No, because now you have 22x the maintenance costs (i.e. 22x as many to people to clean up after, attend to, print tickets for, provide bathrooms for, etc.) for the same profit. There's a point of diminishing returns. If half the price brings in triple the customer, then you might have something. But at this point, I think that's mostly a mathematical quibble.
Well as illistrated in the post to begin with.... part of cost cutting would be end users printing their own barcoded ticket. That point is moot. As far as 22x the maintance cost, well without food being sold that point is moot as well. Besides, cleanup is typicaly a fixed value for your average theater, based on how long it takes for 1 or two guys to shove a large broom across a room. Never have I seen a case where showtime has been delayed by an unexptected influx of people. In your ideal world, cleaning the seats doesn't mean cleaning just the seats people sat in, it means cleaning all the seats.
Yes, i'll agree the fact that maintaince costs likely be more with more people. That's a given. But many of health code required procedures for theaters, atleast where I live, require the same level of attention wether or not 1 or 100 sit in that theater. Your logic would hold true for stuff that is more difficult to just sweep away, such as soda, but i've never honestly seen a showtime delayed due to excessive soda being on the floor. But this this point is moot.
At Easycinema there is no popcorn stand, hot dog stall or pick 'n' mix concession. In fact, there is not even a box office. :P
There indeed is a constraint... which is why this system seems rather cool. As it seems to be web based, it should be rather easy to shuffle around people to match show times to maxamize seat filling. Besides, obviously the person doing this in the first place things that demand and supply would be profitable. Why not let the bugger try and see what happens.
As I already stated, at such a low fee of 33cents a flick, it's likely quit buying cable TV, and get some form of monthly subscription to the theater. I'd be more flexable as to when I saw films. Assuming a flick a day, that's roughly $10.00 monthly assuming.33 cents a flick.
Movies on the spir of the moment, $7.00
Movies getting shuffled through an onlue cue designed to maximize seats....33 cents.
As far as decrease in prices = decreased margins... I don't see that. If lowering prices results in proportionate demand without exceeding constraints... I see this as being good. If increased demand results in increased popcorn sales, I see this as being also good.
The "domino effect" you speak of is the competition of the free market. If a few theaters are drastically cheaper than the others, they will start to attract more business. The other theaters will all have to follow suit to maintain customers. The inevitable price war will whittle margins down to nothing
So, what you are saying is that studios are anti-free market and are creating an enviroment where artifical price fixing is the practice, and damned anyone who actually has an inovative way of presenting the media to customers breaking the traditional monopoly.
Pardon me if I don't agree with you on the whole.
I see movie piracy and bootleging being a very large thorn in the side of studeos. Why pay $7.00 when you can download freely. Right or wrong, this is becomming more common practice. It's not just Hong Kong anymore, I know localy I can pickup bootleg theater releases in not quite so mainstreem stores at $3.00 a pop.
These days, I don't see alot of movies in the theater. It's a budget thing... for the cost of one ticket, I can have two latte's. If the fee was cut in 1/2, i'd visit the theater more often. If the fee was cut by 1/4... i'd see even more movies. if the fee was cut by 1/8th, well now, i'd cancel my cable telivision subscription and go out and see a fucking movie.
Then there would still be a choice... something kinda subscription based... and the more traditional theater that you can often pickup tickets before the show, get some popcorn, and see a movie.
My logic is very simple... empty seats = lost income. So often are we tied to the belief of lowering prices too much would just be bad cause consumers would come to expect it. I imagine in retail this is why clothing is often destroyed rather then being given away for fear of apearing like you are some bargin basement. Heaven forbid actually lowering prices to actually move stock, that would be silly wouldn't it.
The belief that empty theater seats some how serves a higher purpose is equality silly. If it can be shown that you can create an equal or greater 22x demand for tickets by lowering prices for tickets by 1/22th, isn't it common sence. For the more traditional theater, heaven forbid lower ticket prices would create an increased demand for trivial things like popcorn.
I see prices as low as was 33 cents a film as a great means of actually getting people to see ye old silver screen again, rather then their home TV. I would easily see more then 22 films a year at that price. And hell, if they had a starbucks, i'd get an overpriced latté too!
