Razr v3 was the best phone I've ever had - great form and function.
Light, durable, easy to carry, a nice feel in your hand. Just a nice piece of engineering.
I haven't used it in years but its still sitting here ready to go - it makes me question my move to other devices, and makes me a bit sad, every time I catch sight of it.
The ad industry has been around for a long time. It survived just fine with out knowing all kinds of info about everyone that happened to access a venue they occupied. They need to return to a methodology where they actually select the proper place to run their ads and pay for a period of exposure. The whole pay per impression/click concept is a large part of what has led us to where we are today. The industry has over reached what most people find as acceptable behavior and its past time for a correction. Sadly the DNT efforts aren't going to be successful unless there are some teeth somewhere.
No DRM, great. I don't use iTunes for that reason, prefer to buy the cd.
Cheaper, great.
Must use 1-Click - I absolutely loath 1-Click, I do not wish to leave a credit card on file with anyone - I don't mind entering the card number for the purchases I make.
No shopping cart, thus the 1-click requirement I imagine.
Must install downloader to pull in albums - very irritating and needlessly blocks some operating systems.
Downloader does not support, FreeBSD, Linux, or Windows 2000. Turns out that it will install and work ok on w2k - they didn't try it?
Downloader (unless I've missed it) doesn't allow you to format the track names according to your prefrences - so have to script something to reformat the names.
Downloader doesn't create a play list for that album, good thing we already have to write a script.
Fix these nits and I would be quite happy with it.
The crux of the problem is that the CA's have a different view of what the certs are for then the end users. They also have a vested interest in viewing it the way they do.
The person sitting at the browser wants to know that the communications are secure and they don't want to see any scary messages. Most of them do not have any idea that the the certs are also supposed to confirm identity.
There should be room to allow for encryption only type certs.
If he can detect the bogus keys then he could just terminate the program. Value of the bogus keys is now zero. Taking a punitive step beyond that is just idiocy.
For years I used a 133 box as a workstation running X with fvwm and later windowmaker without problem. The box also served a few mailing lists and hosted a small mud and web services.
I still have that box working deligently and capably as a firewall machine. 133Mhz provides plenty of cycles to get real work done when the operating system actually works well.
That being said - buildworld on such a box is a day long afair, (thankfully its simple to build on another machine and install over NFS). I wouldn't even try to start KDE, Gnome, or Firefox on it. I think that says more about "big software" then it does about the os.
Thanks to the *BSD's old hardware can still be put to good use.
I enjoyed The Daily Show when Craig Kilborne was hosting. I thought it might be the end when Jon came on board. I was wrong, Jon Stewart was entertaining and he had a good team.
He had perhaps the best return to tv after 9/11 of any of the talk show hosts. A very moving monologue.
But staff left, the show has become rather tired, and rather then picking on nearly everyone they have taken a decidedly one sided stance. Sure there are occassional diversions but for the most part its gotten tedious in its self afacing - though somehow still superior demeanor.
Momentum is carrying it forward still (so we see this deal) but its not headed upwards.
4dtv (www.4dtv.com) - big dish, much better signal, much wider selection. Ala carte pricing if you want it.
Most programming for the non-movie channels is comparatively cheap - around $7/year for comedy central and that's both the east and west feeds.
You can still chase wild feeds if you want to tinker a bit - a lot of the uplinks on ku are now in digital but they're not encrypted - just have to add a reciever to play with them.
And beside - a nice 10 or 12ft dish is just much cooler.
Here it's not, so DOVBS allows us to connect 24/7 to an ISP.
Comes to around $50/month to the phone company and $50/month to the ISP.
DOVBS means we can only do 112K but that's not that far from the 128K that we would get with a digital connection. Compression can bring that to 4x more but it depends on the nature of the data - has to be straight text to get the most benefit.
Now we're in the process of switching to a DSL line (actually something called Extended Network Services as the ISP doesn't have equipment at the telco), it will cut our bill in half and up the bandwidth considerably. Strangely, DSL from the ISP is better then from Verizon - Verizon couldn't provision a subnet and charged twice as much for an account with static ip - but the circuit to my ISP will pass through Verizon.
