I'd never heard of simplyhired.com, so I checked them out (since I got laid off AGAIN last week). I've already found several (non-blogging) jobs I'm going to apply for that I haven't found on other job boards.
One of the only things I really miss about ditching my contract job in Indianapolis and moving back to Michigan was listening to the Big Dumb Show on the drive to and from work. If this "radio" could make it easy to grab a chunk of show and listen to it while traveling, it could have potential.
So how long before upgrades make this "bionic eye" significantly better than a human eye?
I don't care so much about better than a human eye, I'd be happy with as good as a human eye.
I have 20/800 vision (correctable to 20/20) - roughly comparable to my being able to see clearly at the ten yard line with uncorrected vision what someone with 20/20 vision could see clearly from 3 football fields away. I am concerned about my eyes outright failing on me due to retinal detachment or other malfunction. I'm looking forward to the day when I can stop worrying about such things because the technology to replace the human eye exists. Heck, I might even give lasik surgery a try without fear of things going wrong:)
Yep, times have changed. Now, when we play, we have to play in a fairly clean living room with all the lights on, so when the kids come running through, they can see where they're going, and so we can scoop up any stray d4 caltrops before they roll over them:)
Paying Apple employees to break an agreement with Apple and leak Apple's trade secrets isn't a manifestation of "love"
FINALLY, someone gets it! This isn't about fansite's or blogger's "rights as journalists", this isn't about freedom of speech, this is about someone willing to violate a legally binding contract forbidding them from revealing trade secrets to outsiders, and someone else soliciting that violation.
Apple has been such a driving force in the industry in recent years due to their ability to innovate. When someone from inside the company leaks information, that innovation is threatened by the million and one companies clamoring to whip out a cheap knockoff of the latest Apple design.
It's not like these fan sites haven't gotten cease and desist orders for YEARS prior to this. It's not like they didn't know all about Apple's land sharks. The company known as Apple Computer is well within their rights to pursue these legal means to defend their rights.
Um, Apple deliberately killed off OS9 bootability years ago. You know, something about getting rid of support for that old obsolete OS in favor of the OS they're putting 100% of their effort into for the last three years or so... if you want to keep using your old (and I would assume, since it's so old) unsupported software, keep using your old machine. Nobody's stopping you. However, If you'd like to join the 21st century with it's promises of proper memory management, system stability, and all that, and all the cool new non-ADB/SCSI klunky old hardware, please enjoy your new system.
Mail server's disk fills up with spam, add new storage - $$$ Mail server bogs down trying to process all the incoming spam, add new server - $$$ New server still can't handle the spew, add a dedicated spam filtering device - $$$ Train / hire additional staff to manage anti-spam system - $$$ Upgrade network connection to handle the ever-increasing spew - $$$
and so on, and so on. It's not just the time metric, or the cost of the anti-spam software, there's a ton of other stuff involved.
You say you spend a minute a month deleting spam? How many messages is that in a month? What kind of filtering do you already have in place? I have an email account that I used to sign up for some contests and some mailing lists without having any sort of spam-busting in place, and even after auto-/dev/null'ing blatent spam with contents like "diploma", "pills", "mortgage" (and all the l33t derivatives), as well as any mail with html in it, I still receive hundreds of spams a day in that account.
Just having a bigger resolution isn't nessicarily a good thing. IMHO, Apple has a tendency to design an application interface around a screen resolution. Video apps like Final Cut Pro and Motion (based on my experience) have a particular interface that fits perfectly into a screen resolution that's just so. If you go for a much higher resoution, you might not be able to read some of the details in the interface, and with a lower resolution, it just won't fit on the screen (and in fact, may tell you that it just won't run at that setting).
Apple's online store has a "Special Deals" section where they sell refurbs. You can also try Smalldog - they're a pretty reputable reseller of older / refurb gear.
The "Bow, Nigger" piece may just be a blog, but it's a much better written piece than the vast majority of the blogs I've seen. It may be a bit light on the actual details of the game, but it told me a lot more than any commercial or screen shots on a web site have shown me. It showed a bit of not only the mechanics of the game, but the culture of the world it's created. I found it very insightful, and made me a bit more interested in playing the game.
Also, see: Worldcom. 2000?-2002. By the time I'd cut myself loose of them, they had laid over over 30% of their ENTIRE WORKFORCE. Worldwide. That number grew to (I believe) 50% by the end of 2002, from 80k employees to 40k - 17,000 employees purged during a sweep in 2002 alone. Heck, when I got laid off from the University of Michigan back in 2003, I was one of 500 that got the axe.
Sure, those 750 from AOL get my sympathy - I used to support their dialup network when I worked under the Worldcom banner - but I don't know if this qualifies as massive... unless there's fewer people working for AOL than I expect.