The first time I saw an air conditioner was when I was 7 years old and moved to the east coast.
Dispite the pacific north west's relitivly low cost of electric... air conditioners are none too popular. I mean it would be kinda cool to have one in the car, and I plan to upgrade to having one in the future, but for the most part they are they are rare items to find.
For me, a large attic fan is most adquate for my cooling needs, though it wasn't quite enough when I was operating a sun 4/260 i'll tell you.
---- While this wouldn't nessicarly apeal to the apartment dweller, I saw something on telivision regarding terrestrial heating. basicly it went like this. Antifreese in copper pipes underground. In the summer time, ground temp in most enviroments is cooler then air temp, just flow water through system, blow air over radiator, radiator = heat. In winter, assuming ground temp is greater then air temp, same deal but just add a touch of heat. The idea was to lower heating bills.
Ok.. man has a vision of creating a profitable enterprise where users pay a small sub $1.00 fee to see a movie, and is willing to pay moolah for big name hollywood films.
This sounds terrific.
the "domino effect" I see is in order for such an enterprise to make a profit, many people will have to go see the movie, which given the cost this still sounds great
sooo... as a result... other theaters might actually have to lower ticket prices to attract more people
What's the big fucking deal?
More people watching the films is good... A strive to lower prices, if the number of people increases enough so profits don't decrease, sounds quite fab to me.
Furthermore, atleast in my little part of america, there is a drastic lack of things sub 21 year olds can do (legaly). Rather then wondering the streets causing trouble, they could catch a film on pocket change. Sure beats the park scene, hang out till the cops chace you away.
If I can catch a film at sub $1.00, then i'm far more likely to actually spend that $1.00 then download the matrix, a film that dispite it's popularity, i'd never pay usd$6.50 -> $7.00. But I'm curious enough to go see it for sub $1.00.
It sounds like this person has the answer to the pre-video release piracy problem.
Somewhere around here I have a compaq contura aero.. a whopping 486sx/33 with 4megs of ram. Sub standard sub sized screen that can't be used in the light of day, sub notebook.
In about 1993 or so, it was one among many sub $1000 notebook computers... pretty spiffy back then. I think I paid like $250 or mine at some point, as it was a 486 sx after all.
In 2003, it is a hunk of junk, not worth my bother and effort to get more ram to make a basic linux install bearable, but never the less the unit did have some charm to it at the time.
But I saw the areo being a good thing, dispite it obvious flaws. While it didn't change the world, it was indeed an afordable laptop.
This is the problem that I see with any sorta budget solution, esp with laptops. A simple lack of standardization tends to make them not nessicarly the best option in the PC world. Though, goverment sponcered involement in actually laying down the specifications for a people's laptop could actually change this, i'd hope.
While yes a celeron 800 is indeed substantal, there will always been a need to upgrade at some point, if Thailand actually thought about this, and actually demanded future expantion in the form of motherboard removal and replacement, I can see this as being increadabily cool. Dispite the fact that my laptop has it's issues, i'd invest a few bucks in a motherboard upgrade if it was a viable option, dispite it crappy sub sized screen.
The linux side of things, well i'm not all that sure it will pan out the way we expect. Older slashdot artical said something about the "war" between microsoft and linux, and in cases where it looks like microsoft might loose to linux, they would give away licenses. Don't get me wrong, I hope that Thailand would beable to say to the world, "Fuck you, we don't pirate anymore, we're using this free thing over here".
I have to admit, having a heads up display in my car sounds pretty spiffy. No longer will I have to look down to see my speed, nor check my idiot lights. All I would need to do is refocus my eyes to check the speed, or perhaps I could train my self to see the blur as i'm actually looking at the road.
I also see the practical application of being able to place transparent screen tech in things like windows, eliminating the bulky television and monitors we presently use. Imagine not having to find a place for your entertainment system, it's embeded into your house / apartment already, assuming you actually have a window.
But for entertainment value, it's got to beable to go opaque. Can't be watching star trek(tm) on your window and get distracted by a bird flying by, let alone letting your neighbors watch what ever you are watching. Anyone who's played with a genlock can speak about how distracting it can be.
