Yeah, like when Dragon magazine had a program that would calculate the chi-squares on your die rolls so that you could determine if your dice were fair or not. I got my Mom to borrow an Apple ][ from her school so that I could type that damn thing in, and never could get it to work. I was so bitter. In the next issue they printed the errata...
I still do most of my browsing with a dial-up modem. Graphic ads are a big enough drain on my bandwidth as it is. If advertisers are going to start shoving audio tracks down my connection, they ought to be paying me back for the wasted resources.
I originally started using Mandrake a few years back because on my first laptop it would see the network card and Red Hat wouldn't. (I'm no guru - I needed it to work as installed.) I've been very happy with the upgrades from them. I'm running 9.0 on the new laptop, and as soon as the download frenzy dies down, I'll do the 9.1 upgrade. Not worried at all about the new packages sliding into place. You have a choice during the install about whether you want a full new install or an upgrade. Just make sure to choose upgrade and you'll be fine.
I don't know much about shoreline, livin' in the middle the way I do, but I love that interface. Clicking along the shoreline and drilling down to the full size photos is such a tasty user interface.
Actually, the instructions are there on the php.net installation page. You just have to scroll down to the comments to find the good stuff about Apache version 2.
This article reads like a Sid Meier game - what I want to know is how did they figure out the technology tree for all these cool things so they'd know what to work on next.
Forget the head. I want audio-animatronic gargoyles on the outside of my house. I want gar-goggles that I can put on and see what they see. And when I snarl "What!" into the microphone, the gargoyle's lips will curl up and the fangs will peek out, spooking all the kiddies on All Hallow's Eve.
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I read all this stuff a couple of days ago, following links from this Panopticon Story. Slashdot, read thyself.
All of the arguments that the announcers on PBS or public radio pound into your head during pledge week apply to Slashdot as well. It costs money to provide the service. They have some sponsors but that doesn't cover the entire cost of providing the service. You enjoy using the service. How much more do you spend on things that provide less value each month? Once you get past the idea that anything made of electrons should be free, which is pretty ridiculous if you think about it, twenty bucks a year is a laughably small amount for the service provided.
It adds value to your life, or else you'd go do something else, so why not kick in a little something?
This post really brought a smile to my face. I hope everything goes well for you both. And my advice: spend more on the honeymoon than on the wedding. Worked for me and my geek-girl.
There's a great article in Wired magazine this month about the rise in autism, and the related Asperger's Syndrome, in Silicon Valley. Evidently, autism is a continuum of behavior, and lots of geeks fit the bill. People who are a little on the edge socially, who get fixated on things technical, who in the past maybe didn't get a chance to reproduce, are now meeting and greeting and breeding in the Valley.
If the same thing that makes you a good kernel mangler makes you a little leery of socializing, it may be why a lot of offices don't have social events. On the other hand, our office has barbecues pretty regularly during the summer. Maybe none of us are hard core enough.
That sums up my feelings exactly. Your average Afghani has very little. The per capita GDP is something like US$800. A year. As Bush pointed out last night, we're already the largest source of aid for Afghanistan. But we ought to send more. And not money that can be re-appropriated, but goods they can use.
It is traditional, anyway, for us to do something like that after we whack a country. Usually we have the war first, then rebuild the economy. (ref. Germany, Japan) Maybe this time we could just skip the war and go right on to the re-building.
I work for one of United Technology's subsidiaries. I just got some email announcing that UTC has opened a donation matching program for employees. Gifts to the Red Cross (to $100) will be matched by the company.
Your company might have a similar program, so go pester your HR people.
If I fake a return address in Washington or Idaho and get spammed, can I get damages?
Which brings up a more serious question: can an ISP sue under this law for damages? It is their bandwidth that is being stolen. So if you site your server farm in the northwest, can you go after spammers?
Go back and read my note again. I didn't say this is how I'd do it. I'm talking about how the boss-people make decisions. You gotta understand your target market.
If it was me, and I needed something really secure, I'd start with FreeBSD and go from there.
To most/. readers three kilo-bucks is a little much to pay for something you can download. To understand why this makes sense for business sales you have to think like a manager. A lot of managers don't care so much about what something costs as the reputation of the vendor.
Consider these two options:
A) The bearded, long-haired, overly-caffeinated freak from down the hall says "Hey, I can download this stuff for free off the internet. It'll make us really secure, honest." (Disclaimer: I am a bearded, long-haired, overly-caffeinated freak.)
B) A well-respected vendor has a $3000 product that will make the computers really secure. If it doesn't work, we can call them up and bitch at them. Furthermore, we have someone outside the company to blame if it breaks.
