Just a random thought -- what about a program that does something deliberately wrong after you input an invalid key? Two examples to consider: First, an art program that prints and saves all in black when it's determined to be invalid. Second, a mathematical program that introduces critical but subtle and difficult to detect errors into the calculations.
Still won't happen. If the user has to do anything at all to create his backup (and assuming that there are no immediate penalties for not doing it), it won't be backed up after the first week.
The best backup systems that I have are completely painless and automated. Copy the home directory (or data directory or whatever you need to backup) onto a fileserver through a cron job in the middle of the night. That way nobody has to do anything and you still have a backup.
Wouldn't it be better for them to send you a new one instead of the empty box? You remove the new one, put the broken one in the box and ship it back. Faster and cheaper for them (less freight cost) and you get your toy up and running sooner.
If you could buy a house for ten months' rental---say you'd spend $300 a month to rent or $3,000 one time to buy---you wouldn't rent.
You might be surprised.
A friend of mine had a house rental business a couple of years ago, until he sold it. He was, basically, a slum landlord. He purchased all kinds of run-down houses for $3000 to $5000 and rented them out for $300 to $500 per month.
His tenants weren't exactly the sort of folks that I would want to associate with, but he collected a substantial rent each month off of those shacks during the time that he had them.
Is there a net gain in tourism between the US and Canada, though? Serious question.. I don't know.
If you can't cross the border so you stay home and go on vacation down the road in your own country, and I do the same in my country, aren't we both spending our tourist dollars anyway? If we both spend $100 on hotels, the each hotel still gets $100.
So is there a net gain to be had through travel this way?
develop folios and tubes to store the paper in when not in use so it stays neat and fresh.
Nice idea, but people won't take any steps at all to care for the condition of the paper, especially if they are just going to return it for deposit refund or whatever. Beer stains, muddy dog footprints, circle the ad for the '83 Ford for sale in ink, fold the thing up and shove it in your back pocket.
Plus, if you lose it you've lost something. If I lose a 75 cent paper, I'm out 75 cents. Or nothing, if I have already read it. If I lose a $20 "paper pad", I'm out $20. That's enough to make you a target for thieves at the bus stop, even.
Realbasic is free (of charge) for Linux. Or at least it was the last time I looked at it. It's the Windows and Mac versions that you have to cough up the bux for.
And Freebasic http://www.freebasic.net/ It runs on Windows, Linux and DOS. Lately it has been becoming less "BASIC-like" (which is a direction that I really don't approve of -- no gosubs any more, for example) but it's still very cool.
The bowling alley here runs their scoring systems on Amigas. No kidding. The guy who runs the place has a stack of them in the back room for spare parts. I have no idea what he will do when he runs out of spares...
you can do whatever you want with the file, but there is a digitial hash somewhere in the file that uniquely identifies you, so don't share it, else we will sue.
If I buy the product in a store for cash, who gets identified in this digital hash? The clerk who sold it to me?
It is my understanding that "Open Office" is a registered trademark, and it doesn't belong to the OpenOffice.org folks. Therefore, they have to be OpenOffice.org and not OpenOffice without-the-org in order to avoid infringement.
Doing anything else would require changing the name to something completely different and losing all of the "goodwill" that has built up around the OpenOffice with-or-without-org name to date.
For the record, I would be happy to watch a torture of the people who attempted to plot the rape of those young girls,
I wonder how different it is. Is there any proof that these guys actually intended to follow through with their "plan"? Perhaps it too was a role-playing fantasy thing for them, never intended to go beyond the computer screen and enter the real world, similar to your defense of your friends' fantasies presented in your comment.
I would love to see police officers get some type of 'spiderman tracking device' to tag cars that evade arrest. Follow from a couple of miles back and wait until they stop. Safer for everyone, the police, the public, and the driver.
also has anyone ever seen a CFL that worked on a dimmer?
