Random laptop offshoot...
Whenever I put my laptop down, I always put it on it's side... fan unblocked, bottom not insulated, V shape fairly stable, easier to pick back up. Always just seemed the most logical way to place it. Not saying this is terribly unique... but always surprised by how many (mostly non-tech) people seemed disturbed by it... oh well.
-j
So, Gore in 2000, apathy 2004 to crackpot 2008... the voting record does show a clear progression seems the current state is Troll 2012. Good luck with that.
Can you explain the change in your views that moved you from each individual vote ? What did Kerry lack that Gore gave you ? From that middle ground of maybe just not voting cause your state wasn't contested... why then Ron Paul ? I don't dislike him... agree with some of his viewpoints even, but he is both out of sync with how things work today (the gold standard will never return... not saying we should have left, but the idea to go back is not feasible) and with the platform of the party of which he's a member.
So... please explain your political preferences in detail... I'm sure your 'friends' are not so much embarrassed by their politics... but your response is so predictable they just are taking the high road and not shouting things out with you.
Best of luck with the Troll 2016 Conf... might be time for Rand to ascend by that point.
I too agree with the height adjustable option. They're a little more expensive, but the ability to go from sit to stand or anywhere in between gives you a good deal of flexibility. More so than just a sit/stand option... but a "I'd like this just a tiny bit lower" distraction eliminator. I'd had a fixed desk that was just about 6" too tall for 10yrs or so... when it was finally time to buy a nice desk, that experience (and the general feeling that I would at some point be annoyed by the height of any fixed desk) made the adjustable feature a must have. I ended up going with geekdesk & would gladly buy from them again (quality + cheapest adjustable option I could find). I don't do sit/stand work & don't even adjust it all that often... but always pleased to have it as an option when I want to change things up.
I'll agree to stop hating them for 2-4yrs if they produce a consumer version (less than $200) of their laser mosquito killer... every year they don't though my offer decreases in span of hate absolution by six months finally settling at a max of 2yrs.
-j
That sounds like the best option to me too. Servers first, workstations as space allows (if you have more time than space you can pull the drives on the workstations to optimize storage). Screw the networking gear & the ip phones... but backup any config that may be associated with the devices. Also... take plenty of pictures of all the stuff, especially that being left behind. As for how to pack... if you don't have much supplies I'd try and store the machines/drives vertically to better deal with the truck ride (no data to back this up, just seems like they'd be less likely to have the drive heads tapping the disk platters that way).
ding ding. more or less what I came here to say and what other comments seem to reflect. headphones might not stand up against non-distracting sounds or silence... and if they're piping in pop music for tests i'm sure they might reduce your random number recall. but on a whole it's a study that doesn't reflect something a number of us have experienced to be true... if you want to deeply concentrate on something (writing code, or something else that often benefits from extreme focus)... tuning out one sense of the world around you with headphones - even if it's by blaring NIN - is better than the random whispers of conversations around you breaking your attention span. it's a moving target... no stimuli in an isolation tank, hallucinations; too much stimuli... seizure or ptsd (depending)... just right minus sound - some code that might require slightly less tweaking down the line (but probably some ptsd too).
I do home tech support for someone who works at what I assume is the same northeast hospital & was asked about this.
Requiring full disk encryption or anything that's on or connecting directly to the network seems reasonable for all the reasons stated above; it's their network, they have compliance obligations to meet & systems to protect, etc.
The part that gets me is the request to encrypt or install stuff on any machine connecting to webmail - seems to be a reaching a bit. If said hospital wants to provide webmail it's their choice, fair to assume they do it for their own goals of getting more out of their employees. If they're willing to lose the productivity... turn it off. Attempting to impose security requirements on end user machines for a web application is a fool's errand, you'll never get 100% absolute perfect security & you're gonna piss a lot of people off trying. Secure the web app as much as you want, but that's where your control ends.
No doubt the same thing is going to happen with Starcraft 2. Then we'll get to see it - South Korea will declare war on Blizzard! Talk about breaking boundaries.
As for ubisoft... think they'll decide to keep the new drm or not based on the outcome of the class action lawsuit that should be filed in 3...2...
How about just having the mouse over the password field causing plain text to be shown (maybe with a delay)... mouse outside = dots.
It's only annoying when X login failures results in your account being locked & you're stuck wondering if you had a typo in your dots. Would';t mind a countdown on that too ( you have # more chances before you;re locked out for 24hrs ).
Hi,
I don't think the cable modem should make a huge difference as the cable companies push a config (profile ?) to each modem setting the max upstream / downstream limits. When on cable I was never fortunate enough to be getting higher up/down speeds than paid for... but when I was being capped below my service plan I used this great tool: DocsisDiag to grab the config settings currently on the modem. Good info to have when arguing with tech support. Not sure how the profile would look for Comcast with speedboost... but it'd be interesting to that or the config from your modem with 25-28mbps.
