Emptying parking meters is a pretty albor intenstive task, and in big cities they must hold a lot of cash. When i lived in Edinburgh it cost me about $18/day to park in front of my apartment and that was several times less than parking in the city center.
I'd imagine parking meters are prime targets for drug users and petty theives and i've seen quite a lot of vandalized ones.
However, they wrap this up as being convenient for the end user (which it is too) and have the user pay the convenience fee.
I live in a suburban neighborhood and it still wouldn't make much sense.
From the corner of my street you can see 17 wifi networks, and many of them are unprotected. It seems unlikely that a FON user will ever feel the need to come across my network.
I like the idea, but city access points will provide so much more value to FON and cost their operators so much more that they'll likely end up with a bunch of APs buried deep in suburbia.
1) You have a choice as to whether or not to use a wireless connection. This isn't just about RECEIVING a signal - it's about configuring your computer to receive it, and transmitting signals back as well. This is nothing at all like walking by and "seeing" a picture.
Most of the time, my DHCP logs look something like this
Me) Hi, I'm grahamsz' laptop, can I use your network? AP) Certainly, have this IP address and if you need to access the internet then you can use this gateway
Given that my computer, that I configured, politely asked if it could use their network, and their Access Point, which they configured, gave me an overwhelming "yes please". I think it would be hard for them to argue against it.
Politicians need to be paid a generous salary, and then be prohibited from taking
a) other jobs b) investments in companies - upon entering office they'd be forced to move their investments into diversified funds c) money from any entity that can't vote for them
I feel we still need something to stop them taking pork jobs after leaving office. Perhaps they should be prohibited from taking above-median-income positions in any industry which they introduced legislation for.
I don't filter out google text ads because they really don't bother me.
I have occassionally clicked on them, and have, even more rarely, bought things from them. Sometimes you find relative newcomers to a particular market who provide a better price than their established competitors who have the benifit of pagerank.
My parents live about 9 miles from the nearest supermarket, in a relatively rural area. They have, I believe, three supermarkets that will deliver.
I live in an suburban area of Colorado, and only 5 miles from the nearest supermarkets and yet I can't get a single supermarket to deliver. Apparently i'm too far out!?
I think it has a lot more to do with the US tendency to drive. Many people in the UK find 18 miles r/t too far to drive to pick up a few items - yet in the US that's nothing.
If apple licensed fairplay to everyone, then someone like Samsung would produce a player that plays Windows Media and iTunes music.
I'd buy a player that gave me that flexibility, and then Apple and Real/Yehoo/Microsoft would end up in a bidding war which would be bad for everyone (except of course the consumer)
However any music store that intends to compete with itms is going to have to support the iPod - there are just too many ipods aren't to try and do anything else.
So if ms did support both the iPOD and their on Plays4Sure players, then i think they would stand a good chance to uprooting Apple. Especially considering they can run the store at a loss for years.
I figure learning that language will take me about a day and a half.
True, C# isn't a hard language to learn. I find it a little disjointed as I'm primarily a Java guy, but it's simple to understand.
The problem with C#, or indeed Java, is that the API and associated frameworks do so much for you, but take a long time to master. Some of my early Java code is needlessly verbose because i simply didn't know that the API made certain functionality available. Now that i'm competant in a small number of frameworks and have better learned the development tools, i find i can work a lot faster.
It doesn't take long before you become so used to the framework that programming in C or asm seems like reinventing the wheel.
I checked your music out on Yahoo music... not really my cup of tea, but maybe you'll get a few pennies.
What's interesting is that i'd never have known what your scale was. Apart from having your name listed as "Label" i'd never have known that I wasn't listening to a professionally prdouced album.
This begs the question of why established artists aren't flocking to CD Baby when their contracts are up. It wouldn't hurt many artists to not be found in Wal-Mart. It's a little risky, but if I could increase my income 10-fold, i'd take that risk in a minute.
They could create a google desktop search tool, with "High Availability" technology. It could simply route requests to google.cn. If that was down it would try google US, google UK... and eventually fall back on some anonymous network of proxies.
They could almost certainly get the product widely disseminated, then close up shop in China and people who had teh tool installed would still be able to get google. Lots of everyday users in China would still be able to access google and they'd have *some* safety in numbers.
Why don't google release a google desktop that subverts the chinese firewall and routes data indirectly to their US servers.
I'm sure google have the resources and technical know-how to pull this off, and they have the market clout that they could actually get the application widely proliferated. That would fulfil the goal of developing google in China and at the same time actively work against the Chinese censorship policies.
If half the net users in China have an encrypting tool installed that bypasses the firewall then the authorities will struggle to do anything to them. The real political dissidents will be able to hide among the people who want to download foreign crap.
Why not build your datacenter in alaska where it's colder year round. I'd have thought building the thing in Texas would just help pump up your A/C costs.
You can download as much as you want, or just stream it all like I do. It's 192kbps wma, so it sounds pretty good.
You don't keep to keep them after you cancel your subscription. However if yahoo can keep providing the service, and make it non-windows specific then i'd be happy keep paying.
