It's not really a matter of what one "believes", is it? I mean, either we change the climate and the ice caps melt or we don't. "Believing" one way or another is just ignoring the evidence before your eyes.
Got a great piece of real estate for you. It's in a "100-year flood plain" and it just flooded so you're safe for at least 100 years! Of course, it flooded in '94 and '98 as well, so who knows. Actually, take your pick of land in Houston - there's a bunch of houses going really cheaply right about now. And if you'll take one of those, then I've got a great used car to sell you, too!
My suggestions (as a user of multiple ISPs) would be to offer services such as:
shell-only accounts
static IPs
metered toll-free access
"free" email accounts
maybe email virus scanning at the server
Charge a nominal monthly rate for the first three. Lump the other two into your monthly cost. Of course you must have automated credit card billing.
Offer 24/7 toll-free tech support. Keep the call center well-staffed and don't punish/reward the support staff based on how long it takes to complete a call. Integrate the web and email support services. Setup a support evaluation survey that gives people points towards freebies if they complete the survey. Track this info like all hell. That costs a lot, obviously, but it'll be a very good selling point.
Your advantage over the Big Guys will come from offering services they don't offer at comparable rates with friendly, effective technical support. There's not much else to an ISP.
Try one of these! It's a 12,000 watt diesel generator made by honda. Not only can you watch TV in a hurricane (and microwave your li'l smokies - or hell do some metal artwork with an arc welder), but you can actually push power back onto the grid and get a paycheck from the light company each month!
Batteries are for pussies!
The pizza-box quadras are really cool. Sure you have to boot macos to run Penguin to load the kernel (AFAIK - anyone know differently? I've got 2 quadra 610 DOS machines - they have the '40s, I believe -i'm pretty new to mac land, let alone oldmac land...)
anyways, i don't know if there should have been a fan on the chip, but there wasn't when i picked them up (literally from the brink of being trashed) and they seem to run debian m68k just fine. Now, I've had a little problem with the seagate medalist 1 gig drives, but i think it's the drives, not the controller... and i haven't done x on em yet, right now they're just crunching work units for seti@home.
Anyways, you can find these things all day on ebay.
okay - in my fourth-day-of-wakefulness state i just realized that this isn't really an xterminal by any means - you could easily make it one, but you still have to boot macos.
BUT OTOH, it does seem to accomplish the same goals..
of course, there are plenty of modern mac's sans fans.
Does anyone remember sega channel?! this sounds like the same damn thing. man, sega channel rocked except that the games were not the best and the rotation brought the same games back around too often. but man, some games just kicked ass! Wow - much time spent on sega channel...
I live in Houston, where, it has been pointed out, we've all gotten accustomed to 10-digit dialing rather nicely. Unfortunately, my lusers keep entering the "area code" into their dial-up networking setups... it works fine if you give it all 10 digits in one little white box. Except for winfax, I think. I dunno. I don't support them anymore. We got another schmuck for that. But in any case, there's quite a bit of software that will need some petty tweaking to support this on a grand scale...
I think their priorities are a little mixed up. If I was going to be worried about english words infiltrating the vocabulary of my native tongue, then I would be trying to educate the children bilingually so that they would have a greater ability to express themselves in the language that most fits their thoughts. English is inevitable - for the time being at least, and it has a lot to offer by way of the expression of ideas. Just as much as most other well-developed and living languages (counterexample: vietnamese... what?! no VERB TENSES?!). I'm sure spanish has at least as many good points as english because it probably has at least as many dialects... that's probably a good indication that the language is alive and well, though I'm really rambling right now.
In any case, teach the children both. Give them the tools they need and they'll use them well.
Besides, last I heard "linux" wasn't really an english word...
Maybe his "source" was just a stupid asshole who didn't know the difference between linux and BSD code?
Why not a compromise?
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Okay, instead of fully networked, etc., why don't we transition into that while solving the problems at hand? (namely user interface and accuracy)
What I suggest is yes, some sort of dummy-gui electronic terminal, but still retain the punched ballots. Every ballot would have a unique ID number (not in any way tied to the individual, though). When placed in the polling booth, the booth would read the ID of the ballot and associate any choices made with that ID.
The voter would be presented with choices, given navigation options, etc. etc. (ability to increase font size?;) and of course asked to review and confirm his/her choices at the end.
