If it's just for work, there's no need for the second * box at your house, just get a SIP phone or an IAXy from Digium and have it register to your office * server.
Did this in reverse when I was testing * - pretty geekfunny to call your house and have the phone on your desk at work ring.
Yeah, it figures that fuck Markoff would write favorably about that pervert. I've never met Crunch, but I know hacks that have...and who were invited back to his room for a little massage. Very young hacks. Ick.
Or that if someone did file a suit against it, the "Church" would countersue. This "Church" is the most disturbing display of man's inhumanity that I've seen...of course if you believe you're an alien being just trapped here on Earth, I guess it's not inhumanity, is it?:-)
I wish getting hackers to do anything coherent were not like herding cats---there are more of us than them, and we're smarter! (Justified by our belief in ourselves rather than a figment of a socially immature man's imagination.) Maybe if we just ignore them, they'll go away.
Yup---it's just not that hard to fix whatever server you use to refer deep links to shallow ones, but I don't think that should be the point---every page placed on the WWW should stand on its own, with consistant navigation and, yes, advertising.
If targetting is a problem, why can't they draw ads from the server based on referrer?
There's no way I'm going to usurp a parent's prerogative and take their kids to a "restricted" movie against the parent's will. That's for the parents to decide. You are right in that theaters are behaving in a distinctly big-brother fashion and should be told by parents in no uncertain terms where to put their rules, but that's for parents of the kids affected to do, not me.
I don't have kids. I freely admit I'm an outsider on this issue, but damn, if I were a parent, I would do my best to make sure I knew what my child was watching at the theater. The MPAA provides a useful service to a degree[1] but the parent must do a little research (read a review?) to determine whether or not they want their child to see it.
This is not an issue for theaters to enforce, but neither is it ours to destroy, Jon. Let the parents guard their children, that's what they're for.
[1] The arguments about the MPAA are numerous and growing daily, thanks to South Park and American Pie (which took 4 tries to make "R")---suffice to say I think they should be stripped of any power to do anything except watch a movie and provide a summary of "offensive" behavior
"The Time Machine" anyone?
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Morlocks are we?
This argument is nothing more than the Garbage Man argument in higher technology. Frankly, we are skilled in subjects few are but on which most depend. We can generally call our shots or just find another job pretty easily.
We have the power, the money (often), and the sense to make our lives what we will; though some would use and abuse our good nature and work ethic for their own means, we still, on an individual basis, have the "power", even if we don't know it. This is not the case where most unions are needed---an individual member couldn't necessarily have a major monetary impact. We, on the other hand, tend to hold a great deal of trust of our employers. I don't think a union is needed or warranted in our case.
A few months back, Skeptic magazine devoted most of an issue to this psychobabblizing of Meme theory and basically came to the same conclusion as Katz, I believe, except in perhaps a more skeptical manner. IIRC, they said it's an interesting theory but too much overanalyzing has been done by too many liberal-arts-degreed people, diluting the real meat of the subject.
I've looked into dishes lately becasue a) Comcast sucks royally in signal, selection, and value, and b) for the purpose of finding another source of bandwidth with decent download times and which was PORTABLE.
I'd really like to take my TV and Internet access on the road with me and DirecPC/DirecTV seems to be the only way to do it, not to mention one of the better ways. I live in the boonies anyway, and it would be cheaper than ISDN as it stands now, plus portable---to put on the old Airstream that I'm dying to buy and drive around the country.
Though I don't like the M$ strategy of DirecTV/PC/Duo, it seems to be the best option for me. ( Yes I know uplink is by hardline, but so what? I can't get ISDN to an Airstream )
...the consumer market...think about it. You have all the raw power and reliability of a linux or whatever running underneath and a pretty gui up top (can you say MacOS X?), then what happens when you have grandma getting core dumps all day long and has no idea what to do? Phone your on-call sysadmin. Companies do it now, homes could do it in the future. Serious money issues to work out, but hey, it might work.:-)
I will be seeing this again, and maybe again and again. Do not wait for the video release, it would be only a pale shadow.
There were times when I thought the effects were overused, but the story was great even Keanu's acting was for once pretty good and worthy of praise. Hell, even the NPR movie critic liked it!
It's worthy.
Twiddler looks like it would _increase_ CPS
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I want a chording keyboard built into a device shaped around the HAND, not the manufacturer's bottom line. Notice the Handy Key page mentions that it doesn't decrease the possibility of CPS, just changes its effects:
Can be used as an auxiliary keyboard, varying the potential stress from repetitive motions.
Give me a keyboard built in to a hand-molded joystick and I'll pay the $200. Little mouse-button-action buttons, one or two for each finger, plus 2 or 3 for the thumb, and I'd be in heaven. And chording 3 keys at a time is not a problem, guys...maybe I'll give that Fiddler guy an email...
