At 2:30, was he pointing at the Windows startup prompt that asks if you want to start normally or in safe mode?!

>> ^lampishthing:
Hmm... I wonder how long it can go? Would have liked to see it when it broke.


According to the accompanying article, about 25mm is the maximum.

I'm a PC, and I'm gre

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jwray... i am with you .. i also think that there are many things that "the market" cannot solve, especially education.

Guess we'll have to add this to the list of "problems I'm not personally creative enough to solve, therefore i will declare impossible to solve". I will gladly sit here and type out a free market solution to EVERY SINGLE problem you can come up with (short of a national defense, police, or legal system).

Our department of education boasts a 65% high school graduation rate...read....35% fail rate. Last I checked that was an "F". Not to mention the system churns out people with no basic understanding of economics, biology, government, mathematics, rational thought (yes this is a subject), philosophy, etc. I know because I graduated high school and didn't know sh*t about any of these subjects. If our education system was worth half of what we put into it, we wouldn't need to be having this discussion right now. There ARE aleternatives. Heres one: how about offering online lectures, videos, class notes, compiled by some of the best teachers and professors on the entire planet? Heres a hint..this already exists. In fact you can get an MIT level education in a dozen disciplines for FREE: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm. How hard would this be to implement for the K-12 curriculum? Not hard, considering people have already successfully done it: http://www.google.com/search?q=k-12+education. How much would it cost for a internet connection, bandwidth, and a laptop? How many of these things are free at the public library? "But I wouldn't have a degree, just the information" Okay...valid point, but whats stopping a business startup which offers the services of rigorous curriculum testing--similar to the SAT or GRE? This way students study and learn on their own, and test through a private company when they are ready. So your total cost for K-college education becomes:

computer: $500
K-12 dvds: $100
Private tutors, 500 hours, $10/hr: $5000
High school accreditation: $300
MIT courseware: $0
General college accreditation: $400
Specialized college accreditation: $500
Total cost for education: $6800

Notice the bulk of the cost would be private tutors, whose role could be filled by parents. Also remember, that there would still be traditional, private schools and colleges for people to attend--if they so desire. The point is that a higher quality education can be sold at a much lower cost than is currently offered.

The reality is that the only essential tool you need in life, you were born with: your ability for rational thought. And you were already taught the only ability you need to develop it: reading--which you probably started to learn from you parents. Yet how many books have you read in the past year? The past decade? The average college student reads approximately 6 books/semester, or 48 books. The average person, reading a book a week, or approximately 30 pages per day, will read over 200 books in four years--an amount equal to four college degrees--and over 2600 books in their lifetime--an amount of knowledge equal to over 50 college degrees.

"Because after watching the clip above, my impression is that the Good One is exactly that: good. That is, he is good at his job, which is all you can ask of anyone. More precisely, he talks like a competent manager. If I was working in at a startup and I had a boss who gave pep talks this good, I'd feel quite comfortable with the administration. Management is more than just talk, but can you call the Obama campaign anything but a successful operation? The graphic design alone is brilliant.

There is only one problem: this outfit is very good at winning presidential elections. We have no reason to think it is any good at anything else. The candidate is a great presidential candidate. He will probably be a good president, too. Of course, that is to say he will be good at reading his lines and pretending to be an 18th-century statesman, which is the job of a US President in 2008. Perhaps we should just write in Paul Giamatti, who I'm sure could act the Good One off the stage.

Moreover, the Nazis had an effective campaign team, too. Plus some pretty good graphic design to go with it. Most people don't know it, but the SS dress uniform was designed by Hugo Boss. If design is your criterion, the Third Reich was the best government of the century. In fact, even if architecture is your criterion, I will take Nazi architecture over progressive architecture, any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

And since the quality of architecture is indeed a good rule of thumb on which to judge the general quality of government, this is worrisome indeed. But all it means is that the case is an exception to the rule. Like anyone with any sense, I'd rather be governed by progressives than by Nazis."

I was expecting the narrator to say "Bueller?...Bueller?..." but unfortunately he didn't.

I'll save you 15 minutes; MySpace.com was not an internet 'startup' because employees came from the same failed spam/spyware company, and was more of a side project to copy Friendster's success by pairing their own version of that site with a relatively robust marketing department.

Thats it. Should be 2 minutes long.

ab-so-fkin-lute-ly brilliant. used to have that "agh! aagggghhhhhh!" as the startup sound on my computer.

The BBC piece is rather peculiar...

If you don't get FDA approval or can't afford it these days a startup can plan to go abroad; trial it in Portugal or Italy or wherever gives you approval, and use the success to encourage more investment to pay for FDA hoops while simultaneously demonstrating how people are benefiting and not being killed; expand to other nations (Japan, Australia, U.K., Canada,...) and hey, they're making money now... the U.S. likes money... boom, FDA approval.

I opened tons of ports and even put my computer in the DMZ so it could send/receive anything unmolested. The problem, though, is not one of access, but location. No matter how your router allows the computer to communicate, there's nothing it can do to give the computer itself a public IP.

That's really the sole problem, the lack of a public IP on your computer. So you know what else I've tried: I attempted to specify my public ip on the srcds.exe commands line (-ip 111.222.333.444) but srcds will not run because it cannot bind your to that address because it is not associated with your ethernet adapter. So I manually added my public IP as an address on my adapter. Then srcds would startup and report my public IP as defined on the command line, but it could not communicate with the Steam servers. After a couple of hours I found that it was because the packets where coming from a computer reporting the public IP and not a LAN IP (192.168...).

So it's a bit of a catch 22.

Fyi, a hub is an extremely simple/cheap piece of dumb hardware. It's basically equivalent to a splitter you would use for your TV or an electrical power strip, except for CAT5 cables.

oh but this is a very nice portrait of the VC guys:
This doesn’t surprise me. I know of a few notable exceptions, but many of the folks from the venture capital firms I’ve come in contact with over the years seem separated by light-years from the bleeding edge of tech culture. I remember when I was working on one of my old startups back in the early days of podcasting, and having to explain time and time again first the concept of time-shifting, then the concept of RSS, and then the concept of podcasting, and then on top of that what made my solution unique in the very narrow field of four or five people making money from podcasting at the time. It floored me that I had to spell out in such kindergarten language what I did to folks who supposedly invested in technology for a living! My personal experience tells me that a lot of VC folks just read the headlines of the tech blogs, and that’s about it.

They said they replaced it with a totally faulty memory stick. I guess how bad it was will affect how easy it is to diagnose. Really dead ram often involves the startup beeps.

He forgot one startup screen, but I found it here. Not sure exactly what version it's from, but it's one of the versions I've had, for sure.

@wax66 I still buy then crack them for that very reason. Cracked games run better! Also they tweak out the startup movies which have become ads for the developers as well as sound cards vid cards and everything else out there. jeesh.

YO ! Nibiyabi, That is why you wouldn't create the fuel cells by burning oil, Iceland is going to wholesale them to the world, they have a shitload of geothermal energy.

But you are right about the startup costs,

some rich middle aged guys decided they wanted a red convertible sports car that doesn't use gasoline and it's amazing...

it's nothing new, for sure, but i can guarantee jay leno will have one, and so will every other motorhead celebrity... that means money. and money means more r&d, which means cheaper production methods and materials, which translates to you driving an electric car by 2020. (guessing here)

they have the right idea by marketing as a sportscar, rather than a family car at the moment, because like he said, enthusiasts and other people are willing to pay the higher pricetag.

and whatever you think about the paypal guy, it's not his car or his company. he simply invested money in the company to help with startup. it might as well be his, due to his investments, but it's not.