"Being a nice guy, you decide to warn the world now and give everybody a few years to prepare before revealing the discovery."
Unless a profit's involved, almost no one prepares for anything they already know, much less something they don't know.
Because he did not wish to be burned at the stake, Copernicus delayed publication of his theory until after his death. Giordano Bruno had been burned at the stake. Galileo had similar difficulties getting his ideas across. He waited until he was an old man but he was also tried for heresy, and fortunately he had great fame as a scientist. In the end he gave 'em the finger.
You have some valid concerns. If you are working hard at a career and trying to make ends meet, then it can be difficult to have free time to pursue beliefs that appear to be non-profitable (hobbies).
In some ways, it seems that land is a priviledge that not enough of us seem to have. If you own land, you have a gift and shelter that gives you more choices for a lifestyle.
There are a lot of places to get "undeveloped land for sale". However you have to get water, gas, electricity, food, medical, dental, auto, mail, phone, laundry.. etc.. -- the benefits of modern society. My old boss got fed up with the suburbs and bought lots of acres of redwood land (using a loan), would spend time each week building a house on it, and loves it up there. Homepower magazine often has similar stories of people who want to do their own thing.
I've been reading an article called the 13 steps to freedom and it looks interesting: 1. No unimportant things 2. Don't borrow 3. No animals 4. No expensive autos 5. No useless toys 6. Downsize 7. No kids (if possible) 8. No full-time job 9. Avoid complicated systems (I interpreted) 10. No clocks, radios, phones, TVs 11. Cherish every moment 12. Marry a best friend 13. Avoid being someone else's notion of success
If you go to any park, you can see what the animals are doing all day long.. trying to survive. That's how they got there and it's what they're good at (maybe even their destiny). Why should humans be any different? It would take a truly smart individual to transcend survival.
"9. A typical record stores' profit margin on new CDs is LESS THAN 15%... That's less margin than gas stations and grocery stores."
- A typical business has a 15-20% profit margin. - Supermarkets make money by volume. Their profit margin is around 2% to 4%. - The profit on gasoline is 1 to 3 cents (~1%), while if you can get people into the store you can sell them soda, candy, coffee, lottery tickets and so forth, where the profit margin is upwards of 40%.
"When its uneconomical to send spam, people will stop sending it."
Not true. People will continue to spam even if they only see the illusion of promising returns. Even if the average spam investor's not a compulsive gambler, there's always a fool born every minute.
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by DMCA, heresy by RIAA, heresy by MPAA, and heresy by HP -- *four* counts. Do you confess? Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
If you sit a lot during the day, the body heat stored up in the cushions causes you to sweat into the chair. Eventually the chair gets moldy and that's a bummer because it will transfer to your carseat.
The Aeron is very comfy and it's like sitting on curved trampoline. Nothing to absorb heat and sweat.
Between 1987 and 1994, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) peacefully became the most popular file format for archiving and exchanging computer images. At the end of December 1994, CompuServe Inc. and Unisys Corporation announced to the public that developers would have to pay a license fee in order to continue to use technology patented by Unisys in certain categories of software supporting the GIF format. These first statements caused immediate reactions and some confusion. As a longer term consequence, it appears likely that GIF will be replaced and extended by new file formats, but not so before the expiration of the patent which caused so much debate.
Among the first reactions, some bulletin board systems had all GIF files deleted from their hard disks (or converted into JPEG format). Common remarks included:
"PROTEST OF NEW COMPUSERVE-UNISYS GIF USAGE TAX !!"
"They [CompuServe] seem to think that GIF is the greatest thing since free online magazines."
"The announcement by CompuServe and Unisys that users of the GIF image format must register by January 10 and pay a royalty or face lawsuits for their past usage, is the online communications community's equivalent of the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor."
The US Patent Trademark Office is supposed to promote the industrial and technological progress of the nation and strengthen the economy. I do not see how allowing an obtuse corporate microsalesman to stifle an 11 year old freely distributed world standard is in the best interest of our nation.
Reminds me of the compression war of '88.
