My company's intranet site acts like a portal (I know the term is overused), and it relies heavily on RDF files to gather data. Slashdot is one of the sites it gathers information from, and it makes it a very nice, uniform page.
Say I beat you nearly to death, but don't kill you. When the hospital upgrades your condition from critical to serious, are you in good shape or bad shape?
The Internet has ruined me forever. Ever since I got my ethernet connection in my dorm room, I haven't been able to read anything printed. I think it has something to do with needing higher throughput than anything printed can provide. That, and the fact that a goldfish has a longer attention span than I do.
Someone should really think of some sort of built in counter-measure. Perhaps alter the phones so that they emit low-level radiation. This would likely destroy the harmful bacteria.
but the article certainly makes me a little uneasy about modern air travel
Why? The article says the pilots are used to it and know how to filter it out. Plane crashes are very rare, and the ones that do happen are nearly always related to either weather or non-electronic equipment failure.
A co-worker was using a wireless keyboard for his PDA, and was told by the flight attendant to not use it during flight. It was infrared, not RF. He tried to explain this to her, but she didn't get it, which is understandable, most non-geeks wouldn't. Solution: tape a piece of wire to it, and to his PDA, while in flight.:-)
You shouldn't buy if cost if your concern. Even with the tax break and gas savings, it still doesn't make add up: a) They cost more b) The tax break is washed out because of higher registration fees in some areas (because they can't get their taxes from gas) c) The batteries will have to be replaced eventually at a high cost, important if you're a drive-til-wheels-fall-off person.
If you're trying to save the environment, or be progressive, or pick up hippie college chicks, by all means, go for it.
I'm not sure exactly how it works. However, I do have a good friend that works in collections for a credit union, and she told me that Experian collects more data for the West coast, and TransUnion collects more in the Mid-West, where I live.
The differences you're seeing probably have to do with the fact that, well, they're different. Certain creditors report information, good or bad, to only one of the three agencies.
Credit reporting agencies seem to be one of those mysterious black box things that no one really knows quite how they work. I'm not sure they even know how they work.
If you have an unlocked mailbox on the street, or near your door, you need to be hoping that no identity theives walk by your house. If I were worried, I think I'd take my chances with the "vendor" in that case.
The $30 service is not similar, as it only monitors your score, not your entire credit report.
Also, this service uses Experian, and the area I live in is better serviced by TransUnion. Otherwise, their $40 service (which is similar to TrueCredit's) would have been fine, but about the same cost.
Go to one of those shipping/copy places like Mailboxes, Etc. Lots of those have boxes, so your address will be their address, with a number after it, like
I'm usually not paranoid, but talk of identity theft, and nearly being a victim (copied credit card when I visited Mexico), convinced me subscribe to a credit monitoring service. They notify you right away of changes to your profile, and give you free periodic credit reports. I'm trying to start a small business, so it's more important now than ever.
True Credit turned out to be the cheapest at $11/quarter for the basic service. This is not a referral link, and I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just sharing information.
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What? That link is talking about his parents. It says nothing about the baby-hanging skin-bleaching freak himself.
My monitor is already sticker-studded. All the stickers I get free with crap go right on my monitor. Rockford-Fosgate, Red Line Fluids, Antec and AMD case logo, those fake bullet hole stickers (looks like my place was victim to a drive-by)... I even put the "manajarse con cuidado" sticker I yanked from a glass shower door in Mexico on there. It's pretty diverse.
My chin hit the floor, but only because it was a 200MB download.
Bah...
~: wget http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/xanadu14.mpg
6% 12,622,192 294.62K/s ETA 10:37
(Had to delete the progress bar to make the lame Lameness filter happy). Precisely why I love to ssh into my home system. Will be ready and waiting for me when I get there.
Unless you're on dial up, in which case I apoligize...
you make the choice to leave it on and use that extra electricity for the luxury of not havingto turn it on/serve something/etc
That's correct, and I stated that. My reason for leaving it on would be unaffected by this development.
flatscreen, mini-atx, SINGLE hard drive..
