Most Laptop makers offer at least one model of Docking station that adds these capabilities to the system. The One I am using right now has 2 PCI slots(one of which I have populated with a second old video card to give me a second Monitor), a 50 Mini SCSI(Burner, HP scanner), firewire, USB(Mouse), PS2 connectors for mouse and Keyboard, Drive bay, serial, Printer Port, sound plugs and Network.
Of course Gates would claim communisim...
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...reforming the IP laws to be fair to all people would hurt his pocketbook. The real problem as I see it is that the laws need to be reformed enough so that OPEN/FREE software can do anything that Closed/Commercial can. Right now some of the IP laws prevent this from happening, and some of the coming ones will tighten that even more. All I presonally want is a level playing field, and so long as we have "Trade secrets", Broadcast flags, CSS, etc that can never happen because IT locks out Open/Free which requires that those secrets begiven to everyone using the software and nothing be hidden. Thankfully we won the battle with the W3C and they dropped that whole RAND thing for web standards. A step in the right direction, but not the whole road.
I refuse to believe that our world contains the only life in the entire Universe. There have to be other planets with life on them out there some place.
As for the question of them visiting us, I am not so sure on that one.
Yep I got hammer too! My wife was ill so I was unable to monitor what was going on until it was too late...I did manage to catch the perl script that was doing the evil and kill it bu not before it was too late...infact I didn't even know what the script was till the next morning...
I amde the switch over to Apache 2.0 and PHP 5 about 3 weeks ago at this point and have found it to be rock solid so far. My impression was that the PHP guys are recommending PHP4 for Apache 1.3.x and PHP5 for Apache 2.0.x. So in translation what they are not recommending is PHP4 on Apache 2.0.x. Perhaps I have gotten the wrong impression but that's what I got...
If creative really wants to bring this battle they need to improve thier ogg support and offer it on more models. I will not buy an IPod because of the lack of Ogg support and the selection of creative models with Ogg support is too limited.
I didn't realize what I was missing in my life until I meet my wife. As my GF and now my wife she has always been somewhat insistent that my job not be the highest priority and more often than not leave work (and leave my work at work) at 5:00pm. My life has been my better since.
...that none of the questions concerned one of the Most burining issues amoung younger voters. The DMCA and all that entails, and the corrupt power that it gives the media corporations.
Even toward the end of the Broadcast they were getting the indication from Burt Ruttan that they intended to go for it on Monday and perhaps even a day early on Sunday.
The user's real world email address can be hidden from public view on most boards and I highly recommend that it be such. It can also be ofuscated. In my expirence the signal to noise ratio of allowing registations from hotmail, yahoo, etc just isn't worth it. I too hate to punish the innocent for the crimes of the terminally stupid (trolls) however at some point you have to cut your losses and do something if you want a community to work.
I have been through this ordeal as well here are my suggestions.
1. After a new user chooses as username, have the submission form look up against a list of banned words. This kills many trolls immediately because they can't register offending names.
2. Verified registration, the whole Ok we will now send you an email that will contain a URL which will activate your account.
2a. Do not allow any registrations to generic email services. NO hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc accounts are valid for registration. Has to be an account that is at least in theory trackable back to a real person someplace.
3. Install a moderation system similar to slashdot's its one of the few I have seen that works. (For an example of one that doesn't see kuro5hin.org, moderation there is so screwed up the trolls always win)
4. Only allow one registration for your site to a particular email address, cc number, addresses, etc.
5. Require reverification if the user updates their email address.
6. Require periodic reverification of the account.
If you were using the name before they were then they have no right to tell you to change their name. I had a silimar situation with a web site I used to run. The lawyer for another company contacted us and said they owned the trademark on the site's name (actually it was worse than that, after several conversations they even tried to claim their copyright was any derivitive of one of the words in the name)...the situation finally came to a head after us refusing thier demands several times. I wrote a carefully worded letter based on many hard facts and dates attached to those facts. Our domain had existed before company name appeared to from every record I could find (well the company has existed for a long time, but the trademark in question was not filed for until approx 1.3 years after our site started doing business, and our domain was registered.) As for the we clain trademark on any smaller part of that name, I provided him in the letter a long list of other sites with that word in them that had existed long before ours had. I even pointed out a.com name that used his exact trademarked name (our was a.org and.net) that had existed way before his company's site had. BTW the term in question was the newsletter his site sent out and had nothing to do with the actual company name or DBA name of his business/sitename.
