I don't know about you, but I have no intention of depending on any Google product for something that I wish to have available for long periods of time.
And yes, I know about their export capabilities. It only marginally improves matters.
Needs vary hugely, so you may have to find your own.
For small notebooks, Field Notes (fieldnotesbrand.com) is the nice trendy option these days and offers some options including dot grid layouts as well as lined and graph paper. They also do special editions regularly, and are made in the USA.
For multiple sizes (including small) there are the standard Moleskine products including both their books and their "cahiers" which are basically the same thing Field Notes has. The nice thing there is that they have larger-size books, the downsides for me are that they're made in China, they're expensive(-ish, same as Field Notes), and that on the cahiers the pocket is simply a glued flap in the back which just hasn't held up for me. Their hard- and soft-cover book formats are more sturdy and the pocket is completely different.
Not as common in the US but slightly available are the Whitelines products (whitelines.se). The ones I have are a few years old and are all based on the international paper sizes (up to A4). These are printed in light grey with white lines, and in practice will probably work out much like a light dot grid.
Beyond that, there's a whole world of notebook enthusiasts that would be happy to discuss this with you ad nauseam, and of course there's a whole world of lab notebooks - maybe check out your local university bookstore to see what's available in those.
Back at product introduction (the plain PC, not the PC-XT) the PC sold with as little as 16K of DRAM on the motherboard, with sockets to upgrade to the full 64K
And DIP switches to indicate the amount of memory installed.
In general, a solidly-on check engine light is a non-urgent item, usually emissions related. The first thing to do when you get one is make sure your gas cap is tight.
A flashing check engine light indicates a more serious problem, and you may or may not need to stop driving. The thing that'll really mess you up is loss of oil, but there's a separate oil light for that - if it comes on, STOP THE ENGINE.
You can use the free version, which only backs up once every 24 hours (but you can trigger manual backups). It'll tell you via several methods if it's failed to back up for more than a day or two, but I don't believe it'll keep trying until the destination happens to be online - if it can't back up at its 24-hour window, it'll fail.
What you probably want is their Crashplan+ 10GB plan (~33/year in the US), even if you never use the 10GB of online storage. By getting the paid plan you also get the features of better encryption and more frequent backups. On the paid version they also also enable having multiple backup sets, so you can back up some files to the online storage (e.g. "Documents") while backing up "everything" to another computer. The "perpetual" licenses ended back in 2010 and mostly predated the online cloud backup options.
If you're not going to have direct network access between the computers (e.g. shared wifi), you'll also probably want to do the initial backup with both on the same network, then separate them. Crashplan's ID-based backup system should handle that change with no problems.
I'm going to recommend jumping one level up (street price there shouldn't be much difference), especially if you're going to be doing ANY faxing - the 7860 has built-in PCL & PS emulation and has a 33.6kbps fax modem vs the 14.4 in the 7460. The 7460 is a GDI printer with everything being done in the driver instead.
The PCL & PS emulation basically mean that no matter what you can use it in some way with just about any system - it may not be perfect, but anything can print with those.
I've recommended a lot of the Brother laser printers over the years - they're inexpensive to purchase and use, easy to configure, and they have solid driver support even at the low end (I've been burned by cheap HP lasers with crappy driver support in business environments). Another feature that the networked multifunctions have is scanning to FTP destinations - I've been astonished how many "business" multifunctions require proprietary client software running on a PC as a scan destination.
The one drawback of the Brother printers is that for heavy use they may not be suitable - they have some parts that are supposed to be replaced at 100,000 pages that would cost as much as a new printer, but I've had a couple older ones still creaking along at ~175,000 pages. I just regard it as a "maintenance kit" for the printer that in fact is a new printer, and they still come out cheaper in a lot of cases. Also, don't get the absolute lowest-end of the Brother multifunctions, I've seen at least one of those be a GDI printer instead of PCL/PS - read the specs.
