Not troll. TSA spends billions of dollars screening for sharps and shampoo. What exactly is the threat of having a sharp on board? And how is it different from a sharp on a ferry or train?
No difference whatsoever. And that's exactly why they have announced funding requests, published plans, and declared their intentions to move into terrestrial transportation with the same kinds of checks they do for air travel.
The fact that the customer pays a nominal amount in long-distance charges helps discourage frivolous requests.
Actually, it's more likely the time investment on their part. Picking up the phone and initiating a conversation is time-consuming, firing off a chat is quick and easy, and puts more time responsibility and interruption on the respondent.
If you're doing this for secure disposal, there's a much easier solution:
Pop the drives out and do your work via external slot-loading drive caddies. You can get rid of the big machines as usual and work your way through the drives as time permits between other tasks. If your software has command-line APIs, it should be pretty easy to setup scripts to do this.
- or -
Do the backup as a separate task. Deploy a dedicated backup tool (for de-duplication and compression) or use rsync. Then setup DHCP with NetBoot to run a distro configured to auto-format and install from an image hosted on a server. Even Windows supports this.
Seriously, if you're not pricing your goods/services to make about 50% profit at least with EVERYTHING taken into account
You missed the point where the Groupon deal was for 75% off. When the discount is higher than your profit margin (not unusual for limited run loss-leaders to get people into the store) it's pretty much impossible to make money on that item. She is losing money because she's abiding by the agreement she gave her customers, not her normal rates. I think it's impressive she's holding up her end of the bargain even though she made a mistake. She should be commended for that and for setting a good example of customer care.
Her mistake was in assuming that Groupon coupons would have the same kind of low use rate that printed coupons do. Printed coupons serve mainly as advertising, and if a few people use them, that's a minor overhead. Groupon deals on the other hand have really high use rates.
Very few OSX programs try to write to/Applications. That went away with OS9 and most developers got smart about it because Apple forced the issue by breaking backwards compatibility.
A lot of Windows programs used to try to write to the/WINDOWS the Registry or/Program Files because of lazy devs who use hardcoded paths and assume everyone is an administrator. Microsoft unwittingly cultivated this attitude by facilitating extreme backwards support, instead of forcing devs to get with the times. They finally stopped this in Win7 and forced old bad apps to use virtual machines.
Hmmm.... convince AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, Cox, Covad, Sprint, and TMobile to all participate in "voluntary" filtering on all their services (including backhauls and wholesale services) and you've effectively implemented censorship for 90%+ of US consumer internent access.
Once you consider the vested interest those same major ISPs have in content generation or delivery (TV service offerings, production studios, etc) it's pretty obvious why they'd get on board with this kind of plan.
The author's writing style is conversational, with generally comprehensible explanations. But there are a few baffling phrases... All sorts of phrases are set in title case... Something else that may be difficult to fathom, is that the book's code does not reflect the fact that Drupal.org transitioned from CVS to Git for version control, in February 2011, three months before publication of Drupal 7 Themes....
There is a fair amount of redundant information, even on the same page...
Punctuation is another area where this book could be improved..... which appears to have been written by someone whose first language is not English. As with most books written by techies, this one contains too many exclamation marks — invariably an indication that the author is trying to make a dull subject seem more exciting.... Lastly, there are many spots where the wrong punctuation symbol is used, e.g., a comma trying to perform the duties of a semicolon.
Seemingly every Packt title contains a long list of errata, and this one is no exception:... At this point, roughly halfway through the book, I stopped recording errata. Packt Publishing's copyeditors should have spotted and fixed these problems, as well as those scattered throughout the rest of the manuscript.
Yet the major weakness of this book is the extensive repetition of material... e.g., Chapter 6's wholesale copy-and-paste of material from the previous chapter)....
And yet you still gave it a 7/10. There isn't much room for better books in your rating scale now is there?
No strong structure may be great, if you have strong goals.
Right now it's an angry populist movement expressing often incompatible slogans and agendas. Anger at the status quo and large scale expression like this is a great thing. But if you can't make concise consistent points, how do you expect to get any change?
If you think coworkers are going to waste their time digging through your email after your death, you're sadly mistaken.
Either A) They'll hire someone to replace you who will start doing things their own way and not want to be beholden to your system. or B) They'll shut your projects down.
You know, both my Palm Treos, my Samsun i550 and i330, all had ports very similar to the iPhone. And those were smartphones that existed long before the iPhone did.
