From all aspiring web sites out there that must use some sort of ad scheme to stay alive thanks you as well. X10.com thanks your service. GoogleAds, Party Poker, Amazon, Gratis Network and the rest thank you...
Some of us just filter out ads, and for that I thank evolution. We filter out near-IR along with other "colors" and evolution has produced specimens such as myself that don't notice that OKI advertisement at the top printing messages to me...
Joking aside, I suspect that the ability to filter out unwanted visual elements really does have something to do with the ability to use modern windowing systems. I notice I'm always telling some people where to look for dialog boxs (!) or where the "File", "Edit", "Help" drop down menus are...
They just see a bunch of text and garbage and can't respond. You have to walk their eyes to the right part of the screen. (sorry can't spell check, survivor is starting~~)
Further, almost every 911 dispatch center has a non-911 number through which they can be reached. Everywhere I've lived, this number can be found in the phone book on the same page as the other emergency numbers.
If that is the case, simply program it into speed dial. No matter, Vonage and other VoIP services must provide some sort of emergency services because in most states it's required.
I think they should collect taxes for 911 and then provide it... how hard is that? Does it require a federal law?
I recently signed up for basic, cable ready TV only service from my local mom and pop cable shop. Because of this I see 4000% more cable TV, cable Internet and cable phone service commercials than ever. In fact, I've got CNN on and they've run one commercial since I've started typing this (1.2 minutes thus far).
In these commercials for Cable phone (VoIP) service they do what that cable company does best: lies about phone services (Internet and Phone, their DSL commercials should be investigated by the FTC!!). They say that once you get the total cable package you don't need a phone. Bad idea, because people don't understand 911 doesn't work for people who can't provide an address and so forth. I suspect that is a universal problem with VoIP.
Well, in Ohio (my state) you can still call 911 from a dead phone. If you don't pay your bill the phone company must let you dial 911. Thus, if you canceled service and got VoIP then you could still use 911. I suspect also that Texas doesn't have this.
This could be solved if they, VoIP services provided a direct connection to your 911 service. Route your "9-1-1" call to your local service and pass the info, in standard form, to your service. Anyone can do this, including wireless services provided they can track (triangulate?) a user.
Another option is to just create a national law that any landline phone wire must be able to dial 911. As long as that connection is made behind a demarcation point, it will be identified at the correct address. Weird addresses, and buildings are corrected usually at the 911 service center.
I've moved my swap file off onto another drive and never looked back. Really, it's about stability too. When you get into disk trashing (yes, I said thrashing) the drive is going nuts trying read and write to the swap and do something else too... usually the user reboots it because it's "frozen" and they lose data too.
I've seen kid's Win2K machines go from a one day average uptime to a month plus because an old, slow drive was added. Doesn't need to cost $150 at all! All you need is a 2gig drive that runs at 5400 RPM's.
Windows simply likes the swap file however, even with a Gigabyte of RAM it will use it now and then. The swap file is used in Windows a lot more often than you think! I mean, it's there for when you run out of physical RAM... which can be quite often for Windows users when you add up all the ways that it uses it badly.
Personally though I didn't stop at just moving the swap files. I also moved the system catalog and %TEMP locations to the second drives (4 GB minimum drive size please) because it does work. When Windows is constantly chugging away at that drive you can open documents and whatnot so much faster.
I'd even encourage IE users to move their "Temporary Internet Files" off onto a second drive.
Think about it... it's like having RAID! (ok, maybe not but it does help out)
This really depends on bank to bank rules. Some have deadlines and others only will hold you for transactions which use your PIN number. Consult your bank.
This is mostly true, however the major marketing campaing suggests otherwise...
...then people will correct you if it's wrong. If you release open source drivers to the community and do it in a fashion which inspires feedback (mailing lists, forums, Sourceforge) and people find fault (bugs, standards compliance, bad code style) it can and likely will be fixed.
If you are prepared to put paid developers at the whim of the community then you are already on the right track to wide acceptance. You have to realize it isn't your baby anymore and if you've just released a horrible monster it will get tamed and put into other projects that have nothing to do with you.
Going open source is easy - anyone will tell you what is good and bad to do. Closed source, proprietary software tends to lean towards groupthink and suddenly a bad project is worse. There is no reason to keep discussions and ideas behind closed doors in the open source world so you can benefit from wider feedback.
In a year you'll be discussing you're release on Slashdot, and we'll be saying *BSD is dying. But that will be some of the best marketing and market research you can do, and it will all pay off.
The whole "no ID" ads are bull! I could have told you that years ago. It's really a scam by Visa and Mastercard so that you use debit/credit card because that makes the business or the customer pay a fee on every transaction. Notice who advertises for these services...