-J
I know there always seems to be the sentiment around here that patents are evil... and those that hold them didn't really innovate & are trying to just litigate their way to the bank (ntp).
If ever there were a case though where I was glad to see a decision go in favor of a patent holder... this would be it. When Tivo was introduced - there really wasn't anything like it... and not only had they introduced a product that really changes the way you watched tv - their 1.0 product was truly amazing, a home run. The interface was intuitive, simple to use & highly funtional. Ever other dvr software I've seen pushed out by cable & satellite company have all seemed like a poor knock off built from some common (poor) framework. To the point where the functionality delivered by some of these dvrs really isn't much more than a tapeless vcr. If this decision happens to force echostar, directv, comcast, rcn and others to use Tivo hardware/software for the next few years - then I think in the long run the consumers will be winners... cause when the time comes and the patent does run out... people will be hooked on 'the good stuff' in the dvr universe & those companies will be forced to offer solutions which actually compete with tivo and drive innovation.
anyways... that's my 2 cents.
disclaimers: 1) while I talk about 'other dvrs' not being too great... I haven't seen too many. I can speak from experience that the comcast one sucks ass... and the directv-brand one seems to be build from a similar model (and reviews of it weren't too favorable). Anyways... having said that... replay tv did look like a valid competitor while it was around (RIP)... and the mythtv & freevo homebrews look great... 2) didn't mean to imply abouve that directv never had tivo... I know they do... I own a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTivo unit. Mainly just commenting on their new homebrew tivo replacements...
I can list many examples of this. The mouse, keyboard, screens, printers, windowing environment, The Internet, an Operating system and even a CPU and the IC chips, were at the time major conceptual steps forward.
Well... there's a sublte difference - all the things you describe are end products, tools which allow people to do things they couldn't do before - so valuable that they come to be considered as 'obvious'. In this instance though it's:
'using a database to look up a number before allowing a call to be placed' ='using a database to look up a value before allowing an action' ='checking a variable before allowing an action'
This just breaks down to an if/then scenario - just using the tools of the time, and for that matter it's using a tool (the db) in it's expected use case... to look up a value. Would you give me a patent if I used a hammer to put up a new type of dry wall ?
I guess I'm just saying that the tool is what deserves to be protected by patents... and maybe even the edge use cases the tool was not intended for. But if you think using a tool to do explicitly what it was designed to do (and just naming the variables) is worthy... then you're late... you need to go and catch the short bus to patent law school.
my idea for the other NFL/football game makers...
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It's simple... just make the teams/play configs loadable over the network!
PS/2 has a network adapter (built-in on the slim one) XBox has networking hell - even my Gamecube has ethernet, not that it's been used for anything sice I bought it. Every future console will have it too.
If you make team, player, league, etc. settings loadable over the network it won't take more than a week after the release for some fanatic to compile all the info and distribute it. This has the added bonus of giving all those historical players names... not just number & you can update it live over the course of the season for injuries, performance, etc!
Sure... if you do this well odds are they wouldn't buy your game next year since the new config would come out - but maybe that'll drive some real innovation... not to mention sticking it to EA who will charge through the nose for the next X releases of madden.
this isn't my story, but a friend of mine absent mindedly left his cell phone in his pants when he threw them into the wash... when he discovered what he'd done... figured the only solution was to then put the phone in the dryer. he's still using the same phone today. i think it's a samsung or maybe lg. anyways... his phone's tolerence is lightyears ahead of my craptastic motorola v600...
"If anything Fight Club is railing AGAINST this constant over acheiving for false goals, so it doesn't exactly support very well the "tough it out in school" idea."
I wonder what Raymond K. Hessel would have to say about that...
Since it seems that they don't give you a set 'limit' you went over... what would be the best way to track the amount you use ?
Specifically... I have a standard linux masquerading firewall setup using iptables, what would be the easiest way for me to track total up/down stream usage on an hourly/daily/monthly basis ?
Any good solutions for the windows users out there ?
How about for people using off the shelf linksys/netgear/etc. firewall/routers ?
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Random laptop offshoot... Whenever I put my laptop down, I always put it on it's side... fan unblocked, bottom not insulated, V shape fairly stable, easier to pick back up. Always just seemed the most logical way to place it. Not saying this is terribly unique... but always surprised by how many (mostly non-tech) people seemed disturbed by it... oh well. -j
So, Gore in 2000, apathy 2004 to crackpot 2008
Can you explain the change in your views that moved you from each individual vote ? What did Kerry lack that Gore gave you ? From that middle ground of maybe just not voting cause your state wasn't contested... why then Ron Paul ? I don't dislike him... agree with some of his viewpoints even, but he is both out of sync with how things work today (the gold standard will never return... not saying we should have left, but the idea to go back is not feasible) and with the platform of the party of which he's a member.
