You're about to leave the last free school you're going to get, most likely. [Unless it's offered as a benefit as a future employer]
And then you get to the paying for education, and then the trying to pay off student loans, and find someone to give you money for your time.
Although it sounds like a good idea to try to make money now, you may actually want to look at things that might help you to make more money later. So pick what you like to do, and go talk to people who work for companies that work in the field, or have jobs of the type that you want. You probably won't get to do it, but it doesn't mean that you can't get an internship, and learn something.
Hell, it might be that all you learn is that you really hate the field, and that's the best thing that you can learn early. You might learn that you don't want to work for that type of company.
But you also start building your resume, and gaining experience. You meet people, who can tell you later in life when there's a position that you might be interested in. And you have so many more people whom you can use as references for that first real paying job.
As for transportation -- public transit. It's not glamorous, but the bus is your friend. Or, look for stuff within walking/bike distance. Hell, even a public library or local government might be willing to take you in, if you're interested in working there.
Feathers McGraw read Gromit's copy of "Electronics for Dogs", and then modified the (ex-NASA) trousers, so they were remote controlled, and removed the local control panel.
So it was a hardware hack, not a software hack. [But it's the hardware equiv of Back Orifice]
Any time to let someone get physical access, especially if it's unsupervised, especially a jewel thief penguin, you're screwed.
With over $60mil, they can afford sending all of their management to training on how to use a spell checker, I would think.
Doesn't Outlook have built in spellcheck, like MS Word? If it does, that'd be a sign that SCO isn't actually using MS products for mail, or the author in general is a real idiot... assuming the letter is legitimate.
[and knowing my luck, I probably made a whole slew of typos in this]
It doesn't cost that much to press a disk. My understanding is that the packaging is the most significant cost of a DVD. Why not give people a boxed set that has both the 'remastered' and the original versions?
Or release two sets, one with, one without, as there are bound to be those people willing to spend more money on it. [I probably wouldn't for Star Wars, but I would have for the Red Dwarf releases... it's just not the same without the model shots]
I haven't used the tools in OS X [other than the 'speak what the dialog box says'], but I have for Windows --
The 'accessibility wizard' is a complete joke -- it asks you to click on the largest text you can read comfortably, and then on the next screen, goes right back to something in the 10-12pt range.
And it doesn't increase the size of all text -- especially not dialog windows generated by the OS or most other applications. It only really affects the desktop, and web browsers. And you still have to go and set a local CSS with !important declarations, so that some 'web designer' doesn't try to force you down to 8pt for their web site.
And don't try using 640x480 on windows anymore -- I have a few control panels that don't fix in 480 vertical, so I can't select options without changing the resolution, changing the option, and then dropping the resolution back. [It might just be the advanced options on the ATI all-in-wonder card, which I'm using to send the output to my TV, but I think I remember some other one having problems, too]
Find out what the auction companies are in your area, and keep an eye out. Even companies that are moving into new digs might sell off all of their stuff, rather than trying to move it.
If you find a display that's ONLY a monitor, you should be able to get it cheap. [ie, it has no TV tuner in it as well]. The ones that are sold as 'HDTV ready' are going to go for more, as they're useable by the general public, and not just the vision impared or those who want them for a conference room, and can't use a projector.
[And when you get stuff at auction -- make it an issue to get the cables -- I got a 27" Princeton monitor to help out my neighbor's dad who has sight problems at an auction, but it's doing some really wierd streaking next to all of the text... their site mentions that an impedence mismatch on the cable might cause ghosting, but this makes it basically useless as a monitor]
When I worked for an ISP [4+ years ago], we saw two major types of winmodems.
The Lucent ones, which lacked flash, relied upon the system for its initial setup information. The Rockwell ones, relied on the system for just about everything, and would drive the load up on your system.
Of course, there were some growing pains with the Lucent ones, but after a few revisions, the Lucent LTWinmodems didn't suck... At least for windows users. And there are some Linux drives out there for them. The Rockwell HCF, however, were always crap in the time I was dealing with them, and I doubt they've gotten much better.
But most people out there can't justify the expense of a Courier, or even a Sportster these days.
