Bluetooth is significantly cheaper to implement, costing under $20US per device to the manufacturer.
I can buy an 802.11b card for $20 retail, so it can't cost much more than that to build, even assuming the standard sell-for-less-than-it-costs high-tech business model.
About halfway across the LARGE parking lot a HUGE plain clothes chases me down, and attempts to search my backpack and bags. I let him search the bag, but refuse the backpack search. He threatens to call the cops, I let him search backpack, he messes up all my school crap, and breaks the cover of my graphing calc, then takes me to the store to take my picture.
Advice for next time: You do not have to consent to a search of your bag in their parking lot, and you definitely do not have to go back in the store to have your picture taken (why, why, why would you agree to do that???). If you feel uncomfortable with how you're being treated by a store security guard, ask them whether they intend to physically keep you there. If they do not, turn around and leave without another word (this will be the case 99% of the time). If they are, clam up and demand the police. Once they have taken it upon themselves to detain you they face a pretty high standard of evidence (higher than the police would). They absolutely cannot forcibly search you under any circumstances - only the police can do that. If the store security people get touchy-feely, do not be shy about informing them you'll be pressing assault charges. It doesn't have to hurt to be an assault - it just has to make you uncomfortable.
If they "threaten" to call the cops, call their bluff. Keep walking. On the (highly unlikely) chance that they do, the police will find you walking down the road, and if they believe that you've stolen something, they'll do the same search that the security guard was going to do (except more professionally). You are not doing anything wrong by walking away from a store where you didn't steal anything, no matter how much some guard wants to hassle you.
This is no tinfoil hat thing, I'm just sick and tired of being a demographic. I know you LOVE comercials, and cookies, and targeted popups, telemarketers calling you for dinner, for services you don't want/need. (autoglass repair for me, I own a damn bicycle! Natch!) You fill out all those forms they send you, you subscribe to NYT, and Porn4free, then bitch about Penis Enlarger spam, and preach the joys of Mozillas junk filter.
You're getting the penis enlarger spam precisely because they DON'T have this targeted demographic information (either that or you have a notoriously small penis). If they could actually narrow down just the people who cared, there would finally be no point to blanketing the planet with spam. Likewise you and I would stop getting car insurance ads in the mail every week, and so on. Maybe someone selling bike insurance could finally afford to target me with an ad.
Not that I endorse in-depth consumer tracking as a solution to the spam problem. I just sort of think you have it backwards.
10 seconds of commercial is not too much to worry about nor should it effect your judgements of the music.
Visit a music mag sometime. It's not a bunch of people in three-piece suits sipping Earl Grey while they listen to new music on $350 headphones in sound-proof chambers.
New discs come in with the day's mail and pile up somewhere. Certain people (you know who you are) go through and pick out the good ones and hoard them in their desk drawers. Then people put remaining discs that look promising on the stereo (almost invariably a cheap one-piece with broken buttons sitting on top of a file cabinet with at least one drawer that nobody has the key to any longer), and if the rest of the room thinks it's crap, people start yelling to change the CD.
In a climate like that, something with spoken-word commercials every few minutes is going to piss off people who are trying to read and write. So it won't get played, and unless it's someone's favorite band, it will find its way to the bottom of the pile and won't get reviewed. Eventually someone's girlfriend will take it home and play it once and then lose it under the couch.
What do I know. You are an anonycow that reviews for publications while I'm just a music tech that works for the pros and has to hear them bitch at me constantly about their music being stolen while I sit and explain how this stuff works and try to explain how they can try to stop it OR try to figure out ways to subvert this activity so that it ends up helping them out without alienating their core audience.
Insulting the people who are in the best position to convince the core audience to buy the music seems like a fantastic idea. With that kind of lateral thinking, it's a wonder you're not running a record company already.
Your sarcasm is indicative of the sickness of liberal thinking. I don't watch Fox News, FYI.
There wouldn't be any point. You already sound just like them. "The sickness of liberal thinking"? And what does sarcasm have to do with it?
ow am I to debate in an enivironment where I'm censored by the teachers and most of the students don't care to challanged?
Take the teachers on. If they're just shutting you down it's because you're failing to say anything interesting. Trust me, I've taught in university. No matter what someone's politics are, when they're standing at the front of the classroom, Priority One is always the same: Get people thinking and talking.
It's not conservatives who are afraid to debate the issue, it is the liberal establishment.
