When I hear "Giant Octopus Attacks Sub" for some reason I imagine something a lot larger than 80lbs. Then I read the story and find out it's not really a GIANT Octopus, and he wasn't attacking a 688 Attack Sub.
So it's not all it's cracked up to be. Huh. Why do I feel like I've done this before?
CNBC had the stock ticker there long before CNNfn even existed. As for the news ticker, that appeared in response to 9/11, due to the fact that there was so much news to report. Unfortunately, after a while, the networks started using the ticker for all sorts of news, so now instead of "7 WTC Collapses" we get "Wonder Woman Turns 50" or whatever.
The bottom line is that the number of people driving cars older than X do not represent a voting bloc of any significance whatsoever.
I can't agree with this at all. Not everyone has a new car... and I would say a large MAJORITY of drivers have older cars, even if they aren't a primary vehicle.
Unless you define "cars older than X" as "cars older than 1980" then this would affect a large section of the public.
Driving is not a right, the government need not be concerned with your ability to afford a new vehicle. They will make the argument that the market offers a broad price range of vehicles and financing options and thats life.
I agree that the government CAN use this argument. And in that case, I'd just have to give up my privacy and buy a new car. (Not a very fast one, I guess, given that they are now monitoring my every move... better not to tempt myself anymore.)
But, reality check here, there are a LOT of people who CAN'T afford to go out and buy a new car, or in the case of some families, two, three, maybe even four cars.
This is something that will have to be implement over a long time period. If they start this system now, they could mandate it twenty years from now, maybe. But not anytime soon.
How do they enforce this among drivers of older cars? What if I drive a 67 Mustang, or a 89 Grand Am? My car was made in 1995, and I love it... I'll drive it until it's undrivable. What do they do with me?
Do they force me to buy a new car? What if I can't afford it? Do they force me to install this equipment on my car? Perhaps it might communicate with the onboard computer, but this doesn't solve the problems of older cars without one.
I'm not really worried about people tracking my every move, to be honest. I'm mostly worried about the government tracking how fast I'm going. Most people don't really care about privacy issues, but people aren't going to buy new cars if they tattle on you every time you do 75 on the Interstate.
No, these types of events happen constantly around the world. We simply have had an unusual concentration of it in America.
As for St. Helens, I think if anything this has been long overdue. The mountain is one of the most active in the Cascade Range, and this is the kind of activity that has to happen in order to rebuild itself over time.
I'm hoping we'll see more of this... small non-threatening eruptions that in a few hundred years will return the mountain to it's former beauty.
Well, if that's the case, everyone is overthinking this... but I agree that's probably what the DS is going to feature, not some amazing repeating network.
Unless they plan on using their next generation console as some sort of always-on repeater. That way the network would be more stable.
Let's just say, for a second, that this is real and it works great. And let's say you live in an apartment complex where there are five other people playing the DS at ANY GIVEN TIME. What are the chances that a single one of those five people are playing Harvest Moon?
Perhaps the DS simply includes a function that allows you to physically find other DS players. Like you know there is another DS player 100m to the north of you. This would be a great way to meet people, except that Hot Jenna is probably a six year old girl... or an undercover cop.
I can either get really excited about the possibility that we've found extra-terrestrial life......or I can assume this is just some strange fluke, like it almost always is.
What am I saying... almost always? It ALWAYS is. But there's gotta be a first time...
The 32S is amazing, and I wouldn't replace it unless I had to. Mine is pretty beat up, but I've actually NEVER replaced the batteries, and I bought it around 91 or 92. I keep waiting for it to die. In fact, I carry around a spare ($5 non-RPN) calculator that I bought once when I left mine at home, assuming at some point it will die during a final exam or some other worst possible moment. (I guess I probably ought to just replace them, but I'm curious how long it can go.)
Curiously, someone momentarily borrowed it the other day, and it was the first time in a long time the borrower didn't just hand it back in confusion.
And for various reasons, we as a society don't really respect mechanics, as a profession. I wonder if some day those who fix computers will be held in a similar regard.
Thanks, and you're right, it can't hurt to try. Moreover, since the LCD is almost flat, why not mount it and only it to the wall, and hide the computer somewhere else? You'll have to drill a hole in the wall if you don't want to have a power cord showing, so why not just hide the actual box somewhere else? Most picture frames aren't that thick.
Another good option might allow you to flip the screen for portrait or landscape. Most of my photos are taken in portrait format.
Could you use a LCD from a notebook for this, or would it be too proprietary?
My old Dell Latitude died a few months back. I used to display some professional photos I'd taken on it, and the thought came to me that I could use the LCD in this same fashion. But I realized it probably wouldn't be feasible (at least for someone of my expertise).