So... please explain your political preferences in detail... I'm sure your 'friends' are not so much embarrassed by their politics... but your response is so predictable they just are taking the high road and not shouting things out with you.
Best of luck with the Troll 2016 Conf... might be time for Rand to ascend by that point.
I too agree with the height adjustable option. They're a little more expensive, but the ability to go from sit to stand or anywhere in between gives you a good deal of flexibility. More so than just a sit/stand option... but a "I'd like this just a tiny bit lower" distraction eliminator. I'd had a fixed desk that was just about 6" too tall for 10yrs or so... when it was finally time to buy a nice desk, that experience (and the general feeling that I would at some point be annoyed by the height of any fixed desk) made the adjustable feature a must have. I ended up going with geekdesk & would gladly buy from them again (quality + cheapest adjustable option I could find). I don't do sit/stand work & don't even adjust it all that often... but always pleased to have it as an option when I want to change things up.
I'll agree to stop hating them for 2-4yrs if they produce a consumer version (less than $200) of their laser mosquito killer... every year they don't though my offer decreases in span of hate absolution by six months finally settling at a max of 2yrs. -j
That sounds like the best option to me too. Servers first, workstations as space allows (if you have more time than space you can pull the drives on the workstations to optimize storage). Screw the networking gear & the ip phones... but backup any config that may be associated with the devices. Also... take plenty of pictures of all the stuff, especially that being left behind. As for how to pack... if you don't have much supplies I'd try and store the machines/drives vertically to better deal with the truck ride (no data to back this up, just seems like they'd be less likely to have the drive heads tapping the disk platters that way).
-j
ding ding. more or less what I came here to say and what other comments seem to reflect. headphones might not stand up against non-distracting sounds or silence... and if they're piping in pop music for tests i'm sure they might reduce your random number recall. but on a whole it's a study that doesn't reflect something a number of us have experienced to be true... if you want to deeply concentrate on something (writing code, or something else that often benefits from extreme focus)... tuning out one sense of the world around you with headphones - even if it's by blaring NIN - is better than the random whispers of conversations around you breaking your attention span. it's a moving target... no stimuli in an isolation tank, hallucinations; too much stimuli... seizure or ptsd (depending)... just right minus sound - some code that might require slightly less tweaking down the line (but probably some ptsd too).
-j
it's 26^7 which is billions, not 10^7 (which 10mil, not the 1 mil written).
at least they didn't make it so that it could be read outside. imagine the economic destruction then.
I do home tech support for someone who works at what I assume is the same northeast hospital & was asked about this.
Requiring full disk encryption or anything that's on or connecting directly to the network seems reasonable for all the reasons stated above; it's their network, they have compliance obligations to meet & systems to protect, etc.
The part that gets me is the request to encrypt or install stuff on any machine connecting to webmail - seems to be a reaching a bit. If said hospital wants to provide webmail it's their choice, fair to assume they do it for their own goals of getting more out of their employees. If they're willing to lose the productivity... turn it off. Attempting to impose security requirements on end user machines for a web application is a fool's errand, you'll never get 100% absolute perfect security & you're gonna piss a lot of people off trying. Secure the web app as much as you want, but that's where your control ends.
-j
c'mon... no trailing slash ? kids today.
No doubt the same thing is going to happen with Starcraft 2. Then we'll get to see it - South Korea will declare war on Blizzard! Talk about breaking boundaries.
As for ubisoft... think they'll decide to keep the new drm or not based on the outcome of the class action lawsuit that should be filed in 3...2...
Baby procurement and liquidation is a costly and problematic endeavor to say the least.
You should stick with renewable resources you have at hand, maybe just use baby batter ?
How about just having the mouse over the password field causing plain text to be shown (maybe with a delay) ... mouse outside = dots.
It's only annoying when X login failures results in your account being locked & you're stuck wondering if you had a typo in your dots. Would';t mind a countdown on that too ( you have # more chances before you;re locked out for 24hrs ).
-J
Actually... I think that was a subtle request to return to the glory days of the tag. Nicely played.
anyone got an nzb for ATM Machine ?
