So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.
I'm starting to wonder if the "Buckyballs Kill Fish" headline is akin to "X causes cancer" headlines where the study exposes the poor creatures to such enormous amounts of substance X that they have to die.
The government's purpose may not to be to provide cheap utilities, but I sure see it as their role to ensure that I'm not gouged by the utilities that are out there.
That's not the government's purpose either. You are responsible for how you spend your money. Government's purpose is to only protect you from fraud and force.
I can see how you might have come to your incorrect conclusion as the government has way overstepped it's bounds by granting corporations monopoly privileges.
While the actual code is free, getting it to run usually requres a/. geek or someone even more intelligent.
Even in the IT dept I'm in there are several people who aren't smart enough to use Linux or any open source software yet.
Now I realize there is progress being made. The last time I installed RH it was almost like installing Windows. We're not at the point yet, but soon I think my first sentance in this comment will be false.
OWA sucks to a degree that makes Outlook look good
I agree. At work we're an MS Exchange company. They nicely let me use RH for my desktop, but that means I have to use OWA to read my mail. I sometimes boot to Windoze just to read mail.
I'd love to be able to figure out how to get the messages out of exchange and into pine. (Anyone have a suggestion how to do this?)
Just so this doesn't get marked offtopic (which so far it should be)...
We outsource spam/virus filtering to messagelabs. I get zero spam or virus emails. However I know for sure they generate false positives. I've tried to subscribe to Bugtraq for the last 6 months and their confirmation emails always get gobbled. They won't adjust their filter and they won't let us ever see the stuff marked as spam or virus. Like someone said earlier, false positives aren't really a problem if they're handled right. Of course in this case autodelete with no human review is the wrong way to handle it.
But our freelancer, a skilled sysadmin and coder who runs a small Web hosting service, had so many problems trying to get the software installed that after a day's work he stopped trying. Maybe he could have gotten it going with help from the company's tech support people, but I told him not to bother. He'd already spent more time on this install than I believe any "normal" customer would -- and more than either of us have spent installing most free software for Linux!
There are two problem with this paragraph.
First if you're not the kind of customer who calls tech support then you're probably the kind who will spend days upon days tyring to install it.
Second most customers will probably spend about an hour maybe two and then call tech suppport. How much longer they stay trying to fix the product depends on how good tech support is (either tech support will fix it quickly or they'll give them enough hope to keep trying for days).
In addition to getting the old Windows games to work and needing better video drivers etc. You're going to have to get the game companies to develope games for Linux.
Overall I think this is a good idea. I you have the games based Linux distro then there will be a group which is working on all of these problems (as well all the problems us/.er can't fortell).
Only take advertising that pays. Work on your ad sales. You may even have to hire someone strictly for advertising.
If you're a small-business then you will have to do it yourself. Find out as much as you can about the people who visit your site (are the wealthy? old or young? etc.) Also identify who might be interested in advertising on your site (to get you thinking right pretend your site is magazine or trade joural). Then contact the person in charge of advertising for each company and sell sell sell.
Ad Revenues are based off click-through rates, not page impressions. As long as you don't click the ads, it's fine.
Not always true any more. I have been telling my clients to charge per page impression. Newspapers, magazines, and other print publications base their ad rates on the number of copies distributed. Charging per page impression is much more consistant with this method. The per click method doesn't take into account TOMA (top of mind awarness) or even harder to measure advertising concepts.
If he is as sharp as you say; above and beyond all else remember he doesn't have to socialize with people his own age. Grab him a few PHDs and post grads from fields that interest him and let them play together. Or see if he can just start college early (some places will pay for it if he his still a minor) The people who are mean to him now, will dead end shortly after high school and that they will never matter like they seem to right now. It is a couple rough years but after that everything gets better.
This is very true. Until I was out of high school , I had a very difficult time socializing with people my own age. I was much more able to relate to older people who held similar interests.
When I got to college I started socalizing with people my own age, b/c I could finally find people with similar interests and IQ. I hope this guy goes to a large school where there will be a good chance of him finding cool and interesting people.
Trade shows are just flea markets with a homogenous clientell with a few perks like interesting speakers to teach you. Flea markets are all about selling stuff, meeting interesting people, and having a good time (I've been to some where a local band is actually performing). If you don't like them don't go, but the "problems" described in the summary (I'm not wasting time on the article) are not problems and any attempt to "fix" them will kill the show.
