It's a simple science experiment, and worthwhile to experience at least once. You are surprisingly buoyant in the dense water, compared to fresh water or ocean swimming.
Don't forget that there are some independently produced audio productions that are just as engaging and high quality as your TV shows. Here are some that you may find worthwhile to download:
Clusty hasn't completely faded from memory. I still use it all the time at search.yippy.com - I still find the search clusters very handy for quickly focusing my searches to get to the useful stuff.
OISM's main claim to fame -- in 1998, it circulated a "scientists' petition" on global warming in collaboration with Frederick Seitz, a retired former president of the National Academy of Sciences. Since been dubbed the "Oregon Petition" -- started in paper form (mailed out, with essay dressed up as if it were a published NAS journal paper). The pseudopaper contained lots of editorializing, and purportedly showed that higher atmospheric CO2 levels would act as a fertilizer, encouraging plant growth.
After NAS complained, the petition was put online, and eventually gathered nearly 20,000 signatures. The names on the petition aren't really screened, though, so all sorts of non-scientists have signed (and even the names of some characters in TV sitcoms).
It is such an old school business attitude... The phone companies need to realize that the days of monopoly are over... The gig is up, the cat is out of the bag... etc... VoIP works great... Vonage is so simple to use... someone's grandparents could use it...
Your gratuitous use of ellipses... reads like a disjointed brainstorming session... makes me wonder... do you ever preview your posts?...
I grew up not too far from the Navajo Nation in Arizona, and about 25% of the student body at my High School was Navajo. But I only learned three words in Navajo: "Diné" (Navajo for "Navajo" or "the people"), "Ya`aa`tee" ("greetings"), and a word that's not appropriate in polite company, which sounds a lot like the English word for a mighty tree grown from an acorn.
And yet I am fluent in Portuguese (or at least was; I'm a little out of practice). So geographical proximity doesn't explain everything.
I suspect the reason for the Daleks being booted out is simple - money. Hancock have been well known, allegedly, for demanding huge pots of money for the use of the Daleks.
Here's how I remember my mindset as a "little coder" playing with Apple IIs, Atari 800s, etc.:
What novelty can I coax out of this 8-bit machine? I see my "little coder" peers do stuff with their computers that make me say, "wow, that's neat! Show me how you did that!" What can I code that'll make my peers say the same about my work? (That motivated me to write a small turn-based wargame on a 40x24 text-screen.)
The mindset was the same when I became a "not-as-little coder" with an HP48 graphing calculator for Calculus class: What novel use can I coax out of this 4-bit machine? I see my classmates do things with their calculators that make me say, "wow, that's neat! Show me how you did that!" How can I get the same reaction from them? (That motivated me to write "simulate two sound pitches out of one speaker" code in 4-bit Saturn assembler, so that my calculator could
sing a Christmas carol in two-part harmony.)
Unfortunately, my mindset is considered threatening by software and hardware vendors. I find a way to make their product do things that the designers and engineers never intended or even dreamed of. In people like me, that mindset is called creativity, but for a few, it's instead called vandalism. Viruses and similar horrors are unleashed, for no other reason than the desire to hear or imagine a peer saying "Wow, show me how you did that!" Then the big vendor is publically scorned as a company that makes insecure products, instead of heralded as a company that fosters creativity in their customers. The "big vendors" predicament is the complement of the "little coder's" predicament. The bad apples motivate an electronic gadget or software company to:
"lock down" their products, make them only minimally customizable, or
raise the barrier to entry for "little coders" by omitting, hiding, or underdocumenting the scripting or programming tools in their products.
You see, end-user creativity and freedom to tinker are security risks.
> You could change the port that your p2p client uses. > That would allow you to circumvent their packet > shaper for some time...
Sorry, the engineers at Packeteer already thought of that. The PacketShaper does its best to recognize P2P protocols at the application layer, so it doesn't matter what port is used for the P2P traffic.
Astronomers use Unimogs, too!
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During the snowy winter months, Unimogs are just about the only way for researchers and astronomers to access the Meyer-Womble Observatory atop Mount Evans, Colorado. 14,148 feet above sea level.
An image of the Halloween '99 DU Astronomy Unimog expedition is here.
This is old. More than one hundred years ago, A. Square wrote about isosceles triangular soldiers in Flatland; they could make other polygons dead too.
