Fixing the "can't get out of bed early enough" problem isn't quite as easy as you seem to think. In most cases it'll take more than 3 days of diagnostics and/or treatment attempts.
Day 1: Make appointment for sleep disorder clinic. 2 weeks later: Call recruiter/send resume out due to loss of job for being 1 minute late too many times. [probably a few months later, the appointment rolls around] Day/night 2: Go to sleep disorder clinic Day 3: Find out you can't wake up so well because you're depressed from being unemployed.
The other thing you're missing from the equation: Some other disability may be keeping an employee from waking up early, or getting ready for work as quickly as the average person. Not all disabilities are obvious or even easily treatable.
Several nearby charge $9. A few less than $6 on Tuesdays (or before 6:00 PM other days). Don't buy food or drink from the theater, and there you are, one wide-screen, surround sound movie viewing for less than the first week of release DVD price, even if you bring a friend. Three or four friends, and you probably should wait for the DVD release.
Sure. At least, in the sense that some studios are willing to pay that much for some actors. The market for some actors is very much a "sellers" market. Arnold Schwarzennager can (I think) just pick which movies he wants to be in. There are such "million dollar men/women" in almost every industry except "being homeless".
Whether they're actually worth that much or not is still an open question. Whether the pay is "reasonable" depends on whose side you are on.
Actors have a union that at least tries to make the life of a "peon" possible. One thing I found out from a cousin is that they (extras with a spoken part) got paid when they were called to the location, whether or not they were filmed. I have no way of comparing that to a musician recording a CD, but most of the ones I've met personally aren't rich.
Well, yes, the MPAA did go after Jon Johansen (and some others). However, they seem to have either stopped, or greatly reduced, the number of enforcement actions taken against their own customers. The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on people who buy CDs.
I think the MPAA lost (and won) a few battles in court, and decided it wasn't worth alienating many potential customers for every battle they might have won.
In theory, the MPAA could have taken the draconian measure of making all DVD players obsolete as soon as DeCSS was released. "To keep DVD prices low, future DVDs will not be playable on current equipment" could have been the press release. But they were smarter than that.
Maybe the higher margins in the movie industry allow them to pay for a smarter industry group?
This "incompatibility between hardware RAID cards" is a good argument for using software RAID instead. Just replace your IDE controller if it fails, and you should be right back up and running.
Of course, there are many arguments against software RAID, too.
I've got around 20 buckets in popfile, 10 email address, and classification accuracy is around 98%. The misclassification of good mail as spam has only happened for those messages that are:
1) new sender, sending something that looks like it might be spam.
2) old sender who hasn't sent me much mail, forwarding something that looks like it's definitely spam.
It's more likely to mistake spam for good mail than otherwise.
Suggested training for Popfile: Reclassify EVERY good message you get as "ham" for the first few weeks. Reclassify as "spam" only messages erroneously marked "ham" or "unclassified".
Don't bother with training a large corpus of spam as "spam", since this is more likely to cause ham to be marked "spam".
Some thermal pastes can be electrically conductive, especially older ones containing silver. Arctic Silver 3 is said to be conductive in a thin layer under extreme compression, slightly capacitive, and "might cause problems if it bridges a gap between traces".
Eh... Apologize? No need. Grammar and spelling look good from here.
I wonder how many people outside of software development realize how much a good sense of spelling is involved. I'm guessing that lots of good coders have good spelling memories. You misspell a keyword, and your program breaks.
Easily... If MS software breaks, you get to keep all three pieces. The OS, the office software, and the web browser. Oh, wait, that's only two pieces now.
Well, at least indirectly... In the back of many cars (since at least 1988, and probably before that), there's a sort of "suspension compression" monitor that is used by the braking system to modulate the braking pressure differential front-to-back. So, as the nose of the car dives during hard braking, the brake pressure sent to the rear wheels changes.
The monitor is usually attached to one of the suspension arms in the back of the car, and was purely mechanical/hydraulic on the 88 Ford Taurus.
How about this: since LED's are pretty much monochromatic, and they seem to be more efficient if you only need one wavelength, use them to drive flourescent tubes. Use a UV LED (heh... these may not exist cheaply), and the tube should be able to convert from UV to visible for you.
Problems: How do you fit enough LEDs into the tube to make a bright light? How do you arrange them, so that no photons are lost before they hit the phosphors on the side of the tube? Putting them in a plane on the ends of the tube (so the LEDs are pointing to the other end) would probably lose quite a bit to hitting the other end of the tube first. One LED every X inches would look strange.