"Back then people compressed the files with a program called ARC by Systems Enhancements Associates (SEA). ARC would take the original files and compress them into one file with the extension of ARC. When you downloaded this file from the BBS you unarced it by using ARC.EXE. This was great until a gentleman named Phil Katz came up with the idea of improving ARC.
See, Phil found out you could speed the compression process and even make the files more compressed. Instead of one file for compression and decompression, Phil made two. The result was PKARC for compression and PKXARC for decompression. This is where the fun began.
SEA got really ticked that Phil had done a better job of compression and decompression while maintaining compatibility. In the great American way, instead of competing and making ARC better, they sued.... A few months later, PKZIP was released and that was it. I can't find a Systems Enhancement Associates website, but PKWare is still in business. Sysops dropped almost every other compression type and went with ZIP and as they say, that is history."
So go ahead "Forgent Networks". We'll find a better format.
Nova did a great show on Joe Kittinger and his dive from 19 miles up.
They first tested it with human shaped models and found out the flatspin would be deadly, liquifying organs. After that they used a stabilizing chute to avoid the flatspin.
His concern is the way that the industry looks at the success of a musician or of a record that sells or doesn't sell. In the future that might not be the case.
Moby should have spoke about that more than the "Pearl Jam Effect" to avoid excommunication from miscommunication.
"How does the computing power of Seti@home compare with existing supercomputers?" "The most powerful computer, IBM's ASCI White, is rated at 12 TeraFLOPS and costs $110 million. SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs and has cost $500K so far"
Earth Simulator Project Total peak performance: 40 Tera FLOPS.
Of course the systems' architecture is different so using the speed to evaluate processing power is difficult.
There's a TFlop chart on the earth development button.
Simulating the Earth down to square kilometers will be impressive.
Great prices if you'll take the same brand in a plain box. http://www.centralcomputer.com/
There's a quiet power supply called Silencer and it's perfect if you work/sleep near your pc. http://www.pcpowercooling.com/home.htm
If you want a Transmeta Crusoe board, the first company to sell one was: http://www.ibase-i.com.tw/ others are at: http://www.transmetazone.com/products.cfm
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I'm sure that the new methods are great, but it's increasingly becoming too much for a one-man-department to just "bill the time" anymore. It's difficult to support dozens of sites, each with dozens of databases in every Access version and architecture, and at the same time turn a profit for the boss, which usually requires taking new projects.
I found two certainties when writing Custom DB's: 1) The developer(s) become responsible for the business processes (however convoluted) that they implemented in the Database. You may not agree, but try telling the customer that their post-estimate specifications have increased the cost. Once deployed they will often imply that any features that conflict to their new specs are bugs that needs to be fixed. You could refuse to do the work if they can't pay but in many cases the database becomes a virtual paperweight until the work is done.
2) There is a limit of how many different custom databases a person will be able to make and support before they go crazy. One day all your sites will have an emergency at the same time, and those problems will be the undocumented ones that only google groups can solve. When you get there you'll have to decide if what you have forced yourself to remember is worth the pleasant memories you have forgotten.
Reporting is much easier.
At least it's not Brand fatigue
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I know people who learned to use AOL and feel it's too hard to use a different browser. Their loss..
They also pushed the new version by sacrificing backward compatibility.
Every Access version prior to 2000 used DAO (Data Access Objects). In the Visual Basic Library References, DAO was checked.
In Access 2000, they pushed ADO (Active Data Objects), which many have said is more complex and slower. They removed the Library Reference to DAO and sneaked in the Reference to ADO! To make matters worse they duplicated the variable type "recordset" in ADO and DAO, which renders useless almost all Visual Basic Code that worked with a table.
If you used the phrase "Dim x as recordset", you had to do one of the following: - Uncheck ADO and Check DAO (Forcing it to use the older version) - OR Check Both ADO and DAO, then search all code and replace every "Recordset" with "DAO.Recordset" - OR Leave ADO Checked and DAO Unchecked, then search all code and rewrite every line that opened a table.
It's already bad enough that Access Databases start misbehaving when it's shared by too many people or live tables exceed 80,000 records, or the database exceeds 1.9 Gigabytes. At this point you're already thinking about scaling up to SQL server, Oracle, or my SQL.
