You are aware of the fact that at various times in US history, each of the "public utilities" you listed were luxuries as well, right? My dad's family got indoor plumbing after 1955. My grandfather considered an indoor toilet a luxury until that time.
You mean like how the very smell of things like broccoli and many other vegetable items turn my stomach? Your statement goes to show how much of preferred tastes are experiential and cultured. Every time a vegetarian tell me to try a given meat-substitute, they tell me it "tastes like meat". Which meat? They all taste different. Keep in mind that for many of us, raised on meat-centric meals, the alternatives make our stomachs' turn just as much as the illusion of meat makes yours.
I do agree that it doesn't seem to be the best use of space research dollars.
Just because I like to counter anecdotal evidence, here's my own story. Everything that I put on my curb in this past summer was gone inside of 30 minutes. Set it on the curb with a FREE sign on it and people actually came to a screeching halt to grab it. Desk, broken stereo, misc exercise equipment. All of it. Much of it didn't even work. Grabbed up like I'd thrown $100 bills everywhere.
"where the postings and stories are distributed around lots of machines"
Hmmm. Interesting. I hadn't thought of it on the Usenet model. I recently built a system like this to distribute my project's software downloads to different small sites (minimum of serving 1 download per day). Maybe it's time to mess around with distributing page content as well. . .
Nusphere is 46MB vs Triad's 10-12MB. I'll have to look more carefully at OpenSA. Until January of this year, the last release of theirs had been March 2000.
I've been hedging my bets for a while on Sourceforge. I have a fairly popular project (over 1 million downloads) hosted there. This week I've averaged something like 5000 downloads/day at 10+MB each (which is why I have it on SF rather than on a server I pay for). I've been questioning how long this can last. There's no way SF can get enough revenue from my project to cover that kind of bandwidth usage. So, I wrote a simple PHP-based distributed mirror system (100% Buzzword Compliant(TM)) that lets people handle very small portions of the download traffic with daily bandwidth limits. I'm hoping to start shifting some of the burden off SF so that it isn't a single point of failure in distribution. Eventually the gravy train of massive free bandwidth is going to end.
Michael Moore is a filmmaker and positive irritant of corporate corruption. He became famous for his documentary called "Roger and Me" about the closing of the auto plant in Flint, MI. If you've not seen it, it's definitely worth the rental. He also did a short-lived US TV series called "TV Nation" that was cancelled shortly after. Recently he did another movie called "The Big One" and a series on A&E that I'm blanking on the title of. He's generally a very funny guy who's humor comes in flying in the face of the status quo. Or, if you don't agree with him, he's a hack filmmaker who stirs up conspiracy theories. Whatever you want, I don't care, I like the guy and he still sometimes goes farther than I'd like.
Several rental stores around here do this already with VHS and DVD. If you rent a 5 day title and bring it back the next day, they credit you something like $1-2.
I read an article in the paper this week that pointed out that Warner Bros Studio is irritating many other studios with their pricing strategy. WB wants regular DVD's to become impulse items like magazines and priced accordingly. They are already pricing new titles at $15US and many at $10US. If WB keeps up this strategy, it'll be pretty hard to sell a one-view DVD for $2US when many full DVD's are only running $5-7US.
Amen. Fitting the same profile, I actually buy ALL of my clothes by mail order or online. Places like you mentioned as well as CasualMale and Kingsize Direct offer big clothes at regular prices. When brick-and-morter actually offer extended sizes (finding them is an amusement unto itself), they charge premium prices. I won't pay $80 for a shirt. There is also the fact that men's clothes are pretty standard. After all, most of the sizing is just measurements. If you've ever walked into a store and been met with blank stares and a "We might be able to special order it" when asking for a jacket in a 52L, just special order it yourself.
The Live CD comes with one of those "about the band" multimedia applications. It must be 16 bit(not sure since the only PC I've used the disc on is Win2K). Since it's set to autolaunch, it intercepts your normal behavior for CD's. The audio is fine on mine and I'm listening to the ripped tracks now.
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I've been using DITA from IBM for a while. XML-based, simple, but extendable and oriented around topics instead of books (like Docbook is). Some clever XSLT and you have an ASCII file documentation system (that works with CVS) that outputs pretty much anything you could want including conversion to Docbook or any other XML vocabulary.
One of the serious flaws in the Paypal setup is that once Paypal believes that a visitor is you (i.e. logged in) that credentialed visitor has complete access to any accounts that Paypal knows about.
About a month ago, I logged into my email to find email "receipts" for nearly $12K in payments, all of which were made while I was sleeping during the night before. Someone had gotten into my account and transferred to several other people various sums of money ranging from $75 to $5000 per transaction. Most of them were against my credit card, but several were against my personal checking account (used mostly for hobby spending so it didn't have much in it) including the $5000 one. I called my bank to protect the checking account and they were very helpful. The credit card company's fraud detection department called me before I even had a chance to call them. Paypal's fraud detection??? Nothing. When I called them (and getting that phone number is no easy task), that sudden burst of activity hadn't even made anyone curious.