Modemsite (formerly "v.90 = v.Unreliable"), has small modems based on the Lucent chipset for $20 each. I have no experience with purchasing from the guy, but his website was a godsend in the days of that whole 'x2/kFlex/kFlex/v.90' nightmare.
He also links to LinModems which may have some useful info.
Some localities have specific laws that affect what you are and aren't allowed to specify in a contract. [eg, in Maryland, you're not allowed to sign away your safety, so you can still sue after signing a liability waiver if you incur physical harm]
EV1 may be in a jurisdiction that results in parts of the contract not applying to them, and be able to get back their money and possibly, legal fees on top of it.
[Of course, the only things I know about contracts was a 2 credt course in college, that I slept through... I think I passed, though]
Yes, your issues are true for personal vehicles. However, in the case of fleet vehicles, where the person doesn't get a choice if it's on or not, I could see it being quite helpful.
In fact, I know a few people whose work vehicles will report to their employer when they showed up at the work site (construction related field). This is just an extension to that.
You're automatically assuming that 'consumer' means 'private citizen' which it may not be. I can see significant demand for this for fleet vehicles, especially if it can be correlated to GPS or some of the other monitor systems that already exist.
Public works vehicles would be a prime candidate for this, as it could give indicators where potholes are, or snow problems, or flooded roads. Radio and TV stations might put it in their vehicles, so they could improve their traffic reporting.
It might move to private vehicles, if there were incentives. Maybe discounts on your insurance, or taxes, or the like, but I don't see people just jumping out and wanting it on their own, for the very reasons you stated.
And it's entirely possible that they'll be put in without people knowing about it, such as the black boxes that record airbag data, or forced to be in there by law [all vehicles in the state of must have them], similar to emissions controls, which help the general population, but not the individual user.
If anything, it's 'Win4.1'. Take a really close look at the installer the next time it runs. [I know I saw 'win4.0' flash by when I installed Windows 95 for the first time.]
In the same way, Win2000 is is 'NT5.0' I'm not sure if XP is the fabled 'NT6' or jut considered to be 'NT5.1' as I've never used it.
Well, the basic concept of time shifting is to put yourself in the control of when you want to do things. So, in that regard, it shouldn't be to difficult to move some of the more restrictive items to times when they're convenient for you.
Work
It's a pain in the ass, we all know it. Ask your supervisor for flex time, or work from home
If that doesn't work, start your own business, so that you can set your own hours
Commute
This is basically related to work, so see above. Alternatively, you can move closer to work, or just start sleeping under your desk.
School
For you, assuming you're an adult, you can attend distance learning classes in place of the regular college curriculum, or you can look to see if there are schools in your area that focus in adult education.
You could start working for a university, as they tend to be flexible in allowing staff members to attend classes, and they're nearby, saving you from the need for seperate travel time. [you'll have to coordinate with your potential manager to make sure it's okay]
For your children, you can use home schooling, so you don't have to worry about when their tests and vacations are when you're planning family trips.
Relationship
Let's face it, dating, marriage, or whatever is another major waste of time. You have two major options -- make enough money so that your SO doesn't have to work, and can be at your every beck and call, or soliciting prostitutes.
Shopping
With Amazon and other online retailers, there's no reason to go out shopping anymore. If you're not in an area supported by Peapod or a similar organization, you're going to have to find some place online that sells MREs.
Food
Between Shwanns, MREs, and a microwave, meal perperation shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Consumption, however, is another waste of time, and so I would suggest only buying mushy foods, to save on chewing. You may wish to switch to a diet high on Ensure, Carnation Instant Breakfast, and/or Slimfast [is there anyone still reading this?]
Bathroom Breaks
MREs prove salt peter which may allow you to time shift your bathroom breaks. You can also try Depends, or other incontience aids. [not quite to the punchline yet]
Sleeping
Doctors may recommend 10 hrs per night, but let's be serious -- 3L of Mt. Dew per day, and you can easily cut that back to 4hrs, so long as you perform relatively sedentary tasks for those 6 hrs that you lose, such as watching TV or playing video games. [are you still reading?]