You need to relicense tracks on your computer periodically (once a month i guess) but it means you can still play them when there's no internet around.
Of course I have very little vested in a CD collection. I probably started collecting mp3 files in 1996 so never really bought a lot of cds. Now that i'm grown up and want to pay for my music I find Y! meets my needs well.
It's $5/month. If you don't like the monthly payment then why not slap $1200 in a 5% CD (the financial kind). Each year you'll get back the $60 to pay for your subscription, so I figure that a lifetime of Y! Music costs about the same as 100 cds.
Of course right now I work mostly with Windows, if I get a gig doing solaris or linux again then I'm sure my sentiments will change.
I'd imagine the huge piece of silicon that is your image sensor consumes quite a bit of power, not to mention that you'd have to run the screen as well.
I can take hundreds upon hundreds of photos on my slr without switching batteries. My compact doesn't even come close.
In 2003 I moved from the UK to the US. My income is up about 2.5 times (even considering the poor exchange rate) although I've been pretty lucky. My state and federal income taxes run me somehting like 11% of income, and even after paying for healthcare, I'm way ahead.
It's not hard to find good beer and imported cheese here, but the bread thing pisses me off - i end up baking my own.
Plus the weather is great and gas prices are fantastic:)
I can see the configuration page for my Canopy Modem. It has an upstream limit of 3mbit and a sustained upstream limit of 1mbit. I think the burst limit is 100kbytes or so.
Integrity of the inner volume seems quite fragile, due to the possibility of it being overwritten through the outer volume, but aside from that it seems like a good plan.
This could be a plus. If you were ever foricbly made release your key to the outer volume then you could keep "secretfiles.tar" sitting around so that a less skilled attacker would untar it and in the process destroy the inner volume.
What if the transmitter needs to be clandestine... perhaps the agent in the field that receives messages via shortwave has to post some kind of reply.
Dropping a few roubles in a net cafe, while posting to a commonly used side seems quite reasonable. The host government would need to do some fairly serious analysis to spot that kind of stuff. If the agent rarely uses the same connection or site, then it'd be virtually impossible to stop them.
Perhaps they even use a PDA with a wifi card that uses any unsecured network to upload the data.
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Emptying parking meters is a pretty albor intenstive task, and in big cities they must hold a lot of cash. When i lived in Edinburgh it cost me about $18/day to park in front of my apartment and that was several times less than parking in the city center.
I'd imagine parking meters are prime targets for drug users and petty theives and i've seen quite a lot of vandalized ones.
However, they wrap this up as being convenient for the end user (which it is too) and have the user pay the convenience fee.
I live in a suburban neighborhood and it still wouldn't make much sense.
From the corner of my street you can see 17 wifi networks, and many of them are unprotected. It seems unlikely that a FON user will ever feel the need to come across my network.
I like the idea, but city access points will provide so much more value to FON and cost their operators so much more that they'll likely end up with a bunch of APs buried deep in suburbia.
If I save 5 minutes a day by using excel...
Bidnip have you beat
http://www.bidnip.com/a.php?id=3438
I get a few free snipes if you sign up - they have a great service, it's never failed me.
1) You have a choice as to whether or not to use a wireless connection. This isn't just about RECEIVING a signal - it's about configuring your computer to receive it, and transmitting signals back as well. This is nothing at all like walking by and "seeing" a picture.
Most of the time, my DHCP logs look something like this
Me) Hi, I'm grahamsz' laptop, can I use your network?
AP) Certainly, have this IP address and if you need to access the internet then you can use this gateway
Given that my computer, that I configured, politely asked if it could use their network, and their Access Point, which they configured, gave me an overwhelming "yes please". I think it would be hard for them to argue against it.
Politicians need to be paid a generous salary, and then be prohibited from taking
a) other jobs
b) investments in companies - upon entering office they'd be forced to move their investments into diversified funds
c) money from any entity that can't vote for them
I feel we still need something to stop them taking pork jobs after leaving office. Perhaps they should be prohibited from taking above-median-income positions in any industry which they introduced legislation for.
I don't filter out google text ads because they really don't bother me.
I have occassionally clicked on them, and have, even more rarely, bought things from them. Sometimes you find relative newcomers to a particular market who provide a better price than their established competitors who have the benifit of pagerank.
Well it's a switch from where it is now, where the advertisers have to trust the third party webmaster/web users to send them real clicks.
This model is much more amenable to the people spending the cash, therefore i'm sure it'll become popular.
My parents live about 9 miles from the nearest supermarket, in a relatively rural area. They have, I believe, three supermarkets that will deliver.
I live in an suburban area of Colorado, and only 5 miles from the nearest supermarkets and yet I can't get a single supermarket to deliver. Apparently i'm too far out!?
I think it has a lot more to do with the US tendency to drive. Many people in the UK find 18 miles r/t too far to drive to pick up a few items - yet in the US that's nothing.
If apple licensed fairplay to everyone, then someone like Samsung would produce a player that plays Windows Media and iTunes music.
I'd buy a player that gave me that flexibility, and then Apple and Real/Yehoo/Microsoft would end up in a bidding war which would be bad for everyone (except of course the consumer)
However any music store that intends to compete with itms is going to have to support the iPod - there are just too many ipods aren't to try and do anything else.
