All Comcast customers have a free McAfee subscription which has a traffic monitor built in. The traffic monitor shows usage by last boot, totals for the current month, inbound/outbound etc. I would imagine many other firewalls would have these features as well. (Yes I know, "Comcrap" / "McKrappy" and all that...)
I seem to recall Yahoo flushing their user accounts a few years back. My google fu is weak so I'm not finding any links. I believe it was even discussed on Slashdot though.
This is not a 'fact' at all. It is one singular piece of research by a student with a small sample. Most everyones lives with a large component of 'meat space' meaning that they work with real people and real events in full color in daily life. I'll buy in to this when there are dozens of studies with proper control groups that all come to a similar conclusion.
Microsoft's been the programming market's Johnny-Come-Lately since
One of the major reasons that MS got into its current position is that they offered many nice programming tools that Corporations liked. Hate on MS all you want but they really did have the right idea very early on to make many tools available for custom development, and companies loved it. Yes that also includes VB, shock of all shocks.
I'm not trolling you, but you do realize that economically the US and CA are very much tied to one another? You don't have to like it, but it really is the truth: If the US crashes so do you.
A little off-topic but I hope relevant: I was a Rotary Exchange student for my senior year of Highschool. It was honestly one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life. You are correct about trying to speak the local language. If you at least try, you will be treated nice, if you just speak English then they are sometimes not so helpful.
For anyone that is interested in an exchange program that doesn't cost a fortune, the Rotary Club is a great way to go, that is what I did and I loved the families I got to live with.
I certainly view the world with a different perspective after having that experience, and learned much more than I think I would have by just having a regular year of school. The exchange experience has served me well in my career as well.
That is very reasonable, and I would love to have something like that. Good for you. Here in Portland everyone thinks their houses are worth more than 6x the median household salary. PDX is also one of the cheapest places to live on the west coast.
Agreed. The so called 'home owners' are not actually owners. They are home 'borrowers'. It was never really their house to begin with.
Housing should get back to a reasonable level where 2 people earning an honest income should be able to get into a starter home. And NO, $300,000 for a shoe-box with a leaky roof is not a starter home.
Even a consumer can get 3.00% in a traditional savings account (ING / Orange, for one). If you are willing to lock up money into a CD you can get just over 4% (with monthly roll-overs I'm sure PayPal could manage that). A corporation should be able to manage slightly better than that, even with the current economic issues. Whether that wil l keep you ahead of inflation is another topic. Locking an account into escrow is a money grab (0% interest), as is restricting everyone to use their in-house payment + fee service.
So correct. I slapped together a scribble application in a matter of hours just a month ago and thought nothing of it.
Admittedly it was for fire inspections on the Pocket PC so they could jot down the location / rough floor-plan of certain items, but it isn't that much of a stretch to apply it here. This does not fit into the 'not obvious to someone skilled in the art' clause of getting a patent at all.
Interestingly enough in C#: int i = 0; i = i++ + i++; results in i = 1. I would have expected 3 or possibly 2. Apparently it ignores the second part? Any insight?
It's the same here, except it is also a bit cheaper. I got a TracFone for $15.00 at the grocery store (does what I need it to do), keeping minutes on it and / active runs about.15 -.20 (depending on how large a chunk you purchase at a time) a 'unit', so it ends up about $5.00 a month for me.
Our planet is ~70% covered by water. It is (barring base temperature, more later) at atmospheric equilibrium and has been for millions of years. CO2 is NOT at equilibrium. Put more water into the atmosphere and it rains out. CO2 is measurably increasing since we are pumping carbon that was sequestered eons ago back into the atmosphere. How can this not make sense to anyone? When you upset the base line with a green house gas that is NOT in equilibrium you upset the base temperature, thereby raising the base line of water vapor and expanding the effect. You are pointing out a symptom while ignoring the base cause.
Other posters have said that aerial photography is involved so I'll side-step that one.
Where this is really cool is when you get out to maybe some potential camping ground areas that are displayed with their current satellite imagery. Some of it is not very good and does not really reveal much more than green blobs / chunks. 50cm for these areas would be a very cool addition especially when you combine it with the topography maps they offer.
I agree with you about Acrobat getting slower/bloated, however Acrobat has been adding serious functionality. This is mostly in the form of fillable & routable Forms. Most people do not need that so one of the many free readers will be fine.
I have been working on a PDF project and NONE of the many (including non-free) other products that I tried out could pull off what Acrobat libraries can. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to get hold of Adobe (even though they offer an SDK channel) and work out an ISV license. They OFFER it, but just won't answer their phones. Big companies can be wierd like that.
Who the hell modded this insightful??? The poster has completely ignored our historical interference in the Iranian government and only posts about the repercussions of said interference. The Iranians have every right to feel the way they do given the history of what the US has done in that country. I'm not Iranian, but the few that I have met have been (mostly) pretty decent people. The US holds a lot of blame in its own hands for the bad relations.