Now, you're the manager. You choose. This is a savvy move by HP - in addition to whatever actual value-added there is in their product, they are also cashing in a little on their name and reputation. They're selling percieved value as much as actual value.
Microsoft maintains that it is only providing the features consumers want, and
that its customers will benefit from Windows XP if they
choose to buy it.
This would be true if people buying new machines at Best Buy, Dell or Gateway had any options besides which Microsoft OS to buy.
This is a major find because it is a fairly complete skeleton, including the skull. Previous titanosaur finds have been only fragmentary. Now they can compare the partial remains with something more or less complete, which makes for tasty science. A fine day for paleontology.
With freely copied software, you gain status for having released really cool or seriously functional product into the net. With nano-tech, the same social structures will invade the world of hardware. Mindshare will become important in more than just operating systems. Instead of having to buy our shoes from an established vendor, we'll have OpenSneakers with downloadable skins, and people will be running themeable screensavers on the smart paint in their bathrooms. (Which is cool until your bathroom crashes right before your next big party, and instead of your favorite theme, they get the blue screen of death.)
What this means is that style will continue to increase in importance. Lots of people can make music, but most folks would rather download the music of a professional. If you do it without paying them, the people who make money of the professional music get all cranky. As ease of copying invades the physical realm, there will be an attempt to extend copyright to the design of everything, in order to keep the money flowing to the companies that figured out, say watches or ballpoint pens.
Ultimately, we'll come up with some secure way to do micropayments to the people that generate cool designs, probably right before the old way of doing things collapses completely. And we'll probably have standard libraries full of the designs of everyday things and we'll pay people to make them look different and cool, just like we do today. Fashion will always make money.
Why bother with DirecTV at all? As far as I'm concerned, what good is a satellite service that only broadcasts shows in a couple of languages. When they can offer me Fox and the Cartoon Network, the Food Channel, the evening news from Tokyo and Madrid, and Hong Kong action flicks direct from Hong Kong, then I'll be interested.
Since the handheld they just released also has a Type II slot, you'll be able to buy one of each and carry 5GB of address book entries, email, and cheesy games in your back pocket.
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What we really need is a lawyer tax. Groups like the RIAA obviously have so much money to buy lawyers that they don't know what else to do with it. If the government taxed them per lawyer, we'd probably be able to do away with income tax in the U.S. and still have enough money left over to pay for our B3 bombers.
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Yeah, like when Dragon magazine had a program that would calculate the chi-squares on your die rolls so that you could determine if your dice were fair or not. I got my Mom to borrow an Apple ][ from her school so that I could type that damn thing in, and never could get it to work. I was so bitter. In the next issue they printed the errata...
I still do most of my browsing with a dial-up modem. Graphic ads are a big enough drain on my bandwidth as it is. If advertisers are going to start shoving audio tracks down my connection, they ought to be paying me back for the wasted resources.
I got fished in by this one because I wanted it to be true...
I originally started using Mandrake a few years back because on my first laptop it would see the network card and Red Hat wouldn't. (I'm no guru - I needed it to work as installed.) I've been very happy with the upgrades from them. I'm running 9.0 on the new laptop, and as soon as the download frenzy dies down, I'll do the 9.1 upgrade. Not worried at all about the new packages sliding into place. You have a choice during the install about whether you want a full new install or an upgrade. Just make sure to choose upgrade and you'll be fine.
I don't know much about shoreline, livin' in the middle the way I do, but I love that interface. Clicking along the shoreline and drilling down to the full size photos is such a tasty user interface.
Actually, the instructions are there on the
php.net installation page. You just have to scroll down to the comments to find the good stuff about Apache version 2.
This article reads like a Sid Meier game - what I want to know is how did they figure out the technology tree for all these cool things so they'd know what to work on next.
Forget the head. I want audio-animatronic gargoyles on the outside of my house. I want gar-goggles that I can put on and see what they see. And when I snarl "What!" into the microphone, the gargoyle's lips will curl up and the fangs will peek out, spooking all the kiddies on All Hallow's Eve.
I read all this stuff a couple of days ago, following links from this Panopticon Story. Slashdot, read thyself.
I've been thinking of starting a cult recently, and the arrival of another comet gives me a fine opportunity.
All of the arguments that the announcers on PBS or public radio pound into your head during pledge week apply to Slashdot as well. It costs money to provide the service. They have some sponsors but that doesn't cover the entire cost of providing the service. You enjoy using the service. How much more do you spend on things that provide less value each month? Once you get past the idea that anything made of electrons should be free, which is pretty ridiculous if you think about it, twenty bucks a year is a laughably small amount for the service provided.