My paypal account was put in restricted status and I detailed exactly which transactions were fraudulent. I moved the remaining checking funds out of the path of paypal and had the credit card number cancelled. You'd think that this would stop anything from going forward and efforts could be concentrated on reversing the transactions. Nope. The middle of the next week brought me a series of automated messages from Paypal indicating that my transactions to withdraw all that money from my checking account failed, but not to worry, they'd try again in 3 days. I called paypal and was told that those attempts were automatic and *nothing* could be done to stop them from completing their course.
My bank has been great, letting those transactions bounce and not charging me a dime for stopped payments or overdrafts related to this. The credit card company is treating it like any other fraud, and while it may take a bit to work out, they're working with my refusal to pay for these transactions. As for Paypal? Their handling of this was totally unprofessional for anyone handling money.
The icing on the cake was the emails I started getting once Paypal took the money back from the recipients. I was being accused of cheating them and being asked to resubmit the payments I owed. When I asked to what address they sent the merchandise (hoping to get the mailing address of the perpetrator), it was implied that it was for something related to warez in an IRC channel. At least one of the recipients still thinks I am just out to cheat him out of his money. So, whoever set this up screwed both sides over.
In large companies that rely on Exchange or Notes for calendaring functionality, the only notice you may receive for a meeting is the calendar notice. Meetings are scheduled by entering the participants (including the room as a participant) and the calendar searches for a time that all participants are available. A notice is sent and the meeting time set on each participant's calendar. This method doesn't search your Wall or Desk calendar.
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You are aware of the fact that at various times in US history, each of the "public utilities" you listed were luxuries as well, right? My dad's family got indoor plumbing after 1955. My grandfather considered an indoor toilet a luxury until that time.
"...turn my stomach..."
You mean like how the very smell of things like broccoli and many other vegetable items turn my stomach? Your statement goes to show how much of preferred tastes are experiential and cultured. Every time a vegetarian tell me to try a given meat-substitute, they tell me it "tastes like meat". Which meat? They all taste different. Keep in mind that for many of us, raised on meat-centric meals, the alternatives make our stomachs' turn just as much as the illusion of meat makes yours.
I do agree that it doesn't seem to be the best use of space research dollars.
Just because I like to counter anecdotal evidence, here's my own story. Everything that I put on my curb in this past summer was gone inside of 30 minutes. Set it on the curb with a FREE sign on it and people actually came to a screeching halt to grab it. Desk, broken stereo, misc exercise equipment. All of it. Much of it didn't even work. Grabbed up like I'd thrown $100 bills everywhere.
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"where the postings and stories are distributed around lots of machines"
Hmmm. Interesting. I hadn't thought of it on the Usenet model. I recently built a system like this to distribute my project's software downloads to different small sites (minimum of serving 1 download per day). Maybe it's time to mess around with distributing page content as well. . .
It's funny how hard it is to prevent overdrawing when someone got into my account and tried to take $12,000.
Back in November. I'm still trying to get it sorted out.
Nusphere is 46MB vs Triad's 10-12MB. I'll have to look more carefully at OpenSA. Until January of this year, the last release of theirs had been March 2000.
I've been hedging my bets for a while on Sourceforge. I have a fairly popular project (over 1 million downloads) hosted there. This week I've averaged something like 5000 downloads/day at 10+MB each (which is why I have it on SF rather than on a server I pay for). I've been questioning how long this can last. There's no way SF can get enough revenue from my project to cover that kind of bandwidth usage. So, I wrote a simple PHP-based distributed mirror system (100% Buzzword Compliant(TM)) that lets people handle very small portions of the download traffic with daily bandwidth limits. I'm hoping to start shifting some of the burden off SF so that it isn't a single point of failure in distribution. Eventually the gravy train of massive free bandwidth is going to end.
Michael Moore is a filmmaker and positive irritant of corporate corruption. He became famous for his documentary called "Roger and Me" about the closing of the auto plant in Flint, MI. If you've not seen it, it's definitely worth the rental. He also did a short-lived US TV series called "TV Nation" that was cancelled shortly after. Recently he did another movie called "The Big One" and a series on A&E that I'm blanking on the title of. He's generally a very funny guy who's humor comes in flying in the face of the status quo. Or, if you don't agree with him, he's a hack filmmaker who stirs up conspiracy theories. Whatever you want, I don't care, I like the guy and he still sometimes goes farther than I'd like.
Several rental stores around here do this already with VHS and DVD. If you rent a 5 day title and bring it back the next day, they credit you something like $1-2.
I read an article in the paper this week that pointed out that Warner Bros Studio is irritating many other studios with their pricing strategy. WB wants regular DVD's to become impulse items like magazines and priced accordingly. They are already pricing new titles at $15US and many at $10US. If WB keeps up this strategy, it'll be pretty hard to sell a one-view DVD for $2US when many full DVD's are only running $5-7US.