I for one expect use of IIS to drop as a consequence of the Code Red...
Well, we can just have a look
at http://netcraft.com/survey/ over the next few months to see if you are right. But that isn't the current trend. I for one wonder whether customers of Netcraft's security services are getting their money's worth.
The Book of Mormon has a few passages about an actual moral
compass called Liahona, used by a couple of Israelite families about 600 B.C. That's pretty old prior art.
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Take, for instance, the currently fashionable idea of 'investing' social security taxes in the stock market. If the people advocating that came right out and said they wanted to nationalise U.S. businesses -- bring them under direct government control -- the citizens would balk. But by "investing the funds for our retirement" for us, it's okay. The end result is the same though: government ownsership of business. If they just nationalize, it's simply a faster way of doing it than by taxing the citizens and businesses, and then using the money to buy the stock of those businesses. Either way, the government will eventually end up with a controlling share of U.S. businesses.
This argument is based on the false premise that the government "owns" the Social Security tax funds, and therefore would "own" equities purchased with those funds.
They government does not "own" any of the money in the Social Security trust fund. We taxpayers earned that money, and it's we taxpayers that own it. We are the ones responsible for electing people who serve as custodians for that Social Security "trust fund." Unfortunately, there were and are too many elected officials who have assumed the same false premise (that the money belongs to the government rather than to those that earned it), and have often squandered that money the taxpayers entrusted to them.
Since we taxpayers have been unable to elect trustworthy representatives, senators, and presidents to responsibly manage our Social Security trust fund, it's been proposed that we have the option and accompanying responsibility to direct how at least a portion of our Social Security taxes are invested.
Equity shares purchased by a taxpayer using Social Security tax money would be the taxpayer's property, not the government's. Perhaps the government would have power to limit how the taxpayer can use or dispose of that property (no shares redeemed until the taxpayer starts collecting social security payments), but the government does not and would not own those shares.
Has anyone else noticed the "Talkback" comment list at the bottom of Bob Young's column? I notice that the comments with an anti-open-source slant seem clustered toward the top (especially the first six), and those comments expressing approval of Mr. Young's arguments don't appear until later (the seventh comment is sympathetic, but unfortunately is punctuated with a childish "First Post?")
Does anyone know what algorithm determines the order in which ZDnet's "talkback" comments appear? (I don't have proof that anti-open-source commenters get better "ZDnet karma," but I do find it entertaining to harbor such suspicions... )
I want to get rid of "My Sidebar;" it's taking up valuable screen real-estate with blighted tabs labeled "CNN.com," "Buddy List," "What's Related," etc. But I can't get rid of it.
When I mouse over a link, I want to see the URL behind that link appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen, so I can be better informed about where it'll go if I click. But that doesn't happen, and I can't figure out how to get that functionality back.
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It's a simple science experiment, and worthwhile to experience at least once. You are surprisingly buoyant in the dense water, compared to fresh water or ocean swimming.
Don't forget that there are some independently produced audio productions that are just as engaging and high quality as your TV shows. Here are some that you may find worthwhile to download:
Wormwood
We're Alive
Leviathan Chronicles
Clusty hasn't completely faded from memory. I still use it all the time at search.yippy.com - I still find the search clusters very handy for quickly focusing my searches to get to the useful stuff.
Require that the president be elected by unanimous vote, and keep redoing the balloting until a candidate achieves unanimity.
This is easily as doable as the scheme the Stanford professor extolls, isn't it?
Hopefully, Ender's Game won't get shafted too badly in the screenplay.
I grew up not too far from the Navajo Nation in Arizona, and about 25% of the student body at my High School was Navajo. But I only learned three words in Navajo: "Diné" (Navajo for "Navajo" or "the people"), "Ya`aa`tee" ("greetings"), and a word that's not appropriate in polite company, which sounds a lot like the English word for a mighty tree grown from an acorn. And yet I am fluent in Portuguese (or at least was; I'm a little out of practice). So geographical proximity doesn't explain everything.
Here's how I remember my mindset as a "little coder" playing with Apple IIs, Atari 800s, etc.: What novelty can I coax out of this 8-bit machine? I see my "little coder" peers do stuff with their computers that make me say, "wow, that's neat! Show me how you did that!" What can I code that'll make my peers say the same about my work? (That motivated me to write a small turn-based wargame on a 40x24 text-screen.)
