What Lego needs to do is lower their prices. Their prices are just ludicrous! 80-120$ Can for a box of Legos? Lower the price to 20-30$ and people will buy.
It's not all Tivo's fault. The DirecTivo isn't usable in Canada because DirecTv isn't legal in Canada.
Huh? What does DirectTV have to do with it?
From the Tivo website: Works with everything: cable, digital cable, satellite, antenna, and combinations
We have cable providers(Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Videotron, etc...), satellite providers (Express-Vu, Starchoice) and antenna feeds. Tivo could easilly release a "Canadian version" that works with our own cable/satellite/UHF/VHF providers/feeds. Hell, it does so in the UK already;)
The stated reason is that the Canadian government doesn't want Canadians to become to "Americanized" by watching American TV
Again, why does this matter, as a Canadian-released Tivo would work with our existing providers. And hell, I have digital cable, and most channels are either American (TechTV, TLC, A&E etc..) or carry 30-95% American shows (especially in primetime). So again, what does that have to do with anything?
It's time for Tivo to wake up. Hey Tivo.. what about releasing your sweet products in Canada so we Canadian geeks can enjoy your fine stuff! There's a high enough demand up here! It's time to stopp sitting on your brains and release Tivo in Canada!
Eudora now does it with Version 6. You can even set your preferences for it to not display anything that has more than 2 reply markers (message nesting)... Comes in very handy so you don't have 500 lines of message to wade through when it's a reply of a reply of a reply....
Why shift-click when you can just click the middle button and have the link open up in a new tab? No need to launch a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) window, using up more ressources. Tabs are the way to go... and no need to use the keyboard! Just middle button/scroll wheel click, and voila......
'm sure that as soon as you read this announcement, your first question was, "Will Turbine develop an expansion pack for AC1?"
Does Bobo like nanners?
Yes, we are going to be making an expansion pack for AC1. But I have to warn you, don't expect it soon; it is a good ways off. Actual dates will be released later as we discuss with you what you want to see in it and firm up the design details. I can tell you this, though: Graphics update? You bet!
Yeah, and your point? For 99.9% of RESIDENTIAL customers, this doesn't affect them in the least.
Viruses/worms cause networks and servers to slow down to a crawl, affecting everybody. Without such blocks in place, everyone gets affected. With the blocks in place, only a handful of users are affected. So we are assuring connectivity FOR EVERYONE. And I'm not even mentioning the "no server" clause of the AUP. The only reason a port 25 block would affect you is if you are running a mail server, which is against the contract that you agreed upon when signing up.
If you want to run servers, then you would need to upgrade to business class, where there are no such blocks.
I'm a sysadmin for a large ISP, and let me tell you, the benifits of blocking inbound & outbound SMTP for residential customers is a god send. We implemented outbound SMTP restrictions more than a year ago, and more recently also added inbound SMTP.
Since a great number of the viruses/worms out that spam (either regular spam or to replicate itself) use their own SMTP engines, this stops them dead in their tracks, since they can't mail out (unless they go out another port).
I really wish other ISPs would do this as a standard for their residential users. I do run my own mail server at home (I'm not on a residential account), and 99% of the spam I do get is from residential customers/dynamic IP space (of which, probably 75% of the spam I've received in the last couple of months has been from Comcast. I'm seriously thinking of blocking all their IP space and only allow their known MTAs. When I put in blocks to block all of APNIC, my spam reduced more than 50%)
Not just cable uptime but you have to take into consideration power outages. Regular landlines are generally not affected during power outages. But with VoIP, you're basically SOL if the power goes out.
If you have 1500$ per employee, give them something like a 1000$ bonus, make a donation to a charity in the order of 100$ each (in their name) and use the rest and have a small office party at your local pub/restaurant. Whatever's left over use to slightly improve work surroundings (IE: coke machine with free pop til the funds run dry, etc...)
That's nice and dandy. And how much more would you have to pay for 5 satellite stations to which you can stream 5 different songs? In the end, it would end up costing a heck of a lot more than the price of an iBook.
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it is another possible solution. I've been using WebcamXP to do just that, but HTML based. It can use up to 5 cameras at the same time (I've used up to 3 at the same time; 2 USB webcams and my camcorder plugged into my Firewire port). I've modified the HTML it generates to put the windows side by side. You'll get the small border around each window, but at least to me, that's not a huge deal.
It is...
