The first domain name I bouht, I used all my real information.
I had to give up an email address because of spam. I started getting tons of (physical) junk mail. THis was years ago before good spam filtering, and I just couldn't keep up.
I'd be much more tempted to use real info if it was harder for the spambots to find.
Really - this is SOP in many, if not most places. At my company, anyone with "sensitive" access is immediately revoked upon receipt of written resignation. Period.
A former place of employment was so bad, that when I was leaving on poor terms, I was asked (by the head of HR) for "all the passwords I knew". I had to explain that if I told them to him, I'd still know them and could use them. He was shocked when I informed him that his IS staff would have to figure out how to change a hundred passwords.
These guys are good. I bought my first professional 35MM camera from them back in 1980, and they are still alive and kicking. They have five stores, two in West LA, one in Santa Barbara, one in Pasadena, and one in Santa Ana. Not a fly-by-night operation by any means. Everything from consumer to prosumer to pro; video, digital or film.
They used to have a store in downtown LA, in The Brewery. I'm not sure why they left, but now I live in their former 6,000 square foot space. I still get mail for them on occasion.
Not contradicting your point, but questioning where gas would not be available. Yes - the article says remote rural areas, but if we can get people to them, then why can't they purchase cylinders of gas or drive a tanker there to a central gas tank locally?
Well, I grew up in a rural area and have some experience with that. The problem is that tanks are bulky, and they shouldn't be transported in a closed vehicle (they belong in a pickup bed, not a back seat). So, if you don't have a pickup or you aren't strong enough to pick up a large cylinder (there's no point in using a small cylinder) you have to have it delivered. The delivery costs are high enough to make people look at other options.
We always used electric water heaters and heated with electricity & wood. The dryer ran on gas because it was such a low user of gas.
I think that movie thing is a brilliant idea. If they'd charge 3 bucks to see a million dollar movie and 15 - 20 to see a 200 million dollar movie, people would just go to see the cheap movies. More cheap movies would be made, usually by indie filmmakers and the big budget crap blockbusters would die out. That sounds great!
Great in theory, but sucky in reality.
They wouldn't lower prices for small movies; they'd charge more for big ones.
On the other hand, I go to a movie every year or two, so I don't really give a shit.
ust in case you are an American, or possibly drive a car made by Suzuki, we will spell the purpose of Petrol Direct out to you in simple terms. This is a spoof. A parody. We do not sell petrol or any other fuels, and certainly not plutonium or antimatter. Sorry. This site is strictly for laughs only.
My girlfriend's iBook has FireWire 400, but only USB 2.0, and so can't be used with the Nano without an extra cable, if at all. Even if it did have USB2, using it would completely kill the CPU - FireWire, on the other hand, has almost zero CPU overhead. A shame, because the Nano is large enough to fit her music collection onto.
Did you possibly mean USB 1.0 or 1.1?
In any case, if you can fit her entire music collection in 4GB, make the initial transfer at night when nobody is using the iBook. At that point, it won't matter how slow it is. Next time she adds a CD to her collection, it won't take much to update the Nano.
I really don't see a USB interface as a big problem.
Thanks for the tip. At that price I'll probably bite. I was in Fry's and the copies on the shelves were $49.99 but I didn't look at any of their flyers to see if there was one of Fry's "instant rebate" dealies on it.
The flyer said $35, and there was no mention of a sale price anywhere in the store. I figured I'd have to fight for it, but I was wrong.
I personally much prefer games where you have to aim and dodge to games where you don't, but the DS series is still fun. I just wish these games didn't cost $50, or take so long (years) to drop down to lower prices.
I got a copy at Fry's for $35 - within a week of it hitting the shelves. I saw one other ad for a $35 copy.
Making the music available is one thing, but getting people to hear it is much harder.
As much as I hate radio and traditional lables, I still haven't found a way to get recommendations for new bands that doesn't suck. At least I can hear new music on the radio.
What options are out there - a 30 second low-fi clip on a website doesn't do it for me. At all.
