I also have a Brother MFC and it's the best investment we've made. Actually, Dell sells an MFC at a much cheaper price, but we had to give it up because the scanbed doesn't support legal size paper (but the ADF does). Dell's MFC also comes with PaperPort. You can probably purchase from Dell with some back to school bargains (check the discount deal sites like techbargains, xpbargains, fatwallet, etc.). Even the cheapest laser MFC is a network printer (although scanning requires USB connection)--which means you can connect both via ethernet and USB, the ethernet is for printing for all the other systems on your LAN and the USB is for your Windows box. I also second the suggestion about Adobe Acrobat, it's the best piece of software out there, even though it's a Windows only piece of software.
The computers should have been auctioned or a lottery could have been set up to allow only a certain number to purchase them.
You mean like how another goverment agency handles it (GSAauctions.gov)? A simple call to the GSA for help would have saved everyone a lot of heartache and hurt. I know it's a local agency asking a federal agency for help (i.e. crosstalk is not common), but when a riot is a possibility, it's worth the extra effort.
And they could've easily avoided creating a problem in the first place by just giving people numbered tickets in the order they arrived - then calling them out in order when they were ready to sell.
You mean that a government worker had to actually...umm...do work?
All kidding aside, this is a good suggestion, but your suggestion required that someone had to be there late in the evening the night before with the tickets, as this was the time people started rolling in and camping out. Simple crowd control measures would have sufficed (as already mentioned elsewhere). Seriously though, it sounds like the crowd took in the environment too literally--it was held at a racetrack no less.
I haven't done intense work with it recently. It appears to be a GUI for a huge collection of software.
If you just need a program for molecular biology work (DNA sequence and protein sequence analysis, organization, and publication quality layouts) then I suggest you check out Clone Manager 7. It's very pricey, but if your lab can afford it, it's a good piece of software. I know it's a *dows only program, but I can confirm that it works well with the latest version of Wine. Some work is needed to get the drives mapped correctly in wine, but it was well worth it for me. Imagine being able to NX client (like VNC) into your lab's machine and work on your sequences from home.
There are three things that one can do to reduce clutter (these are not my ideas, but I incorporate them in my life as best as possible). They are in no particular order. For all clutter or "projects" that you have to complete:
1. Hire it out 2. Throw it out 3. Or do it yourself
Let's say you're not doing number 1 (but if you are there's professional organizers out there who will be happy to have your business). Work on number 2 and 3, which means you first try to consolidate all your equipment. Really think about the devices you have and be honest with yourself if you really need it or if you can consolidate it with another device. For example, I don't have a network storage device, but I do share out my drives via smb. Everything that you don't need or use rarely, eBay or craigslist it or THROW IT OUT. The hoarders in us are really hesitant to throw things out---you could donate it to Goodwill or Salvation Army, etc.
Once you reduce the hardware clutter you can then work on the wires. With that, the many hints provided by the other here will suffice. Good luck and seriously, I never thought that the piles and piles of junk that I had in my home would affect my personal and emotional life. But after reducing all that junk that I had (I admit, a lot of it had to go in storage, so it's only a matter of time that I will have to deal with that junk), I have to say that my life feels much more stable. In anything that you buy or have in your home, you always have to think about whether or not you really need it, or is it something that you'll just play with for a few minutes a day without without any personal benefit.
Personally, I like using pybliographer (as was already mentioned) for my thesis. But also check out JabRef which is written entirely in Java. So if you ever needed to go back to windows and still want to manage your BibTeX entries, JabRef may be a good option. Be careful moving back and forth between different bib managers because each one has its own convention in created keys (by default)--thus, the key for one entry in pybliographer will be different than the key referring to the same entry in JabRef. IIRC, both programs allow you to redefine how you want your keys to be configured, so if you define your own key structure, this problem is minimal.
If you're on a Mac, try out BibDesk. This user has a screencast (flash video demonstration) showing you how to export "BibTeX data and adding it to a BibDesk library, autofiling and associating a PDF file, adding the citation to a TeX file, then formatting a bibliography."
