeding. She and/or the officer were being dickish and thus the google glass part of the ticket, but she was stopped and ticketed for speeding. The infraction for the glass would undoubtably get thrown out if she goes before a judge.
BACKGROUND - The founders of Syntheon were formerly involved with a medical-device company named Symbiosis, of which I ran IT. Myself, Kevin Smith, and Ted Slack conducted a large number of rocket tests in the parking lot of Symbiois, which led to the formation of a company named Environmental Aeroscience Corporation (I came up with the name, because our rockets used a safer chemical reaction than solid fuel rockets). We were joined by a well-known amateur rocketeer, Korey Kline (who was well known for, among other things, a gasoline-drip rocket). We were also joined by another founder/engineer from Symbioisis, Tom Bales. EAC developed a high-end amateur rocket line which we called HyperTek. Those rockets are, I believe, still available from a company under license. We also launched a number of rockets at Black Rock, Nevada, as well as at the NASA base at Wallops Island, Virginia. One of our rockets is at the Miami Museum of Science.
Well said. RS232 is an important, effective, and reliable system for interconnects. Proven, time-tested, yada yada yada. Yes, sometimes theres confusion over baud rate,, word and bits, and parity, but those are minor compared to the pain in the ass that is USB with drivers, conflicts, length, etc. The biggest problem with RS232 is the confusion over DCE and DTE so one always has to have null modem adapters handy.
At least you youngsters don't have to deal with 25-pin RS232 or secondary channel communications. Hell, it's rare to see even hardware flow control anymore of either type, or bizarre comm settings like 7E2. Pretty much everyone defaults to 8N1, 9600, and no flow control with the option to up the speed in the device config.
I was a early subscriber to OMNI (I still have the first few issues somewhere in storage). I loved it, and there were many things in it the encouraged me in science and was more accessible than Scientific American (which I subscribed to concurrently). It also led me on all sorts of incredible tangents for intellectual exploration. Basically, in many ways for me it was replaced by the Internet.
I would call Mondo 2000 the better example (versus Heavy Metal) of a more frivolous version of OMNI - tackling similar themes but with reckless and entertaining abandon.
It's well-known fact (tm) that the smaller artists don't make a penny from the royalties. Only the biggest acts are able to extract their royalties from BMI/ASCAP/etc. Bono is speaking out of self-interest and self-interest alone.
That doesn't excuse or justify piracy - but if you do care about the smaller artists then purchase music directly from them. Any markup on recordings will far exceed what they get as a royalty.
Do you want your home automated and have a working & stable system, or do you want your house to be another mish mash of hardware and software hacks? If the latter, by all means, go with an open-source DIY solution. In the long run, you'll have a much more satisfying, braggable, stable, wife-pleasing, supportable and low-maintenance system if you go with Crestron. I'm a long time hacker and Unix guy (I started on Unix in 1981) and generally love DIY approaches to things, but I'm also a designer and programming of Crestron systems - they are stable, reliable platforms. I've done Crestron systems that have worked flawlessly for years at a time, and only have to be touched because DirecTV changes receivers, or the DVD gets upgraded. I've seen Crestron systems that were installed in the mid-80's that are still going strong (a luxury hotel in South Beach uses a vintage Crestron system for their hotel and lobby lighting system). If you value your time at all, the upfront cost of a Crestron system is really not bad.
One glaring hole in the pseudo-increased-security is the major vector for most smuggling - Airline and Airport employees. Baggage handlers, flight crew, cleaners, food service and ground workers all have less per entry security screening than you or I. "Oh", I hear some of you, "They passed background checks!". So did every terrorist or would-be terrorist at least once.
I can give you a personal example of this - my father is a 76-year old western european citizen, and has been to the US easily a hundred times and was a US resident for over a decade. And as a merchant, he's spent easily many hundred of thousands on goods in the US over the past 40 years. Last Christmas, he came over to see us, and at the local International Airport he was pulled aside, patted down, his baggage and items gone over in detail, and interrogated for 20 minutes. Why? No reason given. As a result, he doesn't want to come to the US at all any more, so we have to go visit in Europe or rendezvous in another 3rd country. Yea, I know, we get to go to Europe more often, but it's a lot more expensive & difficult to coordinate schedules and take the family than to have one person travel here.
