Most of the forms are for other companies- I've never seen their mail, nor heard complaints of spam- so it's either a reasonable level, or non-existant, but either way, uncertain.
I usually make a text field hidden as you say and call it name=subject and then have my actual subject field be called something random- who knows if it really helps or not.
After watching the negative ads all sides were running, and spending too much time trying to sort out fact from fiction or spin (eg- yes, he voted that bill down, but he voted that one down because he was waiting for a tack-on to this other bill)- I ran out of time to spend on figuring it out and declared it a lost cause. So, I instantly became uninformed and annoyed and I didn't vote for anyone because there was just too much misinformation. If someone else wants to sort it out better than me and vote, great for them.
Ultimately, too many people will vote that don't know or don't truly care, and the people who respectfully abstain on the grounds that some more knowledgeable will are generally making a mistake if they think that only intelligent folks will vote.
Have you ever seen a linux logfile? Especially if you have iptables turned on and fairly restrictive on a public-facing ip...... Each line a couple hundred characters and the files get very huge very fast. You're also assuming the customer is only being logged for something like a ppp connect/disconnect... Many protocols (IMAP forinstance) have 5-10 lines for each connection, and then mmore during transfers and idles, depending on your log level. It's conceivable to have several gb a day for even an extremely small IP. If they were hosting a handful of ginormous sites, replete with services (IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, RADIUS (for 802.11 or other), HTTP and others), the logs would be well beyond the simple calculation you're discussing.
I also left off Oregon Trail, Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, Loom. 'Everybody' from my generation seems to remember playing Oregon trail on Apple ]['s at school- and Indiana Jones was pretty spectacular for its time. There were plenty of great games at the dawn of personal computing- though there were quite a lot more in the very early 90's.
If I don't 'uninstall' via some software process that presumably would tell MS you uninstalled it, can I still install it on another machine- eg in the event of a disk/hardware failure?
I don't like the use of the word 'uninstall' since it implies a physical process as opposed to just 'remove' or 'destroy' the original installation.
I imagine/hope they mean the latter, but if the former, that's a real problem. Would you have to call in to MS if you 'lost' an install without properly uninstalling?
ok- so you know I mean noon, but then you still may not know exactly when that is depending on whether that state observes DST or what part of the state they're in for states that are in more than one timezone. Basically, wherever you are in the world, you still need to know the offset. The confusing part about DST is, like here in Iowa, we're -5 GMT for some of the year and -6 the rest. Most of the time, I don't remember whether DST means we're -5 or if it means we're -6. Restated- I know our time just changed, but I don't know if we're now -in- daylight savings or we just got -off- daylight savings. Sure, I could google it, but I don't just know offhand. IMHO, it'd be much easier if you just knew that your friend around the globe gets up at 23:00 and goes to bed at 13:00. Most of the time, you need to know that anyway so that you don't wake someone up. What does 'noon' have to do with anything? Just ask when they have their lunch hour, unless you're planning on having a duel at high noon (which isn't at precisely 12 by the clock anyway).
I'd vote for that too- they've been teaching it in schools here for at least 20 years. Maybe not flip the switch overnight, but start putting highway signs in both on every sign (not just a few every hundred miles on major highways)- then people will have a real feel for how fast 100km/h is and how long it takes them to go 40km to work. Once people 'feel' the distances/measurements, it'll be much easier.
Except that it'll get its time as GMT and it still has to make the decision about how much to offset it. A simple rules update for linux and windows should take care of a lot of the problem- but many custom apps will have to be altered or potentially produce incorrect times. I imagine.NET will help some of this in the windows world as it'll just use the underlying routines, which can be updated once by an MS update.
I imagine it'll be a headache, but things generally wont come to a screeching halt.
Personally, I hate daylight savings time and see no need for it. Just get up earlier or later as needed. Further, I don't see why we can't just all use GMT. So you get up at 08:00 and I get up at 21:00, big deal.
I've begun wondering lately why the processors themselves can't be extended to handle much of the functionality of the 'OS'- essentially migrate the basics into the CPU? If there was a way to get things up far enough to access some flash memory that would house some signed net/video/input/storage drivers to get things up and running. This is just a very basic idea and by no means is all-inclusive of every possible requirement..
seconded- I run several incarnations of WRT54G including the GL, SL54GS and GS (all with OpenWRT or DD-WRT) and have no stability problems at all.
Caveat: I had one 54GS running DD-WRT that seemed to bomb off the face of the earth every 30 minutes without provocation or traffic- switched to OpenWRT and don't have a problem any more.
your car comes out of the box ready to go 115+ mph (more if you've got a sportier car or less if you've got a Geo), but the governor limits this (in america at least) to ~115mph. Does this mean that automotive manufacturers are selling illegal racing machines because someone can flip a bit somewhere (or cut a wire, whatever)? I think that Take Two is not necessarily responsible for someone unlocking content they decided to hide at the last minute.
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heh- forgot the original premise ;o)
'twas just an idea.
They should have a second chamber loaded with blanks for the warning shots.
fire 5 feet in front of them in the dirt? or 2 feet over their head- close enough to hear the bullet whiz by.
I thought you needed a license to buy and/or sell lasers over certain power ratings (above Class IIIa)?
Most of the forms are for other companies- I've never seen their mail, nor heard complaints of spam- so it's either a reasonable level, or non-existant, but either way, uncertain.
