California has the 8th largest economy in the world, just behind Italy and in front of Russia. Russia is currently in the news because the sanctions being used against that country are creating real problems for Europe.
So yeah, cell phone vendors care quite a bit about the Golden State market. If the past is any guide, this kill switch will be for all phones sold in the US and soon the world.
In the States we do it differently. Here we are more concerned with germs and infectious diseases than with the cost of the actual crutches.
So the crutches my g/f received at the American E.R. are hers to keep. Which she did while she flew home to Canada to have the operation.
While going through that process, she was asked repeatedly where she got her lovely crutches and splint, which are the envy of the Quebecois. We'll probably donate them to Goodwill (or burn, do metal crutches burn without magnesium?) when she doesn't need them.
If you're ready to give up on California, we'll can take our Federal Tax dollars and screw the rest of you (or at least the majority red states feeding at the Federal trough at the expense of New York, California, Illinois and NJ).
I just finished Stephenson's "System of the World", which was reviewed here recently. In it, Newton and Liebniz argue over just this. Newton produces his "Principa Mathematica" to describe all of the natural laws that he has the power to observe (inverse square law, among others IIRC). Liebniz attacks the problem of understanding our relationship to God from the perspective of gleaning meaning from the rules Newton enumerates. It was fascinating and I highly recomend picking it up if you have a few spare moments.
Back on topic: having a diverse gene pool full of individuals that can compete (more or less) effectively in an ecosystem makes that species more diverse, and therefore more robust to change. Sure, there's no obvious advantage to being left handed now, but once Kang and Kodos come and take over, the righties will all die off and us lefties will be more evolutionary "fit".
50 million people signed up for this list. Which is not the same as eliminating 50 million people who would never buy from the DMA's clients from their pool of numbers. I'm on the list. I would never buy anything pitched to me through unsolicted phone or e-mail contact. I am not who the DMA is afraid of losing.
The DMA is afrain of losing the people who are too timid to say no the telemarketers. Grandma just can't say no to the pushy TM on the phone, but she can call up the FTC (or is the FCC?) and get her off the list. It's the people, the people who don't want stuff but CAN'T SAY NO when asked to buy it that the DMA is terrified of losing.
How about the early 1980s, when Reagan bailed the Savings and Loan industry out. Or back in the 30s, in the great depresion?
The parent poster's point was that American is not pure capitalism. The Sherman Anti-Trust act is the government acting to prevent the free market from coming to its natural conclusion. And then there are farm subsidies. And then we have steel tarifs. I don't know enough about the Aisan economies the parent post was refering to, but I suspect they meant something more like Thailand and Hong Kong and less China and Japan.
Steven Covey wrote a book a couple/few years ago titled "The Inmates are Running the Asylum". In it, he makes a compelling case the modern software development is divided into four areas: 1. Management, which sets requirements and determines resources. 2. Developers, who, uh, develop the code. 3. QA 4. Support.
His premise is that what is lacking is a fifth group whose purpose is to design the usuability features. In my software development group, we've got all four of the above mentioned groups and what we end up with is a powerful, feature rich, stable tool that is the devil to learn. The developers do their best to design UIs that are intuitive, but what's intuitive to us is often backwards to our end users.
Covey states that developers fear ceding control over their work. It is this fear that was the basis for the resistance of the initial creation of QA departments. Apprarently, back when dirt was new, developers tested their own code and resented QA encroaching on their turf. It took a bit, but now QA is more or less entrenched and developers rely quite heavily on QA (I know I do). Covey argues that the UI design work that is currently left to these same developers should similarly be farmed out to teams of UI designers. Granted, it just so happens that he happens to run one, but I still think his point is valid.
Developers have no place designing how a user inteacts with the back end processes. Asking us to do so, or, more likely, not asking anyone to do so results in software that is a PITA to learn.
A cellular network's ability to transfer data is a function two thigns: 1. What protocols it uses to transmit the data 2. How much spectrum is dedicated to this protocol.
Currently, the wireless providers allocate spectrum for voice (which is further split up by offering analog and digital) and data. The protocols in use for data are typically second generation, and in some cases (PCS Vision, VZW Express Network) are 2.5 G. If these carriers were to use EvDO, Lucent and the others backers of this technology are arguing they'd get a twenty fold increase in throughput over the same spectrum.
HP wasn't included in the list because of the merger. The folks in charge of making this list exclude companies that are merging because of the chaotic nature of such events. FWIW, they also exclude companies that have 500 employees.
Details (with a Bay Area bias) may be found at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch roni cle/archive/2003/01/07/BU27024.DTL
Which is why the IEEE is working on ratifying 802.11g, which has about the same range (and crappy power consumption) as.11b, but can carry something like 55M/s.
The interesting part of the article was how AOL managed to reduce, by 20% the amount of spam that ended up in their users mail boxes. They have implemented some system that allows users to "vote" on the quality of the e-mail. Once a critical mass of "trusted" voters agree that a given piece of mail is spam, that piece of mail is removed from every other members inboxen.
