And the ironic part is, you cal still bring on board duty free alcohol. Get some decent 151 proof, a pack a matches, a sock, and it's molotove time.
I had a pair of nail clippers and telescoping pointer with magnet confiscated last trip. They did let me through with 4 bottles of booze though (Goslings Black Seal Rum).
Good question. If other agencies such as NASA and USGS can make a good portion of data available, for free, on the Internet, I wonder why the Weatheer Bue^H^H^H^H^H^H NOAA can't?
Especially for low maintenance things such as raw weather statistics. I can understand if they we're trying to charge for satellite imagery and such.
Actually, the term dumbass could be reflected in this case. On supposition that you use P2P networks strictly for legal reasons does not make it so for the majority of users of the network.
As for refinement, most P2P applications fail (although bittorrent does well for me, IMO).
face it, you're on the "information wants to be free rant" which is your right. Just try to make it a little less impartial.
ob-topic: K-lite might be gone, so I guess the option is to use the full spyware version (not), or look at other p2p networks. If Kazaa and Sharman keep on rockin', I guess we'll know just how much the average user cares about spyware. If not, maybe other networks will get additional content.
Hmm... How'd you get them to transfer your number? Was it a special request, or is this something they normally attempt?
Check out this page. Basically you need to have a number XXX-XXX in an area where Vonage can provide service. As for the change and chances are it will go through at the same chance as another CLEC would be able to provide.
In my case it took about 3 weeks to complete (you need to send a form to Vonage with a copy of your telephone bill for account verification).
Kudo's on your family's safety. You might want to contact your local telco to verify the information in E911 is correct. Screw up on their end could impact response time.
I use Vonage. Although sometimes the quality is sub-par, they were able to request my # from BellSouth and have it transferred to them. Also, they, as I'm sure others do, have the ability to link your address to 911.
Personally I'd roll my own asterisk server and utlize someone like VoicePulse for incoming 800# and local access, but in the event my net connection is down, so is incoming voicemail. Vonage handles that for me and the email notification.
Anyone know of a way to use an IAX or IAX2 provider and have them handle the PSTN termination and voicemail while allowing me to connect my Asterisk server to them?
Once they are established, Visa will have no choice but to lower their charges. Once they get comfortable with that steady revenue, they'll bend over backwards to keep it.
I don't know who is processing on behalf of Apple for Visa/MC/etc, but I'm pretty it isn't them directly. Whoever is processing will have a few fees, negotiable with Apple. Other fee's won't be so negotiable.
Apple is going to pay:
1) Per transaction fee - the cost to send out the tx for authorization/settlement. Visa/MC's rates for doing this are anywhere from $0.015 to $0.03/per tx. Expect Apple's processor to add on an additional 1-5 cents.
2) Discount Rate (or the magical mystical world known as interchange) - This is the ~2-5% merchants pay on the value of the settled transaction. If Joe User buys $100 in songs, Apple will get net settled minus the ~2-5% discount rate, minus transaction and processor fees. Depending upon how Apple deals with the transactions, such as using Verified by Visa (ala 3D Secure) or other anti-fraud devices can reduce the discount rate to about 150 basis points (or 1.5%).
3) Chargebacks - This can be the real killer. If Joe User sees a charge for the iTMS he sez ain't his, he'll dispute the transaction with his issuing bank. Even if the transaction is valid, Apple is going to receive a "chargeback" or retriaval request. The fees charged to Apple for doing this can range anywhere from $0-25/per tx (that's dollars, not cents).
How is Apple reducing these fees? I know in my experience that they group up a bunch of charges for settlement. This reduces the per transaction fee and still gives the cardholder an excellent invoice to reconcile against. This is probably the biggest in that if a user buys a single song per day at 0.99, Apple is probably paying the following:
So even in a best-case scenario for this transaction, Apple's looking at 0.08 out of the 0.30 "profit" after paying the RIAA members.
In the grand scheme of things, today there is little incentive for Visa/MC to come up with a new business model for transaction fees. The good news is that things such as PIN-based debit cards, 3D Secure, and smaller transaction size (in dollars) will give them, or their competition, the push to come up with alternatives.
Things such as mobile commerce, where the telco does the billing (and is good at "micro-payments" and monthly consolidation), digital cash, and chip-based stored value cards are some of the major avenues.
For Apple, if they can get the buyers to buy more than 2-3 songs at a time, will significantly reduce their processing rates.
Floppy drives are (unfortunately) REQUIRED to install Windows on SATA drives.