Honestly, it sounds like you need to try out GraphPad Prism -- although it's currently only a *dows program.
I've asked your same question in one of my posts. I haven't been diligently looking for an alternative to Graphpad Prism in Linux, because at the current moment I have an XP system running it. I've tried to install and run GraphPad Prism using Wine, and it installs fine, but graphics rendering when starting up the program fails.
I'm a biologist who needs an easy to use graphing program that creates publication quality graphs. Those of you who have used GraphPad Prism will quickly realize that graphing programs like Excel, OpenOffice, etc. are vastly inferior to the quality produced by GraphPad Prism. Prism really has no competitive counterpart in form, function, and uniformity of graphing linear and nonlinear (curve fit) regression analysis -- other than perhaps SigmaPlot or Kaleidagraph. If you are in a bind, you could try buying Crossover Linux (wine) and try running GraphPad Prism in it. If someone has found a Linux clone to GraphPad Prism, please let me know!
I get enough spam in my mailbox telling me to buy or short such and such stocks, I don't need to hear it from you. In fact you are doing the community a disservice by mentioning "price targets." Look, the article is interesting enough by posing a head-to-head battle between Blockbuster and Netflix, and a synopsis could have been easily written up that avoided even a mention of stock prices. In fact, that last comment starting with "Irrespective of what Pachter thinks about the overall DVD rental business..." was unnecessary. The last thing slashdot wants to be is a bulletin board for daytraders.
Is it just me? But don't you think that the longhorn icon is too close to the University of Texas' trademarked logo? Unless MS has paid UT for the use of it, I don't see how the longhorn icon that has been floating around passes muster. I mean, even look at the colors! It's all too reminiscent of U Texas. I'm sorry, every time I'll see MS Longhorn, I'll be thinking of U Texas instead and somehow tie the two. Before you go and say that the U Texas logo still looks different than MS Longhorn icon, think about the actions that MS has taken in the past for seemingly different uses: Lindows versus Windows, MS wanting to trademark "Windows," etc. I hope U Texas is looking into this to develop a case against MS.
PDA phones are awesome, I own the Siemens SX66. However, I don't think Dell should be venturing into the PDA phone market in terms of producing just another GSM or CDMA phone for specific carriers in the US or abroad. They could always sell unlocked phones, but for some reason I doubt they will. Look at the HPaq 6315 PDA phone as an example. HP could have sold it unlocked outright with all the vendors they have, but they don't.
If Dell wants to beat out HP and their iPaq and all the new PDA phone vendors coming through the fray (like BenQ, Samsung, etc.), what they should do is: 1) sell the device unlocked, 2) quietly bolster hotspot development like T-Mobile's wifi hotspots, or even behind-the-scene ISP's such as speakeasy (which has a great TOS that allows you to share your broadband), 3) buy out VoIP services like Skype, SIPphone, or FreeWorldDialup and finally, 4) develop a kickass PDA application for VoIP on their wifi enabled PDA, that works well with your bluetooth headset, has voice dialing, call history list, caller ID, conferencing, all the accoutrements, etc. That application alone could make or break sales of the new PDA. If there was such an application pre-built/pre-installed on the X50, I would have bought that device long ago. Free calls using my wifi network that is comparable to my cell phone in functionality!?! It's a no-brainer.
First of all, Tor and Garth, this is the coolest project I've seen in a while -- makes me want to build one myself.
I see that the Verizon card is CDMA. Can you build a StompBox that uses GSM networks? I'm assuming you have to find the right PCMCIA card and just swap out your Verizon card and recompile your kernel. If it could be moved from 1xRTT to GSM, it could be portable to just about any GSM network worldwide! Imagine taking the box around Europe and still have internet access to email home!
Regurgitating stories that are from The Register/Engaged/Ars Technica/etc is NOT news for nerds!
