This sends a clear message FUCK OKLAHOMA! They've arrested a student for running a web server and other students for running a cat 5 cable. FUCK OKLAHOMA STATE! I believe all faculty with a conscience should quit and the students should withhold all payments to the school immediately. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE (courtesy Lars I'mRich)
"Our" community simply points out the obvious. CueCat, instead of building a business of eyeballs (redirects, ads, etc.) is building a data mine of "our" information, shopping habits, pages visited, etc. Digital Convergence is not running a legitimate business model. "Our" privacy must be respected. By building profiles of individuals, using unique equipment to link this data together, like the Processor ID of PIII's and the unique serial number of the cuecat, your privacy is invaded.
As far as iOpener is concerned, they should have made their product available on two pricing tiers, one with a net access contract, and the other without. Because once something is mine, its mine and I can do whatever the hell I want with it.
So don't blame "us" for "their" problems. "They" didn't have well thought-out business plans, and in the case of the DC, "their" business plan was downright shady.
List the value as $1. Flat. Then indicate that the item(s) you are shipping are "Scrap/Salvage". Done. THEN, insure the whole mess for the actual value. The CUSTOMS value will reflect that this is a scrap item, worth a standard amount. The INSURED amount will indicate the replacement cost for a WORKING unit? Cabish?
On one hand, the good private college I went to gave me an excellent primer in the humanities.
BUT I AM A GODDAMN TECHINICIAN LOADED DOWN WITH A $40,000 COLLEGE LOAN AND I LEARNED NOTHING OF VALUE AT COLLEGE THAT HAS EVER HELPED MY CAREER
E-Tailers are mostly American companies. The UK is always been a mirror of American laws concerning most facets of online business. This law is a good thing. Probably the first good law the schmucks in Washington have come up with since the moratorium on net taxes. But if anyone cares to remember, short-term memory types out there, the UK and France followed our lead with making e-signatures legal, a major turning point and the nail in the coffin for the USPS.
But they are feature rich. Noone said you have to use their NNTP, POP3 or anything else. I think they are about $14.95/month. The only ISP that expects you to read email on the mailbox they provide is AT&T Worldnet. The morons at AT&T use your email to communicate to you concerning billing concerns. My conversation went like this: "Hello, Why is my Internet connection down?" "You're account is past due" "Why didn't you get in touch with me?" "We did, via your Worldnet email" "Oh yeah, its real easy to read when cancel my account!" ---> Make a long story short AT&T sucks.
Assuming you get the machine operational, instead of having it do simple tasks, or act as a lab for the kids, set it up in the backoffice as a remote X server for the slower PCs and Macs that you might get in. With real horsepower in the backend, you can be running 486 and low end Pentium systems with highspeed throughput. You can also use Hummingbird on Windows clients for this purpose.
Are you a musician or studio engineer? If you are a studio engineer - GET USED TO NOISE IN THE CONTROL ROOM. Just get nice headphones are good close field monitors with a beefy amp. If your control room IS the studio - save your money on noiseproofing your equipment. You should be spending that cash on noiseproofing the studio. If you are a musician, what the hell are you doing screwing around with hard drives and stuff while you are recording? And why would you use a PC to record? Unless you a pro sound card (not SB Pro, a real professional) your sound quality will suck. Even top end SBLive's have shitty sound quality (in comparison with pro gear). Buy a Tascam DAT recorder.
No fan noise? Yes a peltier device would do it, but half of the device is cold, the other half hotter than hell. The excess heat pulled off of the processor is then added into the case. Which would then affect your chipset, hard drive and graphics card (first anyway). Then you have to consider is the powersupply. They all have fans, you need one for a 250watt step down transformer. So, again, what you are looking for is an iMac. Perhaps a laptop might also suit your needs.
Private communication via the internet to China would be possible, if it wasn't for Washington. Comeon, everyone knows that both parties are in Bejing's corner. And as long as China's wallet is open, our friends at 3Com, Bay, and Cisco are happy to set up all the privacy intrusion technology for the Great FireWall of China. The only way to communicate secretly is has been the only way. Only the medium has changed. For example: The weather in Bejing is stormy today. Meaning : The communists are going to kill demonstrators. Cabish?