Ever since the Swen virus came up, there's an expotentional rise in mail traffic. It's not just Australia, it's everywhere. Even big hitters like hotmail, yahoo and AOL are being hit bigtime.
Question is, why would you want to?
Most ISPs will 'lease' you a router when you get any type of dedicated internet connection. They also have this little thing called SRA or MTTR (Service Repair Agreement or Mean Time To Repair). If your router blows, they'll replace it in a matter of hours. If you own your own equipment, you'll either have to buy a spare (doubling your price) or suffer long downtime (How long of a downtime are you willing to afford?).
ISPs also buy routers in bulk. So what may cost you 30,000$ for a Cisco router, ISPs pay a fraction of that. (And I dunno where you got that it starts at 30,000$.. there are much cheaper routers that will do channelized DS3, including in the Cisco family).
You also have to think... going the Linux route... what happens if the motherboard blows, or the power supply, or the harddrive, or the NIC cards? You'd prety much eed a complete 2nd system as a backup.
What about vulnerabilities? If this is out on the net, Cisco IOS is much more stable and secure than a linux box. How many man hours are you gonna spend patching stuff, compared to just leaving the Cisco router alone cuz it's not affected? If you do need to upgrade, upgrading IOSs is a joke.
This isn't some dinky little home DSL connection where a Linux router is better than a 50$ Linksys router. You're trying to make yourself intelligent, but really, get a clue.
Linda Richards: There's been a lot of muttering in the UK press about J.K. Rowling "borrowing" ideas for her Harry Potter books from you. Would you care to comment on that?
Neil Gaiman: Last year, initially The Scotsman newspaper -- being Scottish and J.K. Rowling being Scottish -- and because of the English tendency to try and tear down their idols, they kept trying to build stories which said J.K. Rowling ripped off Neil Gaiman. They kept getting in touch with me and I kept declining to play because I thought it was silly. And then The Daily Mirror in England ran an article about that mad woman who was trying to sue J.K. Rowling over having stolen muggles from her. And they finished off with a line saying [something like]: And Neil Gaiman has accused her of stealing.
Luckily I found this online and I found it the night it came out by pure coincidence and the reporter's e-mail address was at the bottom of the thing so I fired off an e-mail saying: This is not true, I never said this. You are making this up. I got an apologetic e-mail back, but by the time I'd gotten the apologetic e-mail back it was already in The Daily Mail the following morning and it was very obvious that The Daily Mail's research [had] consisted of reading The Daily Mirror. And you're going: journalists are so lazy.
What was it of yours they were accusing her of stealing from you?
Neil Gaiman:My character Tim Hunter from Books of Magic who came out in 1990 was a small dark-haired boy with big round spectacles -- a 12-year-old English boy -- who has the potential to be the most powerful wizard in the world and has a little barn owl.
So there were commonalties, for sure.
Neil Gaiman:Well, yes and as I finally, pissed off, pointed out to an English reviewer who tried to start this again, I said: Look, all of the things that they actually have in common are such incredibly obvious, surface things that, had she actually been stealing, they were the things that would be first to be changed. Change hair color from brown to fair, you lose the glasses, you know: that kind of thing.
Change the owl to a gecko.
Neil Gaiman:Yes. Or to a peregrine falcon. And I said to her that I thought we were both just stealing from T.H. White: very straightforward. But then I saw an online interview with the mad muggles lady where they were asking her about me and they said: what about Neil Gaiman? And she said: Well, he's been gotten to. [Laughs]
By the Harry Potter conspiracy? [Laughs]
Neil Gaiman:I guess, yes.
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As you can probably tell by my name, I am a huge fan of yours. Sandman is what brought me back to comics.
#1) Is there any chance of bringing back Sandman on a semi-regular basis (IE: Quarterly)?
#2) Kudos on 1602. Your take on Marvel characters is interesting. I'm very curious as how this story will fit in the Marvel Universe timeline. How did this story come about?
The police are currently not pressing any charges or giving fines for carrying under 15g of pot. They are waiting for the laws to be clarified. You can litterally light up in front of a crowd of officers, and you won't receive one single ticket.
Can it hurt to take a CCNA course and get the cert? No
Is it worth having on a resume? Not really.
If you know very little about networking, the CCNA course will be helpful in that respect (but 100% of which can be learned in a book or two, which is much cheaper than taking a course & tests). I myself took the ICRC course and worked in networking for 4 years (I was a WAN administrator for a national backbone). I never bothered getting my CCNA however.