It's not that I don't think they have a germ of a good idea, but this has got to be a public relations ploy---I've seen too many start-ups "steered" by an "idea man" without clue one and drive what could have been great technology into the ground because of just such outlandish claims.
Slashdot Mirror
When I left the dorms in 90 to move up the hill to the Heights, they put the fiber in over the summer....rat bastards.
If it's just for work, there's no need for the second * box at your house, just get a SIP phone or an IAXy from Digium and have it register to your office * server.
Did this in reverse when I was testing * - pretty geekfunny to call your house and have the phone on your desk at work ring.
Hey - they're probably already used to dangerous places to live....
on the other hand, I vote we send these guys in.
Yeah, it figures that fuck Markoff would write favorably about that pervert. I've never met Crunch, but I know hacks that have...and who were invited back to his room for a little massage. Very young hacks. Ick.
Or that if someone did file a suit against it, the "Church" would countersue. This "Church" is the most disturbing display of man's inhumanity that I've seen...of course if you believe you're an alien being just trapped here on Earth, I guess it's not inhumanity, is it? :-)
I wish getting hackers to do anything coherent were not like herding cats---there are more of us than them, and we're smarter! (Justified by our belief in ourselves rather than a figment of a socially immature man's imagination.) Maybe if we just ignore them, they'll go away.
Yup---it's just not that hard to fix whatever server you use to refer deep links to shallow ones, but I don't think that should be the point---every page placed on the WWW should stand on its own, with consistant navigation and, yes, advertising.
If targetting is a problem, why can't they draw ads from the server based on referrer?
There's no way I'm going to usurp a parent's prerogative and take their kids to a "restricted" movie against the parent's will. That's for the parents to decide. You are right in that theaters are behaving in a distinctly big-brother fashion and should be told by parents in no uncertain terms where to put their rules, but that's for parents of the kids affected to do, not me.
I don't have kids. I freely admit I'm an outsider on this issue, but damn, if I were a parent, I would do my best to make sure I knew what my child was watching at the theater. The MPAA provides a useful service to a degree[1] but the parent must do a little research (read a review?) to determine whether or not they want their child to see it.
This is not an issue for theaters to enforce, but neither is it ours to destroy, Jon. Let the parents guard their children, that's what they're for.
[1] The arguments about the MPAA are numerous and growing daily, thanks to South Park and American Pie (which took 4 tries to make "R")---suffice to say I think they should be stripped of any power to do anything except watch a movie and provide a summary of "offensive" behavior
Morlocks are we?
This argument is nothing more than the Garbage Man argument in higher technology. Frankly, we are skilled in subjects few are but on which most depend. We can generally call our shots or just find another job pretty easily.
We have the power, the money (often), and the sense to make our lives what we will; though some would use and abuse our good nature and work ethic for their own means, we still, on an individual basis, have the "power", even if we don't know it. This is not the case where most unions are needed---an individual member couldn't necessarily have a major monetary impact. We, on the other hand, tend to hold a great deal of trust of our employers. I don't think a union is needed or warranted in our case.
A few months back, Skeptic magazine devoted most of an issue to this psychobabblizing of Meme theory and basically came to the same conclusion as Katz, I believe, except in perhaps a more skeptical manner. IIRC, they said it's an interesting theory but too much overanalyzing has been done by too many liberal-arts-degreed people, diluting the real meat of the subject.
I've looked into dishes lately becasue a) Comcast sucks royally in signal, selection, and value, and b) for the purpose of finding another source of bandwidth with decent download times and which was PORTABLE.
I'd really like to take my TV and Internet access on the road with me and DirecPC/DirecTV seems to be the only way to do it, not to mention one of the better ways. I live in the boonies anyway, and it would be cheaper than ISDN as it stands now, plus portable---to put on the old Airstream that I'm dying to buy and drive around the country.
Though I don't like the M$ strategy of DirecTV/PC/Duo, it seems to be the best option for me. ( Yes I know uplink is by hardline, but so what? I can't get ISDN to an Airstream )
...the consumer market...think about it. You have all the raw power and reliability of a linux or whatever running underneath and a pretty gui up top (can you say MacOS X?), then what happens when you have grandma getting core dumps all day long and has no idea what to do? Phone your on-call sysadmin. Companies do it now, homes could do it in the future. Serious money issues to work out, but hey, it might work. :-)
He's not checked his facts. I was up to 20-25 wpm on a Dvorak the first day, and I don't even type qwerty very well
The former side boxes are now one big black box...about 5-6 side custom box selections made.
IRIX 6.2
Nav 4.07 (4.5 needed?)
It's not that I don't think they have a germ of a good idea, but this has got to be a public relations ploy---I've seen too many start-ups "steered" by an "idea man" without clue one and drive what could have been great technology into the ground because of just such outlandish claims.