Since you've been here from the early beginning, has/. ever presented any original news content (news they wrote up themselves)? Other than the occasional book reviews and interviews, I've never seen/. do much more than aggregate news and allow comments. Heck, the "news" on/. isn't really even news, it's always been a comment on another article found on the web. I think their "tardiness" in releasing news postings is probably more apparent now because the true news sites have been adept at getting their original content pushed out on the net quicker than before, especially with google news becoming ever more popular. With so much content now being pushed out in the net, you can only work so fast as a filter if you're human. Perhaps/. needs to start developing some code to filter the news they want to present.
Sounds like a filter that will take your shitty essay and spit out one that will give you top marks is easy enough -- it could seriously be rapidly developed using perl or python.
I agree. With so much media attention on the bigwigs of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Anderson, you wonder why there was so little attention on Citibank. I thought that I was the only one who started getting suspicious when Citi bank changed my Visa to a Mastercard without prior notice. The only reason I could think of was that they were trying to make more money to cover their losses. They must be making more money by switching their users from Visa to MC -- there's no other reason. If Visa is "where I want to be," then why did they switch me without my approval? I thought that it only happened to a select few, until I started talking to colleagues with the same issue. I am asking the slashdot crowd, did this happen to you? Is anyone out there still holding a Citi card that is Visa instead of MC? Don't you think there ought to be some explanation from Citi as to why they did this?
With the advent of the internet, it's now easier for computer programmers to freelance (see the well known Rent-a-Coder website). My impression is that under the current GPL, a programmer possibly could legally do contract work by adding to a GPL'd project without being required to release the work -- so long as the buyer will never distribute the program via CD, floppy, or internet (i.e. keep the program "in-house"). Someone, correct me if this is not true.
It appears that closing this loophole will also close the doors for programmers to freelance in this manner. That is they won't be able to sell their programming service of enhancing a current GPL'd project -- unless, of course, the solicitor agrees to either pay or release the code. The other option is to force the programmer to pay the GPL fee and roll this expense into the contract costs. I think this issue has to be debated and discussed at length, because we can't go about and make a gut decision of saying this provision is a good addition to the GPL just because we want to make big companies like Google, Amazon, etc. pay. After all, it could affect freelance programmers -- this could very well be their bread-n-butter. Let's not get into the question of whether personal enhancements of GPL'd programming tools (e.g. IDE's) are required to be paid or released under the proposed provision, that could be a sticky situation.
Now, that it's April 2, I'm going to post a serious comment. Imagine if Apple was able to hire him, AND was able to make him sign a contract to 0wnz his code. Even if he had the time outside of Apple to tinker and hack, he would NEVER be able to release one iota of code during his tenure at Apple. Sure he may have the creative freedom he's always had, but would never be able to release them and discuss it others -- can anyone put a dollar amount to this? Sounds like for Jon, it's damned if you do damned if you don't, that is, he's got to make money somehow. Even if Apple doesn't make good use of Jon, it sounds like hiring him to shut him up may be worthwhile.
So use one of those things that tells you to type in the word in the box below, and it's all distorted with noise added to defeat character recognition algorithms.
Personally, I don't care about the fact that Matt wants to make money from the work he did for wordpress. I'm more concerned over the fact that he's engaging in something that I wouldn't do myself -- that is, stacking his site with keywords that pay disproportionately more than other adsense keywords.
I'm willing to look past what Matt does because he's essentially allowing another service (Hot Nacho) usurp his pagerank and I have a feeling he's going to drop Hot Nacho, but I'm having a harder time forgiving people like Chris Pirillo who promotes nonsense such as this guy's scheme to get more money from adsense. It sounds too much like the get rich quick real estate schemes of the late night infomercials. Everyone, please! If you use adsense then live by the adage, if it sounds too good to be true, then most likely it is. Don't ruin it for the rest of us by doing this grey area shit. We all will lose out! Sure the tricks may work in your favor in the here and now (like a pyramid scheme), but at who's cost in the long run? Sites who put up legit information about a certain adword will be sideswiped by sites who cheat. It's not fair. If google can't fix the cheats, they'll just yank it for everyone across the board.
