Forget WinAmp, the real threat here is to Real Networks. One more media outlet (and this is more Time/Warner than AOL) tied to a platform-specific streaming media tool.
Association test: WMP is to RealPlayer as IE was to Netscape.
Time/Warner wants to put their content in front of as many eyeballs (ears) as possible, and DRM would be a bonus. That means you use the tools with the best market penetration (it's what I would do in their position). And that means you partner with Microsoft.
Unfortunately (as another post indicated) marginally better technology isn't going to displace the market leader, particularly when they have the market share and cash to give product away to ensure their dominance. Legislation and antitrust lawsuits have been ineffective. I don't see an alternative to a breakup of Microsoft (into media unit, OS, applications, support, etc.). It may be a short-term pain to the industry, but a long-term gain to society.
This might work for you. Since you're fighting spam for yourself, create a mailbox for your Mom on your smtp server, and configure her client to go to you for POP or IMAP mail.
That way you simply administer anti-spam tools for her and yourself in a single step.
This may have the added bonus of a common family domain, and of course it extends to siblings, etc.
Before you do it, be sure you want to take on the responsibility of mail system management for your family. Frankly, since it's your mail too, it's likely less work than remotely administering several installations of client-side anti-spam tools.
We have a set of bookshelves in a central area where people leave books and take others. Everything from romance fiction (about 30 of these showed up one day) to Applied Crypto to Moby Dick.
It works pretty well, and adds a nice "sharing" atmosphere to work without cost. Consider asking your employer for a bookcase to improve morale.
For her: Diamond. End of discussion. Wrap it with some nice contrasting stones (I liked amethyst).
Now for you, the Java Ring might be just what you're after. Sold by MRI, you can get ones that store, encrypt or compute. It's FIPS-140-1 certified, 134K of SRAM, zeroizes on tampering. Here is the fact sheet.
Of course, you can get a nice plain wedding band, and ask her to get you the Java Ring for the other hand. Your call.
To learn what is good and what isn't, read through Company Seven's site for a bit. These guys run this business because they care deeply about astronomy. They would rather see you buy the right thing, than simply anything.
Sometimes there are legitimate concerns regarding potentially explosive devices. Remember that airplane crashing in Florida because of the fire in its cargo hold.
That fire was caused by an improperly stored oxygen generator, which was also incorrectly marked as inactive. ie: The person shipping it (an internal parts transfer for the airline) screwed up.
There are upwards of fifty of these devices in every commercial airliner flying in the world at this moment (some 2-3000 aircraft over the U.S. alone), with none of THEM going off accidentally.
If someone can properly ship me a steak in dry ice, there should be no problem getting a properly packaged C5 engine to me.
There is a related story about using an electromagnetic field to stun a portion of the brain to see how it affects congitive performance.
Scared the hell out of me.
What is going on in this country (and others) is the creation of freenet, a system that lets you surf anonymously, post anonymously, create web sites anonymously.
1GHz, 5.4 pounds, 3+ hours on a charge (my mileage, though Apple claims 5), reads and writes CD & DVD, firewire, Wi-Fi, bluetooth support, 56K modem, gig-ethernet, 60GB HD (4200 RPM, but they claim 26MB/sec sustained transfer max [outer edge], must be using variable sectors per track).
Not bad when you can get out the door for about $3500.
Computer data is considered heresay in court.
If you are serious, record your notes in a written journal (in pen), and take the journal to a subject matter notary once a week (or month) to have them notarized (each page). You may wish to contract this service (it should be cheaper that way than one-offs). This is how intellectual property research can be protected.
The do-it-yourself method (I don't know how this stands up in court) is to snail-mail copies of your journal pages (say weekly) in tamper-evident envelopes to yourself. Don't open them. They are post-marked by the USPS for date. I suppose you could put your data on a CD weekly or monthly and do the same thing, but the computer-data-as-heresay issue comes up again.
Como? It seems there is a great deal of Science Fiction that you have yet to enjoy. I've only got a minute, so here are some to start with that bring the message you are looking for.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly, 1816
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells, 1865
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G.Wells, 1896
The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909
Slan - A.E. Van Vogt, 1940
1984 - George Orwell, 1949
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, 1953
Slashdot Mirror
Association test: WMP is to RealPlayer as IE was to Netscape.
Time/Warner wants to put their content in front of as many eyeballs (ears) as possible, and DRM would be a bonus. That means you use the tools with the best market penetration (it's what I would do in their position). And that means you partner with Microsoft.
