Congress is writting the laws of the land and you want to handicap the words they can use? Hey man, each and every word in the OED has a specific meaning--that's why they're spelled differently. Why should a congressman be forced to use word X when what he is really trying to convey is better expressed with word Y? Don't know what word Y means? Grab a dictionary a learn something new that day.
Distilling a language down to accomidate the lowest common denominator is asinine. It just eventually makes us all illiterate.
Oh Jeez... not this shit again. "Theory", as used in science, is not the same thing as "wild ass guess" (as the word is used in common usage). The difference between a theory and a law is that a law can be absolutely proven, a theory cannot. But just because evolution cannot be proven with absolute certainity, does not mean it is scientifically solid.
Ok, enough of the "MS should do better, they make the holes" comments. If you remember correctly, MS bought this code only a short while ago from Giant Company. About the only thing Redmond has done is repackage and rebranded it.
A couple months ago we upgraded LiveJournal's connections to the net from 100 Mbps to 1000 mbps, as well as our internal network, but we haven't yet upgraded our load balancer, and it's been choking the past week as our bandwidth continues to increase.
...and when PayPal catches wind of this, be sure to kiss your donation goodbye. Check out PayPal's draconian AUP; Loki surely doesn't pass this litmus test. Paypalsucks.com is abound with stories of PayPal arbitrarily freezing account funds when you don't play by their rules.
Splitting hairs, but technically the USPS is a private corporation--soley own by the US federal government. The semi-privatation occured in 1971 with the passage of the Postal Reorganization Act. Some/.ers are going to see a conspiracy brewing, but read up on it first. This gives the USPS wide lattitude to run themselves as a business and be innovative in a lot of ways. It also forces them to be solvent.
In a geeky sort of way, the history of the USPS somewhat interesting. Up until 1971, the Postmaster General was actually a member of the President's cabinet.
Many moons ago, I headed up the tech support dept at a larger regional ISP. Yes, it's a stereotype, but Mac users *were* more of a PIA than your normal PC user. Macs were very easy to troubleshoot (Dealt with OS 7, mainly), so we didn't mind the technical aspect of things, but we *hated* getting Mac support calls. Mac users tended to be more impatient and much more condescending. Many of them seem to feel that they had risen to Enlightenment above the unwashed masses of PC users. To this day, I still refer to Apples as Yams (Yuppie Asshole Machines).
Had SBC/Yahoo DSL for 3 years, both in NW Ohio and Detroit Metro areas. I had an outage once, lasted a few hours. My experience is that the service is rock-solid. It isn't exactly speedy, but certainly beats dialup.
I just switched to RoadRunner last week. (Left SBC because I loathe their customer "service".) Going from 384k to almost 3m down is mind-blowing. However, I have noticed a higher latency and a couple of hickups, esp. with their DNS services. If it doesn't get much worse though, I can live with it. The installer said they're slated to go to 6m Q1 next year, so I'm hoping that entails some system upgrades.
Ever thought that B-dubs is asking you for your phone number in case you forget to pickup your takeout order? They certainly don't ask for it when you place an order in the resturaent. Come on people... pizza joints have been doing this for decades. Take off the tin foil hat.
Why would you want a law that prohibits someone from holding public office? If the people want to elect someone, they should be able to. If a person casts a vote for somone, knowing full well that they spend some time behind bars, then so be it. That's America. (It's also South Africa, btw)
I think you're also forgetting about who these fobs are going to: major players with major money. RSA has got to be tripping over themselves and possibly doing this project at a loss. They get their technology in the hands of thousands of C?O's. How many of these people do you think are going to ask their IT manager or CIO "Why don't we have this technology yet?" once they get accustomed to it?
For micropayments, check out BitPass. Their biz model is unique in the fact they sell the equivlient of prepaid phone cards. You can buy a $3 BitPass virtual card and use it to pay sites as little as a penny at a time. (Not affililated with them, just implementing a project using their system).
For example, the whole patent system is nothing but protection of big business from small businesses and individuals.
::blink::::blink:: You can't be serious; patents exists for soley the complete opposite. You spend 10 years of your spare time inventing the Great Dohickey(tm) in your garage. Then you spend $75 to file for a provisional patent so you can test market it and beat the bushes for investors for a year. If it flies, then you apply for full patent protection and grow a millionare. The patent protects you from being stomped on by a multibillion dollar corp who could just simply steal your invention so they could out-advertise and out-market you.