I spent a lot of last year overseas on projects - and I heard over and over again from people that no longer think it's worth it to come to the US for shows/conferences/travel because of the travel restrictions and attitude toward non-US citizens by customs and immigration.
I still have my Netronics Elf II computer - the first one I owned. RCA 1802 processor, Hex keypad, 2 7-digit LED display!
I no longer have the OSI C2P that was my second computer, or the thermal printer/terminal with APL keyboard and integral 300 baud acoustic modem I used throughout college. I even had a beautiful ADM3A terminal for while.
Quorn is only available in a limited variety in the US (check out the UK site www.quorn.co.uk for the variety available there).
Nor is it vegan - they use egg white as a binding agent in their products. The vegetarian society does approve of it, as they use free range eggs for the egg white.
It's not mushroom either, technically. It's not the fruiting bodies (the mushrooms), instead it is made out of the mycelium (of Fusarium gramineurum).
One of the problems is that many people who loosly consider themselves vegetarian (particularly in the UK, it appears) do so on the basis of not eating some *subset* of animal products (e.g., red meat, but still eat chicken, or "meat" but still eat fish, eggs, and dairy).
Given that the costs of factory farming are rising and viability decreasing (witness increased antibiotic & hormone use to get them to harvestable size before death), and commercial fishing will reportedly collapse with 50 years due to overfishing, you're all going to be vegetarians to some degree.
Why do people confuse these? PETA is an animal rights group. Vegans are non-animal-eating people. Some Vegans are PETA members. Some PETA members are Vegans. Some Vegans are Republicans too.
based on your description, i'd go with the liberal arts. you'll be broader prepared, and a grounding in theory is the thing that seems most lacking among cs grads that come to me.
plus, the liberal arts school will probably have much hotter girls:-O
I was extremely excited and enthusiastic about the OLPC and the projects (like sugar) that make it innovative and seductive. But now I'm just deeply disappointed in the inability of OLPC to communicate manufacturing/delivery delays, repeated lies from them about when I would get the laptop, and the total refusal to ship to my new New Zealand address when they had plenty of time to ship it to my domestic address if they had kept any of the delivery promises.
My support of the project would've extended to presenting it at the private international school in Miami that I was on the board of (and where my son would've used it). Since I've now moved out to New Zealand, I would've also done my best to proselytise at his new school, also filled with a good mix of prominent people who might've become supports of the project. Instead, their failures to deliver and to communicate their delays has gone well beyond simple frustration and made me suspicious of their ability to pull it off. They finally set up a phone number one could call a couple weeks ago, but only as an 800#, which I couldn't call from outside the US! Once I got back in the states, in response to my repeated emails and phone calls last week I was told timeframes ranging from "asbolutely mid March" to "probably 45-60 days" depending on who at OLPC was spinning the tale.
As a person who has been involved in the computer industry for 30 years, I'm well aware of problems with manufacturing and shipping a new product, but I have never seen such a poorly handled situation. I was very excited and enthusiastic about the OLPC project and more than willing to support it and proselytize. My purchase/donation was a sign of my support, and I intended to prominently display the laptop at my son's schools to motivate more support for the project. The lack of communication and lies about the status has not only disappointed me, it has really soured me on the project and caused me to also withdraw my donation, something I've never done in my life. No matter how innovative and seductive a product, if you can't actually make it available you're just wasting your time.
I'm personally glad to read this, as Gamera has been far too much of a free spirit wrecking havoc with his fire breath. This new era of brain control for Gamera should focus his energies far better to protect the cities of Japan.
Am I the only one sad that Mark Hamill isn't part of the ceremony? I'm sure it couldn't be a question of cost. Instead, the only "dignataries" at the send off and return are costumes. If Luke's saber is being used for publicity, the hand that wielded it should be as well.
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Came to say this - she was trying to make this about google glass, when it was about her speeding. She and/or the officer were being dickish and thus the google glass part of the ticket, but she was stopped and ticketed for speeding. The infraction for the glass would undoubtably get thrown out if she goes before a judge.
Just thought I'd add to that: Microsoft had Xenix before DOS. They were on the Unix car and jumped off.