Ain't that just so true. A year and a half ago I built my first PC w/o a floppy. Little did I know that I'd need to insert a floppy disk for the on-board RAID controller (Promise).
This time around I purchased a USB floppy drive. Detected and usable during an XP install. Best this is I can unplug the bastard and put it away for those yearly system rebuilds.
Your TiVo now skips commercials (30 seconds at a time). Know your shows and you know how many "skip ahead" keys to press. Normal time to skip all commercials and hit the beginning of the next segment: 5 seconds tops.
Word up on the 16C. I've also had one banging around in various desk drawers for, jesus, 19 years too! Not a whole lot of use and I've only changed batteries once. Still use it for quick Hex/Dec/Bin conversions.
The 28S was also nice (at the time), but the boolean and other conversion functions were more cumbersome than the 16C. Did help in Calc class though.
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I too had problems with keeping the characters straight. So, Cryptonomicon is back on the shelf, and down comes _Dick and Jane Go to the Store_. Them's two is crazy I tell ya!
Just finished reading _Illium_, looks like Stephenson is on deck!
LIDAR can measure distance, speed, rotation, and chemical composition. I would assume most law enforcement "laser" units are actually based on LIDAR technology.
Some pretty cool things you can do with a LIDAR setup. We used it in the field back in the early 90s to measure water vapor coming off of lakes.
I bought a SK the day they came out. Love it for some things, hate it for others. We bought one for work too to replace an aging blackberry. Problems with the SK:
1) SIM? SIM? SIM? -- woops, lost carrier (full signal strength), have to reboot
2) Flash dots - woops, temporarily lost connection, then regained. SK won't log in, have to reboot.
3) Danger servers down - A couple months ago the servers were down and no email was being delivered. T-Mobile: well, if it doesn't get fixed in the next 72 hours, call back. Me: WTF???!!!
4) Piss poor hardware quality - As mentioned, I have two of these guys (on-call pager). Set side by side, they will both have different signal strengths, sim card errors, etc.
The good thing is that the data is stored on the server. Swap your SIM to a new SK chassis and a few minuters later (okay, more like 30 minutes) and you've got all your data. Mind you the phone settings are still default, but hey.
Overall it's a great idea and I still like the ability to whip it out and surf, but the limited service area and problems do indeed make this a lemon.
I'll wait until my contract is up then switch to another carrier. Hopefully the number portability laws will be in effect by then!
Actually I make it a point to answer my Sidekick or regular phone when working out, which is normally from 5:30-7:30P. Dinner time.
Nothing better then breathing heavily to telemarketers trying to sell insurance or god knows what. I also like to interrupt with comments such as "woah! my heart rate is now 155, I've gotta stop talking for a few minutes."
Of course if it's a friend or work calling, I let it go to voicemail before calling back.
Actually, I was recently on travel and found out just how much I miss even the basic PVR features, let alone the ability to record shows. It's not uncommon for PVR users to pause, rewind, and most importantly, skip the commercials. Many times while watching TV in the hotel room I found myself looking for the Tivo remote. Sigh.
I think you mean RAID 1. 4 x 40GB disks in RAID 0 would give you a single logical unit, 160GB in size. Up to 4x the transfer rate too.
Thats what I am currently doing in my general purpose box (2x 80GB RAID 0). But now that I have an array in my server, I'm going to rebuild in a RAID 1 configuration. 80GB of RAID 1 space which loses a drive is much easier to replace than the hours and hours of rebuilding (why I haven't bitten the bullet and started yet)
(I'm not sure WHERE on my hard drive those images are stored) Album art comes with new purchases from the Store, but you can drag 'n drop to add art from other sources. I was browsing Amazon.com the other day for album cover art for my existing files.
The artwork is stored in the file. Here's a sample before
-rw-r--r-- 1 bastion staff 39611317 Feb 5 2002 01 2112.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 bastion staff 6865067 Feb 5 2002 02 A Passage to Bangkok.mp3
After adding artwork via iTunes. (I also just realized you can select more than 1 song and add artwork to all of them at the same time.)
bash-2.05a$ ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 bastion staff 39640630 Apr 30 23:36 01 2112.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 bastion staff 6894380 Apr 30 23:36 02 A Passage to Bangkok.mp3
I don't know if it's in a standard format or not. iTunes is the first music management tool I've grown to love (and hate), and I like getting these type of uses out of it.
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And the ironic part is, you cal still bring on board duty free alcohol. Get some decent 151 proof, a pack a matches, a sock, and it's molotove time.
I had a pair of nail clippers and telescoping pointer with magnet confiscated last trip. They did let me through with 4 bottles of booze though (Goslings Black Seal Rum).
