however the article specifically states copying a "friends" mp3 and taking it home to copy to his own collection...
Wrong. "[D]ownload at a friend's house" could easily refer to using her cable modem to access some sort of paid account. Why should you be screwed by SDMI in that case? There's nothing illegitimate about the transaction.
I have no problems whatsoever SSH'ing into my home box from work; the only limitation I
encounter is that the upstream bandwidth is a little too limited for me to use VNC or to forward an X program running on my home box to my display at work, but that's a pretty minor limitation.
Guess I should count myself lucky. I don't spend all day in VNC, but I can use it (tunnelled, of course) for occasional emergencies. Seems like Optimum Online either has their act together in Upstate NY, or their ad blitz has not succeeded as well as they hoped.:-)
Have discovered that a fast VNC client seems to make more of a difference than a fast server, oddly. In my P233MMX days, it wasn't much fun even on a 100B LAN; now that I've got 1GHz of Athlon goodness, I can VNC into that same P233 host and it's just like being there.
Lemme know when I can get something other than a modem or (ugh) GEO satellite, and I'll gladly switch.
I feel your pain.:-) Took flippin' forever for Cablevision to finally get out to Pavement Narrows (which is just north of Bridge Freezes), and they never did follow up on my entry on their waiting list -- I got a little tag hanging on my doorknob from a local sales rep. Called up five minutes later and had it up and running three days later. That was about five months ago, and my DirecPC dish is doing nothing but giving some tired birds a place to sit. I ain't NEVER going back. Death first!
I've managed to bite, scratch, and claw my way up to 25 points, and it's a bit disappointing to find out (finally) that I have to make 40 or better to get that precious posting bonus.
It's especially frustrating because I really, REALLY try not to spout off unless I've got something to add to the conversation. So much for choosing quality over quantity.:-(
I've had real good luck with Maxtor, too, but the last "Maxtor" I bought turned out to be a Quantum!
Which would not have ticked me off quite so much if I hadn't been planning to make it part of my first RAID-5 machine, along with two other Maxtors. Wouldn't you know it, this one was not QUITE the same size as the others.
(And when do you find out about this? AFTER you open the box. Argh.)
Had a matched pair of IBM 40GB IDE drives --
IBM-DTLA-305040, according to/proc/ide -- set up as RAID 1. One of them rolled over and died recently. Might be related to power; I replaced the power supply fan same time I replaced the drive.
Reformatted it, and discovered about 8% was gone, all up in the high-numbered sectors. So I repartitioned to make sure those cylinders stayed unused, and put it back into service in another machine where nothing much interesting is going on.
Would have been nasty if it hadn't been mirrored, though.
Of course if Congress won't get off their butts and actually raise fuel efficiency standards by more than a gallon, well, all the research in the world isn't gonna help
Oh give me a break. Congress "mandating" economy standards is about as useful as legislating pi = 3.0.
Honda was doing interesting and grounbreaking work back in the mid 1970s -- look at the CVCC engine. (Used a little charge of rich fuel/air to light the main cylinder, which was too lean to ignite conventionally. Met the California clean air standards without a catalytic converter.)
We need more engineers who can think of stuff like that, and fewer Congresscritters bossing them around.
Slashdot cost me almost $300 by making me aware of the Handera 330 -- which also has a 320x240 screen, CF and SD slots, and the ability to swallow a 1GB microdrive. Not mentioned is that said drive costs as much as the rest of the unit, and with color I imagine this Toshiba is going to be "OHMYGOD! I just saw the price tag!" spendy.
But yeah, having a gig to play with would be real sweet. Five foot shelf of ebooks, and a nice chunk of space for Audible books, if they ever get with the program and add a cellphone earbud jack compatible with a Jabra.
Then we can all start lusting for heads-up displays.
Customer sits down at screen, searches for, previews titles, selects, enters cash or credit card, walks to end of machine
No, no -- customer browses magazine rack, sips a grande Starbucks and noshes a muffin, THEN walks to other end of machine. Cha-CHING! This is a Barnes and Noble dream.
It just seems unlikely that a third party can process sub-dollar charges and make any money on it.
I agree. That's why it's probably a good idea to batch and accumulate them. Look at it from the supplier's side -- does a one-time payment of two cents do you any good? Not really. From the buyer's side -- does making a one-time payment of two cents cost you more than it's worth in hassle? Sure does. An annual subscription is more convenient for both parties.
But it takes a track record over time to know that some site is worth a subscription. More than once I've drooled over some back issues of National Geographic or Smithsonian -- and yet it seems every time I've subscribed, I've gotten twelve really boring issues. So it makes more sense to buy those magazines off the newsstand than to subscribe.
Frustrating, isn't it? Best suggestion I can make is to reward the sites that are consistently good, whatever that means to you.
...the wacky religious overtones? I recall something about this being due to the funding for the series coming from a Mormon leader or something like that. Anyone care to clarify / correct that?
ROFL! JMS is on the record in many places talking about his atheism.
