I just changed bloody hosts three days ago and my DNS still isn't completely changed over! Now I find out it's because all the new servers are farting around in Frankfurt! Great, just great! =)~
How original and funny you are. If I wanted to see anything that might be in Playboy I could just go take a bath, because I'm a busy chick without time for pr0n. You also conveniently ignored the part where I mentioned I was backing up my own artwork. Just because I might enjoy drawing boobies does not make it pr0n0graphy.
I've been shopping for the best brand of CD-RW I can find for longevity, and I'm going to be backing up all my extremely high dpi scans to disk, twice, and storing a set in seperate locations. I sell my original artwork, so this is important to me. I'm glad to know I shouldn't be stacking these vertically. I don't care much about my music CDs since I rarely buy them new or pay more than $5, and keep them in a large binder w/out jewel cases... but my personal data is certainly more important. From now on I will keep my backup data CDs in proper cases and store them as recommended. I'd also like to know which markers are safe to use. I've always used Sharpies in the past.
I also back everything up to the second hard drive in my system, but when dealing with 50-75MB files that can become impractical quickly. I'm paranoid now because I've been through several hard disk failures this year alone.
Does anyone recommend a particular brand of CD-R(W) disks best known for longevity, while on the subject...?
This can be true for many. I know it is for me. I was always a bit of a hermit and have had a hard time meeting people I got along with enough to spend much time with, but since I started using things like livejournal and instant messaging, it's resulted in being involved with several groups of friends that I know very well, and we go out and do things like get coffee, shoot pool, and just hang out. I regularly go out and have lunch to meet new people, other artists, writers, whatever, that I've encountered online. So I am definitely more social now that I participate in many online communities. Most of them translate over into "real world" relations quite easily.
Since I quit my job (for asst. reasons) and am now [struggling] to survive off my webstuff full-time, I've encountered the same problem. It's even worse for me, because I have unfinished artwork and such sitting around staring at me, and I try to get away from it to find myself still working after two hours of "just five minutes more, until I finish this..."
I've actually picked up the habit of just sitting around in coffee shops for an hour or two, talking with friends, to FORCE myself to relax. As long as I'm here, I find myself compelled to work on something. I've never been much of one for passive entertainment such as television or movies on TV, which makes it very difficult to pull myself away. And my "work" used to be what some people would call a hobby, even though I've never considered it one -- so it's not like I have other busybody outlets.
In my experience, dividing the areas doesn't really help. Just finding interesting things to do outside, preferably with other people that won't let you leave early to work more. Anywhere that fosters good conversation and involves food or drink usually works for me.
Very very true, but it seems to me if all your neighbours start getting arrested, the stupidity of it is just a little more blatantly visible than spouting facts and figures at someone. Just MHO.
if with more and better abilities to actually catch every little minor drug offense, it's only going to inadvertantly give momentum to the movement to legalize some or all of the "illegal" drugs.
Right now, it's relatively easy, I think, to stay under the radar for most casual users, based on what I've read of other's experiences. Something like this could actually be a good thing if it exposed just how much drug trafficing actually goes on, especially between average, upstanding citizens. It might not be good at first, per se, but could finally motivate the average citizen to realize how idiotic these drug laws are to begin with... at least that's how I see it.
Anyhow this probably won't be a big deal for most internet businesses except for the paperwork. It might not hurt them at all if there is a provision made for the expense of collection. It will hurt those that were only in business because they were a tax dodge.
You'd be surprised how much a little extra paperwork can cripple a sole proprietorship (I'm not allowed to have employees unless I change my business status and incur another whole world of complications), already being run in combination with a second job, like me. Collecting and remitting state sales taxes, along with regular accounting, and reconciling that with federal income taxes and piles of extra forms is already a huge hassle and confusing as Hell. The ONLY way internet sales tax will work is if they establish a tax system outside of the existing tax codes and districts... like if I no longer remit TX state sales tax and just collect (for example) a "national internet sales tax" of X% that's divided between the states or something.