But for practical entertainment, transparent isn't quite so keen. Pie charts and bar graphs wouldn't be a problem. Reading loads of text on the other hand would be a pain.
Assuming the vast majority of resume's are hard copy, then OCR is your friend. Assuming the resume is a word document, save as an ascii file.
Assuming a given company gets 1 million resumes a year, typical "page" of data is roughly 5K at best {assuming 60 lines 80 col). So roughly 10gigs of data assuming 2 pages per entry, and both pages full. This data can easily be compressed to maxamize storage.
The solution seems simple
1. Evaluate entry... if qualified to *promising canidate* move up in the pile.
2. If not qualified, then archive monthly... CD or DVD media should be adquate if your intent is to actually access the data. Date your media monthly. After required period of time, destroy or recycle the media.
The only flaw in my procedure is the fact that raw text isn't nessicarly searchable easily. While I personaly could deal with the "search" or "find" fuction included in respective operating systems I use, in conjuction with less or van berg's list program. Idealy a human element would be required in order to flag the fields to be imported into a really basic database. Either that or complience with the given companies software processing.
But call me silly, but this seems like a project for a first year information systems design student to accomplish.
I know I'm chimming in a touch late, let me share my thoughts on this issue.
I've always supported media labeling. Wether it be violent, sexual, house politics... I don't have any moral issues with assigning a label to the content.
This serves two purposes,
#1 some people don't like to watch sex, violance, rape. For example, I don't watch cops, I don't enjoy police violence being glorified on telivision.
#2 parents can use their own judgement as to what they find objectionable, and actually play an active role in a child's upbringing, which is pretty much their job, not the state. For example: "We don't want you to watch cops, we don't feel the glorification of police violence is acceptable".
The BBC did have some issues with Doctor Who from what I remember, basicly it was still handled by the child department and percieved as being a kids show even as late as the 1980s / 1990's. Police objected to the use of aliens masking them selves as police in order to carry out their evil plot basicly saying something to the effect of, "You can tell you kids there is no such things as monsters, you can't tell them there is no such things as police".
But as far as the Mr. Gary Locke signing this bill... I disagree strongly. Any one who remembers being a kid and playing cops and robbers should agree... it's fun. That's all I percieve Grand Theft Auto being, good clean fun where you play the role of a crimanal. When you flip off the switch, you're back to your regular life.
For the time being... I guess video game makers if they are to hit the kids audence in washington, I guess they'll have to replace Police with RIAA and MPAA officals, who are not actually law enforcement.
"In Leningrad the people say perestroika can be explained this way... The people who tried to tell us 2 & 2 is 10, are now trying to tell us that 2 & 2 is 5" --Billy Brag North Sea Bubble
I rather thought that some geek decided to disassemble his older HD.... attach magnets to the platters, use other magnets at approperate angles, and creating some good old fasioned mechanical motion, and as many DC motors operate as generators, some power would be produced. Not a whole hell of alot, but perhaps enough to power a small LED, or event a 1.5volt battery.
When you can just use a car? Come now... a 70's corolla with a 2t-c engine (typical for america) runs at about 75hp... You have the possibility, assuming your running at 3800rpm to generate up to roughly 56,000watts assuming 100% efficency.
Though the Vbelt system is typicaly limited to 3 devices on such a beast... Practical limit using car alternators is likely to be in the 200-300 amp range (2400 -> 3600 watt estimated)
Add your self a natural gas access line, assuming you have one, and you have your self a legit power source in the event power goes out. Most costly aspect of that would be the air regular, as well as some electronic feedback match engine speed to power consumption for best efficency.
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And now, in the 21century, free software is a "threat to America's 'innovation and security"
Good gawd! I'm willing to bet dimes to doenuts that stronger IP laws are a threat to innovation and security. So long as it's a crime to test and verify security mesures, and by chance propose to IMPROVE them.... we become guilty of creating a nation where innovation is a crime, and only criminals innovate.
So long as there is a open source moment, there is a motovation among comercial developers to create a product to compeat with something that is free. You don't even have to like any particular open source product to realize that. In fact, PROMOTES innovation if you are critical and strive to make improvement in products.
It looks like someone needs to start a thread on the subject how we can illistrate to congress that this is bullshit, in terms the average everyday joe can understand.