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I usually make a text field hidden as you say and call it name=subject and then have my actual subject field be called something random- who knows if it really helps or not.
I had a virus once that hid itself in memory- the only way you could find it was if mem /c or whatever was a few kb short- so that's not entirely true.
After watching the negative ads all sides were running, and spending too much time trying to sort out fact from fiction or spin (eg- yes, he voted that bill down, but he voted that one down because he was waiting for a tack-on to this other bill)- I ran out of time to spend on figuring it out and declared it a lost cause. So, I instantly became uninformed and annoyed and I didn't vote for anyone because there was just too much misinformation. If someone else wants to sort it out better than me and vote, great for them.
Ultimately, too many people will vote that don't know or don't truly care, and the people who respectfully abstain on the grounds that some more knowledgeable will are generally making a mistake if they think that only intelligent folks will vote.
Have you ever seen a linux logfile? Especially if you have iptables turned on and fairly restrictive on a public-facing ip...... Each line a couple hundred characters and the files get very huge very fast. You're also assuming the customer is only being logged for something like a ppp connect/disconnect... Many protocols (IMAP forinstance) have 5-10 lines for each connection, and then mmore during transfers and idles, depending on your log level. It's conceivable to have several gb a day for even an extremely small IP. If they were hosting a handful of ginormous sites, replete with services (IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, RADIUS (for 802.11 or other), HTTP and others), the logs would be well beyond the simple calculation you're discussing.
I also left off Oregon Trail, Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, Loom. 'Everybody' from my generation seems to remember playing Oregon trail on Apple ]['s at school- and Indiana Jones was pretty spectacular for its time. There were plenty of great games at the dawn of personal computing- though there were quite a lot more in the very early 90's.
Quest For Glory, Day of the Tentacle, and Police Quest as well. Or even earlier- The Black Cauldron. Played that on my Tandy 1000.
If I don't 'uninstall' via some software process that presumably would tell MS you uninstalled it, can I still install it on another machine- eg in the event of a disk/hardware failure?
I don't like the use of the word 'uninstall' since it implies a physical process as opposed to just 'remove' or 'destroy' the original installation.
I imagine/hope they mean the latter, but if the former, that's a real problem. Would you have to call in to MS if you 'lost' an install without properly uninstalling?
Apparently, Apple Records saw it coming ;o)
ok- so you know I mean noon, but then you still may not know exactly when that is depending on whether that state observes DST or what part of the state they're in for states that are in more than one timezone. Basically, wherever you are in the world, you still need to know the offset. The confusing part about DST is, like here in Iowa, we're -5 GMT for some of the year and -6 the rest. Most of the time, I don't remember whether DST means we're -5 or if it means we're -6. Restated- I know our time just changed, but I don't know if we're now -in- daylight savings or we just got -off- daylight savings. Sure, I could google it, but I don't just know offhand. IMHO, it'd be much easier if you just knew that your friend around the globe gets up at 23:00 and goes to bed at 13:00. Most of the time, you need to know that anyway so that you don't wake someone up. What does 'noon' have to do with anything? Just ask when they have their lunch hour, unless you're planning on having a duel at high noon (which isn't at precisely 12 by the clock anyway).
I'd vote for that too- they've been teaching it in schools here for at least 20 years. Maybe not flip the switch overnight, but start putting highway signs in both on every sign (not just a few every hundred miles on major highways)- then people will have a real feel for how fast 100km/h is and how long it takes them to go 40km to work. Once people 'feel' the distances/measurements, it'll be much easier.
Except that it'll get its time as GMT and it still has to make the decision about how much to offset it. A simple rules update for linux and windows should take care of a lot of the problem- but many custom apps will have to be altered or potentially produce incorrect times. I imagine .NET will help some of this in the windows world as it'll just use the underlying routines, which can be updated once by an MS update.
I imagine it'll be a headache, but things generally wont come to a screeching halt.
Personally, I hate daylight savings time and see no need for it. Just get up earlier or later as needed. Further, I don't see why we can't just all use GMT. So you get up at 08:00 and I get up at 21:00, big deal.
I've begun wondering lately why the processors themselves can't be extended to handle much of the functionality of the 'OS'- essentially migrate the basics into the CPU? If there was a way to get things up far enough to access some flash memory that would house some signed net/video/input/storage drivers to get things up and running. This is just a very basic idea and by no means is all-inclusive of every possible requirement..
further, each of those could have a bunch of ~user's which I consider a separate 'site'.
seconded- I run several incarnations of WRT54G including the GL, SL54GS and GS (all with OpenWRT or DD-WRT) and have no stability problems at all.
Caveat: I had one 54GS running DD-WRT that seemed to bomb off the face of the earth every 30 minutes without provocation or traffic- switched to OpenWRT and don't have a problem any more.
not really- the rebels (as opposed to iraqi's in general) are causing most of the problems with improvised explosives. Do you have a TV?
your car comes out of the box ready to go 115+ mph (more if you've got a sportier car or less if you've got a Geo), but the governor limits this (in america at least) to ~115mph. Does this mean that automotive manufacturers are selling illegal racing machines because someone can flip a bit somewhere (or cut a wire, whatever)? I think that Take Two is not necessarily responsible for someone unlocking content they decided to hide at the last minute.
That makes a lot more sense!