If you're not sure how many pages/month you'll do, just consider how much paper you purchase - if you're running a box per month, look higher-end for printers.
Finally, a tip: you'll want to configure the printer via network interface (admin/access), because there are settings not available through the control panel - most notably, the default behavior when it reaches the "end" of a toner cartridge is to stop printing, but you can change this to "Continue" through the web interface.
So you're advising that the homeless guy start walking to someplace he's not familiar with but where the employment prospects are better, right? Or are you offering to front him the money? I'm sure you can track this guy down and get him some money for travel - after all, all it requires is that you be able to send him some Bitcoins which you can do from wherever you happen to be.
If he's willing to relocate and can get some help paying for it, he might be able to do quite well up in Montana/Wyoming where energy extraction is booming and unemployment is low, and his homelessness experience might stand him in good stead since there's a major shortage of housing. Of course, I'm not so sure September is the right time to move to the northern plains to live outside.
Current-generation smartphones are expensive, older or lower-end ones are much less so. I can get lower-end prepaid Android phones at Target, Wallyworld or many other places for well under $100 with no contract whatsoever.
Similarly, data plans have changed quite a bit in the past few years. In a quick survey of 2 carriers/resellers (T-Mobile & Cricket), I could get data service with at least 3G speed (first 5GB at 4G with a capable phone) starting from $30/month if I don't want a lot of minutes. Plans with more minutes or different bundles range up to $70/month, but it wouldn't be hard at all to keep it under $50.
Further, depending on the phone and plan, you may even be able to tether a laptop through the phone's WiFi - you'll probably need the phone plugged in since it kills the battery, but it works.
We all know he could have a job at Wal-Mart, 7-11, or McDonald's within a few hours.
It's quite possible that he could get such a job, though I don't know what the job market is like in Pensacola (I believe that's where the article indicated he was). That doesn't mean that he could afford rent somewhere - from the article, the main person being discussed became homeless initially after a multi-roommate apartment fell apart, and has bounced in and out of being able to afford a place since.
The more interesting part of the article is that some homeless are now starting to use Bitcoin as a way to get around not having a bank account (hard to do when you have no fixed address, I believe). This ties in well with many low-income folks having (disproportionally?) good smartphones - they can do it because that's the Internet access they can afford, and if they actually have a contract they may be getting decent phones because they can manage the installments.
As others have noted, there needs to be a service provided to cover everyone's legalities. If a charitable donation isn't viable, don't try to do one while trying to hide what you're doing - bear in mind that frequently for all involved the coverup is worse than the crime*.
That said, if there's an open source project that you've gotten significant use and value out of and you'd like to support it as a business expense, there's a trivially easy way to do it that beancounters won't blink at: Contract one or more core developers to come and do a day or two of training/consulting at a cost of $4000 plus expenses. Four grand for an in-office trainer for X of your staff? Completely unremarkable expense, and you really do get something more out of it while supporting that project.
* Clinton impeachment? Lying under oath. Martha Stewart? Lying to investigators.
I believe SpiderOak provides some encryption that you might think meets your needs, but I also agree with others that by the time you're asking this question something has already gone tragically wrong.
Of course there's always the counter argument that your data has in fact already been hacked and pretending you can keep it secure is just self deception.
Re: "Book 1 is out of print," this is where Baen's approach is (was?) nice. Historically, Baen and the authors would put first books into the library somewhere around the third or fourth book in a series; interestingly this apparently also tended to improve sales of the paperback versions of books so released. Some of this may have changed once they came to their agreement with Amazon to have books available directly for the Kindle, but even there they can price the first book or two way down as preparation for later books in a series.
