I think this method would be great, if it was implemented in conjunction with a contractor/employee rating system. And actually, now that I think about it, that would be BENEFICIAL to the customers/patients.
If the contractors were rated by the employers, then the employers could say they require a minimum level rating in order to accept your bid. This is good for the customer, in that you can see what the hospital/company accepts as a "minimum rating".
The main reason I was so interested in firefox to begin with (and the same reason I use it today), was that it focused on trimming out the unnecessary stuff from Mozilla. This makes startup/respopnse time much quicker. It used to take +/- 15 seconds to start mozilla, as opposed to +/- 3 seconds for firefox. Granted, I always run on older hardware, but still.
The other contenders for a fast browser (konqueror and opera) don't render pages correctly a lot of the time. Konqueror's KDE daemons make it slower to start up. Opera's banners make it rather annoying to use.
Don't leave anything in your car if you park it outside.
That's the best advice right there. This includes receipts or little papers. I was the victim of identity theft auto theft. They broke into my truck that was 100% spotless cleaned (i had just cleaned it). When I came out to my truck the seats and floor were COVERED with junk: receipts, papers, small items, old cd's, a smart media card, etc.
I thought "these people are stupid, this media card's worth like $30", and didn't report it. I just thought they didn't find anything. Then I saw on the news that my part of town has had numerous break-ins like this. They pull out all the shit from underneat the seat, behind the seat, and in the glovebox looking for social security numbers, paycheck stubs, reciepts with credit cards, etc.
By the way, receipts with masked credit card numbers aren't worth a crap. Some businesses mask the last 4 digits, some mask the first 12, some mask the last 3, some include the expiration date. When you piece them all together you get free money.
Also, lock your doors. My brother tooks some courses on home security, and said that by far the number one method for breaking in is by walking right through an unlocked door.
My bad, I was referring to stuff thats more than 2 years old (see link), and it's no longer an issue. They still don't have official packages, but at least they allow them now. Please ignore my previous post. http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/mp layer-d ev-eng/2002-03/msg00541.html
I think Best Buy treats customers just like banks treat their customers. Money talks, and when you have it, you get a higher level of service. But when you have free checking with $50.00 in it all the time, or when you only come in for special deals and then send in the rebate and return the item, then you shouldn't expect these companies to ask "how high" when you say jump.
Here's a "banker" joke that i heard from my banker recently:
An older guy walks into a bank and walks up to the lady teller.
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit!!!"
lady teller: "Excuse me?"
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit!!!"
lady teller: "You can't talk to me that way sir, let me get my manager"
bank manager: "Yes, How can I help you sir?"
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit for a million dollars!"
bank manager: "Is this bitch bothering you?" (points to teller)
One key query - searching the data on historical trades to identify maximum trade values - has been cut from 36 seconds to 0.03 seconds.
this probably has nothing to do with indexing or other table and/or query optimizations. i think we should just show these RAW STATS to microsoft customers and they'd switch instantly.
and monkeys fly out of my database administering butt.
I don't see how Dell will be able to woo very many people away from an iPod (even if it's a dead iPod).
oh i get, people would rather have something that doesn't work at all, instead of something that works great. that makes a lot of sense. very insightful.
if you and the other mac-dotters didn't make such acute assertions, i might say something like: maybe some people are sick of the extremely high priced mac-world and want to "switch" to something a little more affordable.
i really think you techno yuppie mac folks should open your eyes and realize that not everyone can afford the HIGH RECURRING COSTS of using mac crap. things like $100 replacement batteries (wtf is that?) and other parts, OS minor version upgrade costs, paying >$1000 for basic systems are not plausible options for a lot of people/families.
We get your local news stations here on cable and satellite... Michael Moore
Funny that you mention these two things, because when I first read this I was thinking that the issue of privacy concerns in Canada vs. U.S. is analogous to the U.S. news vs. Canadian news that Michael Moore brought up in Bowling for Columbine.
That is to say that American news tends to focus on negative news and scare concerns (ie non-existant africanized killer bees), in the same way that US companies focus on scare concerns that do not exist, and Canadian news tends to focus on positive news the same way their businesses focus on positive aspects of privacy concerns (building a better rapport with their customers).
universities are no longer run like places of education, but more like businesses. business has no place in education.
I sure as hell wish they WOULD start being ran like businesses, so that there would be a higher level of accountability from the people that run the schools that my tax dollars pay for!
It costs less to send your school to private school in Portland, Or ($5000/yr.) than it does to pay for public school ($6000/yr paid via taxes). A lot of people (myself included) believe private schools are better because they have smaller class sizes than public schools. So, how do the private schools get away with costing less than public school while having smaller class sizes? Efficiency and accountability. They're a business and efficiency is a key factor in having a successful business.