I used to work for a school district as an IT guy. The ignorant trolls in the personnel department demanded their own locks on the doors (my master wouldn't work) and all sorts of other "special" security.
Of course when I went to work on their machines, they would have their passwords on post-it notes on the keyboard.
On more than one occasion, somebody would yell "hey Cindy, I need to use the blah blah system; what's the password". Cindy would yell it back to them - during business hours with lots of extra people in the room.
Lock your network all you want, but if you hire idiots or people who don't care, it's an easy wasy to lose.
Apple's iTunes Music Store can now say half a billion served....Except that you didn't link to their lovely half-a-billion front page, you linked to the store page which they forgot to update since 'over 430,000 '.
For the teeming horders: clicky on the apple in the top left, et voila.
The submitter posted a while back stating that his submisssion had been edited, and they changed the URL he posted.
That's nice. Why don't people just buy new monitors for $200-$300 that have the capability of displaying the content?
Are you fucking kidding? I need to landfill my current monitor and spend an additional $200 - $300 (or signifcantly more if it's a good one) just to watch certain content?
In woodworking parlance, "by hand" means without the use of powered tools. "Handmade furniture" is built using hand planes instead of jointers and planars, handdrills instead of a drillpress, routing planes instead of a router, hand saws instead of table saws, etc.
Hmmmmm. Not so sure I agree with you on that point. To me, "handcarved" has been with non-powered tools, but "handmade/handcrafted" furnature has been "made by hand, not a big factory".
I'm a woodworker, although I do much more metal now, and the vast majority of the work I have done has been with powered tools (table saw, joiner, planer...) I still consider it to all be hand made, as I made it in one-off quantities, with my hands.
If everybody goes at the posted speed, there are fewer slower drivers, and the rate can be sustained for longer periods of time because fewer accidents will happen.
But that doesn't happen. Not everybody drives the posted speed. I grew up in the sticks, and I currently live in L.A. In neither place does everybody drive at the limit.
Do you have any idea of how dangerous it is to be behind some drooler who enters the freeway while going 40? I see this happen every day. The speed limit on the freeway is between 55 and 70, yet you have to deal with entering at 40 and trying to deal with merging into a lane going 20mph or so faster than you.
Do the cops ticket those clowns? No way; there isn't enough revenue to bother.
You can get Marketplace daily from Audible.com for a monthly/annual fee. And they just recently announced support for RSS delivery for their periodic content.
Holy crap! Audible is super insanely expensive.
$10-$20 a month for most radio shows? Ouch.
$10 for a book is fine, but I can't understand why it would be so expensive to repackage a radio broadcast. It's not like they are hiring anybody to read it...
I know I'm picking nits here, but technically, Marketplace is not an NPR product. It's American Public Media (and used to be Minnesota Public Radio IIRC) and is distributed by Public Radio International.
I bought an iPod specifically so I wouldn't have to listen to people blathering wherever I go. I guess Podcasting isn't for me then. Even the music Podcasts have irritating DJs introducing everything, but at least I can fast forward through them.
You get more than whiney blogs. Many news outlets podcast their shows.
Really want to hear "The Treatment" on KCRW? or "Classic Rockstar Interviews" on Q104.3? Simply subscribe to them.
Personally, I'd love to get NPR's Marketplace. Sadly, I'm at work when it's braodcast and can't tune it in.
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The first domain name I bouht, I used all my real information.
I had to give up an email address because of spam. I started getting tons of (physical) junk mail.
THis was years ago before good spam filtering, and I just couldn't keep up.
I'd be much more tempted to use real info if it was harder for the spambots to find.
When do we start the death penalty for spammers?
Really - this is SOP in many, if not most places. At my company, anyone with "sensitive" access is immediately revoked upon receipt of written resignation. Period.
A former place of employment was so bad, that when I was leaving on poor terms, I was asked (by the head of HR) for "all the passwords I knew". I had to explain that if I told them to him, I'd still know them and could use them. He was shocked when I informed him that his IS staff would have to figure out how to change a hundred passwords.