Hmmm... come to think of it, my Palm Pro (1996), Palm III, Palm IIIxe also all had similar ports... and those predate the iPod (which shares the same port with the iPhone).
Congratulations, you noticed a common response to a common need. Small form-factor port on a wide, but thin edge of a device.
(and for the record, it isn't Wordpress' fault that your sever can't hold up to a slashdotting. I doubt any single server could, regardless of CMS)
It's worth noting that the Scrolls are the original pieces of paper, penned by Jews living in Jerusalem before, during, and after the time that Jesus is said to have done all those amazing things.
WRONG
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written and collected by a small community (somewhat like a monastery) of Essenes (an over-arching term for one "denomination" of Judaism present at the time), mostly before Jesus' birth. They were not written in Jerusalem, and are mostly transcriptions of Jewish texts or theological explorations. They are certainly not documentation of historical events, nor are they commentaries on the many other flavors of Judaism (of which early Christianity was one) prevalent at the time.
As someone who does this professionally, what you want to do is incredibly simple. Trust me in that you don't want to be doing maintenance and management of the hardware and OS yourself. Instead, just get a shared hosting account. It's cheap and will give you everything you need to do phpBB and MySQL. I'd recommend BlueHost for starters. They give you Plesk as the management tool (CLI available upon request) and it's only $6/month.
Once you grow beyond the capabilities of the shared hosting (not likely if this is truly for a group of friends) then you can switch over to Amazon's EC or another suitable cloud provider for the same tools, but the capability to scale your resources and manage the cost.
For what you've described, the flavor of Linux doesn't really matter at all. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you aren't the one responsible for the physical hardware and OS configuration.
eBay was a great idea - which she had nothing to do with - and Meg rode that idea along with the dot com boom to "success"
To be fair, most dot-coms, even those with "good ideas" didn't survive. Ebay and Amazon did something right to make it into profitable long-standing businesses.
Think about it again. The people who planned and approved the attacks were doing it as a political move. They manipulated the religious convictions of the "boots on the ground" to execute them.
$699 to spend to give an older person their first computing experience? Give them an iPad.
We did that for my grandmother on her 80th birthday. She wanted to use email and the web, but couldn't figure out the old PC with WinXP that had been setup for her. Plus she hated waiting for the thing to turn on.
I bought an iPad, loaded it up with a decade or so of family photos, setup a Gmail account and put a few home videos on there. She loves it and even takes it along to her favorite sandwich shop.
Your second example adds additional meaning and information (because it is a mathematical extrapolation) and therefore is not a tautology. A tautological statement adds no new meaning, value, or understanding.
Slashdot Mirror
Well clearly being the largest install base after iOS is a tiny niche. Just like all the browser installs besides IE is a tiny niche.
No difference whatsoever. And that's exactly why they have announced funding requests, published plans, and declared their intentions to move into terrestrial transportation with the same kinds of checks they do for air travel.
Actually, it's more likely the time investment on their part. Picking up the phone and initiating a conversation is time-consuming, firing off a chat is quick and easy, and puts more time responsibility and interruption on the respondent.
If you're doing this for secure disposal, there's a much easier solution:
Pop the drives out and do your work via external slot-loading drive caddies. You can get rid of the big machines as usual and work your way through the drives as time permits between other tasks. If your software has command-line APIs, it should be pretty easy to setup scripts to do this.
- or -
Do the backup as a separate task. Deploy a dedicated backup tool (for de-duplication and compression) or use rsync. Then setup DHCP with NetBoot to run a distro configured to auto-format and install from an image hosted on a server. Even Windows supports this.
Diluted? No. Having it move undiluted or be relatively concentrated? Possibly. I'm not paid to worry about it though, people at NASA are.
1000m of lead does not move (easily). Water does.
You missed the point where the Groupon deal was for 75% off. When the discount is higher than your profit margin (not unusual for limited run loss-leaders to get people into the store) it's pretty much impossible to make money on that item. She is losing money because she's abiding by the agreement she gave her customers, not her normal rates. I think it's impressive she's holding up her end of the bargain even though she made a mistake. She should be commended for that and for setting a good example of customer care.
Her mistake was in assuming that Groupon coupons would have the same kind of low use rate that printed coupons do. Printed coupons serve mainly as advertising, and if a few people use them, that's a minor overhead. Groupon deals on the other hand have really high use rates.
OSX App Data storage:
~/Library/Preferences
Windows App Data storage:
~/Application Data/
Very few OSX programs try to write to /Applications. That went away with OS9 and most developers got smart about it because Apple forced the issue by breaking backwards compatibility.
