So, as a Mac user, have you been able to use your phone as a GPRS modem via bluetooth on OS X?
I'm about to buy the T86i (and switch to T-Mobile), but need to be have mobile data via whatever phone I buy. I have been using an old Kyocera/Qualcomm 2035a with a data cable and even at 14.4 speeds, I've been pretty happy with it...
17" LCD, not CRT, friend. Apple's LCDs are bee-yu-tee-full.
17-inch display resolutions: 1440 by 900 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio.
Ethanol's Ambitions Tuesday, April 16, 2002; Page A18
THE ETHANOL lobby is normally content to fleece taxpayers in two ways. First, it promotes public payments to those who grow the corn from which ethanol is made: Right now the House and Senate are cooking up a terrible farm bill that would lock in 10 more years of subsidies. Second, the lobby has used the tax system to penalize gasoline that is not one-tenth made up of ethanol: Motorists who fill their cars with ethanol-free gas pay around 5 cents extra per gallon. Some might reckon two federal favors enough, but the ethanol folks think bigger than that. A provision recently inserted into the Senate energy bill by Sen. Tom Daschle, the majority leader, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the energy committee chairman, would mandate a big jump in ethanol use and give ethanol producers protection against environmental liability.
This outrage is disguised in reasonable garb: It is part of an effort to promote renewable sources of energy. But ethanol, though made from corn, can only loosely be thought of as renewable, since making it consumes nearly as much non-renewable oil as the ethanol replaces. Moreover, ethanol's environmental benefits are debated: Including it in gasoline reduces carbon monoxide emissions but can increase smog. In any case, a sane policy on renewables should give promising alternative energy sources a government boost, but it shouldn't pour billions in taxpayers' cash into products that will never be remotely viable. Remember, ethanol already gets government help: Since 1996, crop subsidies alone have been worth nearly $30 billion to the industry. Increasing this help would be going too far, even if ethanol's environmental merits were more certain.
Both ethanol's drawbacks are reflected in the Senate's legislation. The bill creates a "safe harbor," protecting industry from suits arising out of defective additives in gasoline -- hardly a sign of confidence in ethanol's environmental merits. It also mandates increased ethanol consumption -- again, hardly a sign that ethanol expects to gain market share on its own -- requiring that gasoline refiners step up their use of ethanol from the current level of around 1.7 billion gallons a year to 5 billion gallons by 2012. This mandated tripling of consumption might cause shortages and therefore price spikes, especially since the ethanol market is dominated by three producers, which could find ways to orchestrate scarcity and pocket windfall profits. The biggest producer is Archer Daniels Midland, which in 1996 pleaded guilty to a charge of price-fixing and was fined $100 million.
The four Democratic senators from California and New York are calling this ethanol provision what it is: a scheme to funnel money to agribusiness and corn states at the expense of the rest of the country. One amendment to limit the ethanol mandate was rebuffed last Thursday, but there may be another chance today. The Senate should back the effort to remove the ethanol provision from the energy bill, and Sen. Daschle should not resist, despite his farm-state loyalties. Democrats have been trying to score points against the Bush administration by demonstrating the link between corporate lobbyists and the White House energy policy. If the Senate's Democratic leaders now use the energy bill to funnel money to Archer Daniels Midland and its ilk, they'll look like hypocrites.
WalMart is destroying America. As a member of this society, the most important thing you can do is vote with your dollars. Buy locally. You'll almost assuredly have a better experience and you won't be sending your dollars to Arkansas.
It's not going to be cost effective to run your own wire. Even for a point-to-point connection you're probably talking millions of dollars in permits, wire, and labor (unless you fancy digging trenches yourself).
This is exactly what the ruling is about... The phone companies (or the ILECs -- Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) own the lines. Unless you run your own copper, you have to deal with them if you want to roll your own bandwidth.
It's a good idea... we all know that CDs are overpriced. I try to buy music direct from the artist... they generally get a much higher cut and the prices are generally much better.
