google's seeming inability to find results from books
Seeming inability? You mean Google searches publicly available web site and did not find the text of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books? I am amazed, maybe they should team up with the FastTrack P2P network. I bet Google does not find all those public records stored throughout the nations courthouses that are not online either. I don't consider that a flaw but more a lack of having the information online in the first place.
I find zillions of links to where I can buy it, but very little actual information about the thing in question.
It depends on what you are seaching for. For specific technical information, issues, or opinions, I have found Google groups to be above and beyond anything else. For general information regular Google is fine. Use the right tool for the job.
Searching is an art. I was searching earlier today for VoIP for home use. Checking "voip home use" with a Google web brought up a paid link [1] to Vonage. I scoped out the Vonage site. I then searched for "Vonage". A few other sites not related to Vonage showed up but most hits were Vonage resellers. Having absorbed the official information on Vonage from the various resellers and offical site, I then searched Google groups and found the more technical side of Vonage which also lead me to packet8.net and many opinions and comparisions. There is no right way and wrong way to search. Using multiple options should result in some useful information related to your search.
[1] Off topic here but when I am truely looking for a location to buy something from, I found found the Google paid links on the right side to be the most accurate and useful method of finding a starting point.
I know you can't get to the page right now but you would also see a "Cease and Desist" letter they got from some state agency and various fire marshalls from around the country. It was for some of thier fireworks materials and instructions on how to make them. I did not know instructions were illegal.
My friend and I had bought some of the materials last month but the instructions and some of the chemicals are not available now (potassium percolate and different aluminum mixes). You can use other chemicals but they are not as strong. Luckily a Google search shows others are still selling the good stuff.
Funny thing, I was just at UnitedNuclear site earlier today before the/. article.
18 months after MS decides security is important and lauches the biggest security review in history, they spent 10000 man hours and 10's of millions of dollars to determine that:
Stubblefield, and his manager at MSR, Dan Simon, knew that people are the weakest link in secure computing environments
and you adequately describe that it's unimportant where it gets spent, so long as it is spent,
Whoa... All I said was if that John Doe does not buy a cd, he is going to spend the same amount of money somewhere else. Net gain and lose of jobs is probably none, this was in direct response to the parent talking about lost jobs due to entertainment industry losing sales. The BSA has the same figures talking about software piracy. Claiming the economy would have 10000's more jobs and billions more spent a year if everyone bought the new version of Photoshop and Office. Problem with that though, those billions of dollars had to be diverted from somewhere else where they will not be spent now, net gain for the economy? I don't think so. That was my point. I have no idea how you infered this tin foil hat crap of government control of money and goods.
I am not standing up for copyright violators, just making an opposing view of the theory of all these lost jobs.
but also the guys working security at the front gate, the technicians setting up the sound equipment, the guys running their email servers, the janitors sweeping their floors.
You seem to think that money is growing on trees and people have an unlimited supply. The money that someone did not spend on cd's was spent elsewhere, and most likely, at the same Walmart buying a gas grill instead of 10 cd's, or at a fast food resturant on the way home. That money was still spent paying all the people you are refering to above but a different group of them. People only have so much money to spend, the non essential entertainment budget is probably the first one to be dipped into.
Do you have a warranty details for the cheaper Lexmark printers? I can not find anything on thier web site without entering a serial number (how convienent), Officemax has 1 year listed but does not go into details. If the warranty is only 90 days. That is one hell of a short warranty to claim replacement inks are a major factor of returns. 1 year might be a little different. I assume that anything but Lexmark RFID tagged paper will be next, what if non Lexmark paper causes a jam and breaks the 1/64 inch think plastic guides.
I'm glad to hear about your Stylus 800. I have noticed the same thing with the older printers. I still use my Stylus Color (circa 1995). Cartridges are huge and cheap, normally one cleaning cycle after sitting for a while is adequate. Ink last hundreds of sheets.
I also have an Epson C60. Not bad quality but unless I use it at least once every two weeks, I have to run the clean cycle over and over. I could not find a way to clean just the color or just the black if needed and if I take one of them out I can't run the cycle to clean the other one. A complete waste of ink everytime. Last time this happened, it was not used for about 4 months. I had to clean the heads at least 10 times to get the megenta to work and I used almost 1/2 the black in the process.