We got a great deal on Xerox NC60.... or so we thought. It was probably the single worst computer equipment purchase we've ever made.
Wonderful features, price was around $1k, great prints.
When you could get them...
I think we probably printed about 150 sheets with the thing. And we had to have the fuser replaced even to get that.
It was impossible to keep it running. It is impossible to get it repaired (without an expensive service contract it costs about $500 plus milage to get someone to look at it.)
Right now it just sits there. It jams every time a sheet goes through.
They didn't make the effort to remove the final "to be continued frame" and yet stuck in an extra frame thanking Farscape for four good seasons. It didn't say goodbye and thanks for the fish.
I've also pondered on the sheer quantity of copyrighted material that is all over the various save farscape sites. SciFi et al don't mind that? Not protecting their material? Seems unlikely. One alternative to that is of course that some of the stuff is actually sanctioned.
Sure smells of "lets really build some tension during the sumer... did what they see at the end really happen, did the show really end there..." etc etc.
Re:Great, and when they graduate with zero Windows
on
Maine School & Linux
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Thanks to the market many students have MS gear at home.
These kids will have linux experience.
Thanks to our former governor, many students have Macs.
While I'm not convinced the program was a good idea, I am very glad that they went with something non-MS.
Breadth of knowledge is important - the more exposure kids have to the differences between these systems the more likely it is that we will continue to see some diversity in operating systems. Moving between Aqua, X and Windows isn't much of a stretch, none of them will suffer in the market place for having exposure to these systems. Most will not delve into these machines any deeper then the UI. But they will know that there are choices.
We tried an outfit here in central Maine for about two weeks that did 802.11b fixed point wireless - it was horrible. The 400ms latency folks are speaking about would have literally been 100% better (yes 800 ms latency just to get to the wire).
Probably would work ok, if there weren't a lot of users, if the people doing actually had a clue, and they weren't using repeaters. Multipass and multiple hop radio relays make for a crappy user experience - we went - happily - back to ISDN. Cheaper, great latency, decent gaming if you want it. Sure huge downloads can be time consuming but its not as bad as you might think.
"chose the best tool for the job" is a rather silly notion when you think about...
This shinney widget will do exactly what you want it to do plus it will entertain you grandma. By the way... the price is $1M plus your first born son.
Or...we could use this thingy instead. It does pretty much what we want. We may have to cobble some other utitlies into the mix but it will get the job done well and true. It'll cost you, say, $3.50.
Best tool for the job sounds good. I'll give you that but if you look at it at the extremes it falls apart. A better sentiment would be "Choose the most appropriate tool for the job".
Its sad to see the kinds of posts that are being made.
America bad. America only super power left so they should let others walk all over them. Goverment evil. Hacker cool. Bush evil.
Please.
Being anti-government was the in thing back in the 60's kiddies, decide which generation you are part of. Also, I think its time some folks spent a few months reading some world history with an eye to comparing the "evil" US to what has happened in the past in other countries and regions . When you have a firm grip on that then rethink all this tripe.
Slashdot is getting to be more like kuro5hin every day.
The government should always be watched closely by the people. Hence elections, and failing that... the second amendment. The constitution and the bill of rights are suprisingly robust documents.
Slashdot Mirror
How many other countries or surrogates thereof did the same for any candidate? Or funneled contributions to campaigns?
I seem to remember a China/Clinton issue way back when.
If true it doesnt seem like anything new.
I've had this happen a lot.
One guy gave it to his new employer - had anice conversation with them.
Some one tried to sign up some kind of adult ed autmotive repair class in Scotland. I had to let them know that the commute would be prohibitive.
I was invited to a family christmas party. Who give family a bogus address?
It goes on and on. Used to bother me a lot but lately I have treated it as cheap entertainment.
Razr v3 was the best phone I've ever had - great form and function.
