Or, the device will be cheap for consumer use but doctors won't believe you when you say, "My tricorder says I have cancer." They will have to follow up with a $600 scan using their own HMO approved tricorder.
If you are comfortable with Perl/Tk, then I would suggest Perl2Exe. It can create a stand alone executable that contains everything you need to run the script. You can then ship just that one binary from machine to machine and have it run without problem... Well, no more problems that the Windows platform presents you with that is.
We use Perl2Exe at work for a few Perl based large applications and have been extremely pleased with the flexibility it provides in terms of distribution of our end product.
I remember the one about a virus being able to focus the electron beam of a CRT into a single point in the corner and set the monitor on fire. I always hoped that one was a myth.
So then my by math, it expires on March 29, 2005. 17 years after the filing date... That explains why this is happening now. It's a last ditch effort to milk some money.
Actually, that is likely a client issue, not a protocol issue. Jabber allows for a Discovery packet to be sent to the server to find out things just like this. When the proxy component is connected to the server, then the server will tell the Client about it, and the Client can then discover that it is a proxy and automatically add it into the list. No manually entry required. Or at lease shouldn't be required.
I find that the only time I ever get distracted from what I am doing is when I am not really enjoying what I am doing. When I am enjoying something, it can actually by quite hard to pull my attention off of that project/activity. So much so, that I don't watch TV anymore because I can never find the time away from the other projects I really enjoy.
If you find that you can concentrate on certain things, but not others. It might just be that your subconcious is telling you that you are not doing what you are meant to be doing.
Too often in life I think we start off on a direction that does not jive with our inner desires and personality simply because they pay more or have some other perceived benefit.
In my opinion, it is always better to do be doing what you truly enjoy than doing something you do not. Even if it means a loss in income or social status.
That said, a day job is already enough work without bogging it down by self help books, motivational lessons, techniques.
Find what you truly enjoy, find a way to do that full time.
Please, please, please take this wonderful advance in technology and extend it to email. Then Spam can have a new header called "Evil: Yes". Then we can leverage the same technology to do perfect Spam filtering.
Seems like someone would have taken the time to look into it and implement something by this point.
Idea: Alternitive to the check for no ads method. Cache the page at post time, but don't point to the cache unless the site goes down. Then you can point back to the original site once it comes back. Basically, only show the cache while the site is down.
We are evaluating using Linux in server roles, and the admins had ordered a 32 node IBM cluster. Very very nice rack, very clean and orderly. I offered to help get it off the pallet and roll it into the data center. We spent the next 15 minutes unbolting it from the pallet and getting it ready to roll off.
That's when we noticed that our company had placed IBM's pallet on top of one our pallets!!
The skids that IBM had shipped (two cut pieces of wood, not the greatest) were not even close to being able to fit that height. The skids would not sit at a level where we could roll it off.
We looked around for anything to help, and eventually butchered another crate for it's door and tried to use that as a ramp. We got another big guy to help try to roll it down without having it tip over and kill us.
Half way down the wooden ramp splintered and the weight of the rack brought it to ground. Luckily it was only a 6 inch drop at that point so nothing bad happened to it.
Moral of the story: Think before digging into a rack system like you are a kid at Christmas, and make sure that there isn't an extra layer of pallets in the way.
Oh come one. You mean to tell me that you wouldn't want to watch the scene where your character gets his head cut off over and over again in digital quality, only to grow tired and pick a different path where they get invicerated or burnt or disentigrated or crushed by and Bigsby's Crushing Hand...
You of course realize that the next step is DVD Choose your own adventures... Expensive to produce every single possible trail, but I'd pay the money just to spend hours following all of them.
And great for a party, everyone votes on the course of action for the party and then you tell the DVD what the pick is and the DVD player knows which scene to play next.
This is starting to become an annoying pattern that happens. You have two choices when reading things that appear on./. You can either go look as soon as it is posted. Or you can wait some number of hours until the site calms down.
Would it be possible to cache the page and images on some local./ server like Google does so that if the site goes down under the weight of./ers./ers can still see the original site that was linked to? Maybe not the latest updates to the site, but at least we can see the page...
1) I grab the RPMS for 6.0. 2) I grab the latest XFree86 version. 3) I compile the XF86. 4) I build an RPM out of that compile. 5) I replace the RPM in the 6.0 tree with my compiled version to "add value" to my distribution.
