Look, a digital camera that's decent might cost a pretty penny, but the digital camera I get with a cellphone doesn't get the resolutions of a digicam I can buy separately (yet). Then there's the issue of storage - the "storage" for the phones I'm not sure about, but then there's bandwidth issues in that, last I checked, they still charge for bandwidth.
It's not just a geek problem, though - it's a general problem. Remember, people haven't been this obese for some time. No denying it focuses around geeks and fans, but I know plenty of mundanes and 12Fs that are out of shape as well.
Curiousity - anyone know if there's an RPM yet available?
Re:Alter your diet and/or take vitamins/supplement
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That's odd, because I'm left with the impression that 120/80 is actually an optimal BP.
(An aside,she takes it infrequently - I only slightly more often.)
As far as the peanut gallery, remember too that your doctor can (and should) tell you more about your blood pressure. If you don't know what that number means, DON'T ASSUME.
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No, seriously, altering your diet will help. I've noticed if I'm surviving largely on non-nutritive junk foods for a fairly prolonged period of time and my body has depleted whatever reserve of materials it needs, I will start losing sleep - the solution oddly enough has been just an over the counter multivitamin supplement for a quick fix, and changing my diet so I'm actually eating right for a change. The big one has been fruit juices and gatorade in lieu of straight water, as I don't eat much fruit or veggies. (I only occasionally drink soda, so that's sort of moot.)
For my wife, who is for some reason nocturnal by default, melatonin has been *a* solution.
But back to the altered diet thing. Talk to a doctor and make detailed notes of what you're eating. If it doesn't look like something you would feed to your own children regularly as more than a snack, why the HELL are you putting it down your own throat? Let's face it, Nestle Quik is NOT breakfast, kids.
Other things you can do are cut back on caffeine - it has a half life of six hours, so that 2L of mountain dew you chugged at your late lunch will be giving you acute insomnia. Ditto with the half gallon of coffee you drink throughout the day. Yes, caffeine is good, but there is a such thing as too much.
Look, a luser doesn't care how their files are stored on their disk (unless, of course, they're being stored unreliably), they just care that they click on the shiny thing and it goes all flashy and stuff. The only ones who really worry about it are higher end users and above, as well as maangers (who are equally impressed by shiny things, just different kinds).
As such, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Oh yeah - it is broke. =/
Rather than trying to overtake MS on the filesystem market (something that isn't going to make/break anything, see the "shiny thing" bit above), let's just develop something that works correctly. Quickly would be cool as well, but I'm patient.
It's not just open source, but closed source. And the problem I run into when looking at software is what I call Oualline's Law of Documentation:
* 90% of the documentation does not exist
* Of the remaining ten percent, 90% is obsolete or inadequate
* Of all the documentation, the remaining 1% is written in a foreign language you cannot understand.
We know about the first and third points, but on the second point, it's either missing examples (i.e., man pages, as another user cites), or just tells what you can do with it and little else without bothering to take you through the steps (much closed source), with explanations on what certain functions do that are vaguely important.
To note, the "law" was published in Steve Oualline's Practical C Programming by O'Reilly books. I modified it slightly - the third point notes "Chinese", but there's a good probability that somebody reading this can read Chinese. =)
As obsolete as a punch card is, a punch card won't crash - it's about as permanent and anonymous as you can get without resorting to pen and paper or chisel and stone. Sure, they can burn or shred, but what are the odds of that?
Just what we need. All these hotrodders and riceboys that soup up their cars to bounce or sound like they go faster than they're going, and now we have the manufacturers participating in a slightly backhanded way.
Day's not over though. By my watch, there's one hour and 20 minutes to go before the day closes - and even then, it could do interesting things tomorrow. Stay tuned.
A while back, a guy I knew who worked in insulation quipped that most of the asbestosis deaths he knew of were heavy smokers to begin with, so what he postulated was that it was more that the asbestos compounded the smoking related junk. Anyone know if there is truth to that one, or is he just...well, blowing smoke?
As other people have mentioned, this sets an interesting precedent. Everything but the length of time it took for Chrysler to register is dismissed. I wonder what's going to happen to the other cases.
