Have a smart chip on the card that reads the users pin number, generates an appropriate PK-signed authorization message, and transmits this to the bank.
So you have some sort of hybrid system, with a PIN for real life use and a passphrase for online use.
That really can happen everywhere. I found myself in a corporate and carrying a lot of the team on a fairly important project.
The main thing i'd look for is a company with good career progression. I graduated less than two years ago and am now making between double and triple my starting salary.
As such, starting salary isn't everything and it's important to find a company where you can actually grow. Many of the large companies talk about fast-track career progression, but if you get a friendly interviewer then feel them out to see how far they've progressed.
Your degree is valuable, but not on it's own. If you can take your degree skills, your geek skills and quickly learn real world skills then you can go far.
I generally block most advertizing but ocassionally i'll come across something interesting, unobtrusive and it will catch my interest. Absolut ran a series of flash ads that just invited me to play with them.
If everything were targeted to my tastes then i'd be far happier.
Occasionally i'll actually rewind tivo to watch a commericial that caught my eye as I sped through it.
Of course intelligent advertizing is expensive but I think it works. Lots of people watch the superbowl to see the ads and if marketers weren't obsessed with quantity over quality then it'd pay off in the long run.
I'm always a bit confused by this sort of sentiment.
My local walmart (though i've never had digital prints done there) has new fuji equipment and uses fuji xtal archive paper. Virtually the same set up that most pro places have, yet at 1/4 of the price.
If things aren't urgent you can use walmart and try again if the results are poor. Nowadays i've found the standard of digital prints to be excellent no matter where you go.
When i worked at a large corporate we used to personify pieces of code. Our principle engineer would supply a set of cartoon characters to go along with the particularly nasty bits.
This would lead to comments like//Cleanup in case BPF came in here and shat all over the floor
I've always been fairly reserved in my comments, but it's always nice to add things like//Just because i did this doesn't mean it's not a bad idea
Actually in a small laid back company i'm more careful than in the straight-laced commerical environment since i know that my bosses can and do actually look at code.
2) I feel your pain here. Hopefully in time someone will realise that people want to play music in Linux and that there is a market. Either that or Mplayer will start playing Y! music files - they play fine in WMP.
3) If you have better things to do with your money than spending it on music, then by all means go for it. Music is a luxury item.
4) Here's an analogy.
Say you house costs $250,000 and you have a 5%, 30 yr mortgage on it, and lets assume it doesn't appreciate at all (because music doesn't really).
Your mortgage payment would run you $1,342 a month and you'd pay back a total of $233,139 in interest (an average of $647 a month).
Now if you could rent the same house for $600 a month, then it WOULD be better than buying it.
Even if the bank paid you no interest on the $742/month you saved, you'd still end up with more cash than the value of the house.
Of course houses appreciate and usually you cant rent them quite that cheaply (with a few exceptions).
However, to come back to music we can observe:
It's about the same price (assuming interest rates and yahoo's pricing stay at current levels) to rent unlimited music for the rest of your life or to buy 100 cds once
My tastes in music change pretty frequently and in my case it IS cheaper to rent than buy.
MILLIONS of people use Netflix who are offering a very similar same model for movies.
Then i'll download it all again... pretty low effort compared with setting up my development environments again.
Equally if Yahoo! go bankrupt then i can just sign up for raphsody using the money i would have spent on yahoo (well actually a little more) and i'll have access to the same (well slightly different) unlimited set of music.
The Mac/Linux thing is a problem, but I'm doing windows development right now so need to have an XP machine anyway.
I'm sure streaming services will be available on the Mac within a year or so, and eventually it'll happen on linux.
Legit download services are only available in a handful of countries, and i'm not sure that streaming services are available anywhere outside of north america.
I suspect a lot more people would pay for music if it were readily available to them - at least that's what i get by looking at both these results.
Put $1500 (100 cds worth) in a government bond and use the interest from that to pay for yahoo music unlimited.
Then you get unlimited access for a one time investment - and if you ever want to you can cancel and get your $1500 back, and yahoo can have their music back.
Sure it's DRM'd but i've found Yahoo's drm pretty unobtrusive.
Weird.... i logged into one of my UK shell accounts and i get a 121mS ping time to a server here in colorado.
Presently I get about 170mS between my home wireless connection and scotland.