I think it's cool that this doesn't keep him from recognizing, respecting, and exploring what most people would call spirituality.
(Cue the Sagan quote about how scientists change their minds when people prove them wrong, but religious leaders and politicians never do.)
wasn't ORBS something that you used if you wanted to?
It got a little more complicated. If your provider decided to use it, for one thing, you didn't get the choice to turn it off. Cf. the problems with MAPS and sites hosted at Abovenet.
Much, much worse is when one of these systems starts picking up "spite" entries that do not tie back to any demonstrable spam incident.
That's the mob mentality Gilmore is describing -- "all those who are not with us in the battle against spammers are our enemies!"
If I ever win the lottery, I've got $100,000 earmarked to picking out the spammer who'll make the best example, and putting him or her in jail.
But rabid as this subject makes me, I still have enough self-control to realize that ORBS was perceived as being abused, and that this ultimately rendered it useless.
Inebriety is cause for immediate and indefinite expulsion at the expelled person(s)'s cost!
Which would be even more of a real disincentive if that expulsion involved an airlock, halfway to Mars. (Though expulsion above the Artic circle is no joke, either.)
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At $50, I really hesitated to buy this puppy, but it has a heck of a lot of content on issues surrounding mail delivery, plus information that I just couldn't tease out of the Postfix docs. (Yeah, yeah, I know: Use the Source. I'll do that in my copious free time, which will be life after next at this rate.)
Sorry to hear it didn't have Venema's blessing, and it could do without the holy-roller dedication page, but bottom line I don't regret the "buy" decision.
I still have a DEC VT plugged in to my Linux servers via serial cables. It's like using a piece of history for daily needs.
Or like the classic Volkswagen bug in Woody Allen's Sleeper -- the dang things just won't die. Some Compaqs are like that, too -- I've still got my old Aero notebook, and it's on its third hard drive now.
I've finally forgotten the 'finger macros' for EDT, though...
Yes! I've had people asking me for a couple of weeks now, "What's this Postgres thing, anyway?" Nice, real nice, to be able to give them a snappy answer. "You heard of Red Hat? It's their database product." Cha-ching! Listen to the dime drop.:-)
The first time I heard about Cyc (in Insight magazine, around 1986), the article blew my mind. Why? As explained back then, Cyc digested large volumes of facts overnight looking for commonalities and presenting questions to a researcher or trainer the next morning in order to resolve inconsistencies. Well, Cyc 'noticed' that the entities involved in the Cyc project mostly seemed to be 'human', and one morning it asked its trainer "Am I human?"
The trainer responded, "No, you're a computer program."
The next morning Cyc asked if there were any other non-human computer programs who were members of the project.
If that isn't enough to get your attention, I can't imagine what would.
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It's a (sad) commentary on our era that the notion of a sincere, morally clean-cut leader makes one instantly groan or start to think in terms of parody... but Kevin Sorbo actually manages to pull it off. I'm averaging about 50/50 -- it's not a "must see" program -- but the ones I've watched were entertaining and still conveyed a message. Give 'em points for an honest effort.
10,000 is not worth the 64,000 + 2 years the MBA will cost you
That's $10,000 the first year... and the second... more like $12,000 the third.... If you're more than six years from retirement, it works out to ~$180,000 return on the investment.
Maybe even a quarter-million.
10,000 is not worth the 64,000 + 2 years the MBA will cost you
That's $10,000 the first year... and the second... more like $12,000 the third.... If you're more than six years from retirement, it works out to ~$180,000 return on the investment.
Maybe even a quarter-million.
It could be interesting to find out what sort of training in 'keyboarding' the typical RSI sufferer had.
When I took it, it was called 'typing' umpty-many years ago, and the old battleaxe* who taught the class kept telling me to put my feet flat on the floor and straighten up. I really thought she was making a big deal out of nothing -- but here it is a couple of lifetimes later (How old are you?), and when my hands get tired, I stop and it goes away... unlike an RSI.
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Wrong. "[D]ownload at a friend's house" could easily refer to using her cable modem to access some sort of paid account. Why should you be screwed by SDMI in that case? There's nothing illegitimate about the transaction.
Guess I should count myself lucky. I don't spend all day in VNC, but I can use it (tunnelled, of course) for occasional emergencies. Seems like Optimum Online either has their act together in Upstate NY, or their ad blitz has not succeeded as well as they hoped. :-)
Have discovered that a fast VNC client seems to make more of a difference than a fast server, oddly. In my P233MMX days, it wasn't much fun even on a 100B LAN; now that I've got 1GHz of Athlon goodness, I can VNC into that same P233 host and it's just like being there.
I feel your pain. :-) Took flippin' forever for Cablevision to finally get out to Pavement Narrows (which is just north of Bridge Freezes), and they never did follow up on my entry on their waiting list -- I got a little tag hanging on my doorknob from a local sales rep. Called up five minutes later and had it up and running three days later. That was about five months ago, and my DirecPC dish is doing nothing but giving some tired birds a place to sit. I ain't NEVER going back. Death first!