I have at my general disposal a WinXP box in the management office where I live that has an Opera and an IE install, a Win98 system that I use at the workplace that runs IE, Opera and Firefox, a friend's Mac running OS 9 (has IE, natch, and Netscape Nav), and my own Linux box, which has a plethora of browsers.
Having said that, I code *really* simply; most of my code, in fact, is just simple junk that I have a few shell or perl scripts spit out, since most of my code constitutes image or photo galleries - rendering text browsers (lynx, links) useless. (Most recent implementation I brought in for another site was Gallery, but the people who make that seem to be pretty sensible - I mean, hell, it puts out code for Netscape for OS/2.)
So after all is said and done, I don't test my code anymore because as a general rule, if it rendered for the last version of $browser correctly, it'll do the same this time, and if it rendered slightly weird, it might continue to do so. And since most of my stuff is simple stuff like tables (the most complex thing in my code tends to be the color implementations for a cell on a table), unless you've screwed with your browser's colors, it'll all come out the same tomorrow if I cruft up another page.
The "corporate governance" line - last I checked, that assumes your company has procedures in place that would do exactly that.
Back up your data.
For the examples:
If you're keeping your client data outside the firewall, you're asking for trouble. Put it behind the firewall. Back up your data.
Copyright and trademark infringement is a realm best left to the corporate attorney.
Back up your data.
Network interruptions for the outside world are inevitable, though hopefully rare; if you loose internet connection frequently, change providers. Viruses and break-ins can be prevented by AV software and firewalls. Frankly, too, if your business relies solely or largely on a website, you should have an offsite mirror.
Back up your data.
A breach of network security from inside can be prevented, but it's not impossible to abate entirely. Odds are though they did it so they could get their Kazaa connection going.
Did I mention that you really, really should back up your data, by the way?
That stupid sticker just bombed my OS/2 machine. It sucks.
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Out here in SBC territory where I live (former Pacific Bell), many of the switches have provisions where if the line is disconnected, there is still a dial tone. This allows the user of this line to dial toll free numbers and 911.
Now, we won't go into how you can use a prepaid card to call your friends on this, because this sentence explains it. (BTW, it has a phone number that can be called and rung - or at least mine did in 1998-1999.) But, note I mentioned you can call 911 if you have a dialtone on a disconnected line. So the point of 911 not being available is, as a general rule, moot.
Get a $10 corded phone at radio shack if you don't already have one (one that DOES NOT rely on wall power, but phone power) and hook it to your wall outlet. If you get a tone, keep it - it's $10 of emergency preparedness equipment. (Yes, Virginia, that cellphone might fail you at the last second.) If not, well, your call if you wanna keep it.
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It's funny that they didn't talk about all the companies that went the other way. Like these guys, for a small example.
Look, a digital camera that's decent might cost a pretty penny, but the digital camera I get with a cellphone doesn't get the resolutions of a digicam I can buy separately (yet). Then there's the issue of storage - the "storage" for the phones I'm not sure about, but then there's bandwidth issues in that, last I checked, they still charge for bandwidth.
It's not just a geek problem, though - it's a general problem. Remember, people haven't been this obese for some time. No denying it focuses around geeks and fans, but I know plenty of mundanes and 12Fs that are out of shape as well.
Curiousity - anyone know if there's an RPM yet available?
(An aside,she takes it infrequently - I only slightly more often.)
As far as the peanut gallery, remember too that your doctor can (and should) tell you more about your blood pressure. If you don't know what that number means, DON'T ASSUME.
For my wife, who is for some reason nocturnal by default, melatonin has been *a* solution.
But back to the altered diet thing. Talk to a doctor and make detailed notes of what you're eating. If it doesn't look like something you would feed to your own children regularly as more than a snack, why the HELL are you putting it down your own throat? Let's face it, Nestle Quik is NOT breakfast, kids.
Other things you can do are cut back on caffeine - it has a half life of six hours, so that 2L of mountain dew you chugged at your late lunch will be giving you acute insomnia. Ditto with the half gallon of coffee you drink throughout the day. Yes, caffeine is good, but there is a such thing as too much.
The usenet has the correct links. Do a wget on the links therein and you'll get the tarball.