They already had one, years ago. It was called the Newton.
Back when I was working for ANS - err, UUNet - umm, WorldCom - I would download text files, convert them to Newton Book files, upload them to my trusty Newton 2100, and read away. I read The Hacker Crackdown while taking lunchtime walks, as well as afew RFCs.
The Newton's form factor would still be great for an ebook reader. There's still a small but rabid base of people still writing software for the Newton, including mp3 players, 802.11 support, and even a web server! Surely someone can be persuaded to come up with a modern book reader / creator package for the Newton.
The only problem with this is the pride of Steve Jobs. One of his first actions upon returning to the Apple helm was the killing of the entire Newton program, ostensibly as it was the baby of John Sculley, the man who had Jobs removed from Apple. Apple still has the rights to the name and the hardware, and the Inkwell software that's included with OS X supposedly came from the Newton handwriting recognition software, so I can't see a reason why this wouldn't be possible.
Then again, I'm a hopeless dreamer about seeing the best PDA platform in existance making a return to the market:)
Hey, don't knock it, that might actually work in today's X-Games crazy world... try and rope in some of the big names in to do some spots, CGI in the guys that can't pop the big tricks anymore, grab the songs that they've already put into umpteen video games, and run with it. Could be worse, could be Street Fighter - poor Raul Julia...
Can state anti-spam laws only be passed if states have been expressly granted the power to do so under CAN-SPAM? Or am I missing something?
There is a loophole that allows states to pass anti-spam laws providing they don't address activities already covered under CAN-SPAM. I don't recall the exact details at the moment, but I remember that much. Perhaps a NANAE regular can recall more than I?:)
Also, I believe that ligitation that started before CAN-SPAM went into effect was allowed to continue, which is how Virginia got to pack their boy away.
Guess what, there's millions of Windows users out there who don't know what an "SP2" is, or why they should care about it, or have a clue how to download such a behemoth over their 28.8 AOL dialup.
...if only I could afford to. $1500 for an iBook is a tad steep when you can get a P.O.S. HP or Dell laptop for $700, tops
?!? You'd settle for a (in your own words) P.O.S. Winbox when for $300 more you can get a "P.O.S." iBook? The top of the line 1.33 Ghz (with CD-RW/DVD-R) 14 inch iBook is $1499, while the 12 inch 1.2 Ghz iBooks are listed at the Apple Store new for $999 (with free shipping), or you can hit their "Special Deals" section and get a refurb 12 inch 1 Ghz iBook for $799... or a refurb 1.25 Ghz eMac for $649.
I've been contracting since May, after going 15 months without being able to get a job (not even at a mall or convenience store). I had access to medical right away, and 401k after 3 months - pretty sweet gig on the surface. The contract's been extended twice, and they seem willing to just let it ride for as long as I'll put up with staying on contract. The downside? The job's in Indianapolis, and my wife, kids, and house are just outside of Ann Arbor.
A point well taken in a previous post is keeping track of those expenses. As part of this gig, they kick in a little extra to cover room and board, so I've got a hotel I stay at during the week (this place has it's own T1, which is a nice touch). But still, four and a half hour drive home on Friday night, four and a half hour drive back to the hotel on Sunday night... every weekend for 6 months now. I wonder if the taxman will allow that wear and tear on the car as an expense.
Anyone remember a few months back when an airline pilot got hit in the eyes by a laser beam while flying? I wonder if that was a mis-fire of this thing, and they tried to cover it up.
There was an article in my church bulletin this week explaining how the Catholic Church actually does accept "in theory" the concept of evolution. I even managed to reationalize it myself back in grade school: if a million years is to God as a day, and a day as a million years... and the process of evolution took millions of years...
The book of Genesis even says (if I remember correctly) the first life forms created lived in the ocean, and then on the land... kinda how evolution played itself out. Our priest also takes great pains to point out that the Bible is not a history book, it's a book about how the Church *thinks* that things happened. So one methodology or the other could be horribly off and nobody would know:)
"At its core, radmind operates as a tripwire. It is able to detect changes to any managed filesystem object, e.g. files, directories, links, etc. However, radmind goes further than just integrity checking: once a change is detected, radmind can optionally reverse the change."
C) Apple realizes that a lot of people have large / enormous / OMGthatsalot cd collections that they'd like to carry around with them.
Between my wife and I, we've purchased enough cds over the years to use up about 8 gig of space on an iPod (based on my standard compression choice). Our collection is really small compared to a lot of people I know (i.e. we've got maybe 100 cds between us).
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I'd never heard of simplyhired.com, so I checked them out (since I got laid off AGAIN last week). I've already found several (non-blogging) jobs I'm going to apply for that I haven't found on other job boards.
No argument implied; just pointing out the existance of the other article in the same issue.