Additionally, by tolerating behavior such as this, we're opening the door for other sites to steal legit material written by those who've poured too much research and time in each article. Play by the rules and everyone will be happy. If you're a leecher, hoarder, or just plain criminal, I wish you the worst case of hemorrhoids, dysentery, and cholera combined.
The obvious routes Apple is going to take to improve their user base has been thoroughly discussed -- like G5 for powerbooks, and a possible video iPod version. But what gets me excited about Apple is that I get the impression there is something else on the works that is going to blow us all away. I'm hoping that Apple will bring back the Newton, new and improved. It will have to blow Windows Mobile 2003 and Palm OS out of the water -- like Mac OS X did against Windows. If Steve has his way, we'd all be touting the virtues of Apple in every aspect of technology in our lives. Be afraid, be very afraid...errr, rather, wait with bated breath.
This is veering OT. Someone in UT please inform me otherwise or confirm, but IIRC, for you to be patrons in bars, you have to be "members" and for you to be "members" you have to have someone sponsor you, correct? Well, is it not true that you can just walk in a bar and just ask around for people to sponsor you? Doesn't this internet bill sound all too familiar? Putting on more red tape than they should. If the people want to drink, the thought of sponsorship isn't going to stop them, and if people want porn, bills like this isn't going to stop them either.
If you don't like the restrictions set on the songs, then don't pay $0.99 to buy it through the iTMS. Buy it or download it somewhere else...
IIRC, the same trick used to un-DRM music from Napster (i.e. Winamp and a well-known plug-in), will also allow you to convert WMA songs from Walmart online music store (at $0.88 a song) to mp3 for use on your MS unapproved portable mp3 player. Heck, you can probably use it for any music store selling WMA encoded songs.
The Invader Forces are apparently still active on Mars and Venus, controlling "installations in Mongolia... installations in the Pyrenees here on Earth, and there are installations down in the Mountains of the Moon in Africa which pick up, very often, people on death."
I wonder what the 5cient0l0gists believe were the true failures of both the Polar Lander and Beagle 2, both sent to study Mars. Perhaps these evil invader forces were to blame? Not wanting to be discovered?
You don't need curl to get the rm file if you don't want it. You could always play the rm stream straight with "mplayer URLofRMfile -ao pcm -aofile outfile.wav". With linux, you can also automate the whole thing with a simple bash script if you wanted (and then insert it as a cron job for full automation); then with the script, wait until a new show comes on and play.
This and a number of other tips can be found on my blog.
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I also have a Brother MFC and it's the best investment we've made. Actually, Dell sells an MFC at a much cheaper price, but we had to give it up because the scanbed doesn't support legal size paper (but the ADF does). Dell's MFC also comes with PaperPort. You can probably purchase from Dell with some back to school bargains (check the discount deal sites like techbargains, xpbargains, fatwallet, etc.). Even the cheapest laser MFC is a network printer (although scanning requires USB connection)--which means you can connect both via ethernet and USB, the ethernet is for printing for all the other systems on your LAN and the USB is for your Windows box. I also second the suggestion about Adobe Acrobat, it's the best piece of software out there, even though it's a Windows only piece of software.
You mean like how another goverment agency handles it (GSAauctions.gov)? A simple call to the GSA for help would have saved everyone a lot of heartache and hurt. I know it's a local agency asking a federal agency for help (i.e. crosstalk is not common), but when a riot is a possibility, it's worth the extra effort.
You mean that a government worker had to actually...umm...do work?
All kidding aside, this is a good suggestion, but your suggestion required that someone had to be there late in the evening the night before with the tickets, as this was the time people started rolling in and camping out. Simple crowd control measures would have sufficed (as already mentioned elsewhere). Seriously though, it sounds like the crowd took in the environment too literally--it was held at a racetrack no less.
