"At $150 a pop to "consult" with a man in a nice suit, you can easily remind him that his phone and laptop aren't secure, even offer him advice on what he can do and what he can buy to keep his tracks concealed better."
You better be giving him some damn good advice, or you might end up with some broken kneecaps if you're lucky, getting fished out of the river with cement shoes if not.
Not only that, fighter jets have experienced maintenance crews who spend many hours ensuring all systems are functional.
On the other hand, how many people out there are driving with the CEL on? How many don't even bother to do routine oil changes? How many are driving on balding, under-inflated tires?
I bet if fighter pilots had to pay for the maintenance of their own jets, there'd be a *lot* more skimping on replacement parts and service, and you'd see a lot more accidents... just like cars.
I find this personal mobility devices pathetic for able bodied people. Why aren't we satisfied with walking anymore? I will be walking 30 minutes twice a day from September. The only issue is boredom and wasting of time. I will counter this with podcasts.
So... you don't actually do this *walking* stuff now? You don't actually know what it's like walking to work in a suit, when it's 95 degrees with 95% humidity? You don't know what it's like meeting with clients smelling like you just walked out of the gym? You don't know what it's like having to spend $100 a week on drycleaning? And you're calling people pathetic.... that's funny.
The device would have been great for my last office. It was a 4 mile ride to the train station, the commute into the city, and then a 2 mile subway ride. Would have been fine by bike, but you couldn't take the bike on the train, so you would have needed two bikes. Which I wouldn't have minded either, one bike from home to station, one in the city from station to work, but there wasn't any place to lock up a bike at work and you weren't allowed to bring the bike into the office. The YikeBike could be stowed in a garment bag, that would have been perfect.
Yes, there certainly was a "craze". You just missed it because you're weren't living where it happened.
The small notebooks have always been popular in Japan but never really caught on in the US. Americans could only buy them through import sites at twice the price, so mostly we just looked at the pictures, read the specs, and sent letters to the manufacturers begging them to bring those models to the US.
It was fantastic walking around Akihabara, seeing machines that you only saw pop up as brief descriptions in US magazines. Beautiful machines that never made it to the US shores. Nowadays, with the web, it's all to easy to see the pictures and look up specs, but back then, we only had mere glimpses.
So yes, there was a craze. But because the machines were never exported, that craze never made it to the US.
The laser keyboard isn't meant to replace your computer keyboard, thus comparing it to a normal keyboard is beyond the point.
It's a Bluetooth, battery powered device that allows you use a keyboard to enter data into your PDA (or phone I suppose). Relevant comparisons would be folding keyboards, but then you would need to judge on portability and convenience.
Why? It's much, much cheaper to just use an open flame. Get close enough and you won't do any permanent damage. Fill a tub with extremely hot water and dunk a few times, that'll do the same thing as the ADS without leaving any permanent damage. Unless they resist, in which case even with ADS you're going to end up leaving marks or burns.
I use three 19" screens, running on a dual-head PCI card and a spare PCI card that I had lying around.
I find two screens much more efficient than a single large screen, and much cheaper as well. And when you bump up to three screens, it's even better. Most of the time I have my "corporate" desktop open on one screen, my "working" desktop on the middle, and the "research" internet browsers open on the third. But when it really shines is when I have to monitor several terminal servers at once. Having all that real estate makes a huge difference. I could do the work with two screens, but three can be really helpful. If it saves a couple seconds a day of flipping between windows, that's a lot of time over the course of a year.
I have the two outer LCDs angled in, so I have a constant viewing angle and distance, which I think probably helps reduce eye strain.
The only downside is when I have to work from home on the laptop on the little 15.4" widescreen display... it's painful when you've gotten used to working with what amounts to a 50" widescreen display.
Ghost will not go away. Sure, maybe ADS can multicast. But ADS is an addition to Windows 2003 Server ENTERPRISE. Ghost Server runs on any old desktop.