This could work an any machine, but it could also crash and burn due to library dependencies. Should RedHat be responsible for supporting the mistakes that others make?
I work in a tech support role so I know what it's like to try and support a program/script that someone else wrote. It's not worth my time or effort when I can just tell the person on the other end to use the official program that we do support.
RedHat charges $X for a version that they have checked out and are fairly sure will install and work on any machine. And if it doesn't, well they did it so they know where to look to fix the problem. It would not be in their best interest to charge $Y to support some home brewed distribution that might or might not be %100 RedHat.
There is nothing wrong with preventing links to your server. Make it impossible for someone to deep link to you. That's a perfectly fine solution.
But to do it the way that they are trying is to basically say that it is against the law to focus in on a piece of information and present it without the accompanying advertisements.
What does that mean? Well it means you can't clip an article out of the newspaper. It means you can't photocopy something out of a magazine. It means that you can't even reference it in a term paper specifically by page numbers. You would have to just say that you got the information from Time magazine issue #105, go find it yourself. It would mean that you couldn't walk up to a friend and say, "I read this great article that said..."
Deep linking has been around since the dawn of time. Think beyond the web and look at everyday occurrences and you'll find it happening all over the place.
The real source of the problem is that ad agencies have developed a new model for advertising. Before they paid for the ad to run in a magazine that went to 10,000 people. They couldn't tell how many of the 10,000 read the ad. But with the web, they pay by each viewing because they can track on that. And that's the problem.
Deep linking bypasses the new model that ad agencies have developed and site admins don't like getting hit in the pocket book.
The solution is not as simple as just cloning the extinct creatures. You have to solve the question of "Why are they extinct?"
As man takes over more and more natural habitats and destroys the homes of these creatures, we are killing them and the only way of life they know. Will cloning them stop that destruction? No.
The Great Panda is going extinct from this destruction and the fact that they don't mate all that often. The only thing that kept them around before was a large enough space to have a large enough population to overcome the slow reproduction rate. Is cloning going to solve the space issue?
In the case of the Huia bird the reason they are extinct is that man hunted them down. Cloning might work in this case... but it won't in all others.
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I think wolves sought us out because our fingers can scratch in more places and for longer than a wolf can. Wolves domesticated us to be masseurs.
Or, the device will be cheap for consumer use but doctors won't believe you when you say, "My tricorder says I have cancer." They will have to follow up with a $600 scan using their own HMO approved tricorder.
At least your birthday is still on the calendar... Mine disappeared.
If you are comfortable with Perl/Tk, then I would suggest Perl2Exe. It can create a stand alone executable that contains everything you need to run the script. You can then ship just that one binary from machine to machine and have it run without problem... Well, no more problems that the Windows platform presents you with that is.
We use Perl2Exe at work for a few Perl based large applications and have been extremely pleased with the flexibility it provides in terms of distribution of our end product.
http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm
I remember the one about a virus being able to focus the electron beam of a CRT into a single point in the corner and set the monitor on fire. I always hoped that one was a myth.
So then my by math, it expires on March 29, 2005. 17 years after the filing date... That explains why this is happening now. It's a last ditch effort to milk some money.
Actually, that is likely a client issue, not a protocol issue. Jabber allows for a Discovery packet to be sent to the server to find out things just like this. When the proxy component is connected to the server, then the server will tell the Client about it, and the Client can then discover that it is a proxy and automatically add it into the list. No manually entry required. Or at lease shouldn't be required.
I find that the only time I ever get distracted from what I am doing is when I am not really enjoying what I am doing. When I am enjoying something, it can actually by quite hard to pull my attention off of that project/activity. So much so, that I don't watch TV anymore because I can never find the time away from the other projects I really enjoy.
If you find that you can concentrate on certain things, but not others. It might just be that your subconcious is telling you that you are not doing what you are meant to be doing.
Too often in life I think we start off on a direction that does not jive with our inner desires and personality simply because they pay more or have some other perceived benefit.
In my opinion, it is always better to do be doing what you truly enjoy than doing something you do not. Even if it means a loss in income or social status.
That said, a day job is already enough work without bogging it down by self help books, motivational lessons, techniques.
Find what you truly enjoy, find a way to do that full time.
Please, please, please take this wonderful advance in technology and extend it to email. Then Spam can have a new header called "Evil: Yes". Then we can leverage the same technology to do perfect Spam filtering.