I've tried this out recently:
GDE
I haven't done intense work with it recently. It appears to be a GUI for a huge collection of software.
If you just need a program for molecular biology work (DNA sequence and protein sequence analysis, organization, and publication quality layouts) then I suggest you check out Clone Manager 7. It's very pricey, but if your lab can afford it, it's a good piece of software. I know it's a *dows only program, but I can confirm that it works well with the latest version of Wine. Some work is needed to get the drives mapped correctly in wine, but it was well worth it for me. Imagine being able to NX client (like VNC) into your lab's machine and work on your sequences from home.
There are three things that one can do to reduce clutter (these are not my ideas, but I incorporate them in my life as best as possible). They are in no particular order. For all clutter or "projects" that you have to complete:
1. Hire it out
2. Throw it out
3. Or do it yourself
Let's say you're not doing number 1 (but if you are there's professional organizers out there who will be happy to have your business). Work on number 2 and 3, which means you first try to consolidate all your equipment. Really think about the devices you have and be honest with yourself if you really need it or if you can consolidate it with another device. For example, I don't have a network storage device, but I do share out my drives via smb. Everything that you don't need or use rarely, eBay or craigslist it or THROW IT OUT. The hoarders in us are really hesitant to throw things out---you could donate it to Goodwill or Salvation Army, etc.
Once you reduce the hardware clutter you can then work on the wires. With that, the many hints provided by the other here will suffice. Good luck and seriously, I never thought that the piles and piles of junk that I had in my home would affect my personal and emotional life. But after reducing all that junk that I had (I admit, a lot of it had to go in storage, so it's only a matter of time that I will have to deal with that junk), I have to say that my life feels much more stable. In anything that you buy or have in your home, you always have to think about whether or not you really need it, or is it something that you'll just play with for a few minutes a day without without any personal benefit.
Personally, I like using pybliographer (as was already mentioned) for my thesis. But also check out JabRef which is written entirely in Java. So if you ever needed to go back to windows and still want to manage your BibTeX entries, JabRef may be a good option. Be careful moving back and forth between different bib managers because each one has its own convention in created keys (by default)--thus, the key for one entry in pybliographer will be different than the key referring to the same entry in JabRef. IIRC, both programs allow you to redefine how you want your keys to be configured, so if you define your own key structure, this problem is minimal.
If you're on a Mac, try out BibDesk. This user has a screencast (flash video demonstration) showing you how to export "BibTeX data and adding it to a BibDesk library, autofiling and associating a PDF file, adding the citation to a TeX file, then formatting a bibliography."
Honestly, it sounds like you need to try out GraphPad Prism -- although it's currently only a *dows program.
I've asked your same question in one of my posts. I haven't been diligently looking for an alternative to Graphpad Prism in Linux, because at the current moment I have an XP system running it. I've tried to install and run GraphPad Prism using Wine, and it installs fine, but graphics rendering when starting up the program fails.
I'm a biologist who needs an easy to use graphing program that creates publication quality graphs. Those of you who have used GraphPad Prism will quickly realize that graphing programs like Excel, OpenOffice, etc. are vastly inferior to the quality produced by GraphPad Prism. Prism really has no competitive counterpart in form, function, and uniformity of graphing linear and nonlinear (curve fit) regression analysis -- other than perhaps SigmaPlot or Kaleidagraph. If you are in a bind, you could try buying Crossover Linux (wine) and try running GraphPad Prism in it. If someone has found a Linux clone to GraphPad Prism, please let me know!
Slashdot:
I get enough spam in my mailbox telling me to buy or short such and such stocks, I don't need to hear it from you. In fact you are doing the community a disservice by mentioning "price targets." Look, the article is interesting enough by posing a head-to-head battle between Blockbuster and Netflix, and a synopsis could have been easily written up that avoided even a mention of stock prices. In fact, that last comment starting with "Irrespective of what Pachter thinks about the overall DVD rental business..." was unnecessary. The last thing slashdot wants to be is a bulletin board for daytraders.