Don't be silly. There are people on both sides of the "issue" who don't want to debate intelligently, and plenty of knowledgeable and sensible people who do. You can find them, or you can make them (by engaging people using interesting arguments and provocative facts). But pretending they don't exist is only self-deception - whether it's to justify laziness or an inability to engage people is hard to guess from here.
Are you up to the challenge of promoting diversity of thought?
Bring it on, baby. I piss off everyone, left and right.
Go to freecolorprinter.com. This is Xerox's program whereby you can apply for a FREE color printer (typically solid ink, but they list laser/toner printers, too). The catch is that you have print a minimum number of pages per month and commit to buy all your consumables from the freecolorprinter website for a period of three years.
I do a fair bit of work with a place that has one of these, the Tektronix Phaser 850DP. I don't know that it's the best deal.
For one thing, if you don't make your commitment (this is the Priceline.com aspect of it - who knows what the minimum acceptable commitment is?) then you have to pay $75 for that month. But you can lease an HP4550, which is a far, far better printer, for only a few dollars more.
The resolution is lower than a good color laser.
The solid inks can't be laminated - they decompose into a blur immediately.
It's also difficult to stack solid-ink printed paper, because under sufficient pressure it starts to release into the facing page. If you are stacking one-sided pages, that means the backs get smudgy. If it's two-sided pages, they're ruined.
The printer (if they're still using the 850DP) is incapable of printing gray (!!) except in the lowest quality setting. Instead, it prints a decidedly un-gray brown color. I asked their tech support about this and they said they were aware of it but do not plan to fix it. Unfortunately this is a very serious limitation for design work.
When I started undergrad in 1986, one of the first things they made every student do was get their computing account and password. Even then, there were plenty of professors who insisted on contact via email, and most students I knew had at least one course where a significant portion of discussion was conducted online.
People spent incredible amounts of time on email and chat, with most people I knew checking their email from public kiosks, computing centers, or their home machines several times per day. The computer labs were major social centers; at a large one there would be several hundred people working on computers and another crowd, almost as large, just hanging around in the adjacent lobby.
I am not talking about the engineering school or compsci department; I was a humanities student.
I am therefore left to wonder if maybe the problem is your school, and if students there today might be just as "left-out" of current technological trends as you apparently were then.
But never fear, eventually your karma gets high enough and your user account gets old enough that you can meta-moderate all the unfair moderation.
I am a rampant abuser of M2. Since moderators like to down-moderate posts that are correct or truthful but challenging to their own personal beliefs, I negatively metamoderate positive moderations of posts that are just mindless regurgitations of the Slashdot weltanshauung. Any positively moderated post that praises the FSF: unfair. Any negatively moderated post that criticizes the FSF: fair. Any positively moderated post that is critical of capitalism or the republican form of government: unfair. Any negatively moderated post that defends the status quo: fair.
Silly kids. I've been around so long and my karma is so high that I can meta-meta-moderate, so now I'll just have to go through and find all your "unfairs" and mark them as "epistemologically vexatious" (the other categories at this rarefied level of abstract subjectivity are "neoconstructionist claptrap" and "purple").
P.S. "critical of... the republican form of government"? What are you talking about? When's the last time someone here even addressed models of representational democracy?
If you think any sysadmin, software developer or manager would allow their platform to be picked on the basis that it requires a lot of people and is very expensive, you've obviously never worked in a well managed company. Profit is the motive, not hiring 30 sysadmins when 2 would do.
It may not happen in a well-managed company, but by that metric there aren't a whole lot of well-managed companies out there. I've seen what he describes a hundred times. Often it's well-disguised, but once you cut past the crap it's all about fiefdoms.
I already know how to think. The reason I left the UMass system was because they were shoving Leftist totalitarianism down my throat. Logic and objectivity were definitenly not covered topics.
If you already know how to think, why weren't you honing your skills by using your amazing logic-fu on them? Surely someone as smart as you could have had them all watching Fox News within a matter of days.
Sounds to me like you're afraid to think, afraid of head-on confrontation with perspectives that differ from your own.
There's no better way to figure out what you really believe than by being surrounded by people you think are wrong. That is, if you're up to the challenge.
Mine is not a "definition," rather a point being made. The Caches that are left are, for all intents and putposes, junk in a box. It's not a building, like the Washington Monument, but just a collection of "stuff." So, if I carefully wrap some horse dung, place it in a container, and put it on the roadside that's not litter? Somehow because I plced it there purposefully it mystically transforms into something else? Give me a break.
