My little two line C "Hello Sir!" program does something useful and is perfect. Useful=it keeps me in a good mood, and if you don't think that's useful, you obviously haven't seen me in a bad mood!
Or, instead of a single Christmas bonus, have "Quarterly Bonuses" (ok, make the one just before Crimbo that little bit bigger). That way staff are always thinking "If I stay here for 3/2/1 more month, I'll be getting a nice bonus" and would be much more likely to stay on no matter what. One of the places I've worked at handed out the bonuses at the end of the tax year (April), by the end of May quite a number of staff left as they all wanted to leave earlier but wanted the bonus before hand. All bonuses were "profit related" which acted as an extra incentive for us to work hard (a notice was put on the notice board every fortnight or so saying how "on target" profits were etc).
Acutally that's quite a good point: if you have a "licence" to listen/use that music, I doubt you'll be breaching the "licence" by offering it for download. But if somebody were to download it who doesn't have the licence - then it'll be them breaking the law and not you. It's a bit like a shop with shelves full of goods - they're offering you the chance to buy the goods but if you decide to walk out the day without paying (i.e. "getting a licence") then it's you that broke the law and not the shop.
Or, as we have in the UK, mark a 'X' in the appropriate box on the paper using a pencil. The paper and pencil is supplied by the voting station so all you've got to do is remember a name and figure out how to make a symbol that resembles an "X" in the appropriate box (and only make one entry like that).
True - here in the UK where we simply make a X mark in the appropriate box to depict our votes (why do the Americans make things more complicated than necessary - paper and pencil does the job), a number of people do delibertly "spoil" their ballots by crossing every box, not marking any box or writing over it. And I believe as the number of people that have been "disullioned" with all the parties up for election, the number of spoilt ballots have grown.
Incidentally, it may be worth mentioning the UK's "voter verification system". Each voter in a "ward" (a distinct geographical area) is listed on a "voter sheet": when they come to vote, they are given a ballot paper with a unique identity number which is then written on the sheet. They mark their "X" in a "polling booth" with their pencil and then deposit the slip of paper in a sealed box. Come counting time, the box is transported to, opened and counted in a large room with several dozen other sealed boxes. The "voter sheet" is kept totally seperate and I believe - I've got no recollection of this actually happened - is only cross-referenced when "two people with the same details" turn up to vote (identity theft sort of thing) or a similar discrepency is noticed: and even then the "voter sheet people" just inform the "counters" to "discard vote number XXXXX" and hence neither party knows which party was voted for by voter Y.
Demon have been ok for me for the last umpteen years (last 2 years, ADSL self-install, 4years+ dialup): mail server has been a bit flaky recently, but I'm cutting down my usage of that anyway (I've got my own mail server). Benefits: Static IP address, no restrictions on running any sort of server, damn good 24/7 tech support (even Boxing Day!) at standard rate calls, and no "bandwidth/traffic" cap.
They are - in fact, you can still buy monochrome TV sets here in the UK if you want to (especially the hand-held portable variety). I've never heard of the "BBC buying consumers colour tv sets" story before so I'm slightly sceptical myself...
I'm in a bit of a similar situation - I like Werid Al Yankovic: yet getting hold of his stuff in the UK is near impossible. I've tried three seperate music stores and none of them can get hold of his stuff (CDs, tapes or DVDs) - and I've even contacted the band directly to try and get stuff imported in: but no go (last time I asked, they were only able to ship a Region 1 DVD - the UK is region 2). Hence, to enjoy his music I've got to use P2P...However, I've managed to find one person selling a Region 2 DVD of UHF on Ebay so fingers crossed it'll work (the bands website/email person denied that they will be/have done a region2 version so I'm not asking questions).
Make a cheap way we can get the stuff we like and we WILL buy it - make it cost prohibitive or otherwise impossible to get hold off, and we'll be left with no other choice than acquiring it "illegally".
Download a program called "Anal" from a domain called "Shat"? I would avoid psychologists if I were you, they'll probably think you're obsessed with something...
3k in a fortnight? Last time I was joe-jobbed, it was over 16,000 in a day - three times now I've had to call my ISP and say "Just wipe my email account, I know I've got important emails there but I won't stand a chance at trying to distinguish the good from the bad". Luckily, my spam level is down to a "handleable" 5,000 per day at the moment...
Same here - writing a legible sentance that at least I can read now produces hand/wrist ache. I can jot things down quickly - but if it's more than half a dozen words, then I don't really stand a chance of being able to read it again.
Looking back at it, I could type at a keyboard before I could properly write so I guess my hands have now "evolved" to be good at typing ("test conditions" WPM of around 80wpm, normal conditions I can normally touch 100wpm) and poor at handwriting.
Actually, it was in Stravo Muller's second club "Beta" where he got hot by Random Frequently Flyer Dent - the daughter of Trillian but not necessarily of Tricia McMillian from the notoriously unstable Plural galaxy ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.