It was a great place to leave.
These guys are good. I bought my first professional 35MM camera from them back in 1980, and they are still alive and kicking. They have five stores, two in West LA, one in Santa Barbara, one in Pasadena, and one in Santa Ana. Not a fly-by-night operation by any means. Everything from consumer to prosumer to pro; video, digital or film.
They used to have a store in downtown LA, in The Brewery. I'm not sure why they left, but now I live in their former 6,000 square foot space. I still get mail for them on occasion.
Not contradicting your point, but questioning where gas would not be available. Yes - the article says remote rural areas, but if we can get people to them, then why can't they purchase cylinders of gas or drive a tanker there to a central gas tank locally?
Well, I grew up in a rural area and have some experience with that. The problem is that tanks are bulky, and they shouldn't be transported in a closed vehicle (they belong in a pickup bed, not a back seat). So, if you don't have a pickup or you aren't strong enough to pick up a large cylinder (there's no point in using a small cylinder) you have to have it delivered. The delivery costs are high enough to make people look at other options.
We always used electric water heaters and heated with electricity & wood. The dryer ran on gas because it was such a low user of gas.
No.
I think your average drugs dealers is a bit better than these guys
True. At least a drug dealer is selling something people want. Unlike the crap the record industry is producing.
I think that movie thing is a brilliant idea. If they'd charge 3 bucks to see a million dollar movie and 15 - 20 to see a 200 million dollar movie, people would just go to see the cheap movies. More cheap movies would be made, usually by indie filmmakers and the big budget crap blockbusters would die out. That sounds great!
Great in theory, but sucky in reality.
They wouldn't lower prices for small movies; they'd charge more for big ones.
On the other hand, I go to a movie every year or two, so I don't really give a shit.
ust in case you are an American, or possibly drive a car made by Suzuki, we will spell the purpose of Petrol Direct out to you in simple terms. This is a spoof. A parody. We do not sell petrol or any other fuels, and certainly not plutonium or antimatter. Sorry. This site is strictly for laughs only.
Oh SHIT! I'm an American who drives a Suzuki.
Wait, it says "GEO" on the back, am I OK?
My girlfriend's iBook has FireWire 400, but only USB 2.0, and so can't be used with the Nano without an extra cable, if at all. Even if it did have USB2, using it would completely kill the CPU - FireWire, on the other hand, has almost zero CPU overhead. A shame, because the Nano is large enough to fit her music collection onto.
Did you possibly mean USB 1.0 or 1.1?
In any case, if you can fit her entire music collection in 4GB, make the initial transfer at night when nobody is using the iBook. At that point, it won't matter how slow it is. Next time she adds a CD to her collection, it won't take much to update the Nano.
I really don't see a USB interface as a big problem.
Thanks for the tip. At that price I'll probably bite. I was in Fry's and the copies on the shelves were $49.99 but I didn't look at any of their flyers to see if there was one of Fry's "instant rebate" dealies on it.
The flyer said $35, and there was no mention of a sale price anywhere in the store. I figured I'd have to fight for it, but I was wrong.
I personally much prefer games where you have to aim and dodge to games where you don't, but the DS series is still fun. I just wish these games didn't cost $50, or take so long (years) to drop down to lower prices.
I got a copy at Fry's for $35 - within a week of it hitting the shelves. I saw one other ad for a $35 copy.
"Mazda switches to USB keys"
Um, no.
Mazda put a USB key in a freakin' concept car. There's no USB keys in any Mazda at any dealership now. It might happen some day down the road.
"Switches" my ass. "Tries out"? "Messes about with"?
Come on guys.
Making the music available is one thing, but getting people to hear it is much harder.
As much as I hate radio and traditional lables, I still haven't found a way to get recommendations for new bands that doesn't suck. At least I can hear new music on the radio.
What options are out there - a 30 second low-fi clip on a website doesn't do it for me. At all.
