what's wrong with these. Granted it's a very different style, but nodays quite romantic.
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It should be an axiom of technological progress, and has been since 1927 (that I can document, someone places a video-phone call in "Metropolis", a silent movie), that anytime someone opens a new voice communications channel anywhere, within a few years some genie-ass comes up with the brilliant idea of sending video over the same channel, calling it a new invention. Not only that but after they die from lack of consumer interest, they get reinvented by a new generation of genie-asses every 10 years or so.
is it any wonder every factory owner want to built there - no pesky problems with free thinking laborers, just govt controlled menial units toiling away for emporer and Wal Mart.
is|are there any online "Go" action with real human opponents like there is for Chess? I'd love to play a few games but, of course, nobody in the immediate meatspace vicinity is interested.
"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Then then co-pilot says, "Gee, you must be a Linux user". "How did you know that?" says the Pilot. "Because here you are in a broken helicopter, you didn't know where you were, and suddenly now it's Microsoft's fault".
The parent insightful comment, while in jest, actually is my theory of how Msft got to where they are, by allowing oxygen for lots of cottage industries to come along to do clean up, like Symantec. In other words, it's kinda like the local garage mechanic recommending buying so-and-so automobile, knowing that it's junk and he's going to get a lot of work fixing it.
Even Dave Barry has written about how challenging and exciting it is for technoids to get a Windows machine running, as opposed to boring old Apple Mac's that users just plug in and use.
I'm sure Clear Channel would make a great replacement for the FCC.
But seriously - how do you create a fair competitive market environment for all while treading the line between fascist govt control and private industry monopolization. As much as our politico's thump the podium about 'free markets' they simply allow single entities to get away with abuse of an advantage to corner entire winner-take-all markets that's anything but free.
I'll clean the virus and update your system. While I'm doing that you can change the oil in my car, rotate the tires, and hey, how about freshening up the wax job while you're at it? And don't forget to vacuum out the interior and rub on some armor-all.
Wal Mart has a pegboard wall loaded with bubble packed IPod lookalikes for $29.95, just in time for Xmas, that can load and play a few mp3's with a usb cable. You know, a toy version to give junior that basically works but was cost cut to the bone and not too sturdy.
I can remember seeing a bunch of Palm clones one Xmas for about that price in some store.
France must be on the leading edge of dealing with nuclear waste - what are they doing about it? France gets a very high percentage of electric power from nukes. I for one admire their dedication to being free from dependance on foreign turmoil.
You should have to take a test and obtain a license to get an IP address, before you can spew into the ether(net), just like for radio. The test should cover things like installing anti-virus, de-worming and spy-catcher software, turning on firewalls and the proper way to deal with attachments from strangers. Especially if you insist on using low quality, consumer grade software like Windows.
100 years ago today, Professor John Ambrose Fleming of University College London invented the first practical vacuum tube, used to rectify high frequency oscillations and thus detect wireless signals. The same year Fleming patented the device, later known as the 'Fleming valve.'
Fleming knew about, and had himself investigated, the Edison Effect, which had been discovered in 1883. Shortly after his groundbreaking work with the incandescent lamp, Thomas Edison was conducting an informal experiment with his innovation. When he introduced an extra electrode into the bulb, he realized that, even though the electrode wasn't part of the bulb's circuit, it could carry a current when it was of a positive potential relative to the filament. This so-called Edison Effect was later interpreted to be a flow of electrons from the hot filament to the extra electrode.
Fleming used this phenomenon to rectify a weak wireless signal. The oscillations of a wireless signal are too rapid to cause a galvanometer needle to move, but if the tiny current flows in one direction only are sent to the galvanometer, it will show a signal. During one of his experiments, Fleming wired an old vacuum tube into a radio receiving circuit, and was able to achieve this effect. On 16 November 1904 Fleming applied for a patent for what he originally named an oscillation valve, and what later became known as the Fleming diode.
While it had an immediate practical use in its ability to detect messages sent by Morse code, the Fleming valve was more important as a precursor to a new tube. After reading Fleming's 1905 paper on his oscillation valve, American engineer Lee DeForest in 1906 created a three-element tube, which, it turned out, could function as an amplifier and oscillator as well as detector. Through its initial and future applications, the Fleming valve laid the foundation for the field of electronics.
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Pretty soon China will cut out the middleman and just sell PC's in China for even less.
what's wrong with these. Granted it's a very different style, but nodays quite romantic.
It should be an axiom of technological progress, and has been since 1927 (that I can document, someone places a video-phone call in "Metropolis", a silent movie), that anytime someone opens a new voice communications channel anywhere, within a few years some genie-ass comes up with the brilliant idea of sending video over the same channel, calling it a new invention. Not only that but after they die from lack of consumer interest, they get reinvented by a new generation of genie-asses every 10 years or so.
is it any wonder every factory owner want to built there - no pesky problems with free thinking laborers, just govt controlled menial units toiling away for emporer and Wal Mart.
is|are there any online "Go" action with real human opponents like there is for Chess? I'd love to play a few games but, of course, nobody in the immediate meatspace vicinity is interested.
