There's a risk associated with accepting credit cards, but most merchants choose to accept that risk to increase their customer base.
Similarly banks put themselves at risk by providing online banking, but that risk must be sufficiently small compared to the number of customers they'd loose if they didn't provide that service.
I know theres a risk in using my credit card online, but the financial and time cost of credit card fraud (in my personal case) is far lower than the financial and time savings i've made through buying online.
Find a friend in the same situation and set up rsync to do an offsite backup everynight.
When it came to my final year university project i had everything (including my tex writeup) in my own cvs server. Every night i ran an rsync to back that up to university, and the following morning they'd back that up to tape.
Given that i had the files all checked out on 3 or 4 systems, i probably had about 8 copies of my work floating around.
You don't need to offsite your mp3 collection, but there's bound to be some data that you wouldn't want to loose.
I'm setting up something similar for my father in laws digital photo collection. Once i get my own system better set up, we'll each have a system such that:
Files get saved onto disk1
Nightly copy onto disk2
Nightly rsync moves disk2 on my system to disk2 on his and viceversa.
We have a lot of data to start with, but rarely add more than a few 10's of megabytes at a time, so the rsync shouldn't consume too much of our broadband.
If that gets too heavy going then i'll get a pair of firewire external disks and always leave one at my office.
Depends where you live, but many cellphone networks have extortionate charges for placing cross-network calls. When I was in the UK i had to pay 45p (80c) per minute to call a different network off peak - more during the day. Versus around 1p (2c) a minute to call a land line or another customer on the same network.
Personally i had a calling card service, so i could pay landline rates + calling card cellphone rates... but most people weren't that committed.
Text messaging is a far cheaper way to have the same conversation, plus it's far less invasive than actually calling.
It's been with us since networks went digital in the early 90s - it's no fad:)
I found i really had to try and commit myself at university, otherwise i'd find myself with a final exam the next day writing some random perl code to catalog my music collection.
If you can channel your energy and focus on the not-so-interesting parts then you should do pretty well.
Once you're in the real world it's a bit different, but hopefully you can find a work environment that suits you.
You can choose tracks on your computer, or you can choose them from the remote control. I think it's a more natural fit for a conventional hifi although personally i'd probably go down the apple route..
It's been a while since i studied this. I was connecting the orthogonal with CDMA since you typically generate mathematically orthogonal codes, such that it's not possible to create any one code with any sum of the other codes.
I usually find you can just pick up the url by selecting it, then middle button drop it into the browser. That seems to work on konq, netscape, mozilla and firefox on both linux and solaris.
But i do feel your pain:)
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
It uses both frequency division multiplexing and code division multiplexing.
That means that they split their frequency allocation into different bands, and then within each band they use Code Division Multiplexing to let multiple systems transmit at the same time.
Orthoganal seems superfluous to me - Essentially it says that the code patterns will be chosen so that no two transmitters overlap (for lack of a better laymans explanation).
CDM involves transmitting a large number of bits for each 'real' bit of data. The ratio of transmitted bits to real bits is the spreading factor.
Signals with a higher spreading factor can be received amongst more noise, but can carry correspondingly fewer bits. This is like 802.11b does when it drops down to 5.5Mb/s from 11Mb/s.
Well in the UK broadband is cheaper than dialup for heavy users.
Depending on how your priorities lie, broadband still isn't a major expense in the USA. I pay about $10/week for mine and would prefer to eat $1 less food each day than live without it.
Anyway if you are sufficiently hard up that you have to choose food instead of cable then why would you care to purchase a hardware modem... which probably puts you in (2).
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Almost anyone that is still using dialup is either
1) lacking any other options 2) doesn't give a flying monkey about the performance of their modem
Group 2 will be entirely happy with their motherboards soft-modem which negates a lot of the demand for real ones.
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I used them at work some of the time, and so long as the server isn't completely slammed they are usually pretty responsive.
Unfortunately mozilla, flash, staroffice etc... can end up being quite a resource hog.
Oh hang on, this is america...
If you've got a robotic exoskeleton and a wide area network, why not just pilot the soldier remotely?
Seems to make a lot more sense than still sending a real person in... plus the army would have no trouble getting recruits to play counterstrike.
Normally you buy life assurance - essentially insurance against something that IS going to happen.
Whereas insurance normally insures against something that won't happen (in most cases).
There's a risk associated with accepting credit cards, but most merchants choose to accept that risk to increase their customer base.
Similarly banks put themselves at risk by providing online banking, but that risk must be sufficiently small compared to the number of customers they'd loose if they didn't provide that service.
I know theres a risk in using my credit card online, but the financial and time cost of credit card fraud (in my personal case) is far lower than the financial and time savings i've made through buying online.
