Well, Mr. Coward, I'll shamefully admit that I didn't get the joke until after you pointed it out to me...I've been had, and now my embarassment will live forever in the slashdot archives. Fortunately I haven't lost the ability to make fun of myself even though I seem to be a bit humor impaired today.
It's some sort of extra protection measure that isn't encoded in the magnetic strip and therefore needs to be entered manually...not used all of the time but when it is used it prevents someone from using a magnetic cardswipe to steal your number...the credit card company knows that number and sometimes requires it for authorization
I used Filemaker two years ago in a decent-sized k-12 school setting and we did nothing over the web -- it was all through the built-in Filemaker client. Not that my experience means much about the world in general, though.
If you're ticked off at them the way to get back isn't by not using their free service (ha, they probably *want* us all to stop using hotmail for free), but it's to use hotmail as much as possible, increase the server load, store huge attachments, etc. That's why, despite how horrible the free hotmail has been to me, I still use it for my throwaway address.
Not that I'm suggesting slashdotting MSN or anything;-)
If the big kilowatt and megawatt FMs don't leak into my TV channels I can't see milliwatt WiFi being a problem either.
The fact that there's a considerable gap in frequency between channels 6 and 7 that allows the room for FM radio. See this chart for more information (you may have to scroll and zoom a bit; you're looking for the third row down about halfway across) is what keeps the FM radio stations off of channels 6 and 7. Broadcast TV channels 2-4 run 54-72 MHz, there's a break between 4 and 5, 5-6 run 76-88 MHz, there's another (bigger) break where FM radio--and a whole bunch of other stuff--goes. Channel 7 doesn't pop up until 174 MHz.
Yeah, but the obnoxious part is that those fees are tacked on after your base price. So on my landline, the $6.85 local calling plan ends up costing me a grand total of: $20.83. What the heck? And in your example, the plan that was advertised as $59.99 really ends up costing at least $77.46 -- almost twenty bucks more per month than you expect when you sign up.
Normally I would agree with you but my "test server" is the one that I only use for testing trivial little PHP scripts and processing latex documents. Neither of those require me to update any software so (other than bugfixes) I generally don't. I did try the 2.6 branch with it, but it didn't work right even after a few compile attempt. Rather than actually read any documentation, I just gave up and went back to 2.4.x. And my other linux box is my dual-booting laptop which has some updated features only because it's a laptop and I like the power management, etc...So in the traditional sense of the phrase, I don't have any "production machines" and also misued "test server" but in my usage that's what I call it even though I'm not really tinkering with much new software there. But I agree; for true production machine use keep to the tried-and-true and test the new series.
On an almost unrelated note; you may have just motivated me to try 2.6 out again.
However, there's nothing that requires you to upgrade your kernel version regularaly. My test server at home runs 2.4.24, because there's no major reason to update it. If it were a real server some of the features of 2.6 would be useful but for casual hacking around there's no point to upgrading it.
Be realistic, the majority are not going to use LaTeX. They're going to use Quark, InDesign, or FrameMaker, depending on what they're up to
LaTeX is great for some things but doesn't really compete with InDesign, Quark, et al -- LaTeX is great for batches of similar projects -- writting letters, for instance, or articles, or books -- things that are layed out somewhat similarly; whereas anything a designer is laying out with Quark is going to require a different sort of user interface. LaTeX is designed to give great typographical layout with minimal fuss...a \begin{itemize} here and a \footnote there and you've got a great looking document built off of a standard class (a book, for instance). A designer layout out a magazine page is being paid to worry about the very layout that LaTeX was designed to keep the author for mucking around with.
What happens when the amount time it takes to transfer all the data from one medium to another is longer than the life time of the media on which it currently resides?
Why, I'm glad you asked -- NASA seems to be having the same problem (as noted in this slashdot article from way back when, but the link doesn't work anymore and the wayback machine doesn't have it either...
And you can't even grant Users read/write access to the necessary files and folders (for badly written programs that expect to be able to write to C:\Program Files\... as a regular user) because the right-click context menu for Security doesn't exist?
Took me forever to find it a few weeks ago; but you need to turn off "Use Simple File Sharing" in...um...well,
open an explorer window (My Computer will do fine)
go to the tools menu
select "Folder Options"
click over to the "View" tab
scroll down
un-check "Use Simple File Sharing" to get access to all the permission goodies.
That _should_ clear up your problems relating to not being able to secure folders. I think...
There are other good suggestions here (a linux box running samba, works well and is pretty easy; and PDFCreator), but I'll throw in one more:
Cute PDF Writer
Works real well; installs as a virtual printer probably like your "print to pdf" program that you're shelling out money for...CutePDF is free and works like a charm; however it requires installing GhostScript on the PC.