I still keep the.org, and.net names registered to this day just for the potential piss off factor since they can't do a damned thing about it. Our Company folded 3 years ago at this point.
18 Young Hopefulls are given a chance to work with the Palpatine, at the end of Each episode one is chosen as Unworthy...at which point he is electrocuted to death, or has throat crushed by Vader.
...and Lucas will Die soon...someone (his Kids maybe) will find the hidden bok of star wars ideas (which I believe was once refered to as "The Book of the Whillis)...sell the rights to make new Star Wars Movies...then the Job will get turned over to people that would know how to make a good Star Wars Movie( Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Spielbergh, the entire creative team of Stargate SG-1, etc), give us our once promised 7,8,9 that he has backed away from...
1. Obtain connection into large pipe via inter-connect agreement 2. Connect via router(s) to ethernet media 3. String ethernet media throughout town, basically crating on giant lan. Line length can be delt with somewhat by having a hub/switch at each maximum extention.
It will never be fast for the long haul initial connections but once you are connected it should work out well..
disclaimer...I'm not serious...this would never actually work in any practical way.
Java sucks hard, everytime I have tried to use it, it's been more trouble than its worth. I know I know PHP and Java are not actually in the same category. However, the problem with Java is its damn slow, its not nearly as cross platform compatible as it would have you believe, its libs are a f***ing mess to say the least. There are other problems but I don't wish to details the laundry list.
Actually he doesn't need Star Wars he has actually had a very successful post stars career. Look at all the Voice work he has done. He had a huge run as the Joker in the Batman animated series. He is hurting in no way at all, for work...and with Star Wars Residuals...ha his Great Great grand children are set for life.
So with Yoda's Death I see the passing of Master to Luke...however who is the apprentice? Leia? I suppose however we never see any of this she barely ever takes any account of her Jedi side in later books based in the Star Wars Universe.
Yes he did....and Lucas passed him up on it...DUMB move!
Lucas is great at concepts and excellent at bringing his vision to life.
He should: 1. Write the conceptual story line of 7,8,9...Characters, motivations, plot points, over all story and back story...in short write himself 3 novels that tell the story of 7-9 (Yes I too would love to see the thrawn Trilogy Filmed, but I don't think thats what Lucas wants here)
2. Once done work with a REAL talented Known good screen writer(s) with proven results to develop a high quality script. Actually honestly if they were willing to do it Joss Whendon and/or Kevin Smith wouldn't be bad ideas.
3. Hand the directing job over to a another director, but stay involved in the production of movies technical aspects, Thats what Lucas is good at...Speilbergh, Chris Carter, or Kevin Smith would be good choices here.
4. Concentrate on story, NOT whizbang, and integrate back story more fully...there are still hanging questions in the Star Wars Trilogy that have never been resolved related to questions involved in the backstory.
5. Stop using the same tired old plot devices, they have been very repeatitive throughout the series now.
6. Live up to Fan expectation, there have been persistent rumors about various things in the Star Wars Community for years. Confirm them rather than shadow or ignore them.
I for one was encourged by the provious progress, but also fustrated by the still existant shortcomings of the software. Clear printed/type written documents still had a high rate of error (these were especially fustrating, was it un reasonable to expect letterquality reads to be nearly error free)...handwriting that was farly clear was getting there, but not quickly.
Perhaps the Voicedictation market has something to do with it, maybe the recognition rate and quality is higher than OCR and now people are just reading the documents in with voice Rec apps?
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Most Laptop makers offer at least one model of Docking station that adds these capabilities to the system. The One I am using right now has 2 PCI slots(one of which I have populated with a second old video card to give me a second Monitor), a 50 Mini SCSI(Burner, HP scanner), firewire, USB(Mouse), PS2 connectors for mouse and Keyboard, Drive bay, serial, Printer Port, sound plugs and Network.
