So being poor means that the risks don't apply to you? Get stuffed. Everything in life carries the risk of getting burned and you had better well understand that these companies are not going to break the bank over securing a service that they are providing for free. The risks are going to be greater because they are going to care less about it than the pay services. As an investor they damn well better look out for maintaining an income flow. Anything else is not serious about being in business and ranks no higher than a glorified lemonaid stand.
There are plenty of people out there who won't get off the cigarettes or booze or whatever other distraction they have keeping them from using the money as investment towards something constructive like a formal education, a computer, or simply books. For those who are not in that category and are truly pushing upward, you have my sympathy, and I'm rooting for you. If you push forward all you can do is go up. If you invest in destructive ways all you can do is go down in flames and you have no sympathy from me at all. Don't get all commie on us.
Anyone running a Linux box can use hotwayd to access their Hotmail account through a POP client like Mozilla Mail. Since Mozilla has such fantastic junk mail filters, it easily gets the two or so messages that Hotmail's filter misses. I have mailing lists that I subscribed to through Hotmail, so keeping mail on their servers is not a viable option.
However, anyone running a business on one of these services is counting on the reliability of delivery, which you might not get if you ran your own domain off a DSL line. Reliability of storage is a totally different matter. Anyone running a medium business off Hotmail accounts deserves what they get. At that point they should get serious and look into at least a server closet with UPS, partial T1, etc.
out of many of the muggings near my school (U of I, Chicago), rarely do they ever result in violence
I'm sure that's very reassuring for those few cases where people's lives have been irrevocably turned inside out. So by your count they should be happy that statistically they are in a small club when they are raped or mugged.
John Blake today was arrested for humming Britany Spear's "Oops I did it again...again" in public. Standers-by were charged with second-degree music piracy after overhearing the tune. Authorities said that Blake's illegal reproduction of the song violated RIAA authorized laws requiring all music be played through DRM-enforcing players that plug directly into the brain. All involved will be given a copy of the music file and be fined 10x the value as punishment.
The RIAA chairman is quoted as saying, "It's punks like this that make enjoying music hard for the rest of us."
In other news, Kid Rock Jr's latest single, "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" has been declared today's top hit by the RIAA. Enjoy!
Especially when the criminal doesn't give a crap about the European Declaration of Human Right's "right to life" and ends yours. Maybe you can use that extra life you got when you hit 10,000 points to do it right the second time and kill them instead.
Oh wait, that's not going to happen. Maybe you should do it right the first time.
The person threatening your life had already made the decision that the situation was worth a human life. Rarely are they ever intelligent enough to understand that life may be their own. Since they are OK with that outcome, help them along their karma path.
Most of the people winning UFC championships are neither Tae Kwon Do nor boxing experts, but the grapplers. One they have their hands on you, boxing and kicking practica goes out the window. The best fighters will cross-train, but boxing is very high on that list. Check out some Bas Rutten boxing or thai boxing CDs for some basic training...it may be just enough to quickly defuse that next confrontation.
That depends on the GB you get for $150. Keep in mind that Microsoft can get insanely expensive in the realm of handhelds and tablet PCs, and this would be no different. Still, if they *really* want to spank Apple, I'll be glad to take one for really cheap so long as it played all formats without any stupid DRM-only type restrictions. I have a large CD collection that I've ripped and stored and don't want to go through that all over again because they want WMA-only. Otherwise, I'm springing for the iPod. Stay tuned.
When you have the amount of data you are talking about, you are not storing it on a single drive, but on some sort of RAID5 array. So long as that array supports hot spares and hot plug, like a Network Appliance box does, the system will automatically replace a failed drive from the spares spool and you can remove the failed drive to replace it with a good one. Storage eventually becomes a game of constantly juggling disks.