Regarding the B&N stores as feeling like toy shops, they've definitely added a variety of games in particular and the books are definitely slanted to "browsable" items - things that you want to look through before purchasing, eye-catching books, etc. The days of going to a bricks & mortar store looking for a book published a few years back (or the first few books of a series) are gone - many people will simply order the items they expect to be less likely to be in stock. In some ways B&N is trying to reinvent itself not just as a bookstore but as a social spot for people who read. I haven't seen one doing a "game night" in the Cafe yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it at some point. Come in, try Catan (and variants), then buy them and take them home to play with your family!
Two big problems with battery-based EVs are the battery itself (weight, expense, lifespan) and how long it takes to charge. Sure Tesla is working on their quick-charge stations, but even those are only quick compared to plugging in overnight - compared to pumping 10 gallons of gas, they're *really* slow.
Capacitors could address some of that, but the energy density is too low - you need to charge them frequently. Some kind of road-based "kick charger" to top them off quickly could have a lot of potential.
TrueCrypt full disk encryption (but be prepared for Customs to ask for access). Automated online backup (or at least github and backups of that repository).
Dual displays? Tablet and appropriate software (e.g. iDisplay) , and if stored separately you may not even be fully down if/when your laptop goes on its own travels. With good backups, laptops can be a commodity so be prepared for a possible loss of one to *not* ruin your travels/week/month/year.
When Sears purchased Kmart, some discussion related to the fact that Kmart holdings wasn't a retail company - it was a real estate investment company that happened to have stores on its investment property. This is the same - Sears owns a lot of property and this lets them pay for taxes and upkeep until they unload it.
Is it that he doesn't understand concurrent code, or is it that his knowledge of it is different from yours? If he's my age or even 5-10 years younger he didn't cover much with asynchronous web apps in school (I graduated just before Berners-Lee announced), but he may well be aware of concurrent processing in other contexts.
First off, anyone who did any GUI development even in completely-unthreaded 16-bit VB3 should be able to understand the basic concepts. DoEvents anyone? Throw a timer control on a form AND handle GUI interaction? Congratulations, concurrency if only at a minor level. Hell, anyone who's written GUI apps that trigger long database queries without hanging the app has dealt with concurrency.
Second, anyone who's done much with *nix command-line processing uses concurrency even if they don't know it. Piping anything through multiple stages? Each of those processes is running concurrently, either waiting for input or processing input possibly while the preceding stage is still chugging along providing more.
Finally, has he done any multi-threaded apps (or passed on that approach for scaling reasons)? At this stage I'd expect him to know what you're talking about, but there's still a noticeable difference between multiple threads and thinking the same way about web apps.
I know that you're all young whippersnappers who should get off my damn lawn, but does nobody remember the RSA Perl T-Shirts from Joel Furr from back in 1995? Yeah, yeah, most of you weren't out of kindergarten, whatever.
Basically, the shirts had RSA as implemented in 3 lines of unreadable-even-for-perl code, which at the time was illegal to export in machine-readable format (Thanks, ITAR!). I believe there were multiple variations, including barcode versions for extra-crunchy machine-readability and at least one person who attempted to turn himself into a munition by getting it tattooed on. Later on there was a similar movement around DeCSS (not "munitions" related); I still have at least one of the shirts from that.
Seems to me that this is pretty clearly in the same general category.
Interesting, so they figure if they go cable-only they can try to get more money than they otherwise might via retransmission fees.
I'm not so sure that the cable carriers would be heartbroken to see this happen. Right now I suspect they're mostly having to pay Fox for the "privilege" of carrying the over-the-air content, but a change like this might well mean that the network was paying to be carried instead.
Anyone remember a furor not too long ago about assorted "creepershot" forums on Reddit? Google Glass will make creepershots trivial - at least now it's (generally) obvious if you're following people around photographing them.
The only verified way to get useful information on a tech community site (or Usenet) is to post something wrong or at least incomplete. The geek drive to correct someone wrong on the internet is much stronger than the drive to just share information.
Hacker News had a great example of that the other day when someone posted "[things I do in my first 5 minutes on a server]". 300+ posts later and that's a pretty informative discussion.
