I personally would not trade a parachute for a carry-on, and I bet statistically I am at more risk from stress trying to recover lost checked luggage, than a crash.
Even if speeding is not causing accidents (I bet it does, since people rarely leave more than a few car lengths between them and the next car, but at 75 MPH it should be more), it certainly makes the accidents far more dangerous.
I would far prefer the bad driver to T-Bone me at 10MPH less, even if their bad driving pretty much makes the T-Bone inevitable at any speed.
It makes it very difficult to compete as a smaller business, since 2-3 percent of a shit ton makes you rich, but 2-3 percent of a couple million leaves very little.
I'm not trying to weigh in on good vs bad in this situation, and I have certainly seen a Wal-Mart revitalize a main street here, but in general I find them very depressing stores full of shoddy crap. I don't like how they and Home Depot wield enough power to get name-brands to make shoddy version of their products too, it makes shopping much more difficult in the second hand market.
At the same time though, I don't want "service" when shopping for things. I will do some research at home and go in with what I want in mind, even if the sales people are honest and knowledgeable, they are redundant at best.
Depending on the type of person you are, accidental damage protection on a laptop can be worth it (though usually the manufacturer is a better bet that the store, unless you want really easy replacement). I don't buy it for 1/3 the price of the laptop, but I was also capable of replacing the screen on a laptop I cracked it on, I bet most people would be stuck, and getting a shop to do it cost more than the laptop itself.
Steven Landsburg had an idea I liked to solve that.
It works on the theory that the entire value of a patent comes from the extra money you will be able to charge so it essentially comes from all of society.
What you do is instead have government buy the patent at a fair market price and make the results public domain.
Since society saves the money on the purchasing part, the tax dollars are a wash, and as an added benefit to society at large the idea is truly open to be built upon. Also, it avoids the potential for getting burned with a submarine patent.
As for determining a fair market price, this is done with a public auction where all interested parties can blind bid for the rights, with the government purchasing at the second highest bidders bid only 3/4's or 9/10's of the time. The rest of the time, the highest bidder gets to buy the invention.
This allows for there to be private interests to help determine what a fair price is for the invention, and still keeps the majority of patents open for all.
But I would like to see a Norton Windows boot disk, not a Windows one.
Let Norton run without being installed, and have access to a clean copy of official MS libraries.
A command line Vista environment is fine and dandy, but it would not solve the problem of an anti-virus boot disk, and there are certain things that can't be done from something like Knoppix with clamav that could be done from Norton plus official MS Windows.
No, I'm saying it would be nice of the Anti-Virus came on a boot CD where it was already installed on a known good copy of the OS.
It would have access to official OS libraries, and could clean the system.
My entire point was that in the FOSS OS world there is no need to "install" the software on a effed up computer, because it can be installed at the factory on a good boot able DVD.
As alluded to in my post, it allows me to see a list of CSS properties (in a drop down that can easily be ignored), and then once I typed in the property, it gives a list of appropriate values.
It does not make things quicker, it helps me keep track of the correct properties and values, since I don't do it enough to it all perfect, and it is quicker than browsing a reference site to see, "what type of border styles are there?"
It does not interfere with the performance at all for me, and it does not obscure the text I am typing. And I can certainly click the dark green on the color wheel it pops up quicker than I can come up with my the hex values (though I bet dark green is a predefined color, I would know if I were typing this in dream weaver).
We don't all do this all day, yet some of us need to do it sometimes. And with a pretty good grasp of the concepts (better than a lot of designers I am willing to bet), the auto-complete helps fill in the details (that I have worse than most designers), and it does it quicker than using the web for a reference (which I do at home), or even the giant O'Reilly CSS reference book by my desk.
If you don't have access to DW Screem has a pretty decent start to it. When you type less than, it pops up a list of tags instantly, in DW this list shrinks as you type. That's not too useful, but when you hit space, it pops up a list of attributes, and only ones that apply to the tag you just types/picked. This makes it easy to see what you can do with a div, or a span. These are things that take a lot of time to just "know", so the fact that your editor does it can be helpful for beginners, or people who don't do it day in and day out.
DW does it far better than screem (it works with CSS for starters), and that is worth something.
Another reason I hope Linux becomes more mainstream.
When it does get effed up, there is no licensing fee to have a boot disk for repair purposes.
Symantec shouldn't need to install to fix the system, it should be able to do it from it's own environment, so that it is not effected by installed malware. Unfortunately for everyone involved, they cannot do it cost-effectively.
It's true, and Dreamweaver's autocomplete is fantastic.
I don't think there is much place for the GUI in template design, but the text editor in Dreamweaver is worth the money if you are a designer at a lower skill level.