Ugh. People are still talking about the statues? DOJ had to rent curtains for various events in the room, as they'd been doing for years. They decided to buy them instead to save money.
But it's easier just to make personal attacks instead, huh?
Seriously, I had the same problem until about a year ago, when I finally got cable. But I know people just a mile away who are stuck in the exact same situation you are. It's ridiculous, and it's a very populated area too.
Despite the claim by the article, I've had a DVHS recorder for almost three years now. It's integrated into my Dish receiver, and I've never seen a stand alone DVHS product, but it certainly wasn't $2000... more like half that.
It's great for recording movies or shows with digital clarity, but I just use regular VHS tapes on it now. They look as good as something purchased commercially, and I can play them over at a friends house, unlike DVHS.
No. One must have reasonable knowledge that the person is under 13. So if you were collecting information on people who had pirated Barney songs, you could reasonably assume that some of them are 13. There is no indication of age among Metallica listeners, and if anything they are likely to be over 13. Furthermore, all Metallica did was take information already available via Napster. And I doubt they have much more than a user name for each one of them.
I have a lot of customers that want listed on goto.com, and I happen to be more than willing to help them. These customers are admittedly computer illiterate. They use AOL. They don't get the web. These people wouldn't see the difference between/. and my server logs. They also are ALWAYS confusing Go and Goto.com. Some of you may be bright enough to see the difference. I happened to make a nice killing on the GOTO IPO, so I'm admittedly biased. But the average idiot out there can't tell the difference. And despite the fact that WE are the ones who brought (and still bring) the internet to the world, the idiots make up the majority, and are definitely the target market of most of these portals.
It SEEMS to jump ahead by leaps and bounds in matters of weeks... but years of planning goes into those leaps and bounds.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if these patents didn't relate to the core of Transmetas product...
In other words, Transmeta is working on some fabu stuff and... OH, they just happen to have developed these cool technologies as part of the product.
On the other hand, it may all just be wishful thinking. The increases in performance have seemed so incremental (although still statistically impressive) in the past few years that we long for a product that blows us away.
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I'm sure it is giant for an octopus... but the headline seems to me to imply behemoth-like proportions. Eh, maybe I'm just cranky today.
When I hear "Giant Octopus Attacks Sub" for some reason I imagine something a lot larger than 80lbs. Then I read the story and find out it's not really a GIANT Octopus, and he wasn't attacking a 688 Attack Sub.
So it's not all it's cracked up to be. Huh. Why do I feel like I've done this before?
CNBC had the stock ticker there long before CNNfn even existed. As for the news ticker, that appeared in response to 9/11, due to the fact that there was so much news to report. Unfortunately, after a while, the networks started using the ticker for all sorts of news, so now instead of "7 WTC Collapses" we get "Wonder Woman Turns 50" or whatever.
And I'm not sure they're the right colors for anything else!
The bottom line is that the number of people driving cars older than X do not represent a voting bloc of any significance whatsoever.
I can't agree with this at all. Not everyone has a new car... and I would say a large MAJORITY of drivers have older cars, even if they aren't a primary vehicle.
Unless you define "cars older than X" as "cars older than 1980" then this would affect a large section of the public.
Driving is not a right, the government need not be concerned with your ability to afford a new vehicle. They will make the argument that the market offers a broad price range of vehicles and financing options and thats life.
I agree that the government CAN use this argument. And in that case, I'd just have to give up my privacy and buy a new car. (Not a very fast one, I guess, given that they are now monitoring my every move... better not to tempt myself anymore.)
But, reality check here, there are a LOT of people who CAN'T afford to go out and buy a new car, or in the case of some families, two, three, maybe even four cars.
This is something that will have to be implement over a long time period. If they start this system now, they could mandate it twenty years from now, maybe. But not anytime soon.
How do they enforce this among drivers of older cars? What if I drive a 67 Mustang, or a 89 Grand Am? My car was made in 1995, and I love it... I'll drive it until it's undrivable. What do they do with me?
Do they force me to buy a new car? What if I can't afford it? Do they force me to install this equipment on my car? Perhaps it might communicate with the onboard computer, but this doesn't solve the problems of older cars without one.
I'm not really worried about people tracking my every move, to be honest. I'm mostly worried about the government tracking how fast I'm going. Most people don't really care about privacy issues, but people aren't going to buy new cars if they tattle on you every time you do 75 on the Interstate.
No, these types of events happen constantly around the world. We simply have had an unusual concentration of it in America.
As for St. Helens, I think if anything this has been long overdue. The mountain is one of the most active in the Cascade Range, and this is the kind of activity that has to happen in order to rebuild itself over time.