Ok, let me chime in here about the most popular games on the planet. Microsoft Solitare and Microsoft Mine sweeper.
Typicaly management frowns down on these two games, and it's not unusual for the boss to ask for these to be removed. A careful reminder, before that choice is made is imporant. Both games are excelent for hand-eye co-ordination skills and serve to promote mouse instruction. You may think i'm nuts for saying this, but working with older people who didn't play video games who don't have much in the way of computer experence are not going to be the best at operating a mouse... so bad that often times I see the simple click motion translate into a forward motion, and they ask why the computer isn't doing what it should be doing.
As far as me personaly, switching from a standard issue mouse to a trackball, I found quake II to be invaluable. This could apply just as easily to solitare.
So would I say playing solitare on the lunch break improves productivity. I'd say, "YEP, SURE DOES". It teaches inexperenced users how to operate the mouse, it helps users to become familar with the particular choice the work place made on mice.
Procedure B #1> Buy PEGASOS motherboard #2> Put Motherboard in old mac #3> Call it an upgrade (The hardware {case} was approved by apple)
Procedure C #1> Pirate MacOS #2> Don't tell Apple
I'm not sure about the legal standpoints of running mac software on non-mac systems, but ya know, I don't give a shit. The SIAA isn't likely to go after *me* if I bought the software, no more then I've ever heard a case of mac emulation being pursued provided they bought the required ROMs. I should beable to put MacOS in my toster if I so choose to, dispite it being a violation of my license agreement. The worst thing I can see Apple doing is not support this alternative platform.
Now consumers will have a commpeling reason to choose AMD breast implants over intel ones.
While AMD breast sizes are just an estimated number based on their equilivent intel sizes, it's been reported they go down far less often, making them the least popular choice in the workplace.
Well, they don't "belong" on a 45-65mph highway, that's for sure, with the exception of the hybrid cars.
However.... I see little issue with them on 30mph roads, assuming their max speed is 25mph. I see little issue with them on a parelell residental street to a major arterial. I see little issue with them in downtown areas where the posted limit is 25mph, or where the realistic limit is 25mph and below.
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Some years ago, police made very common sweeps of this region looking for UV sources commonly found with indoor pot production. This wasn't satalite mind you, but standard aircraft. In order to protest this form of surveillance, basicly under the weirdo impression that you needed a warrent to do such things, I and a few friends wanted to setup small piping in the lawn, and put neato catch phrases like, "Eat at Joes". However, this would have been costly and time consuming, so the best thing I could do was arange the hose in cursive letters... "RARE" popular spoof of the phrase, "Rare to keep kids off drugs". Needless to say the resolution enough on their IR cameras was high enough to actually spy the hose tangled lettering, enough to get the cops to ask a few questions about what's going on in the back yard.
But in order to prevent satalight spy cams from seeing you, there is a hightech solution known as an umbrella that's quite effective.
This is the big error you people make, you assume there's a nice big river everywhere that is suitable for making a hydro plant. You never paid attention in geography class, did you?
Hmmm, the artical was about Washington State... regarding electric cars. It's rather why I said, "we" have hydro power.
Here (Washington state) electric cars make sence. We have dams, that provide power. Additional power plants are being built that use natural gas.
Where you live, you might not have hydro power, you might be on coal for example. For place not easily accessible that don't have access to reasonably clean power, electric cars would be a very poor choice.
Actually it sounds like Biodiesel is a spiffy option, except to me who doesn't live anywhere near the sites listed on your link.
Plus the fact that I don't own a diesel engine.
TurboDiesel is actually showing some promise. I remember a ford article claiming it had lower emmitions then CNG, but I don't have any links off the top of my head, and I suspect the tests were peformed with an uncatalized CNG auto vs catalized turbo diesel engine.
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No, because now you have 22x the maintenance costs (i.e. 22x as many to people to clean up after, attend to, print tickets for, provide bathrooms for, etc.) for the same profit. There's a point of diminishing returns. If half the price brings in triple the customer, then you might have something. But at this point, I think that's mostly a mathematical quibble.