Sadly, CCNAs are a dime a dozen now. Like MSCE, everyone and their grandmother has that cert (as it's fairly easy to get). It wasn't so just 3-4 years ago. So if you're doing it solely for having an extra cert to put on your resume, I wouldn't bother, unless you want to go for the more prestigeous CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) or CCDP (Cisco Certified Developer? Professional), or ultimately, CCIE. I doubt you'd want to get those 2 higher certs, as they are totally unrelated to your current field of work.
I doubt the text embedded in an image is stopping most bots, since the fastest and totally non-protected way of getting WHOIS information is by using WHOIS in command-line.
You have to face the fact that 99% of the people who would get your software illegally would not purchase it anyways. These are not really lost sales as those individuals wouldn't even think of buying it in the first place. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just the way the world works.
If you want to entice people to buy your software, you should really release a free 'lite' version, and a pay version with many more features. This seems to work for alot of companies out there (ACDSee, Paint Shop Pro, etc....). And if you want to compete with these pre-existing companies who release similar products, you should offer something/features that they don't. Or else you're just another small fish in a huge pond.
Bah, no need to use blacklists. Just do what I did. I blocked all of APNIC from being able to connect to port 25 of my mail servers. Maybe a little drastic, but it has cut down spam by more than 70%.
Make fun of lizard spit all you want, but this is welcomed news to those of us with Type II diabetes.
It seems like most diabetes research (and current breakthrus) have revolved around Type1 diabetes. I for one am glad to see some development in this area. I do wish the article had more information though (but can't expect much from a Yahoo article). Does this mean with these injections, someone suffering from Type2 diabetes can go back and eat normal food? You don't know how much such an ailment can affect you. Not being able to drink a good Coke, or munch on a scrumptious chocolate bar (I was a chocoholic before being diagnosed with diabetes).
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What Lego needs to do is lower their prices. Their prices are just ludicrous! 80-120$ Can for a box of Legos? Lower the price to 20-30$ and people will buy.
It's not all Tivo's fault. The DirecTivo isn't usable in Canada because DirecTv isn't legal in Canada.
;)
Huh? What does DirectTV have to do with it?
From the Tivo website:
Works with everything: cable, digital cable, satellite, antenna, and combinations
We have cable providers(Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Videotron, etc...), satellite providers (Express-Vu, Starchoice) and antenna feeds. Tivo could easilly release a "Canadian version" that works with our own cable/satellite/UHF/VHF providers/feeds. Hell, it does so in the UK already
The stated reason is that the Canadian government doesn't want Canadians to become to "Americanized" by watching American TV
Again, why does this matter, as a Canadian-released Tivo would work with our existing providers. And hell, I have digital cable, and most channels are either American (TechTV, TLC, A&E etc..) or carry 30-95% American shows (especially in primetime). So again, what does that have to do with anything?
It's time for Tivo to wake up. Hey Tivo.. what about releasing your sweet products in Canada so we Canadian geeks can enjoy your fine stuff! There's a high enough demand up here! It's time to stopp sitting on your brains and release Tivo in Canada!
Eudora now does it with Version 6. You can even set your preferences for it to not display anything that has more than 2 reply markers (message nesting)... Comes in very handy so you don't have 500 lines of message to wade through when it's a reply of a reply of a reply....
Why shift-click when you can just click the middle button and have the link open up in a new tab? No need to launch a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) window, using up more ressources. Tabs are the way to go... and no need to use the keyboard! Just middle button/scroll wheel click, and voila......
From the Turbine Website
'm sure that as soon as you read this announcement, your first question was, "Will Turbine develop an expansion pack for AC1?"
Does Bobo like nanners?
Yes, we are going to be making an expansion pack for AC1. But I have to warn you, don't expect it soon; it is a good ways off. Actual dates will be released later as we discuss with you what you want to see in it and firm up the design details. I can tell you this, though: Graphics update? You bet!
Yeah, and your point? For 99.9% of RESIDENTIAL customers, this doesn't affect them in the least.
Viruses/worms cause networks and servers to slow down to a crawl, affecting everybody. Without such blocks in place, everyone gets affected. With the blocks in place, only a handful of users are affected. So we are assuring connectivity FOR EVERYONE. And I'm not even mentioning the "no server" clause of the AUP. The only reason a port 25 block would affect you is if you are running a mail server, which is against the contract that you agreed upon when signing up.