Of course, 18 gig of images is a bit much to ask of iPhoto, regardless of the type of machine you're using.
Their hardware / gadget guy also goes to the Mac side, but he doesn't have as pleasant an experience:
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http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/05230
One of the only things I really miss about ditching my contract job in Indianapolis and moving back to Michigan was listening to the Big Dumb Show on the drive to and from work. If this "radio" could make it easy to grab a chunk of show and listen to it while traveling, it could have potential.
So how long before upgrades make this "bionic eye" significantly better than a human eye?
:)
I don't care so much about better than a human eye, I'd be happy with as good as a human eye.
I have 20/800 vision (correctable to 20/20) - roughly comparable to my being able to see clearly at the ten yard line with uncorrected vision what someone with 20/20 vision could see clearly from 3 football fields away. I am concerned about my eyes outright failing on me due to retinal detachment or other malfunction. I'm looking forward to the day when I can stop worrying about such things because the technology to replace the human eye exists. Heck, I might even give lasik surgery a try without fear of things going wrong
Yep, times have changed. Now, when we play, we have to play in a fairly clean living room with all the lights on, so when the kids come running through, they can see where they're going, and so we can scoop up any stray d4 caltrops before they roll over them :)
Paying Apple employees to break an agreement with Apple and leak Apple's trade secrets isn't a manifestation of "love"
FINALLY, someone gets it! This isn't about fansite's or blogger's "rights as journalists", this isn't about freedom of speech, this is about someone willing to violate a legally binding contract forbidding them from revealing trade secrets to outsiders, and someone else soliciting that violation.
Apple has been such a driving force in the industry in recent years due to their ability to innovate. When someone from inside the company leaks information, that innovation is threatened by the million and one companies clamoring to whip out a cheap knockoff of the latest Apple design.
It's not like these fan sites haven't gotten cease and desist orders for YEARS prior to this. It's not like they didn't know all about Apple's land sharks. The company known as Apple Computer is well within their rights to pursue these legal means to defend their rights.
Um, Apple deliberately killed off OS9 bootability years ago. You know, something about getting rid of support for that old obsolete OS in favor of the OS they're putting 100% of their effort into for the last three years or so... if you want to keep using your old (and I would assume, since it's so old) unsupported software, keep using your old machine. Nobody's stopping you. However, If you'd like to join the 21st century with it's promises of proper memory management, system stability, and all that, and all the cool new non-ADB/SCSI klunky old hardware, please enjoy your new system.
Mail server's disk fills up with spam, add new storage - $$$
Mail server bogs down trying to process all the incoming spam, add new server - $$$
New server still can't handle the spew, add a dedicated spam filtering device - $$$
Train / hire additional staff to manage anti-spam system - $$$
Upgrade network connection to handle the ever-increasing spew - $$$
and so on, and so on. It's not just the time metric, or the cost of the anti-spam software, there's a ton of other stuff involved.
You say you spend a minute a month deleting spam? How many messages is that in a month? What kind of filtering do you already have in place? I have an email account that I used to sign up for some contests and some mailing lists without having any sort of spam-busting in place, and even after auto-/dev/null'ing blatent spam with contents like "diploma", "pills", "mortgage" (and all the l33t derivatives), as well as any mail with html in it, I still receive hundreds of spams a day in that account.
Just having a bigger resolution isn't nessicarily a good thing. IMHO, Apple has a tendency to design an application interface around a screen resolution. Video apps like Final Cut Pro and Motion (based on my experience) have a particular interface that fits perfectly into a screen resolution that's just so. If you go for a much higher resoution, you might not be able to read some of the details in the interface, and with a lower resolution, it just won't fit on the screen (and in fact, may tell you that it just won't run at that setting).
Apple's online store has a "Special Deals" section where they sell refurbs. You can also try Smalldog - they're a pretty reputable reseller of older / refurb gear.
The "Bow, Nigger" piece may just be a blog, but it's a much better written piece than the vast majority of the blogs I've seen. It may be a bit light on the actual details of the game, but it told me a lot more than any commercial or screen shots on a web site have shown me. It showed a bit of not only the mechanics of the game, but the culture of the world it's created. I found it very insightful, and made me a bit more interested in playing the game.
Indeed.
Also, see: Worldcom. 2000?-2002. By the time I'd cut myself loose of them, they had laid over over 30% of their ENTIRE WORKFORCE. Worldwide. That number grew to (I believe) 50% by the end of 2002, from 80k employees to 40k - 17,000 employees purged during a sweep in 2002 alone. Heck, when I got laid off from the University of Michigan back in 2003, I was one of 500 that got the axe.
Sure, those 750 from AOL get my sympathy - I used to support their dialup network when I worked under the Worldcom banner - but I don't know if this qualifies as massive... unless there's fewer people working for AOL than I expect.
