Maybe for personal email. But a corporate email system is the property of the company. Anything you create on corporate time becomes the property of the company. An email you send to your co-worker does not become the "property" of the co-worker. It's still part of the corporate network and is still the property (and responsibility) of the company. Thus they have every right to "shred" the message.
They have every right to tell you not to print it out and save it; but of course that's what people will do if they know the messages will be deleted after a certain time. I print out and save messages to cover my own ass.
Which brings up a point. I print out the stuff with full headers, with message ID and info when it was sent; however, does it really serve a purpose? I remembered thinking that while watching "Clear and Present Danger", when Harrison Ford prints out a memo and shoves it into the other director's face saying something like "here's the proof". What good is my printout if I don't have server logs to back up that the message was actually sent to me? What good is a backup of the server logs if I can't prove it wasn't tampered by myself? I know my boss will believe me if I used it as proof to protect my ass, but would a jury? Am I just wasting trees?
It wasn't the Cali gold rush of 1949. That area was already well settled, Fort Sutter having 12000 heads of cattle and 10000 sheep. The gold was discovered while building a mill to aid the growing town.
It's possible he's talking about the Juneau Gold rush, where Joe Juneau was lead to the gold by the chief of the Auk tribe. The town of Juneau grew, but there wasn't the huge stampede there- in 1881, there were still only 150 whites in town. According to the stories, the local indians, though they did not profit, did not do too badly.
The last gold rush took place in Nome, Alaska. With some 40,000 prospectors. But that took place on a beach.
The most likely candidate is the Yukon Gold Rush, where some 60,000 prospectors tried their hands. It had a devastating impact on the Native Americans in the area, the Yukon Tribes. Of course, the Yukon is part of Canada.
Because they hold deep dark secrets like the origins of the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians and their secret plans to take over the world (which they've done already, it just tells how they were going to do it in the planning stages).
I suppose though the goverment will say it's to protect the site from "tomb raiders". There'll tell you about the problems in the Central Americas with tomb raiders looting everything as soon as the archy team turns their backs. But don't you believe it.
Just because you are unconvinced or never heard of something does not make ME a moron.
You can't sue a company in China. The only thing you can do is to crack down on the smuggling.
Here's a breakdown of what the US Customs seized in the first half of 2001. Note this is only what it seized; who knows how much actually gets through. US Customs Seizures. In the 2000 figures you see Consumer Electronics at 3%. Not much, but yes, it does exist.
As for what Philips is doing; in India, they conducted 27 raids in 19 months on factories making counterfeit products story.
From the Aussie ZDNet, a story about a huge shipment of counterfeit Nokia phones. story.
Doing a google search about China and counterfeiting and you find mostly software and playstation game piracy stories. But you can find stories about counterfeit consumer electronics if you look.
Hypothetically: We see that customers A, B, C, G, H-Z get home around 7PM and surf to Hotmail, CNN, and Ebay. We also see that customers E and F are vising WarezSite and MegaSexVideos. According to our data, users E and F are using 75% of the bandwidth from 7PM until 10PM, then 105% of the bandwidth from 10PM until 7PM. Blocking those two sites might free up some bandwidth. Kicking E and F would also free up some bandwidth. Either option would provide faster, more reliable service to THE REST of our customers.
I read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on my Palm V. The biggest problem there was that the entire book did not fit on my palm, so I had to install part 1, read it, then install part 2. The second problem was I was constantly flipping back trying to remember who this character was, which wasn't at all easy. Actually, it was a royal pain and almost turned me off ebooks.
But then I gave it another shot, reading Twain's Huck Finn. Much better.
I agree with the original post- give it a try, it's enjoyable. But don't pick Les Miserables as your first ebook. Pick something shorter and lighter that doesn't require a lot of backpaging to figure out what's going on.
Most of the low-cost players come from factories in China. International trade newsletter TV Digest estimates China produces around 10 million DVD decks a year, mainly for export. European and North American importers then slap on Western brand name labels and sell them for under $100.
Sounds like counterfeiting to me.