Anyhow; I've always used my Girlfriend's debit/credit cards because it was easier that way. We hate cash, she's got the credit score and it works that way. About a year ago I was stopped and told that I was committing fraud just standing in line there with the card (which is a lie, and I threw a fit).
Now, I've been a "authorized user" on all of these cards for a while. One store after another stopped letting me use the cards - even though I was on record with Citibank, for example, as a card user. A few times I insisted they call banks (who's numbers are right on the cards) and even the police - but they never did.
What pissed me off is that stores were changing their "policy" on my side of town while the other side of town they still let sons buy x-mas gifts with their mothers credit cards.
I tried to get into it and completed a free offer and the same free offer under myself. I tried to get others to sign up with links on my blog, but no spamming and I didn't send them to ppl I knew.
I never got it, but I did get some spam. Good thing is, I signed up with gMail accounts and that spam never hit my inbox once. Likewise, I imagine that I've improved their, and others spam filters because of this.
Still, I never got the iPod, but never lost anything. I suspect anyone using a web based e-mail service from Hotmail to Yahoo! would also be pretty safe.
It's a long shot, but something for free is almost always worth trying for. There have been books written on typical sweepstakes because someone has to win (think Reader's Digest sweepstakes, not online Swiss lotteries) and if you enter correctly it could be you. There is nothing wrong with reading the rules and trying to stick within them to get what is promised.
These are great promotions for housewives and others who have the time on their hands. Some people just love a bargin.
MSI not only lets it "play" better in corporate deployments but it makes it easier to get support from Microsoft.
Technically, if you've got 100% signed drivers and installed all of your software through MSI your Windows 200x machine shouldn't crash at all.
Of course doing both of these things is hard to do, and it may in fact still crash. However, Microsoft will support you for free until the problem is solved - no matter what it takes.
Yahoo! (30 Min Ago) - Today the President said this on the idea of PMDs (Particles of Mass Destruction)
"We must stop Al Qaeda's search for this technology today. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a accretion disk*."
VB allows the creation of tools at minimal programmer expense. Why code up an app from scratch in days when you can do it for a few hours in VB.
IANAP, but I've taken a few Visual Basic classes and I wonder why there isn't something similar in the open source world. Maybe there is and I don't know about it.
Visual Basic is nice because you can create GUI applications in no time flat using existing libraries, controls and so forth (sounds familiar to some I'm sure).
What I would give to be able to tap into a world of GPL'd libraries and create custom applications easily. Yeah, act as if I'm an idiot and design around that....
You could turn the sensitivity down as others suggested. I'm not to wild about that idea, it makes someone with an unsteady hand have to move that hand even more.
... but I assume that once you fill the stage you make it start to look like there are a lot of people and you get the point.
Either that or they will use a background which has faces painted on them (and they would also move that back and forth).
On the other hand, they may not show the battles at all because theater is supposed to capture the drama and comedy and so forth, not the action. They may simply say "The battle of Evermore has started" and show the fall out (dead bodies, etc).
I'm painting the upstairs of our house and can't get inspired for anything.
Being younger we went with "different" color schemes in our house, orange, grey, shit brown (all really fits too) but the upstairs is still *blah* and I can't imagine any color there than what already is. I've got paint chips taped up here and there and something like this would be nice to have at home (far off I know).
Taking a picture then scribbling on it would be a nice way of previewing paints. In fact I suggest here (in the open instead of trying to sell the idea) that designers get tablet PCs with a camera built in... then just go to a clients house snap a shot and scribble paint colors in.
Well, they mentioned the reason for the bigger mergers is so that the telcoms don't die. They want to have hands in every market, as they should to stay alive. The mergers give companies like MCI the wireless technology and it's implemented network and MCI gives up it's wired network (huge).
They touched on WiMax, but they hinted that once the cell towers are up they will be used for Internet access anyway. We see this already with Cingular's new plan. Remember, you can get "cell" reception almost anywhere now, in most cities and states, and when the technology is at the right price point we will see highspeed Internet offered over those towers.
Sprint's CEO mentioned a few highspeed trials already, along with FiOS so I assume we are talking comprable speeds. Listen to the testimony to get an insight into their plans I'd say. They are really looking at it from a perspective that they should offer what makes the most economic sense on an individual basis. Wireless in sparse areas, mixed networks in high density areas and fiber in the suburbs (for example).
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Yes, and it to this I say "thank you".
From all aspiring web sites out there that must use some sort of ad scheme to stay alive thanks you as well. X10.com thanks your service. GoogleAds, Party Poker, Amazon, Gratis Network and the rest thank you...
Some of us just filter out ads, and for that I thank evolution. We filter out near-IR along with other "colors" and evolution has produced specimens such as myself that don't notice that OKI advertisement at the top printing messages to me...