Friends
Provided that you started your own company, you can then hire your friends to work with you, so you can get all of that companionship crap done while you're still at work, eliminating the need to waste time with extraneous interaction. [It's not that good of a joke]
If you're an extrovert, and still have a need for other interaction, you're their boss, and can pressure them to do whatever you want, and/or hire extra yes-men to replace them. [it's rather dark humor, too]
Life
Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for this one, other than hoping that there really is reincarnation, and when you want a break, killing yourself, so that you can just come back to it later, when you have more time. However, if that one doesn't work, you're pretty much SOL, but the bright side, is you won't really notice that it didn't work, as you'll be dead. [hey, I told you it was dark, damnit] Now for the real advice -- get a life. Take up a hobby. Quit your job. Do something, but don't try to burn out early. I've already done that -- twice. There are things you can do to remove wasted time, but there are times when we really just need to relax, and do nothing important. [and that's what we have American sitcoms for -- no thought required, and no redeeming qualities]
For that matter, most of the folks in the military. You see, the simple fact is, alcohol is expensive. And the great thing about alcohol is, the more you drink of it, the less you care about it.
So, typically, you get a case or two of the stuff you like to drink, and a case or two of something cheap. [exact numbers vary by the number of people involved, their prefered drinking habits, and at what point in the night they become incoherent]
As people get more loaded, you give 'em the crappy stuff. They don't really care. This enables you to get some good stuff, and some crap, rather than settling on the mediocre middle ground for everything.
I found that 'Dope Wars' for my Palm worked rather well, as I'd have to write numbers for how much I was buying/selling, which looks much different than just clicking and dragging things around.
And when people saw me writing, they just assumed I was taking notes.
There are probably other games out there that would accomplish the same effect.
Well, the thing is, Apple didn't write most of the man pages. And you'll find some little oddities -- like daemons starting up from rc that are calling flags not mentioned in the Apple supplied man pages. [eg, syslogd -s]
The real problem comes from all of those commands that apple has so kindly added and didn't bother to create man pages for. Stuff like 'disktool' and 'scselect'. Disktool gives some usage info when you call it...scselect, well...
And how many others are there out there that people haven't yet documented? [those two were mentioned in MacOS X for Unix Geeks, but I've found others that I can't recall off the top of my head that were recommended to run on webpages for configuration changes, that I just can't find documentation for]
I can see the need to put the other components into a container that can be easily moved and repositioned -- but the CPU?
Unless they're planning on making a 9 slot base, so I can have the 4 I/O pens, and 5 CPU pens, I don't see a real benefit. And I'm guessing I'd see more benefit out of having the storage be more expandable than the CPU power. [I could always replace the CPU item, but having the storage segregated makes more sense to me, so I have my work documents on one, personal stuff on another, music on a third, etc.]
When you're collecting unemployment, and required to 'make at least two job contacts per week', I know I did. Of course, I didn't get any useful leads from them.
I'd maybe get an e-mail, whatever, and hear nothing further, but not to the point of actually getting an interview.
I did better with sites that weren't quite so broad -- washingtonjobs.com [the area I'm in], and checking postings specific to my field [SAGE, *.pm].
In the end, what got me a job was having one of my former co-workers who saw a job posting on a mailing list she was on, passed it off to me, I applied [to hit my 2 per week quota], and got called for an interview like 2+ months later. But they liked me, and offered me a job, and it didn't completely disagree with my morals, so I took it.
[besides, if I declined a job, I was then inelligible for unemployment by my understanding of the DC rules]
Actually, Apple has lead markets before. Anyone remember when the IIgs was the premier graphics and sound platform?
You still see a lot of Apples in graphics and sound industries, but Apple's not been so great about maintaining their niche. [I mean, hell, Photoshop, one of the reasons for having a Mac in the 90s was one of the reasons people didn't want to switch to OS X, as Adobe wasn't going to make the jump right away].
When I worked in we development, I saw us go from 6:2 mac:pc user preference, to their current 1:12. [As most of us mac users left... and the manager [one of the two pc users] kept hiring non-mac people] . Okay, that might be a bad for empirical evidence.