Considering one would need the other apps in the suite, keeping Dreamweaver will be a perk.
Adobe should focus on making it a full fledged AMP (and others really) testing environment and it would be potent.
Easy local testing, their sitemanager to sync with remote, fantastic text editor, and maybe even some integration for template previewing (maybe they do?). I personally only use it to help be remember the names of various CSS properties and what they can be set too, but there is definitely potential to make designers more comfortable with interfacing with the server, as they have tied to do from the start (and I hate).
It's probably because Betamax wasn't used for digital storage?
Or if it was, it was as obscure as magneto-optical.
Magneto-optical is also interesting because it is unique. Betamax would be covered by magnetic tape (listed as from pre-betamax to present), if it was ever a general digital storage.
VHS was similarly left out, as was DV tapes (which actually would fit in, but I don't think you can store general info on them).
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are both general data storage formats, though both being essentially blu-laser discs, I think they should have been in the same category.
When using MS Office, or other Windows apps (even non MS ones) the first place I go for simple references is the help search box (excel formulas usually).
On Linux it is google.com
Worth noting that the KDE handbooks tend to be decent overview of simple applications, but as far as searching for something specific, and finding related things, MS Help wins by a long shot. The KDE Handbooks tend to be more of a intro to basic usage that can be useful before using an app. The Windows help can be useful when you know what you want to do, but are stuck.
You have additional problems with your own hosting too though.
The fact that FTP access is being discussed implies to me that the thought is there will be some large many file transfer type things.
Considering a that the main office could likely share a cable connection otherwise, that bandwidth for self hosting becomes expensive.
Additionally if there is budget for a few employees, and the website is a large part of the product $100/month is nothing, and almost certainly the capitol is worth more now.
that would mesh with the description, but I would hate to correct wikipedia with a fail (as the author of that line has already failed the article once).
Why is it you are so comfortable using an external program to access gmail, but insist a web browser be used for a router?
the/. ajax isn't great, but when traversing comment trees the in-line expanding and collapsing is a nice feature that made the "parent" button far more useful.
It additionally functions just as bad as it always did without js active.
And it's most annoying feature when I check it from a phone is not the JS, but the CSS positioned karma slider.
Though maybe CSS also represents a bad technology that should be disabled too.
I thought emergency remote access (e.g. from a phone) was what ssh was for.
The web interface was for those whome are right there.
the realtime traffic chart in tomato is simply amazing, and is the type of thing impossible in a situation as you mention.
I just changed router to one it doesn't support, but I bet it's interface gracefully degraded to be viewable with anything.
The fact that/. has a crappy interface doesn;t mean that web 2.0 sucks, simply that/. doesn't have the greatest implementation.
And the fact that a phone tries to do more than it is capable of, instead of falling back to earlier techs is not the fault of web 2.0 either.
The tomato firmware is a great interface (though somewhat limited in features compared to OpenWrt).
I think Gmail makes webmail great, and the non Web 2.0 webmails suck, but just as I wouldn't use a web interface to a router on a phone (ssh for that), I wouldn't use a web interface to e-mail on a phone either (e-mail client for that).
In fact, I wouldn't even use a phone web interface to wikipedia, which is fairly non-web2.0 I bet.
On the android at least there is a quickpedia app that is far superior to browsing the site, and it does this using web2.0ish tech.
I would additionally even on a phone,.5MB of JS is no big deal if it is cacheable. I mean, even with an EDGE connection it isn't that much time, and then it is done for good.
That's a shame it was sloppily done, but good web2.0 should be faster that traditional reload the whole page.
Now there needs to be a same fall-back that works without it, but just because you want things to be like they were before client computers could do any of the heavy lifting don't think that the rest of us love full page refreshes.
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This does not address the fact that I think speeding encourages following too close.
Maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't, but even if it does not increase the likelihood of an accident, it really does make them more dangerous.
Taken to an extreme, if nobody ever went over 10 MPH all accidents would be fender benders.
I bet space is part of it.
I personally would not trade a parachute for a carry-on, and I bet statistically I am at more risk from stress trying to recover lost checked luggage, than a crash.
Even if speeding is not causing accidents (I bet it does, since people rarely leave more than a few car lengths between them and the next car, but at 75 MPH it should be more), it certainly makes the accidents far more dangerous.
I would far prefer the bad driver to T-Bone me at 10MPH less, even if their bad driving pretty much makes the T-Bone inevitable at any speed.
Actually I was more thinking of sub-par pulp-board quickly warping furniture, and I "shopped" trash to furnish my house.
and screws/nails that bend way too easily.
Crappy food is crappy food, and I eat it with glee.