I just recently loaded windows 2000 on a new machine and found an application for windows that I can't live without: http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/
It allows you to go to the video store, rent a bunch of DVD's, spend an hour or so ripping them to the harddrive, and then queues them up to be encoded to divx format (2-pass) creating kick ass "backups" of dvd's. Oh and it's open source. I nominate it for something!
I like to be able to take even my legitimately purchased music and reduce it to the set of what *I* want to listen to. Isn't that my right as a consumer?
No, it's not. It's up to the seller, dude. It's the package they want to sell you. If their package is a CD with 12 songs on it, then you have no "right" to demand you only get one song.
If the concept you listed above was in fact true, I would be able to buy 20 seconds of a song because it's my "right" (it's the only 20 seconds of that milkshake song that i like anyway)!
A good analogy is telling picasso that you only want the top half of his painting for half the price.
To many people, the entire album is the art they want to share. If you don't want the entire album, you don't have the right to demand a portion of it!
Also, is it pretentious of me to claim that usually the rest of the album doesn't suck, but in fact people don't listen to it enough for them to appreciate it?
The queers said it best when they said (subs. BUD for Pabst, if you must):
I don't wanna hear your shit, don't wanna see your face Cause when it comes to dinking beer, don't you get on my case Heinekin is skunk piss dude, and Miller sucks so bad I'm Joe Queer, I've tried em all, I've spilled more than you had alright
Hey you motherfuckers I only drink Bud
Ben Weasel don't know a thing, Rancid don't even drink Even little Vapid's on the wagon, don't it stink? People in Chicago always brag about Old Style Before I drink that swill again, it's gonna be a while alright
I think the argument that the cost of mini-itx boards being too expensive is totally off base. The VIA mini-itx boards have a 1ghz CPU, sweet built in audio, network card, hardware mpeg2 decoder, and a graphics card with TVOUT and they cost around $120-$160 new.
Now, total up the cost of a full size mainboard ($50) + cpu ($50) + graphics card with tvout ($50 and you get about the same price, with a little more performance. In fact, the only plausible argument here, IMHO, would be that the performance is lacking (only comparitively speaking, by the way).
I did exactly what he said. I got my hands on the higher end cisco routers/switches by working at Portland State University (located in Oregon) for $8 an hour. And used that knowledge to get a CCNA. Then used that CCNA and experience to get a job making good money without a college degree.
I got to work underneath a very bright person (lead network engineer), who in my humble opinion provided me with a lot more useful information than a lot of the teachers did when I was a student there. I got to work with a large campus lan that used VLAN's, 802.11b (when it was $700 for a cisco base station), and even Internet2.
Basically, I highly recommend getting a job at a University in the NOC or IT operations, as what the jobs lack in pay is made up with copious amounts of resources and experience.
actually that's not the difference. i said that the 174,000 in INTEREST of the house was roughly equal to the 180,000 you paid TOTAL for the apartment.
so, if you add in the $150,000 that you had to pay to the principal, then you would have paid a total of 174K + 150K for the house.
First of all, how in the world did you figure $500 for a box and $100 for a router???? I would probably go ahead and figure about $150 for both since they should be the same box. $50 for a wireless PCI card and then $100 for two 200mhz boxes (for redundancy, an extra box configured the same way). Seriously, there's no need for more than a 200mhz box if you're just setting up firewalling services for a box sitting on a cable/dsl line. Then throw FreeBSD on there and set up IPFW. That is of course if you want to only spend 30 minutes installing and configuring it.
And since you have that extra $450 left over, go ahead and buy 45(!!) of these 802.11b wireless cards from outpost.com for $10 a piece, to basically give out to customers!
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How many did you contribute?
I got 3 people. My Mom, Dad, and my girlfriend. The things that impressed them the most were:
1. if you don't install firefox, windows update, and adaware, then I'm:
2. never
3. going
4. to help you
5. with your computer again!
seriously, i am so sick of spending 2 hours trying to determine what kind of virus my dad has over the phone.
an excerpt: "i dont know, the damn thing, dll.sys... i dunno.. reboot.. shit. should i just delete it?"
i love my dad.
I think this method would be great, if it was implemented in conjunction with a contractor/employee rating system. And actually, now that I think about it, that would be BENEFICIAL to the customers/patients.
If the contractors were rated by the employers, then the employers could say they require a minimum level rating in order to accept your bid. This is good for the customer, in that you can see what the hospital/company accepts as a "minimum rating".
