My earliest memory is from the 6th grade.
I have very few memories from high school,
and not much more from college. I'm 39.
(This is not a joke. No, I didn't do a lot of drugs.)
I have no trouble with phone numbers or short term stuff, but the past is dim.
Example: I don't remember the names of some of my college roommates. (Note: roommates, not friends.)
Another example: About 10 years back, I went to a lot of weddings in a 2 or 3 year time period. I have some generic wedding & reception memories, but I can't relate most of them to specific weddings.
Does this describe a particular type of memory problem? Could anything regain past memories, once they're forgotten?
...then don't friggin sell 1Mb up. Don't sell me a service for $39.95/month, then change the service in the middle..
The post you're replying to said that the standard config was for 1 Mbps up. Nobody "sold" 1 Mbps up,
or changed the advertised service in the middle of a contract.
OOL's advertising has always been very careful to not specify any speeds at all.
We use OOL and we got the mail everyone's talking about. And for about two minutes it made me think about switching to DSL and DirectTV.
Then I remembered that I'm getting mad bandwith/$ (link: fastest ISP's). I've measured 6 Mbps to an OOL server and 3.8 Mbps to the other coast. For $30/month. DSL would be 700 kpbs (about 1/10th) for $50/month.
Also, it's their business and they've had a "no servers" policy since before I subscribed. I wouldn't want anyone telling me how to define my business. If we don't like it we can vote with our wallets. But this compromise is easy for me.
That said, I am an occasional P2P user, and I think sharing is appropriate to the model. I'll be looking into how much usage it takes to draw any attention and if the penalties are temporary caps (vs. being booted). But at this rate and price, I don't want to get booted!
New Jersey is positively flooded with laid-off and bought-out telecom geeks looking for jobs. I know several people that have been out of work for over a year. People with experience and local contacts are lined up for any potential opening. I heard a story about 300 applications to teach an economics course at a local community college (because it's sort of technical).
Also, parts of it are toxic hellholes and most of it is very expensive compared to most of the country.
My 73 year old, physically handicapped Mother uses WebTV (classic) for e-mail. I don't think she gets anything out of the surfing capabilities, but that may be lack of interest. She is definitely not computer literate. The more complicated control-your-tv-experience model would definitely be too much for her.
She lost a couple due to power surges or something, but I could always find the "classic" model on sale cheap somewhere. (vanns.com once, BestBuy B&M another time). She's had Phillips, Sony, and RCA, I think.
Surfing is possible, but the resolution causes problems, especially with sites with > 2 columns,
like slashdot.org, my.yahoo.com, etc. The "big column" gets squished pretty small.
Overall I recommend the classic and a keyboard. (I hope the classic's haven't been discontinued.) If they're not-tech savvy, expect some support calls. That's been a little challenging for me, given that I don't have a WebTV and she's 700 miles away.
Oh yeah, service. My mom's in a fairly rural location and WebTV didn't have a POP nearby. So she had to pay a compatible ISP ~$20 and a reduced WebTV fee ~$10. Since then, they did get a POP and she dropped the ISP and just pays WebTV ~$20. But she never would have known if I wasn't registering a new box after one fried.
My experience isn't first hand, but a lot of folks in alt.cellular.verizon are complaining about Verizon's new "Get It Now" service (with BREW phones). Not only can you not write s/w, but you can only download what Verizon is selling. This includes ringtones and background images!
I took latin in High School, and it easily boosted my SAT's by a good hundred points.
While I have a strong vocabulary, it never hurts to improve it, and learning latin made learning new words much easier!
It has helped in more ways than I can possibly express.
"An added bonus for record companies and retailers, who are engaged in a battle against piracy, is that the relative complexity of DVD-Audios and SACDs makes them much harder to copy."
The added bonus is based on the expectation that we'll buy everything again.
In the large company where I work, all access to Hotmail, Yahoo, etc is blocked at the firewall.
This was done where I work too, in the name of security.
This by the same CIO that has forced Outlook and Exchange on most of the corporation.
But I read mail on a Sun and have never had a virus problem in my life. It's quite an inconvenience.
