These guys make a cap that you can slip your iPod Shuffle into. Maybe you can put the buzz in their ear to do something for the nano and the regularly-sized iPods.
I'm at work, so I've only had a chance to skim the article and the higher modded comments, but does anyone know if they'll be including a coupon for a free showing of ROTK like they did for TTT when the FotR extended release came out?
For those who didn't buy the FOTR extended release straight out of the blocks last year, they came with coupons worth one admission to TTT that had to be used by the end of the year (i.e.: you had two weeks to use the coupon).
Made a $25 purchase all the more worthwhile once you factored in the $10 (NYC) free showing of TTT.
Screw the ATM-style machines or the Diebold e-voting machines. You want to make it simple for the Everyman? This is what you do:
Make Whack-A-Mole machines with the faces, names, and party affiliations of the candidates. Just imagine the glee and satisfaction of taking that mallet and pounding down the candidates you don't want until you end up with just one. An election based on Last Man Standing. Perfect.
If the spam contains pornographic material in itself, there might be a leg to stand on, but if all it provides is a link to a site that screens for minors, there's really not much you can do.
Of course, all you need is a few strategically placed dots to avoid crossing the line.
Cut back to wide shot of me walking back into the computer room. Fade out and show a graphic: "Sprite. Because you're too lazy to restock on something with caffine."
Sprite has caffeine, unless you bought the caffeine-free Sprite.
Or you live in Canada.(1)
(1) Canada does not allow the addition of caffeine to soft drinks where it is not naturally occurring in the production process. So... unless it's cola, it's probably not got any caffeine in it. All you Americans thinking you're getting your caffeine jolt with Mountain Dew when you go across the border... it's just the sugar.
If they had taken this to court, it's likely the paper would have been entered into evidence. To my knowledge, it would then be part of the public record at that point.
Hey, look! It's been published (sorta)!
If some legal eagle reads this, would the paper be accessible during the trial? If the decision came down that the paper couldn't be published, would the evidence then be sealed such that the paper wouldn't be available for review afterward?
Out of curiosity, does the bill provide for a certain set of requirements before the cracking can occur? Is there a certain set of requirements that the crackers have to meet in order to do it?
If not, then I might as well create one copyrighted work and then start cracking to my heart's content.
The Octopus card has a $50 deposit on it. When you run out of credit, you start chipping away at the deposit. No transit ride will cost you more than $50 for a single leg. Question is, can you buy enough buns and goodies at the Maxim to put you over your limit?
I heard once, unverified, that it was also a means, way back when, to force clerks to open the till. Call it a preventative measure to make it harder for employees to bilk their employers. If the boss sees a transaction and doesn't hear the cash machine go *ping*, he might guess something was up.
Again, unverified, but I don't think that consumer trickery is all of it. Hell, I automatically round off any figure I see.
To bring it back to the Octopus card that originated this thread, in Hong Kong, you swipe in *and* you swipe out. The cost of your commute varies according to the length of your trip. In NYC, almost all of the buses are $1.50, but in HK, a bus from my Grandmother's to the mall could be HK$4.10 while a different one to the subway station at Kowloon Tong would be $7.60. Similarly, if I get off after one stop on the subway, it's X price and after 11 stops, it's Y price.
However, that doesn't mean that such a payment system need be adopted in NYC. The card could still be a basic debit card, which is what a Metrocard is. Try popping $20 on a card instead of $15 sometime and you'll see what I mean. It's annoying to have a card that has an extra 50 cents sitting on it.
And, to answer the guy who questioned leaving the city to catch the LIRR, NYC is a big city spanning five boroughs. The buses and the subways don't cover the non-Manhattan boroughs quite as well as they cover Manhattan. Thus, in some parts of Queens, it's more efficient to take a bus to, say, Jamaica, hop an LIRR train in to Penn Station, then grab a subway over to Grand Central, and then the Metro North to wherever.
NYC could definitely benefit from an Octopus style unified card system.
One more thing: it'd be nice if the NYC subways could even remotely hold a candle to the HK subways. Riding the NYC subways has got to be the most disgusting experience, whereas the HK subways are clean, efficient, and properly ventilated. None of this 120 degrees and stank and muggy in the summer crap.
