At my job we still use Word 2003. I make frequent use of Word's Help features for writing VBA macros- the documentation is actually pretty thorough. But since Office 2007 came out, underneath the 'See Also' section of every single help box are _several_ options for purchasing Office 2007 online. It's so stupid- if I'm running Word 2003, and looking for information about Word 2003, why the hell would MS need to remind me about Office 2007 two or three times in a list that has five entries?
The whole idea sounds pretty scummy, based on your description. Multiple free accounts? yeesh.
So why don't you just ask the webmasters of the sites you're about to scrape? I'd bet the site owners would settle for a few hundred per month to provide you with data in whatever form you require. And it's cheaper than the $2000/mo. for a server, etc. (If these sites are "bigger" than what a few hundred a month would buy, then you damn well better ask (see below).
Ask your Legal department about this as well. They can be extremely helpful in stopping hare-brained ideas like this. If the websites in question are big enough to take action against this, YOU'RE the one left holding the bag, not Mr. Bright Idea Guy.
WARNING: All of this assumes your boss is partially sane and reasonable!! If he's a jerk, you are hosed. I'm sorry.
So, if Australia's filtering, that means I NEVER have to worry about getting in trouble for using the internet! Right?
A while ago, a place I used to work at implemented filtering. I was actually kinda happy about it! I no longer had to worry about going to an inappropriate site, because the filters would stop me from getting there. Great!
Except that, a few weeks later, the CEO sent an email to everyone stating how annoyed he was that people were trying to access the filtered sites. It didn't matter that the sites were blocked. It didn't matter that people never saw the blocked content! The mere fact that we were still adjusting to the new filters caused our CEO to chastise us about our internet usage.
And that's the ultimate insult with filtering- It doesn't matter if it works 100% perfectly. You will be expected to filter your brain as well. If the filter admins see that you're trying to access things that you cannot even access because of the filter, you WILL get in trouble.
What's really bugged me the most about Intelligent Design is that its proponents attacked the wrong target.
As I understand science, it's a cycle: observe, explain, hypothesize, test; and repeat. Evolution as a theory, holds to this cycle. But Intelligent Design is just: observe and explain- the explanation being essentially "God did it." There's not much reason to keep examining things when you feel you've reached that stage, is it? It's an intellectual dead end.
If *I* were in charge of promoting/legitimizing ID, I would put it up against the Big Bang/String theorists and the like. When we can't yet explain why the universe is the way it is on a fundamental (quantum?) level, *THAT's* when you can trot out the "God did it"s. Evolution is just too well researched and tested a subject to topple (logically and rationally, that is).
Even more fundamental- even if you write the "perfect" program, it still needs to be compiled or interpreted. Compilers and interepreters have their own set of bugs and weird behaviour, and a programmer has almost NO control over that.
Did I mention that all of this runs on top of an operating system? Hm, I wonder if there are any bugs there...
Actually, the OP is important to me... I've just been discouraged from purchasing Bioshock. It's a shame because it sounded like an interesting game, from what I've read.
The committee 'could not find any other instances of scientists being able to replicate Taleyarkhan's results without Taleyarkhan having direct involvement with the experiments'
The fix for this is very simple. Rename the entire process to the "Taleyarkhan Effect." Taleyarkhan will then be directly involved in every experiment, and the results will be reliably reproducible.
I mean seriously, do any of these usenet categories contribute anything of value to society???
Well, you could apply that question to all of Usenet and on average, the answer would be No.
Besides... if alt.binaries.* gets blocked, the pervs will just move to the rec.* branch, or whatever strikes their fancy. They've done this in the past; they're probably doing it now. In all seriousness, they might as well ban Usenet binary distribution altogether. That's what they're going to have to do if they're serious about going the distance with this.
Actually, he has a word or two about forking as well. LOL, talk about clueless:
"In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code. He said: "Don't make your own version. The original mistake we made was to take the code to our labs, change it and then release it at the last minute. The community had already gone in a different direction than [us], and no-one was pushing it other than [us]. Everybody wants to make their own version and keep it too close to their chest but that leads to fragmentation."
I bet the ad floats RIGHT over the cursor. Gently bobbing around as you type. (Don't worry, it'll be mostly transparent, so you can sorta see what your typing.)
According to TFA, the ban would only last five years. That's an apt punishment for Microsoft- other vendors and possibly open source contributers gain five years of experience supporting an "exclusive" market. As well, Microsoft might actually learn how to play nicely with the rest of the software world, and to compete fairly and deal honestly- competing more with innovation and excellence, rather than trying to subvert and corrupt everything around them.
Whenever I feel that way, there's one sure way to tell- das blinkenlights. (Assuming you have them, of course)
Close the browser and all the annoying "update" systray crap. Then watch the lights on your ethernet jack, hub, router, whatever. If the lights are blinking madly, go back to the computer and find out why. Repeat until you don't know why, at which point you can panic with confidence.
"Why are the highly-paid monkeys a thousand miles away, who are taking their lines from teleprompters more qualified than the monkey who was there? Because there might be grammar mistakes?"
