If you dont believe that, ask yourself why the middle class actually pays the bulk of the taxes, not the rich.
You might want to review the IRS statistics quoted here. The top 5% of income earners paid over half of all income tax collected in 2000. If you were part of this group, you made at least ~$130k that year...with typical middle-class income being somewhere closer to $40k-$60k, the low end of the 5% might be upper-middle if you stretch it a bit.
Furthermore, the top 1% (with income starting around $310k) paid nearly two-fifths of the tax bill all by itself. That's 20% of the previous group paying 80% of the taxes paid by that group. There's no way that someone pulling in over $300k per year qualifies as middle-class under any reasonable definition.
Your site isn't w3c compliant either, better check yourself before you call out others.
Last time I checked, it was...looks like their parser is screwing up on some offsite links that I've added since then. Some URLs had "&" within them. Replacing those occurrences with "&" got their parser to stop complaining, and the links still work.
Who wouldn't build their own database website. Imagine slogging through hundreds of pages of fixed html. Does anyone know of sites like these other than personal pages put up by newbies? All of my sites are at least dynamic using php.
It depends on what type of content you're putting up. I wanted consistent navigation from page to page and easier maintainability; server-parsed HTML is sufficient for that task. It also allows me to serve up either proper HTML and CSS for browsers that can handle it or broken, non-standard HTML for crappy non-standards-compliant browsers. While I use MySQL for logging server activity (when I dumped access_log into the database, the database was smaller than the text file that created it), the only "content" I've ever served up from it was statistics of how many tens of thousands of times infected IIS machines had tried to pass their bugs on to my server (done with server-parsed HTML and a shell script with the query). For mostly-static content on a small to medium website, is there any reason (other than "because I can") for shoving every website into a database?
All of my sites are at least dynamic using php.
Such as this one, which took forever to load because the images appear to have not been optimized? Looks like invalid HTML with a big table in it.
(Why do I get the sneaking suspicion I've just been trolled?)
When it runs low on pressure, do you have to pump the little plunger a zillion times until you're back to full-blast?
Coleman fuel is more like gasoline than kerosene...note that some of the newer stoves and lanterns can run on unleaded. You could run the older ones on unleaded as well, as long as you didn't mind that the generator wouldn't last as long.
One time while cutting the grass, the mower ran out of gas. Rather than lug a jerry-can to a gas station, I put some Coleman fuel in the mower's tank. It seemed to run OK on it, though I thought at the time that the engine might've been running a bit hotter than usual.
wouldnt this lead to reduced profits by haliburton & co. after we've "awarded" them their contracts to rebuild iraq's oil industry?
Put down the tinfoil hat and back away slowly...Halliburton never even submitted a bid. (What this has to do with anybody in the current administration is even more puzzling, given that their stocks are sold and the proceeds from those sales are put into a blind trust while they're in office...)
This is just a plan to let President Bush take care of all those PETA wackos. You see, by making oil from turkeys, he'll surely upset any self-righteous PETA member. They'll boycott the new oil and continue to use oil from the middle East, and consequently they'll be supporting terrorism.
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Random tip: If you're stuck buying your own soda for work, go with Diet Pepsi. Your scumbag coworkers will steal other peoples' Diet Cokes and/or sugary stuff first before they pilfer your pop.
That doesn't sound like much of a plan...it sticks you with drinking that swill instead. Maybe you should grab a dorm fridge (or maybe even one of those desktop fridges that ThinkGeek sells, if they work at all) for your office/cube/whatever if you have a chronic problem with people swiping your stuff from the breakroom.
One thing about those old phones, they're a helluva lot easier to hear on than the newer ones.
The ringers on the old phones sound nicer, too...a hammer beating on a couple of bells. Some videophone software I wrote uses a WAV of that type of ringer to notify the user of an incoming call...it even uses the correct cadence (the WAV plays once every six seconds until the call is answered).
I picked up a phone at K-Mart ~13 years ago with a mechanical ringer...it's not quite the same (only one bell, and it's smaller), but it's better than the electronic ringers that seem to be all you can get.
Another part of the problem is that pretty much anything you buy today is made with propritary custom BGA ICs. Even if you could get a hold of the chips to do some of the really suh-wheat stuff, have you ever tried to solder a BGA? right, doesn't work to well unless you have a half million dollar IR reflow oven.
Sounds like you missed this article from Friday...
Jameco also sells the seemingly elusive PCI prototyping cards, though they're pricey ($70).
I've seen them at Fry's...they're even more expensive there, but if you need one right away, that's another option. (Assuming you have a Fry's nearby, of course...)