Surely you sign on to their secure server and it generates a token which can authenticate you to the third party site...
Isn't that about the only sane way to do this?
Find a friend in the same situation and set up rsync to do an offsite backup everynight.
When it came to my final year university project i had everything (including my tex writeup) in my own cvs server. Every night i ran an rsync to back that up to university, and the following morning they'd back that up to tape.
Given that i had the files all checked out on 3 or 4 systems, i probably had about 8 copies of my work floating around.
You don't need to offsite your mp3 collection, but there's bound to be some data that you wouldn't want to loose.
This doesn't seem like overkill.
I'm setting up something similar for my father in laws digital photo collection. Once i get my own system better set up, we'll each have a system such that:
Files get saved onto disk1
Nightly copy onto disk2
Nightly rsync moves disk2 on my system to disk2 on his and viceversa.
We have a lot of data to start with, but rarely add more than a few 10's of megabytes at a time, so the rsync shouldn't consume too much of our broadband.
If that gets too heavy going then i'll get a pair of firewire external disks and always leave one at my office.
Depends where you live, but many cellphone networks have extortionate charges for placing cross-network calls. When I was in the UK i had to pay 45p (80c) per minute to call a different network off peak - more during the day. Versus around 1p (2c) a minute to call a land line or another customer on the same network.
:)
Personally i had a calling card service, so i could pay landline rates + calling card cellphone rates... but most people weren't that committed.
Text messaging is a far cheaper way to have the same conversation, plus it's far less invasive than actually calling.
It's been with us since networks went digital in the early 90s - it's no fad
Now video messaging - that's a fad.
I found i really had to try and commit myself at university, otherwise i'd find myself with a final exam the next day writing some random perl code to catalog my music collection.
If you can channel your energy and focus on the not-so-interesting parts then you should do pretty well.
Once you're in the real world it's a bit different, but hopefully you can find a work environment that suits you.
It's a TCP/IP stack too - that is harder to do.
The slimp3 gives you plenty options.
You can choose tracks on your computer, or you can choose them from the remote control. I think it's a more natural fit for a conventional hifi although personally i'd probably go down the apple route..
You dont have a whole lot of choices - either accept their payment terms or umm get out...
I've heard that notion before that absolute currency exchange rates can be used to compare economy... where does this come from?
It must surely be apparent to anyone that's been abroad that items dont cost the same 'number' in every country.
My apologies.
It's been a while since i studied this. I was connecting the orthogonal with CDMA since you typically generate mathematically orthogonal codes, such that it's not possible to create any one code with any sum of the other codes.
Your explanation makes more sense.
been using it as my main browser for over a year and never noticed that :)
I usually find you can just pick up the url by selecting it, then middle button drop it into the browser. That seems to work on konq, netscape, mozilla and firefox on both linux and solaris.
:)
But i do feel your pain
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
Corel could clean up if they went cross-platform with the draw suite. They were too focused on making their office run in java.
I'd drop $150 on a corel draw for linux in a heartbeat.
It uses both frequency division multiplexing and code division multiplexing.
That means that they split their frequency allocation into different bands, and then within each band they use Code Division Multiplexing to let multiple systems transmit at the same time.
Orthoganal seems superfluous to me - Essentially it says that the code patterns will be chosen so that no two transmitters overlap (for lack of a better laymans explanation).
CDM involves transmitting a large number of bits for each 'real' bit of data. The ratio of transmitted bits to real bits is the spreading factor.
Signals with a higher spreading factor can be received amongst more noise, but can carry correspondingly fewer bits. This is like 802.11b does when it drops down to 5.5Mb/s from 11Mb/s.
I think we've covered it all.
We're talking about manufacture here.
'Manufacturing' software requires (at most) pressing cds and printing manuals.
Designing software is expensive... but so is designing hardware.
It'll be interesting if this really stops piracy or not. It just takes one recording and all their efforts are wasted.
Junior vice-president Homer Simpson speaking
They seem to have the shortest product lifecycles i've ever seen.
.. :)
OTOH i'd have thought that it'd be in microsoft's interests to force people to upgrade by withdrawing support from win98 etc...
Maybe they really are scared
Well in the UK broadband is cheaper than dialup for heavy users.
Depending on how your priorities lie, broadband still isn't a major expense in the USA. I pay about $10/week for mine and would prefer to eat $1 less food each day than live without it.
Anyway if you are sufficiently hard up that you have to choose food instead of cable then why would you care to purchase a hardware modem... which probably puts you in (2).
Almost anyone that is still using dialup is either
1) lacking any other options
2) doesn't give a flying monkey about the performance of their modem
Group 2 will be entirely happy with their motherboards soft-modem which negates a lot of the demand for real ones.