80% of all rebates are never redeemed. Now, common sense says that as the value of the rebate increases, so does the likelihood of redemption, but it doesn't increase as quickly as you might think. Throw in another roadblock (an incorrect rejection, etc.)and the number of actually redeemed rebates drops even further. It's not strictly a scam, but go in with your eyes open.
On a related note, while comparison shopping on yahoo, I found an outfit which sells stuff at way too high a price, but will rebate you the FULL PRICE of the item, minus shipping. We're not talking Sony Wegas, but lots of wal-mart sort of stuff. Haven't tried it, I'm just too timid. I guess their whole business model is "play the float"?
How would this stack up to the solid-state drives available here ? They use a standard SCSI interface, shouldn't require special drivers, and don't use up a slot.
Well, maybe not the very last. I bet it's upheld because of a conservative majority on the court and a general lack of regard for free speech by this court. And it will only get worse, I'm sure.
Let's remember, though, that freedom of speech is not an absolute, unabridgeable right. And we're not talking about tasteful, artistic, and explicitly non-sexual nudes of children, which are still legal in the US, though you take chances beause if the moron at Wal-Mart turns you in when you develop them and Officer Bubba arrests you for it, you spend your life savings defending pictures of your kid in the tub. The courts, the military, the executive and the legislature all have powers to curtail speech, not to mention the power to discourage it held by them and corporate america. Much to libertarians' chagrin and displeasure, almost all the rights granted in the constitution also have methods or power for revocation descibed in there, as well.
On another note, let's not split hairs about "children" and their associated sexuality. AFAIK, the pictures in question depict children and toddlers, NOT older teens who may or may not be legal depending on your jurisdiction.
The program is aimed at professionals working in the field, classes are in the evening and weekends. Very competent instructors, usually working in their field. They offer classes throughout their satelite campus system, in southern MD and Montgomery county, MD, and well as Baltimore.
This might also be useful for those working in virtual desktop environments often, such as VNC, windows terminal server, PC Anywhere, or even VMware. Some of these (mostly VMware, I think) require a hotkey to move the mouse between the various desktops. It might be useful to have a special pointing device which would be confined to a specific window or application, especially where the app required a special input device (say a 25-button mouse for CAD) which MIGHT not be as useful for the rest of your day. None of this is urgent as we all get our work done now, and as more of these specialty devices go USB and become hot-swappable, it might just be moot.
We have it here. The problem I run into (the only one, really) is the need to dial the "1" as a prefix for long distance. If I have to dial 10 digits anyway, why not eliminate the "1" for domestic calls and all my stuff, even the old stuff, will work fine without reprogramming.
Are there programs (and adapters for non-laptops) that let you use a remote control to send commands to your computer? Say to control audio or video playback. Please don't tell me about wireless keyboards or mice -- I'm talking standard remotes.
Many manufacturers make 100, 300, 500 CD jukeboxes for use with audio CDs. Is anyone making one with a data-out option or an ethernet port for remote control, etc? How about using the TOS-link fiber out to send data to the PC for reinterpretation?
Since this seems to be a single board computer without a disk, couldn't one plug a bunch of these into a passive backplane to create a pile of independent firewalls (not very useful for the home user, but useful for those in the ISP business)? These backplanes would also eliminate the concern over power dependency. Along these lines, the home user could grab a 2 or 3 slot backplane and a power supply and have a pc-power-independent solution.
Along these lines, can one take an SBC and plug it into an ISA or PCI slot on a regular MB to power a second PC from the first, inthe same case?
But NT's reputation precedes it here. Could it be that because of NT's stability issues, those users regularly reboot their boxes? Especially in a load-balanced or other redundant system, that could be done without affecting availability, which is the TRUE measure of a website's usefulness, not uptime.
The company I work for, ServerVault , does secure, managed hosting. Check the link for the specs, but we work closely with clients to do what they need done. Super secure and super redundant. We can put up a box to your specs., and maintain it at whatever level you like -- hands-off, or watch it like a hawk and apply every patch that comes out (this last isn't the usual case, esp. for customers running custom apps as these fixes usually require a reboot, and often break those custom apps). It's up to the customer what level of support they want. We have lots of multi-OS expertise in house, 24x7 monitoring, etc.