You have four times as many Athlons... the price differential is not much.
Now let's add on a few more real costs, since a bunch of PCs does not a cluster make:
Switches: An HP ProCurve 4000 will take up to 80 devices. You'd need one to support the Mac cluster. You'd need three, maybe four, to support the Athlon cluster. Call that around $3000 per switch.
Power, Fixed: The switch required for the Mac cluster could easily slip into an open port on an existing UPS. With three or four ports required for the switches to support the Athlon cluster, you might as well buy a new UPS. Call that around $1000 for a good UPS.
Real Estate: Gonna take a lot of room to put those computers.
Maintenance: More PCs, more failures, more people. You *did* buy service contracts on those PCs, right? No? Add on more people. Call that... $40k/year in salary per person, plus HR overhead, plus perks, plus contributions to 401(k) or 403(b), plus unemployment insurance... y'know it costs a lot more to a company to have you on as an employee than just your salary.
Insurance: Hey! More hardware! Higher insurance premiums! And Workman's Comp!
Welcome to the business world. At least with these two solutions, you don't have to figure out Microsoft's enterprise agreements to license their software, and that's worth all the money in the world, isn't it?
There's a product out on the market called Cyber Angel that will encrypt data on a drive and respond if the machine has been reported stolen. Sounds like an interesting concept.
It should be noted that the College of Engineering at Cornell University is *not* state-funded. It is a privately endowed college. If you want the state-funded stuff, go over to the Ag school.
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These guys make a cap that you can slip your iPod Shuffle into. Maybe you can put the buzz in their ear to do something for the nano and the regularly-sized iPods.
More HP, better stats, and a cool dragon wrapped around my head shot. That's the kind of blogger I want to be.
Management doesn't want to read a 70-page document.
Make it one page. Make it compelling. Put the numbers up front.
Then back it up with appendices with the more granular arguments.
What happened to "Live free or die"?
It's not safe out there. It's all magicky and stuff.
I'm at work, so I've only had a chance to skim the article and the higher modded comments, but does anyone know if they'll be including a coupon for a free showing of ROTK like they did for TTT when the FotR extended release came out?
For those who didn't buy the FOTR extended release straight out of the blocks last year, they came with coupons worth one admission to TTT that had to be used by the end of the year (i.e.: you had two weeks to use the coupon).
Made a $25 purchase all the more worthwhile once you factored in the $10 (NYC) free showing of TTT.
Tie in voting with slot machines and people will vote in droves!
Punch in your vote, pull the lever, get a receipt and maybe a jackpot!
Screw the ATM-style machines or the Diebold e-voting machines. You want to make it simple for the Everyman? This is what you do:
Make Whack-A-Mole machines with the faces, names, and party affiliations of the candidates. Just imagine the glee and satisfaction of taking that mallet and pounding down the candidates you don't want until you end up with just one. An election based on Last Man Standing. Perfect.
If you looked at his picture in the article, it looks like he's been using the breast enlargement stuff, too.
If the spam contains pornographic material in itself, there might be a leg to stand on, but if all it provides is a link to a site that screens for minors, there's really not much you can do.
Of course, all you need is a few strategically placed dots to avoid crossing the line.
> I also think benchmark scores are, quite frankly, marketing bullshit.
Speed holes, to make the Mac go faster!
Cut back to wide shot of me walking back into the computer room. Fade out and show a graphic:
"Sprite. Because you're too lazy to restock on something with caffine."
Sprite has caffeine, unless you bought the caffeine-free Sprite.
Or you live in Canada.(1)
(1) Canada does not allow the addition of caffeine to soft drinks where it is not naturally occurring in the production process. So... unless it's cola, it's probably not got any caffeine in it. All you Americans thinking you're getting your caffeine jolt with Mountain Dew when you go across the border... it's just the sugar.
Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!
Damn, if we had better graphics and neural I/O, I'd patent pills that come in two colours: red and blue.
If they had taken this to court, it's likely the paper would have been entered into evidence. To my knowledge, it would then be part of the public record at that point.
Hey, look! It's been published (sorta)!
If some legal eagle reads this, would the paper be accessible during the trial? If the decision came down that the paper couldn't be published, would the evidence then be sealed such that the paper wouldn't be available for review afterward?
