There was once a time when I was working at Big Blue that me, my manager, and his manager were all doing woodworking as a hobby after work. Of course the price/quality of the power tools went up as you went up the management chain.
Our theory was that after working all day on abstract things, there was nothing like going home and working on real stuff.
I also noticed that pound for pound, woodworking is a MUCH cheaper hobby than computers! $500 gets you hardware you can't pick up without help. It's also nice that if you step away for a period of time that you don't have to totally relearn how to cut a board...
Someone obviously didn't get the reference! Normally an unexpected birth would have the mother with a lot of explaining to do to the surprised father - hence the I Love Lucy reference...
From my personal experience I've been getting a LOT of spam lately which is addressed to "made up" addresses at my domain. Either an awful lot of people lately have been giving out fake email addresses at my domain or spammers are somehow making them up from reasonable sounding usernames that never existed at my domain.
I personally found the screenshots at http://www.send-safe.com/screenshots.php to be VERY informative and would recommend that everyone interested in how spam works to check out the site. In fact it probably changes a lot so you should hit reload often...
I've been using a plugin with Winamp for more than a year which makes it translucent. Desktop icons are visible through the playlist so it's not just the background pasted.
After I've spent 20 years typing everything on a computer and forgetting how to write, they come out with pen based PDA's and other devices and tell me to write to them!!! I can't even read my writing anymore, what chance does a computer have?
I don't know why anyone thinks that this isn't the case already. People pay good money to retrieve "facts" from information services. The example in the top article was phone numbers. How about TV Listings, UPC codes, traffic jam info, movie listings, even weather climate data (forecasts aren't facts) - all of these things are available in some limited way in advertiser paid form, but people who need that info for a living pay big bucks for it. You can't own a fact, but you sure can make big bucks organizing facts for easy retrieval by others!
Something I learned a long time ago. Don't EVER make a purchase you'd find useless if a promised future feature/accessory/upgrade doesn't actually happen! I've seen companies promise accessories down the road that don't actually happen. Features that should only require a firmware upgrade turn out not to be possible without a hardware change. My personal favorite for a while not has been HDTV upgradable TVs - a couple of years after you buy that new TV, are you SURE that company would be happy developing new accessories for "last years model" or do you think they'd MUCH rather sell you this years model... Are you sure that new DRM standards aren't going to cripple the possibility of that future accessory upgrade you were promised?
Re:For the lazy: - did you look at the roadmap???
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Part of their roadmap is more use of open source tools!!! They specifically mention OpenLDAP, Tomcat, PHP, and Mozilla. Uh, isn't that what they are saying is a bad thing????
See my other reply on this subtopic - the CS1504 is a pleasure to use, the CueCat is a royal pain. I have a few CueCats too and they'll never see the light of day again.
I've used both the CueCat (still have a bunch collecting dust) and the CS1504 and let me tell you that the CS1504 is SOOOO much less frustrating to use - the scanner really works well and quickly on the CS1504. Also, the CS1504 stores barcodes in its own memory while not connected to the computer which is nice if your entire book or CD collection or kitchen is not within CueCat cable length of a computer (though that can always be fixed:-) The CS1504 is the size of a remote entry keyfob for a car, so you can even take it with you and scan the codes for things you are thinking of buying and then shop online for them (this is actually Symbols tarket market for the scanner, though they want to leave it up to someone else to write the software/manage the database). What can I say, something you can walk around with, scan stuff with a laser, and it beeps when it gets a code, sounds like at least one Star Trek episode...
Re:The best geek gift I ever got - barcode scanner
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http://www.upcdatabase.com is one place to start, they have UPC codes for supermarket and department store type stuff as well as other odds and ends. But another exciting source of info was the Amazon.com web services API which I use to do ISBN lookups and they now also have UPC code searches for their other products. I wrote a Java API which can query either site.
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There was once a time when I was working at Big Blue that me, my manager, and his manager were all doing woodworking as a hobby after work. Of course the price/quality of the power tools went up as you went up the management chain.
Our theory was that after working all day on abstract things, there was nothing like going home and working on real stuff.