As such, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Oh yeah - it is broke. =/
Rather than trying to overtake MS on the filesystem market (something that isn't going to make/break anything, see the "shiny thing" bit above), let's just develop something that works correctly. Quickly would be cool as well, but I'm patient.
* 90% of the documentation does not exist
* Of the remaining ten percent, 90% is obsolete or inadequate
* Of all the documentation, the remaining 1% is written in a foreign language you cannot understand.
We know about the first and third points, but on the second point, it's either missing examples (i.e., man pages, as another user cites), or just tells what you can do with it and little else without bothering to take you through the steps (much closed source), with explanations on what certain functions do that are vaguely important.
To note, the "law" was published in Steve Oualline's Practical C Programming by O'Reilly books. I modified it slightly - the third point notes "Chinese", but there's a good probability that somebody reading this can read Chinese. =)
As obsolete as a punch card is, a punch card won't crash - it's about as permanent and anonymous as you can get without resorting to pen and paper or chisel and stone. Sure, they can burn or shred, but what are the odds of that?
OS/2 of course!
Just what we need. All these hotrodders and riceboys that soup up their cars to bounce or sound like they go faster than they're going, and now we have the manufacturers participating in a slightly backhanded way.
Day's not over though. By my watch, there's one hour and 20 minutes to go before the day closes - and even then, it could do interesting things tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Everything2 has also been suffering since about 12:30 PDT yesterday. I wonder if this is related or merely coincidence.
Amtrak does this in a very limited capacity. I think it's between Miami and DC.
A while back, a guy I knew who worked in insulation quipped that most of the asbestosis deaths he knew of were heavy smokers to begin with, so what he postulated was that it was more that the asbestos compounded the smoking related junk. Anyone know if there is truth to that one, or is he just...well, blowing smoke?
Methinks that ebay should buy a few extra boxes to set up the assets auctions.
Irregardless, that's perfectly cromulent.
As other people have mentioned, this sets an interesting precedent. Everything but the length of time it took for Chrysler to register is dismissed. I wonder what's going to happen to the other cases.
They must be spending a fortune on yellow tights then.
Having said that, I code *really* simply; most of my code, in fact, is just simple junk that I have a few shell or perl scripts spit out, since most of my code constitutes image or photo galleries - rendering text browsers (lynx, links) useless. (Most recent implementation I brought in for another site was Gallery, but the people who make that seem to be pretty sensible - I mean, hell, it puts out code for Netscape for OS/2.)
So after all is said and done, I don't test my code anymore because as a general rule, if it rendered for the last version of $browser correctly, it'll do the same this time, and if it rendered slightly weird, it might continue to do so. And since most of my stuff is simple stuff like tables (the most complex thing in my code tends to be the color implementations for a cell on a table), unless you've screwed with your browser's colors, it'll all come out the same tomorrow if I cruft up another page.
Back up your data.
For the examples:
If you're keeping your client data outside the firewall, you're asking for trouble. Put it behind the firewall. Back up your data.
Copyright and trademark infringement is a realm best left to the corporate attorney.
Back up your data.
Network interruptions for the outside world are inevitable, though hopefully rare; if you loose internet connection frequently, change providers. Viruses and break-ins can be prevented by AV software and firewalls. Frankly, too, if your business relies solely or largely on a website, you should have an offsite mirror.
Back up your data.
A breach of network security from inside can be prevented, but it's not impossible to abate entirely. Odds are though they did it so they could get their Kazaa connection going.
Did I mention that you really, really should back up your data, by the way?
Who's goading these people into getting in with the RIAA? I mean specifically. This sounds a lot like those "strongarm insurance" guys.
That stupid sticker just bombed my OS/2 machine. It sucks.
Now, we won't go into how you can use a prepaid card to call your friends on this, because this sentence explains it. (BTW, it has a phone number that can be called and rung - or at least mine did in 1998-1999.) But, note I mentioned you can call 911 if you have a dialtone on a disconnected line. So the point of 911 not being available is, as a general rule, moot.
Get a $10 corded phone at radio shack if you don't already have one (one that DOES NOT rely on wall power, but phone power) and hook it to your wall outlet. If you get a tone, keep it - it's $10 of emergency preparedness equipment. (Yes, Virginia, that cellphone might fail you at the last second.) If not, well, your call if you wanna keep it.