If you're that worried about the economics of this, by all means keep yourself off the list. And go talk all your friends into staying off also. I'm on the PA do not call list and it's great, I can't remember the last time we got a call. I never buy the stuff anyway, so I'm just saving their employees some time. They can call the people who really want their product. This will obviously improve the economic situation for the telemarketers as it reduces their overhead a lot. I should think the telemarketers would love this.
only on a hard disk. I think it will be very popular for white box dealers to use in their products. Now MS can't say that those PC's should be sold with Windows to be legal.
RFID technology has been in use on cows for years. It was probably one of the first commercial applications. My cousin's dairy farm has used it for about 2 decades. When a cow comes up to the feeder, a sensor reads it's id from it's neck tag and the computer decides how much feed to give the cow. The more milk they give, the more feed they get.
Not necessarily. Many of the books are donations of books other people bought, some of them might even have been "returned" to the publisher (I think only the title page gets ripped out and returned and the rest promised to be destroyed) and therefore never technically bought. I do understand the spirit of what you are saying, but there are shades of ownership in the physical world as well as the digital world.
It was an attempt at humor to get karma points:) so far, that hasn't work as well as I hoped.
Next thing you know, some group will buy up a bunch of books and loan them out to people free of charge. That's gonna really upset the book publishers.
yeah, your right. gettin' mixed up in the heat of the moment. I live in Chester Co., a very built up area, and all that Verizon will do for me DSL-wise is send me junk mail, when I call they say it's still not available. I can't believe I have anything good to say about Comcast, but at least their internet service is pretty good (uptime/speed, not price).
yeah, but they have a plan to replace all that money they gave to Verizon . .. 1) raise income taxes 2) increase gambling revenues 3) say all this revenue is needed for schools 4) give it to whoever they want anyway 5) profit !!!
statistics prove they'll get re-elected anyway, or replaced by someone just as bad, but with different groups in their pocket.
or I could write my own init script (on RedHat), but I don't know how to start bittorrent from a script and a.torrent file. I guess what I'm whining for is better docs, but I'm too busy with other things to actively contribute, so I'll just shut up about it.
Thanks for the reply!
I had a great experience using BitTorrent to download RedHat ISO images. I wish the files available on SourceForge had working torrents, it would help their bandwidth a lot.
IMO, what BT needs is an easy way to join a torrent as a sharer at boot time. If I could add it to my init scripts and have it use a config file that let me control what I shared and how much bandwidth each file could use (min / max according to system load), I'd do that with all my Linux ISO's and other OSS as well. I only have a cablemodem, so upload b/w is limited, but if 100 other people did the same, we'd be in good shape.
I know small files aren't worht doing, but I have a number of large files I like to keep current, like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.
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Cloning Mammoths
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Well, here's a good reason why I'd want to clone mammoths: They'd make great pets.
The government just banned the importation of Giant Rats for pets, do you really think they are going to let you keep a Wooly Mammoth? Even if they don't transmit monkeypox to humans, if they just sneeze on you it could be life threatening. Imagine the death certificate:
Cause of death: suffocated under a blanket of mammoth snot.
It's not for everyone. But it's better than NetZero and all the popup ads. I don't use it personally (cablemodem at my house, T1 at work), but for the relatives that I provide free support for it seems to be OK. I have 3 computers using 1 account and haven't gotten any charges yet, so that gives you an idea how much they use it. For me, I'd burn through the free hours on a Saturday.
This is hard to beat for low usage folks: http://www.access4free.com - No ads - works fine on Linux - first 10 hours a month are free - next 10 hours are $1/hour - free again after that (max $10/month) - no use, no charge
I setup my inlaws with a NIC (Larry Ellison's stepchild) and access4free for low-cost,low-maintenance access to email and IM.
Oh wait! This week's security flaw arrived a day early.
I had my Outlook Calendar set to sync on the Windows patches, now tomorrow's schedule will be all messed up. I wonder if I can convince my boss that tomorrow is really Friday?
We aren't going to change anything about how you operate. We bought you because you are successful and we don't want to interfere with that in any way.
That, plus $2 will get you a nice cup of coffee.
Don't get me wrong, they are truly sincere, just sincerely lying.
On the practical side, don't piss off anyone until you figure out who controls your future in the new business model.
