What I'd rather have, instead of a paperless campus, is one that provides good mobility between the spheres of paper information and electronic.
Give me a Paperport scanner or something similar, and give me electronic versions of my course assignments on a website. But also give me the sheets of paper.
The vital thing is to be able to use paper for what paper is good at, and electronic systems for their own purposes. There is no reason to throw out what is otherwise the right tool for the job.
Removing books is an_stupid_00. That means that your ability to study is limited to the availability of computers, and the functionality of said machines. Multimonitor becomes a MUST in this case. I would not mind electronic versions to do full text searches of, but dammit I want dead tree editions- zero failure chance, save physical loss. I also do not want to be forced into a zero-ownership system for my textbooks (which seems to be the primary thrust of schemes like this.)
Value of audio switching....
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USB KVMs Compared
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If you only have two or three machines that all need audio, it's probably a better idea to either buy a small mixer board (the slightly expensive or skill-required choice) or run them all through one another (the cheapass choice.) If you have two machines there's really no reason not to do this, unless you plan on turning one off occasionally while using the other- but if you're a KVM kinda guy chances are you leave the damn things on eternally. If they're close enough to one another and you don't use cables that are too long or loop around other things- one could use a 8 inch mini cable to connect a pair of towers sitting next to one another- you won't have any signal problems.
The clear choice seems the IOGear device- it comes with cables, has OSD, and does not hail from the nauseating Brushed Metal Plastic Alien Bubbles school of design.
ICQ ads happen simply because the UINs are numbers, which can just be spammed in a range. That's about the worst way to handle it- IM services which use names are far better defended vs. spam.
From this page, it seems that recorders like this are treated as any other sort of evidence. I don't see any that aren't related to a car accident in some way, though. The real test case would be one that involved tapping of the recorder data under another circumstance.
It seems obvious that the next step that's needed is to get some real regulations in this arena- NTSB investigation regulations could probably be easily extended to cover these devices.
You cannot live a full life in the US when you're carless outside of very specific urban areas.
This is most evident in places such as Atlanta, GA- the entire Gwinnett County area is one giant sprawl with no interconnection, so it's likely that anything you want to do is 5-10 miles away from you at any given point, with no public transit between here and there.
Only drive cars worth less than your projected deductable for collision. Bust up the car? Pfft. Get another one. It's really only worth insuring yourself.
First, either kids or criminals. Then whichever of the first two wasn't gotten. Then, those who'll accept extra benefits for it (generally implemented by removing said pre-existing benefits and then only giving what you had before back if you submit.)
Finally, it's mandatory.
This is the time to oppose this stuff and set limits if there will ever be any at all.
They've missed the point about why their forms are full of bullshit.
The forms are giant time-wasters.
If the folks giving these surveys would stick to EXACTLY what they NEED to know, we wouldn't balk at filling them out properly- especially since personal data is one thing they generally do NOT need to know for marketing!
Forget the name, address, interests (the BIGGEST time waster of all.) Generally, the most important information that you can get from site visitors is:
1) Zip code. This tells you the geographic area that your visitors are coming from. Useful for location-relevant information, but completely impersonal.
2) Age range. This is really the prime info that marketers want, as so much of their "science" is based on generational observation. Again, totally impersonal.
3) How you heard about the site. This is the most important thing you can learn from your visitors, as it gives you some information on which advertisements are performing!
If every site I signed up to asked me these three questions and these three questions ONLY, I'd answer them all truthfully. As it stands, I have to dig through a mountain of shit, and these days I generally just throw the shovel at the pile and move on.
Remember, for the system to be airtight, the user has to have no power to choose. The user is the enemy to be defended against in this scheme. So, your popup policy is irrelevant. Simply put, if ibm.com displeases MS, suddenly all your trust in IBM is irrelevant.
All in all that was a pretty good photoshopping, though.
What made me wonder was the part about how they hadn't figured out the way in which the VIVO daughterboard would connect. If it's already in silicon, it's a little too late now:)
The last time I heard about biodiesel, the people who were promoting it mentioned offhand that it's tough on the fuel system and might require some parts of a standard diesel engine to be reworked to avoid long term damage. Have you heard anything about that?
Most things published on the Web have about the same credibility level and duration as something that someone said in the bathroom to someone at the urinal next to them.
Were I a public figure defamed on a website, I'd simply ignore it. Suing the person could give them more publicity, and often more good is gained by not giving rumors credibility by fighting them.
That having been said, if you're *really* concerned, there are services out there that specialize in looking for mentions of your name or company so you can tell what people are saying about you.
If I choose to receive only spam, will my physical email box be free of physical bulkmail, then?
