Set up an old PC with a Linux firewall and Squid on the geezer's DSL line for "security purposes" and report back to us with the Squid logs. I wouldn't be surprised if the very first entry is a search on Google or Yahoo for some pr0n...or maybe a search for viagra suppliers online and *then* pr0n searches.
It would promote the underlying technology, which is what counts in the end. However, it would now have the support of a large customer base.
What sounds more threatening to an online store owner...thousands of pissed-off AOL and Earthlink customers who can't navigate the site due to non-compliant coding, or thousands of geeks using some relatively unknown web browser?
This has always been true of interstate commerce. Buying something over the internet is no different than buying something from a mail order catalog. In some cases, companies offer a print version of their online catalog.
If you're so upset that buying stuff over the net deprives your local govt., there are two things you should do:
1. Pay "Use Tax" on your state tax return. The Use Tax (which is mandatory in at least NJ, but no one really pays it...except my dad) requires you to pay sales tax to your home state on any item you bought out of state. There's no way to track all this stuff, so it's really on the honor system. If you're feeling guilty, then pay the tax.
2. Only buy from companies in your home town/state. There are no stores floating around in some ficticious "cyber-space." There are real buildings, real servers, employees and parking lots. Find out where an online store is headquartered and then you can decide to buy from them if they're in your state.
So don't use it. That's why I just install the browser component of Mozilla and use Pine for my personal email. For work purposes (at least mine and many others), an integrated groupware suite is the best way to go.
In an office environment, especially one that's all about communicating ideas amongst coworkers and clients, you'd be running all those separate programs at the same time anyway. You might as well have all that stuff (mail, shared calendar, contacts, appointments, meetings) stuck in one window.
Another advantage of an integrated suite like Outlook or Evolution is that you can have a single homepage-type screen that neatly summarizes any new mail messages, tasks or meetings for the day or next few days outwards.
I was into the Pinball theme for a long time until I found Orbit. The buttons with Pinball appeared to be small and I felt like I had to aim for them. The Orbit buttons kind of remind me of the Ximian "monkey man" logo and are circular, making them easier to hit.
Instead of bitching about losing their jobs; they should get off their lazy asses and just get jobs at the window manufacturing plants or start their own.
I hate those fscking light bulbs! They burn my eyes because they're so bright. They remind me of those imported cars with the superbright/white headlights that also burn my eyes when they're in the opposite lane.
Here's a news flash for you..."Real Light" for normal living beings is not painful, stark white. Real light should have a bit of yellow in it to emulate sunlight.
I can't wait for them to burn out in my lamps so I can go back to regular bulbs or perhaps compact flourescent. If you switch a light on and off really fast several times, will that cause them to burn out prematurely?
Dante: My friend here is trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star are innocent victims when it was destroyed by the rebels.
Customer: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer - Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements --- and speaking as a roofer, I can tell you a roofers personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Customer: Three weeks ago I was offered a job up in the hills: beautiful house, tons of property-a simple reshingling job. They told me, if I could finish it in one day, I would double my price. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Customer: Dominick Bambino's
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Customer: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too high. I knew who he was, and based on that I turned the job over to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Customer: Right. And the next week the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. Didn't even finish reshingling.
Randal: No way.
Customer: I'm alive because I knew the risk involved with that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. Any contractor working on that Death Star knew the risk involved. If they got killed, it's their own fault. A roofer listens to this [taps his heart], not his wallet.
In this case, the value is in paying for a trading card that can be used in a Game Boy Advance. So, if you already own a copy of the game for the NES, you're getting:
1. The game again, but converted to a new format and on a trading card 2. The ability to play it on GBA 3. Portability (by having it on the GBA)
Of course, you could download the ROM, but you wouldn't be getting the trading card.
The article says that the games will be stored using dots printed on the card and that the reader will scan in the dots optically. Now *that* sounds pretty cool...much cooler than just using a magnetic stripe. To have some idea of what the cards will look like, take a look at any UPS package with the dot-coded label that has that bulls-eye in the middle.
One of the main reasons people use to justify trading game ROMs is that the original publisher has "abandoned" them and that they're no longer selling or making money on them. Natually, if a company has gone under and no longer exists, that's a pretty good argument. However, here, we see Nintendo showing just the opposite.
I'm from NJ. When I visited my fiance when she lived in Chicago, she was always amazed at the sheer joy I experienced when we went to the gas station and I could pump the gas.
I'm still not sure what the reasoning is behind that law. However, I can tell you that from driving around the country a bit that our "full-serve" gas costs the same as "self-serve" gas elsewhere and the cost "full-serve" gas elsewhere is seriously jacked up in price. Of course, having quite a few oil refineries probably keeps prices down, too.
On a final note, it's only the tiny corner area northeast of Edison (approaching NYC) that is toxic. The rest of the state is forests and farmland.
