The problem really comes in when trying to replace the bulbs on a ceiling fan or area that you want to be dimmable.
I haven't found compact fluorescents that look nice enough to into the ceiling fans or chandeliers and/or support the dimmer. However, I am replacing about 3/4 of the dimmer switches in the house with standard toggles and replacing the lights with fluorescents. This also allows a "free" upgrade on some of the bulbs to 100W equivalent for better lighting, while still only using half the energy. I'm also converting all motion-detector lights to fluorescent.
I'll only buy from iTunes when I can strip the DRM off the songs I purchase. Since they broke hymn with the iTunes 6 release, I haven't bothered to buy any music and have gotten out of the habit of checking out new music on the site, so I haven't even bothered to see if there has been a new release of hymn that fixes the defect in iTunes.
Apple has lost at least $100 in sales from me alone this year, based on my prior buying habits.
On the other hand, Yahoo supposedly has songs with no DRM for sale. I plan on buying some of them if they really are available and I like any of the artists.
And no, I have no interest in P2P or that other crap.
Between AIM installing spyware with the last release and the feature set of Trillian, I don't see AOL doing anything tha could lure me back to using their client.
The history feature of Trillian 3.0 is amazingly cool.
That's because OO.org is no where near as good as Office, while Firefox is better than IE.
I've tried Thunderbird, Firefox, Moz Calendar, and OO.org. I only use Thunderbird and Firefox. I'd use Moz Calendar as well, if it were integrated into Thunderbird, not just a plug-in.
OO.org just doesn't cut it for me as a replacement for Office.
Banks take 1 - 2 days to receive funds from other banks received through the Fed. The NSF process gives the other bank an additional 48hrs to stop payment on the check and demand money back. Five days is a reasonable amount of time to protect the bank from losing money that hasn't fully cleared yet.
When Check 21 is fully in place, you are correct. There will be immediate availability of funds.
Many people will be hurt by this, as it removes any buffer that they are used to dealing with for writing checks to pay bills that take several days to clear.
However, the vast majority of check monitary transfers are going to happen through the Federal reserve system or regional clearinghouses for a significant time to come.
Currently, many financial institutions turn your check into an ACH transation. When I pay either of my credit card bills, the check isn't returned to me. It is used as an instrument to authorize an ACH withdrawal from my checking account.
Banks are in business to make money. They don't make money by letting people abuse the time it takes transactions to clear through the Fed or clearinghouses to write bad checks.
If you want your money ASAP, cash the check and then deposit most of the cash. Assuming you are an account holder in good stead, you should have those funds available to you immediately, or utilize direct deposit.
If you write a JPEG library and give it to me for free, would it be fair for me to write a JPEG utility using it and sell it, given that basically all I wrote was a UI?
You assume that writing the JPEG library is the HARD part. From what I have seen, crafting a well throught out and easy to use GUI is the truly hard part.
IMHO, GPL sofware would be FAR more attractive and accepted if the viral license didn't apply to library calls in the least. Think of it as a gateway to broader use of the GPL in business. Once the suits get comfortable with the idea that the GPL is compatible with capitalism, it will be far easier to sell the idea of having a GPL'd piece of software as a loss leader for another product or service.
In every other case I can think of, you come to the agreement on the contract prior to the exchange of money.
In this case, they are trying to force additional conditions on you AFTER the sale.
I think a very reasonable argument can be made that for a EULA to work like a contract, it has to work like a contract. I'd go one step further and argue that because of the low value of the goods and services in question, that there should be a requirement for the use of lay language in the EULA, since the expectation that a user have a lawyer interpret a EULA before using retail software is egregiously unfair.
...until Berman ran the franchise in to the ground.
I think Trek needs to be shelved for at least 10 years to get new blood and new ideas involved in the project. Certainly until Berman is removed from involvement.
For a setting with so much potential and so many interesting ideas, the current caretakers have done poorly by Roddenberry's legacy.
