The whole market is getting clobbered today - particularly Google - and you're thinking Apple's investor traffic is giving a shit about 2 product announcements?
I'd recommend you stay away from day trading for a while.
Holy crap - the Register finally did something right. In their article which gleams comments from Amazon - I took a gander at the book's amazon feedbacks. They are laugh out loud amusing and are in dire need of a direct link.
Can we make this a cover-story here? Sure it's dated - but that never stopped Slashdot...
Tell Marge I'd love to come to the phone but the coffee table crashed and I'm resinstalling the OS. Oh damn - now the coffee table is blue screening on me. Hang on a sec.
That one is amusing from someone who remembers all too-well E.Dyson's drooling and fawning rah-rah over the NeXT computer at the Davis Symphony Hall SF unveiling in 1988. Course the company and the computer bombed like Hiroshima (although the OS and dev-tools live on in a mutated form), but gosh wasn't her overpriced newsletter so on the money with that one? After that goose-egg, I still spent the next years scratching my head over what the hell she did for a living.
Or if you like Douglas Adams references I always thought she sounded like a refugee from the "B" ark.
Not as such - but a good link to a reference that has the EFF written all over it. I quite like the EFF. Barlow particularly, even if their track record of late has been absymal.
I keyed on the sig because I recently saw the movie "I Married a Strange Person" by Bill Plympton. He used the line in his opening credits for some odd reason as well. In this case, the replacement of the word "culture" with "activist" has a Michael Savage ring to it. Which has layers of irony included in the box since Mr. Savage has outright downplayed and denied being Jewish but has attacked the "conspiracy" on numerous occasions.
But I digress. In fact I enjoy doing it all the time.
Like the other day a friend an I were discussing parallels between early 70s films and the architectural style of brutalism.....
I used to work for Pulitzer Publishing and magazines get their hardest advertising rates from subscriber numbers vs. newstand estimates. Every subscriber is worth their weight in gold, and as such is the first and best line of income defense for any magazine out there. That's why - in North America anyway - they'll give you the magazine for free (or at cost) to maintain subscriber numbers. I mean hell I got an offer for Time magazine for 30 bucks a year. 52 issues mailed to me for less than one month of cable? Sheesh the postage alone is worth more than the subscription.
Your sig is based on Herman Goering quote "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning". The line comes from German playwright Hanns Johst's play Schlageter. Rudolf Hess used it as well. Naturally I've heard nothing but good things about the company you prefer to keep.
Keep those flags waving, those planes flying - and those ovens lit.
That's the key. I for one would gladly pay 1 dollar at iTunes for my Twit fix per week. It's a decent show and the quality (of the audio) has been improving. The show's content stumbles a bit - but it's far better than G4 or GETV. GETV's topics are great - but the host is painful to listen to. Awful.
In the latest episode Twit foreshadows that they might have gotten funding or a sponser of reasonable worth. We'll see.
re:"I want to seem some real numbers. Yes there is lots of waste, but all of that waste required energy to produce it."
And that waste is going to be produced whether it's converted or not - by the megatons. Spurious argument at best. There's plenty of waste already around to be converted - and we'll continue to produce waste in the future. This is just a way of converting existing materials into a usable product and clean water. As far as hard numbers - check the footnotes. I'm just pulling my data from Wiki since it's the most data in one place and has the best links.
Why you're daring me to produce "hard data" is interesting as it exists at Wiki and is footnoted aplenty. Solar is great - but you're not going to convert hundreds of millions of cars to it and change squat. This is a workable solution - now - that works with present systems. If you want to split hairs and figures, email the plant managers I'm sure they can send you a pile of data. I'm just interested in solutions that don't change the existing infrastructer. Look at natural gas. Apart from city and govt vehicles - it's a joke. I can only fathom that you've got a ton of money tied up in a boondoggle that is great for some people - but won't get me to work from the gas station.
feedstock!? Crap - Biowaste is the big one. That's the source that the KC Star mentioned in it's barrels estimate. The waste slurry from offel, and fecal waste is currently causing havoc on the water table in southern states. Gone. Next - considering the returns from plastic reprocessing, all of our landfill material and of course recycled plastics from those states that have a program.
Europe is in a position to start hooking up these processing plants into their municipal sewage treatment facilities. The mass of waste from New York and LA would be quite a fuel source.
I'm most interesting in plastics because the return is as high as 70% of the material provided. These plants are also efficient to the point of being self-powering. There's no impact to the current power-grid to do this - so why aren't we doing it?
Seriously - read the article - all the answers, and numbers you need are there. Kinda why I provided it.
Oil from the ground is so 20th century I could care less about stories about it. Europe has begun licensing TDP tech and we have a full-scale refinery running near Kansas City. If we ever get serious about putting domestic oil production the whole idea of oil from the ground will be beyond quaint.