Conversion losses may also be too high, though fl. tubes are pretty efficient with the standard gas discharge tech.
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Many ATX motherboards can be configured to allow power-on from places other than the power switch. So, the mouse and keyboard get some power even when the machine is "off", so that it can detect mouse-clicks and key presses.
It's a bother for those trying to avoid spam by avoiding entering their email address into a web site (ie, company database). If lots of people start using these, I can see a few problems.
1) There's already at least 3 challenge-response (c-r from here on) type spam-proofing systems that I know of. If they all require the entry of my email address into yet another company database, then there goes some of the security in having an email address that is in only one company's customer database (the ISP). Any c-r system could use the verified email addresses for nefarious purposes. Strangely enough, most spam is a type of c-r system. "Enter your address to be removed from our list".
2) If someone forgets to put a mailing list's address into their "pre-approved" list, a message may get sent out to the list requesting that it verify its email address. I can see an opportunity here for massive mail loops if more than one person on a list signs up for different c-r systems. If the owner of the list happens to miss the challenge, then, depending on the system, either the list mail to that address just disappears, or bounces off the c-r email server.
3) Unless the builder of the c-r system is more careful than all of the ones I've seen (I haven't looked at mapSoN), blind users are out in the cold, and sight impaired users have significant trouble getting through the challenge.
4) Any c-r system based on web connectivity or HTML imaged email may fail dramatically on cellphones or the dreaded "email appliance".
5) Approving based on "From:" address only is susceptible to forged headers. That's one reason some spam has your address in both the "From:" and "To:" fields. The other reason is to get around some poorly secured email relays.
6) Approving based on sending mail server IP and "From:" address is susceptible to dynamic DNS changes of the sending mail server, and not likely to work well with web-form based c-r.
You have a "Fill-in web form" requiring an email address and an answer to an optical character recognition question. Blind users need not apply. Wireless email users who don't have a web browser readily available don't get to send email either. Email users who do not like entering their email address into web form links sent in email wouldn't use it either. Sight-impaired visitors may have problems (I did when I tried testing it on your web-page, though it did eventually authenticate). Misaligned multi-colored text on a gray background does not make for easy reading.
I'm sorry to say that I wouldn't be using your service, even it was free. If I got a challenge like that from someone I really needed to send email to, I would use a one-shot email address in your web form, since I have no reason to trust si20.com more than any other company asking for an email address. I'd probably not bother with it at all, call them on the phone, and ask why they were letting si20 read their email. Accessibility and flexibility is important.
Wait a minute... If you have a business, say "Lame Software Development" (LSD), then at least some of what you spend on business related hardware and software can be deducted from any income you might have had. Suppose LSD bought a development machine for $500. Then that $500 could be treated the same way as any other software developer's expenses. It doesn't matter to the IRS whether you are a "free software project" or a "commercial software project", as long as you are running a business. The hardest part might be convincing the IRS that you're running a business, and not just an expensive hobby. You might have to setup an actual non-profit company in order to do this.
But that's not any more than a commercial company would have to do.
From what I've heard, there's no "tell cable company what I'm watching" function on the old standard cable systems. Heck, they barely had the bandwidth to send the TV signals down the cable. They almost never notice that someone is having problems with reception until they get a call from that person, or there's a system-wide outage.
The ppv systems do have at least some idea of what you're watching, since you had to pay for it somehow. (Cable thieves can keep quiet).
Out of the last 1460 or so spam messages I've gotten (in the last 4 months), only 131 have hotmail.com in the subject or sender headers. I'd guess that almost none of those have any hotmail servers in the "Received" headers. A pseudo-random sample of 10 of them showed nothing but forged headers.
Doesn't matter how many restrictions MS puts on their users, since most spammers use their own mail servers, or break into open relays/proxies. Sounds like MS just wanted an excuse to reduce server costs.
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Fixing the "can't get out of bed early enough" problem isn't quite as easy as you seem to think. In most cases it'll take more than 3 days of diagnostics and/or treatment attempts.
Day 1: Make appointment for sleep disorder clinic.
2 weeks later: Call recruiter/send resume out due to loss of job for being 1 minute late too many times.
[probably a few months later, the appointment rolls around]
Day/night 2: Go to sleep disorder clinic
Day 3: Find out you can't wake up so well because you're depressed from being unemployed.
