>>> The only difference between business and government is that the public control government and private individuals control business
Seriously? News flash - the public does NOT control government. Bureaucrats control government and it doesn't really matter who gets elected as long as the career bureaucrats continue to make and enforce policy. What they will has the best shot of becoming reality...at least the ones who have an agenda, and aren't merely marking time.
I really like GOG, appreciate what they're doing, and have spent hundreds of dollars at their site. That said however, what they do to the games' graphics has totally ruined my enjoyment of a bunch of those much-loved games. The visual effects become truly cringe worthy, and I don't understand WHY these changes occur. I can have the original game and the GOG release playing on the same machine and the graphics on the GOG release looks like its been converted to 240x320 resolution while the original is, well, original.
>> we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
Eh, I have my doubts about being a member of the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth. What's fairly certain however is that we've been outstanding at decimating other species without killing ourselves in the process.
>>Amazon wants authors to price their ebooks at $0.99, so many do, and these are the ones that are sold
Its not AMAZON that wants authors to price their ebooks at $.99 - its Amazon's CUSTOMERS who want that.
Take me for example. I'll take a $.99 flyer on an unknown author with an intriguing plot summary. My current modus operandi is to buy books from 5-10 authors at a time, take my time enjoying the ones that are actually readable, and then come back for more. If I was paying more than $3 a book, I'd be considerably more careful regarding what and how often I was buying. Also, getting burnt by too great a percentage of not-ready-for-primetime authors would, without a doubt, stifle this habit, dim my general regard for Amazon, and probably send me back to browsing inventory in book stores.
Oh hey, lets blame this on Global Warming, um, I mean Climate Change. Oh wait, I know, lets call it Earth Changes. Yeah, that covers it.
Its all our fault that there's a volcano melting the ice sheet. We have just too many people on this earth now. Its squishing down the world's insides and making magma pop out of the bottom.
I've been using them for years, and I love it so much that I subscribe to their premium service, even though I don't have a use for it, to provide support for them...their basic service is free.
It autofills my username and password on any machine where I have the app installed. If I don't have the app installed but need to get to my username/passwords, they have an online vault I can log on to.
And searching is easy - I can search by username or site or keyword in description. They auto-filter my passwords as I type into the search box.
>> Asks reader k280: "What alternative tools are available for free, and how do they compare to LogMeIn?"
Okay, so its not free, but its a one time $50 per server install and is full of awesome goodness.... radmin
http://www.radmin.com/
Wizard101 is the ticket for hanging out with your girl, Tim. Seriously, give it a try. I know lots of couples who share time together by playing this game. All of them are people whom I've met via the game.
It has a fanciful story line with entertaining quests, animated spells that are fun to watch, card strategy, crafting, gardening, pet hatching (pets have genomes, getting half of their traits from each parent), and various types of housing that can be furnished and a number of different themed worlds to explore.
I love this game, and I've made friends on it that I look forward to seeing/hanging with. Now if I could just get my family to give it a try...:)
Be sure to register with an adult age though. It's one of the requirements for turning on open chat. Believe me, being limited to filtered chat and menu chat will be a pain.
In cases like you cited, you may tell them, but if they're not getting it, you make your case by writing it out - all the problems with the request, in detail, covering what and why and even how, if you can manage it. And then you email it to them.
Lots of people don't really hear all that they should when others talk and everyone's recall is almost always faulty. If you give someone something that they can read over and consider at their leisure however.... I've found that its fairly easy to make a convert of almost anybody this way, as long as my reasoning is sound and they don't have some overriding goal or agenda which I'm ignorant about.
In addition to text, video, images, urls, content from urls, OneNote also lets you embed audio and any other files you might want, even executables.
It has ink features so you can write long hand if you're using a tablet, then later "lasso" the script and convert it into text using the builtin OCR. You can also draw on a page using your tablet. Pages can be as long and as wide as you want, and will automatically vary in size in concert with what's on the particular page.
