Do you sit in rapt attention during ad breaks on TV? Do you check other channels? Do you go get a drink? Do you fast forward through ads on recorded shows?
Advertisers have to accept that only a small portion of their ads are seen. If that is channel surfers or ad-blockers, so be it.
The market will find a way. TV has survived years of channel flippers. The internet will find a way as well.
If low power radio transmissions were so effective at blowing up these devices, why don't they just add a radio transmitter to the truck and drive it through the mine fields? Hell, climb into a foxhole and turn on a high power tranmitter before for a minute before you drive this thing around.
And the devices they are talking about are anti-personnel mines and the like. They don't have a huge range.
DSL is $40/month through Aliant, the phone company. Coverage is fairly good, into many small towns but not into the truely rural areas.
(don't know the speed -- it is plenty fast enough, downloads usually restricted upstream somewhere, but 250 kB/s typical download)
Rogers cable is about the same price/speed but they have a "light" which they claim is 3x dialup for about $30/month. Coverage is surprisingly broad, only the more remote rural areas are not covered.
It takes a day or two to get either installed. For DSL they deliver the modem, you install the phone filters and plug things in, then call them when you are ready.
I think it is actually the monopoly that allows them to get things done fairly quickly -- no interaction between phone/isp/DSL. The competition between DSL and cable keeps them both on their toes.
I start-up firefox so seldomly (always open, never turned off) that I never bothered to change my homepage from default. I had to start it a few minutes ago, and it came up with a blank page...waiting...
ding! November 9th. Slashdot still works, first article? Mozilla 1.0 released, mozilla.org getting hammered.
Can you kick a few UI designers at SAP? They seem to have totally failed at UI design.
If you don't use SAP daily, or don't have a step by step procedure in front of you, you are lost. I'd find it easier to type a manual SQL query than navigate through this miserable system.
Fortunately, (or unfortunately) I only have to use it every few weeks.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
"Any advertising is good advertising" fits this issue. I actually expect that Hormel would benefit from "You may not like spam, but don't be afraid to try SPAM".
Play with it, don't fight it. There is room for both.
OO.o works. I'm used to MSWord at work, and transitioning to OO writer is painful. It is about learning curve, not capabilities. I can do most things, but when I try some more complex things (e.g. sections) I cause myself pain.
I've never had a problem with basic spreadsheets. It does everything I need (which isn't much).
I use the presenter all the time. The only glitches have been in converting a ppt to it. For creation and display, it is great.
It isn't MS Office. Get over it. There is a learning curve to it, just like any other transition. It does what most people need. It does what *I* need.
If only they could get a database program with a decent front end. I ended up "finding" access because I couldn't get a free alternative for some fairly trivial stuff.
An extra grand to get you to the spaceport in, say, Caymen Islands, isn't going to matter much.
Overregulation in the US will just ensure that the business moves elsewhere. I'm sure that if they feel safe enough to carry passengers, they will feel safe enough to operate from a good airport elsewhere.
Just don't go to St. Maarten unless you want to land your spaceship on the beach!
I know I mentioned somewhere on 2001-09-11 that Tom Clancy should either be arrested or immediatly hired by the US gov't to gain insight into the terrorist mind.
I think the latter is more likely. They arrest Cat Stevens instead.
I don't believe in your arguement. If there is an alternative standard, people could switch to say, abiword, knowing that they can easily move their documents to OpenOffice.org if it doesn't do all they want. It is also an iterative process. The software will become better developed once it is picks up a larger user base.
An established standard will force microsoft to at least read it, though perhaps not write to it. I think that it would open a world of choice.
It would be more like Linux distros. You can have a bunch of them, all competing, but they are standard enough to be interchangeable without a complete change in business practice.
So, if I take my wi-fi enabled laptop to the control room of a nuclear plant, and the signal causes a plant trip to due super-sensitive electronics used to measure signals in pico-amps, the plant has no right to prevent the same thing from happening again?
Note that this is not an absurd situation. We have banned cell phones from the control room, and I've personally observed a handheld walkie talkie cause a trip.
But it is hypothetical as I'm in Canada and the same laws don't apply.
A nuclear plant putting out 200 milli-watts???? Assuming you missed your shift key, it is still way off base.
A typical nuclear *unit* puts out about 900 Mega-watts. A typical station has 2 or 3 units. There are very few units around the world that put out less than 500 MW.