But I see far more far-reaching impact on any open source project that seeks to integrate with MS products. Anything that succeeds must have come from the stolen IP! Sue everyone who might be involved with such products and force them to defend themselves in court and prove they never saw the code. (Oh, I forgot, you cannot prove a negative.)
Oh, yeah, and we heard about this days after it was anounced that Excel and Word 2000 now work in WINE. Very interesting...
I have said often that if I could just get Outlook to run in linux, I'd have no use for an MS OS. Guess someone overheard.
ServerVault provides secure, managed server hosting. We host boxes (no shared or commodity hosting), and give people coming to the business now (prior to the super-redundant datacenter being operational) great pricing which will carry forward into the new facility which comes on line later this year. Not cheap, but reasonable for what you get, and for the price, you get LOTS of bandwidth.
What someone needs to do is build a case where the MB is turned around, and the externally accessible drives are mounted on the same side of the case as the ATX serial ports. Requires a redesign of the case, but shouldn't be too hard. Just flip the board around so the serial ports point toward the front, mount the CDROM and floppy on the same side, and move the HDDs and power supply to the new back.
Only drawback is the reduction of the number of available external drive bays. And the ugly. Now you have to look at the cables that so many people try so hard to cover up.
these lowly users whom you seem to fear for their ravenous appetite for bandwidth will quickly point out that They don't care what connectivity the corporations have, because they want to share things with their neighbors and friends.
Besides, Cisco et. al. will drive this into being whatever the elitist concerns, because while their hardware may be the backbone of the internet, once everyone has the bandwidth they need, the hardware doesn't break fast enough to keep them in business. The only way for them to sell more and more hardware is if there's a reason to upgrade.
While I'll agree that "fundie" would seem to take aim at those deemed at a loss for critical thought, the use of the letter X to take the place of the word CHRIST is only slightly less old than Chistianity itself. Those who decry the "secularization" of Christmas be its common abbreviation X-mas seem to have their history turned around. People are historically lazy, and the abbreviation (X for Christ) dates from the earliest Greek and Roman Christians. Christmas the holiday is actually much younger.
This falls into the same category as those who decry as semi-literate those who say "ax" for the word spelled a-s-k. It was pronounced "ax" for a long long time before being modified to ask sometime around the evolution of modern english (16th cty). People may indeed be using it to slander, or out of ignorance, but it does not mean they're wrong.
THe battery holder will probably have to fit into the visor-compatible connector, and thus requires more than your average battery adapter. Not cheap, but not ridiculous.
Isn't the modularity, and therefor the reuse of code at the root of this problem. Well engineered modules may work very well, but a great deal of care must be taken in the engineering of their reuse as well. It's the hidden or unexpected interactions between modules not originally written to work together (although designed to be reused and well documented) wherein lie particularly insidious bugs.
You will never again have so much time to devote to (pottery/photography/alcohol/porn/real math/SCA/insert your own pastime) again. Work is hard, and no matter how much you like what you're doing, it's work. Take the time to be a kid.
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80% of all rebates are never redeemed. Now, common sense says that as the value of the rebate increases, so does the likelihood of redemption, but it doesn't increase as quickly as you might think. Throw in another roadblock (an incorrect rejection, etc.)and the number of actually redeemed rebates drops even further. It's not strictly a scam, but go in with your eyes open.
On a related note, while comparison shopping on yahoo, I found an outfit which sells stuff at way too high a price, but will rebate you the FULL PRICE of the item, minus shipping. We're not talking Sony Wegas, but lots of wal-mart sort of stuff. Haven't tried it, I'm just too timid. I guess their whole business model is "play the float"?
How would this stack up to the solid-state drives available here ? They use a standard SCSI interface, shouldn't require special drivers, and don't use up a slot.
Nice performance, though.
Well, maybe not the very last. I bet it's upheld because of a conservative majority on the court and a general lack of regard for free speech by this court. And it will only get worse, I'm sure.