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Well as illistrated in the post to begin with.... part of cost cutting would be end users printing their own barcoded ticket. That point is moot. As far as 22x the maintance cost, well without food being sold that point is moot as well. Besides, cleanup is typicaly a fixed value for your average theater, based on how long it takes for 1 or two guys to shove a large broom across a room. Never have I seen a case where showtime has been delayed by an unexptected influx of people. In your ideal world, cleaning the seats doesn't mean cleaning just the seats people sat in, it means cleaning all the seats.
Yes, i'll agree the fact that maintaince costs likely be more with more people. That's a given. But many of health code required procedures for theaters, atleast where I live, require the same level of attention wether or not 1 or 100 sit in that theater. Your logic would hold true for stuff that is more difficult to just sweep away, such as soda, but i've never honestly seen a showtime delayed due to excessive soda being on the floor. But this this point is moot.
At Easycinema there is no popcorn stand, hot dog stall or pick 'n' mix concession. In fact, there is not even a box office.
There indeed is a constraint... which is why this system seems rather cool. As it seems to be web based, it should be rather easy to shuffle around people to match show times to maxamize seat filling. Besides, obviously the person doing this in the first place things that demand and supply would be profitable. Why not let the bugger try and see what happens.
.33 cents a flick.
.33 cents.
As I already stated, at such a low fee of 33cents a flick, it's likely quit buying cable TV, and get some form of monthly subscription to the theater. I'd be more flexable as to when I saw films. Assuming a flick a day, that's roughly $10.00 monthly assuming
Movies on the spir of the moment, $7.00
Movies getting shuffled through an onlue cue designed to maximize seats...
As far as decrease in prices = decreased margins... I don't see that. If lowering prices results in proportionate demand without exceeding constraints... I see this as being good. If increased demand results in increased popcorn sales, I see this as being also good.
The "domino effect" you speak of is the competition of the free market. If a few theaters are drastically cheaper than the others, they will start to attract more business. The other theaters will all have to follow suit to maintain customers. The inevitable price war will whittle margins down to nothing
So, what you are saying is that studios are anti-free market and are creating an enviroment where artifical price fixing is the practice, and damned anyone who actually has an inovative way of presenting the media to customers breaking the traditional monopoly.
Pardon me if I don't agree with you on the whole.
I see movie piracy and bootleging being a very large thorn in the side of studeos. Why pay $7.00 when you can download freely. Right or wrong, this is becomming more common practice. It's not just Hong Kong anymore, I know localy I can pickup bootleg theater releases in not quite so mainstreem stores at $3.00 a pop.
These days, I don't see alot of movies in the theater. It's a budget thing... for the cost of one ticket, I can have two latte's. If the fee was cut in 1/2, i'd visit the theater more often. If the fee was cut by 1/4... i'd see even more movies. if the fee was cut by 1/8th, well now, i'd cancel my cable telivision subscription and go out and see a fucking movie.
Then there would still be a choice... something kinda subscription based... and the more traditional theater that you can often pickup tickets before the show, get some popcorn, and see a movie.
My logic is very simple... empty seats = lost income. So often are we tied to the belief of lowering prices too much would just be bad cause consumers would come to expect it. I imagine in retail this is why clothing is often destroyed rather then being given away for fear of apearing like you are some bargin basement. Heaven forbid actually lowering prices to actually move stock, that would be silly wouldn't it.
The belief that empty theater seats some how serves a higher purpose is equality silly. If it can be shown that you can create an equal or greater 22x demand for tickets by lowering prices for tickets by 1/22th, isn't it common sence. For the more traditional theater, heaven forbid lower ticket prices would create an increased demand for trivial things like popcorn.
I see prices as low as was 33 cents a film as a great means of actually getting people to see ye old silver screen again, rather then their home TV. I would easily see more then 22 films a year at that price. And hell, if they had a starbucks, i'd get an overpriced latté too!
It's only common sence.
Or if that's not an option, funnel the exhost air from computer outside.
The first time I saw an air conditioner was when I was 7 years old and moved to the east coast.
Dispite the pacific north west's relitivly low cost of electric... air conditioners are none too popular. I mean it would be kinda cool to have one in the car, and I plan to upgrade to having one in the future, but for the most part they are they are rare items to find.