I purchased a dimmable General Electric brand CFL floodlight bulb last week to try out, as I use CFL bulbs in just about everything else around here other than my dimmable light fixtures.
I decided that I didn't really like it. It does dim a bit, but it doesn't dim as smoothly or to as low a level as the halogen floodlights that I use in those fixtures normally. If you don't crank it up high enough on the dimmer switch when you first turn it on, it doesn't ignite. It flashes quickly, over and over, but it doesn't light until you turn it up higher.
CFL bulbs are great in pretty much everything else, but I will stick with halogens in my dimmable floodlight fixtures.
What if you are a professor at a major university doing a study.
Is the university funded by tax dollars?
After they accept the first government dime, the work should become public domain.
The one on the NSF grant builds a new research infrastructure the other student later uses for his research. Should that other student than have all his work publicly available?
Of course. I don't see where (or why) there would be any other answer.
Basically it's almost impossible to find private research today that ISN'T in part funded by the government.
Well, there you are then. A large body of research that is made available to the publich should lead to advances in many fields of study, and opportunities for researchers to cooperate and collaborate on projects will be greatly expanded and become more obvious to those participating.
No. Fire safes give off a kind of steam when they are being heated. The steam keeps the papers inside from burning up. The fire safe stops being effective after a certain period of time when it runs out of material to create the steam with.
Therefore, the fire safe has two problems for this application.
Limited duration for effective fire protection.
Steam that will short out anything electrical in the safe.
Fire safes are designed to keep paper from burning. Nothing else.
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Just a random thought -- what about a program that does something deliberately wrong after you input an invalid key?
Two examples to consider: First, an art program that prints and saves all in black when it's determined to be invalid. Second, a mathematical program that introduces critical but subtle and difficult to detect errors into the calculations.
What do you think?
Still won't happen. If the user has to do anything at all to create his backup (and assuming that there are no immediate penalties for not doing it), it won't be backed up after the first week.
The best backup systems that I have are completely painless and automated. Copy the home directory (or data directory or whatever you need to backup) onto a fileserver through a cron job in the middle of the night. That way nobody has to do anything and you still have a backup.
Wouldn't it be better for them to send you a new one instead of the empty box? You remove the new one, put the broken one in the box and ship it back. Faster and cheaper for them (less freight cost) and you get your toy up and running sooner.
If you could buy a house for ten months' rental---say you'd spend $300 a month to rent or $3,000 one time to buy---you wouldn't rent.
You might be surprised.
A friend of mine had a house rental business a couple of years ago, until he sold it. He was, basically, a slum landlord. He purchased all kinds of run-down houses for $3000 to $5000 and rented them out for $300 to $500 per month.
His tenants weren't exactly the sort of folks that I would want to associate with, but he collected a substantial rent each month off of those shacks during the time that he had them.
People will rent anything.
Is there a net gain in tourism between the US and Canada, though? Serious question.. I don't know.
If you can't cross the border so you stay home and go on vacation down the road in your own country, and I do the same in my country, aren't we both spending our tourist dollars anyway? If we both spend $100 on hotels, the each hotel still gets $100.
So is there a net gain to be had through travel this way?
develop folios and tubes to store the paper in when not in use so it stays neat and fresh.
Nice idea, but people won't take any steps at all to care for the condition of the paper, especially if they are just going to return it for deposit refund or whatever. Beer stains, muddy dog footprints, circle the ad for the '83 Ford for sale in ink, fold the thing up and shove it in your back pocket.
Plus, if you lose it you've lost something. If I lose a 75 cent paper, I'm out 75 cents. Or nothing, if I have already read it. If I lose a $20 "paper pad", I'm out $20. That's enough to make you a target for thieves at the bus stop, even.
That depends on where you are. In Saskatchewan (and I think most other provinces if not all of them) film ratings and age restrictions are established and enforced by provincial law.