Not because there might be grammar mistakes, but because there might be logic mistakes- incorrect assumptions, poor analogies, or fallacious reasoning. Which isn't to say that's exactly what we get with so-called liberal or conservative media; but at least they make an effort to appear balanced, and can (and should) be called on it when they don't make the effort. The man-on-the-street lacks that accountability.
I'm against the idea of buying anything on physical media, which I then have to validate/register/"complete the purchase" online.
However, I'm okay with the idea of downloading the very same software (validation being one of the requirements for downloading).
I guess I feel that the "buy then validate" model is a cheat- If I bought it in a store, that should be proof enough. Whereas with downloading, they can do the validation/purchase at the same time.
I just tried to visit the site again and triggered the old 'Bandwidth Exceeded' message. My bad....
Yes, the little flybot does appear to work, although a) it's powererd externally, and b) it's on rails that only allow it to move vertically. The narrator of the video admits that [paraphrasing] "We're missing some things, like an independent, on-board electronics package to control it, and a suitable power source." Basically it's just a pair of (working) wings at this point.
"Trying to (infect a product) all the way back at the factory - getting it through all the checks and balances -- would be pretty hard to do"
No, it isn't anymore. Somebody in marketing had the bright (read: revenue-producing) idea of loading up a new storage device (which should be blank, damnit) with a bunch of advertising crap. Combine this with Windows' oh-so-helpful autolaunch features. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long to become a problem.
I long for the days when you could buy an UNFORMATTED device. The OS would tell you it's unformatted, so you formatted it. Done.
the IT department... will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud
I'm sick of this love affair with "the cloud" (which I understand to mean " on the internet"). The cloud is neither reliable nor secure, and storing your sensitive data in it is suicidal. By the time you make the effort to secure your data (and secure access to it as well), you might as well have kept it on-site.
YES, it is 'bricked.' Totally and utterly useless, yes. You'll need to buy a brand new one. Seeing as I'm a nice guy, I'll buy this completely bricked, utterly useless laptop from you. Just for the case and spare parts, you see. Does $100 sound reasonable for a bricked, totally useless laptop that you can never use again? Hmmm?
Without Napster arriving on the scene more than 10 years ago and opening our eyes to the power of p2p, I wonder what sort of world we'd be living in today...
I haven't tried it, but I searched for some songs I recently bought with iTunes. Everything I bought was also at Amazon; One album was cheaper by a dollar, some songs were 0.89 rather than 0.99. I wish I'd heard about this earlier!
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At my job we still use Word 2003. I make frequent use of Word's Help features for writing VBA macros- the documentation is actually pretty thorough. But since Office 2007 came out, underneath the 'See Also' section of every single help box are _several_ options for purchasing Office 2007 online. It's so stupid- if I'm running Word 2003, and looking for information about Word 2003, why the hell would MS need to remind me about Office 2007 two or three times in a list that has five entries?
The whole idea sounds pretty scummy, based on your description. Multiple free accounts? yeesh.
So why don't you just ask the webmasters of the sites you're about to scrape? I'd bet the site owners would settle for a few hundred per month to provide you with data in whatever form you require. And it's cheaper than the $2000/mo. for a server, etc. (If these sites are "bigger" than what a few hundred a month would buy, then you damn well better ask (see below).
Ask your Legal department about this as well. They can be extremely helpful in stopping hare-brained ideas like this. If the websites in question are big enough to take action against this, YOU'RE the one left holding the bag, not Mr. Bright Idea Guy.
WARNING: All of this assumes your boss is partially sane and reasonable!! If he's a jerk, you are hosed. I'm sorry.
So, if Australia's filtering, that means I NEVER have to worry about getting in trouble for using the internet! Right?
A while ago, a place I used to work at implemented filtering. I was actually kinda happy about it! I no longer had to worry about going to an inappropriate site, because the filters would stop me from getting there. Great!
Except that, a few weeks later, the CEO sent an email to everyone stating how annoyed he was that people were trying to access the filtered sites. It didn't matter that the sites were blocked. It didn't matter that people never saw the blocked content! The mere fact that we were still adjusting to the new filters caused our CEO to chastise us about our internet usage.
And that's the ultimate insult with filtering- It doesn't matter if it works 100% perfectly. You will be expected to filter your brain as well. If the filter admins see that you're trying to access things that you cannot even access because of the filter, you WILL get in trouble.
malleable + valuable = maluable. It's cromulent!
What's really bugged me the most about Intelligent Design is that its proponents attacked the wrong target.
As I understand science, it's a cycle: observe, explain, hypothesize, test; and repeat. Evolution as a theory, holds to this cycle. But Intelligent Design is just: observe and explain- the explanation being essentially "God did it." There's not much reason to keep examining things when you feel you've reached that stage, is it? It's an intellectual dead end.
If *I* were in charge of promoting/legitimizing ID, I would put it up against the Big Bang/String theorists and the like. When we can't yet explain why the universe is the way it is on a fundamental (quantum?) level, *THAT's* when you can trot out the "God did it"s. Evolution is just too well researched and tested a subject to topple (logically and rationally, that is).
Even more fundamental- even if you write the "perfect" program, it still needs to be compiled or interpreted. Compilers and interepreters have their own set of bugs and weird behaviour, and a programmer has almost NO control over that.
