begin rant- I went to California once on a vacation trip. I found thay had way too many fees for stupid things. Just to connect to a propane tank for filling is a $5 fee regardless of the size of the tank. I took a small 1 gallon tank for use with a lantern and stove. It cost about 1.20 to fill in Oregon (price of the propane at the time. It cost 6.10 to fill the same tank in California. I usualy travel with an empty tank for safety and fill near my destination. I don't do that on trips south anymore. I learned my lesson. Why would PC disposal be any diffrent? I expect to see them littering the roadside when they do that as people will just let them fall off the truck someplace instead of paying another fee./rant I know -1 troll -1 offtopic. However I think a fee like this may trigger illegal dumping of stuff. Goodwill will no longer take it. They can't pay to get rid of it for you.
Fear of being spammed by a company is the quickest way to scare away new first time buyers I can possibly think of. This is cost effective how? My online shopping has been about zero because of protecting my e-mail. I want it open for friends and family to keep in touch, not a cesspool that gets bulk emptied once a week.
It costs me WAY more to support a wife'n'kids. Ya goofed and eliminated one income. Try raising 2 kids without a spouse. That's two full time jobs for one income less daycare. Single working mothers is the largest poverty group. Two together, one working, supporting only one house instead of two is a much higher standard of living than having two houses from a divorce, seperation etc. and trying to support both households on one income. Two working and sharing one household is even better financialy. I am buying a house instead of renting. I get a multiple car discount on isnurance. We have only one heating bill, phone bill, etc., etc. It's a much higher standard of living on the same income.
It costs more to live alone. There is less shared expenses. When I was single and broke, I was driving a car with over 200K miles in poor mechanical shape. An older car that hasn't had a major brake job (wheel cylinders calipers drums/rotors turned etc) and just got pads replaced in the driveway after the rivits got too loud is a higher risk vehicle. Some people can not afford preventive maitenance. Some times the choice is insurance or tires. Insurance is mandentory. Tires can wait. They will replace a wheel cylinder or flexible brake line after it fails, not before. (been there done that. was lucky the park brake worked and not in heavy traffic.) Of course they need to charge for the higher risk. They raise the rates to cover the increased risk of poorly maintained cars. Thank goodness I'm no longer in that economic class anymore. I hate to say it, but I don't want to subsidise high risk vehicles on the road.
Shameless plug. North Country Radio has a very nice FM stereo synthesized transmitter kit that does this very nicely. Add a HAM 2 meter amplifier for the extra power if you want to break out of the milliwatt range. It may need retuned to the FM band. (check FCC first!) The link to the provider of the transmitter is here.
http://www.northcountryradio.com/
You can netcast. You just can't use someone elses IP without paying royalties. Do talk shows. Create your own content. Do call in shows. Get the students involved in the community. Use local talent. Record the student choir doing irish folk songs that are now public domain. Build a library. It can be done and is good for the students who are working on broadcasting. Subscribe to UPI and AP and do your own news.
Remember, a requirement is to prevent recording of the material by the end user. You will be required to encrypt your transmission to match the user key. There will be no multicast, recording etc. Check out the latest on the Microsoft Music Service. The player is free. It needs registered and is tied to the hardware it is installed onto. It can be installed into up to 4 devices that can play the same recording (desktop, laptop, pocket PC etc.) The recording will not work on any other device. Look it up. Read it and weep. It will not be webcast any other way. I did not download the free player. The registration requires a passport account. (Duh!) With it they will know where you are, who you are, and any borrowed music not directly D/L'ed from them (shared D/L) will not work.
The webcaster requirements can be most easly be met by Microsoft. Add the fact that end user recording is disabled in Microsoft software, the XP registration for location, and secure media player for tracking your billing. It will be simple to tie into your passport account and bill your charge card. Do you have your passport account yet? Microsoft will be the only one permitted to stream music as they are the only one that can meet the secure media path to guarantee you can pay to listen, but not record. Nobody else will have the clout to get the record companies to license the material for streaming. There will be no price competition. It will cost you more to compete.
I agree. I work in R & D for a chip manufacture. The total lack of hastles getting anything needed to get the job done is a great plus. If the laser printer is out of toner, no problem, there is two more on the shelf next to the paper. The printer supplies are restocked weekly. I have never had trouble finding paper, pens, notebooks, toner, etc. It makes the ability to produce product much better when you don't worry about having to beg for a pen. Overlooking these things in an office are the frustrations that Dilbert cartoons use. Having a clear objective and roadmap on how to get there is also a big plus. Having the roadmap change weekly is a big source of frustration for many people.