Moving things around is easy whether within a page or between books. It creates a sort of textbox of grouped content for dragging around to a difference place. The organizational structure is "books" containing "sections" containing "pages" and you can even have "sub-Pages" if you really want.
You can make your own templates for different kinds of pages (note taking, analysis, experiment, for example) and everything (excluding the embedded files) is instantly full text searchable. Everything you place on any page, including audio files, becomes fully searchable.
The one downside is that it won't, as far as I can tell, incorporate other types of embedded files into its search index. Sure it will make the file's metadata (like name) available within search, but not the file's contents.
>> In many areas the difference between top end of "amateur" and "professional" is not talent or the quality of the work itself. It's being able to correctly estimate the difficulty and time of any job; of executing on time, on budget, always.
I am SO crestfallen. I just found out I'm still an amateur, even after >30 years of what I thought was success in IT.
In the US, 18M Euro (23M US) is a governmental rounding error.
I mean, heck, that's not even a third of what it costs to send our president to Africa for the week.
And yet, OTOH, I can't even imagine what 100GBS would feel like. The best I can get in my neck of these American woods is 4MBS, and keeping it costs a little over $120/month, with taxes.
During World War II, plenty of German-American citizens living in the US flue back to Germany and fought against American forces.
I dare you to come up with any sort of reference substantiating this. You made up this assertion to suit your own purposes, and your ignorance of modern history is showing. German-Americans of that period effectively had no "old country" to go back and defend.
Germany lost its weak-willed chicken-shit monarchy as a result of WWI and, because of the unsustainable and dire terms of the resulting peace accord, was in upheaval for a generation. Hitler was basically a European prototype for Pol-Pot. He was a powerful and moving speaker, but when he was done with a speech, the magnetism that had gotten people cheering didn't stick for long - they often wondered afterwards why they had cheered. Still, he had power and knew how to appoint effective minions; and he originally got to power by beating up and "disappearing" members of opposing factions.
So, Germans who immigrated to America anytime during the 50 years before WWII would have known that the Germany they remembered just didn't exist anymore. They would also have known Hitler for the thug that he was. They would have been much more likely to try to sneak any friends, relatives, or ex-neighbors out than to go back and defend with their life what they knew simply didn't exist anymore.
I'm flabbergasted that your cogent comment has been moderated down to a negative, when there are so many comments on this same story that have all the attributes of a typewritten fart and yet have a positive moderation score....not zero but POSITIVE.
I'm coming to this conversation pretty late, so I hope somebody who cares gets a chance to read this.:)
We're 3 to 4x the size of turboflux's org and both our 2TB 320 LVD scsi DAS (direct attached storage) units started getting wiggy early last year. After looking at our options we ended up with a couple of ExcelMeridian's (SecurStor XRS, if you care) DAS units populated with Western Digital SATAII drives in a Raid 6 config and connected back to our servers via 320 scsi controllers.
Western Digital has had a line of enterprise SATAII drives with extra layers of testing to certify that they're good enough for RAID duty for awhile; I think Hitachi has a line of these as well now.
The new units have been in service for about 10 months now without even a hiccup and they came with almost 3x the capacity at about 25% of the price that we paid for their scsi predecessors. One of our techs pulled a drive out of the config as a test...it kept humming and immediately started blasting us with email alerts, just as we had it set up to do. With 2 drives missing from the 16 drive config, performance degradation was noticeable but it still recovered okay.
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Let's not forget all the gun running for Mexican cartels
>>> The only difference between business and government is that the public control government and private individuals control business
Seriously? News flash - the public does NOT control government. Bureaucrats control government and it doesn't really matter who gets elected as long as the career bureaucrats continue to make and enforce policy. What they will has the best shot of becoming reality...at least the ones who have an agenda, and aren't merely marking time.
Hah! I've got you beat by a mile. I pay $104 per month for 7mbps service.
I win. Lucky me.
I really like GOG, appreciate what they're doing, and have spent hundreds of dollars at their site. That said however, what they do to the games' graphics has totally ruined my enjoyment of a bunch of those much-loved games. The visual effects become truly cringe worthy, and I don't understand WHY these changes occur. I can have the original game and the GOG release playing on the same machine and the graphics on the GOG release looks like its been converted to 240x320 resolution while the original is, well, original.