Joking aside, I suspect that the ability to filter out unwanted visual elements really does have something to do with the ability to use modern windowing systems. I notice I'm always telling some people where to look for dialog boxs (!) or where the "File", "Edit", "Help" drop down menus are...
They just see a bunch of text and garbage and can't respond. You have to walk their eyes to the right part of the screen. (sorry can't spell check, survivor is starting~~)
...someone puts that damn Rock and Roll music to good use!
What about Soylent Green, which has been released on DVD?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!
You do own DVD's don't you?
Well, the only step left is the outlawing of non-DRMed hardware. But anything breaking DRM is illegal under the DMCA so we are almost there.
"RR" in 330F RR #1 refers to "rural route", an unknown location most times.
Further, almost every 911 dispatch center has a non-911 number through which they can be reached. Everywhere I've lived, this number can be found in the phone book on the same page as the other emergency numbers.
If that is the case, simply program it into speed dial. No matter, Vonage and other VoIP services must provide some sort of emergency services because in most states it's required.
I think they should collect taxes for 911 and then provide it... how hard is that? Does it require a federal law?
If you didn't want to paint it red, get one of these and put it under one of these.
Call it the "9-1-1 Emergency Phone" for the kiddies...
I recently signed up for basic, cable ready TV only service from my local mom and pop cable shop. Because of this I see 4000% more cable TV, cable Internet and cable phone service commercials than ever. In fact, I've got CNN on and they've run one commercial since I've started typing this (1.2 minutes thus far).
In these commercials for Cable phone (VoIP) service they do what that cable company does best: lies about phone services (Internet and Phone, their DSL commercials should be investigated by the FTC!!). They say that once you get the total cable package you don't need a phone. Bad idea, because people don't understand 911 doesn't work for people who can't provide an address and so forth. I suspect that is a universal problem with VoIP.
Well, in Ohio (my state) you can still call 911 from a dead phone. If you don't pay your bill the phone company must let you dial 911. Thus, if you canceled service and got VoIP then you could still use 911. I suspect also that Texas doesn't have this.
This could be solved if they, VoIP services provided a direct connection to your 911 service. Route your "9-1-1" call to your local service and pass the info, in standard form, to your service. Anyone can do this, including wireless services provided they can track (triangulate?) a user.
Another option is to just create a national law that any landline phone wire must be able to dial 911. As long as that connection is made behind a demarcation point, it will be identified at the correct address. Weird addresses, and buildings are corrected usually at the 911 service center.
Hey!
I've moved my swap file off onto another drive and never looked back. Really, it's about stability too. When you get into disk trashing (yes, I said thrashing) the drive is going nuts trying read and write to the swap and do something else too... usually the user reboots it because it's "frozen" and they lose data too.
I've seen kid's Win2K machines go from a one day average uptime to a month plus because an old, slow drive was added. Doesn't need to cost $150 at all! All you need is a 2gig drive that runs at 5400 RPM's.
Windows simply likes the swap file however, even with a Gigabyte of RAM it will use it now and then. The swap file is used in Windows a lot more often than you think! I mean, it's there for when you run out of physical RAM... which can be quite often for Windows users when you add up all the ways that it uses it badly.
Personally though I didn't stop at just moving the swap files. I also moved the system catalog and %TEMP locations to the second drives (4 GB minimum drive size please) because it does work. When Windows is constantly chugging away at that drive you can open documents and whatnot so much faster.
I'd even encourage IE users to move their "Temporary Internet Files" off onto a second drive.
Think about it... it's like having RAID! (ok, maybe not but it does help out)
This is mostly true, however the major marketing campaing suggests otherwise...
...then people will correct you if it's wrong. If you release open source drivers to the community and do it in a fashion which inspires feedback (mailing lists, forums, Sourceforge) and people find fault (bugs, standards compliance, bad code style) it can and likely will be fixed.
If you are prepared to put paid developers at the whim of the community then you are already on the right track to wide acceptance. You have to realize it isn't your baby anymore and if you've just released a horrible monster it will get tamed and put into other projects that have nothing to do with you.
Going open source is easy - anyone will tell you what is good and bad to do. Closed source, proprietary software tends to lean towards groupthink and suddenly a bad project is worse. There is no reason to keep discussions and ideas behind closed doors in the open source world so you can benefit from wider feedback.
In a year you'll be discussing you're release on Slashdot, and we'll be saying *BSD is dying. But that will be some of the best marketing and market research you can do, and it will all pay off.
I'm in a weird mood..
The whole "no ID" ads are bull! I could have told you that years ago. It's really a scam by Visa and Mastercard so that you use debit/credit card because that makes the business or the customer pay a fee on every transaction. Notice who advertises for these services...
Anyhow; I've always used my Girlfriend's debit/credit cards because it was easier that way. We hate cash, she's got the credit score and it works that way. About a year ago I was stopped and told that I was committing fraud just standing in line there with the card (which is a lie, and I threw a fit).