If so, that's a cool idea.
If not, where's the benefit?
I can't tell which is the case, as I do not read Swedish, and the link is just to the main page (this is what would happen in a world where "deep linking" is disallowed! Total contextual disconnection.)
No! Godwin's Law is not that at all!
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Coursey on Palladium
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Godwin's Law states that as any discussion gets longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Essentially, any time you get a bunch of people together, talking about any subject, chances are that the conversation will wander to the point that someone compares something to Nazis. This happens for two reasons:
1) The Nazis made such a massive impact on the 20th century that you'll end up seeing some comparison eventually.
2) If you get pissed off, you generally go fishing for the worst insult that you can get, and calling someone a Nazi generally does it.
I'd expand this law to include "fascist" as well. People generally mean Nazi when they say fascist, and including that would probably make the law more closely match most discussions.
This is a good idea beyond CARP.
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P2P Streaming Radio
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A streaming audio solution that WON'T kick your bandwidth's ass is something sorely needed for Internet radio at the moment, period. Regardless of tariffs. Why? Well, if this sort of system gets refined and takes off, suddenly everyone with a suitable connection for one stream can broadcast, instead of having to either a) have a massive pipe or b) hunt down (or pay for!) some sort of relaying service.
This sort of idea seems destined for the time when everyone has 512k synchronous connections, though, because you'll need double whatever bandwidth is needed for your stream to relay.
The choice you're making is between the possibility that an otherwise successful investigation might be slowed down by the necessity to obtain legal authorization, and the certainty that oversight covering scrutiny of your personal life will be removed.
The only connection all of the Final Fantasy games have is that they are similar sorts of games, with the same sort of interface, and possibly some names of things and people ported over.
Nothing else is the same, thus every game is Final.
Slashdot Mirror
Raw byte ratios = bad.
You need good administration and tight surveillance of users to make that work as intended.
Neither of which are feasible or good ideas for something intended to be another network layer.
What I'd rather have, instead of a paperless campus, is one that provides good mobility between the spheres of paper information and electronic.
Give me a Paperport scanner or something similar, and give me electronic versions of my course assignments on a website. But also give me the sheets of paper.
The vital thing is to be able to use paper for what paper is good at, and electronic systems for their own purposes. There is no reason to throw out what is otherwise the right tool for the job.
Removing books is an_stupid_00. That means that your ability to study is limited to the availability of computers, and the functionality of said machines. Multimonitor becomes a MUST in this case. I would not mind electronic versions to do full text searches of, but dammit I want dead tree editions- zero failure chance, save physical loss. I also do not want to be forced into a zero-ownership system for my textbooks (which seems to be the primary thrust of schemes like this.)
If you only have two or three machines that all need audio, it's probably a better idea to either buy a small mixer board (the slightly expensive or skill-required choice) or run them all through one another (the cheapass choice.) If you have two machines there's really no reason not to do this, unless you plan on turning one off occasionally while using the other- but if you're a KVM kinda guy chances are you leave the damn things on eternally. If they're close enough to one another and you don't use cables that are too long or loop around other things- one could use a 8 inch mini cable to connect a pair of towers sitting next to one another- you won't have any signal problems.
The clear choice seems the IOGear device- it comes with cables, has OSD, and does not hail from the nauseating Brushed Metal Plastic Alien Bubbles school of design.
Think about that for a minute. An MP3 of an inaudible sound.
ICQ ads happen simply because the UINs are numbers, which can just be spammed in a range. That's about the worst way to handle it- IM services which use names are far better defended vs. spam.
I oppose H1Bs because they're less than you deserve.
You should just be able to come here and work. No deportations, no time limits, no bullshit.
Your company shouldn't be able to hold over you if you want something better when you're here. That should be your choice.
Of course, I'm a fan of totally open immigration as well...
http://www.harristechnical.com/cdr5.htm
From this page, it seems that recorders like this are treated as any other sort of evidence. I don't see any that aren't related to a car accident in some way, though. The real test case would be one that involved tapping of the recorder data under another circumstance.
It seems obvious that the next step that's needed is to get some real regulations in this arena- NTSB investigation regulations could probably be easily extended to cover these devices.
You cannot live a full life in the US when you're carless outside of very specific urban areas.
This is most evident in places such as Atlanta, GA- the entire Gwinnett County area is one giant sprawl with no interconnection, so it's likely that anything you want to do is 5-10 miles away from you at any given point, with no public transit between here and there.
Only drive cars worth less than your projected deductable for collision. Bust up the car? Pfft. Get another one. It's really only worth insuring yourself.
...if it costs 300 bucks and can be installed "in minutes" by anyone.