If you want to run servers, then you would need to upgrade to business class, where there are no such blocks.
I'm a sysadmin for a large ISP, and let me tell you, the benifits of blocking inbound & outbound SMTP for residential customers is a god send. We implemented outbound SMTP restrictions more than a year ago, and more recently also added inbound SMTP. Since a great number of the viruses/worms out that spam (either regular spam or to replicate itself) use their own SMTP engines, this stops them dead in their tracks, since they can't mail out (unless they go out another port). I really wish other ISPs would do this as a standard for their residential users. I do run my own mail server at home (I'm not on a residential account), and 99% of the spam I do get is from residential customers/dynamic IP space (of which, probably 75% of the spam I've received in the last couple of months has been from Comcast. I'm seriously thinking of blocking all their IP space and only allow their known MTAs. When I put in blocks to block all of APNIC, my spam reduced more than 50%)
Not just cable uptime but you have to take into consideration power outages. Regular landlines are generally not affected during power outages. But with VoIP, you're basically SOL if the power goes out.
If you have 1500$ per employee, give them something like a 1000$ bonus, make a donation to a charity in the order of 100$ each (in their name) and use the rest and have a small office party at your local pub/restaurant. Whatever's left over use to slightly improve work surroundings (IE: coke machine with free pop til the funds run dry, etc...)
That's nice and dandy. And how much more would you have to pay for 5 satellite stations to which you can stream 5 different songs? In the end, it would end up costing a heck of a lot more than the price of an iBook.
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it is another possible solution. I've been using WebcamXP to do just that, but HTML based. It can use up to 5 cameras at the same time (I've used up to 3 at the same time; 2 USB webcams and my camcorder plugged into my Firewire port). I've modified the HTML it generates to put the windows side by side. You'll get the small border around each window, but at least to me, that's not a huge deal.
It is... Ever since the Swen virus came up, there's an expotentional rise in mail traffic. It's not just Australia, it's everywhere. Even big hitters like hotmail, yahoo and AOL are being hit bigtime.
Question is, why would you want to? Most ISPs will 'lease' you a router when you get any type of dedicated internet connection. They also have this little thing called SRA or MTTR (Service Repair Agreement or Mean Time To Repair). If your router blows, they'll replace it in a matter of hours. If you own your own equipment, you'll either have to buy a spare (doubling your price) or suffer long downtime (How long of a downtime are you willing to afford?). ISPs also buy routers in bulk. So what may cost you 30,000$ for a Cisco router, ISPs pay a fraction of that. (And I dunno where you got that it starts at 30,000$.. there are much cheaper routers that will do channelized DS3, including in the Cisco family). You also have to think... going the Linux route... what happens if the motherboard blows, or the power supply, or the harddrive, or the NIC cards? You'd prety much eed a complete 2nd system as a backup. What about vulnerabilities? If this is out on the net, Cisco IOS is much more stable and secure than a linux box. How many man hours are you gonna spend patching stuff, compared to just leaving the Cisco router alone cuz it's not affected? If you do need to upgrade, upgrading IOSs is a joke. This isn't some dinky little home DSL connection where a Linux router is better than a 50$ Linksys router. You're trying to make yourself intelligent, but really, get a clue.
Has anyone seeded this on a bittorrent tracker yet?
I guess you guys don't RTFA:m l
http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/gaiman.ht
Linda Richards: There's been a lot of muttering in the UK press about J.K. Rowling "borrowing" ideas for her Harry Potter books from you. Would you care to comment on that?
Neil Gaiman: Last year, initially The Scotsman newspaper -- being Scottish and J.K. Rowling being Scottish -- and because of the English tendency to try and tear down their idols, they kept trying to build stories which said J.K. Rowling ripped off Neil Gaiman. They kept getting in touch with me and I kept declining to play because I thought it was silly. And then The Daily Mirror in England ran an article about that mad woman who was trying to sue J.K. Rowling over having stolen muggles from her. And they finished off with a line saying [something like]: And Neil Gaiman has accused her of stealing.