I've asked this same question before and got shot down. Of course, the FAQ entry is two years old at this point:
http://slashdot.org/faq/suggestions.shtml#su900
Seems like someone would have taken the time to look into it and implement something by this point.
Idea:
Alternitive to the check for no ads method. Cache the page at post time, but don't point to the cache unless the site goes down. Then you can point back to the original site once it comes back. Basically, only show the cache while the site is down.
We are evaluating using Linux in server roles, and the admins had ordered a 32 node IBM cluster. Very very nice rack, very clean and orderly. I offered to help get it off the pallet and roll it into the data center. We spent the next 15 minutes unbolting it from the pallet and getting it ready to roll off.
That's when we noticed that our company had placed IBM's pallet on top of one our pallets!!
The skids that IBM had shipped (two cut pieces of wood, not the greatest) were not even close to being able to fit that height. The skids would not sit at a level where we could roll it off.
We looked around for anything to help, and eventually butchered another crate for it's door and tried to use that as a ramp. We got another big guy to help try to roll it down without having it tip over and kill us.
Half way down the wooden ramp splintered and the weight of the rack brought it to ground. Luckily it was only a 6 inch drop at that point so nothing bad happened to it.
Moral of the story: Think before digging into a rack system like you are a kid at Christmas, and make sure that there isn't an extra layer of pallets in the way.
May the Source be with you.
I read that in someone's sig, it didn't really fit until you have JEDIs running around.
Oh come one. You mean to tell me that you wouldn't want to watch the scene where your character gets his head cut off over and over again in digital quality, only to grow tired and pick a different path where they get invicerated or burnt or disentigrated or crushed by and Bigsby's Crushing Hand...
You of course realize that the next step is DVD Choose your own adventures... Expensive to produce every single possible trail, but I'd pay the money just to spend hours following all of them.
And great for a party, everyone votes on the course of action for the party and then you tell the DVD what the pick is and the DVD player knows which scene to play next.
This is starting to become an annoying pattern that happens. You have two choices when reading things that appear on
Would it be possible to cache the page and images on some local
The problem with your logic is this:
1) I grab the RPMS for 6.0.
2) I grab the latest XFree86 version.
3) I compile the XF86.
4) I build an RPM out of that compile.
5) I replace the RPM in the 6.0 tree with my compiled version to "add value" to my distribution.
This could work an any machine, but it could also crash and burn due to library dependencies. Should RedHat be responsible for supporting the mistakes that others make?
I work in a tech support role so I know what it's like to try and support a program/script that someone else wrote. It's not worth my time or effort when I can just tell the person on the other end to use the official program that we do support.
RedHat charges $X for a version that they have checked out and are fairly sure will install and work on any machine. And if it doesn't, well they did it so they know where to look to fix the problem. It would not be in their best interest to charge $Y to support some home brewed distribution that might or might not be %100 RedHat.
There is nothing wrong with preventing links to your server. Make it impossible for someone to deep link to you. That's a perfectly fine solution.
But to do it the way that they are trying is to basically say that it is against the law to focus in on a piece of information and present it without the accompanying advertisements.
What does that mean? Well it means you can't clip an article out of the newspaper. It means you can't photocopy something out of a magazine. It means that you can't even reference it in a term paper specifically by page numbers. You would have to just say that you got the information from Time magazine issue #105, go find it yourself. It would mean that you couldn't walk up to a friend and say, "I read this great article that said..."
Deep linking has been around since the dawn of time. Think beyond the web and look at everyday occurrences and you'll find it happening all over the place.
The real source of the problem is that ad agencies have developed a new model for advertising. Before they paid for the ad to run in a magazine that went to 10,000 people. They couldn't tell how many of the 10,000 read the ad. But with the web, they pay by each viewing because they can track on that. And that's the problem.
Deep linking bypasses the new model that ad agencies have developed and site admins don't like getting hit in the pocket book.
The solution is not as simple as just cloning the extinct creatures. You have to solve the question of "Why are they extinct?"
As man takes over more and more natural habitats and destroys the homes of these creatures, we are killing them and the only way of life they know. Will cloning them stop that destruction? No.
The Great Panda is going extinct from this destruction and the fact that they don't mate all that often. The only thing that kept them around before was a large enough space to have a large enough population to overcome the slow reproduction rate. Is cloning going to solve the space issue?
In the case of the Huia bird the reason they are extinct is that man hunted them down. Cloning might work in this case... but it won't in all others.
Persnickity