...reforming the IP laws to be fair to all people would hurt his pocketbook. The real problem as I see it is that the laws need to be reformed enough so that OPEN/FREE software can do anything that Closed/Commercial can. Right now some of the IP laws prevent this from happening, and some of the coming ones will tighten that even more. All I presonally want is a level playing field, and so long as we have "Trade secrets", Broadcast flags, CSS, etc that can never happen because IT locks out Open/Free which requires that those secrets begiven to everyone using the software and nothing be hidden. Thankfully we won the battle with the W3C and they dropped that whole RAND thing for web standards. A step in the right direction, but not the whole road.
I refuse to believe that our world contains the only life in the entire Universe. There have to be other planets with life on them out there some place.
As for the question of them visiting us, I am not so sure on that one.
...I'm almost with him until somewhere in the late middle of the interview he goes off into raving luniticism...
He has good ideas, but he fends them and speaks of them like a Muslim arguing with a Catholic about the nature of GOD.
Yep I got hammer too! My wife was ill so I was unable to monitor what was going on until it was too late...I did manage to catch the perl script that was doing the evil and kill it bu not before it was too late...infact I didn't even know what the script was till the next morning...
I amde the switch over to Apache 2.0 and PHP 5 about 3 weeks ago at this point and have found it to be rock solid so far. My impression was that the PHP guys are recommending PHP4 for Apache 1.3.x and PHP5 for Apache 2.0.x. So in translation what they are not recommending is PHP4 on Apache 2.0.x. Perhaps I have gotten the wrong impression but that's what I got...
If creative really wants to bring this battle they need to improve thier ogg support and offer it on more models. I will not buy an IPod because of the lack of Ogg support and the selection of creative models with Ogg support is too limited.
I didn't realize what I was missing in my life until I meet my wife. As my GF and now my wife she has always been somewhat insistent that my job not be the highest priority and more often than not leave work (and leave my work at work) at 5:00pm. My life has been my better since.
...that none of the questions concerned one of the Most burining issues amoung younger voters. The DMCA and all that entails, and the corrupt power that it gives the media corporations.
Even toward the end of the Broadcast they were getting the indication from Burt Ruttan that they intended to go for it on Monday and perhaps even a day early on Sunday.
...just need to clear the Monday hurtle.... ...I'd love to see them do a flight with 3 people actually on board...
The user's real world email address can be hidden from public view on most boards and I highly recommend that it be such. It can also be ofuscated. In my expirence the signal to noise ratio of allowing registations from hotmail, yahoo, etc just isn't worth it. I too hate to punish the innocent for the crimes of the terminally stupid (trolls) however at some point you have to cut your losses and do something if you want a community to work.
I have been through this ordeal as well here are my suggestions.
1. After a new user chooses as username, have the submission form look up against a list of banned words. This kills many trolls immediately because they can't register offending names.
2. Verified registration, the whole Ok we will now send you an email that will contain a URL which will activate your account.
2a. Do not allow any registrations to generic email services. NO hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc accounts are valid for registration. Has to be an account that is at least in theory trackable back to a real person someplace.
3. Install a moderation system similar to slashdot's its one of the few I have seen that works. (For an example of one that doesn't see kuro5hin.org, moderation there is so screwed up the trolls always win)
4. Only allow one registration for your site to a particular email address, cc number, addresses, etc.
5. Require reverification if the user updates their email address.
6. Require periodic reverification of the account.
If you were using the name before they were then they have no right to tell you to change their name. I had a silimar situation with a web site I used to run. The lawyer for another company contacted us and said they owned the trademark on the site's name (actually it was worse than that, after several conversations they even tried to claim their copyright was any derivitive of one of the words in the name)...the situation finally came to a head after us refusing thier demands several times. I wrote a carefully worded letter based on many hard facts and dates attached to those facts. Our domain had existed before company name appeared to from every record I could find (well the company has existed for a long time, but the trademark in question was not filed for until approx 1.3 years after our site started doing business, and our domain was registered.) As for the we clain trademark on any smaller part of that name, I provided him in the letter a long list of other sites with that word in them that had existed long before ours had. I even pointed out a .com name that used his exact trademarked name (our was a .org and .net) that had existed way before his company's site had. BTW the term in question was the newsletter his site sent out and had nothing to do with the actual company name or DBA name of his business/sitename.