Light, durable, easy to carry, a nice feel in your hand. Just a nice piece of engineering.
I haven't used it in years but its still sitting here ready to go - it makes me question my move to other devices, and makes me a bit sad, every time I catch sight of it.
The ad industry has been around for a long time. It survived just fine with out knowing all kinds of info about everyone that happened to access a venue they occupied. They need to return to a methodology where they actually select the proper place to run their ads and pay for a period of exposure. The whole pay per impression/click concept is a large part of what has led us to where we are today. The industry has over reached what most people find as acceptable behavior and its past time for a correction. Sadly the DNT efforts aren't going to be successful unless there are some teeth somewhere.
oh, wait, that's a kde thing... I forget, is that evil or not now?
I can't decide if this is somehow cosmically appropriate or just distracting.
No DRM, great. I don't use iTunes for that reason, prefer to buy the cd.
Cheaper, great.
Must use 1-Click - I absolutely loath 1-Click, I do not wish to leave a credit card on file with anyone - I don't mind entering the card number for the purchases I make.
No shopping cart, thus the 1-click requirement I imagine.
Must install downloader to pull in albums - very irritating and needlessly blocks some operating systems.
Downloader does not support, FreeBSD, Linux, or Windows 2000. Turns out that it will install and work ok on w2k - they didn't try it?
Downloader (unless I've missed it) doesn't allow you to format the track names according to your prefrences - so have to script something to reformat the names.
Downloader doesn't create a play list for that album, good thing we already have to write a script.
Fix these nits and I would be quite happy with it.
The crux of the problem is that the CA's have a different view of what the certs are for then the end users. They also have a vested interest in viewing it the way they do.
The person sitting at the browser wants to know that the communications are secure and they don't want to see any scary messages. Most of them do not have any idea that the the certs are also supposed to confirm identity.
There should be room to allow for encryption only type certs.
FreeBSD would solve the problem of distribution sprawl.
If he can detect the bogus keys then he could just terminate the program. Value of the bogus keys is now zero. Taking a punitive step beyond that is just idiocy.
mod_perl is often a deal breaker
For years I used a 133 box as a workstation running X with fvwm and later windowmaker without problem. The box also served a few mailing lists and hosted a small mud and web services.
I still have that box working deligently and capably as a firewall machine. 133Mhz provides plenty of cycles to get real work done when the operating system actually works well.
That being said - buildworld on such a box is a day long afair, (thankfully its simple to build on another machine and install over NFS). I wouldn't even try to start KDE, Gnome, or Firefox on it. I think that says more about "big software" then it does about the os.
Thanks to the *BSD's old hardware can still be put to good use.
wow. flamebait becuase I don't belive the show is what it once was - my evil ways have been exposed...
I enjoyed The Daily Show when Craig Kilborne was hosting. I thought it might be the end when Jon came on board. I was wrong, Jon Stewart was entertaining and he had a good team.
He had perhaps the best return to tv after 9/11 of any of the talk show hosts. A very moving monologue.
But staff left, the show has become rather tired, and rather then picking on nearly everyone they have taken a decidedly one sided stance. Sure there are occassional diversions but for the most part its gotten tedious in its self afacing - though somehow still superior demeanor.
Momentum is carrying it forward still (so we see this deal) but its not headed upwards.
Lexx used this technique and did a pretty good job of it - especially considering it was being done for television.
4dtv (www.4dtv.com) - big dish, much better signal, much wider selection. Ala carte pricing if you want it.
Most programming for the non-movie channels is comparatively cheap - around $7/year for comedy central and that's both the east and west feeds.
You can still chase wild feeds if you want to tinker a bit - a lot of the uplinks on ku are now in digital but they're not encrypted - just have to add a reciever to play with them.
And beside - a nice 10 or 12ft dish is just much cooler.
check to see if local voice is tariffed or not.
Here it's not, so DOVBS allows us to connect 24/7 to an ISP.
Comes to around $50/month to the phone company and $50/month to the ISP.