Offhand I can't think of a better example of doing it right than the online version of the PHP manual. The user contributed notes make a huge difference in dealing with real-world usage.
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I don't know about you, but I have no intention of depending on any Google product for something that I wish to have available for long periods of time.
And yes, I know about their export capabilities. It only marginally improves matters.
Needs vary hugely, so you may have to find your own.
For small notebooks, Field Notes (fieldnotesbrand.com) is the nice trendy option these days and offers some options including dot grid layouts as well as lined and graph paper. They also do special editions regularly, and are made in the USA.
For multiple sizes (including small) there are the standard Moleskine products including both their books and their "cahiers" which are basically the same thing Field Notes has. The nice thing there is that they have larger-size books, the downsides for me are that they're made in China, they're expensive(-ish, same as Field Notes), and that on the cahiers the pocket is simply a glued flap in the back which just hasn't held up for me. Their hard- and soft-cover book formats are more sturdy and the pocket is completely different.
Not as common in the US but slightly available are the Whitelines products (whitelines.se). The ones I have are a few years old and are all based on the international paper sizes (up to A4). These are printed in light grey with white lines, and in practice will probably work out much like a light dot grid.
Beyond that, there's a whole world of notebook enthusiasts that would be happy to discuss this with you ad nauseam, and of course there's a whole world of lab notebooks - maybe check out your local university bookstore to see what's available in those.
And DIP switches to indicate the amount of memory installed.
In general, a solidly-on check engine light is a non-urgent item, usually emissions related. The first thing to do when you get one is make sure your gas cap is tight.
A flashing check engine light indicates a more serious problem, and you may or may not need to stop driving. The thing that'll really mess you up is loss of oil, but there's a separate oil light for that - if it comes on, STOP THE ENGINE.
You can use the free version, which only backs up once every 24 hours (but you can trigger manual backups). It'll tell you via several methods if it's failed to back up for more than a day or two, but I don't believe it'll keep trying until the destination happens to be online - if it can't back up at its 24-hour window, it'll fail.
What you probably want is their Crashplan+ 10GB plan (~33/year in the US), even if you never use the 10GB of online storage. By getting the paid plan you also get the features of better encryption and more frequent backups. On the paid version they also also enable having multiple backup sets, so you can back up some files to the online storage (e.g. "Documents") while backing up "everything" to another computer. The "perpetual" licenses ended back in 2010 and mostly predated the online cloud backup options.
If you're not going to have direct network access between the computers (e.g. shared wifi), you'll also probably want to do the initial backup with both on the same network, then separate them. Crashplan's ID-based backup system should handle that change with no problems.
Telemundo and Univision
I'm going to recommend jumping one level up (street price there shouldn't be much difference), especially if you're going to be doing ANY faxing - the 7860 has built-in PCL & PS emulation and has a 33.6kbps fax modem vs the 14.4 in the 7460. The 7460 is a GDI printer with everything being done in the driver instead.
The PCL & PS emulation basically mean that no matter what you can use it in some way with just about any system - it may not be perfect, but anything can print with those.
I've recommended a lot of the Brother laser printers over the years - they're inexpensive to purchase and use, easy to configure, and they have solid driver support even at the low end (I've been burned by cheap HP lasers with crappy driver support in business environments). Another feature that the networked multifunctions have is scanning to FTP destinations - I've been astonished how many "business" multifunctions require proprietary client software running on a PC as a scan destination.
The one drawback of the Brother printers is that for heavy use they may not be suitable - they have some parts that are supposed to be replaced at 100,000 pages that would cost as much as a new printer, but I've had a couple older ones still creaking along at ~175,000 pages. I just regard it as a "maintenance kit" for the printer that in fact is a new printer, and they still come out cheaper in a lot of cases. Also, don't get the absolute lowest-end of the Brother multifunctions, I've seen at least one of those be a GDI printer instead of PCL/PS - read the specs.
