At the ISP for which I work, while we are generally on top of things customer service-wise, the procedure goes something like this:
Customer: "I can't download my email!" Me: $ cd ~customer/Maildir; ls -s cur Me: "There's a VERY large message here. I'll delete it." Customer: "I'll tell them to stop sending those videos.
Our outsource support for after hours service recommends mail2web.com
Suffice to say that we need to implement a solution. Sadly, webmail is a HUGE resource hog as far as we've seen, so we're looking for solutions that won't require us to get a new building to have the space for extra racks and a generator outside for the extra power. I've read a few things here that will probably get me coding tonight....now if we could just keep Outlook, Norton, and McAffee to stop locking up when they re-download messages they've already seen... I'm tired of the $ cd ~customer/Maildir; rm cur/*2\,S process that I seem to go through daily.
Unfortunately, the shortage of IPs really has little to do with the static/dynamic problem.
If you are a broadband provider, you CANNOT oversell relative to your IP space.
It has a lot to do with the fear of the corporation heads that someone might be be running a server, or some other malicious abuse of bandwidth (can detect my sarcasm?)
Working for an ISP, I've had the exact opposite experience: AVG would pick up the viruses that the Big Two missed.
In fact, I've so far not found an instance where one slipped by an up to date installation of AVG. The caveat is that it isn't so good at deleting files which need permission changes, nor is it very good at neutering the viruses it's unable to delete.
It's what we recommend to our customers. Then again, we can't recommend anything commercial to our customers, because they'll never install something they have to pay for, no matter how necessary.
Though it was done by Hisaishi, the changes were done at Disney's insistence.
They had very specific directions and concerns.
Hisaishi was, of course, upset, but Miyazaki told him to come at it with a fresh outlook and compose an entirely new track.
What you have is almost exactly the same overall except a) in places where different instruments were chosen (the older piece sounding, well, very 80s) and b) the quiet, solemn parts that Disney had "concerns" about are now given loud, distracting music
In a few places, you can hear where the composition sounds a tad more mature, and the soundtrack is somewhat "cleaner" sounding due to different recording technology (some audiophiles would just say that the old one sounds "warmer":>)
I suppose it was less of a slap in the face to have Hisaishi do the work, but it was, indeed, Disney who did the pushing, and almost every change was care of the mouse. Hisaishi did his best to make it sound acceptable to Americans, but, on the whole, I much prefer the older soundtrack, excepting a couple of pieces that sound, on the whole, highly similar to the old soundtrack.
Let's take a group that has a great likelyhood of lacking proper nutrition, give them a supplement, and assume the results would work on a broader scale.
Sure, feeding oranges to someone with scurvy might help them gain strength and improve mood, but it doesn't mean it would do it in a normal case.
That said, I hope it really is applicable in normal cases:) It's certainly been a great help in my own exercising. Not only did it help me gain faster in exercising, but, more importantly, exercising didn't hurt any more. There was that problem with gas, though...
Fortunately, there are creatine supplements which are less likely to cause the problems of gas, bloating, and water retention.
I suppose, though, that these are the same people who run WindowMaker. You get the lovely choice of either having the task icons covering up your applications, or having to shade all your applications to get to the task icons. Pure genius, huh?
Could someone explain to me HOW it is possible to use WindowMaker efficiently? Then maybe I could make better use of these Desklets/whatever-you-wanna-call-em.
S3 cards don't have spectacular drivers. I'd be hesitant to say you could get full speed DVD playback on anything with them. (not that it's much better on Windows...)
It's hard to debug without full hardware/software lineups, though...
...is Wal-Mart obligated to carry certain products?
There are many, many other evils--REAL evils, without hyperbole, that we could speak of when referring to Wal-Mart, but what is wrong with them refusing to carry something or display it in the open? If they were actively using their market force to force something upon someone, that's one thing, but if a company takes it upon themselves to censor something so that they can sell it in Wal-Mart under current policies, that's not Wal-Mart's evil.
