I have always had this idea as a car mechanic to create how to videos for popular model vehicles, instead of just vague books, with high-def video cameras and step by step instructions for each task... such as changing out an A/C Compressor, Replacing a bad power steering pump, fixing broken this that and the other thing.... and selling them for a REASONABLE price all across the nation. This would require a decent amount time and money in equipment, time to film, edit produce etc...
Then I realized that some dickhead would probably just take the videos, put them up on Piratebay and I would be left poor and broke after spending a crapload of time and money on this project so I said fuck it.
You know, I appreciate that you might not want to do that for free. Back in the day, when I ran a BBS, I incurred a lot of hard costs to do so and I did not charge for access, while many of my contemporaies did. I had a P.O. box for registration, which ensured that I at least had a valid address, and many people sent me unsolicited money. I sent it back. My point is, you are under no obligation to undertake a risk that, to you, would be a loss. To many people, giving is enjoyable. At least it was for me.....
Think of the wonders the conductor of an orchestra can accomplish, or even the effects of an incompetent conductor:) without external physical feedback at all (discounting the resultant sound waves.) Perhaps this kind of sensitivity to motions will progress as slowly as true AI with respect to lag but I can see some serious changes coming down the road....
We've got old people down here in Florida that couldn't pass a sobriety test of any sort that measured mental acuity or physical ability. Were they to be judged by the same standards used for DWI we'd lose half our driving population in a heart beat. If it's sooooooo important saving those lives why do we let people who obviously do not have the faculties to be safer than a person with a BAC of 1.0 to continue to drive? Money, that's the ticket. Take away those trips for early bird dinners to Denny's or local 1 hour treks to arrive at a Wal-Mart that is 2 miles away and our economy goes down the tubes. We need these old people's money, simple as that. And let me tell you. Should put in interlock in that won't allow the car to start until they can prove they can look left and right, as well as some sort of proof that there not living in an alternate universe where the speed of light is lower and doing 25 in a 50 is speeding. I'll just start a group Drunks Against Damn Snowbirds - DADS.
P.S. I don't drink and drive. Period. Never been busted for it, I'm just not willing to take the risk. I do believe in punishing the crime rather the the possibility though. DADS it is!
It's not unlimited. Believe me. I bought 2, one for me and one for the wife. Within 2 days they suspended her account for over usage. Their terms say they can do so if you exceed the average callers usage by a factor of 20. Of course, they don't tell you what the average is. No warning, just cut her off. Then, mine starting not working unless I restarted the software every time I wanted to make a call. Coincidence? I wouldn't know but since we share the same IP address I believe not. No problem, we took hers back, got our money back and I use mine to connect my cordless phones to Skype. Would not recommend that anyone buy Magic Jack.
I can see this used not just in copiers where temporary files need to be zapped for privacy reasons, but in a number of other places:
1: Photo kiosks. 2: Documents stored on public access computers. 3: Medical terminals used for X-ray viewing........
I agree, there just needs to be an adequate means of ensuring that the power is removed from the drives at times that allows the data to be stored no longer than it absolutely has to be. The auto erasure is only half the puzzle......
Especially since more often or not there were errata in the source code listings. At least that was the case with my Radio Shack CoCo and related magazines. Either you knew enough to fix things or you waited until the next months issue. Such fun, frustrating times!
Perhaps... Then again the old saw: "if you love what you're doing you'll never work a day in your life" certainly holds true for me and, I'm sure, many others who are passionate about their work.
Sure... Me, I can just turn off my history if I don't want sites sniffing it this way. What ever made me think, in this day and age, that anything I do, on the net or not, is private?
I do understand the need to prevent service degradation and I like my wi-fi signal as strong as anyone. However I'm also the parent of a 6 month old and there's no way I'm giving up my monitor. Fortunately I live in an area where this does not affect others as the closest house is quite some distance away. And actually, neither does it interfere very much with my wi-fi either. Most parents have no clue what frequency various items in their household are operating on. Nor do I expect them to. I would suggest that manufacturers are the ones responsible to ensure that devices do not step on each other. I do understand that many businesses will do whatever is legal without regard for what you or I may think is right. In that case, since we're operating in the public spectrum, oversight perhaps is required. In any event, expecting parents to not use monitors is wishful thinking:)
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of links offering free Windows software really mean free to download, but pay to keep (shareware....) Whereas those offering free Linux software are more likely to be free as in speech or beer.