As I'm working on a thinkpad 390X, I had to check my power supply. I can pick it up without burning my fingers (just), but it is the wrong part number. Phew!
Of course it doesn't make up for me charging Alkaline batteries in a NiMH charger yesterday, only to find "wet" batteries when I pulled them out. No overheating involved, just a good leak of very caustic goo into my charger. Disassembled and washed/scrubbed immediatly. Only visible effect are a shallow dent in the board where the acid sat, and a spot of nice shiny traces where it ate through the coating.
After that, I don't need a laptop adapter to go up in smoke!
We were hiring for a full time engineer, and our HR purson explained it to us like this: "All candidates are scored. If a male and a female score equally well and are both considered acceptable, then the female will be offered the position."
Not that complicated, not discriminatory. If the guy scores better, he gets the offer. Also note that the scoring was largely subjective -- there were plenty of opportunities to get the person you wanted.
I got burned by SpamCop this week. Someone sent out Viagra spam that appeared to be from the IP of my site. There were no complaints to my hosting company, but I couldn't send mail to a SpamCop user's domain.
My host looked things over, I looked things over, and we found no logical reason why the Spam appeared to originate at my site.
I'm still a little concerned about it, but the host isn't.
No less secure than ....
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No less secure than the Bagdad Internet Cafe, or the guy next to you at the bar. (oops, I forgot, this is the middle east)
The most important security is in the minds of the people connecting. Apply the same rules about what is on your computer to what you talk about to a civilian.
We put down solar cars because of their survivability, but we drive motorbikes!? Get real!
The issue here was far less about survivability than about control. He lost control. Was it inattention or a design flaw? We don't know, but controlability is far more important than survivability if you are going on the highway.
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Of course I click it!
(Right click / block image, that is)
Do you sit in rapt attention during ad breaks on TV? Do you check other channels? Do you go get a drink? Do you fast forward through ads on recorded shows?
Advertisers have to accept that only a small portion of their ads are seen. If that is channel surfers or ad-blockers, so be it.
The market will find a way. TV has survived years of channel flippers. The internet will find a way as well.
If low power radio transmissions were so effective at blowing up these devices, why don't they just add a radio transmitter to the truck and drive it through the mine fields? Hell, climb into a foxhole and turn on a high power tranmitter before for a minute before you drive this thing around.
And the devices they are talking about are anti-personnel mines and the like. They don't have a huge range.
DSL is $40/month through Aliant, the phone company. Coverage is fairly good, into many small towns but not into the truely rural areas.
(don't know the speed -- it is plenty fast enough, downloads usually restricted upstream somewhere, but 250 kB/s typical download)
Rogers cable is about the same price/speed but they have a "light" which they claim is 3x dialup for about $30/month. Coverage is surprisingly broad, only the more remote rural areas are not covered.
It takes a day or two to get either installed. For DSL they deliver the modem, you install the phone filters and plug things in, then call them when you are ready.
I think it is actually the monopoly that allows them to get things done fairly quickly -- no interaction between phone/isp/DSL. The competition between DSL and cable keeps them both on their toes.
I've had DSL for 5 years now.
/Almost had a job with them coming out of university many years ago.
I start-up firefox so seldomly (always open, never turned off) that I never bothered to change my homepage from default. I had to start it a few minutes ago, and it came up with a blank page...waiting...
ding! November 9th. Slashdot still works, first article? Mozilla 1.0 released, mozilla.org getting hammered.
Can you kick a few UI designers at SAP? They seem to have totally failed at UI design.
If you don't use SAP daily, or don't have a step by step procedure in front of you, you are lost. I'd find it easier to type a manual SQL query than navigate through this miserable system.
Fortunately, (or unfortunately) I only have to use it every few weeks.
And South America, and Africa, and Europe, and Australia, and don't forget the rest of North America.
Bush would get the vote of 15% of Canadians (McLean's poll), and we think most of them are in Alberta.
Soudi Arabia is firmly in the Bush camp. Funny thing is, so is Israel. Apart from that, it is pretty much an anti-bush world.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
"Any advertising is good advertising" fits this issue. I actually expect that Hormel would benefit from "You may not like spam, but don't be afraid to try SPAM".
Play with it, don't fight it. There is room for both.
We've talked browser stats here before, but this is likely more accurate than a poll:
57.36%: Mozilla
27.46%: MSIE
5.88%: Safari
4.23%: Opera
for me, Mozilla (Firefox) just works. It is ready for prime time, general use. We may be early adopters, but 57% is awesome!