I had a couple of designs that I sent to Olimex for production...one as an EAGLE file, the other as a set of Gerber and Excellon files. They arrived here a couple of weeks after ordering, and they turned out fairly well. One of the boards was a fairly small design, so I was able to get a dozen of them for ~$30. One of those is now sitting in an Apple IIe, controlling my beer fridge.:-)
are you an engineer that writes software or a computer science major who does electrical engineering
To some extent, I would fall into the latter category. My degree has "computer science" printed on it, but I've done custom hardware to solve some problems. When we got some security cameras in that didn't provide for computer control, I reverse-engineered the bundled remote control (just a bunch of switches and resistors, really) and built a replacement control that handles up to 8 cameras and plugs into a USB port. I didn't even build a prototype before having boards made, but when I got the boards back and stuffed all the parts onto one of them, it worked the first time I powered it up. I wish more of my software projects were like that.:-) (In all fairness, though, it really wasn't that complicated a design...the FT245BM takes most of the pain out of working with USB.)
(I started out majoring in computer engineering, but inattentiveness in class led to some less-than-desirable grades in courses needed for that degree. I switched over to computer science and didn't switch back...hell, I goofed off a bit too much with some upper-level math classes there, too. I started college in 1989, but didn't graduate until 2001.)
There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
IIRC, NASA considered an F-111-style cabin-ejection system for the Shuttle in the early stages of design. It more than likely got dropped because of the added weight that would be needed for the latching system, an ablative heat shield, extra connections between the cabin and the rest of the shuttle, etc.
Columbia was originally built with ejection seats for the pilot and commander, but they were removed during a refit in the mid-'80s. At the altitude and speed at which Columbia broke up, it's not likely the seats would've done any good if they had still been in there anyway...and with only two of them, the other five astronauts would've been SOL.
I thought it translated to "Use every day or ink dries in the printhead and ruins it."
Damn, you beat me to it. I lost count of the Epson demo units we had to replace at the local Best Buy in order to keep having a working demo...some models needed replacement three or four times over the time they were available. There were one or two models with removable printheads that could (sometimes) be cleaned and put back into service, but the rest got boxed up and shipped out with the other defective products.
you could use a 'what number is this a picture of' type questions. The problem is figuring out how to make it multilingual.
Why would it have to be multilingual? I speak English; why would I want to receive mail in a foreign language? (Hell, maybe it'd help block the Brazilian spam I've been getting lately...)
Yea you can make it look like 2k, but well it doesn't. It still looks odd. Still ahs a plasticy feel to it. And it doesn't really add anything to 2k that I want, that doesn't slow the whole thing down.
For one thing, the icons are still wrong. I like to keep links to Notepad and Calculator in the quick-launch bar. On Win2K, the icons for the two are easily distinguished. On WinXP, you have to look carefully to tell them apart.
(You could rip the icons from a Win2K install and apply them to a WinXP install, but manually changing all of the relevant shortcuts would be a royal PITA.)
Since it's an HTTP proxy server, it'd know the content type returned by the remote webserver. It could tell a JPEG image from the HTML that uses the image. It'd know what types of files it can (relatively) safely mangle and which types it should leave alone.
Compression "enhancements" like this won't do you any good on your downloaded software or most images. Your downloaded programs are already compressed. Something like this can't crunch it much further, if at all. Pics like.jpgs are also pre-compressed (part of the format).
While they won't be able to speed up your warez downloads (unless they unzip the archive and recompress it with something better, like RAR or ACE...fat chance of that happening), I suspect they could decompress/recompress JPEG images and shave off a fair amount of the file size with a minimal impact on image quality. You could even get some improvement just by optimizing the Huffman coding...since most JPEG compressors work with a rarely-optimal fixed Huffman coding table, optimizing the table for a particular image can usually shrink file size without any loss in quality (try jpegtran -opt foo.jpg >foo-opt.jpg to see this for yourself).
Given the minimal compression most people apply to images on their websites, a transparent proxy that recompresses JPEG images before passing them on to dial-up users could speed things up a fair amount. You'd want to compare the recompressed image to the original to make sure it's not too badly degraded, though, as there are some webmasters (like me) who already crunch images down as small as they can go without making the compression artifacts too objectionable.
Id have to agree with you. There isnt very much real world praticality in this, since you can get a KVM switch and switch to a particular server you want to monitor. Also, not remember off the top of my head how the Composite out on the Raidon works, but dont you have to be in a GUI for any display to come out, so wouldnt things like, oh say a Linux server or BIOS editing be kind of a moot point...