In addition to that, more and more features are added while the "little Jet engine that could" becomes more and more critical to the operations of an organization.
Does Microsoft think that Access programmers have nothing better to do than get interrupted by every department that has upgraded to Access 2k? How hard would it have been to tell the upgrade wizard to automatically link to the DAO Library and automatically replace every "recordset" with "DAO.Recordset". You might think that it means more money for a consultant but all it does is accelerate the time to burnout. They're getting harder to find every day. See: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en& lr=&ie=UTF8& oe=UTF8&selm=tTSK7.1339%24rY1.143064%40dfiatx1-snr 1.gtei.net&rnum=2 http://groups.google.com/groups ?q=openrecordset+da o+ado&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&selm=3b993cc9.3218 4196%40news.charter.net&rnum=6
I've also heard that Microsoft's Visual Basic strategy towards.Net has completely changed the language, effectively killing Visual Basic. See: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vi sual+basic+.ne t+killed&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&selm=3a50cbe9.7 644234%40news.clara.net&rnum=6
It's no wonder that companies are switching to open source. Anyone's patience will wear thin after having to jump every time that Microsoft tells them to.
Slashdot Mirror
"When the roll empties, then what?"
Hire a certified consultant to wipe your butt.
Name Removal Forms:v al.asp ( 1).html
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http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/privacy/data/remo
http://www.lexisnexis.com/lncc/about/removal_copy
Obtain a copy of info:
https://web.lexis.com/consumeraccess2.0/consumera
They write your name down so they can call you if you never returned the book. If they didn't.. free books!
"Being a nice guy, you decide to warn the world now and give everybody a few years to prepare before revealing the discovery."
Unless a profit's involved, almost no one prepares for anything they already know, much less something they don't know.
Because he did not wish to be burned at the stake, Copernicus delayed publication of his theory until after his death.
Giordano Bruno had been burned at the stake.
Galileo had similar difficulties getting his ideas across. He waited until he was an old man but he was also tried for heresy, and fortunately he had great fame as a scientist. In the end he gave 'em the finger.
Probably offtopic but I like the subject.
You have some valid concerns. If you are working hard at a career and trying to make ends meet, then it can be difficult to have free time to pursue beliefs that appear to be non-profitable (hobbies).
In some ways, it seems that land is a priviledge that not enough of us seem to have. If you own land, you have a gift and shelter that gives you more choices for a lifestyle.
There are a lot of places to get "undeveloped land for sale". However you have to get water, gas, electricity, food, medical, dental, auto, mail, phone, laundry.. etc.. -- the benefits of modern society. My old boss got fed up with the suburbs and bought lots of acres of redwood land (using a loan), would spend time each week building a house on it, and loves it up there.
Homepower magazine often has similar stories of people who want to do their own thing.
I've been reading an article called the 13 steps to freedom and it looks interesting:
1. No unimportant things
2. Don't borrow
3. No animals
4. No expensive autos
5. No useless toys
6. Downsize
7. No kids (if possible)
8. No full-time job
9. Avoid complicated systems (I interpreted)
10. No clocks, radios, phones, TVs
11. Cherish every moment
12. Marry a best friend
13. Avoid being someone else's notion of success
If you go to any park, you can see what the animals are doing all day long.. trying to survive. That's how they got there and it's what they're good at (maybe even their destiny). Why should humans be any different? It would take a truly smart individual to transcend survival.
"9. A typical record stores' profit margin on new CDs is LESS THAN 15%. .. That's less margin than gas stations and grocery stores."
- A typical business has a 15-20% profit margin.
- Supermarkets make money by volume. Their profit margin is around 2% to 4%.
- The profit on gasoline is 1 to 3 cents (~1%), while if you can get people into the store you can sell them soda, candy, coffee, lottery tickets and so forth, where the profit margin is upwards of 40%.
"When its uneconomical to send spam, people will stop sending it." Not true. People will continue to spam even if they only see the illusion of promising returns. Even if the average spam investor's not a compulsive gambler, there's always a fool born every minute.
Dark Castle
Strategic Conquest
Armor Alley
Not exactly free but very good.