Additions to the system with any 3rd party upgrade has been severyly limited. This limits the systems value. I'll keep that in mind. It limits the value of the core product to a low level. I no longer see value in closed propritory systems. No thanks. I can vote with my wallet and not break the DMCA.
I can't report myself. I was given as a Handheld PC as a gift. It runs Microsoft Windows CE 3.0. I have the box, certificate, original disks, etc but I don't have a sales reciept for it. I could be in big trouble with the BSA for that! (it works great in the field for e-mailing photos off the compact flash memory from my camera) Anybody got Linux to run on a HP 680 Jordna yet so I can ditch Windows?
Ever seen an 10 year old party balloon? I thought not. After they go up, they do come down. I just don't want to hit the repeater and batteries at 540 MPH at 20,000 feet while climbing out of the overcast layer.
Would this be risky if hackers retrieved one? Think about it. All the PCS crypto IP delivered to your door. Do we want these out in the fields of America?
Anybody up to testing this? Do you have a spam mailbox to submit to DMA to see who harvests it? Please post the results here. This could be interesting for those with your own mailservers. Just list DMA@example.com and see what turns up.
Only when spamming gets to a puppet master It has.. Most consider e-mail as a useless novelty and refuse to use it as a total waste of time. They never see spam anymore. Don't believe me? E-mail someone and see if you get an inteligent response. Maybe, just maybe you will get some sort of generic reply from a flunkie in the office, but you won't get your congressman. I know I tried and only got bounced mail back. Box was full for several weeks. (David Woo from Oregon) I quit trying.
So who's mailbox are you asking slashdot users to bombard? Is this is a social engineering mail attack? Hmmm? I hope you are proud you figured a way to mailbomb someone.
I wish your graph would show the signal to noise ratio. Knowing the total amount of trapped spam is one thing. How about a graph of rejected next to a graph of accepted. Is your spam over 50% of your total mail load? Spam/user/day would also be interesting. Great graphs!
4. Ive heard of some walmarts not selling birth control in any form.. (I guess they want to decide who lives and dies) They also don't sell backhoes.. The gas station does not sell bicycles. So what. If you want birth control, go to a drug store. The inventory choice might not be driven by any factor other than keeping a low profile so even church people will shop there. It might not be a political statement. Their choice of inventory is left up to them and should not be driven by public opinion polls. It is a business. Maybe they want to be seen as the clean cut family shop on the block where you don't have to explain products to your 3 year old. They also don't sell adult magazines and videos. It's their choice. They do not claim to have every product made.
(In crackhouse terms, SPEWS reads police blotters, and if it stops seeing crime in a certain area, allows pizza delivery. I'm the crusty old Italian guy who says "No, you can't deliver to 48th street, it's a war zone, at least, it was the last time I tried to deliver a pie there sometime in 1996!") I still apply that to reality. If I hit a town with wild traffic traps (like getting a parking ticket at 2 AM while in the car!) I take that as a unwelcome sign and refuse to do business there again ever. Not everyone is ready to fully trust a part of town with a bad reputation right away. I've noticed 15 years later a large number of boarded up and empty retail space where I got the weird ticket. I won't consider returning until it's all plowed under and rebuilt nice shiny and new. People must return as a sign it's no longer a place to be robbed. Most all the reputable businesses moved 5 miles South into the next county. This is how real world slums and internet slums are created.
You price comparison does not jive. Look up a NMEA compliant Magellan GPS 315. The cheap Earthmate solution is the same price as a better NMEA standard GPS solution. Both solutions will require the purchase of optional external power/data cables to connect external power. The suggested retail price is $149.95. They are less on sale. (I got mine for $115.00) See http://www.gearreview.com/magellan315.asp
The magellan does not need to be outdoors for a good time signal. 3 + sats in view are not nessary for a time signal. I get a signal when I am within 5 feet of the window in my office.
The Earthmate is one of the lowest performing receivers out there. You need to put batteries in it. It's output is propritory, not NMEA standard. Pick a real GPS that can be powered remotely. Don't pick a solution that needs the batteries changed every 12 hours. If it breaks, it can't be replaced with any NMEA complient receiver without a software rewrite or hunting a brand specific receiver.
Be sure to get a pair that are the same polarization. You change polarization only when the signal is reflected. Same = line of sight. Oposite = bounced off a reflector or passive repeater.