So what's the problem with this? I mean, _I_ understand the benefits of knowing a "real" programming language, but I have Microsoft-centric friends who truely believe that C, C++, Java, etc are dead (let's not even go to their opinions of Perl, PHP, and Python) -- because of Visual Basic and VB.net. If all one has to do in VB is click-n-drag to create a beautiful window and form; what can I tell them the benefit is in learning the "hard" way? Some of these people think that no one uses C++ anymore because it's "too hard". Argh! How do I argue with that (or even explain myself)?
I picked up a decent backpack at Staples, it's got the Yahoo! logo on the front (very small and blends in nicely with the bag). This was about 3 or 4 years ago and the bag is still working, although showing signs of wear. Anyway, it fits my smallish Toshiba perfectly, maybe not your bigger 15 incher, but check it out; I think they come in serveral sizes. At least, did, when I was shopping for it...
I second this -- I live in southeastern PA and travel a lot for work...signals drop on major highways regularly, poor reception in my house (can see several cell phone towers from here, too), no reception in the office, etc. T-Mobile is horrible.
Your terms are very close...I think you meant "odometer" instead of "tachometer" -- the odometer is a milage meter -- it tracks how far one has travelled. The tachometer is a measure of the RPMs or speed your engine is running at. And yes, driver's log books are a pretty big deal; even non-hazardous materials (but still commercial) drivers can get in big trouble for not having a log book or for having it incorrect.
These systems are a little smarter than this. Instead of just cutting the engine power, they simultaneously cut electrical and fuel power to the engine, disangage the clutch and force the brakes on full, all within a few seconds. There's no trouble with steering, as within a few moments there's no need to steer anywhere.
now that frightens me -- the idea that at any moment the truck in front of me will have all the brakes locked up -- doesn't this generally result in some sort of crash? Something along the lines of the trailer being heavier than the cab and then jackknifing around the cab?
I guess I mis-read the parent of my previous post...I think they were refering to the "tv show" in general, not something specific to the field day, which is what I was expecting when I made my "Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you're talking about, but then again I only skimmed it..." comment...
I guess for it to be a real broadcast, it would have to be on at a certain time, and have to have real people 'tuning in' to see it. In this case, it is more of a video press release/news program.
A broadcast is defined essentially as any over-the-air transmission intended for the general public -- as in, not designated for any particular person. So while this may not meet your definition of a broadcast, it may well meet the FCC's definition. Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you're talking about, but then again I only skimmed it...
I'm not a professional but do take pretty good pictures -- but I like to be able to see what my shot looks like after I've taken it. I used to be a die-hard film fan but recently used a friend's Canon Powershot G2 on a trip...for what I'm doing (4x5 prints) I can't see much of a quality difference. The ability to take hundreds of pictures at essentially no cost (other than storage space) is an advantage -- not to mention being able to see what I"ve taken. Even if I know a camera and know the film and metered the scene and double-checked everything; I'm never positive that it turned out the way I wanted until i see it. Digital gives me that instantly. Film doesn't. Now I may still hold of on getting digital for another year or two (and stick with a nice 35-mm SLR in the mean time) but for consumers and amateur photographers, digital is clearly going to win -- and soon.
Then the advertiser's plan is working. What they do is compress the audio in commercials (often multi-band compression) so that it sounds louder without actually distorting or violating any of the FCC regulations about overmodulated broadcasts.
The theory is that you're listening to a show -- which (if it's mixed well) has it's own lower-than-maximum level for dialog to begin with -- when they go to commercial, you'll hear the ad and pay at least a little bit of attention. Advertising, I hear (I'm not in advertising myself and have no interest in it), is a cruel world -- the public already hates the program interruption and on top of that they want to get up and leave the room (or change channels) during a commercial break. I say tough luck; find a different way to advertise and make money...
Anyway; as I was saying, a good show with well mixed audio will actually vary in level. See, there's a maximum volume level they can record and play back programs at, 0dB. Going over that will distort the audio and violate FCC regulations. Multiband compression helps it sound louder without actually making it go over that. Getting back to your well-mixed program, you'll notice that life doesn't happen at one volume level -- the cars on the street are quieter than the keyboard click...until the phone rings and it's the loudest thing..so on. A sound engineer for a good drama may have the explosion peak right around -3 but the dialog riding around -20 dB (i'm making up numbers here but they should be close to accurate) -- to simulate reality. So if you go out of a show at a quiet -20 dialog and go right in to a compressed commercial running at -1dB, you're going to notice a huge difference in apparent loudness.
