Good point...most does go to fatten cows, and even the human food stream is primarily high fructose corn syrup. Corn on the cob on the kitchen table probably accounts for.001%.
The corn farmers are going to be upset by this but once again research shows that Ethanol made from corn is not an energy efficient way to create fuel. It's time to stop the ethanol subsidies and start spending money on energy sources with real potential. That way corn will now go back into the food stream, and farmers will also start growing hops again rather than switching to corn to make more money.
Pardon? I'm not sure what you're saying. You do know that shareware demos have been around for decades, right?
Yes. Many, many shareware purchases over the years starting with the old BBS software I ran. One of my passwords is actually my old Forsberg Zmodem registration key.
I think that the "demo" versions on websites and on Xbox 360 really owe quite a bit to the shareware tradition. The difference is that you don't get a full version without paying, but you do get some free enjoyment if you just play the demo.
True. Knights of the Old Republic was a great game. The sequel was equal or better in quality, but the ending was a huge disappointment. You don't discover that until you play through the entire game.
So sometimes you need to make a judgment call based on the demo. It's far better than basing your decision on a video at Amazon or the game designer web site. So, we've made some advances.:)
It's an XBox 360 game which means you can likely download a demo version for free via Xbox Live. That should be enough for someone to try out the game and decide if it's worth purchasing.
I never saw the coverage, just read the reports as well as heard the first-hand story from my brother. He was held in that same building, formerly used for auto repair and storage I believe so lots of chemicals and generally filthy.
I wonder how many homes in the area are well stocked with guns and ammunition and yet the police aren't raiding those buildings. Oh right, the Constitution doesn't give people the right to possess urine.
I don't kid myself that these people were likely planning to disrupt the convention, but I think the laws banning "riot planning" tread dangerously close to violating the right to assemble and the right to speak freely. Democracy is challenging, fascism is easy (for the police).
This happened in NY City in 2004 during the Republican Convention although the police waited until the convention had started. My brother was one of the thousands swept up in the sweeps the police did to clear protesters from the street. His lawsuit is still pending, most likely he will wind up with a nice settlement, but the goal was to get these "troublemakers" off the street and that was accomplished. The same marching orders are likely in effect for the Republican Convention this year, and by the time the lawsuits are settled in four years the next election will be on the horizon. Kind of depressing that the police can get away with this bs.
I run a relatively small (2,000 subscribers) email discussion list for hardware store owners. I'm signed up as a mailing list provider with AOL's mail system, and I receive notifications when subscribers submit my list messages as spam. Apparently AOL's DELETE and REPORT AS SPAM buttons are relatively close together, though I can't verify this. I do know that I get notifications from AOL that a user has reported a message as spam, and when I contact the user they tell me it was a mistake and they didn't realize they had reported the message as spam.
My guess is that you have to reach a fairly high "critical mass" of spam reports before AOL will actually take action and block list messages. I've never had my list blocked by AOL (or Yahoo for that matter) so the occasional erroneous report doesn't seem to have much effect.
I wonder if Yahoo has a similar program for mailing list admins?
So on $400 an $11 markup is gouging? I want to shop where YOU shop.
Profit is different than Markup or Gross Margin. An item that costs.50 and retails for a dollar has a.50 markup and generates 50% gross margin when sold. However, that.50 margin then needs to pay rent, salary, and other expenses. When all expenses are paid the money that remains is Profit and gets distributed to stockholders, reinvested, etc.
Citibank switched to 4 digit PIN's a few years ago and truncated the extra characters in their system. Customers can still enter more than four digit PIN's but the ATM only uses the first four digits you key in.
True. I was really responding to the "Insightful" comment about the bandwidth requirements and how home users would not have the download capacity without an OC3. I don't know what the max Optimum or cable bandwidth is, but FIOS would not even groan at 1.5TB per day coming down the pipe.
Where to store all that alt.* goodness is a whole 'nother problem, and I certainly don't want to cool that rack of gear.:)
Tough to tell if that will work or not. Sometimes kids avoid what their parents are passionate about. I know this definitely happened with music.