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begin rant- I went to California once on a vacation trip. I found thay had way too many fees for stupid things. Just to connect to a propane tank for filling is a $5 fee regardless of the size of the tank. I took a small 1 gallon tank for use with a lantern and stove. It cost about 1.20 to fill in Oregon (price of the propane at the time. It cost 6.10 to fill the same tank in California. I usualy travel with an empty tank for safety and fill near my destination. I don't do that on trips south anymore. I learned my lesson. Why would PC disposal be any diffrent? I expect to see them littering the roadside when they do that as people will just let them fall off the truck someplace instead of paying another fee. /rant I know -1 troll -1 offtopic. However I think a fee like this may trigger illegal dumping of stuff. Goodwill will no longer take it. They can't pay to get rid of it for you.
Fear of being spammed by a company is the quickest way to scare away new first time buyers I can possibly think of. This is cost effective how? My online shopping has been about zero because of protecting my e-mail. I want it open for friends and family to keep in touch, not a cesspool that gets bulk emptied once a week.
It costs me WAY more to support a wife'n'kids.
Ya goofed and eliminated one income. Try raising 2 kids without a spouse. That's two full time jobs for one income less daycare. Single working mothers is the largest poverty group. Two together, one working, supporting only one house instead of two is a much higher standard of living than having two houses from a divorce, seperation etc. and trying to support both households on one income. Two working and sharing one household is even better financialy. I am buying a house instead of renting. I get a multiple car discount on isnurance. We have only one heating bill, phone bill, etc., etc. It's a much higher standard of living on the same income.
It costs more to live alone. There is less shared expenses. When I was single and broke, I was driving a car with over 200K miles in poor mechanical shape. An older car that hasn't had a major brake job (wheel cylinders calipers drums/rotors turned etc) and just got pads replaced in the driveway after the rivits got too loud is a higher risk vehicle. Some people can not afford preventive maitenance. Some times the choice is insurance or tires. Insurance is mandentory. Tires can wait. They will replace a wheel cylinder or flexible brake line after it fails, not before. (been there done that. was lucky the park brake worked and not in heavy traffic.) Of course they need to charge for the higher risk. They raise the rates to cover the increased risk of poorly maintained cars. Thank goodness I'm no longer in that economic class anymore. I hate to say it, but I don't want to subsidise high risk vehicles on the road.
Shameless plug. North Country Radio has a very nice FM stereo synthesized transmitter kit that does this very nicely. Add a HAM 2 meter amplifier for the extra power if you want to break out of the milliwatt range. It may need retuned to the FM band. (check FCC first!) The link to the provider of the transmitter is here.
http://www.northcountryradio.com/
You can netcast. You just can't use someone elses IP without paying royalties. Do talk shows. Create your own content. Do call in shows. Get the students involved in the community. Use local talent. Record the student choir doing irish folk songs that are now public domain. Build a library. It can be done and is good for the students who are working on broadcasting. Subscribe to UPI and AP and do your own news.
Remember, a requirement is to prevent recording of the material by the end user. You will be required to encrypt your transmission to match the user key. There will be no multicast, recording etc. Check out the latest on the Microsoft Music Service. The player is free. It needs registered and is tied to the hardware it is installed onto. It can be installed into up to 4 devices that can play the same recording (desktop, laptop, pocket PC etc.) The recording will not work on any other device. Look it up. Read it and weep. It will not be webcast any other way. I did not download the free player. The registration requires a passport account. (Duh!) With it they will know where you are, who you are, and any borrowed music not directly D/L'ed from them (shared D/L) will not work.
The webcaster requirements can be most easly be met by Microsoft. Add the fact that end user recording is disabled in Microsoft software, the XP registration for location, and secure media player for tracking your billing. It will be simple to tie into your passport account and bill your charge card. Do you have your passport account yet? Microsoft will be the only one permitted to stream music as they are the only one that can meet the secure media path to guarantee you can pay to listen, but not record. Nobody else will have the clout to get the record companies to license the material for streaming. There will be no price competition. It will cost you more to compete.
I agree. I work in R & D for a chip manufacture. The total lack of hastles getting anything needed to get the job done is a great plus. If the laser printer is out of toner, no problem, there is two more on the shelf next to the paper. The printer supplies are restocked weekly. I have never had trouble finding paper, pens, notebooks, toner, etc. It makes the ability to produce product much better when you don't worry about having to beg for a pen. Overlooking these things in an office are the frustrations that Dilbert cartoons use. Having a clear objective and roadmap on how to get there is also a big plus. Having the roadmap change weekly is a big source of frustration for many people.