Every day on the streets of NYC, you see cops bust street vendors with fake Gucci and DK bags. The pirated video tapes, CDs. The've cracked down on people selling unauthorized FDNY hats. On a larger scale, they break up sweatshops that are pumping out fake Tommy jeans or Nautica jackets.
So why's this news? Countefeiters exist in every market segment, and while they're small, they get away with it. Once they grow to a size where it begins to cut into the profits of the company, the company cracks down.
European Customs officials are already hard at work keeping those fake Nike shoes and cheap Anne Klein knockoffs. It's just another thing they'll watch out for.
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We've known IE6 and IE55SP2 don't support Netscape sytle plugins for months. That's old news.
There are two ways to view a PDF in IE. Through Plugins, which open the PDF inline (in the browser window), and through MIME Types, which opens the associated application. Both work with IE6/XP today. For a short time it didn't while Adobe worked to create the ActiveX plugin. While the plugin was not available, you had use the MIME type to open the file in the associated application. No big deal, you click on the link and it opens the file in Acrobat Reader outside IE. It is pretty simple, and I don't believe anyone trying to compare XP and Linux would get slipped up by something as easy as that.
What is he talking about? My guess is he's saying you can't just save PDFs easily to the hard drive without right-clicking. As if you had to download a lot of PDFs from a website, but not actually have to open them and clicking "save" or right clicking the link and hitting "save as". I don't know, sounds pretty lame to me. Either that or there was a legitimate complaint that got hacked to this nonsense paragraph by the editor.
A couple years ago, a friend sent me a link to a distributed computing (DC) website for cancer research (IIRC). When I looked at the fine print, the DC company was a for-profit service. The cancer research, non-profit, couldn't afford and did not have the technology to run its own DC setup, so signed on with the DC service. The fine print said that 1/5th of the work packets would be for the cancer research, while 4/5ths would be for "paying" customers, who subsidized the other 1/5th share. It did not say who the paying customers were.
After thinking about it, I decided against it. I had no idea who was paying for the other 4 work packets- big tobacco, Iraqi agents doing bio weapons research, Chinese nuclear weapons development. If they had said right out who it was for, I might have still signed up, I really didn't like the way I had to poke through the fine print to figure this out.
Farsite is a serverless, distributed system that doesn't assume mutual trust among its client computers. Although there's no central server machine, the system as a whole looks to users like a single file server. High reliability and security are ensured because each file has one or more encrypted and digitally signed replicas elsewhere in the cluster.
It sounds to me like MS is worried about the future of the file server market. Perhaps they see the writing on the wall... it says LINUX. Who's likely to implement linux servers? Those that can't afford to pay for a Win2K Server license. "But wait, if you upgrade to the new Farsite OS, you don't need a server! So you don't need to use Linux at all! Think of the cost savings when you don't need to buy or maintain a separate server! Think of the savings in administration costs!" Or some hype along those lines. With large corporations, with all that spare hard drive space and idle processors, how many servers could they replace? Have they done the math and come up with figures that spell doom for the file server market?
Sexbots would be expensive; if you get bored with one, your only alternative would be to go buy a new one, which would be costly. But with modular sexbots, you can save money and just go buy a new head module, personality module, arms, legs, and other sundry body parts. I'd be much cheaper than having to buy an entirely new sexbot.
A beowulf cluster, using Gb wireless... we'd have to keep these robots apart- getting too many in a group and they might just get too smart and rebel against humanity. Isn't that what scifi writers have been warning us about for the past 75 years?
No, completely the opposite. 1/3rd of the USPS' revenue is from 1st class mailing of bills; think about that, what else do you really mail besides bills? The rest is junk mail, paid by the senders. If it weren't for the junk mail, I'd receive and send about 20 mail a month. That's only $6.80. With 200 houses on my carrier's route, that's only $1340 a month in revenue, not even enough to cover the carrier's paycheck. Maybe double the price of the 1st class stamp, but you still would only cover the carrier's paycheck. To pay for everything else, we'd probably be paying $10 for a single 1st class stamp.