If you ever looked at the tax districts, codes, what goes to states, city and metro jurisdiction... well, it's forked up. If they try to dump a convoluted national internet sales tax thing ON TOP of that, I think it would force a lot of small internet businesses like me to just throw their hands in the air and give up entirely.
but it seems like it would make more sense to just make recyclable disks instead. I wonder what the environment required is for the disks to start breaking down is... it couldn't possibly be heat. Maybe sunlight and/or water? I'd hate to leave a disk out in my car and forget about it for a few days, then come back and find it degraded just enough that I can't access the data on it anymore.
I do thing this is a really cool idea. Those bloody AOL disks were the first good use that came to mind. Since they're corn, maybe they can go the extra step and find a way to make them edible like that one company that makes edible plates and food boxes. =)
Flooding, earthquakes in Japan, drought, giant hurricanes on the east coast, fire... and now meteors devastating small villages.
I'm kidding about the end of the world, but has it seemed to anyone else that there's been an unusually high occurance of natural disaster in the last year or so? Maybe it's just me.
I've been selling artwork over my website for the last three years. I don't make enough money to take on an accountant, and I have to file sales taxes for my state (TX) already, which is confusing and time consuming enough. Something like this would literally force me to either operate illegally and fail to collect the taxes altogether (and risk whatever penalties) or to just close up shop completely. (Or, I guess, buy a fax machine.)
Short of nationalizing the sales tax to be the exact same amount in all jurisdictions of all states, this is just utter craziness.
...and other stuff through different stores, and now they want to be a search engine, too? I don't really get why these sites feel the need to be everything to everyone -- it seems to me to be a recipe for failure. Plus I don't think I'd trust a search engine that was directly connected with profiting from promoting certain brands, products, etc. I haven't used anything but Google in a long time. I've even heard journalists and a (US) government official use the expression "Googling" in interviews/press releases on NPR on numerous occassions. Google is practically ubiquitous with searching now. If I was an Amazon.com shareholder I would be very wary of this.
Not to say that a better search engine won't eventually come along, but I don't see why anyone is going to switch when the incumbent site is about as good as most people will need.
Excuse me, I have to go Amazon... er... A9... for more information, now...
I don't really think he needs a computer program to do this. Judging from some of my male coworkers, this sort of thing has been going on for years. If anyone wants to know exactly where he is at any given point in time, he should just get married... and then they can call his wife.;)
Three hours as a captive audience, trapped between an aisle seat with some guy talking to his Aunt Mildred about his inflamed hemmoroids acting up and some 14 year old by the window who decided that now is a good time to try out all the 153 ringtones she downloaded while sitting in the airport.
Disregarding the validity of this specific experiment or not, could it also be possible there was a pre-existing crack/flaw in the tile(s) that caused the foam to do more damage than it might have otherwise done? Or was that ruled out? I know that there's no likelihood of examining the actual wing after the fact, but I'm not certain of how closely the shuttles are inspected prior to launch.
Though it makes me wonder why they don't do something like that now, anyway. I'm sure there would still be things to be examined and learned at different levels of orbit? Or would something like that take so long to finally get them back down, that it would only be feasible as a last-resort?
I've been following this pretty closely since I live relatively near the Johnson Space Centre here in Houston, and quite a few NASA people come in where I work. I've heard a lot of talk about training the astronauts all to spacewalk, and be able to repair minor damage to the shuttle, but what exactly would they do if the damage was too severe to be repaired? Would a second shuttle have to be launched as a rescue mission? Would they have to just abandon the damaged shuttle in space, since it would be unfit for re-entry? There's a lot of talk of repairs but I haven't heard any predictions for scenarios where repair was impossible.
Perhaps NASA should start looking at new designs with potentially fatal flaws. Have they not been using this design for something like 15-20 years now?
What, are you supposed to just grab the door and climb in as it whizzes by, or what? Does it circle the 7-11 for you on autopilot while you're inside getting your Hostess cupcakes and lottery tickets?
is that all the artists were dressing up in blue jumpsuits, dancing around to techno music while screwing in lightbulbs, and calling it performance art.
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I just changed bloody hosts three days ago and my DNS still isn't completely changed over! Now I find out it's because all the new servers are farting around in Frankfurt! Great, just great! =)~
How original and funny you are. If I wanted to see anything that might be in Playboy I could just go take a bath, because I'm a busy chick without time for pr0n. You also conveniently ignored the part where I mentioned I was backing up my own artwork. Just because I might enjoy drawing boobies does not make it pr0n0graphy.