Out of curiosity, does the bill provide for a certain set of requirements before the cracking can occur? Is there a certain set of requirements that the crackers have to meet in order to do it?
If not, then I might as well create one copyrighted work and then start cracking to my heart's content.
Pizza is better than nothing --> pizza > nothing (1)
Nothing is better than sex --> nothing > sex (2)
Combine (1) and (2) --> pizza > sex (3)
Pizza is better than sex. I guess that explains why I'm allowed to charge pizza on the Corporate Card but not the trips to Stilettos.
The Octopus card has a $50 deposit on it. When you run out of credit, you start chipping away at the deposit. No transit ride will cost you more than $50 for a single leg. Question is, can you buy enough buns and goodies at the Maxim to put you over your limit?
I heard once, unverified, that it was also a means, way back when, to force clerks to open the till. Call it a preventative measure to make it harder for employees to bilk their employers. If the boss sees a transaction and doesn't hear the cash machine go *ping*, he might guess something was up.
Again, unverified, but I don't think that consumer trickery is all of it. Hell, I automatically round off any figure I see.
To bring it back to the Octopus card that originated this thread, in Hong Kong, you swipe in *and* you swipe out. The cost of your commute varies according to the length of your trip. In NYC, almost all of the buses are $1.50, but in HK, a bus from my Grandmother's to the mall could be HK$4.10 while a different one to the subway station at Kowloon Tong would be $7.60. Similarly, if I get off after one stop on the subway, it's X price and after 11 stops, it's Y price.
However, that doesn't mean that such a payment system need be adopted in NYC. The card could still be a basic debit card, which is what a Metrocard is. Try popping $20 on a card instead of $15 sometime and you'll see what I mean. It's annoying to have a card that has an extra 50 cents sitting on it.
And, to answer the guy who questioned leaving the city to catch the LIRR, NYC is a big city spanning five boroughs. The buses and the subways don't cover the non-Manhattan boroughs quite as well as they cover Manhattan. Thus, in some parts of Queens, it's more efficient to take a bus to, say, Jamaica, hop an LIRR train in to Penn Station, then grab a subway over to Grand Central, and then the Metro North to wherever.
NYC could definitely benefit from an Octopus style unified card system.
One more thing: it'd be nice if the NYC subways could even remotely hold a candle to the HK subways. Riding the NYC subways has got to be the most disgusting experience, whereas the HK subways are clean, efficient, and properly ventilated. None of this 120 degrees and stank and muggy in the summer crap.
Send me pix of Natalie eating grits! Shes HOT!
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You have four times as many Athlons... the price differential is not much.
Now let's add on a few more real costs, since a bunch of PCs does not a cluster make:
Switches: An HP ProCurve 4000 will take up to 80 devices. You'd need one to support the Mac cluster. You'd need three, maybe four, to support the Athlon cluster. Call that around $3000 per switch.
Power, Fixed: The switch required for the Mac cluster could easily slip into an open port on an existing UPS. With three or four ports required for the switches to support the Athlon cluster, you might as well buy a new UPS. Call that around $1000 for a good UPS.
Power, Variable: Electricity costs money. 'Nuff said.
Real Estate: Gonna take a lot of room to put those computers.
Maintenance: More PCs, more failures, more people. You *did* buy service contracts on those PCs, right? No? Add on more people. Call that... $40k/year in salary per person, plus HR overhead, plus perks, plus contributions to 401(k) or 403(b), plus unemployment insurance... y'know it costs a lot more to a company to have you on as an employee than just your salary.
Insurance: Hey! More hardware! Higher insurance premiums! And Workman's Comp!
Welcome to the business world. At least with these two solutions, you don't have to figure out Microsoft's enterprise agreements to license their software, and that's worth all the money in the world, isn't it?
There's a product out on the market called Cyber Angel that will encrypt data on a drive and respond if the machine has been reported stolen. Sounds like an interesting concept.
It should be noted that the College of Engineering at Cornell University is *not* state-funded. It is a privately endowed college. If you want the state-funded stuff, go over to the Ag school.
For what it's worth, she says "Some apple?" in very accented English to Isabella, just before whipping the the knife into the Granny Smith.