Now that CEO's are required to swear on oath in their financial statements that everything in there is true, I'd like to see what the piracy loss numbers are in those statements.
"It feels like its aobut where office 97 was. Kinda klunky, not all the functionalty of office 2000/xp, but find it quite useable."
Funny, because I've recently downgraded my Office 2000 installation to Office 97 because I miss all of the klunkiness and simplicity. Moreover, I find it simply more responsive. I found Office XP on some of our newer machines to be utter crap that just gets in your way. I may give OO a try, but since Office is bought and paid for, there is little incentive for me at this time.
I always hear that Apple's strongsuit is in color management. What part of it, exactly, is good at color management? Is it something in the OS, the hardware, what?
My fiance needs OS 9 still for Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop and all the other essentials tools that she needs, but can't afford to upgrade to just now. In fact, I don't even think Quark is available for OS X yet.
I'm telling you, every day another graphic designer necessity, like Photoshop, gets supported with the Crossover Plugin, Linux on the PC looks much better than OS X on the Mac.
Just send out millions and millions of SPAM messages to everyone. Then your band will be *the* group that "everyone loves to hate," thus toppling Eminem in popularity and sales. And the madatory Step 3 - profit!
...is to take one of those Yamaha Tr@c2 CD burners than can burn pictures and text onto the data side of a CD and burn the picture of the vinyl record onto it!
It would be a digital image of an analog recording, that could be played on neither a CD player nor a record player.
There are four remotes in my living room: TV, VCR, cable box and DVD player. Most functions are handled by the cable box remote, which has some universal remote functions. However, there are still some device-specific functions that require each remote control to be present. For the technology-oriented individual, more buttons is clearly more of a status symbol than one. So what's the ideal solution?
**Turn all your remote controls into a huge remote keyboard!**
All you have to do is get a short piece of plywood or balsa wood and velcro the remotes to each, placed tightly together. The end product will be more than a remote control, it will be an audio/video command console!
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Set up an old PC with a Linux firewall and Squid on the geezer's DSL line for "security purposes" and report back to us with the Squid logs. I wouldn't be surprised if the very first entry is a search on Google or Yahoo for some pr0n...or maybe a search for viagra suppliers online and *then* pr0n searches.
It would promote the underlying technology, which is what counts in the end. However, it would now have the support of a large customer base.
What sounds more threatening to an online store owner...thousands of pissed-off AOL and Earthlink customers who can't navigate the site due to non-compliant coding, or thousands of geeks using some relatively unknown web browser?
This has always been true of interstate commerce. Buying something over the internet is no different than buying something from a mail order catalog. In some cases, companies offer a print version of their online catalog.
If you're so upset that buying stuff over the net deprives your local govt., there are two things you should do:
1. Pay "Use Tax" on your state tax return. The Use Tax (which is mandatory in at least NJ, but no one really pays it...except my dad) requires you to pay sales tax to your home state on any item you bought out of state. There's no way to track all this stuff, so it's really on the honor system. If you're feeling guilty, then pay the tax.
2. Only buy from companies in your home town/state. There are no stores floating around in some ficticious "cyber-space." There are real buildings, real servers, employees and parking lots. Find out where an online store is headquartered and then you can decide to buy from them if they're in your state.
So don't use it. That's why I just install the browser component of Mozilla and use Pine for my personal email. For work purposes (at least mine and many others), an integrated groupware suite is the best way to go.
In an office environment, especially one that's all about communicating ideas amongst coworkers and clients, you'd be running all those separate programs at the same time anyway. You might as well have all that stuff (mail, shared calendar, contacts, appointments, meetings) stuck in one window.
Another advantage of an integrated suite like Outlook or Evolution is that you can have a single homepage-type screen that neatly summarizes any new mail messages, tasks or meetings for the day or next few days outwards.
I was into the Pinball theme for a long time until I found Orbit. The buttons with Pinball appeared to be small and I felt like I had to aim for them. The Orbit buttons kind of remind me of the Ximian "monkey man" logo and are circular, making them easier to hit.
SunOS is the kernel; Solaris is the distribution. Similar to any Linux distro, but there're just one company involved.
Hehe, tell me about it...a lawyer recently sent me some paperwork and I swear this is what he wrote on the front page:
:-)"
"Here's da info
A while back, I emailed a co-worker for something and ended the message with LMK (let me know). He thought it meant "love and many kisses."
And somehow, don't ask me how, the Ford will likely roll-over and explode well before hitting the ground.
Instead of bitching about losing their jobs; they should get off their lazy asses and just get jobs at the window manufacturing plants or start their own.
I hate those fscking light bulbs! They burn my eyes because they're so bright. They remind me of those imported cars with the superbright/white headlights that also burn my eyes when they're in the opposite lane.