I have 25 remote offices with 20-400 machines each. None of those remote offices have an enterprise edition server, and there's no way I'm going to buy Server 2003 Enterprise for all the offices just so they can image machines (and I'm certainly not going to have them pull images across the WAN). Instead, they all have a P4 desktop running XP that can multicast to a hundred machines in 20 minutes.
The biggest benefit of supersonic travel would be the elimination of jet lag. The long flight, not only in taking up half a day, results in you being groggy for a day or two as you adjust. Then the reverse coming back. And the older you get, the harder it is to adjust (at least for me).
I don't know what it would cost, but some of it will be offset since they won't need two full flight and cabin crews, they won't need to carry three meals and snacks.
Just wish I had the money to take it, I'm sure I'll always be stuck in coach with all those screaming kids and crying babies.
Whats the difference between:
a) taking a CD, ripping the song to a lower-quality format like an mp3 and then making hundreds of copies of it; and,
b) taking copyrighted printed material, and then making hundreds of photocopies of it?
Think of the billions of documents illegally photocopied every year.
By the Supreme Court's own logic, unless Xerox can find a way to prevent photocopying of copyrighted documents, they must cease and desist selling photocopiers. And since we all know thats not going to happen, I guess someone really needs to sue Xerox.
A good book is 500 pages. If it's a paperback, you can get two pages per photocopy, so that's only 250 pages to photocopy the book. 500 copies of that will cost you $750 in paper. $2000 in toner. $2500 in shipping to send it to people. That comes to about $10.50 per copy, and take at least 80 hours on a high speed copier (not including time to reload paper, change toner, service the machine... and triple that if you want them bound) and who knows how much electricity it would take. Not to mention the cost of the high speed copier, which is thousands of dollars itself. I don't want to even think how long it would take on a personal laserjet.
A CD costs $20. Making an MP3 of the song costs you nothing but a couple minutes of your time. Enabling that MP3 to be downloaded from your machine costs you $39.99 for the internet access, but you're probably already paying for that so it costs you nothing. Having it downloaded from your machine via P2P would cost you nothing.
1000 copies of the book would cost you $10,500 out of your pocket. 1000 copies of the MP3 distributed from your machine would cost you no more than 1 copy.
Yes, a judge has said that p2p is like the photocopier, in that they have legitimate uses but can be used to violate copyright. However, the difference between photocopying books and distributing MP3s is the large amount of resources required to photocopy things, and also the low quality of photocopies. MP3s get copied perfectly each and every time and the costs are negligible. That's the difference.
Of course, if he tried to market himself as the "Star Wars Kid", he'd be sued by Lucas for copyright infringement. I'm not sure he could call himself "Star Wars Kid" without getting a cease & desist letter from the studio. So maybe suing those who posted the video is more profitable.
If you're clinically dead, the soul aready departed right? Especially if it takes a few hours or days to get your body revived, then your soul's been hanging with the big man upstairs and probably won't want to return, which means the body will be revived without a soul and turn into a brain-eating zombie...
Seriously, just wondering what the Church's reaction to this is going to be.
These numbers indicate that the best way for Microsoft to solve this issue is to simply raise an army and invade Norway. Don't be suprised if Norway is renamed to Billgatsia sometime in the next few years.
Will the former Norwegian citizens get stock options? If so I think I'll pack up and head to Oslo before the takeover.
Does this mean that gun companies can now be held accountable when third-parties commit crimes with a gun?
No, for two reasons. First, the ruling talks specifically about copyright infringement, so unless you use a weapon to commit copyright infringmement the manufacturers won't be held liable.
Second, the ruling also speaks about the promoted use by the manufacturers. No weapons manufacturer promotes their weapons to be used in committing crimes. They don't even promote the use of weapons for self-defense. Now, the dealer, who actually sells the weapons to the consumer, may talk about home-defense/self-defense, but the manufacturer doesn't. The manufacturers have been sued many times over the past 30 years so they've already got a lot of experience with how not to promote their products.
Two way communication with prosthetic devices allows man who lost both arms in an accident to feel hot and cold, to sense objects and to actually move the prosthetic device to pick things up and put them down.