I'm rambling so I'll wrap up with a quick mention of some of the new digital/Dolby something they're developing (or maybe using already). The digial stream contains metadata -- extra information not heard but used by the decoder; one of those bits of information is a volume or apparent loudness setting, so theoretically broadcasters can more closely match their levels. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the advertisers mis-use this....
Interesting enough, you can send messages to anyone for free from my phone company's website, as long as their phone is through the company.
I've seen this with a lot of providers here in the US -- most of them have a way to send messages via a web interface. I think you can even send them through an email gateway in most cases (2025551234@mobile.provider.com or something). Not the same as getting your normal email through your phone, this is a seperate email gateway. At least, that's what I've been told.
While it's a great-sounding idea, it sounds very similar to the free internet or free voice mail services of a few years ago. Netzero and it's dozens of competitors are mostly gone -- try to find ad-supported/free dialup internet. Sure it's still there (Netzero and Juno) but you only get, what, 10 hours a month? Not the unlimited or even 40 hours a month of a few years ago.
And there were serveral services that allowed one to make free 2-minute long distance phone calls, leave/get voicemail, get weather/traffic/other information, etc -- that were also supported by advertising. I forget which one I used, but it's been gone for two or three years now.
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It's some sort of extra protection measure that isn't encoded in the magnetic strip and therefore needs to be entered manually...not used all of the time but when it is used it prevents someone from using a magnetic cardswipe to steal your number...the credit card company knows that number and sometimes requires it for authorization
I used Filemaker two years ago in a decent-sized k-12 school setting and we did nothing over the web -- it was all through the built-in Filemaker client. Not that my experience means much about the world in general, though.
If you're ticked off at them the way to get back isn't by not using their free service (ha, they probably *want* us all to stop using hotmail for free), but it's to use hotmail as much as possible, increase the server load, store huge attachments, etc. That's why, despite how horrible the free hotmail has been to me, I still use it for my throwaway address.
;-)
Not that I'm suggesting slashdotting MSN or anything
If the big kilowatt and megawatt FMs don't leak into my TV channels I can't see milliwatt WiFi being a problem either. The fact that there's a considerable gap in frequency between channels 6 and 7 that allows the room for FM radio. See this chart for more information (you may have to scroll and zoom a bit; you're looking for the third row down about halfway across) is what keeps the FM radio stations off of channels 6 and 7. Broadcast TV channels 2-4 run 54-72 MHz, there's a break between 4 and 5, 5-6 run 76-88 MHz, there's another (bigger) break where FM radio--and a whole bunch of other stuff--goes. Channel 7 doesn't pop up until 174 MHz.
Yeah, but the obnoxious part is that those fees are tacked on after your base price. So on my landline, the $6.85 local calling plan ends up costing me a grand total of: $20.83. What the heck? And in your example, the plan that was advertised as $59.99 really ends up costing at least $77.46 -- almost twenty bucks more per month than you expect when you sign up.
I'm just fed up with extra and hidden fees.
Normally I would agree with you but my "test server" is the one that I only use for testing trivial little PHP scripts and processing latex documents. Neither of those require me to update any software so (other than bugfixes) I generally don't. I did try the 2.6 branch with it, but it didn't work right even after a few compile attempt. Rather than actually read any documentation, I just gave up and went back to 2.4.x. And my other linux box is my dual-booting laptop which has some updated features only because it's a laptop and I like the power management, etc...So in the traditional sense of the phrase, I don't have any "production machines" and also misued "test server" but in my usage that's what I call it even though I'm not really tinkering with much new software there. But I agree; for true production machine use keep to the tried-and-true and test the new series.
On an almost unrelated note; you may have just motivated me to try 2.6 out again.
However, there's nothing that requires you to upgrade your kernel version regularaly. My test server at home runs 2.4.24, because there's no major reason to update it. If it were a real server some of the features of 2.6 would be useful but for casual hacking around there's no point to upgrading it.
- open an explorer window (My Computer will do fine)
- go to the tools menu
- select "Folder Options"
- click over to the "View" tab
- scroll down
- un-check "Use Simple File Sharing" to get access to all the permission goodies.
That _should_ clear up your problems relating to not being able to secure folders. I think...There are other good suggestions here (a linux box running samba, works well and is pretty easy; and PDFCreator), but I'll throw in one more: Cute PDF Writer
Works real well; installs as a virtual printer probably like your "print to pdf" program that you're shelling out money for...CutePDF is free and works like a charm; however it requires installing GhostScript on the PC.