It works, it provides clean water and high grade deisel oil, cleans the air by providing higher octane product, less emissions from refinery gasses, can empty landfills of plastic, can clean the water supply from biomass waste. Don't as me why the hell the DOE hasn't gotten behind it. A tenth of the cost of the Manhatten project could make us the largest oil producers on the planet*.
Also check the Wiki references to plastic conversions. Say good-bye to plastic waste and ocean pollution as well. Grey water dumping would also be convertable on the cruise ship level. Plus domestic production nullifies the middle east cartels, and puts tanker accidents off our coasts to an end. The middle east argument alone is a national security problem and it's criminal that this tech hasn't gone into a crash program status.
And this blows all previous gas alternatives out of the water, doesn't require massive leaps in corn production and doesn't require an change in transportation systems or distribution.
I'm confident that we will engage in this tech at some point - but it'd be nice to hear more about it. Try googling it sometime - you'll find almost nothing in the pop-press. I've even had dialogue with MSNBC about it - and they claim they're aware of it - but never say dick. Neither did Wired and they were talking new-oil on the fricking cover of their rag less than a month ago. FEH!
* The KC Star reported that from bio-waste alone via agribusiness we could convert all organic waste-fodder into 20 billion barrels of oil. We consume 12 billion barrels at present. We could ergo go from being the largest consumers to the largest producers.
I think educating people on copyright is fine as long as it's mentioned that copyright in the US it's under the control of one knee-jerk company protecting a cartoon of a rat. If that's brought into the equation - then educate their brains out.
Back in the 60's newspapers were accusing television of being a "vast wasteland", and plenty of other harsh sentaments. Now TV has been losing traction to video games and the internet and periodically throws out puff-pieces about "internet addiction" and "the cult of the video game".
Without getting sidetracked on the sheer coolness of being around for the creation of 2 distinct forms of media in my lifetime (which I can go on about for say 20 pages), the fact remains that my cable bill is for internet only as my income and free time are now net-centric and the tv itself is regulated to being "just another monitor" for my movie and gamining pastimes for the couch position instead of the office chair positon.
This type of use of the TV scares the crap out of media companies far more than TV scared the crap out of hollywood and the publishing industries as seen by the scramble for downloadable content.
But the fact remains. Apart from my work and about 3 side projects involving art, animation and special-event decorating, I don't have time for TV as I did when I was in school - I'm too busy with other things now. Amusing that "tee-vee" might be screaming "addiction" for those who are tuning out and into other things. It's beyond irony - it's something approaching "media-pathos".
And for the record - this is probably the most insane use of quotation marks I've used in a post in weeks if not months.
I've been prone to generalizing the granola set because of my proximity to Berkely. I'll admit it. However - I've yet to see a GOP member tie themselves to a tree or participate in an animal liberation exercise, so for the sake of splitting hairs I'll defend my choice of sterotype in this literary-fart of an instance.
That has got to be the most spurious, lame-brain, killjoy, people-can-have-fun-without-guilt-you-hippy-fuck, misplaced liberal passion-play argument I've ever heard. It's akin to observing someone watching a movie about a child, or playing a game that features children - and insisting that they should be adopting a child instead.
Some call this guilt tranference, or value-projection. I call it: "being a fucking moron".
I think the solution to the shelter problem is to get more virtual pets into more people's hands to determine if they should be allowed near anything with an actual pulse. Someone else alluded to the same thing - but it's worth repeating.
The other solution involves food-processing unless you're insistant to foist your western prejudices against asian countries that value cannie stock for meat as well as companionship. You're not going get all mono-cultural on me as well are you?
The only question I have about the story is what kind of crappy job is there in the Mayor's office - that pays less than 30k a year - IN FRIGGING MANHATTAN? I guess he'll have to change jobs - and get to STOP EATING TOP-RAMEN.
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re:"So, I hope you're not one of those fools with an interest-only mortgage, expecting everything to continue spiraling up."
Yeah I know - during the last tech collapse homes in the Bay Area got so darn cheap it was crazy!
Crazy I tells ya! Craaaazy cheap! Crazy crazy crazy. Yep. It's just like the rest of the country's housing market. Just crazy cheap.
The whole market is getting clobbered today - particularly Google - and you're thinking Apple's investor traffic is giving a shit about 2 product announcements?
I'd recommend you stay away from day trading for a while.
re:"It is Sony Competitor to the Revolution's service , it is not out to brutally murder it , unless Balmer is now CEO of Sony."
If that were the case - the new controller would be vaguely chair-shaped.
Sorry - side thread - fuck the iPod - how did YOU hold up?
Granted you're typing - but you could be using a mouthstick for all I know...
Holy crap - the Register finally did something right. In their article which gleams comments from Amazon - I took a gander at the book's amazon feedbacks. They are laugh out loud amusing and are in dire need of a direct link.