A lot of Windows programs used to try to write to the /WINDOWS the Registry or /Program Files because of lazy devs who use hardcoded paths and assume everyone is an administrator. Microsoft unwittingly cultivated this attitude by facilitating extreme backwards support, instead of forcing devs to get with the times. They finally stopped this in Win7 and forced old bad apps to use virtual machines.
Hmmm.... convince AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, Cox, Covad, Sprint, and TMobile to all participate in "voluntary" filtering on all their services (including backhauls and wholesale services) and you've effectively implemented censorship for 90%+ of US consumer internent access.
Once you consider the vested interest those same major ISPs have in content generation or delivery (TV service offerings, production studios, etc) it's pretty obvious why they'd get on board with this kind of plan.
And yet you still gave it a 7/10. There isn't much room for better books in your rating scale now is there?
That's not a technology, that's a term used to describe a 3d pixel (as opposed to 2d ones).
A better term, already used by the CG industry is Voxel
No strong structure may be great, if you have strong goals.
Right now it's an angry populist movement expressing often incompatible slogans and agendas. Anger at the status quo and large scale expression like this is a great thing. But if you can't make concise consistent points, how do you expect to get any change?
If you think coworkers are going to waste their time digging through your email after your death, you're sadly mistaken.
Either A) They'll hire someone to replace you who will start doing things their own way and not want to be beholden to your system.
or B) They'll shut your projects down.
You know, both my Palm Treos, my Samsun i550 and i330, all had ports very similar to the iPhone. And those were smartphones that existed long before the iPhone did.
Hmmm... come to think of it, my Palm Pro (1996), Palm III, Palm IIIxe also all had similar ports... and those predate the iPod (which shares the same port with the iPhone).
Congratulations, you noticed a common response to a common need. Small form-factor port on a wide, but thin edge of a device.
(and for the record, it isn't Wordpress' fault that your sever can't hold up to a slashdotting. I doubt any single server could, regardless of CMS)
WRONG
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written and collected by a small community (somewhat like a monastery) of Essenes (an over-arching term for one "denomination" of Judaism present at the time), mostly before Jesus' birth. They were not written in Jerusalem, and are mostly transcriptions of Jewish texts or theological explorations. They are certainly not documentation of historical events, nor are they commentaries on the many other flavors of Judaism (of which early Christianity was one) prevalent at the time.
2500 users are "some of my friends"???
As someone who does this professionally, what you want to do is incredibly simple. Trust me in that you don't want to be doing maintenance and management of the hardware and OS yourself. Instead, just get a shared hosting account. It's cheap and will give you everything you need to do phpBB and MySQL. I'd recommend BlueHost for starters. They give you Plesk as the management tool (CLI available upon request) and it's only $6/month.
Once you grow beyond the capabilities of the shared hosting (not likely if this is truly for a group of friends) then you can switch over to Amazon's EC or another suitable cloud provider for the same tools, but the capability to scale your resources and manage the cost.
For what you've described, the flavor of Linux doesn't really matter at all. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you aren't the one responsible for the physical hardware and OS configuration.
DSL providers used to do this too.
The only problem is that at least Cable ISPs were in competition with DSL providers, and for a while there were a relatively many to choose from.
In the US cellphone market, you have essentially 4 providers (possibly soon to be 3) with the same data-cap policies.
To be fair, most dot-coms, even those with "good ideas" didn't survive. Ebay and Amazon did something right to make it into profitable long-standing businesses.
Think about it again. The people who planned and approved the attacks were doing it as a political move. They manipulated the religious convictions of the "boots on the ground" to execute them.
Groupon does do "tonight only" deals, I think it's called GroupOn Now or something like that.
Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) != Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe)
$699 to spend to give an older person their first computing experience? Give them an iPad.
We did that for my grandmother on her 80th birthday. She wanted to use email and the web, but couldn't figure out the old PC with WinXP that had been setup for her. Plus she hated waiting for the thing to turn on.
I bought an iPad, loaded it up with a decade or so of family photos, setup a Gmail account and put a few home videos on there. She loves it and even takes it along to her favorite sandwich shop.
By every definition of cleaner. My wife has drank that water on a tour of the facility after her company completed construction of it.
Most regions in the US have laws preventing reclaimed water from being used in potable water systems.
If you're growing vegetables on your lawn you're doing it wrong.
Your second example adds additional meaning and information (because it is a mathematical extrapolation) and therefore is not a tautology. A tautological statement adds no new meaning, value, or understanding.