Also, the Georgia DNR's Wildlife Resources Division pages were down for at least a day last week, meaning that the online recreation regulations relating to hunting and fishing were unavailable, along with online license sales through gofishgeorgia.com. I guess serving only IIS's 404 error page would be the opposite approach to the overall GO Georgia initiative.
Communication with the customers? That takes people skills, that I don't have. Just let Tom Smykowski do it...
"Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
One retailler is already bundling them, presumably with TiVo's blessing.
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Tivo already has a Music Jukebox and Picture Gallery, as part of the (no-additonal-fee) HMO software. The configuration is not web-based, per se, but it is possible to schedule recordings via the web.
That FLAG article is the best that I can remember in WIRED and that issue's just about the only one I saved out of the 4-foot stack that had accumulated when I moved last year.
WIRED's hardly worth the trouble to read any more; now that it's all Conde-Nasty, the wheat:chaff ratio is annoyingly low. (Case in point- the "musicans' style guide" supplement last month.) Besides the Bruce Sterling pieces and Jargon Watch, it's only the hope for another article from Stephenson that pulls my $10 every year. (I know, I know, back in the day, it cost a lot more than $10 a year, so what do I expect...)
Sure, it's scratch-resistant, which would be pretty handy, given the fact that the width of the average parking space hasn't kept pace with the expanding girth of the average car. Seems like my car picks up a ding a day.
Wonder how it holds up to sunlight, though. There are plenty of scalded-looking cars driving around here in Georgia, and many more further south and west. Somehow, my sense is that combination of plastic + UV would be an issue.
What about bodywork? Can it be done? Beyond their dent-resistance threshold, do the panels deform or fail? (Didn't Audi have to set up its own network of trusted body shops before the introduction of the latest aluminum-bodied A6, then offer free flatbed service to new owners, b/c typical body shops didn't have the right equipment and expertise?)
I'm all for political calls (in principle) as a means of getting information to voters and accept the idea that regulation of same verges on the "tyranny" that the 1st Amendment purports to prevent. What bugs me, though, are the *recorded* political announcements. During the week before the mid-term elections, I probably got three calls a day, most of which were recorded messages. When I get a call from and individual at the local office of party X, I'm free to say "Thanks, but I have a ride to the polls. I might add that, unless I'm surprised to find that ride is on the back of a winged pig across the frigid steppes of hell, I'm unlikely to vote for your candidate. Please refrain from calling me in the future." I've also said "Look, your guy had me at 'Hello.' Please spend your time calling folks whose opinion you can still affect." And they honor those requests, mostly. Certainly until the end of that election cycle.
I can't "opt-out" when they're wardialing, though, and that pisses me off. Is it tyranny to limit the details of the communication, but not the means?
Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Like Lawrence, I suspect I might enjoy doing two chicks at once. Tough to get them to pay the rent, too, though. Might have to be successful, first, then start doing the things I'd enjoy...
I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Having read the article in Fast Company and thumbed through the book, itself, at Borders (no thanks to their kiosk- can't someone teach that thing about endcaps and displays?), I would point out that Bronson seems to have sought folks to interview who had decided to forego the zeroes. That, in itself, isn't novel; it's trite. Indeed, platitudes like "do something you love" were counterproductive for some of the subjects, who obsessed over finding the "right" career, one that perfectly balanced the things they thought made them happy, only to find that the reality was pretty far from the quadrant graph. The meat of the book, though, was in their stories of how they ultimately figured it out, the vagueness of the hunches they followed, etc., and the feedback that reinforced their early decisions.
Cloudmark makes SpamNet, a P2P plugin for *gasp* Outlook, that allows users to submit spam messages to a database, where an algorithm integrates the submissions into a master spam list that gets published back to the clients, which then pull messages out of users' inboxes as they arrive. (Works pretty well, too.) I should think their DB would be a good place for this effort to begin.
Indeed. I stand corrected, not that I put much stock in CNN's science reporters, who seem mostly interested in citing other CNN stories- I followed the links in that story two deep and couldn't get to the primary reserach.
This looks like the real deal, though, and this woman'swork is pretty interesting, as well.
Many health professionals hope that following this summer's discovery of vancomycin-resistant staph aureus in the metro woman's foot, Americans will be scared enough to accept limited use of antibiotics.
It's not a matter of scaring people away from antibiotics, it's a matter of giving them something that actually might work, instead of just giving them something to get them out of the office...
Seems it wasn't too long ago that I spec'd a "Superdrive" for an iMac that was an LS-120 120MB floppy. I even bought it from Apple, IIRC. Now it's a DVD/CDRW combo drive? Did Imation not trademark that term?
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Also, the Georgia DNR's Wildlife Resources Division pages were down for at least a day last week, meaning that the online recreation regulations relating to hunting and fishing were unavailable, along with online license sales through gofishgeorgia.com. I guess serving only IIS's 404 error page would be the opposite approach to the overall GO Georgia initiative.
Which university did you graduate from, and did it have an English department?
What, they didn't teach contractions and possessives in your high school?
> Good point, you can only get students booted that go home for the weekend.
I don't remember anyone leaving campus to go home on the weekends, ever. Not even the kids from Menlo Park. Plus, there's that appeals process...
Communication with the customers? That takes people skills, that I don't have. Just let Tom Smykowski do it...
"Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
One retailler is already bundling them, presumably with TiVo's blessing.
Tivo already has a Music Jukebox and Picture Gallery, as part of the (no-additonal-fee) HMO software. The configuration is not web-based, per se, but it is possible to schedule recordings via the web.
That FLAG article is the best that I can remember in WIRED and that issue's just about the only one I saved out of the 4-foot stack that had accumulated when I moved last year.
WIRED's hardly worth the trouble to read any more; now that it's all Conde-Nasty, the wheat:chaff ratio is annoyingly low. (Case in point- the "musicans' style guide" supplement last month.) Besides the Bruce Sterling pieces and Jargon Watch, it's only the hope for another article from Stephenson that pulls my $10 every year. (I know, I know, back in the day, it cost a lot more than $10 a year, so what do I expect...)
Sure, it's scratch-resistant, which would be pretty handy, given the fact that the width of the average parking space hasn't kept pace with the expanding girth of the average car. Seems like my car picks up a ding a day.
Wonder how it holds up to sunlight, though. There are plenty of scalded-looking cars driving around here in Georgia, and many more further south and west. Somehow, my sense is that combination of plastic + UV would be an issue.
What about bodywork? Can it be done? Beyond their dent-resistance threshold, do the panels deform or fail? (Didn't Audi have to set up its own network of trusted body shops before the introduction of the latest aluminum-bodied A6, then offer free flatbed service to new owners, b/c typical body shops didn't have the right equipment and expertise?)
I'm all for political calls (in principle) as a means of getting information to voters and accept the idea that regulation of same verges on the "tyranny" that the 1st Amendment purports to prevent. What bugs me, though, are the *recorded* political announcements. During the week before the mid-term elections, I probably got three calls a day, most of which were recorded messages. When I get a call from and individual at the local office of party X, I'm free to say "Thanks, but I have a ride to the polls. I might add that, unless I'm surprised to find that ride is on the back of a winged pig across the frigid steppes of hell, I'm unlikely to vote for your candidate. Please refrain from calling me in the future." I've also said "Look, your guy had me at 'Hello.' Please spend your time calling folks whose opinion you can still affect." And they honor those requests, mostly. Certainly until the end of that election cycle.
I can't "opt-out" when they're wardialing, though, and that pisses me off. Is it tyranny to limit the details of the communication, but not the means?
Or maybe the "Uh."
Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Like Lawrence, I suspect I might enjoy doing two chicks at once. Tough to get them to pay the rent, too, though. Might have to be successful, first, then start doing the things I'd enjoy...
I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Having read the article in Fast Company and thumbed through the book, itself, at Borders (no thanks to their kiosk- can't someone teach that thing about endcaps and displays?), I would point out that Bronson seems to have sought folks to interview who had decided to forego the zeroes. That, in itself, isn't novel; it's trite. Indeed, platitudes like "do something you love" were counterproductive for some of the subjects, who obsessed over finding the "right" career, one that perfectly balanced the things they thought made them happy, only to find that the reality was pretty far from the quadrant graph. The meat of the book, though, was in their stories of how they ultimately figured it out, the vagueness of the hunches they followed, etc., and the feedback that reinforced their early decisions.
Uh, so what does that say about Pampers?
Without Viagra, would that spot have gone to Depends?
Do we know how the speed of an eagle would compare to that on an African swallow? Supposing two swallows carried it together, on a strand of creeper?
Cloudmark makes SpamNet, a P2P plugin for *gasp* Outlook, that allows users to submit spam messages to a database, where an algorithm integrates the submissions into a master spam list that gets published back to the clients, which then pull messages out of users' inboxes as they arrive. (Works pretty well, too.) I should think their DB would be a good place for this effort to begin.
Indeed. I stand corrected, not that I put much stock in CNN's science reporters, who seem mostly interested in citing other CNN stories- I followed the links in that story two deep and couldn't get to the primary reserach.
This looks like the real deal, though, and this woman's work is pretty interesting, as well.
Many health professionals hope that following this summer's discovery of vancomycin-resistant staph aureus in the metro woman's foot, Americans will be scared enough to accept limited use of antibiotics.
Not bloody likely. Though maybe if more doctors took the approach that was taken at the Olympic Village in Salt Lake City, the over-use of anti-biotics might start to decline. Not many doctors have that kind of captive audience, though.
It's not a matter of scaring people away from antibiotics, it's a matter of giving them something that actually might work, instead of just giving them something to get them out of the office...
Antibacterial soap doesn't contain antibiotics, as far as I know, and certainly doesn't contain Vancomycin.
Now, "Hey, Mom, thanks for taking me to the pediatrician for antibitoics every time I got the sniffles," is another matter, entirely.
From The Codeweavers supported apps list:
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Known Limitations
* The Office Assistant does not work well yet and usually causes malfunctions. Thus it is disabled by default.
Is this a bug or a feature?
I think the word you seek is "pidgin." Look it up.
Seems it wasn't too long ago that I spec'd a "Superdrive" for an iMac that was an LS-120 120MB floppy. I even bought it from Apple, IIRC. Now it's a DVD/CDRW combo drive? Did Imation not trademark that term?
And it won't even talk to my 'fridge to see if I need milk? What kind of convergence is this?