We don't complain that Texaco is wrong for not carrying prescription drugs; They just don't cater to that market. I don't see the problem with Wal-Mart refusing to carry items that they find offensive: They just don't cater to that market.
The people who do matter understand that CMYK is important. There's not much to be done about it, though, because it is patented technology.
As long as we're not dealing with a standard that is patent encumbered, it will come in due time. (Due time being the time of those who feel like working on it. They aren't on anyone else's time table.)
Under the GPL, you're free to sell the software, at any price you desire. That's fine, since no one is obligated to buy it. You must also provide the source, but only to the same people you distribute the binaries to.
So, what they're doing is just fine by the license. We'll see how much success they have by the market, though.
Actually, it's quite easy to view documents side-by-side with tabs; There is nothing stopping you from having two browser windows while using tabs. Of course, what makes this usable is the ease of "breaking out" tabs, and returning them. Fortunately, this is rarely hard.
MDI has got problems, to be certain, but so does CSDI. The biggest being the unfortunate problem of how it's rare to see a decent navigation implementation for switching between applications as well as between windows, something Apple got closer to "right", I think. (The second biggest being the frequent lack of a visual reference to group windows together, and past that, imo, no arguments are reasonable). We moved beyond the MDI, but CSDI usability has yet to keep up with the interface itself.
That's just the thing: In my sight, Macs have always been lacking logic, even before my experience on other OSs.
Want to remove the floppy? Gee, how about using the same method I had used to *insert* the darned thing? No, you have to do something completely different.
That is not logic. I'm sure it's convenient after some fashion, but I always found the Apple UI to be full of such illogical inconsistencies. That's why so many US based PC users liken old school Mac users to the French.:)
I in no way mentioned Microsoft except, perhaps, by association through saying that Klez, was, indeed, a problem.
I will bash Microsoft for their poor security record, if not for design then for their history of response.
Don't think it's an anti-MS slant, though: I will also be critical of anyone else who is irresponsible or incapable when it comes to taking care of the basic needs of paying customers.
...I tried bootdisk.com once when I needed to create a boot disk for Win95b and didn't have it installed at the time. Looked harmless enough.
Then one of their disk sets (or the installer) *erased my partition table*.
Fortunately, I had all my data on an old drive (I'd just transferred to the new drive), but that COULD have been disastrous.
Stay away from bootdisk.com, for your own good. The site maintainers may not have known what they were hosting, but either way, you'd be taking a risk.
(Warning: This will look like a plug for a bunch of webcomics. It probably is, but I have a valid point. Mod me into oblivion of you wish.)
The big players in the print industry seem to be the only guys getting real attention when it comes to producing "comics" on the web.
What about the Keenspot or the Keenspace groups? They have a valid revenue model, even if they aren't making a ton of money(making money is a secondary concern to them). Heck, they're doing the opposite of the big boys: Moving from the 'net to print media. (Check for Roomies! and Superosity in your local comic store)
Personally, I'd rather these, and others, than the majority of the junk the syndicates, et al, try to push onto the web. Nevermind X-Men, give me it's Walky!
Disclaimer: I run a webcomic, so this story pushed my buttons:)
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Should I assume it was encoded at 16kbps?
It took us a 486 DX4 before we could reliably play 128kbps MP3s without playing it in monaural.
At the ISP for which I work, while we are generally on top of things customer service-wise, the procedure goes something like this:
...now if we could just keep Outlook, Norton, and McAffee to stop locking up when they re-download messages they've already seen... I'm tired of the
Customer: "I can't download my email!"
Me: $ cd ~customer/Maildir; ls -s cur
Me: "There's a VERY large message here. I'll delete it."
Customer: "I'll tell them to stop sending those videos.
Our outsource support for after hours service recommends mail2web.com
Suffice to say that we need to implement a solution. Sadly, webmail is a HUGE resource hog as far as we've seen, so we're looking for solutions that won't require us to get a new building to have the space for extra racks and a generator outside for the extra power. I've read a few things here that will probably get me coding tonight.
$ cd ~customer/Maildir; rm cur/*2\,S
process that I seem to go through daily.
