The best I can offer here is some Perl scripts which take 11 or 12 digit numbers and make EPS files with UPC for 11 digits and EAN for 12 digit numbers. The check digit is generated automatically.
It might be a good way to test those barcode readers. --
I live out in the middle of nowhere and there is no usable digital coverage here. The Nokia 918 AMPS phone I use has to crank itself way up to reach a cell over two miles away. That requires about 16 times the power of reaching a cell 1/2 mile away. --
I have to follow up my own post and say that Metal Sludgehas issued a piece on this in their SludgeWire section. Scroll down for the Metallica/Napster suit.
Metal Sludge, true to predicted form, trashed Metallica for their attitude and their music saying the stuff being copied sucks so badly these days. --
I have an in-law who does genetic engineering for Monsanto, and lemme tell ya, she makes a LOT less money than Jim Carey. What does she do? Stuff like genetically engineering corn so those poor impoverished countries can have hardy corn to grow and eat (and give morons something to scream about in rallies...ahem...) What does Jim Carey do? He acts like a moron, and makes millions a picture. Oog.
And your sister-in-law doesn't have drooling groupies following her around all the time either. She probably enjoys the relative anonymity such a job brings. No "fans" following her around at night, begging for autographs or wanting to drool down her cleavage.
Well, they haven't started talking about this on Metal Sludge yet, so they are safe. I was contemplating bringing it up to them. They love to rant on Metallica anyway.
If Metallica were smart, they'd not bother with a new record contract for a while and give something like mp3.com a whirl for a new album, or just contribute tracks on their schedule and not when the record company is breathing down their backs, threatening them with sending in another producer. Heck, any successful performance artist should be able to move into the MP3 domain and tell the RIAA to go find a new source of revenue. --
The way I survived university dial-up services before PPP was invented was with a Wyse WY-85 terminal. Its VT-220 emulation did the trick with VAX boxen too.
Wyse also has experience in designing PCs from those days as well. I wonder how much of that experience they are drawing on when making decisions like these.
The thought of WinCE makes me, uh, wince. Sorry about that. --
AP picked up on this too.
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My local paper found the AP wire on this same topic.
It just goes to show that one has to take those legends with a grain of salt and pray your timely e-mail messages don't get delayed. --
Where I live, there are practically NO linux systems deployed in such a manner that they need folks yesterday. This is industrial/agriculture/lumber country, so the tendancy is toward AS/400. The only major IT shop in the area wants Windows and Mac folks to write code on those platforms. The employer offers the same hypercasual, laid back dress code; the same Mountain Dew supply and the other perquisites to attract what they need. Pay is less than average, but expenses like rent and electricity can be less than average, too. What really matters when it's all said and done is how much disposable income is left in your pocket when the paycheck is received.
This doesn't mean folks aren't wanting employees yesterday; they do, but in skills like truck driving, nurse's aides, machinists and home care aides.
All the folks flocking to programming has seemed to leave a void in skills like machining, sheet metal workers and tool and die makers. I can't swing a dead cat around the classifieds in the paper without finding decent industrial jobs.
And, no, I cannot move. There are many reasons someone older cannot easily pick up and move.
Of course, it's because I'm out in the sticks with a spring whose head is 35 feet above the first floor of the house.
That, through 300 feet of 1 1/4" pipe provides a little less than 20 psi of water pressure provided by gravity. There are no computers controlling any water flow into the house.
As a convenience for the household water-drawing electical appliances, there is a water pump, a shallow-well type, mounted on a Well-X-Trol brand pressure tank of 30 gallons capacity with a rubber bladder in it to boost the pressure to between 45-60 psi.
In case of a power loss, the appliances aren't going to work anyway, but plenty of drinking water will be around.
Oh, yeah, and "graywater" goes into a septic tank in the back yard. No computers in there either. I just don't want to overflow it when the ground is saturated from snow meltoff.
So, see, there are advantages to living in a rural area. My biggest worry every winter is with a weather-induced power faliure lasting several days. With an electric water heater, there may be no hot water available out of there. Wood stoves still provide a way to heat water for basic hygeine and some cooking. --
She could not have the surgery done on account of not having the Big Bucks for the procedure. Medicaid in NY will not cover experimental procedures like these.
I think the implant design has something to do with stimulating the optical nerve in a manner opposite of a CCD. I'm not sure about colors being visible, but I am sure for a blind person that even seeing objects in monochrome is a blessing indeed. They will still not be able to drive a car, but they may enjoy a greater standard of independent living. --
There must not be enough of us in the rural areas to count.
Is it really cost effective to put up one of these relays where the population density is less than 50 per square mile? Of those, how many have the inclination to use such services?