But will it let him to type in his login and password so he can read the story about himself?
.I'd love for my 32 page newspaper to be the 13 or 14 (or less) pages of pure content...
Most people would love to see a newspaper without ads. The only reason you *can't* cut holes in the paper is because there's also print on the other side. If newspapers were one-sided, nobody would mind a paper filled with holes because you're not losing any *content*.
If you think of how many people want to block ads, and think of how may people fast forward through commercials on videotaped shows, how many people wish their recorders could just skip the commercials... why would you think that newspaper readers are any different in not wanting ads?
It has the ability to white list. There's an option to send everything into the bulk folder except for mail coming from someone on your address book. Gmail and Yahoo are pretty good with sorting spam and I use them for personal mail. But for conferences and conventions, I use my hotmail address, and white list the few vendors I want to hear from, and all the others I scanned to get swag get routed right to the bulk folder. Great feature, definitely worth keeping one hotmail address.
What's surprising to me is that Cray used to be synonymous with supercomputers and they now have comparatively few entries.
Why is that suprising in any way? At one time, Ford was synonymous with cars, but today have news of Ford laying off managers. IBM used to be synonymous with the desktop PC, but with the sale of their laptop division are now completely out of the market. Sony Walkman was synonymous with portable music, but now everyone has an iPod.
Cray is just another company that had a great product for a while, but couldn't keep innovating and couldn't keep up when the competition joined the market. Nothing at all suprising about it, it happens all the time.
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"If all goes well, the new and improved insect will continue to pollinate our crops for years to come."
Wow, that's going to be one super busy bee.
But isn't that putting all our gets in one basket? I mean, maybe we want *two* of them just in case one dies?
"At $150 a pop to "consult" with a man in a nice suit, you can easily remind him that his phone and laptop aren't secure, even offer him advice on what he can do and what he can buy to keep his tracks concealed better."
You better be giving him some damn good advice, or you might end up with some broken kneecaps if you're lucky, getting fished out of the river with cement shoes if not.
Windows users?
Not only that, fighter jets have experienced maintenance crews who spend many hours ensuring all systems are functional. On the other hand, how many people out there are driving with the CEL on? How many don't even bother to do routine oil changes? How many are driving on balding, under-inflated tires? I bet if fighter pilots had to pay for the maintenance of their own jets, there'd be a *lot* more skimping on replacement parts and service, and you'd see a lot more accidents... just like cars.
I find this personal mobility devices pathetic for able bodied people.
Why aren't we satisfied with walking anymore? I will be walking 30 minutes twice a day from September.
The only issue is boredom and wasting of time. I will counter this with podcasts.
So... you don't actually do this *walking* stuff now? You don't actually know what it's like walking to work in a suit, when it's 95 degrees with 95% humidity? You don't know what it's like meeting with clients smelling like you just walked out of the gym? You don't know what it's like having to spend $100 a week on drycleaning? And you're calling people pathetic.... that's funny.
The device would have been great for my last office. It was a 4 mile ride to the train station, the commute into the city, and then a 2 mile subway ride. Would have been fine by bike, but you couldn't take the bike on the train, so you would have needed two bikes. Which I wouldn't have minded either, one bike from home to station, one in the city from station to work, but there wasn't any place to lock up a bike at work and you weren't allowed to bring the bike into the office. The YikeBike could be stowed in a garment bag, that would have been perfect.
I'm an engineer. And I'm still at work.
My mechanic left yesterday on vacation. I have to wait until he gets back sometime next week before he can fix my car.
Must be nice to be a mechanic...
Yes, there certainly was a "craze". You just missed it because you're weren't living where it happened. The small notebooks have always been popular in Japan but never really caught on in the US. Americans could only buy them through import sites at twice the price, so mostly we just looked at the pictures, read the specs, and sent letters to the manufacturers begging them to bring those models to the US. It was fantastic walking around Akihabara, seeing machines that you only saw pop up as brief descriptions in US magazines. Beautiful machines that never made it to the US shores. Nowadays, with the web, it's all to easy to see the pictures and look up specs, but back then, we only had mere glimpses. So yes, there was a craze. But because the machines were never exported, that craze never made it to the US.
