Wow. If I hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd mod you up. I am constantly looking for good sources / brands to aid my Indian cooking skills. I searched for Shan Foods on Goggle, but didn't find a web site for them. I did however, find a web site that sells Shan Foods online: Quality Spices.
I took 7 years of food prep, but never got further for health reasons. Cooking full time is a very physical career. But I love to cook, and have a personal reputation to uphold. I have many cookbooks, but have found the WWW to be a great resource for tips, tricks, reciples, ethnic foods, etc. One day I WILL have a machine in my kitchen that will allow me to browse the Web, watch cooking shows, and run various food/shopping/recipe software. For giggles, I've included here a few links that I've found helpful. Yes, I'm a fan of the Food Network, and not ashamed to admit it. Alton Brown rocks! Google Directory Links Meals.Com Food Network
"fun added perks like the poor network admin's cellphone number.:D"
Right you are. I spent some 10 hours haggling with Cox, and the county I am moving to, about pulling another cable line into the basement I'm moving into. But, because there is no "kitchen" in said basement, the county does not allow that.
And with the business account I will be getting (which I will use during the day to do my IT job), I know I will get more support then a residential account. Of course, the support might be as stupid, but management will be more on my side. LOL.
I'm in Northern Virginia. Now, what I didn't mention in my first post was that "supposedly" residential service (which I can't get) in that area has gotten kinda cool..... 3mbps down / 902k up. Some new fiber thing they got going. Dunno what their rates are for Internet without TV, but I think its around $54.00 per month.
My god, it would be sublime! Comcast, AT&T, Charter, Cox (and any other big cable companies) charge $$$$ for upload speeds over 128kbps. And that's assuming that your in an area where they can offer those higher speeds to a residence, or bother to offer "commercial" service.
Comcast wants over $200 a month for a commercial service that offers 256kbps up. Cox, who I will be using after I move in 2 weeks, offers 3mb down / 256kbps up for $79. That's their commercial service. But..wait for it...for 3mb down / 384 up they want $325.00. I can't speak for AT&T or Charter specifically, as I have not recently lived in areas where either service is available.
If this type of broadband proves reliable, affordable to deploy, and sells for under $50.00 a month, cable companies are going to be in very big trouble...assuming they ignore the obvious.
True. But I assume just about everyone knows that. Thing is, I know several people who were CRAZY about it. I was too busy figuring out There Inc, and missed the chance to check Uru out.
Uru had a good thing going. And there is no reason that they won't return in a year or 3 with a model that will work.
Would I switch? Who knows. I'd certainly enjoy better graphics, and my online pal who I play games with is ready to switch from There to something else, because of There's low-end graphics.
First, I applied for beta access to THERE early LAST year. I had a fairly decent Windows system, with enough ram. But was told that Windows machine didn't meet the required specs. This bothers me, because this was a newish "low-end" machine..but still not good enough.
Now I'm a There user. Using a much newer Windows machine. I've got enough power to access better graphics then THERE offers. I've got broadband, and plenty of it. And There is pretty cool. The system is interesting, the people are cool, and there are some fun things to do.
But I can't use Firefox to access There, and the submission process is horrible.
Having read many sci-fi authors take on "Metaverse", I'd say we are years away from having something like There, Uru, Second Life and The Online Sims work for everyone, on any computer, over any sort of connection.
But it's coming. And maybe people like Will Harvey will be the first to create those brave new worlds.
Just as an FYI: There are a couple of companies that are working towards this: BitPass (http://www.bitpass.com/) and Peppercoin (http://www.peppercoin.com/). And yes, merchants using Pay Pal are doing the micropayment thing, but in this case it's for either software or goods. And Pay Pal does charge for transactions.
First, hosting a website that is visted by a large audience is not cheap. Plus, you have to pay people to add content to the website. The marketing department is going after add revenu. Add to this the IT staff that's necessary for all things regarding the web site in general, and poof! It's $75,000 a month.
But yes, it's cheaper then paper. But does that company care? I doubt it.
The problem that I run into is that I have a small place. I can't possibly keep stacks of printed media around. In order for me to feed my news habit (which is partially based on business plans), I need to archive some 25+ articles a week. I'd gladly pay the cost of a daily newspaper for those articles.
Not to mention the News sites that don't exist on the printed medium. Salon being one of those, and I stopped reading them 2 years ago, because of their blanket subscription plan.