The USPS is a US Goverment Entity- although taxpayers don't directly subsidized USPS operations directly, the USPS still gets perks in the form of not paying ANY real estate taxes on any of its buildings, not paying ANY corporate taxes. It doesn't pay to register their vehicles nor do they get parking/speeding/violation tickets. It hasn't needed taxpayer subsidy since 1982- maybe that's when advertisers started picking up the paycheck and increasing the amount of bulk snailmail? Today, 34 cents is much really. But getting rid of the bulk snailmail would only hurt us in the end.
ON the other hand, getting rid of spam would be better for the consumer because the consumer pays for spam, but we all know that.
The 1500 page reference tome is fine. I don't carry those around, they sit on my shelf and look pretty. However, I only buy those that include an e-book version so I can use it on laptop (copied to hard drive, not carry around the cdrom); it's much easier to do a search for something in the e-book than to dig through the tome.
As for "learning" books, if it has to be 1200 pages, I'd rather it was broken up into smaller books in a boxed set. That way I only have to carry around a 1lb book instead of a 8lb one.
You don't need to include pictures of everything- we're smart enough that if we're not at a computer and we can't picture it in our heads, we'll come back to it when we are near a computer.
And those "HINTS", "SECRETS", "WARNINGS"- yeah, yeah, they're important, but we're not idiots- you don't need to waste so much space with fancy borders and colors and icons so it attracts our attention.
Bah, that's a load of BS. Where are your priorties? If you want to spend more time with your kids, then do so, don't sit there and complain about being too busy.
I get paid way less than I should because I turn my pager off on weekends. I don't put in any overtime unless it's critical. Yeah, I'm not living the high life, and not going to have much when it comes to retirement funds, but the important thing to me is that I enjoy my time with my son, NOW. Once he's grown, I'll probably have to work much harder and longer to make up for lost time, but that's just money. You can't make up lost time with your kids.
I don't have a GHz computer at home, I don't drive a Benz, I don't own a big house, I can't buy the latest gadets. But I do take my son out hiking and camping on weekends. That's where my priorites are. Think about yours...
"But that's a Wa..." He says, then stops. He's a beginner, and it's just possible that the company has a line of terminals that look like waffle irons. He bites." -Striped Irregular Bucket #1
Man, from then I was hooked. I kept a waffle iron in my office for a few years, but only two people ever looked at it and asked if it was a "Model 3"! A good way to find kindred spirits!
. In addition, 46% of Americans do not yet have access to the internet. While with most forms of technology, not everyone wants to get online, I'd wager that a fair portion of that 46% would like to learn how.
Look at the report before making comments. On Page 89 of the report, of those who do not have internet at home, 53% of those them "Don't Want It". 25% claimed "Too Expensive". Which comes down to about 12.5% of the US cannot afford the internet in their homes- 25% do not want it. That's a surprise to me.
Do not use Microsoft.doc and.xls formats as the basis for document interchange
Like it or not, they are the defacto standards for files. Forcing the masses to change is not going to happen. If you can't open.DOC and.XLS,.PDF, then you're in a pretty distinct minority, one that's vocal but seen as a bunch of raving fanatics by the general public.
Another point. Maybe you haven't looked at a default Windows installation, but users don't see file extensions. They only see "My Filename", not "My Filename.DOC". Telling them not to use.DOC files is futile because THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A.DOC FILE IS. Trying to get people to do a "Save As" and selecting "Rich Text Format" is so foreign to most Windows users it's never going to happen.
Yes, push open source where we have openings. But don't beat your head against the wall concerning.DOC and.PDF files. Just accept that battle as lost and put your energies to fight on a different front.
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I've lived in my current apt for 2 years now. Elec is separate from heat, so I know exactly how much I've used.
Since last year, I've added a DSL modem, netgear firewall/router, two 4 port hubs, an 8 port switch, a p166 running FBSD (on 24x7), a celeron 500 with Win98 (on 24x7), a 500W UPS, and several monitors which are usually in powersave mode.