If you're not sure how many pages/month you'll do, just consider how much paper you purchase - if you're running a box per month, look higher-end for printers.
Finally, a tip: you'll want to configure the printer via network interface (admin/access), because there are settings not available through the control panel - most notably, the default behavior when it reaches the "end" of a toner cartridge is to stop printing, but you can change this to "Continue" through the web interface.
So you're advising that the homeless guy start walking to someplace he's not familiar with but where the employment prospects are better, right? Or are you offering to front him the money? I'm sure you can track this guy down and get him some money for travel - after all, all it requires is that you be able to send him some Bitcoins which you can do from wherever you happen to be.
If he's willing to relocate and can get some help paying for it, he might be able to do quite well up in Montana/Wyoming where energy extraction is booming and unemployment is low, and his homelessness experience might stand him in good stead since there's a major shortage of housing. Of course, I'm not so sure September is the right time to move to the northern plains to live outside.
Current-generation smartphones are expensive, older or lower-end ones are much less so. I can get lower-end prepaid Android phones at Target, Wallyworld or many other places for well under $100 with no contract whatsoever.
Similarly, data plans have changed quite a bit in the past few years. In a quick survey of 2 carriers/resellers (T-Mobile & Cricket), I could get data service with at least 3G speed (first 5GB at 4G with a capable phone) starting from $30/month if I don't want a lot of minutes. Plans with more minutes or different bundles range up to $70/month, but it wouldn't be hard at all to keep it under $50.
Further, depending on the phone and plan, you may even be able to tether a laptop through the phone's WiFi - you'll probably need the phone plugged in since it kills the battery, but it works.
It's quite possible that he could get such a job, though I don't know what the job market is like in Pensacola (I believe that's where the article indicated he was). That doesn't mean that he could afford rent somewhere - from the article, the main person being discussed became homeless initially after a multi-roommate apartment fell apart, and has bounced in and out of being able to afford a place since.
The more interesting part of the article is that some homeless are now starting to use Bitcoin as a way to get around not having a bank account (hard to do when you have no fixed address, I believe). This ties in well with many low-income folks having (disproportionally?) good smartphones - they can do it because that's the Internet access they can afford, and if they actually have a contract they may be getting decent phones because they can manage the installments.
That said, if there's an open source project that you've gotten significant use and value out of and you'd like to support it as a business expense, there's a trivially easy way to do it that beancounters won't blink at:
Contract one or more core developers to come and do a day or two of training/consulting at a cost of $4000 plus expenses. Four grand for an in-office trainer for X of your staff? Completely unremarkable expense, and you really do get something more out of it while supporting that project.
* Clinton impeachment? Lying under oath. Martha Stewart? Lying to investigators.
I believe SpiderOak provides some encryption that you might think meets your needs, but I also agree with others that by the time you're asking this question something has already gone tragically wrong.
Of course there's always the counter argument that your data has in fact already been hacked and pretending you can keep it secure is just self deception.
Re: "Book 1 is out of print," this is where Baen's approach is (was?) nice. Historically, Baen and the authors would put first books into the library somewhere around the third or fourth book in a series; interestingly this apparently also tended to improve sales of the paperback versions of books so released. Some of this may have changed once they came to their agreement with Amazon to have books available directly for the Kindle, but even there they can price the first book or two way down as preparation for later books in a series.
Regarding the B&N stores as feeling like toy shops, they've definitely added a variety of games in particular and the books are definitely slanted to "browsable" items - things that you want to look through before purchasing, eye-catching books, etc. The days of going to a bricks & mortar store looking for a book published a few years back (or the first few books of a series) are gone - many people will simply order the items they expect to be less likely to be in stock. In some ways B&N is trying to reinvent itself not just as a bookstore but as a social spot for people who read. I haven't seen one doing a "game night" in the Cafe yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it at some point. Come in, try Catan (and variants), then buy them and take them home to play with your family!
