But wouldn't it be pretty good to have a system, even one that requires periodic replacement, but which runs between replacements on nothing but water? And which has no local emissions? Isn't that, at least potentially, a phenomenally good thing?
My wife and I (47 and 41, respectively) skip all the ads. Our sons (8 and 5) watch the ads.
Forgive me if this is obvious, but the bulk of ads are targeted at kids. So it makes sense that kids will watch them.
I bought a ReplayTV in 1999 and the "skip forward 30 seconds" button wore out on two different remotes. It was by far the most often pressed button. Then we switched to cable (from DirecTV) and got a "Moxi" box with built-in DVR, and lo and behold it had a 30-second skip button.
Finally it died and Time-Warner replaced it with a Motorola box with no skip. Sad day here in the household. Unfortunately the comparably equipped (i.e. HD0 Tivo was much more expensive.
I remember reading a year or so ago -- it was probably two or three by now -- that some company had a scratch-proof coating that was going to revolutionize everything. The company gave the person who wrote the article a CD coated with the stuff and and he rubbed it with a pad of steel wool for several minutes, which produced no damage.
Where the hell is this? Supposedly it was just a couple of months away. My Netflix account would be a lot more valuable if I never got a scratched disc again. And if my iPhone had this over the screen that would be pretty dandy.
I believe there are options like what you describe at http://www.itsyourturn.com/. I can't access the site right now (school firewall) but I'm pretty sure there's a version where you arrange your pieces before the game.
I have no connection with the site, which has both free and subscriber modes. But if you like playing chess (and/or other games) it's definitely worth checking out.
A few years ago I researched and wrote some articles for a diet-program company's web site. One thing that stood out to me was that all calories are not made equal. If you eat 100 calories of fat, it only takes your body 3 calories to process and store those 100 calories. If you eat 100 calories of complex carbohydrates, it takes your body 23 calories to process the food. So the fat will make you fatter than the complex carbos.
Technically, the basic principle of calories in - calories consumed still applies, but some foods affect both sides of the equation.
I was at Costco in Canoga Park, California (West Valley) and saw the new Sony 505 for $250, which includes a $50 certificate for electronic books. I didn't have time to find out more, but anyone considering buying an ebook reader might want to check this out.
I'll be getting an e-paper reader for my wife for Christmas this year. She reads a lot of classic books and online (free) fiction, so the current Sony product, or ideally something even better and cheaper, will be great for her.
What I don't understand is why more models don't support html. I mean, pdf, txt, and rtf are all fine. But it seems pretty clear that the best format for an ereader is one that will automatically adapt to the different sizes/resolutions of the device. Isn't html the best possible format for this?
I remember way back circa 1982, when I bought my first CD player, some audiophile magazine did a test in which they had members of an audiophile club (or some such) listen to four different samples (two different kinds of music and two test signals) on different CD players. It was a double-blind A-B-X comparison test, so it wasn't designed to determine which sounded better, just to see if people could tell them apart.
The result was that for music, no audiophile could tell the difference between the cheapest (around $200) player and the most expensive, a $1,100 model. Forget which one was better -- no one could tell the difference.
I believe that the original model for lightsaber fighting was Kendo, which is very different from saber, epee, or foil fencing. I remember reading about Mark Hamill taking Kendo training, and I seem to recall there was a Kendo consultant for the fight scenes.
When they call and ask if you are interested, say "Yes, just hold on a sec." Then put the phone down on your desk -- not on hold.
Go back to work.
After a minute or so, pick up the phone and say "still there?" When they say yes, say "One more sec," and put the phone back down. This time, wait two minutes.
Repeat ad infinitum, each time extending the duration of each wait.
This works because it takes very little of your time, and wastes very much of theirs. When the person eventually hangs up, wait until they call back and harrangue them briefly for hanging up on you. Tell them you're not interested in working with someone who hangs up on you. Then leave them even longer.