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Why can't the government just look at what is going on and change things? And when I say change things, I don't mean adding new laws - REPEAL OLD ONES, AND STOP MAKING NEW ONES!!
I've often thought that there ought to be a rule or policy that for every new law passed, two must be repealed.
Ever hear the line "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." ? So what, we're all supposed to commit the local law library to memory? If you could pare the U.S. legal system down to the size of a paperback, it would still be too much for many to absorb. We really need something analagous to the ten commandments.
Yeah, without loss of detail from the 35mm print.
But 35mm prints don't start with anywhere near the detail of those giant IMAX prints.
You can't create resolution from nowhere.
Consider off shore data entry. Many large operations (for example, payroll firms) still do this.
Accurate OCR on forms requires a lot of custom
work. The costs would be prohibitive for a one-time study.
OCR is only accurate if the problem's constrained. For example if you know the entry is an address or phone number.
Free form cursive is "impossible" to do accurately.
Free form printed is very, very hard. You'd probably have to restrict people to writing letters in consequtive boxes, which most people hate.
A lot of work will go into designing the questions and the layout of the form itself. And how will your scanner be fed, mechanically or by hand? A degree of skew will ruin your data unless your system is designed to handle it. (Ever fill out a form with large dots in each corner?)
After all that, you'd still need humans & a data entry system to check
the borderline cases. A good system would have a data correction station that flashes portions of images
and the system's best guesses for the operator to
choose among or replace outright.
As a long time used book buyer (not seller), I have really mixed feelings about the rise of online used bookstores.
The search for a series of seven OOP paperbacks made me a used bookstore lover. Every vacation involved mining the used bookstores in the area. The thrill of the hunt.
Now I can find most of what I want online, but at significantly higher prices.
Used books, like many items on eBay, are a seller's market. (Like the used but still available DVDs that are bid up until they're over list price.) Good for the dealers, their target customers aren't limited to the locals. Bad for the buyer who used to take the trouble to hunt.
In used bookstores, the buyers and the sellers loved books. Now there are people who are just trying to score an easy profit.
Consider the people working just-in-time inventory scams: Advertise a book on half.com or amazon.com for an inflated price. (A lot of people don't look past those two.) After on order comes in, buy it online somewhere else to ship to them!
Actually this isn't really a scam. If someone agrees to pay an inflated price, that's their problem. But it shows that you really need to know what things are worth.
I'll continue to use both online and B&M sources, at least as long as there continue to be B&M sources.
Microsoft has $40 billion in cash. That's not capital tied up in equipment, that's
money in the bank. This means that, if Microsoft decided to contact every PS2
owner around the world, everyone who has bought a PS2 in the last three years,
buy them a free Xbox, and send it to them with free shipping... they would be left
with only $34 billion.
Please send me 15% of your cash reserves.
What's that? The fact that you have cash doesn't mean you want to give it away?
Slashdot Mirror
(This is not a joke. No, I didn't do a lot of drugs.)
I have no trouble with phone numbers or short term stuff, but the past is dim.
Example: I don't remember the names of some of my college roommates. (Note: roommates, not friends.)
Another example: About 10 years back, I went to a lot of weddings in a 2 or 3 year time period. I have some generic wedding & reception memories, but I can't relate most of them to specific weddings.
Does this describe a particular type of memory problem? Could anything regain past memories, once they're forgotten?
The post you're replying to said that the standard config was for 1 Mbps up. Nobody "sold" 1 Mbps up, or changed the advertised service in the middle of a contract.
OOL's advertising has always been very careful to not specify any speeds at all.
Then I remembered that I'm getting mad bandwith/$ (link: fastest ISP's). I've measured 6 Mbps to an OOL server and 3.8 Mbps to the other coast. For $30/month. DSL would be 700 kpbs (about 1/10th) for $50/month.
Also, it's their business and they've had a "no servers" policy since before I subscribed. I wouldn't want anyone telling me how to define my business. If we don't like it we can vote with our wallets. But this compromise is easy for me.
That said, I am an occasional P2P user, and I think sharing is appropriate to the model. I'll be looking into how much usage it takes to draw any attention and if the penalties are temporary caps (vs. being booted). But at this rate and price, I don't want to get booted!
