actually, you can ride free to the Top of the Space Needle if you have a meal there. Your best bet is the lobster - sold at near cost - or the mixed drinks.
And you can pick up free WiFi from some nearby cafes while you're up there - or you could...
with a link to the Seattle P-I business section story.
Fact: It's $800 a month for wideband. Fact: You have to live in Paul Allen's turf - South Lake Union - to get this. Fact: We have wider bandwidth at the UW. Fact: You can get free WiFi at the Fremont Arts Council's Powerhouse, or just about anywhere in the Fremont or Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
Theres not much you can do to speed up 4MB DSL. This is really hurting my browsing performance.
Good point. Here at the UW we've got gigabit internet, so my guess is it would crawl if we used that, and probably similar results for people using Seattle's Speakeasy gigabit WiFi network.
6. What are Google Web Accelerator's system requirements?
To use Google Web Accelerator, your computer must have a Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ operating system. Google Web Accelerator works for the Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ browsers.
7. Can I run Google Web Accelerator on a browser other than Internet Explorer or Firefox?
For other browsers running on Windows, you'll need to manually configure your proxy settings to 127.0.0.1:9100 for HTTP connections.
Is this part of the Big Brother (TM) Google pack?
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Just wondering, because the privacy implications of prefetching your queries make my eyebrows rise...
The current administration is spending money at a rate that should make everyone in the country want to start burying cash in jam jars. The price of oil is rising and will continue to rise. Our current leadership, in both parties, forgets that oil will eventually run out and that unless we find alternative ways to fuel our vehicles, we'll pay the price in rampant inflation. Our SUV culture is already using more gasoline than can be refined. The rising cost of oil is causing inflation, which is logical since transportation is a significant cost for almost any business. The Fed is raising interest rates to try to slow inflation, but that won't work, because this isn't some emotional reaction, it's tied to an actual fundemental force in the economy, rising fuel prices. The rising interest rates are having an effect though, they are putting the brakes on what little economic recovery we were having.
Heck, that's why half my retirement is going into Euro stock funds. At least they don't overpay their CEOs....
The space elevators bring up the fuel mass (split by solar cells in orbit), the solar cells, and the supplies, which are then transferred from the space elevator orbital end to the space station (or the spacecraft going to Mars to find Oil).
But what will they do with the military space shuttle?
To think that this movie is somehow more violent than *this* planet is amusing. It is a restless day in which somebody is not blown to smithereens in Iraq yet I am supposed to feel outraged that the new Star Wars movie earned a pg-13 rating?
I'd say the Iraq war should be rated at least an R.
Wait till the sequel, the Fall of the Empire... that's rated NC-17...
Should be a Gungan kill-fest. Anakin and the clone warriors and the Sith go to Jar Jar's home planet and decimate the place. I'm talking light saber decapitations and gruesome disembowelments. I'm taking Gungans being gut shot and left to die in the hot sun by storm troopers, napalm being fired into Gungan villages from AT-AT walkers, Gungans being impaled on stakes, an imperial encampment surrounded by poles bearing Gungan heads. They finish things off by nuking the planet down to the bedrock, which explains why there are no Gungans in episodes 4, 5 and 6, the Sith the proto-Empire wiped them all out.
They're saving that for the animated series on Cartoon Network...
And then the madness really got underway. They started making costumes and wearing pointy ears. They wrote messages in Klingon, they wrote their own stories about the characters, filling in what was left out -- including, in one truly specialized subgenre, the "Kirk-Spock" stories in which their relationship was not as platonic and emotionless as the TV show depicted it.
As I recall, it didn't happen in that order. For one thing, I recall K-S fan fiction being written WAY before a friend of mine did that Klingon dictionary everyone was into, and the stories preceded the costumes.
But heck, it's not like I was Solei the Usurper back in the SEV days or anything... [grin]
Regardless, part of the problem has been when and where they showed the ST series - the time slots chosen aren't in weekday prime time - they're on weekends - yes, Friday night is part of the weekend - and unless you're late Friday night with a Monday night rebroadcast like BG is on SciFi, you miss all the people who actually have a life.
So on top of patrol tax, car tax, MOT, and all the other taxes associated with running a car, all road users now have to find a £300.00 MS tax also... (and it will still crash, as the per the joke).
Yeah, but it will have a Great Error Message and Clippy will pop and ask you if you really wanted him to go to.....
The future of cars according to Gates will involve high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions.
So, given their track record to date, the future of cars involves:
- high-definitionscreens that will suddenly stop working while you're driving - or have pop-up windows that distract you from the real road conditions: "Hi! I'm Marvin the Talking Android, here to Wow! you with our latest in People Pleasing Personalities! If you had me in your car, you wouldn't be about to hit that semi at... looks like 98 mph! Why not buy me now!"