When the last "submit" button is pressed, the booth (which is on a lan at the polling place, but not otherwise networked... yet...) would send the results along with the ID to a "server" - perhaps noting the results (w/ ID) on local media as well - but this would not be official.
The official ballot would be PRINTED OUT at the booth - perhaps it could just be "punched" like today's ballots are. The voter would take the punched ballot, fold it, and drop it in the voting box.
Results could be tallied as normal, but there's far less of a chance for mistakes - no chance of double-punching, far less room for fraud (because there's a way to double-check things w/ the digital information)
This would be (IMHO) a reasonable compromise at this juncture... hehe...
So the Conservatives collapsed, right? And I guess now you have the Reform party as an alternative to the Liberals, right? I won't pretend to be familiar with Canadian politics (bein' a Tex'n an' all... ya'll...), but I'll bet that the Reform party (as the alternative to the Liberals and as the eventual combination of the previous Conservatives and Reformers) supports more of the original Reform issues than did their Conservative predecessors.
So that's what us Greens are doing with the Democrats. We've had a succession of extremely poor Democratic leaders, the Democrats have lost sight of the issues which they originally supported, so you get the Greens - the somewhat "more extreme" Democrats (or more "traditional" Democrats, depending on how you look at it...)
So eventually, if the Democrats collapse and we get a truly progressive left-wing party, then we've won.
Your example only serves to show why splitting the Democratic party is more important than ever. A Bush victory will be difficult in the short term, but it will force the Democrats to pay attention to the important issues which they once fought for.
Nader is someone who has obviously fought for true Democratic/Liberal/Progressive/Leftist ideas - not for Parties, not for the Wealthy, and not for Big Businesses.
Buy rackspace from someone who has bandwidth/ip's to spare and administer your own domain. That's the only way... An ISP's margin of profit is so small that they don't usually "waste time" on such things.
Or go to a large university with a generous network setup.
Of course you should vote! Why? Go to www.votenader.org for a rather detailed list of them.
Even if you don't think Nader can win, that's not really the point. If he gets more than 5% this time around, he's guaranteed to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
...at least when it comes to retinal patterns. Any (well, most, I guess - I'm not an expert) damage that might be incurred to an eyeball by forcefully removing it would probably disrupt the retinal patterns enough to make any attempt to use an extracted eyeball for identification fail. (one of the many problems I had with the movie Demolition Man...)
Then there's voiceprint - but only for less secure stuff where there's very little chance of a high quality recording being made covertly.
Yes, for less hi-res scans like thumbs and palms, there's much room for dismemberment...
What kind of "fair shot" would you like? Your candidate wants to FILTER the internet, for christ's sake (assuming you're a Bush supporter). I like in Texas and, while a great state, I don't believe Herr Bush has much to do with that. And that's not to say I'm for Gore - Fuck him, too. Ralph Nader has my vote.
I was using (HA! Trying to use...) an r7100-c sdsl router for a PPTP VPN w/ MPPE-2 encryption and poptop on the linux side. It was the most unstable piece of trash that I've ever seen. And its NAT policies suck, too.
So now I use the r7100 for what it's primary purpose only - routing between the frame relay dsl link and the 10mb ethernet lan. On the internal side of the r7100 I have a p120 w/ 48 megs of ram, two 10/100 nics, and two modems (one to dial out if the internet explodes, and the other to let me dial in and fix things). I use vtun w/ ssl to create the vpn between the two offices and you know what? I haven't touched it for two weeks.
It's a helluva lot cheaper than anything you can buy from netopia (1 case/power supply, board, chip, ram, 520mb hd, floppy (optional), 2 nics, modems optional... very cheap) and it works beautifully.
Obviously (at least it seems obvious to me) DigitalConvergence is using Radio Shack's customer database - you know, when you're at the checkout at radio shack and they ask you for your address... I never gave them my real one... now I kind of wish I had! I might've gotten a cuecat in the mail!
Anyways - does giving away your address while paying for a purchase count as "requesting" or soliciting in any manner?
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It's not really a matter of what one "believes", is it? I mean, either we change the climate and the ice caps melt or we don't. "Believing" one way or another is just ignoring the evidence before your eyes.