Generally UK isps try hard to have good us connectivity since all the interesting shit is over here. US isps dont seem to put nearly as much care into international peering arrangements.
Generally i found comcasts tech support to be ignorant. I had problems with monster (~250ms) latency to the UK, and they pretty much told me that you cant get broadband speed internationally.
It was fast, but i probably had about 1 connectivity outage a week, and the final straw was when dns went down for about 2 days.
Also my comcast bill would mysteriously rise by a dollar or two every few months... no real reason for it. Got fed up giving them $120/mo.
My next hop ping time averages about 32ms, and i'm averaging about 80ms to google right now - probably a little slower than cable in that respect.
I'm with mesa networks in colorado and get a connection that is easily as fast as cable. 2.5Mb down/1Mbit up, for about $2 more than comcast want for their crappy service.
The best part is that I opened a support ticket to have reverse dns set up for my static ip, and it was dealt with in under an hour.
Feel free to ping me at graha dot ms at graha dot ms if you want more info
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Have a smart chip on the card that reads the users pin number, generates an appropriate PK-signed authorization message, and transmits this to the bank.
So you have some sort of hybrid system, with a PIN for real life use and a passphrase for online use.
Google ads catch my interest quite frequently. Nothing obtrusive about them.
That really can happen everywhere. I found myself in a corporate and carrying a lot of the team on a fairly important project.
The main thing i'd look for is a company with good career progression. I graduated less than two years ago and am now making between double and triple my starting salary.
As such, starting salary isn't everything and it's important to find a company where you can actually grow. Many of the large companies talk about fast-track career progression, but if you get a friendly interviewer then feel them out to see how far they've progressed.
Your degree is valuable, but not on it's own. If you can take your degree skills, your geek skills and quickly learn real world skills then you can go far.
I'm not alaskan, but someone pointed it out to me.
I think it was about 1.6x distorted, the city blocks looked really funky. Wish i'd grabbed a screenshot now
Maps of anchorage now actually appear to have streets which meet at right angles.
Of course they couldn't really show world maps if everything was normalized for the US.
I generally block most advertizing but ocassionally i'll come across something interesting, unobtrusive and it will catch my interest. Absolut ran a series of flash ads that just invited me to play with them.
If everything were targeted to my tastes then i'd be far happier.
Occasionally i'll actually rewind tivo to watch a commericial that caught my eye as I sped through it.
Of course intelligent advertizing is expensive but I think it works. Lots of people watch the superbowl to see the ads and if marketers weren't obsessed with quantity over quality then it'd pay off in the long run.
I'm always a bit confused by this sort of sentiment.
My local walmart (though i've never had digital prints done there) has new fuji equipment and uses fuji xtal archive paper. Virtually the same set up that most pro places have, yet at 1/4 of the price.
If things aren't urgent you can use walmart and try again if the results are poor. Nowadays i've found the standard of digital prints to be excellent no matter where you go.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetke y=urn:cds:docid:1-1-4256482-1
Work Around:
Don't bang on the keyboard like a wild monkey
When i worked at a large corporate we used to personify pieces of code. Our principle engineer would supply a set of cartoon characters to go along with the particularly nasty bits.
//Cleanup in case BPF came in here and shat all over the floor
//Just because i did this doesn't mean it's not a bad idea
This would lead to comments like
I've always been fairly reserved in my comments, but it's always nice to add things like
Actually in a small laid back company i'm more careful than in the straight-laced commerical environment since i know that my bosses can and do actually look at code.
I'm pretty sure you'll be able to get a $40 dvd recorder by the middle of next year.
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They've broken the $100 price point
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?produc
In the early 80s people were paying over $500 for a VCR. In todays money that should have doubled.
DVD recorders are therfore about 10% of the price that VCRs were in say 1982.
I think you'd struggle to get a quality vcr for much less than $100 now... though i realise the dvd+r i linked to isn't exactly 'quality'
All four seasons in one day (or two days actually)
Essentially 50,000 pirated copies of windows are worth $50,000 more than 50,000 real copies of windows.
This makes the punitive side of the damages pretty low, but the scale of this settlement means very little for casual pirates.
Umm if you banked the $742/month that you saved by renting then you'd have $267120 which is worth more than a 1/4M house.
It was just to show that renting something can be cheaper than buying it.
