I precede all work related files with a date code. Today's is 20040414. That way no matter what OS I happen to be looking at my files in, I can sort them by date.
Of course if I'm in DOS, I can pretty much only have one file of each type every day.
well, the worst deal i've found on itunes has been.99 for a 4 second interlude track (janet jackson, i think).
As much as I loathe to even mention them in the same paragraph as Janet Jackson, I think Sonic Youth can do that one better. They released an album under the name Ciccone Youth called "The Whitey Album." On that album is a track called "Silence" and it is indeed about 63 seconds of silence. And, you can buy it on itunes as an individual track.
It could take forever. See, the problem is that Massachusetts can't order a store in New Hampshire to hand over anything. The state's authority kinda ends at the border.
Except that there's hardly any mom-and-pop single-state stores left. Most of the shopping options are huge public companies (Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, and the like). Those places do business in MA and it would be just a matter of twisting the laws in the right ways such that if they wanted to continue to do business in MA, they'd have to snitch on their customers who live in MA but buy in their NH stores.
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue is really interested in getting their hands on the sales tax on items purchased in tax-free New Hampshire. New England states are small, and NH is well within an hour's drive of a good chunk of the MA population. A lot of MA residents take advantage of that to head to NH to buy big ticket items like computers and TVs. If I drop $3K on a new HDTV, it's worth my time to head to NH and buy it up there and save $150 in sales tax. But if I put the thing on a credit card (and I'd be stupid not to given extended warranty services and the like), there's a database that the MA DOR can easily tap into.
On the MA income tax forms there's a space for "use tax" that you can fill out to tell the state what you bought out of state and how much owe them. How nice. My tax preparer said that she didn't have a single client all year that volunteered that information to the state.
How long before they can audit out-of-state store records to see if their citizenry have been shopping in NH and not volunteering to pay the tax?
They don't call this state "Taxachusetts" for nothing. It's no wonder people and jobs are leaving...
I predict the wackos at Enterprise Mission will have some far fetched explanation for it by the end of the day.
-S
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The late 80's to early 90's were a fun time for Amiga users. In college, it was Amiga vs. Mac vs. PC vs. Atari ST. The Amiga could do things those other machines could only dream about. There was a thriving online community dedicated to the thing. BBS's had tons of REALLY GOOD shareware available for it. And games? The Amiga was THE gaming platform of the time. PCs were for those who just wanted a glorified typewriter. But the Amiga was for those who really enjoyed computing.
Sigh...
The better technology doesn't always win in the end.
1) Set up slick website. 2) Set up a mirror of it in Taiwan. 3) Submit story to silicon.com and slashdot about how your website was "ripped off". 4) Watch the enormous number of hits rise as "outraged"/.'ers check your site out for the first time (many of which may like what you have and come back again in the future). 5) ???? 6) Profit!!
SCO Reponse: Damn... now they're using free speech against us! What shall we do?
Sue the goverment for the repeal of the First Ammendment on the grounds that it interferes with their business model.
The sad thing is that if SCO were a couple of orders of magnitude larger, the current administration would probably oblige them. Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
One 4:3, one widescreen, and one unedited version?
You know, since Lucas is do damn bent on giving us his ultimate vision for these movies, I find it incredibly strange that he'd be willing to just lop off the sides and release a 4:3 version at all. That move just reeks of hypocracy. He's willing to chop up his movies to appease those fans unwilling to live with black bars on their 4:3 TV sets but not willing to simply release un-messed-with versions? Spare me.
But one with actual life would - for scientific, and arguably for moral reasons - have to be quarantined.
Why? Who's to say that life in the universe relies on disturbances from afar. If there is / was intelligent life elswhere in the universe, who is to say that life on Earth didn't evolve because of some debris left behind by visitors billions of years ago.
Flowers rely on bees to disturb them in order to procreate. Perhaps the order of the universe relies on civilizations growing advanced enough that they spread their DNA to distant worlds.
If there's life on Mars are we supposed to leave it alone?
Although I was psyched about the pending release of High Definition TiVo, I must say that at a kilo-buck, it's a bit too expensive to be able to record the (limited) HD content that's out there. I already have a standard DirecTV/TiVo system along with a separate High Definition DirecTV/terresterial receiver.