Wal-Mart's margins are very low too.
It makes it very difficult to compete as a smaller business, since 2-3 percent of a shit ton makes you rich, but 2-3 percent of a couple million leaves very little.
I'm not trying to weigh in on good vs bad in this situation, and I have certainly seen a Wal-Mart revitalize a main street here, but in general I find them very depressing stores full of shoddy crap. I don't like how they and Home Depot wield enough power to get name-brands to make shoddy version of their products too, it makes shopping much more difficult in the second hand market.
At the same time though, I don't want "service" when shopping for things. I will do some research at home and go in with what I want in mind, even if the sales people are honest and knowledgeable, they are redundant at best.
Depending on the type of person you are, accidental damage protection on a laptop can be worth it (though usually the manufacturer is a better bet that the store, unless you want really easy replacement). I don't buy it for 1/3 the price of the laptop, but I was also capable of replacing the screen on a laptop I cracked it on, I bet most people would be stuck, and getting a shop to do it cost more than the laptop itself.
$550??
Sounds unlikely, the ipod touch already hits $400
Funny I thought the exact opposite.
I wonder who is the target for large over-powered laptops. I mean, they don't have enough power to do real work, they're big and bulky too.
Use a desktop when called for, and a small thing you can cart around should be a netbook.
Steven Landsburg had an idea I liked to solve that.
It works on the theory that the entire value of a patent comes from the extra money you will be able to charge so it essentially comes from all of society.
What you do is instead have government buy the patent at a fair market price and make the results public domain.
Since society saves the money on the purchasing part, the tax dollars are a wash, and as an added benefit to society at large the idea is truly open to be built upon. Also, it avoids the potential for getting burned with a submarine patent.
As for determining a fair market price, this is done with a public auction where all interested parties can blind bid for the rights, with the government purchasing at the second highest bidders bid only 3/4's or 9/10's of the time. The rest of the time, the highest bidder gets to buy the invention.
This allows for there to be private interests to help determine what a fair price is for the invention, and still keeps the majority of patents open for all.
But I would like to see a Norton Windows boot disk, not a Windows one.
Let Norton run without being installed, and have access to a clean copy of official MS libraries.
A command line Vista environment is fine and dandy, but it would not solve the problem of an anti-virus boot disk, and there are certain things that can't be done from something like Knoppix with clamav that could be done from Norton plus official MS Windows.
No, I'm saying it would be nice of the Anti-Virus came on a boot CD where it was already installed on a known good copy of the OS.
It would have access to official OS libraries, and could clean the system.
My entire point was that in the FOSS OS world there is no need to "install" the software on a effed up computer, because it can be installed at the factory on a good boot able DVD.
As alluded to in my post, it allows me to see a list of CSS properties (in a drop down that can easily be ignored), and then once I typed in the property, it gives a list of appropriate values.
It does not make things quicker, it helps me keep track of the correct properties and values, since I don't do it enough to it all perfect, and it is quicker than browsing a reference site to see, "what type of border styles are there?"
It does not interfere with the performance at all for me, and it does not obscure the text I am typing. And I can certainly click the dark green on the color wheel it pops up quicker than I can come up with my the hex values (though I bet dark green is a predefined color, I would know if I were typing this in dream weaver).
We don't all do this all day, yet some of us need to do it sometimes. And with a pretty good grasp of the concepts (better than a lot of designers I am willing to bet), the auto-complete helps fill in the details (that I have worse than most designers), and it does it quicker than using the web for a reference (which I do at home), or even the giant O'Reilly CSS reference book by my desk.
If you don't have access to DW Screem has a pretty decent start to it. When you type less than, it pops up a list of tags instantly, in DW this list shrinks as you type. That's not too useful, but when you hit space, it pops up a list of attributes, and only ones that apply to the tag you just types/picked. This makes it easy to see what you can do with a div, or a span. These are things that take a lot of time to just "know", so the fact that your editor does it can be helpful for beginners, or people who don't do it day in and day out.
DW does it far better than screem (it works with CSS for starters), and that is worth something.
Another reason I hope Linux becomes more mainstream.
When it does get effed up, there is no licensing fee to have a boot disk for repair purposes.
Symantec shouldn't need to install to fix the system, it should be able to do it from it's own environment, so that it is not effected by installed malware. Unfortunately for everyone involved, they cannot do it cost-effectively.
It's true, and Dreamweaver's autocomplete is fantastic.
I don't think there is much place for the GUI in template design, but the text editor in Dreamweaver is worth the money if you are a designer at a lower skill level.
Considering one would need the other apps in the suite, keeping Dreamweaver will be a perk.
Adobe should focus on making it a full fledged AMP (and others really) testing environment and it would be potent.