It adds value to your life, or else you'd go do something else, so why not kick in a little something?
This post really brought a smile to my face. I hope everything goes well for you both. And my advice: spend more on the honeymoon than on the wedding. Worked for me and my geek-girl.
If the same thing that makes you a good kernel mangler makes you a little leery of socializing, it may be why a lot of offices don't have social events. On the other hand, our office has barbecues pretty regularly during the summer. Maybe none of us are hard core enough.
Traditionally, you would want it in 64ths...
That sums up my feelings exactly. Your average Afghani has very little. The per capita GDP is something like US$800. A year. As Bush pointed out last night, we're already the largest source of aid for Afghanistan. But we ought to send more. And not money that can be re-appropriated, but goods they can use.
It is traditional, anyway, for us to do something like that after we whack a country. Usually we have the war first, then rebuild the economy. (ref. Germany, Japan) Maybe this time we could just skip the war and go right on to the re-building.
I work for one of United Technology's subsidiaries. I just got some email announcing that UTC has opened a donation matching program for employees. Gifts to the Red Cross (to $100) will be matched by the company.
Your company might have a similar program, so go pester your HR people.
If I fake a return address in Washington or Idaho and get spammed, can I get damages?
Which brings up a more serious question: can an ISP sue under this law for damages? It is their bandwidth that is being stolen. So if you site your server farm in the northwest, can you go after spammers?
Go back and read my note again. I didn't say this is how I'd do it. I'm talking about how the boss-people make decisions. You gotta understand your target market.
If it was me, and I needed something really secure, I'd start with FreeBSD and go from there.
To most /. readers three kilo-bucks is a little much to pay for something you can download. To understand why this makes sense for business sales you have to think like a manager. A lot of managers don't care so much about what something costs as the reputation of the vendor.
Consider these two options:
A) The bearded, long-haired, overly-caffeinated freak from down the hall says "Hey, I can download this stuff for free off the internet. It'll make us really secure, honest." (Disclaimer: I am a bearded, long-haired, overly-caffeinated freak.)
B) A well-respected vendor has a $3000 product that will make the computers really secure. If it doesn't work, we can call them up and bitch at them. Furthermore, we have someone outside the company to blame if it breaks.
Now, you're the manager. You choose. This is a savvy move by HP - in addition to whatever actual value-added there is in their product, they are also cashing in a little on their name and reputation. They're selling percieved value as much as actual value.
This would be true if people buying new machines at Best Buy, Dell or Gateway had any options besides which Microsoft OS to buy.
This is a major find because it is a fairly complete skeleton, including the skull. Previous titanosaur finds have been only fragmentary. Now they can compare the partial remains with something more or less complete, which makes for tasty science. A fine day for paleontology.
Congrats to the Science Museum of Minnesota and Kristi Curry Rogers.
With freely copied software, you gain status for having released really cool or seriously functional product into the net. With nano-tech, the same social structures will invade the world of hardware. Mindshare will become important in more than just operating systems. Instead of having to buy our shoes from an established vendor, we'll have OpenSneakers with downloadable skins, and people will be running themeable screensavers on the smart paint in their bathrooms. (Which is cool until your bathroom crashes right before your next big party, and instead of your favorite theme, they get the blue screen of death.)
What this means is that style will continue to increase in importance. Lots of people can make music, but most folks would rather download the music of a professional. If you do it without paying them, the people who make money of the professional music get all cranky. As ease of copying invades the physical realm, there will be an attempt to extend copyright to the design of everything, in order to keep the money flowing to the companies that figured out, say watches or ballpoint pens.
Ultimately, we'll come up with some secure way to do micropayments to the people that generate cool designs, probably right before the old way of doing things collapses completely. And we'll probably have standard libraries full of the designs of everyday things and we'll pay people to make them look different and cool, just like we do today. Fashion will always make money.
Why bother with DirecTV at all? As far as I'm concerned, what good is a satellite service that only broadcasts shows in a couple of languages. When they can offer me Fox and the Cartoon Network, the Food Channel, the evening news from Tokyo and Madrid, and Hong Kong action flicks direct from Hong Kong, then I'll be interested.
Since the handheld they just released also has a Type II slot, you'll be able to buy one of each and carry 5GB of address book entries, email, and cheesy games in your back pocket.
What we really need is a lawyer tax. Groups like the RIAA obviously have so much money to buy lawyers that they don't know what else to do with it. If the government taxed them per lawyer, we'd probably be able to do away with income tax in the U.S. and still have enough money left over to pay for our B3 bombers.