I'm thinking the best solution for my "need to record HD" dilema might be to just get a HD capable PC. I know there are solutions out there now, but the ATI board might be a cost effective way to go. I realize that the only way I'm going to record DirecTV HD content is with the HD-TiVo, but to be honest the best content (save for Sunday Night Football) comes in over the air.
Plus, I like the idea of having a PC in my living room entertainment center. If I want to use the computer out there now, I have to drag out my laptop. The Gateway media center PC line has me interested. Not so much because of the media center aspect of it, but because they've designed it to look like the other components in a home theater rack. I've gone the DIY route before and the a) the thing still looked like a PC and b) the video recording technology wasn't quite there yet, and c) it was getting exceedingly expensive to make it quiet enough for the living room. A media center PC married up with an HD receiver card might get me where I want to go...
Though chances are I'll just cave and buy the HD-TiVo...
It would be real slick to be able to buy a downloadable archive of articles. I'd gladly cough up some bucks for that. Certainly a lot better (not to mention more environmentally friendly) than bopping down to your favorite ink and paper store to buy some overpriced tome on how to make web pages.
When I was a wee bit younger, my dad grabbed an old go-cart frame from the dump (refuse transfer station as they're now so called) along with a briggs and stratton horizontal shaft engine (which were hard to find since most engines came from lawn mowers and were vertical shaft) for me to put together and mess with.
Anyway, I was too young (and too cheap) to spend the $30 on a Sears centrifigal clutch. So I mounted the motor to a plate and pinned it in one corner. Then I hooked the the plate to a bicycle brake cable which was then hooked to the "gas" pedal. A couple of pulleys and a v-belt went between the motor shaft and the rear axle. Pushing on the gas pedal pulled the plate the motor was mounted on and tightened up the v-belt. Voila! Free clutch!
My youth was filled with all sorts of mechanical hacks like that. I wanted an actual suspension system in the Radio Flyer red wagon I used to ride down the hill on my street in. So I took the back wheel bracket off and mounted a couple of valve springs from a V-8 Ford between the bracket and wagon body. Didn't do much (those things were STIFF), but it looked cool as hell. I was the only kid on the block with a wagon with a raised suspension on it.
You know those Cox airplanes that had fly-by-wire control? You'd stand in the center with this two-wire hand control that would move the elevator up and down. You'd stand there spinning around and around until such time as you got dizzy and fell down, puked, or the plane ran out of gas.
Well, I got it in my mind that the plane didn't go nearly fast enough. So I went to the local hobby store and bought the biggest propeller I could find. The sucker was HUGE compared to the plane... maybe about 3/4 of the plane's wingspan. Some shims and a new prop-shaft later and I was in business.
Holy crap was that thing fast!!! My dad would have to launch it (couldn't ground launch it anymore because the landing gear was way to short for such a huge prop). Once it got going, I could barely keep spinning fast enough to keep up with it. The whole dizzy/fall/puke thing happened far quicker than the plane running out of fuel. It became a game of the kids in the neighborhood... see how long they could keep the plane in flight before falling down. The game didn't last too long though as it didn't take too many crashes for that monster prop to bite the dust.
Oh the joys of a 'ol Cox.049 glow plug engine. A blood blister on your finger from that damn spring starter was like a badge of honor. Do kids even play with stuff like that now?
How many times have you heard "Profits were up 50%!!!!!". Big whoop. On $1M sales, you make $1.00. Next year you make a buck fifty. Wow! Profits up 50%!!! You hear that kind of crap constantly and it means nothing.
Nuclear Elephant writes "The authors of two spam filters, CRM114 and DSPAM... If you're looking for a way to rid spam from your inbox, roll on over to one of these authors' websites."
I'm glad these guys are doing great things to combat spam, but when the submitter of the article stands to benefit from posting of the article on Slashdot, then full disclosure (not stealth disclosure) is warranted. No surprise that the "donate" link is right up at the top of their page.
Jonathan, don't get me wrong. I really appreciate what you're doing here. But failure to disclose your relationship of the project you're promoting is on the level (though not the same extent) as the deception that spammers employ.