I've been on both sides of this equation, and I can tell you that the other side is a lot more fun. If you play nicely, however, you will be on the better side of the next merger they do and you get to tell the new folks the same line they are telling you now. With some practice, you'll even be able to say it sincerely, not that it actually matters.
I was thinking about buying a TV/FM radio card for my PC and then setting it up to record a favorite station all day. Then, during playback, I would like to save segments (individual songs) as MP3 or OGG format files for later, creating my own "legal" versions. Is this feasible ? Why hasn't someone else already done it?
I'd fully expect there to be a significant ship named after Clinton some time in the future.
I wouldn't bet on it. No serviceman (or especially servicewoman) would even want to have to server on a ship called the Clinton. They'd be laughed at continually and have to keep explaining what is is. Morale is important to the armed services and naming a ship after our morally-challenged former President would be a mistake, IMO.
Better to name something else after him, like a university building devoted to "Women's Studies", that'd make his day!
I agree, it would be a bit of a shift in thinking, but you are right, a Wiki is much better for this than emailing Word docs around.
I use TikiWiki (tikiwiki.org) and it has history with rollback and permissioning to give you whatever control you seek. It has a *ton* of other features as well, but you can turn off all the stuff you don't need and just run a Wiki with it.
AOL announced today that they have corrected the "issue" with their mail servers rejecting email from IP's starting with 6. Currently email is being rejected from servers with IP's starting with 7. AOL will be publishing a schedule shortly at to when each range of IP's will have it's emails rejected.
When asked why the company is implementing this policy, Bob Harvey, AOL's Minister of Information, said that they had determined that 70% of the emails coming from those IP's was Spam, and the remaining 30% didn't look very important to him anyway.
I'm a tea drinker too, but we must stand with our caffeinated brethren (and cistern). First, they start with the coffee drinkers, but we could be next. What if they GM the tea plant to reduce the caffeine. It would probably taste like those wimpy "herbal" teas.
Are they gonna declassify that they shot JFK (if they did) even 100 years from now? I think not.
Unless it happens to benefit someone's political campaign.
Of course, then it wouldn't matter in the least if it were true or not:)
Dennis The facts, though interesting, are irrelevant!
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Chicken Run
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Did it work out with the girl ?
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Chicken Run
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You do realise that all chickens are female, right?
Not the kind that you buy in the store. Laying hens are (obviously) female, but broilers (the kind you get cut up in the supermarket) are "straight run", meaning unsexed, about 50/50 sex ratio. They are killed at 8 weeks of age, before any significant hormonal effects take over.
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Sure you can, write a virus that sends them the message that they need to apply a patch. :)
If you're that worried about the economics of this, by all means keep yourself off the list. And go talk all your friends into staying off also. I'm on the PA do not call list and it's great, I can't remember the last time we got a call. I never buy the stuff anyway, so I'm just saving their employees some time. They can call the people who really want their product. This will obviously improve the economic situation for the telemarketers as it reduces their overhead a lot. I should think the telemarketers would love this.
only on a hard disk. I think it will be very popular for white box dealers to use in their products. Now MS can't say that those PC's should be sold with Windows to be legal.
I don't know, stopping the alien death ray seems like more fun to me.
RFID technology has been in use on cows for years. It was probably one of the first commercial applications. My cousin's dairy farm has used it for about 2 decades. When a cow comes up to the feeder, a sensor reads it's id from it's neck tag and the computer decides how much feed to give the cow. The more milk they give, the more feed they get.
Not necessarily.
:)
Many of the books are donations of books other people bought, some of them might even have been "returned" to the publisher (I think only the title page gets ripped out and returned and the rest promised to be destroyed) and therefore never technically bought. I do understand the spirit of what you are saying, but there are shades of ownership in the physical world as well as the digital world.
It was an attempt at humor to get karma points
so far, that hasn't work as well as I hoped.
Next thing you know, some group will buy up a bunch of books and loan them out to people free of charge. That's gonna really upset the book publishers.
yeah, your right. gettin' mixed up in the heat of the moment. I live in Chester Co., a very built up area, and all that Verizon will do for me DSL-wise is send me junk mail, when I call they say it's still not available. I can't believe I have anything good to say about Comcast, but at least their internet service is pretty good (uptime/speed, not price).
yeah, but they have a plan to replace all that money they gave to Verizon . . .