I also noticed that pound for pound, woodworking is a MUCH cheaper hobby than computers! $500 gets you hardware you can't pick up without help. It's also nice that if you step away for a period of time that you don't have to totally relearn how to cut a board...
How about those AOL CDs you've been collecting.
Maybe they found out about the hack bounty and wanted to collect the revenue.
And does it threaten to de-rez if you try to load Linux?
Someone obviously didn't get the reference! Normally an unexpected birth would have the mother with a lot of explaining to do to the surprised father - hence the I Love Lucy reference...
Does that mean that business process patents would have to be profitable before they were patentable?
You got some splaining to do....
Imagine a theme park doing the 6 lane version as a futuristic thrill ride. You'd have to hose off the seats after every run...
From my personal experience I've been getting a LOT of spam lately which is addressed to "made up" addresses at my domain. Either an awful lot of people lately have been giving out fake email addresses at my domain or spammers are somehow making them up from reasonable sounding usernames that never existed at my domain.
Afterall, Microsoft believes they have the same target market share.
Use this as your on hold music...
d es cramble_joe_wecker.mp3
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/css_
I personally found the screenshots at http://www.send-safe.com/screenshots.php to be VERY informative and would recommend that everyone interested in how spam works to check out the site. In fact it probably changes a lot so you should hit reload often...
I've been using a plugin with Winamp for more than a year which makes it translucent. Desktop icons are visible through the playlist so it's not just the background pasted.
Stock options...
He's just setting up an insanity defense in advance for some super crime he's planning...
After I've spent 20 years typing everything on a computer and forgetting how to write, they come out with pen based PDA's and other devices and tell me to write to them!!! I can't even read my writing anymore, what chance does a computer have?
They could have done much better if they had introduced master beta.
Oh come on, you laughed...
I don't know why anyone thinks that this isn't the case already. People pay good money to retrieve "facts" from information services. The example in the top article was phone numbers. How about TV Listings, UPC codes, traffic jam info, movie listings, even weather climate data (forecasts aren't facts) - all of these things are available in some limited way in advertiser paid form, but people who need that info for a living pay big bucks for it. You can't own a fact, but you sure can make big bucks organizing facts for easy retrieval by others!
Something I learned a long time ago. Don't EVER make a purchase you'd find useless if a promised future feature/accessory/upgrade doesn't actually happen! I've seen companies promise accessories down the road that don't actually happen. Features that should only require a firmware upgrade turn out not to be possible without a hardware change. My personal favorite for a while not has been HDTV upgradable TVs - a couple of years after you buy that new TV, are you SURE that company would be happy developing new accessories for "last years model" or do you think they'd MUCH
rather sell you this years model... Are you sure that new DRM standards aren't going to cripple the possibility of that future accessory upgrade you were promised?
Part of their roadmap is more use of open source tools!!! They specifically mention OpenLDAP, Tomcat, PHP, and Mozilla. Uh, isn't that what they are saying is a bad thing????
I can see it now - http://www.versalaser.com coming out with a whole new line of kitchen attachments for their product...
spam.
Oh come on, you were thinking it too...
See my other reply on this subtopic - the CS1504 is a pleasure to use, the CueCat is a royal pain. I have a few CueCats too and they'll never see the light of day again.
I've used both the CueCat (still have a bunch collecting dust) and the CS1504 and let me tell you that the CS1504 is SOOOO much less frustrating to use - the scanner really works well and quickly on the CS1504. Also, the CS1504 stores barcodes in its own memory while not connected to the computer which is nice if your entire book or CD collection or kitchen is not within CueCat cable length of a computer (though that can always be fixed :-) The CS1504 is the size of a remote entry keyfob for a car, so you can even take it with you and scan the codes for things you are thinking of buying and then shop online for them (this is actually Symbols tarket market for the scanner, though they want to leave it up to someone else to write the software/manage the database). What can I say, something you can walk around with, scan stuff with a laser, and it beeps when it gets a code, sounds like at least one Star Trek episode...
http://www.upcdatabase.com is one place to start, they have UPC codes for supermarket and department store type stuff as well as other odds and ends. But another exciting source of info was the Amazon.com web services API which I use to do ISBN lookups and they now also have UPC code searches for their other products. I wrote a Java API which can query either site.