This settlement was A Good Thing [tm]; it was designed to remove a distortion in the market.
The ending of price fixing is a good thing. The punshment for years of the practice, which netted the record companies billions, was completely unacceptible.
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I precede all work related files with a date code. Today's is 20040414. That way no matter what OS I happen to be looking at my files in, I can sort them by date.
Of course if I'm in DOS, I can pretty much only have one file of each type every day.
-S
As much as I loathe to even mention them in the same paragraph as Janet Jackson, I think Sonic Youth can do that one better. They released an album under the name Ciccone Youth called "The Whitey Album." On that album is a track called "Silence" and it is indeed about 63 seconds of silence. And, you can buy it on itunes as an individual track.
-S
No no... you got it backwards. It's Episode I that really really sucked. Episode II just really sucked.
If we're lucky, Episode III will just suck.
-S
May 20, 2005
-S
One can only hope that you're wrong.
-S
Except that there's hardly any mom-and-pop single-state stores left. Most of the shopping options are huge public companies (Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, and the like). Those places do business in MA and it would be just a matter of twisting the laws in the right ways such that if they wanted to continue to do business in MA, they'd have to snitch on their customers who live in MA but buy in their NH stores.
-S
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue is really interested in getting their hands on the sales tax on items purchased in tax-free New Hampshire. New England states are small, and NH is well within an hour's drive of a good chunk of the MA population. A lot of MA residents take advantage of that to head to NH to buy big ticket items like computers and TVs. If I drop $3K on a new HDTV, it's worth my time to head to NH and buy it up there and save $150 in sales tax. But if I put the thing on a credit card (and I'd be stupid not to given extended warranty services and the like), there's a database that the MA DOR can easily tap into.
On the MA income tax forms there's a space for "use tax" that you can fill out to tell the state what you bought out of state and how much owe them. How nice. My tax preparer said that she didn't have a single client all year that volunteered that information to the state.
How long before they can audit out-of-state store records to see if their citizenry have been shopping in NH and not volunteering to pay the tax?
They don't call this state "Taxachusetts" for nothing. It's no wonder people and jobs are leaving...
-S
-S
I predict the wackos at Enterprise Mission will have some far fetched explanation for it by the end of the day.
-S
The late 80's to early 90's were a fun time for Amiga users. In college, it was Amiga vs. Mac vs. PC vs. Atari ST. The Amiga could do things those other machines could only dream about. There was a thriving online community dedicated to the thing. BBS's had tons of REALLY GOOD shareware available for it. And games? The Amiga was THE gaming platform of the time. PCs were for those who just wanted a glorified typewriter. But the Amiga was for those who really enjoyed computing.
Sigh...
The better technology doesn't always win in the end.
-S
It burns! It burns!
Nope. April 1st isn't for another 18 days. Nice try though.
-S
1) Set up slick website. /.'ers check your site out for the first time (many of which may like what you have and come back again in the future).
2) Set up a mirror of it in Taiwan.
3) Submit story to silicon.com and slashdot about how your website was "ripped off".
4) Watch the enormous number of hits rise as "outraged"
5) ????
6) Profit!!
-S
Sue the goverment for the repeal of the First Ammendment on the grounds that it interferes with their business model.
The sad thing is that if SCO were a couple of orders of magnitude larger, the current administration would probably oblige them. Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
-S
You know, since Lucas is do damn bent on giving us his ultimate vision for these movies, I find it incredibly strange that he'd be willing to just lop off the sides and release a 4:3 version at all. That move just reeks of hypocracy. He's willing to chop up his movies to appease those fans unwilling to live with black bars on their 4:3 TV sets but not willing to simply release un-messed-with versions? Spare me.
-S
Why? Who's to say that life in the universe relies on disturbances from afar. If there is / was intelligent life elswhere in the universe, who is to say that life on Earth didn't evolve because of some debris left behind by visitors billions of years ago.
Flowers rely on bees to disturb them in order to procreate. Perhaps the order of the universe relies on civilizations growing advanced enough that they spread their DNA to distant worlds.
If there's life on Mars are we supposed to leave it alone?