It's too bad that FightCloud doesn't have a better selection...
Sounds like AD&D Tomes of Enchanted whatevers... spend three months studying it and it disappears... Now THAT's something the copyright nazis would love.
I've gotten 23 of this in the last 2 years (I'm not sure why I save them... I guess the social phenomenon intregues me. At least one person I've worked with has thought that it was a legit offer and only decided not to act after I laughed them off.)
RECEIVED Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:50:12
ALHAJI SULEIMAN ABUBAKAR.
Lagos, Nigeria
FAX NO: 234 1 7590573
REQUEST FOR URGENT (CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP OF THE TRANSFER OF US$45,560,000.00 (FORTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY).
I hope this letter will not embarrass you since we have not had any previous communication. I got your reference from the United States trade department under private enquiry that is not related to my aim of writing you this letter and went further to have it confirmed by the Nigeria Exports Promotion Council(NEPC).
I, on behalf of my other colleagues from different Federal Government of Nigeria owned parastatals decided to solicit your assistance as regards the transfer of the above stated amount into your bank account. This fund arose from the over-invoicing of various contracts awarded in my parastatals to certain foreign contractors some time ago.
We as holders of official positions in various parastatals, were mandated by this new civilian government to scrutinize all payments made to certain foreign contractors by the past Military Government and we discovered that some of the contracts they executed were grossly over-invoiced, either by omission or commission. Also we discovered that the sum of $65,560,000.00 (Sixty-Five Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars Only) was lying in a suspense account, although the foreign contractors were fully paid their entitlements after executing the said contracts. We all agreed that the over-invoiced amount be transferred (for our own use) into a bank account provided by a foreign partner, as the code of conduct of the Federal Civil Service does not allow us to operate foreign accounts.
However, we have succeeded in transferring some of these money, precisely US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) into a foreign account in GENEVA (SWITZERLAND). But unfortunately, the provider of the account has severed all forms of contacts with us as he has refused to adhere to our earlier mutual agreement insisting that the total amount be paid into his nominated bank account before disbursement will take effect. If for US$20M (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) we are not compensated, how can one guarantee full compensation on remittance of the balance of US$45.560M (Forty-Five Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars Only).
We are therefore seeking your assistance based on the balance amount of US$45.560M, which can be speedily processed and fully remitted into your nominated bank account. On successful remittance of the fund into your account, you will be compensated with 25% of the amount for assistance and services and 5% set aside for expenses contingency.
This transaction is closely knitted and in view of our SENSITIVE POSITION we cannot afford a slip, I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. We will avail you with our identities as regards our respective offices, when relationship is fully established and smooth operation commences. I am at your disposition to entertain any question(s) from you in respect of this transaction, so contact me immediately through the above private email addresses( Presidency & mail) and fax number for further information on the requirements and procedure. Please note that the DEAL needs utmost confidentiality and your immediate response will be highly appreciated and we will use our own share of the money to establish a lucrative business in your country. Please you should contact me immediately with your private fax and telephone numbers where further details in respect to this transaction would be sent to.Please do not disregard my email for any reason because it was addressed to and from myself, it is for security reason to avoid problem. Yours truly,
I didn't think it was that hard to get my female roomies to become lovers. A couple of back rubs and compliments and they were sharing the same bed and kissing right and left.
But what I would like to see is the ability to block specific advertisers. Lets say that I do not what to see any ads from company X, if I do not see ads from company X then I would see more ads that are relevant to me and that I am more likely to click on. Advertisers would also like this since it gets them exposure to people who want to see their ads, and not to people who have no interest.
I think this kind of thing is a really good idea. I don't mind advertising (so much) that is interesting to me. I rarely click a banner, but sometimes is enough to make it valuable to advertisers. If there was a simple way to make decisions about the types of advertising I saw, I'd go for it.
Of course, this should be a free service to/. users and a value-added to its advertisers...