You're taking this all way too seriously.
Did anybody see this part?
>> These sonic cannons are already in use in the western Gulf of Mexico, off Alaska and other offshore oil operations around the world.
The damage is already being done, we've just decided to expand the scope to include those waters between the East Coast and Europe.
>> we are not only the most intelligent life on earth (for some values of intelligence), but as far as we can tell, the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth.
Eh, I have my doubts about being a member of the most intelligent life to have ever developed on earth. What's fairly certain however is that we've been outstanding at decimating other species without killing ourselves in the process.
>>Amazon wants authors to price their ebooks at $0.99, so many do, and these are the ones that are sold
Its not AMAZON that wants authors to price their ebooks at $.99 - its Amazon's CUSTOMERS who want that.
Take me for example. I'll take a $.99 flyer on an unknown author with an intriguing plot summary. My current modus operandi is to buy books from 5-10 authors at a time, take my time enjoying the ones that are actually readable, and then come back for more. If I was paying more than $3 a book, I'd be considerably more careful regarding what and how often I was buying. Also, getting burnt by too great a percentage of not-ready-for-primetime authors would, without a doubt, stifle this habit, dim my general regard for Amazon, and probably send me back to browsing inventory in book stores.
Yes, and free me, too! I'd love a "basic income" that lets me spend all my time playing games, reading sci-fi/fantasy, and hanging with friends.
Oh hey, lets blame this on Global Warming, um, I mean Climate Change. Oh wait, I know, lets call it Earth Changes. Yeah, that covers it.
Its all our fault that there's a volcano melting the ice sheet. We have just too many people on this earth now. Its squishing down the world's insides and making magma pop out of the bottom.
http://www.livescience.com/412...
I've been using them for years, and I love it so much that I subscribe to their premium service, even though I don't have a use for it, to provide support for them...their basic service is free.
It autofills my username and password on any machine where I have the app installed. If I don't have the app installed but need to get to my username/passwords, they have an online vault I can log on to.
And searching is easy - I can search by username or site or keyword in description. They auto-filter my passwords as I type into the search box.
https://lastpass.com/
Bzzzt. You're wrong, lucm.
I'm female and use btw much more than fyi. They mean different things for gosh sakes.
FYI you're informing :P
BTW you're clarifying or adding an addendum.
>> Asks reader k280: "What alternative tools are available for free, and how do they compare to LogMeIn?" Okay, so its not free, but its a one time $50 per server install and is full of awesome goodness.... radmin http://www.radmin.com/
I remember - I was sitting in Harry's Chocolate Shop, having a beer, and watching the launch on the telly with a couple of friends.
Wow. Cynical much?
If you have a hard time getting a date, I'm pretty sure its not your looks that's the problem.
Wizard101 is the ticket for hanging out with your girl, Tim. Seriously, give it a try. I know lots of couples who share time together by playing this game. All of them are people whom I've met via the game.
It has a fanciful story line with entertaining quests, animated spells that are fun to watch, card strategy, crafting, gardening, pet hatching (pets have genomes, getting half of their traits from each parent), and various types of housing that can be furnished and a number of different themed worlds to explore.
I love this game, and I've made friends on it that I look forward to seeing/hanging with. Now if I could just get my family to give it a try... :)
Be sure to register with an adult age though. It's one of the requirements for turning on open chat. Believe me, being limited to filtered chat and menu chat will be a pain.
In cases like you cited, you may tell them, but if they're not getting it, you make your case by writing it out - all the problems with the request, in detail, covering what and why and even how, if you can manage it. And then you email it to them.
Lots of people don't really hear all that they should when others talk and everyone's recall is almost always faulty. If you give someone something that they can read over and consider at their leisure however.... I've found that its fairly easy to make a convert of almost anybody this way, as long as my reasoning is sound and they don't have some overriding goal or agenda which I'm ignorant about.