Look, I think Geocaching is the dorkiest thing since Boba Fett Underoos and I'd sooner have sex with a walrus than ever take part in it.
Nevertheless, it's very clear that it's nothing but harmless fun for those who enjoy it, and conscientiously executed at that. There are people out there leaving campfires burning and tossing litter into streams, and you're worrying about THIS? Get some perspective, please.
Simple scenario: A friend you've never met starts a Geocache, all is fine and fun for a few months. Then some nutball gets an idea from the days of abortion clinic bombings and traps the cache. You're the next guy to open it, boom. Now you're bleeding, maybe missing part of your arm. The Police/Fire/Medics show up, then the SECONDARY device goes off, killing a few of the good people who are only trying to help your sorry arse.
Yes, this sort of thing is far more common than a lot of you head-in-the-sand optibliviomists seem to think. For instance, here's how it happened here recently:
In the middle of the night, terrorists used a smuggled North Korean shovel to slightly widen a pothole on a small side street.
The next day, an unsuspecting pedestrian tripped in the hole when crossing the street.
When several people stopped to help the pedestrian, a bomb planted in a nearby mailbox showered them with postcards.
The police arrived minutes later, whereupon another explosive device detonated in the building across the street, causing severe damage to several police cars in excess of their insurance deductibles and injuring dozens of officers and onlookers.
As the bomb squad left HQ and headed over, a nuclear device in a delivery truck along the route destroyed the bomb squad vehicle and the rest of the city.
When the Department of Defense investigation team tried to start their helicopter to make an assessment of the damage, a booby-trap in the ignition mechanism triggered an anti-matter bomb that instantly replaced the earth with a black hole.
This caught the attention of Russian and American scientists in the International Space Station, who looked upon the smoldering remains of their planet with awe and sadness, then prepared to have a minute of silence in memory of their departed planet. Unbenownst to them, in the ultimate affront, terrorist saboteurs had planted an alarm clock in the space station that went off 30 seconds into the minute of silence.
If you want to be pedantic, NYC numbers start with 1212, 1646, 1917, 1718, and 1347.
Istanbul (not Constantinople) numbers start with 011 (at least in the US)
Istanbul numbers start with 212 no matter where you are. 011 is a dialing prefix. If you're using an office phone system and you have to dial 9 to get out, that doesn't mean that the number you're calling starts with 9. It means that you dial 9 and then you dial the number you're calling.
Constantinople numbers start with "Fetch me a rider!"
Yeah, many times I've picked up the phone and heard a string of Swahili before the other end says "sorry, wrong number" -click-.
Happens more than you think. New York City numbers start with 1212 and Istanbul numbers start with 212. People who aren't familiar with international dialing would call my New York number when trying to reach some government office back in Turkey.
The part of your question regarding the benefits of deregulation is that easily answered. A typical intra-state phone call during business hours was ~28 cents a minute in 1990. Now I can use the latest marketing gimick (pre-paid LD phone cards) and get flat rate 2.99 cents a minute, no connect charge, LD anywhere in the country. Let me state that another way, ten years ago people were paying 9 TIMES as much per minute for their LD.
Or look at international calling to see even more pronounced differences (though this owes in part to FCC settlement rate reform circa 1997).
Before Judge Greene, I was paying about $2 per minute to call western Europe. Now it's $0.05. That's a 40-fold decrease.
DMV was privatized? I've never heard of that. Is that pretty common across the states?
There's an excellent documentary about a similar project in Michigan a few years ago. It was less than a perfect success but I believe there have been a few more iterations of the project since.
Why does it do this? Are you suggesting that shops that use mixed products cannot simply download and install Mozilla? Or whatever browser they want to use?
Exactly. Mozilla won't run on Hollingsware TCPA because it's open source and allows people to alter the way it functions. Either you'll buy locked hardware that supports Microsoft stuff, or you'll have to create a separate network for your black-market Chinese open hardware that lets you run software of your choosing and interconnect with systems of your choosing. Naturally this would be enough of a hassle (like having separate classified and unclassified networks and desktop machines in intelligence environments) that most organizations wouldn't bother (or be able to afford it).
Online banking today cuts-out everyone with a browser which doesn't transmit "MSIE" in the user-agent. Yes it sucks. Yes it's the reason I don't use online banking.
Over-generalizing just a bit there? I bank online with one of the world's largest banks and do it exclusively with Mozilla under Linux.