The real question is going to be if Apple can keep the lead, or become complacent, and have someone else take the market from them.
When you're dealing with this sort of thing, you have a population of items that fall into a category, and those that don't. You are attempting to sort each element into those two categories. You therefore have four potential outcomes:
In the category, classified as in the category (correct)
In the category, classified as being not in the category (error)
Not in the category, classified as being in the category (error)
Not in the category, classified as being not in the category (correct)
So, there are two types of 'correct' situations, and there are two types of 'incorrect' situations.
Depending on what e-mail is being used for, it may be acceptable to one person to lose an e-mail message, if it means that there are 100 spam messages they never see. For others, it may be 1:10. For others, there may be no acceptable level of lost mail that justifies spam filtering.
They claim that they are able to do that last item -- they can correctly identify spam, with absolutely no false positives. Of course, I have no idea how well this works on the 'remember me from high school?' type messages [I've only gotten 4 of them in 10 years].
As for the viruses -- viruses tend to vary much less than spam messages, and are much, much easier to block, and to prevent false positives on. Although you might get some virused messages at first, once the definition is updated, they do not trash good messages. [when they're done correctly... I think there was some bad virus definition a few years back that triggered on 'p' being in the body, or something stupid like that]
Spam is a much more subjective thing, which is why it hasn't yet been eliminated. [and yes, I suspect that all that will happen from this is that spammers will write viruses to mail your addressbook to them, so that they can write better spam. Or modify a virus, so that for each mail you send, you also send a spam to your recipient].
That's not a typod '$200.00' (two hundred dollars), that's '$200,000' (two hundred thousand dollars).
Of course, there was the guy from Nokia, I think it was, who got his sentance reduced based on his reduced income from the time of the ticket, and the time it got to court.
[Of course, the solution to this is to hire a chauffer, who makes significantly less than you do, and just pay all of his/her fines for them]
Well, more than likely, someone's going to find a way to make a little battery powered device that mates up to the mouthpiece, then blows with the required force for the correct amount of time.
And, just to make sure that I can include this for searches on prior art, should someone go and file a patent on this, you could also make it powered by the cigarette lighter, or some other power source. You could also push air at a greater force than required, and you could do so for a longer time than necessary.
So, hopefully, we can all agree that trying to beat the system is not novel, and if anyone attempts to patent this, they're an idiot for wasting their money on the filing fees.
I'm guessing that it's not a completely insignificant number, and they make absolutely no provisions for respiratory problems.
And I hope they don't put these on rental cars -- the last thing you need is to have your significant other asking you how you managed to catch mono on your business trip.
It's not what you know they're doing with it -- it's what you don't know about that they're doing with it.
For instance, I heard that Giant [the grocery store chain] made more last year selling data about their customers than in profits from items sold in their store. In some ways, this is good to the customers, as it allows them to find an alternate revenue stream, and keep their prices down.
But it's not spun like that. Hell, in this case, it's not even mentioned, so in my opinion, it's worse than them placing ads on shopping carts. And I've personally been creeped out when they scanned my card before ringing up any merchandice, and of the four coupons their system spat out -- three of them were items I had on the conveyor belt, that had yet to be rung up.
Of course, I didn't like their spin on the cards, either. Probably because they were behind the curve, when I had who knows how many cards for every other business. [book store frequent buyers card, air lines, a couple other grocery stores]. At least with Safeway, the card was an alternative to needing to clip coupons from the book they'd send you each month. And with Kroger, they gave you a little keychain thing, and they guaranteed postage if it was dropped in a mailbox, so they could return your keys to you.
But I'm still not convinced that your health insurance won't go up if you start buying medical supplies and scan your card in. [or cigarettes]
There was an earlier article that talked about how things were done, and the need for reform.
At least, I assume that's the one. I don't read NYT articles when I have to register, so I haven't read any since the tricks I knew about stopped working.
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You're about to leave the last free school you're going to get, most likely. [Unless it's offered as a benefit as a future employer]
And then you get to the paying for education, and then the trying to pay off student loans, and find someone to give you money for your time.