1) Your choice
2) I feel your pain here. Hopefully in time someone will realise that people want to play music in Linux and that there is a market. Either that or Mplayer will start playing Y! music files - they play fine in WMP.
3) If you have better things to do with your money than spending it on music, then by all means go for it. Music is a luxury item.
4) Here's an analogy.
Say you house costs $250,000 and you have a 5%, 30 yr mortgage on it, and lets assume it doesn't appreciate at all (because music doesn't really).
Your mortgage payment would run you $1,342 a month and you'd pay back a total of $233,139 in interest (an average of $647 a month).
Now if you could rent the same house for $600 a month, then it WOULD be better than buying it.
Even if the bank paid you no interest on the $742/month you saved, you'd still end up with more cash than the value of the house.
Of course houses appreciate and usually you cant rent them quite that cheaply (with a few exceptions).
However, to come back to music we can observe:
It's about the same price (assuming interest rates and yahoo's pricing stay at current levels) to rent unlimited music for the rest of your life or to buy 100 cds once
My tastes in music change pretty frequently and in my case it IS cheaper to rent than buy.
MILLIONS of people use Netflix who are offering a very similar same model for movies.
Then i'll download it all again... pretty low effort compared with setting up my development environments again.
Equally if Yahoo! go bankrupt then i can just sign up for raphsody using the money i would have spent on yahoo (well actually a little more) and i'll have access to the same (well slightly different) unlimited set of music.
The Mac/Linux thing is a problem, but I'm doing windows development right now so need to have an XP machine anyway.
I'm sure streaming services will be available on the Mac within a year or so, and eventually it'll happen on linux.
The survey here is US only.
Legit download services are only available in a handful of countries, and i'm not sure that streaming services are available anywhere outside of north america.
I suspect a lot more people would pay for music if it were readily available to them - at least that's what i get by looking at both these results.
Put $1500 (100 cds worth) in a government bond and use the interest from that to pay for yahoo music unlimited.
Then you get unlimited access for a one time investment - and if you ever want to you can cancel and get your $1500 back, and yahoo can have their music back.
Sure it's DRM'd but i've found Yahoo's drm pretty unobtrusive.
I've made a couple of calls with them - when flights get diverted and such shit, and it's virtually impossible to have a conversation.
Took me about 5 attempts to dial out and after that i had to scream down the phone so my wife could hear me.
It sounded worse than voip on a dialup connection... beat me why anyone would pay the $10/minute unless it was an emergency.
I'd have thought it'd have been easier to sell off Sun's broomfield campus and move their remaining employees over to stk.
I think both companies campuses are wel below capacity right now.
However stk's campus is more isolated and could probably be better turned into a housing development, whereas sun's is in a business park.
My local recycling center (taxpayer funded) charge only $10 for a monitor and $8 for a computer.
If it were more common then the price would come down.
the 121ms one was going through 22 hops.
edinburgh - london - new york - chicago - denver
Weird.... i logged into one of my UK shell accounts and i get a 121mS ping time to a server here in colorado.
Presently I get about 170mS between my home wireless connection and scotland.
Generally UK isps try hard to have good us connectivity since all the interesting shit is over here. US isps dont seem to put nearly as much care into international peering arrangements.
Generally i found comcasts tech support to be ignorant. I had problems with monster (~250ms) latency to the UK, and they pretty much told me that you cant get broadband speed internationally.
It was fast, but i probably had about 1 connectivity outage a week, and the final straw was when dns went down for about 2 days.
Also my comcast bill would mysteriously rise by a dollar or two every few months... no real reason for it. Got fed up giving them $120/mo.
My next hop ping time averages about 32ms, and i'm averaging about 80ms to google right now - probably a little slower than cable in that respect.
Don't digis charge about $400 for install, and looking at their website it looks like they have a 3GB/month cap.
I have no bandwidth limit, install was $25, first 3 months for $19 and then i'll be paying $58/mo for my service.
I'm with mesa networks in colorado and get a connection that is easily as fast as cable. 2.5Mb down/1Mbit up, for about $2 more than comcast want for their crappy service.
The best part is that I opened a support ticket to have reverse dns set up for my static ip, and it was dealt with in under an hour.
Feel free to ping me at graha dot ms at graha dot ms if you want more info