Let's remember, though, that freedom of speech is not an absolute, unabridgeable right. And we're not talking about tasteful, artistic, and explicitly non-sexual nudes of children, which are still legal in the US, though you take chances beause if the moron at Wal-Mart turns you in when you develop them and Officer Bubba arrests you for it, you spend your life savings defending pictures of your kid in the tub. The courts, the military, the executive and the legislature all have powers to curtail speech, not to mention the power to discourage it held by them and corporate america. Much to libertarians' chagrin and displeasure, almost all the rights granted in the constitution also have methods or power for revocation descibed in there, as well.
On another note, let's not split hairs about "children" and their associated sexuality. AFAIK, the pictures in question depict children and toddlers, NOT older teens who may or may not be legal depending on your jurisdiction.
Why all the work to inplant quadraplegics with transmitters so they could control a pointer on-screen? Just buy them a hat. It's a gimmick.
This is just a really expensive bio-feedback device, very likely a waste of money that parents who are desparate will try anyway.
JHU has a MS in CS program through their in the Whiting school of enginnering. They have reasonable pre-reqs in math and CS which they offer is you don't have them. 4 classes at undergrad level, 1 math and 3 CS (though you might need another math to be able to take this math). You needn't take them at JHU if you have equivalents from elsewhere (or could take them at a community college for less). They use Java, so one of the pre-reqs is an intro class for that (or c or c++ if you already have it), then a data structures class using java (hint: don't take them at the same time if you're new to java, you don't learn enough in one to keep up in the other at the same time.), and a systems software course. Math is 2 semesters of calc + 1 class BEYOND it. I don't think your stats class will count there, you probably need a diff eq class.
The program is aimed at professionals working in the field, classes are in the evening and weekends. Very competent instructors, usually working in their field. They offer classes throughout their satelite campus system, in southern MD and Montgomery county, MD, and well as Baltimore.
This might also be useful for those working in virtual desktop environments often, such as VNC, windows terminal server, PC Anywhere, or even VMware. Some of these (mostly VMware, I think) require a hotkey to move the mouse between the various desktops. It might be useful to have a special pointing device which would be confined to a specific window or application, especially where the app required a special input device (say a 25-button mouse for CAD) which MIGHT not be as useful for the rest of your day. None of this is urgent as we all get our work done now, and as more of these specialty devices go USB and become hot-swappable, it might just be moot.
Time to get out my sfx cd from ST:TOS. Guess there was a reason the bridge sounded like that!
We have it here. The problem I run into (the only one, really) is the need to dial the "1" as a prefix for long distance. If I have to dial 10 digits anyway, why not eliminate the "1" for domestic calls and all my stuff, even the old stuff, will work fine without reprogramming.
Still need to print new business cards, though...
Are there programs (and adapters for non-laptops) that let you use a remote control to send commands to your computer? Say to control audio or video playback. Please don't tell me about wireless keyboards or mice -- I'm talking standard remotes.
Sorry for my typo.
I'm an admin at and we do secure, managed hosting. BSD or Linux flavors, pretty much what the customer wants, running their code or someone else's. We'll work with clients to make their stuff work. We're finishing our new datacenter with extraordinarily redundant systems (power and network) and high security, but clients coming on now are getting deals since it's not quite online yet -- Check out the site, competent marketing people have done our company much better lip service there than I can.
Many manufacturers make 100, 300, 500 CD jukeboxes for use with audio CDs. Is anyone making one with a data-out option or an ethernet port for remote control, etc? How about using the TOS-link fiber out to send data to the PC for reinterpretation?
Since this seems to be a single board computer without a disk, couldn't one plug a bunch of these into a passive backplane to create a pile of independent firewalls (not very useful for the home user, but useful for those in the ISP business)? These backplanes would also eliminate the concern over power dependency. Along these lines, the home user could grab a 2 or 3 slot backplane and a power supply and have a pc-power-independent solution.
Along these lines, can one take an SBC and plug it into an ISA or PCI slot on a regular MB to power a second PC from the first, inthe same case?