Hey, watch what you are calling old, I still use a LJ4.;)
I picked one up as a departing gift when I left my last job. Kind of like a "fire" sale but it was more like a layoff sale. It has a 100k sheet count and I've got over 5k sheets on the same 1/2 full off brand toner cart that it had when I got it. We have various 4-5's at my current job with almost a 500k sheet count and two 5si w/stackers with almost 1M if not over by now. When needed, the parts for these things are cheap and plentiful, as is the troubleshooting guides and online help.
Keep in mind, the RIAA uses file names as the primary method of finding file swappers before sending out the scare team. These same file names have a good chance of being planted by the RIAA and thier contractors. They are trying to play on both sides of the fence here. IMHO, before an actual case goes to court against an individual file sharer, they are going to need more then a list of file names to have a case. I believe the main reason for the Verizon case was to try to keep the courts out of the loop as long as possible so they could try thier luck with the DMCA and cease and desist letters on shaky legal grounds. No court or judge would consider these tainted file plantings and a file lists from some IP address a copyright violation.
Instead of posting selective FUD, they should tell the whole story. Did sales go up by an equal 15%? After all, in the eyes of the RIAA, every single file downloaded is complete cd that was not bought.
I'd imagine that even the newest of AOL users would still be able to type in www.amazon.com in thier web browser. I assume AOL will have some type of in your face promotion for this online but unless they can undercut Amazon and the other thousand or so places to by music online on the selection you want, they will just be another place to price check before buying.
On Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention
While not specifically recalled, we had a Compaq rep fly to our different offices and fix a couple hundred new Evo laptops. They too had a grounding issue. I do not believe these were a shock hazard though, they would shutdown when you touched them from the static discharge.
Not that this helps your situation any but, you really should search Google BEFORE you jump on any new purchase. More so for Linux compatibility but this applies to the more popular Windows world also.
I had the same concerns with ATA controller chipsets and Usenet searches before hand helped me get one that worked on my not so cutting edge kernel. YMMV
There was an article in Network World (somewhat cheesy industry magazine) last week that talked about Walmart and Home Depot losing over 3% of thier revenue do to inventory procurement and tracking errors. The RFID tags played a role in reducing those costs. Basically, the suppliers would not get paid until the products left the store with a paying consumer. I seriously doubt that Walmart is giving up on the idea, they are probably waiting for the suppliers to catch up. When giants like Walmart and Home Depot say jump, the supply chain doesn't have to ask how high because they know it needs to be higher then last time.
Is it that expensive? My small town vet has the ability to read the tags as does my county shelter. In Hawaii, the Humane Society was required to chip the animals and neuter/spade them prior to allowing adoption. I now live in VA and being such a procrastinator, I have not updated the info yet. Hope she doesn't get sent back there.
Although I have no medical conditions that need attention, I make appointments at my doctors office monthly so I can read the waiting room copy of "Psychology Times". I hope he doesn't stop receiving them as I really have nothing else in life to look for. I really have no medical issues.
What the hell is wrong with you? This kind of coverage only causes trouble.
Sorry, but as many of the commercial vendors would like you to believe, security through obscurity does not work. It only serves to protect a business's reputation, not the products or the people using the products they produce.
I bought some Blue Coral "AutoFom" car wax from Walmart a few years ago that initially started out a year earlier as a wacky infomercial. I was scectical because of the infomercial thing but it turned out to be a really good product.
If you've ever checked in at a United Airline ticket counter or one of the gates at one of thier hubs, your information was being run on Win3.1 with TCP/IP and Netbeui run off of an OS/2 backend over token ring. The advantage back then was the mainframe connectivity and protocols OS/2 provided (now they have a Linux machines to convert the protocols when needed). They are slowly (and I mean SLOWLY) moving away from this but it is still running fine and has been for over 10 years. Almost all of the smaller stations have been converted to straight TCP/IP without the OS/2.
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google's seeming inability to find results from books
Seeming inability? You mean Google searches publicly available web site and did not find the text of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books? I am amazed, maybe they should team up with the FastTrack P2P network. I bet Google does not find all those public records stored throughout the nations courthouses that are not online either. I don't consider that a flaw but more a lack of having the information online in the first place.