Got a great piece of real estate for you. It's in a "100-year flood plain" and it just flooded so you're safe for at least 100 years! Of course, it flooded in '94 and '98 as well, so who knows. Actually, take your pick of land in Houston - there's a bunch of houses going really cheaply right about now. And if you'll take one of those, then I've got a great used car to sell you, too!
Charge a nominal monthly rate for the first three. Lump the other two into your monthly cost. Of course you must have automated credit card billing.
Offer 24/7 toll-free tech support. Keep the call center well-staffed and don't punish/reward the support staff based on how long it takes to complete a call. Integrate the web and email support services. Setup a support evaluation survey that gives people points towards freebies if they complete the survey. Track this info like all hell. That costs a lot, obviously, but it'll be a very good selling point.
Your advantage over the Big Guys will come from offering services they don't offer at comparable rates with friendly, effective technical support. There's not much else to an ISP.
Oh yeah, game servers, irc servers, news servers.
True, true...
Don't mess with that weak one I showed you... look at these and you can get a megawatt!
Try one of these! It's a 12,000 watt diesel generator made by honda. Not only can you watch TV in a hurricane (and microwave your li'l smokies - or hell do some metal artwork with an arc welder), but you can actually push power back onto the grid and get a paycheck from the light company each month! Batteries are for pussies!
The pizza-box quadras are really cool. Sure you have to boot macos to run Penguin to load the kernel (AFAIK - anyone know differently? I've got 2 quadra 610 DOS machines - they have the '40s, I believe -i'm pretty new to mac land, let alone oldmac land...)
anyways, i don't know if there should have been a fan on the chip, but there wasn't when i picked them up (literally from the brink of being trashed) and they seem to run debian m68k just fine. Now, I've had a little problem with the seagate medalist 1 gig drives, but i think it's the drives, not the controller... and i haven't done x on em yet, right now they're just crunching work units for seti@home.
Anyways, you can find these things all day on ebay.
okay - in my fourth-day-of-wakefulness state i just realized that this isn't really an xterminal by any means - you could easily make it one, but you still have to boot macos.
BUT OTOH, it does seem to accomplish the same goals..
of course, there are plenty of modern mac's sans fans.
oh well. back to dozing at work...
Does anyone remember sega channel?! this sounds like the same damn thing. man, sega channel rocked except that the games were not the best and the rotation brought the same games back around too often. but man, some games just kicked ass! Wow - much time spent on sega channel...
...Soul Calibur?!?!
Why, me of course!
I live in Houston, where, it has been pointed out, we've all gotten accustomed to 10-digit dialing rather nicely. Unfortunately, my lusers keep entering the "area code" into their dial-up networking setups... it works fine if you give it all 10 digits in one little white box. Except for winfax, I think. I dunno. I don't support them anymore. We got another schmuck for that. But in any case, there's quite a bit of software that will need some petty tweaking to support this on a grand scale...
I think their priorities are a little mixed up. If I was going to be worried about english words infiltrating the vocabulary of my native tongue, then I would be trying to educate the children bilingually so that they would have a greater ability to express themselves in the language that most fits their thoughts. English is inevitable - for the time being at least, and it has a lot to offer by way of the expression of ideas. Just as much as most other well-developed and living languages (counterexample: vietnamese... what?! no VERB TENSES?!). I'm sure spanish has at least as many good points as english because it probably has at least as many dialects... that's probably a good indication that the language is alive and well, though I'm really rambling right now.
In any case, teach the children both. Give them the tools they need and they'll use them well.
Besides, last I heard "linux" wasn't really an english word...
FYI, it's "plagiarised".
Maybe his "source" was just a stupid asshole who didn't know the difference between linux and BSD code?
Okay, instead of fully networked, etc., why don't we transition into that while solving the problems at hand? (namely user interface and accuracy)
;) and of course asked to review and confirm his/her choices at the end.
What I suggest is yes, some sort of dummy-gui electronic terminal, but still retain the punched ballots. Every ballot would have a unique ID number (not in any way tied to the individual, though). When placed in the polling booth, the booth would read the ID of the ballot and associate any choices made with that ID.
The voter would be presented with choices, given navigation options, etc. etc. (ability to increase font size?
When the last "submit" button is pressed, the booth (which is on a lan at the polling place, but not otherwise networked... yet...) would send the results along with the ID to a "server" - perhaps noting the results (w/ ID) on local media as well - but this would not be official.