Course I'm not willing to comb through millions of links to prove this....:)
I mean no offense, but I can't help but read your comment and see myself, many years ago, feeling much the same when moving from DOS to Windows. I lost a level of control, at the hardware level, that made me question why I would want to give up peeking and poking video memory, etc. Back then, direct control meant a world of difference in performance. Of course, I have many more options now than I did then, and if I still want to get to the hardware bad enough, I still can. But I don't feel the need to nor do I feel the abstraction has held me back. We can do much more now, than we could then....
Not to say that the OS in question is the way to handle the problem or not, but I've become a little less resistant to change, a bit more willing to be open-minded and much more appreciative of pioe dreams:)
Maybe. For me, the appeal was a rock solid office machine. I still have a Pentium II server I put in place for a business about 10 years ago, running Novell 3.1. They got over 7 years of service from that machine without issue. Sure, had to replace a hard drive but that's to be expected. I booted it up about a month ago to retrieve some data from it and it still runs just fine. They also got 5-7 years out of the desktops. The only reason they were retired is that technology had just progressed so much and Novell didn't have the applications that Windows offered at the server level. I still have these businesses as my clients, in part because I put in solid equipment that lasted for as long as they wanted it. I'm sorry to see Micron go....
I, too, use the non-GPL version and I've been most happy with it. My host is Ubuntu Hardy, with a variety of guests. Sharepoint development is best done on a Windows Server box so that is my main guest (SBS 2003), which I run in seamless mode. Got an XP guest running at the same time for testing and while I didn't bother to try and set up NAT between the two guests I've had no problem with networking. 2 virtual cards in both guests allow the guests to communicate on one segment to each other, and to the host as well on another. Couple that with shared folders and it's a pretty slick development environment. Seamless mode has a few quirks with the display but I've found as long as I have at least one windows app on the display (usually something I'd have open anyway but with the window sized very small) the issues are minimal. Add in the fact that remote access to my production server is a piece of cake and I can play with my WM6 phone in a windows environment (USB support is good, though a bit tricky to set up) and I'm more than pleased.
I'd be willing to bet it's a typo. Look at the pricing of the other cables (HDMI, IPod) etc. They're more like 60.00 to 100.00. Still expensive, but not ridiculous like 499.00 for an ethernet cable.
I will neither condemn nor approve this (the use of fingerprints in professional occupations) in this part of my post as that is not what I wish to convey. What I do wish to say is that this is not a first. Some may argue my use of the term "professional occupations" but the fact is, here in Florida, someone who wishes to license a business under their Mechanical Contractors license must supply fingerprints.
Now, my own personal feelings:
I'm much more concerned about violations of privacy that affect the population at large, such as monitoring of intersections, public places and the whole debacle of monitoring of communications by the Feds and AT&T.
Again, not to say I approve of this, but our battles are much bigger...
"...I would not order from a state that charged me out-of-state sales' taxes."
I'm not sure about your state but here in Florida you are supposed to calculate all purchases for which you did not pay sales tax and remit the amount owed based on Florida's tax code (assuming you're a Florida resident..) I don't think many individuals do this, but if you're a business and you're buying a lot of stuff online the auditors will check for proper sales and use tax payments.
As far as thumb drives go I'd recommend the Titanium Cruzer which comes into up to 2 gig models. I keep mine on my keychan which is outiside on my harley 365 days a year. Rain or shine, and here in Florida we get a lot of rain. I've pretty much abused it much more than I expected to and it's never failed me once. I'll leave others to comment on what to put on it but if you're loadking up a pice of crap that's what your going to have just when you need it at your clients office. Quality tools pay for themselves.