(ring) Hi Mom!
Junior - sounds like you in the dunny again. Are you getting enough roughage in your diet?
The bureaucracy is expanding to fulfill the needs of an ever expanding bureaucracy.
the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.
"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
Then then co-pilot says, "Gee, you must be a Linux user". "How did you know that?" says the Pilot. "Because here you are in a broken helicopter, you didn't know where you were, and suddenly now it's Microsoft's fault".
The parent insightful comment, while in jest, actually is my theory of how Msft got to where they are, by allowing oxygen for lots of cottage industries to come along to do clean up, like Symantec. In other words, it's kinda like the local garage mechanic recommending buying so-and-so automobile, knowing that it's junk and he's going to get a lot of work fixing it.
Even Dave Barry has written about how challenging and exciting it is for technoids to get a Windows machine running, as opposed to boring old Apple Mac's that users just plug in and use.
A shame Penny didn't know Tennyson:
"I hold it true, whatever befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
T'is better to have loved and lost
Than never have loved at all"
I'm sure Clear Channel would make a great replacement for the FCC.
But seriously - how do you create a fair competitive market environment for all while treading the line between fascist govt control and private industry monopolization. As much as our politico's thump the podium about 'free markets' they simply allow single entities to get away with abuse of an advantage to corner entire winner-take-all markets that's anything but free.
Something that might work with all those glowing colors and paints would be a fog machine. Maybe I'm just thinking of Deep Thought.
She could be a reporter for the New York Times.
I'll clean the virus and update your system. While I'm doing that you can change the oil in my car, rotate the tires, and hey, how about freshening up the wax job while you're at it? And don't forget to vacuum out the interior and rub on some armor-all.
The People's Republic of China has placed an order for 20,000 cans of Pringles.
I'm sure he means you slide some knobs and lights flash and it makes a noise, that's all.
Wal Mart has a pegboard wall loaded with bubble packed IPod lookalikes for $29.95, just in time for Xmas, that can load and play a few mp3's with a usb cable. You know, a toy version to give junior that basically works but was cost cut to the bone and not too sturdy.
I can remember seeing a bunch of Palm clones one Xmas for about that price in some store.
France must be on the leading edge of dealing with nuclear waste - what are they doing about it? France gets a very high percentage of electric power from nukes. I for one admire their dedication to being free from dependance on foreign turmoil.
dropping propaganda leaflets from an airplane.
I can't imagine too many of the Iraqi grunts with email or IM. Maybe the upper eschelon officers.
as long as you can get your medical marijuana
Now go forth, all ye' faithful, and code as thy supreme being hast commanded.
You should have to take a test and obtain a license to get an IP address, before you can spew into the ether(net), just like for radio. The test should cover things like installing anti-virus, de-worming and spy-catcher software, turning on firewalls and the proper way to deal with attachments from strangers. Especially if you insist on using low quality, consumer grade software like Windows.
100 years ago today, Professor John Ambrose Fleming of University College London invented the first practical vacuum tube, used to rectify high frequency oscillations and thus detect wireless signals. The same year Fleming patented the device, later known as the 'Fleming valve.'
Fleming knew about, and had himself investigated, the Edison Effect, which had been discovered in 1883. Shortly after his groundbreaking work with the incandescent lamp, Thomas Edison was conducting an informal experiment with his innovation. When he introduced an extra electrode into the bulb, he realized that, even though the electrode wasn't part of the bulb's circuit, it could carry a current when it was of a positive potential relative to the filament. This so-called Edison Effect was later interpreted to be a flow of electrons from the hot filament to the extra electrode.
Fleming used this phenomenon to rectify a weak wireless signal. The oscillations of a wireless signal are too rapid to cause a galvanometer needle to move, but if the tiny current flows in one direction only are sent to the galvanometer, it will show a signal. During one of his experiments, Fleming wired an old vacuum tube into a radio receiving circuit, and was able to achieve this effect. On 16 November 1904 Fleming applied for a patent for what he originally named an oscillation valve, and what later became known as the Fleming diode.
While it had an immediate practical use in its ability to detect messages sent by Morse code, the Fleming valve was more important as a precursor to a new tube. After reading Fleming's 1905 paper on his oscillation valve, American engineer Lee DeForest in 1906 created a three-element tube, which, it turned out, could function as an amplifier and oscillator as well as detector. Through its initial and future applications, the Fleming valve laid the foundation for the field of electronics.
An official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time
You mean not all feisty upstarts have 40 billion in cash to invest in new products? I'm shocked, shocked.