My daughter liked K'Nex and Lego, so I bought Mindstorms and she loved it. However, I let her work on it herself and only jumped in when she needed help. This year she designed a robot for a competition and asked for some help. I own a hardware store and I'm pretty handy with tools and building "stuff" and we actually put together a cool robot. Came in sixth out of ten, but she did most of the design and testing with me helping with the construction (especially the cutting and drilling).
I was so annoyed when the Apple ITunes updater started prompting to install Safari on all our home PC's. My daughter wound up installing it on one PC as she assumed it was a component for ITunes. Can't Apple understand that we just want ITunes and not all their other software?
They pulled the same stunt with Quicktime for a while. If you wanted to update Quicktime you had to also install ITunes. Between Apple, Real, Yahoo, and MS I'm constantly being prompted to associate music/video/media files with whatever program I happen to have just started up.
BTW, it's Firefox for me. Sorry Apple and MS.
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And it's not exactly a busy news and discussion weekend. Here in the states it's a long holiday weekend so this post is the equivalent of hot dogs on the grill. Not very good for you, but it's a holiday so chill out and enjoy the days off.
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Every month or two I make it a point to send a few long emails encrypted with PGP and with suggestive subject lines like "Schematics for trigger device" and "The Revolution Starts Now" to my Gmail or Hotmail account. The message content is just pasted Chuck Norris jokes, so if someone decides to spend some time and energy breaking the encryption at least they'll have something to read.
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Good point...most does go to fatten cows, and even the human food stream is primarily high fructose corn syrup. Corn on the cob on the kitchen table probably accounts for .001%.
The corn farmers are going to be upset by this but once again research shows that Ethanol made from corn is not an energy efficient way to create fuel. It's time to stop the ethanol subsidies and start spending money on energy sources with real potential. That way corn will now go back into the food stream, and farmers will also start growing hops again rather than switching to corn to make more money.
Sincerely,
Home Brewer who misses his hops
1982 - First Blood
1985 - Rambo: First Blood II (ok, that seems correct)
1988 - Rambo III (what happened to Rambo II)
2008 - Rambo (alright, now you're just messing with us!)
Pardon? I'm not sure what you're saying.
You do know that shareware demos have been around for decades, right?
Yes. Many, many shareware purchases over the years starting with the old BBS software I ran. One of my passwords is actually my old Forsberg Zmodem registration key.
I think that the "demo" versions on websites and on Xbox 360 really owe quite a bit to the shareware tradition. The difference is that you don't get a full version without paying, but you do get some free enjoyment if you just play the demo.
True. Knights of the Old Republic was a great game. The sequel was equal or better in quality, but the ending was a huge disappointment. You don't discover that until you play through the entire game.
So sometimes you need to make a judgment call based on the demo. It's far better than basing your decision on a video at Amazon or the game designer web site. So, we've made some advances. :)
It's an XBox 360 game which means you can likely download a demo version for free via Xbox Live. That should be enough for someone to try out the game and decide if it's worth purchasing.
It's gonna have to be x86-compatible to run all those counterfeit copies of Windows.
I never saw the coverage, just read the reports as well as heard the first-hand story from my brother. He was held in that same building, formerly used for auto repair and storage I believe so lots of chemicals and generally filthy.
Someone please mod this anon post up. Lots of great info.
I wonder how many homes in the area are well stocked with guns and ammunition and yet the police aren't raiding those buildings. Oh right, the Constitution doesn't give people the right to possess urine.
I don't kid myself that these people were likely planning to disrupt the convention, but I think the laws banning "riot planning" tread dangerously close to violating the right to assemble and the right to speak freely. Democracy is challenging, fascism is easy (for the police).