So, as far as my needs go, internet service isn't on the high priority list for improvement. I have to be happy with getting connect speeds of 49333 bps inbound with V.90 dialup equipment.
If line-of-sight is necessary, it won't work for me. There are too many trees and this house is in a small valley. Trees even block small dish signals, and I like trees better than needing high speed internet access. --
The last time I checked, we still are at war with North Korea. Theoretically, advocating any aid of that nature could constitute a crime. Good luck finding a jury to convict him though. --
I don't think we need to worry too much about "Microsoft-only" web sites. There's a big problem with them. Those "Microsoft-only" features don't mean squat to the the blind or visually impaired. As long as there is an Americans With Disabilities Act and a (U.S.) Federal requirement that their web sites remain accessible, there still will be pages renderable in a meaningful way. Besides, Europeans don't want to waste time downloading silly and slow-rendering graphics when their phone service is being metered. We still need to be vigilant when dealing with web browsers and company-issued "standards". --
I don't think we as individuals nned to worry about it too much.
But the implications for works of fiction are interesting. One can have martial law imposed in a municipal area due to riots or other "acts of belligerence". Those "enemies" are engaging in image modification and get caught. Can you say "trial by courtmartial", even though they are civilians? --
What they have against HTML format is that the document must be PRINTABLE.
The document is in the form of a legal brief, not some arbitrary document you can display any which-way. That means the document must be prepared in a manner which pleases the court. --
The last time I checked, Opera doesn't do PNG files. Too bad. (Then again, the Big Boys don't do PNG correctly, either.) I probably will never use Opera; if I need pages tested with it, I get a net.friend to look at them and report back. Besides, Communicator 4.7, despite its "Shop" button staring at me, has not crashed yet. --
It's about bleedin' time they supported Winmodems. My experience with Winmodems under Windows 95 was numerous BSODs because the 486DX2-66 couldn't keep up. That's why I can't recommend them to anyone for a future purchase. Hopefully under Linux they don't dent the system load so badly. Now that support is imminent, we can take the advice of those like Big Daddy Dosland of Maximum PC magazine and do what we can to assist and train neophyte users. By answering all their questions, even the ones that might seem stupid, we pave the way for turning neophytes into gurus. And that, folks, goes a long way to make Linux and FreeBSD the dominant operating system of the future. --
The hypocrites better start taxing the more lucrative telephone, mail and fax orders first. Of course, with the Feds involved, the states don't get their share unless they ascede to silly demands made by Congress, just as highway funds aren't returned unless the minimum drinking age is 21. Something tells me that some sharp Congresscritter will realize this. --
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It's nice to have a Franklin stove in the living room to toss drives and media into. :-)
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It might be a good way to test those barcode readers.
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Maybe if they acted less spoiled and more willing to fix the problem instead.
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I live out in the middle of nowhere and there is no usable digital coverage here. The Nokia 918 AMPS phone I use has to crank itself way up to reach a cell over two miles away. That requires about 16 times the power of reaching a cell 1/2 mile away.
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Next thing we'll see is Robin Miller talking about his workplace dress code: "Pants Optional."
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Metal Sludge, true to predicted form, trashed Metallica for their attitude and their music saying the stuff being copied sucks so badly these days.
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And your sister-in-law doesn't have drooling groupies following her around all the time either. She probably enjoys the relative anonymity such a job brings. No "fans" following her around at night, begging for autographs or wanting to drool down her cleavage.
Well, they haven't started talking about this on Metal Sludge yet, so they are safe. I was contemplating bringing it up to them. They love to rant on Metallica anyway.
If Metallica were smart, they'd not bother with a new record contract for a while and give something like mp3.com a whirl for a new album, or just contribute tracks on their schedule and not when the record company is breathing down their backs, threatening them with sending in another producer. Heck, any successful performance artist should be able to move into the MP3 domain and tell the RIAA to go find a new source of revenue.
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> How L Ron's head is doing?
You'd have to ask Rob Clark. I hear he has those eye sockets quite well "squicked" by now, especially as it's been [virtually] passed around.
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Either that, or I try later.
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Wyse also has experience in designing PCs from those days as well. I wonder how much of that experience they are drawing on when making decisions like these.
The thought of WinCE makes me, uh, wince. Sorry about that.
--
It just goes to show that one has to take those legends with a grain of salt and pray your timely e-mail messages don't get delayed.
--
Where I live, there are practically NO linux systems deployed in such a manner that they need folks yesterday. This is industrial/agriculture/lumber country, so the tendancy is toward AS/400. The only major IT shop in the area wants Windows and Mac folks to write code on those platforms. The employer offers the same hypercasual, laid back dress code; the same Mountain Dew supply and the other perquisites to attract what they need. Pay is less than average, but expenses like rent and electricity can be less than average, too. What really matters when it's all said and done is how much disposable income is left in your pocket when the paycheck is received.