The main reason I was so interested in firefox to begin with (and the same reason I use it today), was that it focused on trimming out the unnecessary stuff from Mozilla. This makes startup/respopnse time much quicker. It used to take +/- 15 seconds to start mozilla, as opposed to +/- 3 seconds for firefox. Granted, I always run on older hardware, but still.
The other contenders for a fast browser (konqueror and opera) don't render pages correctly a lot of the time. Konqueror's KDE daemons make it slower to start up. Opera's banners make it rather annoying to use.
Thank you M$ you just gave me the "final straw" to migrate to Linux.
Judging by your Slashdot User ID number, I find it very hard to believe you still use any microsoft products.
Don't leave anything in your car if you park it outside.
That's the best advice right there. This includes receipts or little papers. I was the victim of identity theft auto theft. They broke into my truck that was 100% spotless cleaned (i had just cleaned it). When I came out to my truck the seats and floor were COVERED with junk: receipts, papers, small items, old cd's, a smart media card, etc.
I thought "these people are stupid, this media card's worth like $30", and didn't report it. I just thought they didn't find anything. Then I saw on the news that my part of town has had numerous break-ins like this. They pull out all the shit from underneat the seat, behind the seat, and in the glovebox looking for social security numbers, paycheck stubs, reciepts with credit cards, etc.
By the way, receipts with masked credit card numbers aren't worth a crap. Some businesses mask the last 4 digits, some mask the first 12, some mask the last 3, some include the expiration date. When you piece them all together you get free money.
Also, lock your doors. My brother tooks some courses on home security, and said that by far the number one method for breaking in is by walking right through an unlocked door.
My bad, I was referring to stuff thats more than 2 years old (see link), and it's no longer an issue. They still don't have official packages, but at least they allow them now. Please ignore my previous post.p layer-d ev-eng/2002-03/msg00541.html
http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~maxi/html/m
Use MPlayer and donote to them.
Maybe someone should donate some pre-compiled binaries of MPlayer so that USErs can USE the software and leave the DEVELOPment to the DEVELOPers.
I think Best Buy treats customers just like banks treat their customers. Money talks, and when you have it, you get a higher level of service. But when you have free checking with $50.00 in it all the time, or when you only come in for special deals and then send in the rebate and return the item, then you shouldn't expect these companies to ask "how high" when you say jump.
Here's a "banker" joke that i heard from my banker recently:
An older guy walks into a bank and walks up to the lady teller.
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit!!!"
lady teller: "Excuse me?"
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit!!!"
lady teller: "You can't talk to me that way sir, let me get my manager"
bank manager: "Yes, How can I help you sir?"
old man: "I want to make a goddamn deposit for a million dollars!"
bank manager: "Is this bitch bothering you?" (points to teller)
One key query - searching the data on historical trades to identify maximum trade values - has been cut from 36 seconds to 0.03 seconds.
this probably has nothing to do with indexing or other table and/or query optimizations. i think we should just show these RAW STATS to microsoft customers and they'd switch instantly.
and monkeys fly out of my database administering butt.
I don't see how Dell will be able to woo very many people away from an iPod (even if it's a dead iPod).
oh i get, people would rather have something that doesn't work at all, instead of something that works great. that makes a lot of sense. very insightful.
if you and the other mac-dotters didn't make such acute assertions, i might say something like:
maybe some people are sick of the extremely high priced mac-world and want to "switch" to something a little more affordable.
i really think you techno yuppie mac folks should open your eyes and realize that not everyone can afford the HIGH RECURRING COSTS of using mac crap. things like $100 replacement batteries (wtf is that?) and other parts, OS minor version upgrade costs, paying >$1000 for basic systems are not plausible options for a lot of people/families.
it works fuckin' great for me!
Design is more than just 'its going to work this way', its also 'its going to work this way, because' ...
Yes, exactly. No matter how smart you are, you must be able to prove your smartness to critics or else it's not worth anything.
We get your local news stations here on cable and satellite ... Michael Moore
Funny that you mention these two things, because when I first read this I was thinking that the issue of privacy concerns in Canada vs. U.S. is analogous to the U.S. news vs. Canadian news that Michael Moore brought up in Bowling for Columbine.
That is to say that American news tends to focus on negative news and scare concerns (ie non-existant africanized killer bees), in the same way that US companies focus on scare concerns that do not exist, and Canadian news tends to focus on positive news the same way their businesses focus on positive aspects of privacy concerns (building a better rapport with their customers).
did you mean to use the word "shizzle"?
I'm shaking my head in utter disbelief.
If you write/enjoy cyberpunk, check out NeoMetropolis [neometropolis.com]
I'm sorry, did you mean to use the word cyberpunk? WTF, mate?
universities are no longer run like places of education, but more like businesses. business has no place in education.