DVD Shrink works in Linux also.
Is it just me? But don't you think that the longhorn icon is too close to the University of Texas' trademarked logo? Unless MS has paid UT for the use of it, I don't see how the longhorn icon that has been floating around passes muster. I mean, even look at the colors! It's all too reminiscent of U Texas. I'm sorry, every time I'll see MS Longhorn, I'll be thinking of U Texas instead and somehow tie the two. Before you go and say that the U Texas logo still looks different than MS Longhorn icon, think about the actions that MS has taken in the past for seemingly different uses: Lindows versus Windows, MS wanting to trademark "Windows," etc. I hope U Texas is looking into this to develop a case against MS.
PDA phones are awesome, I own the Siemens SX66. However, I don't think Dell should be venturing into the PDA phone market in terms of producing just another GSM or CDMA phone for specific carriers in the US or abroad. They could always sell unlocked phones, but for some reason I doubt they will. Look at the HPaq 6315 PDA phone as an example. HP could have sold it unlocked outright with all the vendors they have, but they don't.
If Dell wants to beat out HP and their iPaq and all the new PDA phone vendors coming through the fray (like BenQ, Samsung, etc.), what they should do is: 1) sell the device unlocked, 2) quietly bolster hotspot development like T-Mobile's wifi hotspots, or even behind-the-scene ISP's such as speakeasy (which has a great TOS that allows you to share your broadband), 3) buy out VoIP services like Skype, SIPphone, or FreeWorldDialup and finally, 4) develop a kickass PDA application for VoIP on their wifi enabled PDA, that works well with your bluetooth headset, has voice dialing, call history list, caller ID, conferencing, all the accoutrements, etc. That application alone could make or break sales of the new PDA. If there was such an application pre-built/pre-installed on the X50, I would have bought that device long ago. Free calls using my wifi network that is comparable to my cell phone in functionality!?! It's a no-brainer.
First of all, Tor and Garth, this is the coolest project I've seen in a while -- makes me want to build one myself.
I see that the Verizon card is CDMA. Can you build a StompBox that uses GSM networks? I'm assuming you have to find the right PCMCIA card and just swap out your Verizon card and recompile your kernel. If it could be moved from 1xRTT to GSM, it could be portable to just about any GSM network worldwide! Imagine taking the box around Europe and still have internet access to email home!
Since you've been here from the early beginning, has
Sounds like a filter that will take your shitty essay and spit out one that will give you top marks is easy enough -- it could seriously be rapidly developed using perl or python.
I agree. With so much media attention on the bigwigs of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Anderson, you wonder why there was so little attention on Citibank. I thought that I was the only one who started getting suspicious when Citi bank changed my Visa to a Mastercard without prior notice. The only reason I could think of was that they were trying to make more money to cover their losses. They must be making more money by switching their users from Visa to MC -- there's no other reason. If Visa is "where I want to be," then why did they switch me without my approval? I thought that it only happened to a select few, until I started talking to colleagues with the same issue. I am asking the slashdot crowd, did this happen to you? Is anyone out there still holding a Citi card that is Visa instead of MC? Don't you think there ought to be some explanation from Citi as to why they did this?
With the advent of the internet, it's now easier for computer programmers to freelance (see the well known Rent-a-Coder website). My impression is that under the current GPL, a programmer possibly could legally do contract work by adding to a GPL'd project without being required to release the work -- so long as the buyer will never distribute the program via CD, floppy, or internet (i.e. keep the program "in-house"). Someone, correct me if this is not true.
It appears that closing this loophole will also close the doors for programmers to freelance in this manner. That is they won't be able to sell their programming service of enhancing a current GPL'd project -- unless, of course, the solicitor agrees to either pay or release the code. The other option is to force the programmer to pay the GPL fee and roll this expense into the contract costs. I think this issue has to be debated and discussed at length, because we can't go about and make a gut decision of saying this provision is a good addition to the GPL just because we want to make big companies like Google, Amazon, etc. pay. After all, it could affect freelance programmers -- this could very well be their bread-n-butter. Let's not get into the question of whether personal enhancements of GPL'd programming tools (e.g. IDE's) are required to be paid or released under the proposed provision, that could be a sticky situation.