1 /qid=1140642702/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3629241-2859308?_ encoding=UTF8
Can we make this a cover-story here? Sure it's dated - but that never stopped Slashdot...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767900111/sr=8-
Can't wait for her next book. The comments from those should be quite the hoot. The literary equal of MST3K.
Favorite feedback quote "Fire engines are red and have loud sirens". Wow.
Tell Marge I'd love to come to the phone but the coffee table crashed and I'm resinstalling the OS. Oh damn - now the coffee table is blue screening on me. Hang on a sec.
re:"Guy K. ref"
That one is amusing from someone who remembers all too-well E.Dyson's drooling and fawning rah-rah over the NeXT computer at the Davis Symphony Hall SF unveiling in 1988. Course the company and the computer bombed like Hiroshima (although the OS and dev-tools live on in a mutated form), but gosh wasn't her overpriced newsletter so on the money with that one? After that goose-egg, I still spent the next years scratching my head over what the hell she did for a living.
Or if you like Douglas Adams references I always thought she sounded like a refugee from the "B" ark.
Not as such - but a good link to a reference that has the EFF written all over it. I quite like the EFF. Barlow particularly, even if their track record of late has been absymal.
I keyed on the sig because I recently saw the movie "I Married a Strange Person" by Bill Plympton. He used the line in his opening credits for some odd reason as well. In this case, the replacement of the word "culture" with "activist" has a Michael Savage ring to it. Which has layers of irony included in the box since Mr. Savage has outright downplayed and denied being Jewish but has attacked the "conspiracy" on numerous occasions.
But I digress. In fact I enjoy doing it all the time.
Like the other day a friend an I were discussing parallels between early 70s films and the architectural style of brutalism.....
They do make money off of you - a LOT of money.
I used to work for Pulitzer Publishing and magazines get their hardest advertising rates from subscriber numbers vs. newstand estimates. Every subscriber is worth their weight in gold, and as such is the first and best line of income defense for any magazine out there. That's why - in North America anyway - they'll give you the magazine for free (or at cost) to maintain subscriber numbers. I mean hell I got an offer for Time magazine for 30 bucks a year. 52 issues mailed to me for less than one month of cable? Sheesh the postage alone is worth more than the subscription.
Your sig is based on Herman Goering quote "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning". The line comes from German playwright Hanns Johst's play Schlageter. Rudolf Hess used it as well. Naturally I've heard nothing but good things about the company you prefer to keep.
Keep those flags waving, those planes flying - and those ovens lit.
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I don't do sigs. No - wait.
That's the key. I for one would gladly pay 1 dollar at iTunes for my Twit fix per week. It's a decent show and the quality (of the audio) has been improving. The show's content stumbles a bit - but it's far better than G4 or GETV. GETV's topics are great - but the host is painful to listen to. Awful.
In the latest episode Twit foreshadows that they might have gotten funding or a sponser of reasonable worth. We'll see.
re:"I did indeed have my Playstation damaged by someone throwing it down a flight of stairs. Regardless of the situation of how that came to be"
Now that your post is finished. Get back the juicy part. How did your Playstation become air and stair borne?
Woah, timeout! You seriously need to relax before it affects your health - go back to beating your wife or girlfriend. You'll feel a whole lot better.
Some public relations stunt. It caused their net-worth to drop billions this quarter. If I were an investor, I'd say try something else.
Old argument. So old Penny-Arcade addressed it nearly 2 years go:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Still cracks me up though.
re:"I want to seem some real numbers. Yes there is lots of waste, but all of that waste required energy to produce it."
And that waste is going to be produced whether it's converted or not - by the megatons. Spurious argument at best. There's plenty of waste already around to be converted - and we'll continue to produce waste in the future. This is just a way of converting existing materials into a usable product and clean water. As far as hard numbers - check the footnotes. I'm just pulling my data from Wiki since it's the most data in one place and has the best links.
Why you're daring me to produce "hard data" is interesting as it exists at Wiki and is footnoted aplenty. Solar is great - but you're not going to convert hundreds of millions of cars to it and change squat. This is a workable solution - now - that works with present systems. If you want to split hairs and figures, email the plant managers I'm sure they can send you a pile of data. I'm just interested in solutions that don't change the existing infrastructer. Look at natural gas. Apart from city and govt vehicles - it's a joke. I can only fathom that you've got a ton of money tied up in a boondoggle that is great for some people - but won't get me to work from the gas station.
feedstock!? Crap - Biowaste is the big one. That's the source that the KC Star mentioned in it's barrels estimate. The waste slurry from offel, and fecal waste is currently causing havoc on the water table in southern states. Gone. Next - considering the returns from plastic reprocessing, all of our landfill material and of course recycled plastics from those states that have a program.