I don't understand why folks don't just enjoy leveling up. It's part of the fun. Power leveling is like wishing your life away. It's not like the developers put all the good stuff in at the higher levels and just offer garbage in the beginning...
As a budding "futurologist" myself I really don't think normal people will talk this way. In the future, you know. Shit, the future is here and THA is still up. Better not quit my day job in order to pursue futurology.
People like entertainment that distills and emphasizes base emotional feelings. All the while we know it's not true but we let ourselves be taken into the movie/book/game or whatever piece of art (loosely speaking) that evokes these feelings. I know more women than I can count who abxolutely love to see movies that make them cry. I could never understand it. 4 women all in a room, tear ducts gushing as you quicly try to find that flood insurance policy you know you forget to renew. And they love it. To them, the amount they cry is directly proportional to their perceived value of the entertainment. We do these things because they are escapes, and not likely to happen to us in real life. But, that's why I like horror and hate drama. Too much of the drama stuff can come true. On the one hand, it's not likely that I'm going to be fighting fantastic creatures on a mars station. On the other, children with life threatening illnesses happen all the time. So although I may feel the drama in my Doom movie it's just not going to happen to me in my lifetime. Just don't get me crying when little Timmy needs 2 heart transplants because he's suffered a congenital defect from birth requiring extra parts. And we all know how hard it is to get just one of those parts. Two? Forget it, head on down to AutoZone and start modding. Extra points in you put a plexiglass sheild over the surgery site, with some led lit neon fams. Don't forget the little things like case wiring, you can wreck a good mod with ugly wiring practices. Cool! Heeeey Timmy...want to make a couple of bucks?
One sick bastard from hell.
Ok, back to reality here, but there is some truth in what I say.
Just an observation, as nobody has mentioned it, this is not restricted to just Macs. Some, if not all, of the new Sony Vaio laptops incorporate this to minimize damage to the hard drives if a light physicsl shock to the system occurs.
If you shake it like an etch-a-scetch you get a window that pops up and tells you the heads are being moved to a safer place or something similiar. The one I saw doing it had an Intel core duo chip in it. A fine piece of machinery. Until something simple broke in the mouse touchpad that made the laptop unusable. But that hard drive wsa safe:)
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You know, I appreciate that you might not want to do that for free. Back in the day, when I ran a BBS, I incurred a lot of hard costs to do so and I did not charge for access, while many of my contemporaies did. I had a P.O. box for registration, which ensured that I at least had a valid address, and many people sent me unsolicited money. I sent it back. My point is, you are under no obligation to undertake a risk that, to you, would be a loss. To many people, giving is enjoyable. At least it was for me.....
Think of the wonders the conductor of an orchestra can accomplish, or even the effects of an incompetent conductor :) without external physical feedback at all (discounting the resultant sound waves.) Perhaps this kind of sensitivity to motions will progress as slowly as true AI with respect to lag but I can see some serious changes coming down the road....
We've got old people down here in Florida that couldn't pass a sobriety test of any sort that measured mental acuity or physical ability. Were they to be judged by the same standards used for DWI we'd lose half our driving population in a heart beat. If it's sooooooo important saving those lives why do we let people who obviously do not have the faculties to be safer than a person with a BAC of 1.0 to continue to drive? Money, that's the ticket. Take away those trips for early bird dinners to Denny's or local 1 hour treks to arrive at a Wal-Mart that is 2 miles away and our economy goes down the tubes. We need these old people's money, simple as that. And let me tell you. Should put in interlock in that won't allow the car to start until they can prove they can look left and right, as well as some sort of proof that there not living in an alternate universe where the speed of light is lower and doing 25 in a 50 is speeding. I'll just start a group Drunks Against Damn Snowbirds - DADS.
P.S. I don't drink and drive. Period. Never been busted for it, I'm just not willing to take the risk. I do believe in punishing the crime rather the the possibility though. DADS it is!
>>and a full years of unlimited phone service.