I'm hoping we'll see more of this... small non-threatening eruptions that in a few hundred years will return the mountain to it's former beauty.
Well, if that's the case, everyone is overthinking this... but I agree that's probably what the DS is going to feature, not some amazing repeating network.
Unless they plan on using their next generation console as some sort of always-on repeater. That way the network would be more stable.
But I digress.
Let's just say, for a second, that this is real and it works great. And let's say you live in an apartment complex where there are five other people playing the DS at ANY GIVEN TIME. What are the chances that a single one of those five people are playing Harvest Moon?
Perhaps the DS simply includes a function that allows you to physically find other DS players. Like you know there is another DS player 100m to the north of you. This would be a great way to meet people, except that Hot Jenna is probably a six year old girl... or an undercover cop.
Get her pregnant, and she'll carry two! (Although then she won't weigh 100 pounds anymore!)
I can either get really excited about the possibility that we've found extra-terrestrial life... ...or I can assume this is just some strange fluke, like it almost always is.
What am I saying... almost always? It ALWAYS is. But there's gotta be a first time...
The 32S is amazing, and I wouldn't replace it unless I had to. Mine is pretty beat up, but I've actually NEVER replaced the batteries, and I bought it around 91 or 92. I keep waiting for it to die. In fact, I carry around a spare ($5 non-RPN) calculator that I bought once when I left mine at home, assuming at some point it will die during a final exam or some other worst possible moment. (I guess I probably ought to just replace them, but I'm curious how long it can go.)
Curiously, someone momentarily borrowed it the other day, and it was the first time in a long time the borrower didn't just hand it back in confusion.
And for various reasons, we as a society don't really respect mechanics, as a profession. I wonder if some day those who fix computers will be held in a similar regard.
I don't know how many times I've done this for free. Imagine all the interesting stories you'd have, too. Certainly a lot more fun than corporate IT.
Thanks, and you're right, it can't hurt to try. Moreover, since the LCD is almost flat, why not mount it and only it to the wall, and hide the computer somewhere else? You'll have to drill a hole in the wall if you don't want to have a power cord showing, so why not just hide the actual box somewhere else? Most picture frames aren't that thick.
Another good option might allow you to flip the screen for portrait or landscape. Most of my photos are taken in portrait format.
Could you use a LCD from a notebook for this, or would it be too proprietary?
My old Dell Latitude died a few months back. I used to display some professional photos I'd taken on it, and the thought came to me that I could use the LCD in this same fashion. But I realized it probably wouldn't be feasible (at least for someone of my expertise).
Ugh. People are still talking about the statues? DOJ had to rent curtains for various events in the room, as they'd been doing for years. They decided to buy them instead to save money.
But it's easier just to make personal attacks instead, huh?
Seriously, I had the same problem until about a year ago, when I finally got cable. But I know people just a mile away who are stuck in the exact same situation you are. It's ridiculous, and it's a very populated area too.
Despite the claim by the article, I've had a DVHS recorder for almost three years now. It's integrated into my Dish receiver, and I've never seen a stand alone DVHS product, but it certainly wasn't $2000... more like half that. It's great for recording movies or shows with digital clarity, but I just use regular VHS tapes on it now. They look as good as something purchased commercially, and I can play them over at a friends house, unlike DVHS.
No. One must have reasonable knowledge that the person is under 13. So if you were collecting information on people who had pirated Barney songs, you could reasonably assume that some of them are 13. There is no indication of age among Metallica listeners, and if anything they are likely to be over 13. Furthermore, all Metallica did was take information already available via Napster. And I doubt they have much more than a user name for each one of them.
I have a lot of customers that want listed on goto.com, and I happen to be more than willing to help them. These customers are admittedly computer illiterate. They use AOL. They don't get the web. These people wouldn't see the difference between /. and my server logs. They also are ALWAYS confusing Go and Goto.com. Some of you may be bright enough to see the difference. I happened to make a nice killing on the GOTO IPO, so I'm admittedly biased. But the average idiot out there can't tell the difference. And despite the fact that WE are the ones who brought (and still bring) the internet to the world, the idiots make up the majority, and are definitely the target market of most of these portals.
It SEEMS to jump ahead by leaps and bounds in matters of weeks... but years of planning goes into those leaps and bounds.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if these patents didn't relate to the core of Transmetas product...
In other words, Transmeta is working on some fabu stuff and... OH, they just happen to have developed these cool technologies as part of the product.
On the other hand, it may all just be wishful thinking. The increases in performance have seemed so incremental (although still statistically impressive) in the past few years that we long for a product that blows us away.
If you apply the same thinking to the second comment...
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Hmmmmm..... I'm thinking we all need serious help.