Now, that it's April 2, I'm going to post a serious comment. Imagine if Apple was able to hire him, AND was able to make him sign a contract to 0wnz his code. Even if he had the time outside of Apple to tinker and hack, he would NEVER be able to release one iota of code during his tenure at Apple. Sure he may have the creative freedom he's always had, but would never be able to release them and discuss it others -- can anyone put a dollar amount to this? Sounds like for Jon, it's damned if you do damned if you don't, that is, he's got to make money somehow. Even if Apple doesn't make good use of Jon, it sounds like hiring him to shut him up may be worthwhile.
It's called CAPTCHA.
I'd like to add that finer control could be made with, say, a moderator system with a karma rating to weed out the SEDO's
Personally, I don't care about the fact that Matt wants to make money from the work he did for wordpress. I'm more concerned over the fact that he's engaging in something that I wouldn't do myself -- that is, stacking his site with keywords that pay disproportionately more than other adsense keywords.
I'm willing to look past what Matt does because he's essentially allowing another service (Hot Nacho) usurp his pagerank and I have a feeling he's going to drop Hot Nacho, but I'm having a harder time forgiving people like Chris Pirillo who promotes nonsense such as this guy's scheme to get more money from adsense. It sounds too much like the get rich quick real estate schemes of the late night infomercials. Everyone, please! If you use adsense then live by the adage, if it sounds too good to be true, then most likely it is. Don't ruin it for the rest of us by doing this grey area shit. We all will lose out! Sure the tricks may work in your favor in the here and now (like a pyramid scheme), but at who's cost in the long run? Sites who put up legit information about a certain adword will be sideswiped by sites who cheat. It's not fair. If google can't fix the cheats, they'll just yank it for everyone across the board.
Additionally, by tolerating behavior such as this, we're opening the door for other sites to steal legit material written by those who've poured too much research and time in each article. Play by the rules and everyone will be happy. If you're a leecher, hoarder, or just plain criminal, I wish you the worst case of hemorrhoids, dysentery, and cholera combined.
at about 27000 bp (8797x3), I'd much rather email someone the DNA sequence than the name.
The obvious routes Apple is going to take to improve their user base has been thoroughly discussed -- like G5 for powerbooks, and a possible video iPod version. But what gets me excited about Apple is that I get the impression there is something else on the works that is going to blow us all away. I'm hoping that Apple will bring back the Newton, new and improved. It will have to blow Windows Mobile 2003 and Palm OS out of the water -- like Mac OS X did against Windows. If Steve has his way, we'd all be touting the virtues of Apple in every aspect of technology in our lives. Be afraid, be very afraid...errr, rather, wait with bated breath.
This is veering OT. Someone in UT please inform me otherwise or confirm, but IIRC, for you to be patrons in bars, you have to be "members" and for you to be "members" you have to have someone sponsor you, correct? Well, is it not true that you can just walk in a bar and just ask around for people to sponsor you? Doesn't this internet bill sound all too familiar? Putting on more red tape than they should. If the people want to drink, the thought of sponsorship isn't going to stop them, and if people want porn, bills like this isn't going to stop them either.
IIRC, the same trick used to un-DRM music from Napster (i.e. Winamp and a well-known plug-in), will also allow you to convert WMA songs from Walmart online music store (at $0.88 a song) to mp3 for use on your MS unapproved portable mp3 player. Heck, you can probably use it for any music store selling WMA encoded songs.
I wonder what the 5cient0l0gists believe were the true failures of both the Polar Lander and Beagle 2, both sent to study Mars. Perhaps these evil invader forces were to blame? Not wanting to be discovered?
This and a number of other tips can be found on my blog.