From the article: "Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are toxic. These filters and tobaccos can make no more than a marginal difference."
No reason to get into this addiction. Cigarettes in US are expensive and if you are chain smoker you will be pinching your wallet. Needless to say about the future medical costs. I wonder if insurance companies charge more for smokers as compared to non-smokers.
NY state law prohibits smoking inside any public building including bars/pubs. I second that law. Now if I they can make cigarette with mouth-freshners as well, it would be perfect.
Ofcourse some people do watch it over again. I have watched Matrix (the first one) over 7-8 times in 4-5 years. At $3 rate I would have paid $24, the DVD was $14.99. I can also use the DVD to exchange other DVD's with my friends (who don't have Matrix). So yes if there are shows/movies I *really really* like, I buy them. Yes my local library has most of the good books and it will be *free* (except for annual $19.99 fee) to just borrow and read the books (so far I haven't ran into case that the book is checked out and they don't have another copy around). But nevertheless I still buy the ones which I want to keep in my collection.
TV Series: My favoorite: Yes Minister. It is worth having your own DVD and popping up an episode during dinner.
The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. In one incarnation, each microcapsule contains positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in a clear fluid. When a negative electric field is applied, the white particles move to the top of the microcapsule where they become visible to the user. This makes the surface appear white at that spot. At the same time, an opposite electric field pulls the black particles to the bottom of the microcapsules where they are hidden. By reversing this process, the black particles appear at the top of the capsule, which now makes the surface appear dark at that spot.
Pretty cool I should say.
One question though, if we remove the battery and hence the electric field - do particles move around again and we lose all the data ?
Quick question. Is it ok to tape shows/music from radio/television ? More in terms of legal/copyright etc.
One of the reason itunes has caught up because it is legal and I don't have to worry about RIAA knocking on my door. $1.99 is not too much for the shows I really like. Still better than buying the >$20 DVDs later. (yes I will be missing the special features etc) but $1.99 is still cheap.
Why can't microsoft have support for Blu-ray in Xbox 360 ? They can get the license etc (whatever the technical term is). Or the hardware is very complicated for that technology ?
open Micro$oft Word and Powerpoint files ? And can it handle my 100 slide powerpoint file with zillions of pictures ? Will it handle complicated tables made by someone else in MS Office ? If not, why should I try this ? And is there any reason to believe that it will have more features than a full Staroffice installed on the desktop itself ?
People tend to understimate the value of technical support. I think it is decent answer to (in perspective of new business model) : How do you make money on something that is developed and distributed for free?
The posted story has few links in the end. I remember reading another article sometime back and it addresses the issue as well, not necessarily applied to SOA (and article is/was more clear as well IMHO). From this article the main reasons are:
Organizational impediments -- e.g., developing, deploying, and supporting systematically reusable software assets requires a deep understanding of application developer needs and business requirements. As the number of developers and projects employing reusable assets increases, it becomes hard to structure an organization to provide effective feedback loops between these constituencies.
Economic impediments -- e.g., supporting corporate-wide reusable assets requires an economic investment, particularly if reuse groups operate as cost-centers. Many organizations find it hard to institute appropriate taxation or charge-back schemes to fund their reuse groups.
Administrative impediments -- e.g., it's hard to catalog, archive, and retrieve reusable assests across multiple business units within large organizations. Although it's common to scavenge small classes or functions opportunistically from existing programs, developers often find it hard to locate suitable reusable assets outside of their immediate workgroups.
Political impediments -- e.g., groups that develop reusable middleware platforms are often viewed with suspicion by application developers, who resent the fact that they may no longer be empowered to make key architectural decisions. Likewise, internecine rivalries among business units may stifle reuse of assests developed by other internal product groups, which are perceived as a threat to job security or corporate influence.
Psychological impediments -- e.g., application developers may also perceive ``top down'' reuse efforts as an indication that management lacks confidence in their technical abilities. In addition, the ``not invented here'' syndrome is ubiquitous in many organizations, particularly among highly talented programmers.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced an anti-phishing bill that proposed stiff penalties including up to 5 years in prison and fines as steep as $250,000. I wonder what happened to that ?
Mitral valve prolapse, fortunately, is not deadly. But the usual treatment always has the potential danger of valve infection. I hope the new technique will help prevent that problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Goo' ol' ASCII for text and figures.
I am willing to send my in-laws on this earth-saving mission. Thank you thank you ... it is all for the human kind.
Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet
Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet
EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month
Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax
EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US
U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet
Why Talk About Internet Governance?
Behind the Fight to Control the Internet
And I wonder if we didn't discuss it enough ?
Or may be Neil Diamond..
No reason to get into this addiction. Cigarettes in US are expensive and if you are chain smoker you will be pinching your wallet. Needless to say about the future medical costs. I wonder if insurance companies charge more for smokers as compared to non-smokers.
NY state law prohibits smoking inside any public building including bars/pubs. I second that law. Now if I they can make cigarette with mouth-freshners as well, it would be perfect.
TV Series: My favoorite: Yes Minister. It is worth having your own DVD and popping up an episode during dinner.
I hope they figure how to clean the lense when it snows in winter. I for one don't think shovel would be a good idea on those expensive lenses.
You cheated, there was no link in your post. I have been clicking on the post for last 10 min, nothing happened.
Ask Apple :)
Blue screen of death !! What can be more scary ?
*shrug*
The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. In one incarnation, each microcapsule contains positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in a clear fluid. When a negative electric field is applied, the white particles move to the top of the microcapsule where they become visible to the user. This makes the surface appear white at that spot. At the same time, an opposite electric field pulls the black particles to the bottom of the microcapsules where they are hidden. By reversing this process, the black particles appear at the top of the capsule, which now makes the surface appear dark at that spot. Pretty cool I should say.
One question though, if we remove the battery and hence the electric field - do particles move around again and we lose all the data ?
Amen !
One of the reason itunes has caught up because it is legal and I don't have to worry about RIAA knocking on my door. $1.99 is not too much for the shows I really like. Still better than buying the >$20 DVDs later. (yes I will be missing the special features etc) but $1.99 is still cheap.
Does anyone else find it ironic ? The contact email address is : roundcube@AJAXgmail.comREMOVEAJAX
Why can't microsoft have support for Blu-ray in Xbox 360 ? They can get the license etc (whatever the technical term is). Or the hardware is very complicated for that technology ?
And is it compliant with SQL92 ?
One of my friends boast that you can call your own C code within a SQL query and makes thing very efficient at times !
I will worry more about the drivers, especially for linux. Also ATI had some problems with supply of the chips in the last few quarters.
open Micro$oft Word and Powerpoint files ? And can it handle my 100 slide powerpoint file with zillions of pictures ? Will it handle complicated tables made by someone else in MS Office ? If not, why should I try this ? And is there any reason to believe that it will have more features than a full Staroffice installed on the desktop itself ?
People tend to understimate the value of technical support. I think it is decent answer to (in perspective of new business model) : How do you make money on something that is developed and distributed for free?
Organizational impediments -- e.g., developing, deploying, and supporting systematically reusable software assets requires a deep understanding of application developer needs and business requirements. As the number of developers and projects employing reusable assets increases, it becomes hard to structure an organization to provide effective feedback loops between these constituencies.
Economic impediments -- e.g., supporting corporate-wide reusable assets requires an economic investment, particularly if reuse groups operate as cost-centers. Many organizations find it hard to institute appropriate taxation or charge-back schemes to fund their reuse groups.
Administrative impediments -- e.g., it's hard to catalog, archive, and retrieve reusable assests across multiple business units within large organizations. Although it's common to scavenge small classes or functions opportunistically from existing programs, developers often find it hard to locate suitable reusable assets outside of their immediate workgroups.
Political impediments -- e.g., groups that develop reusable middleware platforms are often viewed with suspicion by application developers, who resent the fact that they may no longer be empowered to make key architectural decisions. Likewise, internecine rivalries among business units may stifle reuse of assests developed by other internal product groups, which are perceived as a threat to job security or corporate influence.
Psychological impediments -- e.g., application developers may also perceive ``top down'' reuse efforts as an indication that management lacks confidence in their technical abilities. In addition, the ``not invented here'' syndrome is ubiquitous in many organizations, particularly among highly talented programmers.
That was for Kansas: Butler Community College, Cowley County Community College, Hutchinson Community College and Wichita Area Technical College.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced an anti-phishing bill that proposed stiff penalties including up to 5 years in prison and fines as steep as $250,000. I wonder what happened to that ?
Please note that movie is released under Creative Commons license. I wonder if they will release it in US ? May be not. different copyright laws etc
Mitral valve prolapse, fortunately, is not deadly. But the usual treatment always has the potential danger of valve infection. I hope the new technique will help prevent that problem.