Too expensive for the amount of time I'm at my desk, too limiting, single point of data loss...
you make the decision to spend your money on your electric bill for serving a couple of lame web pages that nobody cares about
I care about them. Notice I didn't say it was a "This is my webpage, sign my guestbook, check out my links" page. There are lots of things you can do on a webserver, you know.
Arggh.. Someone else who doesn't know how a switching power supply works. 300Watts means thats the maximum amount of power it can deliver before it melts down. It doesn't mean your computer is using 300watts constantly.
I know exactly how a switching power supply works. But from the phrasing of my comment, I see how that's not clear.
I dont know exactly what they're trying to pitch here, except something else to compete with flashram.
Did you read the article?
"MRAM is up to six times faster than today's static RAM"
That's what they're pitching. Today's flash memory is far too slow to replace DRAM.
This would be a great thing for power bills as well.
Lots of times you want to keep a machine up all the time, like in my case when it's serving up a webpage or two and acting as a print server. But I'm sure there are also plenty of people who leave their machines on all the time just to avoid the startup/shutdown time. I know I do it with my laptop just to avoid the un-hibernation.
With power supplies averaging, oh, 300 or so watts, that can mean decent savings when you figure it running 24x7.
Slashdot Mirror
My company's intranet site acts like a portal (I know the term is overused), and it relies heavily on RDF files to gather data. Slashdot is one of the sites it gathers information from, and it makes it a very nice, uniform page.
Say I beat you nearly to death, but don't kill you. When the hospital upgrades your condition from critical to serious, are you in good shape or bad shape?
High-tech gambles could pay off big.
In this economy, surely they must be talking about video poker...
Can you say "noooot - supported - in - mySQL"?
No, but I can say "aaaaare supported in Postgres." The price is the same as mySQL, and it's a real RDMBS.
The Internet has ruined me forever. Ever since I got my ethernet connection in my dorm room, I haven't been able to read anything printed. I think it has something to do with needing higher throughput than anything printed can provide. That, and the fact that a goldfish has a longer attention span than I do.
hams are posted at shelters which are filling up with storm refugees
Good thing too. All this evacuating is making me hungry!
Someone should really think of some sort of built in counter-measure. Perhaps alter the phones so that they emit low-level radiation. This would likely destroy the harmful bacteria.
TCO benefits of using UNIX(Lintel) instead of Wintel
I read this as SCO benefits from using UNIX(Lintel) instead of Wintel... and they would like to.
but the article certainly makes me a little uneasy about modern air travel
Why? The article says the pilots are used to it and know how to filter it out. Plane crashes are very rare, and the ones that do happen are nearly always related to either weather or non-electronic equipment failure.
A co-worker was using a wireless keyboard for his PDA, and was told by the flight attendant to not use it during flight. It was infrared, not RF. He tried to explain this to her, but she didn't get it, which is understandable, most non-geeks wouldn't. Solution: tape a piece of wire to it, and to his PDA, while in flight. :-)
You shouldn't buy if cost if your concern. Even with the tax break and gas savings, it still doesn't make add up:
a) They cost more
b) The tax break is washed out because of higher registration fees in some areas (because they can't get their taxes from gas)
c) The batteries will have to be replaced eventually at a high cost, important if you're a drive-til-wheels-fall-off person.
If you're trying to save the environment, or be progressive, or pick up hippie college chicks, by all means, go for it.
I'm not sure exactly how it works. However, I do have a good friend that works in collections for a credit union, and she told me that Experian collects more data for the West coast, and TransUnion collects more in the Mid-West, where I live.
The differences you're seeing probably have to do with the fact that, well, they're different. Certain creditors report information, good or bad, to only one of the three agencies.