Now, I've been a "authorized user" on all of these cards for a while. One store after another stopped letting me use the cards - even though I was on record with Citibank, for example, as a card user. A few times I insisted they call banks (who's numbers are right on the cards) and even the police - but they never did.
What pissed me off is that stores were changing their "policy" on my side of town while the other side of town they still let sons buy x-mas gifts with their mothers credit cards.
...you can keep it, makes my screen all jumpy
zing!
I don't see how anyone really gets screwed.
I tried to get into it and completed a free offer and the same free offer under myself. I tried to get others to sign up with links on my blog, but no spamming and I didn't send them to ppl I knew.
I never got it, but I did get some spam. Good thing is, I signed up with gMail accounts and that spam never hit my inbox once. Likewise, I imagine that I've improved their, and others spam filters because of this.
Still, I never got the iPod, but never lost anything. I suspect anyone using a web based e-mail service from Hotmail to Yahoo! would also be pretty safe.
It's a long shot, but something for free is almost always worth trying for. There have been books written on typical sweepstakes because someone has to win (think Reader's Digest sweepstakes, not online Swiss lotteries) and if you enter correctly it could be you. There is nothing wrong with reading the rules and trying to stick within them to get what is promised.
These are great promotions for housewives and others who have the time on their hands. Some people just love a bargin.
MSI not only lets it "play" better in corporate deployments but it makes it easier to get support from Microsoft.
Technically, if you've got 100% signed drivers and installed all of your software through MSI your Windows 200x machine shouldn't crash at all.
Of course doing both of these things is hard to do, and it may in fact still crash. However, Microsoft will support you for free until the problem is solved - no matter what it takes.
*
Because it's ALL ON BABY!!!
Well that is the issuse... entry.
The price of entry in other areas of programming is too high.
Meanwhile there are thousands of "shareware" VB developers where there could be millions of F/OSS GPL developers.
(I wish someone reads this because it _is_ a good idea)
VB allows the creation of tools at minimal programmer expense. Why code up an app from scratch in days when you can do it for a few hours in VB.
IANAP, but I've taken a few Visual Basic classes and I wonder why there isn't something similar in the open source world. Maybe there is and I don't know about it.
Visual Basic is nice because you can create GUI applications in no time flat using existing libraries, controls and so forth (sounds familiar to some I'm sure).
What I would give to be able to tap into a world of GPL'd libraries and create custom applications easily. Yeah, act as if I'm an idiot and design around that....
One the best ways to get someone to do something is to convince them it is in their best interest.
Tell the offending company that they should contact their lawyers because it is them who will end up paying in the end, not you...
what do they intend on doing when some Taiwanese hardware manufacturer embeds their code?
Let China swoop down and close all of Taiwan's factories?
You could turn the sensitivity down as others suggested. I'm not to wild about that idea, it makes someone with an unsteady hand have to move that hand even more.
But why not just get a trackball?
... but I assume that once you fill the stage you make it start to look like there are a lot of people and you get the point.
Either that or they will use a background which has faces painted on them (and they would also move that back and forth).
On the other hand, they may not show the battles at all because theater is supposed to capture the drama and comedy and so forth, not the action. They may simply say "The battle of Evermore has started" and show the fall out (dead bodies, etc).
I'm painting the upstairs of our house and can't get inspired for anything.
Being younger we went with "different" color schemes in our house, orange, grey, shit brown (all really fits too) but the upstairs is still *blah* and I can't imagine any color there than what already is. I've got paint chips taped up here and there and something like this would be nice to have at home (far off I know).
Taking a picture then scribbling on it would be a nice way of previewing paints. In fact I suggest here (in the open instead of trying to sell the idea) that designers get tablet PCs with a camera built in... then just go to a clients house snap a shot and scribble paint colors in.
Verizon and SBC are ready to get into the wireless game.
I already pointed out that SBC, AT&T, Sprint/Verizon and MCI testified in front of Congress.
Well, they mentioned the reason for the bigger mergers is so that the telcoms don't die. They want to have hands in every market, as they should to stay alive. The mergers give companies like MCI the wireless technology and it's implemented network and MCI gives up it's wired network (huge).
They touched on WiMax, but they hinted that once the cell towers are up they will be used for Internet access anyway. We see this already with Cingular's new plan. Remember, you can get "cell" reception almost anywhere now, in most cities and states, and when the technology is at the right price point we will see highspeed Internet offered over those towers.
Sprint's CEO mentioned a few highspeed trials already, along with FiOS so I assume we are talking comprable speeds. Listen to the testimony to get an insight into their plans I'd say. They are really looking at it from a perspective that they should offer what makes the most economic sense on an individual basis. Wireless in sparse areas, mixed networks in high density areas and fiber in the suburbs (for example).