Hi, I don't think the cable modem should make a huge difference as the cable companies push a config (profile ?) to each modem setting the max upstream / downstream limits. When on cable I was never fortunate enough to be getting higher up/down speeds than paid for... but when I was being capped below my service plan I used this great tool: DocsisDiag to grab the config settings currently on the modem. Good info to have when arguing with tech support. Not sure how the profile would look for Comcast with speedboost... but it'd be interesting to that or the config from your modem with 25-28mbps. -J
I know there always seems to be the sentiment around here that patents are evil... and those that hold them didn't really innovate & are trying to just litigate their way to the bank (ntp).
If ever there were a case though where I was glad to see a decision go in favor of a patent holder... this would be it. When Tivo was introduced - there really wasn't anything like it... and not only had they introduced a product that really changes the way you watched tv - their 1.0 product was truly amazing, a home run. The interface was intuitive, simple to use & highly funtional. Ever other dvr software I've seen pushed out by cable & satellite company have all seemed like a poor knock off built from some common (poor) framework. To the point where the functionality delivered by some of these dvrs really isn't much more than a tapeless vcr. If this decision happens to force echostar, directv, comcast, rcn and others to use Tivo hardware/software for the next few years - then I think in the long run the consumers will be winners... cause when the time comes and the patent does run out... people will be hooked on 'the good stuff' in the dvr universe & those companies will be forced to offer solutions which actually compete with tivo and drive innovation.
anyways... that's my 2 cents.
disclaimers:
1) while I talk about 'other dvrs' not being too great... I haven't seen too many. I can speak from experience that the comcast one sucks ass... and the directv-brand one seems to be build from a similar model (and reviews of it weren't too favorable). Anyways... having said that... replay tv did look like a valid competitor while it was around (RIP)... and the mythtv & freevo homebrews look great...
2) didn't mean to imply abouve that directv never had tivo... I know they do... I own a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTivo unit. Mainly just commenting on their new homebrew tivo replacements...
Well... there's a sublte difference - all the things you describe are end products, tools which allow people to do things they couldn't do before - so valuable that they come to be considered as 'obvious'. In this instance though it's:
'using a database to look up a number before allowing a call to be placed'
='using a database to look up a value before allowing an action'
='checking a variable before allowing an action'
This just breaks down to an if/then scenario - just using the tools of the time, and for that matter it's using a tool (the db) in it's expected use case... to look up a value. Would you give me a patent if I used a hammer to put up a new type of dry wall ?
I guess I'm just saying that the tool is what deserves to be protected by patents... and maybe even the edge use cases the tool was not intended for. But if you think using a tool to do explicitly what it was designed to do (and just naming the variables) is worthy... then you're late... you need to go and catch the short bus to patent law school.
It's simple... just make the teams/play configs loadable over the network!
PS/2 has a network adapter (built-in on the slim one)
XBox has networking
hell - even my Gamecube has ethernet, not that it's been used for anything sice I bought it.
Every future console will have it too.
If you make team, player, league, etc. settings loadable over the network it won't take more than a week after the release for some fanatic to compile all the info and distribute it. This has the added bonus of giving all those historical players names... not just number & you can update it live over the course of the season for injuries, performance, etc!
Sure... if you do this well odds are they wouldn't buy your game next year since the new config would come out - but maybe that'll drive some real innovation... not to mention sticking it to EA who will charge through the nose for the next X releases of madden.
Any takers ? ESPN Football 200x ?
not discovery health... least not that I saw. you're probably thinking of the Nova special, "Search for a Safe Cigarette".
There were similar products discussed in there... including the failed smokeless brand Premier and the current reduced smoke Eclipse.
this isn't my story, but a friend of mine absent mindedly left his cell phone in his pants when he threw them into the wash... when he discovered what he'd done... figured the only solution was to then put the phone in the dryer. he's still using the same phone today. i think it's a samsung or maybe lg. anyways... his phone's tolerence is lightyears ahead of my craptastic motorola v600...
"If anything Fight Club is railing AGAINST this constant over acheiving for false goals, so it doesn't exactly support very well the "tough it out in school" idea."
I wonder what Raymond K. Hessel would have to say about that...
SCO files suit today against Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, Cingular, Nextel, Audiovox, Handspring, Hitachi, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, NEC, Neonode, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, VTech...
Asked for a comment, SCO was quoted as saying "There's gotta be some blood in one of these stones."
"Microsoft pulls stick out of ass... finds it makes for better PR when carrot is tied to it"... I smell an innovation patent coming.
Since it seems that they don't give you a set 'limit' you went over... what would be the best way to track the amount you use ?
Specifically... I have a standard linux masquerading firewall setup using iptables, what would be the easiest way for me to track total up/down stream usage on an hourly/daily/monthly basis ?
Any good solutions for the windows users out there ?
How about for people using off the shelf linksys/netgear/etc. firewall/routers ?
-Steve