You gotta watch some of that Harbor Freight stuff. I bought a mini-lathe there a couple of years ago. Let's just say plastic threads don't work very well.
Cheap is one thing, but cheap and useless is just a waste of money. I'd rather spend $300, and have it actually work, than spend $30, and it's useless.
Nothing like an election year to get incumbents...
In the US, every other year is an election year.
If we count the UK in the scene, every year since 1996 save two (1999 and 2003) has been an election year.
The big deal is when an embroidery supply store buys one copy of a training dvd or design pack and just burns a copy to sell whenever a customer expresses an interest.
Liken this to music 'sharing'. How often is that meme presented as an end result of the general file sharing thing?
One copy of YouFaveBand is sold, and then put up on Kazaa, eMule, torrent..for everyone to have. The artist and production team gets the proceeds from exactly one sale.
but it should target infringing merchants not the Grandma who just wanted to stitch Faye Valentine on her grandson's backpack.
And now, we've come full circle. Napster, et al, gets sued, the general hue and cry is "Don't sue them, go after the illegal distributors" (thee and me file sharers). That happens, and now the call is to go after the hub. Granted, the 'hub' here is theoretically making money from the deal. But what if they were merely 'sharing'? Giving it away to anyone who asked.
Bear in mind that the EU isn't saying that Microsoft can't include security software in Windows Vista. What they're saying is that MS can't include it in such a way as to exclude competitors
Right. That's what the EU is saying. However, where is it documented that Microsoft is actually building it this way? I've seen many, many other remarks on this, and no source for something that says MS is actually making it hard/impossible to use 3rd party tools.
I'm NOT defending them, would just like a source for this claim by the EU.
maybe the colorblind are not disabled, but, I would surely love to get some money from the websites I have been unable to read or navigate due to poor color choices!
Due to all the diffferent shades and varieties of colorblindness, we'll end up with every single site either white on black, or black on white.
You could get by with one tenth the number of cars on the road today.
You'd have exactly the same number of cars on the road as you have now. Unless you increase the number of passengers per vehicle, or decrease the number of powered trips (bicycles/feet), it would be the same number of trips here and there. There might be fewer vehicles in total circulation, but the number in motion at any one time would be the same. There would, of course, be fewer sitting around in driveways and parking lots.
You could reduce te number of cars sold every year by a factor of ten.
Wear and tear. If you and 9 other people in your neighborhood all used one car, how long would it last at 200,000 miles per year?
Who mediates when all 10 of you need to get to work at the same time, in different places?
They could mostly be electric, thus quieter and centralizing the smog makers at power plants.
This has zero to do with power source. Electric could happen with or without robocars.
Ahh, but so far all the terrorists have been Muslim.
Not all. Recently, by far most have. But not all. Tm McVeigh. Red Army Faction in the 70's. Japanese dudes with the Sarin. Eric Rudolph. The Olympic bomber.
I'd put it at about 100-1. But not all.
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Speaking of which, who was watching the kids anyway?
Why of course. No one ever thinks about their kids. Never, ever have they found someone to be with them if they are out on a business trip. I'm quite sure Steve nor his wife never gave one whit of thought as to to who is with their kids. Put out a big bowl of cereal, and tell them "We'll be back in a week or two. You guys figure it out. Good luck!"
Two guys buy big hard drives to be hosted in eachother's desktop (or extra computer) and a script on each computer that dump changed files to a zip and shoots them across the net.
If I have to support a big enough extra drive to host his data, why not just host my own, and screw sending it back and forth? The ONLY beneift of your way is that it is offsite.
Adam Smith's Open Market [bcgreen.com] consisted of many small businesses. Heavy market concentration and massive economies of scale -- while good for big business wasn't part of his vision
The problem is, many small businesses can't string cable/phone/power lines to your house. In this case, economies of scale DO come into play. Or, we could play the game of 'monthly dig up the front yard while some new small business strings a cable to my neighbor'. One power line, one phone line, one coax line.
The amplifier off the node is bad. The winter drops are a sure sign.
Right. And that's what I told them, time and time again. But for whatever reason, they seemed not able to, or not interested enough, to fix it. I could not continue to pay for a service that I was getting only 50% of the time. One time, I asked the tech guy..."If you can home every day, and there was a 50/50 chance of your lights not working, you'd be pretty pissed, right? Or every morning when you took a shower, there was a 50/50 chance it would be a cold shower, you'd yell and rant until it was fixed, right? Well...that's where I am with you guys."
During the night, the cable internet connection (but not TV!) would go out as it cooled down. After 8 tech visits, three cable modems, and four months a tech finally thought to check the line at the street.