I read all the conspiracy books about 20 years ago, and the piece of evidence that most rules out the Oswald-only theory is that Kennedy was shot in the neck from the front. The emergency room doctor at the hospital reported that kennedy had an entrance wound in his neck, which the Dr. then cut through to perform a tracheotemy. This doctor, I recall, is the only person to examine Kennedy's body who had any real world experience dealing with gunshot wounds.
[p]No evidence stronger than this, on either side, was presented at any point in the entire investigation.
If you turn your monitor on and don't see and image, the monitor's "On" LED will help you determine if the device is getting power. Not all indicator lights have something to indicate all the time.
What does this say about CPR in general?
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I took CPR last summer as part of the process of getting my teaching credential with the Los Angeles Unified School District (so a pretty standard course). The instructor mentioned that the breathing was increasingly deemphasized, and that she expected that soon she would be teaching chest compressions only. I believe she mentioned that some municipality in Washington -- I forget if it was the state or a specific city/county -- changed their official taught-to-laypersons protocol to compressions only.
With this article, it seems believable that some day you won't bother with CPR at all. If cell death doesn't occur for hours, would there still be a benefit?
I recently had to replace the battery in my iPod (20 GB iPod w/click wheel). It cost $70, which is about what I had expected. What I didn't expect is that instead of replacing the battery, they gave my an entirely new iPod (the same model, but still), with a 90-day warranty. The scratches on my screen are gone, the click wheel feels nicer, and the drive has many hundreds of hours less use on it.
I had no idea this was the standard iPod battery replacement policy. It certainly makes the cost of the replacement much easier to pay.
Canada's cinema could certainly benefit from market controls today, but implementing them would be political suicide for any who dared. The U.S. would cry foul over protectionism and Canadians used to american films would be very peeved about not being able to get their fix. However, if the kind americans were to do this for us... Could you sell Canada on a dime a ticket tax on all movie tickets, with the proceeds going to support the Canadian Film Industry? The US wouldn't complain that much, as it wouldn't cut into our end appreciably. You sound like you know something about the Canadian movie business: how much would a dime a ticket tax yield?
I was just thinking about this recently. I hope some/.ers can tell me how feasible it is.
Background: I have 2 accounts: my own domain (primary) and my isp account.
I'd like to set up the followng for my own domain: I maintain a whitelist, any email from someone on the list goes right through. Everything else is bounced with a message explaining about the whitelist and asking them to email me on my isp account -- or contact me some other way -- to have me add them to my whitelist.
Unless I'm missing something, this will eliminate 100% of spam from my primary account. It shouldn't affect spam to my isp account, because that address is already on the web. All in all, this seems like a very simple and extremely effective solution.
The downside is that it will make it a little harder for people who aren't already on my whitelist to contact me. I'm trying to think how many times I received a message I care at all about from someone who isn't already in my address book, and I'm not sure it has happened in at least a year. Most such people -- for example, someone who reads a post of mine on a forum -- already contact me through my isp address.
If there's a downside I'm not seeing (aside from "Whitelists suck":-), I'd like to hear about it.
Mostly I'd like to know if there's a domain host who can make this happen. My current provider (domain direct) already has a whitelist option, but not a user-configurable autoreply to non-whitelist messages, which is important to my comfort with this plan. If anyone knows a domain host who can do this, I'd appreciate posting it, or email me at pjmccabe@adelphia.net.
Alternately, is this something I can set up reasonably easily on my Mac running OS X 10.4? I know mail has filtering and autoreply features, and I was a programmer about 20 years ago, so a roll-your-own solution is not out of the question. But I'd rather my ISP do it.
iPhone is a terrible name anyway -- it's way too limiting. The iPod is not called the iMP3player. To call this new device (full disclosure: I think it's cool) anything that limits your cognitive map to the "phone" meme is a big loss in the long run.
Apple does not want to win any share of the phone market. They want to own the new market for handheld computers, which they are have been creating since 1993. Everyone has said for years that this will be the Next Big Thing whenever someone can get it right. Apple has a pretty good reputation in being the company that finally gets it right.