Here's a news flash for you..."Real Light" for normal living beings is not painful, stark white. Real light should have a bit of yellow in it to emulate sunlight.
I can't wait for them to burn out in my lamps so I can go back to regular bulbs or perhaps compact flourescent. If you switch a light on and off really fast several times, will that cause them to burn out prematurely?
What, you actually *liked* that Sam kid on Different Strokes?
Insert "Clerks" quote here:
Dante: My friend here is trying to convince me that any independent contractors who were working on the uncompleted Death Star are innocent victims when it was destroyed by the rebels.
Customer: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer - Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements --- and speaking as a roofer, I can tell you a roofers personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Customer: Three weeks ago I was offered a job up in the hills: beautiful house, tons of property-a simple reshingling job. They told me, if I could finish it in one day, I would double my price. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Customer: Dominick Bambino's
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Customer: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too high. I knew who he was, and based on that I turned the job over to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Customer: Right. And the next week the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. Didn't even finish reshingling.
Randal: No way.
Customer: I'm alive because I knew the risk involved with that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. Any contractor working on that Death Star knew the risk involved. If they got killed, it's their own fault. A roofer listens to this [taps his heart], not his wallet.
In this case, the value is in paying for a trading card that can be used in a Game Boy Advance. So, if you already own a copy of the game for the NES, you're getting:
1. The game again, but converted to a new format and on a trading card
2. The ability to play it on GBA
3. Portability (by having it on the GBA)
Of course, you could download the ROM, but you wouldn't be getting the trading card.
The article says that the games will be stored using dots printed on the card and that the reader will scan in the dots optically. Now *that* sounds pretty cool...much cooler than just using a magnetic stripe.
To have some idea of what the cards will look like, take a look at any UPS package with the dot-coded label that has that bulls-eye in the middle.
One of the main reasons people use to justify trading game ROMs is that the original publisher has "abandoned" them and that they're no longer selling or making money on them. Natually, if a company has gone under and no longer exists, that's a pretty good argument. However, here, we see Nintendo showing just the opposite.
I'm from NJ. When I visited my fiance when she lived in Chicago, she was always amazed at the sheer joy I experienced when we went to the gas station and I could pump the gas.
I'm still not sure what the reasoning is behind that law. However, I can tell you that from driving around the country a bit that our "full-serve" gas costs the same as "self-serve" gas elsewhere and the cost "full-serve" gas elsewhere is seriously jacked up in price. Of course, having quite a few oil refineries probably keeps prices down, too.
On a final note, it's only the tiny corner area northeast of Edison (approaching NYC) that is toxic. The rest of the state is forests and farmland.
Now that CEO's are required to swear on oath in their financial statements that everything in there is true, I'd like to see what the piracy loss numbers are in those statements.
"It feels like its aobut where office 97 was. Kinda klunky, not all the functionalty of office 2000/xp, but find it quite useable."
Funny, because I've recently downgraded my Office 2000 installation to Office 97 because I miss all of the klunkiness and simplicity. Moreover, I find it simply more responsive. I found Office XP on some of our newer machines to be utter crap that just gets in your way. I may give OO a try, but since Office is bought and paid for, there is little incentive for me at this time.
I always hear that Apple's strongsuit is in color management. What part of it, exactly, is good at color management? Is it something in the OS, the hardware, what?
My fiance needs OS 9 still for Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop and all the other essentials tools that she needs, but can't afford to upgrade to just now. In fact, I don't even think Quark is available for OS X yet.
I'm telling you, every day another graphic designer necessity, like Photoshop, gets supported with the Crossover Plugin, Linux on the PC looks much better than OS X on the Mac.
Just send out millions and millions of SPAM messages to everyone. Then your band will be *the* group that "everyone loves to hate," thus toppling Eminem in popularity and sales. And the madatory Step 3 - profit!
...is to take one of those Yamaha Tr@c2 CD burners than can burn pictures and text onto the data side of a CD and burn the picture of the vinyl record onto it!
It would be a digital image of an analog recording, that could be played on neither a CD player nor a record player.
I would run some sort of long-term animal shelter for cats and dogs.
And I'd hire two chicks to help me run it!
A Linux (good) PVR made by Sony (evil)? I haven't been this ambivalent about liking or hating something since Jean Luc Picard became a Borg.
I think I need to lie down for a while.
There are four remotes in my living room: TV, VCR, cable box and DVD player. Most functions are handled by the cable box remote, which has some universal remote functions. However, there are still some device-specific functions that require each remote control to be present. For the technology-oriented individual, more buttons is clearly more of a status symbol than one. So what's the ideal solution?
**Turn all your remote controls into a huge remote keyboard!**
All you have to do is get a short piece of plywood or balsa wood and velcro the remotes to each, placed tightly together. The end product will be more than a remote control, it will be an audio/video command console!