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by DMCA, heresy by RIAA, heresy by MPAA, and heresy by HP -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
If you sit a lot during the day, the body heat stored up in the cushions causes you to sweat into the chair. Eventually the chair gets moldy and that's a bummer because it will transfer to your carseat.
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The Aeron is very comfy and it's like sitting on curved trampoline. Nothing to absorb heat and sweat.
http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/product/0,1469,c2
Whitepapers on seating:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/Whitepaper/index/
Between 1987 and 1994, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) peacefully became the most popular file format for archiving and exchanging computer images. At the end of December 1994, CompuServe Inc. and Unisys Corporation announced to the public that developers would have to pay a license fee in order to continue to use technology patented by Unisys in certain categories of software supporting the GIF format. These first statements caused immediate reactions and some confusion. As a longer term consequence, it appears likely that GIF will be replaced and extended by new file formats, but not so before the expiration of the patent which caused so much debate.
t ml
Among the first reactions, some bulletin board systems had all GIF files deleted from their hard disks (or converted into JPEG format). Common remarks included:
"PROTEST OF NEW COMPUSERVE-UNISYS GIF USAGE TAX !!"
"They [CompuServe] seem to think that GIF is the greatest thing since free online magazines."
"The announcement by CompuServe and Unisys that users of the GIF image format must register by January 10 and pay a royalty or face lawsuits for their past usage, is the online communications community's equivalent of the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor."
http://www.cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.h
The US Patent Trademark Office is supposed to promote the industrial and technological progress of the nation and strengthen the economy. I do not see how allowing an obtuse corporate microsalesman to stifle an 11 year old freely distributed world standard is in the best interest of our nation.
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Reminds me of the compression war of '88.
"Back then people compressed the files with a program called ARC by Systems Enhancements Associates (SEA).
ARC would take the original files and compress them into one file with the extension of ARC. When you downloaded this file from the BBS you unarced it by using ARC.EXE. This was great until a gentleman named Phil Katz came up with the idea of improving ARC.
See, Phil found out you could speed the compression process and even make the files more compressed. Instead of one file for compression and decompression, Phil made two. The result was PKARC for compression and PKXARC for decompression. This is where the fun began.
SEA got really ticked that Phil had done a better job of compression and decompression while maintaining compatibility. In the great American way, instead of competing and making ARC better, they sued.
A few months later, PKZIP was released and that was it. I can't find a Systems Enhancement Associates website, but PKWare is still in business. Sysops dropped almost every other compression type and went with ZIP and as they say, that is history."
So go ahead "Forgent Networks". We'll find a better format.
We miss ya Phil.
http://www.compunotes.com/OpinionSection/philkatz
They're trying to overlap laws so that the few that escape one scenario get a life sentence and the others get two life sentences.
Now that we all know that having an affair is more serious than cooking the books.
Nova did a great show on Joe Kittinger and his dive from 19 miles up.
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They first tested it with human shaped models and found out the flatspin would be deadly, liquifying organs. After that they used a stabilizing chute to avoid the flatspin.
Exerpt:
http://www.yvcc.cc.wa.us/~chemyvcc/Skydive_From_S
Here's the link to the shockwave game:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/escape/skydive.html
Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.08/space.htm
Project Excelsior:
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/coldwar/pe
I can no longer find my favorite desktop sized picture of the jump but a smaller one is here (the top picture):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/hist
Plaid - http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WARP54/tracks.h tml
The "Double Figure" album is good.
Boards of Canada - www.boardsofcanada.com
I like them because they have enough of a beat and melody to inspire and yet they're still random enough to avoid getting old.
The best way to savor something is to draw it out with moderation.
RIAA currently has 806 members:
http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm
Does anyone know any big labels that aren't on the list?
Here's a link to more information about RIAA: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
His concern is the way that the industry looks at the success of a musician or of a record that sells or doesn't sell. In the future that might not be the case.
Moby should have spoke about that more than the "Pearl Jam Effect" to avoid excommunication from miscommunication.
"How does the computing power of Seti@home compare with existing supercomputers?"
"The most powerful computer, IBM's ASCI White, is rated at 12 TeraFLOPS and costs $110 million. SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs and has cost $500K so far"
Earth Simulator Project Total peak performance: 40 Tera FLOPS.