Critical mass total number of AOL users. And if one person consistantly "votes" against the norm, then their vote is weighted less, preventing spamers from voting that their own spam is !spam. Pretty cool system. I hope some OSS mail client can incorporate such a feature soon....
I bought one of these things back in October. October 22nd to be precise. It took them five days to "process my order" and then three weeks to get my machine. Ouch! That was a long time to wait. And they charged me shipping and tax, which is strange for internet purchases of > $100. Heck, Amazon will ship your your crap (slowly) if you buy > $25. The machine was advertised at $199, but after tax and shipping, I was billed $236. That's 18% of the purchase price in "hidden" charges.
So, the machine worked perfectly right out of the box, if you have a spare monitor lying around (thanks Makunas!). But it doesn't come with a floppy drive or a modem, so installing new software (like a real distro) is a function of finding another machine with a net connection and a CD burner. Not too fun, but certainly doable.
I'm hoping to use my machine to show my non-techie friends and family (hi Mom!) that they don't have to reboot their machines weekly to get them to run, and they don't have to suffer virii, as long as they get-apt regularly.
Have you tried spamgourmet.com? Excellent free service that replaced... mailexpire. Spamgourmet's premise is simple: go to their website and create your user name, password and real e-mail address. Never go there again.
Whenever some e-mail harvesting website asks for my e-mail address, I give them word.n.username@spamgourmet.com, where the 'word'helps me remember who I gave the e-mail to, where 'n' is how many messages this address will forward before sending subsequent e-mails to/dev/null (min 1, max 20) and 'username' tells spamgourmet where to forward e-mails received by this address.
In practice, when I ordered my shinny, new Lindows box from walmart, they asked for my e-mail address. Without going back to spamgourmet, on the fly I made up walmart.5.@spamgourmet.com and sure enough, they can send me exaclty five e-mails to the only address they have for me, and that's it. No mas. Of course, spamgourmet has "power user" features that allow you to keep addresses open based on criteria, but this is/. Go there are and read about yourself.
Did I mention that spamgourmet.com is free as in beer?
Don't offline businesses already do just that? Promotions like "nth shopper gets their groceries free" or the Visa/Mastercard/Discover (or was it AmEx?) promotions around December that they'll pay your bill.
In a free market buyers and sellers agree on a price. If buyer[0] was able to agree to a price that was lower than buyer[1], then good for buyer[0], not "shame on the seller".
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California has the 8th largest economy in the world, just behind Italy and in front of Russia. Russia is currently in the news because the sanctions being used against that country are creating real problems for Europe.
So yeah, cell phone vendors care quite a bit about the Golden State market. If the past is any guide, this kill switch will be for all phones sold in the US and soon the world.
Does USD $150M count a "sensible amount of money"?
http://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/someone-just-made-150-million-bitcoin-transaction/?utm_content=buffer6cfd3&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
The bitcoin market seems to have weathered the storm.
In the States we do it differently. Here we are more concerned with germs and infectious diseases than with the cost of the actual crutches.
So the crutches my g/f received at the American E.R. are hers to keep. Which she did while she flew home to Canada to have the operation.
While going through that process, she was asked repeatedly where she got her lovely crutches and splint, which are the envy of the Quebecois. We'll probably donate them to Goodwill (or burn, do metal crutches burn without magnesium?) when she doesn't need them.
California received $0.78 for each $1.00 of taxes its citizens paid to the Federal Governement.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html
If you're ready to give up on California, we'll can take our Federal Tax dollars and screw the rest of you (or at least the majority red states feeding at the Federal trough at the expense of New York, California, Illinois and NJ).
I just finished Stephenson's "System of the World", which was reviewed here recently. In it, Newton and Liebniz argue over just this. Newton produces his "Principa Mathematica" to describe all of the natural laws that he has the power to observe (inverse square law, among others IIRC). Liebniz attacks the problem of understanding our relationship to God from the perspective of gleaning meaning from the rules Newton enumerates. It was fascinating and I highly recomend picking it up if you have a few spare moments.
Back on topic: having a diverse gene pool full of individuals that can compete (more or less) effectively in an ecosystem makes that species more diverse, and therefore more robust to change. Sure, there's no obvious advantage to being left handed now, but once Kang and Kodos come and take over, the righties will all die off and us lefties will be more evolutionary "fit".
50 million people signed up for this list. Which is not the same as eliminating 50 million people who would never buy from the DMA's clients from their pool of numbers. I'm on the list. I would never buy anything pitched to me through unsolicted phone or e-mail contact. I am not who the DMA is afraid of losing.
The DMA is afrain of losing the people who are too timid to say no the telemarketers. Grandma just can't say no to the pushy TM on the phone, but she can call up the FTC (or is the FCC?) and get her off the list. It's the people, the people who don't want stuff but CAN'T SAY NO when asked to buy it that the DMA is terrified of losing.
Joel.
How about the early 1980s, when Reagan bailed the Savings and Loan industry out. Or back in the 30s, in the great depresion?