Credit reporting agencies seem to be one of those mysterious black box things that no one really knows quite how they work. I'm not sure they even know how they work.
If you have an unlocked mailbox on the street, or near your door, you need to be hoping that no identity theives walk by your house. If I were worried, I think I'd take my chances with the "vendor" in that case.
I saw this service and checked it out.
The $30 service is not similar, as it only monitors your score, not your entire credit report.
Also, this service uses Experian, and the area I live in is better serviced by TransUnion. Otherwise, their $40 service (which is similar to TrueCredit's) would have been fine, but about the same cost.
Go to one of those shipping/copy places like Mailboxes, Etc. Lots of those have boxes, so your address will be their address, with a number after it, like
123 This St. # 666
They'll take and sign for packages for you, too.
I'm usually not paranoid, but talk of identity theft, and nearly being a victim (copied credit card when I visited Mexico), convinced me subscribe to a credit monitoring service. They notify you right away of changes to your profile, and give you free periodic credit reports. I'm trying to start a small business, so it's more important now than ever.
True Credit turned out to be the cheapest at $11/quarter for the basic service. This is not a referral link, and I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just sharing information.
What? That link is talking about his parents. It says nothing about the baby-hanging skin-bleaching freak himself.
My monitor is already sticker-studded. All the stickers I get free with crap go right on my monitor. Rockford-Fosgate, Red Line Fluids, Antec and AMD case logo, those fake bullet hole stickers (looks like my place was victim to a drive-by)... I even put the "manajarse con cuidado" sticker I yanked from a glass shower door in Mexico on there. It's pretty diverse.
I must say this is one of the most insightful comments I've ever seen on /.
Wish I had mod points.
Nobody is going to starve as a result of a SCO employee leaving. Heck, they could probably have appealed to the Open Source community for help,
Are you saying someone could ask the Open Source community for help, as in financial help?
If so, (Score:5, Funny)
My chin hit the floor, but only because it was a 200MB download.
Bah...
~: wget http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/xanadu14.mpg
6% 12,622,192 294.62K/s ETA 10:37
(Had to delete the progress bar to make the lame Lameness filter happy). Precisely why I love to ssh into my home system. Will be ready and
waiting for me when I get there.
Unless you're on dial up, in which case I apoligize...
you make the choice to leave it on and use that extra electricity for the luxury of not havingto turn it on/serve something/etc
That's correct, and I stated that. My reason for leaving it on would be unaffected by this development.
flatscreen, mini-atx, SINGLE hard drive..
Too expensive for the amount of time I'm at my desk, too limiting, single point of data loss...
you make the decision to spend your money on your electric bill for serving a couple of lame web pages that nobody cares about
I care about them. Notice I didn't say it was a "This is my webpage, sign my guestbook, check out my links" page. There are lots of things you can do on a webserver, you know.
+1 Informative... ha.
Arggh.. Someone else who doesn't know how a switching power supply works. 300Watts means thats the maximum amount of power it can deliver before it melts down. It doesn't mean your computer is using 300watts constantly.
I know exactly how a switching power supply works. But from the phrasing of my comment, I see how that's not clear.
I dont know exactly what they're trying to pitch here, except something else to compete with flashram.
Did you read the article?
"MRAM is up to six times faster than today's static RAM"
That's what they're pitching. Today's flash memory is far too slow to replace DRAM.
This would be a great thing for power bills as well.
Lots of times you want to keep a machine up all the time, like in my case when it's serving up a webpage or two and acting as a print server. But I'm sure there are also plenty of people who leave their machines on all the time just to avoid the startup/shutdown time. I know I do it with my laptop just to avoid the un-hibernation.
With power supplies averaging, oh, 300 or so watts, that can mean decent savings when you figure it running 24x7.
But thanks. I'm actually quiet, well, *honored* that people are giving this enough attention to notice even the grammar typo's.
:)
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
I saw your note about the caffiene-induced rush, and that explains it. Great work, though.