>>The big operators are Easyjet and Ryanair. This is real no frills stuff, but we're flying across Europe for under $100 return while Americans are paying more than that per leg.
Right. And one leg of most of my flights in America is a longer distance than flying across Europe.
Windows will let you create dependency problems that will allow whatever software package you have just installed to work correctly, while breaking other things.
Can anyone give a suggestion for the distro with the most user-friendly package management? I've worked with UNIX since the late 80's and am far more interested in using Linux as a tool to do other interesting things than having to spend time making things work.
I refuse to use any service that forces DRM on me. The only way I'd consider subscribing to an online music service is if I can strip off the DRM once I have downloaded the music.
I have no interest in sharing music over P2P. Just want to make DAMN sure that I can access my music, regardless of the continued existance of the service, operating system, my machine configuration, crashes, whatever.
Supports OGG, along with pretty much every other audio format.
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It seems like everytime a "mainstream" source picks up on something that was a "sub-culture", all that anyone who enjoyed the subject of the "sub-culture" has to look forward to is the dumbing down and commercialization of what they previously enjoyed.
They should sell the IP to Microsoft or Nintendo. Microsoft would be the easiest though, since it was developed for Wintel and used DirectX. Would be poetic revenge for SONY to have driven the technology into the hands of MS.
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The problem really comes in when trying to replace the bulbs on a ceiling fan or area that you want to be dimmable.
I haven't found compact fluorescents that look nice enough to into the ceiling fans or chandeliers and/or support the dimmer. However, I am replacing about 3/4 of the dimmer switches in the house with standard toggles and replacing the lights with fluorescents. This also allows a "free" upgrade on some of the bulbs to 100W equivalent for better lighting, while still only using half the energy. I'm also converting all motion-detector lights to fluorescent.
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I'll only buy from iTunes when I can strip the DRM off the songs I purchase. Since they broke hymn with the iTunes 6 release, I haven't bothered to buy any music and have gotten out of the habit of checking out new music on the site, so I haven't even bothered to see if there has been a new release of hymn that fixes the defect in iTunes.
Apple has lost at least $100 in sales from me alone this year, based on my prior buying habits.
On the other hand, Yahoo supposedly has songs with no DRM for sale. I plan on buying some of them if they really are available and I like any of the artists.
And no, I have no interest in P2P or that other crap.
How about having the update checker stop working?
I've seen several computers now where the red arrow icon is always displayed and the update wizard never successfully downloads anything.
Reinstalling doesn't seem to help fix it.
Hand eye coordination, concentration, and drive to achieve our goals are all fairly strong geek characteristics.
;-)
If it only wasn't for that big yellow burny thing in the sky... Noooooooooo!
Sounds like cost may not be the only consideration, but rather conservation of the oil resource and working to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.
Sure 10,000 barrels is a drop in the bucket, but we have to start somewhere. Seems like as good a place as any...
The 9/11 passenger records for the actual hijackers would certainly be a start.
Or we need to ignore whiney elitist bitches and enjoy the neat stuff that people do.
Between AIM installing spyware with the last release and the feature set of Trillian, I don't see AOL doing anything tha could lure me back to using their client.
The history feature of Trillian 3.0 is amazingly cool.
That's because OO.org is no where near as good as Office, while Firefox is better than IE.
I've tried Thunderbird, Firefox, Moz Calendar, and OO.org. I only use Thunderbird and Firefox. I'd use Moz Calendar as well, if it were integrated into Thunderbird, not just a plug-in.
OO.org just doesn't cut it for me as a replacement for Office.
I mean, you can't do research on "teleportation" technology on earth, can you? :-D
Banks take 1 - 2 days to receive funds from other banks received through the Fed. The NSF process gives the other bank an additional 48hrs to stop payment on the check and demand money back. Five days is a reasonable amount of time to protect the bank from losing money that hasn't fully cleared yet.
When Check 21 is fully in place, you are correct. There will be immediate availability of funds.