My apologies for a random response. This looks as good of a place as any to reply to:)
What happens if I find the GPS device, toss it in to a random street gutter? Am I liable for the device now? Do I go to court? Can they prove it? Am I now guilty of interfering with a police investigation? Do I have to pay for the (probably expensive) device?
I don't have a problem if they have a warrant. I don't have a problem with wire-tapping with a warrant. This seems to go a little over-board.
Cheers.
Replying to you since I haven't seen this mentioned before and it seems to fit:
I've written a smallish payroll system, and I would guess that a bigger problem is withholding taxes (the IRS wants their money!), as well as child support payments, any judgments against individuals are decided in the courts, and probably must continue. There are also rules that you cannot simply keep deducting someones check into the negative number range. So then there would have to be some sort of escrow account set up to cover that and still cover the minimum pay requirement. When the budget is passed there must be some way to cross-correlate the escrow with all of the deductions - the temporary minimum wage. Our payroll had to take all this into account without even the escrow portion of it stuff like that tends to get messy. Cheers.
Huh? I had the same happen to me. I was able to re-take my Y! account just over the web by answering some of the 'secret' questions that I had created when I originally set up the account. My account is about 10 years old so it took a couple of tries to remember all the answers. After that I reset my password, done. Not to flame you, but it's hard for me to believe a CC number and all that would not have been more than sufficient. It did take a bit of digging to figure out how to do it over the web (they kinda bury it in a hidden away part of their site), but it worked really well for me. This was just 7 months ago or so for me.
We do that here too. The last company I worked for purchased a warehouse that was a bit down the road and had a rail line running between the two buildings. We played with wireless for a little while until extra offices were put in the new building and the wireless was simply inadequate. We ran 6 fibers in a pipe just as you describe.
That is exactly how I have arranged dual boot for years, however I've only ever gone as far as changing the boot sequence in BIOS when I want to change the OS. I learned that by getting burned in the past, nice to see I'm not the only one to have figured that little trick out.
In addition to maxumes comment, you can put in cutoff switches (you hinted at the expense, just keep doing it with regular maintenance + future planning, switches aren't that expensive) and have them cut off the power at both ends of the break. Other than just being a good idea planning for the future, it isn't that complicated. In the short term, You could also have mandatory switch boxes (we already have those, they are called electric meters) at each house, anyone feeding power into the grid would be required to have a fluorescent strip out on the street or the house front so the box could be shut off (they already have right-of-way access) so they would know which ones to turn off in areas not fully upgraded. Just because something might take a little bit of effort and require extra information and some planning does not make it unworkable, that's what computers and infrastructure are for is it not?
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All Comcast customers have a free McAfee subscription which has a traffic monitor built in. The traffic monitor shows usage by last boot, totals for the current month, inbound/outbound etc. I would imagine many other firewalls would have these features as well. (Yes I know, "Comcrap" / "McKrappy" and all that...)
That's funny, my iGoogle page changed just over 3 weeks ago. I didn't like it.
I seem to recall Yahoo flushing their user accounts a few years back. My google fu is weak so I'm not finding any links. I believe it was even discussed on Slashdot though.
This is not a 'fact' at all. It is one singular piece of research by a student with a small sample. Most everyones lives with a large component of 'meat space' meaning that they work with real people and real events in full color in daily life. I'll buy in to this when there are dozens of studies with proper control groups that all come to a similar conclusion.
Microsoft's been the programming market's Johnny-Come-Lately since
One of the major reasons that MS got into its current position is that they offered many nice programming tools that Corporations liked. Hate on MS all you want but they really did have the right idea very early on to make many tools available for custom development, and companies loved it. Yes that also includes VB, shock of all shocks.
There goes my karma :(
I'm not trolling you, but you do realize that economically the US and CA are very much tied to one another? You don't have to like it, but it really is the truth: If the US crashes so do you.
For anyone that is interested in an exchange program that doesn't cost a fortune, the Rotary Club is a great way to go, that is what I did and I loved the families I got to live with.
more info here: http://www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/youthprograms/RotaryYouthExchange/Pages/ridefault.aspx/
I certainly view the world with a different perspective after having that experience, and learned much more than I think I would have by just having a regular year of school. The exchange experience has served me well in my career as well.
That is very reasonable, and I would love to have something like that. Good for you. Here in Portland everyone thinks their houses are worth more than 6x the median household salary. PDX is also one of the cheapest places to live on the west coast.
Housing should get back to a reasonable level where 2 people earning an honest income should be able to get into a starter home. And NO, $300,000 for a shoe-box with a leaky roof is not a starter home.
Even a consumer can get 3.00% in a traditional savings account (ING / Orange, for one). If you are willing to lock up money into a CD you can get just over 4% (with monthly roll-overs I'm sure PayPal could manage that). A corporation should be able to manage slightly better than that, even with the current economic issues.
Whether that wil l keep you ahead of inflation is another topic.
Locking an account into escrow is a money grab (0% interest), as is restricting everyone to use their in-house payment + fee service.
The red / blue combination does not allow for full color 3D, the polarized and shuttered glasses do.