- speech recognition technology that will help when your teen tapes your voice with his mini MP3/recorder and plays back "Stop Right Now!" while you're going 98 mph done the road being closely followed by a semi.
- cameras that will suddenly stop working so that you don't see the semi about to move into your blind spot because it pops up a "Time To Upgrade Your Camera Software!" message that obscures the semi because you're on a long road trip and don't have time to stop.
- digital calendars that will remind you while you're driving that your warranty has expired - which you will know, since the engine stopped working because someone forgot to reset the date function.
- navigation equipment with directions that tell you to drive into Puget Sound to go from your house to the house across the canal that just flooded but didn't update in the directions.
- road conditions that tell you that you should have just rode a bike to the gym or walked - it would have been faster and the exercise would have done you good anyway.
Wow! Brave New World!
And don't even get me started about the spam to fill your car with computer gadgets...
or what a Blue Screen of Death will become... a Red Screen of Messy Death.
Or at least it appears that the side suing doesn't know how to spell "business" in the first place, IMHO.
Next thing you know they'll claim the LGPL cures warts. It doesn't because everyone knows that LGPL is not Lettting Gullible Persons be held Liable for silly things...
Having AOL subscribers not get tornado/hurricane warnings while they're surfing the Net instead of looking out their window or listening to the radio seems to me to just be Darwinian action.
A way for the population to remove AOL subscribers from the gene pool, if you will.
Nature is a harsh mistress and hogs the bedcovers - plus she's got global warming... and icy extremities.
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Radio Force Shack ... on Alderberan.
Or order it from www.iamajedireally.com
at least they do in Episode III ...
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actually, you can ride free to the Top of the Space Needle if you have a meal there. Your best bet is the lobster - sold at near cost - or the mixed drinks.
...
And you can pick up free WiFi from some nearby cafes while you're up there - or you could
with a link to the Seattle P-I business section story.
Fact: It's $800 a month for wideband.
Fact: You have to live in Paul Allen's turf - South Lake Union - to get this.
Fact: We have wider bandwidth at the UW.
Fact: You can get free WiFi at the Fremont Arts Council's Powerhouse, or just about anywhere in the Fremont or Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
Conclusion: Overpriced. Oversold. Out of date.
Is it time to re-institute the boycott?
Yeah, but then how can you order wine over the Net?
Just read in Seattle PI that Amazon's doing that now.
and then hire about 5000 very well paid lawyers ...
if you want to dispute the Patent.
Maybe we should admit that the software Patent concept is just wrong?
Theres not much you can do to speed up 4MB DSL. This is really hurting my browsing performance.
Good point. Here at the UW we've got gigabit internet, so my guess is it would crawl if we used that, and probably similar results for people using Seattle's Speakeasy gigabit WiFi network.
Wake me when it works for Linux or the Mac.
But not on Linux or BSD or Apple (Mac) ...
From the FAQ:
6. What are Google Web Accelerator's system requirements?
To use Google Web Accelerator, your computer must have a Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ operating system. Google Web Accelerator works for the Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ browsers.
7. Can I run Google Web Accelerator on a browser other than Internet Explorer or Firefox?
For other browsers running on Windows, you'll need to manually configure your proxy settings to 127.0.0.1:9100 for HTTP connections.
Just wondering, because the privacy implications of prefetching your queries make my eyebrows rise ...
The current administration is spending money at a rate that should make everyone in the country want to start burying cash in jam jars. The price of oil is rising and will continue to rise. Our current leadership, in both parties, forgets that oil will eventually run out and that unless we find alternative ways to fuel our vehicles, we'll pay the price in rampant inflation. Our SUV culture is already using more gasoline than can be refined. The rising cost of oil is causing inflation, which is logical since transportation is a significant cost for almost any business. The Fed is raising interest rates to try to slow inflation, but that won't work, because this isn't some emotional reaction, it's tied to an actual fundemental force in the economy, rising fuel prices. The rising interest rates are having an effect though, they are putting the brakes on what little economic recovery we were having.
....
Heck, that's why half my retirement is going into Euro stock funds. At least they don't overpay their CEOs
The SEV is put into orbit - once.
The space elevators bring up the fuel mass (split by solar cells in orbit), the solar cells, and the supplies, which are then transferred from the space elevator orbital end to the space station (or the spacecraft going to Mars to find Oil).
But what will they do with the military space shuttle?
here in Seattle, from Downtown to Fremont.
Faster than T-1, at only $800/month - or get 1.4 Mbps at only $500/month.
Me, I just use free WiFi from the Fremont Arts Council, which broadcasts from the Fremont Powerhouse at 3940 Fremont Ave N and is a bonus for all the FAC members who put on the parade each year.
as a major selling point for the DVD release ...