But NT's reputation precedes it here. Could it be that because of NT's stability issues, those users regularly reboot their boxes? Especially in a load-balanced or other redundant system, that could be done without affecting availability, which is the TRUE measure of a website's usefulness, not uptime.
The company I work for, ServerVault , does secure, managed hosting. Check the link for the specs, but we work closely with clients to do what they need done. Super secure and super redundant. We can put up a box to your specs., and maintain it at whatever level you like -- hands-off, or watch it like a hawk and apply every patch that comes out (this last isn't the usual case, esp. for customers running custom apps as these fixes usually require a reboot, and often break those custom apps). It's up to the customer what level of support they want. We have lots of multi-OS expertise in house, 24x7 monitoring, etc.
But I see far more far-reaching impact on any open source project that seeks to integrate with MS products. Anything that succeeds must have come from the stolen IP! Sue everyone who might be involved with such products and force them to defend themselves in court and prove they never saw the code. (Oh, I forgot, you cannot prove a negative.)
Oh, yeah, and we heard about this days after it was anounced that Excel and Word 2000 now work in WINE. Very interesting...
I have said often that if I could just get Outlook to run in linux, I'd have no use for an MS OS. Guess someone overheard.
ServerVault provides secure, managed server hosting. We host boxes (no shared or commodity hosting), and give people coming to the business now (prior to the super-redundant datacenter being operational) great pricing which will carry forward into the new facility which comes on line later this year. Not cheap, but reasonable for what you get, and for the price, you get LOTS of bandwidth.
We've decided that the extremely technical aspect of DNA evidence is comprehensible by the general public, why not other tech?
Elitism. High-tech companies think that they'll get a fairer shake since the tech courts will be full of pro-tech people.
What someone needs to do is build a case where the MB is turned around, and the externally accessible drives are mounted on the same side of the case as the ATX serial ports. Requires a redesign of the case, but shouldn't be too hard. Just flip the board around so the serial ports point toward the front, mount the CDROM and floppy on the same side, and move the HDDs and power supply to the new back.
Only drawback is the reduction of the number of available external drive bays. And the ugly. Now you have to look at the cables that so many people try so hard to cover up.
these lowly users whom you seem to fear for their ravenous appetite for bandwidth will quickly point out that They don't care what connectivity the corporations have, because they want to share things with their neighbors and friends. Besides, Cisco et. al. will drive this into being whatever the elitist concerns, because while their hardware may be the backbone of the internet, once everyone has the bandwidth they need, the hardware doesn't break fast enough to keep them in business. The only way for them to sell more and more hardware is if there's a reason to upgrade.
While I'll agree that "fundie" would seem to take aim at those deemed at a loss for critical thought, the use of the letter X to take the place of the word CHRIST is only slightly less old than Chistianity itself. Those who decry the "secularization" of Christmas be its common abbreviation X-mas seem to have their history turned around. People are historically lazy, and the abbreviation (X for Christ) dates from the earliest Greek and Roman Christians. Christmas the holiday is actually much younger.
This falls into the same category as those who decry as semi-literate those who say "ax" for the word spelled a-s-k. It was pronounced "ax" for a long long time before being modified to ask sometime around the evolution of modern english (16th cty). People may indeed be using it to slander, or out of ignorance, but it does not mean they're wrong.
THe battery holder will probably have to fit into the visor-compatible connector, and thus requires more than your average battery adapter. Not cheap, but not ridiculous.
Well said, but...
Isn't the modularity, and therefor the reuse of code at the root of this problem. Well engineered modules may work very well, but a great deal of care must be taken in the engineering of their reuse as well. It's the hidden or unexpected interactions between modules not originally written to work together (although designed to be reused and well documented) wherein lie particularly insidious bugs.
Virginia passed a highly marked-up version of UCITA, Maryland is the one that rubber-stamped it.
You will never again have so much time to devote to (pottery/photography/alcohol/porn/real math/SCA/insert your own pastime) again. Work is hard, and no matter how much you like what you're doing, it's work. Take the time to be a kid.