The best move from a brand identity perspective is to just call it the iPod Phone. Apple already owns the iPod market, so their best strategy is to grow that market, at the expense of the phone market.
Besides, everyone will call it the iPhone anyway.
Actually, the best name might just be -- iPod Communicator, for the Trek reference. I expect big business in a ringtone that make it play the communicator beepsound every time you turn it on.
I had a similar problem with my Mac (back in OX 8.6 days). The machine would boot up, and freeze after about 15 seconds. If I started working, it would run a minute or two before freezing.
Turns out there was a bad print file. The machine would boot, and when it went to retry printing the file, it would freeze. But if I was working, it would take Desktop Print Monitor that much longer to start up. That was a hell of a problem to debug because it always froze while I was doing something different.
Costco sells a 2-pack of hand-crank lights for $20. A minute of cranking gets you 5-10 minutes of (gradually fading) light. Especially great for kids, who love flashlights but are always leaving them on.
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But wouldn't it be pretty good to have a system, even one that requires periodic replacement, but which runs between replacements on nothing but water? And which has no local emissions? Isn't that, at least potentially, a phenomenally good thing?
Forgive me if this is obvious, but the bulk of ads are targeted at kids. So it makes sense that kids will watch them.
I bought a ReplayTV in 1999 and the "skip forward 30 seconds" button wore out on two different remotes. It was by far the most often pressed button. Then we switched to cable (from DirecTV) and got a "Moxi" box with built-in DVR, and lo and behold it had a 30-second skip button.
Finally it died and Time-Warner replaced it with a Motorola box with no skip. Sad day here in the household. Unfortunately the comparably equipped (i.e. HD0 Tivo was much more expensive.
1. Jump starting your pickup truck from outer space
2. Lighting your girlfriend's cigarette with lasers from orbiting space stations
If you're under 18, you get a Junior Internet license. You can only surf until 9pm.
Where the hell is this? Supposedly it was just a couple of months away. My Netflix account would be a lot more valuable if I never got a scratched disc again. And if my iPhone had this over the screen that would be pretty dandy.
Four minutes in, it's already Slashdotted. Too bad because I am going to get an iPhone in about three hours.
I have no connection with the site, which has both free and subscriber modes. But if you like playing chess (and/or other games) it's definitely worth checking out.
Technically, the basic principle of calories in - calories consumed still applies, but some foods affect both sides of the equation.
I was at Costco in Canoga Park, California (West Valley) and saw the new Sony 505 for $250, which includes a $50 certificate for electronic books. I didn't have time to find out more, but anyone considering buying an ebook reader might want to check this out.
What I don't understand is why more models don't support html. I mean, pdf, txt, and rtf are all fine. But it seems pretty clear that the best format for an ereader is one that will automatically adapt to the different sizes/resolutions of the device. Isn't html the best possible format for this?
Why don't all the ereaders support html?
I remember way back circa 1982, when I bought my first CD player, some audiophile magazine did a test in which they had members of an audiophile club (or some such) listen to four different samples (two different kinds of music and two test signals) on different CD players. It was a double-blind A-B-X comparison test, so it wasn't designed to determine which sounded better, just to see if people could tell them apart. The result was that for music, no audiophile could tell the difference between the cheapest (around $200) player and the most expensive, a $1,100 model. Forget which one was better -- no one could tell the difference.
I believe that the original model for lightsaber fighting was Kendo, which is very different from saber, epee, or foil fencing. I remember reading about Mark Hamill taking Kendo training, and I seem to recall there was a Kendo consultant for the fight scenes.
No offense, but if you have to add up your "how much" field, you may want to get a new spreadsheet.
Go back to work.
After a minute or so, pick up the phone and say "still there?" When they say yes, say "One more sec," and put the phone back down. This time, wait two minutes.
Repeat ad infinitum, each time extending the duration of each wait.
This works because it takes very little of your time, and wastes very much of theirs. When the person eventually hangs up, wait until they call back and harrangue them briefly for hanging up on you. Tell them you're not interested in working with someone who hangs up on you. Then leave them even longer.