Yes, the USPTO could be doing a lot of things better, but don't be throwing the baby out with the bathwater just to satisfy your blind cynicism.
I sincerely hope these guys get sued into oblivion for encouraging slimy debt collection processes. It's not clear the service itself is illegal, but debt collectors using it to identify themselves as someone else very clearly is.
Sooo... by the same rationale, do you also support the lawsuits brought against Sony (Betamax), Grokster and Glock?
If you're looking to d/l old-school MSDOS abandonware, The Home of the Underdogs rocks. While the organizers admit that the site isn't exactly kosher, they do remove stuff at the requests of the copyright holder. A lot of the more major titles aren't found there but if you have a little-known, favorite PC game from 10-15 years ago, odds are they have it. I've gotten Megatraveller, Deathtrack, The Magic Candle, SEAL Team, among others.
If you're looking for a good DOS emulator to play these classics under 2K/XP or Linux, I use DOSBox. It's not perfect, but it does work for most of the games that I've tried.
Well, some people (such as yourself) see this as sort of an over-the-top, politically-correct perspective. In actuality, it's a long standing philosophical debate: is freewill a myth? It's B.F. Skinner and Co. vs. the existenialists.
While you respond in disgust, what happens if one day science does indeed discover that biology trumphs freewill? What if almost all of out behaviors are predetermined by chemistry?
Not attempting to threadjack here, just adding an additional perspective to a post that was an immediate +5.
If you're using MS SQL Server, use the SQL Profiler, chief. It's an app that's installed as part of the SQL client tools, along with Enterprise Admin and Query Analyzer. I use it as a sproc debugger all the time.
A much easier and cheaper lo-tech alternative is KeyLok. It's kinda like a tamper-proof hex bit, but more secure since the bolt heads (and corresponding key pattern) are made-to-order for each customer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't your statement only true if looking at each meteorite independantly? For example, if there was a 1% chance of Meteorite A hitting, there is also a 1% of Meteorite B hitting. However, the odds of both hitting are significantly less: 0.01^2 = 0.01%.
IP nitpicking here: That's a trademark not a copyright. If you wanted to create a CPU called 'Orgasmatron', you could since trademarks only apply to a specific line of products (I forget the legal terminology). It's why you can have both Apple computer and Apple records (Beatles' label).
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Better than a SCSI interface--requires less frequent system flushes.
Congress is writting the laws of the land and you want to handicap the words they can use? Hey man, each and every word in the OED has a specific meaning--that's why they're spelled differently. Why should a congressman be forced to use word X when what he is really trying to convey is better expressed with word Y? Don't know what word Y means? Grab a dictionary a learn something new that day.
Distilling a language down to accomidate the lowest common denominator is asinine. It just eventually makes us all illiterate.
Oh Jeez... not this shit again. "Theory", as used in science, is not the same thing as "wild ass guess" (as the word is used in common usage). The difference between a theory and a law is that a law can be absolutely proven, a theory cannot. But just because evolution cannot be proven with absolute certainity, does not mean it is scientifically solid.
WeatherWatcher is what I use. It's a lightweight piece of donationware that free from both adware and spyware.
Ok, enough of the "MS should do better, they make the holes" comments. If you remember correctly, MS bought this code only a short while ago from Giant Company. About the only thing Redmond has done is repackage and rebranded it.
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...and when PayPal catches wind of this, be sure to kiss your donation goodbye. Check out PayPal's draconian AUP; Loki surely doesn't pass this litmus test. Paypalsucks.com is abound with stories of PayPal arbitrarily freezing account funds when you don't play by their rules.
Splitting hairs, but technically the USPS is a private corporation--soley own by the US federal government. The semi-privatation occured in 1971 with the passage of the Postal Reorganization Act. Some /.ers are going to see a conspiracy brewing, but read up on it first. This gives the USPS wide lattitude to run themselves as a business and be innovative in a lot of ways. It also forces them to be solvent.
In a geeky sort of way, the history of the USPS somewhat interesting. Up until 1971, the Postmaster General was actually a member of the President's cabinet.
Many moons ago, I headed up the tech support dept at a larger regional ISP. Yes, it's a stereotype, but Mac users *were* more of a PIA than your normal PC user. Macs were very easy to troubleshoot (Dealt with OS 7, mainly), so we didn't mind the technical aspect of things, but we *hated* getting Mac support calls. Mac users tended to be more impatient and much more condescending. Many of them seem to feel that they had risen to Enlightenment above the unwashed masses of PC users. To this day, I still refer to Apples as Yams (Yuppie Asshole Machines).