Beyond this, you have to worry about redundant acccess to the data at the same location (drives are OK, but system board dies), and redundant data in case of catastrophic loss such as natural disaster or terrorist attach. In the first case you would probably cluster, and in the latter case you would perform some sort of mirroring. If you are further serious about this, you of course have redundant data lines between locations (of multiple types - satellite, some T1s, DSL, etc) so you can guarantee the mirroring, and you cluster at each location.
Of course, none of the above will guarantee your data survives a comet strike, but perhaps someone will begin vaulting services on the bright side of the moon just in case.
There are tons of free solutions out there on the web that you can freely download for generating PDFs. PDFCreator (all apps - installs vitual printer) and Ghostview (office only) come to mind.
Just wait until a few more get lost and they freeze your account and start accusing you of stealing the movies and make you start an investigation through the post office that never gets anywhere. Bitter? Nah. I'm much happier now with my Blockbuster Freedom Pass and I cycle through movies more quickly than I could have with either Netflix or Walmart's by-mail service.
We have the right to pulp anyone who kills our people. Certainly anyone supporting those in any material fashion deserves the same asin that is no different than what an enemy country does in war. As Gandi said, "your right to swing your arms in my face ends at the tip of my nose" and these bastards have gone so so very much further than that with their box cutters and train bombs.
But how conveniently the original reason for war was forgotten after Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham palace, and flowers at the embassies. At least until 10/12/02 and 03/11/04.
No, my friend, it is you who will be fucked off the face of the earth to make room for people who have more respect. We do like it here in the US because it is so unlike the rest of the world's constant civil warring and revolution. So long as that continues to affect us or our allies, US troops will be right in your back yard ready to stick a daisy cutter up your ass. You spit on us merely because we are around to prevent you frlom committing your own atrocities on your women and weaker neighbors. Shame on you, coward.
Don't even try to bring up the trial of Slobodan Milosovic. The "international community" did NOTHING about the mess in Yugoslavia before US intervention (ordered by a pacifist president I might add) forced the issue. If it were not for us he would not be standing trial; he would be raping Muslims.
And we might add that the Europeans have had to go back into Kosovo recently because after the US left they let it all slip into such a big mess. Perhaps if they weren't the type that were more concerned about their three months of vacation a year it would have turned out better. They complain that in our own war on terror we are so sloppy that we have not found Bin Laden, but they recently abandoned their hunt for Radovan Karadzic.
withdrawing from Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and anywhere else which might have been "picked up" in the Spanish American war; etc.
Why stop there? Why not give back what the US took from Mexico and Canada and the Native Americans? Perhaps those nasty Russians, French, and Germans should give up the lands that they took from the Romans back in their Hun days and the Italians should in turn give that back to everyone they took that from. I'll let you go tell the Chinese that they have to give back lands that they took from neighboring nations.
What a great stupidity you have there! Realise that we are all destined to fight over the smallest scraps of land in perpetuity. We are all in each other's business because we are globalizing. Stay out of the world's business and the US will become a third-rate country. So long as someone doesn't like us buying rugs from some certain other place and they feel their people can't eat because of it (certainly not because they can't stop themselves from overbreeding without buying our condoms), then they will hate us. There are enough kooks that think Allah hates us because we don't buy their friggin rugs or whatnot, and are perfectly willing to sacrifice their lives in stiking at us. So long as these koos have that attitude, we must be ready to wipe them off the map. Maybe saying that we will nuke nuke nuke after we are struck is a little hasty. I have to admit that I am still amazed at the cooler heads that prevented the US from nuking someone, even after Putin told us that he would back us no matter what the response. I so wanted to see a mushroom cloud over Kabul! That cackling Palestinian woman the news outlets kept replaying pushed me further in that direction. Maybe we should just have nuke the Palestians instead and washed our hands of the whole overseas trip.
Perhaps this time we could just show everyone what a country really looks like when it goes ape shit and just nuke the whole lot of them and get past the negotiation round. Wouldn't that put Guantanamo into perspective? Saves from sending thousands of troops overseas to take care of people that their own country won't take care of, because frankly they aren't much less corrupt and disrespectful of human life. The blue screen of death has been up on the screen for a while now, so at what point do we stop staring at the screen and hit that reset button?