Where else will I be able to do the following all in one place: Find cool products Talk with knowledgeable sales reps Be educated by a leader in the field Network with other professionals
All of that for one low price!
If you don't like flea markets don't go, but don't try to kill the fun for the rest of us.
I've been using 1.2 for a while now (almost 3 years). Now that it has CMYK I can cut in half (or maybe more) the number of times I have to boot to M$ Windows and use Photoshop.
Of course I'm a little worried by:
Admittedly, the current rendition of CMYK in the GIMP is far behind that of commercial offerings
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention alltheweb. While Google is my primary search engine, I more often than not end up on alltheweb.
If you combine alltheweb's results with Yahoo's directory browsing (by far better than google's johnny-come-lately attempt) then I might just have a new primary search engine.
Of course old habbits die hard. It took over a year for me to dump Yahoo in favor of google, so even if it is a lot better it will probably take a while for me to dump google
After a while they started to get more widely known and started adding ad's to the front page and basically changing their mode of operation. People switched to google.
I didn't leave Altavista b/c of the ads. It was that Google produced better results. I suspect others switched for the same reason.
I ssh over ipv6 all the time -- it's just like v4 but prints out a really ugly address the first time you connect.
The really ugly address is why IPv6 is not going to catch on. How the heck are you going to remeber the IP address when it is more than the current xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa?
Seems like I have witnessed the downfall of my only childhood toy (save a bike). Once legos involved hours of building.. stacking little peices together to form only the boat's haul. Now you get a boat and it comes with the haul peice, the mast peice and the rudder peice. Oh yeah the little figure with the 5'oclock shadow and eye-patch.
Yep when Lego started moving to these kinds of sets I stopped buying legos. The last set I bough was a Blacktron command base and even that had some rather single use pieces (nowhere near as bad as they are now).
My domain is: mydomain.com
Customer A is traveling and is using his e-mail of joe@mydomain.com
However, I do IP filtering on my mail server (not SASL AUTH), for my
dial-up pools.
When Customer A is at hotel he must use their mail server to send mail
out, so his mail will be rejected because the hotel mail server isn't
listed in mydomain.com's SPF txt list.
I have yet to see an answer to this problem. Also I send a lot of mail from home but put mydomain.com in the From: header.
Sending email is going to get a lot more difficult
I think the GIMP is a lot easier to use that Photoshop. I now do everything in the GIMP and once I get the final image, I save it in some format Photoshop can open and then save it using CMYK in whatever format the printer prefers. Now that CMYK support is being added to the GIMP I can finally be done with Photoshop.
Now I have to say that I'm sure some people are going to prefer Photoshop. I just never got use to it. A former co-worker of mine just loved Photoshop, but I always thought he was weird.
It wouldn't hurt to take a course, but the fact that there are courses should tell you about how difficult Photoshop is.
I find it more ironic that the very goverment that told kids to be astronauts and rocket scientists has a problem with them Actually being astronauts and rocket scientists WITHOUT govt help!
It's not ironic. The government's purpose now is to control people. Unlike the past where governemt was only to protect our life, liberty, and property.
After 5 years of constant operation, my powersupply fan is finally making a ton of noise and ready to die. I've had no problems otherwise. I installed a new harddrive last year and some extra RAM no trouble at all.
I'm completely satified with my emachine and would recommend them to anyone as a first computer (or a computer for your mom).
This is the real problem. The way email is handled is going to have to be changed so that forged From: headers cannot happen.
I'm not even going to pretend to understand how this is going be fixed. Can someone enlighten me?
The goal of this phase is to adopt a "Declaration of Principles" and "Plan of Action".
Seems like we're doing ok without this stuff.
Some countries plan on asking for a UN commission to study new ways of running the Internet aimed at the 2005 phase.
Am I the only one who thinks this is going to be a bad idea? It's like getting the government involved only there is no way for citizens to influence the policy.
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While the actual code is free, getting it to run usually requres a /. geek or someone even more intelligent.
Even in the IT dept I'm in there are several people who aren't smart enough to use Linux or any open source software yet.