So correct. I slapped together a scribble application in a matter of hours just a month ago and thought nothing of it. Admittedly it was for fire inspections on the Pocket PC so they could jot down the location / rough floor-plan of certain items, but it isn't that much of a stretch to apply it here. This does not fit into the 'not obvious to someone skilled in the art' clause of getting a patent at all.
Interestingly enough in C#: int i = 0; i = i++ + i++; results in i = 1. I would have expected 3 or possibly 2. Apparently it ignores the second part? Any insight?
It's the same here, except it is also a bit cheaper. I got a TracFone for $15.00 at the grocery store (does what I need it to do), keeping minutes on it and / active runs about .15 - .20 (depending on how large a chunk you purchase at a time) a 'unit', so it ends up about $5.00 a month for me.
Our planet is ~70% covered by water. It is (barring base temperature, more later) at atmospheric equilibrium and has been for millions of years. CO2 is NOT at equilibrium. Put more water into the atmosphere and it rains out. CO2 is measurably increasing since we are pumping carbon that was sequestered eons ago back into the atmosphere. How can this not make sense to anyone? When you upset the base line with a green house gas that is NOT in equilibrium you upset the base temperature, thereby raising the base line of water vapor and expanding the effect. You are pointing out a symptom while ignoring the base cause.
Other posters have said that aerial photography is involved so I'll side-step that one. Where this is really cool is when you get out to maybe some potential camping ground areas that are displayed with their current satellite imagery. Some of it is not very good and does not really reveal much more than green blobs / chunks. 50cm for these areas would be a very cool addition especially when you combine it with the topography maps they offer.
I agree with you about Acrobat getting slower/bloated, however Acrobat has been adding serious functionality. This is mostly in the form of fillable & routable Forms. Most people do not need that so one of the many free readers will be fine. I have been working on a PDF project and NONE of the many (including non-free) other products that I tried out could pull off what Acrobat libraries can. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to get hold of Adobe (even though they offer an SDK channel) and work out an ISV license. They OFFER it, but just won't answer their phones. Big companies can be wierd like that.
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Who the hell modded this insightful??? The poster has completely ignored our historical interference in the Iranian government and only posts about the repercussions of said interference. The Iranians have every right to feel the way they do given the history of what the US has done in that country. I'm not Iranian, but the few that I have met have been (mostly) pretty decent people. The US holds a lot of blame in its own hands for the bad relations.
My apologies for a random response. This looks as good of a place as any to reply to :)
What happens if I find the GPS device, toss it in to a random street gutter? Am I liable for the device now? Do I go to court? Can they prove it? Am I now guilty of interfering with a police investigation? Do I have to pay for the (probably expensive) device?
I don't have a problem if they have a warrant. I don't have a problem with wire-tapping with a warrant. This seems to go a little over-board.
Cheers.
Replying to you since I haven't seen this mentioned before and it seems to fit: I've written a smallish payroll system, and I would guess that a bigger problem is withholding taxes (the IRS wants their money!), as well as child support payments, any judgments against individuals are decided in the courts, and probably must continue. There are also rules that you cannot simply keep deducting someones check into the negative number range. So then there would have to be some sort of escrow account set up to cover that and still cover the minimum pay requirement. When the budget is passed there must be some way to cross-correlate the escrow with all of the deductions - the temporary minimum wage. Our payroll had to take all this into account without even the escrow portion of it stuff like that tends to get messy. Cheers.
Huh? I had the same happen to me. I was able to re-take my Y! account just over the web by answering some of the 'secret' questions that I had created when I originally set up the account. My account is about 10 years old so it took a couple of tries to remember all the answers. After that I reset my password, done. Not to flame you, but it's hard for me to believe a CC number and all that would not have been more than sufficient. It did take a bit of digging to figure out how to do it over the web (they kinda bury it in a hidden away part of their site), but it worked really well for me. This was just 7 months ago or so for me.
We do that here too. The last company I worked for purchased a warehouse that was a bit down the road and had a rail line running between the two buildings. We played with wireless for a little while until extra offices were put in the new building and the wireless was simply inadequate. We ran 6 fibers in a pipe just as you describe.
That is exactly how I have arranged dual boot for years, however I've only ever gone as far as changing the boot sequence in BIOS when I want to change the OS. I learned that by getting burned in the past, nice to see I'm not the only one to have figured that little trick out.
In addition to maxumes comment, you can put in cutoff switches (you hinted at the expense, just keep doing it with regular maintenance + future planning, switches aren't that expensive) and have them cut off the power at both ends of the break. Other than just being a good idea planning for the future, it isn't that complicated. In the short term, You could also have mandatory switch boxes (we already have those, they are called electric meters) at each house, anyone feeding power into the grid would be required to have a fluorescent strip out on the street or the house front so the box could be shut off (they already have right-of-way access) so they would know which ones to turn off in areas not fully upgraded. Just because something might take a little bit of effort and require extra information and some planning does not make it unworkable, that's what computers and infrastructure are for is it not?