.org, and .net names registered to this day just for the potential piss off factor since they can't do a damned thing about it. Our Company folded 3 years ago at this point.
I still keep the
18 Young Hopefulls are given a chance to work with the Palpatine, at the end of Each episode one is chosen as Unworthy...at which point he is electrocuted to death, or has throat crushed by Vader.
...and Lucas will Die soon...someone (his Kids maybe) will find the hidden bok of star wars ideas (which I believe was once refered to as "The Book of the Whillis)...sell the rights to make new Star Wars Movies...then the Job will get turned over to people that would know how to make a good Star Wars Movie( Kevin Smith, Joss Whedon, Spielbergh, the entire creative team of Stargate SG-1, etc), give us our once promised 7,8,9 that he has backed away from...
...he did absolutely the right thing...anyone who took damage from him doing this deserved it...end of story.
...although it would never be the best.
1. Obtain connection into large pipe via inter-connect agreement
2. Connect via router(s) to ethernet media
3. String ethernet media throughout town, basically crating on giant lan. Line length can be delt with somewhat by having a hub/switch at each maximum extention.
It will never be fast for the long haul initial connections but once you are connected it should work out well..
disclaimer...I'm not serious...this would never actually work in any practical way.
Java sucks hard, everytime I have tried to use it, it's been more trouble than its worth. I know I know PHP and Java are not actually in the same category. However, the problem with Java is its damn slow, its not nearly as cross platform compatible as it would have you believe, its libs are a f***ing mess to say the least. There are other problems but I don't wish to details the laundry list.
Actually he doesn't need Star Wars he has actually had a very successful post stars career. Look at all the Voice work he has done. He had a huge run as the Joker in the Batman animated series. He is hurting in no way at all, for work...and with Star Wars Residuals...ha his Great Great grand children are set for life.
So with Yoda's Death I see the passing of Master to Luke...however who is the apprentice? Leia?
I suppose however we never see any of this she barely ever takes any account of her Jedi side in later books based in the Star Wars Universe.
UGH...that whole storyline turned my off to star wars books...
Yes he did....and Lucas passed him up on it...DUMB move!
Lucas is great at concepts and excellent at bringing his vision to life.
He should:
1. Write the conceptual story line of 7,8,9...Characters, motivations, plot points, over all story and back story...in short write himself 3 novels that tell the story of 7-9 (Yes I too would love to see the thrawn Trilogy Filmed, but I don't think thats what Lucas wants here)
2. Once done work with a REAL talented Known good screen writer(s) with proven results to develop a high quality script. Actually honestly if they were willing to do it Joss Whendon and/or Kevin Smith wouldn't be bad ideas.
3. Hand the directing job over to a another director, but stay involved in the production of movies technical aspects, Thats what Lucas is good at...Speilbergh, Chris Carter, or Kevin Smith would be good choices here.
4. Concentrate on story, NOT whizbang, and integrate back story more fully...there are still hanging questions in the Star Wars Trilogy that have never been resolved related to questions involved in the backstory.
5. Stop using the same tired old plot devices, they have been very repeatitive throughout the series now.
6. Live up to Fan expectation, there have been persistent rumors about various things in the Star Wars Community for years. Confirm them rather than shadow or ignore them.
...that the OCR market had died down...
I for one was encourged by the provious progress, but also fustrated by the still existant shortcomings of the software. Clear printed/type written documents still had a high rate of error (these were especially fustrating, was it un reasonable to expect letterquality reads to be nearly error free)...handwriting that was farly clear was getting there, but not quickly.
Perhaps the Voicedictation market has something to do with it, maybe the recognition rate and quality is higher than OCR and now people are just reading the documents in with voice Rec apps?