BACKGROUND - The founders of Syntheon were formerly involved with a medical-device company named Symbiosis, of which I ran IT. Myself, Kevin Smith, and Ted Slack conducted a large number of rocket tests in the parking lot of Symbiois, which led to the formation of a company named Environmental Aeroscience Corporation (I came up with the name, because our rockets used a safer chemical reaction than solid fuel rockets). We were joined by a well-known amateur rocketeer, Korey Kline (who was well known for, among other things, a gasoline-drip rocket). We were also joined by another founder/engineer from Symbioisis, Tom Bales. EAC developed a high-end amateur rocket line which we called HyperTek. Those rockets are, I believe, still available from a company under license. We also launched a number of rockets at Black Rock, Nevada, as well as at the NASA base at Wallops Island, Virginia. One of our rockets is at the Miami Museum of Science.
Exactly right. Using hashi (chopsticks) to pick up normal maki sushi is like someone here using a fork for french fries.
I looked into this a number of years ago when I was dealing in old maps. The best way to digitize them by far is a large format drum scanner.
Well said. RS232 is an important, effective, and reliable system for interconnects. Proven, time-tested, yada yada yada. Yes, sometimes theres confusion over baud rate,, word and bits, and parity, but those are minor compared to the pain in the ass that is USB with drivers, conflicts, length, etc. The biggest problem with RS232 is the confusion over DCE and DTE so one always has to have null modem adapters handy.
At least you youngsters don't have to deal with 25-pin RS232 or secondary channel communications. Hell, it's rare to see even hardware flow control anymore of either type, or bizarre comm settings like 7E2. Pretty much everyone defaults to 8N1, 9600, and no flow control with the option to up the speed in the device config.
I've tried, and I just can't keep the columns straight when programming RPG with a proportional font. Anyone got any tips?
I was a early subscriber to OMNI (I still have the first few issues somewhere in storage). I loved it, and there were many things in it the encouraged me in science and was more accessible than Scientific American (which I subscribed to concurrently). It also led me on all sorts of incredible tangents for intellectual exploration. Basically, in many ways for me it was replaced by the Internet.
I would call Mondo 2000 the better example (versus Heavy Metal) of a more frivolous version of OMNI - tackling similar themes but with reckless and entertaining abandon.
It's well-known fact (tm) that the smaller artists don't make a penny from the royalties. Only the biggest acts are able to extract their royalties from BMI/ASCAP/etc. Bono is speaking out of self-interest and self-interest alone.
That doesn't excuse or justify piracy - but if you do care about the smaller artists then purchase music directly from them. Any markup on recordings will far exceed what they get as a royalty.
http://www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/royalty-politics.html
Do you want your home automated and have a working & stable system, or do you want your house to be another mish mash of hardware and software hacks? If the latter, by all means, go with an open-source DIY solution. In the long run, you'll have a much more satisfying, braggable, stable, wife-pleasing, supportable and low-maintenance system if you go with Crestron. I'm a long time hacker and Unix guy (I started on Unix in 1981) and generally love DIY approaches to things, but I'm also a designer and programming of Crestron systems - they are stable, reliable platforms. I've done Crestron systems that have worked flawlessly for years at a time, and only have to be touched because DirecTV changes receivers, or the DVD gets upgraded. I've seen Crestron systems that were installed in the mid-80's that are still going strong (a luxury hotel in South Beach uses a vintage Crestron system for their hotel and lobby lighting system). If you value your time at all, the upfront cost of a Crestron system is really not bad.
One glaring hole in the pseudo-increased-security is the major vector for most smuggling - Airline and Airport employees. Baggage handlers, flight crew, cleaners, food service and ground workers all have less per entry security screening than you or I. "Oh", I hear some of you, "They passed background checks!". So did every terrorist or would-be terrorist at least once.
I can give you a personal example of this - my father is a 76-year old western european citizen, and has been to the US easily a hundred times and was a US resident for over a decade. And as a merchant, he's spent easily many hundred of thousands on goods in the US over the past 40 years. Last Christmas, he came over to see us, and at the local International Airport he was pulled aside, patted down, his baggage and items gone over in detail, and interrogated for 20 minutes. Why? No reason given. As a result, he doesn't want to come to the US at all any more, so we have to go visit in Europe or rendezvous in another 3rd country. Yea, I know, we get to go to Europe more often, but it's a lot more expensive & difficult to coordinate schedules and take the family than to have one person travel here.