So nyeh.
I've been shopping for the best brand of CD-RW I can find for longevity, and I'm going to be backing up all my extremely high dpi scans to disk, twice, and storing a set in seperate locations. I sell my original artwork, so this is important to me. I'm glad to know I shouldn't be stacking these vertically. I don't care much about my music CDs since I rarely buy them new or pay more than $5, and keep them in a large binder w/out jewel cases... but my personal data is certainly more important. From now on I will keep my backup data CDs in proper cases and store them as recommended. I'd also like to know which markers are safe to use. I've always used Sharpies in the past.
I also back everything up to the second hard drive in my system, but when dealing with 50-75MB files that can become impractical quickly. I'm paranoid now because I've been through several hard disk failures this year alone.
Does anyone recommend a particular brand of CD-R(W) disks best known for longevity, while on the subject...?
and engage in more social activities....
This can be true for many. I know it is for me. I was always a bit of a hermit and have had a hard time meeting people I got along with enough to spend much time with, but since I started using things like livejournal and instant messaging, it's resulted in being involved with several groups of friends that I know very well, and we go out and do things like get coffee, shoot pool, and just hang out. I regularly go out and have lunch to meet new people, other artists, writers, whatever, that I've encountered online. So I am definitely more social now that I participate in many online communities. Most of them translate over into "real world" relations quite easily.
Obviously, previewing posts and picking the right option from the drop down menu is not something I do in my spare time. *slaps forehead*
Since I quit my job (for asst. reasons) and am now [struggling] to survive off my webstuff full-time, I've encountered the same problem. It's even worse for me, because I have unfinished artwork and such sitting around staring at me, and I try to get away from it to find myself still working after two hours of "just five minutes more, until I finish this..."
I've actually picked up the habit of just sitting around in coffee shops for an hour or two, talking with friends, to FORCE myself to relax. As long as I'm here, I find myself compelled to work on something. I've never been much of one for passive entertainment such as television or movies on TV, which makes it very difficult to pull myself away. And my "work" used to be what some people would call a hobby, even though I've never considered it one -- so it's not like I have other busybody outlets.
In my experience, dividing the areas doesn't really help. Just finding interesting things to do outside, preferably with other people that won't let you leave early to work more. Anywhere that fosters good conversation and involves food or drink usually works for me.
Someone needs to get that guy on Coast to Coast AM, with Art Bell/George Noory stat.
Knowing that show, there's someone else in the audience that actually does have all that equipment he's searching for. =)
he doesn't seem to grasp the concepts of 'self control' and moderation.
Just because there's a plate of food in me doesn't mean I have to eat it, nor does it mean that if the TV's there, I have to turn it on and watch it.
Very very true, but it seems to me if all your neighbours start getting arrested, the stupidity of it is just a little more blatantly visible than spouting facts and figures at someone. Just MHO.
if with more and better abilities to actually catch every little minor drug offense, it's only going to inadvertantly give momentum to the movement to legalize some or all of the "illegal" drugs.
Right now, it's relatively easy, I think, to stay under the radar for most casual users, based on what I've read of other's experiences. Something like this could actually be a good thing if it exposed just how much drug trafficing actually goes on, especially between average, upstanding citizens. It might not be good at first, per se, but could finally motivate the average citizen to realize how idiotic these drug laws are to begin with... at least that's how I see it.
Anyhow this probably won't be a big deal for most internet businesses except for the paperwork. It might not hurt them at all if there is a provision made for the expense of collection. It will hurt those that were only in business because they were a tax dodge.
You'd be surprised how much a little extra paperwork can cripple a sole proprietorship (I'm not allowed to have employees unless I change my business status and incur another whole world of complications), already being run in combination with a second job, like me. Collecting and remitting state sales taxes, along with regular accounting, and reconciling that with federal income taxes and piles of extra forms is already a huge hassle and confusing as Hell. The ONLY way internet sales tax will work is if they establish a tax system outside of the existing tax codes and districts... like if I no longer remit TX state sales tax and just collect (for example) a "national internet sales tax" of X% that's divided between the states or something.