Does charley pride's label really think that a high percentage of Charley Pride's listening demographic is likely to rip, encode, and post ANYTHING to the internet?
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You all seem to be missing the irony here. This is a scathing review. How many people, after having read the complete article and finding the fatbrain link will actually buy the book? Not many, I'd bet.
Sorta... but now there are 3 full arrays to capture each color. Meaning it doesn't have to just downsample the color separation... It gives accurate color representation "in software".
A 400% increase in the amount of red and blue light accounted for and a 200% increase in the amount of green. (See figure 1.) A mean increase of 300%, but the overall image quality will be exponentially better because the true color balance will be maintained.
All it will take is a few crafty geeks in a given area to subvert the control of the major telco/cable providers. Start stitching community WiFis togehter and the all their infrastructure will be pretty much useless. A neighborhood can spring for a link to the backbone together. Kinda brings real live, flesh-and-blood community back to the 'net, eh?
These, like cells in a human body, are few in type but many in number. Such robots are called n-modular systems (where n is the number of module types).
The 'imagine a beowulf cluster' comments are more applicable here than in most of the articles I read... Imagine billions of robots able to work in tandem, infinitely reconfigurable. An office building/space craft? An automobile/boat. Hello Transformers...
How about building a system that would allow these kids to create their own 'media glyph' language to talk with each other.
Maybe you'd network a bunch machines with tablet input devices and let them go to town. Have a cooperative method for deciding on symbols and deciphering the messages...
Seems like the communication aspect of this project is the most interesting avenue for exploration... at first glance anyway...
The contract you had your 'beta testers' sign should have had at least minimal confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete, or ownership language. IANAL, but I know that in this litigious society, you better have your work covered, or someone will steal it, and sue you for the rights...
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So, as a Mac user, have you been able to use your phone as a GPRS modem via bluetooth on OS X?
I'm about to buy the T86i (and switch to T-Mobile), but need to be have mobile data via whatever phone I buy. I have been using an old Kyocera/Qualcomm 2035a with a data cable and even at 14.4 speeds, I've been pretty happy with it...
Will I do better with the T86i?
Thanks for your input.
He just forgot to italicize or blockquote the first to paragraphs, which are from this post. Give him a break...
17-inch display resolutions: 1440 by 900 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 640, and 800 by 500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio.
>From Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
Ethanol's Ambitions
Tuesday, April 16, 2002; Page A18
THE ETHANOL lobby is normally content to fleece taxpayers in two ways.
First, it promotes public payments to those who grow the corn from which
ethanol is made: Right now the House and Senate are cooking up a terrible
farm bill that would lock in 10 more years of subsidies. Second, the lobby
has used the tax system to penalize gasoline that is not one-tenth made up
of ethanol: Motorists who fill their cars with ethanol-free gas pay around 5
cents extra per gallon. Some might reckon two federal favors enough, but the
ethanol folks think bigger than that. A provision recently inserted into the
Senate energy bill by Sen. Tom Daschle, the majority leader, and Sen. Jeff
Bingaman, the energy committee chairman, would mandate a big jump in ethanol
use and give ethanol producers protection against environmental liability.
This outrage is disguised in reasonable garb: It is part of an effort to
promote renewable sources of energy. But ethanol, though made from corn, can
only loosely be thought of as renewable, since making it consumes nearly as
much non-renewable oil as the ethanol replaces. Moreover, ethanol's
environmental benefits are debated: Including it in gasoline reduces carbon
monoxide emissions but can increase smog. In any case, a sane policy on
renewables should give promising alternative energy sources a government
boost, but it shouldn't pour billions in taxpayers' cash into products that
will never be remotely viable. Remember, ethanol already gets government
help: Since 1996, crop subsidies alone have been worth nearly $30 billion to
the industry. Increasing this help would be going too far, even if ethanol's
environmental merits were more certain.