I read all the conspiracy books about 20 years ago, and the piece of evidence that most rules out the Oswald-only theory is that Kennedy was shot in the neck from the front. The emergency room doctor at the hospital reported that kennedy had an entrance wound in his neck, which the Dr. then cut through to perform a tracheotemy. This doctor, I recall, is the only person to examine Kennedy's body who had any real world experience dealing with gunshot wounds. [p]No evidence stronger than this, on either side, was presented at any point in the entire investigation.
If you turn your monitor on and don't see and image, the monitor's "On" LED will help you determine if the device is getting power. Not all indicator lights have something to indicate all the time.
With this article, it seems believable that some day you won't bother with CPR at all. If cell death doesn't occur for hours, would there still be a benefit?
I recently had to replace the battery in my iPod (20 GB iPod w/click wheel). It cost $70, which is about what I had expected. What I didn't expect is that instead of replacing the battery, they gave my an entirely new iPod (the same model, but still), with a 90-day warranty. The scratches on my screen are gone, the click wheel feels nicer, and the drive has many hundreds of hours less use on it.
I had no idea this was the standard iPod battery replacement policy. It certainly makes the cost of the replacement much easier to pay.
Or you could just buy a spare battery and switch them. Takes about 4 seconds.
I believe your sig (re: Caw) is a Jack Handy line, if you're interested.
Background: I have 2 accounts: my own domain (primary) and my isp account.
I'd like to set up the followng for my own domain: I maintain a whitelist, any email from someone on the list goes right through. Everything else is bounced with a message explaining about the whitelist and asking them to email me on my isp account -- or contact me some other way -- to have me add them to my whitelist.
Unless I'm missing something, this will eliminate 100% of spam from my primary account. It shouldn't affect spam to my isp account, because that address is already on the web. All in all, this seems like a very simple and extremely effective solution.
The downside is that it will make it a little harder for people who aren't already on my whitelist to contact me. I'm trying to think how many times I received a message I care at all about from someone who isn't already in my address book, and I'm not sure it has happened in at least a year. Most such people -- for example, someone who reads a post of mine on a forum -- already contact me through my isp address.
If there's a downside I'm not seeing (aside from "Whitelists suck" :-), I'd like to hear about it.
Mostly I'd like to know if there's a domain host who can make this happen. My current provider (domain direct) already has a whitelist option, but not a user-configurable autoreply to non-whitelist messages, which is important to my comfort with this plan. If anyone knows a domain host who can do this, I'd appreciate posting it, or email me at pjmccabe@adelphia.net.
Alternately, is this something I can set up reasonably easily on my Mac running OS X 10.4? I know mail has filtering and autoreply features, and I was a programmer about 20 years ago, so a roll-your-own solution is not out of the question. But I'd rather my ISP do it.
iPhone is a terrible name anyway -- it's way too limiting. The iPod is not called the iMP3player. To call this new device (full disclosure: I think it's cool) anything that limits your cognitive map to the "phone" meme is a big loss in the long run.
Apple does not want to win any share of the phone market. They want to own the new market for handheld computers, which they are have been creating since 1993. Everyone has said for years that this will be the Next Big Thing whenever someone can get it right. Apple has a pretty good reputation in being the company that finally gets it right.
The best move from a brand identity perspective is to just call it the iPod Phone. Apple already owns the iPod market, so their best strategy is to grow that market, at the expense of the phone market.
Besides, everyone will call it the iPhone anyway.
Actually, the best name might just be -- iPod Communicator, for the Trek reference. I expect big business in a ringtone that make it play the communicator beepsound every time you turn it on.
Turns out there was a bad print file. The machine would boot, and when it went to retry printing the file, it would freeze. But if I was working, it would take Desktop Print Monitor that much longer to start up. That was a hell of a problem to debug because it always froze while I was doing something different.
Costco sells a 2-pack of hand-crank lights for $20. A minute of cranking gets you 5-10 minutes of (gradually fading) light. Especially great for kids, who love flashlights but are always leaving them on.