I'm happy to admit I've finally subscribed to Slashdot. It's working out great. Not only can I control what news I see, but also give something back to a site I've been crazy about for years. And if it wasn't for Slashdot, I'd have to go HUNTING around for half the articles I archive.
Slashdots subscription plan is one form of micropayment that I think would work well for major News sites. X number of page loads for x price.
As for other types of content driven web sites, the same subscription would probably work, as would one that charged a small amount.50 cents or less, per article.
Good point! I already have so many UID's and PSWD's, its disgusting.
And while I have a certain respect for the IDEA behind MS's Passport system, I don't think the "informed" community would ever truest them to handle such a momentous task.
I mean really..if you've avoided getting a Hotmail account because of MS's Passport system, would you trust them with ALL your micropayment needs? I don't think so!
This is where I see micropayments being very valuable. Few users are going to want to pay $20.00 a month, if they only want to read 10% of the content on a news site. Every time I access a news site and am prompted to give over $5.00 for each archive article, I flinch. That's just too much.As a long time (and satisfied) Pay Pal user, I love using Pay Pal to submit small payments, but so far few online merchants accept such payments.
As someone who reads through news every single day of the year, I'd love an option to offer small payments for content that I specifically want. If I was paying $5.00 for each news article I convert to a PDF, I'd be broke in no time. Slashdot has talked about micropaymentsbefore.
A small, somewhat cute robot that wouldn't freak you at at 4 AM if you bumped into it.
Actually, I found this pretty cool. Amazing these little guys have such ablities consdering the technology.
After seeing countless videos of many different robots, this is on the only one I could see putting on my desk. Don't know how the ghosts who haunt my abode are going to feel about it though.
I'm not concerned that people want this code. Hell, I'd grab it and save it as "archived information", like I do with so many other tidbits of things that come out into the open. Can you say WASTE?
What does concern me is how MS is running after those who are obtaining the leaked code. Is an FBI group standing over every P2P system, and then providing user information to MS? Please! Or is the media running multiplereports on behalf of MS, about those receiving warnings, while in fact this entire affair is a media stunt?
I was wondering if anyone would mention even ONE of George R. Martins older works. Fevre Dream was the first book of his that I read, and it was fantastic. It remains in the top 3 vampire book list that I've mentally been updating for some 15 years. And I've read a LOT of vampire books. A must read for any serious vampire story lover.
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First, there was that short scene where government scientists were abashed that they could not pinpoint WHAT the aliens were made of, because their organic tissues seemed to respond to whatever test was thrown at them, and became what the test was looking for. That scene was VERY bad, imho, as it was too short, and so completely portrayed in laymen's terms it probably went unnoticed. If these aliens could replicate human tissue, then it goes without saying that stretching the truth about their "compatibility" with us isn't reaching that far.
Second, Owen Crawford's character, as the Colonel (who is promoted to Major, btw, in the first episode), GROWS to become a key government official in charge of the Roswell case. He's supposed to be the "human" villain element, and I think he will play such a part quite well.
I've been pretty anxious for this series to start. I watched the first episode last night, and will be taping the rest and watching it when I have time. I feel that 20 episodes is extreme, but at least they will have a chance to play everything out properly. Like someone else mentioned here, I'll respond to this series if, at the very least, it's "good unoriginality".
I've been hearing about this issue for years, literally! One wonders, however, about the timing of this decision. The music industry is not seen in the best of light right now, and I wonder if they belive this will improve sales. Or maybe I am just paranoid.
Though I and our DC group had various questions not answered by the MeetUp group, we managed fairly well.
I and Sphynx (Thanks dude!) hosted this event, and at last count 23 people actually were around to be counted. These brave folks waded through nasty parking issues, being shy, being female (6 showed, whoooo hooo!), and my being a little too shy to talk to everyone. Much geek talk prevailed, and a good time seemed to be had by all. Many of the group were quite enthused about our community in DC coming togther. Folks out here in DC are stricken by several factors that make it difficult to keep in contact with our peers.
Though I am really not quite ready to announce this, I want to tell anyone in the DC area that I've been working on a site to get us all together. With the help of MeetUp, this can be done. And don't think that because your on one of the other SlashDot MeetUp lists around here that your not part of our community. Please visit this site for more information, and be kind, I'm the admin and I've not even regsitered the domain yet.
I really enjoyed this bit of news when I read it this morning. I hate having to be tied to a device or the TV whenver something cool is going be broadcast. And though Pay-Per-View is an option, I found it interesting that the article said that Pay-Per-View hadn't really "taken off". If VOD can replace Pay-Per-View, we will be further on our way to not only getting content WHEN we want it, but also offering content that is only obtained by buying it on VHS or DVD. And perhaps this will also move corporations to start building those "Want to Know More?" systems like those seen in the movie Starship Troopers.