I have an All-In-Wonder Radeon at home. I can leave the monitor off, switch on the VCR and TV on the composite-out port, switch on the computer, and do everything with the TV as the display...at least until Win2K flips the screen resolution to 1280x960. I used to have an STB Velocity 128 (a 4-meg PCI card built around nVidia's first accelerator, the Riva 128) in a Linux box underneath my TV, and you could boot into command-line Linux and work with it through the TV as long as nothing was plugged into the VGA port during POST.
I think most cards with TV-out capability will produce NTSC-compatible video with nothing special done to them in at least text and 640x480 graphics modes. You should be able to (for instance) go into CMOS setup and twiddle settings through your TV. The text quality won't be the best in the world, though, especially for the usual white-on-black text...
Newer versions are available here (for Win32, Linux, and Solaris, anyway...a version for Mac OS (classic, either 68K or PowerPC) is at the site you mentioned, and you can google for VNC ports to other OSen, such as Palm OS).
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You might want to review the IRS statistics quoted here. The top 5% of income earners paid over half of all income tax collected in 2000. If you were part of this group, you made at least ~$130k that year...with typical middle-class income being somewhere closer to $40k-$60k, the low end of the 5% might be upper-middle if you stretch it a bit.
Furthermore, the top 1% (with income starting around $310k) paid nearly two-fifths of the tax bill all by itself. That's 20% of the previous group paying 80% of the taxes paid by that group. There's no way that someone pulling in over $300k per year qualifies as middle-class under any reasonable definition.
Last time I checked, it was...looks like their parser is screwing up on some offsite links that I've added since then. Some URLs had "&" within them. Replacing those occurrences with "&" got their parser to stop complaining, and the links still work.
It depends on what type of content you're putting up. I wanted consistent navigation from page to page and easier maintainability; server-parsed HTML is sufficient for that task. It also allows me to serve up either proper HTML and CSS for browsers that can handle it or broken, non-standard HTML for crappy non-standards-compliant browsers. While I use MySQL for logging server activity (when I dumped access_log into the database, the database was smaller than the text file that created it), the only "content" I've ever served up from it was statistics of how many tens of thousands of times infected IIS machines had tried to pass their bugs on to my server (done with server-parsed HTML and a shell script with the query). For mostly-static content on a small to medium website, is there any reason (other than "because I can") for shoving every website into a database?
Such as this one, which took forever to load because the images appear to have not been optimized? Looks like invalid HTML with a big table in it.
(Why do I get the sneaking suspicion I've just been trolled?)
Coleman fuel is more like gasoline than kerosene...note that some of the newer stoves and lanterns can run on unleaded. You could run the older ones on unleaded as well, as long as you didn't mind that the generator wouldn't last as long.
One time while cutting the grass, the mower ran out of gas. Rather than lug a jerry-can to a gas station, I put some Coleman fuel in the mower's tank. It seemed to run OK on it, though I thought at the time that the engine might've been running a bit hotter than usual.
Put down the tinfoil hat and back away slowly...Halliburton never even submitted a bid. (What this has to do with anybody in the current administration is even more puzzling, given that their stocks are sold and the proceeds from those sales are put into a blind trust while they're in office...)
Your choice:
(They're both butt-ugly vehicles, but you need to keep your names straight.)
PETA is already known to support domestic terrorist groups...there's really no need to work in a Middle East angle when dealing with them.
That doesn't sound like much of a plan...it sticks you with drinking that swill instead. Maybe you should grab a dorm fridge (or maybe even one of those desktop fridges that ThinkGeek sells, if they work at all) for your office/cube/whatever if you have a chronic problem with people swiping your stuff from the breakroom.
Burning Mac, perhaps?
The ringers on the old phones sound nicer, too...a hammer beating on a couple of bells. Some videophone software I wrote uses a WAV of that type of ringer to notify the user of an incoming call...it even uses the correct cadence (the WAV plays once every six seconds until the call is answered).
I picked up a phone at K-Mart ~13 years ago with a mechanical ringer...it's not quite the same (only one bell, and it's smaller), but it's better than the electronic ringers that seem to be all you can get.
Sounds like you missed this article from Friday...
I've seen them at Fry's...they're even more expensive there, but if you need one right away, that's another option. (Assuming you have a Fry's nearby, of course...)