Now that is valuable IP, and should be protected. Gaining that knowledge would advance their civilization by a thousand years!
OO.o works. I'm used to MSWord at work, and transitioning to OO writer is painful. It is about learning curve, not capabilities. I can do most things, but when I try some more complex things (e.g. sections) I cause myself pain.
I've never had a problem with basic spreadsheets. It does everything I need (which isn't much).
I use the presenter all the time. The only glitches have been in converting a ppt to it. For creation and display, it is great.
It isn't MS Office. Get over it. There is a learning curve to it, just like any other transition. It does what most people need. It does what *I* need.
If only they could get a database program with a decent front end. I ended up "finding" access because I couldn't get a free alternative for some fairly trivial stuff.
Overregulation in the US will just ensure that the business moves elsewhere. I'm sure that if they feel safe enough to carry passengers, they will feel safe enough to operate from a good airport elsewhere.
Just don't go to St. Maarten unless you want to land your spaceship on the beach!
I know I mentioned somewhere on 2001-09-11 that Tom Clancy should either be arrested or immediatly hired by the US gov't to gain insight into the terrorist mind.
I think the latter is more likely. They arrest Cat Stevens instead.
I don't believe in your arguement. If there is an alternative standard, people could switch to say, abiword, knowing that they can easily move their documents to OpenOffice.org if it doesn't do all they want. It is also an iterative process. The software will become better developed once it is picks up a larger user base.
An established standard will force microsoft to at least read it, though perhaps not write to it. I think that it would open a world of choice.
It would be more like Linux distros. You can have a bunch of them, all competing, but they are standard enough to be interchangeable without a complete change in business practice.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-9534e1b21b-1dfc9f9 595-01f1e218ff
So, if I take my wi-fi enabled laptop to the control room of a nuclear plant, and the signal causes a plant trip to due super-sensitive electronics used to measure signals in pico-amps, the plant has no right to prevent the same thing from happening again?
Note that this is not an absurd situation. We have banned cell phones from the control room, and I've personally observed a handheld walkie talkie cause a trip.
But it is hypothetical as I'm in Canada and the same laws don't apply.
A nuclear plant putting out 200 milli-watts???? Assuming you missed your shift key, it is still way off base.
A typical nuclear *unit* puts out about 900 Mega-watts. A typical station has 2 or 3 units. There are very few units around the world that put out less than 500 MW.
Michael (posting from a 680 MW nuke plant)
As I'm working on a thinkpad 390X, I had to check my power supply. I can pick it up without burning my fingers (just), but it is the wrong part number. Phew!
Of course it doesn't make up for me charging Alkaline batteries in a NiMH charger yesterday, only to find "wet" batteries when I pulled them out. No overheating involved, just a good leak of very caustic goo into my charger. Disassembled and washed/scrubbed immediatly. Only visible effect are a shallow dent in the board where the acid sat, and a spot of nice shiny traces where it ate through the coating.
After that, I don't need a laptop adapter to go up in smoke!
We were hiring for a full time engineer, and our HR purson explained it to us like this: "All candidates are scored. If a male and a female score equally well and are both considered acceptable, then the female will be offered the position."
Not that complicated, not discriminatory. If the guy scores better, he gets the offer. Also note that the scoring was largely subjective -- there were plenty of opportunities to get the person you wanted.
I got burned by SpamCop this week. Someone sent out Viagra spam that appeared to be from the IP of my site. There were no complaints to my hosting company, but I couldn't send mail to a SpamCop user's domain.
My host looked things over, I looked things over, and we found no logical reason why the Spam appeared to originate at my site.
I'm still a little concerned about it, but the host isn't.
No less secure than the Bagdad Internet Cafe, or the guy next to you at the bar. (oops, I forgot, this is the middle east)
The most important security is in the minds of the people connecting. Apply the same rules about what is on your computer to what you talk about to a civilian.
We put down solar cars because of their survivability, but we drive motorbikes!? Get real!
The issue here was far less about survivability than about control. He lost control. Was it inattention or a design flaw? We don't know, but controlability is far more important than survivability if you are going on the highway.
A $99 handheld GPS with a single waypoint in memory would make finding the target trivial.
Of course it would be smart to obscure that waypoint with a hundred or so red herrings.