Last December (2000), I used 187KWH. That's really low, the average "home" uses about 720KWH in my area. I don't use much electricity, all my appliances do use it sitting idle; I should probably just unplug them all and save myself a bit more cash..
This December (2001), I used 244KWH. That's it. So my home network in total added roughly 60KWH for a month. That comes out to less than $3 (before taxes).
Of course, when I'm not actively using my systems, they're sitting idle (but not in standby), maybe serving 20 pages an hour or 20 emails a day. If your systems are more active, they will suck up more electricity, but I have no idea how much more.
Well, I hope that gives you some idea.
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I no expert, but I think you've got it backwards.
First, computers will recognize voice commands. Well, there are already programs that do this like Dragon, so we're almost there anyway. The point now is that you are still giving keyword commands to a computer, and as it is refined, you'll better recognition of specific commands, and questions that can be filtered from within conversations. Giving commands to a computer is easier than open ended questions to the computer.
Second, we'll solve the natural language problem, or at least enough to provide flawless voice recognition that you speak of. It will be capable mainly of handling accents and bad grammar.
Lastly, a computer will pass the Turing test. Unless a computer can understand the intricassies of the english language, there will be people who will be able to tell by the way the answer is phrased. If you solve the NLP or get far enough for a computer to analyze and spit back poetry, then you got the Turing test licked.
Why pick on politicians? In general, they are only doing what we want them to do. People want cheap steaks, cheap milk, and cheap leather. So the cattle farmers get the subsidies. We need to send everyone into the future to take a look at what those attitudes have done to mother earth.
In the case of the wombat, the two listed reasons for their decline are the introduction of grasses that have taken over the land that the wombats won't eat, and the introduction of cattle competing for the grasses the wombats do eat. Add to that the decline in habitat due to the spread of civilization, the introduction of feral cats, rabbits, and other non-indigineous creatures, predatory dingos who have been pushed out of their native hunting grounds, pesticides, acid rain, Microsoft (ok, don't know what MS has to do with it but I'm sure they're involved!), and well we've screwed up a lot. There's no easy fix.
But you know what? Send everyone 50 years into the future, and what do we have? 49 years before we really need to look for a solution- call me a pessimist if you'd like...
I have two 17" monitors hooked up to my pc. One is running of the built in video and the other off a graphics card. It's a great setup, especially if you're doing work in one and in the other you have your chat, email, winamp.
I prefer a bunch of smaller screens, because then I can arrange them to all face me. A 54" screen would be difficult to use- the left and right edges would be a good foot or more away from your eyes than the center of the screen. Your eyes would have to refocus when you moved around the screen.
Now, a flexible 54" screen might work, one that is slightly curved so all points are equidistance from your eyes.
8AM to 10PM. This probably isn't the usual middle-of-the-night, low-traffic, little-change-between-frames security system. From the hours, it might be a store, where they're more concerned with people stealing during the day rather than people breaking into the place after hours. If it's a heavy traffic area, constantly changing, you won't get nearly the compression rates as you would from a night security camera. So the requirements for storage space may be much, much higher depending on how much traffic passes in front of each camera.
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Think how many of those "young hot coeds waiting for you" SPAM you'd end up opening. I avoid them now since my concious brain says "wait a minute, clicking will just validate your email address", which is slightly faster than my hand can move my mouse. If the cursor moves at the speed of thought, I'm never going to get through to reading legitimate emails.
Sure. But not every script kiddie lives in range of a major wireless hub. AFAIK, most large wireless hubs would be used in corporate areas of town. Yes, they could hack those machines, and maybe hack quite large number of machines. But those machines are generally stationary- to stop a DDoS the ISP simply needs to pull the plug on the building's connection.
From the airport, he hits laptops heading different directions around the world. A true DDoS. Once the laptop is plugged back in a the owner's office, the hacker also has an opening into that company's network. That's was my point.
As for security, well, I think it's probably overrated, and they're more concerned with other issues.
Well, I guess that's enough on this topic, I don't want to give the kiddies too many ideas.