"Without provocation?" ?! Are you really that ignorant? Fuck you. I don't give a shit what this does to my Karma, you, sir, are an asshole. Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes. I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation.
Okay, let's hear about the acts of terrorism that constitute provocation for war on the part of Iraq. This ought to be fascinating.
P.S. The USA has far exceeded Iraq in violations of international law. Imagine Kuwait 10 years ago, except Iraq successfully takes over and occupies the country and tries to kill its leaders.
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I tried out the previous release of the bootable knoppix and found it incredibly cool. But really, WHAT are the uses for this? or cluster knoppix that we should try or be interested? The only use i have for it is as a bootable cd in case my main os installation is trashed and I need to retrieve some files right away.
I think the utility of Knoppix increases dramatically if you tend to be on the move a lot.
In the office, I don't do much with it. But when I'm traveling, it becomes essential. I can stick it in an idle machine and get to the bottom of network problems while other people - even the people who set the network up - are still pointy-clicketing around to find some diagnostic tools on their Windows machines.
I can stick it in a machine at an internet cafe (or anywhere else on the planet) and get reliable, secure remote access to my office desktop.
At hotels and conventions, when nobody can figure out how to get on the show net, I can boot up and sniff for a few seconds to get the lay of the land.
Knoppix has made a hero of me more times than I can count.
Our bus services recently switched to cards like that. People keep wondering, if the reader actually took the charge at all or charged them twice.
The fact that the card itself has no display to show its balance and the reader a mere 20 character display increases the discomfort.
If the action of placing the card close to the reader is supposed to indicate payment, that's too far and invites both security problems and just accidental mixups.
Yup. It would seem that the principal day-to-day advantage for me, as a consumer, would be that I don't have to get the card out of my wallet and could instead wave the whole thing like I do with the proxcard on the turnstile at the office. That way I save time and have less chance of accidentally leaving my card behind.
But how would I decide which card to bill against? Whichever one happened to connect first? If I end up having to fish it out, then I'm no better off than before.
They are only down 1.68%, but I'd guess they will drop a little more after this.
SCO seems to have entered freefall mode now. Currently down to $6 from a morning high of $9, and every time I reload the page it's down a few more cents.
On the conference call they are still saying that individual Linux users should consult legal counsel.
Of course they are. As soon as they stop saying that, their raison d'FUDtre will be exhausted, Microsoft will take its hand out of SCO's ass, and it will drop to the conference table like a lifeless ventroloquist's dummy.
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Doesn't mean anyone's using them. They're just getting built into phones in search of buzzword-compliance.
In the last twelve months more AOL CDs were produced than Microsoft Office CDs. Which do you think are getting more use?
I can buy an 802.11b card for $20 retail , so it can't cost much more than that to build, even assuming the standard sell-for-less-than-it-costs high-tech business model.
Advice for next time: You do not have to consent to a search of your bag in their parking lot, and you definitely do not have to go back in the store to have your picture taken (why, why, why would you agree to do that???). If you feel uncomfortable with how you're being treated by a store security guard, ask them whether they intend to physically keep you there. If they do not, turn around and leave without another word (this will be the case 99% of the time). If they are, clam up and demand the police. Once they have taken it upon themselves to detain you they face a pretty high standard of evidence (higher than the police would). They absolutely cannot forcibly search you under any circumstances - only the police can do that. If the store security people get touchy-feely, do not be shy about informing them you'll be pressing assault charges. It doesn't have to hurt to be an assault - it just has to make you uncomfortable.
If they "threaten" to call the cops, call their bluff. Keep walking. On the (highly unlikely) chance that they do, the police will find you walking down the road, and if they believe that you've stolen something, they'll do the same search that the security guard was going to do (except more professionally). You are not doing anything wrong by walking away from a store where you didn't steal anything, no matter how much some guard wants to hassle you.
You're getting the penis enlarger spam precisely because they DON'T have this targeted demographic information (either that or you have a notoriously small penis). If they could actually narrow down just the people who cared, there would finally be no point to blanketing the planet with spam. Likewise you and I would stop getting car insurance ads in the mail every week, and so on. Maybe someone selling bike insurance could finally afford to target me with an ad.
Not that I endorse in-depth consumer tracking as a solution to the spam problem. I just sort of think you have it backwards.
Visit a music mag sometime. It's not a bunch of people in three-piece suits sipping Earl Grey while they listen to new music on $350 headphones in sound-proof chambers.