The official ballot would be PRINTED OUT at the booth - perhaps it could just be "punched" like today's ballots are. The voter would take the punched ballot, fold it, and drop it in the voting box.
Results could be tallied as normal, but there's far less of a chance for mistakes - no chance of double-punching, far less room for fraud (because there's a way to double-check things w/ the digital information)
This would be (IMHO) a reasonable compromise at this juncture... hehe...
So the Conservatives collapsed, right? And I guess now you have the Reform party as an alternative to the Liberals, right? I won't pretend to be familiar with Canadian politics (bein' a Tex'n an' all... ya'll...), but I'll bet that the Reform party (as the alternative to the Liberals and as the eventual combination of the previous Conservatives and Reformers) supports more of the original Reform issues than did their Conservative predecessors.
So that's what us Greens are doing with the Democrats. We've had a succession of extremely poor Democratic leaders, the Democrats have lost sight of the issues which they originally supported, so you get the Greens - the somewhat "more extreme" Democrats (or more "traditional" Democrats, depending on how you look at it...)
So eventually, if the Democrats collapse and we get a truly progressive left-wing party, then we've won.
Your example only serves to show why splitting the Democratic party is more important than ever. A Bush victory will be difficult in the short term, but it will force the Democrats to pay attention to the important issues which they once fought for.
Nader is someone who has obviously fought for true Democratic/Liberal/Progressive/Leftist ideas - not for Parties, not for the Wealthy, and not for Big Businesses.
Texans for Nader!
coolnet has Shellz! Coolnet is pretty cool, I must say... Check out their helpdesk page to get an idea of how cool they are... hehehe...
Buy rackspace from someone who has bandwidth/ip's to spare and administer your own domain. That's the only way... An ISP's margin of profit is so small that they don't usually "waste time" on such things.
Or go to a large university with a generous network setup.
Even if you don't think Nader can win, that's not really the point. If he gets more than 5% this time around, he's guaranteed to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
Do the right thing - vote for Nader!
...at least when it comes to retinal patterns. Any (well, most, I guess - I'm not an expert) damage that might be incurred to an eyeball by forcefully removing it would probably disrupt the retinal patterns enough to make any attempt to use an extracted eyeball for identification fail. (one of the many problems I had with the movie Demolition Man...)
Then there's voiceprint - but only for less secure stuff where there's very little chance of a high quality recording being made covertly.
Yes, for less hi-res scans like thumbs and palms, there's much room for dismemberment...
What kind of "fair shot" would you like? Your candidate wants to FILTER the internet, for christ's sake (assuming you're a Bush supporter). I like in Texas and, while a great state, I don't believe Herr Bush has much to do with that. And that's not to say I'm for Gore - Fuck him, too. Ralph Nader has my vote.
The CPU shouldn't be the bottleneck - the bandwidth should be. I would hope that they're not running this thing on a 486sx/25 w/ 16mb of ram...
This is Sun we're talking about here...
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openoffice.org:/cvs co OpenOffice
Note the -z3
This will save a little on bandwidth...
I was using (HA! Trying to use...) an r7100-c sdsl router for a PPTP VPN w/ MPPE-2 encryption and poptop on the linux side. It was the most unstable piece of trash that I've ever seen. And its NAT policies suck, too.
So now I use the r7100 for what it's primary purpose only - routing between the frame relay dsl link and the 10mb ethernet lan. On the internal side of the r7100 I have a p120 w/ 48 megs of ram, two 10/100 nics, and two modems (one to dial out if the internet explodes, and the other to let me dial in and fix things). I use vtun w/ ssl to create the vpn between the two offices and you know what? I haven't touched it for two weeks.
It's a helluva lot cheaper than anything you can buy from netopia (1 case/power supply, board, chip, ram, 520mb hd, floppy (optional), 2 nics, modems optional... very cheap) and it works beautifully.
Off topic? Depends on the scope!
Obviously (at least it seems obvious to me) DigitalConvergence is using Radio Shack's customer database - you know, when you're at the checkout at radio shack and they ask you for your address... I never gave them my real one... now I kind of wish I had! I might've gotten a cuecat in the mail!
Anyways - does giving away your address while paying for a purchase count as "requesting" or soliciting in any manner?