-S
I'm thinking the best solution for my "need to record HD" dilema might be to just get a HD capable PC. I know there are solutions out there now, but the ATI board might be a cost effective way to go. I realize that the only way I'm going to record DirecTV HD content is with the HD-TiVo, but to be honest the best content (save for Sunday Night Football) comes in over the air.
Plus, I like the idea of having a PC in my living room entertainment center. If I want to use the computer out there now, I have to drag out my laptop. The Gateway media center PC line has me interested. Not so much because of the media center aspect of it, but because they've designed it to look like the other components in a home theater rack. I've gone the DIY route before and the a) the thing still looked like a PC and b) the video recording technology wasn't quite there yet, and c) it was getting exceedingly expensive to make it quiet enough for the living room. A media center PC married up with an HD receiver card might get me where I want to go...
Though chances are I'll just cave and buy the HD-TiVo...
-S
It would be real slick to be able to buy a downloadable archive of articles. I'd gladly cough up some bucks for that. Certainly a lot better (not to mention more environmentally friendly) than bopping down to your favorite ink and paper store to buy some overpriced tome on how to make web pages.
How about it guys?
-S
You mean "...and it's not abused yet in the way you suggest it would be."
Your sentence misplaced the word "yet".
-S
When I was a wee bit younger, my dad grabbed an old go-cart frame from the dump (refuse transfer station as they're now so called) along with a briggs and stratton horizontal shaft engine (which were hard to find since most engines came from lawn mowers and were vertical shaft) for me to put together and mess with.
Anyway, I was too young (and too cheap) to spend the $30 on a Sears centrifigal clutch. So I mounted the motor to a plate and pinned it in one corner. Then I hooked the the plate to a bicycle brake cable which was then hooked to the "gas" pedal. A couple of pulleys and a v-belt went between the motor shaft and the rear axle. Pushing on the gas pedal pulled the plate the motor was mounted on and tightened up the v-belt. Voila! Free clutch!
My youth was filled with all sorts of mechanical hacks like that. I wanted an actual suspension system in the Radio Flyer red wagon I used to ride down the hill on my street in. So I took the back wheel bracket off and mounted a couple of valve springs from a V-8 Ford between the bracket and wagon body. Didn't do much (those things were STIFF), but it looked cool as hell. I was the only kid on the block with a wagon with a raised suspension on it.
-S
You know those Cox airplanes that had fly-by-wire control? You'd stand in the center with this two-wire hand control that would move the elevator up and down. You'd stand there spinning around and around until such time as you got dizzy and fell down, puked, or the plane ran out of gas.
.049 glow plug engine. A blood blister on your finger from that damn spring starter was like a badge of honor. Do kids even play with stuff like that now?
Well, I got it in my mind that the plane didn't go nearly fast enough. So I went to the local hobby store and bought the biggest propeller I could find. The sucker was HUGE compared to the plane... maybe about 3/4 of the plane's wingspan. Some shims and a new prop-shaft later and I was in business.
Holy crap was that thing fast!!! My dad would have to launch it (couldn't ground launch it anymore because the landing gear was way to short for such a huge prop). Once it got going, I could barely keep spinning fast enough to keep up with it. The whole dizzy/fall/puke thing happened far quicker than the plane running out of fuel. It became a game of the kids in the neighborhood... see how long they could keep the plane in flight before falling down. The game didn't last too long though as it didn't take too many crashes for that monster prop to bite the dust.
Oh the joys of a 'ol Cox
-S
How many times have you heard "Profits were up 50%!!!!!". Big whoop. On $1M sales, you make $1.00. Next year you make a buck fifty. Wow! Profits up 50%!!! You hear that kind of crap constantly and it means nothing.
-S
I'm glad these guys are doing great things to combat spam, but when the submitter of the article stands to benefit from posting of the article on Slashdot, then full disclosure (not stealth disclosure) is warranted. No surprise that the "donate" link is right up at the top of their page.
Jonathan, don't get me wrong. I really appreciate what you're doing here. But failure to disclose your relationship of the project you're promoting is on the level (though not the same extent) as the deception that spammers employ.
-S
-S
The ending of price fixing is a good thing. The punshment for years of the practice, which netted the record companies billions, was completely unacceptible.
-S