It's not unlimited. Believe me. I bought 2, one for me and one for the wife. Within 2 days they suspended her account for over usage. Their terms say they can do so if you exceed the average callers usage by a factor of 20. Of course, they don't tell you what the average is. No warning, just cut her off. Then, mine starting not working unless I restarted the software every time I wanted to make a call. Coincidence? I wouldn't know but since we share the same IP address I believe not. No problem, we took hers back, got our money back and I use mine to connect my cordless phones to Skype. Would not recommend that anyone buy Magic Jack.
I can see this used not just in copiers where temporary files need to be zapped for privacy reasons, but in a number of other places:
1: Photo kiosks.
2: Documents stored on public access computers.
3: Medical terminals used for X-ray viewing........
I agree, there just needs to be an adequate means of ensuring that the power is removed from the drives at times that allows the data to be stored no longer than it absolutely has to be. The auto erasure is only half the puzzle......
Undoing moderation in error....
Especially since more often or not there were errata in the source code listings. At least that was the case with my Radio Shack CoCo and related magazines. Either you knew enough to fix things or you waited until the next months issue. Such fun, frustrating times!
Perhaps... Then again the old saw: "if you love what you're doing you'll never work a day in your life" certainly holds true for me and, I'm sure, many others who are passionate about their work.
Sure... Me, I can just turn off my history if I don't want sites sniffing it this way. What ever made me think, in this day and age, that anything I do, on the net or not, is private?
Sorry, not to bash you, just sad commentary.....
I do understand the need to prevent service degradation and I like my wi-fi signal as strong as anyone. However I'm also the parent of a 6 month old and there's no way I'm giving up my monitor. Fortunately I live in an area where this does not affect others as the closest house is quite some distance away. And actually, neither does it interfere very much with my wi-fi either. Most parents have no clue what frequency various items in their household are operating on. Nor do I expect them to. I would suggest that manufacturers are the ones responsible to ensure that devices do not step on each other. I do understand that many businesses will do whatever is legal without regard for what you or I may think is right. In that case, since we're operating in the public spectrum, oversight perhaps is required. In any event, expecting parents to not use monitors is wishful thinking :)
Well,
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of links offering free Windows software really mean free to download, but pay to keep (shareware....) Whereas those offering free Linux software are more likely to be free as in speech or beer.
Course I'm not willing to comb through millions of links to prove this.... :)
I mean no offense, but I can't help but read your comment and see myself, many years ago, feeling much the same when moving from DOS to Windows. I lost a level of control, at the hardware level, that made me question why I would want to give up peeking and poking video memory, etc. Back then, direct control meant a world of difference in performance. Of course, I have many more options now than I did then, and if I still want to get to the hardware bad enough, I still can. But I don't feel the need to nor do I feel the abstraction has held me back. We can do much more now, than we could then....
Not to say that the OS in question is the way to handle the problem or not, but I've become a little less resistant to change, a bit more willing to be open-minded and much more appreciative of pioe dreams :)
Maybe. For me, the appeal was a rock solid office machine. I still have a Pentium II server I put in place for a business about 10 years ago, running Novell 3.1. They got over 7 years of service from that machine without issue. Sure, had to replace a hard drive but that's to be expected. I booted it up about a month ago to retrieve some data from it and it still runs just fine. They also got 5-7 years out of the desktops. The only reason they were retired is that technology had just progressed so much and Novell didn't have the applications that Windows offered at the server level. I still have these businesses as my clients, in part because I put in solid equipment that lasted for as long as they wanted it. I'm sorry to see Micron go....
I, too, use the non-GPL version and I've been most happy with it. My host is Ubuntu Hardy, with a variety of guests. Sharepoint development is best done on a Windows Server box so that is my main guest (SBS 2003), which I run in seamless mode. Got an XP guest running at the same time for testing and while I didn't bother to try and set up NAT between the two guests I've had no problem with networking. 2 virtual cards in both guests allow the guests to communicate on one segment to each other, and to the host as well on another. Couple that with shared folders and it's a pretty slick development environment. Seamless mode has a few quirks with the display but I've found as long as I have at least one windows app on the display (usually something I'd have open anyway but with the window sized very small) the issues are minimal. Add in the fact that remote access to my production server is a piece of cake and I can play with my WM6 phone in a windows environment (USB support is good, though a bit tricky to set up) and I'm more than pleased.
