Is it going to be the sender or receiver who pays the tax?
If it's the sender, then this might would be a good way to reduce spam originating from the EU.... although how much spams comes from the EU is doubtful.
I did an international move a few years ago (UK to US) and the single biggest mistake I made was in bringing too much stuff with me.
1. don't ship furniture. I brought desks, a sofa, shelving units, all sorts of bizarre things that I would have been better off either buying when I got here or simply not owning at all. Having so much stuff meant I had to rent a house straight away, which for a single guy is absurd.
2. don't ship crap. Did I really _need_ my entire library? No. Since I've actually got rid of more than half of it since, I would say that was an objective error on my part. My most stupid shipping mistake was to ship my entire VHS video collection, all PAL tapes. I got a multi-standard video player when I got here, but I still have a wall of Star Trek tapes which I don't watch any more and which I cannot possibly sell here.
Can't offer much advice on cars, although if I were doing a cross country move now I would probably sell my car here and buy a new one at the destination. I don't fancy driving 2,000 miles.
Obviously these guiding principles are suspended for particular things which have sentimental value, but be very careful about over-extending that umbrella.
It doesn't matter whether your employer is paying for the shipping: the less you ship, the less you will have to worry about unpacking and putting away at the other end when you will already have a huge amount to contend with.
The first computer I actually owned was an Acorn Atom, the precursor to the BBC Micro, which I got in May 1982. It had a 1MHz 6502 and shipped with 2K of RAM. I upgraded it myself to 12K, the maximum that the board was built to take, and by the time I stopped using it two years later I had upgraded the ROM to 16K from the 8K it shipped with.
I loved that machine. The worst part was undoubtedly the storage: cassette tape is a rotten mechanism for saving your data. But I learnt assembler within a year, which if I had bought a Spectrum (they were announced shortly after I bought the Atom) I don't think would have happened - I would simply have spent too much time playing games.
I use a wiki for notes on stories I am writing - not so much for storyboarding, but certainly for keeping character notes, locations, artifacts, etc. This is particularly useful for epic fiction where you have a lot of character names to keep straight.
I use Kwiki and create a new instance for each substantial piece.
A request for the format of your book - organise the explanations by things people actually use their computers for.
- writing a letter: how a program starts, how different document formats work, how saving a file puts it onto the hard disc, how printing works
- looking something up on Google: how the internet works (good luck with that one!), how web sites work, how computers talk to each other over the internet, how firewalls work... and so on. This kind of task-based organisation should make it easier for the lay person to understand what is going on because they can relate it to something real they actually do.
Chances are your eyes, like the rest of you, are just getting old.
Go to an optician and get your eyes tested. If you need glasses, wear them.
For myself, I have far from perfect vision but it has not degraded because of computer use: it was bad to start with and has remained pretty much constant for twenty five years. I'm getting degradation now because I'm reaching a critical age.
If you did anything wrong, it was to not get your personal data off the systems before you handed in your notice.
Note, I am not advocating ripping off your former employer's source code, but if you know you are leaving you have to assume that you will be shut out of all the systems you had access to pretty much immediately. Make sure that you have copied personal data you want to keep _before_ you hand over the letter. That, fundamentally, is what GMail is for.
I really don't understand why you are not angry at Blizzard.
It doesn't matter how arbitrary or absurd the policy is as long as they apply it consistently.
But you'd been playing your character as CmdrTaco for 45 levels. I am no expert on MMORPGs, but that sounds like a long time to me. Retroactively applying a policy to an old character is way too brutal.
I think your friend that stopped playing Everquest had the right idea. I hope he wrote to the CEO to tell them why he wasn't playing there any more.
From a sleeping iPod, it takes me two button presses to get music, a couple more with a swish on the wheel to pick a particular album. How many on a multifunction device?
Multifunctional devices are hard to design a good UI for.
Single function devices can be designed with a much more focussed UI which makes the common functions much easier to access.
If you want an even more exceptional option, you could always go for the Happy Hacker Professional keyboard. This has the added benefit of not having discrete keys for function and cursor keys which is going to be extra specially annoying without key legends!
Also, your comparison is flawed. 'Free' TV, radio and email is paid for with advertising but if you choose to use them then you accept that those are the terms under which you consume the service.
But I pay for my email, and I don't want advertising in my inbox.
OK, let's assume for a femtosecond that the spammers take any notice of this approach. The fundamental idea is that email users submit to advertising in their email box, being compensated for advertising which is "a waste of time".
The problem with this idea is that this is a medium which its users already pay for. There is no such thing in this model as acceptable advertising: any unsolicited advertising, by definition, is a waste of time.
OK, that femtosecond is over. Let's get back to deleting spam.