New discs come in with the day's mail and pile up somewhere. Certain people (you know who you are) go through and pick out the good ones and hoard them in their desk drawers. Then people put remaining discs that look promising on the stereo (almost invariably a cheap one-piece with broken buttons sitting on top of a file cabinet with at least one drawer that nobody has the key to any longer), and if the rest of the room thinks it's crap, people start yelling to change the CD.
In a climate like that, something with spoken-word commercials every few minutes is going to piss off people who are trying to read and write. So it won't get played, and unless it's someone's favorite band, it will find its way to the bottom of the pile and won't get reviewed. Eventually someone's girlfriend will take it home and play it once and then lose it under the couch.
Insulting the people who are in the best position to convince the core audience to buy the music seems like a fantastic idea. With that kind of lateral thinking, it's a wonder you're not running a record company already.
There wouldn't be any point. You already sound just like them. "The sickness of liberal thinking"? And what does sarcasm have to do with it?
Take the teachers on. If they're just shutting you down it's because you're failing to say anything interesting. Trust me, I've taught in university. No matter what someone's politics are, when they're standing at the front of the classroom, Priority One is always the same: Get people thinking and talking.
Don't be silly. There are people on both sides of the "issue" who don't want to debate intelligently, and plenty of knowledgeable and sensible people who do. You can find them, or you can make them (by engaging people using interesting arguments and provocative facts). But pretending they don't exist is only self-deception - whether it's to justify laziness or an inability to engage people is hard to guess from here.
Bring it on, baby. I piss off everyone, left and right.
I do a fair bit of work with a place that has one of these, the Tektronix Phaser 850DP. I don't know that it's the best deal.
For one thing, if you don't make your commitment (this is the Priceline.com aspect of it - who knows what the minimum acceptable commitment is?) then you have to pay $75 for that month. But you can lease an HP4550, which is a far, far better printer, for only a few dollars more.
The resolution is lower than a good color laser.
The solid inks can't be laminated - they decompose into a blur immediately.
It's also difficult to stack solid-ink printed paper, because under sufficient pressure it starts to release into the facing page. If you are stacking one-sided pages, that means the backs get smudgy. If it's two-sided pages, they're ruined.
The printer (if they're still using the 850DP) is incapable of printing gray (!!) except in the lowest quality setting. Instead, it prints a decidedly un-gray brown color. I asked their tech support about this and they said they were aware of it but do not plan to fix it. Unfortunately this is a very serious limitation for design work.
The consumables are pretty expensive.
When I started undergrad in 1986, one of the first things they made every student do was get their computing account and password. Even then, there were plenty of professors who insisted on contact via email, and most students I knew had at least one course where a significant portion of discussion was conducted online.
People spent incredible amounts of time on email and chat, with most people I knew checking their email from public kiosks, computing centers, or their home machines several times per day. The computer labs were major social centers; at a large one there would be several hundred people working on computers and another crowd, almost as large, just hanging around in the adjacent lobby.
I am not talking about the engineering school or compsci department; I was a humanities student.
I am therefore left to wonder if maybe the problem is your school, and if students there today might be just as "left-out" of current technological trends as you apparently were then.
Silly kids. I've been around so long and my karma is so high that I can meta-meta-moderate, so now I'll just have to go through and find all your "unfairs" and mark them as "epistemologically vexatious" (the other categories at this rarefied level of abstract subjectivity are "neoconstructionist claptrap" and "purple").
P.S. "critical of ... the republican form of government"? What are you talking about? When's the last time someone here even addressed models of representational democracy?
It may not happen in a well-managed company, but by that metric there aren't a whole lot of well-managed companies out there. I've seen what he describes a hundred times. Often it's well-disguised, but once you cut past the crap it's all about fiefdoms.
If you already know how to think, why weren't you honing your skills by using your amazing logic-fu on them? Surely someone as smart as you could have had them all watching Fox News within a matter of days.
Sounds to me like you're afraid to think, afraid of head-on confrontation with perspectives that differ from your own.
There's no better way to figure out what you really believe than by being surrounded by people you think are wrong. That is, if you're up to the challenge.
Look, I think Geocaching is the dorkiest thing since Boba Fett Underoos and I'd sooner have sex with a walrus than ever take part in it.
Nevertheless, it's very clear that it's nothing but harmless fun for those who enjoy it, and conscientiously executed at that. There are people out there leaving campfires burning and tossing litter into streams, and you're worrying about THIS? Get some perspective, please.