Easy local testing, their sitemanager to sync with remote, fantastic text editor, and maybe even some integration for template previewing (maybe they do?). I personally only use it to help be remember the names of various CSS properties and what they can be set too, but there is definitely potential to make designers more comfortable with interfacing with the server, as they have tied to do from the start (and I hate).
It's probably because Betamax wasn't used for digital storage?
Or if it was, it was as obscure as magneto-optical.
Magneto-optical is also interesting because it is unique. Betamax would be covered by magnetic tape (listed as from pre-betamax to present), if it was ever a general digital storage.
VHS was similarly left out, as was DV tapes (which actually would fit in, but I don't think you can store general info on them).
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are both general data storage formats, though both being essentially blu-laser discs, I think they should have been in the same category.
The help system is great I think.
When using MS Office, or other Windows apps (even non MS ones) the first place I go for simple references is the help search box (excel formulas usually).
On Linux it is google.com
Worth noting that the KDE handbooks tend to be decent overview of simple applications, but as far as searching for something specific, and finding related things, MS Help wins by a long shot. The KDE Handbooks tend to be more of a intro to basic usage that can be useful before using an app. The Windows help can be useful when you know what you want to do, but are stuck.
They would have been far more competitive vs other UMPCs in the developed world if they cost less too.
They ended up being slightly more (or was it the same price?)than EEE, with some pros, and some cons.
If they were $300 plus shipping it would have been slightly less (for some reason I think EEE was about $350, but I can't recall).
If the company were Spanish, it would be relevant to me if I were Spanish.
It would not be a pay Americans to play with my government situation then.
Of course, as an American I win in this situation (in the long run reliance on any one provider by people may cause me to lose though).
You have additional problems with your own hosting too though.
The fact that FTP access is being discussed implies to me that the thought is there will be some large many file transfer type things.
Considering a that the main office could likely share a cable connection otherwise, that bandwidth for self hosting becomes expensive.
Additionally if there is budget for a few employees, and the website is a large part of the product $100/month is nothing, and almost certainly the capitol is worth more now.
Can someone clarify the formula?
24 hours x 1kWh X .2 = 4.8 kwh^2 ??
I assume it is supposed to read
24 hours x 1kWh x .2 = 4.8 kWh
that would mesh with the description, but I would hate to correct wikipedia with a fail (as the author of that line has already failed the article once).
Why is it you are so comfortable using an external program to access gmail, but insist a web browser be used for a router?
the /. ajax isn't great, but when traversing comment trees the in-line expanding and collapsing is a nice feature that made the "parent" button far more useful.
It additionally functions just as bad as it always did without js active.
And it's most annoying feature when I check it from a phone is not the JS, but the CSS positioned karma slider.
Though maybe CSS also represents a bad technology that should be disabled too.
I thought emergency remote access (e.g. from a phone) was what ssh was for.
The web interface was for those whome are right there.
the realtime traffic chart in tomato is simply amazing, and is the type of thing impossible in a situation as you mention.
I just changed router to one it doesn't support, but I bet it's interface gracefully degraded to be viewable with anything.
The fact that /. has a crappy interface doesn;t mean that web 2.0 sucks, simply that /. doesn't have the greatest implementation.
And the fact that a phone tries to do more than it is capable of, instead of falling back to earlier techs is not the fault of web 2.0 either.
The tomato firmware is a great interface (though somewhat limited in features compared to OpenWrt).
I think Gmail makes webmail great, and the non Web 2.0 webmails suck, but just as I wouldn't use a web interface to a router on a phone (ssh for that), I wouldn't use a web interface to e-mail on a phone either (e-mail client for that).
In fact, I wouldn't even use a phone web interface to wikipedia, which is fairly non-web2.0 I bet.
On the android at least there is a quickpedia app that is far superior to browsing the site, and it does this using web2.0ish tech.
I would additionally even on a phone, .5MB of JS is no big deal if it is cacheable. I mean, even with an EDGE connection it isn't that much time, and then it is done for good.
That's a shame it was sloppily done, but good web2.0 should be faster that traditional reload the whole page.
Now there needs to be a same fall-back that works without it, but just because you want things to be like they were before client computers could do any of the heavy lifting don't think that the rest of us love full page refreshes.
Damn you.
The day after I spend $90 on an Asus wl-500w you post this list.
I wish it even came up when looking for a list of similar. The only one I could find info on was the 500w.
Companies don't write off donations to charity.
Well they do, but only in the sense that they get to write off every dollar they spend.
What a company call "income" is closer to what you or I would call "disposable income", or even savings.
They already got the tax break on that labor expense, weather they donate the product or not.