It could be more than just the $90,000. Much more.
I would imagine that there are a significant number of alumni from the mid 90s onward that will stop donating (or never donate) to the school because of this.
I personally have told several Lion Link operators that I will not give to Penn State as long as they are supporting the RIAA via Napster.
Will I use the new Hymn/Playfair program? Oh, probably - my.Mac account runs out and I'm not going to renew, and it's how I bought my iTunes songs in the past. .Mac has absolutely nothing to do with iTMS.
If you somehow got the idea that your music is permanently tied to the email address you used when you bought the song, you might want to click on the "Account" button above the content when browsing the store. Note the "Edit Account Info" link that allows you to update your email address.
Mac OS X has made it incredibly simple to send documents in an open format with the "Save as PDF" function that is available any time you print.
This feature is part of the system install and not an add-on.
Now that people can create PDFs the same way they print, I am seeing a lot less of the ".doc-type" documents flying around as attachments.
Instead of running up the anti-MS flag, I usually take the tack of telling them that I got the file, but it looks all messed up on my screen. This is using the fact that people expect MS products (Windows, Office) to have "issues" to plant the seed of doubt that their attachments are being received correctly.
Or, for documents where it is apropos, I mention that the author should consider sending the document out in a format that is not easily edited.
If you show people a simple method (eg - as simple as printing) to guarantee* their documents will look the same on every computer and can not be modified, I have found that they often use it.
They've sent out two letter to two different organizations.
Total cost to them: Probably $300 + overnight mail fees.
I don't see how this is "throwing their legal and financial weight around".
- Tony
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A lot more than you would guess.
A few years ago I developed and managed a cluster of such machines to send out daily emails to the users of a large internet site (these were emails that people signed up for, not spam).
One machine ran a perl script which accessed the db and pulled out the various bits of content, addresses, and names. It would piece together the basic message and hand off the rest of the assembly and actual sending to one of three other machines.
These four 486/25 with 32M RAM running FreeBSD were able to send about 300,000 custom emails per hour without breaking a sweat.
I would be nice to have the government say something like "OK all you companies, decided on a format for word processor documents and stick to it untill the you issue a new standard after that", but for government to decide the standard its self probably wouldn't be good.
It's actually much simpler than that. The government doesn't need to dictate that a standard be agreed upon... what it can dictate is that "We will only purchase products that read and write open, pubically documented formats by default."
In this case, there doesn't need to be agreement between companies in the form of a standard. But, it brings all the benefits of a standard in that the "popular" products will be well-documented.
Thanks to the Quark Publishing System, which is not Mac OS X compatible. (from Page 3 of the article)
- Tony
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Except for the cheapest models, most TVs have more than one input.
Split the cable feed, send one to the TiVo and one to the TV.
Use the "INPUT" button on your TV remote to switch between "live" and "tivo". Now, you have a "two tuner, one recorder" unit.
Of course, this gets a little complicated if you need a cable box of some sort. Right now, I only need one if I want digital cable (which I don't). If Comcast ever forces me to use a set-top box, goodbye cable, hello satellite.
... which is probably the primary reason why pro sport coin flips are allowed to hit the ground. Once the coin is put in motion, there is no further human intervention to, consciously or subconsciously, affect the outcome.
If you are ever stopped, refuse the field test and ask to be taken to an ER for a blood test.
If you were in Pennsylvania when this happened, let me be the first to congratulate you on losing your license for 12 months.
When you receive a PA drivers license, you agree in advance to consent to a breath test if stopped and that you understand that failure to comply will result in 12 month suspension of the license regardless of its outcome.
I know of many organizations that have just upgraded from Office 97 to a more recent version. While each new version is familiar, there are differences. Employees are not given training on new versions, they are just expected to figure it out.
By the same token, how is this different from going from MS Office to OpenOffice where the interface is familiar, not exactly the same? In the majority of cases, if you just installed OO and told people it was the "new version of Office", they would just accept it and keep plugging away.
The areas to worry about are the VB and macro tools that some people rely on. But, if you know who is using them, you might be able to provide equivalent resources as part of the switch.