Both ethanol's drawbacks are reflected in the Senate's legislation. The bill
creates a "safe harbor," protecting industry from suits arising out of
defective additives in gasoline -- hardly a sign of confidence in ethanol's
environmental merits. It also mandates increased ethanol consumption --
again, hardly a sign that ethanol expects to gain market share on its own --
requiring that gasoline refiners step up their use of ethanol from the
current level of around 1.7 billion gallons a year to 5 billion gallons by
2012. This mandated tripling of consumption might cause shortages and
therefore price spikes, especially since the ethanol market is dominated by
three producers, which could find ways to orchestrate scarcity and pocket
windfall profits. The biggest producer is Archer Daniels Midland, which in
1996 pleaded guilty to a charge of price-fixing and was fined $100 million.
The four Democratic senators from California and New York are calling this
ethanol provision what it is: a scheme to funnel money to agribusiness and
corn states at the expense of the rest of the country. One amendment to
limit the ethanol mandate was rebuffed last Thursday, but there may be
another chance today. The Senate should back the effort to remove the
ethanol provision from the energy bill, and Sen. Daschle should not resist,
despite his farm-state loyalties. Democrats have been trying to score points
against the Bush administration by demonstrating the link between corporate
lobbyists and the White House energy policy. If the Senate's Democratic
leaders now use the energy bill to funnel money to Archer Daniels Midland
and its ilk, they'll look like hypocrites.
Buy from Powell's. They're less evil than either of the others... and you haven't lived until you've spent a Saturday in their City of Books [pdf].
WalMart is destroying America. As a member of this society, the most important thing you can do is vote with your dollars. Buy locally. You'll almost assuredly have a better experience and you won't be sending your dollars to Arkansas.
Am I the only one who's tired of hearing about this? Geez...
This is exactly what the ruling is about... The phone companies (or the ILECs -- Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers) own the lines. Unless you run your own copper, you have to deal with them if you want to roll your own bandwidth.
Except maybe Wireless Community Freenets?! That's what I'm betting on...
It's a good idea... we all know that CDs are overpriced. I try to buy music direct from the artist... they generally get a much higher cut and the prices are generally much better.
It's too bad that FightCloud doesn't have a better selection...
Sounds like AD&D Tomes of Enchanted whatevers... spend three months studying it and it disappears... Now THAT's something the copyright nazis would love.
...you don't ever have to set your watch (GPS includes a time signal) other than GMT offset.
You don't have to set the offset either, since the GPS knows what timezone you're in. Right?
IMAP doesn't really work that well anyway.
RECEIVED Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:50:12
ALHAJI SULEIMAN ABUBAKAR.
Lagos, Nigeria
FAX NO: 234 1 7590573
PrivateAddress:sule_abubakar@consultant.com sule_abubakar@mail.com
ATTN.: THE MANAGING DIRECTOR / C. E. O.
REQUEST FOR URGENT (CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP OF THE TRANSFER OF US$45,560,000.00 (FORTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY).
I hope this letter will not embarrass you since we have not had any previous communication. I got your reference from the United States trade department under private enquiry that is not related to my aim of writing you this letter and went further to have it confirmed by the Nigeria Exports Promotion Council(NEPC).
I, on behalf of my other colleagues from different Federal Government of Nigeria owned parastatals decided to solicit your assistance as regards the transfer of the above stated amount into your bank account. This fund arose from the over-invoicing of various contracts awarded in my parastatals to certain foreign contractors some time ago.
We as holders of official positions in various parastatals, were mandated by this new civilian government to scrutinize all payments made to certain foreign contractors by the past Military Government and we discovered that some of the contracts they executed were grossly over-invoiced, either by omission or commission. Also we discovered that the sum of $65,560,000.00 (Sixty-Five Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars Only) was lying in a suspense account, although the foreign contractors were fully paid their entitlements after executing the said contracts. We all agreed that the over-invoiced amount be transferred (for our own use) into a bank account provided by a foreign partner, as the code of conduct of the Federal Civil Service does not allow us to operate foreign accounts.