Apple should invent an e-book reader.
:)
They already had one, years ago. It was called the Newton.
Back when I was working for ANS - err, UUNet - umm, WorldCom - I would download text files, convert them to Newton Book files, upload them to my trusty Newton 2100, and read away. I read The Hacker Crackdown while taking lunchtime walks, as well as a few RFCs.
The Newton's form factor would still be great for an ebook reader. There's still a small but rabid base of people still writing software for the Newton, including mp3 players, 802.11 support, and even a web server! Surely someone can be persuaded to come up with a modern book reader / creator package for the Newton.
The only problem with this is the pride of Steve Jobs. One of his first actions upon returning to the Apple helm was the killing of the entire Newton program, ostensibly as it was the baby of John Sculley, the man who had Jobs removed from Apple. Apple still has the rights to the name and the hardware, and the Inkwell software that's included with OS X supposedly came from the Newton handwriting recognition software, so I can't see a reason why this wouldn't be possible.
Then again, I'm a hopeless dreamer about seeing the best PDA platform in existance making a return to the market
Hey, don't knock it, that might actually work in today's X-Games crazy world... try and rope in some of the big names in to do some spots, CGI in the guys that can't pop the big tricks anymore, grab the songs that they've already put into umpteen video games, and run with it. Could be worse, could be Street Fighter - poor Raul Julia...
Can state anti-spam laws only be passed if states have been expressly granted the power to do so under CAN-SPAM? Or am I missing something?
:)
There is a loophole that allows states to pass anti-spam laws providing they don't address activities already covered under CAN-SPAM. I don't recall the exact details at the moment, but I remember that much. Perhaps a NANAE regular can recall more than I?
Also, I believe that ligitation that started before CAN-SPAM went into effect was allowed to continue, which is how Virginia got to pack their boy away.
Guess what, there's millions of Windows users out there who don't know what an "SP2" is, or why they should care about it, or have a clue how to download such a behemoth over their 28.8 AOL dialup.
And the Coral link:
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...if only I could afford to. $1500 for an iBook is a tad steep when you can get a P.O.S. HP or Dell laptop for $700, tops
?!? You'd settle for a (in your own words) P.O.S. Winbox when for $300 more you can get a "P.O.S." iBook? The top of the line 1.33 Ghz (with CD-RW/DVD-R) 14 inch iBook is $1499, while the 12 inch 1.2 Ghz iBooks are listed at the Apple Store new for $999 (with free shipping), or you can hit their "Special Deals" section and get a refurb 12 inch 1 Ghz iBook for $799... or a refurb 1.25 Ghz eMac for $649 .
I've been contracting since May, after going 15 months without being able to get a job (not even at a mall or convenience store). I had access to medical right away, and 401k after 3 months - pretty sweet gig on the surface. The contract's been extended twice, and they seem willing to just let it ride for as long as I'll put up with staying on contract. The downside? The job's in Indianapolis, and my wife, kids, and house are just outside of Ann Arbor.
A point well taken in a previous post is keeping track of those expenses. As part of this gig, they kick in a little extra to cover room and board, so I've got a hotel I stay at during the week (this place has it's own T1, which is a nice touch). But still, four and a half hour drive home on Friday night, four and a half hour drive back to the hotel on Sunday night... every weekend for 6 months now. I wonder if the taxman will allow that wear and tear on the car as an expense.
Anyone remember a few months back when an airline pilot got hit in the eyes by a laser beam while flying? I wonder if that was a mis-fire of this thing, and they tried to cover it up.
Doubtful that they'll do it, but you can always try WaMCom - a Mozilla build for OS9.
There was an article in my church bulletin this week explaining how the Catholic Church actually does accept "in theory" the concept of evolution. I even managed to reationalize it myself back in grade school: if a million years is to God as a day, and a day as a million years... and the process of evolution took millions of years...
:)
The book of Genesis even says (if I remember correctly) the first life forms created lived in the ocean, and then on the land... kinda how evolution played itself out. Our priest also takes great pains to point out that the Bible is not a history book, it's a book about how the Church *thinks* that things happened. So one methodology or the other could be horribly off and nobody would know
You might also want to take a look at radmind:
"At its core, radmind operates as a tripwire. It is able to detect changes to any managed filesystem object, e.g. files, directories, links, etc. However, radmind goes further than just integrity checking: once a change is detected, radmind can optionally reverse the change."
How about...
C) Apple realizes that a lot of people have large / enormous / OMGthatsalot cd collections that they'd like to carry around with them.
Between my wife and I, we've purchased enough cds over the years to use up about 8 gig of space on an iPod (based on my standard compression choice). Our collection is really small compared to a lot of people I know (i.e. we've got maybe 100 cds between us).