Because it is not just as simple as "You pay less for a product, therefore you are saving money."
When a Walmart opens in an area, the local average wage goes down. Way down. This negatively impacts where you live: lower wages = lower tax base = lower services or higher taxes.
Walmart offers such horrible benefits, most employees use the benefit package of their significant other for health coverage. This means that it generally costs local business more on benefits after a Walmart comes to town. The result is higher prices for the stuff that you don't buy at Walmart.
So, next time you think you are saving 5 cents on your Pop Tarts, remember, it's probably costing you a lot more in other areas.
Well, it has some caveats during the bounce. The biggest one, which makes it useless to me, is that it bounces with your primary email address, regardless of who the email was sent to. Since the email addresses I receive spam on are not my primary address, bounces really wouldn't help.
(That is, my primary address may be 'foo@bar.com', but I receive spam on 'baz@bat.com'. If I generate a bounce message from that spam, the bounce will include 'foo@bar.com' as my address.)
Luckily, SpamAssassin gets almost all of the 100 or so spam I get per day... I'll see 1 or 2 in my inbox per week, they rst go into a Jail folder which I review every few months before I add them to the spam database with salearn.
The original message was received at 2004-01-20 06:04:09 -0500 from postoffice.$email_domain [10.0.0.1]
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-----Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to postoffice.$email_domain.: RCPT To:<$email_addr> <<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: $email_addr 550 <$email_addr>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; postoffice.$email_domain Received-From-MTA: DNS; postoffice.$email_domain Arrival-Date: 2004-01-20 06:04:09 -0500
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It could be more than just the $90,000. Much more.
I would imagine that there are a significant number of alumni from the mid 90s onward that will stop donating (or never donate) to the school because of this.
I personally have told several Lion Link operators that I will not give to Penn State as long as they are supporting the RIAA via Napster.
- Tony
Will I use the new Hymn/Playfair program? Oh, probably - my .Mac account runs out and I'm not going to renew, and it's how I bought my iTunes songs in the past.
.Mac has absolutely nothing to do with iTMS.
If you somehow got the idea that your music is permanently tied to the email address you used when you bought the song, you might want to click on the "Account" button above the content when browsing the store. Note the "Edit Account Info" link that allows you to update your email address.
- Tony
And don't forget another person to be the level bonus (cherry, pretzel, key, etc).
- Tony
he'd end up getting them once he found a good way to break the DRM and re-encode them
I guess the concept of the "Burn CD" and "Import" buttons are just a tad outside his mental prowess?
- Tony
first megawatt-class laser weapon system to be carried on a specially configured 747-400F aircraft
Hmmm... I thought they were going to use a five megawatt system on a B-1B.
He is tasked with preventing contamination of earth by alien organisms
Couldn't he just watch this movie?
- Tony
Assume you have a rod of magnesium and a rod of some material with the same strength, but less brittle.
Both rods are specified to withstand X pounds of force.
At X + 50 lb of force:
The non-magnesium bar deflects some amount under the strain, but doesn't break. The magnesium bar snaps apart.
There's your difference.
- Tony
"Don't run with scissors" is not an example of redundant instructions.
"Don't run with scissors while running", on the other hand, is.
Mac OS X has made it incredibly simple to send documents in an open format with the "Save as PDF" function that is available any time you print.
This feature is part of the system install and not an add-on.
Now that people can create PDFs the same way they print, I am seeing a lot less of the ".doc-type" documents flying around as attachments.
Instead of running up the anti-MS flag, I usually take the tack of telling them that I got the file, but it looks all messed up on my screen. This is using the fact that people expect MS products (Windows, Office) to have "issues" to plant the seed of doubt that their attachments are being received correctly.
Or, for documents where it is apropos, I mention that the author should consider sending the document out in a format that is not easily edited.
If you show people a simple method (eg - as simple as printing) to guarantee* their documents will look the same on every computer and can not be modified, I have found that they often use it.
- Tony
* guarantee not a guarantee
So far, what has Apple done?
They've sent out two letter to two different organizations.
Total cost to them: Probably $300 + overnight mail fees.
I don't see how this is "throwing their legal and financial weight around".