The other thing you're missing from the equation:
Some other disability may be keeping an employee from waking up early, or getting ready for work as quickly as the average person. Not all disabilities are obvious or even easily treatable.
I prefer the "original definition" from one of those dictionaries.
"One who makes furniture with an ax"
BSA... Hmmm...
Boy Scouts of America should definitely be suing for brand dilution.
me, too.
to the wrong theater.
Several nearby charge $9. A few less than $6 on Tuesdays (or before 6:00 PM other days). Don't buy food or drink from the theater, and there you are, one wide-screen, surround sound movie viewing for less than the first week of release DVD price, even if you bring a friend. Three or four friends, and you probably should wait for the DVD release.
Sure. At least, in the sense that some studios are willing to pay that much for some actors. The market for some actors is very much a "sellers" market. Arnold Schwarzennager can (I think) just pick which movies he wants to be in. There are such "million dollar men/women" in almost every industry except "being homeless".
Whether they're actually worth that much or not is still an open question. Whether the pay is "reasonable" depends on whose side you are on.
Actors have a union that at least tries to make the life of a "peon" possible. One thing I found out from a cousin is that they (extras with a spoken part) got paid when they were called to the location, whether or not they were filmed. I have no way of comparing that to a musician recording a CD, but most of the ones I've met personally aren't rich.
Can't afford to price CDs any less, or they'd have to fire some of the lawyers.
Well, yes, the MPAA did go after Jon Johansen (and some others). However, they seem to have either stopped, or greatly reduced, the number of enforcement actions taken against their own customers. The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on people who buy CDs.
I think the MPAA lost (and won) a few battles in court, and decided it wasn't worth alienating many potential customers for every battle they might have won.
In theory, the MPAA could have taken the draconian measure of making all DVD players obsolete as soon as DeCSS was released. "To keep DVD prices low, future DVDs will not be playable on current equipment" could have been the press release. But they were smarter than that.
Maybe the higher margins in the movie industry allow them to pay for a smarter industry group?
This "incompatibility between hardware RAID cards" is a good argument for using software RAID instead. Just replace your IDE controller if it fails, and you should be right back up and running.
Of course, there are many arguments against software RAID, too.
Make that derivative of "Chaos".
I've got around 20 buckets in popfile, 10 email address, and classification accuracy is around 98%. The misclassification of good mail as spam has only happened for those messages that are:
1) new sender, sending something that looks like it might be spam.
2) old sender who hasn't sent me much mail, forwarding something that looks like it's definitely spam.
It's more likely to mistake spam for good mail than otherwise.
Suggested training for Popfile: Reclassify EVERY good message you get as "ham" for the first few weeks. Reclassify as "spam" only messages erroneously marked "ham" or "unclassified".
Don't bother with training a large corpus of spam as "spam", since this is more likely to cause ham to be marked "spam".
Err...
Some thermal pastes can be electrically conductive, especially older ones containing silver. Arctic Silver 3 is said to be conductive in a thin layer under extreme compression, slightly capacitive, and "might cause problems if it bridges a gap between traces".
Eh... Apologize? No need. Grammar and spelling look good from here.
I wonder how many people outside of software development realize how much a good sense of spelling is involved. I'm guessing that lots of good coders have good spelling memories. You misspell a keyword, and your program breaks.
Then again, it could just be me.
Obligatory mispelling included.
Easily... If MS software breaks, you get to keep all three pieces. The OS, the office software, and the web browser. Oh, wait, that's only two pieces now.
Well, at least indirectly... In the back of many cars (since at least 1988, and probably before that), there's a sort of "suspension compression" monitor that is used by the braking system to modulate the braking pressure differential front-to-back. So, as the nose of the car dives during hard braking, the brake pressure sent to the rear wheels changes.
The monitor is usually attached to one of the suspension arms in the back of the car, and was purely mechanical/hydraulic on the 88 Ford Taurus.
Sure, taking a break from the computer once an hour would be good for health in general.
The World is not local to me.
Probably simpler to save the $100, and remove the fan from the Radio Shack cleaner.
Perhaps Honeywell already thought of this problem, and carefully tuned the fan flow rate.
I wouldn't be surprised if a HEPA filter was more effective than an expensive fan-less ionic filter.
This is sounding like the emacs/vi holy wars...