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Maybe for personal email. But a corporate email system is the property of the company. Anything you create on corporate time becomes the property of the company. An email you send to your co-worker does not become the "property" of the co-worker. It's still part of the corporate network and is still the property (and responsibility) of the company. Thus they have every right to "shred" the message.
They have every right to tell you not to print it out and save it; but of course that's what people will do if they know the messages will be deleted after a certain time. I print out and save messages to cover my own ass.
Which brings up a point. I print out the stuff with full headers, with message ID and info when it was sent; however, does it really serve a purpose? I remembered thinking that while watching "Clear and Present Danger", when Harrison Ford prints out a memo and shoves it into the other director's face saying something like "here's the proof". What good is my printout if I don't have server logs to back up that the message was actually sent to me? What good is a backup of the server logs if I can't prove it wasn't tampered by myself? I know my boss will believe me if I used it as proof to protect my ass, but would a jury? Am I just wasting trees?
It wasn't the Cali gold rush of 1949. That area was already well settled, Fort Sutter having 12000 heads of cattle and 10000 sheep. The gold was discovered while building a mill to aid the growing town.
It's possible he's talking about the Juneau Gold rush, where Joe Juneau was lead to the gold by the chief of the Auk tribe. The town of Juneau grew, but there wasn't the huge stampede there- in 1881, there were still only 150 whites in town. According to the stories, the local indians, though they did not profit, did not do too badly.
The last gold rush took place in Nome, Alaska. With some 40,000 prospectors. But that took place on a beach.
The most likely candidate is the Yukon Gold Rush, where some 60,000 prospectors tried their hands. It had a devastating impact on the Native Americans in the area, the Yukon Tribes. Of course, the Yukon is part of Canada.
Because they hold deep dark secrets like the origins of the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians and their secret plans to take over the world (which they've done already, it just tells how they were going to do it in the planning stages).
I suppose though the goverment will say it's to protect the site from "tomb raiders". There'll tell you about the problems in the Central Americas with tomb raiders looting everything as soon as the archy team turns their backs. But don't you believe it.
Just because you are unconvinced or never heard of something does not make ME a moron.
You can't sue a company in China. The only thing you can do is to crack down on the smuggling.
Here's a breakdown of what the US Customs seized in the first half of 2001. Note this is only what it seized; who knows how much actually gets through. US Customs Seizures. In the 2000 figures you see Consumer Electronics at 3%. Not much, but yes, it does exist.
As for what Philips is doing; in India, they conducted 27 raids in 19 months on factories making counterfeit products story.
From the Aussie ZDNet, a story about a huge shipment of counterfeit Nokia phones. story.
Doing a google search about China and counterfeiting and you find mostly software and playstation game piracy stories. But you can find stories about counterfeit consumer electronics if you look.
Hypothetically: We see that customers A, B, C, G, H-Z get home around 7PM and surf to Hotmail, CNN, and Ebay. We also see that customers E and F are vising WarezSite and MegaSexVideos. According to our data, users E and F are using 75% of the bandwidth from 7PM until 10PM, then 105% of the bandwidth from 10PM until 7PM. Blocking those two sites might free up some bandwidth. Kicking E and F would also free up some bandwidth. Either option would provide faster, more reliable service to THE REST of our customers.
I read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on my Palm V. The biggest problem there was that the entire book did not fit on my palm, so I had to install part 1, read it, then install part 2. The second problem was I was constantly flipping back trying to remember who this character was, which wasn't at all easy. Actually, it was a royal pain and almost turned me off ebooks.
But then I gave it another shot, reading Twain's Huck Finn. Much better.
I agree with the original post- give it a try, it's enjoyable. But don't pick Les Miserables as your first ebook. Pick something shorter and lighter that doesn't require a lot of backpaging to figure out what's going on.
Most of the low-cost players come from factories in China. International trade newsletter TV Digest estimates China produces around 10 million DVD decks a year, mainly for export. European and North American importers then slap on Western brand name labels and sell them for under $100. Sounds like counterfeiting to me.