I used to work for a school district as an IT guy. The ignorant trolls in the personnel department demanded their own locks on the doors (my master wouldn't work) and all sorts of other "special" security.
Of course when I went to work on their machines, they would have their passwords on post-it notes on the keyboard.
On more than one occasion, somebody would yell "hey Cindy, I need to use the blah blah system; what's the password". Cindy would yell it back to them - during business hours with lots of extra people in the room.
Lock your network all you want, but if you hire idiots or people who don't care, it's an easy wasy to lose.
OK, I like metal.
So I browsed the metal selection. All 21 (twenty-one) "records". I have never heard of any of the bands.
This will be a huge failure.
HUGE.
Did I say this would be a huge failure?
This is a freaking joke.
Apple's iTunes Music Store can now say half a billion served. ...Except that you didn't link to their lovely half-a-billion front page, you linked to the store page which they forgot to update since 'over 430,000 '.
For the teeming horders: clicky on the apple in the top left, et voila.
The submitter posted a while back stating that his submisssion had been edited, and they changed the URL he posted.
That's nice. Why don't people just buy new monitors for $200-$300 that have
the capability of displaying the content?
Are you fucking kidding?
I need to landfill my current monitor and spend an additional $200 - $300 (or signifcantly more if it's a good one) just to watch certain content?
100% bullshit.
How does ipod sales reflect on volume discount of intel processors? Does the ipod run on one?
According to TFA, they may be moving to an Intel chip at some future point.
In woodworking parlance, "by hand" means without the use of powered tools. "Handmade furniture" is built using hand planes instead of jointers and planars, handdrills instead of a drillpress, routing planes instead of a router, hand saws instead of table saws, etc.
Hmmmmm. Not so sure I agree with you on that point. To me, "handcarved" has been with non-powered tools, but "handmade/handcrafted" furnature has been "made by hand, not a big factory".
I'm a woodworker, although I do much more metal now, and the vast majority of the work I have done has been with powered tools (table saw, joiner, planer...) I still consider it to all be hand made, as I made it in one-off quantities, with my hands.
If everybody goes at the posted speed, there are fewer slower drivers, and the rate can be sustained for longer periods of time because fewer accidents will happen.
But that doesn't happen. Not everybody drives the posted speed. I grew up in the sticks, and I currently live in L.A. In neither place does everybody drive at the limit.
Do you have any idea of how dangerous it is to be behind some drooler who enters the freeway while going 40? I see this happen every day. The speed limit on the freeway is between 55 and 70, yet you have to deal with entering at 40 and trying to deal with merging into a lane going 20mph or so faster than you.
Do the cops ticket those clowns? No way; there isn't enough revenue to bother.
You can get Marketplace daily from Audible.com for a monthly/annual fee. And they just recently announced support for RSS delivery for their periodic content.
Holy crap! Audible is super insanely expensive.
$10-$20 a month for most radio shows? Ouch.
$10 for a book is fine, but I can't understand why it would be so expensive to repackage a radio broadcast. It's not like they are hiring anybody to read it...
I know I'm picking nits here, but technically, Marketplace is not an NPR product. It's American Public Media (and used to be Minnesota Public Radio IIRC) and is distributed by Public Radio International.
Doh!
Bad fact checking. Sorry.
Great show, anyway.
I bought an iPod specifically so I wouldn't have to listen to people blathering wherever I go. I guess Podcasting isn't for me then. Even the music Podcasts have irritating DJs introducing everything, but at least I can fast forward through them.
You get more than whiney blogs. Many news outlets podcast their shows.
Really want to hear "The Treatment" on KCRW? or "Classic Rockstar Interviews" on Q104.3?
Simply subscribe to them.
Personally, I'd love to get NPR's Marketplace. Sadly, I'm at work when it's braodcast and can't tune it in.
www.timecube.com
Holy shit.
I used to think I was a freak.
This web page is a little raw because I just got the camera and I'm leaving on a trip soon. So, I'll be brief and hopefully informative.
Yes it was brief.
Server's down.