As someone who has 3 technical jobs, I take advantage of EVERY day off I get from one of them. But someday, when I have a life again, I want to cook Xmas dinner, get drunk on New Years Eve, and have a Birthday party. Either that, or invent a device that lets me freeze time and work "offline".
I really agree with your issues about time shifting. And in fact, I feel its a very good way to express what myself and many of the people I've talked to want. The ability (free or otherwise) to get the information you want, when you want it. And to use it, or interact with it, when it's convenient. I've given up on TV because I'm ALWAYS working when something cool comes on. And I don't want to buy a $250 dollar gadget that will STILL require my time to program.
And another thing that has come up in many of my chat sessions on my site. We want to know more. If I'm watching a movie on TV, and want to find out about an actor in the film, I have to get up, and visit imdb.com. We need the ablity to watch what we want, when we want to, and access information about what we are watching without having to access another device for information.
IMHO, I belive that broadband would enable us to gain that type of power. I just wonder how long it will take for people to see this as a viable reason.
A few years ago I had to allocate single IP's to a now defunct Cable Modem ISP user base. I was handed this job when it was being handled by using Microsoft Excel, of all the stupid things. Upon learning this, I sent a memo to several of the in-house engineers and said "What can you guy's do to assist in this matter?". One of the unix guru's got together with one of our webmaster's, and they were in the middle of writing a nice little database with GUI system. Then upper management decided to combine the accounting system, the tech call center data, and the sales order system into one large package. A year later, I was still using Excel to allocate IP's. Later, after I had left the company, I found out this system wide package never got completed.
The moral here: keep it simple, clean, and efficent. And I'm pretty sure there are lots of folks who are current with all the latest database
technology that could handle this matter.
Deep Space 9 was the last ST Series I had an interest in. Andromeda and Farscape are the only 2 series I watch now, and if Andromeda starts leaning towards the direction that article describes, I probably won't stick around to watch.
A shame. B5 - first season, anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. If I hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd mod you up. I am constantly looking for good sources / brands to aid my Indian cooking skills. I searched for Shan Foods on Goggle, but didn't find a web site for them. I did however, find a web site that sells Shan Foods online: Quality Spices.
I took 7 years of food prep, but never got further for health reasons. Cooking full time is a very physical career. But I love to cook, and have a personal reputation to uphold. I have many cookbooks, but have found the WWW to be a great resource for tips, tricks, reciples, ethnic foods, etc. One day I WILL have a machine in my kitchen that will allow me to browse the Web, watch cooking shows, and run various food/shopping/recipe software. For giggles, I've included here a few links that I've found helpful. Yes, I'm a fan of the Food Network, and not ashamed to admit it. Alton Brown rocks!
Google Directory Links
Meals.Com
Food Network
"fun added perks like the poor network admin's cellphone number. :D"
Right you are. I spent some 10 hours haggling with Cox, and the county I am moving to, about pulling another cable line into the basement I'm moving into. But, because there is no "kitchen" in said basement, the county does not allow that.
And with the business account I will be getting (which I will use during the day to do my IT job), I know I will get more support then a residential account. Of course, the support might be as stupid, but management will be more on my side. LOL.
I'm in Northern Virginia. Now, what I didn't mention in my first post was that "supposedly" residential service (which I can't get) in that area has gotten kinda cool..... 3mbps down / 902k up. Some new fiber thing they got going. Dunno what their rates are for Internet without TV, but I think its around $54.00 per month.
Nice? Nice??
My god, it would be sublime! Comcast, AT&T, Charter, Cox (and any other big cable companies) charge $$$$ for upload speeds over 128kbps. And that's assuming that your in an area where they can offer those higher speeds to a residence, or bother to offer "commercial" service.
Comcast wants over $200 a month for a commercial service that offers 256kbps up. Cox, who I will be using after I move in 2 weeks, offers 3mb down / 256kbps up for $79. That's their commercial service. But..wait for it...for 3mb down / 384 up they want $325.00. I can't speak for AT&T or Charter specifically, as I have not recently lived in areas where either service is available.
If this type of broadband proves reliable, affordable to deploy, and sells for under $50.00 a month, cable companies are going to be in very big trouble...assuming they ignore the obvious.