Unfortunately (as another post indicated) marginally better technology isn't going to displace the market leader, particularly when they have the market share and cash to give product away to ensure their dominance. Legislation and antitrust lawsuits have been ineffective. I don't see an alternative to a breakup of Microsoft (into media unit, OS, applications, support, etc.). It may be a short-term pain to the industry, but a long-term gain to society.
Online Writing Workshop sponsored by Del Rey publishers.
Wasn't Flipper played by Lassie in the television series?
That way you simply administer anti-spam tools for her and yourself in a single step.
This may have the added bonus of a common family domain, and of course it extends to siblings, etc.
Before you do it, be sure you want to take on the responsibility of mail system management for your family. Frankly, since it's your mail too, it's likely less work than remotely administering several installations of client-side anti-spam tools.
You are using mod_gzip, aren't you? Depending on content, you may be able to reduce your bandwidth usage by 50%, at the expense of some CPU time.
Usenet newsgroups: alt.video.satellite.mpeg-dvb, rec.video.satellite.tvro
Google keywords: satellite wild feeds
Note that these sources are useful no matter where in the world you are; they're not U.S. specific.
Have fun.
Because it's not the same one. It's a machine; they stamp them out like Toyota Camry's.
It works pretty well, and adds a nice "sharing" atmosphere to work without cost. Consider asking your employer for a bookcase to improve morale.
Now for you, the Java Ring might be just what you're after. Sold by MRI, you can get ones that store, encrypt or compute. It's FIPS-140-1 certified, 134K of SRAM, zeroizes on tampering. Here is the fact sheet.
Of course, you can get a nice plain wedding band, and ask her to get you the Java Ring for the other hand. Your call.
I guess it wasn't in the contract, or the programmer would simply have sued.
His payment was promptly received.
If I were the customer, I would have sued for extortion. But that's just me. (Again, presuming the initial contract wasn't being violated.)
This is rumored to exist in the French Exocet missile, and was in fact reported in 1991.
It covers many different aspects of involvement without requiring several sections. I describe my level of involvement in each entry in the section.
To learn what is good and what isn't, read through Company Seven's site for a bit. These guys run this business because they care deeply about astronomy. They would rather see you buy the right thing, than simply anything.
That fire was caused by an improperly stored oxygen generator, which was also incorrectly marked as inactive. ie: The person shipping it (an internal parts transfer for the airline) screwed up.
There are upwards of fifty of these devices in every commercial airliner flying in the world at this moment (some 2-3000 aircraft over the U.S. alone), with none of THEM going off accidentally.
If someone can properly ship me a steak in dry ice, there should be no problem getting a properly packaged C5 engine to me.
No more road flares either, I take it?
Have you ever been permitted to return to Japan? Random-House paying or not.
There is a related story about using an electromagnetic field to stun a portion of the brain to see how it affects congitive performance.
Scared the hell out of me.
Er, compression? My webserver can move a 300K html file to a dialup user in about 3 seconds, because mod_gzip compresses it to 7K.
The article DOES talk about this. Third or fourth page.
What is going on in this country (and others) is the creation of freenet, a system that lets you surf anonymously, post anonymously, create web sites anonymously.
Frankly, so is SMB, but if you have to dance with the devil, make it the devil with 95% market penetration.
So this suggests that the U.S. Government's Total Information Awareness program would be a nice, juicy target. After all, everything's in one place...
1GHz, 5.4 pounds, 3+ hours on a charge (my mileage, though Apple claims 5), reads and writes CD & DVD, firewire, Wi-Fi, bluetooth support, 56K modem, gig-ethernet, 60GB HD (4200 RPM, but they claim 26MB/sec sustained transfer max [outer edge], must be using variable sectors per track).
Not bad when you can get out the door for about $3500.
Computer data is considered heresay in court.
If you are serious, record your notes in a written journal (in pen), and take the journal to a subject matter notary once a week (or month) to have them notarized (each page). You may wish to contract this service (it should be cheaper that way than one-offs). This is how intellectual property research can be protected.
The do-it-yourself method (I don't know how this stands up in court) is to snail-mail copies of your journal pages (say weekly) in tamper-evident envelopes to yourself. Don't open them. They are post-marked by the USPS for date. I suppose you could put your data on a CD weekly or monthly and do the same thing, but the computer-data-as-heresay issue comes up again.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly, 1816
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells, 1865
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G.Wells, 1896
The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster, 1909
Slan - A.E. Van Vogt, 1940
1984 - George Orwell, 1949
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, 1953