To think that this movie is somehow more violent than *this* planet is amusing. It is a restless day in which somebody is not blown to smithereens in Iraq yet I am supposed to feel outraged that the new Star Wars movie earned a pg-13 rating?
... that's rated NC-17 ...
I'd say the Iraq war should be rated at least an R.
Wait till the sequel, the Fall of the Empire
Should be a Gungan kill-fest. Anakin and the clone warriors and the Sith go to Jar Jar's home planet and decimate the place. I'm talking light saber decapitations and gruesome disembowelments. I'm taking Gungans being gut shot and left to die in the hot sun by storm troopers, napalm being fired into Gungan villages from AT-AT walkers, Gungans being impaled on stakes, an imperial encampment surrounded by poles bearing Gungan heads. They finish things off by nuking the planet down to the bedrock, which explains why there are no Gungans in episodes 4, 5 and 6, the Sith the proto-Empire wiped them all out.
...
They're saving that for the animated series on Cartoon Network
they can have as much as they want.
... [grin]
But, I suppose as a parent, I'll have to force myself to watch the movie before I take my son to see it
They should have moved production and screenplay writing to Australia - that would have changed a lot of things.
...
Or even Mexico
And then the madness really got underway. They started making costumes and wearing pointy ears. They wrote messages in Klingon, they wrote their own stories about the characters, filling in what was left out -- including, in one truly specialized subgenre, the "Kirk-Spock" stories in which their relationship was not as platonic and emotionless as the TV show depicted it.
... [grin]
As I recall, it didn't happen in that order. For one thing, I recall K-S fan fiction being written WAY before a friend of mine did that Klingon dictionary everyone was into, and the stories preceded the costumes.
But heck, it's not like I was Solei the Usurper back in the SEV days or anything
Regardless, part of the problem has been when and where they showed the ST series - the time slots chosen aren't in weekday prime time - they're on weekends - yes, Friday night is part of the weekend - and unless you're late Friday night with a Monday night rebroadcast like BG is on SciFi, you miss all the people who actually have a life.
Yeah, but it wouldn't tell you about the ten-lane pileup with a pleasing voice, so it's not the same thing!
I think I could do without the pleasing voice, so long as I'd be alive instead.
So on top of patrol tax, car tax, MOT, and all the other taxes associated with running a car, all road users now have to find a £300.00 MS tax also... (and it will still crash, as the per the joke).
.....
Yeah, but it will have a Great Error Message and Clippy will pop and ask you if you really wanted him to go to
The future of cars according to Gates will involve high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions.
... looks like 98 mph! Why not buy me now!"
...
...
So, given their track record to date, the future of cars involves:
- high-definitionscreens that will suddenly stop working while you're driving - or have pop-up windows that distract you from the real road conditions: "Hi! I'm Marvin the Talking Android, here to Wow! you with our latest in People Pleasing Personalities! If you had me in your car, you wouldn't be about to hit that semi at
- speech recognition technology that will help when your teen tapes your voice with his mini MP3/recorder and plays back "Stop Right Now!" while you're going 98 mph done the road being closely followed by a semi.
- cameras that will suddenly stop working so that you don't see the semi about to move into your blind spot because it pops up a "Time To Upgrade Your Camera Software!" message that obscures the semi because you're on a long road trip and don't have time to stop.
- digital calendars that will remind you while you're driving that your warranty has expired - which you will know, since the engine stopped working because someone forgot to reset the date function.
- navigation equipment with directions that tell you to drive into Puget Sound to go from your house to the house across the canal that just flooded but didn't update in the directions.
- road conditions that tell you that you should have just rode a bike to the gym or walked - it would have been faster and the exercise would have done you good anyway.
Wow! Brave New World!
And don't even get me started about the spam to fill your car with computer gadgets
or what a Blue Screen of Death will become
a Red Screen of Messy Death.
1. Write free code.
...
2. Open source it.
3.
4. Profit!
sigh
Or at least it appears that the side suing doesn't know how to spell "business" in the first place, IMHO.
...
Next thing you know they'll claim the LGPL cures warts. It doesn't because everyone knows that LGPL is not Lettting Gullible Persons be held Liable for silly things
it's the monitors and the fans to keep the chips cool.
Want to save energy? Buy an LCD screen - that will save half the power right there.
Having AOL subscribers not get tornado/hurricane warnings while they're surfing the Net instead of looking out their window or listening to the radio seems to me to just be Darwinian action.
... and icy extremities.
A way for the population to remove AOL subscribers from the gene pool, if you will.
Nature is a harsh mistress and hogs the bedcovers - plus she's got global warming