Luckily I found this online and I found it the night it came out by pure coincidence and the reporter's e-mail address was at the bottom of the thing so I fired off an e-mail saying: This is not true, I never said this. You are making this up. I got an apologetic e-mail back, but by the time I'd gotten the apologetic e-mail back it was already in The Daily Mail the following morning and it was very obvious that The Daily Mail's research [had] consisted of reading The Daily Mirror. And you're going: journalists are so lazy.
What was it of yours they were accusing her of stealing from you?
Neil Gaiman:My character Tim Hunter from Books of Magic who came out in 1990 was a small dark-haired boy with big round spectacles -- a 12-year-old English boy -- who has the potential to be the most powerful wizard in the world and has a little barn owl.
So there were commonalties, for sure.
Neil Gaiman:Well, yes and as I finally, pissed off, pointed out to an English reviewer who tried to start this again, I said: Look, all of the things that they actually have in common are such incredibly obvious, surface things that, had she actually been stealing, they were the things that would be first to be changed. Change hair color from brown to fair, you lose the glasses, you know: that kind of thing.
Change the owl to a gecko.
Neil Gaiman:Yes. Or to a peregrine falcon. And I said to her that I thought we were both just stealing from T.H. White: very straightforward. But then I saw an online interview with the mad muggles lady where they were asking her about me and they said: what about Neil Gaiman? And she said: Well, he's been gotten to. [Laughs]
By the Harry Potter conspiracy? [Laughs]
Neil Gaiman:I guess, yes.
As you can probably tell by my name, I am a huge fan of yours. Sandman is what brought me back to comics.
#1) Is there any chance of bringing back Sandman on a semi-regular basis (IE: Quarterly)?
#2) Kudos on 1602. Your take on Marvel characters is interesting. I'm very curious as how this story will fit in the Marvel Universe timeline. How did this story come about?
#3) Will we ever see MiracleMan?
Let me clear up one of your misconceptions.
The police are currently not pressing any charges or giving fines for carrying under 15g of pot. They are waiting for the laws to be clarified. You can litterally light up in front of a crowd of officers, and you won't receive one single ticket.
Can it hurt to take a CCNA course and get the cert? No
Is it worth having on a resume? Not really.
If you know very little about networking, the CCNA course will be helpful in that respect (but 100% of which can be learned in a book or two, which is much cheaper than taking a course & tests). I myself took the ICRC course and worked in networking for 4 years (I was a WAN administrator for a national backbone). I never bothered getting my CCNA however.
Sadly, CCNAs are a dime a dozen now. Like MSCE, everyone and their grandmother has that cert (as it's fairly easy to get). It wasn't so just 3-4 years ago. So if you're doing it solely for having an extra cert to put on your resume, I wouldn't bother, unless you want to go for the more prestigeous CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) or CCDP (Cisco Certified Developer? Professional), or ultimately, CCIE. I doubt you'd want to get those 2 higher certs, as they are totally unrelated to your current field of work.
I doubt the text embedded in an image is stopping most bots, since the fastest and totally non-protected way of getting WHOIS information is by using WHOIS in command-line.
Some ISPs do offer this.
:P
Sympatico offers a Lite version of DSL, a regular version, and an ultra High Speed version.
Only available in Canada however
They forgot one other fad: Mr.T Ate My Balls (and original site). I have to admit, I never got that one.
You have to face the fact that 99% of the people who would get your software illegally would not purchase it anyways. These are not really lost sales as those individuals wouldn't even think of buying it in the first place. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just the way the world works. If you want to entice people to buy your software, you should really release a free 'lite' version, and a pay version with many more features. This seems to work for alot of companies out there (ACDSee, Paint Shop Pro, etc....). And if you want to compete with these pre-existing companies who release similar products, you should offer something/features that they don't. Or else you're just another small fish in a huge pond.
Bah, no need to use blacklists. Just do what I did. I blocked all of APNIC from being able to connect to port 25 of my mail servers. Maybe a little drastic, but it has cut down spam by more than 70%.
Make fun of lizard spit all you want, but this is welcomed news to those of us with Type II diabetes. It seems like most diabetes research (and current breakthrus) have revolved around Type1 diabetes. I for one am glad to see some development in this area. I do wish the article had more information though (but can't expect much from a Yahoo article). Does this mean with these injections, someone suffering from Type2 diabetes can go back and eat normal food? You don't know how much such an ailment can affect you. Not being able to drink a good Coke, or munch on a scrumptious chocolate bar (I was a chocoholic before being diagnosed with diabetes). Enquiring minds wanna know