Two big problems with battery-based EVs are the battery itself (weight, expense, lifespan) and how long it takes to charge. Sure Tesla is working on their quick-charge stations, but even those are only quick compared to plugging in overnight - compared to pumping 10 gallons of gas, they're *really* slow.
Capacitors could address some of that, but the energy density is too low - you need to charge them frequently. Some kind of road-based "kick charger" to top them off quickly could have a lot of potential.
TrueCrypt full disk encryption (but be prepared for Customs to ask for access). Automated online backup (or at least github and backups of that repository).
/week /month /year.
Dual displays? Tablet and appropriate software (e.g. iDisplay) , and if stored separately you may not even be fully down if/when your laptop goes on its own travels. With good backups, laptops can be a commodity so be prepared for a possible loss of one to *not* ruin your travels
When Sears purchased Kmart, some discussion related to the fact that Kmart holdings wasn't a retail company - it was a real estate investment company that happened to have stores on its investment property. This is the same - Sears owns a lot of property and this lets them pay for taxes and upkeep until they unload it.
This may actually improve battery life on some devices - those big bright displays are serious battery hogs.
Is it that he doesn't understand concurrent code, or is it that his knowledge of it is different from yours? If he's my age or even 5-10 years younger he didn't cover much with asynchronous web apps in school (I graduated just before Berners-Lee announced), but he may well be aware of concurrent processing in other contexts.
First off, anyone who did any GUI development even in completely-unthreaded 16-bit VB3 should be able to understand the basic concepts. DoEvents anyone? Throw a timer control on a form AND handle GUI interaction? Congratulations, concurrency if only at a minor level. Hell, anyone who's written GUI apps that trigger long database queries without hanging the app has dealt with concurrency.
Second, anyone who's done much with *nix command-line processing uses concurrency even if they don't know it. Piping anything through multiple stages? Each of those processes is running concurrently, either waiting for input or processing input possibly while the preceding stage is still chugging along providing more.
Finally, has he done any multi-threaded apps (or passed on that approach for scaling reasons)? At this stage I'd expect him to know what you're talking about, but there's still a noticeable difference between multiple threads and thinking the same way about web apps.
I know that you're all young whippersnappers who should get off my damn lawn, but does nobody remember the RSA Perl T-Shirts from Joel Furr from back in 1995? Yeah, yeah, most of you weren't out of kindergarten, whatever.
Basically, the shirts had RSA as implemented in 3 lines of unreadable-even-for-perl code, which at the time was illegal to export in machine-readable format (Thanks, ITAR!). I believe there were multiple variations, including barcode versions for extra-crunchy machine-readability and at least one person who attempted to turn himself into a munition by getting it tattooed on. Later on there was a similar movement around DeCSS (not "munitions" related); I still have at least one of the shirts from that.
Seems to me that this is pretty clearly in the same general category.
Oh, and "damn kids"
Interesting, so they figure if they go cable-only they can try to get more money than they otherwise might via retransmission fees.
I'm not so sure that the cable carriers would be heartbroken to see this happen. Right now I suspect they're mostly having to pay Fox for the "privilege" of carrying the over-the-air content, but a change like this might well mean that the network was paying to be carried instead.
Having their battery supplier fold didn't help matters either.
I've seen a bit of mention of this, but not much.
Anyone remember a furor not too long ago about assorted "creepershot" forums on Reddit? Google Glass will make creepershots trivial - at least now it's (generally) obvious if you're following people around photographing them.
The only verified way to get useful information on a tech community site (or Usenet) is to post something wrong or at least incomplete. The geek drive to correct someone wrong on the internet is much stronger than the drive to just share information.
Hacker News had a great example of that the other day when someone posted "[things I do in my first 5 minutes on a server]". 300+ posts later and that's a pretty informative discussion.
Offhand I can't think of a better example of doing it right than the online version of the PHP manual. The user contributed notes make a huge difference in dealing with real-world usage.