For me, a large attic fan is most adquate for my cooling needs, though it wasn't quite enough when I was operating a sun 4/260 i'll tell you.
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While this wouldn't nessicarly apeal to the apartment dweller, I saw something on telivision regarding terrestrial heating. basicly it went like this. Antifreese in copper pipes underground. In the summer time, ground temp in most enviroments is cooler then air temp, just flow water through system, blow air over radiator, radiator = heat. In winter, assuming ground temp is greater then air temp, same deal but just add a touch of heat. The idea was to lower heating bills.
Ok.. man has a vision of creating a profitable enterprise where users pay a small sub $1.00 fee to see a movie, and is willing to pay moolah for big name hollywood films.
This sounds terrific.
the "domino effect" I see is in order for such an enterprise to make a profit, many people will have to go see the movie, which given the cost this still sounds great
sooo... as a result... other theaters might actually have to lower ticket prices to attract more people
What's the big fucking deal?
More people watching the films is good... A strive to lower prices, if the number of people increases enough so profits don't decrease, sounds quite fab to me.
Furthermore, atleast in my little part of america, there is a drastic lack of things sub 21 year olds can do (legaly). Rather then wondering the streets causing trouble, they could catch a film on pocket change. Sure beats the park scene, hang out till the cops chace you away.
If I can catch a film at sub $1.00, then i'm far more likely to actually spend that $1.00 then download the matrix, a film that dispite it's popularity, i'd never pay usd$6.50 -> $7.00. But I'm curious enough to go see it for sub $1.00.
It sounds like this person has the answer to the pre-video release piracy problem.
Somewhere around here I have a compaq contura aero.. a whopping 486sx/33 with 4megs of ram. Sub standard sub sized screen that can't be used in the light of day, sub notebook.
In about 1993 or so, it was one among many sub $1000 notebook computers... pretty spiffy back then. I think I paid like $250 or mine at some point, as it was a 486 sx after all.
In 2003, it is a hunk of junk, not worth my bother and effort to get more ram to make a basic linux install bearable, but never the less the unit did have some charm to it at the time.
But I saw the areo being a good thing, dispite it obvious flaws. While it didn't change the world, it was indeed an afordable laptop.
This is the problem that I see with any sorta budget solution, esp with laptops. A simple lack of standardization tends to make them not nessicarly the best option in the PC world. Though, goverment sponcered involement in actually laying down the specifications for a people's laptop could actually change this, i'd hope.
While yes a celeron 800 is indeed substantal, there will always been a need to upgrade at some point, if Thailand actually thought about this, and actually demanded future expantion in the form of motherboard removal and replacement, I can see this as being increadabily cool. Dispite the fact that my laptop has it's issues, i'd invest a few bucks in a motherboard upgrade if it was a viable option, dispite it crappy sub sized screen.
The linux side of things, well i'm not all that sure it will pan out the way we expect. Older slashdot artical said something about the "war" between microsoft and linux, and in cases where it looks like microsoft might loose to linux, they would give away licenses. Don't get me wrong, I hope that Thailand would beable to say to the world, "Fuck you, we don't pirate anymore, we're using this free thing over here".
I have to admit, having a heads up display in my car sounds pretty spiffy. No longer will I have to look down to see my speed, nor check my idiot lights. All I would need to do is refocus my eyes to check the speed, or perhaps I could train my self to see the blur as i'm actually looking at the road.
I also see the practical application of being able to place transparent screen tech in things like windows, eliminating the bulky television and monitors we presently use. Imagine not having to find a place for your entertainment system, it's embeded into your house / apartment already, assuming you actually have a window.
But for entertainment value, it's got to beable to go opaque. Can't be watching star trek(tm) on your window and get distracted by a bird flying by, let alone letting your neighbors watch what ever you are watching. Anyone who's played with a genlock can speak about how distracting it can be.
But for practical entertainment, transparent isn't quite so keen. Pie charts and bar graphs wouldn't be a problem. Reading loads of text on the other hand would be a pain.
Assuming the vast majority of resume's are hard copy, then OCR is your friend. Assuming the resume is a word document, save as an ascii file.