Now I realize there is progress being made. The last time I installed RH it was almost like installing Windows. We're not at the point yet, but soon I think my first sentance in this comment will be false.
I agree. At work we're an MS Exchange company. They nicely let me use RH for my desktop, but that means I have to use OWA to read my mail. I sometimes boot to Windoze just to read mail.
I'd love to be able to figure out how to get the messages out of exchange and into pine. (Anyone have a suggestion how to do this?)
Just so this doesn't get marked offtopic (which so far it should be)...
We outsource spam/virus filtering to messagelabs. I get zero spam or virus emails. However I know for sure they generate false positives. I've tried to subscribe to Bugtraq for the last 6 months and their confirmation emails always get gobbled. They won't adjust their filter and they won't let us ever see the stuff marked as spam or virus. Like someone said earlier, false positives aren't really a problem if they're handled right. Of course in this case autodelete with no human review is the wrong way to handle it.
There are two problem with this paragraph.
First if you're not the kind of customer who calls tech support then you're probably the kind who will spend days upon days tyring to install it.
Second most customers will probably spend about an hour maybe two and then call tech suppport. How much longer they stay trying to fix the product depends on how good tech support is (either tech support will fix it quickly or they'll give them enough hope to keep trying for days).
In addition to getting the old Windows games to work and needing better video drivers etc. You're going to have to get the game companies to develope games for Linux. Overall I think this is a good idea. I you have the games based Linux distro then there will be a group which is working on all of these problems (as well all the problems us /.er can't fortell).
If the ad is not paying then take it off.
Only take advertising that pays. Work on your ad sales. You may even have to hire someone strictly for advertising.
If you're a small-business then you will have to do it yourself. Find out as much as you can about the people who visit your site (are the wealthy? old or young? etc.) Also identify who might be interested in advertising on your site (to get you thinking right pretend your site is magazine or trade joural). Then contact the person in charge of advertising for each company and sell sell sell.
This is very true. Until I was out of high school , I had a very difficult time socializing with people my own age. I was much more able to relate to older people who held similar interests.
When I got to college I started socalizing with people my own age, b/c I could finally find people with similar interests and IQ. I hope this guy goes to a large school where there will be a good chance of him finding cool and interesting people.
Trade shows are just flea markets with a homogenous clientell with a few perks like interesting speakers to teach you. Flea markets are all about selling stuff, meeting interesting people, and having a good time (I've been to some where a local band is actually performing). If you don't like them don't go, but the "problems" described in the summary (I'm not wasting time on the article) are not problems and any attempt to "fix" them will kill the show.
Where else will I be able to do the following all in one place:
Find cool products
Talk with knowledgeable sales reps
Be educated by a leader in the field
Network with other professionals
All of that for one low price!
If you don't like flea markets don't go, but don't try to kill the fun for the rest of us.
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention alltheweb. While Google is my primary search engine, I more often than not end up on alltheweb.
If you combine alltheweb's results with Yahoo's directory browsing (by far better than google's johnny-come-lately attempt) then I might just have a new primary search engine.
Of course old habbits die hard. It took over a year for me to dump Yahoo in favor of google, so even if it is a lot better it will probably take a while for me to dump google
I didn't leave Altavista b/c of the ads. It was that Google produced better results. I suspect others switched for the same reason.
The really ugly address is why IPv6 is not going to catch on. How the heck are you going to remeber the IP address when it is more than the current xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa?
I think the GIMP is a lot easier to use that Photoshop. I now do everything in the GIMP and once I get the final image, I save it in some format Photoshop can open and then save it using CMYK in whatever format the printer prefers. Now that CMYK support is being added to the GIMP I can finally be done with Photoshop.
Now I have to say that I'm sure some people are going to prefer Photoshop. I just never got use to it. A former co-worker of mine just loved Photoshop, but I always thought he was weird.
It wouldn't hurt to take a course, but the fact that there are courses should tell you about how difficult Photoshop is.
Answer: I don't want to think about that.
After 5 years of constant operation, my powersupply fan is finally making a ton of noise and ready to die. I've had no problems otherwise. I installed a new harddrive last year and some extra RAM no trouble at all.
I'm completely satified with my emachine and would recommend them to anyone as a first computer (or a computer for your mom).