Every day on the streets of NYC, you see cops bust street vendors with fake Gucci and DK bags. The pirated video tapes, CDs. The've cracked down on people selling unauthorized FDNY hats. On a larger scale, they break up sweatshops that are pumping out fake Tommy jeans or Nautica jackets.
So why's this news? Countefeiters exist in every market segment, and while they're small, they get away with it. Once they grow to a size where it begins to cut into the profits of the company, the company cracks down.
European Customs officials are already hard at work keeping those fake Nike shoes and cheap Anne Klein knockoffs. It's just another thing they'll watch out for.
We've known IE6 and IE55SP2 don't support Netscape sytle plugins for months. That's old news.
There are two ways to view a PDF in IE. Through Plugins, which open the PDF inline (in the browser window), and through MIME Types, which opens the associated application. Both work with IE6/XP today. For a short time it didn't while Adobe worked to create the ActiveX plugin. While the plugin was not available, you had use the MIME type to open the file in the associated application. No big deal, you click on the link and it opens the file in Acrobat Reader outside IE. It is pretty simple, and I don't believe anyone trying to compare XP and Linux would get slipped up by something as easy as that.
What is he talking about? My guess is he's saying you can't just save PDFs easily to the hard drive without right-clicking. As if you had to download a lot of PDFs from a website, but not actually have to open them and clicking "save" or right clicking the link and hitting "save as". I don't know, sounds pretty lame to me. Either that or there was a legitimate complaint that got hacked to this nonsense paragraph by the editor.
A couple years ago, a friend sent me a link to a distributed computing (DC) website for cancer research (IIRC). When I looked at the fine print, the DC company was a for-profit service. The cancer research, non-profit, couldn't afford and did not have the technology to run its own DC setup, so signed on with the DC service. The fine print said that 1/5th of the work packets would be for the cancer research, while 4/5ths would be for "paying" customers, who subsidized the other 1/5th share. It did not say who the paying customers were.
After thinking about it, I decided against it. I had no idea who was paying for the other 4 work packets- big tobacco, Iraqi agents doing bio weapons research, Chinese nuclear weapons development. If they had said right out who it was for, I might have still signed up, I really didn't like the way I had to poke through the fine print to figure this out.
Farsite is a serverless, distributed system that doesn't assume mutual trust among its client computers. Although there's no central server machine, the system as a whole looks to users like a single file server. High reliability and security are ensured because each file has one or more encrypted and digitally signed replicas elsewhere in the cluster.
It sounds to me like MS is worried about the future of the file server market. Perhaps they see the writing on the wall... it says LINUX. Who's likely to implement linux servers? Those that can't afford to pay for a Win2K Server license. "But wait, if you upgrade to the new Farsite OS, you don't need a server! So you don't need to use Linux at all! Think of the cost savings when you don't need to buy or maintain a separate server! Think of the savings in administration costs!" Or some hype along those lines. With large corporations, with all that spare hard drive space and idle processors, how many servers could they replace? Have they done the math and come up with figures that spell doom for the file server market?
Sexbots would be expensive; if you get bored with one, your only alternative would be to go buy a new one, which would be costly. But with modular sexbots, you can save money and just go buy a new head module, personality module, arms, legs, and other sundry body parts. I'd be much cheaper than having to buy an entirely new sexbot.
I'd invest in the company that produces these...
A beowulf cluster, using Gb wireless... we'd have to keep these robots apart- getting too many in a group and they might just get too smart and rebel against humanity. Isn't that what scifi writers have been warning us about for the past 75 years?
No, completely the opposite. 1/3rd of the USPS' revenue is from 1st class mailing of bills; think about that, what else do you really mail besides bills? The rest is junk mail, paid by the senders. If it weren't for the junk mail, I'd receive and send about 20 mail a month. That's only $6.80. With 200 houses on my carrier's route, that's only $1340 a month in revenue, not even enough to cover the carrier's paycheck. Maybe double the price of the 1st class stamp, but you still would only cover the carrier's paycheck. To pay for everything else, we'd probably be paying $10 for a single 1st class stamp.