I think you're right - this seems to be entirely about advertising Tiger Direct. I do not think it is coincedence that the first time I had ever seen an advert for Tiger Direct was today, on Slashdot as it happens.
So, consider this lawsuit part of an advertising campaign to capitalise on Apple's publicising of the word "Tiger". Maybe Apple should countersue for parisitic marketing?
I'm far more interested in getting the images off my camera than in hacking my camera, so I don't really care about how open the camera itself might be. In that sense I do not care: as long as the images are in an open format and that the images are stored on an open storage meium then I'm happy.
It would be really cool to be able to reprogram the camera, but I wouldn't be the one doing it.
I don't know anyone who has actually given up on the net yet, but I know people who are denying themselves broadband because of the risk they perceive of their Windows machines becoming zombies.
BT says the lease fees will subsidize its payphone business, which it apparently isn't ready to exit.
The author misses an important point here - BT are legally required to maintain a payphone network as part of their public service obligation (just as the UK Post Office are required to deliver letters for a flat fee within the UK regardless of their desitnation). I think the mini-antenna idea is an imaginative one, but really BT are just looking for ways to make some money from a business which they cannot avoid being in. --
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It is conceivable that 'impunity' has a specialised legal meaning along the lines of 'with flagrant disregard for', but since it's a legally rooted word in the first place that seems unlikely.
You may well be right that most people don't know what the word means; the author of the C&D letter, for one. --
Dunx
Impugnity? No, I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.
There's a verb 'to impugn' (pron. imp-yew-n) meaning 'to denigrate, to cast aspersions upon' (or 'to slag off' if you want a more colloquial interpretation) but I don't think anything is being impugned here.
This material (the "Infringing Material ") blatantly copies the sequential display of a series of items belonging to one or more individuals, showing, the "price" of each item, and, at the end, infringes,
with impunity, the MASTERCARD Mark and the Priceless Marks.
From dictionary.com:
impunity n : exemption from punishment or loss
So what Mastercard's lawyers have very kindly done is said "go ahead, we won't punish you".
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There were a couple of Robot Wars specials which were shown over Christmas 2000 in the UK, the Annihalators. Six robots went into the ring, one was eliminated each round, and the last one still moving after five rounds won.
Absolutely fantastic format - much better than anything I've seen on Battlebots since I arrived in the US. Those of you who haven't seen it are in for a real treat.
And I've finally got my multi-system VCR so I can watch the Robot Wars tapes from the end of the last series! Hurray! --
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If US companies gave their employees more reasonable vacation allowances, they wouldn't need to slack so much at work to stay sane.
Yes, I have answered the question rather than listened to the program. I'll download it later and listen in the car.
Is it going to be the sender or receiver who pays the tax?
... although how much spams comes from the EU is doubtful.
If it's the sender, then this might would be a good way to reduce spam originating from the EU.
Thanks for offering ill-considered abuse under a cloak of anonymity.
Cretin.
A CD acts as an obvious physical token for the owner to show that they have a licence for the contents.
Downloaded music relies either on licencing servers or on a licence file on the client computer, which seems a much more fragile model.
I did an international move a few years ago (UK to US) and the single biggest mistake I made was in bringing too much stuff with me.
1. don't ship furniture. I brought desks, a sofa, shelving units, all sorts of bizarre things that I would have been better off either buying when I got here or simply not owning at all. Having so much stuff meant I had to rent a house straight away, which for a single guy is absurd.
2. don't ship crap. Did I really _need_ my entire library? No. Since I've actually got rid of more than half of it since, I would say that was an objective error on my part. My most stupid shipping mistake was to ship my entire VHS video collection, all PAL tapes. I got a multi-standard video player when I got here, but I still have a wall of Star Trek tapes which I don't watch any more and which I cannot possibly sell here.
Can't offer much advice on cars, although if I were doing a cross country move now I would probably sell my car here and buy a new one at the destination. I don't fancy driving 2,000 miles.
Obviously these guiding principles are suspended for particular things which have sentimental value, but be very careful about over-extending that umbrella.
It doesn't matter whether your employer is paying for the shipping: the less you ship, the less you will have to worry about unpacking and putting away at the other end when you will already have a huge amount to contend with.
The first computer I actually owned was an Acorn Atom, the precursor to the BBC Micro, which I got in May 1982. It had a 1MHz 6502 and shipped with 2K of RAM. I upgraded it myself to 12K, the maximum that the board was built to take, and by the time I stopped using it two years later I had upgraded the ROM to 16K from the 8K it shipped with.
I loved that machine. The worst part was undoubtedly the storage: cassette tape is a rotten mechanism for saving your data. But I learnt assembler within a year, which if I had bought a Spectrum (they were announced shortly after I bought the Atom) I don't think would have happened - I would simply have spent too much time playing games.
