I've been working with computers for many users, and where I live its not-so-humid, and I've never blown a computer with static electricity. Heck.. I run a server in my shed and its been running for 3 years with a hick.
You really ought to get the hick to move out of your shed and get his own trailer or something. I had a hick live in my garage and I was constantly finding empty beer bottles and he was shooting up all the signs. A hick's living space in no place for a server.
Perform a benefits/loss analysis. If you handle extremely expensive equipment that can't be damaged, then maybe it would be wise to invest a little more into ESD protection. On the otherhand, if you're manufacturing small boards with little value, then don't invest in ESD protection. You said it yourself, that you have NO cases of ESD damaging electronics as long as you've been there. If one part per million gets damaged and it doesn't cost much to replace, then forget about ESD protection.
I think that IBM is taking Microsoft's new SOAP protocol a bit too literally.
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The following is a recipe for losing money:
1. Come up with a good idea. The idea must use the internet, and although it sounds good, it probably answers a question that nobody asked or fills a need that nobody needs. In other words, it optimizes some aspect of life that nobody cares to have optimized.
2. Put some serious financing behind the idea. (IBM?)
3. Sit around and wonder why the world hasn't beaten a path to your door.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to go online prior to doing my laundry to see if any were available. Laundry is a chore. I just want to take my basket of clothes to the laundry room and dump them somewhere and have them magically cleaned. Better yet, I'd rather that my laundry basket cleaned anything left in it more than 5 minutes. I already have a laundry card that I keep next to my detergent, so direct credit card billing adds no value for me. It seems to me, that the whole dotcom economy was about building an internet infrastructure around things that either don't need or aren't ready for an internet infrastructure. IBM's laundry implementation shows a remarkable resemblance to many failed dotcom ideas.
Lately, IBM has made some major good business moves, and now it sounds like they didn't learn anything during the last 3 years.
...on the otherhand, putting cameras on rooftops looking at construction sites is not bad. It's rather interesting. I used to go watch construction almost every day. Finally, they put up some webcams. That just made me go watch it more often, since, I could see what they were doing and was interested in seeing it closer.
Which congressmen/women are *not* in the MPAA's back pocket. She hasn't been elected yet.
Everybody seems to forget that their is one *big* difference between the MPAA and the RIAA. The difference is the MPAA's connection to the Mafia. If the MPAA doesn't want somebody to be elected, then that person won't be elected. The mafia will assure that.
The RIAA doesn't have as strong of a connection. Don't pass this off as my stupid speculation, this is a widely known fact.
Too many people keep saying that existing MacOS owners should get a discount.
This makes absolutely NO sense whatsover!!
Who would purchase 10.2 that doesn't own MacOS?? Nobody. My brother runs Windows on Intel hardware. He's not going to buy 10.2. Face it people, Apple set the *upgrade* price to be $129, because 10.2 only runs on Apple hardware which comes with an Apple OS.
If you have problems because it is too expensive, then that's a valid concern, but quit saying that they should offer discounts for people who *upgrade*.
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For years, many have been trying to erode the Constitution by removing or severly limiting our basic right to bear arms. The geeks' constant fight for free speech and free computing is a relatively recent advance. You can bet that a bunch of gun toting NRA members would stand by your side if any of the constitution rights were watered down. Their cause is of a great concern to them and they already have a large lobby and many voters.
Don't confuse privacy issues with the constitution, however. Nowhere in the Constitution does it gaurantee a right to privacy. If privacy is your cause, then the NRA might not be a good choice.
First family post after/. website has been acting up all day. Maybe the/. family should invest in a family license to keep at least 5 of their servers running!
From the article: "You can never have too much security!"
I don't know if this is true or not. I know that the proper amount of security is such that the expense of breaking the encryption is greater than the value of the message for every point in the future. This doesn't have an upper bound. The only factor that comes into play is convenience of the security procedures. Too much security sometimes relates to an inconvenient policies.
The biometric will suffice for the "physical key of some kind". Remember, though, according to Scheier, biometrics are easily bypassed. The something you know part, can be replaced by one of those smart cards with a constantly changing password. Those cards are generally more secure than biometrics and passwords.
I believe that "Carmageddon 3 -- Carpocalypse Now" had event recorders in each of the automobiles. Otherwise the slow-motion replay wouldn't have been as accurate as it was.
BTW, does anybody know if this game runs under Wine? I would love to play it again, except that I toasted my Windows partition.
I've been very happy with this camera. It offers *complete* control over things such as ISO, focus, f-stop, shutterspeed, Noise reduction, etc. in addition to many nice P&S settings.
My only complaint is that low-light pictures turn out reddish no matter how I adjust the settings. If you want a manual focus that you adjust by rotating a lens barrel, then you won't get that either. However, the compact body of the coolpix 885 makes up for a lack of manual focus barrel and you are still able to selectively focus in pictures such as: this macro shot
The mathematician stands a better chance of proving the hypothesis, but the NSA supercomputer stands a better chance of refuting the hyposthesis.
With current technology, it's extremely unlikely that the mathematician would refute the hypothesis or the computer might prove it (although it is possible).
Finally, props goes out to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The best, my favorite, and my current graduate school (@ nyu).
I've got a plan to start a company around failed business plans.
First I need funding, but then I'll be able to collect failed business plans and turn them in for this project. After obtaining enough *mind share* we will be known as the place to turn your failed plans in. The plan is very extensible in that we will recycle, not-so-bad plans and sell them on the *internet*. Within no time we will have the *highest market-share* of any online businessplan company!
