Recently I asked Bob Boilen if he would do a podcast of his web show "All Songs Considered", which I find to be a great source of new music and artists. His response was not surprising but disappointing: "We can NOT make a podcast of this show because of licensing restrictions". As far as I'm concerned this is another grievance I have in a long line of grievances regarding distribution of digital media and I hope that by ripping and sharing this I am contributing, in a small way, to the demise of some record company somewhere.
Skype has serious design flaws... try unchecking the "use port 80 under advanced options". Make sure that your firewall has the random port that Skype chooses on install open. Make sure that you have that port forwarded to the right box if you are using a router.
Years ago I guy I work with got busted for child porn swapping on the internet. I worked with this guy every day for ten years and I have to say he is one of the most honest people I have ever met, doesn't speed, doesn't cheat on his taxes, and respects authority (unlike myself). He's extremely smart, shy, short, not much to look at, and like most of Slashdot severely lacking in social skills.
This combination and his collect & catalog tendency naturally lead him to collect and swap internet porn with a small group (around thirty people were arrested). The reason that he finally got busted was someone in his group turned states evidence and narc'd on the whole group.
In my opinion this is rationality ended. During the bust he was treated extremely poorly by the arresting officers and one of the biggest points of contention was the next-door neighbor's swing set (they had accused him of having it there as an attraction) So they interviewed his neighbors on the spot: "Hi we're arresting the pedophile next door is that your swing-set, have your children been molested? (It turned out that they did not have kids and the previous owner installed the swing-set). They took nearly everything in his house that could be connected to a PC or create an image. Then the public prosecutor and the district attorney got involved at it was obviously an opportunity for them to create publicity for them and their reelections because every single court appearance he had the press was alerted to when he was leaving, what building and through what door. They demonized him in the paper making him sound like an original creator and major distributor of abusive pornography of extremely young children. I've seen what he was into: pictures of high school students, probably taken by other high school students, having sex with other high school students. And they were mostly bad pictures at that He never left his home in an effort to obtain this sort of pornography or to 'groom' a young high school student, he never chatted with a minor on IRC or E-mail, he never swapped any of this pornography with someone outside of the group (i.e. someone not really looking for it).
Eventually he wound up being sentenced to just under 10 years in a medium security federal pen. This has had a profound change in his personality... He now hates authority and distrusts the federal government. He now knows more about electronic security & encryption than I thought humanly possible. He's told me of dozens of petty scams (and how the perpetrators got caught) and large scale wholesale type crime... In short he's got a Ph.D. in criminal psychology & behavior and a master's in hate & distrust of authority...
After they release him (in a few years) he expects he will not be able to use computers (regardless if they are connected to Internet or not), a job that brings in contact with kids (Not that he was ever interested in that) and he must register on the sex offenders list wherever he moves. So essentially by saying he can't use computers at all they are saying he can't have a legitimate job in his profession (He has a masters in Computer Science)... I figure he's a shoe-in for top computer security consultant for organized crime when they let him out and from what he hints at he'll have the job day one of his release.
I've got to wonder about all of this. First off he would have got less time be shooting someone so his sentence doesn't really fit the crime. Then they put him in a prison with people who were career criminals, this obviously changed his personality for the worse. So I wonder if society was better served.
The last time I went to the US I bought an Apple Dual G5, 30" LCD, 4gigs of RAM and an iPod. The cost savings was more than the cost of the trip and I got to see a few American friends I haven't seen in years.
I did have a small talk at baggage check-in about the weight of the G5 and with the customs guy here in Austria about how new the stuff looked but even he did not really care that much. That the dollar sucks so much just makes it more attractive... it's like vacationing in a third world country only with lots of SUVs and chubby people.
I don't see how you can say that this is not related to the announcement of new software from Apple. I'm sure the NeoOffice guys are clever (both of them) but they don't have enough manpower to make this happen. I have NeoOffice, put simply I don't like it (as much as I like OO.org on Wintel) I will not buy Microsoft products so the instant Pages is out I will buy it and i will use it.
Sure I'm a technical user but I can't believe I'm alone in my feelings or with my purchase decisions.
As far as the X11 port I honestly don't think it's relevant, I've tried out a couple of X11 reliant applications on my Mac and they fall into two categories 1, I'm glad it's available for free because I have not found an alternative and 2: I will not allow it on my system even if for some reason I was paid to do so.
Currently I'm developing a small PC board using EAGLE (with in their free license) and I haven't quite decided where it falls but I'm glad I did not pay for it because the UI is really, really poor.
All of those people who read their e-mail, surf the web, and send pictures of their kids (or grandkids) to friends and family, and play solitaire and other low power games. Or more specifically people that don't read/. and they make up the majority of the online population.
This thing has more computing power than, I'd bet, 80% of the users in the world need. I would expect less than 3% MiniMac sales will be to people intending to use it for PVR apps or hack it in some way.