I find zillions of links to where I can buy it, but very little actual information about the thing in question.
It depends on what you are seaching for. For specific technical information, issues, or opinions, I have found Google groups to be above and beyond anything else. For general information regular Google is fine. Use the right tool for the job.
Searching is an art. I was searching earlier today for VoIP for home use. Checking "voip home use" with a Google web brought up a paid link [1] to Vonage. I scoped out the Vonage site. I then searched for "Vonage". A few other sites not related to Vonage showed up but most hits were Vonage resellers. Having absorbed the official information on Vonage from the various resellers and offical site, I then searched Google groups and found the more technical side of Vonage which also lead me to packet8.net and many opinions and comparisions. There is no right way and wrong way to search. Using multiple options should result in some useful information related to your search.
[1] Off topic here but when I am truely looking for a location to buy something from, I found found the Google paid links on the right side to be the most accurate and useful method of finding a starting point.
I know you can't get to the page right now but you would also see a "Cease and Desist" letter they got from some state agency and various fire marshalls from around the country. It was for some of thier fireworks materials and instructions on how to make them. I did not know instructions were illegal.
/. article.
My friend and I had bought some of the materials last month but the instructions and some of the chemicals are not available now (potassium percolate and different aluminum mixes). You can use other chemicals but they are not as strong. Luckily a Google search shows others are still selling the good stuff.
Funny thing, I was just at UnitedNuclear site earlier today before the
18 months after MS decides security is important and lauches the biggest security review in history, they spent 10000 man hours and 10's of millions of dollars to determine that:
Stubblefield, and his manager at MSR, Dan Simon, knew that people are the weakest link in secure computing environments
I just tried this on our routers at work, it does not appear to work. I did n tice som pkt lss but a r nn
and you adequately describe that it's unimportant where it gets spent, so long as it is spent,
Whoa... All I said was if that John Doe does not buy a cd, he is going to spend the same amount of money somewhere else. Net gain and lose of jobs is probably none, this was in direct response to the parent talking about lost jobs due to entertainment industry losing sales. The BSA has the same figures talking about software piracy. Claiming the economy would have 10000's more jobs and billions more spent a year if everyone bought the new version of Photoshop and Office. Problem with that though, those billions of dollars had to be diverted from somewhere else where they will not be spent now, net gain for the economy? I don't think so. That was my point. I have no idea how you infered this tin foil hat crap of government control of money and goods.
I am not standing up for copyright violators, just making an opposing view of the theory of all these lost jobs.
but also the guys working security at the front gate, the technicians setting up the sound equipment, the guys running their email servers, the janitors sweeping their floors.
You seem to think that money is growing on trees and people have an unlimited supply. The money that someone did not spend on cd's was spent elsewhere, and most likely, at the same Walmart buying a gas grill instead of 10 cd's, or at a fast food resturant on the way home. That money was still spent paying all the people you are refering to above but a different group of them. People only have so much money to spend, the non essential entertainment budget is probably the first one to be dipped into.
Do you have a warranty details for the cheaper Lexmark printers? I can not find anything on thier web site without entering a serial number (how convienent), Officemax has 1 year listed but does not go into details. If the warranty is only 90 days. That is one hell of a short warranty to claim replacement inks are a major factor of returns. 1 year might be a little different.
I assume that anything but Lexmark RFID tagged paper will be next, what if non Lexmark paper causes a jam and breaks the 1/64 inch think plastic guides.
I'm glad to hear about your Stylus 800. I have noticed the same thing with the older printers. I still use my Stylus Color (circa 1995). Cartridges are huge and cheap, normally one cleaning cycle after sitting for a while is adequate. Ink last hundreds of sheets.
I also have an Epson C60. Not bad quality but unless I use it at least once every two weeks, I have to run the clean cycle over and over. I could not find a way to clean just the color or just the black if needed and if I take one of them out I can't run the cycle to clean the other one. A complete waste of ink everytime. Last time this happened, it was not used for about 4 months. I had to clean the heads at least 10 times to get the megenta to work and I used almost 1/2 the black in the process.
YMMV
Remember the old HP Laserjet(3,4) workhorses?
;)
Hey, watch what you are calling old, I still use a LJ4.