Assuming a given company gets 1 million resumes a year, typical "page" of data is roughly 5K at best {assuming 60 lines 80 col). So roughly 10gigs of data assuming 2 pages per entry, and both pages full. This data can easily be compressed to maxamize storage.
The solution seems simple
1. Evaluate entry... if qualified to *promising canidate* move up in the pile.
2. If not qualified, then archive monthly... CD or DVD media should be adquate if your intent is to actually access the data. Date your media monthly. After required period of time, destroy or recycle the media.
The only flaw in my procedure is the fact that raw text isn't nessicarly searchable easily. While I personaly could deal with the "search" or "find" fuction included in respective operating systems I use, in conjuction with less or van berg's list program. Idealy a human element would be required in order to flag the fields to be imported into a really basic database. Either that or complience with the given companies software processing.
But call me silly, but this seems like a project for a first year information systems design student to accomplish.
I know I'm chimming in a touch late, let me share my thoughts on this issue.
I've always supported media labeling. Wether it be violent, sexual, house politics... I don't have any moral issues with assigning a label to the content.
This serves two purposes,
#1 some people don't like to watch sex, violance, rape. For example, I don't watch cops, I don't enjoy police violence being glorified on telivision.
#2 parents can use their own judgement as to what they find objectionable, and actually play an active role in a child's upbringing, which is pretty much their job, not the state.
For example: "We don't want you to watch cops, we don't feel the glorification of police violence is acceptable".
The BBC did have some issues with Doctor Who from what I remember, basicly it was still handled by the child department and percieved as being a kids show even as late as the 1980s / 1990's. Police objected to the use of aliens masking them selves as police in order to carry out their evil plot basicly saying something to the effect of, "You can tell you kids there is no such things as monsters, you can't tell them there is no such things as police".
But as far as the Mr. Gary Locke signing this bill... I disagree strongly. Any one who remembers being a kid and playing cops and robbers should agree... it's fun. That's all I percieve Grand Theft Auto being, good clean fun where you play the role of a crimanal. When you flip off the switch, you're back to your regular life.
For the time being... I guess video game makers if they are to hit the kids audence in washington, I guess they'll have to replace Police with RIAA and MPAA officals, who are not actually law enforcement.
"In Leningrad the people say perestroika can be explained this way... The people who tried to tell us 2 & 2 is 10, are now trying to tell us that 2 & 2 is 5" --Billy Brag North Sea Bubble
I rather thought that some geek decided to disassemble his older HD.... attach magnets to the platters, use other magnets at approperate angles, and creating some good old fasioned mechanical motion, and as many DC motors operate as generators, some power would be produced. Not a whole hell of alot, but perhaps enough to power a small LED, or event a 1.5volt battery.
that would be *free* power.
Kenetic Neat factor 5
Practical value squat
When you can just use a car? Come now... a 70's corolla with a 2t-c engine (typical for america) runs at about 75hp... You have the possibility, assuming your running at 3800rpm to generate up to roughly 56,000watts assuming 100% efficency.
Though the Vbelt system is typicaly limited to 3 devices on such a beast... Practical limit using car alternators is likely to be in the 200-300 amp range (2400 -> 3600 watt estimated)
Add your self a natural gas access line, assuming you have one, and you have your self a legit power source in the event power goes out. Most costly aspect of that would be the air regular, as well as some electronic feedback match engine speed to power consumption for best efficency.
Your ESDI drives are inadquate, in contrast to some 10 inch 330 meg SMD drives! Ha ha ha!
The threat of communism
Morality in music lyrics
the possibility of backwards satanic messages in music
And now, in the 21century, free software is a "threat to America's 'innovation and security"
Good gawd! I'm willing to bet dimes to doenuts that stronger IP laws are a threat to innovation and security. So long as it's a crime to test and verify security mesures, and by chance propose to IMPROVE them.... we become guilty of creating a nation where innovation is a crime, and only criminals innovate.
So long as there is a open source moment, there is a motovation among comercial developers to create a product to compeat with something that is free. You don't even have to like any particular open source product to realize that. In fact, PROMOTES innovation if you are critical and strive to make improvement in products.
It looks like someone needs to start a thread on the subject how we can illistrate to congress that this is bullshit, in terms the average everyday joe can understand.