DOVBS means we can only do 112K but that's not that far from the 128K that we would get with a digital connection. Compression can bring that to 4x more but it depends on the nature of the data - has to be straight text to get the most benefit.
Now we're in the process of switching to a DSL line (actually something called Extended Network Services as the ISP doesn't have equipment at the telco), it will cut our bill in half and up the bandwidth considerably. Strangely, DSL from the ISP is better then from Verizon - Verizon couldn't provision a subnet and charged twice as much for an account with static ip - but the circuit to my ISP will pass through Verizon.
We got a great deal on Xerox NC60.... or so we thought. It was probably the single worst computer equipment purchase we've ever made.
Wonderful features, price was around $1k, great prints.
When you could get them...
I think we probably printed about 150 sheets with the thing. And we had to have the fuser replaced even to get that.
It was impossible to keep it running. It is impossible to get it repaired (without an expensive service contract it costs about $500 plus milage to get someone to look at it.)
Right now it just sits there. It jams every time a sheet goes through.
Any time I see a Xerox product now I run.
Actually... their funky doc was feeding a tribble to one of his pets recently...
Loved the ship names - "I said, I have a very big stick", said quietly of course.
Publicity stunt occured to me as well.
They didn't make the effort to remove the final "to be continued frame" and yet stuck in an extra frame thanking Farscape for four good seasons. It didn't say goodbye and thanks for the fish.
I've also pondered on the sheer quantity of copyrighted material that is all over the various save farscape sites. SciFi et al don't mind that? Not protecting their material? Seems unlikely. One alternative to that is of course that some of the stuff is actually sanctioned.
Sure smells of "lets really build some tension during the sumer... did what they see at the end really happen, did the show really end there..." etc etc.
Thanks to the market many students have MS gear at home.
These kids will have linux experience.
Thanks to our former governor, many students have Macs.
While I'm not convinced the program was a good idea, I am very glad that they went with something non-MS.
Breadth of knowledge is important - the more exposure kids have to the differences between these systems the more likely it is that we will continue to see some diversity in operating systems. Moving between Aqua, X and Windows isn't much of a stretch, none of them will suffer in the market place for having exposure to these systems. Most will not delve into these machines any deeper then the UI. But they will know that there are choices.
We tried an outfit here in central Maine for about two weeks that did 802.11b fixed point wireless - it was horrible. The 400ms latency folks are speaking about would have literally been 100% better (yes 800 ms latency just to get to the wire).
Probably would work ok, if there weren't a lot of users, if the people doing actually had a clue, and they weren't using repeaters. Multipass and multiple hop radio relays make for a crappy user experience - we went - happily - back to ISDN. Cheaper, great latency, decent gaming if you want it. Sure huge downloads can be time consuming but its not as bad as you might think.
Fixed point wireless is something to be avoided.
"chose the best tool for the job" is a rather silly notion when you think about...
This shinney widget will do exactly what you want it to do plus it will entertain you grandma. By the way... the price is $1M plus your first born son.
Or...we could use this thingy instead. It does pretty much what we want. We may have to cobble some other utitlies into the mix but it will get the job done well and true. It'll cost you, say, $3.50.
Best tool for the job sounds good. I'll give you that but if you look at it at the extremes it falls apart. A better sentiment would be "Choose the most appropriate tool for the job".
Exactly.
Its sad to see the kinds of posts that are being made.
America bad. America only super power left so they should let others walk all over them. Goverment evil. Hacker cool. Bush evil.
Please.
Being anti-government was the in thing back in the 60's kiddies, decide which generation you are part of. Also, I think its time some folks spent a few months reading some world history with an eye to comparing the "evil" US to what has happened in the past in other countries and regions . When you have a firm grip on that then rethink all this tripe.
Slashdot is getting to be more like kuro5hin every day.
The government should always be watched closely by the people. Hence elections, and failing that... the second amendment. The constitution and the bill of rights are suprisingly robust documents.
These jerks were greedy and beyond that stupid.