The laser keyboard isn't meant to replace your computer keyboard, thus comparing it to a normal keyboard is beyond the point.
It's a Bluetooth, battery powered device that allows you use a keyboard to enter data into your PDA (or phone I suppose). Relevant comparisons would be folding keyboards, but then you would need to judge on portability and convenience.
Why? It's much, much cheaper to just use an open flame. Get close enough and you won't do any permanent damage. Fill a tub with extremely hot water and dunk a few times, that'll do the same thing as the ADS without leaving any permanent damage. Unless they resist, in which case even with ADS you're going to end up leaving marks or burns.
I use three 19" screens, running on a dual-head PCI card and a spare PCI card that I had lying around. I find two screens much more efficient than a single large screen, and much cheaper as well. And when you bump up to three screens, it's even better. Most of the time I have my "corporate" desktop open on one screen, my "working" desktop on the middle, and the "research" internet browsers open on the third. But when it really shines is when I have to monitor several terminal servers at once. Having all that real estate makes a huge difference. I could do the work with two screens, but three can be really helpful. If it saves a couple seconds a day of flipping between windows, that's a lot of time over the course of a year. I have the two outer LCDs angled in, so I have a constant viewing angle and distance, which I think probably helps reduce eye strain. The only downside is when I have to work from home on the laptop on the little 15.4" widescreen display... it's painful when you've gotten used to working with what amounts to a 50" widescreen display.
Ghost will not go away. Sure, maybe ADS can multicast. But ADS is an addition to Windows 2003 Server ENTERPRISE. Ghost Server runs on any old desktop.
I have 25 remote offices with 20-400 machines each. None of those remote offices have an enterprise edition server, and there's no way I'm going to buy Server 2003 Enterprise for all the offices just so they can image machines (and I'm certainly not going to have them pull images across the WAN). Instead, they all have a P4 desktop running XP that can multicast to a hundred machines in 20 minutes.
Ghost is not going anywhere.
Went through the whole process, as instructed on their web site, but step "4" is missing ...
Step 4 is "Profit!" You don't see it because it's a scam the scammers are the ones who "Profit!".
Ok, really, I don't know if it's a scam or legitimate. But someone other than me always seems to "Profit!".
The biggest benefit of supersonic travel would be the elimination of jet lag. The long flight, not only in taking up half a day, results in you being groggy for a day or two as you adjust. Then the reverse coming back. And the older you get, the harder it is to adjust (at least for me).
I don't know what it would cost, but some of it will be offset since they won't need two full flight and cabin crews, they won't need to carry three meals and snacks.
Just wish I had the money to take it, I'm sure I'll always be stuck in coach with all those screaming kids and crying babies.
Whats the difference between: a) taking a CD, ripping the song to a lower-quality format like an mp3 and then making hundreds of copies of it; and, b) taking copyrighted printed material, and then making hundreds of photocopies of it? Think of the billions of documents illegally photocopied every year. By the Supreme Court's own logic, unless Xerox can find a way to prevent photocopying of copyrighted documents, they must cease and desist selling photocopiers. And since we all know thats not going to happen, I guess someone really needs to sue Xerox.
A good book is 500 pages. If it's a paperback, you can get two pages per photocopy, so that's only 250 pages to photocopy the book. 500 copies of that will cost you $750 in paper. $2000 in toner. $2500 in shipping to send it to people. That comes to about $10.50 per copy, and take at least 80 hours on a high speed copier (not including time to reload paper, change toner, service the machine... and triple that if you want them bound) and who knows how much electricity it would take. Not to mention the cost of the high speed copier, which is thousands of dollars itself. I don't want to even think how long it would take on a personal laserjet.
A CD costs $20. Making an MP3 of the song costs you nothing but a couple minutes of your time. Enabling that MP3 to be downloaded from your machine costs you $39.99 for the internet access, but you're probably already paying for that so it costs you nothing. Having it downloaded from your machine via P2P would cost you nothing.