If you ever looked at the tax districts, codes, what goes to states, city and metro jurisdiction... well, it's forked up. If they try to dump a convoluted national internet sales tax thing ON TOP of that, I think it would force a lot of small internet businesses like me to just throw their hands in the air and give up entirely.
but it seems like it would make more sense to just make recyclable disks instead. I wonder what the environment required is for the disks to start breaking down is... it couldn't possibly be heat. Maybe sunlight and/or water? I'd hate to leave a disk out in my car and forget about it for a few days, then come back and find it degraded just enough that I can't access the data on it anymore.
I do thing this is a really cool idea. Those bloody AOL disks were the first good use that came to mind. Since they're corn, maybe they can go the extra step and find a way to make them edible like that one company that makes edible plates and food boxes. =)
Flooding, earthquakes in Japan, drought, giant hurricanes on the east coast, fire... and now meteors devastating small villages.
I'm kidding about the end of the world, but has it seemed to anyone else that there's been an unusually high occurance of natural disaster in the last year or so? Maybe it's just me.
I've been selling artwork over my website for the last three years. I don't make enough money to take on an accountant, and I have to file sales taxes for my state (TX) already, which is confusing and time consuming enough. Something like this would literally force me to either operate illegally and fail to collect the taxes altogether (and risk whatever penalties) or to just close up shop completely. (Or, I guess, buy a fax machine.)
Short of nationalizing the sales tax to be the exact same amount in all jurisdictions of all states, this is just utter craziness.
...and other stuff through different stores, and now they want to be a search engine, too? I don't really get why these sites feel the need to be everything to everyone -- it seems to me to be a recipe for failure. Plus I don't think I'd trust a search engine that was directly connected with profiting from promoting certain brands, products, etc. I haven't used anything but Google in a long time. I've even heard journalists and a (US) government official use the expression "Googling" in interviews/press releases on NPR on numerous occassions. Google is practically ubiquitous with searching now. If I was an Amazon.com shareholder I would be very wary of this.
Not to say that a better search engine won't eventually come along, but I don't see why anyone is going to switch when the incumbent site is about as good as most people will need.
Excuse me, I have to go Amazon... er... A9... for more information, now...
Nope, sorry. Doesn't work. ^^;
I don't really think he needs a computer program to do this. Judging from some of my male coworkers, this sort of thing has been going on for years. If anyone wants to know exactly where he is at any given point in time, he should just get married... and then they can call his wife. ;)
Three hours as a captive audience, trapped between an aisle seat with some guy talking to his Aunt Mildred about his inflamed hemmoroids acting up and some 14 year old by the window who decided that now is a good time to try out all the 153 ringtones she downloaded while sitting in the airport.
No. Thank. You!
Disregarding the validity of this specific experiment or not, could it also be possible there was a pre-existing crack/flaw in the tile(s) that caused the foam to do more damage than it might have otherwise done? Or was that ruled out? I know that there's no likelihood of examining the actual wing after the fact, but I'm not certain of how closely the shuttles are inspected prior to launch.
Though it makes me wonder why they don't do something like that now, anyway. I'm sure there would still be things to be examined and learned at different levels of orbit? Or would something like that take so long to finally get them back down, that it would only be feasible as a last-resort?
I caught myself after it was too late, but thanks. ;)
*slaps forehead*
without potentially fatal flaws...
I've been following this pretty closely since I live relatively near the Johnson Space Centre here in Houston, and quite a few NASA people come in where I work. I've heard a lot of talk about training the astronauts all to spacewalk, and be able to repair minor damage to the shuttle, but what exactly would they do if the damage was too severe to be repaired? Would a second shuttle have to be launched as a rescue mission? Would they have to just abandon the damaged shuttle in space, since it would be unfit for re-entry? There's a lot of talk of repairs but I haven't heard any predictions for scenarios where repair was impossible.
Perhaps NASA should start looking at new designs with potentially fatal flaws. Have they not been using this design for something like 15-20 years now?
Didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the article posted... had to look at the "official" rules. :)
What, are you supposed to just grab the door and climb in as it whizzes by, or what? Does it circle the 7-11 for you on autopilot while you're inside getting your Hostess cupcakes and lottery tickets?
The mind boggles.
is that all the artists were dressing up in blue jumpsuits, dancing around to techno music while screwing in lightbulbs, and calling it performance art.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.