Ok, let me chime in here about the most popular games on the planet. Microsoft Solitare and Microsoft Mine sweeper.
Typicaly management frowns down on these two games, and it's not unusual for the boss to ask for these to be removed. A careful reminder, before that choice is made is imporant. Both games are excelent for hand-eye co-ordination skills and serve to promote mouse instruction. You may think i'm nuts for saying this, but working with older people who didn't play video games who don't have much in the way of computer experence are not going to be the best at operating a mouse... so bad that often times I see the simple click motion translate into a forward motion, and they ask why the computer isn't doing what it should be doing.
As far as me personaly, switching from a standard issue mouse to a trackball, I found quake II to be invaluable. This could apply just as easily to solitare.
So would I say playing solitare on the lunch break improves productivity. I'd say, "YEP, SURE DOES". It teaches inexperenced users how to operate the mouse, it helps users to become familar with the particular choice the work place made on mice.
Procedure... A
#1> Buy MacOS
#2> Don't tell Apple
Procedure B
#1> Buy PEGASOS motherboard
#2> Put Motherboard in old mac
#3> Call it an upgrade (The hardware {case} was approved by apple)
Procedure C
#1> Pirate MacOS
#2> Don't tell Apple
I'm not sure about the legal standpoints of running mac software on non-mac systems, but ya know, I don't give a shit. The SIAA isn't likely to go after *me* if I bought the software, no more then I've ever heard a case of mac emulation being pursued provided they bought the required ROMs. I should beable to put MacOS in my toster if I so choose to, dispite it being a violation of my license agreement. The worst thing I can see Apple doing is not support this alternative platform.
Now consumers will have a commpeling reason to choose AMD breast implants over intel ones.
While AMD breast sizes are just an estimated number based on their equilivent intel sizes, it's been reported they go down far less often, making them the least popular choice in the workplace.
Well, they don't "belong" on a 45-65mph highway, that's for sure, with the exception of the hybrid cars.
However.... I see little issue with them on 30mph roads, assuming their max speed is 25mph. I see little issue with them on a parelell residental street to a major arterial. I see little issue with them in downtown areas where the posted limit is 25mph, or where the realistic limit is 25mph and below.
Some years ago, police made very common sweeps of this region looking for UV sources commonly found with indoor pot production. This wasn't satalite mind you, but standard aircraft. In order to protest this form of surveillance, basicly under the weirdo impression that you needed a warrent to do such things, I and a few friends wanted to setup small piping in the lawn, and put neato catch phrases like, "Eat at Joes". However, this would have been costly and time consuming, so the best thing I could do was arange the hose in cursive letters... "RARE" popular spoof of the phrase, "Rare to keep kids off drugs". Needless to say the resolution enough on their IR cameras was high enough to actually spy the hose tangled lettering, enough to get the cops to ask a few questions about what's going on in the back yard.
But in order to prevent satalight spy cams from seeing you, there is a hightech solution known as an umbrella that's quite effective.
And read a newspaper until genie or beeper comes out.
This is the big error you people make, you assume there's a nice big river everywhere that is suitable for making a hydro plant. You never paid attention in geography class, did you?
Hmmm, the artical was about Washington State... regarding electric cars. It's rather why I said, "we" have hydro power.
Here (Washington state) electric cars make sence. We have dams, that provide power. Additional power plants are being built that use natural gas.
Where you live, you might not have hydro power, you might be on coal for example. For place not easily accessible that don't have access to reasonably clean power, electric cars would be a very poor choice.
Actually it sounds like Biodiesel is a spiffy option, except to me who doesn't live anywhere near the sites listed on your link.
Plus the fact that I don't own a diesel engine.
TurboDiesel is actually showing some promise. I remember a ford article claiming it had lower emmitions then CNG, but I don't have any links off the top of my head, and I suspect the tests were peformed with an uncatalized CNG auto vs catalized turbo diesel engine.
Why is fournicating in cars so popular in the US?
Have you not houses with kitchens and bedrooms?
Yes, we do, but the wife/husband might get upset.
You *can* have convenience with natural gas -- by installing a refueling compressor in your garage. They *are* available for home users
You *might* beable to, however *I* can not. I don't have a gas line where I live.