I've managed to bite, scratch, and claw my way up to 25 points, and it's a bit disappointing to find out (finally) that I have to make 40 or better to get that precious posting bonus.
:-(
It's especially frustrating because I really, REALLY try not to spout off unless I've got something to add to the conversation. So much for choosing quality over quantity.
I've had real good luck with Maxtor, too, but the last "Maxtor" I bought turned out to be a Quantum!
Which would not have ticked me off quite so much if I hadn't been planning to make it part of my first RAID-5 machine, along with two other Maxtors. Wouldn't you know it, this one was not QUITE the same size as the others.
(And when do you find out about this? AFTER you open the box. Argh.)
Had a matched pair of IBM 40GB IDE drives -- /proc/ide -- set up as RAID 1. One of them rolled over and died recently. Might be related to power; I replaced the power supply fan same time I replaced the drive.
IBM-DTLA-305040, according to
Reformatted it, and discovered about 8% was gone, all up in the high-numbered sectors. So I repartitioned to make sure those cylinders stayed unused, and put it back into service in another machine where nothing much interesting is going on.
Would have been nasty if it hadn't been mirrored, though.
Oh give me a break. Congress "mandating" economy standards is about as useful as legislating pi = 3.0.
Honda was doing interesting and grounbreaking work back in the mid 1970s -- look at the CVCC engine. (Used a little charge of rich fuel/air to light the main cylinder, which was too lean to ignite conventionally. Met the California clean air standards without a catalytic converter.)
We need more engineers who can think of stuff like that, and fewer Congresscritters bossing them around.
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But yeah, having a gig to play with would be real sweet. Five foot shelf of ebooks, and a nice chunk of space for Audible books, if they ever get with the program and add a cellphone earbud jack compatible with a Jabra.
Then we can all start lusting for heads-up displays.
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No, no -- customer browses magazine rack, sips a grande Starbucks and noshes a muffin, THEN walks to other end of machine. Cha-CHING! This is a Barnes and Noble dream.
Gimme.
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I agree. That's why it's probably a good idea to batch and accumulate them. Look at it from the supplier's side -- does a one-time payment of two cents do you any good? Not really. From the buyer's side -- does making a one-time payment of two cents cost you more than it's worth in hassle? Sure does. An annual subscription is more convenient for both parties.
But it takes a track record over time to know that some site is worth a subscription. More than once I've drooled over some back issues of National Geographic or Smithsonian -- and yet it seems every time I've subscribed, I've gotten twelve really boring issues. So it makes more sense to buy those magazines off the newsstand than to subscribe.
Frustrating, isn't it? Best suggestion I can make is to reward the sites that are consistently good, whatever that means to you.
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Funny coincidence to see this thread "pop up" right after doing that.
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Mutt rocks. Takes a little getting used to, but it was worth it. I finally aliased 'pine' to point to mutt on my machine to keep from backsliding.
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ROFL! JMS is on the record in many places talking about his atheism.
I think it's cool that this doesn't keep him from recognizing, respecting, and exploring what most people would call spirituality.
(Cue the Sagan quote about how scientists change their minds when people prove them wrong, but religious leaders and politicians never do.)
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It got a little more complicated. If your provider decided to use it, for one thing, you didn't get the choice to turn it off. Cf. the problems with MAPS and sites hosted at Abovenet.
Much, much worse is when one of these systems starts picking up "spite" entries that do not tie back to any demonstrable spam incident.
That's the mob mentality Gilmore is describing -- "all those who are not with us in the battle against spammers are our enemies!"
If I ever win the lottery, I've got $100,000 earmarked to picking out the spammer who'll make the best example, and putting him or her in jail.
But rabid as this subject makes me, I still have enough self-control to realize that ORBS was perceived as being abused, and that this ultimately rendered it useless.
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Which would be even more of a real disincentive if that expulsion involved an airlock, halfway to Mars. (Though expulsion above the Artic circle is no joke, either.)
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Sorry to hear it didn't have Venema's blessing, and it could do without the holy-roller dedication page, but bottom line I don't regret the "buy" decision.
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I've finally forgotten the 'finger macros' for EDT, though...
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The trainer responded, "No, you're a computer program."
The next morning Cyc asked if there were any other non-human computer programs who were members of the project.
If that isn't enough to get your attention, I can't imagine what would.
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That's $10,000 the first year... and the second... more like $12,000 the third.... If you're more than six years from retirement, it works out to ~$180,000 return on the investment. Maybe even a quarter-million.
Does that sound better?
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That's $10,000 the first year... and the second... more like $12,000 the third.... If you're more than six years from retirement, it works out to ~$180,000 return on the investment. Maybe even a quarter-million.
Does that sound better?
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When I took it, it was called 'typing' umpty-many years ago, and the old battleaxe* who taught the class kept telling me to put my feet flat on the floor and straighten up. I really thought she was making a big deal out of nothing -- but here it is a couple of lifetimes later (How old are you?), and when my hands get tired, I stop and it goes away... unlike an RSI.
*I mean that affectionately. Really.
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