Although it sounds like a good idea to try to make money now, you may actually want to look at things that might help you to make more money later. So pick what you like to do, and go talk to people who work for companies that work in the field, or have jobs of the type that you want. You probably won't get to do it, but it doesn't mean that you can't get an internship, and learn something.
Hell, it might be that all you learn is that you really hate the field, and that's the best thing that you can learn early. You might learn that you don't want to work for that type of company.
But you also start building your resume, and gaining experience. You meet people, who can tell you later in life when there's a position that you might be interested in. And you have so many more people whom you can use as references for that first real paying job.
As for transportation -- public transit. It's not glamorous, but the bus is your friend. Or, look for stuff within walking/bike distance. Hell, even a public library or local government might be willing to take you in, if you're interested in working there.
Feathers McGraw read Gromit's copy of "Electronics for Dogs", and then modified the (ex-NASA) trousers, so they were remote controlled, and removed the local control panel.
So it was a hardware hack, not a software hack. [But it's the hardware equiv of Back Orifice]
Any time to let someone get physical access, especially if it's unsupervised, especially a jewel thief penguin, you're screwed.
With over $60mil, they can afford sending all of their management to training on how to use a spell checker, I would think.
... assuming the letter is legitimate.
Doesn't Outlook have built in spellcheck, like MS Word? If it does, that'd be a sign that SCO isn't actually using MS products for mail, or the author in general is a real idiot
[and knowing my luck, I probably made a whole slew of typos in this]
I knew I should break down and get a region hacked DVD player with a PAL to NTSC converter, and just buy the stuff straight from the UK.
[The series 1 and 2 US versions just have the over-glossy CG work that doesn't mesh well with the rest of the show]
It's the only reason that I haven't given away my VHS copies.
Maybe 3 and 4 will be better...
It doesn't cost that much to press a disk. My understanding is that the packaging is the most significant cost of a DVD. Why not give people a boxed set that has both the 'remastered' and the original versions?
... it's just not the same without the model shots]
Or release two sets, one with, one without, as there are bound to be those people willing to spend more money on it. [I probably wouldn't for Star Wars, but I would have for the Red Dwarf releases
I haven't used the tools in OS X [other than the 'speak what the dialog box says'], but I have for Windows --
The 'accessibility wizard' is a complete joke -- it asks you to click on the largest text you can read comfortably, and then on the next screen, goes right back to something in the 10-12pt range.
And it doesn't increase the size of all text -- especially not dialog windows generated by the OS or most other applications. It only really affects the desktop, and web browsers. And you still have to go and set a local CSS with !important declarations, so that some 'web designer' doesn't try to force you down to 8pt for their web site.
And don't try using 640x480 on windows anymore -- I have a few control panels that don't fix in 480 vertical, so I can't select options without changing the resolution, changing the option, and then dropping the resolution back. [It might just be the advanced options on the ATI all-in-wonder card, which I'm using to send the output to my TV, but I think I remember some other one having problems, too]
Find out what the auction companies are in your area, and keep an eye out. Even companies that are moving into new digs might sell off all of their stuff, rather than trying to move it.
If you find a display that's ONLY a monitor, you should be able to get it cheap. [ie, it has no TV tuner in it as well]. The ones that are sold as 'HDTV ready' are going to go for more, as they're useable by the general public, and not just the vision impared or those who want them for a conference room, and can't use a projector.
[And when you get stuff at auction -- make it an issue to get the cables -- I got a 27" Princeton monitor to help out my neighbor's dad who has sight problems at an auction, but it's doing some really wierd streaking next to all of the text... their site mentions that an impedence mismatch on the cable might cause ghosting, but this makes it basically useless as a monitor]
When I worked for an ISP [4+ years ago], we saw two major types of winmodems.
The Lucent ones, which lacked flash, relied upon the system for its initial setup information. The Rockwell ones, relied on the system for just about everything, and would drive the load up on your system.
Of course, there were some growing pains with the Lucent ones, but after a few revisions, the Lucent LTWinmodems didn't suck... At least for windows users. And there are some Linux drives out there for them. The Rockwell HCF, however, were always crap in the time I was dealing with them, and I doubt they've gotten much better.