Now, give me some VC, dammit!...so I can buy Aeron chairs.
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Perform a benefits/loss analysis. If you handle extremely expensive equipment that can't be damaged, then maybe it would be wise to invest a little more into ESD protection. On the otherhand, if you're manufacturing small boards with little value, then don't invest in ESD protection. You said it yourself, that you have NO cases of ESD damaging electronics as long as you've been there. If one part per million gets damaged and it doesn't cost much to replace, then forget about ESD protection.
I think that IBM is taking Microsoft's new SOAP protocol a bit too literally.
1. Come up with a good idea. The idea must use the internet, and although it sounds good, it probably answers a question that nobody asked or fills a need that nobody needs. In other words, it optimizes some aspect of life that nobody cares to have optimized.
2. Put some serious financing behind the idea. (IBM?)
3. Sit around and wonder why the world hasn't beaten a path to your door.
Honestly, I wouldn't want to go online prior to doing my laundry to see if any were available. Laundry is a chore. I just want to take my basket of clothes to the laundry room and dump them somewhere and have them magically cleaned. Better yet, I'd rather that my laundry basket cleaned anything left in it more than 5 minutes. I already have a laundry card that I keep next to my detergent, so direct credit card billing adds no value for me. It seems to me, that the whole dotcom economy was about building an internet infrastructure around things that either don't need or aren't ready for an internet infrastructure. IBM's laundry implementation shows a remarkable resemblance to many failed dotcom ideas.
Lately, IBM has made some major good business moves, and now it sounds like they didn't learn anything during the last 3 years.
...on the otherhand, putting cameras on rooftops looking at construction sites is not bad. It's rather interesting. I used to go watch construction almost every day. Finally, they put up some webcams. That just made me go watch it more often, since, I could see what they were doing and was interested in seeing it closer.
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Does this mean that that a DDOS might knock MSN into the Pacific ocean?
Everybody seems to forget that their is one *big* difference between the MPAA and the RIAA. The difference is the MPAA's connection to the Mafia. If the MPAA doesn't want somebody to be elected, then that person won't be elected. The mafia will assure that.
The RIAA doesn't have as strong of a connection. Don't pass this off as my stupid speculation, this is a widely known fact.
This makes absolutely NO sense whatsover!!
Who would purchase 10.2 that doesn't own MacOS?? Nobody. My brother runs Windows on Intel hardware. He's not going to buy 10.2. Face it people, Apple set the *upgrade* price to be $129, because 10.2 only runs on Apple hardware which comes with an Apple OS.
If you have problems because it is too expensive, then that's a valid concern, but quit saying that they should offer discounts for people who *upgrade*.
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For years, many have been trying to erode the Constitution by removing or severly limiting our basic right to bear arms. The geeks' constant fight for free speech and free computing is a relatively recent advance. You can bet that a bunch of gun toting NRA members would stand by your side if any of the constitution rights were watered down. Their cause is of a great concern to them and they already have a large lobby and many voters.
Don't confuse privacy issues with the constitution, however. Nowhere in the Constitution does it gaurantee a right to privacy. If privacy is your cause, then the NRA might not be a good choice.
First family post after /. website has been acting up all day. Maybe the /. family should invest in a family license to keep at least 5 of their servers running!
I don't know if this is true or not. I know that the proper amount of security is such that the expense of breaking the encryption is greater than the value of the message for every point in the future. This doesn't have an upper bound. The only factor that comes into play is convenience of the security procedures. Too much security sometimes relates to an inconvenient policies.
The biometric will suffice for the "physical key of some kind". Remember, though, according to Scheier, biometrics are easily bypassed. The something you know part, can be replaced by one of those smart cards with a constantly changing password. Those cards are generally more secure than biometrics and passwords.
It's okay if it was a mistake and they were forced to take it down.
Now it's time for everybody to make friends with a college student to get the Apple-Student-$50 discount.
thanks for the tip.
1. Pay lip service to "not being a monopoly"
2. Avoid antitrust investigation/litigation
3. Profit (using anticompetitive methods)
I've got a hot date with Warcraft III.
BTW, does anybody know if this game runs under Wine? I would love to play it again, except that I toasted my Windows partition.
If they create the bugs to be gay/transgendered in nature, then they will please even more persuations.
I've been very happy with this camera. It offers *complete* control over things such as ISO, focus, f-stop, shutterspeed, Noise reduction, etc. in addition to many nice P&S settings.
My only complaint is that low-light pictures turn out reddish no matter how I adjust the settings. If you want a manual focus that you adjust by rotating a lens barrel, then you won't get that either. However, the compact body of the coolpix 885 makes up for a lack of manual focus barrel and you are still able to selectively focus in pictures such as: this macro shot
The mathematician stands a better chance of proving the hypothesis, but the NSA supercomputer stands a better chance of refuting the hyposthesis.
With current technology, it's extremely unlikely that the mathematician would refute the hypothesis or the computer might prove it (although it is possible).
Finally, props goes out to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The best, my favorite, and my current graduate school (@ nyu).
It's called IP Tunneling.
1.) Any meta-"three-step-joke w/ 2) ??? and 3) profit" or derivative of such a meta-joke
2.) ???
3.) profit
First I need funding, but then I'll be able to collect failed business plans and turn them in for this project. After obtaining enough *mind share* we will be known as the place to turn your failed plans in. The plan is very extensible in that we will recycle, not-so-bad plans and sell them on the *internet*. Within no time we will have the *highest market-share* of any online businessplan company!
Now, give me some VC, dammit! ...so I can buy Aeron chairs.