Add to this that Apple's target market already owns a malware infested wintel box and subscribe to AOL. So they use their iPod to save their data (check out Apple's switch page) unplug their old wintel crap, put this little box on the desk and in a less than an hour Windows is out of their life.
If my Mum & Sister didn't already have iMacs I'd get them this.
I'm an embedded developer and I also have the same sort onerous contract. So most of creative & inventive tinkering goes to interesting but wacky ideas that not only are outside of our core competence but the company wouldn't touch if they were. So far I've landed a couple of personal patents and one developed product that I then sold to a manufacturer. It's generally known by upper management and not contested. So I have concluded it was more like the ridiculous non-compete clauses they cook up, which I have been advised will not hold up where I live. The companies put them there hoping to get away with it but not really expecting to (they'd have to pay me for the length of my non-compete)
I also find that the use of childish scatological humor, sexual innuendo and l33t speak tend to make them go away or at least ignore it. You know the Chia pet with a 14 inch raging hard on. But then again I don't play with nukes.
On a side note I've used these Blue LEDS as an excitation source for an optical sensor right when they first came out... Wow! were they bright!
The likelyhood of me spending more that a few days in the US ever again is low and even getting to where you are is approaching zero probability. But I'd pay for the service if I was there.
In the city I live in it's hard to find a spot without some sort of wireless access for pay. I helped a few of the kids that work at the nearest pizza place with their dimploma thesis so now I get free access, which is not a huge deal because my own wireless works out into the park beyond it. I've only used theirs a couple of times, as it's so close to the house. I have used VOIP to the US on my iPaq at the bar and all the girls there thought it was really cool to talk to someone "all the way to the US for free" more fun than anything else...
I've used a McCraigor "wiggler" in the past and was very underwhelmed. It's sort of the winmodem of JTAG adapters.
It's a shame he hosted his project on Windows, I would have like to have seen it on OS X or Linux. I suppose he will wind up using Cygwin which I never really got on with... I always found easier just be in a *NIX environment to begin with.
Here's hoping after they finish jettisoning the PC business we quit seeing so many Windows hosted articles on IBM Developerworks
I do embedded development. Windows XP and "search" are mutually exclusive terms to me because windows secretly decides what files it will search in. It will not search in assembly files, S records, or ANY of my complier outputs.prn,.ref,.i,.cer,.lnk To fix it I had to do some arcane registry hack. I have since moved to OS X. My next step is to do something other than FreeDOS in Virtual PC to bring the DOS stuff in to rest of the file system. Hey! Stop laughing! It's easier than switching compliers!
ALL test strips are temperature dependent. They should be stored with the meter so that the meter and the strips are as close to the same temp as possible.
All strips have an allowable temperature range, which is printed on their container, if you bend a strip and it breaks you are outside of that range and the results are useless
If the device had the back light and contrast you describe it would either weigh 5 kilos or have a battery life of 30 seconds. Which do you prefer?
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Recently I asked Bob Boilen if he would do a podcast of his web show "All Songs Considered", which I find to be a great source of new music and artists. His response was not surprising but disappointing: "We can NOT make a podcast of this show because of licensing restrictions". As far as I'm concerned this is another grievance I have in a long line of grievances regarding distribution of digital media and I hope that by ripping and sharing this I am contributing, in a small way, to the demise of some record company somewhere.
Skype has serious design flaws... try unchecking the "use port 80 under advanced options". Make sure that your firewall has the random port that Skype chooses on install open. Make sure that you have that port forwarded to the right box if you are using a router.
Put the X-Files DVD box set down and back AWAY from the TV
This combination and his collect & catalog tendency naturally lead him to collect and swap internet porn with a small group (around thirty people were arrested). The reason that he finally got busted was someone in his group turned states evidence and narc'd on the whole group.
In my opinion this is rationality ended. During the bust he was treated extremely poorly by the arresting officers and one of the biggest points of contention was the next-door neighbor's swing set (they had accused him of having it there as an attraction) So they interviewed his neighbors on the spot: "Hi we're arresting the pedophile next door is that your swing-set, have your children been molested? (It turned out that they did not have kids and the previous owner installed the swing-set). They took nearly everything in his house that could be connected to a PC or create an image. Then the public prosecutor and the district attorney got involved at it was obviously an opportunity for them to create publicity for them and their reelections because every single court appearance he had the press was alerted to when he was leaving, what building and through what door. They demonized him in the paper making him sound like an original creator and major distributor of abusive pornography of extremely young children. I've seen what he was into: pictures of high school students, probably taken by other high school students, having sex with other high school students. And they were mostly bad pictures at that He never left his home in an effort to obtain this sort of pornography or to 'groom' a young high school student, he never chatted with a minor on IRC or E-mail, he never swapped any of this pornography with someone outside of the group (i.e. someone not really looking for it).