I'd be willing to bet it's a typo. Look at the pricing of the other cables (HDMI, IPod) etc. They're more like 60.00 to 100.00. Still expensive, but not ridiculous like 499.00 for an ethernet cable.
I will neither condemn nor approve this (the use of fingerprints in professional occupations) in this part of my post as that is not what I wish to convey. What I do wish to say is that this is not a first. Some may argue my use of the term "professional occupations" but the fact is, here in Florida, someone who wishes to license a business under their Mechanical Contractors license must supply fingerprints.
Now, my own personal feelings:
I'm much more concerned about violations of privacy that affect the population at large, such as monitoring of intersections, public places and the whole debacle of monitoring of communications by the Feds and AT&T.
Again, not to say I approve of this, but our battles are much bigger...
"...I would not order from a state that charged me out-of-state sales' taxes."
I'm not sure about your state but here in Florida you are supposed to calculate all purchases for which you did not pay sales tax and remit the amount owed based on Florida's tax code (assuming you're a Florida resident..) I don't think many individuals do this, but if you're a business and you're buying a lot of stuff online the auditors will check for proper sales and use tax payments.
Just design it the way they think it should work. Problem solved.
As far as thumb drives go I'd recommend the Titanium Cruzer which comes into up to 2 gig models. I keep mine on my keychan which is outiside on my harley 365 days a year. Rain or shine, and here in Florida we get a lot of rain. I've pretty much abused it much more than I expected to and it's never failed me once. I'll leave others to comment on what to put on it but if you're loadking up a pice of crap that's what your going to have just when you need it at your clients office. Quality tools pay for themselves.
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Fleet
I don't understand why folks don't just enjoy leveling up. It's part of the fun. Power leveling is like wishing your life away. It's not like the developers put all the good stuff in at the higher levels and just offer garbage in the beginning...
As a budding "futurologist" myself I really don't think normal people will talk this way. In the future, you know. Shit, the future is here and THA is still up. Better not quit my day job in order to pursue futurology.
People like entertainment that distills and emphasizes base emotional feelings. All the while we know it's not true but we let ourselves be taken into the movie/book/game or whatever piece of art (loosely speaking) that evokes these feelings. I know more women than I can count who abxolutely love to see movies that make them cry. I could never understand it. 4 women all in a room, tear ducts gushing as you quicly try to find that flood insurance policy you know you forget to renew. And they love it. To them, the amount they cry is directly proportional to their perceived value of the entertainment. We do these things because they are escapes, and not likely to happen to us in real life. But, that's why I like horror and hate drama. Too much of the drama stuff can come true. On the one hand, it's not likely that I'm going to be fighting fantastic creatures on a mars station. On the other, children with life threatening illnesses happen all the time. So although I may feel the drama in my Doom movie it's just not going to happen to me in my lifetime. Just don't get me crying when little Timmy needs 2 heart transplants because he's suffered a congenital defect from birth requiring extra parts. And we all know how hard it is to get just one of those parts. Two? Forget it, head on down to AutoZone and start modding. Extra points in you put a plexiglass sheild over the surgery site, with some led lit neon fams. Don't forget the little things like case wiring, you can wreck a good mod with ugly wiring practices. Cool! Heeeey Timmy...want to make a couple of bucks?
One sick bastard from hell.
Ok, back to reality here, but there is some truth in what I say.
Just an observation, as nobody has mentioned it, this is not restricted to just Macs. Some, if not all, of the new Sony Vaio laptops incorporate this to minimize damage to the hard drives if a light physicsl shock to the system occurs.
:)
If you shake it like an etch-a-scetch you get a window that pops up and tells you the heads are being moved to a safer place or something similiar. The one I saw doing it had an Intel core duo chip in it. A fine piece of machinery. Until something simple broke in the mouse touchpad that made the laptop unusable. But that hard drive wsa safe
I'm telling you, everything this guy says is gold. :)
Yeah but I'll bet the 12 that are left are in the know. Something about buttered toast and cats....