Precisely. I had a tech visit almost weekly. One evening, I'm on the phone with the helpdesk guy, and I told him "The signal will drop offline sometime in the next 20 minutes." And about 15 mins later...poof, no connection. After 6 months of me doing their troubleshooting, I gave up and went to Verizon.
"Can I help you?" "Yes..I'd like to report my daily internet outage."
Did Cox attempt to do anything to fix it? About 6 months after I moved house, my cable Internet connection (Comcast) became very unreliable.
Daily calls to the help desk, elevated to the supervisor, elevated to his supervisor. One time, I had a fleet of trucks outside. Everything from the box at the curb, all the way to my monitor, was replaced. I had the private cellphone number to at least two service techs.And yes, it was the neighborhood, and not my specific house.
The problem appeared to be a repeater or switch somewhere upstream. During the winter, it was so bad and so regular, I could predict the signal dropoff time to within 1/2 hour, based on the outside temp.
Whatever they did, nothing worked. All I wanted was a reliable signal. For whatever reason, they couldn't provide it.
Cox cable in Hampton Roads has lost me as a customer forever. The inability to provide a reliable broadband connection just screwed the deal. I liked the speed, but over a 6 month span, 50% uptime just didn't make it. VerizonDSL, while slower, is vastly more reliable. As soon as feasible, dropping the cable TV and going to satellite.
It's hard to imagine why they should pick on planes in particular apart from the challenge of beating the security anyway.
Shock value. Drop an aircraft or two in the ocean, and you screw up air traffic worldwide. Plus, some people are just naturally scared of flying anyway. This plays on those fears. And then we have the talking heads on TV, who cream their shorts every time there is a crash. Like this morning.
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except they were like $10-$15 at Harbor Freight.
You gotta watch some of that Harbor Freight stuff. I bought a mini-lathe there a couple of years ago. Let's just say plastic threads don't work very well.
Cheap is one thing, but cheap and useless is just a waste of money. I'd rather spend $300, and have it actually work, than spend $30, and it's useless.
Nothing like an election year to get incumbents...
In the US, every other year is an election year.
If we count the UK in the scene, every year since 1996 save two (1999 and 2003) has been an election year.
Come up with something better.
The big deal is when an embroidery supply store buys one copy of a training dvd or design pack and just burns a copy to sell whenever a customer expresses an interest.
Liken this to music 'sharing'. How often is that meme presented as an end result of the general file sharing thing?
One copy of YouFaveBand is sold, and then put up on Kazaa, eMule, torrent..for everyone to have. The artist and production team gets the proceeds from exactly one sale.
but it should target infringing merchants not the Grandma who just wanted to stitch Faye Valentine on her grandson's backpack.
And now, we've come full circle. Napster, et al, gets sued, the general hue and cry is "Don't sue them, go after the illegal distributors" (thee and me file sharers). That happens, and now the call is to go after the hub. Granted, the 'hub' here is theoretically making money from the deal. But what if they were merely 'sharing'? Giving it away to anyone who asked.
Who is the bad guy here? If anyone?
Bear in mind that the EU isn't saying that Microsoft can't include security software in Windows Vista. What they're saying is that MS can't include it in such a way as to exclude competitors
Right. That's what the EU is saying.
However, where is it documented that Microsoft is actually building it this way? I've seen many, many other remarks on this, and no source for something that says MS is actually making it hard/impossible to use 3rd party tools.
I'm NOT defending them, would just like a source for this claim by the EU.
maybe the colorblind are not disabled, but, I would surely love to get some money from the websites I have been unable to read or navigate due to poor color choices!
Due to all the diffferent shades and varieties of colorblindness, we'll end up with every single site either white on black, or black on white.
You could get by with one tenth the number of cars on the road today.
You'd have exactly the same number of cars on the road as you have now.
Unless you increase the number of passengers per vehicle, or decrease the number of powered trips (bicycles/feet), it would be the same number of trips here and there. There might be fewer vehicles in total circulation, but the number in motion at any one time would be the same. There would, of course, be fewer sitting around in driveways and parking lots.
You could reduce te number of cars sold every year by a factor of ten.
Wear and tear. If you and 9 other people in your neighborhood all used one car, how long would it last at 200,000 miles per year?
Who mediates when all 10 of you need to get to work at the same time, in different places?
They could mostly be electric, thus quieter and centralizing the smog makers at power plants.
This has zero to do with power source. Electric could happen with or without robocars.
Let's just say you don't have much of a chance getting the job.
5) Gentoo or Ubuntu
Someone's Sarcasm-O-Meter is broken.