Sigh, reminds me of RISC OS - a ROM based operating system. You still had the BIOS (bit it was very titchy IIRC) and then you had two 2Mb ROM chips on the motherboard which held the OS - extremely quick to boot and very very hard to get infected with viruses (although I believe RISC OS have now brought out "flashable ROMs" to save people having to by a new 99UKP set of ROMs everytime there's a major OS update). What about patches etc? Well, those can be "soft loaded" on boot if necessary.
Easy - it's going to be cold and damp and watch out for that massive asteroid at 4pm EST. (ahh - the good part of "long range predications": you don't have to worry about the embarrassment if, in the unlikely event, you do get it slightly wrong)
I was actually thinking of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Wind From The Sun" where there was an Earth orbit to Moon race with the "boats" powered by the pressure of the sun "but there's pressure - though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it comes to only about a millionth of an anounce. But out in space, even a pressure as small as that can be important, for it's acting all the time, hour after hour, day after day. Unlike rocket fuel, it's free and unlimited. If we want to, we can use it. We can build sails to catch the radiation blowing from the Sun".
On a Windows machine, you can run Outlook without having to worry about these HTML emails either-first make sure it's fully patched and then use a good firewall such as ZoneAlarm Pro which can restrict which ports each program uses - restrict Outlook to ports 110 (POP3), 25 (SMTP) and 53 (DNS) and that's it - it's got no need for anything else!
That's nothing: when I reinstall Windows, I can (from a blank formatted hard drive) be up and running in less than 3 hours: fully patched - without any of those OpenSSH flaws which seems to plague Linux.
Bah - just shows how large, slow and bloated Linux is;)
$20 per domain year for.coms/.nets ? Phew - that's pricey! OpenSRS sells domains to their resellers for $10/year (although a number of resellers are using domains as "loss leaders" - see EV1servers.com for an example). Even then, OpenSRS makes a profit as.com/.net registries have to "buy" the domain names off Verisign in the first place (as they are the "central" registry) for $6/year. And I'm sure if Verisign is purchasing millions of domains years in one "block", then Verisign will be able to give Verisign an appropriate discount...
You mean the one with two silver slide switches and those paddles which you had to turn to make the bat move? I remember having one of those before I got my hands on an Atari 2600. *sigh* Those were the days when you could entertain yourself with the same 4 cartridges for several years...
I would keep the AUP vaguish - something like "We reserve the right to terminate or suspend any accounts that use excessive amounts of bandwidth, storage or CPU utilisation". Oh - and consider billing for extra bandwidth as well...
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My little two line C "Hello Sir!" program does something useful and is perfect. Useful=it keeps me in a good mood, and if you don't think that's useful, you obviously haven't seen me in a bad mood!
Only thing is, The Simpsons makes Fox too much money to be worth shutting down.
Or, instead of a single Christmas bonus, have "Quarterly Bonuses" (ok, make the one just before Crimbo that little bit bigger). That way staff are always thinking "If I stay here for 3/2/1 more month, I'll be getting a nice bonus" and would be much more likely to stay on no matter what. One of the places I've worked at handed out the bonuses at the end of the tax year (April), by the end of May quite a number of staff left as they all wanted to leave earlier but wanted the bonus before hand. All bonuses were "profit related" which acted as an extra incentive for us to work hard (a notice was put on the notice board every fortnight or so saying how "on target" profits were etc).
Acutally that's quite a good point: if you have a "licence" to listen/use that music, I doubt you'll be breaching the "licence" by offering it for download. But if somebody were to download it who doesn't have the licence - then it'll be them breaking the law and not you. It's a bit like a shop with shelves full of goods - they're offering you the chance to buy the goods but if you decide to walk out the day without paying (i.e. "getting a licence") then it's you that broke the law and not the shop.
Or, as we have in the UK, mark a 'X' in the appropriate box on the paper using a pencil. The paper and pencil is supplied by the voting station so all you've got to do is remember a name and figure out how to make a symbol that resembles an "X" in the appropriate box (and only make one entry like that).
True - here in the UK where we simply make a X mark in the appropriate box to depict our votes (why do the Americans make things more complicated than necessary - paper and pencil does the job), a number of people do delibertly "spoil" their ballots by crossing every box, not marking any box or writing over it. And I believe as the number of people that have been "disullioned" with all the parties up for election, the number of spoilt ballots have grown.
Incidentally, it may be worth mentioning the UK's "voter verification system". Each voter in a "ward" (a distinct geographical area) is listed on a "voter sheet": when they come to vote, they are given a ballot paper with a unique identity number which is then written on the sheet. They mark their "X" in a "polling booth" with their pencil and then deposit the slip of paper in a sealed box. Come counting time, the box is transported to, opened and counted in a large room with several dozen other sealed boxes. The "voter sheet" is kept totally seperate and I believe - I've got no recollection of this actually happened - is only cross-referenced when "two people with the same details" turn up to vote (identity theft sort of thing) or a similar discrepency is noticed: and even then the "voter sheet people" just inform the "counters" to "discard vote number XXXXX" and hence neither party knows which party was voted for by voter Y.
Demon have been ok for me for the last umpteen years (last 2 years, ADSL self-install, 4years+ dialup): mail server has been a bit flaky recently, but I'm cutting down my usage of that anyway (I've got my own mail server). Benefits: Static IP address, no restrictions on running any sort of server, damn good 24/7 tech support (even Boxing Day!) at standard rate calls, and no "bandwidth/traffic" cap.