I sure as hell wish they WOULD start being ran like businesses, so that there would be a higher level of accountability from the people that run the schools that my tax dollars pay for!
It costs less to send your school to private school in Portland, Or ($5000/yr.) than it does to pay for public school ($6000/yr paid via taxes).
A lot of people (myself included) believe private schools are better because they have smaller class sizes than public schools. So, how do the private schools get away with costing less than public school while having smaller class sizes? Efficiency and accountability. They're a business and efficiency is a key factor in having a successful business.
sorry mario, but your terrorist leader is in another castle!
I just recently loaded windows 2000 on a new machine and found an application for windows that I can't live without:
http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/
It allows you to go to the video store, rent a bunch of DVD's, spend an hour or so ripping them to the harddrive, and then queues them up to be encoded to divx format (2-pass) creating kick ass "backups" of dvd's. Oh and it's open source. I nominate it for something!
I like to be able to take even my legitimately purchased music and reduce it to the set of what *I* want to listen to. Isn't that my right as a consumer?
No, it's not. It's up to the seller, dude. It's the package they want to sell you. If their package is a CD with 12 songs on it, then you have no "right" to demand you only get one song.
If the concept you listed above was in fact true, I would be able to buy 20 seconds of a song because it's my "right" (it's the only 20 seconds of that milkshake song that i like anyway)!
A good analogy is telling picasso that you only want the top half of his painting for half the price.
To many people, the entire album is the art they want to share. If you don't want the entire album, you don't have the right to demand a portion of it!
Also, is it pretentious of me to claim that usually the rest of the album doesn't suck, but in fact people don't listen to it enough for them to appreciate it?
you can't make this stuff up:
bash-2.05b# java -jar Bfm.jar
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
bash-2.05b# uname
FreeBSD
i really like the 3D core dumping.
The queers said it best when they said (subs. BUD for Pabst, if you must):
I don't wanna hear your shit, don't wanna see your face
Cause when it comes to dinking beer, don't you get on my case
Heinekin is skunk piss dude, and Miller sucks so bad
I'm Joe Queer, I've tried em all, I've spilled more than you had alright
Hey you motherfuckers
I only drink Bud
Ben Weasel don't know a thing, Rancid don't even drink
Even little Vapid's on the wagon, don't it stink?
People in Chicago always brag about Old Style
Before I drink that swill again, it's gonna be a while alright
Hey you motherfuckers
I only drink Bud
I think the argument that the cost of mini-itx boards being too expensive is totally off base. The VIA mini-itx boards have a 1ghz CPU, sweet built in audio, network card, hardware mpeg2 decoder, and a graphics card with TVOUT and they cost around $120-$160 new.
Now, total up the cost of a full size mainboard ($50) + cpu ($50) + graphics card with tvout ($50 and you get about the same price, with a little more performance. In fact, the only plausible argument here, IMHO, would be that the performance is lacking (only comparitively speaking, by the way).
for us j2ee/ant/tomcat guys, symlinking is almost as hard as calling System.out.println()!
if they really wanted to sell their product, they would ship it with auto-symlink support!
I did exactly what he said. I got my hands on the higher end cisco routers/switches by working at Portland State University (located in Oregon) for $8 an hour. And used that knowledge to get a CCNA. Then used that CCNA and experience to get a job making good money without a college degree.
I got to work underneath a very bright person (lead network engineer), who in my humble opinion provided me with a lot more useful information than a lot of the teachers did when I was a student there. I got to work with a large campus lan that used VLAN's, 802.11b (when it was $700 for a cisco base station), and even Internet2.
Basically, I highly recommend getting a job at a University in the NOC or IT operations, as what the jobs lack in pay is made up with copious amounts of resources and experience.
actually that's not the difference. i said that the 174,000 in INTEREST of the house was roughly equal to the 180,000 you paid TOTAL for the apartment.
so, if you add in the $150,000 that you had to pay to the principal, then you would have paid a total of 174K + 150K for the house.
First of all, how in the world did you figure $500 for a box and $100 for a router???? I would probably go ahead and figure about $150 for both since they should be the same box. $50 for a wireless PCI card and then $100 for two 200mhz boxes (for redundancy, an extra box configured the same way). Seriously, there's no need for more than a 200mhz box if you're just setting up firewalling services for a box sitting on a cable/dsl line. Then throw FreeBSD on there and set up IPFW. That is of course if you want to only spend 30 minutes installing and configuring it.
And since you have that extra $450 left over, go ahead and buy 45(!!) of these 802.11b wireless cards from outpost.com for $10 a piece, to basically give out to customers!
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3882037