Unfortunately, the shortage of IPs really has little to do with the static/dynamic problem.
If you are a broadband provider, you CANNOT oversell relative to your IP space.
It has a lot to do with the fear of the corporation heads that someone might be be running a server, or some other malicious abuse of bandwidth (can detect my sarcasm?)
Working for an ISP, I've had the exact opposite experience: AVG would pick up the viruses that the Big Two missed.
In fact, I've so far not found an instance where one slipped by an up to date installation of AVG. The caveat is that it isn't so good at deleting files which need permission changes, nor is it very good at neutering the viruses it's unable to delete.
It's what we recommend to our customers. Then again, we can't recommend anything commercial to our customers, because they'll never install something they have to pay for, no matter how necessary.
GPL actually relies on copyright.
The author, being the copyright holder, authorizes copying by way of the GPL.
The communists.
Though it was done by Hisaishi, the changes were done at Disney's insistence.
:>)
They had very specific directions and concerns.
Hisaishi was, of course, upset, but Miyazaki told him to come at it with a fresh outlook and compose an entirely new track.
What you have is almost exactly the same overall except
a) in places where different instruments were chosen (the older piece sounding, well, very 80s)
and
b) the quiet, solemn parts that Disney had "concerns" about are now given loud, distracting music
In a few places, you can hear where the composition sounds a tad more mature, and the soundtrack is somewhat "cleaner" sounding due to different recording technology (some audiophiles would just say that the old one sounds "warmer"
I suppose it was less of a slap in the face to have Hisaishi do the work, but it was, indeed, Disney who did the pushing, and almost every change was care of the mouse. Hisaishi did his best to make it sound acceptable to Americans, but, on the whole, I much prefer the older soundtrack, excepting a couple of pieces that sound, on the whole, highly similar to the old soundtrack.
It's humor, that's all.
Now, if he were genuinely trolling, that might be a different matter, but it's just him being silly.
On this site, preferring Debian is something of a running gag, even if it is the predominant opinion.
Now THERE is a bright idea!
:) It's certainly been a great help in my own exercising. Not only did it help me gain faster in exercising, but, more importantly, exercising didn't hurt any more. There was that problem with gas, though...
Let's take a group that has a great likelyhood of lacking proper nutrition, give them a supplement, and assume the results would work on a broader scale.
Sure, feeding oranges to someone with scurvy might help them gain strength and improve mood, but it doesn't mean it would do it in a normal case.
That said, I hope it really is applicable in normal cases
Fortunately, there are creatine supplements which are less likely to cause the problems of gas, bloating, and water retention.
I've always had the same thoughts.
I suppose, though, that these are the same people who run WindowMaker. You get the lovely choice of either having the task icons covering up your applications, or having to shade all your applications to get to the task icons. Pure genius, huh?
Could someone explain to me HOW it is possible to use WindowMaker efficiently? Then maybe I could make better use of these Desklets/whatever-you-wanna-call-em.
You have the gist of it right, but the original text is NOT Latin, and you hamper the English rendition by adding the separate translation layer.
The ORIGINAL text is written in Lisp.
S3 cards don't have spectacular drivers. I'd be hesitant to say you could get full speed DVD playback on anything with them. (not that it's much better on Windows...)
It's hard to debug without full hardware/software lineups, though...
...is Wal-Mart obligated to carry certain products?
There are many, many other evils--REAL evils, without hyperbole, that we could speak of when referring to Wal-Mart, but what is wrong with them refusing to carry something or display it in the open? If they were actively using their market force to force something upon someone, that's one thing, but if a company takes it upon themselves to censor something so that they can sell it in Wal-Mart under current policies, that's not Wal-Mart's evil.
We don't complain that Texaco is wrong for not carrying prescription drugs; They just don't cater to that market. I don't see the problem with Wal-Mart refusing to carry items that they find offensive: They just don't cater to that market.
If they are distributing these tools, whether they're used in the end result or not, they should be distributing source.
Because those people don't matter.
The people who do matter understand that CMYK is important. There's not much to be done about it, though, because it is patented technology.