1000 copies of the book would cost you $10,500 out of your pocket. 1000 copies of the MP3 distributed from your machine would cost you no more than 1 copy.
Yes, a judge has said that p2p is like the photocopier, in that they have legitimate uses but can be used to violate copyright. However, the difference between photocopying books and distributing MP3s is the large amount of resources required to photocopy things, and also the low quality of photocopies. MP3s get copied perfectly each and every time and the costs are negligible. That's the difference.
But if I'm using this with porn, I certainly don't want it to slow down when I get excited.
Of course, if he tried to market himself as the "Star Wars Kid", he'd be sued by Lucas for copyright infringement. I'm not sure he could call himself "Star Wars Kid" without getting a cease & desist letter from the studio. So maybe suing those who posted the video is more profitable.
Can you use QtParted to multicast a system image to 5000 machines? To 1 machine? Nope. Then it's not a replacement at all, is it?
If you're clinically dead, the soul aready departed right? Especially if it takes a few hours or days to get your body revived, then your soul's been hanging with the big man upstairs and probably won't want to return, which means the body will be revived without a soul and turn into a brain-eating zombie...
Seriously, just wondering what the Church's reaction to this is going to be.
These numbers indicate that the best way for Microsoft to solve this issue is to simply raise an army and invade Norway. Don't be suprised if Norway is renamed to Billgatsia sometime in the next few years.
Will the former Norwegian citizens get stock options? If so I think I'll pack up and head to Oslo before the takeover.
Does this mean that gun companies can now be held accountable when third-parties commit crimes with a gun?
No, for two reasons. First, the ruling talks specifically about copyright infringement, so unless you use a weapon to commit copyright infringmement the manufacturers won't be held liable.
Second, the ruling also speaks about the promoted use by the manufacturers. No weapons manufacturer promotes their weapons to be used in committing crimes. They don't even promote the use of weapons for self-defense. Now, the dealer, who actually sells the weapons to the consumer, may talk about home-defense/self-defense, but the manufacturer doesn't. The manufacturers have been sued many times over the past 30 years so they've already got a lot of experience with how not to promote their products.
Two way communication with prosthetic devices allows man who lost both arms in an accident to feel hot and cold, to sense objects and to actually move the prosthetic device to pick things up and put them down.
But will it let him to type in his login and password so he can read the story about himself?
Here's the story at Yahoo.
.I'd love for my 32 page newspaper to be the 13 or 14 (or less) pages of pure content...
Most people would love to see a newspaper without ads. The only reason you *can't* cut holes in the paper is because there's also print on the other side. If newspapers were one-sided, nobody would mind a paper filled with holes because you're not losing any *content*.
If you think of how many people want to block ads, and think of how may people fast forward through commercials on videotaped shows, how many people wish their recorders could just skip the commercials... why would you think that newspaper readers are any different in not wanting ads?
Does anyone besides spammers use hotmail anymore?
It has the ability to white list. There's an option to send everything into the bulk folder except for mail coming from someone on your address book. Gmail and Yahoo are pretty good with sorting spam and I use them for personal mail. But for conferences and conventions, I use my hotmail address, and white list the few vendors I want to hear from, and all the others I scanned to get swag get routed right to the bulk folder. Great feature, definitely worth keeping one hotmail address.
Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?"
No, as many nails as we pound into the "paid content" coffin, the ones we really want... (cough)PORN(cough)... will never be free.
What's surprising to me is that Cray used to be synonymous with supercomputers and they now have comparatively few entries.
Why is that suprising in any way? At one time, Ford was synonymous with cars, but today have news of Ford laying off managers. IBM used to be synonymous with the desktop PC, but with the sale of their laptop division are now completely out of the market. Sony Walkman was synonymous with portable music, but now everyone has an iPod.
Cray is just another company that had a great product for a while, but couldn't keep innovating and couldn't keep up when the competition joined the market. Nothing at all suprising about it, it happens all the time.