"Ooo! Ooo! Justice department! We tried really hard this time, but Microsoft squashed us again with their Media product. Even Europe is sanctioning them for including their media software in the OS, so they are bad bad bad. They even bundle a file manager with Windows XP!! No matter what we do we cannot tread water higher than a 2% market share with our computer systems. Surely it cannot be our pathetically L33t attitude or our grossly overpriced hardware that we absolutely refuse to license to people who would turn us into an overnight success. We even embraced UNIX so that the Linux people might fork over some cash, but we found out they were still downloading free OS CDs to load on their cheap cheap cheap Windows capable systems. Hear that?!!? Windows-capable!!! Wha wha wha, please help us against Dell and Rio and Creative and all their MP3 and WMA evils, too. We even tried giving away free songs...everyone loves a song...some of those songs were even about children playing with puppies. If only you would help us get 1400% of the music player market by forcing people to buy our iPod product we could cover our sad system sales. And maybe if you subsidized us through the welfare program alongside milk and cheese, we could be a corporate megalith."
Give up, Apple, and start fertilizing the good earth. The iPod life support system is being unplugged in 3... 2... 1...
Maybe the Trek folks were using the subvocal tech from the previous story to figure out who Picard was mumbling to himself about calling next. Might not explain Data, though.
Stuff like this makes me less likely to view these ads, especially when I have to spend an hour cursing the website and anyone related to anyone whoever worked there because my browser died with 10 active tabs.
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So being poor means that the risks don't apply to you? Get stuffed. Everything in life carries the risk of getting burned and you had better well understand that these companies are not going to break the bank over securing a service that they are providing for free. The risks are going to be greater because they are going to care less about it than the pay services. As an investor they damn well better look out for maintaining an income flow. Anything else is not serious about being in business and ranks no higher than a glorified lemonaid stand.
There are plenty of people out there who won't get off the cigarettes or booze or whatever other distraction they have keeping them from using the money as investment towards something constructive like a formal education, a computer, or simply books. For those who are not in that category and are truly pushing upward, you have my sympathy, and I'm rooting for you. If you push forward all you can do is go up. If you invest in destructive ways all you can do is go down in flames and you have no sympathy from me at all. Don't get all commie on us.
Anyone running a Linux box can use hotwayd to access their Hotmail account through a POP client like Mozilla Mail. Since Mozilla has such fantastic junk mail filters, it easily gets the two or so messages that Hotmail's filter misses. I have mailing lists that I subscribed to through Hotmail, so keeping mail on their servers is not a viable option.
However, anyone running a business on one of these services is counting on the reliability of delivery, which you might not get if you ran your own domain off a DSL line. Reliability of storage is a totally different matter. Anyone running a medium business off Hotmail accounts deserves what they get. At that point they should get serious and look into at least a server closet with UPS, partial T1, etc.
out of many of the muggings near my school (U of I, Chicago), rarely do they ever result in violence
I'm sure that's very reassuring for those few cases where people's lives have been irrevocably turned inside out. So by your count they should be happy that statistically they are in a small club when they are raped or mugged.
Dateline Jan 3, 2021:
John Blake today was arrested for humming Britany Spear's "Oops I did it again...again" in public. Standers-by were charged with second-degree music piracy after overhearing the tune. Authorities said that Blake's illegal reproduction of the song violated RIAA authorized laws requiring all music be played through DRM-enforcing players that plug directly into the brain. All involved will be given a copy of the music file and be fined 10x the value as punishment.
The RIAA chairman is quoted as saying, "It's punks like this that make enjoying music hard for the rest of us."
In other news, Kid Rock Jr's latest single, "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" has been declared today's top hit by the RIAA. Enjoy!
Then again, you guys have soccer hooligans there. Could be a bad mix.