This doesn't mean folks aren't wanting employees yesterday; they do, but in skills like truck driving, nurse's aides, machinists and home care aides.
All the folks flocking to programming has seemed to leave a void in skills like machining, sheet metal workers and tool and die makers. I can't swing a dead cat around the classifieds in the paper without finding decent industrial jobs.
And, no, I cannot move. There are many reasons someone older cannot easily pick up and move.
--
That, through 300 feet of 1 1/4" pipe provides a little less than 20 psi of water pressure provided by gravity. There are no computers controlling any water flow into the house.
As a convenience for the household water-drawing electical appliances, there is a water pump, a shallow-well type, mounted on a Well-X-Trol brand pressure tank of 30 gallons capacity with a rubber bladder in it to boost the pressure to between 45-60 psi.
In case of a power loss, the appliances aren't going to work anyway, but plenty of drinking water will be around.
Oh, yeah, and "graywater" goes into a septic tank in the back yard. No computers in there either. I just don't want to overflow it when the ground is saturated from snow meltoff.
So, see, there are advantages to living in a rural area. My biggest worry every winter is with a weather-induced power faliure lasting several days. With an electric water heater, there may be no hot water available out of there. Wood stoves still provide a way to heat water for basic hygeine and some cooking.
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Of course, the court might only award the $500 minimum statutory damage on one or two verified infringements.
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I think the implant design has something to do with stimulating the optical nerve in a manner opposite of a CCD. I'm not sure about colors being visible, but I am sure for a blind person that even seeing objects in monochrome is a blessing indeed. They will still not be able to drive a car, but they may enjoy a greater standard of independent living.
--
Is it really cost effective to put up one of these relays where the population density is less than 50 per square mile? Of those, how many have the inclination to use such services?
So, as far as my needs go, internet service isn't on the high priority list for improvement. I have to be happy with getting connect speeds of 49333 bps inbound with V.90 dialup equipment.
If line-of-sight is necessary, it won't work for me. There are too many trees and this house is in a small valley. Trees even block small dish signals, and I like trees better than needing high speed internet access.
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The last time I checked, we still are at war with North Korea. Theoretically, advocating any aid of that nature could constitute a crime. Good luck finding a jury to convict him though.
--
I don't think we need to worry too much about "Microsoft-only" web sites. There's a big problem with them. Those "Microsoft-only" features don't mean squat to the the blind or visually impaired. As long as there is an Americans With Disabilities Act and a (U.S.) Federal requirement that their web sites remain accessible, there still will be pages renderable in a meaningful way.
Besides, Europeans don't want to waste time downloading silly and slow-rendering graphics when their phone service is being metered.
We still need to be vigilant when dealing with web browsers and company-issued "standards".
--
I don't think we as individuals nned to worry about it too much.
But the implications for works of fiction are interesting. One can have martial law imposed in a municipal area due to riots or other "acts of belligerence". Those "enemies" are engaging in image modification and get caught. Can you say "trial by courtmartial", even though they are civilians?
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maybe the Scientologists will restrict talk on alt.religion.scientology to Scientology "happy talk" only.
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Porting it to my aging yet still useful HP-71B would be interesting. :-)
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What they have against HTML format is that the document must be PRINTABLE.
The document is in the form of a legal brief, not some arbitrary document you can display any which-way. That means the document must be prepared in a manner which pleases the court.
--
The last time I checked, Opera doesn't do PNG files. Too bad. (Then again, the Big Boys don't do PNG correctly, either.)
I probably will never use Opera; if I need pages tested with it, I get a net.friend to look at them and report back.
Besides, Communicator 4.7, despite its "Shop" button staring at me, has not crashed yet.
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It's about bleedin' time they supported Winmodems.
My experience with Winmodems under Windows 95 was numerous BSODs because the 486DX2-66 couldn't keep up. That's why I can't recommend them to anyone for a future purchase. Hopefully under Linux they don't dent the system load so badly.
Now that support is imminent, we can take the advice of those like Big Daddy Dosland of Maximum PC magazine and do what we can to assist and train neophyte users. By answering all their questions, even the ones that might seem stupid, we pave the way for turning neophytes into gurus.
And that, folks, goes a long way to make Linux and FreeBSD the dominant operating system of the future.
--
The hypocrites better start taxing the more lucrative telephone, mail and fax orders first.
Of course, with the Feds involved, the states don't get their share unless they ascede to silly demands made by Congress, just as highway funds aren't returned unless the minimum drinking age is 21.
Something tells me that some sharp Congresscritter will realize this.
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