The mindset was the same when I became a "not-as-little coder" with an HP48 graphing calculator for Calculus class: What novel use can I coax out of this 4-bit machine? I see my classmates do things with their calculators that make me say, "wow, that's neat! Show me how you did that!" How can I get the same reaction from them? (That motivated me to write "simulate two sound pitches out of one speaker" code in 4-bit Saturn assembler, so that my calculator could sing a Christmas carol in two-part harmony.)
Unfortunately, my mindset is considered threatening by software and hardware vendors. I find a way to make their product do things that the designers and engineers never intended or even dreamed of. In people like me, that mindset is called creativity, but for a few, it's instead called vandalism. Viruses and similar horrors are unleashed, for no other reason than the desire to hear or imagine a peer saying "Wow, show me how you did that!" Then the big vendor is publically scorned as a company that makes insecure products, instead of heralded as a company that fosters creativity in their customers. The "big vendors" predicament is the complement of the "little coder's" predicament. The bad apples motivate an electronic gadget or software company to:
You see, end-user creativity and freedom to tinker are security risks.
> You could change the port that your p2p client uses.
> That would allow you to circumvent their packet
> shaper for some time...
Sorry, the engineers at Packeteer already thought of that. The PacketShaper does its best to recognize P2P protocols at the application layer, so it doesn't matter what port is used for the P2P traffic.
Days of SysAdmin numbered? Now you tell me, just after renewed my subscription!
Did this remind anyone else of the genius ghetto children in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow?
I sent a note to the webmaster at one of his web sites asking for his comments. This struck me as a delighful case of life imitating art.
Wide Open West was doing a site survey near my home recently, to set up this kind of fiber-obtic infrastructure.
They have a FAQ at http://www.wideopenwest.com/00_frame_aboutus.html
During the snowy winter months, Unimogs are just about the only way for researchers and astronomers to access the Meyer-Womble Observatory atop Mount Evans, Colorado. 14,148 feet above sea level.
An image of the Halloween '99 DU Astronomy Unimog expedition is here.
This is old. More than one hundred years ago, A. Square wrote about isosceles triangular soldiers in Flatland; they could make other polygons dead too.
ABC radio said it's a car bomb at the State Department.
The Book of Mormon has a few passages about an actual moral compass called Liahona, used by a couple of Israelite families about 600 B.C. That's pretty old prior art.
You forgot:
s/Satelite/Satellite/
This argument is based on the false premise that the government "owns" the Social Security tax funds, and therefore would "own" equities purchased with those funds.
They government does not "own" any of the money in the Social Security trust fund. We taxpayers earned that money, and it's we taxpayers that own it. We are the ones responsible for electing people who serve as custodians for that Social Security "trust fund." Unfortunately, there were and are too many elected officials who have assumed the same false premise (that the money belongs to the government rather than to those that earned it), and have often squandered that money the taxpayers entrusted to them.
Since we taxpayers have been unable to elect trustworthy representatives, senators, and presidents to responsibly manage our Social Security trust fund, it's been proposed that we have the option and accompanying responsibility to direct how at least a portion of our Social Security taxes are invested.
Equity shares purchased by a taxpayer using Social Security tax money would be the taxpayer's property, not the government's. Perhaps the government would have power to limit how the taxpayer can use or dispose of that property (no shares redeemed until the taxpayer starts collecting social security payments), but the government does not and would not own those shares.
Has anyone else noticed the "Talkback" comment list at the bottom of Bob Young's column? I notice that the comments with an anti-open-source slant seem clustered toward the top (especially the first six), and those comments expressing approval of Mr. Young's arguments don't appear
until later (the seventh comment is sympathetic, but unfortunately is punctuated with a childish "First Post?")
Does anyone know what algorithm determines the order in which ZDnet's "talkback" comments appear? (I don't have proof that anti-open-source commenters get better "ZDnet karma," but I do find it entertaining to harbor such suspicions... )
I want to get rid of "My Sidebar;" it's taking up valuable screen real-estate with blighted tabs labeled "CNN.com," "Buddy List," "What's Related," etc. But I can't get rid of it.
When I mouse over a link, I want to see the URL behind that link appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen, so I can be better informed about where it'll go if I click. But that doesn't happen, and I can't figure out how to get that functionality back.