Additions to the system with any 3rd party upgrade has been severyly limited. This limits the systems value. I'll keep that in mind. It limits the value of the core product to a low level. I no longer see value in closed propritory systems. No thanks. I can vote with my wallet and not break the DMCA.
I can't report myself. I was given as a Handheld PC as a gift. It runs Microsoft Windows CE 3.0. I have the box, certificate, original disks, etc but I don't have a sales reciept for it. I could be in big trouble with the BSA for that! (it works great in the field for e-mailing photos off the compact flash memory from my camera) Anybody got Linux to run on a HP 680 Jordna yet so I can ditch Windows?
Ever seen an 10 year old party balloon? I thought not. After they go up, they do come down. I just don't want to hit the repeater and batteries at 540 MPH at 20,000 feet while climbing out of the overcast layer.
Would this be risky if hackers retrieved one? Think about it. All the PCS crypto IP delivered to your door. Do we want these out in the fields of America?
Anybody up to testing this? Do you have a spam mailbox to submit to DMA to see who harvests it? Please post the results here. This could be interesting for those with your own mailservers. Just list DMA@example.com and see what turns up.
Only when spamming gets to a puppet master
It has.. Most consider e-mail as a useless novelty and refuse to use it as a total waste of time. They never see spam anymore. Don't believe me? E-mail someone and see if you get an inteligent response. Maybe, just maybe you will get some sort of generic reply from a flunkie in the office, but you won't get your congressman. I know I tried and only got bounced mail back. Box was full for several weeks. (David Woo from Oregon) I quit trying.
Great, more junk to track as it fails and starts to return. Hope the commercial aircraft can avoid all of it.
So who's mailbox are you asking slashdot users to bombard? Is this is a social engineering mail attack? Hmmm? I hope you are proud you figured a way to mailbomb someone.
Just like some spamming is illegal, but only if you get caught. ;-)
I wish your graph would show the signal to noise ratio. Knowing the total amount of trapped spam is one thing. How about a graph of rejected next to a graph of accepted. Is your spam over 50% of your total mail load? Spam/user/day would also be interesting. Great graphs!
The downside is getting a passport account also.
4. Ive heard of some walmarts not selling birth control in any form.. (I guess they want to decide who lives and dies)
They also don't sell backhoes.. The gas station does not sell bicycles. So what. If you want birth control, go to a drug store. The inventory choice might not be driven by any factor other than keeping a low profile so even church people will shop there. It might not be a political statement. Their choice of inventory is left up to them and should not be driven by public opinion polls. It is a business. Maybe they want to be seen as the clean cut family shop on the block where you don't have to explain products to your 3 year old. They also don't sell adult magazines and videos. It's their choice. They do not claim to have every product made.
(In crackhouse terms, SPEWS reads police blotters, and if it stops seeing crime in a certain area, allows pizza delivery. I'm the crusty old Italian guy who says "No, you can't deliver to 48th street, it's a war zone, at least, it was the last time I tried to deliver a pie there sometime in 1996!")
I still apply that to reality. If I hit a town with wild traffic traps (like getting a parking ticket at 2 AM while in the car!) I take that as a unwelcome sign and refuse to do business there again ever. Not everyone is ready to fully trust a part of town with a bad reputation right away. I've noticed 15 years later a large number of boarded up and empty retail space where I got the weird ticket. I won't consider returning until it's all plowed under and rebuilt nice shiny and new. People must return as a sign it's no longer a place to be robbed. Most all the reputable businesses moved 5 miles South into the next county. This is how real world slums and internet slums are created.
You price comparison does not jive. Look up a NMEA compliant Magellan GPS 315. The cheap Earthmate solution is the same price as a better NMEA standard GPS solution. Both solutions will require the purchase of optional external power/data cables to connect external power. The suggested retail price is $149.95. They are less on sale. (I got mine for $115.00) See http://www.gearreview.com/magellan315.asp
The magellan does not need to be outdoors for a good time signal. 3 + sats in view are not nessary for a time signal. I get a signal when I am within 5 feet of the window in my office.
The Earthmate is one of the lowest performing receivers out there. You need to put batteries in it. It's output is propritory, not NMEA standard. Pick a real GPS that can be powered remotely. Don't pick a solution that needs the batteries changed every 12 hours. If it breaks, it can't be replaced with any NMEA complient receiver without a software rewrite or hunting a brand specific receiver.
Be sure to get a pair that are the same polarization. You change polarization only when the signal is reflected. Same = line of sight. Oposite = bounced off a reflector or passive repeater.