I'm guessing the margin on new paragraphs is pretty damned high! :P j/k
Good question. If other agencies such as NASA and USGS can make a good portion of data available, for free, on the Internet, I wonder why the Weatheer Bue^H^H^H^H^H^H NOAA can't?
Especially for low maintenance things such as raw weather statistics. I can understand if they we're trying to charge for satellite imagery and such.
Actually, the term dumbass could be reflected in this case. On supposition that you use P2P networks strictly for legal reasons does not make it so for the majority of users of the network.
As for refinement, most P2P applications fail (although bittorrent does well for me, IMO).
face it, you're on the "information wants to be free rant" which is your right. Just try to make it a little less impartial.
ob-topic: K-lite might be gone, so I guess the option is to use the full spyware version (not), or look at other p2p networks. If Kazaa and Sharman keep on rockin', I guess we'll know just how much the average user cares about spyware. If not, maybe other networks will get additional content.
For the love of god, please, please, tails....
D'oh, damned dirty nickel!
Hmm... How'd you get them to transfer your number? Was it a special request, or is this something they normally attempt?
Check out this page. Basically you need to have a number XXX-XXX in an area where Vonage can provide service. As for the change and chances are it will go through at the same chance as another CLEC would be able to provide.
In my case it took about 3 weeks to complete (you need to send a form to Vonage with a copy of your telephone bill for account verification).
HTH
Kudo's on your family's safety. You might want to contact your local telco to verify the information in E911 is correct. Screw up on their end could impact response time.
I use Vonage. Although sometimes the quality is sub-par, they were able to request my # from BellSouth and have it transferred to them. Also, they, as I'm sure others do, have the ability to link your address to 911.
Personally I'd roll my own asterisk server and utlize someone like VoicePulse for incoming 800# and local access, but in the event my net connection is down, so is incoming voicemail. Vonage handles that for me and the email notification.
Anyone know of a way to use an IAX or IAX2 provider and have them handle the PSTN termination and voicemail while allowing me to connect my Asterisk server to them?
Once they are established, Visa will have no choice but to lower their charges. Once they get comfortable with that steady revenue, they'll bend over backwards to keep it.
:)
I don't know who is processing on behalf of Apple for Visa/MC/etc, but I'm pretty it isn't them directly. Whoever is processing will have a few fees, negotiable with Apple. Other fee's won't be so negotiable.
Apple is going to pay:
1) Per transaction fee - the cost to send out the tx for authorization/settlement. Visa/MC's rates for doing this are anywhere from $0.015 to $0.03/per tx. Expect Apple's processor to add on an additional 1-5 cents.
2) Discount Rate (or the magical mystical world known as interchange) - This is the ~2-5% merchants pay on the value of the settled transaction. If Joe User buys $100 in songs, Apple will get net settled minus the ~2-5% discount rate, minus transaction and processor fees. Depending upon how Apple deals with the transactions, such as using Verified by Visa (ala 3D Secure) or other anti-fraud devices can reduce the discount rate to about 150 basis points (or 1.5%).
3) Chargebacks - This can be the real killer. If Joe User sees a charge for the iTMS he sez ain't his, he'll dispute the transaction with his issuing bank. Even if the transaction is valid, Apple is going to receive a "chargeback" or retriaval request. The fees charged to Apple for doing this can range anywhere from $0-25/per tx (that's dollars, not cents).
How is Apple reducing these fees? I know in my experience that they group up a bunch of charges for settlement. This reduces the per transaction fee and still gives the cardholder an excellent invoice to reconcile against. This is probably the biggest in that if a user buys a single song per day at 0.99, Apple is probably paying the following:
Authorization fee: 0.02 - 0.05
Discount Rate: 0.02 - 0.04 (% based)
So even in a best-case scenario for this transaction, Apple's looking at 0.08 out of the 0.30 "profit" after paying the RIAA members.
In the grand scheme of things, today there is little incentive for Visa/MC to come up with a new business model for transaction fees. The good news is that things such as PIN-based debit cards, 3D Secure, and smaller transaction size (in dollars) will give them, or their competition, the push to come up with alternatives.
Things such as mobile commerce, where the telco does the billing (and is good at "micro-payments" and monthly consolidation), digital cash, and chip-based stored value cards are some of the major avenues.
For Apple, if they can get the buyers to buy more than 2-3 songs at a time, will significantly reduce their processing rates.
IMO, obviously.
Floppy drives are (unfortunately) REQUIRED to install Windows on SATA drives.