I imagine it would be simple enough just to disable it when you feel like it, and make everyone wonder.
First, either kids or criminals. Then whichever of the first two wasn't gotten. Then, those who'll accept extra benefits for it (generally implemented by removing said pre-existing benefits and then only giving what you had before back if you submit.)
Finally, it's mandatory.
This is the time to oppose this stuff and set limits if there will ever be any at all.
They've missed the point about why their forms are full of bullshit.
The forms are giant time-wasters.
If the folks giving these surveys would stick to EXACTLY what they NEED to know, we wouldn't balk at filling them out properly- especially since personal data is one thing they generally do NOT need to know for marketing!
Forget the name, address, interests (the BIGGEST time waster of all.) Generally, the most important information that you can get from site visitors is:
1) Zip code. This tells you the geographic area that your visitors are coming from. Useful for location-relevant information, but completely impersonal.
2) Age range. This is really the prime info that marketers want, as so much of their "science" is based on generational observation. Again, totally impersonal.
3) How you heard about the site. This is the most important thing you can learn from your visitors, as it gives you some information on which advertisements are performing!
If every site I signed up to asked me these three questions and these three questions ONLY, I'd answer them all truthfully. As it stands, I have to dig through a mountain of shit, and these days I generally just throw the shovel at the pile and move on.
Driving a car means you have to submit to a similar system of identification.
Perhaps travel by bicycle?
Remember, for the system to be airtight, the user has to have no power to choose. The user is the enemy to be defended against in this scheme. So, your popup policy is irrelevant. Simply put, if ibm.com displeases MS, suddenly all your trust in IBM is irrelevant.
Dual processor graphics cards are nothing new.
:)
All in all that was a pretty good photoshopping, though.
What made me wonder was the part about how they hadn't figured out the way in which the VIVO daughterboard would connect. If it's already in silicon, it's a little too late now
In fact, "metric measurement" is redundant, unless you're measuring systems of measurement.
The words "meter" and "metric" are both derived from Greek by way of Latin and French.
The last time I heard about biodiesel, the people who were promoting it mentioned offhand that it's tough on the fuel system and might require some parts of a standard diesel engine to be reworked to avoid long term damage. Have you heard anything about that?
Most things published on the Web have about the same credibility level and duration as something that someone said in the bathroom to someone at the urinal next to them.
Were I a public figure defamed on a website, I'd simply ignore it. Suing the person could give them more publicity, and often more good is gained by not giving rumors credibility by fighting them.
That having been said, if you're *really* concerned, there are services out there that specialize in looking for mentions of your name or company so you can tell what people are saying about you.
Rather witty.
Apparently it seems to be a service for official documents and pay information to get sent via a web interface as well as physically.
Kind of cool, although I imagine it's only open to registered senders for security reasons.
If I choose to receive only spam, will my physical email box be free of physical bulkmail, then?
If so, that's a cool idea.
If not, where's the benefit?
I can't tell which is the case, as I do not read Swedish, and the link is just to the main page (this is what would happen in a world where "deep linking" is disallowed! Total contextual disconnection.)
Godwin's Law states that as any discussion gets longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Essentially, any time you get a bunch of people together, talking about any subject, chances are that the conversation will wander to the point that someone compares something to Nazis. This happens for two reasons:
1) The Nazis made such a massive impact on the 20th century that you'll end up seeing some comparison eventually.
2) If you get pissed off, you generally go fishing for the worst insult that you can get, and calling someone a Nazi generally does it.
I'd expand this law to include "fascist" as well. People generally mean Nazi when they say fascist, and including that would probably make the law more closely match most discussions.
A streaming audio solution that WON'T kick your bandwidth's ass is something sorely needed for Internet radio at the moment, period. Regardless of tariffs. Why? Well, if this sort of system gets refined and takes off, suddenly everyone with a suitable connection for one stream can broadcast, instead of having to either a) have a massive pipe or b) hunt down (or pay for!) some sort of relaying service.
This sort of idea seems destined for the time when everyone has 512k synchronous connections, though, because you'll need double whatever bandwidth is needed for your stream to relay.
The choice you're making is between the possibility that an otherwise successful investigation might be slowed down by the necessity to obtain legal authorization, and the certainty that oversight covering scrutiny of your personal life will be removed.
Essentially, they're selling you a false dilemma.
The only connection all of the Final Fantasy games have is that they are similar sorts of games, with the same sort of interface, and possibly some names of things and people ported over.
Nothing else is the same, thus every game is Final.
Years ago, I used to use ftpsearch to find warez left in public incoming dirs by warez couriers.
Glad to see it's back, after a sojourn as a non working component of Lycos.