I've had VoicePulse for about 3 weeks now and I've had zero problems. I pay $25/mo for unlimited local and LD.
I was running it over a 384k SBC DSL line and calls got choppy when I was d/ling stuff. Switched to RoadRunner's 3m service and haven't looked back.
Had SBC/Yahoo DSL for 3 years, both in NW Ohio and Detroit Metro areas. I had an outage once, lasted a few hours. My experience is that the service is rock-solid. It isn't exactly speedy, but certainly beats dialup.
I just switched to RoadRunner last week. (Left SBC because I loathe their customer "service".) Going from 384k to almost 3m down is mind-blowing. However, I have noticed a higher latency and a couple of hickups, esp. with their DNS services. If it doesn't get much worse though, I can live with it. The installer said they're slated to go to 6m Q1 next year, so I'm hoping that entails some system upgrades.
Ever thought that B-dubs is asking you for your phone number in case you forget to pickup your takeout order? They certainly don't ask for it when you place an order in the resturaent. Come on people... pizza joints have been doing this for decades. Take off the tin foil hat.
Why would you want a law that prohibits someone from holding public office? If the people want to elect someone, they should be able to. If a person casts a vote for somone, knowing full well that they spend some time behind bars, then so be it. That's America. (It's also South Africa, btw)
I think you're also forgetting about who these fobs are going to: major players with major money. RSA has got to be tripping over themselves and possibly doing this project at a loss. They get their technology in the hands of thousands of C?O's. How many of these people do you think are going to ask their IT manager or CIO "Why don't we have this technology yet?" once they get accustomed to it?
For micropayments, check out BitPass. Their biz model is unique in the fact they sell the equivlient of prepaid phone cards. You can buy a $3 BitPass virtual card and use it to pay sites as little as a penny at a time. (Not affililated with them, just implementing a project using their system).
Yes, the USPTO could be doing a lot of things better, but don't be throwing the baby out with the bathwater just to satisfy your blind cynicism.
I sincerely hope these guys get sued into oblivion for encouraging slimy debt collection processes. It's not clear the service itself is illegal, but debt collectors using it to identify themselves as someone else very clearly is.
Sooo... by the same rationale, do you also support the lawsuits brought against Sony (Betamax), Grokster and Glock?
Consistency. I'm jus' sayn'.
If you're looking to d/l old-school MSDOS abandonware, The Home of the Underdogs rocks. While the organizers admit that the site isn't exactly kosher, they do remove stuff at the requests of the copyright holder. A lot of the more major titles aren't found there but if you have a little-known, favorite PC game from 10-15 years ago, odds are they have it. I've gotten Megatraveller, Deathtrack, The Magic Candle, SEAL Team, among others.
If you're looking for a good DOS emulator to play these classics under 2K/XP or Linux, I use DOSBox. It's not perfect, but it does work for most of the games that I've tried.
Well, some people (such as yourself) see this as sort of an over-the-top, politically-correct perspective. In actuality, it's a long standing philosophical debate: is freewill a myth? It's B.F. Skinner and Co. vs. the existenialists.
While you respond in disgust, what happens if one day science does indeed discover that biology trumphs freewill? What if almost all of out behaviors are predetermined by chemistry?
Not attempting to threadjack here, just adding an additional perspective to a post that was an immediate +5.
If you're using MS SQL Server, use the SQL Profiler, chief. It's an app that's installed as part of the SQL client tools, along with Enterprise Admin and Query Analyzer. I use it as a sproc debugger all the time.
A much easier and cheaper lo-tech alternative is KeyLok. It's kinda like a tamper-proof hex bit, but more secure since the bolt heads (and corresponding key pattern) are made-to-order for each customer.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't your statement only true if looking at each meteorite independantly? For example, if there was a 1% chance of Meteorite A hitting, there is also a 1% of Meteorite B hitting. However, the odds of both hitting are significantly less: 0.01^2 = 0.01%.
(Philosopher, not a statistican; could be wrong.)
IP nitpicking here: That's a trademark not a copyright. If you wanted to create a CPU called 'Orgasmatron', you could since trademarks only apply to a specific line of products (I forget the legal terminology). It's why you can have both Apple computer and Apple records (Beatles' label).