True. But I assume just about everyone knows that. Thing is, I know several people who were CRAZY about it. I was too busy figuring out There Inc, and missed the chance to check Uru out.
Uru had a good thing going. And there is no reason that they won't return in a year or 3 with a model that will work.
Would I switch? Who knows. I'd certainly enjoy better graphics, and my online pal who I play games with is ready to switch from There to something else, because of There's low-end graphics.
First, I applied for beta access to THERE early LAST year. I had a fairly decent Windows system, with enough ram. But was told that Windows machine didn't meet the required specs. This bothers me, because this was a newish "low-end" machine..but still not good enough.
Now I'm a There user. Using a much newer Windows machine. I've got enough power to access better graphics then THERE offers. I've got broadband, and plenty of it. And There is pretty cool. The system is interesting, the people are cool, and there are some fun things to do.
But I can't use Firefox to access There, and the submission process is horrible.
Having read many sci-fi authors take on "Metaverse", I'd say we are years away from having something like There, Uru, Second Life and The Online Sims work for everyone, on any computer, over any sort of connection.
But it's coming. And maybe people like Will Harvey will be the first to create those brave new worlds.
Just as an FYI: There are a couple of companies that are working towards this: BitPass (http://www.bitpass.com/) and Peppercoin (http://www.peppercoin.com/). And yes, merchants using Pay Pal are doing the micropayment thing, but in this case it's for either software or goods. And Pay Pal does charge for transactions.
Internet News versus Paper News
.50 cents or less, per article.
First, hosting a website that is visted by a large audience is not cheap. Plus, you have to pay people to add content to the website. The marketing department is going after add revenu. Add to this the IT staff that's necessary for all things regarding the web site in general, and poof! It's $75,000 a month.
But yes, it's cheaper then paper. But does that company care? I doubt it.
The problem that I run into is that I have a small place. I can't possibly keep stacks of printed media around. In order for me to feed my news habit (which is partially based on business plans), I need to archive some 25+ articles a week. I'd gladly pay the cost of a daily newspaper for those articles.
Not to mention the News sites that don't exist on the printed medium. Salon being one of those, and I stopped reading them 2 years ago, because of their blanket subscription plan.
I'm happy to admit I've finally subscribed to Slashdot. It's working out great. Not only can I control what news I see, but also give something back to a site I've been crazy about for years. And if it wasn't for Slashdot, I'd have to go HUNTING around for half the articles I archive.
Slashdots subscription plan is one form of micropayment that I think would work well for major News sites. X number of page loads for x price.
As for other types of content driven web sites, the same subscription would probably work, as would one that charged a small amount
Just my 2 cents!
Good point! I already have so many UID's and PSWD's, its disgusting.
And while I have a certain respect for the IDEA behind MS's Passport system, I don't think the "informed" community would ever truest them to handle such a momentous task.
I mean really..if you've avoided getting a Hotmail account because of MS's Passport system, would you trust them with ALL your micropayment needs? I don't think so!
As someone who reads through news every single day of the year, I'd love an option to offer small payments for content that I specifically want. If I was paying $5.00 for each news article I convert to a PDF, I'd be broke in no time. Slashdot has talked about micropayments before.
A small, somewhat cute robot that wouldn't freak you at at 4 AM if you bumped into it.
Actually, I found this pretty cool. Amazing these little guys have such ablities consdering the technology.
After seeing countless videos of many different robots, this is on the only one I could see putting on my desk. Don't know how the ghosts who haunt my abode are going to feel about it though.
What does concern me is how MS is running after those who are obtaining the leaked code. Is an FBI group standing over every P2P system, and then providing user information to MS? Please! Or is the media running multiple reports on behalf of MS, about those receiving warnings, while in fact this entire affair is a media stunt?
It's small, but for those curious:
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I was wondering if anyone would mention even ONE of George R. Martins older works. Fevre Dream was the first book of his that I read, and it was fantastic. It remains in the top 3 vampire book list that I've mentally been updating for some 15 years. And I've read a LOT of vampire books. A must read for any serious vampire story lover.
First, there was that short scene where government scientists were abashed that they could not pinpoint WHAT the aliens were made of, because their organic tissues seemed to respond to whatever test was thrown at them, and became what the test was looking for. That scene was VERY bad, imho, as it was too short, and so completely portrayed in laymen's terms it probably went unnoticed. If these aliens could replicate human tissue, then it goes without saying that stretching the truth about their "compatibility" with us isn't reaching that far.