Oh man, I am a HUGE fan of OneNote...
In addition to text, video, images, urls, content from urls, OneNote also lets you embed audio and any other files you might want, even executables.
It has ink features so you can write long hand if you're using a tablet, then later "lasso" the script and convert it into text using the builtin OCR. You can also draw on a page using your tablet. Pages can be as long and as wide as you want, and will automatically vary in size in concert with what's on the particular page.
Moving things around is easy whether within a page or between books. It creates a sort of textbox of grouped content for dragging around to a difference place. The organizational structure is "books" containing "sections" containing "pages" and you can even have "sub-Pages" if you really want.
You can make your own templates for different kinds of pages (note taking, analysis, experiment, for example) and everything (excluding the embedded files) is instantly full text searchable. Everything you place on any page, including audio files, becomes fully searchable.
The one downside is that it won't, as far as I can tell, incorporate other types of embedded files into its search index. Sure it will make the file's metadata (like name) available within search, but not the file's contents.
>> In many areas the difference between top end of "amateur" and "professional" is not talent or the quality of the work itself. It's being able to correctly estimate the difficulty and time of any job; of executing on time, on budget, always.
I am SO crestfallen. I just found out I'm still an amateur, even after >30 years of what I thought was success in IT.
In the US, 18M Euro (23M US) is a governmental rounding error.
I mean, heck, that's not even a third of what it costs to send our president to Africa for the week.
And yet, OTOH, I can't even imagine what 100GBS would feel like. The best I can get in my neck of these American woods is 4MBS, and keeping it costs a little over $120/month, with taxes.
Are you looking at me?
Are YOU looking at ME?
You are nuts. The NRA wants to enforce guns on every living being. Guns is Big Money, not freedom.
Seriously? Somebody considers the above post to be Informative?
During World War II, plenty of German-American citizens living in the US flue back to Germany and fought against American forces.
I dare you to come up with any sort of reference substantiating this. You made up this assertion to suit your own purposes, and your ignorance of modern history is showing. German-Americans of that period effectively had no "old country" to go back and defend.
Germany lost its weak-willed chicken-shit monarchy as a result of WWI and, because of the unsustainable and dire terms of the resulting peace accord, was in upheaval for a generation. Hitler was basically a European prototype for Pol-Pot. He was a powerful and moving speaker, but when he was done with a speech, the magnetism that had gotten people cheering didn't stick for long - they often wondered afterwards why they had cheered. Still, he had power and knew how to appoint effective minions; and he originally got to power by beating up and "disappearing" members of opposing factions.
So, Germans who immigrated to America anytime during the 50 years before WWII would have known that the Germany they remembered just didn't exist anymore. They would also have known Hitler for the thug that he was. They would have been much more likely to try to sneak any friends, relatives, or ex-neighbors out than to go back and defend with their life what they knew simply didn't exist anymore.
I'm flabbergasted that your cogent comment has been moderated down to a negative, when there are so many comments on this same story that have all the attributes of a typewritten fart and yet have a positive moderation score....not zero but POSITIVE.
I'm coming to this conversation pretty late, so I hope somebody who cares gets a chance to read this.
We're 3 to 4x the size of turboflux's org and both our 2TB 320 LVD scsi DAS (direct attached storage) units started getting wiggy early last year. After looking at our options we ended up with a couple of ExcelMeridian's (SecurStor XRS, if you care) DAS units populated with Western Digital SATAII drives in a Raid 6 config and connected back to our servers via 320 scsi controllers.
Western Digital has had a line of enterprise SATAII drives with extra layers of testing to certify that they're good enough for RAID duty for awhile; I think Hitachi has a line of these as well now.
The new units have been in service for about 10 months now without even a hiccup and they came with almost 3x the capacity at about 25% of the price that we paid for their scsi predecessors. One of our techs pulled a drive out of the config as a test...it kept humming and immediately started blasting us with email alerts, just as we had it set up to do. With 2 drives missing from the 16 drive config, performance degradation was noticeable but it still recovered okay.
FWIW.