Ain't that just so true. A year and a half ago I built my first PC w/o a floppy. Little did I know that I'd need to insert a floppy disk for the on-board RAID controller (Promise).
This time around I purchased a USB floppy drive. Detected and usable during an XP install. Best this is I can unplug the bastard and put it away for those yearly system rebuilds.
Select - Play - Select - 3 - 0 - Select
Your TiVo now skips commercials (30 seconds at a time). Know your shows and you know how many "skip ahead" keys to press. Normal time to skip all commercials and hit the beginning of the next segment: 5 seconds tops.
Word up on the 16C. I've also had one banging around in various desk drawers for, jesus, 19 years too! Not a whole lot of use and I've only changed batteries once. Still use it for quick Hex/Dec/Bin conversions.
The 28S was also nice (at the time), but the boolean and other conversion functions were more cumbersome than the 16C. Did help in Calc class though.
I too had problems with keeping the characters straight. So, Cryptonomicon is back on the shelf, and down comes _Dick and Jane Go to the Store_. Them's two is crazy I tell ya!
Just finished reading _Illium_, looks like Stephenson is on deck!
cassette == lower quality & non-random access.
CD == better quality.
If ya don't like the CD price, do indeed buy the cassette.
New Janes? Sweet! On my way to Amazon to purchase! Unless, of course, it's available via iTunes....
select - play - select - 3 - 0 - select
30 second forward now enabled.
LASER != RADAR, but LIDAR === RADAR, using light.
LIDAR can measure distance, speed, rotation, and chemical composition. I would assume most law enforcement "laser" units are actually based on LIDAR technology.
Some pretty cool things you can do with a LIDAR setup. We used it in the field back in the early 90s to measure water vapor coming off of lakes.
The red dust is for polar zones only. There is no parking on red dust locations.
Word up.
I bought a SK the day they came out. Love it for some things, hate it for others. We bought one for work too to replace an aging blackberry. Problems with the SK:
1) SIM? SIM? SIM? -- woops, lost carrier (full signal strength), have to reboot
2) Flash dots - woops, temporarily lost connection, then regained. SK won't log in, have to reboot.
3) Danger servers down - A couple months ago the servers were down and no email was being delivered. T-Mobile: well, if it doesn't get fixed in the next 72 hours, call back. Me: WTF???!!!
4) Piss poor hardware quality - As mentioned, I have two of these guys (on-call pager). Set side by side, they will both have different signal strengths, sim card errors, etc.
The good thing is that the data is stored on the server. Swap your SIM to a new SK chassis and a few minuters later (okay, more like 30 minutes) and you've got all your data. Mind you the phone settings are still default, but hey.
Overall it's a great idea and I still like the ability to whip it out and surf, but the limited service area and problems do indeed make this a lemon.
I'll wait until my contract is up then switch to another carrier. Hopefully the number portability laws will be in effect by then!
Actually I make it a point to answer my Sidekick or regular phone when working out, which is normally from 5:30-7:30P. Dinner time.
Nothing better then breathing heavily to telemarketers trying to sell insurance or god knows what. I also like to interrupt with comments such as "woah! my heart rate is now 155, I've gotta stop talking for a few minutes."
Of course if it's a friend or work calling, I let it go to voicemail before calling back.
The BioMorph desks are pretty well designed.
I'm looking at one for the home office. Anyone have any experiences with said company?
So when do we flood the Grand Canyon?
Probably once we've flooded some of the uptream portions, like the Glenn River Canyon, errr, Lake Powell?
Hmmm, I'd use it during Final Jepordy!
Actually, I was recently on travel and found out just how much I miss even the basic PVR features, let alone the ability to record shows.
It's not uncommon for PVR users to pause, rewind, and most importantly, skip the commercials. Many times while watching TV in the hotel room I found myself looking for the Tivo remote. Sigh.
I think you mean RAID 1. 4 x 40GB disks in RAID 0 would give you a single logical unit, 160GB in size. Up to 4x the transfer rate too.
Thats what I am currently doing in my general purpose box (2x 80GB RAID 0). But now that I have an array in my server, I'm going to rebuild in a RAID 1 configuration. 80GB of RAID 1 space which loses a drive is much easier to replace than the hours and hours of rebuilding (why I haven't bitten the bullet and started yet)
Big.
The artwork is stored in the file. Here's a sample before
After adding artwork via iTunes. (I also just realized you can select more than 1 song and add artwork to all of them at the same time.)
I don't know if it's in a standard format or not. iTunes is the first music management tool I've grown to love (and hate), and I like getting these type of uses out of it.