So if ms did support both the iPOD and their on Plays4Sure players, then i think they would stand a good chance to uprooting Apple. Especially considering they can run the store at a loss for years.
I figure learning that language will take me about a day and a half.
True, C# isn't a hard language to learn. I find it a little disjointed as I'm primarily a Java guy, but it's simple to understand.
The problem with C#, or indeed Java, is that the API and associated frameworks do so much for you, but take a long time to master. Some of my early Java code is needlessly verbose because i simply didn't know that the API made certain functionality available. Now that i'm competant in a small number of frameworks and have better learned the development tools, i find i can work a lot faster.
It doesn't take long before you become so used to the framework that programming in C or asm seems like reinventing the wheel.
I checked your music out on Yahoo music... not really my cup of tea, but maybe you'll get a few pennies.
What's interesting is that i'd never have known what your scale was. Apart from having your name listed as "Label" i'd never have known that I wasn't listening to a professionally prdouced album.
This begs the question of why established artists aren't flocking to CD Baby when their contracts are up. It wouldn't hurt many artists to not be found in Wal-Mart. It's a little risky, but if I could increase my income 10-fold, i'd take that risk in a minute.
They could create a google desktop search tool, with "High Availability" technology. It could simply route requests to google.cn. If that was down it would try google US, google UK... and eventually fall back on some anonymous network of proxies.
They could almost certainly get the product widely disseminated, then close up shop in China and people who had teh tool installed would still be able to get google. Lots of everyday users in China would still be able to access google and they'd have *some* safety in numbers.
According to this,
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http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005Statistic
the UK has more universities in the top 100 per head of capita than the US does. You can make statistics say whatever you want.
I have no doubt that the top universities in the US are excellent, but are they really indicative of the education that the average graduate receives.
It seems like it would be fairer to rank every university in each country, then pick the median and then compare that value.
Why don't google release a google desktop that subverts the chinese firewall and routes data indirectly to their US servers.
I'm sure google have the resources and technical know-how to pull this off, and they have the market clout that they could actually get the application widely proliferated. That would fulfil the goal of developing google in China and at the same time actively work against the Chinese censorship policies.
If half the net users in China have an encrypting tool installed that bypasses the firewall then the authorities will struggle to do anything to them. The real political dissidents will be able to hide among the people who want to download foreign crap.
Why not build your datacenter in alaska where it's colder year round. I'd have thought building the thing in Texas would just help pump up your A/C costs.
You can download as much as you want, or just stream it all like I do. It's 192kbps wma, so it sounds pretty good.
You don't keep to keep them after you cancel your subscription. However if yahoo can keep providing the service, and make it non-windows specific then i'd be happy keep paying.
You need to relicense tracks on your computer periodically (once a month i guess) but it means you can still play them when there's no internet around.
Of course I have very little vested in a CD collection. I probably started collecting mp3 files in 1996 so never really bought a lot of cds. Now that i'm grown up and want to pay for my music I find Y! meets my needs well.
I'm quite a big fan of Yahoo Music Unlimited.
It's $5/month. If you don't like the monthly payment then why not slap $1200 in a 5% CD (the financial kind). Each year you'll get back the $60 to pay for your subscription, so I figure that a lifetime of Y! Music costs about the same as 100 cds.
Of course right now I work mostly with Windows, if I get a gig doing solaris or linux again then I'm sure my sentiments will change.
I'd imagine the huge piece of silicon that is your image sensor consumes quite a bit of power, not to mention that you'd have to run the screen as well.
I can take hundreds upon hundreds of photos on my slr without switching batteries. My compact doesn't even come close.
Right, so we're talking about different things.
I can see my burst speeds when I scp small files around, they move way faster than my 1Mbit limit.
In 2003 I moved from the UK to the US. My income is up about 2.5 times (even considering the poor exchange rate) although I've been pretty lucky. My state and federal income taxes run me somehting like 11% of income, and even after paying for healthcare, I'm way ahead.
:)
It's not hard to find good beer and imported cheese here, but the bread thing pisses me off - i end up baking my own.
Plus the weather is great and gas prices are fantastic
I can see the configuration page for my Canopy Modem. It has an upstream limit of 3mbit and a sustained upstream limit of 1mbit. I think the burst limit is 100kbytes or so.
Integrity of the inner volume seems quite fragile, due to the possibility of it being overwritten through the outer volume, but aside from that it seems like a good plan.
This could be a plus. If you were ever foricbly made release your key to the outer volume then you could keep "secretfiles.tar" sitting around so that a less skilled attacker would untar it and in the process destroy the inner volume.
What if the transmitter needs to be clandestine... perhaps the agent in the field that receives messages via shortwave has to post some kind of reply.
Dropping a few roubles in a net cafe, while posting to a commonly used side seems quite reasonable. The host government would need to do some fairly serious analysis to spot that kind of stuff. If the agent rarely uses the same connection or site, then it'd be virtually impossible to stop them.
Perhaps they even use a PDA with a wifi card that uses any unsecured network to upload the data.