As long as we're not dealing with a standard that is patent encumbered, it will come in due time. (Due time being the time of those who feel like working on it. They aren't on anyone else's time table.)
They haven't violated the GPL.
Under the GPL, you're free to sell the software, at any price you desire. That's fine, since no one is obligated to buy it. You must also provide the source, but only to the same people you distribute the binaries to.
So, what they're doing is just fine by the license. We'll see how much success they have by the market, though.
And it does!
Install Linux, play yer oggs.
Actually, it's quite easy to view documents side-by-side with tabs; There is nothing stopping you from having two browser windows while using tabs. Of course, what makes this usable is the ease of "breaking out" tabs, and returning them. Fortunately, this is rarely hard.
MDI has got problems, to be certain, but so does CSDI. The biggest being the unfortunate problem of how it's rare to see a decent navigation implementation for switching between applications as well as between windows, something Apple got closer to "right", I think. (The second biggest being the frequent lack of a visual reference to group windows together, and past that, imo, no arguments are reasonable). We moved beyond the MDI, but CSDI usability has yet to keep up with the interface itself.
That's just the thing: In my sight, Macs have always been lacking logic, even before my experience on other OSs.
:)
Want to remove the floppy? Gee, how about using the same method I had used to *insert* the darned thing? No, you have to do something completely different.
That is not logic. I'm sure it's convenient after some fashion, but I always found the Apple UI to be full of such illogical inconsistencies. That's why so many US based PC users liken old school Mac users to the French.
FWIW, I think OS X is grand!
There's a funny thing about the worst episode of the Simpsons I've seen...
:)
I actually thought to myself "This is the worst episode ever" only to hear the comic shop guy rumble the fourth wall with his words:
"Worst. Episode. Ever."
I'm just glad the writers acknowledged it as they were doing it
I count you either a troll or a poor reader.
I in no way mentioned Microsoft except, perhaps, by association through saying that Klez, was, indeed, a problem.
I will bash Microsoft for their poor security record, if not for design then for their history of response.
Don't think it's an anti-MS slant, though: I will also be critical of anyone else who is irresponsible or incapable when it comes to taking care of the basic needs of paying customers.
As a contractor doing technical support for an ISP, I will attest to the fact that home users are hit very hard by problems such as Klez.
It's an epidemic.
On the other hand, we know of surprisingly few cases where machines were exploited on the network for other types of obvious security holes.
"We know of" being the key phrase.
...and how, exactly, can the generalization be made that "Christian parties" want more government interference?
Just wondering. (I can see the point about Socialist parties, though)
...I tried bootdisk.com once when I needed to create a boot disk for Win95b and didn't have it installed at the time. Looked harmless enough.
Then one of their disk sets (or the installer) *erased my partition table*.
Fortunately, I had all my data on an old drive (I'd just transferred to the new drive), but that COULD have been disastrous.
Stay away from bootdisk.com, for your own good. The site maintainers may not have known what they were hosting, but either way, you'd be taking a risk.
(Warning: This will look like a plug for a bunch of webcomics. It probably is, but I have a valid point. Mod me into oblivion of you wish.)
/. has Mega Tokyo banners!
:)
The big players in the print industry seem to be the only guys getting real attention when it comes to producing "comics" on the web.
What about the Keenspot or the Keenspace groups? They have a valid revenue model, even if they aren't making a ton of money(making money is a secondary concern to them). Heck, they're doing the opposite of the big boys: Moving from the 'net to print media. (Check for Roomies! and Superosity in your local comic store)
Another group is , which hosts, among other comics, Algernons Dilemma.
There are the big ones you've probably heard of, PvP and Sluggy Freelance who are actually making a living on their webcomic.
Heck,
Personally, I'd rather these, and others, than the majority of the junk the syndicates, et al, try to push onto the web. Nevermind X-Men, give me it's Walky!
Disclaimer: I run a webcomic, so this story pushed my buttons
J. T. MacLeod
-------------
UBERGEEK the Comic. Umlauts be danged.
http://ubergeekthecomic.com
It's neato!
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