The USPS is a US Goverment Entity- although taxpayers don't directly subsidized USPS operations directly, the USPS still gets perks in the form of not paying ANY real estate taxes on any of its buildings, not paying ANY corporate taxes. It doesn't pay to register their vehicles nor do they get parking/speeding/violation tickets. It hasn't needed taxpayer subsidy since 1982- maybe that's when advertisers started picking up the paycheck and increasing the amount of bulk snailmail? Today, 34 cents is much really. But getting rid of the bulk snailmail would only hurt us in the end.
ON the other hand, getting rid of spam would be better for the consumer because the consumer pays for spam, but we all know that.
The 1500 page reference tome is fine. I don't carry those around, they sit on my shelf and look pretty. However, I only buy those that include an e-book version so I can use it on laptop (copied to hard drive, not carry around the cdrom); it's much easier to do a search for something in the e-book than to dig through the tome.
As for "learning" books, if it has to be 1200 pages, I'd rather it was broken up into smaller books in a boxed set. That way I only have to carry around a 1lb book instead of a 8lb one.
You don't need to include pictures of everything- we're smart enough that if we're not at a computer and we can't picture it in our heads, we'll come back to it when we are near a computer.
And those "HINTS", "SECRETS", "WARNINGS"- yeah, yeah, they're important, but we're not idiots- you don't need to waste so much space with fancy borders and colors and icons so it attracts our attention.
Bah, that's a load of BS. Where are your priorties? If you want to spend more time with your kids, then do so, don't sit there and complain about being too busy.
I get paid way less than I should because I turn my pager off on weekends. I don't put in any overtime unless it's critical. Yeah, I'm not living the high life, and not going to have much when it comes to retirement funds, but the important thing to me is that I enjoy my time with my son, NOW. Once he's grown, I'll probably have to work much harder and longer to make up for lost time, but that's just money. You can't make up lost time with your kids.
I don't have a GHz computer at home, I don't drive a Benz, I don't own a big house, I can't buy the latest gadets. But I do take my son out hiking and camping on weekends. That's where my priorites are. Think about yours...
"But that's a Wa..." He says, then stops. He's a beginner, and it's just possible that the company has a line of terminals that look like waffle irons. He bites." -Striped Irregular Bucket #1
Man, from then I was hooked. I kept a waffle iron in my office for a few years, but only two people ever looked at it and asked if it was a "Model 3"! A good way to find kindred spirits!
. In addition, 46% of Americans do not yet have access to the internet. While with most forms of technology, not everyone wants to get online, I'd wager that a fair portion of that 46% would like to learn how.
.doc and .xls formats as the basis for document interchange
.DOC and .XLS, .PDF, then you're in a pretty distinct minority, one that's vocal but seen as a bunch of raving fanatics by the general public.
.DOC files is futile because THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A .DOC FILE IS. Trying to get people to do a "Save As" and selecting "Rich Text Format" is so foreign to most Windows users it's never going to happen.
.DOC and .PDF files. Just accept that battle as lost and put your energies to fight on a different front.
Look at the report before making comments. On Page 89 of the report, of those who do not have internet at home, 53% of those them "Don't Want It". 25% claimed "Too Expensive". Which comes down to about 12.5% of the US cannot afford the internet in their homes- 25% do not want it. That's a surprise to me.
Do not use Microsoft
Like it or not, they are the defacto standards for files. Forcing the masses to change is not going to happen. If you can't open
Another point. Maybe you haven't looked at a default Windows installation, but users don't see file extensions. They only see "My Filename", not "My Filename.DOC". Telling them not to use
Yes, push open source where we have openings. But don't beat your head against the wall concerning
I've lived in my current apt for 2 years now. Elec is separate from heat, so I know exactly how much I've used.
Since last year, I've added a DSL modem, netgear firewall/router, two 4 port hubs, an 8 port switch, a p166 running FBSD (on 24x7), a celeron 500 with Win98 (on 24x7), a 500W UPS, and several monitors which are usually in powersave mode.