Realbasic is free (of charge) for Linux. Or at least it was the last time I looked at it. It's the Windows and Mac versions that you have to cough up the bux for.
And Freebasic http://www.freebasic.net/ It runs on Windows, Linux and DOS. Lately it has been becoming less "BASIC-like" (which is a direction that I really don't approve of -- no gosubs any more, for example) but it's still very cool.
The bowling alley here runs their scoring systems on Amigas. No kidding. The guy who runs the place has a stack of them in the back room for spare parts. I have no idea what he will do when he runs out of spares...
you can do whatever you want with the file, but there is a digitial hash somewhere in the file that uniquely identifies you, so don't share it, else we will sue.
If I buy the product in a store for cash, who gets identified in this digital hash? The clerk who sold it to me?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/15/23 55233
It is my understanding that "Open Office" is a registered trademark, and it doesn't belong to the OpenOffice.org folks. Therefore, they have to be OpenOffice.org and not OpenOffice without-the-org in order to avoid infringement.
This is indirectly alluded to here.
Doing anything else would require changing the name to something completely different and losing all of the "goodwill" that has built up around the OpenOffice with-or-without-org name to date.
Why would single moms need to know distances in photographs any more than married moms?
For evaluating "Escort service" photos in preparation for that big night on the town, of course. *tee hee*
For the record, I would be happy to watch a torture of the people who attempted to plot the rape of those young girls,
I wonder how different it is. Is there any proof that these guys actually intended to follow through with their "plan"? Perhaps it too was a role-playing fantasy thing for them, never intended to go beyond the computer screen and enter the real world, similar to your defense of your friends' fantasies presented in your comment.
They are apparently filed "under penalty of perjury" (at least that's what the notice says) so whoever filed it should be prosecuted for perjury.
I would love to see police officers get some type of 'spiderman tracking device' to tag cars that evade arrest. Follow from a couple of miles back and wait until they stop. Safer for everyone, the police, the public, and the driver.
You mean this?
also has anyone ever seen a CFL that worked on a dimmer?
I purchased a dimmable General Electric brand CFL floodlight bulb last week to try out, as I use CFL bulbs in just about everything else around here other than my dimmable light fixtures.
I decided that I didn't really like it. It does dim a bit, but it doesn't dim as smoothly or to as low a level as the halogen floodlights that I use in those fixtures normally. If you don't crank it up high enough on the dimmer switch when you first turn it on, it doesn't ignite. It flashes quickly, over and over, but it doesn't light until you turn it up higher.
CFL bulbs are great in pretty much everything else, but I will stick with halogens in my dimmable floodlight fixtures.
What if you are a professor at a major university doing a study.
Is the university funded by tax dollars?
After they accept the first government dime, the work should become public domain.
The one on the NSF grant builds a new research infrastructure the other student later uses for his research. Should that other student than have all his work publicly available?
Of course. I don't see where (or why) there would be any other answer.
Basically it's almost impossible to find private research today that ISN'T in part funded by the government.
Well, there you are then. A large body of research that is made available to the publich should lead to advances in many fields of study, and opportunities for researchers to cooperate and collaborate on projects will be greatly expanded and become more obvious to those participating.
There you go.
Run "cnn bullet surgery warrant" through Google and you will get a lot of hits on an article that deals with this very situation.
It has always been my understanding that "government work" of that nature is automatically public domain.
Basically they are saying, you must use fossil fuels to dry your clothes because clotheslines are an eye sore.
Or hang clothes on a line in your basement/laundry room, perhaps.
No. Fire safes give off a kind of steam when they are being heated. The steam keeps the papers inside from burning up. The fire safe stops being effective after a certain period of time when it runs out of material to create the steam with.
Therefore, the fire safe has two problems for this application.
Limited duration for effective fire protection.
Steam that will short out anything electrical in the safe.
Fire safes are designed to keep paper from burning. Nothing else.
Shoudn't that be iManIDIOT? *tee hee*
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