Not an easy task in the Communist State of New Jersey, comrade.
Especially when the criminal doesn't give a crap about the European Declaration of Human Right's "right to life" and ends yours. Maybe you can use that extra life you got when you hit 10,000 points to do it right the second time and kill them instead.
Oh wait, that's not going to happen. Maybe you should do it right the first time.
Think of it another way...
The person threatening your life had already made the decision that the situation was worth a human life. Rarely are they ever intelligent enough to understand that life may be their own. Since they are OK with that outcome, help them along their karma path.
Most of the people winning UFC championships are neither Tae Kwon Do nor boxing experts, but the grapplers. One they have their hands on you, boxing and kicking practica goes out the window. The best fighters will cross-train, but boxing is very high on that list. Check out some Bas Rutten boxing or thai boxing CDs for some basic training...it may be just enough to quickly defuse that next confrontation.
When you're afraid of your iPod being lifted, it gives a whole new meaning to the idea of "music piracy."
That depends on the GB you get for $150. Keep in mind that Microsoft can get insanely expensive in the realm of handhelds and tablet PCs, and this would be no different. Still, if they *really* want to spank Apple, I'll be glad to take one for really cheap so long as it played all formats without any stupid DRM-only type restrictions. I have a large CD collection that I've ripped and stored and don't want to go through that all over again because they want WMA-only. Otherwise, I'm springing for the iPod. Stay tuned.
Could there be a bigger ripoff of the Fantastic Four than The Incredibles? Originality indeed.
When you have the amount of data you are talking about, you are not storing it on a single drive, but on some sort of RAID5 array. So long as that array supports hot spares and hot plug, like a Network Appliance box does, the system will automatically replace a failed drive from the spares spool and you can remove the failed drive to replace it with a good one. Storage eventually becomes a game of constantly juggling disks.
Beyond this, you have to worry about redundant acccess to the data at the same location (drives are OK, but system board dies), and redundant data in case of catastrophic loss such as natural disaster or terrorist attach. In the first case you would probably cluster, and in the latter case you would perform some sort of mirroring. If you are further serious about this, you of course have redundant data lines between locations (of multiple types - satellite, some T1s, DSL, etc) so you can guarantee the mirroring, and you cluster at each location.
Of course, none of the above will guarantee your data survives a comet strike, but perhaps someone will begin vaulting services on the bright side of the moon just in case.
Maybe not the same exact thing, but in concept this was covered a few weeks back when talking about RSS distributed via Torrent.
There are tons of free solutions out there on the web that you can freely download for generating PDFs. PDFCreator (all apps - installs vitual printer) and Ghostview (office only) come to mind.
Just wait until a few more get lost and they freeze your account and start accusing you of stealing the movies and make you start an investigation through the post office that never gets anywhere. Bitter? Nah. I'm much happier now with my Blockbuster Freedom Pass and I cycle through movies more quickly than I could have with either Netflix or Walmart's by-mail service.
We have the right to pulp anyone who kills our people. Certainly anyone supporting those in any material fashion deserves the same asin that is no different than what an enemy country does in war. As Gandi said, "your right to swing your arms in my face ends at the tip of my nose" and these bastards have gone so so very much further than that with their box cutters and train bombs.
But how conveniently the original reason for war was forgotten after Star Spangled Banner at Buckingham palace, and flowers at the embassies. At least until 10/12/02 and 03/11/04.
No, my friend, it is you who will be fucked off the face of the earth to make room for people who have more respect. We do like it here in the US because it is so unlike the rest of the world's constant civil warring and revolution. So long as that continues to affect us or our allies, US troops will be right in your back yard ready to stick a daisy cutter up your ass. You spit on us merely because we are around to prevent you frlom committing your own atrocities on your women and weaker neighbors. Shame on you, coward.