How about this: since LED's are pretty much monochromatic, and they seem to be more efficient if you only need one wavelength, use them to drive flourescent tubes. Use a UV LED (heh... these may not exist cheaply), and the tube should be able to convert from UV to visible for you.
Problems: How do you fit enough LEDs into the tube to make a bright light? How do you arrange them, so that no photons are lost before they hit the phosphors on the side of the tube? Putting them in a plane on the ends of the tube (so the LEDs are pointing to the other end) would probably lose quite a bit to hitting the other end of the tube first. One LED every X inches would look strange.
Conversion losses may also be too high, though fl. tubes are pretty efficient with the standard gas discharge tech.
Many ATX motherboards can be configured to allow power-on from places other than the power switch.
So, the mouse and keyboard get some power even when the machine is "off", so that it can detect mouse-clicks and key presses.
But you probably knew that.
It's a bother for those trying to avoid spam by avoiding entering their email address into a web site (ie, company database). If lots of people start using these, I can see a few problems.
1) There's already at least 3 challenge-response (c-r from here on) type spam-proofing systems that I know of. If they all require the entry of my email address into yet another company database, then there goes some of the security in having an email address that is in only one company's customer database (the ISP). Any c-r system could use the verified email addresses for nefarious purposes. Strangely enough, most spam is a type of c-r system. "Enter your address to be removed from our list".
2) If someone forgets to put a mailing list's address into their "pre-approved" list, a message may get sent out to the list requesting that it verify its email address. I can see an opportunity here for massive mail loops if more than one person on a list signs up for different c-r systems. If the owner of the list happens to miss the challenge, then, depending on the system, either the list mail to that address just disappears, or bounces off the c-r email server.
3) Unless the builder of the c-r system is more careful than all of the ones I've seen (I haven't looked at mapSoN), blind users are out in the cold, and sight impaired users have significant trouble getting through the challenge.
4) Any c-r system based on web connectivity or HTML imaged email may fail dramatically on cellphones or the dreaded "email appliance".
5) Approving based on "From:" address only is susceptible to forged headers. That's one reason some spam has your address in both the "From:" and "To:" fields. The other reason is to get around some poorly secured email relays.
6) Approving based on sending mail server IP and "From:" address is susceptible to dynamic DNS changes of the sending mail server, and not likely to work well with web-form based c-r.
You have a "Fill-in web form" requiring an email address and an answer to an optical character recognition question. Blind users need not apply. Wireless email users who don't have a web browser readily available don't get to send email either. Email users who do not like entering their email address into web form links sent in email wouldn't use it either. Sight-impaired visitors may have problems (I did when I tried testing it on your web-page, though it did eventually authenticate). Misaligned multi-colored text on a gray background does not make for easy reading.
I'm sorry to say that I wouldn't be using your service, even it was free. If I got a challenge like that from someone I really needed to send email to, I would use a one-shot email address in your web form, since I have no reason to trust si20.com more than any other company asking for an email address. I'd probably not bother with it at all, call them on the phone, and ask why they were letting si20 read their email. Accessibility and flexibility is important.
Wait a minute... If you have a business, say "Lame Software Development" (LSD), then at least some of what you spend on business related hardware and software can be deducted from any income you might have had. Suppose LSD bought a development machine for $500. Then that $500 could be treated the same way as any other software developer's expenses. It doesn't matter to the IRS whether you are a "free software project" or a "commercial software project", as long as you are running a business. The hardest part might be convincing the IRS that you're running a business, and not just an expensive hobby. You might have to setup an actual non-profit company in order to do this.
But that's not any more than a commercial company would have to do.
From what I've heard, there's no "tell cable company what I'm watching" function on the old standard cable systems. Heck, they barely had the bandwidth to send the TV signals down the cable. They almost never notice that someone is having problems with reception until they get a call from that person, or there's a system-wide outage.
The ppv systems do have at least some idea of what you're watching, since you had to pay for it somehow. (Cable thieves can keep quiet).
Out of the last 1460 or so spam messages I've gotten (in the last 4 months), only 131 have hotmail.com in the subject or sender headers. I'd guess that almost none of those have any hotmail servers in the "Received" headers. A pseudo-random sample of 10 of them showed nothing but forged headers.
Doesn't matter how many restrictions MS puts on their users, since most spammers use their own mail servers, or break into open relays/proxies. Sounds like MS just wanted an excuse to reduce server costs.