Second, Owen Crawford's character, as the Colonel (who is promoted to Major, btw, in the first episode), GROWS to become a key government official in charge of the Roswell case. He's supposed to be the "human" villain element, and I think he will play such a part quite well.
I've been pretty anxious for this series to start. I watched the first episode last night, and will be taping the rest and watching it when I have time. I feel that 20 episodes is extreme, but at least they will have a chance to play everything out properly. Like someone else mentioned here, I'll respond to this series if, at the very least, it's "good unoriginality".
I've been hearing about this issue for years, literally! One wonders, however, about the timing of this decision. The music industry is not seen in the best of light right now, and I wonder if they belive this will improve sales. Or maybe I am just paranoid.
Two words. OMG YES!
And what about other movies that show great vistas or cool effects?
Shoot To Kill
The Time Machine (2002 version)
TRON
I'm sure I could come up with a ton to include in this list. I'd pay $15 bucks to see any of these in an IMAX theater. $25 to see LOTR.
I'm really glad things went as well as they did, considering what happened to other Meets around the country.
It was great being able to meet so many interesting people, and hopefully the next meet will be a bit more organized.
And I really hope the email I sent to the MeetUp group didn't sound like the 1,000 other emails they probably received today.
Though I and our DC group had various questions not answered by the MeetUp group, we managed fairly well.
I and Sphynx (Thanks dude!) hosted this event, and at last count 23 people actually were around to be counted. These brave folks waded through nasty parking issues, being shy, being female (6 showed, whoooo hooo!), and my being a little too shy to talk to everyone. Much geek talk prevailed, and a good time seemed to be had by all. Many of the group were quite enthused about our community in DC coming togther. Folks out here in DC are stricken by several factors that make it difficult to keep in contact with our peers.
Though I am really not quite ready to announce this, I want to tell anyone in the DC area that I've been working on a site to get us all together. With the help of MeetUp, this can be done. And don't think that because your on one of the other SlashDot MeetUp lists around here that your not part of our community. Please visit this site for more information, and be kind, I'm the admin and I've not even regsitered the domain yet.
DC Metro Geeks
I really enjoyed this bit of news when I read it this morning. I hate having to be tied to a device or the TV whenver something cool is going be broadcast. And though Pay-Per-View is an option, I found it interesting that the article said that Pay-Per-View hadn't really "taken off". If VOD can replace Pay-Per-View, we will be further on our way to not only getting content WHEN we want it, but also offering content that is only obtained by buying it on VHS or DVD. And perhaps this will also move corporations to start building those "Want to Know More?" systems like those seen in the movie Starship Troopers.
As someone who has 3 technical jobs, I take advantage of EVERY day off I get from one of them. But someday, when I have a life again, I want to cook Xmas dinner, get drunk on New Years Eve, and have a Birthday party. Either that, or invent a device that lets me freeze time and work "offline".
I really agree with your issues about time shifting. And in fact, I feel its a very good way to express what myself and many of the people I've talked to want. The ability (free or otherwise) to get the information you want, when you want it. And to use it, or interact with it, when it's convenient. I've given up on TV because I'm ALWAYS working when something cool comes on. And I don't want to buy a $250 dollar gadget that will STILL require my time to program.
And another thing that has come up in many of my chat sessions on my site. We want to know more. If I'm watching a movie on TV, and want to find out about an actor in the film, I have to get up, and visit imdb.com. We need the ablity to watch what we want, when we want to, and access information about what we are watching without having to access another device for information.
IMHO, I belive that broadband would enable us to gain that type of power. I just wonder how long it will take for people to see this as a viable reason.
A few years ago I had to allocate single IP's to a now defunct Cable Modem ISP user base. I was handed this job when it was being handled by using Microsoft Excel, of all the stupid things. Upon learning this, I sent a memo to several of the in-house engineers and said "What can you guy's do to assist in this matter?". One of the unix guru's got together with one of our webmaster's, and they were in the middle of writing a nice little database with GUI system. Then upper management decided to combine the accounting system, the tech call center data, and the sales order system into one large package. A year later, I was still using Excel to allocate IP's. Later, after I had left the company, I found out this system wide package never got completed.
The moral here: keep it simple, clean, and efficent. And I'm pretty sure there are lots of folks who are current with all the latest database
technology that could handle this matter.
Deep Space 9 was the last ST Series I had an interest in. Andromeda and Farscape are the only 2 series I watch now, and if Andromeda starts leaning towards the direction that article describes, I probably won't stick around to watch.
A shame. B5 - first season, anyone?