Did I mention that all of this runs on top of an operating system? Hm, I wonder if there are any bugs there...
Actually, the OP is important to me... I've just been discouraged from purchasing Bioshock. It's a shame because it sounded like an interesting game, from what I've read.
And you'd think AT&T could hire better graffiti artists to decorate the damn things.
The committee 'could not find any other instances of scientists being able to replicate Taleyarkhan's results without Taleyarkhan having direct involvement with the experiments'
The fix for this is very simple. Rename the entire process to the "Taleyarkhan Effect." Taleyarkhan will then be directly involved in every experiment, and the results will be reliably reproducible.
I mean seriously, do any of these usenet categories contribute anything of value to society???
Well, you could apply that question to all of Usenet and on average, the answer would be No.
Besides... if alt.binaries.* gets blocked, the pervs will just move to the rec.* branch, or whatever strikes their fancy. They've done this in the past; they're probably doing it now. In all seriousness, they might as well ban Usenet binary distribution altogether. That's what they're going to have to do if they're serious about going the distance with this.
Actually, he has a word or two about forking as well. LOL, talk about clueless:
"In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code. He said: "Don't make your own version. The original mistake we made was to take the code to our labs, change it and then release it at the last minute. The community had already gone in a different direction than [us], and no-one was pushing it other than [us]. Everybody wants to make their own version and keep it too close to their chest but that leads to fragmentation."
pay-per-view on every single broadcast
I sure hope they leave the commercials in!
I bet the ad floats RIGHT over the cursor. Gently bobbing around as you type.
(Don't worry, it'll be mostly transparent, so you can sorta see what your typing.)
According to TFA, the ban would only last five years. That's an apt punishment for Microsoft- other vendors and possibly open source contributers gain five years of experience supporting an "exclusive" market. As well, Microsoft might actually learn how to play nicely with the rest of the software world, and to compete fairly and deal honestly- competing more with innovation and excellence, rather than trying to subvert and corrupt everything around them.
(/me crossing fingers)
Whenever I feel that way, there's one sure way to tell- das blinkenlights. (Assuming you have them, of course)
Close the browser and all the annoying "update" systray crap. Then watch the lights on your ethernet jack, hub, router, whatever. If the lights are blinking madly, go back to the computer and find out why. Repeat until you don't know why, at which point you can panic with confidence.
I hope it's the evil part.
"Why are the highly-paid monkeys a thousand miles away, who are taking their lines from teleprompters more qualified than the monkey who was there? Because there might be grammar mistakes?"
Not because there might be grammar mistakes, but because there might be logic mistakes- incorrect assumptions, poor analogies, or fallacious reasoning. Which isn't to say that's exactly what we get with so-called liberal or conservative media; but at least they make an effort to appear balanced, and can (and should) be called on it when they don't make the effort. The man-on-the-street lacks that accountability.
I'm against the idea of buying anything on physical media, which I then have to validate/register/"complete the purchase" online.
However, I'm okay with the idea of downloading the very same software (validation being one of the requirements for downloading).
I guess I feel that the "buy then validate" model is a cheat- If I bought it in a store, that should be proof enough. Whereas with downloading, they can do the validation/purchase at the same time.
I just tried to visit the site again and triggered the old 'Bandwidth Exceeded' message. My bad....
Yes, the little flybot does appear to work, although a) it's powererd externally, and b) it's on rails that only allow it to move vertically. The narrator of the video admits that [paraphrasing] "We're missing some things, like an independent, on-board electronics package to control it, and a suitable power source." Basically it's just a pair of (working) wings at this point.
"Trying to (infect a product) all the way back at the factory - getting it through all the checks and balances -- would be pretty hard to do"
No, it isn't anymore. Somebody in marketing had the bright (read: revenue-producing) idea of loading up a new storage device (which should be blank, damnit) with a bunch of advertising crap. Combine this with Windows' oh-so-helpful autolaunch features. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long to become a problem.
I long for the days when you could buy an UNFORMATTED device. The OS would tell you it's unformatted, so you formatted it. Done.
its the Ultimate "case mod".
the IT department ... will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud
I'm sick of this love affair with "the cloud" (which I understand to mean " on the internet"). The cloud is neither reliable nor secure, and storing your sensitive data in it is suicidal. By the time you make the effort to secure your data (and secure access to it as well), you might as well have kept it on-site.
Why...
YES, it is 'bricked.' Totally and utterly useless, yes. You'll need to buy a brand new one. Seeing as I'm a nice guy, I'll buy this completely bricked, utterly useless laptop from you. Just for the case and spare parts, you see. Does $100 sound reasonable for a bricked, totally useless laptop that you can never use again? Hmmm?
Without Napster arriving on the scene more than 10 years ago and opening our eyes to the power of p2p, I wonder what sort of world we'd be living in today...
One word. Usenet.
I haven't tried it, but I searched for some songs I recently bought with iTunes. Everything I bought was also at Amazon; One album was cheaper by a dollar, some songs were 0.89 rather than 0.99. I wish I'd heard about this earlier!