The parent poster's point was that American is not pure capitalism. The Sherman Anti-Trust act is the government acting to prevent the free market from coming to its natural conclusion. And then there are farm subsidies. And then we have steel tarifs. I don't know enough about the Aisan economies the parent post was refering to, but I suspect they meant something more like Thailand and Hong Kong and less China and Japan.
Steven Covey wrote a book a couple/few years ago titled "The Inmates are Running the Asylum". In it, he makes a compelling case the modern software development is divided into four areas:
1. Management, which sets requirements and determines resources.
2. Developers, who, uh, develop the code.
3. QA
4. Support.
His premise is that what is lacking is a fifth group whose purpose is to design the usuability features. In my software development group, we've got all four of the above mentioned groups and what we end up with is a powerful, feature rich, stable tool that is the devil to learn. The developers do their best to design UIs that are intuitive, but what's intuitive to us is often backwards to our end users.
Covey states that developers fear ceding control over their work. It is this fear that was the basis for the resistance of the initial creation of QA departments. Apprarently, back when dirt was new, developers tested their own code and resented QA encroaching on their turf. It took a bit, but now QA is more or less entrenched and developers rely quite heavily on QA (I know I do). Covey argues that the UI design work that is currently left to these same developers should similarly be farmed out to teams of UI designers. Granted, it just so happens that he happens to run one, but I still think his point is valid.
Developers have no place designing how a user inteacts with the back end processes. Asking us to do so, or, more likely, not asking anyone to do so results in software that is a PITA to learn.
A cellular network's ability to transfer data is a function two thigns:
1. What protocols it uses to transmit the data
2. How much spectrum is dedicated to this protocol.
Currently, the wireless providers allocate spectrum for voice (which is further split up by offering analog and digital) and data. The protocols in use for data are typically second generation, and in some cases (PCS Vision, VZW Express Network) are 2.5 G. If these carriers were to use EvDO, Lucent and the others backers of this technology are arguing they'd get a twenty fold increase in throughput over the same spectrum.
HP wasn't included in the list because of the merger. The folks in charge of making this list exclude companies that are merging because of the chaotic nature of such events. FWIW, they also exclude companies that have 500 employees.
h roni cle/archive/2003/01/07/BU27024.DTL
Details (with a Bay Area bias) may be found at
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c
Which is why the IEEE is working on ratifying 802.11g, which has about the same range (and crappy power consumption) as .11b, but can carry something like 55M/s.
Yeah baby! Wires are for losers!
The interesting part of the article was how AOL managed to reduce, by 20% the amount of spam that ended up in their users mail boxes. They have implemented some system that allows users to "vote" on the quality of the e-mail. Once a critical mass of "trusted" voters agree that a given piece of mail is spam, that piece of mail is removed from every other members inboxen.
Critical mass total number of AOL users. And if one person consistantly "votes" against the norm, then their vote is weighted less, preventing spamers from voting that their own spam is !spam. Pretty cool system. I hope some OSS mail client can incorporate such a feature soon....
I bought one of these things back in October. October 22nd to be precise. It took them five days to "process my order" and then three weeks to get my machine. Ouch! That was a long time to wait. And they charged me shipping and tax, which is strange for internet purchases of > $100. Heck, Amazon will ship your your crap (slowly) if you buy > $25. The machine was advertised at $199, but after tax and shipping, I was billed $236. That's 18% of the purchase price in "hidden" charges.
So, the machine worked perfectly right out of the box, if you have a spare monitor lying around (thanks Makunas!). But it doesn't come with a floppy drive or a modem, so installing new software (like a real distro) is a function of finding another machine with a net connection and a CD burner. Not too fun, but certainly doable.
I'm hoping to use my machine to show my non-techie friends and family (hi Mom!) that they don't have to reboot their machines weekly to get them to run, and they don't have to suffer virii, as long as they get-apt regularly.
Have you tried spamgourmet.com? Excellent free service that replaced... mailexpire. Spamgourmet's premise is simple: go to their website and create your user name, password and real e-mail address. Never go there again.
/dev/null (min 1, max 20) and 'username' tells spamgourmet where to forward e-mails received by this address.
/. Go there are and read about yourself.
Whenever some e-mail harvesting website asks for my e-mail address, I give them word.n.username@spamgourmet.com, where the 'word'helps me remember who I gave the e-mail to, where 'n' is how many messages this address will forward before sending subsequent e-mails to
In practice, when I ordered my shinny, new Lindows box from walmart, they asked for my e-mail address. Without going back to spamgourmet, on the fly I made up walmart.5.@spamgourmet.com and sure enough, they can send me exaclty five e-mails to the only address they have for me, and that's it. No mas. Of course, spamgourmet has "power user" features that allow you to keep addresses open based on criteria, but this is
Did I mention that spamgourmet.com is free as in beer?
www.mrskin.com
Don't you people listen to Howard Stern?
Don't offline businesses already do just that? Promotions like "nth shopper gets their groceries free" or the Visa/Mastercard/Discover (or was it AmEx?) promotions around December that they'll pay your bill.
In a free market buyers and sellers agree on a price. If buyer[0] was able to agree to a price that was lower than buyer[1], then good for buyer[0], not "shame on the seller".