Of course the systems' architecture is different so using the speed to evaluate processing power is difficult.
There's a TFlop chart on the earth development button.
Simulating the Earth down to square kilometers will be impressive.
Great prices if you'll take the same brand in a plain box. http://www.centralcomputer.com/
There's a quiet power supply called Silencer and it's perfect if you work/sleep near your pc.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/home.htm
If you want a Transmeta Crusoe board, the first company to sell one was:
http://www.ibase-i.com.tw/
others are at:
http://www.transmetazone.com/products.cfm
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Subject: Re: OpenRecordset Compile Error; "Variable not Defined" (dbOpenSnapshot Highlighted)
http://groups.google.com/groups?sel
Subject: Re: Need a few pointers, please. DAO -> ADO, many others.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=tTS
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Subject: Re: Why everyone hates VB?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3a50cbe9.7
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http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=889cbb
I'm sure that the new methods are great, but it's increasingly becoming too much for a one-man-department to just "bill the time" anymore. It's difficult to support dozens of sites, each with dozens of databases in every Access version and architecture, and at the same time turn a profit for the boss, which usually requires taking new projects.
I found two certainties when writing Custom DB's:
1) The developer(s) become responsible for the business processes (however convoluted) that they implemented in the Database. You may not agree, but try telling the customer that their post-estimate specifications have increased the cost. Once deployed they will often imply that any features that conflict to their new specs are bugs that needs to be fixed. You could refuse to do the work if they can't pay but in many cases the database becomes a virtual paperweight until the work is done.
2) There is a limit of how many different custom databases a person will be able to make and support before they go crazy. One day all your sites will have an emergency at the same time, and those problems will be the undocumented ones that only google groups can solve. When you get there you'll have to decide if what you have forced yourself to remember is worth the pleasant memories you have forgotten.
Reporting is much easier.
I know people who learned to use AOL and feel it's too hard to use a different browser. Their loss..
They also pushed the new version by sacrificing backward compatibility.
& lr=&ie=UTF8& oe=UTF8&selm=tTSK7.1339%24rY1.143064%40dfiatx1-snr 1.gtei.net&rnum=2s ?q=openrecordset+da o+ado&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&selm=3b993cc9.3218 4196%40news.charter.net&rnum=6
.Net has completely changed the language, effectively killing Visual Basic.i sual+basic+.ne t+killed&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&selm=3a50cbe9.7 644234%40news.clara.net&rnum=6
Every Access version prior to 2000 used DAO (Data Access Objects). In the Visual Basic Library References, DAO was checked.
In Access 2000, they pushed ADO (Active Data Objects), which many have said is more complex and slower. They removed the Library Reference to DAO and sneaked in the Reference to ADO! To make matters worse they duplicated the variable type "recordset" in ADO and DAO, which renders useless almost all Visual Basic Code that worked with a table.
If you used the phrase "Dim x as recordset", you had to do one of the following:
- Uncheck ADO and Check DAO (Forcing it to use the older version)
- OR Check Both ADO and DAO, then search all code and replace every "Recordset" with "DAO.Recordset"
- OR Leave ADO Checked and DAO Unchecked, then search all code and rewrite every line that opened a table.
It's already bad enough that Access Databases start misbehaving when it's shared by too many people or live tables exceed 80,000 records, or the database exceeds 1.9 Gigabytes. At this point you're already thinking about scaling up to SQL server, Oracle, or my SQL.
In addition to that, more and more features are added while the "little Jet engine that could" becomes more and more critical to the operations of an organization.
Does Microsoft think that Access programmers have nothing better to do than get interrupted by every department that has upgraded to Access 2k? How hard would it have been to tell the upgrade wizard to automatically link to the DAO Library and automatically replace every "recordset" with "DAO.Recordset". You might think that it means more money for a consultant but all it does is accelerate the time to burnout. They're getting harder to find every day.
See:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group
I've also heard that Microsoft's Visual Basic strategy towards
See:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=v
It's no wonder that companies are switching to open source. Anyone's patience will wear thin after having to jump every time that Microsoft tells them to.