New Jersey is positively flooded with laid-off and bought-out telecom geeks looking for jobs. I know several people that have been out of work for over a year. People with experience and local contacts are lined up for any potential opening. I heard a story about 300 applications to teach an economics course at a local community college (because it's sort of technical).
Also, parts of it are toxic hellholes and most of it is very expensive compared to most of the country.
She lost a couple due to power surges or something, but I could always find the "classic" model on sale cheap somewhere. (vanns.com once, BestBuy B&M another time). She's had Phillips, Sony, and RCA, I think.
Surfing is possible, but the resolution causes problems, especially with sites with > 2 columns, like slashdot.org, my.yahoo.com, etc. The "big column" gets squished pretty small.
Overall I recommend the classic and a keyboard. (I hope the classic's haven't been discontinued.) If they're not-tech savvy, expect some support calls. That's been a little challenging for me, given that I don't have a WebTV and she's 700 miles away.
Oh yeah, service. My mom's in a fairly rural location and WebTV didn't have a POP nearby. So she had to pay a compatible ISP ~$20 and a reduced WebTV fee ~$10. Since then, they did get a POP and she dropped the ISP and just pays WebTV ~$20. But she never would have known if I wasn't registering a new box after one fried.
Copping a feel while singing karaoke...priceless
My first portable CD player cost $300.
Checkout alt.cellular.* for more info.
Why do those guys keep coming around and writing on me with chalk?
Cool story. Did you ever tell them how you did it?
I want my share!!!
Travel, travel, travel.
Move to a college town, take the occasional
liberal arts class. (Stuff I mised out on.)
Travel some more. Fly first class all the time.
*Maybe* some open source stuff. Maybe not.
But I read mail on a Sun and have never had a virus problem in my life. It's quite an inconvenience.
Ever hear the line "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." ? So what, we're all supposed to commit the local law library to memory? If you could pare the U.S. legal system down to the size of a paperback, it would still be too much for many to absorb. We really need something analagous to the ten commandments.
Users don't install Windows.
It comes installed on their computers.
Yeah, without loss of detail from the 35mm print.
But 35mm prints don't start with anywhere near the detail of those giant IMAX prints.
You can't create resolution from nowhere.
Accurate OCR on forms requires a lot of custom work. The costs would be prohibitive for a one-time study.
OCR is only accurate if the problem's constrained. For example if you know the entry is an address or phone number.
Free form cursive is "impossible" to do accurately. Free form printed is very, very hard. You'd probably have to restrict people to writing letters in consequtive boxes, which most people hate.
A lot of work will go into designing the questions and the layout of the form itself. And how will your scanner be fed, mechanically or by hand? A degree of skew will ruin your data unless your system is designed to handle it. (Ever fill out a form with large dots in each corner?)
After all that, you'd still need humans & a data entry system to check the borderline cases. A good system would have a data correction station that flashes portions of images and the system's best guesses for the operator to choose among or replace outright.
Thanks for this post.
I picked one up on the way home
as a surprise for my wife.
She's playing with it now.
The search for a series of seven OOP paperbacks made me a used bookstore lover. Every vacation involved mining the used bookstores in the area. The thrill of the hunt.
Now I can find most of what I want online, but at significantly higher prices.
Used books, like many items on eBay, are a seller's market. (Like the used but still available DVDs that are bid up until they're over list price.) Good for the dealers, their target customers aren't limited to the locals. Bad for the buyer who used to take the trouble to hunt.
In used bookstores, the buyers and the sellers loved books. Now there are people who are just trying to score an easy profit. Consider the people working just-in-time inventory scams: Advertise a book on half.com or amazon.com for an inflated price. (A lot of people don't look past those two.) After on order comes in, buy it online somewhere else to ship to them! Actually this isn't really a scam. If someone agrees to pay an inflated price, that's their problem. But it shows that you really need to know what things are worth.
I'll continue to use both online and B&M sources, at least as long as there continue to be B&M sources.
What's that? The fact that you have cash doesn't mean you want to give it away?