But most people out there can't justify the expense of a Courier, or even a Sportster these days.
Modemsite (formerly "v.90 = v.Unreliable"), has small modems based on the Lucent chipset for $20 each. I have no experience with purchasing from the guy, but his website was a godsend in the days of that whole 'x2/kFlex/kFlex/v.90' nightmare.
He also links to LinModems which may have some useful info.
Some localities have specific laws that affect what you are and aren't allowed to specify in a contract. [eg, in Maryland, you're not allowed to sign away your safety, so you can still sue after signing a liability waiver if you incur physical harm]
EV1 may be in a jurisdiction that results in parts of the contract not applying to them, and be able to get back their money and possibly, legal fees on top of it.
[Of course, the only things I know about contracts was a 2 credt course in college, that I slept through... I think I passed, though]
Yes, your issues are true for personal vehicles. However, in the case of fleet vehicles, where the person doesn't get a choice if it's on or not, I could see it being quite helpful.
In fact, I know a few people whose work vehicles will report to their employer when they showed up at the work site (construction related field). This is just an extension to that.
You're automatically assuming that 'consumer' means 'private citizen' which it may not be. I can see significant demand for this for fleet vehicles, especially if it can be correlated to GPS or some of the other monitor systems that already exist.
Public works vehicles would be a prime candidate for this, as it could give indicators where potholes are, or snow problems, or flooded roads. Radio and TV stations might put it in their vehicles, so they could improve their traffic reporting.
It might move to private vehicles, if there were incentives. Maybe discounts on your insurance, or taxes, or the like, but I don't see people just jumping out and wanting it on their own, for the very reasons you stated.
And it's entirely possible that they'll be put in without people knowing about it, such as the black boxes that record airbag data, or forced to be in there by law [all vehicles in the state of must have them], similar to emissions controls, which help the general population, but not the individual user.
Um.... Windows 98 isn't 9. anything.
If anything, it's 'Win4.1'. Take a really close look at the installer the next time it runs. [I know I saw 'win4.0' flash by when I installed Windows 95 for the first time.]
In the same way, Win2000 is is 'NT5.0' I'm not sure if XP is the fabled 'NT6' or jut considered to be 'NT5.1' as I've never used it.
Well, the basic concept of time shifting is to put yourself in the control of when you want to do things. So, in that regard, it shouldn't be to difficult to move some of the more restrictive items to times when they're convenient for you. Work It's a pain in the ass, we all know it. Ask your supervisor for flex time, or work from home If that doesn't work, start your own business, so that you can set your own hours Commute This is basically related to work, so see above. Alternatively, you can move closer to work, or just start sleeping under your desk. School For you, assuming you're an adult, you can attend distance learning classes in place of the regular college curriculum, or you can look to see if there are schools in your area that focus in adult education. You could start working for a university, as they tend to be flexible in allowing staff members to attend classes, and they're nearby, saving you from the need for seperate travel time. [you'll have to coordinate with your potential manager to make sure it's okay] For your children, you can use home schooling, so you don't have to worry about when their tests and vacations are when you're planning family trips. Relationship Let's face it, dating, marriage, or whatever is another major waste of time. You have two major options -- make enough money so that your SO doesn't have to work, and can be at your every beck and call, or soliciting prostitutes. Shopping With Amazon and other online retailers, there's no reason to go out shopping anymore. If you're not in an area supported by Peapod or a similar organization, you're going to have to find some place online that sells MREs. Food Between Shwanns, MREs, and a microwave, meal perperation shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Consumption, however, is another waste of time, and so I would suggest only buying mushy foods, to save on chewing. You may wish to switch to a diet high on Ensure, Carnation Instant Breakfast, and/or Slimfast [is there anyone still reading this?] Bathroom Breaks MREs prove salt peter which may allow you to time shift your bathroom breaks. You can also try Depends, or other incontience aids. [not quite to the punchline yet] Sleeping Doctors may recommend 10 hrs per night, but let's be serious -- 3L of Mt. Dew per day, and you can easily cut that back to 4hrs, so