Last December (2000), I used 187KWH. That's really low, the average "home" uses about 720KWH in my area. I don't use much electricity, all my appliances do use it sitting idle; I should probably just unplug them all and save myself a bit more cash..
This December (2001), I used 244KWH. That's it. So my home network in total added roughly 60KWH for a month. That comes out to less than $3 (before taxes).
Of course, when I'm not actively using my systems, they're sitting idle (but not in standby), maybe serving 20 pages an hour or 20 emails a day. If your systems are more active, they will suck up more electricity, but I have no idea how much more.
Well, I hope that gives you some idea.
I no expert, but I think you've got it backwards.
First, computers will recognize voice commands. Well, there are already programs that do this like Dragon, so we're almost there anyway. The point now is that you are still giving keyword commands to a computer, and as it is refined, you'll better recognition of specific commands, and questions that can be filtered from within conversations. Giving commands to a computer is easier than open ended questions to the computer.
Second, we'll solve the natural language problem, or at least enough to provide flawless voice recognition that you speak of. It will be capable mainly of handling accents and bad grammar.
Lastly, a computer will pass the Turing test. Unless a computer can understand the intricassies of the english language, there will be people who will be able to tell by the way the answer is phrased. If you solve the NLP or get far enough for a computer to analyze and spit back poetry, then you got the Turing test licked.
Why pick on politicians? In general, they are only doing what we want them to do. People want cheap steaks, cheap milk, and cheap leather. So the cattle farmers get the subsidies. We need to send everyone into the future to take a look at what those attitudes have done to mother earth.
In the case of the wombat, the two listed reasons for their decline are the introduction of grasses that have taken over the land that the wombats won't eat, and the introduction of cattle competing for the grasses the wombats do eat. Add to that the decline in habitat due to the spread of civilization, the introduction of feral cats, rabbits, and other non-indigineous creatures, predatory dingos who have been pushed out of their native hunting grounds, pesticides, acid rain, Microsoft (ok, don't know what MS has to do with it but I'm sure they're involved!), and well we've screwed up a lot. There's no easy fix.
But you know what? Send everyone 50 years into the future, and what do we have? 49 years before we really need to look for a solution- call me a pessimist if you'd like...
I have two 17" monitors hooked up to my pc. One is running of the built in video and the other off a graphics card. It's a great setup, especially if you're doing work in one and in the other you have your chat, email, winamp.
I prefer a bunch of smaller screens, because then I can arrange them to all face me. A 54" screen would be difficult to use- the left and right edges would be a good foot or more away from your eyes than the center of the screen. Your eyes would have to refocus when you moved around the screen.
Now, a flexible 54" screen might work, one that is slightly curved so all points are equidistance from your eyes.
8AM to 10PM. This probably isn't the usual middle-of-the-night, low-traffic, little-change-between-frames security system. From the hours, it might be a store, where they're more concerned with people stealing during the day rather than people breaking into the place after hours. If it's a heavy traffic area, constantly changing, you won't get nearly the compression rates as you would from a night security camera. So the requirements for storage space may be much, much higher depending on how much traffic passes in front of each camera.
Think how many of those "young hot coeds waiting for you" SPAM you'd end up opening. I avoid them now since my concious brain says "wait a minute, clicking will just validate your email address", which is slightly faster than my hand can move my mouse. If the cursor moves at the speed of thought, I'm never going to get through to reading legitimate emails.
Sure. But not every script kiddie lives in range of a major wireless hub. AFAIK, most large wireless hubs would be used in corporate areas of town. Yes, they could hack those machines, and maybe hack quite large number of machines. But those machines are generally stationary- to stop a DDoS the ISP simply needs to pull the plug on the building's connection.
From the airport, he hits laptops heading different directions around the world. A true DDoS. Once the laptop is plugged back in a the owner's office, the hacker also has an opening into that company's network. That's was my point.
As for security, well, I think it's probably overrated, and they're more concerned with other issues.
Well, I guess that's enough on this topic, I don't want to give the kiddies too many ideas.