Yes, this sort of thing is far more common than a lot of you head-in-the-sand optibliviomists seem to think. For instance, here's how it happened here recently:
In the middle of the night, terrorists used a smuggled North Korean shovel to slightly widen a pothole on a small side street.
The next day, an unsuspecting pedestrian tripped in the hole when crossing the street.
When several people stopped to help the pedestrian, a bomb planted in a nearby mailbox showered them with postcards.
The police arrived minutes later, whereupon another explosive device detonated in the building across the street, causing severe damage to several police cars in excess of their insurance deductibles and injuring dozens of officers and onlookers.
As the bomb squad left HQ and headed over, a nuclear device in a delivery truck along the route destroyed the bomb squad vehicle and the rest of the city.
When the Department of Defense investigation team tried to start their helicopter to make an assessment of the damage, a booby-trap in the ignition mechanism triggered an anti-matter bomb that instantly replaced the earth with a black hole.
This caught the attention of Russian and American scientists in the International Space Station, who looked upon the smoldering remains of their planet with awe and sadness, then prepared to have a minute of silence in memory of their departed planet. Unbenownst to them, in the ultimate affront, terrorist saboteurs had planted an alarm clock in the space station that went off 30 seconds into the minute of silence.
If you want to be pedantic, NYC numbers start with 1212, 1646, 1917, 1718, and 1347.
Istanbul numbers start with 212 no matter where you are. 011 is a dialing prefix. If you're using an office phone system and you have to dial 9 to get out, that doesn't mean that the number you're calling starts with 9. It means that you dial 9 and then you dial the number you're calling.
Constantinople numbers start with "Fetch me a rider!"
Happens more than you think. New York City numbers start with 1212 and Istanbul numbers start with 212. People who aren't familiar with international dialing would call my New York number when trying to reach some government office back in Turkey.
Or look at international calling to see even more pronounced differences (though this owes in part to FCC settlement rate reform circa 1997).
Before Judge Greene, I was paying about $2 per minute to call western Europe. Now it's $0.05. That's a 40-fold decrease.
There's an excellent documentary about a similar project in Michigan a few years ago. It was less than a perfect success but I believe there have been a few more iterations of the project since.
Exactly. Mozilla won't run on Hollingsware TCPA because it's open source and allows people to alter the way it functions. Either you'll buy locked hardware that supports Microsoft stuff, or you'll have to create a separate network for your black-market Chinese open hardware that lets you run software of your choosing and interconnect with systems of your choosing. Naturally this would be enough of a hassle (like having separate classified and unclassified networks and desktop machines in intelligence environments) that most organizations wouldn't bother (or be able to afford it).
Over-generalizing just a bit there? I bank online with one of the world's largest banks and do it exclusively with Mozilla under Linux.
Okay, let's hear about the acts of terrorism that constitute provocation for war on the part of Iraq. This ought to be fascinating.
P.S. The USA has far exceeded Iraq in violations of international law. Imagine Kuwait 10 years ago, except Iraq successfully takes over and occupies the country and tries to kill its leaders.
I think the utility of Knoppix increases dramatically if you tend to be on the move a lot.
In the office, I don't do much with it. But when I'm traveling, it becomes essential. I can stick it in an idle machine and get to the bottom of network problems while other people - even the people who set the network up - are still pointy-clicketing around to find some diagnostic tools on their Windows machines.
I can stick it in a machine at an internet cafe (or anywhere else on the planet) and get reliable, secure remote access to my office desktop.
At hotels and conventions, when nobody can figure out how to get on the show net, I can boot up and sniff for a few seconds to get the lay of the land.
Knoppix has made a hero of me more times than I can count.
That's what audio feedback is for.
Yup. It would seem that the principal day-to-day advantage for me, as a consumer, would be that I don't have to get the card out of my wallet and could instead wave the whole thing like I do with the proxcard on the turnstile at the office. That way I save time and have less chance of accidentally leaving my card behind.
But how would I decide which card to bill against? Whichever one happened to connect first? If I end up having to fish it out, then I'm no better off than before.
SCO seems to have entered freefall mode now. Currently down to $6 from a morning high of $9, and every time I reload the page it's down a few more cents.
Of course they are. As soon as they stop saying that, their raison d'FUDtre will be exhausted, Microsoft will take its hand out of SCO's ass, and it will drop to the conference table like a lifeless ventroloquist's dummy.