long as you perform relatively sedentary tasks for those 6 hrs that you lose, such as watching TV or playing video games. [are you still reading?] Friends Provided that you started your own company, you can then hire your friends to work with you, so you can get all of that companionship crap done while you're still at work, eliminating the need to waste time with extraneous interaction. [It's not that good of a joke] If you're an extrovert, and still have a need for other interaction, you're their boss, and can pressure them to do whatever you want, and/or hire extra yes-men to replace them. [it's rather dark humor, too] Life Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for this one, other than hoping that there really is reincarnation, and when you want a break, killing yourself, so that you can just come back to it later, when you have more time. However, if that one doesn't work, you're pretty much SOL, but the bright side, is you won't really notice that it didn't work, as you'll be dead. [hey, I told you it was dark, damnit] Now for the real advice -- get a life. Take up a hobby. Quit your job. Do something, but don't try to burn out early. I've already done that -- twice. There are things you can do to remove wasted time, but there are times when we really just need to relax, and do nothing important. [and that's what we have American sitcoms for -- no thought required, and no redeeming qualities]
For that matter, most of the folks in the military. You see, the simple fact is, alcohol is expensive. And the great thing about alcohol is, the more you drink of it, the less you care about it.
So, typically, you get a case or two of the stuff you like to drink, and a case or two of something cheap. [exact numbers vary by the number of people involved, their prefered drinking habits, and at what point in the night they become incoherent]
As people get more loaded, you give 'em the crappy stuff. They don't really care. This enables you to get some good stuff, and some crap, rather than settling on the mediocre middle ground for everything.
I found that 'Dope Wars' for my Palm worked rather well, as I'd have to write numbers for how much I was buying/selling, which looks much different than just clicking and dragging things around.
And when people saw me writing, they just assumed I was taking notes.
There are probably other games out there that would accomplish the same effect.
Well, the thing is, Apple didn't write most of the man pages. And you'll find some little oddities -- like daemons starting up from rc that are calling flags not mentioned in the Apple supplied man pages. [eg, syslogd -s]
The real problem comes from all of those commands that apple has so kindly added and didn't bother to create man pages for. Stuff like 'disktool' and 'scselect'. Disktool gives some usage info when you call it...scselect, well...
And how many others are there out there that people haven't yet documented? [those two were mentioned in MacOS X for Unix Geeks, but I've found others that I can't recall off the top of my head that were recommended to run on webpages for configuration changes, that I just can't find documentation for]
I can see the need to put the other components into a container that can be easily moved and repositioned -- but the CPU?
Unless they're planning on making a 9 slot base, so I can have the 4 I/O pens, and 5 CPU pens, I don't see a real benefit. And I'm guessing I'd see more benefit out of having the storage be more expandable than the CPU power. [I could always replace the CPU item, but having the storage segregated makes more sense to me, so I have my work documents on one, personal stuff on another, music on a third, etc.]
When you're collecting unemployment, and required to 'make at least two job contacts per week', I know I did. Of course, I didn't get any useful leads from them.
I'd maybe get an e-mail, whatever, and hear nothing further, but not to the point of actually getting an interview.
I did better with sites that weren't quite so broad -- washingtonjobs.com [the area I'm in], and checking postings specific to my field [SAGE, *.pm].
In the end, what got me a job was having one of my former co-workers who saw a job posting on a mailing list she was on, passed it off to me, I applied [to hit my 2 per week quota], and got called for an interview like 2+ months later. But they liked me, and offered me a job, and it didn't completely disagree with my morals, so I took it.
[besides, if I declined a job, I was then inelligible for unemployment by my understanding of the DC rules]
Actually, Apple has lead markets before. Anyone remember when the IIgs was the premier graphics and sound platform?
You still see a lot of Apples in graphics and sound industries, but Apple's not been so great about maintaining their niche. [I mean, hell, Photoshop, one of the reasons for having a Mac in the 90s was one of the reasons people didn't want to switch to OS X, as Adobe wasn't going to make the jump right away].