Glad to see Vib Ribbon get a mention. A wonderful game that I miss; worth looking for if you have a European- or Japanese-region capable Playstation.
Two particularly challenging ideas for "levels":
- "Good Vibrations", the Beach Boys
- anything by Mozart
Playing computer games is no different than playing a board game or anything else with your child.
I use a wiki for notes on stories I am writing - not so much for storyboarding, but certainly for keeping character notes, locations, artifacts, etc. This is particularly useful for epic fiction where you have a lot of character names to keep straight.
I use Kwiki and create a new instance for each substantial piece.
A request for the format of your book - organise the explanations by things people actually use their computers for.
... and so on. This kind of task-based organisation should make it easier for the lay person to understand what is going on because they can relate it to something real they actually do.
- writing a letter: how a program starts, how different document formats work, how saving a file puts it onto the hard disc, how printing works
- looking something up on Google: how the internet works (good luck with that one!), how web sites work, how computers talk to each other over the internet, how firewalls work
Chances are your eyes, like the rest of you, are just getting old.
Go to an optician and get your eyes tested. If you need glasses, wear them.
For myself, I have far from perfect vision but it has not degraded because of computer use: it was bad to start with and has remained pretty much constant for twenty five years. I'm getting degradation now because I'm reaching a critical age.
If you did anything wrong, it was to not get your personal data off the systems before you handed in your notice.
Note, I am not advocating ripping off your former employer's source code, but if you know you are leaving you have to assume that you will be shut out of all the systems you had access to pretty much immediately. Make sure that you have copied personal data you want to keep _before_ you hand over the letter. That, fundamentally, is what GMail is for.
I really don't understand why you are not angry at Blizzard.
It doesn't matter how arbitrary or absurd the policy is as long as they apply it consistently.
But you'd been playing your character as CmdrTaco for 45 levels. I am no expert on MMORPGs, but that sounds like a long time to me. Retroactively applying a policy to an old character is way too brutal.
I think your friend that stopped playing Everquest had the right idea. I hope he wrote to the CEO to tell them why he wasn't playing there any more.
From a sleeping iPod, it takes me two button presses to get music, a couple more with a swish on the wheel to pick a particular album. How many on a multifunction device?
Multifunctional devices are hard to design a good UI for.
Single function devices can be designed with a much more focussed UI which makes the common functions much easier to access.
If you want an even more exceptional option, you could always go for the Happy Hacker Professional keyboard. This has the added benefit of not having discrete keys for function and cursor keys which is going to be extra specially annoying without key legends!
No, I don't hate them - I just don't use them.
Also, your comparison is flawed. 'Free' TV, radio and email is paid for with advertising but if you choose to use them then you accept that those are the terms under which you consume the service.
But I pay for my email, and I don't want advertising in my inbox.
> Is selling one's attention the answer to spam?
OK, let's assume for a femtosecond that the spammers take any notice of this approach. The fundamental idea is that email users submit to advertising in their email box, being compensated for advertising which is "a waste of time".
The problem with this idea is that this is a medium which its users already pay for. There is no such thing in this model as acceptable advertising: any unsolicited advertising, by definition, is a waste of time.
OK, that femtosecond is over. Let's get back to deleting spam.
I think you're right - this seems to be entirely about advertising Tiger Direct. I do not think it is coincedence that the first time I had ever seen an advert for Tiger Direct was today, on Slashdot as it happens.
So, consider this lawsuit part of an advertising campaign to capitalise on Apple's publicising of the word "Tiger". Maybe Apple should countersue for parisitic marketing?
I'm far more interested in getting the images off my camera than in hacking my camera, so I don't really care about how open the camera itself might be. In that sense I do not care: as long as the images are in an open format and that the images are stored on an open storage meium then I'm happy.
It would be really cool to be able to reprogram the camera, but I wouldn't be the one doing it.
I don't know anyone who has actually given up on the net yet, but I know people who are denying themselves broadband because of the risk they perceive of their Windows machines becoming zombies.
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Dunx
You may well be right that most people don't know what the word means; the author of the C&D letter, for one.
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There's a verb 'to impugn' (pron. imp-yew-n) meaning 'to denigrate, to cast aspersions upon' (or 'to slag off' if you want a more colloquial interpretation) but I don't think anything is being impugned here.
I honestly don't know what they meant.
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Absolutely fantastic format - much better than anything I've seen on Battlebots since I arrived in the US. Those of you who haven't seen it are in for a real treat.
And I've finally got my multi-system VCR so I can watch the Robot Wars tapes from the end of the last series! Hurray!
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Dunx