I spent a lot of last year overseas on projects - and I heard over and over again from people that no longer think it's worth it to come to the US for shows/conferences/travel because of the travel restrictions and attitude toward non-US citizens by customs and immigration.
I still have my Netronics Elf II computer - the first one I owned. RCA 1802 processor, Hex keypad, 2 7-digit LED display!
I no longer have the OSI C2P that was my second computer, or the thermal printer/terminal with APL keyboard and integral 300 baud acoustic modem I used throughout college. I even had a beautiful ADM3A terminal for while.
I think you're on the right track, but LIMBAUGH FLU would be most appropriate!
Japanese put beans in pastries.
Freshly made Red Bean Mochi is great.
take a look
Quorn is only available in a limited variety in the US (check out the UK site www.quorn.co.uk for the variety available there).
Nor is it vegan - they use egg white as a binding agent in their products. The vegetarian society does approve of it, as they use free range eggs for the egg white.
It's not mushroom either, technically. It's not the fruiting bodies (the mushrooms), instead it is made out of the mycelium (of Fusarium gramineurum).
One of the problems is that many people who loosly consider themselves vegetarian (particularly in the UK, it appears) do so on the basis of not eating some *subset* of animal products (e.g., red meat, but still eat chicken, or "meat" but still eat fish, eggs, and dairy).
Given that the costs of factory farming are rising and viability decreasing (witness increased antibiotic & hormone use to get them to harvestable size before death), and commercial fishing will reportedly collapse with 50 years due to overfishing, you're all going to be vegetarians to some degree.
Get used to it.
But fried potatoes are one of the basic food groups.
PETA != Vegan
Why do people confuse these? PETA is an animal rights group. Vegans are non-animal-eating people. Some Vegans are PETA members. Some PETA members are Vegans. Some Vegans are Republicans too.
based on your description, i'd go with the liberal arts. you'll be broader prepared, and a grounding in theory is the thing that seems most lacking among cs grads that come to me.
:-O
plus, the liberal arts school will probably have much hotter girls
I was extremely excited and enthusiastic about the OLPC and the projects (like sugar) that make it innovative and seductive. But now I'm just deeply disappointed in the inability of OLPC to communicate manufacturing/delivery delays, repeated lies from them about when I would get the laptop, and the total refusal to ship to my new New Zealand address when they had plenty of time to ship it to my domestic address if they had kept any of the delivery promises.
My support of the project would've extended to presenting it at the private international school in Miami that I was on the board of (and where my son would've used it). Since I've now moved out to New Zealand, I would've also done my best to proselytise at his new school, also filled with a good mix of prominent people who might've become supports of the project. Instead, their failures to deliver and to communicate their delays has gone well beyond simple frustration and made me suspicious of their ability to pull it off. They finally set up a phone number one could call a couple weeks ago, but only as an 800#, which I couldn't call from outside the US! Once I got back in the states, in response to my repeated emails and phone calls last week I was told timeframes ranging from "asbolutely mid March" to "probably 45-60 days" depending on who at OLPC was spinning the tale.
As a person who has been involved in the computer industry for 30 years, I'm well aware of problems with manufacturing and shipping a new product, but I have never seen such a poorly handled situation. I was very excited and enthusiastic about the OLPC project and more than willing to support it and proselytize. My purchase/donation was a sign of my support, and I intended to prominently display the laptop at my son's schools to motivate more support for the project. The lack of communication and lies about the status has not only disappointed me, it has really soured me on the project and caused me to also withdraw my donation, something I've never done in my life. No matter how innovative and seductive a product, if you can't actually make it available you're just wasting your time.
I'm personally glad to read this, as Gamera has been far too much of a free spirit wrecking havoc with his fire breath. This new era of brain control for Gamera should focus his energies far better to protect the cities of Japan.
100 micrograms runs about $120-$150.
1 milligram about $560.
Still, if it works. Think of all the extra billable hours...
Here's one from the International Herald Tribune.
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Somebody please stomp out myminicity. It's seriously polluting
Am I the only one sad that Mark Hamill isn't part of the ceremony? I'm sure it couldn't be a question of cost. Instead, the only "dignataries" at the send off and return are costumes. If Luke's saber is being used for publicity, the hand that wielded it should be as well.