Amen. Fitting the same profile, I actually buy ALL of my clothes by mail order or online. Places like you mentioned as well as CasualMale and Kingsize Direct offer big clothes at regular prices. When brick-and-morter actually offer extended sizes (finding them is an amusement unto itself), they charge premium prices. I won't pay $80 for a shirt. There is also the fact that men's clothes are pretty standard. After all, most of the sizing is just measurements. If you've ever walked into a store and been met with blank stares and a "We might be able to special order it" when asking for a jacket in a 52L, just special order it yourself.
Are there any open implementations of this standard?
I've got one of these accounts at webpipe.net. $35/month. 1 static IP. 20GB/month.
The Live CD comes with one of those "about the band" multimedia applications. It must be 16 bit(not sure since the only PC I've used the disc on is Win2K). Since it's set to autolaunch, it intercepts your normal behavior for CD's. The audio is fine on mine and I'm listening to the ripped tracks now.
I've been using DITA from IBM for a while. XML-based, simple, but extendable and oriented around topics instead of books (like Docbook is). Some clever XSLT and you have an ASCII file documentation system (that works with CVS) that outputs pretty much anything you could want including conversion to Docbook or any other XML vocabulary.
One of the serious flaws in the Paypal setup is that once Paypal believes that a visitor is you (i.e. logged in) that credentialed visitor has complete access to any accounts that Paypal knows about.
About a month ago, I logged into my email to find email "receipts" for nearly $12K in payments, all of which were made while I was sleeping during the night before. Someone had gotten into my account and transferred to several other people various sums of money ranging from $75 to $5000 per transaction. Most of them were against my credit card, but several were against my personal checking account (used mostly for hobby spending so it didn't have much in it) including the $5000 one. I called my bank to protect the checking account and they were very helpful. The credit card company's fraud detection department called me before I even had a chance to call them. Paypal's fraud detection??? Nothing. When I called them (and getting that phone number is no easy task), that sudden burst of activity hadn't even made anyone curious.
My paypal account was put in restricted status and I detailed exactly which transactions were fraudulent. I moved the remaining checking funds out of the path of paypal and had the credit card number cancelled. You'd think that this would stop anything from going forward and efforts could be concentrated on reversing the transactions. Nope. The middle of the next week brought me a series of automated messages from Paypal indicating that my transactions to withdraw all that money from my checking account failed, but not to worry, they'd try again in 3 days. I called paypal and was told that those attempts were automatic and *nothing* could be done to stop them from completing their course.
My bank has been great, letting those transactions bounce and not charging me a dime for stopped payments or overdrafts related to this. The credit card company is treating it like any other fraud, and while it may take a bit to work out, they're working with my refusal to pay for these transactions. As for Paypal? Their handling of this was totally unprofessional for anyone handling money.
The icing on the cake was the emails I started getting once Paypal took the money back from the recipients. I was being accused of cheating them and being asked to resubmit the payments I owed. When I asked to what address they sent the merchandise (hoping to get the mailing address of the perpetrator), it was implied that it was for something related to warez in an IRC channel. At least one of the recipients still thinks I am just out to cheat him out of his money. So, whoever set this up screwed both sides over.
NSIS - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
Most browsers have accessibility settings that let you ignore site colors and specify your own stylesheet. Something as simple as:
body {
background-color: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
}
will give you your black background with white text for almost all sites.
"Three 1GB microdrives equal 27 canisters of film"
No. Maybe at web resolution, but at a decent resolution without compression figure 50MB per shot x 24 exposures on a roll = 1.2GB per *roll*.
Ummm. Put that inkjet print in your living room window for about a week next to a wet chemistry print from a lab and you'll tell the difference.
Here you go. http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ KDE/XFree86 running on Win32.
Ezprints.com goes to 20x30.
Here are just a few of the tools that are considered traditionally in UNIX/Linux/BSD territory that are available for Win32. In all actuality, there's enough out there to get as much of Linux running on Win32 as Win32 running under WINE.
/ ruby-install.html
t ml
i ls.html
s .html
XFree86: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
KDE: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
GTK/PHP/Libglade: http://gtk.php.net/download.php
Apache: http://www.apache.org
PHP: http://www.php.net
PHPTriad: http://www.phpgeek.com
Perl: http://www.activestate.com
Ruby: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads
Python: http://www.python.org/download/download_windows.h
TCL/TK: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclwin.htm
MySQL: http://www.mysql.com
MySQL ODBC: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-myodbc.html
PostgreSQL: Included in cygwin (only works on NT)
ATT's U/WIN* Unix for Windows: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Cygwin: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Native UNIX command-line binaries: http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUt
vi: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html
Emacs: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemac
OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org
Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
GIMP: http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/
List of GNU software for Windows: http://www.gnusoftware.com/
And so on . . .
There's a list over at DMOZ.org of a lot of this.
In large companies that rely on Exchange or Notes for calendaring functionality, the only notice you may receive for a meeting is the calendar notice. Meetings are scheduled by entering the participants (including the room as a participant) and the calendar searches for a time that all participants are available. A notice is sent and the meeting time set on each participant's calendar. This method doesn't search your Wall or Desk calendar.