Europe is in a position to start hooking up these processing plants into their municipal sewage treatment facilities. The mass of waste from New York and LA would be quite a fuel source.
I'm most interesting in plastics because the return is as high as 70% of the material provided. These plants are also efficient to the point of being self-powering. There's no impact to the current power-grid to do this - so why aren't we doing it?
Seriously - read the article - all the answers, and numbers you need are there. Kinda why I provided it.
Oil from the ground is so 20th century I could care less about stories about it. Europe has begun licensing TDP tech and we have a full-scale refinery running near Kansas City. If we ever get serious about putting domestic oil production the whole idea of oil from the ground will be beyond quaint.
t ion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymeriza
It works, it provides clean water and high grade deisel oil, cleans the air by providing higher octane product, less emissions from refinery gasses, can empty landfills of plastic, can clean the water supply from biomass waste. Don't as me why the hell the DOE hasn't gotten behind it. A tenth of the cost of the Manhatten project could make us the largest oil producers on the planet*.
Also check the Wiki references to plastic conversions. Say good-bye to plastic waste and ocean pollution as well. Grey water dumping would also be convertable on the cruise ship level. Plus domestic production nullifies the middle east cartels, and puts tanker accidents off our coasts to an end. The middle east argument alone is a national security problem and it's criminal that this tech hasn't gone into a crash program status.
And this blows all previous gas alternatives out of the water, doesn't require massive leaps in corn production and doesn't require an change in transportation systems or distribution.
I'm confident that we will engage in this tech at some point - but it'd be nice to hear more about it. Try googling it sometime - you'll find almost nothing in the pop-press. I've even had dialogue with MSNBC about it - and they claim they're aware of it - but never say dick. Neither did Wired and they were talking new-oil on the fricking cover of their rag less than a month ago. FEH!
* The KC Star reported that from bio-waste alone via agribusiness we could convert all organic waste-fodder into 20 billion barrels of oil. We consume 12 billion barrels at present. We could ergo go from being the largest consumers to the largest producers.
Wow - there's a piece of 90's pop-culture that hasn't really aged well in the slightest:
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=483760909
I think educating people on copyright is fine as long as it's mentioned that copyright in the US it's under the control of one knee-jerk company protecting a cartoon of a rat. If that's brought into the equation - then educate their brains out.
Excellent. Now we can project porn on people's foreheads at broadway shows and the ballet.
Technology - doing things - not because we'd want to - but because we can (tm)
Back in the 60's newspapers were accusing television of being a "vast wasteland", and plenty of other harsh sentaments. Now TV has been losing traction to video games and the internet and periodically throws out puff-pieces about "internet addiction" and "the cult of the video game".
Without getting sidetracked on the sheer coolness of being around for the creation of 2 distinct forms of media in my lifetime (which I can go on about for say 20 pages), the fact remains that my cable bill is for internet only as my income and free time are now net-centric and the tv itself is regulated to being "just another monitor" for my movie and gamining pastimes for the couch position instead of the office chair positon.
This type of use of the TV scares the crap out of media companies far more than TV scared the crap out of hollywood and the publishing industries as seen by the scramble for downloadable content.
But the fact remains. Apart from my work and about 3 side projects involving art, animation and special-event decorating, I don't have time for TV as I did when I was in school - I'm too busy with other things now. Amusing that "tee-vee" might be screaming "addiction" for those who are tuning out and into other things. It's beyond irony - it's something approaching "media-pathos".
And for the record - this is probably the most insane use of quotation marks I've used in a post in weeks if not months.
re:"Stupid knows no political thought."
I've been prone to generalizing the granola set because of my proximity to Berkely. I'll admit it. However - I've yet to see a GOP member tie themselves to a tree or participate in an animal liberation exercise, so for the sake of splitting hairs I'll defend my choice of sterotype in this literary-fart of an instance.
That has got to be the most spurious, lame-brain, killjoy, people-can-have-fun-without-guilt-you-hippy-fuck, misplaced liberal passion-play argument I've ever heard. It's akin to observing someone watching a movie about a child, or playing a game that features children - and insisting that they should be adopting a child instead.
Some call this guilt tranference, or value-projection. I call it: "being a fucking moron".
I think the solution to the shelter problem is to get more virtual pets into more people's hands to determine if they should be allowed near anything with an actual pulse. Someone else alluded to the same thing - but it's worth repeating.
The other solution involves food-processing unless you're insistant to foist your western prejudices against asian countries that value cannie stock for meat as well as companionship. You're not going get all mono-cultural on me as well are you?
The only question I have about the story is what kind of crappy job is there in the Mayor's office - that pays less than 30k a year - IN FRIGGING MANHATTAN? I guess he'll have to change jobs - and get to STOP EATING TOP-RAMEN.
Topic hitting close to home - or am I really first?