So what's the problem with this? I mean, _I_ understand the benefits of knowing a "real" programming language, but I have Microsoft-centric friends who truely believe that C, C++, Java, etc are dead (let's not even go to their opinions of Perl, PHP, and Python) -- because of Visual Basic and VB.net. If all one has to do in VB is click-n-drag to create a beautiful window and form; what can I tell them the benefit is in learning the "hard" way? Some of these people think that no one uses C++ anymore because it's "too hard". Argh! How do I argue with that (or even explain myself)?
I picked up a decent backpack at Staples, it's got the Yahoo! logo on the front (very small and blends in nicely with the bag). This was about 3 or 4 years ago and the bag is still working, although showing signs of wear. Anyway, it fits my smallish Toshiba perfectly, maybe not your bigger 15 incher, but check it out; I think they come in serveral sizes. At least, did, when I was shopping for it...
I second this -- I live in southeastern PA and travel a lot for work...signals drop on major highways regularly, poor reception in my house (can see several cell phone towers from here, too), no reception in the office, etc. T-Mobile is horrible.
Your terms are very close...I think you meant "odometer" instead of "tachometer" -- the odometer is a milage meter -- it tracks how far one has travelled. The tachometer is a measure of the RPMs or speed your engine is running at. And yes, driver's log books are a pretty big deal; even non-hazardous materials (but still commercial) drivers can get in big trouble for not having a log book or for having it incorrect.
I guess I mis-read the parent of my previous post...I think they were refering to the "tv show" in general, not something specific to the field day, which is what I was expecting when I made my "Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you're talking about, but then again I only skimmed it..." comment...
A broadcast is defined essentially as any over-the-air transmission intended for the general public -- as in, not designated for any particular person. So while this may not meet your definition of a broadcast, it may well meet the FCC's definition. Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you're talking about, but then again I only skimmed it...
My favorite thing to hear from time to time: "Oh, what an incredible picture -- you must have a really expensive camera."
I'm not a professional but do take pretty good pictures -- but I like to be able to see what my shot looks like after I've taken it. I used to be a die-hard film fan but recently used a friend's Canon Powershot G2 on a trip...for what I'm doing (4x5 prints) I can't see much of a quality difference. The ability to take hundreds of pictures at essentially no cost (other than storage space) is an advantage -- not to mention being able to see what I"ve taken. Even if I know a camera and know the film and metered the scene and double-checked everything; I'm never positive that it turned out the way I wanted until i see it. Digital gives me that instantly. Film doesn't. Now I may still hold of on getting digital for another year or two (and stick with a nice 35-mm SLR in the mean time) but for consumers and amateur photographers, digital is clearly going to win -- and soon.
Then the advertiser's plan is working. What they do is compress the audio in commercials (often multi-band compression) so that it sounds louder without actually distorting or violating any of the FCC regulations about overmodulated broadcasts.
The theory is that you're listening to a show -- which (if it's mixed well) has it's own lower-than-maximum level for dialog to begin with -- when they go to commercial, you'll hear the ad and pay at least a little bit of attention. Advertising, I hear (I'm not in advertising myself and have no interest in it), is a cruel world -- the public already hates the program interruption and on top of that they want to get up and leave the room (or change channels) during a commercial break. I say tough luck; find a different way to advertise and make money...
Anyway; as I was saying, a good show with well mixed audio will actually vary in level. See, there's a maximum volume level they can record and play back programs at, 0dB. Going over that will distort the audio and violate FCC regulations. Multiband compression helps it sound louder without actually making it go over that. Getting back to your well-mixed program, you'll notice that life doesn't happen at one volume level -- the cars on the street are quieter than the keyboard click...until the phone rings and it's the loudest thing..so on. A sound engineer for a good drama may have the explosion peak right around -3 but the dialog riding around -20 dB (i'm making up numbers here but they should be close to accurate) -- to simulate reality. So if you go out of a show at a quiet -20 dialog and go right in to a compressed commercial running at -1dB, you're going to notice a huge difference in apparent loudness.
I'm rambling so I'll wrap up with a quick mention of some of the new digital/Dolby something they're developing (or maybe using already). The digial stream contains metadata -- extra information not heard but used by the decoder; one of those bits of information is a volume or apparent loudness setting, so theoretically broadcasters can more closely match their levels. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the advertisers mis-use this....
While it's a great-sounding idea, it sounds very similar to the free internet or free voice mail services of a few years ago. Netzero and it's dozens of competitors are mostly gone -- try to find ad-supported/free dialup internet. Sure it's still there (Netzero and Juno) but you only get, what, 10 hours a month? Not the unlimited or even 40 hours a month of a few years ago.
And there were serveral services that allowed one to make free 2-minute long distance phone calls, leave/get voicemail, get weather/traffic/other information, etc -- that were also supported by advertising. I forget which one I used, but it's been gone for two or three years now.