Don't even try to bring up the trial of Slobodan Milosovic. The "international community" did NOTHING about the mess in Yugoslavia before US intervention (ordered by a pacifist president I might add) forced the issue. If it were not for us he would not be standing trial; he would be raping Muslims.
And we might add that the Europeans have had to go back into Kosovo recently because after the US left they let it all slip into such a big mess. Perhaps if they weren't the type that were more concerned about their three months of vacation a year it would have turned out better. They complain that in our own war on terror we are so sloppy that we have not found Bin Laden, but they recently abandoned their hunt for Radovan Karadzic.
withdrawing from Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and anywhere else which might have been "picked up" in the Spanish American war; etc.
Why stop there? Why not give back what the US took from Mexico and Canada and the Native Americans? Perhaps those nasty Russians, French, and Germans should give up the lands that they took from the Romans back in their Hun days and the Italians should in turn give that back to everyone they took that from. I'll let you go tell the Chinese that they have to give back lands that they took from neighboring nations.
What a great stupidity you have there! Realise that we are all destined to fight over the smallest scraps of land in perpetuity. We are all in each other's business because we are globalizing. Stay out of the world's business and the US will become a third-rate country. So long as someone doesn't like us buying rugs from some certain other place and they feel their people can't eat because of it (certainly not because they can't stop themselves from overbreeding without buying our condoms), then they will hate us. There are enough kooks that think Allah hates us because we don't buy their friggin rugs or whatnot, and are perfectly willing to sacrifice their lives in stiking at us. So long as these koos have that attitude, we must be ready to wipe them off the map. Maybe saying that we will nuke nuke nuke after we are struck is a little hasty. I have to admit that I am still amazed at the cooler heads that prevented the US from nuking someone, even after Putin told us that he would back us no matter what the response. I so wanted to see a mushroom cloud over Kabul! That cackling Palestinian woman the news outlets kept replaying pushed me further in that direction. Maybe we should just have nuke the Palestians instead and washed our hands of the whole overseas trip.
Perhaps this time we could just show everyone what a country really looks like when it goes ape shit and just nuke the whole lot of them and get past the negotiation round. Wouldn't that put Guantanamo into perspective? Saves from sending thousands of troops overseas to take care of people that their own country won't take care of, because frankly they aren't much less corrupt and disrespectful of human life. The blue screen of death has been up on the screen for a while now, so at what point do we stop staring at the screen and hit that reset button?
"Ooo! Ooo! Justice department! We tried really hard this time, but Microsoft squashed us again with their Media product. Even Europe is sanctioning them for including their media software in the OS, so they are bad bad bad. They even bundle a file manager with Windows XP!! No matter what we do we cannot tread water higher than a 2% market share with our computer systems. Surely it cannot be our pathetically L33t attitude or our grossly overpriced hardware that we absolutely refuse to license to people who would turn us into an overnight success. We even embraced UNIX so that the Linux people might fork over some cash, but we found out they were still downloading free OS CDs to load on their cheap cheap cheap Windows capable systems. Hear that?!!? Windows-capable!!! Wha wha wha, please help us against Dell and Rio and Creative and all their MP3 and WMA evils, too. We even tried giving away free songs...everyone loves a song...some of those songs were even about children playing with puppies. If only you would help us get 1400% of the music player market by forcing people to buy our iPod product we could cover our sad system sales. And maybe if you subsidized us through the welfare program alongside milk and cheese, we could be a corporate megalith."
Give up, Apple, and start fertilizing the good earth. The iPod life support system is being unplugged in 3... 2... 1...
We really must insist that the aggie colleges start a remidial unit analysis class.
Would that be before or after remedial spelling?
Maybe the Trek folks were using the subvocal tech from the previous story to figure out who Picard was mumbling to himself about calling next. Might not explain Data, though.
Stuff like this makes me less likely to view these ads, especially when I have to spend an hour cursing the website and anyone related to anyone whoever worked there because my browser died with 10 active tabs.
Surely when we're in their backyard. =)