I picked one up as a departing gift when I left my last job. Kind of like a "fire" sale but it was more like a layoff sale. It has a 100k sheet count and I've got over 5k sheets on the same 1/2 full off brand toner cart that it had when I got it. We have various 4-5's at my current job with almost a 500k sheet count and two 5si w/stackers with almost 1M if not over by now. When needed, the parts for these things are cheap and plentiful, as is the troubleshooting guides and online help.
Keep in mind, the RIAA uses file names as the primary method of finding file swappers before sending out the scare team. These same file names have a good chance of being planted by the RIAA and thier contractors. They are trying to play on both sides of the fence here. IMHO, before an actual case goes to court against an individual file sharer, they are going to need more then a list of file names to have a case. I believe the main reason for the Verizon case was to try to keep the courts out of the loop as long as possible so they could try thier luck with the DMCA and cease and desist letters on shaky legal grounds. No court or judge would consider these tainted file plantings and a file lists from some IP address a copyright violation.
Instead of posting selective FUD, they should tell the whole story. Did sales go up by an equal 15%? After all, in the eyes of the RIAA, every single file downloaded is complete cd that was not bought.
I'd imagine that even the newest of AOL users would still be able to type in www.amazon.com in thier web browser. I assume AOL will have some type of in your face promotion for this online but unless they can undercut Amazon and the other thousand or so places to by music online on the selection you want, they will just be another place to price check before buying.
I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my original post.
Just trying to back you up, probably should have replied to the parent.
Iran Hostage crisis ---> Started under Carter. Ended under Reagan
How about the SAME day he was inaugurated.
Here is a quote I found here:
On Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention
I found an easier way, just type xyzzy and upon pressing "enter" you will get shocked.
While not specifically recalled, we had a Compaq rep fly to our different offices and fix a couple hundred new Evo laptops. They too had a grounding issue. I do not believe these were a shock hazard though, they would shutdown when you touched them from the static discharge.
Not that this helps your situation any but, you really should search Google BEFORE you jump on any new purchase. More so for Linux compatibility but this applies to the more popular Windows world also.
I had the same concerns with ATA controller chipsets and Usenet searches before hand helped me get one that worked on my not so cutting edge kernel. YMMV
There was an article in Network World (somewhat cheesy industry magazine) last week that talked about Walmart and Home Depot losing over 3% of thier revenue do to inventory procurement and tracking errors. The RFID tags played a role in reducing those costs. Basically, the suppliers would not get paid until the products left the store with a paying consumer. I seriously doubt that Walmart is giving up on the idea, they are probably waiting for the suppliers to catch up. When giants like Walmart and Home Depot say jump, the supply chain doesn't have to ask how high because they know it needs to be higher then last time.
Is it that expensive? My small town vet has the ability to read the tags as does my county shelter. In Hawaii, the Humane Society was required to chip the animals and neuter/spade them prior to allowing adoption. I now live in VA and being such a procrastinator, I have not updated the info yet. Hope she doesn't get sent back there.
After the SPL thing wears off for them, they move into the world of PC video cards and CPU coooling systems..
Although I have no medical conditions that need attention, I make appointments at my doctors office monthly so I can read the waiting room copy of "Psychology Times". I hope he doesn't stop receiving them as I really have nothing else in life to look for. I really have no medical issues.
What the hell is wrong with you? This kind of coverage only causes trouble.
Sorry, but as many of the commercial vendors would like you to believe, security through obscurity does not work. It only serves to protect a business's reputation, not the products or the people using the products they produce.
Funny you mention that.
I bought some Blue Coral "AutoFom" car wax from Walmart a few years ago that initially started out a year earlier as a wacky infomercial. I was scectical because of the infomercial thing but it turned out to be a really good product.
If you've ever checked in at a United Airline ticket counter or one of the gates at one of thier hubs, your information was being run on Win3.1 with TCP/IP and Netbeui run off of an OS/2 backend over token ring. The advantage back then was the mainframe connectivity and protocols OS/2 provided (now they have a Linux machines to convert the protocols when needed). They are slowly (and I mean SLOWLY) moving away from this but it is still running fine and has been for over 10 years. Almost all of the smaller stations have been converted to straight TCP/IP without the OS/2.