However, we have succeeded in transferring some of these money, precisely US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) into a foreign account in GENEVA (SWITZERLAND). But unfortunately, the provider of the account has severed all forms of contacts with us as he has refused to adhere to our earlier mutual agreement insisting that the total amount be paid into his nominated bank account before disbursement will take effect. If for US$20M (Twenty Million United States Dollars Only) we are not compensated, how can one guarantee full compensation on remittance of the balance of US$45.560M (Forty-Five Million, Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand United States Dollars Only).
We are therefore seeking your assistance based on the balance amount of US$45.560M, which can be speedily processed and fully remitted into your nominated bank account. On successful remittance of the fund into your account, you will be compensated with 25% of the amount for assistance and services and 5% set aside for expenses contingency.
This transaction is closely knitted and in view of our SENSITIVE POSITION we cannot afford a slip, I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. We will avail you with our identities as regards our respective offices, when relationship is fully established and smooth operation commences. I am at your disposition to entertain any question(s) from you in respect of this transaction, so contact me immediately through the above private email addresses( Presidency & mail) and fax number for further information on the requirements and procedure. Please note that the DEAL needs utmost confidentiality and your immediate response will be highly appreciated and we will use our own share of the money to establish a lucrative business in your country. Please you should contact me immediately with your private fax and telephone numbers where further details in respect to this transaction would be sent to.Please do not disregard my email for any reason because it was addressed to and from myself, it is for security reason to avoid problem. Yours truly,
ALHAJI SULEIMAN ABUBAKAR.
I didn't think it was that hard to get my female roomies to become lovers. A couple of back rubs and compliments and they were sharing the same bed and kissing right and left.
would YOU want a computer to always know what your wrists where doing?
If it could save me from some Carpal Tunnel pain I'd be all for it.
I think this kind of thing is a really good idea. I don't mind advertising (so much) that is interesting to me. I rarely click a banner, but sometimes is enough to make it valuable to advertisers. If there was a simple way to make decisions about the types of advertising I saw, I'd go for it.
Of course, this should be a free service to
Does charley pride's label really think that a high percentage of Charley Pride's listening demographic is likely to rip, encode, and post ANYTHING to the internet?
She sure thinks he's dorky. Happy engagement, folks.
You all seem to be missing the irony here. This is a scathing review. How many people, after having read the complete article and finding the fatbrain link will actually buy the book? Not many, I'd bet.
Sorta... but now there are 3 full arrays to capture each color. Meaning it doesn't have to just downsample the color separation... It gives accurate color representation "in software".
A 400% increase in the amount of red and blue light accounted for and a 200% increase in the amount of green. (See figure 1.) A mean increase of 300%, but the overall image quality will be exponentially better because the true color balance will be maintained.
This is freakin' awesome, btw.
I like this kind of stuff very much...
All it will take is a few crafty geeks in a given area to subvert the control of the major telco/cable providers. Start stitching community WiFis togehter and the all their infrastructure will be pretty much useless. A neighborhood can spring for a link to the backbone together. Kinda brings real live, flesh-and-blood community back to the 'net, eh?
The 'imagine a beowulf cluster' comments are more applicable here than in most of the articles I read... Imagine billions of robots able to work in tandem, infinitely reconfigurable. An office building/space craft? An automobile/boat. Hello Transformers...
How about building a system that would allow these kids to create their own 'media glyph' language to talk with each other.
Maybe you'd network a bunch machines with tablet input devices and let them go to town. Have a cooperative method for deciding on symbols and deciphering the messages...
Seems like the communication aspect of this project is the most interesting avenue for exploration... at first glance anyway...
What?! "This type of programming is so good it's in yur TeeVee!" <hick>
Seems like they deserve a better headline than that...
The contract you had your 'beta testers' sign should have had at least minimal confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete, or ownership language. IANAL, but I know that in this litigious society, you better have your work covered, or someone will steal it, and sue you for the rights...