Many people will be hurt by this, as it removes any buffer that they are used to dealing with for writing checks to pay bills that take several days to clear.
However, the vast majority of check monitary transfers are going to happen through the Federal reserve system or regional clearinghouses for a significant time to come.
Currently, many financial institutions turn your check into an ACH transation. When I pay either of my credit card bills, the check isn't returned to me. It is used as an instrument to authorize an ACH withdrawal from my checking account.
Banks are in business to make money. They don't make money by letting people abuse the time it takes transactions to clear through the Fed or clearinghouses to write bad checks.
If you want your money ASAP, cash the check and then deposit most of the cash. Assuming you are an account holder in good stead, you should have those funds available to you immediately, or utilize direct deposit.
You assume that writing the JPEG library is the HARD part. From what I have seen, crafting a well throught out and easy to use GUI is the truly hard part.
IMHO, GPL sofware would be FAR more attractive and accepted if the viral license didn't apply to library calls in the least. Think of it as a gateway to broader use of the GPL in business. Once the suits get comfortable with the idea that the GPL is compatible with capitalism, it will be far easier to sell the idea of having a GPL'd piece of software as a loss leader for another product or service.
Not at all.
In every other case I can think of, you come to the agreement on the contract prior to the exchange of money.
In this case, they are trying to force additional conditions on you AFTER the sale.
I think a very reasonable argument can be made that for a EULA to work like a contract, it has to work like a contract. I'd go one step further and argue that because of the low value of the goods and services in question, that there should be a requirement for the use of lay language in the EULA, since the expectation that a user have a lawyer interpret a EULA before using retail software is egregiously unfair.
MS SQL Server 7.0 => 8.0 (aka 2000) did this just fine.
...until Berman ran the franchise in to the ground.
I think Trek needs to be shelved for at least 10 years to get new blood and new ideas involved in the project. Certainly until Berman is removed from involvement.
For a setting with so much potential and so many interesting ideas, the current caretakers have done poorly by Roddenberry's legacy.
>>The big operators are Easyjet and Ryanair. This is real no frills stuff, but we're flying across Europe for under $100 return while Americans are paying more than that per leg.
Right. And one leg of most of my flights in America is a longer distance than flying across Europe.
Windows will let you create dependency problems that will allow whatever software package you have just installed to work correctly, while breaking other things.
Can anyone give a suggestion for the distro with the most user-friendly package management? I've worked with UNIX since the late 80's and am far more interested in using Linux as a tool to do other interesting things than having to spend time making things work.
I believe those things are actually made for printers.
I refuse to use any service that forces DRM on me. The only way I'd consider subscribing to an online music service is if I can strip off the DRM once I have downloaded the music.
I have no interest in sharing music over P2P. Just want to make DAMN sure that I can access my music, regardless of the continued existance of the service, operating system, my machine configuration, crashes, whatever.
Why not just set up the IM client to create the log files on a network share instead of the client PC?
MediaJukebox is fantastic.
http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/
Supports OGG, along with pretty much every other audio format.
It seems like everytime a "mainstream" source picks up on something that was a "sub-culture", all that anyone who enjoyed the subject of the "sub-culture" has to look forward to is the dumbing down and commercialization of what they previously enjoyed.
Heheh. I was just going to reply to your original comment saying that the only time I've ever seen that happen is with commerical UNIX.
ePSXe also requires that you have a copy of the ACTUAL PSX BIOS, making actual usage of ePSXe a rather grey area, legally.
Bleem! was reverse engineered without access to any of the actual PSX hardware, hence their ability to win against SONY in court.
However, you forgot to mention Bleem!'s other big problem... Playing games too fast.
As I said before... I hope Bleem! sells the IP they developed to Microsoft. Would be justice for what SONY did to them.
They should sell the IP to Microsoft or Nintendo. Microsoft would be the easiest though, since it was developed for Wintel and used DirectX. Would be poetic revenge for SONY to have driven the technology into the hands of MS.