Eventually he wound up being sentenced to just under 10 years in a medium security federal pen. This has had a profound change in his personality... He now hates authority and distrusts the federal government. He now knows more about electronic security & encryption than I thought humanly possible. He's told me of dozens of petty scams (and how the perpetrators got caught) and large scale wholesale type crime... In short he's got a Ph.D. in criminal psychology & behavior and a master's in hate & distrust of authority...
After they release him (in a few years) he expects he will not be able to use computers (regardless if they are connected to Internet or not), a job that brings in contact with kids (Not that he was ever interested in that) and he must register on the sex offenders list wherever he moves. So essentially by saying he can't use computers at all they are saying he can't have a legitimate job in his profession (He has a masters in Computer Science)... I figure he's a shoe-in for top computer security consultant for organized crime when they let him out and from what he hints at he'll have the job day one of his release.
I've got to wonder about all of this. First off he would have got less time be shooting someone so his sentence doesn't really fit the crime. Then they put him in a prison with people who were career criminals, this obviously changed his personality for the worse. So I wonder if society was better served.
It's a reference to a movie he was in: "The Saint".
I did have a small talk at baggage check-in about the weight of the G5 and with the customs guy here in Austria about how new the stuff looked but even he did not really care that much. That the dollar sucks so much just makes it more attractive... it's like vacationing in a third world country only with lots of SUVs and chubby people.
I saved more money than the plane ticket cost
The First rule about RIAA club is that YOU DO NOT TALK about the RIAA Club!
Sure I'm a technical user but I can't believe I'm alone in my feelings or with my purchase decisions.
As far as the X11 port I honestly don't think it's relevant, I've tried out a couple of X11 reliant applications on my Mac and they fall into two categories 1, I'm glad it's available for free because I have not found an alternative and 2: I will not allow it on my system even if for some reason I was paid to do so.
Currently I'm developing a small PC board using EAGLE (with in their free license) and I haven't quite decided where it falls but I'm glad I did not pay for it because the UI is really, really poor.
America is not the whole world and these rules do not apply to the article
Actually I was reminded of the SPARCplug
Add to this that Apple's target market already owns a malware infested wintel box and subscribe to AOL. So they use their iPod to save their data (check out Apple's switch page) unplug their old wintel crap, put this little box on the desk and in a less than an hour Windows is out of their life.
If my Mum & Sister didn't already have iMacs I'd get them this.
Must be due to all the politicians there.
After all even in the pottery barn they have rules of engagement... or at lest they did when I was shagging one of their cashiers :)
That must happen after they quit looking for WMD and After they give on having election lines where snipers shoot people.
I thought the FBI only investigated crimes on American soil... so they'd be investigating AFTER it was determined to be fake
I also find that the use of childish scatological humor, sexual innuendo and l33t speak tend to make them go away or at least ignore it. You know the Chia pet with a 14 inch raging hard on. But then again I don't play with nukes.
On a side note I've used these Blue LEDS as an excitation source for an optical sensor right when they first came out... Wow! were they bright!
Care to share a link to a PV solar cell over 20% that I can buy right now?
Why do all of that, when elephants already do it.
You can mask off areas when you conformal coat, works well enough...
The likelyhood of me spending more that a few days in the US ever again is low and even getting to where you are is approaching zero probability. But I'd pay for the service if I was there.
In the city I live in it's hard to find a spot without some sort of wireless access for pay. I helped a few of the kids that work at the nearest pizza place with their dimploma thesis so now I get free access, which is not a huge deal because my own wireless works out into the park beyond it. I've only used theirs a couple of times, as it's so close to the house. I have used VOIP to the US on my iPaq at the bar and all the girls there thought it was really cool to talk to someone "all the way to the US for free" more fun than anything else...
I already do PPC development so I'm not really in the market for a cheap device.
It's a shame he hosted his project on Windows, I would have like to have seen it on OS X or Linux. I suppose he will wind up using Cygwin which I never really got on with... I always found easier just be in a *NIX environment to begin with.
Here's hoping after they finish jettisoning the PC business we quit seeing so many Windows hosted articles on IBM Developerworks
I do embedded development. Windows XP and "search" are mutually exclusive terms to me because windows secretly decides what files it will search in. It will not search in assembly files, S records, or ANY of my complier outputs .prn, .ref, .i, .cer, .lnk To fix it I had to do some arcane registry hack. I have since moved to OS X. My next step is to do something other than FreeDOS in Virtual PC to bring the DOS stuff in to rest of the file system. Hey! Stop laughing! It's easier than switching compliers!
Do I need to go further to explain to you why strips cost what they cost?
All strips have an allowable temperature range, which is printed on their container, if you bend a strip and it breaks you are outside of that range and the results are useless
If the device had the back light and contrast you describe it would either weigh 5 kilos or have a battery life of 30 seconds. Which do you prefer?