Ahh, but so far all the terrorists have been Muslim.
Not all. Recently, by far most have. But not all.
Tm McVeigh. Red Army Faction in the 70's. Japanese dudes with the Sarin. Eric Rudolph. The Olympic bomber.
I'd put it at about 100-1. But not all.
Speaking of which, who was watching the kids anyway?
Why of course. No one ever thinks about their kids. Never, ever have they found someone to be with them if they are out on a business trip. I'm quite sure Steve nor his wife never gave one whit of thought as to to who is with their kids. Put out a big bowl of cereal, and tell them "We'll be back in a week or two. You guys figure it out. Good luck!"
nuttin else, just that.
Crikey!
$300 + ram, CPU, and hard drive. Bringing it within spitting distance of your $800. It is a good starting point, but not a complete solution at $300.
So in other words, it's completely useless to many of us web developers, and isn't directly comparable with Dreamweaver?
Or, in other other words, it's another tool to put in your kit, that may be useful if you ever have to build or maintain an asp.net site.
When I apply for a credit card, or a loan, they definitely look at my financials, without my approval.
The act of applying for the credit card is your approval.
"By signing for this, you hereby grant us the right to check blah blah blah."
Two guys buy big hard drives to be hosted in eachother's desktop (or extra computer) and a script on each computer that dump changed files to a zip and shoots them across the net.
If I have to support a big enough extra drive to host his data, why not just host my own, and screw sending it back and forth? The ONLY beneift of your way is that it is offsite.
Adam Smith's Open Market [bcgreen.com] consisted of many small businesses. Heavy market concentration and massive economies of scale -- while good for big business wasn't part of his vision
The problem is, many small businesses can't string cable/phone/power lines to your house. In this case, economies of scale DO come into play. Or, we could play the game of 'monthly dig up the front yard while some new small business strings a cable to my neighbor'.
One power line, one phone line, one coax line.
The amplifier off the node is bad. The winter drops are a sure sign.
Right. And that's what I told them, time and time again. But for whatever reason, they seemed not able to, or not interested enough, to fix it. I could not continue to pay for a service that I was getting only 50% of the time. One time, I asked the tech guy..."If you can home every day, and there was a 50/50 chance of your lights not working, you'd be pretty pissed, right? Or every morning when you took a shower, there was a 50/50 chance it would be a cold shower, you'd yell and rant until it was fixed, right? Well...that's where I am with you guys."
During the night, the cable internet connection (but not TV!) would go out as it cooled down. After 8 tech visits, three cable modems, and four months a tech finally thought to check the line at the street.
Precisely. I had a tech visit almost weekly. One evening, I'm on the phone with the helpdesk guy, and I told him "The signal will drop offline sometime in the next 20 minutes." And about 15 mins later...poof, no connection. After 6 months of me doing their troubleshooting, I gave up and went to Verizon.
"Can I help you?"
"Yes..I'd like to report my daily internet outage."
Damn preview/submit buttons...too close to each other!
Did Cox attempt to do anything to fix it? About 6 months after I moved house, my cable Internet connection (Comcast) became very unreliable.
Daily calls to the help desk, elevated to the supervisor, elevated to his supervisor. One time, I had a fleet of trucks outside. Everything from the box at the curb, all the way to my monitor, was replaced. I had the private cellphone number to at least two service techs.And yes, it was the neighborhood, and not my specific house.
The problem appeared to be a repeater or switch somewhere upstream. During the winter, it was so bad and so regular, I could predict the signal dropoff time to within 1/2 hour, based on the outside temp.
Whatever they did, nothing worked. All I wanted was a reliable signal. For whatever reason, they couldn't provide it.
Cox cable in Hampton Roads has lost me as a customer forever. The inability to provide a reliable broadband connection just screwed the deal. I liked the speed, but over a 6 month span, 50% uptime just didn't make it. VerizonDSL, while slower, is vastly more reliable.
As soon as feasible, dropping the cable TV and going to satellite.
It's hard to imagine why they should pick on planes in particular apart from the challenge of beating the security anyway.
Shock value. Drop an aircraft or two in the ocean, and you screw up air traffic worldwide. Plus, some people are just naturally scared of flying anyway. This plays on those fears.
And then we have the talking heads on TV, who cream their shorts every time there is a crash. Like this morning.
Restitution is the moral and just penalty for what this man did. Prison is not. Why should he be locked up if he poses no threat to anyone?
So if you're a successful financial criminal, all you have to do is pay a fine, and you're done?
Wash, rinse, repeat.
He's going into college. Evidently, he does need a spelling lesson.