When I worked in we development, I saw us go from 6:2 mac:pc user preference, to their current 1:12. [As most of us mac users left... and the manager [one of the two pc users] kept hiring non-mac people] . Okay, that might be a bad for empirical evidence.
The real question is going to be if Apple can keep the lead, or become complacent, and have someone else take the market from them.
- In the category, classified as in the category (correct)
- In the category, classified as being not in the category (error)
- Not in the category, classified as being in the category (error)
- Not in the category, classified as being not in the category (correct)
So, there are two types of 'correct' situations, and there are two types of 'incorrect' situations.Depending on what e-mail is being used for, it may be acceptable to one person to lose an e-mail message, if it means that there are 100 spam messages they never see. For others, it may be 1:10. For others, there may be no acceptable level of lost mail that justifies spam filtering.
They claim that they are able to do that last item -- they can correctly identify spam, with absolutely no false positives. Of course, I have no idea how well this works on the 'remember me from high school?' type messages [I've only gotten 4 of them in 10 years].
As for the viruses -- viruses tend to vary much less than spam messages, and are much, much easier to block, and to prevent false positives on. Although you might get some virused messages at first, once the definition is updated, they do not trash good messages. [when they're done correctly... I think there was some bad virus definition a few years back that triggered on 'p' being in the body, or something stupid like that]
Spam is a much more subjective thing, which is why it hasn't yet been eliminated. [and yes, I suspect that all that will happen from this is that spammers will write viruses to mail your addressbook to them, so that they can write better spam. Or modify a virus, so that for each mail you send, you also send a spam to your recipient].
Oh, sure...and you want the post to be on topic, too?
I guess it all depends if you have a lush for a chauffer or not.
And now it looks like I'm trolling for a Princess Diana comment.
for those not aware of european number formats --
That's not a typod '$200.00' (two hundred dollars), that's '$200,000' (two hundred thousand dollars).
Of course, there was the guy from Nokia, I think it was, who got his sentance reduced based on his reduced income from the time of the ticket, and the time it got to court.
[Of course, the solution to this is to hire a chauffer, who makes significantly less than you do, and just pay all of his/her fines for them]
Well, more than likely, someone's going to find a way to make a little battery powered device that mates up to the mouthpiece, then blows with the required force for the correct amount of time.
And, just to make sure that I can include this for searches on prior art, should someone go and file a patent on this, you could also make it powered by the cigarette lighter, or some other power source. You could also push air at a greater force than required, and you could do so for a longer time than necessary.
So, hopefully, we can all agree that trying to beat the system is not novel, and if anyone attempts to patent this, they're an idiot for wasting their money on the filing fees.
How many people in New Mexico have asthma?
I'm guessing that it's not a completely insignificant number, and they make absolutely no provisions for respiratory problems.
And I hope they don't put these on rental cars -- the last thing you need is to have your significant other asking you how you managed to catch mono on your business trip.
It's not what you know they're doing with it -- it's what you don't know about that they're doing with it.
For instance, I heard that Giant [the grocery store chain] made more last year selling data about their customers than in profits from items sold in their store. In some ways, this is good to the customers, as it allows them to find an alternate revenue stream, and keep their prices down.
But it's not spun like that. Hell, in this case, it's not even mentioned, so in my opinion, it's worse than them placing ads on shopping carts. And I've personally been creeped out when they scanned my card before ringing up any merchandice, and of the four coupons their system spat out -- three of them were items I had on the conveyor belt, that had yet to be rung up.
Of course, I didn't like their spin on the cards, either. Probably because they were behind the curve, when I had who knows how many cards for every other business. [book store frequent buyers card, air lines, a couple other grocery stores]. At least with Safeway, the card was an alternative to needing to clip coupons from the book they'd send you each month. And with Kroger, they gave you a little keychain thing, and they guaranteed postage if it was dropped in a mailbox, so they could return your keys to you.
But I'm still not convinced that your health insurance won't go up if you start buying medical supplies and scan your card in. [or cigarettes]
There was an earlier article that talked about how things were done, and the need for reform.
At least, I assume that's the one. I don't read NYT articles when I have to register, so I haven't read any since the tricks I knew about stopped working.