I had a couple of designs that I sent to Olimex for production...one as an EAGLE file, the other as a set of Gerber and Excellon files. They arrived here a couple of weeks after ordering, and they turned out fairly well. One of the boards was a fairly small design, so I was able to get a dozen of them for ~$30. One of those is now sitting in an Apple IIe, controlling my beer fridge. :-)
To some extent, I would fall into the latter category. My degree has "computer science" printed on it, but I've done custom hardware to solve some problems. When we got some security cameras in that didn't provide for computer control, I reverse-engineered the bundled remote control (just a bunch of switches and resistors, really) and built a replacement control that handles up to 8 cameras and plugs into a USB port. I didn't even build a prototype before having boards made, but when I got the boards back and stuffed all the parts onto one of them, it worked the first time I powered it up. I wish more of my software projects were like that. :-) (In all fairness, though, it really wasn't that complicated a design...the FT245BM takes most of the pain out of working with USB.)
(I started out majoring in computer engineering, but inattentiveness in class led to some less-than-desirable grades in courses needed for that degree. I switched over to computer science and didn't switch back...hell, I goofed off a bit too much with some upper-level math classes there, too. I started college in 1989, but didn't graduate until 2001.)
IIRC, NASA considered an F-111-style cabin-ejection system for the Shuttle in the early stages of design. It more than likely got dropped because of the added weight that would be needed for the latching system, an ablative heat shield, extra connections between the cabin and the rest of the shuttle, etc.
Columbia was originally built with ejection seats for the pilot and commander, but they were removed during a refit in the mid-'80s. At the altitude and speed at which Columbia broke up, it's not likely the seats would've done any good if they had still been in there anyway...and with only two of them, the other five astronauts would've been SOL.
Damn, you beat me to it. I lost count of the Epson demo units we had to replace at the local Best Buy in order to keep having a working demo...some models needed replacement three or four times over the time they were available. There were one or two models with removable printheads that could (sometimes) be cleaned and put back into service, but the rest got boxed up and shipped out with the other defective products.
Why would it have to be multilingual? I speak English; why would I want to receive mail in a foreign language? (Hell, maybe it'd help block the Brazilian spam I've been getting lately...)
For one thing, the icons are still wrong. I like to keep links to Notepad and Calculator in the quick-launch bar. On Win2K, the icons for the two are easily distinguished. On WinXP, you have to look carefully to tell them apart.
(You could rip the icons from a Win2K install and apply them to a WinXP install, but manually changing all of the relevant shortcuts would be a royal PITA.)
If you had read the linked article, you would've learned that the Revolution OS DVD is region-free and CSS-free.
Then again, this is Slashdot...what the hell was I thinking, that someone would read an article before posting about it?
I've put up another mirror here.
...I've put up a mirror (with optimized images) here.
Since it's an HTTP proxy server, it'd know the content type returned by the remote webserver. It could tell a JPEG image from the HTML that uses the image. It'd know what types of files it can (relatively) safely mangle and which types it should leave alone.
While they won't be able to speed up your warez downloads (unless they unzip the archive and recompress it with something better, like RAR or ACE...fat chance of that happening), I suspect they could decompress/recompress JPEG images and shave off a fair amount of the file size with a minimal impact on image quality. You could even get some improvement just by optimizing the Huffman coding...since most JPEG compressors work with a rarely-optimal fixed Huffman coding table, optimizing the table for a particular image can usually shrink file size without any loss in quality (try jpegtran -opt foo.jpg >foo-opt.jpg to see this for yourself).
Given the minimal compression most people apply to images on their websites, a transparent proxy that recompresses JPEG images before passing them on to dial-up users could speed things up a fair amount. You'd want to compare the recompressed image to the original to make sure it's not too badly degraded, though, as there are some webmasters (like me) who already crunch images down as small as they can go without making the compression artifacts too objectionable.
I have an All-In-Wonder Radeon at home. I can leave the monitor off, switch on the VCR and TV on the composite-out port, switch on the computer, and do everything with the TV as the display...at least until Win2K flips the screen resolution to 1280x960. I used to have an STB Velocity 128 (a 4-meg PCI card built around nVidia's first accelerator, the Riva 128) in a Linux box underneath my TV, and you could boot into command-line Linux and work with it through the TV as long as nothing was plugged into the VGA port during POST.
I think most cards with TV-out capability will produce NTSC-compatible video with nothing special done to them in at least text and 640x480 graphics modes. You should be able to (for instance) go into CMOS setup and twiddle settings through your TV. The text quality won't be the best in the world, though, especially for the usual white-on-black text...
Newer versions are available here (for Win32, Linux, and Solaris, anyway...a version for Mac OS (classic, either 68K or PowerPC) is at the site you mentioned, and you can google for VNC ports to other OSen, such as Palm OS).