This happened in NY City in 2004 during the Republican Convention although the police waited until the convention had started. My brother was one of the thousands swept up in the sweeps the police did to clear protesters from the street. His lawsuit is still pending, most likely he will wind up with a nice settlement, but the goal was to get these "troublemakers" off the street and that was accomplished. The same marching orders are likely in effect for the Republican Convention this year, and by the time the lawsuits are settled in four years the next election will be on the horizon. Kind of depressing that the police can get away with this bs.
I run a relatively small (2,000 subscribers) email discussion list for hardware store owners. I'm signed up as a mailing list provider with AOL's mail system, and I receive notifications when subscribers submit my list messages as spam. Apparently AOL's DELETE and REPORT AS SPAM buttons are relatively close together, though I can't verify this. I do know that I get notifications from AOL that a user has reported a message as spam, and when I contact the user they tell me it was a mistake and they didn't realize they had reported the message as spam.
My guess is that you have to reach a fairly high "critical mass" of spam reports before AOL will actually take action and block list messages. I've never had my list blocked by AOL (or Yahoo for that matter) so the occasional erroneous report doesn't seem to have much effect.
I wonder if Yahoo has a similar program for mailing list admins?
Exxon's projected profit: $11.68 billion
Exxon's 2007 revenue: $404.55 billion
So on $400 an $11 markup is gouging? I want to shop where YOU shop.
Profit is different than Markup or Gross Margin. An item that costs .50 and retails for a dollar has a .50 markup and generates 50% gross margin when sold. However, that .50 margin then needs to pay rent, salary, and other expenses. When all expenses are paid the money that remains is Profit and gets distributed to stockholders, reinvested, etc.
http://www.smarthome.com/31262.html
We also sell them in my hardware store but I don't want to link to my own site and crash the server. :)
They work great, just wear rain gear when standing underneath while using it.
Citibank switched to 4 digit PIN's a few years ago and truncated the extra characters in their system. Customers can still enter more than four digit PIN's but the ATM only uses the first four digits you key in.
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True. I was really responding to the "Insightful" comment about the bandwidth requirements and how home users would not have the download capacity without an OC3. I don't know what the max Optimum or cable bandwidth is, but FIOS would not even groan at 1.5TB per day coming down the pipe.
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Where to store all that alt.* goodness is a whole 'nother problem, and I certainly don't want to cool that rack of gear.
If you have Verizon FIOS you've got a pretty big pipe to the home server, pretty much like multiple T-1 lines.
Interesting that Blizzard would announce this so close to the release of World of World of Warcraft.
Tough to tell if that will work or not. Sometimes kids avoid what their parents are passionate about. I know this definitely happened with music.
My daughter liked K'Nex and Lego, so I bought Mindstorms and she loved it. However, I let her work on it herself and only jumped in when she needed help. This year she designed a robot for a competition and asked for some help. I own a hardware store and I'm pretty handy with tools and building "stuff" and we actually put together a cool robot. Came in sixth out of ten, but she did most of the design and testing with me helping with the construction (especially the cutting and drilling).
Nice post.
I was so annoyed when the Apple ITunes updater started prompting to install Safari on all our home PC's. My daughter wound up installing it on one PC as she assumed it was a component for ITunes. Can't Apple understand that we just want ITunes and not all their other software?
They pulled the same stunt with Quicktime for a while. If you wanted to update Quicktime you had to also install ITunes. Between Apple, Real, Yahoo, and MS I'm constantly being prompted to associate music/video/media files with whatever program I happen to have just started up.
BTW, it's Firefox for me. Sorry Apple and MS.
And it's not exactly a busy news and discussion weekend. Here in the states it's a long holiday weekend so this post is the equivalent of hot dogs on the grill. Not very good for you, but it's a holiday so chill out and enjoy the days off.
Impressive, now release your anger.
Every month or two I make it a point to send a few long emails encrypted with PGP and with suggestive subject lines like "Schematics for trigger device" and "The Revolution Starts Now" to my Gmail or Hotmail account. The message content is just pasted Chuck Norris jokes, so if someone decides to spend some time and energy breaking the encryption at least they'll have something to read.
Only until he learns the words.