- Tony
A lot more than you would guess.
A few years ago I developed and managed a cluster of such machines to send out daily emails to the users of a large internet site (these were emails that people signed up for, not spam).
One machine ran a perl script which accessed the db and pulled out the various bits of content, addresses, and names. It would piece together the basic message and hand off the rest of the assembly and actual sending to one of three other machines.
These four 486/25 with 32M RAM running FreeBSD were able to send about 300,000 custom emails per hour without breaking a sweat.
I would be nice to have the government say something like "OK all you companies, decided on a format for word processor documents and stick to it untill the you issue a new standard after that", but for government to decide the standard its self probably wouldn't be good.
It's actually much simpler than that. The government doesn't need to dictate that a standard be agreed upon... what it can dictate is that "We will only purchase products that read and write open, pubically documented formats by default."
In this case, there doesn't need to be agreement between companies in the form of a standard. But, it brings all the benefits of a standard in that the "popular" products will be well-documented.
- Tony
No dual G5's yet.
Thanks to the Quark Publishing System, which is not Mac OS X compatible. (from Page 3 of the article)
- Tony
Except for the cheapest models, most TVs have more than one input.
Split the cable feed, send one to the TiVo and one to the TV.
Use the "INPUT" button on your TV remote to switch between "live" and "tivo". Now, you have a "two tuner, one recorder" unit.
Of course, this gets a little complicated if you need a cable box of some sort. Right now, I only need one if I want digital cable (which I don't). If Comcast ever forces me to use a set-top box, goodbye cable, hello satellite.
- Tony
Yeah, but this article is different... I don't think they used the term beleagered once.
- Tony
Ummm... you don't need to be "friends with the sysadmin" to get the key. It's called a "public key" for a reason:
openssl s_client -connect host:port
Copy and paste the cert into a file (eg, "cert.cer") and off you go.
- Tony
... that would be due more to AZ's earning report which had profits up, but flat sales.
After the initial news, they've recovered to only down 1.4% (1:10 ET).
- Tony
...but im sure somebody here can figure out the end run on this model
Yeah - it's under the "Sharing" menu in iTunes.
- Tony
... which is probably the primary reason why pro sport coin flips are allowed to hit the ground. Once the coin is put in motion, there is no further human intervention to, consciously or subconsciously, affect the outcome.
- Tony
Here you go.
If you are ever stopped, refuse the field test and ask to be taken to an ER for a blood test.
If you were in Pennsylvania when this happened, let me be the first to congratulate you on losing your license for 12 months.
When you receive a PA drivers license, you agree in advance to consent to a breath test if stopped and that you understand that failure to comply will result in 12 month suspension of the license regardless of its outcome.
- Tony
In other words, switch to BellSouth as your carrier and then auction your phone number.
- Tony
I know of many organizations that have just upgraded from Office 97 to a more recent version. While each new version is familiar, there are differences. Employees are not given training on new versions, they are just expected to figure it out.
By the same token, how is this different from going from MS Office to OpenOffice where the interface is familiar, not exactly the same? In the majority of cases, if you just installed OO and told people it was the "new version of Office", they would just accept it and keep plugging away.
The areas to worry about are the VB and macro tools that some people rely on. But, if you know who is using them, you might be able to provide equivalent resources as part of the switch.
- Tony
Because it is not just as simple as "You pay less for a product, therefore you are saving money."
When a Walmart opens in an area, the local average wage goes down. Way down. This negatively impacts where you live: lower wages = lower tax base = lower services or higher taxes.
Walmart offers such horrible benefits, most employees use the benefit package of their significant other for health coverage. This means that it generally costs local business more on benefits after a Walmart comes to town. The result is higher prices for the stuff that you don't buy at Walmart.
So, next time you think you are saving 5 cents on your Pop Tarts, remember, it's probably costing you a lot more in other areas.
- Tony
(That is, my primary address may be 'foo@bar.com', but I receive spam on 'baz@bat.com'. If I generate a bounce message from that spam, the bounce will include 'foo@bar.com' as my address.)
Luckily, SpamAssassin gets almost all of the 100 or so spam I get per day
- Tony