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This sends a clear message FUCK OKLAHOMA! They've arrested a student for running a web server and other students for running a cat 5 cable. FUCK OKLAHOMA STATE! I believe all faculty with a conscience should quit and the students should withhold all payments to the school immediately. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE (courtesy Lars I'mRich)
"Our" community simply points out the obvious. CueCat, instead of building a business of eyeballs (redirects, ads, etc.) is building a data mine of "our" information, shopping habits, pages visited, etc. Digital Convergence is not running a legitimate business model. "Our" privacy must be respected. By building profiles of individuals, using unique equipment to link this data together, like the Processor ID of PIII's and the unique serial number of the cuecat, your privacy is invaded. As far as iOpener is concerned, they should have made their product available on two pricing tiers, one with a net access contract, and the other without. Because once something is mine, its mine and I can do whatever the hell I want with it. So don't blame "us" for "their" problems. "They" didn't have well thought-out business plans, and in the case of the DC, "their" business plan was downright shady.
List the value as $1. Flat. Then indicate that the item(s) you are shipping are "Scrap/Salvage". Done. THEN, insure the whole mess for the actual value. The CUSTOMS value will reflect that this is a scrap item, worth a standard amount. The INSURED amount will indicate the replacement cost for a WORKING unit? Cabish?
Technology isn't as esoteric as you can imagine. It is as esoteric as you can't imagine.
On one hand, the good private college I went to gave me an excellent primer in the humanities. BUT I AM A GODDAMN TECHINICIAN LOADED DOWN WITH A $40,000 COLLEGE LOAN AND I LEARNED NOTHING OF VALUE AT COLLEGE THAT HAS EVER HELPED MY CAREER
E-Tailers are mostly American companies. The UK is always been a mirror of American laws concerning most facets of online business. This law is a good thing. Probably the first good law the schmucks in Washington have come up with since the moratorium on net taxes. But if anyone cares to remember, short-term memory types out there, the UK and France followed our lead with making e-signatures legal, a major turning point and the nail in the coffin for the USPS.
But they are feature rich. Noone said you have to use their NNTP, POP3 or anything else. I think they are about $14.95/month. The only ISP that expects you to read email on the mailbox they provide is AT&T Worldnet. The morons at AT&T use your email to communicate to you concerning billing concerns. My conversation went like this: "Hello, Why is my Internet connection down?" "You're account is past due" "Why didn't you get in touch with me?" "We did, via your Worldnet email" "Oh yeah, its real easy to read when cancel my account!" ---> Make a long story short AT&T sucks.
Assuming you get the machine operational, instead of having it do simple tasks, or act as a lab for the kids, set it up in the backoffice as a remote X server for the slower PCs and Macs that you might get in. With real horsepower in the backend, you can be running 486 and low end Pentium systems with highspeed throughput. You can also use Hummingbird on Windows clients for this purpose.
Are you a musician or studio engineer? If you are a studio engineer - GET USED TO NOISE IN THE CONTROL ROOM. Just get nice headphones are good close field monitors with a beefy amp. If your control room IS the studio - save your money on noiseproofing your equipment. You should be spending that cash on noiseproofing the studio. If you are a musician, what the hell are you doing screwing around with hard drives and stuff while you are recording? And why would you use a PC to record? Unless you a pro sound card (not SB Pro, a real professional) your sound quality will suck. Even top end SBLive's have shitty sound quality (in comparison with pro gear). Buy a Tascam DAT recorder.
No fan noise? Yes a peltier device would do it, but half of the device is cold, the other half hotter than hell. The excess heat pulled off of the processor is then added into the case. Which would then affect your chipset, hard drive and graphics card (first anyway). Then you have to consider is the powersupply. They all have fans, you need one for a 250watt step down transformer. So, again, what you are looking for is an iMac. Perhaps a laptop might also suit your needs.
Private communication via the internet to China would be possible, if it wasn't for Washington. Comeon, everyone knows that both parties are in Bejing's corner. And as long as China's wallet is open, our friends at 3Com, Bay, and Cisco are happy to set up all the privacy intrusion technology for the Great FireWall of China. The only way to communicate secretly is has been the only way. Only the medium has changed. For example: The weather in Bejing is stormy today. Meaning : The communists are going to kill demonstrators. Cabish?