1) raise income taxes
2) increase gambling revenues
3) say all this revenue is needed for schools
4) give it to whoever they want anyway
5) profit !!!
statistics prove they'll get re-elected anyway, or replaced by someone just as bad, but with different groups in their pocket.
or I could write my own init script (on RedHat), but I don't know how to start bittorrent from a script and a .torrent file. I guess what I'm whining for is better docs, but I'm too busy with other things to actively contribute, so I'll just shut up about it.
Thanks for the reply!
IMO, what BT needs is an easy way to join a torrent as a sharer at boot time. If I could add it to my init scripts and have it use a config file that let me control what I shared and how much bandwidth each file could use (min / max according to system load), I'd do that with all my Linux ISO's and other OSS as well. I only have a cablemodem, so upload b/w is limited, but if 100 other people did the same, we'd be in good shape.
I know small files aren't worht doing, but I have a number of large files I like to keep current, like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.
The government just banned the importation of Giant Rats for pets, do you really think they are going to let you keep a Wooly Mammoth? Even if they don't transmit monkeypox to humans, if they just sneeze on you it could be life threatening. Imagine the death certificate:
Cause of death: suffocated under a blanket of mammoth snot.
It really depends on what the "something else to do" is, I guess. If the other option is visiting with relatives you hardly know . . .
It's not for everyone. But it's better than NetZero and all the popup ads. I don't use it personally (cablemodem at my house, T1 at work), but for the relatives that I provide free support for it seems to be OK. I have 3 computers using 1 account and haven't gotten any charges yet, so that gives you an idea how much they use it. For me, I'd burn through the free hours on a Saturday.
This is hard to beat for low usage folks: http://www.access4free.com
- No ads
- works fine on Linux
- first 10 hours a month are free
- next 10 hours are $1/hour
- free again after that (max $10/month)
- no use, no charge
I setup my inlaws with a NIC (Larry Ellison's stepchild) and access4free for low-cost,low-maintenance access to email and IM.
Oh wait! This week's security flaw arrived a day early.
I had my Outlook Calendar set to sync on the Windows patches, now tomorrow's schedule will be all messed up. I wonder if I can convince my boss that tomorrow is really Friday?
That, plus $2 will get you a nice cup of coffee.
Don't get me wrong, they are truly sincere, just sincerely lying.
On the practical side, don't piss off anyone until you figure out who controls your future in the new business model.
I've been on both sides of this equation, and I can tell you that the other side is a lot more fun. If you play nicely, however, you will be on the better side of the next merger they do and you get to tell the new folks the same line they are telling you now. With some practice, you'll even be able to say it sincerely, not that it actually matters.
I was thinking about buying a TV/FM radio card for my PC and then setting it up to record a favorite station all day. Then, during playback, I would like to save segments (individual songs) as MP3 or OGG format files for later, creating my own "legal" versions. Is this feasible ? Why hasn't someone else already done it?
I wouldn't bet on it.
No serviceman (or especially servicewoman) would even want to have to server on a ship called the Clinton. They'd be laughed at continually and have to keep explaining what is is. Morale is important to the armed services and naming a ship after our morally-challenged former President would be a mistake, IMO.
Better to name something else after him, like a university building devoted to "Women's Studies", that'd make his day!
I agree, it would be a bit of a shift in thinking, but you are right, a Wiki is much better for this than emailing Word docs around.
I use TikiWiki (tikiwiki.org) and it has history with rollback and permissioning to give you whatever control you seek. It has a *ton* of other features as well, but you can turn off all the stuff you don't need and just run a Wiki with it.
When asked why the company is implementing this policy, Bob Harvey, AOL's Minister of Information, said that they had determined that 70% of the emails coming from those IP's was Spam, and the remaining 30% didn't look very important to him anyway.
Oh, wait... I am a tea drinker...
I'm a tea drinker too, but we must stand with our caffeinated brethren (and cistern). First, they start with the coffee drinkers, but we could be next. What if they GM the tea plant to reduce the caffeine. It would probably taste like those wimpy "herbal" teas.
Let's make a stand before it's too late!!
Unless it happens to benefit someone's political campaign.
Of course, then it wouldn't matter in the least if it were true or not :)
Dennis
The facts, though interesting, are irrelevant!
Did it work out with the girl ?
Not the kind that you buy in the store. Laying hens are (obviously) female, but broilers (the kind you get cut up in the supermarket) are "straight run", meaning unsexed, about 50/50 sex ratio. They are killed at 8 weeks of age, before any significant hormonal effects take over.