They are - in fact, you can still buy monochrome TV sets here in the UK if you want to (especially the hand-held portable variety). I've never heard of the "BBC buying consumers colour tv sets" story before so I'm slightly sceptical myself...
I'm in a bit of a similar situation - I like Werid Al Yankovic: yet getting hold of his stuff in the UK is near impossible. I've tried three seperate music stores and none of them can get hold of his stuff (CDs, tapes or DVDs) - and I've even contacted the band directly to try and get stuff imported in: but no go (last time I asked, they were only able to ship a Region 1 DVD - the UK is region 2). Hence, to enjoy his music I've got to use P2P...However, I've managed to find one person selling a Region 2 DVD of UHF on Ebay so fingers crossed it'll work (the bands website/email person denied that they will be/have done a region2 version so I'm not asking questions).
Make a cheap way we can get the stuff we like and we WILL buy it - make it cost prohibitive or otherwise impossible to get hold off, and we'll be left with no other choice than acquiring it "illegally".
Download a program called "Anal" from a domain called "Shat"? I would avoid psychologists if I were you, they'll probably think you're obsessed with something...
3k in a fortnight? Last time I was joe-jobbed, it was over 16,000 in a day - three times now I've had to call my ISP and say "Just wipe my email account, I know I've got important emails there but I won't stand a chance at trying to distinguish the good from the bad". Luckily, my spam level is down to a "handleable" 5,000 per day at the moment...
Same here - writing a legible sentance that at least I can read now produces hand/wrist ache. I can jot things down quickly - but if it's more than half a dozen words, then I don't really stand a chance of being able to read it again.
Looking back at it, I could type at a keyboard before I could properly write so I guess my hands have now "evolved" to be good at typing ("test conditions" WPM of around 80wpm, normal conditions I can normally touch 100wpm) and poor at handwriting.
Actually, it was in Stravo Muller's second club "Beta" where he got hot by Random Frequently Flyer Dent - the daughter of Trillian but not necessarily of Tricia McMillian from the notoriously unstable Plural galaxy ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.
Sigh, reminds me of RISC OS - a ROM based operating system. You still had the BIOS (bit it was very titchy IIRC) and then you had two 2Mb ROM chips on the motherboard which held the OS - extremely quick to boot and very very hard to get infected with viruses (although I believe RISC OS have now brought out "flashable ROMs" to save people having to by a new 99UKP set of ROMs everytime there's a major OS update). What about patches etc? Well, those can be "soft loaded" on boot if necessary.
Easy - it's going to be cold and damp and watch out for that massive asteroid at 4pm EST. (ahh - the good part of "long range predications": you don't have to worry about the embarrassment if, in the unlikely event, you do get it slightly wrong)
I was actually thinking of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Wind From The Sun" where there was an Earth orbit to Moon race with the "boats" powered by the pressure of the sun "but there's pressure - though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it comes to only about a millionth of an anounce. But out in space, even a pressure as small as that can be important, for it's acting all the time, hour after hour, day after day. Unlike rocket fuel, it's free and unlimited. If we want to, we can use it. We can build sails to catch the radiation blowing from the Sun".
On a Windows machine, you can run Outlook without having to worry about these HTML emails either-first make sure it's fully patched and then use a good firewall such as ZoneAlarm Pro which can restrict which ports each program uses - restrict Outlook to ports 110 (POP3), 25 (SMTP) and 53 (DNS) and that's it - it's got no need for anything else!
Ahhh...Sophie Aldred *drool*. I know when the 25th Anniversary of Dr.Who images came out and she was dressed in tight black PVC....
That's nothing: when I reinstall Windows, I can (from a blank formatted hard drive) be up and running in less than 3 hours: fully patched - without any of those OpenSSH flaws which seems to plague Linux. ;)
Bah - just shows how large, slow and bloated Linux is
Erm, the French are a "race" of people that either were born in or have similar ties to a country called France.
$20 per domain year for .coms/.nets ? Phew - that's pricey! OpenSRS sells domains to their resellers for $10/year (although a number of resellers are using domains as "loss leaders" - see EV1servers.com for an example). Even then, OpenSRS makes a profit as .com/.net registries have to "buy" the domain names off Verisign in the first place (as they are the "central" registry) for $6/year. And I'm sure if Verisign is purchasing millions of domains years in one "block", then Verisign will be able to give Verisign an appropriate discount...
"Butt sex...Butt sex requires a lot of lubrication...."
- Jeff thinking how to decode alien transmissions (ok in "Cancelled" South Park).
You mean the one with two silver slide switches and those paddles which you had to turn to make the bat move? I remember having one of those before I got my hands on an Atari 2600. *sigh* Those were the days when you could entertain yourself with the same 4 cartridges for several years...
I would keep the AUP vaguish - something like "We reserve the right to terminate or suspend any accounts that use excessive amounts of bandwidth, storage or CPU utilisation". Oh - and consider billing for extra bandwidth as well...
Hmm "BitTorrent for viruses".... It's an idea at least ;)